The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-12 00:00:00

lat the public cost, for relations and dependents, Joseph
wisely judges, is not to be wantonly throwtr• away.
The Conservatives, too, are quiescent under the' sway
of the Whig imbeciles. Whether the object of the
leaders of the Conservatives be, to permit the Whig, s to
run their full career of meanness—meanness, that .has
no parallel in the annals of statesmanship—and •so
utterly destroy the Whigs, as a party ; or whether, some;
of the men, in whom the Conservatives throughout thee
country have placed confidence, do really intend to.
coalesce with the more influential Members of the present
Administration—time alone can determine. :Meanwhile,
we say, let the Conservatives throughout Englerd be pre- '
pared for the worst! The Conservative cause his. been
betrayed ere now—and may be again, if care be not taken
to render any possible treachery harmless. There may
be discovered at the present moment, we are boncvl to
state, certain most suspicious indications of a disposi-
tion on the part of men, who occupy b;gii stations
in the Conservative ranks, to unite themselves ~rich
the Whig and Whig-Radical economists-6k' (1Z ,ii, t
deadly enemies whom the honoured institirioes, zin&
the dearest interests of this country have ever known.
Everything, in fact, seems to favour the Wilie, policy'
of inaction. English Conservatives in Parliament—
English Whig-Radicals—and Irish Papists—all unite fo
concede to the present race of officials, unbounded liberty
to neglect all the duties of their station. Parliament has
adjourned for a fortnight. When it shall meet azain, the
same processes of bustle that indicates nothing but an ah.
seace of real business—and of battles, in which all parties
fire blank-cartridges—will be repeated, to the infinite dis-

gust of all honest men. The Coronation is at hand ; and
the Whigs will be the dispensers of many favours. The
interests of agriculture may languish—the ship-owners may
complain of deep distress—the band-loom weavers may
sustain life, as they best can, on fourpence per day—the
New Poor-law may grind the unemployed labourer to
powder :—still Parliament will bestow none of its attention
on these things. No :—squabblesarisiog out of the decisions
of Election Committees, and motions connected with the
most puny party objects, will, then, command—as they have,
of late years, invariably commanded—mud more attention
in the House of Commons than any grievaluces:aocting the

great body of the people. How these things' will, sooner or
later, end, it is not difficult to foresee. Tice industrious

producers—the real Conservatives—will not .aways be ten-
tent to suffer in silence. The opinion is now universal,
that. the Whigs are as ill qualified to govern Engl.lnd as
Lord Durham is to govern Gioada. The Couservative

who shrinks from strualing in earnest for t::,: evert:yr-ow of
.the mean and despicable faction which now tenants Down-
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inn-street, and occupies all the avenues of the Court, must
be content to rank amorgst traitors to the cause of Con-

servatism.—Mornin,g Herald.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(YESTERDAY.)
NEW COURT.
(From our Second Edition of last night.)
Brookbaines Hurlock, Esq , stated that he was jointly in.
terested with the prisoner in certain property siAiated in
Castle-street, Cursitor-street, Warwick-court, and other
places. Mr. Hodson, a gentleman in the Royal Exchange,
was appointed
.to receive the rents. He made a verbal ;Agree-
ment with the prisoner, and subsequently executed a deed of
partition, which was drawn up by Counsel. He recolleots the
prisoner calling on him.
The examination of the witness was here interrupted by the
illness of one of the jury. He was so severely attacked that it was
at first supposed it would be necessary to adjourn the Court to
to-morrow, but after remaining a short time in the open air,
he became so much restored as to be again able to take his
place in the jury box.
The examination of Mr. Hurlock was then proceeded with.
All that he stated in addition to his former evidence was, that
the verbal agreement was not acted upon.
To the COURT— Does not recollect any pans being pre-

