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to 80/., very low 70/., Ileadmatter 81/. 15s to 821. 180 bar- .
rels Lard (sil were withdrawn.
TALLOW.—This afternoon at auction 7 casks Chinese Tallow
sold at 39s 6d to 41s 9d, 208 casks of South American 38s to
41s 3d, very low 35s 3d, 3 casks 48 skins Cape 40s to 43s 6d,
33 casks East India 396 6,1 to 41s 6d, 66 casks Petersburg
Soap taken in at 39s 9d to 40s, 300 casks New South Wales
sold at 38s to 42e, and 68 casks Italian 39s to 426 per cwt.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 11.
(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
CHARGE OF MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.
-George Watson was charged with having, on the Ist
if August last, at Selby, committed the crime of wilful
murder, by inflicting one mortal wound and stab on the
body of Elizabeth Watson, his wife.
Mr. Bliss, Mr. Monteith, and Mr. Overend were
counsel for the prosecution ; and Mr. Hall and Mr.
Travis appeared for the prisoner.
Joseph Jeap was the first witness called for the pro-
secution. He stated that he was a journeyman shoe-
maker with the prisoner, who had for many years been
a master shoemaker, carrying on a considerable business
in the town of Selby. The prisoner and his wife were
nearly of the same age, about 40. They had two chil-
dren, a boy of 14 and a girl of 17. He bad two shops
at his residence in Selby, in the same building—a front
sale shop, and a front workshop, at the back of one of
which there was a passage leading to the dwelling. house.
The prisoner had employed a good many hands in the
business. His conduct towards his wife had been
generally bad. He used to abuse her both by blows
and ill-language. On the morning before the deed
was done the prisoner was drunk. On the 31st of
July, the day preceding, he had been drinking. :Ile was
at the back door leading into a yard, sitting there with
the deceased. He had a tract in his hand, showed
it and said to witness, " What dost thou think of
this ?" (referring to something written on it). Witness
looked and said, " You will never stand it." He replied
that he would. Witness asked "If it was all well with
him ?" Prisoner said, " Yes ; he would never have
any more drink as long as he lived." His wife, who
was by at the time, said she hoped he would give over
drinking. Next day the prisoner came into the shop
and gave witness some directions about cutting out some
shoes, but returned after, saying he would go and lie
down for awhile, and then do it himself. It had been
his practice to lie down for awhile in the middle of the
day, whether ill or well. He complained then that his
head ached, but appeared to be sober and collected. He
left, and returned in about three-quarters of an hour to
the shop. Witness believed deceased was in the shop
then. The prisoner's face looked red, and he asked
the witness if it was not red. He afterwards went out
in the direction of tl.e market-place, towards a gin-
shop, kept by a person named Wilson. He came back
again in the "thick end" (best part) of an hour. Soon
after that witness heard a cry of " Oh, conic into the
house, father has stabbed mother !" He went into the
house, and onward to the yard. Deceased was standing
then against a doorway next the yard. She was
screaming as loud as she could, and pointed
down the yard, exclaiming, "He is cutting his own
throat." Prisoner was then six or seven yards off, and
appeared to be cutting his throat with a short and sharp
shoe- khife. Richardson, Robinson, and Cans, three other
men in his employ, then came Out from where they were
at work to him. Some of them took hold of him while
witness went for a doctor. On his coming back, prisoner
said to him, " Now, my lad, Joe, I've done for ner,"
and added that one of the men, Thomas Hemingbo-
rough, "might take her now." Witness had heard him
swearing at her while she was crying, and many a
time he had got between her and him, to enable her to
get from him and out of the house. He used to came
home drunk, ask for money, and abuse her, but had ob-
served nothing particular of that kind within three
mouths before the Ist of August.
On cross-examination, the witness said that deceased
was an excellent and kind person. The prisoner had
been of drunken habits for about five years. He used
frequently to complain of headache. About the Ist of
June last he was under a sort of confinement, but never
saw him, except at that time, in a dangerous state. He
then seemed to be not exactly as he should be. About
a fortnight before, and while sober, he was swearing at
the deceased, He had fits of drunkenness once a month,
or once a fortnight, or a week.
Re examined.—The prisoner was jealous of the man
Hentingborough. He said that man had been too fami-
liar a ith deceased ; but he had not said so till within
four or five weeks before her death. At the time he was
under confinement he appeared not to be right.
Mrs. Hester Lowther said, that. she is a widow, living
next door to the prisoner's house. Liquor and bad com-
pany had " made him a very unkind man." On the Ist
of August the deceased had called witness into pri-
soner's house. She then found him sitting smoking.
He appeared very sober. The first he said was, " I'm
determined to become a new man." Then he showed
her a tract, on which he bad written that "he was
never to touch spiritous liquors from that time ever-
more," and " that he had knelt down and kissed the
book." His wife sat next him, and he kissed her, and
shed tears, and appeared to be very penitent. On
the same evening, about eight, the witness heard screams
from the deceased. Went to see her in bed soon after,
and heard her say she thought she should never get
better. At about nine that evening saw prisoner in his
own house. He was sitting bleeding from the neck.
He shook witness by the hand, blessed her, and said
he should never see the light of another day. He
talked in a random way, and mentioned a great many
people. Witness asked him if he had had any liquor,
