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THE NEWSPAPER. 



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mother una brother-in-law. — In the county of &ligo, too, 

 there has been an all bat successful attempt at assassina- 

 tion — the intended victim bearing the same nameasthe un- 

 happy man who was so mysteriously murdered in the 

 preceding week. This attempt was made on the 7th inst., 

 about 7 o'clock, as Mr. T. M'Kerin, of Grangemore, was 

 returning home from Sligo, on horseback. Two shots 

 were fired at him on the mail-coach road, about midway 

 between Ballysodare and the chapel of Currowna ; the 

 first ball hit him on the right *ide of the head at the back 

 of hi3 ear, knocked off his hat and cut the skin to the 

 bone ; the second ball marked him on the right eyebrow. 

 Mo clue as yet has been discovered as to the perpetrators 

 of this dariug attack. 



SCOTLAND. 



Edinburgh. — The Scotch papers contain the reports 

 of numerous meetings on the subject of the banking 

 system in this country. A general meeting of the county 

 of Lanark was held in the County-hall, Hamilton, on 

 Friday. The meeting was called by Lord Belhaven, in 

 conssquence of a requisition, signed by about 2000 

 gentlemen. The resolutions passed were strongly 

 opposed to the interference of Government, and every 

 parish in the county will be called upon to sign the 

 petition to Parliament in favour of the existing system. 

 The town council of Dumfries have also adopted reso- 

 lutions, strongly deprecating any interference with the 

 present currency and banking system. — The papers state 

 that the ancient and royal palace of Linlithgow has lately 

 undergone extensive repairs at the expense of Govern- 

 ment. This venerable building forms one of the noblest 

 pile3 of ancient architecture in Scotland, and with the 

 neighbouring loch, forms altogether an object of much 

 beauty and interest. Some encroachments having been 

 made on the boundaries of the loch by some of the small 

 proprietors whose lands come down to the water's edge, 

 an out it from Her Majesty's Works has inspected the 

 locality, and fully confirmed the ancient right of the 

 public to free access round the loch. 



Perth On Friday week some bills becoming due at 



several of the Perth banking houses, and none of the 

 parties concerned having appeared, it was discovered, on 

 inquiry, that forgeries to a considerable amount had been 

 committed. The steps usual under similar circumstances 

 having been taken, it was ascertained that the guilty 



judgment, it he acted as he thought best under the circum- 

 stances, however unfortunate his judgment might be, he was 

 not to be made to suffer for his error. It was very easy for 

 persons to say, after a disastrous occurrence had taken place, 

 that another course would have been better, but it was often- 

 times very hard to judge of a man by particular circumstances 

 — by events which happened afterwards. Persons too often 

 said, " But he should have acted so and so ; " but let such per- 

 sons place themselves in a case of sudden difficulty, and then 

 say whether he was fairly answerable for the consequences 

 which followed. Now the particular facts of this case were 

 very plain and clear indeed. It seemed that Mr. Lightfoot 

 was the station-master at Nottingham, and that he had volun- 

 tarily put himself in a situation in which he had no right to be 

 —that was, he went by a " down-train," the " up-train ''being 

 blocked u;» by the overturn of a tender. Hi* object in thus 

 going appeared to be to direct the engine driver to drive 

 slowly and properly. He (Mr. Justice Patteson) thought 

 Mr. Lightfoot wrong, and that he committed an error in 

 leaving the Nottingham station at all, but for that he was 

 not to be indicted for manslaughter. It was clear that when 

 he went all was sa f e ; there was no mischief as to that 

 train, and it was plain and clear Mr. Lightfoot had taken 

 up the not ; .on when he went up the line that the tender 

 would be shortly removed, the line speedily cleared, and the 

 next up-train from Nottingham proceed upon its proper- 

 line. That was the opinion which he appeared to strongly 

 entertain, and upon which he most unquestionably acted. 

