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NORTHERN CIRCUIT.--Liverpool, Dec. 16.
MURDER.—Thomas Share was indicted for the wilful
murder of Alice Nolan, at Manchester, by cutting her
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Mr. Brandt stated the case, and proceeded to call the
following witnesses :
Tames Kearsley, who stated that he lived in Cannon-
street, in Salford, and that Alice Nolan lived there for
from nine to ten months. She was there on Sunday,
the 7th of July. She left the house from half-past ten
to eleven. Witness saw her no more alive. Saw her
dead body on the Monday at the Rob Roy public-house.
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Sarah Shepherd stated that she resided n Cork-street,
and knew the deceased, Alice Nolan. They worked to-
gether. Knew the prisoner. He visited the deceased.
He was courting her. On Sunday, the 7th of July,
Alice Nolan was at witness's house. She came up from
half-past ten to eleven in the morning. The prisoner
was there. After dinner they went out. When they
came back she came in first. He came in in about ten
minutes. She had tea. He did not have any. About
half-past nine she said she would help herself to some
bread and meat. He said he would have some too.
He took a mouthful of the bread and meat out of her
hand. They went out together shortly after. He came back
at about ten minutes or a quarter-past ten. As he came
down the yard he seemed to be dancing, and was sing-
ing " Jim along Jo." He said something, witness could
not tell what, and then she heard him say, "Here goes."
He seemed to make a catch at the latch, and the first
time he missed it. He tried the latch again, and opened
the door. He made one step into the house and fell on
his face. He lay with his arms under There was
blood issuing from his throat. Witness made an alarm,
and tried to get him on his feet. He threw Ms hands
about. Witness said, " Oh, Tom, what have you been
doing this for I Where is Alice ? Have you been fall-
ing out ?" He stared very earnestly at witness, and
began taking off his coat. He was gurgling in his
throat. Witness ran out, and went for a surgeon. There
was a surgeon in the house when she came back. When
the witness and the deceased came in after dinner she
was smiling. He was very pale, as if he were vexed.
Witness turned to her and said, "Alice, you have been
vexing him." He sat down beside her. She looked at
him and smiled. He crept towards her and laid his hand
upon her shoulder. She bad not a bonnet. They ad-
dressed one another as Alice and Toni.
Cross-examined—When they came in between dinner
and tea time she went up to witness, put her hands
round witness's neck in a playful manner, and asked her
to go and wash herself. She played with her hands round
witness's neck a minute or two. When they went
out he jumped up hastily. They had been fondling with
one another. Witness's husband and the prisoner
worked together. Witness understood the prisoner had
lost his situation some days before. He had not been
drinking at the witness's house the night before. He
was out with witness's husband for about ten minutes.
The deceased and prisoner were together in the course
of Saturday evening. He had two glasses of beer.
Witness has known him about four months. Does not
know if he was in the habit of drinking. It was from
knowing the deceased he came to witness's house.
Re-examined—When she put her hand on witness's
neck sho played with it, and asked witness to go and
ush her. She had done so before. There was nothing
in it which induced witness to feel any alarm.
Martha Wilson stated thet she knew the prisoner and
Alice Nolan. They came into witness's house about
half-past three. They remained about two hours and
a half. They seemed very ecmfortable. Ile seemed
very fond of her. Witness went out with the deceased.
When they came back he was gone.
Cross-examined—The prisoner left about ten minutes
before her. They seemed very comfortable while they
were there. Witness's husband and the prisoner worked
together.
Hugh Broadhurst stated that he lived in Salford.
The prisoner on the Sunday came to his house to borrow
a razor. He asked for a latherbox and razor to shave.
They were laid on the table, and witness told his wife to
put some water on. The prisoner said, " Never mind;
there's water yonder," pointing to Mrs. Shepherd's. He
ut the razor and latherbox in his pocket, and went out.
Witness saw the razor afterwards with Mr. Ward. It
was the same he had lent the prisoner.
Joseph Jones stated that he lived next door to Mrs.
Shepherd. Was in the necessary on the Sunday
evening. Heard a noise, as of the prisoner singing.
He seee,ed to be going to Mrs. Shepherd's. He stooped
dawn and said " Here goes it ; here I will die." He
stooped for a short time, and then rose up, and some-
thing dropped He opened Mrs. Shepherd's door, and
fell in. Witness went to the place where the prisoner
stooped down, and found a razor. Gave it to Edward
Ray. There was some blood 'upon it. It was about
half epee. Witnes went into Shepherd's house. The
prisoner was bleeding from the throat. The surgeon
came in about a quarter of an hour.
Cross-examined—Did not observe the prisoner until
he stooped. Could not see if he put his hand into his
pocket.
Edward Ward—Received the razor from Edward
Ray. Went to the Rob Roy public-house, and found the
body of deceased there. Went to Mrs. Shepherd's.
The prisoner was lying on the floor with his throat cut.
Took him to the infirmary. There was a blue pilot coat
in the house, in the pocket of which was a latherbox
and brush. The coat was much sprinkled with blood on
the skirts. _ _

