The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-02 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE, Ji;Li- SI

CROSS v. JOIiNsON AND arnms4.
This cause seemed to excite great interest in this
town and neighbourhood.
Mr. Sergeant STORKES stated the case. The
plaintiff was a small boat-builder, residing with a
short distance of this town. From 1818, till Sep-
tember, 1825, Mr. Cross had quietly enjoyed the
place where the injui:y he to-day complained of was
committed, having taken it of a Mr. Sparrow, who
for some years previously had held it ; and he had
laid out large sums of money in the improvement of
it. He had planted fruit trees, and built a house,
and made it in every respect commodious for the
occupation of his family and the exercise of his
trade. In September, 1823, the defendants headed
a party, violent and outrageous, who pulled down
his buildings, cut up his trees, filled up his fish-
pond, and committed other trespasses, the least esti-
mate of which was 60/. With respet to the pleas
of common on the record, he should content him-
self, if it ever came to that, with saying that the
ladies of the manor had a right to approve the close,
paramount to the claim.; of the commoners, and that
she had granted that right to the plaintiff. The
right to water cattle was equally unsustainable; the
place having formerly been very rough land, full of
holes, and one of the very worst possible places they
could have fixed upon for the spot on which to,set
up such a right. It had formerly been a public tow-
ing-path. The pleas as to land goods, he was quite
sure, could not be supported,—the claim was a mere
invention ; and e7o:m if legal, the plaintiff had al-
ready made another road down to the river, more
commodious, in all respects, than the old one, if it
ever existed. To Mr. Johnson, the result of the
day's proceedings could be of little importance; to
his client they were of the greatest consequence, all
his business depending on his continuance in the
spot he had se longlived in uninterruptedly, arid whom
a verdict for the defendants might utterly ruin.
Evidence was adduced to prove the facts stated
by Mr. Sergeant SYougEs; after which Mr. KELLY
was heard for the defendants, and the Jury, after
retiring for a few minutes, found a verdict for the
plaintiff, with 51. damages for the assault ; 23/. on
the new assignment, and on the plea of a right of
common; and for the defendants on the 4th and
last issues—namely, the right of way to land goods
and. water stock.

EXETER, JULY 30.

The commission having been opened here yester-.
day, the Judges proceeded to business this morning:
Mr. Justice LITTLEIMLE presides in the Crown,
Court. His Lordship's address to the Grand Jury
was almost a verbal repetition of his previous
Charges upon the circuit. The statements are, how-
ever, of soaerreeable a nature, that they can scarcely
be too often repeated. His Lordship said, that he
was happy to perceive that the number of cases in
the calendar was less not only than what it had been
at the last assizes, but less than at the slimmer
assizes in 1827. He had been happy to observe a
similar diminution of crime throughout all the pre-
ceding parts of the circuit, and he had learnt that
other c►rcuits exhibited similar marks of improve-
ment. His Lordship then called the attention of
the Grand Jury to the changes which had taken
place in some parts of the criminal law. Before
these alterations, a woman who had concealed the
birth of a child could not have been found guilty
of such concealment, except upon an indictment
charging her with having murdered the child, and
unless the child, if it had lived, would be in law a
bastard. The concealment was now made a dis-
tinct substantive offence, for which a separate in-
dictment may be preferred, and the concealment

was made an indictable offence, whether the child
were legitimate or not. After a few other observa-
tions, his Lordship dismissed the Grand Jury, who
returned three or four bills against prisoners, who
were tried in the course of the day, for trilling offences.

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Mr. BIRD having oriental the pleadings,
Mr. Sergeant WILDE stated the plaintiff's case.
His client was a foreign gentleman of great respecta-
bility, who had for many years resided in this coun-
try for purposes of commerce, and had for a long
time filled the office of Danish Consul at Plymouth.
The plaintiff and the defendant were both -timber-
merchants, residing at Plymouth ; and it had unfor-
tunately happened that in the course of their deal-
ings a difference of opinion arose, which generated
the feeling that led to the commission of the griev-
ance which was the subject of the present complaint.
The defendant being, for some cause or other, irri-
tated against the plaintiff, applied to him on several
occasions very unceremonious language. At last,
upo❑ the 14th May, when both parties were close to
the house of a Mrs. Moore, and in the hearing of
that lady, the defendant spoke the following words,
which were addressed to Mrs. Moore :—" Ore
plaintiff) had brought me here, for you to hear me
call him-an old thief and a cheating old scoundrel,
and now I call him so : he is an old thief and a
cheating eld scoundrel."
Mrs. Agnes Moore deposed that the precise
words quoted by Mr. Sergeant Wilde had been ad-
dressed to her by the defendant, of and concerning
the plaintiff, and in his presence.
Mr. Justice PARK told the Jury that abusive lan-
guage could not maintain an action unless it imputed
to the person to whom it was addressed that he had
committed an offence for which he was liable to
be punished by the law. This was clearly not the
case in the present instance, and he would there-
fore recommend the Jury to find a verdict for the
defendant, which they did.
The Danish Consul appeared much dissatisfied at
the result of the proceedings.

LINCOLN, JULY 30.

