The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The arrival at Portsmouth of the British troops
from Lisbon, was yesterday morning telegraphed
to the Admiralty. This is an important occur-
rence, which we confess gives us some pleasure.
The fleet, then, is at. present deemed sufficient to
do all that we owe .to„Portugal as an ally. Of
what use then, it may be asked by the enemies
of Mr. Canning and his policy, has been the
army which he sent out The answer is obvious
and undeniable,—that it has effected, and that
without bloodshed, the very object for which it

was sent--it has preventea foreign intrusion and
aggression. • When the British army quitted the

shores of England, Spanish forces Aere hovering
on the frontiers of. Portugal, and Portuguese re-
fugees, armed, equipped, and brigaded, were
poured or pouring back into their native land,

for the purpose of supporting the Queen's plots
and establishing an absolute Monarch. Is this
the case now Quite the reverse ! We have an-
nounced from good authority, that Spain ab-
stains wholly from mingling in Portuguese affairs,
and stops the return of the refugees in mi-
litary array; so that if Portugal will have
an absolute King—will. subvert the legiti-
mate succession, and overthrow the Constitu-
tiondgsiovefn
rebgyolatrhgeoveornnlmy
eauthority n
01\‘‘,-lheidcghe—thiet
oust be by her own internal force, and by the
prevalence of a Portuguese faction supportino-
treason, that all this mischief will be effected.
We We may regret the issue if it should take place ;
but we do not interfere in the domestic disputes
'of any nation. Our fleet, and we believe the
marines, remains for some time on a principle of
humanity. The entrance of the French troops
into Spain was upon a totally different principle :
it was with the express view of intermaddling in
the internal concerns of the nation ; and it is for
the same improper purpose that their return is
procrastinated. Have they effected their object ?
No ; and we predict that their continuance will
not bring them nearer the end which they at first
proposed. Let them honestly retire, and the
evils which they profess to apprehend will either
not take place, or will cure themselves in
time than has been uselessly consumed by tL
French troops in the Peninsula.— Times.
Last night terminated the inquiry Pinto the
cause of the death of the several people destroyed
by the fall of the Brunswick Theatre, in the
eastern part of this metropolis. The verdict.
seems a just and proper one, perhaps with the
deficiency that it has not recommended some

prosecution of those by whose reckless avarice
the mischief was occasioned. The protracted
examination, and prosy character of the pro-
ceeding, is no doubt an evil of infinitely .less;
magnitude ; this being only a lengthened siege of
human patience, the other a rapid, but not u,n-
menaced, destruction of human life. The ver-

diet will be seen in our report ; and we are sure
that the charge of negligence and inattention t,4
the symptoms of downtidl have been fully borne
out by the evidence.—lbid.

