The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-04 00:00:00

arranged to meet us. I shall never forget the plea-
sure he manifested when his eyes fell on the well-
remembered lines. Ile gazed at them long and
earnestly;—so long and so earnestly, that my fair com-
panion at lengih exclaim-0, " On, Mr. Moore, I hop,-
v.,11 do not want to take the book from me." " No,
bliss Maconcbie, indeed I do not," he replied; " but if
you knew what thrilling remembrances of a happy past
the contemplation of this page presents, you would not
wonder at my feelings. Since I wrote these lines," he
added, " I have been going so fast down the rapids of
life, that I owe you much for enabling me to live, though
but for a few minutes, in the past, and I shall long re-
member this pleasant meeting." But for once his gal-
lantry played him false, for, in the note to which I have
referred, he states that a " gentleman" showed him the
volume in question, and the lovely girl—for such indeed
she was—is not mentioned. It would not have been so
in his more youthful days.
At my request, Moore authenticated the lines, stating
the circumstances under which they were written, add-
ing his autograph; and, with the. book thus made addi-
tionally valuable, I escorted Miss Maconchie home.
I am, Sir, your bumble servant,
Hastings, March 2

C.R. WELD.

A LURE TO CATCH A SUBSCRIBER.—A new journal
is about to be established in Circleville, Ohio. The editor,
in his prospectus, says :—" Our terms are two dollars a
year. Gentlemen who pay in advance will receive a first-
rate obituary notice in cases of death."
EXCISE SUPERANNUATIONS.—From an official
document just printed by order of the House of Commons, it
appears that last year the net superannuation allowances by
the Excise amounted to 147,7981 16s. sid.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.—Oxford, March 2.

Both the judges sat to-day, at nine o'clock.
Before Mr. Justice Wightman an application was
made yesterday by Mr. Pigott (with him Mr. Huddle-
ston) in the case of Guliebno Giovanni Bazetti Kalabergo,
the Italian, charged with the murder of his uncle, Gio-
vanni Maria Ferdinando Kalabergo, at Williamscott,
near Banbury, to have the trial put off till the next aa-
sizes, on the ground that he was a total stranger in this
country, and unable to speak or understand English;
that his mother and sister resided in the north of Italy,
and his brother-in-law was a notary, and he had written
to him to come over to this country, and was in daily ex-
pectation of his arrival; and that, moreover, in conse-
quence of a paragraph in one of the county papers,
there was such a prejudice excited against him that he
could not obtain a Lair trial at the present assizes.
Mr. Keating (with him Mr. Cripps) opposed the applica-
tion. His Lordship took time till this morning to con-
shier the matter, and at the sitting of the Court said
there was no sufficient ground for the application. The
brother-in-law from Italy could in no way assist the
prisoner in his defence; and as to the paragraph in the
newspaper, it was idle to suppose that it could have such
an effect that it would be impossible to get twelve impar-
tial and unbiased jurors out of this large county, espe-
cially considering that the prisoner could set aside peremp-
torily, and without assigning any cause, twenty jurors,
and any number on assigning there was any reasonable
cause. It' he thought there was any ground whatever
for putting off the trial he would at once accede to the
application, but there being no such ground laid, he
could not consistently with his duty do so. The trial
was then fixed for to-morrow morning. As the prisoner
is totally ignorant of English, it has hem arranged, as
the best and most convenient course, that every question
put to a witness and every answer should be translated
to the prisoner at the moment it is put and gives; and
as the evidence is entirely circumstantial, and will have
to be detailed by, it is said, upwards of forty witnesses,
it is thought that the trial will not close before Thursday.
CROWN COURT—(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTNAN.)
George Jones, alias Joseph Moss, 22, and George
Hanks, alias Charles Rock, 24, were indicted for bur-
glitriously entering the house of John Cheekley, st
Cornwell, on the night of the 14th October last, and
stealing a silver watch, twelve silver teaspoons, and
other articles, and assaulting him with intent to murder
him.

