In the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, Simon Marryatt was
tied on a charge of causing the death of Mary Warner, by starvation sled cruel treatment. He was found guilty of" manslaughter."
Robert Miers was convicted of arson. His trial lasted fur four days, sod bad excited much interest. The particulars of the charge against lin have already been given.
On Thursday, sentences were passed on the prisoners convicted daring the Sessions. Richard Thompson, who pleaded guilty to five ibadictments for stealing linen from drying-grounds, was sentenced to traosportation for twenty years ; nine men and three women for ten sterirs; sixteen men and four women for seven years. The remainder *I the convicts were ordered to be imprisoned for various terms.
The trial of Mr. Thomas Williams, a gentleman of good family and Saadsome fortune in Carnarvotishire, on a charge of forging a will of Ms late father-in-law, Mr. Penton of the same county, commenced in the New Court on Monday, before Baron Parke. The leading corn- el for the prosecutor, Mr. Barton Penton, soil of the deceased, is sir William Follett ; Sir John Campbell for the prisoner. The elite for the prosecution was not closed till Wednesday afternoon ; when the Attorney- General commenced his speech for the prisoner, but had not Swished at the hour of adjournment. On Thursday he concluded it ; and witnesses for the prisoner were called. The Court adjourned over good Friday, till this morning; and the trial is now proceeding. It is impossible to give any detailed account of the immense mass of evi- &see, which indeed is without interest to the general reader. The ebieet of the prosecutor is to set aside a will, by which a large sum of money is left to Mrs. Williams, his sister, and wife of the prisoner, by proving that the prisoner, who is a solicitor, procured the signature of the deceased to pencil-writings, which were afterwards erased, and Ink place supplied with different instructions ; also that the signature of the testator and the witnesses to the will were forged. Two of the witnesses, Ellen Evans and Ann Williams, are charged with being accomplices with Mr. Williams. They were brought from prison on Thursday to give evidence for the defendant ; and their fide depends me the result of the present trial.
ha the Sheriff's Court, on Tuesday, Mr. M'Cardell brought an w- its against Mr. Young, an attorney, for his expenses as a witness in a ease tried in the Court of Queen's Bench, in which he had been awarded 21. for his attendance, and, us he alleged, bad not been paid. Mr. Young pleaded that the action could not be against him, us he was mly the agent in the cause. The Under. Sheriff took the same view of the case, and directed the Jury to nonsuit the plaintiff; but the
=were not to be so directed, and, after some discussion, gave a et for plaintiff. It was stated that an application would be made she Court at Westminster to set aside the proceedings.
Ir Julia Newman is. it appears, after all, to be sent to Van Diemen's Land, in the John Renwick transport, with other female convicts.— rig Paper.
On Thursday morning, an old lady was knocked down and severely Ian by an omnibus as she was crossing Regent Street ; and on the ante day, a gentleman crossing the Strand, opposite Wellington Street, was also struck down by an omnibus, which passed over his body : he was taken to Charing Cross Hospital, in a very dangerous state.
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