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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Feb. 15.

The sittings of the Court for the February Gene-
ral Sessions were resumed this morning at the
Guildhall, Westminster, by adjournment from
Clerkenwell, before Mr. Bliss, Q.C., presiding for
the Assistant-Judge, Mr. Creasy, Dr. Bateman,
Mr. Henry Warner, Mr. Goodhart, Mr. Dimsdale,
and Mr. Phillips. There were 46 prisoners for
trial-39 for felony and 7 for misdemeanour.
John Wilkins, 42, commercial traveller, was in-
dicted for felonionsly embezzling various sums of
money received by him on account of Edward
Gaby, his master. He pleaded guilty.
Mr. Metcalfe, for the prosecution, said the pri-
soner had been for about 12 years in the service of
the prosecutor, an oil and colourman, carrying on
business in High-street, Shoreditch, and had been
in the receipt of a salary of 2201. per year, with an
allowance of 20s. a-day for expenses. He used to
make journeys in various parts of England, and the
sums he had embezzled were paid to him in the
ordinary course of business by the customers.
The total amount of the deficiency in his accounts
was near 7001., and the embezzlements; extended
over a period of six years, a discovery being pre
vented by the prisoner appropriating sums recently
received by him to make up former deficiencies.
When detection did take place the prisoner was in
the country, and a warrant was placed in the hands
of Inspector Bricknell, of the G division, he traced
him from place to place several hundreds of miles,
and at length found him at the village of Wardosly,
near Sheffield.
Mr. Bliss sentenced the prisoner, vho seemed
to be in a precarious state of health, and was lean-
ing upon crutches, to be. koi-A to hard labour for
15 calendar months.
John Collins was indicted for having stolen 15Ib
of lead the property of Holdbrook, his master.
He surrendered.
Mr. Poland appeared for the prosecution ; Mr.
Metcalfe for the prisoner.
On the 18th of December the prisoner took the
lead in question to a marine-store shop, and sold
it. He was in the service of the prosecutor, an
iron-founder, at Chelsea, at the time, and the lead,
which be so sold, was taken from the warehouse,
marks having been placed upon it previously, so
that it might be identified. There were such
suspicions which induced the prosecutor to adopt
that course, and the result was the detection of the
prisoner, who asserted when charged that the lead
was his perquisite, and the defence now set up
was that he might have taken it under that impres-
sion, however erroneous it might have been.
The jury found the poisoner guilty, and
The learned Judge sentenced him to 4 months'
hard labour.
John Reynolds, a respectable-looking man sur-,
rendered to take his trial on a charge of aggravated
assault upon a woman named Jane Archer.
Mr. Le Breton prosecuted ; Mr. Metcalfe and
Mr. T. Salter were for the defence.
This case involved a question of right of way,
and, with respect to the charge of assault made
against the defendant, there was perjury either on
the part of the prosecution or the defence, for the
witnesses ceivra.licted each other point blank. The
prosecutrix, a merried woman, lived in Grove-lane,
Stamford-hill, had made herself disagreeable to the
neighbours, one of whom was the defendant Moss,
through whose garden she claimed aright of way to
her own. The defendant objected to her intrusion,
and on the 7th January, on her attempting to open
the gate, lie prevented her, and she went to the
next house and tried to get over a fence into the
defendant's garden. She swore that be threw her
down over the fence, threatened to put her down a
well, and attempted to do so, for he seized her by
the right aim and left leg, and held her up over
the well, when his wife interfered and prevented
him. He then threw her over the fence into the
next garden, and, her head c :ming into contact
with some palings, same received injuries from which
she had not yet recovered. The language, he
used was such, she said, that it was impossible for a
woman to repeat it, and while holding her up he
exposed her in a most shameful manner. She had a
miecarriage in consequence, and was still under medi-
cal treeteuent, Lut eur;„,:coe was eal'ed although
she produced what purports; to be a medical eel--
tiac*. In her account of the transaction she was
corioborrated fully by a Mrs. Compton, a neigh-
bour, who said she also had a miscarriage in con-
sequence of the defendant's disgusting end violent
conduct. On the other side witnesses were called
who denied altogether the truth of the evidence,
and it was contended that the defendant had not
used any more force than he was justified in doing
to keep an intruder off his property, that in•ruder
being a person who had been fined and imprisoned
for other misconduct, and who claimed this right
of 'pressing the defendant's gat den for tho mere sake
of annoyance.

The jury, after a long trial found the defendant
guilty ou the counts charging an assault and occa-
sioning actual bodily harm.
Mr. Bliss said it was clear that the defendant
had acted in a moment of passion in defence of his
right to protect his garden, but he had used more
force than was justifiable. He should sentence him
to the short term of one mouth's imprisonment.
The defendant declared his innocence emphati-
cally, but said as the jury had found him guilty he
must suffer the consequences.
John Johwon, 22, was indicted for stealing a
number of spoons in the dwelling-house of Herbert
Barnard.

Mr. Payne prosecuted ; Mr. Ribton was for the
prisoner.

The prosecutor resides at 69, Portland-place, and
it appeared that on the 7th inst., just as the dinner-
table was laid, the prisoner called and banded two
parcels to the footman, and asked for a receipt from
the lady they were for. The footman went to
fetch his coat, and on his returning to the passage
he caught the prisoner leaving the dining-room,
and heard no jingling of plate. He asked him to
step back, which he did, and he then lccked the
door upon him and fetched the butler. The pri-
soner had replaced the plate, but al in a heap,
as;it had been laid out. The parcels were rolls
of brown paper.
The prisoner was found guilty, and he pleaded
guilty to a former conviction. The police gave a
very bad account of him, a detective of the F divi-
sion stated that he knew him as one of the leaders
in the Notting-hill depredationswhich were so noto-
rious some titn6 back.
Mr. Bliss sentenced him to four years' penal
servitude.

(Before Mr. Creasy.)
Oliver Rammage, butcher's foreman, surren-
dered, and was tried upon a charge of stealing some
marked money from his master's till.
The jury acquitted him.
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Orridge prosecuted; Mr.
Ribton was for the prisoner.