The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-28 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(TILIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

THE QUEEN V. NEWTON-THE ALLEYNE CASE AGAIN.

This was an idictment for perjury arising out of the
endless Alleyne case. The defendant was an attorney at
law, and the alleged. perjury was said to have been
committed in connection with the Alleyne conspiracy.
Before the jury were sworn,
Mr. Powell, who appeared for the prosecution, said•
Captain Kennedy, the principal witness, was absent
in India, and he was therefore unable to offer any eri•
dente in the matter.

Lord Campbell expressed some dissatisfaction at this
announcement, and peremptorily directed that the jury
should be sworn.

Tkis having been done,
Mr. Powell repeated his former observation, that he
was not in a position to offer amy evidence in the case.
Lord Campbell—Gentlemen of the jury, no evidence
having bee❑ offered in support of this indictment, it will
be your duty to acquit the defendant ; but I must say
circumstances have came to nay knowledge judicially,
which convince me that it is essential for the safety of
her Majesty's subjects that souse legislative enactment
should take place to prevent tlte perversion of justice by
preferring indictments for conspiracy.
The jury then returned a verdict of not guilty.
Mr. James, on behalf of the defendant, stated that his
client had been no party to any compromise in this
case. On the contrary, be was quite ready to meet
the charge, and all his witnesses were in attendance.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
SLATER Y. CHILDREN--BREACH OP PROMISE OP

MARRIAGE.

This was an action brought to recover compensation
in damages fora breach of promise of marriage, to which
the defendant had pleaded denying the promise. The
parties moved in a respectable sphere of life, the plaintiff
being a milliner and dressmaker, and the defendant a
retired tradesman, residing at Tonbridge.
Mr. Edwin James and Mr, lioneyraan appeared for
the plaintiff, and Mr, Serjeant Wlilkins, with whom was
Mr. Duncan, for the defendant.
The jury having been-sworn,

Mr. Serjeant Wilkins said the parties had consented
to take a verdict for 501.

A ♦erdict for that amount was accordingly returned
by the jury, without the details of the case being gone
into.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

Commissioners Evans, Fonblanque, and llolroyd sat,
but the whole of the cases were for audits and dividends,
and not of the slightest interest.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAP.)

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
EMBEZZLEMENT BT ♦ RAILWAY CLERK.

Robert Kersey, a clerk upon the Eastern Counties
Railway, surrendered to take his trial for having em-
bezzled two sixpences, the property of the company, his
masters.

Mr. Ballantine prosecuted, and Mr. Parry defended.
It appeared that the prisoner was a clerk occasionally
engaged to take the place of the inspectors and ticket
collectors when they took holidays. Upon the 19th of
October the prisoner was so employed at the Barking-
road station of the North Woolwich Junction of the
Eastern Counties Railway. At this station all the
tickets to aria from London upon this line are collected,
and if any passenger starts from that station, the
ticket is issued and paid for as at any other
station, but almost directly upon the party getting
into the carriage, the ticket is retaken, and it became
the duty.of the clerk engaged as prisoner was to return
the tickets so collected by him to one of the inspectors,
to be forwarded to the audit office at the close of the
day. The prisoner was upon one period of the day seen
to take the fare for two first-class passengers, 6d. each,
and afterwards not to return the two tickets se issued,
by which the company alleged that he bad embezzled
the sums paid for them.
The Cross-examination elicited that the accounts were
very loosely kept at this point of the line.
Mr. Parry commented at soma length upon that fact,
and said that the case was too much in doubt for a jury
to convict his client, who had been for years a servant of
the company, and bore an excellent character,
The Recorder having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

TIIE 4USSIAN ARMY OF TEE DANUBE.

The Corriere Italiano of Vienna has the follov.
ing from Bucharest, of the 14th :
"The numerous reinforcements rent by the Russian
army of the Danube to that of the Crimea have sensibly
weakened Prince Gertschakoff. In spite of the troops
sent hint from Poland and filom the interior of Rus,ia,
his army, which, although very superior in number,
had been obliged to give way before the forces
of the Sultan, is new reduced to one-half its former num-
ber. Fearing to be attacked at any moment, he is col-
lecting together all his available forces, and has cease]
completely to send reinforcements to the Crimea,
notwithstanding the pressing request of Prince Men-
schikoff. He has done wisely, for he will soon have
to contend with an army of 60,000 men and 160 pieces
of cannon. And even that number is not all, these
forces being merely the men whom Omer Pacha is con-
centrating on the frostier of Bessarabia, from Busco
to Fokschani. Another army, of nearly as great a
number, remains under Ismail Pacha. It is
im-
possible to depict the joy of those who are
going through this place to the frontier ; one would
say that they were
going to a banquet rather than
to a
battle. The generalissimo, however, neglects
nothing; he is collecting on various points stores of pro-
visions ; the whole line of the Danube has been placed
in a state of defence ; and the fortifications of Silistria,
Giurgevo, and Eassora hare been cemploted, on the
plans of Colonel Dieu. The reserve is coming
from
a
Schumla to occupy the places of the Danube, andis
replaced by recruits."