The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1840.

CAMBRIDGE ELECTION COM.

MITTEE.

The Committee met again yesterday morning at eleven
Mr. Eden was examiacd by Mr. AUSTEN--.I am a soli.

citor at Cambridge—(A paper was here shown to the wi,
ness). I know the handwriting on the endorsement ol
that paper. It is that of Mr. Winter, a clerk of Mr.
Twiss.—(The witness identi:ied a few other papers as
being in the same handwriting.)
By Mr. WRANGITAM—This is not the first time I saw
those Bills. I looked over them last night. lam not an
agent for the petitioners. I merely assisted Mr. Cooper
in looking through the bills. There were two other per-
sons looking at the bills with myself and Mr. Cooper.
I believe one of them was the Committee clerk. I
remember Long's going away. I saw him for the first
time when he wasbrought before the Magistrates. I was
at the station-house the night before. I saw there some
scattered fragments of papers ►which had been found in
Long's possession. I went to the station-house, as far as
I recollect, to see Long. I might have gone there
through curiosity. I remained the;e about a quarter of
an hour. I slid not go there again.
The witness was then ordered to retire.
Mr. ANDREWS applied for permission to have documents
examined by persons whom the sitting Member's Counsel
might choose, in the same manner as had been done by
Mr. Eden. The application, after some discussion, was
granted.

Mr. Thomas Emey was then called in and examined.
By Mr. Au:TIN—I am a publican at Cambridge.
keep the Marshal Blucher.

The witness was here desired to produce his acccunt-
book, for the purpose of showing whet sums were paid to
him during the election.
Mr. ANDREWS objected to the proceeding, on the ground
that the book was not evidence.

After some discussion the witness was again called in.
The examination of the witness was then continued—

copied the account from the bill sent in. The first item in
the book is dated 1736.

The witness was then told to look through the dates of
his other entries.

Mr. ANDREW objected to his being called on to do
so, on the ground that the witness should not be re-
quired to lock at a►,y items but those ha had himself
written for the purpose of refreshing his memory.
Mr. AUSTIN said that he was entitled to call on the ti

I ness to state the items, for the purpose of showing that
the entries in the book were fraudulent.
It was agreed, however, that the examination of the wit-
ness should be continued under another form.
Examination continued—(An entry was pointed out to
the witness.) That entry is in my hand. There is no
date to it, and Ido not remember making it. I think I
made the entry from the bill. I cannot say whether I
made the bill from the entry or the entry from the bill.
I keep :so book for daily accounts. I keep a score and
enter things on a slate. I am a tailor by trade. There
are entries relating to my trade in this book. There is a
memorzndurn in it of things supplied at the election.
Did you supply the articles ?—I do not know what you mean.
I certainly supplied the refreshments. I will not answer
if I supplied 27 electors at 3s. 6d. a-head. I was not
myself at home at the time. I breakfasted at home. I
will not swear :here were not voters in the house at the
time. I left home about twelve, and I did not come back
till four. I cannot swear if I gave orders to my wife to
supply the articles in my absence. I had no or-
ders on the subject from any one. I sent my
bill to Mr. Twiss's office. I received no directions
about sending in my bill. I received an order from Wm.
Swan to furnish a half barrel of beer. That was at night
about ten or eleven o'clock. I furnished the other articles
on speculation. Ido not know who paid me the bill. I
received a cheque from Mr. Bishop, after sending in my
bill to Mr. Twiss. I cannot say how many voters were
drinking at my house. There might have been twenty or
thirty.
By Mr. ANDREW3—The House was full during the day,
but all were not voters. If Mr. Twiss had not consented
to pay me, I could not have forced him to do so. Mr.
Fetch, the attorney for the petitioners, has had a copy of my
bill. He showed me the Speaker's warrant, and threatened
me if I did not show it to him.
By Sir W. SOMERVILLE—I did not furnish the names of
the persons to whom I had furnished refreshments. There
was no remark made to me about the items.

By Mr. DIVETT—The persons gave their names to me
as they came in, and it was by that means I knew the
number. I live in Barnwell.

