Star. — 1829-09-03 (London, England)

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.  NORTHERN CIRCUIT, LANCASTER, Sim ;. Mr. Justice BAYLEY arrived here on Saturday evening, and shortly after proceeded to the Court and opened the commission. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE did not arrive here until yesterday morning. The calendar contains the names of near seventy prisoners. Amongst the cases there are six charges of murder, and several cases of manslaughter, and nearly thirty charges of having maliciously entered certain loom shops, with intent to destroy manufactured goods, and ith intent to break and destroy looms, machines, tackle, ;ifid implements. Against some of them there are no less than six indictments, and some of the indictments contain as many as fifty-two counts. There are also several aggravated cases of uttering forged notes to a very great extent.  At an early hour Mr. Justice BA YLEY took his seat on the Bench in the Crown Court ; and the usual forms having been gone through, the Grand Jury were sworn, Lord STANLEY being Foreman for the seventeenth time. Elizabeth Holder, wife of Henry Holder, aged 29, was indicted for killing and slaying John Holder, her infant child, at Manchester ; she was also charged on the inquisition of the Coroner with the like offence. Mr.- BRANDT stated the nature of the case. The prisoner placed her child on wet straw, and wholly neglected it ; she did not give it sufficient nourishment, and by such ill-treatment and neglect the child became ill, and languished from the Ist of May until the Ist of August, when it died. The Learned Counsel then called the following evidence : Susannah Ellison was in the service of the prisoner from Easter last until the Bth of July; the prisoner's husband was manager of the liquor-vaults at the Swan Inn, Deansgate, Manchester ; when she went to live with them they had four children ; the youngest was named Thomas—it was always called Thomas—it was christened by that name. (This being a variation from the name .lobn, in the indictment, was fatal to it). Mr. BRANDT then proceeded on the inquisition. Susannah Ellison's evidence continued—The child was six weeks or two months old ; it was suckled by its mother for a short time ; it was usually put into a cradle, and there laid upon straw ; it was frequently put upon the straw at about seven o'clock in the evening, and remained there until one or two o'clock the next day ; the straw was in a very nasty state. The husband usually came home at about 11 o'clock, and he often went out afterwards with his wife, and stayed out until two or three o'clock in the morning, and sometimes all night ; they had done so as frequently as two nights in a week ; she (witness) had often offered to nurse and to feed the child, but the prisoner told her to mind her own business ; her mistress gave it sleeping stuff, and the food that it had was bread cut off the loaf, dipped in treacle ; it had a bottle of stuff given to it which came from the doctor's ; her mistress had asked her if there were any searchers there, as there were in London, and she replied that she did not know what searchers meant—but thole were two old women who looked at dead pergola; the father, she understood, had 30s. per week ; he was not in want; he was very fond of the child; the child would sleep all night, and when it awoke it was not fed ; witness never had any quarrel with her mistress. Re-examined.—Her mistress went out every night. She had seen her mistress give something out of a bottle three or four times. The stuff was called " Davis's quietus." She only cleaned the child once. Her mistress sometimes cleaned it, but not frequently. The straw was not changed. The child was very seldom taken up into the arms, and was not then always cleaned. Its covering was a petticoat, or any thing else that she could find. The mother put its petticoat on its body. The father and mother differed about the child. By Mr. Justice