The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-16 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NO RTH F; RIV curculr._Liverpool. Aug 15.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)
Henry Wright, a respectable-looking mac, and the
keeper of a public-house in Chadwick-greet, was in-
dicted for the manslaughter of John Sangster, on the 13 h
of last July.
Mr. Murphy and Mr. Brett appeared for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Pollock for the
defence.
It appeared from the evidence of the various witnesses
examined that en Friday, the 12th of July, an Orange
procession was formed in a part of Liverpool chiefly in-
habited by the Irish population, which proceeded down
Chadwick •street, beaded by a boy playing on a fife va-
rious tunes having an exciting effect on Irish 'tempera-
ments—amongst them " Garry Owen," " Croppies lie
down," and " St. Patrick's day in the morning." The
prisoner kept a public-house in that street. The ex-
citing tunes of the Orange procession produced their na-
tural effect on the Irish Roman Catholics and led to a
riot, in the course of which the house of the prisoner, he
being a Protestant, was attacked, and by brickbats anti
stones nearly all the windows were driven in. On the
following night (Saturday) the prisoner, apprehending
another attack upon his house, went to the police-station
and asked for protection, and ha Men told the inspector
of police that if his house were attacked again he would
fire on the mob. He was advised not, to do tbie, and!
the inspector and four policemen *lnt to the prisoner's
house and dispersed a crowd which had collected there.
Not apprehending any disturbance, the four policemen
were left to patrol the street. A disturbance, however,
did take place, the police, as the Learned Sergeant de-
scribed them, maintaining their character for
blue,"as when it did take place rid policemen were there,
and none of the rioters were apprehended. A number
of boys, headed by a lad playing a fife, came down the
street, and when opposite the prisoner's house com-
menced throwing stones at the windows. At this time
two shots were heard from a window in di* prisoner's
house, and according to the testimony of some of the
police, 500 people were collected in front of it, whilst
some of the Irish witnesses who heard the shots fired
swore it was the prisoner who fired them, and that the
street was perfectly quiet and no crowd in it at all, but
that the prisoner leaned out of his window for half an
hour with a short blunderbuss in his hand, crying out
to " the b— Papists" to come on, until a crowd col-
lectedstandingpassing, to look at him. One of the shots, however, struck
and killed
whodent awl lays
him.
.dccAeamseado,
railway arches, was struck by a shot in the leg and
nwahmoewd aßsosasc,ci
wounded, and a boy named Moon, who was in the
crowd, was also wounded in the arm. At the time when
the shots were fired no policemen were present. The
prisoner's house was afterwards searched, and in it were
found a blunderbuss and a pistol, both loaded with heavy
sings. The deceased, it appeared, had been strackiby a
bullet or slug on the knee, and it became necessary to
amputate his leg, and he died from the result of the
wound on the 3d of the present month. This was the
case for the prosecution.

Mr. Sergeant WlLairrs then addressed the jury on
behalf of the prisoner with great power and eloquence,
commenting on the disgraceful and unnatural warfare
between faction and faction introduced by the Irish po-
pulation into Liverpool, which had led OD the catastrophe
they were then inquiring into. It was lamentable to see
religion made the groundwork and excuse for acts such
as these, so widely severed from that peace and brotherly
kindness and charity which Christianity taught. The
Learned Sergeant then contended that the evidence was
so contradictory, and the testimony of most of the wit-
nesses so little to be relied on, that there was no satis-
factory evidence that the shot was fired by the prisoner.
His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said the conduct of
the police bad been most discreditable. Notwithstand-

ng:the application made to them by the prisoner for

protection, and the warning given to them, the prisoner
had been left to protect his house as he best could, and
no policeman was present when the shot was fired. If
the evidence satisfied the jury that there was an actual
and urgent necessity for the prisoner to fire the shot to
defend his house and his life from an attack of the mob,
they ought to acquit him; but if they were of opinion
that there was no such necessity, they ought to find him
guilty. They must in the first place. however, be satis-
fied that it was the prisoner who tired it.
The jury, after a short consultation, Acquitted the
prisoner.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTHIVARK.

Robert Archer, a stout young man, who refused to
give his address, was brought btfire Mr. Beadon,
charged with being concerned with two otber men (not
in custody) in assaulting and robbing Alfred Greenland
of a bag containing sovereigns, Bank of England notos,
and silver, amounting to 357/., the property of his em-
ployers.

