OLD BAILEY Sessunss.—Indietments for trial at the Session of New-
gate, which commenced on Thursday. Murder, 1 ; burglary, :3; house- breaking, 10; horsestealing, 1 ; stealing in dwellinghouses, 7 ; stealing from the person, 34 ; embezzlement, 10 ; receiving stolen goods, 3; bigamy, 2 ; selling counterfeit cain, 2; manslaughter, 1; larcenies, 155; total, 224; of whom 26 are London prisoners. None of the trials have offered any details of interest. TRIAL OF THE EARL OF Mart FOR ASSAULT.—Our readers may recol- lect a mysterious account of a rencontre between a sporting lord and a sporting clergyman, which took place in the county of Perth in the be- ginning of last August. The Scotch newspapers mentioned the name of the clergyman—Mr. Oldham; but suppressed the name of the Peer —it was the young Earl of Mar. The trial was to have taken place on- Wednesday last week, at the Perth Circuit; but a preliminary objec- tion was stated by the Earl's counsel, Mr. Smythe ; who argued, that " a Peer of Scotland, when charred with any treason, murder, or any other felony, was only subject to the judgmeneof his own order, as- sembled in the court of the Lord High Steward of Great Britain ; anti that there were only two former cases in which Peers had beers tried be- fore the Court of Justiciary, viz., that of the Earl of Rosebery, ac- cused of deforcement, on the 27th of December 1725, and that of the Earl of Morton, accused of assault, oppression, and wrongous imprisonment, on the 25th of February 1740; ins neither of which cases were the acts charged to have been done feloniously." As a condition that the trial should proceed, Mr. Smythe called for the expunging of the word " feloniously" from the indictment. In conse- quence of this objection, the case was agreed to be certified to the High. Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, and the trial was postponed. The indictment against the Earl ran thus—" In so far as on the 12th. day of August 1831, you did, upon the moor of Cochrage, or Cockridge, in the parish of Kinloch, and county of Perth, and at a part of the said. moor near to the middle of it or thereby, wickedly and feloniously attack and assault John Oldham, then residing at Forneth House, in the parish. of Clunie, and county of Perth, and did then and there seize the bridle of the pony on which the said John Oldham was riding, and did threaten to shoot him, and did repeatedly raise to your shoulder, and level and point towards the said John Oldham, a double-barrelled gun, loaded. with powder and small shot, threatening at the same time to shoot him, and the muzzle of the said gun, on the said occasions, being within a lents feet of the person of the said John Oldham ; and after thus repeatedly threatening to shoot the said John Oldham, if he did not instantly gmk off the ground, and thereby throwing him into a state of terror an alarm for his life, you did fire off the barrels of the said gun, loaded, as aforesaid, nearly in the direction of the said John Oldham, and when her was at the distance of eight or ten yards or thereby from you, to the great terror and alarm of the said John Oldham, and putting him in fear of his life." ROBBERY AT LORD VERULAWS:All este isie robbery of ilate, at Lord Verulam's house at Gorhambery, near St. Alban's, was discovered, and the whole of the plunder—nearly 400/. worth—recovered, by the singular good sense and activity of one of his Lordship's servants. Hugh Collart, the servant in question, described the robbery and the detection to the Queen Square Magistrates on Wednesday, when the thief was brought up. About four o'clock on Wednesday morning, Collart was awakened by the steward ; who told him that during the night the house had been robbed of a quantity of valuable plate, and a drab great-coat belonging to one of the servants. On examination, there were no marks of violence to show that the house had been forcibly entered. Collart received orders early in the morning facto Lady Verulam to attend the Honourable Robert Grimston to narrow School, and he set off with him in a post-chaise about nine o'clock. When they arrived at the Essex Arms, at Watford, he mentioned the circumstance of the robbery to the landlord ; who described a person wearing a drab great-coat, with a bundle and basket, coming into the inn yard about three-quarters of an hour previous to his arrival, and taking a post- chaise, which he directed to be driven to Westminster. The description of the great-coat corresponded so exactly with the coat stolen, that he took upon himself to order fresh horses ; and instead of going to Har- row, he determined to follow as quick as possible to town. At Edge- ware he again changed horses, and found from inquiry that he was fast gaining upon the Watford post-chaise. Within a few miles of London, he found that he was not more than a quarter of a mile behind ; and he gave directions, if the NVatford post-boy should return, to stop him, that he might find out where he set down. He then drove to Scotland Yard to give information of the robbery at the Police Office ; and just as he was opposite the Admiralty, the Watford post-chaise came up in a di- rection from Westminster Bridge. He immediately jumped out of the post-chaise, opened the door where the prisoner was, and found all the plate in his possession. The prisoner, who, it appeared, had been in the employment of Lord Valliant at a former period, confessed the robbery at the Police Office.
