I NORTH WALES CIRCUIT. MONTGOMEHYSBXFiE. The Montgomeryshire Summer Assizes commenced on Wednesday week, at Newtown. Mr. Baron Holfe, he Judge selected for the North Wales Circuit, hav- ing been detained in London in consequence of the re- cent Law changes, the commission was opened by Mr. Justice Talfourd. The learned Judge was escorted into Newtown by a large assemblage of the inhabitants of the County headed by the High Sheriff, J. D. Corrie, Esq. of Dy- serth, and the Under-Sheriff, J. C. Griffiths, Esq., of "Welshpool. At ten o'clock Mr. Justice Talford was conducted to church by the High Sheriff, where a sermon was preached by the Sheriff's Chaplain, the Rev. D. Davies of Llanguniow, who took his text from the 13th chap- ter of Romans, and the latter part of the first verse;- "The powers that be are ordained of God." At twelve o'clock the learned Judge entered Court, and the business of the day commenced. The usual proclamation against vice, gzc., having been read, the following gentlemen were sworn on the grand jury, The Hon. Hanbury Tracey, Foreman Herbert Wynn, Esq, B. Williams, Esq,, Pennant ) Martin Williams, Esq., Brongwyn I William Lutener, Esq Dolerw John James Turner, Esq., Pentreheylin John Robinson Jones, Esq., Brithdir, Berriew David Hamer, Esq., Glanyrafon John Otliey Crew Reade, Esq. Thomas Drew, Esq. Thomas Arthur Morley, Esq. Edward Morgan Stephens, Esq. Pryce Lloyd Turner, Esq. Charles Wilding, Esq., Powis Castle Edward Salsbury Rose Trevor, Esq. 1J. Buckley Williams, Esq., Jun. David Jones, Esq. J. H. Pryee, Esq. Pryce James Drew, Esq. (f Edward Nichols, Esq. j John Ilamer, Esq. 'j The learned Judge, in delivering his charge congra- l tulated the jury upon the present state of the calendar, I there being only three prisoners for trial, and he felt that he need make no particular observations upon the crimes for which they were indicted. He was ex- ■' tremely happy to witness the zeal evinced by the Grand 'j Jury in the discharge of their duties, which had in- j dueed to assemble such a number together that day it apoke a vast deal for the attention and care with which '*3 those duties were fulfilled by the peaceful state of the l county. The Grand Jury then retired to their room. 1 John Jones, tailor, William Griffiths, labourer, Bil- I" nard Lloyd, tailor, were severally indicted for burgla- riously breaking into and entering a certain dwelling- 8 house at Llanyard farm, the property of the Right Hon. the Earl of Powis, and stealing therefrom a writ- ing desk, one pair of boots, two pairs of shoes, a till If can, besides btef and bacon, the property of Samuel X Kidson and Elizabeth Lewis. X Mr. Welsby conducted the prosecution, and the pri- ? soners were undefended. The learned Counsel having I stated the case to the Jury called 16: Elizabeth Lewis, sworn, stated, I am housekeeper for )t Lord Powis at Llangard farm a person named Kinson •y lives in the house; on the 18th of June last I went to r, bed at eleven o'clock, after I had seen the doors and ))* windows made fast; about 5 o'clock in the morning I it rose and found the larder window open, and a small If part of the window frame cut away, and the bar wrenched up, making a space large enough for a person I r to get through the kitchen door was also partly opened t. it had been unbolted from the inside. I immediately a missed a writing desk from the dresser in the kitchen, rt a pair of boots from the cupboard, which had been ;&. woin the day before, a tin can from the larder, and id some bacon. at Eliza Kinson.—My husband is farm bailiff to the Earl es of Powis, and we live in the house at Llangard farm. e- On the 19th June I rose and missed two coats belong- 1e ing to my husband, one pair of boots, and two pairs of ot shoes, two bones, and a piece of beef and ham. I had e, seen the coat safe the night previous. I had seen se Griffiths a month or so before the robbery, and had 'ir given him some bread and cheese when he was begging, be Richard Jones.—Am a oonstable at Llanbrynmair. ee In the consequence of certain information I received I he went to a farm situated about a mile from Llan- a brynmair, and between six and seven from the place OC. where the burglary was committed. This was about ), two o'clock in the afternoon; several persons accom- as panied me. When I went in the three prisoners were ,ot lying in some hay I asked them were they came from ut that day Lloyd said they had come from the Cock at ur Llanbrynmair; and, upon being asked where they had efi been during the night, Lloyd said they had not been 110, from the barn. The articles I produce are what I ed found upon them in the barn. The coat was on the re shoulder of Griffiths as he was lying- asleep. lie Edward Jones corroborated the preceding evidence. lot A second warrant, in the hands of the Chief Consta- nd ble of Merionethshire, was then proved to have been 1 lSSuca r ed v The Judge having summed up, the jury, after a tewl nd moments' deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty, to and his Lordship, ofter a feeling address to the pri- soners sentenced them to fe?t years" transportation each. Embrey and another against oii..eit.riie following tv. geutlemen of the county comprised the Spooml —.Vnthe.iiiei Burlington Esq., Severn Hall, Welshpool; James Robert, Esq., Trelydan Edward S. U. Trevor, Esq., Latidrinlo; James Maginnus, Esq., Firymynech, merchant; Thomas Paul Owen, Esq., Lower Division William Davies, Esq., Rhydwrymore; John James Turner, Rhysinant; John Edmunds, Forden; Charles Lloyd Tamberlan, Court Colmore Pryce Lloyd Turner, Stredal-fedan John Bill Pryce, Broniarth-Upper, Guilsfield John Jones, Hendomen, Esquires. This was an action of a very complicated nature, brought ostensibly by the above plaintiff, but virtually by Lyon Winder, Esq, of Vaynor Park, against Mrs. 1 Owen, of Glansevern, near Welshpool, in consequence I of the diversion ofla certain stream of water running through the properties of the plaintiff and defendant for the purpose of irrigation, thereby depriving, (as alleged,) the plaintiff of the right to the full stream. The defendant had erected an iron aquaduct to carry whatever spare water passed across the dam over the land in possession of the defendant, the remainder of Which, after deducting the loss of evaporation and Exhaustion by the laiiil in the months of January, February, and March (the period in Wales for flooding land), was returned to the stream, over which plaintiff alleged he had full right and control, the defficiency of hich for the purpose of working his mill, (which was 4ituated below that of defendant,) he considered as a 4(3minal injury, merely for the purpose of asserting bls own right and the illegal proceedings of the defen- dant. Mr. Welsby, with whom were Mr. Wynne and Mr. Joulkes conducted the cause, under the instruction of Messrs. Woosnftm and Lloyd, Solicitors, of Newtown, ^°r the plaintiff, while the defendant was represented by Mr. Bramtnell (one of the Commissioners for en- quiring into the Civil Law), who was specially retained, Assisted by Mr. Beavan, under the instruction of Mr. A. Howelis, Solicitor, Welshpool. After an able statement of the case by Mr. Welsby, 'ho oalled numerous witnesses, the Court adjourned till Thursday, when Mr. Brammell replied, and the Judge summed up, when the jury, after half an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict for the defendants, but it is expected a new trial will be immediately proceeded with in a higher court.