Cross-examined—lt is possible the wound might have
been inflicted by the left hand of the deceased. It was
in an oblique direction from the front of the throat, up
towards the left ear. Thinks the course of the wound
would have been different if it had been made by the
left hand of the deceased party. Cannot speak positively.
Mr. Shepherd recalled—The deceased had on a second
mourning dress and light boots. Prisoner had on a blue
pilot coat. Did not notice his boots.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. JAMES addressed the jury for the prisoner, going
minutely through the evidence, and contending that there
was nothing in it that could justify the jury in saying,
beyond any reasonable doubt, that it was the hand of the
prisoner at the bar which inflicted the wound of which
the unfortunate woman died. He urged that from the
inconsistencies of the statements made respecting the
man and woman described by the witnesses, that
there must have been more than one couple seen
by them, in itself the most probable thing in
the world, in such a town as Manchester, on the
Sunday evening. Nor were the prisoner and the de-
ceased identified as either of them. The dress and ap-
pearance described were of a kind the most usual and
common in the class of life to which the prisoner and the
detested belonged ; and the supposition that they were
identified by the fact of their using the names of Tom and
Alice, was one based on the most rash assumptions.
The only witness on whom the truth of this fact depended
was paying, as might be supposed, no attention to the
casual conversation of two persons whom he was acci-
dentally passing in the streets. He was even, by his
own account, at some considerable distance before he
professed to have heard the names, and his loose recol-
lection of the conversation would be most likely to be
deceived when, once having got the idea th it those
whom he had seen were the parties in question, he
learned that their names were what he had now stated.
That this unfortunate woman died from a wound inflicted
in her throat was most certain ' • but could they say with
certainty, upon this evidence, by whom that wound had
been inflicted ? It was possible, on the medical evidence,
that it had been inflicted by herself. Could they say it
was not ? They would recollect the singular circum-
stance of the deceased playing with her fingers round
the neck of Mrs. Shepherd. Who could tell what sin-
gular ideas, passing in her mind, had prompted this
strange conduct ? Was it not possible that the fact of
the prisoner losing his situation, the consequent post-
ponement of her marriage, a matter of necessity, of more
importance to her than to him, might have prompted the
rash act. But even if they should think themselves jus-
tified, amid all these unsatisfied doubts, in coming to the
conclusion that the prisoner really inflicted this in-
jury on the deceased, was it not clear that on that
evening he was not aware of what he was doing ? They
would recollect the strange way in which he was stated
to have come to Mrs. Shepherd's, singing a foolish
song, and stampi-g with his feet in the strange way
which Mrs. Shepherd had described. And when they
found, as would be clearly shown, that the prisoner was
since beyond all doubt, insane—that he had been treated
as a lunatic, and been subjected to the restraint of a
straight-waistcoat, as the only means of security, it would
strengthen beyond measure the probability, that at the
time of this occurrence, should they think that he par-
ticipated in the death of the deceased, he was not ac-
countable for his actions. The great loss of blood was
the most likely thing to produce an interval of sanity.
When that depletion was supplied by a generous diet he
became insane, and was only restored to sanity by sub-
mitting him to a rigorously lowering regimen. He
would call the surgeon of the gaol, and leave them to
form their judgment on his evidence as to the prisoner's
sanity, contending, however, that in the first place there
was no evidence on which they could rely, that it was
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BURNING.
TO " DOCTORS " MARSDEN, LISTON, &C.
The dangerous " feverish state " of Miss Webster
is still unabated, and her " emetic " sickness at four
o'clock on Monday evening convinces me that your
experimental treatment in her " case" by external
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stomach' is a round-about way into the system ; as
they, by ferment agitation, must unite with the blood
forming at the moment ;—whereas my mode, as that
of the " antient physicians, is to counteract the fer-
mentation already created, through nervous shock, by
taking away the CAUSE for it : by instant purification
of the bony fabric.
The following is offered as a " New Year's Gift"
for 1845 to the humane in Memorandum for wil-
ful or accidental bodily suffering by fire. The
" caloric" thus sucked out of Miss Webster's system
by the substance of the flame—on her being burnt on
Saturday night last at Drury-lane Theatre. This
deprivation of natural caloric is only to be regained
to the body of this young lady in balance for healthy
temperature—by the purest " caloric-spirit heat," as
existing in " virgin-wax." Hence ! as heat repels
heat, as cold-chill by snow-cold, heat, from pure
white flame, must be brought in contact, and must be
applied through the nostrils direct to the vessels of
the lungs, to and from the brain, under aid of " the
VITAL AIR LAM P,"-or after " its" manner—for the
gradual rarification of " breath" for obtaining a regu-
lar moist tongue in " proof" of the absence of fever.
This mode, with purified MILE, instantly restores
" the oxygen of the blood," expands for fibril circula-
tion the epidermis, or outer skin for the hair's growth,
under a gentle perspiration ; and at the same time—
as if at " the FONT" of nature—lubricates generally
" the balls and sockets" of the joints, with their car-
tilaginous parts, for expansive ease, appetite, and
tranquil sleep.*
Mark this, philanthropists! If the above " Memo-
randum" is not adopted, the hair of the head and
" eye-brows" will never grow, the skin will become
like " parchment," or else nervous languor, mortifica-
tion, and death will speedily terminate the now excru-
ciating spasmodic suffering of this young, fascinating,
and popular actress.

Thomas Huxley stated that on Sunday, the 7th of
July, he was in Bridge-street. It was near ten o'clock.
Came up to a man and woman near the corner of Alfred-
street. Heard the man say, " Well, Alice, must we be
married ?" She replied, " No, not yet." He said,
"You won't?" The woman answered, "No, not these
six months, Tom." Witness went on about fifteen
yards, and heard the woman cry out, " Oh God, Tom!"
She was at the corner of Brigg-street. She was then
leaving the man. He came towards witness. Ho
walked very quick. She went in the direction of Ar-
lington-street. Witness spoke to the man, and said,
" What's to do?" He answered, " Nothing; good night."
When witness first passed them the man had his arm
round the woman's neck. He had a blue pilot coat on,
and he seemed to have iron heels to his boots. The
woman had no bonnet. She went in the direction of
Richmond-street. The young woman had on a dark
dress and cream-coloured boots.

Cross-examined—Did not see other people about at
the time. The two persons seemed to be courting. Did
not notice anything peculiar about them. 'Was about
five yards past them before he heard anything said. Was
not paying any particular attention. Is sure of the
words. They were," Well, Alice, shall we be married?"
Is sure it was by way of question. When witness heard
the words, " Oh God, Tom," thought the man had struck
her. It seemed to be an expression of pain. Was fif-
teen or twenty yards off at the time. The man could
have gone to Mrs. Shepherd's house, at the pace he was
walking, in about ten minutes. Had particularly ob-
served the woman's dress before he heard her cry out.
Was fire yards past before he heard the words about
getting married. Witness's attention was not particu-
larly directed towards them. They were talking when
witness passed. They talked in the same tone all along.
Had observed the man's boots in passing. Judged they
had iron heels from the sound. The man crossed by
Albert-street. Thinks he passed over flags, but cannot
say. It is not soft ground there. Seemed to have
laceup boots. Coul,l not see what both parties wore be-
fore passing them. Had not seen the body of the de-
ceased before giving his evidence. Saw her the night
before she was buried. It was before the Coroner's in-
quest. Believed she was in her coffin. She was laid out.
Saw part of the clothes after he had given a description
of her dress. Saw her boots and a neckerchief. The
clothes he saw were a dark-coloured dress, a crape hand-
kerchief, and cream-coloured boots. lam sure the word
she used was Tom. Will swear it WAS,not John. Was
about fifteen yards off at that time.
Re-examined—Described the young woman's dress
before he saw the clothes of the deceased. The man in
running away crossed a brick croft.
Ann Kershaw—Lives in Brigg-street, Salford. It is
a corner house with Albert-street. There is a back
window into Albert-street. Saw a man and woman
opposite the back window just after the clock struck ten.
Both were dressed in dark clothes. Saw their heads.
She had no bonnet on. She had a cap. They came in
the direction of Brigg-street. They would turn to the
left to go into Albert-street. They seemed as if they
were quarrelling. The woman made a sudden start
from the palings in the direction of Brigg-street, and the
man after her.

