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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

BOW-STREET.

STEALING GLASSES. Henry Howard Short, a
man about 41 years of age, who gave no address,
and was attired in a capacious coat with a side
pocket capable of containing an innumerable num-
ber of articles, was charged before Mr. Flowers
with stealing two glasses value about 2s from the
Wellington Tavern, at the corner of Wellington-
street, Strand, kept by Mr. Speedy.
According to the evidence of Henry Thos. finish,
barman, the prisoner was in the habit of frequent-
ing the house for some time past, and during that
period they had missed several gross of glasses.
on Friday, at five minutes past eight o'clock,
He called for a glass of cooper, and after standing
10 minutes he sat down in the corner of the bar,
and witness then saw him put a glass in his pocket.
He sat there about another ten minutes, and then
got up and called for another glass of cooper and
sat down again for ten minutes. Witness then
saw him put another glass in his pocket. lie
stayed an hour longer when he went out, and wit-
ness, who had been purposely watching bun, having
his suspicions already aroused, followed him and
gave him into custody. They found the glasses on

On the magistrate asking whether he was known,
it was found that be had been convicted four
times for stealing glasses. He was committed for

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
FRAUD ON THE UNIVERSAL BENEFICENT SOCIETY.
—Thomas Pugh, a tall, respectable-looking man,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with obtaining
from Mr. Thomas Grant Facey, secretary of. .the
Universal Beneficent Society, No. 15, Soho-square,
the sum of 305., with intent to defraud.
Mr. Wrest, from the office of Meesrs. Shaen and
Roscoe, appeared for the prosecution, and called
Mr. Wm. Nichol; who said—l am in the em-
ploy of the Universal Beneficent Society, No. 15,
Soho-square. The prisoner, between 10 and 11 on
the morning of the 13th inst., came to the office,
and said that he had been to No. 30, Dover-street,
the residence of the Marquis Townshend, and that
he had seen Mr. Taylor, the butler to the Marquis
Townshend. I asked him if he had been there,
and he said that he was sent to Mr. Taylor by Mr.
Douglas, the master of the Marylebone Workhouse,
to be assisted to Liverpool. I expressed my sur-
prise that he should be sent for such a pur-
pose by the parochial authorities, and then
told him that he had better wait and see the secre-
tary, and when the secretary came I introduced the
prisoner to him.

The Prisoner—l never said anything about Mr.
Douglas.

Mr. Thos. Grant Facey, secretary of the Univer-
sal Beneficent Society, No. 15, Soho-square, said—
On the 13th inst., when I got to the office, Mr.
Nicholl made a communication to me, and in con-
sequence I saw the prisoner. I asked what the
nature of his application was, and he said that he
had been sent by Mr. Douglas, the master of
Marylebone Workhouse, to Mr. Taylor, the butler
of the Marquis Townshend, and that Mr. Taylor
was a personal acquaintance of Mr. Douglas's, to
ask him to interest himself with the Marquis Towns-
hend for the purpose of procuring assistance for him.
I asked him for what purpose he wanted assistance,
and he said to go to Liverpool, where he had friends
who were able to assist him. I asked him if he
knew Mr. Douglas, and he said, " Yes, I know him
well ; I am an old acquaintance of Mr. Douglas,
and he knew me when I kept a public-house in
Lancashire," and he also said that as Mr. Douglas
knew him he had not mixed him up with the casual
paupers the previous evening. I then told him that
I would make some inquiries and gave him a note
to Mr. Douglas—it was to ask Mr. Douglas to find
him lodgings till I could make some inquiries ; and
he came again on the 16th, and, in answer to my
question, said Mr. Douglas had treated him very
well, but that Mr. Douglas thought the workhouse
was not a fit place for him, to look out for some-
thing, and gave him a letter to the Dudley Stuart
Refuge. As the prisoner appeared to be a respect-
able man, had tears in his eyes, and urged for assist-
ance to go to Liverpool, I gave him 30s. and took
his receipt for it—the money being for the
purpose of proceeding to Liverpool. I should not
have given him the 30s. if I had not believed be had
been sent by Mr. Douglas. I saw the prisoner
again on the 20th, the prisoner calling at the office,
and he said Mr. Douglas could not understand what
all the inquiries were about. I told him that I had
made inquiries and found that Mr. Douglas did not
know him, and, that I had given him the money to
go Liverpool, and that he had not done so. The
prisoner subsequently left the office, and then a
warrant for his apprehension was applied for.
_ _

