The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-14 00:00:00

£5O PLATE.

Cheesecake

Vixen
IST CLASS WOKINGHAM STAKES.

Gibraltar
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Moorhen
Camerino 3

Ten ran.
SECOND CLASS WOKINGHAM.

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Nutbush —- --
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1
Southport
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Confidence 3

Nine ran.
QUEEN'S PLATE.

Dulcibella
Moorcock 2
British Prince.... ......................... •••• • • • • 3

Four ran.

RACING FIXTI
JU

'RES FOR 1861.

. Hampton l9
Newton , 19
Odiham '25
Newcastle 25

Bibury Clu% 26
Stockbridge 27
Wiuc4ester 2B

J IT
Newmarket
Carlisle
Worcester
Liverpool July
Abingdon 9
Pontefract 11

Nottingham 16
Stamford lB
Southampton 23
Hartlepool 29
Goodwood 3O

AUG
Lewes
Brighton
Brighton Club
Wolverhampton l2
Reading 14

SEPT]
Devon and Exeter
Stockton
Derby
Warwick lO
Lichfield
Doncaster 17

OCT,

Radcliffe l9
Egham 20
Oxford 22
York
Plymouth 29
:MBER.

Richmond 24
Leicester 25
Walsall 2.5
Monmouth 26
Manchester Autumn 27

IBER.
Down Royal Corporation.. 24

Londonderry
Curragh
IRELAND.
JULY.

Bellewstown 18 I Down Royal Corporation.. 24

AUGUST.
eath of Maryborough .. 8 I Roscommon O 3..• .22

NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE, HAMPTON AND NEWTON
*,{NORTHUMBERLAND
Wm. Gray was the only person to
advise First Lord for the Northumberland Plate. He has a
greater certainty this year. Advice for Hampton and
Newton will be. issued this day. Y. W. Gray was the only
person that selected Brown Duchess to win the Oaks.
Terms to the end of the season, Li ls. ; to the Northum-
berland Plate, ss.—Address, 15, Charing-cross, London.—
Thormanby was advised for Ascot Gold Cup.

THE CASE 01 MR. W. H. BARBER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—As an erroneous impression of my case may be
formed to my prejudice by the report of the debate in the
House of Commons last night, I shall be grateful for the
insertion of this letter in your journal.

The opposition to the appeal made on my behalf pro-
ceeded mainly on the supposition that having received the
amount of the grant in 180, I had accepted it in satis-
faction, and without complaint or showing its inadequacy
until now.

The facts are, that immediately upon learning that it
was intended to propose a grant of £5,000, Dr. Brady,
upon whose motion the select committee had been obtained,
wrote to the then Secretary of the Treasury, pointing out
that it was the desire of the committee that I should be
fully compensated, and showing that I had incurred actual
pecuniary losses through the prosecution to the amount of
nearly £20,000, expressing his hope, therefore, that the
Government world reconsider the amount of the contem-
plated grant. I also memoralised the Lords of the Trea-
sury to the same effect, accompanying the memorial with
a detailed explanatory statement.

Upon the motion of Dr. Brady, this memorial was printed
and circulated with the votes.

The £5,000 was not paid until after the close of the
session of 1859, and the receipt I then gave was simply
an acknowledgment of that amount. In the following
session Sir Fitzroy Kelly presented my petition with the
object of obtaining such a farther sum as would cover
the actual outlay to which I had been put, so that I
might have the £5,000 clear for my personal benefit.
No motion was then made to the house, a hope being enter-
tained that the Government might be induced to consider
the claim without further consuming the time of Parliament,
That hope having been disappointei, the steps with which
your readers are acquainted were taken in the present session.
Another misapprehension was that the speciality of my
case was confined to the treatment I received in Norfolk
Island. When a deputation of my friends waited upon the
late Home Secretary he stated that I had been prosecuted
by the Bank of England, adding that if I had been prose-
cuted by the Government my case would have stood upon a
special and distinct ground.

