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PANORAMA OF _ THE BRITISH

FRAMS ON CREDITORS.
TO THE ED!TOR OF TILE STAR. •
Si bez your attention to a few objections,
y hi;.ll may be, in your hands, usefully suggested,
to ti.e hill introdired by Lord Wynford, and now
vending in the !louse of Lords, I think it quite
Igemonetrable that, should the learned lord's bill
pass into a law, it cannot prevent any one fraud
now practicable, whilst it is equally proveable that
it will enable every unprincipled debtor to defraud
to a greater extent than he could at present, his
honest and confiding tradesmen and shopkeepers.
let me suppose the Honourable A. B. or Lord
Viscount C. D. the eldest sons of peers, or heirs
of commonen, to be launched upon the town (as
the phrase runs), with but a moderate outfit from
their parents, —they very soon contract debts with
their tailors, coach builders, and horse dealers;—
their parents nre probably unwilling, or unable, to
discharge those improperly incurred debts ;—these
young prodigals, when pressed by their creditors,
will soon discover how to be relieved, and they
need only to get a friend to make a writ for £lOO,
and, at the end of three months, a commission of
Ilankrup:ey will issue, end these sparks of fashion
xvi;l be liberated from all debts whatsoever due
prior to the bankruptcy, and all their future pro- i
petty will be thus protected from their past debts
of every kind. Now many cheats and saripalers
will take up goods, and borrow money, and fail,
what is called full-handed, then get discharged,
and set up with the plunder thus acquired ;—and
this will be entirely owing to Lord Wynford's Act:
for you are aware that hitharto merchants and
those concerned in trade were the only persons who
could take advantage of the bankrupt laws. Thus
I have proved, Sir, that Lord Wynford enables the
ilisho,.est debtor to deceive and defraud honest
creditors.

MOIRE.

I shall now prove that honest inexperienced
debtors may be ruined, should Lord NV's Bill be-
come law. How often does it happen that young
men give theif bills to advertising money-brokers to
raise money, and bow frequently does it occur that
those miscreants concert those drafts to their own
account, and procure an unfortunate young man to
he arrested for twenty thousand pounds, when there
is not one shilling really due. Let me suppose
this unfortunate young man to be arrested; and
though he has a good defence in law to make, yet
as he is unable to give bail in double the amount
of the sum marked, he is liable to be declared a
bankrupt, and all his property, both in possession
and reversion, may be sold, and that in conse-
quence of Lord Wynford's inconsiderate legislation
which favours, much more than it prevents,
frauds. _ _ _

SHEFFIELD COURANT, Jo* lb.
The Assizes fee the county of York commenced on Sa-
turday lut. Mr. Baton Vaughan arrived a little after five
o'clock, Mr. Justice Parke having been detained in Lawlor,
on account of the illness of a daughter.
Charles Briggs and Janke Briggs, who were convicted at
the lut assizes of feloniously sidling, kicking, and wound-
ing Wm. broil, in the neighbourhood of Hatfield, on Sun-
day night, the 9th of January, with intent to do him some
grievous bodily harm, were then called up to receive
judgment, their case having been submitted to the consi-
deration of the Judges.
His Lordship, in passing sentence, observed that the
prisoners had been convicted under the statute of 9 Gee.
IV. cap. 31, see. 11, which re-enacted a former statute, the
43d of Geo. 111. cap. 68, with an addition. The 434 of
Geo. 111. cap. 38, made it a capital offence for any person
malidouly to cut or stab any person with intent to murder
or do some grievous bodily harm, and under that statute the
Judges held that it was necessary that the wound should be
committed by some instrument capable of cutting or stabbing.
and that an indictment could not be sustained if the wound
were inflicted by a blunt instrument. His Lordship, in or-
dering Judgment of Death to be recorded, intimated to the
prisoners that their offence was a serious one, as it was corn-
witted to prevent the course of justice, and that though he
should feel it right to recommend them to his Majesty's
royal clemency, they must expect to be transported beyond
the aces, for the term of their natural lives.
