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AMERICA . * STOCK MARKETS . ( Correspondence of the Herald . ) . Philadelphia , Feb . 26 , 1841 . AltOTHKB PiSJC IX PHILADELPHIA . —BB 0 KER 5 bobstixg . —U . S . Banking Stock down to 16 . —This has been another day of intense excitement in the monetary circles . Stocks have dwindled away to ainjost aothrag —« pecul * VorB h » Te failed to wme up to their contracts , and brokers are barrtrag op to the ruin of themselves and the confusion of the board of which they are members . A broker by the name of Abbot , failed to meet engagements a few d&TB &iro . » nd as a consequence lost his place at the
board . To-day a larger broker , by the name of Harvey , who has beeH porthaang largely , for indilida&ls reputed rich , also blew out . This has been one of the greatest panic-days of the season . Many of oar largest brokers hare refused to buy U . S . Bank notes at any price . Those who do buy them , do bo at a discount of 14 to 15 per cent , on paper—18 to 20 for -specie Girard Bank Stoek is down to 2 Gi , and United Stales Bank to 16 , Wilmington Baiik to 32 . Such a running and raciBg you never saw . Without very efficient relief , and that Tery soon , another crash will be upon us before us yon are aware . Look oat ! ¦
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^ Pcbljc ExEcrno . f op James Tatlor , poe the MlTRDER OB HIS WlF £ —SaLISBCRT , TCESDAt . — James Taylor , a pig-dealer , residing atTockentam , sear Woo ; ton Basseit , was charged at the late Summer Assize ? , held at Dcvizas , with the wilful murder of his wife , when it appeared that the prisoner , about 39 years of age , having given up his avocation lit pig-dealer , had les out his little cottage , consisting merelj of the ground floor , to railway labourer ? , who were thereby accommodated in a very sorry manner , they being huddled together like so mauy pigs . This circumstance , gave rise to an illicit correspondence between the prisoner ' s wife and a railway labourer , named Jack , and this led to an elopement , which circumstance bo irritated the prisoner ,
that lie coolly and deliberately fired his gun at his wife while she was in . ihe act of cleaning some carrots and potatoes , and killed her dead on the sp / . -t . At the Salisbury Leu ; Assizes , he was found guilty of murder . Hundreds of persons sympathised with the unfortunate man , he having taken the life of his ¦ wife under circumstances of the most aggravated natnre , and conseqnemly a petition was »; ot up at Salisbury , and very unmeroasly signed :, tor the commiauoa of the sentence of death , but to no purpose . The prosecutors ( : he authorities of Jhe parish ) aad the jury recommended ihi prisoner to mercy , but we are informed , on authority of the most official character , that his Lordship most positively declined joining in that petition for mercy . During the interim between the unhappy man ' s sentence and execution , he has conducted himself in a manner altogether extraordinary . He would not
acknowledge himself guniy of a fault , and asserted that the injury he had sustained fully jos ' . ified . the ant he had committed . Hi 3 conversation was blasphemous , lewd , and insulting to the authorities—in justification of his own conduct , and determination act to repent . Even on hisks ; day , his first words were imprecations , alleging that the workmen were lazy fellows for not earning and patting up his drop ( . the scaffold ) at an earlier hour ; and on hb hearing the sound of the workmen's hammers , when they were beginning their labour , he gave three harrabs with & firm . Toice , having previousdy observed , that he bad two crooked sixpences to give Jack Ketch if he would well grease the rope ! Archdeacon Macdonald , the chaplain ( the Rev . C . H . Hodgson ) , and the Hfiv . Mortimer Hodgsoa , and o ; her ministers , were indefatigable in their labours in his behalf ; but he would noi listen to them for a moment . Ha wonid not &nffar the Sacrament to be
administered to him , nor allow the burial service to be read previously to his execution . Eleven o ' clock came , the hour appointed for his death , and when the officers went to his eell , he exclaimed , " Give me a pint of gin , and I'll show them ho w to danceJim Cro w V A few minutes before twelve o ' clock the prison beJ announced the approaching time of his dissolution—( at this vime there were thousands of persons congregated in front of the gaoi)—and thort . ' y after ihe clergy , preceded by the officer ^ were seen advsnciBg from the cell , and then next the turnkeys and prisoner followed , the prisoner jumping , dancing , and ringing "Turnabout , said whe * l about , and do just so , and every time I turn 3 " about 1 jumps Jim Crow . I went up to London , " & :. ! He arrived on
the fatal spot , and went readily and placed himself nader the fearful beam , saying , in a hurried manner , — Ladies and gentleman , 1 am very glad -to see so many of you present—snc > . a grand assemblage of people to see me hanged ! Asd mind , if ever any of you go a robbing , be sore and tako a doublebarrelled gun with yon , to murder all yon can !—and mind and do it as it should be . And I got to tell you that Jane Newman and farmer James Hathway , of Toocfcenham , are the greatest enemies I had ; and had it nos been for them , I ihould have been there now . I am glad I killed my
wife , and I don ' t mind being hanged "—( here the executioner drew the cap over his eyes , and the unhappy man resumed)—** 1 don ' t care for that , 1 cau keep on talking . On I vrliat a pleasant view—v-h'i ; » grand s : glit ! 1 likes This sort of fan ! " At this moment the bolt was drawn , and he was launched into eternity . He apparently suffered hut little , and , after hanging the usual time ( an hour ) , his conutenance was scarcely changed , nor his features distorted ! His body will be interred within the precincts of the gaol this evening . The populace conducted themselves altogether with much propriety .
Naxbotf Escape ot the Bishop of Exeter . — We are happy to su-te that the above Right Reverend Prelate has received no injury from the accident "which , befd him wk * n attending oiviue service in a fashionable Chapel , in the neighbourhood of Regent-street , on Smday last . The Right Reverend Prelate , exhausted with his devotions , had fallen asleep during the sermon , and in this state of oblivion leant against the door of his pew , which gave way , when his Lordship narrowly escaped being thrown headforemost into the aisle , luckily , however , he received so little injury , as to be able to aiiend on Monday , in his pkco in the House of Lords ; hut we would suggest to the proprietors of this ChapJ , that they should provide more lively preachers , or stronger fastenings to their pew doors , when the Bishop of Exeter honours their Chapel by reposing in it during divine service . — Chronicle .
