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boat. He would show, further, that the plaintiffs
were not owners of the boat; that there was no "con
version" of her by the defendant, such as charged in
the declaration, and that the defendant, in handing
over the boat to Browne, had but given it up to the
party who had fairly and beyond all doubt won it.
The Learned Gentleman then commented on the part
taken by the plaintiffs in the affair, insinuated that
they had, themselves, bets pending on the race in
Watkins's favour, stated that when that competitor
fell out of the race, they were heard to say,
" Never mind, Tom, we'll make it all right for
you," and urged that they could not, under the
circumstances, be regarded by the jury as in a
condition to have conducted themselves as impar-
tial judges. He, therefore, hoped that the jury
looking at the whole case, would find their verdict
for the defendant, who, in handing the prize-boat
over to Browne but discharged an honest and inde-
pendent exercise of duty. The Learned Gentleman
called Phillip Brooks, William Foster, William Tho-
mas, Peter Browne, Purkis Todman, Skinner, and
other witnesses, to support his statements, after which
and Mr. Sergeant Shee s reply,
Lord DENMAN summed up the evidence. His
Lordship said there had been a great deal of conflict-
ing testimony in the case, as to false starts and
charges of fouling," on the one side and the other;
but the main questions for the consideration of the
jury would be, as to whether the property was the
plaintiffs', and as to whether the defendant had been
guilty of conversion in handing it over to Browne.
Undoubtedly, it was quite clear that the
plaintiffs had, or the 10th of June, about three
days before the race, paid Messrs. Chillingworth
and Burton 231. for the boat; but if that were not
so, if they even had not paid for it, the defen-
dant had no right to hand it over to Browne. It was,
at the time he did so, in dispute—the plaintiffs
had not given their decision—they were judges in
the race, duly appointed. They pronounced it to be
a foully contested race, and had made applications to
the defendant for the boat, which was still their pro-
perty, to dispose of, and which could only be dis-
posed of by their fair decision, according to the rules
governing the race. The defendant, then, clearly had
no right to give it up to Browne, and in having done
so he was clearly, according to the evidence, guilty
of conversion. It would be for the jury, however, to
say so, and also wheaser they believed the boat had
been paid for by the plaintiffs.
The jury con erred together for a few moments,
and returned a v: relict for the plaintiffs—damages
231.—the amount paid for the boat, and expressed
their opinion, in answer to a question from Lord
Denman, that the plaintiffs had paid for the boat.
Thus ended the business of the sittings.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

SENTENCES AND SESSIONAL RESULTS.

Subjoined are the principal sentences passed on the
prisoners at the late session, as copied from the official
account:—

To Death and awaiting Execution George
11liCoy, 26, and Thomas Sale, 25 (convicted of
murder).

Death Recorded—William Newton Allnutt, 12
(for poisoning his grandfather).

TRANSPORTATION BEYOND THE SEAS.

For Ten Years —T. Purgister, 23 ; Thomas
Simpson, 21.
For Seven Years—Ann Barrow, 30; Elizabeth
Edwards, 36 ; Ellen Mortram, 20 ; Jane Mee, 20 ;
Elizabeth Gill, 52 ' • George Barrow, 32 ; Edward
Rivers, 32 ; James Welch, 18 ; William Wiggs, 17 ;
John Prudence, 45 ; T. Rothrey, 25 ; J. Driscoll,
22; Henry Lawrence, 21 ; John Campbell, 30 ;
James Smith, 21 ; Sarah Eustace, 17 ; Wm. Henry
Piper, 19; John Booth, 20 ; John Knight, 22 ; Wm.
Bonyon, 19 ; Wm. Grant, 21; Henry Potter, 25 ;
Isaac Hoare, 18.

IMFRISONMENT AND HARD LABOUR IN THE ROUSE

OF CORRECTION.

For Two Years— William Denzer, John Johnson,
Thomas Rumbold, B. J. Pork, John Smith.
For Eighteen Months— Sarah James.
For One Year—Mary Ann Simpson, Maria Long-
man, Isabella Kirk, Phaabe Rolt, George Smith, J.
C. Williams, John Brannan, John Bewestock, John
Harden, John Ford, John Richardson, Robert
Lowen, George Robert Diggers, Charles Brewer
(in Newgate), John Flemming, James Ghrimes,
John Williams.

