The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

IVEW LOURT.

(Before the COMMON SERGFANT AI(IPTIT an HUNTER.)
CUTTING AND A' OUNDING.—A young man named
William Macarthy wail indicted for itil,adou,ly cutting
and wounting James Clark, with intent to do Lim
some grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner was a Scotchman, and a few weeks ago
went cut carousing with some of his countrymen. They
stopped at a public-house in the suburbs, and over a
game of" putting the stone," indulged very freely in
eating and drinking. They then returned to town, and
dropped into a public-house, kept by the prosecutor,
where the prisoner, who was quite drunk, became so
gross and abusive in his language, that Mr. Gark or-
dered him out. The prisoner, however, refused to go.
and in the course of a scuffle that ensued the prisoner
used his knife, stabbing the prosecutor in a dangerous
part of the thigh, and doing him other serious injury.
Ile was seen by the barmaid to brandish tt,e
knife, and threatened to do for her too if she interfered;
but after he had stabbed the landlord, a police man was
fetched, and he was given into custody. The wound was
some two and a half inches deep, and though Mr. Clark's
life was not jeopardized by the cut, it had laid him up for
a long time, while one of the witnesses who received a
cut from the same knife in attempting to restrain the
prisoner's violence had been compelled to lie by.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said he had no
knowledge of having used the knife, he was so intensely
drunk at the time; but even supposing he had, he was
provoked to it by the conduct of the landlord or some
one in the house. He went there with some money in
bis pocket, a new pair of boots on his feet, and a new
hat on his head. He fell asleep on one of the prosecu-
tor's beer butts, which stood in the front of the bar, and
when he was rudely woke up by the landlord, ending his
money, his boots, his hat, together with his coat and
waistcoat, were all gone, ho was naturally exaspe-
rated at his loss, and though be might have resisted the
landlord, he had no recollection whatever of having
stabbed him.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, end
The COURT sentenced him to seven years' transpor-
tation.

THIRD CO U R

(Before the RECORDER and Alderman LAWRENCE )
ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—A girl named Thompson,
and a mitioleged woman named ilfacaithy, were in-
dicted, the first for stealing, and the second for receiving
knowing it to have been stolen, a quantity of wearing
,pparel, the properly of Mrs. Beck, housekeeper to Dr.
SL erloek.

The juvenile prisoner had been in the service of the
prosscuter as u maid of all work, but was discharged for
z owe misconduct. Some things were missed atter she
!ett, and suspicion falling upon her, she was traced to
Baldwin's-gardens, Holborn, where she lodged with
the elder prisoner. A portion of the lost property was
found in the room occupied by the latter, while some of
it had been pledged in her name; and the younger pri-
soner admitted, when taken into custody, that she stole
the things at her instigation. This, however, was de-
nied; but when the elder prisoner was arrested she said
the pledged articles were given to her by Thompson,
and that admission, c'mpled with the confession of the
girl, was the evidence now adduced as to her case.
Mr. PAYNE tippettied for Mscarthy, and addressed the
jury in her behalf, contending that nothing like crimi-
nality had been established against her. She had borne
an excellent character up to this time.
Tee prisoner Thompson made no answer to the charge.
The jury acquitted Maearthy, but convicted Thomp-
son. Sentence was deferred.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
Henry Would pleaded not guilty to an indictment
ehagtt,g him with obtaining, on the 21st of last month,
certain monies by means of false pretences from the
London Dock Company.
Mr. Ellis stated that on the day in question he paid
the prisoner 7s. for three men, himself, Fogg, and
Francis. He put down 74. for three more, and the pri-
soner, who had been paid his wag,-s, took that up be-
longipg to Cooper and never paid him, and that consti-
tuted the false pretences.
Joseph Cooper said he was present when the prisoner
took his money. He had never given him any autho-
rity to take it. The prisoner had never paid him the
2s 44. for his wages.
William Fogg, John Nottage, G. Spinx, and Samuel
Egerton, also proved the above.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, aad
The COURT sentenced him to three months' hard
labour in the House of Correcion.

WESTIVIIN STER.-(THIS DAY.)

ATTEMPTED Mu RDE R.— Charles .11PCatfey, Theresa
AP Gaffey h.s wife, aid Ann 14 ebb, were charged before
Mr. Burrell with having so severely ii jured and wounded
J,,hn Alley, a mulatto, as to place his life in considerable
jeopardy.
F appeared, from the evidence of a policeman, that
on Friday morning last he was attracted to No. 2,
Wood's-place, Chelsea, by hearing cries of " Murder,"
and upon entering the house he found the mulatto
(Alley), who cohabits with Webb, and is a lodger of Mr.
Cuff. y, bleeding profusely from a number of gashes in
the heed. Immediately efier this he became insensible,
and while in that state the female, Mrs. Carey, attacked
him with her fists, and caught up a large sea-shell to
throw at him, but was prevented by witness.
Mr. W. Ctimminge, an inspector of the B division,
stated that the mulatto was brought to the station, on his
way to the hospital, in a truck. The whole of the upper
part of his body and Gee vs an covered with blood, aid he
appeared as if (lead, and witeeas had him immediately
conveyed to the hospital. When the prisoners were
brought in they all exhibited bruises and other marks
of violence, and had blood about their persons. The
two female prisoners were drunk.
Webb said that side had lived with Alley for a couple
of years as his wife; that he tome down in a violent
rage, arid, bier ate mpting to sal) her, gave her an in-
jury iu the head, and that she merely stood in her own
defence. She added that Alley would have murdered
her, hut for the ieterfererce of the male prisoner
MeCieffey. Theresa M•Caffey declared that upon the
interference of her husband to tea:rain Alley's violence,
the latter knocked him down with a saucepan, and she
took up the shell and struck him on the head with it to
make him loose his hold of her husband. The male pri-
suuer, M‘Ceffey, declared that he had been jumped upon
by Alley, and violently ill-treated. Webb bad a black-
eye and a wound on the side of the head, the female,
M.Caffey, had a c nursed face; and the man, as before
stated, exhibited symptoms of having been engaged in
some severe struggle. The injured man wore earrings,
and one of those was discovered on the floor with some
fleeh adhering to it.