 Then they found Mr. Lightfoot proceeding back to Nottingham 

 on his proper line in the front of the engine, himself in the 

 most hazardous and dangerous position about the engine. He 

 was apparently confident that when the train came up from 

 Nottingham it would be upon its proper line. It turned out, 

 however, unfortunately otherwise. A collision unhappily took 

 place, and Mr. Lightfoot was committed upon a charge of man- 

 slaughter. That being so, another death ensued, and Mr. 

 Raven, tho station-master at Beeston,was next committed by 

 another coroner's jury for the same offence, but for what reason 

 he (Mr. Justice Patteson) could not divine. He supposed it was 

 for not stopping the train when at Beeston. It did appear to 

 him (Mr. Justice Patteson), that the charge of manslaughter 

 against Raven was perfectly preposterous. In the consideration 

 ot this case no one seemed to him to have sufficiently considered* 

 the rate at which the up train was coming from Nottingham, 

 and the circumstance that no person, in obedience to the 

 company's code of regulations, had preceded it to see that 

 ie line was clear. It was in evidence before the coroner, that 

 the up train was going upon its wrong line at the rate of be- 

 tween 20 and 30 miles an hour, while that upon which Mr. Light- 

 foot was travelling was going slowly. Then, again, as he had 

 before iutimatcd, no one, In obedience to the company's laws, 

 had preceded the train. They were told, that a man was al- 

 ways understood to precede a train 800 yards, when danger 

 was apprehended ; but, on this occasion, no person preceded 

 it. Much had been said about the company not having 

 sufficient force for the proper and careful management of their 

 business at the Nottingham station. If that were the case, 

 then, most certainly, such a fact was decidedly in favour of the 

 accused— blame rested upon a higher party. He (Mr. Justice 

 Patteson) did not see that that charge was made out against 



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party had absconded. This was no less a personage than 



the minister of a neighbouring parish, whose name is not the company, but if it were it could not be used as an argument 



mentioned, but who had a stipend of 400/. a year. ' """* ~ ' ' "*" 



CENTRAL CRIMrMAL Court. — The Bank Forgery. — William 

 Burgess was placed at the bar on Thursday morning on an indict- 

 ment for feloniously uttering a forged warrant of attorney for the 

 transfer of 6305/. 3s. 5rf. Rank Stock, at ling in the name of 

 "William Uxenford, with intent to defraud him of the same, la 

 other counts the intent was laid to be to defraud the Governor 

 and Company of the Bank of England, and also to defraud certain 

 directors of the Pelican Insurance Company. Mr. S. Wortley, 

 Q. with whom were Mr. Ado'.phus and Mr. Clarkson), stated 

 the facts of the case on behalf of the prosecution, but the details of 

 the circumstances out of which the case arose have been already 

 »o fully related in the accounts we have published from time to 

 time, that a repetition of them would involve a consumption of 

 space that is wholly unnecessary. The facts were fully proved hy 

 the evidence of the numerous witnesses, and the Jury after 

 10 minutes' deliberation returned a verdict of Guilty of uttering 

 knowing to be forged. The prisoner, who heard the verdict with- 

 out any manifestation of feeling, was immediately called up for 

 judgment, and Mr. Baron Rolfe, in passing sentence, said, the 

 evidence in the case had brought home to the prisoner the 

 serious offence with which he stood charged with a degree of 

 clearness which scarcely ever could be attained in a criminal 

 court of justice. It was clear that the prisoner, taking advantage 

 of the information which the confidential situation he rilled en- 

 abled him to acquire, had concurred with the unfortunate man 

 Elder, now no more, to effect this very extensive fraud, with the 

 certain consequence of entailing upon some person or other a 

 great pecuniary loss. A very few years ago, namely in 1S30, the 

 very act of Parliament under which the indictment on which the 

 prisoner now stood convicted was framed, made the offence a 

 capital ny, and he need hardly say, that if that provision still 

 remained on the statute-book, the extreme penalty of the law 

 would have been inflicted. Since that period an act had been 

 passed hy the Legislature, in its anxiety as far as possible to 

 abolish capital punishments, by which capital punishment was 

 removed from the crime of which the prisoner had been found 

 guilty. The policy of the experiment made by the I. slature he 

 would be the last man to question, though among some persons 

 doubts existed on the subject. He believed the alteration to be 

 salutary, but to keep it so, and to give it a fair trial, in grave cases 

 of this kind, the law ought to be carried into effect to the utmost 

 extent now warranted, and he for one would never render the 

 policy of Parliament doubtful by a deviation from that course. 

