The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

G U ILD HALL.
A Mr. John Niggling attended yesterday, upon an
information charging him with delivering two chid-
drons and a half of coals, which were found to be
deficient. It stared that every one of the thirty-two
sacks was found to contain less than the proper
(rattail, and the whole taken together showed a
deficiency of 153 bushels. A written order had been
taken on the 14th instant to Mr. Devey's wharf,
Whitefriars, for the delivery of five chaldrons of coals
at the ward watch-house, in Queen's-head-passage,
Newgive-street: They were sent in on the morning
of the 16th of March, in two waggons. The con-
tenis of the first waggon were delivered without
being tneastired, except as to the last two sacks,
which were found to be deficient each half a bushel.
When the second waggon arrived, the regular no-
tices for a re-measurement were served,and Vaughan,
a meter, came.

On the part of the defendant it was wilted that
he was a sort of middle man, between the wholesale
dealer and the consumer. On this occasion, having
received the ordee for the coals, he went to Devev's
wharf and purchased a room of coals, which he
marked with the first letter of his name. Ile gave a
notice to the ward beadle, who had ordered the coals,
to attend at the wharf on the 15th, to see them taken
from the barge, but he did not go. The defendant
attended himself, but as the work was impeded by
the rain, Mr. Devey told him, that if he went away,
he (Mr. Devey) would see the work done as well as
if he stayed himself. These facts were deposed to
by Mr. Devev's clerk. Mr. Devey said, that the
bad measure had arisen from his receiving bad mea-
sure from the ship.
Mr_ Alderman ATKINS should inflict the highest
penalty he could, 191. 45., being 12s. per sack; and
he asked what would become of us when the present
cheeks to fraud were abolished.
Mr. Bodkin (who attended for the defendant),
turning to Mr. Devey, hoped he would forthwith
give a,cheque for the fine, but Mr. Devey declined
doing so, and the parties retired.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
Henry .site, a'private in the Ist regiment of Gre-
nadier Guards, was brought up for final examination,
charged with robbing Thomas Griffin, a private of
the same regiment, of five sovereigns, and also With
unlawfully pawning his watch. The parties had-
quarrelled at a public-house in St. Ann's-lane, West-
mirster, and the prosecutor left his watch for the
payment of some glass which was broken. After
they left the house, the prisoner knocked the prose-
cutor down, took the
.five sovereigns out of his
pocket,"nnd afterwards went back to the public-
house 4:id redeemed the watch, which lie pledged
for 11. 178. lie was fully committed for the rob-
bery, and was fined 5/. for unlawfully pawning the
watch.

UNION-HALL.
A young man, named Harman, was brought up
by the parish officers of St. George's, Southwark,
for refusing to maintain his wife.

The defendant stated, that the ground of his re-
fusal was, that his wife had another husband living.
That husband's !Janie was Denby, and he having
abc)lt three years ago been convicted of bigamy, and
sentenced, he (the defendant) married Mrs. Denby,
conceiving that he might legally do so. He should
not have abandoned her, had it not been for the vio-
lence oCher temper.

Mr. CitAmßEßs could not legally decide that the
defendant was bound to maintain the complainant,
she having a former husband alive.

THAMES POLICE.
Mr. Frederick Bowry, formerly in business as an
oil and colourman in Old Gravel-lane, was charged
with an assault on Mr. Chapman, of Sutton street,
Commercial-road, and with firing a pistol at him.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Chapman,
that the prisoner and himself had been on intimate
terms fcr many years, and Mr. Bowry had taken up
his residence in his house. On Wednesday night
an altt•rcation arose between them, and Mr. Bowry
called him a liar. Witness retorted, and was imme-
diately struck by the prisoner: he returned the
blow, and several hits were exchanged. At length
he gave the prisoner a very severe blow in the eye,
which knocked him down. On rising, lie went up
stairs to his bed-roOm and brought down a large
horse-pistol, which he presented at witness, but it

misled fire. He immediately advanced, put the
weapon in his face, and fired it off. The report
stunned him, and he fell backwards on the ground.
lie could not say whether the pistol was loaded.—
The wadding struck his eye, the sght of which was
much imp&red.

The prisoner, who appeared much agitated, had
no intention to injure Mr. Chapman. He was ex-
cited at the time, and quite unconscious of what he
was about.

Mr. and Mrs. Chapman earnestly entreated of the
Magistrates to pass a lenient sentence, and said they
would be content wilh an apology.
The Magistrates, however, said the case must go
before a Jury, for such an unmanly outrage could
not be passed over lightly; but they consented to
take bail.

LENT ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

KINGSTON, .31.4Rcit 31.
EDGCOAIBE v. AMOS.

This ‘‘as an action of crim. con. The parties are
tradesmen in a respectable way of business. The
plaintiff was married to his wife in 1821, and thry
lived happily together until 1829, at which time the
plaintiff's tiffairs became embarrassed, and he was
confined in the King's Bench prison : he sold his
house and business to the defendant, who was one
of his principal creditors, and soon afterwards the
defendant took possession. The plaintiff's wife re-
mained in the house, in order to introduce him to
the customers, and the plaintiff, on 'obtaining his
discharge from prison, and going home, learnt that
his wife was living in adultery with the defendant.
The above was the statement of the plaintiff's coun-
sel, Mr. flurctitNsoN._ _ _ _

Joseph Edgcombe, the plaintiff's brother, stated
that the plaintiff and his wife lived happily together
until the last five years. Since then she-had com-
plained to him of her husband's conduct in attend-
ing prize-fights, coming home drunk, neglecting- his
business, &c.

