The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-16 00:00:00

EAST SURREY ELECTION

The poll was opened on Thursday last, exactly at 9 o'clock,
when Mr. Antrobus took the lead, which he maintained
throughout the day, and at the close of the first day's polling
the numbers were as follow :

Antrobus (conservative)
Alcock (radical)

Majority for Antrobus

The poll was continued on Friday, when Mr. Antrobus
was returned by a triumphant majority. At the close the
following was the state of the poll :
Antrobus ... 2652
Alcock. -.... 1438

Majority for Antrobus 1214
At the nomination considerable disapprobation was mani-
fested with the decision of the under-sheriff, who gave the
show of hands in favour of the radical candidate, though the
majority were manifestly in favour of his opponent. A cor-
respondent of the Times suggests, however, that the decision
was legally correct, and gives the following as his reason
" The under-sheriff was bound to decide upon the show of
hands ; now the show of hands was decidedly in favour of
the radical—if the question had turned upon a show of
gloves, undoubtedly that was five to one in favour of the
conservative."

MURDER NEAR BIRTBY PARK.--(From a Correspondent)
—We have the melancholy task of recording another murder
arising, we have too much reason to believe, from the
unprincipled and lawless poachers. It appears from
an investigation before magistrates and by the coro-
ner's inquest, that Henry Huskisson, Henry Eames, Robert
Saley, and John Adey, four working colliers, on Thursday
evening last left a place of rendezvous at Newhall about
eleven o'clock at night, to shoot some hares upon the
Earl of Chesterfield's estate near to his lordship's park
at Birtby ; and that Robert Harvey, an assistant-keeper,
with a night-man, came in view of these men. The four
men separated, and so did Harvey and his companion, to meet
them at certain points near to his lordship's preserves. The
night-man came in contact with one of the party who had a
gun, and he chased him some distance without taking him ;
and it appears that Harvey chased two others, one of whom
had a gun, and that near to a plantation be seized one, and
had a struggle with him, and that during the conflict the man
who had a gun ran up to him, and shot him dead upon
the spot. The
and not having seen or heard anything of Harvey, went in
and
having heard a gun fired
search of him, and found him shot through the heart; and
so near must the person have been who fired the gun, that
the wadding set fire to the clothes of Harvey, which were
burning upon his body at the time he was found. This hor-
rible affair has undergone the fullest investigation before Sir
Oswald Mosley, Bart., and A. N. E. Mosley, Esq„ two ma-
gistrates for, the county of Derby ; and it is satisfactory to us
to state, that the four men are fully committed to Derby
gaol to take their trials for the murder of Harvey at the next
assizes.—London Standard.

INTERESTING STATISTICS OF THE LIVERPOOL

POLICE OFFICE.

The following details exhibit the business transacted at the
Police Office in Liverpool, from the Ist day of January,
1840, to the 31st day of December, inclusive. The table of
prisoners shows that the greatest number of offences in the
town of Liverpool are committed in the summer months, and
that more than half of the offenders are females.*

The informations for penalties include all the offences
against the acts for regulating the town and harbour ;—cases
of collision of vessels, and damage within the port, as well as
all offences the punishment of which is by forfeiture under
acts for regulating the respective trades of licensed victual-
lers, pawnbrokers, ecc.
It appears that a large regiment is raised every year in the
borough,—the nthnber of recuits attested being (during the
past year) no fewer than 828.

The beneficial operation of these acts which enable seamen
to recover their wages by summons, and landlords to recover
possession of tenements under the annual value of £2O, by
summary proceedings, in the nature of an action of ejectment
is amply proved ;—the cases of applications for the recovery
of seamen's wages, heard by the magistrates, being 224, and
those for the recovery of small tenements being 100.
It will be observed, that while the orders of removal of
paupers to parishes in England are but 109, the passes of
Irish and Scotch paupers, amount to 3091.
These returns, and particularly that of the prisoners, if
carefully examined, and kept for a series of years, (which we
hope to be enabled to do,) would afford valuable evidence of
the effect of our sy stem of prison discipline, and the means
used for the prevention of crime by the activity of the police.
We hope arrangements will speedily be made which will ad-
mit of further reformatory meliorations in the Borough
Gaol,—in which, we understand, the average number of pri-
soners during the past year has greatly exceeded 500.
It is highly gratifying to observe, that the expenses of the
Police-office for the year are more than paid by the legal
charges for business transacted :