The complainant stated that he is in the employment
of Messrs Sanders and Co., wholesale cheesemongers,
Collingwood-street, Blsektriars-read, and that about
half.past nine o'clock that morning he left their ware-
house with a canvass bag containing cash in sovereigns,
Bank of England notes, and silver, amounting
to 3571.,
for the purpose of depositing it in the London and West-
minster Bank. lie carried the bag in his hands, and
proceeded from Collingwoodostreet down Holland-street,
and along Banksido, until he came to a narrow passage
having a gate or door to it, leading to St. Saviour's
Dock, and within a abort distance of St. Saviour's
Church, the nearest way to the Southwark branch of
the London and Westminster Bank in Wellington-
street, where he was going. He, however, had scarcely
entered the passage mentioned when he was attacked by
the prisoner and two other men, one of whom struck
his hat down over his eyes, and at the same moment
the bag containing the money was pulled out of his
hand, and he was knocked down by a blow on the side
of the head. The attack was so sudden and unexpected
that he had scarcely time to see his assailants, but he
contrived while lying on the
ground to push his hat
from over his eyes, although he received several violent
kicks, and then had a full opportunity of seeing the pri-
soner and two other men attempt to make their escape
by running away. They ran in different directions, and
although he had sustained considerable injuries he
jumped up and pursued the prisoner, as he distinctly saw
that he had the bag containing the money, calling out
" Stop thief," as he hurried along. In the course of the
prisoner's career he approached a flour manufactory, at
the gates of which several of the workmen were sta-
tioned, and on finding that preparations were made to
stop him, he then changed his route, and ran up an
alley, through which there was no thoroughfare, and on
meeting with this impediment to his farther progress in
that direction, he bolted into the passage of a house, the
door of which was open, and there stood in a posture of
defence to resist the complainant, who was much his
interior in point of height and strength. By this time,
however, several persons had been attracted to the spot
by the complainant's cries for assistance, and amongst
thorn a gentleman, named Henry Palmer, of Brabant-
court, nilpot-lane, City, who immediately seized the pri-
soner by the collar, while the complainant demanded the
restoration of the bag with the money„which the prisoner
still retained, but at length resign©d it upon finding that
resistance was useless, and he was led along for some
distance until a policeman was met, into whose custody
he was given. The complainant added that ho was in
the habit of carrying large sums of money from his em-
ployers' warehouse to the Southwark branch of the
London and Westminster Bank, that he usually went
the same way that he did on the present occasion, and it
was only the previous morning he carried over 1,0001. in
a bag of the same description to the bank in question.
Mr. BEADON asked the complainant if he could iden-
tify the prisoner's associates in the outrage and robbery,
which were of a very
dasingehamravvetheirc.h
he
was
knocked
The complainant replied that. he had every reason to
believe he could. The
passage
downo the ids ay a common
e
narrow that two persons can scarcely pass abreast, and
to its narrowness he attributed his not being so much
hurt as he ot—erwise
h • hould have been, as it prevented
much
frequented;thorough it is perfectly light, but AO
fa e, and at particular tiness
his assailants from kicking him while he was lying on
to do so.
the description *
The policeman said thatfrom
the yen of
given the ground with that force which they would have used
if they had more scope
e
to believe they were perfectly well known to the
police.
the two other men concerned inOffence, he had rea-
son
to the witnesses.
The prisoner, in reply,
said that he had no questions
Mr. BEADON, addressing the prisoner, asked him if he
wished to put any questions
to put, but merely to contradict that part of the com-
plainant's The complainant is miss
taken there, for there was no per
son with me, and I ac-
knowledge that I took the bag
containing the money
statement which went to say that three men
were concerned in the offence.
from him myself.
time he gave
directions in the mean
for further examination, an
be spared in the ap-
prehension that no exertions should
Mr. BEADON said that
concerne
s d be d
other two men alleged to
prehension of the he should remand the prisoner
in the offence.
LAMBE 7 11*
The prisoner was then remanded till next Thursday.

Thomas Cowing was placed at the bar before Mr. El-
jolt on a charge of committing a most unprovoked as-
sault upon two respectable tradesmen.
Mr. Harvey, a master tailor, said that on the night be-
fore, while standing at the end of Princess•street with
two friends, and when bidding them good night, the
prisoner pushed rudely against him, and. before ho had
even time to remonstrate with him on his conduct, gave
him a violent blbw on the mouth, which knocked him
down. His friends interfered, and the prisoner endea-
voured to serve them in the same way, when a constable
came up, and he was with considerable trouble secured.
The magistrate was here informed that the prisoner was
ono of 014 ammidesperoto ruffian, is tho plevopolit;