The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-06 00:00:00

THI SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1860,

which were decked out in. their complete array of
colours ; salutes were also fired from Point Levi,
and the yards of the three vessels of the Royal
squadron remaining in port were manned by the
seamen. Just as the
appeared on the
and bowed a farewell to the assembled thouands.
The steamer then passed around the Royal squad-
ron, going down along the south shore and return-
ing close to the north shore. It was not until the
ensign waving from the stern of the Kingston had
disappeared around the gray fortress-crowned rock,
that the thousands upon the wharves, housetops,
and glacis of the ramparts gradually sought their
homes."

annual races, the troops were put through a variety
of light infantry movements, in which officers and
men have recently been undergoing instructions,
and other manoeuvres, which were accomplished in
a very effective manner.
Yesterday a party of cavalry and infantry troops,
to the number of 140 non-commissioned officers and
men,belonging to the 2d (Queen's) Dragoon Guards,
6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), 7th Hussars,
Bth Hussars, 12th Lancers, 17th Lancers, sth Fusi-
liers, 6th, 34th, 37th, 38th, 42d Royal Highlanders,
53d, 54th, 56th, 60th Rifles, 71st and 72d High-
landers, 82d, 88th Connaught Rangers, 90th Light
Infantry, 92d Highlanders, 97th Regiment, and the
Rifle Brigade, the whole of whom have recently
been sent home from India suffering from wounds
or sickness, left St. Mary's invalid establishment,
Chatham, and proceeded to join their respective
depots at Canterbury, Maidstone, York, Chichester,
Perth, Aberdeen, Stirling, Winchester, and Col-
chester, having on inspection been found fit for fur-

ther service. A numerous party of troops, consist-
ing of time-expired men and those suffering from
wounds or sickness rendering them unfit for further
service, will be discharged from St. Mary's bar-
racks this morning.
Several of the most intelligent of the non-commis-
sioned officers and men of the Royal Engineers have
being selected to proceed from head-quarters, Chat-
ham, to the South Kensington Museum, where they
are to be employed in various scientific duties at
that establishment. The first portion of the Royal
Engineers selected for this service have proceeded
to the Museum, and the remainder will leave
Brompton barracks in a few days.

MR. HARDY, M.P., ON THE PAST SESSION.

TILE "DIAL" AND THE "STAR."

Has not the public mind been somewhat uneasy
of late ? There has been much to disturb it, but
the feeling to which we allude is not one caused by
the present critical state of affairs on the Continent,
by failures and troubles at home, or by fears of an
insufficient harvest. It is that peculiar restlessness
which comes over a man when he knows he has

some commission to execute before he goes home
and yet cannot remember for the life of him what it
is. The sensation that something—which we can-
not name—is wanting for our comfort. What is it
that is worrying us—for we are worried ? Have we

lost something that once we had, or is it that we
have not got something that we expected? We
incline to the latter theory. What is it, then, the
want of which is rendering life unendurable ? A
grand opportunity would have been presented for
testing the power of Mr. Home or some other noted
medium," by requiring him to solve this impor-
tant question, if the chance perusal of an obscure
newspaper had not revealed it to us. The cause of
our anguish is this, " we have no daily Dial." The
journal which was to regenerate mankind has not
appeared. The Great National Newspaper League
Company ((Limited), has failed in its troth.
Where is our Dial? It would be an insult to the
intelligence of the times to anticipate the ques-
tion, " What is our Dial?" Nevertheless, for the
information of some reader who may have lately
returned from a lengthened sojourn in the interior
of Africa, or some equally remote region, we will
answer it.