Mrs. Mottrom was then called in and examined.
By Mr. AUSTIN—I keep a public-house in Cambridge.
It is in King-street. I have sent in a bill for things fur-
nished during the election. The amount of my bill was
101. 15s. I cannot say on what day I famished the re-
freshments. It was after the voting. I made a
memorandum on a slate, and made a bill from it.
I sent in my bill to Mr. Twiss. I do not know
who gave me the cheque. The cheque was cashed at Mr.
Mortlock's bank. Ido not think I furnished anything till
after the election was over. I know Mr. Long. Ido not
remember seeing Long on the morning of the elec-
tion. I had no order at all to furnish refresh-
ments. I did it on speculation, as at elections
before from Whigs and Tories. I always trusted to
the honesty of gentlemen on both sides of the question.
I saw Long pass my house during the election. I have
no doubt but I had some conversation with Long, but
I do not remember if it was before or after the elec-
tion. Nothing passed between Long and me as to his
furnishing any refreshments. I cannot say what passed
between us, as 1 am troubled with a very bad memory.
—(Laughter.) My husband works at Mr. Swan's.
I do not know that I saw Mr. Swan during
the election. I made no application to Mr. Swan
as to the payment of my bill. I was told by a young man
at Mr. Twiss's to go to Mr. Bishop's for the payment of
my bill.
By Mr. WRANGHAM.—Long was in the habit of calling
at my shop. He lives in the next street. I have my spe-
culation in furnishing articles, succeed with the Whigs as
well as with the Tories. There was another house in the
neighbourhood open for Whig voters three or four hours
before mine vrus open.

By Mr. COCKBURN—Ic was my husband who thought
proper to open our house this time for the Tories instead
of the Whigs. I believe he did so because he gave his
vote also to the Tories.
Mrs. Skinner was then called in and examined.

By Mr. COCKISURN-Aly husband is a publican. I sup-
plied refreshments on the polling-day at the last election,
to parties witnout their paying me. I furnished breakfasts
that morning without being paid for them. I think that
was about eleven o'clock. My bill was made out from
entries marked on the door. There is an entrance in the
bill of breakfasts for 27 gentlemen, and luncheon for 18.
There is also 1/. for tea and eating. The tea and eating
were given on the polling day. There are 16 watchmen
at two shillings, but I cannot say on what day that
was. I had an order for half a barrel from Mr.
William Swan. I spoke to Mr. Swan this morning.
lie did not speak to me about this business. I have seen
Mr. Sutton, but I should not know him. lie was at my
house, and he addressed the people from the window once.
There was 31. 6s. for liquor furnished on the polling
day. It does nut take lung to (Link that.—(Laughter.)
There is 30a. for breaking of glass, and other damage done
during the night. I cannot recollect when Mr. Swan
ordered the half barrel of boer. I think that was the day
after the polling day. I was nut paid for any rooms used
at my house by Mr. Sutton's friends.
By M. ANDREWS—I know the Race-horse, and I believe
a barrel of beer was given then to the Whig voters.
By the COMMITTEE_I gave refreshments to any per-
sons who came in and said that they b...longed to the
Watch Committie.

