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exceeded £2,500, and the insolvent had debts
owing to him, besides which a quantity of property
had been given up, and there was a sum in court
for the creditors.

It appeared that the insolvent had worked for
the General Omnibus Company, and received £5OB
for four omnibuses, out of which he promised to
pay, as stated, one of the opposing creditors, Mr.
Sherwin. He also worked for the Saloon Omnibus
Company, and claimed a sum of money from them.
He had an extensive business, 'and, according to
his statement, had spent considerable sums in
patents for improvements in buildinm vehicles. Mr.
Isaacs was a creditor, and said -the insolvent told
him he had the lease of the house in Drury-lane.
The other opposing creditors, Messrs. Taylor and
Walker, were creditors to £l9, incurred when the
insolvent was in difficulties.

Mr. Commissioner Phillips considered that, under
all the eircumstanees, this was a case which called
for the full application of the discretionary clause,
and pronounced a judgment of six months from the
vesting order in November last.
The court sat to a late hour.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, fan. 27.

The sittings of the court for the January Quarter
Sessions were resumed yesterday morning at the
Guildhall, Westniinster, before Mr. Pashley, Q.C.,
Assistant Judge ; Mr. Creasy and Mr. Payne, depu-
ties ; and the following magistrates were present—
Mr. Pownall, chairman of the bench; Mr. Gould
Mr. Goodhart, Mr. Watts, Mr. Farrant, Mr. Ho-
garth, Mr. Dimsdale, Mr. White, Captain Morley,
Mr. E. W. Cox, and Mr. Bird. There were 84
prisoners for trial.
The Assistant Judge delivered a short
.charge to
the grand jury.
Edward Baker Tapley, 33, and Benjamin Dear-
berg, 49, town travellers, were indicted for feloni-
ously embezzling money received by them on ac-
count of John Taylor and others, their masters.
They pleaded guilty.
Mr. Sleigh, for the prosecution, said the prisoners
had been travellers and collectors to Messrs. Tay-
lor,. cocoa and chocolate manufacturers, and by
means of false entries in the books, they acting in
concert and playing into each other's hands, had
defrauded their employers to the amount, as at
present ascertained, of about £l,OOO. Dearberg had
been in their service about 16 years, and Tapley
about eight. There was some reason to think that
Tapley had drawn the other into this scheme of
robbery and fraud, and it appeared that he had
been in the habit of investing money in shares and
other securities, but he had at present kept them
out of the reach of the prosecutors, or they might
be made available to reduce the _amount of the de-
falcation, in so far as it related to him. Perhaps the
court might induce him to disclose where these
securities were kept. Dearberg. had a salary of
£l3O a year, and a small commission upon the sale
of mustard. Tapley had £lOO a year, out of which,
however, they had to pay some small expenses.
Mr. Metcalfe, on behalf of Dearberg, said he had
been led into these transaction§ by Tapley, the com-
mencement being a loan of £27. The result was,
that when payment had to be made their masters'
money was made use of, other loans having been
made. Dearberg had been in the service 16 years,
and had borne a very good character until he was
unhappily tempted to join in these frauds.
The prosecutor having been examined,
The Assistant-Judge said, under no circumstances
could the court, in a case like this, depart from the

principle laid down with respect to those who,
holding responsible and confidential positions, with
proportionate salaries, availed themselves of that
position to commit extensive frauds upon their
unsuspecting employers. The sentence upon each
of them was five years penal servitude.
Wm. Taylor, 34, clerk, was indicted for having
stolen six bankers' cheques, representing the value
of £4O and over, the property of Robert Brutton
and others, his masters. He pleaded guilty.
Mr. Sleigh said the prisoner broke open, the cash-
box of the vestry clerk of Bethnal-green, stole the
cheques which were in it, which he went about the
neighbourhood and got changed.
The court sentenced him to hard labour for one
year.
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Smart were for the prosecu-
tion.

. .
Karl Peterssen, 22, sailor, was ip,dleted for unlaw-
fully assaulting and wounding Auguste Maddsen.
The prisoner and the prosecutor were both Swedish
sailors, and had a quarrel on board their vessel at
Limehouse, during which the prisoner struck him
with a knife and wounded him in the side.

The jury found the prisoner guilty, and
The Court sentenced him. to 12 months' hard
labour.

John O'Donnell, 16, was indicted for stealing
51bs. of copper, value ss. 6d.' from a Turkish gun-
boat, in the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Money
Wigram and Co., Blackwall, after a former convic-
tion of a similar offence committed upon the same

premises.
•
Sentenced to six months' hard labour.
(Before Mr. Creasy.)
Thos. Richebell and John Parrot; two well-dressed
and gentlemanly4ooking persons, were indicted for
having committed an assault on Giovanni Porpa.
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. F. H. Lewis were for the
prosecution ; Mr. 'Metcalfe defended Richebell ;
Mr. J. P. Doyle appeared for Parrot.
The prosecutor is a tailor, carrying on business
at 88, Pall-mall, and the defendant, Richebell, had
in September last a transtetion with him about
some clothes, the result of which was that Mr.
Porpa sued him in the county court. In conse-
quence of a letter he received, the prosecutor went
one day to Bloomsbury-square, when he was met
by Richebell, who assaulted him with a-stick, when
Parrot went up. Mr. Porpa thought Parrot was
an accomplice of Richebell in the, assault, as he
went away with Richebell in a cab, but it turned
out that he had never seen him' before, and had
had merely said he would be a witness for Riche-
bell if he was required. He stated that the prose-
cutor challenged Richebell to-fight if he would lay
down his stick. The letter was a fictitious one, sent
for the purpose, it- would seem, of getting Mr. Porpa
to a convenient place for a thrashing, Richebell
having received, it' was alleged, great provocation
by Mr. Porpa insulting him in the public streets,
and calling him very unpleasant names. •
The jury, on an intimation from the learned judge,
acquitted .'Mr. Parrot, who was then put into the box,
and he declared that he had nothing whatever to do
with the assault and had never spoken to Richebell
before the moment it was committed. He was
standing in a door-way out of the rain, When he
saw what took place, and then went up as a
spectator.
Mr. Creasy said that was a satisfactory explana-
tion.

Mr. Metcalfe said on the part of Mr. Richebell
that he could not deny the common assault, but
Mr. Porpa had greatly provoked him, by public
insult, and in a fit of temper he thought he would
have his revenge in this way, but he was sorry he
had been so led away, and of course would not
repeat anything of the kind.
The jury then found Richebell guilty, and
Mr. Creasy sentenced bim to ten days' imprison-
ment, and to pay to the Crown a fine of £2O.
John Howell, 50, was indicted for stealing four
silver spoons, value £7, and other articles, the pro-
perty of Maria Waldo Sibthorpe, his mistress, in
her dwelling house.
He pleaded guilty, and the Assistant-Judge sen-
tenced him to nine months' hard labour.