We rejoice to see that the subject of a legal
provision for the poor is now creating consider.-
able agitation in Ireland. At a Meeting of a
Society for the Improvement of Ireland, held in
Dublin on 'Monday last, a series of 1? esolutions
was proposed, declaratory of the ner,:essity of at-
tending to the poor. Some of tie resolutions
were carried, others reserved for future discus.
sion. The first of these resolutions states,
" that the posr exist in a state of destitution un-
paralleled in any other country ; and that the
middling and higher classes have already suffered
much, and are likely to suffer still greater em-
barrassment, unless efficient means shall be
promptly adopted to improve the condition of
the people." The fifth resolution states, " that.
it would be for the advantage of the people • of
Ireland to assess themselves, within a certaita
amount, provided the sum so assessed shall he
expended in Ireland for the benefit of Ire-
land, and for the advancement of the pur-
poses already mentioned, or of other pur-
poses of general and equally approved utility ;
and provided the application and expenditure
of such sum shall he vested in intelligent and
responsible individuals, Who shall act without re-
muneration, and shall fully and fairly identify
themselves with the feelings and interests of the
country." Though .Poor 's Rates as paid in.
England may be said (except in towns) to be a
tax on rent, because the tenant always considers
the rate when he makes his.offer of rent, yet a
good deal of difficulty is presented in a country
bcoeinnsge qotti.eonlcde
standingo fdi id efrrl ea sntcsi
in which they are proposed. for the first time,in
in
'e
esxßistaitnegs
. all t°l°l
c,
interests have brown up under the system, and
the burden has always been allowed for with.re,
ference to all of them. This difficulty the So-
ciety endeavours to meet by this proviso, that the,
tenant be authorized to deduct the poundage
paid by him " from his immediate landlord ;
and that the landlord, in his turn, be authorised
to deduct the same poundage from those to whom
he pays either interest money, annuity, or jointure.-
In short, something like the machinery under the
Property Tax Act is proposed for reaching
proportionately the various interests. Mr. Henry
Grattan " was of opinion that some system for
the relief of the poor was indispensably necessary,
as the peasantry were reduced to the most.pitiable
state by want and contagion. lie could see no oh-
. jection to a particular district taxing themselves,
and getting a local Act to legalize the assess-
ment." \\re .observe that a letter was read front
Mr. George Home, an
influential
citizen of
Dublin, on the subject of bettering the condi-
tion of the poor, by colonizing them on waste
• lands, which was ordered to be referred to the
Committee on Agriculture about to be formed.
These are suspicious symptoms. The remedies
' is true, far from
suggested are, it
to the evil, but the public mind Ireland is tot
ripe for searching
yet. generallymeasures. An
have
idea seems totaken possession many
'• people that the Scotch system of Poor L
aws
would be better adapted for Ireland,
the English Poor Laws. Of this opinion
is Dr. Doyle. The Scotch themselves begin
now to find out their system of Poor Laws
e
is exceedingly def. .
ctive, and must be approxi-
mated to that ofE
n(r am ' So long as Scotland
was a breeding country for England, and did
not receive entig-rants from Ireland, the defects
of her laws
being constantly- higher in England than in any
part of
Scotland, there was a constant stream of
emigration from even the best of the Scotch coun-
ties to England. No labouring man ever thought
of leaving Northumberland for the adjoining
Scotch counties ; but these counties, which rank
the highest in point of improvement, were always
pouring swarms of labourers into the towns of
Northumberland ; and no small
portion of the
inhabitants of Newcastle are either Scotchmen
by birth, or of Scotch descent. But Scotland,
in its turn, being invaded by the Ayes of a
still poorer country, to whom steam-boats have.
given a facility of' communication almost equal

o that between the Northern and Southern di4
sions.of this Island,- the Scotch have discovered
that their Laws of Settlement are defective
the extreme, and they have accordingly appliao
to Parliament- for a remedy for some of the more
pressing of the evils under which they labour. A,
great deal has been said respecting the debase=
anent produced by the Poor Laws in England;.
That the poor in England have their faults we
will admit ; but take the labouring - people of
England, with their good and bad qualities, as a
whole, where are their, we do not say superiors]
but equals ? In point of steady industry, they
are net only'far- superior to the Irish, but also
superior to the Scotch. We believe there is not
a Scotch farmer in England, who has imported
Scotch labourers, who will not readily admit
with Mr. Gourlay, that set a Scotchman and-an
Englishman to task work, the Englishman will
heat the Scotchman. Mr. Gourley accounted
for the circumstance, from the English labourei
being more accustomed to expensive food, and
consequently having more wants to gratify. The
Scotchman, contented with less, also exerted
himself less. Stimulated by these wants, the
English peasant may be more disposed to vini,
late the law, when circumstances are unfavour=
able, than a poor Scotch Highlander, a strange
to all the arts of life ; but we deny the exist-
ence of debasement. But debased or not .de=
3iased, it is very well observed by Mr. Enea
Alacdonnell, in his pamphlet, entitled " Practical
Views and Suggestions on the Present Condition
and Permanent Improvement of Ireland," pub-
lished in 1823, " When we contrast the evils
with the advantages, we find the balance greatly'
in favour of the latter. Allowing that one-tenth
of the English nation is debased, by receiving
aid from Poor-rates, there are, on the other hand
nine-tenths, who constitute the most happy and
independent population on the earth ; and the
lowest on the list of pauperism is far more com-
fortable than the generality of tha Ir ;shpeasantrY.
Again, should it be objected, that l tPoor-rate
of England form a charge upon industry, to the
amount of six or eight millions surling annually,
must we not, on the other hand, admit, that this
charge has not produced an impoverishment- cif
the nation ; when we behold the comforts anti
luxuries enjoyed by every rank of her people, her
immense public revenue, the private wealth of her
inhabitants, her improved agriculture, trade,
ship-
ping, and manufacture, her enormous subsidies and
loans to foreign nations, as well in the New as in
the-Old World, and her liberal contributions to the
relief of distress in every quarter of the globe?
The very fact of her ability to devote so large A
faun to the employment and sustentation of her
poor, without materially diminishing the coni-
forts of the people, proves, of itself that the syk-
tem of Poor-rates may be introduced, without
any substantial injury w public or private inte-
rests." The western and eastern extremities of
our Empire in the Old World—lreland and
Hindostan—exhibit nearly the same phenomena,
produced by the same causes. "it is true (says
alr. Rickards, in the first part of his work on
India, just published), it is true enough, as as-
sel-ted by the rulers of India, that the great maSs
of the population, Hindoos, Musselmen, arid
others, are obliged to live all their days
on rice, or the coarsest and the cheapest grains,
and to go only half covered with a slight cotton
cloth ; that the expences of a labouring man, ,
with a wife and two children, is only about
per annum, the article of clothing being only six
shillings for this family of four persons. All thisil
have already admitted. Those who have visitedlre-
land may conceive the poSsibility of human lae*igt,
when necessity compels; contriving dxag 4n la
miserable existence in this state of abject poverty
and want." The .cultivators in India 14,C0C
nothing more of what they draw from the earth
than a wretched pittance ; and -the Irish peasant
is in like manner stripped of all but shat enables
him to drag on his miserable existence. Froin
the numbers of the people, they .are completely
at the mercy of the landlords, who can exact
from them what they please, and who do leate
them nothing. But the first effect of a conapul-.
sory maintenance would be, that the. poor would
no longer be under the necessity of offering any
terms for land to insure subsistence ; and that
the landholders, in self-defence, would be corn-
pelled to watch over the increase in numbers,
which is the cause of the devouring poverty.
Without a compulsory maintenance and a law
of settlement, the English and Scotch can haie
DO security against the Irish ; and, as far as we
are concerned, all. plans for giving temporary
employment are of no avail.— Morning Clzroz.

