The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-17 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Dkvtzes, Also. ...
CROWN COI:RT.—Wore Mr. Justice Coleridge.
A Rassatinaiing CARE.—J. Blanchard was indicted for
poisoning 198 sheep, the property of Mr. Pinkney, at Ber-
wick St. Jatnes's.—TM2 charge snidest the prisoner was that
of having maliciously destroyed, by means of poison, nearly
200 sheep belonging to the prosecutor, who farmed an estate
of about 1,100 acres. Ile and a Mr. Tabor were the only
holders of land in the parish, and the labourers had only
those two gentlemen from whom they could obtain work in
that parish. Upon the evening of the 24th January last the
prosecutor had 6.10 sheep in two yards. Ile had had them
brought into the yards in December, and on that evening
the shepherds left the sheep in the yards, all in good
health. The next morning, upon coming to the yards, the
shepherds found that in one yard the sheep were as they had
been left the preceding evening, while in the other yard
the sheep were all affected with some inexplicable disease
three were dead, and a vast number more were groaning and
showing symptoms of the greatest pos,iblo distress and agony,
and the sheep continued to she for a period of 14 days ; and
in the whole 198 died. It seemed quite clear that this was
not the result of any ordinary disease, for not only the !shep-
herds had not seen any such disease before, but a veterinary
surgeon declared that it was not any known form of disease ;
a medical practitioner also saw them, and he had no doubt
the sheep died from poison. The prosecutor sent the carcase
of ouch of the sheep to Mr. Herapath, the eminent chemist of
Bristol, and he had nu difficulty in detecting poison, which
was sulphate of copper or blue vitriol. Ile discovered the
poison not only in the intestines, but also in various other
parts of the CANAL, so that it had spread itself throughout
thesystern, and there could be no doubt that by some com-
pound of copper the sheep were kioled. The sheep from the
other fold were put among those that were dy ng, but they
took no harm. The question then came, whether the guilt
of having administered the poison could be brought home
to the prisoner. The facts by which it woo sought to
convict the prisoner were these: behind the sheds
and farm buildings ran the street of the village,
and the prisoner's house was contiguous to the
yard, with a means of entrance from the street into the
yard. do far back as 1840 the prosecutor had refused to
give the prisoner work, and he had then used threats of
that
gent:-man violence towards the prosecutor, which induced that
Front:, man to take him before • magistrate, and he was
bound over to keep the peace. Some time after that the
prosecutor interceded with Mr. Tabor to give the priR5llC r
work, and he employed him till 1n45, when he uischarged
him ; and from that time until 1817 the prisoner only gut
work from time to time precariously, and he was obliged to
go into the union workhouse. About that period he met a
person of the name of Ilitihert, who was under-bailiff to the
prosecutor, and he asked Ribber% whether he thought the
prosecutor would give him work. Ilibbert said he dial not
think he would ; upon which the prisoner used very strong
language with regard to the prosecutor, threatening to shoot
him and to destroy his sheep; he said he would kill Mr.
l'iukney if he did not employ him ; and when the
sheep came home he would seek his revenge and
poison' his master's sheep ; he had got that within
his house that would slo it, and he would. His
bert said, " Certainly, you won't do that ?" The pri-
sorer replied, " 11 I live and you live you will see ; and there
will be mutton enough for many." A few days after this
ktiblarrt communicated to Mr. l'inkney what the prisoner
had said, and Mr. l'inkney had him taken before a magi,. *.
taste, and the man was put into prison. Ile said to a person,
"When the sheep come home I intend to work by night,
when other people are in bed, and the sheep shall pine away
and die, and the oldest man living shall never find out what I
was the matter with 'him." On another occasion he said
"it was a shame that Mr. l'inkney and Mr. Tabor did not I
I find him wads ; it would serve them right if he poisoned 1
their docks of sheep ; it could be dune ; any one could put 2
' some stuff in his pockets and put it into the troughs, and the
sheep would pine ,away and die, and no one would be the
' wiser." The prisoner was kept in gaol from July until 6:
October; during that time he wrote a letter to Mr. Pinkney
praying for mercy, and Mr. Pinkney did not appear against
him at the October sessions, and he was discharged. The 1
being sent to gaol appeared to have made a great impression :1
on the prisoner's mind, and he was continually talking of Ii
having his revenge, anal he said, it ever he got out of gaol I,
lie would kill Mr. l'inkney, and make him a poorer man u
than himself; he would nut do it as soon as he got out of IS
gaol, because it would throw suspicion upon him; but there
should be • greater cry than there ever had been yet; he s;
would get some etua that would poison •2,000 sheep by throw-
ing it into a little water, or in the young clover grass, or he
would do ir in the sheepfold. The prisoner came out of
gaol in October ; the sheep were taken into the yards in De-
cember. On the 22nd of January the prisoner endeavoured
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to obtain some arsenic at • shop in Salisbury, but the drug- ja
gist refused to let him have any; he told him he wanted it
an order to kill taus—Dlr. Edwards having addressed the X„
jury on the part of the pries ner, Mr. Justice Coleridge
summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Ato. 16.
