The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The New Prussian Gazette publishes the following
as the text of a note addres3ed by Lord Palmerston,
on the 13th ult., to the British Minister to the Ger-
manic Confederation :

" My Lord,—The Government of her Majesty can-
not understand by what reason the Germanic Confe-
deration imagines that the resolution of September,
1834 (the occupation of Frankfort by the Prussian
and .A .-*.Tian troop s) could be considered as a reply
to the' protestationmade by her Majesty's Govern-
ment in July, 1851. In fact, the military occupa-
tion of the free city of Frankfort, to which the re-
aolutien of 1834 applied, was an object quite dif-
ferent from the projected incorporation of the Austrian
and Prussian provinces, against which your note of
tic 9th" July protested. To that must be added,
that although the objections of the British Cabinet
against the events of 1834, and those more
recent against the project of 1851, were well founded,
yet the Federal resolution of September, 1834, re-
ceived a complete and peremptory reply in the note of
Mr. Cartwright, of the 21st November of the same
year, and your Excellency acted wisely when, in re-
plying to the communication of a resolution, come to
seventeen years since, and foreign to the matter in
diecuasion, you immediately sent the copy of the reply
made at the time. The Government of her Majesty
has nothing present to add on the subject of the mili-
tary occupation of Frankfort in 1834, and as the
Germanic Diet has not replied to the protestation
.41 hieh the British Cabinet recently made against the
mcorporation of territory into the confederation, which
was not included by the treaty of Vienna of 1815, in
Which Great Britain took part, her Majesty's Govern-
ment does not think proper to say anything more at
present on the subject. I have the honour, &c."
The political commercial commission of the Ger-
mamic Diet has decided that the Congress which has
been convoked shall be called on to discuss all the
questions agitated in the conferences of Dresden, and
not merely the projected treaty drawn up by the
special conference at Dresden.
A new treaty for the international guarantee of
literary property was signed, on the 21st inst., by the
plenipotentiaries of the two Governments of France
and of Hanover, in the capital of the latter kingdom.
The Chambers of Saxony are convoked for the Ist
of December.

KOSSUTH.
(From the Scotsman.)
Far more than enough is popularly and certainly
known to justify the bestowal of a cordial and
honouring welcome on Louis Kossuth. There is as
little truth as taste in the mode in which the Times,
seeks to handle this point. " What would we say,
sap Baron Brunnow's mouthpiece, " if Mr. Smith
O'Brien effected his escape from Botany Bay and WAS
received with a congratulary address by the corpo-
ration of New York ? Yet Mr. Smith O'Brien is, in
the eyes of hosts of Irishmen and Americans, as per-
secuted and honest a patriot as the late dictator of the
Magyars." The answer to any such trash as this is
very ,easy. Let people of New York or anywhere
else that are so inclined payhonours to Smith
O'Brien—and let the world judge both of them and
their hero. One of O'Brien 's colleagues did escape,
and did receive honours in America; but does any-
body, for tnat, believe that the payers of those ho-
nours represented the American people, or that the
receiver of them is a hero and a martyr ? Does any
sane man in the civilised world even pretend to be-
lieve that O'Brien is a counterpart of Kossuth,
or " Young Ireland " of the Magyars ? In
all respects the contrast is, as we may say,
ludicrously violent. Ireland, whatever may have
been the case in former times has for many years
(with the exception of an alien Church, of which
Mr., O'Brien was a member and supporter)
enjoyed an equality with the rest of the kingdom as to
laws and liberties, and many and valuable exemptions
as to taxation ; at the very time of Mr. O'Brien s ex-
ploits she had received from the other divisions of the
kingdom gifts of a munificence unparalleled in his-
tory : and so little was " the insurrection" a national
movement that, after months of preparation and
menace, it was suppressed by a police-constable.
Hungary was attempted to be robbed of her ancient
constitution and liberties; and so truly national was
the resistance that in a few weeks the armies of
her invaders and oppressors were driven across the
frontier, and but for the intervention of a colossal
power, the victory would have been permanent
and ifs fruits secured. Corporal Trant, and Haynau
—2O policemen, and 400,000 Austrian soldiers—
Widow Callaghan's cabbage-garden, and the many
blood-dyed fields of Hungary and Transylvania—
Kossuth presiding over Parliaments and directing
armies, and O'Brien getting his eyes blackened at tea
parties and creeping about in ditches—are contrasts
which all may understand. The Times' argument is
nothing better than this—that because there was folly,
knavery, and cowardice in Ireland, there could be no
wisdom, nor honesty, nor bravery in Hungary—that
because the names of freedom and patriotism are often
profaned, no such things exist.
There is still another reason why we may feel safe
in honouring Kossuth—a short-hand mode of deci-
phering the whole question. Scarcely a single man
of English name and nature will deny that the rulers
of Russia, Austria, and Naples are the enemies—the
brutal and blood-dyed enemies—of everything that
Englishmen and freemen hold dear. See, then, what
they think of Kossuth—see how they raged and
trembled, when, stripped of all save his tongue and
pen, he walked forth from the Turkish prison. We
are not likely to go far astray by honouring what they
hate—the man must have something in him both good
and great, whose name, even in exile and flight, is, in
the serf-guarded palaces of Petersburgh and Vienna,
a sound of fear.

