The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-14 00:00:00

No. 16,687• LON DON, SATURDAY
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O' THOUSAND POUNDS to be LENT,
at FIVE PER CENT., or sunk as an Annuity at Seven •and-
a-Half per Cent. on the Life of a Person in his 34th year (whose health
is in a precarious state), on approved Freehold Security. '
Apply (post paid) directed A. 8., to the care of Mr. Wicks, No. 39,
Berwick-street, Belirave-road, Pimlico.' ' '

PHI; CMPrIIGN. on the SUTLJ creating
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at the ROYAL 'POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION Portraits of the
most Distinguished Men both in the SIKH ARMY and GOVERN-
MENT of LAHORE, taken by a lady of rank, distinguished in the
Fine Arts; during her residence in India. Also, Portraits of Sir Henry
Hardiug,e,:Sir Robert and Lady Sale, &c. By means'of the OPAQUE
MICROSCOPE these „ terestinz .Portraits are on a tnagnific. nt
Morningi, at Half-past Four o'ciock ; Evenings at a Quarter
to Ten. The LECTURES include those on ASTRONOMY, during
Lent on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, COLEMAN'S* WORK-
ING MODEL ascending and descending-Inclined Planes, &c. &c.
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Admlsilon, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

BLACK SWAN COMMERCIAL INN, DEVIZE*. _
ANN SLOPER, deeply lamenting. the death of
her late husband, who conducted the Business of the above
Inn several years, begs respectfully to acquaint the Commercial
Gentlemen that it is her intention to continue the same for the.benefit
of herself and children, and hopes that tfie comfort and the
arrangements • the liCase affords, combined with-every po-sible
attention, will ensure a share of their support, for which she will feel
grateful.
N.B. Excellent Stables and Lock-up Coach Houses, Horses, Gigs
and Flys to Let.

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Elucidated," " Pencilled Copy Books," &c., at 161, Strand, upon a
plan which combines facility of acquisition With a perfect mastery of
the subject. • •
11.* Just published (24 pages Bvo., price 2d.) "Remarks on
Teaching Writing," &c., addressed to Parents and Men of Business.
London: Souter and Law; and at the Author's Class Rosins,
161 A, Strand, adjoining King's College.
Also, " Foster's Do ble Entry Elucidated," Bs. 6d. •

Corporals—Frederick Seton, -Samuel Hinds, Matthew
Brett, George Parfitt, Robert Royall, Henry. Douglas.

Trumpeter—William Myers.
Private&--Nithaniel Ciaggs, John Ronan, Wm. Janes,
Edward Murray, William Myres, John Grant, John Kennedy,
James Cape!, James Clarke, Isaac Berkley, William Wood,
James Littlewood, Thomas Jones, William Toakley, Edmund
Rakestraw; Henry Saunders, George Slibbs, Henry Bartlett,
Henry Clive, John Fennell, Robert Miller, Heury Mudge,
George Seed, NI illiam Wallace, John Kinnellv, William
Pearl, William Drewitt, Richard Mortimer, Sohn Dean,
James Danman, Frederick Joy, Alfred Richardson, Joseph
White, blacksmith, of Cholsey, Wallingford; James Blackall,
John Gregory, Newton Seeker, John M. Grey, Stephen 'Ad-
cock,' Francis Preston, Richard Tookey, William White,
George Harris, John Cart, and Benjamin Thomas Keen.

WAR-OFFICE, Dimwit 13.
ith Dragoon Guards—Major-General Sir G. Scovell,
K.C. B. to be Colonel, vice General Sir E. Lloyd, deceased,
March 10.

7th Light Dragoons--Major-General Sir W. Tuyll to be
Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir J. Kearney, deceased,
March 10. _ _ _

13th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir W. M. Gomm,
K.C.B. to be Colonel, vice Colonel Sir R. H. Sale, G.C.8.,

killed in action, Ifarch 10.
46th Foot—Quartermaster Sergeant S. Scoltock to Le
Quartermaster, vice Allan, deceased, March 13.
bOth Fooi-2Assistant-Surgeon J. H. Brummeil, from 40th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Graydon, killed in action,
March 13.

65th Foot—W. F. T. Marshall, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Hart, appointed to the 80th Foot,
March 13. _ .

