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E SUN, LONDON, MON 171 A I VVENitcG, AUGUST 18, 1845.

ASSIZE INTELLIGEN CE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Live. pool, Aug 15.
CROWN COURT.—(iiet,re 11r Bsr n ROLFE).
Thomas Whittle was indicted for a h ghway robbery
Ince, in Mackerfield, on the 18th of April last.
Mr. Cross conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner
was defended by Mr. Wilkins.
The prosecutor was a person of the name of Oakes,
who is parish clerk at the church of Hindley, and who
stated on the day in question he had been at Wigan
market, and on starting to go home he missed his way
at a place called the Seholes. He met the prisoner, and
asked him his way. The prisoner directed him to it,
and accompanied him to a public-house kept by a per-
son of the name of Greenwood, where they hal some
ale, and the prosecutor produced a sovereign. They left
the house together, and, as the prosecutor alleged, after
they had got a few yards from the door, the prisoner
knocked him down, robbed him, and ran away. The
prosecutor did not immediately go back to Greenwood's,
but went on his way home. The next morning he came
again to IVigian, gave information to the police, and as-
certained at Greenwood's who the person was who had
been in his company the night before. On cross-exami-
nation he admitted he had had a good deal to think, but
considerable difficulty was experienced in fixing the
Irecise stage among the many degrees of intoxication at
which he had arrived. He at last admitted that he was
" market merry."
Mr. WILKINS addressed the jury for the defence,
contending that the whole history of the case was, that
the proiecu:or, though he as parish clerk W4S miturally
unwillirg to admit it, had got drunk, and had probab'y
been robbed by some one ; and on ascertaining who had
been with him the night before at the public-house had
fixed on that party, not really having any very distinct
recollection of •.vhen or where he had been lightened of
his property.
Verdict, Not Guilty.

Jaoec Hunter was charged with kill n,( and slaying
J( bn Yates, at Walton-on-the-IEII, cn the sth of the

M... kle:tou prosecuted, and Mr. Wilkins appeared fur
the prisoner.
It appeared from til, evidence of a woman named
Mary it,gerson, that u;-, the night of the sth of August
she end the deceased left Walton for Liverpool, about 9
o'clock. They were on their way home ab ut 11 o'clock,
and as they passed along Mere-lane they met a hzckney
coach, when ti e deceased tilled out to the coachman,
and some angry words passed. The coachman then got
down from the coat and beat the deceased, who at
length called eta that he had been struck by something
hardier than his fists. She then went to the man, got
hold of him by the ear, and requested he would desist,
on which he left the deceased, got on h;i coach, and
drove off Tne witn.:s.; said she believed the prisoner to
be the man who had beaten the deceased, but on being
asked to point out tl:e prisoner, was a lrn g time before
are fixci un the,fight party. After the e,aeh drove ()l
the w,teess tit E r assisr,nce and the decea,,ed was
found lying in the lane qaiie dead.
Mr. N. S. Glazehroek, surg.em, deposed to making a
post it,ortern examination of the body of the deed aced ;
that he found a traciure of the skull above the left eye,
and the deceased h died front effusi,.n of blood on the

It was proved that the prisoner had on the night in
question driven a Mr. Allanson to his house, in Waltim-
law-, that he ri!actied his stables about hair past eleven
and stated th,t he had been ilk:Aced by a person
on the road, whcm lie had struck with hip: whip.
The jury, W-tt,r being out of Court two hours, pro-
nounced the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to
rasrey on the ground of the provocation he had received.
Tire Learned JUDGE sentenced the prisoner to be im-
pvisoned and kept to hard labour for the space of four Ca-
lend:4r month-ft.

Jar k, Fletdzcr, who had been out ww4 charged
with having maliciously cut and injured a warp belong-
ing to his employers, Me.,srs. John Walker and Co., ( f
Leigh, with intent to d,stroy it.
M,tilc conduct,d the prosecution; the prisoner was
Bete' ded by Mr, Joseph P,dock.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner w
in the habit of weaving for Messrs:. Walker, but about
the IGth of January last had a dispute with his employ-
ers respecting wages ; that on that day be had a warp
ani chute to weave for the prosecutors, and had cut the
warp with a pair of scissors.
A person nanird Houghton swore to seeing the pri-
soner do this, and a number I,f other ait esses v‘er•
.called to depose to ,th:•r facts, and to toe prisoner harm
;returned the v'srp ,cith par vf it cut
Mr. l'om.ocK took an objecio: to the indicttmnt, on
the ground that it was not supported by the evidence.
as, unless the warp was entirely rendered useless, any
injury done to it was not within the meaning of the
statute.

HIS LORDSHIP, however, ruled that it was a question
fur the consuleration of the jury as to whether the injur
done to the Karp was done with the intention of destroy-

tr:ctit.
j'Mr. PoLLocx addressed the jury on behalf of the pri
cant-r, and called witnesses, who contn:licted, in th,.-
rnoit direct tnatmer. the evidi,nee for the prosecution, °tie
of whom stated that the injury clone to the warp had
been done by accident.
The jury eventually acquitted the prisoner.
August 16.

