The Sun. — 1848-08-02 (London, England)

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—lpswich, August 1  The commission for this county, the last on the circuit, was opened yesterday afternoon, and their Lordships took their seats to-day at twelve o'clock. The cause list presented an unusually heavy entry, embracing 22 causes, of which nine are for trial by special juries. It is stated that in some of these a " special counsel" is retained, but the name of the " illustrious stranger" has not yet been accurately ascertained. The calendar contains the names of 37 prisoners, one of whom is charged with murder, by poisoning her illegitimate child. Beyond this case, and two charges of arson, there is not any of particular interest, except the following, which, from the magnitude of the booty, may be deemed worthy of notice. Samuel Layton, aged 22, and John Layton, aged 28, were charged with stealing forty sheep and three lambs, the property of Joseph Eaton Hall, of Hawkedon. Mr. PRENDERGAST conducted the case for the prosecution, and proved that the prisoners, being brothers, and living at Bury St. Edmund's, were seen, on the night of the 18th of last month, " striding" along the road towards the field in which the prosecutor had folded a very large fleck of sheep and lambs. In the course of the same night the prisoners were seen returning towards Ipswich, driving a flock of sheep along the road, and on the following day the prosecutor counted his flock, and missed no fewer than forty sheep and three lambs, and information having been given of the proceedings of the prisoners, they and their flock, excepting one sheep and three lambs, were traced to the East Isham fair, where they sold 39 sheep, one of which was clearly identified as the property of the prosecutor. As to the one sheep and three lambs, they were discovered to have been sold by the prisoners and taken to Bury, but neither of that number was identified. The prisoners, when called on for their defence, stated that they had been employed to drive them for a man; but that story did not gain much credit with the jury, who at once found them both Guilty. His LORDSHIP, having enlarged on the effrontery of their conduct, sentenced both the prisoners to be transported for ten years.  Verdict—Guilty. His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, told the prisoner that, although the Jaw would make allowances for the weakness of a man's nature, and there appeared to have been some provocation in the language used hy deceased, still it was unlawful for two men thus to engage in a deliberate fight; and although ho (the prisoner) had acted upon this occasion without malice, his act was wilful and criminal. His Lordship trusted the punishment ho should award would be sufficient as a warning to the prisoner himself for his future conduct, and that there might, under the extenuating circumstances, be a sufficient example made by the sentence of fourteen days' imprisonment, with hard labour. William Gilroy, aged 17, was indicted for having, at Dalton-le-Dale, on the sth of April last, feloniously killed and slain VV. Graham. Mr. WARREN, counsel for the prosecution, stated that this was a case very similar in its nature to the one above reported. The prisoner and deceased were both pitmen at Merton Colliery, and it appeared that deceased having repeatedly challenged prisoner to fight him, a combat at length took place on the evening of the day mentioned, in a field near the pit. The death, as stated by Mr. A. WGregor, surgeon, was occasioned by blows received in that fight, they having produced effusion of blood on the brain. : _ _  cMlDLANDod‘ovfNhcaocypiCOUßT—(Before haring, Ro TCn person_i