The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-19 00:00:00

Kato fatalism,.

3&ETROI'OLITAN COUNTY COURTS.
(Flitting days appointed for the prisons week.)
BLOOMSBURY, Portland-med.—Thursday, Aug. ft.
BROMPRON, Whlteheadlegyoye.—Tueeday, Aug. SY ; Wed-
iKsday, 21.
• WANIOSWORTM, Boot street.—Tuesday, Aug. O.
CANTIIAL CRIMINAL Court.—Monday, Aug le.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—GLoucuras, Aua. 17.

(Before Mr. Justioe Shea.)

TOE Wig? GLOUCESTERSHIRE ELECTION DISTURBANCES.
Thomas Taylor Pearce, fanner, and °florins Long,
eteerard to Lord Fitahardinge, both powerful men, were
indicted for having, on the 29th of jnly, at the pariah of
Berkeley, assaulted Heory Bailey.
Mr. Motteratu prosecuted, and Mr. Cough and Mr.
Streeten defended.

The defendants were unwilling to stand in the dock, but
were obliged to do so. For the prosecution eight or nine
witnesses were called. Their evidence was to the effect
that on the day of the polling for West Gloucestershire,
Mr. dtailey, • farmer and an elector, was with others at
the .Swan Hotel, Berkeley; and he assisted in convey-
ing conservative voters to the poll. About eight
o'clock in the evening they left the hotel, Mr.
Bailey intending to return home. Outside they found •
great crowd of people, chiefly of the yellowhparitly, and by
teggs,hem athndyst7l7..'l7,l".; and O back and head
several times. The crowd gradually increased, and began
to close round him. Mr. Ootavius Long was beading the
ob, and encouraging them to follow. He caught hold of
Mr. Bailey's collar, and almost stunned him by a tre-
mendous blow from his fist on the beck of the head.
Pearce then came up and took his stick from him, put his
left arm round his neck, and hammered at his face with
his fist till he was blind from the blows. He broke some-
thing in his nose, and the blood spurted out two feet. He
committed other outrages, until his daughter-in-law drove
along in a trap, and picked him up. He was confined to
his bed for three days.
- In cross-examination Mr. Bailey said—Pearce and I have
been neighbour. and very good friends. I was driven
forward by Mr. Long like a sheep going to the slaughter. If
I'd been a convict they could not bays treated me worse.
. A surgeon proved that when he saw Mr. Bailey on the
same night one side of his face was so swollen that his eye
eould hardly be seen. He was bleeding from the mouth,
eye, and nostrils, and blood was coming from • deep cut
between the bridge of the none and the corner of the eye.
Below that were two abrasions, apparently caused by
blows struck downward, and there was a bruise at the
back of his head. He was suffering from partial concus-
sion and was much excited.

The single policeman who was present, trying to protect
Mr. Bailey, said that he heard Pearce say, " Stand aside ;
let's kill the old --!"

A boy proved that Pearce said to some friends, " Didn't
I kick the old nicely If I'd gave him two or
three more blows I should have finials' him."
The Rev. Sir Edward Colt, Bart., and other witnesses,
stated that Mr. Bailey was sober, and did not defy the
mob. It transpired that up to this time Bailey had been
a wbig.
For the defence, Mr. Gough celled three or four respect-
able men who were present to prove an almost entire
denial of the charge, and that Bailey wag exciting Ind
defying the crowd by waving his oak stick at them • that
when Pearce went by, the old man turned upon him and
struck him with hie stick in the face, and that Mr. Pearce
had then to struggle in self-defence, and that there wee a
hand-to-hand fight between them. 1
The jury, having retired for a quarter of en hour, folmd
a verdict for &common assault, recommending the priionets
to mercy because of the excellent character given to Chem,
and the judge sentenced them to these months' iqpri-
sonment without hard labour.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lrvaßpodc, Am. 17.
CROWN Couirr.—(Before Lord Ch .f Justice Bovill.)

CHARGE OF ARSON AGAINST A SHOPKEEPER'S ASSISTANT.
Edward Ryder, a ahopman, was indicted for vetting ire
to the shop of Mr. Roger Wallwortb, of Scotland-road,
Liverpool, who was his employer. On the evening of the
11th July last the prosecutor and prisoner secured the
shop, which was a " lock-up " one, and the prisoner took the
keys. About 11 o'clock the same night Ryder mane down
&gain to the shop, although he hod no business to do so,
and shortly afterwards a fire broke out on the premises.
The prisoner immediately told Mr. Wallworth of the Are,
but when asked if he had been to the shop since it was
locked up he denied that he had. Evidence, however, was
called to show that he was at the door shortly before the
fire broke out.
_ _

His Lordship stopped the case, and the prisoner was
Arquiued, his counsel saying that if it had gone on he
could have proved one of the strongest alibis he ever heard.
The grand jury returned a true bill against Messrs.
Rankin, ironfounders, on an indictment charging them
with obtaining the sum of 10,0001. by means of Wee pre-
tenses from Mr. Pearson. The bill against Mr. H. B.
Hyde„ manager of the National Bank of Liverpool, was
thrown eat.