George Gasiiell was indicted for having, at Littli,
Lever, stabbed, cut, and wounded J. Nelson, with
ilitent to do him some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. FoLLoc conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Wilkins
delenr'ed the. prisoner.
.c.llat the prisoner and the presecuter were
trite-resore quarrel having tak. place betweee
them—on what ground did not exactly appear—they
finally came to blows. The prosecutor, who evident))
se, me! anxious to scree the prisoner, stated that he (the
prosecutor) kicked at him several times; that the prisoner
took out his knife to defend himself ; that he (the pro-
secutor) rushed on him, and that the knife wounded
him (the prosecutor) in the groin, but he believed acci-
dentally. Another witness said that. on the quarrel
commencing, the pro,:eeutor rushed past him up to where
the prisoner was standing, but he could not tell whether
or not any blows were then struck. He saw the pri.
saner take out his knife and hold it up before him,
as a dagger. The prosecutor said, usine some coarse
expresien, "Do y ell mean to use that at me ?" The
-prisoner replied, " If you wish to punch out ray
guts I 'lll- prosecutor then da: ced back-
ai rds 6.1. d fo, wards before the pr .over, some-
beaei ri one side aud sometimes on the °tilt r.
eecleavouring to get an epportunity to kick him,
st,ld finally purred (kicked) him on the right side. Wit-
ness caded out, " On, boys, do drop it." The prosecti-
cwor, as the witmens said, looked so " rash," he-would
liee.,l to no reason, and ran in at the prisoner again.
T prisoner stool his ground, and the prosecutor made
lanwher punch at "quite ravenous," with both hands
*2.11 Whe•, that ec,,tfl• was over, witi:oss ;hen saw
th:lt pros 'euTor lta.l a Cal I,lhis treusers. 'Tide prisoner,
on iieitie; (-id 'hat proe.euter as wolfed, d, cried very
retee, •,e.! ,i(1 L.) wrist mss, "Oh dear we, ileLr me elf
pa, :nil eed natever it :f life is spared."
;,lea tly after this eecurred the prisener went to the
'l,,use of a person who lived near, and said he had struck
Fie then sent a lad to throw his knife down an
()A pit.
F•o:n thk- ,titern-nt of the shrgeen h appeared that
e -el ,lie ;1, uelit.
ng tile cavity of the abdomen. The wound was
in a ditegerous place, but the result proved not to be

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Mr. WILKINS addressed the jury for the defence, con-
tcflidir;.; that the wound had been inflicted, as the prose
cuter hiloNelf said, accidentally, the knife haring been
drawn by the prisoner merely for the purpose of deterring
the prosecutor from the further continuing the brutal
violence which he, a much more powerful man than the
prix fler. was wiing towards him.
Verdict—Not Guilty.
Boss O'Cracker, aged 13 ; Valentine Dunn, aged 10 ;
And Henry Ingram, aged 10, were indicted for horse-
sae ling.
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..Tn!f:es e(smitt7ted the case for the prosecution ;
rt,ocer Nl`Cracker was defended by Mr. Atkinson,
and Ingram and Dunn by Mr. J. Pollock.
The three lad; presented a singu'ar appearance when
placed at the bar as horse-stealers ; Ingram and Dunn
se,p-cially looked quite as young as their years, and their
beads hardly reached above the edge of the dock.
It appeared that the prisoners were resident in Sal-
ton!, One John Preston, who also resides there, had, in
the early part of June last, received a black gelding
Iroin a person of the name of Woodcock, in exchange
:for a bay norse. This gelding, about the 14th of June,
'was sent to graze in a field in the neighbourhood, where
it remained until the 17th. On the evening of that
it was missed, and it appeared that in the course of that
day the prisoners were in possession of it, and took it to
the yard of a knacker called Padmore, where they offered
it for 154. 6d. This was refused, and they subsequently
sold it to a person living close by tor 12s. It s,sas
in the yard. Inquiry being mado for the missing horse,
,it proved that it had been so sold by the prisoners, and
;the stows were identified as having been put on a few
days tte.oro the exchange t,,,0k place with Preston. They
k- f, of a very peculiar illepe, to meet some defect in
the runt. and had the maker's name sta:nped upon them.
;:orse was worth 31.
Mr. ATKINioN and Mr. POLLOCK respectively for the
several prisoners, said they were unable to resist the case
set up for the pros.cution. The prisoners had, how-
ever. op to that time. borne a good character, and no
doubt 4ere, in this transaction, the tools of persons older
than theinse;ves.

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every fact w ere to be taken as proved, because a wit-
ness had sworn to it, Ito twist innocent might be
curl v ictett of offences; and their experience taught
them that the most painful charges were often made
against innocent parties without the slightest foundation, and
their only protection was to be found in the discrimination of
the jury, who took care to examine into all the motives of the
parties, and weighing the evidence carefully and considerately,
return their verdict accordingly. Should the jury find a verdict
of guilty on so awful a charge as this, on a case of mere suspi-
cion, and without any positive evidence on which they could
rely ? Tots was the question they had to answer, and he had
very little fear for the result. The Learned Counsel
then proceeded at some length to animadvert on time
evidence of the witnesses, which he contended (a as wholly
unworthy of credit, and on which he maintained it was
wholy impossible they could find a verdict of guilty.
He would ask the jury, as men of commmon sense,
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 mos, important. Was it, he would ask the jury,
possible that a young lady could write such letters, knowing,
as she must 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 JUSTICE then proceeded to sum up the case.
After describing the nature of the case, he said that any re-
compense that could be given to a husband who had been de-
prived of the affections of his wife must of necessity be pose
reparation for the injury sustained. It was, however, the only
reparation acknowledged by the law, and 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 a
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 commeht
upon the evidence, and he remarked that on the part of the
plaintiff it was alleeed that the charge had been distinctly
gad-rum to the eviderce, while, on the hther hand; there could
cat the defendant alleged the whole to be a conspiracy
for tit. purroae of forwarding the views of the plaintiff. The jury
would judge between the parties. It was fa them to decide
the question. His Lordship then, after referring to tne 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 themselves to be satisfied a most
abominable intercourse was being carried on between a. father
and ho daughter. This remark especially applied to the witness
echo said that she was aware that the intercourse was going on
before the marriage took place, and that she assisted in carrybg
out tt e ehmdestit.e marriage.
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The jury then retired to'r about forty minutes, when they
returned their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 3,000/.
The following are copies of the letters alluded to by the
Learned Counsel. The first is a letter from the defendant to his
daughter :

