At the Assizes for the county of Surry, held at
Kingston, on Thurs- day, the Reverend William Newland was found guilty of a misde- meanour, in forcibly obtaining possession of certain premises in West Square, Southwark, held by a Mr. Holmes. Newland claimed the land on which the premises stood as his own, and hired seven men to assist lunm. in pulling down the buildings ; in which he partially succeeded, baying in the process endangered the life of a young woman in one of' the upper rooms. He defended his own cause with much vehemence
and perseverance ; and assailed the Jury for their verdict, which he declared to be most improper. Judgment was deferred, sad Mr. New- land was released on his own recognizances. It appears that an action of trespass has been commenced against him.
At the last Northampton Assizes, four Mel], charged with the murder of an old woman zit Easton, were tried, and acquitted in consequence of some defect in the evidence, although two had confessed their guilt.
" These circumstances," says the Lim-4,, sh Clem nick.," (Yon ted the highest degree of excitement in Easton; and cli ii I: evening about seven o'clock, several hundreds of the inhabilimts iii,: deal in that town to the call of a drum, and proceeded in a tumultuous nialt,er to the house of „1"clier (one of the men acquitted); when they made ii iod•nt attack upon the premises, damaging them greatly betine they gained zin entrance, and then broke every article of furniture to pieces, scattering the- th.gments about the streets. The parents of Archer were sitting by the lire at the moment of the attack, but the mob did not injure them. A strict s •arch was intitle for their son; whoI, if they had linind him, they would have exercised Lynch law ' upon, and hare hanged. The moll then proceeded to the liotw.• of Wood- ward, when: they acted in a similar manner; hut could not find him. The whole village was in it-tale of alarm ;UM excitement until past twelve o'clock at night ; when the mob dispersed, apparently much delighted with the sum-
mary justice they had hear that the whole lapalation of the
parish have exres,ed a :tete rmination not to allow any of the men an at :C•urtilamiaon to reiiic ill tile village."
[We recommend these circumstances to the consideration of persons who adduce " Lynch law " as proof of the semi-barbarisin the Ame- rican llepublicano. It A HI 131! 5511 Ii oil vaclm occurrvneLs are rare in England. True : but " Lynch law " is never resorted to in Coanecti- cut. 3Inssachnsetts, :New York, or the move civilized portions of the United titateS—it is the practice of Kenteeley, Alahann, and tile half- settled and barbarous tc:-..it,ries of ihe I ion. Bitt Easton is situate in a thicklyiuiopled and ‘,.,enerally peace;n1 Ihirt of Em.iand. where, if anywhere, ihe iuhisliCaiil might lie cV. Silpilllr; tlti Akerees of c' turfs of justice. end not take the law ieto their own hands. Every now and then, however, we are reminee .1 that the bold peasentry of Eneland. though bred under tint eye of Royalty and Episcopacy, in the midst of Lords and Socites, are es ready to conimit outrages upon per- sons :Ind property as the Republicans, 'Who are pitied for their depriva- tion of Kings and Bishops.] A Coroner's Jury, -which sat on Thursday, at St. Mary Cray. Kent, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " against 3Ir. George Harding
Palmer, the Relieving-officer of the Lewiehant Union, on tbe ground that he had not used sufficient precaution in removing a pauper, Wil- liam Burgess, from the Lewisham Workhouse, to the Bromley Union
Workhouse at Coodham. The ( 'out ner said it viis the bounden duty of every Relieving-officer to ascertain that a pauisT W1IS in a he state to be Annoyed, beihre ordering the removal. Burgess was too ill to be taken :may, anti died on the night of the same day that he left the Lewisham Wt gillentee.
ritzwaltere. the ancient neinsion of Mr. 11,11 Dere. near 3iIioreunotn- nessing, in Essex, was complecly destroyed by tin a:Tic:Qum! -Monday night. A valuable library, ant: furaiture, were entirely consumed.
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