The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-21 00:00:00

DERBY ASSIZES, MARCH 19.

CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice J. PARSE. )
THE DERBY RIOTS.
William Hudson, and the other ten prisoners acquitted
o❑ Saturday of breaking into the borough gaol in October
last, and rescuing a felon named Keeling, were again
placed at the bar this morning, charged on another indict.
ment with rescuing another felon on the same occasion.
The prisoners entered into the necessary recognizsnces
to keep the peace for twelve months, and then received a
verdict of Acquittal.
They were next arraigned on a charge of riot, upon
which also no evidence being offered, they were Acquitted.
A number of other prisoners, together with `Wardle and
Mosedale, two of the above, were then placed at the bar,
and were about to be arraigned on a charge of riot, with an
attempt to break open the County gaol, when a right of
traverse was claimed on behalf of some of them ; and ul-
timately it was agreed that the trial of all of them should
be postponed until next assizes, the defendants giving bail
for their appearance in Court to take their trial at that
time. The bail required for each defendant was two sure-
ties for 201. each and themselves in 40/.
William Mettam, aged 34, was indicted for riotously
and tumultuously assembling, with divers other persons
unknown, on the Bth of October last, at Chaddesden, and
breaking the windows of Henry Sacheverell Wilmot, Esq.
The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Robert Jackson, aged 38, one of the two men whom
the mob in,isted on being released from the Borough-gaol,
on Sunday, the 9th of October last, was indicted for having
riotously assembled with divers other persons in the streets
of Derby on the night of the Bth of October, and broke Mr.
Cock's windows.

Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character.
The Jury, after hearing evidence, returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.
Mr. N. CLARKE here observed that there was another
prisoner charged with a similar offence ; but he confessed,
after all he had observe] of the disposition that prevailed
respecting these riots, he did not think he ought to waste
the time of the Court in offering any evidence for the pro-
secution, as he had no hope whatever of obtaining, upon
any evidence a verdict of guilty.
Mr. Justice PARKE said that the Learned Counsel
would act as he thought proper; all that he (Mr. Justice
Parke) would say was, that he was ready to proceed with
the trial of the prisoner.
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Joseph Tunnicliffe, aged 18, was then arraigned on
an indictment, charging him with t ,e commission of a riot,
together with other persons, on the 18th October last.

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The prisoner was, no evidence having been offered, pro-
nounced Not Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HO USE.
Scott, Brown and Taylor, 'three boys, were charged
with having entered the warehouse of Mr. Adam•, orange
merchant, Pudding-lane, and packed up about 600 oranges,
with intent to steal them.

The boys are all Billingsgate thieves, and the entrance
was effected by one of the smallest inserting his Land
between some iron bars at the top of the door, and then
by unfastening the upper part. One of them got in and
packed up the oranges in bags, while the two others re-
mained outside as scouts. These two were observed by a
man who was passing, who suspected something wrong
was going forward, he concealed himself, and heard Smith,
who did not appear more than 12 or 13, call ~tit to Brown.
" Hold hard ; there's two covies twigging us." The other
answered, " You -- fool, they're looking towards the
water." " Well, then," said Smith, " get the swag
ready, and Dick and me will stall it off." They then
went up a gateway, which led to the premises of Mr.
Adams, and witness, having procured assistance, succeeded
in capturing three, one of the gang having made his escape.
The street-keeper, Buckstone, knew them all to be
young thieves, so the LORD MAYOR diretted they should
be sent to Bridewell for one month each, and the oranges
returned to Mr. Adams.

CHARLES-STREET.—It is rumoured that
many political plants have been contrived at Mr. Plantas, which
may go far to produce unpleasant schisms among the clique,
and the public may soon have another proof that " a house di-
vided against itself cannot stand." Some of the meetings at
the Ex-Secretary's have been very lively, rather too much so,
whilst others have been most somniferous. Combinations of
this sort, where so many are struggling for loaves and fishes,
too few for the gang, seldom last long. The rich members
grow tired of being " drawn upon," and the poor ones get
restive and throw oft' allegiance to those who can do nothing
but condole or promise. A scene the other day in Charles-
street reminds us of a humorous description by Lord Byron, of
a similar party meeting at which he once attended at Lord
Moira's. The explanations were anything but explanatory,
and the views of the party were provokingly opaque. Lord
Byron was overcome with tedium and yawned to a
neighbouring nobleman, " Well, is this all—or what shall
we do next ?" " Why, wake the Duke of Norfolk,"
was the reply, "for he snores so — that there's no
hearing anything said." Byron, however, did not take the
trouble of waking the Duke; but being awake himself, he
walked of, resolving never again to be present at such a meeting.
New York papers bring the following intel-
ligence of a most destructive flood:—=it falls to our lot to-day
to record the most extensive and destructive flood which has
occurred in the history of this country. The Ohio river corn.
less,ly Saturdaytill
eight
at o rnni nhgt
beganwhan it
menced rising at this place on Thursday last. On Friday, soon
mrt rate
to f twelve after twelve o'clock, it began to overflow its banks. The water
rose at the a
iSeless an
ss hourrapit till
when it came to a stand, and soon after began to fall. The
precise height of the river above low-water mark has not yet
been ascertained. It is said to have risen higher than within
the recollection of the oldest person now living; it being from
five to six feet higher than it was at the memorable floods of
1784 and 1813. The destruction of property occasioned by
this calamity is beyond calculation, The whole valley of the
Ohio, from its source to its mouth, within the reach of this
tremendous freshet, must present one uninterrupted scene of
waste, desolation, and distress. The farms of the rich bottoms
have been swept ()lithe fences, and dwellings, barns, corn and
meat-houses, with their contents, and the stock. All the
towns and villages along the river have been wholly, or in part,
inundated ; and many of the buildings, with all their contents,
have been carried away. All the low part of our town has suf.
fered severely—it is impossible at this time to estimate the loss
of property ; forty-two houses, we are informed, mostly small
frames, have been swept away from South Wheeling. The
bridge over Wheeling-creek is gone : thirty-five houses were
counted passing by on the river from Saturday morning till
twelve o'clock A large warehouse, filled with flour, lodged
on the upper point of the island. The river is now even with
the banks. In our next we shall be able to give more parti-
culars. A gentleman who came up the Ohio from Louisville
to Wheeling, and reached Baltimore city on Saturday, night,
confirms, says the Baltimore Amerierzo, the statement made
above, that almost every town and village on the river was
snore or less injured by the overflow of the waters. He states
that he counted 200 houses which had been carried off, and
were floating down the current.

" The Bravo," by -- CooI) er Of all other spots
on the face of the earth, Mr. Cooper could not have selected for
the subject of romance a more fitting one than Venice—Venice
with all her domes and spires, churches and palaces, floati,g
as it were on the waters. The gay gallants—the usurious
money-lenders—the secret inquisitors—the wealthy merchants,
and the wily senators of this " City of the Isles," have been
commemorated by Shakspeare, Byron, and other writers; hut
it has remained for Cooper to render them still more familiar
to us in the above Work, which a contemporary observes,
" will be devoured by young and old for the breathless in-
terest with which the author has invested his characters, and
for the living reality with which they speak and act." The
great American novelist has now shown that genius can not
only conjure up " Water Witches," from the vasty deep, or
depict to us the Red Indian " in form as palpable" as he who
treads the lone prairie, but can lay hold, without restriction,
upon any subject.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY,
Maioo 19.—The sales to-day reach 2,500 bags,
700 new boweds Sold 6 at steady prices