I"2oth October, 11,12.
" My dearest Mary—Oh, how terrific is that storm which
has arisen against your unhappy father. Where will these
things eed ? My hesith is marvellously good, but my
peace of mind is like the steam from the vessel—gone for ever.
Pray write one line to say you are well. Alas 1 you cannot
say you are happy, We fall together Give it to our friend
Hutchings, who will send it to Nesbitt, who will soon know
where to address THE WRETCH."
The second is from the plaintiff to his wife
Clifford-street, Sunday Night, Nov. 27.
" I fear you have wrongly estimated the motives that have
induced me to seek an inttrview with you. So honest has
been my intention, so true the conviction on my mind that. I
was doing right, I nyw doubt my own senses, and think I am
incapable of judging for myself.' I will now recal all that has
happened since this unfertunate night five weeks, and without.
mentioning every day, I will allude to one or two on which
events have happened that have weighed greatly on my mind.
That I was unkind, nay cruel, in leaving you, is most true. I
acted unjustly up to the day I sent Mrs. Parsons to you. The
message she brought to you was sent with the most sincere hepe
of the first step to a reconciliation. Your acknowledgment
was dictated in cold politeness, together with a promise that you
would write to me on the morrow. Alas, the morrow ! but
no reply. 'Twas looked for, but in vain; the reason was, 1
take it, your father would net let you write. From that day
I have not heard from you. You leave Lyndon, return to
town, go to By field, and again return to London, but nut a
syllable is breathed to me. Think you, then, all this time that
you are forgotten, that in seven weeks I have ceased to love,
and buried in oblivion the sole object and adoration of my
ihoughts for months past? You little know me. What hap-
pens in the meantime? On Saturday, before I called on you
in Welbeck-street, and afterwerds at Myatt's, the agent of
Mr. John Attwood calls, relates net only what has passed
between us, hut ie absolutely in posses ion of every movement
of yours ; nay, more, the contents of your very letters, from
the Monday en which you promised to write to me up to the
time of his calling, and quietly winds up his story by making
the disgusting proposition of Mr. Attwood (through* the influ-
ence of Mr. Wetherell), lending himself to obtain a divorce,
and an Act of Parliament, to enable me to mai ry again, pro-
vided I would commit adultery I The man will prove my
answer. God knows my suffering; and, as if the draught was
not yet bitter enough, an intimation was thrown out, in an
indirect manner, that you were privy to the proposition. 1
know no more. I waited aexiously for your coming to town,
and on Monday night I called twice in Welbeck-street,
to communicate this heart-breaking intelligence, and had
it been your wish, rather than you should be miserable
for having married me, I would have sacrificed my character
as a man, and my honour as a gentleman, aiid allowed
myself to be adjudged a convicted villain by the highest court
of adjudication in the world. Friday you were not at Wel-
beck-street ; on the Tuesday I called at Alivares : you know
the result. On the Wednesday (informed I am) you are mak-
ing arrangements to go abroad with your father, and that he
has extracted a solemn oath from you that you will never live
with me. Is this so? Well, the consequence has been I have
been up night and day seeking for you. What greater proof of
affection can be shown than I -ace ifice everything ? I risk all
rather than lose you. Am Ito be blamed fur using every pos-
sible means of recovering the dearest object of my life? Re-
:feet for one little mr,:nr,nt, and see witc,iier the means that
have been used to prevent my seeing you have not justly added
to my suspicions. If the severest feelings could recom-
pense you for part impetuosities, if the sufferings of
my bleeding heart could be imagined, some slight
reciprocity would, I think, he evinced to console my
distracted mind. I have to-day for the first time been told
of many improvident things that have happened through
the inadvertency of thoughtless distraction. I have been too
careless. I have no one to make an excuse, no friend to ex-
tenuate my conduct. There is only one thing I shall reproach
you for, and that was your coldness, and which you have con-
tinued to carry out to a heart-breaking extreme. It would be
folly for me to advise others, when seemingly Ido not act ju-
diciously myself. The time may come when your father may
not so contemptuously disregard my advice. The settlement
will be got ready as soon as possible. The only thing we shall
have to wait for now will be your trustee. Pray send word
rho this is to be. The lady with whom I had some conversa-
tion this aftereoon promised to send this to you ; or, I should
rather say, give it to seen for lam sure you were in the
house. I have been so deceived of late I almost doubted to
trust her ; but many things she said led me to believe
she was a kind. good woman. She, like you, seemed
most suspicious of my character. I trust you will re.
main with her, for it gives me the greatest pain to mention
that I have heard you have been obliged to put up with the
worst of lodgings during the last week. Rest assured on my
word you shall not be intruded on in any way. I would fain say
the same to your father. I truer you will write to me. I send
you your brooch, w hich I forgot to. c4y. I trust to God you
will yet be happy, and have the greatest reason to believe the
sincere and besr,felt expressions of affection of your most sin
care, devoted, and affectionate husband. I have received a note
from you to.tiay. Do not pe,si,t in saying you do not wi•li
communicate before the settlement. A few kind expressions
from you may give slumbers to a sleepless pillow."
T mg is the answer

' 6' 28thNbiember, 18.12: -
I "My dearest Husband=—Would that you had• ever acted as
your two last letters promise; but it is too late for letters or
words; actions, completely altered actions, alone will convince
your much afflicted wife. The letter I promised to send to you
was Mr. (Airfield's suggestion, and I could ri-t send it because
he did pet come to me. • Had his conduct not been so deceitful
I should not now tell you that the cold letters you complain
of were dictated by him. When I found you were going
into Chancery I could not write. My father did not prevent
my replying, only your own conduct. Had my letters been
answered in affection such as is due to a wife, you should have
bad plenty. Who Mr. John Attwood's agent is I know not,
and very much doubt if my lather does. At any rate I shall
communicate with my father on this shocking subject. Be as-
sured it is the most earnest wish of my poor father and myself
that you should so alter your conduct that I could in safety
allow you to r turn to me. Oh, John, did you know who are
lour friends, I might have some hope that my life is not to be
spent in widowhood. 1 know it is possible that you may change,
but my hopes have been so often blighted. Be assured that if
you after I shall not go abroad. It is quite false that I have
taken steps towards it. Nor do I intend to refrain from see-
ing you when I see yeu altered. You have it in your power,
my dear husband, to make matters peaceable. Do so, pray
do. This will be a certain proof of your sincerity
and real regard for me. You promise not to ask to
see me against my will. When I wish it you shall know
by letter or my coming to you. All little inadvertencies
shall be forgotten. I know my own conduct is not blameless
in these trifles. You hate heard fal,ely that I have had un-
comfortable lodgings this last week. My mind has been the
greatest sufferer. Do not mistake my motive in writing to you;
it is to assure you that it is not too late to regain my confidence,
but that I am determined to have my judgment convinced that
you are really intending to alter, both towards me and my
father, and that you have now begun. 't hen happy days may
await us all, instead of this heart-breaking work. The hor-
rible tale you state is a perfect mystery to me, and I must wait
to hear from my father, but do not be distracted by it. Let
me hear from yon as soon as possible that you are satisfied with
what I say, and that you do not doubt the affection of your poor
wife. I wean to relieve, though not to release from blame,
your aching hurt. 211,y letter, 'sent to Avenue road will reach
me. I wish my dear husband would pray God night and
morning to direct him. To God I ever commit you, and that
he may bless and change your heart is almost the unceasing
prayer of your devotedly attached wife,

