The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-16 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 13.

CROWN COUR I'.—(Before Mr. Justice Wietwrmarr.) I
John Dale was charged with having, at Northallerton,
on the 11th day of May last, feloniously uttered two
forged 5/. Bank of England notes.
Mr. Martin, Q.C.. and Mr. Adolphus, appeared for
the prosecution. Mr. Overend defended the prisoner. '
It appeared that the prosecutor, Thomas Langstaff, of
Yafforth, near Northallerton, took his cow to the fair at
that place on the 11th of May. Not being able to sell
her he was returning home, when he was followed by
the prisoner, who demanded to know the price of the
cow. The prosecutor asked 91. 103., but at length it was
agreed that 91. should be taken, and the prisoner paid
the money by two 51. notes, receiving a sovereign in
change. and a shilling for " lack." The prisoner then
drove the cow bsck to Northallerton, and the prosecutor
proceeded to Yafforth, but in the afternoon he returned
to Northallerton, and on trying to get the notes changed
at two of the banks he found that they were forgeries.
lie then informed a cattle dealer, named Rickaby, of
what had occurred, who in the evening saw the prisoner
at the Durham Ox public-house in Craike, and in the
stable he saw the cow. Conceiving it to be the animal
which the prosecutor had mentioned as having sold, he
charged the prisoner with having bought her and paid for
her with two forged notes; the prisoner admitted having
bought the cow, bat denied that the notes were bad, and
stated that he had received them from a man named
Fewster (who, it appeared had suddenly decamped), but
that he would take the notes back, and return the cow.
named Wightman, :had likewise met the pri-
driving the cow very fast, near
N''l°ensweardbodirlheoeUgsham, and dap
alsked him whether he had not bought
the cow at Northallerton, to which the prisoner replied
that be had not, but that he had bought her at Sutton-
under- Whitestonecliffe. Information having been given
to the police, the prisoner was apprehended next morn-
ing at Easingwold. •
Mr. OVEREND addressed the jury for the prisoner.
Verdict Guilty. Sentence, ten years transportation.
NISI PRIUS COURT.7(Before Mr. Justice PATrEsoN.)

APPI:gYARI) V. ROSS.

Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Atherton appeared for
the plaintiff; Mr. Martin, Q.C., and Mr. Cowling, fur the
defendant.
This was an action for libel. It appeared that the
plaintiff had been in the service of the defendant, who is
a draper at Driffield, and had travelled for him fir
twelve months, soliciting orders, at the end of which
period the defendant wished the plaintiff to agree to
serve him for three years longer, and to bind himself
not to set up in business in the defendant's district.
Not being able to agree, they separated, and the plain-
tiff shortly after commenced business on his own ac-
count, and then the defendant issued the following
placard:—
" Notice, to all whom it may concern, that William
Ross, draper, Driffield, did, on the 15th of January last,
discharge from his employ, John Appleyard, for im-
proper conduct, and finding that the said John Apple-
yard, having obtained a bundle of print patterns, S4e,-, is
perambulating the district that he went over when in my
employ, con rary to the express condition which he at
first entered into with me, showing patterns and endea-
vouring to palm off goods in my name, I hereby warn
all parties on whom he may try the imposition, after this
date, from paying him any money, or entrusting him
with any orders on my behalf on any pretext whatever.
" WILLIAM Ross.
" Dated Driffield, March sth, 1849."
Mr. MARTIN having addressed the jury for the de-
fendant, in mitigation of damages, on the ground of the
previous relative pOsition of the plaintiff and the de-
fendant, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages, 501.
BROWN V. THE YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.

This was an action on the case to recover from the
defendants, as carriers, the sum of 281, the value of
damage which goods of the plaintiff had sustained in
their transit from 'Salford to Hull. The defendant
pleaded Not Guilty; that they were not common carriers
from Salford to Hull; that the good.; were not delivered
to them as such carriers, to be carried from Salford to
Hull; and that they were improperly packed when de-
livered. _ _

Mr. Knowles, Q C., and Mr. Grainger appeared for
:he platntiff; Mr. Martin, Q.O , and Mr. Addison, for

the defendant.

The plaintiff is a linen-draper, and is in the habit of
going to the different large towns in the country for the
purpose of selling his goods. On the 28th of March,
1848, he was at Bolton, in Lancashire, and being about
to proceed to Hull, he had his goods packed up in a
hamper, a box, and a bale, and booked them by the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, first to Salford, and
then forward to Hull. The plaintiff went by another
train, and on his ❑rrival he inquired for his goods,
which, however, were not forthcoming for a day or two,
and Then he found that some of them were damaged and
some stolen. It had not been discovered where the
damage had happened—whether on the Lancashire and
York:hire Railway, or on the York and North Midland,
which joins the former at Normanton. The goods had,
however, been delivered to the Lancashire and York-
shire Railway, who had given a ree,ipt for them.
His LORDSHIP being of opinion that the contract had
been made with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway,
and not with the defendants,
The plaintiff agreed to b nonsuitid, with leave to
move to enter a verdict for 131. (the value of the articles
d imaged and lost, which were not of a silken material,
the defendants being' protected as to those by the Car-
riers Act), if the Court above should be of opinion that
j the defendants were in law liable.