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London, England, 1825-07-15 00:00:00

SUMMER ANI2E3.

hOiri'll.l3llvrON, JULY 13.
William Lonslott, mist Ihomas Lonslow, brothers, were
capitally indicted for stealing forty sheep at Clipston,
in this county.—A clear case was substantiated against
them, but it appearing, by the evidence of the sbepherd,
that the animals stolen were what ate cslled inieb•hogs,i
the ptisonet: Counsel submitted that they must Me ac-
quitted, as the property was described as sheep in the'
indlctment, meaning animals which had been shorn. •
The Costar, however, declared that if this point availed the pri-
soners they should be re-indicted, and it was therefore abawdened.
The Jury found William Lonslow Guilty.
Mr. Justice Pane immediately passed sentence on the prisoner,'
intimating at the same time, that from the daring extent and nature
of bis offence, he must not expect any merey.--Deatk.
The prisoner, who is a stout country-looking fellow about thirty,
was much affected at bearing the announcement of his awful doom.

Joseph 7e6buit, aged thirty-four, was put to the bar,
charged with the murder of Jo.eph Sturman, of Earls
13arton, in this county.
It appeased in evidence that the deceased and the
prisoner had been drinking together with some friends,
when the prisoner wok the liberty of pouring water into
the pocket of the deceased. The latter resenting the
joke as an insult, made an attack upon the prisoner,
and a scuffle ensued, which proved fatal in the end to
the dee-a•ed. It appeared that in the struggle he re•,
ceived a kick in the leg, which mortified. and eventually
caused his dea h.—Guilty of Manslaughter.
The prisoner was fined a shilling and discharged.

Samuel Hillier, aged So, was capitally ildicted under
Lord Ellenboiough's Act, for h.ving wilfully and ma-
lkiously cut and stabbed .Susannah Curtnan, a child
five years old.
Thomas Sullivan—l live at Llama. On. the 2d of
June I saw the prisoner sitting under a chesnut tree by
the road side. I had been as near as three yards to him,
and could not be mistaken. I saw three children go
towards him ; they afterwards ran away, and I saw the
prisoner follow them. When he came up with them he
stooped down, and put his band to his breeches pocket ;
upon which I heard a child scream out. Before I had
heard a noise in the village. I ran towards the children,
and on the spot wham they were standing I saw a great
quantity of blond. One of the children was bleeding
very much. There was nobody else near the children
but the prisoner. The child was carried into a cottage,
badly wounded.

Charlotte Green remembered the prisoner's coming
to her father's house at Law n. on the 2d of June, to
sell needles and buttons. SAW the prisoner immediately
after the accident. The children were in the utmost
terror ; heard the children scream, and found Susan
Curman all over blond, and w.th a large gash in her
throat. She was bleeding profusely, and at last she
staggered and fell down; immediately ran for assist-
ance. When she first saw the child the prisoner was
four or five yards off. Me was nut further oft; have
no doubt he is the man.

Mr. Thomas Price, surgeon, at Lytton, said, that
upon being called in, he found a wound in the child's
neck; had seen the knife with which the wound was
inflicted. The wound corresponded with that knfe.
(The knife was now produced. It was of the commun clasp
kind, blade about four inches, with a lancet point. It was covered
with rust. Another Mile had been also found is ens Prisoner's bag).
Timothy Wood, constable, arrested the 13- isoner in
Stafford-hire, in the Court-yard of the Marquis of
Stafford's seat. He had a pedlar's box hanging from
his shoulders. I tapped him on the shoulder, because
be vas acting the deaf and dumb man. I handcuffed
him ; but upon so doing, he spoke immediately. He ad•
dressed himself to the Marquis of Stafford's agent, and
I said, " I am the man the constables are in search of."
Prisoner further said, 1, I saw the child bleeding, but I
never touched the child, so help me GOD. The
blood spouted out of the child's neck like water out of
a jug." Mr. Lewis (the agent) said to him, 14 Why did
you not assist the child?" He said, 1, I looked at it
three or four minutes, and then made my escape to
kingscliff, for fear I should be apprehended, sent to
jail, and my box taken from me, which would ruin me
for ever; but I never touched the ehild."- I searched
the prisoner, and in his box were two knives, a pair of
scissars, and two razors. I brought him to Laxton; he
there cried out, " Oh, I have been guilty of every crime
but this—but I never committed murder." I delivered
the knives in my hand to a Magistrate. One of the
knives was rusty, but I could not undertake to say that
it was the rust of blood.

