The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-10 00:00:00

LEICESTERSHIRE AGRICULTURAL

SOCIETY.

LEICESTER, FATUItDAY.
The annual meeting of the Leicestershire Agri-
cultural Society was held yesterday, and the usual
dinner took place in the evening at the Bell Hotel.
Lord J. Manners, M.P.' presided, supported by
Lord Berners, Viscount Curzon, M.P., Mr. Packe,
M.P., General Sir Archdale Wilson (of Delhi), the
Hon. Colonel Cholmondeley, the Mayor of Leices-
ter, &c.
The noble chairman gave the usual loyal toasts,
together with " The Army and Navy," and " The
Volunteers."
Sir ARCHDALE WILSON, who was-received with
immense applause, returned thanks for the latter
toast. As an old soldier, he considered the Winn-
teer movement the most glorious movement that
ever occurred in this country. (Cheers.) The First
Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers, but if
he could now rise from the dead and see 150,000 or
200,000 of the youth and manhood of England
coming forward voluntarily to enrol themselves for
the defence of their hearths and homes, he would
not now cast that reflection in our teeth. (Cheers.)
It always gratified a soldier when his countrymen
acknowledged his services, and on behalf of the
army and navy he begged to return his hearty
thanks. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the
evening, " Success to the _Leicestershire Agricultural
Society," referred at some length to local topics
connected with agriculture and the exhibitions of
the day ; and, having observed that the present had
been a season of great anxiety to the farmer,
proceeded to remark that he saw r o prospect of
anything being done in his favour in the way of
legislation in the next session of Parliament.
The past session had been chiefly characterised by
out of the financial legislation
ug
in 1853; that was to say, almost
tinhaecu arrartyeidn g
every innocent Custom-house duty, against which
nobody on earth protested, and the evil influence of
which no human being ever felt—except, perhaps,
fine ladies who were tempted to smuggle beauti-
ful silk dresses in coming over from Paris—had
, been swept away, although a considerable portion
of our annual revenue had been derived from them.
In order to supply the void thus created in the
Exchequer, duties on stamps had been raised to the
highest possible pitch, and he did not believe there
was a piece of paper now in circulation in the
country which could possibly be made to bear a
stamp that was not stamped at the present moment.
At the same time, the duties on spirits had been
raised so high that it was impossible to look for an
additional sixpence from them; while in Ireland
the greatest doubts were entertained whether
smuggling and illicit distillation would not be the
result. Such being the case, then, the common
sense of mankind showed that, unless we could very
greatly reduce our expenditure, there was nothing
looming before us in the future but recourse to that
cruel, and in many instances iniquitous form of
taxation—the income-tax. (Cheers.) He would
venture to warn them, then, against any hope of
reduced taxation, which he believed was a pure
chimera from beginning to end, and if any person
dreamt of such a thing he was merely casting dust
in the eyes of the people. This was a growing
country. Everything connected with it was grow-
ing, consequently expenditure must be growing ;
and, if expenditure were growing, it needed no
prophet to teach us that taxation must grow like-
wise. There was no reason to hope for any reduc-
tion in the cost of our army and navy. Notwith-
standing all that had been done to bring the latter
to its present state of efficiency and strength, great
doubts were now entertained as to whether it would
not have to be constructed afresh, and whether we
might net have to follow the leading of our admi-
rable ally the Emperor of the French, and clothe
the wooden walls of England with that steel-
plated garment which was said to be so efficacious
in resistance to the cannon-balls of an enemy. Under
these circumstances, even if the prospect of foreign
affairs were peaceful, he could not believe we should
witness any reduction of expenditure, and he greatly
feared the income-tax would be found to be the only
mode of replenishing the exhausted—the unwarrant-
ably exhausted—resources of the Exchequer. But if
we glanced abroad what was it that met our view? The
blaze of bayonets and gleaming of swords. He could
see nothing abroad that spoke of peace ; he saw
everything that spoke of war—war in the most
frightful, most awful, most gigantic form; and if
he looked at the conduct of foreign affairs at home
he could see nothing to diminish the apprehensions
that must be felt by those who looked with atten-
