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head against the iron hasp of a chest. It cut the back of her
head. Her father (lid not kick heir mother. He only struck
her twice while she was down. _

-Jobe Marshall, surgeon, of Dukt•-street, Liverpool, went to
the deceased on Satuida, the 2.1 :September. He found her in
a state of insensibility. She was in labour. She was delivered
of a male child, having been pregnant about five months. Saw
her when she was expiring. There was no mark externally
about the head except an extreme black eye. There was nu
mark on the back of the head• Witness opened the skull.
Found a large extravasation of blood on the upper and back
part of the right side of the head. That extravasation, as he
could net see any other cause, had arise❑ front the black eye.
Did not find any of the vessels in the head ruptured. Found
about three ounces of extravasated blood.

Cross-examined by Mr. Munpuy.—A tall against a hasp or a
box might cause the extravasated blood.
By the JuDGE.—Effusion of blood was the cause of death.
Robert Marsh, an aprrentice with Mr. Marshall, stated, that
he attended the deceased, and ordered leeches to her, but they
failed to put them on. He would not undertake to say that
leeches if applied early would have saved her life. The old
woman, be thought, was intoxicated when he called.
Mr. Marshall re-called.—Mr. HA aniNG.—Can you under-
take to say, from your experience, if leeches bad been applied
it would have saved the life of the deceased. Mr. Marshall.—
Nothing could have saved her.
Mr. MURPHY addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner.
He dwelt particularly on the discrepancy in the evidence of the
witnesses, particularly the contradiction which the daughter
of the deceased gave to the testimony of the two first wit-
nesses.

His Lordship summed up to the Jury, who, after a few mi-
nutes' consultation, returned a verdict of guilty of manslaugh-
ter.—The prisoner was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment
with bard labour.

MANSLAUGHTER.

Mary Caton, otherwise Keating, 28, was charged with hav-
ing caused the death of John Kingsbury in this town, on the
3d of August last. The, verdict of the coroner's jury was wil-
ful murder. The Grand Jury ignored the bill for murder, and
returned one for manslaughter. The circumstances of this case
were published immediately after the inquest. The Jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. The Court passed
sentence of transportation for ten years. The Court adjourned
at twenty minutes past six.

NISI PRIUS COURT.-FRIDAY.
LOW V. LOGAN.

Mr. Cresswell and Mr. Neville appeared for the plaintiff, and
Mr. Wightman and Mr. Crompton for the defendant.

The declaration contained two counts ; one for money lent,
and the other for money paid. The defendants pleaded, that
except for £6O they had made no promise, and that sum they
paid into court.
Mr. CausswELL, in opening the case, said this was an action
to recover the amount of money expended by the plaintiffs, for
the defendants, at their iequest. Messrs. Low and Hutchinson,
the plaintiffs, were merchants and agents, residing at Savannah.
The defendants were owners of a ship called the Malabar, of
which Wm. Frobisher was the captain; and in 1536 that vessel
-was at Savannah, making ready fur sea. She was just starting
on her homeward voyage, when the mate. John Bradley, met
with a-very serious accident, having his leg broken in several
places. The captain, with a very proper feeling of humanity,
had him conveyed on shore, anti applied to Messrs. Low and
Hutchinson to take care of him. It was clear that the master
of a vessel was to t ike care of his seamen under such circum-
stances. It was enacted on the sth and 6th of Win. IV. c. 19,
that pretvision should he tnade under such circumstances for the
ss amen injure 4 by the owners of the vessel. "That if- any
seaman should receive any hurt or injury in the service of a
ship, the expense of providing the necessary surgical advice
which the seaman should stand in need of, should be borne and
paid by the owner or master of the ship, and without any deduc-
tion from the seamen's wages. It -therefore appeared beyond
all doubt that it was the duty of the master or owners to provide
for the man's expenses. But, independent of that, the captain
gave a written autho ity to Messrs. Low and Hutchinson to see
that he had proper a tendance. The authority was to the fol-
lowing effect “Gentlemen, a serious injury has befallen my
mate, in the execution of his duty, on board the Malabar, which
would render necessary the amputation of one of his legs. This
will, of course, make it necessary for me to leave him behind.
1 hereby authorize-you to draw on Messrs. Logan, of Liverpool,
for his expenses." Under that authority lodgings were procured
for hint, a nurse and a surgeon were provided, and an expendi-
ture took place to the amouut of £123 6s. 10d. The account
wan presented to the part et at first. Mr. Logan directed his
_ageorts.to correspond with his attorney on the subject. It ap-
peared that Mr. Logan's oily reason for- refusing to pay the
amount was, because he thought it exorbitant; and offered to
submit it to any merchant of Liverpool to say what should be
paid. The plaintiff's thought this rather hard. as it was not a
demand fur themselves, all they charged for was for money
which they had actually expended on the Captain's authority.
It appeared•that the siting at Savannah was very expensive,
and that the usual charges at Savannah were those which had
been charged. The surgeon attended the mate for some time,
and on his voyage home to England, the surgeon who was
coming over attended to him, but on his arriving in England
he sunk under his sufferings, which might satisfy the jury of
the dangerotis state in which he was, and the attention which he
would require. A commission had been sent out to take evi-
dence, which would he read. Mr. Low felt that it was a hard
case upon hint, and that there was an imputation upon his cha-
racter, anti that therlore no other course was left to him to
pursue hut to have the case fully investigated.
k.:vidence was then called to show that the charges put down
were such as were usual at Savannah ; that board and lodging
was front a dollar and a half to two dollars and a half per day,
and that lodgings at a lower rate were not fit to put a sick man -
in.
Mr. 'WIGHTMAN, in reply, contended that the mate had been
living in the most expensive style, which only captains lived in.
and that his expenses ought to have been conducted on the most
economical scale. He called witnesses to prove that the charges
put down for the mate were of the highest kind, and that the
reasonable charge for a mate ought to have been much less.
The Jury expressed a wish to retire, and after an absence of
two hours found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £35. Os. 3d.
in addition to the Ea paid into court.