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Croydon, August 16.

The proceedings in this very extraordinary
.case were re-
sumed this day. The Court, as on the previous day, was
crowded to excess.
Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL proceeded to address the fury on
behalf of the defendant. tie said that the jury listened to the
evidence which had been brought forward by the plaintiff, and
be felt quite assured that they could not credit the testi-
mony of his witnesses, and therefore would return a verdict for
the defendant. But while he (Mr. Sergeant Channell ) ex-
pressed himself in these terms, he must tell the jury that it was
impossible for a person placed in his situation not to feel anxiety
about the result. He fully shared in the painful feelings which
had been expressed on the subject by his Learned Friend on
the other side of the question. His Learned Friend had truly de-
scribed his case as a criminal prosecution. It was true that the
defendant was not before them to answer for his life, but if the
jury were to find a verdict against him, his life would be of no
value to hien. All of human happiness, everything that would
make life worth enjoying would be destroyed ; life, indeed, in
such circumstances, would be a curse. And in addition to the
degradation entailed on himself, there would he the miserable
reflec.ion that he had suck his daughter, the being to whom
he had given life, into a state of hopeless degradation and
infamy. He did not believe that the jury would come to a
conclusion involving so dreadful a result, and, therefore, he
fully relied on an acquittal of his (Mr. Sergeant Channell's)
client. He admitted that some of the witnesses had sworn
positively to certain occurrences having taken place, but if
every fact w ere to he taken as proved, because a wit-
nel had sworn to it, the most innocent might be
convicted of offences; and their experience taught
them that the most painful charges were often made
ath
„tea t innocent parties without the slightest foundntien, and .
their only protection was to be found in the discrimination of
the jury, who took care to examine into all the motives .f the

the tvidenet carefully and cons,lera.ely,
par ies, and weighing
return their verdict accordingly. Should the jury find a
verdict of guilty on so awful a charge as this, on a case of mere
suspicion. ard without any positive evidence on which they
cont.' rely ? This was the question they had to answer, and he
hat very li•tle fear for the result. The Le; rued Coun3el
then proceeded at some length to animadvert on the
evidence of the witnesses, which he e.r.tended was
wholly unworthy of credit, and on which he main- ,
tained it was wholly impossible they could find a verdict of
guilty. He would ask the jury, as men of common sense, 1
whether it was probable that the defendant could have been
guilty of the crime laid to his charge ? He begged the jury to
consider most attentively the letters of the defendant's daughter;
they were most important. Was it, he would ask the jury,
possible that a young lady could write such letters, knowing,
as she mutt have done, that she had been all the while carrying
on an incestuous intercourse with her own father? The
Learned Counsel concluded a powerful and impressive address by
calling on the jury to return a verdict for the defendant.
The CHIEF Jusucx then proceeded to sum up the case.
After describinahe nature of the case, he siid that any re-
compense that coilld be given to a husband who had been de-
prived of the affections of his wife must of necessity be very poor
reparation for the injury sustained. It was, however, the only
reparation acknowledged by the law, aid juries, in estimating
damages in such cases, must always be guided by the peculiar
circumstances of each case. This was not the ordinary case of
the offence being committed by a stranger. It was a
father charged with the offence upon his own child,
and this certainly rendered the crime one of a
far more hateful nature. Although human nature re-
belled against such an act, that. ought not to excite
prejudice against the party accused, but on the contrary, ought
rather to excite a doubt of the possibility of its having been
committed. The Learned Judge then proceeded to comment
upon the evidence. and he remarked that on the part of the
plaintiff it was alleged that the charge had been distinctly
made out by the evidence, while, on the ether hand, there could
be no doubt that the defendant alleged the whole tubes conspiracy
for the purpose of forwarding the views of the plaintiff. The jury
would judge between the parties. It was fey them to decide
the question. His Lordship then, after referring to the state-
ments made by the servants, said it was certainly most extra-
ordinary that they should have continued to remain in the
house when they represented theraselvesto be satisfied a most
abominable intercourse was being carried on between a father
and his daughter. This remark especially applied to the witness
who said that she was aware that the intercourse was going on
before the marriage took place, and that she assisted in carrying
out the clandestine marriage.
The jury then retired for about forty minutes, when they
returned their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 3,0004

IrES7'ERN Cl [WU IT.—Devises, August 13.
CROWN COURT—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
. .

