Star.
London, England, 1808-09-13 00:00:00

LANCASTER ASSIZES, BDM'. T.

John Allmon was indicted for killing and slaying
John Row Mason, in the town of Warrington, on the
16th day of July.
It appeared that the prisoner was clever of a stage
coach which runs from Liverpool to London. On
the evening of the above day, the Warringston Volun-
teers were paraded, and the Colonel of them had
treated them with 'some liquor, and they were in con-
sequence out as late as ten o'clock, with their band
assembled, in a narrow street, and a large concourse
of spectators round them, so that the street was com-
pletely blocked up. At this time the prisoner was
driving his coach through the town, and when the
horses were about to pass through the crowd, he
flogged them ; this was supposed to be a wanton,
careless act, which occasioned the deceased to be
knocked down by the horses, both the off wheels went
over his body, and he died in a few minutes after.
A Captain of the Volunteers, who was on the spot,
corroborated the above ; but on his cross-examination,
he said the horses were frightened at the noise of the
drums and fifes, appeared restive, and wanted to
turn, which, if they had been permitted to do, the
coach would have overturned. On the accident being
discovered, a number of persons pursued the coach
and stopped it on the bridge, and on telling the coach.
man what was the matter, he wanted to go on with
the coach, and said they must apply to the proprietor
in that town.

On the part of the prisoner, it was proved that the
prisoner was driving steadily through the town, hol-
ding his reins with a tight hand ; he changed horses
in Warrington, and they understood one of the fore-
horses was a young one, and only the second time
being in harness. Before they drove off, one of the
passengers held the horses' heads, while the prisoner
walked on a few yards to desire the Volunteers, &c.
to cleat away, as he was coming on with the coach.
The prisoner drove through the crowd, and they did
not know that any accident had happened till the
coach was stopped on the bridge.
The prisoner's master gave him a good character
for being a regular, steady driver, &c.
The prisoner has shewn much contrition since for
the fatal accident, has given the widow of the de-
ceased ten pounds, and has settled seven shillings a-
week upon her. The Jury, under all the circum-
stances, found the prisoner Not Guilty.
Henry Simplin, a young man of very genteel ap-
pearance, was indicted for having embezzled and se-
creted the sum of 481. 16s the property of his em-
ployers, Messrs. Cyrus, Morall, and Ever Morall,
merchants, of Liverpool.
• It appeared that the prisoner had served his clerk-
ship to the prosecutors, and conducted himself so ex-
tremely well, that on the expiration of his articles,
they retained him in their employ upon a liberal sa-
lary, and he had the management of the Custom-
house
and Excise business. A short time since he
obtained leave from the Cashier to enter some cotton
and worsted stockings. In a short time after they
were entered and shipped, all the packages were
seized by the Custom-house officers, and on the pro-
secutors' making inquiry as to the cause of the seizure,
they were informed that they all had been entered as
cotton stockings. The prisoner having entered them
as such, and only paid X 1 Bs. cotton stockings being
exported free of duty, and the prisoner had charged
the prosecutors with having paid the regular duty,
amounting to upwards of £49.
The prosecutors gave the prisoner a most excellent
character till this offence.

The Jury found him Guilty, and the Learned
Judge, in passing sentence, observed, that his crime
was particularly aggravated by his committing depre-
dations upon the property of his friends, as well as
employers, and had been the cause of their property
being seized ; and he should have been induced to
send him out of the country, had it not been for the
good character he had sustained till he committed
this offence, and he was in hopes this was his first
offence ; however, his crime called for a severe pu-
nishment ; he, therefore, sentenced him to pay a fine
of one shilling, and to be imprisoned, and kept to
hard labour in the House of Correction, for two years.
Jo: hua Herd was indicted under Lord Ellenborough's
Act, charged with having cut, maimed, and wounded
with a knife, Alice Barlow, alias Alice Herd, of Great
Bolton.

