The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-09 00:00:00

CHESTER WINTER ASSIZES

CONVICTION OF CHARTISTS.—The Sun of yesterday
contained the trial of the Hyde Chartists up to the close
of the case for the Crown.

Mr. Temple and Mr. Townsend respectively delivered
very able addresses for the prisoners; after which the
Attorney-General replied.

Ilia LORDSHIP then summed up at considerable length
and

The jury, after being out of court nearly an hour,
Acquitted Ralphs, Done, and Kenyon, and found the
others Guilty of conspiring to make and levy insurrec-
tions and breaches of the peace.
The Court rose at eleven o'clock.
Yesterday the following pleaded Guilty of conspiracy
and riot at Dukinfield:—John Wilde, 22; John Leech,
21; William Shepley, 17; Robert Farnworth, 35; James
Thomas, 24; Thomas Greenwood, 19; Moses Lee, 19;
John Smitb, 24; Richard Shorrocks, 22; Samuel Sug-
den, 21; John Leigh, 27; James Sugden, 17; William
Hewitt, 19; William Plant, 19; Charles Kelsall, 26;
Thomas Leech, 24 ;and

The ATTORNEY:GENERAL having recommended them
to mercy, they were ordered to enter into recognizances
to keep the peace, and were discharged.
The other prisoners convicted on the previous day
were then put up. Sellers, Shore, and Mantle were
sentenced to two years' imprisonment; Cheetham, Hin-
dle, Collier, Armitage, and Markham to eighteen months;
Scholefield, Shawcross, Wild, and Maddocks to twelve
months; and Hall and Shaw to nine months' imprison-
ment, all to hard labour; and at the expiration of their
sentence severally to find sureties for their good beha-
viour for a like term.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION HOUSE.

THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF POLYGAMY.—
It is fresh in the recollection of many of our readers
that a man named Henry Bramell, alias Beaumont, was
convicted at the Central Criminal Court upon three
distinct charges of bigamy, and sentenced to transpor-
tation for fourteen years, and that the marriages were
contracted by him under circumstances of singular
hypocrisy and cruelty. Since the trials took place, it
has been represented to the Lord Mayor that Dial
Tinley, the poor young woman who became the second
wifo of Bramell, is in a state of the most mi-
serable destitution, and suffering from severe indispo-
sition; and that, in fact, if it were not for the bene-
volence of a few gentlemen to whom her case was made
known, and who contributed to her assistance, she must
have perished for want of thecommon necessaries of life.
At the time of her marriage to Braman she was pos•
sessed of furniture, plate, jewellery, clothes, and some
amount of money. The prisoner succeeded in disposing
of the whole of her property, including her wearing
apparel, and abandoned her in the condition of a pauper.
It was represented that she was a person of irreproach-
able character, and that sho had attended the trial of
Braman at the hassard of ber life, in order to give her
evidence of the wrongs she had endured, and was, in
some measure, instrumental to checking the career of a
person, the object of whose life appeared to be to betray
and destroy, and then to discard his victims.
His LORDSHIP directed that the poor young woman,
whom he said he considered to be a great object of
charity, should have medical and other assistance, and
stated that, in all probability, the representation of the
melancholy circumstances of her condition to the mass
of benevolent readers of the newspapers would procure
her some friends.