Ruth Fethant was charged with stabbing and wounding
Mary Barter, with intent to do her same grievous bodily harm.
Verdict—Guilty of a common a,sult, and she was sentenced
to three months' hard labour.

August 14.
(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.)
The indictment charged the
.prisoner, under the name of
George iron/ford. with the wilful murder of Elizabeth
Woolford, hg casting or throwing her into the water, by which
she was choked, suffocated, and drowned. There was a second
count charging the murder to be of a woman to the jurors
unknown. The short narrative of the facts of the case, as
stated by counsel and proved in evidence, is as fellows :
The prisoner, who was a showman, and travelled about the
country with a learned pig, came to Salisbury on the sth
of March last, with his two daughters (one aged 14, and the
other 19). and took a bedroom at the White Lion Inn, in Toy-
street. The next day his wife, Elizabeth Woolford, came and
joined him there, bringing with her a boy named Elijah, aged ten
years, who was their youngest child. The reason of their not
coming together seemed to be that his son had left
him some time before, and the mother had been to Southamp-
ton to fetch him. They appeared to be in a state of great
poverty, and they all slept in one room, the man and his two
daughters on a bed, and the woman and the child on the floor,
on a bed made up there. The man got what money he could
for the family by taking the pig round the country for exhibi-
tion, having with him a drum and bugle. They remained at
the White Lion until the 16th of March without anything par-
ticular occurring, but from the evidence it appeared that the
woman was in low spirits, and .appeared much dejected. On
the evening of the 16th of March, which was Palm Sunday,
the prisoner left the house at about seven, and said he was
going to the post-office. At this time the deceased and her
two daughters were in the tap-room of the inn, where they
had been drinking tea. The little boy, however, had again
absconded from them, which seemed to have had a great
effect on the spirits of his mother. About ten minutes after
the prisoner left the house the woman Elisabeth Woolford
also left the room, and it is supposed the house immediately
after, but no one saw her after she left the room in which
they had been sitting. When she left the room she had
no bonnet on. She never again returned to the house.
Just before eight o'clock the same evening, a woman in dark
clothes, with a red shawl and dark bonnet, and answering the
description of the deceased, was seen by two women who were
walking along the road leading to Salisbury from Loverstock.
Loverstock, it appears, is a village near Salisbury, where
there is a river called the Liffy, over which there is a bridge
called Loverstock-bridge. The woman was near a place
called Milford Hollow, and was going in a direction to the
bridge. When seen by the witness she appeared to be crying,
running fast, and looking behind her apparently much
frightened. As they got on about sixty yards, they met a man
whom they identified as being the prisoner; and as he passed
them he was going in the same direction as the woman, and
was heard to mutter, "I be d—d if Ido not do it." About
twenty minutes after this the prisoner was again seen
looking over Loverstock-bridge into the water. This was
about twenty-five minutes past eight. At a quarter before
nine he went into the tap-room of Clarke's brewery in
Salisbury, and had some beer and smoked his pipe, when he
left and went to the White Lion, where his family were left.
When he got there he was asked if he had seen his wife.
He said, " No. for he should not wonder if the old fool had
hung or drowned herself, as she had often threatened to do."
He then went back to Clarke's brewery, and asked for a half-
pint of beer. He then said to a man called Mit Thell, who was
sitting in the room, When I went from here I went direct
to Newman's (the landlore. of the White Lion), and saw my
children by the fire, comfortable, but not their mother, and
they told me they did not know where she was." He then said
that he went up stairs, hut could not find her, although her
bonnet and shawl were left in the room, therefore she could
not be gone far; that he had been to look for her, but could not
find her. He stayed there until near eleven o'clock, and then
returned to the White Lion, and knocked at the door The
landlord opened it, and asked him where he had been so late ?
He said, " Looking after my be- of a wife, who, I suppose, is
drowned." Nothing more was seen of the poor woman until
the 9th of April, when the body of a woman, which was
clearly identified to be that of Elizabeth Woolford, was
found in the river Liffy, about two hundred yards below
Loverstock-bridge. She had no bonnet or shawl on when
found, but a bonnet and shawl, which were identified to be
hers, were found in the water near the place where she was
found, but higher up the river. No marks of violence of
nadonthe body, which presented the ordi-
nary drowned person who had been a long time
iannythkea ceipwnpdaetaewrrae.nreUr(o)pufon a coroner's inquest being held, the pri-
soner was apprehended at a village some miles from Salisbury,
he having left that place with his family for some time. Seve-
ral witnesses were called to prove statements made to them by
the prisoner after the poor woman was missing, but they were
all to the effect that he had been looking for his wife, but
could not find her, and that he believed that she had either
drowned or hung herself, and that he was sure he should not
see her again. One witness, however, who was called to prove
a statement of this kind, proved a very material fact for the
prisoner, which was, that on the 12th of March the deceased
woman. whom he had known for some years, had called on
him in Salisbury, and on his remarking to her that she was
much altered and looked nervous, she said, "I have had a
deal of trouble of late, more than I can bear. I am sure I
cannot bear it long, but shall either hang or drown myself."
Another witness, the servant at the White Lion, also deposed
that on the morning of the day on which she disappeared, she
(witness) asked the deceased to let her have a chair on which
upon deceased said. " Pray take it. I shall not trouble this
she was sitting for a short time, to bang some clothes en, where-
place much longer."
The case for the prosecution having closed,
Mr. Justice ERLE summed up the case to the jury with
great perspicuity and minuteness, pointing out to them that
although it might be that the prisoner had not lived happily
with his wife, and might, by his ill conduct, have driven her to
commit so tide, yet it was far from being satisfactorily proved
that in any way he had been the active mover to her death by
violent means ; but that, upon the evidence produced before
them, it wag much more probable that she had been driven by
despair and misery to commit suicide. He then read over the
whole of the evidence, and

