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'INDIA OFFICE, Oct. 23, 1867.
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Right Hon. the Governor-General of India in Council the
following Notification regarding the stria enforcement
of Sections 33 and 31 of the Indian Consolidated Customs
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J. CO MO MELVILL

NOTIFICATION.

Notice is hereby given that, on and after the let day of
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1863 (the Indian Consolidated Customs Act) will be strictly
enforced at all Custom Houses subordinate to the Govern-
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BROMLEY AUTUMN RACES-WIM=SDAY,

A Match of .50 sous, 10 ft; list 711) each ; 2 miles of the
Steeplechase Cour-so.

Mr Cox's Leotard, by Tumbler—Nervous=, aged
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Mr Weston's Warwick Lass, aged (Mr Barnard) 2
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Mr Robinson's Elburg, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (R.. I'Ansou) 2
Mr Lindsney's Variation, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (A Spencer) 3

Whitworth and The Nun also ran.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Variation, and 3to 1. each agst
Woodman and Elburg. Won easily by a neck.—The win-
ner was objected to for a cross, and the objection remains
in abeyance.

A Steeplechase Plate, a handicap of 40 sous ; winners

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extra. About 2 miles.
Mr Lindsney's Helice, by Muscovite—lonica, 5 yrs, 11st
61b (inc. 101 b extra) (Potter) 1
Mr F. G. Hobson's Triumpher, 6 yrs, list 91b (Owner) 2
Mr J. Turner's Red Rose, 5 yrs, lOst4lb (Rickaby) 3
_ _

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Jassy, Batthyany, Black Swan, Confusion, Wedding
Peal, and Camillus also ran. _

Betting -2 to 1 agst Triumpher, 5 to 2 agst Helice, 5 to
1 agst Confusion, and Bto 1 agst Camillus. Won by three
quarters of a length.

The Bromley Autumn Handicap of 5 sous each, 2 ft, with
50 added ; winners extra. Nearly one mile and a half

on the flat. 24 subs.
Mr Ford's Residuary Legatee, by Cavendish -Codicil,
by Annandale, 3 yrs, Est (C. Smith) 1
Mr 0. Smith's Puebla, 5 yrs, 7st 71b (H. Jackson) 2
Mr Pawley's Kismet, 4 yrs, ist 51b (car. 7st 7lb (Marsh) 3
Leading Suit, Aldcroft, Mischief, Pakrita, Pevensey,
Isabella, and Gaiety also ran.
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Betting-5 to 2 agst Pakrita, 3to 1 agst Loading Suit, 5
o 1 agst Puebla, 7 to 1 agst Residuary Legatee, and 10 to
agst Mischief. Won by three lengths.

A Stilling Handicap Hurdle Race of 40 sovs. The winner
to be sold for 50 sovs. About 1k miles, over five flights

of hurdles.
Mr. Clifford's Lady Lincoln, by Northern Lincoln—
Crena, 3 yrs, 9st (Gregory) 1
Mr. Pawley's Roving Maid, 3 yrs, 9st 121 b (R I'Anson) 2
Mr. C. Head's Minn 3 yrs, lOst (T. Ablett) 3

The following also ran :—Lytham, Oldminstor, Stilton,
Countess 8010, La Pique, Lord Craven, Yellow Girl, Lydia,
Finale, Vigor, Marianna, and Whitworth.
Betting-7 to 2 agst Yellow Girl, 4to 1 agst Lady Lin-
coln, 5 to 1 agst Roving Maid, 10 to 1 each agst La Pique
and Whitworth, and 100 to 8 each agst Oldminster, Milly,
and Lord Craven. Won by a neck.

The Kent Open Handicap Steeplechase of 10 sous each,
2 ft, with 50 added ; winners extra. About 3 miles.

17 subs.
Mr. E. Clifford's Hippolyte, by King Tom—Daughter of
the Star, aged, 10st 101 b (Mr. Hobson) 1
Mr. R. Sheppard's Wade, 5 yrs, lOst 41b (Owner) 2
Mr. Barry's Northern Light (h b), 6 yrs, list 41b
(Lord C. Kerr) 8

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Extraord nary Case of Fraud.