NUMBER OF PRISONERS BROUGHT BEFORE
THE MAGISTRATES OF LIVERPOOL DURING
THE YEAR 1840. •

MONTHS. MALE. FEMALE. TOTAL
January.
February
March
April 879 514 1393
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December BO7 451 1258

Grand Total .. 11,503 6282 17,785

Miscellaneous Cases (in addition to the above) heard before
the Magistrates during the year :

Informations, for penalties
Assaults, by summons ....
For damage to property, by summons
Against pawnbrokers, by summons ..
Against apprentices, by summons ....
By seamen, for wages, by summons ..
Against benefit societies, by summons
For unlawfully pawning, by summons
For detaining a stolen dog, by summons
For threatening violence to the person, by summons.
Masters against handicraftsmen, by summons
Complaints under ships passengers' act, by summons
Detaining effects of seamen, by summons
Detaining ships' registers, by summons
Complaints to recover possession, under the small t 100
tenement act
Information, for Excise penalties

8,296
1,362
173
121
167
224

Ditto
Recruits attested
Applications (average 15 daily)

The following is an account of business transacted
for the Parish :
Complaints by overseers against persons for re-
fusing to support their parents, whereby 2
they become chargeable
By overseers, for non-payment of poor-rates.... 619
Ditto, for orders of :removal of paupers
109
to parishes in England
Passes of Irish and Scotch paupers .. 3091
Orders in bastardy
Complaints against parties for non-payment oft 1568
watch and sewerage rates

39,240

An abstract of the accounts of Ellis and Shuttleworth, the
clerks to the magistrates, with the Treasurer of the Bo-
rough Fund of the Borough of Liverpool, from Nov. 1,
1839, to October 31, 1840 :
By cash received for fees, and paid over to
the Borough Fund £2,383 16 3
By amount of bills, for business done ...... 1,357 4 6

£3,741 0 9

Less salaries, selves and clerks, printing,
stationery, law stationery, advertising,
and all other expenses

2,068 14 6

Balance in favour of the Borough Fund

1,672 6 3

* This disparity with regard to the sexes, as compared
with the offenders in other—and particularly manufacturing
—places, probably may arise from the general want:of em-
iloyment for females in a maritime town, and the allurements
;o which they ar•c consequently exposed.

A GLANCI

kT THE POLITICS OF THE WEEK

Pi'orn our London Correspondent.)

The subjeetF, which have this week occupied the attention
of parliament, although productive of no decided results as
regards the relative position of the two great contending
parties, have yet not been unimportant. The ministerial
measure for prolonging the existence of the poor law com-
mission, and increasing the already too extensive powers, by
which the Somerset-house triumvirate are enabled to " grind

the faces of the poor," may, I fear, be considered as already
carried. Some alterations may perhaps be made in the bill
when in committee ; but there is little hope that an important
amelioration can be gained in the working of the law, by any

thing short of the destruction of the absolutism at present
vested in the commissioners, and which it is obvious that the
ministry are resolved upon perpetuating.
As an instance of the cold-blooded philosophy of its mi-
nisterial advocates in the House of Commons, I cannot re-
frain from calling the attention of your readers to a few re-
marks which fell from Lord Howick, and which occupy a

