The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-11 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, MARCH ll, rim

terwards, on tl:e 221 of Theember, the prisoner
Paw Lon obtained a further advance of 101. on the 701.
note, by a firgE7d endorsement and note as before.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.

lii LORDSHIP sentenced the prisoner Pawson to
be transported ten years, and Maif::y to b'._! imprisoned
two years.

In the course of the case, his Lordship having
made some inquiry as to the form of the indictment
and the evidence to sustain it, from the Learned
Counsel,
Mr. HALL said that under the new economical re-
gulations which had been adopted, his brief had not
been delivered until after the prisoner had pleaded;
he was not, therefore, so well acquainted with the
facts of the case as he ought to be as counsel. Such
a proceeding was very likely to lead to a failure of
justice.

HOME CIRCUIT, Chelmsford, March 9.

The whole of the business for the county of Essex
was got through on Friday night, the Court sitting
until a very late hour for that purpose.
James Boag, who Wl5 convicted on Thursday of
the offence of altering a marriage certificate was
brought up for judgment this morning. The prisoner
was recommended to mercy by the jury on account
of his previous good character.
IL was sentenced to be impriored.and kept to
hard labour for two years.

This terminated the assizes. The commission f,r
the county of Sussex will be opened on Monday at
Lewes.

MIDLAND ClikeUl T.-oa4hant, Hardt S.

This quiet _county town assumed the ascect of
bustle and business this morning. Mr. Baron Parke
arrived at an early hour, opened the commission, and
speedily disposed of the few very ordinary cases pre-
sented. There were but four or five prisoners, and
not one of the cases calls for any particular notice.
Lincoln, March 9.
The Right Hon. Mr. Baron Parke arrived here
about two o'clock to-day, and immediately proceeded
to open the commission for the city at the hall, and
try the prisoners committed within that jurisdiction.
There were only four prisoners, all charged with
offences of a very trivial character. Two pleaded
Guilty, and the business in this court terminated
within two hours.

His Lordship then went direct to the County-hall
and opened the other commission, appointing to sit at
nine on Monday morning.
The calendar will be rather heavy, there being
about forty prisoners for trial, some of them for very
grave offc,nces.
The cause list will also present some amount of
business.

Lord Campbell reached the judges' lodgings at six
o'clock.

OXFORD CIRCUIT, Worcester, March 8.

Five out of the six civil causes entered for trial at
this place having been disposed of yesterday, and the
remaining case having been fixed for to•morrow, Mr.
Baron Platt assisted Mr. Justice Patteson tc-day and
tried prisoners in the Nisi Prius Court.
CROWN COURT—(liefore Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
John Meek, George Robinson, and Henry Bayley
were indicted for highway robbery upon Charles
James at Wolverley ; and Mr. William Houghton was
charged with harbouring and maintaining them, well
knowing that they had been guilty of the offence
charged against them.
Mr. Best conducted the prosecution, and Mr. W.
11. Cooke defended Mr. Houghton. The other pri-
soners were not defended by counsel.
The facts of the case were somewhat singular. It
appeared that Mr. Houghton, who is a railway con-
tractor, bad been convicted upon the information of a
person named Norbury, who is gamekeeper to Mr.
Westhead, M.P., of some offence against the game
laws, and been fined 25/. Naughton thereupon con-
ceived great animosity against Norbury, and on the
17th of November last, being Saturday, he want in
the evening to the Park-gate public-house, at Wol-
verley, with the other prisoners, who were his
servants, and said, "if he had got Norbury there he
would give 255. ; " and after a good deal 'of conver-
sation he paid Gs. down, and told them to go and
give Norbury a good thrashing. The men accord-
ingly went in pursuit of Norbury, but did not find
hitn, and as they were returning to the public-house
where Houghton remained during the greater part of
their absence, they met the prosecutor, a poor work-
ing man, who was returning home with his wages,
and knocked him down, and robbed him of a sovereign
and a half-crown, and of his bundle. They then re•
tured to the public-house, and told Houghton they had
been in search of the keeper, and had got their knives
ready for him and his dogs, but that he did not come
out to them ; but they said nothing of the robbery.
Half an hour afterwards a man
.came in and said a
person was lying in the road covered with blood.
Some persons then went to look after him, and the
prisoner Meek went up to the place where the prose-
cutor w.:s lying, and said, "Come, old fellow, I will
help you up," and pretended to do so, but imme-
diately struck him in the face, and knocked him down
nee • lin Being remonstrated with, he said the prose-
cutor "had flsked for it, and it served him right."
Houghton then called to Meek taget up in his cart,
which he did, and being told that Meek had nearly
killed a man, he merely replied, "The d—l he has,"
and drove on; the other prisoners following in another
cart. Information having been given of the robbery,
some constables went to the Old S winford-gate,
through which the prisoners would have to pass, and
apprehended them in the carts, and found all the pro-
perty stolen upon the prisoners Meek and Robinson.
The jury Acquitted Houghton and Bayley (against
whom the evidence was very slight), and convicted
Meek and Robinson ; upon which
His LORDSHIP sentenced them to ten years' trans-
portation.

