The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-14 00:00:00

SUMMER ASSIZES.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LivERrooL, Aug. 13.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)
This morning Captain Leslie, found guilty at the
last assizes on an indictment for falsely imprisoning
five Chilian gentlemen, who were political prisoners
sentenced to be banished, and who was employed
by the Chilian Government to bring them in his
ship to this country, and land them in Liverpool,
was brought up for judgment. A case having
been reserved for the opinion of the Court of
Criminal Appeal, the conviction was affirmed, that
Court being of opinion that, although perfectly
justified in detaining the prosecutors so long as his
ship was in Chilian waters, yet that their detention
against their will was unlawful when the defendant
had passed out of the boundaries of that country.
His lordship sentenced the defendant to be fined
ls., and to be discharged.
James Halloran, 17, and Phillip Mack, 18, were
indicted for the wilful murder of Patrick Gibbons,
at Liverpool, on the 2d of May last.
Mr. Aspinall and the Hon. Dudley Campbell
prosecuted; and Mr. Deighton defended the Pri-
soners.
It appeared that the prisoners were shoeblacks,
following their vocation in Bispham-street, Liver-
pool, and that the deceased man had recently come
into their street as a rival. At about half-past 11
o'clock on the night of the 2d of May the deceased
and a lad named Hayes went down Bispham-street,
and the two prisoners and a third man were on
the opposite side of the street. One of the three
men threw a stone at the deceased, and imme-
diately crossed over and asked Hayes and the de-
ceasedif they wanted anything. At that time the
prisoner Mack had a poker in his hand with which
he struck Patrick Gibbons on the head, knocking
him down. Hayes then ran away, followed by
Mack, and it then appeared from the evidence of a
woman named Archibald that the two prisoners, on
seeing the deceased in the street, ran into the house
where they lived, and said, " they wanted a poker
to beat a lad at the top of the street." Mack then
got a poker from the fireplace, and the other pri-
soner obtained a sling shot, with which they went
out; and after Mack had struck the deceased with
the poker, and, while he was chasing Hayes,
Halloran struck the deceased various blows with
the sling shot, and the third man who was with
the prisoner raised the deceased up and dashed his
head against the footpath. On Mack returning he
jumped on the deceased, who was lying ou the
ground, saying, "he had stopped the from
saying anything for three months, and perhaps for
six." The deceased died three days afterwards from
the injuries he had received.
His Lordship having summed up,
The jury found the prisoners guilty of man
slaughter.
His Lordship, in passing sentence, said it was as
cruel and as bad a manslaughter as ho had ever
heard, and that the difference between it and mur-
der was vety slight. The sentence of the Court
was, that they be sent to penal servitude for the
term of their lives.

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FATAL FIGHT AT B-4717ERSEA.

During Sunday and yesterday morning ccnsider-
able excitement was caused in the immediate
neighbourhood of Messrs. Easton and Amos's engi-
neering works, in the Grove, Great Guildford-street,
Southwark, in consequence of a report being cur-
rently circulated that a man employed in the factory
had been so brutally knocked about in a pugilistic
encounter with another man, named Williams,
that his life was despaired of. Unfortunately the
worst apprehensions were more than realised, for
the poor fellow expired at half-past four o'clock
yeterdr,y aft( raoor, and now awaits the coroner s
inquest.
The short facts of this lamentable case are as fol-
low :—For some time' past a great deal of ill-feeling
had prevailed in Messrs. Easton and Amos's fac-
tory between two of their workmen named respec-
tively George Mitchell and Williams. The conse-
quence was that they both agreed to fight on
Sunday morning for a sovereign a-side. A man
named Davis was appointed either one of the stake-
holders or referees, and who also worked in the
same factory, and he accompanied the belligerents
to Battersea.fields, where they had a regular staid-
up fight for a considerable period, during which
time it seems that George Mitchell was repeatedly
knocked down, and that more than once he fell
heavily on the side of his head, besides receiving
violent blows on the temples and chest. The unfor-
tunate man was prostrated several times, but
nothing serious or fatal was apprehended, and he
was able to walk home, but in a state of severe
suffering. Dr. Leech, of the firm of Wood and
Leech, surgeons, of Union-street, Borough, was
promptly in attendance, but he at once pronounced
the unfortunate fellow to be in articulo mortis.
Everything, hoWever, was done that humanity or
surgical skill could devise, but without the least
beneficial effect, and he expired at half-past four
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
It also appears that the man Davis, one of the
seconds, had gone on Sunday morning and knocked
Mitchell (the deceased) up, when his wife refused to
let him go out, the man telling her that he was
only going to have a running match for a sovereign
a-side. She accordingly allowed him to go out,
and hence the fatal result.
Information of the melancholy occurrence having
been sent to the Stone's-end station of the M Divi-
sion of the Metropolitan Police, Acting-Inspector
Gardener was despatched by Mr. Monford, the
superintendent of the division, in search of the
guilty persons, but the only persons engaged in
the fatal affray that he could find in the factory was
the man Davis, one of the seconds, who was at once
removed in custody.
Mitchell's antagonist has not yet been appre-
hended, but it is expected he will be in a day or
two.

The unfortunate deceased lived at No. 3, Cottage-
place, Castle-street, Southwark-bridge-road, and
was considered a very clever workman, Ho has
left a widow and four children in a state of utter
destitution to deplore his untimely end, and it was
only by a subscription amongst his late brother
workmen that they wyre enabled to get a meal
last night.
From the fact of the wife of the other ma"
being known to be in Yorkshire, it is expected that
he *ill be found there.
The coroner's inquest, it is expected, will not be
held until Wednesday or Thursday.

COUNTRY MARK ETS.

i COLCHESTER -AuG. 11.

A fair supply of wheat. Prices Is per qr advance on
the currencies of last week. Very little doing in spring
corn, with prices as before. The weather'still continues
unsettled.

Wheat, white GN to 684 I Beans, Maza,gan„ 37s to 404
red 54s to 58s I Middle & small 40s to 44s
Barley 2Bs to 32s White peas 3Bs to 40s
I Oats 26s to 28s Grey,. 40s to 42s

CHELMSFORD .--Ara. 10.
• There was a rather fair supply of wheat, and business
was not brisk, at barely late rates. In Spring corn little
doing worthy of notice, but quotations firm. Peas a scarce
article.
Wheat. white....44s to 618 J Peas, Partridge 428 to 430
red, ......43s to 57s White 42s to 453
Barley 34s to 40s Boiling 42s to 450
Chevalier ....35s to 40s Dun 37s to 40s
Grinding 32s to 36s Beais, Tick ....39s to 45s
Malt 61s to 67s Harrow Ticks 40s to 480
Chevalier 64s to 69s Mazagan 37s to al
Oats 25s to 30s