Mr. Chalmers, surgeon to the gaol, was called, and
stated that for some weeks after the prisoner came into
the gaol he treated him as any other patient for the
wound in his throat. After that time he became morose,
irritable, and ill-behaved in his manner. He had been
placed on a more generous diet than the prison diet.
He became at last very violent and incoherent. Witness
thought he was insane, and summoned other medical at-
tendance, Dr. Fornby. After a joint examination with
Dr. Fornby, was still of the same opinion. He was put
in a straight racket, and persons appointed to watch him.
Hia diet was reduced, and he is still kept on the same
diet. He remained in that state for nearly a fortnight,
Thinks he is now sane, but would think it his duty to
watch him for fear of a recurrence of the malady. A de-
pleting mode of treatment may produce the appearance
of sanity for the time, insanity being liable to recur
when that treatment is abandoned. Cannot from what
he saw speak as to the state of his mind in the July
preceding.
His LORDSHIP summed up, and stated that of late
years the plea of insanity had been set up on very weak
grounds. If a man showed any peculiarity, any morose-
ness, had any unreasonable quarrel with his relations or
friends, it was made a ground for representing him as
insane. To establish that plea, however, they must be
satisfied that the party was at the time the offence was
committed unable to distinguish right from wrong. His
Lordship then went through the facts as they bore upon
the question, whether the prisoner had, in fact, caused
the death of the deceased.

The jury, after a short absence from the box, returned
a verdict of Guilty.
His LORDSHIP then proceeded to pass sentence upon
the prisoner. Towards the close of his Lordship's ad-
dress, the unhappy man sank back, apparently partially
insensible, in the arms of the turnkeys. At the close of
the sentence he seemed to wake, as it were, from a dream,
and clinging to the front of the dock endeavoured to ad-
dress the Court, but a few hoarse, unintelligible whispers
were all that could be heard; his tongue refused its office,
and he was led half fainting from the dock. At the same
moment some person at the back of the dock was seized
with a fit apparently of epilepsy, and his cries and
struggles were appalling. The crowd endeavouring to
rush to the spot increased the confusion, and it was only
by great exertions on the part of the officers in attend-
ance that the unfortunate man was carried from the
Court, and order finally restored.
Durham, Dec. 16.
The Commission for this county was opened by the
Worshipful the Mayer of Durham, on the 14th inst.,
and Mr. Justice Coleridge arrived in the evening, and
attended Divine service at the Cathedral on Sunday
morning.
The number of prisoners in the calendar is twenty-
six, and the number of charges twenty-two, comprising
two charged with firing a g un into a dwelling-house,
with intent to do some grievous bodily harm ; three
charged with rape, one with manslaughter, two (one of
whom is a gentleman possessed of considerable resources)
with an unnatural crime; six with cutting and maiming,
with intent to murder or do grievous bodily harm ; four
with forgery, and uttering 5/. notes of the Stockton and
Durham County Bank ; three, with burglary, and two
with feloniously receiving the proceeds of the burglary ;
one with forging and uttering a bill of exchange ; and
one with attempting to sink a ship on the high seas.
The crimes are this all of a highly serious character.
The Court was opened this do y at ten minutes to eight
o'clock.

CHARLES 11. ACKERLEY,
Author of the mode for " inflating the nervous tubes"
to and from the brain, by pure air in all cases of
debility.
At 5, Swallow-street, Regent's Quadrant, London,
from eleven to one o'clock daily.
Dec. 17, 1844.

• The woolly part of "Wadding" used in ladies' dresses
applied to burns, extracts the fiery-heat, and prevents
pain by aiding evaporation. Thin paper (as in the pa-
tient's case) acted as a blister, by stopping up the pores of
the skin.

THE LATE EARL OF LIMERICK.—The mortal re-
mains of the late Earl of Limerick lay in state on Sun-
day last, at South-hill Park, where the universal respect
and esteem in which the lamented Lord had long been
held attracted a vast concourse of persons to pay their
last tribute of regard. The hall and two of the principal
apartments were prepared for this solemn occasion, and
ingress was freely given to all who presented themselves
between the hours of two and four o'clock. In the centre
of the saloon, which was carpeted with black cloth, was
placed, on a platform covered with a black velvet pall,
and displaying the armorial bearings of the family, the
coffin, covered with black velvet, on the lid of which is a
plate bearing the style and titles of the deceased Lord,
and at the head of which was placed, resting on a
eushion of erirason lelvot and gold, the coronet of an
Earl. Six colossal silver candelabra, containing wax_
lights, stood round the bier; and two of the nearest re-
lations sat as mourners at the head of the coffin, and two
members of the establishment attired in deep mourning
sat at the feet. Behind the mourners was placed the lid
of feathers, and at the upper extremity of the room
hung a large osctucheon, displaying the armorial bear-
ings of the deceased Nobleman. The apartments were
lighted by wax-lights placed at intervals round the walls.
At ten o'clock yesterday morning the mournful caval-
cade left South-hill Park for Ireland, and will arrive at
Limerick House on Saturday, where the body will again
lie in state on Sunday next; and on Monday, the 23d
inst., the remains of the lamented Lord will be deposited
with those of his ancestors in the burial-place of the
family under the Pery Chapel, in Limerick Cathedral.
Tliii EXPECTED BREVET.—It is confidently said
that the long-expected brevet will take place at the
commencement of the new year. This has been long due
to the army, and we are sure that it will be gratefully
received.—Herald.

William Henry Kershaw—ls the son of the last wit-
ness. His mother sent him to see what the man and
woman were doing. Saw the man part from the woman,
and as he was running he stumbled into a gutter. That
was at thirty yards off, and in the middle of the brick
croft. He ran away towards Dale-street. As he ran
away she turned the corner, and put up her hand to her
throat. Witness went into the house. Heard an alarm
of a woman having been killed about a quarter of an
hour after. Went to the place where he had seen the
woman, and found a pool of blood.
Cross-examined—When the man ran away he ran
from me. It was about four or five yards from the
corner of Brigg-street. I saw them separate.
Mary Barlow—Lives in Arlington-street. Saw a
woman, about the hour mentioned, passing up Arlington-
street, opposite Dean's-buildings. She was staggering.
She had her left band to her throat. There was a
gurgling sound in her throat. She passed near witness,
and put her hand on witness's shoulder with a sort of
push. She went up Arlington-street, until she 'got
opposite Mr. Senior's shop, when she fell against the
door. Witness`gave an alarm, and the woman was taken
to tht Rob Roy public-house. She had a cap on, and
no bonnet.

