The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-10 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCIIIT—Dunmot, MARCH 5.
Thomas Robinson was indicted for uttering a forged order
for the payment of 16/., with intent to defraud Benjamin
Baekhouse and other bankers at Stockton. According to the
statement for the prosecution, a person named Walker and the
prisoner deposited 161. in the bank, and received an account-
able receipt. This money belonged to a Lodge of Odd Fel-
lows, and it would appear that the prisoner had written the
name of Walker on the face of the receipt without his autho-
rity, and obtained the money, not however for himself, but for
the minority in the Club, in which there had been a division.
The Jury, after having retired for a considerable time, re-
turned a verdict of Not Guilty.
The cases tried on the Civil Side were destitute of interest,
and on Saturday the business of the Assizes terminated.

OXFORD CIRCUITWORCHSTER. MARCH 6.
Francis Taylor was indicted for highway robbery.
It appeared that pn the 13th of November last, the prosecu-
tor, Richard Slow, was returning homewards at bight from
.vetl;l‘, when he was-overtaken by the prisoner, whoThecested
him, and asked him to go into a public-house and have a pint
of ale. The prosecutor accepted the invitation, and after
staying there about an hour, and partaking of one pint of
ale, which he paid for himself, left to go home, the prisoner
accompanying him, stating that he was going the same way.
When they got about 150 3ards from the public-house, the
prisoner went behind the prosecutor, and passing to h,is right
side, struck him a left-handed blow which knocked him down
and left him insensible for some time. The prisoner bad lost
his left hard, and wore, as a substitute, a stout piece of leather
round the stump of the arm, with a thick piece of iron at the
end, into which various implements might be fastened with a
screw. The prosecutor, on recovering, m'ssed a knife, a to-
bacco-box, and three shillings which the box contained.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The prisoner was again put on his trial for committing, to-
gether with some other person unknown, another highway rob-
berk upon the same prosecutor as in the former case.
On the 28th of November the prosecutor was going home,
when,- almost within a yard of the spot on which the former.
robbery took place, he was knocked down by two men ; one
of them held him while the other commenced rifling his
pockets, and took from him one sovereign, four half-crowns,
and five shillings. He tried to bite the hand of one of them,
and bit a piece of iron, and, upon the parties runningraway,
he called aler them, and told the prisoner that he knew him.
Upon this they both returned, beat him with great severity,
and were dragging him towards a pool of via'er, about twenty
feet deep, when a Mrs. Jones, who was returning home from
Dudley market with two of her children, hearing a cry of mur-.
der, made towards the spot, and the vil'ains docarnpell. The
prisoner was apprehended the next day.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty ; and
Mr. Baron GURNEY, after some severe observations on the
barbarity of the prisoner's conduct, sentenced him to transpor-
tation for life.

The Learned Junoz then called Mrs Jones into the box,
praised tie spirit and courage which she had displayed, and
ordered a reward of 5/. to be paid to her.

ROME CIRCUI7'..-.-CRELJISFORD, Illizzem 9.
The business tf the Assize for the county a Essex
eJrnmelecd this day, and Lord Denman took his seat on
the hcnch in the Crown Court at ten o'clock.

Tho Calendar contains the narnei t f ve prisoners,
fl ty males and five females. Of this number twenty-two
cal only read, or read and write irnperf, oily, and the re-
mainder are unaLle to dodgier. Nct a single prisoner for
trial can read and tvrito well. A similar state of things
appears it almost every Aszizcs, aad it i 4 a melancholy
fact in connection nith the subject that the Cileniar of
prisoners is always heavitr in Essex than in any crhcr part
of the 1-lame Ciresi-.

Lo►d Unman add►e;scd the Grand Jury, who having►
retired for a short time, returned true bills aga'nst several
prisoner?, and the trial; commenced.
Jusepit Griggs. 24, la: curer, was intneted for et awing a
ewe sheep, the property of a farmer named Sack, at Ray-
_ _

The Jun f iund the priacner Guilty, and the officer in-
f)rmed the Court that he had severa! times before been
charged with offeaus of a sin Hit- character.

LO-rd DENMAN said that the crime of sheep-rtealing ap-
peared to he very much on the increase, and the only way
to expect that a person who gave himself up to the to repress it was by seve:e punishment. It was hopeless
com-
mission of an offence of this description would ever return
to an honest course of life, and he would only contaminate
others by being allowed to remain in this country.
The prisoner was then ordered to ba transported for
fourteen }tars.
Jaeph New;nan, 23, labourer, surrendered to take his
trial upon an indictment charging him with the man-
slaughter of John Newman, his brother.
The prisoner pleaded Guilty.
Mr. KNox, who appeared on behalf the pi liner, said
that he Sias now charged upon the Coroner's ingtai.ition
with Ora dime imputed him, the parish authorities of
Weathersfield, where the atLir took place, not thinking
tt.emselves, under the circumstance, called upon to pre'er
a bill against him. He was instructed that the occurrence
was purely aceicrental, aid that no blame was to be at-
tached to the prisoner, and as ha bad undergone already
four months' imprisonment upon the charge, be trusted
that the Court would pass a lenient sentence upon him.
Lord DENMAN said he thought the circumstances of the
case ought to be made known to the Court. The Core-
ner's Jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter, and it
was not likely they would have done so if the evidence did
not support it.
A witness was then called, from whose eyidence it ap-
peared Viet, in the month of August last, the prisoner and
the deceased were engaged at harvesting, and the de-
ceased got very much iatoxicated ; and when he re-
turned to the fiat, he abused hid brother and struck
him repeatedly He endeavoured to get away, but the
deceased followed him and continued to abuse him ; and
was about to cri'-e him again, vir'ren, in self-defence, he
struck him the blow which termina.ed so fatil'y.
The prisoner was then called up for judgment, and
Lord DEstaas addressi g him, said he had been cha,fred
with a vcry dreadful offeece, but he was glad to learn 'that
great prow)ecion had been given to him by the deceased,
and it might almost Le said that he had committed the act
in self defence. He had already undergor.e an imprison.
merit of four months, and taking this c;reumstance into
a
consideration, he directed that he should pay afire of one
ueen and be then discharged tromp custod
shilling to the Qody.Y.

A magnificent white swan with a black beak
gas shot by one of the Earl of Camperdown's game_
keepers on the lands of Gleneagles a fe.v days ago. It
measures yearly seven feet in lqngth, and is a very fine
specimen of the swan tribe. These birds rarely come so
tar south, and their appearance indicates. the severity of tine
late stormin the northern regions.. Tbii bird has been
sent to the Museum of Edinburgh to be stuff:Al.—Dundee
Paper.