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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER] 3D, 1861.

approved by Heaven. It is a system demanding
large holdings of land by single proprietors, and
consequently calling for constant acquisition of
territory. Mexico and Central America furnish the ,
means by which this want can be met. Two classes
of white men grow up under its influences—the one
idle, uneducated, and brutal, naturally despising
labour, and capable of becoming dangerous to the
institutions of the country if led in combination
against them, the other the slaveowners themselves
with their families. The wealth of the latter may
in time become dissipated by subdivisions, and their
sons may also become elements dangerous to the
State unless some safe provision be made for them.
It was a favourite theory of the politicians of Mr.
Calhoun's school that when the emergency should
come the South should become a military State, that
the sons of the planters should by virtue of their
position hold all the commissions in a largo army,
of which the rank and file should be drawn from
the restless and debauched poor whites, and that
the labour of a purely agricultural country should
continue to he done by the negro slaves. The pre-
sent rebellion is but an attempt to carry out in
practice what was a theory with Mr. Calhoun and
his friends. If the Government of the United
States had been willing to let Secession take its
course, and work itself out without war, it would
not have been permitted to do so. One has but to
follow the course of the rebellion to see this. The
followers of Mr. Calhoun had control of the Govern-
ment throughout the Administrations of Mr. Pearce
and of Mr. Buchanan. The conspirators laid their
plans so wide and so deep that when the crisis came
the army and navy of the United States were found
to be demoralised, the arsenals stripped for the bene-
fit of the South, the ships and men scattered so that
months would be required for the concentration of
an available force, the forts on the line of the
Southern coasts without garrisons, and the Treasury
plundered to the amount of millions of dollars.
With the exception of South Carolina, there was
an undoubted majority against Secession ; but by
manoeuvring and by fraud, they succeeded in
securing majorities in the Conventions of Georgia,
Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, and carried those
States out of the Union. Virginia, Missouri, Ten-
nessee, Kentucky, and Maryland, by large majori-
ties, declared for the Union. In order to force these
States to join them, they ordered Fort Sumter to
be fired upon, and the Convention of Virginia, un-
der the pressure of a mob at Richmond, was forced
to commit the worst fraud in the whole transaction
—to put the State, with all its military resources,
into the hands of the conspirators, in the face of an
overwhelming popular majority affainst them only
a month before. Tennessee and North Carolina
were induced to join the Confederates in the same
way. Kentucky and Missouri, which refused by
large majorities to join them, are now the theatres
of the worst form of civil war in return for their

oyalty. Had the Government of the United States
said to the conspirators, " Gentlemen, go on ; you
have overthrown the Union party in Virginia by
fraud, now do the same in Missouri, Kentucky, and
Maryland" (which is in plain English what it is
advised to do), its cowardice and falsehood to the
trusts committed to it would not have secured peace
for it. The eyes of the successful conspirators would
still have rested wishingly on the commerce of New
York and the Lakes, and on the coalfields of Penn-
sylvania, and the civilisation of the United States
would have had to fight the same battle for its exis-
tence.

It is sometimes said that because the Americ an
colonies succeeded in maintaining their indepen -
dence, therefore the Southern States ought to have
theirs. The loyal gentlemen of the United States
cannot see a parallel between the two cases. It is
believed here that the American revolution was
begun and carried on for the maintenance of prin-
ciples which lie at the root of civil liberty, while
we cannot see that the Southerners have any
just cause for a rebellion against a Government
that they have controlled for more than half a cen-
tury. This distinction destroys the pertinency of
the example. And further, it may be said that
Great Britain in acknowledging the independence
of the United States, did not plant along her fron-
tier a formidable hostile Power, with institutions
radically opposed to her own—another distinction,
Which equally affects its pertinency.
Any nation whieh assents without a struggle to
its own dismemberment is unworthy the respect of
other Powers, and cannot long maintain its own
independent existence. If the inhabitants of any
given territory may secede when they are dissatis-
fied with the common central power that represents
the nationality, and may at their own pleasure or-
ganise themselves into an independent Power, and
its ethics are to forbid any resistance, there is an end
of the family of nations. Under such a rule Austria
must fold her hands when Hungary or Venice rises,
and England, instead of an army, must send an
envoy to India. The same great law which justifies
the other nations of the earth in defending the in-
tegrity of their borders justifies the United States
in defending its territory from the attacks of the
present rebellion. It has, also, other reasons ofjus-
tification peculiar to itself, which seem to me to
completely answer the sophistries I am examining.
.... .

