The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-30 00:00:00

COAL MARZZT.

Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's
Wrest Hartley, 1756 d ; Carr's Hartley, 17s 6d ; Davi-
son's West Hartley, 17s 6d ; Hasting's Hartley, 17s 7d
to lits ; Holywell Main, 20s ; Nelson's West Hartley,
17s Gd ; New Tanfield, 16s 3d ; Old Pontop, 165 ;
Ord's Redheugh, 16s 6d ; Old Tanfield, 1653 d ; Pott's
Primrose, les ; Tanfield Moor Butes, 165 6d ; Tanfield
Moor, 19s ; Taylor's West Hartley, 17s 3d ; Townley,
17s 6d ; West Hartley, 18s ; Wylam, lis6d ; W. E.,
Clennell, 18s ; W. E., Edmondsley, 19s ; W. E., Gos-
forth, 20s 6cl ; W. E., Gibson, 20s 6d ; W. E., Heaton,
203 6d ; W. E., liillingworth, 19s 6d ; W. E., New-
march, 19s ; W. E., Northumberland, 19s 9d ;
W. E., Ramsay, 16s 6d ; Eden Main, 20s 6d ;
W. E., Belmont, 21s ; W. E., Braddyll's Hetton,
22s 3d to 22s 6d; W. E., Haswell, 22s Gd ; W. E.,
Hetton, 22s to 22s 3d ; W. E., Hytton, 22s ; W. E.,
Lambton, 22s to 23s ; W. E., Richmond, 20s Gd ; W. E.,
Russell's Hetton, 22s ; W. E., Sherburn, 22s ; W. E.,
Stewart's, 22s to 22s 3d ; W. E., Whitwell, 21s ; W. E.,
Caradoc, 22s ; W. E., Hartlepool, 225; W. E., Heselden,
20s ; W. E., High Thornley, 20s ; W. E., hellos, 22s ;
W. E., South Hartlepool, 17s 6d; W. E., West Hartley,
19s 3d ; W. E., Bitchburn, 19s ; W. E., Brown's
Deanery, 21s; W. E., Evenwood, 19s; W. E., Tees, 225;
W. E., Tees Hetton, 18s ; W. E., West Hetton, 19s 3d ;
Clackmannan, 16s ; West Hartley Netherton, 17s 6d ;
Woodifield Cook, 17s 6d.—Arrivals since last day, 86.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nev. 29.
DELLER V. ADAMS.

This was an action for compensation in damages for
false imprisonment, brought by Anna Deller, a maid
servant, against her former master, Mr. Adams, a
schoolmaster and lecturer on astronomy, residing
at Tottenham, under these circumstances :—On the
morning of the 11th of March last, the pre-
sent plaintiff stated to her master, that, having
had occasion to enter the room in which the plate
was kept, she discovered that it had been removed, and
the basket which had contained it was left empty. She
appeared at the time to be very much agitated, and
requested Mrs. Adams to send for a policeman. After this
the nursery-maid, who had been sitting at the window at
the time when the robbery was supposed to have been
committed, said that she saw a man crossing the lawn
before the house, that he was dressed in a velveteen
coat, and that he resembled a man of the name of Higgie.
That person was apprehended, but was afterwards
liberated on his recognisances. On the examination of
the premises by the police, no trace of the means by
which the robbery was effected could be found ; but it
was observed, that a door which opened only
on the inside, was left ajar. The plaintiff said
that she had been cleaning the steps and pas-
sage, and might have forgotten to shut the door. On
the same evening the defendant applied to a magistrate,
who aivised him to give the two servant women into
custody, it being too late to get a warrant ; but Mr.
Adsms preferred to give the plaintiff only into custody,
as it would be inconvenient to part with the nursery-
maid. The plaintiff was accordingly taken to the
station-house on Saturday, and on Monday was
remanded to Friday, when she was discharged.
For this imprisonment the present action was brought.
The trial occupied part of yesterday, and the whole of
this day.
The jury found for the plaintiff on the first issue, but
on tho others for the defendant ; the verdict being,
therefore, substantially for the defendant.