and he said he had, but he had no appearance of it,
and he seemed to be quite sober. Ile blamed a man
named Hemingborough, and said " he had silenced that
concern," or " had put a stop to that connexion," or to
that effect.
Rachel Bean (a friend of the prisoner's fautily)—Had
been at the house several times on the day in question.
He then seemed quite collected. Had never seen him and
his wife better friends before. Saw the deceased imme-
diately after she was stabbed. She was at the kitchen
door, looking into the yard, and cried out, " Oh, he has
stabbed me. Never mind me ; go to him—he is cutting
his own throat !" Witness said to him, " Oh, Mr. Wat-
son, you have done for your wife." He turned round,
and grinned twice, looking towards deceased. He then
said, " D—n it, then, I'll do for myself." He had the
knife then, and began to haggle and saw his throat with
it, but did not use much force. Robinson, the workman,
then went to him.
William Richardson, a young man of twenty, and ap-
prenticed to the prisoner, recollected the unkind treat-
ment of prisoner towards his wife ; but not that he had
abused her at any time within a fortnight before that
day. Heard the prisoner say that he had stabbed his
wife, " that he knew she would die, and that he would
kill himself." Prisoner also said that it was Mrs. Capes's
sister who had caused it. About a quarter of an honr
later prisoner said that he had "done for" his wife, that
he hoped she would die, and that he meant to kill her.
He said he had "got a gill in order to give him a good
heart," and that they would find the bottle in the leather
house, on a shelf there.
William Robinson confirmed much of the preceding
testimony. He took the knife from prisoner's hand.
Heard prisoner say, " She would have no more of her
Tom Hemingborough," and such like.
Joseph Caris, also apprentice to the prisoner, said he
heard the prisoner say, " I've done for her." I've stuck
it into her entrails. I know she won't get better." Also
heard him say that "he had a gill before, to make him
have a good heart to it."
James Rathmell, constable of Lilly, went to the pri-
soner's house on the evening of the Ist of August. The
prisoner at once told him he had stabbed his wife, with-
out being asked. The witness here produced the knife,
a shoemaker's knife, having a blade of tibout four inches
in length. The prisoner said he would kill his wife, if
he had not already done it. Said she was cohabiting
with a man named Hemingborough. He said, also, that
he had purchased the gin " to encourage him to kill his
wife," and told him where to find the bottle. The bottle
produced was a half-pint glass bottle, with a little gin
left in it. Prisoner appeared to be affected by liquor,
but knew what the was saying at that time. He after-
wards talked rationally, and on the Monday next, the
deed having been committed on the Friday, he made an
assignment for the benefit of his creditors. He made
two attempts to get his throat open, it having been
sewed up, and actually did that on the following Tuesday.
George Lowther, constable of Selby, proved that the
deceased had said, when under the impression that she
could not recover, that " he laid one hand on her shoul-
der, and then banged the other band against her belly:"
She referred to her husband when saying this. This
witness said he bad given a copy of what he could say
about it to the prisoner's attorney.
Thomas Hemingborough had been nine years and a
half with the prisoner as journeyman shoemaker, but did
not live in the same house. Had heard prisoner charge
deceased with having had improper connexion with him
(the witness). Witness declared there was not the
slightest foundation for the accusation. Had heard pri-
soner himself say that he did not believe it.
Crass-examined by Mr. HALL—Witness knows one
Hoby, a shoemaker, who has a stall in Selby. Has seen
deceased near Hoby's stall, sitting there, while he and
Ifoby were talking together.
Mr. John Birkett, the medical man, described the
wound given to deceased. It was in the lower part of
the belly. A portion of the omentum was protruding
from it, and deceased died of that wound at about eight
o'clock on the evening of Saturday the 2d of August.
At eight in the morning of that day he had told her he
had no hopes of her recovery, She said, "I'm a mur-
dered woman, but I freely forgive him, and don't allow
him to come into my presence." She did not mention
any name. The wound was such as the knife would
produce, about one inch long, and three inches in depth.
That on the prisoner was about one inch deep, and three
inches long, but of less depth towards the windpipe. At
about nine; o'clock on the Ist of August the prisoner
said he was sorry for what he had done. He said he had
got the gin a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes
before he had dune the deed, and that it was to "stimu-
late him to do the act." He added something about his
jealousy, and said that Hemingborough and his wife
wore too friendly, and that was the cause of his doing it.
Witness had attended him for some years. Was not
aware of his ever suffering from an aberration of mind.
Attended him in June, and he bad then been very in-
temperate ; he was excited, and had pails in the head
and fever, for which witness had bled him, and given
him aperients. He was capable of judging of' his own
conduct. Never knew of his having delirium tremens.
Mr. HALL, this being the case for the prosecution, in
addressing the jury for the prisoner, which he did in a
speech of considerable length, contended that the charge
of murder was not made out ; that at most it was but a
case of manslaughter, from the absence of premeditation ;
but that it was rather a case in which the prisoner ought
to be acquitted, on the ground that he was insane at the
moment' of committing the act.
His LORDSHIP differed with the prisoner's Counsel in
his supposing that this could be a case of manslaughter.
The law would imply malice in the prisoner, from the
deadly nature of the weapon here employed. As to the

