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London, England, 1859-12-06 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENOE.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.--WINCHESTER, DEC. 5.
Michael Gittings and Thomas Hinds, two recruits,
were indicted for burglary in the house of Thomas
Budden, at Aldershott, on the 7th of October.
Mr. W. M. Cooke was counsel for the prosecution.
It appeared that a person who slept in the canteen
heard a dog bak at 2 in the morning, and upon
getting up he found a window broken. The money
which had been taken the day before had been
counted and packed up in paper at night, and con-
sisted of £2 15s. in copper. There was some parti-
cular writing upon the paper in which the money
was packed. The packet was placed on a shelf
under the counter in the canteen. There was also
some silver money,.wbich was put in a desk in the
parlour of the canteen. All was safe when the
people went to bed at half-past 11 o'clock. On
going into the bar at 7 the next morning it was
discovered that a silver watch and the greater part
of the copper money were missing. The window
had been broken sufficiently to admit a person's
hand to open' the window, and then a person could
get in at the open window. The two prisoners
had been in the habit of coming to the canteen for
goods. In the course of that day Hinds asked a
man to give him some silver for copper money
Gittings came in at the time, and ho counted out
some copper. While they were counting out the
money the man sent to the canteen to give informa-
tion, and they were kept until the landlord of the can-
teen arrived, and the prisoners were then given into
cu,tody. Upon being searched, the papers in which
the money had been packed at the canteen were
found in their pockets. On the road to the police-
station Gittings told Hinds not to split about the
watch, as he would get over that and as much more.
The learned Judge having summed up,
During the time the jury were deliberating, one
of the jurors said he was deaf, and had not heard
the evidence or the summing up.
The learned Judge said it was much to be re-
gretted that the juror had not said he was deaf be-
fore he was sworn.
1 he juror said he had hoped he could have heard,
but he stood up and did his bast, yet he only heard
a small portion.
The learned Judge then directed the juror to come
in front, and had all the witnesses again called,
when he read over to them the evidence they had
given, and asked the juror if he had heard,hip read
the a evidence,sunim summed
and he e h
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and
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The jury found the prisoners Guilty,
were sentenced to be imprisoned. for 12 months,
with hard labour.
The deaf juror was then discharged from further
attendance.
John Manley, John Gould, and Charles Green-
wood were indicted for setting fire to a rick at
Aldershott. Greenwood pleaded Guilty.
Mr. H. J. Cole prosecuted.
It appeared that on the evening of the 10th Aug.
last liss Wilton, who was the daughter of a sur-

geon at Aldershott, as she was walking home, saw
a Man in the uniform of a soldier strike a match
and set fire to the rick in question. She saw another
soldier with a woman standing near the rick. In
a short time after this the prisoners, who belonged
to the 60th Rifles,were taken into custody for being
absent without leave. They at once said, " You
did not see us do it," and they afterwards said they
had dole it to get "lagged." The property de-
stroyed amounted in value to £97.
The learned Judge, in summing up, said it was
not necTssp,r7 that a man should with his own hand
set the rink en fire. It was sufficient if they were
all acting with one common purpose.
The jury found the prisoners guilty, and they
were seotenoea to be kept in penal servitude for
szvc4 yoqvie-,

Samuel Betts and Edwin Jackson were indicted
for a burglary at the house of Henry Allen, at Al-
dershot, and stealing bottles of drugs, on the 15th
of September.

In his defence one of the prisoners said he went
to visit Mr. Allen's wife, and had been let into the
house.

The jury found both the prisoners guilty.
The learned Judge said the defence was most im-
pudent. The sentence was three years' penal ser-
vitude.

Edmund Wardropor, a most respectable-looking
man, and a solicitor, was indicted for forging a
promissory note for the payment of £3.50, with in-
tent to defraud, at Petersfield.

The prisoner was also indicted for forging a pro-
missory note for the payment of £275.
Mr. H. T. Cole and Mr. Russell appeared for tho
prosecution.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was removed.
John Parker was indicted for forging a post-office
order.

Mr. Poulden and Mr. 11. T. Cole appeared for the
prosecution.