Sentence oy Death on a Protestant Cleegtxan . —Richard . Sandes was indicted at the Carlow Assizes , on Wednesday last , for that he , beiDg a degraded clergyman of the Church of England , did perform a marriage between John Lai or and Sarah Howard , both Protestants . Mr . dark , Crown Solicitor , said this prosecntion was grounded on a Tery olU Act , the 12 h Geo . I ., cap . 3 , by which it was made penal for Popish priests and degraded clergymen of the Church of England to celebrate a marriage ; it was a felony , and snch Popish-priest or degr&ced clergyman should suffer d « a . h without iLe l > enefit of clergy . Is bas beau repealed , as to Catholics ; it refers only to degraded Protestant clergy . The fact of Mr . Sandys having been in
orders was proved by one witness , and his degradation by another . The Jnd ^ e sent the case to the Jnry , when the prisoner produced a priest ' s Lccn = 9 , bearing tbe seal of the Prelate , and signed by the Lord Bishop of KJlale . His Lordship having summed up , the Jury returned a verdict of Gu : lty , after which the Court rose . On Thursday , his Lordship came into Court at half-past ten o ' clock , and proceeded to record sentence of death on Richard Saodes . The prisoner begged of his Lordship to allow bim to S 3 y a few words . The sentence of degradation had been passed upon him without his knowledge . ¦ The Court of Carlow were adverse to him ; it had its eye on him as keen and as searching as the glance of Kehama or Kehuricd .
The Bot Joxes . —Thb Pchsuit op Knowledge rspKa Difficulties . —We -understand that a most Tlgid investigation as t « the manner is vrhich the toy Jones has three times effected » n entrance into Buckingham Palace , is about to take place . In addition to a sentence of imprisonment for three months , the punishment of hard labour is added . Tbe boy persists in his first assertion , that his only motive was lo hear the conversation at fourt , and to trriU an account of U . — Standard ,
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HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Wednesday , March 17 . A great number of petitions having been presented in the House of Commons to-night , against the Medi-« al Profession Bill , Mr . Maclean and several other Members suggested its postponement . Mr . HaW £ s , the author of the Bill , declined to aegniesee with this suggestion . On the question for tke second reading Mr . Haws urged that there existed , no kind of body with whom the medical profession in general « ould communicate , and that the existing
bodiestbe Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons , and the Society of Apothecaries-slid not enjoy the con £ - -dence of medical practitioners . There were now about ninsteea licensifcg belies , whore ther e ought to be bat one . His object , therefore , was to constitute one general body of examination and regulation , and to establish one grade instead of three in the medical profession—all practitioners being liereafter to stand on the same level , though * each was to be a : liberty to practise , at his choice , as a physician , or as a . surgeon , or as an apotheeaiy , or as all ihree- He lesA the evidence of some professional Witnesses iu affirmance of the main principles of this Bill .
Mr . Ewaht seconded Mr . H&wes , and contended that there "was do objection a ^ aicst this Bill which might not properly us received for the Committee .
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Mr . Dabbt oppoBed the second reading , and regretted that , on a measure professing to regulate the whole medical profession , no one member of the Government was in attendance . The Hon . Gentleman was proceeding , when a motion was made to count the House , and the number present being under forty , an adjournment took place before eight o ' clock .
Thursday , March IS . Mr . Hiitolet presented a petition from 6 , 000 inhabitants of Ashton-under-Line , in favour of ft remission of the sentence on froet , Williams , and Jones ; from 800 inhabitants of the same place against Lord Stanley ' s Irish Registration Bill ; and also a petition praying for the abolition of Churchrates . An Hon . Member presented a petition from Derby praying that alterations be made in Hie Poor Law Amendment Bill .
Mr . H . Bebjcelkt presented a petition from Dorset , objecting to certain clauses in the Poor Law Amendment Bill . Mr . T . Duxcombe presented a petition from Plymonth , sigped by 1 , 267 persons , praying for the release of Frost , Williams , and Jones ; and another to the some effect from Tavistock ; also from an individual named Moyle , residing in Blackfriars-road , praying for the liberation of Mr . Feargus O'Connor ; also a petition from Sheffield in favour of the repeal of the Corn Laws . - Mr . Hawes presented a petition from the Universal Religionists , commonly called Socialists , praying for an inquiry into their doctrines , which they stated are now misunderstood and misrepresented . Mr . Hi'Me presented a petition signed by Several thou ; and 8 of the Universal Rational Religionists
of Birmingham to the same effect ; a petition from the medical practitioners of Kilkenny and its vicinity , in favour of the Bill for the improvement o ! the medical profession in Great Britain and Ireland . Also a petition from twenty-two individuals , members of the National Chartist Association , complaining of the treatment of Mr . Feargus O'Connor , and praying the House t ? address her Majefty for the purpose of granting him a free pardon , also a petition from a public meeting held at Birmingham , complaining that prosecutions for the alleged crime of blasphemy had been renewed by the present Government . The petitioners stated that they considered the law as it now stands on the
subject of such prosecution unjust and anomalous . They complained thai Mr . Hetherington had been lately tried aud sentenced for the publication of a book ; and observed that three parties had been tried for the sale of a work , the original author of which had given himself up , and had never been prosecuted . They complaiced that Mr . Heywood , who had published Haslam ' s Letters , had been brought to trial , and found guilty . ( Cries of Order , order . " ) The Hon . Gentleman proceeded to say , that those were the statements of the petition ; and if thsy were not allowed to be read , the House might as well prevent altogether the right of petitioning . He would say it was folly . ( Order , order . ) He would repeat it . ( Renewed cries of" Order . " )
The Speaker Eaid that the Hon . Member was quite out of order in making those observations . Mr . Hume had a right to state his opinion ? , in spite of any opposition . ( Renewed ones of " Order , order . " ) . The Speaker said that the Hononrable Member in presenting a petition , shoold counce himself to stating its snbstanee . Mr . Hcme had bsen doing so , and , if the House hsd been irregular , he was regular . ( Order , order . ) He had beenabou : to btatetbe substance of the petition but he had been prevented ; it appeared to him that the House was about to abolish the right of petitioning altogether . ( Cries of " Oh , oh , " and " chair . " ) The Speaker—Please to bring them up .
Mr . Hciie—I will bring them np when I have explained . ( . The Hon . Member was met with loud cries of Oh , ob , " npou every attempt to explain , and after several unsuccessful " efforts to make himself heard , h « brought up the petitions amid « t loud laughter . Mr . F . Macle gave notice that on Monday next he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to regul » te the employment of persons in factories .
