The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 10.
STOCK EXCIIANGIC.—The share market has been firm
to•day, with a good demand for stock. The transactions
were as follow:—Caledonian, 15—East Lancashire, Prefer-
ence, Fifths, MB—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 56—London
and North-Western,lls—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 32w—Midland, 5434—South-Eastern and Dover, 2014
—York and North Midland, 21.
MANCHESTER, DEC. 10.

STOCK EXCITANGE.—A fair amount of business has been
done to• day, and prices had an upward tendency. The
transactions were as follow :—Caledonian, 14,4—Ditto, Pre-
ference, 7,4—Eastern Counties, 6 L4—East Lancashire, 15—
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 551,2—London and North-Western,
I 15—Ditto, New Quarters, 3 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 32%—South-Eastern and Dover, 201—Mid-
land Stock, 54,y4 North British, 6% —Arnbergate 3/1 dis.
BIMINGHAM, TAc. 10.
STOCK EXCIIAXGE.—AIthough almost every description of
railway stock improved, there was a very small am- unt of
business transacted to-day. The Tanis appears to be pretty
well over. South Stafrirdshire Shares, which continue in
great request, and are gradually a vancing, were sold at
1/ 183. 9d. die.

DUBLIN,
the district in.
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WEDNFSDAY.-1 he Lord• Lieutenant has offered a
1001. for the eOnviction of the three men who murdeerwer reward
fund for the remuneration of any one who shall even give
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inch private information as may lead to the apprehension of
the murderers.

THURSDAY EVENING,

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
N RTHE NCI RC WT.—Liverpool, Dec. 10.

CEOWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
Daniel Ganiwu, aged 19, was charged with having,
at Manchester, on the 17th of October last, in com-
pany with another person unknown, assaulted and
robbed with violence one Michael Kenny.
Mr. Assheton Cross appeared for the prosecution ;
the prisoner was undefended.
The prosecutor and his brother, who are Irishmen,
had been over in this country in the autumn, for the
harvest, and oa the 17th of October, as they were re-
turning to Ireland, they stopped at a public house in
Liverpool•road, Manchester, to inquire the way to
the station, in order that they might go by the cheap
train to Liverpool, and whilst they were in the public-
house, the money they had, which amounted to 71.
103., was produced, and then replaced in the prose-
cutor's pocket. Subsequently he went out into the
back yard, and the prisoner, who is a private in the
29th Regiment, accompanied by another soldier, fol-
lowed him, and in the yard they tripped him up, and
having got possession of the purse, they took 2/. 103.
out of it, and then returned it to him. Information
of the circumstance having been given to the colonel
of the 29tb, inquiries were instituted, and the prisoner,
along with several other men of the regiment, were
placed together in the guard-room; and upon the
prosecutor and his brother entering the room they
immediately selected the prisoner as the man who
had committed the robbery ; and on the prisoner's bed
being searched a sovereign, two half-crowns, eleven
shilling., and four halfpence were found.
His Lordship having summed up, the jury returned
a verdict of Guilty.

Sentenced to seven years transportation.
NISI P2.IUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice
EnLE.)

Daniel Eyre, a respectable looking young man, a
subsorter in the Manchester Post-office, was charged
with having at Manchester, on the 18th of May last,
stolen a post office letter, containing a Bank of
England note for 51., the property of the Postmaster-
General.

Mr. Cobbett and Mr. Whigham prosecuted ; Mr.
Monk defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 17th of May last a Mr.
Joseph Coward, who resides at Barrow, in this county,
posted a letter at Barrow, containing a 51. note, ad-
dressed to Mr. James Smith, commission agent,
Southgate, St. Mary's, Manchester, which ought in
the course of business to have been delivered at Man-
chester on the following day, but it never reached
Mr. Smith, who in about ten days informed the
prosecutor that the letter and note had not arrived,
upon which information was given to the Post-office
authorities. Some time elapsed ; but subsequently
it was discovered that, on the 29th of August, the
prisoner and his wife were on a visit in Southwark,
and that while there his sister-in-law obtained change
for the note in question, at the same time writing her
name and address upon it. The prisoner was appre-
hended on the 10,h of September, when he acknow-
ledged that he had had the letter in his possession.
Mr. MONK addressed the jury for the prisoner,
(tad contended that the case had not been sufficiently
substantiated against the prisoner. In the course of
the transmission of the letter to Manchester it bad
passed through the hands of several persons, by whom
the note might have been abstracted, and, having got
into circulation, it might have come into the prisoner's
possession honestly, and without his having been
guilty of felony.
Mr. Entwisle, the banker, of Manchester, in whose
service the prisoner lived as butler before he entered
into that of the Post-office, gave him an excellent
character for honesty ; ateil Mr. Ransome, a mer-
chant, of Manchester, also gave him a character for
honesty during some years.
His LORDSII IP having summed up,
Tne jury returned u verdict of Guilty,with a strong
recout-it ndat ion to mercy.
Ills LORDSHIP said that the prisoner had been con •
eicted of a very grave charge, on evidence which left
no doubt of his guilt ; and unhappily these kind of
offences by Post-office officials were very prevalent.
Tne excellent character which the prisoner had re-
ceived was of little avail, for it was that very charac-
ter which enabled persons to commit such offences,
because no person could obtain a Post-office situation
without a good character. He was always glad to act
upon the recommendation of a jury to mercy, but in
the present case that recommendation could not pre-
vent the removal of the prisoner from this country,
though, had it not been for that recommendation, he
should have felt it his duty to pass a more severe sen-
tence than he intended to do, which was that of
transportation for ten years.
Gilbert Levy, a boy only twelve years of age, was
indicted for the manslaughter of another boy, named
John Rothwell, at Aughton, on the 3d of November
last.

