The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

Russell was retained as engineer and surveyur, th the
usu.il staff of assistants, for the purpose of rnaltlnlso
customary surveys of the country through which :10
proposed the line should pass, and solicited them to !tee
the undertaking of two of the Provisional Comm!t,,,in
as security for the due payment of their expenses
$01."
a given time after the issue of allotment; but, b°111.4.01
them declined this offer, and refused to proee'd
their labours unless they were immediately Wrong
with funds. Mr. Russell therefore called °era W
of the Provisional Committee to devise some ive_!--0
raise the necessary funds required by the engln
and surveyors, which was held at the Hutnalure,l4.A.
Covent-garden ; and nt that meeting Mr. Russell ."-to
cited a loan of 1,0001., to enable him to carry on
business of the project. The Provisional Coastal bo
however, declined to advance the money themselves,
some of them promised to use their influence Will rye
or two of their friends to induce them to advance 11614
required sum. One of' those friends was the Phnom
who, at the instigation of his father, who was cee 00014
Provisional Committee, advanced the defendant f the
and the defendant gave him in acknowledgment e ftif
loan the I 0 upon which the present eel°
brought.
Mr. MARTIN, for the defence, contended that the
:r 01l
tiff wiis one of the promoters of the scheme, ande,
liable, with the defendant and others, to 101 rleel;
peruses and debts incurred by the Company. Sn fie
its being the case that the Provisional Committee roeuto
to advance funds at the meeting held at the fluteedfir
they agreed, or rather some part of them ag.,.oetlie
eluding the plaintiff. his father, and brother, tar""si
eer
1,0001. by subscriptions of 2001. each ; but this. .e.
ment was not strictly carried out, and some of tas6epje
ties contributed more tl AI others. One of thei arei
ties was the plaintiff ; and the Learned Coune, no it
that the plaintiff and defendant mnst be consintiot.
this particular transaction to have been in theged to
of co-partners, and hence the former was not en
recover. • to
The Learned COUNSEL called two witnesses of
port this line of defence, but the evidence did a.° S.
stantiate the facts. ne of the witnesses 0 ifibl
'rapping, the barrister, and plaintiff's
stated that neither himself nor his brother ha.dstf,
to do with the project in the capacity of prinellientalli
brother borrowed the 280/. from his father,
an
money to the defendant on his own account. ;,pecif
ness himself was retained in his caPaaiti gle of °iiee
pleader and barrister to settle the prospectaseopeltd
.:ouspany and advocate the merits of the flan pet
meetings in Essex, and he expected Mr.
Olen: tte
remunerate him at Christmas for these se
brotbenr;to
ineuced his father and several of his friends tellog
undertaking, but ,it was upon the understaa"'.olol
to WI
Mr. Russell would pay all the expellees UP father
of the letters of allotment. Mr. Russell's
brother-in-law were upon the Provisional
sed boil
but when the share market became dePree
lisp sir
them publicly withdrew their names from the -e''
the remaining gentle:nen on the ComMittee IC:111.%•
cessary to convene a meeting and dissolve the Peep
The LORD CHIEF BARON said the eviclean.et ossir
tirely failed to substantiate the defence, antat'ori
duty to direct the jury to return a verdict Ipil
tii
ate
The jury accordingly found a verdict for •
for the full amount claimed—namely, 2801.
SWIFT V. RUSSELL.
GOLDSMITH V. SAME. •
O%
COPE V. SAME. :mitt C
reed,
stances were actions brought under 5'"',,140 '-ed,
stances to the last case, and in each of
was taken for the plaintiff for the full wean" )
CRIMINAL COURT.,4IIO'

NEW COURT.
) fie
(Before the Comics:4 SERGEAN ',,,41* les 01
Afred Hayward, James Chivell, and '"of oeafros:
son, all young men about stventeen Years joiot",e
indicted for stealing tobacco and a jar can% Wore
the shop of Benjamin Fox, Victoria-Weis% ritsst
s)aers, on the evening of te 6th Deeet",ol,ll6
seen at the window of Fox, where the tohe;fteea,e, og
e here the prosecutor missed it a short titnew Pis etee
three when they had got possession of atie they
with all speed up the street, but suspeetb.;esseorsl
pursued, and being met by one of the fiel
dropped the jar on the spot, where it fires,o4,lll
found by the policeman. se t ere
Butter, a constable, found Rogerson ---ecestee--
public-house of a suspicious character, "
od
thirty other men.
nel
They were found Guilty by the Pill soar; ted
The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced west le,
Chissell to three months' hard labour an !ore 1",
in the House of Correction ; and Iteger-
sere°
been convicted on a former indictment, to
tM
00w-0
transportation. beth
John Ainsworth and John Hickman, from
were indicted for stealing 1121bs. of lead poke",
of Charles Wm. Lanner, Esq.. West 00113100,0 soff!„
Thomas Morrison, constable at Weeteeptetere • On,
quence of instructions he received from .I"ef,h
son, went on the 22d November last to we"ibere
of the prisoner Ainsworth. lie watched 0,/tI,OI,LP
28th of the same month, on which day he e 5 0
ere! 01
Pr
s
and Hickman come out of the hen neeet 1
The constable followed them to the cibeal of re
West Ham Abbey, and there see' tot,
on a house belonging to the prose° the)
!pence stripping off tho lead. This detrele6s:o.:
It down, and having descended themselvey tjoloceri
carried the lead in question to the house ember °
ti
11,trrison returned in company with f°ll,ll,—vregliliee 7P,;
two of whom he placed at the back t"'4or.
