Dasent, Finch, and Cook, the noted Ipswich bribers, whose inno-
cence the conscientious Mr. Fitzroy Kelly guaranteed so warmly, have pleaded guilty to the charge of corrupting voters. It is now pretty evident on which side the witnesses were perjured, and the public will suspect certain individuals of subornation of perjury.
At the York Assizes, last week, the Court was occupied nearly the whole of two days in the trial of an action for damages brought by a Mr. Mellin, a manufacturer of Wakefield, against Mr. Taylor, a so- licitor, for adultery with Mrs. Mellin. The plaintiff's witnesses swore to a number of facts, which, if true, proved his case completely; but many circumstances came out in the course of the trial which threw doubts on the credit of the witnesses; and the Jury found a verdict for
the defendant. , At the same Assizes, Mr. Edward Barr was found guilty of forg- ing orders on the Treasurer of the West Riding of Yorkshire, for sums of money purporting to be due to Mr. Nicholson, Clerk of the Peace, for costs of prosecutions of offenders at Leeds. He was sen- tenced to transportation for life, and to work on the public roads with the chain-gangs. The prisoner's family was most respectable. He had been for upwards of four years carrying on these frauds, and had robbed the Treasurer of large sums of money, by means of upwards of 350 forged orders.
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