Winter Assizes.
T'he Winter Gaol Delivery commenced here to-day before the Hor. Mr. Justice IUutROUGII and the Hon. Alr. Baron GARntOwV. Ten different persons were indicted and convicted for various ects of smuggling, or resistance to Excise officers, and were sentenced to vanous terma of imprisonment. One man (Reiningto)wastrans- ported for seven years. William Skininer and GeotAg Collins were indicted under tlhe i7th Geo. Ill., c. 9, for being found, in Lhe niglht of tite 27th of Novemu. ber, in a wood belonging to Earl Thanet, in the paiilt of Ashford, with the intent to kill game. William Woodgate, gamekeeper to Lord Thanet, proved that between eight and nine in the evening of the 27th df November, he was out to look aRter poachers. He' heard the relport of a gun in Po.ter's Corner-wood, belonging to the Earl, and presently he saw two men come out of the wood, one of whom had a gun. Hle at- tempted to seize the armed inan, whio immuediately felled him to the ground with a blow on the head from the but-end of the gun. WVit- ness believed that the prisoners, whon he bad known for three years before, were the mer.; but he coald not swear positively to their identity. Several other witnesses were examined, who proved that they saw the prisoner Skinner and another man near the spot in question, about the titme spoken to by the ganmekeeper. One wvitness was called to prove an alibi for Skinner. Tlhe case want to the Jury, under the learned Judge's direction, and they found both prisoners_.Net Gutlly. WINTER ASSIZES. MIAIDSTONE. Drc. 1