approbation of the connection, a shyness on the part of the young woman took place, which probably led to the catastrophe detailed in the following evidence :

Ann Ockleton, a young woman of about 20 years of age, was the first witness called; but she was so extremely agitated, as to be unable to give her evidence. The judge recommended that another witness should be placed in the bar until she was more composed; but as it would occur first in the natural order of the trial, we shall give it that place in our report.

Ann Ockleton stated, that she first became acquainted with the prisoner n December, 1809, when she lived with Mr Brown, with whom she was his fellow servant. During the time in which she lived with Mr Brown, which was until April following, the prisoner paid his addresses to her, or, as she expressed it, kept her company. After quitting the service of Mr Brown, she lived at a public-house at Sproatley, where her sweetheart occasionally visited her; on leaving Sproatley, she went to live with her father at Aldbrough, where she was visited by the prisoner once or twice, at which her father expressed some dissatisfaction: she also stated, that she had left the service of Mr Brown on account of her intimacy with the prisoner. On the evening of the 4th of September llast, she went with her aunt, Jane Ockleton, to milk in a field about half a mile from Aldbrough. On their way thither they were met by the prisoner, who said to her, “How do you do, Nancy?" She answered, "Very well, thank you." The prisoner then stopt, and she said, "If you mean to go with us, I will return home." The prisoner replied, "No; I do not want to go with you;" and then turned, and walked towards the town, and the witness and her aunt went forward: they were employed about a quarter of an hour

in milking. On their return home, at a short distance from the close, they met the prisoner, who spoke to her aunt, and desired her to leave her with him, as he wished to have some talk with her, which her aunt declined; when the prisoner swore, and said he did not care for her, and, turning himself round, stood before them, and said, "Stop!" and drew a knife from his pocket and opened it; on which witness and her aunt set up a loud cry, and the witness let fall the milk-pail. She then ran back two or three yards, and was followed by the prisoner, who caught her in his arms, and threw her on the ground, he falling with her; he then cut her throat with a knife, and, after being wounded in the neck, she wrested the knife from him, and threw it over the hedge, and, while he was seeking the knife, supposing she had dropt it near the spot, she extri cated herself from him, and run away, the prisoner pursuing her, and almost immediately she met Isaac Ellard, who took her under his protection.

Jane Ockleton gave a similar account of all the transactions which preceded her niece being thrown down by the prisoner, and added, that she, the witness, called to him, and said, "You villain, do you mean to take her life?" He replied, "Yes, damn her; I will murder her, and then I will murder you, and then there will be nobody to tell." Witness immediately ran to the town for assistance. In about a quarter of an hour she saw her niece again; her neck was cut, and she bled profusely; her fingers were also much cut.

Isaac Ellard said, on the 4th of September he met Ann Ockleton in the lane, and James Whitehead pursuing her; she exclaimed, "Save my life!" and witness shouted out, " My friend, what have you been doing?" To which the prisoner replied, "I do not mean to hurt you, or any man or woman on

the earth, but Ann Ockleton; and I mean to have her life, if it be possible. Give me your hand, for I shall be hanged for her; and so I will go to the gallows and be hanged like a dog.' Witness said, “No, my friend, I hope you have done nothing yet that will hang you." Prisoner said, “Yes, I have cut her throat; and if I had not lost the knife, I should have killed her upon the spot, and she would now have been a dead woman." During this conversation, himself, the prisoner, and Ann Ockleton, were walking towards Aldbrough. The prisoner wished to shake hands with her, which she refused. The witness did not observe any appearance which indicated derangement of mind.

Mr John Mann, surgeon, described the wound, which he was called in to examine, as an incision in the neck, about three and a half inches in length, and a quarter of an inch in depth, a little before the tracher; he also said, that several of her fingers were much

cut.

On the part of the prisoner, Mr Robert Stubbing, the partner of Mr Brown before referred to, stated, that during the time the prisoner lived with them, which was about nine months, he conducted himself with propriety, and seemed to be of a humane disposition and good temper.

The learned judge, after recapitula ting the evidence, said it was possible the prisoner was much attached to the young woman, whom he suspected of a coldness towards him; and that, under the influence of these feelings, he had worked himself into a violent phrenzy of passion. But his lordship observed, that the violence of passion would not justify or extenuate an act that deliberately aimed at the life of a fellow creature; if it did, a door would be opened to all the excesses and crimes which persons under the impulse of

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passion might be induced to commit; and no evidence had been given to induce the jury to think that the prisoner was not in a sane state of mind at the time this act was perpetrated. The jury, without leaving the box, found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to mercy on account of his good character. The prisoner, on leaving the bar, said, “ May God be the comfort of my prosecutrix."

