The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-14 00:00:00

CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

The Lord Chancellor, Mr. Justice Patteson, and Mr.
Baron Alderson, sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall to-day to hear the
further arguments in the part-heard case of the Attorney-
General v. Shore. On their Lordships taking their seats,
Mr. Booth proceeded to address the Court in behalf of the
appellants, but the Learned Gentleman had not concluded
when we left.

In consequence of Sir Charles Wetherell being at Bristol,
it is the Lord Chancellor's intention to proceed with motions
as soon as Mr. Booth has concluded.

On Thursday his Lordship will proceed with the remaining
cause petitions. After which he will proceed with the part-
heard cause petition of Ruxton v. Fitzherbert.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

John Smith, aged 62, was indicted for assaulting Elizabeth
Spencer, his step-daughter, aged nine years, with intent, &c.
The prisoner was indicted last Session for the capital of.
fence, and acquitted, but the Court ordered him to be detained
and tried for the minor offence.
The facts are unfit for publication, but it appeared that the
offence had been repeatedly committed.
The prisoner protested his innocence, and called the mother
of the child to prove that she had reproved her for suffering
some boys to behave improperly to her. In answers to questions
put by the Court, the woman, who gave her name Elizabeth
Spenser, stated that she had lived ten years with the prisoner,
but was not married to him. She lived some time also with
the father of the child, but was not married to him, and he was
still living. The child had never been christened.
The RECORDER, with great feeling, expressed his disgust at
the case, remarking that every duty which nature and religion
required of the parents of this unhappy child appeared to have
been totally neglected.
The child, with tears, declared that no person except the
prisoner had acted towards her in the way described.
The RECORDER summed up with considerable care and dis-
crimination.

The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Court instantly sentenced him to two years' imprison-
ment and hard labour.

NEIV COURT.

John Hodge, 25, was indicted for passing a counterfeit crown
piece on the 25th February last.
The prisoner went into the shop of Mr. Hadcock, a che-
mist and druggist in Lambeth, and tendered a crown piece to
pay for some drugs he had purchased. Mr. H. examined the
crown, and found it to be good. Prisoner said he had got
change enough, and took back the crown—he then said he had
not, and gave Mr. 11. another crown piece, which turned out
to be base—Guilty.
William Dungley, 32, a notorious smasher, was indicted for
stealing the sum of 9s. 9d., from the shop of James Hughes, a
baker, City-road, and for uttering a counterfeit half-sovereign.
The prisoner went in to purchase a loaf, and tendered a
half sovereign ; when the change had been counted he snatched
it and the half sovereign up, and went off. A little boy was
sent after him to get the half sovereign, to whom the prisoner
gave a gilt six-pence.
The record of a former conviction of the prisoner for taking
16s. from the person of James Wilson, was put in and read.--
Guilty.
The Learned SERJEAST sentenced the prisoner who exhi-
bited the most hardened indifference, to 14 years' tranportation.
Charles Stephens, 24, was indicted for uttering two base
half-crowns, on the 11th September last, in the shop of Fre-
derick Rouch, a cheesernonger, Deptford Bridge, Greenwich.
—Guilty.
Joseph Sinclair, 22, was indicted for passing a base shilling
on the 23d March, and for passing a base half-crown on the
30th March, in the shop of Phillip Brimmage, keeper of a
public house. —G uilty.
James Johnston, 18, was indicted ,for passing a base shil-
ling on the 23d, and another on the 26th of March, in the
shop of John Mayhew, a chandler, of High-street, Totten-
ham-court-road. Another indictment charged him with pass-
ing a counterfeit shilling on the 25th March, in the shop of
another chandler in the Edge ware-road.—Guilty.
John Bishop was indicted for passing a counterfeit crown
piece on the 21st March, in Covent-garden, to William Hub-
bard,
,a market gardener. He was also indicted for passing a
base half-crown on the 28th March.—Not Guilty...