The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-14 00:00:00

JUNE 14, 1849
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Queen's Bench for the sale of a cadetship in the East
Iddia Company's service. The private debts are not
large, but the liabilities are enormous. The following
the main items of the balance-sheet. Creditors
holding security, 1,991/.; ditto, unsecured, 2001; liabili-
ties, 80,0901.; pension received from the East India Com-
pany, 3001.; legacy, 1001.; profits, 1,5851.; capital, 8,502/.
The assets consist of property, 321/.; ditto in the hands
of creditors, 4001; debts, 2,000/. The losses are set
down at 9,6171.; and the expenses at 404/.
Mr. LAW4ANCE appeared for the assignees, and, on
their behalf, declined to accept of any portion of the
bankrupt's pension, a proposal which had been suggested
at a previous meeting. The Learned Gentleman offered
no eppposition.
Certificate granted.
(Before Mr. Commissioner EvAxs.)
The certificate of Messrs. Swan was suspended for
twelve months, on the ground of improper preference
and refusing to place their affairs in the hands of their
creditors when insolvent.
Mr. Lawrence supported.

CENTRAL CitILVIINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
• Mark Jeffrey, 24 a tall powerful looking man, attired
in the convict garb, was indicted for feloniously cutting
and wounding Joseph Robert Allen, with intent to do
him grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk conducted the prosecution
on behalf of the Treasury.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor and
other witnesses, that the prisoner had been convicted at
Cambridge of the offence of burglary, and sentenced to
be transported for fifteen years. He was removed on
board the warrior hulk, at Woolwich, in January last,
and it would seem that he had several times exhibited
insubordination. On the 15th of May he was sent into
the dockyard to work with a gang of convicts, and they
returned to the hulk at twelve o'clock to have dinner,
and when the meal was finished the prisoner wished to
accompany a different gang to the one he had before
been working with, because it appeared he expected that
they would be allowed a small quantity of beer. The
prosecutor, who was at the time engaged in the capacity
of second mate to the, hulk, refused to allow the prisoner
to go with this gang, and he was ordered off to continue
the same work he had been before engaged in, but
shortly afterwards he was brought back in the custody
of a sentry, who charged him with refusing to work.
Mr. Masterman, the overseer of the hulk; was then sent
for, and the prisoner made some complaint of the insuffi-
ciency of food that was allowed him. He was told that
he received the allowance sanctioned by Government,
and the same that was given to all the other convicts,
and he was ordered to return to his work, being told at
the same time that he should be locked up if he refused.
Immediately upon this being said, the prisoner, who it
appeared, during the time he bad been in the dockyard,
had contrived to secrete an instrument called a " tree
nail" of a very formidable description, about his person,
suddenly drew it from under his coat, and struck Allen
a tremendous blow on the back of the head with it,
dividing the scalp, and inflicting very serious injury upon
him. Tho prisoner, not satisfied with this act of vio-
lence, attempted to rush upon the overseer of the hulk,
and made a blow at him with the same weapon, and the
sentry was obliged to charge him with his bayonet before
he could be secured. When this had been effected the
prisoner expressed a hope that he had killed the prose-
cutor, and at the same time said that if it had noc been
for the sentry he would have cleared the kitchen of the
Whole of them.

Mr. Dobbs, the surgeon of the_ hulk, was called to
speak to the severe character of the injury received by
the prosecutor, and he also said that upon;the day in ques.
tion the prisioner appeared in robust health, and was
quite capable of performing the task assigned to him in
the dockyard.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, made
a long rambling statement, complaining of the treatment
he had received on board the Warrior, and particularly
of the quantity of food, which he said was quite in-
sufficient to keep a man in health, and enable him to
work. He said that he had frequently complained to
the prosecutor, and also to the overseer, but he could
not get any redress, and on the day in question, being
very much aggravated at the conduct of the prosecutor,
he admitted that he gave him a "crack" on tbr head.
The surgeon to the hulk, in answer, to questions put to
him by the Court, said that th. prisoner received the
same allowance of fug,/ as tt e other convicts,
and he considered it quite sufficient. The men
were ~.oust and healthy, and if any increase
in generallyas considered by him to be necessary, he
the
diet
had fio/ power to order it.
file pcisoner, in an insolent tone, repeated his com-
plaint of the insufficiency of food, awl added, that the
witness was no mure fit to be a doctor than he was to be

a king.
Mr. Justice PATTESON inquired if the prisoner had re-
pro....nted that he was in an unfit state to go to work
upon the day in question?
The Surgeon replied that he did do so, and he ex-
amined him, and finding that his arms were very mus-
cular, and that he appeared in good health, he ordered
him to go to work. He added, that the convicts conti-
nually pestered him with trifling complaints, in order
that tilt y might not be sent to work.
The Learned JUDGE having sumtned.up,
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of the whole
charge contained in the indictment.