MERIONSTHSHiRS. The assizes for this county commenced on Friday, -be 19th inst., before Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, ^flight, who proceeds on this circuit in lieu of Baron "olfe, in consequence of the late changes in the law "^Hcers. His lordship was escorted into Dolgelley by /reward Humphrey Griffith, Esq., High Sheriff, and ?e usual complement of javelin-men, and proceeded to he County Hall, where the commissions were read by Linwood Henry, Esq., Clerk of Assize,—ap- is •'ited in lieu of the late much respected Edward Wat- 111 Lloyd, Esq. ,V.he court then adjourned to 10 o'clock on the fol- ^>og morning. ^fe^t 6 o'clock hi3 Lordship proceeded to the town ij^ch, where an appropriate sermon was preached by Sheriff's Chaplain, the Rev. Ellis Pring, of Tal-y- Iv SATURDAY. & jj^court was opened at 10 o'clock precisely, when flowing gentlemen were empannelled and sworn 11. errand jury — \\1 Sir R. W. Yaughan, Bart., Foreman. > W. W. E. Wynn, Esq., Peniarth. H. Richardson, Esq., Aberhirnant. II. T. Richardson, Esq., Aberhirnant. H li. 0. Edwards, Esq., Dolgelley. I | H. N. Hartley, Esq., Llwyu. V George Casson, Esq., Blaenyddol. «•§!. T. Pugh, Esq Cefncainberth. 1 ^ohn Jones, Esq., Bala. < t' §jeginal Fowden, Esq Arthog. » I LI. Edwards, Esq., Dolserau. Anwyl, Esq., Plas Brith. < J P. Anwyl, Esq., Ilengae. S "Williams, Esq., Fronwnion. Barker, Esq., Glynn. vrancis Hallowes, Esq., Coed, o H. Anwyl, Esq., Bala. • Price Jones, Esq., Bodweni. Price Jones, Esq., Bodweni. r 1 James Lloyd, Esq., Moel-y-garnedd. R. Wynn, Esq., Cefncymera. H. H. Clough, Esq., Bala. W. B. Glegg, Esq., Bala. John Edward, Esq., Dolserau. His Lordship, in his charge, briefly referred to two cases in the calendar-one for perjury, and another for an assault with intent. With regard to the latter, he explained the proof requisite to sustain such a charge; and made an observation relative to the course pursued in writing the depositions before the committing justi- ces. The prosecutrix was there made to appear as if she knew all the technicalities of the law, as applicable to the case, and followed up the charge in strict legal wording. He did not impute any improper motives, but hereafter it would be far better to write down the witness's own words, and not trim them up into legal phraseology. He congratulated them on there being no case of stealing to come before them and dismissed them to their duties. v. Thomas Edwards—Perjury. This was an indictment found at the Summer Assizes for 1849, and :it tl)e list assizes the prisoner did not surrender to take his trial, when his bail had their recognizances extended to these assizes but he did now appear. Mr. Welsby said that he had a motion to make on behalf of the bail, prior to the Court proceeding to estreat the recognizances. Mr. Strong said that the papers of the late Clerk of Assize had been strictly searched, but these recogni- zances could not be found. His Lordship said that under the circumstances nothing further could be done in the matter. Doe Dem, John B. Jotiei, of Bala, draper, v. Anne, Ilmjhes, also of Bala-This was an ejectment to re- cover possession of three cottages, situate in the town of Bala. The case relied on by the lessor of the plaintiff was that Anne Ilughes, sister of the defendant, bei ng legally entitled to the cottages, made her will the night before her death, and devised these cottages to him. It ap- peared that the testatrix was not in possession of the cottages during her life, and had not taken any steps towards recovering them. The evidence was of a purely technical character. For the defendant, it was insisted that the person from whom the testatrix claimed, had charged them, along with other property, with the payment of certain debts, which, in the result, raised a point of law on the debts, which, in the result, raised a point of law on the construction of some deeds; and his lordship left the facts proved to the jury, who returned a verdict for the plaintiff—leave being given to the defendant to move the court above on all the points raised. Counsel for the plain tiJr, Messrs. Welsby and Walker Jones. Attorney, Mr. Lloyd Williams, Bala. Counsel for the defendant, Messrs. Beavan and Lloyd, Attorneys. Messrs. Minsliall, of Oswestry. MONDAY. 1 The Court opened at nine and commenced the cri- minal business. Evan Jones, late of Festiniog was indicted for com- mitting wilful and corrupt perjury, on the 4th of Fe- bruary, at the Festiniog Union Workhouse, on a bas- tardy application. Mr. Vaughan Williams, with whom was Mr Coxon, stated the case to the jury. It appeared that the pro- secutrix Laura Jones, was delivered of a child on the 4th of December last, and that on the 25th of January last, she applied to Mr. Casson ope of the County Jus- tices for a summons on one Harry Parry, as the alleged father of her child. The summons was granted, and the case came on for hearing on the 4th of Frebruary, when Mr. Powell, of Carnarvon, appeared for the puta- tive father; and cross-examined the applicant as to whether she was in company at Festiniog, with one William Lancaster, in the end of February, or the be- ginning of March, 1848, but which she denied Mr. Powell then called the prisoner as a witness,—who swore that he saw the prosecutrix in the company of William Lancaster at the house of Robert Davies, at Festiniog, in the end of February or the beginning of March, 1848. The magistrates disbelieved him, made the order usual in such cases, and had the prisoner committed for trial on the present charge. Laura Jones was called to prove the main facts,— Mr. Robert Richard Jones, to prove the proceedings before the Magistrates; and William Lancaster, to deny having seen Laura Jones, since December, 1848. They were severally cross-examined by Mr. Morgan Lloyd, but their testimony in chief was not shaken. Mr. Morgan Lloyd made a long appeal to he jury, on behalf of the prisoner; mainly relying on the fact, that Laura Jones and William Lancaster, had betn to- gether at Robert Davies's in December, and he might have made a mistake in the time, which would not amount to perjury. His Lordship summed up at length, going over all the evidence carefully, and making his comments thereon as he proceeded. The jury found a verdict of Not Guilt!). Attorney for the prosecution, Mr. D. Williams, Bron Eryri. Hugh Roberts, aged 14, was indicted for a criminal assault oil Ann Jones, a child under ten years of age. The evidence was unfit for publication and the con- duct of one of the witnesses was much to his discredit, and brought forth severe censure from the Judge. The prisoner was Acquitted. Mr. Gilbertson, of Bala, prosecuted, and Messrs. Royle and Williams, defended. Mr. Pavid Pugh, solicitor, Dolgelley, was the inter- preter during the whole assizes. Professional gentlemen in Court—Counsel, Messrs. Welsby, Beavan, Walker Jones, Foulkes, ill. Lloyd, Yaughan Williams, J. Walker, and Alfred Coxon. Attoi-rieys-Dol-elley, Messrs. W. Griffiths, John Jones, G. Jones Williams, David Pugh, G. P. Williams, and Edward Walker. Bala, J. Gilbertson, (the under- sheriff,) II, L. Williams, T. Ll. Royle, Wm. Williams, and John Morris. Llanbedr, John II. Jones, Penrallt. Oswestry, T. Minsliall. London, John Phillips, of the firm Phillips and Vop, Size-lane, and William Jones, Crosby-square.
CARNARVONSHIRE. The learned Judge of Assize, the Hon. Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Knight, one of the Justices of her Ma- jesty's Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, arrived in this town, from Merionethshire, ot six o'clock on the evening of Tuesday, and proceeded to the County Hall, where the commissions of assize, &c., were read by Mr. Strong, the gentleman who succeeds for the present the late lamented Edward Watson Lloyd, Esq., as Clerk of Assize for the circuit. His lordship was ac- comnanied by the High Sheriff of the County, Isaac Walker, Esq., and the usual cortege. His lordship attended divine worship on the morn- ing of Wednesday at St. Mary's, where an admirable and appropriate discourse was delivered by the Sheriff's chaplain, the Rev. John Jones, of Mynydd Ednyfed, from Titus iii. 1. The court opened for the dispatch of business at about eleven o'clock, when the following gentlemen were sworn in as a grand jury I Major-General Sir Charles Felix Smith, K.C.B., Pwllycrochon. Sir Love Parry JonesParry,Madryn. Wm. Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Plascoch. Owen Jones Ellis Nanney, Esq., Gwyufrvn. John Lloyd, Esq., Trallwyn. Samuel Owen Priestley, Esq., Trefan. John Rowlands, Esq., Plastirion. Charles John Sampson, Esq., Tycoch. Hugh Davies Griffith, Esq. John Morgan, Esq., Bank. AVilliatns, Esq. Nathaniel Mathew, Esq., Wern. John Vincent Ilawkesley Williams, Esq. Arthur Wynne Williams, Esq. Edward Windus Mathew, Esq., Wern. Owen Roberts, Esq., Dinas. Owen Evans, Esq. Tiios. Turner, Esq., Plas Brereton. Abraham Jones Williams, Esq. John Casson, Esq. Wm. Thos Massey Williams, Esq. Owen Jones, Esq., Castle-square. Cyril Williams, Esq., Pwllheli. After the usual preliminaries had been gone through, the gentlemen of the grand inquest were eloquently addressed by the learned judge to the effect that, al- though there was, he understood, a greater number of criminal cases now to be disposed of than was usual in this part of the kingdom, yet they were not such as to remove that comparative paucity of offences against the law for which this part of AVales was distinguished. Some of the cases were, however, of a serious stamp, but on the whole the calendar did not lead to a conclu- sion that thpre was in the county any prevailing v.'ce, or any general absence of moral culture. The number of offences on the list was six, and two others were omitted from the calendar. On the case of alleged murder, if it appeared that the child had been wilfully exposed, in a field, without any reasonable ground for hope that it could be found in time to be duly cared foi-, the neglect was as obvious a murder as it violent means of inducing death had been resorted to but mere exposure, as in the case of foundlings laid at persons' doors, &(, under circumstances likely to lead to the child being found, however criminal an act, could not amount to a deliberate and wilful murder, even in case of an unforeseen and unfortunate conclu- sion. In the case of perjury they would enquire whether the charge was supported by more than one witness, and also whether there was collateral evidence to imply that the false testimony was wilful. In the case of alleged rape upon a girl of weak intellect and tender years, their enquiry would merely involve the question of consent or force. It was either rape or no legal crime at all—the nature of the charge precluding the posjibility of a medium offence. Whilst the grand jury were considering the bills to be laid before them, the following cause came on for adjudication ;-Jones v. Roberts. It was an unde- fended action: and was conducted by Mr. Yaughan Williams for the prosecutor, Richard Jones, who sued William Robe rts, to recover a debt of 1441. on a pro- missory note, dated February 3rd, 1849, with interest from that period. The note having- been put in, iiid other formalities gone through, his lordship directed the jury to find a verdict for the plaintif fto the amount claimed—principal 1441., interest 101., total 1,541., which they did accordingly. Ishmael Jones, nged 22, pleaded Not Guilty to a charge of stealing at Llanllyfni, four planks of timber, the property of Jones and also, to stealing four planks of timber, the property of William Jones, in the month of September last. Mr. Welsby for the prosecution stated the case to the jury, and Mr. Bevan called the following witnesses to prove the statement:— Mr. Hugh Jones, joiner, Liiiillyfni-Ilas a timber yard and in consequence of information received from Robert Griffith, went on last Saturday week to pri- soner's nouse, where he found four stools and a bench. On the following Wednesday went again and found a quantity of sycamore timber, which witness had bought of Henry Hughes. Can distinctly identify the timber, by the fact that it had been sawn with an engine. Had caused it to be sawn and can, most positively, swear to the fact that it is his property. The prisoner attempted to dispute the identity but the prosecutor persisted in his statement and added, that he found in the man's house a bed that had been wainscotted out of his timber. Prosecutor went on to show the pieces of wood which he had received from Griffith, and which led him to search the house of the prisoner. Robert Griffith deposed, that he is a joiner, living at Penygroes. The prisoner, on the 13th, came to his shop with the foiji- stools produced. They were in a sack, and without the legs. He wanted the loan of an ogre to make holes in them. Witness consented, and prisoner made the holes, cut off the corners, and finished the stools. Witness became suspicious, and sent one of the corners to Hugh Jones. Prisoner did not give a satisfactory account hoar be his but said, that lie nad bought it from some woman whom he did not know. o v"*° but al'e'ed that he had said he bought it of his cousin. vvitness r«-ann mcii n!s previous statement. Ebenezer Jones deposed, that he is a joiner, and brother to the prosecutor, whom he accompanied to the prisoner's house, where he saw the bedstead now pro- (lueed also the planks and stools, together with a box. Felt certain that they were his brother's timber. By the Judge—Was with his brother, and had no doubt whatever that the wood was his. Hugh Jones deposed to the identity of all the bits of timber produced. Prosecutor, in reply to the judge, satisfactorily ac- counted for the fact of his not having immediately missed the timber after it had been stolen. The prisoner stated in his defence, that he had the wood from Jane Williams, a cousin, in exchange for a box, and that she said she had found it on the sea shore. He then called her to prove his statement, but she did not appear. The Judge put the case to the jury, very lucidly alike on the points that bore for and against the pri- soner. The jury retired,after a close inspection of the stools, they being the only part of the timber upon which the case for the prosecution could rest, and on their return found a verdict of Guilty. A previous conviction having been proved by an affidavit from R. A. Poole, Esq., and the parole evi- dence of Mr. D. Williams, senior, at the session of 1817, The prisoner was ordered to be transported for seven years. There was another indictment against the prisoner for a different felony. John Griffith pleaded Guilty to a charge of stealing, on the 1st of August, a scythe, in the parish of Llan- oil tile lst ot, ku,, ddeiniolen, the property of Robert Davies And after a suitable admonition, was sentenced to be kept to hard labour for two calendar months. Simon Parry, pleaded Not Guilty to a charge of entering, on the night of the 5th of April, in the parish of Llanbeblig, the shop of Daniel Owen with intent to steal. Mr. Bevan stated the case for the prosecution, from which it appeared that the prisoner was found secreted in the cellar of the prosecutor, who is a watchmaker in Eastgate-street, in this town, having effected his en- trance by means of an out-house communicating with the dwelling, after the use of force, which precluded the idea of his entering with a mere intent] to seek slit ltel*. Ann Owen deposed to sitting up on the night of the 6tlt of April last. Heard the iron bar of the cellar fall down and called her father. This was between one and two. Cross-examined by Mr. Welsby for the defence- Was sitting up to clean the kitchen is over the cellar had a light but made very little noise. Re-examined—The door between the kitchen and the cellar was shut. Daniel Owen, deposed to the fact of being awoke on the night spoken to, by his daughter, and to finding the prisoner in the cellar, having previously heard him talking. The words were yes! yes! Had armed him- self with an axe before going into the cellar. The night was a very light one but still witness took a candle. Prisoner looked very violent, and seemed about to spring. He had raised himself upon his el- bow, on which witness threatened to strike him if he moved, and kept him in custody until the Police came up about two o'clock. The door from the cellar that leads to the other room was off its hinges and the win- dow had had its shutter forced, the wood work being battered all to pieces. They were whole and safe ut 12 o'clock that night. Cross-examined, with the intent to elicit that there art lodging-houses near, and ruined premises, in which a tipsy man would naturally seek shelter and that the conduct of the prisoner was like that of a druuken m,"n who was suddenly awakened from a tipsy fit by finding a man with an axe, and a candle, standing over him prepared to strike. Mr. MoNaugbt, proved apprehending the prisoner, at a quarter before two in the morning in question. He said, that he thought he had got into a stable, and had previously looked out for the Police to help him to II lodging. lie was not sobei,, but yet sensible, at that time. Mr. Welsby, in an able address to the jury for the defence, enumerated the points that tended to show the absence of a felonious intent. The man was drunk, and forcibly tore away a shutter, thinking he was get- ging into a safe place to sleep in. He had no com- panions, no crow bar, no keys, no weapons, no pick- locks, or other instruments, nor had any goods been taken away or touched. The Judge summed up equitably alike on behalf of the accused and the public interest. The jury retired, and, on their return, found a ver- dict of Acquittal. The Judge stated that he fully concurred in the view taken by the jury, and very feelingly cautioned the acquitted man as to the sad dilemna into which he had allowed a habit of drunkenness to lead him. Mr. Welsby stated that his client, who came from the neighbourhood of Holywell, had received agood character trom the clergy and several of the most respectable inhabitants of that place, except, indeed, so fur as his indulgence in the habit of. hard drinking was concerned. William Owell pleaded Not Guilty to a charge of stealing, in the parish of Net-in, on the 1st of Feb- ruary, 1849, a ewe sheep, the property of Mary Simon. Another jury having been empanelled, Mr. Welsby stated the case for the prosecution, from which it appeared that at the beginning of 1847the prosecutrix lost several sheep, to which for a long time no clue could be found, but that recently one of them was traced to the prisoner, it having been sold several times over in the interim. He was apprehended ',Nlziy last. Mr. Walker called EtizabethThomas,daughter of the prosecutrix, who deposed that a little after Christmas, about three years ago, her mother lost some sheep, of which she had heard one had been since seen at a place five or six miles off. On going to the place the sheep was found and identified by the ear mark. Cross-examined by Mr. Yaughan Williams—The point of the right ear was cut otr, and there was also a dent made beneath. The mark oil the sheep traced to the place named, partly remained, but a portion had been cut away enough was left to enable her to swear to the identity. Witness was closely cross-examined, and re-exa- mined, on the point but she persisted that enough of the earmarks remained to enable her to identify the animal. Evan Jones, of Llaniestyn, deposed that three years ago, at the beginning of last spring, he bought two sheep from the prisoner, who delivered one of them to him in ten (lays time. Witness was afterwards ques- tioned about it, but had previously sold it to John Wil- liams. There was an earmark, but witness did not remember precisely what it was. Prisoner said the sheep was one belonging to his grandfather-in-law who lived from five to six miles from the residence of witness. Cross-examined—Bought the ewe at the beginning of spring, but cannot say whether in January or Feb- ruary had the sheep in possession a fortnight or three weeks before he sold it cannot correctly say when it was first enquired after as having been stolen; there were a whole flock of sheep in the field when he agreed to buy the two from the prisoner; the two farms are only a quarter of a mile apart. The Court thought that there was no case against the prisoner, who at the time was acting as agent or shepherd for an aged relative. The jury Acquitted the prisoner, who was forthwith discharged. William, Jones pleaded Guilty to a charge of steal- ing on the 30th of April, from the shop of Willtam Benjamin, in the parish of Llanengan, a quantity of money and other articles. Also, to the burglarious entrance into the premises, and to a previous conviction in October last at the Quarter Sessions. To be transporfed for seven years. Owen Frances, aged 52, pleaded Not Guilty to a charge of rape, upon Mary Griffith, in the parish of Llanarmon, on the 25th of May last. Mr. Welsby conducted the prosecution, and stated the case to tl)e j ut-y from which it appeared that the offence was of the most gross kind, the girl being of weak intellect, and enticed by the prisoner into a wood, he having previously informed himself of the infirm intellect and tender years of his victim. Mr. Vaughan Williams called the following witnesses to support the charge. Mary Griffith, the child, was first called, who, on being questioned by the Judge, as to her knowledge of the sacred obligation of an oath, gave satisfactory an- swers, and was permitted to describe the nature of the offence committed by the prisoner. Her testimony bore out the statement of Counsel, as far as she was concerned. The man partly enticed her, antI partly carried her, into the plantation and there effected his foul purpose in spite of her resistance and her cries, after vainly endeavouring to gain her consent. He subsequently induced her to receive from him a few halfpence. The force used was very violent, and she was hurt severely on her head and face. He then told her not to tell her mother on peril of her life but she told Rachael Griffith immediately on seeing her, and then informed her mother. JV,„Mr- Morgan Lloyd defended the prisoner. His ob- had consented to go witn TDb Nllz-e- Rachael Griffith, of Chwilog, deposed that, on the day in question, at noon, prisoner came jo Her House, anil inquired whether the last witness, Mary Griffith, wno nau just left the house, was not weak in intellect. Witness replied that she was. In an hour after, on the same day, saw the girl again. She was then in a sad state, and was weeping. She accused the prisoner of having abused her, There were marks of gorse on her face and several bruises. She had a penny and io halfpennies in her hand, which she said, the pri- j •i >ner gave her. Witness did not inquire minutely into nature of the abuse, but told her to go home and ■; 1 her mother. :men Griffithil, also of Chwilog, deposed that, she is of the girl, Mary, who on the day in question came home crying, and showing money that she had had from the prisoner, complaining that he had abused her sadly. Her clothes were torn, and also in such a state, as to leave no doubt as to the case. The girl is fifteen years of age. She had marks of gorse on her face, and has had a pain in her left cheek ever since. Her intellects are weak, and she is subject to fits. Margaret Owen, a child of eight years, having been duly examined as to the nature of an oath and her duty to speak truly, deposed to hearing in the planta- tion, on the day in question, a smothered cry from some girl. Stood to listen, but was afraid to go in. Ann Morris, midwife, was called to show that the injuries inflicted must have been the result of force. John Roberts, deposed to having witnessed the marks of a man's toes and knees, on the ground, on the spot shown to him in the plantation by Mary Griffith. There were other marks indicating a struggle. Mr. Morgan Lloyd, for the defence, contended that the assault, hoffever criminal, did not amount to rape, but was committed by consent—money being taken and that the complaint was an after thought, resulting from her mother's advice. Witnesses were then called to character, and several farmers, residing near the place in question, spoke of the prisoner as being of unimpeachable conduct, and excellent moral character. The Court elaborately and minutely summed up all the facts and features of the case, discriminating clearly between the obvious moral delinquency of such acts, and those peculiar features, which were requisite to substantiate the legal crime. They must first be satis- fied, that the prisoner was the man who violated the girl, for that she had been violated was beyond a doubt. Their next inquiry would be upon the question of, whether or not the girl had been a consenting party. If they thought that the receipt of money implied con- sent, they would arquit the prisoner. If, on the other hand they thought, that the amount of force resorted to, did away with the supposition of consent, they would return their verdict accordingly. The jury retired for about half an hour, and on their return said, We find the prisoner Not Guilty of rape, but Guilty of seduction"—a form of verdict which eli- cited an irrepressible burst of derisive cheering. Attorneys:—for the prosecution, Hugh Lloyd, Esq., Pwllheli; for the defence, E. G. Powell, Esq., Car- narvon. The Court then adjourned to nine o'clock next morning. THURSDAY. The Court re-opened at nine o'clock this morning. Mary Junes, aged 24, pleaded Not Gui't;/ to the wilful murder of her illegitimate child, Ellen, aged six weeks, oil the 9th of May last, in the parish of Llan- haiarn. Mr. Welsby stated the case for the prosecution, by which it appeared, that a child, found in a ditch, slightly advanced in decomposition, yet otherwise ex- hibiting structural signs of previous healthy and vigor- ous life, was traced to be the illicit offspring of which, on the 26th of March last, the prisoner had been de- livered and to