It was erroneously stated last week, that at the Launceston
Assizes two men, Oliver and Galley, had been convicted of the murder of Mr. May, a farmer: it should have been Exeter Assizes, the murder having been committed at Moreton in North Devonshire. Our attention has been called to this mistake by a correspondent at Truro, who, anxious for the honour of his county, has also been good enough to send us the Falmouth Packet, by which we perceive that the Cornish calendar of offences was very light. Galley, alias Turpin, has been reprieved ; there being good reason to believe that he is not guilty, and that the real murderer, the other Turpin, also called the "Kentish youth," will be apprehended. Galley's identity was sworn to distinctly by twelve per- Sons; but be has since stated circumstances which happened at a con- siderable distance from the scene of the murder at the time it was com- mitted, and which he could not have detailed had he not been an eye- witness of them.
It is a remarkable fact, that on the Norfolk circuit not only has no execution taken piece, but there has not been a single conviction for a ,capital offence,—a circumstance perhaps unprecedented in the annuls of circuits. In the city of Norwich, with its population of 60,000 souls, a large portion of whom are employed in manufactures, there was not one person for trial.
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