His LORDSHIP, in charging the, grand jury, expressed
an opinion that the grand jury and others would feel
great inconvenience from having to attend the Winter
Assizes at this inclement season o f the year. The count)
which he had just left (Yorkshi re), however, showed
that the course pursued was not without necessity. The
advantage of frequent gaol deliveries was great in one
respect, that it prevented persons wrongfully charged
from being long confined in prison ; but the evil was
as great individually in cases where there were few
prisoners as in those where many were confined.
During lasb year between 8,000 and 9,000 prisoners
had been discharged without conviction, from
one cause or another, and tst the last Winter As-
sizes 306 had thus received their discharge. The
ground of a long commitment, however, did not at-
tach in this case, for, with the e xception of five, all the
rest had been committed to gs:ol since October. His
Lordship observed, at some lengith, on parties procuring
themselves to be inserted on the special jury lists, in
order to get quit of attendanco on the petty juries—a
practice which, he said, was much to be deprecated, not
only on the ground that it inflicted an onerous and unjust
burden on the lower classes of jurymen, but also because
it deprived the Judges of the assintance of men of greater
moral and intellectual attainments in somo of the more
important cases—such as murder, manslaughter, for-
gery, and the like. The power of remedying this by
the magistrates was so difficult as to be almost impos-
sible. His Lordship then proceeded to remark on the
cases in the calendar, but nothing of a general nature
was contained in his observations.
MANSLAUGHTER AT WINGATE GRANGE COLLIERY.—
Jane Shaw, aged 52, was charged with killing and slay-
ing her husband, Thomas Shaw, at the parish of Bello,
on the 17th of August last.
Mr. Otter conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Grainger
the defence.

In this case it appeared that on the day the unfortu-
nate occurrence took place, the deceased and his wife
had been both drinking in a public-house kept by a man
named Anderson, at Wingate-grange Colliery, in which
they resided. Some bitter observations, indicating a
certain extent of jealousy, had been made use of by
the prisoner to her husband ; but it yet appeared that
she had made some attempts to get him home. On
the road ho was seen to be bent nearly double and
to sink upon a form in a disabled state ; and after
he was raised the blood was seen to gush from a
wuund in his breast, and he fainted. The surgeon called
in deposed that he survived for a few days, but ultimately
died from an effusion of blood internally, which effusion

Thomas Barber—Saw the woman fall, and helped to
raise her up. She lived about ten minutes.
Joseph Chrichton, surgeon, stated that on the Bth of
July he went to the Rob Roy public-house, and saw the
body of a female. There was a large wound on the

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' was caused by the wound already mentioned, describeL;
as about half an inch in length and two inches in depth,
and likely to be produced by a penknife or a pair of small
scissors. Two witnesses deposed to the deceased saying
to his wife, after being conveyed home, " You villain, it
was not this way when you stuck the gully into me."
But a third, the wife of one of the other witnesses, and
who had not previously been examined in the case,
swore that the expression of the deceased was, "
You
villain, you know where you put the gully into me."
That a person exclaimed it bad not been done by a gully,
but by a penknife ; and that on his wife hearing this she
went to a table in the room And took up a penknife,
which she put into her pocket.
Much stress was laid by Mr. GIaANGEg in his defence
on no blood being found in the prisoner's beuse, no knife
with blood upon it, about her or the premises, and no
marks of blood upon the person. The wife was tipsy
at the time of the unfortunate occurrence, so much so
that, on being informed of his state, she said she lenew
nothing about him, and was going to seek him with a
lighted lantern ; and the Learned Counsel suggested
that the deceased's death might have been occasisned by
falling upon some low palisades in front of his house ;
and, although the evidence of medical gentlemen were
quite contradictory of this hypothesis, yet the jury
seemed to agree with it, and Acquitted the prisoner.
The Court adjourned at seven o'clock.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, Dec. 16.
(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
MURDER OF SIR THOMAS BOUOIIiIr'S lIEAD-GAME-
KEEPER.-At nine o'clock this morning Paul Downing,
aged nineteen, and Charles Powys, aged seventeen, were
arraigned, charged with the wilful murder of William
Cooper, at Audley, in the month of August last.
Mr. Yardley and Mr. Boughey appeared on the part
of the Crown; the prisoners were defended by Air. Allen
and Mr. Iluddleston.

The facts of the case having been succinctly stated by
the senior counsel for the prosecution, a model and plans
of the premises where the horrible transaction took place
were put in and duly proved.
Daniel Colelough was then sworn—lie stated, I am a
collier. I lived near the deceased, Cooper. On Sunday,
the 4th of August, about nine A.M. and about five P.M.
he called on me. We went together to Audley Chapel,
and left about eight in the evening, when we went to the
King's Head, where we remained till ten. The deceased
walked with me home. I arrived there at a quarter to
twelve. As we walked home we met an uncle of the de-
ceased. I went to bed as soon as I reached my house.
Shortly after I was called up by the father of the de-
ceased and another man, named Shukor. I went with
them to Cooper's house, and found him lying there
dead.

Thomas Cooper, the father of the deceased, deposed
as follows :—I live in the parish of Audley. I and my
son were gamekeepers in the service of Sir Thomas
Boughey. On the night of the 4th of August I went to
bed a little after ten. I heard the clock strike eleven
and twelve. Soon after twelve I heard the report of a
gun, accompanied by a loud scream, close to my back
premises. My bed•room is in the front of the house.
I immediately jumped out of bed, knocked against the
wall for my neighbour Shuker, and ran down stairs.
I found my son lying on his right side with his head in
the kitchen and his body in the yard. There was a con-
siderable quantity of blood around him. On finding
what had taken place, I called in Lawrence and his wife,
and Lightfoot. They came up by the cart-road to the
house, and entered the kitchen. I sent for Mr. War-
burton, who lives at Betley, and is a surgeon ; and I
went to Colclough's and Shuker's. It was about four
o'clock when I left the house myself. I then sent
Stinker to Newcastle, about five miles off, for the police.
Before going, however, he called my attention to some
foot-marks in a fallow field, which had gone through
the gate near Lawrence's garden. They were-
the traces of two persons, one rather larger
than the other. I also observed that where they had
come across the pasture field the dew was taken off the
grass. The footmarks were in a line from my back pre-
mises down the field. I could only track them for eight
or nine yards. The two lines of steps were about three
or four yards apart. There was so much dew that I
'could see the steps distinctly. I examined the cow-yard
as soon as Shuker was gone. I there saw four or five
footmarks. Two were very perfect ; a brick was also
displaced in the footway. I ordered the footsteps not to
be disturbed till the police arrived. I was absent at
Betley about an hour. About ten o'clock the police ar-
rived, Mr. M'linight first. I pointed out to him all the
footmarks. I had been in the cowhouse-yard about nine
o'clock on Sunday evening, and left the gates closed as
usual. Between three and four in the morning I disco-
vered the one leading into the foldyard open. There
were no footsteps in the midden then, nor was the brick
at that time displaced. I know both prisoners. On four
different occasions I have had to lay informations against
one of them, and on one occasion my son was with me
when we caught the prisoners poaching ; but I proved
the case. The first time was about January last, and
the last the 26th of May. The information was heard
on the 4th of June. An information has been laid
against Powys. My house is eleven minutes' walk from
Enoch Wood's.

