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PANORAMA OF THE BIIIT:S11
EMPIRE.
NORTHAMPTON ATICCURY, MAY 14
The following brief account of the annual commemoration of the
birth of Shakspeare, at the Golden Inn, in Stratford, was unavoidably
omitted last week for want of room. On the same day a grand din-
ner was provided at the Shakspeare Hall, in honour of the same event.
Stratford-upon-Avon.—On Saturday, the 23d ultimo, the Royal
Shaksperian Club celebrated the natal day of Avon's Bard, and the
Festival of Saint George in grand style, at the Golden Lion Inn, in
that place. At three o'clock a sumptuous dinner was served up to a
numerous and respectable company, The Chairman said the Grace
from Macbeth—" Now good digestion wait on appetite, and health nn
both." After the cloth was removed, and " Non Nobis Domine"
had been sung. many loyal, national, and appropriate toasts, anthems,
duets, glees, addresses, songs, and sentiments followed, in the per-
formance of several of which the exertions of Messrs. Padbury and Co. I
from the London boards, gave general satisfaction. The dinner cow-
prised every delicacy in season, and the wines were highly approved ;
and the company spent a must joyous, agreeable, and rational day.
" On any good attafn'd,
" Let us remember still Heaven chalk d the way
" Tbat brought us thither."
(Tauntr). i
The front of the house was brilliantly illuminated, and several ex-
cellent transparencies and loyal devices, in variegated lamps, were dis. .
played. The intetior of the room wns tastefully festooned with wreaths
of roses, flowers, evergreens, &c. exhibiting many appropriate mottos
(from the Bard's own works and other authors) upon mazarine blue
riband in gold letters. Nearly one hundred persons sat down to
dinner.
NEWBURY.—This town and its neighbourhood was visited by a
heavy thunder-storm on Saturday sennight. The lottage of William I
Bruce, at Courage, about three miles from hence, was struck by the
electric fluid, which penetrated the roof, tore a considerable portion of
the ceiling, split a box nearly to pieces, and drove it from one aide of
the room to the other ; the alarmed inhabitants were dreadfully af-
fected by the shock ; Bruce's son, a young man who had been a cripple
many years, and who uses a crutch, was struck to the floor, and the
crutch was splintered in two : Mrs. Bunce, a child about five years old,
and two other persons who had taken shelter from the storm, were all
prostrate on the floor, and were insensible for about the space of half
an hour, and the young man had his arm burnt near the elbow; the
child was also burnt on the side of her body ; the inner garments were I
scorched, but what is remarkable, the outer ones were not touched.
There was a considerable quantity of smoke in the house after it was
struck, and a portion of the court post in front of the house, about a
yard in length, was driven forty yards from the spot.
NOSTIIASIPTON, SATURDAY.Wheia, 70S IO 77s ; Rye, 4&; Bar.
ley, 333 to 45s 6d ; Oats, 26s to 30s ; Beans, 36s to 41s ; Peas,
38s to 40s.
MARKRT HARBOROUGH, TnatinaT.—Wheat, 69s to 73e ; Bar.
ley, 385 to 465 ; Oats, 25a to 30s ; New Beans, 408 ; Old Beans, —;
Fine Flour, 59s ; Thirds, 555; Malt, 76s ; Butter, ltd to 121 d per lb.
Eggs, 22 for le.
MARRIED.—John Seriven, Esq. of Wellingborough, to Char-
lotte, youngest daughter of the late M Whitworth, Esq. of Bedford.
—Mr. Robert York, of Olney, to Elisabeth, second daughter of Mr. P.
Covington, of Ravenstone.
DIED.—Mrs. Mary Loftus, of Banbury, 67.—At Leamington, Mr.
H. Cobs, second son of T. Cobb. Eaq. Banbury.
SHEFFIELD COURANT, MAY 13.
