The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-16 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Letters which have reached Paris from Constanti-
nople (says the Constitetionnel) announce that great
irresolution reigns in the councils of the Ottoman
Porte. It was generally expected in the Turkish
capital that Reschid Pa,ha would soon return to office.
A letter from Constantinople of the 31st ult., says :
—" The Greeks have succeeded i❑ preventing the
ratification of the arrangement respecting the holy
places, and fearing new changes have exerted their
influence to procure the dismissal of Reschid Peeha.
On the 28th ult., however, he was appointed Presi-
dent of the Council of State, in place of Rifaat-Pacha,
who has been dismissed."

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prins at Westminster, before Lord
CAMPBELL ur4d a Comin,n Jury.)
SKINNER V. WALLIS.

This was an action to recover compensation in damages
for slanderous language.
Mr. Charnock conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr.
Gifford appeared for the defendant.
The plaintiff, Mrs. Eliza Skinner, was the widow of a
soldier who was killed in Spain while one of the legion,
and the defendant, Mr. Wallis, kept a coffee-shop in
Compton-street, Brunswick-sqaare. The plaintiff had
been for some time employed by the defendant in manag-
ing his business; in November, 1850, the left his ser-
vice, and shortly afterwards Le accused her of receiving
3s. from customers without giving any account of the
money, selling seven gallons of coffee and two quartern
loaves, of the value of 95., and only paying over 4s. 6d.
He repeated these accusations on two occasions, and
once said she had done quite enough to enable him to
give her a ride across the water. Application was sub-
sequently made to him for a❑ apology or for compensa-
tion, but as no answer was returned the present actio❑
had been instituted to recover some compensation for the
injury she had sustained.
For the defence it was contended that as no malice
was intended in making the assertions, the defendant
having no wish to impute to the plaintiff the act of em-
b( zzlement, there was no sufficient grounds to warrant
the action being brought.
Lord CAMPBELL having summed up,
The jury found a verdict for the defendant.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

The February General Sessions were opened this
morning at Clerkenwell. The number of names in the
calendar was seventy-seven, but the offences of a grave
character are rather below the average number.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in & lengthened address to
the Grand Jury, assured the gentlemen sworn to serve
on that body, that ho regretted the unnecessary and
fruitless waste of their valuable time, in being called
away from their business to go through a routine of in-
quiry which in no respect whatever promoted the ad-
ministration of justice.

William Bagrey, aged 33, a person of respectable ap-
pearance, was indicted for stealing twelve mahogany
veneers, of the value of 71., the property of Henry Searle
and another, his masters and employers.
Mr. Ballantine prosecuted, and Mr. Metcalfe defended
the prisoner.

Mr. Stirling, a cabinet-maker, carrying on business in
Edward-street, Kingsland. road, stated that the prisoner,
who lived in the same street with him, called at his
house on the 30th of January last, and offered for sale
twelve veneers, which were worth 71. 43, by measurement,
but for which ho was willing to take 51. The witness
knew the prisoner to be a surveyor in the employment
of the Messrs. Searle, of Ifoxton, timber merchants,
from whom a day or two before he (the witness) had
bought a bundle of veneers of the kind of which the pri-
soner described those to be which he offered to sell.
Witness went next day, by appointment, to the prisoner's
house, in Edward•street, where the latter drew out the
bundle of veneers from under a sofa. The moment the
witness saw them he recognised them as having been
cut from the same piece of wood as those which he had
previously bought from Messrs. Searle, and be at once
suspected that the prisoner had not come honestly by
them. However he Offered to pay 4/. 103. for them, and
appointed a time in the evening when he should call for
them. In the meantime ho gave information to the pri-
soner's employers, and, accordingly, when Baldrey
came out of his house with the goods, he was taken into
custody.

Mr. 11. Searle, J. 13,)nello, his foreman, and another
witness, a sawyer in the prosecutor's employment, iden-
tified the veneers, by the quality of the wood, the fashion
of the cut, and the numbers marked upon them. There
had been 180 veneers cut out of the same log, and of
these twenty-three only had been sold, but not more
than three to one person. but twelve were found in the
prisoner's possession, and that number were missing
from the stock. The prisoner had access to the ware-
room in which those goods were kept, but he could not
easily carry off so large a bundle as those twelve veneers
would make without being observed.
Mr. AIETCALFE, in defence, was willing to admit that
the property charged in the indictment had been im-
properly removed from the premises of the prosecutors,
but he contended that the prisoner was not proved to
have stolen them. In fact, he never knew until he was
taken into custody that the veneers had belonged to his
employers. If he had known that he would not have
offered them for sale to a neighbour, customer, and friend
of the Messrs. Searle. The Learned Gentleman called
several witnesses, who gave the prisoner a very high
character.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Ho was sen-
tenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the
House of Correction for twelve calendar months.

MARLBRO'-STREET—( THIS DAY.)
CHARGE OF CRUELTY.—Henry Dunn and Timothy
Alacaray, two men in the employ of Mr. Tilby, cow-
keeper, were summoned before Mr. Bingham by Mr.
Thomas, the secretary of the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, for cruelly ill-treating
and torturing a horse by beating it about the bead with
a whip.
Mr. John Smitb, pianoforte maker, 17, grafton-place,
Fitzroy-square, deposed that on the 6th inst., between
the hours of five and six in the evening. he 59W a horse
drawing a heavily-laden cart down Bromlew-mews. The
horse could not move, and they efendant Dunn stood
before it, and with the thin prt of the
hands struck it over the bead with the
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w timberhpin hia
conduct,t
ness remonstrated with Dunn on his cruelof
when Macarthy told him to go to b— and mind his Own
business. Macarthy then took up a piece
thick as a man's arm and struck the horse several blows
on the tack. The cart was full of grains and was going
down an inclined plane.
The sou of last witness corroborated the above evi-
dence.
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The defendants, in reply
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said theythe horse to
no more force than was used
draw.

Mr. BINGHAM said he always thought that the way to
malca a horse draw was by treating it with kindness
and gentle tossing, and not beating the poor animal in
the manner stated by the respectable witness. As a
caution to them for the future, he should lieu them ss.
each and coats.

WG understand that her Majesty visits the Lyceum
this evening', at eight o'clock.

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