It appeared, that about ten years since, the prose-
cutrix was married to a man of the name of Barlow,
who enlisted for a soldier ; he was sent abroad, and
she did not hear from him for eight years, and she
thought him dead ; she therefore married the pri-
soner. In the beginning of last March, John Barlow,
her first husband, came to the prosecutrix, in conse-
quence of a furlough which he obtained; the prose-
cutrix, therefore, refused to cohabit with the prisoner
any longer, and took toher first husband. After he had
returned to kis regiment, the prisoner applied to the
prosecutrix to live with her again, as he could not be
happy without her : she, however, refused. On the
23d of April the prisoner followed the prosecutrix on
the road leading from Bolton, and gave her a violent
blow on her head, which knocked her into a ditch ; he
then got upon her, with a knife in his hand, and she
thinking he was going to cut her throat, struggled
with him, and prevented him ; but he succeeded in
cutting her left cheek open, from her mouth to her
car. She screamed " murder !" and a man came to
her assistance. The prisoner made off, but he was
pursued and taken.—Guilty—Death.
Sarah Hop:lead was indicted under Lord Ellen-
borossgh's Act, for having wilfully and maliciously
stabbed Charles Simpson, of Little Bolton, with an
intent to murder him) or do him some bodily harm.
Guilty—Death.
The trial of all the prisoners being gone through,
his Lordship proceeded to pass sentence of death
upon Joshua Herd, for maiming and wounding Alice
Barlow • Sarah Hopstead, for stabbing Charles Simp.
son, with an intent to murder him ; Rose Gaffrey, for
stealing five bundles and a half of linen yarn, in the•
bleaching grounds of Peter Shawcross, of Droyles.
den ; and Samuel Daine, for horse-stealing.
On the Rioters being put to the Bar, Mr. Justice
CII.IIIBRE 'addressed them at a considerable length
upon the enormity of their offence, and told them,
that had it not been for the lenity of the Attorney
General, some of them must certainly have suffered

with their lives. He was extremely sorry fur the
hardness of the times, which they, set up as a cause
for their conduct ; the manufacturers felt it severely
as well as they did ; is fact, every class of society felt

, .
it in a degtee ; but we miist altsUbmit tb scime.prival
Cons, as the cause was brought on us by the common
enemy, and entild not be avoided; he, hOivevei,, was
happy to learn, that a dawn of better times appeared.
inefsf,
and hyped .the prisoners, on their return to society;
from experiencing the punishment due to their cri
would enjoy them. The very 'Means they had re-.
sorted to of attacking their masters and their proper-
ties, defeated its own object, for if those were de-
stroyed, they would not be able to get any emplOy-
ment. If the poorer classes were distressed, they
must resort to the means the Legislature had provi-
ded—the parish, and not to violence. He had taken
the Whole of their cases into his serious consideration.
He was glad to find that the mobs did not pr6ceed in
their conduct with that fury which in general attends
mobs, and he should award punishment to ealh -of
them according to the parts they had taken in the riots.
John Hoyle and Charles Watson, for a riot at Line.
side, in Haslinden and destroying the tools and Uten-
sils for weaving of William Eddleston, were sentenced
the former, to be imprisoned twelve months, and Wat-
son to six months imprisonment.
John Shepherd, for a riot at Rochdale, and setting
fire to the prison, to be imprisoned for two years.
Thos. Barnes and John Mathews, for a riot at Black-
burn, and destroying the house of Henry' Coupland ;
the former to six .months imprisonment, and Mat-
thews to be imprisoned for twelve months. -
Adam Whitworth, for being in a riotous and unlaw-
ful assembly, in the parish of Rochdale, and extorting
a guinea from the Rev. Dr. Drake ; to be imprisoned
nine months.

' crimeisci

James Ainsworth, for a riot at Blackburn, and de.
molishing the house of Mr. Coupland ; to ke impri•
soiled nine months.

Elizabeth litakarley, for a riot at Blackbura, and
demolishing the house of Mr. Coupland ; to three
months imprisonment.

SF:PT. 9.—On Wednesday afternoon, after finishing
the business at the Crown Side, Judge CHANIIIIIE left
the town, Baron WOOD having declined his assistance
in trying the causes, he not being in a hurry to return
to London.

BAROX v. CRONtPTON.

In this action a point of law was settled which is
particularly interesting to mechanics, and in some de-
gree to the public at large, viz. that working-tools,
when in actual use, cannot be seized for debt, the law
not allowing those who are in debt to be deprived of
the means of paying it.
The action was brought by the plaintiff, who is a
weaver, and resides in the neighbourhood of Chorley,
and occupies a small house belonging to the defend-
ant, for having seized his four looms, when they were
at work, for rent. The case was proved by a man
who was at work at one of the looms.

Mr. PARKE, who conducted the cause, under all
circumstances, gave up the action, upon the defend-
ant consenting to abide by his original offer, to give
up the whole demand of .501. for rent due, and the
plaintiff undertaking to quit possession by Michael-
mas Day.

JoyNsoN V. LEMON.
In this case there were no particular circumstances
that deserve public notice, but there are in those that'
arose out of it.

