The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-03-08 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCFIESTER. TUESDAY, MARCH 8. 1864.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

For the last two months European affairs have
so engrossed the attention of Englishmen, that
they have scarcely cared to read the somewhat
uninteresting telegrams from America. But the
spring campaign has already opened, and we
may soon expect to hear of sharp fighting. We
have always maintained that it was not from
love to the slave, but for political purposes, that
Lincoln Wined his emancipation edict, and a
stronger confirmation of our assertions could not
have been given than the "General Orders"
which Federal General Banks has just issued in
Louisiana. We all know that Butler's Ordinances
at New Orleans embodied the sneaking, cowardly
passions of the low-minded tyrant, worked out
with the sophistical cooling of a pettifogging law-
yer; butthose who chose tokeep quiet, the fairer
sex especially, could avoid his annoying and de-
grading proscriptions. Bad, therefore, as Butler
is, he appears by the side of Beaks as en angel
of light. By this ukase of Banks', to which we
have referred, the emancipated negroes are re-
duced to a condition differing in little else than
name from slavery. They are forced to work
whether they will or no; they are forbidden to
go from one district to another; family unity
will be respected "so far as possible," but, in
I case it should be desirable to take parenta from
I their children, the negroes will have no remedy.
indolence is treated as • crime, and feigned
illness will be punished by sending the offender
to the public works. Negroes are forbidden to
carry arms, or to purchase intoxicating drinks.
Now it would be an insult to the understanding
of our reader* to point out to them that the con-
dition of things here set op by Banks is nothing
more nor lees than the re-establishment of
slavery, minus, indeed, the actual property or
the negro. Although it does create • property
in the negro's labour, forcing him to work,
whether he will or no, on rates of wages over
which be has no control, at the same time de-
priving him of that hold on the sympathy of his
master which did exist when he feared to lose
the value of his living healthy body. With
angular ingenuity this pro-Consul of Yankeedom
copies and legalises under new name* all the
most odious features of the old system of
slavery. At the same time he leaves to
the newly-made negro serf absolutely no
protection against their abuse by masters who
have already had their friendliness turned to
exasperation against their slaver flaunting them-
selves under their very noses as free men. Take
the "regulations" item by item, and it will be
seen that General Banks not only re-establishes
all the worst evils of slavery, but deprives the
slave of the only proterstion he possessed under
the former system. Bo much, then, for the
black slave. Created by this document, let us
see how the white serfs are to be treated.
LOUIAUPAIII4 it is declared in these "General
Orders," is to be voted back into the Union by
one-tenth of the electors; and the electors are
warned that opposition will not be permitted, and
that indifference will be treated as a crime. In
other words the electors will be required to vote,
and to sots the right way, "under penalty of
being transported beyond the Federal lines."
Has ever such brutal logic been attempted be-
fore, even in the most fearful cases of triumphant
midday despotism I Not Nichols., nor Alex-
ander, even dared such extremities against the
Poles as the American Republican his proctaimed
against his own "free" fellow-raiment He
deprives them of all freedom and indepen-
donee, refusing them tho protootion of the law,
oxcep4 on the condition of abject submission to
the Federal Government What a splendid
device to hue the &otherwise beck to the

Union Equality with their own slaves would
be far preferable. But if this act of Gonoral
Banks is impolitic against the Southerners, what
shall we sly of its probable effect of public
opinion all over the net of the world 1 What
will Europe now say to the prolongation of the
quarrel! Of those who hold out for non-inter-

ferenoe, even in tlae MOS t friendly spirit, a large
proportion, perhaps tho majority, aro infinenced
by the belief that after all the cause of the
South, in so far as it is the maintenance of
slavery, is an unholy one. But these thinkers
can now no longer have the strong moral and
religion' motives to range themselves against the
South. They will not he so blinded by fanaticism
as to see that General Banks's serfdom is nothing

li.. in fact, and very little else in name, than
the slavery so pompously abolished by Abraham
Lincoln. The North is fighting quite as much
for the enslavement of the negro as did the
Bonthener when he commenced the struggle,
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only that the Northerner is fighting—at least in
Louisiana—not only to conquer and enslave his
white brother, but also to re-enslave his black
quondam protege. General Banks, by his com-
pound criminality and fatuity, has served the
Routh as well as many battles gained would do.
