March 18.] 
THE FIELD. 
; — 77^7 Qiens of Antrim— were seen gathering on the 
Br8,d Tmrl.ts on cither side of tho line. A quarrel took 
T b8 n k n the lino immediately below, which was the signal 
,,] llC e on t M Wfr0 hurled i n nil directions, and a 
police Intelligence. 
GUILDHALL. 
A Cam Cask . — Hubert Cheshire , tlio driver of his [own cab, 
inhabitants, "ho were raised to such a pitch of I perform the journey, but got into tlio cab and 600 n foil asleep. 
•Unt they fenred to harbour them. Some took refuge n e ^ b(j QW J okc ho saw the driver loading the horse nt a walking 
lewoll a'" 1 man y of tl,em most * u,rt " ere , ken 10 , pace, but not being in a hurry he went to sleep agnin, from which 
" n ., i ’ Sotno furious engagements took place in tlie | | l0 n^nin woko lo lincl the driver slill lending: tire lioree into I’im- 
botp 1 ; . the former combatants were found, but |j co jj e remon6 t ra ( e j with defendant, and told him ho was 
houses t) j. lbe magistracy and the police force who going a long way round, but tho defendant only said the horse 
with l ‘ ie . , j . f lom neighbouring stutions, there was no was tired and would soon he better ; upon which nssurnnro com- 
wer o d™ 11 disturbance. There were many applications plninnnt onco more gnvo himself up to slumhor, and the next 
further scrio wil |, vi(JW of having the military tiino he awoke it was only to find the horse at o stnnd-still, tmd 
mode to t he n1 8 ‘ • . rri 10 works on tlie railway a policeman delivering his opinion to the eflect thnt the nn'mnl 
hmuelit by rail from Belfust. J lie w i • wus “ baked ” or worn out. Complninnnt was theroforc obliged, 
wero^ as a matter of course, thrown up. and the appeaiajice ^ ^ ^ ^ n)0vning t0 pet oul in , lie middle of the 
of the line was that ol a complete wreck, tlie mi lcmci Kinp . 8 _ road> nnd to vvo i k llOIll0 0VC r Bnltcrsea-bridgc. lhc de- 
lving about broken, a scene of confusion and clesti uction. fendnnt Buid t h 0 horse had been o journey to Bmton and bock 
ti p town is still much excited, and it will tukc the strong lbnt eve niiig, and was therefore ver- * • *•-» * 
arm of the law to interfere most rigidly to preserve order | j ie co u ed on iho veterinary surgeon 
A I hod been suddenly 
i mo*.,. . HI which it died on tin 
i8 reported that* one VfTh’e parties in 'the hospital is dead, | these 
8rl rf nrotret tlie property and lives of the inhabitants. 
»umb« of the ringk-ato b.,. ban, put unjerum.^ 
ized with inflammation of tlie lungs, from 
which it died on tlio following day. Tho complainant said, under 
these circumstances lie would not press the charge, believing the 
defendant had already sutlcrcd sufficiently in tlio loss of his 
. k i i .. _ eoiil iic if wnq rwif n*nfPn lltnf 
aI | S 'Tl.rr Ihev hod anylhing to say why sentence of death and Unstamped Receipts.— Mr. Stephen Smith, an agent, or 
' . linn si ould not be pronounced against them. Not having re nt collector, residing at No. 20, Lambeth -square, appeared to 
e '' e< ; env rrnlv his lordship sentenced tlie prisoners to nnswer to nn information laid ngninst him by order of the clinir- 
™°,. e .® ' h _ ‘..Vi f orm . Tlie prisoners, who displayed not mnn nnd commissioners of Inhind Revenue, charging ' him with 
death in the usual to llien \emoved. The assizes were giving a receipt for the sum of £8 without affixing thereto the 
when tlio triul of 
lUUI M "'** * »' ' 
. persons charged with “ conspiracy to i , 
Mr Bateson will be proceeded with. There are five 
persons included in tlie indictment, and it is the only case 
remaining to be disposed of. 
, lie .lights emotion I tme penny, tvb.reby bo liutl reintored Limttlf 
then adjourned until lue.daj, -o n is., „ . . linhlo to a penalty of £10. Sir. Pliinn, counsel to tlie Donrd of 
the persons charged with conspiracy to mwder the e | ]n]nI1(] n C Tcmic, 'instructed by a gentleman from the office of Mr. 