 The sentence therefore on the prisoner was, that he be transported 

 beyond the seas, to such place as Her Majesty, by the advice of 

 her Privy Council, might direct and appoint, for the term of his 

 natural life. 



Assize Ixtklligbnck.— Midland Circuit, Nottingham.— 

 The late Railway Accident.— The commissions of assize for the 

 borough ana county of Nottingham were opened before Mr. 

 Justice Patteson on Saturday. The chief cases of interest for 

 trial were of course those of Robert Lightfoot and Jonathan 

 Raven, charged with manslaughter on the occasion of the late 

 fatal accident on the Midland Counties Railway. In charging the 

 gjrandjury, Mr. Justice Patteson said that the inquiry before 

 them was, whether a particular person had been guilty of a 

 particular crime, whereas the inquiry before the coroner was 

 how the body, then lying before him, came to its death. That 

 being so, they would not ve brought before them the whole 

 of the evidence taken before tht coroner. Now, the law upon 

 the subject was perfectly clear, but the difficulty was how to 

 apply the law to the facts. It was perfectly clear that no 

 man could he indicted for manslaughter for a mere mistake 

 or error in judgment. If he acted to the best of his judg- 

 ment or ability, in the discharge of his duty, he was not 

 criminally responsible or liable for a mere mistake ; but if, on 

 the contrary, a person placed in a situation of great responsi- 

 bility, duty, and trust, conducted himself with gross negli- 

 gence and inattention, then in case of death he was unques- 

 tionably guilty of the crime of manslaughter. Therefore it was 

 always difficult to apply facts in such a case as the present. 

 The law was the same, whether applied to a man driving a 

 waggon or carriage on the highway, managing a vessel on the 

 seas, or conductirg an engine on a railway ; if he did not dis- 

 play due care and caution he was liable to the charge of man- 

 slaughter. But if a person so employed got into a difficulty, 

 and, however untoward the result, if he acted to the best of his 



against, but rather in favour of the prisoners. They would 

 have all the evidence before them, and say whether they 

 thought such a case was made out as would justify them 

 in placing either one or both of the accused upon their trial for 

 the crime of manslaughter j whether they had been guilty of 

 gross and palpable negligence, or merely committed an error 

 of judgment.— At the conclusion of the charge, the learned 

 Judge proceeded to the County-hall, and opened the commis- 

 sion of assize for the county. During the afternoon specula- 

 tion was afloat as to the probability or improbability of the 

 borough grand jury finding bills against Mr. Lightfoot and Mr. 

 Raven. The judge, having concluded the trial of prisoners at 

 4 o'clock, returned to his lodgings ; but at half-past 7 the clerk 

 of the arraigns was summoned to the court to hear the decision 

 of the grand jury. The foreman announced that they found 

 no true bills against Robert Lightfoot and Jonathan Raven for 

 manslaughter. The result was generally expected. On Mon- 

 day another bill was to have been preferred against Mr. Light- 

 foot for the manslaughter of Mr. Dean, but as no evidence had 

 been offered in the former case after the charge of the judge 

 to the grand jury, counsel for the prosecution decided on not 

 preferring any bill.— Mr. Justice Patteson said : " Mr. Lightfoot, 

 the recognizances may be discharged, so there is an end 

 to this prosecution. I am very glad this inquiry has taken 

 place. I am quite sure what the learned counsel for the 

 prosecution has stated is correct, and judging from the circum- 

 stances that have actually occurred, looking at everything that 

 has taken place, it is impossible to say there was anything 

 greater than an error in judgment; certainly there is no ground 

 for saying there was that culpable and gross negligence which 

 would authorise a conviction for manslaughter; I thought so 

 when I read the depositions in the first instance, and I think so 

 still. I am quite clear that is the law, and the facts warrant us 

 in coming to that conclusion. I am quite sure the termination 

 of this prosecution is that which law and justice fully require. 