The week before last, engineers were engaged in making a survey
of the country between Gainstoorough and Grimsby, with the view to
the railway which is contemplated between Manchester and the eastern
coast. This great measure was designed to connect Liverpool and
Hull by way of Sheffield and Gainsborough ; but it is found that the
country is so much more practicable in the line from Gainshorough to
Grimsby, that the intention is to snake the latter town the eastern end
of the railway with branch ways to Lincoln and other places at the
nearest points of the line.
A turn-out of the colliers in the neighbourhood of the Potteries, is
likely to take place very soon.
Little more than a week ago, William Mappin, of this place, well
known to many of our readers, was employed in posting electioneering
bills, in the town, for the Blue, or Tory party. During this engage-
ment he came in contact with several person with whom he was
unacquainted, who kicked and beat him so unmercifully as to ace-
sion his death, which took place yesterday morning.
This day's paper announces a scheme for providing some of the best
specimens of our staple wares to be presented to our highly reverend
Monarch, as a grateful acknowledgment, on the part of the inhabitants,
of his attention to the best interests of his people, and for his pa.
triotic conduct since be ascended the throne. The scale of contribu-
tion is so well contrived as to afford every inhabitant the op unity
(we rather say the " privilege,) of doing honour to himself and homage
to the King, and we believe all classes will most heartily and cheer.
fully embrace it.
A respectable young man, named George Preston, hanged himself at
Halifax on Tuesday week. The cause of this rash act was the refusal
at his sweetheart to marry him, an event which had fixed to take
place on the following morning.
The easterly winds during the past week have checked the growth
of grass, particularly upon wet soils. Oats and pease are much In-
jured in many instances, and the failure in the present appearance of
the wheat crop is thought to be more extensive than has been known
for some years. It is to be feared that the frost of Saturday morning
seriously injured the earliest of our fruit blossom.
WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.--. 011 Monday week, a nu-
merous and respectable meeting of the friends of this society, which
devotes a large share of its attention andisupport toithe moral and rell.
gious improvement of the negro population of the West Indies, took
place in Exeter-ball, L. Honslope, Esq. in the chair. The report gave
encouraging accounts of the proceedings of the society in the West In.
.41es, and mentioned, amongst other things, that the negtoes of Jamaica
bad subscribed, during the past year, no less than one thousand six hun-
dred pounds to the finds of the society. Amongst the persons who
addressed the meeting was a Canadian Chief, attired partly in the cos-
tume of his country. He spoke good English, and is called by the
name of Jones. Mr. Montgomery also spoke.
The bed of coal which we believe extends under the whole town of
Sheffield, lies so neat the surface, on the west side, that scores of loads,
principally small or slack, sad some large, have been carted away dur-
ing the formation of Fitzwilliam-street. It lies beneath a bed of
strong clay.
Last year, Mr. Hodgkinson, of Topton, near Chesterfield, halfa
ewe which yeaned three lambs, and on Tuesday the same ewe yeaned
four lambs.
My Sow's D lamentable and distressing case
was brought before the magistrates this day. Mrs. Whitehead the
wife of Mr. Thomas Whitehead, Sheffield-moor, appeared to F:fer a
charge of assault against her son, Henry, who was arraigned before the
Bench.
AIM Whitehead, being sworn, said—" Sir, the defendant 'Lamy son,
and he has absented himself front work for the last twelve months, and
has formed a connection with several disorderly characters. He has at
different times visited home, and thrown the house loto confusion and
uproar. He has robbed us till we cannot put up with it any longer.
A few weeks ago he entered the house, struck me, and gave me this
black eye ; he then knocked me down and held me upon the floor
instil he rifled my pocket of every shilling it contained. I screamed out
' murder !' in order to obtain assistance, but he stopped my mouth so
long that it was some time before I recovered.
