The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-21 00:00:00

Joseph Mills, Joseph Robinson, Thomas Collett, and
Margaret Collett, respectively to be imprisoned, with
hard labour, twelve months.
James Stones, aged 19, pleaded guilty to a charge of
manslaughter. He was driving a horse and cart, near
Oldham, in April last, when the child, Charles Ellam,
ran out of the house into the road, and the prisoner
being a few yards behind the cart, the child was knocked
down, and run over and killed. The prisoner now re-
ceived an excellent character from his toaster, and
having been in prison from the Ist of May, his Lord-
ship sentenced him to be imprisoned three days.
Anthony Carroll, aged 21, was indicted for stabbing
and wounding John Fitzpatrick, with intent to do him
grievous bodily harm, at Aughtore on the sth of May
hist.
The prosecutor and prisoner were Irishmen, working
on the railway, where an altercation took place, and the
prisoner took up a pickaxe, and struck the prosecutor on
the back, and inflicted a wound an inch and a halt deep
below the shoulder, penetrating to a rib, which stopped
its penetrating the lungs. On his way to the station-
house, the prisoner said, Curly never would let him
alone, and he would cut him or any other man to pieties
that attempted to curve (tyrannize) over him, if trans-
ported next minute. A pick was shown him, and he
said that was it ; he was going to strike with the flat
side, and it turned in his hand, and the point entered
prisoner's back about two inches.
The Jury seemed to think that was probably so, and
therefore found him guilty of an assault only.
Sentence deterred.
John Finneran, aged 35, was indicted for having, Ott
Much Woolton, near this town, feloniously stabbbd
Daniel Conner, on the 12th of July last.
On that day they'and others, all Irishmen, had been
at work for a farmer, carrying hay. The prosecutor
had been on the rick, and the prisoner on the waggon,
throwing up the hay, and the prosecutor had suffered
the hay to fall back several times, which irritated the
prisoner, and he threatened to go up and kick the pro-
secutor. Soon after they left work, and on their way to
Liverpool, the prisoner told the prosecutor he was
ready for him, and after some words he went and
knocked the prosecutor down, who got up and knocked
the prisoner down. He got up again and they closed,
and both went down and struggled together for some
time, when the prosecutor felt he was stabbed in the
side, and became faint, and declared he would not fight
any more, on which some of their fellows parted them.
The prosecutor bled a good deal, and was obliged to be
supported home by two men and put to bed, to which he
was confined for a week, and was unable to work for
more than a fortnight.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of the whole
charge.—Sentence deferred.
Jacob Stopherd, a stout hale man, who could not read,
aged 31, was indicted for two burglaries in two adjoin-
ing dwelling-houses of Jno. and Wm. Wolfendem, and
stealing therein various articles of clothing and food, on
the night of the 7th of April last.
Wm. Wolfendem said, that he was awoke by his wife
about five o'clock on the morning of the Bth. He lis-
tened awhile, then got up and looked out of the window,
and saw a man running away with a bundle. He ran
out and after him. He was afterwards taken into
custody, and the only question was the identity of the
prisoner.
The jury found him Guilty on the Ist indictment, so
the 2d was not proceeded with.
Sentence deferred.
James Rooney, Edward Johnson, and Eve Tattersall,
were indicted for a robbery, with violence, from the
person of George Williams, at Manchester, on the 6th
of July last.
Mr. WHEELER appeared for the prosecution, and
stated the case, and called witnesses, who proved as
follows:—On the night in question the man Williams
was on his way home about half-past ten o'clock, and
that when in Dale-street, in Manchester, he saw two
men and a woman, the prisoner:, standing together
under a lamp. They followed him, and one of them
(Johnson) struck him a violent blow, which caused him
to stagger, but he did not fall. A second blow knocked
him down, he falling on his back. The blow was struck
by Johnson, who then knelt upon him, and held his
hand on his mouth. The other man, Rooney, kept
kicking him whilst he was down, and the third prisoner,
the woman, rifled his pockets of the produce of his day's
sale, two sovereigns and some silver.
The prisoners were all convicted, and severally sen-
tenced to be transported for ten years.
Benjamin Hill was indicted for a highway robbery at
Todmorden.
„Mr. Monk and Mr. Eastwood were for the prosecution.
On Easter Monday, the 24th of April last, the prose-
cutor, John Fielden, had been drinking with the pri-
soner, and had paid for beer for prisoner. At midnight
they both started to their respective homes. Before,
however, the prosecutor had gone far, the prisoner came
up to him and put his hand into prosecutor's waistcoat
pocket where he had his money, amounting to 1/. 15s.
The prisoner took the whole of it and then went away.
The prisoner was apprehended on the following Friday,
when it appeared that he had spent, in eating and
drinking, almost the whole of what he had feloniously
acquired.
There was also a previous conviction for felony proved
against theprisoner, whereby it appeared that he had
only been discharged from prison about a fortnight be-
fore the present robbery.
The jury found him Guilty, and the Court sentenced
him to be transported for the term of seven years.
CIVIL COURT.
COPE v. THAMES HAVEN DOCK RAILWAY COMPANY.
This was an action to recover the sum of 1451. for
services alleged to have been rendered at the latter end
of 1846, in negotiations to lease the defendant's line and
to get the share list filled up.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. Monk appeared for the plain-
tiff; Mr. Martin and Mr. Apsland for the company.
In support of the plaintiff's case, a witness was called,
who stated that he, as agent of the company, had re-
tained the plaintiff, as a joint agent with himself, to
perform the services in question, and that his conduct
had been afterwards approved and ratified by the com-
pany.
The defendants alleged that the plaintiff had been ex-
pressly informed, at the first interview with the direc •
tors, that he was not to look to the company for remu-
neration, and suggested that the way in which the
plaintiff was to be paid was by a share of the profits to
be derived from the issuing, of a large number of shares
in the company, which had been allotted to one Smith,
and in which Smith, the plaintiff, and the plaintiff's wit-
ness, had, before the plaintiff's agency began, acquired a
joint interest.
Mr. Justice ERLE left the case to the jury as to which
set of witnesses was more entitled to credit, and after
some consideration they found their verdict for the
plaintiff; but reducing the claim to 1001., leave being re-
served to the defendants to move to enter a verdict for
them on a certain point of law—that is, whether the de-
fendants, being a corporation, could be liable on any con-
tract not under their corporate seal.
August 19.
The Civil Court has been occupied the greater part of
the day in deciding the quality of an iron pan made for a
distiller, and the jury at length found a verdict for the
price.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
James Winterbottom, aged 27, Stephen Naylor, 23, and
William White, 32, all having no education, pleaded
guilty to an indictment for felony, setting fire to the
barn and outhouse of James Bothwell, at Pemberton, on
the 12th of June last.

