The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-08 00:00:00

No. 16,115.

BURGESS' ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES --
Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoy-steps, London.
JOHN-BURGESS and SON, being apprised of the numerous en-
deavours made by many persons to impose a sparious article for their
make, feel it incumbent on them to request the attention of the
public, in purchasing what they conceive to be the original to ob-
serve the Name and Address correspond with the abbve. The gene-
ral appearance of the spurious descriptions will deceive the un-
guarded ; and, for their detection, J. B. and Son, submit the following
cautions:—Some are in appearance
,at Ilrst sight, '• the genuine," but
Without name or address ; seine " Burgess's Essence of Anchovies,"
and. others " Burgiss's ;" and many more without address. John
Btirgess and Son, having been many years honoured with such dis-
tinguished approbation, kel every sentiment of respect towards the
public, and earnestly solicit them to inspect the labels previous to
purchasing what they conceive to be of their make, which they hope
will prevent many disappointments.
BURGESS' NEW SAUCE, for general purposes, having given such
great satisfaction, continues to be prepared by them, and is recom-
mended as a most useful and convenient sauce ; will keep good in all
climates.

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Capital £500,000.
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as to afford the full benefit to his family at death, and annual division
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on the profit scale a bonus averaging Afty-five per cent. on the
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house, and there met Williams. They dined together,
Williams paying the reckoning. Nothing particular was
then said. After Booth left the house, Williams fol-
lowed him, and said Beeston wanted to see him at the
Globe public-house on Copperas-bill. They went there
together, but did not see Beeston. Williams said he
knew what Beeston wanted, and that if he (Booth) was
on a station for articles that paid a heavy duty, they
might make 1,0001. each a month; that there would be
four in it—the witness, Williams, Beeston, and another.
The witness said he could not do it. Witness was away
on leave on the 18th and 19th. On the 21st was on
duty as a locker at Green's warehouse. One Richards
was also a locker there. Beeston came about half-past
four o'clock with Brocklehurst, and said he wanted to
see witness. On locking up they went away together,
Brocklehurst walking behind. Beeston then asked
witness if he had seen Williams. Wtness said he
had, and the subject of their conversation would not do.
Beeston then said, " Well, Booth, you know best, but
Williams has made 3,0001. by getting goods out in
that way, which he has melted." Witness met
Beesten and Brocklehurst again at the Waggon
and Horses public-house in Whitechapel, but Williams
was absent and nothing particular occurred. Did not
see any of them again until the 25th. Was at Nuttal's,
when Williams came in. He said he had bought forty-
four bags of coffee, and wanted to know if they came to
witness's station, whether he would let them go without
paying duty. Witness gave an evasive-reply. Brockle-
hurst was at that time on the other side of the street.
Witness communicated what took place to Richards, and
then to Mr. Bulteel, the acting surveyor, and Mr. Brown,
the superintendent locker. By their direction he went
to Nuttal's with Richards. He saw Williams and
Brocklehurst. He told them he could not do what was
wanted -without the knowledge of his partner, Richards.
Williams said he had no objection. A conversation
then took place as to the mode in which the object was
to be effected. It appears when goods are in one ware-
house and it is sought to transfer them to another,
what is called a removal-sufferance is made out and pre-
sented to the warehouseman, and if there is a sufficient
bond for the payment of the duty in the name of the
person signing the removal, an order to permit is written
on the removal-sufferance, as authority for the ware-
man. The goods are then sent in a locked cart with a
cart follower, and a cart note is delivered to the officer
at the second warehouse, which empowers him to re-
ceive the goods. Williams produced a delivery order,
and said he was going to pass a removal-sufferance for
forty-four bags of coffee to Green's warehouse; that he
would get out ten bags the next day without duty, and
would allow witness and Richards five sovereigns for the
ten. He said witness's pay was very small, and that he
might make a fortune in a short time. He said Beeston
put them up to it. The next day Brocklehurst came to
Green's warehouse. Mr. Bulteel was concealed near the
locker's desk. He said that he had not been able to pass
the removal-sufferance in time, but would remove them
the next day. Witness shortly after met Brocklehurst
in the street. While there Mr. Bulteel passed. He had
spectacles on, that he might not be known. Brockle-
hurst asked the witness if he knew who that was. Wit-
ness replied he did not. The next day Brocklehurst
came, about half-past two, and said the ten bags of coffee
were coming. The cart came shortly after, and Williams
with it. The cart note was delivered to witness and
Richards, and Williams got the cart follower away.
Brocklehurst stood at the corner of the street, about
twenty yards off. Williams paid witness and Richards
three sovereigns; he said he would remove the thirty-
four bags the next day. The cart then went away with
the coffee, Williams following. Witness went to Brockle-
hurst, and while they were standing together Mr. Mil-
ted passed. Brocklehurst said, " That's the same gen-
tleman I saw yesterday. He's a superior officer to you.
I should know him a quarter of a mile off." He said if
he thought he was following the cart he (Brocklehurst)
would bring it back. It appeared that Mr. Bulteel did
follow the cart, and seized the coffee while Williams was
removing it into a warehouse attached to some spirit
vaults, kept by a person of the name of Rigmaiden.
A number of witnesses were examined to show that
Booth met the several :parties he mentioned at the time
alleged, and Richards was of course able to speak to the
several latter conversations with Brocklehurst and Wil-
liams. The case, however, against Beeston rested on
Booth's testimony alone.
The Learned Counsel severally addressed the jury for
the defence, and his Lordship having summed up, the
jury retired for some time, and returned into Court with
a verdict of Guilty against Williams and Brocklehurst,
Beeston Not Guilty.