The annual meeting of the Leominster Agricu
tural Association was held on Monday last. The
dinner, held in the afternoon, at the Royal Oak,
was attended by Mr. Hardy and Captain Hanbury,
the members for the borough; and Mr. King King
and Mr. Mildmay, two of the county members.
After the usual introductory toasts, the health of
the county members was given and responded to,
and was then followed by the health of the mem-
bers for the borough of Leominster, Mr. Hardy, and
Captain Hanbury. (Cheers.)
Mr. HARDY, in reply, said he could not help
thinking that what his hon. friend, Mr. Mildmay,
had said about the farmers and their teams on the
highways might be said with great truth about the
government, of which he (Mr. Mildmay) had been
so strong a supporter during the session which had
just closed. (Laughter and cheers,) Like a carter,
the government had set out with their waggon well
loaded and harnessed, thinking the road was smooth
and free from obstruction, and that they could get
to the end of their journey as easily and as merrily
as they set out, and without so much trouble as even
turning their horses' heads. But, unfortunately,
the road was not so smooth and easy as they had
expected ; on the contrary, it was like some of the
highways which had been spoken of. When they
had advanced but a short distance they found that
the horses begun to flag, and that it was a task of
some difficulty to proceed as rapidly as the pace
with which they had set out. Like a carter, who
knew nothing more than that his horses were made
to go the road irrespective of weight or distance,
they were surprised at the obstruction, and like
him they said, " Why, these horses were made to
go, and if they will not go of their own accord we
shall flog them." Flog them they did, but it
was of no use, and therefore they found, as the
carter would do, that there was nothing for it but
to lighten the waggon; they therefore began to
throw overboard some of the contents with which
it was loaded. Accordingly, bill after bill was
pitched out—(laughter)—among others a bill
which was to improve the representation of the'
borough of Leominster. (Laughter and cheers.)
Yes, the Reform Bill was pitched out, along with
another which was to benefit the landed interest
by making them bankrupts. (Laughter.) One by
one the various bills were thrown out, until at
length the cart was cleared of those miserable
abortions which his hon. friend said they had been
pulling along the Government highway for the last
seven months, and done no good after they had
arrived at the end of their journey. Such language
as that would not become him (Mr. Hardy), be-
cause he had been sometimes acting the part of a
drag while the Government was going down hill—
(renewed laughter)—while his hon. friend had
been one of the horses. (Cheers.) However,• the
end of the journey had been reached, and now, or
by-and-bye, they would be having one of those
great political meetings, at which it might be de-
cided whether the drag or the horses had done
most good. (Laughter.) But seriously speaking,
the questions which had been before Parliament
this session were questions of paramount import-
ance ; and although many of them had not come
out in the shape of acts of Parliament, there had
been a great deal done which would influence the
destinies of this nation for ages to come. Changes
had been made in the taxation of the country ;
nhanges had likewise been made in the army and
-the navy; and treaties had been made with foreign
countries which would tell upon the prosperity of
this country hereafter, and the operation of which
would require to be carefully watched by all who
were interested in our commercial successes. He
was certain no one was more anxious than himself
to abstain from saying anything which bore a
semblance to party spirit ; but he was equally
sure that in addressing a body of Englishmen on
such an occasion as the present, there were foreign
topics which offered subjects for remark, which
were interesting to all, and upon which they were
all of one mind in the main. He said this with all
the more certainty, because it was clear at the close
of a session during which the present Prime Mini-
ster had been with the greatest activity negotiating
a closer alliance with France—an alliance in which
they were all interested, and, so far as'regarded the
entente cordiale, he was sure they all earnestly
prayed that it might long continue ; but Lord Pal-
merston had been obliged shortly before the session
closed, to admit that circumstances had occurred
which rendered our former intimacy with France
no longer possible, and that we should be obliged to
look out for new alliances, because we could no
longer depend upon former friendships. Just let
them recall what had passed, in order to observe
the circumstances which had thrown Europe into a
state of excitement and fear. The present state of
things began upon the Ist of January, 1859, when
the French Emperor addressed the Austrian ambas-
sador in terms of such startling significancy as to
throw the whole of Europe into alarm. He said—
" I am not on such good terms with your master as
formerly," or words to that effect. Before that the
Emperor of France hadentered into an engagement
with the Sardinian government, the terms of which
were simply these—that he (the Emperor) would
assist Sardinia in obtaining possession of Lombardy
and Venetia, while France by way of return would
receive Nice and Savoy. The programme which the
Emperor had laid out in proceeding to a war with
Austria was based upon an " idea," that idea being
the freedom of Italy; but this, as was well known,
was a species of dissemblement, the Emperor's idea
being not Italian freedom but his own aggrandise-
ment, -which he had succeeded in carryin 0 out by
obtaining the provinces for which he bargained
with Sardinia—even Savoy and Nice. Since the
conclusion of the war with France and Austria all
confidence in the Emperor Napoleon had been lost.
Europe could not now trust to his promises, for it
was feit, and felt very naturally, that as he had
ventured upon a career of aggrandisement which
obtained him provinces in the south of the Rhine,
he might enter upon a similar career to obtain pro-
vinces in the north. When they found an Emperor
who began a war for an " idea, that idea being os-
tensibly Italian freedom and ending it by territorial
aggrandisement, it was essential that there should
be distrust among the powers of Europe, and,
therefore, he (Mr. Hardy) rejoiced that we could
enter into diplomatic relations with other
countries without involving us in any peril
whenever anything should happen with a par-
ticular country, (Hear, hear.) It seemed to him
that this country should be on terms of friendly
alliance with all powers upon the principle of nos -
intervention ; sympathising, for instance, in the
success of the struggle for liberty in Italy, but
leaving it to the patriots to choose whatever go-
vernment they thought proper, and interesting our-
selves, as far as possible, to secure to them, without
prejudice to other powers, the liberty of settling
their own affairs. (Hear, and applause.) His hon.
friend (Mr. Mildmay) had spoken of the enormous
expense which our establishments now cost us.
Certainly the expense was enormous, but then they
were engaged in proceedings which demanded, if
they were to be carried out, an enormous expendi-
ture of money; and nothing could be clearer than
this, that the members of the House of Commons
expressed the unanimous feeling of the country
when they said it was necessary for the safety of
the country—for the purpose of placing ourselves
in the best possible condition for any exigency—to
prepare for whatever should occur, and even for the
extension of the wars we were now engaged in.
For these and other purposes it was necessary to
vote these lei ge sums of money, and place our navy
on a footing in which every advantage could be
taken of all the appliances of art and science as
lately developed, and generally to increase our
armament; and therefore it was that our expendi-
ture was enormous. We were now three times as
powerful as we were at the beginning of the cen-

