The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-14 00:00:00

SPE-CIAt -t'OMMISSIONS.
.ST4ITORD, 'WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
TRIAL OP COOPER
_FOR ARSON.
The Solicitor-Generat concluded his address, which
occupied 'about- an hotir-, when the Chief Justice
summed up, and the Jury, after deliberating for
about fifteen minutes, returned a verdict of Not guilty.
The prisoner said -You are right, gentlemen, my
alibi is as true as gospel. My Lord, I thank you for
your great kindness, and I beg pardon for having in-
terrupted you in your address to the Jury.
The prisoner was then removed, there being an in-.
dictment against him for sedition, which, it is ar-
ranged, will be tried to• morrow.
George Wilcox was then placed at the bar, charged
with being- concerned in the demolition of Mr. Par-
ker's house.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and the Learned
Judge,Jud after observing that he was one of the party
had actually set fire to the house, sentenced him
totransportation for twenty-one years.
Adam Wood was then placed at the bar upon a
similar charge, and the evidence against him being
conclusive of his participation in the outrage, the Jury
found him guilty, and he was immediately sentenced
To ten years' transportation,
(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.)
Whose trial was proceedinc, when our report was dis-
patched this morning, were' found Guilty, and sen-
tenced, John Neal to two years' imprisonment, and
Simmons to 18 months' imprisonment.
Several persons were afterwards tried for stealing
geveral articles from the house of Dr. Vale on the
day of the fire, and were sentenced to various terms
of imprisonment.
fur The Grand Jury were yesterday discharged from
th_t her. attendance till Monday the 24th inst., with
t,' understanding that they are not to be called toge-
Xron that day without further notice. The number
bills of indictment found b - them in the entire is
130 y
sone Mani,' of them including eight to twelve pri-
co_rg.. Commission
one bill has been ignored during the
,ifitnission. From the number of cases still to be
o'tied, and' the plan recently adopted by the pris-oners
18evering in thr challmges, it is said that the Com-
si/tobron cannot close during the present week,
_and
it will be necessary to postpone the Quarter Ses-
sions, which are fixed for the 18th inst., another week.
(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
lien YIT, Williamsi, Andrew Clews, Henry Hilliard,
jor Wardle, Hannah Boon, Elijah Clay, and John
I:i:o7,l\l\l7e indicted for burglariously entering the
‘4stealing. W. Forrester, on the .15th of August,
therefrom.
The priaott •
-41wui.4:1-,erg were acquitted.
attack
on „,,',.)roek was indicted and found guilty of an
4'ir- Forrester's house.
-81:11'10dzonpleaded guilty to a larceny in Mr.
orrestetps,
llrr.ll,lll.Y.Gih°suosne.convieted. of beginning,to demolish
florrester's house, was sentenced to two years'
isonment and hard labour.
Vale;lnn,a.h,l,4ees, convicted of a felony in the Rev. Dr.
labousr.imuge) wits. sentenced to three months' hard
Lejrillea Slack, convicted of beginning to demolish
o Granville's offices, was sentenced to ten years'
transportation.
At THURSDAY.—(Before Sir N. TINDAL.)
Yates, the sitting of the Court this morning Thomas
,o, John lialford, Robert Halford, Samuel Wi.l-
- John Blanchard were discharged.
Elijah Jackson was discharged.
kiah Simpson w
Partyas indicted f bein one of the
I.llttY concerned in the demolitionor gof the house of Wil-
-11441 Esq.,
ast on the night of the 15th August
and found Guilty.
4_l he Learned JUDGE sentenced the prisoner to
l'r‘,l,,,lsportation for 21 years.
t„ -the prisoner had been previously convicted of bein
house,
in the demolition of the Rev. .Dr. Vale's
Aal•rholuaa Turner was then indicted for a similar
sentenced
and being found guilty, the ' Learned Judge
him to transportation for twenty-one years.
'John Sillito, for a similar offence. Guilty, with
`Naive.,,T months' imprisonment.
illiarn Evans, for the game offence. Discharged.
Edward Ellis, on. a similar chargi,. Guilty, and
geotenced to transportation for ten years.
t In This case the Learned Judge said that he could
°t allow an attempt to pervert justice, by setting up
a •
PerAred alibi, to pass without making a severe
el ample.

(Before Mr. Baron ROLF,
~, RIOT AT THE REV. DR.
.T. 'Samuel Moore, Rosanna Ilsi,l'ESE.m.l)amnuuseEl *Nixon,
-rvi Foster, John Bagnall, Johnil Plant, Sarah Beech,
lien Bolton, Charles Brills e, , Susannah I-Tanners-
-1.7, Elisabeth Robinson, John :Shawd, JAulloisaesSrauyned,earsli,
—r"lget Costello, Anne Miserable, sugged_lookingllewis, an
were indicted for
creatures,
a riot and unlawful assembly on the 15th August last.
The prisoner Nixon was first tried, and
proved to
have been actively engaged in the destruction of the
property. Verdict—Guilty.
Samuel Moore—Not Guilty.
Rosanna Ellis-Guilt
Levie Foster y.
