The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-10 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday .a Court was held for the dispatch of public bu-
siness, and, in consequence of a requisition to the Low
MAYQR, specially to consider the motion for an application
to Parliament for leave to bring in a. Biil for the better regu-
lation of the nightly watch within the City of London and
its liberties.

Alderman VENABLES stated that it was his intention to move
for an application to the Legislature for leave to bring in a
Bill similar in most of its details to that last submitted to the
House of Commons by Alderman Wood. Aftei• having at-
tacked the existing system upon the ground of enormous ex
pense, as well as the most ridiculous inefficiency, the Alder- '
man moved for the application to Parliament for leave to bring
in a Bill, &c. &c.
Mr. ANDERTON seconded the motion..
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An amendment was moved, that the subject be referred to .
the nightly watch Committee, to inquire, examine, and report
whether any, and what (if any) change was necessary to be
made in the nightly watch.
After a discussion of considerable length, the amendment
was carried by a majority of 30, the numbers being, for the
amendment GS, against 38.
THE POLISH REFUGEES.
The LORD MAYOR stated to the Court that he had received
a communication from Lord Dudley Stuart, and other mem-
b2rs of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, on
the subject of the late grant made by that Court to the unfor-
tunate Polish refugces.—( Loud cries of Hear.")
Lord Dudley Stuart and the other gentlemen of the depu-
tation having previously taken scats in the Court by the Lo. .d
Mayor's invitation,

kr. WILLIAM PRITCHARD proposed " That Lord nudla y
Stuart and the gentlemen by whom he was accompanied b
heard at the upper bar of the Court."
The motion was seconded by Mr. RICIIAItD TAYLOR, and.
carried by acclamation.

Lord I.)unLEy S=TuAnr then addressed the Court in nearly
the following terms :—My Lord,—We appear as a deputation
from the Council of the Literary Association of the Frtende of
Poland, for the purpose of expressing to the Common Counrtil
the gratitude felt by the body which we represent for the mu',
nificent donation of 5001. made to the Polish refugees by th, )•
Common Council, and which the Common Council did us the 1!
honour of entrusting to our care. The donation, splendid in its
amount, was also opportune, coming at a time when many of
the refugees, excluded by the strict regulations of a very eco-
' nemical Chancellor of the Exchequer from all participation in •
the grant voted by a generous Parliament, exposed to the rigours
of a season of unusual severity, and to all the privations expe-
rienced by foreigners arriving in a country with whose customs,
manners, and language they were altogether unacquainted, were .
in a state of the most melancholy destitution. The Court of
Common Council stretched out to them the hand of assistance
and liberality, and saved them from starving, while it saved this
nation from the disgrace of allowing a number of gallant men,
whose only crime was attachment to liberty, to perish for want
in the heart of the first and most opulent country in the world.
But this was not the only value of that generous act. The
vote of a body so important as the Common. Council cannot be
without a degree of moral influence all over the United King- -
dom or throughout the world; and while we thank you for
enabling us to relieve the distress of persons so deserving, we
acknowledge with feelings of the highest gratification the still
greater service you have rendered the Poles by an act having
so great a tendency to foster or diffuse sympathy in the cause.
—( Loud cheering.)
Mr. W. PRITCHARD then moved that the communication be

entered on the journals.
The resolution was unanimously agreed to amidst acclama-
tions ; and Lord Dudley Stuart and the rest of the deputation
withdrew.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—WoRcrsrEn, MARCIE •g.
Mr. Baron Bolland continues so seriously indispoE.eii as too
be unable to attend in Court. No causes hare for fair; reason
been tried since Monday morning, and two only wt:re then
disposed of. Mr. Baron Parke (who has been assisted by
Mr. Sergeant Ludlow), after having been occupied in the
Crown Court till nearly seven o'clock this evening, proceeded
to the Nisi Prius Court, where he was detained until a late:
hour. The case of Crim. Con., Candler r. Crane, which ex..
cites great interest here, is fixed for to-morrow morning. It
is understood that Mr. Sergeant Talfourd will proceed to
Stafford on Monday to open the Commission ; Mr. Baron,
Parke remaining here to try a case of child murder which is
used for that day, and, if possible, to get through some of the
remaining causcu._,

William Lightburn was indicted for the wilful
murder of Joseph Hawkins. at Areley Kings, in Cnis county,
on the Bth of September last. Shortly after nine o'clock, Mr.
Baron Parke took his seat"on the Bench, and the prisoner
was placed at the bar. He did not appear to feel his awful
situation ; and, when called upon to plead to the indictment,
he threw up his head with the utmost confidence, and loudly.
exclaimed, " Not Guilty." _

