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London, England, 1852-03-25 00:00:00

mark d, when women were in a posit'on of
that kin 3, that insvud of goiog forwards or w HA' t.'
rc,farfc th,y sood still in lid very piste wh-re roe
ger was gre,at• at.
Tht: jury retired, and after a short ahsenca returned
with a verdict of Guilty.—Sentence was deferred.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, March 24.

(Before Mr. WITHAM and a Bench of Magistrates, at
the Gui Westrnineatr.)
James Phineas Davis aid David John Davis were
jeitoly ted for having comeeatet an as..aua upon
Mr. John O'Brien, a person whose names has been tar
some thee pest before the public in connexion with turf
tranet-ctisne, on ,he afternoon of the 18,h init..
Mr. Sleigh conducted the prosecution; Mr. Ballantine
eppe,reel fur James Phineas Davis, and Parry for
David John Davis.
The defendants both pleaded n guilty.
Mr. SLEIGH in a brief address to the jury, stated the
facts of ;he ceee, as detailed in the following ,valence.
'the prosecutor was examined by Mr. e't, LEIGH. He
said—l em of no DllsitleSs or profession whatever. I was
educated for the lesal profession in Dublin, nut I never
took up my degrees, although I am mita led to the m for
having passed the required number of terms. I know
the defendants, who weee engaged against me profes-
sionally as solicitors, in an action at law aid in
a suit in Chancery. I reside at the Teihot Hotel,
Richmond. I have been extensively eng Aged in
sporting transactions ; and I may say that, next
to Lord George Bentiuck, I have been sue-
cesiful, and have some of the beet horses on
the turf. Oa the afternoon of the 18th of this
monthl was in James-street, Haymarket,. where I saw
the two defendants. They were coming in the direction
of the Haymarket, and I was going away from it. They
were then arm-in-arm, but as soon as I got close t..)
them they unclosed their arms, and stood about half a
yard apart. James Davis then, putting himself in a
menecing attitude, said to me, " \Vista do you want with
es?" I said I did tnot want anything to do with people
of their class, as I under:toed they had been to m; hotel
at Richmond for the purpose of vilifying my character.
Upon this, James Peinette Davis seized the stink I held
in my right haud, and David Davis immediately struck
me with a larger stick that he held in his hand. The
stick be had in his hand was large enough, I should say,
to fell an ox. He struck me on my neck, but the blow
was evidently aimed at my head. Seeing the formidable
nature of the stick, I eedeavoused to get the stick from
him. David Davis then selz,cl me by the collar, while I
with my left hand held the stick in his hand. My right
hand was engaged in trying to preserve my own stick
from Phineas Davis, but he almost immediately wrested
it from my hand. I was then engaged tri holding the
other stick with David Davis, and my hat falling off,
James Phineas Davis then, with my own stick, struck
ma violent blows, and on various parts of my body. A
crowd collected, and a palice•constable came up. I never
attempted to insult, or offered any gesture of defiance to
the defendants.
Ctoss-examincd by Mr. BALLANTINE—Mr. Davis's
stick was much thicksr than mine. The two men both
attacked me, and on endeavourieg to preserve my stick
I was placed in an unfavourable position, and being off
my guard David Davis seized me by my neckcloth. I
will swear my hand was not raised against the defen-
dants first. This I believe arose out of an affair re-
specting a Mr. Clifton, and I was charged with fraudu-
lently obtaining a number of bills whicu are at present
the subject of a suit in Chancery.
Mr. SLEIGH objected to this line of inquiry on a sub-
ject which was in the course'of inveetigetion in a supe-
rior court.
Mr. BALLANTINE said he wished to test the credit of
the prosecutor by his previous transactions.
The prosecutor was cro,s-examinad at great length,
and questi ted in refersnce to assumed pr vieus tracts-
factious, with a view to impeach his creditnli4.
Mr, John Gulartrt-wassthe next wittn-tts. He said that
lie was a baker in the employ merit of Mr. &irk r, ar-
sou-street, Ktegslend. On Thursiiay afternoon, the
18th instant, he was in James greet. He saw Mr. Da-
'yid Davie try to throw Mr. O'Brien. He caught hole of
him by the throat, when the other gentlemen struck
him with a stick. He never saw either of the persona
before. The first thing he saw was the seizing him by
the collar. A person who was by called out " stmme,"
noon which Phineas Davis said, " That is the noted
O'Brien, the extortioner."
Henry Hockley said he was passing through James.
street on the afternoon in question. His attention was
attracted to something going on. A desperate struggle
took place between the prosecutor and David Davis.
The witness then went on to give corroborative evi•
deuce of the assault upon the prosecutor.
Th:s was the case far the prosecution.
Mr. Ballantine then addressed the jury for the defen-
dant James Davis.
Mr. Parry addressed the jury for the other defendant.
The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after tin
absence of half an hour returned into court with a ver-
dict of Guilty against both prisoners.
Mr. WITHAM said the sentence of the Court was that
each of the defendants pay a fine of 50/. to the Queen,
and be imprisoned until such fine was paid.

