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plaintiff.
Mr. Sergeant O'Hagan, Q.C., stated. the plaintiff's
case. He said that it now became his duty to state
the grounds on which the plaintiff claimed da-
mages, and large and ample damages, at the hands
of the jury. The plaintiff, Miss Julia Trowsdale,
was the daughter of an English gentleman, resi-
dent in Belfast, where he held the responsible posi-
tion of an officer of Customs for a great number of
years. Between the families of the plaintiff and
the defendant, or at least between certain members
of them, great intimacy had existed for navy years.
OldiMr. Stewart, of Holywood, was acquainted with
Mr. Trowsdale, the Customs officer in Belfast ; and
the daughters of Mr. Trowsdalo and the grand.-
daughters of Mr. Stewart, the sisters of the defen-
dant, were sent by their respective parents to .a
place of education well known, in the county of
Antrim, Grace Hill, a highly respectable and ex-
cellent school, kept by the Moravian community.
The young ladies of the two families formed an in-
timacy which continued until the death of one of
the sisters. Whether previous to the autumn of
1856 there had been any acquaintance between the
plaintiff and the defendant (lid not appear ; but
about that time he met Miss Trowsdale at Sunny-
side, the residence of a lady named Mrs. Rounds,
and on one occasion he accompanied her to her
home, at a place called Ballyhackamore, between
Holywood and Belfast. From that period very
close and intimate relations were established be-
tween the defendant and this young lady. He
became a constant visitor at the house of her pa-
rents, and they having made inquiries as to his
character and conduct, he did not appear to them
to be an ineligible person to be a suitor to their
daughter. His visits to the house continued from
the autumn of 1856 down to the time almost at
which he broke his contract. During the period a
correspondence of a very voluminous nature was
maintained between these young people, with the
full knowledge and approbation of the families on
both sides; and towards the end of 1856 a positive
agreement to marry was entered into between them.
The correspondence proceeded throughout the year
1857, and until the death of old Mr. Stewart, in
November. 1858 ; the defendant's visits to Mr.
Trowsdale's were of weekly and almost daily oc-
currence, and (what might be expected between
affianced persons) little love gifts, lockets, and "en-
gaged rings," as they were called, passed between
them. Up to the period of his grandfather's death,
the defendant was not possessed of much property
himself. He possessed something less than £1,000;
but he kept a yacht, and enjoyed himself as became
a gentleman of fortune. The defendant, however,
did not desire to enter into the marriage state until
he became perfectly independent in the world. But
it sometimes happened that love cooled, and that
what a man intended to do when he was in poor
circumstances, he shrank from doing when his cir-
cumstances improved. It would appear from the
correspondence that Mr. Stewart, the grandfather
of the defendant, died, leaving the latter property
said to be worth £6OO per year, and that in a very
short time afterwards the defendant began to cool
in his attention to the plaintiff. Still the corres-
pondence went on. In March, 1859, the plaintiff
discovered the change that had come over her affi-
anced husband, having written repeatedly to him
without receiving any answer. Then, for the first
I time, the defendant began to make an excuse for
the purpose of avoiding the completion of his solemn
contract. He stated as his reason for not having cor-
,responded before, that he had heard from somebody
of the plaintiff having exhibited his letters to other
people-. That was in March, 1859. The plaintiff
answered that the charge was falsethat she had
never done anything so uumaidenly and unbecoming,
• and desired to know the name of the slanderer. The
. defendant's first answea was that the communica-
tion was confidential; next, that it was made to
him by a person who had gone to America, and that
until he hoard from him he could not state the name;
then, that this nameless person was travelling abroad
in America, and he could not tell exactly when a
reply could be got. It would be found that, before
;a reply could have come, he had married another
woman, and the jury would therefore come to the
conclusion that the charge advanced against the
plaintiff was merely a false and base pretence of the
defendant to justify the breach of his contract made
18 months before.
The learned counsel then read the following
amongst other letters :
" Holywood, Midnight of Saturday.
" My dearest Jnlia,—l am sure you can but little
imagine the pleasure I now experience in writing
to you, although so immeasurably. less than that of
seeing, and holding converse with, you. Imagine,
then, if the pleasure in writing to you be so great,
what must it be that I shall experience at receiving
a letter from you, dearest Julia. What a magic
there is in that little word, Julia, and to what a
source of hope and joy does the very mention of it
give birth !
For strange, fond moods the spirit Bath
That never trod life's common path.
And is this feeling, this emotion. love ? Yes, love
for you, dear Julia, pure and fervent; for is not
that feeling love, that fills the soul to the complete
annihilation of every other thought and feeling,
thus enabling us, as it were, to lift the veil of the
invisible world ? Oh, yes, love must be holy. Are
there not moments to all of us, when clearer
thoughts and more elevated feelings than are often
wont to visit us take possession of our minds ?
.When, thinking on some -beloved object, our
thoughts are enabled to rise from the study and
contemplation of the creature to the more fervent
worship and adoration of the Creator. • Do we not
feel all t his to be the case when --. But excuse me,
I feel that I am wearying you, and allowing my pen
to wander from its original subject; but I know,
dearest Julia, that you will excuse me, as the very
fact of my writing to you is surely sufficient to ac-
count for my wandering. It has been wisely ordained
by an all-wise Providence that we can in the ideal
thus converse with those we love and honour ; for
remember, that although absent from you in per-
son, I am present in spirit ; for I never open a book,
or look upon anything in the face of nature around
me, in which I do not see, in plain and legible
characters, your face and features there depicted
before me ; although were I to speak the truth,
that face is never, even for a moment, absent from
my mind : for surely it is this, that heart needeth
heart.