COUNTERACTION:At Armagh, on Wednesday the 12th, a body of Orangemen assembled and lighted a bonfire to celebrate the rejection of the Reform Bill. These Anti-Reformers, say the Dublin papers, were prepared for hostilities, and did all in their power to excite a tumult. Some of the inhabitants took offence at their proceedings, and a fight ensued, which was for some time confined to the throwing of stones by each party ; but at length a regular fire was opened by the Anti-Reform upon the Reform party. One man, named Dempsey, was shot dead, arid two others were wounded, it is feared mortally. An inquest was held upon the remains of Dempsey ; and the Jury, after hearing evidence, returned a verdict of "wilful murder" against a person named M‘Bride as principal, and against two men, named Jones and Appleby, as eiders and abettors in the murder. Ill'Bride and Appleby are in custody, but Jones has absconded. [The Jury decided hastily. We are not aware that there is any precedent, in the Irish lawbooks, which makes the slaying of a Reformer, or any one else, by an Orangeman,murder. With the example of the gallant Marquis of Londonderry before their fancy, if not their eyes, had not the Anti-Reformers a right to meet pebbles with bullets ? At all events, M'Bride must be tenderly treated. It would be a most revolutionary act to hang him. What will become of Protestant ascendancy, if such petty outbreakings of zealous loyalty are too harshly repressed ?] ATTEMPT sr Munnen.—Two Lascars were charged on Tuesday at the Thames Police Office, with attempting,to murder one of their compa- nions. The names of the criminals were Antonio and Cataneo; their intended victim was named George ; the whole party lodged in the Back-
road, Shadwell, in Gould's Las= barracks. There had been some quar- relling among them last week, and Antonio had threatened to " Islay" George. On Monday night, the prisoners having got into the room where he slept, dragged George out of bed, and commenced a furious attack upon him ; he succeeded in driving theta both away from him, and got Antonio on the ground; Cataneo then seized George by the arms, and, while he held him back, Antonio sprung upon his legs, and pulling a razor from under his sleeve cut him on the bosom, drew the weapon down his thighs and legs, and cut him in several other parts of
his body. George called out, " Knife ! knife and his companions
rushed to his aid, and laid hold of Cataneo ; Antonio extinguished the
lights, and in the dark made several thrusts at his victim, AVII0 fled, leaving a track of blood all the way he went. Antonio pursued him into the yard, where he again cut him in the leg. George, who was
bleeding dreadfully, was then removed to a surgeon's. Master Antonio was subsequently found by the policeman doubled up in a cupboard. Both prisoners were committed on the capital charge. Molts: Emenueon Mtreeetts.—It was only this day fortnight we stated that no fewer than three individuals were confined in our gaol on charges of having murdered their wives. To-day we have to record the most alarming fact that three other men were taken into custody, in the course of last week, on similar charges. The first is a man named M‘Court, residing in Con-gate, the father of three juvenile thieves, who have in the course of the last twelve months been sentenced by the High Court of Justiciary to transportation. The wife of DCourt died in the Infirmary on Thursday ; and on a post mortem examination of the body,
the surgeons reported that she had died of the wounds inflicted upon her. The second case occurred on Friday ; when one 111‘Leod, a pen- sioner, in Arthur Street, beat and abused his wife in so dreadful a man- ner that her life is despaired of. On the same day, a cabinet- maker, residing in Dean Street, Stockbridge, was taken into custody for having nearly murdered his wife.— Caledonian Mercury, Oct. 17.
PIRACY AND MURDER.—The brig Maria, of Liverpool, was sunk, and her captain, mate, and crew murdered, on the coast of Africa, in May
last, by pirates. A Krooman, who afterwards escaped from the vessel, says, that on the morning of the seventh day after leaving Prince's, and when out of sight of land, the Maria was fallen in with by a large brig, from which they were hailed in English. After some altercation, a shot was fired into the fore foot of the Maria, and the pirates directed Captain George to go on board ; they at the same time lowered six boats filled with men, which put off to board the Maria. When the boats reached her, the pirates, being principally armed with long knives, im- mediately commenced slaughtering the unfortunate crew. Captain George was shot through the forehead by the leader of the boarding
party. The Kroomen, having escaped to the rigging, were spectators of this inhuman scene ; they were soon discovered, and ordered down ; and
the pirates, after taking all that they required from the brig, fired a broadside into her, which did so much injury that she sunk about two hours afterwards. Two nights after this occurrence, during a tornado,
the Kroomen escaped from the pirate in one of her boats, which was towing astern, and in fourteen days were so fortunate as to reach the coast of Guinea, at Wydali, at which place the pirate brig had been a short time before for a supply of water.—New York Daily Advertiser.
Muueen.—On the morning of Saturday the 8th, a farmer named Coleman, residing near Banbury, in a fit of passion fired a gun at one of his labourers, and shot him dead on the spot. Coleman is a man of about sixty years of age, and rents a farm at Shottisford : lie has been in arrears for some time, and bailiffs have been in possession of his lands, which, in consequence of obstinately retaining his lease, are in a state of utter wildness. On Saturday morning, Edward Goode, the man whom Cole- man shot, and who had been nearly his whole life in the employ of his destroyer, sent a boy to the pump for water. Coleman took the bucket from the boy, and said that he should have none, at the same time throwing the water over him. Goode and another labourer returned to the pump with the boy, and proceeded to fill the buckets, when Coleman came out of the house, and seizing one of the buckets, emptied out the water, and with an oath declared they should have no water there: He then went into the house, exclaiming, that if they took the water, lie would be d—d if he did not shoot them. This was a threat he had so frequently uttered, that they took no notice of it, but pro. ceeded to hang the bucket on the pump, which is situate in the court-yard, and close to the kitchen-window. Goode stood facing to the window, with his legs crossed, and leaning upon a fork, while the other man was filling the bucket. Coleman immediately fired at the deceased through the window. The whole of the contents of the gun entered his forehead ; and so instantaneous was his death, that he did not even uncross his legs in falling. The murderer, as soon as he had fired, rushed out of the house, but he was immediately pursued and taken. When about to be committed on the coroner's warrant, he insisted with great violence, that the gun went off by accident. The unhappy man has a wife and grown up son ; the numerous prosecutions to which he has been subjected are supposed to have turned his brain. Goode has left awife and five children ; he was about forty years of age.
THE MURDER AT Fercnsse—At length, it is said, that there is a clue to the discovery of the murderer of the aged couple at Fetcham, in Surry, about four or five years ago. A man named Cobbler Will, and the granddaughter of the deceased, it may be recollected, were then taken up ; but after much investigation, were liberated ; and it now appears that they were not at all implicated in the atrocious transaction.— Brighton Gazelle.
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