Mr. Whitehead here manifested &disposition to make some observa-
tions. He took the oath, and with great vehemence and indignation
said—" He shall be the biggest rogue and villain in Sheffield. He has
entered my house, assaultedhis mother most brutally, ransacked the
drawers and pledged their contents. In a similar manner he has Zit..
posed of three guns and three pistols, which I kept in the house for my
own protection. I cannot live under such circumstances. " He shall
be," repeated Mr. W. at the same time striking the table, " the biggest
tillain in Sheffield. He has knocked his mother down, nd threatened
to stab her if she did nut gise him money."
Illarples, the constable—Sir, when 1 took him into custody he had a
pigeon in his pocket, which there is no doubt he had stolen.
Magistrate—What can you say, defendant, in defence of your
shameful conduct ?
Defendant, smiling—lt is all false, what my father and mother have
stated.
Mr. Whitehead—Why, you have broken all the squares in the house.
Defendant—Aye, when you shoved my head through. As for the
black eye my mother has received, she took the poker to strike me, and
when I endeavoured to prevent her, she pushed her head against it.
The daughter was here inttoduced, and corroborated the testimony
at her parents.
Hagistrate—l shall order you to pay 5L have you as much money as
will meet the demand ?
Defendant—No, Sir.
Magistrate—Then you stand committed to the House of Correction
for three months, being the utmost penalty of the law.
Whitehead-1 trust, Sir, you will bind him to keep the peace
toward me and my family when liberated, otherwise we shall be in bo-
dily fear.
Mrs. Whitehead—Sir, he has threatened to murder me, if he were
committed to Wakefield.
Magistrate—He shall find security if you demand it.
Mr. Whitehead—No person will be bound for him; but I hope, sir.
you will keep him safe until he produces friends.
Magistrate—We will. And until he finds security he will continue
an inmate of the House of Correction.
The prisoner was then removed from the bar,•and his parents left the
ages apparently with great satisfaction.
SRareIELD.MAIIICIT, APRIL 30.—Beef 7d to 7ed per lb. Mut.
64d to 7d ditto. Veal 7d ditto. Pork 6d ditto. Butter Is bed to is gd
ditto. Eggs 20 for Is. Oranges 4d to 2s 6d per dos.
WAKEFIELD CATTLE MARKET, MAY 1 1.-0111` market was well
supplied with stock, and no lack of buyers, which caused the prices to
lw high. Beef 7s to & per stone ; Clipped sheep 6141 ; Wood ditto

741 per lb; Lambs from 18s to 24s per head. Beasts 300—Sheep and
Lambs 5830.
.111ANRIA1).--11r. H. G. Walker, merchant, to Mary Ann. second
daughter of the late Abraham Hawley, Ese.—Edward King, Esq. of
Bath, to Elizabeth Mary, daughter of J. B. Fund's, Esq. of Belle
Vase.hlr. John Charles Earl, to Louisa, youngest daughter of the
late Mr. Thomas Smith.—At 'Hayfield, near Ashbourn, the Rev. J.
Iluyshe, of Hethenhill, Devon, to Ann Lydia, eldest deur; of Dr.
Greaves, of Mayfield Hall.—At Stamford, Robert Daly, .to Fran.
ces, only daughter of Robert Vichardson, Esq.--Tho gay, W. Gibson,
of Chester, to Elite, Maria, third daughter oldie Bishop of Chester.
11.117. D.—At Matlock Bath, Mr. Same' Sheldon, solicitor, 25.—The
lady of John Wilkinson, Esq. of Hull.
FREEMAN'S JOURNAL, MAY 12.
In Ireland, from Kerry to Derry, and from Wexford to Mayo, the
questioh—the all-absorbing question is marching without encountering
as much obstruction aswould ripple the surface or indicate to a stran-
ger the direction of the stream. As in England the obstinate Tories
have kept aloof—and the vacillating and wavering have swallowed the
toughest pledges to support the hill, through thick and thin. In the
North, there are exceptions to this rule; but in Leinster. Monster, and
Connaught it holds universally good. But of this circumstance more
anon. Our present business is exultation—not animadversion. We
have then to congratulate the empire on the glorious fact, that in Tip-
perary, Kerry, Cllare, Limerick,
Dublin Waterford
Cork, Kilkenny, Carlow. Wicklow, Wexford, Meath, Louth,
Kildare, the King's County, the Queen's County, Galway, Mayo,
Roscommon, Antrim, Armagh, Londonderry, Down, and Do-
negal, there will be none but Reformers—supporters of the bill,
elected ! In Slip, Leitrim, Cavan, Longford, (we hope), West-
meath, and Monaghan, there will be one reformer returned (from each),
and if there were candidates, we have no doubt but that the corrup.