There was a meeting of a number of respect-
able gentlemen, in the City of London Tavern,'
on Thursday, at the annual dinner of the Jews'
Hospital Society. It is not our purpose to ad-
vert to this dinner farther than to call the atten-
tion of the public to the fact, that now We are in
a fair way to open up every office in the State,nOt
to Dissenters only, but to every one who shall
choose to declare that he will not use the office
intrusted to him to the injury of the National
Church, the Jews, who are most willing to
make that declaration, and most able; insomuch
as they never have betrayed, by word or deed,
the slightest enmity to the Church, are as effee-
tually excluded as ever they were. The case of
the Jews differs, lobo ca'lo, from that of the Ca-
tholics, and not one of the arguments emplOyed
against the latter has any reference to the former.
Neither call it be said that the principles
of the Jews are hostile to free institutions,'
it being a pretty notorious fact that they have
been at all periods of their history most sturdy
sticklers for freedom. Why, then, we may
well ask, while we are so liberal to one party in
the State, are we so
illiberal to another?N4 rewhhaievie,
no doubt that were the ridiculous laws
oppress the Jews to he abrogated, in haifa dozen
of years the wealth of the country would be aug-
m,-nted by forty or fifty millions. , And let it not
be torgotten that we should gain none but the
wealthy. The absolutely poor never migrate.
We notie,e that several Members of Parliament
dined, on til;, occasion alluded to, with the Mem-
bers of the Jerys' Hospital Society. We hope
that having partaken of their salt, they will not
forget them when an opportunity of vindicating
their cause presents itself, We rather think that
it is one of those that merely require to be
brought forward. We know of no possible ob-
jection ob-
j '
on that can be urged against their admission
to the rialits of citizenship, nor do we think any
would be urged, if a Bill to confer it upon them
were introduced. Is there no one in the
Honourable House, who will be Content to go
down to posterity, as the friends of the despised
children of Heber T.—lbid.
It appears, by an account published in yester-
day's Paper, that no less a sum, On an average;
than GOO/. per annum is raised from the
public for " measuring, inspecting, and cer-
tifying the quality and delivery of coals," in
the Westminster district only. Of this sum
about 4,300/_ is paid to " meters, assistant-
meters, inspectors, and for other current ex-

