Star.
London, England, 1814-07-27 00:00:00

NEWPORT V. CATHROW.

This was an action of slander. The plaintiff was
the proprietor of a stage coach from London to Hert
ford. The defendant had sent a parcel by the coach,
which was unfortunately lost. The parcel was di-
rected to a banker's in London, and contained pipers
of value. The words for which the action was brought
were spoken in a conversation between the plaintiff
ancl,defendant. The defendant being irritated at the
loss of the parcel, was using -coarse • language to the
plaintiff, who said, " why sure you don't think I had
any hand in taking, it? To which the defendant re-
plied, " Yes, I do ; none but an accomplice would
act as you have done." To which the plaintiff re-
plied, 4, Why do you think I took it ?" The other re-
plied, Yes, I do, by G—."
The delivery of the parcel to the coach was proved,
and its nin delivery in town ; but the defendant was
not present when it was delivered at the coach.office,
in Hertford; and it was further proved thht the de-
fendant, when he first missed the parcel, did not give
immediate notice of its loss, but said nothing about it.
The Jury' found a verdict for the plaintif—Da-
mages 40s.
William Bilby was convicted of manslaughter, in
Gedrge Kempster, on the 14111 of March last.
There was no person present at this transaction ; but
it appeared in evidence that the prisoner and the de.
ceased were at work at plough together at the time of
the accident. When the boy came running home to
his master, with his,head all bloody, the master went
into the field, and asked the prisoner what he had
done to the boy, for he was very badly wounded ? The
prisoner seemed greatly distressed, and said the boy
was idling instead of attending to the horses, and that
being angry with him for not attending to his work,
he threw the plough paddle at him which struck him
on the head. The plough-paddle is an iron instiu-
ment for scraping the plough-share clean front the
mould lnd dirt.

Mr. Lloyd, a surgeon, who attended the lad, said,
that the blow had driven a small part of the skull into
the substance of the brain, and that it had caused the
death of the boy in about 11 days.
The Jury having found the prisoner guilty of man-
slaughter, the learned Judge sentenced him to be im-
prisoned for three months.

At the Assizes for Berkshire last week, came on to
be tried the case of Gallia; v. Sir Edgard Perrott, in
an action for Crim. Con. The damages laid in the
declaration were £5OOO. The trial occupied the
Court many hours, and after the examination of a
great number of witnesses, and the fact of the adul-
tery having been clearly established, the Jnry, which
was special, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, &i-
-mages £3OO. The plaintiff and defendant married
daughters of the late Colonel Nicholas Bayly, of the
West Middlesex Militia, consequently they are bro-
thers-in-law.

MURDER.—Monday night the body of a man, far
advanced in years, genteely attired, • was found by a
watchman on the pavement in Drury-lane, weltering
in its blood. It was conveyed to the workhouse for
the decision of a Coroner's Jur,. The pockets were
emptied of their contents ; and there were several
marks of violence apparently about the person.