The Warwick Assizes commenced on Monday. The prisoners charged with
attacking the Metropolitan Police, acting as special con- stables at Birmingham on the 4th of July, were put on their trial yes- terday. The Attorney-General, with Messrs. Balguy and Wadding- ton, conducted the prosecution. Mr. Miller appeared for John Storey, one of the prisoners ; the others were undefended. The trial occupied the entire day, and terminated in a verdict of " guilty " against all the prisoners.
The trial of the prisoners charged with burning houses will commence to-day.
At the Newcastle Assizes, Archibald Bolam was tried on the charge of murdering Joseph Millie, in the Savings Bank of Newcastle, on the 4th of December 1835. The Counsel for the prosecution were Sir Gregory Lewin, Mr. Wortley, and Mr. Granger ; for the prisoner, Mr. Dundas and Mr. Knowles, The trial commenced on Tuesday, and occupied the whole of that day and the next. The chief circumstances must be in the recollection of the reader. They were stated, with the addition of an immense number of minute particulars, by the witnesses. The Judge, Baron Mauls, charged the Jury, with the evident impression that the murder had not been proved ; and in the concluding sentence of his charge, he pointed, quite as plainly as is usual for a Judge, to a verdict of manslaughter— He left it to the Jury to say whether they were satisfied that Millie came by his death through the means stated in the indictment, and whether those in- juries had been indicted by the hand of the prisoner. If they were not, or if looking at the whole matter they thought the facts proved were not sufficient to convince them one way or the other, they would acquit him. If they thought that the act was done by the prisoner, but done in a sudden atit.,. meditated quarrel in which blows had been given .on both sides, and that inch, to course of a scuffle so arising the deadly weapon had been used, it would be opot- to them to find a verdict of Manslaughter.
The Jury took three hours to consider their verdict, and then firma the prisoner guilty of " Manslaughter." Sentence was deferred,
Sentence was passed on Tuesday. Baron Manic said, the Jury lad " arrived at a most mild and mitigated conclusion." He considered at case one of aggravated manslaughter, and the sentence would a " transportation for life." The prisoner, who had previously cot;, plained that he could not hear the Judge, now struck both his hash' vehemently together, and said—" My Lord, I look upon that sentence as my death." He was taken from the dock amidst a burst of hisses. the general belief being that he was guilty of murder, not manslaughter, At the Durham Assizes, the Reverend Robert Carswell was tried on a charge of committing a rape on his servant, a girl of fifteen, The evidence was defective in regard to the employment of violence, and the Reverend prisoner was acquitted. Justice Coltman said be concurred in the verdict, but that the prisoner " had much to regret and repent of, in having forgotten those duties -which his relation te this young woman as a master, a clergyman, and the father of a family, had imposed upon him, and that his conduct to her as his servant, audat such a tender age, was extremely disgraceful."
Jacob Frederick Elden was convicted of murdering John Freda rick Berkhohz, the captain of a ship in which he was mate; and he was sentenced to death.
The Assizes at Huntingdon were "maiden "—not a single cameo! prisoner to try. Justice Vaughan, in briefly charging the Grand Jun, congratulated them on the peaceable and honest state of things existing around them ; which he trusted would be as permanent as it was satis factory. if he lived another month, he said, he should have travelled as a Judge thirteen years, and had attended more than a hundred corn• missions of assize, but had never before met with so novel a case auto have neither prisoner nor cause for trial.
At the Nottingham Assizes, John Driver, an ignorant, boorish emus tryman, who could not read a word, was found guilty of robbing, and murdering in the most brutal manner, an old widow living at Canton, He was hanged on Wednesday ; having exhibited to the last a sullen indifference to his fide. A man was detected in picking pockets within ten yards of the gallows, and sent to the House of Correction.
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