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IV OR THERN CIRCUIT.
LANCASTER ASSIZES.—LAwcAsTra, Awe. 17.

ASSAULT.
Mr. AtDi It BOX opened die pleadings, and stated that this wee an
nation brought by the plaintiff a weaver, against the defe,alant, the
&ram of a Mr. Cullingworth, a gentleman at Manchester, who
was indebted to the plaiutiff, to recover damages for an assault
committed upon him.
Mr. ECAILICLTT called the following witnesses ;
Mr. Cullingworth, the master of the defendant, was celled to
Hove the insulting language winch passed between the parties.
Be beard so rntthing like a scuffle, but lie saw no blows struck.
Tn crosamaaminatton the witness denied having kept servants for
the purpose of evading the demands of his creditors, and also to the
virderce used towards the plaintiff.
aletgeaat *toss—Nobody who knows you, Sir, could suspect
that you kept servants for any such purpose. Those who know the
arm to which you belong could not believe any such statement for
a gle moment.
''Lamination resumed.—The plaintiff was conducting himself
with great violence when a treveller came into my shop. The
ptair ult asked defendant what he was coming there for: to which
bis replied. " You know you're a scoundrel !" upon which he was
knocked down.
I.`•ti further evidence belng adduced in support of the plaintiff's
ease. Its was non-suited.
NEGLECT OF ATTORNEYS.
Several causes were called on in the courae of the day, hut as no
attorneys appeared to instruct Counsel, they were ordered to be
struck out of the list.
Baron Ho LLOCI obseeved, that it was really too severe that
clients abduld in this manner have their causes neglected. He
'Would r enend a few actions to be brought by the sufferers in
this. • against the attorney', for of the right to bring and
sulleggll is such actions there could be ne doubt, and then per-
/nig flop ;PPM be a little mar: attentive to their duty.
. CROWN SIDE.
(Before Mr. Justin BAYLET.I
Rkhard Fri Mars and Hszjl Quin were capitally indicted for
layfrig disposed of, mid put away a Ibtged note of the Bank of
England for U., knowing the same In he forged.
lir. SCAIL ITT stated the case to the Jury, and called the fol-
lowing witnesses.
Elizabeth Eves—ls servant at a public-house in Preston,'.
and remembers the prisoners having had something to drink
there on • Sunday evening and called for change of a tire
pound note. Witness offrend the note to Mrs. Eaton, who'
asked to have the names of the prisoners. Change was given for
the note.
Mrs. Eaton the landlady, and Eaton, the landlord, corroborated
she servant.
The note was here identified by Eaton. the landlord.
The prisoner Williams here interrupted, and said," If I was to
declare it upon my oath before God, I could say that I stated my
name to be Williams."
John Gillespie was called to prove that the prisoner Williams
WAS known to him ; that he went to a butcher's shop to buy some
meat; that be offered a hi. note to be changed, and that he got the
'hangs from a public-house near the butcher's shop, and that Quin
obtained a part of the change. Witness had some suspicion of
these persons, and returned to ask the landlord of the public-house
if it were geed ; he found upon inquiry that it was bad, and west
to the constable, Wharton, who despatched some officers to search
rut the prisoner., and they were found at a puAic.house in a direc-
tMn totally different to that from which they said they were going
to take. _ . _

Clarkson, the keeper of the public-house, and his wife, deposed
to the receiving the 5:. note, and Wharton, the constable, to the ap-
prehension of the prisoners.
Mr. Lee, Inspector of Notes to the Bank of England, proved that
the notes handed to him were forgeries upon the Bank.
Both the prisoners were then found Gel!! y.
Two persons, of the names of David Charles and Joseph Nichol-
son, were indicted on the same charge: but after a few observations
between Mr. Scarlett and 'Mr. Justice Bayley, the case was not
proceeded in, and the prisoners were acquitted.