In my dreamings of thee,
Still I fear to depart ;
In my dreamings of then,
. In that doorway I stand,
. Meet thy welcome so bland,
And I still press thy hand
In my dreamings of thee..
I hope. you felt no ill effects from your dancing last
night. May every happiness be thine, is, believe
the fervent wish of your very devotedly attached
and affectionate,

" HUGH STEWART, Jun."
In another letter, dated HolywOod, Tuesday even-
ing, he said,—
" There are moments when the heart glows with
unutterable emotion---when. the electric spark of
love thrills our whole being With a-joy too great for
utterance. -Would that at such moments, dearest
Julia, language were given to express even a tittle
of that love with which you are wOrshipped.• There
are some whose natures are cold and passionless—
whose hearts can.never thrill with love's emotion—
in whose bo ;onis no generous sympathy with spon-
taneous energy ever breaks forth—who, wrapt up
in their own cold, selfish interests, alike insensible
to every holy and kindly feeling, walk this earth
as in a living tomb. So in love' there are those
who, when they love, love with their. whole mind,
their Whole being--10- whom no possible sacri-
fice at the shrine of- love would offer an impedi-
ment to their devotion ; and, again, on the other
• hand, there are those who Would degrade that
holy and blessed emotion, which is so cramped
and deformed- in their own bosoms as to be
scarcely recognisable. But enough of this. I must
• crave your pardon for being so wrapt up in the clues
tion of love that I almost forgot I was writing to
you. Forget you, did I say i Oh, no. I look upon