The twofollowing are also le"itielr's Evr.rittleYnNbDy EtheCdOefOenKdEan.es
daughter to her husband .___
ss-My dearest Husband—Let me entreat you not to suppose
that kind expressions alone towards a deserted
way sufficient to assure her that her husband, however dear, is
wife are in any
truly sorry, in the sight of G A and man, for such an
cruelty. Ni), the actions of every day must prove a changaer of
f
iioslat
some,) this day. lie Court, as on the previous day, was They
sentiment. You ask me if your having heard such shocking
ROM E CI RC U I T.—Croydon, August 16. reports does not warrant your conduct in trying f
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against my will ? I must tell then my opinion. It is, thaet yon
COOKE V. WETHERELL, CLERK. me
,(13efore Lord Chief Justice TINDAL and a Cowman Jury.)
ought to have rejectedthemasfaolziy others,an-lha
may act,vepaidn
o it
v
%The reoce&ings in this very extraordinary case were re-
However w
attention to them.
wart ant for our bad conduct. are originated by parties
T
erowdet.' to excess. unknown to us, or at any rate not originated by the well-wishers
Mr. Seal••4:arit CD AN Nxtr, proceeded to u,'dross the jury on of any of u=. You could have quietly a-ked my leave to see
-I.beha o 7 rho defendant. He said that the jury listened to the me, or written to ask me it they were true. Your leaving me
evidence which had been brought forward by the plaintiff, and has laid you open to the shocking reports ; you must expect
he felt quite assured that they could not credit the testi- to suffer ; I have been a very great sufferer indeed. Your con-
mony of his witnesses, and therefore would return a N vrdiet for duct to me is not what weighs only with me; that towards my
the defendant. Bet while be (Mr. Sergeant Channel') ex- father is, in all reality, crully to me. Do not say I recrimi-
presse4 himself in these terms. he must tell the jury that it was nate ; lam only trying, in the affection of my heart, of a recent
itop:w-iiole for a person placed in his situation not to feel anxiety bride. to show you what it is I require to convince my judgment
about the result. He fully shar4d in the painful feelings which that I may allow you to see me. You may rest assured the
hold been expressed on the subject by his Learned Friend on moment I am convinced you shall know it. But I will not
the ether side of the question. His Learned Friend had truly de- scruple to tell you, that having time to sit down and reflect on
scribed his ease as a criminal prosecution. It was trite that the your conduct, I feel hurt to the gteatest possible degree.
Alef-ridant was not be,nre them to answer for his lite, but if the Alter having been treated as the worst of characters by you,
jury were to find a
vere,et against him, his life would be of no you now persi.it, although you know it is my wish not to see
"
value
to him. All of human happiness, everything that would you before the settlement is signed, in pressing an interview.
Make life worth enjoying
would be destroyed ; life, indeed, in 1 cannot consent ; if Ido it will be like saying lam the guilty
such circumstances, would be a curse. And in addition to the party. The day will come when you will see I am right.
No, Johtn. ; let. the settlement be signed and the release.
degradation entailed on himself, there would be the miserable
reflection that he had sunk his daughter, the being to whom Duringhedopei tod from now till then act like a penitent
sate of hopeless degradation and
bman, and . not ask me to see yoti. I know what passes
he had given life, into a
infamy. He did not be1i,,... ,at the jury would come to a ,
bad ,er than if I lived with ys,u. Let ine, intreat you to avoid all
conclusion involving so dreadm. a result, and, therefore, he '
)ex,ressions, and show that you really love me by doing
expressions of real esteem and re-
fully relied on an acqui,tal 94 his (Mr. Sergeant Channefl's) ; what
_request, though very painful to you. Here will,
at once, be a proof that your ex
client. He admitted that some of the witnesses had sworn I
place, but if I gard for me are true. It is in this way you must re.stssui.m7
.I^tiositively to certain occurrences having taken

A Aumbi r or witnesses were called to chlracter.
Verdict—Guiliy; to be imprisoned for three calendar

a3on:hg.