tionists would be totally muted in these counties. In Fermanagh and
Tyrone alone are the Tories victorious. But these counties are in-
habited by the men of the " right sort"—by your soi-disant boasted
loyalists—by Saints, Brunswickers, and Yeomen I Even in the bo-
roughs, too, the reformists have, or will have, a majority ; although
the Pennefathers and Cootes, and Winnerand Coles return themselves,
and the Beresfords, and Rodens, and Hertford% thrust in their crea-
tures for Armagh, Coleraine, Dundalk, and Lifford ; and although the
Earl of Portarlington has become the patron of the high churchman,
tory, pensioner, and advocate of Ixtroughmongering—Sir William
Rae—Ex-Lod Advocate of Scotland ! Thus will Ireland have nobly
done her duty.
Yesterday rendered the success of the King anti the people against
the corruptionists in Dublin still more decides, and this day will, we
anticipate, complete their triumph. We have reason to think that if
Messrs. the Registrar and Recorder's friends are this day met with the
same patriotic ardour and determination that have hitherto marked the
exertions of the people., the -contest will not be prolonged to another
day. After all that the combined energies of a great number of pro-
fessional men, intimately acquainted with every guild, nay with every
freeman in the city, and supported by enormous sums of money, could
effect, they are left in a minority of 329 at the close of the fifth day.
LORD GEORGE BERESFORD'S SEVEN REASONS.
Lord George Beresford, Lieutenant-General, and Colonel of a
Regiment of Dragoons, per annum .. 414,500
Lord John George de la Poer Beresford, a Father in Gon,
Archbishop of Armagh. This See extends over the counties
of Armagh, Tyrone, Monaghan, Louth, and a part of
Meath. In Armagh alone there arc 86.000 acres belong-
ing to the See : and if we put a renewal fine of only live
shillings an acre upon all belonging to the bishopric, it
will produce 100,000!. a year. Let us, however, say per

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annum ... • • • • -... 50,000
Viscount Beresford, a General, Governor of Jersey, with a
pension, per annum ••• ... 4,282
The Right Reverend George de la Poer Beresford, a cousin,
Bishop of Kilmore, per annum ••• ... 8,000
H. Rene /3eresfonl, a cousin, for compensation, per annum 2,157
John Claudius Bcresford, a cousin, for compensation, per
annum ... •• ••• ... 2,157
Sir John P. Beresford, Rear Admiral of the Blue, &e. lac. 3,000
Early on Surday morning, a party of the military, consisting of a
sergeant's guard, accompanied by about eight or nine of the polia,left
Ennis, under the command of Scrjeant Robinson, of the sth Foot, and
a police constable, all in coloured clothes and only armed with a pis-
tol each, and a few rounds of ball cartridge, their object, it seems,
being to come unawares, on some of those groups to be seen, in various
directions, organising the country people. When they got to the half
way house, between Ennis and Kilrusb, they arrested a man against
whom they had information, and, returning with their prisoner, as
they approached the village of Ballynacally, a vast number of the pea-
santry, who happened to be in the street, as is usual on Sundays, after
mass, seemed determined to rescue the prisoner, who was immedi-
ately set at liberty by the party, from a wish to avoid so unequal a
conflict; and, as we are informed, an unwillingness to sacrifice
the lives that would eventually drop in a rencontre. The peasantry,
however not satisfied with this, pursued the party, throwing stones,
and raising an alarm all along the line. when crowds were seen coming
down from the adjacent country, armed with blunderbusses, muskets,
&c. and a running fight immediately commenced—the military and po-
lice continuing to retreat, occasionally firing at their pursuers, so as to
husband their scanty ammunition until they made to the house of the
Reverend Mr. Kennedy, the Rector of the parish, where they werepro-
tected ; it being, we axe sorry to find, necessary to send out their pis.
