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Ns inquire into it. before he paid the amount of the plaintiff's leis.
However, the Learned Counsel admitted after that which had been
proved, he had no defence, and the case was then reduced to a
que.two of damages. It was evident the damages ought not tobe
very great; because if Mr. Porter had chosen to pay the thirty
extr t demanded by the guard, he and his daughter could
have ridden inside. Ile however thought fit to remsin on the road
and expend five pounds, which sum ought to be the utmost limit
of the damages.
The Lou n Cutts' JIidTICE summed up the evidence, and the
Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages

I INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Trracrav, JUNE 27.
Joseph Humphreys, the driver and proprietor of a Paddington
stagesoweb, was opposed by Mr. HEATH on the part of the retain-
ing creditor, a person residing in the country, who suffired an in-
jury from the furious driving of the insolvent. The insolvent had
offered thirty pounds in compensation of the injury, which was re-
fused by the opposing creditor, who subsequently brought an action
of damages against the insolvent, and obtained a verdict for fifty
pounds damages. The insolvent had a sale of his goods, consisting
of household furniture, coaches, ; these, it appeared in t vi-
dence, were bought in by a Mr. Gardiner, the insolvent's brother-
in-law. With the produce of the sale the insolvent paid several
creditors ; but there wax a sum of forty•eight pounds, which did not
appear satisfactorily accounted for in the insolvent's balance-sheet.
' The CHIEF Cox mission En said it was clear there was a sum
quite adequate to liquidate all the debts which the insolvent ap-
peared to owe. It was not, in fact, satisfactorily shewn to the Court
that the petitioner was an insolvent at all. The judgment of the
Court therefore was, that the insolvent's patition should be dis-
missed. . .

James llnwldcn, a schoolmaster, was opposed by Mr. Harris, a
creditor to the amount of eighty pounds.
It appeared in evidence that the insolvent had become insolvent
in consequence of accepting bills of accommodation, which were not
duly taken up. A Mr. Bullet, in order to extricate the insolvent
from his difficulties, advanced a sum of four hundred pounds, by
which means he was enabled to pay the insolvent's creditor' five
shillings in the pound. I'o this composition Mr. Harris would not
consent, and opposed the insolvent's discharge on the ground that
he had received from him a parcel of books at a time when be knew
he could not pay for them. These books were, however, afterwards
returned to Mr. Harris by the insolvent.
The: CHIEF COM3IISSIONER said, though, strictly speaking,
blame might be attached to the insolvent in taking the books, yet
he had rmide atonement In returning them fie could not, there-
fore, remand the insolvrnt to prison, who was, in consequence,
discbargW.

OLD BAILEY, JUNE 27.

OLD COURT.

Before the RecoaCiaaWnit a London Jury.l
Kenny Lloyd, aged 20, stood indicted for receiving and uttering
one thousantt one.pownil Bank of England notes, the property of
'ir Richard Carr Glyn and Co., bankers, well knowing the same
to have been stolen. _

The prisoner, on being arraigned, pleaded guilty.
The prisoner was indicted capitally and tried at the last Sessions,
for stealing the notes from the York PD:press coach, but acquitted,
and ordered to be detained on the charge of uttering.
3lr. AxonEws, on behalf of the prisoner, in mitigation of
punishment, called the attention of the Learned Recorder to the
length of time the prisoner had already been confined.
Mr. BRODERICK, for the prosecution, said he was in structe I
not to offer any thing iu aggravation.
The RECORDER ordered the prisoner to stand aside for the
present.
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John Alchoam, a watchman, stood indicted for assaulting
William Dalton, on the II►:b of Juane, be stril.mg him on various
parts of the body. The prisoner stood also indicted for killing and
slaying the said Willia.n Dalian.
Thomas Muncaster said he resides in the court where the de.
teased lived. At 12 o'clock at night, on the 17th of June, the
wife of the elecessed desired some one to take a man away who was
creating a riot. The prisoner came up, and the man was given in
charge ; three or tour persons, including the deceased and his wife,
following him to the watch-house. On the way, they all got into
a riot, and fell down regether, the prisoner included. When the
prisoner got up, he twice struck the deceased while on the ground,
with the butt.end of his stick.

