The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-10 00:00:00

Places. Names.
Linlithgowshire .. Captain W. Hamilton
Montrose , . Mr. Baxter
Paisley ' .. Mr. C. Ewing ..
Peeblesshire .. Sir G. Montgomery
Perth Mr. Kinnaird
Perthshire .. Mr. W. Stirling ..
Renfrewshire Sir M. S. Stewart ..
Ross and Cromarty Sir J. Matheson ..
Roxharghshire Sir W. Scott ..
Selkirkshire .. Mr. E. Lockhart ..
Stirling .. .. Mr. Caird
Stirlingshire Mr. P. Blackburn ..
St. Andrew's .. Mr. E. Ellice ..
Sutherlandshire .. Marquis of Stafford
Wick District .. Mr. S. Laing ..
Wigton District .. Sir W. Dunbar
Wigtonshire • . Sir A. Agnew • .

Total

LIBERAL
BORO'

LOSSES.

Ashburton
Bath . .
Bedford
Berwick
Bodmin . .
Carnarvon
Chester
Colchester
Devizes
Dover
Frome
Helston

Mallow..
Newport
Newry ..
Plymouth
Pontefract
Truro ..

Tynemouth
Wareham
Weymouth
Windsor
Yarmouth

Total
L GAINS.
,LTGIIB.
Lichfield
Limerick
Maidstone
Newark
Rochdale
Sunderland
Wakefield

Barnstaple
Boston .. • • ..
Carlisle.. ..
Carlow
Chippenham
Cirencester
Cricklade . • • •
Glucester (City)
..
Hastings ..

11 Total
LIBERAL LOSSES.
COUNTIES.
South Durham ..
East Norfolk .. • • • •
South Wiltshire ..
South Warwickshire ..
South Lancashire ..
South Essex ..
West Kent

Total .. ..
LIBERAL GAINS.
COUNTIES.

Berko
South Lincolnshire
Berwickshire ..
South Derbyshire

Total

Total Liberal losses
Less Liberal gains

Conservative gains .. .. 16
MEMBERS RETURNED —591.
Liberals .. .. 324
Conservatives —275

Majority against Government 49

CENTRAL CRIMINAL CO URT.—May 9.

THE QUEEN V. WILLIAM NEWTON.
This was an indictment against the defendant
for libel, the prosecution being instituted by Dr.
Godfrey, the defendant in an action for seduction of
a very extraordinary character, which lasted seve-
ral days in the Court of Queen's Bench, the present
prosecutor ultimately having a verdict in his favour.
The prosecution arose out of an article published in
a newspaper circulating at the east end of the town,
having reference to this trial. The bill was found
at the last session, and the defendant had since put
in a special plea, justifying the libel on the ground
of it being true.
Sergeant Parry was specially retained, with Mr.
Tindal Atkinson and Mr. Poland, to conduct the
prosecution ; Sergeant Ballantine, who was also
specially retained, Mr. Sleigh, and Mr. Gifford,
were counsel for the defendant.
Sergeant Ballantine made an application to post-
pone the trial to the next session on behalf of the
defendant, the ground of the application being that
it was found impossible to procure the attendance
of a witness named in the plea at this session,
whose evidence was considered to be very material
for the defence. An affidavit to that effect was
handed to the court, and also a counter affidavit on
behalf of the prosecution. It was agreed between
the learned counsel on both sides that no comments
should be made in reference to the case, and that
the question of the postponement of the trial should
be left entirely in the hands of the court.
Sergeant Ballantine, in answer to a question put
by the Recorder, said that it was undoubtedly very
material to the inquiry that the witness .lamed in
the plea should be in attendance, and he believed
that by the next session she would be present.
Sergeant Parry said he concurred with his learned
friend in thinking that it was very important the
witness referred to should be present, and Dr. God-
frey was most anxious that she should be examined,
and on his part he should therefore offer no opposi-
tion to the postponement ®f the trial, as all that
Dr. Godfrey desired was that the truth should be
made known.
The Recorder said that as the prosecutor consented
to the postponement of the trial, and a very impor-
tant question of character was involved in the in-
quiry, upon which the evidence of the absent
witness would be most material, he thought the
better course would be to grant the application for
postponement.
The case will consequently stand for the June
session.
Alfred Williams, 49, was indicted for misde-
meanour, in having obtained money by false
pr..tences.
Mr. Poland prosecuted ; Mr. Sleigh was counsel
for the defendant.
This was a prosecution instituted by the
Mendicity Society, and the evidence went to show
that the defendant had been carrying on a very
extensive system of plunder upon the charitable
portion of the community.
Mr. Aldous, a gentleman residingin Soho-square,
said that the defendant called upon him, and
represented himself to be Dr. Felix Arnold, of
Baliol College, Oxford, and that he had just arrived
in London by the train, and was short of cash to
take him home. The prisoner had the appearance
of a gentleman, and he succeeded in disarming his
suspicion, and he gave him 10s., and the prisoner
promised to send him a post-office order for the
amount on-the following day, but he never heard
anything of him until he was in custody.
Mr. Freeman, an iron -merchant, in Cannon-street,
said the prisoner called on him on the 21st January,
and after apologising for the intrusion, told him
that he bad just arrived from Edinburgh by the
steamboat, and that he was short of cash to convey
him to Low Moor, in Yorkshire, where he resided,
and he wished for assistance to enable him to reach
his destination. Witness told him he had been so

