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latter found only two supporters, mud the resolution
was declared carried.
Mr. BROWN (a working man) seconded by Mr. J.
P. Macfarlane, moved the following resolution, whicth
was also alopted :—" That a memorial be presented,
in the name of this meeting, to her Majesty's Go-
vernment, through the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, praying and urging them without delay to
use their influence with Austria and Russia, for
putting a atop to the warfare and armed interference
so much deprecated by this meeting, and further to
endeavour to bring about the restoration of peace on
a basis, which shall secure, in a manner satisfactory
to the people of Hungary, their religious and civil
liberties and rights."
On the motion of Mr. HARRIsoN, it was agreed to
prepare a suitable address to the Hungarian nation,
to be transmitted to Kossuth ; and after a vote of
thanks was given to the Lord Provost, on the motion
of Mr. Duncan, S.S.C., the meeting separated.

even by an appeal to aeina, against the plundering hi
varier—(Hear, hear)—and when he read in Scripture
that the magistrate was not to wear the sword in vain,
he inferred that if he might employ the sword against
one of his own subjects for the protection of the whole,
much more might he employ it for the protection of
his country against a foreign foe.—(Cheers.) He
would not be understood as apologising for war, for he
could cordially say he hated it ; but he hesitated not to
say there were worse evils than war—there were long
years of tyranny, injustice and wrong—there were
fortresses filled with a foreign, a lawless, a li-
centious soldiery,—there was commerce inter-
rupted, letters suspended, the sacredness cf
domestic rights invaded, honest cititizens
interrupted in their vocations, the dignity of
matrons insulted, the chastity f virgins trampled
under foot; dungeons filled with innocent victims,
and scaffolds reeking with noble and virtuous blood.
These es ere worse than war with all its hateful hor-
rors, and when he looked to the character of the
Powers that were now waging war against Hungary
—when he thought of the policy of Metternich, of
the dungeons of Speilberg and the vast wastes of
Siberia—when he remembered they had to do with
men who spared none from their revenge, and who
had, even within his own memory, violated every
sense of decency, outraged every feeling of humanity
by lacerating the flesh of virtuous and noble women
by the degrading end torturing scourge—when he
saw they were tl.e parties seeking to obtain dominion'
over Hungary, he said at once, ten thousand times
give him war with all its horrors, with its quick
dispatch, and wi.h its hasty but decisive agonies,
than this long. continued, desolating, distracting
plague, which, like the fatal Upas tree, infects
the very air with death, and under which
all truth, virtue, and honesty languishes and
dies.—(Applause.) He knew that some feared
there was risk of our own country being
plunged into war if the Government interfere
in the pending conflict; but while he had lit le
apprehension of this, he could not for one, wish that
this country (which, upon the whole, was the freest
upon the face of the earth), should, from fear of some
possible calamity, fold her majestic arms and sit still,
keeping unworthy silence when the black despots
were gathering together their forces to blot out from
amongst the nations of Europe a country which had
ever borne the name of free, and whose arms had ever
been wielded in freedom's cause.—(Loud applause.)
The resolution was then put to the meeting, and
enthusiastically carried.
Mr. ALEXANDER, DUNLOP, advocate, said -he
rejoiced that they had not left the Hungarian people
to struggle on without their sympathy, as they had
left the Romans till they were trampled under foot
by the despotism of France, under the garb of a
friend.—(Hear, hear.) He rejoiced too, that their
Government had taken the position which it had
done in expressing the sentiments of the people
of Britain ; but, even though no expres-
sion of their opinion had been given, he held that it
would have been equally imperative on the people of
this country to have raised their voices in sympathy
with the Hungarians. The people of this country were
pre-eminently called upon to come cordially forward
in the present case, not only because the Hungarians
were now engaged in a struggle similar to those in
which they themselves had been engaged in former
times, but also because of the position which Britain
alone held among the nations. France, to her shame,
had passed over from the cause of freedom, and en-
gaged herself in trampling on the liberties of a foreign
people; and therefore to Britain alone could a strug-
gling nation look for sympathy and support ; and
althoughthey could not and were not seeking to aid her
by arms, yet they were not to undervalue the effect of
the moral influence of Britain The resolution he had
to propose was to the following effect :—" That this
meeting deeply deplore the war waged by the Austrian
authorities, and that with such barbarous cruelty,
against the independence and liberty of Hungary, and
deprecate in the strongest manner the armed in-
terference of Russia with the settlement of a question
between the house of Hapsburgh and the Hungarian
nation, as unwarranted and oppressive in itself—
hostile to the rights of an independent people—
perilous to the peace of Europe—and threatening
even to endanger ultimately its civilization and free-
dom." The resolution, he observed, declared two
things—it deplored the conduct of Austria, and de-
precated the interference of Russia. As to the con-
duct of Austria, it was just another proof of the ter-
rible blindness of despotic governments. That Go-