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Mr. Justice PATTESON was of opinion that the de-
stroyed building was neither an outhouse nor a ware-
house within the meaning of the statute on which the
prisoner was indicted. With respect to the former term;
it had long been settled that in order to constitute an
outhouse, it must be connected with a dwelling-house,
and in some respects parcel of it. This building was to
solitary and unconnected erection, and could not be
called an outhouse within the meaning of the Act of
Parliament on which this indictment was framed. Nei-
ther was it a " warehouse ;" to come under that deno-
mination, the building must be such as factors or traders
kept their goods in for sale, and where customers went
for the purpose of viewing them, and not such as were
used for the safe-keeping of goods merely. In this case
the building was not even used for the safe-keeping of
goods. He was therefore of opinion that the prisoner
must be acquitted.
The jury accordingly found the prisoner Not guilty.
(Before Mr. Sergeant BYLES.
Arthur Hammond and Robert Berry were indicted for
feloniously shooting at Thomas Firmin, with intent to
do him some grievous bodily harm, or with intent to
resist their lawful apprehension.
Mr. Sanders conducted the prosecution, Mr. Gunning
defended Hammond, and Berry was his own counsel.
The prosecutor is under-gamekeeper to Mr. Browning,
who hires the right of shooting in an extensive wood
called the Hyde, near Bury, of which Sir Thomas Gage
is the owner, and a Mr. Brown the occupier. The
prisoners are labourers living in Bury, whose labours,
however, appear to be pursued by night rather than
by day, being persons somewhat given to the of-
fence of poaching. The prosecutor and one Taylor
were watching in the Hyde in the night between the 6th
and 7th January, and about the hour of two in the morn-*
ing of the 7th they saw two men in the wood, orteof
whom was armed with a gun ; this man was the prisoner ,
Berry—the other was sworn .to be Hammond. The
keeper pursued the prisoners, and when about sixty
yards off them, Firmin fell down, whereupon the pri-
soners began to stone his assistant, Taylor.. Taylor
called out to the prosecutor, " They are stoning me ;;'' to
which the prosecutor replied, " Let them, I'll stop 'em."
The prosecutor had by this time risen from the ground,
and went to the assistance of his companion, whereupon
the prisoners ran away, pursued by the gamekeeliers.
When the respective parties were within six or seven
yards of each other, Berry turned round, levelled his gun
at the body of Firmin, and fired it off. Taylor swore
to having seen the wadding fly from the gun alight, and
also having heard " something like shot ' fly from the
gun past him. Hammond was at this time seven or:eight
yards in advance of Berry and running away, and he
continued to run as fast as his legs could carry him, not
taking any part in the actual assault on the prosecutor.
As soon as the gun had been fired Taylor came up and
said to Berry, " Why, you villain, you would have shot
that man if you could," and forthwith he struck Bei-ry
some
wmeass urmsaercted
blows on the head and felled him, after which
he
Mr. GUNNING, for the prisoner Hammond, submitted
that there was no evidence to go to the jury against hit
client. It might, perhaps, be conceded that they were
in the wood with a common intent to take game, buq it
by no means followed that they had a common purplose
to resist whoever might oppose them. Indeed, at he
time the prisoner Berry fired the gun, Hammond Was
some yards in advance, and there was no evidence to
show that he saw it fired, or was aware of Berry's in-
tention to fire ; he was running away at the time, and
did not use any word whatever to encourage his coin
panion to fire.