It is hoped that the following accident, which occurred in the garrison of Plymouth Dock, on Saturday, will operate as a warning for recruits generally. Some men, who were all of that description, had fired nine rounds. One of them, finding his piece did not go off, pursued a practice which is too common, of loading afresh, and had actually put nine cartridges into his piece, which, bursting, tore off his right arm, killed the right-hand man next him, by driving a part of the excluded musket three inches long into his head; blew off the hand of a third, and most dreadfully shattered the arm of a fourth. It is said, that on an examination of all the muskets, another was found with eight cartridges in it. The practice of polishing muskets with ramrods is also extremely injurious, as a great number of pieces in the army are thereby reduced to a thin shell.

Some disturbances have taken place in the neighbourhood of Nottingham. The letters from that place state, that on Tuesday last the workmen, to the number of one thousand, assembled in the market-place, and from thence proceeded in a body to Arnold, a distance of about five miles, where their numbers were increased to between two and three thousand. Thus augmented in strength, they shortly evinced a determination to adopt measures of vio lence, and parties proceeded to enter the houses and destroy the frames of several of the manufacturers. The

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cause assigned for these outrages was the distress suffered by themselves and families, in consequence of the stoppage of work. With any further particulars we are at present unacquaint ed; but we have to express our sincere hopes, that these mistaken men must have been made sensible, that, by the destruction of the property of others, they not only could not alleviate their own misery, but that, on the contrary, they must materially increase it.

On Sunday evening last, the Royal Powder Mills at Ospringe, near Faversham, blew up. No lives were lost. The remains of the late Queen of France, consort of Lewis XVIII., were removed from Westminster Abbey on Tuesday, and put on board a vessel in the river, to be conveyed to Sardinia for interment.

Thursday morning, in a house near the barracks, Glasgow, a servant girl put up a folding bed, in which a fine child of about 17 months old was sleeping, without knowing the circumstance; and although the accident was soon afterwards discovered, yet the child was smothered.

The Elizabeth, cartel, arrived on Monday at Dover, from off Calais, whither she proceeded from Chatham, with 18 French prisoners of war, in lieu of those sent from Dunkirk belonging to the Elizabeth East Indiaman, but was not permitted to approach the harbour, as the batteries fired at her, and an 18-pound shot struck, and went quite through the cartel, providentially without doing any harm.

Eleven men, convicted of a tumultuous assembly at Notsdown, near Cashel, were on Saturday last brought out to suffer the first of their whip pings, when nine of them supplicated to commute their punishment for enlistment for general (sea or land) service; and, in conformity with a previous communication made to the ma

gistrates from government, the offer was acceded to. The other two received their whipping.

Last week two prisoners, who had been confined in the county gaol of Cork, effected their escape from that prison under the most hazardous cir. cumstances. They succeeded by some means in getting to the top of the outer wall, which is 30 feet high, when they made an effort to jump into a tree in Mr Walker's demesne, at the west end of the prison, in which one of them succeeded, but the other was unable to effect his object, and had his back broken from the violence of the shock. The other prisoner, who escaped without any injury, very humanely took the disabled man on his back, until he lodged him in a cabin at a village at some distance, where he was discovered the next morning and brought back to the prison, but in such a dangerous state that he is not expected to recover; the other effected his escape, and has not since been apprehended. The unfortunate man who has been injured was confined on a charge of the other, who has escaped, was charged. with stealing gunpowder from the manufactory of Ballincollig.

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11th.-LORD Somerville's CAT TLE SHOW.-On Monday, a very large concourse of agriculturists assembled in Mr Sadler's Yard, in Goswell-street, to examine the many fine animals which were exhibited for his lordship's prize cups, and implements of agriculture, &c.

Lord Somerville exhibited a pair of seven year old Devon oxen, which had

been shewn last March in a barren state from the plough, and weighed at that time, their weights being 150st. 7lb. and 150st., after having worked 101 days each; since which they have been grazed on his lordship's farm, near Cobham, and since travelled twenty miles to the show. They were on Monday weighed again, and their

weights found to be 204st. 6lb. and 209st. 1lb.

The Duke of Bedford shewed a pair of seven year old Hereford oxen, bred, and worked 120 days, and fed by him, travelled 42 miles.

The Duke of Bedford, five MerinoDowns, eleven months old.

The Earl of Bridgewater, five SouthDowns, twelve months old.

Sir John Seabright, a Merino ram, which was particularly admired for his shape and make, as well as wool.

Mr Elliston shewed an Essex and China sow, with her four pigs, herself nineteen months old.

Lord Somerville, a Suffolk and China pig, three months old.

A great number of other animals were shewn, and several implements, &c.

The judges appointed by Lord So merville for awarding the premiums were, J. Fane, Esq. M. P.; Mr R. Budden, Mr John Tyler, and Mr Johnson, graziers; and Mr James Bond, butcher.

The Dinner.-On Tuesday, Mr Sadler's Yard was most numerously attended by noblemen, gentlemen, and agriculturists, from all parts of the kingdom.