His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, told the prisoner
that he had been convicted of a very serious offence. He
was already under a sentence of transportation for 15
years, and upon some apparently unfounded complaint
as to the sufficiency of the food, he had not scrupled to
make a most violent assault upon one of the officers in
*hose custody
.he had been placed. It was absolutely
necessary that the discipline of such places as the hulk a
should be kept up, and therefore, as an example to other
prisoners in a similar position to the prisoner, he felt it
his duty to pass a severe sentence, which was,,that he be
transported tor life.
When the sentence was pronounced, the prisoner ex-
claimed in a violent manner that justice had not- been
done to him. lie said that they might transport him for
life, or give him the " bell devil" it they liked; but as
they had not given him justice, he should take it himself
the first opportunity that offered.
James Impey, 22, was indicted for cutting and wound-
ing James Brackett Atkinson, with intent to do him
grievous bodily harm.
This case is a a similar character to the last. The
prosecutor is one of the warders at the Mil,bank Peni-
tentiary, and the prisoner, at the time of the occurrence,
was confined in that establishment, under a sentence of
seven years' transportation. It appeared that the pri-
soner entertained an impression that Atkinson intended
to report him for some breach of the regulations'of the
prison, and was exasperated against him on that ac-
count, and upon the latter opening the door of his cell
on the morning mentioned in the indictment, the pi
soner struck him a vi.lent blow on the bead with a
stone, which he had tied up in the corner of his hand-
kerchief.
The jury in this case also found the prisoner Guilty,
and he was sentenced to be transported for 15 years.
William John Ward, 21, was indicted for feloniously
having in his possession two pieces of paper, upon which
were engraved portions of a promissory note, for the
payment of money, with intent to defraud William Lid-
dell and others.

Mr. Huddlestone prosecuted, Mr. Payne defended the
prisoner.
The prosecutors in this case were Messrs. Liddell and
Co., of the Beverley Bank. It appeared that these gen-
tlemen were in the habit of employing an engraver in
Shoe lane, named Lake, to engrave their notes, and it
seemed that it was his custom to have any faulty im-
pressions that might be made brought to him, for the
purpose of being destroyed ; but instead •of this course
being uniformly adopted, it appeared that a person
named Burt, who was in the service of Mr. Lake, took
home to his own lodgings one of these faulty impres-
sions, without the knowledge of his master, and the
prisoner, who lodged in the same house, bad, it ap-
peared, got possession of this impression, and had filled
it up, with the intention of putting the note into cir-
culation.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
him to mercy, and at the same time expressed an opinion
that there had been a great want of care and attention
an the pars of the printer and engraver, in suffering
documents of such value to be treated so carelessly.
Mr. Justice PATTESON remarked that it was quite
clear that the witness Burt had no right to take home
the faulty impression, and if he had not done so the
prisoner would not have been able to obtain possession
of it.

Mr. HIIDDLESTONE said he was instructed by the pro-
secutors to jolt' in the recommendation of the jury. He
believed the prisoner was respectably connected, and that
there had been no imputation upon his character prior to
this transaction.
Sentence was deferred.

John Standen, 35, was indicted for sacrilegiously steal-
ing from the parish church of Kew an iron chest, a tin
box, and other articles, the property of the church-
wardens and others.
Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. O'Brien defended
the prisoner.
The robbery in question was committed so far back as
the month of February, 1845. The church it appeared
was entered by false keys, did a large iron chest, con-
taining a quantity of marriage and burial registers, and
other important documents, but, as it happened, no pro •
perty of any intrinsic value, was stolen. This chest also
contained a small tin box, and the evidence against the
prisoner was, that shortly after the robbery he had given
that tin box to a person named Tilby, who represented
that he at the same time told him that he had got it
from Kew Church. None of the other property had
been discovered, and it appeared that Tilby bad not given
any statement as to the manner in which he became
possessed of the tin box, until after he himself had been
in custody for several days, and there was not the
slightest corroboration of his testimony.
The jury, without hearing Mr. Mr. O'Brien for the
prisoner, at once returned
COURT.
a verdict of Not guilty.
PIE W
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
William George Arnold, aged 17, a clerk, was indicted
for stealing a half-crown, three shillings, and one four-
penny-piece, the property of Joseph Rudd.
Mr. Robinson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
330,11autio fin the Mem.