The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-11 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VIOE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Dec. 10.
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
His Honour took motions to-day, it being the second
seal after Michaelmas term. The Court was occupied
the whole day with the arguments in the case of "Preece
and Wasdell," which came before the Court upon mo-
tion to dissolve an injuirtion restraining the defendant
from proceeding with an action of ejectment. The argu-
ments had not eoncluded when the Court rose.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORT.HERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Dec. 9.
(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
MANSLAUGHTER.—WiIIiam Charnock, aged 52, was
indicted for the manslaughter of John Radcliffe.
It appeared from the statement of the witnesses for
the prosecution that the deceased had formerly resided
at Upholland, in this county, and that Mary Charnock,
a daughter of the priamers, had had a child by him.
On the 21st of September last he called at the prisoner's
house. There were no persons there but Mary Char-
nock and the prisoner, who was up stairs; Mary Char-
nock was in the parlour below. She requested the de-
ed to go away, ex dressing her fears that her father
and he might quarrel, but the deceased, who was some-
hat intoxicated, refused to leave. The prisoner came
clown stairs and desired him to go out of the house, but
the deceased said he would not, and boasted that the
isoner was not able to put him out. The prisoner
tail; up the poker, and the parties struggled together,
Luth falling to the ground, and the scuffle was finally
ut an end to by some of the neighbours, who had
Leen called in by the prisoner's daughter. They kick
the deceased away. Ho did nut then complain of
having received any injury, but shortly after said he
was hurt on the left side and right leg. He was
taken to his residence in Liverpool in a car, and
was attended by a surgeon. There was a mark
of a considerable bruise upon his leg, and another
upon his chest. The appearance of these bruises conti-
nued unfavourable, and they finally resulted in abscesses.
About a month after he was removed to the Northern
Hospital, and at that time the abscesses were very ex-
tensive, and his case, in the opinion of the surgeons,
hopeless. He died on the 9th of November. On a pea
tem examination it appeared that the abscess in the
kg extended a great way up the thigh, and round the
kAee joint, and that Ciat on the chest communicated
with one within the el, ity, through a fracture in one of
the ribs of some standing, which must have resulted
from external violence. The deceased was of a very
scrofulous constitution, but for which circumstance the
injuries he received would probably not have had such
serious consequences.
. . .

From a statement made by the deceased, in the pros-
pect of death, it would appear that the prisoner, when he
came down stairs, had the poker in his hand, and that
he struck deceased with it.

Mr. -ATKINsoN addressed the jury for the defence, and
his Lordship, in summing up, luft it to the jury to say,
uno.k.r all the circumstances, whether the prisoner, in
(jc;,:ting the deceased, who was intruding on his premises,
had used any more violence than was necessary.
Verdict—Not Guilty.

STABBING.—John earrington was indicted for cutting
recd wounding James Bingham, with intent to do him
some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Brandt conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner
was defended by Mr. Green.

The occurrence, which resulted in the present indict-
ment, took place cn the 24th of November last, in
Manchester. The prisoner was, on the night of that
d :y, between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, in
a public-house, where a quarrel took place between him
ard a person of the name of Taylor, which resulted
in a scuffle. The prisoner was turned out of the house;
and, having obtained a knife from a woman whom he
met in the street, came back to the public-house, and
forced his way in, having the knife open in his hand.
Tha landlord ran into the bar parlour, in which the pro-
stTutor and several other parties were assembled, and
gave an alarm. The prosecutor was going out of the
parlour to see what was the matter, when he met the
prisoner, who struck him several times with the knife,
a-id inflicted a severe wound on his arm. Several per-
sons present seized him, and he was finally secured.
On the floor was found a clasp knife open. The prose-
cutor's coat being taken off, the blood spurted out se-
veral inches. The persons present endeavoured to
staunch the blood, and took the prosecutor to a surgeon,
who found him suffering from a wound which had
passed in the Immediate vicinity of an important ar-
tery. It was not, however, of a dangerous nature, and
so,in healed.

The prisoner was found Guilty, and, having already
been convicted of felony, was sentenced to be transported
for seven years.

