The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-15 00:00:00

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

LIE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR.—It was generally
understood that the new Lord Chancellor (Baron Truro),
late Sir Thomas Wilde, would have been sworn in, and
taken his seat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, atter re-
ceiving the Great Seal from her Majesty to-day at
Buckingham Palace, but up to half-past three o'clock his
Lordship had not arrived at the hall, and it was then
announced that his Lordship would not take his seat be-
fore Monday neat.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCILIT.—York, July 12.
CROWN COUR r.— (Be fore Mr. Justice CRESWELL.)
William Miley and Daniel Ensor were indicted, under
the 6th section of the 9th and 10th Victoria, c.
25, with having, on the 31st of March last, at the bo-
rough of Sheffield, feloniously and maliciously thrown
llb. weight of gunpowder and other explosive substance,
enclosed in a tin bottle, against the dwelling-house of
Mr. William Butcher, with intent to injure his house or
his property, and to maim, disable, or do him other
bodily harm.
Mr. Bliss, Q.C., and Mr. Overend appeared on be-
half of the prosecution; and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins for
the prisoner Balky, and Mr. Dearsley for the prisoner
Ensor.

It- appeared that the prosecutor was a merchant and
manufacturer in the Sheffield trade, and in December
last his grinders all suddenly left his employment, in
consequence of which he had them summoned before a
magistrete f,r leaving his employment without notice,
and several of them were punished. The prisoners were
grinders, and on the night of the 31st of March
last Mr. Butcher, who lives at a place called Five
Osks, on the Glossop-road, near Sheffield, was
awoke about two o'clock in the morning by
something thrown against his bedroom window which
struck viokntly against the window-sash and broke one
of the panes of ol,ss. He instantly got out of bed, and
against his house. he saw reared a ladder, down which a
Man appeared to be descPnding, and on the leads below
his window he sew a tin canister with a fusee burning
a.ttached to it. In a short time there was a loud explo.
mon like a cannon. Mrs. Butcher rang the alarm bill;
a,watchman and a policeman in the ntighbonehood wrre
a',"tcrd, and .w four men running toz•ards them domi.
a vine
from M-. Becher's house. T,Io police-
man followed these men, and after considerable resist-
ance succeeded in capturing the prisoner Bailey; the
other prisoner was afterwards_taken into custody. One

of them afterwards made a statement to the police to the
effect that Mr. Butcher knew the men • that they were
grinders, and wanted to frighten him. It also appeared
that the two prisoners had been drinking with others all
the day previously to the commission of this outrage.
A tin canister, capable of holding about a pound weight
of gunpowder, was produced, the soldered top of
which had been blown off, and also a fusee and some
matches, which were found outside the prosecutor's house.
The Learaed Counsel for the prisoners then severally
addressed the jury, contending that this was a foolish
and drunken freak by the prisoners or others to attempt
merely to frighten the prosecutor, and that the appear-
ance of the tin can showed that it had contained but a
very small portion of gunpowder, sufficient only fur
such a purpose, and that if the prisoners or others had
intended to do damage to the prosecutor's bowie, they
might have effectually done that by throwing the
tin canister in the conservatory adjoining the prosecu-
tor's house.

The JUDGE having summed up,
The jury found both the prisoners Guilty.

Sent:nee. was deferred.

Auguste Maurits and Charles A:breeht, two Swiss,
were indicted for having stolen, on the 18th cf March
last, a gold watch and about 35/. in money, the property
f John Gray Scott. There was another charge against
the two prisoners for having committed a larceny at
Leeds, on the 20th of Much.

Mr. Ellis appeared for the prosecution, Mr. Sergeant
Wilkins defended the prisoner Albrecht, and Mr. Ma-
thews the prisoner Mauritz.
At the opening of the case the prisoner Mauritz, by
the advice of his ceunsel, pleaded guilty.
It appeared Oat the prosecutor, a commercial travel-
ler from Manchester, slept on the Pith of March last at
the Angel Hetel in Sheffield. He did not fasten his bed-
raorn doer, and on going to bed placed his gold watch on
the dressing-table. In his coat pocket on a chair was
his purse, containing 35/. in notes, gold, and silver, the
property of his employers. Oa getting up next morn-
ing his watch and money were gone. Inquiries were
made, and the two prisoners were followed to Leeds, and
afterwards apprehended at Rugby station. In the carpet-
bag of Albrecht was found the gold watch of the prose-
cutor, and on his person an Irish fivepenny bit which the
prosecutor had lost.
For the definca of Albrecht, the Learned Sergeant
stated that the prisoner was a respectable merchant at
Berne, in Switzerland, and had come over t) this
country to make purchases of English goods,] he not
being able to specie English. Oa the morning
after the robbery ha was going from Barnsley to
Leeds, and met the other prisoner by acci-
dent in the railway carriage. Delighted to meet with a
person who could speak his language, he accompanied
him to Leeds, where the two went into a coffee-house
in Leeds, and the prisoner Mauritz asked him to place a
small package in his bag as his own was full. This
package it vv2s which contained the stolen perperty and
also some silver spoons which had been stolen at Leeds.
At Riasby. the prisoner Albrecht paid for some refresh•
Inent far Mauritz, who was in the station, and Maarias
repaid him, giving him as part payment' the fivepenny
' bit which bad been stolen I rom the prosecutor.
The Fisaner Mauritz, who had pleaded guilty, was
sworn, and gave evidence of these facts; and it was also
,rovd that the prisoner occupied a respectable position
at Berne.

