The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1851.

LAiIBETII.

Mr. Jarman, managing clerk to a ',elicitor, with several
respectable persons, attended before Mr. Elliott to support
a charge of assault, preferred on a former day, against
Mr. or Caplan' Williams, a member of the Army and Navy
Club, Pall-mall. . _ . •

Complainant stated that on the Oaks day, as he was re-
turning from Epsom, he was unfortunate enough to travel
in a • e, for some distance, within a stone's throw of a
drag, in w 'eh Williams, with several other pereons, was
riding. From Tooting corner to the South Lambeth turn-
pike Williams and his associates pelted the complainant and
his friends so continuously with eggs, that on reaching the
latter point the victims wcrc almost hidden in yolk and white.
At South Lambeth the offending parties were given into
the charge of the police, but the tatter not being in suffi-
cient force at the place to secure the former, the gentlemen
were allowed to proceed on giving their names and ad-
dresses. The names and addresses given were found to be
incorrect, but the whereabouts of Captain Williams was dis-
covered by his being followed by one of the sutfercrs to the
Army and Navy Club, and a summons was taken out
against him. HIS companions would in all probability have
gut scot free out of the serape, bad it not been fur as in-
cident that occurred at South Lambeth, and which has led
to the disclosure of the names of two others of the party.
When the gentlemen were given into the custody of the
police, and the latter were struggling to take them to the
station-house, Mr. Henry Peat, the saddler, in Old Bond-
street, rode up, and bring acquainted with the names of
several of them, and also knowing Mr. Jarman personally, he
undertook to furnish the latter with them, and on this
understanding the aggressors were allowed to proceed. On
the summons being called on yesterday, Captain Williams
was out present, and English, one of the summoning
officers, deposed that he had called at the Army and Navy
Club to serve Mr. Williams with the summons, and was
told that he was out. This he (English) had reason to
believe was not true. It was his impression that the gen-
tleman was at the club at the time, and he left the sum-
mons with the porter in the hall to give it to Mr. Williams.
Mr. Jarman, addressing the magistrate, said he had sum-
moned Mr. feat for the purpose of identifying Mr. Wil-
liams as oae of the offenders, and as Mr. Peat was then pre-
sent, and was well acquainted with the persons of the other
delinquents, he hoped his worship would call on him
to disclose their naides, so that he (Mr. Jarman) might
be enabled :to institute proceedings against them.
Mr. l'eat observed that he was placed iu rather an awk-
ward dilemma in the matter. lie understood that a soli-
citor from the parties accused had called on Mr. Jarman,
and hail offered to pay for all the damage they had done
and any espouses they might have been put to, provided
his worship consented to the case being so settled.
Mr. Elliott remarked that ho could not permit an out-
rage of so serious a public character to be compromised in
any such way, and added that lie considered Mr. l'eat
bound to disclose the names of the offending party.
Mr. l'cat replied that, in deference to his worship's
opinion, he should give up the names of two of the parties
on the " drag," and these were Messrs. Henry and Thomas
Dinualale, the seas of the banker, who lodged at No. 10,
Bury-street, St. James's.
Mr. Jarman said that he had in attendance a poulterer in
Seagate Market, who sold and delivered at the house, 10,
Bury-street, a cask continuing 500 or 1,000 eggs a day or
two before the races.

Che written talon:nation of Mr. Peat and Mr. Jarman
was then taken and sworn to, and Mr. Elliott granted
warrants against Captain Williams and both the Meson.
Mandate.