The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-16 00:00:00

CRICKET.

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD v. THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
This match was resumed at Lord's ground yesterday,
and will be found to have been ane of an extraordinary
character in respect of the number of large scores.
" Oxford," however, carried off the laurels, winning in
one innings by 19 runs. In the course of the contest
there were many exhibitions of scientific play, although
the wetness of the weather tended very greatly to mar
the intentions of the players. This was the final score :

CAMBRIDGE.
First Innings; Second Innings.
C. Pontifex, Esq., b Inge
H. G. Southwell, Esq., c Ar- .
mitstead, b Inge l2 Ibw, b Balfour 4
M. Kempson, Esq., b Inge lO b Balfour 0
A. R. Ward, Esq., b Aitken... 1 c Willes, b Balfour 7
C. L. Norman, Esq., b Inge ... 0 1b w, Aitken 2O
H. K. Boldero, Esq., c Balfour,
b Inge l5 b Aitken ll
E. T. Drake, Esq., run out .... 5 b Hankey lO
W. M. Leake, Esq., c Ridding,
b Hankey
E. M. Reynolds, Esq., c Leigh,
b Clement 3 b Hankey 1
F. E. Stacey, Esq., not 0ut..... 37 c Balfour, b Inge 9
W. Maule, Esq., b 8a1f0ur...... 8 not out l4
b 2,1 b 8, wlO, nb 1 2l b3,lb 2, w 15, n

b 1

Total..

155 Total 123

OXFORD.

First Innings.
W. G. Armitstead, Esq., b Leako 26
Hon. E. C. Leigh, b Reynolds 0
R. H. Colley, Esq., c and b Kempson 6B
R. Hankey, Esq., c and b Kempson
E. Balfour, Esq., it Stacey, b Maule 62
H. M. Aitken, Esq., c Drake, b Pontifex lB
W. Inge, Esq., st Stacey, b Drake .......
E. H. L. Willes, Esq., not out 43
W. Ridding, Esq., b Maule 3
W. W. Parker, Esq., c Southwell, b Maulo 2
R. Clement, Esq., c Pontifex, b Kempson 3
b 6, 1 b 11, w 21

Total
Oxford won in one innings and 19 runs

~..297

THE UNITED ELEVEN OF ALL ENGLAND v.
EIGHTEEN OF TB :E COUNTY OF SUSSEX.

This match was commenced at Brighton on Monday,
and was resumed on Tuesday. The weather, in the
early part of each day was, as in London, most unpro-
pitious ; but at Brighton, and not as in the metropolis,
the weather cleared ofl; and tolerably fine was the after
part. Hence it was that the match was proceeded with.
At the close of the second day the score stood as fol-
lows :

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT—JUNE 15.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Law.)
IN THE MATTER OF BASIL WARBE WIGAN.-BETTING
EXTRAORDINARY.
This insolvent, known as "Basil Wigan," described as
a gentleman in no business or profession, applied to be
discharged from the Queen's Prison.
Mr. Denning, of the firm of Denning and Herbert,
watchmaker and jewellers, of Regent-street (trading as
Hawley and Company), opposed in person. Mr. Sar-
good supported the application for discharge.
Formerly the insolvent, who is now a very young
man, had been clerk in a banking establishment. Some
years back he took to the turf, on which he won and lost
a great deal, as set forth on his schedule. He had been
in prison since December last, and it was alleged that
the want of means had prevented him from applying
earlier to the Court. He, however, betted on the Ches-
ter Cup, and the odds were 50 to I, and having won
501., he was enabled to proceed with his case before the
Court.

