The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-28 00:00:00

BOLTON.

The Select Committee appointed to investigate the
truth of the allegations contained in the petition
presented against the return of Mr. Bolling, for the
borough of Bolton, met on Saturday morning; ➢ir. Hamil-
ton in tho chair.

Mr. Sergeunt Wrangham and Mr. Wheeler appeared
for the petitioner, and Mr. Sergeant Kinglake for the
sitting Member.
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Mr': Sergeant WRANORAM opened the case for the
petitioner, as one disclosing a novel system of bribery,
for the Committee would find by the evidence that the
publicans were supplied with "shots," as a consideration
to vote for the sitting Member. In ordinary phraseology,
a " shot" meant the furnishing of money to a publican
to be spent in drink, and it would be seen that the new
system had the double advantage of bribing mine host
with the profit derivable from the sale of the drink, and
at the same time of bribing the voter to whom the
drink was presented. Besides this description of cases,
which wore pretty numerous, it would be shown that
many of the voters were induced to support the sit-
ting Member by receiving promises, in some instances
that themselves, and in others that their friends and re-
lations, should have situations procured for them.
Jatnes Green, a rate-payer, of Bolton, proved that
he plumped for Mr. Bolling, and that he received two
sovereigns for doing so; one from Chantler, and the
other from a person named Shelling, both of whom
were actively engaged in conducting the election for the
sitting Member.
Thomas Craxton, another voter, proved that he re-
ceived 21. in the same way for voting for Bolling and
Brooks.

The Committee then adjourned till Monday.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COUI?TOF.QUEEN'S BENCH, Feb. 26.

(Sittings at Guildhsill,. before Lord DENMAN and a
Special Jury.)
THE QUEEN V. GOOCH AND ANOTHER.

This case, which was before the Court yesterday, WaS
resumed this morning.
On the part of the Crown several witnesses were
called yesterday, whose evidente went to show that they
had, under the direction of the defendants, caused the
marks from a number of bales of wool to be
taken out, and other marks inserted, for the purpose of
allowing the goods to be cleared at a lower rate of duty
than was properly chargeable upon them.
Mr. Sergeant SHEE to-day addressed the jury for the
defendants, and proceeded to call several witnesses, with
a view of rebutting the evidence ()tiered on the part
of the Crown.

Mr. WATSON then replied on the part of the Crown.
His LORDSHIP having summed ap,
The jury retired, and after an absence of upwards of
an hour, returned a ♦erdict of Guilty against both
the defendants for conspiring together to defraud the
revenue, and Not Guilty of conspiring together to de-
fraud the consignee of the goods
The sentence upon the defendants was deferred.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Thomas Schuh, alias David Bernhard, a German,
was brought before the Lord Mayor for final exami-
nation upon the charge of having forged a bill of
exchange upon Messrs. Rothschild and Co., for 1001.
Mr. .Mullens, of the firm of Bush and Mullens,
solicitors to the Committee of Bankers for Protection
against Forgeries and Frauds, attended for the pro-
secution.

The following is the additional evidence from Ger-
many, the absence of which caused the remand of the
prisoner :
Peter Hufnagel said—l live at a public-house in
Winston •street, Oxford-street, kept by Mrs. Ander-
son. In the summer of 1846 I kept a lodging-house
in Hooper-square, Goodman's-fields, and I had it
for about nine months. Soon after I opened it
my half-brother, Lorenz Weeber, came from Ger-
many, and stayed several months with me. The
prisoner was lodging in my house when Lorenz
Weeber came over to England. The prisoner's name
is David Bernhard. Lorenz Weeber and the prisoner
were very intimate, and used to converse together
frequently about the prisoner's family connexions in
Germany, and about his present affairs. When
Lorenz Weeber left him he took a situation as porter
at an hotel in Leicester-square, and stayed there
several months. The prisoner went to reside in that
neighbourhood. In August, 1847, Lorenz Weeber
and the prisoner called upon me, and the former told
me in the prisoner's presence that he was going'to
America, and that he should start to Liverpool by the
railway on the next day, and we bade each other
farewell in the prisoner's presence. I have often seen
the prisoner since, and asked him whether he had re-
ceived any news of my brother, to which he always
replied in the negative.
Anthony Head said—l reside at the Crown Coffee-
house, in high-street, Bloomsbury. On the 13th of
December, 1847, the prisoner came to lodge at my
house, and he resided there until the time of his ap-
Prehen,ion. I afterwards delivered several letters and
papers, which I found of the prisoner's, to Daniel
Forrester, the officer. I believe the endorsement
" Lorenz Weeber," on the back of the bill, to be in
the prisoner's handwriting, and I have always known
him by the name of David Bernhard.
Mr. Thomas Beard, clerk to Messrs. Masterman
and Co., stated that on the 15th of December, 1847,
the produced bill of exchange for 100/. was presented
at the counter for change, and he paid it. He re-
membered having observed a discrepancy in the en-