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dog had bitten the witness on the hip and at the lower pa. -
Con of the back.]
Cress-examined-by- Mr. Williams—Two females were with
me, who were near enough to hear what `Popp said. I had
been told once not to take the wood. When the keeper came
up I dropped the wood, and so did the other women. We
were resting when the keeper came up, and he took it from
us. 'We went off quickly, and then he put the dog upon us.
The 23(1 was on a Saturday. On the following Monday I
went to Topp's house to get his name, as he was a stranger
to me. I never told him if he gave me a sovereign I would
say nothing about it. On the following Saturday I wenf to
a chemist's at Windsor in a cart. I kept my hed for a fort-
night fram the Ist of September. 1 told Topp, when he set
the dog on me, I was in the family way. I did not know
Mr. Pearl, of Windsor, until a gentleman of that name called
on me. He wanted to examine me, to ascertain if I was in
the family way. He put his hands outside the clothes. I
have not had a miscarriage, as I was too far gone. I firmly
believe the child is now dead. I am between seven and
eight months gone with child. The dog which Topp set
upon me was a good-sized dog. I was confined to my bed
for a fortnight, and attended during that time by Mr.
Westell. My husband was here this day fortnight ; I was
unable to come. The young man, Topp, called upon me,
and came into my bedroom and asked me not to go on again: t
him. My husband came before the magistrates this day
fortnight to say that if the defendant would pay all the ex-
penses, and for my support while on a sick bed, I had no ob-
ection to proceed no further.
Mr. Williams rose, and said that as the attack made by
thr dog was purely accidental, the affair could now be ar-
rauzeed, with the permission of the magistrates, and he
truited they would permit it to be compromised. If Mr.
Westell's.bill for medicine and attendance was not exorbitant,
he (Mr. Williams) would agree, on the part of the young
man, to pay it. There was no animus on the part of his
client; therefore we will not atone for a wrong which we
utterly deny.
Mr. Sawyer—My opinion is, that the case having gone so
far, must be proceeded with.
Mr. Hercy—lt was a very awkward action on the part of
the defendant. He goes and shakes the woman's pectic. at,
and thus sets on the dog, and therefore it cannot be called an
accidental occurrence,'
Mr. Williams asked if the Bench would allow the woman
to retire and speak to the defendant? It was a mode (far
ranging similar cases. allowed to be adopted frequently by
magistrates in London.
Mr. Sawyer—The case has gone too far for that.
Mary Lee, a witness called by the complainant, was then
sworn. She said—l was in the forest on the 23d of August,
picking up a little bit of dry wood for firing, with Mrs.
IVelle. It was in the woodland, in the open forest. Topp
came up and said we had no business there; and told us to
empty out our wood. While we were emptying out, he set
the dog on me, and then on Mrs. Wells, who begged and
prayed for her life, as she was then in the family way. Topp
then cast his eye down upon her, and said, "It's a lie; she-
is no more so than I am ; and if I was sure she was not so, I
would serve her worse." After Mrs. Wells told him she was
in the family way, he took his handkerchief off his neck and
tied it round the dog's, and set the dog on me until I got out
of the forest.
Cress-examined by Mr. Williams—l heard Mrs. Wells say
to Topp, "If you want to take away my life, in my present
situation, you had better take your gun and shoot me at
once." Topp shook Mrs. Wells's petticoats as high as he
could shake them when he set the dog at her. We begged
and prayed of him to leave us alone. I was never told by
T opp, or anybody else, not to pick up wood in the forest.
By Mr. Hercy—l thought Topp's motive for putting his
handkerchief round the dog's neck was to prevent its biting
Mrs. Wells any more.
Mr. Williams address e 4 the Bench for the defendant. He
trusted justice would be 21 lie, no matter how high the rank
of his master. He considered that it was a plot and a con-
spiracy got up against his client, for it was impossible to be-
lieve that both the witnesses had told the truth. He was
surprised at the absence of Mr. Westell, who had attended
Mrs. Wells, for lie could have proved if she were enceinte.
