The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-13 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The Paris mail of Monday has been delayed by the
boisterous weather in the Channel: Any political intelli-
gence brought by that of Saturday will be found briefly
stated in the proper place.
The floods were subsiding in Paris. The accounts from
the south of France mention the occurrence of several disas-
ters throughout the country from the inundations.
A student of medicine, aged twenty-one, was convicted
on Saturday, and sentenced to death for murdering a lady 75
years of age, at her residence, in one of the most populous
streets of Paris, in broad daylight.

LAW AND POLICE.
At Lambeth-street, George Seyforth, a sailor belonging to
the Tory barque, was charged with smuggling 271bs. of tobacco.
After hearing the evidence, Mr. Henry said he was bound to
inflict a penalty of 100/. upon the prisoner, but he did not
think the case was one which called for so severe a'punish-
ment, and he hoped that, upon a proper representation, the
Commissioners of Customs would reduce the penalty to a
nominal sum.

Samuel Matthews, a well-dressed man, of military appear-
ance, was brought up at Union-hall for re-examination,
charged with committing several robberies in different
public-houses about town. Two cases were established
against the prisoner, who denied his guilt ; and Mr. Traill
said that he should commit him for trial on the charges ad-
vanced against him, but that he would be brought up again
on Friday next.
At the Greenwich: Police-court, a young man named
Thomas Evans, a blacksmith, residing at Plunistead, was
charged with having committed a capital assault on the per-
son of Sarah Gloster, a pretty-looking woman, aged 25. The
crime, with unusual circumstances of heartlessness, was fully
substantiated. Mr. Jeremy committed the prisoner for trial.
At Hammersmith, Thomas Clark, a boy 10 years of age,
was fined in the mitigated penalty of 501. for assisting in the
removal of a quantity of illicit spirits from a house in Peel-
street, Kensington Gravel-pits, where the officers of Excise
found all the necessary apparatus for conducting an extensive
illicit distillery.

At. Aylesbury, on Monday, the Rev. William Day, Rector
of Hawridge, aged thirty-six, was arraigned on an indictment
found at the last assizes, and charging him with having
maliciously maimed and wounded four sheep, the property
of Joseph Wcedon, at Hawridge, on the 19th June last. It
appeared that the sheep had trespassed on the premises of the
prisoner, who had secured them in his stable or yard, and
wounded four of them, by cutting them in the flanks with a
knife. Lord Abinger, having briefly summed up the case
to the jury, left it to them to say whether the prisoner was
actuated by any malicious motive towards the prosecutor,
or whether he had aeted, however mistakenly, under an idea
that he was in the exercise of a right. The jury, after a
brief deliberation, retnnied a verdict of Not Guilty.

LAW TELLIGEN(

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY:, I
BURROUGHS V. ROE..—JUDGMENT. •
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• The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in'
the question in which related to certain deeds exe ented.l
the late Alderman Winchester. The case came 1 pefore
Lordship upon appeal from the decision of the Vice- Chan
for Knight Bruce, and his Lordship, after going. at Ma
length into the facts and law relating to the case,
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clear opinion to be, that the judgment of the Co
correct, and ordered it to bn affirmed with costs- of thi,
Want of space prevents us giving a fuller aecom3lt
judgment, but we shall do so to-morrow. stated it!