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London, England, 1848-03-08 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, March 7.
(Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.)
IN RE SAMUEL NIXON.
The insolvent, a sculptor, applied to be divharged
under the old system, and was not opposed by his
creditors.
From inquiries by the Learned Counsel, it appeared
that the insolvency had been occasioned by a loss sus-
tained on the statue of King William IV., now standing
at the entrance of King William-street, in the City.
The contract price for the statue was stated to have
been 2,2001., and the insolvent alleged that it had cost
him 1,0001. beyond the contract price.
The COURT ordered him to be discharged.
(Before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.)
IN RE CHARLES POLLARD.
This insolvent, whose case was before reported, again
appeared under the new system.
Mrs. Burford, a licensed victualler, stated that the in-
solvent was her assistant. She was not married to him,
nor had she ever asserted that they were married.
Mr. DOWSE, who opposed, submitted that the present
was not a case for.protection, as there was no property to
give up for the creditors.
The Learned COMMISSIONER was of opinion that if
the objection taken was allowed to be valid, more than
one-half the cases could not be entertained, as in that
proportion there was no property for the creditors.
The COURT named a day for the final order.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Lincoln, March 6.

(Before Chief Justice WILDE and a Common Jury.)

MALINE U. SHARPE AND ANOTHER.

Action upon the case.
Mr. Whitehurst, Q.C., and Mr. Waddington, for the
plaintiff; Mr. Humfrey, Q.C., and Mr. Mellor, for the
defendants.

The plaintiff in this case is an attorney, living at
Grantham, and was one of the local solicitors for the
Northampton, Lincoln, and Hull Railway scheme, and
the present action was brought to recover the :.titn of
3471., for work and labour done as such solicitor. The
scheme originated with certain solicitors, and Mr. Ma-
line, who at that time had a scheme of his own, made an
application to be appointed one of the local agents, con-
setiting to abandon his own scheme if such appointment
was conferred. His application was granted.
The defendants are tradesmen in considerable repute
at Northampton, and were on the provisional and sub-
sequently on the finance committee. The scheme failed
for want of means and the panic. The ques!ion then
arose as to the liabilities that had been halm.: d, and it
was supposed that, if each member of the previsional
committee paid his 100 guineas, all charges could he
met. The defendants paid respectively their 100
guineas; nevertheless they were sued on the present
occasion. . The question resolved itself into one of mere
liability;'eVtidence being given' 'el constant
attendance of the defendants at the different boards, and
so forth.

The defence was on indemnity, and, moreover, that
the plaintiff, in common with the other solLitors, looked
to the coming in of the deposits, and had they come in
all would have been paid.
_ _

"The jury found for the defendants.
In the Criminal Court Mr. Justice Maule has been
engaged, for the most part, in disposing of cases of
assaults upon females, which we do not report.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Durham, March 6.
This morning their Lordships sat for the dispatch
of business at ten o'clock, the Commission having been
opened on Saturday evening. Mr. Baron Rolfe sat on
the civil side, where nineteen cases are entered for trial.
The calendar contains thirty-eight cases for trial, in
which fifty-nine prisoners are imp;icated. There i, one
case of murder, two of n,anslaughter,, tyro of highway
robbery, three of rape, and five of cutting and wounding.

(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
Thomas Lonerson was indicted for cutting and wound-
ing John Wray, with intent to do him some grievous
bodily harm.

Mr. Fenwick conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner
was defended by Mr. Matthews.

