The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-04 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
John Smith was indicted for stealing a set of lie°
mahogany chairs, the property of Mr. George Warnit
of Holloway, cabinet-c.aker. The chairs stood bets"
the prosecutor's shop, and about three o'cleck yesterdois
afternoon the prisoner and another man took up eilf;
one halt of the lot, and ran off. They were iminew.
Ately pursu, d, sun they throw down the booty: fl
other man escaped, but the prisoner was overtaken. PI
was committrd in an hour or so afterwards, glad beig
uuw convicted, judgment was deferred.

MARLBRAY-STELE 1"-(THIS DAY.)
ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN.—Jaynes Benry 16°
placed before Mr. Bingham charged with violently ar
sauliing police-cuns,able Marshall, 86 C.
The constable, whose face was much cut, stated that
about ooe o'clock this morning he was on duty in Pete!'
street, when be haw the prisoner, who was rather toe
worse for liquor, creating a disturbance, to the amyl'
ante of the whole neighbourhood. Witness persuaded
him to go away quietly, when the prisoner saddenli
turned round and cluck him with something which be
had in his baud a severe blow on the face, and nearif
cut his eye out. Witness immediately closed with
the prisoner, and at er a deal of resistance on to°
part of the prisoner, succeeded in conveying him to 111
station.

be prisoner, who denied the charge, was committed
'or a moi,tb.
IMPUDENT ROBBERY.-- William Ellis was charged
with atealiog a box coat value 7/., the property of the
Earl St. Germans, 36, Berkeley-street.
Frederick Juji, his Lordship's coachman, said tbis
morning about hJf past seven he was going doin the
mews to his stables when he saw the prisoner come out
of the couch-house with the coat produced on his arm'
Witness ran after bins and gave him in charge. Th•
coat produced is worth 71., and is the property of big
Lordship. The prisoner, who plead, d starvation as the
elms,- of his cummirting the t &lice, was sent fur trial.
A Yousid RASCAL William Llphick, a lad about 15
years of age, was brought be ore Mr. Bingham, charged
with the following
Mr..htines White, landlord of the Spread Eagle, 303,
Oxford-street, stated that the prisoner bad been in his
service as potboy for fiti,xt six weeks, but had so Will'
conducted hims:lf that he had received notice to lefty°.
Yestet dsy afternoon, from what witnnss heard from his soot
he (wittirsb) Went into his spirit cellar and found Oaf
some gin was running frotn one of the vats from two
holes which had been oored at the back. Lie •examieed
the cellar, and at the back of the vat a brick bad been
forced out of the wall, leaving a space sulficientlf
large to admit a person's hand, 'and thus afforded
them an opportunity to bore the vat. As the prisoner
had threamentd to do him some injury, he was suspected
as the author I f the malicious act, and given in charge.
About twenty gallons of gin had been destroyed, and
had he gone into the cellar with a light, the consequence)
might have bet n dreadful.
Phillips, 111 1) took the prisoner into custody, and on
benching him ,founti a pistol lostled to the muzzle with
powde r and bail. Lie :.1.0 mound in his bed-room several
marked piec,s o' copper coin, which prosecutor Identified
a) having been abstracted Irom his till.
'1 he prisoner, in a clogged manner, denied the dare,
~.nd was remanded, fur the attendance Lf prosecutor's
batman.

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RAILWAY `llinfFlC LIE ['URN.
GLASGOW A NI) SOUT/1- ESTEJLX RAILWAY. Trani for
the Week ending Slay 31, 1851 :
hers (::6,717), Goods, &c.,
and Horses alai Carriages ....£4,069 9 1
Correspondibg week in last year
for Glasgow and ayr and Glas-
gow, Daudries, and Carlisle
Railways ... £3,380 17 8
Glasgow, June 2,18 M.

18510 n the case of Lewis Joel, convicted in January,
of felony, for having uttered a forged acceptance of
itlr. John Marcus Clements to a bill of exchange, knowing
the same to be forged, and sentenced by Mr. Justice Talfourd
to transportation, bir George Grey, the Home Secretary, has
advised the Queen to grant Mr. Joel her royal pardon, the
result of two verdicts in Ireland having established the fact
that Mr. Clement's acceptance was not forged.
ANSLAUGHTER.—MANCREsTER, TUESDAY.--Yes-,
terday, at the Manchester Borough Court, Thomas Millor,
Booth-street, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, with Thomas Prince,
and Rathbun, were fully committed to Kirkdale, to take
their trial for manslaughter, in causing the death of Thomas
Hodgkinson, of Rigle3 -street, Salford. aged 17. It appeared
deceased was ill-used during a quarrel with the above. Mr.
Soames deposed that the deceased died from the wounds or
injuries be had received. Part of both the liver and the
lur g on the right side was congested, while all the other
parts and organs were in a healthy state. The case was
heard before F. B. Hodgson and D. Prior,
, on Mon-
day, and remanded for the production of evidence as to the
Postmortem examination. Phis evidence having been given
to-day, and the case completed, all the parties were com-
mitted for trial. Bail, however, will be taken for their ap-
pearance, Millar in two sureties of lto/. each, and himself
in double that sum; the other prisoners, two in 501. each,
and themselves in 1001. each. The parties were then se-
verally bound over to prosecute. At the close of the case
Mr. Nield, the deputy-constable of itlford, applied, on the
coroner's warrant, to bave the prisoners
given up to him.
This, however, the bench declined to comply with, as all
the parties were at present in safe custody.
EARLY HOURS.— The stately dames of Edward
the Fourth's Court rose with the lark, dispatched their dinner
at eleven
lumber. In'clock. and shortly after eight were wrapped in
s " The .Northumberland-house Book for 1512,"
we were told that the family rose at six, breakfasted at
seven, dined at ten, and kupped at four. The gates were
closed at nine.