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YORKSHIRE SPRING ASSIZES . CROWN COURT , Thcbsdax , M ^ b ^ p 11 . STEALI . \ G A MONEY LETTER IT LEEDS . Benjamin Liveiey , 41 , was charged with having , on the 17 th of September la ^ t , at Leeds , being a person employed under the Post-office , feloniously stolen a certain letter , the property of the Postmaster-General , and which contained two halfsovereigns . Mr . Sergeant Atcherley , Mr . Adolphus , and Mr . Pollock were lor the prosecution ; Mr . Baines defended the prisoner . Mr . Sergeaut Atcheblet stated the case . He had tbe honour to attend ou the part of her Majesty ' s Postmaster-General , who bad directed the prosecution which had beea instituted against tbe prisoner , for the purpose of making inquiry into the transacuon which had been alluded to by the officer of tbe Court . The prisoner at the bar iiad been for some time employed under the Leeds Post-office , and it was material to observe that bis duty in that
department was that of sorting tbe letters , and not of letUr carrying . His duties were confined to the waPs of the Post-o £ ; e , and did not at all extend to anything out of doors . In the month of September last , in consequence of some circumstances to which he need not more particularly allude , because it was not his intention or wibh to prejudice the ease in refereice to the pr isoner , it was thoaght necessary to send dow ; i an officer from the Geaeral Po ^ t-omce in Loudon to Leeds , whose duty vtsls superintending the missing latter department . This officer , Mr . Ra . tns . ay , reached Leeds in the mouth of September last , ana having arrived there proceeded to make the necessary inquiries . In consequence of certain circumstances , Mr . Ramsay ' s attention was directed more particularly to the evening department of the Postoffice^—and he found that there were two officers connected with that department , of whom the prisoner was one . He would notr coma to tha facts of the
present case . A psi ^ on name Ashworih Imd put into the Post-cffice at Leeds , on the 17 ih of September , a letter which he ( the Learned Sergeant ) now held in his hand , and which was addressed to Mr . F . Cameron , Louth , Lincolnshire . It waa put into the Post 0 f 5 . ee on the evening of the 17 th September , and ought to have been there all that night , acd in the ordinary course dispatched on the following morning the lckh , by the ba ^ , which was called the Bawtry bag , which carried the l « tters to Lonth and the neighbouring places . The time he the prisoner leaving the Post Office was about for o ' clock at night , and his duties , it was importantten remember , were confined to the walls of the Po to office . For certain reasons , Mr . Ramsay , on tstday in question , obtained the assistance of one of the poli « e officers at Leeds , who followed the prisoner in the evening into a public-house . Some conversation ensued between them , and the officer told the
prisoner that a gentleman wished to See him at the Scarbro' hotel . On going there , where Mr . Ramsay wa ? , prisoner was told tkat he must be searched . The prisoner said any body might search his house , but that no person should search his person . He was told that his person must be searched . He said he fchouid not be searched without a warrant . He was then informed that there was a proper warrant for searching him . Ho was then searched ; and on his person was found the latter he ( the Learned Sergeant ) held in his hand . Ho was told that he need no : say anything ; when he stated , under the circumstancco , he would decline saying anything . This was after the letter had been found upon his person . After that , he said he hoped they would be as merciful as they could to him . Mr . Bai 5 es rose , and took an objection to the indictment , on the ground that it did not describe the name , as weil as the office , of the Pusunaster-General .
Mr . Sergeant Atchjbrlet said , that last Sessions , an Act was passed expressly setting forth the form of indictment , and which did away with the necessity of describing the name of the officer . Sir . Baines was not aware of the existence of such an Act . The Act was afterwards produced , and the section referred to read . Several witnesses were called , who proved the facts stated by the learned Sergeant , when , on the case for the prosecution being cio ^ ed , Mr . Baj . nes addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoner . He entreated them to give a merciful consideration to all the circumstances of the case , and to weigh well those points which could be sugges-. ed for the prisoner . Ho did not blame the post-office authorities for instituting this prosecution , but he did assert that the evidence adduced did not support the charge alleged in the indictment . If the Jury were not satisfied tiiat the prisoner placed the
letter in his packet , with the intention of converting it to his own use , they could not convict the pritoner , ajid he was sure wheu th , ej h »* rd his previous character , they would have pleasure in ac ^ uittinK him . Mr . B . G . Topham , Mr . Chantrell , Mr . William Hirst , and Mr . Robert Hall , cloth-dresser , gave the prisoner a good previous character for houesty aud propriety of conduct . Tne Learned Jldok , in summing up , said the only question thty could consider was , the intention with which the prisoner took the letter . The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty , but recommended him to mercy , on the ground of hi * previous good character . The Learned Jcdse proceeded to pass sentence on the prisoner . He said it was quite impossible that either the eloquence of the counsel , or * oy suggestion he ( the Judge ) might make to the Jury , could raise t . reasonable doubt in tkeir minds as to
his guiit . The Jury had thought proper to accompiDy their verdict with a recomnmuuation to mercy ; as could not bat remark , however , that the efface * was so se-rious as to demand ike most severe puuishuiiut of the law . There » 'as ii > o much reason to
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fear that thk ot « ao » ¦ Hfroogh the only one of whieh he had been oonvieifd—was neither tbe first nor second that he bad committed of a similar description . Tha Geaa * al Poat-offioe authorities had received frequent BOtiee of the depredations committed at th » Leeds Port-office . It could only be matter of ¦ mpieion aa to the party committing these depredation * , but although it was Only suspicion , that fuipicion mult fall heavily on the prisoner . Th « ftiaiaie , tinder ihe provisions of which he had been eoniietod , subjected him to transportation for life . Tha only mitigation which he should think of sMkioft is ooowqaeuoe ot the recommendation of tha Jury , was this—instead of sending him out of the eoantry for life , he should only send him out of the ooutry for a limited portion of time ; and he trusted , whOat in another land , and if he returned to this oountry , he would retrieve tbe character be had lost . Tha sentence of the Court was that he be transported for tea Tears .
DETENTION AKD OMHINO OP LETTERS XT THE TORK POIT 0 FF 1 CK . JametKiMngten . ( out on bail ) was charged with having wilrully and contrary to his duty detained and opened tetters , whioh were given to him as a postman to deliver . Sergeant ArcHBur , Mr . Adolpbcs , tni Mr . Pollock war * for the prosecution ; Mr . Coitjnghah defended the prisoner . There were four ^ everal instances of detention alleged ; most of the letters contained half sovereigns , which had not been taken out ; but the dates of the letters had been altered , and the seals of the letters broken , and in tome instances re-sealed and delivered . . Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character . The Jnry found the prisoner Guilty .
The Learned Jtmam , in passing sentence , said he had been convicted on tha dearest testimony , and if he had been indicted for stealing the letters , there was ample evidence to convict him , and he would then have been transported . As it was , the offence was of a serimu description , and be ebonld inflict upon him the greatest Banishment which the l » w allowed , whioh was that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for tha term of two years .