 I cannot pretend to say there was not an error of judgment on 

 your part, but it is clear everything that was done by you was 

 done to prevent the mischief taking place which did occur, 

 owing probably to a misunderstanding between you and 

 another person. It seems to me that every person on a railway, 

 and in almost every other situation in life, would do well not to 

 step out of the strict lice of their duties ; if you had not done 

 so, this accident might not have occurred. As I understand, it 

 was no part of your duty to have left the Nottingham station 

 at all. That was an error in the first instancs ; and the second 

 error, if there was any, seems to be this, that although feeling 

 persuaded, and as far as I can judge with very good reason, 

 that the train coming from Nottingham would come on its 

 proper line, and that that line would be free, still you did not 

 wait to make it quite certain at the Beeston station ; it would 

 have been better to have waited, as it appears the train coming 

 from Nottingham, whichever line it came on, was overdue at 

 Beeston station ; therefore it would have been better had you 

 waited a few minutes j but to say, because a man certainly 

 erred in judgment in a situation of great difficulty, he is guilty 

 of manslaughter when death occurs, is not correct. I am very 

 glad to hear the account of your good conduct in general that 

 the learned counsel gave of you. I have no doubt it was 

 through an error in judgment this unfortunate mischief took 

 ice. You left the station with the best of all possible inten- 

 tions; certainly there was no wish on your part to do any harm; 

 on the contrary, your intention was to do as much good as pos- 

 sible; unfortunately, however, the event turned out otherwise." 

 Mr. Lightfc was then discharged, and instantly left the court. 

 — Derby.- William Thomas Gallimore, a surgeon, who had 

 been out on bail, surrendered and was placed at the bar, 

 charged, upon the coroner's inquisition, with the manslaughter 

 of Ann Warwick, during her confinement, at Hollymoorside, 

 near Chesterfield, on the 9th September last. The jury found 

 the prisoner Guilty. Mr. Justice Patteson said it was his duty 

 to pass such a sentence upon the prisoner as the justice and 

 law of the case required. ' The prisoner had conducted himself 

 as a midwife in a manner which evinced either the grossest 

 ignorance or inattention. Mow it happened the Court was 

 left in great doubt. The offence of manslaughter, when it 

 approached nearly to murder, subjected the party offending to 

 very severe punishment. Counsel for the prosecution here 

 said, that he was instructed to recommend the prisoner to the 

 merciful consideration of the Court. Mr. Justice Patteson was 

 glad to listen to that recommendation. He could not but think 

 * that there was something which led to this fatal occurrence 



that had not come to light. Under all the circumstances~~he 

 did not feel that he was bound to inflict so severe a punishment 

 as he might have done had it bsen proved that there was a 

 criminal intention on the part of the prisoner. The sentence 

 of the Court was, that he be imprisoned for six months. 

 Norfolk Circuit, Bury St. Edmunds. — Mary Shemin? 

 1 51, was charged with the wilful murder of John Sheminir 

 ale infant child, her daughter's natural son. The prisoner 

 was the wife of a labouring man, living at Martlesham in the 

 county of Suffolk. On the 3d July, Caroline Sheming, daughter 

 of the prisoner, came home to her father's house with a male 

 illegitimate child, then five weeks old; and in the evening of 

 the 30th, the infant was taken very ill and shortly afterwards 

 died. The most remarkable fact of the prisoner's conduct was 

 her going, on the 19th of July, to the registrar of the district 

 and registering the death of her daughter's infant, whereas at 

 that time it was quite well, and did not die until the end of the 

 month. It was also proved that about a fortnight before the 

 child died the prisoner bought some arsenic. Another im- 

 portant fact was, that the Sunday before the death of the child 

 (it was then quite well), the prisoner told the village carpenter 

 " that she should soon want a coffin for Caroline's baby, as it 

 was very bad." A witness had frequently heard the prisoner 

 when in great distress, complain of the expense of keeping her 

 daughter's children, as they pressed heavily upon her; and on 

 one occasion she heard the prisoner say, " If I do not soon 

 receive some relief we must all go to the union work use " 

 The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and Mr. Justice Williams 

 passed upon her sentence of death. — William Howell was 

 charged with feloniously and maliciously murdering J 

 M'Kadden, police-constable, by shooting at him with a gi 

 Gislcham, on the 29th July, and Walter Howell and Israel 

 Shipley were charged with aiding and abetting William Howell 

 in the commission of the felony. The trial lasted from the 

 13th to the 16th inst., when the jury returned a verdict of 

 Guilty, and the three prisoners were sentenced to death. 



