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Alderman referred to the City Police Act, and found
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rres not baniging to, bat attending upon the force.
Mr. Wilkinson said he was fully empowered by the
Sheriffs to preserve order, and Mr. Childs committcd a
breach of order by his violence of manner.
Mr. Alderman H. VETCHES asked him if he did not
conceive it would have been more becoming the office of
assessor if he h:id not in his own proper person seized
the offender and thrust him off the hustings ? Should
he not rather have called upon a police officer to remove
him ?

Mr. Wilkinson said it was the act of the moment. He
asked the witness by what authority he appeared on the
hustings?...

Mr. Childs replied, at the request and by the autho-
rity of the chairman of the Conservative Committee.
Mr. Wilkinson asked if he had it in writing ? Mr.
Childs said he had not.

The ALDERMAN remarked, that he had the witness's
statement on oath that he had the chairman's parol au-
thority, and that was quite enough. Did Mr. Wilkin-
son object to a verbal authority till the witness charged
him very properly with partiality in this instance ?
Mr. Wilkinson said he must not assume the fact to be
proved. He denied he had been guilty of putting the
four names only, and could bring 100 witnesses to prove
that he did not.

Mr. Childs said he went on the hustings at 11, and
was not expelled till 12. Upon his oath the assessor
did not ask whether he had a written authority till after
he had expelled him.
Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES said he should ask Mr.
Wilkinson's authority for putting the names in that way
Mr. Wilkinson denied that he did so.
Witness further cross-examined—The assessor did
not say if he interfered with such rudeness and violence
he would eject him, nor did he answer in a rude and
violent way that he should not leave. He only answered
in a.deeided tone. Did return with the officer to serve
the summons upon the hustings.
Roe, the officer, explained that when he directed an
officer to serve the surnrocns personally, if possible, he
had no idea the party complained of was the returning
officer. He supposed it was some gentleman attending
the election.

Octavious Bousfield stated that he was on the hustings
close to Mr. Childs. lie confirmed his account of the as-
sault, but did not hear Mr. Wilkinson repeat the four
names. Mr. Childs' manner was temperate, and the
assessor's very violent, and beyond the necessity of the

