The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-13 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

ROME CIRCUIT....-CIIBLMSFORD, MAncil 12.
The business of this Assize did not conclude until nine o'clock
last night.
James Turp, 24, labourer, was indicted for stealing a quan-
tity. of barley, the property of,,Garnharn Grotto); and Thomas
Griggs, a fanner-having the reputation of being its opulent cir-
cumstances, was indicted for receiving the property knowing
it to stolen.

Mr. Dowling appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Words-
worth defended the prisoner Griggs.
In consequence of the supposed respectability of the pri-
soner Griggs, and his station in the neighbourhood where the
alleged occurrence took place, the case created very great in-
terest. The charge rested almost entirely upon the evidence
of a lad, who was admitted a witness for the Crown, and who
owned that Griggs invited him and Turp to steal the barley
from the prosecutor's barn, and that he told them he would
buy it if they did; and that they, in consequence, broke into
the barn, and stole it, and afterwards gave it over to Griggs,
who put it in his granary. There was little or no corroborative
testimony in support of this statement against Griggs.
Mr. WORDSWORTH addressed the Jury, and contended that
the story told by the accomplice was highly improbable, and
that they ought not to convict upon it.
A number of witnesses were then called who gave the pri-
soner Griggs a most excellent character, and who described
his conduct as having been irreproachable up to that period.
The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of
Guilty against both prisoners.
The prisoners were again indicted, Turp for stealing five
coombs of barley, the property of John Cheekall, and Griggs
for receiving the barley, knowing it to have been stolen.
The facts of this case were of a similar character to the last.
A lad named Sutton, in the employ of the prosecutor, swore
that Griggs came to him and told him that he ought not to
want while there was anything to be had, and that if he brought
him any barley he would pay him for it, and that in conse-
quence of this, he and Turp stole the barley in question, and
took it to Griggs, who gave them nine shillings for it. The
prisoner's first transaction was represented to have taken place
in 1839, but the former was alleged to have occurred so far
back as 1835.

Lord DENMAN in summing up, observed that the charge
against the prisoners appeared to rest almost entirely upon the
evidence of the accomplice, and it would be for the Jury to
consider whether, under such circumstances they would be
justified in convicting the prisoners.
The Jury again returned a verdict of Guilty, and Lord
Denman sentenced Griggs to be transported for fourteen
years, and Turp to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for
twelve calendar months.

John Coe was indicted for the manslaughter of James Cox.
It appeared that the deceased was a carter, and as he was
driving a team on the road near I3addon, the prisoner rode a
horse against him and knocked him down, and injured him so
severely that he died shortly afterwards.
The prisoner was found Guilty and sentenced to two months'
imprisonment and hard labour.

RUSSIAN TYRRANY.—We give the follow-
ing from the Univers, which says that its authenticity has
been guaranteed to it :—Madame de Grocholska, belonging
to one of the first families of Volhynia, bad obtained from
the Russian Government a passport to join her husband in
Switzerland, where he had resided as an emigrant for ten
years, and to take with her their sor, who was twelve
years of age. This child, after having Leen some time
vv:tb his father, would net quit him, and, notwitbstandirg
his extreme youth, had conceived so great a hatred against
the Russian Government, that he threatened to destroy
himself rather than return to Poland. Madame de Gro •
cholska was, therefore, obliged to leave her son in Switzer.
land, and to return -alone. She had scarcely arrived in
her country when the Governor of the province sent for
her, and asked her why she bad left her son abroad.
The reasons which she gate not being considered
sa.isfactory, she was sant, under escort, to her
country house, there to await the decision of the Czar.
This was not long for her property was
confl9ca'o, and she was sent into Siberia. Her daughter,
aged seventeen, who had not even quitted Poland, was
sent to people these establishments (the expression of the
ukase), that is to say, to be married to a colonist soldier,
and to embrace the Greek religion. The nobility of the
district, indignant at this act of tyranny, opened a sub-
scription in favour of the victim, which amounted to
15,000 roubles. This sum was sent to the Russian Go-
vernment, with an entreaty that it might be employed as a
wedding portion for this young lady, who had received a
dis!ingu►shed education, so that she might at least espouse
an officer. The Muscovite despot, however, judging that
1,000 would suffice for the young lady, ordered that the
other 14,000 roub'es should be sent to the military hos-
pital f,rr invalids, and at the same time sent a letter of
thanks, full of irony, to the nobility for their generous
donation.
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UNFOUNDED CHARGES OF MURDER.—On
Saturday last two charges of murder in different parts of
the country turned cut unfounded is fact. In the neigh-
bourhood of Gloucester a man named Fletcher had mur-
dered his vii`e, in the village of Maisemore, about two
miles from Gloucester. It was alleged that the unfortu-
nate woman had been beaten and afterwards strangled by
her brutal partner. A Coroner's Jury, however, after
bearing evidence, found a verdict that the deceased d;ed
from the vitiation of God. The other case was that of
two fishermen, named Thomas Rose and Edward Masted,
residing at Beltinge, near Herne Bay, in this county, who
were charged with having robbed and murdered Peter
Carr, one of the preventive service men, stationed at
Bishopstone, between Herne Bay and the Reculver. A
grs at many circumstances seemed to fully establish the
guilt of the fishermen, and in the course of Saturday they
were removed to the county gaol of St. Augustine ; but
they had not been there very long before a gentleman ar-
rived in great haste at the Magistrates' office, from the Re_
culver, and said that Carr bad returned to Bishopstone.
TO PRODUCE LIGHT BY FRICTION.—This
may be done by rubbing two pieces of fine loaf sugar toge-
ther in the dark, but in a much greater degree by two
pieces of silex or quartz. By this means one may distin-
guish the time of night by a watch, but what is more sur-
prising, the effect is produced equally strong by rubbing
the pieces of quartz together under water: