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11-PARTE J. H. ACIIIRLIT'IN NI CAVINAGIII AND CO.

This petition was filed on the 6th of Ifelnuary,lB27,
by Mr. Acherley, of Bath, who was not a creditor, but
acted as one of the Commissioners. It prayed the cer-
tificate of Mr. W. Browne might be sent back to be re-
certified, on the ground of his suspicion and belief. that
since the signing of the certificate of conformity by the
petitioners, papers bad been sent to a Mr. Reeves. of
A'stotthury. which petitioner believed were material to
the estate of Mr. Browne. Numerous and exceedingly
lengthy affidavits were filed by the Rev. P. M. Cum-
mins, J. Allen, R. Cook, F. Short. and John Stafford,
all connected as assignees, solicitor, and auctioneer,
opposing the allowaace; bat which were satisfactorily
Jr:fated by Mr. Browoe's affidavit in answer; and many
others of the same party sere filed as rejoiners. which
were not considered necessary to notice. After five
bouts vent in ',adios the same by Messrs. Btexastanin
pad MONT6OURp and those in reply by Mr. Rosa and
BaossLaw, on the merits of which they relied,
The VICI•CHANCELLOR considered there were no
grunnds for staying the certificate. or sending it back
to be rt.-certified, and directed.it to be allowed, together
with the costs of Mr. Browne's application.
SATURDAY, APRIL 11.—In conformity with this Cie•
vision, the Lord Chancellor signed the certificate of
Mr. William Browne this day in Court.

ASSIZE IN 15LLIGENCE.

wonroz.x CIRCUIT—BURY, Aram 30.

,IIURDZIL •
George Partridge was indicted for the wilful murder
of Liti.rge Arisen, at Alden. The prisoner and the
deceased—the former 21. and the latter nine years of
age—were in the employment of Mr. Woodgat.., a far-
mer at Mildest, as labourers. On the 4th -November
they were sent into the fields to work, but the deceased
having been missed for a considerable time, Mr. Wood
gate went in search of him, and found him lying in
the field with his throat cut in a most shocking manner,l
and quite dead. The prisenes, who belonged 'o Monks
Eligh, was seen on that rooming near the field where
the body was found, and be inquired the way to Lang- '
ley Wo, d. He eeacbed that place in the course of the
morning, and then went to the house of a person named
Phillips, at Preston, and appeared eery pale. and
tubed in his mind. Oa the same afternoon be was
taken in.o custody, and in his pocket was found I large
clasp knife, which was in a bloody state—some spots of
blo-cl were also on his clothes. The next morning be
confessed baring committed the murder, and that be
bad had a dispute with the boy respecting a lamb,
which the boy rsid he had stolen. _ _

After his con6nement in gaol, be made a confession
to Mr.Orridge, the Governor. Mr. °cadge, in relating
that confession to the Coon, stated, that on the 6th of
November, the prisoner was committed to his custody ;
en which day, and the two following, he conversed
with the prisoner, in order to ascertain the state of his
mind when he,committed the act. Although he ap.
peared sullen, he did not think there was any thing
like lunacy or idiutcy about him. Oa the 9:h witness
told him that there were various reports -in circulation
of an atrocious nature, one of which was, that the de-
ceased lost a brother a short time ago, and he (witness)
hoped that he did not kill him. The prisoner said" No,
Sir. and this job would not have happened if the boy
George had not checked me about stealing Mr. Poole's
cossett lamb." Witness told him if he was going to'
yeti/4e the particulars he must tell the truth, btu he was
at I:brrty to do as he pleased; the prisoner then said
that the deceased checked him two or three days about
the lamb; this conversation was on the 9th, on which
day whom had been blooded ; during the time they
were together the bandage became loose, and wit-
ness, from loss of blood, was forced to go to bed;
on the 11th he saw the prisoner again, and told him if
he persisted in the statements be bad already made be
should write them down: he raid, 4. what I base stated
is trues" the prisoner then said, that be went up to the
deceased, and did the.job, and then went to Master
Phillips's, at Preston the boy struggled. Pt is, net also
stated that be took his knife to cut a swingell tor his
flail when be came up to the boy. On another occasion
tritons. said to him, “ I forgot to ask you nn a forme,
day whether the boy bad a handkeschief on when you
committed the act ? and. if so, whether you took it off."
The prisoner replied. " Yes hut I pulled his head back r
The LeautedJorsoa then called upon the pi isoner to
boost whether be bad any thing to say to Mr. Os ridge ?
He, with downcast look, replied, •• No. Sir."
Have you any thing to say in your defence?
Prisoner-1 know nothing about it.
His Lordship then summed up the evidence.
After a few moments deliberation the Jury found the
prisober pilig.
The Learned Jima then passed zeugma of Death
on bias, sad ordered him to be executed on Monday best
During the whole trial the prisoner remained unmoved.
and be heard the dreadful sentence with apparent WM-
' CHNSIIIRE Aistsits, Ants. li.
Ware Mr. Jars* Jams.
remcniso.—Josepi Feu*, aged 2S, was iodieted
sbo'*ing at Thomas Poster. with intent to murder hies.
The lams proved in evidence were these. On the
night of the 15th beceekber the prisoner and a large
numbei of poachers'aiaembled on the grounds of Lord
Suenford, in this county, and bad command the de-

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6tTnCtion of Sank when his Lordship's keepers, =note
whom was Foster,' the prosecutor. went out to oppose
them. The prisoner, .who wes•moet foremost of the
poaching gang, threatened the gamekeepers if they d$
,not return, and said 44 are you yet measured lot
your coffins? If you will adt torn back. I still.shoe%
you." Shortly after the prisoner and some of his mow
panions fired, and Foster was wounded in the face; i
bullet also entered the back of his neck, and aaate ant
in front, his arm dropped, and it was a asuab or tw
weeks before be could use it.
These facts were proved by several witnesses, mid
also by several accomplices; but the Jury returned a
verdict of Nat Geiliy, to the apparent surprise of mei
who were in Court.
The prisoner was detained on other charges.
MIDLAND 01111CUIT.—WARWICIL, *eau It.
Muaosm.—.TdostresCarr, Thomas Murray, and Heady
Dillon were indicted for the wilful murder of J. Dwyer,
at Birmingham, on the Sikh November last. On the
above night, the deceased and others bad been driokieg
at a public-bees*, and the deceased bad a dispute with
a man, which appeared to have given great offence to
the prisoners, sad they followed him home to his
ings, and beat him in a very cruel manner. Carr struck
him on the bead with a spade, which terminated Iti•
existence in few hours. These facts were proved; sad
the Jury acquitted the prisoners of the murder, bell
found them tistiky of Manslaughter; and they were Act
dosed to be transported for seven years.
David Lashford Ma Davies, and Willies, Areetrog
were indicted for the murder of Thomas Loudon. The
.eceased,

_ whi was a black, on the 21st of Septa
mewled the fair of Stout bridge, and was the proprietor
of a table at which the game of Chicken Hazard was
played. The prisoners Lushford and Davies, who were
boys of 16, bad been playing, but with bad success.
They, however, afterwards woo, and the black refused
payment. The boys appealed to the by-standee, and
the prisoner Armstrong held the black, while the boys
kicked and beat him, so that he tell perfectly senseless
in a ditch, bleeding from the nose and ears. In a few
days after he died from this treatment.
These facts were proved, bat the Jury returned a ver-
dict of Not Guilty.
This case terminated the business of the Circuit.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Aram 11.

OLD COURT.--Defore Ur. Jostle* Nag.
ALLltirsta MUIDZR.

M2riha Barren stood indicted frit the wilful mur-
der of her intent child, under circumstances of great
atrocity.
Mr. PHILLIPS said he must admit that he bad no
evidence to prove that the child had been born alive;
but he should be able to prove, at least, that she had
concealed its birth, and that would form the subject of
a distinct indictment. He then detailed the facts of the
case, sod proceeded to call the following witnesses—
Mrs. Saunders deposed, that her daughter resided
in the same house with the prisoner, and on going to
visit her, she found the prisoner very weak and ill,
and taking medicine.
James Stone, beadle, went to the house of the prisoner,
on the 26th of March last. He had a long conversation
with the prisoner, in which she denied she had given birth
to a child; be found Mr. Carruthers, a surgeon, them
and upon examining the place be found several bones,
SOllll/ in garden pots, and some in the fire place, very
mach burned. The following day the prisoner told him,
in answer to questions which he put to her, that she bad
cut the child's head off and burned the body ; he asked
her how she could be guilty of such a crime ? she replied
that she did not want say body to know of her situation;
she told him who was the father of the child, whereupon
he asked her if he had at all advised her to murder it?
she said, no. In answer to a further question, she said
no person knew of her being in the family way.
Mr. G. E. Carruthers, of Mile end, deposed that on
the 27th of March be was with the prisoner, in the
presence of Stone, the beadle; she was in a very weak
state; he inquired if she bad not recently been de-
liveted, and she said she had net, but he afterwards
convinced himself that she had had a child; he told her
be was a medical man, and requested her not to con•
earl any tbiug from him ; she, however, denied it ;
Stone showed him what he found in the flower pot, and
he ascertained, it to be the principal part of a child's
bead—the scalp presented appearances of being burned.
The bones found in, the fire place were the ribs and
thigh bones of an infant. On this discovery she no
longer persisted in denying she had bad a cbild,but said
it bad never cried ; sonic time after, finding it was
dead, she put it into a box, where it contitued three
days; she then took it out and balm the body, having
first cut its head off; it was impossible f.,r him to say
the child was born alive.

