The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-13 00:00:00

INDIA.

The Calcutta Englishman, of the 16th February,
received by the Falmouth mail, states that intelli-
gence had reached Lahore on the 27th of January,
to the effect that Akbar Khan had come down upon
Jellalabad in great force, and having been met by our
troops on the plain, a battle had been fought, in which
he and a great number ofAffghans were killed. The
Englishman is usually a well-informed paper, and al-
though the silence which apparently more recent let;
tern inaintain'on the subject may affect the credibility
of the statement, it is far from being improbable.
This date is later than any copy of the Englishman
which reached us by the overland mail. The authen-
ticity of Dr. Brydon's letter was disputed upon shni-
lar grounds. - - • -

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COUR7', Ap •il 12.
ER JOHN CHARLES NORTH, alias NEWMAN,
The insolvent in this case was described as a stone and
marble merchant, cart ying on business in Milbank. His
petition to be discharged was opposed by Mr. Nicholls, on
behalf of a young lady named Greenstead.
It appeared that the insolvent had been paying his
addresses. to Aliss Greenstead, who resid s nearly
opposite his house in Milbank, and although at first
the parents of both parties objected to their mar-
riage, yet they eventually consented, and the insolvent,
taking advantage of the relationship which existed between
them, seduced her, and a child was the result of the inter-
course. Soon afterwards he married another lady, when an
action was brought, and a verdict for 2501. damages returned
by the Jury.
The insolvent was subjected to a long examination by the
Learned Counsel, in which he stated that he was the illegitimate
son of a gentleman named Newman, who allowed him by deed
of settlement a sum of fifty pounds a-year. He had
been before the Court for hearing on the Bth of Octo- '
ber last, when his petition was dismissed, with an order to
readvertise, because he had described himself as " John Chas.
North," whereas he had been baptised by the surname of
Newman, and bad also been married in that name.
Mr. COOKE having addressed the Court in support of the in-
solvent's petition,
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS said, damages having been giien
against the insolvent for breach of promise of marriage to a
person who must be supposed to be in all respects his equal in
station, there must be some grounds brought before the jury,
which he (Mr. Commissioner Harris) could not enter upon in
this Court or in this investigation, yet that must have indicated
some degree of moral turpitude. The judgment ot the Cout t,
therefore, was, that the insolvent be entitled to his discharge,
after he shall have been six calendar months in prison, at the
suit of Miss Greenstead.

RE JOHN DEANE. -
The insolvent was opposed by Mr. Cooke on behalf of Mr.
Thomas Nicholls, a general outfitter, carrying on business in
the Opera Colon:de._

It appeared that the insolvent had been left a large __pro-
perty in the island of Jamaica, and on the strength of this the
opposing creditor was induced to
.give him credit to the
amount of forty-four pounds. Having been disappointed in
receiving money by the overland Mail from India, be was
arrested and compelled to seek the benefit of the Act. It was
stated the property amounted to nearly 20,000/., and the in-
solvent's disappointment arose from the bankruptcy of a large
West India Agency firm.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS hell that there was nothing in
the insolvent's conduct which called for a remand, and ordered
him to be discharged forthwith.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Norwich, April 8.

CROWN Stns.—(Before Mr. Serjeant ATCHERLEY.)
li'illiam Hail and Robert &WU% stood indicted for bur-
glariously entering the dwelling-heuse of Maria Starr, and
stealing a watch and other articles, her property ; the indict-
ment further charged that the prisoners before and at the time
of the committing of that felouy beat and used violence to the
prosecutrix.
Mr. Palmer appeared for the prosecution, Mr. O'Malley
and Mr..Terialey. for the prisoners.
The prisoners' are young men of stern and forbidding
countenances, and the prosecutrix is. a very old lady, residing
in a lonely house in the village of Mundesley. It appeared
that about the hour of two o'clOek in the mornin of the
21st of December last she and her " little maid,' a child
of some 10 or 11 years of age, who were in bed, were alarmed
by a noise below, which sounded- to their affrighted ears like
the breaking open the shutters of one of the windows below.
The maid first heard the unwonted sound, and woke her
mistress. They sat up in their beds for some minutes, dur-
ing which they heard various frightful noises underneath
their room, and at length all was silent. '1 hey then crept
very cautiously out of bed, and listened at the door, when
they heard the sound of knives and forks, the uncorking of a
bottle, and ever and anon the daring invaders of the house
were heard laughing and talking. The prosecutrix barred and
bolted the door, and cautiously placed a chair against it. She