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her dressing-room was separated from his by the whole width
of the house ; witness knew of no altercation on that day, al-
though Ewing had left hiswife on that day, and said he would
not go back, and bad beard of no previous threat by Miss H.
against deceased ; but saw a note from prisoner to deceased,
requesting the return of certain articles, and threatening him
that he would rue or regret it if he did not return them ;
witness further stated that when he first saw Miss Hamblin
after the occurrence, she had in her hands what he took
to be a dagger—and that in the part of a page which
she performed that night a dagger was not an essential part
of costume ;. witness had known deceased for two or three
seasons; his health was excellent, excepting slight attacks of
sore throat, &c.; his run of character required great physical
exertion, and witness never observed that he suffered from
these exertions ; deceased played frequently in the play and
afterpiece, and always without inconvenience ; deceased oc-
cupied the same chamber with witness for a week after part-
ing with his wife; then returned for a short time to his wife,
and then returned to his former lodgings, a day or two before
his death ; his general health was then good, as witness had
an opportunity of observing; he had palpitation about the
region of the abdomen, as witness could see from frequently
witnessing him with his clothes off, and appeared to have no
difficulty of breathing after considerable muscular exertion,
such as he often put forth ; witness states that prisoner had
been in the habit of going to the dressing-room of the de-
ceased, but had not been there for a week or ten days pre-
vious to his death ' • her dressing-room was separated from
his by the entire width of the house, and access to his apart-
ment could only be had by going in a roundabout direction ;
witness saw at first two wounds upon the right arm of de-
ceased, but, upon further examination, discovered another
wound on the left side; deceased was not dead when witness
first reached him, but shortly after, perhaps ten minutes,
died in witness's arms; prisoner and deceased were not to-
gether more than ten minutes that whole evening.
Cross-examined.—Witness went to hurry Ewing to his
part ; did not see Miss Hamblin going to the room of the
deceased. but met her on the staircase, appearing quite dis-
tressed, and asking forgiveness of her husband for what she
had done ; no one was in the dressing-room of the deceased
when witness entered
Mr

Jones saw Ewing the night before the play com-
menced : he was quite excited by liquor : he spoke of his
wife, and used very abusive language towards her, some few
minutes before the curtain rose : witne'ss played in the same
piece that night with prisoner and deceased ; and, excepting
the language previously mentioned, witnessed no ill will on
the part of either towards the other, on the stage or off : he
heard no threat by prisoner towards deceased, and knows
nothing of their previous separation; in fact, nothing of the
terms of their social intercourse : she was very secretive as
to her family matters, but witness thought he could see from
the manner of both that they were unfriendly : Ewing and
Radcliffe used the same dressing-room, and witness was in
his own chamber when he heard a voice from the room of the
deceased crying out, "My God! what have I done?" About
a week before the death of Ewing witness saw Miss Hamblin
in his (deceased's) dressing-room, but does not know if she
was i❑ the habit of visiting it.

Madame Thielman was in her dressing-room, and heard
loud talking, and then a scream from the direction of Ewing's
Witness went to her door, and, upon looking out,

