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LONDON, 'WEDNESDAY r
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.4, t,' AUGUST
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ASS-EZ/INTL I IGEN',CE.'• .„
HOME VIRCUTE—Letaes, August 5.
The commiSsien far' the county. of Sussex was op' tird
on Maday'aftertioerAy :Chief Justice Jervis, and hie
Lordehiptafteratards charged. the grand. jury and pro-
ceeded to try' sour, qrthe prisoners. The gaol caiendar.
is rather heavier thafe'usual, there being '45 prisoaers for
trial. Cla .the civil aide only two causes were, entered,
one .hapecial jury caase,, and the other an undefended
conithohjarY?
CIICVMADIE.:--7(Btfore Chief. Justice JaUvrs.) ;
Willitrn•Laery Challis, 13, errand boy, pleaded Guilty
to an indictmer ichgging- hid with;having unlestfully
thrown .' tam •übetance into,oilkOf the carriages trace
veiling ton Railway; and thereby endan-,
gering.thees: 14`f':i e passengers.
Sentence was die e ':-ed.
Elizabith Wicker:oo, was indicted for wilful asst
corrupt perjsy. ;
Mr. Createftoseciated, and Mr.,Woollett was counsel
for thcvd'efenee,
The,,perjurle.inepntesl to the defendant was, that at' the
Lent as as for thiftouuty, in 1850, she' had falsely
ohargeeK eizeeee med.Waers, Lewis, and Wilkiti-
son with • havt s' fitted a robbery,- with violeriee,
upon her. Ution thf:..oecasien she ••swore that on the
28th of §npteeoer, 1849, while she was on her way from
Salehttiet. to Cratibrook, she was attacked by thb three
men, who knOkadiler down and robbed her of a purse
.containing a s9vereiith and other money, and upon this
evideedalhey Went all convicted and sentenced to, be
transported for fourteen years. The prisoners }here sub-
sequently removed to the Penitentiary, in purebence of
tt*lr seeutenee,-,and; in cOngqtruce of, repreieritations
that - weee teadkto etuw ow, 04tb.e&es, ;inquiries,
were made,' 'the result- of which lielke..Warjaprassao
charge Was preferred against the defendant.
The three prisoners who had been convicted were
examined to prove that they did not rob the defendant,
as she had represented, and there was some little confir-
mation of their story in the evidence of the daughter of
a farmer' named Cheeseman, who resided near the place
where the robbery was alleged to have been committed,
and who stated that she heard the proseCutor.call out
that she had lost her money before the three men came
up to her, and also that none of the men ran away in the
wood close by after the occurrence. It appeared, how-
ever, that the defendant was very drunk at the time, and
that she went to a public•bouse close by immediately
afterwards, and told the same story she did at the trial,
and that she had all along persist2d in the truth of her
statement.
The CHIEF JUSTICE, at the close of the case for the
prosecution, expressed an opinion that the evidence was
hardly "Sufficient to justify the jury in coming to the
conclusion that the defendant had wilfully and corruptly
sworn what she knew to be false. The defendant was
in liquor at the time, and it was probable that she might
have made a mistake as to the parties who had robbed her.
Mr. CREASY, upon this intimation from the Court,
withdrew from the prosecution, and
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

'tigers, end l' in .centequencs* d , communications with
other votere. 1 'atlienced 4 tiltney to live voters ultege-
titer-eone waSi25L, end the others were 201. -I CO
nieated • to : Hoeltin that be might have the loan,
I gave him • 201 e It was understood be wcs
,to • give his prparissory, note for it. I told
him if, he. woUlfl give his promissory note I
,would - ask Sir. Satnie.4 to , ,t 1 him the money. I
kept the note :Tip) it 'was se.-1 t'Y r by Smith and Re,berti.
In
,consequelice'o 'the spliitihr, of votes the contest ha-
r.: me between I.aeeiand Spry. Ito was annoyed at los-
ing floe election. I think tfitfenote was sent to Smith and
,Roeite 44,1E48.4 I ' haii /15bing to do with applying for
Abe interest 'tholigh the trE,ie 'remained in my desk. I
dd. nbt know how, you'ino4age your notes (at Liskeard).
r rcelie all the notes, and handed them over in 1848. I
,cannot tell.whether all theiVe voted for Spry alone.
Cres*l4ulnilo--tlicanvantied Hochin in 1847. There
was no promise trade to
.hice:ef any, money tor giving
his rOte, noranrconversation:of the kind. -There was
nothing saidisleftot any election at the time of the loan.
I he,cl•peautleottleto,lead but upon what I-thought good
security, and,;considered.`the note good security. One
of theother. note/vies paid: '
Re-eitithine4 4-41dicaldc be very sorry to be inatru-
pell* ' spetidting, to any v6tFr on the subject of his
;vote rrcl,se tiny ecirrtrpt ' motive. I have been an
agent at Ili the 'elosetions iitice 1832. I never held out
any promise tii•iiiiy Voter, or heard of any such thing,
either at 1;10441u-or List:rad: No action was brought
against either: of these fide till after the petition was
dismgsttd; in 1848. rdeliveted up all the 'notes at the
same time.: , i • •:, , , • - •
Alt.:. Smith, for .the defendant, erged that this was,
in Itnt,,,an undefended case, find that there was not
the leasTretePo43.POW2•9ll/44!t up-
•=-4r.JnsttbirecaMtipw...irrsainniing up, said that un-
less the defendant could establish one of his pleas; the
verdict must piss for the pheintiff, and of course that
which the defendant undertook to prove he had the bur-
den of proof cast upon him, and he was boind to make
it out. The nature of the defence was this, be said—
you call upon me for the paymout of a promissory note,
as if you had lent mo money, whereas the substance of
the transaction was this—you gave me 201., either iu
consideration of the vote I had given for you, or in con-
sideration of a vote you expected I should give, and
then, having done that in order to disguise and conceal
it from the world, it was treated nominally as a loan.
and I gave you the promissory note as security, as if
there had been a loan; but, in truth, there never was
any loan at all, and it was a gift. The question, there-
fore, for the jury was, whether the defendant had made
it out; they were not to take it upon guess, but to de-
termine whether it bad been proved.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.
CROWN COURT.
Lord Campbell presided in this court. The calendar
contained the names of 20 prisoners. The charges are
some of them of a very serious nature.
William Bartle was indicted for sending letters to
Joseph Ti4OIXISS, of Mullion, in this county, threatening
to burn and destroy the property of him, the said
Joseph Thomas. •
This prisoner was indicted and tried at the last as-
sizes for a similar offence, when it was fully reported ;
he was thin acquitted upon that charge. There were se-
veral similar indictments I.gainst him; but in conse-
quence of the prisoner's sister having written letters to
the Chief Baron and the jury, his Lordship directed that
the trial should be postr.Jred to the present assizee; and
this mcrning the prisoner was put upon his trial, when
the same circumstances were adduced against him. Be
was convicted and sentenced to 15 years' transportation.

The COURT LEmtencza her to three months' hard labour
at Brixton.

POLICE ',INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
George Thomas was brought before Sir Peter Laurie
for final examination, upon the charge of having been
concerned with others in stealing a cash-box containing
upwards of 606 the property of Anton Scher zinger, pro.
prietor of the Horse and Trompeter public-house, in
Crutehed-friars.
Upon a former examination, evidence was given to
slow that the prisoner and three other fellows hail been
in the house on the day of the robbery, that means had
been taken to got the landlord out of the way for a few
minutes, and 'that during his absence the cheffonier in
the bar parlour, in which the cash-box had been kept,
was broken open, and plundered of that valuable deposi-
tory. It was also on that occasion proved that the pri-
soner and one of the men who had been seen with him
on the:day of the robbery, had visited the house as cus-
tomers several successive days previously, and invari-
ably. occupied ,a box immediately opposite to the bar-
parlour, from which they could have observed the chef-
fonier and the cash-box.
Mrs. Scherzinger, the wife of the landlord, corrobo-
rated several points of the previous evidence, and said
the prisoner had upon a former occasion come in with
his usual companion, and, when she was alone in the bar-
parlour, endeavoured to persuade her to get him a little
cheese to take the taste of the ale out of his mouth, as
his employers might smell it upon him and consider it to
be a bad example to the junior clerks of the establish.
ment. As, however, she had neither husband nor do-
mestic near her, :she would not stir from the spot, and
the,thievea lost that opportunity—a loss which was soon
supplied by alittla more exercise of their ingenuity.
Sir PETER LAtiRIE then read the timalimaed"ifeetird-
ing to • Act of Parliament by magistrates to prisoners
previously to committal, and asked the prisoner whether
be wished. under the circumstances, to make any ob-
servations?
~•.1'1143 prisoner—l do. I deny that I know anything
at all of the transaction, and I could have gone away at
the time it appeared the robbery took place. The fact
is I went into the house and called for a glass of ale. I
had been there four or five tunas previously, and there
was generally a young man with me. On the day in
question I had come from the decks, and there was no
person with me when I entered the house. A tall man
was standing at the bar when I went in. He seemed
to me to be a foreigner, and wore mustachios, and
he asked me how I did, although I did not know him.
The landlord—There was no foreigner amongst the
set.

