The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-15 00:00:00

KILKENNY, I%lißcu 12.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
The proceedings at our assizes to-day were occupied
with three points. The first was, an application to have
Captain Burke put on his trial on the verdict of the Coro-
ner's inquest alone; notwithstanding that the hills, as I
mentioned yesterday, were sent up to the Grand Jury and
ignored. This point was argued at great length by coun-
sel at both sides, hut,in cons- quence of the record, first, not
being on parchment ; 2d, the caption being in the alire-
viated names of the Jurors, as Edwd. for Edward, and
Thos. for Thomas, and the finding of the verdict being
against Captain Burke, instead of Captain John Burke,
and several other Informalities, Baron Foster refused the
application, and quashed the inquisition. The next paint
was the trial of a man named Hill, for robbing the mai,
between Goteshridge and Dublin, and stealing 401. He
was found guilty; and the last was two men for an as-
sault, who were also found guilty. Every thing is going
on w, II : the ordinary operations of Government seem to
proceed without the slightest obstruction. You were never
mare misinformed in London than as to the state of this
county.
The business of the city was despatched in two hours!
and Judge Totrens was this day assisting Baron Foster i❑
the despatch of county business.
I believe I told you yesterday that the pacificator, Steele,
had terminated hi- mission.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LINcorx, ltifercri 12.

DYMOKE V. GUE.

This was an action of trespass brought by the Cham-
pion, against the defendant, a farmer in his neighbourhood,
for sporting, after notice, on his manor of Serivelsby.
The plaintiff sent a notice to the defendant four years
ago not to trespass on his grounds, nor had the defendant
done so until the present occasion, when the trespass was
committed in the following way :—Having the privilege
of sporting over the adjacent manor, he was out sporting on
the day in question and shot a pheasant, which flew, after
being wounded, across a lane, and dropped inside the fence
of the Champion's wood. The defendant hallooed to his dogs
to seek for the bird, and they went through a close, not
in the Champion's occupation, into his wood. Tt ere
was a boy watching the preserves of the plaintiff, and the
defendant called out to him to observe that lie was no.
going to trespass. He then laid down his gun, and leaped
on the wood-bank, which was outside the fence, and,
leaning over, reached the bird with his hand, and picked
it up. This was the trespass complained of. A good
deal of amusement was occasioned by the way in which
one of the plaintiff's witnesses, a remarkably stupid youth,
19 years of age, answered the questions put to him. El-
spoke of the Champion invariably as " Henry Dymoke,"
and when Mr. Balguy called him either Mr. Dymoke,
or the Champion, the witness immedi itely corrected him,
by repeating Henry Dymoke." He stated in cross-
examination, that his master preserved his game with
great strictness, and sold it.
Mr. BAIGUY was satisfied that the Champion had been
grossly deceived as to the facts of this case, or he never
could have suffered such an action to be brought. The
Learned Counsel, three several times, when he meant to
speak of the Champion, used the word " Chancelior,"
which excited considerable merriment at the bar and on
the bench. At length, when again about to make the
same mistake, he suddenly checked the half-uttered word
and substituted the witness's designation of " Henry
Dymoke," in a tone and manner so comically like those of
the witness as to convulse the Court with lau,hter. He
concluded by expressing his conviction that the Champion
would be obliged to the Jury fur finding a verdict fur the
defendant.—(Laughter.)
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, one farthing.
The LEARNED JUDGE refused to certify that the trespass
was wilful, so that each party pays his own costs.

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IMMENSE LEGACY.—A Frenchman, of the
name of GIRARD, who left France a sailor boy, lately
died at Philadelphia, leaving a fortune of 100,000,000 of
francs (four millions sterling). Among other legacies ten
millions of francs (400,0001.) are left to found a college
on condition that no priest of any religion shall interfere
in its management. The hulk of his fortune, more than
sixty millions of francs (2,400,0001.) he has bequeathed
to the city of Philadelphia. It properly administered,
what may not he accomplished both in works of utility
and ornament.—Sketch of the United States of America,
by Achille Murat.