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ASSIZE INTELLICENCE.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Stqffoid, July `22.'
Their Lordships yesterday attended Divine sorv.:." at
Mary's ohurch. The Rev. Mr. Woolley preached the assize
sermon. In the course of the day all the common jury esCae!
except one were tried, but none of them possessed the slightes.'
interest.

( Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
Wm. Henry Parker, aged 13, was indicted for the man-
slaughter of Sarah Withers, at Westbromwich.
Mr. Forster appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner was
defended by Mr. Meteyard.
The prisoner's uncle, with whom he lived, having borrowed a
gun for the purpose of pigeon shooting, left it leaded, but with-
out a cap, in a corner of his parlour. This room, it appeared,
although always open, was but rarely used by the family. 'The
prisoner, who worked at night, returned home early on tie
morning of the 28th of June, and finding the gun, took it out
with him into the street, where the deceased was, and in a play-
ful manner said to her, " Sally, I will shoot you." She replied,
" Do, if you dare." Whereupon he took a cap out of his pocket,
and putting it on the gun, fired at and inflicted such grievous
wounds on Sarah Withers, that almost immediate death was
the result. The prisoner had been in the habit of blowing out
candles with percussion caps, and from the evidence of the wit-
ness who saw him fire, and a little girl named Horton, and also
from the sleep borrow he had shown since his apprehension,
there could be no doubt that he was not actuated by any mali-
cious motive.

After a very short deliberation, the jury acquitted the prisoner,
who, after a very feeling admonition from the Learned Judge.
was discharged.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.--John Johnson, alias Jack Mutton,
aged 23, was indicted for assaulting Thomas Harrison on the
9th of January, and stealing three sovereigns and other money,
in all amounting to 71. 155., and a silver watch, at the parish of
Leek.

Mr. Greaves and Mr. Yardley cenducted the case for the
prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Me4eyard
and Mr. Huddleston.

The prosecutor, a butcher, residing at Brotherton, hed
been attending at Leek market, and had left the Crown hut
there at a little after twelve on the night of the robbery. As he
turned t,ff the Osburne-road, on his way home, into Douse-
flane, he noticed three men, two of whom passed him without
making any observation. Soon after, however, one of the
men stopped the horse, while the other twe s-food by the cart
in which the prosecutor was. Presently one of them, by whose
voice the prosecutor stated he knew him to be a man named
Mirfin, who, however, was acquitted of this very crime Qt the
List assizes, cried out " Surrender." " What shall I surren-
der?" inquired the prosecutor. " Your money, or you're a
dead man in a moment," said the thief ; to which the intrepid
butcher replied, " I think 1 won't surrender." Exasperated
by this refusal, the men threw stones at him, and hurt him ;
i whereupon he armed himself with his axe, jumped out of his
cart, and patting a bold front on, prepared for action. His dog
Rover he appealed to in strong language, urging him to bite
his assailants, but Rover, from some cause or other, positively
declined interfering. The three men were too strong to b. in-
timidated, and, rushing on the prosecutor, took the axe from
him; in the struggle he fell, and they immediately put
their hands on his throat and endeavoured to close his
mouth ; still he managed to cry " Ob, don't murder nits
or you'll certainly be found out and hanged." The rob-
bers used very violent language, and rifled the prose-
cutor's pockets, who persisted in declaring that his money and
watch were taken by Mirfin and the prisoner ; but it appeared
that on the very night he stated to a Mr. Underhill that it was
Mirfin and a man named Plant who had robbed him. Both of
the latter were tried and acquitted at the last Spring Assissa.
An accomplice, one Joseph Candy, stated that he was drinking
with the prisoner and Joseph Johnson at a public-house at
Leek on the evening of the robbery, and that afterwards, as
they went through the Bradford toll-gate, the prosecutor camp
up and passed through the gate. The witness declared himself
to be the man who stood at the horse's head, and detailed the
circumstances of the robbery much as the prosecutor himself had
done. Most of the material portions of Candy's evidence were
corroborated by the testimony of other witnesses.
An alibi, most satisfactorily proved as far as regarded Mirfin
and Johnson, clearly showed that the prosecutor was quite mis-
taken as to their identity.