OORCKiXIH * THl BIBTH OF X CHILD . Mary WaiUr , 26 , pleaded guilty to having , on the 30 th of January last , at Collin ' s Cottage , near Kuaresborougb , oonoealed the birth of her bastard child . —Sentence was deferred .
BUBOLABT AT OXTON , KEAK TA » f A 8 TKR . William Smith , 87 , and James Brown , 40 , were indicted for baring , on the 17 th of December , burglariously entered the dwelling-house of Christopher Wilson , Esq ., of Oxton House , near Tadcaster , aud stolen therefrom a silver candlestick , a plated candlestick , four pairs of snuffers , and other articles , his property . The Hon . J . S . Wobtlbt and Mr . Aldam oonducted the prosecution ; the prisoners were undefended . It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor is an aged gentleman , wall known as the father of the turf . On the night mentioned in the indictment ha retired to rest about ten o ' clock , aud shortly afterwards the other members ef tha family went to bed . The doors and windows of the house were securely fastened » t that time . Between four and fivo o ' clock on the following morning , an alarm was given , when the servants found there was a great disorder . The
principal evidence against the prisoners was as to the possession of the stolen property . As it respects Smith , tha possession of a part of the property was muoh more reoent than in the case of Brown . On the 12 ' . h of December , Smith went into a barber ' s shop at Caattaford , and tVere offered same of the stolen articles for sale . Smith was desired to return on the following morning , when a constable was ready to receive nim , and took him into custody . Ou the 28 ib of December , Brown was seen at BlacKburn , in Lancashire , disposing of some of the property . In defence , Smith said , that he found the articles , and Brown said , that ' Jew John , " of Leeds , had given him the articles to dispose of , and he had determined to * Jew the Jew . ' ( Laughter . ) The Learned JVdcb having summed up , tho Jury found the prisoners Guilty . —Sentence was deferred .
BUBOLART AT BIUSTAL . John Grifin , 17 , John Siraker , 20 , Henry Greentcood , 20 , aud John Thomai , 22 , waro charged with having , on the 27 th of October , at Birstal , burglariously broken into the dwelling-house of Lionel Knowles , and stolen therefrom four gold rings , and other articles , his property . Matthew Straker , 37 , Has charged with being an accessory before the fact . Mr . Knswlks and Mr . Wilkins appeared for the prosecution ; Mr . CoTTimjHAM defended Greenwood at < d Straker , and Sir Ursgobt Levin defended Griffin and Thomas . The evidence was of great length . The principal facts will , howerer , appear by tho foll « w \ un Bummary : ob the morning of the 28 * h of October , it was discovered that tha house of the prosecutor had been
broken open . The principal witness agaiust the prisoners was a person named Lawgon , who is a shoemaker at Leads . On the evening of the 27 th of October , La wsonwaa at Matthew Sirakcr ' B house , w litre ha saw th * other four prisoners . Th « conversation theu going on was as to the proceedings of the nifcM . Lawson asked what road they were going . John Straker and Thomas said they were goiug to break in somewhere , that night in the neighbourhood of Birstal ; Matthew Straker did not join in the conversation . Lawson then went to the house of Superintendent Jamas , of the Leeds police , who instructed him to go back to the hause , which he did , and he found all tha prisoners ia the street , and they followed him into the house . Lawson had
some muscle * , whioh Ellen Norris , a . woman who lived with Matthew Straker , was cooking , and the prisoners all partook of them . The prisoners , except Matthew Straker , afterwards went out , and &s they were going away , John Straker said , " Good night , LawBon ; perhaps it may be the last time I shall have the chance of bidding you good night . " Afcer Lawson had returned to the house , Scubbs and Hartley , two policemen , were sent to Morley , which is between Leeds and Birsial , to see whether the prisoners , whom they knew , would pus that way . Three of the prisoners passed , and the policemen watched them some time , thinking the men would pass iu returning , but they saw no more of ihem that night . About eix o ' clock on the
following night , Lawson azain went to Matthew S : raker ' s , where he met with Jouu Scraker , aud Thomas . He was told to go again at eight o ' olock , ana ou his waj he met Matthew Straker in Yorkstreet ; he asked him where he was going ; he replied he was going to "plant" some riags for the other prisoners . Lawson a&ked them how it was they were going to " plant" them , and he replied the old Jew would only give them 8 s . for them . Lawson said that be could give him more than that , and they accordingly went sack to Siraker ' 8 house , and ne agreed to give 15 s . for the rings . Lawson made an acoount of the division of the money , arising from the robbery , to the prisoners , and it appeared that they received £ 6 of Jew John . On the following evening they were talking about cheating the police , when Lawson asked inem how they managed not to be detected in
carrying the Btuff to the Jew . John Straker said that Griffin got a bottle in one hand , and a basket on the othsr , like auy person going to work . Greenwood went behind him , and one of the others was a short distance in front , so th : U , if they met any of the police , they could warn Griffin , who was carrying the stuff , to get out of the way . When they got to th « Jew , Thomas and John Straker took it from Griffin , and disposed of it to the Jew , whilst Greenwood and Griffin watched . The prisoners also stated to Laweon that they were two hours and a half over their work , on acoount of their tools being blunt , and it was half-past six in the morning be ore they got into Leeds again . Thomas said he had burnt his baud very muoh , and in the presence of the four prisoners , he showed Lawsoa the part where it had been burnt .
Mr . Cottinsham and Sir G . Lewm addressed the Jury for the prisoners , urging that no reliance whatever could be placed on the testimony of Lawaon , whom he designated as a spy , aud especially , as his evidence was uncorroborated by any respectable witness . The Learned Jodgb having summed up , The Jury retired , and after an absence of nearly an hour , returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners , but with a strong recommendation to mercy . —Sentence was deferred . The Court rose at nine o ' clock .
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NISI PRITJ 8 COUBT . —Thubsdat , Mabch 11 . BREACH O ? PROMISE OF MARRIAGE . BOWTBXB V . 8 CHOPIELD . Mr . CB . BS 8 WBLL and Sir Qbxoobt Lewis were for the plaintiff ; Mr . BS » das and Mr . Azhbrtov were for * the dsfwkdamt . Tiie pim » bST was Mary Crowther , and the defendant John SenofieM . Tke action was brought to recover damages for a breath ot promise ot marriage , made by the plaintiff to the defendant . The dofeadaut pleaded the geaeral lane .
