Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-05 00:00:00

TRAVELLER

At Guildhall, London, on Monday, Alfred Shrimpton,
a traveller, in the employ of Mr. C. T. Shaw, a manufac-
turing jeweller, of Birmingham, was 'Aced at the bar
before Mr. AlJerman Humphrey, charged with embezzling
various sums of money, amennting to about UN,
belonging to his master Mr Merpn, of the firm of
Humphreys, Son, and Morgan, conducted the peo3ecution,
and Mr. Buchanan appeared fer the defence. Mr Tirying
said : I am clerk to Messrs. Behren, Blumberg, and Co ,
of 55, Cannon-street, who deal with Mr. Shaw. I have
known the prisoner for several years as being in Mr.
Shaw's employ, and upon the 18 h of August last I paid
him £7 ss. on Mr Shaw's aceenat, for which he gave me
this receipt, which he signed in my presence. Mr J.
Johnson, of the firm of Johnson and Walker, refiners and
jewellers, of 89, Aldersg tee-street, said: We are customers
of Mr, Shaw's, and I have known the prisoner as his
servant. On the 18th of July, I paid £9 18s 3d. to the
prisoner on Mr. Shaw's account and I saw him sign the
rece'pt produced. Mr. Joseph Tuckfield said: lam a
watch manufacturer, of 6, Goswell.road. On the 21th
Jane last, I paid to the prisoner £l5 3s. 61. by a cheque,
for which he gave me a receipt. George Walker, said:
am a clerk to Messrs Jones,Brothere, Wardrobe-buildings,
East India merchants and importers of precious stones.
On the 10th of October last I paid the sum of X-1 7s. to the
peisoner, and he signed the receipt in my presence. Mr.
Frederick Hawley said : I am a jeweller, of 120, Oxford•
street. I deal with Mr. Shaw, and I paid the prisoner
upon his account £l2 61., on the 19th of May last. He
gave me a re eeipt. M. C. T. Slaw said : The prisoner
was my traveller in London, and it was his duty to receive
money on my account, and to enter the same in a book
kept for that purpose in my office et 2; Dyer's-buildings,
Ho.b orn Alderman Humphrey : I see by this book that
he credits himself with his own wagee—Mr Shaw: Yee,
sir; and he has also credited himself with other sums
which he hat pail away. It was also his duty to furnish
once a month a list of al' the sums he had received, and
to pay in the cash from time to time, whenever it amounted
to £25, to Bertlett's bank to my account. He has not
acemnted to me for any of the sums paid by the witnesses
who have given evidence to-day. About the 17th of
October I understood he was not going on right, and
wrote to him, calling his a‘tention to an omission in his
account of the stuns received from Behrens, Blumberg
and Co , and Belton, and I afterwards found he had
entered those items in the book, subsequently to my
writing to him. I came to town on Friday week last,
and saw the prisoner the next day, when I asked him to
account fir all the money he bad received, and he then
gave a list of his defalcations, among which are those
already in evidence, with the exception of Bolton's. and
Behren's and Blembeig's, which he entered into the book
of er I wrote to him. Cress examined : His wages were
303. per week. Be had also a commission account, noon.
That was a commission ha received upon sales effaced for
my brother-in-law, and I had nothing to do with it. The
prisoner was my servant, but if he made any loss or
pr_fit, that was my brother in law's matter, and the
prisoner deducted his commission out of the money he
received on his ,ccount. I am not aware that he ever
sent any customers to me upon which he was to have a
commission. Alderman Htrnph'ey: Whet has that to do
with the rase of em'aezzlement Buchanean : My
client claims an amount of about £5O far commission due
to him. Mr. Shaw: I agreed to allow him 5 per cent
commission for all above a certain amount, in addition to
his salary of £1 103. per week; and although he has been
with me about three or four years, he has never claimed
any commission until now He claims £5O, whereas his
defic.t:enc:es amount to £267 on my acc ,nnte and about £5O
more on my brother-in-law's account. Bailey, the officer,
said : When I took the prisonereifato custody and told him
the charge, he said he hoped Mr Shaw wool! give him
time to make UD the money. He told me where the
account books p -.educed were, and I found them in a cup-
board at his lodgings, as he had described. The depeeitions
having been completed, they were read over by Mr. Yeule,
one of the clerks, and the parties having been bound ever
to prosecute, the prisoner was fully comelitted for trial.