judgment. I hope by this that you will he convinced I have,
at any rate. since esteemed yon. The kindries of Mrs. Kett I
feel most deeply, and am not a little pleased to find you can be
gratified with honesty, although it hurts your pride, It will
give me great pleasure to find you putting into force any kind
intentions towards your much-injured father-in-law. Let me
intreat you, dear John, not to attempt this change of conduct
without prayer and the reading of your Bible ; if you take it
up, God will bless it to you. That He may give you His
Holy Spirit to soften and check your turbulent spirit is still the
affectionate prayer and wish of your sincerely attached but
afflicted wife, " M. E. MYNDE COOKE.
" 30th November, 1842."
" My Dearest Husband has I fear misunderstood his wife's
meaning in saying that kind expressions alone would not
convince her that her husband was truly sorry. As far as kind
expressions go I shall be the first to appreciate them, and wish
most earnestly I had never had reason to ask for actions to ac-
company them ; no one in the world can have the same feelings
for you that I have. When you act against my judgment I long
to step in and prevent you. My greatest wish is to he proud
of y ou as my dear and affectionate husband, and that you should
be proud of me. This I have once been ; but alas! I cer-
tainly, find it difficult to believe your altered expressions since
last we saw each other are really now what may be depended
upon. Still they are what, when I first took the name of wife,
you acted upon to the utmost ; and if I can be convinced
of yuur sincerity, I shall be most happy again to be the
beloved of my husband, and will, to convince you that
I have really loved and felt fur you as an affectionate wife,
who is really grieved and ashamed when her husband does
wrong ; but if at this moment you think it would show
deeper feelings for me to praise and pity you, and run into your
arms, I must assure you this is blindness and weakness; not, affec-
tion, such as will bear to be tried. Such conduct may flatter
for the moment, but it is not what will last ; affection founded
upon judgment will last as long as life. You have, in our
happy days, said you had married a woman of sense, and that
you were proud of her. Then, dear John, do not blame her
for acting up to her opinion. You never doubted my love till
your conduct towards me altered. But I shall not say any-
thing more about what has passed, unless these hostilities are
renewed. The letter or letters stated to have been written
by me to some one abroad, or Mrs. Gilbert, or somebody, I
beg to °say have never existed. All I can say is, give me but
the opportunity by your altered sentiments and actions to give
vent to my affections. Pull the string judiciously and you will
find it the strongest you ever tried yet. It is not the
strongest looking rope that will bear the greatest strain ;
it is quality, not size. There is a peculiar something in
those terms, husband and wife, which none can feel but
those who bear them. There is a sacredness about them.
Turn which way you will they still ought to bind, if they do
not. You will say I condemn myself in this. Well, then, rest
assured ail may yet be well, if all that is possible be done to con-
vince me that I may safely trust and confide in you as my dear
and really fond and affectionate husband. One method
would propose would be a correspondence ; but do not feel hurt
if lam honest with you. My heart is fast sinking under all
these heavy trials, and I may find it necessary to seek country
air. I shall still be obliged to send my letters to Mrs. Kett.
Should some d-lay occur, do not put it to the score of inatten-
tion. lam very glad you are convinced my dear father had
nothing to do with tiie divorce matter. I hope that in time
you will be convinced you have wrongly judged him in other
matters. May G,..j bless you, my dear husband, and enable you
soon to believe me to be your devotedly attached wife,
"December 5, 1842." "M. E. MYNDE COOKE.

The next is a letter written by the defendant to the plaintiff
after the Chancery suit had concluded:—
" Byfielrl Rectory, January 9, 1843.
" Sir—As you have intimated to my daughter sour wish to
ccme to Bs field, and she has expressed to me her determina-
tion not to meet you for any purpose whatever, you place me
in the painful position of being obliged to forbid you my house,
whether my daughter be in it or not, end I hereby accordingly
forbid you my house—Your obedient servant,

" CHARLES WETHERELL."
The three following letters were also sent by the plaintiff's
wife to her husband:—

" My dear husband—Your expressions of sorrow and affec-
t:on do indeed make no small impression on your poor wife, and
shall have due weight with her. I cannot help saying that you
mistrust my affection for you, or why say again that any one has
the power to influence me:in:my conduct ? I surely gave you
proof enough to the contrary of this when I ran away with you;
and since last Sunday week I have written, and assured you I
acted on my own judgment. When I mention the country 1 bind
myself ,o no particular spot. I have invitations from friends. But
allow me to say that when I went to Ily field it was after being
told by you that the apartments were no longer at my ser-
vice. I was therefore at liberty to seek the pro!ection of my
natural guardian. I was told by Mrs. Kett that your objec-
tion to my going to Byfield is, that when last I went my letters
were altered. I will now tell you plainly what it was that
altered my tone towards you. It was that, contrary to your
solemn oath and promise to me that you would not, you put
matters into Chancery. Long before you deserted me I told
you if ever you went into Chancery I would never forgive you.
I repeated it to Mr. Parsons on the Saturday ; and on the
Monday you broke the solemn oath and promise you made to
the wite you now implore not to leave town, when her health
recptires it, betause she may be further estranged from you.
What can I do or say? I would yield ; but then, although
you promise to give up all or me, your actions do not prove it.
Look at the name of Waddy still retained as trustee, not-
withstanding my wish it should be erased, and a disinterested
party named. You have heard I intended nominating Cor-
field. But I beg to say it is quite untrue. I ask you not to
put it to the score of inattention if, because I go into the
country, my letters are delayed. You deny me this.
That you are deeply distressed for your treatment to
me I feel thoroughly persuaded of ; your feelings are always in
extremes, and I do sincerely pity and griiive over you, and
will, as soon as I see I may with safety, try again to be your
companion and friend ;in that peculiar link of a wife to a hus-
band. The sentiments expressed in my letters do not say I
dislike you so much that I will never see you again. Were we
to meet now we could not avoid discussion. We should not
agree. Well, then, is it not better that when we meet there
should be no ground of dispute? Surely you must see I wish
when we meet that nothing should prevent our being happy in
the enjoyment of each other's society. In the meantime let
us try and prepare to suit each other better than before. You
say Ido not forgive you. Wait a little, and you will see that
pride does not actuate me. I have told you that it is your
broken word to me as your wife. It often takes a short time
to do wrong ; but, however we struggle or complain, we cannot
repair the evil so quickly. I again repeat, convince my judg.
ment, and then I will see you. It is quite as painful for me to
be obliged to say so as it is for you to wait patiently and per-
form it. If you send me any money I will put it to no im-
proper use. It must strike you I want money for many other
purposes than that of going out of town. You ask me to
be honest with you. Well, then, let me tell you, that did you
mistrust your lawn power more, I should have more hope of you.
You feel assured you could please rite. But I shall not scruple
to tell you that a very great change must take place first.
We are never acting with so much propriety as when we
doubt ourselves. May God influence and direct you, and
keep you from running into these extremes, is the earnest
prayer of your affectionate wife,
"10th of December, 1842."

