The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1848•

being too regular. On the storing of Wobasoall, the 18th
of October, between nine and ten o'clock, one of the Mears.
Sheiklees put about OW. into a hag. which he pre to Ibib
eon fiumptner, a boy Melee years of age, and he set off to
Maser Marshall's mill. On hit way lie was set upon by
three men. who knocked him down, took his bag from him,
sad gated with the booty, without Ms being able to tell who
the mos were, having his eyes COMO& They were Hap
tilled, however, by other parties who saw them running
away, Colton hav' a blue bag under his arm. And then
there was farther avidenca of two of them dealing with large
quastitise of silver &Arms le. Os the evening of the same
day they offered ese Bpi Banos N. 6s. fora U. note Of
sovereigns; sad two nights sitar they spin wanted to
drugs their silver Into notes we sovereigns. They did sot
then of so large • premium, but they made the remark
that they stilt bad lOL is Him left. The oar was not so
Mout spinet Hudson as spier Cotton and Lasgstsff, w-
ears the peeseention did not skew him to be present when
the mosey was sought to be changed, but he woe proved to
be a companies at their. and ose of the men running
away shoe the robbery. Brides this, when he wee taken
Le said he had been lyiag is bed till ten o'clock that morn-
ing, where. he was sees going about between seven and
sight o'clock.—Th. &how was that the identity had not
been eatiefestarUy wide out, and that the :circumstancre of
empisics were as sufficiently straw to warrant convietios.
—The jury found all the primer guilty, whereupon a eta-
eiderable sensation was produoed in court, Colton and Lang-
staff declaring that they were the parties who committed the
robbery, and that Hudson bad nothing to do with
Bares Nat* had so alternative but to set on the verdict; end
the prisoners were sonteseed to trasportatios for 16 years.

SOUTH LANCASHIRR.—LivaarooL, Dec. 16.
Before Mr. llama Alderson.
TIIE ASHTON MUMMA.
The telal of J. Radcliffe sad J. torsistaisfirm, for the
murder of John Bright, the Ashtea polioessan,was continued
this morniag.
At the "'quest of the jury Dr. Lee was recalled, and stated
that the pike wound in the thigh of Bright would certainly
ant have caused death.
Mr. Pollock then addressed the jury in defense of the pri-
soners. He said that, after much consideration, and a con-
faience with hie leaned friends, he had resolved to leave the
ems s it was sad offer no witnemos for the &faros ; but,
at the eonclusi! on of his speech, and after • conversation with
the counsel fur the prosecution, Mr. Pollock stated that, at
the request of the prisoner Ratcliffe, he should calkl • wit-
ness to prove that he was not the person who struc Bright
with a pike.
Meanwhile, the learned baron had intimated that there
was no ease against Constantine at ell.
J. Matley, a blacksmith. at Ashton, said : On the night of
the 14th August he was at Grundy's coneertroom, Stamford-
street, and left at a quarter past 11. While standing at the
corner of
01 the a party came down Stamfordstreet,
when one the men cried out, ' Hen's a policeman—fire."
One thea levelled his gun, but it did not go off.
Another said, "Fire, fire: sharp, sharp." In the middle of
etamfurd-street he SSW a man picking up a hat, and
found afterwards it was the police °Meer Bright. He said to
the people fe did not know what he had done that they
should have abused him in that manner. Use said, "Go
into some house," and Brlbbt said, " No, that is not my
duty; we are the men appointed to keep the peace of the
ocuntry." There was a man near him with a pike, who
swore a fearful oath, and ran the pike into him. That man
was not Ratcliffe. He had a dark-coloured coat, with dark
whiskers, bushy at thu bottom. Bright laid hold of the pike
with one hand, and was turning round when he s abet,
and fell immediately. Saw the persons go awa and leave
y an
Bright.eag While he was there he aid not see Ratcliffe at all,
ift_h he knew him well, Cross-examined by the Mum-
mery stool Ward two reports of firs-arms, besides one
which missed Me. Did not know that Ratcliffe was a cap-
tufa of the National Guards, or that Comtantine was. Wit-
ems was a member of Stephens' band. Did not sea a man
who got his hand cut with the like. Could not say from
which way the shot that kilLil Bright came; but it was too
lend to be that of a pistol.
Martin Haigh, a hatter, at Ashton, deposed to being with
the previ.dis witness on the night in question. Saw Taylor.
hat did not see Blown. Heard two shots fired, and saw •
I lash; shortly afterwards heard that a policeman had been
I abet. Witness was knocked down by the buttend of a gun.
