The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-04 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADATtsTASsistant-Judge, and a full
Bench of Magistrates.)
Robert Baker, William Taylor, and Thomas Jones were in-
dicted, on Friday, chargel with having committed a violent
assault upon James Allen.
Mr. PBENDEEtGAST appeared for the prosecution.
The defendants, it will be recollected by our readers, are
privates in the Grenadier Guards, and on the evening of the
18th of the lust month they went to the Cock public-house,
in Tothill-street, Westminster, and having been there a short
time, left, saying that they should quickly return, when
they would " turn the house inside out." This threat they
carried into execution, for in half an hour they came back,
with about thirty of their comrades, when they commenced
annoying and assaulting various persons who were at the
time in the house. Amongst these was the prosecutor,'
the pot-boy, who having entered the parlour and en-
deavoured to quell the disturbance which the defend-
ants were causing, they knocked him about without re.
morse. During this part of the transacti9n, there was
another man, who, being alarmed, ran up stairs, but on being
pursued by the soldiers he jumped out of the first-floor
window. Ou these men coming down stairs again, they
knocked about a person of the name of Flexton. This die-

turbance, it was stated, collected a mob of at least 300 per-
sons around the house, and it was some time after the de-
fendants had left before anything like order could be restored.
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The defendants each denied having been in the house on
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"Guilty" to an indictment against him
Jones then pleaded .
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fur a second assault. and
The jury found thim ll Gui
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Allen, one of the witnesses on the former indictment, haul,
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to Taylor three months', and to Baklr six weeks' im-
prisonment.
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explosion of a steam-boiler
EXPLOSION OF A STEAM-BOILER AND DESTRUCTION
OP • MANUFACTOB.t.—TWO LIVES LOST.--011 Tuesday afternoon,
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machine-manufactory awfulctry belonging to Mr. Samuel
Rodgett, in starhle-street, Salford, Blackbuni, by which two persons
were killed; ..ite had both legs broken, and several others
seriously injure.d, the whole of the premises destroyed, and
great part of a row of houses running by the side of the
factory much damaged. The explosion was terrible in its force
and effects. The boiler itself was driven from its place into
the foundry, a distance of several yards. The reservoir or
water tank, which held about eighteen or twenty square feet
of the explosion, struck against the opposite
of water, and was full at the time, was blown from over
the boiler, to a distance of eight or ten yards, and one side
force of
and tour or five of them presented the a, -
been battered with cannon shots. There were
knocked out. The whole premises, which were four stories high,
were reduced to a heap of ruins. The bricks, &c., projected from the
i'egi:etribt:So,,ttitaTilir:l:7lai.°;t'gwork on and off in the manufactory, and it was a
llential circumstance that very few were on the premises at the
baPPitliuerboom:iuivuredsaletiof the accident. The rtl dinar number of hands employed is from
sixty to seventy. —Liverpool A crew y.
bMASnamed George Jones, slurs Harris, and George Gardner,
llERS.—YeAerday ,Fridat ), the 3d inst , tw o
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men, named
Westminster, were placed in the dock for final
examination, before the county magistrates at Rochester, charged
passing counterfeit coin.. The two prisoners were first appre-
.hobam, on the 23d of last month, for passing bad shil-
es the evidence .gs at that place; but, was not sufficient to send
itihem for trial, they were discharged, on Monday, the 30th ult., and
or the following day (Tuesday) they were both again apprehended
'vercst constab% at Northfleet, passing a bad half-
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crown at Mr. Abraham , Ugh Ta, emu, at that place, for a
with passing
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pint of porter. The prisoners, on .he constable searching therm, said
they had no more, for that was the last one which they had brought
with them from Chatham, and t. a roan Jones said " I gave the half-
crown to the landlord, as we thought we were far enough out of the
Rochester district:. The above case and another from Chatham was
taken against the prisoner., who stand committed ihr trial.