The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-13 00:00:00

2HR POLICE COURTS.

GUILDHALL..

Sir It.W.Canlen. in reference to wine betting circulars which
he made public a few days ago, said be had received the
following letter from Memos. Howard and Clinton, but as be
bad romived other communications sines, which appear be-
low, he would leave the public to form their own DORCIIII3OIIII9
as to the vericeity of Mew* Howard nod Clinton, and their
participation in then abominable speculations.
"Ti. Sir William (Robert Walter) Carden, Alderman, So.
"Sir,—As we see not aware of any party who would give
paternity to the initials H. and C.' but ourselves, we beg
respectfully to any, in reference to your magisterial °beery*•
thins upon a circular purporting to have been sent by us to
our suboerifin re, and given in extinao by the papers, that no
Put h circular was ever Owned by us. Moreover, as we have
no subscriber at Bristol, we are led to the conclusion that the
very noiportable gentleman who forwarded to your worship
this ant a previous circular must be some one equally antes
pinhole to truth as to the • Isthmian Games,' and, therefore,
no subscriber of, sir, yours respectfully,
" HOWARD and CLINTON.
" London, July 9th, 1857."
Sir It. W. Carden said unfortunately fur Molars. Howard
and Clinton'. denial, he held in his hand another circular
from Mr. Juhneen, of Bristol, who write. se follow*.
" Bristol, July 9th, 1857.
" Sir, —I feel grateful to you for the invert ion of my letter
of the Gth lament, with a view of bringing before the public
the doing, of ' 11. and Co.', of betting notoriety. Your ad-
vice to the Poat.oflice authorities will, if followed, prove a
fenoidable blow to their financial department, an it appears
that for neveml year. the lost-otilmi has been toads the only
channel through which to enrich themselves at the expensed
other.. There is no other address given. . . . Anyone
would be paneled to find ' 11. and C.,' or 'toward and Clinton.
. . . 1 his it of itself sufficient to show that deception to
the grand betas on which this betting buainees is tranaacted.
. . .If there was any honour in their dealings .. . . they
would give their real name . . addreasesoindnot reoortto the
hide and seek plan of making a Post-office receiving-how
the depot for their ill-gotten gains. . . .In proof that
' no check on their victims has yet taken piece I send you
another circular, he., arrived to-day. . . . The post-
master must have long since known the nature of the corre-
spondent* entrusted to him fur ' H. and C.,' so that the Ammer
the romntain %is severed . the sooner will H. and C.'s'
occupation be gone.—l have the honour to bo, ere.,
"B. JOHNSON "
Several circulars of a similar character to those previously
made public (one of them commencing with "'toward and
Clinton") were enclosed is the above and read by Sir It.
Carden, who mid, it appeared to him that fresh circulars
were Weed for every race, and the only thing that sur-
prised him wan that any young men should be found so
simple as to be deluded by such • palpable attempt at fraud,
which was evident upon the very face of the circular..
These betting entablisients were most pernicious in their
effects, an they but too often led to the ruin of the Men-
, peril-fund, who were first induced to risk their own money,
and then, with such assurance. of certain rumens and large
pine, that of their employer., until incarceration or an
ignominious end tenoineted a disgraceful carter, which.
under other circumstance*, might have been proeperoue and
creditable. Some idea might be formed of the frightful ex-
tent to which that /13s• of society were plundered from the
very pignilitant fact mentioned by Mr. Bodkin at the Lon-
' don Simpkins Court, in the appeal of Merry against a convic-
tion fur keeping • betting-house, by which it appeared that
during the abort period of ten months Merry Lad paid in to
the Vision B ink as much as 15,001 W., and had only drawn
out COW. lle regretted exceedingly that the law was so de-
fective as to have the magistrate', to a certain extent, 'power-
lei* in dealing with these cam; criminally. Ile would how-
ever, adopt the only means that was practicable to repro. the
nefarious system, and, by expoeing the plane of these parties,
caution the unwary to ovoid the imams so impudently con-
trived for their ruin. lie hoped the pima would hive their
amistance. He was quite sure that if the evil could not be
entirely eradicated, it might be (considerably alleviated by
publicity