The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-17 00:00:00

LAW INT4,LIGEN-CE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Mayl6.
(Sittings at Nisi Priu‘)before Lord CAMPBELL and
Comtunn Juries )
HANDFOBB_ v. BE VISME.

In this case the plaintiff sought to recover damages
for a breach of promitCof marriage. When it was
called on

Mr. Sergeant Wzmais mid, he was happy to say
the Court w.luld be saved the trouble of trying it, as
the parties had come to an arrangement. On the
part of the defendant<llle was willing to consent to a
verdict being given fik-the plaintiff with 3501. damages.
He also said a plea had (teen put on the record which he
regretted had ever beektlaced there, and he wished en-
tirely to withdraw it.

LOrd CAMPBELL said, the plea would be taken pro
non script°. x 1
A verdict was there taken for the plaintiff, with
$5Ol. damages.
_

Mr. Janes, ,Mr. Pearson, and Mr. Charnook
appeart d for the plaiatiff; and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins
and Mr. M. Smith fot the defendant.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
‘tOjlDN
and Mr.
COURT.
(Before Baron Am) isoJustice TALFOURD.,
John Hollis, 25, Vic indicted for
_feloniouslyintentPurver, to do him
grievcus bodily harm,
Mr. Bodkin ankillfr. Clark prosecuted on behalf of
the Treasury. '
It appeared tbati-;on the evening of the 6th of April a
serious disturbance! took place in To oley-street among
a number of the foyer order of Irish; two of them, named
Lynch and Walsh; began to fight.. The prosecutor,
who is a police-cOnsteble, interfered to prevent a breach
of the peace, took Lynch into custody, and was about to
convey him to the police-station, when his •
companions
interfered with tk view to rescue him, and the
prisoner,
who took an flotilla part in exciting the mob to attack
he police, wrenched the staff from the prosecutor and at-
tacked him with it in a most savage manner, iniitctng a
desperate wound upon his head, which felled him to the
ground insensib4 and he remained for some time in a
dangerous state, ,owing to this and other injuries ho re-
ceived upon the occasion.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and,
The Learn6d JUDGE, after observing upon the savage
and unmanly conduct he had exhibited, and the neces-
sity for protecting the police in the execution of their
duty, sentenced him to be transported for ten years.
John Lynch, 29, labourer, Bartholomew Coghlan, 27,
tailor, Patrick Collins, 17, labourer, Michael Walsh, 26.
labourer, and Margaret Hart, who surrendered, were
then arraigned. upou another indictment, charging them
with feloniously wounding Samuel Congdon, a police-
constable.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk prosecuted; Mr. Worsley
and Mr. Cockle appeared for Hart and Collins.
This prosecution arose out of the same transaction as
the former, and the facts deposed to were pretty nearly
the same.
jury Acquitted Walsh, Hart, and Lynch, and
found the other prisoners, Collins and Coghlan, Guilty,
but recommended them to mercy, Collins on account of
his youth, and Coghlan on account of the good cha-
racter he had received.
Mr. Justice TALFOURD sentenced Collins to be impri-
inned and kept to bard labour for 18 and Coghlan for 12
months.
John Lynch then pleaded guilty to another charge
preferred against him for a common assault, and he was
sentenced to be imprisoned for 6 months.
Mary Ann Coster, 20, was indicted for the wilful mur-
der of her illegitimate male child by drowning it.
Mr. Ryland prosecuted, and Mr. Parry defended the
prisoner.
The evidence merely want to show that on the 26th of
March the prisoner was delivered of the child in ques-
tion at her father's house, in York•street, St. Luke's,
and Mr. Mack, a medical gentleman, who was called in,
expressed an opinion that the child was born alive, and
that its death was the result of drowning; but the reasons
for this opinion were by no means conclusive, and there
was an utter absence of any evidence to show that, even
'supposing the child had, in point of fact, been born
alive, the death was the result of any wilful act on the
part of the prisoner. The Coroner's jury, it appeared,
had returned a verdict of "Found Drowned."
Mr. Baron ALDERSON stopped the case, and the jury,
under his Lordship's direction, returned a verdict of Not
Guilty.
Thomas Humphrey, 18, was indicted for cutting and
wounding William Burton, a police constable, with
intent to prevent his lawful apprehension.
It appeared that on the night of the 28th of April the
prosecutor had taken a girl into custody for disorderly
conduct, and as he was conveying her to the station-
house the prisoner interfered and struck him. He im-
mediately laid hold of the prisoner, who walked with
him a short distance towards the police-station quietly,
but upon their getting to a spot that was rather dark he
began to struggle with the policeman, and at length drew
.teknife from his pocket and stabbed him in the arm, in-
flicting a very severe wound. Notwithstancitn the in.