The territory which now composes the States of
Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri was
purchased by the Federal Government of foreign
Powers at different times for Federal uses. The
State of Florida was acquired for the better protec-
tion of the commerce of the whole Union, nearly all
of which is Northern. Louisiana, Missouri, and
Arkansas were acquired that Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
and Kentucky might enjoy the navigation of the
Mississippi to its mouth without interference or per-
mission of any foreign Power. The doctrine that
all people who happen to reside upon the territory
so acquired may, in a moment of madness, pass it
over to a hostile foreign Power without resistance
is too monstrous to be submitted to by the Govern-
ment of the United States without a struggle.
The intelligent men, the thinking men, the men
of progress in this part of the country call upon the
Government to go on with this war till the integrity
of the nation is re-established. Unless that is done
they see little hope for the preservation and spread
of civilisation over this once prosperous land. The
success of secession in their judgment is the down-
fall of liberty—the establishment of a military des-
potism—the elevation of a planting aristocracy,
with little of the refinements of civilised life, resting
its claim to power on the possession of slaves, and
governing the North by an alliance with the lowest
and.most disorganizing elements of society. He who
believes that either men, money, or personal exer-
tions will be spared to avert such a result is, in my
judgment, mistaken.
I close this letter with an extract from a speech
of Mr. Johnson, a senator from the State of Ten-
nessee, in the Congress of the United States, do•
scribing secession as it is practically carried out in
that State :

" While yet beseeching them to act upon their
own doctrine, and let us alone, the hoofs of their
cavalry were indenting our plains, and the tramp
of their troops was about our homes. And yet there
are those who set up the puling cry, ' Let there be
no coercion.' What! a Secessionist declaring against
coercion ? Why, God bless you, friends, they never
got anything except by coercion. They coerced
Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Virginia, out of
the Union. They attempted it in Maryland—the
Government stopped it ; they are now attempting
it in Kentucky, and there the people will stop it !
Their whole career has been one of coercion, of out-
rage, insult, blasphemy, and crime. Detachments
of their mymidons, who were sent, as they said, 'to
protect us from the despotism of Abe Lincoln,' could
pass through our county, in Tennessee, on the rail-
road. As they went they saw the flag of our coun-
try, the glorious old stripes and stars, floating from
the gable of an humble school-house, where the
little boys had placed it as an emblem of their pure
and dawning love for the Union. What did these
miscreants do ? They stopped their train, and with
hootings and ribaldry, with menaces and execra-
tions and blasphemy, tore it from the children and
jewels and
would rum
trampled in it the mire ! They would enter private
houses, and, under pretence of seeking for ammuni-
tion,meals and theirrl:d°Tilns.g
the family
hettheir money, and the women of their
of nutge
- drawers and dsks, robbing
wastefulness, and scatter
and, after They would order their
in tones of insolence and in
would feed their horses with
terms of insult.
eating er the food recklessly on the
ground ;
Ithewould mount, and with oaths satiate appetites, and riotingto
fill of their in-
it rummaging, they
this,
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Secession
tell the faimi.iilydto,
is
sharge it all to
'They came into my