toll and ammunition to the multitude to prevent the destruction of the
house, and as the only means left to insure the personal safety of these
brave fellows, guaranteed upon these terms. We are sorry to learn,
that Sergeant Robinson received a ball In the back, and, as
soon as he fell, his head and body bad been most dreadfully dis-
figured by these relentless wretches. Two soldiers of the fifth re-
giment were also badly wounded, and three of the police, like.
wise, received some gun-shot wounds. The remainder of the party
reached Ennis late in the evening, in a state of great exhaustion,
and from them we learn that from ten to fifteen of the country people
have been either killed or wounded. Upon the continuance of this
state of society our opinions are already known • and it is equally clear
that fatal as the effects must be to the wretches who have the hardi-
hood to array themselves in defiance of the laws, strongly sustained as
they must be by the disciplined energies of the state yet the tribunals
of the country must be ailed upon to resume in right earnest their
awful functions in time to avert that chaos into which society mast re:
solve Itself if suffered any longer to remain wider the dominion of
these savage hordes. Sergeant Robinson was one of the finest fellows
in his regiment, and a man of the best possible character. It is not for
us, unacquainted with the inner wheel, to question the prudence of
committing such a life with those of his brave comrades to the risk of
such a conflict, in disguise and but partially armed.—,Uwerick Been.
isle Pegg.
Fats or Baxareasuiz.—This fair commenced= Saturday morning,
the supply of cattle was small; sales were very brisk at advanced
prices. The princ;pal part of the stock was from the county of Clare,
and met with a quick sale; of sheep but few were offered for sale • in
horses very little was done ; the prices for bullocks varied from 61. to
101. per head ; for heifers from 61. to 11l ; one lot of bullocks disposed
of by Mr. Gloater, brought lIL 15e. a piece. In a few minutes after
the purchaser was offered an advance of 11 per bead in his bargain.
For a few small lots from Roscommon 121. ith. were paid.
MARRIED—John Doyle, Esq. of Belfast, to Miss Hannah, second
daughter of George White, Esq. of Cave Hill—The Rev. John Do-
beny ' of Donegore, to Mary, youngest daughter of Doctor Agnew, of
Ballyclare—Hilary Frederick L'Estrange, Esq. to Mary, daughter of
William Mulock, Esq. of Ballynagore—At Donnybrook church, John
Duffy, jun. Esq. of Richview, to Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas P.
Luscombe, Esq--At Cork, Horan Hayes, of Ardagb, Esq. to Marga-
ret, eldest daughter of Mr. T. Williamson, of Cork—Edward
Esq. M.D. to Miss Cottiell, only daughter of Francis Cottrell, Esq.
of Bally dulea.
DIED—At Forest, near Swords, Gilbert Plummer, Esq—At Car-
rickfergus Robert Healy, Esq—Mrs. Lawless, wife of Barry Edward
Lawless, Esq. of Harcourt street, in this city. This amiable and ex-
cellent woman, the mother of a young and &amino; family, has de-
parted this life with the high respect and admiration justly due to bar
preeminent virtues as a wife and mother, and the constant and watch•
ful guardian of her children.

CALEDONIAN MERCURY, MAY 12.
The Scotch county elections which have yet taken place, are all the
wrong way. On Monday we had East Lothian returning Mr. Bel-
four ; on Tuesday, Edinburgh returned Sir George Clerk, and Perth-
shire Sir George Murray, all without opposition; and yesterday Stir-
ling elected Mr. Ramsay of Bunton, in opposition to Admiral Fleming,
by a majority of eight.
