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It appeared that in consequence of a long continued course
of misconduct on the part of the prisoners, they were taken
on the preceding day before the Board of Guardians, and on
being admonished by the Chairman upon the impropriety
of their behaviour, they began to abuse him and the
other members of the Board in the most obscene and
disgustinr, language, and positively refused to withdraw
when ordered to do so. Hunter, the beadle, was
desired to remove them, but the prisoners fell upon him,
and struck him several severe blows ; and they also assailed
some other officers, who went to his assistance, in a similar
manner.

Mr. Pulley, the Vestry Clerk said he was instructed by the
board to request that the Magistrate would make a severe ex-
ample of the prisoners.
in their defence the prisoners said their fare for two days
had been nothing but bread ar.d potatoes, and having been
threatened with a continuance of the same meagre diet
for two days longer, they felt exasperated at being subjected to
such treatment.

Mr. Pulley said that the prisoners had been placed on short
allowance, in consequence of a complaint from the Chaplain
that they had grossly misconducted themselves in chapel.
Dlr. BINOHAM said it was evident, from the robust and
healthy appearance of the prisoners, that they were much
better fed and treated than many of the poor hard-working
sate-payers who contributed towards their support, and theleast
they could do was to conduct themselves with decency and
civility whilst they were maintained at the public expense.
He should make an example of the prisoners, in compliance
with the wish of the Board; and, instead of dealing with them
under the Act of Parliament applicable to ordinary cases of
misconduct in the workhouse, he should fine them 40s. each,
and in default of payment, commit them for two calendar
months to the House of Correction.
The prisoners, on hearing the decision, launched forth a
volley of abuse against the Magistrate and the parish autho
rities, which they kept up until they were removed out of hear
ing by the gpler.

