The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-21 00:00:00

JOURNALS

the plaintiff; Mr. Hill, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Wildman
appeared in behalf of the defendants.
It appeared that on an evening in July last the servant of
the plaintiff was driving his cart and horse with goods, and
"had to pass under an aqueduct, near Sheffield, belonging to
the Company. When within six or eight yards of the hollow
he was called to, but not in time for him to pull up, and the horse
suddenly went into the water so deep as to cover the horse's
back. The servant, who was perfectly sober and a steady man,
got out of the cart and went up to his neck in the water to
endeavour to disengage the horse from the cart, but the
water still continuing to rise rapidly, he was warned to
" come out, for God's sake, or he would be drowned," and
was obliged to do so, as he couldn't swim, without having
been abl to release the horse, which was drowned. The horse
was of the value of 25/., and the injury to the goods in the
cart was estimated at about 60/. The material ques-
tion was the liability of the Company to make compensation
for the injury sustained. Under the Act of Parliament they
were empowered to make such an aqueduct as at the spot in
question, but then they were to leave a certain space (15
feet) between the level of the road beneath and the lower
part of the arch, and to make the declivity not exceeding a
certain steepness. They had, however, only commenced the
declivity at about 60 yards on each side, and the consequence
was, that in the centre was a sort of hole, wherein the waters
that were out had reached about nine feet in depth. Prior
to the alteration made by the Company, the road was a dead
level, and from the level of the land in the neighbourhood
the water never could have exceeded two feet in depth.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages
84/. 13s.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—York, March 19.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron Roum.)-
THE QUEEN P. JOSEPH CHADWICK.
This was an indictment which charged the prisoner with
feloniously forging and uttering a receipt, and acquittance
for the sum of 12/.. with intent to defraud one John Crowther.
There were other counts in the indictment, laying the intent
to have been to defraud other persons therein named.
The prisoner pleaded " Not Guilty."
The prisoner had been admitted to bail, and had sur-
rendered to take his trial. His appearance was exceedingly
respectable, and his whole demeanour that of a person who
was perfectly conscious that an acquittal awaited him. The
interest of the trial was grearly enhanced by a report (whe-
ther true or not we are unable to say) that but for this oc-
currence he was to have been last week married to a young
lady of highly respectable connexions and considerable fortune.
Evidence as to some facts onwhich the charge was founded
was given but it possessed no interest.
A considerable number of the most respectable gentlemen
of the place were called, who gave the prisoner the highest
character; and,
The case being summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
The acquittal seemed to be received with approbation by
all parties. _ _

(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
THE QUEEN V. COOKE.
This was an indictment prosecuted by the Board of Excise
against the defendant, who had been an officer of Excise, for
obtaining money by false pretences. The indictment had been
removed by certiorari, and was tried by a special jury.-
Mr. Wortley, Mr. Ellis, and Mr. Robinson appeared for the
Crown ; the prisoner was not defended.
It appeared that the prisoner had what is called " a ride,"
and had to visit the houses of publicans in his district, to
several of whom he pretended that he had paid the money for
their licenses, and obtained the amount from them. He then
went off to America, where he said he had purchased some
land, but came back and was apprehended.
He was found Guilty, and sentenced to be transported for
seven years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
BOW-STREE7.

• Frederick Shaw, a goldbeater, and Frederick Radford, a
butcher, were placed at the bar for final examination, charged
with burglary and robbery at the house of Mr. Jacob Wor-
cester, oil and colourman, New Compton-street.
It appeared from the evidence, that on the 2d of February
the prosecutor's premises were broken into, and a quantity of
gold shells, brushes, a quantity of gold leaf, gold dust, toge-
ther with Dutch and silver metal, were taken away. The
property amounted to about 201., and a portion of it was
found upon the prisoners when they were apprehended by
the officers on another charge.
The prisoners declined making any defence, and they were
fully committed for trial.
'1 he prisoner Radford was next charged with a burglary
and robbery at the house of Mr. John Smith, wholesale
stationer and bookseller, 49, Long Acre, under the following
circumstances :—The prosecutor's factory was broken into
on the night of the sth of February, and a quantity of bill
and receipt stamps, 90 sovereigns, a number of engravings,
some packs of playing cards, and three Bank notes of 20/.
were stolen. The prisoner's brother had been in the service
of the prosecutor, and some of the articles being found in his
possession, he was taken into custody.—He was committed.
Both the prisoners were next charged with stealing in the
dwelling-house of Mr. Ephraim Smith, working jeweller, 4,
Carlisle-street, Soho.

The prosecutor stated that on the evening of the 24th of
February his parlour door was opened with a latch key, and
a quantity of jewellery taken away, value about 2001.—Both
committed for trial.
The prisoners were again charged with a robbery in the
house of Mrs. Green,• 22, Cavendish-square, and stealing a
quantity of plate and a great coat.
The premises were broken into on the 28th of September,
in the absence of the family, and a quantity of plate stolen, a
portion of which with the coat were found in the possession
of the prisoners, and they were fully committed for trial.
The prisoner Shaw was also committed for trial, for having
in his possession some gas fittings belonging to Mr. Slater, of
Denmark-street.

