The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-21 00:00:00

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

or 400 men by sickness. If we wait a week, they will have
lost a brigade ; if we wait., a month, they will have lost a corps
d' armee.' But, if -the Russians lose many men by sickness,
they seem to be careful to replace them again. Numbers of
stories are afloat about the formidable forces which have come
and are still coming down-this way, and apprehensions of an
attack on the Tchernaya line are daily gaining more ground.
In the meantime, not even the most powerful telescopes are
able to discover anything of the approach of this formidable
force, and the Russians content themselves with firing a shot
now and then from the batteries on the Mackenzie ridge at
the harmless sheep-and cattle sent by the French over the
Tchernaya to graze, or on the horses going down for water.
AUGUST 2.—The news of the day is the recall of -General
Canrobert. No cause is assigned, but' it is felt that his posi-
tion was awkward, as subordinate to Generals Pelissier and
Bosquet, whom he lately commanded. The recent rains have
brought a slight return of cholera. The day before yesterday
the 72nd buried ten men-of-that complaint, but the-72nd is a
recent arrival out here, and may, therefore, be expected to
suffer more than others. As a general rule, wet weather ap-
pears to bring cholera, and heat dysentery. At present there
is little fever. The French are constructing batteries to com-
mand the Russian fleet, and so to facilitate an attack on the
Malakhoff. One of these batteries is to consist, lam assured,
of 28 mortars ; there are two smaller ones of six or eight
pieces. As soon as all ere complete, it appears the opinion of
the French that the Malakhoff will again be assailed. These
say that their approaches are now brought to within about a
hundred metres (110 or 115 yards) of the enemy's position,
and that the engineers can go no further. The distance ap-
pears to be, and probably is, rather greater than-that. On the
31st July the 30th Regiment and 3rd Buffs v.tre reviewed by
General Markham. The Duke of Newcastle is in camp, quar-
tered in General Bentinck's tent.
AUGUST 4.—There has been a good deal of firing these last
two nights. The night before last the Russians made a sortie,
but were driven back.
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THE news communicated by the electric telegraph
is of a highly interesting character, embracing the
announcement of a signal victory obtained over the
Russians, on the morning of Thursday last, on the
Tchernaya. The Russians, from 50,000 to 60,000 in
number, at daybreak attacked the allied position, but
were repulsed with great slaughter by the French
and Sardinians, aided by the British cavalry. The
loss of the enemy is estimated at between 4,000 and
5,000 killed, and 400 of them have been taken pri-
soners. The loss of the allies is reported as very
small. The Sardinian contingent fought with great
bravery, and in no small degree contributed to the
success of the day.
The bombardment from the French and English
batteries was to be re-opened on Friday morning, and
this, it was generally understood, would be the pre-
hide to a general attack on the principal Russian po-
sitions. _ _

The journal of the siege, as that is communicated
in the letters of the special correspondents of the
London daily papers, does not offer great variety of
incident, as compared with what has been narrated
from time to time. The correspondent of the Times,
writing from the camp before Sebastopol on the 30th
of July, says :

_The correspondent of the Daily News, writing on
the 4th of August, says
No event of much importance in the siege operations has
occurred since the last mail left. The nights have been ge-
nerally too light for much progress to be made in advancing
the approaches toward the princpal points against which the
operations are now directed, but the new batteries have been
forwarded, and the approaches already existing have been
placed in a more favourable condition for future necessities.
Our allies have taken advantage of a few hours of darkness
to throw up, unobserved by the enemy, an important branch
Approach on the Malakhoff advance. A very complete system
of telegraphic signals has been established between the fleet
and our works in front, and from facilities of observation
obtained by vessels placed in certain positions with regard to
the enemy's works, the information which may thus be fur-
nished is not unlikely to prove occasionally of a very valuable
nature. Our allies still speak with confidence of the Malakhoff
position being gained by them before the imperialfite day of
the 16th August.
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The BalakThava correspondent of a London journal,
under date of the 4th August, says :

The approaches are daily coming nearer to the town. Im-
portant operations are spoken of, but nothing possitive can
be said on the subject. New batteries, the effects of which
are expected to be very great, have lately been constructed,
but only the staff of the artillery know their exact position.
