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franchise.

. The Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill was passcd
through Committee.
The Prisoners' (Scotland) Bill also went through
Committee, and the House adjourned at Half-past
Eight.

At the great public meeting, which was held yes-
terday in Covent-garden, on the important subject of
" Justice to Ireland," the kindliest and most earnest
feelings of sympathy were manifested in behalf of
Mr. O'CONNELL and the other " conspirators " now
imprisoned in Richmond Penitentiary. " What,"
asked Mr. DUNCOMBE, who took an active part in
the day's proceedings, " what was the question they
were met to discuss ? They had met to consider the
treatment which Ireland had experienced for many
years, which had nearly driven the people of that coun •
try to desperation, and the result of which would un-
doubtedly before this have shown itself in acts of vio-
lence, and the destruction of property, if it had not
been for the energy exerted in the cause of pacifica-
tion by that individual, whom a contemptible
Government had thought proper to incarce-
rate." This apt allusion to the imprison-
, ment of Mr. O'CONNELL, for no worse crime
than having exerted all his energies "in the cause of
pacification," and laboured to repress rather than to
stimulate the passions of his countrymen, while he
encouraged constitutional agitation, was received
with loud cheers by the meeting, who could not but
feel that, by the imprisonment of the Hon. and
Learned Member for Cork, a direct blow was struck
at the right of free discussion. Upon precisely the
same principle that Mr. O'CortNELL was tried and
found guilty of conspiracy, might Messrs. COBDEN,
BRIGHT, WILSON, and the other Members of the
Anti-Corn-law League be put upon their trial, though
the result, we suspect, would be very different here
to what it was in Ireland, for we doubt much whether
any English jury would be found so far forgetful of
what they owed to themselves and their country, as to
record a verdict of guilty against the League
agitators. As yet, the right of free discussion is still

respected among us, though how long this may be
the case, if Sir J. GRAHAM is still permitted to con-
tinue in office, and the Conservative Government re-
tain their present majority in the House of Commons,
it is impossible to say. If we do not keep the strictest
and most jealous watch on the proceedings of Minis-
ters—and Heaven knows they are such as to
require all our vigilance—the case of Mr.
O'CorINELL to-day, may be that of Mr. DUNCOMBE,
Mr. COBDEN, or any other popular leader to-
morrow. An arbitrary Government seldom stops
when once it has commenced a system of
encroachment on the rights of the people; but having
made a first false move, perseveres in its wrong and
tortuous course with extraordinary inflexibility of
purpose. Colonel RAWDON puts this matter on its
right footing when he observed—" He did not know
but that by the new construction of the law of con-
spiracy, the Hon. Member for Finsbury might be
proved as great a conspirator as DANIEL O'CoN-
NELL. ; for if Government took the present meet-
ing, and put to ,that the dinner which Mr.
DUNCOMBE attended the other day not far from
Covent-garden on the same subject ; and if they
were to put this meeting and that speech, and one
dinner and another speech together, they might, under
this new law, get up a very good case of conspiracy,
and the Member for Finsbury might be indicted,
found guilty, and imprisoned." However absurd and
ludicrous, this is precisely the manner in which Go-

vernment acted towards Mr. O'CorINELL. Finding
that they could not hope to convict him on the strength
of one speech or one meeting, as was the custom in

the olden days of Toryism, the bright —not to say
original—idea struck them of lumping all his oratorical
iniquities together, so that that might appear illegal

in the mass, which, singly considered, was perfectly
in accordance with the constitutional law. Ac-

cordingly he was found guilty, not of having
preached sedition at Mallow, at Cork, at Gal-
way, at Tara, or at Mullaglunast; but at all these
meetings collectively; his crime consisted, not so
much in the quality, as the quantity, of his Repeal
_ _

speeches ; and he is now suffering imprisonment in
Richmond Penitentiary for having attended up-
wards of a score of monster-meetings, when, if he

had attended, say but half-a-dozen, the law would
have held him perfectly harmless ! Such is the
spirit in which the Constitution—or what is called

;he Constitution—is vindicated in the sister-coun

try ! But this is nothing new, for whenever
the Tories have been at the head of affairs, their

system of Irish legislation has invariably proved tha
there is one law for England and another for Ire.

and ; and what dare not even be attempted here, may

be practised with impunity there !

