The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-20 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—ItvaiNGooN, MARCH 19.
The asaiseabesan and ceded yesterday. The casts tried
w. is quit...devoid of public interest.

CA/4111111DGC, MARCH 19.

The learned judges arrived to-day, and business willcoem
menee tu-morruw morning. The civil business is very
trifling, we have at present heard of only one or two un-
impurtaut causes. Of prisoners there are 33 (or trial, in-
eluding 5 case. of arson, highway robbery 4, night poach-
ing 2, manslaughter 1, &c., but the calendar I. light both
as regards the number of offenders and the character of the
avows.

OXFOIIII CIRCUIT.-BTAFFORD. MARC!! 18.
Banns Ma. it.TKII
The learned judge having, by sitting until nearly eleven
o'clock at night, been enabled to get through the cause
le.t, commenced trying primmer. to-day.
Blume arnattNia AT WOINERTIATIPTON.
Minvirel Jones, George Green, and Joseph Goehett were
indicted for stealing a ewe, the property of Mr. Joseph
11.. ich, at Wolverhampton. Mr. Wade prosecuted. The
prisoners were undefended.
l'he prosecutor who u a farmer, living at the Hatton,,
near Wolverhampton, deposed that on the tinning of the
•2'ith of January he went to a held on Isis farm in company
with a policeman; ha there found the skin and entrails of
a cheep which had been killed. He found a number of '
lic4marlui which he traced from the place where the sheep
w.e. killed along the canal side in the direction of Wolver-
li impton. Prosecutor went afterwards to Wolserliampton,
sore saw there portions of mutton, which he nonpareil with
th • skin and they exactly corresponded. He also compared
th.• .110 K, of the prisoners with the footmark., and nverall
of those corresponded. The skin produced was identified
by the prosecutor.
Thomas Beans, • shepherd in the prosecutor's service,
swore to the fact of the sheep having been stolen.
Another witness, who lived by the side of the canal, near
to prosecutor's farm, swore that on the night of the 24th
of January, he saw the prisoners near to the lock
about eleven o'clock. The prisoner Green was carrying •
hag They wen all going in the direction of Mr.
Beach's farm, which is about five miles from the spot.
Butler, the inspector of police, went to a brick-yard at the
top of Steel.house.dane, in Wolverhampton. on the night
of the ISM of January, and found the prisoners asleep
there. Saw an iron bucket, which appeared to have been
used in boiling fat; there wan also the remains of a the.
He afterwards wont with the prisoners to the house of one
Bentley, and he pointed out Garbett as the person who had
brought a shoulder of mutton the witness had in his hand;'
early on the following morning a breast and neck of
mutton were found in the briek.vard, together with
three pants of • shoulder; the whole was covered
41,,, with bricks and • bag : knives and. a
Ppoos were also picked up, which appeared to have been
recently used. Parts of the dress of some of the prisoners
were coveted with blood ; the footmarks in the field, which
was newly ploughed, also corresponded with the boots worn
by the prisoners Jame. and Green.
Mr. Chad, • butcher at Wolverhampton, saw part of two
shoulders, the bead. and a neck of mutton in the possession
of a policeman on the _7th of January. In his opinion the
shoulden had not been taken from the sheep by a butcher.
Portions of thew joints corresponded with the skin found
on the Said.
A winter, named Prances, who had been in the police-
station with the prisoners, said that James confessed to him
that they had slaughtered a sheep, and that he hoped they
would sot be found out ; farther said that they had sold
sixteen shillings' worth no Bentley ; that they had been
asleep and cooked • part of the mutton in idillington's
brick-wank where the prisowers were found. and they bad
left limit& and • pert tei the bend en the held.
The tenser= were eressammised with • good deal of
elevens* and pertinence by the winner Grum, who is
nidisally• yams umma passmi of sessiderabila astentl