Mr. Justice PARE here stopped the trial, and explained
the law applicable to the case, adding that the Jury must
acquit the prisoner cf the murder, inasmuch as there
was no evidence to show that the child was born alive.

The Juty therefore acquitted the prisoner.
Mr. Justice PA az now desired the prisoner to be asked
what she had to say to the fact of the concealment of the
birth of the infant.

Prisoner—Nothing at all, my Lord.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good general
character for human'''. and kindness to children.
Mraustice Platt then submitted to the Jury, whether
dune was sufficient evidence to prove that she had con.
cealed the birth, the punishment for which was at the
discretion of the Court.

The Jury immediately found her Guilty.
The RICORDER then sentenced het to be conned for
eighteen calend4r months.
The prisoner was allowed a chair. She appeared in
a very ill state, and it was the opinion of many that she
would not live oat the term of ber sentence.

SaCOMD TRIAL OF JUNK 'WILE&
Buller was again put upon his trial fur stealing the
clothes of the unTortuaate Mr. Neale, for whose murder
he was tried on-Friday, and acquitted. The evidence
was precisely the saw's; detailed on Friday, and which
we gave in our Paper of Saturday. The only additional
' statements were the following:
Wiliam Gamy, waiter at the Cock and Lino, in
Windmill—tree, knew the prisoner at the bar. At
About seven o'.lc.ek in the morniog of the 117 ah ult. the
prisoner came to the above house a kb a coat on his
arm, and a hat folded up and concealed in his gram-
dices cap; he ptilled from hi% pocket two bottles of
wine, pod after a short time he stripped off ifs regi-
mentals and dressed himself in the private clothes, and
left his own dress sub the whets., saying be would call
again at ten o'clock for them, but be never did, sad be
subsequently gave them ue to the °lacers of police. The
prisoner was tiny at the time.
Stowell, the officer of Mary-la-bonne Office, proved
apprehending the pri over at the barracks in Birdcage-
-walk, at which time he was dres-ed in Mr. Neale's
clothes. On. Lein; told the crime for which be was ap-
prehended, he darted most positively having barn with
Mr. Neale at all; but be subsequently *shed tithe gee.
ileman were really dead? Upon being told be was.

diewsteod bet u I suo s refeestieweggipse?The clothes
wwe hest produced and - -
"the prisoner in his defence said that he seas quite
ianocent of the charge of stealing the clothes—lie
admitted seeing Mr. Neale home, and lying down in
the parlour. As tour in the morning Mr. Neale got
up and awoke him; he asked him if he had absented
biasself from his barracks. He (the prisoner) told bias
be had ,been absent two days and aighti,-upon which
be 4Mr. Neale) said—“ Here, take these clothes, and
Bever return again, but lease the country directly "
He. did so, and left Mr. Neale alive in the room. He
again most solemnly declared that he was innocent of
the present charge; and also of that alleged against
him yesterday—sad be, therefore, trusted to the mercy
of the Court and Jury.for ass acquittal.

Mr. Baron GARROW summed rip the evidence, and
the Jury Mond the prisoner civilly.
Ammo—Moses Jacobs stood indicted for setting Ere
to his home, in Phenix-street, St. Giles's. The pi.
sorter was a glass-maker, and on the night of the fire
seat his foreman (Joseph Davis) out with a letter. At
ibis time there was no lipht in the house but a candle,
which Davis left with his master; the aie had been
previously eatinguisbed. On the return of Davis, in
three quarters of an hour the house way on fire, and his
wife felt a prey to the names. A great number of wit-
aeon were called ; and the Jury, a:ter due deliberation,
returned a verdict of Not

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Aram 11.

lAIIIII JONES AGAINST A CONVICTION OV .--...

TW if 101Dp iUQ.

The appellant. a retail biewer, bad been convicted
in a penalty of 201. for selling beer, and permitting it to
be drank on his premises; against this conviction lie
appealed.
It appeared he had erected a shed in front of his house
and placed seats there, on which persons were silos ed
to sit and drink the beer supplied to them by the appel-
lant through the window of the house.
Mr. boot:mot contended, that as this front house
was open towards the stmt. it could not be damned •
part of the house, seas to come within the operation of
the 9th of George IV, under which this conviction had
taken place.
The CUAIIMAN decided the contrary. If the appel-
lant could sell beer in the manner proved, so could any
one else; and then there would be no need of publicans
obtaining MagiArates licenses. It was in proof that he
used the place as past of his premises, permitting only
those be pleased to sit them; that his own pots were
used there, and fetched by him when done with. As
well might it be said that every box or arbons in a tea-
garden was not a part of the premises, becau.e it was
detached from the house. and not enclosed in fi out. Mei
conviction must be atE. med.
General TtfoRKTON observed, that this was a most
scandalous attempt meets& die law. The appellant,
in providing accommodation f r persons to drink in
front of his house, was doing whit the Magistrates were
constantly endeavouring to prevent Licensed Victuallers
from doing.