prominent position amidst the general mass of heartless sen-
timent, emanating from the Whig patty during the debate. It
was urged upon the house by Sir Edward Knatchbull, as an
instance of the unfeeling principle upon which this rnalthu-
sian measure is at present worked by the Somerset-house
trio, that the guardians of a parish in Kent had been refused
the privilege of saving from utter starvation, by the admi-
nistration of temporary out-door relief, a number of their in-
dustrious poor who, during the late severe weather, were un-
able to pursue their ordinary argricultural employments, and
consequently deprived of the means of providing for the
pressing wants of themselves and their families. And what
was, in substance, the reply of the utilitarian lordling ? Why,
that the utter impenetrability of the poor law commission-
ers to any feeling resembling humanity constitutes the very
essence of the system. The starving to death occcasionally
of a few men, women, and children, will afford a useful les-
son to the labouring poor of the necessity of encouraging
habits of provident saving, and of laying up a store for such
emergencies as the one in question ! Upon the same princi-
ple the charity which has been so humanely administered in
Liverpool during the last month should have been withheld,
and its recipients lacerated into the acceptance of the com-
forts of the union hostile (not the Liverpool Workhouse),
unless they should have preferred to die of starvation in a
ditch, or to earn, by the commission of crime, the compara-
tively humane shelter of a prison.

But enough upon this topic. One thing, however, I may
as well remark. The people of Liverpool are about to expe-
rience the coil of the serpent round their necks, and the sys-
tem is threatened to be put in force in all its cold-blooded

atrocity—damming up the sluices of that charity which now

prompts the parochial authorities to minister to the tempo-
rary wants of the poor, and rendering poverty a crime, pu-
nishable with perpetual imprisonment, and with the severing
of every social tie, whenever the alternatives of starvation,
suicide, or the gallows are not embraced in preference.
The proposition of the Board of Trade to equalize the du-
ties upon East and West India rum will, there is little doubt,
be carried into effect during the present session. It is grati-
fying, however, to notice the intimation which was afforded
by Lord John Russell during the debate, that at length the
government are ready to bring in a measure of immigration,
to relieve the present difficulties of the West India planters.
It is presumed that his lordship is in earnest.
So far as the session has progressed, notwithstanding their
defeats out of doors, the ministry have carried matters with
a tolerably high hand. The conservative party in the House
of Commons appear to be dispirited by the unaccountable
apathy which hangs over the proceedings, and is evident in
the manner of their leader, Sir Robert Peel. Upon every
question hitherto upon which he has addressed the house,
his remarks have been full of the most biting—l may say
bitter sarcasm ; yet, whilst thus lashing the imbecility and
inconsistency of the ministerial policy, the spirits of the great
leader are manifestly unprepared for a movement en avant,
and his vote is ever ready to give the negative to his reason-
ing. It is probable that Sir Robert may be waiting his time;
but it is not altogether certain that the conservative party
may be always disposed to pursue the same course.

Connected with this immovability of the right hon. baronet,
considerable interest has been excited by the able letters
which have appeared in the Times, under the signature
" Catholicus." It is very improbable that the sentiments
which the writer deduces from the language of his unfortu-
nate Tamworth speech, can be those which Sir Robert in-
tended to convey to the world as his own; yet the castiga-
tion which lie has received will not be unproductive of bene-
fit, if it serve to convince the right hon. baronet how much it
is beneath the dignity of a statesman and a moralist. such as
he confessedly is, to clothe his real opinions, upon so im-
portant a subject, in a garb which, at the least, is susceptible
of being mistaken. Sir Robert has no reputation for sin-
cerity to throw away; and the experience of the past ought
to remind him how valueless is that species of popular ap-
plause which is gained by temporising with principle.

The approaching trial of Lord Cardigan continues to ex-
cite considerable interest, which has been deepened by the
publication of an admirable letter addressed to the members

of the House of Lords, and published in the Times, under
the signature of " LEelius." The opportunity afforded to
the peers of Great Britain by this trial, of discountenancing
the absurd and barbarous practice of duelling, is pointed
out in beautiful and impressive language; and there are
few—very few—upon whom its perusal would not force the
conclusion to which the writer endeavours to lead them.
There are amongst the peers of England, men sufficient, who
might safely submit to the imputation of cowardice—which
an absurd custom has rendered the alternative of a refusal to
break the laws alike of God and man—rather than risk life
by the pistol of a duellist, or to incur the doom of a mur-
derer ; and, although in the case of the most illustrious of
that body, that course has not hitherto been followed, the
opportunity now afforded ought surely to be embraced, of
stamping with reprobation a custom at once so tyrannous, so
barbarous, and so wicked.

