The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-25 00:00:00

BRISTOL SUGAR-DE°. 24.

We have to report rather a firm market, and more dis-
position to operate at present rates. Refined soarce, and
all descriptions much wanted. In rum some sales of De-
merara are reported at 2s 4d per proof gallon.

AN APPROPRIATE MAW/H.—The Ildinburet EXpre.3B
states that Miss White, who has returned to this coun-
try from Genoa, was married on Saturday to a young
Italian, of literary pretensions, named Signor Alberto
Mario, with whom she became acquainted in Genoa.
A mad dog appeared a few days ago in the commune
of Mellecey (Saone et Loire), and bit three children, a
cow, and a dog. The animal was pursued until night-
fall, but could not be caught ; the next day, however,
he was killed in the neighbouring village of St. Denis
The bites received by the three children were promptly
cauterised, the dog bitten was killed, and the cow was
placed in a stable to be closely watched.
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YORK Hoses FAIR.—The great Christmas horse fair
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animals shown, yet the exhibition, whether as to
numbers or quality, was below that of the previous
years. Good horses of all descriptions were very scarce,
and realised prices quite as high as those obtained 12
months ago. Inferior horses were parted with on
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first-class hunters ; but the attendance c•f hunting
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ASSIZE INTELLIGtENOE.

NORTHERN CIRCIIIT.--NEWCASTLE, DEc. 23.
(Before Mr. Justice Crompton.)

Blakestone Hinde, 27, and Wm. Wise, 21, were
indicted for having, on Dec. 26, 1856, assaulted
and robbed Wm. Owley of 2621.

The Hon. A. Liddell and Mr. Davidson prose-
cuted; Mr. Seymour defended the prisoner Hinde,
the other prisoner, by the advice of his counsel (Mr.
Price), pleaded guilty.
It appeared that the prosecutor on the 22d Dec.
last year received a sum of 2651. from Messrs.
Hodge and Hurle, solicitors, Newcastle. Of this
sum there were two notes of 1001. each, 451. in 51.-
notes, and the rest in gold. This sum the prosecu-
tor, who is a farmer, kept about his person until
the 26th Dec. On that night he was drinking at
the White Hart Inn, in the Low Bar, Grey-street,
Newcastle, in company with two men named Jas.
Reed and Wm. Donkin, and left there at 11 o'clock
worse for liquor, alone. As he was going home up
Collingwood-street he was overtaken by Reed and
Donkin, and they all went into the Wellington Inn,
in that street, where he had some more to drink.
He then separated from them, and left the inn to
go home about a quarter to 12 o'clock, and was pro-
ceeding up Marlborough-street, when he heard foot-
steps behind him, and saw two men. Immediately
after a man threw his arms round his neck, and he
was strangled until he became insensible, thrown
down, and robbed of all the money on his person,
and recollected nothing further until he found him-
self at home, bruised, and with a front tooth
knocked out. He had afterwards charged Reed
and Donkin with being the two men who had robbed
him. The prosecution, however, did not rely on his
testimony as to the persons who had robbed him.
They called William Wise, the prisoner who had
pleaded guilty, who stated that on the night of 26th
Dec. last year he and the prisoner Hinde lived in
Gateshead, and a man named Winship lived in
Winlaton, near Gateshead. On that night he was
in the Charles XII. public-house with the prisoner
Hinde and Winship and they left in company at a
quarter to 12, when Hinde and Winship asked me to
take a walk with them through the town. They all
went towards the Cattle-market and along Marl-
borough-street, and while there Hinde was at one
side of the street and he and Winship on the other,
when the prosecutor passed them in the middle of
the road and spoke to witness and Winship. While
his face was turned towards them Hinde crcssed
from.the other side of the street, and rushing upon
O wley, put his arms round his neck as described by
the prosecutor. Winship said to witness, " Come
over, here is some money to be got ;" and they then
rifled the prosecutor's pockets of 2661.75. 6d. They
then all ran away across Knee's field towards the
river, towards the wrestling ground, where there is
a gaslight, when the prisoner Hinde took the money
out of a flat purse and they divided it ; after which
they crossed the bridge into Gateshead and walked
from there to Winlaton to Winship's mother's, to
whom Winship gave one of 1001.-notes, part of his
share, and she said she would keep it till it could
be changed, and placed it in an old dress. They
then wont to a publichouse kept by a man named
Reed, to whose wife he offered the other 1001. note
to change as a 101. note, and she told him it was a
1001. note, and he then took it away. Mrs. Reed was
called and corroborated this statement. A man
named Johnson proved that on the night in ques-
tion he was in Marlborough-street at a quarter to
12, when he saw a man fall and three men run
away, leaving the men senseless. That man was
the prosecutor. A boy also proved that the day fol-
lowing he found a 51. note on the road which these
three men had taken. It was also proved that on
some of Hinde's friends calling to see him at the
prison he was overheard to tell them " to call on
Mrs. Wise and to keep her sweet." Early in the
last year Winship and the prisoner Hinde had es-
caped from the gaol, and the prisoner only had
been recaptured. On the part of the prosecution
the testimony of the prisoner Wise was relied on,
corroborated as it was by the evidence of the other
witnesses. For the defence it was contended that
these witnesses were none of them free from taint,
andthat Wise had said unless 201. were given to him
he would give evidence against the other prisoner.
His Lordship having summed up,
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and
His Lordship sentenced Hinde to be confined in
penal servitude for 15 years, and Wise to penal
servitude for six years.
John O'Harrow, aged 21, and Wm. Daley, 23,
were indicted for having, on the 20th Sept. last,
attempted to drown John Blackpool, with intent
to kill and murder him.