WINTER ASSIZES.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, Nov. 29.

THE MURDER AT DOVER.—.Tames Clark, 60, John
Clark, 28, William Clark, 30, and William Smith, 23,
were indicted for the murder of Samuel Couchman,
at Charlton, in the borough of Dover.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Rose conducted the prosecu-
tion ; and Mr. Horne defended the prisoners.
The case occupied the Court a great many hours,
but the facts upon which the charge was made
against the prisoners lay in a very small compass. It
appeared from the statement of the Learned Counsel
and the evidence, that the unfortunate deceased
was one of the police-constables of Dover,
and he was engaged in that capacity
at the time he lost his life, on the Bth September last.
It appeared that in the afternoon of that day a number
of disorderly persons had been quarrelling together,
and there was fighting going on for a considerable
time, the elder prisoner, the other two, who are his
sons, and a third son named Thomas, eing actively
engaged in the disturbance. The deceased interfered,
but he was very much abused, and some of the pri-
soners were heard to make use of very bad language
towards the police, and to threaten that some of them
should be done for before night. The disturbance
continued until eleven o'clock at night, when the
deceased and another constable, named Smith, laid
hold of the prisoner, James Clark, and one of his
sons, with a view to take them into custody, when
Thomas, the other son, interfered, and said that he
would take his father, who was at this time very
drunk, home, and he did so. The two constables
were then pushed about and assaulted, and Thomas
Clark was seen to come out of his house with a large
bludgeon, partly concealed, by his side, and without
saying a word he raised it, and with both hands struck
the deceased a tremendous blow across the face with
the stick. The blow literally smashed the deceased's
face, and he fell to the ground as though he had been
shot, and died almost immediately afterwards. The
man, Thomas Clark, who was no doubt the actual
cause of the death of the deceased, absconded imme-
diately after the occurrence, and has not since been
heard of, and the prisoners were charged accessorially
with the murder from their having been present during
the affray, and from the threats they had made use of.
In addition to this it was proved against the prisoner
Smith, that while the unfortunate deceased was lying
dead upon the ground, he jumped up with a
gesture of exultation, and exclaimed, " There you—,
you've got it ; you are no good." These facts were
shown in evidence, but there was an absence of any
distinct proof that the prisoners were actually present
when the fatal blow was struck, and the only evidence
that tended to show they were aware of the fatal
result that had taken place, was the fact that imme-
diately after the death of the deceased, one of the pri-
soners said to the other, " Come along, my dear
brother, let us bolt—we have done something to be
talked bout."

Mr. HORNE addressed the jury on behalf of the pri-
soners, and having alluded to the more material portions
of the evidence, he contended that it was not sufficient
to warrant the jury in convicting the prisoners of the
serious offence with which they were accused.
Mr. Justice WriaaJous summed up, and the jury,
after a consultation of nearly two hours, returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.

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man, with intent to maim him, to disfigure him, or to do
him some griffons bodily harm.
There were three other indictments against the pri-
soners, for the same offence upon other persons—one for
assaulting a constable, to prevent their lawful apprehen-
sion ; and one in which they were included with twenty-
five others in a charge of riot, all arising out of the same
transaction, the particulars of which appeared in this
journal shortly after the final examination of the pri-
soners before the committing magistrates. I
Mr. Hill, Queen's Counsel (specially retained), as
sisted by Mr. Miller and Mr. Mellor, appeared on behalf
of the Crown.
Mr. Temple (specially retained), assisted by Mr.
Eardley Wilmot, conducted the defence.
. Mr. HILL opened the case ; and, after briefly premis •
mg that Lord Leigh now was and long had been in the
possession of the estate of Stoneleigh Abbey, stated that
so long ago as the month of February last the prisoner
James Leigh first appeared in the ground* and mani-