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      _xxqc & sts * Beiihfmh foci Am . —Before Mr Bedford , by adjournment at the Crown , Long Acre , on the body of _George Grosse , aged 30 , a labourer , lately residing at No . 5 , Langley-court , in tha above thoroughfare , whose death was alleged to have arisen from the foul air coming from , the drain of tbe house which was stated , in conjunction with others in the . immediate neighbourhood , to be in snch a state as to endanger the lives ofthe _inhabitauta . —Mr Le Breton stated that Long Acre was without a regular sewer . The

      commissioners had lai-i before the owners of property in tbat district several plans some years ago , ia the hepe that they wonld build a sewer , though up to the present time nothing had been done . Ill the last session of parliament an act was passed which conferred a power upon the commissioners to Crrj out such nn arrangement . _—Jahn Davis , surveyor to the commissioners , said he had examined the premises , aud fouud aa open closet in the back yard , and there was an old sewer running at the backs of the houses which communicated with another one in Hart-street . The closet had no

      cesspool , hue its contents ran directly m the sewer . The houses on the eastern side of the court did not communicate with the sewer ; they ran into the old sewer at the rear of the houses . The mouths of the drains were nearly choked np . The old sewer bad never been cleansed by the Court of Sewers . —By the solicitor : The soil was three feet three _inches in depth at this end , and ono foot eight inches in Hart _, street , and the accumulation of filth was evidently from the _improper construction of the sewer . The attention of the jury was here called to tb 6 fact that deceased was in perfect health up toa few minutes previous to his death on Friday week , and , on going iuto the closet , as was stated on the last occasion , he was supposed to have fallen down in the . yard ,

      rendered insensible hy the foul air , and shortly afterwards found dead . —Thomas Brown , in theemplov of Mr Mitchell , of Long Acre , brass-worker , deposed feat on Friday week he was at the house , Ne . 6 , and threw abont three quarts of impure vitriol into the jfted , and an immediate effervescence was the result , bnt witness did not experience any unpleasant smell atthe time ; but suspecting there would be an odour arising , he threw about tturfcv pails of water down over the place to wash it away . The vitriol was rery impure . —Mr Berry , surgeon , stated that he had made a post mortem examination . All the organs were healthy except the lungs , which were completely gorged with blood , and emitted an

      offensive odour . Witness was perfectly satisfied thst death was the result of the poisonous vapour in the lungs , which was evidently sulphuretted hydrogen and _carbtinic acid gas , caused by the vitriolic acid coming in contact with somo other similar agent ; there would have been no danger but for the vitriol . A great deal of evidence was gone into , and after a very protracted investigation , amidst various suggestions by the commissioners and others as to the best mode to _boadopted forthe general improvement of the locality , and to prevent the recurrence of accident , the jury returned the following verdict :- — ' That deceased died from inhaling sulphuretted hydrogen gas , caused by vitriol having been poured into a defective and foul drain /

      Alleged _JSkisct agaixsx the _Auinosmss of _Hsisors Usios _Wobkhobsb . — Before Mr Wakley , M . P _., by adjournment in the Holborn Union workhouse , to investigate the circumstances attending the death of Wm . Benn _, aged 50 . which took place there on Saturday week last , from the want of the common necessaries of life . The body ot the deceased , who was admitted on the Friday as a casual pauper , was frightfully emaciated . Mr 11 . Simpson said , that on the afternoon ot Friday weeK he saw deceased lying near the entrance of the Royal Free Hosp tal , Gray ' s-inn-lane , supported by the wall . The porter of the institution came out , and raised him up , saying there was no room for him , he . must goto the union . Deceased , after going a few yards ,

      assisted by hi * stick , fell down . Witness helped Limupandtookhimio the Holborn Union workhouse , where he was admitted . He said that he had been in the West Louden Union workhouse the previous night . Witness ca ' iled about 4 o ' clock , and wa 3 informed tbat the doctor had not seen the deceased . On Tuesday he called to make inquiries , and ascertained that _deceased wa 3 going to be buried that day . He was told that the certificate of the medical gentleman wa 3 , _deceased had died of general debility , and tbat death was accelerated by want . He then thought it his dnty to give information to the coroner , which he did . Several witnesses ( inmates cf the _wot-kho « 3 e ) yere _examined _. and deposed tbat deceased was seen by Mr Jones , assistant to Mr

      Gibson , surgeon to the nnion , a little after 4 o ' clock —thathe had a warm bath by the surgeon ' s order , and it was stated by a man of the name of Chiekleday , tbat he went for the medicine ordered for deceased . It _was also deposed that the deceased had come from Rugby , Warwickshire , a few weeks ago , and that he had had nothing to eat for sis days . Mr Jones , assistant to Mr Gibson , _snrgeon _, _Iloibarahill , saw deceased about four on Friday afternoon , his pulse _waafeeble , and he _waslabouringundergeneral debility from want of food . Witness orderi d Mm a warm bath , and to be pnt to bed immediately after , when he wa ? to _hwe some gruel . He also _prescribed carbonate of ammonia . Coroner : The man wanted some stimulant . On the last occasion you

      Eftid when you saw him that he was in a sinking state . Did it nos occur to you that he required wine , or something stimulant or reviving ? Witness said lie was in such a state that he could keep nothing on his stomach . It was a hopeless case , and if he had seen him again , he could have dor . o nothing more fer him . By the Coroner : Did not mention the case _toAIr Gibson ; had no medical entry of it . _Pluminer , wardsman of the sick ward , said he received deceased between four and five o ' clock on Friday afternoon ; be was assisted into bed , being in a sinking state . Witness gave him some gruel , abont four sp _nnfuls . He could take no morn . _Witness did not report tbat he conld not tike the gruel . The medicine was brought between eight and nine o'clock , the usual time for medicine to be sent to the sick ward . Two table spoonfuls were to b 3 given every four hoars . Deceased lost his speech about nine

      o ' clock . He died _between ten and eleven o ' clock on Saturday morning . By the Coroner : He did not receive anything between nine o ' clock at night and eleven the _following morning . They had no orders to send for a doctor . By the jury : Decease ! had some tea besides the gruel , which he retained on bis Btomaeh . He did not vomit while in the ward . The Master ofthe Wtst Lo & doa Union attended witb the hooks to shosv that deceased was net in the boose on Thursday night . The _Coroaer observed that the more they entered into the inquiry , the more there appeared a necessity for farther inquiry . Here was a man in a dying state , and no _secoud visit was paid him by the medical officer , while the man Flnmmer saw him dying and did not send for one . He should adjourn tha inquest , for he waa anxious to knew _where the deceased was on ihe Thursday night . The inquest was adjourned to Thursday night at seven o'clock .

      _Maxsucghkb . — Before Mr Bedford , at Westminster Hospital , on the body of Rebecca Gray , a Child about three years old , belonging to Thomas Gray , sergeant in the 63 th regiment . Sam . Wiskers , a private of the second battalion Scotch Fusileer Guards , said that en Saturday afternoon he was in Birdcage Walk , near Queen-square gat 3 , and saw a carriage and pair driving ; very fast . The deceased being at play with some other children ran across t iie road , when owing ta the furious atd reckles manner in whieh tke driver was travelling , he knocked deceased down , and the fore wheel passed over her head . She was taken to the hospital , and expired ia about four hours afterwards . Witness and others cried out to the prisoner , who looked luck , aud saw tbat he had ran ever tbe child , and then flogged and gal ' oped off at a _frightfoi pace , but was subsequently overtaken by a cabman , by tbe

      order of a gentleman who saw the occurrence . The prisoner was _^ then taken _bsfore the magistrate at Bow-street , when he gave _hh name as John Tierney , in the employ of a gentleman at Royston ,. near Bromley , Kent . —Mr _Leggett alai proved tbat the prisoner was proceeding in tbe most culpable and careless manner ; aud , _shovtly _before the abbveevent , he came in contact with _witness cart , standing in _Quee &' s-row , and _witness d-ove after him at the rate of fourteen miles an hoar , bat could not catch him . _—Nnmerovs ether witnesses having ken examined , alio ? whose testimony went to show tbat _tbeacsident could very easily have b 33 n avoided if the prisoner had b 2 sn driving properly , or taken the slightest precaution , the coroner a _.-mracd up very minutely , and thejury returned a verdict of * _Manslauihtar against John _Tierney . ' The coroner issued his warrant for Ms committal .