Mr. Price and Mr. Greenhow prosecuted ; and.
Mr. Seymour defended ()Marrow, and Mr. Davi-
son the prisoner Daley.
It appeared that the prosecutor, who was mate
of a ship moored at the quay-side, had been out
drinking on the night in question in the town, and
was going on board his ship between 11. and 12
o'clock, when ho was suddenly seized by four men,
two of whom were the prisoners at the bar, thrown
down, and a pocket of his trousers containing his
money turned inside out and cut off. While thus on
the ground helpless the men seized him by the legs
and body, and deliberately threw him over the
quay-side into Ste river, in deep water. The prose-
cutor was not so stunned as to be unable to try to
keep himself afloat, and he contrived to get between
his vessel and the quay wall, and by means of
his elbows and holding on by projections of the
wall to support himself until he was got out of
his perilous position. A little girl named
Catherine Riley, who had been selling crockery-
ware in the market near, was passing close by
at the time with her basket, and said she
saw five men go towards the prosecutor as he was
going on board hie ship, and saw one of the men
walk away, and heard him say as he was going away,
" If you are going to rob the man and drown him,
I will have nothing to do with it." She then saw
the other four men, as described, throw the prose-
cutor down, rifle his pockets as described, and
throw him afterwards into the river. The men then
ran away, and she leaned over the quay-side to give
and nearly fell into
She spoke positively
to the two prisoners as being two of the men, and
the the manriver a h
e handrsel f t
ino help
doing him. up,
said she had known them both before. When osseot
them ran away the others cried after him, "If you
scutch we will kill you." A policeman on duty on
the bridge spoke to seeing the two prisoners and
other two men running over the bridge, and after-
wards, on going to the quay-side, he saw the pro-
secutor getting out of the river ou to the quay very
wet and dirty.
The prisoners' counsel having addresses the jury
on their behalf,
His Lordship summed up, and tho jury found
both prisoners guilty.
They were sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude 1
each.

POLIC.S IXTELLIGRNCE—Dec. 24.

MANSION-HOUSE.--Several of the idle fol-
lows who have been for a length of time loitering
about Leadenhall-market with the intention to
plunder were charged with having stolen poultry,
and convicted and sentenced in petty sessions, le-t-
-fore the Lord Mayor and Alderman Rose, to various
teems of imprisonment with hard labour.
Johanna Callaghan a street-walker who has been
in the habit of robbing gentlemen on their return
from convivial entertainments, was committed for
three months as a rogue and vagabond. She had
been treated to a ride in a cab on a very rainy
night by a gentleman, who thought she was
an object of compassion , and listened to a very
sorrowful history of her troubles, during the re-
cital of which she contrived to steal all the money
he had about him, and hand it out at the win-
dow to an accomplice who had watched the cab.
The prosecutor,
suddenly finding that all his money
was gone, ordered the cabman to drive to Bow-
lane station, and there charged the prisoner, who
said that she was as honest a woman as ever came
from Ireland, and that she never before knew what
a prison was, but what could a poor woman do
among such a host of bad people ?
William Regan Was sentenced to imprisonment
for three months for having attempted to rob John
Whelan of his watch in Leadenhall-market.
The prisoner, it was stated, had followed the
prosecutor in the market, and the moment an
opportunity presented itself took the watch out of
his waistcoat, but could not break it from the
guard, and was caught with it in his hand.
The prisoner said, the crowd was enormous in
the market, and it was quite impossible to say who
was the thief, but he was quite confident that he
never had engaged in any a thing of the kind, and he
could refer to his character fornumber of years as
a proof that he had had no bad experience of any
kind.
WORSHIP-STREET.—James Alfred Harman,
a young man of respectable appearance, described
as a trimming manufacturer, residing at 27, Anchor-
street, Bethnal-green, was charged on suspicion of
having wilfully set fire to his house, and caused the
death of three of his lodgers, named John, Anne,
and Julia Metcalfe.
Mr. Lewis, dßly-place, attended for the prose-
r. Sleigh appeared for the defendant.
Mr. Lewis called the following witnesses.
Police-constable Andrews, 11 38, said—On the
prose-
cution, and M
morning of Saturday, the 19th inst., between 12
and 1, while on duty in Anchor-street, Bethnal-
green, I met the prisoner, who had just come out
of a publichouse immediately opposite his omit resi
deuce. He at once said, "Policeman, I have just
been robbed, and my house has been stripped of 601.
worth of goods, consisting of my, own and wife's

