The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-18 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CMG Ul T.— Yorh, Dec. 16.
(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
Thomas Rotherfo7th was indicted for wilful and cor-
rupt perjury before the magistrates at Hull, on the 23d
of last November.
Mr. Campbell Foster prosecuted, and Mr. Digby Sey-
mour defended the prisoner.
It appeared that a person named John Catingnani,
fiArnortger at Hull, and ore Edward Matson Maw, a
beer-house keeper there, reidiog in the same street, were
on bad terms together, and meeting in the Paul Pry
public-house, in Hull, on the 18th of November, a guar-

rel took place between them, which led to the commis-
sion of an alleged assault, for which next day Maw took
out a summons against Cottingham. Next day, the 19th
of November, about half-past eight o'clock at night, the
wife of Maw passed Cuttingham's shop, and at that time
Cottingham was standing at his door tslking to the
prisoner and showing him the summons which he held in
his hand. fie then used some abusive expressions to-
wards Mrs. Maw, and flourished the summons in her face,
saying, "Look here what your - of a husband has
sent to me." Mrs. Maw told him whatever he had
to say about her husband to tell it to him and
not to insult her, at the same time laying her
hand upon,Cottingham's arm. Cottingham immedi-
ately gave her a violent push with his band on her
shoulder, and threw her on her faco in the street with

considerable violence. For this assault Mrs. Maw took
out a summons before the magistrates, which came on to
be heard on the 23d of November, and these facts hav-
ing bun proved and corroborated by two witnesses who
were accidently passing at the time, Cottingham called
on the prisoner to give, evidence in hie defence; and the
prisoner then swore that Cottingham never flourished
the summons in Mrs. Maw's face, that his hands were
in his pockets the whole time, and be never touched her
_ _

with his bands, but that he twisted himself away from
her, when she placed her hand on his arm, and in doing
so shoved her down with his elbow; that Mrs. Maw had
previously pushed him into his shop, and that she reeled
and fell because she bai had a good deal of drink. The
magistrates disbelieved this testimony, and ordered Cot-
tingham t,) find sureties to keep the peace. They also
ordered the witness li)thertorth to be indicted for
perjury.

The minutes of the prisoner's evidence before the ma-
gistrates at Hull having been proved,
Mrs. Maw and two witnesses who had been before the
magistrates gave evidence of the assault as proved before
the magistrates, and stated that this evidence of the pri-
soner before the magistrates was false in each particular,
and that as he was standing close by at the time he must
have known it to be so.

The Learned COUNSEL for the defence contended that

the prisoner's evidence before the magistrates was his ac-
count of what he saw and believed to be true, and called
Cottingham himself and a man named Carlton, who each
gave testimony bearing out the evidence of the prisoner
before the magistrates.
Mr. FOSTER having replied,
His LORDSHIP summed up, and left it to the jury to say
on the evidence, first, whether the testimony of the pri-
soner was false; and, secondly, whether the prisoner
knew it at the time to be false.

The jury retired, and after an absence of about an
hour found the prisoner Not Guilty.
Harriet Jackson, a young women, who appeared at the
bar very smartly dressed, was indicted for wilful and
corrupt perjury before the magistrates at Hull, on the
18tt of October last.
Mr. Thompson prosecuted and Mr. Dearsley defended
the prisoner.
It appeared that in the years 1848 and 1849 the York
and North-Midland Railway had had several packages
of goods stolen from their waggons in the neighbour-
hood of Hull, which led to the apprehension of several
persons employed on the Hull and Selby Railway living
at the village of Staddlethorpe and 'the neighbourhood.
Amongst others a man named Richard Ponder was
taken into custody and examined before the Hull ma-
gistrates, and the prisoner, who is Ponder's sister-in-
law, was called upon to give evidence on that occasion.
A part of the goods stolen consist- d of bales of silks,
and it had been observed that the prisoner, though in
humble circumstances, •had appeared at a feast called
Dry pool feast, near Hull, dressed in a red and black
coloured silk drei.s, which was the pattern of the stolen
silk, and which Ponder was then charged with having
stolen. On being examined the prisoner swore that she
had never worn such a dress, and never saw any silk of
the kind in P, nder's house or anywhere else. This
statement was now given in evidence, and witnesses were
called to prove it to bo false._ _ _ _

Mr. DiARSLEY having addressed the jury in an able
andingeni,,us speech,

HisLORDSHIP summed up, and the jury found the
prisoner Nut Guilty.
(BOore Mr. Baron MARTIN.)

