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have occasioned no surprise, but if that absence extended to
fifteen she would be alarmed, as Mr. Hatch was subject to
attacks of cramp. Mrs. Plummer had plenty of opportu-
nities of talking with Eugenie when she brought the child
Stephtnie. She could have done so in the kitchen garden.
On the 25th:August she was positive she saw Eugenie and
her mother alone some time previously to Mrs. Plummer
leaving.

The court then adjourned for a short time, and on the
iudges taking their seats,

TILE CASE OP DOWNES

was taken up. The prisoner, it will he recollected,
was found guilty of taking away a girl, named Langleis,
under 16, from the care of her parents. Some points had
arisen during the trial, which had been referred to the
judges. As they were not able to agree, it

had been thought proper to discharge the prisoner on his

entering into his recognisanees in £BO to appear for judg-
ment, if the decision of the judges rendered it (necessary.

The required sureties were entered into and DoNc;nes left the

Court.

THE CASE OF RICHARDSON'.

On the application of Mr. Giffard, this case was ordered
not to be put on the paper for trial before Saturday.

NIL HATCH'S CASH
was then proceeded with. Miss Howe, the governess,
was called, but her evidence was merely confirmatory of
that given by the previous witnesses.
Mary Ann Read, a domestic servant late in the service
of Mr. Hatch, said—She recollected the Plummers coining
to Mr. Hatch's house at Wandsworth. She saw Mr.
Hatch and the children running. round the gar-
den. She waited at the door until they entered
the house from seeing Mrs. Plummer off, and saw the
whole party all the time. Mr. Hatch never put Eugenie's
hand into his trousers' pocket. She used to brush Mr.
Hatch's clothes. There was no hole or slit in the pockets.
The towels she placed in the morning in Eugenie's room
she always found undisturbed in the evening. She never
remarked any strange marks on them. It was no part of
her duty to mend Mr. Hatch's clothes. He never asked her
to set aside a pair of trousers to be mended. Mrs. Hatch
used to repair her husband's clothes. Two towels were
allowed to children for the week. They used to rim
about a good deal out of school hours. They
were washed regularly twice a-day, and on each occasion
one of the towels was used. She never suspected anything,
and therefore never looked particularly at the towels. She
recollected Mrs. Plummer leaving, and the children run-
ning after Mr. Hatch. She was positive Mr. Hatch never
jumped over the flower beds. He ran round. She must
have seen him if he had done so.

Several other witnesses were called, but the evidence was
merely to contradict some of the minor statements made by
the defendant in her evidence at the trial of Mr. batch.
The proceedings were again adjourned.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY.

The trial of Edward H. Weltzenstein, Eliza Weltzen-
stein, Hermann Frick, and Madeleine Jourdan, was re-
sumed this morning.
The prisoners were indicted for conspiring together to
obtain £3OO from Joseph Stohwasser, a foreigner, carrying
on business in Conduit-street, Regent-street. There was
also another indictment against the prisoners, in which
they were charged with conspiring to impede the course of
justice, by giving false evidence in the Court of Queen's
Bench, in which Stohwasser was defendant.
The Jury found all the prisoners guilty, and sentence
was deferred.

A number of the leading bankers, including
Messrs. Glyn and Co., and Messrs. Prescott, Grote, and
Co., have given official notice that on and after the 19th
inst., their establishments will close for business on Satur-
day at three o'clock instead of at four, as at present. As it
is respectfully requested that drafts intended for the clear-
ing on Saturday may be paid in before two o'clock it is still
thought the endeavour will be made eventually to accom-
plish the closing at the earlier hour, in accordance with the
original suggestion.
THE PULLINGER FRAUDS.—The Committee of
the Stock Exchange are still vigorously prosecuting their
investigation into the late transactions disclosed through
the serious banking frauds, and the attendance of the mem-
bers is very punctual. Few absentees it is said are to be
discovered, so absorbed the majority seems in carrying out
the inquiry. Although nothing definite is allowed to trim •
spire it is reported that the examination of the several ope-
rations entered into on behalf of Pullinger is of
the most searching character. What the committee
may be supposed to be driving at is to trace, if
possible, the amount really paid to members of the
establishment, and should this prove to be the case they
will have to go backwards for a considerable period. The
transactions of the delinquent during the panic this time
last year, and when some of the heaviest of his losses must
have ensued, will necessitate the opening of the affairs of a
failed firm, who at that date were supposed to be placed in
difficulty through the default of "a principal" in Paris.
These and other facts may, with patent inquiry, be arrived
at, but then it appears scarcely probable that it will be
found so large a sum as the amount dealt with has been
dissipated in speculation.
THE CATTLE TRADE.—Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
May B.—There were 816 fat cattle, 5,780 sheep and lambs,
and 714 pigs at market to-day. he demand for beef was
good, and about 6d. per stone more money than last week
was obtained. For both sheep and pigs the sale was rather
slack, and the former declined Id. per lb., and the latter
3d. per stone. Lambs sold freely at from £1 to £1 16s. per
hehd ; beef, 6s. 6d. to 9s. per stone; sinking offal ; pork,
ss. 6d. to 75.; mutton (shorn), 71d. to Bd. per lb. Inn eference
to the cattle trade one of the newspapers of this town says :
" For some months past sheep have been realising from ld.
to 11d. per lb. more money in our market than in the
metropolis, in consequence of which a truck of sheep, 35 in
number, prime Downs, was purchased in the London mar-
ket last week for a butcher of this town. This is somewhat
startling, and half a century ago it would have been placed
in the category of impossibilities. The mutton was of the
finest quality, and, sinking the offal, it would not be higher
by the lb. than the most inferior sorts at our own market.
Railways are making great revolutions, and in nothing have
they caused a greater change than in the cattle trade, which
is exhibited in the immense quantity of dead meat conveyed
to the London markets,"