The fire of the Russians is becoming more and more lively.
:The cannonade does not cease for an instant. We are now as
near the enemy as it is possible to be, but our losses are not
so great as might be expected.
A strange pastime has been found by our officers and men.
Large quantities of soda-water and lemonade are used in this
hot weather, and the bottles serve as a destructive missile.
They are filled with gunpowder, and the cork having been
pierced, a match is attached to it, and thrown into the
Russian defences, where they often do much harm. The
Russians, on the other hand, use a great deal of champagne,
and the bottles are used in the same manner.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE SUMMER
ASSIZES.

CROWN COURT.LTrEsDAY, AUGUST 14.
(Before Baron Platt.)
SENTENCES.—Joseph Hall, convicted of uttering forged £5
Bank of England notes, at Manchester, on the 18th June, wa
sentenced to 15 years transportation.—Matthew Bell,plasterer,
was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour,
for bigamy, at Manchester.—Thomas Taylor, collier, charged
with a burglary, at Bolton, on the 22nd May last, was sen-
tenced to 9 months' imprisonment, with hard labour.—George
Marsden, block-printer, found guilty of burglary, at Man-
chester, on the 3rd April last, was ordered to be imprisoned for
8 months, with hard labour.—Terence Lynch, farm servant,
for a burglary at Aston, on the 16th January last, was sentenced
to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
STABBING AT WARRINGTON...-PatXiCk Mannion, labourer,
charged with having, on the 30th April last, stabbed Thomas
Kelly, in Bridge-street, Warrington, was convicted and sen-
tenced to be imprisoned for 12 months, with hard labour.
CASE AGAINST MESSRS. BAHR, BEHREND, AND COMPANY
—Mr. Atherton, Q.C., applied for the discharge of the recog-
nisances of the witnesses in the charge made against George
William Bahr and 'David Behrend, of having, at Liverpool, on
the 19th January, 1854, obtained a British registry for the
Russian ship Atlantic. The learned counsel said he made the
application on the recommendation of the Attorney-general,
and it was grounded on the fact that the defendants had already
been sued in the Court of Exchequer, where penalties had been
recovered against them.—The application was granted.
STEALING FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE.—Catherine Roberts,
servant, and William Jones, potato-dealer, were indicted, the
former with having at Wavertree, on the 30th of June last,
stolen, a watch and a quantity of wearing apparel, the pro-
perty of Edward Davies, residing at Wavertree, and The male
prisoner with having feloniously received the same, knowing
them to have been stolen. The female prisoner was found
guilty, and the male prisoner was acquitted. His lordship
instructed the prosecutor that he was entitled to his property
without paying the pawnbrokers anything.
BURGLARY AT WARRINGTON.—Joseph Partington, baker,
was indicted for having at Warrington, on the 26th of March
last, burglariously entered the dwelling-house of William Gre-
gory, and stolen therefrom about £lO, in copper money. The
prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to four years' penal
servitude.

STABBING AT PENNINGTON.—DanieI Gardner, hawker, was
indicted for having at Pennington, on the 12th of June last,
feloniously stabbed Thomas Collier, with intent to do him
some grievous bodily harm. He was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
GAROTTE ROBBERY AT ASIITON-IN-MACEERFIELD.—Mat-
thew Danson, collier, was indicted for having, on the 16th of
June, in company with several other persons at present un-
known, feloniously assaulted a farm labourer, named Samuel
Salisbrey, and robbed him of ss. The prisoner was found
guilty, and sentenced to be transported for fifteen years.

Since the sortie of the 23rd inst. nothing of importance or
even of interest has occurred here. The desultory fire to which
we are accustomed continues by day, usually swelling into a
roar of artillery for a portion of every night. The casualties
continue much as before, not very heavy, although some days
are unlucky, and on the night of the 28th the Guards had 26
or 30 men killed and wounded. Cholera cases have become
very rare. Fever and diarrhcea are what most prevail, but not
by any means to an alarming extent. Upon the whole, the
sanitary condition of our army must be deemed satisfactory,
far more so than many predicted that it would be at this sea-
son. As regards rations, these continue abundant, and of
excellent quality. Four Russian deserters came in yesterday.
