The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-15 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Nisi Prius Sittings at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice Willes
and a Special Jury.)
CASTELLO V. SLEIGH.

This Was an action to recover £l,OOO for an alleged
broach of contract, to which the defendant pleaded not
guilty, and that the plaintiff had not fulfilled his part of
the contract.

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine was counsel for the plaintiffs
and Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., for the defendants.

It appeared that the plaintiffs are stockbrokers, carrying
on business in Thugmorton-street, and the defendant is a
promoter of companies. In July, 1865, he applied to the
plaintiffs to allow their names to appear as the brokers of the
Tasso Brazilian Mining Company, which had been started
by the defendant and some other person whom ho was
associated. They consented, appointed agents in Liver-
pool, Manchester, and elsewhere, and acted in the usual
way of brokers. The arrangement was that they were
to receive £l,OOO, when there lad been a sufficient
number of shares taken to justify the committee of the
Stock Exchange appointing a sitting day. It appeared
that there had been some difference between the defen-
dant and the parties with whom ho was associated, and
that ho refused to fulfil the contract. In support of
the statement letters were read, and the plaintiff and other
witnesses examined.

Tho case was procaeding when wo wont to press.

POLICE IN TELLIGE.NCE.--This Day.

MARLDORUGH-S TREET.

THE WAY TO CHECK BRUTAL ASSAULTS.— John Duig
and Ann Duig, husband and wife, and Michael Lennon,
were charged before Tyrwhitt with the following violent
aseault on Mr. W. Darlington, landlord of the Golden Lion
Tavern, 42, Wardour-street.

The prisoners were on Saturday evening last in the
house of Mr. Darlington, and began quarrelling, and while
so doing the female prisoner threw some beer over the bar.
Mr. Darlington expostulated with her, when she said that
having paid for the beer she had a right to do what she
liked with it, and she then seized Mr. Darlington, dragged
him out of the house, and struck him. A man of the party,
but not in custody, knocked Mr. Darlington down in the
gutter, a while ho was lying on the ground the male
prisoners struck and kicked him, blackening his
eyes, covering him with bruises, and rendering him in-
sensible. Two of Mr. Darlington's neighbours, Mr. Walter
Warden, tin plate worker, of No. 52, Wardour-street, and
Mr. Watson, carver and gilder, want to his assistance and
rescued him, and the prisoners were subsequently taken
into custody by Police-Constable Loosley, 91 C.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, one of the witnesses stated
that the prisoners were wry violent, and he believed if he
had not gone to Mr. Darlington's assistance he would have
been murdered; and another witness stated that he be-
lieved that but for the fact of the female prisoner, who had
an infant in her arms, all the time inciting the men, they
would have gone away in the first instance.
The Prisoners said they were roughly used.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said that a mischievous woman was the
beginning of the wholo thing. The complainant, not
liking the beer to be thrown about his place, expostulated,
and then he was brutally assaulted. Ho would order the
woman to pay 40s. or a month, and the men would be
committed for six weeks each, and that with hard labour.
The prisoners, who had behaved in a bullying manner,
seemed much tamed down when they heard the decision.