Cross-examined—l came out at the door my son was
shot at. Lawrence and his wife came with me after I
gave the alarm. Saw Lightfoot on my premises at two
A.m. My attention was attracted to footmarks between
three and four o'clock. No one had left my house
between the two periods. Do not recollect any search
having been made up to the time my attention was
called to the footmarks. Told Shuker not to say any-
thing about footmarks or marks on linen. Lawrence's
cottage is about 15 or 20 yards from the road. I was
never a witness, or made any charge against the pri-
soner Powys. Ours is a very bad neighbourhood for
poaching. The poachers are very bold and daring, and
a most desperate set of characters. I have had, during
the last two years, to lay many informations against
poachers. A fearful and most barbarous murder of a
gamekeeper was committed there abont a year ago. My
son was not a witness on that occasion. Once he laid an
information against Downing. He used to go out and
help us. He was a labourer. I saw Downing whilst in
custody, but never spoke to him about this business. I
never said to him he had better tell all about it. I had
not been shooting either on the Sunday, Monday, or
Tuesday.

William Price—l am a policeman. Was at Hamer-
end on the sth of August, at Enoch Wood's house, and
apprehended Donning there between one and two. I
took him to Cooper's house ; took him all along the
footpath leading across the field to Cooper's house. I
know the field by Cooper's back premises. Go t into that
field through a gate adjoining Cooper's garden, furthest
from the house. When the prisoner arrived at the pro-
secutor's house I delivered him over to another man's
custody. Saw Powys that afternoon, at three. He was
coming up the pasture field. I know Lawrence's house.
I live there. I saw Powys above the road in the pasture
field. I went to him and took him into custody. Mr.
M.linight was with me. Made him take off his right
boot, which I gave to Mr. Ma-Right. I remained half
an hour with him, and went afterwards to Cooper's
house. The left boot was taken off in my presence, be-
fore he went to the house. lie walked :up to the house
across the turf barefooted.

James Wright AVE:night—l am the chief superin-
tendent of the constabulary force at the Potteries. Went
to Cooper's house at nine o'clock 1.31. on the Monday.
Saw deceased. Saw footmarks. They were in the
midden in the yard ; the other in a gateway leading from
a pasture to a fodder field. Cooper pointed them out.
They were right footmarks. Observed particularly a
footmark in the gateway ; there was the impression of
three nails in the front mark ; the centre nail was
smaller than the other two ; I had not at that time seen
the boot. The footmarks in the midden and gateway
were of the same size and shape. I considered them to
be made by the same boot or shoe. There were other
marks, but not so distinct. Went into the fallow field.
I only observed one footmark there. Observed more
than one near the gate in the fallow field. There were
at least two footmarks in the field ; perhaps as many
as of three or four persons. Considered, from the
size of the smaller footmarks, that the persona who
had been in the yard had gone in that direction. I
traced marks up to the hedge, which seemed to have been
broken through. I did not trace them any further at
that time. Saw a boot taken off Powys. Examined the
boot with reference to the footmarks. I think Cooper
and Shuker were with me. I compared the boots with
the marks. I measured with a twig the impression and
boot. Found them exactly to correspond. (The boot
was here :produced.) I afterwards compared it with
the marks i❑ the gateway. Found them to correspond.
Was making the comparison when Mr. Hatton arrived.
We measured the boot and marks together in every di-
rection, and found them all to correspond. Made other
comparisons at Clemley Park-bank some little time af-
terwards. Saw marks in a ditch there in a grass field
adjoining. Had then another boot from the policeman,
Slater, at the end of the field. I saw footmarks at the
further end of the field.

This witness remained for a great length of time under
examination and cross-examination. On his re-exami-
nation it was clearly proved that one of the footmarks,
which was more particularly examined, corresponded
precisely with the shoe of one prisoner ; one nail was
deficient in the toe of the shoe, and also of the impres-
sion, and the other nails corresponded in number pre-
cisely.
Thomas Shuker—l am a labourer. On the night in
question I heard the report of a gun on Mr Cooper's
premises, a little after twelve. I got up and saw the de-
ceased lying there. I went in about four or five minutes
after to Lawrence's. I then searched kbout the premises
and observed fresh footsteps. I went afterwards to
Newcastle for the police. This witness proceeded to
describe the direction in which the footsteps went
which it would be impossible to render intelligible
without a map to refer to. He added, that in the back
yard of Cooper's house he saw a small piece of blue paper
lying in the yard, near to where the deceased had been
lying. The paper was open. On the following day I
found two pieces of blue paper partly wedged under a
brick in the yard.

