The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1863.

EARLE V. HOME

This was an action to recover 2s. 6d. for a counterfeit
half crown alleged to have been received at defendant's
public-house, the Golden Fleece, Queen-street.
Plaintiff deposed that he changed a half sovereign at de-
fendant's h(use, and received three half crowns, one of
which was bad. Defendant, when applied to, denied all
knowledge of the affair.
Defendant said that three quarters of an hour elapsed
from the time of the receipt of the change and the bringing
back of the coin. He (defendant) was very particular about
his silver.

His Honour—l am very sorry to say that licensed vic-
tuallers are fearfully victimised by the smashers, and when
the pub icans are in the box as jurymen they convict the
smashers whether there is evidence or not,

Defendant—Well, I shall for the future. (Laughter.)
His Honour—Well, I will just tell you what the foreman
of a jury said to me about a coining case. He said that the
jury had convicted because, on the previous Saturday, two
of the jury had taken three bad half-crowns. So much for
the great qualifications of jurymen in the present day. In
this case you must pay, as plaintiff swears yours was the
only silver he took on the day in question.
Verdict for plaintiff.

LORD MAYOR'S COURT.
(Before the Recorder and Special Jury.)

THE NEW DEAD MEAT MARKET.-THE CHURCHWARDENS
AND OVERSEERS OF THE PARISH OF ST. SEPULCHRE
V. THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

This was one of a series of compensation cases, in which
public bodies and private individuals seek to recover corn •
pensation for buildings and land required by the corpora-
tion of the City of London for the new dead meat market.
Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Pontifex were counsel for the plain-
tiffs; and Mr. T. Chambers, Q,C. (common sergeant), Mr.
Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Henry Lewis for the City.
The evidence in this case was of the usual kind, being
technical, but the plaintffs laid their damages at £15,435,
and supported this claim by some professional evidence
which set forth that land where the plaintiffs' building was
situated (the West London Union, Smithfitld) was well
worth IN, per square foot. The lease was held for 97:1
years, and 76 years are yet unexpired. The Guardians had
laid out £B,OOO in improvements, and property had been
rapidly increasing in value during the past few years, and
while the question of the dead meat market had been before
the public. The land was well worth a sum of £12,555 at
27 years' purchase. Even this did not adequately represent
the value of the lease to the pari h.
Illustrations were given by different witnesses of the
great value of ground rents in the City of London, and it
was generally anticipated that the Corporation would come
to some terms, bat the case was proceeaing when this re-
port left.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,---This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A WIFE.—John Gilbert, a labour-
ing man, living at 8, Husband-street, was charged with the
following assault on his wife, Catherine Gilbert.
The wife said that, between 9 and 10 the previous even-
ing, her husband came home, and she then asked him for
some money for bread. He then struck her, and on her
asking for mercy he struck her several times, cutting her
mouth so badly that she was compelled to go to the hospital.
Mr. Knox asked the complainant what her husband
struck her with, and how long she had been married.
Complainant said her husband used his fist, and that she
had been married sixteen years, end had two children. She
was quite sober at the time.
Weeks, 155 C, said that, hearing cries of " Murder," he
went up to the room and found complainant bleeding from
the mouth. She said she had been kicked by her husband
in the mouth. The prisoner denied it, and said that his
wife had fallen down. After taking the prisoner into cus-
tody, he, by direction of Inspector Bowles, who observed
the mouth to be so badly cut. took complainant to the Mid-
dlesex Hospital, where the wound on her mouth was sewed
up, the surgeon stating that it had either been done by a
kick or some blunt instrument.

Prisoner said on coming home he found his wife drunk,
and no food in the house.

Mr. Knox said the evidence before him was that the
woman was sober last night, and the surgeon said the
wound was the result of a kick or some instrument. Ho
should like to know what sort of people they were.

Weeks made inquiries in the neighbourhood, and found
that both complainant and her husband were in the habit
of getting intoxicated and quarrelling, there being no dis-
tinction between them.

Mr. Knox said that if he sent the man to prison he
should further punish' the complainant by starving her
children. He would, therefore, remand the prisoner for a
week, and then decide the case.
Prisoner was then remanded.