question of insanity, if the jury believed that although
the prisoner had been voluntarily a drunkard, yet that
hls habits of intemperance had so affected his mind as to
have rendered him a person of unsound understanding, it
would be for them to acquit him upon that ground ;
otherwise it would be their duty to convict him, if they
believed the facts stated of the crime with which he was
charged.
_ _ _

The jury retired for nearly thirty-five minutes, and
then Acquitted the prisoner upon the ground that.he was
insane at the time he gave the wound.
The case occupied the whole day, till past seven in the
evening.

(Before Mr. Justice ERLE).
William Lyon, aged twenty-five, was indicted for
having, on the Ist of July last, at Bolton, in the East
Riding, feloniously assaulted Mary Ann Leak, and vio-
lated her person.
Mr. Matthews and Mr. Pickering were counsel for
the prosecution ; and Mr. Dearsley defended the pri-
soner.

. Convicted—Sentenced to be transported for life.
Adam Farrand, aged twenty-five, was charged with
a similar offence upon Elizabeth Clegg, at Quick, on the
30th of November.

Mr. Pickering and Mr. Hardy appeared to prosecute
and Mr. Bliss defended.—The prisoner was Acquitted.
(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS•)

PIRACY.— Thomas Sheade, John Coppleston, Herman
Hinka, Thomas Boyle, J. 111‘Cann, and Heary Matthews,
were indicted for making a revolt in the ship in which
they were employed as mariners.
The captain of the vessel, John Dodd Peatin, stated
that the Champlin, the vessel in question, left St. John's,
New Brunswick, on Thursday, the 21st of August last,
with a cargo of timber, bound to Dungarvan. The pri-
soners were part of the crew. They had received 51.
advance, the half of their wages, for the trip. The
weather for the first two days was fine, but the vessel
made a little water, not more, however, than ten mi-
nutes' pumping in the two hours would clear. On the
Saturday morning, about nine o'clock, when the mate's
watch was summoned on deck, all the crew except Hinka
(who was at the wheel), the mate, and the cook, came
in a body to the quarter-deck and told the captain the
ship should go no further, but must return to St. John's.
Boyle was the chief spokesman, and called to Hinka to
put the helm up, while the others proceeded to square
the yards with the intention of bringing the ship round.
Matthews, who was the carpenter, said the ship would
make more water, and they would go no further. The
captain called to Hinka to keep the vessel in her course,
and Hinka obeyed. The men then went forward and
went below. They were almost immediately followed
by Hinka, who, when asked by the captain what he was
going to do, said he would do as the rest. The men re-
mained below, and refused to do duty for thirty-two
hours. Shortly after they had gone below the wind fresh-
ened, and it became necessary to shorten sail. All hands
were called for this purpose, but did not make their ap-
pearance. Both the captain and mate went to the fore-
castle, and desired them to come on deck, but they re-
fused. The captain, mate, and cook, after great labour
and some peril to the ship, succeeded in shortening sail,
though of course in an imperfect manner. On the Sun-
day morning Boyle came aft with the bread-kit in his
hand, and asked for some bread. The captain, who had
all the provisions below, and had put out the galley fire,
said they should have nothing until they would turn to
and pump the ship. Boyle then said they world let the
water come up to the forecastle deck ; that they would
then take to the boats, and leave him to walk the plank.
On the afternoon of Sunday, the Noble, of Lubeck, in
the United States, came in sight. The captain of the
Champlain hoisted a signal of distress, and was boarded
by the captain of the Noble. He stated the condition of
his ship and crew, and was advised to go into Machias,
in the state of Maine. The second:mute of the Noble
was put on board, and on the vessel being put about the
crew returned to their work and pumped the vessel.
She was quite clear six hours before she got to Machias,
which was on the afternoon of the Monday. Ott the
Sunday afternoon the captain observed two plugs stick-
ing out of the vessel's bow, a short distance under water
—these were shortened by some one before the vessel
got to Machias, awl were then found to be flush with the
seathing and blackened over. On an examination at
Machias they proved to have been thrust from the inside
into two holes, which had been bored through the bot-
tom of the vessel from the forepeak.
Two of the revolters escaped at the Madeiras, and the
others were sent home under the treaty with the United
States.

The jury found the prisoners Guilty, and his Lord-
ship sentenced Boyle to twelve months' imprisonment,
Matthews to nine, and Hinka and the other to six.

PERSONATING A VOTER.—Richard Bent was indicted
for personating a voter at the late municipal election for
the borough of Bolton.
It was dearly proved that the prisoner, who is a shoe-
maker at Leigh, handed in a voting paper in the name
of John Hidden, and alleged that he was the party there
described.
The prisoner was convicted. _ _ _

A motion was made in arrest of judgment, on the
ground that, in the first four counts, framed on the pro-
visions of the Act, which make it penal " wilfully" to
give false answers to the qtu stion specified in the Act,
to be put to persons tendering their votes, the word wil-
fully was not inserted, but the words " falsely and ma-
liciously ;" a hid' it was contended would not supply the
omission. As to the last two counts, in which it was
charged that the party personated a voter with intent
contravene the provisions of the Act of Parliament, this,
it was alleged, did not amount to a description of any
offence at common law.

His LORDSHIP, after hearing a lengthened argument,
said judgment would be postponed, to allow time for a
more mature consideration of the objections, the de •
fondant remaining out on bail.
The business of the assizes concluded to-day.