John Miley saw the last witness deliver a box. sealed op, to the
Itlagistrate. It was handed over to witness, who now produced it
in the state in which it then was.

Alt. Price, the surgeon, agaiu called, who iJentified one of the
knives. The knife must have been cleaned after using it. The
wound was more of a thrust than a cut.

Henry Itustby. the turnkey of Northampton jail, produced a pair
of smallelofhes worn by the primmer the day be committed the
offence; they were marked with blood.
Charlotte Green identified the trowsers, as worn by the prisoner
on the 2d of June. This evidence was further confirmed by Timo.
thy Wood.
The prisoner made no defence, but pretested his innocence of the
crime of murder.

Mr. Justice l'anx charged the Jury, that unless the
offence charged upon the prisoner would, in the opinion
of the Court, if completed, have amounted to the crime
of murder against the prisoner, the Jury, under this
Statute, were bound to acquit him of this charge. It
was to be lamented that the total absence of religious
instruction in the child, incapacitated hurt from appear.:
ing here as a witness. It was for the Jury to say, in
the absence of the most important testimony, whether
they soould find the prisoner guilty of having stabbed
the child with intent to murder her?
The Jury, after some deliberation, found the prisoner Guilty of
Stoker's:, but negatived the intention to murder.
Mr. Justice Pciaz held that under the statute this verdict was
equivalent to an acquittal, and the prisoner was discharged.
The Learned J moo, before the breaking up ache Court, passed
the awful sentence of the law upon James Dixon alias James Doh.'
son Dixon. who was convicted of forgery, and who was left
for execution.
THE COAPOIIATION DAVCITPY r•. MCKIM

This was an action brought by the Corporation of
Daventry, in virtue of an alleged customary right,
existing from time beyond which " memory goeth not,"
to recover from the defendant certain penalties for
having exercised his trade a ithin the jurisdiction of the
said borough, he not being a freeman thereof. The
cause was tried here before, when a verdict was found
for the Co: poration, but motion being made to set aside
the verdict on the ground of misdirection of the Learned
Judge, the Court of King's lynch granted a new trial.
Mr. CLARKE, in Aitiling the case to the Jury, stated
that the plaintiffs l:oped to be able to substantiate an
undoubted right to the penalties which they were
claiming by this ac ion. It was a right which had been
exercised horn time immemorial, and which, up to this
time, had not been resisted. The Corporation of me.
ventry was very ancient ; it was a Corporation by pre-
scription as well its charter, and the Jury would bave
, .0 say, m hearer the ts ideate to be adduced far the

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titt4 tiould bear tibt their case or having chimed and
received such penalties of other parties, as were claimed
in this case?

Two charters were then put in, granted by Queen
Elizabeth and King Charles the Second to the borough'
of Daventry. A number of witnesses were also ex-
amined, who proved that it had b en the custom not
to permit any person not a freeman of the borough, to
exercise a trade or calling wi,hin the b..rough, unless
behad taken out his freedom.
Ott crols-examination, these witnesses admitted that
in every case, where claim had been made, the parties
either submitted, or were excused from payment of
the fine on the ground of poverty. This was the first
time the right had been put into issue.
Mr. PHILLIPS addressed the Jury for the defendant,l
contending that the C. rporation had failed in their,
case of an invariable cust..m of compelling parties toi
take out their free.iom. The defendant was a soldier,'
and had a common law right of esereising his trade in
any town in the kingd in.
Mr. Justice [lot ROVD charged the Jury at great length, leaving
It to them to say, svltether, upon the plaintiff.' evi.lence, such a case
had been shade out as would entitle them to a verdict?