Since the first announcement of Sir R. PEEL'S

omened—and now, all but matured absurdity—his
notable scheme of Banking Reform—we have en-
deavoured, from time to time, -to awaken public at-
tention to the melancholy condition of productive
industry in this country. We have shown, in suc-
cessive articles on the growing evils and deficiencies
of our monetary system, how the fatal legislation of
1819, which legitimated and fixed at a certain defined
price gold as the " standard of value"—(ourselves not
being answerable for the vagueness or ineptitude of
the terms adopted by the bullionists)—has worked
out all the disastrous consequences predicted from its
operation by those who denounced it in Parliament
five-and-twenty years ago. We have shown that the
effect of making gold of a certain cheapness, by lavs
has been ever since to reduce the remuneration of
labour on a scale commensurate with, or even lower
than, the diminution of prices. We have shown that
since a gold standard struck natural or gold prices
only for the productions of the loom or the products of
agriculture, there was no margin for that charge which
should represent the cost of taxation pending the
growth or the manufacture of the commodity. We
have shown how, in additiori to this, another cause
has operated to limit the power of giving remunera-
tive wages in the crippled action of capital, invested,
whether in land or in manufacturts, through the fear-
ful contraction of the general currency consequent or.
the application of the metallic screw. We have shown
how these depreciated prices and profits have so pre-
judiced the condition of the industrious operative and
labourer, that their masters have been compelled to say
to them—'

." To enable us to pay you even these reduced

wages, you must work for them during a longer portion
of each day. To enal>le us to keep our mills at work,
our lands in cultivation, you must extend your dail3
labouring hours from twelve hours to sixteen or eigh
teen." And, finally, we have shown, that from the
hundreds of thousands—we might fairly say from the
millions of producers—who live by their daily labour,
thus inadequately paid, and thus cruelly protracted;
your system of a gold currency and natural
prices, under an annual taxation of 50,000,0001.,
has annually snatched at least 30,000,0001.
in the shape of taxes charged upon articles indispen-
sible to their subsistence, instead of taking that sum,
as the Legislature clearly contemplated, from the
wealthier consumer, off whose shoulders you have
shifted the burden. Thus, then, the condition Ji

labour in this country is that it is underpaid, de-
frauded, and overtaxed. In the meanwhile, the im-
provements of machinery, and the amount of produc-
tion, have gone on, pari passu, to an extent which the
world has never before witnessed. But by all this
increase of necessaries, in the shape of articles of sub-

sistence and raiment; and of luxuries, in the
multiplication of conveniences, comforts, and
elegancies—the producing classes, by whose
hard toil such increase has been elaborated
are nothing benefited. They starve in the midst of
plenty. They perish, surrounded by countless els•
ments of succour. An usurious monetary system,
which gives everything to already-realised capital
that can ensure its rapid multiplication—provides no
means of distribution to the indigent millions. As
hats, and coats and gowns, and stockings and shoes
become cheaper, because more abundantly produced,
the meritorious artisans, whose ill-requited industry
sets the producing machinery in motion, sink lower
and lower in the scale of destitution—become more
and more unable to possess themselves of such articles.
If the case stood thus, with regard to manu-
facturing labour and its products, it is noto-
riously no better—perhaps, it is worse—in
respect of agricultural labour, and the pro-
ducts which that realises for the landowners. The
landowner, in his turn, points, on the one hand, to the

