The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-12 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—CROYDON, AUG. 10.
(Before Mr. Justice Williams.)
TILE QUEEN V. SALMONS.

This was an indictment preferred by the vestry
of the parish of Rotherhithe against the defendant
for a nuisance, in which he pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Robinson conducted
the prosecution ; Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr.
Sleigh were for the defendant.
This cause commenced on Friday afternoon, and
after it lad been partly heard was adjourned until
the following morning. It appeared that the de-
fendant is an artificial manure manufacturer, and
he carries on his business under the railway arches
at Rotherhithe. The case on the part of the prose-
cution was that he was in the habit of bringing
large quantities of stale fish to the place in ques-
tion, which were mixed with certain chemical mat-
ter, and the result was that the most offensive
smells were created, causing sickness and nausea to
the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, and even to
persons who were casually passing by at the time
the work was going on.
After several witnesses had been examined to
prove the disgusting nature of the nuisance com-
plained of, an intimation was given by the defen-
dant's counsel that he was anxious to do all in his
power to remedy the grievance that was complained
of, and a consultation took place between the learned
counsel on both sides, which resulted in an under-
taking on the part of the defendant that he would
erect a shaft and make such other alterations under
the supervision of Dr. Letheby as would be calcu•
lated to abate the nuisance. He also undertook that
there should be no accumulation of the stale matter
permitted, and upon this understanding the case
was allowed to stand over to the spring assizes, and
the recognisances of the defendant were enlarged
until that period.
Mr. Justice Blackburn was engaged in trying
common jury cases, but none of them were of a
character to j ustify a report. It would be well for
all the parties in the remaining common jury
cases to be prepared at the sitting of the court
to proceed to trial, as the judges have expressed
their intention to go through the list, and take the
causes as they stand, and those that are not ready
will in all probability be struck out.

OXFORD CIRCUIT—GLOUCESTER, Aug. 10.
(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OE ARSON.

William Willey, beer-house keeper, was indicted
for setting fire to the house in which he resided, at
Clifton, his wife and others being therein. There
were also indictments charging him with setting
fire to the premises with intent to defraud the Sun
Insurance Company and his landlord.
Mr. Cooke prosecuted; and Mr. Cripps and Mr.
Sawyer defended the prisoner.
This was one of the most determined ani clear
cases of attempting to defraud an insurance com-
pany that perhaps was ever brought before a court
of justice.
The prisoner occupied the Hope and Anchor beer-
house in the Hotwell-roads, Clifton, and also rented
two other adjoining houses, which he sublet. In the
month of November last he insured his furniture for
£lOO, and his stock for another £lOO, with the Sun
Fire Insurance Company. He also endeavoured to
effect an insurance for £3OO with the Royal Insur-
ance Company; but the agent, on going to inspect
the premises, declined the insurance, on the ground
that he had not £5 worth of furniture in the
house. In the spring of the present year the
prisoner got into difficulties, and was incarcerated
for debt for a month. He was liberated in
April, and on the 15th of that month a
policeman named Goulding, who was on duty
near the premises, saw the back of the prisoner's
house on fire. Ho gave an alarm and other police-
men arrived, but the prisoner refused to admit them,
observing to one that "It's not half a fire yet."
The police had to use force to get the prisoner (who
stood at the front door) away from the door before
they could gain admission. They then found the
house on fire in fourteen different places. Combus-
tibles had been placed in every room, from the
ground-floor to the roof, Bundles of sticks and
shavings smeared with tar were placed about, and
some portions of the floor had been taken up and
sticks and shavings placed underneath.
Police Superintendent Hancock found in the cellar
a quantity of straw, wood, and shavings, which had
been lighted and burnt a hole in the floor above. The
room above the cellar was also full of wood, shavings,
and straw. Independently of the pieces that had
been partially burnt, he found 2,700 sticks of vari-
ous lengths in different parts of the house.
One of the prisoner's daughters deposed that her
father came home on the Wednesday before the
fire. There were five children in the house when
the fire broke out. They were awoke by her father,
and got out of the house undressed.
he prisoner had, are(' the house, but urged
Counsel for the defence did not attempt to deny
that t

that there was no intent to destroy the inmates.
That portion of the indictment war abandoned, and
the prisoner, being found guilty of the intent to
defraud, was sentenced to 20 years? penal servitude.
On the sentence being passed, the prisoner's
daughter swooned away, and a terrible scene of
distress with the other members of the family en-
, sued.

EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE.