Reuben Goodeer was indicted for feloniously stabbing,
cutting, and wounding-Hannab his wife with intent to mur-
der her. A. true bill was found against the prisoner at the
last Assizes, but the trial was postponed on account of the
proseentrix having been taken in labour on the mornings}
pointed for the trial. Mr. Hardy and Mi. Milner wean 11l
the prosecution, and Mr. Cottinghem defended the priest*
In his defence, the prisoner said he was sorry for what bad
happened ; he was in liquor at the time, or he should not
have done any thing of the sort be not know how it
was. .A general verdict of Not Guilty was recorded, and
the prisoner was discharged on entering into recognizances
with two aunties in the sum of 1001 each to keep the
peace, and be of good behaviour towards his wife for the
space of four years.
MALICIOUS STABBING AT HAISLOGATE...... Francis
Wilson, aged 19, was indicted for maliciously stabbing
William Siddall, with a knife, with intent to murder him.
—The Jury found the prisoner guilty of stabbing, with its.
tent to do .some grievous bodily harm, and reesmosmisd
him to mercy.—His Lordship in ordering *Waist of
Death to be recorded against him, said he had doubts upon
his mind whether he should not suffer the law to take its
course upon him, on account of the prevalence of this bar-
barous offence, but in consequence of the good character he
had received, and the rem- dation of the jury, be
should not think he his duty to the public

*WU& ne was neglecting a.
in recommending him to his Majesty's clemency, on -condi-
tion that he should be transported for life.
EXTENSIVE Sueep STEAM/M.—Daniel *Simpson and
Peter Simpson pleaded guilty to three indictments charging
them with having stolen a large number of sheep the pro.
petty of different farmers residing in the neighbourhood of
Wold Newton, in the East Riding. Daniel Simpson* who
has been for some years a local preacher amongst the Wes.
leyan methodists then requested permission to address the
COWL Leave being given, he said that be had not the
slightest intention of offering any thing by way of justifies.
tion, as he was quite aware that the laws of his country did
not sanction any such acts as those of which be had just
confessed himself guilty. It was, however, his intention,
with his lordship's leave, to state the causes by which he
had been hurried into the commission of those enormous
acts, and the motives by which he bad been actuated. be
then entered at considerable length into the circumstances

It has been well said that a commission of bank-
ruptcy was the best commission in the King's gift.
Lord Brougham is not fond of increasing even his
own patronage, and he ought not to suffer such a
bill to pass unopposed. This bill, in addition to all
other objections, is an ox post facto law, for it
subjects debtor, and creditor to a code
of laws to which neither were liable when they
contracted with each other—it cannot be matter
of regulation to subject parties to a penal code to
which they were not liable when their dealing. com•
menced. As well might Lord Wynford propose an
act to make it lawful that a man who borrows
at the rate of five per cent. par annum, shall, not-
w :distending, pay ten per cent. to the creditor, or
become a bankrupt. Has the learned lord con-
sulted with those classes moat interested in the
subject, and best acquainted with the present law
between debtor and creditor ? And has lie ob-
tained any sufficiently weight• authority, to enable
him to assert, that, for the ends of juatice, the
Bankrupt Laws should be extended ? For my
prt, Mr. Editor, I am convinced that it would not
he for the advantage of creditors, that ever• spend-
thrift heir to an estate, all of the learned proles-
slims, _every artist, every teacher, every actor,
musician, or dancer, should be unaided to resort to
the convenience of Bankrupt Law. Most of these
earn large sums; and can it be for the advantage
of creditors that such persons should have the pi i-
vilego of purchasing this, commission, uhich the
v.itty Foote represented, and, with truth, as so
valuable ? It cannot be for' the benefit of trade
that such persons should be enabled to secure all
property acquired subsequent to their bankruptcy,
from becomingliable to the payment of their i tors .
In conclusion, Mr. Editor, allow me to express m••
!nu:prize, that the gallantry of the Lords did not
suggest some proviso in favour of the Ladies, so as
ti: rescue them from the pains and penalties, to
which Lord Wynford's harshlegislation will other-
wise subject them.