The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was removed.
Elizabeth Adlam was indicted for the wilfu
murder of her child.

The grand jury threw out the bill.
The prisoner waP arraigned upon the coroner's
inquisition.

Mr. Cole said that as the grand jury had not
thought the evidence sufficient to put the prisoner
on her trial upon the indictment, he should notoffer
any evidence upon the coroner's inquisition. The
jury would, therefore, acquit the prisoner.
Mo. Poulden appeared for the prisoner.
The prisoner was then acquitted.
The learned Judge said the grand jury had re-
quested a bill to be sent up for concealment ; but,
as the child was alive when it was found, that could
not be done.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Dec. 5.

Robert Davis, M, clerk, was indicted for em-
bezzling the sums et XII Os. 7d., £l2 Os. Thd., and
£l2 10s. received by him on account of Messrs.
Lindsell, Fletcher, and White, and others, his
masters.

Mr. Giffard appeared for the prosecution. The
prisoner had been for about 10 years in the service
of the prosecutors, a highly-respectable firm in Bed-
ford-row, and the total amount he had embezzled as
ascertained up to the present time was about £190;
his salary was £1 15s. per week, and the only rea-
son that could be suggested for his having robbed
his employers of money received by him on their
account was,that he had got married to a woman
given to extravagance far beyond what his mens
would justify, to meet which he had uses this
money.

The Assistant-Judge said this .was one of that
class of cases which must ever be regarded as very
serious, a robbery by a confidential. clerk. He sen-
tenced the prisoner to be kept to hard labour for 18
calendar months.

The prisoner's wife subsequently applied for an
order to see him, and she said he had been concerned
in betting and other irregular practices, to which
his present situation was to be attributed.
A prisoner named George Smith was brought up
for judgment. He was convicted at the last ses-
sions of a felony, and, as he asserted he could pro-
duce witnesses to speak to his former good charac-
ter, the learned judge deferred the sentence to afford
him the opportunity of bringing them forward.
None were in attendance, but since the last session
he had been recognised in the House of Correction,
and the officers now proved a former conviction and
a sentence of four years' penal servitude against
him, which he had undergone.
The Assistant-Judge said this was a gross at-
tempt to deceive the Court, but the prisoner had,
by endeavouring to play this trick, brought upon
himself consequences which must result to a person
convicted of a felony after the severe warning of
four years' penal servitude, a sentence passed upon
him, as it now appeared, on no less than six indict-
ments. The Court had no alternative, and the sen-
tence was now four years' penal servitude.
Robert Barrington, 27, was indicted for unlaw-
fully and maliciously assaulting John Bagot and
inflicting upon him grievous bodily harm.
The prosecutor and the prisoner were glass-
blowers, and worked at the same establishment.
There had been some angry words between them,
and the prosecutor, having been directed to give
some instructions to the prisoner from his employer
with reference to some glass chimneys he was mak-
ing, the prisoner seized a red hot iron from a fur-
nace, and knocked the prosecutor about with it, in-
flicting such injury upon hiss that he was a patient
at an hospital three weeks, but had now quite re-
covered. He said he did not believe that the pri-
soner had really any ill feeling at heart against him.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of a common
assault.