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The Learned JUDGE took the same view of the case,
and directed him to be acquitted. In summing up the
evidence, his Lordship left two questions to the jury, the
first being whether Berry fired the gun with the intent
charged in the first count, namely, to do the prosecutor
some grievous bodily harm ; and if he did not, then,
secondly, whether he fired with intent to resist his law-
ful apprehension ? With respect to the first, they would
observe that the prosecutor did not, in fact, receive any
injury, and there was no distinct proof that the gun was
loaded with anything but powder and wadding, and the
keepers had both spoken to the fact of the report being
a " very faint" one, which tended to show that the gun
did not contain a full charge. On the second question,
he was of opinion that the prosecutor had no right to
apprehend the prisoners. He was under-gamekeeper to '
Mr. Browning, but that gentleman had only the right of
shooting in the Hyde. He was neither the owner nor
the occupier, nor was he the lord of the manor. That
being so, he was of opinion that the prisoner could not
be convicted on the second count, as his apprehension by
the prosecutor, had it been effected, would not have been
" lawful." But, although that were so, and although
Berry might not have intended to,do any grievous bodily
harm to the prosecutor, still the firing of the gun at him
was an illegal act, and amounted to an assault, and he
might be convicted of that offence.

ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager.

AGENTS.
Tyrrell, Win., Merchant
Roberts, C. H., Surveyor
Lipscombe, L., Solicitor
Davis, W., Postmaster
Crosse, M., Civil Engineer
Sill, It., Solicitor
Broadley, J., Wine Merchant
Salmon, W., Solicitor
Nicholson, R. T., Publish&
Brown, S., Tea-dealer
Harris, C., Solicitor
Kennett, W., Solicitor
Jones, J. Manufacturer •
Griffiths, E., Postmaster
•
Keitgen, C., Merchant
Mitchell, C. C., Solicitor
Deacon, F., Solicitor
G. Emerson and Son, 3ferchants
Boyd, Wm., Brewer
Cutler, F., Merchant
Maybery and Williams, Solicitors
Coates and Lefebvre, Merchants
Williams, T. W., Auctioneer
Pascoe, T., Draper
Hodgson, T. H., Solicitor
Davey, J., Land Agent
Boa, W. B. Solicitor
Roberts, John, Land Agent
Whitehead, T. Accountant
Dim raoak, J., Printseiler
Adney, F., Solicitor
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Robinson,prejouw et °,Jj: . Bookseller
AgentDraperok s
Johnson, W., Merehaat
Hart, W., Jul., Merchant
Pike, W. and 1., Wine Merchants
Taylor, W. 1., Druggist
- Lanham, Ay., Agent
Brothers, J., Chemist
Carrington, R. F. and W., Publishers
Froud, J., Chemist
