LANCA?SII:R. awasip. 1 :~ •~ 103 Holland asked the Jury if they thouslit rithrr of then• only ei4h: een, and of their small make, could have forced the grating .` I firmly speak from my heart, my run. be i.tace would not let me do such a harliarbarous act as sticking Mr. Smart with such an isi.drunment." hi, ►i,ter and manlier woman 10 prose an alibi, but Gilled. The Jury found hot h the prisoners guilty, and the Judge told them In prepare themselves, As he could give Oros nis hives whatever. RI R ,20.—Johts fittliattittu.l ** 1 111 1 11 l Rnll. wrre rh^rord with a bur k lary at the !mum: or :11r. C. C. Smart, diaper, I.)...ausktte, 51.tticht ster. Smart sthted, Ihat previnudy to taking his repose on n Saito day to-lit, lie, ;according to vu•too; tt as. peronag the paper. It as sisitlisklit n hen the Welt of the sitting-loom cloar was tn ice touched tie, opened ss ills a good deal eel g Cada' ion, and he saw the two prisoners; lie made a toils in order to glue 0 vencral Warne, and one of them that be alarmed." Ile said, tt I thilik I have 4icca-itm to he ;•' they then closed, and threw him upon the turd; llolhoed titesk a sharp itpt fitment from MS 11(4111111, and p!ounged it into Mr. s . face, ss ho then shouted " lurdcr ! Ila eve-!" The cry pi os identially cutight the ear of ; she opened the window and repeated the cults; Ihi, lottisti. doted the of rout-e enconraged :11r. Snarl ; he forced himself iitit, and got to the will:dim op !blew s, mid to ronsego,toce o f his shook the ss sprung hi, t a tle, and the house becatete fitted pith people: 4 , 11 beatelmt; it 55 :14 disrovered nit aperture lead been nhtele in a width.; in the cellar, %hien had been forced by a crests bar; a :1 hat, ateei 1. pair of goat ter bones were found, sand all given into the hands of the officer of toe iiigiit ; lie nits certain the prison. is are tilt men. Jam S Itattth o ta the Niancli,,ter police, pt ored that he and kilbie appreheiolcil the prs.esiocrs eit said 1.. 111 , 11;111.1, " Than lead 4 'niter will that sle rt .and rut that clean one on ;•' and I tuti mo t ilia so. koltiie aids fetched the tto - iy shag In toe 1)ol.e 9f Yolk piolic-lows.e, ahudrl i 1 , and el Ital!,as e l I on he got the Wood 551114 II wa.111.011 ? 11r si.d, 14) 14111:11J 041 .' 44 turd , ' night la-t, :11 tar hau Is of tl e tts.al ie. Kili , ie aftei wards 1.3 ti !,e hyd tern th. to at I) - 0n,...,ate, war N 1... Sono l'a, tot S.stusclas, the pi i-oi.ers d nerd line r and 110.1411 d li11:11 545111 he nits at Nthccl.l.tie.di 4111 Saturday. L 'racial:Amer lio)rle declined Sa;lng anything, ~_ . ~~...-. • I G I I F fi t Arm , 114 The two great tro:ting matches, for IGO guineas aside, made nit the 1::.11 inst. took place on Wentiesday merit ing, in Nlorstm Park, an enclosure its Essex, over a two-mile piece of ground. The first match was between Ml j ir II ttchrey's hrowii mare and Mr. Phillips's Ara bian, ten miles, to carry gst. each, Tue two miles were done by each as follows ;—M r. llawbrey's, 39 minutes. 36 seconds—Mr. Pnillips's 38 minutes, 48 seconds.— The match was lost by Phiflips's horse breaking into a gallop, which detained hint for more than half au hour.—The other match, for a like sum, was made to do the ground in less time than the winner in the fanner race. Mr. Wilkinson to ride his own horse. t stone. Ile did the first two miles in 6 mitt 32 sec.; second. 6 mitt. 33 sec.; third, 6 min. 34 sec.; (earth. 7 into. 1 t sec ; and the fiith, in 6 mink 29 sec.; ntak bog, in the whole, 33 min. 19 sec. The horse broke into a gallop in the eighth mile. STREET (tosses res.—On Tuesday evening an elderly 1 Lady 'sassing through Great Russ?lbstreet, Illoomsbory, • was attacked near the Museum by a stout young fellow, • who stiatehed her gold watch from her side, and fled. Some persons who witnessAl the robbery quickly pur sued, and the fellow being chis e !y pr e s se d o n . pl ai d e d (dropped) the watch in a garden, where it was (mind and delivered up to the Lady, who,. on recovering her watch, and on the thief being secured and brought back, .