saw Ewing upon his own threshold in the act of failing :
few steps off she discovered Miss Hamblin holdinc, something
in her hand, who exclaimed, " He struck me and called me
hard names." Prisoner endeavoured several times to go to
the body, but was hindered by those around. She appeared
frantic and entirely beside herself, and frequently called to
witness as if to her husband, " Andrew, why did you strike
rue ?" She would then go to the mirror to arrange her dress,
and announce her readiness to go through with her part.
Prisoner wore the dress of a page, and had a dagger with a
white handle in her belt when, the performance began.
Dr. Levert examined the body, and at first thought that
the wounds were the cause of the death. Upon opening the
abdomen, be discovered much blood—but tracing the course
of the knife he saw no vessels cut. On going further, he
found the remains of an aneurism in the abdomen sufficiently
accounting for death of Ewing, witness proceeded no further
in his examination. There are cases on record of the exist-
ence of aneurisms without the attendance of serious symp-
toms manifesting their being. In this instance the aneurism
was very large, and*ttenuated to such a degree that witness
wondered how the party lived so long—as any slight cause,
such as a blow, or even a sneeze, might have caused its rup-
ture, and so have induced death. The most probable causes
of rupture would be anger, a blow, or great muscular exertion.
Aneurism is a disease of the arteries, in the pr ogress of which
the inner coats being most tender, are the first destroyed,
while the outer being tough, will last much.longer. Wounds
of the stomach are always dangerous ; death does not usually,
however, supervene immediately upon the puncture of that
organ, but is the result of subsequent inflammation. In this
case it is possible that Ewing might have died of the wounds
alone—but not immediately—and only after inflammation had
taken place. Witness had before treated a case of wounded
stomach, where the injury to that organ was greater than in
this instance, and the patient recovered. After finding a
probable cause for the death of Ewing, witness ceased his ex-
amination. The knife entered the opposite side to the aneu-
rism, and did not reach it. It was ruptured by other agencies,

and there was sufficient cause in the t
deceased laboured, induced by the ',i
the fit of anger into which he was s

xcitement under which
vor he had taken, and
LiuL:enly thrown, to ac-

count for his death

The evidence was examined with great care, and was closed
about dark ; after which the solicitor, Percy Walker, and
Messrs. Chandler, Childers, and Dunn, addressed the jury.
Judge Brugg then briefly and clearly summed up the points
of the case, impressing the jury with the fact that the merits
of the case depended entirely on Doctor Levert's testimony
—which went to show that the aneurism of which it is al-
leged Mr. Ewing died. might have been caused by any
extraordinary excitement,

The jury then retired for a moment, and returned with a
verdict of " not guilty."

As soon as this was announced, the defendant, who was
atigued by remaining in court all day, immediately fainted.