The Elizabeth and Ann left Gre:nock on Sunday for Quebec, with
254 passengers; the George Canning on Monday for the same port,
with 322. The emigrants by these vessels were from all parts of the
country; including, we believe, a great many from Argyleshire. In
the George Canning four generations of one family have gene out from
that county to locate themselves in the wilderness of Canada. The great
grandfather of this dock is 92 years of age, and his venerable partner
eighty-eight.
EDINBURGH CORN MARERT, May 14.—We had a small supply
of all kind. of grain co.*, and sales dull. Wheat, 5s down on the
top, and 6d on the average. Barley, 6d down on the top, and Is fid
up on the average. One parcel of fine oats brought 345. which makes
it 4s up on the top, and 7d on the average. Peas and beans 2a down
on the top, and and 9L on the average.
Wheat, first, 71s ; mond, 60s ; third, 525. Barley, first, 41. &I I
second, 40a ; third, 86. 6d. Oats, first, Sts ; second, Ns ; third, 23a
4d. Pease, first, 42a; second, 40s third. Sea. Beans, first, 42s ;
second, 40; third, 365.
We had a good supply of oatmeal, which met with very dull sale.—
Oatmeal, per sack 280 imp. lbs. 21 51 ; second, per sack, 21 3s. Oat-
meal, per stone 14 imp. lbs. 2a 4d; second. 2s 2d.
Beef, per, lb. 4d to 7; Mutton, 6d to ; Veal, ld to 9d ; Pork,
4d to 6d; Lamb, qr. 3s 6d to ; Tallow, per cwt. Sja lid to 40s
Hides, stone, Ito lb ; Calf sk. lb. 4d to Sd Sheep skins Ss. 6d
to fts ; Quart. Loaf, 9d to Is ; Potatoes, pet peck, 1741 b. bd. Weigh
House Shop:—Butter, per lb. lld to la. 2d ; Salt do. cwt. 74 to SOB;

Do. des per lb. 9d to 10d; Cheese, Dunlop, per ewL 44a to 625; Eggs
per dos. 7d.
Wheat Straw, Ss Eid to 9s ; Oat Straw, 8. 6d to 94 ; and Barley
Straw, from 7s to 7s 6d per kentple ; Hay, 18.2 d par stone tron.
In the Grassmarket, the show of cattle was less than last week (100);
top price tie 9d ; inferior, ls &I to 8s per imperial stone, sinking offal&
Good fat in demand at an advance of 8d per stone on the top price.
DIED—At Cupar, Andrew Christie, Esq.—At lAsswade, R. Rid.•'
dell, Esq.—At Campbehown, J. Brown, Esq.

LAW REPORT&
COURT OF KIN '$ MAT 7..
LIBEL ON THE DUKE OF !BEAUFORT.

Sir y
CARILETT applied for leave to file a criminal information
against the proprietors and publishers of the' Spectator' newspaper.—
The article complained of appeared on Saturday the 30th April. He
made this application on behalf of his Grace the Duke of Beaufort,
who had found himself under the necessity of asking protection against
the dissemination of false statements respecting himself and his family
gravely made, and extensively circulated, for the purpose as he believed
of subjecting him and them to popular odium, aa exasperating the
public mind against them—a purpose which, in times like the present,
might be very easily accomplished. Before lie proceeded to state the
nature and purport of the publication, he would briefly lay before
their Lordships the substance of the affidavit made by his Grace the
Duke of Beaufort. It appeared, that the late Duke of Beau.
fort, by his last Will, recommended to the Guardians of his
Children, seven in number, that his two younger sons should be
brought up to the church ' • and as his Grace was possessed of the ad-
vowson of several livings in Monmouthshire, Gloccsiershire, and Wales,
he recommended that they should be presented to sonic of those livings,
as they became vacant, when the sons should be of age, and capable of
undertaking the duties. He, however, annexed a condition with respect
to an annuity which be had left for his younger sons, which hatl been
considered questionable. He had provided an annuity of 6001. for each
of the younger sons ; but directed that when the two sons who were to
be brought up to the church should be provided for by means of these
brings, the annuities should, as to them, cease pro tanks.