      FIRES . Exieksive _CossutjBinos . —On Tuesday ni _^ ki , ekortlv before 12 o ' clock , a . fire , iavolving a serious destruction of property , broke out in thc premises _belonging to Mr Morgan , a builder , ia the Oid Keatroad . The flames originated , frem some _usknown cause , ia the manufactory , a range of premises about 80 or 100 feet loBg , and of proportionate width . At the time the . discoveiy was made the Sre had obtained a strong hold of the place , and , owing to the _inflammable nature of tho stock deposited therein , the _fiames _expended with more than usual rapidity , so that in less than ten minutes the entire property presented oneimmease sheet of flame , which rose high

      into the air and completely illuminated the neighbourhood- Thb circumstance caused intelligence Ofthe disaster fo fc 3 speedily communicated to the engine stations . The first engine that reached the spot was that 1 donging to the _briende from _Southwairk-bridgc aud , with Mr _flencaidon , the chief officer of tbe district . Mr Conncrbn , the head of the We-: t of England firemen , next arrived , with the company ' s engine and men from Waterloo-read . Uot a moment was Ioat ins _? tt _i-jbothi _» _ac-biaes to work fromthe canal , but before a drop of water conld ba discharged upon the flames they had extended to another large pile of premises , the property of Mr _Dalton , a stone merchant , and also to the buildings tenanted by Ur Saundei 3 , a batcher . Oirias to the

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      intense heat thrown out by the flames , the firemen had the greatest difficulty in approaching the burning property , but , nothing daunted , they were _eiwMed TO _eneoupa & the flames eu either side , and by dis charging the water round them they werehappily ar " rested in their progress , but it was along time before they were extinguished . By one o ' clock the flames were nearly extinguished ; but by that hour Mr Morgan ' s factory , together with the stock in trade , the men ' s working tools , & D ., was reduced to ashes , Mr _Jlalton _' _.-i premises almost gutted , and the property of Mr Saunders severely damaged by Sre . ' Tbe total loss must be very considerable . -

      Fibk is _GKiCEcnoHcn-8 TREKT . —On Tuesday afternoon a fire broke out in the wine cellars belonging to Alderman Wood , _Corbett-omrt _, _Gracechurch-street . Wben first discovered the flames had strong hold of a quantity of straw and saw dostnjcd in the package of tbe wine bottles . The damage was confined to tbe destruction ef a quantity of wine and bottles ; The toss ia covered bj insuranciu the Sun-office . The fire is supposed to have originated in a spark falling from one of the caudles used by the cellarmen .

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      Lancashire. A Shocking Accident Occurred...

      _LANCASHIRE . A shocking Accident occurred on the works of the London and North Western Railway Company , at Stalybridge , near Manchester , on Sunday . The company are constructing a tunnel , forming part of the original Huddersfield and Manchester Railway , but which railway will now form a portion-of their line into Yorkshire ; and near tothe tunnel was . a large storehouse and stable . The storehouse was chiefly filled with nails , ropes , and barrels of turpen- j tine and oil . There was also a large barrel of gunpowderin one corner . On Sunday morning four men aud a boy went into the storehouse with some dogs , to destroy vermin ; and , with a view to drive the rats

      from holes in one _cifcner of the building , they took some powder and _sapped up the holes . They then laid a train , and set fire to it , imagining that , as the barrel of gunpowder in another part of the place was wet , tbere would . be no . danger of an explosion . Either from the powder having been scattered in tbat direction , or a draught of wind , they bad no sooner fired the train , than it communicated with the barrel tl gunpowder , and the turpentine and oils were all in a blaze in an instant . The four men and boy were dreadfully barnfc before they _ceuld be rescued , the bod v of one of them having been thrown to the door *

      I way , a distance of ten or a dozen yards , by the force of the explosion which followed the ignition of these combustibles . Tbe place was entirety burnt down and destroyed in the course of a few minutes . One Of the sufferers , Matthew Gomersall , aged 30 , died a few hours afterwards of his injuries ,- leaving a wife and three children . Another , James Piatt , aged 28 , died about nine at night , leaving a wife and two children . William Stirt , tbe son of one of the overlooker ? , and Abraham Harding , both young men , are so severely burnt tbat no hopes are entertained of their recovery . The boy , Wm . _Cresswell , is the only one of the natty likely to survive .

      Another accident occurred the same day at about 100 yards from the scene ofthe above explosion . Tbe contractors to the company , Messrs Howeliand H _* ttersley , are driving a tunnel under the Cocker-hill , and at one point , they had found quicksands , which deterred them from proceeding by the ordinary means of driving a drift-way , and had determined to sink shafts and form continuousarchways , filling the shafts up with earth again when completed . One of these shafts , 30 feet square , had been observed to be in a doubtful way for a fortnight past , and about noon on Sunday , when a number of workmen were employed near it , loud crashes were heard proceeding from it ,

      and it waB then discovered that the earth had given way around it in all directions for many yards , and that the shaft waa nearly-filled up . Fortunately no one was injured , but the earth continued to crack and open in wide crevices around the place daring several henrs afterwards . It is espected that the contractors will suffer to the extent of £ 1 , 000 , but that tbe Iobb of the company will be much more serious , inasmuch _n about a dozen or fourteen houses standing close by , and the foundations of whieh are no longer stable enough , will have to be taken down . Besides this , there will necessarily follow a very considerable delay in tim ' e wbicb , with railway companies , is equal to

      money . _Alleged Poisosiso . — A woman named Ann Mather , at Warrington , was committed for trial at the next Liverpool Assizes , on the charge of having poisoned her husband . Tbe husband , Job Mather , a fi ! e-catter at Warrington , died on the 20 th ult ., and was buried next day . His widow , theprisoner , subsequently absconded . _~ hen suspicions were mentioned that she had poisoned ber husband , and she was ultimately traced to _Asktcn-nnder-Lyne , where she was apprehended on Saturday . From evidence

      addacedat the inquest , which was brought to a conclusion on Monday night , it appears that Mather's body had been exhumed , and tbe presence of arsenic was detected on the stomach . The evidence against the prisoner went to prove that she had bought arsenic the day before his death . In support of a motive , it was shown that deceased belonged to several burial and other societies , and that the prisoner , after bis death , had actually netted about £ 21 from tho funds of those societies , as funeral fees . The jury were so satisfied , after hearing the evidence , that they found a verdict of Wilful Murder .

      L _1 _SCOLUSHIBE . S _& E 4 F 0 ED . —The prosecution against Sbarpe , the superintendent of the police , for the _manslaughter of Wm . Dodson , late secretary of thc Sleaford branch of the Land Company , commenced on Saturday last . Ur _Erna * t Jones appeared for the widow and friends ef the deceased ; Mr Stainland , of Boston , and Mr Moore , Clerk ofthe Peace , for the defence . The proceedings , which are exciting an _nonsnal interest in this otherwise quiet place , lasted on the Saturday from eleven until eight o ' clock , p . m ., when , tbe case for the prosecution not having been finished , the magistrates adjourned jit to _Tuesday last . On Monday last a eaie _arising out of the above was tried before a fall bench of magistratas . It wa * a—Cbxsq * or Assault , preferred by Mr Mills , ef Swaton . _against Mr Owen Cross , of this town .