The prisoner—I thought he belonged to the house,
and he asked me to go into the common parlour and have
a glass of ale with him. He spoke quite familiarly to me,
and I went in and drank with him. He soon after-
wards left the room, but I never stirred from the
place till the landlord came ineand there was a noise
about the robbery, but of which I know nothing in
the world.
Sir PETEn LAURIE—You arc committed upon the
charge brought against yeti. Are there other persons
in attendance against the prisoner? Storey, the officer,
answered in the affirmative, and called Mrs. Louisa
Barr, of the Two Brewers public-hcuse, in New Park-
street, Southwark-bridge-road, ;she seid—The pri-
soner robbed my house on the 31 of June. He had
been there two or three times before the robbery was
committed, and there was always another person with
him. On the Friday before Tuesday, the 3d of June, he
and the other person had been at my house. They went
into the bar-parlour, having expressed a wish for a pri-
vate room. They went into the bar-parlour also on
the 3d of June, and they remained there some time. One
of them had a glass of ale and the other had a glass of
half-and-half, end they also had some cold brandy and
water. Between four and five o'clock they left the house
together. The cash box was kept in a cupboard in the
bar-parlour, and it contained 73/. in gold, two 51. notes,
a promissory note for Si. 55.. and a mining share of Si.
The cupboard was locked. I had changed a sovereign
before they came into the house, and I then locked the
door of the cupboard and put the key in my pocket.
There had been nobody in the room between the
time at which I locked the cupboard and the time during
which the prisoner and his companion were in the room,
but myself and my husband.
Sir PETER LAURIE.—Had the lock been forced?
Witness—No; no violence at all seemed to have been
used. They must have opened the door, I should think, •
whh a key. I recollect that the prisoner closed the dour
of the room every time after I quitted it.
The prisoner was also identified by a person who, in
the house of the last witness, served him with ale and
half-and-half there.
Sir PETER LAURIE—Is the prisoner known as
plunderer of public-houses? Trew and nugget!, and
other experienced officers of .the City police, said the
man was one of a notorious gang of thieves, who had
acquired wonderful skill in getting hold publicans'
cash-boxes just before the visits of the brewers and dis-
tillers. To their knowledge upwards of 6001. had been
stolen in public-houses within the last six weeks in the
way described by the evidence; but it was extremely
difficult to prevail upon the sufferers to come forward,
as they were apprehensive of being laughed at for not
benefitting by the constant examples before ther eyes.
Sir PETER LAURIE said it was quite evident that the
robberies of the present day were distinguished from
the ordinary practices amonst thieves of former times
by their intellectual character. The head worked with
greater vigour than the hand.
The prisoner—l do not know what the witnesses in
the last case are alluding to. I know nothing of cash-
boxes.
William Wesson, in the service of a cooper, said—On
the 24th of May the prisoner came to me at our count-
ing-house when my employer was out, under pretence of
purchasing a quantity of hoops. He persuaded me to
accompany him from the counting-house to the ware-
house, and there he detained me for some time while he
appeared to be looking over his pocket-book for the de-
scription of hoops which be was anxious to purchase.
Upon my return to the counting-house I found that the
desks and other places of imagined security bad been
broken open, that my watch and whatever cash had been
deposited in the cash-box were absent, and that the
thieves had locked the
.iron safe, and taken off the key
with them.
Sir PETER LAURIE said he felt real gratification in the
performance of duties which brought before him accom-
plished thieves, who -laid themselves out so completely
for wholesale depredation. At the suggestion of the
officers he remanded the prisoner upon the two last
charges, but directed that the warrant of committal on
the first should be forthwith completed.
GUILDHALL.
Mrs. Foley, alias Sullivan, was charged with ringing
the changes upon Mr. Cotton, hatter, of Redcross-
street.
Mr. Cotton stated that prisoner came into his shop
and asked the price of a child's hat. He told her the
expense would bo 4s. 6d., end she said she would deposit
6d., and call for the hat in the evening. She gave a
half-crown, and Mr. Cotton gave her 2s. in change.
She then said, "Now, I shall have to bring 25." Mr.
Cotton said, " Oh, no, it will be 4s. more," upon which
she said, "I'll not ave it then ; give me my money
back." Mr. Cotton returned her the half-crown, and
she gave him back as he thought the two shillings he
had previously given her. After she had gone, Mr.
Cotton's foreman said, " That woman has been here be-
fore playing off the same game—l'll run after her and
fetch her back." Mr. Cotton examined the money,
and found one of the shillings bad, and which she had
changed while he was looking for the half-crown in
the till. Mr. Cotton said it was only three weeks
since the last visit he had had from the prisoner. Ho
had taken a great quantity of counterfeit money, but
knowing that the law required a double uttering within
a month to be proved to obtain a conviction, he kept
all the bad money he was unfortunate to take for a
month.
This being a very clear case, the prisoner (who de-
nied everything) eas remanded till Saturd.sy, for Mr.
Powell, the solicitor for the Mint, to attend and prosecute.
MARY LEBONE. -
MURDEROUS OUTRAGES ON THE POLlCE.—Yesterday
Dennis Hayes, a labourer, was brought before the sitting
magistrate, Mr. Broughton, charged with assaults of a
most brutal and sanguinary nature upon police-consta-
bles, who, in consequence of the injuries inflicted upon
them, have been pronounced to be incapable for the pre-
sent of doing duty.
Harwood, 161 I), deposed that on the previous after-
noon, as he was going along Praed-street, Paddington, he
received information from a gentleman that a desperate
conflict was going on in Conduit-street, and that in all
probability murder would be committed. He instantly
repaired to the spot, where he found the prisoner and
another man fighting, and also biting each other in a
most savage manner. He at length succeeded in sepa-
rating them, and they went away, but shortly afterwards
returned and renewed the battle, surrounded by at least
50 other persons, all of whom were apparently brick-
layers' or plasterers' labourers. He (witness) stepped
forward and desired them to desist, when prisoner,
with an oath, declared that he would take his life;
he (prisoner) then knocked him down by a tremendous
blow, and also kicked him on various parts of his person;
in addition to which he and others threw him from the
top to the bottom of an area not less than sixteen feet
deep; he fell upon his side, and was considerably in-
jured, nod had he fallen upon his head from so great a
height he might have been killed.
Trevethen, 244 1), said that having heard that a con-
stable was being murdered by some labourers, he rushed
forth to give assistance, and saw the prisoner and two or
three more men kicking the first witness as he lay on
the ground.
Mr. BROUGGTON—were you assaulted? Witness—l
was, sir; the prisoner and one of his companions
knocked me down, and alter they had kicked my brother
officer into the area, they threw me into it also; the pri-
soner then jumped down and began beating and kicking
both of us, and many of his fellow-labourers did se like-
wise; for a time I was completely stunned. I and my
brother officer at last succeeded in properly securing the
prisoner, and conveying him to the station.
Mr. BROUGIITON.—On the road thither was ho quietly
disposed or not? Witness—He was very violent, your
Worship, all the way.
Both the officers said that they were not able to go

