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Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN summed up, and the Jury
found the prisoner Not Guilty.
The prisoner, Sykes King, was again indicted for
assaulting Thomas Wolf, a police constable, in the exe-
cution of his dnty. There was another count,
charginOim with a common assault. The prisoner
pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Chambers prosecuted, as in the
former case, and Mr. Ballantine defended the prisoner.
The witness Wolf repeated the evidence he had
given in the former case as to the resistance made by
the prisoner to his apprehension.
On his cross-examination 'Wolf said that he had
resigned his situation in the police force since this
occurred. He had received a notice that it would be
better for him to resign, and he did resign. He had
received that notice in consequence of having been
charged with an act of violence against his wife. He
had never been charged with any other act of vio-
knee. He had been charged before the Commissioners
with taking a little drop too much to drink, and had
been punished, for it.
Re-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS—He was not
drunk on the 19th August, nor had his leaving the
police anything to do with the transactions of that night.
Edward Sweeney repeated the evidence he had pre-
viously given as to the conduct of the mob.
Mr. BALLANTINE complained of the conduct of the
prosecutor in keeping back this indictment until the
last moment. Neither the prisoner nor his advisers
were aware of the existence of the present indictment
until the prisoner was arraigned. The prisoner was
put upon this second trial unjustly and unfairly, and
the Commissioners had no right to hunt him down in
this way. On the former occasion he had put it to
the Jury, whether they did not think there might be
a reasonable doubt as to the prisoner being the per-
son who had committed the assault. They had
thought there might be. They had given the
prisoner the benefit of that doubt, and he
stood there an innocent man. Being an innocent
man, what right had the policeman to single him out
from the crowd for apprehension ; and would not any
man, feeling himself innocent, have resisted his appre-
hension ? Could they believe the witness Wolf, a man
who, for violence, had been dismissed the force ? 'Was
he a fit man to be trusted in an unruly mob ? or, rather,
was he not just the man, by his violent conduct,
to excite a quiet and orderly assemblage to acts of in-
subordination. These were the men who brought
the police force into disrepute, and if the police force
conducted themselves, as some of them had done, they
would be treated with something more than hissing
from the mob. He was, however, happy to say
that he believed the Commissioners had dismissed
several of these violent persons from the force.
The whole case depended upon the testimony of Wolf,
and he would ask the Jury if they could convict the
prisoner upon such testimony?
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN, in summing up, said that
their verdict must depend upon whether they thought
the prisoner was there accidentally as a quiet
spectator merely, in which case the police
had no right to interfere with him, or whether he
was there for the purpose of aiding and assisting the
mob in breaking the public peace, and obstructing
the thoroughfare, and was taking a part in the dis-
turbance.

The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
The cases that came before the Common Sergeant
this morning were of a most trivial description.
John Smith, a very respectably attired elderly man,
was indicted upon several charges with stealing a
vast quantity of valuable property belonging to his
employer.
The prisoner on being arraigned yesterday pleaded
guilty, but in consequence of the property being in
the hands of various pawnbrokers, the Learned Judge
deferred passing judgment till to-day.
At the sitting of the Court this morning the pri-
soner was again placed at the bar, and, in consequence
of the recommendation of the prosecutor, was sen-
tenced to only one year's confinement in the House of
Correction.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL T.-( DAY.)
Frederick Marks was charged with violently as-
saulting Samuel Howe, a Metropolitan policeman,
and C. Marks with attempting a rescue.
Samuel Howe stated that he was on duty in Dos-
well-street between twelve and one o'clock this morn-
ing, and he saw the prisoner making a noise, in com-
pany with a number of girls. He ordered them to
go away, and after a great deal of abuse they
went on, but still making a noise. Witness fol-
lowed them till they got into Aldersgate-street,
and then they made greaterdissurbanee-.
He came up to them, and he was immediately-knocked
down by the prisoner, Frederick com-
mencedMarkswho
kicking and biting him, whereby his finger
was broken. Another policeman came up, and with
his assistance the prisoner was taken into custody,
when the other prisoner attempted to rescue him.
He knocked down the other policeman, and both pri-
soners would have escaped if it had not been for a
gentleman who was passing at the time.
The prisoners said in their defence, that they were
assaulted by the police-officers.
Mr. Alderman KELLY said he did not believe the
officers had exceeded their duty, and as it was the
metropolitan police, he would give the prisoner an op-
portunity of compensating the officers, and if they
could not arrange matters he must send the case to the
sessions.

The parties arranged the matter, as they did not
return into Court.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A respectable-looking man, named Dawling, who
was lately employed as collector to the Weekly
Chronicle newspaper, was placed at the bar, before
Mr. Twyford, charged with feloniously embezzling
various sums of money, which he had received on
account of the proprietors of that paper.
Mr. Hatton attended for the prosecution, and Mr.
Pentlow, from Mr. Flower's, attended for the prisoner.
The first witness called, was John West, the
optician, of Fleet-street, who proved paying to the
prisoner 1/. 6s. on the 7th October, 1841, on account
of the Weekly Chronicle.
John Philip Krantz, the publisher of the Weekly
Chronicle, deposed that it was the prisoner's duty to
hand over all monies which he received on account of
the paper to him (witness). The prisoner had never
paid over the 11.45. received from Mr. West. Witness
also proved the signature to the receipt for the money
to be in the prisoner's hand-writing.
The next case was that of embezzling 1/.105., being
part of an account of 6/. 10s. paid to the prisoner by
111 r. John Simmonds, straw-hat manufacturer, on the
6th July, 1840.
Mr. Simmonds proved the payment of the 6/. 10s.,
and Mr. Krantz proved that the prisoner had also
paid him 51. He also produced a ledger, in which Si..
only was entered as having been received.
Mr. Hatton then applied to have the prisoner re-
manded, as he feared there were other and more serious
cases against him.
Mr. Penthern applied to have him admitted to bail
on the ground of ill health.
Mr. Hatton said he had no objection to bail being
received. There was no vindictive feeling against
the prisoner on the part of the prosecution ; they
only wished to show to their extensive establishment
that no one could be allowed to do any thing wrong
with impunity.
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_A. YLEBONE.—(THIS DAY.)
Barnard Garvin was brought up before Mr. Raw-
linson, charged with beating and starving his daughter,
a child seven or eight years old.
A witness stated that the child was literally starved,
and were it not that the people about gave her bread
and broken victuals, she would have been dead ere now.
The child was placed before Mr. Rawlinson, and
appeared quite famished, and full of disease.
The prisoner stated that he had six children at
home, and could not afford to give them all bread.
He had been refused parochial relief.
Mr. RAWLINSON ordered the case to lie over for
full investigation by the authorities of St. Pancras.

CITY OF LONDON REGISTRA-
TION.—(THIS DAY.)
Mr. M'Christie, the Revising Barrister, took hfs
seat in the Court this morning at ten o'clock.
The Court proceeded to receive the lists of the
liverymen from the various Companies.
No objection was taken to the lists of Apothecaries
or Armourers and Braziers.

Mr. Marr, who appeared on behalf of the Conserva-
tive Association of the City, said that he had objec-
tions to make to various names on the list of bakers.
It had been found that improper addresses were at-
tached to many of these names, some of the parties
having removed, others having died, and others again
never having resided in the premises mentioned. A
fruitful source of fraud and personation was thus
opened, to which all parties should be anxious to put
an end. The first name he should object to was that
in
of Richard Allen, who appeared in the list as a resi-
dent Mount Etna-place, but, on inquiry, it was
fund that no such person lived there. This me was

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