" M. E. M. COOKE,

"My dear Husband—Your intended trip to Brighton will,
I hope, be the means of diverting your mind from the dis-
tracting scenes which have lately occurred. It would give
We great pleasure if I could feel secure in either remaining in
one spot, or letting you know where I am ; but ever since last
Sunday fortnight my nerves have been much shook; so much
so, as that I dare not let you know my residence. lam
so alarmed from day to day, and from moment to
moment, that I know not where to fly, and am
continually contriving fresh places of security. My
expenses have been very heavy. I have been
put to every possible inconvenience—m 7 wardrobe scattered,
my mind distracted, and my health sinking. It will, I fear,
take some time to allay my apprehensions. Through your
clerk I have received 501. He says you have a sprained wrist.
I hope it is not seriously hurt. I wish you to understand that
I did not know Mrs. Kett would suggest the propriety of send-
ing me some money. I knew nothing of it till after it was
mentioned to you. Now, that you are away from those persons
who have surrounded you for some time past, do try and calmly
consider it you cannot escape from their influence. Do you,
not,thitik that if you value your own future happiness :von must
do so Your moral courage is strong enough. Do try. I
evils pYomise you success if you do. Surely the one se involved
in the divorce matter cannot be your real friend. If you are
really sorry for what has passed, and anxious to show such to 13,,
the case, why retain another who has at least encouraged you
to do that for which you are now so grieved? You do not
know what bitter feelings are excited in my mind to see in your
handwriting the greatest wish still to live in the heart of your
wife, and yet that acts do not accompany it. If your heart is
so deeply wounded, do show it by actions. My greatest wish
is that you would so convince me that I could accede to your
wishes. May God enable you to convince your poor afleted,
but still affectionate wife, " M. E. Al. COOKE.
" Dee. 15, 1842."
"My dear Husband—l am glad the settlement and release
have both been executed. I did, indeed, attach much import-
ance to this object, as it relieves me from the anguish of having
rendered my fattier liable to a suit in Chancery. It appears to
me that my father having assured you he would be liable for my
jost debts. it would be more in accordance with your promises to
me if you had given up the small freehold at Byfleid.--Your
affectionate wife, " N. E. MYNDE COOKE.
" Jan. 3. 1843."

T,,
yn edxe
at
r is
wa
tlfeetle o
ir
addressed
t he
alet plaintiffter tot
ohisyou
uwifethe in-
stant, to request an interview, with the object of entering into
certain explanations that I felt were necessary previous to a
long-continued absence from each other, provided such expla-
nation rendered that separation necessary to our mutual com-
fort. I called in Eaton-place for the same purpose. In again
addressing you believe me I am actuated by only one motive—
the desireof forwarding the interests and happiness of yourself,
your father, and myself. With regard to the past lam perfectly
sensible of actions on my part which I would had never
occurred, and whatever might have been the result of our inter-
view had you granted it, you at least would have been satisfied
that time had worked co little change in my sentiments and
opinions, and had produced reflections which tended to con-
vince me of the many errors into which 1 have fallen. You,
too, would have been generous enough to believe how ill-
advised I have ever been, and in the midst of all would, I am
sure, rather pity than upbraid, and, on bearing the treachery
by which I am and have been surrounded, rather would you
sympathise than continue longer to censure or condemn. I
had wished, deeply wished, to have told you from my own lips
that which I cannot here, when perhaps all would have still been
well; for 1 feel in our present position that no false pride with
the woman I love, and you know sincerely love, and that woman
my wife, ought to interfere to shadow with the clouds of misery
a long vista of years. Thus I hope I have expressed myself suffi-
ciently clear to convince you that my desire we should meet was
neither to perplex or to annoy, but calmly, after anxious hours
of reflection, upon a couch of sickness, of regret for the past,
and hope for the future, to convey to you pert,onally the actual
feelings which now possess me. I can cnly add, that if this
open avowal and appeal to your feelings should prove as idle as
my. last, and should be again treated by you with silence, that
I must, however irksome it be to reconcile, consider it your
wish never to see me again ; but God grant for both our sakes,
that your bosom will yield to nobler and better feelings, and
that you will no longer hesitate to see me and hear aught 1
have to say. For your guidance I mention that after next
week my stay in town will be uncertain. God bless you,
" Relieve rne, sincerely and affectionately, to be your fond
and devoted husband, " JOHN MYNDE COOKE."

ACCIDENT IN REAPING.—On Thursday afternoon,
Charles Russell, a boy, aged 15, met with an accident under
rather singular circumstances. He was standing behind a per-
son who was reaping, when the man having stumbled, he fell,
-nd his hook caught the boy under the knee, inflicting a severe
wound.— Gloucestershire Chronicle.
ELOPEMENT.—On Saturday morning, about .eight
o'clock, the family of Mr. S. Leavend, of the Brompton-
road, were thrown into considerable alarm by the discovery
that their eldest daughter, Miss Emma Leavend, had left her
father's house clandestinely, taking her trinkets and a portion
of wearing apparel with her. Immediate inquiry was insti-
tuted, when it was ascertained that the young lady had been
seen to enter a coach that morning, accompanied by a gentle.
man, which immediately set off at a rapid rate towards town.
In the course of the day Mr. Leavend received a communica-
tion from his daughter, entreating his forgiveness, and inform-
ing him that she had been united that morning. The young
lady is possessed of considerable property, and the fortune"
admirer is a member of the medical profession, in the neigh-
bourhood of Manchester-square.

NEW RAILWAYS.
. •
6.i.Aullui\LD BY PARLIAMENI INTHE SEzbit.,,N 1646.

(From the Railway Chronicle of Saturday.)

