Mr. Clarke, a grocer, in Tottenham-court-road. Mrs.
Anderton a grocer in Whitechapel-road, opposed in
person. The insolvent had represented to Mr. Clarke
that he was keeping a grocer's connexion together,
and induced him to execute certain orders for alleged
customers to nearly £60. No portion was obtained,
and the insolvent was, it was alleged, the principal
customer. The parties whose names he gave could
not be found. On a former examination he denied that
he had given an order as for a Mr. Johnson, of Purfleet,
and on the present occasion his note containing the
order was produced, and his excuse was that he had
"forgotten" it. Mr. Clarke had not been able to
discover or obtain any money from a single customer
with whose name he had been favoured by the insolvent.
The complaint of Mrs. Anderton was, that the insolvent
owed her upwards of £70, a part of which had been
contracted since she had been a widow. She had been
induced to let him have goods to about £50, on his
representing that he had property more than sufficient
to pay all he owed two or three times over. The
contrary was the fact, and he was indebted nearly £500.
He had outstanding debts owing to him to more than
£200. Mr. Commissioner Phillips, in giving judgment,
declared that the insolvent had pursued a system of
swindling. He had either been connected with a
set of swindlers, or had fabricated customers to get
goods from Mr. Clarke. Besides he had cheated the
poor widow out of her goods. He was sentenced to
imprisonment for ten calendar months for contracting
the debts by false pretences.

In the Court of Queens' Bench on the 15th inst,
John Baker was tried for Wilful and Corrupt Perjury,
committed before a committee of the House of Commons
on the petition against the return of Mr. Waddington
and Mr. Peacock. Those two gentlemen had been
returned as the successful candidates at the election in
July, 1852. A petition was presented to the House of
Commons against their return, upon the ground of
bribery, &c, and this petition having been referred to
a committee, the defendant was examined as one of the
witnesses in support of the charge. The defendant,
when examined before the committee, had made a
charge to the effect that one Patrick Daniels had bribed
one William Osborn, the younger, by giving him two
£5 notes to vote for Peacock and Waddington. He
stated that he was present in the yard of the Three Cups
Inn, at Harwich, on the night of the nomination, the
6th of July, when he heard Osborn address Daniels, an
active partisan of Messrs. Peacock and Waddington,
and say how long he had been waiting, and that he
heard Daniels in reply say, " I have spent all my money,
and will go and get some more." He added, that he
afterwards saw Daniels come from one Alfred Haste's
house, when he (Baker) asked him if he was not ashamed
of himself; and that he afterwards saw Osborn and
Daniels again at the Three Cups, when Daniels said to
Osborn, "Here, old fellow," at the same time holding
out his hand. He stated that Osborn said, "What a
time I have been waiting," to which Daniels replied,
"I could not get it before;" and that what was passed
from the one to the other was two bank-notes. On the
part of the prosecution Patrick Daniels was called, and
directly contradicted the whole story told by the
defendant Baker when before the committee. He said
he never saw Baker at the Three Cups at all that night,
and that at about twelve o'clock he went, in company
with a man named Runnacles and others, to walk round
the town, and prevent the voters from being kidnapped.
He never went to Haste's house, but when he was
passing along the street, coming from that direction,
the defendant Baker did cry out from the other side of
the street, "Are you not ashamed of yourself, bribing
with that money? " He totally denied that anything
had happened at the Three Cups, as the defendant had
sworn; he never saw Osborn there, and never gave him
any money, or promise of money, for his vote; but he,
Osborn, voted freely, having promised his vote about a
fortnight before the election, when canvassed by the
witness and Mr. Waddington. The evidence of this
witness was confirmed by a young gentleman named
Runnacles, an architect, who had spent the whole night
with Daniels in going about the town to prevent the
kidnapping of voters. He positively declared that
nothing of the kind had passed such as the defendant
had sworn, and that he must have seen and heard it if
it had, as he was constantly in Daniels's company till
nine o'clock the next morning. Osborn himself, a
mariner, was also put into the box, and swore that every
allegation made by the defendant respecting him and
Daniels was untrue. He said he had not seen or spoken
to Daniels that night, and that no money had been
given or promised to him by Daniels or any one else for
his vote. He voted for Waddington, because he said he
approved his "principles," but, on being questioned as
to what his principles were, he seemed quite at a loss
for an explanation. A man named Dawson and several
other witnesses were called in confirmation of the case
for the prosecution. They proved, among other things,
that Daniels was not at Haste's house at all on that
night, as alleged by the defendant in his evidence before
the committee. The defence was, that the evidence
given by the witnesses for the prosecution could not be
relied upon to convict the defendant; and several
witnesses were called who contradicted that evidence as
to some of the circumstances of the case. A man named
Gledding, who had been employed in the interest of
Mr. Bagshawe, one of the candidates, proved that he
saw Daniels talking with Osborn at the Three Cups on
the night of the nomination, and that, about two months
after the election, Osborn told him that he had received
£10 for his vote. Several witnesses also proved that
they had seen Daniels come out of Haste's house that
night. Lord Campbell having summed up the evidence,
the jury found a verdict for the defendant.

NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
DISASTER.

A MAN has been rescued from death, after having
been Buried Alive for 19 Days by a fall of earth into a
well in which he was working. The accident happened
at Lyons, on the 14th of April. Two men, named
Giraud and Jalla, were at work in a well when they
were suddenly overwhelmed by a falling in of the earth
at its mouth. Their bodies were buried up to the
waist; but the whole mass of earth was prevented from
falling on them by planks, which stayed up the sides of
the bore. When their condition was discovered, means
were immediately taken to save them; but the sandy
nature of the soil made the attempt extremely difficult,
as there was the constant danger of the whole mass
falling upon them. When they had been thus buried a
week, Jalla died, apparently from the effects of fear.
At one moment he was heard to sing, at another to give
way to fits of frantic passion. At length he expired,
soon after having taken some soup, and seemingly
without pain. Giraud exhibited extraordinary firmness
of mind. The sand in which he was buried to the
waist, and which pressed on him tightly, rendered it
impossible for him to make any movement in a
horizontal position. A plank lay against his stomach,
and another against his back. However, he succeeded
in introducing between the first of these and his
stomach the ends of a blanket, which afforded him some
warmth. His hands and arms were at liberty. Above
his head, and in various directions about his body, a
network of planks, of barrel-hoops, of gravel, and of
sand, held together only by the most artificial means,
and it was through this mass of rubbish that he received
what he wanted, that he heard what was said to him,
and dimly saw a kind of twilight. To add to the
horrors of his situation, he was almost in contact with
the corpse of his companion. A variety of ingenious
contrivances were used to alleviate his sufferings. A
rope affixed to a bell was lowered to him, so that he
might ring when he wanted anything. Any food he
desired, and even basins of broth, were conveyed to
him; and means were found to send him warm
covering. He wrapped himself up in the half of a
blanket, and threw the other half over the putrefying
body of his comrade. An iron mask was lowered to
protect his face from the earth which crumbled down
upon him when his rescuers were at work. In this
condition he remained till the 3rd inst., when he was