The jury. after about half an hour's consultation, Coon e
prisoner Not Guilty.
During the wnole of the trial the prisoner maintains] the
most perfect self-possession, and repeatedly cross-examined
the witnesses, some of whom he charged with perjury and
with coming there to swear away his life. At one time,
during the examination of the landlord, he became so much
excited that it was with difficulty that the gaoler could pacify
him ; he walked up and down the deck, exclaiming, " I never
saw the woman that night,
on my soul ! As I live, by the
Almighty, I never cast eyes upon her on the Sunday ! It is
no use to listen to that man, he is perjured. lam innocent—
innocent—innocent ! Ile has perjured himself—he has per-
jured himself !" Upon being asked if he would say an thing in
his defence, however, he answered quite calmly. " All I have
to say k. that lam innocent of the charge." Upon the ver-
dict of Not Guilty being returned, his fortitude quite gave
way, and he fell bank in a chair in the dock and burst into a fit
of weeping, apparently inconsolable far some time.
This case terminated the ousiness of the assizes.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION- H 0 USE.
Mr. Jacob 'Mites Castello was summoned before the
Lord Mayor, fist- having caused an obstruction at the
corner of Capel.coort, which leads to the Stock Ex-
ell"ge• The neighbourhood of Capel-coutt has been
for sortie thin.. crowded in an extreme degree during
busin-ss h'•urs by the lower orders of jobbers—bitlis,
bears, stags, and lame ducks ; and a pole_atrian has beon
officiating there every day, in order to enable the
.owners of promises on the spot to obtain access to their
OWII Offices, and to clear the way for the public, who
constantly have to meet with impediments from the ex-
cited speculators. Mr. Corney, the Deputy of the ward,
having been applied to by many
of the respectable inha-
bitants, to exerci•e 1-Cs influence in checking so disagree-
able a nuisance, directed that the police should summon
any transgressor of the Sewers Act, and the defendant
was accordingly cited before his Lordship.
Thomas WI ite, policeman No. 24, stated that on the
9th instant, there b,!ing a crowd and a complete obstruc-
tion on tie Queen's highway, he spoke to a gentleman
who was in conversation with Mr. Castello to move away
from the glee7i's high Any. Mr. Castelloimmediately
asked liow a c
mthie:-taker, like witness, dared to
speak to a gen gem ,n, and threatened to take witness
before the Lord Mayor. As Mr. Castello acted in such
a manner as was calculated to increase rather than dimi-
nish the obstruction, and as frequent complaints had
been made of the annoyance to which the owners of
premises in the vicinity, and passers-by were subjected,
witness was Obliged to appeal to the Lord Mayor.
Th,• Loin) MAYOR-IS it the public way
that was
obstructed ? Witness—Certainly it is.
The Loan MAYOR—Have
you any witness to call ?
Witness No, my Lord, All those who were about the
puce were ithhers, and others interested in Stock Ex-
change transactions.

Mr, Gistdio sH..I he was very well known in the city
of London to be a most respectable man, and he did not,
k::ow why he should be deprived of the rights of a free-
born Erig-liAman b 3 a person who belonged to the police
force. For thirty-five
years his character as an honour-
able man of business had been known, and he felt that he
ought not to be touched by the hands of a thief-taker ;
and he certainly did express himself in that
He, at the same time, feeling great indignation at such
interference, said that it was his intention to complain to
the Lord Mayor upon the subject ; but, upon cooling, he
thought it would be as well not to notice it further, and

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the summons to answer the complaint of the policeman
was the consequence.
The policeman said he had civilly spoken to the gen-
tleman to move from the spot in which the obstruction
was, and that if Mr. Castello ref Used, it would be an
example which the rest would fo'.low immediately, so
that all accommodation to the public would cease.
Mr. Castello stated that the policeman desired him,
and the gentleman with whom be was talking upon busi-
ness, to move on, and said to him, " How do I know
that you are a gentleman ?" in a very insolent manner.
" My tame," repeated Mr. Castello, " is Jacob Castello.
I am well known as a man of honour ; and it is come to
a pretty pas 4, if a free-born Englishman is to be treated
in such a manner by a common thief-taker."
Mr. Jacobs, merchant, of London-road, stated that
he was conversing with Mr. Castello peaceably, near
Capel-court, when the policeman walked up to him,
touched him, and told him to move on. Witness told
the policeman, if he had anything to say to say it, with-
out accompanying the word with the action ; and Mr.
Castello observed that it was hard if gentlemen could
not speak together on the Queen's highway, without
having hands pu►t upon them, or being pulled about by
a policeman. The policeman commented upon that ob-
servation, by saying he did not know whether Mr. Cas-
tell.) was a gentleman or not.
The policeman stated that Mr. Jacobs had given him
a great deal of trouble at the same place.
The LORD MAYOR —ls there any other witntos for
the defence ? Mr. Castello—No, my Lord. I leave
this in your Lordship's hands. I protest against having
my name mixed up with the stags, ;and people of that
description about the Alley. If policemen are to have
such power—if the liberty of the subject is to be abridged
in this manner, I can no longer call myself a free-born
Englishman, but a mere slave, and my friend who is
going to a foreign country must leave England with a
very unfavourable impression of the nature of the free-
dom of which we speak.
DEPUTY CORNET declared that the nuisance just de-
scribed had reached a most intolerable height, and he
and several gentlemen who had offices and counting-
house. in the immediate neighbourhood, bore the warm-
est testimony to the good character and moderate con-
duct of the policeman, who uniformly exhibited proofs of
the most marked forbearance.

The LORD MAYOR—There is no doubt at all, accord-
ing to the admission of the defendant and his witness,
independently of the evidence of the policeman, who we
know here to be an extremely well-conducted man, that
in this case the law has been violated. Tin, consequence
of such transgressions is serious, and the magistracy
must interfere to check the evil, which increases WiLh
the rage of speculation. Mr. Castello is fined 20s, and
costs.

Mr. Castello seemed to be surprised at the decision,
for he had been permitted to talk upon the boasted pri-
vileges of free born Englishmen without interruption,
and evidently imagined that his allusion to slavery would
fill his Lordship's mind with abhorrence of the police-
men. "It shall not end here," said he.

Deputy Corney—No ; -I will follow it up, depend
upon that.
Mr. Castello—l shall go to Parliament, most certainly,
upon the subject. What are the rights of a free-born
Englishman. if such things are allowed ? Nothing.
Deputy Corney—l think, my Lord, it will be neces-
sary to put up a board containing a notice of the deter-
mination to carry the law into effect.
The LORD MAYOR—No; there will be no occasion.
This case and the penalty will, I dare say, become quite
public enough to render any course of that kind un-
necessary.
The defendant paid the penalty, and saying that he
was thankful to his Lordship, left the Justice-room.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—A man, named Joseph
William Bean, who looked like a labourer, was brought
up, and charged upon the following evidence with having
been the cause of the death of his wife. _ _

