The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-18 00:00:00

Ebe Court.

WINDSOR, JAN. 17.
Her Majesty and the Royal children walked in
the grounds adjoining the Castle this morning.
Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leininor;
went out shooting this forenoon, attended by Col. the Han.
C. 11. Phipps, Lieut.-General Sir Frederic Stoein, ang
Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The Rev. Dr. Philpott left the Castle to-day for Cam.
bridge.

A deputation from the Protestant Alliance, concernin
the persecutions in Tuscany, had an interview with Lori
John Russell yesterday at the Foreign-office. The depute.
Lion consisted of the Earl of Cavan, Ron. Arthur RM.
naird, M.P., Rev. Charles liemble, Colonel ANarander,
the Rev. Dr. Steanc, Mr. Josiah Conder, Mr. J. Cook
Evans, Mr. R. B. Seeley, Captain Giberne, and Mr. Jolla
Macgregor.
Mr. W. P. Robertson, Consul-General of Ecuador. had
an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell at the Fo-
reign-office.
Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister, transact, d business
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Ingersoll, the American Minister, was present at the
dinner given on Thursday by the Earl of Aberdeen to se.
Taal of the corps diplomatique and members of the admi-
nistration.

Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
from the Governor-General of Canada and the Govern ri of
the other North American provinces, and also from the Go-
vernors of Labuan and the Falkland Islands.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The minis.
ters present were the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord
Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll,
Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Russell, the Duke
of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Mokswoith. The
Council sat two hours and a half.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY ELECTION.

TWELFTIL Day.

OXFORD, MOND/a.
The poll has been opened at intervals during the
day, and 33 votes have been recorded. The threatened re-
serve of the Carlton Club, which was to be brought to hear
against Mr. Gladstone, has dwindled to 21 votes. Tits
result of the day's polling has been nine in favour of Mr.
Perceval.

STATE OP TUB FOLL.-Fl7l O'CLOCK.
Gladstone
Perceval

Majority for Gladstone
Amongst those who polled for Mr. Gladstone to.day
were: —Tho lion. 11. Courtney Forbes, Oriel; Edward
Lane, D.C.L., Magdalen Hall; Henry Powell, M.D., Exe-
ter; John It. N. Molesworth, D.D. ; De Salts, Oriel;
John Bereton, M.A., Now College.

this stoppage. . Ihe defendant got out when they
on
a 1011, and the pony appeared hardly
to draw up the empty cart, and the defendant
mein wed the whip and stick. As they were going
ante I. e told him that if he gut into Oxford in time he
thouaht he should win about sixty pounds. The pony wee
in Arty good condition when he first saw him in We =ni-
ts tviciidcring the divine.; he had come.
te 31r, Williams—The leader was put on at a steep hill.
Air thi defendants reeognieed him at Beaconsfield,
and tb. y had slime drink together, and the pouy's mouth
was washed out.
B. tle• Her. Mr. L'icter—The reason witness rode after ,
the teuiluit was, that En2l7 Mn..ons in Uxbridge said
that t!.e pony would never reach ueacOnifield at all, and
tide. having a horse to exercise he rode to !Iniconsfield to
we hit toms place, and whether the pony real!! per-
formed the distance.
..lism Blackwell said that he was one of the parish
constables of Beaconsfield. Between 4 and .5 o'clock on the
*Mme's of the 21. t December, In saw Mr. Pickett driverie
as. his house with a
ownd cart. He was standing
window up stain in lua house, and the state in which
the pony appeared to be induced him to go down into the
streit. Tao: pony rolled about in the shafts, and also across
the road, and the defendant was beating it most violently
at almost (Airy step the pony took. The cart rolled about
M road from one side to the other, iu consequence
ofe the nsanner in which the pony staggered. Ile saw
a crowd round the pony and cart when it stopped
at the Creel Keys, and he went up and said in
the defindant's vesence that he had been using the
pony shamefully, and that he deserved to be beaten as he
had beaten the animal, and that if he knew who he
Was be would " pull" him. The defendant drove off at
a sort et walking pace, and when he had gone a short dis-
tance he again began to beat the pony with his whip the
saw as he had dune before.
1;y :qr. Williams—ll... did not give nay information with
reg .trd to the defendaut'e conduct until last Friday week.
Henri llowell, a toll-gate keeper at Wycombe, proved
that the defendant paned thrungh his gate on his return to
Oltord between file :aid six in the aiterneon. Witness
knew that he Will cluing a match against time, and from the
epperance of the pony ho was induced to say that he
thought he had lost it, and tke defendant replied that he
was afraid he had, unless he could get a leader from
Woomne.
By the Bench—The pony was under duty, and he should
Mywasuot more than twelve hands high.
filr. George Church, a tradesman residing at Wycombe,
preyed that he put his hand on the pony as it palmed
through the town in the evening, and observed that it was
very cold, and it appeared dead beat. The defiudant
logged the animal continually, and there were weals in
the side from the whip in which he could plaee his finger.
'When the play was put in after beiug taken into the al-
oe yard, the defendant appeared to be the worse for
liquor, and several people told him he could not win
his match, and it was useless to distress the pony more
by gulag any farther. It was then six o'clock, and he
bad to be in Oxford, which Wile twenty-five milt. Off, by
sine o'clock to win his match, and coins of the bystanders
off, red to bet a hundred to one in the hearing of the de-
fendant that the puny did not perform it. The defendant
said he thought he could do it now he had gut a leader, and
it was wituess's opinion that the pony would not have
moved if he had not been dragged off by the other horse.
Wore Smith, one of the constables of the society, proved
that he served the summons to attend the bench upon the
defendant, and that when he did so the defendant told him
the summons was no good to him and he might take it
back to these who had sent him with it, at the gl
eam time
nuking use of a very filthy observation.
Mr. Williams then addressed the bench for the defen-
dant, and the following witnesses were examined for the

