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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1858,

condition of Sa.dleir for many years, it was not likely
that he could have paidthat sum. Another ground of
damage was the increased value of the estate since Mr.
Scully first purchased it, but as Mr. Scully ad-
mitted that he could not pay the whole purchase
money unless Sadlier paid him the £9,000, and as
it was not probable that Sadlier could have done
so, the conclusion was that he would not have
become the owner of the estate. The jury would,
however, form their own opinions upon the matter,
recollecting that before they came to consider the
question 'of damages, they must he satisfied that
the defendant had knowingly made to Mr. Scully
a false representation that he was the owner of the
estate.

The jury retired at five o'clock, and in about half
an hour came back into court.

Lord Campbell, on being apprised of their return,
immediately resumed his seat on the bench.
The Foreman—We do not clearly understand,
my lord, whether the connivance of the defendant
with Sadleir consists of a fraud.

Lord Campbell—Undoubtedly. If he connived
with Sadleir, then he is an accomplice.
A Juror—We cannot believe that the defendant
is guilty of a fraud.
Lord Campbell—lf he connived with Sadleir in
a false representation, he is guilty of fraud himself.
A Juror—l am one of those who do not think he
connived with Sadleir.

Lord Campbell—l can only direct you in point
of law. It is for you to deal with the facts. You
may now withdraw and deliberate again.
A third Juror—We are not likely to come to a
unanimous conclusion.

Lord Campbell—l hope you will by to-morrow
morning. It would be impossible to maintain the
principle of trial by jury if they are to be dis-
charged because they are not all of one mind after
half an hour's deliberation. His lordship then
repeated the direction he had given in reply to the
question of the foreman. _

The third Juror—lf we have to sit up all nigh
will we have a fire ?

Lord Campbell—l think the law expressly for-
bids a fire. I hope in another session of Parliament
to succeed in passing a bill by which, if the jury,
after having deliberated a certain time, cannot
agree, the verdict—l will not say of a majority,
but of a certain number of them may be taken as
the verdict in the case ; but at present I am not at
liberty to discharge you. I can only hope that you
will be unanimous before to-morrow morning.
(Laughter.) -
A Juror—We came down on the understanding
that we would be unanimous when your lordship
answered our question. It is very hard on us on
this side.

Lord Campbell—You see I cannot enter on a
discussion of your differences.
Another juror appealed to his lordship that they
might be allowed a fire.
Lord Campbell—By law candles are allowed,
and you can have as many as you like in order to
warm the room. (Laughter.) I should hold that
a lamp comes within the meaning of the law.
After a pause,
His lordship said he was glad to hear from Mr.
Secondary Potter that the room was warmed with
gas lights. - - -

- A juror said he understood that the plaintiff and
defendant agreed to their having a fire.
Lord Campbell—l see no objection to your
having one, but as the room is heated by gas, a fire
would be unnecessary.
The jury then left the court, and were locked up
as before.

They returned after an absence of about two
hours, and gave a verdict for the plaintiff—da-
mages £3OO.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

THE PARIS MODEL LODGING-HOUSES-IN RE

G. D. CLARK.

This extraordinary case again came before the
court. The insolvent was connected with the Paris
Model Lodging-houses, and claimed upwards of
£13,000 of Mr. Kennard, the extensive iron-
founder in Thames-street. The claim was denied,
and, on the contrary, it was alleged that the insol-
vent was a debtor to Mr. Kennard. An action
had been brought, and some accounts had been re-
ferred to Mr. Ingpen, the registrar.
Mr. Reed applied this morning, on the part of
insolvent, for an adjournment of two months. He
regretted to state that Mr. Clark had met with a
severe accident at a railway station, by which he
had broken his arm, and could not attend to busi-
ness.

Mr. Sargood, for Mr. Kennard, said he, of course,
regretted the accident, which it seemed, happened
a month ago. He thought the adjournment asked
for too long, and hoped the documentary evidence
would be gone into though Mr. Clark was absent.
Mr. Reed objected to any evidence being taken
in the absence of Mr. Clark, who, in his present
state, could not attend.

Mr. Commissioner Phillips, after further discus-
sion, granted an adjournment for one month and
renewed the bail. If Mr. Clark could not attend a
further application could be made. He wished it
to be understood, if the case was not proceeded
with, he should not afterwards renew the bail.