The prisoner' and the prosecutor were, it appeared,
both pitmen, and worked as partners in the same pit.
On the night when the occurrence took place, which
resulted in the present indictment, being the night
after payday, they met at a public-house, and
continued drinking until both were a good
deal intoxicated. Some dispute arose as to their
working in the pit, and they finally came to blows,
The landlord interfered and put them out, the pro-
secutor by the front door and the prisoner by the back.
The prisoner was seen almost immediately after to come
round to the front with his coat and waistcoat off, say•
", I havetot a knife." Head the, prosecutor then
closed and had several rounds. After the fight was over
the prosecutor, while going home, discovered he was
bleeding from the side; and it than appeared that he had
received a wound from some sharp pointed cutting in-
strument, which had penetrated to a considerable depth,
and from the effects of which he was some days in con-
siderable danger. A clasp knife was found near the spot.
Verdict—Guilty.
To be imprisoned six calendar months.
John Bee was indicted for the manslaughter of Wil-
liam Hodgson.
Mr. Outer conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner
was defended by Mr. Matthews.
In this case also the affray of which the result was so
fatal took place at a public-house. Thero were a great
many persons in the house, and a large proportion was
intoxicated. The prisoner Bee was seated on a table,
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struggle then took place between them, and after two
rounds they went out of the house for the purpose of
finishing the contest. Two rounds more were fought,
and during the last one deceased fell heavily to the
ground, in consequence of a blow on the breast, and
never spoke more. He died in a few minutes. The
immediate cause of death was effusion upon the brain.
Verdict, Guilty, with a strong recommendation to
mercy.

His LORDSHIP, with a very solemn admonition to the
prisoner, sentenced him to be imprisoned fur one month
in ►olitary confinement.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Aylegbury, Merck 7.
The commission for the county of Buckingham was
opened at this town yesterday before the Lord Chief
Baron and Mr. Justice Coltman. The business corn_
menced this morning, and is very light. In the cause
list there are but two entries. The calendar contains
the names of twenty-seven prisoners, of whom five are
charged with manslaughter, two with unnatural
crimes, one with felonious stabbing, one with an assault
with intent to commit a robbery, one with sheep-
killing, and two with arson. Nine of the prisoners
can neither read nor write, nine can read and write
imperfectly, six can only read imperfectly, two can read
and write well, and sue has received a superior educa-
tion.

The cause list wits disposed of in a very short time,
the first cause being undefended, and the second re-
ferred. The calendar;will probably be exhausted by to-
morrow night, and as Saturday is the day fixed for
opening the commission at Bedford, some surprise was
expressed that so long a period as five days should have
been devoted to the business of the Buckingham assizes.
It is to be hoped that no miscalculation in an opposite
sense has been made with regard to the be iness of the
counties which are more productive of litigation and of
crime.

(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
William Frost, aged 19, was indicted for having, on
the 18th of November last, feloniously assaulted the
Rev. Richard Norris Russell. The indictment contained
three counts, in which respectively the intent of the
assault was stated to be to kill, to do bodily harm to, and
to rob the prosecutor.
Mr. Prendergast conducted the prosecution.

From the statement of Mr. Russell, it appeared that
about half-past four in the afternoon of the 18th of
November, he was passing by a hedge in the parish of
Thornton, and going towards Beachampton, of which
he is rector. At some distance from him he saw the
figure of a man in the hedge, who on his coming
nearer stepped out of it, holding a hayfork, and took off
his hat, which was white and one of those called
billycock hats," and also " wide awake." Mr. Rus-
sell asked him his name, to which the man replied,
William Frost. The prosecutor then walked on,
and conversed with the man, who followed him;
the answers were satisfactory, and Mr. Russell
stepped over a stile into another field. He found,
however, that the mm still followed, and fresh suspi-
cions arising in his mind, he again entered into conver-
sation. and elicited answers which again satisfied him
that he had nothing to apprehend. lie then passed into
another field, and got to the middle of it, still followed
by the same man. The next thing he recollected was
finding himself on his face on the ground, with a sense
of some one stooping over him. He then sprang upon
his :knee, and almost at the same time the person who
was behind him stepped back, and struck him a violent
blow on the head. The prosecutor telt that he was
bleeding, jumped up, turned round, and saw the same
man who had been speaking to him standing with the
hayfork in his hand. The man said "It was not I that