Charles Oliver was then called in and examined.
By Mr. TALBOT-1 am a publican in Barnwell. I
supplied refreshments on the polling-day. The night be-
fore, the watch and their friends had some drink. Mr. Bishop
has paid me part of my bill. Ila has paid me 15/. I got
a cheque at Mr. Bishop's, anol it was paid me at Mr.
Mortlock's bank. There are still 16/. due to me. There
was a charge, dated 23d of August, an.l before the elec-
tion, for gentlemen who used a room. I put them down
on my bill as a Conimittte. That went on for a few days.
I sent my bi.l to Mr. Bishop, because I thought he was
one of Mr. Sutton's friends. I read an advertisement in
the Tory paper, and then I sent in my bill. I
do not recollect seeing Mr. Twiss about the bill.
I will not say positively, however, that I did not go to
him. I have seen Mr. Long in and out at the Commit-
tee-room. There is a charge in my bill of 6/. 13s. for
thirty-eight men. These men were electors. No one
gave me any orders on the subject. I did it out of my
own head—it was a speculation.—(Laughter.) I did not
look to anybody, but I had hopes.---( Laughter.) I never
opened my public-house before; it was a new thought. I
gave the voters refreshments on their telling me they had
t:o led. Some of them had a slice of ham before polling, and
others took a cup of tea. There is an item in my bill
of 15/, for five barrels of ale drank during two nights and
one day. The two nights were those which preceded the
election day. The parties who drunk the ale were the
watch who were looking after Mr. Gibson's friends.—
( Laughter.) I drew almost the entire of the beer myself.
I had but ono hour's sleep during the two nights. The
five barrels make 180 gallons. It was all ale of the best
sort. I was either drawing it, or off and on to the room
during the time.—( Laughter.) When the watch were
drunk I used not turn them away, but I used to say to
them Be up and looking about.—( Great laughter.)
By Mr. WRANGIT A 111—I called my room a Committee-
room merely because a few gentlemen used to come in and
out. There were several men at my house for the pur-
pose of watching. I went with them to see that Mr. Gib-
son's friends did not interrupt or disturb our friends. I
mean by disturbing, taking them away. I had heard of
attempts of that kind. I did not tell Mr. Bishop when I
went to get my bill paid that I had given any refreshments
before the polling. I never got any payment from Mr.
Twiss.
By Mr. TALBOT—There were perhaps thirty or forty
persons comoosing the watch. They got what they liked
in moderation.—( Laughter.) I used to go about with
the watch, and we called at other public houses occa-
sionally. I di l not know of any persons havbig been mo-
lested by Mr. Gibson's friends.
By Mr. DIVETT I allowed ell the expenses out of
speculation; those of the Committee-room also.
By Sir WNI. SOJMERVILLE.-I do not know who op
came in I gave them as
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I;y1d no orders about it. I
knew that as they had night-work they would want some-
thing to drink. The polling commenced at eight o'clock.
I gave breakfast to some voters between eight and nine. I
cannot say they had polled.
By Mr. Diver r—l do not know how much the watch
were paid.
By Sir Wat. Someitvitex—When I showed my bill to
Mr. Bishop, he said he thought it was too much.
Paul Webb was then called in and examined.
lly Mr. Coceeries-1 am a publican in Carter-lane.
I are, a voter. I have voted at the last three elections. At
the election before the last I voted for the Whigs. At
mindyoted ht
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the faSt e:ferition I promised ply
vete to Mr. Gibson.
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plied refreshments to Mr. Sutton's voters after the
polling. I afterwards sent my bill to Mr. Twiss

on seeing an advertisement in the papers. Mr.
Twiss's clerk told me to leave it and call again.
I went a second time, and I was told to call again. I
afterwards met Mr. Twis in the street, and he told me
he had nothing to do with the matter. I went to Mr.
Fisher and afterwards to Mr. Bishop, and they too told
me they had nothing to do with it. I sent my wife, however,
after that to Mr. Bishop, and he gave her a cheque for 301.
I have no books touching this matter, and I have brought
none with me. I kept my accounts during the election on
the door, and I afterwards took them down on a slip of
paper. The refreshments were given merely on the elec-
tion day and the chairing day. The giving of the ale began
a: eight in the morning, and continued the entire of the day.
I delivered the ale on the polling-day and on the chairing-
day only. My bill is 30/. for 10 barrels of ale. The first
item of my bill is from August to September, 1839, from
from the commenceeient of the canvass, and is 101. I
supplied refreshments before the,polling. I did riot un-
understand the question when I said all the ale was drunk
on the polling day and chairing day. The order was that
persons should first vote and afterwards have refresh-
ments. There was no order on the subject. I wit-
placed my answer before. There is a charge of 20/.
for the lunch and expenses of the polling day My
entire bill is 601. 12s. I was paid 301. When I
went to Mr. Fisher he told me I should have an order
from some one. I got an order from Mr. Wagstaff. Mr.
Wagstaff is the brewer who supplies me with beer. He
took an active part during the election on Mr. Sutton's
side. There was no Committee. I have charged two
guineas for a Committee-room. It was engaged as a
Committee-room for Mr. Sutton, by a parish
constable. Other persons came with him, but
Ido not know who they were. The rooms were not used.
Mr. Sutton addressed the people from one of my rooms.
Mr. Bishop and Mr. Fisher were with him them. On
that occasion all the beer supplied was paid for to the best
of my knowledge
By Mr. WRANOIIAM-I had no orders to give refreslinnt
to any one. Mr. Wagstaff give me his name on the occasion.
That was some few weeks before the bill was paid. What-
ever I did, I did on my own account—it was all specula-
tion. I gave my vote to Mr. Sutton, after having pro-
mised it to Mr. Gibson, because I found his
principles different from what I had imagined.
By Mr. COCKBURN-Mr. Stephen Rowley said to me
that he did not wish that electors should receive anything
till after they had voted. Mr. Rowley knew what was
going on in my house. Mr. Wagstaff, lam sure, also
knew it on the chairing-day-- I do not know that he knew
it before. _ _ _

By the Earl of DARLINGTON-Mr. Gibson addressed the
electors from my house, and I had before that heard of his
principles.
It being then four o'clock, the Committee adjourned
till to-morrow (this day).

