SPECIAL Commisstost.—The commission for Huntingdon ended on Saturday, when judgment
of " death" was recorded against twenty machine-breakers, and sentence of death pronounced against two men, also convicted of machine-breaking—no day was named. GOODMAN.—This fellow has beets reprieved. He has earned mercy, it is supposed, by his accusation of Cobbett. This Goodman, we sus- pect, is a merrivais sujet in more senses than one. Cobbett is violent
enough, but he knows what he is about ; and we feel that he never uttered what Goodman, in his sincerity of repentance and terror of a halter, saw fit to attribute to him.
WITHERS AND Luste—Mr. Hunt has addressed a petition to the King in favour of these men. He says of Lush, that " when committed to gaol, and before his trial came on, he sent for an attorney, and placed in his hands, confidentially, a full and clear statement of his case, or rather, a full confession of his guilty participation in the offences with which he stood charged. This confession, so confidentially made to his attorney (by an extraordinary rule of the gaol), the legal adviser was compelled to submit to the inspection of the gaoler, which paper he kept in his hands for several days ; and in all human probability, this document, or a copy of it, was either submitted to the inspection of the Judge, or placed in the hands of the prosecutor, the Crown solicitor, or the attorney." Of the supposition we can say nothing, but the interference to prevent the confidential communications of a prisoner and his lawyer was utterly inexcusable. Withers, Mr. Hunt says, was repeatedly struck with a heavy hunting-whip, and crushed to the wall by Mr. Codrington's horse, before he threw the hammer at that person. No evidence of the wound was given, nor was the hammer produced in Court.
ExEctrriew AT WrocitesTnn.—Janses Cooper and Henry Cooke— the former convicted of heading several mobs, the latter of rioting, and of a savage attack on Mr. Bingham Baring—were executed at Win- chester on Saturday, There were several exclamations of " murder 1" among the spec eters ; and placards wish " murder !" written on. th-
rit -were stuck up near the place of execution. Holdawav,ltother of this six condemned men, is respited until the 5th of February ; the other three are respited during pleasure. Cooper's end was collected and calls' in act and speech, but the expression of his countenance is described as frightful. Cooke's anguish was noisy. He seems to have been a des- perate ruffian ; there is no doubt he would have murdered Mr. Baring had he not been prevented. [111 noticing the condemnation of this man, from a typographical error, we were made to say he was aged sixty. The words so printed belonged of right to the next sentence, and ought to have been "Against sixty,")
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