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WORCESTER HERALD, MARCH 11.

Should the Ministerial measure of Reform be carried, this County
will return two additional Members, and several Gentlemen have al-
ready been named as likely to announce themselves as candidates im-
mediately the Bill becomes law. For the honour of representing the
town of Dudley, which is to return one member, a highly respectable
individual in the vicinity of the town will, it is stated, come forward;
and Mr. Godson, the barrister, has already avowed himself a candidate
for Kidderminster.
The " Worcester Political Union," on Monday, agreed upon an ad-
dress to the King, and a petition to the House of Commons, the former
praying his Majesty to persevere in supporting his Ministers in their
Llan of Reform, and the latter intreating the House to pass the
The address was on Wednesday forwarded to Viscount Melbourne, and
the petition to the Marquis of Blindfold and Mr. Hunt.
A meeting in favour of the Reform Bill is to be held at Evotham
to-
morrow.
The counties of Hereford and Worcester will meet for the same pur-
pose on the 19th instant.
An address of thanks and gratitude to his Majesty's Ministers for
their plan of reform • and also expressing a pledge of support to them,
is about to be sent from the borough of Ludlow.
The Lent assizes commenced on Monday. Mr. Justice Bonsanquet
took his seat in the Crown Court, where a large body ut tile io.iAistracy
and gentry had already assembled, including the Earl of Pit ntoo.h, the
Hon. and Rev. Lord Astor, % iicount Deerhurst, Lion. Wm. James
Coventry, Sir T. E. Winnington, Bait. Sir C. S. Smith, Bart. Sir
Edward Blount, Bart. Bc. 'The following were impanelled to form
the Grand Jury :
Lord Vicount Deerhurst, Foreman.
lion. Wm. J. Coventry. R. Hudson, Esq.
Sir T. E. Winnington. IT. Pargerer,
Sir Edward Blount. W. C. Russell, Esq.
Sur C.C. Smith. T. Marriott, Esq.
Si, A. Lccbmere. I T. B. Cooper, &q. M.D.
Lechmere, Esq.

W. Wall, Esq. E. H.
J. J. Martin, -Esq. T. Hawkes, Esq.
J. Brown, Esq. J. Williams, Esq.
C. E. Hanford, Esq. J. Patrick, Esq.
T. H. Bond. Esq. J. H. Hellen, Esq.
A. Skey, F.sq. R. E. E. Slynors, Esq.
With respect to the more serious acmes contained in the calendar, it
will be noticed that a conviction took place in the case of Thomas
illaughter, a lad charged with the crime of arson at Eltnley Lover, in
Ibis county. and he now lies under sentence of death, with, we under-
stand, 110 hopes of remission. George Webb, indicted for a murderous
assault upon a fellow workman at Sutton, near Tenbury, and fouud
guilty, is to be transported fur life. In the cases of William White
and Thomas Crockett, indicted for the wilful murder of the
wife of the former, by administering a poisonous drug,
' for the alleged purpose of producing miscarriage, the grand
jury threw out the bill against White, and Crockett was acquitted;
As Grand Jury were under the necessity, from circumstances which
were formully represented by their foreman, to dismiss the bill preferred
/be a rape at Dudley, involving five prisoners. There were three eon.
vletions likewise in charges arising out of the riots at Kidderminster, in
August last. In the whole, jt,dgment of death was recorded against
no less :hen thirty-five prisoners, of which number seven were tor norm.
Waling, and six for sheep-stealing. In the Nisi Prins Court, twenty.
three muses were entered for ttial, viz. seventeen for the county, and six
fir the city. It was put twelve o'clock on Wednesday night befote the
whole were got through, but, excepting to the parties at issue in them,
they possessed little interest.
Frederick Garnett, 19, pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging
him with having broken open the stable of Mr. John Smith, of F
bury, and stolen t hereout a black cart ally, a mullin and a halter.—
Whin taken before the magistrates at Droitwich. he ;nade a voluntary
omission, which was produced in court as evidence against hint. In
this confession the prisoner stated, that Martin Smith, a son of the pro.
mentor's. residing in Worcester (and who was indicted for counselling
Unmet to commit the felony, but against whom the bill was
*owed), had induced hint to assist in fetching the mare from
his father's on the night in question, which he said was his property,
and that he would give prisoner something if he would sell her for him.
The prisoner, in his defence made the same statement to the court. and
added that Martin Smith informed the magistrates that be had told pri-
soner the mare belonged to hint. " Yet, said the prisoner, " Smith is
let out of gaol—mat roguish thing I should be tried for his crime."
Thu jury, after a short consultation, delivered In a verdict of Guilty,
what the prisoner, with great effrontery, exclaimed, "You say wrong;
I'm as innocent as any of you are ; any that say that, ought to be tried
for their life." His lordship then directed judgment of death to be re.