struck you, but a man who has run away." Mr. Russell
rushed on the man, and, seized the fork, turned the man's
face to the moon, which had then risen, and was near
the full. The man was the prisoner. The prosecutor
wr,nched the fork •rom him, and placed himself in an
attitude of defence. No other person was to be seen.
The man then went away, and the prosecutor made his
way home, when it was found that ho had received
several wounds on the back of his head, such as might
have been inflicted by a hayfork.
Another witness spuke to having seen the prisoner at
about a quarter past five on the evening of the 18th of
November, when he had on a white " bill)cock" and a
dress such as the prosecutor described. It appeared
also from the testimony of the constable that the pri-
soner pretended not to have such A. hat or sucn a waist-
coat as the prosecutor had menLioLied, but they were
foiled at his father's, and the waistcoat had a stain
of blood on it. No money was taken from the pro
se,utor.

Mr. 'IVELLs, for the oefence, contend, that the ioi-
det.c:- was insufficient to convict of the intents laid in
the indictment; that as the prisoner hiid given his tiaine
truly, and had twice satisfied thi- prosecutor that he t►ad
no malicious intentions, it was prohatiie th•:t the pro
sveutor had fallen down and stunned himself, and in the
contusion incident to recovery had n►►sund.:rsuood the
prisoner, and so had attacked him ; that as no n.otiey
had been taken, the intent to rob was rendered most
improbable; and that as the prosecutor and the prisoner
were wholly unknown to one another, it was unreason-
able to sup,ose that the prisoner had been influenc. d
by either of the other intents. Under these circum-
stances he submitted that the jury, difficult as it was to
suggest the true thtory of the occurrence, ought to
acquit the prisoner.
The Learned JUDGE left it to the jury to say whether
it did not sufficiently appear that one blow at least had
been inflicted by the defendant on the prosecutor, and if
so, whether it must not have been inflicted, however
suddenly, or after however short a premeditation, with
one of the intents charged in the indictment.
The jury having deliberated for a short time, returned
a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN then sentenced the prisoner to
be transported for the term of 20 years.
(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
William Thompson, alias Bendigo, James Burns, John
Greaves, and Mark Cross, pleaded Guilty to an in-
dictment which charged them with having riotously and
wantonly assembled together with divers other persons
on the 6th of July last, for the purpose of getting up a
prize- fight.

Mr. FrrzPATaicx, on behalf of the prosecutors, the
magistrates of the county, intimated that they did not
desire to press for the punishment of the defendants, %s ho
seemed to be now impressed with a sense of the illegality
of their conduct.

Mr. SANDERS, for the defendants, expressed their
thanks to the magistrates, and added that the conduct of
the prisoners in abstaining from offering any obstauction
to the constables, might pArhaps be considered a further
inducement to lenient dealing with them.
The CHIEF BARON was disposed to yield to the re•
commendation of the prosecutors, as the fight had not
been carried into effect. The defendants, however, must
bear in mind that such practices could not be tolerated
in a civilized country; and in the hope that they would
in future forbear from them, they might be enlarged on
entering into their own recognizances in 251. each to
come up for judgment when called on.—The recogni-
zances were then entered into by the defendants.
William Wallace, aged 13, was indicted for having
feloniously stabbed Matthew Strange, on the 19th of
December last.

Mr. Sanders conducted the prosecution. The prisoner
was not defended by counsel.
It appeared that, on the day named in the indictment,
the prosecutor, a large boy, sixteen years old, was
playing at marbles, and was frequently interrupted by
the prisoner, who threw dirt into the holes used for the
game. This led to retaliation from the prosecutor, first
try throwing dirt in return, and eventually by some very
severe blows. The prisoner thereupon borrowed a
knife to cut a stick with which to defend himself. He
put the knife into his pocket, and soon after flung a
stone at the prosecutor. A struggle immediately fol-
lowed, and the prisoner pulling out his knife opene‘; it,
and gave the prosecutor a blow wi. h it that inflicted a
wound in his side. He was about to repeat the blow, but
his arm was seised, the weapon take's from him, and he
given into
.custody. The prosecutor made the best of
hi% way home, and was ill from the effects of the wound,
which was not daegerous, for about ten days.
The prisoner, who cried bitterly while the evidence
was given, alleged in excuse the state of . anger into
whielThe had been'brought by the'age whii;ll • he had
reecived'fydrn the prosecutor, who was'much his superior
in strength.
The- Oink? BARON left it to the jury to say whether
the prisoner had done the act proved against him with
the. intent laid in the. indictment. The case was for them
entirely ; but the strong provocation received by the
prisoner rendered it probable that the blow had not been
given to carry out a felonious intent, but in a sudden
fury at finding himself overmastered.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of a common as-
sault.