Marlin ill''Grtire was indicted for burgtaiy at Halifax,
from the dwelling-house and shop of Lewis Belerma, on
the night of the 13th of July last, and stealing there.
from a large quantity of silver plate, watches. and
jewellery, to the value of 1,0001. Amelia Wade was
also indicted along with the prisoner on a second charge
of receiving the above prepetty, knowing it to have been
stolen.

Mr. Hall and Mr. Pickering appeared for the prose-
cution, Mr. Overend defended ArGuire, and Mr.
Blanchard Amelia Wade.

It appears that the prosecutor is a foreigner, carrying
on the hut.iness of a watchmaker and silversmith at Ha-

'Hex, and residing in a house adjoining his shop. On
the night of the 13.11 of last July his'shop was broken
open, and about 100 watches, plate, and jewellery of
various kinde, and about 400 rings, to the value of
about I,oool.„were stolen. The burglary was com-
mitted in so expert a manner as to leave no doubt but
that it had been committed by practised thieves. There
Nets a vacant piece of ground near prosecutor's shop
on which a constable met a man on the night of the rob-
bF ry, whom he identified as the prisoner M'Guire. On
the 25th cf last November the prisoner M'Guire pawned
a gold watch at Liverpool, the number of which had
been altered, and which was part of the property stolen
from the prosecutor's shop. The way in which this
was discovered was somewhat singular. The prisoner
M.`Guire, it appeared, kept a public-house in Liver-
pool, and the female prisoner a beer-house there, and
from suspicion attaubing to him;from some cause or other
which did not appear in evidence, he was apprehended
on the recent charge of extensive plate robberies at
Liverpool, as also the female prisoner. On being taken
into custody and searched a bunch of keys were found
upon M'Guire, and be was asked where he lived. On
the officers proceeding to his house it was found that one
of the prisoner's keys opened a drawer. in which was
found a book, and in that book a pawn-ticket for a gold
watch, which turned out to have been pawned by the
prisoner, and was identified by the prosecutor as part of
the property which had been stolen from him. The
maker's number was a'tercd where visible, but not in
the body of the woe ks, and this had led to the prosecutor
being communicated with. The evidence against the
female prisoner was that she lived in Sawney Pope-
street, Liverpool, and in July last, shortly after the rob-
bery, she took a box to Manchester, which she left with
a woman named Gregory, saying that it only contained
some old clothes cf hers, and she would call for it shortly.
however,She, never went for it, and this exciting sus-
picion,
mrs.G
Gregory informed the police, who broke
open the box, and in it was found about 2001. worth of
stolen property.
These facts having been proved,

Mr. OvEizaND, for the pri:;oner Iti‘Guire, made an able
speeci for the defence, in which he contended that the
prisoner was not identified with the burglary or receiv-
ing, and was a respectable man, and he called witnesses
to show that M'Guiro bud purchased the watch of a
person named Woolfe.
Mr. BLANCHARD then addressed the jury on behalf of
the female prisoner.
Mr. Hann having replied,
His Loansnir summed up and the jury found both
the prisoners Guilty of receiving.
Sentence was deferred.
The tri3l occupi,d the whole day.

