Star.
London, England, 1829-09-09 00:00:00

CORN—EXCHANGE, .%IA AN 04.SarT. 9.

We have rarely seen our market so thinly attended as it was .his
morning. and consequently se little business tran-acted ; indeed,
scarcely a bargain has been effected in any kind of Grain. Prices,
therefore, must be nominally quoted as on Mond.y.

'MOSTA MN. lINCS nomsar.
Wheat, English (qrs.) . 1.020 Marley, Foreign
Irish • • Oats, English .
Foreign . 3,650 Foreign .
Barley, English . 250 i Irish
Irish • Flour (sacks)
COAL MARKET—Tors DA r.
Har.r.r.asr Out—The supply of Sunderland and Newcastle
Coals to-day was plentiful-27 new ships have arrived since blon-
ds), last, making en the week's arrival a total of al ships. Tho
Coal Exchange was numerously attended by merchants, and a
good business was done.
Best Wallsend Coals 3ss. Od. 555. 6d.
Other sorts
Olivet Market s4l.

. 4,050

4,220
. . 1,700

I

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE
GLOCESTEII, Sam S.
CIVIL SlDS.—Before Mr. Baron Vacuous and a Special
• Jury.
ROE, DEM. HART, ESQ. V. WYNNE, ESQ.
This was an action of ejectment, by which the lessor
of the plaintiff sought to establish his claim to the free-
hold of the soil of a considerable tract of land in the
county of Denbigh. The property in question con-
sists of extensive sheep-walks over a barren moun-
tainous part of the county of Denbigh, and has been
some time in dispute, the question having been tried twice
before—once at Shrewsbury, and once at Ruthin.
Mr. TAUNTON, Mr. J. JERVIS, Mr. MEEf4ON, Mr.
P. ABBOTT, and Mr. KINNERSLY, conducted the case
for the lessor of the plaintiff; Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr.
sergeant RUSSELL, Mr. RICHARDS, and Mr. COR-
BETT, for the defendant.

The principal part of the land in question is known by
the names of " Ceriogne Mowr " and " Ceriogne Bach,"
and is situated in a district anciently called " Hiraethog."
It was formerly granted by Llewellyn, Prince of all
North Wales, in 1198, to the monks of Aberconway, to-
gether with other property. That grant was confirmed
in the 12th year of the reign of Edward I. and on the
dissolution of the monasteries, on the passing of the
27th of Henry VIII. the rty came into the posses-
sion of Robert Gethin ap hirrgse, from whom it descended
to the family of Kenrick, who sold it to the lessor of the
plaintiff. It was admitted that the plaintiff was entitled
to extensive right of common over the lands in question,
which it was alleged were part of the lands of the manor
of Hiraethog; but it was contended on the part of the
lessor of the plaintiff, that there never had been any such
manor in existence; that there was no mention of it in
the grant by Llewellyn to the monks of Aberconway ;
and that, claiming under them, he was entitled to the
freehold of the soil. An immense mass of documentary
evidence was gone through, and a number of Welsh wit-
nesses examined, through the medium of an interpreter,
to prove that previous to the year 1787, the Kenriek
family were in the habit of sporting over the lands in
question, and to show different acts of ownership exer-
cised by them, such as digging stone, cutting grig, fern,
and rushes.

