The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-24 00:00:00

WILTSHIRE.

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ANTI-MALT "LAX. MEETIN".. INThis COUNTY
t°°l‘ P....ea on Tuesday,. at Crieklade. Upwards of one
huna:,ed persons, principally leading farmers of the
no; ghbourhood, were present; the greatest unanimity pre-
'veiled, and the strongest determination to agitate rigor-
ously till the tax be wholly repealed, was expressed by one
and all. The next meeting is to be held at Devizes, on
Thurseay, the 29th instant.
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Powremouvw.—The Board of Ordnance has granted an
eligible piece of land, near Pitt-street, Landport, as a site
for the Portsmouth, Portsea, and Gosport Hospital ; and the
donations for the building exceed 1,9001., so that there is
now no doubt but that so desirable an institution will soon
be established, as, from various plans and estimates which
have been made, a hospital for 25 beds can be built fur
about 2,200/. A further sum of about 5001. will be required
to complete and furnish the building.
YORKSHIRE.

AN AFFRAY BETWEEN Five GAMEKEEPERS AND EIGHT
OR NINE POACHERS took place near Wortley, on Monday
last. About halt-past eleven o'clock at night five of the
keepers employed by Lord Wharucliffe, met eight or nine
poachers in a field occupied by Mr. Surtees, near Booth
Plantation. They had two dogs with them, and were in
pursuit of game on Lord Wharncliffe's preserves. Two of the
part' were tackled by two of the keepers, and succeeded in
driving them off the land ; immediately the remainder of the
poachers turned and set upon the keepers with clubs or SOll2O
other heavy weapons. One had his leg broken, and was
much bruised and cut about the head ; another, the head
keeper, had his shoulder dislocated and several of his fingers
broken. A tenter, named Hague, received a heavy blow on
the back of his head ; and another man, named Day, received
a stroke on the side of his head, in an oblique direction,
which took away a portion of his ear ; the latter person fired
his gun, but did not hit the poachers; it however caused
them to run away.
STAFFORDSITTRE.
THE ACTIVITY PREVAILING IN THE IRON MANI:FAC-
TURE throughout South Staffordshire will be still further
increased by the opening of the works which are situated in
the neighbourhood of Bricrley-hill. The level furnaces,
which have recently been rebuilt and enlarged, are the pro-
perty of Lord Ward, who has, it is said, expended no leas
than 100,0001. in their erection. As an instance of the
energy with which the works will be carried on, it may be
mentioned that a railway has been constructed from his
lordship's coal and ironstone pits at Park-colliery, a distance
of two miles, for conveying the minerals to the furnaces,and
that for this purpose locomotive power will be introduced,
instead of horse traction, the mode in general use throughout
the mining districts. The opening of these works will give
employment to a vast number of hands.
DORSETSIIIRE.

FOLLOWING A BANKRM.;;XSTBRICA.-EXPENS74 OP

Carretts.—At the quarter sessions, which commenced on
Tuesday last, Mr. John Cree called the attention of the
Court, to a charge on the County sheet of 195/. fn. 5d., paid
to Samuel Chant, for executing a warrant in America on
Henry Warr. Mr. Crec observed that 1701. were found on
Warr when apprehended, and he thought, under the recent
order from the Treasury, respecting property found on pri-
soners, this money ought to have been paid over to the
county. Mr. Gunter explained the circumstances of the
which hese already been. made public. The man,
'Wart, was the postmaster of Brulport ; and after effecting
several forgeries on the bank of that town, he absconded.
Immediately afterwards he was made a bankrupt, a fiat
issued against him, and the officer Chant was despatched
after him to America. The man being a bankrupt at the
time, the money found on him was paid over to the estate
for the benefit of his creditors. Warr was tried for the
forgeries, convicted, and sentenced to transportation. Mr.
Acfsnd said he was quite satisfied that it was the duty of the
constable to have mentioned to the magistrates, who cer-
tified these expences, the discovery of the 170/. ; and he was
also ofopinion that that money ought to have been taken
towards defraying the expences to which the county was
put. The chairman inquired if the county had act recovered
a portion of the expences. The county treasurer replied in
the negative. The question had been fully investigated in
the finance committee, and it had been ascertained that the
American authorities had taken possession of the money, and
after subtracting very large fees, had given Warr credit for
the remainder. Mr. Crec thought there would be no harm
in applying to the Lords of the Treasu y for repayment. The
Rev. H. F. Yeatman : It is the first question of the kind
under the treaty between this country and the United
States, and it will pave the way to others. I believe that
there are difficulties in the ease of which the court at present
can form no opinion. It was well the constable did not take
posses, ion of the money, because ho might have led the
county into a lawsuit, the man being a bankrupt. The
court then unanimously agreed, on the motion of Mr. Cree,
to apply to the Lords of the 'Treasury, requesting their Lord-
ships' favour and consideration towards indemnifying the
county in the expences incurred in the execution of a war-
rant against Henry Warr, and the clerk of the peace was
directed to write to their Lordships at once.
ESSEX.

