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MANSLAUGHTER

is lordship, having heard the counsel for the defence,
mad up, and having expressed his approbation of the

and the jury at once

ound a

The Irish prisoners were sentenced to one month's im-
fmment to hard labour ; Leadbetler (English), one
; and Blinkhorn (English), who was in a sup-

position in life to the rest, and ouzlit to have known
better, instead of which be appeared to have taken a pro-
minent part, three months' imprisonment, with hard
labour.

as the last case on the calendar ; and, before
leave, the learned Lard Chief Justice took
...gun to complain of the arrangements of the court,
observing that the witness-box, jury-box, and prisoner's
dock, were too far apart from each other and the bench.
Having expressed a hope that, by the next time he had
the pleasure of being in Liverpool, the requisite alterations
would be made, his lordship concluded by complimenting
the Liverpool Corporation for their liberal spirit and
anxiety to do everything they could to facilitate the ends.
iso of justice,

taking his

SHERIFF'S ROOM. TUESDAY
(Before Mr. BLISS, Q.C.)

SAILORS.

John Gainey (16), John Willis (24), and Frank Briggs
(23), were indicted for having at Liverpool, on board the
Shannon, stolen several articles of wearing apparel, &c.,
the property of Hans Peter Hanson, and others. The
particulars of the case were reported in our last. Willis
was acquitted, but the other two men were found guilty,
and sentenced to two months' imprisonment.—Loftus
Guest, another sailor on board, was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment, for stealing a carpet-bag.

FORGERY

Samuel Wilkins (63) a respectably-dressed man, (who
Tenderedon bail,) was indicted for having, at. Liverpool,
on the 9th of March, uttered a certain forged acquittance
for the payment of £3O. There were several other
counts in the indictment, varying the nature of the in-
t. Mr. Monk prosecuted, and the prisoner, in a
style, defended himself. He was formerly cashier
in the office of Messrs. John and Henry Ridgway, solici-
tors, of Manchester,. The jury found a verdict of guilty.
and the Judge sentenced the prisoner to seven years'
transportation. Wilkins took a large ring from his finger,
and a watch and pencil-case from his pocket, which having
given to his son, who was in court, he shook hands with
him and other friends, and took his leave of them.

BIGAMY

Bridget Sweeney, indicted for bigamy, was acquitted.
on the ground that she had not heard anything of her first
husband within the space of seven years before marrying
the second. MALICIOUSLY WOUNDING.
George Knight, for maliciously wounding a fellow work.
man, at Rochdale, was sentenced to 14 dayeimprisonment.

Francis Gallagher was indicted for the manslauehterof
Wrn. Roberts, on Tuesday, the 3rd of August, at Salford.
The deceased, who was drunk, challenged Gallagher to
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fight, when a struggle ensued, and the result teas that
Roberts received a fracture of the skull; but whether it
was from the effects of a blow or a fall, it was for the
severely upon jury from the evidence to decide. Veriict, not guilty.

The court rose at six o'cloc

NISI PRIUS COURT.-TUESDAY
TUDOR V. SAUNDERS.

An undefended action to recover £B6 12s. 3
for the plaintiff.

Verdict

DOE DEM SCARISBRICK V. BALL AND ANOTHER
Verdict for the plaintiff, subject to terms.

WILLIAMS

- GILDER t
An undefended action to recover £2O on a bill of ex-
change. Verdict for the plaintiff.

IN DUNN AND ANOTHER V. ANDREA CRESTADORA,
• An undefended action to recover £720 upon two pro-
missory notes, a verdict was returned for the plaintiffs.

BELL V. COX

This was an action by the registered public officer of
the National Provincial Bank, at Manchester, to recover
£63 4s. on a bill of exchange, accepted by the defendants
and a former partner named Forshaw, made payable to
Clarke and Bleakeley, and by them endorsed to the plain-
tiff. Verdict for the plaintiff.

GIANACOPULA. AND ANOTHER V. ATKINSON WILKIN

The plaintiffs are Greek merchants in this town, and
the defendant was formerly in their employment as
clerk. The p'aint'ffs began business on the Ist August,
1950 ; and prior to their commencing, they engaged the
defendant to enter into their service as a clerk, and a
written agreement was subscribed by both parties in the
month of July previously. By this document the defen-

dant bound himself to serve the plaintiffs, by devoting his
whole time to the promotion of their interests. at a remu-
neration of £l5O per annum. The defendant entered on
his situation, but quitted it in the month of March in the
present year, in a summary manner, and without having
received or given notice. The present action was brought
to recover n balance amounting to £271 16s. Btl., alleged
to be due to the plaintiff's, and in the hands of the defen-
dant, after giving him credit for the entire amount of his
salary up to the period when he quitted the service of his
employers. Verdict for the plaintiffs : damages, £34
6s. Bd. STRAKCR AND OTRTCRS V. HEALD.
The plaintiffs were the owners of a ship called the
Agnes Lee. and the defendant is the secretary of the

Newcastle Marine Assurance Society. The claim was
upon a policy of insurance effected on the cargo of the
Agnes Lee, in the early part of the year 1849, from Cork
to Liverpool, and the facts of the case, as detailed in the
evidence, were of a very peculiar character. In the
month of June, 1848, the Agnes Lee proceeded to Alex-
andria with a cargo of coals, the master, John Clarence,
being directed to bring back wheat for Liverpool. It was
stated by the second mate that Clarence was of so intem-
perate a character, that, upon the arrival of the ship at
Alexandria, the crew appealed to the British consul to be
relieved from the captain, whose drunkenness had put the
ship in great peril throughout the voyage. Upon the
captain signing an engagement, however, not again to

duty, the cargo of grain was taken on board, and the ship
sailed on her return voyage. At this time it was alleged
that the vessel was in an unseaworthy state, the sails and
rigging were damaged, and the copper broken from the
hull in several places. Eventually, however, the Agnes
Lee reached the Cove of Cork, where she made so much
water that the crew, who had been for several days kept
at the pumps, refused to proceed in her, and fresh hands
were taken on board by the captain to bring the ship to
Liverpool. At this time, it was stated, the staunchions
were gone, from the after part of the main rigging to the
fore part of the fore rigging. A policy of insurance was
effected by the owners with the Newcastle M4rine Society,
of which the defendant is the acting officer. The Agnes
Lee sailed for Liverpool, but was compelled to bear up
for Cardigan, in an endeavour to get into which port she
went to pieces, and the master, with his wife, and a great
number of hands, were drowned. The underwriters
resisted the claim on the ground of the suppression of
material facts, and the unseaworthiness of the vessel at
the time the policy_ was effected. After a long trial the

WEDNESDA)

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ference to Mr. Cleasley

D-CHADWICK V. DOTESIO

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