The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-25 00:00:00

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.

(Sittings in Banco.)
TEE QUEEN V. TURNER.—CRIMINAL INFORMATION.
A criminal information had been obtained against the
defendant, for the publication of a libel reflecting on the
character of Mr. John Hornblow Turner, accusing him
of fraud. The defendant allowed judgment to go by
default.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said the sentence of the Court
was that the defendant pay a fine of 200!. and be im-
prisoned in the Queen's Bench for three calendar months,
and be further imprisoned until the fine be paid.
TEE QUEEN V. STIRK.
The defendant a banker at St. Albans, was brought
up to receive sentence for publishing a libel, reflecting
seriously upon the conduct of the late Mayor of St. Al-
bans and the county magistrates.
The sentence of the Court was that he pay a fine of
3001, and be imprisoned until it be paid.

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CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Baron PARKE and Mr. Justice CoLTasAN.)
On the judges taking their seats an application was
made on behalf of Horatio Nelson West, convicted at a
former session of felony, in forging railway scrip.
Mr. Baron PARKE said that the majority of the judges
had in this case decided on Saturday that railway scrip
was not a representation or security for money, and the
prisoner might, therefore, be admitted to bail, himself in
5001., and two securities in 2501. each, to take his trial
for a misdemeanour.

William Hickman, the captain of a barge upon the
Grand Junction Canal, was indicted for manslaughter,
in causing the death of Anne Brydger, the wife of another
captain in the same navigation.
It appeared from the evidence that, by a bye-law of
the Canal Company, when two barges proceeding in
opposite direc,tions meet, the one coming towards Pad-
dington should stop to allow that Ong towards Bir-
mingham to pass. The prisoner neglected to obser►e
this rule, when his barge met with that of the
deceased's husband, which she IN as steering, on
the evening of the Ist of November. The consequence
was that she became entangled in the ropes, and was
dragged into the water. She was soon extricated, but
died in fonr days afterwards from gangrene of the arm
from the wound inflicted by the friction of the rope.
The jury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict
of Not Guilty.
In the course of the morning Mr. James Glaisher, of
the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was engaged in
putting up, in different parts of the court, a therm-
metrical apparatus, of a new arrangement for ascer-
taining the temperature and humidity of the atmo-
sphere.
George Morley, 19 years of age, was indicted for the
manslaughter of William Morley and Edward Vincent.
The prisoner, who was a firework maker, was assisted
in making squibs, &c., by the two deceased on the Ist of
October, when, by some accident, the materials exploded,
and the three youths suffered frightful injuries, of which
Vincent died almost immediately, and William Morley
in ten hours after. The prisoner himself suffered so
severely that for three weeks the surgeons at the hospital
bad no hopes of his recovery.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN said, that although the occupa-
tion of firework making was illegal by statute, yet to
convict the prisoner of this offence it was necessary to
prove that the deaths of the deceased were caused by
some act of his. There was no evidence to that effect.
It did not appear by which of them the accident was
occasioned.

The jury accordingly returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
William Austin and John Shaw were indicted for
stealing fourteen pounds' weight of paper, value 21. 103.,
the property of the Governors of the Licensed Vic-
tuallers' Asylum.
The prisoners were carters in the employ of the con-
tractors for removing dust from King's Arms-yard, Cole-
man-street, in which was situated the secretary's office
of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, and where the
stationary was kept. Under the premises was a large
cellar, divided into several compartments, one of which
was used as a dust-bin, and another as a store-room for
the stationary, and from the latter the prisoners ex-
tracted the paper, which they sold for 3s. 6d. to a marine-
store dealer.

The prisoners said they took the paper under the im-
pression that it was nothing more than rubbish.
The jury found them Guilty, and they were sentenced
to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
The Assistant JUDGE directed the attention of the
Court to the practices of the marine store•dealers.
Here was a man well acquainted with the value of all
descriptions of property giving only 3s. 6d. for a lot of
paper worth 21. 10s. If this person had been included
in the present prosecution he should feel a strong in-
clination to transport him.
Mr. BALLANTINE, who appeared on behalf of the
Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, said that after that ob-
servation it was very likely his clients would cause the
parties to be indicted.