POLICE .11s1'CELLIGENCE.
wEsTMINSTE re.
Mr. James Puyh, tailor and ouifi%ter, of 117, 'Tempe
street, St. Jemes's, underwent a very lengthened retexa
mination before M. Arnold, charged with having, by
the agency of boss, uttered two 1,40 ehrquee.
IsLnkers stated that on the 24th of November
the prisoner met him in Sr. James's-park, anti eekedlsine.
it he cooed go as fur as iiiegs.argi for him. He thee
took him into New•street, Spring-gardens, and told him
to wait a minute, and immetliwels afterwards jsined him
without a hat, and having told him th et he belonged to
the house 17 in that site-set, gave hint a letter address d
to Mrs. Feellteher, and told him he must be careful, a,
he would have to bring money back, addii g that he
(prisoner) ought to go him but tha, nis master lied
a dinner party and he could not spare time. Witoess
took the letter, got 201. los. from Mrs. Fsuleener, and
was met upon his return, near No. 17, by the prisoner,
to whom he gave the cash, and prisoner then gave him a.
shilling for his trouble.
In reply to questions from Mr. Arnold, witness said
he next saw the priauner at the House of Detention.
Clerkenwell, whither he was taken by a polies officer,
who told him that it was to see for the man who had
given him the cheque. He was shown into about a dozen
cells where there were prisoners before he came to the
one where he recognised the accused. Nothing was said
by the officer to point out the prisoner. The officer was
not in the cells whit witness.
In cross-exsmivation by Mr. Payne, the witness said
that while in the waiting-room at the prison, before vi-
siting the cells, there was somebody walked by the door
in the passage. accompanied by another gentleman, and
the officer said that was the man. Witness was looking
out of window at the moment the officer said so, but
turned round and saw two persons, and merely caught
sight of their forms, as they passed along the passage by
the door so quickly.
Mr. ARNoLD put some further questions to the wit-
ness, and elicited that, although he had in his visit to the
cells seen a hz-tn or more prisoners before he ideeti-
fied the accused, some of these were boys, others appa-
reroly navigators, and that the prisoner was the only
*sell dressed person he saw.
The officer was called, who said ho told witness that
the object of his visit to the prison was to see whether
he could point out the man who gave him the cheque;
but ha positively denied that, when the prisoner passed
the waitine• roues doer, he had said to Hankers, "That
ie the man." Witness did not hear any oh6ervaqon
made at the time prisoner passed the door. Did not
bear the words, "That is the officer who took use into
custody." The boy was sitting at the window with his
back toward; the door, and did not move, although he
might have looked towards the door, in the opening of
which witness was standing.
Mrs. Fauikener and Mr. Partridge were then exa-
