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SPORTING INTRLLIGENCE: P
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BETTING AT TATTERSAI;VS YESTERDAY.
DOM./NUL st. team L"K •
17 to i apt rady of the Vale.
20 to 1 apt Sir John, bylmo.
- lank° (taken)
'26 to 1 apt Lisette
25 to 1 apt Altisidora
50 to 1 apt Langar.
OXFOIM CUP.
firen betting between Snake and the
expected to start.

1.5 to 2 apt Athenian
8 to 1 agst Woodbine
8 to 1 agst Cavalier
11 to I apt Arbutus
14 to 1 apt Sir Mark
14 to 1 agst Tramper

BOXING.
• TO MR. THOMAS CRIBB. •
In the STAG of Thursday last, I observed, in a Report of the
Sparring Match for the benefit of Harry Harmer, that you (being
inched by the juice of the Tuscan grape) took au opportunity to
pay me a compliment, which I did not expect yon had,liberality
enough ta do—namely, that " Neat was Lie best of the boil oxen,'
and that you would "fight ?tins for, frm £503 to £1000." Iq
aLswer to which, rinform you, that I will fight you, as so*
you like (the sootier the better) for, from a glass of gin to
All Saint's Lane, Bristol, Avg. 14. WILLIAM NEAT.,'

• ASSIZE&

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NEWCASTLEXPON.TYNE, AUGUST 9.
MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF NEWCASTLE V. LANDTON.
The ground of action was 'the right of charging
toll to the amount of one halfpenny per boll oh all
corn carried over Tyne Bridge.
Mr. SCARLETT said, that his Honourable and ex-
cellent Friend, Mr. Lambton, felt no interest in this
qUeAion. Such a toll as this was of course often re-
fused, but those who refused it were seldom worthy
of pursuit. -Mr. Lambton would not feel the ex-
penses of such a trial ; and therefore the question war
tried with him.. The Corporation of Newcastle was
one of the most ancient in the kingdom ; they had
the.charge of repairing the roads and streets within
the Borough, and of building and keeping in repair
two thirds of Tyne Bridge; they possessed also, from
time immemorial, the right of taking tolls on goods
imported or exported within their jurisdiction. The
present claim he should prove by documentary evi-
dence, and by the testimony of.many aged inhabit-
ants of the neighbouring County.
The evidence occupied the Court from nine in the
morning till four in the afternoon.
Mr. linovorrAm addressed the Jury for the defend-
ant in a speech of great ingenuity and eloquence.
The Jury retired for nearly two hours, and found
a verdict for the plaintiffs.
This cause, though the least interesting that can
well be imagined, yet crowded the Court throughout
the whole day as much as if it had been murder or
trim. con. Many had come from a great distance,
and several Ladies had taken their seats in Court at
seven in the morning. The reason was, that the
Queen's Attorney-General was engaged in it.
Auratisx 10.—Two actions brought by the Corpo-
xation, of a similar nature with that which occupied the
Court yesterday, but against different persons, were
this morning withdrawn, and the business of the
Court was finished at twelve o'clock.

TOWN COURT.
Mr. Justice PARK having disposed of the criminal
trials, Mr. Justice BAYLEY sat an this Court to hear
civil causes.

SPENCER V. ATTON.

The plaintiff hdd let the upper part of a house to
the defendant, who used it as a granary. The part
so used gave way, and damaged goods belongintto
the-plaintiff in the lower part of the building. The
action was brought to recover damages, on the ground.,
that the letting had not been for the purpose of a
granary, and that the building was not fit for such
use.—Verdict for the plaintiff, damages £3BO.
The Town Court was, if possible, more crowded
than the County Court the preceding day.
CROWN COURT, AUGUST 11.

Daniel Hughes, aged 35, was convicted of the
guilty possession of six forged notes of the Bank of
England, which he had concealed under the tiding
of his hat.—Transportation for 14 years.
William Unties, a most respectable-looking ma-
nufacturer of paper, between Darlington and Dur-
ham, was charged with having utterecifor_ged stamps
on seven reams of paper, sold to Messrs Wilson and
Co. in Newcastle.

It appeared in evidence, that the stamp on the
papa bad been put on by the prisoner's son-in-law.
The Surveying Officer swore, that the signature of
his name was forged. The stamp used by him was
compared with the stamped impression on the paper,.
to stew that it was not a genuine Impression.
paper was carried into Newcastle by the prisoner's
servant, and by the prisoner's orders. The bill of
parcels was in the prisoner's hand-writing.
Messrs. LOSH and WILLIAMS, for the prisoner,
contended that there was not a case to go to the Jury;
first, because there was no evidence .of- the prisoner's
direction to stamp the reams, and a seneral agency
was not sufficient to imply felony ; and next, because
there was no uttering by the prisoner in the county
and City of Newcastle.
Mr. Justice PARK thought there was evidence to
go to the Jury.
Several witnesses, among whom were two Rectors
who knew the prisoner as Churchwarden, gave the
prisoner the highest character for moral Integrity
and religious piety.
Mr. Justice PARK summed up the evidence at
great length. It was most melancholy, but very
true, that men of the strictest integrity in transae-
fons with their neighbours, of excellent moral cha-
racter, and even religious, often scrupled not to de-
fraud the Revenue. Such men acted with great hy-
pocrisy; and laboured under dreadful self4feceptictn.
COD forbid. that he should presume that this was the
case with the prisoner. If they felt any doubt of the
prisoner's guilt, they would give him the benefit of
his excellent character, and acquit him.

The Jury retired, and were ibsent for upwards of
three hours.—Not Guilty.

CORNWALL. AUGUST 10.
Sarah Polgrean, aged 87, was arraigned on an in-
dictment charging her with hating administered
arsenic to ber husband, Henry Polgrean, on the 15th
of July last, of which he died on the 18th. The pri-
soner heard the indictment, and pleaded Not Guilty
with a considerable degree of confidence.
Mr. GA sat= opened the case. Mr. WILLIAMS was
induced to undertake the defence in Court, not hay-
irg been applied to before.
Vhristopher Ms Richards had examined the mar-
riaEe register of the parish of Ludgvas, and found