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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

master and servant commenced between the
and the plaintiff when the former became i
the estate of Barton and Co. The plaint
suited.

Two undefended causes were then tried, and t
of the first list, with the exception of one sp(

cause, was disposed of.
Several undefended causes in the second li
rapidly gone through.

This was an action brought by William Spencer agai
Thomas Davis and Thomas Parry for the recovery a s
of £32 6s. 6d. for work and labour done. The plait
was a plumber and glazier in Liverpool, and he had agr
for the sum of £4O, less 71 per cent., to paint nine hot
belonging to the defendants, which are situated in C
street. He had fulfilled his part of the contra(
the action was undefended. Verdict for t
the full amount claimed.
In the two following eases, Greenhouse
Williams v. Sharpies and another, the
unrepresented by counsel, were no

stiffs, who v

CROSTON V. GARDNER.
This was an action brought by George Croston agains
Henry Gardner. The declaration was in debt, and the ac
tion was brought to recover a sum of £7O 14s. for certain
blumbing, painting, and glazing done to certain house
elonging to the defendant in Toxteth-park. Verdict fo:
the plaintiff, subject to a reference.
Counsel not being ready to proceed with any of the °the]
causes, his lordship proceeded to try the following cri•
minal case :

William Storey, Thomas Cox, and P
indicted for having, on the 18th ult.,
the dwelling-house of John Jordan, innkeeper, z.
Liverpool-road, Manchester, and stolen thereon
silver and copper money. The facts of the case we
brief :—The doors were fastened, as usual, on the
of the 7th, and about four o'clock the following r
the prosecutor was called up by the policeman'
and then found that an entrance had been effec'
grid, that the till had been ransacked, and that
which it contained, which consisted only of
shillings, had been tr

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Jaen away. The prisoners Cox anC
Storey were observed near the premises, and upon Foie)
a crooked sixpence was found, which was similar to one
that had been stolen. The prisoners were acquitted.
"My lord," said one of the jury, "we have no doubt
whatever that the prisoners broke into the house and
robbed it, but there is not sufficient evidence of it." (Loud
laughter.) Another Juryman : " There is no doo't aboot
it, but we mun go by th' evidence." His lordship looked

also a dividend after the

lie £lO shares, and £2 16:
latn and Derby Stock ; the

The locomotive department of

and smiled, but said nothing.
Andrew Howard pleaded guiltyto a cl
Sentence deferred.

of burg

The trial of Joseph Speed, for the murd
infant children at Manchester, is fixed for

(Tuesday)

On Saturday evening, Mr. Justice Wightman fixed th
none of the special jury cases will be taken before Thur
day, and then they will be tried in the order in whi(
they are inserted in the cause list.
At Gloucester, John Skinner, aged 30, indicted for tl
wilful murder of wife by throwing her out of an upp,
window into the street, was acquitted, it being doubtf
whether the deceased fell out of the window accidental)
jumped out in order to avoid her brutal husband,
was rushing at her with a knife, or was thrown out I

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him.
COMPENSATION.—In January, a labourer was kill(
the South Eastern Railway, by a sudden jerk of an er
throwing him beneath the wheels of a train of waggoi
which he was employed. At the Croydon assizes,
week, his wife sued the company in forma pauperis t
cover compensation for the injury she had sustainer
his death. The jury gave her a verdict, damages .1
£5O for herself, and 1'25 for each of her children.
At the Warwick assizes, a Mr. Bethell, a widower

of marfiag,

idinitting the promise, ote ....,—_
engaged wilful
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and not the lady, was the real object of the plaintiff 's --- -
addresses. The jury returned a verdict of damages one gers and mineral tram, .—, __ _
farthing. from this source." The works on the Chester
At the Bridgewater Assizes, on Monday, Maurice
in consequence of the pressure on the money
The time for completing the Cheshire Junction
Perry, rington line will not be completed until the spring
ecution of his duty at Bathampton. A fight was taking been extended for five months. After a little d
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place in the tap-room of a public-house, between some the report was carried, and thanks were vote
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railway labourers, when the deceased interfered to put a directors. On the motion of Mr. William Po..—_,
stop to it. He was knocked down several times, and following gentlemen were appointed the new directors : ,„,_
kicked by many of them, and the prisoner, a ruffianly- Joseph Bailey, jun., M.P., John Laird, Esq., William lent farm.,
looking fellow, was observed to be foremost in the affray. Wanklyn, Esq., Cephas Howard, Esq., William Laird, cine is requ..
Chief Justice Wilde passed sentence of death on hire, Augustus Radcliffe, Esq.. James Burt jun., Esq., Richard adopted. Soh.
leaving him without hope of mercy in this world, but the Bryans, jun., Esq., John Williams, Esq., John Cochrane, per Box. See ti. le of "Thomas
murderer wal quite unmoved thrgughput the trio'.
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