The Assistant-Judge said he must act upon the
finding of the jury, but had the prisoner been con-
victed on the first count of the indictment he should
have sentenced him to a long term of hard labour,
for it was a base, cowardly, and cruel attack upon
an unarmed man with a red hot bar of iron. The
jury had found him guilty of a common assault,
and for that he should sentence him to four months'
imprisonment, during which ho might reflect upon
the atrocity of his conduct.
Felix Newman, 25, described as a vocalist, was
indicted for stealing a cashbox, in which was the
sum of £232 in notes and gold, the property and
money of Thornton Moore, in his dwellinghouse.
Ho pleaded guilty
The prosecutor was a stationer in Lisson-grove
North, and on Saturday the 29th of October a cash-
box containing £232 was stolen from under a chair
behind the counter. The prisoner was detected in
the act of carrying it off by the prosecutor's wife,
wbo tried, to stop him, but so violent were his
efforts to get away that he broke one of her ribs.
From the evidence in the depositions there was no
doubt the prisoner acted in complicity with
another man and two women, who went into the
shop on pretence of making a small purchase. While
Mrs. Moore's eyo was turned away for a moment
the prisoner slipped round the corner and took the
box, which he had seen on Mrs. Moore taking it
up to give change for a sovereign. There was a
second charge against the prisoner of having stolen
a diamond earring value £BO. from the shop of Mr.
Frederick Hancock, 39, Bruton-street, and of an
assault upon Mrs. Moore to resist his apprehension.
He denied both these charges, but Mr. Hancock's
assistant was sure he was the person. who took the
earring.
The police having intimated that a good deal
could be ascertained of the prisoner's character if
time were allowed,
The Court deferred sentence until next session.
The cashbox and the contents were recovered.

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THE GLOUCESTER ELECTION:

The Commissioners met yesterday at 8, Fludyer-
street, Westminster, to examine a few more wit-
nesses. The first witness called was
Mr. Rose, of the firm of Baxter, Rose, and Co.,
Parliamentary agents, who stated that 'no acted
professionally for the Conservative party at the last
general election. On the Bth of April last a person
called at his office and sent up a card bearing the
name of Richard Thompson. Witness requested that
the man should be admitted, and on his entering
asked him whether he was Mr. Thompson. The
man replied that the card sent up was his, but
that his name was not Thompson, and he -went on
to say, " I come to you from Mr. Crutwell, of
Frome. I am told that there are anticipations of a
great deal of illegal practices on the part of the Li-
berals, and I am asked for a considerable staff to
watch the different publichouses ; but that requires
authority and means, and I am come to ask you
whether you will supply me with either the one or
the other." Witness answered, "You have evi-
dently quite mistaken my. vocation. I never inter-
fere at elections, and can have nothing to say to you.
Nor can I understand your coming to me in this
way." The man said, " May I call again ?" and
witness replied, "Of course, you can call again,
but I think I shall have no other answer to give you
at any time." Next day a similar card was sent up
to him, and witness said he should decline seeing
Thompson under any circumstances, and that there
was no use in his waiting. The man said he hoped
he should get his expenses, and witness replied that
he must go to the person who had employed him
for them. Memoranda of both these conversations
were made at the time by Mr. Spofforth, a gentle-
man in witness's office. (The memoranda, which
were here read, corroborated the witness's state-
ment.) Never saw Thompson before, and had never
seen, him since, except once while crossing Parlia-
ment-street. He was a man with a very red
pimpled face.
The Chairman—Are we to understand, Mr. Rose,
that. Thompson never went to Frome on any com-
mission from you ?
Witness—He certainly never did. I must tell
you frankly that I looked upon his calling on me as
a " trap."
The Chairman—Had Thompson the opportunity,
while at your office, of seeing any paper containing
a list of places to which it was proposed to send
money for the elections on behalf of the Censerva-
tive party 9
Witness—lnasmuch as there never was anything
in the nature of such a list there, it is quite impos-
sible that he could have seen it.
The Chairman—We have had it in evidence that
Thompson said he had seen a list of places among
which stood Glocester with the sum of £2,000 ap-
pended to it:
Witness—As no such list existed it is utterly im-
possible that he or anybody else can have seen it:
The Chairman—We have put the question to you,
Mr. Rose, in consequence of the statement which
has been made to us.