R. PILL AGAINST A CONVICTION OP A S. LAING, FiQ.
Mr. Allen, the Clerk of the Peace, stated, that in this
case the appellant had entered into recognizances to
appeal from a conviction made against him by Mr.
Laing, of Hatton Garden, for carrying more passengers,
than he ought. He was now in attendance to prosecute
his appeal, bat the Magistrate had not thought fit to
return the conviction to the Court. He pointed out the
omission to the person who brought down the recogno.
sauces, and was told "that they did not mean to lawn
the conviction."

CHAIRMAN—That is a very odd proceeding. They
have put the man to a most unnecessary expense. Well,
we must discharge his recognizance% but I do not un-
derstand the proceeding.
snits HALL, AGAINST THZ WATERMIN.I COMPANY.

The appellant, a barge owner at Leigh, in Essex, had
been convicted under the Act obtained last year by the
Watermen's Company, in a penalty of 101. !or having
navigated a barge t.etween Yantlet Creek and Windsor,
he not being a freeman of the Company, or-the appreu-
dee of one or the widow of one.
The Comte, after hearing Mr. BIODIUCK on behalf
of the appellant, confirmed the appeal; subject to a cue
to the Court of King's Bench.
Stturday, Rickard darnel:, was indicted for obtain-
ing 121. from William Chapman, of Seven Oak', by
falsely representing himself to be an attorney. There
were two other indictments against the prisoner, who
pleaded Guilty to the above. It appeared in evidence.
that in July last Mr. Chapman can.e to town, for the
purpose of bringing an action against a gentleman, and
he was introduced to the prisoner by a person oameJ
S:mnionds, who Mr. Chapman accidentally met in the
street. The prisoner, who then resided at Chapel-
street, Tottenham Court road, undertook to bring the
Action, and laid the damages at 8001.. The prisoner,
on three occasions, between July and Decemter, ob-
tained the sum of 12/. from Mr. Chapman f o writs,
Appearance, declaration, etc. in the Cr.urt of King's
Bench, and it was not until the latter months that the
fraud was discovered, and the prisoner then pretended
that he was acting for a man named Spenser. Judg-
ment was...postponed until he shall have been tried on
the other indictments.

Six valuable horses, the property of Mr. Bowning, of
Brantford, died about a week ago by poison, supposed
to have been intentionally mired with their food ; and
the sweepings of the manger basing been thrown into
the cow yard, were eaten by one of his cows, which
died in a few days. The value of the horses and cow
was not less than 4004 No evidence is yet obtained
likely to consist the perpetratorbf this gross villainy.

HICBDOMADARY.

Tats Day.--The swallow rams to seek his new, the wdlyw
wren sod the wry ad sppear. and the trent rises. Noted in the
Hebrew Calsedar," Miriam died.*
Tameastew.--The moon in apogee. Son rises 9 minutes past S
morning.
Weemsnar.—/stun sets 30 minutes pest it smerning. On this
and the two following days the ellice of Tenches li performed in
the Catholic Chapels. Eften imam ate set op is a Wingless
candlestick (triangular to represent the Trinity), the highest althea
repeatedly Jeers Cum:, who email, I am the light of the world,"
and the rest represent Me Apostles. Finally, the can& repreisso.
fag was Savona is hid ander the akar to express his death, and a
great aim is made as npeesent the splitting et the rocks apd the
confusion of the world.

Thounat~llneedy Tberegey. So called Iran thewortis• of
me lenses. Meetimem sens dose.k, &c. John ill.
**-10111-
i=ro he Cabello Chumbee. file envy BoUat
Moths peer et Whieelasil Chapel, by Ma
Apller's Int Mato eclipsed s immersion sem&
past inennbraday
Feanaw.-- lathe Bat& Good Friday. On this day the
Jews mewed the beeves from the home, in ardor to Ikiiiffic fae-
cal Lamb, which meld oat he done while the leaven tibQ',iW
all the lirat-bets of the Jewrfast, in remembrance of Goes mercy
in sparing the firstpborn el the native while he dew dime of the
Vehel as a.. 7...40p1ier rises minotee post ll
the Passover with the'Jews. Ise sets at 7.

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