the
river What boeneloymaets
tobfre thee remaindertimes
the
abovei s not
pseidneseso.f"
stated ; but that, we- have no doubt, admits of
ready explanation, if necessary. Now, this being
the sum raised in Westminster, it is fair to presume
that the City metagejs,, much higher, and we
-probably should not eictithe'mark if we were
to take the whole sum thus raised on the North
amount—or, for the sake of even figures, say
• 20,0001. a-year ; and the system is found to
-work so well, that a Bill is at this moment be-
fore Parliament, for extending its benefits—in-
cluding, of course, its taxation—to the Surrey
-side of the stream. What benefit, however, the
public have derived from the system of coal-
metage we have never been able to discover;
and we cannot help thinking that the time of
Parliament would be much better employed in
abolishing than in extending it. If, however, it
has advantages, and there is a necessity for it,
which we have never been able to discover, its
application must be equally wanted to a hundred
other trades ; and there ought to be meters of
corn, flour, malt, bread, grocery, cloth—in short,
of every article bought by weight and measure—
which would have this one recommendation, of
raising aft army of tax-gatherers and pryers into
private concerns, extremely convenient to those
whom the march of intellect unfits for hard la-
bour and honest work, but not quite consistent
with those maxims of " free trade" .which have, in
theory at least, become quite so much in fashion.
In truth, we believe, however, that not only has
this system of coal-metage not worked well for
-the public, but that it has inflicted besides a
heavy and unnecessary tax, a positive lois and
injury upon them—first, by holding out a pro-
tection against fraud which it does not confer ;
arid, secondly, in many instances, by creating
that very fraud which it professes to prevent.—
Any one who will give himself a pleasurable in-
shore trip up or down the river on some sun-
shiny day, in the boat of an intelligent water-
man, will readily learn more particulars in corro-
boration of what we say, than it would be in our
power to furnish space enough to present. In
short, the only real protection for buyers of all
commodities is competition. If a man s butcher,
baker, or grocer, does not serve him to his
liking, he goes to another who will—a protec-
tion much more useful to the buyer and seller
than if a meter had charge from morning till
night of the latter's scales. So it is with coals :
let the trade be free and unshackled with meters,
and the man who sells the best commodity at the
cheapest rate will be as sure to find it his inte-
rest to do so as it will be that of the public to
deal with him.—Morning Herald.
It is highly gratifying to find by the accounts
we receive from every part of the country, that
the propositions of the Duke of Wellington for
the future regulation of the Corn Trade give the
most general satisfaction ; and that the feelings
of apprehension which were manifested last year
,on the production of a measure bearing a strong,
general resemblance to the present, by the most
important and powerful class of the British
people, that class which is most immediately inte-
rested in the land, now seem to he utterly un-
known. There are differences of some importance
certainly in the details of the Duke of Welling-
_ton's measure which distinguish it from that of
last year, and which may in part account for its
greater favour with the agricultural classes. But
when we recollect that the principle of the mea-
sure is the same, and that the variances in its
-details are not to such an extent as might have
' been thought necessary for the conversion of
enemies into friends, we feel compelled to re-
sort to other causes in 'brelti; to explain the
ready acquiescence even of the agriculturists ;
while it is evident, on the other hand, that
the propitious reception which the plan of Go-
vernment meets from all the other classes of
the community, as compared with that expe-
rienced last year by one not more conducive
to their welfare, we believe, but cer-
tainly snore congenial with their views
and feelings upon the subject, is incapable
,of any explanation, so long as we confine our-
selves to a mere comparison of the two measures
The fact, however is no less certain than it is
gratifying, that the system now propOsed by Go-
vernment is received, not by this or that distinct
class of the community whose separate interests
it might have been supposed to favour—but by
the whole people of the United Kingdom, in all
its various ranks and classes, with a degree of
confiding and grateful satisfaction, wholly without
parallel in the case of any former alteration of
equal importance, or of any new system affecting
deeply and variously such great, complicated, so
and, in certain points of view, adverse interests.—
Morning Post.

LENT ASSIZES.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.--ZAUNTON, APRIL 9.

