The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-02 00:00:00

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

IN RE NORWICH YARN COMPANY.
The farther arguments in this part-heard case mew.
Pied the Master of the Rolls the whole morning.

VICE-CHAN CERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
His Honour heard exceptions and further directions
to-day.
The part-heard case of " Chelton v. Brough," occu-
pied the Court the greater part of the morning.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor ROLFE.)
His Honour gave several judgments to-day.
BOWBER V. BULL.—JUDGMENT.
His Honour gave judgment in this case, dismissing
part of the bill, and directing a reference with respect
to incumbrances.

FOLLETT V. JEFFRIES -JUDGMENT.
His Honour also gave judgment in this case, ovdrrul-
mg all the exceptions.

ROGERS V. HALE.—JUDGMENT.
His Honour also gave judgment in this case, decree-
Ing the specific performance of the lease to be settled by
the Master, and dismissing the other part of the bill with
costs.

MACKINNON V. STEWABT.-JUDGMENT.
RiS Honour also gave judgment in this case, dismis-
kng the bill with costs.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.

(Before the RECORDER.)
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delts :kCI.A.Ry.—A young man, named Henry Cotterell,
brecal,rlYed as a bookbinder, was indicted for feloniously
'll'g and entering the dwelling•house of Radford
413Witb, and stealing therein a dress, a portmanteau,
El other articles, value 38s, the property of Mary
•.I,tabetb Cotterell.
he prosecutrix was the prisoner's stepmother, but his
nlCher was dead. On the night of the 7th of November
the Presecutrix's apartments were broken into, and the
goods in question stolen therefrom. The dress was sold
th.,
same night to the landlady of the Coach and Horses
public-house,
40 in the City, and the following day the pri-
pe ;err was arrested in Fleet-street with part of the pro
tY in his possession.
tit The prisoner, in his defence, denied having sold the
s, but admitted stealing the other articles, which had
b es
the:a the property of his late father, and he therefore
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he bad as mu2b right to them as anybody else.
be jury found the prisoner Guilty, and two previous
convictions' baying been proved against him, he was sen-
tenced to be transported for ten years.
_ CUTTING AND WOUNDING.—John Cody, aged 17, de-
ateribed as a labourer, and Thomas Smith, aged 17, de-
felited as a plasterer, who were on Saturday convicted of
feloniously stabbing and wounding Edward Batchelder,
hilth intent to do him some grievous bodily harm, were
'CI aced at the bar this morning and sentenced—Smith to
tt' imprisoned for 12 months with hard labour, and Cody
° 6 months with bard labour.
• James Thompson, aged 28, described as a labourer,
Ass
ci indicted for unlawfully obtaining by false pretences
'
68tut pots of porter, one can, and a half-pint pot, value
teltteho.efproperty of John Moy, with intent to cheat him
h
bs4r. Hewett prosecuted, and Mr. Parry defended the
-I,?_ner.
S'" prosecutor was the landlord of the Royal
The
puplic-house in the Vauxhall-bridge-road, and
• the Bth of November the prisoner presented an order
dPortiag to be signed by a Mr. Bugbee, requesting
to
prosecutor to deliver to the bearer eight pots of beer
t. accordance with the written request; the beer was
ti;lsPlied to the prisoner, but it afterwards turned out
tolttk 111 r. Bugbee, the foreman of the contractor
But!" Westminster Improvement Company, who was
te°Bed by the prosecutor to be the party requiring
ane beer, never issued the order nor had he authorised
foY One to sign it for him, and the prisoner was there-
re•
given into custody on a charge of obtaining goods by
Zia of a forged request.
r• PARRY contended that the indictment could not be
att'
a_stained, inasmuch as the spurious request was ad-
dressed to no one.
The COURT overruled the objection.
Bugbee stated that the order produced was no-
""tag like those he was in the habit of sending. He
generally addressed his orders to the prosecutor, and
Dell likely they would pass through many hands before
be-
lieved, reached the Royal Standard. The prisoner, he be-
could neither read nor write.
hero he policeman who arrested the prisoner stated that
013 he was charged with stealing two pots and
The
eight pots of beer by means of a forged order.
e prisoner said he was not the man, and knew nothing
about it.
The RECORDER thought the evidence failed to make
Mit the caw. It was clear the prisoner could neither
w.,hrii•
al.aez write, and forging was quite out of the question;
Bughee himself had told them that his orders in-
passed through many hands before they reached
'Jaen. destinat.
the • Mr• hEWITT would rather that the case should
.go to
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sit
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