SECOND DAY.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1844,

THIS DAY S NEWS

surgeon named; Gaffing attended him. The horse when I
saw him at Epsom had the scar. He has it now. I have
frequently seen Higgins about the horse. He was christened
at my house. He was got by Gladiator, and Higgins looked,
into a book and found the word Spartacus, and he was so'
christened.—(Laughter.) Afterwards his name was changed
to Maccabees:
Cross-examined by Mr. Cocxnuax—l have not one shilling
upon the race, nor one shilling upon the horse in any way.
Re-exaMined by Mr WORTLEY—How came you to get off
your horse on purpose to examine him at Epsom? Witness
--Why, I thought I should like to see him again.—(A laugh.)
Mr Odell frequently saw the colt in my paddock.
George Odell, examined by Mr. MARTIN—I am a horse-
dealer at Northampton. I know Henry Higgins, living at
Vigo Cottage, near Northampton. Know Mr. Worley. In
October or November, 1841, I saw a bay colt at his house.
Mr. Worley himself showed me the horse.. He was a bay
colt, well made, good looking, black legs, 15 hands and a
little more, good head, strong in his quarters. I went several
times afterwards to Mr. Worley. Almost every time I went
there I saw the colt. I saw the injury. It was a cut above
the near knee. I afterwards saw the colt in Northampton.
That was in February. It was at Mr. Higgins's, the Vigo
Stables. I saw him once there, but several times out at exer-
cise. I saw him as late as April. The man who led him
about was named Jacques, but he is now dead. I know a,
paddock at Northampton, of which Mr. Markham had the
letting. -I saw the colt there. This was the spring of 1842.
He continued there to the end of the summer. He had a fresh
accident. The same leg—a little lower down on the side of the
knee. I was at Epsom at the last Derby. I went there with
Mr. Worley. I saw the horse there called Running Rein. I
got off the horse and went close to him with Mr. Worley. I
will swear that was the same colt I saw at Northampton. I
saw both the injuries on his leg. I will swear most distinctly
to the colt being the- same.
Baron ALDERsoN—Who is it keeps this horse away—who
is it ? On the Thursday I make an order for the horse to be
seen, and on the Wednesday it has vanished from the face of
the earth
Mr. CocKnuEN—lndeed, my Lord, we know not. I think
I may be allowed to tell your Lordship that before ever this
action came into Court Mr. Wood told Col. Peel he was
afraid he had been deceived in the representations made to
him about the horse. I assure your Lordship Mr. Wood's
character stands high.
Baron ALDERSON—I don't doubt it.
Mr. COCKBURN—He bought the horse fairly and honour-
ably—took it with all its engagements. He now sees the ne-
cessity he is under of withdrawing from this case. He feels
he ought not to attempt to carry it further, and he will not
do so.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Royal Family, arrived at Buckingham Palace
shortly before twelve o'clock this day, from Claremont.
The royal party occupied three carriages and four. •

RUNNING REIN CASE

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
WOOD V. PEEL.