The ptihoner was then sentenced to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for one calendar month.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COUkT.
(Before the RECORDER.) '•
William Burlton; 36, labourer, William Johnson, 27,
John Flowers, 30, and William Mayhew, 49, agent, were
indicted for unlawfully conspiring together to commit a
felony. -•
Mr. Payne prosecuted. The defence was conducted
by Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Metcalfe, Mr. Horry, and Mr.
Thompson.
•
Tile circumstances of this case were of.rather an ex-
traordinary character. The prosecutor was Mr. Nicholas
Mould, the landlord of a tavern called the Powerful, at
Woolwich, and it was for a conspiracy to commit a rob-
bery at his house that the present indictment was pre-
ferred against the defendants. The principal witness in
support of the charge was a Klan named Duffell, who,
at the time of the transaction, kept a beer shop at
Woolwich. According to his statement, on the 22d of
January the prisoner Burlton, who was at the time
living in Woolwich, came to his beer shop, and
in slang language inquired whether he could not
give Jail_ entueruation where a robbery might be
committed. He declined at that time to enter into any
communication with him,- but a day or two afterwards
the conversation was again brought up, and he having
previously had a comiunnication with the police upon the
subject suggested*Wat a robbery might be committed at
the house of the prosecutor. Bunton then said that he
would introduce him to some persons who would assist in
the robbery, and the next day they went to London and
proceeded to a beer-shop kept by the defendant Flee era,
at Bethnal green, and he there saw Flowers ,and John-
son, and Burlton having introduced Duffell as "one of
them," said he had got a little job for them. Johnson
asked what it was, and he replied, " Oh, it is a little
public-house job," and he added that he thought it was
as good a one a: the other. Johnson then said he hoped
they should not have so much trouble with it as they had
with the other. Upon this occasion Flowers pro-
duced a bundle of skeleton keys, and he re-
marked at the same time that no men in Lon-
don could
_nee. such things better than they could.
Flowers then asked when it was to be done, and
Burlton replied, that it must be before Friday, because
that was the brewer's day, and Johnson said, as that
was the case they should go down the next day, and it
was agreed that they shOuld meet at the Trafalgar
public house, at Woolwich, a little before three o'clock.
Burlton then remarked that Mr. Mould was a man or
the world, and it would be necessary that he should be
" worked out" before the robbery was attempted, and it
was arranged that as Duffell was acquainted with the
prosecutor, he should get him to go out upon some ex-
cuse, aid that the robbery should be then committed by
the others. It was also agreed that Burlton should keep
a watch in his shop, until the prosecutor was taken by
Dufell, and this was to be the signal for the perpetration
I of the robbery, and Johnson said that if they got any-
thing like one huedred sovereigns he and Burlton were
to have 101. a piece. Information of all these circuin-
s:ances was given to the prosecutor and to the police,
and on the 2d of February, which was the day fixed for
the robbery, Duffel' went to the prosecutor's house
and they went out together as had been arranged, and
after passing Buriton's shop they returned by a back
way to the house, and got into the bar parlour, where
the police had already been introduced, and they placed
themselves in a position to see what took place. In a
short time the defendant Flowers came in and stood at
the bar, and called for some brandy cud water, and in-
quired of the prosecutor's daughter, who served him,
whether her father was at home? and on her saying
he was not, he went on conversing with her and at-
tempting to occupy her attention. While he was so
engaged the defendants, Mayhew and Johnson, came in,
and immediately proceeded up stairs, where one of the
defendants was taken into custody while in the act of
opening a room with a skeleton key, and a number of
skeleton keys wrapped up in an old apron were found
in the fire, where they had been thrown by some of the
party.
The witness Duffell was cross-examined at very con-
siderable length by the counsel for the defendants, but
nothing whatever was elicited to shake his testi-
mony ; and it appeared that from the commence-
ment of the transa3tion he had been in com-
munication with the prosecutor, and also with the
police, and the subsequent proceedings taken by him
were with their knowledge and sanction, and were
5. (opted solely for the purpose of detecting the guilty
parties.