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-- Warwick, Aug. 4.
CIVIL ,t4DE.—(Be4or Air. Baron PARKE and a
Cpmmon Jury.)
RICHARDS V. RUTHERFORD.

This was an action of trim can., to which the de-
fandlnt pleaded " Not guilty, and !cave and licence."
Mr. Sergeant Miller and Mr. A. It. Adams were
couni;el for the plaintiff; Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr.
Wiltnore, Q.C.. for the defenclaut. _ _ _

The plaiutiff was formerly engaged at Nottingham as
an agent for the sale of lace, and in consequence of the
falling-off of that business he had afterwards kept a
commercial bearding-house, which was a good deal fre-
quented by the defendant, who was an owner of stone
quarries at Wingerworth, in Derbyshire. In the month
of March last the plaintiff sailed for America, and
was aesent from the country rather more then three
months. Immediately after his departure the plain-
tiff'd wife and the defendant went to Birmingham;
where they opened a provision shop. The plain-
tiff's four children and the wife's sister were brought
to that house; and just before Easter the eldest
daughter died. The business was managed by the
plaintiff's wife, but the defendant was a frequent visitor
at the house, and on all those occasions they lived to-
gether without any concealment as man and wife. On
Easter Monday, the day after the daughter's funeral,
they went away together to a coffee-house in Bull-street,
and there remained for two or three days; after which
they made an excursion to London to inspect the won-
ders of the Great Exhibition. Soon after they had re-
turned to the provision-shop, a letter was received froni
the plaintiff, bearing the New York post-mark, the effect
of which was that in a few days the wife and the defen-
dant eloped, the wife's sister being left in charge of the
shop and the children. The wife's sister was the prin-
, cipal witness for the plaintiff; but, on cross-examina-
tion, sho admitted that she had never remonstrated
either with her sister or the defendant upon the gross
depravity of their conduct. Upon her admis-
sions, also, both the plaintiff and his wife ap-
peared to have led very immoral lives; and, upon one
occasion, at least, to have indulged in mutual imputa-
tions of a very offensive kind. Several witnesses were
called for the defendant, who, by reference to particular
instances, strongly confirmed this view of the plaintiff's
chat acter, and for the purpose of supporting the plea of
leave and licence, it was shown that the plaintiff, shortly
before his departure, had permitted the defendant to
take his wife to Birmingham for the purpose of finding
there a shop suitable to her circumstances, and that the
expenses of this journey had been defrayed by the de-
fendant; but the plaintiff himself had supplied money
for the purpose of taking the shop, and had asked the de-
fendant to stand his friend in the matter. After the
action had been commenced the defendant's attorney
offered " to buy peace" by giving the plaintiff 251. and
the stock remaining in the shop, but this offer was
rejected.
Mr. Sergeant MILLER having replied,
The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the jury re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 151.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Aug. 5.
Before Mr. sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge, and a
Bench of Magistrates.)
A SCENE IN COURT.