Mr. Blair prosecuted ; Mr. Monk defended the

prisoner.
It appeared that on the evening of the 3d of October
the deceased bad a stick, which the prisoner tried to
get possession of, which he eventually succeeded in
doing, and took it up the yard in which he lived to
hide it; in about a quarter of an hour he returned
with another stick, which was a short one, having a
knot at the head; with this in his hand he ran after
the deceased, who tried to escape from the prisoner,
but the latter succeeded in reaching him, and hit him
twice on the side of the head, causing effusion of
blood on the brain, from which death ensued the same
evening.
Mr. Monk having addressed the jury for the pri-

goner,
His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said that it was a
maxim of the law that a person under the age of
seven years could not be guilty of a felonious act.
Above fourteen, a person was supposed to have at-
tained discretion, and was as responsible for his ac-
tions as those of more mature age ; but during the
interval from seven to fourteen a person was pre-
sumed not to be guilty of felony, unless there was
strong evidence of malice. He should therefore leave
it to thejury to say whether the prisoner at the time
of committing the offence had a guilty knowledge
that he was doing wrong.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
John Barrington, aged 29, was charged with having,
together with two other persons unknown, robbed
and assaulted one James Livingstone, and stolen from
him a Bank of England note of 1001., two of 201.
each, a watch, and a bank post bill for 871.45. Btl.
Mr. Blair prosecuted ; the prisoner was undefended.
It appeared that on the night of the Bth of October,
about ten o'clock, the prosecutor was returning to his
re,idence in Bold. place, Liverpool, when he was at-
tacked by three men, one of whom came up to him
and chucked him under the chin ; another put his
prisoner, having taken
arms round his neck and over his mouth, so as to
:ttYhe'se aanupddr prosecutor's ut or's
watch. t r o uAs er
days pocket,
an
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received from him 801. in gold, and
the prisoner went to a Mrs.
hi
her to take care of some money
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fo
on the 21st October the prisoner took a public-house
in 13ronte- street, Liverpool, for which he paid a con-
siderable sum. The detective police having been put
upon the alert, took the prisoner into custody at his
house in Bronte-street, and on searching it they
found, in a room at the top which was used as a
pigeon, house, 11 sovereigns loose in one of the
pigeon nests, and in a bag, which was filled with
pigeon dung, the watch of which the prosecutor had
been robbed was discovered. The night on which the
robbery took place was moonlight, and the prosecutor
picked out tle prisoner from among a number of
others who w,re shown him as the man by whom he
had been robb-sd.

his Louni,uir having summed up,
Thn jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
A previous conviction for felony was then proved
against the prisoner, by which it appeared that in
1846 he had been convicted of felony and sentenced
to 10 3ears,' transportation.

ilia 1408133111 P, in passing sentence, said that the
prisoner had been convicted of a robbery, accom-
panied with the most aggravating circumstances,
being assisted by two ctber men of equal degree in
guilt, and as it would appear, of considerable practice,
for they seized their victim in such a manner as to de-
prive him of all power of voice and motion, and whilst
in that state rifl:d him of his property and then ran
away. In addition to the offence of which he had
been found guilty, he had in 1846 been convicted
and sentenced to ten years' transportation, which for
some reason or other had been commuted. Under
these circumstances, his Lordship felt it his duty to
sentence him to be transported for the term of his na
tural

Patrick O'Too?e, aged 35, was indicted for having,
at Liverpool, feloniou,ly and wilfully neglected to
surrender himself to the district Court of Bankruptcy.
Mr. Blair and Mr. Aspiaall conducted the prose-
cutler] ; Mr. Tindal Atkinson defended the prisoner.

The prisoner had, previously to December, 1850,
carried on business as a retail provision dealer, at
Nos. 51 and 77 in Msrybune, in the borough of Liver-
pool. On the 26th of that month he was indebted to
a Mr. Bristow, a provision merchant in Liverpool, in
a large sum of money for provisions supplied to him,
and Mr. Bristow, from information he received with
ri-gard to the prisoner's proctedings, on the 26th of
December, 1850, presented a petition to the district
Court of Bankruptcy, stating the amount of his debt,
and declaring th:tt the prisoner had committed an act
of bankruptcy ; and, therefore, the prisoner was ad-
judged a bankrupt by the Commissioner, Mr. Steven-
son. A duplicate of the certificate of bankruptcy was
served on Ittn, by being left at his last usual pl.tce of
abode, and seven day s were allowed to the prisoner,
as provided by the 104th section of the Bank•
ruwey Gmso:idation Act, to show cause against the
validity of such adjudication by the Commissioner. No
cpb.y,rues::ele,,e,:a ;
ps,ieshauornw:erir :ayeatin, shdotioocnevon t,whoear os2ithefeutr proceedings taken
fatj3l.'hue rpYriisionnetril'es
premises, requiring him to appear before the District

DECEMBER 11, lB5l.

likely to be irresistible in strong hands. There were
three life-preservers, a great quantity of flies, centre-
bits, and Berk lanterns. lie b lieved if some cf the
property were detained in the cus*.ody of the inspec •
tor, he should be able to procure a conviction upon
apprehending the person whom he believed to b 3 the
thief. _ _ _

The Loan -MAYOR then issued an order that all the
property produced, with the exception of a few pairs
of shoes, should ba given up to the complainant,
which was accordingly done.