often imposed upon that he was compelled to be
cautious, but he had so much the appearance and
manners of a gentleman that he felt some delicacy
in asking him for some confirmation of his story,
and he then said that he was well known to Mr

Wickham, the member for Bradford, and to the

clergyman of Low Moor, whose name he
mentioned, and with whom witness was ac-
quainted, and he added that he did not like
to go into a pawnbroker's shop to pledge his
watch, but he was willing to leave it with him as
security. The prisoner said he only wanted £l, as
that would be sufficient to take him home by the
third class train, but witness said that it must be
unpleasant for a gentleman to travel by such a
conveyance, and gave him two sovereigns, the pri-
soner, when he received the money, assuring him,
on the word of a man of honour and a Christian,
that he would remit him the amount the moment
he got home.

Another case of a similar character was gone
into, and it appeared that when the prisoner was
taken into custody a number of what are called in
slang phraseology " tickets" were found upon him,
containing the names of persons well known in dif-
ferent localities in all parts of the country, to whom
fraudulent persons might make reference in case of
necessity.
Mr. Sleigh said he had watched the case, and he
felt it was hopeless to offer any defence, and the
jury therefore at once returned a verdict of guilty.
The Recorder, in passing sentence, observed that
proceedings like those of which the prisoner had
been guilty were calculated to entirely dry up the
springs of charity; and he ordered him to be kept
to hard labour for 18 months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—May 9.

CLERKENWELL.—IITTERING FORGED BANK
OF ENGLAND NOTES.—Edward Clowden, aged 45,
a man dressed as a sailor, and Edward Heath, aged
47, a tobacco pipe manufacturer, carrying on busi-
ness at 6, Mansfield-place, Kentish Town, were
charged before Mr. Corrie with attempting to utter
a forged £5 Bank of England note to Miss Char-
lotte Hones, of 11, Weston-place, Somers Town.
The prisoners, in company with another man,
entered the shop of which the complainant is the
manageress, and called for three cups of tea, the
1 prisoner Clowden tendering a £5 note in payment.
Finding the note was not a genuine one, the police
were called, and the prisoners given into custody.
Police-constable Croome, 134 S, said he took the
prisoners into custody, and when he told them the
charge, the prisoner Clowden said he was a seaman,
and had received the note in payment for his wages.
The ship that he had been paid off from, he said,
was the Shylo, Captain Doane, and was then lying
in the Victoria Docks. He made inquiries at the
dock, and found that the authorities knew of no
ship or captain of that name, The
prisoner Clow-