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on the ground that the defendant had _
some months beck, and had not kept his promise.
The learned Judge inquired the reason the money had not
boa paid ? The defendant pleaded his inability. He could
not eentrol eirenemehineee. Rents could not be got from
belied. timer was 'bilged to be sent to Ireland.
_thaVa. 111.1gaZrrked, that he had been informed
Teri well in Inland—in no plioe
beep. mill Oat weight be so, but from the
preeent eireeseeleweee et art 'sentry they could not be
elMined. Re dheeht hoes pest pleewee in paying the
power ebbs it be lei the mew.
The keened Sete banned him that he had made a very
iserrea ebsemlka.
Mr. Teweend loped that the Court would make an order
for the essamMtal of thetisimdant. Ile had waited a long
time, and shown him every. leakney. He said the defendant
had "cajoled " him ont of a sovereign to get a document
from Inland.—Defendant: " Cajoled" you! I don't know
what you mean. Here is the paper (holding up a document)
an attested copy of a memorial, which I obtained.
Mr. Townshend, in addressing the court, termed the de-
fendant " this man."—Defendant : " Man !" I think you
might have said " this gentleman."—Mr. Townshend thoeght
the term he had used the most dignified that could be
: Well, then, I don't think anything
• ified that comes from you.
me further discussion ensued. The attorney represented
his client as a poor widow woman, who tad been kept out
of her money, for board and lodging, for a long time ; and
the defendant alleged that he had obtained a good deal of
grocery while he resichd in the house, and that the debt was
only for lodging. All he wanted was until November, when
he should receive some money, and would pay the demand.
Mr. Townshend said, defendant might by November be out of
the jurisdiction of the court. There were proceed ngs against
him, and his application for further time was only a "splash."
—The defendant said he would make a " splash" of the
attorney if he told him so outside. Mr. Townaliend appealed
to the Court fa. protection. The Court said an order would
he made for payment on the 13th of November. Mr.
Townshend asked for a committal, with • stay of execution
till November. The defendant could not be seized. The
Court simply made an order for payment on the 13th of
November. The defendant thanked the learned judge, and
wishing him " good morning," left the court.

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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIVIRPOOL, SEPT. 3.
Before Mr. Justice CresswelL
LIICAS r. HOATSON.—A SHARE TRANSACTION.—The
action was brought to recover the balance of an ac-
count arising out of a share transaction, amounting t,
9811. 10s., bought by plaintiff for defendant. It appeared
that, in August, 1844, the defendant ordered the plaintiff
to purchase for him 100 shares in the London and Croydon
Railway; the shares were obtained from a gentleman named
Langdon, and paid for by the plaintiff, but the defendant
afterwards refused payment. Verdict for the plaintiff for
the amount sought.
THOMPSON r. HETES AND ANOTHER.—ALLEGED DETEN-
TION OP A WILL.—The action was 0110 Of detenu, brought by
the plaintiff to recover possession of a will made by his sister,
Jenny Thompson, under which he was entitled to 3 houses in
Ben Jonson-street, Liverpool. The defendants held the will
as attorney' for a person, named Sally Lthgoe, who alleged
that the will wu made in her favour. The Attorney.Oene-
ral opened the cue for the plaintiff, remarking that It would
be much better to have the matter settled without proceeding
to trial, otherwise the parties might find themselves in the
position of the litigants described in the fable, who each of
them got an oyster-shell, while the oyster itself went some-
where else. A consultation then took place, and it was
agreed to withdraw •juror, subject to a rule.
An unimportant action respecting a bill of eachange con-
cluded the civil business, and his lordithip, after congratu-
lating the jury on the conclusion of the'r labours, adjourned
the court at haltpast ten o'clock. He shortly afterwards
left for London.

POLICE. v -_FATERDAT.

