The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-16 00:00:00

FuRD FAIR.

DISGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS AT STANI-

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The Lincoln Mercury of to-day sass " The Mar-
quis , I Exe er pursues a MOM peteutiarli his own to obtain
notoriety, and he rarely tails to or et with a certain amount
of success. It it kn ma that the morquis h.s set sip a claim,
which has been over soil over sown uieputed, to a right of
toll for passing over Stamford-bridge ; to enforce this claim
upon the cattle-de alert and drovers who attended St. Simon
ant St J tide fair on Friday last, aging of about twenty me n
were employed ; time persons were armed with thick
sucks, aou placed in a row across the bridge, to prevent the
passage of any heists the owners of welch should refnew to
pay toll. Berl in the morning the right of free passage was
claim. d and dikitemd. and very sp. edit) acts of voileece com-
menced. Whenever a drover attempted to urae his beasts
h tweed, Lord Exeter's men made tree upset their bludge. no,
striking with all their force the Nur animals over their beads,
and injuring them very materially. A report of what was
going on been g beau circulated, the dr .y,re soon obtain. d
assistance from the townapeople,and during the whole of the
morning a continuous soothe of strife amongst the men and
cruelty to the cattle was carried on. Alter the first or second
onslaught, the appetite of Lord Enter'. ruffians seemed
whetted will a desire to be as severe on the animals as

pJasible ; but the more tb y used their bludgeons, the more
dettenticed were the people to get the animile over without
payment of toll ; and the eons. queuee was that, with the
urging from behind, and the re Latices in front, the bears
had to endure the mist terrible inflictions. One drove was

on eke bridge for nearly half an hour, and two of the beasts
w. re ft lieu and nearly disabled : an ox belonging to another
drove was so much injured as to render it metal .ry teat it
should be killed ; a cow bad one of its eyes kerek tut, an-
other had a thigh bone broken, and others had ther bores
knocked oft : indeed, the damage done to the cattle in various
wk s was so serious as to alarm some of the grasitrs, and to
ioduce others to say they would never again attend a ter at
Stamford. The toll-house keeper was frequently racoon.
etrattd with for what was o cursing, and so strong was the
excitement that two of Lord Exeter's men were nearly thrown
over the bridge. The affair caused a painful feeling through-1
oat the town: those who know the importance of keeping up
the fairs, remitted the outrage both ou account of the well-
doing of the town and the great cruelty to the auitnals : and
the female part of the inhabitants were earnest in their en
etamations against the revival of a spirit worse than that
which marked the bull-running era. Never before, we be- I
dove, was the nameef L ird B contemptuously *pott n
of by persons who have no ordinary connection with the
town: the attendance of buyers and sellers of stock was
exceedingly !arse, and there was scarcely a man amongst
them who did not give loud utterance to feelings of disgust
at the illegal course pursued to enforce a disputed claim;
agitatedly, if his lordship had appeared on the bridge, his
WM:Mt safety would have been greatly endangtred, fur
when an attempt was made to "bridge" one tat the hired
Tatiana, the observation was general, " It is a pity you can.
not ' bridge' (i. e. throw over the bridge) his muter." Some
of the cruelties were undoubtedly caused by the over-zealous
conduct of a number of boys and young men, who, to get
the beasts across the bridge more speedily, and with less
chance of benne beaten about the head, beture arriving at
the I edit et n k hem on the hindquarters to urge them for-
ward; out nothing can palliate the act of employing
twenty ruffians to obstruct a public highway, and to
outrage public decency by perpetrating the atrocities
watch were committed on Friday last. Fur six hours
the sickening exhibition of belaboring cattle w.a carried
on. Between 12 and 1 o'clock, the borough magistrates and
the new mayor had a conference, the result of which was that
some policemen were sent to give notice to the Marquis of
Beea is men that if they attempted any farther obstruction,
they would be takeu into custody ; one of them was, in fact,
conveyed before their worships, and as he submissively
pleaded that his poverty and not his will led him to be en-
gaged in so unpopular a service, and that he bad accepted the
employment because he supposed those who engaged him
knew the law, he was leniently treated by the magistrates, and
told to rotors to his fellow labourers wi.h the information
that they were breaking the law—that it was not permitted to
any one by violt-uce to e atone a right, real or pretended—cord
that the obstructing of the highway by stopping cattle upon ir,
and thus end .ngering the public safety, was an offence for
whieh all who persisted in it would be apprehended and
put liked. The man accordingly returned to his colleagues,
and from that ime the w hole body of Lord Exeter's bludgeon
men dropped their weapons, and the remainder of the stock
from the his passed over the bridge without paying toll, and
without any demand being made for it. The amount of
money collected dating the day was very trifling, ae all
partite refused payment, except such as occupy under or
have dealings with Lord Easter. But even the animals
of those who paid the toll were not exempt from attack
A curious incident connected with the matter is that Lord
Exeter himself had a beast very seriously Jejuna. Mr. Sharp,
the bailiff, sent over the bridge some animals he had pur-
&amid in the fair : on Si. Mary's-hill a few boys began to
drive them, and the hired blackguards upon the bridge, not
knowing to whom the animals belonged, opposed their pas-
sage, and used their sticks upon them as they had done upon
other people's. At the various toes the affair was the sub-
ject of very bitter remarks, and many of the dealers reiterated
a declaration never again to attend a fair at Stamford it the
same wine of what they called extortion and brutality was
likely to be repeated : the subject likewise led to commenta-
ries on the transaction by which the railway station was fixed
on the St. Martin's side of the town, instead of on the north-
ern s de of the bridge, as originally surveyed—Lord Exeter,by
that arrangemeat, getting the enormous sum of 36,0001, fur
a very smell quantity of land, and 6,000 k to rebuild the
bridge, and yet, in the fats of the fine pickings out of the un-
fortunate shareeolden (who are now suffering from the ex
travagant prises paid to landowners), attempting to create •
new source of income by claiming tolls under an alleged
ancient right. It is satisfactory to learn that the affair will
not end with the proceedings of Friday; we hear that one
or two of the parties who bad beasts injured have had ri-
mers* to law against the toll-collector, who of course will
have to fall back upon Ma employer."