Adjourned to the 13th of January.
IN RE JOSEPH DOBBS WILDSMITFI.

This insolvent, the late train bearer of Lord Jus-
tice Knight Bruce, applied to be discharged.
Mr. Beard, a publican, opposed in person.
Mr. Richard Martin appeared as counsel for the
insolvent.

The insolvent had petitioned under the Protec-
tion Act, and his petition was dismissed for a mis-
description. He had since lost his situation, and
said he had no promise that he should be restored,
or have a situation of equal value.
Mr. Commissioner Phillips hoped Lord Justice
Knight Bruce would restore him to his situation.
There was nothing in his case to prevent his resto-
ration. Should he again fill the appointment, he
trusted that he would live within his income.
The insolvent was discharged.
IN RE CHRISTOPHER HARRIS THE ELDER.
Mr. Richard Martin opposed fora creditor named
Martin. Mr. Dowse supported.
The case bad stood over to prove that the insol-
vent's sons, Charles and Christopher, had advanced
money to the insolvent, and had taken a bill of sale
of his shop as a hosier, in Hampton-terrace, Camden
Town.

The Court was satisfied, and granted the fins.
order.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, DEC. 9.
(Before Mr. Justice Wightman.)
Francis Briggs, 30, was charged with arson. The
,wo first counts in the indictment alleged that he
had wilfully, maliciously, and feloniously attempted
to set fire to his dwelling-house, with intent to
injure Jane Waller, the owner of the property;
and a third charged him firth having set fire to
certain goods and chattels contained in a building,
the setting fire to which building would have been
felony under an act of Parliament.
Mr. Addison appeared for the prosecution. The
prisoner was defended by Mr. Ribton.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
Michael Cavan, 31, John Wall, 17, and Henry
Webb, 20, were indicted for feloniously setting fire
to two stacks of hay at Gillingham.
The prisoners Wall and Webb pleaded guilty.
Mr. Barrow conducted the prosecution.
' It appeared that the stacks in question were
the property of a farmer in the neighbourhood of
Chatham, and were of the value of £125, and they
were consumed on the night of the 27th of July
last. All the prisoners was seen close to the stack
at the time the fire broke out, and they were seen
to be running away immediately afterwards with-
out rendering any assistance to extinguish the
flames, but the additional evidence given against
them was of a
_very unusual character in such cases,
and established their guilt in the most conclusive
manner. A Scotchwoman named Annie Stewart,
who, it appears, was tramping about the country,
but who seemed to be a most intelligent woman,
and who gave her evidence with great clearness and
consistency, deposed that having had a " drop of
beer" on the day in question, she went to lie down
at night under one of the stacks, and she was
awoke by hearing men talking, and she ascer-
tained that it was the three prisohers, and
she listened to their conversation. She stated that
she heard Cavan say to the others, " Let us have
a lark ' and set fire to the stacks, and give the
Bobbies' (police) a
.job, for they want one," and
she said that one of the other prisoners gave Cavan
some Lucifers, and struck them and set fire to the
stack, and then they all ran away, neither of them
being, as she said, aware that any one was near
enough to have overheard their conversation. The
prisoners were taken into custody a few days after-
wards, and, upon Cavan being told what he was
charged with, he said that as others had been speak-
ing lie should do the same, and the fact was, that
it was not he who set fire to the stacks, but " Little
Jack," meaning the prisoner Wall. A good deal
of laughter was occasioned by the ingenious man-
ner in which Cavan cross-examined the witness
Stewart, and the answers she gave to the ques-
tions which were put to her, which evinced un-
common shrewdness and intellect. The prisoner
appeared very curious to know why she did not
give an alarm when she heard what she alleged was
going on, and she replied that she was " too good
a judge," for she knew what sort of people they
were, and that they would very probably have put
her out. of the way if they had found out that she
was listening to their proceedings.
The learned Judge having :summed up, the jury

immediately returned a verdict of Guilty, and all I
the prisoners were sentenced to ten years' penal
servitude.