Timm, attended on the part of tlie crown to support tlio inhuma- 
tion. Donjnmin Templing deposed lliat lie resided nt No. 3, 
Lnuibelh- square; Hint on tho 15lh oi December he owed lus 
landlady £7 lor n quarter’s rent, due in September, and having 
£0 on that day, ho took it to tlio house of Mr. Smith, the 
KENDALL THE JOCKEY IN CHANCERY. I defendant, who was agent to his landlady. He told Mr. Smith 
i, o.,n l.o l, nd owlv £R out of the £7 due, nnd handed lnm tue former 
Case Before Vice-Chancellor Wood, R ® m f 01 . which tlie defendant gave him the xnemornndum of 
and 3rd.— The question m this case arose out of 'the i Cheat « r J cknowledpment j, e then produced. Mr. Pliinn quoted tlie 
Cup Race of 1851, which, it will be m the recollection ol diflfereTlt c lnuaca of tlie net to show that tlie document produced 
our readers, was won by Hie mare ‘ Nancy. It appeared wQg , 0 n „ intentB nnd purposes such a receipt os, under the new 
,hat the mare was entered for the Cup in the name ol , required tho penny stamp. The witness, in continuation, 
Thomas Lister, Esq., Into of Beverley, Yoiksliire, who was goid , lint on the 22nd of January, that day being Sunday, his 
uni t owner in conjunction with others, but who at that hrotlier-in-lnw paid Mr. Smith the remaining 20s., making the 
lime was ostensibly the owner of the marc, and acting as £7, nnd for neither sum had he received any stamped receipt, 
such The owners and their friends having won consider- l n reply to a question from the defendant, the vvitncss positively 
able sums by thiT race, agreed among themselves to sub- | swore Hint ho had not seen a stamp rece.pt. „ In reply to the 
scribe a sum of money for tlie benefit ■ 
Kendall, who rode the mare on that 
to him on his attaining twenty-one, and Hint in uie mean- I d „Ve hlnnk, and to he filled' in when tlio money was paid. On 
time tho money should be paid over to a trustee for the lad. recciving t |, c g j x poundB lio made memoranda on the back of 
Several sums of money were accordingly subscribed, and, llije reeei p ti ns ],is worship could perceive, nnd also, foolishly lie 
amongst others, two sums of 100/. and 501. ; Mr. Lister WO uKl admit, but without the slightest intention to evade the act 
also nutting his name down for 50 1. more. The 160Z. so 01 . dc f r aud tho revenue, hod given Templing on acknowledgment 
subscribed wero paid to Mr. Lister, as a trustee, to be | which might amount to n receipt. Die day upon which tlio 
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shoulders of six gentlemen from the court in which but two 
or three niinu tes before his voice lmd been heard. AN c ourselves 
saw the late leader of tho Oxford Circuit and tlio beloved 
and respected Judge still wearing his scarlet robes, curried 
to the Judge's lodgings adjoining the court. Oil arriving 
there it was found that life was quite extinct. After a few 
minutes Mr. Justice AVightinan returned into tlie Civil Court, 
but was 60 much overcome that he could scarcely find utter- 
ance. At length lie said, he was grieved to have to com- 
muniento a most dreadful and distressing occurrence — 
that his brother Talfourd was no more ; while addressing 
the grand jury his lordship was taken ill, nnd according 
to the medical testimony, lie could not have survived five 
minutes. Under these painful circumstances, he felt it 
would bo quite impossible to go on with tho business of 
the court to-dny. He would therefore adjourn both courts 
until to-morrow. Ilis lordship added that, however pain- 
ful the occurrence was, the public business of the country 
must be attended to. lie would therefore sit to-morrow 
(this day), and proceed with the triul of prisoners ; 
but, with reference to the civil business, he thought 
it would be better that the parties should agree to change 
the venue in the actions to Gloucester ; but where that 
could not be done, he would willingly come back to 
Stafford to try them after tho assizes at Gloucester were 
over. Both the courts were then adjourned upon this un- 
derstanding ; but, at a subsequent period, notice was given 
that all the jurymen nnd witnesses were to he in attend- 
ance to-morrow (this day), nt the sitting of the court. 