      Mr _Hnxs said , on the evening of August 4 tb , the evening of Mr Dodroa ' _a death , I wa * in a private room of Bristol Arms with seven or eight friends . I had heen in not quite two minutes wben _Oiven Cross rushed in and committed a most unprovoked assault , striking me on the face and knocked me down twice . Gave Cross in charge of policeman Swinney . Saw no more of Cross . Cross-examined by Mr Jones : Door was open when Cro 3 s entered , A Mr Philips tried to resist his en . trance . I was very much bruised and injured . Lip and ear cut . Suffered for a week afterwards . Cross had a

      whip m his hand—dii not strike me with whip . There were seven or eight of my friends in the room . Had seen Cross with mob before . Something pasBcd between me and two men . They flourished a stick in my face _. Cross was not ene . I wore colours—red . There was no disturbance in the crowd , —a man in a gig was speaking . A blue f lag was exhibited . Blue is tbe CO . lour of the Radicals here . Ihad dined at Payne ' s rooms , Drunk wine . Not more than usual at Election dinner . Cross came in alone ; none followed for two or three minutes after .

      Ann _Bbackenbubt . —Iswife of Stephen _Brackehbury miller . Was ac Bristol Arms ; soon as heard the Radicals come went with" aaid to dining room window . About four o ' clock taw a man in front of Bristol Arms speaking from a gig . Saw Owen Cross switching his whip about , and heard him abasing Mr _Miils shamefully . Heard him say something at jut his colour *; Mr Mills had a red rosette in his coat . Owen Cross and Mills then rushed into room , crowd so thick you could walk on tbeir beads . Told policeman Swinney to shut door aud keep the rest out . Heard a window broken . After room was cleared , saw Owen Cross in it , he & rd him say , 'I ' ve nailed yon , and if I'd known I'd hare nailed you worse . " Cross-exammed hy Mt E , Jones . _—CrosB threatened Mills _dreadfally—abused bim shamefully bad , Ersest Jones . —Bid you see Cross threaten him !

      _WitKiss—Yes . —Did ho shake his whip at Mint No . —Did he shake his fist at him ! No . —How did he threaten him 5 Don't know . —Then you don't fcnow that he _threatened bim at all ? No , I only thought 80 . —Yon say he abused Wm shamefully ? Yes— . _Wiat did he _sayt Don ' t recollect . —Will you swear that you heard him say anything ? No . —Then you don ' t know whether he abused him or not ? No , I thought so . —Yoa say tbis happened from fcur to five ? Yes . —Were you at the dinner at Payne ' s rooms ? Yes . —Did you leave when the others \ _eitS Yes . _—Bifln't the others leave after five ! Yes . —Thon how could you see these things at four % I might be mistaken as to time . Don ' t know who tore Mr _Mills ' s rosette off .

      WB . EBIE , journeyman draper , sworn ; was In room of Bristol Arms on evening of 4 th of _Augnst , about six . Mills came into room . He entered quietly , not as though he was running away . Was in room some mU nutes before Cross entered . Others followed Cross immediately in a great rush . Cross knocked _MUla down twice . Cross jumped up to window and called to crowd without , * Come in , or _thej'llkill as !' Cross-ezatnineil by _JTrE . ' Jones , — Four men came in with Cross . Several friends were in room wiih Mr Mills . As crowd came in I went out . _Jjs . Butler , stonemason , was called for the defence . —Was in front of Bristol Arms between five and six o ' clock . Some men came up with a blue flag . A tall , stou * man seized the fiz _^ _, tore it , an _< 3 dragged it nnder gateway . Then sciz * . d C _.-OE 9 by the collar , struck him and dragged him into the room . Cross tried to prevent tho flag being taken .

      _Crots-esaraiaed by Mr Mitts . —Have worked ih Sleaford five months . Tbat is tho man ( pointing to Mr Mills ) . I will swear that was tho roaa . _Milfe was 3 _rvesed as he is to-day , in a snit of black , Wm . Spskceb , baker . —Corroborated the above _evidence ia every _particular . Witness stood under the gateway . Mills was _ifreBBeii in a suit of black . Some yonng men in the window spit on the blues . No o _' . her entered room when Mills dragged Cross in : Anson _Cheffjns . —Was special constable on the day ia Question , Heard from a man , named _Blakey , thai

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      they had got Cross ia . _therjbmfadd wer _^ _killing ' bim ; Opened door and went in , _saVCross ia room with Mills _and'thwe-or'fourISther-peoiple ; No crowd In room . None of _Crps _»> friendr _^ _apparently .: ; A man in a drab coat was putting _afireshoy el down . John BtAKBt corroborated all the" above evidence . Said he had informed Cheffins . Saw Mills begin the row by tearing toc fl » 8 i andcollariug aud striking Cross . Thinks Mills was intoxicated , but he might be only excited . Mr SovTBtrEli > corroborated the above , Mr _Muts thon addressed tbe beach , saying , that the witnesses against Mm were all guilty of _peijnrjry that he would prove it , and that he would indict them , and that the learned barrister had merely got up the case , Had he known of this , he had a hundred wit nesses ready to prove the perjury of tha witnesses .

      Mr Ernest Jones then said , he would not _treepaas much o * their worship * ' time on ss trivial and _pldin a case . Mr Mills , he _continued , comes forward with se . rious assertions and calls two witnesses—hiB first ffitness contradicts him , bis second contradicts them both , and they each contradict themselves . Mrs Brackenbury gives her evidence iu an improper manner , evidently very partial and very much excited . Sweats sho saw the moat shameful abuse—and tben swears she heard and saw nothing of the kind . The only thing your worships can glean from ber , Is tbat she heard Cross say : 'I ' ve nailed him . ' Does that prove he struck the first blow ! -It proves nothing . It might havo been in retaliation of a blow from Mr Mills . The next witness

      states that Mr Sfilli entered , tbe room quietly and and not as if running away , whereas it has been sworn tbat he ran array from Cross—who pursued him at tbe head of a _numb-jr of people . And even this witness says , for all he knows , Mills may have struck the first blow . Now , Mr Mills tells us be has a hundred wltaessei . They ought to have been here before . Why did he only bring tvo and make such a bad choice ! We have bronght five , all of whom have not varied not one single iota in their statements—deposing the same as to tbe hour , the _dmsof Mills , tbe number of people , the position of parties , aud all the circumstances that _transpited ; I think your worships will acquit my client on this clear widence without a moment ' s consideration .

      Mr Moore . —There has been gross perjury on the part of some witnesses . I claim to produce evidence on tbis point . Mr E . Jones . —I object to Mr Moore ' * Interference . He is Clerk of the Peace to your worships , and not counsel . . Mr Moobg . —I volunteer to act as counsel . Mr E . Jones . —Has Mr Mills engaged jou ! Mr Moohe . —No . Mr Mats . — I do now . Mr Moobe , —I insist on bringing forward evidence in contradiction . MrE . Jonss . — I acknowledge jour right , but claim my right , should yon touch on anything hut such evidence , to bring in further witnesses myself . Mr SH 4 BP _, the constable who killed Dobson , was then called in to provo thathe _wbb not at the Bristol Arms at the time stated by one ofthe witnesses .

