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London, England, 1852-07-22 00:00:00

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The commission will be opened at Durham
Saturday.

Pcil:co constable 326 N proved having taken the de-
fendant into custody by dircc:icn of the prosecutor, who
at the time he deposed was bleeding from the mouth.
The defendant was drunk.

In addressing the jury, Mr. PARRY said they must
bear in mind that they were not trying an action for
criminal conversation, and ho was quite sure that neither
the jury nor the presiding Judge would at all deviate
from the ordinary co-.tree or proceeding adopted in cases
involving a question of simple assault, because in the
present case the prosecutor had introduced an element
quite independent of, and foreign to, the real point in
issue: The defendant irstrumd him to deny, in the
most solemn manner, that any criminal intercourse bad
ever taken place between him and Mrs. Minor, and the
prosecutor, if be thought there had, would have a remedy
in another court; hut, as far as the present inquiry was
concerned, the jury had nothing to do with that sub-
ject. The simple issue was, had the defendant assaulted
the prosecutor? Tie Learned Counsel then , proceeded
to urge that, under the circumstances in which he found
his wife, it was natural that the prosecutor should
suspect that something improper had occurred, and that,
therefore, there was every probability in favour of the
presumption that the prosecutor first struck the de-
fendant—that such ,was the fact ho was prepared with
evidence to prove.
Thomas Warne deposed that he was a cabman, and
on the night in question drove the lsdy and the defen-
dant to Srublazid-grove.
.He went on to give a version
of the afrairdircctly at variance with that given by the
prosecutor. Re made out that the prosecutor was the
aggressor, and !:,that he had given a grossly untrue ac-
count of the transaction.
The jury 'did not trouble the counsel to reply. They
found the defendant guilty of a common tEtault.
ASSISTANT-jtrDGetEts'einufaanssindignante
rmaagn n
rear,
as
taidd
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way
The
amoss
atrociouscircumstances. The defer dart had' 5
instructed v
his
counsel to throw all eorts of dirt at
the prosecutor, but
the counsel bad acted well in not carrying out his in-
structions, further than simply putting the questions.
He
bad
besides suborned perjury, for
no c
one ~ouiodnd.ou be
t
th-At the cabman had been
most endacious
fa,.n e.
00
..4, put into th e box to tell the
d,, and tell a monstrously and
proposterent.ly absurd story.
Mr. PARRY thought these obsevati-us of an excited
and extraordinary character. Ho 'uwould implore of the
Learned
Judge to adjourn the case until he was more
cool, as he was under excited feelings, and probably was
about to inflict a severe punishrant on a man for trim.
COD., can offence which this Court had no jurisdiction
to try.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE said he was quite cool, and
not at all excited; but he should not be doing his duty
to the office he held if he did not express his opinion
when the oath was so far disregarded that a perjured
witness was unblushingly brought forward. He was
E" going to punish the defendant for cries. con., but for
this assault, and he thought it would have been better
had the Learned Counsel sat quiet, and acquiesced in
what he said.
Mr. PARRY said he could not concur in any one thing
that had fallen from the Court. Why was not the cab-
man committed for perjury?
didnot care a brass
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE button
concurred in what he said or not.
lie then went-
whether Mr.
~
over the perry
facts, and said it was clearly a
The sentence was that the do..
case for imprisonment
ft...u...5. or orrection for three
fendant be imprison
calm:tar months,
Mr. Poland wa an
structed to watch the case on be-
inor.
half of Sirs. *_

TRMPEST OF FRIDAY NIGHT.
DAMAGE TO WINDMILLS.

On Friday night last, abeut ehluervreincanoe'cflroockm,
tthheiszviivn
.„ visited with a tremendous .
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atten,.-- . . .
VV..- ,iptiby loud peals of thunder and continuous flashes
f lightning, with a heavy fall of rain and hail, which
about an hour. The lightning commenced about
lasted about
continued till after one o'clock on Saturday
town morning,
during which a number of windmills in the
the property of Mr.
surrounding neighbourhood sustained great
In Colchester, Batt Mill,
Byam Hewes, was rendered a complete wreck, the sails
being blown off by the wind, and the interior of the
mill completely shattered by the electric fluid entering
at the cap, and descending through the centre into the
dlinlsgnen.d
round house, when it made its escape through the roof,
forcing an aperture in the tiling
of about five feet square.
The corn and flour bins are shattered to pieces, and a
great portion of the machinery dislodged from its bear-
ings. The damage is computed at about 500/. This is
not the only instance in which Mr. Hewes is a sufferer
by the storm; for the Distillery Mill, which is also his
property, did not escape, the sails of which were blown
off and smashed to pieces, and the machinery damaged
to an extent altogether amounting to upwards of 200 L
Mr. Warren's mill, on the Military-road, shared a
simi-
lar fate, the sails being blown off, and the interior, with
the
the machinery, much damaged, it is feared., had its
lightning. Mr. Abbott's mill, at Greensy.asetred! Mr.
sails taken off and otherwise seriously a)
tazined similar
Angier's mill, on the Harwich-road,
87
had its sails
damage. Mr. Clubb's mill, North-street, by the
near Col-
blown cff and the whole s'ructuroed d I
thalso a wind-
mill taken o'ff and the in-
teriorcmwhiienl ladta.etr ,A.
Greatreceivedsm aRI small
windmillnv telreyyelfaud's icdint''iisr:::3l)l,l:;:d7h heard of any other
neighbourhood being
tempest-de-
ihe crops of corn are
much shattered.
t the heavy sterna of rain
knot bed down by the force they
are not injured to any
e .piecescroy'e d byof the wind oi rn hieso
,
and hail, but it is hoped ""
Express.
great extent.—lpswich

