The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-09 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1856

JAMES SADLEIR is not forthcoming to answer the
charges brought against him by the Irish MASTER
of the ROLLS, as the public very naturally antici-
pated. Steps were taken, " before Friday last,''
for the arrest of a man who ought to have been
taken into custody on the 25th of February last,
when the letters of JOHN SADLEIR were read before

oroner's jury. There never was a clearer case
of conspiracy made out, than that which appears
on the face of the evidence given at the inquest.
It did not require the talent and straightforward-
ness of a MASTER of the ROLLS to discover that
JAMES SADLEIR had a perfect knowledge of all his
brother's acts. We said, at the commencement of
the disclosures before the Coroner, that it was

quite impossible for any man to carry on such a
wholesale system of plunder without some con_
federates, and we now feel convinced that, if JAMES
SADLEIR were brought forward, a careful examina-
tion of his connection with JOHN SAPLEIR'S
frauds would implicate several others. The
unravelling of the Kingston affair will place
a few more names in rather an unenviable
light. There are too many men in Ireland who
are aware of the manner in which Lord KINGSTON
was fleeced, for the affair to be hushed up, and the
Irish Government may as well make up their
minds to commence a vigorous prosecution of the
SADLEIR nest, and other gangs of property
swindlers, who infest the law courts of Dublin.
Publicity has been given to scenes of plunder
besides those in which JOHN SADLEIR was the
principal actor, which must be dealt with as they
deserve. The Government will be constrained to
do their duty, and the sooner they grapple with
the huge mass of villiany before them, the better it
will he for all parties. There are gangs of property
vampires in Ireland who must be put down, before
any man will be safe in purchasing landed estates
in that country. A Parliamentary title will

never be suffered to ride over frauds in these
realms. And it would be preposterous to
suppose that JOHN SADLEIR is the only

who has ventured to bring lands fraudu
lently into the Encumbered Estates Cour
who have purchased under the hammer of the

Those

commissioners may remain silent, but it will be
found impossible to keep the sufferers, by the

acts of petitioners and encumbrancers,
from seeking redress, by publishing to the world
the injuries they have sustained. It is, therefore,
due to the purchaser and creditor interests, that
an example should be made of those who are
known to have possessed themselves of large
estates by fraud of every description, and who
may have used, or are about to consummate, their
rascality through the agency of the Encumbered
Estates Court.
The portals of Chancery were thought wide
enough for many majestic frauds of thirty and
forty years' duration, until within the last few years
when JOHN SADLEtR and some of his popular
associates concocted the Encumbe•ed Estates
Court Bill. The old system of false personation
of plaintiffs and defendants to a Chancery suit,
bringing minors before the court as adults, appoint-
ing receivers who were not to account for the rents

unlawfu

of large estates, not even once in thirty years,
ns not known in a suit affecting the
property before the court, were quietly put, and
left in possession, would not do for our go-ahead

while

gentry of JOHN SADLEIB'S order. They wanted
a readier and shorter road to plunder than that
presided over by "my Lud," in feircest wig, and
richest ermine. If SADLEIR'S conduct in Lord
KINGSTON'S affair be carefully and fearlessly sifted,
the public will then see what it was they wanted,
and how they used it. And then it may be found

necessary to appoint another commission to enquire
into the number of eneumbrances which have been
purchased for an " old song," or revived without

one particle of consideration, for the purpose of
defrauding honest creditors. The Government
may dread embarking in such a gigantic task,
but the day of enquiry must come, and it is to be
hoped that the public will demand it now, and
before any more wrong is done to the lawful cre-
ditor, and the unsuspecting purchaser of Irish
land.

But to return to JAMES SADLEIR. The ATTORNEY-
GENERAL for Ireland, in answering Mr. MOORE'S

interrogation, said :—" The question put implied a
" connivance on the part of the Government in the
" escape of Mr. SADLEIR, and this he emphatically
" denied, adding that from the earliest moment he,
" as the responsible officer of the Crown, had done
" everything in his power to prevent Mr. SADLEIR
" leaving Ireland, even before he was able to issue
"warrants for his apprehension. Mr. SADLEIR had
" not quitted the country up to the 17th or 18th of
" June, and if he had since escaped, it was to be
" attributed to the irregular observations of the
" MASTER of the Rou.s." Now, it so happens that
the " irregular observations" of the MASTER were
not made for nearly four months after the Irish
Government must have been, or ought to have
been, in the possession of all the facts of a case of
such stupendous fraud, in a concern in which
there were a number of partners. If the MASTER
of the ROLLS adopted an irregular course, it was
because the higher authorities did not proceed in
the regular way in a case of the most startling
magnitude. The Equity Judge shrunk from
the responsibility thrown upon him by the
apathy of the Government, and he was
quite right in making an effort to get the burden
off his shoulders. And it only remains to be seen
whether those who are really answerable for JAMES
SADLEIR'S being at large, will cause him to be
apprehended, together with many others, whose
career of fraud may be cut short, without waiting
for a suicide or a public calamity to give notoriety
and additional importance to their unlawful and
dishonest lives.