-.; declined to prosecute hint, and he was, after a short de. tentiou, liberated fur want of evidence against him.— • One evening last week, as a Gentleman was passing through Holborn, between seven and eight o'clock, a ; fellow made a snatch at his watch-chain with she seals, which were valuable. A few nights afterwards, in the very saute plate, another Gentleman was served in the same manner, and supposed by the saute fellow It is dangerous after nightfall to expose their waich•chains its any of the public streets, which swarm at all hours with thieves of every description. MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROPRERY.-The neigh bourhood of IVlsitechapel has for the last few days been thrown into the greatest ferment and agitation, in con sequence of a barbarous murder committed there, on the • person of a highly and respectable middle-aged gentle. • man. Mr. Ge.arite flare, late an extensive hosier its High -street, NVliitechapel, on Friday night last, it :V.- pears, was Oil his way home, after spending the evenings, with some friends, and when passing up %Veil-street he was attacked at the private door of tile Royalty Theatre (which was theta closed in consecrence of its being Frt. I thy in L•ns) by three ruffians, won, after knocking him down, kicked hiin about the heat! and body its a isioet. frightful naamier, and in their brutal treatment broke•- his left leg, so that the bone protruded through the skits. The villains having thus disabled hitt), rifled his pockets • of a quantity of silver. On the watchman coming on. duty, about nine o'cloek, he found the unfortunate gen tleman stretched its the kennel, quite insensitsle, and in stantly sprung his rank for assistance, and had him • taken to the Star public-house, close by, where, on exa mination of Isis frame, his injuries were Mond too seri- oils to he bestetiled by any temporary remedies, and it was therefore deemed must rodent to coin ey him to the London Hospital, where all efforts which the fa culty could devise were resorted to, but in vain, and lie lingered nutsl Sunday morning, when death put a pe riod to his sufferings. Ile was p:rfectly collected a short tints previous to his death, and related in the sur geons the circumstances connected n ith his death, the substance of which we have given in the forgoing state- • mem. Mr. Unwin, the Co •r, with a respectable Jury, attended Tiousday morning, at the Grave Morris, .. %V ititectsapel-road, it) hold an inquest on the body, which lay in a stiel: at an undertaker's, and presented a frightful speoacie. Several WlllieSSeS west heard at great length its explanation of the dreadful affair, but nothing to throw light on the subject transpired; and the Court, id the absence of other witnesses, adjmuned to a Mime day, when, a is hoped, some material evi dence will be adduced, and lead to the discovery of the murderers. TM: Police of the district are very active on the OCCJSDM ; and it is most singular, that 11<u the slightest alarm appears to have beets heard when the murder was perpetrated, from which it must be con cluded that the deceased was stunned by the very fins blow. On Thursday night, Thomas Thompson, a constable of Clerkenwell, the terror of all the pickpockets w town. to whom he is well known, and consequently shunned, disguised himself by mulatitg himself op in a great and tying a handl , erchief round his head, a, if troubled with the tooth-ache, with his hand before his DICE to prevent his being known, walked up Holborn on site look-out for pickpockets and shoplifters. At the end of Middle-row lie saw Joint Johnson and John Cnristo idler, two well known rip, whom he had before in custo !y, and were tried for