Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-10 00:00:00

LONDON BETTING HOUSES.

Yesterday morning; James Merryi-vho was a short time
ago convicted at the Mansion-house, before the Lord Mayor
and Alierman Wire, of having used a room in a house in
Talbot•court, Gracechurch-street, for betting purposes, ar d
sentenced to imprisonment for three months, appealed
against the conviction. The appeal was heard before the
Recorder, and Aldermen Sir R. W. Carden, Cubitt, and
Hale, at the Old Bailey, and was supported by Mr. Ribton,
Mr. Bodkin appearing for the respondent. Mr. Ribton
made an earnest application for the postponement of the
case, upon the ground that he had not had time to look
into the case of his client, but the Recorder at once refused
any delay. Mr. Bibton then objected to the defect in the
information, the number of the house in Talbot-court not
having been specified. The court overruled the objection
without the slightest hesitation. Butt, who gave the prin-
cipal evidence on the occasion of the examination at the
Mansion-house, was then called and examined, and his
testimony did not differ in the slightest degree from that
which he had so fully given in the first instance. The
conviction was confirmed, and the prisoner was sent to
prison to serve the three mouths to which he had been
originally sentenced. Mr. Bodkin said the court might
form some opinion i f the mischief done by houses of the
kind from the statement he had to make, that from the
bank-book which the defendant acknowledged to be his, it
appeared that within the last ten months £15,600 had been
paid in to the defendant's account, and that no more than
£BOO of that sum had been drawn out, The Recorder
expressed a fervent hone that the result would have a
wholesome effect upon society.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.—YEsTERDAr.

'AIRY ST. EDMUNDS.

The committee appointed to try the merits of the peti-
tion, complaining of the return of Mr. Hardcaatla for
Bury St. Edmunds, met for the first time this morning ;
Mr G. Hardy in the chair. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., ?P'
peared for the petitioner, and Mr. Hawkins for the sitting
member, Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., opened the case for Mr.
Oakes, the petitioner and unsuccessful candidate.

BURY (LANCASHIRE )
The above committee re-assembled at the usual hour
this morning, Mr. Hutt in the chair: and, after hearing
counsel, deliberated upon their decision with closed doors.
On the re-admission of strangers, the chairman announced
that the committee had come to the following report,
namely, " That Robert Phillips Needham Phillips, Esq ,
was duly elected a burgess to serve in the present parlia
ment for the borough of Bury ; that it has been proved by
uniform evidence before the committee, that the late elec-
tion for the borough of. Bury was conducted with unusual
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such practices were in any way authorised by the sitting
member. The committee then broke up.

MAYO.
This committee sat again to-day, when a number- of
witnesses were examined, to rebut the evidence on 411!tlf.
of the
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