Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-12-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

AND SOUTH WALES FREE PRESS.  SWANSEA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1U49.  LAW AND POLICE.  The Electric Telegraph Company, annoyed by the imputations on their impartiality, which appeared in the Morning Herald, have obtained a rule for a crimi. not information against Widmer and Smith, the Live,pool con espondents of that journal At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, John Francis, watchmaker, aged 33, was tried for the murder of 'thus. Hall, one of the officers of Nillibank Penitentiary. Ile was acquitted on the ground of insanity.  The trial of young Monkhouse, for shooting his father at Chiso iek, has been postponed to the next sessian of the Central Criminal Court.  Walker, a young man who had been clerk at the London and County Bank for four months, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, at the Central Criminal Curt, to stealing a ten-pound note. It seems that he mad clothes of a tailor, intending to pay for them teem his accruing wages; the tailor became a bankrupt, and the assignees demanded an immediate settlement ; to effect this, the foolish youth stole the note. The sentence was 6 months' itnprisonnient:_  'Edward Nairne, a stock-broker who refused to surrender himself to a fiat in b.inkruptcy, has been arrested. Daniel Forrester the officer found him at Boulogne Forrester .hastened to Paris, got an order from  the Minister of the Intvrhr for Nairn-e's arrest and eKtradition : and the bankrupt was speedily captured. He was immediately brought to England ; was produced at the Guildhall Police-office on Saturday la-I; and was remanded for a week. The prisoner is accused of most cruel a.:.1 iradulent conduct towards his creditors.  Miss Leggatt, the young woman tried at the last Leeds sessions on a charge of stealing a viol n, and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, has been liberated by order of Sir George Grey; the Crown, under the extraordinary circumstances of the case, having granted her a free pardon. The jury, it appears, after spending several hours in fruitless discussion, agreed to decide the verdict by lot, and two pieces of a quill pen of' unequal lengths were deposited in a hat, the long one to denote the innocence and the short one the guilt of the prisoner; that the short piece happening to be drawn first, the twelve " good men and true" at once returned into a court with a verdict of " guilty" against Miss Leggett. This extraordinary conduct was forthwith reported to the Home Secretary, and the result has been the dischari,e of the prisoner. _  Joseph Ady was again summoned to attend why be refused to pay the sum of £ll Its, due for the before the Lord Mayor of London, on Tuesday, toishow cause postage of his circulars all over the country. Mr Peacock, solicitor to the Post-office, stated to the Lord Mayor that Atly called at the Post.oflice Mimed iately before the hour appointed at which the case was to be lie..rd, and put down th.! sum required. Mr. Peacock added that Ady had posted 1,400 unpaid letters on Friday last, so that similar applications would probably be necessary in a very short time. The Lord Mayor expressed his readiness to grant a summons for the payment of any future debt which Ady might incur in the progress of his speculations.