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London, England, 1825-03-14 00:00:00

LE NT ASSIZES.

LANCASTER, MARCH le.
Thomas Parry, aged 35, was charged with killing
and slaying Sarah Palling, on the 4thof October last.
It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner had beenl
drinking in a public-lionse near the Haymarket, Liver-
pooloind had-been sculling with several persons; from
thence he sallied into the street, and wanted to fight
some of them. Some boys that had been laughing at
him, at length began to hoot at and pelt him, upon
which he took up some stones and threw at them. One
of the stones struck a little girl (the deceased) so vio-
lently upon the forehead, that a small piece of her skull
was beaten in Upon the brain ; she immediately fell,
a•hi the poisoner was taken into custody. The victim
of his rashness was conveyed to the Infirmary, where
she lingered for nearly-three months, and at length
died. Verdict—Guilty.
• The mother of the deceased, after the verdict was
pronounced, strongly recommended.him to mercy; in
consequence of which, and his previous long confinement,
he was sentenced to only three months imprisonment.
James Reed, aged 48, Anne Ill'Ardie, aged 40, and
Anne Reed, aged 4 ',were indicted for having feloniously
coloured certain pieces cl ba,,e metal of the similitude
of shillings of the current coin of the realm.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against James Reed, and
acquitted the others.
Mr. Justice BATIAT passed sentence of Death on him in the
usual terms; but intimated to him that sentence would nut be
carried into execution.
Robert Latus, aged 17, was charged with shooting at
T. Hesketh, with intent to kill or do him some grievous
bodily harm. The parties were both joirrneymericot-
, ton-spinners ; the prisoner is a member of the Union, the
prosecutor not ; and on the litter going in November
last to apply for work at Messrs. Caton's factory, the
former, who was employed at that mill, threatened to
shoot him jibe canoe nobbing these (men who refuse to
join the Union. are called nob-sticks). In December the
prosecutor did go to work at Messrs. Caton's, and on
the 30th, as he was going to his woe It, before day-light,
he was shot at by a person, whom he and another wit-
ness believed to be the prisoner, and slightly wounded
in the breast. The case against the prisoner was a good
deal strengthened by circumstantial evidence, though
there was some which weighed in his favour.—Guilty—.
sentence of death recorded.
Josiah James Ilberry,.a person respectably connected
in Liverpool, was charged with having uttered a forged
bill of exchange for 201. with intent to defraud Mr.
Thomas Wilson.
Mr. CLARKE stated the case for the prosecution. The
prisoner was a fruit agent, and had been employed, some
time in July last, by Mr. Wilson, a merchant in Liver-
pool, to go over to Manchester and dispose of part of a
cargo of lemons, consigned to him from St. Michael's.
He sold a quantity, amounting to 27/. to Mrs. Lydia
Bell, and from whom he received payment in cash. On
his return to Liverpool he suppressed that circumstance,
and tendered over with some cash the bill stated in the
indictment, which he alleged he had received from her.
The bill bore the indcrsement of Cunliffe and Co.
bankers there, and various others. It was ultimately re-
turned to Mr. Wilson dishonoured, and proved a forgery.
The forged indorsement of Messrs. Cunliffe and Co.l
was fully proved. After the facts of the case were gone
into, the bill was read in evidence, and purported to be
dray n by Charles Nixon, Manchester, 26th August,
1824, two months after date, payable to order for £2O,
and addressed to Mr. Thomas Savage, in High-street,
Manchester, and accepted payable by him at Jones,
Lloyd, and Co.'s London. On comparing it with the
indictment the word 44 by" was found to have been
omitted ; and upon which
Mr. D. F. Joints submitted to the Court that it was
a complete variance from the instrument set forth, and
must be fatal to the indictment.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY dispatched a message to Mr.
Justice Holroyd for his opinion,-which his Lordship
•having received, he said that it agreed with his own,
that the objection was good.
The prisoner was then acquitted.
Robert Robinson, aged 34, Hent7 Robinson, 25,.and
hotnas ligby,£'2, were elliarged• with burglary and rob-
bery in the house of Mrs. Martha Andow, at Cla yton-le•
Welds—Guilty.

CHELMSFORD, MARCH i 2.
The Assizes for this (county ended this day at two
.o'clock. None of the capital convicts were left for
(mention.

DOB ON THE OMNI; OF EDWARDS ADD OTHERS I). TIM
REV. C. TOWZR.
This wa; an action of ejectment for the rectorial tithes
of the parish ofDaggenham, and for certain lands at
Chigwell, part .of property which had•been settled in
the reign of Philip and Mary, for the endowment of
'Brentwood Free Grammar School, .by Sir Anthony
Browne, Knight, Serjeant at Law, one of the Judges of
•the Common Pleas in the reign of. Queen Elizabeth.
.This cause excited great interest :in-.the county of
'Essex, and more particularly at-Brentwood, the inha
.bitants of which town will be deeply affected in the
result; the object of it being to•have the funds of Sir
%Anthony Browne's Grammar School duly. appropriated
to the beneficent purposes of the Founder. IThe eject-
ment was brought on the demise of the Rev. Edward
Edwards, oho mai appointed Master of the School by.
Mr. Comber, the heir as law of the original founder,
and also on the demise of the guardians of the School.
In the reign of Philip and Mary, Sir Anthony Browne
having founded a grammar school for educating the
children of Brentwood, and the surrounding-parishes,
endowed it with certain tithes and lands in Daggeuham,
chigviell, and Sonthweald, estimated in value at about
L 1,500 per annum. Some difficulties having arisen in
the reign of Queen ElizabethOss to the management of
the school, they became die subject of investigation in
the Court of Chancery, and in 1623, a decree was pro
-pounced, and certain Statutes made for its due go-
vernment, reserving to Sir,Antliony Browne and his heirs
for ever, the patronage of the school, and the power of
inting casters, by way .f donative. For several