•
Cross-examined—thing was said to me about
looking for wadding on Monday night. Mr. Hatton
inquired on the Tuesday morning about paper or wad-
ding, and I told Mr. Hatton that I had seen it the da7
before.
Captain Hatton, chief of the constaWlary of Stafforo-
shire—l saw Mr. M`Knight at Mr. Coope'r's house when
I arrived there on the morning of the sth of August. I
observed some footmarks and boots, whici; were pointed
out to me. They tallied precisely in eve "y respect.
(The testimony of this witness corroborated in es ".''rY par-
ticular the preceding evidence.) Captain Hatton pro'
duced a single-barrelled gun, which he found in the fie.-t.•
room of the elder prisoner. It had evidently in his opi-
nion, been recently used—in all probability 24 hours be-
fore. He brought also a powder-horn, containing a
charge of powder. The horn was stopped with a pledget
of blue paper rolled up, of precisely the same colour and
quality as that which was used as wadding for the gun.
This circumstance, as will be seen hereafter, formed a
very important link in the chain of evidence which con-
nected_ the prisoners with the crime. Captain Hatton
wr.,; present when the last witness found two pieces of
blue parer in the yard, which had evidently been used as
wadding. Ile then compared them with the pledget of
piper twisted up and used as a stopper to the horn found
in the bed-room of One of the prisoners. This comparison
was repeated in Coin t. and no doubt could exist as to
the pieces of paper found on Cooper's premises having
been used as wadding to a giro, nor of their having been
torn off the larger piece already tOtided to. 'The gun
was found in a drawer of a chest of drawers, locked up
and covered over with clothes ; and the witr.eas further
stated, that his belief as to its having been recently tired
was founded upon the appearance of the nipple an;! of
the cock, which, as every one skilled in the use of fire-.
arms is aware, differs totally from that of the same parts
when the gun has laid by for a few days.
Mr. Harding, one of the Coroners of the county,
proved that, in his opinion, he entertained not the least
doubt but that the boot taken off the elder prisoner had
n:anle the impressions noticed near the house, each of
whichwas most accurately and carefully measured by
him and i;;, several other parties. In fact, too high an
encomium cen;!ot be passed upon Captain Hatton, and
the police under bins,. for the great care and pains evinced.
of the case, and the by them in the investigation
detec-
tion of the prisoners.
o.mson collier, and
Thomas Furnival—l know the ts_
recollect the Audley wake Sunday. I was at the col-
and Smith
liery about four or five o'clock. I saw rOsej
there; the former had a gun with him, which he was
" ramming down." He then went down by the w0..°13-
Hannah Sinister, the wife of Charles Sinister, of
Leycet, in the parish of Madeley—l know the Samson
colliery. I live about 200 yards from it. I remember
Audley wake St:nday. Between four and five that after--
noon I heard a Vn go off. I looked out and saw
Powys, Smith, Burg,:e.s, and 'larding. They were op-
posite my door. Don't ,recollect which had the gnn.
lames Smith—l remewfler the Sunday of Audley
wake. I know the prisoners aml the last witness, Mrs.
Sinister. I live at Leycet. I a-as in company with
Powys, Burgess, and Harding on thee afternoon of that
day. None of us had a gun. We were at Enoch
Wood's till a late hour in the evening. I got home at a
quarter to twelve. I last saw Powys a,l)out eleven.
Downing was in his company at that time.
George Madders—My father is a butcher at UTener-
end. I know Charles Powys. T saw him on the eN 'en-
ing of Audley wake Sunday. James Smith was vviol
him. He asked me to get him some pov:rder and some
caps from Burgess's. He said I was to fetch them in a
pocket handkerchief. I did not fetch them, bacanse a
little lad had just died in the house, and I could not ;or
shame go. Downing lived close to my father's house:
I saw him one day washing his hands, and he said he'
wished he was washing them " in William Coopar's
heart's blood."
Cross-examined—Dowing was at home when he said
this. It was the day Mr. Cooper caught him in Audley-
wood. It was more than a week before the wakes. I said
nothing of it until a month after the wakes.
Thomas Bolton, a collier, living at Audley-end—l
was at Enoch Wood's on the night of the wakes, about
eleven o'clock. I saw Powys there, And Downing too.
He was with James Smith. Powys said something to
Mr. Wood. I went away in the direction of Alsager'a
Bank. I passed the Gresley Arms, kept by Mrs. Jones.
When there I heard the sound of a gun. The sound
came from towards Betley. I heard a scream at the

same time.
Hobert Weatherley (police-officer).—l remember
Audley wake Sunday. I went to Ormercnd that night,
and left Audley after clearing the public-houses, at s
quarter before twelve. I left Wood's beer-shop as the
clock struck twelve. I afterwards went to the Greeley
Arms, and to Silverdale. While going along I heard
the report of a gun in the direction of Cooper's house.
This was nearly half an hour from the time of leaving
Wood's. I sent the two lads, Furnival and Bolton, to
school, by order of the chief constable, about three
weeks ago.
At a late period of the evening it became apparent that
the case for the prosecution could not be closed for some
hours further ; and his Lordship, after directing that the
jury should be kept in safe custody, adjourned the further
investigation of the case until nine o'clock to-morrow
morning.

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.
(From the Chronicle.)
We are not among the number of those who thiula
the possession of the Channel Islands A matter of no
importance. Mismanaged and misgoverned as they
undoubtedly are, they are nevertheless valuable de-
pendencies of the Crown, containing a faithful and
loyal population of more than 70,000 souls, ei.voni-
passed on all sides by the sea, and employing a 81%43-
ping amounting to more, we believe, than 30,000 ton.%
according to the latest accounts.
But it is not solely at their intrinsic worth that
these islands should be rated. A British Minister
should consider not only their actual value, but what
they have cost, (luring the progress of the war, to the
parent country_ In that gigantic contest from which
Great Britain came out victorious, it has been com-
puted that our country was obliged to embody and
maintain upwards of 10,000 men, solely for the de-
fence of the Channel Islands, independent of a
squadron of ships of war. The amount of the civil
and military establishments maintained in Jersey and
Guernsey during that eventful period, has bean com-
puted alone at no less a sum than 284,1631. I6s. sd.
annually, in addition to a million of pounds otherwise
expended.
So immense an outlay as this was oniy justified
by the universal opinion that if these islands were in
the hands of the enemy the trade of the Channel
would be placed in peril. And so it unquestionablY
would previous to 1815 ; fur the possession of the
islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark,
would then have placed in the hands and at the
disposition of France that numerous host of priva-
teering vessels which, in the hands and under the
guidance of Britons, inflicted such serious injury on
the trade and commerce of our then most implacable
enemy. But the introduction and the general use of
steam in our navy has since materially diminished the
importance of this branch of the question, as we took
occasion to show in reviewing the pamphlet of the
Prince de Joinville ; though we are not insen-
sible to the advantage in the event of war (which.
Heaven avert !) of having a naval station either at
Benlay Bay or at Alderney. But, in war, or in
peace, it is only fair that dependencies such as these
—enjoying not only protection but valuable immu-
nities, and on the erection of one of whose fortresses,
the foundation of which was laid in 1806, no less a
sum than 800,0001. was expended by the British
nation—should be governed by British laws, British
usages, and British customs. It is high time that in
the year of our Lord 1844, Jersey and Guernsey
should emerge from the barbarous code of feudalism;
and, being British in heart and British in feeling,
should adopt not only our laws and municipal insti-
tutions, but our language, as the code and the lan-
guage of her judicature and her people. The moral
and intellectual condition of the people of the Channel
Islands, notwithstanding the facilities afforded by
railroads and steam, can never be thoroughly im-
proved till the use of the English language and the
adoption of the English laws present a universal
medium of communication, and contact, and homo-
genity with the parent country. These general
observations—true at any time, and important as true
—derive augmented interest from recent occurrences.
For the last week the Court of Privy Council has
rung with the echoes of Jersey and Guernsey ; and
her Majesty's representative, the gallant and chival-
rous Lieutenant- Governor of one of those islands,
finds himself at issue with the Royal Court. It may
so happen, too, that before the close of the next
Hilary Term, the Court of Queen's Bench, where
her Majesty in person is supposed to preside,
may come into legal conflict with the Supreme
Court of the Island of Jersey, and these collisions—
always unseemly, if not always unseasonable—can
only be prevented for the future by rendering St.
Heiler and St. Aubin as much part and parcel of
the realm of England, as St. Albans and St. Neots.
It may and will be said by the Jersey and Guernsey
people, that their islands are prosperous and
flourishing ; but the prosperous and flourishing
condition of the islands is due, not to the
right of electing their own judges—not in being
governed by their own Legislature—not in the in-
operativeness of certain British writs and certain
British laws—not in the exemption from the impress
service, under the old system of manning the British
navy, and in the existence of some other privileges
too trifling to notice—but, hear it ye anti-free traders,
who are perpetually declaiming against freedom of
commerce—hear that the prosperity of the Channel
Islands arises altogether from a system of free trade
and low duties !
The late 11. D. Inglis, who resided in the islands
from 1832 to 1834, and who, during a two years'
residence, commanded not only the opportunities to
observe, but, what is still better and far rarer, the
capacity and discrimination necessary to accurate
observation, thus speaks of the causes of the pros-
perity of the Channel Islands in his agreeable work:—
e The flourishing condition of the island is not, how-
ever, owing to the privileges which are so much valued
by the people, and which may be termed political privi-
leges, but is owing to its great commercial privileges.
When I come to speak of the commerce of the island,
these will be enumerated and explained ; meanwhile, I
would only observe, that it is these commercial privi-
leges which have filled its harbour with shipping, and ex-
tended its commerce over the world—these whieh confer