Hamilton, J. B. and li., Booksellers
Rankine, W., Merchant,
Byles, M., Solicitor
Davis, S., Merchant .
Darling, J., Bookseller • •
Cooley, C. E., Land Agent '
Balle, T., Bookseller
Vetch, James, Attorney
Kernagkan, T., Merchant
Stone, R., Surveyor
Wright, A., Grocer
Fisher, T. 8., Draper
Needham, J., Bookseller
Powis, J., harmer-street
Costello, J., Wine-merchant
Queripel, E., jun., Solicitor
Erskine, H., Merchant '
Lovell, G. W., Academy
Robertson, C., Banker
Elphick, G. W., ConveyAnce,r
Reynolds, W., Auctioneer
Faxon, F., Plumber
Roberts, 8., ankor •
Burgess, J., Ironmonger
Dutch, L., Merchant
Harrison; G.; PoitmaSter
Battye, T. H., Solicitor
Hewitt, T. F., Merchant
Allen, G. L., Grocer
Garlick, M. P., Solicitor
Mills, W. P., Surgeon
Quiggin, J., Bookseller
Prentice, B. M., Banker
Saunders, H.,Solicitor.
Jellard, P:, olicitor •
Jones, R. L., Merchant •
Griffith, J., Appraiser
Parry, T., Chemist
Dawber, W., Merchant
Compton, N., Architect
Davidson, 3„ and Elliston, E., Merchants
Cassels, W. G., Merchant
Cowan, J., Agent
O'Connor, M. M., Merchant
Kidd, 11. 11., Academy
Edwards, H., Solicitor
Trull, J., Surgeon. •
Digby, G. W.., Solicitor • •
.Langston, E., Sharebroker
Bartlett, S., Silversmith
Fitzgerald, J. Brewer
Wilkinson, S.; Stationer .
Reid, Solicitor
Wardroper, E., Solicitor '
Simpson, A., Bookseller •
Richards, J., Draper
Long, B. S. D. Solicitor
Ryott, It. A., henaist
Warburton and Co., Sherebrokers
Jones, W., Printer
Pywell, H., Solicitor
Browne, J. 0., Surveyor
Wray and Son, Merchants
Long, S. 1., Auctioneer
Price, W., Bookseller
Towushend, J., Stationer
Whitby, F., Accountant '
Pugh, Hugh, Banker
Britten, A. K., Banker •
Lloyd, R., Banker
IMplock, G., Bookseller
Saunders, W., Ship Agent •
Daly, M., Banker
Aldridge and Crahh, Merchants
Hubbard, W., Accountant
Green, J., Surgeon
Molesworth, J., SOlicitor
Mitchell, S., Accountant
Nankivell, J., Draper
Andrew, J., Printer
Hunter, D., Merchant
Kearsey, W. W., Solicitor
Brettell, W., Printer
Boyle, J., Merchant
Merry, W., Academy
gromPlon, W. AI., Sollelte
ulford, G., Draper
inearY, J., Printer
Walton, V. 8., Auctioneer
Thomas, J., Solicitor
T. H. Harris, Agent
Stenniug and Cornell, Solicitors
Delves, J., House Agent
Jacobs, A., Jeweller
Braithwaite, F.; Solicitor
Williams, W., Currier
Walkingten, J., Chemist
Joyce, J., Chemist
Benner, A., Solicitor
Beater, J. Collector
Cassell!, *. G., Banker
Holden, H., Solicitor
Edwards, E., Draper
Caine!, R., Banker
Palmer, C., Academy
Carson, W., Town Clerk
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Foggitt, J., Bookseller
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WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 5.