THE KING, AT THE PROSECUTION OF --- "TnN, V. Trig

REV- PATRICK MATHIAS CUMMINS, CLERIC,
This was an indictment against the Reverend de-
fendant for an assault (accompanied with proposals
of an indelicate nature) committed upon a married
lady at Bath. The defendant is a clergyman of the
Church of England, and at the time of the assault
was a married man, but his wife has since died.
Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS stated the case for the pro-
secution. The prosecutrix, Mrs. Haydn, was a
woman of irreproachable character and modest de-
meanour, carrying on the business of a milliner at
Bath, and married to a respectable conveyancer in
that city. The defendant, who derived consider-
able rank and income from a sacred profession, was
a beneficed clergyman of a parish in Ireland. The
circumstances of the particular offence which had
given rise to this prosecution, he would leave the
jury to hear from Mrs. Haydn herself, and now only
state that the Reverend defendant, having been about
two years ago at Bath with his wife and daughters,
bad frequent opportunities of seeing the prosecutrix
at his own house, as she had been employed by
Mrs. Cummins and the young ladies, and frequently
brought_ millinery to and from the house. Whether
the Rev. defendant did at that time meditate the
insulting behaviour of which he was afterwards
Blpitiith
a guilty, he,o,riee r Mr. Williams, would not pretend to say.
monthsshop on
afterwardspretence
o he
i ep
atyoinolyg
ab
ill of
occasion to
call his
wife's. Having requested of the assistant, who was
in Mrs. Haydn's company, to withdraw, the Rev.
gentleman made the most indelicate proposals to
that lady, and upon being rejected by her, he be-
haved with the greatest rudeness, and committed
the assault which was the ground of the present in-
dictment. Haydn, a very pretty and modest-
looking young woman, was then called and examin-
ed. She deposed that she was a milliner at Bath,
and had been for some time in the habit of doing
work for the defendant's wife, from whom she had
experienced invariably the greatest kindness. The
witness's husband is a conveyancer. On the 13th
of July last, during the Bath races, witness was in
her own shop with Eleanor Bryant, an assistant,
when the defendant came in and said, " Oh, I see
you are engaged ;" to which witness replied, " Not
at all, Sir; 1 can wait on you now." Mr. Cum-
mins said that he came to pay a bill due by his wife,
but had forgotten his Purse upon his dressing-box,
and that he would return in the evenin and pay the
bill. At this time the young woman (Bryant) went
out of the !hop, upon which the gefendant began to

rnake his addresses to the witness in a very marked
-manner. He said that from the first moment when
he-had seen-her, about two years ago, he had con-
ceived a violent love for her, and that up'to the
present timerbe admired her exceedingly. The ‘vit-
ness 'exclaimed, " Good God, Sir, what are, you
talking about !" The defendant replied, "Oh ! we
cannot control our feelings; I cannot help what I
am doing." Witness reminded him of the great
impropriety of his conduct, witness being a married
woman, and the defendant a married man. The de-
fendant, however, only renewed his declarations of
love,-and implored the witness to make an assigna-
tion with him. He then seized her hand, which he
-held so fast that, in endeavouring to get away, she
was-much hurt. He begged her to keep secret all
that had passed, and pressed her to make an appo;;Tit-
'ment with him, which she refused to do. He then
said he would return at eight in the evening to pay
his wife's bill, when he hoped to find her in a more
favourable temper. Witness, fearing he would re-
turn as he threatened, left the house in the evening,
in order, to avoid him.
The reverend defendant conducted his own de-
fence, and cross-examined the prosecutrix at great
length ; but she did not vary any of the principal
facts deposed to in the direct examination.
Mr. Ilaydn deposed to the circumstances of Mr.
Cummins's second visit, and denied that he had ever
made overtures for a compromise of the affair. Such
overtures had been made to him by a friend of the
defendant's, who told him that if he came to the de-
, fendant's hotel, he should have a good bottle of wine
and something to put into his pocket. To this the
witness replied, that if it cost him 150/. he would
have legal satisfaction for the insult offered to his wife.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The Rev. Gentleman then addressed the Jury in
his own defence. Heisaid„that guilt might stand
in need of art and ingenuity, but innocence could
rest upon its strength. He was an Irishman and a
stranger in this country, but then he was an
Irish Protestant, and English and Irish Protes-
tants were children of the same country, and both
equally entitled to the privileges of the same free
and happy constitution. His present situation,
though !I:0v and embarrassing, was not without great
and encouraging precedents, and he would particu-
larly mentioh the cases of the apostles Peter and
Paul, who had both pleaded their own causes before
the Jews. Much was expected from men of his
profession, but they were also very easily assailed.
In the highest offences of this kind, juries always
had regard to the time at which the complaint was
made. ln the present instance, not a word was said
of the supposed assault, until five weeks after it was
alleged to have been committed. The Reverend
Gentleman then alluded to the fact of the prosecutrix
having mentioned the occurrence next day to a
couple of young milliners, which he said could only
have been done for the purpose of celebrating the
triumph of her charms. With regard to the injunc-
tions of secrecy which they had received, he ridiculed
the notion that a milliner could keep a secret, when
Portia, the pure and high-minded daughter of Cato,
and wife of Brutus, was not capable of so great a
degree of discretion. The Reverend Gentleman said
that he had lately lost his wife, to whom he had
been most devotedly attached, and that his spirit, in
consequence of this melancholy event, and the perse-
cution he had suffered in the present case, had been
bowed down to the earth by suffering. He dreaded
not any punishment which might be the consequence
of the Jury finding him guilty of this offence—be
was only concerned for its injurious effects upon his
fair fame and the purity of his reputation.
The Jury, after a short consultation, found the de-
fendant " Guilty."