The learned Attorney-General, at great length. replied, and
Mr. Baron Alderson summed up; and th• sun. after an
Amines from court of about an hour, returned a verdict of
Guilty, bat strongly recommended him to mercy, as Bright,
the policeman. did not fall by his hand.
Mr. Boron Aldrosen then passed sentence to the following
effect : Joseph ltatcliffe, you have been found guilty, I
feel
but think ma very clear evidence, of the trims of wit
faal murder. The jury have recommended your case to the
merciful comdderation of the crown. 1 shall transmit that
to the proper quarter. Ia the meanwhile it is Oly painful
dut to tell you what your fate will probably be. You have
beeny found guilty of an offence against • totally unoffending
mu. Your's was not the hard that fired the unfortunate
shot (of that I am perfectly satisfied) that killed the de
ceased ; tut then you tiled a pistil, and, though it did not
hit the person at whom it was aimed, you had before at-
tacked him, cruelly attacked him, with a pike; all which cir-
cumstances show nee that, in the passion and violence of the
moment, you were not minded to remember your duty
to God and your duty to man. And so it will always b,
whoa sum like yes set., rap m a rears. of this guseeipeion.
You place yourself at the head of a body of indi-
viduals armed against the law end the constitution of the
*Bantry. Being the captain, it behoves you, you think, to
show that you have spirit above your compeers ; and so when-
ever anything violent is to be done, the leaders f rtunately
are afflicted to do it. So it has always happened, so it will
always happen men in such pceitinos ewe to remember
their duty to God, and their duty also to their neighours.
Yours is a fearful instance of the conaequerees of violent po-
lit.eal agitation upon the lower orders of society ; an ins'ance
which, I fear, will requi: r v r punishment. You will
have, at all events, a much longer time than you allowed to
that unhappy man, Bright, to prepare for a change. You
sent him to his account without being prepared. We will
hope his lamp was burning, and that you have to answer
merely for his death, and tot the heed a souleternal. We will
hope that, but we cannot he assured of it. We cannot know
what the conee‘ues,ces of that dreadful act of yo,re were
towards that unhappy man. You yourself will have a
longer time to prepare, you will have the means which the
humanity of the law and the constitution will award to
you. 1 beatnik you to amend ; to forget not that now you
are on the verge of eternity ; to forget not that only a low
short hours will pass till your life be forfeited. After several
similar exhortations, his lordship said, 1 will send the kind
recommended= of the jury to the crown. It rests with
them. I have nothing further to do with it, es soon as I
tell you what the sentence of the law is. It is not my sen.
Once : it is that of the law, and I am merely its instrument
to declare it. The sentence that the law affixes to your
crime is, that you be taken from hence to the place whence
you tame, thence to the place of execution, and be there
hanged by the neck till you are dead, and that your body be
buried in the precincts of the prison In which you shall be
confined after your conviction. This is the sentence of the
law. I have now discharged my duty. May God Al-
mighty, may the holy blessed Saviour, that most worthy
judge of all, suffir you not to be kept from him. May
the Lord have mercy on your soul !
Hi.lonhip's sentence was paishally interspersed with the
sobbing and weeping of a female in omit, said to be the
prisoner's wife. The prisoner himself betrayed no emotion
whatever, and after addreasing a f.w words to his solicitor,
was removed from the dock.
CONSPIIIACT AT AeltiOn. MICHAS°, or 1111-
00,1118.—Ponding the delivery of the verdict in the last
case, the eighteen chartists charged with conspiracy to ob-
struct the laws by tumultuous assembLges &c., at Ashton-
under-Lyne, moot of whom had been out on 'bail, were placed
in the duck. The Attorney• General stated that the caewn
had determined to proceed against only eight of the prisoners
for felony, under the late Government Security Act; the
others, on entering into the proper recognisance', might be
discharged. Two or three of the prisoners were bound over
in their own recognisance's in 1001, and two sureties In 601.
each, to keep the pesos for two years and to appear and
plead to the chugs whosoever they might be celled upon;
the others (In more 1114 mt circumstances), were allowed
to depart on the diminished security_ of their own recog-
nisance' in 601. and two sureties in 2.W. each. The parties,
before their discharge, were cautioned to find the necessary
sureties, and take them before a local magistrate within •
week. The trial of the eight who are selected for trial for
felony, under the late act, was filed by Mr. Baron Alderson
fee to-day (Monday).
It is understood that a like selection amongst the 46 char-
.' I tilt prisoners from Manchester will be made.
one of

POLICE.-BATURDAL
ALLEGED PLUNDER OF THE TUMEFIES AND THE
CHATEAU DE NEVILLT.