prove the manner in which the child came to be thus left and deserted, and the other fea- tures of the case, the following witnesses were called by Mr. Morgan Lloyd— Ann Griffith deposed, that on Sunday, the 9th of May, as she was going across a field, in which there was no regular path, leading from the turnpike to the sea shore, in the pansh of Llanhaiarn, she saw some- thing white, which she moved, and saw a hand—that of a'child. It was covered. The frock was over the head. Went to Gwydir Mawr, and told her mistress. Went back to the field and showed the child to Ellis Jones. Cross-extmiined by Mr. Walker for the defence, but with no effect, her evidence in chief remaining un- shaken the child lay in a ditch, covered with its own clothes; it lay near the edge it was by moving the clothes that the hand was seen. By the Judge-There were no gaps in the hedges; went over them, it being the shortest way her mis- tress's farm was three fields from where the body lay. Ellis Jones deposed, that oil the morning of the Sunday in question, he went to the field, c-jlleil Cae Bach, in company with other parties,where he saw a child, lying on the edge of the ditch. The ground was wetted beneath, and the grass around discoloured. The clothes were white. There was a flannel petticoat near the feet of the child. The ground had marks of h'lving been kicked. The soil was red, the grass hav- ing been kicked off. Took the body to the parish church. The body c uld not be seen from the road, the intervening ground being high. Cross examined—The body was lying on yellow grass; that around was green, and grown up high there was thick soil beneath, not a mere rock took up the body on seeing it; a flannel petticoat lay over the legs. Re-examined—The body was seen by several women of tiie Workhouse, in the Church-yard. Dr. Jones, Pwllheli, deposed, that on the 24th of May last, he attended a Coroner's Inquest, at Llan- haiarn, on the body of a female child, three or four we eks old, :is fir as he could judge. There were no external marks of violence but the skiu of the left hip. and the parts from there to the sole of the foot, h id been partially rubbed off. There was also a partial rubbing off on the cheek. The left evelid was dis- coloured, and a slight scratch under the ancle of the right leg. They seemed such as a struggle would have occasioned under the circumstances. The stomach (on the 20th) was inflated, and contained nothing but a little mucus. The bowels were healthy. There were no marks of internal disease. The death was from cold and starvation. It had been dead three or four days before the twentieth. There was a scab on each eye brow. The large intestines were not empty but there was no undigested matter in the alimentary canal. Cross-examined—Could not say, that the child had not been sniotliei-el milk would not remain long in the stomach all the abrasions were on the left side temporary loss of reason sometimes results from child- birth paroxysms of insanity do occur now and then from superabundance of milk; sometimes mania. is found to occur some weeks after delivery, in certain cases total deprivation of reason at the time of com- mitting sudden acts, does follow child-birth in some cases; it is a malady incidental to child-birth. Re-examined—Twenty-four hours would probably terminate the life of a child under exposure; cannot say exactly how long; cold would retard decomposi- tion. By the Judge—Decomposition had not commenced on the 20th, i. e. its apparent signs. By the Court—Violent derangement ensues from ex- cess of milk in many cases. Owen Jones, Governor of the Union Workhouse, in this town, deposed that on February 9th prisoner came into the house, and was delivered of a child on March 26th, which was oil April 2nd baptised by the name of Ellen. There were scabs on each brow from the time of birth. Saw a dea 1 child on the 24th of May in the churchyard of Llanhaiarn it was the same as that to which the prisoner gave birth. Siie leit the house with the child on May 9th, and took away three garments with her. On the day she went away she said her foster mother would rear (take charge or) the child. She lived in Lleyn. It is that part of the county beyond Pwllheli. She had got a situation as wet nurse. Cross-examined—Generally ascertain where paupers, male or female, are going when they give notice of leaving the house. Prisoner cannot read or write. Ellen Jones, Matron of tke Workhouse, deposed to the time when the prisoner came to the house and gave birth to her child. Its eyebrows had scabs soon after birth; they commenced in a livid or squalid spot. She took workhouse linen and cloths away with her when she left; a belly-band roller and wrapper were among the articles. Was present at the inquest on the 24th of May. The child on which it was held was that of which prisoner is the mother. "ilie left the workhouse delighted at having got a situation as wet nurse, through the recommendation of witness. The situation was in this town. She said that she would take eare of the child. It was well when she took it away. Cross-examined—She had a full breast of milk. The child had good lunas and could cry "ustily. By the Judge-She bad the child in her arms. The prisoner had a shawl or covering on at the time, in which she could envelope the child. She had been hired as a wet nurse in the town the day before she went away. Owen Jones, of Bont newydd, deposed, that he lives two miles from the town, and that on the 9th of May he was at work repairing a bridge at Llanhaiarn, when he saw the prisoner going towards Pwllheli, as from Carnarvon, with a bundle in her arms, which she car- ried as women carry children. Did not speak to her, but knew her. On the Friday following, the 10th, went again to work and met the prisoner at five on the same turnpike-road, and about five miles from Carnar- von, and six from Llanhaiarn. She was going towards siie liiiw Cxj 4J V'.MVJ. fri | service at Carnarvon. Her home was at Llangian, beyond Pwllheli. Heard her say so last year. Cross-examined—Could not see whether it was a child or bundle that she carried on the Thursday. It was wrapped up in a shawl. Sarah Jones deposed, that her father's house is close to the road leading from Carnarvon to Pwllheli, and fourteen miles from the former place. as going nton-i the road from Carnarvon, at two u'doh. on the afternoon of May 9th, and fell in company with the prisoner at Llanwnda. Did not know her before. Was walking with her for about two hours. She had a child in her arms. It was alive and well. When they parted company she went towards Pwllheli. She said she came from Carnarvon workhouse, and was taking the child to her mother at Llangian. Prisoner said