The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-02 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

B. Flower, ironmonger, High-street, Newington Butts, August
22, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy—V. Russell, dealer, Brigh-
ton, August 22, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. Thorne,
dealer, Shirley Common, Surrey, August 25, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy—J. Hone, Northampton, August 25, at the
Wheat Sheaf Inn, Daventry—R. Fishwick, woollen-manufacturer,
Bury, Lancashire, August 29, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-
rooms, Manchester—R. Green, hosier, Bristol, August 29, at two,
at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol—J. Trevor and J. Richards,
bankers, Whitchurch, Shropshire, August 26, at one, at the White
Lion Inn, Whitchurch—R. Wheatley, victualler, Twycross, Lei-
cestershire, August 27, at the Three Crowns Hotel, Leicester—T.
Clark, sen., cattle-salesman, Swinford Lodge, Leicestershire,
August 28, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Lutterworth—J. Gundry
and W. Gundry, merchants, Goldsithney, Cornwall, August 26, at
eleven, at the Star Inn, Helston.

CERTIFICATES.—AUGUST 22.
W. Hardcastle, ironmonger, Beaufort-place, Chelsea—H.
Latham, ironmonger, Chester—E. Cole, corn-chandler, Wells-
street, Oxford-street--W. Harper, butcher, New-street, Dorset-
square—E. J. Howard, money-scrivener, Duke-street, Westminster.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
G. and J. Ashworth, woollen-manufacturers, Rochdale, Lanca-
shire—J. Bristow and J. Thomson, merchants, Liverpool—W. Lis-
ter, W. Lister, jun., and J. Felton, cutlers, Sheffield—T. and W.
Roe, Blandford Forum, Dorsetshire—E. B. Bradley and H. T.
Metcalf, corn-factors, M —ark-lane F. Mullings and T. H Hasluck,
pearl ornament manufacturers, Birmingham—J. and M. Hodgson,
common brewers, Allonby, Cumberland—W. Baillic and W. Car-
vell, nursery and seedsmen, Slough, Buckinghamshire—J. Tame
and J Bicknell, bottle-merchants, Great Prescott-street, .Good-
man's-fields—W. Niven and G. Waugh; factors, King-street,
Cheapside —M., R. D., and A. Chirgwin, coopers, Street-au-
Nowun, Cornwall—E. Ackroyd, sen., S. Ackroyd, and J. Ackroyd,
cloth-manufacturers, Bolton, Lancashire—E. Ackroyd, sen., S.
Ackroyd, and J. Ackroyd, tailors, Bolton, Lancashire (as far as
regards S. Ackroyd only)—L. and J. le Richoux, fancy linen-
manufacturers, Bow-lane, Cheapside.

THE ANGLER IN WALES.—The picturesque de-
scriptions and incidents of this new piscatory work are illus-
trated by a series of the finest wood-cuts ever produced. The
designs are from the pencil of Landseer, who has, moreover,
supplied the volumes with two spirited etchings of his own.
These will enable the reader to form an adequate idea of the
wild but beautiful mountain scenery of North Wales, and of
the peculiar character of its lakes and solitary streams.
Scarcely any sportsman, certainly no angler, should be without
so original and remarkable a performance as Captain Medwin
has hers given to the public.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—SHnEwsBuRr, JULY 31.
RAPE.-THE KING V. THOMAS ROGERS.

The prisoner was indicted for having committed a rape upon
the person of Anne Cooper, on the 6th of March last.
Mr. WATSON conducted the prosecution, and Mr. LEE de-
fended the prisoner.
Anne Cooper—My father lives at Ryton of the Eleven
Towns. On the 6th of March I was sent to a mill of Mr.
Comberbatch for some bran, at six in the evening. It was
very dark. I saw the prisoner there. Another man called
him. I told him I wanted some bran, or gurgeons. He took
me up stairs for it. I had a bag with me. A man put some
gurgeons into the bag, and threw it on the ground. He then
threw me down, and committed the act of violence upon me.
I shouted out a great many times, but no one came to my
assistance. No noise was made by the mill.

The witness could not, or would not, at first point out the
prisoner as the man who had committed the offence ; but at
length pointed him out.
She continued—l went home that, night, and took the gur-
geons with me. I cried when I went to bed.
By the JUDGE-I cried because I was frightened by the pri-
soner. I did not see my mother that night, but I told Ann
Jones next morning. I did not tell my mother for three or
four, days after' because I was afraid of her beating me. Jane
Jones three or four days after asked me about it, and I told her,
and then my mother, and I should not have spoken to her if she
had not asked me.

Mr. BARON AADERSON then stopped the case, saying that
the testimony of the witness was so doubtful the Jury would
not think it right to convict the prisoner. It was therefore
better for the public morals that the case should not be further
investigated.
Verdict—Not Guilty. • "
THE KING V. JOHN EDWARDS, JOSEPH JONES, THOMAS BOSTWOOD,
GEORGE GLAZEBROOK, WILLIAM GLAZEBROOK, CHARLES DA-
VIES, AND THOMAS DAVIES.

The prisoners were indicted for a nuisance in obstructing the
King's highway at Madeley, by baiting a bull there on the Ist
and 2d of October last.

The prisoners, at the suggestion of their counsel, pleaded
guilty.
Mr. BATHER said the object of the prosecution was to put
an end to a serious nuisance, which resulted fram the baiting
of a bull, during the space of three days, at Madeley. The
prisoners were remonstrated with at the time, but in answer
they stated that it was the privilege of Englishmen to bait
bulls, and they would do so. Whether they had learnt this
from Mr. Wyndham or not, he could not say, but it was only
desired that the prisoners should abstain from the renewal of
the offence, and therefore they would not be called up for
judgment at present.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON addressed the prisoners and told them
that they ought to abstain from such cruel and unmanly sports.
They ought to act kindly towards animals, and not so far dis-
regard the gifts of God as cruelly and malignantly to bait
them for their sport. You may, said the Learned Judge, have
been ignorant of the law before, but after this warning such
excuse will not remain to you. If you behave quietly, you
will never hear any more of it ; but if you repeat this offence,
you will be brought up for judgment, and will then be punished
severely.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—NoBwicH, JULY 31.
(Before Mr. Justice BOSANQUET.)
John Bean, aged 29, stood indicted for feloniously setting
fire to a stack of wheat, the property of Ralph Roper.
This ws a case in which' the only evidence consisted of cer-
tain footsteps, which were observed in the neighbourhood of
the burnt stack, and which the witnesses for the prosecution be-
lieved to have been made by the feet of the prisoner.
For the defence, a complete and credible alibi was esta-
blished. It was shown that the prisoner was at home from six
o'clock till the prosecutor went and called him, and that when
he ate his supper, at eight o'clock, he pulled off his shoes and
set them on the hearth that they might be dry and fit to wear
early on the following day.—The Jury acquitted the prisoner.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—DunnAN, JULY 30.
(Before Lord LYNDHURST.)
MYSTERIOUS MURDER.--Thomas Hodgson was charged with
the murder of Ann Lumsden, at Sunderland, under the follow-
mg circumstances.
_ _

Mr. WATSON and Mr. PIIIPPS prosecuted; Mr. WILKINSON
and Mr. INGRAM, Al, P. , defended.