There was again, this morning, a considerable rush of per-
sons into this Court the moment the doors were opened. Still
the crowd was not so great as on the first day—at all events,
in the earlier part of the morning. Doubtless the weather
had somewhat damped the curiosity even of the members of
the sporting community. Colonel Peel, who was not in Court
yesterday, was to-day upon the bench, as were many others
of the elite of the sporting and fashionable- world. At ten
o'clock Baron Alderson took his seat upon the bench, and the
names of the jury being called over, the case proceeded. The
following is the evidence offered on behalf of the defendant,
Colonel Peel, the owner of Orlando, the horse placed second
in the race. As the first portion of it was not published in
our Afternoon Edition of yesterday, we think it best to re-
peat it here :
Lord Stradbroke, examined by Mr. J. S. Woemry—Was
one of the stewards of the Jockey Club last year. He re-
membered the race on the 4th of June, when Running Rein
beat Crenoline at the Newmarket meeting. Crenoline was the
property of the Duke of Rutland. The race was for two-
year-olds. The Duke made an objection after the race that
the winner was three years old. The stewards were Mr.
Byng and Mr. Greville. An arrangement was made that the
case should be heard at the Houghton Meeting. An applica-
tion was made to examine the horse's mouth. The stewards
met and heard the case, and Mr. Goodman examined two or
three witnesses to prove Running Rein was only two years
old; the Duke of Rutland produced only one—the boy
Kitchen. It was arranged that the boy and a veterinary
surgeon, named Barrow, of Newmarket, and Mr. Wetherby,
the Secretary, should be taken to Goodman's stables. The
horse was in a loose box ; Kitchen looked at the horse, and
said at first he thought it was the horse, and then that he
believed it was. It was then proposed that Mr. Barrow
should examine the horse's mouth—he is a person of high
character—but Goodman objected positively to it, and gave
them to understand he would resist. by force. He said
his legal adviser had advised him not to permit the
horse's mouth to be examined. They then returned to the
rooms where the stewards met, and he (Lord Stradbroke) re-
ported the result to the meeting. The stewards were of
opinion that though the Duke of Rutland had not proved his
case, the case was one of suspicion. Goodman was told by
him (Lord Stradbrolce) on the part of the stewards, that the
horse should never be allowed to run again at Newmarket
unless he permitted the examination of his mouth. The horse
had not since run at Newmarket.
By Baron Arornsox—ln forty-nine cases out of fifty the
mark of the mouth bad been stated to be an erroneous test;
but lately he had understood -it to be reduced to a certainty.
George Hayward, examined by Mr. Martin—He was land-
agent to Sir Charles Ibbotson in 1840. Sir Charles had a
mare by Capsicum at that time. In 1840, that mare had a
foal by Gladiator, which was sent to Doncaster, to be sold by
Mr. Tattersall, in September, 1841. Had seen the colt sold.
Heard Mr. Goodman bid for him, but did not know of his own
knowledge that it was he who bought him.
By Baron ArrEnsoN—The colt was a bright bay, with legs
all black. He was a yearling.
Isaac Grey, examined by Mr. J. S. WonmEv—Was a
groom. In the spring of 1840 took a brown mare, by Capsi-
cum, to York, to a physician ; and while she was there she
dropped a foal on the 14th April, which, together with the
dam, was taken back to Sir G. Ibbotson's, the owner.
Edward Messenger, examined by Mr. MARTIN—Was in the
service of Sir Charles Ibbotson as stud-groom, from June,
1840, to September, 1843. Recollected the colt which the
Capsicum mare had he wag a bright bay colt, with black
tail and mane ; he had no white on him ; he stood short on
the legs with a lengthy top. Ho had a wide forehead and
good eyes ; but was rather a little thick in the jowl. He had
no white on his.. forehead. That colt was entered for the
Derby of 1843 by him. Was present when the colt was sold
at Doncaster, and delivered him to Goodman and Henry
Higgins on Thursday, September 16, 1841.
Cross-examined by Mr. Cocaßusere—The colt was a fine
colt for its age. It did not stand high.
Re-examined by Mr. MARTIN—HO was a short-legged
colt. Witness had never seen him since, but he had no
doubt he should know him if he saw him again.
George Wharton, groom to Sir Charles Ibbotson, examined
by Mr. J. S. WORT rv—Proved that he took the colt in
question to the Masborough station, on the North Midland
Railway, on the 17th of September, and delivered him to
Mr. Goodman, who went Off the London way.
