The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-29 00:00:00

flea. I ahead also Meta that ha hes bus sossersoil foe me
as my solidus, givascallye had that I had employed Kea to
sepotier urns wish someal arldess= bad treed oat
as the was 111111111•11 of user lard sad who wise
pat tar parseiles of sash property. He had therefore se
nom to surest, ea for as I ksow, that the ears for whisk
he has bra merits& wore is the slightest degree irregular
os it Is woe SOW tseLSL..J woo teat he wrote
to Cerra Fisk" rid the agar al idle was is mortals
if Ms sistsc.irlaw was the ewer el the I reported to
Barber that the was sot, as her kandliv wee wholly di►
ad as the owner e/ the stork had reassted apewt
of attorney tea years beton, tibia Oeyt PsibiK's
law would have bees rampart to bast two, Ms big_ at
that tire, Mem Capt. Poltett'sown teal meat, mime. Tb.
report I is made to Kr. Barba was homed spot that I is.
rived from Christmas, the Bank Kirk. If the applleatios
made by Barber Oa be Kid agorae* (so that he might have
Asked the whale truth, by Waft myself sad the other
pm*, seenes4l) bid set bees vielessi by ohs proseouttio, be
most bar boss set *sly asysitrod, bet emmerated hem the
slighter ernlyabilly. As I asdastesd, it bas bees stated
Or I bays Mama te admit Mr. Deibees lanorsco I
galled apes to eistisdiet this, sad to state that I have only
objected to wigs or dieters that +kith might have a radar
to oniony' myself. names.
" Signed and deemed berm mon beardthe Asturian at
Woolwleh, C. Foams, KB, Biome Ihreeinteedient."
The grater portion of the burrs is Mask's ere rag
dose by Meehan, Bieber berg, at the lima, OM
professional bearer a the Hose Omit ; tint=
had arbors surveilled; be had, however, retard to malts
an rather sow a behalf of Berber, although he bed
expersed his belief of his fanosesse, sad said that
if Barber we 'spirited Is the fraud he (Br.
chant) was so also. No use had ever era Fle'etter and
Barber togothr inept es professional briers and there
ose no risme faders, between them. With' regard to
• Barber's set hairy takes ealloirtoare is aessmainiog Kiss
Slack's re, the Mtwas that whoa he made inquiries of
Captor Father sal her dater, and they stated the was 29,
• he said 40 wield de be the purpose of claiming the property,
this answer harry refiresos to Fletcher's having said that
her haadwriting was dissimilar to that in which a warrast of
t attorney bad boss emented by the owner of the stook to
I year before, when of arm if see was then only 29, she
r mast lam been a minor. The next statement was that of

Fletcher's second coshed=
to paper. It was ea tolloers :
" Being desirous toast forth the cirenasstanoss under which
the statement el Joshua Fletcher, dated the 4th of July lag,
was made, I beg to state, that having inn in the news-
papers his first dmelaration, I was isdneed to speak to Barber
en the subjer, end the strong impression of his innocence,
which I resolved hem his own freak and dear explanation,
being entirely maimed by subsequent eenvereations with
Flatches, I nested upon the latter the duty of explaining the de-
tails of the badness in verification of his statement. lie seemed
extremely
_relectent to gay any thing that m'ght possibly in-
crease pcblie wejedies splint himself, and it was clear to me
that he was far bum disposed to do Barber more than the
most meagre Make. I however committed his statement to
writing, and be afterwards read it with scrupulowe attention.
Having male Mee corrections, I accompanied him to the
Surgeon-Supsrlatendent, who, when he had perused it, sakeu
Fletcher in a salons manner if it was really true. Fletcher
said, "Yes, sir, it is quite true." " Why, then,". said the sur-
geon, " did you not declare this at the trial ?" Fletcher
said, " I had no opportunity, being jointly indicted with
Barber." The MTh and abhorrence with which Barber has
abeam expressed himself in referencia to Fletcher has been
quite in keep's, with his mannertowards him. As a natural
consequence, &feeling of marked hoetitity manifested itself
throughout the voyage, and which evidently continue to
this moment. I myself have been upon terms of civil inter-
course with Fletcher, and I solemnly declare that every sir-
mustang, which I could elicit from him in reference to the
business far which Barber is refitting tended to confirm and
illustrate the perfect innocence of the latter.
"Norfolk Island, Jan. 10,1845." "Wn. Dinar-Lux."
There was also the following statement of Sanders, made
the day after he sailed :
" I, William Sanders, now under santeseos of transportation
for seven years, and about to leave my country, am de-
sirous of reiterating all my former statements of icy firm
belief sad conviction of the complete innocence of William
Henry Bubo' of any participation or guil,y knowledge
whatever of the late transactions in which I or my wile,
Lydia Sanders, were concerned, or that he received
one farthing more than his prefeeskinel ressunerstion
William Henry Barber wee an utter stranger to me
until introduced to him by Fletcher as Thomas Hunt,
nor did I after see him or have any subsequent
WellaleAketles with him until my lint examination
at the Mansion House. I make this declaration from
an ushigned desire of doing all the Malice that in my power
lies to a person whom I have been instrumental is piecing
in • situation of the horrors of which I am now too painfully
acquaiated.—Wiwart Saseuaaa.
" Signed and declared in my presence this 9th day of July,
1844. Jon* L. Lomas's'',
" Surgeon Superintendent on board the Lord
Auckland, Woolwich."
And then catnellanden's second confession, made after his
arrival as follows:

"I represented Thomas Hunt, to pt 1,2101. 3 per Cent.
Conenls ; tried with Berber sod Fletcher; they went to
Norfolk Island ; Iwes concerned in two other stonier cases ;