Some negotiation was then entered into between
the adverse parties, of which nothing publicly trans-
pired except its consequences. The counsel for the
prosecution, in a very low tone of voice applied to
Mr. Justice Gaselee, to request that his Lordship
would inflict but a slight punishment upon the de-
fendant. The Learned Judge at first appeared not
inclined to accede to this proposition, but at last he
called upon the reverend defendant to receive the
judgment of the Court. His Lordship then said,
that he would accede to the arrangement which had
been made by the parties, and in the hope that Mr.
C4tmmins would never be guilty of a similar. offence,
he should be content With sentencing him to pay a
fine of one shilling to the King, after which he would
be discharged.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.-GLOUCESTER, APRIL 10.

Richard Whitethorn was indicted for assaulting,
beating, and wounding, on the 29th of November
last, at Turk Dean, Robert Rounce, a gamekeeper
of Marry Edmund Waller, Esq., of which beating
and wounding the said Robert Rounce died on the
16th of December last, and Jacob Perry and Wm.
Smith were indicted for aiding and assisting therein.
Robert Cook said—l am in the employ of Mr.
Waller, as gamekeeper. On the evening of the
26th of November last, in consequence of some
suspicion I had, I went out to watch the game, ac-
companied by Stephen Curtis, Edward Strong,
Rounce, and George Curtis. We had each of
us a stick, but no fire-arms. Rounce was ueder-
keeper to Mr. Waller, at Farmington. When we
got near a wheat-field, we lay down under a wall,
near the gate. After being there an hour and a
half, on hearing a noise I looked up, and saw a man
turn from the wall. I jumped up and got over the
wall, and saw two men standing near the gate, about
ten yards off. They had a brindled dog with them.
Rounce, the deceased got up first, and laid hold of
one of the men, I seized the other. Rounce and
his man had some words together. Rounce told
him to drop his stick, and blows then passed be-
tween them. The man I had got hold of was very
quiet ;he did not alike me, nor I him. I interfered
between Rounce and his man. I loosed the man I
had hold of, and laid hold of the other man, in or-
der to stop the blows. A third man then came up
to me. The first man that Plaid hold of hallooed
out " Forward, forward." The third man came
up to me with some sort of weapon that he held in
both hands. He gave me a violent blow across the
head with it, which felled me to the ground
senseless. I had not said or done any thing to
that man, nor did he speak to me. When I re-
covered, I found I had received several blows on my
head, and one on my right shoulder and left hand.
The three men were then gone. George Curtis and
Edward Strong were there, but I could net see
Rounce. The two Curtis's, Strong/ and myself,
then walked towards my home at Hasleton. Curtis
and Strong went a little way with us, and then went
back to look for Rounce. Soon after that I met
Rounce in Hasleton village. Robert Cook, a first
cousin of mine, was with him. Reunce's face was
all covered with blood, and he appeared to be very
badly beaten, bleeding very much about the head.
The first man I seized in the wheat-field had a short
shock and hat on ; there was a moon about a quar-
ter old, but it was not clear that night. The third
man who struck me had a short smock on and a
leather cap. In consequence of the bruises I had
received, I was obliged to keep my bed for five
weeks and two days,
Stephen Curtis, Edward Strong, and George
Curtis, the other keepers, corroborated the evidence
of the last witness, and stated that they saw Rounce
have hold of Perry's stick, twisting it about to get
it from him. Perry called out, " you, you
will break my arm." The witnesses identified
Smith and Perry, and one of them stated, he be-
lieved Whitethorn to be the third man who came
out of the wheat-field. At one time all the keepers
were lying on the ground from the blows they had
received.

