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London, England, 1858-03-08 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—HRRTFORD, MARCH 6.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Williams.)
THE STEVENAGE MURDER.
J ,h C,

openly or otherwise. The thin statement made he might say could be considered to implicate the The trial of the prisoner ~ ererniae Jarpenter, for
was that the English Legislature contributed to Government with which he had the honour of being the murder of John Starkins, the policeman, was
forward the designs of the assassins. The House connected. He might begin by observing that he resumed this morning at nine o'clock, and the court
of Commons considered that these charges had the warmest respect for the French nation, was filled the moment the doors were opened.
should have been answered by our Govern- and be believed this country were of the same way Mr. Hawkins and Mr. C. Pollock appeared on
ment, and accordingly Lord Palmerston was of thinking. (Applause.) And he could not help the part of the prosecution ; and Sergeant Parry,
asked if any reply had been sent to the French saying that to that remarkable man, the Emperor specially retained with Mr. Watkins Williams, for
Government i • and the Prime Minister of Eug- of the French, this country was greatly indebted. the prisoner.
land replied to the question put to him that no reply When they remembered his co-operation with us The evidence adduced on behalf of the prosecu-
✓ bad been sent to the French Government, and both in the Crimea, and the great struggle before Sebas- tion established nearly the whole of the material
• Lord Palmerston and Lord Clarendon said it topol, and the enormous host of men he brought facts detailed in the opening speech of the learned
could not be answered. That was considered a side by side with Englishmen to fight for liberty, counsel for the prosecution, but the counsel for the
a , strange statement coming from a man who was he was entitled to our great consideration, and prisoner, by an adroit cross-examination, succeeded
always believed to hold it to be his first duty to there appeared no other than an absolute necessity in establishing an apparent discrepancy as to the
maintain the honour of England unsullied. A to vote for the alliance between France and Eng- time when the prisoner and the unfortunate man
resolution was then moved in the House of Com- land. It should be our utmost study to keep on were last seen on the night of the murder.
moms, and carried by a majority of 19, but he be- good terms with France, and all the time England also elicited the fact that the prisoner's nose vasHine
bayed there were not 50 members in the House and France remained faithful to each other there the habit of bleeding, and that shortly before the
that night who did not consider the resolution a fair was no danger to the liberty of Europe. (Applause.) murder he had been assisting to ring some pigs, and
one that ought to have been passed, and would It was melancholy to think of the fearful crime that they bled a good deal during the operation. In
;, have voted for it but for influence brought to bear that bad been committed against the life of the answer to questions that were put at the
arte
suggestionl
upon them. The result of the passing of that reso• Emperor of the French, the elect of millions, the of the jury, it also appeared that no special instruc-
lution was that Lord Palmerston retired from, and chosen of France ; but it was a source of console- tions had been given to the deceased to look after
& Lord Derby accepted, office. (Applause.) It was tion to find that Providence had watched over him the prisoner particularly on the night of the inur-
*:: true Lord Derby's government was a Conservative and his young wife, although the misery that at- der, but his directions were to look about the fields
• government. (Great applause.) And what was a tempt had created in other respects was more in the
u ntii neighbourhoodnine o'clock,
,e
loofek,
a Nortonnd then gree
tnoFraerpmo
rotnhtihma t_
Conservative policy ? Some newspapers cried it up dreadful. We could not avoid lamenting that evening
i oe
fc e
the
e evidencen er
0
allbei:latrra'
as something opposed to improvement, and said it liberty should have recourse to such dark deeds self at the police-station. The case for the ' prose-
tscoonf s al
0 was rather for retrograding ; but it did not mean and taint her name with such acts. It was cution was closed byoanep
0 that. (near.) We were progressing in arts, in very natural that an outcry should take place, ordwinialliiyamchaduacintetr;
i manufactures, in science S.t.c., and he held that Go- but to the idea which sprang up that the plot was
vernments had a right also to progress and go on hatched in England he could give a flat and un- , deposed that on Wednesday evening, at the breaking
g
improving. The Government had a right to keep qualified denial • and some of the miserable con- lup of the Court, he was ordered to attend the pri-
c: pace with the times, and to bring in measures which apirators and a' ssessists had actually resided in sou-van to the gaol, and he was placed inside. There
might be required and found necessary. He would France many days before the diabolical attempt were separate compartments for the prisoners. Car-
ask them to look at the names of those in the now was made on- the Emperor's life, and not only penter was one who was placed in the van, and a
government in the House of Commons. There was resided there, but actually had the temerity to ex- man who had been convicted of receiving stolen
Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, lir. Walpole, pose the very infernal machines that were to be used property and sentenced to ten months' imprison-
Mr. Henley, Sir F. Thesiger, now Lord Chelms- for the purpose. Where, then, he would ask, was in- en-t
was in another. He was in a position where
ford, and he would ask, were not these the very the activity of their vaunted police? The late de- the prisoners could not see him, and, just before
men who were the supporters and originators of mand of the French Government was an attempt to the van started, he heard the prisoner say to the
. every scheme for improvement in the House of add an English trophy to these won from Belgium, other man—" What have you got ?" and he re-
e Commons 1 (Applause.) He then noticed the share Switzerland, and Piedmont. Nor could we blame plied—" Ten months." The prisoner then said
Belfast had in the new appointments ; the Lord the Emperor Napoleon for that. His was a despotic —" I have not had my trial ;" and the other
,0 Chancellor for Ireland, as Mr. Clarke had government, and, deeming it most conducive to the man asked him what he was in for, and he said in
`..r. said, was Joseph Napier, a Belfast man (applause) ; welfare of the people, was he to blame for trying to reply—" For the murder of Starkins." Nothing
c_s and then, if it could not be said that the achieve triumphs in its name ? Were we to wonder more passed until the van arrived at the
r Attorney-General, Mr. Whiteside, was entirely if he, who obtained his present eminence and his prison gates ; and when it stopped the P vi-
t./ a Belfast man, it could at least be said that his throne from the name of his uncle, should gladly saner again addressed the other man and
better half was— (loud laughter)—and then he had obtain by thepen concessions which the Firetconeui said—" Do you know whether Shepherd (one of
!. r lialself the honour of being the Solicitor-General and Emperor never could wring with all his armed witnesses for the prosecution) has said anything ?"
~ for England.
(Cheers.) Mr. Cairns then proceeded legions? No. LouisNapoleonwas not iutrustedwith The man replied " No," and the prisoner then said
1 ( 'to notice what might be the measures which the the maintenance of our honour—he was not the Mi- —" If he has he will do me. the van was then
new Governmentlegislation
The late
for
India would require their attention. that England had no Minister, for Palmerston was the man said to the prisoner—" Do they know who
with the East Ministryln,had brought in a bill to do away the willing Minister of France. He would now refer done it ?" and the prisoner replied. "1 done it, but
tars of State, withia Company, and appoint a Secrc- to the vote which had displaced the late Ministry. nobody knows it."
aan
tcoouchnocoilseof eight, which the The Opposition did not, as was well known, oppose The witness, upon being cross-examined by Ser-
secretary himself w
(Laughter.) He the introduction of that bill. They allowed it to be geant Parry, said that this was the only time he
objected to such a measure a's this for it would introduced, but it was a remarkable fact that the had ridden in the van, and it was quite accidentally
place too much patronage in the hands of one m
which no Minister should be allowed,man, very day that bill was introduced CountWalewski's that he had done so on this occasion. He did not
He considered it would be well to take (Hear, bear.) despatch was also laid on the table ; and it was the know the name
.of the man who had the conversa-
, . time and learn eery fact of Government treating that despatch so tion with the prisoner.
the cause of the mutiny and then 7 brie to about
the matter. He next referred to the b
n manakbruilpl
try lightly that the Opposition thought it was high Sergeant Parry was to proceed with the
time that Government could no longer be trusted cross-examination of the witness, when ho fell down
law and the banking system as requiring legislation, with the honour of England. (Loud cheers.) The in a fit, and it was found necessary to remove him
atntiaokth,en,
they
yreferred to a Reform Bill. He did not Earl of Clarendon declared that Count %Valewski's from the Court.
oftent,an. _ should have Parliamentary reform too statement regarding the legislation of En intimation was
vao,o'Lleo-tvrould be in favour of it when the ad- gland was After waiting for some time, an
attended upon the wit-
required it tile country
, et in education and wealth any man who understood French, or, having read nets, that he was not likely to be in a condition for
government pursued
t
ceeded to noti(e.kePtlll',;nae*) Mr. Cairns then o the translation, represented the despatch as other- some time to undergo futher examination and the
latterly in Ireland, :Y4ketai bot
faction had all favouY4ll-e- "'ne wise, was guilty of gross and wilful misrepresenta- Court was adjourned.
would oppose any partylYial' a Political
th Pat
,iavotaToe;s atnhda
yor lion of its meaning. Now he (Lord Lennox) At the commencement of the proceedings this
getting all era• He professed to know "somethine of the French lan- morning the cross-examination of the witness Quint
were hateful patronage and support, and
would
not r. ' '
course had
under a Government which would give IN'lct °llly' he would be b-ilcl to say this, that was proceeded with, but he persisted in declaring
to any one party ; but thet Cott been port to
of the charges in that despatch that he heard the conversation referred to between
of them
conidobus as Englishmen, and not one the prisoner and the other man, but he could give
sued in Ireland lately. It was a great mistake substantiated by facts. (Loud no further information respecting that person than
any government to think of ruling Ireland after r cheers.) Then
ea c.7ceinl publications, there was alwas that
ohnetlwtsa'sima
public pYroae"cuTPtr e 7
that certain di„ with regard to the
such publications
be backstairsinfluence a T suppression of
fashion. There should no
vg to pprriissoolnlmerewnth.o had been sentenced to
He then referred to the late Lord
at the Castle.
there weaca: there' Was
• by Mr. Straight, the deputy clerk of assize, observed
Chancellor's letter to Lord Londonderry, and desig- su cient to bring Ml' '
evidence that the only prisoner senterced to that punish-
If a person was not pro tge '":":" to the
but if
mated it as an insult to the ni.nagyistbreaecny
goifveenveroyf
suffer,
be unlit
evidence ~,ir Y. let lima not
publ!.shers. went was a man named Henry Ringshell for re-
shade of politics. (A cry hay' . crime home to him
he would .1),,, icient to grin ceivi g
ne stolen propert.
de- ished. He
"Grouls for Brady" was heartily responded to.) Mr. 1 Lime
was for the right of asylum{"re t° l'e g The jury said they
pun-
tido
he
ee
heacixammieneeivde.
considered it of very great
Cairns then declared his policy to be a strong
to meditate for one
ought . moment
onharid. „ tea-
.important© to know whether this man would con-
u air thestatement
- law if it infringed that holy and saecre passingx of thon~_ ,
termination to maintain the Protestantism of the
' ft ight
ed that the law wars rii Srea.
s '' he ought
country, which gave liberty to EnglatitndEsaurcohpeas; any
_row LiA Parr •
received no information
y said he ought to be ca.led by the
was not possessed in any other country
on- and he would echo the words of a groat A,..4::•
The great law lords were sates
ale.wki
• and after thanking the electors for the honour c sufficient,