York, Dec. 9.
(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
HORSE STEALING.— Thomas Horsfall, 25, John Smith,
22, and Joseph Hodges, 13, were indicted with having,
4.n the 16th of August last, at Saddleworth, in the West
Riding, stolen a mare, the property of Isaac Wrigley.
Mr. Hardy conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Dears-
ley defended the prisoners.
The prosecutor is a farmer, residing at Broadmeadow,
in the township of Quick, and on the day in question, at
about one o'clock, his son had put the mare into a field
very near to the prosecutor's residence. In the evening
the animal was looked for and missed. A young woman
bad seen two men and a boy come to the gate of
the field in the interim ; the boy carried a bundle,
and went into the field. He soon after came out,
bringing the mare, when one of the men put something
over her neck and led her off. Another witness had
seen two men and a boy, resembling the prisoners,
shortly before the robbery, on the road to Delph,
and near the prosecutor's house. They were at first
going towards Delph from Quick, but ;directly after
turned and went across some fields, towards the house of
Mr. Wrigley. It further appeared that early on the same
afternoon the boy now at the bar was seen riding the mare
through Delph, on the road to Ashton-under-Lyne, fol-
lovved by two men on foot, one of the men then carry-
ing a bundle. Another witness subsequently saw one
of the men, Horsfall, on the mare, and on the 19th he
was apprehended at Liverpool, with the mare in his
possession in a stable. The prisoner Smith and the
boy Hodges were taken in Manchester on the day after
the robbery. Horsfall was shown to have been formerly
engaged as a cotton-piercer ; and in the pocket of
Smith there were found a number of printed cards,
addressed " to the public," signed " Thomas Orfield,
John Smith ;" and recommending these two as appli-
cants for relief, being " out of employment, and cotton-
spinners by trade, from Ashton-under-Lyne, Lanca-
shire."

The prisoners made several contradictory statements
as to the possession of the mare, and one account was
that she had been purchased by llorsfall, at Sowerby-
bridge, from two men who there offered her for sale.
Mr. Bearsley, after addressing the jury, called James
Eastwood, publican, at Sowerby-bridge, and another
person, to give the two men a good character. East-
wood said that the men had lodged for some time at
his house ; that they were " race-runners," being in
the habit of running foot-races ; Horsfall was called
the " Lancashire Hero " and Smith the " Lancashire
Youth."

The case occupied the greater part of the dayin trying.
After his Lordship had summed up, the jury retired for
about an hour, and on returning into Court found the
prisoners Guilty, with a recommendation to mercy in
favour of the boy.
Sentence—Horsfall and Smith to he severally trans-
ported for ten years ; the same sentence upon Hodges.
His Lordship intimated that he should recommend that
prisoner to be so imprisoned as that he might have the
best chance of reformation.

Thomas Steward, aged 23, convicted of stealing a
gelding, the property of John Boocock, of Shelf, was
sentenced to be transported for ten years.

Isaac Frankleion, aged 19, pleaded guilty to a chargo
of horse-stealing.
He was tried upon another similar charge and con-
victed.—Sentence, to be transported for ten years.
HOUSEBREAKING.—John Grantley, aged 22, was con-
victed of having, on the 22d of July last, at Bilborough,
broken into the house of Jonathan Shepherd, and stealing
therein ; and also of a similar offence on the same day,
in the house of Jonas Schofield, at Monk Tryston.
The prisoner had been previously convicted of felony,
and was now sentenced to ten years' transportation.
Cornelius Toft, aged 20, pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment charging him with burglary in the house of Francis
Hainbrim, at Sherborne.
Sentence, twe years' imprisonment, with hard labour

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOU#E.

Yesterday Mr. Swift, of the Chancery bar, appeared
before the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of exonerating
Mr. Ellison, a gentleman whose name was brought into
question on the preceding day, as being connected with
the Thames, Southend, and Eastern and Northern Rail-
way Junction Company, from any participation in the
concern bearing that designation. He said it was true
that the name of Mr. Ellison, who was a man of high
respectability, appeared at the commencement of the
undertaking of which Mr. Garde had complained,
amongst the names of those who were engaged in the
speculation; but it was equally true that he had with-
drawn from the Company Wore a provisional coin-
initt2e had been appointed, and in fact, before any act
bad been performed from which it could be inferred
that ho had anything to do with the Company. The
correspondence which had been read in the Mansion-
house had reference to other parties, and Mr. Ellison
was ready to come forward at any time to state all he
know about the Company, from which he had withdrawn
the moment he found that it had the qualities of the
bubbles which were every day bursting. The Learned
Coun.iel did not by this coming forward on behalf of Mr.
Ellison, whom he knew to be wholly incapable of join-
ing in any scheme of a discreditable character, mean to
cast any imputation upon Mr. Garde, who naturally felt
indignation and disgust at having been lugged in as a
debtor to the amount of upwards of 1,0001. to the sur-
veyors of the projected line. He considered that Mr.
Garde was justified in the course he had adopted ; and
he had reason to believe that the surveyors were now
quite aware upon whom they could make their demand
legally, and no doubt they would exercise their judg-
ment in the emergency.
The Loan MAYOR said that Alderman Gibbs had
been applied to on the occasion of the complaint, and
the subject might be brought before that magistrate on
a future occasion.

Mr. Swift said, that as Mr. Ellison felt every moment
of consequence in a case in which he considered his
name to be most improperly mixed up with a Company
of such a description, it was important to him to have
the denial made as public as had been the mistaken
representation that he was the secretary to the Company.
The LORD MAYOR. said he had not the slightest doubt
as to the readiness of the newspapers to do justice to
any gentleman whose name had been improperly used,
and added, that if Mr. Ellison attended the justice-room
upon the second application of the complainant, he could
enter into a full justification of hie conduct.