Tug SHRIVENII/M RAILWAY CASE.—George Targeter,
the railway policeman, was this day tried for manslaughter,
in causing the death of Mr. Arthur Augustus Lea, on the .1
10th of May Mat, which offence was alleged to have been
committed by the culpable neglect of his duty, in not giving s,
the requisite signals in his capacity on the railway. The 6
evidence was the same as that given on the recent trial at
Reading, when the prisoner aas convicted. It was proved
that the prisoner had neglected to use proper diligence
in ascertaining whether the line on the occasion of
the incident was clear or in any way obstructed.
The witnesses distinctly stated that he might have
seen the cattle truck upon the line if he had looked in that
direction. After the case bad been fully gone into, end the
jury addressed on behalf of the prisoner, a verdict of Guilty
was returned.—Mr. Cox, counsel for prisoner, prayed an ar-
rest of judgment, sn the ground that the indictment was
bad, inasmuch as it merely stated the prisoner had ter.
tain duties to perform, without describing what thoea
anti, a were, and also because it omitted to
give a description of the signals, which it was alleged he
neglected to make. Ills lordship considered the indictment
good, and that judgment should therefore be given. He then '
proceeded to deliver esntence on the prisoner. In doing so
he said he conceived the main object of the parties who in-
stitute this prosecution to he, to let persons filling
similar situations to that heretofore held by the pet-
goner know that if they were guilty of neglirnee
it would not be allowed to pass unnoticed, or unpunished.
That object having been gained in the conviction now ob-
tained, it did not require that a very heavy sentence should
be pronounced against the prisoner. In this case there was
an absence of any very aggravating circumstances, and con-
sidering this, with the good character the prisoner had re-
ceived for previous catetulness and attention, together with
the period of imprisonment he had already suffered, he
should sentence him to a slight imprisonment. Ile was,
therefore, sentenced to three nionthe imprisonment, with
hard labour.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lescasvag, Auo. lb.
Before Mr. Jtedies Croswell.
SENTENCES.—J. Bickerstate, the postman, charged with
purloining a letter entrusted to him for delivery, was found
guilty on -Monday evening, and brought up far judgment
this morning, in company with Boucher, for rcbbing his em-
ployers of a large quantity of ir,m, and Skinner, for stabbing
Gerard, the landlord of the Dalton Arms, at Glosson Dock,
in a fit of drunken fury. Bickerstafie was sentenced to
seven years'transportation,:and Boucher and Skinner each to
imprisonment, with hard labour, for twelve months in Pres-
ton House of Correction.

POLICE Y _ESTERDAY.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—PERSONATION of LORD
ALFRED Henvey.—A man calling himself John Smith, a
native of Bury St. Edmund's, but whose real name is said to
be Whiting, was further examined charged with felony, and
with having for • length of time gone about representing
himself to be Lord Alfred Hervey, M.P. for Brighton.—
Emily Farrow said she lived at No. 6, Crawford-stet et, Bry-
anston-square. About two months ago the prisoner called
on her and introduced himself to her as Lord Bernard, eon
of the Duke of Leinster. Her watch, worth Si., was on the
mantel-piece when he called. The prison( r took it up, looked
at it, und seeing it was out of repair, said he would get it
mended for her. Witness did not wish him to do so, and
the prisoner put the watch down again and said he would
purchase her a new one. The prisoner went away soon af-
terwards, and witness in about two or three hours mimed
the watch.—The defence of the prisoner was, that the
prosecutrix allowed him to take away the watch to
get it repaired.—Hannah Fisher, 6, King-street, St.
James's, said she was living at 94, Jerinynatreet when
she received a note requesting an interview. The prisoner
called in about 10 minutes, and in the course of conversation,
seeing that she had a gold ring on her finger, he looked at
it, and asked her if she should like a diamond ring, instead of
the gold ring. She replied in the affirmative, and the pri-
soner then said he would send his valet the next day with a
diamond ring. The prisoner took the gold ring from her
finger, to get, as he said, a diamond ring of the same size.