Mr. Francis Talfourd, his lordship’s eldest son. who has 
just joined the Oxford Circuit, was precluded by etiquette 
from being in the Crown Court during the charge to the 
grand jury. lie was, however, immediately summoned, 
hut could not arrive before his father had ceased to breathe. 
Tlio members of the bar, on this circuit, could not 
fail to call to mind that his lordship’s elevation to the 
bench was communicated at Stafford in nn equally sudden 
manner during the assizes which took place in this town 
about four years since. It was nlso in this very court- 
house that he won the case which first brought him into 
notice. 
these moneys foimcd port of the balance standing to liis I ho had attnclied to the receipt lie bail 
credit in his banker’s hand. By Ills will, which was dated forw „ rded to Mrs. Templing. Inconclusion, the defendant oom- 
the 11th June 
Robert George Boullor 
previously, lie appointed tlie defendant, loined 0 f xvlint be colled tho base conduct of Templing, who, lie 
oulton, his executor. There was evidence enid, still kept possession of the house, though Mrs. Allen, the 
however, tl.otubout three days before the testator’s decease, I ,i, 0 commissioners, and if they saw cause to do so 
and when he was exceedingly ill and weak, a clerk lmd ( . Ul j„i, t 6l ,n mitigate tlie fine. Mr. fcrmilh euid ho should 
called Horn tho hank lor the purpose of obtaining some note cer ( ailll ^ do 8(l . 
or memorandum from Mr. Lister acknowledging that be held | 
PROVINCIAL. 
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE TALFOURD. 
STAvrnnn March 13 — This day the two Courts sat for 
clerk went away, me sumo ovei.... B *...0. ... . Stafford, iuiucn 10. . .... i lP . 
tho presence of a third party, mentioned Hie circum- the despatch ol business soon nftei ten o clock, but e 
stance to her husband, who replied, "No, let it remain fore half an hour had elapsed the most painful sensation 
where it is; I am loo weak to attend lo business, but was created by lhc sudden death of Mr. Justice lalloui , 
I wish tlie boy, meaning tlie plaintiff, to have every | while on the bench, nnd m the very act .of addressing tjic 
the 200/. in trust for tho plaintiff, or to have the money 
transferred to his brother, Mr. Henry Lister, in trust for tlie 
plaintiff; but the testator being asleep at tlie time, the 
clerk went away. The same evening Mrs. Lister, 
shilling that, belongs to him. I have received 150/., and I 
promised 50/. more, and I wish you to see lliat he gets the 
200/.," or words to that eflect. lie also added on Hie same 
occasion, 11 Tho money is all safe in tlie bank for him. 
grand jury. So sudden was his lordship’s death, thnt he 
was literally carried out a corpse. The cause of death w as 
nn attack of apoplexy, brought on, ns it appeared, by the 
excited feelings under which his lordship was addressing 
occasion, ” j ne money is mi ■■■ me .... saui.u . 1.,. 
Under these circumsi a nces, the executor was applied to for the grand jury, m reference to the ntiocious ci lines by 
payment, and on his declining to pay the money in the ab- which the calendar of this county is stained on tlie pre- 
seiicool any writing acknowledging tho receipt by his testator, sent, even more than on ordinary occasions. Ilis lorasmp, 
the plaintiff filed his claim in this court, whereby lie claims in alluding to the state of the calendar, containing n hstot 
the 2t0/., or if the court should not consider him entitle d upwards of 100 prisoners, many of them charged With the 
. then iho 150/., with interest, to be paid most atrocious offences short ol murder, called tlie ntten- 
i* and properly secured for his benefit, tion of the grand jury to the fact that there were so lewei 
' than seventeen eases of manslaughter, and thirty cases 
where persons were charged with the crime of highway 
robbery. These crimes, his lordship observed, might 
to the whole sum, 
by the executor, , — * 
Mr. Jessel, for the plaintiff, contended, on tlie authority of 
M’Fudden v. .leaky ns (1 Phillips), Kekcwick v Manning 
(2 De Gex, M'Noghten and Gordon), and Lx p. l’yc (18 
Ves. 549), that there was a complete parole declaration of 
trust, on the pait of Mr. Lister, as to this money, by which 
his executor was bound. Mr. M ‘Queen, for the executor, 
submitted, that had a trust been intended, the testator would 
have directed his bankers to set the amount apart lor the 
claimant. The conversation wus in terms far too loose to be 
relied upon, oud could not be deemed sufficient evidence of 
on intention to separate the fund, and to cieato tlie relation 
of trustee and cestui que trust. His Honour considered there 
was clear evidence ol an intention to benefit the plaintiff, 
but the evidence was not very satisfactory of an intention by 
the testutor to make himself trustee. Ho thought, however, 
the evidence of the clerk of tlie bank, where the testator had 
a large balance, would warrant him in holding that it was 
held by tlio bankers upon a trust lo pay the plaintiff the 
200/., and he declared accordit gly. 