tion at the position of the great military Powers of
the continent. After the Emperor of the French
had by a process which he would not describe
annexed the dominions of Savoy and Nice to the
Empire of France, the Foreign Secretary of England
rose in his place in Parliament and said, amid the
cheers of the House of Commons, that it was now
necessary for England to revert to her ancient alli-
ances. It was quite understood that the object for
which we were to revert to our ancient alliances was
to prevent further annexations to France by the
machinery of universal suffrage, vote by ballot, and
affinity of language. But what had been the more
recent course of the same statesman ? Lord I. Rus-
sell had recently published to the world a document
which, unless it were repudiated, must be supposed
to speak the sentiments of the Government, and
which, stripped of its verbiage about William 111. and
Vattel, meant that any portion of any people had
a right to rise against its sovereign, to invoke the
aid of a foreign sovereign, and that the foreign
sovereign so invoked had a perfect right, without
declaring war, to deprive a friendly sovereign of
his crown and place it upon his own head. Ho
could hardly wonder that, after the publication of
a despatch containing such a doctrine as this and
directed to such an end as this, the representatives
of the Powers of Europe should abstain from
meeting the writer of it at the civic banquet in the
Guildhall. It was no wonder of course that there
was an exception in the case of the representatives
of the two Powers who had the most to hope for
from the application of that doctrine so ingeni-
ously invented for them by the Foreign Minister
of Great Britain, But if this doctrine of revolu-
tionary annexation were to be admitted—he put
it to them as men of common sense and men of
business—what was likely to be the condition of
Europe during the ensuing year ? Could they not
picture to themselves great potentates who would
find little difficulty in applying the doctrine of this
celebrated State paper to the gradual increase of
their dominions by the absortion of smaller and
feebler territories which might lie, as our Irish j
friends would say, " mighty convanient ?" (Laugh- j
ter.) Ho did not know whether he might not even
proceed further, and ask what would have been the
fortunes of our own country during the last quarter
of a century if this doctrine had been acted upon
by other countries as well as by England. Should
we now have counted among the dominions of
England India, the lonian Islands, and even, in
the years 1843 and 1844, the flourishing kingdom
of Ireland ? On the whole, therefore, whether he
looked abroad or at home, he could see no reason
to hope that expenditure would be diminished, or
that taxation would not take the obnoxious form of
a great war income tax in time of peace. The noble
lord, after a few further observations, concluded by
giving the toast he had risen to propose, and which
was drunk with three times three.

Mr. PACKE and Lord CURZON severally responded
to " The Members for the County," and, after nume-
rous local toasts had been given, the proceedings
terminated.

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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHEItN CIRCUIT.—DURHAM, Dec. 8.
(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
Milner Lockey was indicted for the wilful murder
of Thos. Harrison, on the 29th of September last.
Mr. Blackwell and Mr. Shield prosecuted ; Mr.
Davison defended the prisoner.
Mr. Blackwell, in stating the case, said, about
nine miles from Durham, and a mile from the New-
castle and Durham road, is a mill called Urpeth
Mill, attached to which is a small cottage. This
one above the other.
as a sleeping room. A
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rooms,
person named Bell lived at the mill, and in the
cottage, Mrs. Lockey, the prisoner's wife, and three
children by a former husband. The prisoner and
his wife had been married about a year, but some
14 weeks before the ,29th of Sept., quarrels having
taken place, the prisoner left her. About this time
Bell became bankrupt, and Harrison, the deceased,
who had been a police ()leer, but had been obliged
to retire in consequence of having lost an eye, was
put in possession as a bailiff, and he went to reside
at Mrs. Lockey's cottage. Harrison had a bed in
the lower room; Mrs. Harrison and her children
slept in the upper room. The prisoner, after leav-
ing his wife, went to work at Leazingthorne Col-
liery. He there worked with a man named Coul-
son, and from his first going to the colliery the
prisoner's conversation was on the subject of
jealousy, first of the miller and then of the deceased.