defence—
Ephraim Ashby, the person referred to by the former
witaese,Blackwell, deposed that he was the keeper of a tell-
pm near Onford, and knew the defendant. lie happened
to be at Beaconsfield by accident when be drove by on his
return from London, ant he said that the pony was trot-
ting cheerfully along at the rate of eight or nine miles an
hour. Being anti. us to get home, he asked the defendant
to give him a lift ; but he told him he could not, as he
wished to be in Ulford by nine o'clock. He was quite sure
that the puny did not stagger along the road, and that the
defendant did not whip him.
In answer to a question pot by Mr. Thomas, the witness
mid that the defendant told him he was driving the posy
for a match, and that he had to be in Oxford by nine
o'clock.
Creme Symonds, a livery-stable keeper, of Oxford; said
that be was walking along the street where the pony came
is, and he declared that it looked so " fresh " that be
should not have thought it had gone thirty miles if he bad
not been aware it hod gone such a long distance. He saw
the pony unharnessed and rubbed down, and he observed
so weals on the sides, and there did not appear to be any-
thing the matter with it, and he believed the pony would
lave
Bene thirty miles farther elm had been required to do
es. li oleo said that he diil not consider it an_y remarkable
hat fora horse to do 117 miles in 20 hours. The pony was
seat to has stable on the following morning and one of his
boys exercised it.
Croes-examined—Tle bad heard from the defendant that
he was going to do a match against time with the pony,
sad that he was to drive to London and back is twenty
boars, and he remarked to him that it was a very trifling
thing. The pony had a leader before it when the defen-
dant came into Oxford. The " leader" might have been •
butcher's cart, but he could not say. He did not observe
that the pony cart was dragged along by the butcher's cart,
but be would not swear it was not.
Mr. Roby asked the witness if be could explain how it
was that the pony, being so " fresh," as be reoresented it,
it should be necessary fir it to be dragged along in this
Matta
The w.tnm said he did not know that the two carts were
attached to each other—be could net sec—it was dark at
the time, and he could give no further answer to the
qualm.
The certificates of two veterinary surgeons wero admitted
as evidence by Mr. Thomas, but they did not assist the
defendant's ease, as they were merely to the effect that they
had examined the pony a day or two after the match, and
that they observed no appearance of weals upon the body of
the animal, and that it did not appear at all injured by the
hat it had performed.
The room wu then cleared, and the magistrates after a
short deliberation directed that the public should be re-ad-
mitted. They then announced their decision to be that the
Usage contained in the information had been established,
and they adjudged the defendant to pay • fine of forty ail-
114s, and one pound thirteen costs.
The tine and costs were immediately paid.