WESTERN • CIRCUIT.—EXETER, DEC. 8.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
Mr. Justice Byles arrived in Exeter yesterday
afternoon, and opened the commission for the city
of Exeter and the county of Devon. This morning
his lordship attended divine service at the cathe -
drab after which he commenced the business of the
assizes. The calendar is light.
CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY.
His lordship, in the course of an able and interest-
ing charge to the county grand jury, observed that
observations on the causes of, or the means of pre-
venting crime, were common-place. The theme was
too vast; he was too sensible of his own incompe-
tency to deal with it ; and he had too much respect
for the experience of the grand jury and magistrates
of the county to trouble them with general observa-
tions on the subject; yet there was one matter which
had been brought very seriously to his attention.
He knew of no more common-place observation
than that they must look for a diminution of crime
to the education of the poor; but when they came
to practical details, he knew of no subject on which
there had been more controversy, or in which there
were more unsatisfactory results. But there was
one kind of education -which the wisest men had
considered to be the most valuable that any man
could receive, and that was his first and earliest
education received at his mother's knee—when the
domestic hearth was, as it might be, and as many
of them knew it actually was, the school of virtue
and the temple of religion. His lordship then
alluded to the importance of improving the dwell-
ings of the poor, and regretted the fact that in a
number of instances—not only in large cities, but
in the agricultural districts—the mother and
father, and brother and sister herded togetherin one
room. How could they expect bright influences
to radiate around, when families were thus circum-
stanced ? The learned judge then referred to the
noble efforts made by the Duke of Bedford to im-
prove the dwellings of the poor, and urged upon
private gentlemen to do all they could, in their
respective vicinities, by effecting or encouraging
improvements in the abodes of the poor, as it could
not be expected. that Government could do any-
thing in the matter.
UTTERING A FORGED NOTE.
Joseph Smith, a young man, was indicted for
uttering a forged £lO Bank of England note.
Mr. Cole prosecuted.
The:prisoner, since Sunday last, has appeared to
be insane, but the medical gentlemen connected
with the pHs& stated that it was feigned madness.
The prisoner, being called upon, refused to
speak, and a jury was then empanelled to try
whether he was " mute by the visitation of God,
or by fraud and malice."
The jury found that the latter was the case, and
a plea of not guilty was then entered.
The prisoner still refusing to speak, it wasclearly
proved that he had attempted to pass the note to
several tradesmen, and having been found guilty,
he was sentenced to four years' penal servitude.
WHOLESALE POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES. •
Emma Stoneman, a young girl, was indicted for
stealing money and a quantity of articles from let-
ters, whilst in transit through the Crediton Post-
office.
Mr..Poulden and Mr. Cole prosecuted; and Mr.
Carter defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner lived as a domestic
servant in the employ of the Crediton postmaster ;
and was sworn in an assistant in the stamping de-
partment of the office. Money and valuable arti-
cles, enclosed in letters, had been frequently missed
in their transit through the office, and Mr. Moule,
from the General Post-office, was sent down to Cre-
diton to institute inquiries. He caused some money
to be marked, by which the prisoner was detected,
and on searching her bedroom a number of the
missing articles were found. By the advice of her
counsel she pleaded guilty, and was sentenced by
his lordship to three years penal servitude.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIVERPOOL, Dec. 9,

CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice Hill.)
TWO POLICEMEN ROBBING A CHURCH IN LIVERPOOL.
William Smith, aged 24, and Thomas Thwaites,
aged 26, were indicted for sacrilege, they having
ented St. Paul's Church, Prince's-park (the Rev.
Dr. M'Neile's), and stolen therefrom certain articles
of property, belonging to the wardens of that church.
Both the prisoners pleaded guilty.
His lordship, in passing sentence, stated the chief
facts of the case, from which it appeared that Smith
belonged to the Liverpool police force until 23d Oct.
last, when he was dismissed for bad conduct, he
having been many times previously reported by the
inspector ; the other prisoner was also in the police
force, and was still a member of the force at the
time of the robbery. On 9th Nov, Thwaites went
off duty on the plea et indisposition, and another
officer was sent on to his beat, which included the dis-
trict in which St. Paul's Church is situated. During
the night the officer observed a light in St. Paul's
Church, and reported the circumstance to his in-
spector, who immediately accompanied the man to
the vestry window, through which they saw both
the prisoners open a wardrobe and an iron safe, in
such an ingenious manner as to convince the inspec-
tor that they were no novices in that kind of work.
The men were at once arrested ; and his lordship,
after animadverting on the wicked conduct of men,
to whose vigilance and honesty the lives and pro-
perty of the public were committed for protection,
acting as the prisoners by their own confession bad
acted, sentenced them each to four years' penal
servitude.