London, Saturday niyht, Feb. 13.
* This letter will be found in another column

LIVERPOOL MARINE SOCIETY.

On Saturday, the general annual meeting of this society
was held at the Clarendon-rooms, for the transaction of the
usual business, and to consider the propriety of making some
alteration in the rules, with a view to increase the number of
mercantile and—particularly of—maritime members ; there-
by extending the benefits of the institution commensurate
with its undeniable merits, and with the hopes and intentions
of the original founders. We may briefly state that this so-
ciety was instituted on the 13th February, 1789, and has for
its objects the relief and benefit of masters of vessels, their
wives, widows, and children.

Mr. T. M. GLADSTONE, president of the society, occupied
the chair. He expressed much pleasure in meeting so re-
spectable an assemblage of the members, and trusted that
from the result of their deliberations, the society would be-
come better known and receive a new impetus that would ere
long extend the sphere of its influence and utility. He was
happy to observe from the annual statement of the society
that the funds were in a prosperous state, and that there was
a large increase of honorary members, and—which was not
less gratifying—an increase in marine members. The society
was still, however, capable of largely extending its beneficial
influence, and he hoped and trusted that the merchants and
shipowners of the port would come forward more nume-
rously in support of so admirable en institution. By the
statement of accounts it would be found that there was a dis-
posable sum, independent of the original capital, of no less
than five hundred and thirty-five pounds in the hands of
Messrs Leyland and Bullin, bankers, and it would be for their
consideration whether from this source it would be advisable
to make any increase to the annuities. Four or five of the
widows who were annuitants had died since the last yearly
meeting, by which, also, the fund was to some extent relieved.
They might therefore, if they thought fit, increase the present
annuities ; and he thought their doing so would form an ad-
ditional inducement to maratime individuals to join the so-
ciety,—inasmuch as parties who might not otherwise do so,
might become members from motives of personal interest—
the advantages being so obvious. It had for some time back
been considered advisable to make some alterations in the
rules of the society, which, without departing from the ori-
ginal principle laid down by the founders, would be highly
beneficial. Some doubts were entertained as to the compe-
tency of the present meeting (though a general annual one)
to make such alterations, without previous notice to the
members generally that a motion or motions to that effect
should be brought forward. Should this doubt be entertained
by the majority of the meeting, the subject must stand over
for final discussion and decision at the next general quarterly
meeting of the society. The trust reposed in the committee
was one of much responsibility, arid though it was highly de-
sirable that some of the rules should undergo revision and
alteration, it became them not to proceed with any precipi-
tancy, which they might afterwards have to regret.—He then
read the principal items and balances in the annual statement
of accounts, from which the following facts appeared :
That the annuities paid to 22 widows, 1 superannuated
captain, and 1 orphan, were £344 7s. 6d. ; that the capital
stock of the society was £10,351 lls. 7d. ; that the annual
subscriptions for the year were £33 12s. ; and that an avail-
able balance remained of £535.

The Chairman, in continuation, remarked that it was a prin-
ciple laid down by the society not to infringe on the capital
or original fund. They had to consider in what manner they
should dispose of the surplus of £535 in the bank. He then
read the proceedings of the society, at their several meetings
during the past year, giving satisfactory explanations as he
proceeded. He remarked that by the rules it was required
that 25 members should be present to constitute a number
sufficient to make alterations in the rules. It had at- a for-
mer meeting been deemed desirable to procure copies of the
rules of other similar societies at the several seaports as a.
guidance, and inquiry had consequently been made ; but
it was found that the precise objects of the marine societies
of other towns were so different from those of the Liverpool
society that their rules were not available as regarded theirs.
He concluded by some observations, showing that it had
been found necessary in some instances to depart in some de-
gree from the resolutions of former meetings ; but that this
was in no case done but for the obvious advantage of the in-
stitution.

