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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 10.
(Special Sittings at Nisi Prius in the City, before the
LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.)
NEWALL V. WEBSTER.

The Court has been sitting yesterday and to-day for
the purpose of hearing the above case, which was a suit
to recover damages for an alleged infringement of a
patent for making wire-rope in a peculiar manner.
The case for the defence occupied the who!e of the day.

SECONDARIES' COURT, Jan. 10.
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER).
FOX AND ANOTHER V. COCK.

The plaintiffs in this action are members of the medi-
cal profession, and proprietors of a lunatic asylum near
Bristol ; the action was brought to recover 1201. for
board, washing, lodging, and medical attendance for the
defendant's wife.

Dr. Fox, brother of the plaintiff, and superintendent of
the asylum, deposed that the defendant placed his wife
in the plaintiff's charge, in September, 1843, in which
she continued up to the present time. The defendant,
on being applied to for payment some months since, ex-
pressed his inability to pay, and likewise that it was in-
e•onvenient to take his wife away, in consequence of
which this action was brought.

The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages
119/. 10s.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
. BQW-STREET.

An application. sv,..:Mad;;;diepa;t of a person of the
name of Lewis, n tailor, for a summons against a person
Ivho had bou-,:lit a coat of him, for which hi refused to
pay. A7sficant, on taking the coat home, was unwilling
to give :.t up without payment, but it was taken from
hive .oy force, and he was given in charge to a policeman
or attempting to withhold the coat which he had sold.
Mr. HALL said that applicant had an action for false
imprisonment against this person. He could grant a
summons on account of the taking of the coat from ap-
plicant, if he had any witness to the transaction.
Applicant's solicitor-said that applicant was the only
witness.

Mr. HALL said that he could not grant a summons un-
der the circumstances. There was an Act of Parlia-
ment by which he was prevented from taking the prose-
cutor's evidence.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John Casbird was charged with robbing his employers;
.Messrs. Rippon and Burton, of Wells-street, Oxtord-
street, ironmongers, in whose service he had been for the
last seven years. A Britannia metal tea-pot was found
:,eereted in a part of the premises, evidently with the in-
tention of being taken away by some one belonging to
the establishment. The prisoner, as he was leaving the
premises last evening, was stopped, and the stolen pro-
perty found in his possession.—Committed for trial.

LAMBETH.

Mr. Southby, firework-manufacturer, applied to the
Hon. Mr. Norton, to solicit his interference to prevent
the erection of a varnish manufactory near his pre-
mises. Mr. Southby said, if the building were per-
mitted, it would be highly dangerous, and a serious loss
i,f life might ensue from the combustible materials. The
building was within fifty feet of his premises, there was
also a great deal of timber in an adjoining yard, and,
should an explosion take place, the consequences would
be frightful.
Mr. NORTON said the person had clearly no right to
erect such a building, and asked if there was a public
way ? Mr. Southby stated there was.
Mr. Norton immediately sent English, an officer of the
Court, with the applicant, to inform the person that he
roust discontinue the building, and that under the 54th
clause of the New Building Act, he was liable to a
,enalty of 501. per day, every day the business was car-
ried on, and in default of payment, was liable to be sent
to the House of Correction for six calendar months with
hard labour.

these fruit-sellers were in the habit of doing the same
as the prisoner.
The poor woman, in her defence, said she had no
other means to get a living for herself and family.
Mr. GREENWOOD informed her that she must not
do so. She was subject to a penalty of 40s. or im-
prisonment, and she must promise not to do so in
future.