Aberdare
Aberdeen
Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction—Ardwick
Bedford, London, and Birmingham
Berks and Hants
Birmingham and Gloucester—Gloucester Extensions,
Stoke Branch, and Midland Junction
Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, and Colne
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton
Blackburn and Preston
Bridgewater Navigation and Railway
Brighton and Chichester—Portsmouth Extension
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings—Hastings, Rye, &c ~
Kepner
Bristol and Exeter Branches
Caledonian ,
Chester and Birkenhead Extension
Chester and Holyhead
Clydesdale
Cockermouth and Workington
Dundee and Perth
Dunstable, London. and Birmingham
Eastern Counties—Ely and Whittlesea Deviation
Cambridge and Huntingdon

Eastern Union
Eastern Union and Bury St. Edmunds, No. 2
Edinburgh and Gla.gow
Edinburgh and Hawick
Edinburghland Northern, No. 2
Ely and Huntingdon
Epping, No. 2
Erewash Valley
Exeter and Crediton
Glasgow and Ayr—Cumnock Branch
Glisgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct
Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge
Glasgow Junction
Gravesend and Rochester
Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Great North of England—Clarence and Hartlepool ..
Great North of England and Richmond
Guildford Junction
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal
Huddersfield and Sheffield
Hull and Selby—Bridlington Branch
Kendal and Windermere
Lancaster and Carlisle
Leeds and Bradford—Shipley to Colne
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester
Leeds and Thirsk
Liverpool and Bury—Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool and
Bury Extension
Liverpool and Manchester
London and Brighton—Horsham
London and Croydon—Enlargement
London and Greenwich
London and South Western—Metropolitan Exten., No. 1
_ No. 2

_
Lowestoft Harbour and Railway
Lynn and Dereham
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Birmingham—Ashton Branch
Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale
Manchester and Leeds—Burnley, Heywood, and Oldham
Branches—Burnley Branch
••• 'Heywood Branch
Oldham
Manchester and Leeds, No. 2
Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham
Middlesborough and Redcar
Midland—Nottingham and Lincoln
Midland—Syston to Peterborough
Monmouth and Hereford
Newcastle and Berwick.
Newcastle and Darlington—Brandling Junction
Newcastle and North Shields—Tynemouth Extension
Newport and Pontypool
North British—Amendment
North Union and Ribble Navigation
North Wales Mineral
North Wales, Porthdynllaen and Bangor
North Woolwich
Norwich and Brandon Dev. Diss and Dereham Branch
Oxflird and Rugby .
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Preston and Wyre Branches
Richmond (Surrey)
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Sheffield and Rotherham
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction
Southampton and Dorchester
South-Eastern Extension to Deal Canterbury, Margate,
and Ramsgate
South Eastern—Tunbridge to Tunbridge Wells
South-Eastern—Widening and Extension of London and

Length.
Miles.
8f
58

15m. 74c.
39

Greenwich
South Wales
Taw Vale
Trent Valley
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole
Wear Valley
West London
Whitby and Pickering
Whitehaven and Furness
Wilts, Somb•rset, and Weymouth
Yarm.,uth and Norwich
York and North Midland—Bridlington ..

24
14
3t
1,250 yds.
221
29w. 6ic.
91i
150 As.
137+
2.
15
20i

23,1
17i

214
591
23 ch.

Harrogate
York and Scarborough Deviation

264
371
5i

AMALGAMATIONS.
Bolton and Leigh—Kenyon and Leigh Junction
North Union, Liverpool and Manchester and Grand Junc-
tion Companies
St. Helen's Canal and Railway__

8i
4
11

Capital.

:;0,000
830,000
60,000
125,000
400,000

274,222
530,000
300,000
52,468
12,000
320.000
500,000
140,000

500,0(10
2,100,000
300,000
500,000
330,000
80,000
200,000
50,000

.91
7f
33t
471
36f
901-

330,000
150,000
50,000

400,000
100,000
400,000
650,000
194,000
200,000
190.000
70.000
204,000
150,000

150,000
170,000
600,000
21,000
150,000

630 000
532,000
216.000
125,000

500,000
650,000
890,000

912,000
805,000
100,000

800,000
855,000
120,000
270.000
300,000
93,000

64c. 7y.
1214
28*

Revenue.

5,002
81,840
5,000
15,577
42,980

62,030
33,793

28,138
25,198
8,357
30,349
226,027

45,257
11,705
33,917
4,271

13,824

35,745
2,973
59.352
73,863
17,124
15.659
14,136
8,626
12,394
16,982

9,417
27,193
73,079

10,205

116,117
69,384
27,976
14,997

52,654
79,117
137,618

501
103
84

474
3341
3 fur. 20.
234
62

182 4-5

95,119

8,000

Dividend.

3,002
54,833
3,000
9,347
25,788

37,218
20,556

16,883
16,370
5,571
18,209
119,795

27,154
7,024
22,725
2,551

8,847

21,447
2,072
35,612
48,011
11.292
10,961
9.,896
5.176
8,676
9,340

7,534
16,317
43,848

49/
27
11f

40
1291
2 fur. 5 a.
19/
1f331

371-
20 1-6
73*
34
401
98-
77
39
56*
554
11 4-5
37
78

2,841

360,000

350,000
400,000
36,000
408,000
750,000
550,000
1,400,000

650 000
50,000

6,125

48,642

6,439
32.889
43,061
8,631

28,592

59.479
4,624
52,633
47,853
47,770
136,959
12,262
4.857
12,284
24,867
1,333
20,839
34,541
4,166
15,196
88,732
219,136
4,449
74,475
94,892
36,858

119,100
47,000
16,000

150,000

300,000
30,000

220,000
600,000
1,500,000
50,000
260,000

850,000

300,000
45,000
410,000
500,000

187,000

2,8C0,000

1,250,000
365,000
82,000
60,000

69,670
41,900
16,782
8,999

34,244
51,426
89,452

57,072

350,000
1,500,000
40,000
87,000

4,800

3,678
21,378
25,836
5,179

19,047

35,687

2,775
37,633
33.853
28,662
86,959
8,175
3,309
7,371
16,661
1,000
12,503
20,725
2.500
12,196
53,239
134,481
2.802
44,685
56,936
20,272