Cross-examined by Mr. COCKBURN— Knew Mr. Goodman
by sight very well. It was the day after one of the Don-
caster races he took the colt to the station.
Charles Weatherby, examined by Mr. Mainmf—Was Se-
cretary to the Jockey CIA, and kept, with his clerks, the
books for Epsom and Newmarket nominations. There was
an entry in his books of the entry of Gladiator, in the name
of Watson, for the Derby of 1843. That
_horse was after-
wards entered as Maecabeus for the Liverpool Cup in 1843 ;
the entries closed on or before the 2d January, 1843. Both
entries were inthe handwriting of the witness's clerk. There
was forfeit of 51. paid for the Liverpool Cup, which was paid
in Goodman's name by a Mr. Moffam, in the presence of
Goodman. It formed a portion of 451. over-due stakes paid
on Goodman's account, to permit his horse Dr. Phillimore to
run, in accordance with the rules of the club.
oseph Farrell, examined by Mr. Manama—Was clerk to
the stewards of the Epsom races. Goodman entered his bay
colt Maccabeus for a sweepstake of Si. with fifty sovereigns
added, in April, 1843. The colt ran in that race, carrying
7st. as a three-year-old.
Cross-examined by Mr. Cocßaurtx—Captain Flathooker
was a bay horse.
Mr. Weatherby, re-examined by Mr. MARTlN—Running
Rein was first entered for a sweepstakes of 50 sovereigns to
run at Newmarket First Spring Meeting, 1844. The next
entry was for the Derby ; it was made at Newmarket on or
before the last day of the July Meeting, 1842. The third
entry was for the Second October Meeting at Newmarket,
1843, for the 2,000 guineas Clearwall Stakes, to be run for in
the spring of 1844. He was also entered for a5O guineas
stake at the Abingdon Mile, in October, 1843. The horse
did not run at the Houghton Meeting. The meeting took
place on the Thursday after the decision of the stewards
alluded to by Lord Stradbroke.
The evidence for the defence thus far, was given last
evening. Whilst the first witness was being sworn this
morning,
Mr. COCKBURN, addressing the Court, said—My Lord,
after what passed yesterday with respect to the production of
the horse, I feel bound to place myself at once in the hands of
your Lordship.
Baron ALDRIISON—I am quite sure, Mr. Cockburn, it must
be your wish to produce the horse.
Mr. Comm/me—Certainly, my Lord ; and, if I could do
so, it should be done in a moment. I have felt it was the
bounden duty of the plaintiff, after the view which your
Lordship took of the case, to have produced the horse. In
that view, permit me to say, my Lord, that my client, Mr.
Wood, completely concurs. Most completely does he partici-
pate in my feelings.
Baron ALDERSON—No doubt he does, if he's an honest man.
Mr. COCKBURN—I will only state this, and I feel it my
duty to Mr. Wood to do so. The horse has been taken away
—(Great sensation in the Court)—taken away, my Lord. I
have Mr. Wood's most solemn assurance that the horse has
been taken away without his sanction, approbation, or know-
ledge. He never gave his approbation of this step—he never
knew anything whatever about it until after it was done.
Baron ArrEasox—Gone away, and without his know-
ledge ?
Mr. Cormuntaf—The horse was taken away, and it was
followed to a place where we were informed it had been
taken ; but since it was brought back it has again been
removed.
Baron ALDERSON—And pray, why 'did you not send for
the police ?—(A laugh in the body of the Court.) Why, who-
ever has taken the horse away is guilty of horse stealing.
Yes—and if I had time trying of the persons who took the
horse away, let me tell you I would transport them for life
to a dead certainty.
Mr. COCK/AURN—The question at present is a very painful
one. I suppose Mr. Wood, under the circumstances and the
disadvantage of his position
Baron ALDERSON--W hy, if Goodman is against Wood, and
going on about the
tifakheinghaaswbaeyenofa
tphaisetyhotrsoe.:vhat has been
then, no doubt, there is a case of
horse stealing for the Central Criminal Court, and to that
Court you ought to go.
Mr. COCKBURN—I hardly know what course to pursue
under the present very—
Baron ArmEnsoaf--Of course you don't, Mr. Cockburn.
hYoorusea.re desired to produce the horse—you can't produce the
Mr. Coennunx—Certainly, I feel, my Lord, as if it were
vain to struggle against the view taken by the Court. I can
only say on the pare of Mr. Wood, that he perfectly agrees
in the propriety of the course laid down by the Court, and I
have his solemn assurance that he would produce the horse
if he could. The ho, se however has been twice removed, and
he is not in a situathxn therefore to produce it.
Baron ArneatsoN--- Well, and what is to be the result of a
this

