The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-15 00:00:00

COMMITTAL OF 4 PART! OF PRIZE
FIOMTBRS.

Ben Terry and Pub Price, principals; Batty
Bendel and Joseph Wareham, seconds • Seennel Cooper and
John Hodgkin, bottle holden; and William Brooks, stake-
holder, were indicted at the Oaford .County Sessions, held
yesterday (Tstaday), for riotously assembling for the pur-
pose of a pries light at Clifton Hamden, Oafordshirre, on the
Bth of Jaly lest. All the defendants plaided guilty on the
recommendation of their counsel, Mr. Sawyer, instructed
by Mr. Massey, of Orford.
Mr. Sawyer pleaded on their behalf, that they bad not
been guilty of say violent conduct towerde the onions of
the peas, and expressed a hope that justice would be satis-
fied by their being bound over in their own recognisances to
keep the mace, and appear when called upon to receive
judgment.
The Chairman (the Right Hoc. Joseph W Henley)
considered that prise fights were a vinatios of ths
law, and should be put down by its strong am.
Is former years, when prim fights had occurred
in this ematy, it had been found that the only way
of pude( a stop to them was by subjecting the parties
manned to Imprisonment, end he (shit amenity, in ma-
estros°, with his brother magistrates on the bench, to
adopt the same course on this oecasios. Be considered that
principals wen not so mach to blame as alders and abettor*,
who Incited them to fight and punish each other for the
sake of making money and bets by it ; therefore be wes
determined to make a distinction in the amount of punish-
ment, and ordered that Pries and Terry, the principals,
should be imprisoned for ten days, and that all the other
defendants should be imprisoned for twenty-me days. He
hoped he should hear no more of these anurrencre is this
county, for if be did, be should most assuredly visit them
with tar poster severity. He afterwerds had into court tin
sergeant of the Berkshire police' end one of the police who
was on the spot at the time, and who took no steps to pre-
vent the fight, but actually accompanied the panne into
Oxfordshire sad witnessed it, and mptteseid a doubt whe-
ther they ought sot to have been indicted with the others
for beim Feast and riotously assembling, end if they bad
he should have made no distinction, but have gives them
the same sentence as the others.

The Supreme Court of New York his just decided
that "sobered persons " cannot legally be mina= if's=
public carriers plyiog for him by say rale of the pro-
piston. The ease thus decided was that cf a bitch woman
who was refused a mat by the driver c f one of the Empire
IW it earalbases, for which refusal damages were de-
lauded. The defendant pleaded his iastreas and the
regaled= of t►e proprietor, that no coloured penes should
be admitted fate their aaniagm, " m =At for the amccia-
doe of whitspeople." Judge Whiting ruled that odour is
to disqualification, sad that commas earners are Wand to
cake all perm= preseatiog themselves sad tendering the
anal faro, unless they are drank, filthy is perms, or of bed
einnetor. Thee were wreak namable pomade of
simile, but mute odour is sot ea* of them ; sad mach
man= sat up asp rale coat:sty to the pastel
w. I.46l:pletatif was awarded twelve dollen damages.