Lord TEN rertnza—The annuities I presume were charged on the
estates ?

Sir Jamas SCARLETT.—They were. The affidavit went on to
state, that one only of the sons, Lord William Somerset, had been
brought up to the church ; and he had been presented to two or
three of the livings. Before his presentation, a hood bad been exc.
cuted by the present Duke of Beaufort and his eldest son the Mar-
quis of Worcester, securing to him (Lord W. Somerset) the continu-
ance of the annuity, notwithstanding the presentation, in order that
he 'nigh' (leave the full benefit of the gift under the late Duke's
will. It was distinctly sworn that these livings, together with a
small Incbonlal stall which had been given to shim by the Lord Chan.
cellor for the time being, were all that Lord Wm. Somerset held.
The affidavit of the Duke of Beaufort went on to state in the most posi-
tive terms, that neither his father nor himself, his brothers, sisters, sons,
nor any of his family, had ever received any pension or sinecure from
Government ; and that his brother who had been in public service, bad
received no pay but that which he was entitled to for active service;
that none of the public money had ever been received by any of the
family except one of them, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, who, having lost
an arm in the battle of Waterloo, had received that pension which, ac-
cording to the regulations of the army, any other officer of his rank
would have been entitled to for the loss of a limb. He would now
proceed to read the paragraphs which the Duke had been advised
to bring under the notice of; their Lordships. After some observa-
tions, which it was unnecessary to notice, the article proceeded thus:
" The subscription of the great borough-owners it the most bare-
faced piece of profligacy to be found in the whole history of borough.
mongering. Why, the money subscribed is rightfully the nation's,
—at.leaat, if ;that still belongs to a man which has been wrongfully
taken from him, and if, as is clear, these borough lords would not have
had the money to subscribe, unless they had quartered their brothers
and sisters, and mothers and aunts on the public, as well as not a few
of them, their mistresses and illegitimate children. Who forgets the
history of the late Duke of Beaufort's will, which may be seen at
Doctors' Commons, on payment of one shilling, and which charges
the estates of the present Duke, with annuities to his brothers,
• until they shall be better provided for by Government ?' The
amount of public money received by the Somerset. since the late
Duke of Beaufort came of age, far exceeds the value of the estates
which he bequeathed to the present Duke," Now, the Duke of
Beaufort had stated in his affidavit, that all the public money which the
Somdmets had received since the late Duke came of age did not exceed
one year's income of his paternal estate. He (the learned Counsel) re-
mcnibered when a jutlge of the Common Pleas said that words, which
in ordinary times would be perfectly harmless, might, at particulat times,
and under certain circumstances, become seriously injurious, and be
mentioned, as an example, the words, "To your tents, 0, Israel I"
When such statements were made in a newspaper of large circulation, it
was not surprising that they should be followed by other publications
containing still more extravagant exaggeration ; and, accordingly, an
address had been published to the freeholders of the county, with which
the Duke of Beaufort was more particularly connected. The learned
counsel here read an extract from a printed paper, containing an address
to the freeholders of the county of Gloucester, stating that the family of
the Somerset. were quartered on the taxes to the amount of 48,6001. a
year ; that the public money received by them, since the late Duke came
of age, amounted to 720,0001. and that that wan the cause of the present
unparalleled distress. Such things as these, the learned counsel said,
were circulated by unknown persons, for the purpose of bringing upon
distinguished individuals public hatred and odium.
Lord Tawraitrizsr..—Take a rule to chew cause.

ILSTREZ V. TRITEXIIIf..

This was an action to recover 641. for several sets of lithographic
prints, sold and delivered to the defendant.
