The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-02 00:00:00

APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES,

Mr. M'MAHON obtained leave to bring in a bill to
secure the right of appeal in criminal cases.

ENDOWED SCHOOLS,

Mr. DILLWYN obtained leave to bring in a bill for the
better regulation of endowed schools.

PETITIONS OF RIGHT.
Mr. BOVILL obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend
the law relating to petitions of right, to simplify the pro-
ceedings, and to make provisions for the cost thereof.

AFFIDAVITS BY COMMISSION.
Mr. BOVILL then obtained leave to bring in a bill to
enable the judges to appoint commissioners within ten miles
of London, and in the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands,
to administer oaths in common law.

MANSLAUGHTER BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
LANDED ESTAT BILL.
The Title to Landed Estates Bill and the Registry of
Landed Estates Bill were committed pro forma.

INCLOSURE OF LANDS BILL.

This bill was read a third time and passed.
The liewo adjourued at a quarter-past twelve,

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCIIESTER, March

CROWN COURT.
THE ANDOVER MURDER.
(Before Mr. Baron Watson.)
At the opening of the Lent Assizes this day, his
lordship, in charging the grand jury, complimented
them on their numerous attendance. He said he
could not congratulate them on the state of the
calendar, as on the present cccasion there were 71
prisoners for trial, and many of them were charged
with very serious offences. There was a serious
charge of murder committed at Andover. Two
persons, Thomas Alexander Banks, and Emma
Banks, his wife, were indicted for the wilful murder
of William Parsons, a linendraper, on the night of
the 22d November. The deceased left his home at
nine, and was not seen again by. his household ;
next morning his body was found in a field in such
a state as to leave no doubt of a most brutal murder
having been committed. An ash stick, six feet long,
was lying near, the evident instrument with which
the deed was perpetrated. The deceased's watch and
money were perfectly safe in his pockets. Between
half-past 9 and 20 minutes to 10, several persons
heard eries of " Murder" and the sound of blows
coming from the fields, about a quarter of a mile
from the town, and from this it was considered
clear the murder was committed between half-past
nine and a quarter to ten. The prisoners were not
arrested till some days after the murder. The im-
portant question for the jury was whether sufficient
evidence of suspicion existed against them. At nine
o'clock the female prisoner was passed on the road
walking, and when asked to get up and ride in a
friend's vehicle, she refused. The party in the vehicle
went on to the Railway Tavern, and there finds the
male prisoner, who shortly leaves, saying he should
be back in a quarter of an hour. At ten o'clock both
prisoners are seen walking together back towards
the town. The question arose where were the pri-
soners from about a quarter past nine till ten, they
not having been seen during that interval, and the
possibility existing of their having been at the scene
of the murder, only a quarter of a mile off. The
evidence against the prisoners was entirely cir-
cumstantial, but when there was a complete train
of circumstances, that evidence was perhaps
the best. ' It seemed that the female prisoner took a
dress from the deceased's shop on the 21st October,
but it did not clearly appear whether the act was
looked upon as a theft or not. The husband had
seen deceased about the affair, and they had been
heard having warm words. There was a suggestion
of a familiarity between the woman and the deceased,
but nothing in the depositions went to that extent so
as to prove it. 11l will appeared to be created
through t e taking of the dress. If the evidence
was not conclusive the jury had better ignore the
bill, as if they found upon weak testimony, asd the
prisoners were acquitted, they could not thereafter
be charged again if better evidence came to light.
After some further remarks the grand jury were
dismissed.

In the Andover murder case upwards of 40 wit-
nesses are subpoenaed for the prosecution. Mr.
Slade, Q.C., and Mr. Poulden are retained for the
Crown ; Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., and Mr. Cole-
ridge defend the prisoners. The case excites
immense interest.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.-READING, MARCH 1

(Before Mr. Justice Crompton.)
Isaac Woodycar, 28, labourer, was charged with
setting fire to a rick of barley, the property of Thos.
Lanfear, at Avington, on the 26th Dec., 1858.
Mr. Griffiths appeared for the prosecution. The
prisoner was undefended by counsel.
It appeared by the evidence of a little boy that
at about one o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday,
the 26th December last, the prisoner was walking
along the road from Hungerford to Newbury, by
the prosecutor's fields, which abut upon the road.
The boy lost sight of the prisoner for about twenty
minutes, when he again saw him in the road, and
was told by him that a rick was on fire. This was
found to be the fact, the rick being in a field about
300 yards off. Some footmarks were traced from the
spot where the boy had lost sight of the prisoner,
and these led towards the rick, and back again, and
along the road in the direction in which the pri-
soner had gone; and, in order to show that
these were the prisoner's footmarks, impressions in
lead were taken of them, and produced in court, and
compared with the prisoner's shoes.
The prisoner handed in a well-written defence.
This was readby the officer of the court, and showed
considerable knowledge of criminal jurisprudence.
He chiefly relied for bis defence on the entire ab-
sence of motive for the commission of the crime.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and previ-
ous conviction was found against him for setting
hay on fire in 1851, when he was sentenced to
seven years' transportation. - _