William Winfield was indicted for having stolen a
half sovereign and other moneys, the property of Char-
lotte Cooper, from her person.
• Mr. Rebton appeared for the prisoner.
It appeared that on Monday week the prosecutrix was
walking down Hanover-street, when she was pressed
closely by the prisoner and another person as they
passed by her. Directly they were gone by she was
spoken to by a person named Bennett, when she put her
band into her pocket and missed her purse. The priso-
ner had been seen to put his band into the prosecutrix's
pocket, take something out of it, and hand it over his
shoulder to the man who was then in his company. The
witness who had seen this was about to lay hold of ,the
two men, but he was immediately followed by two other
men who detained him, but he got free from them by
knocking one of them down. He then caught the pri-
soner and gave him into custody.
Mr. REBTON then addressed the jury for the prisoner,
and contended that it had not been proved that the pri-
soner had a purse in his. possession.
As soon as Mr. Rebton had finished his address,
Mr. William (who presided during the temporary ab-
sence of the Learned Judge) recalled the prosecutrix,
and elicited from her the colour of the purse she had
lost.
Mr. REBTON rose and raid, with some warmth—l
think your Lordship has no right to put au such ques-
tion, the case for the presecution havieg closed; and it
is Laos:, unjust towards the prisoner to re-open it again.
Mr. WITHAM—Don't interrupt me, sir.
Mr. REBTON—But I will; and I object to your doing
so, and I am convinced that your Lordship would enter-
tain the objection if I were to pursue a similar course.
Mr. WITHAM persisted in putting the question, and
then called the witness Bennett, and also inquired of him
the colour of the purse.
Mr. REBTON—I claim a reply to the jury on the ques-
tions put by the Court, and I must say that the Learned
Chairman has taken a course which could not be pursued
in any other court of justice in Bogland, and' which no
superior judge in any of the courts at Westminster would
suffer counsel to pursue. Mr. Witham has gathered the
weak points of the case from my speech for the defence,
when be re-opens the case, putting such questions as
would tend to strengthen the ease for the prosecution,
but operating most unfairly against the prisoner—a
course which, with all respect to the Court, I beg to
say is highly improper and unjust to the prisoner. A
few days since I was myself stopped by Baron Alderson,
at Maidstone, on the Home Circuit, for endeavouring to
put a question on cross-examination, after having con-
e*" ,nY case. That Learned Judge would not allow
me to do so, and said that it was so highly improper that
heavould not tolerate it.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Bodmin, Aug. 4.
The commission was opened here on Saturday by
Lord Campbell and Mr. Justice Coleridge. Yesterday
Cher Lordships attended Divine service, and this morn-
ing the business of the cisizo commenced. In the civil
court, in which Mr. Justice Coleridge sat, there was,
for the present circuit, a very heavy cause list, there
being no less than eight causes entered; three, however,
were undefended, and a third was settled. One case
had excited considerable interest, and was the following:

Mr. WITHAM—It6I;II be done by me.
Bonnet was then called, but he could not tell the
colour of the purse.
Mr. REBTON then proceeded to address the jury,
commenting with some earnestness on the conduct of
the Learned Chairman, in having put questions that
were lik ly to prejudice the case against the prisoner
after the case for both proiecution and the defence Lid
been closed.

