The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-22 00:00:00

N°. 23,006.

NEW NOVEL BY THE PRISON MATRON.
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PRISON CHARACTERS : drawn from Life.
By A PRISON MATRON, Author of "Female Lite In
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SYSTEMATIC MEMORY ; or, How to Make
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T. MACLAREN.

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IHE LITTLE THINGS -OF NATURE.
By LEO H. GRINDON, Author of " Lite : its Nature," &e.

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us"—Christian News.
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the most imaginative novels."—.Norfolk News.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MA Y 22, 1866.

FRENCH GALLERY, 120, PALL-MALL.-
The 111111,TENNTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of
PICTUit ES, the Contributions f Artists of the French and
Flein,sh ge.Lool=, IS OPEN THIS DAY.

London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row.

Fcap. Bvo., extra cloth gilt, gilt edges, prioe 3s. 6d.,
LOVE : a Selection from the best Poets, by
THOMAS SHORTER, Editor of "A Book of English
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Cheap Reissue of
LECTURES by• the Rev. HUGH STOWELL
BROWN.

Vol. 1, containing "Five Shillings and Costs," and eleven
other Lectures, price 10d,
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Vols. t and 2, bound together in cloth, price 2s.

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notorious CHARLOTTE WINSOR.
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ASTRA, PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE
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DO you wish to SING, or have a beautiful and
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They are invaluat le to all, and areguaranteed as a protective
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The Euphonic Note, post free 14 stamps, In boxes 26 stamps,
direct from the sole Inventor. SEAGRAVE ALGEN, 1,
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MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new descrip-
tiun of ARTIFICIAL TEE HI, fixed without springs, wires,
or ligatures. They so perfectly rep.embte the natural teeth
as not to be distinguished fro n the originals by the closest
observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will
be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This,
method does not require ttie extraction of roots, or any pain-
ful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are
loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica-
tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful
in mastication.
52, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5.

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XTOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
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matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the
properties of dyes ' • it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
system, and when the hair is once restored one application
per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per
bottle, or in half bottles. 10s. 61. Testimonials from artistes
of the highest order, and from Individuals of undoubted re-
spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John
Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
than 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five years.
The new home the Committee wish to form woeld be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of s to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen 'street, Cheapside; ur by liessre
Barclay and Co., Lombard-street.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.

Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WA LES, K.G

President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCIL K.G.

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This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions ands ~acies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
Jestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
5,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
°obtaining several hundred more beds, had the Commii.te.l
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mac
:erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
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CO., Liverpool 3 and at the Hospital. from 10 till 6.

[STANFORD 8111ITII, Secretary.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—CON-
TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing
the COUNTRY ROME. £l.OOO required.
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8. Great Queen-street. W.C.

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HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys.
One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at
£6,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to pay for one bay each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothbury. and 214, lligh Holborn ; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East ; and by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Ureat Queen-street, W.C.

SUBSCRIPTION TESTIMONIAL
TO
GEORGE CRITIESIIANK.
PRESIDENT.
JOHN RTJSKIN, Esq., m.g.
VICE-PRESIDENT.
Sir W. C. TREVELYAN, Bart.
TREASURER.
Louis Huth, Esq,
BANKERS.
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" Before the century was actually in its teens. we believe
that George Cruiashank was amusing the public. Is there
no way in which the country could acknowledge the long
services and brave career of such a friend and benefactor ?"
THACKERAY.

The public in general is invited to co-operate in this move-
ment. Subscriptions receivable as above, or by the under-
signed as honorary secretary,
CHARLES A. HOWELL.
r 3, York-villas, Brixton, S.

pROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FO
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.O.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. Tho poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager ece.7
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least .Cl,OOO more will be required.
Besides providing shelter kr the homeless, this, year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow' to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT D.D., No. 22,
Finsbury-W=l3, E.C.

JOHN G °SNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOO rn PASTE is 'greatly, superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price.ls. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf,- s 3, Upper
Thanfes-street, London.

TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.-
The fear" ofpain and diead'of ope, ation inherent to all
deter very many. to whom AWTIFICIAL TEETH are of
vital importance from availing themselves of the Services of
a dentist. In a practice founded in 1830, and now ex,.ending
over greater part of the kingdom, an experience unequalled
has been obtained, enabling
us to offer even the most sensi-
tive sufferer a bystem of. dentistry perfect in its absolute
freedom from pain, a specialite I,ertaining only to our prac-
tice, and for which her Majesty has granted her royal letters
patent. This system embraces the non-interference with all
stumps, howeter decayed, the supporting instead of extrac-
tion of loose,teeth until they become firm and useful in mas-
tication, and t p ter absence of all.and every operation, so
that the m '.persoh can britilpirentrithout fear of
pain or inconvenience. These teeth are cheaper, more dur-
able, natural, and comfortable than any yet produced..
Consultation free. Teeth from ss. Sets from sto 25 ge.,
warranted.

Nor the efficacy, utility, and success of this system, vide
"Lancet." •
Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and SONS, •
30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand,
Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station.
Daily attendance at 15, Whltefriargate, Hull; 10, Norfolk-
street, Sheffield ; 4, East-parade. Leeds ; 14, St. Nicholas-
street, Scarbro' ; and 33, Coney-street, York.
Established 1830. No connection with any one of the same
name.

What -is to be the Fate of the Reform Bill 1

(From the London Correspondent of the Scotsman.)
Parliament adjourned last night for the Whitsun-
tide holidays. When the House of Commons reas-
sembles, the Franchise Bill and the Seats Bill, then
rolled into one, will be ready for committee. It
will first be necessary to clear away a cloud of in-
structions on going into committee, Mr. Bouverie's
being one; and it is possible that we may be fav-
oured, on the motion for going into committee, with
a few of the speeches that by a
_fiasco were not de-
livered this week on the second reading of the Seats
Bill. Committee once gained, the clauses will be
taken seriatim. The -figure of the borough franchise
will be keenly fought by the Conservatives, with
such Adullamite help as they can obtain. They will
try and put up the county franchise to £2O or £3O.
But the most objectional feature of the bill to the
Derbyites
.4 the leaseholders' and copyholders'
clause. Assuming that no speeches are made for
delay, and that the Government do not throw up
the bill in consequence of defeat upon some vital
principle of the bill, we may imagine the bill carried
'up to the Lords somewhere about the end of July.
What will the Lords do with it ? The Govern-
ment Reform Bill of 1866 will be the first that has
gained the table of the Upper House since the great
Reform Bill of 1832. This of itself will give the
measure an historical importance commensurate
with the responsibility thus thrown upon our here-
ditary legislators. The word is passed round that
the Derbyite peers are " prepared to act with vigour
and decision ;" but they protest against any unne-
cessary strain being thrown upon them. The whips
have received instructions to urge the Conservatives
in the Lower House to get the waggon out of the
mire for themselves, instead of calling upon Jupi-
ter. They deprecate the language occasionally heard
from thoughtless members of the Opposition :--
"We need not trouble ourselves about such or
such a clause ; the Lords are sure to strike it out."
Lord Derby is exceeding anxious that the clauses
which he is expected to amend and modify should
be carried in the Lower House by as narrow a ma-
jority as possible,if they are carried at all, so that
their lordships may not be called upon to act against
an overwhelming weight of House of Commons
opinion.

These precautions having been taken, the Conser-
vative peers will probably succeed in making every
amendment in the bill which Mr. Disraeli endeavours
without success to carry in the Commons. Thus
the bill, say about the middle or end of August, will
come back to the Commons. There will be plenty
of timid and temporising reformers who will protest
against so much time being cost, and who will en-
treat the Government to agree to some compromise
with the Derbyite peers. If the Government con-
sent, there will be a conference, and much wrang-
ling and haggling ; and perhaps the result may be,
in the last w eek in August or the first week in Sep-
tember, the passing of a mutilated bill that will
satisfy nobody, and perchance shake the confidence
which the advanced Liberal party at present fee] in
the Government.

