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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME ClRCUlT—Guildford, Izqus7l.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN).
Th')nias Hollands rag indicted for feloniously cutting ants
wounding Anne Skinner with intent to maim and disable her.
or to do her some grievous bodily harm.
It appeared from the evidence that, on the 18th of July, the
prisoner and the presecutrix were at the Bell public-house,
Godstone, and the former, who was very much intoxicated, bad
an altercation with the woman, and struck her with a pipe that
he was smoking. After this the prisoner was proved to have
borrowed a clasp knife of one of his companions, and almost im-
mediately he opened it, and plunged the blade in the neck of
the prosecutrix.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he was co drunk at the
time of the occurrence, that he did not know what had hap-
pened.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN said that the use of the knife had of
late years became so prevalent, that the Judges were determined
to endeavour to put a stop to it by inflicting the severest pu-
nishment found by the law in all cases where parties were con-
victed of the offence. The prisoner was then ordered to be
transported for fifteen years.
Mary Bryant was indicted for for feloniously intermarrying
with Peter Wimble, her husband William Bryant being alive.
Mr. Knapp conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner it appeared was married to her first husband in
1834, and after living with him a short time, they separated,
and in 1842 the prisoner married a second time. There was
a doubt whether the prisoner was sufficiently aware of the fact
of her husband being in existence at the time she contracted
the second marriage, and the jury, therefore, returned a verdict
of acquittal. _ _ _

On.the Civil Side, Lord Abinger was engaged the whole of
the day in trying a case of disputed right of way, the details of
which were not of the slightest interest.

OXFORD ClRCUlT—Shrewsbury, July 29.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Lord Chief Justice l'itina L.)
MANSLAUGHTER.—Lvtac Cooper was indicted for the man-
slaughter of his brother, James Cooper, at Wellington, on the
22d of May last.
Mr. Johnson Neale prosecuted ; Mr. Yardley defended the
prisoner. . . . .

It appeared that until the day on which the melancholy oc-
currence, which formed the subject of this prosecution, took
place, the prisoner and his deceased brother had always lived
upon terms of the most perfect friendship, and had never even
been known to have had a quarrel, or indeed an altercation of
any kind, though they had always resided under the same roof.
On the night of the 22d of \lay, the deceased had been drink-
ing with some friends in Wellington, and the prisoner, ac-
companied by a man of the name of Machin, had gone out in
search of him for the purpose of bringing him home. They
met him in New-street, and 7equested him to return with them,
which he attempted to do, but being exceedingly drunk, he
could only walk with difficulty ; the prisoner, therefore, and
Machin supported him between them, and had conveyed him
some distance, when they came to a liquor-shop, which the de-
ceased expressed a wish to enter. The prisoner objected mad
endeavoured to induce him to go home, upon which the de-
ceased became extremely violent, and catching bold of the
prisoner by the 'collar, and at the same time placing his leg
behind him, threw him violently to the ground, falling heavily
by his side. The prisoner lost the control of his temper upon
this provocation, and when they rose a struggle took place,
during which the deceased received a blow upon his right eye,
which' felled him to the pavement, and the back of his head
falling upon the kerb-stone, a wound was inflicted causing con-
cussion of the brain, and terminating shortly after the exist-
ence of the unfortunate man. After striking his brother, the
prisoner expressed the greatest contrition for his hasty con-
duct, and was the first to call in a medical Irian, but the de-
ceased, after lingering for a week in a state of insensibility,
expired.

hlr. YA Rm. EY addressed the Jury for the prisoner, and sug-
gested that the untimely fate of the deceased might hare
arisen from his having slipped backwards, and struck his head
against the ground, and that the inflammation was increased, if
not produced by the quantity of drink which the unfortunate
man had taken.

The Jury adopted the suggestion of the Learned Counsel,
and acquitted the prisoner.