mined—the former to show that she gave the 20/, 103.
to a boy who brought the letter purporting to be writen
by Mr. Partridge; and the latter to show that it was a
forgery.
tion in Mrs. Faulkener's case,
This being the whole of the evidence for the prosecu-
s-box with re-
The boy White was put into the
by Dr.
spect to the charge of uttering a fwoirtgheebdse
Kirby, at Brompton, purporting
toh r e were detsiltd
Bowdler. The particulars of this c a g
only a few days ago. Payne he said' that, on
In cross-examination by Mr. d
be was taken by
chseeqntue to Mr.
b and while
where seine in-
the police to 117.:_nsinrui:Yay
d fortnight-, about half-past
the day after his discharge
quiry was mode.
.0 -s
he went into Jermyn-streft to
seven in the mmHg,
however, did not c•ene, •
frno-maturehrsitt,°
w a person whom n e levet to tis tl.e
near 117
he
911
he did now feel a little'd;sabt whether
prisoner -but
meet the officer, who,
No. 117. It did not
the man—enteroccur to him
wasthought he had seen him before although be
some-
where, that, be was the man who gave him the caeque
until be Haw him go into that house, and if he had not
entered. it he should not have thought of him
con-
nexion with the truesi ction. e
in
believed prisoner gave
him the note.
Mr. Kirby an the Rev. Dr. Bowdler
show that a forged ere qie lad! were called to
been tendered to the
former.
Mr. Payne addressed the magistrates at great leng'h
on behaq of his client.
Ann Pannell was then called, and proved that the
prisoner and his family
moved from Storey's-gate on
the day he was allegt d to -have met White and given
him the cheque in the evening; that she-accompanied
the accused and his wife to their new apartments at
Notting-hill, and that he never left the house that
evening.
Mrs. Hailing, the landlady of the new apartments,
not only confirmed the alibi, but declared that the ac-
cused was in bed at seven o'clock on the night of Sun-
day fortnight, in which she was corroborated by tic.
cusecN wife's nurse, and two witnesses from 117. Jsr-
nun-street, were called to show that he did not go there
en the evening in question.
Mr. Cresawell, a solicitor, who is the accused's father-
in-law, said be visited him at the prison on Thursday,
and after a conference with him observed the officer and
a lad with him. The accused said, " I find the officer
who arrested rue is here," and added, pointing to the
officer, " That is the man." The boy (Hankers) and
the effiser were at that time standieg
Aire the room-
door open, isskine at them, Witness and the accused,
i after going towards the officer, returned again along the
passage to the welting-room door, when the aceas.:(l re-
peated, in alltedon to the offis r, " Trott is he," but s-,id
t it was not the same bey
(White being the only boy
1 who appeared against him on the previous exeminatiou).
I! • Mr. LIioLD said—ln the present state of the ease the
evidence Xis not sefiLieut to sethe •
re. prisoner for trial,
end he is oischteg