APPREHENSION OP DESERTERA—By an act of the
present year, persona deserting from Portuguese vessels ran
be appridnoded in her Majesty's dominions, and all
_fiends
harbouring deserters are liable to a penalty of 101. It is en-
titled "An act for giving effect to the ati_pnlatlons of a treaty
between her Majesty and the Queen of Portugal for the ap-
prehenske of sonata deserters."
BROADHEMBORY, DIVON.—The gunnel ploughing
match of the Broadhembury Agricultural Society took plate
recently, and meow the company who audited at the dinner
which followed were Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice
Flatiron. On the healths of those learned judges being
drunk, Mr. Baron Alderson rose end said that although him-
self and his learned brother Panora wen both made judges
the same day, he wee rather the eldest, and must return
thanks for the young gentleman ea well. (Laughter.) His
learned brother was a sort of fixed star in this county,
whilst he (Baron Alderson) wee a planet who came here in a
certain rotation; dos in five years it had hitherto been,
but as the planets drew nearer the sun, they made the circuit
of their orbit quicker, so he, as he wes getting older, should
revolve with greater rapidity, end perhaps visit them abider.
When one's affection were placed, one felt much interest
therein; hire he received the greatest blessing or life, which
was a good reason for visiting it, and as good reasons were
very prolific, he could boast nine others, all of them good, but
some of them small—(gnat laughter and cheerio 19—Laming
to a little sprite of a daughter, a beautiful child of six or
seven, who was seated behind, and played with the judicial
locks with awful familiarity]—he hraid to have the pismire
of coming among them again very often, although he abaci
a great number of familiar faces Mara his last visit, among
whole he coati not help remembering his deer and excellent
friend the late John Clerks. He taw, however, some fami-
liar funs still, and he had in his eye a tine specimen of the
Devonshire farmer, whom he added would be shown toPeinee
Albert, when he visited the county next year ; if they did
show him, he didn't despair of Broadhembury winning the
tilt. Let them feed him up for the occulue, take him there
condition, and he thought he would do—(laughter)
dr Ille was very glad 0 era him in inch good preserva-
tion to-day. (These allusions to Mr. Blackmon edited
much merriment.) lie did not mesa to talk to them on
the subject of free-trade, for two ressous,—fast, like a great
number of people, he didn't understand anything about it
the other reason, in which he formed one of a very =all
majority, was, that he didn't like to speak on a subject
which he knew nothing about. (Cheers and laughter.) Rev.
T. J. Marker said it was usual for the judges in the courts
above to give their decisions sepustely, and he moved there-
fore that Mr. Judie Patteson be beard. (Laughter.) Mr.
Justice Panda begged to cornet the weer of ltis reverend
friend. The_judges did ad give their opinion separately un-
ties they differed In reference to the rear rks of his bro-
ther judge, be observed that it assttrail be
was his senior
judge, but he, Justice Peados, the aantage of him
is age. Dir. Baron Alderson: Very little.) They had
gone through life together sines they were ten dere old ;
he considered, therefore, that his learned brother bad re•
turned thanks for both. As Mr. Mker however, insisted
*a his saying • few words, he wielder
remark that he was not,
like his friend, an untie star, hung fixed himself in the
neighbourhood, although, like his friend, he did come from
the sod, where they knew all the wise men came from. (A
)he He had, however, bought a small estate at Poulton,
hoped to be foe many years, end when hs leftt
the bench, which might happen any day, as he was sub-
let* to a disability which might increase without waning,
sad render his retirement unman, he should be a frames
altogether, and be only a squire, he supposed. Bat be it ,
one way or the other whenever he was in this county he
had great pleasure in attending seeding, of this
Such societies had nothing to do with polidoo—their object
was to rinsed good ploughmen, and that was quite inde-
pendent of the particular state of agriculture when then
dies were given; whether agriculture was depressed id
is a state of great prosperity, still the land must be claw
rated. In hie situation be knew diking about polities. He
was in the Name boat with his leaned brother on agrimil-
turd topics, being trasequainted with its theory or prac-
tice. He would abstain, therelsee, from entering en the
discussion whether agriculture was or was not depressed,
orateseing himself with the observation that, whatever the
mate of egriraltere, ell classes ef her mejestra subjects must
be in the seas boat, and the depression of one elms would
lead to the depression of others. (eiders.)
THS FRENCH PARLIAMENTARY REPORTERS. —lt ie
lathing rue be the Preach Amembly to hear the reporters
cheer a favourite speaker—call upon orators with weak
velem to speak louder—express their impatience during a
doll debate, by ceiling toe the order of the day—remind the
house that dinner boar is saw, by cries of " k Cidetwe"—
call out from the gallery to the surest member for the name
of an unknown speaker, and ether liberties, which, if at-
tempted in the House of Comas, would greatly astonish
Mr Shaw Lenore.
COFFUra von Cturoma.—Mr. John Mace, a
wellhadra undertaker of New York, leshipping lavrggee quan-
tities if sods to ()Lateran. Mr the me of such M
ideologues sew seediliom