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NOTES FOR STRANGERS.
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, lIYDE PARK.-Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, admission, Is.;
Friday, 2s. 6d. (from 10 till 7 o'clock each day); Sa-
turday (from 12 o'clock), ss.
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.-Divine service, daily at 8
A.M.; 9.45 A.M.; 3.15 P.M. On Sundays, 9.45 A.M.;
3.15 P.M. Admission daily. To view the monuments
and body of the Cathedral (gratis); the galleries, 6d.;
the ball, Is. 6d.; the great bell, model room, library,
6d.; the clock, 2d.; vaults, 6d.-in all, 3s. 2d.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.-Divine service daily at 7.4.;
Lm.; 10 A.M.; 3 P.M. On Sundays at 10 A.X. ; 3 P.MS
7 P.M. Admission to view from 9 till past 5, gratis;
with the exception of the smaller chapels, for the
whole of which there is a charge of 6d.
HOUSE OF LORDS, WESTMINSTER.-Tickets issued
(gratis) from the Lord Great Chamberlain's office
(Abingdon-street) every Wednesday and Saturday,
from 11 till 4, to view the House on Wednesday and
Saturday, from 11 till 5. When their Lordships are
hearing appeals the public are admitted without
tickets.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, WESTMINSTER.-When the House
is sitting, admission is obtained to the Strangers' Gal-
lery by a Member's order. A limited number may be
accommodated in the Speaker's Gallery, but in this
case the name of each person must be inserted previ-
ously by a Member, in 31 list for a particular evening.
WESTMINSTER HALL AND LAW COURTS-Free.
THE TEMPLE, FLEET-STREET.-The Church may be
viewed daily, except on Saturday and Sunday, gra-
tuitously, and without a beneher's order, from 10 till
4. On week days prayers are read at 9; on Sundays
there is divine service at 11 and 3. The Middle 'Tem-
ple Hell is open to the public without payment or or-
der, frosn 10 till 4; also the Inner Temple Gardens,
from 6 till half-past 8 evening.
LINCOLN'S INN.-Admission daily, except on Sunday,
to the Cteseel, Hall, and Library, gratuitously, by
bencher's order. Prayers are read in the chapel on
week days at 8; on Sundays there is Divine service at
11 and 3. The chapel may also be seen on applica-
tion to the head porter.
ERITISII MUSEUM, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMS-
BURY -Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday, trom 10 to 7 (gratis). With the ex-
ception tit Saturday the libraries may be viewed
without orders. Admission to the print room, medal
room, and botanical department, can only be ob-
tained by an order from Sir Henry Ellis, the prin-
cipal librarian, or the heads of the respective depart-
ments.
NATIONAL GALLERY, TRAFALGAR- SQUARE.-Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 10 till 6
(gratis).
VERNON GALLERY, MARLBOROUGH HOUSE.-Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 10 till 6
(gratis).
NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE.-Tickets (gratis): to be ap-
plied for at the house on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, and Thursday, from 10 till 2. The gallery, &c.,
to be viewed on Friday and Saturday, from 11 till 5.
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, CLEVELAND-HOUSE, ST. JAMES'S.
-Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, from 10
till 5, by tickets (gratis), issued by Mr. Smith, 137,
New Bond-street.
DUDLEY GALLERY, EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.-
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Satur-
day, without tickets (gratis).
MANSION-Housu,-To view the Egyptian Hall, Ball-
room, &c., apply personally, any day except Sunday,
from 11 till 4.
GUILDHALL, KING.STREET, CHEAPSIDE.-GratUitOUS
admission, without order, daily, except Sunday, from
8 till 5. The recently discovered crypt is for the pre-
sent closed.
THE TOWER.-Daily, except Sunday, from 9 till 3. The
armoury, 6d.; the regalia, 6d.
THE MINT.-Admission by special order from the Mas-
ter of the Mint.
GENERAL POST OFFICE.-Apply by letter to the Post-
master-General, or the Secretary, for an order of ad-
mission.
ROYAL EXCHANGE.-Open to the public from 9 till
half-past 3, and from 6 till 8, every day except Sun-
day.
COAL •EZCHANGE, LOWER THAMES STREET.-Gra-
tuitous admission, every day except Sunday, from
9 till 4.
CUSTOM HOUSE, LOWER THAMES-STREET.-Gratuitous
admission to the long room, every day except Sunday,
from 10 till 4.
THE DOCKS.-The West India Docks, the East India
Docks, the St. Katharine's Docks, and the London
Ducks, may be viewed gratuitously by an order pro-
curable at the offices of the respective superintendents.
In the case of the Loudon Docks, the wine vaults may
be sten by presenting a " tasting order" from any
wine merchant.
3ETHLEM HOSPITAL, OR BEDLAM, LAMBETH.-Apply
for an order to the president (Sir Peter Laurie), the