      Mr Jones . —Tbis is fresh matter . The question is where was Cross , not ; where was Sharps . Besides , Sbarpe is hardly a proper witness under the . _melaneholy circumstances ia which he is invotved . Bring forward as many witnesses as you like andre . open the case—I am deBirons of thorough investigation—but only do it openly . Mrs Goodman , landlady of the Bristol Arms stated , she had heard and seen nothing . She knew however that two men advanced on Mills aud tore his rosette off his coat . By Mr Jonbs . —Knews the man , it was not Cross , it was a man named Priestly . Mr Mooie , then said he had evidence to prove that nobody spit ov « r the windows . He had two witnesses , Mr E . Jones . —That is fresh matter , but bring your two witnesses , I bave from twenty to thirty to prove thst they did .

      Mr . Moobe , declined , under those circumstances producing bis witnesses , and also _deelined saying anything further . Mr E . Jones . —This e vidence has indeed been evidence in ' . contradiction , it has still farther contradicted the statements of Mr Mills' friends . But my client has gained one great point . Your worship , may have thoaght that _Owra Cross _pulied Mr Mills' rosette off , and now we have the fact established that it was a Mr Priestly , and not Cross ; so that my client ' s case stands belter than before . The court being cleared , the magistrates deliberated for some time , and tben decided ( tbe evidence being rontradictory , ) on sending this simpl * case by indictment to the sessions .

      _BKItKSnillB , Destruction of Flour Mills . —On Monday morning about half-past 3 o ' clock , a most terrific and destructive five broke nut in the extensive flour mills fenow as Ray Mills , near the Maidenhead station of the Great Western Railway , the whole of which , together with the adjoining _h-ewery , is now a heap of ruins . The fire was first discovered by a man who was at work on the premises , who _idarraed the inmates ofthe dwelling house of Mr J . T . Bell , which joins the mills , bat such was the rapidity with which the derouring element spread from one buitding to another , that tlie family had barely time to escape , which they did almost in a state of nudity . Amongst the first on the spot was Mr Charles _Venablesjnn „

      , the cxtensivo paper manufacturer , who , on hearing of the fire , immediately closed his mills , and conducted the whole of his workmen to tbe scene of devastation , and by their exei tions s ; me nf thc valuable furniture was saved , By this time it wag found that the fire had communicated to tho dwelling house of Mr _Stearms , of the Stock Exchange , and _forsome time it was feared this would share thefate ofthe rest ; fortunately , two engines from Maidenhead arrived , and by their prompt exertions ( there being plenty of water at hand ) that houso _waasnvec ? _, but not without considerable damage to the

      furniture . The whole of the adjoining brewery was sow one mass of flames , and for some time it seemed a ? though no part of it conld be saved ; but at length the firemen succeeded in saving the brewing plant , which is , in fact , the only thing saved . The loss must be very great , as in addition to tho stock of corn , flour , malt , & c , there wan a very large stock of b : er , nrr . rly the whole of wbich is destroyed . The premises are insured in the West of England Office . No cause ean be assigned as to the origin of tbe fire , but there is no doubt it v ? as accidental . Much praise is due to the _Mai'lenhead firemen for the great promptness and activity they displayed .

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      NORTHERN CIRCUIT _.-Livkrpooi ,, _Aikj . 10 . Extbaobwsart Outiuob on a llusBASD . —Margaret King was indicted for maliciously scalding John King , her husband , a bricklayer . The parties had lived very unhappilv together forsome time , in consequence of the jealousy of the wife . On the 31 st of May last the prisoner , in company with another female , was induced to go up Wellington-read , in Eaton NorriB , where tbey saw the prosecutor walking with two women , towards whom the prisoner expressed strong indignation , ' which induced the prosecutor to strike his wife . The parties then separated , prosecutor returned home , and in about two hours retired to bed , leaving his wife below stairs . Between . one and two o ' clock in the moraine he was awakened

      by scalding water being poured upon his person , and he found that he had been tied to the bed by a double rope . He struggled for some time , and ultimately escaped by jumping from the top to tho bottom ol tbe stairs . Medical aid was procured , and be was taken to the infirmary , where he was compelled to remain for upwards of a month , bis life for a length of time having b 3 en despa _i red of . His wife , when questioned , avowed that she it wns who had committed the outrage , and she said she was' only sorry that she had not done more for him . ' Tho prisoner , ia her defence , detailed a series of inebntinenciesfl m much bad conduct of which her _lit'shand had hrcn

      guilty , and which had driven ber to _distraction . This treatment was borne out by evidence . The learned Chief Baron told thejury that the prosecutor ' s treatment oJ his wife was calculated to diminish the strong feeling they might otherwise have entertained towards her ; but , however these might call for their sympathy , one conld not conceive anything tbat would justify the strange unheard of mode of dealing ont revenge—tying aman down in bed , then throwing upon him boiling water . There was nothing could palliate so strange and unexampled a crime . The jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty , under circumstances of great provocation . _Judgment deferred .

      Mebdeb of Cbiu »» en _ev ihbib _Fathbr , —Joseph Speed , aged thirty , charged with murdering bis two children , and attempting to murder bis wife , a few weeks ago , at Manchester , oo b ? ing _arraiuned , pleaded ' guilty . ' Hi- , lordship asked him , guilty oi what ? and he replied he did not know . Further questions only tended to create doubts as to tbe sanity of the prisoner , who was remanded tbat the surgeon of the gaol might be consulted . _Mdbdbr at Manchester . —Matthew Gatenby aged twenty-five , was indicted for tho wilful murder of hia wife , _Ja _\» _( _Sateuby , at Manchester . The dec _? as . ? d was a very intemperate and _profligate woman , and , having _bseii out ail night _drinking came home on tke morning of the 2 Dth of May , Her husband came down stairs exasperated , and , according to tlio _evidenca of a neighbour , Ann ileywood , beat and

      _skmpt-J upon her , and struck her on the sitlcwith a pokier . She waa put to bed , _laneu ' uhed until the 2 nd of June , and then died , as alleged from the injuries received , having previously given premature b rtk to a child . For tho defence it was elicited that a few days previous to the event tbe deceased bad _bscn knocked down by a vau , but d ? ath waa scarcely tbo result cf _Siiis , as she said herself ,-on _fcjing _piclw-i up , tbat _sliu was no worse , and the evidenca showed that she _niaahied up drinking and dancing en the _following night . A surgeon and his assistant who attended _dweasad during he ' . ' illness , gave it as hh opinion tbat death ' was _eeceAatotted by peritoneal isflammation . A postmortem examination revealed no bruises nor tnavks of external violence , and thc peritoneal inflammation migbt have been the result of cold or intemperate habits , lt was possible _,, ttovrcyoy _, liiat a violent blow on _asott uaitt of

