The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-04 00:00:00

LAW SITTU4GS.

COURT OF CHANCERY, WESTMINSTER.
Sittings appointed by the Lord Chancellor during Hilary
Tenn.—Thursday, Jan. 11, Appeal Motions and Appeals;
Friday, Jan. 12, Petitions ; Saturday, Jan. 13, Monday, Jan.
15, Tuesday, Jan. 16, and Wednesday, Jan. 17, Appeals and
and Causes ; Thursday, Jan. 18, Appeal Motions, Appeals,
and Causes ; Friday, Jan. 19, Saturday, Jan. 20, Monday,
Jan. 22, Tuesday, Jan. 23, and Wednesday, Jan. 24, Appeals
and Causes ; Thursday, Jan. 25, Appeal Motions, Appeals,
and Causes ; Friday, Jan. 26, Saturday, Jan. 27, Monday,
Jan. 29, and Tuesday, Jan. 30, Appeals and Causes ; Wed-
nesday, Jan. 31, Appeal Motions, Appeals, and Causes.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, WesrmiNTrEß.
Sittings appointed by the VICE-CHANCELLOR. during Hilary
Term.
Thursday, Jan. 11, Motions ; Friday, Jan. 12, Petitions ;
Saturday, Jan. 13, Monday, Jan. 15, Tuesday, Jan. 16, and
Wednesday, Jan. 17, Pleas, Demurrers, Exceptions, Causes,
and Further Directions : Thursday, Jan. 18, Motions; Friday.
Jan. 19, Saturday, Jan. 20, Monday, Jan. 22, Tuesday, Jan.
23, and Wednesday, Jan. 24, Pleas, Demurrers, Exceptions
Causes, and Farther Directions ; Thursday, Jan. 25, Mo-
tions ; Friday, Jan. 26, Saturday, Jan. 27, Monday, Jan. 2e,
and Tuesday, Jan. 30, Pleas, Demurrers, Exceptions, Causes,
and Further Directions ; Wednesday, Jan. 31, Motions.
On every Friday the VICE-CHANCELLOR. will hear Short
Causes and Unopposed Petitions previous to the general Paper.

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ROLLS' COURT, WESTMINSTER.
Sittings appointed by tho MasTga of the RoLt.s during
Hilary Term :
Thursday, Jan. 11, Motions ; Friday, Jan. 12, Petitions in
the General Paper ; Saturday, Jan. 13, Monday, Jan. 15,
Tuesday, Jan. 16, and Wednesday, Jan. 17, Pleas, Demur-
rers, Causes, Further Directions, and Exceptions ; Thursday,
Jan. 18, Motions ; Friday, Jan. 19, Saturday, Jan. 20, Mon-
day, Jan. 22, Tuesday, Jan. 23, and Wednesday, Jan. 24,
Pleas, Demurrers, Causes, Further Directions, and Excep-
tions; Thursday, Jan. 25, Motions ; Friday, Jan. 20, Satur-
day, Jan. 27, and Monday, Jan. 29, Pleas, Demurrers, Causes,
Further Directions, and Exceptions ; Tuesday, Jan. $O, Pe-
titions to the General Paper ; Wednesday, Jan. 31, Motions ;
Thursday, Feb. 1 (at The Rolls), Short Causes after swearing
in the Solicitors. Causes, Further Directions, and Petitions
every Tuesday at the sitting of the Court.

CRIMINAL COURT-(WEDNESDAY

OLD COURT.
Richard King, aged 20, Peter Williamson, aged 19, Cheeks Steel,
aged 22, Joshua Ilsitchinsos, aged 21, and George Clarke, aged 20, were
indicted for assaulting James Stent on the Queen's highway, and steal.
ing five shillings, the property of the prosecutor.
The Jury, after hearing evidence, returned a ♦erdict of Guilty
against Steel, Williamson, and Clark, and one of Acquittal as regarded
King and Hutchinson.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON told them that they might expect to be sent
out of the country for a length of time.
Thomas Smoker, aged 34, was indicted for killing and slaying
Charles Regan.
Thu I.,:arned JUDO@ having summed up the evidence, the Jury re-
turned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoner was discharged.

NEW COURT.
Jane Green, aged (SI, was indicted for stealing on Christmas Eve six
pairs of boots and other articles, the property of Henry Cass. A se-
cond indictment charged her with haring been tried and convicted in
this Court in October last, when she was sentenced to a month's im-
prisonment.
The prisoner's defence was that she picked up the bundle on the
stairs. She was found Guilty upon both charges.
The COMMON Static:RANT inquired of the aged prisoner why it was
that she made her appearance again so soon ? She replied that when
she came out of prison she went to the officers of Marytebone parish,
who refused to give her shelter or relief, because she had not slept in
their parish.
The Commom Saar:awr said this was too bad. He really did not
knew what poor creatures were to do ; this ho knew, that the gaols
would soon be converted into workhouses unless something was done.
Some of the gentlemen of the bar, as well as of the jury, coincided in
time remarks of the Learned Judge.
Peter Bradley, described as the conductor of an omnibus, was in_
dieted for stealing a silk handkerchief from the person of Mr. Braith-
waite, the engineer.
The prosecutor stated, that at midnight on the 21st of December, he
got Into into one of Cowderoy's omnibuses, to go from Oxford-street to
Paddington. The prisoner was on the step, acting as the conductor,
and the door being ajar the prisoner gradually pulled the handkerchief
through the aperture between the door and the back panel. He let him
rope enough until it was all drawn through, weer he jumped out, and
gave him into the custody of a policeman.
The prisoner denied that he acted as conductor, and made known that
Mr. Phillips was retain-4 to defend him.
Mr. Phillips now entered the Court.
The Combs()); SERGEANT said he would read the evidence of the prose.
cutor, who was then subjected to a crw.examination The proseutor
would not swear that he got into the omnibus in Oxford.street, or in
Holborn, or Snow-hill. Ile hat dined that evening at the Guildhall
Cogre-hou,o, and was quite sober.
John Anderson, the policeman into whose eustody the prisoner was
given, stated that the prisoner observed to him that the door might, by
closing, have drawn the handkerchief out of the prosecutor's pocket. In
answer to a question from Mr. Putwre, he said the prosecutor was per-
fectly sober.
Mr. PHILLIPA said that would be a question for the Jury. He would
not chnrge the gentleman with an attempt at perjury, but he submitted
that he could not have known what had passed with such an imperfect
recollection. The prisoner said he picked up the handkerchief from the
step when the prosecutor goi out.
Mr. Cowderoy and several respectable persons gave the prisoner
a most excellent character.
The jury did not require the evidence to be read, as they had made
up their minds to return a verdict of acquittal.
The Commost SERJEANT said that for once the ends of justice had
bCe❑ effected by the Prisoners' Counsel Bill, by which it was often
frustrated.