it was iiioi-e lilielv to get fair plav. Cross-examined—She seemed to take care of it; it was wrapped in a shawl. Re-examined—The prisoner seemed well, but corn plained that she was much tired she said that she was not married. Ellen Evans, of Llanhaiarn, deposed that she lived at Llwyn. Her husband's name is Evan Evans. Their house leads past the field called Cae bach, ill a lane between the turnpike road and the sea shore. Oil the 10th of May heard a noise which she thought was from a lamb beyond Cae bach. Only heard it once, some- where between ten and twelve. No lambs or sheep were kept there in Cae bach. In May they are kept on the mountain. Evan Evans, husband of last witness, deposed to hearing a similar sound on the same day, corning from the place where the child was subsequently found. Did not search. Cross-examined—It was not on my land had it been I should have searched, thinking it was a stray lamb. Lewis John Williams, constable of Pwllheli, proved apprehending the prisoner ;n this town on May 23rd, and to charging her with being the mother of the child found in the ditch at Llanhaiarn. Site said AN'is there a child found in the field at Llanhaiarn." it- ness said yes, and that he hall a warrant to take her to the inquest. She replied that she had taken her child to Llangian to be nursed, where she had been nursed herself. Witness said that he knew nothing of that, but that a child had been found in the field, and that she was thought to be the mother. Cross-examined—She said her child was at Llan- gian being nursed, did not say she took it. Re-examined, with a conifrmatory result. Said the child was at the place named being nursed. Eilen Jones, of Llangian, deposed that she is foster mother to the prisoner. Had not seen her for more than two years. Cross-examined—She is illegitimate, and never had any friends. By the Judge—She was brought up by the parish, who paid my mother for bringing her up. Mr. Roberts, surveyor, Pwllheli, produced a survey or map of the fndd and vicinage where the child was found and minutely described the distances of the found and minutely described the distances of the several surrounding tenements and fields trom the spot where the body lav. There was an intervening eleva- tion and high hedges, so as to preclude the probability of the child being seen by persons living near, or those passing, on the highway. Cross-examined—The grass was long; the ditch was more capable of concealmeut than any other part of the field. It was a hollow or gutter. By the Judge—William Davies pointed out where the child was found. There is a gate, but no path. It was a hay field. The grass was high. There were no cattle or sheep in it. William Davies deposed that he was with Ann Grif- fith and Ellen Jones, and saw the body of the child lying in a hollow, and afterwards pointed out the spot to the surveyor, and helped him to make the survey or map. Cross-examined—Six persons had seen the body be- fore me. This closed the case for the prosecution. Ann Griffith re-called by the Judge to shew that the position of the child was the same on her return as when she first saw it. Mr. Walker addressed the jury on behalf of the pri- soner, claiming for her any doubt which might sug- gest itself. If she had placed the child in the spot de- scribed, it was evident that she could not have intended, if alive when placed there, to destroy it, for the neigh- bourhood presented many places more private for such n purpose. If the prisoner did place the child there- its vicinity to numerous dwellings made it probable that the child would have been found before death en- sued. The learned counsel also suggested that if the prisoner was the party who left the child in the field she must have done so under the effect of insanity, fro n milk fever. The learned judge put the various points of the evi- dence plainly to the jury, assuring them that if a child were exposed under such circumstances as could not be consistent with any reasonable hope or expectation of means of relief coming in time to administer to it the necessary sustenance and nurture, the person so expos- ing it would be, to the full, as guilty of wilful and deli- berate murder as if he or she had resorted to violent means, in order to procure the child's death. The fact, therefore, whether the deceased child had been exposed so as to render its death all but inevitable, waa the main fact to be decided and then whether the prisoner was the party who so exposed it. In order to lead them to a correct conclusion as to the first point, the judge minutely described the nature of the spot on which the child had been left and, in order to guide them on the second point, he adverted to the facts which made it apparent that the mother was the last known custodier of her living child. In the course of his very able and truly eloquent address, the learned judge drew the attention of the jury to the several dis- tinctions in the modes of exposing a child, which marked the degrees of offence between the simplest form of misdemeanour and that degree of culpable neglect, which, in case of an unfortunate result, would warrant the verdict either of manslaughter or of wilful murder. Cases of children labelled and delivered to parties alive and well, from motives of any kind that were not unaccompanied by provident pre-arrange- ments for the child's safety, could not, even if accident intervened, be regarded as other than misdemeanour, but the absence of such arrangements would, in case of death from neglect, warrant a verdict 01 manslaughters; even if the spot where the exposure took place was obvious generally, and easy of access to all surround- ing parties. His lordship then pointed out the several links in the evidence, which went to shew that the prisoner at the bar was the mother of the child, on which the inquest had been held, as having been found dead in Cae bach and adverted to the conclusive evi- dence of the clothes that were found on the dead child, being the same as those with which thu living child was clad when she left the workhouse. The learned judge, in order to free the question of identity from all doubt, re-called the following wit- nesses :— Griffith Humphreys, Constable of Llanhaiarn, pro- duced the clothes, given to him as being found on the child when dead. Elizabeth Edwards, proved delivering clothes to last witness, as taken from the body of the dead child, and identified them as those she had taken from the child. The matron identified them as those with which the prisoner left the workhouse. His Lordship then adverted to the personal proofs of identity, viz., the marks on the eye brows, &,c., and proceeded most carefully and minutely to sum up the