Mr. Charles Lamley, a surgeon of Northleach,
was called on to attend Rounce at Hasleton, be-
tween 12 and one o'clock, on the morning of the
27th of November; he found him with three severe
cuts on his head; having gone out without being
prepared for the purpose, he could only foment the
wounds without dressing them. The next day he
saw the deceased again at Northleach ; he would
not suffer his wounds to be examined till the 9th
day, he was then nearly insensible, and the witness
introduced a bistoury, and opening one ;of the

wounds, let out a quantity of blood. On,thejOth
day, Mr. Pitt, of Burford examined the wounds of
the deceased with the witness; -be was then totally
insensible. They trepanned him, and found that
the dura mater was ruptured, part of the inner
laminae of the skull being driven in upon the brain.
On the 16th Rounce died, and on opening his bead
witness found a collection of matter sufficient to fill
a goose's egg. It was only wonderful how he had
lived so long.
. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

NORTHERN CHICUIT.-YORK, Amu. 10.

THE HON. AND REV. JOHN LUMLEY SAVILLE V. THE

EARL OF CARDIGAN•

This was a feigned issue, arising. out of a decision
by the Commissioners appointed under the West
and East Ardsley Inclosure Act, for the purpose of
deciding whether the plaintiff is entitled to a. right
of road from part of, his estates, in the township of
Soothill, over Haigh Moor, situated in the defend-
ant's manor of West Ardsley. •
A great number of witnesses were called, who
proved the usage of the road, without interruption
or payment of acknowledgments, for.a great number
of years.
On the part of Lord Cardigan it was contended,
that the usage proved by the plaintiff witnesses
partly had been without 'the knowledge of his Lord-
ship's agents, and partly had been through suffer-
ance, or accompanied ,by payment of acknowledg-
ments.

After some discussion, a verdict was taken, by
consent of Counsel, for the defendant.
The business of the ',Assizes for this cOnnty con-
cluded at half-past seven o'clock on Tuesday. Mr.
Justice Bayley.had to remain at'York during part
of Wednesday, having to attend the Guildhall.' Mr.
Baron Hullock left York on Saturday afternoon at
three o'clock for Stokesley, on his way. to'Barnard
Castle.

CLONMEL (IRELAND) ASSIZES.—Anur.. 7.
The Hon. Judge MOORE presided. This being
the day fixed for passing sentence on the two Keoghs
found guilty on Saturday night, of the conspiracy to
murder Daniel Mara, • the Court was excessively
crowded, chiefly by the peasantry.
Judge. MOORE, after pointing out to them the
enormity in the eyes of God and man of the crime
brought home to them, sentenced them to execution
on Wednesday. _

This afternoon Leonard, the man who was found
guilty of murder before Mr. Sergeant Lefroy, in the
other court on Saturday, was executed •in froht of
the county gaol. The unhappy; man seemed very
penitent, and when he came on the scaffold could
hardly stand, the vital spark having nearly fled be-
fore he was placed on it. He hung the usual time,
and his body was given to the surgeons for dissection.

TUESDAY, APRIL S.
Shortly after Judge MOORE had taken his seat
this morning, the Solicitor-General stated, that Mr.
Hatchell, the counsel for the different prisoners in
the murder and conspiracy cases, was anxious to
address his Lordship.
William Grace; James Daniel, and Michael
Looby, were put forward and indicted for .having
aided in.the conspiracy to murder Daniel Mara.

The prisoners severally pleaded Guilty to the in-
dictment.

. •
Judge MoSRE addressed the prisoners. Their
acknowledgment of guilt might avail elsewhere to
save their lives; but should that ,be the ease, they
must prepare to leave their country for life.
The prisoners were respectable in their .appear-
ance, and appeared overpowered by the unexpected
clemency extended by the Crown to them.

TRIAL OF THE PRINCIPAL CONSPIRATOR.
Pierce Grace was put to the bar. He was given
in charge kir a conspiracy to murder Daniel Law-
rence and Patrick Mara. After a number of chal-
lenges on both sides, a respectable jury was sworn.
The prisoner, it appears, was the mother of. Patrick
Grace, who was executed for the murder of Mr.
Chadwick, and was the principal instigator to the
formation of this conspiracy to avenge his death.
The SOLICITOU-GENERAL stated the case for the
prosecution at great length, and the approvers Fitz-
gerald and Ryan gave their testimony as on the
former trials. The testimony was deemed so con-
clusive that the jury without a moment's hesitation
found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to be hanged
on Thursday.

