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NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Cambridge, July 19

Joseph "Mills having—been previiously convicted of fe-
lony, was sentenced to fifteen year& transportation, and
Filby to twelve months' imprisonm.ent.
VIOLATION OF A CHILD.—John Hall, aged 20, a com-
plete " clodhopper," was charged lvi-th a felonious assault
on Letty. Meade.
Mr. Metcalfe conducted the case for the prosecution,
and Mr. Pryme defended the prisone r.
From the evidence of the prose mktrix, a girl not yet
12 years of age, it appeared that on the day named in
the indictment she was sent int.o the fields with her
brother's dinner. On her way she passed a field in which
were the prisoner and another young man at work, and
again on her way home. On the latter occasion the pri-
soner, despite the intreaties of his companion, followed
the poor thing, and, according to the very confused ac-
count which she could give of the affair, accomplished
the offence with which he stood charged; having, in the
first instance, deliberately tied her hands behind her
back. On her arrival at home she wept bitterly, and
complained to her mother that " Jack Hall had beeh:
meddling with her," but her pa.►ent did not seem to
have entered very warmly into the cause of her injured
child, for she contented herself with being " quite taken
aback," and omitted to send for a medical man.
His LORDSHIP having summed u p the case to the jury,
left it to them to say whether they thought it had been
clearly made out. _

The jury, after a short deliberation, acquitted the pri-
soner of the felony, but found him_ guilty of a common
assault ; whereupon he was sentenced to 12 months' im-
prisonment.
As might have been expected, the Business of these
assizes was brought to a close in the course of the day,
so that the bench and the bar may disport themselves on
Sunday and Monday in the walls of Alma Mater, or on
the banks of the sedgy Cam, as the commission for Nor-
folk is not " due" till Tuesday.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 18.
(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.)
THOMPSON V. DODGSON.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGEI—This was an
action for breach of promise of marriage. Mr. Baines
and Mr. flew appeared for the plaintiff. The action was
undefended.

Mr. BAINES stated the case. The plaintiff, who was
then 26 years of age, was the daughter of John Thomp-
son, who formerly kept an inn at Gisburn, and was now
a master carrier at the same place. The defendant was
a person of about the same age as the plaintiff, and he
rented a farm of 150 L a year, at Newsome, under Lord
Ribblesdale. The intimacy between the paities com-
menced as far back as 1838, when he was received as a
suitor, and he stated that it was his intention to marry
the plaintiff. In 1840 she gave birth to a child, and in
1842, in consequence of her father being unfortunate in
business, she went to reside at Manchester as a house-
keeper. The defendant had written a number of letters
to the plaintiff down to the middle of last summer, which
'left no doubt that the defendant had promised to marry
her, although he had neglected to fulfil his engagement.
The Learned Counsel then proceeded to read a number
of letters, in which the defendant stated that the plain-
tiff was

' " His nightly thought,
His morning care,
His evening song,
His morning prayer."
—(Laughter.) He also stated his desire" to lodge where
she lodged, to eat where she ate and to rest where she
rested." In another letter he said :
" Your hand and heart I wish to claim,
Oh, make me hippy with the same,
In pity yield to my request,
. And in your smiles let me be blest !"
—(Loud laughter.) Mr. Baines observed, that it was
quite clear promises of marriage had been made by the
defendant and broken, and he therefore submitted that
the plaintiff had a right to recover considerable damages.
The jury returned a verdict for the plainotiff—Da-
magesoa-'
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
The Court was Occupied the greater part of the day
in trying cases of rape, the details of which are not fit
for publication. In the first case, Henry Bland was ac-
quitted ; in the other Jonas Bower was found guilty, and
transported for life.
Mr. Granger, Mr. Overend, and Mr. Johnstone were
for the prosectaion.; and Mr. Bliss for the defence.

SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT.—Carmarthen, July 18.
Ddvid Jones, Esq., banker, of Ltandovery, High She-
riff of the county of Carmarthen, proceeded last evening
with his retinue of javelin men, &c., to escort Mr. Jus-
tice Coltman into this town, where he arrived between
eight and nine o'clock, and shortly afterwards his Lord-
ship proceeded to the Guildhall, attended by the Sheriff,
&c., and the corporation officials, when he opened the
commission of assize for this county. The calendar of
prisoners for trial is unusually light, there being only
about half a dozen on the list ; this, no doubt, arises from
the circumstance of the Quarter Sessions having recently
taken place; yet a general impression prevails that of
late there has been a considerable diminution of crime
in most of the Welsh counties. It was very doubtful
whether his Lordship would reach Carmarthen in time
to open the commission, on account of the mass of evi-
dence adduced in the heavy case of Lord Dunraven v.
Matins, in. which Sir T. Wilda and Mr. Cockburn were
specially retained. The subject-matter of this action,
which terminated in a verdict for the plaintiff, was in
respect of certain mines, which have already been the
subject of much litigation, and in which a second action
of Matins v. Price stands adjourned.