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      tbe body ' might cause' _sirious internal injury , and _$ _SS » _indtotJ 9 n , ; _-p ed _^ ea » ed _afflicted'with'tftuihour , which in the opinion oi the surgeon would in all V _^ _bMy under any _mrcumstances have caused her death within twelve months . Aft ! IS 5 _SU -Mr Pollock in defence , the Lord Chief Baroncarefuliy summed up , and ex _resBed his conviction-that the main question for _^ fry to decide was , whether the prisoner was guilty of man-1 . X not murder , t _Theory at •» £ «* <« . _sultaiwn _lound _. the prisoner guilty of manslaughter , with a recommendation to mercy . Sentence

      de" mmmh by a _Beer-housb Kiwffl .- J « wg _» Leach , aged 37 , was indicted for tho murder of * ra _* _cisDakin , at _Chorlton-cum-llardy , on the 3 th ot May Tke deceased on the Stk of May was drinking at the house of the prisoner ( a _beer-shop ) _^ with another man named _Cookaun , and the prisoner . _Tlu-y commenced at 9 o ' clock _, in .. the morning , and continued till A in the afternoon . About that time , in consequence of the prisoner ' s wife cither refusing to draw more drink , or remonstrating with tlie prisoner tor drinking so much , he used a coarse expression , deceased expostulated with him , and the pnsoner rose from , bis seat , crossed a passage to tbe kitchen , and was heard as if rattling knives in a drawer . Almost immediately after he left the room

      deceased ' followed him , as jf apprehending that injury might result either to the wife or to seme one else . Deceased had not got much farther than the lobby when the prisoner came up with a carving knife , and said , ' I will have no man interfering between me and my wife , ' and then stabbed the prisoner in the breast . ' The knife entered the ueceased s breast a little on tbe right side , causing , an lucision in the upper part , an inch to the right side ot the breast bono , passing between the second and third ribs tin the right side , dividing the windpipe , and finally striking on the _ftfurh dorsal yertebrc . On the knife being withdrawn the dcccasca tell to the ground , never uttered a word , but instantly died . _Somntimfi afterwards , when the prisoner was told

      tktDakiii was dead , he threw back his hair , and said , 'Well , 'there is nothing for it but I must go mad . ' To the policeman who arrested him he expressed deep _ptnitence for the deed . Mr Serjeant _Wilkins _, in a most eloquent speech , addressed the jury for tbe prisoner , who wept during its delivery , and then called Mr Wragg , a surgeon , who was m the beer-bouse whilst the party were drinking , and stated that deceased and _Cookson were quarrelsome and insulting , whilst tbe prisoner was in a s ; ate of beastly intoxication . Evidence elicited in crossexamination Bhowed tliat the prisuuer had uttered some expressions which indicated a jealousy of

      deceased , who was a neighbour , and . had ottered his services to assist the prisoner ' s wife , during her busband's _abseii ' co _, should there bo any quarrel ia the house . One material fact ; came out—tbat the priguner ' s lip was cut at the time of . tbe offence . Mr Wragg was iu the house at half-past 2 o ' clock . ( Mr Soper having replied for the prosecution , thu Lord Chief-Baron , with great _distinctaeaj , lucidly summed up . The jury retired , and after an absence from court of upwards of two hours , returned a verdict of ' Not Guilty of Murder , bat guilty of aggravated _Mansiaugnter . '—Tne Lord Chief Baron , in impressive terms , then sentenced the prisoner to transportation for life .

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      MA . NSION-1 IOUSE . —Alleged Robbeex bt a _Com-HERcial TbaVELLEB , —Henry 3 _urgh was ch » rged with having robbefi hia employer , Mr De Gaeten , commission agent , oi 4 , Fflnchurch . _buitdiug 6—lIrD « Gaeten said ; The prisoner was in ' his service as " traveller . About three weeki ago _witneas bought a bale of . goods ly sample , which was io be focwavded to him from Iluddersfield . He afterwards received from the merchant the invoice produced , specifying the _goofa , which were woollen , and stating the amount to be £ 55 . On tbe day he expected tbo goods lie was obliged to go to Croydon , where ho remained two or three days , and he told tbe prisoner to send tho bales , if they should arrive , to Messrs Hayter

      and Howell , of Mark-lane , packer * . On Monday tbe prisoner said that the bales had arrived , and that he had sent them to Barber's , in _Camomile-street by mistake : prisoner was desired to send the bales back . He did not do so that day , bat he said it should be done the nost morning . The following day witness went to _Oamojnile-street , bnt conld find no concern belonging to Tim . Bar ' aer's but at Messrs Watson and Clarke ' s . 'WituiBa found that four bales had been forwarded to them on thi 5 th instant , _ivnd entered iu the prisoner ' s name , and that he had got them away . He had not been able to trace tbe goods , and had not seen the prisoner since , till Mondav evening . ' The prisoner was remanded .

      MARYLEBONE .- _—Assauits _^ bx a _Soimee . —Michael Sbine , a private in the 1 st regiment of Life Guards , was charged nith' assaulting Mr Cos , who stilted that on Saturday afternoon , near the York and Albany , Regent ' spark , he saw' tiie prisoner hanging on by the tail board of a cart _containit-j ; two soldiers and another man , and trying to _ciirob in ; tho cart going at the time , Witness expostulated with bim , when ho struck witness violently with u stick , which was broken by the blow . Prisoner then hit bim three or four blows with his fists . Upon witness threatening to report him , the prisoutr held out his hand , aud asked him to ' make it up . ' Mr Cox was going to take bis hand , nben he again attacked him and knocked him down . —Senral witnesses corroborated the evidence , and theprisoner was committed for trial .

      WESTMINSTER , —AssAUii olf A _Police-CoSSTable . —Patrick Walsh was charged with assaulting Joseph _Bajlis , 21 S B , who stated that on Saturday afternoon lie saw a mob assembled round the defendant and another person , who were sparring with each Other , nt the _satus time making use of language oi the _mostobscena und disgusting character . His _iuterki-eucc was inst with volleys of abuse , and : when be attempted to take the defendant to tha station be grasped him violently by tbo throat , and , assisted by Ida . , companions , threw liim to _thegrounO , where anumfcerof tbo _aiob kicked him repeatedly , defendant kneeling at tbe time upon the constable ' s throat . Tho latter was nearly _cjhausted wben another constable released _hitn . —Mv Broderip committed the prisoner for one month , without giving him tho option of a fine . .

      GUILDHALL . —Stabbing a Wire—Charles Smith was charged with stubbing his wife . —The complainant stated tbat , on Friday afternoon , her husband _camebouie rather in liqusr , and words « rose , nnd , ou his going to strike her , sbe left tlie room , and had gone down two or three stairs followed by the orlsoner , when suddenly the _fclt something in her back . She ran to the bottom of the flight , and , puiting her hand behind , drew a large file out . —A constable produced tlie file , which was about fourteen inches in length , of a triangular sbape . — Another constable deposed that Smith said _« that he inteadsd to strike her , but not to use tbe instrument . Ha was sorry for it . ' He was not sober at the time . —Alexander Baxter , residing in the same house , deposed to

      taking Mrs Smith into _biaroom , and , whuethere , hating her batk bathed , thc prisoner came in and struck her a Wow in the face which _maSeher nosebleed . —Mr Cbilda , 6 urgeoii _, said that he fouud Mrs Smith had received an oblique puncturod wound in tha back , close upen the long border of the shoulder _, blade . Tbe wound was aboat an inch in depth , and was very important as regarded the locality . He still attended her , but considered her out of danger , —Tho . wife said she bad no wish to press the charge . — Alilernsan Johnson said he could not look over this case . There had been such frequent charges of stabbing whiio intoxicated that some means should bo taken to stay tbem , He should commit bim to Newgate for trial . - - -. ,, ..