own county ; they called at my house. Some of
their number came forward and demanded of my
family whether I was at home, saying that if I was
they had come to take me and hang me ! Pleasant
intelligence this for gentlemen (?) to communicate
to wife and daughters ! But my daughter, indig-
nant at their conduct, said, No, my father is not
at home ; he is absent in another county, where he
is making a speech for the Union; and this I pre-
sume you knew, or your cowardly crew would not
have cared to show themselves at this house "They
then sullenly withdrew. As they passed on through
the neighbourhood they came upon the house of a
Union family; the husband was not at home, but
his wife, a stout-hearted woman, had her
Union flag at the gate-post. They instantly com-
manded her to remove it. She would not. They
attempted to seize it, and she seized it; they
struggled for it, but she kept her flag. They then
went into the woods, cut a hickory withe, and, re-
turning, scourged her person with it. This, my
friends, is Secession, and these are the men you are
to ' compromise' with ! Some of these same demons
—five of them—fiends in human shape, stopped
at the house of a man named Markham, who, seeing
them approach, and fearing insult and outrage to
himself if he remained, and thinking that they
would not be so likely to provoke a quarrel with
the family if he were not present, took his rifle from
its resting-place and retired unobserved by them into
a little thicket hard by the house, in order to be at
handin case they offered any abuse to his family. He
had an amiable wife and two daughters, the
youngest a girl of about 12 years, and the other just
blosoming into womanhood, about 16, as beautiful
as the morning and as pure as the dewdrop. The
Secessionists entered and insolently demanded din-
ner for themselves and feed for their horses. The
wife told them there was the crib and the fodder,
and they would give them their dinner. They
took the hay and the corn and scattered it about
the ground, and ordered the ladies to hasten their
dinner. In due time the meal was prepared, and
soon greedily devoured. After sating their appe-
tites at the table, they began to address rude re-
marks to the wife and daughters. One attempted
to make love to the young lady, when her young
sister, seizing the tin horn or trumpet, which is
kept in almost all rural homesteads to make a
summons to dinner, or sound an alarm to the neigh-
bours in case of accident, sprang to the door and
blew a blast. At this the hellish demon turned,
drew a pistol from his girdle, fired its bullet
through her brain, and with one wild shriek she
fell in agonizing death at the feet of her screaming
mother. That blast, the shot, the shriek, and
scream pierced the ear of the waiting father ; he
sprang from his retreat, he stood at his door—one
glance revealed all, and, taking deliberate aim, he
sent his rifle bullet straight through the villain's
heart. The other four, alarmed at the trumpet
blast, and knowing that the whole neighbourhood
would soon be upon them, mounted their horses
and fled. The enraged father, finding them be-
yond his reach, turning to where the slayer of his
little daughter lay, seized his axe and cut his brutal
body into quarters, and threw them out as only fit
for the dogs to devour! Such, my friends, is Seces-
sion at home. It is robbery, rapine, and murder.
And it is marching toward you, and will be upon
you. You must arm for your own defence. I
speak not to you in fables. These things occurred,
not in a remote country, but right over there in
Tennessee. I seem even yet to hear the shriek that
went up from that young and innocent heart as it
took leave of life—so wild, so clear, so agonizing
that even angelic spirits might come to listen and
avenge ! Will you not, then, rush to the support
of your Government and the resßue of your country
from the reign of terror that has no parallel in the
history of civilized man ?"

THE MILLTOWN OUTRAGE.

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DUBLIN, TUESDAY

The interest in this extraordinary case increases
as the trial proceeds. It seemed to be wound up to
the highest pitch yesterday, when Agnes Wiles,
one of the principal witnesses, was taken into cus-
tody by order of the Court, and committed for per-
jury. When the doors of the Court were opened it
was quickly crowded. The judges took their seats
at 11 o'clock, when Mr. Jugde Ball, addressing the
sub sheriff, said :

" In consequence of what occurred on Saturday
evening—the interruption during the address of
the counsel for the prisoner, the disturbances in
the court—with the view to prevent a recurrence of
such unseemly proceedings, the Court now put it
upon you to provide and see that a sufficient force
of police is at hand, in order that, if any such thing
should again occur, you may at once proceed to
clear the gallery and turn every person out. You
will do that immediately on the recurrence of such
an unseemly proceeding as that of Saturday."
Mr. Ormsby, sub-sheriff—l shall do so, my lord.