Mr. Denning complained that the insolvent had ob-
tained jewellery, &c., of him to 961., and he was now in
custody at his suit. The insolvent was at this time—in
1850 and 1851—living in a stylish manner, and ordered
the articles. He had paid some money to him for goods
supplied.
The schedule was thoroughlyinvestigatedbythe learned
commissioner, and he remarked upon the numerous tailors
that appeared in the document. The debts on the schedule
were 3,1381., for 1,500/. of which no consideration had been
received. In the year 1851 the insolvent won 3,0001. on
horse races, and afterwards lost considerable sums. He
had resided at Long's Hotel and other places, and had
hired carriages, &c. He had some debts owing to him,
but they were bad. Among the debts on the schedule
was one of 501., money lent some time back by Mr.
Mansfield, of the Gloucester Hotel, Brighton.
Mr. Commissioner Law asked the insolvent why he
had not paid that debt, when he won in one year 3,0001.
The insolvent said he was not then applied to for the
money.
Mr. Commissioner Law—The English of that is,
that you could have found him, if you had chosen.
His Honour remarked that the insolvent's income ceased
in June 1851, and since that time he had lived pretty
freely. "You," added the learned commissioner, "Got
a vast deal of property out of other people for nothing."
In answer to Mr. Sargood the insolvent said that in
1850 and in 1851 he was successful in betting, and he
paid about 5001. of his old debts. He got goods from
Messrs. Denning. They were sent home without any
invoice or bill. Goods were sent home which he had
not ordered.
Mr. Denning declared that he never sent goods which
were not ordered, and for which prices had not been
agreed upon.
Mr. Sargood admitted in his speech for the insolvent
that the history of the case did not come before the
court in a very graceful form. It was for the court
to say what reasonable expectations the insolvent
had had of paying his debt out of such illegal transac-
tions as those in which he had been engaged. He
was sure the court would take into consideration
that the insolvent had been some months in prison,
and such was his condition that but for one of those
casualties which sometimes happened, he would not
have been able to file his schedule. It was the 501. won
in prison that had enabled him to come before the court.
Mr. Commissioner Law intimated that he did not
wholly credit the statement as to the want of means.
The insolvent assured the court it was true.
Mr. Sargood could only hope, if the court felt it to be
its duty to give a judgment, that the imprisonment the
insolvent had already endured would be considered.
Mr. Commissioner Law gave judgment. He observed
that the insolvent, who had been in a banking house,
had, when he became of age, gone on the turf, having
nothing—that had been for about six years his trade or
profession. There was no doubt it was a fluctuating
calling, but, at the same time, those persons following it
were bound to contract their expenses so that they might
meet them. The insolvent had not done so, but had
lived at a greater rate than his good fortune would war-
rant. Besides, since his income increased, he had con-
tracted a number of debts. Only one creditor opposed,
and the question was, what reasonable expectations he
bad of paying the debt. He (Mr. Commissioner Law)
knew that it was the opinion of some, that a person
should be asked as to his circumstances, and that a
tradesman who failed to do so had no right to complain
if he was a loser. That was not his opinion. A trades-
man who was dealt with saw his customer come in a
brougham and living at Long's Hotel, by which he pre-
sumed he was a gentleman, who could pay for the goods
he ordered. The party who got the credit knew his
circumstances, and whether he had reasonable means of
paying his way. That was the case here ' • and, dealing
with it in that manner, the insolvent would be discharged
out of prison when he had been in custody at the suit of
Messrs. Denning for a period of eight calendar months
from the vesting order.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—June 15.

Edwin .Henry Powell, 26, a young man of gentlemanly
appearance, described as a clerk, was indicted, together
with a person named Joseph Farrell, for forgery and
uttering a receipt for money, with intent to defraud,
In other counts of the indictment Farrell was charged
as a principal, and the prisoner was alleged, in the terms
of the statute, to have harboured, assisted, and coin-
forted him, after the commission of the offence, ho being
at the time aware that he had committed it.
Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Huddlestone, and Mr. Bayly con-
ducted the prosecution on behalf of the Bank of Eno--
land ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Ballantine and
Mr. Parry.
This case occupied the Court for several hours, and
nearly 30 witnesses were examined for the prosecution.
A great deal of the evidence, however, was of a formal
character, consisting of the tracing f notes, &c., and
the real facts upon which the charge contained in the
last mentioned counts in the indictment (which were all
that Nere relied upon) was sought to be established
against the prisoner lay in a very narrow compass. It
appeared that Farrell was engaged during the year 1851
as a supernumerary clerk in the Bank of England, and
he was employed in various branches of the establish-
ment, but principally in the dividend warrant office, and
consequently was well acquainted with the manner in
which the business was carried on. It seemed that a
gentleman named Davidson was possessed of a sum of
20,0001. in the Three per Cent. Consols, and that, for
some reason or other, ever since the year 1847 he had
not received any dividends upon his stock, and according
to the custom of the Bank the warrant for each half-
year's dividend as it became due was placed in a par-
ticular drawer. Farrell had ample opportunities of
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becoming aware of the existence of these overdue war-
rants, and there appeared to be no doubt whatever
that he had got possession of them, and by availing him-
self of the knowledge of the modes of obtaining dividends
so overdue, and forging the signature of the gentleman
legally entitled to them, he succeeded in obtaining on
different occasions the sum of 2,300/., and it appeared
that in February last he absconded, and has, up to the
present period, evaded detection. There was no evi-
dence whatever to connect the prisoner with the forgery,