THE ALLEGED POISONINGS AT CLAVERINO. —WILFUL
Yesterday the adjourned investigation con-
cerning the deaths of Joseph and James Chesham, the
children of Sarah Chesham, now in Chelmsford Gaol, on a
charge of administering poison to S. Taylor, the illegitimate
offspring of Lydia Taylor and Mr. Thomas Newport, farmer,
of Clavering, was resumed for the fourth time. James
Clare said he resided at Clavering, and knew the deceased
children. During the beginning of last summer, he was
passing by Chesham's house, and saw the accused, Sarah
Chesham, standing at the door, scolding her boy, now at
home. He heard her Pay to him, "Hold your tongue, you
aces dog, you ought to be where the others are." Did
not hear her say anything else.—By the coroner : I do not
remember telling any one I heard her swear at the child,
and say, with an oath, "You want to be put to sleep like the
other two." I spoke to Mrs. Taylor and Lydia Taylor, the
mother of the child poisoned at Menutlen about it.
Richard Chesham, Sarah Ch,wham's son, threatened I
should have a lawyer's letter for bringing the news
that Lydia Taylor's child, which had been poisoned by
Sarah Chesham, was dead.—By the Jury : I remember hear-
ing of the death of Philip Chesham's dog just about the
time the two children died, but I did not hear the accused,
Sarah Chesham, state the dog haul died from eating what site
did not intendit should cat. Lydia Taylor proved that the last
witness called at her mother's house, at hlanuden, on the
Sunday before the child died, and that he stated he heard
Chesham say to her boy, " You want putting to sleep
for half an hour like the other two."—By the coroner : Mrs.
Chesham came four times to Manuden to see my child. On
the second time she told me about her son Philip's dog
dying. She said there was a mesa made at her house,
underneath the table, and the dog came and ate part of it,
but she frightened it away twice, first with her apron, and
secondly with an umbrella. That immediately after she had
frightened it away with the umbrella, it ran under the bed
and died in less than five minutes. She did not tell me who
made the mess, but she said " either the dog died from eat-
ing the mess or from her fluttering its heart with the um-
brella, just as Thomas Newport fluttered the hearts of her
two children."—John Chipperfield was culled, and proved
that at the time the children died he was at work in a barn
belonging to Mr. The*. Newport, and that their brothers,
Philip and John Chesham, came there and complained of
being ill, with great pains in the stomach, and that they also
told him about the dog having died. The witness was
severely examined by the foreman of the jury, in whose
employ he now is, as to whether he did not say, in a con-
versation with him, that the Cheshams told him the dog
died on the day which elapsed between the deaths of their
brothers, Joseph and James, which he ultimately admitted
was the case.—The Coroner, in his address, observed that the
evidence clearly proved that the deceased children had died
from the effects of arsenic administered to them by some one,
and the question for the jury was, who was that party. It
was true that, in this case, they had failed to prove the con-
nexion of the woman, Sarah Chesham, with Thomas New-
port, a circumstance which he (the coroner) must say he be-
lieved was attributable to the fact of two men who could give
evidence on that point haling been most unjustifiably kept
out of the way. Another failure was not being able to
trace the possession of arsenic to the woman Chesham; but,
at the same time, he begged to observe that the possession of
that poison had been clearly traced to Thomas Newport.—
After a short consultation, the jury returned a verdict of
" Wilful murder" against Sarah Chesham.