IRELAND.
POOR RATES IN CARLOW.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY.—The following letter from
the Earl of Besaborough was circulated among his
Lordship's tenantry resident within the electoral divi-
sion of Garrybill. It refers to the rate struck on
that division which was subsequently reduced on
the application of Mr. Blackett ; and his Lordship's
observations apply with equal force to other districts
of the country were strange labourers are encouraged :
" Bessborough, Oct. 3.
Li.

' I understand that the guardians
of the Carlow Union have found it necessary to strike
a rate of 63. in the pound upon the Garryhill division.
I regret this very much, but am not surprised at it ;
instead of receiving any assistance from the rate-
payers in keeping down the rates, I have found that
the more I did to lessen the rates the more they hare
done to increase them. I gave money to tenants
unable to hold their land, on condition of
their leaving the country. They were taken
in as lodgers until their money was spelt,
and are now a charge upon the division.
I have during the last four years Riven very exten-
sive employment in draining, and found work for as
many of the poor of the division as I could. The
farmers, on the contrary, have generally employed
strangers, many of whom are now chargeable upon
them. They can, therefore, only blame themselves
for ti.,;; heavy rate they will now have to pay. If
they would have listened to the repeated warnings
which I have conveyed to them, their rate would now,
probably, have not been one-half of what it is. In
addition to this, the ratepayers in Miltown and
Straduff have been continually bringing strangers
and lodgers, for many of whom the Garryhill divi-
sion are now spying.
"If the farmers are anxious to lighten the rate they
had better at once discharge the strangers that they
are employing, and employ their own poor. If they
do this, 1 shall be ready, also, to set some work on
foot. If they do not, I
am -only wasting money in
my endeavours to assist thwrn, and the result of a con-
tinuance in their present course must be a constantly
increasing rate.

" BESSBOROUGII."
TUE CONSOLIDATED ANNuITIES.
The complaints of the remonstrant poor-law
guardians have been attended with a certain amount
have agreed to
of success, and Government, it seems,
terms which will,
in all probability, have the effect of
suspending
hostilities, for the preent at least. The
'
Treasury minute adopted at the last meeting of the
was made public this evening. The
Cabinet Council
following is a copy "
COPY OF TREASURY 3 :
lINUTE, DATED TUE 21sT
OCTOBER. 1851.
t
"My Lords have had underheir consideration the
memorials which have been received from many unions
I'
irareiand in reference to the consolidated annuities
Victoria
ehargeci launder the Act 13th . ~
upon them
which relief
chan
• .14, stating various grounds upon
is 50u ~ .
vment of the
gut in some from any rep,
cases annuities, but c postponement
of payment. more generally urging a
MY Lords state
of the greater are of opinion that the present
lief from the part of Ireland does not call for any re-
borne in mind°
zrtation of the Act ; and it must be
spect of loans vvh* these annuities are payable in re-
tch have
in course of repayine
~ or ought to have, been
/neat have been. rendered, that the terms of repay-
the period, and that the easier by the extension of
exempted from any pa whole of Irehni has been
payment the put year. on this account
the
My Lords, however, cannot d
districts in which relief must be doubt that there are'
"In the case of those districts,gflovreninstti
the local resources are insufficient to metetacewhere .
nary expenditure for the relief of the poor, and w%rderi-e \
it is necessary to have recourse to assistance from the 1
Itate-in-Aid Fund for this purpose, it cannot be ex- 1
pectfed that further sums for the payment of the con-
14)lidated annuities can be raised.
"With regard to postponement, my Lords are of
()pinion that such a course would only tend to prolong
a feeling of uncertainty as to future payments.
It rs a great object to restore confidence to the