veanment bad a glorious opportunity of building up
again the house of Hapsburgh on a broad basis of
constitutional liberty. The Hungarian nation had a
constitution of its own, and it had shown the most
undoubted loyalty to that house. Austria had now,
however, lost that opportunity, and she was now try-
ing to exercise her old despotism over the Hungarians.
But he (Mr. Dunlop) rejoiced to think they had
such counsellors and patriots to direct their
counsels and lend their arms, as Kossuth, Bem,
Dembinski, and others, who had shown themselves
worthy to achieve the victory, and would certainly
have done it had the parties been let t to themselves.
But the great despot of Russia had been called in to
aid the aggressions of Austria. It was grievous
enough in any circumstances when. •one power inter-
fered with another; but when one nation would have
achieved its liberty had the struggle been a fair one,
it was infamous that a foreign power should be
called in to secure them in a yoke from which other-
wise they would have delivered themselves. The
Learned Gentleman proceeded to show that it was
the interest of Britain, for the purpose of preserving
the peace of Europe, to endeavonr to prevent the
extension of the Russian power, and concluded by
proposing his resolution.
The resolution was seconded by a Mr. FRISER, a
working man, and unanimously carried.
The Rev. Dr. HETHERINGTON then moved the
next resolution, which wits as follows :—" That, in
the opinion of this meeting, the Government of Great
Britain should embrace every opportunity of pressing
upon that of Austria the duty of abandoning the
attempt which, with foreign aid, it is now carrying
on to crush the independence of Hungary, and to
overthrow that constitution which the sovereigns of
Austria have uniformly acknowledged and sworn to
maintain, and of remonstrating with. the Emperor of
Russia on his interference by for ce of arms in the
internal affairs of another country." A remonstrane
of the kind proposed in the resolution, he contended,
was not likely to cause war, but to stop it by the
calm might of moral influence. It took the ground
so well occupied by Lord Palmerston recently, when
he declared in the House of Commies, in reference
to the Hungarian aggression, that " opinion founded
in truth and justice would in the end prevail against
the bayonets of infantry, the roar of artillery, and
the charge of cavalry. —(Cheers.) In the speech
of her Majesty, when proroguing Pari:::ament, it was
said that her Majesty would contin tie to direct her
efforts to promote the restoration of peace ; so that
the object of the meeting and of the resolution he
proposed was really to support the Go ve rnment in the
objects they bad in view—the restoration of peace,
and at the same time the defence, by uitoral means, of
the rights and privileges of civil and rtiligious liberty
in Hungary.—(Hear.)
Mr. JAMES MoNortieee., advocate, in :seconding the
resolution, said he did so on two gem iral grounds—
because on the one hand the contest now waging in
Hungary had a most noble and mag aiticent aspect
for freemen to look upon, and on the other because
the struggle was fraught with interests most
momentous and important to Britain. He
repudiated the calumny which had , been in-
dustriously circulated on this subject,. that they
were anxious to pledge the country to v‘rts.:-. When
he considered from what quarter these taunt s came—
that the men who uttered them were the .re presenta-
tives of those who had embroiled all Europe in a war
that had hung a mill-stone of debt about tbveir necks
to establish a despotism that was now the. plague of
Europe, he could not but be indignant that they
should set up the bugbear of a Continental war to
prevent them from doing that which was the safest
and surest means of averting it.—(Hear.)
On the LORD PROVOST putting the resolution to
the meeting,
Dr. \Vas. GLOVER (the Chartist) rose from his seat
on the platform for the purpose of moving an amend-
ment. His appearance was the signal for a loud
burst of hisses and discordant sounds fvorn all parts
of the hall, which effectually drowned his voice,
and prevented a word he uttered from being heard
five yards from where he was standing, vehemently
insisting on his right to be heard. After he had
persevered for some time, amid the greatest disorder,
a person of rather outre appearance stetted from his
seat (also on the platform) in a state of !,great excite-
ment, and, by an alarming exhibition of his °' cane,"
appeared to threaten the Doctor with s ummary pro-
ceedings. But neither the menaces of this enthusiastic
gentleman, nor the groans of the audie nee, could turn
the persevering Doctor from his pur pose, and, after
the Lord Provost had succeeded in obtaining some-
thing like order, he read his amend.nient to the effect
that the meeting was of opinion that the Royal House
of Austria or Hapsburg had forfeited all claim to the
throne of Hungary, and that the Hungarians had a
ent of all foreign
perfect right to choose what form of Government
theyyr thoughtference a
npdr otpheart,
the n m
d ep
meeting
memorialise her
Majesty to acknowledge the independence of Hun-
gary and its existing Govemr nent, and to withdraw
her ambassadors from the Courts of Russia, Austria,
France, end every other Government violating the
laws of nations and the rights of humanity. The
Doctor attempted to support his amendment, but the
noiee was immediately resumed, and in the midst of
it an Episcopal clergyman from America (Mr. J. C.
-Richmond), rose from the body of the Hall, and
attempted, in a great meeesure unsuccessfully, to
address the meeting, as representing twenty millions
on the other side of the Atlantic ! Ultimately, the
confusion was ended by the Lord Provost putting the
resolution and amendment to the meeting, when the