The Jury retired at eight o'clocil in the evening, and at a late
hour returned it verdict for the plaintiffs.
The ca.e lasted the whole day. It excited Considerable interest
throughout the county.
WINCHESTER, JULY IS.
John Dickenson was put to the bar, chirged with a
burglary in the heu.e of E Imund Rust, of the parish
of Alverstoke, and with having stolen therefrom shirts,
stockings, and other small articles belonging to Rust.
The prisoner pleaded guilty. and persisted in it, notwithstanding
the advice of the Learned Judge that sentence of death would be
aecessatily recorded.
The prisoner, with tears in his eyes, addressing his
Lordship, said, that he had served his country for seven
years in the 90th regiment, now abroad. He bad,
therefore, nobody to give a character of him ; but he
had a certificate of good conduct front his Cdonel, and
it was nothing but hard necessity could drive a soldier,
like him to the commission of an Act like this.
Mr. Justice Gasecne desired the certificate to be
handed to him. Looking again over the indictment,
he told the prisoner that though he was obliged to
record a judgment of death against him, he should
make it his own business to forward to the proper
quarter all testimonials and representations made to him'
on the part of the prisoner.
The sentence of Death was then recorded.

Thomas Rogers stood indicted for having stolen, on
the 13th May last, a basket containing two cheeses, be
longing to John Ponting, cf the parish of Andover.
John Ponting sw. rn, said he bought the cheeses at
the fair of Andover; on his way home, in the evening,
he went into a public house, where he had a pint of
beer. The prisoner was also drinking some beer, and
they sat and talked together. The prisoner soon slipped
away with his cheeses, and was found with them at the
tura of the corner of the hou e.

The prisoner, a labourer, as the prosecutor also ap-
peared to be, said in his defence, that he and Ponting
and another were talking and laughing together ovet
their beer; they had such jokes a-. other folks have on
similar occasions. The cheeses were lying on the table
behind them ; it occurred to him that it would add to
their fun if he could alarm Punting, by removing his
cheeses; he, with that view, slipped out with them,and
stood behind the corner laughing. as Punting came on
him. The fact was that it w.rs all a joke, and what he
now said was the truth, co help him Con!
The Learned JUDGE charged the Jury, who found the prisoner
.Mt natty.
The Learned Jonas, in discharging him, told him that be was in-
formed be had been at the bar on another occasion, charged with
another practical joke, committed, however, after he had drank
'something; and be particularly cautioned him, whether he drank
or not, to avoid those practical jukes, which might In the end be-
come serious enough.
Charks 7ilbury was indicted for having feloniously
taken away, on the 6th of May, from the house of Tho-
mas Bye, at Stoke Charity, two one pound notes and
four shillings, belonging to the said Bye.
The evidence, though clear as to the taking away of
the money, was favourable to the prisoner. It appeat ed
that he suddenly repented of the theft, acknowledged',
and returned the money, and conducted himself in an
exemplary manner since he was sent to gaol.
The Jury found him Guilty.
The Jews, approving of the verdict, told him that though it was
his duty to record a judgment of death, he was happy to find that
what he heard of the pri4oner's conduct enabled him to say that he
entertained hopes it would nut be carried Into execution.

The thermometer stood yesterday at 77 in the shade,
and lio in the snn.