The Duke of Newcastle has arrived at Balaklava, and has
been up to the front.
JULY 31.—The firing during the last few days has been on
our side far more lively than it had been for some time; this
increased firing has, however, a defensive rather than an offen-
sive character. The Russians, seeing our works daily approach
closer to theirs, are trying by their single gun practice to
annoy us. The orders have accordingly been given to return
the fire from our batteries whenever it becomes too annoying.
Once already this was tried before, and it moderated somewhat
the ardour of the Russian gunners. No firing of the Rus-
sians, be it good or bad, slight or heavy, is able to impede the
progress of the works. The surface of the ground in the
neighbourhood of the Malakhoff works and the Redan is pre-
senting every day a more chequered appearance. The railway
is perhaps the best test of the gigantic activity which is pre-
vailing; numbers of mortars and large quantities of ammu-
nition come up daily by it, and vanish again silently, to be
replaced next day by others. It is as if the trenches were an
unfathomable abyss such an incredible mass of mortars, guns,
shell, and shot do they seem to swallow up. When they will
be satiated, and when the word " enough" will be said, seems
as uncertain as Crimean weather. I heard a few days ago
from a French officer of artillery, that Pellisier, being asked
when offensive siege operations would be again resumed, said,
' Well, I don't know; the Russians are losing every day 300

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FRIDAY.

CHILD MURDER.—Elizabeth Sanson, 35, a married
woman, was indicted for the murder of Eliza Ellen Sanson, at
Manchester, on the 16th of. October. On the night of the
16th, about half-past twelve, as a person named Ambrose
M`Gogan was proceeding along a street leading out of Prussia-
street, Manchester, he heard a noise proceeding from a coal-
yard on the bank of the canal, at the opposite side to which
he was standing, a person calling out that a woman was
drowning. His attention was thus directed to a woman
standing in the middle of the canal, with a child in her arms.
He procured a pole, which the prisoner laid hold of, and he
succeeded in getting both out of the water. From the effects
of this immersion the child, only ten weeks old, never re-
covered. The jury found the prisoner not guilty, on the ground
of insanity. His lordship ordered her to be confined during
her Majesty's pleasure.
MANSLAUGHTER AT MANCHESTER AND SALFORD.—John
Norbury, an engine-builder, charged with the manslaughter
of Ralph Woods, at Manchester, on the 15th of June, was
acquitted, the grand jury having ignored the bill. On a second
indictment, for the manslaughter of Frederick Anderson, at
Salford, the prisoner was arraigned on the coroner's inquisition.
Counsel for the prosecution declined to produce evidence, and
the prisoner was discharged.
HOUSEBREAKING AND WOUNDING AT OLDHAM—James
Brown, a hawker, was indicted for breaking into the dwelling-
houses of Frederick Sugden, on the 21st of April, and Henry
Goulding, on the 26th, at Westwood, near Oldham. The
prisoner was observed to enter the house of Goulding, and
followed on his leaving with a bundle of wearing apparel, a
cutlass, and a pistol, by an Oldham police-officer, named
Robert Holt. Upon the officer apprehending the prisoner, he
was severely wounded on the back of the head, no less than
nine wounds being made, which produced erysipelas, and
endangered his life for fourteen days. The prisoner, who had
only been a fortnight out of gaol, was found guilty, and
sentenced to 20 years' transportation, his lordship testifying
his sense of the courageous conduct of police-officer Holt, by
awarding him £lO.
STABBING AT SALFORD.—Thomas Bruerton was indicted
for cutting and wounding Joseph Boardman, in a scuffle on
the 6th of April, at Salford, and inflicting a wound a quarter
of an inch long, and an inch and a half in depth. The pri-
soner was acquitted.
