Ne,o-H Hauen Connty.-The Superior Cour, for New Haven county. Judge DAGGETT presiding, closed its session week before last case of seduction excited a good deal of fin,eres,-Minor ys. Lamber-ior sedu- cng the plaintiffs daughter-in-law. Circumstances ofaggravation (,he Register observes) claimed by the plaintiff from attempts the trial still further to njure the daughters reputation. The defendant urged that damages should be nstigated, the nom- nal plaintiff not proved to have any special anx ey for the issue of the action. In its charge the Court informed the jury that the suit brought to repair .he injury to ths famiy. After few hours debera- ton the jury returned verdict of $12OO for the plain ti which the Court accepted, intima,ing that less sum would have been satisfactory

 Selah Root, Elisha Root, his son. and Jas. How'd, were convicted of passing counterfeit money last fall, and sentenced to the prison-the former for IS years his son, only l7 years ofage, and who sup rosed to have been influenced by his father, to two years; and Dowd to nine years.

 George Bennett, for forgery, was sentenced to the state prison for year.

 E,huriel Bristol, for assault on his mother, and robbery, was sca,cnccd for l2 years. A defence of insanity was set up, but without avail. The offence of Bristol, in the charge of tue Judge was particular Iy referred to having arisen from the pernicous e fleets of iStemperance-but this, instead of proving mitigation of punishment, in the view of Judge Dag ge,t is only agg. ava,on.

 W':ndham--At the late session of the Superior Court ia Wndham county, Judge HosMER presiding, Samuel Monroe convicted of burning school house in Canterbury and sentenced to the state prison for two years; Harden A'my, colored man, of bur gary, and sentenced for two yeats; Isaac Gallup, of mayhem, two years; aso of breaking jail, to effect ahe escape of fellow prisoner, one year additional Iorenzo D. Green, for burglary, two years; and Ru- fus II. Allen, for perjury and burglary, two years.

 Appointments-The National Intelligencer states that the following appointments among others, made y the President during the of the Senate have been confirmed:

 Louis M'Lane, of Delaware, Minister to Great Bri- tain. Washington Irving, Secretary of Legation.

 Wm. c. Rives, of Virginia, Minister to France Charles c. Carroll of Maryland, Secry of Legation. Wm. P. Preble, of Maine, Minister to the Neither lands. Augustus Duvczac, of Louisiana, Secretary ol Legation.

 Cornelius P. Van Ness, of Vermont, Minister to Spain.

 J. c. Pickett, of Kentucky, Secretary of Legation to the Republic of Colombia.

 Samuel Ingham, Esq. has declined to serve on the Senatorial ticket nominated by the Jackson cOnven. ton ia hts district So informs that pink purity and S:stency the Hartford Times.

 Retrenchment.'-Ho docs this magic word sound in the ears of Jackson folks connected with the fac, that bill is now before Congress appoint thirO assistant postmaster general and len additional clerks

 Mr. EditOr-WlI you have the goodness to repub 1;ah tha f skx New-Haven Advertiser? By so doing, you will obIige tleast Y.Z.

 "Perpetua motion seems to be greater desidera tum in politics than in the arts For certainly the machines Conventions, caucuses GSc.) which worked admirably few years since, out of joint, rusty and useless. The very sound of their operation. "grates horribe'' on the public ear, they Iabou without relief from appeasing oil. Each member grts tolls and catters its work in total disregard of harmony, and in utter repugnance to combination and the results as slovenly and l-shaped as at awkward manager, with rckeiy machine, can con trive produce out of poor and unmaleable materi als. Tho late Jackson convention, at Middletown though the latest conriyed, and built of the ithes hickory of forests, and to all appearances wei packed and StOsCed, proved, in despite of ingenuity only t to be kicked into tho lumber room to moude with dead patents as perfectly imperative. What w the inventors do Go to work and get up new ma chine that will work out the following ticket by tn next year:

 JOHN M. NILES, GepernOr,

 GIDEON WELLES, k GoueyrOr.

 JOSHUA STOW, Treasurer,

 ANsEL STERLING, Secrstory, and all the people will admire the beauty Of the ma chine and the perfectness of the work,'