ENGLISH EXTRACTS. The State Trials.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 334, 11 October 1848, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS. The State Trials.

On Monday the grand jury, before whom the bill of indictment in this case was sent, came into court, and their names have been called over. The foreman (Mr. Peter Digges Latouche) said, that the grand jury found a true bill against the traverser, Mr. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell having been called to the bar. Sir C. O'Loughlin applied to the court that the traverser be allowed a copy of the indictment, and copies of the jury panels of the last three or four commissions held in that_ Court. The Court decided on refusing both applications. Sir C. O'Loughlin applied as a matter ol favour, that Mr. Mitchell should not be called to plead until the following morning, inasmuch as he then intended to apply to the court to quash the indictment altogether. The ground i on which he meant to rest his application would be this — that there are two distinct charges of felony contained in the indictment, whereas an indictment, to be a legal document, should not contain more than one. The Court appointed ten o'clock on Tues- j day for hearing the arguments of counsel. Mr. Mitchell who stood in the dock during the whole of the argument, appeared to be in extremely delicate health, and seems to have suffered much since his incarceration in Newgate. Mr. Devin Reilly, his partner in the United Irishman after a struggle with ths police, forced his way into the dock, and. took a place beside Mr. Mitchell. In the course of the day, Mr. Reilly was himself arrested for drilling men at night. At the Repeal Association, on Monday night, Mr. J. O'Connell warned the authorities against driving the patient men of peace into acts of bloodshed by any deviation from strict law in the trial of Mr. Mitchell.

The State of France. — The Presse contains a letter from M. Emile de GirardiD, in which he states that anarchy was never* nearer nor danger ever more imminent. He adds, that a month since there was a total want of confidence, but that now a further progress has been made, and that mistrust is felt everywhere. It is felt in the National Assembly, which mistrusts the Executive .Government. It is experienced in the Executive Government, which mistrusts the National Assembly. It is universal amongst the National Guards, who assist, with reversed arms, at this equal and reciprocal mistrust. It is amongst the population, which perceives neither an eye that watches, a baud to direct, □or a voice which commands, nor an idea

which enlightens. In conclusion, M. de Girardin observes, that the National Guard may suppress disturbances in the street, but, he asks, who is to arrest anarchy in the Government? The same paper contains the following instance amongst mauy of the depreciation of property in France since the revolution of February :—": — " The estate of the late Marquis de'Aligre was not disposed of when the revolution of February broke out. It consisted principally of lands and houses, and was estimated at 53,000,000f., out of which 15,000,000f. of legacies were to be paid. It has been found impossible to pay those legacies, inasmuch as the estates would not produce more than one-half of the estimated value, and consequently the heirs would receive scarcely anything after paying the expenses of the sale. The heirs of the late Count Roy are placed in a similar predicament."

Shakspeare's House. — It is stated that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests have appointed James Sheridan Knowles, the dramatist, to the charge of Shakspeare's House, at Stratford- on- Avon, at a salary of £250 a-year.

Chatham Barracks, 20th May. — The head- quarters, consisting of four companies of the 25th regiment, arrived at these barracks this afternoon, under the command, of Lieutenant- Colonel Messiter, and the following officers, viz. : — Captain Aplin, Lieutenant and Adjutant Webb, Lieutenants Cotton and Bomgardner, Ensigns Aplin and Cotton, and Dr. Young ; having disembarked from the ship Emperor, from Bombay ; three men and one child died on the voyage. The Malabar, having on board the remainder of the regiment, under the command of Major AiTams, has been signalled in the Channel, and is expected at Gravesend every tide.

A Freak op Fortune. — A tailor of the name of Sanderson, living at Stainton, in Cleveland, a few miles from Stockton, has lately come into possession of £100,000, left him by an old uncle in India, upwards of eighteen years since, but of whose death he was not cognizant till lately. Sanderson is a widower with a small family, and up to the period of receiving the news of his immense fortune was only in indifferent circumstances. — Leeds Mercury.

Thomas Cribb, in past days the prizefighting *' Champion of England," died on the 12th, at his house in Woolwich, of old age. His brethren of the ring have supported him by subscriptions for some years past.

Bare-footed Friar. — One of those remarkable beings, a bare-footed friar, has been preaching in the Roman Catholic Chapel, at Cambridge, for several successive evenings. The man appears to be a self-denying ascetic. He is literally bare-footed, and attired in coarse sackcloth.