The prisoner then said that now he was found
guilty he admitted he was guilty ; and added, that
if her Majesty had sent him out of the country when
he was convicted before he might now have been
as respectable a man as the prosecutor. He did not
wish for mercy, and had set fire to the rick in order
that he might be sent out of the country.
Mr. Justice Crompton said, prisoners were not
tried and convicted of offences to be sent out of the
country as honest emigrants, and the prisoner would
find that the sentence he was about to inflict was
not a light one. His lordship then sentenced the
prisoner to eight years' penal servitude.
(Before Mr. Baron Channell.)
Edwin Nash and Henry Brown, labourers, were
charged with feloniously wounding Gaius Mason,
with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm,
on Jan. 23, 1859, at Sonning.
Mr. Carrington appeared for the prosecution ;
Mr. J. J. Williams defended the. prisoner Nash.
Brown was undefended by counsel.
It appeared that about five o'clock on the morn-
ing of Sunday, Jan. 23 last, the prosecutor, who
was head gamekeeper to Mr. Robert Palmer,
M.P., heard the explosion of a maroon, placed
to give an alarm when trodden upon, like a fog
signal used on a railway. Soon after, he heard
the report of a gun, which came from a cover of
Mr. Palmer's. The gamekeeper, with an assistant
named Early, went towards the spot, but finding no
one there, they went to another cover of Mr. Pal-
mer's, called Skinner's copse, where they heard an-
other gun fired. Directly afterwards the two pri-
soners emerged from the cover, Nash having a gun,
and Brown a pheasant and a stick. A conflict at
once ensued between the keepers and the prisoners,
in which the assistant got away Brown's stick.
The prisoner Nash then divided his gun into two
parts, giving Brown the stock, and keeping the
barrel himself. After this, a sort of running
wrangle and fight was kept up between the parties,
the prisoners from time to time threatening to kill
the gamekeepers. As the night was very light,
the gamekeepers were thus enabled to distinguish
the men. NV hen they had all proceeded in this way
for about a mile the prisoner Brown struck the
gamekeeper on the head with the butt-end of the
gun-stock, and the prisoner Nash struck him many
times on the body with the gun barrel. After this
violence the gamekeeper fell insensible, and his
assistant was obliged to run away. The game-
keeper afterwards recovered so far as to be able to
go to Reading to give information, but he was ob-
liged to be taken home to Sonning in a fly, where
he had ever since remained under the care of Mr.
Davis, a surgeon. Evidence was also given to
identify the prisoner Brown by his footmarks.
Mr. J. J. Williams having addressed the jury for
the prisoner Nash,

The jury found both prisoners guilty, and
Mr. Baron Channell sentenced them each to four
years' penal servitude.
The business of the assizes was brought to a close
a little before four o'clock p.m.

CENTRAL C:RIMINAL CO URT, March 1

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
Amelia Charlotte Collins, a respectable looking
woman, surrendered to take her trial for misde-
meanour.

Sergeant Ballantine was specially retained with
Mr. T. Salter to conduct the prosecution ; Mr.
Ribton appeared for the defendant.
The charge against the defendant arose out of a
claim set up by her to a house in the Cornwall-road,
Lambeth, and an action was tried in the Court of
Queen's Bench a few days ago, when the whole of
the facts were published. The prosecutor was a
Mr. Thomas, who, it appeared, purchased the house
in question, with other property, about eight years
ago, and he remained in quiet possession of it until
October last, when defendant got into the house,
and she was ejected by force. On the 4th No-
vember it appeared that the defendant went to the
place, armed with a hammer and chisel, and she
forced down the shutters and then broke a window
and tried to get through the opening head
foremost. In so doing it appeared that she
stuck fast, and the position in which she was placed
of course afforded very great amusement to the
crowd that assembled. She at length contrived to
get into the house, and it was with considerable
difficulty that she was removed. The defendant
subsequently brought an action against Mr. Thomas
for assault and false imprisonment, but the jury
gave a verdict in his favour, and the defendant was
now indicted for what is, in law, termed a forcible
entry into the premises in question. It transpired
in the course of the ease that the house did formerly
belong to the defendant's father, and it was alleged
that she was in possession of the house, under an
agreenient with a person named Mr. Grett, who
was a tenant of the prosecutor.
The defence pet up for the defendant was, that

