The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-13 00:00:00

THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OP MANCHESTER.

Upon the application of the S elicitor-General, the
hearing of this case was fixed for Monday next.

THE QUEEN V. DOUGLAS.
The hearing of this case has been fixed for Thursday
week.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 12.
Their Lordships did not sit till one o'clqek.
Messrs. Baino and Wilkins were called within the
bar, having been admitted as sergeants.
Some motions were disposed of, none of which pos-
sessed any public interest.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jun.l2.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer,
accompanisd by Mr. B iron Parke, Mr. Baron Alderson,
and Mr. Baron Platt, took his seat upon the ben, h at
the Court in Westminster Hall shortly acter ten o'clock,
and the Court immediately proceeded to hear and dis-
pose of a number of motions, which, being motions of
c )urse, presented no features of public interest.
COLLINS V. RODWAL

This was a' action on the case brought by the plain-
tiff, who was an attorney's clerk, to recover damages from
the defendant for injuries done to a couple of horse,.
while they were entrusted to the defendant for being
shod. The case was tried before ti e Lord Chief Baron
at the recent sittings, when evidence was adduced on the
part of the pinintitt to prove that defendant had been
gnilty of gross negligence in shoeing two valuable horses
of the plaintiff, and that considerable injury was inflicted
upon the horses by such want of care and attention.
Nevertheless, the jury found a verdict for the defendant,
and Mr. Jervis now mooed for a rule nisi to show cause
why the verdict being against evidence should not
be set aside, and a new trial had. Their Lordships,
however, all concurred in the opinion that the verdict
was not at variance with the evidence, in so far as some
of the witnesses protested that the injuries did not arise
from a want of care and attention in the shoeing, but
rather from a disease of long-standing from which they
had been suffering before they came into the possession
of the defendant. The rule was therefore refused.
BEATON V. TIMMS.

This was an action of debt for money had and received,
which was brought by the plaintiff, a gentleman of for •
tune, to recover back a sum of money paid to the de-
fendant, who was an auctioneer, in respect of certain
copyhold property which the plaintiff h..d purchased at
a public sale. The case was tried at the sittings in Mi-
chaelmas term last, when it was prove d that the defend-
ant sold the property in question on behalf of Messrs.
Jubb, builders, who purchased it some time ago from
the Crown, to whom it had been forfeited for some de-
falcations by a tax collector named Nichols, who subse-
quently took the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act,
and surrendered all his other property to his creditors.
On delivery of the abstract of title to the plaintiff it was
discovered that the property kad not been properly sur-
rendered to the Crown, and instead of being the pro-
perty of Messrs. Jubb it was, in law, the property of
Nichols' creditors, and the plaintiff, in consequence of
this dt feet the title, refused to complete the purchase,
and brought the present action to recover back the de-
posit money he had paid at the sale, which amounted to
several hundred pounds. The jury on the trial found a
verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed.
Mr. BRAN WELL now moved to set this verdict aside,
on the ground that Nicholet had made a valid surrender
to the Crown of the property to escape imprisonment,
for the defalcations of which he had been guilty. It
was true the surrender was not upon a stamp, but as the
surrender was made for the benefit of the Crown, it diet
not require any. But there was another and a stronger
reason why the verdict should be set aside. The plain-
tiff did not make his objections to the title within the
time specified :n the conditions of sale,-and therefore he
ought to complete the purchase upon the title delivered,
be it good or bad.
The LORD CHIEF BARON said the Learned Counsel
had better take a rule to set aside the verdict, and enter a
non-suit, or to set aside the verdict with a view to a new
trial upon payment of costs.
Rule granted accordingly.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday a man, named Hemy Oxburgh, was brought
before Alderman 11. Hughes, charged with having com-
mitted a robbery in, and having burglariously broken
out of, the house of Elizabeth Ware, the keeper of the
Woolpsck Tavern, Minories. rho prisoner was covered
with soot upon being apprehended.
Mrs. Ware, who is a widow, stated that on Saturday
evening the prisoner was in the tap-room with some
other persons, and she believed he was the last indivi•
dual there. About seven o'clock on Sunday morning
witness was rang up, and on going down stairs she found
the door, which she had fastened before she went to bed,
open, and the bar in great confusion. Some wine had
been drank, and a pair of " sovereign scales" in a box,
a cloth, and some cigars, biscuits, and loaf-sugar, were
missing. The tills had been broken open, but she had
taken care before she retired to bed to strip them of
their valuable contents. There were, she remarked,
traces of soot from the chimney corner in the tan-room
to the bar, and several articles in the bar were blackened
with it. There were missing 230 cigars, 23 cheroots,
half a pound of tobacco, a pair of scales, and a cloth,
and these were, she learned, taken from the prisoner
in the street soon after he broke out of the house. She 1
was convinced that the pi isomer must have slipped up ft
the chimney the moment he faind an opportunity, and
his situation must have been most disagreeable, for some ,
water was thrown into the grate to extinguish the fire
while he was in the chimney, and an abundance of
smoke ascended. He bad a narrow escape of a more
dangerous position too, for, after the fire was extin-J
guished, some friends from the country arrived, and it
was by the merest accident that the witness did not