The sale and delivery of the engravings having been proved,
Dlr. PLATT objected to the plaintiff's right to recover, on the ground
that the prints were immodest and offensive. The subjects were copied
from old masters, and several figures in a state of nudity, were, in his
opinion, calculated to produce an immoral effect. Cupid and Pysche,
and other compositions, in which the god of love and the goddess of
=fanned the principal objects, were mast objectionable. The
Counsel produced specimens of tha prints, which were inspected
by the Jury.
Mr. GUMMY, in support of the plaintiff's danand, could not admit
that the prints were subject to the objection taken by his learned friend.
He was, and always been, an enemy to obscenity, but in these prints
he could see nothing injurious to morals. They were copies from
Raphael and other misters, and if a legal:objeetion could be sustained
against the engravings sold by the plaintiff, the most celebrated works
must fall under lftal prohibition.
Lord TIWITIMIN left the Jury to decide, upon the opinion they
might foe= of the engravings ; and they found or the plaintiff—
Damages, tIdL

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS-MAY 16.

James Puny, a private watchman, in the employ of Edward Bald-
win, better known as White-headed Bob, the proprietor of the Coach
and Horses, St. Martin's-Lane, was found guilty of stealing a coat,
value 365. the property of Mr. Charles Pitman.
James Wen. Rosser, 13 years of age, but an old offender, was found
guilty of stealing to the value of 14s. and sentenced to seven years'
transportation, as the only means of sawing his life.
Hannah Gorman alias Kelly, a poor looking woman, was indicted
capitally foe uttering counterfeit coin, having previously been a person
convicted as a common utterer of base money. The prisoner had an
infant apparently about four months old in her arms.
Mr. Scarlet and Mr. Ellis conducted the prosecution on the part of
hisittesty's Mint.
Sa
rah Ward stated, that between nine and ten o'clock on the even-
ing of the 16th of April, the prisoner called at witness's shop and offered
her a sixpence in payment of some bread.; observing that it was not
good, witness returned it, and as the prisoner was walking out of the
shop, she was taken into custody.
By the Lamed Judge : Witness gave no information, but she was
taken up on the instant, and before witness had any idea that an officer
was after her.
The Learned JUDOS asked whether this was the case intended to be
relied upon ?
Mr. Scauramr replied In the negative, and called
Mrs. Wright, who stated that she was landlady of the Star public-
house, Rosemary-lane; the prisoner and two other females had a pint
of beer at witness's bar on the 16th of April, and tendered in payment
a counterfeit sixpence: as soon as witness observed that it was bed, she
said, " This is the second bad coin which has been offered to me within
these ten minutes." The prisoner made no reply, but seizing the six-
pence ran out, followed by the two other fetneles.
Eleanor Parker, another landlady, stated that the prisoner on the same
day offered her a bad sixpence, which she refused to take, and a police
officer subsequently took it from her.
The police constable stated that when he took the sixpence from the
prisoner at Mrs. Parker's, he cautioned her against passing any more.
She was however, in an hour after, brought in custody for attezectlilne
to pass a bad sixpence to Mn. Ward. Although the prisoner
that she had no bad money about her, a bad shilling, and another bed
sixpence was found In her pocket.
Mr. Field, the inspector of counterfeit coin to the Mint, proved that
the coins produced by the officer were counterfeit.
Mr. Powell, the assistant solicitor to the Mint, produced a copy of
the prisoner's conviction at the Middlesex Sessions, together with a
woman named Fox, as a common utterer ofbase coin.

The prisoner, when called upon to make her defence, merely called
for mercy on account of bet four infants.
Bland, the turnkey of the House of Correction, proved that the pri-
soner bad been under his are in virtue of her sentence.
Mr. Justice LITIVIDALE summed up the evidence.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
George Smith, aged 34, clerk, was indicted capitally for cutting,
separating, and seating away two stamps, for 251. each, on the 16th of
April last, with intent feloniously to alliz them to other documents,
for the purpose of defrauding and cheating the Commissionenof the
Stansp4ke.