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good deal of nonsense of expression in that, but they
would say also what was the effect likely to be pro-
duced on the mind and feelings and imagination of
a young girl by writing of that description. An-
other letter, dated Jan. 13, 1857, is addressed to Miss
De Winton, one of the Christian names of Miss
Trowsdale. In this he (Sergeant O'Hagan) said he
(the defendant) once more lifted his pen to convey,
as some poet had said, "The throb of passion through
a drop of ink." (Laughter.)
" And oh ! my dearest Julia, though I feel our
hearts beat in unison, and though not a single pulse
of my bosom that does not throb for you, nor one
thought of innermost feeling which in my devotion
I would conceal from you—l love you more that
aught else on earth, and would willingly make any
sacrifice for you consistently with honour. I love
and honour you with a devotion nearly akin to that
which is due to celestial objects; yet, my own best
beloved Julia, pardon me if, in the ecstasy of the
moment, in the delirium of love—(laughter)—l
should have become so far wrapped up in the pre-
sent, insensible alike to past and future, so far for-
getful of myself, as to offend you. Believe me
dearest Julia, I would not willingly for worlds
offend you, or in any way hurt your feelings.
Though I have my own errors and imperfections,
yet no one could ever impute to me a mean or dis-
honourable action ; yet, dearest Julia, your happi-
ness and aught else in my hands are dearer to me
than life itself. And now, my ever dear Julia,
write me a long, long letter, and pray tell me that
you pardon me for my thoughtlessness, for oh !
Julia, I now love you the more for your pure and
confiding love and artless innocence. . . And
now, dear, dear Julia, good bye for the present,
hoping to hear from you,soon, and in the meantime
believe me your most sincerely attached and loving
"HUGH."
It appeared by one of the letters that he made her
a pfesent of a locket. . She in return gave him a
ring, and he, on the 30th of April, 1857, wrote:—
"Many, many thanks, dearest Julia, for the
ring of your hair you gave me. I shall ever prize
it as a sacred gift ; and when I look upon it it can-
not fail to drive from my mind any selfish or un-
charitable feeling that might otherwise lurk there.
Oh! how would it be possible, at the same time,
to think of you, my own gentle, loving Julia, and
cherish an impure feeling ?"
At one period the plaintiff's family had got into
some difficulties. The father of Miss Trowsdale
had become security for the debt of another, and it
resulted in the issuing of an execution and a sale.
The family had transferred themselves from Bally-
hackamore House to Seville Lodge, and then the
sale took place, and they had to submit to annoy-
ance and embarrassment. It was to that . the de-
fendant referred, and for that he expressed his
deep regret. The substance and effect of her letter
was stating that there had been embarrassment and
annoyance in connexion with her family, and if on
that account he thought proper to do so, she was
willing to allow him to withdraw himself from his
engagement. That was true or, was false, and if at
the end of the case. it was proved true, the jury
would say what effect it would have on their ver-
dict. It was written about the Ist or 2d of October,
in reply to the sympathising letter of the defendant ;
and he replied to that letter in a letter dated the
4th of October, to which he (counsel) would direct
their attention in contrast with the final letter, in
which he' justified his abominable and flagitious
wrong. That gentle innocent, confiding girl—the
words were not his (Sergeant O'Hagan's), but Mr.
Stewart's—offercd him a release from his engage-
ment, if he had the heart, if hewas base enough to
take it. The letter was as follows :
"My very very dear Julia—l yesterday morn-
ing received your very long looked for letter, and
now, love, with much pleasure sit down to answer
it. I must say, dearest Julia, that you very
much misjudge me when you infer that my love
for you would wane on account of your misfortune.
No, dearest Julia, that is far, far from the case. I
did not love you for any supposed or imaginary
wealth you might possess. In other words, I did
not woo- your money, but yourself. lam sorry, love,
that you could ever have imputed to mo such sordid
motives. I thought you knew me better, and would
have considered my character superior to such
meanness. That, dearest Julia, I have not seen you
often of late is not my fault, but my misfortune.
Yes, dearest Julia, I am sure that even you yourself
will acknowledge that were I master of my own
movements I would be oftener found by your side..
With regard to the insinuations you have made
about my forsalcinz you for another—oh, Could that-
ever be possible, dearest Julia, to forget you, my
own beloved ? Surely not. That is entirely false,
nor do I know how that report could at all have
arisen—as I believe myself innocent of having ever
given cause for such a report."
The post-mark of that letter was the 4th October ;
it was in answer to the letter of the day before.
The girl said to him she was ready to sacrifice her-
self, her hopes, and her happiness, if he chose to
take his freedom. His answer was :
"No;' I am too good, too noble-hearted, too
chivalrous a man, to do any such thing. I wooed
yourself, and not your fortune. I loved yourself,
and not your wealth."
On the 20th January, 1858, he wrote another
letter :