SALISBURY AND YlOl,ll RAILWAY.—The report
of the directors of the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway
Company to the ordinary half-yearly meeting of the
shareWders, to be held on Friday, the 23rd day of Au-
gust, 1867, at 1 o'clock, gives the following statement"; of
I the capital and revenue wore for the half-year ending
June 30 1867:—The gross earnings for that half-year
averaged 311. 10.. sd. per mile per week, or 32,7811.9 x;
the earaings for the corresponding half-jear of 1866 were
331. 8a per mile per week, or 34,8381.'95. Id.; showing a
a decrease of 2,056/. 14s. Id.; of which 1,1401.3 a. 3d. wu
on the arching, and 916/. 101. 10d. on the goods traffic.
The foregoing statement, it will be seen, exhibit! a de-
crease in the traffic of the last six months, ee tome4mured
with the receipts for the corresponding period of the *re-
view year. This line, however, has only sherd, in oem-
mon with others, in the effects of the general depression of
trade which has so materially affected the receipts of
railways throughout the kingdom. The receipts fee the
year ending 30th June, 1867, are equal to 351. Oa. 7d. per
mile per week, or 74,214/. ss. 2d. ; while the trails tar the
previous twelve months averaged 341. 19a sd. per mile per
week, or 72.7511. 18.. Bd. ; the increase being 1,4621. 6s. M.
It will be observed that a sum of 6,5971. les. 2d. (subject
to deduction of working expenses, &a), is brought to the
credit of revenue in the accounts of the present half.year.
This represents the claims made from time to time upon
the London and South Western Company, up to 31st De-
ember, 1865, in respect of coal terminals, waggon hire,
terminals on through traffic, and sundry differences, and
which, having only recently been admitted by that con
pany, could not sooner be brought into account. India-
ing the balance from this source, and after de-
ducting working expenses, passenger duty, interest, andel
other charge., the accounts for the half.year, r now Bab.
mitted, show a sum available for dividend of 15,6331. 7s. 9d.
The dividend on the 5 per cent. preference shares (1800),
amounts to 3,750/. ; that to be paid on the 5 per cent. pre-
ference share issued under the act of 1864 will require
487 N.-5,6251. Balance, 10,0081. 7s. 9d. ; out of which
the directors recommend that a dividend be declared on
the ordinary capital at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum,
which will absorb 9,796/. 10a. 2d. ; leaving 2091. 17s. 7d. ;
which, added to the balance from last half-year, 3,582/.135.,
will make the balance to be carried forward to the credit
of the current half-year's account 3,792/. 10s. 7d. It is
proposed to make the dividend warrants payable on and
after the 26th instant.

NEW WELSH RAILWAYS.—Within the last week
two new lines of railway—one of considerable length and
importance—have been opened in Wales. The first, the
Manchester and Milford, runs from Aberystwith to
Caermarthen, and by completing a link in the western
chain of railways running through the principality, opens
up • new route between the manufacturing district of
South Lancashire and the mineral district of South
Wales. The length of the line la 41 j miles, and, running
througn the rich mineral district of Cenintanahire, it
is claimed fer it that the benefits which its completion will
bestow upon the oountry are incalculable. On Wednes-
day, the long deferred opening of the deviation line of
the Cambrian Railway, near Aberdovey, took *me, end
will prove • great boon to the public. Hitherto, pas-
sengers from the midland district travelling to Towyn,
Barmouth, and other towns on that section of the
coast railway, have been obliged to change carriages at
Twyslas, and crow the Dewey by steamer. The opening
of the deviation line will do away with this inconvenience,
and afford an unbroken route between Aberystwith and
Carnarvon. This line forms a portion of the system con-
structed by Mr. Lavin, the well known contractor, and in
the arrangement by which it has at length been thrown
open
to the public, it is stipulated that such opening is
for time, by the permission of the landowners,
upon certain terms agreed upon between them and the
company for the working of the line for the benefit of the
landowner; such opening and working not to prejudice
or affect the existing rights (by injunction or otherwise) of
the landowners, or be deemed a dedicating of the railway
to the public." The Dines liswddy Railway, running
through portions of Merionethshire and Montgomeryakire,
and forming • junction with the Cambrian system at
Cemmaes•road, will be opened for traffic early in next
month.

HULL AND SELBY RiaLwAy.--On Friday the
haltyearly meeting of the proprietors of the above now.
pony was held at the Station Hotel, Hull ; Mr. John
Alder, chairman, presiding. The halancesheet showed an
available surplus of 34,34 W. &Aid., and • dividend of
21. 9s. 6d. per whole or 50/. share, and pro rota for half
and quarter shares, was declared. Votes of thanks to the
chairman and directors concluded the business, which only
hated about five minntes.

On Saturday afternoon three inquests were held
by Mr. Richards with respect to children who bad come to
untimely ends by accident. One little creature, only eight
months old, had been placed in a chair, from which be
rolled, fatally striking his head against the fender as be
fell. The second, a girl two years old, slipped through
the bars of her oot, and hung strangled by the neck for
four hours. The third, also a girl, three years old, while
left alone in the kitchen for live minutes, fell into a tubof
meter, and was drowned.