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lid not stick himself between Randall and the fire.
I saw him home, but not all the way.
Mr. Serjeant LUDLOW—You took care of him.?
(This was said very archly.)

- The witness hesitated and smiled.
Air. Baron VAUGHAN—Is Mr. Broadbent a mar-
ried man ?

Still witness hesitated and smiled, and a burst of
laughter issued from the whole Court.
Mr. Serjeant LUDLOW—She will not venture to
inswer that question. _ _

Witness, suppressing a smile--He is a single man.
Lydia Baldwin corroborated the evidence of the
preceding witness in almost every particular.
George Smith—l was at the Black Star on the
night in question, and hearing a noise in the parlour
I went in, and saw Randall beatific, the plaintiff
with his right mauley, according to the fibbing sys-
tem.—(A laugh.)—l went and said, " I will none
of this," upon which I was instantly knocked
down ; and this, Sir, is the severities of truth.—
(Laughter.)
CAMPBELL—What did the defendant ?
Witness—The offendent ! He could do nothing.
He could not see through his eyes.—(Much laughter.)
Mr. CAMPBELL—WeII ! what did Randall .do ?
Witness—He heat Broadbent, and if I had seen a
fight between Crib and those chaps I should not
have seen half the damage done in such a short
time.—( Much laughter.)
Mr. CAMPBELL—HOW did Broadbent get away ?
Witness—How could I tell ? I was stretched on
the broad of my back in the passage, and got off as
fast as I could.—(A laugh.)
Another witness who saw Mr. Broadbent late the
same night deposed to his being most dreadfully
beaten, and that it was a month and upwards before
he recovered from it.

Mr. Serjeant LUDLOW for the defendant—lf he
was rightly instructed, should be able to prove that
the plaintiff himself was the person who committed
the first assault upon the defendant. The Learned
Counsel then called the following witnesses
William Badger, examined by Mr. BUSBY—I was
at the Black Star on the day in question. Randall
was in the room, as was also his brother and
daughter. Broadbent came in afterwards, and they
brought it up to .a quarrel, but I do not know which
of them began first. After they had quarrelled a
good bit Randall asked the plaintiff to walk out of
the room. The plaintiff waited a few minutes, and
then went out of the room. As he was going out
he lifted up the skirts of his coat, and clapped his
hand on his —, but said nothing.—(A laugh.)—
Mr. Randall then followed after him, and as he
came up to him the plaintiff kicked him on the shin.
He kicked back like a horse.—(A laugh.)—At that
time the defendant had not struck or kicked
Broadbent. They then fell to work.
George Munn examined—l was at the Black
Star at the time in question. The defendant is a
farmer and higgler, and the plaintiff attends the
ma►ket. Broadbent came into the room and began
to talk to Mr. Randall, not in a very civil manner.
He called him " a mass of corruption." The lan-
guage began on both sides.—(A laugh.)—lt must
have begun on one side first, but I cannot say on
which. Broadbent called the defendant a grey
badger-faced old fellow. The plaintiff is about
35 years of age, and the defendant about 60.
The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages Si.
Mr. Serjeant PEAKE sat in the Crown Court, but
no case of any public interest took place there.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.-SALISBURY, AUG. 3.

The commission having been opened on Saturday,
ihe Wiltshire summer assizes commenced this day
at Salisbury, Mr. Justice BURROUGH presiding on
the civil side, and Chief Justice TINDAL in the
criminal court.

A new Nisi Pries Court has been constructed.
It is a spacious apartment, containing ample accom-
modation for barristers, attornies, jurors, and wit-
nesses. There is also a gallery for auditors. The
principal defect of the edifice is, that (as is but too
frequently the case in courts of justice) it has not
been very well constructed for the transmission of
sound. The Learned Judge who presided com-
plained more than once in the course of the day of
the difficulty he experienced in hearing witnesses.
Mr. Justice BURROUGII was engaged the whole
of the day upon a case involving a question relative
to the use of a water-course. It did not possess a
single feature of public interest.
There are only nine cases entered for trial.
On the criminal side there are forty-one prisoners
for trial : the gravest charges are against three in-
dividuals for attempting to strangle and drown a
man named Vines, at Chippenham, and against three
other persons for maliciously stabbing and wounding
John Foley, at Trowbridge. There are four cases
of horse-stealing, and five of sheep-stealing. One
prisoner stands accused of feloniously stealing a
gooseberry pudding; two others are charged with
clubbing to purloin a wooden bottle ; and a prisoner,
more daring than the rest, is accused of " having
knowingly and designedly, under false pretences,
obtained and got into his possession four hempen
halters." _ _

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John Weeks and William Weeks were placed at
the bar, charged with having assaulted and beaten
William Brayley, on the 7th of December last, at
Martin.
William Brayley, a feeble old man, between 70
and $O, was a gardener living at Martin. He knew
the prisoners at the bar, and saw them about .nine
o'clock in the morning of the 16th of December on
the high road near his garden, lie heard the re-
port of a gun ; the ball struck his coat. Being in
bed the following morning he was awoke at one
o'clock by a crash of glass. The windows were
broken in by stones. Witness got up, and on look-
ing out saw the two prisoners picking up and throw-
ing stones. They were about 1$ feet from the
window. Some of the stones struck witness and his
wife. (About 16 or IS large flint stones were pro.
duced by witness as those which were thrown into
the room.) The glazs of the window was broken
and the frame shattered. It was a moonlight night,
and witness saw the prisoners distinctly, and was
positive as tp their identity.
Elizabeth Brayleyl wife of the preceding witness,
corroborated his testimony with Feuard to the parti-
culars of the attack, and identified the prisone'rs as
the parties who made it. •
Mr. Saint, fur tle defence, called witnesses to
prove an alibi. .
pig-jobber swore, that the two prisoners ac,
companted him borne on the night of the assault,
for the purpose of receiving some money due by
witness'to the elder Weeks, and that it being ratty?
he made up a fire, and kept them all night.
On his cross-eamination the witness prevaricated,
and admitted that he was net pertain that it was on
the night of the 16th of December the prisonprs
were at 04. house. He " considered it was the 16th
because he had been at church, a circumstance not
usual with him.7--(Alaugio7-ou tie day before,
and that was the 14th day of the Inqnth.'?
The Learned Judge summed up, arid the Jury,
after a short consultation, found a verdict of Guilty
againf.it both prisoners.
'he eider p-piapner protested earnestly that he had.
never assaulted Op prosecutor.
The younger Weeks made a similar declaratit,n,
Lor4 Chief Justice TINDAL sentenced the eider
Weeks to ss
~.cntbs' imprisonment, and the
younger, who might have acted hinciPr the influence
of hig f4ther, to three months' imprisonment.
John Tompkin4 was charged with having felor
piously broken and entered the 4wellingLhouse of
William Cousins, at Compton Bassett, and stolen
therefrom 37 spypreirs, and other moneys, his
property.
Quilty.--7Judgment of death recorded.
Simon Sparks was charged with having feloniously
• stolen a lamb, the property of Wm. Edgell, at
Trowbridge.
Guilty,.—Judgment of death recerded.
In the ,course of the day the Grand Jury found a
true bill for a misdemeanour, against Win. Chivers,
Edward Wilcox; and Tho Mas Wilcox, charged