ROBBERY OF WATCHES AND JEWELLERY AT HASLING-
DEN.—John Wilson, hawker, Henry Ingham, watchmaker,
and Christopher Banks, labourer, were charged with breaking
into the dwelling-house of William Tattersall Lees, at Has-
lingden, on the 15th of April, and stealing 100 silver watches,
20 gold watches, 97 gold rings, and a quantity of beads. The
centre shutter of the shop window had been cut in the form of
an eight and the screws unloosed. On the 18th of April de-
tective-officer John Mayberry, of the Manchester police,
accompaniedam' s
wayhleoire,
hwent
foundto thea w prisoneratm wlhni
which
had purchased, bearing the number 18103, the 0
having been converted into 6. The watch he said he had
received from a man with £3 in exchange for a lever,recom-
mended by a person named Whittaker, whom he could find.
On their way to the Town-hall they met Whittaker, who
denied recommending any one, saying that he had been to
Ireland, and was but just returned. The officer then proceeded
to Wilson's house, Dimity-street, Newtown, Manchester,
where they found a pair of baragan trousers, in the pockets of
which Inspector Taylor found two watches, 97 rings, and
a quantity of coral beads. Whilst waiting the prisoner Wil-
son came in, and was taken into custody. He was committed
to Kirkdale, where he remained until Saturday fortnight,
when a communication was sent to Mayberry, requesting him
to come to Kirkdale, that he might gave information of the
other parties, fearing that they would get out of the way. A
gold watch, ledged for £4105., and a gold case, for £2, with
Benjamin Renshaw, of Manchester, were identified as part of
the property : this pawnbroker had had dealings with the
prisoner to the extent of £9O within the past three months.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty of burglary against
John Wilson ; and to the effect that the others, Christopher
Banks, and Henry Ingham, were found guilty of receiving the
property knowing it to be stolen. The prisoners were ordered
to be brought up next morning for sentence.
STREET ROBBERY IN MANCHESTER.—Another indict-
, meat was preferred against Henry Ingham, for having, at
six o'clock in the evening of the 3rd of February last, in
company with a female, run against an auctioneer named
aWndillriaombbeDdixhoinmFoullf
hisa gold watch and chain.
love while
, along
vNeerdwticorgtureiletty,
of receiving stolen goods. Sentence deferred.
- STREET ROBBERY IN LIVERPOOL.—Patrick 31 Kenna,
blacksmith, Arthur Melburn, carter, and John Effey, labourer,
passing
were indicted for assaulting and robbing Richard Moss, the
captain of a flat, at one o'clock on the morning of the 13th
June. The prosecutor was crossing Chisenhale-bridge on
his way home, when the prisoners came upon him, knocked
him down, and rifled his pockets of six sovereigns, half-a-
crown, two shillings, a pocket-book, &c. The prisoners were
found guilty of the highway robbery with violence, and
M`Kenna and Melburn had previously been convicted as re-
puted thieves. Sentenced to be transported for 15 years.
SENTENCES.—Joseph Knight, stonemason, charged with
burglary at Kersley, on the 23rd April, and stealing a quan-
tity of wearing apparel ; William Price, labourer, Alice
Knight, charwoman, and Phoebe Jones, factory worker, for
receiving the property knowing it to have been stolen.
Another indictment charged them with stealing three pieces
of printed calico and 70 yards of cotton cloth belonging to
John Burd and others. Joseph Knight, who pleaded guilty, and
had previously been in gaol for different offences, as a reputed
thief, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude ; Alice
Knight, who had been twice previously convicted, 18 months'
imprisonment with hard labour ; Phoebe Jones, 12 months ;
and William Price 12 months—The females to be sent to
Lancaster Castle. Maria O'Brien, factory worker, for break-
ing into the house of Henry Hart, at Ashton-in-Mackerfield,
and stealing wearing apparel, was sentenced to 12 months'
imprisonment in Lancaster Castle. Catherine Roberts, a ser-
vant, found guilty of stealing a watch and some wearing
apparel, from Mr. Davies, at Wavertree, was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment in Lancaster.
The Court rose at five minutes to nine.