Oxford Circuit — Stafford.— Paul Downing, age 1 19, and 

 Charles Powys, aged 17, were charged with the wilful rourder 

 of Mr. William Cooper, at Audley, in the month of August last. 

 The deceased was Sir Thomas Boughey's head gamekeeper. 

 Downing, it appeared, was a man of notoriously-bad character, 

 and had repeatedly been in gaol, sometimes upon charges of 

 poaching, on one or two of which Cooper (the deceased), had 

 appeared as a witness against him. He was proved on more 

 than one occasion to have threatened, in terms devoid of much 

 ambiguity, to wreak his vengeance upon Cooper as soon as he 

 was liberated. The trial lasted two days; and the evidence 

 developed a train of circumstances which scarcely admit of 

 being arranged in the form of a narrative, but disclosing a cold- 

 blooded and deliberate spirit of revenge on the part of the 

 prisoners. After a long and patient investigation the Jury re- 

 turned • a verdict of Guilty, and Mr. Justice Coltman imme- 

 diately passed sentence of death. The prisoner Downing, who 

 throughout the trial had conducted himself in an insolent man- 

 ner, laughing at intervals during the proceedings, here made a 

 loud protestation of his innocence, and on being conveyed from 

 the dock, catching a glimpse of some of the witnesses, looked 

 at them in a menacing manner, and shaking his fist, poured 

 forth a volley of threats and execrations against them. The 

 district from which the prisoners come is described as occupied 

 by the most desperate and lawless set, and has been the scene 

 of more than one fearful tragedy of late. It is therefore to be 

 hoped that the fate of these criminals may operate as a warning 

 to others in the district which was the scene of their crime. 



BIRTHS.— 16th inst., at Meppershall Rectory, Beds., the 

 lady of the Rev. H. Howarth, of a son, still-born— 11 th inst., 

 the lady of Capt. G. Denny, 32, Cambridge-terrace, of a son 

 —12th inst., in Upper Gloucester-place, the lady of Captain 

 Thornton, R.N., of a daughter. 



MARRIAGES.— Recently, at Shropham, in the county of 

 Norfolk, the Rev. F. Rionold. second son of S. Bignold, Esq., 

 of Surrey-street, Norwich, to Jane M. Hkmswortii. youngest 

 daughter of Henry D. Hemsworth, Esq., of Shropham-hall— 12th 

 inst., at Aldbrough, C. S. Stubbs, second son of J. stu J DB » 

 Esq., of Mecklenburgh-square, London, to Jane Hirst, eldest 

 daughter of W. Hirst, Esq., of Boroughbridge. 



DEATHS.— On the 12th inst., at his residence, near Rich- 

 mond, the Hon. H. Legqe, brother of the Earl of Dartmouth, 

 aged 57— On Thursday last, at Lipson, near Plymouth, Rear- 

 Adm. E. Boger, aged 69— 14th inst., at his house, in Reading, 

 Capt. T. Gilbert, Royal Marines, H.P., father of the Bishop 

 of Chichester, aged 86— 16th inst., at Hampton Court Palace, 

 Lady A. C. Smith, daughter of Garrett, Earl of Mornirigton, 

 sister of the late Marquis Wellesley, of the present n,arl 01 

 Mornington.the Duke of Wellington, Lord Cowley, and of me 

 Hon. and Rev. Dr. Wellesley— At St. Gluvias. at an advancea 

 age, the Archdeacon Sheepshanks, Archdea con^o^Cornwaiu 



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