The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-17 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lancaster, Feb. 14.
Yesterday being the commission-day, Mr. Baron
Alderson and Mr. Justice Coleridge arrived by the mail
train, and proceeded to the Castle to open the com-
mission.

This morning their Lordships attended Divine ser-
vice, and immediately afterwards proceeded to the courts.
The criminal calendar is very small, and the offences
are of a very light character, six prisoners only being
charged with larceny, one throwing corrosive fluid, nine
with night poaching, two bigamy, three coining, two
forgery, one damaging warp, one manslaughter, one false
pretence. The civil list is likewise very light.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron AeremsoN.)
John Dagger was charged with having, on the 15th
of September, at Singleton, thrown a certain corrosive
fluid on the person of Anno Clarke, with intent to do
her grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Blair appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Gardner
defended the prisoner.
The prosccutrix, Anne Clarke, stated that she was 16
years of age, and servant to Mr. Archer, of Singleton ;
that the prisoner had courted her for two years previous
to July last, when she forbade him to come to see her ;
that on the night of the 15th of September she went
with Margaret Foster and Margaret Hull to Mr. Woods,
the clergyman at Singleton, and that as they were re-
turning home, and were on a footpath which runs
through a plantation, the prisoner rushed out, and pulled
her into the wood, threw her down, and committed an
indecent assault upon her, and said, " I'll tackle you for
this." She felt something sharp, like burning, and the
prisoner then let her go. She screamed out, and shortly
after fainted from pain. The two women assisted her
home, and a surgeon was sent for.
Robert Harrison Buwness, a surgeon, at FORUM], said
atend
that on the 15th September he was called
Anne Clarke, and found large inffamm
b°ody; that
inside of the thighs, and the lower
part øfn
two and three
atory
eisnp ttso attend
she was seriously injured, and was betrfee
months under his care, and that the injury was done by
aqua fortis.
Mr. Gardner addressed the jury for the defence. 4
Verdict--Guilty.
His LORDSHIP, in sentencing the prisoner, enlarged
upon the cruelty and brutality of the offence, and ordered
him to be transported for fitteen years.
NIGHT POACHING. ,
awn _Hutchinson and John
Gillow were charged with having,
at the township of
Turnstall, on the 18th January last, unlawfully entered
certain enclosed land by night, together with others,
armed, with intent to take and destroy game.
Mr. Overend appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Cobbett for the prisoner.
Mr. CORBETT addressed the jury for the defence.
His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said that the verdict of
ale jury must depend on the question of whether the
evidence was sufficient to convince them that the pri-
soners were in pursuit of game in the plantation referred
to by the indictment.
The jury, after a very short deliberation, found the
prisoners Not Guilty.

Lancaster, Fob. 15.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. BARON ALDERSON.)
William Bracewell was indicted for having, at Colne,
on the 9th of September last, uttered a forged bill of
exchange for the sum of 45t. los.
Mr. Whigham prosecuted ; Mr. Joseph Pollock de-
fended the prisoner, and urged that James Watson and
Moot had been mixed up in bill transactions together,

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that James Watson might have authorised either ow
or the other to affix his name to the bill. Verdict, Not
Guilty.
Mary Clegg was indicted, under the 7th and Bth
George IV., c. 30, e. 3, for having maliciously damaged
a warp of cotton, the property of Margaret Walker, by
applying oil of vitriol to the same, with intent to render
the same useless.

Mr. Segar and Mr. Blair conducted the prosecution.
and Mr. James and Mr. Joseph Pollock defended the
prisoner.
An alibi was proved, and a verdict of Not Guilty re•
turned.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
• FZIDAY, FRB. 16.
STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.

The following Resolutions were reported from the above
Committee :

That in the case of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway
Company petition for extending the time for the second
reading of the Bill, the standing orders ought to be dis-
pensed with : That the time for the second reading be ez.
tended to the 15th day of March next.
That in the case of the Taff Vale Railway (Extension in
Merthyr Tidfil) petition for referring the petition for a 8111,
with the report of the Examiner thereon, to the Select Com-
mittee on Standing Orders, the standing order, No. 150, is
I
respect to the presentation of the petition for the Bill, ought
to be dispensed with :—That the said petition and report of
Examiner thereon, be referred to the Select Committee ou
Standing Orders—Resolutions agreed to.
The undernamed Railway Bill was read a first, and
ordered to be read a second time:—
Leeds and Think (Power to guarantee Interest on certani
Shares, &c.)

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
The following Railway Bills are ordered to be read a
second time en Tuesday, Feb. 21:—
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Newcastle-apon-Tyne and
Carlisle Railway Lease and Amalgamation).
London and South-Western (Extension of Time for the
Purchase of Lands and Completion of Works on the Basing.
stoke and Salisbury, and Farnham and Alton Linea).
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan Railway, and Ax-
drossan Harbour Acts Amendment.

Caledonian (Lease or Purchase of the Glasgow, Barrhsad,
and Neilston Direct).
Caledonian (Purchase or Lease of Wishaw and Coltnese
Railway).
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, and Maryport and Carlisle
Lease and Amalgamation.
Edinburgh and Northern (A—Dunfermline Branch Dsri•
ation in Dunfermline Parish, and so as to pass under Town-
hill and Halbeath Tramways ; Branches in connexion with
those Tramways; Repeal of Agreement with Lessees of
Halbeath Colliery; Increase of Capital and Amendment of
Acts).
Edinburgh and Northern (Additional Capital and Amend-
ment of ♦cts).