The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-03 00:00:00

HANDLEY V. EDWARDS.

The arguments in this appeal from the Prerogative
Court occupied their Lordships the whole day.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.)
BURLEY V. EVELYN.
The further arguments on this part-heard case occu-
pied his Honour the whole morning.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.)
STAMPS V. THE BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, &C.,
RAILWAY COMPANY.
His HONOUR gave judgment at some length this morn-
ing in this case, stating his present impression to be
that the injunction which had been granted ought
to be dissolved, but in consequence of the absence
of Mr. Rolt, who was engaged in the Privy
Council, his Honour declined finally to dispose of
the case until that Learned Gentleman had an opportu-
nity of considering the suggestions he had thrown out.
The COURT, after disposing of the cases of Hunter v.
Nockold and Pinner v. Insole, proceeded to hear the
further arguments in the part-heard case of Cole v.
Coles, which occupied the Court the remainder of the
morning.
The Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce did not sit to-day.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
The July session was opened this morning at the
usual hour before the Lord Mayor, Aldermen Sir
George Carroll and Wilson, and the Sheriffs, Messrs.
(Jubitt and Hill.

The grand jury having been sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge. He
said in consequence of the short interval that
had elapsed since the last session, the calendar
did not contain alarge number of prisoners. Nevertheless
120 persons were confined in Newgate, awaiting their
trials. Amongst them there were two persons charged
with very serious offences. The first he had reason to
believe would resolve itself into a charge of manslaughter,
and the second was a charge of arson. There were three
cases of cutting and wounding, with the intention of
doing some grievous bodily harm, seventeen cases of lar-
ceny from the person, eight cases of misdemeanour, some
of which presented very aggravating circumstances,
two cases of having possession of moulds for the purpose
of coining ; and nine cases of robbery. Six persons
were indicted for the crime of sedition, but as he had
addressed the grand jury during the last session with
respect to the offence with which these persons
were charged, and as they had returned true bills, it was
unnecessary for him to offer any remarks with respect
to them. As the facts, in the case of murder to which he
referred, were extremely simple, and as the evidence
would probably tend to show that the person charged
was not guilty of the higher, but of the secondary
offence—manslaughter—he should not touch upon it.
After some further remarks, with respect to the duties
of grand juries, the Learned Gentleman remitted them
to their duties.

The judges will not come down until Wednesday.
The impression that had gone abroad that they would
come down to-day and proceed at once with the trial of
the Chartist leaders, was therefore without foundation.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY).
There was not a single charge of any public interest
at this court this morning. The whole time of the ma-
gistrate was occupied in disposing of charges of
drunkenness and begging. The latter charges have
been very numerous during the past week, no less than
thirty and forty in a day having been brought before the
magistrate, nearly all of them poor and destitute Irish,
many of them with families of five and eight children.
The average punishment inflicted was from ten to twenty-
one days.