Sir Oswald Mosley, who with three followers is standing trial at the Lewes Assizes on a charge of having partlelpated in a riot at Common Lay must be finding that phase of his political activities expensive not only. in time but also in money. In the incidents of Worthing, around which the present trial centres, the point, Judging from the proceedings before 'Yhe magistrates who committed the defendants for trial, seems to have been that those of' the party who attended the meeting on Worthing pier, went there equipped with their usual uniforms, and also ambulances, which it is apparently claimed by the pro-. secution showed a degree of Intent suMiclent {0 hying the defendants within the law. Riot is described as the gravest Kind of breach of the peace, short of treason, mown to the wish law. Tt consists of a tumult nous disturbance of the peace by an assemblage of three or more persons) who, with intent to help one another inst anyone who opposes them. i: the execution of some enterprise, actually execute that enterprise in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people. Whether the enterprise is lawful or, unlawful ts not material, the gist of the offence lying in the mode in which it is being, carried out. Under the Riot Act of 1716, with an offence against which, the defendants do not appear to be charged, certain circumstances of agsravation may tend to transform the Offences into something considerably, lous. Indeed they may prove involving penal servitude, for three years and up to fe, or imprisonment with or without hard Isbour for not more than two years. It Is a matter for some rejoicing that the defendants do not! appear to stand in danger of any such Penalties, for British politics would be. dull without the picturesque Black: shirt leader,
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