Witness had not received a diamond ring, nor had she seen
the prisoner again until he was in custody at that court. The
ring now produced was her property.—lnspector Whall, of
the C division, said he apprehended the prisoner on another
charge. The prisoner resisted strongly, and ends,
Toured to throw away the gold ring owned by the
witness. The prisoner had nothing to say in defence.
The case of obtaining money by fraudulently representing
himself to be Lord A. Hervey was then gone into.—lt will
be recollected that on the former examination, bliss Page,
milliner, of John street, Oxford-street, proved that the pri-
soner purchased a bonnet and cap at her shop, as he said, for
Lady Hervey. He represented himself to be Lord Alfred
Hervey in her hearing, sou of the Marquis of Bristol. Be-
lieving the prisoner to be Lord Alfred Hervey she consented
to lend him a sovereign to pay his cab, as he said he had
nothing but a bank note in his pocket.—Lord A. Hersey
said the prisoner was a stranger to him. Some parson

answering the description of the prisoner had been going
*bout .o different places assuming his title. His lordship here
produced a considerable bundle of letter, which had been sent
to his residence from partici, who had been duped and were
under the impression that the prisoner was Lord Alfred
Hervey. His lordship said it was evident from some of the
prisoner's proceedings that he was well acquainted with his
family arrangements, but this could be accounted for, as the
prisoner's father, when alive, was a resident at Bury, near
which place the marquis, hie father, had an estate. The
prisoner denied that he had stated himself to be Lord A.
Hervey. From communications made to the magistrate it
appeared that the prisoner for about three years has been
carrying oa a system of fraud and immorality to an incredi-
ble extent. At one time the prisoner was riding about
town in a carnage, with footman and coachman, assuming
the manned more than one nobleman. A lady mentioned
to Mr. Hardwick that the Prisoner had passed himself off to
her as Lord George Bentinck, and that she believed hie re-
presentatioas from seeing his stylish carriage and servants.
(Joe part of the prisoner's system appears to have beer. to
reply to advertisements for governesses' situatiens.—The
prisoner wan fully committed on the two charges of felony.
LAMBETH.—TaeGERMANVICTIMISEU.—//.Schtleirkr,
the young German whose former examination for swindling
appeared in the Doily News, was again placed at the bar for
further examination. The opinion formed by the magistrate
on the last examination, namely, that the prisoner's opera-
tions were not confined to the two cases then before him,
was fully borne out, as will be seen by the following.—Mrs.
Deanlon, a lady residing at No. 106, Upper Stamford-street,
Aided that in the month of April last the prisoner called at
her house and engaged apartments there. He then said he
hod come from ltussia to fill a situation in the Russian con-
sulate, and mentioned the names of two gentlemen belonging
to that office, lie also represented that his luggage was at
the railway station, and having no English money to release
it requested she would advance him sufficient to do so.
She (Mrs. Deardon), beiievina hie representations, gave him
a sovereign for the purpose of releasing his luggage, and also
a valuable silk umbrella, but bad not seen the prisoner from
that time until that morning, nor had the received her neve-
rei n or silk umbrella back.—Mr. Richardson, a lady re-
siding ate?, Canterbury-street, Lambeth, deposed that on the
27th July last the prisoner engaged apartments at her house,
when he described himself as Pierce Donne, and said he had
no English money to release his luggage, then at the Cue
tom-house, and she gave him 10s. for the purpose.—Mr. Ed-
wards, a eentleman residing at 87, St. hiartin's lane, said
that on the 29th of June last the prisoner called at hie re-
sidence, stated he had been obliged to leave Paris, and came
from there in great haste. and that he wanted a handsome
suite el apartments, aid engaged a suite in his hatee, for
which he was to pay two guineas a Week. He then pre-
sented abandsomely engraved card as his, on which was the
name Leopold Dialbosky, said he was a merchant, and had
come to settle in London. lie also produced a 1,000 franc
hill, which he said he had received from his father, and re-
quested an advance of cash to release his luggage, then de
tamed at the Custoin-house, as he was without Engli.h
money. lie (Mr. Edwards) handed him 21. !is., for which
he left, the 1,000 franc bill in his hands, and he (lid not after-
wards see him until he was in custody. The bill he found
to be perfectly worthless. Similar charges of swindling were
proved against the prisoner by persons whom he had vic-
timised in the City-road, in Amwell-street, Pentonville, and
in Upper Ground-street.—The prisener ',Aid that there were
two c,ther Germans engaged with him; that they had been
in the habit of meeting at a coffee-house in Whitechapel, and
that the other parties it was who had suggested this mode of
imposition sad cheat.—lle was again remanded until Tues.
day next.