treasurer (Mr John Edward Johnson), or the Home
Secretary. Visitors will also be admitted on the per-
sonal introduction of a governor; and it may be use-
'ul to know. that the Aldermen of the city of London
ire ex officio governors. The days of admission are
'2uesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, from
11 6113.
MuLISANK PRISON, PENTONVILLE PRISON, &C.-Apply
in writing to the Home Secretary for an order.
Fcreigners will procure tickets at the respective em-
baisies. Millbank may be seen every day except
Samrday and Sunday, from eleven till one, and from
two to tour. PeDtonville may be seen on the same
days from two to four. Admission to the Hulks, at
Woolwich and Portsmouth, are to be obtained by
orders procurable in the way already stated.
THE BANK OF ENGLAND,-Admission by order from
the Governor or a Director.
THE MONUMENT, FISH-STREET-HILL.-Daily, except
Sunday, from 8 till sunset-3d.
DUKE OF YORK'S MONUMENT, CARLTON-HOUSE-TER-
RAC.S,-Daily, except Sunday, from 10 till 4 on pay-
ment of 6d.
THAMES TUNNEL.-Daily, Id.
EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MUSEUM, LEADENHALL-
STREET.-Friday, from 10 till 4 (gratis). On Tues-
day, by orders from a director.
UNITED SERVICE MUSEUM, WHITEHALL•PLACE, SCOT-
LAND.YARD.-Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs-
day, and Friday, from 11 till 5, by members' tickets
or ambassadors' cards. On Saturday by personal in-
troduction or ambassadors' cards.
SOCIETY OF ARTS, JOHN-STREET, ADELPHL-Daily,
except Sundays, by members' orders and ambassadors'
cards, from 10 till 4.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, LINCOLN'S INN-FIELDS.
-On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,
from 10 till 4, by members orders. On Friday and
Saturday, foreigners possessed of tickets, procur-
able at the various embassies and consulates, will be
admitted.
ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.-Daily,
by orders from fellows.
KENSINGTON GARDENS, HYDE PARK.-Public prome-
nade-military music daily, except Sunday, from 2
to 4. •
HORSE GUARDS.-Guard mounting, and military music,
every Thursday at eleven.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE -For admission apply, by letter,
to the Lord Chamberlain. The days for viewing the
palace aro Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 12
till 4. There is no admission when the Queen is re-
siding in the palace.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE MEWS.-Apply, by letter, to Mr.
George Lewis at the Royal Mews for cards of ad-
mission. The stables are on view every day except
Sunday, from 1 till S.
WINDSJR CASTLE.-On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
and Friday, from 11 to 4; by tickets (gratis), issued
by Mr. Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street; Messrs. Col-
naghi, Pall Mall East; Mr. Ackermann, 96, Strand;
and Mr. Moon, Threadneedle-street; and at Windsor.
KEW GARDENS.-Daily, except Saturday (gratis).
HAMPTON COURT PALACE.-Daily, except Friday,
(gratis).
WOOLWICH-THE ROYAL ARSENAL.-Admittance
daily, except on Sunday, and without order (gratis);
from 9 till 11; and from a quarter-past 1 till 4, to
view the grounds, which contain upwards o-
-28 000 guns of various calibre, and 4,000,000
of shots and shells. Foreigners require a card from
the legation of the country to which they belong
and the name of every person forming a party must
be written upon it. A special order is required from
the Board of Ordnance, Pall-mall, London, or from
the office of the Commandant of the Garrison, to view
the interior of the departments. The Rotunda-Ad-
mission gratis, and without order, to view the ar-
moury and models daily, except Saturday and Sun-
day, from 9to 11, and from 1 till 4. Visitors give
their names at the entrance. The Dockyard-Admis-
sion gratuitously, and without orders, from 9 till half-
past 11, and from half-past 1 till 4 o'clock. Foreigners
must produce cards from their respective Legations.
To view the interior of the department, a special order
is required from the Admiralty et Whitehall, or the
Commodore-Superintendent at Woolwich. Exercises
of the Royal Horse Artillery and Field Batteries on
Woolwich Common. These generally take place on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, when the
weather is favourable ; but the assembling of the
troops depends upon the other duties they have to
perform in the garrison. Mortar and Howitzer Prac-
tice-Visitors have the best opportunities of witness
ing this practice from half-past 2 to half-past 3 o'clock
on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
GREENWICH HOSPITAL.-Daily, gratis; picture gallery,
2d.; chapel, 2d.
DULWICII GALLERY (five miles from London).-Mons
day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Satuday,
gratis, from 10 till 5. Tickets to be procured from
the principal print-sellers in London.

