The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-27 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTrIERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 25.
Robert Bleasley was indicted for robbing James O'Brien,
at Manchester, using, at the time of the robbery, personal
violence towards him.
Mr. R. Baxter conducted the prosecution; the prisoner was
defended by Mr. Wilkins.
It appeared that on the night in question Mr. O'Brien, the
prosecutor, who is a turner, was proceeding alcng Jersey-street,
Manchester, when he was met by several men running. One
of them pushed against him and thrust him against the rails of
Mr. Ileevor's cotton-mill. He tried to recover himself, but
one of the men hit him on the hand and on the chin with some
instrument which projected an inch or so from the heel of his
hand, and the prosecutor finally became insensible. He had,
however, recollection sufficient to feel one of the men opening
his waistcoat and taking away his watch. The guard was,
broken or cut, and at the moment it gave way he heard sense-
thing click like a pair of pincers. He must have lain there some
little time until he was roused by a woman, who shook him and
bade him get up. He partially recovered his senses and got
home. The prisoner at the bar was in appearance similar to
one of the men that robbed him.
It appeared that the next morning the prisoner offered a
watch in pawn to a pawnbroker at Ashton under-Lyne. He
was asked some questions about it, in answer to which he
ststed that he hail had it for several year,. The pawnbroker
was not satisfied with the answers, and the prisoner said he
ceuid bring a dozen men who knew it to be his. He went
out, and came bask with a man who said it belonged to the
prisoner. He then went out a second time and brought an-
other, who also said he knew the prisoner, and that the
watch was his. While this was going on the constable, who
had been secretly sent for, arrived, and the prisoner then
endeavoured to make his escape. The man who was with him
was a resident in Ashtou, and said the prisoner had come to
him in the street and asked him to vouch for his lawful pos-
session of the watch, promising, as a reward, should he ( the
prisoner) succeed in pawning it, to let the other have a day's
fuddle out of the proceeds.
The prisoner was found Guilty. To be transported for 15
years.
Joseph Moran and George Murray were indicted for a bur-
glary in the house of George Webster, at Manchester.
Mr. Monk conducted the prosecution ; the prisoners were
not defended by counsel.
Moran, who was but 17 years of age, pleaded " Guilty."
The prosecutor, it appeared, kept a clothier's shop in
Hanging-ditch, in Manchester. On the night of the 18th of
July last the policeman on duty passing the shop, observed
that the dour was open, and on going in and procuring a light,
found Moran secreted under the counter, and a quantity of
clothes at the door ready to be taken away. He pretended to
have been sleeping, and expressed great displeasure at being
disturbed by the policeman. He was taken into custody and
removed to the police-office. The officer then went in search
of Murray, whom he had lately seen in Moran's company, and
found him coming out of an entry about ten yards off the shop:
He apprehended him, and on examination it proved that he
had on him a new coat under a Taglioni, which did not fit him,
and l:ad on it the private mark of Mr. Webster. Another coat
was found concealed in a dungheap at a little distance.—Verdict,
Guilty.
Moran was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment,
and Murray, as an old offender, to be transported for ten years.
Peter Robertson was indicted for a burglary in the house of
Thomas Harris, at Liverpool, on the Bth of May last.
The prosecutor, it appeared, kept a public-house, and about
three o'clock on the night in question, the police-officer on the
beat, perceiving a light in the cellar kitchen, laid himself down
on the flags to reconnoitre. He saw the prisoner with a candle
in his hand stealthily moving about the kitchen and examining
the orawers and cupboards. The officer called for further as-
sistance, awi, having sent a man to the rear of the house, who
got over the wall into the yard, rapped at the door. The
officer in the yard saw the back door open, but the person who
opened it seeing the yard was guarded, retreated immediately
into the house and closed and bolted the door. The officer
then he rd a noise as if some one was trying to get up the
chimney. Jr the mean time the other officer had got access at
the front, and having procured a light, went down into the
kitchen. As they entered they heard a crash of breaking gi
and it proved that the intruder had dashed through a window
which was unguarded, and made his escape. The prisoner was
apprehended shortly after. Therts were traces of soot on his
clothes and a lacerated wound on his hand.
Verdict Guilt.y. To be transported for ten years.
Patrick Farrell was indicted for cutting and wounding
Bridget Bowes.