A TRADESMAN FOR SELF AND OTHERS.

',Many Gelds of barley have been cut within these
days in this vicinity. The harvest wi:l bnome
f;onerai in the course of a week. The crops are
most abundant.—Plymouth Journal.
• The Infitietiza in Essex is almcst universal ; and
like most epidemic disorders in that county, it as-
sumes frequently an intermittent character. There
are two principal forms in which it appears here.
Tl.e first is the form in which it attacks adults ;
anal consists of headache, lumbago, and drowsiness,
It:::trwod by vomiting, purging, and catarrh, with
wi,ich the disorder goes off. In children it is
Tiincipallivident dry cough. and cold, and few have
escaped it. Those who have lived low, have come
off the best.

of himself and his father during the last seventeen years,
during the former half of which time he had struggled hard
to relieve his father from his insolvency; and at his death, in
1825, had voluntarily made himself liable for the payment of
his father's debts, though not legally responsible. Notwith.
standing he bad considerably increased :he produce of his farm,
by adopting an improved system of agriculture, his affairs
were not materially bettered, but he contrived to maintain his
Credit, and to pay the interest upon loans which had been
made to him. At length, in the spring of the present year,
lan execution was issued out against him for a considerable
sum ; but out of regard far his nanternus creditors, who had
' befriended him in his difficulties, he made an arrangement
with his execution creditor, by which he was prevented
front sweeping away all his property, and depriving his other
creditors of their just proportion. As his brother refused to
assist him further, unless he would compound with his crc.
ditors, he was induced to take the property of his pro-
secutors, though not with the smallest idea that any of them
should suffer any loss; and, indeed. in order to prevent
that, he entered all the property he took in a book, and spent
thrice as much time in valuing them as he should have
done if valuing them for MI indifferent person. He drove
the sheep to York, and stood with them in the fair for
six Lour., though he could have sold them without
digiceilty to a drover from Leicestershire, if he would have
eel:mined to a reduction of five per cent. from the sum be
had valued them at. The prisoner stated that several of
his prosecutors had received their sheep again, and conclud-
ed his address in the following terms : —" My Loid, I
solemnly avow, not by way of justification, that I am not
here straigned for an offence committed with a view of en.
noising myself—not with any view of gratifying my own
sensual appetitica ; for my neighbours know that I have
never been drunk for twenty years--1 have never smoked a
pipe—my habits have been most economical. I ant not
larraigned by the malignity of my prosecutors, but righteous.
• ly ;it was the love of my creditors that induced me to
commit this offence, as I could not bear that any of them
Ishould suffer any loss by me. I therefore leave myself in
the hands of my Judge."
Mr. Cottirghatn, who appeared for the prisoners, then
I called, to speak to their characters, the Rev. J. Banks, in-
cumbent of %Vold Newton, Sir. Thomas Gibson. the largest
farmer in the parish of Weld Newton, Mr. F. Hutchinson,
Mr. P. Grice, and Mr. J. Wetson, all of %Vold Newton ;
and Mr. It. Jennings. solicitor, of Bridlington, all of whom
had knoen tile prisoners nearly 20 years. Mr. lithey, of Fox
111 s, ntY3 of the prosecutors, who had lost 9 ewes and Li
said le !lad known Daniel Sampson nearly 20 years, and
never lit tl heard any thing against him in his life befute.—
He was a man well respected by his neighbours, and was
always thought to be an honest, good dispositioned sort of
young man. lie was sure that if he had seen him in the
fold among the sheep, at dead of night, he should never
have suspected that he was about to steal any. Ile recom-
mended him to mercy. His lordship tedeted the prisouers
to stand down, saying he should consider their case.