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MORE MILITARY RIOTING IN LIVERPOOL-NO
sooner had the 91st Regiment been removed from Everton
Barrack (some being sent to ➢lanchester, others to Bury
and Preston, and the head-quarters to Chester) than the
28th Regiment occupied their places, and, it would seem,
took up their mantle of hostility to the police. On two suc-
cessive evenings this week collisions have taken place be-
tween the two forces—in more than one instance, of a moat
desperate kind. Policeman 174 was attacked the other
evening moat brutally by a soldier of the 28th, and when
assistance arrived a general melee between the soldiers and
police took place. By great forbearance and good conduct,
the police succeeded in preventing any dangerous results
from this amount of violence until a picquet from the
barracks had been procured, to whose custody the delinquent
soldiers were consigned, and no doubt they will be severely
dealt with by the military authorities. We understand
that a court-martial on some of the officers of the 91st Re-
gimenit will be held, on the charge of being absent from
duty when the late conflicts were waging between the men
of that regiment and the officers of the Liverpool consta-
bulary.

DEPARTURE or THE PACIFIC.—The United States
Mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain Nye, left the Mersey yes-
tarday (Wednesday) afternoon, at four o'clock, for New
York direct, having on board the wails for the United States,
cgrada, Nollfolll4ll4ndi

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, July 9.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord Chief
Justice CAMPBELL and a Special Jury.)
GRIMINAL INFORMATION.—THE QUEEN (ON THE PROSE•
CUTION OF THE REV. W. H. CLARKSON) v. KAYE, PRO-
PRIETOR AND PUBLISHER OF THE " WESLEYAN
TIMES."
This case, which has already been before the public.
came on for trial to-day, as the result of a rule granted
to the Rev. W. H. Clarkson, a Wesleyan minister, to
file a criminal information against the defendant, pro-
prieto! and publisher of the Wesleyan Times newspaper,
in which a series of articles were published, refleetieg on
the moral character of the prosecutor.
The defendant pleaded Not Guilty.
Sir F. Thesiger, Mr. Atherton, and Mr. J. A. Russell
appeared as counsel for the prosecution; the Attorney-
General, Mr. Montague Chambers, Q.C., and Mr.
Hance, conducted the defence.
Sir F. THESIGER, in stating the case for the prosecu-
tion, read the various articles reflecting upon the cha-
racter of the prosecutor. The first of those articles ap-
peared in the number of September 16, commenting on
proceedings before the magistrates at Leamington, in
which a case of affiliation was preferred against the
prosecutor by a young woman named Charlotte Hirons,
who had been in his service, and who said he had taken
liberties with her. She made information that the Rev.
Gentleman was father of an illegitimate male child,
to which she had given birth on the 12th of Sep-
tember. The case was heard by the magistrate for
the G unty of Warwick, on the 27th of November, and
after the complainant, Mrs. Abbey, the mother of Mr.
Clarkson's wife, and a young man, who alleged that he
was the fa her of the child, had been examined, the
magistrates dismissed the case, without calling on Mr.
Wil'more, who appeared as counsel for the defendant,
to enter into the defence. The Wesleyan Times, on the
2d of December, published a report of the proceedings
before 'he magistrate, and, in the same number, an ar-
' title commenting on those proceedings, and on the whole
case, and expressing an opinion that, " as the matter
then stood, neither party had any cause for satisfaction,
the defendant no more than the complainant," and that
" judgment of the magistrates was neither a condemna-
tion nor au acquittal." " The case," the commentary
' went on to remark, " was not decided; it was dismissed."
" As to Mr. Clarkson himself," the writer went on to
say, " we sincerely regret that the judgment pronounced
is one which he cannot point to as a positive vindication
of his character from so foul a stigma, and we earnestly
wish that we could pronounce him a clear and acquitted
man." On the 16th of December, another article
appeared in the Wesleyan Times, headed " An Unau-
thenticated Tale," which commented upon complaints
made, that a man who had paid ss, in the pound to his
creditors, should be allowed to remain and to exercise
the functions of a Wesleyan minister, and proceeded
in these terms—" Is not every Methodist in the
United Kingdom able to name one man who is, at this
present time, doing every duty that falls to a travelling
preacher, with the strongest accusation that a woman
can bring against a man hanging over him?" The
number of the 23d of December contained an article
headed " The Rev. E. Everett and Ourselves," in which