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TO THE _EDITOR OF THE SUN.
aff)rds me much pleasure to be able to for-
ward you 21. by Post-office order, towards the Hungarian
fund—an amount trifling in its pecuniary value, though
not so as expressing the sentiments of no less than 80
inhabitants of this town, the collection having been pri-
vately made by sixpenny donations. This I hold to be
one of the main objects of the Testimonial, and I have
great pleasure in having so far assisted it.
It has, perhaps, an additional value as a token of the
spirit for improvement now so rapidly spreading amongst
the youth of our country, 10s. being the subscriptions of
twenty young men who have entered into a society for
mutual improvement—most of them members of that
great body the working class.—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant, IL E. H.
Bridport, Aug. 6.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—You have exposed many of the abuses of the
Sabbatatians. Will you lend us your aid in another
glaring case.
Tho West India steamer arrives at Southampton on a
Saturday, and the letters go on to London, where they
lay all Sunday. On the Monday they are sent down,
and I get them on the Tuesday morning. Now, Sir, the
steamer brings large quantities of bullion, and we are all,
of course, very anxious to get our remittances, bills,
correspondenea, &c. This is the case with me at the
present moment. Urgent business calls me away, yet by
this pernicious system I am detained here a day longer
than necessary. If the Post-office is not to be opened
in London on a Sunday, then let the bags be made up
for the provinces in Southampton. The bulk of the
business is done through this town, and yet we are sub-
jected to this unnecessary inconvenience.
I am, ycurs very truly,
A WEST-COAST MERCHANT.

Liverpool, Aug. 6.
[This is another of those intolerable grievances—re-
quiring instant alteration—which press so heavily upon
the mercantile community, merely to gratify the evan-
gelic vanity and the orthodox whims of an insignificant
minority. We would recommend our correspondent to
memorialise the House of Commons.—ED. Sun.]