IN on it the advantage it possesses over other spots, in
anmanOing, at a low©r price, the luxuries and many of
)e necessaries of life."
We are well aware how very dangerous and impo-
Nt is El thing it is to interfere with the laws and the
nguage of a people
sr id happy under
'r should we ad.. P.. vicious and barbarous system ;
vise such a course if the people of the
hantel
ulslands alone were concerned. I3ut now that
Id'l, ...ads are within a few hours' run to London,
,y the aid of steam, within a few hundred
' .ats sail of Granville and St. Maio and the French
..gasll•—now that thousands and thousands of British
inhabitants resort thither for the purpose of business,
Measure, commerce, or with a view to become perma-
!rent residents—now that the acts of the Lieutenant-
-oovernor are questioned and traversed by the Bailli
and Jurats, it becomes more than ever necessary to
be accurately informed of the nature and constitution
'of those Courts, and the mode of election of those
PidgesWith which the inhabitants are so enamoured-.

Of the constitution and legislature of the isle.-eds,
Inglie taus speaks :
" me constitutions of these islands ought not to be
left 'co the management of their own legisletuees. Amend-
silents are required both in con-titut;en and laws, which
will never be matle by the teuthbrities in either island.
It would be absurd, in '.nete days, to moot the question
as to the powers of 'she British Government, or to discuss
the question, yenether the right of legislation over these
rslands is v.ested in the King as Duke of Normandy, or
as fling of England. It is a favourite opinion in the
islands, that in cases where the general interests of the
*empire are in any way connected with the interests of
/Fie island—where, in fact, there is a common interest—
the British Parliament may interfere; but that in all
local matters concerning the interest of the islands
solely, legislation lies with the island institutions and
the Privy Council. Ido not see the force of this dis-
tinction: I look upon it to be the duty of the island
legislature to legislate for the benefit of the whole em-
pire ; and if certain changes in the constitution of Jersey
or Guernsey would insure greater security to property,
more certain or cheaper justice, or would even have the
kffect of diminishing feuds, and of advancing civilisation;
and if there is no hope that the island legislatures will
themselves originate these changes, then there i- suffi-
cient ground for the interference of the British Govern-
ineot, and for the adoption of whatever measure; may
be sanctioned by the British Parliament. In these ob-
servations I have Jersey more than Guernsey in view,
though I am very far from subscribing to a very general
opinion in Guernsey, that there no reform is needed."
These observations were -written ten years ago, and
recent_ occurrences give them a ten-folil force. Sir
:Robert Peel may smile, look specious and solemn—
enunciate some puling plausibilities—or bring forth,
:rich faithful gestation, some admitted truism, only a
century and a half old, dressed up for the occasion in
las 41 richest wardrobe" of euphonious and sounding
expletives. He may talk, like his Solicitor-General,
.cf the law of empek.eney, the only law by which he
equates his conduct—he may send Sir James Graham
to the Privy Council, as the descendant of" John of
the briglit sword," to interpret the Coutumier de Nor-
vianth.e—or tell the " travelled Thane, Athenian
Alcratdeen," to shroud himself in more than his usual
North British reserve—he may tell his Chancellor to
crack ribald jokes; but will he come to a Parliamen-
tary solution of the question at issue, satisfactory to
'the Lieutenant-Governor of the Channel Islands, or,
most material of all, satisfactory to the British
people ?
We accorded to the British Premier the praise
-which he deserved, for recently apps intkog- a judge in
-Westminster, Mr. Justice Erle, totally irrespective of
Tarty feeling. Will he sanction a different system in
Jersey ? where judges, according to Inglis, are thus
appein ted :
" The judge is borne into the seat of justice on the
eshoulders of a party. It is scarcely necessary, I think,
for me to enlarge upon the bad effects of this system.
The bench, with one or two exceptions, is composed of
she most furious partisans ; the court of justice is too
. often the arena for party feuds ; and it is net impossible,
lay glancing the eye along the bench, and knowing who
are site parties to a suit, to guess with tolerable accuracy
what will be the issue.

" But this 14 not the only evil of the system. No qua-
lification is necessary for being elected to the office of
j'adge. A farmer, a shipowner, a merchant—anybody,
;may be seated on the bench by the electors. No pre-
'7ious acquaintance with law or usage is required ; no
preptiratory education, no education of any kind requi-
site. The electors, generally utterly uneducated them-
selves, and influenced by the most violent party spirit,
cenanoe be expected to fix upon the best qualified
indi-
vfdna~®; and thus the bench is alike disqualified by
-parky;feeling, and by ignoraece, from exercising that
wound and unbiassed judgment which alone gives respect-
,i,ahifiti to a court of justice."
These are the men who have often to decide on
:Britiph property, amounting to thousands of pounds,
and on British liberty and life, infinitely more valu-
able than British property. The case of Mr. Wilson is
an recent as to be fresh in the memory of our readers ;
but that is by no means the only case. Inglis cites
tligs following instance of oppression which occurred
ten years ago :
"It is but lately that a girl was imprisoned, charged
'with some Inconsiderable offence, by the authority of
;some poliee-officer. There she remained nine months,
at the Cad of which time, upon the representation of
0110 et: his Majesty's receivers-general (for be it recol-
hytr.,(l, that the maintenance of prisoners forms a deduc-
iff.an from the King's revenues), the girl was brought up
ler trial, or rather for accusation. There was no accuser
—no charge—the cause even of her imprisonment was
=known, and she was discharged."
The English reader will naturally inquire into the
constitution and composition of courts which not
only Muse obedience to the Queen's writs, but set
Ler military governor at defiance. We are told by
one authority, Lecras on the laws of Jersey, that
bseilli and jurats are so unacquainted with their
duties,

" That they suspend their judgments in order to con-
sult a party on the framing of them, and alter and re-
voke them after they have been delivered, and that they
tometimes prepare these judgments before the trials are
beard, as was the case in the prosecution of the Crown
at the instance of the late Lieutenant-Governor, Major-
General Thornton, v. Le Breton, colonel of 'lilitia, when
one of the jurats, after the pleadings were closed, pro-
duced -4 judgment already written, which was adopted by
the bailiff and jurats, and rendered against the said
Lieutenant-Governor."