A police constable deposed that after the prisoners
were in custody he went to the :Folly beer-shop, kept
by Flowers, in Lamb's-fields, Bethnal-green, and he
there found a quantity of skeleton keys, a dark lant-
horn, some crowbars, and other instruments used in
housebreaking. He likewise discovered a number of
"dummy " parcels made up in brown paper ; in one of
them there was an old shoe.

The RECORDER inquired what use was made of those
" dummies?"

The policeman said they were carried by thieves when
they went to a house to commit a robbery, in order to
take off suspicion if they were observed, and induce a
belief that they were upon some lawful business.
The Counsel for the prisoners addressed the jury, and
on behalf of Mayhew a respectable witness was called,
who gave him a good character; and stated that a short
time back he was in very good circumstances and kept
his carriage, but had become reduced through unfortu-
nate railway speculations.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Burlton,
Flowers, and Johnson, and acquitted Aiayhew.
The prisoners were sentenced to two years' imprison.
ment.

This case concluded the business al the session, and
the Court then adjourned to Monday, April 3.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
THE RIOTS IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.—The disposal of
these and other similar cases occupied the Court so
long,, that it was found necessary to interrupt the order
and postpone the hearing of part of them till the ordi-
pat), night charges were proceeded with. After the
latter were disposed of, the Court resumed the exalt+
nation of the prisoners in charge arising out of the riot.
The Magistrate (Mr. Jardine) was occupied with theta
for the remainder of the sitting.
A large number of prisoners taken in the course of
the day remain the station-house. It being found im-
possible to dispose of their cases to-day, they will ren3sio
in confinement until tomorrow, when they will be
brought before the sitting magistrate. These cases also
arise for the most part from the riots.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Rilliam Wallace and James O'Connell, two tailor lasi
w--r., c;:a,gLA with having wantonly broken windows of
the value of 51., at a chemist's shop, No. 10, Pall-mall.
Tne defendants formed part of a mob of disorderll
persons who assembled in Trafalgar-square on Monds),
It w,ts about eight o'clock when the defendants were,
the police to throw stones at the windows and
to vans,- c,:n,iderabie damage.
The lads said They were out of work, and they denied
Laving thrown stones.

Nlr BiNoriam fined them 51., the amount of damage,
or one month's imprisonment.

iVESTMINSTER.

Five persons, who were thu, described in the police
sh.,et—Charles Tothill, aged 20, clerk, no residence ;
John White, aged IS, no trade, 18, Noble-street, city ;
John Read, aged 36, turner, 44, Hatfield-rtreet, No/
Cut ; John Pendegrast, aged 20, labourer, Orchard-
street, Westminster ; and John Connell, aged 21, is'
bourer, 7, Evans's court, Ludgate hill, were charged
with having formed a portion of a mob of several hun-
dred persons, who created a riot and broke a •gr'si
number of street lamps and windows on the previous
evening.
The circumstances of the case will be best gleans('
from the following account of the evidence yesterday
adduced:—