Baron A LnEnsort—Well—
Mr. Cociusuns—Permit me, my Lord, one moment. May
I venture to say a few words upon a subject which has
immediate reference to this case and which has been the
cause of giving offence to an individual now in this Court.
My Lord, I have received a communication from Lord
George Bentinck, couched in terms --
Baron ALDERSON—What—couched in terms
Mr. COCKBURN—In terms, my Lord, of perfect courtesy.
Baron ALDERSON—Go on, Mr. Cockburn.
Mr. CocHnuns—Couchedin terms of perfect courtesy, and
in a tone perfectly unexceptionable. In that communication
his Lordship complains that I have made a charge with
respect to his conduct, and that I have not put him in the
witness box, where the opportunity would be best afforded of
substantiating that charge or of proving its utter injustice. My
Lord, my instructions were clear, specific, positive ; my instruc-
tions declared that he had pursued no middle course even,
but one of an extreme and an astonishing character. That
he had tampered with the witnesses it was proposed to call
before the Court. That to some he had held out threats—to
others promises. That throughout the whole of these pro-
ceedings, from the very moment of their commencement to
the period of their opening in this Court, he had made the
greatest personal exertions, and had used his personal in-
fluence amongst the witnesses and other parties in a way and
to a degree which would naturally subject him, if true, to
the severest reprehension. Nay, my instructions asserted as
fact, that even his Lordship's own residence, Harcourt House,
had been made subservient to the purposes of tampering
with my client's witnesses. That therein some of the
witnesses had been lodged and fed, and that therefrom one of
them had been taken by his Lordship's own valet, an,l by his
Lordship's own directions, to a tailor, in order to be clothed.
Pecuniary promises, 1 was also instructed, had been directly
made by his Lordship. Not merely were these my instruc-
tions, but I was directed to call as a witness a person from
whom, I was advised, every one of these facts it would be my
duty to extract and elicit. And I was instructed specially, if
these things were denied, or failed in proof, to call such a body
of witnesses as would place them beyond the chance even of
a doubt in the minds of the jury. These, my Lord,
were my instructions. Under these circumstances, and
his Lordship, in fact (being the prime mover in
the case—and this neither his Lordship, nor m y
Learned Friend's counsel on the opposite side wish to deny,
I thought it better, fairer, more proper, that these matters
should be introduced by me at once, in order that my Learned
Friend, the Solicitor-General, should know them at once,
rather than that I should introduce them at an after. period,
when they could not have the same notice, or their justice
and application be so thoroughly sifted. Lord George Ben-
tinck was subpoenaed by us, because it was said that Mr.
Carter would be called on the other side ; therefore we have
had no opportunity of doing that of which his Lordship com-
plains—of putting him in the box—or it certainly would
have been done. I must state that Lord George
Bentinck makes no complaint whatever of the privilege
allowed to counsel ; on the contrary, he states that
he honours and respects it, and holds it essential to the in-
dependence and utility of the bar. His Lordship complains
not of the charges made—he complains that by not having
been put into the witness-box, he has had no opportunity af-
forded him of rebutting them. I have made this statement be-
cause I think it my duty to set myself right with Lord G. Ben-
tinck by telling him clearly and explicitly what were the in-
structions I received, and to give to his Lordship this opportu-
nity—or any other he may think a better or more appro-
priate one—of giving a denial to them.
Baron AmEnsort--7But I don't think anything is required.
You, Mr. Cockburn, acted upon your instructions ; and
counsel must, without hesitation • and without scruple, state
to the Court and jury that which it appears to them proper
for the interest of their clients, however high in station may
be the parties of whom they are speaking. I have not seen
anything which trangressed the proper rules, according to the
instructions you received.
Mr. COCKBURN—I am bound to say, my Lord, that Lord
George Bentinck, does not complain of that. On the con-
trary, his Lordship states his high sense of the value to
society of the thorough independence of the Bar.
Baron ALDERSON—I am quite sure nothing has been said
by you that could give ground for a charge of impropriety in
the conduct of your case.
Mr. WORTLEY (second counsel for Col. Peel, the Solicitor-
General having left the Court)—There is no complaint of the
kind made by us, my Lord.
Baron ALDEnsox—Oh, no ; no ground for it. Lord George
Bentinck was most anxious to work out the truth. Nothing
more can be said.
Mr. WonmEy—No person feels more than Lord George
Bentinck, the 'value of the liberty of the English bar.
may add, however, that the fullest refutation would have
been given to the instructions of my Learned Friend Mr.
Cockburn, and to every insinuation that has gone forth to
the prejudice of my Noble Friend, but for the abrupt termi-
nation of this trial. But for this circumstance, every charge,
or supposed charge even, against Lord George Bentinck,
would have been fully and clearly contradicted.
Baron Al.nEn.sort—lt's not necessary. (Turning to the
jury)—Gentlemen of the Jury—This is a case which I have
listened to with a great degree of sorrow and disgust, for to
my mind it is clear that a most atrocious fraud has been prac-
tised. I have seen, with great regret, that some gentlemen
of high standing in society have gone and associated them-
selves with fellows infinitely below them in rank and cha-
racter ; and can any one wonder at the result ? If gentlemen
would race with gentlemen then such practices as have been
exposed would not exist ; but if they will condescend to race
with persons so much below them then must they condescend
also to be cheated. You will find a verdict for the defendant.
Mr. Won:nay—The verdict, my Lord, according to the
agreed terms of the action, is to carry the stakes.
Baron AmEnsort—Well, I believe the conditions were so.
Still you had better mention that matter before me a 1
Chambers.
The judge then retired; and the sporting world (as usua
very soon left the Exchequer empty.

CRIMINAL COURY.--.(THIS DAY.

OLD COURt.
(Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.)
James Neale, aged 13, and 11lizry Ann Neale, aged 22, were
charged, Mary Ann with stealing a gold watch, value 221.,
the property of Joseph Vivian, and James with receiving the
same, well knowing it to have been stolen.
The prisoners were in the service of the prosecutor. The
watch was lost, and the prisoners were afterwards found
.offering it for sale in Petticoat-lane.
The jury found them both Guilty, and they were sentenced,
the boy to three months imprisonment, and the female to
one years' imprisonment.

CLERKENWELL.--(THIS DAY.)
Two young men, named Pass= and Martin, were charged
with refusing to perform the work assigned them in the Hol-
born union workhouse.

It appeared from the evidence that, on.the previous night,
the prisoners were admitted as casual poor, and, having re-
ceived .their bed and breakfast, refused to work four hours at
picking oakum, according to the provisions of the Act of
Parliament, and not only refused, but used the vilest lan-
guage, and throw two bundles of wood at the taskmaster.
They were likewise most impudent to Mr. Wilkes,-the re-
lieving-ogicer.

Mr. Coc.Knultx—dt is .my own conviction and the convic-
tion of my Learned' Brothers that without Mr. Wood's con-
sent the horse has been taken away, and that in such a state
of things we can hal tily hope to struggle against the impres-
sion upon the Court which such an act must necessarily
produce.

The- prisoners attempted to show that the workhouse-
porter, Barlow, had been insolent towards them, but this ac-
cusation they altogether failed in substantiating.
Martin was sentenced to fire days, and Passon to fourteen
(lays' imprisonment.

Baron ALDERSON--, Well ; it's not for me to say what you
are to do. There "ia s an ancient case, Mr. Cockburn, in
which a poor boy fo wad a diamond supposed to be of great
value. He carried 4,,ihat diamond to a jeweller, who kept it.
An indictment was A:mind against that jeweller for detention
of the diamond; it clime to a trial—and the jury in their ver-
dict found that the diamond
Was of the first water because,
Mr. Cockburn, the jeweller declined to produce it to the
Co
urt.

Mr. COCKBURN— I see the effect of what you state, my
Lord, and I saw the effect that must follow when the pro-
duction of the horse 16-as required, unless the order were com-
plied with.

- Baron AumnsoN- The truth is out already up to a cer-
tain point. But the pinch of the case is this—what horse
was delivered to Hai :les. The question is, did Cobb's colt
go from Bean's to ILA 'ties's, and become Running Rein.
Mr. COCKBURN—I •am in the hands of the Court, my
Lord.