The " Dial scheme"—as it was popularly called

was to establish a daily newspaper fo compete with
the Times. It was suggested that the Thunderer of
Printing-house-square was not the most conscien-
tious of thunderers—that he was sometimes very
irreverent in treating of Church matters, and ad-
mitted naughty subjects into his pages. Therefore
he was to fall, and a joint-stock company was to
rule in his stead. The new paper was to be
founded upon highly moral and substantial prin-
ciples. Its shares we-e to be £lO each, and not a
paper was to be issued until 20,000 names hadbeen
enrolled upon its books. After an active canvass of
about six years' duration in every town of any con-
sideration in the kingdom, 9,000 shareholders were
obtained, and a capital of £2 a share has been paid
up. It must be confessed that the scheme hung
fire, although no pains and expense were spared in
lecturing upon it in athenaeums, mechanics' insti-
tutes, and schoolrooms all over the country, an d
advertising it in the newspapers. At last the endu-
rance of the shareholders came to an end: They
implored their directors to expunge the stern reso-
lution which denied them their Dial till the num-
ber of its patrons had been more than doubled, and
the directors melted. There were not funds enough
for a daily paper, so a weekly was started, and the
Dial appeared bearing under its title the announce-
ment that it was " once a week for the present."
We live in a wonderful age !—an age of untiring
enterprise, of brilliant successes, and disastrous
failures. We must not lightly declare any scheme
to be impossible, however extravagant it may at
first sight appear. We must not be discouraged
should disaster overtake the project which we had
considered the most certain to be crowned with
success. Alas !is not this world, with all its splen-
dours, but.a vale of uncertainty and of tears ? Our
readers will, in all probability, have read something
very much like this before. The experienced amongst
them will guess what is coming. It is, we believe,
the correct form of heralding a great calamity. It
corresponds to the slow and mournful music which
is heard on the stage to prepare the minds of the
audience for the discovery of the dying hero, or the
entry of the demented heroine in book muslin and
straws, with her back hair down. A heavy blow
and sore discouragement has fallen upon us. A
bright ray of hope that we have watched from afar,
and fondly hoped was soon about to dilate into a
glorious orb to brighten our path in life has sud-
denly been quenched. Is the reader quite ready
for the heartrending announcement ? Well, then,
here goes. Hung be the heavens with black. Gentle-
men of the orchestra play up your most solemn
dirge. Silence pit and gallery! The Dial is done
up ! Society was on the point of being entirely
regenerated, but now it must go on in its old
wicked ways. The Great National Newspaper
League Company (Limited) is in a bad way, and
the Thames is as far off ignition as ever. What is
to be done ? Out upon it that the want of a few
pounds of that miserable yellow clay which men
lavish every hour upon frivolity and vice, should
cripple so great a work ! But it is so. We were
promised a Dial daily, but inexorable Fate denies
it to us ; and the weekly Dial that we had—the
dear gazette which, had we ever known it, we might
have learned to love so well—has been driven off
into the office of the Morning Star.
Yes ! the Dial is to be incorporated with the
Morning Star. it is purely a ntarriage de conve-
nance, we are afraid. The Morning Star, we are
assured at the extraordinary meeting of the share-
holders in the National Newspaper League Com-
pany, at which they decreed the amalgamation,
did not seek the Dial. It was the coy and blush-
ing bride, selected for its many virtues by that
ardent wooer, out of the whole daily press of the
metropolis. The interesting couple are to begin
housekeeping upon a capital of £35,000, towards
which the happy bridegroom is to contribute half,
but upon conditions. The marriage settlements
are to be so framed that he is always to
have a finger in the household pie. Tite
bride is to assume her husband's name, and to
become in spirit one with him—" become," says the
Rev. David Thomas, the Chairman of the Directors
of the National Newspaper League Company, " all
that we would 1 if we started a journal indepen-
dently." The poor Star is to set for ever in the
Dial. "We will not sell ourselves," continues the
reverend chairman, " to any man or to any party in
