The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-03 00:00:00

ELECTION COMMITTEE—This Day.
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NOTTINGHAM.
The members of this committee re-assembled this morn
ing at 11 o'clock.

Mr. Rodwell, Q.C., who opened the case of Sir Robert
Clifton yesterday, resumed his address this morning. After
some preliminary observations the learned counsel adverted
to the evidence of the witness Corton, who had made the
statement that Sir Robert Clifton had said in a speech on
the hustings on the polling day, "Morley and Paget intend
to attempt to block up the booths to-morrow. It is for
you to prevent them. We will butcher' and pepper,
than, and then nobody will buy them." He would esta-
blish to the satisfaction of the committee that there was no
foundation for that statement, which was entirely uncor-
roborated, and that Sir R. Clifton was not on the hustings
after he left it in the morning, until six o'clock in the even-
ing, when he addressed the electors. With respect to the
evidence of Mr. Cox, who was very hostile to Sir Robert
Clifton, the attack made on him was attributable to his
unpopularity, and not to any incitement on the part of Sir
Robert, who would give an emphatic denial as to his com-
plicity in the riots. Mr. 1)u Prat would also contradict.
the witness as to the part he was alleged to have taken
when the attack was made cm him before the day of poll-
ing. Tho committee would /earn for the first time that at
three o'clock on the morning of the polling-day an attack
was made by Morley and Paget's party on the committee-
rooms of Mr. Martin, which led to a reprisal on the part of
some of those who wore interested in the success of Sirßobert
and Mr. Martin, and was not to be attributed to the agency,
direct or indirect, of either of these gentlemen. No doubt there
were riots at different polling places on the day of the elec-
tion, but he denied that Sir Robert Clifton's denouncing
and arresting them, instead of beinga "sham," was genuine.
The learned counsel then analysed, at considerable length,
the evidence of the other witnesses for the petition, which,
he said, he would be able completely to refute, and he re-
marked that the counsel for the petitioners bad most sus-
piciously abstained from calling several witnesses to give
corroborative evidence, although they boasted at the out-
set that 140 witnesses would be called.
The committee will re-assemble to-morrow at the usual
hour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

WHOLESALE ROBBERY.--A young man, formerly in the
employ of Mrs. Mary Ann Meade, milliner, of No. 22,
Davies-street, Berkeley-square, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwbitt with stealing a ring and other articles, the pro-
perty of his mistress.

The prosecutrix stated that the prisoner was in her em-
ploy for about 12 months, and left in February last; and
after he had gone she missed a ring and a number of other
articles.

Police-constable Moore, 193 C, proved taking the pri-
soner into custody, and finding a quantity of property
(identified by the prosecutrix as belonging to her) in the
prisoner's boxes. On searching the prisoner, who made
no answer to the charge, he found in his possession some
duplicates.relating to other articles owned by the prosecu-
trix, and they had been given up.

The prisoner wished the case to be disposed of by the
magistrate, and pleaded guilty
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he was afraid the prisoner had been
in the habit of robbing his employer for some time, and he
skould commit him for three months with hard labour.