Mr. Sidney then resumed his address on behalf
of the prisoner. Ho dwelt upon the difficulty of
identification under the circumstances in which
Miss Jolly was placed. The night was wet,
stormy, and dark. The man had a muffler
about his neck, and he had on a broad-brimmed
hat, screening his face. She did not observe
his features in Sackville-street—the best-lighted
street in the city—how could she observe them
where there were no lights, on a dark, tempestuous
night ? She could not recognise the policeman who
had called on her and conversed with her on the
subject, nor the man who talked with her
where the cab stopped at
,Itathmines. Counsel
believed that her fervent desire was to tell the
truth; but he thought she was unconsciously
influenced by the statements of Agnes Wiles
(whom she then believed trustworthy) and her
brother, before whom the prisoner was paraded.
Curran had been thrust upon her attention by the
police as the guilty party, as a jugler forces a par-
ticular card upon those whom he wishes to deceive.
Having dwelt upon the liability to mistakes in
questions of identity, he said :
"He felt that his client was safe in their hands.
As for Miss Jolly, if they acquitted his client, she
walked forth from this court with a character pure,
a virtue spotless: She might have been mistaken
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opinions of every man in the country ; and if they
convicted the accused innocent persons would suf-
fer, and they asked them, through him, to give a
patient hearing to this case. Their laws were mer-
ciful and humane, theirlaws were bright, they were
the envy of other countries, and he asked them
to-day by their verdict to shed additional lustre
upon them. It was said that ' justice required a
victim.' Justice required no victim ; justice would
rather that 99 guilty men should escape than that
one innocent man should suffer. All he asked them
to do was to give a verdict satisfactory to their con-
sciences—a verdict that coincided with the monitors
in their own hearts. That verdict would meet with
public approval, and by giving that verdict they
would maintain their high position as jurors; by
giving that verdict they would prove that, not-
withstanding the power and weight of the Crown
there were to be found men who could by their ver-
dict allow an innocent man to walk forth scathless.
By doing so they would have done their duty to the
prisoner, to the Crown, to themselves, and to their
country."
James Priest, commander of tho Admiral Moor-
som steamer, trading between Dublin and Holy.
head; Christopher Ward, a boatman in the employ-
ment of the Chester and Holyhead Company ;
John EMMCS, second mate on board that vessel ;
and Susan Pritchard, the stewardess, all positively
swore that Agnes Wiles and another girl of the
town named Bridget Gilligan were on board that
steamer on the passage to Holyhead on the night
of Thursday, the 26th of September, and returned
in the same vessel on Saturday following. Conse-
quently, Agnes Wiles was not at Dublin at all on
the night she swore she saw Miss Jolly enter the
cab in Sackville-stieet. The two women were put
forward and fully identified by the witnesses.
When this startling evidence had been given, Mr.
Justice Ball said,—

The Court now wish to direct that Agnes Wiles
should be taken into custody, and that the Crown
prosecutor should be directed to have informations
sworn against her perjury.
Sergeant Sullivan—lf that intimation had not
fallen from the Bench, the Crown, I wish to state,
were quite prepared to have an application made
to the judge for that purpose. It was their inten-
tion to make the application when the case was
over.

Judge Ball—The case is too glaring to be allowed
to pass over.
Agnes Wiles was then taken into custody, for the
purpose of having a prosecution instituted against
her for wilful and corrupt perjury.
Judge Ball directed that the witnesses—James
Priest, Christopher Ward, John Emmes, and Susan
Pritchard—should be at once bound over in the
sum of .£5O each to appear at the next commission
to give evidence against Agnes 'Wiles for commit-
ting wilful and corrupt perjury.

Several cabmen were then examined on behalf of
the prisoner, but their oyidonoo was not material.

The most important witness was his aunt, with
whom he resided, whose evidence was as follows :

Sarah Meara, sworn and examined by Mr. Cur-
ran—l am a widow, residing in Grant's-row, and
keep a lodging-house. The prisoner, John Curran,
is my nephew. He is a married man. His wife
was nursing for a lady and gentleman, but she lost
it through the means of this case. The prisoner
lodged with me. Four other men lodged in the
house. My house is a two-storied house. It has four
rooms in it. I occupy only two of those four. One
of the :rooms I occupy is inside the other. They are
at the right-hand side of the hall as I go in. There
is a door going out of my room down to the back
room where the lodgers sleep. There were four men
besides Curran lodging in that room. Their names
were John Boyle, Thomas Boyle, Luke Whelan,
and Silvestcr Magann. I have a clock in my house.
I recollect the night of Friday, September 27. I
heard of the occurrence on the following Sunday
morning; a woman read it in the papers coming
from chapel. The police called to me to inquire
about it on the Tuesday. I distinctly recollect that
Friday night. It was raining a very heavy shower
at the time he came in, and very stormy. I have a
servant named Anne Newsom living with me.
When Curran came in that night I felt his coat,
and found it so wet that I called Anne Newsom to
pull it off, and while sho was pulling it off I heard
the clock strike 10. The clock was in my own
room. _ .