THE STING or A .DEE —As the Sting
it beneath your notice to
very painful, and bas been found in some of a bee is
y obtain instancesrliefby very
6mB
upon the following
hint at
antottrteigsasrdeason ,
can:nstant-"anenus; :—ln most cases the
person still*
upon the point relieve the tubeof
ea-
tract the sting and th •• a key. • This will
- CO ePain, and the APP
aqua ammo' (• mon spirits of )will •
application of
iate/ remove it. The poison being
hartshorn ironic-
once neutralised by the being of an acid nature, is at
volatile alkan. A
small application of this penetrating and
On the point of a quantity introduced into the wound
needle, or fine .
MU AS possible, will nibbed pep, aud applied as
scarcely ever fail.

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, July 21. xadv-ci
(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS Assistant-Judge.)
ExTRAOR.DINARY CASE. -- Thomas Whitcher, a
builder, in Gilbert's-buildin
Westrninster-road, was
indicted for having assaulted and inflicted bodily harm
on George Thomas Minor.
.Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted; Mr. Parry appeared for the
defendant.
. The Learned Counsel, having shortly stated the case
te the jury, called—
The prosecutor, who deposed—l am a linendraper in
Somers town. I lived in Chapel-street. I had a resi-
dence, No. 2, Shrublsnd-grovea Dalston. Formerly I
oecupied apartments in the defendant's house. That
was about three months before this transaction. I lived
there with my wile, but we were obliged to leave in
consequence of the pertinacity with which he paid his
attentions to my wife. Ho thought proper to pay her
particular attentions, as I thought. It cas. r I and my
wife had a few words, he was 'always ready to interfere.
say, e Poor dear Mrs. Miner, what pity
He would take her by the hand, stroke her chin, "owl
Ile wouldit
my face.—(Lauglger.)
moor should get so angry."'
and
squeepziuset
her.
before
rid I should. rather
35111 round hie. waiq, pat her cheek,
acc4)
think such doings were an intrusion. I had not used to
go home to Dalston every night on -account of the dis-
ndsdidotraell4 this right
ranee. I used to go horse twice a week. I went home
of May by ace'de
()Lathe night of the `2..nt. That was
a night I was not expected tense. The night for ray
toing at. home that week would have been Wednesday.
Welt, when I got there on the Tuesday night it was
about ten o'clock. My wife was not at home. She came
home at a little after OD3 o'clock on the morning of the
261.11 of May. She cease home in a cab. Directly I
heard the cab I thought it was her, and I rushed out.
and I found that the defendant had come home with her.
When the cab drove up, the defendant opened the door,
gotout, and began to arrange his dress, which was dis-
ordered. I had not seen my wife in the cab then, but
suspecting she was there I was going to the cab,
when he interposed, offered me his hand, and said,
" Ah, Minor, my bop,
how do you do?" I said,
How's this! this is not a fit hour for you to be
out with my wife," I
went to the cab, and there
I saw my wife on the seat with her clothes disar-
ranged in a peculiar Manner--. Her bonnet- was broken
back and front, her hair was hanging about her face,
the combs were out, and she was drank. One of her
ear-rings was missing. I got her inside of the house.
She was in an excited state of intoxication. Whitcher
was by no means sober. In fact, he was drunk too I
took her hand and helped her up the steps. When I
got her in, he rushed up the step to the door, and said
ho would come in too. I said, " No, you shall not." He
caught me by the collar to push in, and I caught him bar
the collar to push him out. I gave him a Push, and as
was•sober and he was not, he slipped down two or three
steps—he did not fall, as he held by the railings. When
he recovered himself. he came up to me and struck me a
blow on the mouth, with his clenched fist. Is was a
violent blow. My lip was cut and my gurus inflamed,
and blood was drawn. He afterwards struck me a blow
on the chest, which caused me to spit blood for more
than an hour afterwards. I called for the police. A
constable came up in about six minutes, and I gave him
into custody.
Cress-examined—I paid rent for the house in Shrub•
land-grove indirectly. I and my wife were not separated.
A deed of separation was drawn up but not executed.
Such a thing was never dreamed of until after we knew
Vir itoher. The deed was not execated because my wife
said she could not live without rea —(G t laughter.)
The house was not taken
in my name. I have been
married about four years. My wife had a child before
marriage son,
now fourteen years of see He has
some-property under a deed of gift f
rom his father. The
house was taken iu his name. The was rent 261, a year.
I allowed 6s. per week towards the rent,
respect of the boy. Some of the furnh-
are the rest was in belongs to me,
the remainder I have made over to t
comfort of my wife.—(A laugh.) wI
baovetrustees for the
house at No. 7, Crowte-etreea florton-square,
ad
liveware-
lat No. 1, Denton 's-buildings, Somers-town, 'eksliten this
occurred occurred I carried on business in Chapel-street. I was
not here last session; I was in V yritecross-street, for they
got up a conspiracy, and said I was about to leave the
country, and by that means got me locked up on a
. cap.as I I set aside that capes by proving that I was
not going to leave the country. I swear that I did not
strike prisoner on the chest before he struck tee. When
he struck me' I was on the step. I had not been spar-
ring' with him. When-ho had struck me he ran to the
cab, and cared out to the cabmen to drive on. I was
calling out "police" at the time. I got him from the
cab, and then he struck at meta blow over the cabretan's
shoulder. The cabman wished me not to give him in
charge.