Mr. John Edward Douglas, master of the Mary-
lebone Workhouse, said—l never sent the prisoner
to the Marquis Townshend's butler, nor to the
Universal Beneficent Society.
Mr. West said that as something was known of
the prisoner, he had to ask that he might be re-
manded.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.

SAVAGE AND PE C THAMES.
ULIAR ASSAULT.—James Ward-
law, the chief mate of a ship called the Fort Re-
gent, which left the 'West India Dock yesterday for
dry dock, was brought before Mr. Paget on a war-
rant, charged with violently assaulting a man of
colour named Alexander Bonit, who described him-
self as a sailor and a nigger of Pedlar's-orchard,
Bull-lane, Stepney.
The defendant was represented by Mr. Gorman,
clerk to Mr. Hodgson, a solicitor.
A few days since the complainant was in attend-
ance at this court for the purpose of giving evidence
against the prisoner, who charged another person
with assault. The case was dismissed by Mr. Paget
on Wadlow's own testimony and no other person
was examined. The complainant Bonit was pur-
suing his way home when he was assaulted by the
prisoner, who said "I'll pay you for being a wit-
ness against me," called him a son of a _____, and
struck him on the face with his fist. The com-
plainant tried to clear" himself from the prisoner,
when another man, not in any way interested in
the matter, came up and kicked him. The pri-
soner said, " Give it to him, and I'll pay you."
The two ruffians kicked and beat the complainant
in asavage manner, left him bleeding on the ground,
and ran away. The case was clearly made oat` by
the complainant and his witnesses, but one witness
called for the prosecution, who said his name was
David Lewis, a Jew, said that the little man, the
complainant, struck the prisoner, and both ran into
the shop fighting.
Mr. Paget said that Lewis ought to have been
called by the prisoner, and that he did not like the
hurried and flippant manner in which Lewis gave
his evidence, and asked who the man was who so
wantonly and gratuitously assisted in assaulting the
complainant.
A witness said that the man was known by the
name of Punch.

Mr. Paget could not issue his warrant for the
arrest of Punch. (A laugh.)

A witness—l only know him by the name of
Punch. He is a short, punchy looking fellow.
Mr. Paget declined to have anything to do with
Punch.

Mr. Goram delivered an ingenious speech for the
prisoner, who, he said, was not the perpetrator or
the instigator of the assault, and called a witness
who saw nothing of the affray.

Arr. Paget said that the case was clearly made
out, and a very savage assault had been com-
mitted. His duty was clear on this case,
and that was to punish the prisoner with all the
severity in his power. A person doing his duty and
attending a court of Justice, for the purpose of
giving evidence, was brutally assaulted by the chief
mate of a ship on his way home, and another man,
encouraged by the prisoner, joined in the outrage.
He sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for two
months and kept to hard labour.

The Benchers of the honourable Society of the
Middle Temple aro preparing for publication a History of
the Temple, with a succinct account of the most eminent
of its alumni. The record will extend over a period of be-
tweeLi three and four centuries.

THE ALLEGED MURDER ON THE SOUTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY.