Mr . Ckbsswslx . stated the facts to the Jury . The plaintiff , Mia * Crowther , ia a young woman about 30 yetn of k « . redding at If arth . in the neighbourhood of Hudttoxfield , acd she complained of having sustained injury in be * ptospeets in life , in consequence of a breach of promise ot marriage made by the defendant , » nd broktn by bin under circumstances of great cruelty . About fomr years and » half ago , the plaintiff Vent to live as hOUSkSSPSX With the defendant . Mot long after that period , b » was taken ill , and whilst labouring under this JJlassi , the plaintiff nursed him with great care , and ft wp * owing to this atUation he Eupposed , that the friendship which the defendant had before manifested towards Alias Crowther , ripened Into strong aifeGtion . She continued iu the servioe some time longer , and then left , being iu the family way .
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He was not prepared to prove that the defendant obtained possession of her person in consequence of having made a promise to marry , but it was Tery probable that something of the kind bad occurred . He should proTe repeated promises ( which he detailed ) and he need hardly inform the Jury that the promises had all been broken . He ( the Uarned Counsel ) understood the defence to ba \ thai the plaintiff had had the misfortune to baVe had a child ; thU mi the reason the defendant bad refused to fulfil hU promise . Bat the defendant had no right to setup such a detenoe . It was perfectly true she hod had a child , but Mr . Schofleld kneir this , and the child frequently came to hia house . He should also show them that the defendant was a man in good
fclreumstances ; and that he had offered £ 200 , or £ io # , and 48 . per week , to settle the action , whioh had been refused . He should call witnesses who would distinctly prove these facts , and then it would be tot the Jury te say what was the amount of damages they would give to , * man who had thus promised marriage to a womanlfti then deceived and deserted her . MrjkCrowther—I am mother of the plaintiff ; she lived as housekeeper to the defendant ; she hag been with him three years . She left last year , to be married to Mr . Sohofield . Preparations were made at my house , on the 25 th July ; a breakfast wasordered , dresses i were prepared , and friends were invited . On the morniDg in question , the defendant did not come . Before this happened , I saw the defendant
on the subject of the marriage—witness asked him what way he meant to do ; ho said , »* I mea . n to , marry ; " witness said she hoped it would bo soon and that he would never deceive a poor widow . He declared he never would . The defendant sent Chad . Jagger to buy the license , and in consequence of what Jagger said , preparations were made . After the marriage should have been , I saw the defendant at Huddersneld , and asked why he did not comb to see her ; h » said he could never face her brothers . Jn conversation , he Baid he still meaat to marry her ; witness told him in her situation ( being in tho family way ) she was ' very discontented at his conduct . Cross-examined—Mr . Sohofield is upwards of fifty years of age . He lived with his brother Edward , at
Homey Moor , who is also advanced in years . Mary was the only servant—she occasionally had a person to assist her in washing and so on . She went into Mr . Sohofield's service in 1838—about three years before that she had had a misfortune . Mary will be twenty-nine years of itge next May . Rev . Lewis Jones—I am the vicar of AUnondbuty . I know Schofleld the defendant . Ho came to make affidavit before me , as surrogate , on the 24 ; h of July , to obtain a marriage license . The affidavit was put in . The place fixed was Christ Church , Woodhouse .
John Crowther ( amongst other things ) deposed , I am brother of the plaintiff . My sister went to live with Scholfield about four years and a half ago . Had a child before that time . I informed Schofield of that circumstance about a mouth after she had been with him . Ha never came , according to prosiise , to marry the plaintiff . I have seen him several timew since : the first of these times was iu the street . He asked how Mary and her etiild was ; adding , " tell her not to christen it till I come . " After the action was brought he sent for me to the White Hart : he offered £ 200 to settle it . 1 told him 1 had no authority to interfere .
Cross-examined—Mr . Dyson aid Mr . Benjamin Shaw ^ Scholfield ' 8 nephew ) wore presentat thits interview . My sister , wnen she west to Scholfiold , was not hired by tho year . She night have ii . a week , or more : 1 believe she had 3 s . per week . Mrs . Martha Sykes—I am sister to the plaintiff . This witness corroborated the evidence of the last
witness . This closed the case for the plaintiff . Mr . Dundas then addressed the Jury for tho defendant . He was not instructed to deny that the promises to marry ( which had been proved as plentiful a 3 blackberries ) had been made and broken . His client was au old bachelor , who had acted very foolishly , and of course he must pay for his promise . The only question for them would be , what was reasonable compensation to her under the circumstances . There was a great difference in these cases : in some cases they had tears and wretchedness oa the part of the youug person who had been deceived aud deserted ; but he never saw , in a court of justice , a case which less required large damages , considering vrh&t ehe had been , and what unfortunately
sh . a would continue to be . He had not endeavoured to wound the feelings of the plaintiff by the cross-examination of her friends ; but let the Jury consider what sort of a woman she is . She is a woman near upon thirty ; when she went into the old man ' s service , she was hired as a servant by the week , and she was to go and live with the two brothers at Houley , aud do the household work . They had it from the evidence , that when she had been a month in the defendant ' s service , he was informed what sort of a person she had been in her former life . He being a goodnatured man , did not turn her away in consequence , and she continued in his service for two or three years , when the intimacy which his Learned Friend said commenced when the defendant was
ill , ripened into too muoh affection . She became in the family way ; but there was not the slightest evidence to shuw that before Bhe gftTO the deteo . da . at the possession of tier person there was any promiso of marriage given . Previous to this time she had had an illegitimate child , and this was really the whole case with respect to the failure of the plaintiff ' s virtue . Well , when she was with child , he being a good-natured man , she persuaded him he must marry , and accordingly he consented . Was there any evidence whatever of his going for the lioensef The whole evidence was , that he seemed . to be willing to assent that there , should be a marriage . But he was living with a brother , and when that brother
found that an artful woman _ was talcing an advantage of the old man , he resisted it to the last , and that was the reason why tho marriage was broken off . The evidence whioh had been given about £ 200 having been offered , was a very great proof that the defendant was a person of good nature and good feeling . But was it any proof he should pay £ 210 when the casecamo before the Jury f Was it not rather proof that he would pay it iu preference to having a public exposure of all the nonsense of .. which -he had been guilty .. . The woman chose , under the advice of , j her friends , not to accept this sum , and , therefore , the defendaut determined t © submit to the Jury , whether he should pay anything but reasonable damages , and what were reasonable damages was the question whioh they would have to decide . He was willing to provide for the child , aud he was sure the Jury would consider this offvr just and reasonable .