80th Foot—Ensign E. B. Hart, from the 65th Foot, to be
Ensign, vice Grove, who resigns, March 13.
86th Foot Ensign D. Girahty to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice SParks, who retires ; 0. B. 11. Orlebar, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gerahty, March 13.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon C. C. J. Delmege,
from 27th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of second class, vice
D. J. Magrath, M.D., who retires upon half-pay, March 13.
• Commission by the Queen.
Third Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
J. Rooper, Esq., to be. Adjutant, Feb. 28.
Coinmissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire.
East York Militia—J. Smith, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
March 2 ; C. E. B. Danso.., Gent., to be Lieutenant, March
3 ; C. Watson, Gent., to be Ensign, March 5 ; J. S. Bell,
to be Ensign, March 7 ; IJ. J. Inman, Gent., to be Ensign,
March 9.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Regirrient of Militia—W. Sandilands, sq, to

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be Captain, vice J. J. Macl..chlan, deceased, March 4; A.
Monro, jun., Esq., to be Captain, vice J. Ronaldson, de-
ceased, March 5; H. A. Macneil, Esq., to be Captain, vice
E. Kingdom, deceased, March 6 ; G. R. Maclachlan, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice J. Harper, deceased, March 6.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 31.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert Townsend Hip •
pisley, of Chew ton Mendip and Midsomer Norton, in the
county of Somerset, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in
the High Court of Chancery'.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

Henry Pearson Coles, innkeeper, Wickham-market, Suffolk.
BANKRUPTS.
Joseph Scholefield, cutler, Cheapside, to surrender March
24 at eleven, and April 24 at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Reed and Langford,
Friday-street.
Miles Griffith and Philip Pearson, tailors, New Bond-
street, March 20, at ten, and April 24, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Wood and
Fraser, Dean-street, Soho.
Thomas Hubert, coal merchant, Great-hall, Hungerford-
market, March 24, at eleven, and April 30, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Tribe, Barge-yard Chambers, Bucklersbury.
Joseph Ellis West and Henry Tennant, stock brokers,
Leeds, March 24, and April 13, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Kynaston, official assignee, Leeds ; Walker,
Furnival's Inn, London; Blackburn, Leeds.
Davidßroadhead and Augustus John Halero, stock brokers,
Leeds, March 26, and April 16, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds; Williamson
and Co., Gray's Inn, London ; Cariss, Leeds.
Aaron Shipton and Joseph \Vise Jenkins, clothiers, Pains-
wick, Gloucestershire, March 30, and April 27, at eleven, at
the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol;
Paris, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Thomas Sutton, jun., draper, Atherstone, March 24, and
April 28, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court.
Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Tarleton and Newton,
Birmingham.
William Harding, cotton-manufacturer, Stockport, Chester,
March 25 and April 15, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Coppock and

iVoollam, Stockport; CoppOck, Cleaveland-row, Westminster.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.

D. L. Walker, tailor, Rochdale, Lancashire—first div. of
Is. 4d. in the pound, on Tuesday, March 24, or any subse-
quent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester.
B. Thorniley, grocer, ;Broadbottom, Chester—second div.
of 6d. in the pound, on Tuesday, March 24, or any subse-
quent Tuesday, at the office of Sir. Fraser, Manchester.
J. Mariam], jun., roller maker, Todmorden' Lancashire—
first div. of 9s. in the pound, on Tuesday, April 7, or any sub-
sequent Tuesday. at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester.
J. J. Ay ton, linendraper, South Shields—second div. of 3d.
in the pound (in addition to ls. 10d. in the pound pre-
viously declared), on any Saturday, at the office of Mr.
Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. Dowle, wine merchant, Chepstow—second div. of Si.
in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr.
Acram an, Bri-tol.
D. Selden and W. Hynde, merchants, Liverpool—a further
div. of Bd. m the pound, on Wednesday, March 25, or any
subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.

T. L. Evill and T. Dowglasi, eloth manufacturers, Vigo-
stree, April 6, at half past twelve—D. Froeschlen and S.
Price, tailors, Dover-street, Piccadilly, April 7, at twelve—
E. Leman and T. K. Bryan, wharfingers, Upper Thames-street,
April 7, at eleven—T. K Bryan, wharfinger, Upper Thames-
street, April 7, at eleven—R. M'Entire, commission agent,
Paternoster-row, April 7, at one—B. Marshall, tallow melter,
High Holborn, April 3, at ono—J. Evans, cheesemonger,
High-street, Shoreditch, April 3, at twelve.
In the Country.
H. J. Andrews, apothecary, Plymouth, April 9, at one, at
the Exeter District Court—S. South, mister, Spittlegate,
Lincolnshire, April 4, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court—J. Collins, common brewer, Salford, Lancashire,
April 6, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—J.
Nightingale, innkeeper, Rusholme, Lancashire, April 7, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.

