The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT Liv—e;ool,vDec. 10.
Saturday being the commission day of the winter
gaol delivery for this county, the Learned Judges,
Mr. Justice Wightman and Arr. Justice Talfourd,
arrived in this town and opened the commission.
Yesterday their Lordships attended divine service,
and this morning opened the courts at eleven o'clock.
Mr. Justice Wightman charged the grand jury in the
Crown Court; Mr. Justice Talfourd took his seat in
the court usually appropriated to Nisi Prius business.
The calendar contains the names of 87 prisoners, of
whom 7 are charged with murder, 18 with burglary,
14 with cutting and wounding and stabbing, 4 with
manslaughter, 6 with forgery, 2 with rape, 10 with
night poaching, the remainder for minor offences.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Justice WrunTsukst.)
Darby illogg ins was charged with stabbing Bartley
Macdermott, with intent to do him some grievous
bodily harm.
Mr. Sowler conducted the prosecution ; the pri-
soner was undefended.

The case arose cut of a quarrel which took place
in a lodging-house in Manchester, where the prose-
cutor and the prisoner were lodgers. It appeared
that on the 28th of September, the prisoner was in
the kitchen, quarrelling with some Irish women who
were with him ; the prosecutor hearing the noise,
went from his bed-room into the kitchen, to stop the
quarrel, and having ordered the prisoner to go out,
the letter told him, if he did not leave him alone, he
would stab him with the knife which he then held in
his hand ; the prosecutor still interfered, and the
prisoner stabbed him with a pocket•knife in the back;
the women then interfered, and the prisoner was given
into custody. Fortunately the wound turned out to
be a very slight one.
his LORDSUIP baying summed up, the jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty of a common assault.
The Learned JUDGE, after reprobating the use of
the knife, sentenced the prisoner to six months' im-
prisonment.
William Smith Was indicted for stabbing Michael
Malone, with intent to do him some grievous bodily
harm.

Mr. Cross conducted the prosecution.
It appeared that the prosecutor and a an named
Andrew Lynch went together to a public•house in
Saville. street, Manchester, where they found the
prisoner, with whom the prosecutor had been previ-
ously acquainted. After a little time they left the
public•house, and when in the road a quarrel took
place. The prosecutor and the prisoner grappled, and
in the struggle they fell to the ground, and then the
prosecutor felt something stubbing him in the head,
which it appeared was occasioned by a small penknife,
which was afterwards picked up near the place of the
struggle.
In this case also the jury found the prisoner Guilty
of a common assault. Sentence, six months' im-
prisonment.
Thomas Mason was likewise indicted for cutting
and wounding William Connell llackstone, with in-
tent, &c.

Mr. Cobbett prosecuted ; Mr. Joseph Pollock de-
fended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the night of the Bth of October
the prosecutor, who is a blacksmith at Manchester,
saw the prisoner creating a disturbance at a public-
house opposite his shop. The prosecutor coughed ;
and the prisoner, who was in liquor, immediately
crossed over and struck the prosecutor several times
with a heart-trowel, which cut him in the arm and leg,
and which had to be dressed by a surgeon for a fort-
night; the wound was not, however, very severe.
The prisoner likewise assaulted and struck the pro-
secutor's father, who had assisted his on in the
affray.

Mr. JOSEPII PoLLocg addressed the jury on behalf
of the prisoner.
Verdict—Guilty of a common assault.
The prisoner was then indicted for a similar offence,
and the jury returned a similar verdict.

His I.ounssat sentenced the prisoner to seven ca-
lendar months' imprisonment.

(Before Mr. Justice TALFOURD )
The Court was occupied in trying Mint cases of the
ordinary character.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

George Alexander Collie, of No. 40, Bermondsey-
square, was again brought up before Mr. Alderman
Musgrove' charged with stealing 43 shares in the
Friesland Gaslight Company, value 1,0001., and also
with appropriating to his own use two sums of money
to the amount of 361., which were intrusted to him
to 'pay away, the property of Mr. George Ogle, of
No. 4, Great Winchester-street, solicitor.
Alderman MUSGROVE asked if the prosecutor was
in attendance ? Iledington (the officer) said he was
not.

Alderman MUSGROVM asked what was the reason ?
The Chief Clerk said that Mr. Ogle appeared to think
that he could not obtain a conviction in consequence
of being unable to get at certain shares for the pur-
pose of having them identified, and therefore he did
not wish to offer further evidence.

Alderman MusouovE said, it appeared as if the
prosecutor and prisoner had comprondied a felony,
and he certainly would not be a party to any such
proceeding.
The Chief Clerk said, the prisoner was remanded
for the production of further'evidence.
Alderman MUSGROVE could scarcely think that a
professional man would compromise so serious a
charge with his own clerk. He wished Mr. Ogle
had attended, and then he could have dealt more
satisfactorily with the case.
ltediogton Cthe officer) inforratd the Alder=

The landlady of the house stepped forward and
confirmed the children's account or the brutal treat-
ment they experienced at the hands of their father,
and a poor emaciated woman, who represented herself
to be the prisoner's wife, got into the witness-box
and gave an account of his scandalous conduct to her
and their children, stating that he was in the habit
of earning a good deal of money, ali of which he spent
in dissipation, and that she was forced to leave him
and support herself and family by going out to work
as a charwoman.
The prisoner endeavoured to palliate his conduct
by asserting that his children were in the habit of
telling falsehoods, and that it was to break them of
this habit that he used coercive measures. Ile denied
having kicked them.
Mr. A'BECKET said it was apparent the prisoner's
conduct, both to mother and children, was of the most
brutal and unmanly description, and that he should
inflict a penalty of 41. on him, or in default commit
him for two months.

The prisoner asked what his family were to do if
he was locked up ?
The MAGISTRATE said they would do much better
without a man who exhibited such ruffianly behaviour
to them.