Mr. Pearl, surgeon, of Windsor, who had been called in as an
arbitrator, would give his evidence on this point. In guard-
ing agsinst oppression from the great, we should also equally
guard against extortion froM the weak. The affair was a
fabulous piece of business altogether. The woman went to
the defendant, and told him that for a sovereign she would
settle the business. This, however, lie (Mr. Williams) could
not prove, because his client could not be sworn. The Bench
is called upon either to dismiss the case, or inflict the lowest
fine the law allows.
Mrs. Wells here informed the magistrate that she was
firmly of opinion that the child was dead. (The woman ap-
' peared to be enduring great pain.)
Mr. Williams said he should now call Mr. Pearl. As Mr.
-Westell was not present, he (Mr. Williams) had no doubt
that he was afraid to submit himself to a cross-examina-
tion He (Mr. "Williams) would contend it was a lucre
accidental rencontre; and as to an assault, none had been
proved in law.
Mr. Geoffrey Pearl, surgeon, Windsor, was then sworn,
and stated as follows from a written paper he held in his
band. I saw Mrs. Wells on the 13th of this month, at her
own house. I was requested to see her by Mr. Turner
(Prince Albert's head-keeper.) She told me she was seven
months gone with child. I asked ber to allow me to put my
hand upon her body. There did not appear to be any child;
or nut one so large as if she bad gone six or seven months.
1 asked her if she had miscarried, and she said she had nor,
but that after she had been attacked by the dog she had ex-
, perienced symptoms of miscarriage. It was my opinion
there were no symptoms of the kind. She said she thought
her Milos was brought on by the fright. Ido not think she
is seven months gone. I should think, by the appearance
of her face, she could not have had the floodings she cons-
plained of. Her face was not blanched. Mr. Peartadded, in
reply to a question from the complainant, " I examined you
by passing my hand round your body."
Mrs. Wells—You came to me in a very improper and un-
gentlemanly manner while I was in bed. I never allowed
him, gentlemen (addressing the Bench), to examine me.
Mr. Pearl—lf there had been a child, I must have dis-
covered it.
This being the whole of the evidence,
Mr. Sawyer said, in this case an assault had most un-
doubtedly been committed. That Topp was there, and had
set the dog on the woman, was very clear. It was the duty
cf a servant to protect the property of his master in a hgi-
tfmate manner; but Topp bad not so protected his master's
property, but in a most illegal manner, not to be justified.
If the woman were in the family way she is liable to serious
injury. The assault, in his opinion, was proved.
Mr. Huey agreed in the opinion expressed by his brother
mag:strate, that the assault had been committed by the de-
fendant's setting the dog on to the complainant. He consi-
dered it totally out of the question to believe for on 3 moment
that the affair was accidental.
Mr. Sawyer, in giving judgment, observed that he should
view the offence of which the defendant was guilty in the
same light in which, he trusted, it would be viewed by Prince
Albert, the defendant being in the service of his Royal High-
ness. He should therefore adjudge that the defendant be
fined 2/., and that he pay the costs.
The fine and costs, amounting together to 2/. 10s. 6d.,
were paid by the father of the defendant.
The proceedings, which occupied a considerable time,
created great interest to a crowded auditory.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basingball-street.
T. F. Piper, wholesale stay manufacturer, Bishopsgate-
street Without, Oct. 14, at two.

WORTHY OF IMITATION.—The Earl of Falmouth,
wishining to encourage upon his Cornish estates a more
general cultivation of green crops in connexion with an im-
proved system of cropping, has offered for the farms which
have been best cultivated and cropped handsome premiums,
in proportion to the number of acres which the farms may
consist, beginning with farms exceeding 200 acres, and
ending with cottage tenements containing not more than 25
acres. The crops which must have been grown in succession
ate-1. Wheat, or other grain suited to the soil. 2. Turnips,
mangel-wurtzel, and other roots. 3. Barley or oats. 4.
Grasses. 5. Grasses. Tenants have the option of grawing
a ,Top of rape (for consumption by sheep upon the land) in
the sixth year before wheat. It is proposed to inspect the
farms of the competitors in the months of July and August,
and to award the premiums in the month of October follow-
ing.— lirest Briton.
THE OBSCENE PROPERTIES OP THE VULTURE.—
The above foul bird will devour, with a disgusting trait of
greediness, the most putrid offal, and in almost all parts- of
the east, groups of them, from twenty to thirty, may be seen
assembled together, fattening upon human and other animal
corpses. So depraved, so vitiated, and so rotten is the consti-
tutional system of the vulture, that its very feathers maybe ob-
served to molt from its wings, at voluntary intervals, whilst it
is in the act of gorging its prey; and there is one fact in relation
to this repulsive bird which is perhaps not generally known,
it is this, viz., tbat no animal whatever will prey upon the
vulture, or otherwise—not even the Jackal' or glutton,
which are in the habit of burrowing into, and ransacking. the
repositories of the dead, and indulging each a morbid appe-
tite, yet these beasts will rot approach the vulture, but will
tura away from it with total abhorrence. Even the common
flesh fly (musca putris) will not lend its aid towards annihi-
lating the voluc:ine nuisance under consideration, by inocu-
lating the carcase of the bird with its c,nsuming larvae, but
avoids coming into centact with the foetid mass, so that the
vulture may be looked upon as the most obscene of all car-
nivorous scavengers, and can be viewed only in the light of
a solitary outcaq, singled out from the wide and varied uni-
versity of animated nature.
W RECK OF THE INDEMNITI .—CLEVERNESS OF THE
CAPTAlN.—lntelligence was received at Stockton, on Sunday, of the
wreck of the brig Indemity, Captain R. Grieves, of that
port, the property of Mr. W. W. 'Watson, about the middle
of July, on the Magdalen Islands, in the gulf of St.
Lawrence, while on her passage from Ireland to Quebec,
in ballast. At the time of the wreck there were nearly 20
persons on board. The vessel having got on the shore, the master went
to the main land, and hired some labourers to assist in getting her oft;
but a storm arose on his return, threatening not only her loss, but the
less of all hands. Under these circumstances, he sent a buoy adrift,
attached to a line; end on its approach to the land, it was hooked up
by the inhabitants, a number of whom had assembled on the cliffs.
A warp was then fastened to the ilneon board the brig, and drawn to
the cliff, where it was made fast. The captain now placed a " thimble"
on the rope, with a hempen " chair ;" and the line was made
fast to the " thimble " in two places—so that the chair could be
drawn up to the cliff, and back to the vessel. With this
apparatus the seamen and labourers were made to travel,
one by one, from the wreck to the cliff. The captain re-
mained to the last ; and having no one to assist him into
the " chair," he had great clinically in taking his seat, and
securing his safety. One man only—a sailor, named Brown—was
lost. lie had attempted, in spite of his master's injunctions, to make
his way to lend in a boat, and was drowned. The bull and materials
of the brig (wh'cli was insured) sold for a sum Short of UAL—
Gateshead Obssrrer.
Tun FORESTS.—The sport of deer-stalking has
been pursued with success for the last fortnight. Stags are more
migratory ttian usual this season, few having been seen at many of
their favourite haunts. John Ross, Esq., at Strathgarve, shot a pair
of stags right and left ; at the seine place and time, A. Mackenzie,
ESQ., yr., of Ord, got a stag. Mr. Flood and Mr. Chearnly, at
kuchinault, secured four. At Iledcastle, two red deer and two rce
were killed by sons of (7olonel Bailie. Colonel Porter shot two stags
at Inchnacardock. Mr. White, of Monar has killed one ; Glenmo-
riston one very heavy deer ; Lord Walsingham, at Kinlochewe, one
Sir P. atostyn and Lord Lovat have brought down several good
stags. A Very heavy ioyal stag's head was sent here the other day
Irom Erehlcss Castle to be preserved. The beam of the horns is of
uncommon thickness, with wide span, and three thick branches,
forming nearly the famous cups on the top of each. Another royal
head, of nearly equal dimensions, arrived this morning from COlTi-
loony. Tho antlers are finely overspread with rough projections.—
Thrernesa Courier.