A Practical Joke. — O n Fridny week lust, whilst Mr. Justice 
Crceswell was •• administering justice” in the Crown Court, at 
Durham, some audacious scoundrel actually entered bis lordship's 
retiring room, immediately behind the bench, and carried off his 
luncheon 1 Next day tLo preoious meal was, by order of his 
lordship, guarded by a sturdy bailiff. — Gateshead Observer . 
be traced in a vast number of cases to the vice of intem- 
perance, which w ns so prevalent in the mining districts; nnd, 
while commenting upon this state of things, his lordship 
feelingly deplored the want of sympathy which existed be- 
tween the higher and lower classes, and urged tho duty of 
the superior ranks of society to take a more lively interest 
in the welfare of those who were beneath them, v' bile 
commenting upon these topics, his lordship became con- 
siderably excited and flushed in the face, and accurate ob- 
servers noticed that his voice became somewhat thick and 
inarticulate. But, on a sudden, his lordship fell forward 
with his face upon his book, and then swayed on one side 
towards Mr. Sansom, his senior clerk, nnd his second son, 
Mr. Thomas Talfourd, his lordship’s Marshal, who caught 
lnm in their arms. Dr. Holland and Dr. Knight, two inn- 
gistrates who were on the bench nt the time, immediate!) 
rushed to his lordship’s nssistnnce, removed his neckcloth, 
&c., and called for water; but it was of no avail. Ilis 
breathing was stertorous and his face livid, and but a 
feeble action of lhc pulse could be felt. Mr. Justice 
NYightman was hurriedly summoned from the Civil Court, 
and hastened to the spot, but only arrived in time to see 
his brother Judge borne in mournful procession on the 
Confession of Mopes IIatto. — T he follow ing is Iho substance 
of tlio revolutions niado by Hotto : — lie says Hint, some short timo 
previous to tlio 1st of November, tho dnto of tho murder, Mary 
Ann Sturgeon, tlio murdered woman, asked him to lend her n 
eovereign. This lie at first refused to do, and angry words pnseed 
between them in consequents of his refusal. Alter considera- 
tion, however, lie told her she might have tho sovereign, or two 
or three sovereigns, if she liked, and they were agnin good friends. 
On Tuesday, 1st November, ho was employed almost tho wliolo 
of tlio day in tho house, cleaning tho pinto and oilier things, and 
hod much conversation with the deceased, lie says sho twitted 
him, and vexed him, ond when night arrived they wore far from 
being on friendly terms. In the evening, Sturgeon went to 
Dunce's cottage, nnd when sho lmd been gone sonic tunc, llntto 
says that ho took off his shoes that lie might not ho heard, and 
proceeded lo tlio door of the cottage, where he listened und over- 
heard the conversation between deceased nnd Mrs. Dunce. That 
conversation, lie enys, vexed him very much — ho considered it 
spiteful and disrespectful— and he returned to Hie kitchen of tlio 
farm-house, jumping over lhc wnll in order that lie might innko 
no noise by Hie opening nnd shutting of the gates which divido 
tlio court-yard from tlio road which runs by tho hack of tbo 
form-buildings. Soon uftcr ho arrived back, tlie deceased, 
lie says, conic into tlie kitchen, put him out hie supper, 
nnd, instead of the customary pint of beer, served him with 
only half a pint. He complained of the short allowance, 
nnd u quarrel ensued, in tlio course of which, ho says, 
Sturgeon twitted him very much. Ho then says tlio devil 
camo to him, nnd ho struck deceased n violent blow across Urn 
nose nnd mouth with tbo lurdlng-lron. This “lnrding-iron" 
is a fearful weapon, about 3 feel 0 inches long, nnd about twico 
the thickness of nil ordinary poker, tlio upper part being round, 
and tho lower part triangular. IIo does not slnto whnt client tills 
blow had upon the deceased, but the probability is that it broke 
