The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-03 00:00:00

CARPENTER .V. TURRIL.

Mr. Sergsant:Talfourd and Mr. Valentine Lee were for the
plaintiff ; for the defendant there appeared Mr. Sergeant Luc)...
low and Mr. Keating., .
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, an attorney,
against the defendant, an innkeeper, for refusing to admit him,
or to afford him a n'ght's lodging. There were several pleas..
upon- the record, the first being " Not Guilty ;" the second,
no tender of a reasonable recompense ; third, that there was
no accommodation in the inn ; fourth, that defendant was not
an innkeeper ; fifth, that plaintiff came at too late an hour of
the night ; ~ixth, that before there was any refusal on the de-
fendant's part, the plaintiff made an unnecessary noise and
disturbance.

The fu•st witness cal ed on behalf of the plaintiff stated that
Mr. Carpenter called at the defendant's house about ten o'clock
on the night in question; that the defendant's wife told him
from her window that she could not lodge him, and that they
had barely room to lodge themselves. Upon which the plain-
tiff, who, it appears, is a very irascible gentleman, assailed her
with a torrent of abuse and a volley of fearful denunciations,
any of which, had they been suffered to take effect, would in-
fallibly have entailed most disastrous consequences upon her
devoted head.

So strong was the impression produced in Court by this de-
tail of the plaintiff's own case, that a consultation forthwith
took place between the Learned Gentlemen on both sides, and
it appearing that the Counsel for the plaintiff bad been com-
pletely misled by the erroneous statements of their own client,
in addition to which there being certain technical difficulties
which could not be overcome, after the lapse of a few minutes
the plaintiff was nonsuited.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Newcaitle, Feb. 26.
The Assizes for the county of Northumberland, and the
county of the town of Newcastle, commenced here to.day.
Mr. Baron Rolfe sat at the Moott-hall at nine o'clock, and
having charged the Jury for the town, disposed of a few cases
of theft of no public interest. He then sat in the county Court
for-the trial of causes. Mr. Justice Wightman presided at the
Criminal Court. The number of prisoners is large, amounting
in the whole to nearly 60; but the cases are chiefly of a trifling
kind, the large proportion being petty thefts. Six causes are
noticed for the town, and four for the county.
(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTIIAN.I
Robert Barker was indicted for a burglary in the house of
Jacob Rowell, of Ovingham.
Mr. OTTER conducted the case for the prosecution; the
ss• a
s defendedthat
aboutby Atlwr. .0 GRANDER.
o,conthe morning of the
lat of February, Rowell imagined he heard some noise below
prisoner
It
appeared
stairs, which he supposed was caused by eats. Mrs. Rowell
went down stairs to see. She went into the front parl-Jur,
where she found every thing as usual. She then went into the
and had approached within a few feet or the
•
backfrt kkitictehhn'eendoor, when it suddenly opened, and a pers.n '
made his appearance with a candle in his hand. He w
without his coat and shoes, and had a hat on his head.
beind him. Mrs. Rowell exclaimed,
There were two men
d "We'll - •
soon show pat.
One of the three men rephe ,
Mrs. Howell waited no further
What we are wanting."
" You impudent fellows, what are you wanting hero',
crying out that there were rob-
bens in the house. Her daughter put her head out of
parley, but ran u:s stairs
the window immediately, and gave the alarm by shrieking
effected into the back
it was then found that an entry had been
window. The rob-
kitchen by wrenching off the bars of the _
" Murder." Some of the neighbourshastened to the. spot, and
easy to trace their flight for some little distance, and thehousebreaking
had decamped, but from the snow on the ground it was
pur-
suers picked up a crow-bar, centre-bit, andother
implements, together with a fustian coat, with large white but-
tons..
,Mrs. Rowell now deposed to the prisoner being the man
whom.she saw with a candle, but admitted she had not been
able to identify hire when she first saw him in custody; and the
constable of Ovingham deposed to the coat as being one which
the prisoner, whom he had known for many years, was in the
habit of weariilg.
Verdict—Guilty. Sentence was deferred.
Mr. Baron Rolfe was engaged all day with the trial of an
iudictment for the non-repair of the road. The case was of no
public interest whatever.