The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-11 00:00:00

CIVIL SIDE.

Chief Justice Wilde got through the list of causes by two
o'clock to-day, the only case which was likely to occupy any
time having been referred to arbitration.

MIDLAND ClRCUll:—Lincoln, March 9.
CLOTHING V. JAMES.
This was an action to recover 1001., the value of a horse
sold under a warranty of soundness.
Mr. Humfrey, Q.C., and Mr. Waddington, were for the
plaintiff ; and Mr. Whitehurst, Q.C., and Mr. Macauley,
were for the defendant.
• The plaintiff is an extensive horse-dealer at Grantham ;
the defendant breeds and sells horses, his residence being at
Nottingham. The horse in question (a bay gelding) was
sold at Nottingham fair for 100/., but the morning after his
arrival at Grantham he coughed and showed symptoms of
disease, and died in three months from the time of sale. There
was nothing in the case to distinguish it from the common
run of such cases, there being the usual quantum of hard
swearing in opposite directions.
The jury retired, and after an absence of four hours, came
into court, the foreman intimating that there was no proba-
bility of their agreeing to a verdict.
One of the jury called out, "We are nine to three, my
Lord."
Ultimately it was agreed the jury should be discharged
from giving a verdict.
ACTION FOR SLANDEP.—LEE V. JACKSON.
Mr. Humfrey, Q. C., and Mr. W. IL Adams were for the
plaintiff; Mr. Whitehurst, Q. C., and Mr. Wilmore appeared
for the defence.
The plaintiff (Mary Lee) is about fifty years of age, the
sister of a respectable farmer, occupying about 400 acres.
The defendant is also a large farmer, in whose service the
plaintiff had been for five years in the capacity of house-
keeper. Upon some slight quarrel she left, and at the time
the slanderous words were spoken, she was in the service of
a Mr. Foreman. In the autumn of 1845 she was on her
way from Boston to Limerick by the packet-boat, and com-
plaining of being unwell from the heat of the vessel, the de-
' fondant, who was on board, said, "A glass of gin would do
Lliss Lee good." Plaintiff replied, that if she wanted such a
thing she could get it, as Mr. Collard, the packet-master,
soldi t. He then said, " You have been drunk scores of times
in my house, and have carried stones after stones of bacon
of mine by this very packet." These were the words com-
plained of. The defendant simply pleaded the general issue,
not guilty.
Mr. WunanunsT characterised the action as a trumpery
one, which ought to be laughed out of court.
The LEARNED JUDGE observed, in his summing up, that
the plaintiff was entitled to some damage for the attack made
on her character, the jury would say what.
Verdict fur the plaintiff—Damages, one farthing.
( Special Jury.)
HUNTLEY, CLERK, O. RUSSELL AND ANOTHER.
This was an action brought to recover clrmages for the
dilapidation of the rectory of Binbrook, in this county. The
action was brought by the present rector against the exe-
cutors of the late incumbent. The defendant had paid 200.1.
into court, and denied further damage.
The case was of no interest except to the parties concerned.
There was conflicting evidence as to the amount of damages
between the plaintiff's witnesses, one of them putting it
below the amount paid into court.
The jury found for the defendants, a point being reserved
of the counts as to waste.

OXFORD CIRCUIT—Oxford, March 10.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Matrix.)
William Care was indicted for the murder of Hannah
Treadwell, on the 4th August last, at Horley, in this county.
Mr. Carrington and Mr. Piggot conducted the prosecution,
and Mr. Keating the defence.
The facts appeared to be these :—The prisoner, who was a
married man, had carried on for some years an improper con-
nexion with the deceased, who was a widow, and latterly in
very reduced circumstances. She and he frequently quar-
relled of late, and she was in the habit of following
him through the village, and importuning him
for money, and abusing him. She, further, was
jealous of him, and was constantly making imputations
against some of the neighbouring women. On the morning
in question the prisoner, who had a small piece of ground
outside the village, was going out towards it with a gun,
which he was in the habit of carrying in his hand; and he
unfortunately met the deceased, who immediately commenced
making one of those jealous charges against him, in reference
to a neighbour's wife, to whom be had spoken going along.
A scolding quarrel was the result, and she followed him
through the village; and into a path leading to his ground,
and they were seen no more for some time, until a shot was
heard in the direction in which they had gone. He was seen
returning soon after through the street in a hurried and ex-
cited manner. Two men went in the direction in which the
shot was hear?, and found the deceased on a bank about 15
beet higher than the pathway, quite dead. There was a gun-
shot wound under the chin, which completely severed the
carotid artery, and produced a:most immediate death. A
constable and some neighbours went to arrest the prisoner,
and he at once raid, " I have done it. I must suffer the law,
and it will be a warning to others." The prisoner's gun was
found loaded, and on being asked why he had loaded it a
second time, he said he had done so for the purpose of shoot-
himself, but on consideration he thought it would be better
'o have time to repent. The prisoner gave different ac-
counts of the transaction. He once said that they were
quarrelling as they went along, and he meant to have knocked
her down with the gun, but it went off he knew not
bow. Another time he said, "It was all her doing; she was
telling such lies about me, and throwing stones at me. The
other day she threw a stone at me, and cut my lip. As I
was going along the path, she followed me on the Dank,
abusing me. I stepped up the bank, intending to knock
her down, but I could not reach her, and I turned the gun
and shot her. Ido not know how it was I pulled the
trigger."