pared.
Thomas Ruthven, the Bow-street officer, produced papers
beaming the marks 24, 35, and 55.
Robert Williams, who was before examined, proved that
these papers were written and signed by the prisoner. •
The Clerk of the Court then first read No. 35, which _
woe a bequest of the estates in Devonshire and Monmouth-
,--hire to the female children. A paper was appended by way
of supplement, in which the deceased complained of same mis-
conduct
on the part of " Martin Lewis and Hugh Thomas."
Several other documents end papers were then put in, and ~
at 20 minutes past three the case for the prosecution closed.
The Court then adjourned, until four o'clock, for the pur-
pose of refreshment, and on re-assembling, .
The AT CORNEY-GENEEAL rose to address the Jury on be-
half of the prisoner. He said that it was with feelings of th
deepest anxiety that he rose to explain to them the hardships
of the situation in which his client was placed, and to sho
them it was wholly undeserved. There was a suit respecting
the property in question depeeding in the Ecclesiastical Court,
and there it ought to hove bsen settled ; but suddenly the suit
was turned into a criminal prosecution, and his client was e
charged with having committed a crime, the penalty of which,
although the humanity of the law had lately divested it of its
capital character, yet still consisted of the severest punisnment t
short of death in the power of the law to inflict, being no less,
than transportation for life, and a forfeiture of the
entire property of the party convicted to the Crown. For
what purpose, he would ask, was this prosecution insti-
tuted? It was instituted for " advantageously trying," as i
was termed, the validity of the will.on which the prisoner re•;.
lied. If it had been tried in the Ecclesiastical Court, n.) in:
terested witnesses could have been examined, and the rights
of 14.3 client would have been guarded. The object of this ,•.
was another course open to Mr. Barton Paelen, miVws.l
lug the validity of the will, that of an action by eject,.
]
meat; but knowing that he could not impeach the will
by fair or legitimate means, he resorts to an expedient •
which, he must say, was as unexampled as it was unjustifia-
ble. Every advantage had been taken of his unfortunate •
client, that could possibly be obtained. A Bill had bee
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paused for the purpose of conferring benefits on prisoners. .
which they did not possess before ; but if it was to be devoted
to such purposes as the present, he must say that the sooner
that Bill was repealed the better. He most bitterly l_nnentsd
that, in this case, the counsel for the prosecution, should have
the opportunity of making to them, what would, no doubt, be
an impassioned, an elaborate, and ingenious appeal, without--
Counsel for the prisoner being allowed to say a word in reply
This was one of the disadvantages under which his client ' •
laboured, but he relied with confidence en the intelligence, '
the discrimination, and dispassionate judgment of the. Jury.
Who he would ask was the prosecutor in this case? But no, he
would as much as possible spare the feelings of Mr. Bsr.on
Panton, believing as he did that he was rather the instru-
ment
in the hands of others than the principal mover I
in this prosecution. The Learned Gentleman then -
commented on what he termed the lawless end unjustifiable
spoliation of the private papers of the prisoner by Mr. R.umsey
Williams. The verdict of the jury was to determine the right
no this property. It was for that purpose that such en array !
of barristers was brought there ; it was for that purpose his I
Learned Fmiend (Sir W. Follett) was selected to conduct the
prosecution. Three indictments bad been preferred by the
prosecutor. Ile proceeded, however, only on one. lid they
suppose that if Mr. Williams was convicted, the indictment
against the two females would he proceeded with ? No arch
thing. The object of these indictments was to disqualify the i
only two witnesses who could prove the validity of the will, !
and establish the innocence of Mr. Williams. from giving evi-
-1 dence. Did not this look like a determination to keep bark
the truth ? The only queztion which the Jury would have to
try was, whether the will of the tith of November, 1834, was
forged or not. And if they decided that it was not, then his
client was entitled to a verdict. Not only were the facts of :,
the case decidedly in favour of the validity of the will, but i
every presumption went to show that it was a genuine 1
document. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to
comment on the evidence of Mr. Barton Panton, which 1
he contended was contradicted by his own affidavits.
The paper No. 7 had been repudiated by the prosecutor on
his oath as the writing of his father. He knew the importance 1
of that paper. What said Mrs. Panton (his wife) when it I
was put into her hands lest night ? Why, she said she was
sure it was the writing of her father in-law; she was certain i'
of it : she would swear it was. The servants have been brought
from Plasgwyn, front the dairy-maid to the gamekeeper, to
attest that the prisoner was not at the house on the 7th of May,
and they all swore that their old mister was in the blue par_
lour all day ; but that has been contradicted by the intimate
friend of the deceased. But the most comical part of the
drama is that the nursemaid Vris called to prove that the
prisoner was not there on the day in question ; and what
did she say? why, that missey was very ailing and cross!
that day, and she brought her down stairs every half-hour;
to annoy her old grandfather.—(Laughter.) Oentlernenso
notwithstanding all that has been said to prove incontestiblyi
that the prisoner was there on that day, I shall not only
prove it by his coachman, who set him down at the iron-ti
gate, but other disinterested persons. While I state this facts!
I shall not, I hope, he misapprehended. I mute net to im-
pute perjury to time servants who have been called, but from
the nature of their several avocations the could not he con-
tinually on the watch. The Learned Gentleman then alluded
to the pencil marks, and commented in no very measured
terms on the conduct of Mr. Gosling, the sworn examiner
because he had allowed the clerk (Tyler) to the adverse part
to handle and inspect papers whichwere deposited ia his
hands for a sacred purpose. After the Attorney-General ha
addressed the jury nearly three hours, it being seven o'clock
he said that he found it imposible to finish to-night,-doweve
late tbe Court might be inclined to sit. He had condensed
his remarks as much as possible, but he could not, without the
dereliction of an important duty, refrain from making the oh-
servations which he intended.
Mr. Baron Pence—You consider that your streegth will
not permit you?
The ATTOINEY-GENERAL s:dd that the coafi,lenee which he
felt as to the issue had caused him to occupy hie time, by day
and by night, in the consideration of the case.
His Lordship then said they had better adjourn, and told
the jury that they might walk in the court and the ards of
the prison, but admonished them not to speak to any one. His
Lordship lamented that they were likely to be detained not
only to-night, but probably for several others. The Court
were avrare of the hardship, but public duty to all parties de-
manded strict conformity. Adjourned to ten o'clock this day,
when the Attorney-General will resume pia address.

The herring fishery at this port (Aberdeen) will .be
prosecuted, this season, on
Guth the
very enlarged scale. The curers
immediately connected the city have iaureased the num-
ber of their boats considerably above that of last year, and
some new curers have also taken stations.—Aberdeen Herald.