This being Good Friday, the Courts were not opened
till one o'clock. There are three Courts sitting for the
purpose of delivering gaol. Mr. Justice Wightn3an
presides in the Crown, Mr. Justice Cresswell in the Nisi
Prius Court, and Mr. Cockburn is sitting in a room at
the Market-house.

Saturday, April 6. •
John Britton was indicted for having assaulted James
Bartlett on the 21st of August, 1826, and robbed him of
a pair of boots, a pair of braces, and a sovereign.
Mr. Stock and Mr. Fitzherbert conducted the case for
the prosecution; and Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Kinglake, and
Mr. Stone, defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 21st of August the prosecutor
was at a fair at Priddy, near Wells, and that about
eleven o'clock at night, hearing cries of " Murder," he
went out of a " bush-house" (beer-house at a fair), and
was knocked down and beaten till he was insensible, his
boots taken off; and a sovereign taken out of his pocket;
when he recovered his senses he could not crawl, but was
carried home. Although so long ago, he had not yet re-
covered from the injuries he received that night. A. man
of the name of Burton was afterwards apprehended for
the offence, was tried, convicted, and executed. In-
quiries were made for the prisoner, who was at the time
a kind of horse-dealer, but he could not be found. A
witness named Lapstone gave the following account of
the transaction:—He saw Britton and Burton coming
from towards the " bush-house;" he stood on one side.
fle saw Bartlett coming along after the two men. Brit-
ton and Burton returned and gave Bartlett the meeting.
Britton went up to him, and knocked him down with a
whip which had a hammer at the end of the handle.
Burton then beat him with a large stick, which was the
leg of a trestle. Britton fell with one knee upon
Bartlett's" breast. More of the party, who were
gipsies, then came up and surrounded them. He saw
Robert Burton, the brother of the man who was exe-
cuted, carrying away Bartlett's boots ; be heard them
talking about the division of the property they had taken.
The witness swore most positively that he had never said
he could not swear to the person who had knocked Bart-
lett down. Another witness, named Charlotte Nash, who
had a standing close to where this occurred, swore that
she saw Britton knock Bartlett down, and Burton take
his boots off, and Britton kneel upon him and unbutton
his small clothes ; heard Britton say, " We've got the
boots, and now let us cut." They tried to pull off his
small clothes, but could not. She had known Britton
from a child; he at first sold oranges and lemons at fairs,
and afterwards dealt in horses. She subsequently saw
Burton try on Bartlett's boots. James Loxton, who was
a waiter in a booth, saw Britton and a large party of
men going about the fair together, and he said to Brit-
ton, " You devils, what are you going about, you'll kill
same one or other ?" Britton replied, " You` hold your
tongue, we are going to have a spree to-night, and no
one is going to injure you." At break of day next
morning he heard some one groaning outside the booth.
He went out, and saw Bartlett lying on the ground with
his face covered with blood. John Higgs, who was at
the fair, swore that the prisoner and three others
knocked him down and robbed him. In his cross-exa-
mination he swore that he had never said he did not
know who had robbed him. Other persons swore that
they saw Britton and Burton together at the fair that
night. It then appeared that in September last a person
who had formerly resided in Somersetshire, and is now
a sergeant in the London police, saw the prisoner at
Smithfield market, and gave such information that the
prisoner was apprehended at Walton, in Leicestershire,
at a fair on the 19th of September. When told of the
charge the prisoner said he had nothing to do with it,
that it must be a mistake, Burton must be the man, and
the names-Burton and Britton were very similar. The
prisoner had 118/. in his pocket, and some horses. To
another constable the prisoner said it was a bad job. He
was at the fair, but had taken no part in the affair ; and
that, if he had thought he should have come-to this, he
would have put a rope round his neck.
For the prisoner witnesses were called, some of whom
stated that they saw the row, and that ,Britton bad no-
thing to do with it. Another said that Bartlett had fre.
quently told him -that he did not know who had struck
him, and that the witness Higgs had said he did not
know who had robbed him. Other witnesses were called,
who said they would not believe Lapstone on his oath.
Several persons from Leicestershire, Staines, New-
bury, and London, were called, who had known the pri-
sonerminuteness. ihnegy gave
summed himnap mostwith egxrceeal t-
The jury returned a verdict of Not guilty.
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The jury acquitted Hammond, and found Berry
guilty of an assault only, and he thereupon received sen-
tence of six months' imprisonment.
Saturday, April 6.
Leech Barley was indicted for setting fire to several
barns and stacks of corn, the property of John Gay ford.
Mr. Prendergast and Mr. O'Malley prosecuted, and
Mr. Dasent defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor is a tenant of the Duke of Grafton,
under whom he occupies a large farm, at Rymer's-point,
in the parish of Trowston. The prisoner, in November
last, was a labourer in the parish of Sapston, a village,
distant four miles from Trowston. He had been some
weeks absent until the night of Sunday, the 19th of
November, when he was seen in the parish of Ingham,
which adjoins Trowston. He there overtook on the road
one James Rosier, of whom he inquired the way to
Rymer's-point, saying "he had very particular business
to transact there with Mr. Gayford." He was told the
way, and continued to walk on with Rosier. As they.