She promised not to repeat the " offence" in future,
and was discharged.
MAI?YLIS-BOIVE.
AALEGED CRIY• CON. AND ASSAULT.—Thursday,
Mr. Francis Tress, a coal-merchant, residing at No
:19, Portman-place, Edgware-road, was charged before
Mr. Long with having violently assaulted his wife.
Complainant stated that on the same morning she
was visited in the parlour by a medical gentleman,
who had been in the habit of attending the family
for years, and that while they were in conversation
defendant entered the room, when he directly
flew into a great passion, and declared that inter-
eourse of an improper nature had taken place between
her and the professional person alluded to. The
latter denied most strongly the truth of the allegation,
gni begged to be allowed to say a few words in ex-
p'anation, hut defendant refused to hear him, and
ordered him out of the house. Complainant added
that after the gentleman had left, defendant looked
her in the apartment, and continued for some time to
heat and o'herwise eat her in a very unmerciful
manner. She cried " murder," and " police," as loud
as she was able, and at length assistance arrived.
Mary Perrott stated that hearing cries she knocked
at the door and was let in by defendant; he had
sworn he would murder the complainant, upon the
lower part of whose persel there was much blood.
Mr. LONG (to defendant)—What is your answer to
this charge of assaulting your wife ? Defendant—l
have long been upon the best of terms with the gentle-
man. I saw his phaeton standing at my door this
morning, and on going into the parlour and observing
him on the couch with my wife, a portion of his dress
being at the time disarranged, I, before he had an
oprortunity of adjusting thl same, flew at him,
collared him, and pushed him out of the place. De-
fendant further said that he was quite positive as to
.the guilt of his wife in the present instance, and
added, that he had upon a former occasion had strong
reasons for accusing her of being on terms of toe
great intimaey with a Lieutenant. He denied having
assaulted her in the violent way described.
Complainant declared that the suspicions enter-
taioed against her by her husband were entirely desti-
tuts of foundation.
Defendant entered into security for his keeping the
peace towards all her Majesty's subjects, but more
particularly towards his wife. for the next six months,

SOUTHWARK.
William Compton, a marine-store dealer,' residing
at Star-corner, Bermondsey, was brought before Mr.
Cottingham, charged with violating the person of
Jane Matthews, a girl thirteen years of age.
Mr. Roberts, the solicitor for the prosecution, de-
tailed the circumstances attending the alleged outrage,
and afterwards called the complainant, a very inte-
resting-looking girl, who stated that she had lately
gone to live in the service of a Mrs. Baker, at Ber-
mondsey ' • that on last Tuesday week the prisoner
called on her mistress in the evening, and sent out for
some gin and peppermint, of which they all partook,
the prisoner urging her (the complainant) to drink off
a glass, saying it would not hurt her. The prisoner
seemed to have been drinking before, and her mistress
having expressed a wish that he would leave the
house, he consented to go if Mrs. Baker would let her
(complainant) proceed with him to the end of the street
on the way to Star-corner, and that he would send
iser back again. Mrs. Baker having acquiesced, she
(complainant) walked by the side of the prisoner to
the end of the street, and was in the act of turning back
when he caught her by the arm, and insisted she
should go home with him. She refused, but the pri-
mmer forced her along the street by the arm, and
when he got her into his house he then produced a
bottle of gin and made her drink a glass of it. She
then tried to leave the house, and ran into the pas-
sage for the purpose, when the prisoner ran after her,
seized her round the waist, and carried her up stairs
to his bed-room, in spite of her struggles ; and when
he got her there, he threw her upon the bed, and
when she screamed out he then struck her a blow on
the nose, and threatened her if she was not quiet.
The complainant added that she became insensible,
and when she recovered she found the prisoner in bed
by her side. She went on to state that, on finding the
situation she was in, she got up without molestation
from the prisoner, he entreating her not to divulge
what had taken place, and endeavouring to purchase
her silence by offering her money and some articles
of female dress out of his shop. She, however, re-
jected his offers, and took an opportunity of running
out of the house, while he was engaged with a cus-
tomer in the shop.
Mr. COTTINGHAM perceiving that the complainant'
eves were both discoloured and swollen, on asking her
the cause, she replied that it was from the blow given
her by the prisoner while she was struggling with
him. She further stated that, on getting out of the
prisoner's room, in her hurry, she found that she had
put on one of his shoes and one of her own, and when
she got home she informed her mistress of all that had
happened to her. That person, however, advised her
not to mention the circumstances to her mother, and
she therefore concealed the facts from her parents
until within the last few days. She told all that had
occurred on the occasion, and thus led to the prisoner's
apprehension.
31r. Odling, the surgeon, was examined, and his
evidsnce went to prove that the complainant had been
recently violated.
Mrs. Baker, the complainant's mistress, stated that
on the evening in question the girl returned home in a
state of apparent fright, and communicated what had
happened to her; and that she (witness) expressed
that it would be better for her not to mention the cir-
cumstances at home.