CIVIL SIDE.

'Before Mr. Baron Bramwell and a Special Jury.)
CHADWICK T. THE DEFENDER FIRE AND LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY.-ACTION AGAINST AN IN-
SURANCE COMPANY UPON A FIRE POLICY.
This was an action upon a policy of insurance
against fire, to which the defendants pleaded that
the plaintiff had made a fraudulent claim, whereby
his rights under the policy had become forfeited.
The issue being on the defendants, Mr. Atherton,
Q C., who represented the company, claimed the
right to begin, and the learned judge decided in his
favour.
Mr. Atherton proceeded to explain at some length
the circumstances of the case and the grounds upon
which the defence rested. The plaintiff was a
cabinet-maker residing and carrying on business at
59, Great Ancoats-street, Manchester, and had
effected a policy of insurance for the sum of £3OO
with the defendants, £2OO of which was apportioned
to the stock, £B5 to the furniture, and £l5 to the
fittings and fixtures. On the morning of the 10th
Sept. last a fire broke out in the pldintiff's premises,
and it was in respect to the property destroyed by
this fire that the present action arose, which the
defendants felt it incumbent upon them to resist as
dishonest and fraudulent. By the conditions of
the policy, in the event of loss or damase, an authen-
ticated claim was to be sent in within a given
time, and "if there were any fraud in the claim
made for such a loss or damage, or any false de-
claring in respect thereof," all claims arising under
the policy were to be forfeited. The claim sent in
to the defendants, in compliance with this stipula-
tion, amounted to £373 9s. 6d., out of which he
claimed £235 13s. 6d. for stock in trade, £l2O. for
household furniture and wearing apparel, and for
fixtures and fittings £l6 16s. Mr. Atherton pro-
ceeded to explain the grounds upon which the de-
fendants, or rather the Leeds and Yorkshire Insu-
rance Company, to which company the policy had
been transferred, had come to the conclusion that
the claim was very grossly exaggerated, and that
nothing approaching the amount of property
alleged to have been destroyed by the fire could
possibly have been upon the premises. The points
upon which the learned counsel dwelt were the
shortness of the time during which the conflagra-
tion lasted, the disproportion between the limited
dimensions of the shop and the number of costly
articles alleged to have been contained in it ; the
very limited extent to which the premises them-
selves had suffered ; the fact that the staircase
under which the plaintiff had said there was a large
chest of drawers containing the wearing apparel of
the family, for the destruction of which a large
claim had been made against the company, was in
reality very little injured ; the very trifling remains
of metal of any description which had been found
after the fire, compared with that which was gene-
rally discovered after a destructive fire, and which
might naturally be expected to be found if the pre-
mises had actually contained the articles set forth
by the plaintiff in his detailed claim ; the proof
afforded by some of the plaintiffs papers which had
been found that he had been carrying (In a very
small business ; the fact that so recently as June
last he had been compelled to submit to a distress
levied for poor's-rates, and, although the amount
was small, he had to pay it in instalments ; that
he had sent in a claim in which wearing apparel
had figured for the sum of £6B ls., the whole of
which, with the exception of a small quan tity,worth
about .£l2, was described as having been new ; the
discovery by the police that some of the most valu-
able articles of dress, which had been also included
in the claim, had not been injured at all by the fire
but were in the hands of pawnbrokers, and the im-
probability that such valuable property as that
specified in_the claim could be in the possesssion of
the plaintiff, who was put to such extreme shifts as
to be compelled to pledge articles of dress. The
defendants being convinced, said Mr. Atherton,
after the most minute and careful inquiry, that a
gross fraud had been attempted to be perpetrated
upon them, they consideredit their imperative duty
to resist the present action, and to lay all the facts
before the jury for their consideration and decision.
The case was not concluded when our parcel was

despatched, witnesses being under examination to
show the small amountof ruins or debris which had
been found after-the fire.

YoRK, Dec. 8.
The calendar of prisoners for trial at the gaol
delivery for this county is heavy, there being four
cases of murder, three of manslaughter, one of at-
tempted murder, besides several daring burglaries,
and highway robberies. There are 82 prisoners
for trial.