jogged along, the prisoner said to his companion
tell you what, old friend, there'll be a fine fire to-night
at old Gayford's ; a regular flare-up, I may say." He
also observed, "Them stacks," pointing to some which

stood by the wayside, "would inake a-fine blaze, they
would." Rosier then left him, and be was next seen at

the Griffin public-house, at Ingham, where he repeatedly
•asked the way to Rymer's-point, and said he would give
any man 2s. that would show him the way. (This he
appears to have said in order to avert suspicion, as he
had formerly worked for Mr. Gayford at Rymer's-point,
and knew the way intimately.) He also pulled out a
pair of light shoes, and remarked " they were his shoes
when he wanted to scour across the country in double.
quick time." He left the Griffin at ten o'clock, and the
tire, which was thred miles from that public-house, was
first seen at eleven. At half-past twelve he was seen
skulking under a wall at Honington, a place midway
betwixt Rymer's-point and his own house, which
he reached at one o'clock. He told the
woman who was sitting up for • him, that
there was a noble fire at old Gayford's, and his
stacks and all were levelled with the ground, and he
wished Gayford was burnt as • well." He added, he
should like to serve two or three more of them so ; that
was the only way to get rid of Kersey Cooper. (Mr.
Cooper is steward to the Duke of Grafton, the prose-
cutor's landlord). He further said, the proper way to
be sure to get rid of Cooper was to set his ricks on fire,
and drop a note for the Duke of Euston-hall, saying
" Duke, if you don't get rid of your steward, you'll hear
more about it." On the morning after the fire the foot-
steps of the prisoner were traced from a gap in the
hedge of a field which adjoins the prosecutor'si stack-
yard, in a direction from the Griffin to the property that
was burnt, and also from the stacks in a direction that
led to Honington and Tapston. The prisoner was after-
wards apprehended on this charge, and gave an account
to the constable of the way in which he went home from
the Griffin, which was consistent with his innocence, but
wholly inconsistent with the evidence of his being seen
at Honington, and of his footsteps being traced as
already mentioned. In addition to this evidence, one
Shadbolt ,a convicted felon, who was in the gaol with
the prisoner, deposed to a circumstantialconfession which
he said the prisoner made to him.
Mr. DASENT addressed the jury for the prisoner,
whom they found Guilty after the Learned Judge had
summed up the evidence, and he was sentenced to bo
transported for life.
After the prisoner's condemnation, he was handcuffed
this()cf.
to another convict, and taken from court in order to be
and
he hh as t
n o
not
clock
sinee when
been heard nremoved in the van to prison. As he was passing from
the door of the court to the van, he contrived to get his
hand free of the handcuff, and to make his escape through
heth the
wasm curred, and it was of course dark ; for a minute or two
No blame whatever is attributable to the gaoler or his
assistants.
cnotwd. missed, It
was
a past eight

