The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-10 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—CROYDON, AUG. 8.
(Before the Lord Chief Baron and a Special Jury.
EDWARDS V. SULLEN.

This was an action of assault. Mr. E. James,
Q. C., Mr. Lush, Q. C., and Mr. Needham were for
plaintiff; Sergeant Shee, Mr. Brown, and Mr.
Worsley appeared for the defendant.
Mr. Edwin James, in opening the case to the
' jury, said. the plaintiff, Mr. Edwards, carries on
the business of an insurance broker, in partnership
with a gentleman named Pitman, and the defen-
dant is engaged in the same occupation in partner-
ship with a gentleman named Hancock, and they
are all members of Lloyd's, and it appeared that
up to the time of the c 'mmencement of these pro-
ceedings, both firms had business transactions toge-
ther, and were on intimate terms. The wife of
the defendant had, it appeared, shortly before the
month of June in the present year gone on a voyage
to Quebec, by the advice of the physician who had
been in attendance upon her for a serious illness.
On the 17th of June, Mr. Pittman went on a visit
to a gentleman named Wilson, who resides at Brox-
bourne, in Hertfordshire, and during the visit, Mr.
Wilson made a communication to Mr. Pittman upon
the subject of the defendant's domestic affairs, and
pat;;icularly in reference to the journey of his wife
to America, which was certainly of a very offensive
character, and Mr. Pittman upon his return to town
told the plaintiff what he had heard, and said that he
should in consequence decline to do any more business
with the defendant, and directed the plaintiff to close
the account. The plaintiff was unwilling to do
this, for the sake of all parties, as their business ap-
peared to be mutually profitable, without making
inquiry and ascertaining whether the statements
respecting the defendant were true or not, and he
accordingly, a day or two afterwards, spoke, to a
gentleman named Beddome, also a member of
Lloyd's, and whom he knew to be intimately ac-
quainted with the defendant and his wife. The
only object the plaintiff had, in doing this, accord-
ing to the statement of his learned counsel, was
that the business transactions between them might
not be broken off without some explanation, and
solely from a kind feeling ; but, it appeared, that
Mr. Beddome at once communicated to the defend-
ant what had been stated by the plaintiff, and on
the 24th of June he sent a message for him to come
to his counting-house, and upon his going in, hts
partner, Mr. Hancock shut the doer, and the
defendant then, without giving him any oppor-
tunity of explanation, laid hold of him, and beat
him in a most violent manner for several minutes
with a stick. Th;s was the assault complained of,
and for which the present action was brought against
the defendant.

Evidence having been adduced,
Serjeant Shee made a most eloquent speech to
the jury on behalf of the defendant. He admitted
that the defendant had committed an assault, and
the plaintiff was therefore entitled to a verdict,
but he said that when the jury looked at all the
facts of the case he thought they would have no
difficulty in coming to the conclusion that the
plaintiff had brought it entirely upon himself by he
slanders he had been the means of promulgatitig
against the wife of the defendant, and for which the
defendant had no legal remedy, and was conse-
quently obliged to take the mode of redress into his
own hands.

The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff—damages 2001.

NORTH WALES CIRCUIT.—CHESTER, AUG. 8.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.
John Woolley was charged with having on the
Ist of Atignst stabbed Ann Williams, a married
woman, with intent to murder her, or do her some
bodily harm.
Tho proseeutrix was going home from market
between four and five o'clock in the afternoon, and
when going through a stile gate with a basket and
an infant, the prisoner rushed on her, and knocked
her down. She got up, and was again knocked
down, when she felt something hurting her. After
a great deal of strugEling a roan came up and re-
leased the woman, who was then found to be
stabbed on the neck and breast in six different
places, and a clasp knife was taken from him, and
he was secured and taken into custody.
The learned judge having summed up, th 9 jury
returned a verdict of guilty of wounding with in-
tent to do grievous bodily harm. Sentenced to 10
years' penal servitude.

MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER.
John Blagg, 47, shoemaker, was charged with
the wilful murder of John Bebbington, game-
keeper, at Tilstone, on April 16.
The deceased was in the service of Mr. Corbett,
of Tilstone-lodge, near Tarporley, and on the 16th
went his rounds. Nothing was heard of him till
the next day, when he was found lying dead in a
field with his loaded gun by his side. There was
a gunshot wound in his chest. There was a set of
footmarks in the field corresponding to the pri-
soner's boots. The marks were traced to the
prisoner's house. Wadding was extracted from
the body of deceased, and wadding of the same
material was found in the prisoner's possession.
The prisoner had been heard to threaten Beb-
bington.
Mr. Brandt addressed the jury for the defence.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and his
lordship passed sentence of death.
The prisoner was qu:te unmoved throughout
the trial, which lasted from nine in the morn-
ing till k even in the evening.

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M.P. for East Sussex, died on Thursday afternoon,
after a very short illness, from diarrhoea. The deceased
gentleman was born in 1777, and was son of the late
Mr. John Trayton Fuller, by the daughter of the first
Lord Hsatbfield. He was returned for the eastern divi-
sion of Sussex at the general election in 1841, and con-
tinued in Parliament up to the late election, when he
was the lowest on the poll. He was defeated by Mr.
James G. Dodson, his former opponent.
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MURAT Ar ASTLEY S.-A FLYING

$K1,6770._73.r.

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linr(l Ca! cligan, mor bidiy desir, IN of the smalles,t,
portion of any sort of immortali y, goes to the snialci
art:sts who live over our friends the dentists, an
buys a shilling's worth for his daily corisurnptiql
His bold face and figure, the moiel of the "
ing dragoon" in the popular song, are to be met
with at the doorway of every photographer for
million. To judge from the shop windows, ~or
d
Cardigan was the very Achilles of the Crimean wt.:
One would think that, catching grape shot in
teeth and treating thirty-two pound shot, as viligg'
skittle balls, he stormed Sebastopol, slew the Rue;
sian Emperor, and ended the campaign in three vent
vicli vici blows. In one window he is spiking:
gun, exclaiming, "Here goes the last of the Cl,",°
gans 1" in aother be is leading on his men, with 11°
other general in sight, the fleet in the distance waiting
for his orders to land and support the cavalry, a'' '-
Irishmen might say. He has been done in collod
and with the honeyprocess, touched and not touchea!
and in various cases of celebrated men he rank'
with Gordian Cramming, the lionkiller, the Rev;
Mister Sturgeon, missionary from the Deep Se
Fishery, and Rambo Sambo, the }Ethiopian
doo, supposed to be born in Connaught.
crown these two dozen brilliant immortalitiesql
the gallant hero who took a Russian gun with
each hand, not to mention his feet, has eligag Mr. Sant, the brilliant and fashionable painter
of fa-hionable children, who will not point the
portrait of an ugly person on any, terms, to re:
present him " describing the Battle of Balaiklav:
to the royal family at Windsor Castle." 111,,
picture, apart from the vanity, is a good 011;
In a richly furnished room of the palace, at.th
table by au embrasured window, edged in wi
busts on marble pillars, stands the hero, pointin&
with his usual animation to a map, with a P
of the battle. Prince Albert, with another plaal
in his hand, stands near, with his handsome ov,
face, a little thinned and flattened by the courtly
and polite painter. The two eldest children'
dressed in red and green tartan, with sporran,
,
&c., stand near, watching the lordly finger With
wary interest. The youngest son, in the fore-
ground, has dropped a flag he has been plaYil
with, and stares with childish awe at the W
Horseman. In the background in Lord Riverfl'
and a lady of the court, while the' two Prineesse*
holding each other's hand, and presenting Clef
and beautiful profiles, form an interesting gr°llrd
Our only objection to the picture is, that La
Cardigan does not fill the whole canvas. The
composition and colour of Mr. Sant's picture are
better than the drawing—the touch, for biro) 1
bold and free.