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London, England, 1846-04-16 00:00:00

JARDINE V. SHERIDAN.

Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL moved for a rule to show
cause why a new suit should not be entered, and a
new trial granted in this case.
The plaintiff had been nonsuited in last term, from
a material witness not forthcoming when the case was
called on for trial. The action was for work and labour
done by the plaintiff, for the defendant, in collecting
data from official documents, respecting the importation
of coals and other merchandise, into the port of London,
with the barges employed, in order to furnish materials
on which to found a new company. The affidavits set
forth that the defendant had been guilty of great irre-
gularities, and had been the means of keeping away the
material witness to the plaintiff's case, by which he had
been nonsuited.—Rule granted.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS,
(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge,
and a Bench of Magistrates.)
The April adjourned Quarter Sessions of the Peace
for the county of Middlesex commenced on Tuesday, at
the Sessions House, Clerkenwell• green. The calendar is
lighter than usual, containing only the names of fifty-
three prisoners for trial, of whom forty were committed
charged with-felony.
The Learned JUDGE briefly charged the grand jury,
after which they proceeded to discharge their duty.
ROBBERY OF UNFINISHED HOUSES.— Daniel Green,
aged 27, with Henry Kite, aged 30, were indicted for
stealing a quantity of lead, the property of Charles
Watkins.

The police, in consequence of information which they
had received upon the 3d of April, followed the pri-
soners to the neighbourhood of Twickenham, and, upon
Overtaking them, challenged them respecting a sack
which they were carrying, and which proved, upon
examination, to contain a quantity of lead. Being ten-
able to give a satisfactory account of the way in which
it came into their possession, they were taken into cus-
tody upon suspicion of stealing it. They made consider-
able resistance, and the officers were compelled ultimately
to carry them to the station-house in a cart. The lead
was evidently, as was represented, torn from the roofs of
some new buildings in the vicinity of Twickenham.
The jury found the prisoner Daniel Green Guilty, and
Acquitted Kite.
The Learned JUDGE inquired of the police whether
Green was known at all to them ?
The officer said that Kite was about the worst cha-
racter in the whole parish, and that Green was his cor.-
stant companion.
The Learned JUDGE cautioned Kite of the conse-
quences to himself if he ever came there again, and
sentenced Daniel Green to imprisonment and hard labour
in the House of Correction for six calendar months.
These robberies from unfinished houses appear on the
increase, and the Court both at the last and present
session have made some strong examples of prisoners
convicted of this offence.

SURREY SESSIONS.
(Before Mr. FRESHFIELD
strates
, Chairman, and a full Bench
of Magi.)
MR. JOHN CURLING V. THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE IM-
PROVEMENT OF BERMONDSEY PARISH.
This was an appeal made on Tuesday to an award made
by the Commissioners, under an Act of Parliament, the
Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 177, entitled "An Act for
Improving the Parish of Bermondsey," as compensation
for the loss of his situation by the appellant, as clerk
to what was called the waterside trust or division of the