POLICE IN TELLIGEN CE.
GUILDHALL.

CHARGE OF AR SON.—John George Ford was again
brought up for further examination, charged with
setting fire to his house in Braimes• buildings, Beech-
lane, Barbican.
A report of this case appeared in our paper yester-
day, wh( n the Magistrate declined proceeding further,
and the officer was told he might convey the prisoner to
Newgate, under the coroner's warrant.
At a later period of the afternoon the Coroner being
informed of the decision of the Alderman, arrived, and
said that having heard the result of the proceedings be-
fore the worthy Alderman, he wished to explain to the
magistrate the reason IA by he had sent the case before
him. The prisoner had caused two houses to be burned
down, one of them his own. The burning of this was a
felony by statute, but not by common law, therefore he,
as Coroner, could take no cognizance of that offerce, and
sent it before the magistrate fir inquiry. At the same
time he must be permitted to express his surprise that
the solicitor for the Imperial Fire-office had stated that
he had no evidence to offer, or instructions to prose-
cute. He certainly expected the fire-office would be the
first to support a prosecution, and take care that the
ends of justice were secured, and he was surprised to
find the solicitor was not prepared to say what course
he intended to pursue. He had committed the prisoner
for burning the house next to his own, which was an
offence by the common law as well as by the statute.
The solicitor for the fire-office said, the Company
were not indifferent to the subject, but really had not
determined what course to pursue. He thought the
remarks were most uncalled for by the Coroner, as the
Queen was the prosecutor.
The Alderman said, that under these circumstances
he had heard enough to justify a remand for further
examination.
Alderman HUNTER now wished to know how they in-
tended to proceed against the prisoner ? A clerk from
the firm of Messrs. Le Blanc and Co., solicitors to the
Imperial Assurance Office, said that the Company were
not aware of the proceedings that had taken place before
the Coroner until the previous day. They now came
forward to prosecute on public grounds.
Mr. Wakeling, on behalf of the solicitors to the Com-
pany, conducted the prosecution; and Mr. Wolfe, from
Mr. Flower's office, appeared for the defendant.
A number of witnesses were called; but as the sub-

stance of their evidence has already appeared in our
columns, there is no occasion for repetition, as there was
no new feature developed.
Mr. Wakeling applied for a remand, as there were two
witnesses absent who might give material evidence.
Mr. Wolfe contended that there was not the slightest
occasion for a remand, in consequence of there not being
a tittle of evidence against the prisoner. In fact, he
ought to be discharked.
Alderman HUNTER thought he should remand the
prisoner for further examination until Tuesday next, for
the production of the other two witnesses.
Mr. Wolfe applied for his client to be let out on bail.
Alderman HUNTER said he could not csnsent to that,
and the prisoner was removed from the dock.

BOW-STREET. ---
Yesterday Charles Shannion alias Vincent, a lock-
smith, was charged before Mr. Jardine with breaking
and entering the dwelling-house of Mr. Rivers, in
Gower-place, Tottenham Court-road, and stealing a
desk and other articles, value 201., the property of a
lodger.

Mr. Rivers stated that, on Thursday evening ho was
sitting with his family in the front kitchen, when he
heard some person walking about in the room above;
and being aware that his lodger, Mr. Burch, a medical
student, was not at home, he proceeded up stairs. On
entering the -parlour he discovered that the desk
produced had been taken away. He then went to the
hall door, which he found open, and cried "Stop thief 1"
which attracted the attention of a number of boys,
among whom was his son; and having gone in pursuit,
they overtook the prisoner near the gate of the Univer-
sity College, with the desk in his possession, which he
threw on the pavement, and tried to make his escape,
but was overtaken in a short time, and given in charge.
The constable who apprehended the prisoner stated
that when he asked the prisoner why he was running
away, he replied, that hearing a number of boys crying
out he wanted to deceive them by running away, but
he could give no account of the skeleton keys found
upin him.
Several boys were in attendance to confirm the above
account, but as their evidence was dispensed with till a
future day, the prisoner was ordered to be remand, d.
CHARGE OF FORGERY.—ThOiMiS CaiSke was brought
np for final examination, charged with uttering a forged
cheque for 40/., with intent to defraud Messrs. Drum-
mond and Co., bankers.
Mr. Bush conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner entered the banking-house of the prose-
cutors on Wednesday morning, with a letter, purporting
to be written by Mr. Thomas Edwards, his uncle, who
resides at Straden House, Chelsea, requesting to be fur-
nished with a cheque-book, as he kept an account at the
house, which was furnished him, and in the course of an
hour and a half he called again with the cheque produced
for payment, hut upon complying the signatute with the
paid vouchers of Mr. Edwards, it was discovered to be a
forgery, and the prisoner was detained until a constable
arrived, who found in his pocket a book from which the

cheque had been extracted, and which he had received at
.the bank the same morning.
Mr. Edwards said that he bad not seen the prisoner
for the last two years. The signatures to the cheque'
and the letter applying for the cheque-book were both
in the handwriting of the prisoner, with which he was
well acquainted, and he never authorised him to sign
his name.
The prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial.
William Wahe? ow, Robert John Bradbeer, William
Bradbeer, Richard Bradbeer, Thomas Leadgrove, and
Themes Wathin Wynne, all of whom appeared to be
mechanics, were charged with creating a disturbance at
the Palace Court, in Scotland-yard, and with assaulting
the officers in the execution of their duty.
It appeared from the statement of the officers con-
nected with the Palace Court, that a case was tried in
which.the defendant happened to be a friend of the pri-
soners. After the case had been tried, the jury were
allowed to retire from the Court for a thort time under
the protection of an officer. Previous to their retiring
for the purpose of considering the verdict, and on going
outside the Court one of the prisoners attempted to
speak to a juryman, which Kelly, the officer in charge,
prevented by pushing him away. The circumstance
drew the other prisoners to the spot, and,they not only
attempted to rescue the one who was taken into custody,
hut also ill-treated Pinner, another officer, who inter-
fered. On the termination of the cause the confusion in
the Court became so intolerable that the Judge directed
one of the prisoners to be given in charge.
One of the prisoners said that the officers were deter-
mined to take revenge on him, because about six weeks
back his goods were seized by them for a debt due by
another person, for which he brought an action against
them in the Court of Exchequer, and they were deter-
mined to persecute him.
Mr. JARDINE said that the charge was of too serious a
nature for him to deal with, and as it would occupy a
considerable time to take the whole of the depositions
preparatory to sending the prisoners to the sessions,
they should find two sureties in 101. each to appear again
to answer the charge on Tuesday next.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Three men, named John Strutt, Wm. Wren (both of
them in the employ of Mr. Twogood, proprietor of the
Blue Boar Inn, at Aldgate), and Job Bates, a railway
porter, were brought up for examination, charged with
stealing several parcels of property.
Mr. Hobler, the solicitor, attended for the prosecution,
and Mr. W. Heritage for the prisoners.
James Reeve, a carrier between London and Col-
chester, who had been repeatedly robbed of parcels en-
trusted to him for transmission by the Eastern Counties
Railway, was at the Blue Boar on the day in question,
and after his waggon had been loaded he insisted on
having it unloaded again for his own personal inspection
of the contents, and he then discovered a paper parcel
was missing from one of the hampers. On searching
about he found the parcel in a shed on the premises, and
then packed it and five other parcels together in one
wrapper, and the waggon being again loaded it was
driven to the railway, and the contents there deposited
in a railway truck. Reeve, who had followed, went him-
self by the same train to Colchester, keeping the truck
with his goods in sight all the way; but when he, assisted
by a railway porter, unloaded the truck at Colchester, he
found only four parcels in the package in which he had
himself packed six, and upon his return to London he
caused the apprehension of the three prisoners who had
been employed in loading and unloading the waggon be-
fore he started.
Sergeant Barker, 11 H, produced some pieces of
woollen cloth, waistcoating, &c., and also some fine green
tea, which had been found on searching the residence of
the prisoner Strutt. Nothing material was found in the
possession of the others, except that Bates had two
savings' bank books, containing entries of two sums of
301. and 201., to the credit of that prisoner and his wife
separately on one day.
Two of the clerks in the employ of Messrs. Nash,
woollen merchants in Cheapside, stated that the pieces
of woollen, &c., produced, found in Strutt's possession,
corresponded precisely with goods contained in a parcel
made up by them for a Mr. Bryant, at Colchester, and
sent to the Blue Boar, to be conveyed by Reeves, the
carrier, to the railway.
John Bunnings, clerk to Messrs. Wyley and Co.,
wholesale grocers, in the City, stated, that on the 16th
of October, he sent to the Blue Boar a parcel, containing
51b. 6oz. of tea, directed to Mr. Rowe, at Ticklebury,
in Norfolk, but it had never been delivered to the latter.
He believed the tea now produced to be a part of the
same, but he could swear positively to a paper bag pro-
duced, as having been made by himself.
Sergeant Barber requested a further remand to con•
tinue his inquiries.
Mr. Heritage submitted that against Bates there was
no case whatever.
The Magistrates remanded Strutt for a week, but ad-
mitted both Bates and Wren to bail.
HORSE STEALING.—John Trindle, formerly Si cabri-
olet proprietor, was charged with stealing a bay mare
belonging to Robert Webb, a general dealer at Hackney.
The latter took the mare to Smithfield yesterday se'n-
night, but did not sell it. The prisoner, who offered to
procure a customer, walked home with him, and saw
him turn the mare to graze in the London field. On
Thursday the mare was missed, and the prisoner being
apprehended at a public-house on Thursday night, the
animal was found in a cart at the door.
He was remanded.