      _Allioed _Foeqebt . —William Maslin was charged with obtaining money from Mr Henry Gray , livery-stable keeper , Earl-street , _Blacki ' riars . ioad , ty means of a forged order on Messrs Drummond , _thebanktis . About a fortnight since tho piiscmcr hired a _horae and chaise , for wbich he bad fo pay £ 1 17 s . Cd „ and on ibo 7 ih inst . he gave Mr Gray , jun ,, a cheque for £ 5 Ids . Sd ., and receired tbo balance in chaugo . Tho cheque , in the course of Mr Gray ' s business , was paid into bis hunkers ' , Messrs Willis and Oo . ; who on presenting it ut Drummonds' found that there was no account , and it was roturned to Mr Gray . —The cheque was produced , and was payable on tbo 11 th inst . Thus , as the cheque had been given to Mr Gray on the 7 th , it gave tbe prisoner au opportunity of blthcs redeeming it before it reached the : tanlrers , or lodging- a sufficient sum

      there to meet it . The witnesses , on cross-examination by Mr Wolff for the prisoner , admitted that Maslin hud culled several times about tho cheque , and said that ho had received it in tbe course of busincss'fiom a Mr Corr , and that he wns afraid it was not good , as the parties who had signed . it ( Thomas Lloyd end Co . ) hadgooo off in a queer Aiaonor . Mr Wolff contended tbat the prisoner had been imposed upon by other parties ; that he gave the cheque to Mr Gray , jun ., and that _nftetwan ' s , having doubts as to the genuineness of tho cheque , ho called several times at Mr Gray ' s , but was notfortuuate enough to seo cither of them ; There was ho pretence for such _n tharge as the present . —Inconsequence of its being necessary that Mr Gray , jun ., should attend to give evidence , be being down in tlio country ; Aid , Johnson ' adjourned the case'for ' a few days , at the same time admitting the prisoner to bail .

      THAMES . —ItouBiKT of _FrniMTURE . —wm . George Welts und Ann , Itis wife , were charged with having * plundered Mr _ltobert Savage , auctioneer , Tho prisoners were tenants of Mr Savage , renting pait of a houso adjoining the _nuclioirrooms . For some months past the prosecutor had missed articles of a valuable description , including ekimacy _giassos , largo pier glasses , bod furniture , tables , & c . On Saturday , a Mr Robert Bussell , a broker , h _. id forwarded him seme bed furniture for sale , which he lacked in au empty houso next door , Sunday mo ; aiiig Mrs Miry Johnstone , nnotkw of his _tetiants , enme to his private residence nnd informed him that She

      _httdsesn Wells _gat-ovev tho wall at tbo back of the bouse , and take two large tubs . Ongoing tothe place , _helouudtlmt sot only wero the tubs gone , ; but that tho _boUiB next bis _nuetiou-rooms had been opened with ;\ sktlctonkey , and the hod furniture which he had placed in it on _Saturn Jay night bad been abstracted . He gave the male prisoner into custody . Ho afterwards met the _fcoiate _^ _isoner carrying a bundle , which turned eut to be'the missing bed furniture . - She was also given in charge On searching the room of the' _pvImhiwb _\ bey i ' ouna the bed had been tipped open , and a numbor ot article * _concwkdbetwscn the tick and the sacking . A _' cbildoftbe

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      _risoners said that his mother had burning a numer of pawnbroker ' * - _duplicates ., JPhe prosecutor said that £ 100 would noUover his loss . —The male prisoner denied the whole of the allegations . —They were remanded for a week , , _Masteb and Afpsenmce . — Mr John Perkins , Jun ., of Chureh . lane _, Whitechapel , _cork-cutter , appewed hefore Mr Yardley , to answer the cbniplaint of hi » apprentice , George Rix Van Studer , for refusing to maintain bim . He said that his parents were dead . Hehadjust completed the third year of his _aptrentl-.-tsbip ; his master accused him of neglecting h . _ls work , and telling him falsehoods , and refused to employ him any longer . Tbe solicitor for tbe defendant said the lad was-quite incapable of rendering any service to his _mas'er , A sumcf £ 5 named in the indenture hs n premium was never paid at all . The lad _spok ? well of his master's kindness to him generally , and _ssld he hail promised to , expend the £ 5 for his benefit . Mr Yurdlsy could not think of _discharging the apprentice and cancelling the indentures j hi cause he was an Invalid . Mr Perkins said the lad

      would never be any use to him : if he gave him work , he spoiled it . The lad admitted bis sight was still defective , though he had been under medical treatment at a hospital . Ihe solicitor cited r ense of an idiot apprentice , where a master was discharged from his liability to support bim as useless . Mr Perkins said that at the end of the fourth year the apprentice wonld be entitled to journeyman ' s wages , and it would be impossible for him to pay him at lhat rate it he could do nothing . Mr _Yiirdley said the case was an unfortunate one , but he did not think he should lie justified in _relieving the master from the ordinary liability to _support him and teach him the trade : He must therefore make an order to take him back . The solicitor for the defendant _requested that the case might be allowed to stand over for a week , to give the parties an opportunity of coming to an equitable arrangement , which ' Mr Yardley granted . Attempted Extobtiok and Imposition on a _Saiioe .

      —Wm . Thos . Abbott , the landlord of tho Britannia publie-house , Ratcliffblgbway _.-attended to answer a _summons , issued at the instance of a seaman named Snmnol Brooks , for unlawfully detaining bis chest and clothes . Thc complainant had taken up his lodgings at the Britannia , and regularly paid for what be had , On Monday last he got a ship , ' and paid Mr Abbott a balance of £ I 10 s ., which was dn » , when an unexpected claim was made for an additional 14 s . as a week's rental of a room , _Thishe resisted , and a broker named Benjamin West was employed to distrain on tbe chest , but he himself admitted in evidence that the room in question was a common sitting-room , used as a parlour , and regularly frequented by all tho visitors of the house . —Mr Yardley , after some severe remarks on tbe scandalous nature of such a transaction , said he would order the chest , ' or its value , to be given up , and would inflict further ape . nslty of £ 10 , or in default , should sentence him to _imnrisonment for three calendar months .

      BOW-STREET . — _Cosvtcrcos _irsoER tbe New _Jovs . nils _Offehdebs' Act . —Three boys , named Timothy O'Brien , William Hutohlnson , and Jeremiah Sullivan , all either ten or eleven years of tigo , were charged with stealing small pieces of iron from the _newly . erected houses in New Oxford-street , the property of the Com . missioners of Woods and Forests , —Constable 95 E division said that the person employed by the commissioners wished to have the prisoners remanded , the depredations beinlr very extensive in tbe buildings at present

      erecting , . 'The prisoners resided in Cburch-street , St Giles ' s , and they with their companions engaged the constant attention ofthe police in trying to prevent tliem stripping the tiles from the houses and stealing every article thatcatno within tbeir reach . —Mr Jardlae said he would take tbis ' as the first opportunity be had of putting the act lately passed into force to prevent a repetition of such offence * , by ordering the prisoners to be committed for one day to the Bridewell at Tothill Fields , where they should be privately whipped , _—Theprisoners were removed crying bitterly .

      WORSHIP-STREET . _—MmwEBOtfs _Assaults , —Mary Shea was charged with assaulting Helen Rider , and Bartholomew Shea with assaulting Jobn Diable . —Helen Rider deposed that she was a single woman , but lived with Diable as his wife . On Monday night she had some words with the femsle prisoner , who is her landlady , when she said that she would teach witness better , she ' would do for her ; ' and on turning towards th « stairs the prisoner , with a wood chopper , gave witness a severe Wow on ihe top ol the head , causing a dreadful wound . Witness almost immediately fainted from loss of blojd _. The house-surgeon of tbe London Hospital said that she had received such injuries as were likely to cause erysi .

      pelas , which would probably produce death . John Diable said on coming home last night he found Kider as described : He went down stairs to fetch a police-constable , and in the passage had some words with the male prisoner , who , on witness turning round , gave him a tremendous blow upon the back of his head with soma sharp instrument , and which felled him to tho ground and rendered him insansible . — The house-surgeon of tbe hospital said tbat Diable bad also sustained a serious wound Police-sergeant 13 H said that the chopper alluded to could nowhere be found , although he had made the most diligent search after it . —The prisoners denied the charge altogether , and Mr Arnold remanded

      them for one week ; LAMBETH . — _Despebate _AssstrtT . —Ann Child was ckarged witk assaulting Mrs Mary Willy , thereby placing her life in great danper . —About twelve months ago the injured woman had been a witness against s man of the name of Green , with whom tho prisoner lived as his wife , and since that time she bad frequently expressed her determination to have her revonge . On Saturday evening Mrs Willy was passing the shop of ths prisoner , and the latter rushed upon her like a tigress , and before she could bo released from her grasp she was beat and ill-used ln a savage manner . A certificate was handed in from Mr Day , a surgeon , _statit . g that _ttia Ufa o ? U \ _e sufferer was in tbe greatest possible peril from the idju . _rles she received . — The prisoner appeared to -treat the matter with great levity , ' and laughed while some of tho witnesses were giving their evidence , —The magistrate told her it was no laughing matter , for if the deceased died , which was not _impropable , sbe would be put upon her trial for murder , and rtmamled her for a week .