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W. Ward, auctione_r, Manchester, April 6—J. Cleary,
builder, Church-road, De Beauvoir-square, April 3—J. Brown,
joiner, Liverpool, April 6—J. Sykes, hosier, Doncaster, April
9—T. Nash, jun., builder. Stourbridge, April 4—C. Barber,
calico printer, Denham Springs, Lancashire, April 9—W.
Senior, hosier, Sheffield, April 3—J. Brooke, miller, Gooder-
stone, Norfolk, April 3—C. D. Wilson, builder, Saville-place,
mile-end, April 3—T. K. Bryan, wharfinger, Old Swan-pier,
Upper Thames-street, April 3—J. Rayner, licensed victualler,
Rougham, Norfolk, April 3—E. Wookey and F. Hare,
drapers, Bristol, April 3—F. Dixon, currier, Long-lace,
Bermondsey, April 3.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Clarke and S. Page, general provision-brokers, Jeffrey's-
square, St. Mary-axe—G. B. Jessop and J. Briggs, black-
smiths, Brighouse, Yorkshire—T. Bastick and J. S. Driver,
scale makers, Holywell-row, Shoreditch—J. C. F. Kreckeler,
A. G. Kreckeler, and R. A. Kreckeler, saddlers, Greenwich
(so far as regards A. G. Kreckeler)—W. Parkinson and J.
Lord, cotton-brokers, Liverpool—T. Broomfield and J. Over-
ton, tobacco manufacturers, Liverpool—W. Dawson and J.
Holt, reed makers, Bolton-le-Moor—R. Evans and G.
Dods, brewers, Pontardawe, Glamorganshire—J. Humpidge,
H. H. Dancocks, J. Lewis, and G. Hale, coal miners (so far
as regards J. Humpidge)—B. Lawton and T. Walker, card
makers, Rochdale—W. F. Fergussori, G. Oswald, IL seal,
and G. Oliver, Manchester (so far as regards G. Oliver)—G.
Mawhood and W. Hider, licensed victuallers, Edward-street,
Edgeware-road—J. Garlick and J. Hall, plumbers, Leeds—
W. Brunton and S. Whitehead, joiners, Bradford—T. White,
T. White, jun., and E. White, tanners, Moretonhampstead,
Devonshire—T. Hughes and J. Graham, linendrapers, Ox-
ford-street—R. Cyles and J. Hughes, china manufacturers,
Stoke-upon-Trent—A. Appleton, W . Downie, and J. Mal-
colm, wholesale tea dealers, Catherine-court, Trinity. square
—J. Blackburn, W. Teall, and T. Ives, dyers, Wakefield—
W. Hulse, M. C. Schletter, and E. Phipson, brass-bedstead
manufacturers, Birmingham—S. and W. Holdsworth, corn
millers, Driglington—S. C. Blodget and G. T. Hills, ship-
chandlers, Liverpool—R. Smith and T. Greenhalgh, calico
printers. engravers, Rosebank, Lancashire—A. Scott, W.
Wing, and C. Scott, clock maker. Red Von- street, Blooms-
bury (so far as regards A. Scott)—G. Baker and G. E. Hart,
grocers, Littlehampton—H. L. Ansell and P. Cuipers, Litho-
graphers, Rathbone-place. Oxford- street.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Robert Stevenson and Co., sewed muslin manufacturers,
Glasgow, March 17, and April 7, at one, at the chambers of
Mr. Gemmill, Glaigow.
John Robertson, iron merchant, Glasgow, March 20, and
April 17, at one, at the chambers of C. and R. Baird and
Muirhead, Glasgow.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the
Produce of the British possessions in America, computed
from the returns made iti the week ending March 10, 1846, is
335. 50. per cwt.

The public are specially informed theta few days will
complete the entire range of E. Moses and Son's rew pre-
mises in Aldgate and the Miuories, and that due notice will
he given of the day Of opening.
DE BEAUVOIR-TOWN. limustaND.—Anumerous body
of pew-renters belonging to St. Peter's church, have soli-
cited Mr. Sheldriek, the promoter of the late diocesan
inquiry, issued against the Hon. and Rev. F. S. Monkton,
to be placed in nomination as church-warden at Easter,
and no doubt is entertained of his election, that gentle-
man hwing consented to take the office.
THE SIXTH VOLUME OF " THE NELSON LETTERS
AND DISPATCHES," just published, will be considered to rival
either of its predecessors in interest, when it is known that
they were written from 1804 to 180.5, whilst Nelson was Com-
mender in Chief in the Mediterranean, watching the French
squadron In Toulon, until it sailed to the West Indies, where
it was eagerly pursued by him with a very inferior force.
Not the least important portion of this volume is the reply
it contains to the assertions made in M. Thiers'srecent history.
As this truly national publication approaches its conclusion—
which will be effected in the next volume—it is evident that
the value of the materials greatly increases.
FUNERAL OF THE MURDERED POLICE-0