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on Oct. 25:--
ASSET 9.
Cash in hand ... • • ... £495,156,389 50

Ditto in branch banks 117,639,170 0
Bills past due ••• ••• ••• 120,487 85
Bills discounted, but not yet due, of
which 12,339,032 f. Oc. were received
from the Branch Banks ... 34,493,676 43
Bills in the branch banks .„ ... 59,916,552 0
Advances on coins and ingots... 926,800 0
Ditto by the braneh banks ... 2,234,850 0
Ditto on French public securities 7,821,491 10
Ditt6-by branch banks... ... 3,304,896 0
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0
Ditto on the loan of 75 millions ... 50,000,000 0
Rentes of the reserve fund ... ... 10,000,000 0
Rentes, disposable funds 42,677,621 28
..• •••
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds ... 12,952,725 74
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 0
Real property of the branch banks ... 3,559,746 0
Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 0
Ditto branch banks 108,000 0
••• •• •••
Expenses of administration of• the Bank 293,268 41
Ditto at the branches 324,821 0
Miscellaneous ... 2,049,203 94

Capital ... .
Ditto of the Branch Banks
Reserve fund

Ditto of thQ branch banks

C 897,779,699 25

... f. 67,900,000 0
... 23,350,000 0
... 10,000,000 0

2,980,750 14

Reserve-immobiliere 4,000,000 0
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 421,660,900 0
Ditto of the branch banks ... 119,279.125 0
Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 7,516,736 0
Account-current with Treasury creditor 64,991,323 85
Various accounts current ... 124,518,937 17
Ditto in branches 30,608,573 0

Bills payable at sight ...
Ditto at branches ... ...
Dividends payable ... . .
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank
Expenses anticipated ...
Discounts, interest, and expenses
Ditto of branch banks ...

... 11,129,000 0
... 4,263,353 0
~. 454,904 25
... 6,790 0
~, 261,742 18
2,492,264 94
... 1,087,856 0

Re-discounts of the last six months ...

Ditto in branch banks ..
Interest on prctested bills
Miscellaneous

96,733 70

227,245 0
584,696 19
368,728 83

f. 897,779,699 25
UPrtified by the Governor of the Bank,
D'AROOI7T.

It appears from the preceding account that the cash in
hand has decreased by 6,800,000 f. The commercial bills
discounted have increased by 1,900,000 f. The Bank
notes in circulation have decreased by 3,700,0001.
The balance to the credit of the Treasury has de-
creased by 8,700,000 f. Sundry credits have increased
by 5,100,000£

TRANSPORTATION OF A FORTUNE
TELLER.

A woman, named Charlotte Morris, aged 39 years,
was indicted at the Southampton quarter-sessions last
week, for having, on the 18th of July last, feloniously
and unlawfully received 55., the property of Isaac
Blandford, well knowing the same to have been fe-
loniously stolen, and further with inciting Mary Anne
Blandford to commit the same felony. It appeared
that the woman had been what is commonly called a
fortune-teller, and some time in the course of the year
a girl by the name of Anne Blandford was most im-
prudently taken to the house of this woman, and sub-
sequently was in the habit of going to have her for-
tune told. About the middle of July the girl was
talking to the woman about the Exhibition, when she
expressed her desire to see it. The woman asked her
if she or her father had any money, and she answered
that her father had some ; she eventually went to her
father's house, and took from his hard -earned
savings between 51. and 6/. She went back to the
prisoner's house, and asked Ler advice respecting
her visit to London, and put down 63. ou the
table whilst the prisoner turned her face to the
wall, as she said she would neither see nor touch any
money, whether it was a sovereign or a shilling, until
the girl had gone out of the house, and then she could
say with a clear conscience that she had never taken
anything from her; but it was proved sufficiently for
the ends of justice that she had received the money,
as she gently moved the money away. The women
asked her if any one had seen her enter the house,
and she answered that she thought not; when she
was let out, she went home for the money she had
left behind, but on her way she was met by her father,
who took her upstairs, and she told a woman named
Elcock the whole circumstances of the case. When
they returned to the fortune-teller's house, the money
was found to have been pushed further along the
table under a piece of needlework. It appeared that
the girl had been watched, and her little sister having
discovered the money which her elder sister had left
upon the bed, had told her father of it, and thus the
plot was stopped, and they, ou going to the house of
the prisoner, found the ss. she was now charged with
stealing. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The
Recorder said the offence was one of such a very serious
character that he should consider it his duty to inflict
the highest penalty the law allowed ; the sentence of
the Court was that she be transported beyond the seas
for the space of 14 years. The prisoner, on receiving
her sentence, immediately fainted.

