At the Gloucester Assizes, on Friday week, Charlotte Long was
found guilty of setting fire to three ricks of hay, at North Nibley, in Gloucestershire, on the 25th July last. She was recommended to
mercy by the Jury, on the ground that she had probably been instigated to commit the offence by some other person. Baron Gurney said thdt
he could not attend to their recommendation ; the prisoner was the wife of a convicted felon, and had set fire to three different ricks of hay ; and although it was not improbable that she had been instigated to the deed by some other person, yet there would be no security for property, if the penalty of the law were remitted in this instance.
At the same time that this woman was condemned, Thomas Gas- kins, who had been convicted of arson the day before, was also sen- tenced to be hanged. The man shed tears, but the cries and shrieks of the woman were shocking.
At the Lancaster Assizes, held on Friday last at Lancaster, John Emett was sentenced to death for shooting at Thomas Woodhall, at Blackburn, on the 30th March last. Woodhall was a watchman at a factory in Blackburn, where there had been a turn.ent of the workmen, and a great deal of violence committed. The prisoner shot at hint with a pistol, but the ball entered the door of the watehhouse. Imme- diately after discharging the pistol, he said—" Take that; and if that does not do for thee, I'll give thee more next time." The -Judge held out no hones to the prisoner of a commutation of sentence, as the in- tent to kill was evident.
John Roach, a private of the 85th Regiment of Foot, stationed at Salford, was hanged at Lancaster, on Monday last, for the murder of his corporal, with whom he had had a quarrel about the treatment of a deserter whom they had been sent to secure. On his trial, be received from Captain Hunter, of the 85th Regiment, an excellent character, as a most humane and well-behaved man.
William Jolly was executed on Saturday, at Ipswich ; having been- found guilty of setting fire to a stack of wheat, at Yaxley. He pro- tested his innocence on the scaffold. He was thirty-four, and left a widow and six children.
John Reynolds, an Irishman, was hanged at Stafford on Saturday, for highway robbery, accompanied with violence. He was attended on the scaffold by the Reverend Mr. Huddlestone, the Catholic priest, and died very penitent. Amongst the crowd who witnessed the exe- cution, were a great number of Irish reapers ; who fell on their knees, and appeared to offer supplications on behalf of their wretched country- man.
John Stallan, convicted of incendiarism at Shelford, Cambridge, has been respited to the 7th December. The culprit denied his" guilt ; but, the day before the respite arrived, confessed he had caused all the fires in that neighbourhood except one. He states he had no malice against any of the persons; and his only object was to occasion a necessity for working the engine, for which, as assistant, he received 6s. 6d. each time.
Two felons confined in Durham gaol had a quarrel about a fortnight since ; when one of them threw the other, John Wilson, violently against a bench, bead-foremost. Wilson died in consequence of the injury he thus received ; and a Coroner's Jury has returned a verdict of Manslaughter against _Al' Gro, the other felon.
Three brothers, James, Richard, and William Walker, and George' Brotherton, were committed on Thursday week to Lancaster Castle, on a charge of murdering Noah Brooks, in a scuffle which arose out of
a public-house quarrel at Elton, near Bury in Lancashire. Brooks received his death from several stabs inflicted by some sharp instrument. About a fortnight since, two men, who had met at a beer-house at Paulton, became exceedingly 'intoxicated, and quarrelled ; a fight en- sued, which terminated in the death of one of them, the wife of the deceased having been given a shilling to make a bet on the side of her husband !—Bath Gazette.
John Sibley, a labourer, was killed on Monday week, while mowing in a field near Wilton, by Sarah White, one of the gatherers, with
whom he was quarrelling. He first struck her, and she struck him with a gathering-hook ; and he died in consequence of the wound in a few days. A verdict of Manslaughter was returned against her.
A fellow who last week sold his wife at Lansdown fair, was after- wards lodged in Bath Gaol for (the great offence of) getting drunk with the money.
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