RAILWAY NEWS.
The market for shares dosed yesterday evening very
heavily, London and North-Westerns, 114 ex div. ;
Great Westerns, 8 die. ; South-Western, 40 ; Caledo-
nians,.24l ; ; Itrightons, 28; 1 ; North Staffords, 41
4 die.; Great Northern., 9.4
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MEETINGS. - TIFF VALE RAILWAY.-fialryaarly
Meetlisg.-Briatul, Aug. W. Coffin In the ehair.-The report of
the directors commenced by stating that they felt much ',adobe-
tion in announcing to the proprietor* that there was a Groat'
increase upon the grow; receipts for the half.yeat as compared
with throe of the preceding half year. Though small it yielded
* very gratitying proof of the soundness of the undertaking,
at a time when the convulsions in almost all the Mates of Europe had
so paralysed the export both of coal and iron. The income and ex-
penditure of the Aberdare Railway had been, brought nearer to each
other by an increase in its gross rem Mtn of 2631. in the poet half year.
The directors rt commended a dividend of 41. (free of ;income tax) on
each original share of 1267. and a dividend in the same proportion on
the t and 101. shares; and further,that 7.50& should be carried to the
ereda 01 the depreciation fund. he works on the emit branch were
so far advanced, that very sainfactory trials had been made of the
efficiency of the shipping stabile and of then team crane for landing
ballast. Resolutions adopting the report, eclaring the dividend as
recommended by the directors and re-electing the retiring director*,
were then parsed, when Mr. J. Poole, a member of the board, said that
on several former occasions the directors had been charged with
having made premises to the proprietary, and held out expectations
which had not been realised so speedily as the shareholdere bad de-
clared. The result of that day's meeting had shown that the directors
had not held oat those expectations without being warranted in sodding.
The expectations which the board bad held out had now been rea-
heed, and he did not hesitate to tell the proprietors that he antici-
pated that they would do much more than they had dune.-Mr. T.
Powell, another director, said he might claim to have served them
more ma freighter than as a director. He was at the present time
paying them Mr carriage of his coals at the rate of over 20,0001. a
year, and anticipated that he should yet have to pay them a larger
amount than he now paid.-Mr. Hall, in moving a vote of thanks to
the director*, said when he saw that king of railways, the London
and Birmingham, going back to 7 per cent., he must ray that he was
gratified at the aspect of their own affairs. It should be remembered
that they had not got their seven or eight millions to find the interest
tor, lie tinnily avowed that he would not change a Tall Vale ,hare
foe a London and Birmingham share.-The vote of thanks having been
pas ql, and acknowledged by the chairman, the meeting broke up.
KILKENNY AND GREAT SuI:THERE AND WEATERN.-
Hdifeeorly Meeting.-London, Aug. IG.-Mr. Wyee in the chair.-
In consequence of the number of shareholders in attendance being
insufficient to constitute a quorum, the meeting (after sitting one
hour, as required by the act) was adjourned sine die.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.-LEEDS AND THIESK.-
On Monday last trial tripe were made on a further portion of this
line, namely, from Wonnald.green, near Ripon, to titiabeek, on thp
highway from Harrogate to Ithareeborosigh, and it is expected to be
open( cli for traffic during this mouth. The viaduct on .his line at the
Crimple Valley Xs rapidly approaching completion, when a further
distauce, extending to Weeton, near Iturewood Bridge, will he ready
for opening.
GLASOOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLDILE.-The government
inspector went over the lower portion ot this railway on Friday hut,
and expressed himself in highly favourabe terms respecting the
manner in which the works had been 'linked. Wednesday, the
23rd unit., has been fixed as the day for opening, when trains will
commence running for general traffic. Toere will be a private open.
ing on Tuerday, the 32101, when a party of the directors and their
friends will go down the line, and lunch at the station on their return.
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The temporary elation at llcienfres is almost completed.
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MONEY MARKET.

WLDNESDAI EVENING.

Business was flat at the stock exchange to-day, and
prices did not leave off at the highest point attained
by about per cent. The auvices from the continent
were as favourable as those which preceded them,
but, from the United States, the intelligence, finan-
cially considered, was not so good. The exchange
was running decidedly more against us, in the ex-
pectation entertained by the merchants no doubt that