The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-24 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

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REEIOIIII CABE OE EMBEZZLEMENT AT THE
RAILWAT.—John Kyle was charged at the Liverpool
police-office, on Tuesday, with embezzling the moneys
of the London and Nerth-Western Railway Corn-
pony. Mr. Mitchell preferred the charge. The prosecutor
said he wee the principal booking-clerk m the railway office
in Lime-street. Daring the last twelve months he had lost
immense sums of money, but could not conjecture how the
loss arose. He was answerable to the company, and had
paid different deficiencies, but could uever imagine where
the money went. He found out at last that the prisoner,
who was employed as a booking-clerk, had altered the
figures in the book, and appropriated the money to his own
purposes. He had lost a deal of money, but could only
swear to one entry. That occurred on Wednesday, the 19th
of August, the entry in the cash book being altered from
171. 10s. to 191. 10s. He made no mention of the circum-
stance at the time, but allowed it to go on until the Friday,
when the board sat, when he took Kyle before the managers,
and he confessed that he had robbed hint of twenty pounds
daring the previous two months. The prisoner was dia.
charged from his situation at the time, and the matter con- .•
tinned under consideration until Friday last, when the board
instructed him to prosecute the prisoner. He was committed
for trial.

REPRESENTATIONOPW/FITH DEVON.—A meeting
of some of the leading conservatives for South Devon was
held at Exeter on Tuesday lut for the purpose of considering
the daps newsman to be taken consequent upon the vacancy
about to be created for this division of the county by Lord
Courtenay's resignation. Mr. Baldwin Fulton having been
called to the chair, Mr. B. R. Parker proposed, and Mr.
B. P. Bastard seconded, the proposition that Mr. Ke-
kewich would be • fit successor to the noble lord. The
high church portion of the meeting however, recoilectiag
that Mr. Kekewich had voted in favour of catholic emanci-
pation—he having been at that period in parliament—and not
Whiled with his now declaration that he would never vote
for a grant of money to the Rocnish priesthood to be taker
from the funds of the protestant church, proposed through Sit
T. F. B. Drake, seconded by Mr. W. H. Peters, that Sir R.
Lopes, Bert., who was shortly expected from the continent
he having written to say he was at the service of the electors,
was • fit and proper person to be their representative, • mere
of considerable excitement followed, at the termination of
which the chairman put the question, desiring those In
favour of Mr. Kekewich to go to the right side
of the room from the position he occupied ; and
those who were in favour of Sir Rilph Lopes, to the left.
The disparity was great, and the chairman said the
wierity of those present were in favour of a requisition
being sent to Kr. Kekewich.—Sir Trayton Drake : Gentle-
men electors, recollect this is the vicinity of Roster only
but there is South Devon and West Devon that will tall•
very different story, and there the will support, and 1 will
support, the hon. baronet Sir Ralph Lopes.—Mr. Peters :
Protestants Humid support protestant principles.--Sir Tray-
ton Drake: lam • protestant, and I will, as my ancestors
have done, support protestant
_principles. Go to the Tower,
and seewhat the name of Drake achieved and suffered
there. This to day does not decide the quessien, South and
West Devon will speak to them in a language not to be mis.
taken, and declare themselves for Sir Ralph Lopes. A re-
quisition to Mr. Kekewich was now lad on the table, and
received numerous signatures, the friends of Sir Ralph
Loper quitting the room.