(Before Mr. Byron PLATT.)
Isaac Adams, a young man about twenty years of
age, was indicted for cutting and wounding Philip
Johnson, with intent to disfigure him and to do him
some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. R. Kettle prosecuted, and Mr. Richards de-
fended the prisoner.

On S qurday evening, the 15th of October, the
prosecutor and the prisoner, who is the sou of a
butcher, were at the Talbot Inn, in Oldbury; a dis-
pute arose about the payment for some liquor. The
prisoner's father struck the prosecutor, and the pri-
soner said, " he Was not much of a fighter, but would
have a round or two with him." The prisoner and
prosecutor then fought, and the prisoner was knocked
down. He jumped up, and ran across the street to
his father's shop, snatched up a butcher's cleaver,
and returning with it, struck the prosecutor a violent
back-handed blow on the cheek with it, which cut
him severely, and knocked him down senseless, in
which state he remained until the next morning.
A surgeon deposed that the wound was of a
very serious character, extending from the cheek to
some distance down the throat, and that two im-
portant arteries were divided.
Mr. Itten.tans, for the prisoner, said he could not
deny that a very frightful assault had been com-
mitted, but urged that the flct that the prosecutor
and prisoner were trienth, and had been drinking to-
gether in a friendly manner but a few minutes before,
negatived the presumption that the prisoner was ac-
tuated by the serious intents charged is the indict-
ment.
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HIS LORDSHIP sentenced the prisoner to be im-
prisoned and kept to hard lab2ur fir one year.
William Waters, aged 18, was charged with
feloniously shooting at John Overitt, at blaines, in
this county, with intent to kill and murder him.
Mr. Whitmore prosecuted ; the prisoner was de-
fended by Mr. fluddlestone.
On Saturday night, the 9th of February, the pro-
secutor, before going to bed without a candle in his
room, was about to shut his bedroom wi odow when
he saw the prisoner standing in his garden,, within 20
yards of the windowwith a gun in his hand, which
the prisoner then pointed at the window and fired
off. The shots broke the glass, and would certainly
have struck the prosecutor, but that he dod,A•ed, "so
that the shots could not go through him." lie C-ien went
to the prisoner's house, which was next to his own,
and finding the prisoner after some time he. charged
him with the offence, but the prisoner denied it. The
next morning he went again to the prisoner, and
brought him into the house, when the prisoner said
he hoped he would not do anything with hint for he
was drunk, and that he would pay for the broken
window. The prosecutor did not complain of the pri-
soner before a magistrate for nine days, but nu intioned
it the next day to his landlord, who said h e would
.
speak to the police about but neglected tc do so.
The only evidence of motive was, that the p risoner
had frequently used opprobrious language t owards
the prosecutor and his brother. On. the other hand,
it was proved that the gun went off easily, I.t half-
cock, and that the prisoner had uniformly- protested
it went off accidentally.
Toe jury, under his Lordship's direction, returned
a verdict of Not Guilty.
Ilfary Wood, a respectable-looking litrie country
girl, aged 16, was indicted for having on •;lie 24th of
September, at Leigh, in this county, felc piously set
fire to a stack of whcat, the property -f William
Nott.

Mr. Richards prosecuted, an.l Mr. It. Kettle de-
fended the prisoner.
It appeared in evidence that there WAS a hop-gar-
den near to the stack which was fired, ald that 18
women were employed on the 24th pie king hops.
They all went to breakfast at the cottagi of Betty
Hyde, and then left together to resume ttr ir labour.
The prisoner carried from the cottage awlhite;al..t ter div brand
r:T.de
to ignite a fire in the hop. garden, it be. ing a wet
morning. Tile rick was on the road from Betty's
cottage to the hop-garden. A woman. narrod Grif-
fiths swore that she was walking behi-Aci -Nrisoner
and that as the prisoner passed am '