picking pockets; suspecting weir biotin s , he watched them attempting no pick the Pockets of several gentlemen ; they turned inns Great . Turns,ile, towards Lincoln's-ion fields, and in passing by a hotelier's shop, where there is usualli a crowd• els 6 r lected, and umouy derirtiliOll3 C.0111111:ved, he saw Johu sou pros: a gentleman's pot ket of a silk .t.intlkerchiel, wit.ch he lint: led to Clirishipher. Thnimpson inustetia atelv !xmiseed on them, secured them both, and eallitio , to ihr gettnem in, he gave his AdtifesS, VS.la plus', ‘Vonsl street, Chrapsule. He 19 Igs tire prisOIICES In the watch-house; tht•y were exa mined out Fris:ay bel'ore the sitting ntigibtr.ste et Hatton Garden, and the charge being proved, they were fulls. ; I cortunilted fur trial. , 111. t- ~ ; , - .~ 410. •• 11 11: • Zwip 2nteltigence. SUSsE7‹. HORSHAM, MARCH :s.—The Assizes fur this ennnty commenced here to day, before the Hon. Alt., lisiron Gt.'ham on the Crown Side, and the Hon Mr. Rolm Wood on the Civil Side. Tne business of this county is of an averaue amount, 36 eases in the calcndir, and 13 CJIIiCS entered on the Aisi Prins Side. CROWN SIDR. Andrew Monte was indicted for bordsrionslv break and enuring the dwe:lio4-house of Goorze Pipoo, Esq. at 13ri.,:htoo, on Ih:• night of the Zjili of Noseatber las , , with iffiel,t to stet I. It appeased in evidence that the prosecutor, an officer in the (Hi dragoon ettartls, rented a 'noose in Jermen, place, Brighton, in November last. On the night of the tnitin of that month, after the family had retired to br:l, ttie house was disturbed by a strange tto;seof sonic person moving tip and down stairs.---:l'he prosecutor got op. struck a light, and saw a matt going down stairs. Ile I , .'bnvt•d him to the drawing-room floor, and the man basaing entered the d ra wing, he closed tine door upon him and %vent to the dining room to get some weapon of defence. When he entered the dining-rooom he found one of the windows open, the air from which blew his candle out —However, he seized a poker, returned to the drawi"g•roonn, opened the door and seized the man 1•y the collar, and struck him two blows, in the second ut which the pokt r broke. %Then he was about to strike a third, the man said be would surrender if the prosta nun would not murder hint• The intruder twined mil to be tine prison •r, wino accomit«l for his midnight visit by saying that he en as a distracted lover, and th at li e came only to visit one of the maid servants. Tine pro. secittor s female sr..:rvants were confronted with the pri soner, and they dentiel all knowledge of him. Toe 'inquier then said that he had mistake❑ tine house, and that lie kid intended to visit a female in a neighimorine house, with whom he had been intimate. No property was missing, nor had the iiiisoner made any preparation fur carrying oil any. Tile prisoner, in his defence, repe ited the same story as %%lien detected, but called no ItIIIICSSCS. Ile Itld c one from the sister kingdom about two months before the transaction in question. Ur. Baron (.; rah 1111 left it to the Jury in say whether the prisoner had the animus lisrendi when he entered the house. If he came• with 311 1111CH/1011 to steal, the bur glary War; suflic icntly proved. The Jury found the prborier wily-I)eath. Tine prosecutor recommended the prisoner to mercy. CIVIL SIDE. THE [IS• V PESKETT AND OTHERS. This vv. s an indictment against the deteinlant and fire oilier permils, for riotoits/y Imllinq clown a dam on the liver Arun, and for as4auliing Tit..ilus Dyson, at Chi. cliester, no the 30,11 of December List. Tile defendants were inhabitants of the submits of the city of Chichester. In 1817, an act of parliament had tetssed for making a canal connecting the river Arum Toe prosecutor, Mr. Dy.on, had been emplriyed •Is en gitwer to conduct the work. It became necessary, in the close of 1821, to dam