ALB IVALS AT A SEX it :re--Mr. and Mrs. Pearl, from
Jamaica ; Sirs. Clarke, Barnby Moor ; Sirs. Jones, and
Mrs. Daniel, County Sleuth, Ireland ; Miss Workman,
Adw t:k le-street; Miss Shirley, Sheffield; Mrs. Coldwell,
New Inn, Leendug Lane ; Mr. Hodgson, Woodhouse, near
Sheffield ; Mrs. Jackson, Fairborn ; Mr. Forster. Ponte-
fract ; ,Mrs. Holt rev. Doncaster ; Mr. L. S. Bitching,
Lads; Mr. David Heinsworth, Monk Fryston ; Mr. Sits.
aped Miss Deplege, Hull ; G. A. Sharp, Esq. Retford ;
Mr. Reed, Birininghato ; Mr. end Mrs. Louis, Hull;
Mrs. and Sli-s Hickson, East Retford ; Mr. and Mrs.
Bullivant and family, East Ratted ; Misses Matthews,
Sir. le.ekee.td. Sir. Snoby, Miss Swallow, Mr. Hems.
worth, Mr Dickinscns, Jarvis Empeon, Esq;.J. Schofield,
Esi. G. Wilt, Esq. J. Robertson, Eq. Sir. John Atkinson,
Ferreleidee ; Mr Rater, liedalesey ; Misses Pye, Hat-
field ; W. C. Ilszlewectl, Esq. Mr. Hadley, Gainthre;
fit. Itimineton, Barfield; Miss Adams. Littte Houghton;
Clarke, Sea. J. Howe, Mr. W. Rogerson, Cools.
broueb ; Sir. . Berke', Raweliffe ; . Rev. J. Ch.lmers
and family, Steffen!; Miss Workman, Alntholtte ; Sir.
Thomas Ferdeley, Mr. T. Chorley, aureeon, Leeds; Mr. T.
Browne Thorne; Sir. and Mrs. Priestly, Leeds ; Mr. Mrs.
' and Miss Burke,, Hoocaster.
RURAL VEN4V.ANCE.—Last week, about two acres cf
Swede turnips, growing at Ashbourn, Derbyshire, wire ma-
' licintutly pulled tip.
The Cromford and High Peak railway was opened last
wee!: for the transmission of goods.
BittnetsicTorn—This deligh,fully and increasingly fa.
shit neble watering place, boasts even at the present early
period, a large accession of visitors.
MARRIED.— A. George Martin, Esq. of Saeciall.
grove, near Doncaster, to Maria, eldest daughter of Sir.
Wm. Wrenshall, of Liverpool—William, youngest son of
John Hunnicliffe, Esq. Clifton Hall, near Ashburn% to
Anne, second daughter of Mr. Samuel Harrison, Eq. of
Helper Lar n.—At Rugby, the Rev. J. W. Totnlinon,
M.A. to Caroline, eldeat daughter of the Rev. I'. B. Ho.
poet, Setrrington, John Keld, Esq. M.D. of Scar-
borough, to Arabella, daughter of the Rev. H. J. TodJ, of
Set trington.
DIED—Mr. Henry Pickftird, aged 25. The attainments
of this interesting and excellent young man were of a supe.

'FaE.AKS OP THE BOROUGH ARISTOCRACY.—
We learn that his Grace the Duke of i',larl-
beronal,, it, imitation of the Duke of Newcastle,
wild ether worthy borough patrons, is 840 deter•
• laded to dn. what Le will with his own ; and has
eccortihigly. scut messages to Mr. W ilks, a re-
spectable coach-proprietor at Woodstock—to M.
' Palmer, the principal surgeon there--and to Mr.
'• Mears, the glove manufacturer to his Majesty—
.-.forbidding them or their families from ever again
entering Blenheim Park, which' is open to all the
other inhabitunisof the town ; the reason a§igned
'being, that the three gentleman named took a
-
very `Prominent part iu promotiog the.election of
the independent candidate, Sir. BuekinOiam,
against..bis braces' ego Lord Chat!.. Spencer
,(...L'huMiiill,,And his other nominee, Lord Stormont !