We are also told by the same authority, that per-
eons are seized without oath and warrant, and that
-.Dissenters, notwithstanding recent statutes in their
savour in England, labour under great disabilities in
the islands. Mr. Inglis thus shortly describes the
constitution of the Court, and the restrictions placed
Upon the bar :
"Attached to the Royal Court are the King's two
oiltioers, the Procureur du Roi and the King's Advocate,
syho are appointed by the King ; several other officers,
and six advocates, who are in the nomination of the
silly—an absurd and unjust nomination, both as regards
the public service and the manner of appointment.
arhare ought to be no restriction upon the bar, ex-
cepting that which depends upon competency ; and yet,
In this important particular, there is at present no regu-
lation. No coarse of education is necessary—no exami-
nation is required ; all is left to the judgment of the
badly, who, possessed of such powers, and presiding over
a mat comprised of men without legal education, ought
*0 be a man possessed of many acquirements, and distin-
gswibed by a sound and discriminating judgment."
-In another passage he thus speaks :
" So long as the present mode of cons ituting the
bench be Maintained, the spirit of faction will continue
to exorcise its despotism; and ignorance and partiality
'rill impede the course of justice. From the island legis-
lature nothing is to be hoped; it is in vain to imagine
that the twelve judges aad the twelve rectors will accede
to any proposition for excluding themselves from the
jegiletative body.
Surely this is a system which cannot be allowed
continue longer. We had intended to hare made
tome observations to-day on the folly of governing
heso islands, in the nineteenth century, according to
the, provisions of laws made in the twelfth and
iburteenth centuries ; but these observations, together
with some others in reference to the same subject,
must be reserved for another occasion.

Ift isismsuss—ACOUSTlC INSTRUMENTS.-39, Albe-
=Bele-street, Piecadilly.—lnvisible Voice Conductors,
*vi ten fixed in the cavity of the ears, are not more uncom-
fertable nor perceptible than having a small piece of
wool in its place. They enable individuals at an ad-
'canoed age, and of forty or fifty years' standing of ex-
treme deafness, instantly to join in general conversation,
and to catch the sound of a distant, low speaker, at
church, theatre, &c. They pour the conversation into
the ears to such an extent, that in most severe oases
deafness cannot be observed. Also original. Ear Cor-
nets, French, German, and Spanish Artificial Ears, and
improved Hearing Trumpets of every description. Many
of those instruments have received the approbation of
the Royal Society and Royal Institution of Great Bri-
tain.. The Newly Invented Spectacles, immediately
they are placed before extremely imperfect vision, it
is brought to its youthful; natural, and original state.
Also Achromatic Telescopes, Opera-glasses, Micro-
*copes, &c.—Caution : Messrs. S. and B. Solomons,
Opticians and Auria ts, are not in any way connected with
a person of the same name in their immediate neigh-
txurhood, not in any part of the country. Te prevent
esistakes, be cautious, and observe—Only to be had at
189. Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel.
FETAL ACCIDBNT IN THREADNEEDLB-STNEET.-
144 evening, about half-past five o'clock, a van belong-
ing to a Mr. Maynard, carrier, of Barking, was proceed-
Jog up Threadneedle-street, towards Bishopsgate-street,
When the right hand wheel came in contact with a quan-
tity of paving stones. At the same moment a truck,
drawn by a poor man, in the employ of Mr. Stevens, of
Xlinerra-street, Hackney-road, was passing the vehicle
an the other side, and, in consequence of the wheel
pgasing over the stones, the van was completely canted
aver on to the unfortunate man, throwing out at the
same time a lad, named Chalk, with much violence into
the road, who was seated with the driver. On the cart
Wing lifted up, the ill-fated man was found dreadfully
sanWated about the head. He was promptly removed
ou. a stretcher, as also the lad,h etowt,T.fßartdholoniew's
hospital, but on arriving there
breathed his last. As regards the boy, it io.sunsadltofehakvde
Out he has sustained some serious internal hurt.
*dyer of the van was immediately taken into custody 14
lie police, and will be examined this day before the Lma
mayor.
- I

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On Saturday, January 4, 1845, will be Published the First Number
f a New Weekly Newspaper,-price 6d., under the title of
youNG ENGLAND;
OR, THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE EMPIRE.
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THEAT_RE ROY AL, DRURY-LANE.
11113 ,11ENING, DECEMBER 18,
W'." be rePeated "a Grand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER
OF ST. MARY.. Lusignano Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Corriere, Mr.
OF trani ; .s'"Oncenigo, Mr. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W
"„a,"iicP; atarina Cornaro, Miss Rainforth
I 0 'conclude with the celebr?ted Ballet of THE PERI. Achmet,
Desplaces ; The Peri, Mdlle. Plunkett; Nourmahal, Mdl'e.
O'Bryan ; Aysba, Mrs. Payne.
1 Box-oMee is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six
in iht! Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places,
a id Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER
be performcd a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts,
r.,2l:ed OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket
rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe- s ; Tom Coke
Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ;
f ht. Countess oft :.n pion. Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthori,
Madame V.,,tris; Miss Rocket. Miss Julia :,ennett.
A it.s,r which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled
SO M EBODY ELSE. Hans Moritz, M . Charles Mathews; Minnie,
41:Warne Vestras.

To Lie tollowed by a New and Original Farce, called YOUNG
ii:N44LAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James
Feeley, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. P.olev' Mn.s Huniby.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and On Guinea and a-Half each.
Pickets and Plates tc be had of Mr. 1. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office,
from len till Five o'Clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 18,
Will be produced (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.)
aN- w Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some
Bebs that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck,
Mr. O. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilk in.
sou ; S,r Joseph Rowley, Bart Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr.
Hu.i.on ; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs.
Chic,:enstalk2r, Mrs. Frank Matthews.

Afar which a New Drams, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS
STA A. NGER. Count Fleury de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson. Count
',Towne, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ;
Cre:uet; Mr. Wright; Checliore, Mr. 0. Smith.
"l'o conclude with THE UNFINISHED GENTLEM XN, In
which Messrs. Wright, Selby, and Miss Woolgar will perform.
Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, tr. Pitt ; Leader of the
Bau ), Mr. Mellon.—Box—ortiee open from Eleven till Four. Private
Boxos to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries.