Nottingham.-Friday, Augus...
tne commtawsion was opened by Chief Justice 11EST and X Justice HOLILOYD. Ueimiart S(ei,,frtk, or S,tirbritM, a ferocioLs-looldkgi bruite4 e about tnc sge of 23, was indicted for abretal assault uponl Isale Clarke, with intent to commit a greater offience. T-he prosecutrix, who was orlY eleven vears old, pnd eYcee4png sickly looking, stated that on the 8th of :Usarch ast slit had bpel senc by the wife ofthe.prisoner. about 11 at ighto feteh:ht, the prisoner from a pu'a&c..house. On their way lome the P2f3ier took advantage of a sedudedl part SO co na tTheisaallt cOinpliune4 of. TRhe prtaoaer had becn- irudieted for theca?pital offence, but was acquitted in oonsequexec Qf a defect of proo?. ~iue jury fouudhin Geiltgyof the rraiadeireanoar. Chief Justice BEsTrz i,n pa.ssin: sent.ce upon thse iSf>, juionshe him on tbe heinousness of the offlenceof which he had just dbcn convicted. It was only hy a single point that he had been saved from nidnergoing the last in)fiction of the law~ when he would begbee Thmost certainly left for execuition, unpitied by a human ~ondition icrease of this unaturalcrime amongst persons in. the v .Ljf lt of the prisoner, seemed to show that their minds Were becomfing more depraved. it would have bee the desire of the C]( l. it Tnflict vepeated public whip ings in this case, but as the egalityof that putnishment was doubtful, the CoUTtwoud award the heaviest infiiction in its power. The prisonerwas then adjudged to tvO YearS' hard labour in the House of Gorrection, and was remroyed nVia the execmations of a crowded Court. 71om j (Gibbs was inaicted for stealing In the dwelling-house of George Stagg, an article of wearing apparel, at Bingham, in this county. It apPpeared that the prisoner, who had made a practice of going tbhrough the country and pilfering every thing that was at all porta- ble, laid his hands upon thiis unfortunate garment as it was stretcbed UPGn a line to drv over night. The next (lay he sold it for half a crown sa1ying tbat he bought it himself of a man whom he met on The ora ightecn..penie. TheottXrtfonund him gpuily, and he was sentenced to seven years' The vn leahraned JUD&E took occasion to say, that he wished it to be hnoi, tht transportation w;ould not in future be so comfortable a thing taOsit ws supposed tsbe, for thlat by a recent act of Parliament tie Governmcnte nad power to apportion 'labour to convicts in propor- tin to thseir oifiences NOTTINGHAM-U.-MAY. AuoLnsU &