Church or State ;" therefore, they select the a tar,
which everybody knows to be perhaps the most
" party" paper in circulation. What a change is in
prospect for her ! The bridegroom has been over
her premises, and has taken stock. He expresses
himself well satisfied with the machinery and plant,
but she is not to be allowed to work it as she
pleases after marriage. No! The Rev. David
Thomas does not—as he informed the meeting—
." believe in the irresponsible we." He supports
" the representative principle in journalism." This
is to him " one of the characteristics and one of the
charms of the enterprise." He 'must be guaranteed
before he joins any paper " that the shareholders
shall have a healthy control over it." Fancy a
newspaper edited by a board of directors ! Imagine
the indignation of rejected contributors at the
annual meeting ! The directors who followed their
chairman at the meeting before mentioned, spoke
like men who would not be dictated to. Some of
them threatened that they would write in the new
paper. We really are sorry for the Star.
Such a bride as the Dial would select was not
only to be free from party bias and obedient, but
also in a " healthy commercial condition." What
paper could fulfil all these conditions so well as the
Star—especially the last? Healthy commercial
condition ! Why there are a dozen daily and
weekly papers that lose hundreds per annum more
than the Star, and the dowry it will receive on its
union with the Dial will, if prudently expended,
keep it for at least four years independent of its
friends. Surely everyone ought to be satisfied. The
Rev. David Thomas can hang up his hat in the
office of a recognised newspaper, and the Morning
Star handles £17,500 hard cash, It may be that
the union has taken place on homoeopathic prin-
ciples. Like cures like according to this practice.
If a man has a headache you give him a drug which
if he had not that disorder would give it to him;
and so he is cured. The star being a sufferer
from chronic failure, takes what would swamp any
successful journal. It swallows the Rev. David
Thomas and the Dial. We hope they will agree
with it.
All this is, of course, dictated by petty spite. We
are jealous of the ,Star. We are terribly afraid of
the Dial. Our conduct is so bad, that we dare not
offer one word of explanation upon it. This much,
however, we will say; we know something of the
dangers and cares of newspaper proprietorship;
and we do not like to see people going about the
country getting poor people to invest their savings
in such chimerical schemes as that of the Dial.
We do not like to find so many clergymen mixed
up in this questionable speculation. The total

tury ; but so long as it was considered necessary— departure from its original scheme is suspicious, to
indispensable indeed—to increase our armaments to say the least of it. Was not the a eekly Dial an
the extent all parties considered requisite, he was utter failure ? The project has had a trial for
sure no Englishman would grumble at the expense, thirty-five weeks, and it does not pay, People will
but would willingly bear his share of the burden of buy the newspaper, and decline to take shares in
making this country safe against any foreign inva- the company. The honest course would be to
der. (Loud cheers.) Time was when the men wind it up at once whilst there is something left,
of this countrys defended themselves with the and divide that small modicum amongst the share-
long bow, but new weapons had been introduced— holders.—Manchester Guardian.
weapons of great power, and requiring great skill
in their use ; and he believed that none would
be found to use them more effectually, if ever the
opportunity arrived, which he hoped it would not,
than those who had added so greatly to the secu-
rity of the country within the last twelve months
—even our volunteers. (Cheers.) The volunteer
system had spread remarkably, and he hoped it
would continue to spread—(hear, hear)—for he be-
lieved they would make this country more power-
ful, more prosperous, more secure, by means of our
great peace army of volunteers, than by a large ex-
penditure of money in increasing our regular army.
(Cheers.) This country ought to be as great in
dignity as it was in power ; and nothing would
more contribute to that end and save us from a re-
newal of unseemly panics, while it would go a great
way towards maintaining the peace of the world,
~han the maintenance of a volunteer army. (Cheers.)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Sept. 5.