flip funeral of police-constable J. Hustle, of the R division, who died
on natur„itiy lust, in Guy's Hospital, from injuries he received, took
place on Thurs.iavi the burial-ground of st. Paul's Church. A vast
concourse of persons had kr,';embled, the streets through which the
mournful procession passed being WWI sOn each side ; and it was only
by great exertion that admission could be each
to the church,
vil&b, on the :opening of the gates, was thronged in every part.
Two brothers of the deceased, and nearly one hundred policemen or
the It division, iollowAd the cotiln, the rear of the procession being
brought up by Inspettor 1).0444-S, qua Mr. Burton; the usher of the
Police-court. The pall was 4orn,e Iterferints, carrying white
wands ; matt private of the force carri the r,4 §.taff of the
murdered man. The arrangements were under the supaxiiikimimze
of Air, /141hleau, the superintendent of the division, who also aeco rya-
Med Hustle :4s rer4ains to the grave, when the funeral service was
read by the Rev. 11,-S, ; rector of the parish, in a most tin-
.
pressive manner.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—The police tii gyp of
Rome have lately seized, as dangerous to the State, all the 441.1 q
;A9 on Galvanism, under the idea that they related to
calvio4a4

CASE OF CRIM. CON.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Bedford, March 11.
NISI PRILIS CliOla.—(Before Mr. Baron PARKS and
Special Jary.)
•

JOHN,COULTAS V. TiMuTILY riszi FORD BOWES, CLERK.

• The trial of this cause Was_ Proceeded with at nine o'clock
this morning, • and the following witnesses examined for the
plaintiff
Thomas Hughes, examined by Mr. O'MaJLEY—I am a
groom to the defendant., and have been for six years. I know
the study. I have seen something in that study. It was in
Oct •ber fast.. It was through tits window ; hi the evenin..,
between eight and nine o'cl.tok. Mrs. Barnes and Dr. Bowes
were there: He had hold of her hand. She was sitting on
the left. hand of the the, and- he was standing at it. 1 heard
him Say, " The more uncomfirtaule vim make Coultas the
better. .. Try all you can to make his life miserable, and
then perhaps he will go and leave you, and then I shall have
you to myself." I 'saw them agd tin November. lie gave
her wine in-the room, and put his arm round her, and kissed
her. He said, I love you better than any one else in the
world, and would make you a lady if Coultas would go clean
off, and leave you."
Cross-examund by the ArronNEr-Goingm.—l swear
that I ant in. the service of Dr. Bowes. 1 said I never saw
Dr. Bowes have connexion with Barnes. It was a quiet
night, I believe, in October. I put my face close to the
window and heard perfectly what passed. 'l'hete was a
strung light, so that 1 could set well.
Sarah Church-4 live at Barton, and was at home on the
Ist of December last. I saw the plaintiff and defendant in
the road; and heard Coultas say " That's a lie, Sir," to Dr.
Bowes. Dr.. Bowes said, don't kn,w, Coultas, where she
is gon6, and I call on God to witness." . 'That was between
tbur and five o'clock. Coultas said, " That's a lie, Sir, you
do know where she is gone."
Sarah Anne an the daughter of a stationer at
Luton. Dr. Bowes deals and writes letters there sometimes.
On the 4th or,f)tkof December he was there in the afternoon.
He bought a quire of note paper, and asked to write a letter
On it. I saw him take a sheet of paper and write on it, but
I could not say whether it was in the form of a letter. He
binight a Pictorial Times and Punch.
The letter was then admitt,d to be the defendant's hand-
writing, as also the address of the Pictorial Times and Pearls.
The ail ets was, ":dry. itainv,_ Mr. Jackson's, Stafford
Arms, Walt...diem." '
The letters given yesterday were then put in and read by
the officer of tue Court.

