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London, England, 1831-04-01 00:00:00

KINOSTON, Mace 30.

EXTRAORDINARY CASK OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCT.
John Lee and Florenoe Unearth, were capitally bulked
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of John Tremblej, on it
Ist of February, and stealing therein eight sovereigns, and a vO, t,
of linen and other articles.
Dlr. CLARKSON conducted the case for the prosecution, and call,
the following witnesses :
Sarah Trembley. the prosecutor's wife, stated that she lived it
Sylvan-grove, Camberwell. On the Ist of the last month, at five o'clock
in the afternoon, she left home, for the purpose of visiting a friend_
previous to doing so, she locked up ten sovereigns in a cabinet which
was secured by one of Bramah's patent locks. She left the house and
her infant child in the are of Elizabeth Turner. She received infer
mation that a burglary had been committed, and returned home. Ape;
hearing the statement of Elizabeth Turner she went into her own bed.
room, and the first thing she examined was her cabinet, and found that
the ten sovereigns had been abstracted. On further search, found 111
her table nine skeleton keys.
Elizabeth Turner stated, that after the last witness left the house o,' .
secured the doors and windows. About nine o'clock she heard a noire
in an adjoining room, and presently saw a man entering by the folding
doors, who on seeing witness pulled something over his face....sb,
screamed out, and the man said, d—.o your eyes, hold you: tongue; i;
you'll be quiet 1 won't hurt a hair of your head. The man (whom A.
believed to be the prisoner Lee) then snatched up the candle and Inf,
the room, and admitted another man into the house, giving ben strict
injunction to take charge of the street door and the passage. The mar
asked where her mistress was, and she told him it was no use his re.
maiming there her mistress was out, and there was nothing for him to
take. The man then went up stairs, and witness then gave a •econd
alarm, when he cried out to the other man and said, " what did she
say"—adding, stop her b—y mouth, or knock her head a:"...
"
shortly after a knock was heard at the door, and witness said,
thank
God my friends are come, they are outside. I expected my sister and
my brother." The other prisoner who had charge of the door gave an
alarm to Lee, who was up stairs, and they both made off:
Selina Baker stated, that a quarter before nine o'clock she took some
fish to the last witness in two plates with melted butter upon them.
When aim got there, heard Turner screaming violently, and knowing
her voice, and suspecting something wrong was going on, ran to the
gate and called out murder. The two prisoners passed her while she
was giving the alarm. Dl'Carthy said, " D—n your eyes, hold your
b-.y tongue, or save you out: He had an instrument in his
hand, with which be struck her—she in defence threw the fish with tile
butter on it at him, and it struck him, part of the butter went over her
shawl. She saw a man at a distance of about four hundred yards.
1 with something on his head. The prisoners passed her as they ran
away.
Robert Lusby, a fishmonger, stated that at about a quarter-past
nine he was passing along the Sylvan.grove, when he heard scriams
and a cry of murder. Two men passed him, who were coming in
direction from the prosecutor's house. He had a load of fish 'on bit
head. 11I•Carthy was one of the men who passed on his right, and
man resembling Lee passed on the opposite side, who had a new
fashionable hat on. As they passed he heard one say to the other,
" How that b—y bitch calls out;" and the other said, "if it had nut
been for the police ali would have been right."
Martin Kennett, R. Division, No. 158, stated, that in consequence
of information, be apprehended the prisoner Lee at the New Cross,
Deptford, and conveyed him to the station-house, and on examining
his person. found a phosphorus box, a steel flint, a black cap, made
front a stocking, and other housebreaking implements, and in his pocket
a right shoe. After locking him up in the station-house, from further
information, he wok his place by a Greenwich stage, and while on the
roof of it saw the other prisoner, 14I'Carthy, in the road, going towards
the New Cross, He jumped off the coach and took him into custody,
and on his person found a left shoe, the fellow to the one found on
Lee ; and upon examining the shoulder part of his coat, there were
large marks of grease, as if butter had been thrown on it; and he also
took from him a new fashionable hat, which he then wore. He then
went to the witness, Selina Baker, and asked to see her shawl, which
she said had been greased ; and on comparing that with the prisoner's
coat, the appearance of the grease corresponded exactly.
The prisoners, in their defence, attempted to prove an alibi, but

Mr. Baron Darrow summed up the evidence, and the jury, without
any hesitation, returned a verdict of guilty—Death, against both of the
prisoners.