the bridgo of her nose, knocked out her tooth, nnd enusod 
nn immediate and considerable effusion of blood. After tho 
blow, bo says, a sciilllo took place between thorn; tho de- 
ceased struggled hard, got uppermost, 11 ml he thought at 0110 
time sho would liavo mastered him. Phc ultimately got uvvuy 
from him, and ran upstairs to her bedroom, followed by him. 1 1 0 
says she fell on her face just in the position in which she was 
found, nnd suiting the action to tlie word, ho nddod "I then 
took up Iho poker and smashed her brains oul." Willi respect 
to (lie burning of the body ho is silent; lie says Hint iho clothes 
of the dcconecd must linvu caught fire, lie says lie then went 
into Mr. Goodwin’s room, nnd look from off tlio dressing- table 
two razors, a knife with several blades, nn ivory pocket tablet, 
n gold ring, a gold watch key, and n button-book. After this, 
on going down stairs, he found ho was covered with blood, 
lie then changed everything lie had on, which consisted of shirt, 
trousers, stockings, nnd boots. As lie makes no mention of cout 
or waistcoat, it is fair to presuino tlmt ho hud thrown usido 
those garments before supper. He cut up his hoots (high slmcs) 
with liis muster's razors, completely severing the upper leathers 
from the soles, lie then wont into tho paddock where tho colts 
were kept, nnd threw the sides of tho shoes into a pool of water 
about live feet deep, called the well ; the upper leathers he stuffed 
into a drain which empties itself into t lie well, ’lhc feet part ot 
Ins stockings, being very bloody, he cut away from tho leggings, 
nnd deposited them under the coping of the immense wall which 
formerly enclosed a portion of the Burnlinin Abbov lands, 
nnd now separates tho paddock from tho high-road. The 
leggings lie placed in the monger, in tho stable, and they 
were ll.cio when Mr. Goodwin took his own horse, not 
wishing to call Untto from other work, to go to tlio inquest 
at the Mile-house, on tho Wednesday. The shirt and truusors 
he eccretcd in tlio orchard, 011 the luesdny night. Un 
tho night uf Thursday, when ho took Ins master s horse out of 
the stable, under Hie pretence of going to iho Mnidenlioid Rail- 
way station for n parcel, he carried the shirt ond trousers with 
him, for the purpose of getting rid of them The trousers, oil 
hut the waistband, ho cut into small shreds, and strewed them 
on tlio hedges, and by tho side of tlie rond, as ho went nlopg. 
Detween the railway bridgo and Maidenhead bridge he threw the 
waistband of tho trousers over a quickset beige into nn arable 
field. When ho nrrived nt tho top of Maidenhead bridge, lio 
threw tho stocking leggings over into the Thames, and was nliout 
to throw the shirt niter them, when the thought struck him lliat 
it would swim, so he brought it back again and buried it beneath 
Hie monger of tho centre siull of his master s stable, lhe articles 
taken from Mr. Goodwin’s bedroom he says bo placed in tho 
ground by the side of the fnoijmtb lending to Chippenham. Bach 
is the substance of Moses Hallo’s confession ; and in order to test 
the truth of it, Mr. Frederick Chsraloy, the solicitor lor the prose- 
cution, visited iho Abbey Farm on Friday afternoon. There, m 
the presence of Police-tmperiutoDdont Symington, Mr. Goodwin, 
and several friends, the paving wos removed from under tho man- 
ger of the stable, and nt about 12 inches from the surface, a rotten, 
Uirtv ragged shirt was found. Thero was marks of l.lood upon it ; 
ll.o wristbands were partially burnt off, ond there woe several 
holes burnt in the front, between tlie waistband of the trousers 
nnd ihc collar or the shirt. In the search made uftcr tho inquest, 
the soles of the boots had I ecu lished from the well, but os there 
was nothing to connect them with tho prisoner they werethrown 