This being the close of the plaintiff's case,
The. ATToRNEY-IiENERAL addressed the jury for the de-
fendant in the hallowing terms :—Every one present must have
observed how frightfully exposed all are to accusations which
May 'ruin us, and how dependent we are on the fears of the
depraved fur escape from aceusation. Advanced age, cha-
racter, benevelence, charity, and mildness have all been com-
bined in the peison of the defendant, and yet he has not
escaped the attacks of the plaintiff. how should we meet
such a charge against ourselves? Only by examining the cha-
racters of those who make it.. The defendant has come into
Court utterly ignorant 01 the circumstances on which this
charge was to be founded—tile times and dates by which false-
hoou may be detected and exposed. We have been obliged
to deal with the witnesses as they came before us, and then
to expose to you openly and candidly the whole household of
Dr. Bowes, calling before you all who could know anything
of his mode of life. On time part of the plaintiff it has been
been represented that he had no proof of guilt until the 30th
of November; and, from the shape of the case, it will be
necessary to introduce to the jury facts end circumstances
which haVe hitherto been concealed from view. In the first
place, it is to be observed, tnat the age of the r•upposed para-
mour is such as to make this case one of the most novel cite•
meter, while that of the woman is no less remarkable,. Mrs.
Barnes being now no less plan 54. Losses bowed the
spirits and health of the defendant to the ground. By the
advice of his medical man, Dr. Wilson, he was advised to
have some one who could be eAttantly at hand at all hours
of the day and night. It has 'been suggested that it
would have been far better that: a
.male _servant should
have been selected; but do the jury agree in that view?
If so, then the whole course of treatment at our hos-
pitals ought to be abandoned as a complete mistake.
The cli dice, however, having so naturally, and, as he insisted,
properly fallen on Barnes, it was notorious throughout the
whole house that she was in close attendance on her master,
taking tea to him in the morning and gruel at night, and
lacing a stocking which he was advised to wear. This was
known full well to the plaintiff, who had seen it hundreds of
times, and yet poison was to be extracted from these harmless
ingredients. Besides this, the defendant, who was wifeless
and childless, was anxious that the dull and heavy hours of
night should be assisted by the presence of his old and va-
lued servant, who had shared his earlier griefs; and might
best of all his household .be sunmooed to his aid, for time
purpose of whiling away the hours of a long evening. It
has been said that this guilt has been in course of operation
for some time, but that it did not come upon the plaintiff
with full force till. November 29, 1815. Now, to understand
this case, it will be necessary to inquire into the personal his-
tory of the plaintiff, and it will be seen that he had far the
last six years become addicted to drink, and that in his fits
of drunkenness he had behaved with brutal violence to all
around him, and especially his wife. In 1843 he was bound
over by Dr. Bland to keep the peace on a charge
by his wife. On that occasion Mary Hollett accused
him of an act of gross indecency, and the plaintiff
then, in the most foul
.terms, accused, his wife
of infidelity with his master,. and it is to be regretted that
Dr. Bowes did not at once discharge .him. It is, however,
not to be wondered at that he could not bear to take steps
which would deprive him of the attendance -and presence of
one who was necessary to his comfort. He 'did not, there-
fore, ttischarge the plaintiff, and he passed over the matter
quietly, and so matters went on till January, 1844, when, on
the occasion of an epidemy prevailing at.thirton she was re-
moved, under medical advice, to London, for change of air.
Dr. Wilson has been challenged, and he will be produced to
prove that all that Dr. Bowes wrote to the plaintiff was
quite true. That letter was quite natural and correct, and it
will be shown that Coultas was in town and slept in the
room, though in a separate bed, with his wife. Oa the oc-
casion of that visit to town Coultas himself wrote several
letters to. the defendant, which fully allowed that no im••
proper connexion existed between the plaintiff's wife and
the defendant, which were penned before that written by
the defendant to him. The Learned Gen !eaten then read
two letters, showing that no suspicion remained on his mind
at that time, which was six months after the charge made by
him when drunk in 1843, and proceeded to contend that no
foundation existed for the suspicion of the plaintiff. for he
would call the maid of the hotel in London and Dr. Wilson,
who would prove the circumstances under which the parties
came to town. At one time he thicatened to shoot her, and
resorted to his gun, when, in August, 1845, she was about to
go to see her mother at Wakefield. The. case now ap-
proaches the critical period of November, 1845; and the
defendant will be able to show what took place on the 30th
of that month. On that day. at 9 at night, Coultas came
home quite mad with drink, and so conducted himself that
his wife required Catherine Jewitt to sleep with her for her
protection, and it will be shown that at night he insisted on
being allowed to sleep with her. His conduct mats so violent
that the two women slept in their clothes,- it being three
o'clock in the morning before they crept to bed, and he was
in some sort pacified. The following day she of her own ac-
cord went away from Burton, in th absence. of Dr. Bowes,
whom she and the gardener met on their way. Dr. Bowes
sent his man after her to warn her of her husband's violent
threats. These circumstances fully_ develop the innocence
of the defendant and Mrs. Barnes. Now, it could not have
escaped pbservation, that no one pretends to say that the
study door was ever locked. If, then, .the. defendant was
in the habit of carrying on any improper intimacy with
Barnes he might at any moment have been discovered
and exposed in the very act, and the clearest possible
proof adduced of their guilt. Then, again, it had been
said by the witnesses Furness and Hinds that Mrs Coultas
was in the habit of being drunk, and to the knowledge
of Dr. Bowes; but though true that shoat two years
since site had certainly been observed by the servants at
times to be the worse for liquor, yet it does not appear that
the defendant was aware of it, and even if he were he might
well be inclined to pass it over in rememtirance of her former
services. We now. come -to the direct evidence of this case,
and the first remark which it calls forth is, that it is impos-
sible to meet it by contradictory evidence. • It-is a sort of case
to which all men are exposed. The first person examined on
this part of the case was Catherine Furness, who spoke to
seeing her master and Mrs. Barnes come out of the bed-
room, after which she went. in and observed that the bed
bore two impressions. Now, if the parties had been
guilty, there would heve only been one impression ; but
the next answer to her evidence is the fact that the
bed the_ doctor slept on was a mattress, toil not a
feather bed, so that there could not have been the
impressions on it which she spoke of. Then comes
Henry Smith, whose testimony must have prepared the
jury for the observations and evidence which would
be presented to them in 'answer and explanation to it.
That man indeed says that he believes in a Supreme Being,
but what Being ? Is it a Supreme Being who is the God of
truth and punisher of falsehood ? Why,. the devils believe
and tremble, and so may he. This worthless man has the
audacity to say that the defendant and Barnes, when in a
room three or four feet from the kitchen-doer, talked so
loudly as that he 'could distinctly hear them through the
closed window. Is it credible ? Is it possible that it was
truth ? 'He says that he looked through the blind. Now,
since yesterday the window has been measured. The glass
is 2 feet 11i inches wide, while the blind is actually 3 feet 1
inch wide ; so that it is quite impossible for any one to see
through the window. Henry Smith must have therefore
come at a critical moment, quite unprecedented in its op-
portunities for such watching. If true, intercourse took place
, who did not treat the
more than the preparation
in the study, though it would not appear .to have. been con-
his lust at night.
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Was not that enough for the plaintiff ? Yet he
makes an appointment with the other brother, who
is made to look through the defendant's bed-room win-
dow, and again to see the parties under circumstances which,
if true, would admnit of no doubt of guilt. As regards that
piece of evidence,' an experiment has been made since yes-
terday, and with the blind in the same situation as it was
on the night in question ; it has been discovered that it was
absolutely impossible for any one to see what was going on
in the room. One only other witness remains to be com-
mented on, the groom Hughes, a man, who was reluctantly
compelled to admit that he had decamped from his master's
service on Saturday, with his livery, in which he now ap-
peared, and yet he swore at first that he was still in the
defendant's set—ice. He speaks, however, to conversations
which are from the very words put into the mouth of the
defendant, palpable inventions. In answer to this case the
defendant will show the whole history of the plaintiff's con-
duct, and adduce every member of his household to prove
the utter falsehood of the charge brought by him against his
master; and when he shall have done so, the defendant will
fearlessly rely on the judgment of the jury for his acquittal.
Never before has the breath of sutpicion impugned his cha-
racter ; and how could a man so situated and so beloved sink
so low as to practise the vice imputed to him ? The duty
intrusted to hint had now been discharged, and under cir-
cumstances as difficult as were ever experienced by any ad-
vocate, He trusted that the jury would, ere long, see their
way to a verdict In favour of his client, and restore him to
that peace of mind which was so essential to the happiness
of age. His all. was at stake on this issue, and lie fearlessly
relied on a triumphant acquittal at the hands of a jury so
enirivien; 44 :hat Which was now empanelled between him
and the plaintiff.
'Dr. Wilson, examined by Mr. Sergeant BYLES—I am a
doctor of medicine, residing at 28, Dover-street, Piccadilly.
naee known the defendant for many years. and the late
WO rig 'well. On the 29th of April, 1839, I stayed
one night anct.part Af 4e4t dap Airs. *twos 4iod on the