Catherine Armstrong said she lived opposite to the deceased, and
saw the party standing at the deceased's door. One of the men
wanted some beer, but Mrs. Dalton would not allow it to be sent
for. There was afterwards a great scuffle in the house, and Mrs.
Dalton cried " Murder" and " Watch," and said the man who
struck her was a thief and should be taken from her house. Wit-
nem raw the prisoner strike the cleansed with his stick, but Paw
the deceased strike at the watchman titst. Achendon struck the
deceased three or four times on the legs while conveying him to the
watchhouse. Dalton was carried home trout the watchlumae by
six men, and put to bed, when he said, " Oh dear ! I am a dead
man." The deceased died on Monday night.
Mr. Davis, a surgton, said he opened the deceased, and found
considerable inflammation occasioned by the rupture of one of the
intestines. Witness could not say whether the rupture was mat.
sinned by a blow or a fall.
The prisoner said in his defence, that he was first struck by the
deceased, and had received a wound in the head, which made
him very irritable.
The beadle of Portsoken Ward said the prisoner had been
wounded in the head while in the army, and was sometirms very
passionate in consequence.
The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.
The RECORDER desired that the prisoner should not be again
employed as a watchman.
James Gulliver was indicted for obtaining Ills. 9d., under false
pretences, from William Shark, with intent to cheat and defraud
him.
Mr. BRODERICK stated the case.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was sent by his
employer, Mr. Shark, furnishing.ironnionger, in Cheapside, to Mr.
Martin, at Sr. Alban's, to set some cooking apparatus, and had
received a pound to defray the expenses of his journey. The pri-
loner did not go, however, but brought hack an account of the mo-
ney. charging as if he had been there.—Guilty.
The prisoner was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and
hard labour in the House of Correction.

John West stood indicted for attempting to break into the pre-
mises of William Moon, tobacconist and jeweller, High Holborn,
with intent to steal.

It was proved that the prisoner wan detected breaking open the
shutters of the shop. Several skeleton ken, and a large crow-bar,
were found on the prisoner.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Court sentenced
him to be publicly whipped, and imprisoned for two years in the
House of Correctien.
This cue terminated the Sessions.
The Sessions baring concluded, the RECORDER passed sentence
of death on the twenty following prisoners :
James Crawrind, for house-breaking; Henry Smith, stealing in
a dwelling-house; John Forder, burglary : Patrick Ryan, robbing
on the highway ; Charles Butcher, sheep-atealing ; James Martin,
stealing inins dwelling-house; Maria Myers, ditto; George Leslie,
ditto ; Win. Wailer, horse-stealing ; Wra. Clerks, burglary ;
Thomas Wiskin, horse-stealing; Richard Mansfield, burglary
Thomas Abrahams, highway robbery; James Reeve, ditto; Jo-
seph Biker, house-breaking ; Ellen Walker, ditto ; Mary Anne
Pray, ditto; Thomas Miles, eJining ; John Lawlor, burglary;
Crofts, horse-stealing.
To be transported for hfe—Edward Briggs, Thomas Riley, Tho.
mu Cherry, Samuel Allen, Anne Davis, Mary Jones, William
Greases, Charles Scott, Thomas Sayer, John King.
To btransported r.ir fourteen years—Wm. Sanders, Edward
Griffith, Wm. Dowe, John Callaghan, Stephen Knapper, William
11 edges.
. .

To be transported for seven years—Edwanl Brown, Anthony
Pomade, Joseph Jensti, Mary %Fade. Jubri Smith Deig, Thomas
Giddings, William Lowe, John Martin, William Wade, James
Roe. Joint Dexter, Thomas Jotex, Joha Stokes, John O'Connor,
Charles Sands, John ;Campbell, George Fry, John 3lountjoy,
John SuMutt, John Douglas, James Warbles, Edwul Taylor,
George Nelson, Thomas 1 homprati, Henry IVhite, Henry Keath,
Martha Blake, Daniel Bowden. ►Henry Hart, John Brewer. John
Davis. William Johnston, John 31aliony, Henry Fairman,
George Stephen*, Charles Alsop, Charley Wilsoor ;Michael Ca-
vanagh. William Kidnian, Junaihan Burbridge, John L. Maw-
kiwi, Mary Gammon, Eleanor Collins. Mary ttyan, William
Charles Smith, Henry Coyle, Charles Alosely, William Brown,
Edward Rose, Richard 3laberly, Richard Call, William Wat-
kins, William Gent, Henry Scott, John Crump, Daniel Parker,
Joseph Jackson, George Tilsbey, James Scott, Mary Ansley,
Wiliam Anderson, John Richards, Matthew Lock, and Mary
King.
Henry Dayd, far coach robbery, was sentenced to two yeare hard
labour in the House of Correction.
The remainder of the prisoners were sentenced to various abort
periods of imprisonment.