The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-09 00:00:00

In consequence of her cries, some men came to her
assistance, and the man then ran away. She saw
the prisoner a day or two afterwards, and imme-
diately identified him as the man by whom the out-
rage had been committed, and she particularly re-
cognised him by his voice and his having a light,
moustache. The evidence of the prosecutrix was
confirmed by the facts that the prisoner was proved
to have been in the neighbourhood about the time
the offence was committed, and that when he went
to the barracks he appeared very hot and excited,
and his face was scratched and bleeding. It ap-
peared, however, that a hundred other privates in
the artillery were out on leave on the evening in
question, and there was some little discrepancy as
to the fact of the prisoner wearing a belt at the
time the prosecutrix was attacked in the manner
described.

The prisoner, when called upon for his defence,
declared thAt lie was not the man who committed
the outrage, and he said that the prosecutrix had
mistaken him for some other private artilleryman,
who was really the guilty party.
The learned Judge having summed up, the jury,
after some deliberation, said they thought the pro-
secutrix might be mistaken as to the identity of
the prisoner, and they therefore gave him the benefit
of the doubt, and returned a verdict of not guilty.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT—NORTHAMPTON, Dec. 8.
Mr. Justice Crompton entered this town shortly
before two in the afternoon, attended Divine service,
and opened the commission with the usual forma-
lities. _ _

The calender contains the names of 19 prisoners
in the county gaol, and two in the borough. Of the
county prisoners one is charged with murder, one
with manslaughter, two with aiding and abetting
the same, three with wounding with various intents,
four with arson, one with concealment of birth, two
with uttering false and counterfeit coin, two with
night-poaching, and three with larceny. The
borough prisoners are both of them charged with
forgery—the one of an order, the other of an under-
taking to pay money.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Dec. 8.

(Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge.)
THE , CASE OF SARAH DYER.—At the sitting of
tho Court, Mr. Sleigh stated that he had brought the
case of Sarah Dyer, the poor dressmaker, before the
council of the Royal Benevolent Society, of which
Lord Raynham was president, and it had been
taken up very warmly, and steps were adopted to
enable her to get over her present difficulties, and
to place her in a position to pursue her business
under very different circumstances. At the same
time, he would say that at the present moment
there were a good many urgent claims upon the
society, which had been most useful in affording
assistance to honest persons to overcome temporary
difficulties, thereby saving them from ruin ; and it
was to be regretted that the funds at its disposal
were not adequate to meet the numerous cases
brought under consideration, particularly just now.
Mr. -F. H. Lewis suggested that those who owed
this poor woman money should be sued for its re-
covery. She was entitled to it.
The Assistant-Judge said it was very satisfactory
to hear.the statement of the learned counsel. He
had noticed and concurred in the suggestion in
some of the public journals, that instead of money
being given directly to a person under such cir-
cumstances, employment should be given, as the
other course might seem an inducement to the cem-
mission of crime.

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(Before Mr. Creasy.)
William Gifford was indicted for unlawfully
keeping a brothel, 24, Charlotte-street, Portland-
place.
The evidence proved the case to the satisfaction
of the jury, but it was not of an aggravated
character.
Mr. Creasy sentenced him to hard labour for a
week, and to pay a fine of £lO.
At the last county day, the Assistant-Judge called
the attention of the Court to the practice which, he
understood, had prevailed, of removing prisoners
labouring under smallpox to the hospitals in public
street cabs. The Court immediately gave directions
to discontinue the practise, and referred it to the
visiting justices of the different prisons to substi-
tute some other mode of conveyance should any
more cases occur in either of tho prisons—there
having been a few—there being reason to believe
that this fearful disease is propagated to a great
extent by cabs being so employed, and it behoved
guardians and other parish officials to ascertain,
without delay, what the practise was in their
respective parishes.