a comparison had been drawn between a Mr. Everett,
against whom a charge had been made, and the Rev. Mr.
Clarkson, setting forth that while " the Reverend Mr.
Everett was suspected, the Rev. Mr. Clarkson was ac-
cused; Mr. Everett called for an accuser, but none ap-
peared; for a charge, but none was presented; for proof,
but none was forthcoming;" and then went on to de-
scribe Mr. Clarkson's conduct, "so far," the writer ob-
serves, "as we know, as the reverse of this. Ho called
for neither accuser, charge, nor proof; and why ? Was
it that he knew all three were at hand?" The libels, in
succeeding numbers of the paper, went on to say that
they were "glad to see that the trustees of the chapels
in the Leeds second circuit" (that in which the Rev.
Mr. Clarkson was located), " had appointed a committee
to examine into the case of Clarkson v. Hirons; that
they were far from satisfied with Mr. Clarkson's expla-
nation, and were determined that the case should be
thoroughly investigated." This was the last article, the
Learned Counsel continued, complained of in those un-
doubtedly scandalous and malicious libels, the accusa-
tions in which Mr. Clarkson most distinctly denied upon
oath; and the defendant might, if he pleased, under
Lord Campbell's Act, plead the truth of the accusations
he had published, and that he had published them so for
the public good, but he had not done so, and therefore
he had gone far beyond that limit which the law allowed
to a public journalist; and having pleaded only " the
general issue," the truth of the matter in the libels could
not come in question, and they must confine themselves
to the proof of the publication of the articles complained
of, and determine whether they were libellous or not.
The ordinary proof was then put in, showing the de-
fendant to have been the registered proprietor and pub-
lisher of the Wesleyan Times, at the time that the libels
complained of appeared. The papers containing those
libels were also put in, and the libels read.
The Rev. W. H. Clarkson was then examined, and
deposed that he was a preacher in the Wesleyan Con-
nexion, and had been so for upwards of thirty years. He
had been stationed on the Derby circuit in 1847, and in
1850 he removed to the Leeds circuit. Charlotte Hirens
was then in his service, and had been for about three
years and a half, and he was a married man and had been
living with his wife during the whole of that time.
Witness, on cross-examination, said he had been ap-
pointed to the Leeds circuit about the middle of Sep-
tember, and was a member of the Conference. It was
one of the rules of the Wesleyan Connexion that if a
charge of immorality was made against ministers of that
connexion, those charges must be investigated with a
view of determining whether the minister against whom
they were made was fit to be continued in his office.
The conference was the proper and authorised tribunal
for such investigation. According to a law passed in
1795, an inquiry might be made before the district body;
but the final settlement of the matter was with the
conference. There was no dispute about the fact,
although some parties might wish for an alteration.
One hundred preachers constituted the legal conference;
but all minis! era permitted to attend by the districts
might attend the general conference. The examination
of a charge of immorality would go to the general con-
ference, the number to go to which was regulated by
the district. The trustees of chapels had a right to call
a meeting of the district, and other trustees and minis-
ters had a right to inquire into the conduct of an accused
minister, and to suspend him until the meeting of the
conference, and they might have adopted that course
with regard to him.
Witness, in re-examination, said the conference did
not originate any charge; but some one should prefer it,
and bring it before them.
This closed the case for the prosecution.
The ATTORNEY-GINEItAL addressed the jury for the
defence, and submitted that it had been correctly stated
by his Learned Friend, Sir F. Thesiger, that the defend-
ant had not placed on the record any allegation that the
matters were true; and he might add, that he had not
done so from the beginning to the end of the proceed-
ings. He had never stated that the charges complained
of by the prosecutor were true, but merely that the in.
terests of the " Wesleyan connexion" required that such
grave charges should be fully investigated and disposed
of by the proper authorities, and that it was not right
that the investigation before the magistrate at Leaming-
ton should be considered as conclusive, because
the case had been dismissed by those functionaries,
merely because certain exigencies of the Act of Parlia-
ment had not been complied with. The defendant
had a right to assume as the basis of his
observations those statements which had been made