Mr. Baron Watson, the presiding judge, arrived
in York from Newcastle, this morning, and pro-
ceeded to York Castle, where he opened the com-
mission for the county, and afterwards went to the
Guildhall, where the commission for the city was
opened in like manner.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Dec. 9.

(Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge, at
Clerkenwell.)
Mary Ann Neal, 21, was indicted for stealing 11,
umbrellas, value £2, the property of Edward
Unwin.
Mr. Le Bruton prosecuted ; Mr. Smith defended
the prisoner.
The prosecutor is a hosier, carrying on business
at 164, Strand, and on the 29th of Nov., the pri-
soner went up to his shop door, and placing her
shawl over a. bundle of umbrellas standing there
for sale, she .broke the string by which they were
fastened to the railing in front of the window, a
man and a woman standing close by to screen her
from observation. One of the prosecutor's
Servants, however, saw what was going on, and as
t4e prisoner was moving the umbrellas, he ran out
td, her, and the man -and woman made off. The
p#soner was detained and given into custody for
stealing.the umbrellas, but she asserted that it was
not sic„ but the man who stood beside her.
The prisoner was found guilty, and, being a well-
known offender, and previously convicted, the court
sentenced her to four yeais' penal servitude.
AN UNGRATEFUL SCOUNDREL. EXTRAORDINARY
CASE.

Thomas Sherwood, 42, was indicted for stealing
252 lbs. of yarn, and 91 lbs. of mohair, the property
of Edward Wm. Augustus Taylor, his master. He
was charged with feloniously embezzling the sums
of £l5 14s. £1 10s., and £5 65., received by him on
account of his said master.
Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution ; the
prisoner was undefended.
The circumstances of this case were of a very
peculiar and complicated character, and not only
conclusively proved the guilt of the prisoner upon
the charges brought against him, but showed that
he had been guilty of conduct towards the prosecu-
tor, his benefactor and friend, of the basest and
most ungrateful description. The prosecutor, a
dealer in yarns, now carrying on his business at
Guildhall•chambers, Basinghall-street, formerly in
Bevenden-street, Holton, and the prisoner, were
schoolfellows 30 years ago at Leeds, and at one
time the prisoner was in business as a spinner at
Bradford, but he failed, and for many years, until
about 18 months ago, the prosecutor lost sight of
him. He was very much surprised one night to
find the prisoner following him home, and he then
told such a tale of suffering and distress, represent-
ing that he had been without food for days, that he
had been compelled to sleep in the parks, and 'that
he had no friends to whom he could apply for aid,
that Mr. Taylor became his friend and provided
him with clothes, his own being tattered, torn,
and dirty—lodging, food, and money. The pri-
soner offered to assist the prosecutor in his busi-
ness for a small remuneration to keep him from
starving, and the prosecutor, knowing that he was
acquainted with the details of the trade, employed
him to sell goods on commission, providing him
in addition, with lodgings and necessaries. The
prisoner also undertook to manufacture mohair and
silk yarn, solely and entirely on prosecutor's ac-
count, the latter paying all expenses; the arrange-
ment being that, after deducting these, there should
be a division of the net profits upon the sale of
goods actually sold. It was distinctly understood
that this was to be solely on prosecutor's account,
and prisoner undertook the business on the terms
of a letter written by the prosecutor, expressly de-
fining the arrangement. When the prisoner was
charged he impudently contended that upon this
arrangement he could neither be charged with
stealing nor with embezzlement, as he was a partner
in the concern. After the prosecutor had dismissed
him from his service he actually went to his credi-
tors and represented that he (prosecutor) was in
the habit of procuring goods on credit, and imme-
diately pledging them to raise capital ; the conse-
quence of which was that the creditors were down
upon him, and he was brought to the verge of
bankruptcy and ruin by the prisoner's base and in-
famous proceedings, for which there was not the
slightest possible justification.
The evidence given in'support of the prosecution
showed that on the 27th Sept. the prosecutor acci-
dentally discovered that the prisoner had received
a sum of money from a customer for which he had
not accounted, in consequence of which he was im
mediately discharged, having admitted that he had
embezzled the amount. The result of subsequent
inquiries was the discovery not only that ho had
embezzled money to a very serious amount, but
that he had appropriated to himself goods as well,
the loss to the prosecutor being altogether £261.
The prosecutor then caused him to be apprehended
On the 31st of August the prosecutor had a conver-
sation with him with reference to some yarn, 242
pounds in weight, which prisoner said a customer,
named Dart, Bedford-street; Coverit-garden, would
purchase at a dertain price, which price the prose-
cutor agreed to take, and on the following day the
prisoner told him he had delivered it to the customer
and charged him cab fare for taking it. The value of
the yarn WAS £33 65..10d. On the 14th May there
was a conversation about a lot of mohair, 9lbs. in
weight, which the plisoner said he had sold to a
customer named Hartley, a trimming manufac-
turer, in Pump-row, Old-street-road, St. Luke's, at
Bs. 6d. per pound, at two monthS' credit. This was
entirely a falsehood, and he had secretly taken the
mohair from the premises, pledged it, and appro-
priated the proceeds to himself. He kept this
transaction secret in a very cunning manner. After
two months had expired, the prosecutor spoke to
him about this account, when the prisoner told him
he had seen Mrs. Hartley, but the account could
not be paid then as Mr. Hartley was at the seaside.
A month after that he had seen Mr. Hartley, who
was not _satisfied with the mohair, and would be
glad if it could-be disposed of to another customer.
The prisoner said that in consequence he had,arrreed
with a Mr. Lewis for the latter to take the lot at
10s. per pound, a profit of ls. 6d. per pound upon
the price Mr. Hartley had agreed to give, and
had delivered it to him; but this was entirely false.
Mr. Lewis was also a customer of the prosecutor,
and the latter was content that he should have the
goods at the increased price. The prisoner's object
was to create delay in having to account for the
property which he had disposed of on his account.
When his guilt was discovered he had put a bold
front on the matter, and audaciously declared that
the prosecutor being in urgent want of money, he
tried all he knew throughout the trade to sell the
wool and mohair to furnish him with ready money;
but as he could not succeed in doing so, he pledged
them, and gave the prosecutor the proceeds ; and
the prosecutor made this charge against him,
to derive for himself all the benefit of a good trade
which, by his knowledge of the business and the
persons in it, and his perseverance and industry,
he had got together.
Mr. Dart, Mr. Hartley, and Mr. Lewis severally
contradicted the prisoner's assertions as to the sale
of the goods to them.
The prisoner, in his defence, said there was no
understanding between him and the prosecutor, but
a bona fide partnership. He worked the trade and
got up an excellent connection for Taylor, and he
pledged the property to help him out of difficulties,
and Mr. Taylor had every penny of the money
raised upon it.

