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 appealed 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 matket on
the day mentioned, and very soon after he was gone
a wheat rick was found to be in flames. 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 the was ordered to be kept in con-
finement during her Majesty's pleasure.

A conspiracy against Prince MiloscMichael has been discovered at Belgrade.
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NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—The Wharna
meeting of the shareholders of this company was heldeliffet
York, on Tuesday, to obtain
the approval of three-fifths of
the proprietors to bills now before Parliament.
for amalgamating the Bedale and Ley burn
Rose-
dale branch of the North Yorkshire Railways with the
ame
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North-Eastern, which has passed through the Committee
of the House of Commons unaltered, was approved, with
one dissentient. The Harrogate Branches Bill had also
passed the committee without alteration, notwithstanding
opposition. An amendment on the motion for the approval
of the bill was proposed, to the effect that such portions of
the bill as referred to the interference with the quietude of
Harrowgate be omitted. This was negatived; and the
original motion was carried, with only four dissentients.
THE WEATHER.—Torrents of rain fell in Dublin
yesterday morning--the down-pour commencing before
4 a.m. and continuing up to post hour. The streets are
atne:Atht: re
literally impassable and great is the joy of the dust-choked
inhabitants. The change appears to have been pretty
moregenDeroa general,
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wetethekrs past.
DOINGS :
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—"We are as busy here as possible in all branches of the
service ; the commissariat are also increasing their storage
room for provisions. The Spanish papers are throwing out
various opinions as to the activity of the English at Gib-
raltar, and within the past few days some Spanish engin-
eers have been observed tracing out lines in the vicinity of
the village of Campo Mento, near the site of the camp occu-
pied by the Spanish army during the last siege of Gibraltar.
N\%at these movements are for will doubtless be the cause
of a question from the British to the Spanish Government.
' Some of the Spanish workmen here, but recently from the
interior of Spain, state that the current report there is that
France has been making overtures to the former power re-
lative to the restoration of Gibraltar to Spanish rule. This
may be only rumour, but the preparations for defence here
are, nevertheless, going on." '
DARING FEAT.—On Tuesday last a workman,
ascending to the summit of the cathedral tr:taatn Salisbury
altitude
named James Matthews, performed the intrepid feat of
for the purpose of oiling the vane,
of 404 feet from the ground. The
large number of persons, and was accomplished.
1 ieci to the exterior
of small iron'handles which arebfi: y
mmouuted the cross above
of the spire. Before descendin; which is
height stood upright upon it.
the vane, and at that dizzy
last (says
Saturday
KILLED BY A BULL.—On
inhabitants of Godney,
herald) the asvitiebsysemd ebaynas
the Western Counties He
were painfullyex-
near Glastonbury, and neighbourhoodits _
E lVilcox, farmer, of Godney, had
cited by a report that Dir.
end. It appeared that Mr. Wilcox
was the owner of a b 1
come to an untimelyu_l,end,
fearing
from the noise the
that it was suffering from thirst, went
animal was making
water,
when immediately upon -his
to it with a SUPPIY. of
the animal was confined, it set
• the building where
entering .
infuriated manner and gored him to death.
him in an .
upon
a considerable period caused some uneasi-
ness absence for
his wife,
the part of his who went to the outbuilding
ness on
in search o him, • and found her husband mutilated in a
shocking manner, with the maddened beast still standing
over him. Life was quite extinct. Deceased has left a
widow and a large family to deplore his untimely end. He
was about 50 years of age.
The Anti de la Religion states that the Abbe
Baujet, tutor to the children of the King of Sardinia, has
just been drowned while bathing in the park of St. Saha,