Mr. Skinner and Mr. Cripps appeared for the prose-
tion ; the prisoners were undefended.
The servant girl of the prosecutor stated that her
bedroom was over that of her master and mistress, and
that on the above night she went to bed at ten o'clock,
and during the night was roused by the noise of two
men in her bedroom. Both bad shirts over their clothes,
and one (Moss) bad his face blackened. One was shorter
than the other. Tho shorter man had a candle in one
hand and a pistol in the other. She jumped up on seeing
them, but the one with the candle said, " Down, or I'll
blow your brains out." She at once laid down, and they
threw the clothes over her head. What they afterwards
did in the room she could not see. After they left her
room she heard a noise in Mr. Checkley's room, and
heard Mr. Checkley groan several times, and say, " I
am dead;" and heard them threaten to blow out his
brains if he did not lie still, and that money they
wanted and money they would have, and also say,
"Here's six volumes for you;" and heard Mr. Checkley
say, "You must shoot me; for I have no money." Mr.
Checkley called for me while they were there, and one
of them said, " Let her alone. She must not come."
She then heard a consultation between them as to
getting a light, and afterwards a noise of dragging in
her master's room, and heard them open the drawers
and cupboard, and ask her mistress fdr her money.
The shorter man, Moss, came back Lint° her room,
having a candle in his hand, and having thrown ofl the
shirt over his dress, said he wanted her money. She
told him there was a sovereign in her box, and 10s. in
her pocket. He searched her box, and then came to
the other side of the bed, and she looked at bim, and he
said "Lie down; you are looking at me in order to
transport me." She noticed at the time that he had on
a pair of check trousers, and it appeared that when he
was afterwards arrested he had such a pair of trousers
on; and these she now swore she believed were such as
he wore that night. It alse appeared that when be was
arrested he had in his pocket a peculiar tin case which
was lost that night, and which she identified by its
having been used for a long time to contain pepper, and
which she now swore had still the smell of pepper,
though Moss, who was defending himself, said to-day, in
his cross-examination, it had been used for carrying
whisky since she had lost it. When they left the
house she heard the report of a gun. She then went
down stairs and opened her master's door, which was
tied outside with a handkerchief. She was positive
Moss was the man who came the second time into her
room, and she believed Rock was the other man.
The prosecutor said she was awoke on the above
night by the cries of the servant, and he got up and
opened his bedroom door. and saw Rock outside. A
scuffle ensued, and Rock struck him on- the head, and
knocked him down. The other man was near also, and
struck him also on the head. He got up he did not re-
member how, and laid hold of the life.preserver which
Rock held is his hand, and Moss cut his fingers with a
large knife which he drew out. He was thrown down
again, and Rock lay on him, and Moss asked Mrs.
Checkley what there was in the corner cupboard? She
said, " Tea and sugar." Moss searched, and on finding
it was, they asked for money. Saw Moss hold towards
him a revolver pistol with six barrels, and heard him
say, I will blow your old brains out if you do not
give us money," and I said, " Blow away, I have no
money." My mistress gave them her purse with money,
and they gave the purse back. Moss went afterwards to
the maid's room, and called out to Rock, who remained
below, " It's all right?" and afterwards came down.
Before going away they said they would tie me down,
but my mistress said she would hold me down. They
then left the room and fastened it on the outside, and
after they had gone away the servant came down and
removed the fastenings. The wounds on my head were
so severe that I was for a long time delirious. On the
18th December I went into tho gaol and selected these
two men out of a great crowd. I afterwards mistook
another man for Moss. lam quite sure that the pri-
soners are the men, and I often saw Moss at the Parrot
Inn, at Chipping Norton.
The surgeon proved that when he called on the prose-
cutor on the 15th of October, he found him suffering
from four severe and deep wounds on the head, each
penetrating to the bone. He was in a very exhausted
state, but sensible. Three of the wounds were such as
might have been inflicted by such a life-preserver as was
round in the pocket of one of the prisoners. The prose-
cutor was occasionally delirious for twelve or thirteen
days. This was occasioned by the blows on the head.
His shoulders, arms, and back were one mass of bruises,
such as would be produced by blows and kicks. The
prosecator's life was in imminent danger for many days.
Moss had been in the surgeon's service three years ago,
as stableman, for twelve months, and witness, had nothing
to say against him during that time.
It was further proved that on the evening of the 13th
Oct. Rack and Moss came to the Parrot Inn about six
o'clock, and at eight o'clock Moss went away, and Rock
went to bed. Before Moss went away it was arrangedenext
between them that Moss should come back th
had
mornin,:;. Moss came the next morning, and
they
breakfast, and they went away about
saw in Moss's pocket, before they left, tnhTeliPiLowpwairtpntre,is-1
a life-preserver, which she believed was that
duced.
A witness named Reynolds alsoptptrb=dsotohnaat
morning, about nine o'clock, ho
mulething like a floiefner-trttecayst
left the Parrot Inn, end Savi, oho to them, and asked
server in Moss's pocket, P
Jones whether he would
tabnie, inthe
"'here
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de evening,
and and Jones said he did no•
at
night, and a • fterwarae Ca
lied ack the witness, and tk-
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what he had just said.
sired him to take o
.q 3 Droved that he met the prisoners
Another witne-e,S, October, about seventeen miles
together on the
from ChiPPinhg in the inspector of police at Leominster,
ear, l',l;ri:rs'on the evening of the sth of November
saw the They were in the street, and he, !us-
er town They
at thsoinething wrong, followed them for a time,
would go into a public house or lod
Pootiog they
thinking ging-
, but seeing them go out of the town, he went up
and collared Hanks, and asked him what he had got in
his reket. Hanks put his back to the wall, and said,
Is that it?" and Jones stepped back and drew a pistol
from under his smockfrock. The inspector had no arms
whatever with him, and wishing to divert their atten-
tion, asked them where was the woman that had been
with them. They said they had no woman with them.
He said they had, and she must he at their lodging., and
he 'sent away, saying he would find her at their lodg-
ing. Having thus diverted their attention, he ran back
to the mayor's office, got a gun and pistol, and told the
mayor to send the constables atter him. He then ran on
in the direction in which they had gone, followed by tl
constnble, and crossed the fields towards a wicket which
he thought they must pass, in order to intercept them.
As he was crossing the fields he heard two shots, and a
cry, " Davis is shot." Davis was one of the consta
tlibeles.
witness)
towards
the the constable who was with ma (said the wi
ran in the direction of the shots ,but I kept on
the gate where I knew they must come. As I got to
-the