To Judge O'Brien—l looked at the clock at the
time, and both saw and heard it. The hour hand
was pointing to 10. I saw the hour hand pointing
at 10. _

To Judge Ball—My clock is not an American
clock. It is a 24 hours' clock. It goes regularly.
Do you know the reason he came home so early
that night ?—He told me himself.
Do you know the reason except from himself ?
No, sir.
What did he do with his clothes ?—I desired the
servant to put his clothes to the fire to dry, and to
give him his supper. I went to bed soon afterwards,
and left him sitting at the fire drying himself. It
was six minutes past 10 when I went to bed. I
slept in the room where the fire was. Silvester
Magann was in the room inside when the prisoner
came home. He was sick in bed. He was in the
bed where the prisoner slept. John Boyle also
slept in the same bed. The three men slept in the
same bed. John Boyle had not come in before I
went to bed. Thomas Boyle came in about a quar-
ter of an hour or 10 minutes after I had gone to
bed. I saw Luke Whelan come in afterwards. It
was between 10 and 11.

"To Judge Ball—The prisoner's wife had been
nursing for a lady. She did not live in the house
with the prisoner. She had been out nursing for a
lady about six months. I kept his children and
himself, as his wife was away nursing."
The witness was severely cross-examined by Ser-
geant Sullivan, but her evidence was not shaken.
Christopher Nowlan was recalled, and identified
the cushion which was produced in court as the one
which he had found about seven or eight perches
beyond Rathmines Church,
It being then a few minutes after 5 o'clock the
Court adjourned until half-past 10 this morning.

TUESDAY EVENING.

The trial of the prisoner was resumed this morn-
ing, and as might be expected, after the singular
turn the proceedings of yesterday had taken by the
committal for perjury of the principal witness for
the prosecution, the public interest had greatly in-
creased, and at no time since the commencement of
the trial has it been manifested in so marked a de-
gree as to-day. The case for the defence closed this
afternoon, and Mr. Walsh, Q.C., addressed the
jury on behalf of the Crown. At the conclusion of
his speech the Court adjourned until 11 o'clock to-
morrow morning, when Mr. Justice Ball will pro-
ceed to charge the jury.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF

BIGAMY.

The following is a more extended report than appeared in
The Sun of yesterday :
Barbara Catherine Wilson, who had been appre-
hended on the previous evening, and had remained
all night and during the forenoon in custody at the
police-station, was brought before Mr. Corrie, at the
Bow-street police•conrt yesterday, charged with
having intermarried with William Langham Hasel-
brigge Le Hunte Wilson, her husband, Jonathan
Gotobed, being then and now alive. _ _ _

The prisoner, who was elegantly dressed,had been
attended at the station-house by her own servant.
Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. Goodrich, of New
Boswell-court, appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Gifford, instructed by Mr. Smith, of Furnival's
Inn, as agent for Messrs. Davies and Tanner,
Ifaverfordwest, for the defence.
Upon the prisoner taking her place in the dock,
at about half-past one o'clock, her counsel, Mr. Gif-
ford, requested that he might be allowed to sit
down, which was at once acceded to._ _ _ _ _

Mr. Sleigh said he was instructed by Mr. Good-
rich and by Mr. Hathaway, solicitors, to institute a
prosecution against the lady at the bar for bigamy.
From his instructions it appeared that in 1848 she
was married at a place called Billericay, in Essex,
to a person named Gotobed, a builder, the prisoner
herself being also at that time in rather a humble
sphere of life. Her maiden name was Barbara
Catherine Morris. Gotobed subsequently went to
America, and the defendant became acquainted with
Mr. Wilson, who was a captain in the army or in
the militia, and to whom she was married in Jan-
uary, 1858. She was then described as a widow.
The second marriage took place at St. Pancras
Church, Euston-road. He (Mr. Sleigh) only pro-
posed to-day to lay before the court so much evi-
dence as would be sufficient to justify a remand.
He would show, however, that the prisoner had
lived with Captain Wilson for some time as his
wife at various places when travelling, and also at
his estate at Witchet Hampton, Gloucestershire.
There was no doubt that at that time Capt. Wil-
son was under the impression that she was what
she represented herself to be, and he (Mr.
Sleigh) was instructed that the present prosecution
was instituted by Capt. Wilson's directions. Ile had
not at first been aware of that fact—
Mr. Giffard—No, I should think not.
Mr. Sleigh—And I should not have stated it now
if the fact had not been stated to me in writing.
Mr. Giffard—My friend is quite right in that
precaution.
Mr. Sleigh—l understand that it is the fact.
Mr. Giffard—That is exactly what remains to be
seen.