The prosecutor was a farmer at Pemberton, near
Wigan. On the night mentioned the prisoners had
gone, it was supposed, to steal fowls, in which they were
disappointed, and so went into the barn, and having
lucifer matches with them, which they had bought the
previous day, set it on fire. The whole contents were
consumed, nothing but the walls left.
His LORDSHIP sentenced them to be transported for
15 years.

Mr. J. Pollock for the prosecution.
Stephen Marsden, aged 2S, of no education, was in-
dicted for stealing 611. 10s, .in the dwelling-house of Mary
GrPenhalgh, at Darcy Lever, on the 4th of February
last. _ _

Three of the prisoner's accomplices were convicted of
this robbery at the last assizes, and transported, ono for
ten years, and the other two for seven years, and the
case then reported; it will, therefore, be sufficient to
state that Mrs. Greenhalgh, who keeps a public-house,
had, on the above-named day, placed lour 101. notes, two
51. notes, and eleven and a halt sovereigns, in a purse,
and in a drawer in her bed-room, which she locked. On
going into the house two walked first, then Johnson,
and then the other two, and as they passed the stairs
Johnson slipped up, broke open the drawer, and stole
the money. lie afterwards produced three 101. notes,
two 5/. notes, ten sovereigns, and a gold and a silver
watch, all which they divided among them.
It appeared Johnson must have got out of a bed-room
window upon a kitchen, then into the garden, and so
back to the front of the house.

The prisoner was convicted, and his Lordship sen-
tenced him to be transported for seven years.
Thomas Cain, an Irishman, aged 19, was charged with
manslaughter in killing Peter Meadow, at Wigan, in
June last.
There was a row it appeared; the prisoner and the de-
ceased fought, and the latter was knocked down. while
on the ground the prisoner kicked him savagely several
times, once on the left side of the head, and Meadow
and,
moved afterwards, neveron being examined,
was found dead, with a severe wound on the head.
The prisoner was convicted.--. Sentence deferred.
John Taylor, aged 26, was indicted for burglary in the
house of Edmund Pickup, at Tottington-higher-end,
and stealing therein 20/. 125., two yards of woollen cloth,
one waistcoat piece, and one trousers piece, on the 19th
of June last.
The prosecutor was a saddler, 'the prisoner a railway
labourer, residing near. The prosecutor's family retired
for the night about eleven o'clock, leaving the house pro-
perly secured, and in his trousers pocket in his bedroom
was the money above stated. About three o'clock the
following morning he heard a noise, got up, looked out
of the window, and saw several persons in the road, one
of whom, the toll-bar-keeper, called out that the window
in the room below was open. He went down, and found
that the window had been broken, and thrown up.;
His trousers were on the floor in the room below, but
the money, purse, and a pocket-knife had been taken
away. Out of his waistcoat pocket a pocket-book was
taken, and some papers scattered on the flour, but two
5/. notes had escaped the observation of the thief. Eight
yards of shirting, &c., were also stolen.
Before the Magistrates the prisoner said he would tell
how he came. by the shirting. Between Burnley and 4
.
Colne he met three men, of whom he bought it for 4s .d
the eight yards.
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury at once found.
him Guilty.
He was then sentenced to be transported for seven
years.
Mr. Sowier and Mr. Saunders for the prosecution.

The Encampment at the Phoenix Park, Dublin,
has been broken up. and the 9th Regiment has gone into
barracks.— United Servicc Gazette,