The Express. — 1852-11-05 (London, England)

THI EDITOR OP THE DAILY NEWS. 1111,—in the Doug News last sleek I (observe an article headed "An Aristocratic Highwayman." I have beard the true statement of the facts from Mrs. Williams, the lady who was robbed, on Thursday the 23rd instant, to Damian Park, Cumberland. Her statement does not exactly correspond with yours, but it is not materially different. The atteck upon Mrs. Williams was of a more violent nature than you make it appear to have been. Awl the robber did not get much money. Ile took all that Mrs. W. had, but it did not amount to 201. I beg leave to be permitted space in your paper fur a few remarks upon this very gross case. In the first place, it seems to me somewhat strange that the names of the unfortunate lady who was robbed (Mrs. Williams) and other friends whom she had been the Countess of Saliuski, of Mr. Breach, Mr. Breekbank, and Mrs. Hodgson, who were deprived of their money sod property, and of P. 11. Howard and James Stanger, Eager., who were probably intended to be victimised, should be paraded before the public, and yet the names of the " aristocratic highwayman" and his clerical and wealthy friends should be concealed. One would have thought that the ends of justice would require at all events the robber's 113111 C to be made public. Initial letters are given (W. C.) pro. (casing to be those of the father of the robber. They are not correct, and therefore they are calculated to mislead the public. The police have ascertained the name and relationship of the robber. His name is James Cursors, and ho is the son of the Hoe. John Hoary Roper Curzon, of Cheltenham, and a grandson of a Lord llcynham. You state that the robber " has broken loose from the military school, and hr not been heard of since he left Penrith." Ile ought to have been at Woolwich. Ile has been twice in Keswick since be was in Penrith ; once at the time Mr. Scott, the constable, was there in search of him on the Friday after the robbery, and once since. But ho was clever enough to evade the officers of police. Now, I would ask, have our laws no power over aristocratic highwaymen, or are there different codes for rich and poor ? Arc the rich to have license to rob and murder, and yet go unpunished because they are young, or have parents or friends whose pride would suffer by exposure, or who have wealth and influence enough to buy over the injured ones to silence? If this robber had been the eon of a poor person, whom hunger might have driven to steal, would the Rev. Mr. Valpy have left his church and congregation ' on a Sunday afternoon, and ridden to Deere, to endeavour to induce Mrs. Williams to be passive until the youth could be got out of the country ? Or, when he failed, would Mrs. Dixon, of Carlisle, have exerted her more powerful influence for the game cause? No. And yet they did so in this case. The " moths is feelings " in the case of the poor, though perhaps Al tender as those of the rich, I fear would not have been thought of. Are we to believe that because the poor have not interest and influence they must he pun lobed ? That "the law must take its course " in their cases? Does not crime justly and rightly cry for punish. meat ? Is not our land disgraced by deeds like those recorded by you, committed, encouraged, and winkedat by our aristocracy, clergy, and heads of the pt ogle, who should he the leaders, teachers, and examples of all that is just and honourable, instead of the abettors and encouragers of villany ? I subscribe myself, AN