she had only acted in accordance with what she
believed to be her legal right, and. that the prose-
cutor had no right to eject her by force.
The jury, without any hesitation, retu rued a ver-
dict of guilty, and the defendant was called upon
to enter into a recognisance to app ear and receive
judgment if she was called upon to do so, upon the
understanding that no further procei :dings would be
taken if she refrained from giving • the prosecutor
any further annoyance.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-- March 1.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Francis M a y Cray, 48,
was charged with drunkenness, furiou s driving and
thereby causing severe injuries to an c. OA man of 87
years of age.
Mr. C. Ince, printer, Curtain-road, s fated that on
the evening of Saturday last he saw t he defendant
and another man, both intoxicated, in a horse and
chaise, proceeding along the Hackney-n oad. Defen-
dant was driving at a furious rate, and. after pass-
ing an omnibus, crossed to the wrong. side of the
road, where an old man tending a ste stood close
by the kerb. The horse, or one of tht 3 shafts, came
in contact with that person, who was d ashed to the
ground screaming fearfully.
The constable who had charge of the case pro-
duced a certificate from the house-s- a rgeon of the
London Hospital, to the effect of tb in poor fellow
being severely injured by bruises abo- at the thighs,
body, arms, and hands. He. had, h :lowever, been
able to leave, and was an out-patient.
The old man hobbled to the front .of the court
and told the magistrate that he was 'lame in conse-
quence of the fall ill question. Sue h. an accident
had never occurred to him before althcnigh he had
kept a stall for above forty years.
Defendant, who said that he had offices in
Billiter•street, City, and resided in the New North-
road, expressed his great regret iror what had
occurred. He had given the injures man a sove-
reign and supplied him with all he re quired; more-
over, he would take care that he shou Id never want.
Magistrate—What answer do yon 1. make to the
charge of drunkenness ?
Defendant—Why, sir, the fact is that I and some
friends, shortly previous to this um'ortunate affair,
were amusing ourselves by shootbag at a lighted
candle with my gun, and endeavouring to snuff it
out in that way, so we got inebriate d over it.
Magistrate—Highly reprehensibt e as your con-
duct has been, it certainly does aI Tear that you
have done all in your power to recompense this
poor old man for the injuries receivoill at your hands.
I shall fine you ss, for drunkennes3, and order you
to pay the expenses of the witnesses, the surgeon
who first attended, the cab fare, anal expect you to
keep your word.

MARYLEBONE.—John Jones, a cab-driver,
badge 13,282, was charged before Ter. Broughton
with being drunk while driving his cab, and with
assaulting police-constables Wheel ex, D 84, and
Crutcher, D 180.

It appeared from the evidence t] let about half-
past nine on Monday night the p ri'soner was in
Baker-street driving his cab, and was in a state of
intoxication. The attention of pol ice-constable
Crutcher was called by a gentleman to the conduct
of the prisoner, who was very violent towards
the gentleman, by -whom he was gi yen in custody.
Witness took hold of the prisoner's horse, and led
it as far as Duke-street, when on looking behind
him he found that he had gone off the box. He
gave the cab in care of a constable,, and ran after
the prisoner, whom he overtook in St. James-street,
Oxford-street. He then seized hold of the pri-
soner, when he was knocked down by him. They
had a struggle together while on the ground, and
the prisoner bit him in his hand. At this time
police-constable Wheeler came up and rescued him
from the prisoner.
Wheeler stated that, upon taking the prisoner off
the last witness, he (prisoner) made an attack upon
both of them, and they all fell. The prisoner was
on the top of witness, and said that he would do
him (witness) a serious injury. He then laid hold
of witness's trowsers, behind, and attempted to put
his threat into execution. He tore his (witness's)
trowsers and drawers, and seriously injured him.
Two constables came up, and as they were carry-
ing him along the prisoner bit him in the right
thumb three times.

Mr. Broughton—Do you feel the, effects of his
attack ?