The tide of public opinion only wanted some
such frt shener. When next the French Em-
peror—directly or vicariously—talks about
attempts to put an end to the civil war, English
opinion—European opinion—will not be slow
as heretofore to follow his lest. Even Russia,
with her serfs emancipated, must feel ashamed
of her anomalous political emaciation with these
re-layers of • liberated race—these cheats of
the blacks, and tyrants over the whites.
The official trial of rifles has, after four days
sharp competition, terminated in favour of Mr.
Whitworth. There were five candidates in all,
and next to the victor came Mr. Rigby. Mr.
Whitworth has succeeded in constructing a rifle
of the Nutrition bore, and firing the regulation
ammunition, and at the same time possessing
the accuracy of the small bore. The Army and
Navy Gazette considers this a most important in-
vention, and says that, bearing in mind the fact
that the Whitworth regulation bore rifles might
be served out to-morrow to any regiment or
portion of a regiment in lieu of the Enfield.
they now have, and that without making any
change in the regulation ammunition already in
the pouches of the soldiers, the importance of
Ws result will be obvious. It will, perhaps, be
no small gratification to the Commander-in-
Chief to find that the conditions he insisted upon
have been instrumental in causing a regulation
bore rifle to be produced which exhibits such ex-
cellent results. . .

The Viceroy of Egypt is a truly patriotic ruler,
for he actually takes the food under his care.
The failure of the millet crops has naturally in-
creased the value of wheat, and some fears were
entertained of a painful scarcity being the
ultimate result. The Viceroy, however, has
ordered all his own stock to Cairo, where it is
retailed out to the poor in stated quantities day
by day. The Government is also importing
cattle, and encouraging trade in every possible
way. The army is engaged making railways, and
the fellaha thereby relieved are working away in
preparation of the land for cotton seed. The
Immense strides the country has made in the
latter branch of trade are nothing to what it
will be capable of when steam cultivation is
generally introduced. The Viceroy is so devoted
to commercial prosperity, rather than to royal
splendour, that he has expressed a hope that his
palace at Ras-et-Tin will soon have to make
room for docks and warehouses.

While there is scarcity of corn in Egypt, there
is an absolute famine in Hungary. A corres-
pondent of the Suds says that in many places
people are dying of hunger, the result of two
years' drought, and this while Austria is wasting
her treasure in an infamous war against Denmark.
The Keit:heath, it is true, granted 90,000,000 ,
fiorins to relieve the distress but the greater '
part was expended in the purchase of corn for
seed, to be distributed to the most necessitous
The commission charged with the work, how-
ever, did not understand their business. They
bought old corn, which, although sown, never
sprang up, and so it is that multitudes during
the present winter have had to endure the pain
of hunger while battling with the rigorous
weather.
From Cape Town also come tales of woe and
destitution. The season has been most pro-
sperous, the crops abundant, the trade good, and
the food cheap ; but the labour market is over-
stocked, and many immigrants are complaining
of having been tempted from thei oomforts of
the mother country to endure penury amongst
strangers. The distress will soon be worse than
it is even now, for aRh a liblited revenue the
Parliament has reduced the supplies, and one of
the first consequences will be a stoppage of the
public works. The Governor has been memo-
rialised on the subject, and has promptly replied
with temporary assistance. The men, however,
deprecate the continued aid of charity, and ask
to be allowed to settle on some of the waste but
fertile land of the colony. Why should not
such a request be granted
The first subscription list opened for the
wounded Danes has been published, and contains
a long list of illustrious names. The leading
politicians, with a few notable exceptiknis, do not I
appear; but among these exceptions are the Earl
of Derby, who gives £5O, the Countess £2O,
the Earl of Malmesbury, £5 • Lord Robert
Cecil, £10; the Earl of Shaftesbury and the
Earl of Clarendon, each £10; the Marquis of
Clanricarde, £l5; the Marquis of Westminster,
£100; the Duke of Wellington, £5O; and the
Duchess of Sutherland, DO. Among the less
known politicians are Mr. Agar Robartes, Mr.
