The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

In the Sheriff's Court of London, Mr,
Donohue, a greengrocer, recovered 61 from Mr, Draper,
a publican, for the hire of a van to Epsom on the last
Derby day : the details of the case, which will be found
in another part of the paper, are sufficienttly amusing.
Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque, in the Bankruptcy
Court, gave
,judgment in the ease of D, Ito4sr a com Mi-
ssion-agent, in Love-lane, in the City. The bankrept
applied for his certificate, which the Learned Commis-
sioner withheld for a year and a half, for gross raison,
duct and for vexatiously defending certain actions,
The ease of Newton v. Holford and others, was tried
at Gloucester before Lord Chief Justice Tindal. The
plaintiff was Mr. Augustus Newton, the barrister, whose
name has been so frequently before the public, and the
defendants were the sheriff of Gloucestershire, and one
of his officers, in the action for trespass and assault, in
wrongfully arresting the plaintiff. The defendants paid
forty shillings into Court. This the jury thought suffi-
cient, and returned the verdict, for the defendants ac-
cordingly.
James Morgan convicted at the same Assizes, of bur-
glary, was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation.
John G. Didcote and G. Weldon, two youths, for
4.,kreing an extrance into the house of Richard Wood,
ling money, in gold and silver, and a 5/. Glou-
and Ste:- `to tht. amount of 13/. to 151. were sen-
cester bank-now, ' for seven years.
*need to be transporteu .
1;look ing person,
Francis Augustus Cox, a ratii,77ent,e9
who had been brought up from Bristol L's writ of habeas,
was charged with stealing at Bristol, on the 15th May,
an order for the payment of 291. I Is., the property of
the Postmaster-General. He pleaded guilty, and was
sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.
In the case of Pitt v. Ba.dham and another, which wag
an action against an officer of the Birmingham Bank-
ruptcy Court and a petitioning creditor, for an illegal
seizure, the jury found for plaintiff—damages 751.
The Liverpool Assizes commenced on Friday. The
Lord Chief Baron presided in the Criminal Court, and Mr.
Justice Cresswell sat at Nisi Prius. On Friday, the Lord
Chief Baron tried three cases, in each of which the
parties accused were convicted of assaults, and the sen-
tences were deferred. On Saturday, Joseph Farrell was
indicted for the manslaughter of Amelia Farrell, at
Manchester, by striking and beating her, was found
guilty, and Edward Mapett, indicted for the man-
slaughter of Thomas 0 Donnell, at Manchester, by
pushing him into the canal, was acquitted. On the Civil
Side, Sir Oswald Mosley, Lord of the Manor of Manches-
ter, recovered verdicts against several parties for selling
meat in shops in their own houses, in place of the market,
whereby the parties escaped the supervision of the clerics
of the marker, and Sir Oswald was deprived of certain
market tolls, to which he, as lord of the manor, was
lawfully entitled.
The 118th session of the Central Criminal Court
began yesterday—the judges being Mr. Baron Parke,
Mr. Justide Coleridge, and Mr. Justice Erskine. The
calendar contains the names of 330 prisoners, among
whom is James Cockburn Belaney, the surgeon, who
stands charged with poisoning his wife.

comm-PABEIONAIII4I.
Prince Radzivill arrived at Ilivart's Hotel on Satur-
day night. from Paris, where the Princess is for the
present remaining.
The Duchess of Leeds has arrived at the Noble
Duke's shooting-box at Braemar, from Hornby Castle,
Yorkshire.

The Vice-Chancellor of England, Sir Lancelot Shad-
well, is on a visit at Studley Hall, Ripon.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons has gone to Scotland fur grouse shooting.
His Grace the Archbishop of Armagh has gone to
the north on § tour 9f yiliti. lii* Grace left charles-