corded. Upon leaving the dock, the prisoner again exclaimed, ‘, if ILI,
is law, I don't know what law is—damn such laws."
Francis Crockett, a man wearing a carter's frock, was charged wits
: ,
the wilful murder of Jane White. of Upton.upon.Severo, he
ministering rock mercury to her, mixed with water.
Mr. Godson. for the prosecution, said that the &ceased svo., the ~t
of William White, and it would appear that the prisoner dealt a
in the science of physic, occasionally giving his advice, and oh.° dru
to his ;toot neighbours. It might be that he knew the effect of
drugs he administered, but the great probability was, that he waf
sufficiently acluainted with them. It would be proved that the ct„
ceased Mrs. V. bite died on Friday, the lith of August; and it woL,;,)
be shown that she had on the Wednesday before been attended bt. ;,
surgeon, and that on the Sunday morning previous to that, ehe tine,
have taken something which deranged her constitution.
Mr. Twinberrow said—l have analyzed the contents of a honk
The contents were oxymuriate of mercury, which is more commonly
called corrosive sublimate. I had a box sent to me that contained
three parcels, in two of which were corrosive sublimate, and in the thin,
parcel was calomel. They contain about a drachm and a half each. It
a person came to me for corrosive sublimate, I should not sell it te him :
but it I did, 1 should sell a drachm of it for a penny. Four pone.
worth would be about half an ounce, but I think that from five to ter
grains would be fatal. The bottle and the box were identified by Mr.
Goodman.

Mr. Day was called, but not entninml.
Mr. Justice Bosanquet. Really it would be much too dangerous fot
me to call on this prisoner for his defence. The question is not of what
this person died, but who it was that gave her that which caused het
death P These is no proof that the prisoner saw her before site was
and there is no proof that he had given her anything. It might he that
she died from the administering of corrosive sublimate, but still, though
the prisoner bought some of that article, it was an article used in tiled:.
clue, and whether he administered it, or whether it was administered by
the husband, there was no evidence, as the statements made by the de.
ceased were made under such circumstances as to render them not ad-
mistlable. Gentlemen of the Jury you must acquit the prisoner. Vet.
diet, Not Guilty.
Mr. Justice Bosanquet—Prisoner. I hope you will be very cootie:is
how you administer medicines, for if you administer these dangerous
medicines without sufficient caution, and the person dies, you will to
guilty of manslaughter, and if you administer them to procure abortion.
yeu will be guilty of a felony.
The prisoner—My Lord, I did not do this.
Mr. Justice Bosanquet-1 say this as a caution to you and other
pea le.
THE KIDDERMINSTRIL RlOTS.—James Pickford, aged 17, Inn.
Maiele, aged 17, and George Dorrell, aged 25, carpet wcavers. Against
these prisoners various indictments were preferred, upon charges arising
out of the serious riots which occurred in the town of Kidderminster, is
August last. Vm. Maiele was placed at the bar, charged with having
been a ringleader, and one of the most active amongst the rioters during
the tumults before referred to. It was shown by the evidence of a person
named Wm. Jones, and John Hughes, a constable, that about nine is
the evening, the mob had assembled to the number of 2,1100, opposite
the house of Mr. Cole, of the Black Horse inn, in Mill.street, at the
windows of which stones were being thrown, when some one cried out,
" Dout the lamps, or there will be no good done." Upon which, the
prisoner, taking up the cry, said, " Now, boys, the lamps, the lamps,"
and being lifted up, he put out one near him with his hat. He the:.
exclaimed, " Now, hop, come on.' He then led the snob through tla
Bull Ring into the High.street, where, and during their progress thither,
he extinguished several other lamps. Not being able to reach the burner
of one, he broke the pipe off ; and at one of the inns the mob compelled
the ostler to bring him a ladder in order that he might get up to the lamp
by it. A Mr. Branford appeared for the prisoner, who spoke to his ge.
neral quiet and correct conduct; and Mr. Godson made an inge.tious
defence to the jury in his behalf, but called no witnesses. Thesen once
was, that he be further imprisoned and kept to bard labour for the space
of six calendar months.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
LANCASTER, MARCH 12.