28th of July, 1839. She was living then at Barton. After her
death, the state of Dr. Bowes's health was most distressing
and alarming for a long time. He consulted me, and required
constant attendance, and I recommended that some one
should be constantly with him to amuse and watch him, and
remove his fears as to the suspicions which he entertained as
to his own symptoms. I frequently referred to Mrs. Barnes
as the fittest person to be about him. She is about 55 or 54,
and defendant's age is 69, I believe. I had opportunities of
seeing their conduct while the defendant was in town. It
was always proper and decorous. „She was decent in her
attire and manner, and consistent with her situation. Dr.

Bowes used to wear an elastic stocking. He was suffering-
from varicose veins in one leg, which was much swollen,
and he was recommended to wear it• for some years past.
In my opinion there was nothing improper in Mrs. Barnes
lacing it. When she left I gave her directions to rest
her feet as much as possible, and remain in a recumbent
position.

Matthew Benson, examined by Mr. PRENDERGAST—.Since,
June, 1841, I have attended the defendant's household. I
have seen him and B irnes. I consider she conducted herself.
with the strictest propriety in the relation in which she stood
to him. She gave him every attendance consistent with her
situation, and in a modest and proper manner. ln conse-
quence of the return of her fever, I told her I thought Dr.
Bowes would have no objection to her going into the study
and resting on the sofa, when opportunity would permit. She
after that used•to go there. I observed her manner towards
Dr. Bowes then. It was becoming her situation.
Cross-examined—l have seen her as cook, and I have- at-
tended her in the defendant's bedroom. She cooked with
entire propriety and decorum. When I advised' her to re-
cline on the sofa, I did not tell her to do so in his presence.