Mr. Paget conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was
defended by Mr. Atkinson.
It appeared that the prisoner, who is a shoemaker, lived in
Addison-street, in this town. This street is inhabited by a
great many Irish, and it would appear that a feud of some
standing had existed between the Farrells and the O'Flahertys.
The prisoner had, it would seem, at last obtained a warrant
against Mrs. O'Flaherty's daughter, for some delinquenev in
respect of the prisoner's wife ; and in consequence, on the day
in question, there was an angry war of words, which finally
proceeded to blows, among the female portion of the Addison-
street community. The prisoner was coming down the street
at the time, going towards his own house, and found his wife
and some of her supporters engaged in a quarrel with the
O'Flahertys, on the subject of the warrant. Mrs. Bowes's
daughter-in-law palled off her cap and tore it in pieces. The
prisoner en-leavoured to get her out of the crowd, and said, if
any of them would come out and fight his wife single-handed,
he would withdraw his complaint. The elder Mrs. O'Fla-
herty then assailed and threw mud at him. Mrs. Bowes's
daughter-in-law struck hint on the back of the neck, and Mrs.
Bowes herself came up and threatened that it would be worse
for him if he di 1 not go home. The prisoner drew a shoe-
maker's knife from his breast, and struck Mrs. Bowes and one
Patrick O'Flaherty with it, inflicting on Mrs. Bowes a wound
in the back, near the spine, about two inches long, and half an
inch deep. He then ran away down Scotland-road.
Verdict—Guilty. To be imprisoned one year.
IVilliant Jones and James M'Donald were indicted for
stealing a purse and money from Mary Fryer on the high
seas.

Mr. Paget conducted the prosecution. The prisoner Jones
was defended by Air. Green, the prisoner M'Donald by Mr.
Wilkins.

The case against the prisoners was a very short one. A
steam •boat called the Ayrshire Lassie had taken a great num-
ber of persons to meet the Great Britain on her arrival at this
port, and among others two of the detective police in plain
clothes. Their attention was attracted by the conduct of the
two prisou.,rs, and they accordingly kept a close watch on their
conduct. When the Great Britain came near the greater
number of persons on board went on deck, leaving in the saloon
below a few persons who were sick, and Mrs. Fryer, who had
been officiating as stewardess. One of the officers remained in
the saloon pretending to be asleep. Mrs. Fryer was looking
through one of the windows at the approaching vessel, when
the prisoners rather pressed upon her, and the officer saw Jones
try h r pockets, while M.Donald stood behind, stretching out
the sk.rts of his coat, with his hands in his pockets, apparently
for the purpose of concealment. Mrs. Fryer, finding she
could not see with sufficient distinctness through the window.
went up the companion ladder on the deck, and while M'Donald
stood behind in the same way, the officer, who was close upon
them, saw Jones take a purse out of Mrs. Fryer's pocket, and
he was in the act of transferring it to his own, when the officer
tripped him up, and the purse flew from his hand. It con-
tained half-a-sovereign and Bs._ in silver. _

At the close of the"case for the prosecution, it was objected
the irihetinent was bad, inasmuch as it did not aver that the
offence took place within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of
England. The late Act directin4 offences on the high seas to
be tried before Justices of Oyer and Terminer in the ordinary
ivay, directs that the venue in the margin is to be the county
in which the trial takes place, and every material fact which
would in ordinary cases be stated to have been committed
within tit- county is to bt alleged to have taken place " on the
high st-as." It was contended, howiaver, that it was still ne-
t-,ssary, to show the jurisdiction of the Court, to aver it was
wii-hiu the ;nrisliction of the Admiralty of England.
Lottiostur said the objection was one in arrest of judg-
ment, and w•tuld more properly be taken after verdict.
Tile prisoners were €nally convicted.
Ells L ,RDSHLP said he would consult with Mr. Justice
7resivi el, and would hear the argument to-morrow morning.

CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. JtIViCC CREItSWELL and a
Special Jury.)
TOULMIN AND ANOTHER V. DEDLEY.
This wa.t an action for the amount of a cargo of guano sold
}the p:aintiff, to the defendant.

