The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-July 11.

GUILDHALL.—Sir R. W. Carden, in referent*
to some betting circulars which he made public
few days ago, said he hal received the fullowiag
letter from ersrs. Howard and Clint)n, but as 131
had received other communications since, whi'
appear below, he would leave the public to foil
th it own conclusions as to the veracity of Messf°:
Howard and Clinton, and their participation
these abominable speculations :--
"To Sir Wm. (Robt. Walter) Carden, Alderman, el
"Sir,—As we are not aware of any party who wool
give paternity to the initials H. and C.' but ourselvego
we beg respectfully to say, in reference to your reagiste:
rislobservations upon a circular purporting to have bee;
sent by us to our subscribers, and given in extenso by till,
papers, that no such circular was ever issued by p
Moreover, as we have no subscriber at -Bristol, we 011,
led to the conclusion that the very respectable gentlefl
who forwarded to your worship this and a previous ej
cular must be some one equally antagonistic to truth..
to the 'lsthmian Games,' and, therefore, no anbscae'
of, sir, yours respectfully,
London, July 9, 1857."

HOWARD AND CLINTON•

Sir R. W. Carden said, unfortunately for Moss'
Howard and Clinton's denial, he held in his haul
another circular from Mr. Johnson, of Bristol, who
writes as follows :

"Bristol, July 9th, 1857. 4
"Sir,—l feel grateful to you for the insertion of 3/9
letter of the 6th inst., with a view of bringing before tR
public the doings of H. and Co.' of betting notorietli,
Your advice to the Post-office authorities will, if f°t
lowed, prove a:formidable blew to their financial Park
went, as it appears that for several yews the Post
has been made the only channel through which to Wh j
it/id
themselves at the expense of others. There is no otr
address given. . . Any one would be puzzled to fief
and C ,' or Howard and Clinton. This ii
itself sufficient to show that deception is the grand bolt
on which this betting business is transacted. . • ij
there was any honour in their dealings . . they w 0 t,
give their real name . . addresses, and not resort
the hide and seek plan of waking a Post-office receivinoi
house the depot for their ill-gotten gains. . In rn
that no check on their victims has yet taken place I sellt,
you another circ.lir, etc., arrived to-day. . . The P°,5.0
mater must have long since known the nature of too
correspondence entrusted to him for 'H. and C.; g
that the sooner the connexion is severed . . .... the soooer
will ` H. and C.'s' occupation be gone.
"I have the honour to be &c., "B. JetiNsolt-
Several circulars of a similar character to thosepreviously made public (one of them commeneill,,v
with " Howard and Clinton") were enclosed 1
the above and read by Sir P. Carden, who said
appeared to him th it fresh circulars were issued f°'
every race, and the only thing that surprised h la
was that any young man should be found so
as to be deluded by such a palpable attempt f 4
fraud, which was evident upon the very face of t,'to
circulars. These -betting establishments were i:11/
pernicious in their effects, as they but too often
e
led to the ruin of the inexperienced, who were firlo,
induced to risk their own money, and then, ivy.
such assurances of certain success and large gash'
that of their employers, until incarceration or 3'
ignominious end terminated a disgraceful career'
which might otherwise have been prosperous
creditable. Soweideamightbe formed of thefrightfiP
extent to which that class of society were plundered
from the very significant fact mentioned by .0116
Bodkin at the London Sessions Coart, in the alr
peal of Merry against a conviction for keeping dib
betting-house, by which it appeared that duritiq
the shoot period of ten months Merry had paid ;f
to the Union Bank as much as 15,0001., and 11,
only drawn out 8001. He regret.ed exceeding.'"
that the I,lw was so defective as to leave the rnaglg;
trates, to a certain extent, powerless in dealing
with these cases criminally. He would, however'
adopt the only means th %t was prac!icable to re;
press the nefarious system, and, by exposing th
plans of these patties, caution the unwary to avoid
the snares so impudently contrived for their roil'
He hoped the press would give their assistance'
tie was quite sure that if the evil could not be or
tiroly eradicated, it might be considerably alley,'
ated by publicity.

BIRTHS.

OF A SON.

On the 10th inst., at Waltham Abbey, the wife of osl3'
tain Inglis, R.E.
On the 9th inst., at Woolwich, the wife of Wm. '
Oran], Esq., of JEI.M.'s War Department.
07 A DAUGHTER.
Ou the Bth inst., at Dartmouth-house, St. James's Or
the wifq of Henry Woods, Esq., M.P.

MANRI
On the 11th inst., at the district church of St. Afar'
Magdalene, the Lord Robert Gascoigne Cecil, MX, to
Georgina Caroline, eldest daughter of the late Hon. 130°13
Alderson,

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