in, and she died on the 2nd of May. The jury returned a i fire up with. Another calenderer, working "day work,"
verdict of " Not guilty." ► came to work at Scholes's machine, and discovered a
BURGLARY AT LIVERPOOL—Stephen Harrigan, a mat- piece of iron and a nail placed in the cylinders of the
weaver, and Patrick Ryan, a bricklayer, were indicted for machine in such a manner as to cause damage when it
having at Liverpool, on the 3rd of May, burglariously entered revolved. A calendering machine adjoining was also dis-
the dwelling-house of John Morrison, in Bailey-street, and covered to have been similarly deranged, and on being set in
stolen several articles of wearing apparel. Harrigan pleaded motion it tore the cloth and suffered injury. The damage
guilty, and was sentenced to penal servitude for six years. done to both machines was calculated at £l5. The offence
Ryan was found guilty, and was sentenced to penal servitude was tried under a section of an act of 7 and 8 Geo. IV., which
for a similar period.- The prisoners had each of them been constitutes the offence a felony, The prisoner, it transpired,
nine times previously convicted of felony. had been at a " merry-making " on the night in question, and
CUTTING AND WOUNDING.—Joseph Hill, an engine driver,
was accompanied to the works by his wife. The jury acquitted
was charged with stabbing James Riley, at Westleigh. On the prisoner, and his Lordship ordered his immediate dis-
the 14th April last the prosecutor, the prisoner, and another charge.
man named, Gladden, were drinking together at a public.
DISCHARGE OP THE GRAND JURY.—The duties of the
house in Westleigh. They were turned but at twelve o'clock
at night, and on their way home the prisoner challenged .grand jury being finished at a quarter before four o'clock,
they appeared before his lordship, who, before discharging
Gladden to fight. Gladden would not fight., but went away them, addressed them at some length on the cases that had
and left the prisoner and prosecutor together. The prisoner been brought before them, especially those of criminality on
then said to the prosecutor, "Oh ! long one, thou'st some the part of young females ; and urged the necessity of pro-
-spite ag'en me.—The jury found the prisoner guilty, of unlaw- viding the county with a reformatory institution, into which
fully wounding. youthful criminals might be placed, instead of sending them
BOILER EXPLOSION AT MANCHESTER.—In the case of John to gaol, where they were only likely to be more contami-
Norbury, who was indicted for manslaughter, the grand jury nated.
returned the indictment marked "No true bill," and upon THE HASLINGDEN JEWELLERY ROBBERY.—Nathan Dale,
the clerk of the court announcing this result, the foreman of who was allowed to turn approver in this case, was brought
the jury observed that he and his colleagues were of opinion up to-day, but no evidence being offered against him he was
'that there had been the grossest negligence in some quarter, discharged. The other prisoners received the following sen-
but that they could not find a " true bill" for manslaughter tences ; Wilson, four years' penal servitude ; Ingham, twelve
against the prisoner on the evidence before them. months' imprisonment on the first count, and six months' on
HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT PEMBERTON.—WiIIiam Corner, a the second ; Banks twelve months' hard labour.
striker in a foundry, was found guilty of having, at Pember-
ton, on the sth May last, feloniously assaulted an old man,
named William Fairdougb, and stolen from him 4id. and a
tobacco box. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment,
with hard labour.
MANSLAUGHTER AT ROCHDALE.—Thomas Unsworth (aged
56) was charged with the manslaughter of James Brierley, at
Rochdale. From the evidence of the witnesses for the prose-
cution, it appeared that the deceased was a widower, living
with his son, at a place called Milkstone, near Rochdale. He
was out of employment, and spent a great portion of his time
in the company of the prisoner, who was a neighbour. On
Wednesday, the 4th April, they were drinking together in
various public houses until between half-past ten and eleven
o'clock at night, when they went to the prisoner's, house, in
company with a person named Joshua Clegg. The prisoner
asked Clegg to lock him and deceased in the house, and return
and open the door for them in the morning. Clegg then went
out and locked the door after him, leaving the two men drink-
ing together. About half-past two o'clock in the morning, a
police-officer, named Lupton, was attracted to the house by
hearing the prisoner crying from the bedroom window "Mur-
der," " thieves," &c. 'He tried the door, but it was fast. He
then walked down the street, and obtained the assistance of
another officer. They returned to the house, and on looking
through the window they saw a man lying on the floor. They
tried the door, and this time it yielded and they entered, and
found the deceased lying in the kitchen in a state of uncon-
sciousness, his head covered with blood. A brick was lying
near, and one of the officers said to the prisoner, who had come
down stairs, " What is the brick doing here ? have you hit
him with it ?" The prisoner replied, "No ; I have not, but I
warmed him about the head with my fist." The officers re-
moved him and, having ascertained who he was, they con-
veyed him to his own house, and laid him down on the floor.