"{Such ire the
.ste.n.s bk. which some nub!e per-
:ffMr/tres i:birik it ',it...4 tu maintain the " dignity
iStll:Oir.CiiJer.".Thet public may, perhaps, think,
ibiit 'o,l.3lk;:l,;:iin isaik,wp given by the Crown to
to "Lii,hei nicestor m • public services, and has
Ltr supported hit a e rant from the funds of the
. c.ii:rb7+; it
.4', I, ,come Ps present Gr•ce to ex-
.,*elqi_:.::ii:y, of le..l‘.7mje.ity'3 subjects for their
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Sat ender ; and sysslally must they be so regarded when tjecture. At this vosseet (three o'clock,) the, grand jury
Mob ?se had spasm have latiseeied, • dot filmy are "Wog to dad a bill ice man-
ed'aressiviagsstudy 'stew .considered. Having "%tightly oisturseder=idoiesne esmormisseed with
oneh an education as is ommleen lia• alit and dig is amber with eke Chief
rises in d!
~ a osfin_soll,ir he. coofeoerivg trek, It. o
abovenew 147 t Iseened
fhwleT usytholimelt., But if weft a bill
fbrani.it as
arbg%
whterstudy be pursued pliriseay not be .tided, and in is peemeaurat
with so much spas.% al without the aide/ masters, all. ,14Ms weld he a end dannsen,* wad inapt* stfielml
that between. the ago of 17 and the eanneoseeteet di his with dissilleensicemeweences. Bo dele is the meek et the
Moms, he had optabal a osesiOroblepoldelmoy he *WO jury, and set tie tosoo. Lord Valenta is an the pad
ill of en itimeep of the isee—Mmy„ will of the *iv. jury. , The pod rc. is, that it wend be mach
R. Sykes ef West-Ella. better if he rembsed for much of the bad bleed that ex.
PRIIINANW JOURNAL, Ady 16 to 10. lets is traced to bit at the last elestio. Mr. Cos.
The Omegans. of the North have, in spite of elegy tell°, has Meeme..Regarty, gauss, and Mist, to aid as
effort of government to prevent it, celebrated the last 14th counsel; and pile Corcoran, a local spat, who is well ac.
of July in the MOM manner that they were accustomed to quainted with the county, will attend to the swearing of the
do in the very waist days of Orange ascendancy. For our jury, if the trial goes on.
own part, we are delighted at it. Stanley himself can no don- Wier 01D, July 19.—Judge Johnston took his seat an
ger Pretend ignorance et the true character of the Orange the bench at the usual hour.
YtmnenrY t eod if best hould DOWesitate to disarm them, The grand jury, who, as stated in our last, bad adjourned
we the Catholics meet In every part of Ireland, the preceding eret without having decided as ow the
and petition for the removal of the Secretary and system, billsof indictment against the accused, assembled this ism-
which has left their lives, persons, and properties, at the iag at ten o'clock, their room, where they remained till
mercy of an armed bondluL--Witlerford Chronicle. a few minutes before twelve, when being sent for by his
A letter from Omagh The reads on all skies of the lordship, they appeared in their box, and their names were
town, extending to a distance of several miles, were covered called over—all answered but Lord Valenti& who, it was
with crowds of men, women, and boys, dressed in orange, stated, had left the room about four minutes previously, and,
acemnpealed by music, gags, &c. he. The party who came as we understood, from indisposition; be afterwards ap-
from glum& Cross, were headed by a hlr. Irwin, a Lieu- paired in the bon
tenant of Yeomanry, and numbers of them arrived with Judge Johnston then addressed them as follows :—Gen-
yeomanry muskets and flied bayonets, loaded double-bar- demos Of the Brand Jury, you have now had bills of in-
felled fowling-piacts, pistols, swords, &c. Ac. The New- dictment before you since yesterday, and I would wish to be
town.stewart party were armed much in the same way, and Informed, through your foreman, what you have door, or
also accompanied by a young Lieutenant of the Yeomanry whether you have come to any conclusion ?
corps of that place. The town of Ballygawley was also a Lord gtopford—nly Lord, we have found no gills against
scene of the same display; here the magistrates permitted three of the prisoners, Win. Devitt, Thomas GIS and
tmeq.abigal to be arranged premeditatedly i an orange deg John Denceo, but we are willing to entertain bills against
was flying over the King's arms on the Court-house, the Wm. Gi and Mr. Graham, for manslaughter.
semblance of authority in the patronising the splay I the His Lodi Then the regular course for you would be
terrified Catholics prudently took tbe advice of the better to require bills of indictment for manslaughter to be now
order of Protestants and their pastors, by avoiding all coil- Bent before you.