Mr. Sleigh said that in a legal point of view it
was perfectly immaterial. Mr. Stannard, the
managing clerk to Mr. Goodrich, who conducted the
case, would produce authenticated copies of the cer-
tificates of both marriages, which were legally ad-
missible as evidence, and the clerk from the parish
of St. Pancras would produce the registry of the
second marriage. A Miss Earle would be called to
prove a conversation prior to the second marriage,
in which the prisoner said that " Jonathan" was in
America, and that she was about to marry Captain
Wilson ; and that she, Miss Earle, had been living
with the prisoner after her marriage with Captain
Wilson, with whom the prisoner resided as his wife.
He would also call a witness who would prove that
Mr. Gotobed was alive and well within the last
few days. He thought these proofs would be suffi-
cient to justify him in asking for a remand.
Mr. John Wells Stannard deposed—l am articled
clerk to Mr. Goodrich, solicitor, of New Boswell-
court. I have the conduct of this case. I produce
two documents, marked A and B. The former,
marked A, is a copy of the certificate of the mar-
riage of Jonathan Gotobed with Barbara Catherine
Morris, celebrated on the 22d Aug., 1848, at Brent-
wood, in the district of Billericay, in Essex. The
second, marked B, is a copy of the certificate of the
marriage of Wm. Langham llaselbrigge Le Hunte
Wilson, bachelor, with Barbara Catherine Howard
Morris Gotobed Gordon, widow, celebrated at St.
Pancras Church, Euston-road, on the 12th January,
1858. I obtained both of these documents at Somer-
set House, and compared them with the originals.
Mr. Giffard, in cross-examination, asked the
witness who instructed him.
Witness—My employer.
Mr. Giffard—Who instructed him ?
Witness—His client.
Mr. Giffard—Who is that ?
Witness—Mrs. Wilson.
Mr. Giffard—The prisoner's mother-in-law
Witness—Her so-called mother-in-law—Capt.
Wilson's mother.

Mr. Giffard—Not Captain Wilson ?
Witness—Mr. Hathaway, Captain Wilson's
solicitor, told me that Capt. Wilson had directed
the prosecution to be instituted.
Mr. Giffard said that was not evidence.
In further um-examination the witness said
—We conducted the prosecution of an indictment
for conspiracy against the prisoner. It stood for
trial at the July Sessions. We removed it .by
certiorari to the Queen's Bench. We did not give
the prisoner notice of that motion. The prisoner
was present, with her witnesses, to see if we were
going to trial. I did not then state to Mr. Smith,
her solicitor, that I should take these proceedings.
I will swear that I did not know that she had
come back from Paris on purpose to meet that
prosecution. I knew she was to be tried at that
time if we went to trial, and of course I pre-
sumed she would come back to surrender:
Mr. Ci ifflArd--"Willat do you mean by " a you,

went to trial ? Did it rest with you ? Were you
not bound over to try it ?
Witness—l was; but there might be other
reasons.
Mr. Giffard—What other reasons ? Had you
offered to compromise ?
Witness—Certainly not.
Mr. Giffard—Will you swear you had not offered
to withdraw from the prosecution for conspiracy
if she would plead guilty to bigamy ?
Witness—Certainly I did not.
Mr. Giffard—Then what were the other reasons?
Witness—Reasons of expediency.
Mr. Giffard—What were they ?
Witness—lf you will have it, we intended to
obtain evidence of the bigamy, and we thought if
we got a conviction for that we need not proceed
with the conspiracy case.
Mr. Giffard—Exactly.
In further cross-examination wit!.css stated that
the prisoner at the time the original prosecution
was instituted was living at Denbigh, in Wales.
Miss Earle was one of the witnesses. She was not
admitted as an approver, for she was not included
in the indictment. She did not say she was a
party to the conspiracy. She said in her evidence
that when she was companion to the prisoner she
knew of it. She did not tell me that she aided it,
but on the contrary, that she tried to dissuade the
prisoner, and so did the other witness, a Mrs.
Brown. I did not know that Mrs. Wilson was
going to Paris when the prisoner caine to London.
I did not know that she procured her son to be
arrested at Paris ; on the contrary, I am sure she
was not a party to anything of the sort. The pri-
soner was apprehended by my instructions at about
half-past five o'clock last evening. It did not occur
to me that at such an hour she could not get bail.
I did not consider about bail at all, as I believe it is
not a bailable offence.