In the morning his two sons removed him upstairs, placed
him on a heap of wool, and left him there, whilst they pur-
sued their ordinary daily avocations. On returning about
dinner-time the eldest ,son of the deceased found his father
lying at the bottom of the stairs. He was still insensible, and
remained in that state until his death, which took place on the
13th. The jury, under his lordship's direction, returned a
verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was discharged.
MANSLAUGHTER AT SAlPORD.—Richard :Harrison (aged
30), a farmer, out on bail, charged with the manslaughter of
a girl, named Emma Birket, at Salford, by negligently driving
a vehicle over her, was acquitted.
The court rose at a quarter to eight o'clock.

YESTERDAY.

Mr. Baron Platt took his seat at ten o'clock.
BlGAMY.—Catherine Goodman being placed at the bar on
a charge of bigamy, was asked by the judge, who prosecuted?
Prisoner : " I don't know."—The Judge : " Is it your first
husband ?" Prisoner : " I don't know."—lnspector Hall
stated that the first husband called upon him, and proved his
statement. The prisoner had been given into his custody at
Bacup, on a charge of bigamy.—His Lordship : Well, none
of the witnesses being present, I shall consider what is to be
done. The prisoner was then removed.
MANSLAUGHTER IN LIVERPOOL.--JOhn Crosby, aged 40,
a tinman, was charged with the manslaughter of Patrick
M`Daniel on the Bth of June last.—Alice Kenworthy, house-
keeper to Mr. Moss, publican, at the corner of Crosshall-
street and Fontenoy-street, stated that the prisoner was in
her master's house on the Bth of June, and Ellen M'Donough
abusing him : witness ordered the female out, and the
prisoner accompanied her ; but a short time afterwards he
came in again with a long weapon in his hand, accompanied
by another man. They went into a snug, and a person
named M`Donough came in shortly afterwards. The woman
who had been put out continued to be very angry, and came
in again, using very provoking language to the prisoner. Her
friends aided with her, and witness ordered them out
Ellen M`Donough said, the deceased's name was Patrick
M`Daniel ; he was her brother. The prisoner and
her brother were sitting together on a form ; she never had an
angry word with the prisoner in her life. When she went in,
her brother asked her to give him a glass of rum ; she refused,
saying you are drinking with your enemy. Her reason for
this was, that a short time before this the prisoner beat her
husband so; that he had to be taken to the hospital.—[His
Lordship informed the witness that her bad tongue had evi-
dently been the cause of all this mischief.] They brought in a
soldering iron, and the son of the prisoner struck the deceased
with a hammer. There were several blows struck by the son, but
the witness's brother, her son, and her husband, who were
Irish, never struck a blow. , They then turned upon witness
and struck her on the top of the head, which was dressed in
the hospital. The parties after this went away. Her brother,
who had been knocked down by the blow of the iron, was
taken to the hospital. In cross-examination the witness said
the prisoner's son was a tinker, and witness was a tinker's
wife, living in Preston-street.—His Lordship : Then you were
peaceable altogether.—Witness : Not a word took place.—His
Lordship : Then, if a respectable witness has said that you
were making a disturbance, all she has said is untrue.—Wit-
ness : I told him that I would not give him a glass if my
pocket was full, as he was in the presence of an enemy.—His
Lordship : This is the way that you Irish always go on. You
carry on your private grudges, and, when occasion requires,
you watch your opportunity.—John M`Donough, the husband
of the last witness, remembered going into Moss's, and saw
his brother-in-law, who was talking quite peaceably with the
deceased. He heard his wife refuse to give her brother a glass
upon the ground that he was drinking with his enemy. The
prisoner then went out, and came in with his son, Jim Crosby,
who had a haminer. When they came in, the prisoner John
Crosby struck him on the ear with the iron, which split his
ear. After this, he could not say whether the father or the
son struck first ; all he saw was his brother-in-law fall dead
upon the floor. His wife said nothing, but shouted "murder."
His wife never said a word ; all she said was to her own
brother. His Lordship : Then she was like a lamb as regards
the prisoner.—Witness : She was, my lord ; she never said a
word, but she was put out twice after she saw her brother
lying dead on the floor. The prisoner did not put her out ;
but he gave her a blow, at least he did not, but his son did with
the soldering iron, and then she was taken out.—Denis Car-
roll, police-officer 103, deposed to taking the deceased and the
prisoner out of the house.—Mr. Wall, surgeon of the Northern
Hospital, received the deceased with a wound on the back of
the left side of the skull. The wound was about as large as
you might place your finger in, and about two-thirds of an
inch in depth, such as might be made with a hammer. The
bodentcele:::24ElEtdt
wound was a longitudinal one, and the injury done to the bone
stei ea
el es rs s.
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for the prisoner, submitted that the whole of the circumstances
ehtcrooesnppdaitnuainc,tinotghf.te—he:firrrg.set:"Nrivi,
The deceased could not say who had struck first ; but after the
e had been taken, and the wound in size, shape, and man-
ner disagreed with the manner in which the blow was said to
have been given with the soldering iron. He invited the jury
to scrutinize the evidence of the surgeon, for it was upon his
evidence solely that they could come to a correct decision as
to whether the deceased was struck by the prisoner with the
soldering iron, or by his son with the hammer. The jury,
after some consideration, asked his lordship whether the sur-
geon had not described the wound as a longitudinal wound.
His lordship : Let the surgeon be recalled. Inspector Savage :
He is out of court,—The jury immediately afterwards returned
a verdict of acquittal, and the prisoner was ordered to be dis-
charged.
IstcErtnra ma:sr.—James Stephens pleaded guilty to the
charge of incendiarism, on the farm of Mr. Whinnerah, at
Thornton, near Fleetwood, having set fire to a stack of wheat.
The prisoner afterwards gave the information to the police.
The defence was that the prisoner was in poverty, and that he
had done it for the purpose of being taken into custody. The
prisoner was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour.
ROBBERY AT ST. HELENS.—Mary Holcroft, 23, a charwo-
man in the house of Mr. Thomas Richards, at Sutton, was in-
dicted for stealing £lO 12s. The money was found in the
prisoner's residence, corresponding with the amount which
had been stolen. On the day of the robbery the prisoner went
to the house, and offered to assist the servant, Mary Bate, to
make the beds. She asked the servant to go down stairs for
the clothes brush ; this could not be found, and the servant
was absent about ten minutes. When the servant returnee.,
the prisoner was in the club-room, and the prisoner said there
was some money in the pockets, and she refused to brush
them. She then left the house. The prisoner was found
guilty, and his lordship considered it was his duty, after the
wicked defence the prisoner had set up, to transport her.
However, he would not allow this to influence him, but he
would sentence her to twelve months' hard labour.
BIGAMY SENTENCES. Catherine Goodman, who was
charged with bigamy, pleaded that she had been mar-
ried to her first husband, and that her husband had
been three years and a half dead ; that he was in the
Crimea; and that she had had one child by him, which
was dead. The knowledge of this was derived from
her neighbours, but it had turned out that he was only
wounded. The prisoner's father was produced, who believed
the husband had been dead when his daughter was married.