case.
Walter Tyler, a policeman, said he saw the assessor
grasp hold of Mr. Childs' collar, shove him back to the
rear and turn him off the hustings. Mr. Childs seemed
to be taking a lively interest in the election, but made
no resistance to the authority of the assessor.
Mr. Alderman H. HUGHEs observed, that if all the
returning officers we re to act in this way we should fall
into a sad state. He seemed to have exceeded his duel
in every particular. Nothing could be worse than put-
ting partizans into such situations, for partiality and in
justice would be sure to beget anger and violence and
great excitement.
Mr. Smith, of Barbican, the chairman of the com-
mittee, was called to show that he authorised Mr. Childs
to go to check the poll, but he added, he had been in-
sulted by the assessor, and it was a disgrace to the
Sheriffs that they had put such a person into authorit).
He saw him proposing the four names of the Liberal
candidates to a voter. He was checked by the witness,
and was rewarded by the crowd with hootings and cries
In another instance he would not let a vote for Alderman
Johnson be recorded. The voter began by naming
Johnson and three Liberal candidates. That was not
taken, but his vote for the four Liberals was afterwards
taken.
Mr. Wilkinson put questions to show that so far as
he had no vote to give at that polling-place Mr. Smith'.
presence there was an interruption to business, and that
he had once removed him from the clerk's desk to make
way fur a voter. He had therefore committed an ob-
struction.
Mr. Smith said, so far from " requesting" him to
move, the assessor raved out, "Stand back, stand back,"
upon which he instantly fell back bowing, and asking,
" Aei I far enough back, sir?"
Mr. Woodthorpe, architect, of Jewin-street, also de
posed to the general violence of the assessor and modera-
tion of Mr. Childs. He did not hear the four names
only repeated to the voter, but he stated that the name
of the voter who wished to vote for Alderman Johnson
was Russell.
Mr. Wilkinson, in his defence, put in a resolution
which had been carried at the close of the business at
the polling-place. It was moved by Mr. Septimus Read,
a Liberal, and seconded by Mr. Pickering, of the Con-
servative committee:—" The cordial thanks of this meet-
ing are justly due and hereby tendered to Mr. Michael
Eaton Wilkinson, the assessor at this election, for his
gentlemanly and upright conduct; for his urbanity in
sustaining the arduous duty devolving on him, and for
his strict impartiality to all parties." Mr. Wilkinson
stated, that all the Liberal committeemen, &c., came pre-
pared with written authorisations, signed by the four
candidates. The voters were frequently at a loss for the
names of those they meant to poll for, and then, by leave
of both sides, he had read over the names of all the
candidates. If anybody from any part of the town might
come upon the hustings upon saying they were autho-
rised, no order could be preserved. But. he most positively
denied the charges of partiality. He called
Mr. R. Reid, of the Conservative committee, to show
that Mr. Childs was violent in his manner, and no undue
force was used to him. He did not hear the assessor
propound the four Liberal names only, but he could not
swear that he might not have done so. Mr. Childs was
led off the hustings.
Mr. Robinson, of Bloomsbury-square, law agent to the
Liberal committee, was present all the time. Mr. Childs
was requested to leave, but said he would not, and the
assessor laying his hand on his shoulder, Mr. Childs
" retreated under the influence of his hand."
Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES said that was a very deli-
cate way of speaking of an assault.
The witness further said the assessor's behaviour was
not violent—he only spoke as one having authority in the
place.
The ALDERMAN said he would hear no more evidence,
as he should send the case to the sessions. It was of too
much importance to the public, touching the mode in
which elections should be conducted, to be decided by
him summarily. He, therefore, bound the assessor to
appear and answer the charge at the next sessions.
THAMES.
Yesterday, Alfred. Dorey. a boy aged thirteen years,
was charged with stealing 421, the moneys of his master,
Mr. Charles Daley, bookseller, No. 17, Greville -street,
Hatton-garden.
The lad had been in Mr. Daley's service only one
month. On Saturday last the prosecutor gave the lad
a cheque for 991. on the London and Westminster Bank,
in Holborn, and directed him to procure 801. in notes,
and 12!. in gold. The prisoner, instead of obeying his
master's directions, obtained a 501. note and 42
sovere gns. The note he enclosed in an envelope, and
forwarded it by post to his master, who received it on
the same afternoon. The prisoner appropriated the
sovereigns to his own use, and no more was heard of
him until Thursday morning, when a respectable inha-
bitant of Limehouse called the attention of Collett, a
police-constable, 283 K, to a lad who, it was represented
had been exhibiting a large sum of money, and who had
slept in a coffee house in Emmett-street, Poplar, the
preceding night. Collett took the lad into custody, and
found in a bag he delivered to him 34 sovereigns and Bs.
in silver. The police constable also took from the pri-
soner a new suit of clothes and various other articles re-
cently purchas dby him. The lad was called upon to
give some account of himself, and he related that his
father was formerly a farmer at Newbury, in Berkshire,
and died in January last, leaving his farm to the
management of his mother, who also died in May last,
and was buried in the sacae grave. Previous to his
mother's decease she made over the farm and the
whole of the property thereon to his uncle, on condition
of supporting him (the prison( r), and apprenticing him
to some respectable trade. His uncle, instead of com-
plyhig with his mother's dying request, sold the farm
and all that was upon it, and put up at lodgings at a
public-house in Newbury. where he remained for a few
days, and then abandoned him, leaving upon his pillow a
bag containing 431. in gold. He sought for his unele,
and was unable to find him, and not being able to obtain
any employment at Newbury, he started for Reading,
and came by the rail to London. The boy was brought-
before the magistrate on Thursday evening, and he re-
lated the same story. Mr. Ballantine directed that he
should be de-ained, and requested InTector Coward, of
the K division, to write to the authorities at Newbury on
the subject, which was done. The boy had not been
long in the custody of Roche, the gaoler of the court,
when he confessed that the story about Newbury and the
death of his parents was pure invention, and that his
name was not William Watson, but Alfred Dorey, and
that his father, William Dorey, was a barge-builder,
living at No. 5, Crown-yard, Kent-street, Southwark ;
that on Saturday last he was sent to obtain cash for a
cheque for 921., by his mastor, Mr. Daley, of Greville-
street ; on leaving the banking-house he was accosted in
Holborn by a boy, who persuaded him to send the 501.
note to his master, and decamp with the sovereigns and
spend them. They started for Gravesend, where his
companion took a few sovereigns from him and then left
him ; and he had never seen him since. Roche imme-
diately communicated with Mr. Daley, who appeared
yesterday and identified the lad, He said the prisoner
had been for some time in the service of a neighbour,
and maintained a good character before he employed him.
The prisoner, who sobbed Loudly, said lie had no de-
fence to make.
Mr. BALLANTINE, in committing the prisoner for
trial, said he was sorry to find a boy so young exhibiting
so much duplicity and cunning. lie gave directions to
the police-constable to restore the 34 sovereigns to Mr.
Daley. who might want to use them in his trade, but the
prosecutor must abide by any orders the Judge might
think proper to make on the trial.

The Duchess of Buccleuch and family left Montague
Whitehall-gardens, yesterday, for Leamington:
.I'llE CITY ELECTION.—It is worthy of notice, as
a curious fact, that the results of- the two last contested
elections in the city (the bye-election of October, 1843,
• excepted) • were nut correctly . ascertained before th.
Official declaration. In 1837, Mr. Horpley Palmer's
eleCtion by a majority of 13 over Mr. Grote was dect .
aively anntiunced by his committee at the close of the
poll. The next day, however, Mr. Grote was declared
duly elected by 'a.majority of six ! In 1841 each party
gave up Lord John Russell for lost, and Mr. Wol-
verley Attwood was the successful candidate until
noun next day, when the Sheriff turned the scale by de-
claring the return of Lord J. Russell, Mr. Attwood being
left in a minority of nine. The case of yesterday is a
third example of this uncertainty. No one dreamt, until
the returning officer opened his lips, that Mr. Master-
man was re-elected, and one of the Liberal candidates
rejected.