The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-25 00:00:00

Ihip Company'

THE W➢f.

orother of the Company's tirst-elass steamers, are intended to sail
from Liverpool to London, ca iling at Waterford every Friday,
FROM CLARENCE DOCK.
Leaving London every Wednesday, for Liverpool,ealling at the

above port.
MARS, Direct to Waterford (as usual), on
Tuesday. 26th Feb, at 10 o'clock, afternoon
Leaving Waterfot d for Liverpool every Friday.
;—Cabin (including Steward's fee). 15a; Deck, 7s 6d.
rht or Passage apply a tthe Waterford Steamship Office

reet,Liverpoc;

GEORGE K. PAYNE, Agent.

MR. JOHN SADLIER, M.P.-ASTOUNDING

DISCLOSURES.

There is every reason to believe that when all is known
it will be found that the amount of the frauds of which
the late Mr. John Sadlier has been guilty will not be
much under £1,000,000. First, it has been ascertained,
beyond all question, that Mr. Sadlier had forged no
fewer than 50,000 Royal Swedish Railway Company's
Shares and Obligations, of £5 each, on which large
sums of money are raised. This forgery alone is to the
nominal sum of £250,000 only ; it is not yet known
what amount he was able to raise on the shares and
obligations. In addition to these forgeries there are
forgeries of several deeds and mortgages of estates, in
Ireland. As regards these, however, the extent is not
yet known. But, perhaps, the bWdest and most daring
forgeries of all, are these which relate to deeds for the
purchase of property in the Encumbered Estates Court
,of Ireland. These forged deeds purport to bear the
signatures of the commissioners,' the registrar, the chief
clerk, the solicitors, in the various causes, and the com-
missioner's seal. The extent to which this class of forgeries has been committed may be inferred from the
fact that the stamp duty alone on these amounted to
several hundreds of pounds. A considerable number of
forgeries on private individuals, also, have already been
discovered, and there is every reason to believe that
o'hers yet remain to be ascertained. These which have
been detected are supposed to amount to nearly 4100,000.
In addition to the classes of forgeries already enume-
rated, Mr. Sadlier has been guilty of the assignment of
deeds held in trust by him to an enormous amount. The
drafts of all the forged deeds and mortgages are in Mr.
Sadlier's own handwriting. The forgeries of signatures
are, in every case, remarkably successful. Those of the
Encumbered Estates Commissioners are said to be so
perfect that the most experienced eye could not detect
the forged deeds from the genuine. The act of self-
destruction was, it is believed, precipitated by the
circumstance of one of the holders of deeds, relative to
the purchase of one of the Encumbered Estates, who
having, on Saturday last, gone over to Ireland with his
solicitor for the purpose of having the deed registered.
Mr. Sadlier endeavoured to frustrate the intention of the
party, but failed. On the Continent too, where his
transactions were to an enormous extent, great alarm
prevails. In a letter, which he is supposed to have
written, immediately before leaving Gloucester-square
for Hampstead Heath, where he put an end to his
existence, he declares that, without the knowledge of
any human being, unaided and unassisted, he committed
the most diabolical crimes of which it was possible to be
guilty, that those crimes must now be discovered, and as
they would involve the ruin of hundreds of innocent
families, he had preferred to die rather than witness
the sufferings which they must endure. The crime of
suicide must have been contemplated by Mr. Sadlier for
some time before he committed the act, for he had
purchased "Taylor, on Poisoning," and had evidently
read it through till he came to the chapttr on the essen-
tial oil of bitter almonds, when he turned down the
page as if he had made up his mind. The frauds of Sir
Sir John D. Paul, Strahan and Bates, are not much
Smaller in amount, but they are tame compared with
his. They denote a combination of criminality, boldness,
ingenuity, versitality, and tact, such as the world never
betore witnessed,—Mortaing Advertiser.