CASE OF THE COUNTESS OF

L AN DSFELDT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sllt,—Your article of this evening on this subject, like
many other articles I have remarked in The Sun, is
characterised by sound law and gentlemanly feeling.
I contend that there was no case even for holding the
accused to bail. If the doctrine relied upon by the pro-
secution were correct, any person might be accused of a
crime, and called upon to prove their innocence without
even a prima facie case; the magistrate had it undoubt-
edly in his power to discharge the lady, the first hus-
band not being present, and no human being having the
power to say that Mr. James was living on the 19th of
July last. I am astonished that the lady's counsel should
have " admitted" that the case ought to be carried fur-
ther. It is quite clear that the worthy magistrate, who
is no contemptible lawyer, but for this admission, would
have discharged the lady. As it is intentio facit reus,
and I am confident there is no jury in England who
would convict of bigamy a woman ignorant of the law,
and who had been already divorced by solemn Act of
the Ecclesiastical tribunals of this realm, more especially
as the lady being (as I am informed) a Roman Catholic,
would attach more than ordinary importance to the de-
cision of courts of that character.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
Inner Temple, Tuesday Evening.

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LAW INTELLIGENC.
NCE RI? COURT, Aug. 7.
(Before Sir J. L. KNIGHT 1.3111JCN.)
ATTORNEY-GENEEAL v. THE BISIIGP OF ELY.
This wt,i the potitiou of the 11,:,v. W. G. Townley,
rector of Up well curn-Welney, one of the trustees of
Marshall's Charity at Wclney, in the Isie of Ely, for the.l
purpose of enabling the trustees to raise 2,2001. upon the
security of the surplus rents of the charity estates, for the
purpose of repaying an cutlay incurred in certain new
buildings beyond the estimate which hal been sanctioned
by the Master. The petition stated the whole buildings
had been completed for a cost of 5,314/., being
2,072/. 6s. sd. more than was estimated, and that the
average surplus income was about 656/. per annum, and he
asked that the Court would sanction the raising the excess
of expenditure, by bond, upon security of the future sur-
plus income.
Mr. Wigrana appeared in support of the petition; and
Mr. Sayres for the Bishop of Ely, and the co-trustees,
and the schoolmaster, who consented.
His HoNoua made the order accordingly.

PREROUA:IIVE COURT.
(Before Dr. HAGGARD, who sat ai a Surrogate.)
NARY RUSH, DECEASED.

Dr. A DDANS said he had to renew his application on
behalf of the guardian of the children of the late James
Bloomfield Rush, to set aside the will, upon which pro-
bate had been granted, of the late Mary Emil, mother
of James Bloomfield Rush; and which purported to ap-
point him executor, and the property of the testatrix to
be divided betwee❑ his children, upon the youngest child
arriving at the age of 21 years, which will, it was al-
leged, was, upon the oath of Emily Sandford, a forgery,
she having attested it as a witness after the death of the
testatrix. The Learned Judge, on a former appl:cation,
thought the affidavit of such a person as Emily Sand-
ford was not sufficient to justify him in annulling his for-
mer act, and rejected the application until further cor-
roborative evidence was adduced. The Learned Advo-
cate said he had now to offer to the Court the affidavits
of two respectable gentlemen, a Mr. Durrant and a Mr.
Wilkinson, who attested to the belief that the will proved
was a forgery. Under these circumstances he hoped the
Court would grant the application. The will of the tes-
tatrix gave her property to her grandchildren, to be paid
to them i❑ equal portions upon their arriving at the age
of 21 years.