Angerstein, Mr. Darby Griffith, Mr. Lysley,
Mr. ,K innaird, Mr. Pease, and Mr. Towline.
Lady Palmerston gives £5O, and Lady Emily
Peel £lO, which sums, no doubt, were given
with the hearty concurrence of their lords and
masters, who, being cabinet ministers, thought
it inexpedient to give in their own names. The
list also includes a good many members of the
nobility not mentioned in the above list of poll-
tioians, sod also 1101110 litersr'y men ot note, in-
cluding Sir Roderick Murchison and Mr.
Merivale. The amount already advertised
is over £2,000, of which £l,OOO has been
despatched.
The four French conspirators have been tried
and sentenced—two to be confined for life and
two for twenty years. It appears that in the
speech of the Imperial Prosecutor it was said
that when Greco, the chief conspirator, . was in
want of money he *as to write to Mr. Vlowet,
35, Thurloe-square, London; and onlooking in
the London Directory he recognised with great
pain, as living at that residence, the name of a
member of Parliament, who had in 1857 been
appointed by Massini to be banker of the
Tebaldi conspiracy against the Emperor's life.
The member vault *horn this imputation was
made is Mr. J. H. Stanifeld, the member for
Halifax, and junior Lord of the Admiralty.
The French Senate, a few days since, took the
matter up. In the course of • debate on peti-
tions, one against vivisection had incidentally
brought forward reference to the English society
for preventing cruelty to animals, whereon up
rose M. Le4rerrier, who said : I am heartilp
sick of such arrant shams ! Let thoee people
over the water cease their hypocritic canting
about humanity, while keeping a regular work-
shop of assassination. A member of their
Legislature, and something more, has been just
shown in open eourt to direct still from his house
in Thurloe-equare murderous attempts on the
life of our Sovereign, after • previous failure on
• former oocasion. It is only in England that
members of Parliament are to be found who are
liable to be accused, and that with documentary
evidence to support the accusation of suborning
assassins. (' Sensation, and cries of 'very good,
very good.' ") Instantly Marquis de Bousy
caught up the theme, and denounced, as perfi-
dious and pestiferous, every emanation from that
quarter. ' These islanders," he said, " make •
trade of treachery and treason • they convey to
our shores, like ferrets ready bagged for
unearthing rabbits, gangs of trained des
peradoes, whom they -shake loose on France,
while they stand aloof gloating over their
devilish contrivances." In the House of Com-
mons, on Monday night, Mr. Cox referred to
this matter, but Mr. Standeld indignantly
denied all knowledge of the plot, and wondered
that the French official had dared to imagine
such • thing. Of Coarse no one in England be-
lieves in the guilt of the boo. member; but it is
imperative for the preservation of good feeling
between the two countries that the allegation
should be sifted to its foundation.

DOkiET LENT ASSIZES.
(Coatinaed Iron 2ad pipe.)
CROWN COURT, MONDAY.
(Before BARON Bewewsu..)
His Lordship took kis seat at 10 o'siock.
801414/BY At Pooto.--Jeleph Ks= •
Wad bldiotil for hmlarbrady Isealowi the Callsolie
=ligit Pools, doweease. sad also with
labs the dweillagebsdileaso el Jetta Charles at
the wow pleas, tad steam therefrom Mosay.—Priarmar,
who does not saderstaad tie Isalkh karma, hod tit
*Mews interpreted to him bp Mr. Hwy Davi,

of DmbneFees Prisoner elected to le hied
by so Kentish jerv.—Mr. &Agar& rowcl".