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

MANSION-HOUSE.

A poor woman, named Jane iiiilie;:was brought be-
fore the Lord Mayor charged with having attempted to
hang herself.

A policeman stated that an alarm having been given,
he ran to the apartments of a person with whom the de-
fendant lodged, and found the unfortunate woman with
a rope round her neck.l
The Loan Mavort—What could have induced you
to try to destroy yourself, my poor woman ?
Defendant—Why, my Lord, I came over from India
and had 100/. pound with me, and I was fool enough to
lend 811. of it to the man and his wife I lodged with.
The man promised to get me a passage back to India,
and to pay me my money, but I can get neither the one
nor the other, cud his wife is tired of my company, so I
thought the best thing I could do was to hang myself.
A man here stepped forward, and said that he was
the woman's debtor, but she was not quite correct in the
account, for instead of lending him 81/., she had lent
him 891., 20/. of which he had returned to her.
The LORD MAYOR-Why don't you pay her the
rest ?

Debtor—The fact is I failed in business, and am not
able at prese❑t However, I shall pull up, and pay her
in a short tine.

The LORD MAYOR—You see what mischief you
might have caused.

Debtor—Oh, my Lord, it's nothing new to her. She
did all she could, some time ago, to cut her throat.
The defendant said that she did think it better to be
out of the world than to play the fOol so completely as
to trust her money in the hands of such a fellow. She
however regretted that she had made the attempt, and
requested the Lord Mayor to make the man procure her
a passage as speedily as possible.
The debtor then promised not only to procure her a
passage, but to support her until her departure.
The LORD MaYon—l shall expect that you will do
so, and I shall expect that this poor creature will pa-
tiently wait till you are able.

The Defendant—l was angry, my Lord, at being
such a fool as to let such people have my money, but I
shall not attempt anything of the kind again.
The police were then directed to see the promise of
the borrower carried into effect.

A ticket-porter named Newman was charged by Mr.
Glass, of No. 167, Oxford-street, under the following
circumstances :

Mr. Glass said that he had had occasion to take a
lady in a cab to the Calais steam-vessel at two o'clock
that morning. When they reached the wharf the de-
fendant seized a light band-box which was in the cab,
and ran with it, without being at all employed, to the
steamer. Witness upon going on board found that the
trunk was safe, and handed the defendant fourpence,
which was twopence more than his fare ; and this being
refused, he became so violent and abusive that it was-.
necessary to put him into the custody of the police.
A policeman said that the ticket porters were in the
habit of demanding more than their fare, in the expecta-
tion that those whose luggage they carried were going
abroad. The defendant was drunk at the time.

Ticket porter—Drunk ! What do you call drunk ?
I was no more drunk nor lam now. It was jist wicey
warcey, for this here policeman as says I was drunk was
drunk hisself, and no mistake. Call the cabman. He'll
tell true.

The cabman stated that the ticket porter insisted
upon having the sixpence instead of the fourpence, and
said he would not let the door of the cab be closed
without the larger sum ; and the man acted in what
might be called a drunken sort of a way.
Ticket Porter—Not a bit of it. I have been twenty
years a ticket porter, and no one ever complained of
me afore, and I thought that, as it was two in the
morning, sixpence might have been given to me for my
trouble.

Mr. Glass—You snatched up the trunk without
permission, and you received more than you deserved.
I appear against this man, my Lord, on public grounds.
The LORD MAYOR—I am aware of it, and I thank
you. He has been a long time a ticket porter, and
perhaps, if he makes an humble apology to you, yon
will forgive him.

Mr. Glass having consented, the ticket porter apolo-
gised, and was discharged.

BOW-STREET.

