The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

John Pater son surrendered to take his trial upon an in•
dictment charging him with wilful and corrupt perjury.
Mr. Doane and Mr. Robinsou prosecuted, and Mr. Clark.
son appeared for the defendant.

The case occupied the court a considerable time, owing to
,he number of technical objections that were taken in the
course of the trial by the defendant's counsel, but the facts
out of which the proceeding arose lay in a very small com-
pass. It appeared that the prosecutors of the indictment
were Messrs. Brocksopp and How, tea dealers iii the borough
of Southwark, and the defendant, who carried on the same
trade at Tonbridge, had had dealings with the firm, and in
the month of June, 1846, he owed them about 801. In the
fcourse of that month, according to the evidence for the pro-
secution, he called upon Mr. How, and represented that he
was in difficulties and very much pressed by his
creditors, and he expressed a desire to give the
firm a warrant of attorney to secure their debt.
Mr. How, accordingly took him to his attorney, and
a warrant of attorney Ares at onee drawn up, an attorney in
the neighbourhood being called in to act, in conformity with
the statute regarding instruments of this description, as the
defendant's attorney, and the evidence for the prosecution
was, that the document was read over to him, and that he
was perfectly aware of the nature of it. However, it ap-
peared, that shortly afterwards the defendant became bank-
rupt, and when the prosecutors attempted to enforce the
warrant of attorney to recover their debt, the defendant
asserted that he had never seen the warrant of attorney, and
that his object when he applied to Mr. How was merely to
give a bill of sale, and that he was not at all aware of the
nature of the document that was really executed, and he
made an affidavit to such effect, which affidavit proved the
ground of the present indictment.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

SPRING ASSIZES.
The following Commission days have been appointed for
he Circuits, as under:—

HOME CIRCUIT.
Hertford, Tuesday, March 2.
Chelmsford, Monday, March 8.
Maidstone, Monday, March 15.
Lewes, Monday, March 22.
Kingston, Monday, March 29.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.
Nottingham, _ Monday, March 1.
Okeham, Friday, March 5.
Lincoln, Saturday, March 6.
Nottingham, Friday, March 12.
Derby, Tuesday, Ma:ch 16.
Leicester and Borough, Saturday, March 20.
Coventry Division, Wednesday, March 24.
Warwick, Thursday; March 25.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
Lancaster, Monday, Feb. 15.
Appleby, Thursday, Feb. 18.
Carlisle, Saturday, Feb. 20.
Newcastle, Wednesday, Feb. 24.
Durham, Monday, March 1.
York, Saturday, March 6.
Liverpool, Saturday, March 20.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.
Reading, Saturday, Feb. 27.
Oxford, Saturday, March 6.
Worcester, Thursday, March 11.
Stafford, Tuesday, March 16.
Shrewsbury, Tuesday, March 23.
Hereford, Tuesday, March 30.
Monmouth, Thursday, April 1.
Gloucester, Monday, April 5.
WESTERN mom.
Hampshire, Saturday, February 27.
Wiltshire, Saturday, March 6.
Dorsetshire, Thursday, March 11.
Devonshire, Wednesday, March 17.
Cornwall, Wednesday, March 24.
Somersetshire, Wednesday, March 31.

EXTENSION OF THE SEWERAGE OP TRH METRO-
, r ous.—Friday afternoon a Court of Sewers for the limits of
the Holborn and Finsbury division was hold at the office
of the commissioners, at which it was resolved to construct
the following new sewers :—ln John-street and Rodney-
street, Pentonville, 980 feet long; in Penton-street, &c.,
1,020 feet long; in Castle-street, Finsbury, 230 feet long;
in Compton-street, Clerkenwell, 790 feet long ; in Turn-
mill-street, Clerkenwell, 280 feet long ; and an outlet
sewer at the nortk end the Liverpool-road, and in Henry-
street, Hampstead-road, a length of 1,400 feet. The Court
then took into consideration, and agreed to ths_propriety
of a further extension of the sewer towards Holloway,
commenced at the termination of the City sewer in 1839,
and which had been carried beyond Ball's-pond. It was
now proposed to form a tunnel sewer to Holloway, 6,100
feet long, which would cost 7,9301.; and a branch one from
it 2,500 feet in length, at a cost of 3,0001. Mr. Rowe's
(the surveyor) annual report was subsequently read, from
which it appeared that 35,038 feet of sewers had been formed
last year ; and that above 100 miles had been practically
flushed.

MURDER IN A RAILROAD CARRIAGE. —The
Swiss National Gazette of the 27th ult. contains the follow-
ing details of an atrocious murder committed in a railroad
carriage :—" A person, whose name is unknown, took his
seat at Manheim in a railroad carriage, with a ticket for
Carlsrhue. Three other individuals of respectable appear-
ance shortly afterwards placed themselves in the same car-
riage, strangled the first, rifled his pockets, and quitted the
carriage at Heidelberg. The crime was not discovered until
the train arrived at Carlsruhe, when the man was found in
the corner of the carriage dead and already cold. The crime
appearstnmeiibtientoLunique in the annals of railroads."
TEMPLE, JAN. 30.—The undermentioned
sworn tbe
this society having been called to the bar were
before the benchers this evening in the dining-
hall :—Mr. T. Sier, Mr. T. Smith Badger, Mr. J. W. Bittle- I
tostone, Mr. C. Cecil liejT Trafford, Mr. Boldam Castle, Mr.
ppertopperßyvti.r tßoni
bINInT ro. J. v
H. Stewart, Mr. Chris-
Cali-nen, Mr. C. W. Dare,
Mr. Albert
Mr. P. StewartJnkin, Mr. J. Smith, Mr. J. H. Proctor Leresche,
C. Owen Snow. Mr. Morgan Lloyd, Dir. T. Oldadd, Mr.