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gallop down the hill. Hien:imprimis followed by
' le ether prisoner, who endeavoured to overtake him, and
P must terrific race ensued between the two carriages, the
trloclty of both increasing by their own specific
reavity down an abrupt hill. The road was wide
though far three carriages to pan cash other, but the
pritioner, /hitter, perceiving that Pertly was keeping
bin. pushed hit horses on, and, mating his
hat and cheering, suddenly turned his leaders in trout
ut the lenders of the Holyhead mail, which, in conse-
tntlelne of being jammed in between the batik of the
road and the other vehicle, was immediately upset. The
connquences were frightful ; the deceased was killed
on the spur : the witness had a leg and an arm shattered
must deumirully; and a gentleman's servant, named
Fenner, was taken .up almost lifeless, and remained
afterwards at St. Allian'a seven or eight days before he
"(mid he removed. The witness stated that be could out
identify the prisoner, Butler, hut he remembered that,
just before the accident happened, he heard a person on
the boa of the Chester mail cheering very loudly. in a
triumphant manner, and saw that person waving his hat,
and hr believed it was the coachman. After the first
race Pertly spoke to Butler, and said, " Oh. it is yon
I did ant think it was yen." He afterwards.olwrved to
witness that Butler was a young band un that road, and
did not know that he, Pertly, was to he at iteilhurn Inv
pArtienlar time. Witness hail no doubt that the mis-
chief had occurred in consequence of the Chrstcr
mall-
.triver having turned the leaders upon the leaders of the
Holyhead, and coming so near the letter. The accident
happened half a mile south of St. Alban's.
Thomas Fenner, another of the null , confirmed
ti .e last witness. He stated, that both the prisoners
were flogging their horses at a most furious rate down
the hill, and he was convinced that the arcislent might
have been avoided with common care, notwithstanding
the velocity with which the horses were driven, because
tbere was quite room enough fur the Chester tuail to
have paned the Holyhead.
John Hayeork, a foot.peasenger at the time the acci-
dent happened, cutitirnied the statement as to the velocity
of the driving. It was eleven o'clock at night when the
accident happened. II linen, seeing the mischief tbat
I ad been done, immediately went tor a surgeon.
Mr. Webster. a sargeon of St. .%lban'a, proved that
the dereand came by his death in the manner alleged.
A Mr. Butler, a friend a the d ed, stated, that
the latter had been parish-clerk of ilagley, near Stour-
-I,•tilge. in Worcestersh;re, and that on the 10th of
~iigust he had dined with witness before he went off by I
t' snail.

The prisoner Pertly, being called upon for his defence,
d•d not say any thing.
The prisoner Butler said, that the horses which he
were young and high moiled, and that he he-
-I•rrrd one of Horns had never been its harness before;
t'.at they had started off in consequent., of the rattling
s,t the other roads, and became unmanageable; and
t'.at, if 10.000 files were at stake, it was quite out ut his
yower to prevent the accident.
Mr. Custwoott was Counsel for Butler, and Mr. AN-
PR KU SI for Pertly. It was suggested, in the course of
I.•e cross-examination of the witnesses, that by the Post-
t•thee regulations the Holyhead mail ought to be at
i.edltrio a quarter of as hour before the other
•i his was as•igoed all a reason for Pertly's rapid driving.
1+ was also suggest's', that there hail heel' ■ heap of
trash gravel put on the road at the place where the ac-
dent happened ; but this fact was negatived in evi-
oenee.

Several witnesses gave tinder a !sigh character for
civility, sobriety, and caution •t a driver.
The roachtuwa o"-mi he had PM:eroded as driver of
t%; i:":::er snail. stated, that the horses which he drove
t•at night were high-spirited animals, and, if pet on
their mettle. it was impossible tnr any busty to bold
t..em ; but that. if not dogged, they were as docile as
ntlier horses.
Ilse riestser Nerdy alms received !. fowl character, ,
and was described by the witnesses to be a civil *Art
man.
Mr. Baron Oa mtow gemmed up the case for the Jery ,
jr, ar . toqueut and impressive manner. The Jury fogad I
~.s prisoners Guilty.

Stoat 01:TR %Gt.
Catherine Machu and Thomas Kr dish were indicted
at principal and accessory for an :►.sanit upon Eliza
Harris, an infant, nnder the age of ten years, with la.
t-nt to commit a gross outrage on her person.
It is impossible to enter into a detail of the cirenm-
stances of this atrocions. and diabolical warts:teflon,
hich excited, in an immensely crowded Court, feelings
of horror rid indignation.
The prosecution W 3.1 conducted by Mr. PLATT, and
the defence by Mr. etewoon antl Mr. 11' ►LIPOID.
The father of the prosecittrix is a respectable grocer
in London, and hail a conntry-house at lietuel-Ifetisp-
stead, where he left the female prisoner, Hughes, in the
month of Hereinlier as►, in care of his five children,
ith permission to another woman in the neighbour-
tomi to sleep in the bowie, and keep the prisoner mo-
rally. No sooner was Mr. Harris's hark tamed, than
these infamous women admitted into the house their
paramours. On the morning of the 10th of December
the atrocious transaction in question tool; place. The
rrisanor Kentish was ailed in his en (minim purpose hr
the prisoner Hughitx. The health of the unhappy chili'
is seriously injoire.l. The rase tea• proved by the most
conclusive evidence. and the Jury, smiler the Learned
Judge's directions, found the prisoners
They were sentenced to three years' imprisonment
earls in Hertford gaol.

The female prisoner evinced in her countenance the
most audacious impudence nod ronfirosed profligacy.
The other prisoner, who was equally itaprapossesr.ing to
his appearance, squinted with one rye, and had been an
itinerant piesnan.
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William Cotlilt was convicted of I,strel4ry; anil .Inseph
Dollimore and Joseph Newman tcrre convicted of sheep-
stealing.

II lINTS.

WINCINSUITER, lif.tacti I.—The Nisi Pries Court was
occupied the %thole of to-day in trying several causes of
a nature so trivial as to be scarcely interesting even
to the parties themselves, except as to the consideration
of costs; hot in the coarse of the morning Air. Wilde
moved the Court to postpone the trial of the cause of
Ireinonger, .. Hunt, the defendant being Mr. Henry
hunt, of Midsiletou-cottage, near Andover. It wag aft
action of trespass, and brooght to try the right of sport-
ing over land in the occupation of the plaintiff. The
;notion was grounded on an affidavit of 3lr. Hunt. which
was sworn yesterday, and which stated that he believed
he had a good elefrocr to the action ; that Henry Ass-
drew' was a material and necessary *kneels for him,
the defendant, upon the trial of the cause. but that Henry
Andrews was subpoenaed to attend the trial of a prose-
cotiou at York against the defendant and nine others
fur a conspiracy • that the tttttt ksion-ilay *O'er': was
on the 4:11 of conspiracy
and that Andrews, who resided
240 utiles from that place, had left his home fur the pur-
pose of attending the trial ; that he was a material and
necessary witness upon that trial ; that he could not
safely proceed to the trial of this cense witlitod the
evi-
dence of Andrews; hut with that evidence he bail no
doaht of getting a verdict.
Mr. ZDWARD Lawns opposed the motion, on the prin-
ciple that it was not stated in the affidavit at .Andrews
bad been subponard here, or that any attempt had been