... PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN BERCKHOLTZ.-FnO)u A CAST BY MR. D. DUNBAR. FROM 'A THIRD EDITION OF LAST WERE'S LIBERATOR. SATURDAY, JULY '2, 1839. JACOB FRED. EHLERT (28), was charged by indictment'and the Coroner's Inquest with the Wilful Murder of John Fredricht Berkholtz, at Monkwearmouth, on 12th June last. So great was the anxiety to witness the proceedings that, notwithstanding the rain poured in ...

... GUILTYI GUILTY I! NOTHING BUT I. GUILTY I I I LIVERPOOL, AUG. 2G. This morning the case of some of the Chartists who bad pleaded on Saturday were brought up for trial. John Holmes was indicted for a seditious con- spiracy and riot; the offence is alleged to have been committed at Manchester, on the 12th of August in the present year. It was proved that the defendant had carried a pole with a ...

... RURAL POLICE. Every man who has any correct knowledge of, and veneration for, the principles of constitu- tional law, and civil right, must allow that the Whig influence which has, within these few years, been predominant in England, hag proved -a tnost un- fortunate and disastrous event to the people of these realms. Under the pretence of promoting liberty, this hateful party have broken down ...

... TRIAL OF MESSRS. THOMPSON, MIT- CHELL, DAVIS, AND HIGGIS. DISGRACEFUL SCENE. WEDNESDAY EVENtNG, Auo. 14.-The grand jury came into court to-day before twelve o'clock with a true bill against George Thompson, James Mitchell, Charles Davis, and Timothy Higgins, for a conspiracy. After the bill had been read by the clerk of the arraigns, The Foreman of the grand jury said they wished to have the ...

... | CRUELTSOF THENEW POOR | i. . I I LAW. , EARL STANHOPE, the other night, brought the case of James Berry before the House of Lords, which is well worthy of a passing notice, as being illustrative of the way which the rich dispense justice to the poor. This poor labouring man ,,9 in the 91st year of his age, had a wife, be- longed to the Worksop Union, and was allowed from them the munificent' ...

... POLICE Ti3ELLZIGNCE, &o. INEWCASTLE POLICE-On Wedtiemlay week, the keeper of the Lion and Lamb, in Newgate Street, was flined 51. and costs, for wilflully sullfering drunkenness and other disorder- ly conduct in his house on the night of Sattirday week. This is a second conviction within a very short period. Gatesheatd Poliee.--A complete nest of thieves, of both sexes, has been broken into by ...

... _ ?? rown orrIZO3. MANORS. FaioAY, Jan. 12.-Before Mr Aid. LUNN and DIr Justice NICHOL. Sarah Mooney, the wife of a pensioner, and Henrief a Dawson, widow, her associate, were convicted of being rugues and vagabonds, they having beets found on the previous day in the shop of Mr Clarke, a shoemaker, in the Side, for the un- lawful puipose of stealing a pair of shoes, and were committucd to hard ...

... _e=1 Clp - - ?? POLIC . OrJPICM, =WAIN13N MONDAY, April SO.-Before Messrs Aldermen BATSON, DUNN, and R{IDLEY. James Forsyth was flned 5s. and costs, for an assault on one of the policeman in the due execution of his duty. Johss Sinith was charged with exposing his person in the house of Mrs Pendleton, publican, Byker Bar, on Sunday afternoon, amiut 5 o'clock, and was committed to hard labour ...

... t I ,da-woAm'oo IsyU44% 4,4611AIAN'. I id Viv l)ZAN tlonh his seat on theo ?? at tho Guhlahail before I2 o'ciock this day, a~ccmtpaniedl by G. H. Wil. *1-lIt Esql , Remordtr, C. J. Bigge, Escl., Mayor, Messrs vtliil~ I~iey, unnt, aliii Easterby, I~t Sherill' Dunin, &C. .C following geiitlemnen Were s.worn of'the Grand Jury :_ F'etwick, 1Esq., foreman; and Messrs TIhos. Cooksun, CIlapmaIn, Al. ...

... I - Q I At ten o'clock on Wednesday morning, George Hut- ton Wilkinson, Esq., Recorder of the town, accompanied by the Right Worshipful the Mayor, took his seat in the Guildhall, to hold the Quartcr Sessions of the Peace; and the fbllowiing gentlemen were sworn in as Grand Jurymen:-Mr Matt. Anderson, foreman; Mcssrs Thos. Cookson, Joseph Fairs, Edmund Graham, Thus. Hogg. William Robion, J. ...

... -X Cos for the relief of insolvent debtors confined in the gaos of Morpeth and Newcastle were held on Tues- day last, by Henry ftei'cll 'Renolds, Esq. Chief Como missioner, when the cases' of the following prisoners were disposed of:- - NORtTHUA3ERLANID: Je'hja Brown, the younger, late of Woodburn, for- merly blacksmith, afterwards grocer, &c. and late blacksmith; Isabella Turnbull, late of ...

... mwcassl VrOLIOII orrxcW , MNWORS .. ?? - -1- u- - ~l.r SATURDIAY, MarCh 10--before *lr Aid. Dut;ii aned Mr Justice PLuOImEZ. Juhn Brown appeared to arnswer a summons preferred against hlut by 311ss Bell, cur.fectiener, Arcade, for committing ii nuu- fance, by spittilig on her shop witidow, and was ?? Ys. fd. Tlolinra Duinn arid Peter AcY'ay, who were remanded on Thurs- day, were agaln ...