.Was next tried, and found Guilty.
l
_ Th
iar. M other prisoners were separately placed it the
ost of them were 'defended by Counsel, and
with f Moore
all were fbinid Guilty, th the exception
and Sarah.Veeeh.o
Several other persons who
petty depredation at Were concerned in acts
of
the house
afterwards tried, and found Guilt of Dr. Vale were
The authorities are makingy.
arrangements for the
transmission of all the convicts upon whom sentence
'will have been passed up to Saturday next, tei the
liulk3. The unusually large number or prisoners in
the gaol, and the desperate character of many of the
convicts, renders the immediate removal of a portion
absolutely necessary, the officers being kept upon the
alert day and night.
CONSPIRACY TO BREAK OPEN STAFFORD
GAOL
tut of
the STAFFORD, TIFURSDAT.—A deep-laid plan to break
gaol here was discovered yesterday morn-
log, by the active and intelligent Governor, Mr.
Brutthn. It appeared that a large body of the pri-
boners confined in one wing of the building had ar-
l'anged to secure the turnkey on entering the day-
lonm, and, after securing him, so that he could neither
vffer any resistance nor cry out, to possess themselves
of the keys none of which they had ascertained would
of
a. iminediately adjoining, in which fifty or
spay stand of arms were deposited. There is little
doubt that had the prisoners succeeded in possessing
themselves of the keys and the arms, they would have
?mcomplished their object—getting outside the build-
:tn•g* Ellis, one lof the prisoners, who has been con-
victed at the present Special Commission, and
con-
several ' other •
an the of the convicts, ere engaged
meter °: 4.
Plot w , and from the desperate cha-
roany of the party, and the small
Zylllriber of military stationed in the prison, there was
ery probabilit had the Governor not received
ille,inloy intimation, the plan would have completely
ceeded. The most efficient arrangements were
,s4troediately made for the security of the prison ; the
I,vera.l doors opening upon the yards and day rooms
"eln.g strengthened with iron bolts and bars, and some
'roll doors, which were not in use, having been
41Pplied.to secure the various passages. Several inti-
41,,.zitions-bad Leen previously received that such a de-
j%" was In contemplation, but the reports were be-
L,lLved;to be unfounded, and it was only on the very
-I,°` the outbreak, which was fixed for the following
qki.-10, that positive' information was forwarded to the
Zl*g‘re,.?:.°r• The prisoner who communicated the de-
-11
:,tl.l, gang was O'Neil, a man who had been
31.ierci,7 toe present Commission, and sentenced to two
the tllea--.: Tithe
and hard labour. A
immediately
ofoar.
'lye dea,r,icillostances of the case was
lAriadr,-`'" .t° the 'Secretary
_of.. State. The priSon is
.... r the surveillance of six turnkeys and seven
~,a.rd,
'moo, all well armed, and a
not party of the 34th
omunt guard day and night.
!ia At this moment the gaol is in a state of siege, and
,tnharded on all sides, so that any attempt to escape
,luau 11'e part of the rioters will be promptly and e.ffec-
-thY met. There are four pieces of cannon within
Ncl e 41"1, arid all the sentries within the walls are_t i:lbl(id, and constantly visited by the Governor.
will
liassuPP°sEd that the detection of this conspiracy ill
Ira,,teil the departure of the convicts sentenced to
,„,-sPortation
'%s4:Pere are 186 prisoners for trial at the October
q„-b3nr- for Stafford, most of them being for offences
o,;'llected with the late disturbances in the Potteries.
ls these, 24 are females; 18 can read and write well,
494anPerfeetly; 4 can read well, 42 imperfectly, an
call neither read nor write; 13 are out upon bail.d
e LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
ItDINN CounT.--(Before Lord AnIEGER.)
SENTENCES ON PRISONERS.
4 John -Hickey, Hugh Cavannah, Mathew Dalton,
~atl'eslCweedale, and James Saxton, were brought
go te. rece:ve sentence, having been convicted on
rial':laY of an att•lck on the mills of Messrs. Stirling
an
t° at .IN‘lancliester. Saxton was sentenced
ino."re inunths' imprisonment, and the rest to twelve
"the imprisonment in Kirkrlale gaol.
The . • TR E cIIARTIST ExECUTIVE.
Pleaded f:ollowing indiiiduals charged with conspiracy
'e1,(24e1, alld traversed to the next Assizes :—James
e'kd, James Leech, Christopher Doyle, John
u'l)111
(le-yr ' -,,' Bernai.d M(Cartney, Richard Ottley,
J-00,,,,t.'011an Varney, William Hill, Robert Brook,
reni,:,sa6.l44l:°,ll,r,kl,;,hoin.'as Brown Smith, James Allin-
Thomas Railton, William Schole-
iv.aii,. P.icliard Pilling John Durham, James Fenton,
Tenderlllll to Stephenson-' John Crowley, Albert Wool-
lirm" George Inman Thomas Storer, William
,1 (111--niff; Thomas Pitt, 'Frederick Augustus Taylor,
°,,,,n ;'iilde, and John Massey.
-' hey-were ordered to find bail, themselves'in 2001.,
antii,.two sureties in 50/. each, to appear at the next
-sizes., and to keep the peace in the meantime.
. PUBLISIIING A SEDITIOUS pLA cARD.
Richard Warwick was charged NI ith having, at