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order a rousing fire to be lighted in the same grate.
Providentially, hobvv,-r, tor the pri.oin,r, she deter ininud
to accommodate bcr frit-nds in anodic r room.

James King, a pot-boy to Mrs. Ware, was in the tap-
room with the prisoner on Saturday night, at,d they had a
pint of beer together at about a quarter past eleven
o'clock. When witness went to put up the shutters he
did not see the prisoner go out, and again returning to
the tap-room the prisoner was not there, and was sup-
posed to have left trle house. Witness lowered the fire,
and put out the gas.
John Peck, a constable of the Metropolitan police,
stated that between two and three o'clock on Sunday
morning he saw the prisoner with a bundle in Shorter-
street, Wel!close-square, running from the direction of
the Minories, so covered with soot, that it was impossible
to say whether he was a white or a black man. Witness
ti‘.ked him what he ha got, but instead of answering, he
threw down a bundle, and ran off. Witness sprung his
rattle, and the prisoner was stopped in his presence by
another constable. In the tundle were some of the ar-
tiel-s spoken of as having been stolen from the bar of
Mrs. Ware's house, and about his person were found
the remainder of the property. At first the prisoner
said that he had purchased the cigars of a boy, but did
not know anything about him.
William Hanley, also a constable of the Metropolitan
police, stated that, having heard the rattle sprung, and
saw the prisoner run, he caught the man in his arms.
The prisoner, who was all over soot, said, upon being
seized, "If I had known where I was running you
should not have caught me."—Committed for trial.

Daniel Coope,, a person, who had formerly been a
constable in the City Police, was charged with having
committed a robbery.
James Freeman, a bootrnaker, of No. 4, Hare-court,
Aldersgate-street, stated, that about six o'clock on Satur-
day evening he was in the Castle Tavern, King street,
C'heapside, getting some refreshment, when the pri-
soner walked in and obtruded his conversation. The
prisoner sail he was hungry, and witness gave him half-
a-crown to get some bread and cheese, and he brought
back two shillings and threepence, and left the room,
immediately after which witness missed his purse, con-
taining two sovereigns, and two half-sovereigns. In
a short time the prisoner returned, and sat
down, and witness said he would send for a po-
liceman ; upon which the prisoner said, " Don't make
a fuss about it," and asked him to go up stairs
Witness and another person then accompanied the
prisoner up stairs, and saw him take from his trousers
the purse containing the money. The account he gave
of the matter was, that he had picked up the purse along
with some loose papers. The witness said to
" You reseal, you have been robbing me while I have
been giving you bread."
The prisoner said he found the purse along with some
paper, aad went tip and depo,ited it in the water-clbset.
It app ared that Cull a. had. since his discluiree frAn
the police force, engag,d in cadging about Guildhall.
and advising, for a small consideration, the omnibus
drivers nod conductors who have been summoned betoro
magistrates for violating the law.—Committed.
Six young women, vk ho had been upon a former oc-
casion brought up charged with having hr,ken windows,
and acted most violently at the City of London Unior, to
Cannon-street, were charged with similar off,nees.
of them flung the shoe, which she had -on Saturday re-
ceived from the Lord May, at one of the officers- em-
ployed by the guardians. They were all sent to prison
in rte fault of the payment of the reeauips,
CLE,"/CEA? WELL.

Thomas Taylor, aged about 17, was chargo-d with the
fulluwin outra;eous conduct to Mr. Petch, superint,n-
dunt of the Ragged School, in Lamb and Flag-c.mrt,
St. John-street.

The prisoner went into the school on Sunday and us, d
bad language. The in aster told him to leave, where
upon the prisoner "'truck him so violently as to make the
blood flow from his nose and break his spectacles.
The greatest confusion ensued, and police-constable
215 G came and arrested the prisoner, who was I,llowed
to the station-house by a cro 4 d of bad characters, some
of whom assaulted the police.
Mr. GREENWOOD sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine
of 21., or a fortnight's imprisonment.