The Rev. Mr. Charlet said : In Aufust last he tea.
°Meeting ...rest at the embolic Cann h of St. liary'a,
Pool,. On Pate.ley, the 29h of thil mont:l. prisoner
came to his bow, and toll him that he was cut of
ivolc, and had limo seat to him for relief. He said he
was a watchinsker, stud into I for slots. He gays I '
21. womb be Irma up stairs for, lowing him by the hoot
door, and he Celt Coot away. Ou the Ith of Sept-miter,
in the evening, witness went to his idielel' anwne
his custom, to see that oil was safe, awl be lound all
*Re *de then. There were two money-boxes in the
chuech ; but be ouuhl not tell whether I. took the
money out then or afterwards. Ile kept the keys of
' them in a box. lie liad 10. M. on the modelpiosm.
and 12s. Ild. in • theffioner in his eitting-room, ctatrfll
consisting of threepenny and fouspenny lose., together
with some coppers. In consequence of information
which IM remised, he went on the following
morning, and found that the chapel het
been entered by means of • window, the boxes
broken open, and a candle burnt on,. He mw
three foot marks outside the chapel window. Toe
money In his sitting room was also gone. There wss
nothing particular in the money, exmpt a fourisenee-
pieoe, which had • bole in it. The be as produced cor-
responded with the marks outside the chapel.
By the Judge : The footmarks were men where no
pereon had any occasion to 10.—John Wilton, clerk at
the Catholic Chapel, said it wag his duty to open the
door of it every morning. On the Elth of September,
whilst engaged. he found that the chapel had boeM
entered, the money boxes broken open, and one of the
candles partly burnt out. Some boxes in the wintry
had also been broken open. There woe pieces of glees
from the window about the chapel. The boots pro.
ducal oorresponded with the footniarks outide the
chapel.—ln reply to his Lordship, Mr. Charles said he
was not certain that there was any money in the bones
at the chapel ; he could only speak of what was taken
from his dwelling-house.- John Padhy, a joiner, living
within 50 yards of the Lhitho'do Chapel. said he saw the
primmer on the 7th of September, between 10 and 11
robot at night, opposite the chapel door. He asked
witnem for some matches. He had no matches with
him, and be off.red to give prisoner a light from
his pipe, when he replied that fie did not
smoke. He then appeared to undentand the English
langusgra—Samuel Hewlett, a publican, proved that
prisoner cone to his house on the morning of the
burglary, and had some beer, for which he paid in three-
penny and four-penny please. one of the four-penny
pieces having • hole in it —P.C. Getter said be met
prisoner at the bottom of High-street, near the Catholic
Chapel, Mont fire o'clock on the morning of the Bth
of -September. He wished hun good morning, but
he made no reply—Jason ficiarrett, another publican,
moved that prisoner tame to his house on the Bth of
SepteMbeir with a girl named Stickland whom be treated
with British brandy and peppermint. He also treated
several men, and spent altogether 70., which was paid
in throe-penny and faur-penny piney—Susan
Stickland , , an ' unfortunate," proved meeting prisoner
early near the Catholic Chapel on the morning in
question. He went home with her and gave her 35.,
the money being in two sixpences, four ,three-penny,
and three four-penny pieces. He had also a large
quantity of coppers in his pocketa—Harriet Wood-
man, the wife of a draper, of Poole, identified prisoner
as the man to whom she sold a necktie and shirt
front on the morning of the Bth of &member. and
for which be gave her two sispenoes and 81d. in
ooppers.—Supenntendent Gifford stated that he went
to the Catholic Chapel on the morning in question.
In front of the right side of the chapel he found that a
window had been broken and the lead work out away,
but an iron bar zeroes prevented entrance to the chapel.