and the way in which it was attempted to support the
charge of being an accessory after the fact was by show-
ing that he was on very intimate terms with Farrell,
and that when the latter went away he accompanied
him in a gig, and that they travelled about to different
parts of the country ; and it also appeared that he had
sent a man to the Bank of England with a 501. note,
part of the produce of one of the forgeries, which he
desired him to get changed, and he told him if he was
asked any questions he was to say that he had received
the note from a person who was waiting outside the
bank. The clerk to whom application was made for
change was not satisfied with the account given him,
and detained the note, but it appeared that no steps
were taken to ascertain where the man came from, and
if this had been done it was very probable that Farrell

would have been apprehended. In addition to these facts,
Daniel Forester, the officer, proved that the prisoner
came to him on the 28th February at the Mansion-house,
stating that he did so in consequence of seeing an ad-
vertisement in a newspaper of the previous Saturdgy,
offering a reward for the apprehension of Farrell. Upon
being cross-examined, however, Forester said that until
the day referred to, namely, the 26th of February, there
had been no public instruction given that any forgeries
had been committed by Farrell, and that the prisoner

told him that he was induced to come forward and
state what he knew about Farrell in consequence of that
advertisement, and that he was anxious to give him all
the information he was possessed of upon the subject.
The officer likewise admitted that the prisoner told him
all the places he had been to with Farrell, and said that
he had left him at an inn near the Stoat's-nest station,
on the Brighton Railway, on the Saturday night before,
and that it was very probable he was still there • and
upon his going to the place, he found the story of the
prisoner was true, but he ascertained that Farrell had
left, and he traced him to Merstham, when he lost scent
of him, but obtained possession of a bag which con-
tained more than a hundred sovereigns', which he had
left behind him. _ _ _

Mr. Ballantine, in the course of a brief and forcible
address on behalf of the prisoner, contended that there
was not a tittle of evidence in support of the charge of
harbouring and assisting Farrell, the principle felon,
which was the only charge the jury were called upon to
consider. He said there was an utter absence of proof
that the prisoner knew anything about any forgeries
having been committed, and as to his having been about
the country with Farrell, he put it to the jury whether,
considering the terms of intimacy on which they were,
he might not have been induced to do so by a hundred
different representations of the most innocent character.
He also particularly called the attention of the jury to
the fact that the moment he did learn from the adver-
tisement that Farrell was charged with forgery he im-

mediately went to the officer Forrester, and ioia him all
he knew upon the subject, and he said he could not help
expressing an opinion that it was hardly fair for ,a
powerful corporation like the Bank of England, in con-
ducting a prosecution against a person of humble cir-
cumstances like the priooner, not to have instructed their
counsel to state the fact to the jury, but leave it to be
elicited by cross examination.
The Chief Baron, in summing up, said that, from hi
own experience and his knowlear of what was passing
around him, he was satisfied thai. the Bank of England
regarded all matters of this description in a liberal, en-

lightened, and humane manner, and they would not
for a moment think of practising any unfairness towards
an individual under charge. At the saine time he quite
agreed with the learned counsel that the statement
made by the prisoner to the officer ought to have been
proved on the
part of the prosecution.
Mr. Clarkson here interposed, and said that the state-
iT Hent_we was, however, informed,
as not on his brief, and he was quite ignorant of
that it was made fit) the

officer under circumstances likely to be prejudiciatto the
prisoner, and on that account alone was not given in
evidence.

The Chief Baron said he did not see any excuse for
not offering the evidence. They had been engaged all
day in examining a multitude of witnesses proving cir-
cumstances with the greatest possible minuteness, the
whole of which were admitted by the mouth of the pri-
soner himself, and he was afraid the statement had been
kept back by a desire so strongly entertained by detec-
tive officers to earn a character for zeal, activity, and
success, which in reality they did not deserve.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.