The meeting then proceeded to nominate a committee for
the ensuing year, and the following gentlemen were unani-
mously chosen :—Mr. W. Rowett and Mr. Alex. Smith,
jun., out of the honorary members ; and Mr. Tyzard and six
others from the list of marine members.
Mr. ROWETT expressed a doubt as to the definition " ma-
ritime members" required to be on the committee, and sug-
gested, as more comprehensive, that the words " nautical
members" should be substituted. _ _ _

The chairman's explanation, however, removed the ob-
jection.

A discussion of considerable length ensued as to the com-
petency of the meeting to make any alteration in the rules
without certain previous notice to the members at large.
Mr. Moss, solicitor, at the request of the meeting, gave
his opinion. He referred to certain portions of the rules,
and expressed his doubt of their competency.
Mr. S. Moss, and afterwards Mr. DUNCAN followed, each
arguing the competency of the meeting.
The meeting finally adopted the recommendation of Mr.
Moss and the Chairman, that the doubt entertained should

be acted upon. It was consequently resolved, in effect, that
it be a recommendation to the committee to take into consi-
deration the present rules and regulations, with a view of
rendering the society more available to shipmasters, and
submit their opinion on the same to the next general meeting
(to be held in April nest).
The election of the principal officers for the year was then
made, as follows : _

- .
Mr. Thomas Murray Gladstone, President, (re-elected).
Mr. William Potter, Vice-president, in the room of Mr
Radford, retired.

Mr. Gibson, Treasurer, (re-elected).
Mr. Samuel Moss, Secretary. This gentleman is also Se-
cretary to the Shipmasters' Association.
The question of annuities was next considered, and it was
agreed that these for the present should remain as before,
namely, to widows £l2. per annum ; to superannuated cap-
tains .Z 16.; and to orphans £6.
The investment of the fund above the principal of £535.
was left to the direction of the committee.
Thanks were voted to the late Secretary and to the Chair-
man, and the meeting then separated.

XTENSIVE ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES, &c., BY
A CLERK FROM HIS EMPLOYERS, AND EX-
TRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF NEARLY THE
WHOLE OF THE PROPERTY.

On Friday last, at one o'clock, at the Police-court, a
clerk, named John Denton Holt, was placed before Mr.
Rushton, on a serious charge of having robbed his employ-
ers, highly respectable merchants of this town, in December
last, of a large amount in cash. The case not having been
anticipated, there were very few persons in the body of the
court-room, but a considerable number of mercantile gentle-
men interested were present on and near the bench. Mr.
Dowling, commissioner of police, stated, as introductory to
the examination, that the prisoner stood charged with having
robbed his employers, Messrs. Hall and Co., of the sum of
about £l5OO, in two sums, namely, £l2OO, received by him
from Messrs. George Crossfield and Co., and upwards of
£2OO received from Messrs. Buchanan and Browne, for
which he had not accounted.—Thomas Medcalf sworn, said
I am a clerk to George Crossfield and Co., who were indebt-
ed to Messrs. Hall and Co. On the 3d December I paid
over the amount of £l2OO, in Bank of England notes, to the
prisoner, John Denton Holt, in liquidation of the debt. The
money consisted of one £5OO note, and the remainder was in
notes of £lOO each.—John Young sworn : I am clerk and
apprentice to Messrs. Buchanan and Browne. On the 3d
December I paid to the prisoner, to be handed to Messrs.
Hall and Co., the sum of £273 9s. 6d. £2OO of the money
was in gold, and .t3O of it in silver.—Mr. Benjamin Buchanan
sworn : I am
.a partner in the house of Hall and Co. The

prisoner was in our pmployment as a bookkeeper, but at the
time of the defalcation of the money he had the care of the
cash. He was empowered to receive money for the firm.
He did not account for, or pay over to us, the two several
sums stated to have been paid to him by the two witnesses
who have just spoken. He left the office on the 3d Decem-
ber, and has not been there since.—Mr. Dowling sworn :
This morning the prisoner surrendered himself to me.—Mr.
Rushton to the prisoner : Have you anything to say ?—The
prisoner :—I have nothing to say.—Mr. Rushton : You are
remanded. The prisoner was then put down, and the parties
left the court.

