The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-02 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

CITY SHERIFF'S COURT.
(Before Mr. Prendergast, QC.)
IMPORTANT TO SUITORS. -TAYLOR Y. GROVE.
Mr. Moss appeared for the plaiutiff ; Mr. Medina for
he defendant.

This was an action to reco►er a sum of money for
goods sold and delivered.

Mr. Medina, who appeared for the defendant, said, he
had to take his Honour's opinion upon a question of
some importance. On a former occasion an action had
been brought upon a bill of exchange. Statute of Limi-
tation bad been pleaded, and defendant bad obtained a
•erdict with costs. Those ooets not baying been paid,
he (Mr. Medina) contended that plaintiff could not go on
with his case.

Mr. Moss said the costs would be all right, as if he
should get a verdict for plailtiff in the present action he
could set off the costs on the former one.

Mr. Medina objected, ani said he might have issued
judgment against the present plaintiff.
Mr. Moss said the costs were frequently arranged in
this way in Westminster.

Mr. Medina, however, insisted upon having his costs
guaranteed in cash before the present case went on, and
his Honour decided that he was entitled to them.

Mr. Mon then tendered the money, and went on with
he case.

CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day).

OLD COURT.
THE MANSLAUGHTER IN THE QUEEN'S PRISON.
Antonio de Salvi was placed at the bar to receive
sentence for the manslaughter of Mr. Robertson, in the
Queen's Prison, of which he was found guilty a few
days since.

Lord Chief Baron Pollock sentenced him to 15 years'
penal servitude, to date from the present conviction, so
that, in fact, it only adds a few months to his previous
sentence of 15 years' penal servitude for the wounding.
The Spaniard Rosario was also placed at the bar, and
sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude for the manslaughter
of George de Markas, at the east end of London in
September last.

Bridget Kavannagh, for the manslaughter of her
child, by the administration of laudanum, was sentenced
to 6 months, accompanied with hard labour.

THE SITTINGS OF THE NEXT MAYORALTY.

This morning the learned judges attended at this
court for the purpose of fixing the days for the sittings
of the Criminal Court during the next mayoralty. The
judges present were Lord Chief Baron Pollock, Mr.
Justice Cresswell, Mr. Justice Crowder, Mr. Justice
Williams, Mr. Justice Willes, Mr. Baron Bramwell, Mr.
Baron Watson, and Mr. Baron Channel]. Mr. Justice
Crompton was present, but not in his official robes. The
Lord Mayor, who attendei officially, was accompanied
by Alderman Wilson, Alderman Carroll, Alderman
Salomons, Alderman Hale, and the Common Sergeant.
The following days were fixed for the sitting of the
court during the next mayoralty :—Nov. 23, Dec. 14,
1857 ; Jan. 4, Feb. 1 and 22, April 5, May 10, June 14,
July 5, Aug. 16, Sept. 20, and Oct. 25, 185$.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE LATE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN A BROTHEL IN
UNION STREET.—Mary Ana Powell and Tilsey Cla•
rendon, were charged before Mr. Beadon, with being
drunk and disorderly.

Evidence having been given corroborative of the fact,
the prisoners were about being discharged, when In-
spector Parke stepped forward and informed Mr.
Beadon, that on the 26th of September last the woman
Clarendon preferred a charge against a man of the
name of Lanning, whom she alleged had attempted to
cut her throat with a knife in a brothel in Union-
street. The evidence she gave on that occasion went
to show that she accompanied the man to the
house in question, when some words ensued about some
money. The man, who was in liquor, seized her by the
hair of her head, threw her back on the bed, and then
with a penknife, which he took from his pocket, inflicted
a dreadful wound in her throat by drawing the knife
across it several times. She struggled with him, and
fortunately, being the stronger of the two, succeeded in
preventing him carrying his bloodthirsty intentions into
effect. He ran out of the house, followed by the prose-
cutor, streaming with blood, calling out "murder," and
" stop thief." The prisoner was eventually taken into
custody by Mason, 12 C, on the above charge, and the
prosecutrix conveyed to the station, where her wound,
which the surgeon pronounced to be but slight,
and not at all dangerous, was dressed. The
prisoner Lanning was then remanded for a
week. At the expiration of that period the prosecu-
tr,x was not in attendance, and it was stated that bhe
had received a 5111 n of money from the friends of Lan•
ning to keep away, and now refused to appear. Mr.
Bingham was determined that justice should not be
defeated, and remanded the prisoner from time to time
until the 10th of Oct., when he was remanded on bail,
and directed the pollee to try all they could to get hold
of the prosecutrix• However, nothing more was heard
of her till last night, when she was taken into custody
on the present charge.
Mr. Beadon asked the woraan if she intended to prase
the case any further against Lanning, who was now in
custody.
The woman replied in the negative, and said it was a
drunken freak, and she did not wish to hurt the young
man.

Mr. Beadon said, under the circumetauces, he could
not detain the man in custody, and he was therefore
discharged.

THAMES.

SERIOUS AFFAIR IN TIGER BAT. —Antonia Thomp-
son, a man of colour from South America, a seamen,
wa, brought before Mr. Selfe charged with cutting and
wounding Martin Josepb, a Frenchman, and boatswain
of the ship Monte Video, lying is the St. Katherine's
Dock.

The Frenchman, whose head was bandaged, and who
had lost a good deal of blood, was accommodated with a
seat while giving evidence. It appeared from the evi-
pence that the Frenchman went with a girl of the town
to an infamous house, No. 5, Brunswicke-street, St.
George's-in-the-East, and better known as Tiger Bay—
an appellation which it has most deservedly gained, from
the great number of savage and desperate prostitutes
and ruffians located there. The Frenchman's
pretended mission to the house was in
search of a shipmate whom he mild not find. Instead
of leaving the house he said it was too late to do so, and
insisted on stopping and having for his companion one
of the loose women of the hoase who was under a prior
engagement with the prisoner who became jealous. The
prisoner attacked the Frenchman and hurled him from
the top of a flight of stairs to the bottom. The prisoner
was armed with a dagger, and when the Frenchman
attempted to leave the house two men am: a woman
attacked him in the dark, he was fearfully beaten and
his head was severely cut. Tiger Bay was soon in a
state of commotion, shrieks, curses, call■ for help, and
the shouts of a disorderly mob, some brought the police
to this horrible den, and there is no worse place
in the kingdom, and the prisoner was secured.
The prosecutor, who was covered with blood, was carried
to the station-house, and attended by Mr. John Comley,
surgeon, of High-street, Whitechapel, who dressed his
wounds. Mr. Comley, in his evidence, said there were
five wounds on the left side of the Frenchman's head, a
contusion on his neck and scratches on his body. He
believed the wounds on the head were inflicted with the
handle of the prisoner's dagger, and not with the blade.
After the examination of several of the suspected in-
habitants of "Tiger Bay," Mr. Selfe said the French-
man was to blame, and had given the first provocation,
but it could not be permitted that knives and daggers
should be used in this country with impunity. He
warned the prisoner not to use such a dangerous weapon
again, and fined him 3/. and in default of payment com-
mitted him to prison for a month.