Sergeant Gray, 10 C, said—l was on duty at half-POI
seven o'clock last night in Trafalgar-square in 011ie
clothes. I received information that the mob had gone
from there down Pall-mall. I followed down Pall-mall
into St. James's Park, thence down James-street into
York-street, and in nearly the whole line of that toad
almost all the gas lamps and a great many windows in
the shops and houses were broken. When I came to
the Broadwai , Westminster, I found a mob of from 600
to 800 people, many of them armed with sticks slid
bludgeons. I saw the prisoners Tothill and White, who
had each sticks, and they jumped up as they mite to
the gas-lamps and broke them. When they came oppe*
site the Westminster Sessions-house the prisoner Whitet
who had on the pair of epaulettes produced (resembling
those worn by the privates in the Guards), cried out--
Halt! To arms! Let's have arms!" The whole of
the mob then proceeded onwards, and three lamps were
broken afterwards. I then took White into custody.
He had put his epaulettes into his pocket in the confu-
sion before I apprehended him. When I took White,
he said, Oh, let me go; I'm only a poor fellow."
Mr. BRODERIP—That was the man that had ills'
before been summoning them to arms ? Witness—lree.
sir. The three priseners, Tothill, White, and Read,
were the most active in the riot from the Broadway.
Westminster, up to the Sessions-house, in the Broad
Sanctuary.
Robert Checkley, 184 C, after confirming the fire
portion of the previous witness's testimony, said—l saw
the prisoner Read break several lamps by throwing
stones at them ; he likewise had a bundle under hie
arm, containing a loaf of bread, and a short stick in his
hand. Bakers' shops were attacked and robbed, as
understood. When the mob got nearly up to Westmiir
ster Abbey, an alarm of " Police" was given, and thee
the prisoner Read threw a stick through a lamp, and
ran across to the opposite side, when I took him iato
custody. I saw the other prisoners White and Toth
there. I saw the latter break several lamps with tis
stick produced. White also broke several with a stick
nod some stones. I saw White wearing the epaulette&
produced in Tothill-street. I was close by his side. lie
was walking at the head of the mob.

Mr. Moran, an inspector of the B division of pact.,
s4id—Between eight and nine o'clock last evening I
went with a body of police to suppress a riot in Tothill"
street. When we got to the Broad Sanctuary we were
met by some hundreds of men, hallooing and shouting.
I distinctly heard the gel-lamps being broken, and sew
glass flying about. The inspector then confirmed OA
evidence against Tothill, whom he knocked down, and
took a stout limb or& tree from. The mob were Ter/
violent.

Alfred John Fenn, 82 B, gave confirmatory testimony.
John Marshall, 60 B. said—At about half-past eight
o'clock last evening I was passing along York-street.
when I saw a mob of several hundred persons. From
70 to 100 of them were carrying large bludgeonh
clothes-props, and other heavy weapons. I saw several
of the mob put the gas out, and break the lamps. Thep
also broke the shopkeepers' windows, and there was
decided riot. I went to the station, and returned.
accompanied by a party of police. We met a large
mob coming up Strutton-groand. They were breaking
the lamps and putting the lights out. I saw Con-
nell brandishing a stick and calling out "Free traders
and he then picked up a stone, when I took him into Due
tody. The mob followed, and kept calling out "Free
trade I" The stick produced (one with a very heavy
knob) has particles of broken glass on it now. I took
it from the prisoner Connell, who, at the station, said
that he did not stoop for a stone, but for the stick, which
some person had thrown away.
James Buchanan, 150 B, proved that Stratton-ground.
Westminster, was completely filled with the mob, and
there was a decided riot, and the shopkeepers were all
closing their shops. The police endeavoured to disperse
the mob, when they assailed them with brickbats, stone%
and large bars of wood like palings. Pendegrast threw
a large piece of wood at the police, and at the same mo-.
went one of the constables received a severe cut in she
face, from which he bled profusely. They that seised
Pendegrast, when he called out to the rest of the mob
to pelt the ',clic°.
A constable named Cochrane proved that Pendegrast
was one of the rioters.