82,147
53,373

49,289
32,024

13,894

428,483

230.000
38,250

3E35,000

240,000
950,000
40,000

750,000
1,200,000
1,000,000
500.000
500,000
900,000

134,080
46,018
8,447
5,000

133,035
250,000
750,000

33,884
157,803

10,527

257,020

7,500
23,261

80,448
27,611
5,068
2,500

22,589
94,682

5,025
15,261

78,324
45,096
129,741
4,994
68,305
142,471
44,202
30,093
97,142
102,480
20,436
37,987
83,129

£44,322,235 4,672,264 2,817,311

whilst with some of his family. Unless the cause of
death could be ascertained, it w ould be useless entering
into any incruiry touching the other circumstances, and
therefore he. (the Coroner) would have the examination
made at once. It was possible the deceased might have
died from the agency of some poison. If arsenic had
been employed, they might detect its presence ; he be-
lieved, however, that when arsenic was used, the death
was seldom so sudden as it had been in this case.
The Coroxier and jury then proceeded to the tomb.
from which The coffin was taken, and opened in their
presume.

- The remaVt is having been identified, the inquiry was
adjourned to, afford time for the pert mo, tem examination
to be made.

- - -
THE STAVICHOPE DIARY.—The Memoirs of Lady
Hester Stanhio pe continue to excite the most intense interest.
"During Mr.. Pitt s lifetime (observes the Chronicle) she was
Pattered and honoured by all the higher el :sses, and especially
by the princess, princesses, and the Court circle, and she was
pretty nearly worshipped by the place-hunters. Her influence
with her unclle was great, and she used it generously. But
while she thee, according to the proverb, made a number of
ungrateful persons, she, at the same time, made a multitude of
enemies amee g people of rank and consequence by her own
course of coniduct, which was upon occasions supercilious and
arrogant to a degree, and by her unfortunate facility of saying
sharp things swith the most stinging effect. She certainly pos-
sessed a rapid and deep insight into human character, and her
remarks upon the distinguished persons with whom she was
acquainted, as .well as the many travellers who visited her at
Joost, are always pointed and searching, if not always just. As
it may easily be presumed, she idolized her uncle's memory ; yet
it cannot be fa.irly said her praise of him was exaggerated. All
the passages i't lating to him in her statements and reminis-
cences are of st ri king interest, and she has been able to do jus-
tice to him anaitist common belief in many instances. She
admired the 104 abilities of Fox, and entertained asirong per-
sonal regard for• him. She liked Horne Tooke and Sir Francis
Burdett. Canening she hated as the most in.incere, deceitful,
and falsest of ts-uman kind ; but she admitted his powers.
Castlereagh, Li werpool, Huskisson, and all Pitt's colleagues and
followers, except Lord Melville, she despised and derided. Th e
Prince of Wales she thought to be the falsest of the false, but
expressed the vrarmest esteem for the Duke of York and his
younger brothem. Her strictures upon the character and con-
duct of the Du chess of Devonshire, and other she•politicians
and intreguanti to of the day, are spiteful in the extreme, but
rresistably arnu•ting and forcible."
IHE GREA.'T YORKSHIRE STAKES. —There is no
truth it, the rep irrt cf the death of Mr. Reed, the nominator of
Miss Elio.

TILE lIARVEST IN FRANCE.--The weather is be-
, ginning to inspire apprehensions for the safety of the crops
No very material damage has yet been occasioned by the in-
clemency of the season, except in localities which had been
ravaged by stomas ; all will depend, however, on the turn the
weather will take in the course of the next ten days. Should
it set in fine, thore is still every prospect of a good harvest ;
but, if the rain c °Wince, all hope will be at an end. Vegetation
throughout France is late by at least three weeks; and towards
the north the wheat is still green. August, this year, conse-
quently, represents the month of July of other years. The
quantity of rain /is inferior to that which fell in July of the cala-
mitous year 181.6, when it rained during 26 days consecutively;
nevertheless, should the quantity exceed nine centimetres be-
tween the 26t1s. of July and the 26th of August next, the con-
sequences will be disastrous. It is calculated that every hour's
rain entails a lose of 1,0(0,000f. on the country. The rye,
which presented. a fine appearance, has been cut down nearly
everywhere ; bat it is liable to become heated and rot, from the
excessive electricity of the atmosphere. The humidity is par-
ticularly ominous in Belgium, whence orders to the extent of
500,000 hectolit rats of wheat have been already sent to Eng-
land, Marseilles, and Dantaic. In the south of Russia a great
drought prevail/4, and the crops are also seriously menaced.
From the wine d istricts the accounts are still mere lamentable.
NEWCASTLE' COW HILL OR LAMMAS FAIR.--
Cow Hill or Latromas fair for horses and other cattle was held on
Tuesday, on the Pdeor, and was numerously attended by sellers
and buyers from various parts of the country. The stook
shown were fully equal to previous occasions, both in kind and
quality, and a coissiderable amount of business was done. Cows,
of which there watt a good show, were in demand, an:l prime
beasts brought 15L. to 161., second-rate Ili. to 12/., and in-
ferior about 8/. Pigs of a superior kind sold brisk arid good
prices were obtained. The average, for pigs la eielliog eleven
stones, was 31. 10c. to 41. ; for small pigs, 17s. to 18s. each ;
and for bacon the average price way he stated at 7.5 tier stone.
The show of horses was a 133 large :30 ales brisk. As 3,sual the
beat arriial; chAa.go.4 hafois oh 33,e pri:,lou%3 I ,ny;tordrty),
the market commonly held in our streets. Theprices were,
first class, animtiis, 40/. to 50/. ; second class, 20/. to 30/. ;
and third-class, of which few were sold, at a very low figure.
There was also an average show of sheep and lambs which met
with a ready sale p,t fairish prices.-- Tyne Mercury.