as the contents of the stomach. He believed that the man died of the effects of laudanum.

Dr. Andrew Ure was present, and assisted at analyzing the contents of the stomach. Laudanum formed a part of the contents of the stomach. He believed that the man died by the effect of the ale aggravated by the laudanum.

Malcolm Logan, prisoner in the tolbooth of Edinburgh.--I was in gaol with Stewart. He talked of his own case to every one who came in. We asked what had brought him in? He shook his head, and said nothing. He told us afterwards that he had been at Campbleton, and that he and his wife had gone to Tarbert. He then fell in with a smuggling woman, who was drinking coffee. An excise officer came in, and she changed a note to him, and she put it among a number more. His wife said she would do (rob) that smuggling woman, if she could, while on their passage to Glasgow. They went on board the steamboat, and when they took down the woman to give her a dram, there was a Highlandman and his friend drinking. He went in and sat down with him, and gave him a knife in a present. After having had some spirits, a bottle of ale was proposed, and Mrs. Stewart put in laudanum and handed it to the people. He did not say how much she put in, but he said if the man's friend had taken as much, he would have been killed too. He took out the pocket-book, and found in it about 201. The pocket-book was so large he could not get it again into the same pocket, and he threw it from him. He said the wife had the laudanum in a square bottle. He got the bottle from the wife, and went into a water

closet and put water into it; but still, as a small cork remained in the bottom, it had a strong smell of laudanum. He said he carried the laudanum about for the purpose of giving the doctor to any one he fell in with. He said that by "giving the doctor," he meant that he would give it to any person who had money about them, and, having set them asleep, he would rob them.

Archibald Anderson, another prisoner, but not tried, corroborated the evidence of Logan.

Gruer M'Gruer, criminal officer. I took the prisoner Stewart from the Bridewell to the Council Chamber, in Glasgow, on the 12th March. He asked me, when on his return to Bridewell, if the evidence of two persons who were confined with him in the same ward, would be taken? He said he had been very foolish in telling his mind, and if the evidence of those two persons was taken, he would be done.

The jury brought in a unanimous verdict, finding the prisoners Guilty of the crime of murder and robbery.

On the 19th of August they were executed.

WINCHESTER, JULY 30.

John Stacey, the younger, was placed at the bar, charged with the wilful murder of Samuel Langtry, at Portsmouth, on the 1st of March last; and John Stacey, the elder, with feloniously receiving, harbouring, and maintaining him, well knowing that he had been guilty of murder.

Mrs. Dyatt.-I live at Portsmouth, and knew Langtry and his housekeeper; they lived in Pros

pect Row, Portsmouth. Mr. Langtry was between seventy and eighty years of age, and nearly crippled. I used to assist in putting him to bed, and in getting him up in the morning; he usually went to bed about seven or eight o'clock; his housekeeper usually remained up hours after him; there were four rooms in Langtry's house; Mr. Langtry usually slept in the back bed-room, and was wheeled in his chair into the front room, where he took his meals; the last time I saw him and his housekeeper alive was on a Sunday morning, at a quarter before ten o'clock, when I was at his house according to my usual custom; I did not go back to the house till about six in the evening; I then found the door bolted. I went again about seven o'clock, and made a rattling noise at the door, and called Charity Joliffe, and asked her why she did not let me in. I did not see any light at all. I waited half an hour, and then went away, and kept going on and off till nine o'clock. I went five times in all. The front door was generally bolted on Sundays, but not on other days. On the Monday morning I went, but could make no one hear; I then went to Mr. Hendy; I never knew that Mr. Langtry kept any money in his house; I knew that the younger prisoner used to shave the old man; on the Saturday preceding the murder, Stacey, jun., was shaving him.

John Cuddamore.-I am an apprentice to Mr. Linnett, a file-cutter. Stacey, jun. used to sleep at my master's. On the 1st. of March, between two and three, I went with him to Portsmouth, to a Mr. Price's house. He is a bookseller. We went to buy a Book of Martyrs. It was a bill, and VOL. LXXI.

cost a penny. I bought the book for him. I asked him for the penny; he said he had no halfpence, and he would give me sixpence when he got some money. I went with him to his father's house. Stacey carried the book. We arrived at his father's between three and four o'clock. We took some tea there. Stacey gave the Book of Martyrs to his father to read. We finished tea between five and six; after that Stacey parted from me; he left the house; I asked him if I should go with him, and he said, no; and also said, "what row I get into, I may be able to fight my way through without you; he said he wanted to show the Book of Martyrs to a person, and should get some money for it. When he left the house, he was absent above two hours; his father, mother-in-law, and the children were there. I remained in the house the whole time he was gone, till he returned; he came back in about two hours; he knocked at the door; I opened it ; he ran quickly across the room, and called his father, and went up stairs. He said "Father, I want to speak to you." His father followed him; he was up stairs about a quarter of an hour; at the end of that time, they both came down stairs and went into the kitchen; I heard water splashing as if some one were washing; they were both then in the kitchen. In a few minutes the father came in alone into the room; he gave me a shilling, for me to get some bread and cheese. I went and got the bread and cheese, and was absent nearly halfan-hour; when I returned Stacey, jun., was at the fire-side with his shirt off, he had his coat across his shoulders; there was a fire, and a shirt was drying. There was an Y

iron on the fire, with which the shirt was ironed, and Stacey then put it on. Part of the shirt had been washed; the wrists had been washed. I saw Stacey, jun., in the afternoon, before tea, sharpen his knife on the steel; it was a razorbladed knife, with a kind of horn handle. I partook of the bread and cheese with the others. Stacey left his father's about half-past nine o'clock; we then got supper, during which he said he had been a fighting, and that his nose had been bleeding. He showed some blood to me, on the trousers, below the knee, the instep of the stocking, and the shoe. During that night I was not with him at any quarrel or fight.

James Hendy.-I know the younger prisoner; he has shaved me, and we have had many conversations; he told me on one occasion there had been some misunderstanding between him, Langtry, and Joliffe, about some money which was missing; he said he understood there was a bag of money in Langtry's house with 600l. in it.

On the Monday morning, I went to Mr. Langtry's house; the door in front was fastened, and I went to the back yard and got over the fence; the kitchen door was wide open; I went into the back lower room, and into the kitchen; saw Charity Joliffe lying dead, her throat cut, and covered with blood. Langtry was lying in the back room up stairs, with his throat cut. There was a box open, and some deeds, papers, spoons, and gold, scattered about. In the lower back room there were some drawers, but they were locked, and nothing had been disturbed there. William Payne. I was in prison for a violation of the Custom laws. Stacey was put in the same

cell with me, I asked him what he was put there for? He said, he was taken on suspicion of murder. On the 17th of March I saw him again, and said his father had told where the money was; he said this is worse than all,-it is a done job. He sat down on one of the chairs, and asked me if I would sit alongside of him. He said I suppose you have heard all about the murder; I said I had not heard further than from the people coming in and out of the prison. He said I will tell you all; he said he did not do it himself, it was another chap; this chap told him how he did it: he said he got in over the pales and into the back door, and saw the old woman coming down stairs with a candle and candlestick in her hand, and he caught her by the throat with one hand, and threw her down, and got the candlestick from her hand and beat it about her head, and beat it double; he beat her about her head with a brush till the handle came out, and he broke the handle in three pieces on her head; in his scuffle with her he lost his knife; then he went up stairs to the old gentleman, and he caught him by the collar and asked him for his money; the old gen tleman struck him once or twice with his stick, and told him to go about his business; he caught hold of him, and then he let the old gentleman go; the latter fell out of the chair; he looked round the room and saw a hammer; and then he beat the old gentleman on the head and left him for dead! he then put his hand into the old gentleman's pocket and took out a bundle of keys, and tried two of them to unlock a chest, and neither of them would do. He then got a third one, which opened it, and he lifted up the till and saw a roll of

notes. He took them up, and under the notes was a basin with some gold in it, and he went away out of the house with it. He said he went down stairs, and saw the old woman struggling in the room below. He searched about and found his knife, and cut her throat. He then went back again up stairs, and cut the old gentleman's throat. He said he met the chap in the High-street, Plymouth, and they went over the mill-dam, and this chap gave him what money he thought proper. He did not say how much. He said, he then went home; but when he went he did not know. I asked him how the chap knew which way to get into the back of the house. He said, "I told him, for I had been there before" He said he shifted clothes with the chap in Camden-alley. He said while he was cutting the old lady's throat, some person knocked at the door.

Thomas Hill.-I am turnkey at Portsmouth; I took charge of the prisoner, and put him in the cell, and stripped him; there were marks of blood on the clothes; I asked him, whether he wore them on the Sunday week; this was on the Monday; he said he did, for he had no others; I had heard him the day before say to the Mayor of Portsmouth, that he was in the mill-dam, and tossed up with the man who should commit the robbery; I asked him, where he was, when he tossed up which should have the money? He said he did not; they tossed up who should go to the house. He said, I will tell you the beginning of it; he then sat himself down on the stool, and said," on the night of the murder, when I left my father's house, I went to Camden-alley; I met a young man; we went together to

Key-gates; we tossed up which should go into the house; as the young man was to go in, we exchanged clothes under the arch of the Key-gates, which is about a quarter of a mile from Camdenalley. He told the young man to be as quick as he could; the young man went to the house and I returned down White Hart-road into High-street; I afterwards met him in High-street; we then went to the mill-dam, and there we exchanged clothes again, and the young man gave me the money." That was how the blood came on his clothes. After he got the money he took it to his father's house and put it into a little box, and put it into the dung heap, and did not know but that it was there now. He said he could not tell who the young man was, for they had kissed the Bible not to tell of each other. On a subsequent day I showed him a box, and asked him if that was the box? He said it was, and that it was the same box that had been put into the dung-heap.

Edward Hunt examined.-1 am gaoler at Portsmouth. On Monday, the 9th of March, I went to apprehend Stacey. Stacey was standing at a door; he disappeared; we ran but could not find him in the front room; but in a back dark room we pulled him out, and took him to the Shipwright's Arms. searched him, but found nothing; he was taken before the Mayor, and asked where he got the money he had been spending. He said he had saved up 4l. 5s. 4d, at different times. I had a conversation with the elder Stacey; on the 13th of March he went with me to a lane about two miles from Portsmouth, and on the right hand side, a little way up, he pointed out a piece of

turf, which I took up and found a hole, and in that hole something tied up in a blue handkerchief; I found it to contain bank-notes, gold, and a silver-watch, in the whole to the amount of 6301. odd.

Mr. Read examined.-Stacey, jun. bought some seals of me on the Friday after the murder; he paid me on the Monday following a sovereign, and had twelve pieces of gold more; he offered me first 78., and went on to 13s., I only having asked him 12s. 6d.

Ann Ingram examined.-I know the prisoner Stacey, jun. ; on the 9th of March I went with him to a public-house, he paid for four pints and a half of gin; he had got some sovereigns; he went to Portsdown; I saw the officers coming, and said to Stacey, "here is Hunt coming." He looked out and said, "If Hunt is coming, I am done, by G-d."

William Downer, the young man, who the prisoner said was the person who committed the murder, was called, and he satisfactorily proved that he was at the Antelope public-house from six o'clock in the evening (the supposed time when the murder was committed) until about ten o'clock.

In the course of the examination the Judge directed the father to be put back into the dock; and the remainder of the evidence, which implicated him, was not gone into until the younger prisoner's case was finished, that he might not be prejudiced thereby.

Mr. Justice Burrough summed up, and the Jury, almost immediately found the son Guilty. He was then removed, and additional evidence given, which proved the crime imputed to the father, against whom the Jury brought in a verdict of Guilty.

Both prisoners were then placed

at the bar and sentenced in the usual form-the son to be executed, and the father to be transported for life.

LEICESTER, AUG. 17. (Before the Lord Chief Baron.) Trimmer, Clerk, v. Lord Huntingtower.

The Rev. Henry Trimmer was the plaintiff, and Lord Huntingtower the defendant. The declaration stated that the defendant had committed several nuisances, to the great injury of the plaintiff'; to which the defendant pleaded that he was not guilty.

Mr. Denman opened the plaintiff's case, and then adduced evidence of the following facts:

The plaintiff, the grandson of a lady of some celebrity in the literary world, resided, previously to the year 1823, at Newdigate, in Surrey, where he had a curacy, and was the proprietor of a respectable school. In the course of that year, he was presented by the duke of Devonshire to the living of Buckminster, in Leicestershire, and shortly afterwards took possession of the vicarage house, which is near the paling of the defendant's demesne. As soon as lord Huntingtower heard of his arrival, he drove to the vicarage-house in his carriage, and had an interview with a brother of the plaintiff's. His lordship stated, that the duke of Devonshire had recently exchanged the right of presentation to this living with him for another advowson, and therefore proposed that the plaintiff should also exchange his living for one the income of which was 201. or 30l. a-year greater. To this Mr. Trim