I never thought of whether he was absent or present. I
have seen her on the sofa when I went to see her. It was
generally earlyrin the afternoon, and I frequently found her
master'out then. I advised her to go to the study as a
warmer place than the kitchen, and not exposed to draughts.
I might have said that he was a very troublesome man to
attend on by his servants, for he gave a great deal of
trouble. A subsequent knowledge of his character has con-
vinced me that it all arose from the kindness of his heart and
disposition.
Anne Thomas, examined by the ArroßNEv-GENERAL—In
1813 I was chambermaid at the . St. James's Hotel. Mrs.
Barnes came thereon the 28Th of Decembel, Dr. Bowes was
staying there then. When she came shelad a room on the
second floor. 1)r. Bowes's room was on the first. When her

husband came we put up a second bed in her room. He
came on the sth of Janeary and left on the 7th, and again
on the 9th, and left on. the 23d. Dr. Bowes came on the
28th of December and left on the 30th. He cams again on
the Bth of January, and went on the 12th.
Mrs. Worsup-1 am sister of Dr. Bowes, and have visited
him since 1812, when Barnes first lived with him. He then
required constant attention by night and by day, and was
not fit to be left alone. Barnes generally waited on him.

/ler attentions to him were satisfa-ctory to me as a member
of the family.' I looked upon her as a superior person, and
always shook hands with her when I went and left. I might
do so to other servants, but not with the same 'cordiality. My
husband and all the members of the family treated her alike.
My brother had tea and gruel taken to him early and late,
both at home and in my house, when my own maid took it
to him.

By the JUDGE—My brother will be 69 next May.
John Worsup—l married the sister of Dr. Bowes. This
witness corroborated the last witness in all the essential par-

titulars.
Mr. Hill Wallis, who married a sister of Mrs. Bowes, de-
posed to the like effect.
Miss Ottley—l am the sister of Sir R. Ottley, the late
Chief Justice of Ceylon. I became acquainted with the de-
fendant's family more than twenty years ago. Barnes was
always with them.
The Rev. Dr. Bland—l am a magistrate of this county, and
reside near Barton. I never saw anything of undue famili-
arity on either side. I know the two Smiths. I have had
one of them before me several times on game cases. From
what they said on those occasions I should say that they are
very ready to swear, but I can't say that I would not believe
them on their oaths. I have only seen Henry Smith, and I
should have the same feeling with respect to him.
Cross-examined—l never treated their oaths as a nullity,
but issued summonses. Dr. Bowes was in the room when
Coultas spoke of his being " over kind "to his wife. I very
likely might have remonstrated with Dr. Bowes.
Mary Hollett—l went to Dr. Bowes in June, 1842,
for fourteen. months. Barnes was there. Mrs. Barnes and

I both made all the bed., iacluding the doctor's bed.
The blinds in Dr. Bowes's bed-room were alWays down at
night. I used to let them down. The curtains were always
drawn round the bed in winter. I have been to the room
when Barnes was there, and the study too. I knocked, but
never knew the doors to be locked. Her conduct was always
very respectful to him. He slept on a wool mattress. I never
ascertained whether it would retain an impression if a person
were to lie down. Mn.. Barnes never to my knowledge
stayed longer up stairs than was necessary for the Doctor to
drink the tea. All the servants knew that they would
very soon be wanted for prayers when Barnes went in to lace
the Doctor's boots.

Cross. examined—l have taken tea up when Barnes was
away. Coultas came into my bedroom, and wanted to get
into bed with me. I screamed out, and Coultas went away.
John Hook—l am butler to Dr. Bowes, and have been in
his service as footman and butler for 22 years. Barnes has
been there all that time, and was very kind and attentive
to Mrs. Bowes After her death I heard that she had
left Barnes 3001. On the 29th of November Coultas went to
bed at his usual time, between 9 and 10 o'clock. Barnes went