The prisoners, of whom Tothill, White, and Read
were poor, diminutive, miserable-looking men, and the
others had much the appearance of ordinary labourers,
were informed by Mr. BRODERIP that they were at
liberty to put any questions to the witnesses, but, do-
clined doing so.
In reply to the charge—.
Tothill said—l decline saying anything,
White—l deny wearing the epaulettes.
Read—As I was walking to York-street a baker
threw the bread over the people's heads, and I caught a
loaf. lam only 11 poor mechanic, so I began to eat the
bread, as I was hungry.
Connell—l decline saying anything at present.
Pendegrast—l have nothing to say.
Mr. BRODERIP observed, that the cases were of by far
too serious a nature for him to deal with summarily, and
ho should require White to find two sureties in JOi
each, and himself in 1001.; Tothill and Read two sure-
ties of 401. each, and themselves in 801. each; and Pen-
dergast and Connell two sureties:of 301 each, and them•
selves in 60L, to appear at the next sessions for the
county of Middlesex.

The whole of the witnesses were then bound over to
prosecute for the riot, &c.

- William Jones and William Lewer, two. youths, the
ellest of whom did not appear to exceed 17, were
charged with being concerned with a number of others
in creating a riot and breaking windows; also with as'
saulting the police.

John. Green, 78 B, said that at about twelve oa the
previous night the prisoners and about 100 men came
dow❑ Grosvenor-place, threw stones, and broke a great
number of windows, and amongst them some of very
handsome plate glass, at Lady Wyndham's. They were
calling out "Down with the crushers" (police). Jones
threw a stone at witness, and hit him on the breai-t.
',ewer then struck witness with a stone on the hat, and
also threw a large piece of garden-pot at him, which
we.it through a lamp. Witness drew his staff, but it wao
immediately broken in two by one of the mob, and he
received several violent blows on hie, head. The mob
was very riotous and violent. With the assistance of
police-sergeant he took the prisoners into custody .
Jones, in defence, said he was merely walking- down
Grosvenor-place, when the policeman stopped him and
said he was one of the crowd, and Lewer said that be
was suddenly struck with a truncheon without doing
anything.

The prisoners were also ordered to find bail, two
sureties of 301. each, and themselves in 601., to appear 23
the sessions.
The whole of the prisoners were committed to prix An
in default of finding bail.

DESTRUCTION OF THE CROWN TAVERN, IL IN.
hlNGToN.—Yesterday morning, at an early hour, a fire
occurred in High-street, Kensington. It appeared that
Mr. White, the landlord of the Crown Tavern, was
awoke by hearing an alarm of fire in the street, and, upon
opening his bedroom door he found flames mountimf; the
staircase. He immediately aroused his family and do-
mestics, but so fiercly was the fire burning tb.at at ,ne of
them were able to get down the stairs. Fortunate ly Mr.
White procured a rope, by means of which he lowered
his family and servants out of one of the bad; windows,
and eventually he succeeced in effecting Ilia own escape,
but not until the flames had penetrated the roosia to
which he was standing, Upon the arrival of the fire-
men they found that it was useless to atte'mpt to save ell
portion of Mr. White's property, they, therefore ex geed
themselves to cut off the further progress of the fla Wee.
Nearly three hours elapsed before the flames were ex-
tinguished, by which time the tavern was totally de`
stroyed, and the premises severally occupied by Air
Allen, carpenter, Mr. Turpin, working eutler, fir.
Worthington, Mr. Ring, and Mr. Berdon, who were
also partially demolished. With two exceptions, the
sufferers were insured. The origin of the outbreak is
unknown.

BIRTHS.
On the 3d inst., at Harnbledon Rectory, Bucks, th• wife .of
the Her. W. H. Ridley, of a daughter.
On the 4th inst., in Queen-square, the lady of Chfirlois
Rivington, Esq., °fa son.

MARRISD.
On the 4th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Mr. Jame& W.
Tookey, of Brecknock-crescent, to Mrs. Maria Ann Knapp, , of
Upper Berkeley-street, Porttuan-square.

DIED.
On the Sd inst., at Gaddesby, Leicestershire, Colo nel
Cheney, C. 8., aged 70.

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London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG.. I"
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 111 sg
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county
Middlesex, Wednesday, Merck 1, 1141.

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