Acting-Inspector Teague, No. 410, stated that as he
was on duty on Thursday night he received information
that at No. 6, Priest's-alley, Tower-street, the wife of
the.prisoner had lost her life in a quarrel with him. He
immediately took the prisoner into custody, and told
him to mind that if he thought proper to say anything it
would be used against him. The prisoner said, it he
were to be hung for it he would speak the trail). He
then stated that he had in a quarrel struck his wife, and
thrust her out into the court ; that she returned and
was striking at him, and that he was about to strike her
again, but was held back by a female who lodged in the
house ; that his wife in retreating from him caught her
foot against the step of the door and fell backwards and
dislocated her neck, and that was the way it happened.
Jane Lightfoot, a lodger at No. 5, Priest's-alley, stated
t hat as she was sitting on the step of the door, she heard
the prisoner and his wife having words together. It
appeared to her that Beau had flung a cup of tea at his
ife. and immediately a scuffling took place. A Mrs.
Jacobs went to part them, and when Bean was going to
strike his wife, interfered, and called upon him, for God's
sake, to govern his passion ; and Mrs. Bean then caught
her foot in the doorway, and fell back with ber neck
against the stones or the step. Witness took her up.
and she called for a drop of water, and the pri,oner
brought the water to give to her. He then went out,
and did not return for a quarter of an hour. The sur-
geon came, and witness held Mrs. Bean's arm while he
tried to bleed her, but not a drop of blood came. The
surgeon pronounced her dead, and witness understood
him to have stated that she had dislocated the marrow
of her neck.

The LORD MAYOR remanded the prisoner until the
issue of the Coroner's inquest shall be known, and de-
sired Gooch, the turnkey, to let the Coroner know that,
if he considered it necessary, the prisoner should appear
before him on the occasion.

On Saturday it was stated that all the witnesses ha(l
been examined before the Coroner, and that the result
was a verdict of Accidental Death. Nevertheless, the
Lord Mayor pursued the investigation, but eventually
discharged the prisoner.
GUILDHALL.

On Saturday Charles Maynard, the astate-agent in
Howland -stre, t, who stands charged with negotiating
to take a reward for restoration of some bills of exchange,
to the amount of 2,0002, and the other contents of a
writing case stolen from the Great Western Railway,
was brought before Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes, for
further examination.

Mr. Clarkson said he proposed to examine, on this
occasion, Collard, the officer of the railway, to speak
to the finding of certain papers, some of which were
partly written in short-hand. He should call pro-
fessional short-hand writers to show the contents
of these memoranda, from which it would be seen
that while they bare upon the present case, it
might be inferred the prisoner had taken up
the business of negotiating the restoration of
stolen goods. Justice demanded that he should apply
for a remand, inasmuch as there was reason to believe
that this was not the first or second transaction in which
the prisoner had been engaged, and he should have here-
after to prefer a second charge in respect to receiving
1501. fur the restoration of a writing-desk, containing
railway shares of considerable value, and which was
stolen from the Great Western in May last. The Com-
pany were determined to punish the parties concerned
in these robberies if possible. The prisoner had been
convicted and sentenced to transportation in 1816, which
term he served on board the hulks. He should also have
to charge the prisoner with bigamy. Only tee days
before he was apprehended on the present occasion he
h:fd married Miss Maxted, a young lady of respectable
connexions, he having a wife now living whom he
married in 1822. He held in his hand a letter which
the prisoner had addressed to the young lady, whom he
was afraid he should be obliged to call. It was dated
the 12th of July. Amongst the papers found at his
lodgings were a sort of rough draft of forms to be used
in negotiating with parties, anticipations of suggestions
that might be made on the other side, and the answers
to be given; the mode in which the negotiations might
be carried out, and the form in which certain matters
might be broached.
_ _ _

Mr. Humphreys objected to this course of general
statement

Mr. Clarkson said some of the phrases had been actu-
ally used in the letters and conversations upon the pre-
sent occasion. The letter from Sandhurst, dated July
24, already put in, began, " A stranger called at my
office last week, and represented that he had found a
travelling-desk, your property. He emphatically asserts
that he slid not obtain possession of it dishonestly, for in
fact he never received it at all." The next paper was
questions to be put at the next interview.
"1. Whom have I the pleasure of addressing ?-2. If
two parties come, say, \tVlio is the principal ?'-3. If
conversation is going on, put a stop to it by saying, ' I
can only confine myself to the terms of the advertise-
ment. Does not your advertisement rest confessed ?
Show that you lean on it, for in truth you are a party to
the compromise.'—lf they ask, How do you mix your-
self up in such a matter ?' say, 'You weuld never have
obtained possession of the box without my agency, an4i
is it not better to receive it through the hands of a re-
spectable agent in preference to the stained and dirty
channel of a practised— "
The next paper was as follows :
" It appears, from your searching scrutiny, that I
must give up a matter not enviable to hands more capa-
ble of conducting it than myself. You must give up the
letters, and with them a redemption from any proceed-
ings against the party or his agent. The conditions an-
nexed to your advertisement, offering —1 upon satisfac-
tory explanation of the circumstances, would deter any
man, even if his character were as pure as the driven
snow, from giving them up."
Mr. Alderman HUGHES, looking at the paper of ques-
tions and answers, said it was certainly rt curious
catechism. _ _

