The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-14 00:00:00

OXFORD it. 1,61 T. - Uzi ,rd. July 12.
The J trt'g,s went to pra)ers morning At ten, and
began the othive:,s at twelve.
At the Civil ride,where Mr. Justice Erle presided,
there were two causes ent-red—the first was settled out
court; t;.e world. an action of replevin, in which Mr.
WhateLy and Mr. Seit appeared for the plaintiff. anti
Mr. StA-gelot Tsirourd and Mr. Phipson for the deferr
dant, :titer f,ctupiing abut an hour. ended in a verdict,
for the piair,tff; the rleet.dritat's witn,sses haVint::
ut expectedly failed to prove whit they were expected to
prove.

His Lordship then tried three prisoner:; one for
stealing a kettle worth 4s. Bd., and two tor st=aling 2i
bushels of wheat.

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All three were convicted on the clearest evidence, and
we .e sent,vced to short terms o► imprisonment.
His Lordship, there being nothing more for him to do,
rose at twenty minutes past thr►e o dock.
a:foie Mr. Byron Rolfe, who presided in the Crown
Court, these were only four prisoners for trial, one of
whom pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing two pieces
of coburgh cloth; another to a charge of forging a letter
for the delivery of goods; the third, a farm servant, was
tried and convicted of ornhczzling 31., the money of his
master; and the fourth, who was charged with the mur-
der of his wife, had his trial put off till to-morrow, on
account of the absence of witnesses.
His Lordship rose at three o'clock.
Thus, with the exception of this one case, all the
assize business- of this county was disposed of in less
than four hours.

MIDLAND_
(Beore Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
Biddy Kelley, aged 30, was last eveLitig indicted for
having, on the Bth or March last, at the parish 01
Weeden Beck, in this county, maliciously and feloniowly
thrown upon Andrew Keil.y, a soldier, alleged by the
prisoner to be her husb .nd, four ounces of corrosiv.
matter called oil of vitriol, with intent, &c.
The prisoner was ordered to be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for eighteen calendar months.
The Court rose shortly before six o'clt•ck.
Four ordinary Crown cases only remains d over from
yesterd,y, and the assizes terwir,a'ed at one to-day,
nothing calling for any rephrt transpiring.
At ()kat.= there was, we believe, no business at all,
civil or criminal, the judge receiving a pair of gloves in
accordance with ancient custom.
The commission will ba opened at Lincoln, where
thert• are some rather heavy Crown cases, on Saturday,
and business will cornm n. e n Moed iy morning.

POLICE IN'IsELLAUENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. John Harrington, of No. 4. Staples Inn-buildines,
Holborn, was brought up before Mr. Alderrn:th Mw..
grove, ch..rged with imbezzling various sums of money
oelong to tits employer.
Mr. Hobler attended to conduct the prosecution, and
Mr. Bochattan's clerk appeared for the prison, r.-
Mr. Adot,h Heilbronn, of No 11, Great St. Helen's,
said thr.t for sotne time past the prisener had been in
his ,ervice as a town-traveller, :tad was authorized to
collect ()triers and receive m-ney, for which he was to
accoulit every second day. On the sth of June, Ille.ssrs.
Milder and Son, of Greenwich, were supplied with a
cri,oility of .=.sst.n.ial to tile mount of 2/
he re, eipt produ!ed -howe‘i that, the knionnt. had !Tel,
ail ,n the 1; to Ju e, and tho signature w,is in the
bat;dwritine. A Mr. Sutcliffe, of Dlutorti,
ha l also bee. sopplit d wi, h articles on the 27th ef
April, which came to 8. 5(1., which the pi i.,on,r received.
Both those items had never been accounted for.

Alderman MUSGROVE—Did heever keep money longer
than t,e two days ? Mr. Heilbronn—On one u, e nat. it
he did so but w ,erwards eve-tinted fer it. I [hen for-
gave hi in, at the sat e time giving him a caution that; I
woul,i not allow a repetition of ir.
Mr. r.-loblur said that was all the evidence at present,
as he wished for a remand, in consequence of
hat morning received over a dozen invoices of arnounns
that had Dever been accounted fur, some of them to a
large amount.
Mr. Bee:moan's clerk hoped that if the Alderman had
made up his mind to remand the prisoner. he might be
allowed out on bail, as he was most respectably con-
nected, and woul,l be forthcoming at any time.
Mr. Holster objected, as there might be ocher charges
brought agai.st him at the next examination, luck-
pendent of these of embezzlement.
Alderman MUSGROVE said, that under all the circum.
stanccs ho should remand the prisoner until Tuesday,
and decline taking bail 1,1. his appearance.
He was accordingly convey( (I to the Compter.
BOW STREET.
William E. Broderip, late clerk to Messrs. Pew,
Dukes, and Co., solicitors, of Henrietta-street, Covent-
garden, was re-examined, before Mr. Jardine, on several
charges of forgery.
Mr. Humphries and Mr. Mullens conducted the pro-
secution, and Mr. Wontner appeared for the prisoner.
Evidence, was given that the prisoner, who had been
in tha service of Messrs. Few and Dukes until Easter
last, applied to the cashier of the London Joint-stoi k
Bank, in Pall-mall, and obtained, in the name of his
employers and by a forged order, a blank cheque book,
which was given without suspicion, as the firm had an
account there. Two days nterwards (on the 18th of
June) a young man, believed to be the prisoner, pre-
sented a cheque for 471, purporting to have been drawn
by the firm, and received a 40L note, a 51. note, and two
soy reigns in pay ment.
A clerk in the Bank of England (Samuel Miller)
proved that the 401. note in question, on the back of
wnich the names of " Jenkinson, Sweeting, and Co.,
of Lombard-street," were endorsed, was presented for
payment the same day (the 18th) by a person who re-
ceived the entire amount in gold.
R .wlaud G. Peacock, clerk in the offices of Jenkinson
an& Sweeting, stated that the prisoner was formerly in
the employ of that firm. Knew his handwriting, and
believed that the manuscript portion of the cheque,- as
well as the endorsement, were written by the prisoner.
W. Britten, a bookseller, in Russell-court, Brydges-
street, proved that on the 30th of June the prisoner
called at his house in the afternoon with a cheque for 10/,
purporting to be drawn by Messrs. Few and Dukes. He
said he was too late for the banks, but wonted to cash
the cheque that night, having some disbursements to
make for the firm. IA fitness gave him two 51 notes, and
ascertained next day that the cheque was a torgf ry.
Mr. Dukes stated that the signature and body of the
cheque were in the prisoner's handwriting.
Similar evidence was given with respect to another
forged cheque for 10/., which Mr.G. Andf rson, clerk to ore
of the examiners in .he Court of Chancery, had been in-
duced to cash or the prisoner on the 16th of June, on
the representation of the latter that he was too late tor
the bA,,Ic