Mr. Bodkin-It's a pity you did not ask any ques-
tion in cross-examination about that.
Prisoner—Taylor well enough knows it. He was
poor, and if he had stuck to me as I meant to stick
to him, all would have been well, and we doing a
good business.
Prosecutor recalled—There is not one word of
truth in his statement, that lie pawned the goods
for me, or to my knowledge.
The Assistant-Judge told the jury he should direct
that, in point of law, the prisoner was prosecutor's
servant, and not entitled to deal with the property
without his consent and knowledge. It vas quite
cleat prisoner had represented to his employer that
he had sold the property on his credit ; it was ad-
mitted by the prisoner that that was all false, and
the proof was that he pawned it. His assertion was
that he did:sto 'on the prosecutor's account. That
was ?positively denied; and if true, why should
he have represented to Mr. Taylor that lie had
sold it to Hartley first and to Lewis afterwards ?
That the prisoner did not deny.
Prisoner—lt was all lies, your worship.
The Assistant-Judge told him he must be under-
rating the capacity of those whom he wished to im-
press with idea that he pawned the property
for the benefit of his employer, when he owned the
account he gave to his employer of having disposed
of it his customers on sale, and now said it was lies.
The jury, without a moment's hesitation, found
the prisoner guilty.
Mr. Bodkin--The total amount of which the pri-

soner has robbed the prosecutor is £260. Between
his dismissal and his apprehension he communicated
to Mr. Taylor's creditors that he was pawning
goods, obtained on credit, as soon as he got them,

through which proceedings in bankruptcy were
-commencedrand ha was brought to the- very brink
of ruin and destrnction With respect to the em-
bezzlements, we have selected three instances, all
which we can put in one indictment, and if the
court desires it we will proceed upon that charge.
The Assistant Judge thought it had better be
tried.