DESTRUCTION OF THE BRUNSWICK

THEATRE.

VERDICT OF THE JURY.

Yesterday concluded the tedious and unnecessa-
rily protracted inquiry, that has been now for nearly
six weeks carrying on before the Deputy Coroner
for the precinct of Wellclose-square, touching the
deaths of the unfortunate sufferers in the late
calamity.
The Jury met at three o'clock precisely, in con-
formity with the adjournment of the previous day,
and proceeded to the further examination of the evi-
dence, and the consideration of their verdict, in
which they were occupied until seven o'clock in the
evening, when they entered the Court, and the
Foreman addressing the Coroner, said, " We have
agreed to a special verdict." Their names were
then called over, and the verdict being handed in,
was read by the Coroner, and was as follows :
" The Jurors charged to inquire touching the
cause of the death of David Sampson Maurice [and
it then went on to recite the names of the, sufferers],
unanimously return the following special verdict :

" First, Accidental as to the -above-named parties,
caused by the fall of the iron roof, with the matters and
things attached thereunto, and therefrom pendant, and part
of the front wall and balcony of the rnessuage in Well-
street, known as the late Royal Brunswick Theatre. They
further find that the said lamentable accident was caused
by the hanging of heavy. weights improperly to the iron roof.
" Secondly, That the weights so improperly hung were
so placed by the orders of the proprietors; they further
find that many warnings had been given to the proprietors;
they further find that sufficient indications of failure- ap-
peared, of. which Mr. Carruthers was cognizant, which
ought to have been sufficient to induce a prudent man to
close the theatre until the danger apparent from such indi-
cations had been provided against it.
" The Jury return as a deodand the substances which
moved to, and caused the death of, the.aforesaid persons."
Mr. Whitwell, after the verdict was returned,
said, that as now he could not be sispected of any
improper motives, he would mention a circumstance
which, pending-the inquiry, hejfrom..feelings of de-
licacy, had withheld, and which completely. would
prove, that antecedent to the calamity he had been
severed from, and had-given up all controul, manage-
ment, and responsibility as to this unfortunate
theatre. The circumstance he alluded to was, that
on the night of its opening he would not be admitted
until he had paid the admission money, as would
any other disinterested visitor. He appealed to Mr.
Hutman, the agent of Mr. Carruthers, whether what
he had said was not the fact.
Mr. Hutman, who was the check-taker on that
night, admitted that such was the case; and added,
that wen Mr. Whitwell presented him with a check,
he expressed his surprise at the circumstance.
Thus has terminated an inquiry that might have
been satisfactorily completed in three days. .

Twenty-seven tradesmen of this town.have
this week been served with Exchequer processes for sell-
ing patent medicines without licence.-"--Plymouth Jour.
BREWING.—There is no class of dealers in
this city who are at present suffering more severely under
the present dullness of trade, than the brewers of our far-
famed ale. This is the time at which orders ate given by
tavern-keepers for their stocks, and, so far as the time has
gone, it is considered by the brewers deplorably beyond de-
scription. Landlords, whose houses are frequented hi re-
spectable tradesmen, who used in times of prosperity to take
15 to 20 hogsheads, are Ordering from five to ten, and
most of the lesser houses that were won't to order from five
to eight, are now depending on the bottlers. Striking as
the fulling off has been among the lower orders, it is scarcely
less among Fespectahle families depending on business.
Finding the trade in this quarter so dreadfully reduced, a
number of the brewers in this vicinity are pushing hard to
get a share in the London trane, which very fortunately is
rapidly ou the increase.—Scotsman.

LAW NOTICES.

COURT OF CHANCERY.

Sittings appointed previous to Easter Term, before the
LORD CHANCELLOR..-Seal Days.

First—Tuesday, April 15 ISecond—Saturday, April 19.
Adjourned Petitions.
Wednesday, April 16 I Thursday, April 17.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Friday, April 18 l Tuesday, April 22.

Petitions.

Monday, April 21.—Before the VIcE.CHANCELLOA.
Seal Days.

First—,Tuesday, April 15 iSecond—Saturday, April 19.
Plea., Demurrers, Exceptions, and Further Directions.
Petitions.—Monday, April 21.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, before the
Right Hon. Sir WILLIAIi DRAPER BEST, Knt., Lord
Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas,
at Westminster, in and after Easter Term, 1828