Mr. JARD/NE committed the prisoner for trial on the
hree separate ohnrges.
MARYLEBONE.

Mr. Nicholpon, Pol,citor, I(lmnd-buildings. Gray's-
inn, attended before Mr. 13rolighton.114 the 1, gnl r, pro-
sPonitivp of Cy'ain Gyorotl (brothp, -in
law of L tint man), 38. Bik,bv,4 squdie. upon a
summons obotinA himu by. a :fin:ally dr o
ani int.,!resting, yi,ung woman, owned E!.ribt-th
G4)08, who had given birth,io 01 which, at,
alleged by her, the arQreptid coptaiovexitho tuther,

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
A ottFoLK Line. iir, July 13.
The commission ter this cenr.ty we, .I.etted yr s-er-
day utterer) ri, by the Chief Jus•ice the Ceininon
Piess. and ruler hating err, tided Divine serviee his
L"rr ,lap ch:rre. tei the grand jury at eleven o'eleee, arid
thee pr..ter. tied to tr) the ute-teren.;ea eetroes, of w
there we r 1 rwo, wit of an entry of five causes.
This unostie l arrangement hiss been rendered 'neces-
sary in core-cut-nee or the tauten', d d, ath of Mr. Jest
Lice Coltman, on wh• re would have develted the duties
or the civil court. The suddenness of the death of that
learn-41 and eslitnabe Judge has rendered it impossiblr
to supply his plate in the cetutrossion f, r this etrunt3
but it is understood that Mr. ant Dowliig will be
appointed ad interim, and that he Will joie. the circuit at
Bedford. In the meantime it is fortunate that the busi-
ness of this county is very light. Of the five causes the
only long one has ben made a remanet, and two only
which remain are not likely to occupy much time. lhey
are, however, fixed for to-morrow.
The calendar only contained the names of nine pri-
soners, most of whom have been tried today, or seu-
tenced on their own confession—among the latter being
four men who were all implicated in three burglaries
and a charge of horse-stealing.
CROWN COURT.--(Before Chief Justice WILDE,)
William Hall, e..,;(el 12 years, was indicted for wetrullj
killing and slaying Wm. Gibson on the lit of June last,
at Chipping ‘,l, yc,inbe.
Mr. Sinders prosecuted the prisoner; who was de-
fended by Mr. Griffiths.
It eppeared that the prisoner and the deceased, who
was 15 years old, were playirig together on Flackwell-
heath, near Wycombe on the day in question, with five
or six other youngsters; and that atter some little time
they quarrelled about a bird's nest. In the course ot
their dispute the deceased threw away the boot of the
prisoner, who thereupon called him "several bad news."
Irritated at this abuse, the deceased struck the prisoner
two blows over the head, with his open hand. This at-
tack led to a kick at first, and then the prisoner, stooping
down, picked up a small jagged flint stone, which he
threw right against the head of the deceased when within
three yards of him. The blow thus inflicted staggered
the lad, who placed his head on his sister's shoulder ant'
slowly repaired home. His parents administered such
assistance to him as suggested themselves to their simple
minds, but as he got evidently worse and worse, they
at last sent tor a medical man on the ninth day. At
that time the patient was suffering from violent erysipe-
latous ieflanimation in the bead, accompanied by exten-
sive suppuration from the left ear, in the immediate
vicinity ot which the stone had struck him. Notwith-
standing the skill and attention which were bestowed
on the case, the lad lingered on in great pain arid suf-
fering till the 19th of June, when he died, and the pri
soner 'was taken into custody ou the verdict of the coro-
ner's jury.
The jury having found the prisoner Guilty,
The CHIEF JUSTICE proceeded to pass sentence on the
boy, who wept bitterly during the whole trial. His
L'irdship, after comment,ng in mild but firm larignaKe
on the impropriety of his having had recourse to such
effertsive weapons, even in defending himself from an
older antagonist, sentenced him to be imprisoned for
three men7h-,„
James Harding, whom the calendar described as a
shepherd, end ae being 26 years old, was indicted for
assaulting Elie tbeth Alison on the 12th ot April last.
with intent. to murder her or to do her some grievous
bodily harm.
Evidence was given to show that the prisoner had
made attempts upon the girl out of jealousy.
The jury, atter deliberating together for some little
time without success, retired from the Court, and re-
main d under the care of the bailiff at the time when our
dispatch was closed.