The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-15 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK SESSIONS, OCT. 14..

The general Quarter Sessions, for the town and borough
of Southwaik, commenced this morning at the Town Hall,
before the Riebt Hon. the LORD MAYOR, the RECORDER,
the HICII BAILIFF, &C.

The calendar contained a list of 36 prisoners for trial,
including- felonies and misdemeanors.

The RECORDER in his address to the Grand Jury said,
the calendar presented no case of novelty to himself, nor
did he apprehend that any difficulty was likely to arise
which their experience was not likely to surmount. The
Grand Jury were no doubt aware that it required at the
least 12 of their body to concur in finding a true bill, and
he recommended to them not to find a true bill in any
case, unless such evidence was produced before them as
would unexplained lead them as Petty Jurors to a conclu-
sion of the guilt of the party, and in such a case, although
all the circumstances of apparent guilt might be hereafter
disproved or explained, it was their duty to find a true bill.

RIOT AND ASSAULT.—John Ford and James Bar-
rington, Irish labourers, were indicted, together with
Thomas Sullivan and James Gracey, not in custody,
for creating a riot, and assaulting two officers of the Me-
tropolitan Police, named Fuller and White, in the execu-
tion of their duty.
Richard Fuller, police constable, No. 120, Division M,
stated th it, on the evening of the Sth June, he was pass-
ing along Tooley-street, and saw a large crowd; three
in:•n were beating a woman severely, and seeing witness
she ran to him; witness identified Ford as one of the
men beating her; witness advised the men to go away,
and not heat the woman, on which Ford struck bbn i❑
the face several times. Ford and several others dragged
witness along for thirty yards, into a court, and then
knocked him down, and, while laying in the gutter, one
of the party jumped on him. Ford was the worse for
drink, hut was not drunk.
Ford declared he did not know the witness to be a
policeman.
The witness said he was in plain clothes, but he re.
peatedly called out that he was a policeman.
John Miller, policeman, 24 division M, stated, that
being informed of the riot, he went to the spot, and saw
the first witness lying on the ground on his back, and the
two defendants not in custody were beating and kicking
him. lie also saw Ford beating Fuller. As they brought
Ford along in custody, the defendant, Barry, struck wit.
ness in his mouth. About a dozen persons were rioting,
but about a thousand persons were collected. He (lid ❑ot
know the cause of the crow d assembling ; they were close
to a publichouse, and the defendants appeared to have been
drinking.
A respectable inhabitant of Tooley-street stated that the
crowd was created by a quirrel between two females, and
the men took part in it. He corroborated the testimony
of the policern in as to the assault.
One of the jurymen said he saw the transaction, and
he believed it was the defendant Ford's wife wt .o was as-
saulted by a prostitute, mod that in Ford's endeavour to
protect her, he (Ford) was most grossly ill-used.

The RECORDER said it would have been hater if the
gentletn,n hart nut been on the jury to try the ca•e. Hr
could, however. be sworn in behalf of the defendant.
The ju yman, who gave his name William Hewitt, a
hair dresser. was then sworn, and deposed to the tact,. as
above stated; but the greater part of his infot w,s
what he had heard from others. As for the other tw,.
defendants he knew they cull be itnihediately found, for
he w ,s frequently seeing them.
rut er, the constable, declared that those two men had
n out of the way ever since this occurrence.
Juryman—lt is not ti tie, for I can rind them in twenty
winu•es.

The RECORDER directed the policerrrin to adopt the
nec,ary steps to take them into custody.
The jury found the defend,n7l Guilty of assaulting the
office's in the execution of their duty, hut not guilty of
cleating the riot.

For; was sentenced to two montis' hard labour, and
Barry to one month's hard

j:iseph Smith, aue t ihirtren, was indicted for stealing
in unihr Ili, the property of Mr. James Morton.
On the 11 th of July, as Andrews, a polic,man, was
in t e H gh s reef, Southw irk, he saw on the opposite
side of the way, near Mr. M irton's shop, the prisoner
and another boy. He watched them for anout ten mi-
nutes, and then S:IW the prisoner pot his aim into Nlr•
Mot ton's shop and take out an umbrella, which he hand:a
to his comp inion, and then they both tan off. The po-
liceman lohowed, whrn Ii succeeded in taking the prisoner;
the oilier b y
escap,d, having previously dropped the
umbrella, which was
picked up by the policeman.
The prisoner was found Guilty.
The prosecutor recommended him to mercy, as he
believed it was his first offence, and that he had no friends.
Mr. LaW, the governor of the gaol, said the prisoner
had been in custody ever since the 11th of July, and not
a single person bad been to see him.
The Collar ordered him to be put hack for the present,
to ascertain if there was any asylum to which he could be
sent, instead of sending him to prison, where he would
associate with more experienced off nders.

SCONE PALACE.—The Earl and Countess
of Mansfield are now in Scotland, where they intend to
prolong their sty until the spring, when they will resume
their residence at Caen Wood, near Ifighgwe, where many
improvements have Lien recent►y made. The Palace of
Scone, in Perthshire, so celebrated by Shakspeare i❑ the
tragedy of Macbeth, and of which the Noble Earl is here-
ditary keeper, has within a few years been repaired. The
ancient and venerable portion of it, however, so dear 0)
the recollection of antiquarians, now no longer exists. Sir
James Scarlett has been paying a visit to his Noble Friend
and colleague, Lord Stormont, at Scone,