On the left side of the building he saw another window
broken, the lead cut away, and a hole made Loge
enough to admit the body 4 a man. In the
efternoon he went to the police station, when
he compared the boots which prisoner had on to the
marks near the chapel which exactly oorrespmtded.—
Superintendent Underwood,of the Couoty, Constabulary,
proved apprehending prisoner at Pool*, on the Bth of
September. On searching him, he found a knife in
his possession. He went to the chapel and found the
boxes and drawers broken open, and the mark• on
them appeared to have been made by the knife which
prisonet had in his pamession.—William Mate proved
meeting prisoner on the Bouniainouth-rood lon the
28th of August, when he said he was in distress and
wanted money, and witness gave him alms.—P.C.
Reeks detailed a conversation which prisoner had with
him after be had been committed by the magistrate..
He asked the officer how long he thought he (prisoner)
should have if he was found guilty. On the officer
replying perhaps two yrors. prisoner replied, 'two
yetis for a lousy mend, that's enough for E2o."—The
leaned judge carefully summed up, end the jury found
prisoner guilty of breaking into the chapel with intent
to steal —.a former conviction of felony at Bodmin, in
August last, having been acknowledged by prisoner,
his Lordship sentenced him to seven years' penal
servitude.
I.IBAULEING A GANDIERWER AID • POLICI OFFICER.
—Jame. Elliot, Charles Flemington, (and Henry Penny,
labouree, were indicted for assaulting and beating
Robert Grass, with intent to maim, disable, and
do him gnevons bodily harm.—Mr. Cole and Mr.
Collins appeared on behalf of the prosecution, and
Mr. Prideaux for the defence. —George Roper, a
county polies Aker, stationed at Farnham, mar
Blandford, said : on Toes-lay, the 29th of December,
be was neer Hook's Wood, About half-past 11 o'clock
at night. Before be went there he had received •
communication from Gress, the keeper, oho gave him
some summonses to move on Flemington and Elliot.
He met them on the road, and sores d them with the
summonses. He told them that he thought they had
been Pembing, sad shoed Near& them. He
found some nets, wires, a live ferret, soom powder,
shot, and a gun in two parts in Flemington'a possession.
He also found soma nets in Penn'. pockets.
Whilst he waskearching biro hestrig Lim a blow. He
called' for assistance, when dram tame up. Witness
and Penny had a tussle, when the lattet called for
assistance, and Elliot and Haver came op. Elliot swore
at whams and struck hint in the cheat. when Grass
interfered. He called for 'leiter to assist, bus he
declined to interfere, and • general row took place,
which lasted several minutes. Elliot struck Grass across
the bead with a stick, which knocked him down, and
afterwards streak him mother backhanded blow across
the forehead with i large stick. After Grass was down
Elliot struck him another time across one of his knees.
Flemington and Penny pitched into vermeil with their
fists, when on. of the men, he could not tell whom,
said kill the —, beat his brains out." Elliot
then knocked him sown, and whilst on the ground
kicked him In his private parts. He afterwarde
struck him with a stick amom his head, which
knocked him down, bringing blood from ibis left
eye, and he was rendered unconscious. After
be became conscious he found Grass in a cottage bleeding
very much from the wounds which he had received.—
hr. Prideaux crose-examined the witness at great length
endeavouring to shake his evidence, hut to no effect.—
Robert Gram, the keeper to Lord Rivers, said on the
night of the 28th of December he gave the last wit.
Mel some summonses to pave. Wm in the evening
he was near the cover when be heard the officer call
"Gram Grass." Whiten and hie son both went to
the officer who was marching Flemington and Penny.
Wlast so engaged Flemington struck Roper.