Witness—Thereis not one scintilla of truth in it.
In reply to furthei questions, Mr. Rose added that
he had taken no part in the Glocester election, and
had no knowledge of any money having been sent
to Glocester. He had been applied to in April last
respecting the trustworthiness of Mr. Wood, of
Sandwich, who had written a letter stating that
'Ar..r. Monk had on a former occasion been ready to
stand for Sandwich on Conservative principles.
Witness had directed a telegram to be forwarded to
Glocester in answer to that application, and its
purport was that Mr. Wood was a gentleman whose
statements might be relied upon.
Thomas Evans deposed that at the 1857 election
for Glocester he received £ll or £l2 from Brewer

_
Monk for the purposes of bribery, and that he bribed
John:Hemmington, stonemason, and John Pucldick,
householder, to vote for Price and Berkeley,
George Allen received from £8 to £lO from
Brewer Monk in 1857 to pay his own travelling
expenses and those of five or six other voters who
worked for him at Henley-on-Thames. None of
that money went for bribery, and he regarded the
transaction as a losing one.
Mr. Wilton, surgeon, of Glocester, put in a
corrected statement of the rentals of between 260
and 270 voters who had accepted bribes. Of
the total number 123 were freemen whose
rentals were mostly very low in amount, rang-
ing from £3 10s. per annum to £8 or £9. In one
or two oases, however, the rentals of the bribed were
as high as £4O. Mr. Wilton gave evidence as to
the data on which his calculations were based, and
his figures were confirmed by Mr. Ward, who had
had local experience in such valuations.
The name of Mr. Julian. Bernard was called in
court several times, but no one appeared to answer
the summons of the Commissioners on his behalf.
It will be recollected that at the last public sitting
of the Commission Mr. Bernard was prevented from
attending by indisposition.
Mr. Coleridge, the secretary to the Commission-
ers, now stated, in answer to questions from the
Chairman, that he had addressed a summons to Mr.
Bernard, at his chambers in the Albany, and that
its receipt had ben acknowledged by Mr. Mount,
Mr. Bernard's solicitor. A declaration, stating that
Mr. Bernard was too ill to attend, and signed on
the 30th ult. in the presence of a police magistrate,
had also been furnished to the Commission. He had
subsequently seen Mr. Mount, who had told him
that any notice addressed to himself would be taken
as served on Pair. Bernard, and had undertaken that
that gentlenian should tender himself for re-exami-
nation as soon as he recovered. On his suggestion
that he should write to Mr. Bernard himself at the
Albany, Mr. Mount replied that Mr. Bernard was
in town, but not at the Albany, and that though he
was still unwell he hoped he might soon be able to
be present. After that interview with Mr. Mount,
he wrote on Wednesday last to that gentleman, in-
timating that the Commissioners had fixed the sth
December as their next sitting for the examination
of witnesses, and requiring Mr. Bernard's attend-
ance on that day. He had also sent a subsequent
letter to Mr. Mount by the Commissioners' instruc-
tions, requesting Mr. Bernard to produce his cash
and pass books. To these letters he had received
no answer.

The CHAIRMAN said that Mr. Bernard not having
thought proper to appear before them, they must
conclude that he did not intend to come there to be
examined again. The inquiry would be adjourned
till Friday next, in order to give Mr. Befnard an
opportunity of attending there if he wished to avoid
the consequences to which he had exposed himself.
.31R. RAREY AT LIVERPOOL.

(From the Liverpool )flail.)
Mr. Rarey has again gratified the lovers and ad-
mirers of that noble animal, the horse, by giving in
Liverpool two more public expositions of his unique
and unrivalled method of dealing with "horse na-
ture." We give a summary of his experiments in
another column ; and we can state, from personal
observation, that those experiments were witnessed,
with intense interest and delight, by large and in-
telligent audiences; including, we rejoiced to see,
not a few ladies. At each of the lectures, that re-
markable curiosity, the horse Cruiser, was intro-
duced ; and untamed and untameable as he is ad-
mitted to have been before Mr. Rarey mastered
him--he followed that gentleman round the ring
with all the docility and attachment of a domestic
pet. Some little time ago, we chanced to see the
Marquis of Westminster's celebrated horse Touch-
stone, who won the Derby, " the blue ribbon of the
turf," nearly 30 years ago, and who is now enjoy-
ing a " green old age" in a paddock near Eaton-hall.
When we saw him he was as quiet as a lap dog, and,
in our judgment, " Cruiser" is now equally quiet to
those who know how to handle him, as Mr.Ra.rey evi-
dently does. He is, in fact, the crowning triumph of
that system of which the " law of kindness" is the
foundation and the guiding principle, and which in
Mr. Rarey's hands we venture to predict will never be
found to fail. His success with the other animals
which were submitted to his treatment was scarcely
less marvellous. Wild, vicious, and apparently in-
tractable as they were upon their first appearance,
they wore brought in an incredibly short time un-
der the most perfect and complete control ; and the
universal testimony of the spectators was that the
triumphs of the operator were not only unsur-
passed, but unsurpassable. The case of the chestnut
stallion operated on on Thursday was perhaps the
most extraordinary of all. Hitherto one man only
has been able to approach him, and that man after
Mr. Rarey had done with him proposed to muzzle
him again before leading him home. Upon an in-
timation from Mr. Rarey, however, that this was
wholly unnecessary, he very properly desisted, and
the animal was led away by an ordinary bridle,
without any difficulty whatever, and without mak-
ing the slightest demonstration either of ill-temper
or of vice.