Mr. ELLIS having replied,
His LOIDSIIIP Rummel up; and
The jury (which, at the request of the prisoners, was
de mc(iielate lingua) found the prisoner Albrecht Not
Mr. Hunter, who prosecuted in the other case,
off,,red no evidence, and an acquittal was taken upon it.
Sintk-nce was not passed on the prisoner Mauritz.
July 13.
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The cause list contains an entry of 43 causes for the
West Riding, of which eight are marked for special
jujus ; and :ix from the North and East Riding, of
which two a-e nuked for special jiirki. So few raises
were prubahiy never before known ; many of them ar.‘,
however, said to be heavy, and if tried will occupy the
usual

CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGI3TMAN.)

WGREGOR V. BLUCEY.

This was al action on the case for :einetion.
Mr. Atherton appeared for the plaintiff. The action
was uncle'ended.

It appeared that the plaintiff was an overlooker in a
manufactory at Leeds, a❑d the defendant is a married
msn, at whose house the plaintiff's daughter was in the
habit of visiting. On one oco•{sion, in the absence of
the defendant's wi e, the plaintiff's daughter went to the
d for:dines house, when an impropr intercourse
t),,k place, which was afterwards remewed, the plain-
tiff's daughter sleeping with the defendant ; the con-
sequence of which was she gave birth to an illegiti-
mate child.

The jury fund a verdict for the plaintiff—Ds-
mges 201.
The (Idler causes tried in ti.e course of the day were
devoid of interest.

CROWN COURT.—(Bef are Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
Enoch Price arid Heqry Batty, two youths, were in-
dicted for highway robbery, on the 4th of last June,
on an old lady, named Ann Lister, at Arksey, near
Doncaser.

Mr. Hall and Mr. Boothby prosecuted, and Mr. Ser-
gecut Wilkins chfendod the prisoner Price.
It appears that the prosecutrix, who resides at Bently,
in the neighbourhood of Doncaster, was, on the evening
of the 4:h of June, on he: way home, having with her
a Lag or reticule, when she was met by three men dis-
guised in their die-39, and one of them, the prisoner
Nt ice, having his face muffled up, who presented a braco
of pocket-pistols at her, and threatene I to shoot her if
she did not give up her rt ticule. This she did do under
this threat. The reticule contained some groceries. An
accomplice named Fogg, in whose possession the reticule
was found, stated that he and the two prisoners turned
their coats on the night in question, and, lying down i❑
the road, pretended to be drunk, and then robbed the
prosecutrix as she had stated. Tho prisoner Price was
identified by the prosecutrix.
Mr. Sergeant WILKINS having addressed the jury,
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury Lund the
prisoners both Guilty. Sentence was clt ferred.
Charles Sutcliffe was indicted, on his own confession,
with a highway robbery on William Hanson on the night
of Monday, the 24th of July, near Bradford.
Mr. Bower prosecuted; the prisoner was undefended.
It appeared that on the night in question, the prose-
cutor was robbed by seven men, five of whom were tried
at the winter gaol delivery of 1848, and transported. On
the 2d of May last the prisoner went to the office of
Messrs. Tolson, Clough, and Taylor, solicitors, Bradford,
and there made a voluntary confession that he was one
of the men who had robbed Hanson. That confession

was afterwards reduced into writing and he signed it.
Ile was afterwards taken before the magistrates, when
he repeated Vie same statement, and was committel for
trill. In that confession the prisoner stated that three
of the men transported for the robbery, Lightowler,
Clifford, and Hall, were innocent, and that he himself
was one of the men who committed it. The prosecutor
was called and gave evidence of the robbery, but stated
that he was positive the prisoner was not one of the men
who robbed him. When called on for his defence, the
prisoner said that the brother of Clifford had got hold of
him and kept him a month at his house until be bad
committed to memory Vie story he had told to the
magistrates; that ho gave him 31. to go and tell it, and
promised him 1001., as it might get his brother pardoned,
and that be (the prisoner) knew nothing whatever about
the robbery.
The Learned JUDGE having left the facts to the jury,
The jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLEBONE.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, who was stated to be a lady of
property, was charged on a summons, which had been
obtained against her by Mr. Henry Thomas, secretary
to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, with gross cruelty to a dog, the property of
Mrs. Scott, whose residence is in St. John's-wood.
A solicitor attended for the defendant, who occupies
apartments in Mrs. Scott's house.
Mary Skelly, deposed that she waa working for com-
plainant on the 29. h ult., at her house, as a charwoman,
and that about two o'clock in the afternoon, afier some
high words had taken place between the parties (the
nature of which quarrel witness was not acquainted
with), she saw Mrs. Hunt take up Mrs. Scott's little dog
and use it most cruelly.
Mr. YARDLEY—ExpIain to me particularly what you
mean.