After evidence had been heard, the Jury returned a verdict
of Guilty. The prisoner when asked why sentence of ileatl
should not be passed on him made no answer.—The Learned
JUDGE then passed the awful sentence in a must sele`mn and
impressive tone, remarking that he had never inibia life heard
of a more deliberate and cruel murder than that of which the
prisoner had been found guilty.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Luvcomv, Mown 8.
CROWN COUILT.—John Dimsey, aged forty years, was
charged with having, on the night of the 12th of December
last, murdered William Marshall and Deborah Elizabeth.
Hutchinson, of Kirton, in this county. The two murdered
persons stood in the relation to each other of brother and
sister, and had resided, up to the time of this foul trans-
action, at Kirton, the brother at the time he was murdered
being sixty-Nine years old, while his sister, Mrs. Hutc'a-
inson, was seventy-four, and, in addition to her`great age,
she was very infirm, so as to be incapable of rising'
from her seat without assistance. Marshall carzied on
the trade of a market-gardener, the house tlie old
people lived in being the property of his sister, upon which
however there was a mortgage to the amount of tiOOL, the
half-year's interest for the same amounting to 15/.., having to
be paid the day after the committing sof the crime in question,
which circumstance was supposed to have acted as an induce-
ment for its perpetration, that fact being no doubt well known,
and the money, it might be reasonably supposed, would be in
the house. Monday, the 12th of December last, Kirton fair
was held, and on the Evening of, that day, about five o'clock,
Elizabeth Beck, who acted as the daily servant of the deceased
persons, had left tlie house, having first put a pot of potatoes
on the fire to boil for the pig, leaving the old people in the
house sitting opposite each other at the side of the fire-place.
A friend named Humsby called in about six o'clock the same '
evening, he being the last person who saw them. alive. On
the Tuesday morning, at about eight o'clock., the servant
came, as was her custom, to do her daily work. She found the
house shut, but the door was simply on the latch, as she had
left it the previous evening. She entered, went to the win-
dqw, opened the shutters, and as the light streamed in upon
the room, she saw her mistress's bonnet lying upon the floor,
she stooped in order to pick it up, and then for the first time
beheld the feet of her mistress, the unfortunate woman's head
being covered over with some sacks ; she was lying cross
ways on the floor, The servant thinking she might have
fallen, went and took her by the hand, but upon finding it
stiff and cold, became alarmed, and ran out of the house, when,
assistance having been procured; a full examination of the
premises took place, and it was found the two poor old people
had been foully murdered. The following were the causes of
suspicion against the prisoner :—He had formerly lived at
Kirton, and been employed upon the premises of Marshall ; so
that they were well known to him. He left Kirton in April
last, since which time he had resided at Sheffield. A few
,1 days before the commission of the murders he proposed to
I take a journey to Kirton, in order to collect in some money,
and to sell some property which he stated he had there. He
accordingly left Sheffield with only 3d. in his pocket, and ar-
rived at Kirton on the Friday preceding the murder, when he
took up his lodgings at a person's of the name of Mackaw, and
never left his llama until half past 6 on the Monday evening,
that being the night of the murder. He was seen shortly
after that time near the murdered people's house, after which. '
ha was,not seen again till he arrived at Gainsborough, wher e
he stayed that night, and the next day returned to Sheffiel.d.
On the Thursday the Kirtoa constable took him. into custe.dy„
and, on his clothes being examined, several spots of blood
were found on the left area of his jacket, also stains of blood
in one of his pockets. The blood he ac,:ounted for by say-
ing he was in the habit of buying sheep's and bullock's heads,
and in chopping the same up he said the blood might easily
have come upon his clothes.

The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury, after
five minutes' deliberation, retwzned a verdict of Not, Guilty.

NORTHERN Manciz S.
DYSON V. &RmyTAGE AND *OTHERS.

This was an action for an assault, arising out of the disputed
right of way :which was tried yesterday. Mr. Sykes,
person claiming the right of way, had determined to asser t
by force, and had assembled a number of persons--wmong
others the defendant, Armytage, who is a deputy consr„able—.
to assist him in doing so. A scuffle ensued betweetBt).lo party
thus assembled, and some persons who, ve,th Mr. Dyson, re-
sisted them in their attempt. During its continuance, Army-,
tage called on the persons present to aseist him in keeping the.
peace, and Mr. Dyson was finally taken in custody to a public-
house, threatened with handcuffs, and.obliged at last to deposit
a sum of money before he Wa4releawd. This was the assault:
complained of. It uas finally arranged that the road in clues—
tion should be set out by metes and 'bounds, in such way as axi
arbitrator should, appoint ; that a verdict for the plaintiff shou 1.34
be taken in. t:ne present action—damages,4os., and that, ,in
ardther action, arising out of the same dispute, a juror she mold
oe withdrawn.

Lord and Lady Frederick Beaucierk and family
have returned to his Lordship's rectory at St.. Michael; s, near
St. Alban's, from Brighton.

.We are sorry to learn that Gen.. Chichester, of the
Spanish Legion, had, acr,:ording to t'.le latest accotrats troy.
San Sebastian, been Ve.rV severely, it not dangerously, attac) d
with the influenza; nnd that 2,00 a men were in hospital, la-
bouring under the tame disease.

Mr. Ainsworth's reputation as a lyrical wri to
already stood very high in public estimation on account of 'his
former works.. Many of the songs in his new romai ice,
" Crichton," 'however,. are inferior to those of no living pi ►et
Ile pours them forth in every style, and with no niggard ha ad.
One of the scenes—a revel—at the gay and brilliant Court of
the Third Henry of France, in which Crichton, Catherine de
Medicis, and the voluptuous beauties of that day participv,ix ie
literally alive with melody—it is, in fact, a lyrical contest for
the crown of music—a true joust of the Poets, whose ;yr.:: his if
Still further stimulated- by the presence of the Graces? •