On the part of the defendant, it was contended that
the grant to the monks of Aberconway related only to
the enclosed lands. That even if there was no manor in
existence, there might be wastes to which the defendant
was entitled, bat that, on the contrary, for 200 years all
the rights of a manor had been exercised, and that Hi-
raethog had been acknowledged by the Crown as a ma-
nor. To establish this view of the case, a grant in the
23d year of Elizabeth to the Earl of Leicester and John
Mawley, Esq. was relied upon ; and a great number of
witnesses were called to prove that manor courts for the
manor of Hiraethog had been regularly held, at which
the tenants of the Kenriek family, as well as the
Wynnes, attended constantly, unless they paid a fine ;
and also to show that every seven years the boundaries
had been perambulated, and certain parts of the enclosed
lands of the kenrick estate passed over in the perform-
ance of that duty. It was also contended that the grant
of Edward I. contained words granting a manor.
The Court was engaged with the trial of this case five
days, when a verdict was found for the defendant.
Upwards of 60 Welsh witnesses for the lessor of the
plaintiff arrived here on Saturday last,and were quartered
at the Booth-hall. On the part of the defendant, about
50 were billetted at the Bell Inn. This formidable re-
tinue of the contending parties almost filled the Court,
and some of those who appeared by their habiliments
only fresh caught (though somewhat old in the horn)
presented a most grotesque appearance. The general
move that took place about their usual dinner-hour
showed them not unmindful of the creature comforts,
notwithstanding the novelty of the scene ; but it is only
justice to state that their egress and regress were marked
by the most decorous slowness and solemnity, the bri-
gade extending in orderly time through the spacious
avenues of the Shire Hall to the respective inns, with all
the gravity that the distinction of a strange people in a
strange land could afford.
CHESTER, Sur. 7.
MALICIOUS CUTTING AND MAIMING.

William Pollitt, 22, Thomas Wyatt, 19, William
Wyatt, 20, and Henry Wyatt, 21, were charged, the
first named with cutting and stabbing James Burgess,
and the others with aiding and abetting. The indictment
contained the usual counts. The facts of the case were
shortly these. The prosecutor lives at Bredbury, and on
the 24th of August went with his brother into the em-
ploy of Mr. Jesse Howard, a cotton-spinner at Stock-
port, from which the prisoners had turned out for an in-
crease of wages. On the evening of that day they left
work half an hour earlier than the regular time, at the
request of the manager of the works, who feared an at-
tack upon them by the refractory spinners. The prose-
cutor saw a man, who appeared as if he was watching
them, run into a public-house. After they had got a
short distance, they looked back and saw a number of
men following them from the public-house. The pri-
soners were amongst the number, and one of them came
up and asked why he worked for Jesse Howard, and
what he gave him ? The prosecutor told him, and then
they all fell on him and his brother. The prosecutor
ran into a house opposite, and Henry and William Wyatt
followed him. William Wyatt called out to the owner of
the house, " d—n your eyes, will you harbour Jesse
Howard's knob ticks ? " Prosecutor said he would go
out if they would let him go out quietly. They consented,
and just as he got to the door, William Pollit struck him
over the right eye with a sharp knife ; the blood spouted
eat from his eye, and the others fell on him, saying,
" d—n his eyes, kill him ; he's nothing but a knob-
stick." The blows he received nearly closed his left eye.
The Jury found the whole of the prisoners guilty, and
the Learned Judge immediately passed the awful sen-
tence of death upon Pollitt, telling him that the circum-
stances of the part of the country from which he came,
rendered it imperative that he should be executed as a
warning to others, and bidding him not to entertain the
slightest hope of mercy.
The Wyatt" Were sentenced to be transported for life.