SPRY, ICNT , V. ROCIIIN.
Mr. M. Smith and Mr. Coleridge were counsel for the
plaintiff ; and Mr. Crowder and air. Smirks for the de-
fendant.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Sir Samuel
Spry, who was a candidate for the representation of
&Amin at every election betvvean 1832 end 1847, to re-
cover 27/. for principal and interest due upon a promis-
sory note for 20!. which the defendant had given to the
plaintiff, for, as it was alleged, a loan of that sum in the
year 1843.
The defendant pleaded several pleas—lat. That he did
not make the note. 2dly. That the money was given as a
bribe for a vote the defendant had given for Sir Samuel
Spry at the election in 1843, and for a vote he was to
give for him at a future election; 3dly, that he (the de-
tendent) bad paid the money; 4thly, that the plaintiff
had discoarged him from it; and sthly, that he did not
make the promise.
For the plaintiff the promissory note was proved to
have been signed by the defendant, and was put in and
read. It was dated the 21st of June, 1843, some time
after the election for that year.
For the defendant it was contended that the 201. was
given as a bribe to the defendant, a grocer in this town,
in consequence of his having voted for Sir Samuel Spry
at the election of 1843, and to induce bias to vote for him
at the next election, and that the signing the note was
merely to hold the defendant liable in ease he broke his
promise. The defendant bad not paid any interest on the
note, but at the election iu 1847 he split his vote, voting
for Spry and Lacey. The election was won by Wylde
and Lacey. In 1848 Sir Samuel Spry. presented a peti-
tion to the House of Commons against the return of
Wylde and Lacey, but the petition was dismissed, and
wry shortly after that the plaintiff caused au action to
be brought against the defendant upon the note. It was
then submitted that it was clear the money was given as
a tribe, and therefore the note was void, and de-
fendant would be entitled to a verdict. The following
was the evidence adduced:—
Richard Bray—l am town clerk of Bodrnin. In 1841
the defendant voted for Vivian and Leicester against
Spry, but in 1843 he voted for Spry. In 1847 he voted
for Spry and Lacey. There was a petition in April,
1848, presented to the House of Commons by Spry
against the election of Wylde and Lacey. Mr. Cum-
mins drew this note; he acted as agent for Spry in 1843
and 1847.
Cross-examined—Mr. Cummins is the present mayor
of this town, and his father is the oldest attorney in the
county. It is difficult to say of what politics Lord Lei-
cester was; be was a nondescript sort of a man. Sir
Samuel Spry was a Radical when he first came here, but
afterwards turned Conservative and Protectionist. The
defendant is a grocer.
Re-examined—The agents are generally very respect-
able and very z9alous.
Thomas Ctunmins—l am a little deaf in one ear. I
um an attorney of this, town, and have witnessed many
elections here. I have taken an active part in
them. Spry was a candidate from 1832 to 1847.
I acted as an agent for Spry in 1841, 1843,
and 1847. I knew Hochin. He had been a voter
ever since I knew him. Ho voted for Spry in 1843. I
was attorney for Pearce, who applied to me with refe-
rence to a claim he had upon Hochin. I was constantly
applying to him for the interest of a mortgage. Hochin
came to my office about it. He asked if Spry would pur-
chase
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the Golden Lion. I told him I did not think it
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At the previous
intended
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se u defendantppo r t him.
I told him I would apply to Spry about a loan. I re-
ferred to his solicitors. Smith and Roberts, of Truro.
On the 9th of JUL" 1843, I had an interview with Mr.
Smith. He knew Hochin hud voted for Spry. The
SeaPmrYe's to name.
Spry, t
result was that the money wes remitted to me. I spoke
to Mr. Smith upon the Aub.kt of other loans to other

Mr. WITHAM—Sit down, Sir.
Mr. REnTon—l shall not.
Mr. WITHAM—I say you shall.
Mr. EFETON—I will not.
Mr. WITHAM—I will not allow you to comment upon
me personally.
Mr. ItEnToN—Well, then, as I have done comment-
ing, allow me to proceed with my objection. The
Learned Counsel then briefly proceeded with his address
to the jury.
The inry, after a short consultation, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty.
William Combs, a police-constable, proved that he
had known the prisoner as a member of the " swell
mob" on the Surrey side of the river for the last three
years, end he had detected him endeavouring to pick
the pocket of an intoxicated man in the pit of the Surrey
Theatre.
The CHAIRMAN said he should have sent the prisoner
out of the country for seven years, but for the assistance
be had received in the commission of the robbery from
his two companions.
Prisoner—l hope you will not do anything of the

kind.
The CHAIRMAN—The sentence of the Court is, tht.
you be transported for ten years.

SURREY SESSIONS, Aug 5.
(Before Thomas PIICKLE, Esq., and a Bench of
'l'agistrates.)
FREAKS 05' CABMEN.—Thomas Humphries, cabman,
was indicted for stealing a half-sovereign from the person
of Jane Smitb.
The prosecutrix, an old female, said that she obtained
her livelihood by washing, and on the 16th of July she
proceeded with a half-sovereign to a public-house near
the Elephant and Castle, and as she entered she saw a
number of cabmen standing in front of the bar. The
prisoner was one of them, and said that he had plenty of
silver, and could give her change. She handed him the
which he put in his pocket, and on her
half
demanding the change, ho again put his hand in his
pocket and returned her what she considered to be a half-
sovereign; but on looking at it she instantly perceived
that it was not the coin she had given to him—in fact, it
was a counterfeit. While she was endeavouring to get
her own money back the prisoner decamped, but she gave
information to the police, and caused him to be appre-
hended.
The jury found him Guilty, and the prosecntrix
having recommended the prisoner to mercy on account
of his family,
The COURT sentenced him to three months' hard
labour at Brixton, at the same time intimating that had
not such a recommendation been given ho (the Chair-
man) would have punished him with great severity.
ROBBING A FOREIGNER.—Amy Clark, a brothel-
keeper in Granby-street, Waterloo-road, was indicted
for stealing a purse containing three sovereigns and soma
silver from the person of Joseph Amebic Perron, a
French gentleman.
prosecutor said he met the prisoner near the house,
and believing from her statement that she was in dis-
tress, he accompanied her home and gave her halt-a-
crown. Another female came into the room, and while
he wad standing talking she caught hold of his arms
while the prisoner robbed him of his purse and money,
and they both decampt d out of the bows.. He went in
search of them, and not being able to find them out, he
I gave information to the police, and the pristiter was ap-
-1
prehended on the following night sittieg on the step of
her door. The other woman has not been found.
_ The jury found her Guilty, and

