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Horrid Murder and Arson

... W.e hravc to detnil the cirectristaflces of a mlurder' cirrunittezd its Wooiwich, on Friday rrigilt last, not c:aceoded in point of atrocity lhy any which stain thc fcalendar of crimecs in this country. The persons oe mrirdered *vere Mr. T. Parker, upwards of 70 years he o gand Sarah Brown, iris housekseeper. Mr. hle Parker, we understand, had formerly been a gohld- 0o- smuith, in London, and ...

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 21

... HENRY HUNT. Air. Chitty stated to the Court that fie had an affi- davit on the part of Mr. H. Hunt, complaining of the treatment lie had experienced in the gaol of II- chester, contrary to the intention of the Court, when sentciice had been pronounced upon him, though there had been no impropriety on his part. All that Mr, Hunt desired was, to be placed in the same situ- ation as the other ...

UNIVERSITY POLICE

... UNIVErISITY POLICE. - 1 - x1 It. t J V i| Tie newr system of Watch and Ward commenced on Monday rlast. Tile lower part of the Clarendon Priwing Office has been fitted up as Police Rooms, where the Conitables are to attend )f every night at nine o'clock, to receive from the Inspectors their coats, lanterns, &c. previous to going on duty, which they are to return in the morning. The number of ...

OLD BAILEY, JANUARY 20

... OLD BAILEY, JAvUAwa 20. Benjamin Barrup, who was tried and acquitted on Friday last upon a charge of wiltid murder, the proof of the death of his victim having been caused by the pistol-shot being insufficient, stood indicted for shooting Mary Blortlock, with intent to murder her. The indictment contained several counts, one of them charging him with the intent to do her some grievous bodily ...

CORN LAWS

... Mr. W. Whitmore has published a letter to the Electors of Bridgenorth (his constituents), on the Corn Laws. The motions which Mr. Whitmnor made in the last Parliament on this subject brought on him so much of the enmity of the Agriculturists, that a fornidable, thoagh not a successful, opposition was raised against his return. He has thus a personal as well as a public motive to quiet the ...

WARWICK ASSIZES

... WARWICK ASSIZES- The Crown Court on the Thursday was principally occupied with the trials of James Patten and TDo- mas F. Thistlethewayte Hemsworth. The former was capitally indicted and found guilty of violating the person of Ann Atkins, at Edgbaston, near Birming- ham, in Mlay last; the latter, who has rendered himself notorious by some extensive swindling transactions during a period of ...

INQUEST

... INQU ST Upon Mr. W. WELLS, of Bucking'ham, Hzeld on lFreelneesayI Nov. 27, bs/;ste Ml, . Ldsrsslhasll, sie 'of the Cerosibcs'ajbl thal coaity. [TFFh CiltCulls'rANCE WAS GIVFN' LAST' WEltE.] Charles (ross, of Tingewick, shoemalier, depos d, that on his roasd home frontn Butckinghanm iast MeInda' eveninig, I he 25th ht November, iv csitupanly with his ?? Dasriarat, lie miet a horse. aild gig, ...

Westminster Hall.—New Courts of Law

... JrVestisnoter HIall.-New Courts of Law. T'be Hall is now entirely cleared. Tfhe Coronation galleries, &c. whlic'h were sold by Lord Gwydyr, as Lord Great Cham) berlain of England, to Messrs. Page and Co., and by tihen disposed of by auction, bave been taken awvay. A good deal of the property sold tilcornimonly well; much of the timber for instance, although it had been used, nearly produced ...

SURREY ADJOURNED SESSSIONS

... SURREY Al DJOUR7rED SESSSIONrS: ' NOVELt CASiE. 'Richad'Erii 'stiild inidicted for Ail'at be on 'tre 26th day of October last did feloniously cut off'and carry away the tails and manes of several'borses, the property of John Lane and John Watts, at the tuanor of Hatcham;, in the parish Of St. Paul, Deptfordi Mr. Turton stated,.that this prosecution was car- ried on by a subscription among the ...

SOUTHWARK SESSIONS

... SOUTIIVWAA SESSIONS. Butler Odel Monktonq, Esq. was tried uponi an indictment charging him with having assaulted an old woman, his cook, with a candle and candlestick, in her bed at nigiht. Anne Woodwvard, the cook, said that in September she was in bed one night, with one of Mr. Monkton's sons, a child about a year old. Between one and two in the morning the .dfendant entered her room, in ...

WORCESTER, JULY 14

... IS - IIUOitE, CLERK, V. PARDOn. ' This was an action for tfthe~composition, and it Y appeared that the defendant, Mrs. Pardoe, who oc- cupied a farm called Grove Farm, in the parish of Airly Kings, of which parish the plaintiff was Rector, if had continued for some years under a composition for d tithes of 251. 17s. per year from Michaelmas to Mi- .e chaclmas. At Lady-day 1822, the defendant ...

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 1

... COURT1' OF KIMNGS B2NCH, JuNV 1. Lord Sonsdes v. Fletcher, ClerAk-Mr. Selwyn stated to the Jury, that they Were eniopsnelledl Lo assess the damages 05n a bond for 12,0001. subject to a condition that the defendant would resign the Living uif Ket- rering, in Northamptonsbire, presented to him by tile phlirtiif, as soon as either of the younger brothers of Lord Sondes s0ould be qualified to h ...