The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-13 00:00:00

MR. JUDGE AND THE ROYAL ETCHINGS.

A few days since a letter appeared in the Times
from Mr. Judge, eourplaining that he was kept in gaol for
the oasts incurred is the proceedings relative to the rcyal
etchings and which letter seemed, prima
_facia, to establish
a ease of hardship. Our readers will see by the following
letter from Mr. Anson how unfounded Mr. Judge's state-
ments were, and with how much kindness and charity he
has been treated by her Majesty and Print* Albert :
Hslmoral, Sept. 8.
Madam,—l ma commanded to acknowledge the receipt of
your petition to the Queen for intercession in behalf ef your
husband, Mr. Judge, and to say that, having been directed
to make inquiries into the allegations brought forward by
you, it appears that they are wholly unfounded. Neither
have Mr. Strange's costs been added to Mr. Judge's, nor
is Mr. Judge's debt owing to his Royal Highness Prism
Albert.

11;.Jadge was from the beginning liable for the whole
octets ; tte suit asainat Mr. Strange was dropped from his
having made his subraimion ; your-husband, on the contrary,
obliged it to proceed against him by following the opposite
wane, and the heaviness of the Costa are entirely the maw
queues of his pertinacity, and the costs are due to the solici-
tors employed in the cause. Any payment of costs, there-
fore, on the part of her Majesty and the Prince would be a
gratuitous donation to your husband.
From your knowledge of his unremitting efforts for many
years to inflict every possible injury on her Majesty, the
Prince, their family, and the court, by a system of espionage
into, misrepresentation and vilifying of, all the acts of their
private life, you will be the best judge whether he deserves
such a boos at their hand,. Neveitheless, it is repugnant
to the feelings of her Majesty and his royal highness that
innocent persona like yourself and children should suffer in a
oases with which their names aro in any way connected ;
and I. am commanded to forward to you a cheque for 1801.,
with which you may pay your husband's costa, and extricate
him from prison; and may he in future support his family
by a more honourable industry.
Requesting you will acknowledge the receipt of the
money, I am, madam, your obedient servant.
Mrs. Judge, B. ANSON.

ROBBltair BY A SCHOOLMASTER..--On Friday, at
the Borough Court, Msneheeter, a respectable-looking nun,
named James Nightingale, a schoohnister by profession, was
charged with stealing a quantity of books. It appeared
from the evidence of Mr. Henry Lomas, a bookseller, resid-
ing in Little Under-bock, that on Thursday evening tad the
prisoner same to his shop to look at some books. Prosecu-
tor baying some suspicion of the prisoner from havieg
mimed books on previous occasions when he had been in the
shop, was induced to go into the kitchen at the back of the
shop, when he could observe the prisoner without being
himself seen. While watching, the prisoner was seen to
take a book off the shelf, and pat it into his pocket. Prose-
cutor then went into the shop zad sold the prisoner • book,
and while assisting him to put it into his pocket felt two others.
The prisoner was ultimately given into custody.—Moores,
of the borough police, proved taking the prisoner into cue
tody, and finding the books produced upon him. On search-
ing the prisoner's school-room, at Heaton Norris, and his
dwelling house, as many as 200 volutes of books were
found, 114 of which Mr. Lomas identified as his property.
Five only of these were selected on which to presents, they
being distinctly sworn to by the prosecutor as; having
been sold by him, and that they were in his shop within the
last month. The prisoner, who admitted stealing some of
the books, set up the following singular defence—that as the
pro.oeutor bad, on several occasion., overcharged him in his
dealings with him, he thought he might u well take a few
books to make it right. As, however, the bench did not
recognise this right, the prisoner was fully committed for
trial—lforseAssfer Examiner.