The case was then gone into, and it was proved
that the prisoner received from G. Bartholomew
and Co., of Finsbury Pavement, £5 65., and from
Mr. Kelsey, of Wilmot-square, Bethnal-green, two
sums, £l5 14s. and £1 10s., on account of Mr.
Taylor, for which he had never accounted.

The prisoner asserted that he paid the money to
the prosecutor on the very day he received it, and
that he also paid on Mr, Hartley's account £24
which he did not owe, and which he had not re-
ceived from Mr. Hartley.

Prosecutor—Mr. Hai4ley did not owe me any
such sum at the time.. The orders for Bartholomews'
and Kelsey were executed by me, and I never re-
ceived the money. There is no sum of £24 entered
to the credit of Mr. Hartley in my books.
Prisoner—l paid it in Hartley's name, in respect
of the deficiency on the mohair.

Prosecutor(to Mr. Bodkin)—The prisoner received
from me about £26 in money, clothes, food, and
lodging, &c., during the time he was in my service
—about 12 months.

The prisoner—LAU I have to say is I paid the
money, and I am the injured man.
The jury found him guilty, without hearing the
summing up.
Mr.lßodkin—The nice return the prisoner made
for the prosecutor's kindness is now fully before
the court.

The Assistant Judge said—The court on many
former occasions had to pass sentences of penal ser-
vitude in cases of embezzlement, and it would fail
in its duty to the public if it did not do so in the
present case. The offence had been greatly aggra-
vated by the prisoner's conduct to his benefactor
after he had robbed him of £260 by false entries in
his books;false accounts of misappropriated property,
and embezzlement. In addition to receiving clothes,
food, lodging and wages, he had robbed his friend
of X 260 in one year, and had then done his utmost
to bring him to ruin and beggery by destroying his
character as a tradesman. The sentence would be
one likely to induce others to think a little before
they entered upon similar courses, for in no similar
case would a less sentence be passed. The sen-
tence on the prisoner was that he be kept in penal
servitude for five years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 9

MANSION-HOUSE. William Henry. Cory
was brought before Sir R. W. Carden, in the
custody of James Brett, the detective officer,
charged with having uttered two forged cheques
upon the London and County Bank.
Mr. Mullens, the solicitor to the Committee of
Bankers for Protection from Forgeries and Frauds,
attended for the prosecution.
Mr. William Baker, proprietor of the Wheat-
sheaf Inn, St. Peter's, near Margate, said—About
six weeks ago the prisoner was introduced to me
by an acquaintance at Margate, and since that
tirse has been boarding at my house, and lodging
next door to me. I have been paying his bills for
the lodgings, and have advanced him money from
time to time, and he owes me about £35 or £36.
Some time after he had been staying at my house
I received from him this cheque (produced) for
£2O, dated 12th October, 1858, upon the London
and County Bank, in Lombard-street, signed Wm.
R. Cory. He told me he had it from his father. I.
subsequently received from him another cheque
for £2O, drawn in the same manner, which he said
he had also received from his father. I told him I
wanted to present them for payment, and he
wished me not to present them lest his father
should think him extravagant.
Mr. Mullens Did he say anything to you
about the Blue-coat school ?
Witness—He did: He told me he could get my
son, who is about ten years old, a presentation for
the Blue-coat School, and he gave to me two letters
purporting to come from his father. He had men-
tioned to me that he had a presentation to Christ's
Hospital himself.
Mr. Mullens here read the following paragraph
from one of the letters referred to :—" Your boy is
admitted into the Blue-coat School. William has
given him a presentation. I hope he will be a
good boy."
The witness proceeded—Supposing this to be
true, I made the prisoner a present of a watch and
a ring. On the 7th inst. I brought the cheques to
London and presented them at the London and
County Bank, and I found they were worth nothing,
Mr. Mullens—Have you seen theprisoner's father
since you presented the cheques ?
Witness—l have but just left him.
The prisoner—l wish to ask the witness some
questions which I consider to be important to my
defence.

