... parties the grand jury threw out the bill, and the other three were put upon their trial at the winter gaol delivery at Christmas for wilful murder. The prisoners were fouud guilty of the lesser offence—that of manslaughter—and received the sentence of ...

... malapropos in the time which his lordship has selected for his tardy confession. It is much the same as what happened at Christmas. On that occasion, after keeping to himself, or at least from the world, for three-quarters of a year, his objections to ...

... °btained from a person of the name of kno\v t H' w bo, on being examined, said—l have last 10 P ' s oner for some time. About Christmas the B°ing from Retford to Babworth Moor, in Bl L,, f , WeSt Retford ' we saw a man breaking °U t ' did not know him. Prisoner ...

... their policy to the Unity company, which they agreed do. In January, 1855, he took out a policy for £2,800. From Christmas, 1844, Christmas, 1855, the insurance was £2000 upon the stock-in-trade; .£7OO upon the machinery; £50 upon the steam engine; and ...

... we do not admit the difficulty at all, or believe there to be any enigma. We never regarded Mr. Roebuck's 'motion before Christmas as question of confidence till ministers, unwisely as we think, chose to make it such. When the Aberdeen administration ...

... supplied by the plaintiffs some one had ordered them in the name of the defendant; but he disputed the items charged after Christmas, 1851, and for this reason : Messrs. Guest and Chrimes made out their accounts half-yearly; and yet neither in June nor Decern ...

... attended with inconvenience to the public, tlie said act repealed, and the hours for publichouses to be open are now Sunday, Christmas, day, Good Friday, or any fast or thanksgiving day, from one three and from five eleven. The houses are not to be opened ...

... They are remunerative, and high enough; if they are disturbed, you must not be surprised if the demand is checked before Christmas. ...

... being incapacitated by family ties to receive it. Jennings' answer to the charge was that he had been out of work since Christmas, and that he was tired of idleness. The bench ordered the case to stand over till Friday to see whether the Horse Guards ...

... has not appeared a low or desponding way. knew that she was engaged to a gentleman, but the match was broken off' about Christmas. That circumstance affected her at the time ; but she got over it and has told me since that she thought more about it. The ...

... live happily and affectionately together until • the close of last year, he being a very industrious man. A little before Christmas, he got into misfortune through losses in business, and was put into Lancaster ' castle for debt by his father-in-law, a ...

... respecting the duration of the sessions of parliament He recommends that they begin in the middle of November, confining the Christmas recess between December 15th and January 15th, thus gaining two months over the present system, by opening the session at ...