GUILDHALL—AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—A sty-
lishly-dressed young man, named Henry Hughes, of No.
50i, Trinity-square, Borough, was charged with entering
the dwelling of Mr. Thomas Burden, No. 17, Jewin-crea-
cent, Akkregate-street, ironmonger, and committing a most
violent assault.—The complainant stated that, on the pre-
vious evening, Mr. Hughes, sen , whom he had never seen
before, called and asked for a Mrs. Glaspoole, and being told
she was not there, he left, but the prisoner shortly after
returned, and made a similar inquiry, when complainant
gave him a similar answer, and was about shutting the door,
when the prisoner suddenly pushed him forcibly aside, and
commenced searching the house. Witness attempted to pre-
vent him, at the same time commandinq him to leave the
house, instead of which he gave him a violent blow on the
face, which nearly stunned him, and from the effects of
which a large quantity of blood flowed front his mouth and
nose. His wife, seeing him thus ill-treated, screamed
" Murder ! " and the police coming to their assistance, the
prisoner was Oven into custody. It was witness's private
house the prisoner came to.—The derence was, that Mrs.
Glaspoole was the prisoner's wife ; but, on being brought
forward, she negatived the assertion. He was required to
find sureties to keep the peace for six months, and to answer
the charge at the sessions ; and, in default of bail, he was
locked up.
BOW-STREET.—FORGERT AT MESSRS. COCTTS'.
Bridget Sullivan was brought up on a remand, charged
with having presented a cheque purporting to he signed by
the Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry. The facts have
already been published in the papers.—Mr. Bush, who
appeared on the part of Messrs. Coutts, applied for a longer
remand, as the Marchionesswasin Edinburgh, and, asshehad
been travelling about,the letter sent to her had only just reached
her. He believed, and he thought his worship would con-
sider that the attendance of the Marchicness was necessary.
—Mr. Henry said he considered as other cheques had been
paid it was quite necessary the Marchioness should attend.—
Mr. Wolf, who defended the prisor.er, made no objection,
and she was remanded till Monday the 21st, the first day of
the sessions.
CLERKENWELL.—SINOULAR CHARGE OP ASSAULT.
—Mary Davis, a masculine-looking Welsh woman, was
charged with being concerned, with seven other women, in
throwing George Wilson, a man about 50 years of age, into
a water tank.—lt appeared that, a few days ago, Wilson,
who is a dyer, had a quarrel with the prisoner, whom he
designated by very opprobrious epithets, and east serious
imputations on her chastity. On Wednesday moruing at an
early hour, he was passing near the Mile-gate, when the
prisoner suddenly sprang from her hiding place, and making
use of an exclamation in the Welsh dialect, she was imme-
diately joined by seven other Welshwomen ; the whole of
them pounced upon him, and, in spite of all the resistance
he could offer, dragged him to a tank of water and
threw him into it. —The prisoner here exclaimed, " But
the water was clean your honour." (Loud laughter.)
The complainant added that it was with great diffi-
culty he escaped with his life.—The clerk reminded the
magis.rate that when the complainant obtained the warrant
he said the women threw him into the tank, because he
refused to treat them with gin.—The prisoner admitted
having plotted with the other women to avenge herself on
the complainant, who had foully slandered her. She
thought a good ducking would do him no harm.—The com-
plainant, who could not deny the libel, said he did not want
to punish her, but hoped the magistrate would protect him
from her violence.—The defendant was fined Is. and the
costs, and obliged to find hail.
WORSHIP STREET.—James Augustus Seymour ap-
peared upon an adjourned warrant before Mr. Broughton,
charged with having used language calculated to provoke a
breach of the peace towards Mr. William Wallen, a sur-
veyor and architect, residing in Critehell-place, Hoxton. It
appeared that the prisoner was some time since committed
on the charge of causing a false entry respecting the birth of
a child to be inserted in the registry of St. Luke's ; the jury
at the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court had
returned a verdict of guilty, which was afterwards reversed
by the judges upon a point of law, and the prisoner was
ordered to be discharged. The mother of the child was
the daughter of the present prosecutor, Mr. Wallen, whom
the prisoner had reduced from her home ; and as her father
had been mainly instrumental in promoting the above prose-
cution, the prisoner had since displayed towards him such an
implacable hostility, that he was compelled to appeal to the
law for protection.—Mr.Wallen Stated, that on the 22nd ult.,
the day after the prisoner's liberation, he received a commu-
nication, while at his counting.house in the city, that
the prisoner was then creating a violent disturbance at his
private residence, whither he immediately proceeded, and
having met him in front of the h nue, pointed him out to a
policeman who accompanied him as the fellow who had de-
stroyed the peace of his family, and stating that he should
turn him out if he presented himself again. The prisoner
thereupon assailed him with the most scurrilous epithets,
and on entering his house he was informed by his daughter
that the prisoner had previously uttered such threatening
language towards him that he felt satisfied his life was in
danger.—After some further evidence, the magistrate said
he should order the prisoner to find bail for his good beha-
viour, himself in 501. and two sureties of 401. each.—The
prisoner, at the close of the court, being unable to procure
the bail, was removed in the van.
MARYLEBONE.—ROBBERY or JRWIILLERT.—A young
man named John Gillman, a journeyman plasterer, was
charged with having stolen various articles of jewellery, the
property of Mrs. Marian Charlotte Snow, 22, Manchester-
street, Manchester-square.—lt appeared that the prisoner
bad for some time been employed at a job at the house, and
that on Saturday morning last prosecutrix missed from her
parlour two gold eeals, a gold ring, and a gold k. 7. Infor-
mation of the robbery was communicated to the police, and
it was ascertained that the prisoner in the first instance went
with the articles to the shop of Mr. Bennet, a jeweller in
Seymour-place, Bryanstone-square, where he asked the price
of them, and on leaving there repaired to Mr. Marshall, a
watchmaker, dtc., in the Edgeware-road, to whom he dis-
posed of the property for Its., alleging that he had picked up
the said articles in the street. He was ultimately taken into
custody at the house in Manchester-street, where he was still
working, and from thence he was conveyed to the station-
house, when, after having previously denied that he knew
anything about the property, he said that if his father was
sent for the loss would be made good.—The prisoner was
remanded till Tuesday.
THAMES.—Taa flew If aucaser Sgamers's Acr.—
SIEVING OUT LIMB JUlClL—Andrew Williamson, master
of the barque Jane, of London, just returned from Patagonia,
appeared to answer summonses taken out by six of his crew,
tharOng him with not serving out lime juice, &c., &c., after
the men had been confined to salt provisions beyond the
time stipulated by the act.—Mr. Holm append he the
eamplainenta, and the whole of the crew, who mewed to be
ezesestiegly respectable men, were in attendance. The ere
was vspreesdeatad in the number of days during whkh the
ma were esedinsal to salt food without the *erring out of the
preached mesthements. Mr. Ballantine decided on fining
the delbefint iL In each case, making in the whole a sum of I
SOL, owl satd fine he accorded to the omplainants a
RPM d 21. other snnunoomes against the same '