111ARLBOROUGILSTREST.—E. Seabsisr mad Mat*
DoraMe were requassised, for having nalawfal possession
of property, valued at abort 30,0001. Wines' to King
Liais MS and the ambees of his sinstaed to
ve bess tram the royal palaces of the Tuileries
slid Chelsea & Meanly at the emainenesessat of the re.
cent revelatlea la Nowa The fames exaatiaatioa wee re-
ported Is oar
of of *NW last. Banda,
_As Wulf
of the en king of the Iranik addressing Yr. issilletehi
saki : Sir, the parties bane yea having agreed mina hut
here tomes: again ea their wit reestrahanon, glad to
have an opportuaity of ISM sizeuntatease which
have occurred skies lest week. It will be reoeSested that
nadir a warrant ken this semi pes.ession was taken of a
Tari4T POrritm=l1le 1"1".i to KW( lirsia
Ykuippo sag ski of his halm.. Away oats!
things were ems artleks MiztlerY, whim wise yrodoeed
wars
her on the hat erassisa. articles of j
shows to somber ef the revel Gassed raZatutsg,
who, on eseadmial the YeePrir. stated this outS4llllS7
believed the utleles te he els InlYist3 albs Mil titian,.
It was &sizable, am I this Wasted to yea, That the articles
ahead be arabeakted le the Molnoimblald &Wash or others
who weal& be thm Mei Illawrileat to welt desidady at the
bemoans Oat. Clabssass eatW wily spa& es e•
rastudeleg teen tbe missed Nemeses et the mety.
hL
Hamletoas at this CsOlomobaika it vas emaildmi slut
wiediateey fad maillways nob el ebra/a/ms this
tsallommay wall be to and to Posh fee Y. UM, as esti-
Mat iewellw,Videlbe washy eifsfahliwellle; wsi 6e.
smite* with die ef the royal .It wee at
posed dos M. was she peens whe
the west enhisoes es to Ibm ossesenlie ihe
he Immatiatoly mom am len. 11L. New* after ma
the as seated, ellbessit there woo a ekes resew
blame beeves& shoal posibmild and Mbar of the muse
kW la Oka Mel
ld Illiodl7,
u 1 y=
the were act jewehad
i-
wages
M= ls the ve
ostly bees sale k Imitation el the royal
jewels, sad here me dos • rasembhmee to therm,
skit they Wild be Nelgirly tisoldbed fa.

similes, sad nobody bat a Jews
.11er weld distin-
fable them from similar artistes baseline to the royal
Utily. Considering that these articles present all the sp.
of similar articles belonging to the royal family, it
▪ coincidence that they sic din the pausal=
' apelike who have also poseradon of ampicture about which
time le me freaks of ownership. Bat as la M. Beret's
"u the tieggily only resembled the royal jewsis, and
I rekeemes hail* lees muds to the royal bode ea the sub.
Ikelawieltiblorwes et
dioniasase dosideda.
withattawst
edeption thnge peel toe
I au in nuessentis of lestradias from m)
amts. k that individual la their
delleadllis dense witiedentrikekekkeed
whims s efiadow of doubt ohm. With= to the ether
ISM" *SAM hebeenenes in not the property
es Wag* to the royal ihmily win be ensesised, and the
=maceputaken, as in the um at the saws ▪
Bo far then, els, as
Raj is
Nix matter will he withdraw yearwake,
we
trouble yea te mans slay ad adder the set
seen which the puesedistr have been founded.—lse.
&astride : Do 1 mated that this withdrawal 1144* WI
the picture 2—Mr. Bodkin : I withdraw all claim to the pen.
piney evader tlals act, and 1 withdraw all appeal to year
Jurfeattilou, for If you were to order the *tan to be em
stored, it would not confer a title to the property, and ie
would only be is the nausea guarantee for its detention.
