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

LENT ASSIZE INXELLIGENCE,

KINGSTON, MA BC II 31.
EDGCOMBIZ V. AMOS.
This was an action of trim. con. The parties are
tradesmen in a respectable way of business. The
plaintiff was married to his wife in 1821, and ,they
lived happily together until 1829, at which time the
plaintiff's affairs 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-
maiaed 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. fIuTcHINsoN.
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.
Some other evidence was, however, given, and
the Jury, without hearing the defendant's Counsel,
found a verdict for one farthing.
Mr. Baron 13AvLEY would certify to deprive the
plaintiff of his costs.

WAR WICK, Mexcir 30.
THE KING V. LOYD.

This was an indictment for an assault upon Ke-
ziah Waring, with intent ►to take liberties with her
person, amounting to a capital felony. The defen-
dant is a gentleman of fortune, between fifty and
sixty yeara,of age, residing at Leamington, and the
fattier of several children. The prosecutrix, a 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, he
crossed 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 heard
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 2001.
LOW, GENT. V. MODGETTS.
_

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 see 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 front her husband
with a person 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 200/. 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 place of residence, near
Birmingham, in the title of the cause.—Verdict for
the plaintiff—Damages Is.

YORK, lifißcH 30.
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 1823. 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 Yarrii
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 tht
noise and smoke of the steam-engines occasioned to
passengers on this part of the high-way. A varie►y
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 not only thr
railway now in question, but all the railways in the
kingdom.

Mr. WILLIAMS, after some deliberation, agreed to
the proposal, and a verdict of Guilty was accord.
ingly entered.

A PRISONER STARVED TO DEATII.--0i!
the 234 ult. an inquest was held at Rochdale, on the both
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 txtrifined 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 thereii.
15 days, and was discovered by a person (who wet; ap-
pointed to consign another wretched being to the main.
den) lying naked on the stone flour, which was coverec
with fllth ! He was in a dying state, with a portion of
his clothes in his mouth, end 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 " Di, d
from hunger; and in consequence RICHARD HARGREAVEB,
ELIZABETH (otherwise BETTY) BURROWS, and HANNAH
Hotr, were committed to Lancaster for manslanghier......
Manchester Herald.

SECOND EDITION,
SUN OFFICE. Seven o'clock.

TIIE LONDON GAZETTI

OF THIS EVENING.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
El) WARD HENRY FRANCIS, Wandsworth, schoolmaster,
BENJAMIN BOND and STEPHEN PATTISALL, Change'
alley, Cornhiil, bankers.
ROBERT SANDS, Brewer-street, St. Pancras, engraver.
WILLIAM CLUT B TERBUCK, Woosler's rook, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, shear-maker.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
JAMES GEI)DES, Gracechurch-street, merchant, from Apri
ti to May i'7, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.

BANKRUPTS.
DAVID BYWATER, Baker-street, Clerkenwell, cement.
;merchant, to surrender April 5t 15, and May 13, at one, at UV
Court of Commissioners. Brdoiss, New Inn, Strand.
JOHN HAWKINS, Bristol, grocer, April 16, 18, and Ma!
hi, at one, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol. Blower, DIP
coin's Inn-fields, London ; Gregory and Smith, Bristol.
PETER lIIGGINS, Scarborough, miller, .Ipril 16, 16, and
May 13, at nine 'Limperley, Manchester.
GEORGE STRUT FON, Mitre-court, Fleet-street, tavern,
kaeper, April 15, at twelve, 22, and May 13, at eleven, at 0(
Court of Commissioners. Fisher, Walbrook, London.
JANE HALL and HENRY GERRISH, Bristol, grocers,
April 15, 16, and May 13, at two, at the Comrnercial.roomb
Stevens and Flower, Gray's-Inn-square, London; Per,
bins, Bristol.
GEORGE GRAVESON, Bradford, Yorkshire, ironmonger.
THOMAS T U ERV LLE, Worcester, grocer.
WILLIAM SEWELL Brewer-street, Pimlico, stable-keeps
JOHN HENRY .10Nk!S, Gutter-lane, warehouseman.
JOHN SOUTHERN, Manchester, wine-dealer.