CLEI?KENWELL.
Thomas Samdens, a provision dealer, residing in
Gray's-inn-road, was summoned to answer the com-
plaint of Ellen Leet for assaulting her.
The complainant, a decent-looking poor woman, de-
posed that she went into the defendant's shop on Sunday
morning, to buy apiece of pork; she offered sixpence half-
penny a pound for a piece, and the defendant having cut
demanded sevenpence, which when she refused to
pay, he seized her by the shoulders, and rudely dragged
her across the shop.
The defendant alleged that the woman agreed to give
him sevenpence a pound. He never touched her, and
could produce two witnesses who would so depose.
Complainant—Did you not tear my little basket off
my arm? The defendant hesitated to framer until the
Magistrate put the queetion,:athett he achnitte4 tint he
had done so.
Mr. Connz—Why, you
.asaid you hs'" two witnesslis
to swear yon never touched her.
Defendant—Then wb did so•
not pay for the prJrk?
Mr. COMBF—Where Zit the poor .woman's. °ask&
Defendant-4 have

,kfrAt Orths'-rhen give it up to her.
,41ewn".:nt—Is that justice ? Why should she get her
'72.iet until she pays me for the pork ?
Mr. COMBE inflicted a penalty of 11. on him for the
assault, and 2s. costs, telling him at the same time that
he had no right to detain the basket, and that the act
almost amounted to a charge of felony. He Should not
keep his shop open on a Sunday morning, and ought to
learn to be civil to his customers.
The defendant applied language of an indecorous
nature towards the Bench, and exclaimed he would not
pay a farthing of the fine • but having been delivered
over to the jailor, thought betttr of it, and paid the
money.

ROBBERY AT A STATION-HOUSE.--Mary Anne Webb
alias Quinn, was charged with stealing a pair of boots
from George's-street police station, the property of Po-
lice-constable Harris, 53 E.
The prisoner was employed at charing there, and
since she was employed Harris and his brother officers
have been repeatedly plundered. The prisoner was re-
manded.

Yesterday Luvigi Illaranchi, an Italian, waa charged by
Andrew Bertti with having violently assaulted him, and
otherwise ill-treated him.

Mr. lorry, the barrister, attended for the prosecution, and
said that the defendant was one of those Italiin masters re-
siding on Saffron-hill, who sent about poor Italians with
organs, &c., for the purpose of vagrancy. The facts were,
that in April, 1843, the complainant was engaged by the de-
fendant to come to England, under a promise that he would
be well fed, and paid 13 francs and a half per mouth to play
music. On his arrival in England he was sent out with an
organ to beg in the streets, and unless he brought home 2s.
per day, he was subjected to the most brutal treatment. On
the 6th inst. he took home Ild. to the defendant, when he
struck him violently on the head, and ever since that period
complainant was kept in constant terror, under a threat that
defendant would rum him for ever as a man, if he did not
bring home more money. On the 13th instant defendant
again beat him violently on the head, for not bringing home
is., when he sought the protection of Mr. Luciani, an Italian,
who had taken up the cause of this persecuted class of per-
sons, who were deluded and entrapped into this country for
the purposes of vagrancy, and then barbarously treated. The
complainant had once been in the hospital for two molls, in
consequence of the defendant's violence, whostr.:.ck him on
the head and tore his hair. Mr. lorry was., glad that some
humane gentlemen were getting up an Institution for the
prevention of such abominable tun e and cruelty, and he
was instructed by the Committee to prosecute this case at the
Sessions. He therefore urged that the defendant should be
ordered to find bail to answer the charge, and not summarily
convicted.
The complainant, a poor sickly looking young Italian
(who was interpreted by Mr. Luciani), proved having been
engaged by the defendant at Parma, in Italy, on the terms
Alluded to by the Counsel, whose statement he in every re-
spect confirmed.

Mr. GREENWOOD inquired whether the complainant had
been paid the wages agreed upon ?—Mr. llorry replied in the
negativ@, Ike bad not received a single franc,.
CIIZEKNWOOD inquired how the complai'n'ant made his
way to this eountr?—The complainant saik that himself
and eight other Italians, who were like himself engaged to
"play music," travelled over the Alps to France, and then
by the steam-boat to Laudon,
Mr. GREF.Nw(IO4 said that the system of entrapping poor
Italiau4 tuta this country was a most 'abominable one, and
Bu goad would be effected unless the Sardinian Ambassador
interfered to prevent it, having in England no alien laws now.
He ordered the defeudant to find bail to answer fig) charge
at the Middleie4 Sessions.
The dc.feildAnt procured bail and was liberated.

JUST AND EQUAL GOVERIS:4SET:IIi IRELAND.—At
a meeting of the leading Ritibrrners of Liverpool, held this
day, at the Reform Assctolation, Rathbone, Esq., in
the chair, it was reached, eh the motion of Thomas Black-
burn, Esq., seconded by William Wood, Esq., that a public
Meeting of the Reformers of Liverpool should be held, for the
purpose of expressing their conviction—first, that impartial
justice was not done in the recent State trials in Ireland;
and, second, that the only true way to act. towards Ireland
was to deal with that country justly and fairly, both in le-
ciaNtitlt and administration. And it was further resolved,
that the opportunity of Mr. O'Connell's return to Ireland
should be taken for this public demonstratiterpooi
2Tmes.
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NEW HATS I'Oa Tlll4
elation. lirthe hats of
sinners of ranfSiwilihfloveh dwellioldteedndoimi. an -
the Pulicei Which will be hug AI 1
and Comfort of the hien "Whtlat on duty,
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toes pauddie.dtolythine ease
t
weather. The plwAt hcif
linv4 flre 'very weighty and from their
being M+le Plu commonest felt are exceed gly. oppr
to t~434 precluding the air, so that during the summer
}and' poly 0.4-ttutm are daily on the sick lists from diseases of the
ii.eatt. The alteration about to be adopted by the Commis-
'T.:niers consists of a perforated button affixed on each side of
the hat near the crown ; the hat having also an oilst-hole
Where the button! ER aftlAad_, gifts to admit air, and thus
ke9,l4:4oeli'sheads cool," Several of these new
144giatillg is were served to the men yesterday, and
they seemed pleased at the improvement.