He was a man between fifty and sixty years of age , who had unfortunately become connected with his servant maid , a woman between twenty-eight and thirty years of age , ( who ought to have known better , ) and who had had a natural obild before ; he then promised to marry her , and afterwards finding it would bo quite impossible to live in the house with his brother if he did so , the ma-r riage was broken off , and he was willing to make amends for tho wrong whioh he had done . He left the matter in thoir hands , satisfied they would give such a moderate compensation as tho case demanded , With one more observation he would close his address . It was not desirable that actions of this description should be encouraged—when breaches ot promise were brought into court , at least it was desirable that the woman who came into court should have a character better than that whioh , uut ' ormuately , the plain' 4 ff possessed . r
The Learned Juocb , in summing up , observed that the plaintiff was entitled to he placed iuthe sa mo position , so far as money was concerned , as if the defendant had fulfilled the promise which it was admitted he had made and broken . This was the true rule of damages in every case of breaches ot contract aud promise which came into court . The Jury conferred together a few minutes , and then returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £ 200 .
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CROWN COURT , Fkidat , March I 2 tu . Mr . Baron Rolfe took his seat at ten minutes past nine . After the arraigning of ' various prisonetB for trial , and Bweariug of the Jury , William Ib belson , John Griffin , and William Gawhrodger were placed at the bar , charged with burglary at Cookridge Hall , the seat of John Wormald , Esq ., near Otley , on the night of the 25 ih of November las ; . Messrs . Knowlbs and Wilkins appeared for the prosecution . Ibbetson was defended by Mr . Cox-TiNQiUu ; Sir Gbeoobt Lbwin appeared for Grifnu ; Gawkrodger was undefended .
Jane Stewart , housemaid to Mr . Wormald , deposed , that on tne night of the 23 th of last November , Bhe fastened all the window-shutters of the drawing and other room * about five o ' clock in the evening . Next morning , when attempting to leave her bedroom , about seven in the morning , sue found the door fastened on the outside . She returned and tried another door ; found it fastened also She returned and went down the front stairs ; on getting down stairs she found the front Hall door opon , she alarmed the house ; went with Mr . Wor-. maid inte he drawing-room , and found the window open and shutters hanging on one end .
John Wormald , lives at Cookridge Hall , about four miles from Otley , on the road to Leeds . Was called up on the 5 dh of November , about seven in the morning by the last witness ; went down staii-s ; found tha Hall door wide open—it had ,. been opened from the inside ; discovered two drawers broken open in the library , an iron safe had been partially forced with an iron instrument , the point having been broken off was left in . Missed from the drawers , two seals , one gold , the other a Scetch att > ne , and a gold pencil case . The drawing-room window was open ; a pane had been broken near the fastening . A buok-cube aud two drawers were
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broken open in the dining-room ; two bottles of wiae and brandy were taken from the eeUgrertn the library ; there were found in the driwinf-room , and ateo in the library-room , lucifer msSs ^ Wf went and entered the house . Saw footmarks from tile windows which had been opened across the road ; he supposed , from the footsteps , that about five people had been there . Mr . Read , the constable , afterwards fitted a boot to ene of the footmarks ; ft corresponded . There was a nail in the centre of each teal j had gone to bad a little after ten o ' clock the night before . All was fast then ; Saw on the Monday after one of the seals . The witness was oross-examined at some length by Mr . Cottinghah , who defended Griffin , with the purpose of shewing that in the confuBion consequent upon the burglary some of the eervants might have taken the seals , See . ; but nothing tending to confirm such an idea was elicited , Several of Mr . Wormald's servants were called , who deposed that Ibbetsou had been about the house and premises on the day before the robbery , inquiring for Mr . Wormald .
William Hal « s and James Rochford , watchmen , on duty at the time , apprehended Ibbetson , near Headiugley , on the morning of the robbery , about half-past four o ' clock ; he was searched but no property was found on him . . Edward Read , ohief constable , of Leeds , deposed , that in consequence of information from Mr . Wormald , he went to Cookridge Hall on the morning after the robbery . The prisoner , Ibbetson , was then in custody . He compared tbe prisoner ' s boots with some of the foot marks outside Mr . W . ' s house , and found them to correspond exactly . There is a mil rather prominently placed in thecentre of each heel . The boots were produced .
John Jackson , glass-blower , of Hunslet , was next called , and stated that in November last ho was committed to York Castle for poachii . g . The prisoner Ibbetson came there about a week afterwards , and about three or four weeks after that he made a statement to him . The witness then proceeded to give a long and very circumstantial detail of the whole robbery as stated by Ibbetson to have beea committed by himself and others . In the midst of this story , Ibbetson made an application to the Court to withdraw his plea of Not Guilty , and plead Guilty , saying that his Attorney ( meaning we suppose his Counsel ) had thrown him overboard , and that it w » 3 useless to proceed with the case . The other two mea who innocent . The Judge retiised to allow the plea to be withdrawn and ordered the case to go on . The witness was Y « jry severely cross-examined by Mr . COTTINGHAM .
Robert Lawson , shoemaker , Leeds , deposed to having purchased the seal produced from Griffin at the house of Matthew Straker for 7 s , Siraker came up to his shop and asked him to buy it . On cross-examination by Mr . Cottinghah , this witness admitted that he had bought things of Straker before ; that he was employed to buy the seal by Mr . Read ; that he had been in the employ of Mr . Read some months ; and that his practice had been to obtain the confidence of persons of a particular description tor the purpose ot' betraying them to the police ; some of the parties had been bis intimate friends tor several years . He had been in prison for felony about twelve years ago . Wm . Johnson , formerly a lodger in the house of Gawkroger ' B mother , deposed that in the Latter end of November last , Gawkrodger shewed him the seal , and stated that it was the property of Matthew Straker , and was fur sale .
Mr . Cottikguau , on behalf of Ibbetson , addressed the Jury in detence . They would dismiss from their minds any prejudice arising from the statement made by the prisoner of his wish to plead guilty . They would j . dge from the evidence . Hu then went through the evidence against Ibbetson in detail . Sir Gregory Lewin , on behalf of Griffin , was most bitterly severe on the witness Lawaon , and on the Leeds Police , for the system of entrapping prisoners , by obtaining their confidence in the way of espionage . The Learned Jud « e summed up with great minuteness , and spoke at great length on the several points of the evidence us against eaub of the prisoners separately . The Jury consulted for Bonie minutes , and then returned a verdict of Guilty against Ibbotson , aud Not Guilty against the other two .