He did not then interfere between them. Soon
after Elliot sod ilayter came, when the former
immediately Amok the officer. Whims went
between them, when he also struck him. He
knocked him down with a stick, breaking his nose, as
gm his knee cap, and injurying one of his eyes.
ilst he was down he sae the prisoners attack the
policeman, alter which they. imam Wok to him, when
swung a stick over him, and said he would been
his brains out, but was prevented by his (witness's) wan
amid mother young man. He was taken to a cottage,
where he remained for about an hourendeshalf, after
he 'was conveyed home In a oat. His
F. very bad,, and he could not stand upon It now.
mos sober at the time.- Oross-eitamined : He might
ham bed them pints of beer in the de,: He also had
• glees of brandy and a glass of gin, lie went to
Ifiliediced for the summonses, when lie had his
ahem and some beer. He took tea with the police
°Meet. end that erne when he had the gin. He
afterwards went to the Ifonisip-Hand where he met
the prisoners. He had a pint of beer, and treated :
company to a half-gallon of the some liquor, and very 1
likely prisoners 'partook of some of it. He left the
house shout 10 o'clock, leaving the prisoners there.
He did not know were Roper was, but he saw him
soon aftei be left the Hand in-Hand, lie did not
know whether he had the summonses in his pockets,
but he did not say they (Niemen) would moon be on
the road. He would swear that he miter struell any
of the prisoners before they struck him. Elliot Mama
him, and he struck Flemington with a stick as hod
as he could. Penny sod Hayter were the men who
were first apprehended, but when they were I=
before Lord Portman he could not tell
Flemington and Elliot were then examined as whammed.
—Georg* Grams, sou of last witness, gave ciorraboreeive
evistence as to the assault upon his father and the
polimman.—Crons-examined : He was looking on at the
time when his Whet was knoeked down, but he did out
Interfere, His remain for doing so was became he
thought it wash make matters worse; they would
have killed his father if be had interfsred.--Ostorge
Young, a min who was at the Hand-in-Hand oil the ,
!tight in question, preyed that Gram was mbar when Ise I
Wt that house, as did also another witness named
Sudden. -Stephen Foot, a surg -on at Lod well, said he
was celled to pee Grass on the 29th of Deoember. He
found him bleeding very much, his nom blokes, emme
wounds over he eyes, and his knee swollen so mull
that for • week be could not am-thin the extent
of the injure,hatt afterwards he discovered that Ms knee
cap was broken. His cord trousers were out through,
but he did not think that a small stick would
same snob an injury to the leg ; he believed it
was inflicted by a kick. The fracture of the knee-.p
was a very bed coma The bones were eeperalea
much as five Inchon He was of opinion that Met
fracture of the nose might have been occasioned by a
Mick. With quietness and care he thought Gram
would soon recover.--Croesoixamined.—The injury to
the knee-osp might have been inflicted by • severe fall.
Prideaux addreseed the jury for the defence,
asking them if they believed the police officerhad any
pod cause to aliment that the prlsoners were coming
from land, having been in pursuit of game, when he
knew that they had just left the public house. If he
had not good suspicion for so doing, the prisoners were
justified in making use of any violence necessary for
their liberty. Could they believe that Flemington or
Penny had any intent to commit an injury upon the
police officer, or to maim, disable, and do him grievous
bodily harm. He did not think the came against Elliot
had been proved in that clear manner which would
warrant them in coming to the conclusion in finding
prisoners guilty of the serious offence with which they
were eharpd.—The learned judge, in summing up,
said the jury must be satisfied that there bed been an
intent in the minds of prisoners to moon, disable, and
do grievous bodily harm before they actually com-
mitted the offence, and he did not think they could
find Flemington and Penny guilty of the offence with
which they were charged. Bat with Elliot the case
was diffet sot, as he thought he was guilty of unlawfully
wounding, although he had only a common fighting
intention. He exonerated the police officer, and laid
he believed be was perfectly justified in having gong