Mr. Giffard—You had better not say that in your
examination.

Mr. Sleigh—What was the conspiracy you
charged her with ?
Mr. Giffard objected, but Mr. Corrie thought the
question might be put.
Mr. Sleigh—Well, I will put it thus—was it a
conspiracy to pass off a spurious or supposititious
child as the child of Captain Wilson?

Witnesss—lt was.
Mr. Giffard—Oh, we shall hear about the con-
spiracy.
Mr. Sleigh—That is very likely, I should think.
Mr. Gifford—Your attorney seems to think it
rests in your hands.
Mr. George Pearkes—l am now retired. I for-
merly kept the oyster•shop known as the
Whistling Oyster, in Vinegar-yard. This morning
I saw Mr. Gotobed. He is clerk of the works to
a contractor. Ido not know his Christian name,
name, and I do not know that he is the husband of
the prisoner at the bar. _ _

Mr. Sleigh—Then you may stand down.
Mr. Lettuce, acting clerk at St, Pancras Church,
produced the register of the marriage on the 12th
January, 1858, at that church, of William Laugh=
Haselbrigge Le Hunte Wilson, to Barbara Cathe-
rine Howard Morris Gotobed Gordon. The signa-
tures purported to be those of the parties.
Miss Frances Ann Earle—l am living at Graves-
end, Kent. I was formerly a teacher of music, and
subsequently ladies' companion. I first became
acquainted with the prisoner in 1857, at the house
of her sister Mrs. Petch. In the latter part of that
year, or early part of 1858, I heard her say that
she was going to be married to Captain Wilson.
Mrs. Petch said, " What will you do with Jona-
than ?" The prisoner replied, " Jonathan is all
right, he is in America." That was either at the
end of December or in the beginning of January.
I saw her again in March, 1858. She was then
living with Captain Wilson as his wife. I subse-
quently became companion to her, and travelled
about with her and Captain Wilson. I used to act
as her amanuensis.

Mr. Sleigh—She could not writ© much, could
she?

Witness—l have seen her write her name, never
anything else. The signature to the registry pro-
duced is in her handwriting.
Cross-examined by Mr. Giffard—l am living at
Mr. Pearke's, at Gravesend, not in any particular
capacity.
To Mr. Sleigh—l have resided with the prisoner
and Captain Wilson at his estate at Witchet
Hampton.
Mr. Sleigh applied for a remand, submitting that
the evidence was sufficient for that purpose. In-
deed, the magistrate, or Mr. Burnaby, the chief
clerk, had already intimated that if so much were
proved it would be sufficient.
Mr. Giffard—l am quite sure that neither the
magistrate nor Mr. Burnaby over said anything of
the sort.

Mr. Corrie observed that when on Monday Mr.
Stannard applied for a warrant (which he refused
to grant, as the witnesses were not in attendance,
leaving Mr. Stannard to give the prisoner in charge
on his own authority, if he thought proper), it was
understood that the difficulty was about proving
the second marriage; now it seemed to be about
the first.

Mr. Sleigh said there was really no difficulty
about either. In six hours witnesses could be pro-
duced who were present at the marriage with
Gotobed, and who had seen him within a few days.
Mr. Corrie said ho thought the evidence was
sufficient.
Mr. Giffard had intended to submit that it was
not, but he would not argue against his worship's
opinion.
After some discussion as to the amount of bait,
Mr. Corric fixed two sureties of £25.

Two sureties, Dr. Newnham, physician, and Mr.
Maxamilian Geneste, were provided, and the pri-
soner was liberated.