Won and thereby providentially saved themselves from The Foremen expressed his assent.
butchery. Many of the Orangemen were drunk, having Sir William Cox (Jame): My Lord, I wish to ask year
open tents selling spirits In different directions. In fact, lordship one question. If a military body be called net,
the roads, for a distance of thirty miles, were covered with and if the commander give the order to fire, whether those
those outrageous processions. acting under his command are exempt from the con.
BATTLE AT Bawnernas.—The battle lasted for two sequence, ?
hours. The Catholics were driven towards the Bann, and, big Lordship : My opinion is, that no subject of the
in endeavouring to cross it, four of them were drowned ; one ging is wood' to obey an illegal order ; and if an officer
of their party was also killed by a gun-shot wound. At
least one of the Orange parry was killed; but the wounded, gives an Illegal order, those who obey him are not, in my
opinion, exempt.
on both sides, are more numerous than either will acknow. Juror: Then, my lord, is the soldier to be the judge
ledge. After the tight, the Orangemen proceeded to wreck for himself in the case, whether be is to obey the order
every Catholic house on the way of their journey homeward. or not ii
They smashed the furniture, threw out butter, milk, cheese, His Lordship t I suppose so.
&c. and even wounded, with gun-shots, many old deerePta Juror: Then, this being so, the circumstances will be
women received below in mitigation ?
_ _. . - .

His Lordship I have nothing to do with that.
The Jory, on this, retired.
Mr. Green (LC.) and Mr. Costello, immediately on this,
conferred for a few moments, when Mr. Costello withdrew,
for himself and the other agent on the same side, further co•
Xron with the Crown in prosecuting for the minor
ctie. Mr. Green, for the Crown, declining to persevere,
and new bills were accordingly soon after sent up by Mr.
Hemmis.
Some time after this, Mr. Fogarty came Into Court, aid
begged his Lordship to indulge him, as counsel for the toast
of kin, in a few observations. The Crown bad permitted
the co-operation of counsel for the friends of the deceased, and
be weld say, that up to the present hour the gentlemen ea
the other aide had acted with the most perfect co-operation._
*Meal for the deceased, he was bound to say, gave every
credit to those gentlemen concerned for the Crown peens.
dew. Up to this period they had acted most cordially Se.
webw • however, since the Grand Jury had come into=
Costello and counsel for the next of kin had deli
meths; and the result was, that they (for the deemed)
mid ow longer co-operate with the gentlemen for the Crown,
its pseasenting for the minor offence.
Mr. Green, on the part of the crown, felt it his duty to
prosecute in this case to the utmost, whether they bad the
co-operation of Counsel for the next kin or not.
Mr. Fogarty—So far from their offering to throw any
biome on the Counsel for the Crown, for the course they
were about to pursue, that were he (Mr. F.) acting for the
Crown, he should feel it his duty to pursue precisely a shat.
her line.
At three o'clock, the bills against Wm. Gilfoyle having
been found a few minutes before, the prisoner was put to the
bar and indicted, that he on the 18th of June, in the Ist see
of the Bing, did, at Newtownbarry, feloniously assault
Slulruoney, with a gun, charged with a leaden bullet, self
be discharged at her, and with the leaden bullet hit her is
,Ilis right side, of which she died.
The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty in a loud voice, and in
a tone equally audible declared himself then ready for''
The following witnesses were then called for on the pro-
secution, the four first of whom had sent in informatior.s Zan
remaining four had not, but had received Crown summon-
ses, and all had been before the Grand Jury :—" Terence
O'Brien Mark Devereux, Harry Hogan, Charles Morris,
John Curran, Moses Doyle, John Redmond, Joseph
Burne.