The act does not bee our civil claim, and
m the claim to the articles of greeter value is
withdrawn under existing circumstances, so I esk
to withdraw all claim to the mealier articles.—
Hr. Wontner said. as the professional adviser of the Bares
de Badaspes who wu sot present., he should feel that he
neglected his client's interest Uhe allowed the proceeding.
to terminate without some further ezplanation. The barna
had beta held out •I an impostor. He wee stated to be me
baron, but something else. lie was desirous, therefore, tee
the public mind should he disabused on this and on moue
other points. The baron was • native of the tile de 8010 ,
bon. In early life he rendered impornt services to hie
country by estabshies eager plantations a
in the colony, era I
by introducing British meetrinery for the purpose of exam*
big the auger with greater facility. do 'WOW* were his
services, that Louis ZVIII. et France made him a bugs of
the realm. The Baron de Bassagnes naturally felt ensued
that it had gone forth to the world that be was • N.
body with en alias, and he complained generally el the
treatment he had received.—Mr. Hardwick said, so far ace his
resolleetion served him of what passed in court at the last
examination, he was not aware that say reflection what-
ever bad b. en cut on the character of Baron de Busagnee,
or that any doubt had been cast on his title.—Mr. Wontner
said he had seen the baron described with an alias. The
baron came over to this country with articles of jewellery in
his puesaion to dispose of. He had been compelled to do
this, beca"se, as one of the first acts of the Ile-public was to
abolish slavery, he had bei a deprived of his property in 600
slaves, and having received no remittances from his estate,
he had been obliged to divas of same of the costly articles
which he had brought over to this country for the pupae. of
sale. The bsron had bought some of these very articles irons
the jeweller of King Lois Philipps. The police came to his
room and took possession of his property on a groundless
suspicion. The baron felt that he had Bien grievously
treated, and that not the slightest pretence existed for The
his character, or taking possession of his property.
. The
baron had rat to M. Biwa, and to other jewellers from
whom he had made purchases, and he was ready to show how
he became poseneed of the articles found in his keeping.
but he would not go into that matter, se the charge had
h. en withdrawn. lie would content himself with saying
that his respectable client was ready to show that he was the
lawful owner of the jewellery. With respect to the picture,
that was not is Baron de Bassagnee's possession, and he need
not enter into that question. The picture was not part of
the barer.'" property, but had been committed tn the erre of
his meretare, Burins de Saulaier.—Mr. Bodkin said his
obeervatiosis at the last hearing were expressly limited to the
two individuals present, who had assumed the title of baron
and baroness. He had not thrown any doubt on the title of
the Baton de lismagner.—Mr. Wontner subsequently re-
ferred to a French newspaper, and found that he bad been
In error—that it was the defeadant Saulnier who was de-
scribed with an " otherwise," and not Baron de Hamra's.
Mr. \Ventre' admitted the mistake into which he had
fallen.—Mr. Hardwick said it was an estraordinary
stance to to find a portion of the property known to have been
loft in cue of the royal palaces in France in the hands of par-
ties who bad other property of their own to dispose of. This
naturally threw a suspicion on the parties, and led to inquiry,
and tee circumstances which have been stated justified that in-
'liry. The proceeding', however, had been immediately with-
Jaen, when s competent witness came forward and stated
that the articies were only similar in manulsedure to the royal
lewels.—The dclenaants were about to be discharged when
a Custom-house officer came leeward and claimed to seise the
whole ol the property, on the ground that the articles con-
sisted of roman goods which had come into this oouatry
without paying duty. He wished to impound the goods, and
to have them taken for safe custody to the custom-house,
until the owner could prove the' the duty had been regularly
paid.—Mr. Wontner said all the articles had come over with
the baggage of the owners. They had been exhibited at the
custominnwe tither at Dover or Folkestone, and bad passed
as poseur fa' happege.—The custont.house officer said if the
articles had peered in the regular way the parties could pro-
duce the necessary proofs. He w mild seize the property on
the part ef the crown.—Seals were accordingly placed on the
property.—The defendants were then liberated.
lIIE SWEEPeTAKE4 CASE.
BOW.STREBT. —T. Casey, a collector to the Lambeth
Water-works, surrendered on the charge of being concerned
with others in getting up uelawful lotteries, or betting sub-
scription. Mr. Bodkin, in opening the case, said he appeared
to support it on the part of the government. He was in-
structed to prosecute the charge by direction of the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, because the government
had determined to put the strong arm of the law to sweep-
stakes, which were a nuisenoe in the metropelis and thugh-
out the c..untry. The sweep, out of which the present pro-
*tuition arose, held forth to the public the promise of prizes
of 1,4601, 2.101., leol., and other sums, and the subscriptions
varied in amount, according to the circumstances of the sub-
scribers and the prise to be edit:tined. The summons was
brought ued,r the 42nd Gco 111., which provided that no
person should be authorised to keep any office or place for the
purposes of lotterimor for the purpose of selling tickets which
are to he disposed of or decided by manse( ba'.,e, dice. cards,
&0., and that what were called " little goes" should be equally
prohibited ; and any poison offending should be deemed a
rogue and vagabond, and should be punishable as such. It was
ales provided that the person so offending should be liable to a
penalty of 1001. In the pis sent case no information was laid
far the 6001. penalty, and the defendant was brought under
the provisions of the act of p•rliateeet, charted with being
a mire and vagabond. The attorney-a. neral thought that
the publ:c safety required the prosecution to he instituted,
but he di.i not desire to have the defendant tined. The lot-
tery in question was called the Monster Sweep St. Leger
Stakes, and the office where the tickets were sold was No.