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upon duty, and that the surgeon by whom they had
been examined would bear testimony to that effect.
BROUGLITON inquired it the surgeon was in at-
tendance? and he was replied to in the negative.
Inspector Porter slid that i; was not usual for sur•
geons to come forward, and in fact they, generally
speaking', declined to do so unless summoned to attend.
Mr. 13lionanToN—But there is not even a certificate
sent with regard to the nature ef the hurts whioh- the
etlicers have received. Tile history of the affair, I sup..-
pose, is this, that if a surgeon svurls a certificate he will
receive no remuneration, but if he is summoned to appear
before a magistrate to give evidence he knows that he
wiii be paid for his trouble.

The Magistrate looked upon the outrage as being one
of a most brutal nature, and which might have resulted
in the loss of life. Hs remanded the prisoner till
Monday next, in order to afford time for the police to
capture other parties concerned in the brutal assaults.
S INSTER,
ROBBERY AT CREMORNE GARDENS.--George Change,
a sviistily- dressed young man, who was recognißod by
the sergeant of the policeevan as having been in hie earn
on a previous occasion, was finally examined, charged
with stealing a gold watch from Eugene Ettnan, a
French cook, at Cremorne Gardens.
After the first remand of the ptisonor, the prosecutor
was on his way to this court to attend the re-examina-
tion, when he vas waylaid by two Lien, one of whom re-
presented himself as the accusee's brother, and taken to
some howe on the Surrey side of the river, where ho was
detained while the Court was sitting, and had a gold
watch end 10s., as an equivalent to the value of the one
he had lost, given him, with a promise that if he aban-
doned the prosecution his own should be restored. The
police, however, conjecturing from the absence of the
prosecutor at the remand, and the circumstance of his
being a foreigner, that some trick had been resorted to
to defeat the ends of justice, obtained .a further remand,
and summoned the prosecutor, whO, notwithstanding
what had occurred, attended and gave his evidence with
much apparent fairness, although not desirous cf pres-
sing the matter any further. A watchful eye was kept
by the police for the fellows who had so z3alously inte-
rested themselves on the accused' behalf, but nothing
was seen of them.

It appeared, from the evidence adduced, that. at twelve
o'clock on the night of the 14th u!t. the prosecutor was
at the gate getting a ticket for the steam-boat, when he
felt a pressure about his breast, and on looking down
observed that his watch had been detatched from his
guard. The prisoner was immediately in front of him,
with a handkerchief in his hand, which it is conjec-
tured he had used to screen himself from observation
while separating the guard from the watch; and the
prosecutor, who had felt his hand near his pocket, had
no doubt that ho had the watch in the handkerchief at
the moment he missed it. He immediately said, " You
have got my watch," when the prisoner, in company
with another, bolted off at full speed. Mr. Smith, a
tradesman at Exeter, followed, hearing the Frenchman
cry out that be had been robbed, and prisoner's corn-
pinion tried to trip him up, bat did not succeed, and
Mr. Smith captured the accused, who immediately. begen
talking largely about bringing an action, and affected to
be immensely indignalt at the acethation. The watch
was not found, but it was clearly proved that, while
running, the prisoner parsed the handkerchief close to
the hand of his companion in the flight, who appeared
to receive soarethieg from it, and then darted off in
a contrary direction. The prisoner gave his address at
Lincoln, but no such person, upun inquiry, was known
there.

The accuse:l, who dulied the charge, was committed
'or trial.

SOUTHWARK.