On the 29th of September the prisoner was in Dur-
ham about 11 a.m., when he went to a shop kept
by a Mr. Foster, from whom he bought a large
spring clasp knife. Durham is on the road from
Leazingthorne to Urpeth. Shortly after 11 a
man who had known the prisoner met him on
the road from Durham to Urpeth, and in the course
of conversation the prisoner said that a man named
Harrison was staying with his wife, and if that
old one-eyed was there when he got there he
would put an end to them both, and would not be
hanged for it, as he would put an end to his own
life. The prisoner was not seen again till seven
o'clock at night, when the eldest of Mrs. Lockey's
children, who had been put to bed, heard some
high words in the lower room, in which Harrison
had previously gone to bed, not being well. The
boy got up and went downstairs, where he saw the
prisoner sitting near the window. His mother was
near the fire, and the prisoner vas abusing her.
The prisoner then took a large knife 3nd opened it,
and proceeded towards his wife. The boy called
out, " Oh, don't kill my mother!" The mothor imme-
diately pulled up her clothes and showed a vound
on her thigh bleeding profusely. The deceased til‘en
rose up and said, "Don't kill your mistress," on
which the prisoner turned round and gave Harrison
a stab in the breast, from which the blood immedi-
ately gushed out, and from this wound the deceased
died. The mother then closed with the prisoner,
and after a violent struggle succeeded in getting
the knife from him. The little boy ran out, and got
a person named Hart to return with him to the cot-
tage. On arriving there he saw Mrs. Lockey stand-
ing outside, and the prisoner standing at the door.
The wife told Hart what had been done, on which
the prisoner said, "Nonsense; she is out of her
mind." Hart then went into the house, where he
saw Harrison lying' dead. In consequence of Mrs.
Lockey having gone up the lane Hart followed
after her, and when he returned the prisoner could
not be found, and was not seen again till the next
morning, when he was found in an outhouse near
the mill. He was charged with the murder, but
said nothing. Afterwards when taken away he said,
" This would never have happened if she had not
behaved as she did." On him was found a small
pocket knife. The police afterwards got a large
clasp knife from Mrs. Lockey, which was spoken
to as being exactly like the one the prisoner had
purchased in Durham. The prisoner, when before
the magistrate, made a statement to the effect that
he found Mrs. Lockey in bed with Harrison, and
that it made him so jealous he was mad.
Robert Coulson said the prisoner came to work
about nine weeks before the 29th of September.
He was always talking about his wife, and
appeared very jealous of her. He said he was
going home, and if his wife would not live
with him, she should live with no one else.
He said if he caught the old bailiff he would coup
his heels up.
In cross-examination by Mr. Davison, the wit-
ness stated that the prisoner told him he married
his wife seven weeks after her first husband's death.
He had been to see his wife about a fortnight before
the 29th. The shortest way from Leazingthorne to
Urpeth was not through Durham.
Geo. Foster—l am an ironmonger in Durham,
and on the 29th Sept. last, about 11 o'clock, I sold
a large clasp knife to a man very like the prisoner,
bat I cannot swear to him. The knife now produced
is exactly like the one I sold that morning.
Cross-examined—l sold the knife before 12 and
after 10 o'clock.
Francis Oughton—l keep a publichouse at Pityme,
which is on the Newcastle road. I know the prisoner.
I saw himjon the 29th Sept. I had come from Ferry-
hill by the train, and I overtook him on the road
going from Durham. He told me his old master had
given him work at home again. He said there was
a man named Harrison staying with his wife, and
if that old one-eyed was there when he got
there he would put an end to them both. He also
said he would not be hanged for it, as he would
put an end to his own life.