At LEWIS & 0 \I?A NY'S, Ranelagh-street,
BOYS ace CLONIED from the Ages of Six to Tvrenty Years.

A Sou:here politieiae sweare, in a neat speech, that he
will "die in hernees." Many an ate has done so before.—
; American Paper.
I THE CHART.ST A OrTATION AT BIaIIV;GIIAm.—A. meeting
of the friends of th Peepla's Charter was held on Meeday
eeeeing, at the Puelie 011i.e, B ining-barn. Mr. Redwee,
the chairman, ietroAucal the abject of the mee'lug as the
re.orgenisatieu of the chartist agitation, rendered noceesary,
as he contended, by the present state of tublic affairs, and
the evil arising from class lepistatien. Mr. Dalzell moved
the fellowine resolution :—" That in the jedgment of this
meeting the bloody wars, the revolt in Indie, the increased
tax a•ion, pauperism, and crime, is the result of class legis-
lation end irresponsible p ever of the cabinet ; and
believing that the aetural industry of the p-op'es, if pro-
perly directed, in setlicieet to make the British nation
happy, wise, an i g-oat, we a-3 !itirthor of opinion, that
is order to make man the' emblem of his C niter, he taunt
e and free; and as there is no principle in
actieu to do so but that known as the Pe .ple's Chart.: r,
we are reselvel to use cv ry legal arid constitwi.
means to make the above the law of the land." The
speaker maintained that the irresponsible power, tow so
u happily and dinastronsly exercised by the cabinet, could
only be pro ieely restrain, d by he enactment of the
People's Charter. Al-. II axes having secendeei the reso-
luti,u, Mr. Wh illey stipported it, and in &deg so ho said
that the cetantry had thrown out I ord Aberdeen linatase
he vv.* sgainat preservi, g the ineg ity of Turkey, and
lord Palmerston was p'eced in power because he wes a
war minister. Turkey, however, was no mere secure now
than before. Ile referred, in denunciatirg terms, to the
nitional debt, and the wars ie China, Jodie, and elsewhere,
as cauing b:rderas to be laid upon that labour u' of
which all taxstion must naturally be levied in the first
instance. He believed if the people had that elec ive
franchisee which was their natural tight, if septennial par-
liaments, which ensure.' every representative seven years
to do wrong in, wnr superseded by annual ones, the wrongs
and grievances, social and p ditical, under which the blind-
folded and Mys•ifi d people of this country s ,flared would
be abolished. He contended that the set-, w had been put
on by government to drive the peels into the army to
conquer India. He woald not jastify the cruelties of the
Sepoys, but at the same time he could not deny that great
barbaritity eni onpression had been exercised by England
towards the people of India. In conclusion lie called upon
all working men to support the renewal of the Chartist
agitation. Mr. Hopkins moved an amendment to the
effxt. that the Chernr had been tried, and did not go far
enough, and that the altered state of the times required a
measure which would go farther, bo h social and adminis-
trative. The emendmeet, fin ling tie seconder, fell to the
ground. After some further discussion, Mr. Dalz-ell'a
resolution was carried, with two dissenting votes. Mr.
Jackson then moved the following resolution, Welch was
seconded by Mr. Heywood, and carried usanioseusly :
"Thu' in the opinion of this meeting it is highly elsairable
that a conference of the National Charter Aaociation
should be held as 'speedily as possible, and we pledge cur-
s lees to support the same; or, rather, that we are of opi.
nion that so large a tiara as Birmiagham should be
represented by a delegate to the said conference, who will
really and truly represent the democraw." The meeting
then separated.—Birminghant Daily Press,

RAYS' CLOTHINQ MADE WI ra GREAT TA,ITE AT LEWIS Std
PANY'S, Rancgiggiitrog.