In answer to questions then put by the prisoner,
the witness said—You told me those cheques were
not to be put in circulation till you backed them.
You asked me to make out your bill, to be ready
for`your father when he came down. You asked
me to deliver my account to your sisrer. You kept
me back from presenting the cheques under the
delusion ,that my son would be presented to tl e
Blue-coat School,

The prisoner—The presentation to the Blue-coat
School is still good.
Witness (to Si It. W. Carden)—l never asked
the prisoner for the presentation to the Blue-coat
School at all.

Mr. W. D. Turner, cashier in the London and
County Bank, said—We have no customer of the
name of William R. Cory.

Brett (the detective oilicer).said—l took the pri-
soner into custody- this morning at Margate, and
I found at hialodgings, next door to the Wheat-
sheaf Inn, the envelope I produce, with the name
" William R. Cory" upon it. I also found upon
him a silver watch, which has upon it an inscrip-
tion as follows :—" William Henry Cory, a present
from Baker."

Mr. Mullens here requested that Sir R. W. Car-
den would remand the case for a few days, and said
he considered it necessary to state that at the next
examination witnesses would be produced to give
evidence to the fact that the prisoner had uttered
a forged cheque to a lady at Brighton.
The prisoner requested that the next examina-
tion might take place on Thursdaynext, as it would
better suit the convenience of the witnesses he
shoUld call to attend upon that day.
Sir It. W. Carden at once consented to appoint the
final examination for the day named by the primer,
who was then accordingly remanded.
It was mentioned in court that the prisoner had
fought hard at Balaklava, and that his horse had
been killed under him, notwithstanding which he
walked back to the English camp without a wound.

WESTMINSTER—A very respectably-dressed
good-looking girl, about 18 years of age, entered
the court yesterday, and addressing Mr. Arnold,
the sitting magistrate, said—l want your worship's
advice if you'll be good enough to give it me. It's
under very disagreeable circumstances.
Mr. Arnold—What are they ?
Applicant—Very disagreeable ; I hardly like to
mention them.

Mr. Arnold—But you must if I am to know them.
Applicant—Well, I am a servant, and I have had
to leave my service very abruptly. My mistress
charged me with putting some things in a pudding.
Mr. Arnold—You could not make a pudding well
without " putting things in it," could you ?
Applicant—Well, no, I couldn't, that's true. But
that is not what I mean. She says I put something
wrong in it—something that gave them all the
diarrheea, and made them very ill. I never put
anything in it. I never made the pudding at all.
.Mr. Arnold—What do you want of me ?
Applicant—l left my service, andthey will neither
pay me my wages nor let me take away my things.
She is not right in keeping them, is she ? Is she
right in refusing to pay me my wages ?
Mr. Arnold—lf you left without reasonable cause
I think she would be ; if she unlawfully detains

your clothes I can grant you a summons for that,
but as your remedy for your wages is in the County
Court you had better take both claims there. I can
interfere about the detention of your clothes if you

like.
Applicant—Yes, do if you please.
Mr. Arnold then directed an officer to call on the
mistress and inquire concerning the clothes.

A REVEREND DENOUNCER OF CRINOLINE.-011
Sunday night the Rev. Mr. Rees, of Tatham-street Chapel,
Sunderland, fell foul of the present rage for huge propor-
tions` in ladies' dresses. His chapel is generally well at-
tended, and he had observed lately that where females were
seated more space was taken up than the chapel could afford
them, and so he spoke out, and told them in good set phrase
that the chapel was free—that all who came could enter any
part they pleased—but that each pew was-intended to hold
so many, as they could see plainly marked in figures, and
that persons for the numbers so marked must go in, if they
presented themselves. The sittings, he said, were not ar-
ranged for " the present exaggerated proportions of the
ladies ;"__ yet he could not see that these proportions should
be the means of excluding people from the chapel, or of
hindering the devout worshipper from hearing the gospel.
—Newcastle Cb•onicle.
GOVERNMENT tMIGRATION. Her Majesty's
Emigration Commissioners chartered yesterday afternoon,
the 9th inst., the Palmyra, 706 tons, to sail from Plymouth
for Sydney, New South Wales, at £l4 16s. 9d. per statute
adult, to be ready for the reception of passengers on such
day a the Commissioners may appoint between the 14th
and 21st January,