BUHGLABT . Edward Townend ^ William Gawkradger ( the prisoners in the lastcaae ) , &nd Charles Wtlson , were thon put to the bar , charged with a burglary at the house of Amaziah Erapson , Esq ., of Stavely , near'K iiaresborough , ou the 23 rd ot December last . Mdisra . CorxiAGUAM and Ulanshard appeared for the prosecution . The prisoners -were undefended . Mr . Cottingham opened the case , and called Thomas Rushby , butler to Mr . Empson , who fastened the windows of the dining room about five o'clock on the night in question . He fastened the
front door . A laTge silver sugar-basin , mustard-pot , salt-cellar , two large spoons , tm > sniali forks , one tea spoon , a salt-spoon , and mustard-spoon were left on the dining-room , table , ou a tray . In the morning , he found tho bolts of the front door drawn , and the keys taken away . The door was shut bock : not locked . The witness then proceeded to detail the articles of missing property , all the plate previously mentioned , and eomc other articles . He tound two chisels ou tne tray whence the plate had been taken . There were marks on the window and the shutter of the dining-room , such as would be made by those chisels .
Charles Wood , au accomplice , was next called . Has known Gawkrodger along time . Never knew Wilson till the night of tho robbery . Has known Townend two or three years . The witness then proceeded , in answer to questions from counsel , to give along and circumstantial account of the burglary , as committed by himself and the three prisoners—• f the bringing away of the property , and hiding of it in Harewood Park—of his retaining to fetch it on the following day , and selling it to one Harris , a general dealer , living in Templar-street , by whom information being given to Read , he was taken into custody . His testimony was confirmed in many important points by other witnesses , and the Jury found all the prisoners Guilty .
Sentences . —John Sh-aker , John Thomas , Henry Greenwood , John Gr > ffia , William lObetson , Edward Townend , William Gawkrodger , and Charles Wilson , all of them very young ineu , ( Griffin ouly 17 years of age , ) and all having been convicted of burglary , were placed at the bar to receive judgment . On the usual question being put , Thomas stated that he had a witness now in attendance , who could prove his innocence of the crime with which he was charged , and who was most anxious to give his testimony . The witness was in attendance yesterday , but was hurried out of Court , and prevented from returning . He prayed , therefore , that this witness might now be cxamiued . This could not be done . The prisoner holding a paper in his hand , the Learned Judge requested it might be handed to him . it was so , but uo
reference was made to its contents . Tho Judge addressed the prisoners in a Bhort aud very severe speech , in which he stated that the prisoners evidently constituted part , if not the whole , of a regularly organised gang of depredators , by whom the neighbourhood of Leeds had been long infested . It had seldom been his lot , in the course of his judicial ^ experience , to fiud burglaries more deliberately planned , and determinedly executed , than those of which they had been convicted ; nor had he seen maiiy cases in which the proofs of guilt were more conclusive . It was plain that they had been leading dissolute and abandoned lives , and he should take care that for a very long portion of their remaining liveB they should work hard and fare ill . His Lordship then proceeded to sentence them to be respectively trausported beyond the seas for the term of fifteen yeara .
True Bills . —During the preceding trial , the Grand Jury came into court , with true bills against three of the Barnsley men , Mitchell , Font , and Cherry , for the murder of Mr . Blackburne . In the earlier part of the day , a true bill waa returned against Peter Foden , ot Sheffield , for riot and conspiracy . MAGISTRATES' ROOM , Fridat , March 12 tu . BEFORE ROBERT ARMSTRON G , KSq , < J . C . Wm . Tingle pleaded guilty of stealing , on the Oth January , at Hoy land , from tha house of John Addy , £ 150 in sovereigns and half sovereigns , his property . Afterwards , Tingle beiDg asked if he had anything to say , said the money was the property of his sister , and he did not intend to steal it . The Judge replied that was , that he was not guilty , and , therefore , permitted the prisoner to withdraw his pica , aud plead not guilty .
Mr . Wortlet , - with whom was Mr . Overknd , for the prosecution , opened tho case . A short time before the robbery , the prisoner ' s wife was at the prosecutor ' s house , and had the opportunity of knowing where the moaoy was , whioh the prosecutor imprudently kept in his house . Subsequently , tho prisoner was at the house , and slept there one night . The next morning , Addy ' g wife went out , leaving the prisoner in bed , and , on her return , in a short time , the prisoner was gone out , and she found that the monsy waa gone . The next day he was at Roth « rham with a / considerable sum of money , and a purse was
found in the house where he was takeu , in which part of the money hod been contained . Mary Addy , the prosecutor ' s wife , and sister of the prisoner , proved that tho week before Christmas the prisoner ' s wife and daughter were at her busband ' s house , &ud saw her fetch change from the cupboard , where the money was kept in her . bedroom . Oa tho fob . of January , the prisoner came and elept that night at their house . Her husband went out early in the morning to work . Between eight * nd niuo witness went out to the batcher ' s , leaving the prisoner in be-J , and the money safe in the cupboard , which was locked . On returning home ia about three quarters of an hour , Bhe found that ha
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was gone ; and , Jeeling apprehensive , went strsM to the enpboard , loand her money waa ™ £ r the cupboard lock having been picked . ^ A servant to Mr . White , of the Traveller's Tn » ¦ Wertgt ^ -Rrtlwi ^ January , the prisoner , and two other men came £ White ' s honsein Rotherham , and the prisoner sen * them with a parcel to SheffieW ; the pWi H c han ^ lhis stockoin in the bar , and put a BttifS new clothes on over his old oaeg . He slid Cir travelling for his father , and had plentyof mL ? and took out a purse which he said contoined J'Hft The prisoner then went out , leaving his boots « ai * told her iaa 3 ter ( Mr . White ) wlat hadI p « S ? and he told her not to gwe up the bootiT **
w Mr . White , the landlord , proved that he sentc « . Womack , and that the prisoner"denied that S * name was Tingle , from Sheffield ; but 6 sid thai \ was frem Bristol . The prisoner said he had money but a few shillings . '¦¦ no 4 Henry Womack corroborated the last wifoesaa , to the apprehension and searching the prisnL . The prisoner denied that he had beenatfioS * or knew sueh a place . He refused to be searoW till Womack produced bis staff . The money / n » in sovereigns and half sovereigns , was foan d . {* Beveral of the prisoner ' s pockets . He produc ed ^ purse clasp , whioh he W received froa 7 n »
wttgas , ine servant ot tne aaip HoteL Aune Wright , servant at the Ship Hotel , nrov ^ that on the 9 th of January , the prisoner was at tht ? houso , aud by the direction of Bland , she search ^ the ashes of the fire-place , and found a DursaS which Mr . Addy identified . » pur 8 e ^ Mr . John Bland proved that , on a further saml . ? 2 A ll ? ' Tl fe at the & ° * wefo fouad ^ on her £ 1710 d . in gold . « ^ The Jury found the prisoner Guilty , and th-Learned Judgo Baid he was not sure he was doin » right in not sentencing the prisoner to theBere r ^ punishment provided by the law . Ifc wasao ^ i aggravation that he had gone to the house br * relative , where he was sure to be kindly treat *? with .. ' the preconcerted design of robbing themrf all they had . — -Two yeara imprisonment .
