The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-03 00:00:00

STATE OF THE COURT.

The Grand Jury brought in a presentment, stating
that the Shire-hall was very much out of repair, and
totally destitute of the accommodations necessary for
conducting public business.

Mr. Justice PARK, after returning thanks to them
for their services, expressed his approbation of the
presentment.

WESTERN ontcum—TAUNTON, M _AIM 31.
The commission was opened here on Saturday
last, and the business of the assize commenced this
morning. There are near fifty causes entered for
trial at Nisi Prins, and Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE,
who charged the Grand Jury, stated, that the ca-
lendar was the heaviest ever known in the county.
It contained the munes of no less than 157 prisoners.
of whom four are charged with murder, six with
highway robbery, 11 with housebreaking in the day-
time, and 25 with burglary. Among the latter is
the celebrated Howarth, of Frome, who has .for a
number of years carried on a sort of wholesale bur-
glary trade, and been the terror of the neighbour-
hood where he resided. Upon the present calendar
he is charged with having broken open a church,
which he robbed of various articles, among which
were a looking-glass, and the parson's gown ; upon
three other indictments he is charged with having
stolen ten pieces of oalo and 28 blankets, and with
cutting and maiming a person named Oxley, with
intent to murder him. His family, who are every
way worthy of him, had resided for several years in
the nunnery of Keyford, where they.had a complete
magazine of all sorts of property, " from a cambric
needle to a sheet-anchor." As George, the present
prisoner, had attained " the very top of his profes-
sion," a bookseller here has published a print of him,
together with a view of the holy place which he had
desecrated by making it is habitation.
Nothing interesting has occurred in the courts to-
day. The Assizes will probably continue for a fort-
night.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT—WARWICK, Aran. 1.
THE WARWICK BANK NOTES..
Tlennas Ford, aged 21, was indicted for receiving
1201., in 5/. and 101. notes, of the bank of Messrs.
Whitehead and Co., of this town, well knowing the
same to have been stolen.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-YORK, MARCH 31.
GILLIGAN V. WHICHCOIE AND PORTMAN.

This was an action brought to recover a compen-
sation in damages for an assault. The plaintiff was
a private in the regiment of Enniskillen Dragoons,
and the defendants, Major Whichcote and Captain
Berkeley Portman, were Officers in the same regi-
ment. It was proved that on the .2d day of October
last, a party of soldiers, from the barracks near Shef-
field, were seen to bring the plaintiff out of the bar-
racks, with his arms pinioned, and a rope round his
body. They carried him to the river, and there re-
peatedly ducked him. The defendants were present,
encouraging the other soldiers; and it was sworn
that when the plaintiff had been pulled out of the
water in a state of great exhaustion, one of the de-,
fendants said " Throw him in again, and drown him.
The people whom this exhibition had collected cried
out " Shame, shame."
The Jury gave the plaintiff a verdict, and 2501.
damages.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.
COUNTRY DI A RY:—Saninoav, APRIL 5.
Brown, W., Bath—Castle and Ball, Bath
Glasbrooke, W., Wolverhanaton—Hopmarket, Worcester 11
Hilton, G., Manchester—Star, Manchester
lianwurthy and Co., Liverpool—Clarendon, Liverpool l2

INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGE!),
Petitions to be heard at Portugal.street, Line°ln's.inn-fields,
April 11, at Nine.
Carter, John, Ampthill, hop-merchant
Miters, Thomas, North Shields, pilot
Cousins, John, Hampstead, shopman
Duncan, Benjamin, Hammersmith, schoolmastr
Fairman, %William, Lambeth, newspaper-proprietor
Ford, John, Dean-street, trunk-maker
Gould, Richard, Islington, shopman
Hill, James, Regent's-park, plasterer
Hunt, Christmas, Bart.staple, innkeeper
limiter, Moses, Walworth, shopkeeper
iyams, Hymn, Lambeth, tailor
Lyon, John, Richmond, Surrey, saddler •