" Holywood, Tuesday Night.
"MyOW n dearest Julia,--I received your letter
this morning, and now, near midnight, sit down to
reply to it. Indeed, my love-, you very much mis-
judge me when you thus accuse me of indifference
and carelessneSs to you ; but aS you well know,
unfortunately I am constrained from acting as my
feelings would dictate. I am sure, love, you will
not judge me too harshly, knowing, from what you
have seen of me, that you alone possess my heart,
to the exclusion of aught die on earth. I am, I
am, sure, Julia, you must allow, most painfully
situated. I am, as it were, between two fires ; and
even then, Julia, Worst of all, you accuse me of
insincerity and fickleness. Believe me when I
assure you that I never yet expressed a senti-
ment to you that I did not feel—of course, making
allowance for any poetical expressions—and yet
even you, Julia, turn round and accuse me ! As I
before said, had I my wish this moment, it were to
he by your side, to .clasp you in my arms, and press
upon your cheek the pure kiss of confiding love.
But stern Fate says otherwise, and a cruel destiny
for the while imposes an insurmountable barrier to
Inv fond desire. In this situation lam more to
pitied than you."
What did the man mean who wrote that letter—
the man who said that the thought of her banished
from his mind every thought of impurity ? If he
were not speaking to her as her affianced husband,
would he have. dared to use the words contained in
that letter ? • Let the jury ask themselves, when
his accomplished friend came to ask them on their
oaths to say that there was no contract of marriage
in that case—let them ask themselves what was the
meaning of that letter. That was in January. After
that he (Sergeant O'Hagan) understood that Miss
Trowsdale went to London. It was desired by her
family that her education should be finished, and
she resided there with members of her own family.
She received there a letter from the defendant on
the 28th June,lBsB. That letter was in these terms:
" My very dearest Julia S—l this morning received
your kind and affectionate letter. I was,very glad,
indeed, love, to find that you are in good health and
enjoying yourself as you formerly used. You have
also had your own share of annoyance and vexa-
tion ; but, as I have always said, these cannot last
for ever. Is there not " a silver lining to every
cloud 9" It seems a long time since I last saw or
heard of you, and when I think of the many happy
hours we have spent together, and our pleasant
walks, it makes me sad to think of those happy
times and contrastthem'.vith the miserable present.
Oh ! Julia, I am sometimes almost inclined to de-
-spond, and believe is such a thing as fate. But no,
it cannot be possible. Brighter, at least as happy,
days are in store for us ; for though at times the
Almighty 'does often see tit to visit us on earth with
trials and diffiCulties, yet out of these the pure and
trusting heart will rise the purer and stronger be-
cause of its trials, for even is it not a true saying,
though common, that pleasure is allied to pain 9"
That was the last letter which lie (counsel) had,
until a short and pert letter, announcing the death
of the defendant's grandfather, of whom he was the
heir, and from whom he was to receive an ample
fortune. In that letter he wrote--
"Of course you heard of the death of my poor
grandfather. He had certainly been ill for a con-
siderable time, hut, withal, it wus a greet shock to
us all. Poor old man ! he was very patient and
resigned, very different, indeed, to what we could
have expected."
He concluded by saying—
' " You will please excuse, dearest Julia, this me-
lancholy letter, bnt I cannot help it, and with kind
remembrance to you all, believe me, my dearest
Julia, ever your fond and attached

" HuGH."
It would seem that, whether from Mr. Stewart's
becoming a more eligible part/ in con9evence-of
the death of his grandfather, or from whatever
other cause, rumour stated the the did not iutend.to
marry MissTrowsdale, but some person else—per-
haps a wealthier person. With reference to these
rumours he wrote thus on the ith of February,
1869: .

"My very dearest have but just re-
ceived your very kind and affectionate letter, and
at once respond to it. I ani very sorry, love, that

you should feel dissatisfied with me, but I have
been so peculiarly placed for some time past that I
hardly know how to act, and then you accuse me of
beipg on the eve of marriage with some young lady
or another. Than this "accusation nothing could be
more false. No thought of the. kind could ever cross
my mind. Indeed, I was so much put about by
the death of my grandfather and the illness of my
sister, that I scarcely knew what to do ; so that, if
I was neglectful to you it was not that my heart
was pre-occupied with thoughts of another. No.
I hope when we meet—which I hope will be soon
—that I will be able to express myself more clearly:
I met Miss Hope one day towards the latter end
of the summer. Do you ever see her now Do
you remember how sick you and she were when
going to Carrick 9"
The letter concluded with—" Believe me, your
fondly attached Hugh."
When the poor girl wtote to him complaining of
his apparent neglect, eren after he had protested
. his continued affection for her, he wrote to her
' thus:—