Baron AmEnsow- --. Oh, do just what you please. You say
it is impossible to pr of luce the horse.
The Soucrrou-GF.7 4ERAL---We are quite prepared
to go
on, my Lord, with titz 3 case, and to show who and what the
horse really was that. -won the Derby.
Baron Mimi:so/sr --;I saw from the beginning that was the
whole point—the or ay point. I shall proceed to lay before
the jury the evident * as it is, if
you wish it (addressing him-
self to Mr. Cockbui
n) ; and I am ready to go on and hear
more, just as you lik!e.
Mr. Cockburn, ‘,r at ich perplexed," after a moment's hesi-
tation, sat down, and the crier again called into the box
George Worley, el :a mined by Mr. WORTLEY—I farm my
own property at Siwell , near Northampton. In 1841 I was
at Doncaster races. ( ;oodman was pointed out to me. I
saw Higgins there. •He lives near Northampton. At Don-
caster
something w. al. said by Higgins about sending a colt
to me. I came how to on the Tuesday in the Doncaster week.
That was the 14th o f September 1843.
A few days after-
wards I received aco It from Mr., Higgins. I received a pe-
digree with him. If: was a bay foal ;no star in his forehead;
no white at all, ex et lit a small grey hair or so; this was
between his eyes. t l servant of mine, named Pinney, went
with me to Northam* ton to fetch him. I was at Epsom the
last Derby. I saw t ,e horse called Running Rein. Before
the horse started Igo t off my
own horse and examined him.
I have not the lea I t shadow of a doubt that the horse
called Running R eiii was the same horse I had under my
care. I said so at the time. I saw Mr. Goodman at Epsom.
During the time tl be he. orse was at my place, at Siwell, he was
kept in a paddock.. f le was a very cheerful horse. Jumping
over a wall or liedg li 1 .ie hurt himself between the knee and
the arm, on the nea4lo fore-lee. He had a scar. A veterinary
i

MARYLEBONE.--(THIS DAY.)
John Brotherton, a sailor, was charged before Mr. Long, by
Mr. James Trinder, landlord of a. public-house in Maryle-
!lbne, with having threatened to to):e his life, and with using
abusive language towards him.
Mr. Trinder said that the defendant, who was his .wife's
hephew, came into his house last evening, and after using
abusive and disgusting language, tb .reatened with an horrible
oath to rip him up. The defendarii., to the best of his belief,
was not in liquor at the time.
Two witnesses, who were in tlie prosecutor's house when
the occurrence took place, corroborated his evidence.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, said he only re-
turned from a long voyage the of? ter day, and that he called
on his uncle respecting some money which he owed him ; he
neither used insulting nor threatening language, and begged
the Magistrate to deal leniently With him as he had a wife
and family to support by his indusltry.
The complainant denied that lie owed the defendant a
single farthing, he believed him to be a dissolute person, and
bore a bad character amongst his elt ip-mates.
On the defendant promising that he would not annoy his
uncle, he was ordered to enter into !recognizances to keep the
peace towards the complainant.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 2.—Wind Nortinirly, moderate breeze, and
cloudy, with rain at times.
DEAL, JULY I.—WindA.at. E.W.E., P.M. N.E., light breeze.
Arrd. Jane, Clark, Port Philip; Sat ah, St. Vincent's. Sld.
Simon Taylor, Judith Allan, GI(); iana, and the Unicorn,
Calcutta ; St. George, and Nurian, Lindsay, Ichaboe ; Gros
Richard, Africa ; Mercury, NEIW foundland. The beacon
constructed by Mr. Walker has be en placed by the Trinity
yacht on the eastern end of the Go odwin Sands, and at pre-
sent stands conspicuous and secur(
PORTSMOUTH, JULY I.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Agin-
court, London, for Calcutta.
SouniAmprox, JULY I.—Ara. Montrose steamer with
Peninsula mails; Cairo, London.
PWLLIIELI, JUNE 29.—S1d. Lady Mary, lchaboe.
LIVERPOOL, JULY I.—Sld. United Ichaboe ; Cale-
donia, Havannah ; Halcyon, Bath„ States; Frederick,
St. John's, New Brunswick; Macao), Quebec.
OFF CORK, JUNE 29.—Sir Charles Napier, Huntress, Lima.
OFICROOKRAVEN, JUNE 25. Esquimaux, Pearce, Barba-
does ; Warinam, Gibbs, La Gua3fra.
SUNDERLAND.—Arrd. Norma, ;Sierra Leone.
LYNN, JuNi 28.—S1d. Oberon, art, John's, New Brunswick.