MANSION-HOUSE.--Mr. George Russell, a
ship-broker in Fenchurch-street, appeared before
Mr. Alderman Hale, upon a summons on which he
was charged with an assault upon a young man
named William Griffin.

Mr. Buchanan appeared to support the complaint.
Mr. Wontner attended for the defendant.

This case occasioned a good deal of laughter
in the court. It appeared that the complainant was
in the service of Mr. Bradshaw, a hosier in Cheap-
side, and that Mr. Russell had ordered him to
make some shirts, and one was sent for a sample,
but it did not suit, and was sent back to be altered.
There appeared to have been some little dis-
agreement in reference to this shirt, and on the 30th
of August the complainant was sent by his master
to Mr. Russell's offices With the bill. According to
his evidence he had no sooner set his foot into Mr.
Russell's office than one of his clerks, a young gen-
tleman named Irwin, told him " to come out of that
directly ;" and he was told that if he did not go
out he would be kicked out. He replied that
there was no necessity for kicking him out, as he
was willing to go quietly ; and he represented that
upon his saying this, Mr. Russell rushed from his
desk, seized him by the shoulders, and with con-
siderable violence " bundled" him into the street.
During the scuffle he dropped a parcel he had with
him, and his hat fell off his head, and he stated that
he saw Mr. Russell pick up the hat, and, treating
it as he would a football, kicked it out into the
street after him.
The complainant, in answer to questions put by
Mr. Wontner, denied that there was any under-
standing that the shirts were to be paid for until
Mr. Russell had had an opportunity of seeing whe-
ther they fitted or not, and he also denied that he
was told to leave the office and that he refused to
do so,

Mr. Wontner, on behalf of the defendant, de-
scribed the proceeding as a trumpery affair, that
ought never to have been brought into a court of
justice, and he called one of the defendant's clerks,
who proved that the complainant was repeatedly
requested to leavet,the office, and he declared that
he would not do so, and was very uncivil, and that
the defendant was at length obliged to turn him
out, but no more violence was used than was abso-
lutely necessary to effect that object. With regard
to the hat it was stated that all that occurred was
that it fell off and it was thrown out into the street
after him.
Alderman Hale dismissed the summons,

B OW- S TREET.—Miss Sarah Ann Pickard, watch
dealer, Hatton-garden, appeared before Mr. Henry,
on a summons obtained at the instance of the Com-
missioners of Inland Revenue, to answer the charge
of having wilfully and knowingly used a forged de-
claration in a business transaction appertaining to
the Customs. There was a second summons charg-
ing the act of forgery, but this was abandoned by
the Crown, on the failure of the evidence to support
the case.

This was understood to be the first prosecution
under the recent treaty with France.
Mr. Weymouth, solicitor for the defendant, took
some preliminary objections to the form of proceed-
ing, on legal grounds, but they were not allowed.
Mr. Beverley, one of the solicitors for the Crown,
drew the attention of the Court to the particular
section of the Customs Act under which the present
charge was instituted, and then proceeded to state
that their object was to protect the English trade
from the practice pursued by certain dealers of im-
porting into this country watches of foreign manu-
facture bearing the names of well-known Englicsh
makers, which had been engraved upon them abroad.
These were sold in England for British watches, at
a price greatly beyond their value, and thus a fraud
was perpetrated on the public, which the Commis-
sioners of Inland Revenue felt it their duty to pre-
vent as far as possible. In the present instance
there had been no attempt to evade the Customs
duty, for under the new treaty all watches, both of
English and foreign manufacture, were admitted
into this country free of duty—an exemption for-
merly conceded to English watches only. By the
regulations of the Excise, which they were ern...,
powered by the act of Parliament to enforce, it was
an offence to make or use any false declaration or
instrument in a business matter, which rendered the