The prisoner is a respectable-looking man, about forty-five
years of age, a master mariner, and was secretary to the Sea-
men's Benefit Society at Sunderland. The trial excited
great interest, and there was a very great prejudice against
the prisoner in consequence of his belonging to the Bible So-
ciety, and being an agent for the distribution of tracts.
Though a married man his intimacy with the deceased wa3 not
becoming his pious character. It appeared that the unfortu-
nate deceased was the widow of a sea Captain, who was
drowned about a year ago. After his death the prisoner wrote
a letter of condolence to the deceased, tendering all the resig-
nation of religion. This led to an interview, which finally
terminated in an intimacy by no means in character with strict
morality ; in fact, they cohabited together. The unfortunate
deceased was greatly addicted to the immoderate indulgence
of spirituous liquors. On the Bth of April last she sent her
little girl with a note to the prisoner, requesting that he would
call on her, as she had something particular to communi-
cate. The prisoner returned an answer that he would
meet her at the engineer's house near the cliff on the
beach. About half-past .eight o'clock on that evening he
called, and they went out together and proceeded towards the
cliff. They were heard to converse in an angry tone. About
nine o'clock they were seen walking on the shore. On the
following morning, about five o'clock, the body of the de-
ceased was found by two boys under the cliff, about eight
yards from the base. The tide was going out. The head lay
towards the sea. The legs were astride, the arms extended,
the clothes up round the waist. There was blood about the
lips, and the nostrils were full. The body was subsequently
removed to the workhouse, where it was examined by four
surgeons. On stripping it the outer garments were only par-
tially wet, the under ones perfectly dry. On opening the
body the liver was found greatly lacerated, and about four
pounds of blood in the intestines ; there was no blood in the
heart ; there were some marks of external violence on the ancle
and thigh. The brain did not exhibit any marks of violence.
A Coroner's inquest was held, at which the prisoner was re-
quested to attend, but he sent word that he was ill. The
Coroner and the Jury immediately 'attended at his house, arid
found him in bed. He then made a voluntary statement, in
which he admitted that he was with the deceased on the even
ing in question ; that she was drunk, and threatened to drown
herself in consequence of being disappointed in marriage ; that
he endeavoured to console her, when she abused him. He
left her a little before nine o'clock. Went into a public-house
for a glass of ale. While taking it he was seized with a cho-
lera bowel complaint. Went home and sent for some brandy
and a doctor, and was never out of it since that time. In
about sixteen days after the Inquest, the body was disinterred
and examined by two other medical men, and they found, on
removal of the right kidney, that one of the ribs had been
broken, besides an injury at the back of the head. After a
long examination before the Magistrates, the prisoner was
finally committed for trial.
Several medical gentlemen were examined, who all deposed
to the state of the body, but there was a great difference in
opinion as to whether the injuries were inflicted before death
or after ; but the preponderating opinion was that the death
was caused by violence, but that violence might have occurred
through accident or a fall. As to the circumstance of the
deceased's clothes being internally dry, it was evident that she
could not have been drowned.

Several mariners were called to prove that had the deceased
fallen over the cliff, where the body was found, the tide must
have carried it a great way to the southward. Still no marks
of footsteps were found near the body.
The deceased's little girl was called, who proved seeing the
prisoner and her mother going out together. She admitted,
on her cross-examination, that at the time her mother went
out with the deceased the unfortunate woman was drunk, and
while in that state she had frequently threatened to drown
herself, and that the prisoner was always unusually kind both
to her and her mother. The witness who stated that he saw
the prisoner and the deceased walking together admitted that
he did not tell the Magistrates until after the reward of 1001.
was offered. This was, however, negatived by the medical
gentleman who attended the deceased, who stated that the
hour at which it was alleged he was on the beach he was con-
fined to his bed. Several witnesses were examined. The trial
lasted eight hours. When the case for the prosecution closed,
Lord LYNDHURST said that he did not think there was any
case to go to the Jury; he therefore would not call on the
prisoner for his defence.
The Jury concurred with his Lordship, and returned a ver-
dict of Not Guilty.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—DORCHESTER, JULY 31.
(Before Lord DENMAN and a Special Jury.)
JOHNSON V. FRANKS.