Mr. METEYA RD addressed the jury for the prisoner.
Mr. Justice PATTESON summed up, and the jury soon found
the prisoner—Not Guilty.
In the Nisi Prins Court no case was tried which calls for a
report.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Lincoen, July 22.
CROWN COURT.
CHAR•I OF MURDER. —Jane Bell, aged 37, was charged
with having, at Laceby, on the 25th of March last, poisoned
her husband, Edward Bell, by means of arsenic.
The prisoner, a woman in the lower ranks of life, pleaded
"Not guilty." She appeared to be near her aecoichernent,
and was accommodated with a seat during the trial.
Mr. Wildman conducted the case on the part of the pro-
secution. The prisoner was undefended.
The first witness called was a surgeon, of the name of Lep-
pington, of Great Grimsby, who proved that on the 13th of
March he attended deceased, who was suffering under a con-
gested state of the viscera of the abdomen and a stoppage in
the bowels, and was by the witness considered on the following
day to be in imminent danger. This was on the Friday.
On the four following days he considered him to be a little
better. Saw him lying dead on the 26th of March. Asked the
prisoner if she had administered the medicines he (the witness)
had sent. She replied they had been properly administemd,
but her husband had been worse the whole of the night.
Having heard reports of an unfavourable nature respecting
the death of the deceased, it induced witness further to ques-
tion prisoner, and he asked her what she had done with the
arsenic she had purchased the former evening ? to which she
replied, she had " mixed it with some chamber lye." Wit-
ness, in conjunction with the assistance of Mr. Bell and Mr.
Keatley, made a post mortem examination of the body, and
assisted in removing the contents of the stomach, and taking
them to a chemist's at Hull. Was present when two tests
were applied to the contents of the stomach : ammonia, or sul-
phate of copper, was the first which indicated the presence of
arsenic promptly ; ammonia and nitrate of silver was also tried,
and indicated arsenic. After the post mortem examination was
made the prisoner spoke to witness and Mr. Bell, as they
came out of the house, saying, " I hope you have found no-
thing you can lay to m charge." Witntss said, " Justice will
be done to you, Mrs. Bell," and left the house. The imme-
diate cause of death witness considered to be arsenic.

Mr. Bell, a surgeon and apothecary at Great Grimsby, cord
rohorated the last witness as to making the examination of the
contents of the stomach. Had some conversation with the
prisoner as to her husband's symptoms. Told her it was a
Furious loss sho had sustained, and asked whether she -bail
noticed any particular symptoms her husband had complained
of the night before his death ? She said "no ;" and in reply
to questions, said he had rot suffered from vomiting after
taking Mr. Leppington's medicines; that he had not complained
of heat or burning in the throat, or of urgent thirst. Was
present at the post mortem examination of the body, but not
of the contents of the stomach. Received the stomach, god
secured it at both extremities, and assisted in putting it in a
bladder, which was tied over by a string. Found small gritty
particles in the folds of the stomach, and from his examination
of the body, the opinion witness had formed was that the di-
ceased had died from the effects of an irritant poison.
Mr. Keatley, the assistant to Mr. Bell, corroborated the
former statement.

Mr. Pearsall, a chemist at Hull, and who had been lecturer
on chemistry at the Medical School there, tested the contents
of the stomach. He observed the stomach covered with white
particles. Mr. Leppington took one on his finger. Thought it
might be flour or starch—analysed it, and found it was arsenic ;
considers the quantity found sufficient to cause death.
Mr. Watson, who keeps a chemist's shop at Laceby, deposed
to prisoner buying a quarter of a pound of arsenic and some soft
soap the evening before the death ; she said she wanted it to
kill bugs, the same as last year.
A female, who was in the house, proved that on the evening
in question Prisoner mixed up some arrow-root and gave it to
her husband. He tasted it, said it was nasty, and would have
no more. There were some other trifling circumstances in the
case, but nothing tending to criminate the prisoner directly.
The deceased had been in a very bad state, and had been ac-
customed to take laudanum and even arsenic as a medicine, and
he might have helped himself, or the prisoner might have gives_
him some at his desire, and been afraid to mention it. More-
over, nothing came out to show that the deemed and his wife
were ever upon other than affectionate terms. At the time her
husband died, besides deceased and herself, there were in the
house three children, the prisoner's mother, and two other
persons.
The Learned Julian (Mr. Justice Mauls) summed up with
great impartiality, and the jury returned a ♦erdict of Not
Guilty.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals at Manilla--Frederic Warren, March 1, from
Boston ; Sarah, Bth, from Macao ; Samuel Enderby, from the
South Seas ; Semiramis, 9th, from Macao ; her Majesty's
ship Samarang, 11th, from Sooloo • Cecile, 13th, from Macao.
Arrivals at Bombay—Prince Of Waterloo, May 31, from
Liverpool ; Clara, Crow, from London ; Louisa, Wycherly,
from Liverpool.
Departures from Bombay—Earl of Balcarras and Kusrovie,
May 31, to China.
Arrivals at Macao--Royalist, March 18, from West Coast;
Amelia, 18th, from Chin-chew ; Isabella, Gray, 27th, from
Singapore.
Arrivals at Hong-Kong—Her Majesty's ship Sapphire,
March 28, from Amoy ; Red Rover, 29th, Harlequin, 30th,
from Calcutta; Earl Grey, Mollison, from Bombay; Caciqee,
Eldred, from Singapore; Vixen and Milne, from Amey ;
Pantaloon, 31st, from Shanghae ; Minerva, Brown, from
Amoy, and sailed April 2 to Manilla ; Emu, Smith, from Bom-
bay ; her Majesty's ship Samarang, April 1, from Manilla;
Constant, Hemery, 2d, from Madras ; Eliza, Patterson, from
Tutucoreen.