up a rivulet, which interfered with the progress of the work, to order to prevent ton peat all accession of stater. The country about Chi. citester beu.goerflawed with water from the moisture or t h e season, it seas alleged that the defendants ha I no liwfullv assembled to pull down the dam in question to rairy off the excess of water, and nt consilitoare of their unlawful purpose had threatened the prosecutor with violence, but had not, itt fact, committed any personal injury. The Jury, after hearing the case on both sides, found the defendants guilty of the assault only, and acquitted them of the ritr. lIORSHAM, MARCH 26.—George Bartlett and George two ‘ictuits owlcr the age of 15, %vere indicird wider the Black Act, g Gel). I for wilfully and mali ciously scow, lire to and Ile:orayitr2 a rick of wheat, on the ;$7.11 of NO% catiber, at Rtylsam, the property of James It:chard-ou. It appeared in evidence that on the day mentioned in e indictment the prosecutor had a rick of vetches and a rick of wheat comp!eiely destroyed by fire. The pri soners were seen near the prosectitut's premises sholily after the fire commenced, going away from the spot parently its a great hurry. Tile fire hail commenced with the rick of vetches, and afterwards communicated to the corn rick. Suspicion bating I.alleti Oct the prisoners, they here apprehended, and they made a vadttotary con fession of their having deliberately rote 0111 ill it day for the express purpose of doing some mischief of the kind iii taws:lion. "'hey had taken out with them some tiudcu and matches, and haying struck a light on the beck of their I:hives, lighted a piece of paper, and set fire to lie poisecitior's vetch rick. They seemed to have no determinate oltject at first, and one said to the other that they must not Lto home until they set fire to something. The prisoner Billbeck proposed to set file to Mr. Richard son's rick, because he was an ill-natured person. This was resisted by the other prisoner, hut they both joined afterwards in doing the mischief, which appeared railier to he the result 111 Wall(01111eSS than any premeditated 51111 deliberate tote:Mon. The Jury found both the prisoners ettiity—i)catli , Lot reconmactitled them to mercy ota account of their owls. DOE dent. THWATTES Ira UPTERTn:T. 1 his W. 15 an action ut ejectment to recoser possession of a crribiae anal gard e n at Itoiherlield, in this comely. The pkinriff, r. had been a traelesnisit in Loreilim, who hasinrz amassed a considerable hotline, purchased a lable estate iii the year 1N0:3, at itotherfield. 'tile defendant held a cotta:re cm the edge cif erne of the ('alas which etas inel,:ed seri:tire Nlr. l'hwaite's lcnr chasl, but he ins•sted that illy cull:l , 4e had het a re i;litrallc Ludt on the waste of Lord Abet raer 10.111(11 . , and was no part of the estate purchased by .N 1 r. 'remakes. It appeared by the vs idence cm the part of the plaintiff that Ur. Ilarrituit, ul WhOUI 41:11wrilis purchased, THE NATIONAL REnISTEIt had possessed large iron-works in the county, and that the forge stood close to the cottage of the defendant. In the year 1760, a person named Wink, who was foreman of the foimilery, oc:mpied the cottage in question. That for 14 years after the works hail ceawd, ite continued to occupy the cottage, and never paid any rent, lim that he contlimed to du services fur Mr. Harrison particularly he attended to the locks, and opened them in time of floods to let the miler ll!iperton married Ilinde's maid, and when llinde died, Upperion continued in the collage, and did occasional services in the same manner as Houle had done; that :\ Ir. Harrison held nis audits to a room in the corsage, and had a dintter for his tenams there; that he also had a cellar in the entiage, where he kept wine and beer, and at length, in 1808, lie sold the whole estate to Air. Thwaites, and by toe description