The Learned JUDGE granted the application as prayed,

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT.—Croydon, Aug 7.
The business of these assiz-s commenced this morning.
The number of causes put down for trial is ninety-six, of
which seventeen ate special.jury cases. Mr. Baron Al-
derson presided on the Crown side, and the Chief Baron
at Nisi I'rius.
The Learned BATtON, in charging the grand jury, said
that it gave him at all times great pleasure to meet the
gentlemen of the county of Surrey; but it did so parti-
cularly on the present occasion, because, according to
the rule and custom of this kingdom, he was entitled to
a pair of white gloves by reason of there not being any
capital charge in the calendar.
The Cam' BARON did not commence the civil busi-
ness until twelve o'clock, and nothing more was done
during the day than to dispose of a portion of the unde-
fended causes, and commence the first defended common
jury case, which at half-past five o'clock was adjourned
till this morning.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, Aug. 6.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice EaLE.)
Thomas Edward Turbervdle was indicted for forging,
on the 2d of February last, an order for the payment of
31. 12s. 61., with intent to defraud Jacob Chatterley and
others. There were 24 counts, some describing the in-
strument as an order and some as a Ni arrant for the
payment of money, some charging only an uttering,
some laying the intent to defraud Chatterley, others to
defraud Wm. Rees and others, and others to defraud
Rees only; in short, it was laid in every possible mode
in which it was thought the evidence would support it.
Mr. Cooke appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Huddlestone for the defence. _

The prisoner had been a member and the paid actuary
of the Temple of Pesce Lodge of the Society of Odd
Fellows, at Newport; Jacob Chatterley was " the noble
grand" of the society; and William Rees was the treasurer.
Both were also members of the society. The practise of
the society was for the treasurer to pay cheques in favour
of sick members when presented to him signed by the
noble grand and the actuary. On the day above named
the noble grand, on the representation of the prisoner
that a member, who in fact was not ill, and never applied
for any order, was ill, and wanted a cheque fur 125.,
countersigned one already signed by the prisoner, and
handed it to him. The latter altered it to 31. 12s. 6d.,
and it was afterwards paid without any suspicion of
fraud. There was no evidence that it was presented by
the prisoner. On the close of the case for the prosecu-
tion, it was objected on the part of the prisoner that
those counts could not be sustained which charged the
intent to defraud Jacob Chatterley and others, or Rees
and others, as in both classes of counts " others" should
be taken to include the prisoner himself, as ho
was a member of the society and part owner of the
funds, and therefore amounted to a charge that
the defendant intended to defraud himself. Ilia
Lordship, however, held that " others" must be taken
to include all the other members except the pri-
soner, and therefore was sufficient, within the pro-
visions of the 7th George IV., c. 64; but that if
necessary ho would reserve the point. It was next ob-
jected that the counts which charged the intent to be to
defraud the treasurer could not be sustained, as the pro-
perty belonged not to him alone, but to him jointly with
the prisoner and the other members of the society. But
his Lordship held that, as the same law that applied to
bankers applied to other agents, and the treasurer had a
duty to pay only on genuine orders, and this order, if
valid, would protect him, and if not valid, would
not protect him, he was defrauded by paying it ;
and, therefore, the intent was rightly laid to defraud him.
On this point his Lordship had no doubt, and he was
not requested to reserve it; and the prisoner having
been convicted of the forgery was sentenced to seven
years transportation.
Llizu hunt wa3 indicted for uttering, on the 4th of
May last, a forged request fur the delivery of a quantity
of grocery goods, with intent to defraud Henry Roper.
Mr. Barrett appeared for the prosecution; the pri-
soner was not defended.
in the details of the case there was nothing worth
mentioning; and it is noticed only in consequence of a
decision of the Court on the construction of the recent
Act 11th and 12th Vict. c. 42, which is of practical im-
portance. The 18th sec. of that Act provides that the
prisoner's statement at petty sessions "shall be taken
down in writing, and read over to him, and shall be
signed by the said justice or justices, and kept with the
depositions of the witnesses, and shall be transmitted
with them as hereinafter mentioned ; and afterwards

