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London, England, 1847-07-28 00:00:00

It appeared that the prosecutor was the gamekeeper
of Lord Granville, and that on the night of the 29th
Jam/al-7, firviin7 the 7ri,.,mer 1t 1115 master's pre rye
with a inteaarit to his hand, he went up to him and
called on him to give up the pheasant. This the pri •
sonerirefused:to do, and thereupon the prisoner attempted
to arrest him, pursuant to the provisions of the statute
in that behalf; whereupon a seutfl3 ensued, in which the
prosecutor first struck the prisoner with a life preserver,
and the latter retaliated upon him by inflicting several
severe wounds on the head and face, which for a time
seriously endangered his life. The prisoner fled, but wee
known to have been so seriously injured that he was de-
scribed in the Hue and Cry as being severely wounded
on the side of the head. In the course of the ease it
appeared that Lord Granville was not the lord of the
manor, or owner or occupier of the land, but had exer-
ei,ed the right of ehooting over it for the last seven
years, and this was hell a sufficient pi ima facie to enable
him to authorise the prosecutor to arrest poachers having
game on their persons.
Mr. HIIDDLESTONE having addressed the jury for the
prisoner, contending that it was an affray begun by the
constable, and in which the prisoner was forced, in self-
defence, to strike his assailant, _ _ _

His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury, after a short
consultation, found a verdict of Not Guilty.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Durham, July 26.

The assisies for this county began here to-day, the
commission having been opened at Durham on Saturday,
the 24th.

The business on the civil side is light—fourteen cases
in the whole, two of them special juries.
The cakadar contains the names of forty prisoners,
six of whom are to be tried fur rape, five maliciously
wounding, one burglary, one manslaughter, one uttering
forgeries, five stealing from the person, and one horse-
stealing. The rest are for felonies of a minor character,
except four, which are for misdemeanours.
The Lord Chief Baron proceeded to charge the grand
jury at ten o'clock this morning, and Mr. Justice Wight-
man took his seat on the civil side at twelve.

Nothing of importance was tried in the Crown Court,
and some of those engaged in the actions had been so
dilatory in getting their witnesses ready, that a good
deal of the time of the Nisi Prins Court was wasted.
His Lordship several times spoke of the necessity of
striking out some of the causes from the list, and leaving
them remanets till the next assizes.

CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)

WIGHTWICK V. SADLER.

This was an action for breach of promise of marriage.
The defendant pleaded the general issue, and also among
other pleas, that the plaintiff had released him from the
promise by executing a deed for that purpose.

Mr. Knowles and Mr. Addison were Counsel for the
plaintiff ; and Mr. Watson and Mr. Jones for the de-
fendant.

The plaintiff, Lucy Wightwick, it appeared, is a
young woman of about thirty years of age, and the de-
fendant, John Sadler, a man of sixty. She is the daugh-
ter of a farmer in the south of England, and in 1844,
had been residing along with a married sister, Mrs.
Loads, whose husband is traveller for a wine merchant
at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The defendant is a manufac-
turer of good property, at Whitepoint, between Newcas-
tle and North Shields. The plaintiff, wishing to go into
some employ, advertised for is place as housekeeper, and
in consequence the defendant called at the house of
plaintiff's brother-in-law, and engaged her to live in hit
house in that capacity. SAO went to defendant's, and
after remaining there some time, he became so far
pleased with her that he made her an offer of marriage,
and was accepted. At that time she was receiving 101.
per annum wages ; not, however, as menial servant,
but sometimes taking part in the business of the
household. The defendant named a day for the mar-
riage, but he subsequently said that he was already
engaged to another, a Miss Todd, and that there wa
some difficulty to induce Miss Todd to relinquish her
engagement with him. Eventually it was discovered
that the defendant had seduced the plaintiff by means of
the influence of his promise to her, and in July, 1845, she
was brought o bed of a daughter at Sunderland, to which
place she went by his desire. It was not denied that she
had subsequently given the release to the defendant on
his paying her the sum of 301., though Mr. Knowles now
said that the deed was obtained by fraud, the plaintiff
taking it, at the time, to be no other than an acknow-
ledgement for tae 301.
Mr. WATsoN, upon this being stated, sa'd, Vat if
there were fraud, it should have been pleaded. It was
not so, and, therefore, nothing of that kind could be
contended.

Mr. KNOWLES said that he could show a subsequent
promise of the plaintiff ; but there was this in the re-
lease itself, that it recited that the defendant had made
a promise of marriage. The defendant had afterwards
refused to maintain the child, and obliged plaintiff to
affiliate it upon him, and then, there having been a re-
port of the making of the order of affiliation in one of
the papers, he had obtained a copy of that paper, scored
the part of it relating to the order, and written besides
upon the margin these words : " A comna,n prostitute's
report." He afterwards showed that same paper to a
female, to whom he said he wished the plaintiff to see
the paper, and that the child might see it when she
could read, and learn what kind of woman her mother
was.

Mrs. Loads was called to prove the conduct of the defen-
dant, after the making of the release, which amounted
to a subsequent promise to marry.
Mrs. Dunn, a woman who had nursed the child at
Sunderland, stated that the defendant had shown her the
newspaper, saying he wished plaintiff's family and the
child to see it.

