The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-10 00:00:00

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, March 8.

Saturday being the commission day, the business at these
assizes commenced this morning, when Mr. Baron Rolfe pre-
sided in the Crown Court, and Mr. Baron Alderson at
Nisi Prins.
The criminal calendar, which is less heavy than some others
of late, contains the names of seventy-nine persons, and these
are charged as follows :—With stealing from the person, 19 ;
burglary, 9; robbery with violence, 4; stabbing or wound-
ing, 6 ; rape, 2 ; attempting ;rape and robbery, 3 ; stealing
from a dwelling-house, 7; manslaughter, 3; sending a
threatening letter, 1; housebreaking, 1 ; embezzlement, 1 ;
horse-stealing, 1 ; sheep-stealing, 1 ; forgery, 1; robbing a
shop, 1 ; larceny, 3; attempting rape, 1; concealing the
birth of a child, 1 ; bigamy, 1; riot, 9.
Their Lordships took their seats at the usual time for the
first day of the assizes, soon after twelve o'clock. Nothing
of public interest occurred on the civil side, the whole after-
noon being occupied in trying two causes, one in which the
question was as to the right to goods seized under a distress,
and the other an ejectment.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.)
William Fisher was indicted for having, on the 12th of
March, 1844, along with others, broken and entered the shop
or warehouse of Isaac Beaumont, at the parish of Gildersham,
near Leeds, and stolen therein a large quantity of prints,
merinos, cloths, silk handkerchiefs, &c.

Mr. Blanchard and Mr. Pickering appeared for the prose••
cution, and Mr. Overend for the defence.

The indictment, charging the plisoner with this offence,
was one upon which several other men, concerned in the
same transaction, have been already tried. Their trial took
place in July, 1844, and they were convicted upon evidence
similar to that now adduced against Fisher. He having
escaped, from fear of detection, soon after the burglary, was
not committed until January last.
It appeared, from the evidence of Mr. Beaumont and his
wife, that at the time of the offence they kept a shop,
dealing in groceries and drapery, in Gildersham. Their•
shop, and a warehouse connected with it, were broken
into on the night of Wednesday, the 12th of March, and
the goods above-mentioned taken away. The robbery was
discovered at an early hour hour the next morning by a
witness passing by on going to his work, who perceived a
ladder put up against a window, the shop door open, and
one of the sacks employed by the robbers lying at the shop
door. _ _ _ _ _

Sarah Hudson, wife "of Joseph Hudson, one of the men
transported in 1844, proved the circumstance of her husband,
his brother James, the prisoner, and others, assembling to-
gether at the house of Joseph, at Westgate-common, near
Leeds, and settling upon the mode of proceeding, to effect the
robbery. They had all started off at night, carrying sacks
in which to put their booty. Two of them only, her husband
and the prisoner, returned the next morning at an early
hour, bringing a large portioniof what they had obtained at
Beaumont's. The prisoner, who also lived at Westgate..
common, escaped, taking his wife with him, and leaving be.
hind them four children, the youngest but a year and a half
old. The wife had, before her departure, taken some of the
stolen property, in a box, to deposit with a female neighbour,
to whom she reported herself as setting off for Sheffield, her
husband having, as she represented, been "paying her,"
(giving her a beating).
The prisoner was convicted.
His LORDSHIP, after remarking upon the seriousness of the
crime, and the daring with which it had been perpetrated,
sentenced him to be transported for 20 years.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

(Before the RECORDER.
Elizabeth Griffiths, 25, spinster, was indicted for a misde-
meanour, in having unlawfully administered to herself a
quantity of sugar of lead, with intent to destroy herself.
Mr. Law conducted the defence.
It appeared that the defendant was in the habit of using
sugar of lead in a lotion, and on the day mentioned in the
indictment she drunk a considerable quantity of the deadly
ingredient, mixed in water. It appeared that she was in-
toxicated when this occurred, and she afterwards declared
that she did not know what she was doing, but it was very
evident that at the time her intention was to destroy herself.
The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to one
month's imprisonment.
The Court adjourned until Monday, April 5.

WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN

MAILS,

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY NIGHT.—The Medway Royal
mail steam-ship, Captain Andrews, arrived this evening at
seven o'clock. She brings 68 passengers, and a..very large
and valuable freight, consisting of gold-dust, gold, to-
bacco, &c.

There is not a single dollar on account of the dividends; in
fact, it could hardly be expected in the present distracted
affairs of that unhappy and unfortunate country.
Her latest dates are as follow ;—Chagres, Jan. 25; Cartha-
g.ena, 28; Jamaica, Feb. 8; Jacmel, 10; Puerto Rico, 18;
Demerara, 3 ; Tobago, 4 ; Trinidad, 5 ; Barbadoes, 11; Gre-
nada, 12; St. Vincent, 13; St. Lucia, 13; Martinique, 14;
Dominique, 14 ; Guadeloupe, 14 ; Antigua, 15 ; Montserrat,
15 ; Nevis, 15 ; St. Kitt's, 15 ; Totola, 16 ; St. Thomas, 16.
On Freight.-391,713 dolls. on merchants' account, 130,e00
dolls. in gold and gold-dust, 1561.85. British coin, 2,2501. in
pearls, 20,000 dolls. in old silver, 155 cases of cigars, 10 bales
of tobacco, 200 half barrels of arrow-root, 94 serons of indigo,
and 68 passengers.
We have letters from 'our cerrespondent in the city of
Mexico to the 29th of January. Gomez Farias, as Vice-
President, continued at the head of affairs. The Ministry
had been again dissolved. Senhor Suarez Iriarte was the
new Minister of Finance. Santa Anna remained at San Luis
Potosi. A law had passed Congress authorising the sale of
church property, to pupped the expenses of the war against
the United States.