Air. Watson and Mr. Cowling were for the plaintiffs ; and
Air. Martin, Mr. Sergeant Murphy, and Mr. Addison for the
defendant.

The defendant had, it appeared, in January last, contracted
for the purchase from the plaintiffs, merchants in London, of
four hundred tons of lehaboe guano, by the ship Sarah, at 7/.
105. per ton, the guano to be of average quality, and in good
merchantable condition.
The Sarah arrived first at Falmouth, and the defendant was
asked by the plaintiffs for orders, and inquiries were made
whether he would wish to inspect the cargo. Ile declined
doing so, however, and the ship was ordered round to the
Clyde. The guano was there sampled by the Messrs. Clint,
of Liverpool, and proving, as was alleged, not to be of fair
average quality, the defendant refused to complete his bargain.
WPS admitted, on the face of the evidence for the plaintiff,
that thcre*as considerable variety in the quality of the guano
composin:, this cargo, some of it being admitted to be of an in-
terior kind. It was contended, however, that it was a fair
aver?,. nil the whole. For the defendant it was said, that of
'he iota higs of which the cargo consisted, 4,700 were good,
1,1.-'S irior, and *236 very inferior, one of the witnesses
sayinz s.ene of the latter was the worst he had ever seen.
.11r. MARTIN contended that though no doubt a great part
of the cirgo wee of good quality, a large portion of it was
wade up of the refuse which had been taken from the surface
by the first adventurers, and was composed of rubbish, fea-
thers, i.hells, and bones. It was monstrous to suppose that a
met, who had contracted for a fair average cargo was to pay
71. 10s. per ton for such an article as that.
After a good deal of evidence had been adduced to show
uality of the guano,
WATSON replied, contending that the cargo was repu-
diate,' by the defendant, not because it was of less than the
average quality, but bi•cause it had arrived in a falling time,
was likely to turn out a less profitable speculation than the '
def,ndent issd ,anticipated.

A vorlict was filially returned for the plaintiffs—Damages,
3,086/. ss.

SEDUCTION.-COWELL V. MAYNON.

This wa3 an action in which the plaintiff sought, to recover
conireasation from the defendant for alleged loss of the ser-
vices of his daughter, in consequence of her seduction by the
defendant.

Mr. ‘Vhigharn appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Atherton for
the defence.

It appeared from the statement of the young woman,
.that
in the year 1343 she was in the service of the defendant, who isa
eltton rnantificturer at Blackburn. She was a hand-loom
weaver, and +vas in the habit of attending at his warehouse to
obtain warp and weft, and receive her wages. Shortly before
Christmas, 1343, he detained her in the warehouse until all the
ri-st were :s,me, saying it was not her turn, and finally forcing
her into Cie cellar, obtained possession of her person. He had
paid her attention for some time before, and had said he would
marry her. The intimacy thus commenced continued until the
latter
.pyt of the year 1344, and in September she gave birth
to a elm]. It appeared that subsequent to the birth she had
cone before the magi-tratcs to obtain an order of affiliation.
The ease was adjourned for the purpose of obtaining corrobora-
tive evidence, but the application was finally refused.
On cross-extmination she stated that the defendant had
made love to her, and told her she was very beautiful, through
the hole in the partition in the counting-house, enclosing the
pt y- tliee, where they were paid their wages. He had
pro-
mised to marry her in the same way. She said that he had
fired iwr into the cellar and locked her in there, while he
went and put the warp and weft she had got back in the office.
She s:aw him do this. She looked through the lock of the door.
'ne afterwards said she looked through a hole in the bottom of
the She then stated, on being asked what she meant by ;
sa) in]; she to eked through the lock, that there was a lock at the
bottom of the door. It was a padlock. That was the lock
the defendant fastened when he locked her in. He took it out
of his pocket. Did nut look through the padlock. Looked
through the hole in the door. She also said that the defendant
lacked her ;hen he put her into the cellar. He kicked her
aftiir he hail effected his purpose. He kicked the hinder part
of her per sin. [lad dons so before when he was courting her.
Had done so before he called her beautiful as well as after. The
intercourse latterly usually took place in the office. Generally
kicked her on these occasions.
Mr. ATHERTON addressed the jury for the defence,- own-