DR. SMYTH'S VICTIMS.—Emma Smith and Catherine
Shuts, two young girls between 14 and 15
.y.tars of :ale,
who were some short time ego two of the victims of
Smyth, the surgeon, of Vauxhall, whs was transported
for committing a rape on a child, wore brought before
Mr. .9,eker, charged with stealing four sovereigns ran.
265. in silver from the rerson of William Howe, a. car-
riage-broker, residing in Nwington-causeway. •
It appears that on Friday night the prosecutor met
the children in the Waterleo•rood, and eftoar treating
them to some gin ho accompanied them to a house of the
worst description, situate No. 16, ll.erhert's-buildings.
While in the house Smith knocked him backwards,
robbed him of his money, and before he could r< cover
himself they both decamped from the house. Informa-
tion was afterwards given to the police, and the prisoners
were apprehended on Monday, dressed out in new i3nery.
Police-constable 36 L said he apprehended the pri-
tuners on Monday evening, dressed out in cow clothing
from head to foot. Smith said, "You have got me,
but not the tin ;" and Skeats said, "A very good job
too; and I wish I had another haul."
Mr. SECKER-llavo you any knowledge of the child-
ren? Constable—Yes, sir. I have known them for
nearly twelve months, roaming about the Waterloo-road
as prostitute!!. There aro one or two houses in thrhfrt's-
buildings, the occupiers of which entrap young children
and send them on the streets unknown to their parents.
Mr. SECKER—Do you know the house which the pri-
soners frequent? Constable—Yes, sir. It belongs to
an old woman, named Rogers, who is now undergoing a
month's imprisonment for having in her possession 4
quantity of printed cotton which had been recently
stolen. She supplied the girls with dresses out of their
immoral earnings. The Waterloo-road is literally
swarmed with young girls, who use those houses and
prowl about at all hours in the night, chiefly for the sake
of plundering drunken men,
Mr. SECKER— Was the prosecutor drunk? Prosecutor
—I was very much intoxicated or I should not have
placed myself in such a degrading situation.
The constable - informed the magistrate that there
were two children now in court who were companions
of the prisoners, and lived by prostitution.
Mr. SECSER directed them to be brought forward.

Eliza Smith, who stated her age to be 14, was ques.
tioned by Mr. Seeker, but she was so far initiated in
vice that it was pitiable to witness the offensive manner
in which she answered the worthy magistrate whose
object was to save her from further contamination.
Martha Sullivan, another child, said she lived with
her father, a looking glass-frame maker, in Lent-street,
Borough. She denied having prostituted herself in auy
way.
Police-sergeant, 22 L, said he saw the prisoners in the
Waterloo-road every night with the children just exa-
mined by his Worship. In fact, there were hundreds
like them, brought up by the brothel-keepers in the
neighbourhood; some of the places were awful dens, and
dangerous for any one to enter.
Mr. SECREA said he should commit the prisoners for
trial at the ensuing sessions, and should they be con-
victed, it might be the means of saving them from utter
destruction. He was extremely sorry to hear that such
an amount of juvenile prostitution was abounding in the
midst of the metropolis, and he should certainly order
that 'trict inquiries be made about the houses men-
tioned by the constable, so that an immediate stop may
be put to the nefarious practice of entrapping young
children and bringing them up to prostitution.
The prisoners, who seemed quite unconcerned during
the investigation, stated that they had no knowledge of
the prosecutor's money, or ever seeing him before.
They were committed for trial.

THE LATE FATAL AFFRAY IN SHOE-LANE.
Last evening a public meeting was held at the Li-
terary and Scientific Institution, Leicester-place, Little
Saffron-hill, "to consider what steps were necessary
legally to effect Mr. Long's release from prison," that
individual being one of the witnesses in a recent police
case, witieh was charecteriled in the hills convening the
meeting, as a " brutal 'Mice outrage in the City ." Lord
Dudley Coutte Stuart, 111. P., was announced to take the
chair, but his Lordship having sent an excuse for his
non-attendance, Mr. W. Browno was called upon to pre-
side, and in opening the proceedings, he observed that
at a meeting recently held on Cierkenwell-green, it was
agreed that a manor iel should be sent to Sir George
Grey, requesting him to offor a reward for the apprehen-
sion of the policeman who it was stated was guilty ot'
the "murder" of William Hogan (in a disturbance
which took place a short time ago in Shoe-lane). The
reply of the Home Secretary was to the effect that be
(Sir George Grey) had received the memorial in refe-
rence to the death of William Hogan, and that he tied
forwarded it to the Lord Mayer, together with the letter
accompanying it. This communication, it was con-
tended, left; the memorialists in the same position which
they held trfore they addressed the Home Secretary;
and the chairman now urged that it was the duty of all
true friends of freedom-to make every effort to promote
the ends of justico in this important matter. Several
persons afterwards addressed the meeting in language
strongly condemnatory of the conduct of the police, and
suggesting the necessity of further agitating the ques-
tion in order 0 effect the release of Mr. Long, who, it
was said, had been imprisoned for the purpose of pre-
venting him from giving his evidence against the police-
man alleged to have caused the death of William 1100°1
A resolution was passed condemning the course adepocu
by the police authorities iu not causing an investig,!.thlenr
to be made in order to identify the penal:lse%
d and
resolutions of a similar tendency were also cer_or
an was
it was agreed that the cause of the deceased
an gy,
is and
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and h-emspecially, by
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moretheir own five
working men, who were bound to protectwhich
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