For Nine Months—Caroline Holmes, Ellen Ke-
nedy, Ellen Henly, John Bott, Samuel Harvey,
John Jones, Thomas White, Solomon Walker, Tho-
mas Fenwick, George Folds, William Thompson,
Charles Joy, George Gorman, W. Frost, J. T. Beggs,
E. Shay.
For Six Months—Catherine Sullivan, Catherine
Price, PhGebe Price, Jane King, Hamilton West, J.
A. Sandlends, Samuel Ralfs (Newgate), George
Williams, William John Green, John Pawson, James
Fisher, George Denning, Charles Aubrey, Alfred
Larkins, Thomas Thompson, William Verrall,
George Hislop, John Connell, J. Line, John Pilsher,
J. S wigg, J. Jones.
For Four Months—Alphonso Brompton, Charles
Mills, James Lovell, J. Kelly, Robert Newsom,
William Goddard, J. Brown, J. Vost, Caroline
Holmes, W. DrA:s, J. White, T. Brown, Timothy
Shaw, IV. H. Capper, J. Sullivan.
For Three Months—Eliza Clark, Horatio Nelson
West, J. Maqurie, William Hutchinson, Thomas
Hamilton, Robert Huntingdon, William Clements,
W. Stanling, Thomas Powney, George Gwilliam, J.
Collins, W. Dobson, W. Knight, H. Lambeth, H.
Shearing, J. Layton.
Acquitted by the Petit Jury—Elizabeth Bullock,
Mary Mahony, Sarah Palmer, Margaret Lahy, Caro-
line Coffee, Charlotte Williamson, W. S. Sheridan,
M. Bowman, J. Skewing, J. Townsend, William
Turner, William Williamson, William Gulliers, T.
Doyle, William Palmer, George Smith, J. Hardiman,
Daniel Cook, J. Diaper, F. Burgess, D. Briant, John
Lane, George Gower, C. Ponton, Stephen Wright,
'F. Sale, G. M'Coy, J. Renny, John Lloyd, J. Vil-
liers William Mansell, J. Redpath, John Beazley,
William Maddox.

Discharged by Proclamation—W. Jennings Giggs,
Robert Utting, T. Draper, T. Clubb.
Cheating Gamesters Fined and Confined in New-
gate—Andrew W. Barr, fifteen months, 500/. ; C.
Brewer, one year, 5001. ; Samuel Ralfs, six months,
1001.

Minor Adjudications—Two months' imprisonment,
7 ; six weeks' ditto, 1; one month ditto, 9 ; fourteen
days and under, 5 ; remanded to next session, la;
judgments respited, 2 ; privately whipped, 2 ; sur-
rendered in court, 9.

During the session the Court adjudicated upon 193
prisoners, who were committed from the following
districts, viz.:—London, 21 ; Middlesex, 131; Sur-
rey, 32 ; Kent, 7; Essex 2—total 193.
The Court at its rising adjourned to Monday, the
3d of January next.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
James Coates, a man known to the police as one of
the most expert of the swell mob fraternity, was
brought before the Lord Mayor by City policeman,
Thomas Hardwick, charged with having committed
the robbery detailed in the following evidence :
Mr. Wightman, the superintendent of the Black-
wall Railroad, attended to watch the case upon the
part of the company, and a solicitor appeared for the
prosecution.
Mr. George White, of Millbank-street, Westmin-
ster merchant, said—On Tuesday, the 11 th of No-
vember, I came from Gravesend to Black wall in a
steam-boat. When we arrived at that station one of
the company's porters came to me on board, and asked
me if I had any luggage. I gave him two carpet
bags avd a small basket, desiring him to put them
in a Fenchurch-street carriage on the railway. In
consequence of our not starting immediately, I
lost sight of the porter for about six or seven
minutes, but when I was seated in one of the
carriages he came to me with the basket, and
said he had put the two carpet bags in the luggage
van, which was immediately before the carriage in
which I was riding. I did not see them there. When
we got to Fenchurch-street no bag was to be found.
I returned at once to Blackwall, and was confronted
with the porter, who insisted that he had deposited
them in the carriage. Every inquiry was made by
the railroad servants, but nothing satisfactory occurred
till Tuesday last, when I heard that some of the pro-
perty contained in the two bags had been recovered.
They contained, when in my possession, a gold chain,
a tortoiseshell workbox, some furs and shawls, a lace
veil, and several articles of ladies' and children's
dress. I identify all the articles and the bag produced
by the policeman as mine. I do not know the prisoner
at all, and am not aware that I have ever seen him
before now.

Richard Durant, porter to the London and Black-
wall Railway Company, stated that he conveyed the
two bags and the basket, according to the direction of
Mr. White, from the steam-vessel to the railway, and
place the bags in the luggage carriage, to which
there was a latch, bat no lock. He gave Mr. White,
who had got into a first-class carriage, the small
basket. The bags could not have been taken out of
the van before the train started from Blackwall, nor
before it left Poplar, where it stopped for two or
three minutes to take in passengers and grip the rope.
Nothing was heard of them till the arrival of the train
in London, where witness afterwards came and made
inquiries, but heard that the porters hadnot taken
any luggage out of the carriage answering the de-
scription.
Policeman Hardwick said—On Saturday last I
heard that the prisoner, who is known to me, had gone
to Cheltenham with some luggage, and, knowing
where he lodged, I went to the house, in Antony--
-
street, St. George's-in-the-East, and asked the lar d
lady where any of Tames Ceates's property w.,s
. She
took the L 0 the back and, SiiUWitl 111:
to 1a
, and that said that was all she had belonging that