A gun-barrel maker at Birmingham was fined
290/. on Wednesday last by the magistrates of that borough
for counterfei•ing the proof-house stamp upon twenty-nine
barrels, being 10/. for each barrel.
Sir Francis T. Baring, ihrtia bold a levee 'ester*
dv,7 At the Admiralty.

CHAN CERY.—(THIS DAY•_,) o,
The arguments in the part-heard case of Ilsrulki
Dortnel/, which have already occupied the coati du"
seieral days, were again resumed this morning.

ROLLS' COURT. THIS
No business of :mportanoe came before On Court 141"
morning.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Chancellor ENIGEIT BRUCE)
His Honour was occupied this morning-with ban
petitions.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Lord Citiltwowng
His Lrrriship this morning heard and dispossa of
number of unopposed petitions.
(Before Vice-Chancellor TURNER.) abor
The business before the Court consisted 01
claims and causes, none of which were important.

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAYI)d,
After hearing some unimportent =ions their Lor
bhp adjourned shortly after eleven o'clock.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY) Th,
The Court took the demurrer paper to-dill"hoical
cases heard during the morning involved °JOY Icy
questions of pleading and practice.

QUEEN'S BENuti.--kTHIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
MR. BARBER'S CASE.
Lord CAMPBELL said the Court had deferred gi this
their opinion upon Mr. Roebuck's aplication in of
case, made last term, till they had had an opportell.le'ee.
seeing the additional affidavits, and considering the Jurveg
went formerly pronounced by the Court in dischergeo.
a rule which had been granted, requiring the Lare
ciety to show cause why Mr. Barber should not 0
admitted to practice as an attorney; and having yol
dif-
very deliberately, without reference to any teehillci
ra
ficulties that might stand in the way of a favourableA to
suit, the Court felt deeply concerned to be obbge.ing
declare that they saw no sufficient reason for elle',lol
the former judgment. He- might mention 'ar
although he had not the— honour to beam; 0.,
ber of the Court when that judgment was ea
be
still he had carefully perused the whole of it, 11,11,00.
was bound to say that he entirely concurred in the
elusions which his Learned. Brother had come te• the
Barber no doubt had not been directly concerned 1"„ et
frauds which led to his apprehension and subgeq-ethe
conviction, but he must have been wilfully blind to o
proceedings of his client Fletcher, and thus he /W s
ite
means of enabling that wicked man in four eueee:
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cases to avail himself of forged wills. He might negboi
repeated, have been a direct party to those traud9o,ool
the 'ugh et on his part to inquire into Fletcher's eeu.utted
was a sufficient reason why he should not be Vere3l2lr,
to practice again. If an attorney, suspecting; es
Barber must have done in this instance, that hisclieutwes
having recourse to fraud to acoemplish his purpose%yees
that attorney continued to act for him its if be :v
assisting the ends of justice, without instituting Bei is,
quiry into the matter, be was etill guilty of gross °of
L conduct, notwithatunding that he bad not been direh;
concerned in the fraud himself. On that account, :be
Court were of opinion that the principle upon which,
former judgment proceeded ought not to be dieter
is,
the more so as the Court found nothing in the new
est'
davits which ought to induce them to alter or rec
that decision. True, Fleteber'a exculpation of lr•Bri.ber was rendered mole distinct; but, from lug egeol
ence in such confe seiees, the Court had learned t
t
little weight was to be attached to the stategrie
of a man in his position, while the confete
itself hit untouched the fact that a Bosnia
must have entered Mr. Barber's mind of -se
fraudulent character of his client's proceedings•
hoe
might not have contributed to the forgeries norfit
been a party to them, tut the admission in the ore"" that Mr. Barter vie uld be ve found it exceedingly ineer/i1 .
1; ,
[dent to have lust Fletcher's business tended only to 7e
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that ho wilfully abstained from making those incle'ed
which a respectable attorney ought to have done title.
the circumstarces. Adhering, therefore, to, the prine!rj
of the former decision, arid finding nothing in the ‘7,0
affidavits to induce or warrant a aiffi rent coeclusionfl'., .
Court were bound to refuse the rule moved for by Pa
Roebuck, and they wished it to be distinctly understee
that this was their final decision in this painful ees:
Mr. Barber's, own careless misconduct had brought oP°
himself. the privation which he had undergone, and 130,
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a review of all the circumstances of the case, the Cl,'
were of opinion that the due administration of jtiew.ev-
required that he should not be allowed to practice es "'
attorney egain.—Rule refused accordingly.

hold,rs of fi;Te- fops refuse to sell except on bigbl
terms.. The e.l.olint lainsineP drain„however, is 011'm'
WEZTECIIIIPEZ.
Prime Beef snd Veal ateaddy at full prices. I¢
.
other kindo of meat very 'ittle doing. Weftf,r°44
2, 23 to 3,2 d; Ilutton 24 4d to 35 8d; Lamb, ',"
to 54 4d; Veal. 33 to 35 8d; Pork, 2s 6d to
per Sibs by the carcase.