The Learned Judge suggested that the case had
better be stopped.
Same other evidence was, however, given, and
the Jury, without hearing the defendant'F. Counsel,
found a verdict for one farthing.
Mr. Baron JAYLEY would certify to deprve the
plaintiff of his costs.

WAR WICK, MARCH 3O.
TILE KING V. LOYD.

This was an indictment for an assault upon Ke-
aiali Waring, with intent to take liberties with her
person, amounting to a capital felony. The defer:.
dant is a gentleman of fortune, between fifty and
sixty years of age, residing at Leamington, and the
father of several children. The prosecutrix, P, girl
of rather pleasing features, fifteen years of age, had
lived as under nurse-maid in his family for nine
weeks. She afterwards went to live in the service
of a Mr. Stafford, a dealer in porter, at Leaming-
ton. On the night of the 29th of July last, she
was carrying half-a-dozen of porter in a basket to a
customer at Leamington, and having occasion to
cross the canal bridge, she then saw the defendant
sitting on the parapet. He called to her to come
over to him, but she replied she had something else
to do, on which, according to her statement, be
erossel over to her, seized her by the arm and at-
tempted to take liberties with her. She screamed
murder, and he let her go. The next night but one
she was again rudely assailed by the defendant in
passing over the same bridge, but she escaped from
him. On the first occasion her screams were bean,
by a gentleman's servant at a stable in the neigh-
bourhood ; and on the second her master came out
with her in search of the defendant.

The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of a common
assault, and Lord LYNDHURST sentenced him to.
one month's imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 200/.

LOWE, GENT. V. HODGETTS.
This was an action of libel against the proprietor
of the Birmingham Journal newspaper. The
article complained of consisted of a report of the
trial of an appeal at Guernsey, which was copied
from the Comet, a Guernsey paper, into the
Birmingham Journal. It set forth a statement of
facts under the head of " case ;" which facts had
been opened by the Attorney General, but they
were not described in the report as being contained
merely in the speech of Counsel ; they purported
to be the facts of the case. In this statement the
conduct of the plaintiff (an attorney) was reflected
upon, and it was imputed to him that being aware
of a Mrs. Jones having eloped from her husband
with a perion named Evans, with whom she lived
until her death, he had been ancillary to that lady's
making a will in favour of Mr. Evans, and be-
queathing 2001. to himself by writing to her two
letters, stating that her husband was dead, she
having previously refused to execute the will during
her husband's life-time; but no such letters were
proved in evidence. The article was copied into
the defendant's paper, with no other alteration than
the addition of the plaintiff's phice of residence, near
Birmingham, in the title of the cause.—Verdict for
the plaintiff—Damages Is.

YORK, MARCH SO.
REX V. PEASE AND OTHERS.

This was an indictment for a nuisance, against
the directors of the Stockton and Darlington Rail-
way Company.
By an Act of Parliament passed in 1821, the de-
fendants were authorized to form a rail-way from
Darlington to Sunderland, and by another Act,
passed in 1823, they were authorized to use loco-
motive engines thereon. The rail-way, which it
was agreed had been formed upon the line pointed
out in the Act of Parliament, was opened for public
use in 1825. Only one steam-carriage was at first
used ; but the number has gradually increased, and
there are now seven steam-carriages in operation.
For about a mile and three quarters the rail-way
runs parallel with the high road leading from Yarm
to Stockton, the two roads being at an average dis-
tance of fifty yards from each other. The nuisance
complained of was the fright and danger which the
noise and smoke of the steam-engines occasioned to
passengers on this part of the high-way. A variety
of witnesses proved that accidents frequently hap-
pened in consequence of horses taking fright at the
steam-engines.
Mr. POLLOCK was willing to admit that the de-
fendants had been guilty of a nuisance, unless their
conduct was justified by the Act of Parliament. He
suggested, that the best mode would be for the Jury
to return a special verdict, finding the facts already
proved, and also that the defendants had used the
best engines they could procure, and availed them-
selves of every improvement that had been offered.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE approved of the sug-
gestion, observing that the question was one of
great importance, as it would affect nut only the
railway now in question, but all the railways in the
kingdom.
Mr. WILLIAMS, after soma deliberation, agreed to
the proposal, and a verdict of Guilty was accord-
ingly entered.

A PRisoNER STARVED TO DEATH.—On
the 23d nit, an inquest was held at Rochdale, on the hod:,
of a young man named RICHARD PILLING, a pauper in
the Wardleworth workhouse. It appeared that the de-
ceased had been taken to the prison and confined in a
solitary cell, in which there was no bed, no covering, nor
any thing for him to lie down upon but a bench of wood
of about a yard broad ; that he had been confined therein
15 days, and was discovered by a person (who was ap-
pointed to consign another wretched being to the Caine
den) lying naked on the stone floor, which was covered
with filth ! He was in a dying state, with a portion of
his clothes in his mouth, and he had been in that state
nearly the whole of his imprisonment. In consequence
of representations made by the person who discovered the
unhappy man, he was carried, about ten o'clock that
night, to the workhouse, where he died in ten hours
afterwards! The Jury returned a verdict that he " Died
from hunger; and in consequence RICHARD HARGRRAVEs,
ELIZAHRTH (otherwise BETTY) Ruakows, and HANNAH
HoLr, were committed to Lancaster for manslaughter.---
Manchester Herald.