The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-30 00:00:00

MAR YLEB ONE.

A respectable middle-aged man, named Richard
Stephen, alias Hill, alias W alien, was finally examined on
a charge of committing two daring burglaries. On Tues-
day night the mansion of Nathaniel Kemp, Esq., of Rot-
tingdean, Brighton. was broken into, and a quantity of plate,
jewellery. wearing apparel, &e., carried off. Suspicion having
fallen on the prisoner, who twelve months ago was in the ser-
vice of Mr. Kemp ; he was traced by Solomon; the chief -po-
lice constable of the town, to 5, Howland-street, Tottenham-
.court-road. Solomon and Mitchell, from the Marylebone
office, entered the house, and in the first room, which was QC.
cupied by the prisoner, found several large bundles, containing
a massive silver waiter, upwards of four dozen tea and silver
spoons, 'with various other artictes of jewellery, &c. which were
identified as Mr. Kemp's property. 'a he whole property of
any value was thus recovered. In another end of the room a
quantity of plate, &c. was discovered, the proceeds of another
burglary, committed about the same time, in the house of a
Mr. Lowe, Preston Street, Brighton. The prisoner confessed
his guilt, and was sent to Brighton to be tried.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—LzwEs,Raz 27.
BARRON V. THE EARL OF ASIIBORNHAM.

This was an action for a breach of contract. Mr. Barron
rented a farm of the Earl of Ashburnham, and prior to enter-
ing upon his tenancy entered into an a,:reement with the
steward of his Lordship, that as he did not keep a dog or
carry a gun the keepers should, when required, kill the rab-
bits and game that might do an injury to the wheat, &c. It
was alleged that there had been a breach of the contract, inas-
much as the keepers had not destroyed the rabbits and game
when required, and that a severe loss had been sustained in
consequence. There were a great many witnesses called on
both sides.
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 80/.
PHILPOTT V. SELL.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover cer-
tain penalties from the defendant, the constable of Dover
Castle, which he had made himself liable to, under the 23d of
Henry VI., by having demanded more than his fees from a
gentleman named Hardy, whom he had under arrest.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1501.
Mr. Hartley bad instituted a. similar action, but it was made
a remanet.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-WIRTVICK, 1114RCH 28.
ELECTION ASSAULT.-DAVIS V. BADGER, ESQ.

This was an action to recover compensation in damages for
an assault.
The plaintiff is a whitesmith, living at Dudley, in Worces-
tershire ; the defendant is a Magisirate of the same county.
During the last election the plaintiff was employed by the Re-
form Committee to go to Stoarbeidge, one of the polling
places, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of the poll.
While standing near the edge oi the booth a disturbance took
place on account of some of the Tory party being admitted
inside the booth by a back door, and in the scuffle that ensued
a man, named Reece, was pushed off the steps, and his hat
falling off, the plaintiff in attempting to pick it up, was struck
with a stick over the leg, the blow being given by the de-
fendant, the effect of which was the opening a principal vein,

from which tue blood Itovv,ll so piotusely as to cause the
plaintiff to faint away in the shop of the surgeon.—The Jury
returned a verdict in favour of the plaintiff—Damages, 301.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—LauxcEsrox, MARcH 28.
JENKINS V. HARVEY.

This case excited considerable interest in .the county of
Cornwall, the question being whether the Corporation of.
Truro be entitled to a toll of 4d. a chnldrou on all coals
brought into the port of Truro-, the limits of which extend
about 40 miles. _

The toll was claimei in two ways, either a fee for measuring
the coals, or a port duty whether there was. any me..asure•ment
or not. Evidence was given of a lease of the office meter,
with the fee of 4d. a chaldron for mea:urin, coals, granted in
1752, and a similar lease ►ranted in 1795, and it was proved as
far back as memory went a payment. of 4d a chaldrou was paid
till 1831, when the merchants refused any longer. to submit to
the demand.

Mr Baron GURNEY summed up strongly for the plailuiff.

The Jury retired, and have not yet returned their verdict.
The trial lasted from nine in the morning till eight at night,
and the Court was exceedingly crowded the whole time.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT-BURY, MARCH 25-27
NISI PRIU,
DOE DEM MUDD V. SLCKERMORE.

This action was brought by the heir-at-law of Mr. John
Mudd, who died in 1830. The property in dispute was esti-
mated, at the time of the deceased's death, at from 20,0001. to
25,000/. The trial lasted three days. The evidence produced
for the plaintiffs principally rested on the statement made by a
Jew attorney named Jacobs, whose examination occupied the
greater part of the day on Thursday. On Friday witnesses
were called to contradict the testimony of Jacob.
Verdict for the defendants.

This is the second trial of the above case, which ended in a
similar manner.

CRIMINAL COURT, MARCH
27.
MURDER OP A GAMEKEEPER.

Edward Chalker, and Jeremiah Keys, and three others,
were charged with the wilful murder of Byam Laws Green,
at Hinslesbam, on the 23d of November last. The prisoners
had gone out poaching on the night in question, and being in-
terrupted by the keeper in the discharge of his duty the pri-
soner Chalker had fired at him with an air gun, which caused
his death. The trial lasted the whole day, when the Jury
found Chalker guilty of the murder. Lord Abinger passed
sentence of death upon him, and ordered him fur execution on
Monday morning next.