The Sun. — 1844-12-18 (London, England)

EXPECTED BREVET.--It is confidently said that the long-expected brevet will take place at the commencement of the new year. This has been long due to the army, and we are sure that it will be gratefully received.—Herald,  William Henry Kershaw—ls the son of the last witness. His mother sent him to see what the man and woman were doing. Saw the man part from the woman, and as he was running he stumbled into a gutter. That was at thirty yards off, and in the middle of the brick croft. He ran away towards Dale-street. As he ran away she turned the corner, and put up her hand to her throat. Witness went into the house. Heard an alarm of a woman having been killed about a quarter of an hour after. Went to the place where he had seen the woman, and found a pool of blood. Cross-examined—When the man ran away he ran from me. It was about four or five yards from the corner of Brigg-street. I saw them separate. Mary Barlow—Lives in Arlington-street. Saw a woman, about the hour mentioned, passing up Arlingtonstreet, opposite Dean's-buildings. She was staggering. She had her left hand to her throat. There was a gurgling sound in her throat. She passed near witness, and put her hand on witness's shoulder with a sort of push. She went up Arlington-street, until she got opposite Mr. Senior's shop, when she fell against the door. Witness gave an alarm, and the woman was taken to the Rob Roy public-house. She had a cap on, and no bonnet.  His LoRDSHIP, in charging the grand jury, expressed an opinion that the grand jury and others would feel great inconvenience from having to attend the Winter Assizes at this inclement season of the year. The county which he had just left (Yorkshire), however, showed that the course pursued was not without necessity. The advantage of frequent gaol deliveries was great in one respect, that it prevented persons wrongfully charged from being long confined in prison ; but the evil was as great individually in cases where there were few prisoners as in those where many were confined. During last year between 8,000 and 9,000 prisoners had been discharged without conviction, from one cause or another, and at the last Winter Assizes 306 had thus received their discharge. The ground of a long commitment, however, did not attach in this case, for, with the exception of five, all the rest had been committed to gaol since October. His Lordship observed, at some length, on parties procuring themselves to be inserted on the special jury lists, in order to get quit of attendance on the petty juries—a practice which, he said, was much to be deprecated, not only on the ground that it inflicted an onerous and unjust burden on the lower classes of jurymen, but also because it deprived the Judges of the assistance uf men of greater moral and intellectual attainments in some of the more important cases—such as murder, manslaughter, forgery, and the like. The power of remedying this by the magistrates was so difficult as to be almo,t impossible. His Lordship then proceeded to remark on the cases in the calendar, but nothing of a general nature was contained in his obsei vations.  Thomas Barber—Saw the woman fall, and helped to raise her up. She lived about ten minutes. Joseph Chrichton, surgeon, stated that on the Bth of July he went to the Rob Roy public-house, and saw the body of a female, There was a large wound on the