Mi.. KEATING having addressed the jury for the prisoner,
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury, after about ten
minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict of manslaughter.
His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, said the jury had put
a merciful construction on the facts given in evidence, in
thinking that the prisoner might have had such provocation
as would reduce his offence to the crime of manslaughter.
It was, however, a most aggravated case, and deserving of
the most severe punishment the law awarded to the crime
of manslaughter, and the sentence should therefore be trans-
portation for life.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
SENTENCES AND SESSIONAL RESULTS.
Appended are the principal sentences and results as
awarded and settled at the end of the sessions :
BANISHMENT BEYOND THE SEAS.
Seven Years—Jane Ord, R. Kerr, W. Watts, 19 ; J. Crew,
18; T. Wise, 32; Charlotte Camphell, 21; Mary Dowling,
42 ; Eliza Towels, 30 ; Caroline Andrews, 17 ; Maria Ander-
son, 35 ; Charlotte Marshall, 20 ; Emily Scilly, Ann Cun-
ningham, 26 ; G. Morgan, G. Darcy, alias Gibbs, 20 ; F.
Osborne, 14; W. Dyer alias Aymer, 30; T. Williams, 31; .1.
Haddon 17 ; George Moody, 26 ; W. Bell, 20 ; George Wood,
12 ; W. Jones, 19; G. Wilson, 19 ; G. Neale, 16 ; J. Gardner,
36 ; W. Thompson, 16 ; F. Grahames, T. Worwood, G.
Bentliff, 25.
Ten Yeart—Jane Smitb, 22 ; G. Standish, 18 ; F.
Powell, 30.
Twelve Years—J. Wright, 23.
Fourteen Years—J. Williams, 24.
Fifteen Years—W. Thomas, 21.
Twenty Years—Jane Storr, 32.
I3IPBDONMENT AND ITS ADJUNCTS.
The undermentioned were sentenced to be confined in the
•Houses of Correction for the _counties where their offences
were committed for the periods set forth, viz.:—
Two Years—G. Sweet, G. Smith, J. Wood, C. Chapman.
Eighteen Months--Ann Dunmore, J. Jackson, E. D.
Hayes, G. Harris, T. Williams, J. Anderson, F. N. Fletcher,
J. Clarke, J. Hackett.
Fifteen Months—J. Brown, T. Davis, J. Brown.
One Year—Elizabeth Danis, Ranp som,urkiss Eliza Daovis, Clar
Day, a
J.
re-
gory, Eliza Symons,
Warren, J. Shaw, J. Ashlin, G. Eslake, J. Lawrence, G.
Shearman, J. Crieke, W. Jones, T. Evans, J. Dixon, J.
Pierce, E. Barrett, H. Kendall, C. Gregory, Catharine Con-
ner J. Chamberlaia, Charlotte Springfield, Elizabeth Staley,
T. 'Johnson, J. Cox, H. Upton, W. Bigg:s,
Webb, T. Simpson, G. WGregor, T. Williams, J. Wilson,
T. Connelley.
Nine Months—W. Brown, R.' Framptcn, C. Cartright, J.
Smith, E. Barker, G. Miller, T. Hallengin, Emma Cooker,
Elia. Stevenson, R. Farrell.
I Eight Months—W. White, T. Hobbs, T. Smithson.
J. Neighbour,
Six Mouths—Sarah A. Smith, Sarah Jbues,