Not one of them, however, answered to their names,
though repeatedly called, on the penalty of forfeiting their
recognisance&
His Loaustrir on this raid, that he presumed the wit-
susses had gone, not thinking that the trial would come on
at so late an hour. He, therefore, now gave public notice
that he would be ready to proceed with the trial at nine
o'clock next morning.
A Quarts-ea PAST Foua.—The bills against Captain
Graham, for manslaughter, have been just ignored ! and he
was in four indictments.
The Freeman's Journal, received this morning, states
that the Grand Jury could not agree to find bills for mur-
der, bills for manslaughter were subsequently sent up by the
government counsel, counsel employed by the friends of the
deceased having very properly refused to join even in doing,
so. The result was that the bills against Captain Graham
were ignored, those against °Moyle, a policeman, found l !!
And so there was not even a prima facie case against a
single yeoman. It was so clear, so certain a thing, that it
ought not even to go to a petty jury for investigation !
The :flail is in raptures. We confess we have quite dif-
ferent feelings. 11 c have not yet learned to rejoice at a
circumstance so deplorable. Nor do we envy the condition,
which compels a journalist to defend a transaction, that must
afflict every person of the slightest tincture of humanity.—
The Mail says:
" There is in cur moral economy as in our physical con-
struction, a class of diseases generated which requires the
letting of blood. The symptoms manifested at Newtown.
berry called for such a remedy, and the surviving patients
will long feel the salutary effects of the prescription admi-
nistered."
Is this decent, prudent, or honourable? Is it in suds
language that so dreadful a tragedy is mentioned? The
Mail is the organ of the Orange party and the yeomanry—
is it possible government will continue to arm a body ani.
mated by such feelings? The matter cannot rest here.
Proceedings must be instituted in anotlrer shape. Mean.
while, we give unqualified approbation to the conduct of the
counsel of the relatives of the slaughtered people. As to
the boast that Catholics were on the jury, it is sufficient to
say, that the result is determined by the majority, and that
since they could not agree as to bills for murder, there must
have been some for that finding, whether Catholics or Pro-
testants is quite immaterial.

On the 14th instant, Dr. Tyrrell, the county coroner, as-
sisted by several magistrates and a jury, half Catholic and
half Protestant, held an inquest on four of the Catholics who
met their death at Tullyoner, near Banbridge, on the 12th
of Jul. The substance of the depositions of the witnesses
was, that the Orangemen having determined to match in
procession, the Catholics prepared themselves to resist thin,
when an affray ensued. The deceased, in retreating from the
Orange party, who pursued them with fire-arms, and And
several shots after them, were drowned in the river Bssisr—
The jury returned the following verdict That do Is.
ceased were drowned on the evening of Tuesday, the II
July, in the river Bann, while attempting to alas it;
pursued at the same time, by two men named Gilbert LIM
and Robert Logan, a riot or fight at the same time existizal."
The witnesses were bound to prosecute at the assizes.
WEXFOID Asst res.—This day, Alonday, at a quarter
past ten o'clock, Chief Justice Bushe and the Hon. Jusdos
Johnson took their seats in their respective courts—the latter
presided in the crown court. The commission being reek
the following noblemen and gentlemen were sworn on the
Grand Jury :—Lord Viscount Stopford, foreman ; Lord
Viscount Valentia, Sir Thomas Esmond., Bart. H. K. G.
Morgan, Francis Leigh, Samuel Boyse, John H. Talbot,
J. Beauman, jun. John Rowe, John G. Richards, G. St.
George Irwin, W. Pigot, Christopher Harvey, Robert
Doyne, Licutenant.Colonel Sankey, Williatu Bolton, John
Maher, Robert Phayre, Henry Archer, Jacob W. Goff,
Edward Beatty, R. B. Clayton, Esqrs. and Sir William
Cox, Knight.