SEIZURE OF WATCHES.—We understand, with re-

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led them to start immediately for Liverpool, where they
made a seizure of a much larger quantity, and, if wo under-
stand rightly, while at that port they obtained a further
clue, which it is not improbable will lead to the ultimate
seizure of a large quantity of the same valuable description
of merchandise. We are in possession of some further par-
ticelars in the matter, which we do not feel at liberty to pub-
lish at present, as it might probably have the effect of preventing
the furtherance of the ends of justice. The officers concerned
are remarkably shrewd and intelligent, and it is not at all
likely that they will lose the probable chance afforded
them of ultimately itmking a seizure of those which they have
in view, and of causing them also-to be
.confiscated to thlavire.nue.
It is to be hoped that such will be the case; as we .11,,a,r_'
an article of merchandise into the country, wlthou
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marked, the success of such daring attempts to intrfa
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to that the proper duties must be a matter of serious moment
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portant branch of trade and manufacture.._siouros,
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THE LATE ACCIDENT AT TITS 1.5
AT tONDON BRIDGE.—Last night
AND DOVER RAILWAY TEamort:os,seri
Payne,
the deputy coroner, at
' an inquest was held before kfr._J__.
Garvin,
aged 35, late an engine
Guy's Hospital, on the hod) poinljoan:i
Brhton, Croydon, and Dover
turner, in the service of the 1..
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went for a surgeon, and
thet deceased was con eyed into the Jolly Hatters. The width
of the passage ;rem the railway to the Jolly Hatters is about four
feet ; lie supposed that the deceased had fallen from the railway ; the
height is about 25 feet. The witness had seen persons get off the
railroad into the Jolly Hatters from the coping to the window-sill
The deceased was afterwards conveyed to the hospital. The Coroner
said it appeared from the evidence without doubt that the decewed
met his death through stepping ft-om the coping to the window, and
that his foot might have slipped ; it was certainly very dangerous, And
80111 C notice ought to be taken of it ; I lwever, the railway authoritiet
would now, through the press, becoma acquainted with the fact, and
he had no doubt something would L 3 done. Verdict, " Accidents'.
Death," with a recommendation that the coroner should write to the
railway authorities on the subject ; that if the practice is to be con-
tinued, some means may be tteopted to prevent accidents.
SINGULAR INCIDENT.—About ten Seats ago, whilst
A man of the name of Robertson, a slater, and belonging to Dean-
ston, was at work at Keir House, he accidentally fell through the
hot-house. He appeared to have received no injury, except a scratch
and a slight cut iu the thick part of the left hand in a line with the

[file linger. Feoling a go,d deal of uneasiness in the part, he thought

he must have fractured a small 'aone. Still, however, it gave riint
little trouble, except an occasional twinge whilst at work,
until, about three weeks ago, his arm became inflamed, and

suppuration took place about three inches above the wrist,
nearly in a line with the part previously cut with glass. The suppu-
ration soon closed, and the pari, seemed to be healed, and all 'going
on as before. About three days thereafter, however;:whilst at work

at Inner Trosach Lodge, he felt h!s arm uneasy,•amias if something
sharp ruffled against his shirt. On taking off his coat fuld.examlning
the part, he was not a litt e surprised to see the end of a piece of
glass protruding—the same that had cut and entered into the palm
of his hand no less than ten years before. On the glass being ex-
tracted, it was round to be 3-7ths of an inch long, and 2-Bths'broad
at one end, whilst the other was sharp-pointed.—,Stirling Journal.
lloositn WEDDING.—The ceremony of tying the
nuptial knot is very much simplified in the Hoosier State, as the fol-
lowing scene will show:—" What is your name, sir ?-3latty. What
is your name, miss?—Polly. Matty, do you love Polly?—No mis-
take. Polly, do loveyouprontn
ot Meeattyyo ?u—.Wanella,n4l reckon.iirer Well, then,
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4U the days of your life."-13affoa Chronicle.