William Blomfield, described as a publican,
was charged yesterday, at the li,ldlesex Sessions,
obtaining a 11 inttel shirt, a pair of drawers, a
yes*, and .(.:5 in money from Sarah Cooper by false
pretences. 111 r. F. 11. Lewis, instructed by Messrs
Lewis and Lewis, appeared for the prosecution. The
prisoner conducted hi 3 own defence. The husband
of the prosecutrix, Arthur Cooper, was the conti-
nental traffic manager of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway, and two or three weeks ago he
pleaded guilty, before Alderman Lawrence, to a
charge of indecently assaulting a young woman in
a carriage of the company. Ile was thereupon
sentenced to one month's imprisonment and bard
labour at Holloway prison. The case was reported
in the daily newspapers, and the prisoner presented
himself within a day or two at the lodgings of
Cooper's wife, stating he was a Scripture-reader or
schoolmaster in the Holloway Prison, and could
procure Cooper's discharge upon receipt of £5. He
not only succeeded in obtaining the money, but in
inducing Mrs. Cooper to allow him to sleep in her
bedroom, she passing the night with a female lodger
in the same house. The details of the actual events
were deposed to by the witnesses, and the emi-
r lexion endeavoured to be given to them will be
inferred from the prisoner's cross-examination. If
the possibility of duping a person by such a story
as the prisoner told seems incredible, his effrontery
in meeting the charge in the manner in which he did
is equally astounding.

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Sarah Cooper having proved the above facts, was

Cross-examined by the Prisoner—l did not meet
you in Gresham-street, City, and drink sherry with
you. I dined with some friends of my husband in
Gresham-street. I did meet you in Gresham-street,
but you did not ask me to come and take some re-
freshment. I did not say that Arthur has got into
a nice trouble, and ask you (the prisoner) if you
could make some arrangement as to coming and
living with me. I did not leave my husband for a
week in 1866. I did not say that if you would go
with me I would make every arrangement for our
going to Paris together. I did not write to Paris
for that purpose. I came home at half-past nine on
the Friday night, and there was a blind lady sitting
in the room. That was the person who lived in the
house. I did not say that I was sorry that I had
kept you waiting so long. I did not tell the blind
lady to leave the room, because I wanted to speak
to you alone. The blind lady did not say I know
what the gentleman has come for, and you need not
care about me. I did not say, "No ; I want to
speak to the gentleman alone." I did not ask you
at once to make up your mind to go with me
to Paris. I did not say that I could get the
money required from Mr. Williams, a bet-
ting-man, who always told me when I was in want
of money to apply to him. I did not go away in a
cab to meet him that evening. I did not have sup-
per with you that evening. I had supper that even-
ing but not with you. I had supper with a friend
before I returned home. That was not the occasion
when you left me. I did not come into your bed-
room at three o'clock in the morning and get into
bed with you. I did not say that when a gentleman
sent in his resignation that I would go with you,
and that you should never want for money. I did
not say, when I was dressing my hair in the morn-
ing, " What beastly links you have got in your
shirt. Here are a pair of Arthur's, and you can take
them and wear them." I did not say that I was
going to Billingsgate market to see a friend, and
that I should be back at eight o'clock. I did not
give you a collar belonging to Athur because I said
the one you were wearing was very dirty. I did not
say when you said that if I was to remain with you
that you must go home to your lodgings and get
some under linen ; and I did not s►y there is no
necessity for you to do so, as you can have some of
Arthur's. I went with you to the Zoological Gar-
dens iu the Regent's Park. I went with you into the
gardens. You took four letters, and gave them to
the man at the gate to post. I did not give you
any money at the Zoological Gardens to post the
letters. I was in the Zoological Gardens for two
hours. When I asked you about the letters you
said, " They were half way on their journey." When
before the magistrate I did not know the place I
went to was the Zoological Gardens. When I was
in the Zoological Gardens you left me there, and
you said that you had to go and give a lesson. I
purchased a duck for Sunday's dinner, and gave 3s.
for it. You bought some grapes, but you ate them
all yourself. On Saturday you came home to tea
with me. I did not sit upon your lap, put my arms
round your neck, and say that I loved you better
than any other man in the world. I asked you why
you looked so sad, and I asked you to speak out like
a gentleman if you intended to assist me in my
trouble. You did not say that you could not fall in
with my ideas—that was to go away with me to
Paris—because you were a married man. I never
asked you such a thing. I did not ask you to take
a cab, and that I would go anywhere with you that
night. I did not ask you if you had made up your
mind to go away with me. I did ask you home to
take tea with me, where Mr. Williams and some
other friends were to be. I did not say that they
were friends of Arthur's, and you were to say that
you were the schoolmaster at the prison, and what-
ever I said you were to answer me. _ _

The Assistant-Judge summed up the evidence,
and the jury, after a few minutes' consultation, re-
turned a verdict of guilty.