" I have to complain of you. I have not, it is
true, been as attentive to you as I should have de-
sired, because I heard that you showed my letters
to other gentlemen."
She applied to her parent for advice and protection
in her sorrow. When she received that shocking
letter she gave it to her mother, who replied to it
stating that it was false. She referred expressly,
and in terms, to the engagement of that man with
her daughter, and declared that there was no pre-
tence in justice, in morals, or in conscience, for say-
ing that that solemn contract should be broken by
the defendant. Mrs. Trowsdale's letter was written
about the 2d or 3d of April, 1859, and he replied
on the 4th. He ought to have written to the
mother, as she wrote to him, but wrote instead to
Miss Julia Trowsdale herself :
"I this morning received a latter from your
mother in reference to my letter to you. lam
sorry I cannot at present take the liberty to give
you the name of my informant. What he told me
he told in confidence—that he saw the letters, not
through you, but through another. I intend, how-
ever, as soon as possible, to get his address and
write to him for liberty to use his name ; of course
I could not do more. I am, indeed, sorry that any-
thing of the sort should have occurred, and hope
that it will still be satisfactorily explained. Your
explaining this to your mother will suffice for my
writing to her, and when I get an answer I will at
once apprize you of it. Hoping to see you soon,
and that all will still be settled, I am, my dear
Julia, your own loving " HUGH"
,He (Serjeant O'Hagan) denied that there was any
such person as was referred to by the defendant.
He did not believe that there was the shadow of a
shade of truth in that allegation with reference to
those letters, and if there was, that was not the
way in which the letter of the mother should have
been.answered. The poor girl wrote again to him,
repeating her solemn denial, and on the 20th of
May, 1859, she received his s4th letter
" MY VERY DEAR JULIA,—By yesterday's morn-
ing's post I received your, I must still say, fond
letter. I assure you that this state of suspense is
as painful, if not more painful, to me than it is to
you. You think you are the only sufferer. How
much are you mistaken ! Think you it is nothing
for me to have my dearest and fondest hopes
blighted--to be wakened from a dream of happi-
ness to —. But excuse me. Time must, and
will, and that shortly, reveal all things. Then you
will see which is most to blame."
Then he told her that, on receipt of her last, he
wrote to the person of whom he spoke, but that his
letter had to go to . the Western States of America
—(laughter)—and he promised when he got a reply
to tell her of it. He added—
" I fondly trust it will be one that will bring
love and happiness to each of us. I could not tell
you what was told to me in confidence. I must
still subscribe myself your still loving and attached
"HUGH."
On the 16th of July he wrote, addressing thus:
—" My dear Julia." It hd beer., "My own
Julia," or " My dearest Julia," or, " My very dear
Julia," and once, :" My very, very dear Julia,"—
(Laughter.) Now it fell to "My dear Julia," and
soon it tumbled to "Dear Julia," and that before he
got the reply from the friend in the Far -West. In
the letter of the 16th July he told her he had got
no answer yet from America ; that his friend was
in business, and had lately moved from the place
where he had located—(laughter)—on a kind of
business tour ; he did not know his address, but
when a reply was received it would be commu-
nicated. She wrote again to him, requesting that
he would come and hear from her own lips the re-
lutation of the calumnies of which he spoke, and he
replied on the 19th of July, saying, " It would be
very unsatisfactory for me to have an interview
y9u on a sul?iectson which I am not yet at
liberty to speak.' Well, the thionymousialanderer
never appeared ; no letter appeared • no letter
came from America ; the travelling trader
never was discovered. Miss Trowsdale pressed
still ; a matter not to be wondered at when her
position—publicly known as it was that she had
pledged her troth to Mr. Hugh Stewart—was con-
sidered. She was to have been his wife. The time
had arrived when his fortune enabled him to
marry, and she was forced to appear before her
family and the public in the equivocal position of
a woman who, having been promised marriage, had
been thrust aside as if she had done some act dis-
honourable to her as a woman—doubly dishonour-
able to her as a Woman who had been bound by this
solemn contract. She implored of hiin to give her
the name of her traducer and to allow her an op-
portunity of setting all things right. On the 14th
of September he wrote the following letter, which
concluded the correspondence on his part. He be-
gins, " Dear Julia." 'What a tumble from "My
own ever dearest Julia !" and its fond variations:—
" You again ask the cause of my silence. As
before told you, it was because I did not at all relish
the idea of having my letters to you exhibited. As
you know, I wrote, but have not yet received
authority to disclose the informant, &c., to whom I
refer. 1 have also had great reason to complain of
frequent statements made by you relative to your
family affairs and expectations, which I afterwards
discovered to be quite erroneous, and, I believe,
made by you without any misapprehension of the
fact. As I before told you, I will, on receipt of an
answer, make it known to you. Till then, • believe
me, ever sincerely yours, " UGH."
The learned sergeant concluded with an eloquent
appeal to the jury on behalf of his client. '
Several witnesses were examined for the plain-
tiff, after which the proceedings were adjourned•to
- the following day (Saturday).
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geon at Aldershott, as she was walking home, saw
a man in the uniform of a soldier strike a match
and set tire 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 done it to get "lagged." The property de.
stroyed amounted in value to £97.
The learned Judge, in summing up, said it was
not necessary that a man should with his own hand
set the rick on fire. It was sufficient if they were
all acting with one common purpose.
The jury found the prisoners guilty, and they
were sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for
seven years.