come to suspect that the priseeters had been in soma of
gamma —The jury. atter &shalt deliberation, esteemed •
mrdist of not guilty against Phialageon and Penny,
.Itet
found • verdict aphid Elliot for unlawfullyric=
lent not with intent, and they therefore
hint to waeley.—His kedebip asked upon what ground

they recommended him to merny.—Mr. Potheczry (the
foreman): We recommend him to mor:r on seerenut of
1.11•111 no previous intention to wound ; and that
it... injuries went MAIM l n a " row."—The Judge:
net makes a great d.ltt rence.—Tle prisoners 11,11 t
then charged on the •ets.r d count for armultiny George
Roper, a police ut wr, at F•rnlinsu, erli'dit in td.e est cu-
lien of ith duty. lib. I.irdsl.ip re el over the evidence
adduced en the flrt count, eta n in a klition Roper
,aid that lifter Graft had been knocked down, prisoners
punned and ill-treated lint, rentiming hint in-
sensible. Ile hat been 04,011r1 11e.1 to hive inctlicd
attendance, and had be n Mush!e to go on silgit
duty since Mr. Doniclç snrgeon, of Mend •
ford, proved attending the last witness, and detailed
the nature of the injuries which be hod recoired
which lie said were of a very s:vere character.—A
witness named Ridont said he wee mowing byte,
last summer with Elliot, when they bezan to tsik
*hoot Roper, when Elliot said "If be had the chance
he would pumhle the policeman no that be should be a
pelioem In no more."—Mr. Prideaus, for the defence,
contended that the 114111111111 i commenced with the police-
man or Grua, and that the injuries which they re-
cleived were caused by the aced& betwt en them and pri-
aoners.—The lesrn Inds hovins brought the inshi
faces of the case before the attention of the Jury, they
returned • verdict of guilty against all the priootters.
Charles Rayter (on bail) was indicted for refusing to
aid and assist P.C. George Roper when summoned by
hint to do 80. —Mr. Cole having opened the ease on be-
half of the prosecution, the evidence of Roper in the
former case was sworn to by him as eurrect, lie further
stated that he summoned Hayter in Her Majesty's name
to aid and assist him, when he replica that he would
have nothing to do on either side. He had, bow, ver,
hold of Elliot's coat, but witness did not know how it
came into his prewession.—His Lordship said it was the
law of the land that when a polioteofflcer summoned a
man to aid and assist him he was bound to do so if in
the due barge of his duty, and if 'Let perms did not ht
tuteit abide by the einsequenors.—The jnry retarnei
verdict of not guilty, when his Lordship said it
they hal found a verdict of guilty it would
have been much shout the same, an he should have only
given him two days' imprisonment.—The other nri:
soners were then called up to receive sentence, The
learned judge, in the course of doing so, said it was im-
possible to lecture them not in poach, for poach they
would, but if they did so they most not beat the men
' otiose bounces it was to search them. It was as much
their duty to search them us it was Isis duty to pass
sentence upon them. There were certain portion. of
the evidence which he did not like, fie did not like
the keeper being in company with the policeman ao they
had heard. He did not thick it was desirable that they
should be drinking together, or that the policeman
should have stopped the prisoners at night to mm them
with summonses when he might have done so in the day.
He thought he had good grounds for searching them,
but he cared nothing about the antesedents of the
quarrel, for he con4dered they had been guilty of a
most cruel and cowardly assault, so when they bad
the policeman on the ground they beat and kicked
him until he ass insensible. They most be Wight to
behave better for the fakirs, and he sentenced Fleming-
ton and Penny each to 15 months' hard labour, and
Elliot to 18 months'.
THS STABBING AT WITWOUTIT.—The prisoner Reeks
was brought up to receive sentence. Ilis Lordship said
that he had considered his case, and there were many
things in his favour. If persons used the knife,
however, they niu•t take the consequent:ea, and he
should sentence him inc year's imprisonment with hard
labour.
/to flux was returned against Georgians Lake, (on
WO for steeling a book, the property of Arthur
Cosines, at Charmnister, on the 18th of February.
The business connected with the Assize terminated
at half-past three.