SMOKING ON HORSEBACK.—On Tuesday a young
gentleman, named Ramshaw, died from injuries received by
being thrown from his horse. The Durhanz Advertiser states
that the horse took fright, in consequence of a spark falling
upon his back from a cigar which its rider was smoking.
He is stated to have been an inveterate smoker.
A LAWYER'S READINESS.—A lawyer, who was
sometimes forgetful, having been engaged to plead the
cause of an offender, began by saying—" I know the priso-
ner at the bar, he bears the character of being the most
consummate and impudent scoundrel." Here somebody
whispered to him that the prisoner was his client, when he
immediately continued, " But what great and good man
ever lived who was not calumniated by many of his con-
temporaries ?"
DESPERATE STRUGGLE.—On Thursday night, as
Inspector Smith was conveying by county cart a prisoner
named Alfred Ward, who was committed for fowl stealing,
the prisoner insisted on getting out of the cart and releasing
his handcuffs, on pretence of a call of nature. These re-
quests being refused, he tried to fling himself out, which
was prevented; he then commenced striking furiously with
the handcuffs on the side of the cart, the inspector strng-
' gling with him, and the horse running from side to side. The
left handcuff eventually gave way from the violence that
had been used. The prisoner then made a desperate attack
upon the inspector, seizing him by the throat and pressing
him down, upon which the inspector let go the reins and
threw the prisoner back, his head almost resting on the
wheel. The prisoner then, with both hands, seized the offi-
cer's staff, which was again wrested from him. At this time
the horse backed into a ditch, and the inspector, jumping
out on the road, faced his adversary, who was following,
and dealt him a blow with his staff on the right side of the
head. The prisoner again attempted to escape, placing one
foot on the footboard, when he received another blow from
the inspector on the left side of the head, which took effect,
and be fell back into the cart, the blood streaming down his
face. The inspector then drove him to Orsett station, where
he was attended by Dr. Corbet, who dressed his wounds,
which we learn are not considered dangerous.—Essex
Harald.
TAKING PLACES IN OMNIBUSES. —Yesterday Mr.
Arnold, the Worship-street magistrate, decided that it was
perfectly legal for persons to take places in omnibuses, and
the conductor of an omnibus was justified in reserving such
places for those who had taken them. [This decision is
directly contrary to that of several other metropolitan magis-
trates.—Ed. Sun.]
At the Lambeth Police Court yesterday Mr.
Elliott gave judgment in the case of the policeman Jourdan,
who was charged with annoying a person named Brown, by
following him about wherever he went. Superintendent Hayes
sCaidtchheth
heacdomonplahiliisanotT and uponlrestJoris that
y ordered Jourdan to
evidence Mr. Elliott
dismissed the complaint, stating that the party who had
given the orders was responsible to the complainant if he had
exceeded the law.

A TIGHT Ir.—The BeOrord Times states that,
last week, W. Burgess, in the employ of Mr. Thomas
Sworder, solicitor, of Luton, was in the malt-mill room of
Messrs. Sworder, at the brewery, when he isadvertently lost
his footing, and nearly fell to the ground ; the carpenter, who
saw the danger, caught him by the leg, and the grip neces-
sary to secure its object was so firm that the flesh was con-
siderably discoloured. Death must otherwise have ensued,
as the height to the ground is nearly sixty feet.

SUN,

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, DEC. 17.
The Queen anl Prince Albert walked this mornio,
in the Slopes.

The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the grounds but the Castle.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out hunt-
ing this morning, etended by Colonel Bouverie.
The Duke and Duchess of B3dford, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Westminster and Lady o,:tqvia
Grosvenor, 'he Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter
and Lady M. Cecil, the Earl and Countess Spencer
and Lady G. Spencer, and Lord George Lennox, are
expected at the Castle to-day, on a visit to the Queen
and the Prince.

The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and Lady
0. Grosvenor, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter
and Lady Mary Cecil, the Eirl and Countess Spencer
and Lady Georgiana Spencer, and Lord George
Lennox.
The band of the Coldstream Guards will attend
during dinner. The Queen's private band will after-
wards attend at the Castle.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard, arrived at her residence,
Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past eleven o'clock
yesterday morning, from Frogmore. Her Royal High-
ness left town at two o'clock in the afternoon, on her
return to Frogmore.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar-
rived in town on Monday night from Dublin. Yes-
terday his Royal Highness went to Kew to visit their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the
Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz.
Lord John Russell left his residence, Pembroke
Lodge, Richmond-park, yesterday afternoon for
Windsor Castle.

Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of In-
land Revenue, and Mr. Pressly, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Co-
lonel Anson had an interview with the Right Hon.
Baronet on Monday, at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
office from the Governor of Gibraltar.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. The Lords present were—the Master of
the Rolls, Mr. Baron Parke, the Judge of the High
Court of Admiralty, and Sir Xdward Ryan. An
appeal from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
"Brayne and Edwards v. Bather " (part heard), was
resumed and concluded. The Queen's Advocate and
Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. Whateley (Queen's
Counsel), and Dr. Addams, appeared for the respec-
tive parties. An appeal from the Isle of Man,
" Moore v. Clucas" was commenced. The case was
adjourned.