THE TOWN DIIES.—The order of the House of Commons
for Monday night contained the following notice of motion
by the Vice-president of the Board of Trade :

Mr. Lowe,—Returns from the town of Liverpool of
earliest tariff of town dues, including anchorage;

Of present tariff, and any other tariffs used from time
to time;
Of changes made in the tariff from time to time, either
by way of imposition of new items, or abolition of old
items, or by way of augmentation or reduction of, or com-
position for, dues previously levied, with the date of each
change, and the authority by which it was made ;
Copies of any tables or lists in the possession of the cor-
poration, which have been at any time used by the corpo-
ration, as containing the tariff of town dues, with their
respective dates ;
Return of amount of town dues for each year, from the
time they were first received by the corporation, or from
the earliest date at which the return can be furnished, to
the present time; . .

Accounts of the various amounts spent by the corpora-
tion from time to time on shipping purposes since they
first received town dues, giving for each item so spent the
date, a full and explicit description of the shipping pur-
pose to which it has been applied ; the authority under
which it has been expended ; in cases where such expen-
diture has produced any return, the amount of such return,
whether in the shape of annual or temporary receipts, or
of purchase money, or both, or otherwise ;
Of the amount of the debt now charged directly or col-
laterally on the borough fund, giving the d ite at which
each portion of the debt was contracted ; the purpose for
which it was contracted ; the authority under which it
was contracted; the terms on which it was contracted;
Return of the quantity of land reclaimed from the Mer-
sey_by the expenditure of moneys belonging to the dock
estate, and claimed by the corporation as their property,
and an account of any subsequent grants or sales of any
such land, giving, in the case of each grant or sale, the
date of the transaction; the party to whom such land was
granted or sold; the quantity, description. and situation
of the land granted or sold ; the price or consideration (it
any) paid or given by the dock estate; the mode in which
the price (if any) was determined; the authority, whether
by act of Parliament or otherwise, under which the grant
or sale was made, to be accompanied by a map, showing
the original and present condition of the land so granted
or sold ;
Accounts of all purchases by the corporation of land on
the Cheshire side of the Mersey, giving in each case the
date of the purchase ; the parties from whom the purchase
was made ; the quantity, description, and situation of the
land purchased ; the price given, to be accompanied by a
map, showing the situation of the land ;
And, of all sales or leases by the corporation of Liver-
pool of land on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, giving in
each case the date of the sale or lease; the parties to
whom the sale or lease was made; the quantity, descrip-
tion, and situation of the land sold or leased; in case of a
lease, the term for which leased, the price, rent, or other
consideration received, to be accompanied by a map,
showing the situation of the land.

The inquisitorial character of the motion is such as to
induce a belief, that this alone prevented the right hon.
gentleman from pursuing his announced intention, for on
searching the parliamentary records of Monday night's

proceedings, we cannot find that any such proposition as
that contained in the notice was submitted to the House.
Mr. Lowe may have thought better of it, and wisely
abstained, for an attempt which, without giving additional
evidence to that adduced before his abortive committee,
could only have entailed the expense and annoyance of
preparing returns which, when made would be, for his
purpose, only so much waste paper.

THE AMERICAN SWELL MOB,—On Monday, at the
Central Criminal Court, the two. American gentlemen (?)
who honoured the hotels of this town with a professional
visit, and whose career appeared in our police repots,
namely, Kingstone and Howard, were found guilty of
stealing bank notes to the value of £565, the property of
a gentleman named Sandelands, stopping at the Great
Northern Hotel. The sentence was deferr ed.

MILITARY ARRANGEMENTS.—Lieutenant-Geßeral Sir
Colin Campbell will have the command of the troops to
be encamped at Shorneliffe, numbering about 5,000 men.
Among the regiments constituting this division will be
included some of those lately under Sir Colin's command
in the Highland division in the Crimea. Colonel Trollope,
of the 62nd Regiment, who lately commanded a brigade
in the Crimea, will, we understand, proceed to Canada
to fill a staff appointment of similar rank, in the room of
Major-General Home Home, who returns to England.

THE FATAL CoLusioN.—To the credit of the proverbial

ty of our town a subscription has been set on foot

for the relief of the sufferers from the sad collision between
the Mail and Excelsior steam-boats, and the brief appeal
(to be found in our advertising columns to-day) has been
promptly responded to. His Worship the Mayor most
appropriately sets the example, and heads the list of
contributions to this truly philanthrophic fund. The
example cannot fail to be followed, and we confidently
anticipate that the enumeration of true Samaritans will
from a long catalogue ere many hours have elapsed.