the prisoner seemed to be perfectly callous, and on hearing the verdict remained unmoved.

25. CORK.-An express arrived in this city, with the proclamation of the lord lieutenant, placing the county of Cork under the operation of the Insurrection Act.

On Sunday morning, a notice, 2 framed in violent and inflammatory language, was found pasted to the chapel-gate at Cloghroe, a short distance from this city, commanding the parishioners and inhabitants of that district, under pain of the displeasure and vengeance of captain Rock, in future to pay neither tithes nor taxes of any description, and not to pay more than 37. an acre for potatoe-land. It also called on all persons, who had taken land within seven years, to surrender it immediately; and concluded with denouncing captain Rock's vengeance against any person, who should take down the notice. This threat was, however, disregarded by the rev. Maurice Lane, Roman Catholic clergyman of the parish, who immediately addressed his congregation on the consequences of engaging in such conspiracies and outrages.

28. Bow-STREET.-Mr. Wm. Miller, a young man charged on the preceding Thursday with a rape, attended at this office for further examination, accompanied by his brother and solicitor. After some other business had been transacted, the prosecutrix, her mother, her two sisters, and her step-father, were conducted into the office.

The prosecutrix, rather a welllooking girl, about 20, was then sworn and examined, having been previously placed in a chair near the table, in consequence of the

delicate state of her health. She stated that her name was Eliza Sharman. She lived with her mother and her step-father, Mr. Clarke, at No. 22, Charles-street, Queen's Elms, Chelsea. The defendant and his brother had lodged at Mr. Clarke's house. On Sunday evening, the 3rd of February, at about ten o'clock, she was going up stairs to bed, and met Mr. Miller coming down. He said to the witness, "I was coming down to look for some of you; I want to speak to you." She walked up stairs with him to his front room, not knowing that his brother was in bed. This was on the first floor, and his brother slept on the second floor. When she went in, he shut the door, and said "stop a minute." She had a light in her hand, which he snatched from her, and laid on the table. She was very bad in her head at the time. She said nothing, when he took the candle from her. He then took hold of her by the arms, and pulled her into the adjoining bed-room. She lost her senses, and could not call out. He threw her upon the bed, and accomplished his purpose with great violence. She nearly lost her senses, and could not exactly tell what took place, but she was conscious he effected his object. She apprised her sister of what had happened on the next morning, between ten and eleven o'clock. Her sister is twenty-one years of age.

On her cross-examination by Mr. Reade, she said, she met Mr. Miller on the first landing. He did not then inform her, that his brother and their housekeeper were both in bed. He told her so afterwards in the room. While she was in the drawing-room with him, some trivial conversation took place.

He said her sisters were fine girls. He did not kiss her in the draw ing-room. She did not go with him into the bed-room. He forced her into it. She did not call out. Her father and mother were below stairs. They could not have heard her, if she had called out, for they had company, and they were all speaking together. She was prevented from calling out by the loss of her faculties. Had she retained her faculties, there was nothing to prevent her from crying out. Had she done so, the housekeeper in the room overhead must have heard her. As it was, she must have heard the noise. Witness was about five minutes in the bedroom. She would not swear, that she was not thirty-five minutes in Her sister passed up stairs, while she was in the drawingroom. She did not enter into an agreement with Mr. Miller on the bed, that, if he would permit her to go to her own room to undress herself, she would return and sleep with him all night. Her sister slept in the same room with her that night. She saw Mr. Miller, before he went away the next morning. She did not upbraid him with his conduct towards her, because there were people about. She did not take him by the hand.

Dr. Hyde was then sworn, and stated that he had been called in to see Miss Eliza Sharman on the 13th of February, ten days after this affair had taken place. She was since confined to her bed by an inflammation on the groin. This might have proceeded from a blow, a strain, or a cold. He was not informed, that violence had been offered to her, until he had been attending her for three days. He then altered his treatment of her. Speaking professionally, this

was unpardonable neglect. As a medical man, he could not state, whether or not the circumstance complained of had taken place. No mercury had been used or was necessary in the prosecutrix's case; neither did Mr. Miller labour under any thing of that kind. Miss Sharman's mother brought her to the witness's house to receive advice. When asked by Mr. Reade, whether or not any peculiar delicacy had been observed by the young lady on that occasion, the witness declined to answer the question as unprofessional.

Mr. Reade, in Mr. Miller's defence, said, he was prepared to bring forward evidence to shake the credit of the prosecutrix-to show, that the mother, when she let the lodgings for six months, had no power to do so; that the house was not a reputable house; and to prove, if necessary, that the brothers had determined upon leaving it, before this connexion between the prosecutrix and defendant took place. He then produced a letter dated the 5th of February, which was admitted to have been written by one of the sisters in her mother's name, and at her dictation; it was addressed to the defendant's brother. Mrs. Clarke there talked of his strange and ungentlemanly manner of leaving her house, after having taken the apartments for six months, and having previously put her to the trouble of clearing them for him. She alluded to a threat of his appealing to the law, which she always considered to be the prerogative of the injured party. Since his departure, she had learned the indelicacy which his brother had been guilty of, and was very angry with her youngest daughter for not having mentioned it sooner t

Mr. Clarke and her, as well as for her indiscretion in walking with him into his room; still, that did not excuse his misconduct. Under these circumstances, having a character to support as an authoress, and as a private person, she should expect a suitable explanation. This was the substance of the letter.

Mr. Reade next produced the agreement in the hand-writing of Mr. Clarke, letting the apartments to Mr. Miller for six months; and then a letter from Mr. Clarke's landlord, directed to his lodgers, informing them, that Mr. Clarke was not authorized to let the lodgings for any time. He did this to show the circumstances, which occasioned the brothers to leave the house; and that it had not : been in consequence of the crime imputed to one of them. He held in his hand, he said, a list of 18 or 20 respectable persons, who were ready to prove, that the prosecutrix was a most abandoned character; and that she had had criminal intercourse with other personstwice, thrice, fifty times!

Mr. Lloyd was then sworn. He lived opposite to the house, in which the prosecutrix lived. He believed it to be a notoriously bad house. He had frequently seen three or four young men together with that young woman.

Mr. Albert, jun., understood, from general report, that this was a house of ill fame. He had frequently observed the prosecutrix nodding and winking and laughing at young men passing by; and at himself amongst others.

Mr. Kerk had, with his mother, lodged in this house. None of the sisters were then there but the prosecutrix. As he was upon his

oath, he must state that he had had criminal intercourse with her.

Sir Richard Birnie now said, that he had heard quite enough to satisfy him, that he ought to dismiss the charge. If the parties thought themselves aggrieved, they might apply to a grand jury.

The two sisters wept bitterly, and stated that they had only come to this house within the last month. Until that day they had been wholly unacquainted with the character of the house, or with any of the facts which had been stated in evidence. They did not know what course to pursue, to rescue their characters from the imputation that would attach to them from having resided in a house which was now stated to be an improper one. This injury would be the more severe, as one of them kept a school, and had, therefore, the morals of young persons intrusted to her care.

MARCH.

1. As two labourers were trenching in a field, near Fryston Beck, in the parish of Pontefract, for the purpose of planting liquorice, they discovered, within ten inches of the surface, a large stone coffin, which contained a human skeleton; the skull was placed between the legs, and a large stone occupied the situation of the head.

It is generally believed, and with great probability, to be the remains of Thomas (afterwards canonized as a Saint) earl of Lancaster, steward of England, who was beheaded in the reign of Edward II. on Monday, March 22, 1322 (according to Holinshed), upon a hill which now bears the

name of St. Thomas's-hill, situated on the site of his own castle to the east; it is also recorded, that he was buried in the church of the Priory of Pontefract, but his body being begged by the Monks, was supposed to have been more privately interred. If the surmise be correct, the remains have been mouldering for the space of 500 years. The coffin appears to have been formed out of a solid block, is 7 feet long and 16 inches broad, and in length inside, 6 feet 5 inches. The lid is ridged.

PARIS.-M. Laffitte has addressed a letter to the Constitutionnel, on the subject of his litigation with Buonaparte's representatives; which, being tried before a tribunal from which the public was excluded, had been so misrepresented, as to require that a true statement of the facts should be given. The following are the most important:-In 1815, Buonaparte lodged with the house of Laffitte 4,220,000 f. in cash, and the remainder of 5,000,000 f. in securities. The Bank gave him, 1st, a receipt acknowledging the 5,000,000f. to be payable at sight; 2nd, a letter of credit on bankers at Philadelphia, payable also at sight for the same amount. The securities never were realized-a part of the 4,220,000 f. was remitted at sundry times to Buonaparte's order; and the balance being 3,149,000f., is credited by Laffitte to the representatives, whoever they may be, of Buonaparte. The only question between the parties is, whether the executors of Buonaparte, coming with an extract from his will now in England, and with a letter missive not written in Buonaparte's own hand, can give Laffitte an acquit

tance good in law against all third parties? His counsel say "No:" the executors affirm the contrary.

2. The allusions so often made in the late debates in the French Chamber of Deputies, to the conduct of the Missionaries, have excited against these fathers the strongest feelings of disgust and indignation. On Sunday se'nnight, they began to preach in the church of Notre Dame des Victoires. On Tuesday, great crowds were collected about the church, and some disorders took place, which were quickly suppressed. On Wednesday, the archbishop of Paris repaired to the church to counte nance the mission. The public peace was again disturbed by the contemptuous proceedings of the crowd, who threw squibs and crackers into the church to interrupt the religious service. The gens d'armes were called to the scene of tumult, dispersed the mob, and took several of the rioters into custody. Similar excesses were committed on Thursday at the church des Petits Pères, where twelve persons were arrested, and conducted to the Prefecture of the Police. Messrs. Corcelles and Demarcay, members of the Chamber of Deputies, who happened to be in one of the streets where the crowds had collected, were also taken into custody. The popular irritation against the Missionaries was yesterday testified in a similar manner at several of the churches in Paris. In consequence of these disorders, many shops were shut in the neighbourhood where they occurred, but the general tranquillity experienced no material interruption.

The arrest and subsequent treatment of Messrs. Demarcay

and Corcelles, on Thursday, became the subject of serious and indignant complaints, on the part of these deputies, to the chamber, in the course of yesterday's debate. General Demarcay described the insolence and injustice, which he had experienced from the police and the gendarmerie, and contrasted it with the moderation of the National guards. The general, it appears, was passing with his wife to the habitation of her invalid mother, when he was first thrown down by a gendarme on horseback, then lodged in a guard-house, and not discharged until three or four hours afterwards, when he had undergone an examination by a commissary of police. M. Corcelles was used in a manner still more violent, having been struck at by a gendarme with his drawn sabre, and having narrowly escaped a severe wound upon the head. The minister of the interior answered the complaints, by averring, that the members were themselves in fault for attempting a passage blocked up by the military; and the subject was finally got rid of by the previous question.

The prefect of police has issued a proclamation against tumultuous assemblages of the people, and enumerates the severe penalties to which persons so assembling are liable.

4. CONSISTORY COURT. The Hon. Augustus Stanhope v. Jane Baldwin, falsely calling herself the Hon. Mrs. Stanhope.-This was a suit of nullity of marriage, instituted by the hon. Augustus Stanhope (youngest son of the earl and countess of Harrington) against Jane Baldwin, on the ground of fraudulent concealment of Christian names; he being then a minor

Of the female party in the cause, it was alleged, very little could be known, either of her family or situation in life, further than her being 15 or 16 years older than the husband, and living in fashionable style in the neighbourhood of Cavendish-square, by the name of Mrs. Goswell; and latterly in a cottage at Fulham-green, by the name of the hon. Mrs. Stanhope. There did not appear to have been any courtship, prior to their coming in company together, unattended, in a one-horse chaise, to the house of Mr. Franklin (or Frankland) in the Hampstead-road, to take lodgings. They referred Mr. Franklin to Mrs. Dent, housekeeper to the earl of Rosslyn, who agreed to become responsible for the rent of the apartments. The lady afterwards came by herself, and the gentleman joined her two days after. They continued to live together, having separate sleeping rooms, until bans were published, during successive Sundays, at the parish church of Hampstead. On the day after Mr. Stanhope came to lodge there, he requested Mr. Franklin to publish the bans, and for that purpose gave him the names "Edwarl Stanhope and Jane Baldwin.' Franklin did not know who the parties were, until accidentally perceiving on a portmanteau the name of the "Honourable Augustus Stanhope," he asked the gentleman, if the marriage was agreeable to his family? but to this