The pri.soners, owing to the injured man being sa
not out of danger. were remanrkd to this day week.

THE PLYMOUTH MURDER.--The prisoners, Bar-
tholomew Harrington and Timothy Donovon, were brought
into the Hall on Monday and placed before the bench, there
being a very large attendance of the inhabitants to hear the
decision of the maOstrates. The Mayor said the bench, after
giving the important case their best consideration, had una..
ruinously resolved to discharge Donovon, if he would under-
take to remain in Plymouth for six months, to answer any
charge that might be brought against him ; and he was dis-
chark.ed on that condition. The prisoner Harrington was
committed for trial at the Devon assizes on the charge of
beii g concerned in the murder of William Ambrose.
FIGHT BETWEEN A FALCON-HAWK AND PART-
RIDGEs.—A few days since, as a tenant of Mr. Binghanes
of Boddington, was engaged in one of his grounds, he dis-
turbed a brace of partridges, one of which, atter a short
flight, alighted under the hedgerow in the same field, and
the other topping the fence for the moment disappeared,
when a falcon-hawk, almost as instantaneously, was seen to
poise and drop over the same spot where the first bird had
fallen. A fight immediately ensued, which had scarcely
commenced when the other bird came to the rescue, and
with his mate boldly took side against their powerful enemy,
which latter, after a few rounds of hard fighting, actually
reheated a couple of yards, when, again returning, he re-
newed the contest, but seeing he was watched, a second
time made a more distant retreat. Then one of the part•
ridges also took wing, the remaining bird being picked up
quite dead, with a deep and severe wound on its breast of
an inch in length. The hawk for the moment was again
seen to hover over the battle field, but, missing its prey,
finally decamped. There can be no doubt that, had the
hawk not been interrupted, he would have killed both birds,
notwithstanding the determined boldness with which they
met atd encountered their wily antagonist.—Cheltealiant
Examiner.

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY THE ASSISTANT I
OVERSEER or WAKEFIELD.—Much sensation has been
created in Wakefield during the last few days by the appre-
hension of Mr. John Prince Hesselton, assistant overseer of
Wakefield, on a charge of embezzling various sums of money
belonging to the parish, by a systematic falsification of his
books. Mr. Hesselton was elected to the office about four
years ago, at a salary of 701. per annum, and the Guaran-
tee Society in London is named as having been bound in the
sum of 5001. as his security. Ile has been well known in
Wakefield for many years, was a leading member of the
Mechanics' Institute, and one of its most active committee-
men. He was examined at the Wakefield Court-house on
Monday, before J. Houldsworth, Esq., and ether magistrates,
and on the application of Mr. Macdonald, the chief of police,
he was remanded for a week. The amount at present found
deficient is said to be very considerable—much beyond the
sum for which the Guarantee Society is bound ; but respect-
ing the truth of this rumour nothing authentic has yet been
made public, though it is alleged that the overseers and ex-
aminers have discovered a large deficiency. AL ssrs. Austin
and Manwaring, the poor.law auditors, were in attendance
in court. but the case was not gone into at all, the prisoner
being remanded tint! Monday next. Such is represented to
be the depressed ELatt: of Ilessehon's mind that it has been
deemed I,rudent to observe a strict and constant watch over
hint in the prison.—Xanehester Guardian.
CHARING CROSS LLSPITAL. —Yesterday a •general
meeting of the governors of the above institution was held in
the board-room for general business, Downes, Esq., in the
chair. The annual statement of the operations of the hos-
pital for the year just ended, showed that 19,105 indigent
sick persons were admitted on the books for relief, at a cost
of 2,4:i01. 35. 11d., of those 1,210 were in-patieed, and
17.895 were out-patients. Of accident cases there had been
2,766, of which 643 were so dangerous as to require to be
immediately admitted as in-patients. The above numbers,
with the cases reported in former annual statements, make
a grand total of 186,863 sick and needy individuals who have
partaken of the advantages of the institution from its com-
mencement in 1818.
ST. ANDREW'S, WELLS-STREET.—Last Sunday
two birds, dressed up as a pope and a cardinal, were set
loose by some unknown person during the celebration of
Divine WQIIIIIIP.