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PRICE 5d

POST•OFFICE DELINQUENCY.

CHELTENHAM' Nov. 30.—A Board of Directors was
sent down hero last week to investigate certain charges
made against Mr. George Wall, the postmaster, which ter-
minated in his being taken into custody. on Saturday last.
'Yesterday he wararought before the Magistrates at the
police-office.

Mr. C. Rideout, the Post-office surveyor- for the dis-
trict; appeared as the 'prosecutor, accompanied by Mr.
Peacock. the solicitor to the General Post-oftice. Messrs.'
R. and J. B. Winterbotham defended the prisoner.
Mr. Peacock said, that the charges against Mr. Wall
were for embezzling several sums of money belonging to
the Government revenue, and fir making false and frau-
dulent returns of the number of letters posted at Chel-
tenham for town delivery on the lit, 2d, and sth of No-
Vember. The General Post-office had no other means of
knowing the amount received for those letters but from
the returns made by the -postmaster. The case came
under the 2d of William IV., cap. 4, sec. 1, which enacted
that persons so acting should be deemed guilty of felony.
There were ether charges against Mr: Wall running
through September, October, &c., but he should wily
proceed on tiitise three at ;present. On the Ist there was
9s. Gd. de.ficient,,; on the 2d, Os. 6d. ; and on the sth, ss.
deficient. He Was certain that if Mr. Wall could clear
himself, and account for these. mistakes, it would give
him great pleasure, but if net, then it was his duty to
take it to another Court. _ _

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Joseph Fowler, the chief clerk in the Post-office, was
called, from whose evidence it appeared that the number
of town letters was daily noted. on a postage-slip, from
which Mr. Wall copied them at night, Fowler taking
the number in a private book he was instructed to keep
for that purpose. These returns were sent up soon after
the sth of every month; on the days named, however,
another return had been made in Mr. Wall's hand-
writing accounting for a less number of letters than were
actually copied from the postage slip of the day, thereby
defrauding the revenues of the sums named. The Post-
master had to charge himself for all the letters except
those sent to the three penny post-offices for the vil-
lages of Prcstbury, Charlton, and Winchomb, which
were to be deducted. Mr. Fowler also posted 96 paid
circulars for town delivery on the 2d, which he made
Mr. Brooker, another clerk, account for, and some un-
paid ones on the sth, according to instructions he re-
ceived front Mr. hideout.

• Messrs. Welch, Leech, Orpier, and Dawes, clerks in
the office, deposed to the number of letters posted on the
three days named, which tallied with the number the
postmaster should have accounted for. •
The COURT adjourned at six o'clock last night to
eleven this morning, when the evidence of Mr. C. hideout
was taken, and as it contains the nature of the charges
we give it at length.
Mr. hideout was examined at length respecting the
number of paid letters unaccounted for, and stated his
belief that the money unaccounted for must be in pos •
session of the prisoner, and that he did not believe the
returns made to be correct.

The CHAIRMAN announced that the prisoner must be
put on his trial, but they would admit him to bail, him-
self in 5001, and two sureties in 2501. each.

Mr. Winterbotham, on behalf of the prisoner, applied
that he might be continued in the custody of the police
until to-morrow, when he should be prepared with the
necessary sureties; also, that the private memorandums
taken from the prisoner, might be restored to him; both
which applications were granted.
The COURT then adjourned.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER.—There was an exceedingly gloomy and
languid market yesterday; and prices, both of goods and
yarn, were exceedingly irregular, whilst the amount of
business done was very small. Owing to the severe and
long7continued depression, the inclination to work short
time becomes more general; and many individuals, in
different parts of the district, have diminished their
hours of labour, though without any general agreement
upon the subject. Some efforts have been making within
the last few days, with the view of bringing about such
agreement; but we do not very well know what progress
has been made in it. A meeting of the creditors of
Messrs. Gisborne and Wilson, who stopped payment last
week, was held yesterday, when it appeared that the en-
gagements of the firm were 91,000/. After the partners
had made a statement of their affairs, an offer to pay a
wmposition of 13s. in the pound, by live different instal-
ments, was made, and was unanimously accepted by the
creditors, .who appeared well satisffed with the recent
conduct of the partners, and with their ability to extri-
cate
themselves from their present embarrassmrnts. The
business of the firm will consequently proceed without
interruption.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, Nov. 29.
—The market has undergone no change to-day ; the de-
mand for flannels has been about the same as that of last
Monday, and prices quite as low. In the wool market
there is no change to report.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, Nov. al.—This was another
gloomy • market-day in all sorts of goods, except pilots
and other heavy woollens, which were in tolerable de-
mand. The general trade was decidedly flat, unprofit-
able, and discouraging. Prices are nominal. Ware-
house business is much in the same state ; and trades-
men are generally at their wits' end to know what to do,
and whom to trust,

HALF A DOZEN DISQUALIFICA-
TIONS FOB WHIST.

