The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-20 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLEGE'NCE.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 19.
ChOWN COURT.—(I3.-fore Mr. Baron PLATT.)
William Harrison and Thomas Prince, two tnioidl,-
aged and respectable looking men, were indicted for
toe manslaughter of Thomas Hadgkin,on at Man-
chester on the 9;h of March last, and John Miller cv,.s
indicted for inciting them to the cominision of that
offence.

Mr. Joseph Pollock and Mr. Wheeler conducted
the prosecudon, Mr. Munk defended Harrison, Mr.
Suwler the prisoner Prince, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins
and Mr. Blair the prisoner Miller.
It appeared from the evidence of the witnesses that
on the 9th of May last the deceased and the three pri-
soners, a man named James Hayes, and two men of
the name of Brown, were in a public-house called the
Grapes at Chorlton-upon-Medlock, near Manchester,
between nine and ten o'clock at night, of which house
the prisoner Miller was the landlord. As they were
drinking together tome words took place between the
deceased and Harrison, the clecea'ed saying to him,
" You are working under wages, and you arc a
knobstick." This led to a dispute about the wages
Harrison was receiving, Harrison saying he was get-
ting 12a. a-week, and the deceased offering to bet him
a sovereign he was not receiving so much. Har-
rison said he had not got so much money, and the
deceased then offered to fight him for a sovereign in
the morning. This produced an immediate row,
Harrison saying he would give it him then, and
striking him a violent blow on the back of the head,
which knocked him down. They all went outside
the house after this, and a general fight took place
among them, in the course of which the deceased
was km.cked down, and Harrison and Prince kicked
him while down violently on the stomach. While
doing so Miller, who was standing on the threshold
of his door, cried out—" Go it; pitch into him
The deceased, on getting up, complained of being
hurt, and walked towards his home. Oa his way
home he went into a public-house and had some beer,
and got home about twelve o'clock. Next morning
he was engaged to brew for a man, but he was in
such pain he could only give directions. He was then
compelled to walk with a stick, and died, nine days
afterwards, of gangrene, which the surgeon whe made
the post mortem examination of his body attributed to
violent kicks and blows.

Mr. SOWLEE, in defence, contended that the evi-
dence was not conclusive that the prisoner Prince had
kicked the deceased.

Mr. Monk reserved his defence until after Mr.
Sergeant Wilkins had addressed the jury, as it would
then be unnecessary for him to occupy the time of the
court.

Mr. Sergeant WILKINS, in a speech of much power
and eloquence, contended that the expression of Mit.
ler—" Pitch into him"—had reference to Harrison
an,l the deceased whilst they were fighting together
with their fists, and was nut intended to apply to the
subsequttnt kicking. He called witnesses who gave
Miller an excellent character for kindness and hu-
manity of diKpo,ition.
His LORDSHIP, in summing up, told the jury he
thought there was no satisfactory evidence against
Prince.

The jury retired, and, after an absence of an hour,
found the prisoner Harrison Guilty, and Acquitted
the other two prisoners.
Sentence wan deferred.

The causes tried to-day in the civil court have been
very unin►eresting. The common jury causes in the
first list have been got through, and several of the
common juries of the second list have been tried. The
heavy business of the assize is es yet untouched.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
THAMES.

Nine Allah, a Turk, was brought before Mr.
Yardley, charged with causing a mob of persons to
assemble, and with being disorderly, in Rosemary•
lane., Whitechipel, at four o'clock in the morning.
The prisoner, who was stated to be a person of high
rank in his own country, was dressed in full Turkish
costume, and wore a very large and handsome turban,
richly embroidered. He refused to uncover on a
motion being made to him by one of the officers, and
he was permitted to wear his head gear. It was
some time before he could be prevailed upon to enter
the dock where persons charged with felonies and
with being drunk and disorderly are generally ar-
raigned. At last he'aicended the steps, stroked his
long and flowing beard, and made his salaam to the
magistrate.

It appeared from the evidence of a police-con-
stable named Walter Mashford, 112 11, that at fbur
o'clock that morning he met with the defendant, in
Rosemary-lane, surrounded by a mob of disorderly
characters, who were much amu•sed at the gesticula-
tions of the Turk, and the gibberish he uttered,
which hie hearers could not understand. He had a
razor stretched forth in his right hand, and he made
signs that he intended to cut some one with the
weapon. He would, however, have found it very
difficult to have carried his threat into exe-
cution, for the edge of the razor was
very rough, and not sharp enough to out paper.
The policemen, believing the Turk had broken one of
the precepts of the founder of his religion, and had
Wan too tilUch wino, convoyed hica to the station- j