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aug. 7.
(Before Mr. Commissioner HARRIS.)
IN RE CHARLES 1311001 L IRWIN.
This was an adjourned hearing of the application of that
insolvent for his discharge.
Mr. Cooke, with whom were Mr. Sargood and Mr.
Dunn, supported; Mr. Nicholls opposed.
The grounds of opposition were that the insolvent
had vexatiously defended an action brought by Mr.
Sanderson, on a bill of exchange, and that ho had ob-
tained from Mr. Turnley, a yacht, by improper reps e-
sentations, and without having any reasonable expecta-
tions of payment.
It appeared that the insolvent obtained his final order
in this court in 1843, owing debts to the amount of
4,000/. His debts on the present occasion amount to
8,0001. In 1846, his only brother, who held a high
judicial office in India, died, leaving, as was alleged, the
insolvent entitled to estates in the counties of Cavanagh
and Neath of the value of 15,0001, and one-half of a
personal property of 15,000/., the other half of the latter
being divided equally between himself and an only
sister. A claim was set up by the trustees of the in-
solvent's wife upon the property thus accruing, by virtue
of the terms of the marriage settlement executed in
1833, wherein he vested all his future property in trus-
tees, appointed by the v.ifc, of which Mr. Hamer is one.
Upon the question going before the Master of the Rolls,
judgment was given in favour of the wife upon the deed
of settlement, in oppcsition to a claim preferred by the
assignee under the first insolvency. Mr. Turnley's com-
plaint was that in 1846, subsequent to the death of his
brother, the insolvent had purchased from him the
yacht, giving him referecces to his solicitors.
stating that he had considerable estates, and
that he might depend upon his honour as a
NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—lpszoich, Aug. 7.
CROWN COURT.—(Before the CHIEF JUSTICE.)
gentleman and an officer that all was right. Here-
pon Mr. Turnley took the insolvent's acceptance for the
o nt for which he sold the yacht (4001.); but from
Joseph Baldwin, aged 47, a man of
i herculean pro- unto the house of am u
p rtions, was charged with breaking
Zohn Barnes, at Redlingfield, on the 6th of May, and information that ho subsequently received he was in-
stealing therein five shillings' worth of penny pieces, duced to fellow the insolvent to Liverpool, where ha
six buns, a piece of linen, and half a pound of pickled offered him back his bill and 80/., on condition of his
pork. returning the yacht. Tho insolvent declined, now al-
Mr. Palmer conducted the case for the prosecution, lefting that at the time the bill was nut due, that ho
On Sunday, the 6th May, Mr. and Mrs. Barnes quitted had laid out 1501. on the yacht, and that he had at the
their house, for the purpose of going to church, leaving time no doubt but he should be able to pay the amount.
the doors and windows all secured. On their return Subsequently the insolvent sent the yacht to Mr. Hamer,
they were surprised to find the marks of two or three with authority to sell it. Mr. Hamer had done so, sad
very large footprints on the druggett in the keeping claimed the money.
room. They ascertained that a cupboard had been Mr. Sanderson's objection presented no feature unusual
forced open in which was kept the key of another cup- in such cases.
board. This key still hung on its accustomed nail, and Mr. NtenoLLs submitted that the transactiolrne;
nothing was missing from that cupboard. The other, specting the yacht was a conspiracy. The insolvent
1
ve
over
however, when opened with the key, showed that the knew at the time that Mr. Hamer was a fru
intruder had visited its shelves, for the various trifles whole of his property. He knew, too, that
mentioned in the indictment were missed from them. self had been an insolvent in thatthceou
inrsolvent'e other
court.
egßeasonable
aemcr him-
theThe next question was how to account for the en- inferences must also be drawn frflomo.veney he had
given
trance and the exit of the thief, and a minute transactions. Lnder th firsts i 1
toss horse dealer, of the
inspection of the window, which was found bolted as his bills and blank acceup,
taLna"wrence, to the amount of
usual, satisfied Mr. Barnes that a pane had been taken name of Samuel Lhis
jaiianr, had been paid under the first in-
out of the lead close to the hasp. Through this apes Lure 7501. Not onedes
bts to'the amount of 4,000 L, and he did
a hand could easily open the fastening, and then tho solvency u
n the second.
