The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-22 00:00:00

On the other indictments no evilence Wes offered. As his
lordship observed, it was a wholesale forgery of bills.
The business for the city being over about half-past 12,
his lordship returned to the Castle, and proceeded to dispose
of the remainder of the cases in the county calendar. He
commenced with passing sentence upon the following pri-
soners who had pleaded guilty when arraigned on Saturday.
Thos. Smith and Thos. Bueg were indicted for two separate
act of burglary in dwelling-houses at C ngham on Oct. 12.
The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said— These are
cases of burglary of a very different nature from those that
ordinarily appear. I find that you went about in masks and
creai:od such terror from your appearance and gestures that
the wife of one of the persons whose houses you attacked
rushed out of it in the utmost terror; and then you carried
off £27 which you found on the premises. Not content with
that you broke into another house, and there, strange to say
(for the owner of this, like the former person, was only a
labJuring man), you found and carried off Vjfi. Such acts
as these—aggravated not only by the fact that the persons
who are robbed are poor men, unable to protect their houses
as strongly as those who are well off can do, but in this par-
ticu'ar inutance by the fact that you knew these poor people,
the state of their cottages, and what. property they bad,
front having worked with them—must be punished in the
most severs manner. The sentence of the Court is that
each of you be kept to penal servitude fur 20 years. His
lordship, in the course of his address to the prisoners, said,
—The judges have avoided hitherto saying anything to
poor persons about depositing their money in savings-banks,
because though they have been often well conducted there
have been many instances where frauds have been com-
mitted, and those who have trusted them have lost their
savings; but now, when every one can deposit his money
with the security of the State, the case is different, and
though the interest given may be small, yet the ample and
absolute security so fully makes up for that that there is no
reason why the judges should not advise every poor person
to take advantage of the security for his savings thus offered
by the State.
Joseph Wilmot and Richard Hill having pleaded guilty
to the charge of setting fire to a stack of wheat and a stack
of barley belonging to Mr. Rayner, at Litcham OR the 26th
of August.

His Lordship, in passing sentence, remarked on the num-
ber of charges of arson which had come before him during
his progress through parts of this circuit, this being the
ninth case, and of a worse complexion that any he had seen
—" for here," said the learned Judge, " you destroy the
entire produce of the land belonging to the poor man who
has suffered from your wantonness. You knew nothing of
him, nor ho of you; but, because you were hungry and
could not get work, as you said, you commit this atrocious
act. Now, I have no doubt that at the time you did this
deed, full harvest time, when work was abundant and labour
in request, you could have got work enough to keep you,
but Sou preferred hanging about in idleness. This, there-
fore, is so atrocious a case that I mean to break through the
scale of punishment I have given and inflict a heavier one. I
therefore sentence you each to five years' penal servitude."
George Warner, who also pleaded guilty on Saturday to
a charge of wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily
harm, was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour. " A more
scandalous act," said his Lordship, " I have never met
with. You meet with a man at a public house, and, after
drinking there, begin to boast of your skill and prowess as
a boxer, saying that you have sparred with Jim Mace
then on being challenged to fight with the man who has
been injured, you fight and are knocked into the hedge,
and upon that you follow him with a knife as ho is going
away and stab him with it."
The only case of any importance that is left for trial is a
charge against a man named John Lemmon for shooting at
Charles Long, gamekeeper to Mr. Fellowes, at Shot tesham,
on the 29th of November. The case was going on at the
time our parcel was despatched ; but from Mr. Bulwer's
statement, who appeared for the prosecution, the shot that
was fired did not do any harm in eonsequence of the protec-
tion afforded by the thick gaiters worn by the gamekeeper.
Mr. Metcalfe defended the prisoner, the defence being an
alibi. With this and the other charges that are left the busi-
nees of the winter assizes for the Norfolk Circuit will end.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT—YoRx, Dec. 18.

(Before Mr. Justice Mellor.)

James Isaac Markczow was charged, under the provisions
of the Bankruptcy Act, 1861, that he. having been adjudi-
cated a bankrupt, afterwards, with intent to defraud and
defeat the rights of his creditors and to conceal the state of
his affairs, parted with and destroyed cartain papers,writings,
and documents.

Mr. T. P. E. Thompson and Mr. C, Newton were for the
prosecution, which was instituted by older of Mr. Commis-
sioner Ayrton.
It appeared that the papers in question had been taken by
the officer of the Court to the office of the official assignee,
and abstracted by the prisoner, and the whole or some of
them left at the tap of the George Inn, in Hull, with the
waiter there, and these subsequently reached the hands of
the solicitor through one of the creditors, to whom they
had bean entrusted by the prisoner; but these papers were
found to be of no 1189 in explaining the prisoner's dealings
and affairs, and, therefore, not within the mischief pro-
vided against them by the act. Some other papers it was
said (part of those abstracted) were given by the prisoner
to one Farreh for safe custody, and these the
prisoner afterwards received back, and subsequently de-
stroyed, representing to the witnessess that they were of
importance in his affairs, The question resolved itself into
this, whether these witnesses could be relied upon, or were
they telling a trumped up tale in order to get to the assizes.
The prisoner was acquitted.
This closed the business of this memorable assize, whether
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