The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-30 00:00:00

draper (that being the acceptor of the bill), btut
without success.

Mr. Cowley said he had other charges against
the prisoner White, for having uttered several other.
bills of exchange, knowing them to be forged.
These cases were also gone into, and the Mayor
said that, after hearing this mass of evidence, it was
unnecessary for the Bench to make any observa-
tions. The case was one which must he examined
by another tribunal. The prisoners Mood com-
mitted to take their trial at the next assizes for
forging and uttering bills of exchange
them to be forged, knowing

Mr. Coope said he supposed bail would be ra.fused,
to which the Mayor replied that the case wa►i too
weighty to admit of it.
Both the prisoners were then removed to the
House of Correction in a cab.

TEE MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT ROAD.

FROME, MONDAY.
Important information has recently reached us,
from which we have reason to believe that the

authorities are not disposed to allow the investiga-
tion into this dreadful mystery to lapse. It was pre-
sumed that Mr. Slack's duties had terminated with

the close of the recent proceedings at Trowbridge
against Elizabeth Gough ; but we have it on relia-
ble authority that that gentleman is still active in
the matter, and that very recently he has had an in-
terview with the Attorney-General, who, at Mr.
Slack's instance, has gone minutely through the
whole case, as it has appeared in the public papers,
and who has decided on consulting the Home Secre-
tary on the course which should now be adopted.
We believe that the objeat now sought is to have
a still further inquiry—this time through the me-
dium of the coroner's court. We are ignorant of
the results that are anticipated from such a pro-
ceeding;
but that Mr. Slack is confident that, if a
free and searching examination, untrammelled by
the objections of counsel, and unshackled by the
routine of criminal accusations, is secured, a prac-
tical and much desired result will ensue, we believe
we are justified in stating. With this view we are
informed Mr. Slack has recently been hunting up
precedents for reopening a coroner's inquiry, and.
that he has obtained two—one of a very remote date,
but the other of comparatively modern times. That
there will be much opposition to the overruling of the
former inquest is of course expected,but it is believed
that Sir Richard Bethel, taking all the peculiar
circumstances of the case into consideration, will re-
commend to the proper authorities that the pre-
vious proceeding shall be, as it were, entirely obli-
terated, and an investigation commenced de novo.
We repeat, that we make these statements on re-
liable authority.
Very little of importance has occurred since the
recent prosecution. It has bees clearly demon-
strated to many persons (among others to your
correspondent) that a person or persons might easily
have been concealed in the house, but this hypo-
thesis is entertained by scarcely any one. The
police appear to have resumed their surveillance of
the house, for frequent visits have of late been
made to Road. It can well be imagined that great
anxiety exists to hear what further steps are con-
templated.
A Bristol paper makes an interesting statement,
the accuracy of which we, of course, do not vouch
for. The Bristol Times of Saturday says—" It
will be remembered that during the inquiry at
Road Mr. Kent, on being interrogated as to whe-
ther any of his former servants had a bad feeling
against the family, intimated that one had left his
service some time ago with a most unfriendly dis-
position towards them. The servant, we hear, has,
since she left Mr. Kent's, been living satisfactorily
in a household at Clifton. Her mother and sister
reside at Road, and the former being ill some months
ago, the latter wrote to the girl at Clifton to come
home. She made up her mind to do so, but some
accident induced her to alter her intention, and she
did not go. Had she gone, however, as she at
first proposed, she must have arrived at Road in
the evening, a few hours before the murder was
committed. In this case it is possible the girl
would have been arrested, or subjected to exami-
nation under suspicion."

COUNTRY MABEETS.