12, Haymarket.—Mr. J. Young, Stafford place, l'imlico :
On the 4th of September I went to the office, No. 12, Hay-
market. There was an inscription on the front of the office,
and on the door the name of Marshall ; the inscription was
"National Sweep Office." 1 went in, and bought the ticket
now produced of Mr. Marshall, the secretary, for which I
pad 54. I west to Mr. Casey, and told him I had been re-
ferred to him by Mr. Mena as to the respectability of the
company. He said that he had an interest In the office, and
it was highly respectable, and in whatever business I did
there I should be perfectly safe. I attended at the office in
the Haymarket, on the llth of September, when the
drawing took place. We went into the back room,
where there were two glass wheels, and the sub.
scribers' names were in one, and in the other blanks
and bones. One man drew out the subscribers' names,
and the oth'r man drew out the blanks and
horses. I believe the men were blindfolded ; and a third
person then shouted out bleak or prise. I was one of the
unfortunates.—Croemezamined Ly Mr. Clarkson: I com-
menced to deal in lotteries about 10 years ago; I some-
times bet a little money. We all bet in Yorkshire, for we
are all thorouah.bred. (A laugh.) —Mr. Clarkson (for the
defence) said that it has his intention to reserve his argu-
ments until the cue went befere another tribunal. He
would contend that the offence was not contrary to the act of
Bement; and, in the locoed place, that the court had no
Fisdiction.--tdr. Henry said that a similar case, that of
Alnut and Natt," had ben decided by. the Courtof Queen's
Beach; and he had no hesitation in saying that the defendant
bed been proved to have had a lottery office, and under the
Wei ,parliament he could commit him for coo month as a
nese end vegabond.—Mr. Clarkson said that the defendant
tranki have no difficulty in finding bait—Mr.
quired Henry mid he
weld take two sureties in 401. each.—The re
lbeing forthcoming. the defendant was liberated. sureties
CLERKENWELL —A Seem Lawran.—A poor wo-
man, named Cromer, applied to Mr. Tyrwhitt for advice
and assistanoe.—ln Oct. last her husband was apprehended
on a charge of felony, and taken before the mmtistrate at
Bow street Polies-court, where applicant met with a man
who represented himself as being a solicitor, and gave his
name Mr. Beaver. He engaged to defend her hes&ead for
301. He attended at Bow-street on the examination of her
husband, when Mr. Henry asked him if lie was a solicitor.
He replied that he was not, but that he attended for Mlle
person residing in the City, on :whit* Mr. Henry
would not allow him to speak further. Applicant
paid his the 30e, and her husband was committed
for trisi—Boavor said it would be a pity for her
husband to run the risk of being transported for the
want of proper legal assistanoe, and he would undertake
his defence for 91. She had not got so much money, when
the gentleman wrote a letter to her son, whet resided
in Buckinghamshire, telling him it would be a dreadful
reproach upon his constitute if he suffered his father to be
transpot.ed for the want of a little money. Applicant, feel-
ing anxious that her husband should be properly defended,
parted with her husband's watch and her own weddinsering,
and other articl upon whirl she raised 54, which she
handed over to the party, who told her that that would not
be sufficient and she then parted with every article she
was of to complete the 91., which she gave to him,
and felitrdreelf sad her children destitute. Her husband's
trial came on, and he was left undefended, when he pleaded
gully, andAndgment was adjourned. The party to whom
she had paid the money then told her it would be neonate,
for her to raise 61. more to plead in extenuation, but she
could not raise it. Her husband was sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment, and applicant had been informed that
Mr. Beavor was no lawyer, not justified in receiving her
money.—Mr. Tyrwhitt ssid it was most cruel and scandelous
that such practices, which were of daily occurrence about
oar courts of justice, should be sultared to continue.
It was a disgrace and great injury to the profession. When
such parties caught hold of their dupes they would receive
their money, and, even if they employed counsel, world
only give a pines, and they would pocket pulsar
201. or more of their ill-gotten gains. If applicant had
told the truth, and there was no reason to doubt her, it was
a most important ease, especially to a certain class of people,
and it waktinus Not something was done to theca or put a