[FROM OUK SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

London, November 28. Four years' ponal servitude seems ab iirsto sight very inadequate punishment for such a colossal case of utterly heartless and long-continued swindling as thab of bhe Venerable and Right Reverend Dr. Claspar Clutterbuck. It may console those who think so to reflect that this fallen toucher and preacher is (according to his frionds) of " a sensitive and fastidious temperament," and may be relied on to " surfer keenly every hour of his sentence." In the dock at Bath, on Saturday, the miserable man, unshaven and unkempt, with lurid angry eyes, and a sullen hangdog expression, cer tainly looked far more like the convict than the clergyman. Seeing him thus, his numerous dupes must more than 6ver have wondered ab their fatuity. Clutterbuck pleaded guilty to obtaining; money under false pretonces, bub urged that he had no intention of defrauding any one. The judge very properly "pooh poohed " the latter plea. Mr Matthews, for the Crown, said that though the prisoner was only charged to the amount of £16,000. thoy had information of transactions up to fully £35,000. Many of the duped parties had nob cared to come forward. The worst feature of the case in my eyes (Mr Matthews dwelb far too lightly on it) was the utterly heartless and conscienceless way in which Clutterbuck stripped his victims of every penny they would part with. Two are ruined utterly, and the others seriously crippled, Had the wretch shown oven a touch of compunction when robbing the poor work-house master of the money which he knew tho man had laboriously saved for his children's education, ona would feel differently to him. Bub be seems to havo been utterly callous and wholly selfish. Defending himself from the charge of imbecility, one of Clutter buck's victims has declared that though the story of Mr Goschen and tho loan sounded silly enough as told by the Crown counsel in Court, the prisoner gavo it quito a different semblance. Witness was a clergyman and certainly knew little of business, but he .did know Clutterback was a Government officer, and constantly summoned to Whitehall. Ho had seen letters which seemed corroborative evidence of the accused's acquaintance with Mr Goschen, and after all on the surface there was nothing wildly improbable in a Doctor of Divinity knowing a Cabinet Minister. 