LAMBI.Th.
Daniel` Frazer, Eliza Frazer, hie wife, and John
Frazer, his bother, wore broght up fa Ai* expaus"

'4l Et, Tr. Ink Tsilie, prim
1-I.'litker, S: de't,e-stree:,
,71 t I' evi•lenee of. \lr. d'illte it epne4red that for
in
ts.o lee., pas-. the p ieot-er D iniel Ftez-e had b.en
his empto3nat--nt itk the parcel-pseking department, on
his premises in St. John-street, and that latterly the
other male prisoner lied also been engaged on the pre-
mines in the map-colouring department. Up to Ther
day last he did not distrust their honesty; on the con-
trary, he had a high opinion of their characters, Patt;
etoaily oF end; but on that day, in coneequenee
what had been told him, he wk-nt to the shop of a P5l/11.
broker in 11:2Ibarn, and there rotted some books belting.
ieg to him. Oti retwning home Mr. Tallis told the
prisoner andel Frez-r that he wished him to acconipilei
him to a shop in Het burn, when the latter made pouts
trease for a few minutes' absence, and immediately eh'
sctntlet. Fits wife and brother were given into custody,
and he himself in a few dais gave humeelf up tote
officer, to whom he had declared that he alone was e
guilty party.
The shop men of four different, pawnbrokers were ill
attendance with a number of expensive and elegaoili
hound volumes, which hid been plAged by each ot the
prisoners, lied all of which were sworn ti by
as his prop-ley.
Mr. radii made a serious complaint of several pawn'
brokers, who, when arplied to on the subject of the pro;
perty belonging to him which had been stolen. 13"
pawned, threw every impediment in his way; and it *a:
only on his threatening to :apply for a search
&frau
that they gave him any information or produced the
property.
Mr. ELLIOTT severely censured the conduct Of the
pawnbrokers in taking property of such a description a*
that pi-educed from nersone in the position of the Pr.ia.e;
Dere, without melting the re•Fc.sary inquiries—int:VW°
Mr. Tallis
which must have led to a detection of theirdishonesty
Deng
ego. He (\lr. Elliott) perceived that even the leaves iu
some of the costly-bound and expensive wernh4grre°;
duced, and on which not more than a shillines'
had been advanced, wire not cut; and
thet the act of taking such property in *fin° d
nailing the necessary iequiries was searoitlY remove
from that of receiving stolen property with g.-
knowledge. one
Mr. Tullis remarked, that from the testimony of ,th
of the pawrihrokers, the books had been pledged rof
him on the Ist of March, 1851, so that the teYetelPths;
robbery must have been carteed on for twAve Me%
he considereac
end many of the books protlaceil belonged to a wt?:;:t
Illustrated London for 1851—which was L4' -
9.ptrniseeitt-theerrl)xiwelifyernsozrerbrsoatihdehrekna,lowneholabgedcia.ittale
published to the trade.
and hthe
by the boeke. each
Mr. Etna iTT considered the case a very bad ()het
was guilty of the stealing, and he committed all
three
for trial.

THA,VES.
• h a
Daniel Billington, alias Price, alias Lewis, who
been frequentty in custody tor assaults and outraa-'
itabbiorg..
was brcuAtit before Mr. Ya,dley charged with
a woman named Ellen Sweeny, with intent to niu
der her.
The prisoner, who had been recently emPlnYed the
City Soup K•tchen, Shoemak,r-row was aPPrebe"-d
'2 K. wo dePn'e_
yesterday by P.tlice-S,e,,rgean• Kelly, helot!,
that the prisoner had stabited the same' woman
and that he was best known by tilt) name of Daniel 000c's
Mr. YARDLEY—He is entered on the police-abee&
Daniel
Sergeant K-11y—Ile is always called Daniel Gronadi
from his ruffianly character, and his real or aqee
resc,mhlarc,, to the murd,rer of that naorC
Mr. YARDLEY remanded the urtsener for a Freß