Is there no alternative ? When the House of
Commons is asked to go into committee on a com-
prehensive Reform Bill in the last week in May, will
not every stage of the bill be discussed with hurry
and precipitation ? In the Lower House will not
the cry be raised—" We shall be too late for the
Lords ?" In the Upper House shall we not be
pretty sure to have a motion to postpone the bill to
another session in consequence of the lateness of its
arrival ? If it should be defeated, will not the Com-
mons be sorely tompted to " scamp" their work, and
to accept unwise amendments because the Govern-
ment are really beaten by time? The Chancellor of
the Exchequer, in introducing his Seats Bill, had to
deal with the probability of carrying the amalga-
mated measure at a very late period of the session,
and, in a tone of half banter, which was perfectly
understood, and which raised a storm of disapproval,
not unmixed with laughter, at the absurdity of the
suggestion, he hinted at the desirableness of an ad-
journed session in October or November. New
M.P.'s already find the work harder than they had
bargained for, and admit that the " count out" is a
Parliamentary institution of the greatest wisdom
and usefulness.

ment, and other subjects of practical utility. Re-
member that the Inland Revenue Bill is not yet
accepted, that 2,1 r. Gladstone's scheme for reducing
the National Debt has not yet been discussed ; that
the income tax, the mileage duties, and fire insur-
•ances are not not yet disposed of ; that the Jamaica
insurrection debate still looms in the future; that the
education vote will require a night ; and that, over
and above the Government business, private mem-
bers have a right to occupy two nights of the week.
The Whitsuntide recess may be usefully occupied
in considering how much the Legislature may do
this session if all parties promptly agree to relegate
Parliamentary Reform to the year 1867, and how
little it will do', and how badly it will do it, if the
Government determines at any cost and hazard to
pass a Reform Bill this session.