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.
vitae.

Edmund Wardropor, a most respectable-looking
man, and a solicitor, was indicted for forging a
promissory note for the payment of £350, 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 the
prosecution.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was removed.
John Parker was indicted for forging a post-office
order.

Mr. Poulden and Mr. H. T. Cole appeared for the
prosecution.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was removed.
Elizabeth Adlam was indicted for the wilful
murder of her child.
The grand jury threw out the bill.
The prisoner was 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 not offer
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.

TFIE °LOD-OEB2'BR ELECI7OIV:

The Commissioners met yesbrday at S, Fludyer-
street, Westminster, to exa-.-nile; a few more Nvit-
7108SeS._ The first witness callel was

Mr. Rose, of the firm of Baiter, Rose, and Co,,
Parliamentary agents, who sttted that he acted
professionally for the Conservative party at the last
general election. On the Sth ofApril last a person
called at his office and sent up a card bearing the
name of Richard Thompson. Winess requested that
the man should be admitted, mad on his entering
asked him whether he was .11.1% 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. fru). Mr. Crutwell, of
From°. I am told that there am anticipations of a
great deal of illegal practices on the part of the Li-
berals, andl.,,am asked for a considerable staff to

weich the different publiehouses ; buttl;equires
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 Me 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
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—There is not one scintilla of truth in it.
In reply to further 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
Mr. 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 Brevrwer
Monk for the purposes of bribery, and that he ibed
John:Hemmington, stonemason, and John Thaddick,
householder, to vote for Price and Berkeley,
George Allen -received from £8 to £lO from
Brewer Monk in 1857 to pay, his ol:vn travelling
expenses and those of five or six tither voters who
worked for him at Henley-on-fhameF. None of
that money went for bribery,
transaction as a losing one,
and he regarded the
Mr. Wilton, surger,n,
of Glocester, put in a
corrected statement
of the rentals of between 260
and 270 voters 3r:no had accepted bribes. Of
the total nute,,Der '123 were freemen whose
rentals were mostly very low in amount, rang-
ing from L 3 10s. per annum to £8 or £O. In one
or two 'bases, however, the rentals of the bribed were
as h;:gh as £4O. Mr. Wilton gave evidence as to
o%e 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, tho 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 been acknowledged by Mr. Mouut,
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 Mr. Bernard, and had undertaken that
that gentleman 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. Bernard an
opportunity of attending there if he wished to avoid
the consequences to which he had exposed himself.

MR. RAREY AT LIVERPOOL.

(From the _Liverpool Mail.)

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" ii 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.ltarey evi-
dently does. He is, in fact, the crowning triumph of
that system of which the " law of kindness" is tihe
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 were brought in an incredibly short time un-
der the most perfect and complete control ; and the
universal testimony of the spectators was that tho
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
ear proprietors, might have an 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