Witness—Sh• seized hold of the poor little creature,
and throwing it down stairs, dashed it against the wall,
in consequence of which one of its legs was broken.
Mr. YARDLEY—She was, of course, made acquainted
with the injury she had done? Complainant—She was,
sir; but did not express the least regret. She kicked
my cat also, and is the last person in the world, in my
opinion, to be sorry for any act of cruelty which she
might commit.
The witnesses were cross-examined by the solicitor,
but their testimony was by no means shaken.
The answer to the charge was, that the defendant
merely put the dog out of her room, and that if the leg
were broken it must have been caused by the animal
falling down stairs.
Mr. YARDLEY inflicted a fine of 51. on the defendant,
and in default of payment to be imprisoned one month.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
In the Country.
G. Burnett and H. A. Thompson, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, and Jarrow, Durham, soda and alkali-manufactu-
rers, Aug. 9, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne—B. Royle, Manchester and Ard wick, Lancashire,
check and gingham manufacturer, Aug. 6, at twelve, at
the Court, Manchester—W. Varnam, Ibsteck, Leicester-
shire, draper, Aug. 3, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham
—W. Watford, Wolverhampton, brewer, Aug. 8, at
twelve, at the Court. Birmingham.
CERTIFICATES G RANTED.

M. L. Pritchard, Liverpool, stockbroker, certificate of
tho third class—J. E. Clarke, Bury St. Edmund's clothier
—J. Stolle and W. Hodgson, Christian-street, St. George-
in-the-East, vinegar-makers, certificates of the second
class—J. Wenbam, Beckley, Sussex, tailor and draper—
J. Goddard, Outwell, Norfolk, carpenter—C. Veals,
Uif-
culme, Devonshire, baker, certificate of the first class--.
B. S. Saunders' Stawell, Somersetshire, quarryman, cer-
tificate of the first class—H. Paris, Liverpool, grocer,
certificate of the second class, taw 21 days:from July 9.
PARTNEB,SH I I'S DISSOLVED.
T. R. Cobb and E. Cobb, Banbury, Oxfordshire,
bankers—T. Harding eni J. Harding, Biker's-row,
Wet worth-road, oil and colourmen—H. Martyr an'l W.
11. Bltger, Laurence Pountney-lane, City, tea dealers—
J. Art,:ur an.! Margaret rlnr, Sidney-place, C ,rn net..
cial- road Ealt, elleeseniongers—J, Manuring al,(1 W.
Mainierincr, Dover and River, Kent, millers—J. B. Ron-
dean and r.J. Wild, Thornton, Yorkshire, drapers—W.
Philpot, jun., and C. Philpot, Maidstone, professors of

dancing-*--T. Griffiths and C. H. May, Edgware-road,
general fancy dealers—A. Murray and S. Hodgkinson,
Threadneedle-street, City—J. Moore and J. Grainger,
Liverpool and Quebec—W. Warren and H. Warren,
Northampton, drapers—J. Woods and C. Sloman, Great
Yarmouth, auctioneers—W. Harding and E. Harding,
Crickhowell, Breconshire, linen and woollendrapers—
T. Allbut, E. Allbut, and R. Hobson, Hanley,
Staffordshire, printers, as far as regards R. Rob-
son—J. Loader and J. Nowell, Manchester, eating-
house keepers—J. Page and R. Ruding, jun., Milk-
street and Clement's-court, Cheapside, printers—T. E.
Rawson and A. H. Daniel, Kegworth, Leicestershire,
surgeons—T. Ste.... art and R. Dunderdale, Great Bolton,
Lancashire, tea dealers—C. Sleigh, C. Meigh, jun., and
J. W. Pankhurst, Hanley, Staffordshire, earthenware
manufacturers (as far as regards J. W. Pankhurst)—J.
M. Burgess and Ann Colliason, Warrington, Lancashire,
b a): and Ish(.earAkerS—C. P. Harris and W. Creke,
Birmingham, japanners and manufacturers of papier
macho goods.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Amos Belli Nell, Green's Nook, Lancashire, shopkeeper.
Benjamino,vLn, Bilston, Stlffordshire,licensed victualler.
George Bouser, Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire,

miller.
Richard Alt Donald Shoals, Bristol, painter.

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Juhn Harry C Graol, heutenant.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION:.

W. Maxwe'l, Dundee, merchant, to meet July 18 and
Aug. 12, at twelve, csithin the Royal Hotel, Dundee.
Anti Sutherland, Helmsdale, merchant, t ) meet
July 17 and Aug. C, at eleven, within Hilt'. lan, Gol3pie.