Mr. COTTINGIIAM, in strong terms, reprobated the
conduct of Mrs. Baker.

The prisoner, by the advice of his solicitor, declined
saying anything at present in answer to the charge,
and he was remanded until Wednesday.
John Mahon, a youth, was brought before Mr. Train,
charged with another (not in custody) with stealing a
firkin of butter from a cart in Tooley-street, the property
of Mr. Cook, of Lambeth.

From the evidence of a lad named Smith, it appeared
that ovithOorecxdingiday,i wlgle itt Dean-.streeirTiieler-
street; his- attention 'was arrested by seeingthe prisoner
Tind tine-trier fad .IfiThing about the front of the shep of
the complainant, at which a cart laden with firkins of
butter was standing. At length witness saw one of them
jump into the cart and shoulder one of the firkins, with
which he hurried away, when the former gave informa-
tion of the circumstance, and the prisoner was pursued.
When he was stopped he said that he was employed to
carry the firkin, and saying those words, he dashed it
at the complainant's head and ran away, but being fol-
lowed was secured.—He was remanded until his compa-
nion is taken into custody.

THE ALLEGED MURDER AT
SALT-HILL.
LATEST PARTICULARS.

SLOUGH, THURSDAY EVENING.—WhiIe the jury were
deliberating upon their verdict yesterday afternoon, the
prisoner, who was in an ante-room, asked more than
once, " How king do you think they will be now ?"
Upon being told they would probably be half an hour
longer, ke betrayed great mental agitation. On entering
the room to be informed by the coroner of the verdict of
th, jury, he recovered himself, and heard the purport of
the verdict with great apparent coolness. Indeed his
fortitude while he was in the jury-room never once ap-
peared to forsake him, listening with considerable
earnestness and attention to the application made by his
counsel for the restoration of his watch and the money
found in his possession. On being taken back to his
private room, at the Three Tuns, he became grestly
agitated, and was at his own request supplied with
brandy and water. His solicitor, Mr. Bevan, of the Old
Jewry, London, and another professional gentleman, had
a long private interview with him previously to his
leaving for Aylesbury Gaol.
A large concourse of persons bad assembled outside
of the house, to have a view of the prisoner on his de-
parture ; and it was with difficulty that the police were
enabled to protect him from the threatened attacks of
the mob, as he walked to the vehicle that was to convey
him to prison. Their yells and hootings greatly discon-
certed him, and he appeared terribly alarmed for his
personal safety. Upon arriving at Amersham, a distance
of fourteen miles, and about half-way between Salt-hill
and Aylesbury, the prisoner alighted at the Griffin Inn.
Here he partook of tea and a mutton chop, of which he
ate heartily. He scarcely opened his lips during the
whole of the journey. Once he started up, however,
and said, with considerable earnestness of manner, " I
can't think what the people made such an uproar about
at Suit-hill, as we were coming away. Oh, dear !"
Upon arriving at Aylesbury gaol, a few minutes
before eight o'clock, and on being handed over to the
custody of Mr. Sheriff, the governor, he requested to be
accommodated with /a comfortable bed and a room to
himself. On being told, however, that no relaxation in
the discipline of the prison would be allowed in his case,
and that he must submit to the same treatment as the
other prisoners, he heaved a deep sigh, but made no re-
mark. He slept in his clothes, merely taking off his
great coat. The room assigned to him is in what is called
the old gaol, in which he was locked in for the night by
himself, having first undergone the usual personal search.
This morning there was a visible alteration in his ap-
pearance, looking haggard and careworn.
The assizes for the county of Bucks will take place in
March next.

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The funeral of the late unfortunate Sarah Hart took
place this afternoon, the mournful procession leaving
Bath-place at a quarter past two o'clock, for the church-
yard of Farnham Royal, in which parish her death oc-
curred. Her son, an interesting little boy of about five
years of age, attended as chief mourner, led by the hand
by Mrs. Moss, and followed by Mrs. Ashlee, leading
her little girl. A great number of persons followed the
corpse,
It being supposed (but whether correctly or not it is
at present impossible to ascertain), that Sarah Hart is
not the right name of the deceased, the coffin plate bore
no inscription, not even. " the date of death." Not one