John Ward was charged upon the coroner's in-
quisition with the manslaughter of Richard Clarke.
It appeared that the deceased had kept a public-
house at Moulton, at which there was a feast on the
day in question. The prisoner came there, and in-
sisted on wrestling with some of the company. The
deceased took hold of him, and endeavoured to keep
him quiet ; a wrestling match ensued between them,
and the deceased till with the prisoner upon him,
whose knee coming in contact with his side hurt him
severely. A surgeon was consequently sent for;
but the man died ; ;pid upon his body beieg opened,
it was found that the spleen was ruptured.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The Learned Judge sentenced }inn to be impri-
soned for a fortnight longer, and to be kept in soli-
tary confinement.
This was the last case in the calendar.

STAFFORD, JULY 30.

Ann Jones was indicted, charged with having at-
tempted to poison her master, Wm. Jackson, by ad-
ministet ing to him a solution of corrosive sublimate.

Mr. TALFOURD, for the prosecution, said the
prisoner was charged with putting corrosive subli-
mate into the tea-kettle from which her master was
to receive his breakfast. At the time the offence
was committed, by the law then in existence, it was
only a misdemeanour. By a-recent Act of Puha-
meat (Lord Lansdowne's), attempts at murder of this
description were declared capital offences. The pro-
secutor (Mr. Jackson) was a surgeon, residing at
West Bromwich, in this county. In 18'25 the prisoner
had been apprenticed to him as a servant by one of
the parishes of Birmingham. For some misconduct
in December last she had, at the instance of her
master, been committed to gaol for a mom!). Ile
(Mr. Talfourd) did not mention this to aggravate
the charge against her by showing► any series of mis-
conduct, but as probably affording some motive for
the horrible offence she was charged with. On the
14th of January she returned to the service of her
master, and almost immediately after the occurrence
which formed the subject of their present inquiry
took place.

The facts of the ease were clearly proved in evi-
dence, after which

Mr. Barry, lecturer on chemistry at Guy's Hos-
pital, said he could detect the presence of a very
small quantity of corrosive sublimate dissolved in
water. In cold water it would remain suspended ;
hot water would assist the solution, hut there would
be no change in the constitution of it. The witness
then proceeded to exhibit the effect of the following
different -tests on the liquid now produced as part of
the contents of the tea-pot. By adding a solution of
potash to any acid, if mercury be present it will be-
come a deep yellow. Hydriate of potash, mixed with
a solution of corrosive sublimate, instantly produces
a deep scarlet ; that merely indicates the presence of
poisonous mercury, and might lie nitrate as well as
oxvmuriate of mercury. By adding nitrate of silver
to the solution, a white sediment was produced.
The first experiment shows the mercurial base, the
second the oxide. Those three experiments con-
vinced the witness that the liquid contained corro-
sive sublimate. A saturated solution of corrosive
sublimate, on being disturbed, would retain a milky
appearance all Hight, and putting the spatula into
such solution would produce the effect described by
Mr. Jackson.

Mr. %VIIATELE%, With WIIOHI wa3 Mr. WHIT-
comBE, then addressed the Jury for the prisoner,
when

Baron VAUGHAN having• summed up, the
Jury found the prisoner " Guilty,'' and the Learned.
Judge sentenced her to be imprisoned two years in
the House of Correction.

The Assizes for the county of Stafford closed this
afternoon.

SHREWSBURY, JULY 31.
Mr. Justice GASELEE opened the commission for
the county of Salop lute last night, Mr. Baron,
ArAuGHAN having been detained with the trial of the
above case at Stafford. There are 38 causes set
down for trial, and the calendar contains the names
of •23 prisoners; six of them on charges of murder,
one for manslaughter, and one for horse-stealing.

YORK, JULY SI.
HURST woon•

This was an action brought to recover the value
of a horse, which it was alleged had been lost to the
plaintiff by the negligence and earelessnei3 of the de-
fendant. Verdict for the plaintiff—Dainuges 22/. 3s.

The office of the French Ambassador, has
been, for the last fortnight, thronged with passport bun-
ters, whose spare cash, as the proverb has it, " burns in
their pocket."

On Thursday the extensive freehold Well Estate,
in Lincolnshire, was brought to the hammer, by Mr. Ro-
nrlss, of Warwick- house, at Garraway's. The following
are concise particulars of this valuable property :—The
estate, with the mansion-house, comprehends the manors
or lordships of Well and Alford, Alford Hanby, AlfOrd
Ryder, Mowthorpe, Claxby, and one-third part of the
manor of Ulcely-cum-Fordington ; the perpetual advow-
son and next presentation to the livings of Well and
Claxby, with sundry farina and cottages; an inn, lately
rebuilt, in the town of Alford, the courtS-Icet, rights,
royalties, &e. The property extends over 1,025 acres of
land; the whole of which is in a ring-fence, and the prin-
cipal part tithe-free. The mansion-house, called Well-
hall, is seated on a fine piece of pasture-land of about 300
acres, much Varied and beautiful timber; and the farms are
is the occupations of different tenants at will, the present
rental of which exceeds 5,000/. per annum. The whole
property has been recently valued by
an eminent surveyor
at upwards of 200,000/., exclusive of the timber-trees,
plantations, &c., which have also been valued at between
41,000/. and 50,000/. The auctioneer having read the
voluminous particulars of this extensive estate, which gov,z
a very elaborate detail of all its principal features, the bid-
dings commenced at 100,0001., the subsequent hiddings,
however, amounting only to 20,000/. beyond the first
offer, a stun which was considered tar beneath the actual
value of the estate, the property was bought in, the auc-
tioneer intimating to the company that it would not he
sold to any one for les;s than 200,0001.