The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-08 00:00:00

was not the lowest tender sent in. He used sew-

ing machines (Thomas's), and machinery for cut-
ting, both driven by steam power, largely in his

lusiness.

rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1858.

delivered to Mr. Nuttall, but that they did not de-
liver the whole of it in time, and some 2,800 cubic
feet were left upon the plaintiff's hands. He al-
lowed it to remain, however, at the station until
April, 1856, when he sold it all, except 869 cubic
feet, which he directed should be sent to the Rib-
chester station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway, consigned to himself. The station mas-
ter at the Ribchester station said the timber was
delivered to a person named Halliwell, to whom
the invoice was made out ; but some days after
Halliwell had taken it away, another invoice was
received, in which his name was struck out, and
that of the plaintiff inserted. It was too late, how-
ever, the timber having been previously taken
away by Halliwell, and no notice of the fact was
given to the plaintiff, who remained in ignorance
of it until some six months afterwards, by which
time Halliwell was in prison. After a good deal
of correspondence, an action was brought by the
plaintiff in the county court, which was removed to
the superior courts, and has since 1857 been in
abeyance. The plaintiff swore positively that he
directed the station master at Elsback to make out
the invoice in his own name, and that he never
authorised its being delivered to Halliwell. The
station master has since died; and Halliwell,
having taken advantage of the Insolvent Debtors'
Act, had absconded. In his schedule he included
the value of the timber in the amount of his debt
to the plaintiff, and Mr. Hartley, although he had
been appointed assignee, had taken no formal
steps to get the amount of his 'debt as scheduled
reduced. The defendants relied a good deal upon
this fact, but the plaintiff stated that he had never
noticed the amount mentioned in the schedule,
although he told the judge who heard the insol-
vent's case that his claim was £7O, and not £l2O.
The jury, after a very short deliberation out of
court, found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages,
£4B. ss.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Dcc. 7.

Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assisttint-Judge, at
• Clerkenwell.)
THE QUEEN v. CAPRON.

This was a case in which an indictment had been
found against the defendant, Mr. Thomas Wm.
Capron, for an assault upon Mr. Morris.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, on the part of the pro-
secution, came down specially to apply to the court
to fix a day for the trial.
The Assistant-Judge said he thought it was a case
for exhibition of articles of the peace, not indictment,

anything, but the officer found the purse in her
hand when she was taken to the station-house.
The prisoner was remanded.

BOW-STREET.—George Philp, a letter carrier,
who had been twenty-three years in the service of
the Post-office, appeared before Mr. Jardine, on a
summons cnarging him with having removed two
postage stamps from a letter, substituting other
stamps which had been previously used, andthereby
defrauding the Post-office.
He pleaded guilty.
Mr. Peacock stated that the defendant had for
some time been employed to take letters from the
box at the Borough branch office,'and to obliterate
the stamps in the usual manner. It had been for
some time suspected that he was in the habit of
removing and appropriating the stamps, for which
old ones that had been used on other letters, and
already obliterated, were substituted. In order to
test him five letters were prepared and posted at
that office, one with two penny stamps and the
others with one stamp each, all of which were
marked. He was then watched and was seen to
substitute old stamps in the manner suspected, and
on being searched. the stamps which had been
taken from the letters were found on him. The
summons related to the letter from which the two
stamps were taken, as it was not thought neces-
sary to proceed in every case. The Post-office
authorities much regretted to see a man, who had
been so many years in their servico, placed in such
a position, but they had reason to:believe that this
practice was carried to a very great extent, and
they felt it their duty to make an example.
Mr. Jardine (to the defendant)—You are liable to
a penalty of £2O, but you have punished yourself
to an extent far beyond any penalty that I could
inflict. You lose your character, your situation,
and your superannuation, because you chose to
steal a trumpery twopence or threepence. I can-
not conceive how a man's understanding can be so
deficient—even if he had no sense of right and
wrong—that he can be fool enough to do such a
thing. Ido not make these remarks to add to the
pain you must suffer with the prospect of starvation
or the workhouse before you and your wife and
family, but in the hope that they may possibly in-
duce others who may be about to commit some simi-
lar act to pause, and consider the serious conse-
quences of such paltry dishonesty. You are liable
to a fine of £2O. I know you cannot pay that, but
I cannot mitigate the penalty lower than 405., for
it is right that others, in mercy to themselves,
should be deterred from such offences.

Charles Field, the cabman, on whose behalf nume-
rous charitable persons have lately forwarded sub-
scriptions, waited on Mr. Jardine, who pain him
the balance of the money received on his account.
Previous advances had been made to him according

to his requirements, and he had been enabled to
establish himself in a small business, from which he
hopes to derive a comfortable subsistence. He de-
sired to express in the newspapers his heartfelt
gratitude for the bounty of the public. The total
amount received for him was £l4 16s. sd.
Mr. Jardine has received for the poor box one
half of a £5 note from Lord C., who requested an
acknowledgment.