entire evidence, giving, in the course of his address, a forcible and feeling picture of the destitute and lone condition of a woman, so brought up as the prisoner had been-a child of shame and neglect, and exposed to the wiles and desires of the other sex, without that moral culture, which alone could keep her passions in check closing with a view of all the probabilities and improbabilities, by the assumption of which alone, it could be supposed, that the woman had not left her child alive on the spot sworn to. His Lordship said that he placed very little reliance on the plea. that the act was the result of derangement from milk fever but the tenor of his peroration was favourable to the view, that the child was improvidently placed by the prisoner where it was found dead, but with a hope that it might be found alive. The jury retired. Mr. Welsby applied to the Court for an allowance to the Surveyor, as the distances deposed to were es- sential. The Court concurred. On their return the jury found a verdict of Man- slaughter. To be transported, for the term of her natural life. In the case of the Queen v. Robert Bocivaii Griffith, Mr. Wynne Edwards objected to the indictment by a plea of avoidance on the ground that one of the gen- tlemen on the Grand Jury who found the bill, was a magistrate of the b trough and a town councillor, and quoted the Municipal Act, 5 and 6 of William 4th, c. 76, sec. 122, in proof of his view. Mr. Yaughan Williams followed on the same side. The Court demurred to their construction of the clause. The argument was renewed by either advocate for the defendant at great length, but the remarks of the learned Judge seemed to indicate that he attached little importance to their objections, and differed widely from their view of the law. His lordship observed that their view would still further disqualify gentlemen of large landed estates in the county. Mr. Welsby adverted to the 122nd section as con- clusive the other way, and regretted that even if there in uie objection it shuui<J hiive been taken the assize, as the same objection, if valid, The Court over-ruleti u«s weight whatever. The words of the act did not war- rant the construction put upon them by the learned counsel for the defence. A jury was then empannelled to try the case. Mr. Robert Bod van Griffith surrendered upon his bail, and pleaded Not Guilty to a charge of perjury. Mr. Coxon stated the case to the jury, for the Crown, by which it appears that the charge arose out of a pro- secution instituted by the defendant in April last, be- fore the Magistrates, against William Griffith, for stealing oats, on which occasion the alleged perjury took place. Mr. Welsby addressed the jury in elucidation of the charge, and called the following witnesses in proof,- Mr. Williams, jun., clerk to the magistrates, put in the statement made by the defendant before their wor- ships, in April last, when accusing William Griffiths of obtaining oats under false pretences, and a copy of the deposition of the said defendant during the en- quiry before the magistrates that subsequently ensued. Their purport was, as our readers are aware, to deny the having received the second of two hobbets of oatil which, at the close of last year or thereabouts, he had bought of Mr, Evan Hughe's, corn merchant, and to charge on William Griffith, his then bailiff, the offence of having received the second liobbet under false pretences. Cross-examined by Mr. Wynne Edwards-Had known Mr. Robert Bodvan Griffith for many years. Cannot speak as to his respectability. (Witness spoke so reluctantly and so low, that we could not cnteh his words. They appeared to us to bear an import ex- pressive of the fact that he did not regard the charac- ter of the defendant as free from reproach). William Griffith deposed that some time back he was bailiff to Mr. Bodvan Griffith. Remembers him buy- ing some oats last year of Evan Hughes. A hobbet of those oats was brought home by Griffith Williams, the day after witness went there to order it. He went at his master's order. It was delivered at Mr. B. Grif- fith's house, and was taken by witness to the garret direct. Mr. Griiffth was in the lobby at the time. His housekeeper had told him that the oats were taken up stairs. After this, Mr. Bodvan Griffith told me to go to Mr. Ilughes to send the other hobbet home. This was about six or seven weeks after the first hobbet had been delivered. He gave these directions two or three times,—once when Hugh Jones, hatter, was in the kitchen. In consequence of this, went to Mr. Hughes and told him that Mr. B. Griffith was scolding because the last hobbet was not sent. as not present when the second hobbet was delivered, nor saw any in the -v;ce at the time. -ist house. I was in his service at the time. It was last spring when I had words with him about the wages. I had said that I would bring an action against him in the New Court. 1 had told him so twice j-once at Bangor, and the second time in his own kitchen. He jumped to me with a poker and threatened to split my skull (brains).. Cross-examined—I did subsequently bring my action, and the verdict was against me the hobbet was delivered last year I took it to the g-arret j Mary Hughes saw me pouring it out it was she that undid the strings of the sack; have been twice in gaol before; once by Mr. Budvan Giiffith for receiving money, and again upon a similar charge Mr. Robert Williams was the attorney that put me in the other time Mr. Powell never put me in my children have sold corn which they have begged. Re-examined—Was first in gaol in 1835 or > it was for receiving wages falsely the other time was five years ago Mr. Bodvan Griffith took me into his employ five or six weeks time after my disc ai = e roin gaol, and I have been in his service ever since, until I went to gaol last; my wages were to be five shillings per week; Mr. Robert Edwards, auctioneer, and others, appeared against me in the County Court; he said that I was only one night keeping possession of some property at Bontnewydd. Mr. Evan Hughes, corn-factor, deposed to selling a quarter of oats to Mr. Bodvan Griffith, in the month of December last. He paid for them when he bought them. One hobbet of them was sent by Griffith Wil- liams in a fortnight, and the second in six weeks after; they were fiven to John Jones, carrier. About two or three weeks after the delivery of the second hobbet, I told Mr. Bodvan Griffith by whom I had sent the second hobbet. Mr. Griffith's house is on y a few roods distance from my house. Jones's cart was passing by that was the reason why his cart was made use of. Griffith Williams deposed that he was a corn car- rier, and took a hobbet of oats last year from Mr.