This was an action to recover compensation in damages for
the seduction of the plaintiff's wife.
Mr. Sergeant WILDE stated the case, and called the follow-
ing evidence :
Captain Johnson, father of the plaintiff, was present at the
marriage of his son with Miss Thornhill on the 20th of Sep-
tember, 1820. She was a very fine girl, of a very respectable
family. The plaintiff was grand nephew of Dr. Bennett,
Bishop of Cloyne, and was Rector of the parish of Cloneen,
in the eounty of dork. Often visited them since their mar-
riage. They had six children now living, of whom the
youngest was only sixteen months old. Two more died.
Never saw a happier couple in his life. Saw them a fortnight
before the elopement, and they appeared to him to be on the
best terms.
Cross-examined by Mr. ERLE—Never heard that a proposal
had been made to separate them. He was never applied to to
reconcile them. If they quarrelled it was kept a secret from
witness. Never saw the plaintiff drunk in his life.
Catharine Kilhere was nurse to the plaintiff's family for the
last seven years. They lived on the best terms. They lived
at times in Mrs. Roach's, and sometimes in the cottage. The

Cross-examined by Mr. FOLLETT—Never knew of any
quarrel or difference between them except one night that
master brought home some man late at night and put him into
the servants' bed-room, at which mistress was very angry.
She never complained to witness that he struck her that night,
nor did she show the marks of a blow on the head. Never
saw him drunk; saw him sometimes tipsy. Never heard
mistress say that she could not live with him on account of his
drunkenness and ill-treatment of her. Never heard him call
her names.

Henry Madden Thornhill, brother of Mrs. Johnson, gave
evidence of the happy terms on which they lived. Defendant
used to visit his mother's house very often during last summer.
Witness thought he was paying his addresses to his mother.
James Thornhill, brother of Mrs. Johnson, accompanied his
sister to Cork on the 24th of August last. The plaintiff had pro-
po: ed to accompany her, but she made an excuse, saying that she
did not wish to be seen on the car with him until the quarrel be-
twees him and the defendant was settled. It was intended
tlic t she should take lodgings at Cove. When they arrived at
Ccrk she went into a milliner's shop, and told witness to walk
about and call on her at one o'clock. He did so, and she was
not there, but she left word that she should be there at six
o'clock. About that time witness met the plaintiff in Cork,
who told him that she went off in a boat, and that he had
traced her as far as a place called Passage. He appeared to
be in a state of distraction, and blamed witness very much for
leaving her.
George Paynter took lodgings for Mrs. Johnson in Ply-
mouth in September last, at the request of the defendant,
where she stayed for a fortnight, during which time the de-
fendant visited her daily. At the expiration of a fortnight he
put her on board a steamer for Falmouth at the request of the
defendant. Saw Mrs. Johnson's mother at her lodgings. She
was introduced there by the defendant, who walked arm-in-
arm with her.

Mr. GILL addressed the jury for the defendant.
Lord DENMAN having summed up,
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1,0001
Nothing of interest occurred in the Crown Court.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, AUG. 1.

(Continued from The Sun of yesterday.)
MR. GEE'S CASE.

Maria Canning, alias Edwards, John Edwards, Peter
Laccasagne, and Jeremiah Weedon, were arraigned for can-
spiracy.

The circumstances of the case have been so fully and so re-
cently detailed, that it is unnecessary to repeat them here.
The CHAIRMAN summed up the whole of the evidence, and
at ten o'clock the jury found the following verdict :—Edwards,
Guilty of conspiring to imprison Mr. Gee ; Peter Laccasagne,
Guilty of a common assault ; Jeremiah Weedon, Guilty in
conspiring to imprison Mr. Gee; and Not Guilty as to Maria
Canning.
The CHAIRMAN said that he would postpone the judgment,
to give Edwards an opportunity to produce the witness (the
coachman) if he wished it, which he declined, when the Court
proceeded to pass judgment, and applied himself particularly
to Edwards, whose case, he said, was the most atrocious, and
sentenced him to be imprisoned in his• Majesty's gaol of New..
gate for two years ; Jeremiah Weedon to one year in this
House of Correction ; Peter Laccasagne to be imprisoned in
the House of Correction for six months for the assault.