The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-25 00:00:00

EAST KENT SESSIONS.—Ocr. 22.

These Sessions commenced this day at Canter-
bury, before Sir E. Knatchbutt, Bart., Chairman,
and a very full Bench of Magistrates, among whom
we noticed the Marquis Camden, Lord Lieutenant
of the County, arid the Earl of Winchitsea. There
appeared in the calender eleven prisoners charged
with breaking threshing-machines in different parts
of this (the eastern) division of the county. Of
these two, George Youens and Ingram Swaine,
who surrendered themselves to the Magistrates, arc,
it is intended, to be admitted as approvers. There
are also for trial two cases of assault, with intent,
&c., both from the parish of Sutton, near Dover,
and in one of them the parties charged are boys of
ten and twelve years of age.
On calling over the Grand Jury, one of them, a
Mr. Quested, from the neighbourhood of Ashe,
where several outrages and burnings have taken
place, was excused attendance on the ground that
there had been a second fire Zeal ni;111 at his place,
which occasioned his absence.

Sir E. KNATCIMULL, in addressing the Grand
Jury, alluded to the cases of the persona who stood
charged with breaking threshing-machihes in the
county. It was not a little extraordinary tkat in
not one instance were the offending parties identi-
fied by those whose property they hud destroyed;
hence the necessity of having recourse to the testi-
mony of accomplices. He would not undertake to
say what the cause of those disturbances was; if it
were owing to the want of employment, he need
not say that an exertion should be made use of to
remove that cause. Those who were unemployed
had a reasonable right to have employment procured
for them. If necessity were the alleged ground of
complaint, they were all aware that no applicant
who carne to the Magistrates was denied redress,
hut all found ultimately such relief as the law of
the country afforded them. But, whatever cause
had led to these unhappy transactions, the supremacy
of the law must be asserted.

The trials excited the greatest interest. The acts
of the incendiaries have not ceased. The guard of
the mail which left London on Thursday night,
states that he saw four stacks of corn on tire at a
small hamlet, called Upstreat, atoat half a mile
from Sittingbourne.
The prisoners against whom true bills had been
found for destroying the threshing machines were
IVni. Spicer, aged 35 ; John Patterson, 26 ; David
Arnold, 25 : Edward Reed, 51 ; Stephen File,
25 ; Henry Reed, 50 ; Charles Carswell, 28. They
are all labouring men. When called on to plead,
they all, except David Arnold, admitted they were
guilty. They did not confess to having actually
destroyed the machines, but they admitted that they
were with those who did it, and the Chairman said
they were therefore as guilty as those who actually
committed the mischief.

When Arnold was put on his trial, no evidence
vas offered, and he wa• therefore acquitted.
The other seven prisoners were then put for-
ward, and

Sir E. KNATCHBULL addressed them at some
length. Ile concluded by sentencing the prisoners
to three days' imprisonment.
The prisoners seemed evidently affected at the un•
expected lightness of the sentence.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

bIANSION.HOUSE.

A constable named Kelly was charged with com-
mitting a desperate assault on a Mr. Livermore.—
From the statement of the complainant and his
friends, it appeared that they were looking at a
horse " showing off his points," in the Circus,
Moodields,. when Kelly came up, lnid hold of the
horse, violently assaulted the rider, and, on being
resisted, took out a knife, pursued Mr. Livermore,
and swore that he would stab him. The defendant
took the horseman in charge, hut he was rescued.
Kelly, who had two black eyes, and a severe
wound in the head, said he bad requested the gen-
tleman not to exercise the horse in the Client, such
a practice being contrary to regulations. The rider,
however, persisted in urging on the horse, and after
he had passed three times, he (Kelly) seized the
bridle, upon which the rider struck him violently
across the head with a stick, and on he (Kelly) say-
ing lie would summon all the parties, Mr. Liver-
more struck him a violent blow on the ear, which
made the blood gush out. lie said nothing to the
gentlemen which could be considered an offence, ex-
cept that they could not exercise the horse in the
Circus.

Mr. Livermore refused to give up the name of the
man who rode the horse.

Mr. Alderman FAREBROTIIER, who at for the
Lord Mayor, then adjourned the cue, and directed
the officer& to produce the man on a future day.

BOW-STREET.

On Saturday Joseph Wheeler and Thos. liennings,
the two young men remanded on Wednesday, on a
charge of having obtained various articles of pro-
perty under false pretences, were brought up for
reexamination.

Mr. lIALLs remanded the prisoners, in order to
give an opportunity for further evidence being
brought against them.
John IVilson a respectable-looking man, who was
formerly a coachman to one of the mails, was finally
examined on u charge of having kept in his posses-
Ilion a parcel, containing 301., which was entrusted
to him by a porter at Charing-cross, for the pm-
pose of conveying it to a gentleman in Murylebone.
The evidence being conclusive, he was committed.
Francis Dugue, a native of France, formerly a
waiter at Janney's Hotel, Leicester-square, was
placed at the bar on a charge of having stolen nine
101 notes, the property of a gentleman named
Hughes. He was remanded for further examination.