Arrivals at Mauritius-Eliza, Sparkes, April 11, from
Singapore ; Jane Ceary, from the Cape ; Active, April 20,
from Buenos Ayres, and sailed, May 2, to Madras ; Amelia.,
Mulpolland, 21, from London ; Guiana, Talbert, 23, from
Adelaide ; Eclipse, Austen, May 1, from London.
Departures from Mauritius-Flowers of Ugie, April 25, to
Liverpool ; Marian Watson, to Sydney.
Departures from Columbo-Thomas Jones, May 13;
Eleanor Lancaster, 28; Phoebe, 30 ; William and Mary,
Brown,
June 3 ; Lemnos, 3; Louisa Munro, 7, all to Lon-
don ; the latter put back, 11, and was to sail again, 12, to
touch at Point de Galle ; James Turcan, May 14, to China ;
Melville, 21, to Cochin ; Wanderer, 22, to Mauritius ; Jose-
phine, 24, to China.
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Arrivals at Singapore-Medina, James, April 12,
Ba-
tavia, and sailed 12th Slay to Liverpool; Sydney, s
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14th, from Hong Kong, and sailed 15th to Bombay; Arte-
mise, 15th, from Batavia, and sailed 6th Slay to Macao; d
sailed 12th Slay to Bombay ;
Har-
binger, 16th, from Liverpool,
froman Bombay, and
. sailed 21st to
20th, from Bombay, and sailed 7th
o P26otobaogto.CFhliyniang;
Squire),C/m
CSihrioWa m; .
JaCmomesronono,nnl9at,
to China; Prince Regent, Spears, from Mauritius, and
Slay to China ; Corcyra, 2Oth,rom2lßstombay, and ea iled 23d
sailed Slay 12, to Bombay; her Majesty's ship Daedalus, 22d,
eda nAdl sailed
Slay l t
24th, from Hong Kong, and sailed 25th to Hobart Town • her
m
Majesty's ship Cruizer, 24th, from the Cape, and sailed 25th to
2f r3odet,
fro Plymouth
Batavia, a and
and Cape,sil
Penang; Regina, from Bombay, and sailed to China; Alexander,
Apsey, from Liverpool ; Iranjce Cowasjee,
25th, from Galls,
and sailed 28th to China ; Bintang, Wright, 26th, from Gallo;
Sylph, 28th, from Hong Kong, and sailed to Calcutta ; Jam-
setjee Jeejeeboy, 26th, from Bombay, and sailed May 3to
Siam ; Osprey, Hunt, 30:11, from Hobart Town, and sailed
May 9 to China ; Ariel, 30th, from Borneo ; Mumford, May
1, from Sydney, and sailed 19th to Manilla; Pantaloon, 2d,
from China ; Fair Barbadian, 3d, from Lorn ; Cock, Pilot,
from Manilla ; Sisters, from Hobart Town, and sailed 9th;
Passenger, sth, from London ; her Majesty's ship Osprey, 6th,
from England and Cape ; Hope, Goss, 7th, from Bombay, and
sailed 9th to China ; Cleopatra, Alcmene, and Victorieuse,Bth,
from Batavia Island; Queen, 13th, from Bombay, and sailed
to China; Teazer, 15th, from Madras; Vixen steamer, from
China ; Sir Charles Forbes, 16th, from Bombay ; Fire Queen,
steamer, from Calcutta ; Buckinghamshire, 18th, from Bom-
bay ; Canopus, from Batavia ; Good_ Success, 19th, frem
Bombay.
Departures from Singapore-Alexander, Johnson, April 19,
to Shanghae ; Norfolk, 19th, and Glenbervie, Slay 1, to Lou.
don ; Felicity, 2d, to Liverpool.
Arrivals at Batavia-Black Nymph, April 18, from London;
Franklin, 21st, from the Cape.