demandane oEo I.
f, 0
r(IN-;:'
wheat:tCt ti iN2a
0311.d1"-flTo,u'irs marketw3 'a
siriiwtt,als(c Tel'E i eearittehlgal;
ThielvTE
holderser were willing to take lower Oats andiF;eess
1 re
wwaseadiu,l, and cheaper; barley and mpaltetinchanged•
of ti'd laterrgeqsru.ppilyudoiraEn gcyoprtnian6dbeag: and
'l)offwereerd. atA,a;rdivec,ssels:-:
Ireland and coastwise, wheat, 1: ; barle-y, 2,493 jrs'',:heats
oats. 2,12 ; bea,.s,lo 5 qrs ;
9,057 ; barley, 1,514; oats, 385; beans, 431 rits"
,
5,177 sacks. twitb-
tiour, 99 sacks. Foreign goo,
NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, MARCH 23:"--,,Ne: gli
standing the supplies were m derate, trade ruled etc dibneeo
dull, and to transact business a further decline tno,t '-ictetr y
acceded to, which factors were unwillini, to glinvi• `',.."„1e0" 1
heavy sale, and the turn lower. In otheliarticles no rus7ply
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, MARCH O. - The %jay
of beasts beinE large, trade was sluggish, at a decline io v-bie
1 on last week of from 3d to r d pstone, and a convi,lera.A.,
portion remained unsold. All breeds of sheep moved off slowly
e
rterassttso,nle,l;uth,;eisfheeres.p
yet former terms were fully supported, and a cleat ance eff.!`t;a"
to
6d per lb ; ditto, shorn, 5d to Od.
533,33d51Per stone; beep,
h,„,.8 ere is'
EDINBURGH MEAL Raman, MAttc.al3.---T.---_Lbing
the meal market to-day 7 sacks oatmeal, each ~,,""I'li3d 4
2801bs. imperial, whereof 5 sold thus:--4 at 33010,
at 32s ; average price of the whole 11 129 2d 4-iliths.
2 sacks pot-barley which sold Ulu?: -1 at 28s, and rgat2,3,--.
EDINBURGH' HAY AND STRAW MA ARO,' MAI"- trott;
Oat straw, from 7s 6d to 9s Od per kemple of
75 6d to es
wheat ditto, 9s I'd to ll sOd ; barley ditto,
Hay, from 9d to lld per stone. re
--There
I)ALKEITH MEAL MARKET, MARCH 22. rice
48 bagsi r
vi3odo 1
st %ID;
of oatmeal and 2 of Not barley at this day'r les'
.31 West
sales dull. Oatmeal up on the topp 6d per bag, Fecund an. •_°_,er;
prices from.9d to :I'd per bag up ; pot-barley 6d per tag de'
there was no barleymeal in market. Thir.
Oatmeal, per sack, ot 280 lb. leirst second 'a od
imperial
-• : 315 01 303 0,1
\ 29 Od
Barleymeal, per ditto.* ..
-•-;
Od
Peasemeal .., ..„ .... --s ud --816.111.-s9 ' Id.
Flour ... -- Od 3 U.
A ...$ °d
Pot ..
barley ... ,„ , 28, 6,1 --s O-
.

COAL. ,

ESTZKDAY.
.he close of the market
**
'''''' .................... 1155: gad
ton ........... ..... 14s 9LI
glummer 14s 91
Russell's Becton ...... 14s 91
btewares •-• •••• 15' 0j
Fowler's Hartlepool... 125 01
Heugh Hall ......... .149 31
hellos 154 0d
Nc,rth i 25 9d
loouuttl.ah 11.44,-; 93/
ree , ..... .. ..... , 153 0.1
Slixon's Merthyr and
Cardiff ..... ... 12e . 23* 0
Siduey's Hartley ...... i 63
74 ....Sold. 52.

Prices of Coal per ton at t
Bate's West Hartley.. 12s 0:1
Huddle's W. Hartley.. 12s Od
Carr'a Hartley .-12 s Ud
Howard',s W. 13. Neth. 12s 6]
Longridge's VV Hartley 12s (id
North. Percy Hartley.. 12,; Ocl
Ravensworth'sW. Hart 12s 0,1
fantield Moor ButeE,... 126, 3d

Wall' End, Ike.
Gosforth
Harton
Lawson l2s Od
Walker
Eden Main
Lambton Primrose 14, 30
Bell 'l3s 9c
Braddyll
Ships at ,arket,