UNION-HALL.
John Simmons, dressed in fashionable style, was charged
with robbing Alr. Duckfield, foreman of Deptford Dockyard, of
a watch.
The complainant said that on the preceding evening he
stopped in Wellington-street, near' London-bridge, to see the
wax-work exhibition. While he stood gazing up at the
figures he was surrounded by several well dressed men, one
of whom (the prisoner) caught him round the waist with
one hand while with the other he jerked his watch out
of his foli pocket, and then rushed away. Complainant,
however, caught hold of the tails of his coat and held him
until a policeman came up, but the watch was not re-
covered, there being several of the " swell mob" about at the
time, and one of the witnesses said that he distinctly saw the
prisoner pass it to another man.
He was committed.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, April 4.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CAYSSWELL.)
William Jean's was indicted kir burglariously entering and
setting' fire to the house of the Rev. George Sherer, at Marsh-
field, on the 1941 of February last.
Mr. WHATELEY and Mr. GRYAVES conducted the prose•
cution. The prisoner was undefended by counsel.
This was a case, displaying, on the part of the primer, un-
usual malignity, as it would appear that he had cherished the
feelings of revenge to which he ultimately gave vent, by the
attempt to burn the prosecutor's house, for a period of nearly
three years.
It appeared, from the statement of Mr. WHATELET, as it
was supported by the evidence on behalf of the prosecution,
that the Rev. George Sherer, the vicar of Marshfield, was in
February last residing at Bath, and that, during his absence,
the vicarage house at Marshfield was left in the care of a
female servant, named Ruth Bunce.' On the night of the
19th of February, Ruth Bunce and a compani,n, named
Hester Gale, retired to rest about ten o'clock, their bed-
room being on the second floor. At that time the doors
and windows of the house were safe. They were disturbed
in the middle of the night by a cry of " fire," and they
found the lower part of the back staircase in flames. Assist-
ance was speedily procured, a ladder raised, and they were
safely taken out of the window. It appeared, from a plan of
the pr mises, which was produced in Court, that the cellar*
window of the house opened into a court-yard at the back of
the house, and that this cellar window had beets broken open,
and a can, which was kept there was found at the lout of the
back stairs, half filled with linseed oil. There was also a jar
there containing oil, which had been removed from a cup-
board, where it was usually kept, and it was clear that oil had
been recently poured from it upon the dour and stairs, with
a view of accelerating the progress of the flames. It was
evident, therefore, that not only was the fire the work of an
incendiary, but that it was planned and executed by some
one well acquainted with the premises. A twig, round
which paper had been twisted, and which had been dipped
in oil, was found lying near the can partially burnt. It
was discovered upon further search that a ladder had
been placed against the back part of the house, and
an attempt made to force an entrance through the kitchen
winnow, but a large bar inside had compelled the perpetrator
of this wicked deed to seek easier access through the cellar as
before mentioned. Upon examining the garden at the back of
the house traces of footmarks were discovered. Suspicion fell
upon the prisoner, who, it appears, about three years since,
lived in the service of the prosecutor, by whom he was dis-
charged for some impropriety which did not transpire. Holt,
the superintendent of the police at Yeovil, in Somersetshire,
deposed that the prisoner was given into his custody on the
10th of March, upon some other charge, and that having in
his possession the Police Gazette, in which was contained a
description of the person suspected of setting fire to Mr.
Sherer's house, he asked the prisoner who he was, and read to
him the advertisement, upon' which the prisoner stated that his
name was William Jarvis; that he never was at Marshfield,
and did not know where it was, and that he had never been in
the service of Mrr Sherer, nor in the county of Gloucester in
his life. Holt told the prisoner he should write to Sergeant
Bennett, and in the meantime detain him, when the pri-
soner requested to see Holt alone, and upon their going into
another room he acknowledged that he was the William Jeaues
described in the advertisement, but denied having been at
Marshfield since June last, adding that he supposed Mr. Sherer
suspected that he had set fire to the house out of spleen, be-
cause he had been discharged without a character. The pri-
soner subsequently stated to another constable that he had left
Bath upon hutting of the fire, fearing that he should be sus-
pected and taken into custody in consequence of having used
threatening language towards :he prosecutor. The shoes taken
from the prisoner's feet were compared with some of the marks
left in the garden, and found to correspond exactly.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL summed up, and the Jury, after
retiring from Court for a quarter of an hour, returned into
Court with a verdict of Guilty.
The moment the foreman uttered the word, the prisoner foil
to the ground as if shot, and a medical man, who was imme-
diately sent for into the dock, pronounced him in a fit. He
was removed below, and the reverend prosecutor, evidently
labouring under deep emotion, addressed his Lordship, stating
that he was not aware that the offence for which the prisoner
had been convicted was punishable with the extreme penalty of
the Liw, and that, had he known it, he would not willingly have
prosecuted him. He earnestly implored that his life might be
spaced, in which request the jury also joined.
The prisoner was then replaced at the bar, and Mr. Justice
Cresswell; after some impressive comments upon the heinous
nature of the crime of which he had been convicted, ordered
sentence of death to be recorded against him, with an intima •
tion that he must prepare to pass the remainder of his life in
the most severe discipline of the worst penal settlement.
The Grand Jury have ignored the bill for bigamy against
Rudman, preferred under th circumstances stated in our report
of Monday last of the case of Lane v. Godwin.

APRIL 6.
At an early hour this morning the Court was crowded, in
expectation that the great cause to decide the validity of
James Wood's will, would at last be tried. About nine o'clock,
however, it began to be rumoured that a compromise had talien
place, which the result justified ; for, upon the Special Jury
being sworn in doe deco. Thompson v. Wood,
Sir W. FOLLETT, who (with Mr. Kelly, Mr. Butt, Mr.
Cripps, and Mr. Keating), appeared for the defendants, th,
'executors of the will, rose and said, that the parties 1-I,d agreed
to an arrangement that a verdict should be taken for the
lessors of the plaintiff for 10,000/., "which would. Pay all their
costs in law and equity, and put a trifle into their pockets be-
sides," subject to a reference to Mr. Alexander Wood, of this
circuit (who is not a relative of the testator) as to the proof
heiof the lessors of the plaintiffs being, as they claimed to be, the
rs-at-law.

Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, who (with Mr. R. V. Richards,
Mr. Whitmore, and Mr. J. W. Smith), appeared on the other
side, intimated the acquiescence of their clients in this arrange-
ment, by which it appears that the validity of the disputed will
is at last admitted, and that the executors named in papers A
and B are fully entitled to the whole of the landed estates, as
well as the personal property of the testator.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CuEsswEr.r..)
George Grendar Wall, the postmaster of Cheltenham, was
charged in two indictments for embezzling moneys received by
him as postmaster in November last.
Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, with Mr. W. J. Alexander and Mr.
Keating, appeared for the prosecution.
Mr. Greaves and Mr. Selfe for the prisoner.
Mr. GREAVES, for the prisoner, proposed to demur to the
in-
dictments as insufficient in law, and also to plead " not
guilty" and
to them; and he cited Hawkins's " Pleas of the Crown,

land published, a certain wicked, scandalous, malicious, and
obscene libel, against the peace, &rt.." An order of Court was
invested in the warrant, 1';2,1;11.iit,2 ',B 11,1.1r..i: lietice of bail to be
4.;,. en to the prosecutor, :dr. Lane, of No. 29, Argyl,-,ti-
tu,orit--itrect; solicitor.
Me. Frederick William Fisher, clerk to w- ~........
the defendant as beiog the party named in the w:tr-
rant, and Mr. Gregory admitted that he believed, that
he was the person named.
After some delay Mr. Lane, who was in attendance, ex-
pressed himself satisfied with two gentlemen who offered them-
selves as bail for Mr. Gregory, viz., Mr. Charles Shangster, of
No. 307, Oxford-street, poulterer, and Mr. Thomas Hughes,
of No. 53. Great Coram•street, Russell square, solicitor, and
waived the forty-eight hours' notice of bail.
The amount of bail received was, the defendant in SO/. and
his sureties in 401. each, for his appearance at the present
sittings of the Court, either to tale his trial or traverse, and the
required recognizances being entered into, Mr. Gregory, who
had been arrested at his residence, No. 15, North Audley-
street, Grosvenor-square, was set at liberty, and drove from
the office in his carriage, accompanied by several of his friends.
It was stated that the indictment in question has been at
the instance solely of Mr. Lane, who has taken up the matter
on public grounds. The subject of the libel relates to her
Majesty and Prince Albert, and appeared in the Satirist of
the 30th of January last.
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CLERKENWELL.
KiVIor.ENT ASSAULT.—James Hopkins, a middle-aged man,
was brought before Mr. Greenwood yesterday morning, charged
under the following circumstances.
A man named Nightingale came forward, and deposed that
between 11 and 12 on Wednesday night he was alarmed by the
cries of a female, and running to the house whence they pro-
ceeded, No. 4, Field lane, Saffron-hill, found a number of fe-
males, in a state of great excitement, outside the door. On
going in he was informed by a female, that the prisoner had
burst in the door, which had been fastened with
an iron and v. ooden bolt, thrown the mistress of
the house on the floor in a very savage manner,
and was about committing violence on her person, when the
informant seized him, and with other females, held the pri-
soner until the police arrived. He was informed that the per-
son on whom the assault was committed, Susan Wall, is in a
very dangerous state. She keeps a lodging-house, and is a
very decent, well-conducted woman. The doctor was not as
yet able to attend.

The prisoner was remanded until the certificate of the medi-
cal gentleman could be obtained.

Intheafternoon the prosecutrix appeared. She appeared to
be in a state of extreme debility, and stated she was labourirg
under severe internal pain. She seemed unwilling, however,
to prosecute the prisoner, and with considerab e reluctance
owned to any pat tof his offence. She denied that he had any
criminal intention towards her, and, on being questioned by
the Magistrate, as to whether she had received any bribe to
suppress her evidence, she hesitated, but finally denied it.
The prisoner was fined 10 shillings, and sentenced to ten
days' imprisonment and hard labour.
WORSHIP-STREET.
DISORDERLY PAUPERS. Sarah Camplin, Amelia Jones,
and Mary Seamlin, three plump and impudent looking young
women, were charged with disorderly conduct in the Hackney
Union workhouse, and with having violently assaulted William
Hunter, one of the beadles.