A. SERIO.CONI IC BLUNDER.
Mr. Ayton, one of the principal corn merchants of
Newcastle, and Mr. Joseph Swan, were walking
arm-in-arm, on Saturday last, when a voice loudly
exclaimed "That's the man." The speaker, a woman
from Lanchester, in this county, whose husband is
(or formerly wss) a common carrier in connexion
with Sunderland, fastened upon Mr. Ayton, and
accused him of having, a few days before, robbed her
of 61. Mr. Swan assured her that Mr. A) ton was
a respectable gentleman, and incapable of any act
of the kind—she must therefore be mistaken.
"0, no I she was not mistaken ; he was the man
and Mr. S wan was doubtless no better than his com-
pany !" The result was, that a Lanchester police-
man, whom she had brought over to Newcastle, re-
quested the attendance of Mr. Ayton before a magis-
trate. The parties were now in the Corn Excbange,
where the woman's accusation prduced much excite-
ment and not a little merriment, the alleged offender
being generally known, and the unlikeliest man in the
world to be the subject of such a charge. The police-
man had no warrant and no jurisdiction; yet Mr.
Ayton, in the excess of his courtesy, consented to ac-
company him, and they all went before G. H. Ram-
say,b Esq. (the woman accompanied by her husband).
Ibeatfenoekrees, forsul change
appeared that the complainant, a few days
fwashiin her pp
nanNewcastle, and applied at the district
gefoarlliarcistn
Irish provincial
theovin was leafingcialontes.
h
bofftmekre,dwtho
when some one tapped her on the shoulder and
au
down assist
her in effecting her object. The pro-
posal was thankfullyaccepted ; and as they were
passing
int ofGre
beer
r-street she suggested to her friend
that a p
shas
Theykt be no bad thing. He of
therefore repaired to a neigh-
bouring tap—the woul
course assented.i
then eatreeor the Ducrow—where
they bad their beer ; and
were
discounted.
they proceeded to the
Commercial Bank, where the
His kindness not yet exhausted, the
stranger accom-
panied
'h
her to a grocer's shop on the Sandhill
assist her in buying goods; and they
parted with
to
mutual protestations of good-
will, which were
converted, on the lady's part, into benedictions
as Irish as the notes, when she discovered that
so kindly made up for her
r was Ed. short. Mr.
bh
ye r
tphat: packet
ue
Ayton, she positively swore, was the man, and no t)li on
fo
wmno nbeeyn, e facto
de-
nial of the charge had the least effect in mitigating
her obstinacy. " Silo wondered that he could think
of denying the fact. He must recollect so well that
they were half an hour together in the public-
house, and that when she pulled out her purse
.o pay for it
himself."
for the beer he insisted upon paying .
of the This Was' her constant reply to the denial
if r. rut
memory. ation—the woman seeming to think that
cital of 5h1): bad forgotten his delinquency, the re-
shop foamed
witnaP;room liberality must refresh his
lair, sgtsunfrom the bank and the grocer's
"Y that Mr. Ayton Wu not the

THE SUN,

LON DON,

owners and occupiers of land in the distressed districts " woman's companion, and the aly:urd case was dis-
in Ireland, and with this view the demands of the missed, to afford an additional caution to courts and
Government ought to be definite, both in amount, juries against trusting too implicitly to oaths of iden-
and also in time. tity. Had the incident occurred to a gentleman in a
"My Lords think, therefore, that:remission of pay- place where he was a stranger, the consequences
ment, either altogether or to a certain extent, accor- might have been serious.--Gateshead Observer.
ding to the circumstances of each district, is far pre-
ferable to postponing the payments; but the sanction
of Parliament must be obtained before any definite
measure for this purpose can be carried into effect.
It is the intention of her Majesty's Government to
submit a measure to Parliament with this object early
next session.
"In the meantime my Lords are prepared to adopt
the following course in anticipation of the measure to
be submitted to Parliament :
"The Poor-law Commissioners in Ireland are au-
thorized to direct the treasurer of any union in Ire-
land to retain in his band any sum which he may have
received from, or on account of, an electoral division
in which the expenditure for the relief of the poor
in the year ending September 29, 1851, has amounted
to 4s. in the pound on the valuation then in force, and
not to pay over to the Paymaster of Civil Services in
Ireland the annuity due from such electoral division
for the current year ; and where the annuity for the
current year, added to such expenditure, amounts for
any electoral division to a sum exceeding 4s. in the
pound on such valuation, to pay over to the Pay-
master of Civil Services such sum only, in respect of
the annuity, as, together with the charge for relief of
the poor in the past year, will amount to 4s. in the
pound, and to retain the remainder in his own hands.
" Her Majesty's Government will propose to Par-
liament that the sum so retained in respect of the
annuities due for the current year shall be entirely
remitted."