The plaintiff is a sailor, and the defendant keeps a
slop-shop and lets out lodgings to sailors, in Liver-
pool. It was stated• on the part of the plaintiff, that
in the year 1801., he lodged in the defendant's house,
and purchased of his wife a watch for five guineas. In
a few days atter, the plaintiff sailed for Africa and left
the watch, new clothes, an old suit of clothes, and a
hat, in the defendant's house. In three days after he
had sailed, the defendant's wife, who is since dead,
in the presence of a servant girl, observed, that the
plaintiff was gone such a long voyage, that she was
sure he would never return, and put his watch into the
shop window and exposed it to sale, and it was sold ;
and she had converted the clothes to her own use.

In corroboration of this, a shoemaker, or cobler,
was called, who stated, that the plaintiff bought the
watch of the defendant's wife, in his presence, in his
stall, when she brought « an apron full" of watches
for him to choose from.

Mr. RAISE, in cross-examining this witness, asked
if he was not to share in the plunder of this action ?
which he denied. Mr. R. addressed him by the name
of Charley the Coller, a name he is known by in Livgr-
pool. '1 he witness took fire at this familiar and de-
grading appellation in Court—He was a Coretwinder,
and that be had not come there to be insulted. The
testy manner of this witness set the whole Court in a
convulsion of laughter—The Judge joined most hear-
tily in the laugh.
Mr. RAINS continued his cross-examination in a
considerable strain of irony, tending to chew the
improbability and absurdity of the idea of a woman
going with her apron full of watches into a cobler's
stall, to sell one to a sailor at the time he lodged in
her house.

This being the plaintiff's case, Mr. PARKE addres-
sed his Lords:tip, by observing, that there was not the
least colourable proof of the conversion of the proper.
ty adduced.

His Lordship, however, thought there was, and that
the plaintiff had made out a case.
The Learned Judge summed up the evidence very
impartially, still abiding by his opinion, of a con-
version of the property having been satisfactorily
proved. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages
eigkt guineas.
In an action respecting the right of a road—Mr.
HOLROYD was cross-examining a woman ; he pressed
her to answer a question upon her oath; at the same
time she trembled very much. Mr. H. suspecting
she had riot told him the truth, asked her the cause
of the tremor that was upon her ? After some
hesitation, she answered him very fiercely, " that he
was enough to frighten any body !" At this the
Learned Gentleman sat down quietly, and joined in
the general laugh against himself.

DIED.

At Merchistonhank, on the 4th inst. in the 86th year of his
age, John Hahne, Esq. author of the tragedy of Doug &c.
Lately, the Rev. Joseph Aldridge, Vinar of Weston Zowlaod,

In the 47th year of his age, at Bristol Howells where be went
for the recovery of his health, Edmund Cobb H.uriy, Esq. banker,
of Gosport, Hants, formerly of Yarmouth* county of Norfolk.
At. Sodbury, Gloucestershire, suddenly, the Rev Thome.;
Ferebee,. aged 76 t. SR years of hich he spent in tie diligent dis-
charge of his duty, as Minister of the Baptist Congtelfitega 42 that
town.
At Otter Hose, to Argyllshire, on the.27th of Augper, Anne,
and, on Thursday. the 1-st of Septeinbrr, Jinn Mita, the daughters
of Captain Duncan Campbell; and, on the same dcy, Elliott, his
youngest son.

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tatir. /30101ftnnrffi
•
irnMiIitY'WHEAT hs Mark4ane, William only from Ike
29.tbrof Aurtst to the Stf of• Sept. Total 5751 ipsart..rs.
Average 85a. aid higher thianlat return.
A RETURN OF FLOUR,
From the 2.71 h of August to the td of September.
- Total 13,478 sacks-Aver:l,u 735. Sid.
;,11 •• y vi. 24a. higher than last return:
Atrri/RN PRICE of GR MN on boari Shfp as under:
Wileat • 692 70s t0.85e-Boilers . I.los to 1156
Fine 9Cs to 94s Sufrulks -130 s
Superfine 96s td 98s Grey PearlD• • 50s to ;Bs
Fine White loOs 0;006 Beaus, new 586 to 6,4
Rye .•••• 452.60 COs Dittn, okL. oos to Gls
Buki; 385.t0 44$ Tick ss melt stis to ens
Fine 00s' to •4Cs Ditto, old 006 to 636
Malt 70sips 38! Oats • 326 37s to 3.36
White Pease 806 to 1001 Polan4s 40s to 441
Rape Seed 381. to 621. per Last. Fine Hour 00s to 80s per back,
FROM THE iANDON GAZETTE, F.epietiiht: 3.
Average Price of Corn in England and Wales, from the returns,
ending the 3d df September; 1888.
Wheat. • Rye. Barley. Oats. Beam. Pew.
s. d. s. d. e. d. s. d.
I s.
d.
I s. d.
182 7 153 11 43 3 26 9 63 10 0,1 • 8
The average Price of Sugar, computed from the ieturns 11.4de
in the week ending the 7th day of Sept. is 15s. Bd. per cwt.
PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH MARKET.
New Pockets, 31. 15s. to 41. ws. I Yearlings, 21 1. s. to 31. IPt
. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW IN SMiTILFIFID. •
Meadow Hay 61. 61. to 61. 10s. Clover 71. es to 71. los.
New ditto 51. ss. to 6L Cs. New do. 51. 106 ta iL Os
Straw • - 11. 7s. to I. Os.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, SEPTEMBER 12.
s:uk the Offal per stone of Sib. ' '

Beef 4%. Od. to 55.. od. Veal 4s. od. to Es. oil
Mutto■ 4s. 4d. to ss: 4d. Pork ss. Od. to Os. 4d
Lamb 4s Od to 5s 84.1.
nr.Ao OF CATTLE TIIIS DAY.
Beasts, about 24C0--Slieep, 19,500.
Calves, 120 C---Pigs, 200.
NIEWCATE AND I.FADENHALI. MARKET.
Per stone of 81b. by the carcase.
_ _

Beef 3s. 4,1. to 4s. 4d i cal 3s. Bd. to 6s. Cd
Mutton 4s. Od. to 4s. 1.%). Pork ss. Od. to Es. 4d
Lamb 45 Cd to 54 4d.

SEA-COAL METERS' OFFICE, LONDON, SEPT. 10.
CARGOES, SOLO, a::d
Monday, IVednesd. Friday,
I
NEWCASTLE COAL. Sept. 5. I Sep. 7. Sept. P.
Adair's Main I I 1 147 0I 11
Bryan
BRnt.n Long
Bigg's Main
Brandling'i Main
Croft's Main
Eighton Moor
Hebburn Main

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... 1

- 1

Kenton Main .
Murton Main
Perry Main

Pontop Simpson's
Pontop Windsor's
South Moor
Tanfield Moor
Team..
Townley Main
Walker
Bell and Co.'s Walls-Eud
Walls-End Temple's

WiHington

1

Wylam and Eighton
Walls-End 1

South Hpbburn
Killingworth
Gateshead
Charlotte
Hedworth
Hartley
....

46 6
47 S
S 1 0

49 6

'SUNDERLAND.
Bourn Moor I
Eden Main
Primrose Main I
Russers Main.
l'erith New Main
Low Min
Denton

51 0

4(3 0
4i 6
49 U
52 6

48 6

;2 6

SI 0
50 0

46 0

46 6

47 0

44 9

48 3
49 0
4.; 0

48 0
51 6
51 9

I
5
ta

50 0

46

4l 6

45 6

48 6

47 6

47 6
46 9

43 0

,00
51 0

47 0
50 0
51

52 9
46 3
47 0

46 i.

Ships 20 50 fti
COAL NIARKET, September 12.
Ships at Market Ships sold
16 Newca‘tle Coals 13 .14%. 9d. to 525 Od.
1 Suuderland I 95.. Cd. to —s od,
I Scotch Coal 0 —s. od.
1 Yorkshire 0 —s. Cd.
COt,TNTRY :.TARKE rs.

47 6

TRICF.S OF GRAIN Al /AIR t OLLOWING MARIMTS.
TIA siNGb roKE.—Wheut 72s Od to 96s Cd per Quarter.
Barley 40s Od to 44s Cd Beans 66s Od to cos Cd
Cats 40s Od to 42s Od Pease 5:3 Cd to .56s td
Bread Is 9-td per vllor.
Hr.rner.—Wheat 76s Od to 101 s Cd per Qr.
Barley tAs Od to 44s 6d 1 Beans 56s ed to ess Cd
Oats .IRs Od to 46s Od Pease COs Od to e:.:s IA
MAtorNltr.AD.—Wheat f;Os Od to 100 s Od per Or.
Barley 44s Cd to 4Rs Od (Beans Gss Cd to 70e Cd
Oats :tbs Od to 46s Cd Pease CCs od to COs ed t
NEWBURY —Whvat REs Od to iCOs Od rerQr.
Ntw Wbtat 6Cs. to lees. per Qr.
Barley 453 Od to irs Od I Pease 6Cs Od to Oct Od
Oats r,ds Od to 46s Od Beans Css Od to 7:3 id
Bread os Old per gallon.
ItraniNG.—'Wheat 88s Ott to 102 s Cd „per Quarter.
New Wheat 68s. to 10‘2s. per quitter.
Barley 40s Od to 47s (di Bears 57s Od to OD OA
Oats 27s Od to 45s Od Pease Os Od to 62i 64