The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-24 00:00:00

THE EXPR3SB, FRIDAY EVINING, MARCH 24, 1848.

being alrready under sentence for the actual breaking of the
machinery would be subject to a close examination on the
part of the prisoners. To corroborate them, he should
call the person who was in the engine-room all
the night of the 29th, when they gave up the
undertaking. Hs should also call Armitage (Lonz
Stockings) and his wife who would prove the facts
he had stated. lie should call parties who resided at the
places where they had assembled and several ether witnesses,
who would prove the case as against the prisoners Notwith-
standing what had been maid by parties to the contrary, he
submitted that the
nstrates of Sheffield had acted accord-
ing to their bounde duty in committing these men for trial.
The safety of the community was entrusted to their keeping,
and if they had allowed a charge of this description to pass
by unnoticed, they would have exposed themselves to the
censure of all well•conducted persons in the town of Sheffield,
and would be taunted with a want of respect for the public
security.—The court then adjourned.
MARCII 22.—The examination of witnesses in proof of the
facts stated in the opening occupied until about balf.past
eleven o'clock to-day.
Mr. Bliss then addressed the jury for the defence. Ile
regretted that this dispute had broken out, and that such
zeal had been manifested in this prosecution ; but he
hoped that if any class of labourers had misconducted
themselves, that would not prejudice the prisoners at the
I bar. That men like these should unite to raise contri-
butions for their mutisal support was not to be calied a
wrong object ; and he submitted that no proof had been
given that their object was other than mutual support,
although the prosecution, with a great degree of harsh-
ness, had insinuated there were other and base objects.
Ile then contended that there were no motives for the pri.
amen acting as they were charged with having acted, and
proceeded to review the evidence and the character of the
two principal witnesses in the cue, men who are convicts,
and who care not for the consequences of perjury, as they
have already been consigned to spend their days in a foreign
land, and therefore they had combined to injure those four
men. The learned counsel at some length then discussed
the nature of the confirmatory evidence, and argued that it
was of such a vague character that the jury could not rely
upon it. What then became of the prosecution? He
thought they could not but at once give the prisoners tke
benefit of the doubts which must exist on their minds in
consequence of the nature of the evidence that had been
adduced.
Mr. Baron Rolfe then summed up at great length, and
the jury retired. After an absence of three-quarters of an
hour they returned with a verdict of Guilty against all the
prisoners. Sentence deferred.
In addition to the indictment on which the prisoners are
already convicted there are three others on the file of the

court.
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Manna 23.—This morning the prisoners who were
convicted yesterday, were brought up for sentence, and
his lordship, after some remarks on the cue, sentenced
them to be each transported for ten years.—Mr. Bliss
asked that the prisoners should be acquitted on the
other indik tmenta.—Mr. Baron Rolfe said he should not
allow that to he done, lest the prisoners should escape justice
in the event of the objection to the present indictment
proving fatal.—The prisoners were then removed, evidently
somewhat astonished at the result.
J. Chatterton, J. Knight, W. Knight, J. Hodkin, G.
Dixon, R. Hill, P. Linsley, R. Robinson, J. Lcasky,
W. Shaw, and G. Rodgers, each of whom bad been
out on &di, were also charged with a riot at Sheffield,
on the 13th of June hat, and with assaulting Matthew
Marshall and others. This case, like the preceding one,
arose out of the proceedings of • trades' union.
The parties w. re table-blade grinders, and Matthew Mar-
shall and others worked at • wheel called " Sykee's
wheel," in Union-lane, Sheffield. On the day charged, the
defendants went to this wheel, and required Marshall and
others to go to another wheel, as they alleged they wire
working there for under wages. Several of them used very
violent language, and they tl:reatened to do the working
men great mischief. They proceeded shortly to throw off the
bands, but Mr. Sykes came, and succeeded in clearing the
wheel. Seale of the men, however returned, and • great
disturbance ensued in the lane adjoining, so much eo that
the police hail to be sent for. The y found all the pri-
soner, guilty of the riot, and his Lordship, in sentencing
them, observed that although he did not consider this to be
an aggravated case, he could not altogether pass it by.—The
defendants were sentenced to be imprisoned is the Castle
until Saturday, and then to enter into their own recogni-
sance, to keep the peace for two years.
Tue Lem), MURDBIL—Mr. 'hanky applied to Mr.
Baron Rolfe for a copy of the indictment en which Michael
Stokes had been convicted for the wilful murder of Mary
Ann Garrad. Ms object was that he might make applica-
tion for a writ of error, in order to suspend the execution of
the condemned man, so es to give time to have the matter
argued before the fifteen judges, as to an alleged informality
she indictment. —The application was granted.

ANGLESEY ASSlZES.—Besustants, Menem 21.
were Mr. Justice Erie.
DAVIES V. ONVESI.—Dacca ENTILT.—This was an action to
mover 241., a portion of a disputed account. The learned
counsel (or the plaintiff (Mr. Townsend) indulged in some
exceedingly severe observations upon the acting attorney for
defend►nt, who is also his son, and a principal witness, who
produced a diary in which a payment to the plaintiff of the
sum claimed had been entered in pencil. This, counsel
broadly charged the witness with having introduced at a re.
cent period, for the purpose of bolstenng up a case which,
he put it to the jury, was maintained by fraud and forgery,
as tar as forgery could be so considered.—The court, in
summing up, said the case was one of great suspicion, and
regretted that the detendant's son should have come before
the public at the threshold of life under such unpleasant
eircumstancee.—Verdict fer plaintiff to the amount claimed.
The judge leaves town to.morrow for Ruthin.