IMPORTANT CASE.- -At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions
held at Norwich, on Wednesday, the court came to an im-
portant decision on the Poor Laws, on an appeal by the Rev.
Dr, Bulwer, Rector of Cawston, against the poor mks for
that parish. The Doctor had been rated at 5501. fur his
tithes, against which he appealed, upon the ground that it
exceeded a fourth of the assessment upon the titheable pro-
perty of the parish, which he contended was the proportion
at which tithes should be assessed to the poor's rate.
The Court dismissed the appeal, being unanimously of
opinion that there was no rule in law for fixing a proportional
assessment on tithes compared with land, and that the
only principle was to assess all real property according to
the productive value or profit -vhich it yielded. This deter-
mination is important, as it recognises a principle, the ge-
neral application of which at the present time, will neces-
sarily be attended with the most serious results both to the
farmer and the clergy, upon the latter of whom the chief
hurdler, of supporting the poor will now, as in former
times, be thrown. According to this principle, it is
evident that at the present prices, the assessment upon
land ought to be merely nominal, and that tithes should
be assessed at their full amount, it being notorious no profit
whatever is now afforded from land in general, and that what-
ever the landlord receives in the name of rent, is in fact a
payment out of the farmer's capital, while tithes being taken
clear of taxes and all other expences attending the raising the
crop, are nearly all profit. This decision has excited a
great sensation in Norfolk, and the farmers in many places,
have already insisted upon a reduction of their assessments,
and upon rating the clergy to the full amount of their tithes
as well where they are compounded for, as when taken in
kind. Let the farmers generally adopt this plan, and they
will not only obtain immediate and considerable relief, but
in a few months they will see the clergy as clamorous for
reform as the most devoted radical ; for nothing short of re-
form, (any alteration in the law being wholly out of the
question,) can now prevent the tithes being wholly swallowed
up in poor rates. The above principle was acknowledged in
its full extent, a short time since in the Court of King's
Bench. Mr. Justice Holroyd, having expressly declared,
that " a rate on laud is in effect a rate on the profits of land,
or where there are no profits, there is no beneficial occupa-
tion," vide vol. iv. Burn's Justice, p. 77. Chetwynd's Edit.
- -
Yesterday, in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, Edward
Jonc4, late of Canterbury. grocer, was opposed on behalf of Meow.
Barnett and Co. and several other creditors. He had formerly conk('
on business in Speldhurst.street, St. Pancras. The ground of the op-
position to his discharge now was, that he had been guilty of fraudulent
conduct. and had conspired with his brother to cheat his creditors.—
After a long examination, the Court adjourned the case sine die, Mr.
Commissioner Law observing, that when the insolvent had inserted in
his schedule the debts contracted by him in Spcldhurst-street, and
served his creditors, he would be remanded to the full period authorised
by the act of parliament, viz. twee years.

;THS.

Yesterday, in Brompton-row,Ws:W. Batty, of a sou—The Oh
ult. at Upper Clapton, the Lady of Lieut. G. Evans, R.N. of a sou.

MARRIED.
Yesterday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, T. Bownan, Req. of
Corby, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. T. Smith, of St. Peter's.
Cornhill—The 81st ult. at St Ann's, Blackfriars, Mr. G. Saunders, of
the Poultry, to Rebecca, daughter of R. Fauntleroy, Esq. Walworth--
The 3lst ult. at St. Bartholomew's, Royal Exchange, Mr. G. P. Simon,
of Threadneedle.street, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mr.
Charmer, Old Broad-street.

DIED.

Thursday. the 31st ult Mr. John Keen, of Ball's-pond, in his 28th
year.—The 28th ult. at the house of Dr. Mackintosh, Colchester Mita
Maria Cox. of Ipswich.—The 27th ult. at Jersey, in the ti3d year
of his age, James Trimbey, E.q of Lewisham Kent, for nearly half
a century common-councilman of the city of London.—The '.:Sth ult.
at Boulogne.sur.Mer, Peter Cattiniii Timerman, Req. In the 71st year
of his age.

SMITHFIRLD—THIS DAY.
CATTLE AT SUMMIT
Beasts, 387—Sheep, 7,s9o—Piga, 110—('al•ea, 120•
Beef ....... 4s OJ to 41 0.1 Pork ..... 4s 21 :o ed
'Mutton 44 441 hs OJ Lamb 7. 04 8s tkl
Veal.
Hay (per load), .e 2 16q. to A 4 Os. Clover, 43 3s. to £6 Ss.—
' &raw, "I 16.. to 4'2 Os.

Morning 4H. 48he. I Afternoon sn. 6*

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