DISCOVERY OF THE PROPERTY.
Yesterday the prisoner was again broughtup at the Police.
court before Mr. Rushton. - _

Mr. Benjamin Buchanan, of the firm of Hall and Co., was
again called. He stated that the prisoner had been in his
service for about three years. lie had not seen the prisoner
from the 3d of December, when the defalcation took place,
until he saw him in custody in that court on Friday. The
amount which Hall and Co. had lost was about £lOOO, as far
as could be ascertained. The remainder of the witness's tes-
timony was a repetition of what he had stated on Friday.
Thomas Medcalf, clerk to Messrs. Buchanan and Co., re-
peated his former testimony, to the effect that he had paid
the prisoner £l2OO, to be by him handed to Messrs. Hall
and Co.
John Young. also repeated his former evidence—that he
had paid the prisoner for the same firm the sum of £273 Os 6d.
Mr. Buchanan stated that his office was in Harrington-
street. The prisoner had not accounted to him for the sums
stated to have been received by him. The balance against
the prisoner on the 3d of December was 1700 and odd pounds.
The prisoner said that if the precise balance were stated to
him, and it agreed with his previous notions, he would, to
save trouble, admit it. He stated that all the cash entries
were made in a rough cash book, before they were entered
fairlin the cash book. Mr. Rushton was of opinion that
thatwould not affect his culpability, but as he expressed an
anxiety to know the balance from the rough book it was sent
for, and Mr. Buchanan stated, on looking into it, that the
amount there entered by the prisoner, on the 3d, as received,
was £1702 5s 6d, and £lBO was credited to the prisoner's de-
posit account, the same being due to him as wages.
Mr. Dowling, being sworn, said :—On Friday last I saw
Mr. Frodsham, attorney, and from information which he gave
me I went to his' office in King-street. I there saw the pri-
soner. Mr. Frodsham said this is Mr. Holt who wishes to
surrender himself. I took an officer with me, and the pri-
soner walked up with me as far as the bridewell. On the
way he told me be bad buried part of the money he had taken
from his employers at a lane near Huddersfield, in Yorkshire.
That, however, he added, was but a small part of it. He
said the great bulk of it I have buried in Mitcham Common,
on the other side of London. He
was shortly afterwards
brought up before
you, (Mr. Rushton,) and after the exami-
nation, remanded. I have since gone to the places named,
with ie prisoner and police-officer Samuel Lloyd. On Sa-
turday night we reached a lane about three miles and a half
or four miffs from
Huddersfield, on the road to Elland (as
we understood the witness). We there searched a particu-
lar spot, at some distance from the lane, pointed out by the
prisoner, and searched for the portion of the property said to
have beenthere deposited, but all in vain, owing to the dark-
ness of the night. On the following morning, at day break,
we returned to the spot, and after searching some time, the
officer Lloyd pulled from a hole in a bank, pointed out by
the prisoner, a silk handkerchief. I took the handkerchief
out of his hand, and in his and the prisoner's pre-
sence proceeded to examine the contents. I found in
it two parcels, which I numbered 15 and 16. One
of them contained 26 Louis d'ors, and the other 104 sove-
reigns ; and £45 in bank of England notes, and a gold
watch. The' prisoner told me he had changed the English
money for French coin, and that the louis d'ors cost him
about 16s 3d each. He also said that he had bought the watch

