The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-03 00:00:00

Harriet Little, his sister-in-law, however, was re-
called, to prove that she saw the prisoner on that day,
between eleven and twelve o'clock in the morning.
The prisoner then addressed the jury. He denied
being guilty of the forgery, and went into a lengthened
history of his past life. He came to London some
months ago, bringing with him a wife and two chil-
dren. He struggled in London for some time, till at
length, through the medium of an advertisement, he
procured a situation in Mr. Willis's office ; but shortly
before this his wife returned to her father at Hull,
carrying with her his two children. About this time
he met Ann Bissett, and he would freely confess that
he had heen guilty of bigamy in marrying her, but
he declared most solemnly that he was innocent of the
charge of forgery. He accounted for leaving Mr.
Willis' employment by stating that his first wife
having returned to London it was a source of annoy-
ance to him, and he therefore left London, accom •
panted by Ann Bissett, to fulfil an engagement he had
entered into with the manager of the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne Theatre Royal. He played there for six
weeks, but ascertaining that an officer from London
was searching for him, he went after performing one
night and gave himself up to the authorities at the
Newcastle Station- house.
The Learned JUDGE then summed up, and

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The jury, after a short consultation, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty.
The Court sentenced the prisoner to ten years'
transportation.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

THE PARTSH OF ST. LUKE'S, OLD-STREET, V. GORE.
This was an indictment at common law, preferred
by the overseers of St. Luke's agaititt the defendant,
Mr. John Gore, of Paddington, the extensive dust
contractor and scavenger, for maiataining a nuisance,
hurtful to life and property, within the said parish.
Mr. PARRY stated the case for the prosecution.
The defendant occupied a large inclosed piece of
ground in Hatfield-street, Goswell-street, as a place
of deposit and accumulation for the products of
scavengering. There was constantly on this area 'a
vast quantity of muck and dust, with mixed animal
and vegetable matter in a state of decomposition.
From this accumulation the most noxious gases were
emitted. Not only was the health of the inhabi
tants endangered by this, but they were further sub-
ject to a great annoyance from the dust blown into
their houses from the scavenger yard. It was the
opinion of the first medicalauthorities that the alleged
nuisance was of a nature to g►enerate and propagate
fatal disease in any neighbourhood, much more so in
a poor and crowded locality, such as the one in ques-
tion. It was, therefore, thought to be the duty of the
parish authorities to take these proceedings to effect
its removal. _

Mr. Giles, surveyor of the parish of St. Luke's,
proved a plan which was put in to be a correct one of
the lay-stalls. He described the collection of muck
and dust in that place to be the largest he knew of in
the metropolis. The heaps of dry dust were some-
times twelve or thirteen feet high, and the muck in a
fluid state stood generally at a height of from four
feet to eight. The neighbourhood was densely
inhabited, and there was a number of poor people.
The parish had made exertions to promote the health
of the neighbourhood by improving, paving, cleans-
ing, and draining. The inhabitants were much
annoyed by the smell and dust from Mr. Gore's pre-
mises, and the paint upon the walls in the houses of
the neighbourhood was discoloured by the gases deve-
loped from the muck yard.
Mr. Hetman C. Harris, of the City-road, surge6n
to the parish of St. Luke's, Dr. Southwood Smith, and
others, bore testimony to the destructive character of
the effluvia given out by the dust heaps.