The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-14 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

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Richard liznytm, a drover, was stutimoncd by Mr.
Thomas, the secretary to the Koval Society tor Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, for wilfully and cruelly ill-treuting
on ox.

Thomas Hester, 46, Tlowlanibstrect, stated that, on the
afternoon of Friday week, he was proceeding along Char-
lotte-street, Fitzroy-square, when he saw the prisoner, who
was driving same oxen, strike one of the beasts cruelly
on the hoof with a thick stick with which he was
goading them ou. The poor ox, directly it was struck, fell
Larne, and the prisoner struck it again at least twenty times,
and the beatina was so severe that it caused paralysis in the
beast's legs. There was no cause whatever fur beating the
ox. Witness added, that there were several gentlemen who
witnessed the wanton act of cruelty, and had not bui:iness
prevented them they would have attended here as witnesses
against the prisoner.
In reply to Mr. lhadwick, Mr. Thomas said that drovers'
licenses were granted to lads not more than 16 years of age,
which he conceived a very bad practice.
The defendant denied the offence, and said the ox was
very stubborn and cross, and he merely gave it a gentle
blow to make it move on.

Mr. Hardwick considered it a case that merited a Revere
nuni.h:uent, and committed the defendant for a week to the
House of Correction.

LANIBETII.

Jain Ladwize PlautonicaTaTta alias Count Pc Ches-
&eau, alias The Marquis be St. Mariner, a tall, dark,
middle-aged man, of rather remarkable and shabby genteel
appearance who described himself u having been an
officer in thei East India Company's Service, and who had
been taken at the Exhibitiou on Saturday evening last, was
placed at the bar on a charge of giving a false character to
William Wardell by which he had Walnut a situation in
the service of Joseph Hayden, Esq , a magistrate and
banker, of Guildford, Surrey:
Mr. Hayden deposed that in the latter end of the month
of August lost he caused an advertisement to be put in the
Times ter an in-door male servant, and in reply received a
communication from William Wardell, the person who was
at present under examination at this caurt on a charge of
attempting to defraud the South-Western Railway Com-
pany of 201. Wardell having presented a three years'
character, signed the Marquis de St. Marine; and strongly
recommending him as a sober, honest, and excellent servant,
he engaged him, and he (Wardell) remained in his house
until taken into custody by Sergeant Gulf on the charge of
attempted fraud.
Police-constable Richard Taurle, 163 L, said that ho hail
known the prisoner for some years as Count Chateau, and
understanding that a warrant had been taken out against
him for giving a false character, he took him into custody
on Saturday afternoon, at the Exhibition. When witness
first knew the prisoner, he lived at Melbourn-square, Brix-
ton, and at that time he thought Wardell was in his service.
This was about the latter end of the year 1840, or the be-
ginning of 1847, and in 1847 he also knew him to he in the
Queen • Bench Prison. In 1844, witness knew the prisoner
to live in the Palace New-road, vv here he went by the
name of the Marquis De St. Mariner.

Serant Guff ;aid that in a writing-desk which the pri-
soner Wuxdcll claimed as his property, ho found several
letters written by the prisoner, and amongst them the draft
of the character he had given him to Mr. llaydon. Ile
also found in the possession of the landlady of Wardell
(Mrs. Steer) a quantity of letters belonging to the marquis
(the prisoner),which he had not yet had sufficient time to look
through. From inquiries he had made, ha (Goff) found
out that at the very time the prisoner gave the character to
Wardell he was a prisoner in Maidstone Gaol for debt, and
had been there for some time. Respecting Wardell, he
(Goff) had, in addition to the present charge of attempted
fraud on the railway, three distinct charges of felony to
prefer on a future dry. He should further, he thought, be
able to prove that Wardell had been tried and convicted at
the Old Dailey, and he very much doubted that the " mar-
quis- was wholly unacquainted with his real character.
The prisoner, who seemed to treat the matter with great
nonchalance, admitted that Wardell had not lived in his
' service altogether more than two years, though ho had
given him a character for three, but said that he always be-
lieved him to be a man of excellent character.
In reply to a question from Mr. Elliott in reference to
assuming the different titles, the prisoner said that, though
born in England, he was the son of a Sardinian gentleman
who had been for many years a resident in London, and
also for some years of his lifetime a magistrate fur the
county of Middlesex, and added thathe was entitled to the''
dignities he (prisoner) had assumed in right of his father.
In proof of this, be said he had no doubt there would be
found amongst his papers a communication from Prince
Albert, in reply to a communication from him excusing
himself from not attending her Majesty's courts on account
of his pecuniary difficulties. Ile was, however, engaged in
a Chancery snit where property to a large amount belonging
to his family was involved, and was in daily expectation of
an advance of lOU from the city.
Mr. Elliott remarked that, according to the prisoner's'
I own showing, the character !Oven to Mr. Hayden of
Wardell was a false one, and he should therefore remand I
him until the day Wardell would be brought up, but should
have no objection to receive good bail for his appearance.

ROCHESTER QUARTER SESSIONS.
Tut OLTR.AGE AT THE NORTH KENT RAILWAY STATION.

At the Rochester Quarter Sessions, holden on Saturday
last before Jame, Espinasse, Esq., Recorder, Edward Doun,
corporal in the Glib Regiment, surrendered to his bail, and
was indicted together with Michael Rourke, a private in
18th Royal Irish, who was brought up in custody, lbr having
on the 7th of August last, at Stroud, feloniously, unlawfully,
and maliciously assaulted and beaten William Elijah Ire-
land, a constable in the employ of the South Eastern Rail-
way Company, with intent to stab and do him some grievous
bodily harm ; in a second count they were charged with
assaulting him in the execution of his duty as constable;
in a third count with assaulting him with intent to prevent
their lawful apprehension ; and in the fourth count they
were charged with a common assault ; to which indictments
the prisoners pleaded not guilty.
Several witueves were examined who stated the circum-
stances of the outrage. The prisoners reccised a good cha-
racter.

The jury found the prisoners Guilty on the fourth count,
of a common assault, and recommended them to mercy on
account of character.

The judge, addressing the prisoners, said they had been
found guilty by the pry, who bad taken a most merciful
view of thu case. they might congratulate themselves to
the end of their lives that death slid not ensue from their
outrageous conduct. He considered their offence of a very
serious nature. From the uniform they wore they were
looked upon as a protection to their countrymen, but that
uniform, he was sorry to say, they had disgraced. lie
should take into consideration the character they had re-
ceived. Dann, he sentenced to be imprisoned, fur four
calendar months; and Rourke, considering the nine weeks
he had already been in gaol, to the further term of two
calendar months.

PROPOSED LEGAL UNIVERSITY.—Lord Brougham
intends during the ensuing session of parliament to submit
to the government (with the view of improving the system
now in force for admitting gentletnen to th, bar) aproposi-
tion for consolidating the Middle and Inner Temples,
Gray's and Lincoln's Inns, into one legal university, to be
governed by a senate and chancellor, similar to other uni-
versities. In this university professorships are to be esta-
blished in the different branches of law and equity, who are
to lecture as the professors do at Oxford or Cambridge. It
is also proposed to abolish the immense fees which are at
present charged for " eatering."—Montingpoper.