THE GIPSY FESTIVAL—SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 28.—The
annual festival of the Gipsies of the New Forest was held
to-day on the Rev. Mr. Crabb's grounds, about a mile from
Southampton. On these grounds the families and tribes of
the Gipsies of the forest were invited, according to yearly
custom, to partake of a sumptuous dinner, and to receive
various articles of clothing, to shelter them in some measure
from the inclemency of the winter season. The presents are
furnished by means of subscriptions of the wealthy in all parts
of the country. At two o'clock nearly 200 Gipsies, consis-
ting of men, women, and children, sat down to a handsome
dinner of roast beef and plum pudding, and were waited on
by the gentry of the neighbourhood, crowds of whom were
present to witness the singular scene. The swarthy beings
proved by the quantity they consumed that a sumptuous din-
ner was a rarity to them ; and they were so overjoyed at the
sight of rich plum puddings, that they all rose, greeting them
with tumultuous cheering. The Gipsy children, although
many of them badly clad, some of them indeed half naked,
appeared a fine healthy race. The clothing distributed
amongst them consisted of blankets and fabrics fitted for un-
garments. The Right Hon. Sturges Bourne was present,
and appeared to take the greatest interest in tile festival.
INHUMAN TREATMENT OF A PAUPER SERVANT.—About
eighteen months ago, an orphan girl named Hodges, at that
time not eleven years old, was placed from the Monmouth
Union as servant to Elizabeth Powell, the wife of a farmer
near Langdogo. Almost immediately after the child had
taken up her residence with her inhuman mistress, she was
for the most trifling faults corrected in a severe manner ; but
recently the wretch used to tie the child up with cords to a
beam, and after stripping her, beat her in the most violent
manner with various weapons; and when from exhaustion
she was obliged to discontinue, or sickening at the sight of
the blood streaming down the poor child's back, she used to
wash her in salt and water ! The last punishment inflicted
was on Monday, when after tying her up and stripping her as
before described, she seized a bunch of holly ! and lacerated
the child's back in a most shocking manner, it being one mass
of scratches and bruises from the neck downwards. The mon-
ster not content with beating the child on the back, was
equally profuse of her blows on the arms and under the chin,
woich parts exhibit evident proofs of the violence used. The
little girl, unable to bear such treatment longer, ran away on
Monday, and found refuge in a barn ; on the following morn-
ing she went to Mr. Purchas, who brought her to the work-
house on Wednesday, where she now remains. We bear
that it is the intention of the parish authorities to prosecute
the wretch for her inhuman treatment of the child; and we
sincerely hope this Mother Brownrigg will meet with the
punishment she so justly merits.—Mon. Beacon.
TUE TARTARS IN CHINA.—In a private letter from Sir.
H. Pottinger, the British Plenipotentiary in China, to a
gentleman in this quarter, we were peculiarly struck with
his Exellency's view of the Chinese war, and his humane ex-
pressions of anxiety that our enemy might come to terms
'without any more bloodshed—not on account of what some
call the injustice of the war, or the effeminate enemy we had
to deal with, but on account of the poor Tartars, who have
no alternative but death in the event of the defeat. They
dare not surrender—they must die by their own hands rather
than yield to an enemy ; and, should they escape into the
country, they escape but from an open and generous
foe to fall into the hands of one treacherous and vindictive
since the Chinese are everywhere on the watch to put the
defenceless Tartars to death, when they can do so with impu-
nity. The scene in the Tartar district of Chinhae (after
the capture of the city) that presented itself to the British
soldiers, Sir Henry describes as being the most revolting that
the eye could witness. The mangled bodies of men, women,
and children were found in every house—some with their
throats cut, others crammed, head foremost, into the deep
household wells that are found in all dwellings in the East.
Husbands and fathers had become the executioners of the
dreadful behests of a bloody superstition, or a custom equally
powerful, and imbrued their hands in the blood of their
families previous to their own suicide, lest they should fall
into the hands of the British. How immovable must be the
determination that could produce consequences so general
and so, revolting ! We are happy to think that the war is
now concluded—a war that fell with such singular and deadly
effect on this devoted people, the bravest, as Sir Henry ob-
serves, of all the Asiatic nations.—lnverness Courier.
DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Tuesday
night last, John Alford, an assistant gamekeeper of Sir John
Kennaway, with a young man named Edward Snell, heard
the report of guns in a covert, called Larkbeare-brake, in
Ottery, about half a mile from Sir John's house. Alford
and his companion immediately proceeded to call Mr. Jos.
Cook, the keeper, and several men whom Cook had taken
care should be in readiness in case of an affray taking place.
The assistants, on being called, proceeded up the turnpike-
road, in the direction where the report of the guns had been
heard; when they reached the spot, they heard the steps of
men coming down the road, upon which they turned into an
adjoining field, where they remained until the poachers came
up to them. C. Lear, Sir John's hind, then stepped for-
ward, and spoke to the poachers—they gave no answer.
They were four in number (three of them by the name of
Brice, and the other Woodley, all of Newtonpopleford), and
' were walking in pairs. Lear collared one of them, whereupon
two guns were fired by the prisoners, and he was knocked
down by one of them with the barrel of a gun, his head be-
ing laid open ; he was left insensible in the road, and from
the severe injuries he received was unable to give evidence
before the magistrates. John Hodge, one of the keeper's
party, received a blow from a gun which cut off half his ear ;
this blow was followed by another with a hammer, such as is
used for cracking stones. Two or three other of the assist-
ants were laid senseless on the ground. A severe contest
ensued with the remainder, when Cox and Alford came up
to the assistance of the keepers, and safely secured the four
prisoners ; Cook having floored the strongest of the poachers
three succeesive times, on his rising to strike him. They
were on the following day taken before the Rev. J. Huyshe,
and committed for trial. Lear and two of the assistants are
now lying in a very precarious state. One of the prisoners
was severely cut on the head, and at one time serious appre-
, hens:ons were entertained of the nature of the injury he had
. received.— Western Luminary.