in a court of public justice, if the subject-mat-
ter were within the scope of legitimate discussion
for a public journalist, and they were made without
malice. The prosecutor was occupying a public
position as the minister of a large community, and it
was a law amongst that community that a charge of im-
morality against one of their ministers, calculated to
bring scandal on the body, should be investigated by
parties competent to come to a conclusion upon it. In
that sense the defendant, as a journalist, had taken up
the matter, and he had a right to publish comments upon
matters in which the community took an interest, and
there was no matter in which they could have a deeper
interest than that the ministers of their religion should
be free from all stain and reproach. The journalist had
not averred that the statements of Charlotte Hirons were
true; but he had certainly commented on the efforts
that had been made by the friends of Mr. Clarkson, to
induce her to sign a paper contradicting her previous
statements. It was not part of the defendant's business,
as s journalist, to say that the girl's accusations were
true; but she had openly made an accusation against
her master, that certain things had taken place before
she left his service, which he considered ought to have
been investigated; and it was for the jury to say whether
the defendant had written the articles complained of
with a malicious purpose; but, looking at the feelings
by which he had been actuated in writing those articles,
they would, he hoped, come to a different conclusion.
Lord CAMPBELL summed up; and observed that
it would be for the jury to say whether the articles
in the Wesleyan Times were fair commentaries or not
upon the accusation against the Rev. Mr. Clarkson, and
intended for the service of the Wesleyan community,
and the promotion of religion and morality. The Con-
ference, his Lordship continued, appeared satisfied of
the innocence of the Rev. Mr. Clarkson, and bad allowed
him to remain in the exercise of his sacred office. The
journalist certainly was properly allowed a great limit
for commentary on public matters; but they must take
care that the limit of the law should not be abused for
the purpose of gratifying private malice. lie did not,
in making those remarks, say that the defendant had
sought to gratify any feeling of malice in the matter;
but the whole case was before the jury, and it was for
them to say whether the defendant was guilty or not of
baying unfairly made himself a partisan in imputing the
offence charged against the prosecutor.
The jury retired; and after a short absence returned
a verdict of Guilty against the defendant, coupled with
a recommendation in his favour to the mercy of the
Court, on account of the strong party feeling existing.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT,
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
Thomas Snee, 32, a post•office letter-carrier, pleaded
guilty to,.a charge of stealing a letter containing money,
the property of the Postmaster-General.
Martha Rodgers, 22. was indicted for stealing a letter
containing a Bank of England note for 10/., the property
of the Postmaster-General.

Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin were for the prosecu-
tion; Mr. O'Brien was for the defence.
It appeared from the statement of the Learned Counsel
for the prosecution, and the evidence that was adduced
in support of it, that on th© 4th of June a lady named
Rice, being desirous to transmit a sum of 101. to her
daughter at Alderney, enclosed a note for that amount
in a letter, which she posted and registered at a post re-
ceiving-house at Notting-hill, kept by a lady named
thidgilMd• The primmer Ras 112 the porrio9 91

Underwood, and she was present when the letter was re-
ceived and the certificate of its registration given to Mrs.
Rice. When the letter arrived at its destination in due
course, it was found that the note had been abstracted,
and a communication of the fact was immediately made to
the Post-office authorities. Inquiries were then made,
and it turned out that on the sth of Juue the prisoner
had gone to the shop of a Mr, Griffiths, a haberdasher
at Nutting-hill, where she purchased it variety of articles
of dress, which she paid for with the identical note
that had been stolen from the letter, and received
six or seven pounds in change. When the prisoner
was afterwards questioned upon the subject she at once
admitted that she had purchased the goods from Mr.
Griffiths, and that she had paid fur them with a 101.
note, but she positively asserted that the note had been
in her possession since the preceding month of February.
This, however, was manifestly a falsehood, as it appeared
that the note was dated in April of the present year,
and, of course, had not bee❑ issued from the Bank at
the period the prisoner represented it to have been in her
possession.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Seutence was deferred in both the Yost-office cases.
Thomas Brewer Hatton was brought up for judgment
just before the rising of the Court, and sentenced to be
kept to hard labour for 18 months.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER,)
Lewis John Jones, 21, clerk, wits iuttieted for embezzling
the sums of 244 14s. 6d., 111. 25., 61., 41 45., and other
sums of money, belonging to his master, John Walter
Huddleston.