LAMBETH.
Miss Selina St infield, the daughter of the principal
engineer in her Majesty's dockyard at Portsmouth, who
had been charged at this Court, on Monday last, with
having made two attempts to commit self-murder by
swallowing laree doses of arsenic, was brought from
Lamb( tit Workhouse for final examination before Mr.
Henry.
The prisoner, on her last examination, attributed her
attempts at self-destruction to her having been obliged
in the first instance to leave her home in consequence of
her father getting married to a second wife, and refusing
to contribute to her support ; and she herself not being
able to earn a subsiste.,ce at stay stitching, at which she
had been employed. Her brother, on the contrary, de-
clared she and her sister had left Portsmouth with two
common sagabonds, and had subsequently been leading
dissolute lives in town, and that this was the real cause
of his father withdrawing his support from them. He
(the son) however undertook to see his father on the
subject, and the prisoner, instead of being committed to
prison, was sent to Lambeth Workhouse.
Mr. Steel, residing at 19, Brunswick-street, Stamford-
street, deposed that Miss Stanfield had occupied an
apartment of his house for fifteen or sixteen months,
and while there had conducted herself with strict pro-
priety. Her father paid her rent of ss. a week, but ul-
timately withheld it, in consequence of some represen-
tation, or rather misrepresentation of her conduct by a
lady, " a friend to the family." The prisoner, while at
his house, used sometimes to work at dressmaking with
his (witness's) daughter, and at other times at stay-
stitching, and, in so far as he had observed, seemed
anxious to earn a living.
Mrs. Garrett, at whose house the prisoner more re-
cently lived, also gave her a good character for pro-
priety of conduct.
Mr. Henry Stanfield, the prisoner's brother, who is an
engineer, here said that, in accordance with his promise
on Monday last, he had visited his father in reference to
the present charge against his sister, and had received
his assurance that whatever the law compelled him to
pay for the prisoner's support, he should do so, or he
should be perfectly satisfied to pay any sum his Worship
should, under the circumstances, consider sufficient for her
' maintenance. The brother went on to say, that, not-
withstanding all that had been said by Mr. Steel and
Mrs. Garrett, he was sorry to say the prisoner's habits
were far from moral or proper, and in confirmation of
this, he begged to hand to the magistrate for his
perusal two letters he had selected out of a number
of a similar description.
Mr. HENRY, after looking at the letters, desired that
they might be handed to the prisoner.
This was done, and Miss Stanfield acknowledged she
knew the writers of both, and that one was addressed to
her sister and the other to herself.
Mr. HENRY remarked that the contents of the letters
went to show that their conduct was not strictly proper.
He, however, suggested, as the best course, that the pri-
soner should be allowed ten shillings a week by the
father for her support.
Her brother said that this sum should be carefully con-
tributed; and, after much crimination and recrimination
between brother and sister, the latter agreed to go back
to Mrs. Garrett's for the present.
SOU? HW ARK.
_ .

Wm. Giles, the man who has been for some time prac-
ising the most gross imposition, by pretending to be
dumb, owing to his having his tongue severed from his
mouth by a ship's crew who mutinied while he was on
board, was brought up for re-examination, on the charge
of committing a violent assault on a young man named
John Kearns, the particulars of which have already ap-
peared.
The prisoner had been an inmate of St. John's Work-
house, into which be was admitted in the early part of
last week, having been found in a destitute condition in
that parish, and supposed to be deaf and dumb. As the
parochial authorities were anxious to discover where he
had been previously living, he was accordingly taken
from the workhouse en Saturday last, and on the way to
the Vino-yard he got into a violent rage, seized the officer
who was conducting him to the place, and attempted to
throttle him. A sailor named Kearns, on interfering,
was attacked by the prisoner, and rendered insen,ible by
a blow of a stone. In the course of the examination on
Wednesday last, the circumstance of the prisoner being
suspected as a most gross imposter was mentioned by a
Mr. Owen, the landlord of the Yorkshire Grey, in
Thames-street, to which house he was sent by the French
Consul, under the supposition that he was a native of
Boulogne, and that his loss of speech arose from his
ton~.ue being cut out in order to prevent the pos-
sibility of his giving information relative to a
mutiny in a vessel on board of which he was at the
time, and which was afterwards scuttled. In the
course of Mr. Owen's narration, he stated that when
the prisoner was sent from his house, over to Boulogne,
it was ascertained that although the prisoner, by
signs, had intimated that he was a native of that place,
the authorities there discovered that he did not belong
to that country, and the fact of his having the perfect
use of his tongue was also proved beyond all question.
For the purpose of putting the fact beyond all doubt,
the Magistrate (Mr. Cottingham) directed that the pri-
soner should be remanded until this day, for tLe purpose
of giving the captain of the City of Boulogne steam-
vessel an opportunity of attending to give evidence of
the fact of the prisoner being gifted with the faculties of
hearing and of speech. Yesterday Capt. Tune, of the
above vessel, accordingly attended, and up to his arrival
the prisoner still assumed to be deprived of the loss of
speech, and when he was led from the cell into the Court,
on seeing the captain of the City of Boulogne•, he held
down his head and tried to conceal his face, but said not
a wo:d.

Mr. TRAILL, addressing Capt. Tune, asked him if he
had ever seen the prisoner before ? The captain said
he had, and that by direction of the French consul he

