The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-17 00:00:00

ASSIZE IN TEL LIG.ENCE.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT-11uNn,vGno,v, 11114Reli 75.
Yesterday being the Commission-day for the county, the
Learned Judges arrived here in the afternoon from Bedford,
and the Commission was opened in due form. After attending
Divine service this morning, at ten o'clock, their Lordships
proceeded to their respective Courts for the dispatch of busi-
ness. Mr. Justice Coltman sat in the Nisi Prius Court, where
only two causes were set down for trial.

WEBSTER V. MITIIOM.
Mr. GUNNING conducted the case for the plaintiff. This
was an action brought by a widow against her brother-in-law,
for roods sold, &c., and after occupying tb Court a shout
time, was, by the consent of Mr. BYLES, for the defendant, re-
ferred, as there was a set-off on the part of his client. The
question in dispute was a mere matter of amount.
The calendar is very light, indeed, only containing the names
of 19 prisoners, most of whom arc charged with petty thefts.
The Grand Jury have thrown out a bill for arson against two
men, and Mr. Justice Park disposed of several minor cases in
the course of the day.
James Edwards, a boy of 12 years of age, was indicted `for
stealing a few roots of man(*el wurzcl. the property of his
master, Richard Daintree ; and George Nicholls, aged 40, and
Samuel, his son, aged 14, were indicted as receivers.
After a charge from his Lordship, in which he intimated to
the Jury that the boy Nicholls might be supposed to have acted
under the guidance of his father, a verdict was returned of
Guilty against Edwards and the elder Nicholls, acquitting the
son of the latter.

His LORDSHIP commented very strongly upon the enormity
of the prisoner Nicholl's conduct in leading his son, at such a
tender age, into vice; while he also suspected that, had it not
been for his solicitation and persuasion, the other boy, Ed-
wards, would not have been induced to commit the principal
offence of which he had been convicted. He should, there-
fore, mark his sense of his conduct by sentencing him to 12
months' imprisonment, with hard labour, while lie should only
order that Edwards should be confined for one month, at the
same time directing that he should be once well whipped
during that time.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, Minch 13.
, The business of these assizes commenced here on Saturday.
At one o'clock Mr. Baron Bolland, who, we are happy to
state, has recovered from his recent attack of influenza, took
his seat in the Crown Court ; and, after charging the Jury,
proceeded to try the prisoners. Owing to the sessions having
been held only a day or two previous to the Assizes, there
were not so many prisoners as have been usually found at the
Spring Assizes here, there being only sixty-two.
Mr. Baron PARK arrived from Worcester about two o'clock,
and shortly afterwards proceeded to the Nisi Prius Court,
where he disposed of two or three cases of no public interest.
There are twenty-four causes entered for trial, seven of which
are special juries ; but most of them are said to be of very
little importance.

THE KING V. HARRIS.
This was an indictment preferred at the instance of the
Commissioners of Excise for a violent assault cotnruitted
upon a man named Daniel Evans, one of their officers. The
jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Baron PARK sentenced the defendant to six months'
imprisonment in the county gaol.

NORTIIERN CIRCUIT.—Ywar, MARcH 14.
REX V. THACKRAY.
This was an indictment against the proprietor of the Crown
Hotel, Low Harrowgate, for a nuisance ; occasioning, as was
alleged, injury to those ancient wells fur which that watering-
place has so lung been famous. A host of witnesses, many of
them scientific persons, from a great distance, was in attend-
ance ; and it was understood that scientific experiments upon
a large scale had been made, with a view to the evidence to
be given in this case.

Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY proceeded to state to the Jury
the particular circumstances out of which this indictment had
arisen. It appeared that in 1770 an Aet passed for the pro-
tection of the ancient wells at Harrowgate, by which (the pro-
perty then belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster) 200 acres
were set apart for the use of the public, and it was enacted that
any one doing uny thing by which the springs should be in-
jured, or sinking wells to their damage, might be indicted for
a nuisance. This indictment was preferred under the statute
against Mr. Thackray, the proprietor of the Crown Hotel, for
sinking numerous wells upon his own premises, and premises
in the possession of his under-tenant, by which the ancient
wells to which the public had access were much injured, the
quantity of water which they produced diminished, and that of
late to such a degree as to threaten, at no remote period, to
give Mr. Thackray a monopoly of the whole. The indict-
ment was preferred by the proprietors of several other hotels in
Harrowgate.

Some time was spent in settling the terms of an agreement,
but it was finally arranged that a verdict of not guilty should
be taken, Mr. Thackray dedicating the well, and the apart-
ment in which it existed, to the use of the public. The agree-
ment to be made a Rule of the Court of King's Bench.

YORK, WR D.VE,SD.I V.
CROWN SIDE. -THE RING V. THOMAS LA MOTT.
The prisoner was indicted for the manslaughter of Mary
Rebecca Russell, at Hull, by improperly administering to her
Morrison's pills. _ _ _

Mr. STARKIE proceeded briefly to state the case to the
Jury. The present was one of the numerous instances which
occurred, especially among the lower classes of society, in
which the parties, by having recourse to quack 'medicines, in
place of regular medical advice, were likely to suffer irre-
parably, perhaps, as would appear to have occurred in this
case, fatal injury. As to the prisoner at the bar, it was not
necessary, to constitute the crime wherewith he was charged,
that he should have any intention of injuring the party—on
the contrary, he might have wished that she should be bene-
fited by the medicines which lie administered. Mr. Starkie
proceeded to state the particulars attending the death of
Mary Russell.—The verdict will probably not be returned till
a very late hour.