livapita.—Moses Pelmet, was Convicted of the wilful murder to
John Helton Horrobin, his stepchild, aged four years and ten months.
It was proved by a woman who took care of the prisoner's house in the
absence of his wife, then working in a weaver's shop in Salford, that on
the morning laid in the indictment, the prisoner went into the room in
which the child was sleeping, and that on his return he said to the
woman, "Mary Anne, little Johnny, is ray ill." The child at the
same moment was heard to moan, and say, " Father, my throat t
sore." In about half an hour afterwards the prisoner brought the de.
ceased out of the room. It WM. then foaming at the mouth, and had
all the appearance of having taken sulphuric acid. After its death,
which occurred in a very short time, the stomach afforded abundant eri.
dens: of its having swallowed that acid. Evidence was given of the
prisoner's having boasted in the New Bailey prison at Manchester, that
he had murdered the child, but that no one could prove the fact against
I him. The prisoner was ordered for execution on Monday.
Thomas Falvey was indicted for the wilful murder of Charles Burn,
and John Falvey was charged with being an accomplice in the second
degree, in aiding and abetting Thomas Falvey to commit the said
murder. It will be recollected that the deceased was a merchant at
Liverpool, whose place of residence was two or three miles out of
town, and that Its was murdered whilst returning home on the night of
the 9th of October lett. The evidence of the approver was in many
instances, but not very strongly, confirmed by other witnesses.—The
prisoners were acquitted of the murder, but remain in custody on the
charge of highway robbery.
LINCOLN, MARCH 10.
M URDEa.—Michael Lundy was convicted of the wilful murder of
Thomas Sewards. The prisoner and the deceased, to whose daughter
he was married, were natives of the county of Sligo, and had, on
the morntng of the 29th of July last, hired themselves to a farmer,
named Wilson, living in the hamlet of Grimsthorpe, in Lincolnshire.
After their day's work they retired to sleep in a barn, and in less than
two hours, it would appear trout the evidence, that Lundy murdered
the deceased with a carpenter's axe. About sesen o'clock on that night
the prisoner came to Mr. Wilson's dwelling-house, and alarmed the
inmates by cries of Murder." He said that he had been attacked in
the barn by an Englishman, and had fled to avoid being murdered by
him. When asked as to the deceased, the prisoner said that he left hint
asleep in the barn. Several persona instantly proceeded to the barth
and found the deceased lying dead, with a carpenter's axe buried in his
face. near the mouth, and a wound in the head as if from the back of
the axe. The prisoner was ordered for execution on Monday.
Richard Cross was convicted of the manslaughter of James Tomlin-
son. It appeared that the prisoner struck the deccasol with a clasp-
knife in the side, whilst they were quarrelling near the Angel inn,
Spalding. The prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life.