John Everden, a letter-carrier, employed in the
branch Post-office, Charing-cross, was yesterday brought
before Mr. Twyford, charged with stealing two letters
containinc, sums of money, which came into his posses-
sion in thep discharge of his duties.
Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post-office, conducted
the prosecution.

Wm. Abbot, a letter-carrier in the Twopenny Post
department of the branch office, Charing-cross, stated
that while on duty about twenty minutes before eight
o'clock on Wednesday evening, the prisoner was em-
ployed in sorting paid letters, and he saw him examine
in a particular manner, a letter similar to that produced,
by feeling, as if to ascertain the contents. Witness
thought at the time that the prisoner appeared to ob-
serve the direction, and then he (prisoner) placed it
at the back of one of the letters he was sorting,
instead of placing it with others in the sorting-box be-
fore him. When he had sorted all the letters before
him he did not include the letter in question, and he
began to sort a second bundle, still keeping the one
which he had been examining in his hand. He then
took the letters belonging to his walk from the sorting-
table to the desk, and the letter he had been examining
with them. Witness, suspecting something wrong, im-
mediately made a communication to Mr. Gapes, the
inspector of letter-carriers, upon the subject, and he
demanded that the prisoner should exhibit his letters
and the bag he kept them in, out of which he took an
account-book and the letters produced, directed, the one
to Mr, Seymour, gold-heater. 38, Long-acre, and the
other to Mrs. Montagu, 4, Storey's-gate, St. James's
Park West.

Dlr. Thos. Gapes, Inspector of Letter-carriers, proved
hat in consequence of information he had received
from the last witness, he went to the prisoner, who was
about to leave the office, and in his bag, which lay on the
desk, he found the account-book and two letters pro-
duced. On showing him the letters, and asking him
how they came into his bag, he said that he did not know,
but he afterwards added that he must have taken them
up as two dead letters. He also said that some person
must have put them into his place where he had been
sorting. He had been on the same evening employed
in sorting letters, and the two produced might, in all
probability, have passed through his hands in the course
of his duty. They both appeared to witness to con-
tain money. The prisoner was one of the letter-
carriers in the Pimlico district, and neither of the letters
produced were addressed to any person within
his delivery. They also bore the two-penny post-date
stamp of the night in question, and neither of them
could have been in the office as dead letters. The
letters which the prisoner was to deliver on that even-
ing wore laid outside the bag tied up, but not with the
letters produced.

Mr. James Seymour, of Long-acre, identified one of
the letters produced as being intended for him, or for
his father.

The witness, on being directed to break the seal,
found that the letter contained a remittance of 11. 10s.
4d., which had been sent to him by Mr. E. Butler, of
Reading.

Mr. TWYFOIID inquired if the prisoner was allowed
to sort as well us deliver letters at the several houses in
his walk.

Mr. Peacock said that it was occasionally part of his
duty to be employed in sorting such letters as he was
obliged to t-ake out for delivery.
Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu identified the other letter
as having come from her mother at Cheltenham, en-
closing- a sovereign to her.
The prisoner in his defence denied that either of the
letters came into his hands during the time he was oa
duty sorting, and there wore two other persons sorting
with him.

Mr. TWYkORD criteria the witnesses to be bound
over, and the prisoner to stand committed for trial.
The prisoner was again charged with stealing two
other letters containing money, addressed to persons
not residing within the district of his walk.
Inspector Martin, A division, proved that he searched
prisoner's lodgings in Eceleston-street East, Pimlico,
where he found in the grate the six fragments of paper
produced, apparently the cover of a letter, addressed
to Mrs. Drewer, 14, Holles-street, Wardour-street,
Oxford-street, and in the drawer of a wash-hand stand
fragments of another letter addressed -- Blaybey,
31 battalion, Grenadier Guards, Tothill Fields hospi-
tal, Rochester-row, Westminster.
Mrs. Anne Drewer, a widow, expected a letter:from
Mr. Gelante, of Eagle-house, Tottenham-Green, on the
20th inst., which she never received.
Joseph Blabey, a private in the Grenadier Guards,
proved that the fragments of the letter produced were in
the handwriting of his wife, dated Feb. 21, East Sheen,
and in consequence of having since heard from her, he
had reason to believe that it contained an enclosure
which he never received.
Mr. Gapes gave similar testimony as in the former
cases.