      HAMMERSMITH . — Alleged Neglect or a Relieviso OffiCFE On Tuesday , a woman of sickly appear . anee stated to the magistrate , Mr _Bea-. on , that her husband was lying dead from the small-pox , and that she ht rself was attacked with the disease . She had gone to the relieving officer of the Fulham Union for nourishment for herself and children , who were starving , but were refused relief . Tlie magistrate immediately sent Thomas , the . _summoiiing-officer _, with the woman to Mr Haskard , the relieving-officer , and , in the course of halfan . hour , Thomas and the woman returned to tbe court . They had seen Mr Haskard , who said be had given tho woman two loaves the day before , and Mr Beadon might d _» what he liked in the matter . The magistratehaving expressed his surpiisa at the couduct of the

      relievingoflieer , ordered tbe woman to be sworn , when it appeared her name was Jemima Stevens , of No . 22 , _Traf ilgar-street , Hammersmith . Her evidence was a ' repetition of her . former statement , with the addition , that she had gone to Mr Haskard on Monday _. to get a coffin , and . had solicited relief ; to which ho replied , he could net do anything just then . Sho had told him she had tho small-pox , but he did not appear to pay much attention to what she said . Louisa Read deposed that the body of the husband of Jemima Stevens had beeu left in a shell all day Sunday ; no one would enter the room in which it was , and it was in so dreadful a _stato as to be likely to spread the infection through the neighbourhood ; the relieving officer had then sent persons te put it in a coffin , which was done ;

      but to the application for relief the answer of Mr Hashard was that relief had already been 8 _» ven , and they ought to get work . Mr Beadon , having heard the _ev' - dence , said , that i ! all that was stated were true . Mr Haskard was most unfit for the office lie filled . He then directed Thomas to go to the overseers and request their immediate attendance In conrt , nnd one of them , accompanied by Mr J . Stevens , the chairman of the board of guardians , arrived as the court was about to bo closed . Mr SUvens , having expressed his _surpr _ise at what had transpired , said he should lay the matter before the board at the noxt meeting , and left the court with the overseer , desiring the woman to meet them at the house of Mr Ray , one of the medical officers of Hammersmith .

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      Youkswbe ( West Riding ) . —Below is a copy of a letter which reached Mr Damson whilst at luncheon with his friends at \ Vakefiold , just after the close of the late election for thc West Hiding , as mentioned a day or two ago : — Grosvenor-place , Friday night , August fi , 1 _J 17 . —My dear Sir , — On landing at Ramsgate tbis afternoon , I learned from the newspapers that na attempt is making hy some gentlemen of Lancashire , who have , I suppose , votes for . the West Riding , t » replace you as one of its representatives by Mr Cobden . I take , therefore , tho earliest means I can adopt , by sending a special messenger with this letter , to assure you of my cordial good nisbos . I trust that you will be roturned , together with lord Morpeth , aud that you have my full authority to make whatever you may think advisable of this communication . I wish to give you the fullest possible support . Your very faithful servant , _Fitzwillum . —E . Deuison , Esq .

      A Point of Eccwomt . —The Liverpool A'bion of yesterday , says— ' During tbe time . the case was _pre-» eedin . _T against Barrett and Quin for highway _robbsry , tbe _prosooulor ( Jobn _Ashworth _) in tho case _previously tried , presented himself beforo tlie judge , and said , ' My lord , that coat ? ' The _Judge , in surprise : ' The coat ! what coat ? ' Prosecutor : 'That corit the . prisoner hud on , my lord , was my _propei-iy , and I want it back . ' The governor of the gaolsiid it wen a fact that the coat belonged to the prose iiitor . The judge , to the prosecutor : 'Well , do you think , after the manner . hc has wora it , it ia _jvoith tho application ?' _-. Prosecutor : Oh , yea , my lord , it ' 11 do rarely for my mon . ' ( Laughter . ) The judge , soiiicqu ; siii iy , « W ell , it ' s a shocking bad one . iLoivd huigbtcr . ) To the gaoler : _« OH , if it be im eoat , and he demands it , _givo it him , by all means '

      Six children wero nearly _poisoned last week , at Penrith , by eating some berries of tbe sturge laurel which they had i ' ownd in a gardtn ; but emetics were administered lo thoui , _axtd they ultimately recovered . _ The ' Dumfries Herald * announces that the , ; houso in _YfWeli _Buvna died ia eow tw _aale < _t . '¦' ¦ ' ¦ . ' ¦ . : ; ¦ _¦¦ . ' ' . ¦¦ ; - ¦ ¦ .. _'

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      Robbkbt . —George Dickens , aged 20 dM _^ i > _-x acheniiat , wfls placed in the dock , _chS _^ _j , stealing £ 45 and . _> pward 3 , the propertyTr % Arundel , a hnendraper , at Bristol . —Mr o _> r M _» peared for the prosecution , and Mr BalW * _** fended the prisoner . _"""e _^ , MrO'Brien stated the _cago to thejury , _ri tbat the prosecutor came up to toivn from n , a 'i June Jast , and took two rooms in tbe house nf _^} ' "t Robinson . Adjoining to tho two rooms occm _*^ the prosecutor , was one occupied by tW _. , _^ with whom the brother ofthe landlord _sicsk _^ prosecutor placed a bag , in which he carri _ed _M money and papers , under the bed . and at ti » V ' Ui ¦ _ttiu

      » _V U « _acwnn- »» , _»« . .. _«» v _* III iiuigg n-J - " « in it . Tbe notes were ono Bank of England dm _goli two Brecon notes . On the morning of _Wtimi ni the 16 th of June , the money was missed , and as _# ' prisoner had been absent from the house _dutinliv previous day , inquiries were instituted which led _Jt prosecutor to suspect that the prisoner had tit tbe money . From further inquiries _thopwJS ?* and the police traced the prisoner to _GravLj Richmond , and other places , where he had b _?' spundin ? money rery freely , although it _wa _^ , ? that he bad no money whatever on the Monday nf vious to the robbery . _Itwaaalso discover _^ _iIm . ?* prisoner had entrusted the landlord of a public . _^ „ with £ 31 . which was afterwards delivered _uptoo ? police . Upon being apprehended , the prisoner , _^ , " * that he was the person for whom he was takea . - _!^ Arundel waa called , and proved these facts . —iVr R-i lantihecross examined the _f itness , and proceeded !

      elicit certain facts as to his having had impro D _p intercourse with one of two young ladies whohaiw copied one of the rooms engaged by the _proaecnii ' immediately previous to tbe robbery . r < Tbe Recorder : So you intend to connect the yon » , woman with _tberobbary ? Unless you do _. iuf think _unnecessary _thatyou should put these _questid-, merely for tbe purpose of torturing tbc _witnesj . 1 Mr Ballantine : The court sliould give me Boina credit lor not putting these questions , unless it « u of importance to the case—some credit should ba giyen to counsel for discretion . —The Recorder : Yeg but there must be some limit . —Mr Ballantine : if the witness is put out of court I shall be able to show your lordship the bearing which the _connectioaof the prosecutor and Miss Hall has on the case . _—ijift