Mr. Rarey, besides having a pecuniary interest in
the development of his system, is actuated, we be-
lieve, by a sincere desire to improve the treatment
of the horse—an animal in which he evidently
takes the deepest interest, and which• is too often
as ill-used as it is useful. He gave a practical proof
of this desire, on Thursday, by reducing his scale
of charges to half their previous amount, in order
that the great omnibus proprietors, and coach and
car proprietors, might have au opportunity of send-
! ing their horse-keepers and drivers, to see with
their own eyes the wonders and the advantages of
his admirable mode of treatment, and to learn from
actual observation the lessons of tact, of kindness, ,
and of discretion which the actual display of these
wonders and advantages cannot fail to teach. One
gentleman, Mr. Busby, we are glad to see, availed
himself of this opportunity, and sent in 50 of his
servants, and we hope that at the next and closing

l • ectute, on Monday, many other extensive ownerg
of horses will follow so good an example.
selves, we are still prepared to maintain—ill c°lll.
Captaln
mon with our old friend and neighbour—
Mervyn Richardson, late of the 4th Light Dragoon:,
with whom we have again recently compared not.es,
and whose admirable treatise on Horsemanship
is
standard authority upon the subject, being at gnat
thoroughly practical and thoroughly scientific--th
Mr. Rarey is the foremost man in the world, both
in the science and in the art of training and mann.-
jug horses. For our-
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TILE BRITISH DISPUTE IVI2II

TARAG

It is understood that despatches will be forwarocu
by, the mail of the 9th from Lord J. Russell t°
Senor. Valdez, President Lopez's
toisunder:
Foreign Affairs, relative to the recent
standing between the authorities at Asuncion at
Mr. Henderson, our consul until lately in that.°llPo
tal,. respecting the imprisonment of a Monte
citizen claiming to be a British subject, and I.lllPa
consral:
cate.d, with several Paraguayans, in a
having for its object the assassination of the Presto
dent and the overthrow of the Government.. From
with
n.
the fact of Lord J. Russell communicating
Paraguayan executive, instead of through Mr'lle
Minister for
derson, who has withdrawn to Buenos Ayresl,o
ises
tiTio
.may. be assumed that his lordship recogn
justice of Senor Valdez's representations as t°•th
reasonableness of the Paraguayan aealinF. 6100
offenders
.against their laws in the wawa, -a to
laws enjoin; and that his lordship if Prerrhemild
reserve all demonstrations of force, if suee•
50.151
of
become unhappily necessary, until he is
that. there. has been a design' to act in a
in-
hostility to British interests and honour.. Ined
(bolsi
esi,
tentio.n.of the sort has been emphatically
in writing by Senor Valdez, on the part °f,es of
dent Lopez.. Every proof of the till to
such. disclaimer has been offered to be
furnis
his lordship,. should he cause the requisite 10qiii do
to be instituted on the spot. No doubt he .witiooi
so ; for there are assuredly sufficient comp
in licil
the Platine States alread without furtlierfore°
b roilments through the pressure of a British there
in the remoter waters of those reaions, ualqs and
should be the most unmistakeablejustifietnilibioti.
necessity for such manifestation.—LinerP°°'—