The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-21 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—CHELMSFORD, July 20.
(Before Mr. Justice Crowder.)
Chas. Joyce, a boy only 10 years old, was charged
with feloniously setting fire to a stack of wheat.
Mr. Worsley prosecuted.
It appeared that the prisoner had been in the
service of a farmer named Willis, at Hutton, near
Romford, for two years, and he had misbehaved
himself upon several occasions. The fire took place
on the 26th of May, and it appeared that a day or
two before, the prosecutor had flogged the prisoner
for some gross misconduct, and took him home to
his father, who, according to the evidence, thrashed
him a second time, and he became very excited and
angry. The prosecutor went to Romford market on
the day mentioned, and very soon after he was gone
a wheat rick was found to be inflames. The pri-
soner ran away and was taken into custody con-
cealed in a ditch, and, upon his being questioned,
he admitted that he had set fire to the rick with a
lucifer match.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Justice Crowder sentenced the prisoner to
be confined for one month in the county gaol, and,
at the expiration of that period, to be sent to a re-
formatory for five years.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—WORCESTER, July 20.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
Ann Holyhead was indicted for the wilful mur-
der of her infant at Great Malvern.
On the 3d of March last the body of a newly-
born infant was discovered in a wheat field near
Malvern. It had a piece of string tied round the
neck, but the surgeon who had examined the body
stated that he could not positively say that the
child had been born alive. The prisoner had been
suspected of having a child, but there was no evi-
dence to convict her of a charge of murder, and,
accordingly, she was acquitted.
Hannah Foster was charged with the wilful
murder of her son at Oldbury, on the Bth of May
last.

The case was fully reported in the papers at the
time. The murder was committed by the prisoner,
she being at the time of unsound mind. Evidence
was accordingly taken now upon that point before
the prisoner was arraigned.
The surgeon to the Worcester gaol, where she
had been imprisoned since her commitment, two
months ago, deposed that she was decidedly incom-
petent to plead to the indictment.
The jury accordingly found that she was of un-
sound mind, and she was ordered to be kept in con-
finement during her Majesty's pleasure.

EXTENSION OF THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—It
has been determined to construct, without delay, by the
London and Brighton Railway Company, a branch line
from Pulborough to 'Arundel. This line will supply a
want long felt, and will form a connecting link between
the eastern portion of the country and their main line.
This course was determined on at a meeting at Bognor to
take into consideration the desirability of a branch to Bog-
nor, which it is believed will also be eventually made.—
Brighton Guardian.
NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—The Wharncliffe
meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at
York, on Tuesday, to obtain the approval of three-fifths of
the proprietors to bills now before Parliament. The bill
for amalgamating the Bedale and Leyburn and the Rose-
dale branch of the North Yorkshire Railways with the
North-Eastern, which has passed through the Committee
of the House of Commons unaltered, was approved, with
one dissentient. The Harroc,ate Branches Bill had also
passed the committee without alteration, notwithstandingg
opposition. An amendment on the motion for the approval
Of the bill was proposed, to the effect that such portions.tue of to of
the bill as referred to the interference with the gumd
and the
Harrowgate be omitted. This was negatived
before
oriTgiHnaEl mlvotiEoAnTwHaEsßc.a—leodrr, wienthtsonlofyrfaoiunr
fdeilslse;tiets.
Dublin
yesterday morning--the down-poor commencing
testi;
literally impassable and great is the joy
4 a.m. and continuing up to post hour.of
have been pretty
inhabitants. The change apps ars to
provinces are
dust-choked
inhabitants.
' —A privateletter •
says .
DOINGS AT GII3RALTAR.. .
general, and the agricultural reports from the
passible in all branches of the
—"We are as busy here as
also increasing their storage
more favourable than they had teen for. sme weeks past.
service • the commissariat are
Spanish
opfaptehres
Earnegtlhrishonat throwing theThed
various opinions as to
within the past few days some Spanish engin-
eersraltar, and
room for'
provisions.
Thethe aivity
have been observed tracing out lines in the vicinity of
the village of Campe Mento, near the site of the camp occu-
pied by the Spanish army chreing the last siege of Gibraltar.
What these movements are for will doubtless be the cause
of a question from the Be.tish to the Spanish Government.
SOme of the Spanish we',rkmen here, but recently from the
interior of Spain, state
France has been mak in overtures to the former power that the current report there is that
g
re-
lative to the restoraf
~
ion of Gibraltar to Spanish rule. This
may be only rumo•-ar,
are, nevertheless , going on:,
but the preparations for defe•Atee here