H 0 R 8 E STEALING . Robert Henderson and Jeremiah Barlow Wer I charged with stealing a black mare , the property of Francis Pawson . ' Mr . Baines and Mr . Wortlbt for the prosecution , and Mr . Paswlut for the defence . ^ The first witness was Francis Pawson , who stated he went to Rotherham December fair with a bl&efc mate to sell , and there he saw Henderjon with a bay horse , which Barlow appeared to be trying to buy , but Henderson said he weuld not take £ 12 for it . Henderson looked at Pawson ' s mare , which he got him to walk outside of the fair , and Barlow tapped Pawson on the shoulder , and said if he would swap the mare , for which he asked £ 11 , for the horse he would * ive him £ 12 for the horse . After soms
bargaining with Henderson , they did swap , and Pawson went towards Barlow to get the £ 12 for the horse , but several persons came between them and . stopped him while the prisoners made off aa fast as they could with the mare . Pawson gave information to Bland , and a few hours after he saw the prisoners in custody . Cross-examined by Mr . Pashley—Before the prisoners were taken into custody , I said the horse for 253 . 6 d ., which I thought more than it was worth . I have had a little conversation with Barlow , who has been on bail . I did not say I would have done nothing if the constable had not forced me . I said to his father that if they would give back the mate , and pay tho expences , I would not go on with it .
Re-examined—I would not set a price on the horse till after I had looked after the men . It waa one of the four men who stopped that urged me till he sold him the bay horse for 25 s . 6 d . Ibad not examined Henderson ' s horse till after we had swapped . George Dobson , fishmonger , of Rotherham , was in the fair , and saw Henderson lead a bay horse and Barlow just by him , and Barlow said , " Wi 3 you take £ 5 for the the horse , " which Henderson refused . Djhson afterwards saw Headersia
leading a black mare , at a trot , down the fair , and Barlow hit her behind to urge her on . He saw them again in the afternoon , in custody , when one of them had got a macintosh on , and the other a smockfrock . In the moniioff they were dressed as now . Robert Marshall , beerhouse-keeper , of Rotherham , proved that oh the afternoon of tha fair , the prisoneri came to his house with a black mare , which they said might remain till they came for . The ; drank together .
Cross-examined—The mare remained from Tuesday to Thursday , when Pawson got her again . Mj house is in a publio street , and was full of company . Pigeon , policeman , of rtotherham , proved that he saw the prisoners going together up and down the fair during the day . John Bland , in consequence of the information of Pawson , sought the prisoners , whom he at last apprehended in the fair . He had seen them in the early part of the day with four or nve others . In the afternoon the' dresfes they had worn in the morning were covered by a macintosh and a smockfrock .
Mr . Pashlst , for Barlow , submitted there waa no felony , because there was uo trespass , which was involved in it . He argued that Pawsoh . voluntarily patted with the mare , and though there might have been fraud , that was not the charge in this indictment . Ha cited several cases in support of the objection . Mr . Baikes replied that there was no evidence for the Jury that the prosecutor did not mean fully to part with his mare , till he had not only received the horse , but also the £ 12 for the horse . If it had been a mere exchange and no more , then his Lsanied Friend was right , and the case was a fraud . The subsequent sale of the horse was only of valae & » bearing upon the . intention of the prosecutor in the
transaction , which was the real question for the Jury . The precise moment of the larceny waa , whon the prisoner began to move off with the mare without the payment of the £ 12 . In support of this argument , Mr . Baines adduced several cases , and urged it was for the Jury to s » V Whether they thought the prisoners meant bonafidg to purchase the mare , and whether tho intention pf the prosecutor wa 3 not to part with his horsetail the transaction was complete . Mr . Wortley argued that this was a . joint . bargain * and the delivery of the mare was conditional . Mr . Pashlet argued that the " swap" wiiH Henderson must be complete before the sale to Barlow
. His Lobdship was of opinion that the man meant to part with his mare , though he had been defraudni as to the expectation that induced him to do so . u the Jury agreed with this , it was a gross fraua , but not a felony , and they must therefore acquit tn » prisoners . The Jury found the prisoners Not Guilty . Mr . Baines applied to have them detained tna » they might be indicted for fraud , but . His Lobdship declined to make any order in tne matter . Another indictment was then preferred .
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NISI PRWS COURT .-FawJir , Mines L . NORRIS AND OTHERS , V . BOND . This was an undefended action . Mr . Cieasbt mi for the plaintiffs , who are woollen mauufaojurera carrying on business near Huddersneld , and wnu brought this action to recover £ 161 17 s . from » s defeudant , who resides at Blackburn , \ erdiet » r the plaintiff )—damages £ 161 17 s . TOLSON » . STKBS AND OTHERS . , . Mr . Ashmobb was for the plaintiff ; the defendant " did not appear by counsel . The plaintjfi' MiUe « BteJ to the trustees of the Bradford aud Wckefield turn pike road , and the action was brought ¦ to recow from the defendants £ 314 6 a . for tbe rent oj tne toll gates between those places , which tccr " takeu by public anction , on the 25 th Septemoer . 1859 , for oao year , —Yerdict according ly .
BROOK V . TUBNRB . Mr . Cbesswell and Mr . Watson « PP"J * f _ g the plaintiff , Mr . Alexander and Mr . A lison tor the defendant . The action was brought by Ai » Frances Brook , widow . of Mr . Brook , to *»«™ ug whether there was a publio right of way . throng her property or not , the property in Wf ™ ;^ close to the village of Littlethorpe , near B'P "' , *™ not far from the River Ure . Mrs . Turner is a hme burner , but the real defendant ' s were theComiw ^ sioners of the Ure Navigation . The case was en tirely devoid of interest , and ended in a veraiw being found for the plaintiff , nominal damages .
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Warliks Phkpabations .-Sheekness , M abJ 10 th . —The greatest bustle aud activity prevwi the royal dockyard here ^ " ^^ JJSS ships Monarch and Vernon fitted out . When eong pleted , they proceed to Spithead for . orders . j doubt is entertained hero but that their f *™*™ is a visit to our braggart brother Jonatnan .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 20, 1841, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct541/page/8/
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