took the prisoner to Boulogne on the 27th of July Wit,'
that a.: that period he was supposed to be deaf and duo);
and a native of France. On the passage the priled
continued to be mute, and upon his arrival he was hall
over to the French authorities.
The prisoner was here observed to smile, buf he 661
remained silent.
Captain Tune proceeded to state that, on the daY
lowing that on which he delivered the prisoner into ti'
hands of his supposed countrymen, and had given dlr.',
a relation of his sufferings in being deprived of °2,
tongue, he (the captain) attended an examinatioa,
during which it was discovered that the prisoner
the perfect use of his tongue, for, on being Ihreatenelt:
with being sent to the galleys, he became quite ,:13°0)
rageous, and abused all present, announcing himself
s.
Englishman, and that he had committed no offenr,
against the laws of France. On this discoveoy the Pte,
soner was returned to his (the captain's) charge ag"-0
and he brought him back to London, where he
landed, and he heard no more of him until he Was
be
prised of his being in custody at this Court, and thal 0
still assumed to be deaf and dumb ; that his name W 0
not Giles, but Sharpe, and that from his dialect bell
supposed to he a Scotchman.
Mr. TRAILL, to the prisoner—Now you have belra
Captain Tut,e's statement of what occurred at Boulogne'
what have you to say? got
The prisoner, forte first time, then gave anaple4oo
of his having the power of speech by saying,
got nothing to say, your Worship."
Mr. TRAILL—Then there is no truth in the eireft
stances you made known by signs, of your tongue al..aj
been cut out by the crew of a ship which was after
scuttled ? Pi ironer—None, Sir. theth
Mr. TRAILL—What could have been your object; no.
in practising such a gross deception on people, ant' r,dl
tendißg, also, to he a Frenchman ? Prisoner--I °;
did it, Sir, to see a little of the world. I have
France.—(Laughter.) the
Mr. TRAILL—How long have been assuming .6.0 t
character of a deaf and dumb man ? Prisoner' as
some time, Sir. I was let into the secret by a viooso
in Scotland, who taught me to put away my tonguld
that people might think I had none in my mouth. ca;
not spoken a word for we eks until I got over to Fran bs
and, thinking they were going to punish me, I thug
it best to announce my country. sot
Mr. TRAILL—Where do you come from ; what Par.?
Scotland, for you speak in a strong Scotch diallit
Prisoner—l am not a Scotchman at all, your W°1.51,0
I am au Irishman, and was born in the county of Atte",
but have been a long while in Scotland, in Ahe'hp,
and in Glasgow. Do let me go this time, your VOr*,,-1
and I shall never be deaf and dumb again as I°ll -
live.
Mr. Corner, the clerk to the guardians of St. -ono
parish, trusted the magistrate would not let the Prig er
escape punishment, for although it was not deem 0
pedient by the parochial authorities to go to the el„,Peight
of a prosecution, still they were desirous that he 0•
be summarily dealt with for the violence be ban do
hibited in the workhouse, where he had smash"-iron
windows, and actually armed himself with a° 00
scraper, and threatened to hew down any PerB°ll
approached him. *AI
Mr. TRAILL said that he never knew of a moreibr the
impostor. He then imposed fines on the prisoner,
.ia." at,
assault and the wilful damage he committed, seeToest,
fault he was sentenced to two months' imPris--,4
and at the expiration of that period he was to finolfor
ties for his good behaviour, or be further imprisa°
six calendar months.