Last night, between I 0 and 11 o'clock, a fire broke
set bathe apattamem mospkd by a Mrs. Grant, at the corner of a
llede ear% densely Mobbed, close. to the Mitre public-house,
Mlieediately facing the entrance into Serjeaat's-inn Chancery
lane. This court Is Mime by the name of the " Bakery" (from
there being a humble family in each room) and the fire burnt back-
wards from Chancery-lane with a fury that threatened the whole
neighbourhood with destreedoo. Most of the inhabitants in the
mere or " rookery" were st home; hut from the alarm of fire,
and ail the houses being built -of wood, they led for their lives
bee Chancery-lane. In a Hide time the Assurance-office engines
arrived, but at first the water. was not by any means equal to the
requisite demand. The firemen, however, with great iturepidlry,
took mut a.large portion of the little furniture belonging to the
peer petiole, and placed it for misty in Serjeant's-Inn. The fire
cemioned.butnino.backstraesieuntil after one o'clock, and &direst
damage to the back premises of some of the housesin Fleet-street.
indeed,ieburat sederwithunt being got under en nsdamage the
rear of theweihiessermeock Tavern, facing Tie Temple. We
ire sorry to say tbstrinee women andatehild were missing at one
o'clock ; but hopes entertained that they were out at work.,
and an therefore safe.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Sept 8.
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Robert Fearman was Indicted for assaulting a Mrs.
LHley, with intent to commit a rape.
The prosecntrix stated that she was the wife of a hair-
dresser, and lived next door to the defendant, who carried
on the business of a butcher and milkman. She went
to his house early on the morning in question to buy some
milk, and the defendant pressed her to purchase some
meat which he showed her. She said she would go and
consult her husband, and went away for that purpose.—
On her return, the defendant invited her into a back
room, and upon her declining to go, he forced her into
it, threw her into a chair, and took a gross liberty with
her person, saying at the same time he should like to
take one still grosser. The proeecutrix resisted him, and
threatened to tell her husband, on which she got away.
The defendant denied acting in the manner imputed to
him, and asked if it was probable he would attempt to
commit such an offence upon his neighbour's wife, inside
an open shop, where he was exposed to detection by any
person who might enter it ?
The CHAIRMAN left the question of probability to the
jury ; who returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
George Caudle was indicted for an assault upon John
Bird Wearing. _ _ _

Mr. A poiitt vs, in stating the facts of the case to the
Jury, read an extract from a printed placard, purporting
to be a series of resolutions adopted by the silk trade, in
which the Bethnal-green weavers expressed their deter-
mination, since there appeared to be no hope of a miti-
gation of their distress, to protect every brother trades-
man whose goods should be distrained upon for rent or
otherwise. The present defendant, the Learned Counsel
said, had availed himself of that illegal protection to re-
sist a distress put in by his landlord, to whom ho had
paid no rent for three years; and this prosecution was
instituted to prove to such misguided men, that the law
would be upheld by the law, and that the only effect of
such wicked and short-sighted combinations would be to
bring punishment upon those who dared to set it at
defiance.

The Learned Counsel then =lied his witnesses, from
whose testimony it appeared that the prosecutor, who is
a sworn broker and appraiser, was employed by the de-
fendant's landlord to distrain on his premises for rent.
The defendant resisted the execution of the warrant, and
collected a mob of weavers outside the house, who called
out to him torn out the broker or kill him. The de-
fendant shut the front door to prevent the prosecutor
from getting away, upon which the latter got out at the
beck door and went for assistance. On his return the
defendant struck him a violent blow on the breast. He
succeeded, however, in taking away a part of the dis-
trained goods, the remainder having been carried off by
the defendant. Although the persons who collected out-
side the house were for the most part weavers, the de-
fendant himself was not a weaver, but a marble paper-
stainer.

On the part of the defendant several witnesses came
forward to swear they did not see him strike the prosecu-
tor ; but it did not appear that they had witnessed the
whole of the transaction.

The Learned CHAIRMAN told the jury, that it was
extremely culpable on the part of certain persons to enter
into illegal resolutions, but, at the same time, it was
equally unfair on the part of those who conducted the
prosecution to seek to visit that misconduct upon the de-
fendant, who could have had nothing to do with it, he
having no connexionwhatever with the weavers, by whom
alone those resolutions had been entered into. It was
for the jury to say whether the case had been fairly
proved against the defendant : if they had any reason-
able doubt on the subject, he was entitled to the benefit of it.
The Jury, after some hesitation, returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.
Upon the return of the verdict the Learned Chairman
smiled across to Mr. A4olphus.
Mr. ADOLPIIUS.—That is too bad, after the lecture
we had yesterday upon illegal combinations.
CHAIRMAN.—But what had the defendant to do with
the resolutions of the weavers ? He was no weaver.

Mr. ADOLPIIUS.—Their resolution was to assist all
poor brother tradesmen in resisting distresses ; and if the
defendant availed himself of that illegal assistance, he,
by such conduct, adopted the resolution, and made him-
self responsible for its consequences. However, I shall
only say to the gentlemen opposite what had been some-
times said to juries before now, "thank GOD, it is your
verdict, and not mine."