offender liable to a penalty of £lOO and it was that
penalty which they now sought to recover.
Mr. John Alexander, second clerk at the police-
court, Clerkenwell, proved that the form of declara-
tion now produced was made on the 6th of June
last, in his presence, and signed by Mr. R. P. Tsr-
whitt, the magistrate. The person who made the
declaration signed the name of " Moses Tobia s ,"
land declared to the truth of the allegation in the
usual form. The Mr. Tobias now present is not the
person who signed the declaration.
Mr. John Wilson, Excise agent, of 12, Harp-lane,
Thames-street, deposed that about the end of May
last a case of watches was imported by the ship
Albion from Boulogne, in reference to which wit-
ness received the bill of lading from defendant. It
was signed at the back by defendant, who gave him
instructions to clear the case and send it home.
Subsequently the goods were detained, and witness
called on defendant in Hatton-garden; where she
occupied a private house, having her name on the
door-plate. Witness told her that the watches had
been detained because some of them bore the name
of Tobias, an English maker, engraved upon them,
which made it necessary that Mr. Tobias should
sign a declaration that the watches were imported
by him, or by his sanction and authority, and for
his trade. Witness promised to send her the usual
form of declaration made in such cases, .and he re-
ceived a letter from her a day or two afterwards,
which he had since lost, but of which he possessed
an accurate copy made by himself.
The copy, on the objection of defendant's soli-
citor, was not produced.
The defendant's signature on the bill of lading
was proved by another agent, and Mr. Beck de-
posed to having filled up the form of declaration
under Mr. Wilson's instructions. It was the same
now produced,
Mr. Michael Tobias examined—l reside in Sun-
street, Waltham Abbey, andeam a watchmaker and
jeweller. I know the defendant, Miss Pickard. I
knew her first about the Bth of March last, when I
saw her on business and gave her my card, the same
as now produced by the witness Wilson, in case
she should have to refer to me. I know nothing of
the declaration produced. No part of it is in my
handwriting, and I never authorised it to be made.
There is no other person of my name at Waltham
Abbey. I believe there used to be and still may
be a firm of that name at Liverpool in our trade.
About five or six weeks ago the defendant called
on me, and I said to her, " You have got me into a
fine trouble," and she replied, " I am very sorry.
All I know is that I gave your card to the agent,
and what he did with it I cannot say." I said,
" He ought to be transported fbr forging my name."
She made no reply to this.

Cross-examined.—l know the card produced is the
one I gave her, because I wrote on the back of it.

Wm. Peyton, an officer of Customs, deposed that
the case of watches was imported on the 17th of
May, and contained 42 gold watches, 108 silver
ditto, and 36 metal watches, the present charge
having relation to the latter only. Two of the
metal -watches were now produced. The name of
" M. T. Tobias," with a description in English was
engraved upon them, and a word underneath,
which he believed to have been " Liverpool," had
been obliterated. They were both foreign watches.
Cross-examined—There was no duty on any
watches passing through the Customs in May last
I infer that the word obliterated is " Liverpool"
from an examination of all the metal watches,
where all the different letters of the word are more
or less perceptible.
Mr. Weymouth—ls it not a well-known practice,
even by first-rate houses, to import foreign watches
with English names upon them ?
-Witness—lt is not the practice of " first-rate"
houses to do so, but I know it is extensively done.
We always seize the watches when we find it out.
It was stated that the watches produced were
worth 16s. each, and would sell
at about £3 each. (as English make)
Mr. Weymouth addressed the Court for the de-
fendant, urging that if any fraud had been prac-
tised his client was perfectly unconscious of it. She
had no motive in making or using a false declara-
tion, and it might be that some one had done it for
her without her knowledge. He contended also
that the charge was not fully supported by the
evidence, which failed to show that the declaration
was a forgery, If, however, the Court thought the
case had been established, he trusted that his
worship would exercise the power he possessed of
mitigating the penalty to one-fourth.
Mr. Henry—l think it has been abundantly
proved that the defendant " used" this counterfeit
declaration, which she sent, with a card which Mr-
Tobias gave her for a very diffment purpose to the
witness, Mr. Wilson ; and, so far from there being
any mitigating circumstances in the case, I am of
opinion that the Commissioners have acted very
leniently in the matter. The offence committed is
an indictable one, and the defendant might have
been required to answer this charge before a jury.
it is of the greatest •
importance to the public, and