There is an alternative. Seeing that Toryism and
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" cold obstruction" will oe the sole gainers by going
on with the bill this session, I must, with your per-
mission, again raise my Voice while there is time,
and counsel the timely withdrawal of the bill.
Bring in the complete bill on the first day of next
session, and by Easter some progress may have
made
in committee. The Lords will
time for deliberation ; above all—and
üblic opinion will
eilintPsenlrftahneaee—rd againstP any restric-
hbaeevne
ample
tthihnoivnseiostfimopfeoeptxuetlramermarkeights, and any reactionary and ob-
structive amendments which the Tory Peers may
succeed in carrying. I defy the most sanguine
Liberal to assert that the unenfranchised classes will
have a fair chance of bringing their influence to bear
during the hurried conference that must take place
at the end of the present session between the two
houses. It is, I think, demonstrable that the Libe-
ral party have everything to lose and nothing to
gain by
would geing on with the bill, and that the Govern-
ment would fight the battle of Reform at a
much gx eater advantage next session. If we go on,
and go into committee on the bill, every day occu-
pied in the discussion will be an additional reason for
doing something, and accepting some kind of a Re-
form Bill at the hands and under the dictation of
the Upper House. Members will recollect how little
else they will have to show for the session, and may
in sheer despair urge the Government to accept some
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• Englishman possessed his property, and whatsoever
deprived him of that right deprived him of his birth-
; right. The full effect and meaning of these words
had been attempted to be frittered away by Sir
Hugh Cairns, bait he utterly failed in the attempt.
Lord Somers, when he used the words, knew too
well the importance of the occasion to have used
them in the sense which Sir Ilugh Cairns now at-
tempted to"put upon them. There was, in fact,
no mistaking them, for they stated as plainly as
language could state, that the franchise was the
birthright of every, Englishman. Besides, Lord
Somers did not stand alone in that opinion, for he
was supported and borne out in it by Chief Justice
Holt and Lord Chatham ; and thus they had the
law of the franchise laid down by the greatest jurists
and statesmen this country had ever seen. Let them,
then, do their utmost to obtain a franchise such as
those great men delared Englishmen were entitled
to. No doubt the present House of Commons was
not the house of the People, but it ought to be so,
and let it be the firm resplve and determination of
the people to make it so. (Cheers.) Let it not be
said that in their efforts to do so they wanted to in-
jure or impair the Constitution of the country.
(Hear.) It was because they loved that Constitu-
mprove it, and
tion that they wished to reform and i
Principle and
render it suitable not only to the exigencies of the
times,lbut conformable to its original
intentions. (Cheers.) If in their efforts to do this
they should Americanise their institutions, it would
bt the fault of others, not theirs. (Hear, hear.) It
would be the fault of those who were opposed to all
progress, and who denied the people their just
rights. (Hear, hear.) They took their stand on
the Throne, the Law, and the Constitution ; and let
those who opposed the people in every effort they
made to obtain the rights which these conferred on
them take heed in time lest their opposition might go
too far. (Cheers.)
Mr. CREMER then moved the first resolution,
which was—" That this meeting, whilst adhering to
the principles of manhood suffrage and the ballot,
as advocated by the Reform League, earnestly urges
her Majesty's Government to resist to the utmost
any alteration of the bill now before Parliament for
the representation of the people which shall in the
slightest degree tend to raise the franchise for
county voters above the proposed limit of £l4, or
that for borough voters above the proposed limit of
£7, or to curtail the proposed occupation franchise
for counties; and this meeting emphatically declares
that any such alteration will meet with the most
strenuous opposition of the people throughout the
country." In support of the resolution Mr. Cremer
referred to a statement made by Mr. Lowe in the
course of the discussion on the Government mea-
sure, to the effect that it would be most dangerous
to lower the franchise. Now, keeping the danger
out of the question, he at once admitted that it
would be impossible to lower the franchise, for it
had already become so low that it would be impos-
sible to make it lower. (Laughter.) But, then,
where was the danger in extending it? Two or
three years ago, when the workpeople of Lanca-
shire were suffering the greatest privation, when
they were starving with hunger and cold, there was
not one of them put out his hand against his neigh-
bour's person or property, and they all maintained
the greatest respect for law and order.
(Cheers.) He would ask how many of Mr.
Lowe's class would have shown the same resig-
nation and good order under such circumstances ?
(Cheers.) At the time all the school of the
Adullamites were loud in their praises, but
now, when these same men asked to have the fran-
chise extended to them, " Oh," it was said, " they
are an ignorant, drunken rabble, and the conferring
the franchise upon them would be to endanger the 4
Constitution." But the real cause of all this opposi-
tion to giving them the franchise was not because
those parties believed them to be ignorant, but be-
cause they knew that they were intelligent. (Cheers.)
They knew that if they had the suffrage there were
many things perpetrated now in the public depart-
ments and otherwise which would not be permitted
then, and hence all the opposition to their obtain-
ing it. Ile trusted, therefore, that they would do
their utmost in supporting the Government to carry
this measure. It was but a small instalment of what
they were entitled to, but it would open up the way
to further progress. (Cheers.)
Colonel DICKSON seconded the resolution, and in
doing so alluded to the inconsistency of having a
sort of universal suffrage prevailing in their colo-
nies, while in the mother country the great body of
the working classes were deprived of the franchise.
Mr. LUCIIAFT having supported the resolution, it
was put from the chair, and unanimously adopted.

Mr. BRADLAUGH next moved a resolution to the
effect that the meeting also earnestly urged the Go-
vernment to extend the lodger franchise to occupiers
of lodgings, whethef furnished or unfurnished, of the
yearly value of £lO ; to relieve such lodgers from
the burden of being obliged to renew yearly their
claim to be registered; to withdraw the 16th clause,
relating to the dockyard voters ; and to extend the
time for polling in all cases to a later hour than 4
o'clock.