Wheeler—Yes, sir ; I had no sleep last night,
and I am now in much pain. (The constable showed
his hand to the magistrate, which had on it sonic
adhesive plaister.)
The prisoner was fined 205., or a month, for being
drunk, 15s. for the damage done to the clothes of
Wheeler, and one month's imprisonment for the
assault upon him.

COUNTRY MA.R.KETB.

LIVERPOOL—Mutes 1.
At our corn exchange this morning there was a fair
attendance (Ay the town and country trade, but the busi-
ness passing was limited, and no further quotable alteration
occurred in the value of either wheat or flour, and holders
were very firm. The demand for Indian corn was better/
and a fair quantity found buyers at an improvement of Id
per cental. Oats and oatmeal steady, at full prices. Peas
and barley without change in their value. Egyptian beans
advanced ld per cental. The market on the whole displays
more tone.

LEEDS—Mancli 1.

We continue to be fairly supplied with wheat ; there iti
no great activity in the trade, still a fair business passing
at about previous rates. Fine barley fully as dear. Bean
in limited demand. Oats and other articles as before.

Averages for the week :
Wheat 3,973 qrs., at .42s Old
8ar1ey......... 2,342 ~34s hid
Oats 169 „ 2ss 21d
Rye 6O 3ss 4d „
Beans 199 „ 448 lid
Peas ••!. . —:* _ 2? —s Od

Arrivals this week :

Wheat 2,440 qrs.
Oats
Barley 1,460
Beans 364
Rapeseed
Linseed —

SHEFFIELD-MARCH 1.

The snpply of wheat to-day was small, and the trade un-
usually dull. In flour and other articles no change.
Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...l4s 6d to 16s 6d
White 9) 2 f ...168 Od to 18s 6d
Beans )1 ,f ...17s Od to 19s 6d
Peas, per qr 558 Od to 58s Od
Grinding barley, per qr • 27s Od to 32s Od '
Malting ditto, ~ 37s Od to 40s Od
Oats 9) 248 Od to 30s Od
Millers' prices for flour—ls sd, is 7d, and is 9d per
141 b.
Hay, 80s to 85s ; wheat straw, 28s to 36s ; oat straw, 28s
to 368 ; turnips, 18s to 19s per ton.

NORWICH CATTLE—FEB. 26.
There was a large show of store cattle to-day, consisting
of Scots and shorthorns. With a fair attendance sales were
good, and at the close of the market very few remained un-
sold. The selling price for Scots was 4s to 4s 6d ; short-
horns 4s Od to 4s 6d ; Irish, 3s to 3s 6d per stone of 141bs.
estimated weight when fat. Fat beasts firm at 7s 6d to 8s
—very prime, 8s 6d per stone. • There were no Devons and
Irish worthy of notice.
Sheep—Fat sheep, 8s Od to 8s 6d, prime lots Os per stone.
All sold.
Pigs—Good store pigs, 18s to 20s per head. Fat pork,
5s Od to 5s 6d, prime 6s per stone. The supply was larger
than the demand.

SENTENCE ON A RIBBON➢IAN.—Martin Fallon,
who was convicted at the Westmeath assizes on Friday of
being connected with illegal societies, the passwords of
which were found upon him, was sentenced on Saturday to
seven years' penal servitude.

BIRTHS.
DENT.—On the 28th ult., at Ribston Hall, Yorkshire, the
wife of John Dent Dent, Esq., M.P., of a daughter.
GRAHAM.—On the 24th ult., at Wimbledon-park, the
Lady Hormione Graham, of a son and heir and
daughter.

RICE.—On the 27th ult., at Eaton-place south, the Hon.
Mrs. Charles Spring Rice, of a son.
ROWCROFT.—On the 28th ult., at Worcester, the wife of
Francis Frederick Rowcroft, Esq., 2d Gronadiers Bengal
Army, of a daughter.

MARILIAGES

D'EYNCOURT-CLINTON.7OII the Ist inst., at St. Mary's,
Bryanston-square, Captain d'Eyncourt, R.N., second son
of the Right Hon. Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt, to the
Lady Henrietta Pelham Clinton, youngest daughter of
the late, and sister of the present, Duke of Newcastle.
FRANKS—BREwis:—On the Ist inst., at St. George's, Han-
over-square, Major-Genera Sir Thomas Harte Franke,
K.C.8., to Rebecca Constantia Elizabeth, widow of the
late Samuel Brewis, Esq., of Langley House, Prestwich,
Lancashire.