EMIGRANT'S FLOUR MILL.

The ordinary notion entertained of an emigrant, we
believe to be, that he is a man with a wile and four or
five children, setting out for a distant part of the world
where he can get land for next to nothing, be lord of all
he surveys within the range of a hundred acres, more
or less, cut down the trees that grow upon his domain
in order to build a house, grub up the roots for firewood
and sow corn in their place. Few, however, but those
who actually intend to emigrate troable themselves to
consider what is to be done with the crop of corn when
it comes. The first impression would be—to eat it—but
then arises the question, in what form? Its conversion
into flour will be a necessary preliminary; but not a
very easy one to accomplish, unless he and those who
accompany him as fellow-adventurers, take the machinery
for grinding it with them. They will find no facilities
for sending it to the parish mill, among the red Indians
in the back settl-ments of America, or the flesh-loving
natives of the South Sea Islands. The only course
appears to be to take a mill with them; and the selec-
tion of one must, we apprehend, be a very important
matter with the emigrant. Of course we are speaking of
a hand-mill. The chief points to be kept in view in
purchasing one will necessarily be simplicity of ma-
chinery, so that it may be easily kept in order, and that
it may act with the least expenditure of power. The
latter point seems to have received much attention by
Messrs. Huxhams and Brown, founders and engineers,
at
.Exeter; who have registered a mill which is kept in
action by a lateral motion, similar to that of a rower in
a boat, and not by the old laborious rotatory motion
which involves so great a waste of power. In the de-
scription given of this mill by its inventors it is stated
that "a bushel of wheat may be ground by it in an hour,
to make fine flour; that the corn can be ground and
dressed at the same time, or separately; and that the
mill is not liable to get out of repair."—Kentish Mercury

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

Alexander Gordon John Bishop, a young man of
gentlemanly appearance, surrendered to take his trial
upon a charge of misdemeanour.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Robinson appeared for the
prosecution. Mr. Parry was counsel for the de-
fendant.

Mr. CLARKSON, in opening the case, said that the
defendant, who, he understood, was a clergyman of
the Church of England, was charged with a misde-
meanour under the Pawnbrokers' Act, and another
statute having reference to the same object, in having
unlawfully made a false declaration before a magis-
trate, upon the subject of some property that had been
pledged by him at the shop of Messrs. Vaughan and
Cotterell, pawnbrokers in the Strand, the declaration
implying that he had lost the original duplicate re-
lating to the property. The prosecution was insti-
tuted by a person named Cupett, who, it appeared,
had been on intimate terms with the defendant, and
who had advanced him two different sums of money
upon the security of the duplicates in question, and
these duplicates were in his possession at the time the
defendant made the declaration, which was alleged to
be false. The effect of the declaration made by the
defendant was to enable him to obtain the property
from the pawnbrokers, and the present charge was
under those circumstances preferred by the prosecutor
against him.
Mr. H. P. Cupett deposed that be carried on the
business of an oilman at Hoxton, and he had for some
time been acquainted with the defendant, who, he
believed was a clergyman, and they had money trans.
actions together. In August and September, 1850,
he received from the prisoner two duplicates, one re•
(erring to a pistol and case, and the other to two guns
and a case, all of which articles had been pledged at
the shop of Messrs. Vaughan and Cotterell, and at the
request of the prisoner he lent him money to the
amount of five or six pounds upon the security of
these duplicates, which it was understood he was to
retain in his possession until the money he had ad-
vanced was repaid to him. At the time the prisoner
made the declarations to the pawnbroker the dupli-
cates were still in his possession, and the defendant
must have been aware of the fact.