Dr. Brady subsequently proved that I had been prose-
cuted by the Treasury, and this fact had evidently great
weight with the house and with the Government itself in
granting the select committee. So far as my friends and
myself can trace, I am the only person ever prosecuted by
the Government, and afterwards pardoned on the ground
of innocence.

There is therefore practically no force in the argument
that the Government, by aceeding to my appeal, would
subject themselves to numerous similar applications.
The special features of my case adverted to by the select
committee, in their report, are three :—First, the circum-
stances presented to their notice in respect to my convic-
tion ; second, the treatment in Norfolk Island ; thiid, my
subsequent exculpation. And these the committee say
made my case peculiar and exceptional.

My conviction, as I have always complained, and as the
sequel proved, was obtained by the prosecution having shut
out the very evidence upon which my innocence was after-
wards proved and admitted.

This, of course, lay at the root of the catalogue of loss
and suffering which followed, and which, therefore, formed
the primary and main ground of complaint against, and
consequent claim upon the Government. My treatment
in Norfolk Island was indeed extraordinary ; but the pecu-
liar claims upon the Government upon which I base my
appeal are, that mine was not a prosecution at the instance
of one subject against another, but specially directed by the
Lords of her Majesty's Treasury in regard to public moneys
the property of the nation, and that in the conduct of the
prosecution a course was pursued which rendered it simply
impossible for me to rebut the suspicion upon which my
conviction was obtained.

AB there appears to be some misconception prevailing
relative to the ground on which the question was again
brought before Parliament, may I be allowed briefly to add
that Dr. Brady's motion was based up'n the conviction
that the " strong claims on the favourable consideration of
the Crown" which the committee considered I had were
not adequately met by the grant of £5,000, seeing that the
pecuniary loss I sustained by the unjust prosecution of
which I was the victim, to say nothing of the personal suf-
fering which I therefrom endured, amounted to fully four
times that sum.

I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
W. H. BARBER.

Abchurch-chambers, Abchurch-yard, Qunoon-street,
London, E.C., June 12th, IS6I.

MR. LAING'S FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

The Indian papers are still discussing Mr.
Laing's financial statement. The following is from
the Friend of India:—Although the pressing
necessity for aid from England to the famine
stricken districts has passed away, the liberality
which sent out £20,000 as a first instalment is ap-
preciated here. And it may be required. At pre-
sent even Bengal and the most fertile parts of
Madras feel the want of rain. The famine still
prevails as severely as ever in the districts of the
North-West and Punjab. It is impossible to depend
with any certainty on the rains of July and subse-
quent months, and all past analogy is against the
probability a copious fall. Should they fail the
generosity of England will be sorely tried.
There have been two series of affrays in the in-
digo districts attended with loss of life. In one
instance a native deputy collector, who had gone
to a subdivision of Jessore to try a rent case, when
attempting to disperse an illegal assembly, was
beaten and had to flee for his life. When the
magistrate, after investigating the case next morn-
ing, tried to arrest the guilty parties, he and the
police with him were attacked by the peasantry,
and three men were killed and three wounded. In
another instance, while the hired servants of one
of the Bengal Indigo Company's factories were
engaged in weeding a piece of land, part of which
had been decreed by the court as belonging to the
factory, they were attacked by an armed band of
ryots, and one man was speared to death. It ap-
pears from the report of one of the special commis-
sioners, that the ryots boldly declare they have
combined not to pay rents. To add to the difficul-
ties of the Bengal government, the Sonthals have
been led to assume an uneasy attitude, on account
of suits for the enhancement of their rents and
pressure exercised by the money lenders.

Nothing has transpired since the death of Count
Cavour of the intentions of the Italian Government with
regard to the proposed loan of £20,000,000, but the belief is
that there will be no serious delay. It is understood that
all the energetic measures contemplated by Count Cavour
for promoting railway and steam enterprises will be Zed-
ously executed PY his mown,