ktotothes and jewellery." He added, "It had such an
' effect on me that, I made an attempt to cut my
throat ; put your finger up and feel."Al did so, and
felt something like a scratch. I asked him who he
suspected, and he said, "My wife and my wife's
mother," adding, "Ivrishyou would seaach the pre-
mises." I told him to go and see the inspector of
the station. He replied, " No, I will not ; can I
get a search warrant 1" I said, " No, you cannot
at this hour of the night." He then observed, " I
shall leave it until the morning," and asKed me to
have something to drink. I refused, and be left,
and returned to the Compasses public-house. I
saw him again at half-past 1 o'clock, an hour after-
wards ; he was carrying a gallon can of beer. He
bade me good night, and entered his house. I next
saw him at three o'clock the same morning. He
was then in Anchor-court, nearly opposite his
house. I asked him what he was doing there, and
he returned some trivial answer.

By Mr. Hammill—He appeared in liquor when
I first saw him. He exhibited a swaggering man-
ner. He appeared worse at three o'clock, but not
so bad that I should have taken him into custody
for drunkenness.

Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—When I saw him
in the front and spoke to him, he asked, "Do you
know me ?" I replied, " I do, your name is Har-
man." We then walked down the court, and he
observed, "I shall go in and go to bed ;" but in-
stantly added, '• No, I shall go to my brother's, or
brother-in-law, at the West-end, and get him to
look after my premises." At that moment I looked
across, and saw what I believed to be gas burning
in the house. I saw it through the crack in the
shutters ; then I saw smoke issuing from the top
part of the shutters. I said, " Good heavens, Har-
man, your house is on fi and do you know it 1"
He said, " Where, where' We both ran across
the road. I gave an alarm by springing my rattle.
The lower part of the premises was then in flames.
He ran against the door and forced it open with his
body. He tried to enter, but could not, in conse-
quence of the flames. He then ran to the side-door,
and tried to force it, but it would not give. I sent
for the fire escape, and returned to the front of the
house. It was then I saw a woman with a child at the
window of the second fiber. About 3or 4 minutes bad
elapsed since I had left the front of the house pre-
viously. The prisoner, I believe, has not made
any remark. Prisoner afterwards went to the
door of the next house, where his mother-in-law re-
sides. I think the door was by that time open, and
I did not see him again. The woman at the win-
dow was in her night dress.
Sergeant Egerton—On the morning in question
I went to the house, which I found in flames, and
heard some persons exclaim that there were people
inside who had made their way to the top. I went
to the adjoining house, No. 28, and ascended to
the attic, where I saw the prisoner and two civi-
lians holding him, as he was evidently in extreme
excitement. Sergeant Purchase then entered, and
he was conveying him down stairs, when prisoner
exclaimed, " There are people still in the house to
whom I have just been speaking." I then made
my way along the parapet, and forcing open one of
the windows of the next house, called out loudly,
but received no reply. The smoke was suffocating,
and the flames extended halfway across the road.
The fire-escape then arrived, andwas placed against
No. 28. The conductor, however, could not, in
consequence of the extreme heat, obtain access to
the burning premises. I afterwards saw three
bodies brought down lifeless, and soon after saw
the prisoner, and said to him, " From what I have
heard, I think there is something very serious
about this business," and on asking him if he had
been in the court referred to, he answered in the
negative. I then asked, "Has your house been
robbed 1" He replied, " No, it has not," and said
he had not stated so to the policeman. In answer
to further questions, the accused emphatically as-
serted his innocence of any complicity in the trans-
action. After some further evidence, the counsel
for the prosecution required a remand, as he would
on a future day be enabled to call witnesses of im-
portance, and
Mr. Hammill, observing that there appeared a
strong prima facie case against the prisoner, re-
manded him, at the same time refusing an urgent
appeal for bail to be put in.