out of the money, and that he had paid £ll for it. He ap-
peared to be much gratified when the money was found.
Lloyd, the prisoner, and I, afterwards proceeded to Wake-
field, and thence to London, where we arrived about half-
past 9on Saturday night. On Sunday morning we left Lon-
don for Mitcham Common, a distance of about 9 miles. The
prisoner took us over by a mill, and thence to a spot which
was indicated only by a few shreds of a woinan's bonnet.
They saw the white handles of two knives, which Lloyd took
up and began to dig by the prisoner's direction. In a short
time, he found a piece of a newspaper, which was found to
contain £lOO in sovereigns and half-sovereigns. The prisoner
then pointed to a rising piece of ground a short distance
off, and requested Lloyd to dig there also, which he did.
After turning up the ground about a foot deep, they found a
cash-box, locked and carefully wrapped in two pieces of
canvas. (The box, &c., were produced.) The prisoner said
there was still some further property, and Lloyd continued
to dig under his direction, and found this piece of linen (or
diaper), produced, which contained four canvas bags and
some gold besides, in two small papers. In one of the
papers there were 30 louis d'ors, and five half-sovereigns. In
another there were 100 sovereigns. In one of the bags there
were 22 sovereigns and a gold ring, which last prisoner said
was his own ; in another bag, 86 louis d'ors ; in the third, 60
louis d'ors ; and in the fourth, 40 louis d'ors. The prisoner
several times told me that he had one night gone to the cash-
box to take a ten-pound note out of it ; that he had taken
one out, had put it into his hat, in which there were some
pieces of brown paper, but in his agitation had somehow lost
it on the common. This, he said, happened six weeks back on
Saturday night, and that he could never find it. We looked
for it on the common, over the track which he thought he
had taken when he lost it, but with little or no hope of suc-
cess, when, to my great astonishment, Lloyd saw the £lO
note at the root of some rushes, and about half a yard under
some clear water. When we got to London we dried it, and
it was now perfectly passable. The prisoner stated that he
buried the money on the moor forty-eight hours after taking
it from Liverpool, and ten weeks from the time it was found.
He said he had gone on the following day to the common,
and frequently afterwards, in hopes of finding the £lO note,
but could not. He also informed them that he had lived at
a small cottage at Oval Kennington, and we went to it, and
found at his lodgings the key of the cash-box. On opening
it in his presence, they found in it several neatly packed pa-
per parcels. In one there was 28 five pound Bank of Eng-
land notes ; in another 1 twenty pound note, 16 ten pound
notes, and 10 five pound ditto. In a paper parcel were 100
sovereigns, in another 100 ditto, in another 100 ditto, in an-
other 96 sovereigns and 4 louis d'ors, in another 100 sove-
reigns, in another 100 sovereigns, all of which I consecutively
numbered, as now produced, The watch found near Hud-
dersfield (also produced) was not quite new ; but _he must
have bought it cheap, as I have since had it valued at.XlB.
The amount found at Huddersfield was £175 and the
watch ; at Mitcham, £1440 2s. 6d., taking the louis d'ors
at 16s. 2d. each. Altogether, valuing the watch at £ll, the
value recovered was £1626 2s. 6d. It is proper to state,
(continued Mr. Dowling,) that the prisoner said that amongst
the money (the £175) was £2O belonging to a niece of his,
and £25 belonging to himself, both of which sums he had
taken with him from Liverpool. The prisoner also said that
the sum he took belonging to Messrs. Hall and Co. was
£lBOO and odd. (He stated in court at this part of Mr.
Dowling's evidence, that there was probably an error in the
addition made by Messrs. Hall and Co. ; and that the amount
was more likely £lBO2 than as stated by them £1702.) The
prisoner, (continued Mr. Dowling) said that there was a de-
ficiency of I:60, which he could not account for. We re-
turned on the same night from London, and arrived here this
morning. _ - -
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Samuel Lloyd, police-officer, who had accompanied Mr.
Dowling, corroborated the testimony given. He found the
£lO note on Mitcham Common, about 100 yards from
where the other money was found, about three yards from the
side of the water, and half a yard deep.
The prisoner here said—l calculated that the kills d'ors as
worth £3OO, and they are put down at only £230.

Lloyd continued :--We found two boxes at the cottage
where the prisoner lived at Kennington. One contained
clothes, chiefly new, and the other books, also a writing
desk, &c. No questions were asked of the prisoner when he
pulled the handkerchief out of the hole at Huddersfield.
This being all the evidence forthcoming, Mr. Rushton ad-
dressing the prisoner, said, " You are remanded."
The case is sufficiently remarkable, and is not a little ro-
mantic, as here given in evidence; but we understand there
were circumstances connected with the recovery of the pro-
perty, which do not legally bear on the case, but may
transpire after the prisoner's trial, which render it still more
extraordinary. The two remote spots in which the money
was hidden, are, we learn, upwards of 200 miles apart.
Mitcham Common contains 1,500 acres.