with two he himself went in at the front " end 01
soners by this time were in the back) erth, lc. 1,11
they saw the constables, they seized uP the
Threw it into a ditch, where the etolicenieefoodreoleel
Hickman's house, when searched, were ed e
barrows, bricks, and such articles as are us fete[;
contractors. seli roV
ickm
The jury found them Guilty. II
to tour months,' and Ainse orth to six to t> °F ia
.eliP?
i 5
molt and hard labour. • ted f`‘
Thomas Hore, aged fifteen, was incite se
51. 12s. 6d. in money, from Mary Ge.if„,n'eper'''
Pocock, aged nineteen, for receiving the bite fr
t to be stolen. .he
Mary Galvin, at present a servaat et seidi tied, le,
in the Strand, was on Saffron-hill' on
her, when she saw the prisoner Hore beodf:ell°,l/1
tbe hool oelc;
felt his hand in her pocket. She seised 1..1!,.e bitilee s"s,
cused him of robbing her, but be wits7vo
of her grasp, and ran away. Previelli, her well;
was certain of having 51. 12s. 6d. eafeealieseldo
inside of a silk glove, which was again -ed re,e,
glove ; the money was the wages she ":0001" 1,,, 'v.
her last place. The woman and her el 'Wes e
Conner, ran after him through sevel, her ,0110,
caught him again. Upon this she to 'ne the le /ho"
postman, who came up at the time, ti-onef the " •
searched the boy, without finding ant ""„eeedell
Pocock having come up by this time, '-wdrrirc,
Here, and said he would keep him in eiles,e' sn'e,e6
licemsn should come ; but upon the 11",,--„r iineA.„(l
to relax her hold of Hore, he scratched vs'o be
rho
drew lore from her hold, when botter-thr"ofeel'
, over a brickwall in the neighul. ooe, o
de'
in their further progress Here was seen iXoCkr ej-.4
witnessemo give over to a boy in a fiver' e 0 tree,
thing like a white glove with loose silver, eu see fee,
to tell the boy to divide it between ree(lcess se;‘,llls
The witness who gave this last evideoeefore beep lice
sharp boy for his age ; but it came out 'Yea to 0t,.0
witness box, and the boy was not inclinethe Vie Pot
secret that he had been fourteen days in ti-lee' toP:rt
Correction. On being asked how ineni, e siel°sl
been before the magistrate, he appearea gi-eer
some time, and then by way of something:We'
where memory failed him, he said he hou lor
Jed 0.
up two or three times, esev,ser hfO
This witness, who had seen the gierje
said, the reason why the postman had -tc)tbe ;era
glo've and money off him forcibly was, ttt th.,40413
squeezed his hand so closely upon it, ~t";" ees',ollo
and the girl were unable to epen it. Tse,'",,ert Ifoite
damaged the effect of his evidence on the tgosti
The policeman who took Here into ensu eels 040
Pocock on his way to the stion. Poeee_,- 01, el he
to bully the policeman. lie said Hore t'ho tlO rot
who had robbed the girl ; that the person w,,,,,"5e1f..te1'
a boy nearly as big as the policeman 11710°'
this, he added, addressing lore, TorooP
4,
' me, and I'll stick to you.'r 41°
The jury found both Guilty. eele' tiJ
• lore, in considerstion of his yozdh, w— 5 „re
one year's imprisonment and hard let ~e, o'o
Pccock's mother, on hearing the sentet;:!eeelc't rt
the Court with cries of " Have mercy on,'°: eV/1:r: °ll,l
The prisoner himself manifested Muc'',,„tewe'frir
protested his innocence. It turned out, I"'t tbe r,o
be had been convicted on a former charges L°
was recognised as an associate of thieve' .erredy
therefore, sentenced to be transported for tillip°
tears on hearing this were stanched imtnetit4joe'
walked off with great coolness and self-posse'-
.eire
BO W-STREET.—(THIS
William Bradhear, John Bradbear, Biel° 4," vperll`
William Wakeville, and Thomas Lidyola
answer a charge of creating a disturbayeetoets
Court, Westminster, and assaulting Ow
Court. The charge was originally made col:eepe,4
remanded to this day, the prisoners having "he Jt 0"
bail. Thomas Wirtkin Wynne was one of ti."„-$ di
on that occasion, and was also remanded, v"
now appear. defect
Mr. Thomas, the barrister, appeared to
prisoners. er,eriCl,
From the statements of the officers, Oro
Pinner, it appeared that two of the prisorrer,i,ffor;,),
end Wakeville, had been rebuked by HerriPstee;liv,
ing with the jury who were trying a cause site,ooo,o4
Court, and who had retired ill his custodY. the
after this occurred Herrick was waylaid bi 'Or
era in the lobby of the Court, and beget! the
Pinner came to assist him, and pulled out Oil
which he carries as a token V his authoritYA
stable. The staff was taken from hint, 1113`.
to Jil
dt,
' beaten by the prisoners. iecOpiti
A policeman (A 1,) was then sent for, and
e,O/
officers of the Court took the prisoners to t“'
house. 01to!
Mr. Thomas, on the part of the prisono7,
that he had several witnesses to call, but es,", 607,0 i
Mr. Jardine's intention to send the case to ..„o""acislr
he thought it would be only a waste of the 113-""
time to bring forward any evidence at preset!' c.iol!,
Mr. JARDINE said that this was clean,/ t
aggravated assault, which it would be his &di `,001,01
a jury. He did not mean that it might not Miler'
by the provocation given, but he could not conj.-Iv
question at present. No evidence that cool trr
duced would influence him in that respect. the
The depositions were accordingly taken, on
loners committed for trial. •