DEATV OF MR. BUTLER, THE TRAGEDIAN.--Mr.
Butler, the eminent tragedian, died suddenly at Manchester,
on Thursday last. He was giving a reading of Hamlet, at the
Athenaeum, on the evening of Wednesday last, but at the con-
clusion of the 4th act, he was taken so ill that he was obliged to
be conveyed home immediately, and he expired on Thursday
evening. The deceased gentleman, who was much esteemed
in the profession, was in his 41st year.
Lord:Wha!rncliffe, .Lord President of the Council, left town
on Satutilay, for the Isle of Wight.

witnesses declared that no application of strength suffi-
cient to produce such results as were apparent here
ought to have been made in the case of the deceased.
They also, however, admitted that occasionally very
minute portions of mercury would, under peculiar cir-
cumstances, produce the most violent and unexpected
effects.

Mr. YARDLEY addressed the jury for the prisoner.
After a complete summing up by Lord DENMAN, the
jury Acquitted the prisoner.
July 19.
Thomas Nuttey, carpenter, was charged with having,
on the 2d of May last, violated the person of Elizabeth
Welch, a girl of between 14 and 15 years of age.
Mr. Lutwyche appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Huddlestone for the defence.

It seemed that about nine o'clock on the evening in
question the prisoner, who worked for Mr. Wilkes, a
carpenter, living at Bredon, called- at his master's house,
and asked Mrs. Wilkes to give him some cider. Although
he had apparently drunk too much already, Mrs. Wilkes
gave him two pints of cider, which he drank off. Soon
after he had Llft the house, the presecutrix was desired
by Mrs. Wilkes to go with a message to a neighbour
named Mason, and upon her way to execute her corn-
mission, the girl was seized by the prisoner, a powerful
young man, and carried into a hovel, where, as she
swore, he perpetrated the offence described in the indict-
ment. It appeared that, although this occurrence took
place on the Friday night, she made no complaint of ill-
usage. from the prisoner until the afternoon of the Tues-
day following, and that in the interim she had repeatedly
denied that anything improper had taken place between
them. She said that she had not told the truth about the
matter before, because she was afraid of her father, who
was a very passionate man, and she certainly seemed to
be not quite so quick-witted as children of her age
usually are. The prisoner, upon being taken into cus-
tody, and acquainted with the nature of the charge made
against him, observed that he supposed he should get
" three months" for it, or have to pay W. or 31., which
he did not mind.

The jury, after some consideration, returned a verdict
of Not Guilty.
Nothing of present interest occurred in the Nisi Prius
Court, where Mr. Justice Patteson presided to-day, and
assisted in trying prisoners.
The business of the flattest assize known at Worcester
for 25 years terminated at two o'clock this afternoon.

Stafford, July 19.
The Learned Judges have arrived here, and the com-
mission having been opened, business will commence at
nine o'clock on Monday morning. From the number of
venires returned, it seems probable that there will be a
tolerable amount of civil business ; and the calendar is
decidedly heavy, there being already seventy-four pri-
soners for trial.

The commission for this county was opened yesterday
by Mr. Sergeant Byles, in the absence of the Learned
Judges, who did not reach Cambridge till a late hour of
the night. '
Their Lordships having attended Divine service in St.
Mary's Church, opened their respective courts at eleven.
The cause list is a very sorry affair indeed, containing
aris
only four common jury cases, which may truly be said
number The calendar
prisonersnd
to be of no possible interest to any one save the parties
therein concerned, and were speedily disposed of.
alsoanti verythe oh
insignificant both
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imputed to them.
(Before Mr. Justices WILLIAMS.)
Joseph Mills and James Filby, both. aged 21, were in-
dicted for having burglariously entered the dwelling-
house of Thomas Wells, and stolen therefrom a number
of articles, on the night of the 16th of June last.
Mr. Burcham was counsel for the prosecution, Mr.
Naylor defended the prisoners.
The prosecutor is a a tradesman dealing in " sundries,"
at a village about three miles from fraverill, and it ap-
peared that the inmates of his reside nce were roused in
the middle of the night with the alarm of " thieves." On
looking out of his window the prosecutor espied three
men making off across his garden into the fields with
large bundles, evidently containing :plunder. Shouting
out for help, he immediately gave chase, but could not
come up with the burglars, though :he traced theM for
several fields by the dropping of cigars, caps, candles,
and other articles, some of which. lie was enabled to
identify as his property. At break of day the constables
when set on the track discovered several cigars on the
road to Haverill, one of which was Lying just against the
abode of one Betty Banks, an aneicnt dame, who ac-
commodates lodgers and travellers at very small charges
for a night's rest. Without hesitatSo n, the back yard of
this abode was entered, and in a detached room were
found the two prisoners half dressed, and sound asleep.
On being roused to a state of consciousness, Mills said to
Filby, " My eys, if we ha'nt made -a tine job of this at
any rate ;" and wall he might, for underneath the bed
on which they laid were discovered. in box of cigars cor-
responding with those lost by the iprosecutor, and other
property, which was recognised by him as his property.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up the case to
the jury, bath the prisoners were found Guilty of the
charge imputed to them.