Joseph Collard, the superintendent of the Great Wes-
tern Rail w3y police, was then examined. After he had
apprehended the prisoner he searched him and found
some papers. which he produced. He also went to the
pn,nner's to aging in CharringtoM street, Somers-town,
and found some other papers.

Mr. Nash, clerk toMa:ors. Swain and Co., solicitors,
Frederick's-place, accompanied the officer in making
the search, and upon putting together the pieces of torn
papr he picked out of the grate, he obtained these
documents.

Mr. Gregory, of Dorset-street, Liverpool-road, was
examined as to the contents of the papers in short hand.
He himself used the same characters and the same mode
of connecting them, but the hand-writing was bad. In
his translation he left blanks where the characters were
doubtful. sitg4esting the probable word from the con-
text. (Mr. Humihreys objf cte dto the admission of any
con.j.ctural words.) His examination occupied a con-
siderable time, as he had to cistinguish what words were
in long hand, what in short-hand, and what uncertain.
Mr. Fraser, of Cannon. row, a short-hand writer, of 40
years' experience, said he had carefully examined the
papers, and he confirmed Mr. Gregory's translation.
Mr. Humphreys cross-examined the witnesses, to as-
certain with what degree of certainty they could rely
on their translation. He said he could not oppose the
application that the prisoner should be remanded over
the present session at the Old Bailey, as there were some
other charges to be preferred.

Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes said he could :aot
think of admitting the prisoner to bail after the state-
ments he had heard, and with the coreurrence of bath
sides, he remanded the prisoner till the 29th inst.

:7MARLBOROUGH-STREE7

Armes Smith, aged 68 years, who is in independent circum-
stances, and resides at No. 26, Green-street, Ray swater-yead,
was charged with indecently assaulting a child, named Lucy
Lenghurst, aged eight years.
The offence was clearly proved, and he was sentenced to pay
a fine of 51., or two months' imprisonment.
The prisoner not having the money in his possession was
placed in the lock-up cell.
An elegantly-dressed and remarkably good-looking young
female, who gave the name of Mary Dillon, was charged with
having been found drunk and incapable of taking care of her-
self, at two o'clock that morning, under the Quadrant, Regent-
street.

Poliee-constable No. 62 of the C division, stated that on
passing through the Quadrant, he saw the defendant sitting on
the step of a deor apparently asleep. As he was approaching
her she fell on the ground, and on raising her up he found
that she was perfectly insensible. With the assistance
of a gentleman who was passing by he conveyed her
to the station• house, and there found in her possession a 10!
Bank of England note, and some gold and silver in a purse.
She had also about her a gold watch, chain, and neck chain.
superb gold bracelet, and several diamond and other valuable
rings. . . . _

Dir. HARDWZCK (to the defendant)--Do you wish to say
anything ? The defendant. made no answer.
Inspector Plume, of the C division, said that she was dumb
but not deaf.

Mr. HA ftnwroc—Has she been so from her birth? Inspector
—I do not know, Sir.

The defendant was ordertd to be discharged.

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY
MURDER.

AND

On Saturday, .rt person who gave his name Edward
Long, and who represented himself as the son of a laun-
dress in Bayswater, was examined before the sitting
magistrates at Uxbridge, on a charge of attempted rob-
bery and murder.
Mrs. Harris, who appeared to be still suffering
severely from tha injuries the prisoner had inflicted on
her, deposed, that on Friday the Bth instant, between
eleven and twelve o'clock, she observed from an upper
window a man, who afterwards proved to be the
prisoner, in the back yard of the premises. He
seemed to be begging, but she did not take much notice
of him at the time. About ten minutes afterwards she went
into the front parlour, when she was thunderstruck at
seeing the same man standing in the room, into which he
must have got through oue of the windows. That man
was the prisoner. She immediately demanded what he
did there, when the prisoner passed her, and directly
-shut the room door, and told her that his object was
plunder or even murder. Witness being dreadfully
alarmed, begad screaming violently, upon which the pri-
soner instantly pulled out a large bludgeon and com-
menced beating her over the head, arms, and neck.
Witness's screams brought one of her women servants
into the room, and she had very little recollection of what
afterwards took place.
Maria Luckit deposed that she was servant to the last
witness. On the forenoon in question, hearing her mis-
tress's screams, she ran into the front parlour. On en-
tering, she saw the prisoner standing by the centre table,
with a large stick brandishing in his right hand over her
mistress, who was lying on the floor between two chairs.
Witness assisted Mrs. Harris upon her feet, who then
jumped out of the window into the forecourt, although
witness tried to prevent her. The screams of another
female servant, who had run into the garden, where Mr.
Harris and the manservant were at work, brought them
and some of the neighbours to their assistance, when
Samuel Powell, a journeyman tailor, got into the window
and seized the prisoner, who, seeing others coming in,
said, " Don't hurt me, though lam a housebreaker. I
will surrender myself."
Sergeant Richard Roadnight, T 11, deposed that on
the day in question, in consequence of information he
received, he went to Mr. Harris's house, and received
the prisoner from Samuel Powell and others who had
secured him. The prisoner was without his shoes, and
as witness was taking him to the station-house at
Hillingdon end, he pulled the silver fork and the orna-
ment now produced out of his pocket, which witness
took, and he said, " There, that is enough for you." The
prisoner also said he was not sorry he was taken. He
had wanted money, and finding the window open, he
took off his shoes and got in. The stick produced (a
tremendous bludgeon) witness found in the parlour. It
further appeared, from the admission of the prisoner
himself, that he had gone out on the evening in question
with the stick, with the full determination to rob some
one or be transported for the attempt. The prisoner,
whose appearance is most ferocious, was committed to
Newgate for trial.

MARKET NEWS.-(SATURDAY.

COVENT-GARDEN.

Notwithstanding the supplies of both Fruit and Vege-
tables were exceedingly large, the general demand ruled
active, and previous rates were steadily supported .
Potatoes, from 2s 3d to 5s 6d per cwt; Turnips, is 3d to 2s;
Carrots, 5s to 6s ; Onions, is to 2s; and Greens, is 6d
to 2s 3d per dozen bunches ; Plums, 2s to 4s ; Broad
Beans, 10d to is 6d ; Peas, is to 2s ; Gooseberries, Is 3d
to 3s ; Currants, 2s 6d to 5s ; French Beans, 2s ; Apples,
is 3d to 2s; Pears, 2s to 3s; and Spinach, 8d to is per
half sieve ; Cherries, 4d to 8d ; Hothouse Grapes, 3s to 5s ;
and English Pine-apples, 4s to 7s per lb ; Cauliflowers, 8d
to 3s; Cabbages, 8d to is; and Peaches and Nectarines, 12s
to 20$ per dozen ; Horse-radish, 2s to 5s per bundle ; Wal-
nuts, for pickling, 8d to is 6d ; and Lemons, 8s to 13s
per 100 ; Cucumbers, 2d to 8d; and Melons, is 6d to 4s
each ; Radishes, 4d per dozen hands ; Green Gages, Is to 2s ;
Orleans Plums 2s to 2s 3d ; Small Salad, 2d ; and Mush-
rooms, 6d to is per punnet •, Strawberries, 4d to 8d; and
Raspberries, 4d to 8d per pottle.
NEWGATE AND ZEADENNALL.
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We had a very steady general trade this morning, at in
some instances a trifling improvement in value. Beef, from
2s 8d to 38 Sd ; Mutton, 35 4d to 4s 10d ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s
10d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s lUd ; and Pork, 2s 8d to 4s 2d
Ter 81bs. Although we had only a limited supply of Poultry
the sales proceeded slowly, and last week's prices were with
difficulty supported.' Fowls were selling at from 5s to 9s per
per couple; Goslings, 4s to 6s each.
NEWPORT.

Each kind of prime Meat sold freely; other kinds slowly,
at our quotations. Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 10d ; Mutton,
4s to 4s 10d ; Lamb, 5s to 6s; Veal 4s to 4s 10d; and Pork,
2s 10d to 4s 2d per Sibs.