The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

SHERIFFS COURT, Aug• 12.

LOCK. V. RAIGFI.
This was an action to recover the sum of 51. 19s. 10d.
the-balance due to the plaintiff on an attorney's bill.
The action was brought for the balance of the
amount of costs, upon an action which the plaintiff had
defended-for the defendant, and the defendant pleaded
the general issue. The expenses arose from a
misfak.e having occurred in the pleadings to
the former action, fraud and covin being
the necessary plea, and it was argued that this
mistake arose from the negligence and ignorance of the
defendant's attorney. It was also attempted to be proved
that a Mr. Smith had given instruction for the com-
mencement of the action,as he had introduced the defendant
to the plaintiff, the action having been brought by
a loan society, and the debt having been incurred for the
benefit of Mr. Smith. . _ _

The Learned UNDER- SHERIFF SUIMInd
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up the evidence,
and said that it was not absolutely necessary in laW that an
attorney should know what special pleas should be
placed on the record, as it was customary to go to a
special pleader, and therefore he could not see
how an . answer could be made to this . action
that ,the • principal costs of the former • action
arose from the ignorance of the attorney engaged.
The bill of costs had been delivered in full and sufficient
time to have it taxed, if the defendant had thOught proper.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 51. Os, 6d.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aug. 12.

IN TILE MATTER OF ROBERT SUCKLING CIIEESMAN.

The insolvent, who was described as an estate-agent
and law-student, in the Middle Temple, appeared in
Court on his petition to be discharged. No creditors
appeared in opposition.
Mr. Commissioner. Bowax having put a few ques-
tions to him relative to the description of certain cre-,
ditors named in the schedule, ordered the case to
stand over, in order that those descriptions might be
altered. A number of other applicants were discharged
without opposition, in whose cases no points of any ge-
neral interest arose.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT.---Croydon, August 11.
CROWN COURT.

Henry
dictedfi)r Terry, 22,
the manslaughter
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Mr. in-
Mr: Cic..:l(son and Mr. Tyndale appeared for the pro-
Scrution.
The prisoners and the deceased were labourers on the
South-eastern Railway, at Limpsfield, and on the 28th
of May the deceased, who went by the name of Blackey,
had a quarrel and fight with one of the prisoners, but it
was made up, and deceased went away, On the same
afternoon while the deceased was quietly sitting on a
heap of bricks, the prisoners went up to him, and one of
them wiped some blood off his face with a wisp of straw,
and they then both seized him, and attempted to drag
him to a pond of water, and on his resisting they knocked
him clown and kicked him, and left him lying insensible
in the road. The poor man was not discovered for some
hours, when he was found to be in a most dreadful state,
and removed to the Union Workhouse, and after two or
three days suffering, expired, from the brutal injuries.
The prisoners absconded, but were apprehended.
The Jury found the prisoners Guilty, and
Sergeant TADDY sentenced them to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for two years.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.)
The causes disposed of yesterday were totally devoid
of public interest.

AUGUST 12.
CROWN COURT.

John Watkins, 25, and Henry Seton, 22, were ca-
pitally indicted for assaulting and wounding George
Collier, with intent to murder him.
In other counts the intent was said to be to do thepro-
secutor some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. CLARKSON conducted the prosecution, and stated
the facts of the case to the jury.
It will, perhaps, be better to lay a narrative of the cir-
cumstances before our readers, than to enter into a detail
of the evidence given by the respective witnesses. It ap-
peared from the evidence that the prosecutor Col-
lier was formerly a constable in the Metropoli-
tan Police, but he was dismissed about a year
ago. While employed in the police, he had
given great offence to the prisoners, who are noto-
rious members of the swell mob, and some of their com-
panions,
and, on the 28th of May, the prosecutor being
in a booth at Epsom races, the prisoner,Watkins, accused
him of being a " Pipe" (a cant expression among
thieves, meaning he was looking out for robberies). The
prosecutor told him he was no such thing, and anticipat-
ing some violence from the conduct of the prisoner, and
certainly mark them. Immediately
h ahtei told them
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life-preserver a violent blow on the head, which knocked