Cross-examined—l left Ferryhill at 10 minutes to
9. The train goes to Durham about half-past.
Thomas Charlton—l am brother-in-law of the
deceased. I saw a dead body at Urpeth Mill. It
was the body of Thomas Harrison. He had been
put into possession under Bell's bankruptcy.
Samuel Wilson, a little boy of about 11—I live at
Urpeth Mill with my mother. I recollect Harrison
coming to my mother's. He slept downstairs. I
slept upstairs with my mother and brother. I re-
collect the day Harrison was killed ; I had gone to
bed before 7. Harrison was lying in bed when I
went. I soon afterwards heard Lockey swearing.
My mother was dressed when I went upstairs. I
came downstairs. Harrison was in bed ; my mother
was against the fire; Lockey was sitting between
two tables near the window. I put my things on;
I saw Lockey get up, he had a knife in his hand ;
it was open. He went towards my mother and
catched her in' the thigh. I said " Don't stick my
mother and I'll call you father." My mother lifted
up her clothes to let me see her thigh. I saw blood
running from her thigh. I heard Harrison say,
, " Oh, Lockey, dinna gan and kill your mistress."
I heard Lockey say, " Aye, your , and I'll kill
ye too." Lackey then went to Harrison and stuck
him there (pointing to his breast). I saw blood
come from Harrison. Harrison had one leg out of
bed when he stink him. My mother gave me a
sign and I went out and went to Hart's, Before
this I heard my mother say,' " You have killed Mr
Harrison," and Lockey said, " Let the -- gan."
After Lockey stuck Harrison my mother got the
knife and put it down her dress.
Cross-examined—My mother married Lockey
soon after my father's death. I always called him
" Lockey"—never " father." When I said I would
call him "father" I meant to please him. I remem-
ber his being home two nights after he went to
Leazingthorne. This was before Harrison came. I
remember his coming home one night after Harri-
son came; that night he slept upstairs on the floor.
Before Harrison came we all slept in the room
downstairs. The downstairs room has a passage ;
any one coming in at the front door can see the bed
downstairs. My mother has talked to me about
this case. She has not told me what to say. I
used to say it to myself. The witness was asked to
tell his story, and repeated his depositions like a
child saying a lesson.
Edward Hart—l live about half a mile from
Urpeth Mill. The boy came to my house on the
20th. In consequence of what he said I went to
the mill. I saw Lockey and his wife. She said
he had murdered the man. Lockey said his wife
was talking nonsense ; that she was not right in
her mind. Mrs. Lockey was making away from
the cottage up the hill, so I called her back. She
said it was true, and went away. I saw her no
more that night. Lockey went after her, and I
went into the house and found Harrison dead.
A police officer proved finding the prisoner the
next day in an outhouse.
Mr. Henderson, surgeon, who was called in to
see the body, proved that a wound he saw on the
breast was the cause of death, and the knife pro-
duced was a likely instrument to produce such a
wound.
'The prisoner's statement already referred to, in
which he said he found the deceased and his wife
on the bed together, was put in, and closed the case
for the prosecution. •
Mr. Davison then addressed the jury for the pri-
soner, and contended that if, when he arrived at
home, there was an improper intimacy going on
between his wife and the deceased, or if he saw
anything which would reasonably lead him to be-
lieve that there was, and he at tha moment killed
the man, it would be clearly manslaughter, and not
murder, and he asked the jury to take the prisoner's
statement as the true version of the story, which
would support this view ; that the evidence of the
boy supported it, and the subsequent conduct of
the prisoner himself.
The learned Judge summed up. He said—The
question for you is not so much whether deceased
died by the violence of the prisoner, for of that un-
happily there is no doubt, but did he meet with his
death under such circumstances as, after a full and
fair consideration, will reduce it to manslaughter ?
The law on the subject is very clear, and admits of
no doubt. There are circumstances of provocation
which will
realm a CAN of homicide from murder