The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-09 00:00:00

ROLLS COURT.

His Honour the INIAsTER of the ROLLS took causes to-
day, none of which, up to the period of our reporter
leaving, possessed the slightest public interest.

VICE- CHANCELL OR' S COURT.

The VICE-CHANCELLOR was occupied till our reporter
left with arguments i❑ the case of Douglass and Russell,
which possessed no point of interest except to the parties.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
The Court was occupied the whole of the morning in
hearing cases possessing no public interest.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
Nothing interesting to the public came before the
Court up to the time we went to press.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS-(THIS DAY.)

This morning these Sessions were held before F. CONST,
Esq. and a bench of Magistrates.
James Edgeware, a coachman in the service of Sir Wm.
Rawlins, was indicted for assaulting Benjamin Etchills, a
police constable.
The prosecutor stated, that nn the 21st June, when his
Majesty went to the House of Lords, be was on duty near
the Horse Guards. The defendant was driving a cur-
ricle alone, when he placed his horses across the line of
carriages ; witness went up to make him go forward, when
he struck witness several blows very violently with the
butt end of the whip. He was then taken into custody.
Cross-examined by Mr. C. PHILLIPS--There was no-
thing said about going through the Horse Guards, but the
horses' heads were turned that way. Tl,e defendant did
not draw back to allow a hackney coach to get into the
line. The defendant was kept in custody until ten o'clock
at night, when his master gave bail ior him. There were
hundreds of persons present, but he had only brought one
witness, who was also a policeman. He had the marks
of the blows on his arm still.

Mr. PHILLIPS—I do not deny you were struck, but
not until you deserved it—were you not thrashed that:tnorn-
ing before this occurrence? Prosecutor —.4 was not ; but I
hai a blow on the nose by some person before.—(A laugh.)
Another policeman (who had been out of Court during
the examination of the prosecutor) gave a different
story, stating that the defendant endeavoured to go
through the Horse Guards, and swore he mould go through,
and that his attempting to force his way was the cause of
the prosecutor's stopping him, upo❑ which the defendant
assaulted the prosecutor.

Mr. C. PHILLIPS addressed the Jury for the defend-
ant, and remarked strongly upon the discrepancy of the
evidence. He would, however, give a very different com-
plexion to the affair by proving that the police unneces-
sarily, and while the defendant was quietly proceeding in
the ranks, seized the horse's bead, dragged him out of the
curricle, for allowing a hackney coach to enter the ranks,
and carried him off to the atation•house.

Several witnesses deposed that the defendant was pro-
ceeding in the line of vehicles, when he drew a little back
to allow a coach to enter, upon which a policeman
came up and seized the horse's head; that another
got into the carriage, dragged him out, and carried him
off to the station-house. They all declared that the .con.
duct of the defendant was most orderly and peaceable,
while that of the policeman was the reverse.
The CHAIRMAN was sorry that, in a case which had
only policemen to support it, there was such important
discrepancy in the evidence. The Jury had, however,
heard their testimony, and also the statement of several
witnesses for the defendant, and they would give the credit
to which side they thought most entitled to it.
The Jury acquitted the defendant.
The prosecutor, on applying for his expenses, was in-
formed by the Chairman that the Jury had not believed
the charge, and therefore the expences could not be allowed.
John Scott was indicted for assaulting John Sanford.

It appeared that on the 2.1 of May the prosecutor, who
was a shoemaker, and lived in the defendant's house, had
occasion to correct his son for something he had done,
when the defendant came up stairs, abused him, knocked
him down three times, and ultimately dragged him down
stairs. The prosecutor was a small, and, apparently, weak
man, and the defendant was a powerful-looking man.
The Jury found the defendant Guilty, and the Chairman
sentenced him to pay a fine of 4/. with liberty to speak to
the prosecutor.

The defendant declared his inability to pay such a fine,
and the Jury, conceiving the penalty to be a very severe
one, applied to the Court, on the defendant's behalf, for a
mitigation ; after inquiring what expence the prosecutor
had been put to, the Chairman desired the defendant to
pay the prosecutor 20s. and then to be discharged.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE=('THIS DA Y.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 8.--ifind—E.S.E.—Sailed his
Majesty's ship Sybelle, for Leith.

PLYMOUTH, JULY —Wind E. S. E.—Arrived off port
the Upton Castle, Duggin, from Bombay; and Eliza, Ogle,
from Palermo. Arrived off the Start the Mezborough,
Livingston, from Grenada ; Cottingham, Short, from
Quebec; and Cyrus, Bell, from St. Petersburgh.
GREENOCK", JULY 6.—Arrived the Unicorn, Glassford,
from Demerara; and Frances, Griffith, from New York.
DUBLIN, JULY 7.—Arrived the Adventure, Stevens,
from Riga.

WATERFORD, JULY 6.—Arrived the City of Water-
ford, Morgan, from Quebec.

WEXFORD; JULY 6.—Arrived the Stranger, Day, from
Memel.

HULL, JUt.X 7.—The Cambridge, Hindhaugh, from
Riga, on entering the lock of the Humber Dock yesterday,
two sloops with bale goods passing in at the same time,
and the ebb falling rapidly, the three vessels got jammed
together. The sloops are so much injured as to be acarcely
worth repairing; the cargoes landed partly in a damaged
state. The Cambridge has not sustained much injury,
and is now in the old dock. The Wilson, Pope, frcm
Riga, on entering the old harbour, grounded, and heeled
very considerably, but was righted on the food, and is
now in the Humber Dock ; it is hoped without much
damage.

Mr. GRATTAN'S new work, " Jacqueline of
Holland" introduces us to " fresh fields and pastures new."
The ground has been quite untrodden. It has been well
observed of the present production, that " it is one of
those romances which combine the best interests of fiction
and reality, its inventions are full of vigorous truths—its
records of romantic association. We could alternately
fancy ourselves engaged by the graphic Chronicles of
Monstrelet, and by one of those miraculous tales cha-
racteristic of the great master of the historical novel. Mr.
GRATTAN, possesses, indeed, all the learning anti research
of Mr JAMES, combined with a vivacity of mind and keen
perception of the picturesque, peculiarly his own."