The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-25 00:00:00

oMeer stepped op sad serafted him for debt, and drove him
off to the Queen's. Burk Prison. Some time after, Mr.
Jarman and several Ohms who had been assaulted by Mr.
Diasdale and his friends attended, and Mr. Ballantine, the
baarktar, who attended for the accused, mentioned to the
sollistrate the mishap of hisclicnt's arrest, and further said
meierdoo!l that Mr. Jarman had preferred a bill of in-
digoes* nst Mr. Dimsdale and ethers for the assault at
Criminal Court, and that the parties so indicted
Mira in the required bail to answer to the offence. If
Ode was so, he (Mr. Ballantine) begged to suggest that
the justice of the case would be fully met and answered by
the appearance at the proper time of the defendant in dii
charge of his recommences to meet the case. He hoped
that, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, his wor-
ship would permit that course to be adopted.
Mr. Jarman said he felt it to be but right and proper,
after the treatment which he had experienced, taiai a
bill of indictment for the assault upon himself five
individuals, amongst whom was Mr. Henry • e.
That bill was found a true one, and the parties had, as the
learned gentleman bad stated, put in bail to meet that
charge at the proper time. He (Mr. Jarman), however,
begged to state the fact that in the first instance, notwith-
standing the indignity and annoyance to which he had been
subjected, he had pursued the mildest possible course by
only applying. fur a summons against the offenders, and
had they exhibited a corresponding spirit, and met the
charges as they should have done, an indictment at the
Old Bailey might never have been thought of. He (Mr.
Jarman) wished here to add, that the indictment only re-
ferred to the assault upon himself, while there were eight
or ten persons in the court at that moment to prove
charges of assault against Mr. Henry Dimsdale and the
other persons accused.
Mr. Ballantine admitted that, in the first instance, Mr.
Jammu' had adopted the mildest course, and he felt certain
that no fault could be found with his mode of proceeding;
but as Mr. Dimsdale was then in the hands of the civil
power, and that as therefore it was not in his power to be
present in discharge of his owe recognisances, nor could
his sureties produce him in acquittance of their bail, he
trusted the magistrate would sanction the course he (Mr.
Ballantine) had suggested.
' Mr. Jarman observed that he should not wish to assert
that it was so, but the act of arrest might be a mere trick
to get rid of the charge, in so far as the judgment of the
magistrate was concerned; but it was his (Mr. Jarman's)
intention, and also the intention of others, who had been
similarly assaulted, on public grounds, to follow up the case.
Mr. Ballantine assured the court that there was not the
slightest collusion between the officers of the sheriff and the
defendant and his attorneys. His client Mr. Dimsdale de-
nied to him all participation in the offence with which he
was charged, but if the complainants proved the contrary by
legal evidence he must take the consequences.
'Mr. Elliott consented to enlarge the recognizance. for •
week, observing at the same time that, whether gentlemen
or not, the parties charged had not acted in that manner
that persons in their station ought to have done