blood." He says, "How can I help that? a dd infernal bitch!" He did not open the door. I went to Benjamin's room and alarmed him. It appeared to me as if the prisoner had spoken in bed. I traced blood from the prisoner's bed-room door down to the kitchen. I traced the footmark of blood in Benjamin's room; the impression of a heel and toe. It was a foot going into the room. It was about a yard into the room. It might be a yard from Benjamin's bed, near enough to have put any thing into the bed while standing there. The child, Anne, was found in Richard's bed, which was in that room as well as Benjamin's. The step of blood was near enough to throw the child into the bed. All the doors of the house were fast. The prisoner came down in five minutes, dressed all but his coat. He came to the body, his hands clasped behind him, and looked at it for a moment. He then walked up and down the kitchen as if nothing was the matter. He ordered two tables to have the body laid on.

Cross-examined.-I left the wife at the fire-side. She was rather freshish, but not past her guard.

John Stainesby was called on his recognizances (407.); and not appearing, his recognizances were estreated.

Second witness, John Gibson, deputy-constable of Bradford. I was called on between five and six in the morning of the 28th. I found the body of the deceased with her head to the chair. She had been lifted up. There was a considerable quantity of blood. The prisoner was walking about. He told me that he had been at

Halifax fair, and came back about 1 o'clock in the morning when he came into the house, he got some beef and beer; he then went up stairs. I went up with him to the bed-room. He said he found his wife on the bed with her clothes on. I traced drops of blood from the foot of the staircase to the chamber. At the bed-foot there was blood, and in another part of the chamber. At the bed-foot it appeared mopped up. He told me that when he had got into the room his wife was lying on her back with her clothes on, with the young child beside her; her eyes were open; he began to shake her to get up; she rose herself up, got to the bed-foot, and then tumbled down on the floor. She then strove to get up again, but could not. He took her by the shoulders, to assist her; she fell again, either against the wall or the drawers (I do not know which he said); she went down stairs, and he saw no more of her.

Cross-examined.-He did not say she was drunk; I believe he led me to think she had been in liquor.

By the Court.-I saw no blood near the wall or the drawers.

Third witness, Mr. W. Sharp, a surgeon at Bradford. I was called in by the coroner to examine the body of Mary Oldfield, on the 29th of June. On the body I observed a variety of bruises: one on the outside of the right thigh; one on the left breast, small; one on the left cheek; one on the left arm, small, below the elbow; one external and an internal wound on another part. None of these could have accounted for death. Considerable quantities of blood had es

caped from the wound. All the bruises, save that on the right side, might have been occasioned by falls. The wound could not have been occasioned without falling on a stick or post. The same fall could not have occasioned all. I opened the head; I found a bruise wound on the left side; a small bruise on the front, but no wound. On the right side, lying immediately on the brain, I found a large quantity of extravasated blood escaped from the vessels, and press ing on the brain. In my opinion it occasioned death; I have no doubt at all of it. The bruise had been on the opposite side: it might have occasioned the extravasation. The scull was not fractured. I believe a person after that extravasation could not have moved from the bed-room to the kitchen. It must have been a very hard substance, indeed, that could have produced the injury; the fist I should think could not do it. The traces of blood had exactly the appearance of falling from one walking; they might have fallen from the particular wound mentioned. The cause of death undoubtedly was an induced apoplexy, to which persons addicted to liquor are more disposed than others.

Re-examined.-Apoplexy with out an external wound would probably show a fulness of all the vessels. In this case there was so much blood extravasated that the vessels must have been emptied.

Wheatley was recalled, and stated that the head had been on the frame of the chair, the temple on the frame. It was lying rather to the left side, with the knees bending up. There was

nothing on the floor to cause a tumble.

Cross-examined.-I think the head would have been on the seat of the chair as if she had fallen. There was blood between the body and the door of the kitchen.

By the Court-She was fully dressed, excepting her shoes and cap. I did not see the cap at all.

Mr. Sharp again examinedThe mark on the head was in the form of a star, not longitudinally.

If it had been a fall, she must have been running violently.

By the Court.-There were many bloody foot-marks in the kitchen; according to appearances, they were a woman's.

The prisoner, who was decently dressed in black, said he had found the back-door of his house open when he came home. I found her lying on the bed with her clothes on, and her face red. I saw the sort of state she was in, and took her by the shoulders to make her rise; she fell between the drawers and the wall, neck foremost. She did not offer to rise. I lifted her up, and then she made another tumble, with her head against the wall; she got up and went down stairs. I took my coat off, and made the bed. I went to bed, and put the door to, expecting that she would come back. I slept and knew nothing more.

Witnesses for the defenceJohn Ingram, a bailiff, was at the Horse and Groom on the evening of the 27th June. Mrs. Oldfield was very much intoxicated.

Alice Broughton was in the habit of nursing Mrs. Oldfield. On the 28th saw her foot-marks in the kitchen. Her stockings were bloody inside.

Cross-examined by Mr. Jones

-I washed all the things. The doctor ordered me to hide away the clothes as soon as possible. I was not in the bed-room till it was washed. Mr. Oldfield's boys washed the floor. I never did wash up any blood in the bedroom, on my oath. I washed blood off the steps with a strange man, with a wet towel. Oldfield was in the bar: he could not miss seeing it. I should not know the strange man if I saw him. He scraped with a knife, and I washed. I saw by his apron he was a comber.

Mr. Sharp recalled, said, "I gave no orders to hide away or wash the things."

Here the witness Broughton fainted, and was carried out of

court.

Mr. Justice Park summed up. It was a case of most infinite importance. The Jury would give it the most careful consideration. The Jury retired ten minutes before two. They returned again in twenty minutes to ask a question of Wheatley, who now said that the chair was against the wall, and the deceased's head on the front part of the chair; and the Jury again retired. At 3 o'clock they returned a verdict of-Guilty.

The prisoner, who had stood without the slightest symptom of emotion, even when the verdict was returned, and who looked at his lordship during his most solemn address, in passing sentence, with a staid stare, deliberately said, as he was leaving the bar, My lord, I am a murdered

man."

The prisoner was large boned, and ruddy in his face. His prominent nose, long cheeks, and gray locks, gave him an appearVOL. LXII.

ance of gravity and respectability.

AWFUL CATASTROPHE,--, About four o'clock on Wednesday [the 21st] afternoon, a fatal accident occurred at the Thorncliffe Iron Works, near Sheffield. The workmen were engaged, in the midst of the thunder storm, in casting for a steam engine a large iron shaft, of upwards of five tons weight, when pouring the metal into the mould prepared for its formation, it suddenly exploded; the consequence was, three men were killed on the spot, and a great many were severely injured, three of whom have since died. All the managing partners were present, and, with the exception of Mr. Isaac Newton, providentially escaped; in attempting to retreat, he had the misfortune to fall; the event proved fatal; after lingering under great torture, he expired the following morning. As no other cause can be reasonably assigned for this remarkable phenomenon, it is conjectured, that it had its origin in the electric fluid being attracted by the sulphureous steam which emanated from the casting. This seems extremely probable, as the mould was placed in a perpendicular station, and not in an horizontal

one.

21. ROME-(Extract of a private Letter)-A revolt took place at Ponte-Corvo (a town belonging to the Pope, within the limits of the kingdom of Naples) on the 4th inst.; the physician, the surgeon, and the apothecary of the town, were at the head of it; they called to their aid the Neapolitan militia, under the orders of Casella, and expelled the governor. The same thing has happened at Benevento

U

Three gendarmes were assassinated in the streets: the others, consisting of about 40 men, retired to the castle. The insurgents, amounting to 7,000 (although the classes in easy circumstances do not interfere in the insurrection), then hoisted the tri-coloured flag; they were commanded by a man named Velianto, an ex-commissary of war. The Pope's delegate quitted Benevento on the 11th instant, after having made a formal protest. The gendarmes concluded a capitulation with Velianto, who signed it:Organisatorie del Carbonari di Benevento."

The archbishop cardinal Spinucci, aged 82, refused to order Te Deum to be chanted on the occasion. Velianto repaired to Naples, and solicited the incorporation of Benevento, but he received a negative. The government caused a proclamation to be issued, in which it disavows all intervention in the affairs of neighbouring powers. Benevento and Ponte-Corvo are in a state of complete anarchy.

The following proclamation has been published at Naples :"Ferdinand I., &c.-We, Francis, hereditary prince, and vicar-general,

"Having received intelligence of a movement which has taken place in the city of Benevento, and wishing to avoid, with every possible care, every thing that may in any manner disturb the good understanding with his holiness, and to prevent any inhabitant of the kingdom from interfering in the affairs of the state of Benevento, we give notice to our beloved people, that, to preserve their own independence, it is necessary to respect the inde

pendence of other governments, and religiously to avoid every thing that may compromise the good understanding with the Pontifical court. We order, in consequence, that no inhabitant of this kingdom shall dare to introduce any armed men into the neighbouring states, or to interfere in any manner in their affairs. Those acting in contradiction to this order shall be punished with all the rigour of the law, conformably to the 117th and following articles of the penal code. (Signed)

"FRANCIS, Vicar-General."

(Countersigned) "The Secretary of State, Minister of Justice, "RICCIARDI."

"Naples, 12th July."

LINCOLN ASSIZES.- Richard Mitchell, an Irishman, aged 21, was indicted for a rape on the person of Mary, the wife of George Andrews.

Mary Andrews stated, that about eight o'clock in the evening of Saturday, the 8th of July, she was washing some potatoes at her house-door, and the prisoner was standing opposite; she had some conversation with him, and had an opportunity of observing his person and dress; shortly afterwards her husband came home, and they got their suppers. The family consisted of her husband, herself, and their daughter, a child about ten years of age. After supper, a neighbour, of the name of Lewis, came in, and he and her husband went out together; witness said to him, "Don't go away, if you do I shall go to bed;" a little before ten she and her little girl did go to bed; the prisoner had continued against the house all this time. She did

not lock the door, expecting that her husband would soon return; and she left a light burning in her bed-room. A little past eleven she was awakened by finding some one in bed with her, whom she at first thought to be her husband, but afterwards discovered it was the prisoner. She could only swear to the prisoner by his

waistcoat.

ex

George Andrews, husband of the last witness, corroborated her testimony respecting his going out with Lewis; and further stated, that the prisoner was leaning against the pales in front of their house for a considerable time on the night in question; and had by his appearance cited suspicion in witness's mind. Mr. Baron Garrow considered some of the circumstances of the case as very suspicious and extraordinary. Why did not Mrs. Andrews lock the door on going to bed, particularly when she had heard the suspicions the prisoner's appearance had excited in the minds of Lewis and her husband. The only thing, too, by which she had identified the prisoner, was his waistcoat, and he (baron Garrow) would venture to assert, that sixty out of every hundred Irishmen that came to this country under such circumstances as the prisoner did, wore waistcoats very similar to his.

The Jury, without hesitation, acquitted the prisoner.

SICILY.-Naples, July 21.-On the 14th instant the vessel sent by the hereditary prince vicar-general, to announce the happy news of his majesty's having sworn to the constitution, arrived at Palermo. Joy spread throughout the city. The tri-coloured cockade, the signal of the reform in our

civil government, was in a moment universally displayed. In the evening a yellow cockade was united to the tri-coloured one. Opinions were now expressed in favour of the constitution, and a desire was manifested to have a different national parliament for Sicily. Some persons wore on their breast the yellow riband, with the figure of the Sicilian eagle.

On the 15th, a religious festival was celebrated. His excellency the lieutenant-general proceeded to the cathedral, where grand mass was performed: he was received by cries of " Viva la Constituzione! Viva l'Independenza!" These cries accompanied the lieutenant on his return from the cathedral, and also when he proceeded to the government-house to assist in the duties of the evening.

The religious ceremony being ended, his excellency proceeded to the Senate-house, where he had left general Church, brigadier Coglitore, and some other persons. The two generals went out together to walk. General Church, who is foreign to us both by birth and sentiments, in a fit of passion, which, to say the least of it, was folly, tore the yellow riband from the breast of a peaceful citizen. This was the signal for a general disturbance. General Coglitore advised his indiscreet companion in arms to fly; but the unfortunate man himself received two blows intended for general Church, who then fled. It is not known what has become of him. The populace, irritated by the insult which had been offered to a citizen, repaired to the hotel where Church lodged. The guard, which was