His Lordship : the sentence of the court is, that you be sen-
tenced to seven days' imprisonment, and that you be dis-
charged to-day. (The date of the sentence commencing from
the time of the assizes.)—John Mason, who was charged with
the same offence against Mary Flood, in Liverpool, was sen-
tenced to twelve months' hard labour.—John Henry Doran,
smith, Baxter-street, Adlington-street, Liverpool, was in-
dicted for illegally marrying Catherine Sullivan at the Regis-
trars'-office, Islington, in 1841. The registrar's notice was put
in, but his lordship decided that it was no decisive proof.
Bridget Regan, who was present at the registrar's office in
Islington, said, the prisoner was sixteen years of age, but he
had no whiskers, and she could not tell whether he was able
to be married or not : they spent the " honey week " at her
house. Alice Harris, residing with her brother in Comber-
mere-street, said she was married to the prisoner at St.
Michael's Church on the Ist of April, 1853 ; she was not
aware the prisenor was married until three months ago. The
parties lived at Nos. 1 and 12, Combermere-street, Tosteths
park, and were married at St. Michael's in the Hamlet, in the
parish of Walton. She left him through his ill-treatment.
Mr. Wheeler, for the prisoner, contended that there
was no evidence to prove that the parties were brought to-
gether. The jury found the prisoner guilty. His lordship,
in delivering sentence, observed that the case was a very
aggravated one, and sentenced the prisoner to twelve months'
hard labour.
CHILD-MURDER AT CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY.—AIIII Pear-
son, 29, was indicted for having murdered her infant child, at
Mr. Whittle's farm, on the 31st March last. A boy, eleven
years of age, named James Moores, was trundling his hoop,
which went into a ditch, and whilst getting it out, hs found
the body of a child. The boy called the attention of William
Aimes, a police-officer, who took it to the house of Mrs. Bur-
roughs, a mile and a-half from where it was found. He then
went to the prisoner and asked if she had had a child; and the
reply given was that it had died in the Chorlton workhouse.
This the officer declared to be an untruth, as she had left it on the
29th, with her child alive and well. She was then taken to
the Police-station, where she said she had been staying with a
Mrs. Wilde, in Lord-street, Hulme, but no such person could
be found.—Mary Nuttall and Mrs. Cooke, nurses in the Chorl-
ton Workhouse, Mrs. Barrow, Silver-street, Hulme, Mrs.
Pearson, the prisoner's mother, and a man named Pearson,
who buried a child at St. George's Church, Hulme, on the Ist
April, together with Mr. Stephenson, a surgeon residing at
Stretford, and Mr. Golland, of Manchester, were examined for
the prosecution. The jury retired, and, after an absence of
three quarters of an hour, returned a verdict of not guilty.
His lordship intended to have proceeded further (it being
now past nine o'clock,) but the Clerk of the Crown was able
to procure only three jurymen ; a list of about thirty was called
out, and no answer being given, a fine of £5 was imposed.
His lordship afterwards relented, and the fine was expunged.
SENTENCE. James Rawsthorne had pleaded guilty to
two indictments for larceny, at Sutton, after being convicted
of felony. His lordship thought it would be better to tran-
sport the prisoner at once : it would save a great deal of
trouble. The prisoner had only come out of gaol in April.
He was sentenced to penal servitude for four years.
John Holt pleaded guilty to stealing fowls at Warrington,
after being twice convicted of felony.—The prisoner I tell
yo'th' :truth, my lord, I've got my living by prigging for
the last twenty years.—His Lordship : Then, you would like
to go across,
,would you ? Yes sir.—His Lordship : Well, I
find am not able to comply with your wishes upon this
indictment, and the court sentences you to four years penal
servitude.
John Bowen, who pleaded guilty on tbree sepirate indict-
ments to robbing dwelling-houses in Manchester, Bolton, and
Blackburn, was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour.
The court rose shortly before seven.

NISI PRIUS COURT.—TUBSDAY,, AUGUST 14.
(Before Air. Justice Crowder.)
THOMAS v. WlLLitaag,—ln this "caSe, at he
t suggestion of
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, who appeared for the plaintiff, a ver-
dict was taken by consent for £3OO.
In ARMITAGE v. MARLAND, an action brought to recover