The prisoner Is as then locket up
THAMES.
_ _

.000

MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN.'" j.„)o'
DAiscoll, an Irish coal-whipper, was brought beit•oties
Ballantine, charged with committing a very agglii $'
assault on a police• constable named Blake, Na•
who is at present in the London Hospital.
Eneas M'Allen, a policeman, stated that Sl.'„-,IOOP
o'clock in the morning, he was in High-street, Sbatotye
and heard the cries of murder, and upon going 00011
spot whence the noise proceeded, he saw the PrhatO
standing over Blake, and kicking him as hard es -0111
able. He went in pursuit, and took him intn,,T3-t aV
and on returning to Blake, he found him in a
plorable condition, with a severe cut over the '''
from which the blood was streaming profuself. 00;
were several contusions on his face; and be 815° sin'
plainel of pains in the limbs caused by the bloW,io,l
kicks he had received from the prisoner. Ile.„e'lls(1
Blake to the hospital, and the surgeon tire'--
e 0 wounds, and advised him to remain there. nee
Police-sergeant Townson stated that Blake's boor,
very much disfigured when he came to the station',
and in making the charge, said he found theleol°'
very drunk, and making a disturbance with ban:
that he interfered, and told hia to go on about uPone:
ness, and that the prisoner then struck him a sr
blow, knocked him against the shutters of a Wl°
then beat and kicked him in a dreadful manner. 1601
The prisoner, in reply, said Blake was thil,„13000
knocked him about with his staff, and that he h"
self-defence.
Mr. BALLANTINE—Was Blake intoxicated?
.4034..-
son—No, Sir, he was quite sober. He is one of w
steady and quiet men in the force. r
Mr. BALLANTINE asked if the wound on the or s
ofe
appeared to have been inflicted by a kick, and as
rope
swered in the affirmative.
The prisoner, when called on for his defence, frole
very plausible one. He said he was going hnaivegatb!
the Borough, and went into a night-house to moon
pipe. As he was coming out he met the poliee'n,,u-ten
Blake, who was intoxicated and had not a leg "-efesc
upon, that he asked him for liquor, and because he Le,
to treat him with any he struck him with his
over his head and legs, and as he could 1101 sta.-
he hit him again.
0, onfa
Mr. BALLANTINE—You are a very protnis.; oe °Po h e
deed to be asked for liquor. One would think r
not much to spare. • Pcssi
The prisoner, whose rags would not fetch staid, a
offered for sale, said he was r ell to do in the weiool
that when he told the policeman not to bit him, h d 004
his .tuff a second time, and then he put his ha
and the policeman fell down.
,„ lie/aos
Mr. BALLANTINE—And you wish me ...,behe
this. Did the policeman kick himself while d fs'
down ? The Prisoner—He fell on his hands eaos.
and wounded himself, and I left him where ke
The prisoner was then remanded.
GREENWICH. wile;
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A CONFIDENTIAL P--hrollr..!
—William Thomas, alias Henry Williams. was -Ma*
before Mr. Grove, charged with the following
robbery : t • ford'
Police constable Evans, 190 R, of the detkelloo.--_,‘
deposed that having heard that a young men to
ter-.0
ploy of a pawnbroker at Swansea, bad robbed hi" peer
of a large quantity of watches, plate, jewellery, na,he prs
ing apparel, he was on the look out, and on 'abeam
vious night, in the Broadway, Deptford, he to
the prisoner at the bar inquiring for an omnibus AIWA
don. Witness got into conversation with hign's, fru;
answer to a question, the prisoner said he /cillien.,
North Wales, and that his name was Harrf strePi,
that he was residing at the Spotted Dog in the the -
and had been a pawnhroker's assistant. FITT, pet
Boner's acc-nt, and the description given of i''"ersl,-1.
he took him into custody. On searching the Prlsc)-dapli
station, he found two valuable gold seals, 00'pg
of a new suit of clothes, and a silk purse en nog
ss. Witness afterwards went to the Spottieln
the Strand, and there found in the apartmfo.tt;reenl
the prisoner slept, a large carpet-bag, filled wt•pplics'o „ f
apparel, two more gold seals, and numerous ut,rtioes.di
relating to watches and other propertf, P"•„sett,
which had been pledged at Gloucester, Siva*"
_aid
London. , jeii,. •
Mr. David Davis, an auctioneer at Woolvon'ttaeny.„,a,
that John Moss, his brother-in-law, carried 01;
ness of a-pawnbroker at Swansea. From inhic; lte,r;
communicated by letter, from that gentlemen,,„a•-at PLos
duced to wait on the Commissioners of Police
et
land-yard. He had subsequently received 1
the inspector at the Greenwich Police-station. .soperi of
immediately came over, and identified the Priewstn,
the police cell, for whose apprehension ittrisrl:ia
twenty guineas had been offered by his broth Kau
He prayed that the prisoner might be sent 9 hild
for examination. The prisoner, he underston'o,
sconded on Saturday night by the mail to G• O
and from thence by similar means to London. ast,
Mr. GROVE acquiesced in Mr. Davis's reclicat /10
the prisoner was banded over to Evans, the ° solol°
apprehended him, to be conveyed forthwith to
for trial.

IV,
AGRICULTURAL REACTION.—We preeC ni
are -- ' 0
glad to learn that the leading Conservative ge,..etrY,t portfjot
Lancashire have been holding meetings in differs
the division for the purpose of devising the beet tbeybs
couuteractiug the proceedings of the League, aaudseo"-
time to increase the strength of the Conservative'l'itile
registry. The names of the gentlemen who are that it
themselves in this matter are a sufficient guarantee. pi 17'-
work will not be abandoned until their object'
gained.—Cumber.and Pacquet.
BI.RTHS.
On the 6th inst., at Lonsdale-square, Mrs. 1).
1,00
daughter.
lOn the 10th inst., at Torrington-square, -&I f. reu
tea
Pollock, of a son.
On the 10th inst., at Stoulton Parsonage, W"— f 0
wife of the Rev. Henry Lloyd Oswcil, of a daughter' is,
On the 10th inst., at Uxbridge, Mrs. Edward VP° A
daughter.
rs. ill
ae.-11°j-
On the Ilthinst.,at Castle-street, Southwark,
Ole
F. Bickerton of a daughter, still-born. 'mare'
On the 11th inst., at Bedford House, Tavistoek"--.
wife of John B. Cardale, Esq., of a son.

MARRIED. wiolstiolt
On the Gth inst., at St. Clement Dates, Strand,
...,14_r„:0001,
Kirck, to Eliza Lucy, second daughter of Mr. T.
Trinity-square, Southwark. ,„ 'l%_„.`"
On the 10th inst., at Stoke Albany, NorthainPlisre;
Stanbrough, Esq., of Berners-street, London, to
e. stA"
eldest daughter of the Rev. E. Gran, Rector
Albany. White'
On the 10th inst., at the parish Church, Nestor, Stable
Charles Green, Esq., solicitor, to Mary Anne, second
•
of Major James Henderson, K.H. ng GO If'
.
On the 11th inst., at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, jots-
B. Legarcl, of the Bengal Army, to Anne Maria, 0'
ter of R. 0. Walker, Esq., of Bedford-square. Bev, aoi
On the 11th inst., at St. Marv's, Islington
Jeaffreson, A.M., to Harriet Fleetwood,
Benjamin Laurence, Esq , of Camden
the uto o
eldest datigu

.
On the 9th inst., at Eli DI
, near Southampton, Lieu wsp
George Fortier, R.N.
On the 10th lost., at Homerton, Mrs. Nash, age;l 41. the
f
On the 10th inst., at Uxbridge, Jenny relict 0
late W. Hull, aged 75. , g.
On the 11th inst., at Trinity-square, 'Southwark, .04.'
Boequet, aged 73.

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