The prisoner seemed deeply affected at the degraded
position in which he had placed himself, and kept his
face averted from the gaze of the Court during the
whole time he was in the dock.

He pleaded guilty.

It will be recollected that the prisoner had been clerk
to Mr. Huddleston, the barrister, and the sums embezzled
had been the tees paid to him and the moneys intrusted
to him by his master.
Mr. PARRY, who appeared for the prisoner, in alluding
to the nature of the offence, said that the case was a pe-
culiarly distressing one, as the prisoner had up to this
time borne a high character and been most attentive to
his duties, and he was glad to be able to inform the
Court that the prisoner's defalcation would not be found
so heavy as it was at -first expected. The reason of his
present degradation was his having been drawn into bad
company, and becoming addicted to betting and the com-
pany of loose women; and under these circumstances he
hoped the Court would act as leniently as consistently
with its duty it could. With regard to the course pur-
sued by his I.,,,arned Friend towards the prisoner he
could not too warmly eulogise it. He had taken him to
be his clerk when a boy, and had all along acted as a
father to him, and treated him in every way as though
he had been bis son.

The RECORDER asked, over how long a period the em.
bezzlement extended?

Mr. PARRY said, from January, 1850; but his Learned
Friend's confidence and kindness towards the prisoner
had been the reaso❑ of his not having found out his de-
falcations at an earlier period.
Mr. BALLANTINE said he appeared on behalf of his
Learned Friend Mr. Huddleston. The duty imposed
upon them to appear against a young man with whom
they had been so long associated was most painful, as
up to this time he had stood high in the opinion of all
who knew him. He (the Learned Counsel) had known
him from a mere boy, and could affirm that he had been
most assiduous in his duties, and believed that his being
drawn into bad company was the cause of this. Gen-
tlemen i❑ their profession were of necessity obliged to
place great trust in their clerks, and largo sums of
money came into their hands; in Not, the highest trust
was reposed in them, and seldom or ever, he was happy
to say, was it misplaced; and as a class he had the
highest opinion of their integrity and attention to the
interests of their employers. The amount, as Mr. Parry
had stated, would be much less than at first expected—
not, be believed, above 801. or 1001. instead of 1701.
Mr. PARRY said, the prisoner had told him that he
expected that his fees on the Oxford circuit, which he
was about going with his master, would have enabled
him to relieve himself ; but he (Mr. Parry) thought he
was too much enthralled ever to have relieved himself.

The RECORDER said he should postpone passingsen.
Once.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the CtMMON SERGEANT.)
Thomas Erskine Souper, 43, clerk, was indicted for
emb-zzling the sums of 301., 58/. 10i., and 371,, the
moneys of William Blandford, his master.

The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Bodkin was for the
prisoner.
Mr. BODKIN, on behalf of the prisoner, said, that,
although the sums laid in the indictment were not very
heavy, he could not but inform the Court that the priso-
ner's defalcations amounted to upwards of 3,000 L, and
this was one of the very melancholy cases where a man
holding a highly confidential and important situation had
been induced to speculate in the purchase of railway
shares with the moneys of his employers. The prisoner,
excepting this transaction, bad borne an irreproachable
character, and had for some years held the situation of
clerk to the Thames Plato Glass Company, the moneys
of which company he had been making use of. The
greatest confidence was reposed in him, and the com-
pany were not aware that the prisoner was a defaulter
until he could no longer bear the situation in
which he was placed, and gave himself into
custody, making the fullest statement of the
affairs of the company to the directors, of which they
wero totally ignorant. After he had first given him-
self up the directors of the company permitted him to
remain at large, but ultimately preferred the charge
against him. The prisoner had given up the policies of
his life insurance to the company, who would also re-
ceive 5001. from the Guarantee Society. The prisoner's
defalcations may be said to have originated from the
fact that when ho first obtained the situation he had a
loan of 1,5001. granted him by one of the directors, to
repay which nearly the whole of his salary had been
stopped, and to make up which he had been speculating,
and became enthralled in the manner he hid, and be
hoped, under these circumstances, the Court would not
consider this a case where it was bound to pass the fullest
sentence the law allowed for such offences.
Mr. CLARKSON said the company had no wish to press
with vindictiveness against the prisoner, and with regard
to the mode in which he had become enthralled a❑d had
stated the affair to the company, it was correct; but it
was not correct about the money that had been lent—
that was a private loan from oue director, with which the
company had nothing to do; and the policies spoken of
had been left by the prisoner in his iron safe when ho
left the company.
Mr. BonAIN then called several witnesses, who gave
the prisoner a most unexceptionable character, several
of the gentlemen so called being shareholders of the
company.
The CO2IIBION-SERGEANT said ho should take time to
consider the sentence.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-S7'REET.