Mrs. Dunn, cross-examined, said that the plaintiff had
always talked against defendant, and said that he was
of such a bad temper that she could not bear to live with
him. Plaintiff had said that she thought he was insane.
Mr. Dale, attorney, of Sunderland, stated that the de-
fendant was a man of considerable estate. He had seve-
ral houses in North Shields, besides, to witness's know-
ledge, thirty shares in the Shields steam-ferry, worth
1201. per share.
Mr. WATSON treated this as a most trumpery case, and
said he thought the jury must consider the defendant as
having paid dearly in the 30/. acknowledged by the deed
of release which he had received from the plaintiff.
Verdict for the defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.

A powerful fellow named Thomas Holsey was charged
with a brutal assault upon a married woman named
Catherine Shannon, livii:g in Devonshire-street, Bishops-
gate. . _ _

The complainant, whose face was terribly swollen,
bruised, and cut, stated, that upon entering a public-
house in Shoredith on the previous night, in the com-
pany of her husband, to procure some refreshment, she
found the prisoner and a woman named Locoek stand-
ing at the bar together, the latter of whom, without any
provocation on her part, loaded her with the foulest
abuse, and then commenced a violent attack upon her,
while protecting herself from which she was flung to the
ground by the other woman, and as soon as she had
fallen the prisoner—to whom she had not even spken—
ran furiously up to her, and, exclaiming with an oath
that he would kick her eyes out, d- At her such a fero •
eious kick upon the forehead just over the left eye, that
her dress was instantly covered with blood, and she was
reduced to insensibility. Several persons present, upon
witnessing the blow, interposed for her protection, and,
the police having been called in, the prisoner was given
into cthtody and conveyed to the stati,,a, while she was
assisted to her own residence, where she had been verb
ick and ill ever smae.

A man natniAl Matthews, who rescued the complainst
from further illuage, and Few, a constabl,- of the 11 di•
vision, corroborated tile preceding statement in its lead
ing particulars, deser:bed the attcck by the prisoner as
unprovoked and brutal in the extreme, and one ex-
pressed his surprise that the woman had escaped so for-
tunately even as she had, the prisoner having on a very
heavy pair of boots, the toes of which were covered with
plates of iron.
When called upon for his defence, the prisoner said
that a dispute had arisen between the complainant and
the woman who was in his company, and that an unjus•
tifiable assault having been made by the former upon
the latter, be had interfered to separate thorn, and might
have behaved rather roughly towards Shannon, but he
denied must positively that he had either struck or
kicked her.

The complainant wished for a summary adjudication
on the case, as she could spare neither the time nor the
expense of carrying it elsewhere; and
M
r. Ilsbniu.r., who commented in terms of severe re-
prehension on the prisoner's brutality, and told hint that
it was only out of consideration for the complainant her-
self that he did not send him to answer the charge at
the sessions, sentenced him to pay the highest analunt of
penalty 't was in his power to inflict, namely, 51., or in
default of so doing, to stand committed to the House of
Correction for two months.
The fine not being paid, the prisoner was removed in
the van.

WESTMINSTER
Yesterday, Elisha KKenncle N
rk to Mrs. Marsh, house-
agent and valuer, 46, Park street, Grosvenor square,
was brought up tor re-examination, charged with stealing
a valuable muslin dress from the residence of the Hon.
Captain C. G. Scott, of the Scots' Fusilier Guards.
The following is a brief outline of the evidence given
on the first examination :—Sir Edward Brackenbury
and his family vacated a house of the Hon. Captain
Scott's, which they had been occupying in Ches ham-
street, Belgrave-square, on Thursday week, and in the
hurry of departure left a box containing a valuable mus-
lin dress. The prisoner, as clerk to Mrs. Marsh, who
was engaged as Captain Scott's agent, called at the house
several times immediately after the departure of Sir Ed-
ward and his family, and on the occasion of his visit
yesterday week, the housekeeper informed him that she
had missed a box from the drawing-room table, and said
she was much annoyed at the circumstance, as a person
was to call that day fur it, and added, that she suspected
some men who had been engaged in taking up the car-
pets had stolen it ; to which the prisoner replied it was
hard to judge anybody. On the loss of the box being
communicated to Captain Scott, he sent for the police,
and Sergeant Thornton, an officer of the A division, was
employed in the matter. He went to Mrs. Halliday's, in
Regent street, who made the dress, and there found that
a person answering the prisoner=s description, and who,
in fact, afterwards turned out to be the accused, ;had
been there two or three days previously, and asked if
they had sent a box to Sir Edward Brackenbury's ?
and, on being answered in the ail mative, inquired
what it contained. lie was told that it contained a dress,
and the sbopman having recommended him to communi-
cate with the person to whom it belonged, the prisoner
promised to do so, and left. Thornton then proceeded
to Mrs. Marsh's, where he told the prisoner that he was
an officer sent by Captain Scott about the box and dress,
upon which the prisoner produced it, but the box, which
had been sealed and directed, was found to have been
broken open. The officer then left the prisoner and
consulted Captain Scott, who directed that the prisoner
should be taken Listody. Ou the same eveuin& the