The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-26 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAIV D CIRCUIT, Northampton,July 24.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Lord Chief Justice
DENArlat.)
John Unwin, labourer, aged 2S, was indicted for felo-
niously and violently assaulting Ann Williams, on the
Ist of July instant, at Worksop, and committing a rape
upon her person.
Mr. Mellor conducted the prosecution; Mr. Miller
appeared as counsel for the prisoner.
The prosecutrix, who seemed to have been tramping
about the country, was thirteen years old.
The circumstances are unfit for publication.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty of a common
assault, and Unwin was sentenced to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for the space of two years.
James Slater, a person of good education, aged 36, was
indicted for a like offence at Lenton, on the 17th of Fe-
bruary last, upon the person of Mary Ann Inger.
Mr. Denison conducted the prosecution; and Mr.
Miller the defence.

The prisoner was a person in a respectable situation
of life, being a lace manufacturer at Lepton, just out of
this town. He was a married man with a family of chil-
dren, who, with his wife, lived with him. The girl, who
was 15 years old, lived with her uncle two or three
doors from the prisoner, and occasionally came to his
house to work for him, principally at threading bobbins
for the lace.
The case occupied the court a considerable time. The
verdict was one of Acquittal.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Rtafford, July 24.
The business of the assizes commenced this morning
in both courts at ten o'clock. Mr. Baron Rolfe presid-
ing in the Nisi Prins Court, and Mr. Baron Platt on the
criminal side. Tho criminal calendar, as made up to
the moment of publication, contains in all forty-three.
The cause list was published to-day and contains
twenty-two causes, of which six are to be tried by special
juries.
In the Crown Court to-day seven prisoners were tried' •
nothing, however, occurred at all likely to prove of any
public interest.
In the Nisi Prius Court the number of causes disposed
of was three: the first was in fact undefended, the second
virtually undefended, and the third had reference to a
contract for the sale of machinery, and was of no general
interest whatever. When the Court rose a fourth cause
was in part heard.

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contains an entry of nineteen causes fur trial, of
five are marked for special juries.
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stable 3, larceny 24.
NISI PRIUS COURT.
Mr. Justice Coleridge took his seat in this Court at
ten o'clock this morning, and has been occupied the whole
day in trying the case of Dingle v. Baker, which was
an action brought by the plaintiff to recover compensa-
tion for the seduction of his daughter. The case for the
plaintiff has only just closed, and the cause is adjourned
until to-morrow; we therefore defer our report until ita
conclusion,
Mr. Justice Williams has been occupied all day trying
prisoners, the charges against whom have been of a very