HAYMARKET TI; NATRE —A new Farce was produced j
last night, called The Rival Valets. The plot turns
upon the contrivances of Copfaix !Felford( VI N I N G) to ob-
tain the hand of Sophia (Mrs. WA TLICTT)t who is living
in the house of her guardian, Mr. Perkins (WILLIAMS).
His agents are two footmen, Frank and Antotry.• played
by Limn.; and WILKINSON. The former is all sharp-
ness, and the latter all stupidity and his frequent blun-
ders produce the only situations that approach at all to
ludicrous effect.—lt was given out for repetition by
LISTON amidst applause.
Yesterday the Loup Mayon held a Court of Con-
servancy for the County of Essex, at the Swan Inn,
Stratford, and afterwards proceeded to Greenwich, to
hold another Court fur the County cf Kent, when the
Juries made their presentments of divers nuisances, etc.
and the Kent Jury alluded in their presentment to the
great good that had been done by the partial clearing
of Yantlet Creek, and begged to impress on his Lord-
ship's mind the very peat utility it would be to the
owners of small craft, and to the public generally, if
that creek could be sufficiently opened to allow such
craft to pass through in stormy weather, which, if com-
pleted, would be the means of saving many valuable
lives, and prevent the distress that so frequently ful.
lowed to the wives and families of the suffeters. The
Jury in their progress went through the creek.
OLDHAM CHI-inn, LA NCAAI I itc—ln consequence
:f the well-known dangerously dilapidated state of this
ancient structure, a considerable degree of alatrn was
created on Sunday even ng seinn;giit, duting Divine
Service, by the falling down of the vestry chimney,
upon the roof of the Church. This was occasioned by
the gable of the chancel, which has long been much
iiut of perpendicular, giving a little more way. No
sooner was it heard than the congregation (which was
As full as the Church could admit within its walls)/ as
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it actuded by one heeling, vie. that the Gburch was
falling, instantaneously sose and rushed to the doors in
A state cn fright and coolusion nut easily to be described.
Norms and pews were broken down, and the windows
and every place of egress instantly el oked up by their
,itpultaneous attempts at escape: many fell, and be-
fore they could he t.ken up, were trampled upon and
ng sti
hurt; others buffeted from cuts and c litusious, and
from the loss mid rendi
their garments. SINIe
rew person; tmlottunatcly limb: di •lck Ated.

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- • • - .271 r ARMY.
In the Military Circles it is said, that the IQth in Limerick, will
proceed kb Gibraltar, and the 39th, froth &meant, to New
South Wales.
Dttoret Major Ilasnison, 52d, is appointed Aide-de•Camp ,ts
Major-denial SIP Jost' BINGHAM, at Cork.
It Is renta?kable that Ajtiiii-41 PLAstrro, Major-General St Jots
BURMAN, 53d, Colonel PoSta, Artillery, and Major Elitist?, En-
gineers, now in command in their respective avocations in the Cork
district, were at the same time stationed at St. Helena, during Ibu.
:tarmac's abode in that Idand.

The 3ttla (Cumberland) Regiment of Infantry, is ordered from
Enniskillen to Hoyle.
The order for the march of the 66th to Dublin, is counter-
manded, and the Regiment is to proceed to Athlone.
Two Troops, with the head.quartch of the 6th Dragoons, fr.).,1
York, and two Troops from Leeds, have been ordered to ;%:;.
cheater, to make room at York fur the 7th Hussars.

Lieutenant-General Sir F. Achim, K.C. B. is coming from t'.'
lonian Islands to Ragland, on leave of absence.
Lieutenant-General Sir MANLEY Powsat, K C.B. remains at :I'e
Wand of Malta.

iientenant.General Sir HENIRY YARD;, K.C.U. returns front
Darbadoes to England, on leave of absence.
The 3d (Print," of W.des's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards, bat
marched from Cabir to Dublin.

The 14th (the Duchess of Own) ftetiment of Light n•t-
goons has marched trona Cork to Dundalk.

The 24 Battahos of the Guth (the Duke of York's Own Wet
Corps) has moved fruit lkArbadoes to Berbice.
The 65th (the 2J York North Riding) Regiment of Foot had
marched front Athlone to NI olliugar.
The head-quartets (Radon of the 84th (York and La-eave?)
Regiment of Infantry has marched from Clumnel to Mullingar4

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