William Bailey, a middle-aged man of dissipated ap-
pearance, was brought up before Mr. Arnold, charged
with the following series of brutal outrages upon Louisa
Bailey, his wife:—
The complainant, a respectable-looking woman, whose
bosom was enveloped in surgical bandages, stated, that
she had been married for several years to the prisoner,
by whom she had fuur children, but that she had been
subjected for a long time past to the most cruel treatment
by him i❑ consequence of his drunken propensities,
which induced him to squander every shilling he
could obtain among the most degrading associates, and
the slightest remonstrance or opposition on her part to
th© gratification of his depraved tastes inevitably brought
upon her the severest illusage. Half his time was spent
in the company of a large and ferocious sort of mastiff he
had recently purchased, which he led about by a chain,
to the terror of the neighbours, and upon his being
thwarted in obtaining some money from the servant that
morning to purchase drink with, he set the dog upon her
(the mistress), and the brute fixed his teeth in her thigh

and bit her severely. The prisoner then left the house,
swearing vengeance upon her and the family when
he came back; and about twelve o'clock he did re-
turn, accompanied by a broker and an assistant, to whom
he wanted to pawn or sell all the furniture. She tried
to persuade him out of such a cruel resolution, and the
broker did not appear inclined to purchase, but the pri-
soner insisted that he should, rushed up stairs, and re-
turned with two pillows off her bed to commence the sale.
She clung to the pillows and would not let them go, upon
which a struggle ensued between them; and the pri-
soner, on finding that he could not effect the sale of
them, ran into the yard, unchained the dog, and hounded
him upon her; the dog immediately sprang at her neck
and seized her by the left breast, in which and her
clothes he fixed his teeth so firmly that in extricating
herself from his bite a large piece was torn out of her
dress. Upon escaping from the animal she hastened to
the shop of a neighbouring surgeon,
where her wounds
were dressed, but she was still suffering acute pain from
the injuries she had sustained, and she was in much ap-
prehension that her breast was festering. (The com-
plainant handed in a certificate from Mr. Miller, a sur-
geon at Stoke Newington, describing the nature of the
injuries, and from that it appeared that,
in addition to the
wounds produced by the animal's teeth,
serious contusion upon the bosom, apparentlyshe had also a
the result
of a heavy blow.)
John Tolladay, the broker, Thomas Chapman, his
assistant, and N Dowton,
srah the complainant's st-rvant,
corroborated the proaecutrix's testimony, and the latter
witness added, that upon her refusing to lend him money
to purchase liquor with, the prisoner expressed his de-
termination to sell the goods, and said he and his dog
would drink up the value of whatever they fetched be-
tween them.
The dug was produced in court by bayedthprful the police, secured
powerful brute it
by a chain, and was such
was surprising the woman had escaped with the injuries
she had.
When called upon for his defence the prisoner, in a
sullen tone, denied that he bad set the dog upon his wife,
declaring that it had voluntarily sprung upon her in
consequence of seeing
the struggle between them about
se
the goods; bat it having been proved that he had wil-
fully incited the auimal to attack the woman, and held
the chain in his hand while it did so,
Mr. ARNOLD, after characterizing it as one of the most
savage and brutal transactions that had ever come under
his notice, and expressing his regret that he could not
morn severely punish him, sentenced the prisoner to pay
the full penalty of al., or in default to stand committed
to the House of Correction for two months, and further-
more ordered him, at the expiration of that period, to
put in substantial bail fbr his good behaviour for the fur-
ther term of 12 mouths.
The prisoner was not prepared with the money, and
was therefore transferred to the House of Correction in
the van.

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