Mr. William Carter, the Surrey coroner, has been occu-
pied at the Railway Tavern, Surbiton, respecting the cir-
cumstances attending the supposed murder of James
Randle, aged 20 years.
The case excited great interest, in consequence of its
having
.been stated that the deceased had been
robbed, murdered, and thrown out of the second-class
carriage of an express train while travelling from the
Waterloo station to Surbiton. A host of witnesses
were examined, and it was proved that the deceased was a.
labourer living at Surbiton. On Saturday week he
left his cottage with one pound in his pocket, and at a
little after five o'clock the same evening he entered the
Waterloo Railway Station under the influence of liquor.
He had then, it is stated, eight shillings about him, but
he was so intoxicated that he was not allowed to go
home by the train, and he was detained for an hour
and a half. When the express train was about to leave at
seven o'clock, he was placed in one of the compartments of
a second-class carriage. Ile was then intoxicated, and
looked sleepy. A railway porter swore that the de-
ceased was alone when the train left the station, and that
it would have been utterly impossible for any second
person to have entered the compartment in
which the deceased was before the train reached Sur-
biton. At that time the deceased wore a cap. When
the train arrived at its destination the door of the
deceased's compartment was found open, and the deceased
was gone. Search along the line was instantly made, and
his body was found lying in the "six foot," within 400
yards of the Wimbledon station. He Was quite dead.
His trousers were hanging down about his legs, and his
money was gone. It was supposed that he had lost it out
of his trousers pocket.
A. ticket-collector said that he believed that when the
Grain was passing by the Wimbledon station he awoke
suddenly, and thought that he had reached Surbiton. He
must then have opened the door and fallen out.
Mr. Payne, surgeon, said that there was a severe wound
on the right temple of the deceased, and his skull was
fractured. Such injuries might be caused by a man falling
from a train while it was in motion.

The Coroner having summed up; the jury returned
verdict of accidental death.

The morning papers contain nothing definite as to the
terms of the resolution which has occupied Mr. Gladstone
so many anxious days in preparing. The Times offers no
speculations, but contents itself with making a severe
attack on the long-threatened Establishment. It tells the
Liberal leader that if he succeeds he will have redeemed
his party from its most scandalous weakness and its
grossest inconsistency, in having tolerated so long the
most audacious and most colossal of ecclesiastical iniqui-
ties. That is the prize of honour for which he contends,
and which will certainly give him a high place in the
annals of the Liberal party. On the other hand, if he be
beaten, he leaves his rival master of the field. He will
establish Mr. Disraeli as the Protestant Champion, the
Defender of the English faith, and the idol of half Eng-
land and a third of Ireland.

The Daily News is more precise. It affirms that the
scheme likely to be recommended by Mr. Gladstone is
something like this : —After a certain date vacancies occur-
ring in the Crown livings and ecclesiastical dignities of the
Protestant Establishment shall not be filled up. The
State Church, as a State Church, will, on this plan, be
allowed gradually to fade away. In each benefice and
diocese it will be disestablished, as the occasion arises.
The ecclesiastical revolution will thus be effected
gradually; and time wi'l be given to those more imme-
diately concerned in it to make arrangements for the new
state of things on which they are about to enter.
By this plan action could be instantaneously taken, and
in the present condition of. Ireland promptitude would be
an enormous advantage, as giving a pledge of sincerity
which is much needed.

The Post feels confident that Mr. Gladstone will not fall
into the error of proposing any endowment of the Catholic
Church, a measure which would be rejected alike by
Catholics and Protestants ; and equally confident of his
not adopting the already condemned proposition of Lord
Russell for division of endowments. The errors of Lord
Grey and of Earl Russell must be avoided if success is to
attend the efforts of the new chief.

The Standard hints at dissensions in the Opposition
camp, and appeals to the " conscientiousness of the inde-
pendent Liberals" to rescue the Government from the
danger with which it is threatened. Those who remember
the torrents of abuse which the same paper poured upon
the half-dozen Conservatives who, in the Danish debate of
1864, manifested sufficient courage to vote with Lord
Palmerston will estimate at its right figure the standard
of "conscientious independence" which it has now set up.
By the Refsmm Act the county of Cheshire is divided
into three parts, and the divisions of North and South
will be changed into South; Mid., and East. It is
probable that Sir Philip Egerton and Mr. Tollemache,
the present members for South Cheshire, will remain with
their present constituents. Major Cornwall Legh and the
ion. Wilbraham Egerton, now representing the northern
division, are spoken of as likely to migrate to Mid-Cheshire.
Two new men would, therefore, be required for the Eastern
division. Mi. E. C. Egerton, now M.P. for Macclesfield,
has been mentioned as one of them, but it is stated that the
hon. gentleman declines to leave the constituency which
has honoured him with its confidence during the past
sixteen years.

Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen has declined to leave Sand-
wich for the purpose of contesting East Kent in the
Liberal interest. As, however, the heads of the party
had determined not to allow Mr. Leigh Pemberton to
walk over the course, Mr. Henry Tufton, a son of
Sir Richard Tufton, and " a good and thorough
Liberal," has been introduced to the constituency
and accepted as a candidate. Mr. Tufton has
issued an address, in which he avows himself
a follower of Mr. Gladstone, and prepared to accept
any measure which the right hon. gentleman might intro-
duce on the Irish question. He is favourable to the aboli-
tion of university tests and to the establishment of county
financial boards. Sir E. Dering, M.P., was present at the
meeting at which Mr. Tufton was introduced, and ex-
pressed his entire approval of the choice of the Libera'
party.

" THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD."—The Teiegrapt.
has been roused into indignation by an article entitled
" The Girl of the Period," which appeared in the Saturday
Review. Our daily contemporary has come to the conclu-
sion that the Saturday Review, being obliged to slander
somebody, and having no one else to revile, it has pre-
sumed to criticise the ladies of England, and to pronounce
them, with few exceptions, immodest, mercenary, false,
indelicate, and utterly fallen off from the preciotis standard
of the Georgian era. The picture drawn by the reviewer is so
black that the Telegraph is compelled to ask in what kind of
domestic and social circles could such a creature have
moved. He must at some time or other have known
something of English women. He must have had a
mother, for example ; he may have had sisters, female
cousins, aunts, even friends of the other sex ; though, as
to the latter, it seems next to impossible for him to have
been grasped in " friendship" by the hand of an "Eng-
lish lady." He can know nothing of our sweet and
gentle and honourable English ladies, who, as a
class, were never worthier of reverent love and
proud praise than they are to-day. He is bold
enough to write, " Let us have it real, if we must only
have one kind of thing ; and the queens of St.: John's
Wood, in their unblushing honesty, rather than their
imitators and make-believes in Bayswater and Belgravia."
After that admission the Telegraph would not insult the
millions of good, true-hearted maidens against whose name
this wicked libel has been launched, by defending them
against it. Their calumniator is best answered by the fact
that they know nothing about him.
A POINT OF COMMERCIAL LAW. Vice- Ulan-
eellor Molina has had before him a claim by a gentleman
named Swann, against the estate of Overend, Gurney, and
Co., for the sum of £26,545, under the following circum-
stances. A Mr. Cattley, carrying on business as hemp and
flax merchant in St. Petersburg, received orders from Mr.
Swann, a Scotch merchant, for a certain quantity of hemp,
which he had paid for by bills drawn by Cattley on, and
accepted by him, Swann. Cattley, however, used to
hand these bills over to Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co.,
and used himself to draw on that firm for the amount
required, which bills they accepted on payment of
it per cent. commission. At the time of the failure of
Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co. ,Swann had paid Cattley
in the usual way for a large quantity of flax, and Cattley
had drawn certain bills to the amount of £26,515, which
had been accepted in the usual way by Messrs. Overend
and Co. before their failure. In this state of things
Mr. Swann went to Cattley's agents in London,
Messrs. Drake and Co., and proposed to pay the bills
accepted by Messrs. Overend and Co., in order to save
Cattley, or rather the flax, which in the event of Cattley's
failure, would, according to Russian law, have been liable
for the debts. Messrs. Drake refused to allow the pay-
ment to be made until the bills were dishonoured ; but so
soon as the bills were dishonoured, Mr. Swaim took them
for the honour of the drawer, and sought to prove for the
amount agah. st the estate of Messrs. Overend and Co. ;
but this claim was resisted by the liquidators on the ground
that, according to English law, a person who takes
up a dishonoured accommodation bill for the honour of
the drawer can have no better title than that of the
drawer ; and that therefore, in this case, there .being
cross accounts between Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and
Co. and Mr. Cattley, Mr. Swann's claim must be limited
to the balance due, if any, to Cattley from Messrs.
Overend, Gurney, and Co. The Vice-Chancellor held
that the claim must be admitted with-coats- • •