... BENCII OF MAGISTRATES. TUESDAY, AUGUST 8.-Present: Sir D. S O)TT, 13art. Henry Gordon, a young manl who appeared in a state of great cx halustion;, produced by the want of food, was committed to the House of Correction for fourteenl days, Sir D. Scott Observing that he didl so not fromt a desire of inilictinrg puosislnent upon the defendant. bhot that he might receivc that attention which his ...

... MURDER AT TVHE CANTERBURY ELECTION. INQUEST ON THE B3ODY OF JOHN CONSTANT.-Consider- able excitement was produced in Canterbury on Thursday evening and Friday forenoon, by a report that a poor man, who had been knocked down by some bludgeon-men, and severely injured, had died of his wounds. A coroner's jury was sum- moned for the purpose of investigating the circumstances which led to his ...

... AMERICA.-EXECU'IONN OF A CRIIIMNA L. [Fiona the A LWv Or,'misaa Uomnonmcia! Herabl, April 2h9.1 Soonafiteri11 o'i'ioek yesterdav morning, Tliouas'ib' convicied of anr attemnpt to iiund'r i'l' tile Coll-! house keepl'c onl the, Levee, was hung, in the open ,apcec i i!r thle canal), ait the ?? of St. Louis streect. lie was Coiidueiled to the place of execution fromt the ('alaboose onl a c:all, ...

... BEINCH OF MAGISTRATES. TUURSOAY, JAN. 26.-Present, Sir D. SCOTT, Bart., W. SEY- asonOa, G. BASSE I, and R. PEDDER, Esqrs., and Major AL- LEN. Win. Short and John Short, brothers, were charged by Thomas Beal, with stealing some oysters and dried sprats from his shop, in Nile-street. They ran away, when he pursued and took them into custody. Beal said, there was scarcely a night passed that he ...

... An inquest was held on Saturday, before F. i. Cell, Esq., Coroner, at the Brunswick-arms, on the body of Sarah lBarratt, who died from the effect of severe injuries received fromo being thrown off the Globe coach on Monday, the 20tb c f November last. John Hart sworn: I am a butcher, living in Wcst-strcet, Brifhton ; on the 20th of November last, IMlonday week, abuit 6 o clock in the evening, ...

... PeusTwicCH, T 'Hun DAY.-Onl the 4th of September last a most unprovoked and brutal assault was committed'upon Mr. Jonathan Fielding, an elderly mall, the governor of the work- house, situate in the township of Prestwich, near. MInchester, by Joseph Dennerly, one of the paupers resident in the work- house. It appears that about nine months agof Dennerley, with his wife and three children, were ...

... On Wednesday, an inquest was held, at the Bristol Hotel, before F. 11. Gell, Esq., on the bodies of Robert Goldrinlg aged 25, and James Rich, aged 50, who were unfortunftely crushed to death by the falling of some earth. The Jury, having been sworn, proceeded to view the bodies; they pre, sented a most dreadful spectacle, every limb being crushed and broken. Their death must have been ...

... NOTABI LIA. The more contracted a power is, the more easily it is de- stroyed. A country, governed by a despot, is an isverled cone. Government cannot be so firm as when it rests upon a broad basis.-Johznson. If we inquire into the business of a king, we shall find that in some countries they have none; and after saunitering away their lives without pleasure to themselves or advantage to the ...

... COUNTY HALL, LEWES, TUESDAY, MARcIa 21, 1837. CROWN COURT. [Before the Right Hon. Sir NICHOLAS C. TINDAL, Knight.] GRAND JURY. T. Partington, Esq., Foreman. J. V. Shelley, Esn. T. W. Scutt, Esq. W. C. Mabbott, lsq. J. Ellman, Esq. James Henry Slater, Esq. Joseph Allen, Esq. D. Rowland, Esq. J. B. Daubuz, Esq. R. W. Blencowe, Esq. Warburton Davies, Esq. Nicholas Willard, Esq. W. F. Hick, Esq. J ...

... LEWES CHRISTMAS QUAtrER SESSIONS. Ycgterdav, the Magistrates met for the dispatch of county business in the Grand Jury room. Immediately after the opening of the Sessions, the Earl of Chichester in the chair, there were present, W. Seymour, Esq., H. B. Curteis, Esq., M.P., G, Basevi, Esq., T. R. Xemp, Esq., M.P., R. Gear, Esq. - 131aaw, Esq., W. C. Mlabhott, Esq., J. EllInan, Esq., W.I3lencoe, ...

... Thc forty-third autniversary celebration of the acquittal of Thomuas Hard, Jolhn ?? Tooke, Joohn Thelwall, attd otihers, from the chaiee of high treason preterreed against them in 1 791, by 31r. Pitt's governmlelnt, was hold on Monday evening at Radley's Ho-cl, Bridgc-street, Blackfriars. Mr. C. Buller, M. P., presided, and in the course of the cvening somie excel- lent s teeches were ...

... TUESDAY, Feb. 7. 1837.-Present, W. SEYMOUR and G. BASEVI, Esqrs. and Major ALLEN. Thomas Slaughter, remanded from Saturday, was placed at the bar, when evidence of the assault was entered into. Gower, the policeman, stated that, on the 4th of last Novem- ber, at half-past nine, lie was sent for to the King and Queen, where he found the prisoner creating a riot; he then took him into custody; ...