Mr. Wrightley having seconded the resolution,
it was supported by Mr. J. R. Taylor, and unani-
mously adopted.
A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the
proceedings.

The Alleged Case of 111-treatment at Epsom.

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IN LWSPAPER
right hand in prosecutor's po 4. I:, ~ 0"--i•r:-:::.174.
took it out. The 'prisoner- ke , *
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till the charge was entered . AO* z -;=-'4
ruit.
then .i 5 'lBs. Gd, was in one 1., •` ''.. 1 4.T462„1
the other. He had also the t. S .:.Ml:' '
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produced.
At 11 sz
Cross-examined by Mr. Harrowell—Wits-Ms
heard the prisoner say he had been betting with
the prosecutor, and found him to be a welcher.
Several gentlemen accused the prisoner of being
a welcher. The prisoner refused to open his hands
at the station at first, and said that what he had
got there was his own, and be wished to explain
himself.

ErSO3l, Monday.

William Stead, 652 A, confirmed the evidence
of last witness.

A very extraordinary case has been haedaradttbraecfoterde
the magistrates in petty sessions, which h
considerable attention in consequence of a highly-
sensational paragraph which appeared exclusively in
The Sun on Thursday last, that a welsher, in the
presence of hundreds of policemen in frost of the
Grand Stand at Epsom, had been set upon by
members of the betting-ring, " hustled, beaten,
kicked, and finally stripped naked and turned out
bleeding and insensible on the heath, no policeman
raising a finger to protect the poor devil, or to arrest
his cowardly assailants." The true circumstances
will be seen in the following report.
Thomas Hodson, of Holbeck, near Leeds, com-
mercial traveller, was charged with stealing £7 Os. 6d.
from the person of James Hartley, otherwise John
Hargreaves, on Epsom Downs.
Mr. Harrowell, solicitor, of Epsom, defended the
prisoner.

James Hartley, the prosecutor, said he lived at the
Brunswick Hotel," Piccadilly, and attended Epsom
races on the " Derby Day." He was a betting man,
and was in Langland's stand. Some dispute arose
with persons betting with him on the Derby, and he
was surrounded and knocked down, and his money
taken out of his pocket. The prisoner was amongst
those who assaulted him. Ile (prosecutor) saw him
put his hand into his (witness's) pocket, but could
not swear that he took anything out. Some police-
constables came, and witness saw one in plain clothes
apprehend the prisoner. Witness lost his watch and
chain, and between £l2O and £l3O in gold and
silver out of his pockets. He was struck and kicked
and his clothes torn off his back.
Cross-examined by Mr. Harrowell. —Witness
changed his name from Hartley to Hargreaves be-
cause be betted with the list. It was not because hee
had not paid his' bets. He always paid' his bets.
did not remember seeing the prisoner before the
disturbance. The ticket produced was one of his
(witness's) betting tickets. The disturbance began
a little before three. It began by people who had
' betted with him demanding their money back. They
did not tell him he had been welchua. g them, or was
going to welch them.

Mr. Harrowell said he had a most complete
answer to the charge, but -
Mr. Carter, the Chairman of the Bench, inti-
mated that the evidence of the prisoner having
been seen in the act of taking the money out of
the prosecutor's pocket left-no alternative but to
send the matter to a jury.

The prisoner, therefore, by advice of his solicitor,
denied the charge, reserving his defence, and was
committed for trial at the ensuing Surrey Sessions,
the Bench at once accepting bail, the prisoner's
own recognisances in £5O, and two sureties in £25
each, which was at once given, and the
_prisoner
left the court with his friends.

James Hutchinsont 576 A, stated that he saw
a disturbance in Langland's enclosure, and going
there found the last witness in the hands of a
mob, who were belabouring him and dragging the
clothes from his back. Several persons said the
prosecutor was a welcher. The prisoner had his