The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-17 00:00:00

GUILDFORD ELECTION.—This Day.

The nomination of a rApresentative for the borough of
Guildford to the House of Commons, rendered vacant by
the elevation of Sir W. Bovill to the judicial bench, took
place to-day. The candidates were Mr. Pocock and Mr.
Garth. The proposers of the respective candidates ad-
dressed the electors, and afterwards Messrs. Pocock and
Garth made their political declarations, amidst much
noise and confusion. A stow of hands was called for,
which the returning officer declared to be in favour of
Mr. Pocock.

A poll was demanded on the part of Mr. Garth, which
was fixed for to-morrow morning.

Central Criminal Court—This Day.

OLD COURT.

The December sessions of the Central Criminal Court
commenced this morning, before the Lord Mayor, the
Sheriffs, and Aldermen.

The calendar contains the names of 80 prisoners for
trial. There is one charge of murder; feloniously wound-
ing, three ; feloniously administering poison, one ; arson,
one; burglary, four; forgery, three; perjury, one; the
other cases consisting of the usual description of offences.
The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, referred to
the case of Emily Morris, who was charged with the murder
of her newly-born infant. The law, he said, with respect
to infanticide, was in a very unsatisfactory state, and in
this case he did not think there would be a conviction, as
the evidence was of a very weak description, the medical'
man's testimony only going the length that the child
had met with a very hard death. This he thought
was a very odd opinion, but the reason given for it was
that he found an indentation round the throat, but not of
such a description as would be caused by a rope, added to
which the woman had never been examined to ascertain
whether she had had a child. There were two charges of
manslaughter, one of which was against a son, who struck
his father, who, in falling, received such injuries that his
death occurred afterwards. The other was against Eliza-
beth Easter, for causing the death of her husband. Both had
been drinking, and a quarrel ensuing the deceased received a
push which caused a fall, and death followed. There was
some other evidence which went to prove a fight ;
but after they had examined it, it would be for them
to say whether there was a prima facie case against
the prisoner. There were other cases involving the
loss of lile one of wounding and the other of ad-
ministering poison ; in one case a woman who had
been asleep in her son's room, who was awoke in the night
by some injurypeing.inflicted on her throat, and the other
was that of a woman compelling her child to swallow
poison. The only other charge that he felt it necessary
to refer to was the indictment against James Freeling
Wilkinson, under the act of Parliament passed some
years ago, wherein it was provided that whoever,
being an officer of any company, shall appro-
priate to his own use any of the property
of the company should be guilty of misdemeanour. The
prisoner was the manager of the Joint-Stock Discount
Company, and he was indicted for appropriating two
cheques, ono for £4,000 and another for £BOO, which he
reported as having been lent to Messrs. Gaffer. Messrs.
Caffer denied this, and affirmed that they were given in
payment for certain shares which they had purchased from
him. On giving the cheque for £l,OOO prisoner stated the
money won Id bo paid to him by a person who was to supply
the funds for the shares, and by his direction no interest
was charged,
as was always done in the case of loans.
The simple question for them would be whether these
cheques were loans to Messrs. Gaffer; if so, whether it
was a proper application of the funds of the company; but
if they wore given in payment of a debt, ho (the prisoner)
had rendered himself amenable under the act of Parlia-
ment.