—__ -
Midland Stock,
RAILW A Y sHARE- mARKWIS‘
6313,1115T0L, , Mama 24.
STOCK Exc qANGE.—The market was very inactive to-dal
and prices had a downward tendency. The transaction
were as_follow:— Aberdien 13%- Great Western, 884
. "LIVERPOOL, MARCH 21.
STOCK ExcHANGE. The share market vraa not quite on
good to-day, but prices rem,iii without material alteration.
British, 73/4
1:114 transactions' were as follow:—Caledonian. 183/4"—Lanc
shire iinfl-Yerkshiro, 73,4 c—Londoti and 'l)Torth-Lane
and Lincolnshire;' Preference, I'2 9-16 , 'Mali&
121,5;..—:D1tt0, Ntor Quarters 5 p..— Manchester, fileffiela,•_
63% _.l•Tortu;
-- Shrewsbury' and 'Ctiesti,r (o.swestry ilnQI
Chester), 11—Soutn- Eastern and Dover; 21%.
MANCH K.sTE ft, Dimwit 24
;,iroca 61%c :-lAL4 Ga.—The business to-day was rather li
mired, and prices had tuti9w award teeency. The transac.
tiuns were as follow : East A.ngliau, 3*—Eastern Coun.
ties, 9%—East Lancashire, 1714, --Ditto, Preference, Quer-
ters, Sys,— Ditto, Fifths, C. 5-16—Lancashire end Yorkshire,
72 L-3.lanchester, ;Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, P
.. references
Sheffield Rothe-
ham, and Goole, 21--South- Etta tern and Dover, 21 H.. 16—
gi—Dublin and Drogheda,
12 tip Ditto, New .Preference,ll-16 n. p.—Sheffi 14
Midland, 64 ,As Caledonian, 18 %1 London and North.
Western. 124—Ditto, New Quarters, sti
esg to- day was very
'1 P. —London and
Thirds, 1241--
Quarters, 2 p.--North
British, Preference 5 Lim— North Staffordshire 86' di
s, Eli-r-toingbani (C),
dIRMINtiti - m
"I' MARCH 21 is.l
Ci
'TOOK EXCHANGE.—The busin I -
mount but prices generally Were d 1"
onlyon salo3 reported were—Birmiu w sustaine • _d
Stour Valley, 91. IBs. 9d......L.0n g ell
a olron, s,i,
dou and North-Western, 124.
litnited

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Vale of Aylesbury, on Thursday week, when becaanar
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row, end about four feet perpendicular drop into a bardB
The lvolk gave way with the hore's hind feet when hent;iyo
'it, mid caused him to alight upon his head. gr. , hie
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person, however, who was gallopping down the roaddo"vi'v,
the others, rode apinst Mr. Brown and knocked blin,wavy
when he was ridden over by another horseman, Who 1'1,401
stepped his horse when upon him. After a careful 5,_11..100,
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BIRTHS.
' OF A SON. John's'
On the 21st inst, at Picton-vills, Norfolk-road, St.
wood, Mrs. James P. Davies. Hams'On the 21st inst , at the PArsonage,Little liadhat_rll ihot,
the wife of the Rev. E-Randolph, curate of Little WI"
OF A DA LIGHTEN. the lady of
On the 21st inst„ at Upper Grosvenor-street,
Sir Edward N. Buxton, Bart., M.P. of the
On the 21st in,t., at Heavitree, Exeter, the lad,'
Hon. W. Addington.
_____,-----------

MARRIED. t 13.
On the 28th of January, at Bellary, Lientenan dough.
Bivar, I,t Madras Light Infantry, to Matilda Ernl3lB,
ter of the late Colonel John Hunter.

coOmantghweo2,d2d,
Eir?qt:,aagteNdVe6l6lington-grove,
DIED. m el
ace,
On th z2a inst., at Charles-street, Westbourne-terr-
Hyde-park, Mrs. Mar Phelps, aged 8 t. , Par
On Ow 22d inst., t.e Rev. P. S. Dodd, rector 01 A -
burst, Kent, and Aldrirtgton, Sussex, aged 77. •fa a
the Wife
On the 22d inq , at Sevenoaks, Mary Jane,
li. Glasb k E roo , N., of Boxgiove, Sussex. gni*
At Coll Blackheath, Sa•--11
College-place, Camden-tJwn, on the 22d inst.,
Else, aged 7 :. Wood'
On the 22t1 inst., Thomas Parker, eldest son of pr.
Peckham, Sulu.

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