      Recorder : Witness , withdraw . ( The witness _Uw left the court . )—Mr Ballantine : lam instructed that this woman Hall has absconded , and tbat t _^ prosecutor keeps her out of the way . —Tbe Recorder What motive could the prisoner have in _doins so-Qt if that were so , what motive _ould be have in prosecuting the prisoner if he knew that Miss Hall _haj taken the money?—Mr Ballantine : I am entitled to put these questions , to show the moral character of tho witness , and that be cohabited with M _' m . The Recorder : Yes ; but if you are torturing the witness with these questions merely to affect his character aa a witness , don't you think it is a harsh course ? If every person who had an intrigue _witfa 3 female was not to be believed on his oath , I do not

      know how public justice could be carried out . —Mr Ballantine , with much warmth , said he had a duty to' perform to his client , and he would hot be deterred . He could prove that th 9 pros _£ c \ itt > t cohabited with a female , and that that female was not to be called as a witness . Ho heard she had absconded . He wa 3 instructed to tbat effect . —The Recorder repeated that it would be better for counsel to attend to the evidence , and not attack the character of a witness . —Mr Balian . tine ( _emphaticailyj : I contend , my _L- _^ rd , that a counsel knows best how to conduct bis client ' s case , _Heisthebestjudae of the course to _beputsned . — After some further conversation of an _aagry ua . _taw _, the Recorder said : Mr Ballantine , the observations I made were most kindly meant . I consider it mora important to counsel at the bar to elicit all evidence possible relating to a case under consideration tha attempt to throw imputations on tbe moral conduct

      _ofa witness . —Mr Ballantine : If the court is cf opinion I had not tbe right to put a certain question , I will not do so . —The Recorder : You did uot take the observations I made in the spirit they were in . tended Mr Ballantine ( with much warmth ) Surely counsel know how to conduct their client ' s case the best . —The Recorder : I must say that I think there is scarcely any other gentleman at the bar who would not have taken the hint I gave , and understood the object for which it was meant . It was done with a lriendly feelin » . —Mr Ballantine : I do not take it in that light , I do uot think it waa meant to be kindly given . —The _Recsrder said he waa w > t to fee ' schooled * and dictated to . If _tiiere was any objection , it must be raised in a legal and _regu . lar manner . Proceed with your case , and if it should be necessary I shall stop you if you pursue the same line of cross-examination ; for the court is bound to protect the witness .

      The witness was then recalled , and his cross-examination on the material fact 9 of the case con _» tinued at some length , but nothing of importance was elicited . Several witnesses were called and examined and cross-examined at considerable length . Their evidence went principally to show that the prisoner , who had been . ' hard up' immediatel y before the robbery , bad all at once become very ' flush . ' It also appeared that there was no communication internally between the room of the prisoner and tbat in wbicb the money was kept , but that there

      was a shrinking or warpping of the boarding which separated them . —Mr Ballantine having addressed the court at great length for the prisoner called , Mr Fowlston , miller , in Derby , who said , that about eleven weeks ago he bad remitted to tho prisoner two £ 10 notes , and very shortly after three £ 5 notes , lie said that the prisoner ' s mother waa receiving an annuity on account of tbe prisoner , from his father . The Recorder summed up . —The jury , after a short consultation , returned a verdict of Guilty . — Sentence deferred .

      _Embbjzwmjjst . —Edward King , a man of respectable appearance , was indicted for embezzling three sums ol money whicb he had received on account o £ his employer , Mr Burton , of Oxford-street . The evidence clearly proved the sums of 6 s . Ql ., £ 1 Us ., and £ 3 , were paid to thc prisoner , and tbat they were not paid to Mr Burton ' s cashier . The jury found tbe prisoner Gailty . Sentence , 6 months'hard labour . Effects of _Ckkiositt . —AbrahamIarael , _aGerman , was indicted for stealing sixty-five yards of sheeting , the property of Mr A . Glover , a warehouseman in the City . The version ofthe affair given by the prisoner was tbat he entered tbe warehouse of -Mr Glover ( to whom he was . slightly known ) , incompaay with a friend , to look intotheJDirectory for an address , wher

      trom curiosity , he took up the parcel in question to inspect . He was directly charged by au assistant with attempting to steal it , and this bad such an effect upon him that he threw it down , and endeavoured to make the best of his way out , but he waa given in charge . He said the police bad taken possession of papers which would prove bim to be of un suited reputation . He said he had been a teacher of German and Hebrew at Swansea , and was known to a great many respectable individuals . The officer said this waa the ca 9 a . The Common Serjeant said tho prisoner might have had no intention to commit theft , and it was probable that his conduct had arisen from excitement . The jurv found the prisoner Not Guilty . Thecourt directed the _papere , & c , to be restored to Mr Israel .

      Attack Bt A Regimental Basb On Us Band-M...

      Attack bt a Regimental Basb on us Band-M 4 Bi £ R . —A few da _> sago aa the band of tlie First Royal Regiment was at practice in the _Rogent-road Barrack , all the members of the band , _vrith the exception of the _non-commissicned officers and one or two . privates , made . a simultaneous attack on Mr _Caitaldini , the bandmaster of the regiment . Throwing a sheet over him , so as to prevent his identifying any one , in particular , they beat him with their fists severely about the head and body , though not ao aa to inflict any severer injmy on his cevson _tnan a

      sound thrashing . Of course all the _offenders were immediately placed in confinement . Colonel Bell instituted an inquiry into the cause vf tbis outrage , and it was alleged to have beeu provoked by a long scries of harsh and effeusire treatment to which the men have been subjected by tbe bandmaster . Thia was the more irritating to tbe band , as _Gastaldini ia a civilian , and has therefore no right to abuse the power entrusted to him , as he has-nothing to do with tho discipline of the men beyond the performance of his duty ia teaching them music .

      EXTRAOBDINART FLIGHT OS INSECTS . —A few _daj 3 ago tho whole of the coast round Southend waa visited by one ofthe most numerous flights _olinsects on record . They consisted of at least five species of ladj ' -bird _, and they came in such dense numbers , aa for miles along the coast to resemble a swarm of bees during hiving . The sea destroyed countless millions of tliem , the grass and hedgerows , and ever J crevic 8 that afforded shelter iron * tbe wind , were coloured with their numbers , and for many miles i & wns impossible to walk without crushing numbers _baneath-the tread . Tho insects evidently came from tbe east , the wind having veerod round to that point during the night , livery true friend of agriculture , however , hiiils the appearance of these insects , as they are well known to be the destroyers or aphides , a race of Hies the most injurious to vege tation .

      As Advance _ix ins _aut of _Aweutiswo . — A mercantile house at Berlin has proposed to all the railway companies of Germany _ttrsupply all , liim carriages with silk blinds for nothing . Tncy siiupiy _projMBtt to _tesme tetl \ e « 5 _s _*\ vniheiiisntw _mng-111 " tho blinds as often as they may please , and they _require thc companies to engage themselTcs not to accept , during iifty years , cither for monoy or gratuitously , any blinds but theirs . Their object » W cover tho blinds with advertisements -. On Tuesday last , a gentleman who was amusing himself by teasing one of tho lions at tbe Liverpool Zoological Gardens , was nunished for his thoughtlessness by the beast , _^ _juoh _gewed an d _sovew _'} lacerated his _haudi

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 21, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_21081847/page/6/