The IVorfolk, News of Saturday gives the follow-
ing version of an extraordinary case of assault re-
cently committed at Norwich. Mr. English,
superintendent of the police force at Leeds, and
lately chief constable of Norwich, visited the latter
city on .Friday, the 2d inst., with the double object
of attending the Freemasons' banquet and of
having an interview with a lady for whom he
had long professed an attachment. Miss S., the
lady referred to, is a member of one of the first •
families in the city, and during Mr. English's
sojourn here he made repeated advances to-
wards her. Rumour also says that since his resi-
dence in Leeds he has occasionally favoured her with
a note, to which she has not taken the trouble to
reply ; and that she recently received an urgent re-
quest to afford him the gratification of an interview
near the family residence on the evening of the first
instant, or if he did not reach Norwich in time for
that, to meet him on the Earlham-road at eleven
o'clock on the following morning. She handed the
epistle to her brother, that he might respond to the
appeal as he thought wisest under the circumstances.
Mr. English, fortunately perhaps, did not arrive in
time for the evening interview. Had he done so it
is said that he would have been allured by a gen-
tleman in lady's attire to a spot where two or three
friends, furnished with suitable twigs, were an-
xiously awaiting his approach. So far, therefore,
the plot to punish him for the offence of bestowing
his affections in the wrong direction was a failure.
He did not, however, wholly escape, for Mr. S. the
lady's brother, undertook to perform by himself, in
the morning, the work which had been assigned to
two or three over night. Accordingly, at the pro-
per time on Friday morning Mr. S. reached the
appointed spot in a cab. Near the Mitre cottage, on
the Earlham-road, Mr. S. met Mr. English coming
towards the city, he having been sauntering up and
down for some little time on the look out for the lady.
The driver pulled up as quickly as possible, having
then reached a distance of about forty yards from
the point at which Mr. English was passed. Mr. S.
at once alighted and turned back. The moment he
approached Mr. English he spoke, and as English
turned round he struck him a violent blow with a
stick on the top of the hat, following it up in quick
succession with three or four blows on the shoulders,
in the administration of which the stick was broken.
A. heavy blow with the fist on Mr. English's face or
forehead brought him to the ground, and Mr. S.
next proceeded to drag him across the road, and
was pulling or pushing him through a gap in the
fence, when he fell upon him and the two were quickly
locked in each other's arms. Mr. F., who happened
to be near, and to witness the encounter, hastened
to the spot, and with the aid of some other persons
who came up at the moment, pulled them off the
fence. Mr. S. succeeded after this in striking
another blow, but eventually he was induced to
think that he had had revenge enough, and drove
off in the cab. English, who had not struck a single
blow in return, then repaired to the Mitre cottage,
and a surgeon was sent for, who directed his re-
moval in a cab to his (the surgeon's) own house;
and there he remained till Saturday evening, when
he took his departure homeward. From all we call
learn he presented a sorry figure about the face, and
at the time of his leaving was also smarting consi-
derably from wounds on the head, arms, legs, and
various parts of his body.

COUNTRY 112AB.TETS.

LEICESTER—Auo. 10.

A fait supply:of wheat to-day. Trade slow, but late prices
fully supported. White wheat, from 65s to 70a per (I%
—red, 42s to 60s per 36 stone; a very middling supply 01
barley, grinding, 29s to 31s ; malting, 36s to 40s per qr.;
oats, 28s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans at high prices—old,
48s to 5Ss ; new, 36s to 46s per 38 stone.
Fine flour, 448 1 Seconds, 40s I Thirds, 36s per 20 stone.

YORK—Aua. 10.
At this market to-day Wheat was in better supply, with
a dull sale. farmers asking higher rates. Grinding barley
met a moderate sale, and late rates supported. Oats were
in steady demand at last week's prices. Beans quiet.
Wheat, red 48s to 5441 Oats.... 2Bs to 30s
White do .51s to 60s 1 Beans 48, to 58s
Barley .30s to 34s 1 Peas ....--s to --0
Malt, 70s ;to 72s per qr.; rye, 36s per qr ; flour, 415
to 43s:per sack.

NORWICH—Atm. 10.
The attendance of factors and farmers to-day was good,
and wheat was in fair supply. Trade slow, at is to 2s un-
der the prices of last week. Malting barley nearly no-
minal ; grinding in short supply. Little doing in oats,
beans, or peas. Flour a shade easier.
White wheat. 548 to 58s I Red wheat 48s to 52s
Malting barley....4ss to 47s I Chevalier barley-41s to 44a
Distilling d0......31s to 34s I Oats.
Flour, 38s Od to —s Od per sack from the miller.