Horsham -
HiVerfordwest -
Hampstead - -
Holyhead - .
Hastings - -

Haire -
Hindon -
Huddersfield

Ilitchen -
Halifax -
Ipswich -
Isle of Ilan -
Kilkenny -
Kidderminster
Kingsbridge
Limerick

LeweE - -
Lampeter -
Linebln -
Leola *-
-
Liverpool -
Leith - -
Loighrea
Listowel -
Lostwithiel -
Lynn

Leicetter - - •
Maldon
Mancheiter - - •
Maidstone - •
Mu'Ungar - - •
Morpeth - - -
Moffatt -
Midhurst - -
Newmarket -
Newtown - -
Norwich -
Newbury - -
Ifewcitstle ' -
Newcastle Elni_rn
Northampton -
Newington -
Newport (I. Wight) -
Newport (Monmenths.)
Oswesfry -
OakhamPton - .
Oxford -
Pwlheli -
Penzance - . •
Portmadoe - - •
retersfield - - •
Plymouth - . •
Paris - . - •
Peol6 - • -
Reading - •
Rochford
Rochdale - - •
Sheffield -
et. Columb -
St. Austle
Southampton -
Stroud • .
Shaftesbury
Scarboiough - ,
Stourbridge
Salisbury -
Sherborne -
Somerton - -
Tewkesbury ,
Tlaorniniry - -
Twitirldge - -
Tunbridge Wells -
T. InaY - •

Mr. Justice PATTESON (assisted by Mr. Sergeant AT-
CFIERLEX) then ,disposed of two or three other cases of
arson, and the assizes forthe county and the circuit ended.

RAILWAY TO SCOTLAND.—The whole of the
capital of the Caledonian Railway, from Carlisle to
Glasgow and Edinburgh, has been subscribed for, and
the shares are now at a premium in the stock-market !
This is an instance of public confidence and approval, of
which we scarcely know a parallel. In the meantime
the promoters of the Glasgow, Ayr, and Dumfries line
•to Carlisle, are using the most strenuous exertions to
run down the " Caledonian" and exalt their own. Our
advertising columns afford some proof of the warmth
with which the subject has been taken up ; but still
more fiercely does the ,war rage in Edinburgh and
GlasgoW. Of the success of the " Caledonian," however,
there can be no doubt.
IRISH NATIONAL EDUCATION. The Evening
Packet contains the following parragraph in reference
to this subject:—" We regard the present time as the
eve of a crisis in the affairs of the Church, and we feel
thoroughly convinced that the character of that crisis,
good or bad, • mainly depends upon the conduct of the
ministers of the Establishment in connection with the
great question of education. We have reason to know
that some of the warmest opponents of the national
system think the-time has arrived when that apposition
shotild be abandoned."

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.--Bury St. Edmund's, Aprils.
(Before Mr. Justice P ArrEsoN.)
Frederick Borley was indicted for setting fire to a
building in the occupation of Mary Rust. The first
count of the indictment described the building as an out-
house, the second as a warehouse.
Mr. O'Malley was counsel for the prosecution, and
Mr. Crouch for the defenc!...

—lt appeared that the building which the prisoner was
accused of setting on fire stood in a hop-ground belong-
ing to the prosecutrix, and could be seen from her house,
rout it was unconnected with any of the buildings at-
tached to_ the house. It was open on the lower floor,
which 'was used by the hop-pickers employed by the
prosecutrix, and also for the stowing away of hops in
their green state until they became fit for drying in the
hop-oast. The chamber above the picking-room was
covered in on all sides, and was used for laying up the
hop-skips and the various tools in use in the hop busi-
ness. -No hops'in a dried or marketable state werelept
in'any part of the baling.

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