Mr. Sach, superintendent of police at Sudbury, in
Suffolk, said the prisOner was tried there in 1861,
before Baron Martin, for robbery, and previous
convictions being proved against him, he was sen-
tenced to be kept in penal servitude for five years.
He was liberated with a ticket-of-leave in Decem-
ber, 1864. At that time he made accusations against
him that he had neglected to apprehend him for a
long time, although he knew perfectly well where
he was to be found. There were two other convic-
tions proved against him. The prisoner's real name
was .William Gladwell, and he was born at Brox-
ford, in Suffolk.
The Assistant-Judge—After what we hear of your
former career, it is startling that such a man should
have the assurance to attack the character of a re-
spectable married woman, to whom, in the absence
of her husband, you have acted as a great scoundrel.
If there were a scintilla of truth in what you have
said in endeavouring to degrade her, your conduct
would be villainous, and its villainy is increased by
the defence you have had the hardihood to set up.
When we hear that you attacked in a similar man-
ner the Superintendent of Police at Sudbury we
have no hesitation in imposing the full amount of
punishment which the law permits, and we are only
sorry it is not greater. You must be kept in penal
servitude for five years. As far as my opinion goes,
the prosecutrix leaves the court unstained and un-
sullied in her character. The property was ordered
to be restored to Mrs. Cooper, and it is only fair to
say she answered frankly in the negative the im-
putations suggested by the prisoner's speech, when,
in cross-examination, he put those matters cate-
gorically to her.

MR. BRIGHT, M.P., ON THE RATEPAYING
CLAUSES OF THE REFORM BILL.—Mr. Bright has written a
letter to Mr. Warburton, of Salford, on the obstacles
which the ratepaying clauses of the new Reform
Act are supp"sed to present to the enfranchisement
of the occupiers of small tenements. The hon. gentle-
man points out that it is not necessary that the rates
should be paid directly by the occupier, and "the system
of payment by the owner need not be disturbed if ho will
undertake to pay the full rate on all his occupied property,
making an arrangement with his tenant in the matter of
rent." He holds that, except in cases where the rent has
hitherto been below the market value, it must be impossible
for cottage owners to maintain the existing rent and at the
same time throw the rate upon the tenant, for such a course
would bring about its own remedy by causing an extensive
cottage building, which would soon bring rents down again
to their natural level.

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FOREIGN NOTES;

Trit 13ATTLE OF MENTANA:

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Further particulars are to hand respecting the defeat of
the Garibaldians. The conflict will be known as the battle
of Mentana. Brentano, is a small hamlet lying at the foot
of a valley, about a league distant from Monte Rotondo.
It is situate upon the roadway from Monte Rotondo to
Tivoli. It appears that on Sunday afternoon the Pontifi-
cal and French troops issued from Rome to retake the
advanced positions of the volunteers. General Ponies
commanded the French and General Kanzler the Papal
troops. They came upon the advanced posts of the Gari-
baldians about four p.m. The conflict lasted about five
hours. At nightfall the Garibaldians, says the report of
the Etendard, began to give way. In the darkness the
actual situation of affairs could not be wcertained. Fresh
troop were sent—perhaps sent for—from Rome. During
the night Mentana had capitulated, and in the morning
the Roman forces found Monte Rotondo also empty,
According to the Etrndard, the Garibaldians had spent
several days in fortifying the p,,,ition. B )th sides testify
to the great bravery displayed by the ill-equipped and
half-starved red-shirts.

Tha same paper confesses that the first reports to which
it gave circulation as to the number of the wounded and
captured were exaggerated. Only about 500 killed and
wounded were actually found upon the field. Prisoners
to the number of 1,600, since handed over to the Italians,
5,000 to 6,000 guns, and five cannon were the Pontifical
trophies. On their side they admit that 150 men were
placed hors de combat.

The French official press attempt to disprove the asser-
tion that Garibaldi was in retreat when attacked. They
maintain that he was en route for Tivoli, with a view to
take possession of it.

We have no positive information of the part played by
Garibaldi on the 3rd. According to the Independance he
was at a distance when his men were engaged. When he
arrived on the scene the defeat was virtually accomplished.
This, says the Independance, explains the large number
of killed, wounded, and captive. There are no bounds, it
is said, to the exultation of the clerical party in regard
to the -victory. The Independance is assured that but for
the support of 20,000 French bayonets behind the Papal
combatants it would never have been gained.

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