About five, near 400 persons sat down to an excellent dinner, given by Lord Somerville, in Freemasons-hall. His lordship was in the chair, supported by the Duke of Bedford, and a numerous body of noblemen and gentlemen. As soon as the cloth was withdrawn, his lordship gave-"The King."--"The Prince Regent," which was received with much applause." The Plough worked by good Oxen."-" Associates present and Friends absent."

His lordship then rose and said, that having among them a man who had done more to benefit his country in the article of fine wool than any other, he

could not do less than give the health of "Dr Parry," which was received with applause; and the doctor, in a neat and short speech, returned thanks.

"The Navy and Army."-" The Fleece covering a good frame, with sufficiency of fat." "The Land of Cakes, and Sir John Sinclair."

His lordship then rose to open and read the adjudications, which were as follow :

1st. The cup for breeding sows of any age, to Mr Goodwin, for an Essex and Suffolk sow. His lordship, on delivering this cup to Mr G. said, that he never saw a more beautiful animal than he had produced.

2d. A cup, value 151., to Lord Somerville, for his five Merino ewe hogs, which his lordship said, as it was never his practice to take any cups away, he should give up to Mr Ellis, whose sheep the judges reported to be second best in this class; and he did it with the more pleasure, as Mr Ellis's sheep had been fed on grass only, without the benefit of turnips.

3d. A cup, value 151., for five Merino weathers, to Lord Somerville, which being in a class in which there was no competition, his lordship observed, that he was inclined to attri bute this award to that circumstance alone, and certainly should otherwise dispose of the cup.

4th. A cup, value 151., for shortwoolled ewe-hogs, to Mr Saxby.

5th. A cup, value 15l., for shortwoolled sheep, to Mr Stears.

6th. Two cups, value 301., for the best pair of oxen, worked three years at the least, to Mr Warren, of Devonshire. His lordship, in delivering this cup, complimented Mr W. for his zeal, and as being entitled to both cups, as the worker and grazier.

7th. Two cups, value 201., for the second best pair of oxen, as above, to Lord Somerville; one of which his

lordship presented to Mr King, as the grazier of the second best pair, which were complimented by the judges. The judges also noticed the general excellence of all the South-Down ewehogs.

After proposing the health of Earl Bridgewater, his lordship proceeded to give one of the cups remaining on his hands to Mr Wyatt. His lordship then stated, that he was bound to mention that his noble friend the Duke of Bedford, before sending his stock to this show, had declared his determination of not accepting any more prizes at his show, with a view to encourage the competition of others; and he should take this opportunity of proposing his grace's health.

"The Duke of Bedford" was drunk with much applause. His grace, in returning thanks to the company, said, that he was sufficiently gratified by the notice of the company and the judges to the stock sent from his farm, and should wish the premiums in future to be directed to stimulate the exertions of others, among whom hẹ would, however, still continue to send cattle.

Lord Danby then proposed-" Success to the Woburn Sheep-shearing." The next toast was " Mr Western,"

in giving which, his lordship lamented that this very zealous friend of agricultural improvement is confined at Bath by illness.

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF GRAFTON. His grace departed this life on Thursday night, at Euston-hall, Suffolk, where he had been long in a declining state, He was in the 75th year

of his age.

The death of the Duke of Grafton will occasion two contested elections in the University of Cambridge; one for the high office of Chancellor; the other for the vacancy in the representation, occasioned by Lord Euston's succeeding to his father's title. His

Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester, and the Duke of Rutland, have already declared themselves candidates for the Chancellorship. The contest is expected to be severe. Each party will be left to his individual influence and merits, as ministers decline taking any side, out of gratitude for the sup port which they receive from one of the candidates, and from the respect which is due to the pretensions of a branch of the royal family. The vacancy in the representation will be as warmly contested. Lord Palmerston has already commenced a very active

canvass.

He will be opposed by Mr Smyth, grandson of the late Duke of Grafton, who once filled the office of under secretary of state to Lord Liverpool.

13th.-TRIM ASSIZES.-TRIAL OF ROGER O'CONNOR.-This day Roger O'Connor, and Roderick O'Connor, Esqrs., and Peter Hayes, were given in charge for assaulting Henry Ogle.

Mr Jebb stated the case, and called the prosecutor, who proved that he had been violently assaulted and beaten by the two O'Connors, father and son, on two distinct days, at Dangan tle, the residence of the elder O'Con

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The witness had gone to the house of the latter to demand a receipt in full for half a year's rent, for which Roger O'Connor, his landlord, had seized and sold Ogle's chattels.

Cross-examined by Mr O'Connor. Q. Do you know two men of the names of Martin M'Keon and James Crosbie? A. I do.

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Q. Look on the bench at my Norbury, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas ; is he a sworn friend of yours? A. I never spoke to the gentleman in my life.

Q. Is he a sworn enemy of mine?

A. I do not know.

Q. Did you ever say, if my rent was to be decided before Lord Norbury and a Trim jury, they would make right