I knew that Fletcher had been concerned in these matters
for several years before I consented to take a part in it ; it
was dimmed in consequence of a correspondence with a
Miss Slack ; they were all unclaimed dividends, and we re-
presented fictitious persons, who were supposed to be rela-
tives to the parties 1 ' g the money; Fletcher has been
concerned in It for upwards of fifteen years; prosecuted by
the govirament ; Barber knew nothing about the matter ;
a Mrs. Horsy got two years' imprisonment; and my wife,
who personated Miss Slack, received the same sentence (two
years' imprisonment).'
" Extracted from the indent of the Lord Auckland.
JAMES THOMSON, Registrar, Convict Department.
" June 28, 1847."
A cunning trick had been devised by Fletcher to impairs
on Huber and Births's. He sent Mrs. Senders to Bath,
where she took a lodging in the name of Emma Slack, and
he got the death of Ann Slack inserted in the register,
presuming that it would be transferred to the registry at
8-merest House, but it bsppened that it was not, for by a
mistake of the registrar it was inserted as Ann Stack. She,
however, wrote a letter from Bath, in answer to an advertise
sent stating that she was II coma Slack, and if this mistake had
not occurred the fraud would have gone on, but finding that
there was no such entry at Somerset-house, she was
made by Fletcher to write moth r letter, saying
she had no claim. Fletcher had told Barber and
Bircham that there was such an entry in the regestry
at Somerset-house, and Barber upon that wrote to
Captain Foakett. it was said that Barber gave a cheque
for 801. for the payment of the probate duty, but that
cheque was given by Fletcher. It was s'iro stated that the
probate of the will was left at the Bank by Barber, but it
was stated on the affidavit of one of the clerks of the firm,
that it was taken there by this clerk by the order
of Bireham, and that the whole matter wag con-
ducted in the most open 1111111147, and that every
step which was taken was recorded in the diary. It
was also said that in the letter of application to the Bank for
the transfer of the stock, a date was in the hand of Barber,
bat the whole body of the letter was fa the hand of Bir-
chen'. Barber did much more to assist this pretended Emma
Slack than was necessary, because she said she was an
invalid, and would so have furnished proofs against himself
by endorsing papers in his own handwriting if he bad bean
guilty. There wee nothing to show that Barber was cogni-
sant of how the money was paid, but only that he assisted
her to the cab with M. in gold and gave it to her, and be
never saw it again, and this only because the hand of this
Emma Slack was pretended to be palsied. Mr. Freabfield
stated that he told Barber on the 13th November that he
was implicated in the fraud which had been committed, and
foe three weeks he was dogged b Forrester, the officer, and
yet his diary showed what his business was, and cumin-
stances also proved that he was in great poverty, while not
• paper was removed; whereas if he had been guilty, surely
he would have made some preparation. Was his conduct
that of a person implicated ? Was there anything to fix
him with participation in ,hls fraud unless it were tacked on
to the duplicity of Fletcher, who was with him on the foot-
ing of a respectable, respected, and wealthy client ? (The
learned counsel then proceeded to read Burtherd and
Hunt's case from the report, making, however, few con-
ats on it.)
At the dose of this stage of his observations, it being sow
half-pest 4, be stated that he wee too named exhausted to
enter on the question of malpractices until to-morrow (this
day), and the eau was adjourned, it having been previously
intimated by the coast that no more than that day could be
given to It.

COURT OF ER
ammo. ss &moo.
BYDII IP. lIIILLE.—Tai FACTORY Arcs.

•YISTZRDAT.

This wu. speenalesse, .framed provision, of
12 & 13 Viet., eao. 46, for the opinion of this coon as to the
conetraetion of the late factory tote (3 & 4 Will. IV., cep.
103, and 7& 8 Viet., cao. 16). By the first-named statute
is was nested, that any millowner convicted by justices of
the pesos for any canoe under thou nets, might appeal
from the decision of the justices, sad,by arrangemint
between the parties, that the lasts disclosed beton
the judos* might be drawn up ia the form of
a special cue, far the Nantes of any of the superior
courts. By 3 & 4 Will. IV., o. 103, it was provided that
young persons between the ages of 13 and 18 years should
not labour in factories for more Una 12 bean a day, an hour
and • half to be allowed daily for meals The time for
lals.ur was also limited by that act to commence at half-
put five o'clock in the morning, and terminate at half out
eight o'clock p.m. By the 26. h 14101011 of the 7 & 8 Viet,
chap. 16, it was provided that the hours of the work of
children and yenta( penone in every factory shall be
nano/ fro, the time when any child or young
Demon shall Bret begin to work in the morn-
,g in such factory, and shall be regulated by
a pu-dic :clock or wane clock open to the public view, to
he approved of in either case in writing man the hand of
the in,enor or sub-isepeotor of factories for the district.
The 6/ad section of thn some set provided that is any eons-
plant of the employment of any pert. in • factory other-
wise than wu allowed by that sot, the time of beginning
work in the months, which shall be stated in any notice
(the form of which stating the days of the week sad the time
so employed was given in aohedule " C.") flied up in the face
tory, signed by the occupier or kingpin, shall be takea to be
the time when all peewee in the factory. " or-oePt 611111'
dren beginning to wink in the afternoon," began work. Oel
any day, eubeeount to the date of suck nod" so bag as
the game outlnued fined up ia the factory. The motion
then proceeded to enact that, "11 eny paean shall be
allowed to enter or be is say factory, exult at meal time,
or during the steppme of the whole ineekiaery dike factory,
or tarry iai food to the workers, between 4 and 8 o'clock Is