window afforisd an aperture of 13 inches by 30. The not believor thaat a shilling would be realised for the ere-
pane, said he should not attempt to maintain
pane, however, had been carefully replaced and the lead
t_dhiattirres'is client had been either a discreet or a wise man
knocked together again, thus showing that the robbery
his transactions with Lazarus Lawrence, Pearl, H.
and Crotty, to the extent of
had been effected with considerable precaution, and most
probably through the agency of a boy or small man, woohro.
2j.N,lojoitooLn, allNlriollfia:•homlilwt"en4 horse-dealers,. and allot' whont
had afterwards admitted a larger man through theld
was
Information having been given of this outrage, i had recently been either bankrut
hands. Like man other discovered that the prisoner had been seentigonoinirgo, Court, showed that. It had been is or insolvents in that
his misfortune to fall
o'clock on the day iu question, mat
thel2
into bad
house of the prosecutor towards his laisdoirn,e,en house. The
lattersi on Tuesday, but he was a judge in horse-ft_
manyand young men, he fancied_
police accordingly searched,
kt fterwards, however, it was by that fancy to the ' his debts were swelled
they found nothing in it.
prisoner had paid an arrear of speet to
ascertained that
thethe overseer, in penny piece, it was the alleged misrepresentation to Mr. Turnley,
Is. 6d. for poor . rates totted again, ashen a ; . not denied that property to a large amount bad
and his house was seam
- piece of linen been bequeathed, but it was said he knew, or ought to
found, which exactly correspondedwith that lost by have known, that by the conditions of a marriage tl.e
who recognised 'it as apiece Ai„. Barnes, - property was not his. It certainly did appear that he
band's shirt sleeve, which she had only removal from had put his signature on the morning of his marriage to
that garment on the Saturday night, and then placed in a document that contained very strong and stringent
the cupboard. provisions, but it was not by any means clear that he
The prisoner, in his defence, contended that it was knew what he had thus dene until the Master of the
physically impossible that he should have committed the Rolle had given his decision. It was an exciting me-
robbery, as he could not have got through the window, anent, was that morning of marriage to most persons,
"if he had tried ever so;" and, as for the payment to and it seas not to be always supposed that a man was
the overseer, he had paid him with coppers received then exactly in his right state of mind.—(Laughter.)
from his deceased master on Saturday.- He also ac-
He submitted
counted for the possession of the linen by saying that he Tien on the part of his cli.?nt 1
,
had picked it up in a ditch, while at work, between the
tint and second search.
The jury having found the prisoner Guilty,
His LORDSH titled
IP sentenced the prisoner to transrortx- to that ther© had bee,
he four months that ha
n no fraudulent inten-
had been in prison might e
had be considered a sufficient
atonenient for the part h taken in defending the
action, and the Court would, be trusted, declare him en-
his discharge.
Ills Iloreona said that he considered both charges
Tien for ten years. the insolvent had been sustained. Upon the
JAn Ryas, aged 32, And skhn Lewis, aged 45, wer© against

upon the trial of the said accused person
the same may, if necessary, bo given in
evidence against him without further proof
thereof, unless it shall bo proved that the justice or
justices purporting to sign the same did not, in fact, sign
the same." The prisoner in the pre,ent case made a
statement before the magistrates, which the counsel for
the prosecution proposed to give in evidence merely
by calling for the depositions and reading it from
them.
His LORDSHIP said that ho had at first entertained an
opinion that this was not the proper course; but ho had
had occasion to consider it ■t Hereford with his Learned
Brother Baron Rolfe, an 4 they both came to the con•
elusion that they would take notice of the transmission
of the depositions from the petty sessions, and that on
the counsel calling for them from the officer of the
court, or the judge, and their being produced, nothing
more was necessary in order to allow a statement made
by a prisoner before the justices at sessions to be read
against him.
The depositions were then called for, and were handed
down by his Lordship, and the officer of the court read
the statement.
The prisoner was ultimately Acquitted.
The business had not closed at post-hour (half-past
six), but it is expected that it will be brought to a con-
clusion this evening.