in the deeds and the plan of the estate, the cottage in ques tion was included. It further appeared, that after Mr. T. wok possession of the estate, he put his bailiff into a part of the cottage, and afterwards took another room when the bailiff married. Several tkclarations of the defendant were also given its evidence, 'that he paid no rent lor the cottage, lint that he •:•ht t• ' vices he rendered in other ways were more ; e rent of the cottage. At length he set e cottage, chiming it as 1119 own, insisti been long enough in possession to give hi he refused to dive it up, saying, it was e waste of the manor, and that the plain• tiff had Ic to it. Mr. FoHager, the steward of Mr. Harrison, stated, that he was the hers in who shelved Mr.Towastes every parcel of the land that was to Lie sold; that he pointed nut all the cott.ges, but did not point out Unperson's, as he did nut consider it as beloinziug to Mr. Harrison. That ivith.eespuet to the audits hying held there, he had requested permission of Lippert( /f 1 to hold the audits there ; that Uppenon and his %%tie assisted in reputing the dinner, and that they haul the remains of the not ioit :or their trouble; that he collected all the reins, hut never required any rent of Upper ton, becattsr he tii.l not consider it to belong to Mr. Harrison, and that he paid Upperum as he would do any other man when he worked for Mr. 11. without any set.oU for rent. Lord Ahergavenny's steward also proved that, in 1811, Mr. Thwanes cot diiwn some trees near the cotta se, upon which Lord Alierg iventty made Mr. 'l% pay 5I f. Is. GI. as the price of the trees, claiming them as SW MUM; 111)011 his waste. Oilier witnesses were called to prove that the place in question was part of the waste of the moor. The Jury, under the direction of file learned Judge, found a verdict for the p!aintill. Bonen a sr, M A nen 28 —The business de this site finished to a.,), ; t ha n ( two &clack. The only ease ssusth sueuE2asdag was the fallowing : ECW IL LITTER. This was an addin again,l tlir defendant, s 4 Vie author of tt libel, publi.bed of and rcinrerning the in the Brig/Won (:hromicle, on the 21 of Nov. la-t. Air. Germ.) nod .Mr. Tortoit conclude,' the Plainliff's ca‘e, aml r. Alarrcitt and Mu. Coats toe defendant's. Tue phild ill VI :IS de,Cl i bed as a lespertahle mi genii and decant of 1 ui:4llton, nod aCarbed to his Al tj,to,'s h n u•ebold in 014 capacity ; and the defendant was rein e.cented In be ■o alto, clerk in the mine plate. It was all gra that the defendant licivitt,; taken 511 , 11 P offonce :it the ntiimill's conduct ton ards him , published in the Brighlon Chrunick, of the 9d of November last, tile folasning raid fur acivra ti-conent " Shortly will he prthlisbed, the Life and Adventures of n rertaim Knight of the faih, 1101 V lIV int..' at Brighton, :smiles 's:ll6rd with anecdote. of votes tainments gi.ess at Snuggle.. tooth 11411, and littlecoons, by an O.:server. %Viten it wall 11.1 s t Its List hississ If into respectable society Lc fate he has I••.stot en td wanner., w hat shalt be d • to him I—L'itint Iris put trait, that all the world alight know Ilan." A ropy of the paper ill w Melt this para:tritpli was pu'dislerd was sent, nosier rover, direr test to the plaieldf in the ileitis sl.snt's la.und WI it biz,. as follows C. IS t .w, t.iss,:eoss dem. list to 104 Al;,jesty', hou-ehs,l.l, ike, tke." the paragraph being stored wnh pelt and ink. It was loosed that there tilts 110 other person' So the town of BriAlstoss In 44 hosts the p:sraera ph could apply. When the libel was read It cactted bunt of I.soglster in Ilse Cour:. 111 r. B.tron Woad eleireeit the Jury, !hit the letragraph {4:IS errtaiuly ItbeU,,us in u high degree, but it u. for the Jury to tors the damages fur the iiithy lute to the The Jut y immediately rumpl their verdict fur the plaintiff —damages, u.te a 6 iIII cost.. 40..