3IIDLAND ClRCUlT—Leicester, July 30.
Mr. Baron Parke arrived in this town late on Thursday
evening, and immediately proceeded to the town and county
halls and opened the commissions. The business of the assizes
commenced on Friday with nine causes and upwards of thirty
prisoners, several of whom are charged with the perpetration of
crimes of a disgustingly revolting character.
MURDER - Charlotte Barnacle and Sarah Barnes were
charged on the Coroner's inquisition with the wilful murder of
an elderly woman of the name of Waring.
Mr. Hildvard and Mr. Miller conducted the prosecution,
and Mr. Mellor and Mr. Macauley the defence.
The prisoners were persons of rather prepossessing exterior,
but for some time before the commission of the crime laid to
their charge, they had been leading dissolute lives.
It appeared that the prisoner Barnes was living at the
time of the murder with her father and mother in Oxford-
street, Leicester, the deceased occupying the garret, and she
bad been living there for about a month. On the Saturday
preceding the day of the murder, Barnacle came to lodge in
the house of Barnes, fattier of the other prisoner, Barnacle
sleeping with deceased. On Wednesday, the 6th of April,
Mrs. Waring had been out at wsrk during the day, and on her
return home went straight to her roosts, where she partook of
some tea, having taken the water from Barnes's tea kettle.
Shortly after she had drank her tea, the old lady came out of
her room, stating that she had taken a cup or two of tea and
some bread and butter, at the same time complaining that she
felt so ill she did not know what to do. Deceased returned to
her room, continued to grow worse, and early on Thursday
morning died. Both Barnes and his wife, who had taken
water to make tea front the same kettle that Waring had
filled her pot from were taken seriously ill. It also came
out in evidence, that for a day or two previous to this me-
lancholy occurrence, Mary Barnes had been making vari-
ous inquiries as to " what sort of stuff" poison was. And
when asked her reason for making the inquiry, she replied,
" Because we have heen speaking about Catherine Smith (a
girl who had poisoned herself some short time before)."
The witness, detailing the conversation, said she thought it
was like flour, and as much as would lie on a shilling would
poison any one, &e. It also transpires, that shortly before the
time in question, Barnes, while talking to another person, said,
" I have got something, but durst not tell you what." Upon
being pressed to tell, she said, " I dare not hardly, it is jalap,
and Barnacle has put it into the tea-kettle." That Barnacle
came up and said to Barnes, " Come on !" to which Barnes
replied, " She durst not, as she knew they had tasted some-
thing." Barnacle said, " Oh, conic on ; I'know they hav'nt."
Barnes said, " I am sure I durst not go, as they will
taste it ;" when Barnacle replied, " Oa, it, came on, or
stop here whilst I fetch some work." The same person who
gave this testimony further deposed that Barnes told her Bar-
nacle had bought some jalap and put it into the teakettle or tea-
pot. The two prisoners were indentifled as the two young per-
sons who had gone into some chemists' shops on the Wednesday
to purchase arsenic, and were refused to be supplied. At lust
they went to Mr. Lockyer, in the Market-place. Mr. Lockyer was
not present when the prisoners entered the shop. Whenhe did
come in he heard Barnacle asking for a pennyworth of
arsenic. Whereupon he jokingly said, " Are you going to
poison yourselves ?" The answer was, " Not likely." He then
seriously asked them what it was wanted for ? To which Bar-
• naele replied, " For bugs and fleas." They were then supplied
with half an ounce, labelled " poison."
From the evidence of the surgeon who scads a post ruortem
examination of the body of the poor woman, he found appear-
ances that denoted the presence of arsenic. The teapot of the'
decease was analysed, and found to be impregnated with poison,
as was also the kettle of the 13arneses.

The case occupied a large portion of the time of the Court,
but these were the principal facts.
The great difficulty in the case was the absence of all ap-
parent motive for the deed, unless it was on account of the fact
that Barnacle, on the previous Sunday, had brought a man
into the room, for which she was scolded very much by de-
ceased.

The Learned Judge ( Mr. Justice PATTEsoN) having summed
up, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty of administering the
arsenic, but not with intent to kill, whereupon the Judge told
them that was no verdict at all, they must either find them
guilty of murder, of manslaughter, or not guilty. After con-
sulting a short time further together, they returned a verdict
of Guilty of manslaughter, and they were sentenced to be
transported for life.
William Vann was indicted for cutting and maiming his wife
with intent to kill. The prisoner, who has long been afflicted
with paralysis, had, for sonic time before the commission of
the offence with which he was charged, been jealous of his wife.
It appeared that on the evening befure the morning of the
day when the act was committed, the prosecutrix had gone out,
and did not return until long after her husband had gone to
bed. It further transpired that she had more money in her
possession than he thought could be fairly accounted for, and
high words arose between them, with some violence on his part,
whereupon his wife quitted the bed-room, and laid herself down
in what is termed the house-place. About four in the morning
she went up stairs to complete dressing herself, when her hus-
band offered to assist her in buttoning her gown, and while
pretending so to do, he drew her down on the bed and cut her
throat with the razor, and afterwards severely wounded him-
self. The woman got away as well as she was able, and gave
an alarm ; he was taken into custody.
The prisoner was found guilty, and sentence of death re-
corded against him.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
111,11VSION HOUSE.

A man who has been known sometimes by the name of
Henry Knott, and sometimes by the name of Henry 11 oft, was
brought before the Lohn Mavolt, charged with having de-
frauded, or rather rubbed, several respectable tradesmen, of
property.
The prisoner had taken the house No. 62, in Sun-street, Bi-
shopgate, and pretended to open an extensive business as a ge.
neral and commercial agent, as his cards indicated, but the only
business he transacted was that of ordering goods, which were
to be raid for upon delivery, reeseiving them at one door, hum-
bugging the bearers of them, sending them out at another door,
and turning them into money as soon as possible. Various cases
were gone into, at the end of which—
The Loan MAYOR said—lt will be necessary for you to pre-
pare yourself, for you stand in a very serious situation.
Prisoner—l know lamin a serious situation, but there is a
strong prejudice against me for the acts of other persons. All
that I have done has been in the regular way of trade.—(Laugh-
ter.) —The prisoner was then remanded till Friday next.
MAR YLEBONE.
Yesterday afternoon the Court was much crowded, in conse-
quence of its having been the day appointed for the further ex-
amination of George Raymond Kelly, the self-styled naval
officer, who, on :Monday last, was brought before Mr. Haw-
linson, on the charge of having, by false representations,
obtained property of west-end tradesmen to a considerable
amount. Some particulars were given on the former occasion.
Evidence was now tendered showing that on the 22d of Fe-
bruary the prisoner obtained 41 on the pair of pistols from
Messrs. Beattie and Nottey, pawnbrokers, Portman-square,
and that they also, on the 12th of March, advaneed to him 201.
upon the guns.
The guns and pistols were produced, and identified by Mr.
Bishop as being his.
The third charge was preferred by Mr. George Bowron,
bookseller and stationer, 213, Oxford-street, who stated 'that
on the 12th of March the prisoner called at his shop, and
.ri nßgaktehra- Baker-street, triete ifohr t the approval sentat
osfevheisn
father;
he selected, from a great many which were shown to him, a dres-
sing-case,
(Mr. Bowron) took it thither himself, and gave it to
the female servant, who, after going into the prisoner's
evening,singiease tod desiring
apartment, came down, saying that Mr. Kelly (the
prone)
er)
requested that the article might be left fll onday morn-
ing, as his father had not arrived ; the request was complied
with, and on the morning in question he
(Mr.
Bowron) again
went to the house, when he saw the landlady, woo, on finding
that he had parted with his goods, d her regret, and
the expresse ,
said she had no doubt that prisoner was a complete swindler.
It further appeared that the guns and dressing-case were ob-
tained on the same day, and that in the everting thereof the
prisoner quitted the house in Bakwhich he had been. Balzer-street
living.
Phelps, the constable, produced two keys taken from the
prisoner, and Mr. Bowron identified them as belonging to the
dressing-case of which he had been swindled.
Mr. Joseph Sofilaw, of the London-bridge Howe Hotel,
stated that on the 22d June, the prisoner came to his establish-
ment and engaged a bed-room in the name of Mason, sayin

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that he as the son of Admiral Mason, commanding the fleet
in the Mediterranean. He had borrowed a turn for the pur-
pose, as he alleged, of liquidating the amount of the bill, but
not a farthing of the account had been paid.
The prisoner had nothing to say, and he was fully committed
to Newgate to take his trial upon the three charges first gone
into; that preferred by Mr. Seftlaw could not be entertained,
as it was clearly nothing but a debt.

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The HOLDERS of SCRIP and of BANKERS' SCRIP
RECEIPTS, are reminded, as a matter of Caution, that the
THIRD INSTALMENT of 2/. per Share, will become due
on FRIDAY, the sth of August, instant, and unless punctually
paid on that day to the Bankers of the Company, the right to
the New Shares will be forfeited, in accordance with the terms
of the Resolutions of the Special General Meeting of Proprie-
tors, held on the 22d of February last.
By order of the Board, A. BULKELEY, Secretary.
Offices, Shoreditch Station, Aug. 1,1842.

NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.—A PUBLIC
.1-N. MEETING will be held TO-MORICOW EVENING, Aug.
3, 1842, in the Hall of the National Association 242 A. High
Holborn, to eonsult and determine on Resolutions in aid of the
ELECTION of JOSEPH STURGE, Esq.
Chair to be taken at Eight o'Clock. Several Members of
Parliament are invited, and expected to attend.

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