to bed within an hour. I don't know that Coultas got up
again. I slept nearly over her bed-room. Whatever was
done in her room could be heard by the persons in his. On
Sunday I heard a disturbance shortly after I got into my
room. d did not come down as I did not hear any violence. I
heard high language for a time, but I did not get up. When
the blind is drawn clown in the regular way it is impossible
for any one to see into the room. There are two birdcages
which always stand on tha window-cill, and help to prevent
any one looking in. The blind is wide enough to cover' the
whole glass. When the blinds up stairs are down and turned
in the usual way it is not possible to see into the room. A
ladder placed on the flag-stones would enable you to reach
the window. I never knew of the study-door being locked
or bolted. She never assumed that familiarity which ser-
vants might assume who had been improperly connected
with their masters.
Cross-examined—Since Barnes has left I tried the study
blinds and bed-room blind. No one told me; but I heard it
said it bad been seen through. I told Mr. Turr.er. I put
my eye close to the glass and could not see distinctly. I
tried the bed-room at a different time. I tried the bed-room
in the daytime and the study in the nighttime. I have
taken up my master's tea to him since Barnes went away,
and his gruel too.
Caroline Jewett—l have lived for a twelvemonth past with
Dr. Bowes. Coultas used to get drunk frequently, and used
low, disgusting language, when drunk. I never knew them
sleep together. When he was drunk and abusive she has
asked me to sleep with her. I remember her leaving on the
Ist of November, and the night of the Saturday before.
Barnes was making some cloaks for the Sunday-school chil-
dren when he came home, between nine and ten o'clock.
He took his candle and went to bed. 1 saw him on the
next night at a quarter-past nine. He attended prayers,
and went out for two minutes. He sat down with his ac-
count book. Barnes asked me to sleep with her that
night. When I was partly undressed Coultas knocked at
the door. I asked what he wanted. He said he wanted to
come in, and I opened the door. He said he had come to
sleep' with his wife, and ordered me to walk out of the room.
I told him I would not ge. Mrs. Coultas had wished me to
sleep with her, and I would. He attempted to turn me out,
and I resisted. He began to undress, and said wherever she
slept, she was his wife, and he would sleep with her in what-
ever room of the house it was. Mrs. Coultas got with her
back against the door, and I pulled his collar. I then pulled
the bell for my fellow-servants, and Mr. Coultas got out.
I took some of the clothes to her which she had taken off.
Coultas followed me down to the kitchen and swore at his
wife, who was thre, and called her a w—. I said if she
was what he called her he was no man to sleep with her.
He said, " What would my father think if anot:ier man went
to sleep with my mother?" I said, "If my mother was
what he represented his wife to be, my father would not wish
to sleep with her, and that a man of his years, who hail been
to church twice, ought to set us a better example." He said
he would take her away, and make her work fer her bread
like any one else, and then he went up to her room, after
which he went to his own.

Martha Peirce—l was housemaid in November last, at
Barton, and made tha beds with Barnes. Master sleeps on a
plaid mattress. It is not easily impressed, but it is hollow
in the middle. An impression could not easily be made on
the sides. On the Sunday I heard a noise at night, and
heard the bell go. (This witness then spoke to the same
facts which had been proved by the last one.) The bed-room
was put into the usual condition, the blind down as usual,

and the bed in the same place. I got into the bed, and was
Outside too. The light was the same as usual, which is rush-
light. Besides that there was a candle on the table, and we
moved it about in the room. There was a ladder outside. I

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the day before Mrs. Barnes went away.
- Mr. Foxon—l am deacon of the Baptist Chapel at Barton,
and deputy-overseer of the poor. I used to go to the Doctor's.
Never had any difficulty in getting into the study but once.
I went over last night and measured the blind of the bed-
room window. We made experiments. Mr. Godfrey told
the girl Peirce to place the blinds as they generally were
when the Doctor was at home. I went up the ladder, and
looked through. By putting your head down you could just
see the top of the bedstead. I tried every lath to the top of
the ladder, and could only see the top of the bedstead. We
began at the bottom of the blind. I went to the study also,
and observed that the blind covered the window completely.
I put my face to the window, and could not see beyond the
glimmer of the lights. When the blind was down it covered
the whole of the glass and the window-sill.
Mr. Godfrey, the clerk to the defendant's attorney, stated
to the same effect the result of the trials made last night at

the defendant's house.
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Coultasrn i e, August Wakefield,
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prove that they knew the Smiths, and would not believe
them on their oaths ; but on cross-examination their conlsr. itGelanbs'B7l ,fir.
George Warren, and
testi-
mony fell short of any satisfactory reason for their opinions
on the subject, and indeed many of these parties had given
the Smiths certie.cates and testimonials of character.
Mr. Turner, one of the defendant's attorneys, was next
examined, and stated that he had seen William Smith and
Hughes at various tim s, in order that he might a.certain
what they knew of the matter. William Smith said that he
knew nothing wrong between the Doctor and Barnes; that
he knew nothing about it. Hughes said," I know nothing
about it; lam glad of it." He denied that he was a witness
for the plaintiff, or that he had been subpcenaed.by him. I
did not hear him say that he would not say anything unless
he was compelled or forced to do so.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then put in the letters of
Coultas, which he had read in his speech,, and thus closed
his case.
Mr. O'MALLEY then replied at great length on the whole
case, and
Mr. Baron PARKE, having summed up the evidence on
both sides to the jury, they ultimately found a verdict for
the plaintiff, da.nages 2501., at the hour of three o'clock in
the morning.

The Duke and Duchess of Buecleuch will bave a grand
dinner at Montaga Lime this eveninf.