The prosecutor was subjected to a very severe
•rocs-examination by Mr. Parry, and in the course
of it he said that he bad received other duplicates
from the prisoner as security for money he advanced
him, and among them were some that related to pic-
tures. He redeemed one of those pictures, and sold it
for 18/., but the prisoner now charged him with
having done so improperly, and without his autho-
rity. He believed the prisoner was very respectably
connected, and that he expected to come into posses-
sion of a considerable fortune. He had been to races
twice with the prisoner, but he didl not remember in-
troducing him to "Mr. Broome" at Ascot. He had
been to Mr. Broome's public-house, but he knew no-
thing about him. When they were at Ascot the pri-
soner gave an I. 0. U. for 2001. to a person named
Foster, and be gave him one also for the same amount.
He believed that this money was lost in betting upon
the odd and even numbers on the race-cards, and it
had nothing whatever to do with the horses. Foster
had asked him whether Bishop was " worth anything,"
and he told him he believed that he expected some
property. They were both very much intoxicated
and did not know how the money was lost. Foster
came fur the money for the I. 0. U. the next morn-
ing, and the prisoner gave him a bill of exchange for
his I. 0. U. This bill afterwards got into the pos.
session of Mr. Broome, who sued the prisoner upon
it. Witness was subpcenaed as a witness for the de-
fendant, to prove the circumstances under which the
bill was given, but the matter was arranged, and the
defendant consented to the verdict passing against
him.

The RECORDER inquired who Broome was ? The
prosecutor said he was a publican.
Mr. PARRY asked if he was not something else also ?
The prosecutor said he did not know.

In answer to further questions put to him, he said
he had been twice indicted for keeping a brothel, but
was acquitted on both occasiena ; and he said that
the first time he was indicted no evidence was offered
against him, and he was told that he had been very
ill used. He admitted that he had paid the rent and
taxes when a distress was put in to one of the houses
he was charged with keeping, and that he told the
broker the house belonged to him ; but he said he
only did so to oblige t lady whom he bad met at
Jersey, and who in reality was the keeper of the
house. He also said that he had opposed the prisoner
in the Bankruptcy Court, and that a person named
Alfred Mortimer Job, who was a money-lender, was
also a creditor, and made a large claim against the
prisoner's estate, which the prisoner resisted on the
ground that it was a fraudulent claim. He denied
that this person was the real prosecutor of the present
indictment, or that he had ever said that if Bishop
was convicted of perjury Job would get the whole of
his claim allowed. He had no recollection of having
said so, but would not swear positively that he
had not.

A letter was then put in, in which the prisoner
applied to the prosecutor for the duplicates, stating
that he wanted particularly to have them. Ni
answer, it appeared, was sent to this letter for three
weeks, and the prosecutor then told the prisoner that
he had left out the tickets for him, and he could have
them when he chose to call for them.
James Hitchcock, the shopman to Messrs.
Vaughan and Co., proved that the prisoner obtained
the declarations from him, and that he signed them
in his presence.
In answer to a question put by Mr. Parry, the
witness said he would not undertake to say that the
prisoner did not tell him, in addition to the usual
statement that the duplicates had been lost or mislaid,
that they were fraudulently detained from him.
Mr. CLAussoN was about to call further evidence,
when

The RECORDER interposed, and said it appeared to
him that there was no proof that the defendant had
wilfully stated what was false in declaring that the
duplicates were lost or mislaid. The evidence upon
that point rested entirely upon the testimony of the
prosecutor, and be thought the jury would hardly
like to rely upon the evidence of such a person as he
had represented himself to be.

Mr.CLARKSON said that he felt the difficulty sug-
gested by his Lordship. He had some other witnesses
to call, but he did not think their evidence would alter
the aspect of the case.

The RECORDER said that if the jury wished to head
more of the case they might do so, but it was clear,
that unless they could place reliance upon the testi-
mony of the prosecutor, the prisoner ought not to be
convicted.

The jury said they were of opinion that they could
not place reliance upon the prosecutor's evidence.
Mr. PARRY begged to be allowed to state on behalf
of the defendant, that he never intended to make any,
false statement with regard to the matter. He as-
serted that the duplicates were fraudulently withheld
from him by the prosecutor, and it was upon this
ground that he felt himself justified in making the
declarations in order that he might regain possession
of his property.
usd
A verdict of Not Guilty was then taken, and the
was
t the
prisoner was ordered to be at once discharged.
as Frecharr Von Forster, 25, a Bavarian, described
a soldier, n
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dwelling-house
pfroorpety
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Mr. Parry prosecuted.
The prisoner, who is unable to speak English,
would have been without any professional assistance
but for the kind interference of the sheriffs, at whose
instance Mr. Follett watched the case on his behalf.
The facts of this case have been given very recently
in the police reports. The prosecutor, who is a mer-
chant, and a native of Oldenburg, was staying at
the York
Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, kept by
ur.Qur,
terinane,andthe
prisoner
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also
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in.