A trial before Lord Justice Bramwell, at Lewes, on Wednesday,
suggests a new danger in the practice of taking lodgings. Some respectable ladies,—the Misses Gaisford, —who took lodgings not long ago at Brighton, and managed to offend their landlady, were accused by her of robbing her of silver spoons, and the spoons were found in their boxes. But on the evidence of the police inspector who found them there, tending to show clearly that the landlady knew where they were,—having put them there herself,—they were acquitted, and the woman and her accomplice convicted before Lord Justice Bramwell of conspiring to make& false charge of felony against the unfortunate ladies in question, and sentenced to hard labour, the one for eighteen months, the other for nine months. If lodging-house keepers are going to take to vindictive conspiracies, lodgers will soon beats premium ; for lodgers cannot but be very much at the mercy of their hosts.
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