His lordship then addressed the grand jury to the fol-
lowing effect :—My lord and gentlemen of the grand jury,
the calendar which has bees laid bell= me presents nothing
of crime or enormity beyond eke ordinary degree, with the
exception of one particular cast., to which 1 would direct
your particular attention. The case to which I allude has
already attracted much of the public attention, and has
tended otherwise to excite no inconsiderable feeling. I
hope, however, that you will discharge from your minds
any impression which they may have previously received,for
it is your duty to act alone on the evidence that is to come
before you. A change has of late years taken place with
respect to grand juries, he which you will be enabled to
come to a clearer end better decision than formerly. Hither-
to the informations only taken before magistrates were
sent up. Now no information which could throw light on
the matter is refused. The transaction to which I have
already alluded appears to have when from a conflict be-
tween two parties; and it also appears that both those par-
ties had recourse to reciprocal violence. I wish particularly
to call your attention to the party from which the first act
of violence proceeded, for that determines whether it be a
case of murder or of legal homicide. Homicide is of various
descriptions—either murder, manslaughter justifiable, or
excusable homicide. To which of these descriptions the
present case properly belongs, must depend on the nwure
of the evidence that will come before you. Murder is a
death proceeding from personal violence, arising from ex-
press malice. But there is another species of malice, which
the law calls implied malice ; so that should no ex-
press malice exist, it the act which causes death be com-
mitted without Lay provocation, and meetly under a
savage and barbarous excitement, the law will hold
it to be implied malice. Manslaughter is a miti-
gated murder, arising from strong excitement and provoca-
tion. Nor will wards amount to a sufficient provocation;
but if the violence be such as to put persons in reasonable
dread and fear of their own lives, then, should their resist-
ance be such 43 to cause death, it will in.that case he consi-
dered mitigated murder. Justifiable homicide is where an
attack is made on a patty so as to put life in actual danger,
or excite apprehensions that death will be the consequence
of non resistance. Death arising from such resistance is
deemed justifiable homicide. Excuseable homicide is where
death arises with the absence of all bad intention, and pro-
ceeds from mere accident, unforeseen circumstances, and in.
advertence. The homicide that is to come before you has
taken place between two parties. One of the questions for
you to consider is, what were the objects of each party.—
'lf the original object of one patty was to break
the law or violate the peace, and in the prose-
cution of that object a life was lost, it would most cer-
tainly be considered murder. But if the object was the preser-
vation of the public peace, and that a death did in consequence
ensue, in that case the offence could apply to none
but those who actually caused that death, but if any of the
party were convicted of murder, then all the remaining per-
sons concert:et: therein would be equally guilty. All the
facts of the case are fur your consideration. I have made
those distinctions in alley to assist you in the discharge of
your important duties, but you will take care to be guided
by the evidence that shall come before you. Yuu will find
in the italic ment some parties charged with aiding and abet-
ting. if t',ese hosniei* appear to have oceurnal froin the
directions of any person, then all those who acted under his
authority should be considered equally culpable with him
who gave it ; but if, on the other hand, the command Wu
justifiable, the persons who obeyed it ought to be free from
the charge of a criminal participation. With these observe.
(tons I leave the case entirely in the hands of the Jury, con.
vincd that you will do justice to your country, to your
own consciences, and to those who are implicated in this se-
rious transaction,
Waxst,au, JuLT 18.—The grand jury have been sworn
this morning ; they are for the most part ultra Tory. The
Attorncy.General is here special in two civil eases. He
takes no apparent p tr. in tbe trial of the Newtownbany case.
Mr. Richard Green, aid, d by the usual crown counsel, con.
ducting it. Mr. Patrick Costelloe, who superintends the
prosecution on the par: of the relatives of the people, had a
long consultation this morning with Mr. Green and the
crown counsel. lam informed that he and Mr. Fogarty, Ms
counsel, are perfectly satisfied with the result. Mr. Green
conceded to Mr. Ca telloe, the right of naming the witnesses
who were to be sect before the grand jury, and those who were
to be called on the trial, and the order they should be called
in—but what is still more important, full privilege was given
to suggest to Alr.Kenimis to put by all objectionable jurors.
Nothing unfair is intended by the crown officers, from all
can learn. No witnesses for the defence to be produced on
the part of the prosecution, all that kind of management
abandoned. So much in justice to crown prosecutors; but I
have good reason to know Ney act under orders from head-
quarters; but as to the result, I cannot even form a con.