1. Chattering about the game ; intolerable, if loud
and incessant.
2. Going over the last deal again, the " Ifs I" and
the " Ifs you bad," and the " Ifs he hadn't," being the
burden of the song ! perfect torture.
3. Being eager ; annoying everybody by throwing
dowia cards violently, and adapting the action to every
momentary feeling, with occasional interjections, and
thus, inorsover, exposing your own and partner's hands,
4. Being Able to play but moderately, constantly at-
tempting finesse and a deep game, and looking won-
drous wise, like is xonkey at draughts or backgammon ;
condescending at times to testify your approval of your

partner's play.
5. Abusing your partner if ho play badly, or you
fancy so, or not the card you wanted, thereby giving
pain or affront, sometimes Past endurance—ending often
in some abominable, and it to a woman, unmanly insult.
6. Losing your temper bet.lause you have net won,
and making yourself very ridintitCus and disagreeble.
Any three of which ought to esti: blish a simple and
unanimous vote of disqualification.—
Zampshire Tele-
graph.

On Monday the three men, Francis,
.t.Taylori
and Smith,.who have been for some time in the cust.2l37
of the Hertford police on a charge of highway robber):
of an aggravated description, were brought before the
Hon. Captain Hotham and a full bench of Magistrates,
at the Town-hall. Hertford, for final examination. It
will be recollected that the prosecutor, a veterinary sur-
geon, named Edwards, was returning home from Hert-
ford market on horseback, about six o'clock in the even-
ing of the 13th November, and when he arrived near
Banger he was assaulted by four men, who dragged him
violently to the ground, and then forcibly rifled his per-
son, and robbed him of some gold and silver, a watch,
and other articles. Upon the former examination the
procutor swore positively to the identity of two of the
prisoners, and expressed a strong belief that the third
was also one of his assailants ; and several other wit-
nesses were examined, who likewise proved that
the prisoners, and a fourth man. were seen going in the
direction of the place where the robbery occurred, about
the time that it was committed. Two of the prisoners
at the former examination attempted to establish an alibi,
hut the evidence they produced was of a very vague and
unsatisfactory character, and the Magistrates remanded
the prisoners till this day, to atCord an opportunity for
further inquiry. During the interval that has elapsed,
Knight, the Superintendent of the Hertford rural police,
succeeded in obtaining further evidence tending to con.
firm the former testimony as to the prisoners being see,
near the spot where the robbery was committed, and
it
the
Bench, after a searching investigation, said they
y feltn
be their duty, to commit the prisoners to the county gaol
to take their trial at the next assizes,
DISTRESS AT KlLMARNOCdKt.he.....unmanufe
within
to
3:, an
the last four years the trade of Kilmarnock a con-
ditionwas iin
of
consequence, considerable probsepeennabled hitherto totu.breearrit:,
have,
up under the depression better than in many other
however, that there are limits
disasters in other quarters are
beginning to tell there also.
tpnlaceensd.nrallticise, staostownd tfhelet,
totb7eoo
greater have been mong the muslin
out of regu
employmvent
nidtsiroion .g
filar
Among the printers, about. 500 part of the summer.
1-
with-
out the means of procuring NVOr are at present
are only employed two-thirds of '.
The carpet weavers
dependents upon those who their time. When the
en-
tirely out of work come to are either partially or
in a state of Povertythe
w be found very large. The
bare necessaries of existence
being wanting, we need-scarcely say, that, in other res-
pects, the population is
in a rapidly deteriorating condi-
tion. Rent paying
is totally out of the question; new
clothes for the person cannot for a moment be thought
of ; additional bed clothes and bedding, so necessary to
resist the severities of winter, are placed far beyond the
reach of these unfortunate individuals. Fever, too, has
prevailed to a large extent, adding its ravages to the
other misfortunes. The population is, in short, re-
duced to a condition not superior to what has often
been described as the aspect of the worst parts of Ireland.
Although the means of relief are not entirely absent, a
soup kitchen having been for about two months in opera-
tion, stilt they fall i'ar short of the exigencies of the case.
Many individuals, who have been hitherto in com-
paratively affluent circumstances, would gladly take
their departure to some of the colonies, in which there is
a prospect of bettering their condition, but such is the
depreciation in property that it is altogether unsaleable
and would not realise above one-half of its former value.
The number of houses standing empty is stated to be at
least two hundred.—Glasgow Argus.
The Fishmongers Company have unanimously
voted an address of congratulation to the Queen, Prince
Albert, and the Duchess of Kent, on the auspicious birth
of the heir-apparent to the throne.