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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)

N RE JAMES MUTTON-THE "DAY" NEWSPAPER.

This matter was brought before the Court to-day,
but as the accounts are not filed, an adjournment was
rendered necessary. The bankrupt has placed upon
the proceedings a long list of creditors, many being,
for small amounts. The principal, however, are
Lord Elcho, £1,460 ; Earl Grosvenor, £1,500; and
Earl Lichfield, tilioo • monies advanced to enabl
the bankrupt tl start the Duy. No security was
given for these-Mvances, but our reporter has been
informed that, as s->on as the just debts of the con-
cern are settled,. there will be 20i. in the pound for
all the creditors. The accounts are being prepared
by Messrs. Johnstone, Whale, Cooper, and Evans,
and will be produced to the Court in October, when
the bankrupt comes up again.

POLICE IN rELLIGESCE.—This Day,

311RIABOIZOUGIE SIREET.

TIIE WAY TO CHECK STREET RUFFIANISM.-

John Edward Piektnan, a young man, was charged
before Mr. Arnold with assaulting Mr. Augustus Le
Maont, French chemist, Princes-street, Leicester-

square.
Mr. Le Maont said that about 11 o'clock the
previous night, after closing his shop, lie went to
the pillar letter box to post a letter, and on his return,
and just as he was entering his house, the prisoner
and some other young men came along, and, spitting
in his band, threw it in his face, and two of the
three of them, including the prisoner, struck him,
the blow the prisoner gave him knocking out one of
his teeth. He went after the prisoner and the
others, who all ran away, and he succeeded in stop-
ping the prisoner and gave him into custody.
In answer to the prisoner, th 6 complainant denied
kicking him, and, in answer tollr. Arnold, said the
prisoner and the others were entire strangers to him.
Police-constable Shrives, a plain clothes officer of
the C Division, said he saw the prisoner and some
others in Coventry-street last night pushing persons
about, and at the corner of Coventry-street they
pushed a man against the shutters of a shop. He
followed them up Princes-street, and saw M. Le
Maont just entering his house. The young men
did something to Mr. Le 'Maont, who spoke to
them, and the prisoner and others struck M. Le
Maont, and ran away, and M. Le Maont ran after
him and caught him, and gave him into custody to
a constable in uniform.
The prisoner said he never assaulted the com-
plainant, and called a witness named Henry Stobes;
but on Shrives stating that he was one of the lads
who was along with the prisoner Pickman, Mr.
Arnold ordered him into custody, and Shrives being
called made a similar statement to that given by
him before.
M. Le Maont said he could know Stobes as being
the one who gave him a violent blow on the back
of the neck, while Pickman struck him in the face.
Mr. Arnold said Pickman appeared to belong to
a gang of young ruffians going about molesting
everybody. He should commit him for two months
with hard labour, and ordered him to find at the
end of that term a surety in £5 to be of good be-
haviour for six months. As the other prisoner
wished to call a witness, he would adjourn the
case.

ASSIZE IIV7ELLIGENCE.

NORFOLK ClRCUlE—Nonwicil, August 9.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justic.l Byles.)
The trial of Hubbard Lingley, for the murder of
his uncle, Benjamin Black, commenced yesterday,
was continued to-day, the jury, by whom he is
being tried having been kept together at the Maid's
Head lintel during the night.

Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Drake were for the prose
cation ; Mr. Sims Reeve for the defence.
Before his lordship adjourned the hearing of this
case, which he did after Mr. Metcalfe had summed
up the evidence for the prosecution, one witness, the
last that was called for the prosecution, was put
into the box-L.-a man named Collins,. in order that
Mr. Reeve might have an opportunity of cross-
examining hint if he pleased, inasmuch as he had
got from one of the other witue. ses an answer to
the effect that during the inquiry by the police the
prisoner had said " Surely it can't be Collies," and
had mentioned to one of the polieenisa " that his
uncle had suspected Collins of taking pheasaws'
eggs." It turned out, however, that Collins was not
near the wood on the day of Black's death.
Mr. Reeve, as soon as his lord ship took his scat
this morning, proceeded with his address to the jury,
and began with criticising the statement made by
Mr. Metcalfe of the probable motives for the crime.
These were two—one that the prisoner was anxious
to obtain his uncle's place, and this, as Mr. Reeve
contended, was not in the least supported by any
part of the evidence by any witness. The other,
that the prisoner had, as was proved by three or
four witnesses, uttered violent threats against his
uncle, and as to these Mr. Reeve prayed the jury to
look at them more as foolish, vulgar expressions
of an irritable man than as threats of intended
vengeance, at the same ti na contrasting them
with his constant kindness and attention towards
his uncle's family, not only before, but after his
uncle's death. Mr. Reeve then urged that
the prisoner's conduct and demeanour after the
body was found were those of a man who had
not so dreadful a crime weighing on his con-
science, commented on the evidence about the frag-
ments of paper and bottles at the shed, which he
said really amounted to nothing, for that was a
place very likely to be used by tramps or other
passers by; about the prisoner's flask found in the
wood, too slight a piece of evidence, because it was
empty at the time, and, dwelling at
,somo length
about the No. 2 shot found in the body, contended
that not only was the evidence as to the fact that it
was No. 2 that was sold by Scott so weak as to be
unworthy of credit, but that even if the jury could
place credit in the judgment and opinion of Scott (a
grocer) and his assistant who measured out the shot
as to the quality and size of shot, yet that the fact
that a man should go to a shop where he usually
dealt and where he was well known to buy the very
sized shot that was found in the body, when any
other sized shot would have been fatal, the day be-
fore he was intending to commit murder, was so
improbable that it got rid altogether of the link in
the chain of evidence. The learned counsel then
went minutely through the different statements of
the witnesses and the facts they were called to prove,
and among other points urged that there was nothing
in the fact that the prisoner was the first to come up
to the body after it was discovered, inasmuch as his
work lay in a part of the wood, while it was abun-
dantly clear that he came to the spot from the direc-
tion where that work lay, and must have got to his
work about the time when the shot was fired. He
concluded with reminding the jury that if the charge
against the prisoner was not proved beyond all
reasonable doubt, and they were not fully satisfied
that his was the hand that fired the shot, they were
bound to acquit him.
His Lordship summed up the whole case, remark-
ing first upon the length and complication of the
evidence, reminding the jury of the double duty
thrown upon them—that to the prisoner, who was
not to be convicted on suspicion, however strong,
but on convincing evidence; and that to the public,
whose safety and security dependedon the vigilance
and care with which the protection afforded them
by the law were maiutained—and in these cases the
law means the jury who have to try them—a id
commenting upon the nature of the evidence, which,
as is most usual iu the eh trge of murder, is circum-
stantial, not direct, because while those who do
commit murder take care that no human eye shall
see them, yet frequently cannot do it without leav-
ing traces, and those traces, when picked up and put
together, form a chain of circumstances. his lord-
ship then went through the evidence, marshalling it
in order of time, and beginning with that which
was given for the purpose of showing motive. The
main force of this rested upon the statements of
John Spinks, a labourer,
tyre© witnesses. The first,
detailed a conversation with the prisoner, held about
two months before the day of the murder, in which
the latter said he had been falling out with his uncle
because he had left his work too soon, and that he
would do for him. The second, Maria Pealing, said
that talking with him three weeks before the murder
the prisoner said " We have had a master row, and
I took up a hatchet and swore to cut the
down, and this I would have done ;" and again on
the Saturday before the event the prisoner said, " I
and my foreman (meaning his uncle) have had
another row," adding that if his uncle did
not reckon up for him he would for his uncle, he
would finish him off one day, " him, I hate
him." While Mrs. Pealing's husband, who saw the
prisoner three weeks before the uncle's death, stated
that in the course of conversation he said " I should
not mind chopping him down with my hatchet,
him, I hate him." The deposition of this
witness was read by his lordship, as the last words
did not appear in them, though the rest did ; it
should also be noticed that there was a little varia-
tion between Mrs. Pealing's statements before the
magistrate and in court here, but not of any
importance.
The learned Judge then went on with the history
of the case, drawing attention to the evidence about
the charger, the shot, the appearances in the wood,
showing where the gun had been fired, the finding
the body, its appearance and condition, and the
demeanour and manner of the prisoner, when lie
answered to the labourer's calls. .11is lordship
having most carefully gone through the principal
parts of the evidence said—" It will now be for you,
gentlemen, •to say whether you believe upon this
evidence the prisoner is the man who committed the
murder, for-that murder it was there can be but little
doubt. The prosecution has put forward the follow-
ing points :—First they allege as motive the quarrels
and threats and murderous intentions,which, if they
are to be believed, do bear very strongly against
the prisoner; if not; they are wilful efforts on the
part of false witnesses to swear away another man's
life. Next, the prosecution proves that shot was
bought by the prisoner, and the question is, what
for ? Then it was shown that a few days before the
death of Benjamin Black the prisoner W 5 trying,
his gun, in answer to which the counsel for the pri-
soner says that if he had been meditating such a
deed he would not have done this in public, and
where he was so well known.
his putting the
Then you have his de-
he
nial of having a gun, and pf of .
police on a wrong scent, and of.his
bloutdhinsgayt
wag i,i
which the defence and prosecution
order to avoid suspicion, and though
the r
hide,was s
thaom
t is
doubt about the time whet] the gun was
e
not so material a question as t
bout the pieces
this one,
pri-
soner hide it?' As to the evidence
.a Did the
rioner
of paper which were found,
hot sold to the p
be like those in which the s and which were s.aid to
was wrapped as such kind.
to that,
it is urged that too
up, for the defence
much credit could not be givencommon
;
of paper was so very
flask
fbouutndthehiiidtdheenre in the
evidence of the powder
tree
stump of an ash and covered up, of the shot
charger found on the prisoner, and of his no t hforavinthe
g
bad money the day before the murder to p y
shot when he bought it, or of some meat he was bar-
gaining for, whereas he afterwards spenltho.
3d.
did it ?on
that day. Lastly, says the prosecution, vBs
One man, Collins, only has been suggested, and
that by the prisoner but Collins has baen caland
led,
and answered that suggestion ; while ono fact,
that the strongest against the prisoner, was proved
that the shot with which deceased was killed was ex-
actly the same in Ain with that 'which the Pri"ler