The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-25 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—LIFILEPOILD, MARCH 23.
These assizes opened to-day, with 43 prieouers tor trial.
The Nisi Prins cascs are few in number, and without much
public interest out of the gale wherein the parties dwell.
Twenty-two carriages and gigs,'.with 120 horsemen,
the cit attended
the high sheriff (R. M. Lingwood, Esq.) into y • after
partaking of a luncheon at the Dragon Hotel, they proceeded
to the Yew and Ash, three milts out, to meet the armed
mdge, Mr. Justice Paulson. flaying opened the commission,
divine service was celetrated in All Saints Church, the
cw_hedral being still under restonitioe. The hu,inese will
be commenced at an early hour to-morrow.

NOItTHERN elliCUlT.—Yone., Mallen 23.
Civil. 51,,5,—nsfOre Mr. It. Aidersonand a speetal jury.
SHAW e. THE YOttl: AND NOuTit RIIHLAND ILAILWtV
Cosir.sxv.—ldaulters or CAuttitit. The plaintiff is
a horse dealer residing near York. In August last he
sold to the agent of the East India Company nine
horses, all valuable animals, the price of each horse
being 175 guineas. Early in the following month,
acceording to the terms of his contract, it was hi
Watfos dittyrd. to
deliver these horses at a place stipulated at
Accordingly, on the 7th of September. these nine horses were
hrotE-ht to the statien and placed in three horse hoses. Mr.
Shaw, however, pointed out to °mei, the platform superin-
tendent, that one of the li,xee was defective, and refused in
allow the horse in the stall nearest to the act,' to proceed
in it. A franks& attempt was made to repair the stall: Mr.
Shaw again protested, but Oates refused to order out ano-
ther carriage, and the horses went away by the ten o'clock
train. On arriving at NottaantOn Mr. Shaw 'a man went to
see if the horses were cafe, and on looking in he found that
the fastening of the beam in the defective stall had given
way, and one of the herpes had thrown himself down and
was hung up by the head dead. He communicated this fact
to Mr. Shaw, who wished to have the dead horse out, but
he was told that the train could not be delayed, and that if
the horse must be taken out, the box in which he was must
follow by the neat train. The result was that he was not
taken out, and all the horses went on to the place of their
destination.—These facts were proved by the evidence of the
following witnesses : Mr. Appleton, chief clerk in the mili-
tary department of tho East India House; J. Sockdale, who
aasieted in taking the horses to the station for plaintiff; W.
D alsworth, a servant in the ctnploy of Mr. Shaw : and others.
—TI-e following witnesses were tolled to prove the defend-
ewe esse Lofthowe. depute station-tr.asti rat York,
deposed that Mr. Shaw selected the horse.boxes himself, on
arriving at the York station with his horses ; they were
numbered 18, 8, and 12. The No. 8 box was turned off on
to a spare line, and after it had been standing there a short
time, witness heard a horse very restive and plunging in that
box. Does not remember any accident before.—Croas-ex-
amined ; Made no memorandum of the numbers on the
three boxes. Cannot recollect the numbers on the horse-
boxes sent on account of other parties.—Mr. E. Oates, plat-
form superintendent at the railway station, saw the horses
put into the boxes, and went in with each horse, following
the porter. Observed a nail in the third carriage below the
catch, which projected about three inches ; he called for a
hammer, and bent it down. The impression and part of the
nail is still in the box. Whilst the horses were being put
in, Mr. Shaw made no complaint about any of the boxes
that witness remembered. Saw the horses tied up in the
usual way. The horses were rather restless. Examined
the boxes when they came to York, and found no defect in
them whatever. Did not hear Mr. Shaw say either that
he was satisfied or dissatisfied.—Cron-examined : Mr. Shaw
once gave witness a ham, but I never asked him for
another. He never told witness he could not afford one,
and has not been sulky and unaccommodating towards him
on account of it.—Re-examined : Never said he would make
the box secure. Shaw never said "This won't do—l must
have another," and never found fault with the carriage.—
O. Dawson, one of the porters, deposed that Mr. Shaw made
no objection to the sufficiency of the boxes, and witness' did
not observe any defect in them.—J. Bainbridge, and C. H. I
Holloway, manager of the coaching depattment, were theta I
examined, and the latter deposed that after the horses wore
put into the box, Mr. Shaw expressed himself perfectly satis-
fied that the horses had been all well got in.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff--damages,
1831. 15s.
MARCH 24.—The learned judges left this city for Liver-
pool this morning.
SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSlZES.—Livanroot,
Masten 24.
In consequence of the pressure of business at York, the
assizes for the southern district of Lancashire did not com-
mence till this afternoon, when the commission was opened
here by Mr. Baron Alderson. The calendar contains 108
prisoners for trial. Of these, two are charged with murder.
The learned Baron, in his charge to the grand jury, ex-
premed his disapprobation of the events which had taken
place in a neighbouring country, simply. u they had led to
I disorder, and none were more interested in the preservation
of older than the poor themselves. Speaking of a cue of
violence connected with poaching, which would come under
their consideration, his lordship referred with regret to the
fact that two men had been left under sentence of death at
York for a similar and. fatalcrime, andexpressed a hope that
some means would be introduced, by preventing the exces-
sive preservation of game or otherwise, that would tend to
diminish an evil which, for the last few years, was in this
country apparently upon the increase.

POLICE.—YESTERDAY.
GUILDHALL.—A POLICE Ttur.-IVillians Bozoll, a
marine-store dealer, was finally examined, on the charge of
receiving certain bagatelle balls and swards, well knowing
theta to be stolen. For some time the police had
suspected that Boxall's house was the receptacle
tor stolen property, but they could tardy now and
then lay hold of the guilty parties, without detecting the
receiver. At last a person named Nicholls, who lived up to
a cer: ale period at the prisoner's house, gave informa-
tion to Mr. Healy, of the King's Head, Old Change,
that he bad received several 'bagatelle balls, which
were stolen from him. In consequence of that information,
Mr. Healy gave Boxall into custody, and the police were
directed to take possession of the house, which they
did, and have retained up to within about ten days.
The result of occupying the premises twee, that for
several weeks they apprehended a number of in-
dividuals, who were most of them sentenced to va-
rious terms of imprisonment. On his house being
searched, property to a large amount was discovered and
identified by various parties which had been stolen at diffe-
rent times so far back as 1845 and 1846. The whole of the
depositions were then read over, and the prisoner committed
to Newgate on four distinct charges of receiving stolen goods.
WOKS HI P. BTRE HT .—B Ex svoxs 'res.—The following
additional contributions for the relief of Sophia Barrett and
Int family have been received by the magistrates:
" W. B. D.,"11.; "W. P. P.," 10s.; "F. C. W.," ss. ;
" A Childless Widow," Ss. ; " V. G.," 10s. ; " E. 0.," be. ;
" Nemo," 55.; " Id. E. Y.," 10s. ; "J. M.," 10s.; " Two
Gentlemen," 1/. ; " F. F.," ss. ; " W. P.," 11. ; " H. G.,"
10s. ; "J. C.," 2s. 6d. ; . A Clergyman's Widow," 102. ;
"E. I," 11, ; and "H. D. G.," Z. 6d. Mr. Hammill
al-o received a letter subscribed "An Irishman," and en-
closing a la note, the half of it to be applied to Mrs.
Barrett, and the remainder distributed in such other cues
of untent destitution as might be introduced to his notice
CLERKENWELL.—Tne ILESULT OF DitItIXENNEAFL
—Frawis Power was charged me follows :—A police con-
stable deposed that yesterday molting at an early hour the
prisoner was wandering about the "tuns in a wild manner
without coat, waistoos.; or hat, and on questioning him he
refined to wive a utisfaetory account of himself, and he
took him to the station-house.—Mr. Tyrwhitt asked him
whether he had any friends in London 7—Prisoner : My
father is Ma* Power, of No 5, Belgrave-street, Belgrave-
,quare, a Waterloo man, who fought under the Duke of
Wellington, and I have had the honour to hold a commis.
'don in her Majesty's service, but I sold out, and am new
distressed and destitute. I have not tasted a morsel of
food during twenty four bouts, and I had not the means
to pay for a lodging.—Mr. Tyrwhitt : w hat have
you done with your coat and waistcoat I—Prisoner :
1 sent them to a tailor to be re*red, and he de-
camped with them.—Mr. Tyrwhitt: What regiment did you
belong to 7—Prisoner : The 32nd, quartered in the Pigeon
house Fort, near Dublin. I was an ensign.—Mr. Tyrwhitt
diraLted an officer to give the prisoner some refreshment, and
to go and communicate with his father, and request his at-
tendance. The officer did so, and subeequeutly returned
, and informed the bench that Major Power declined
coming forward, unless he Mae compelled to do
so. The prisoner had disgraced himself through his
drunken profligate habits, through which he lost his
commission in the may, and was turned out of his reel-