The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-15 00:00:00

Agar's conduce, his motive for making this statement,
and the hope he had of regaining his liberty, no
matter et what cost to others, and vaich he would lock
upcn as a noble triumph of art, and show himself the
worthy head of the noble Guild of Scoundrels. The
learned sergeant alluded to the philosophy, if he might
term it, of such a man as Agar, and said that Agar had
made out a case from his own knowledge of certain mat-
ters on the railway, and had stated the circu stances
so precisely, because they were susceptible of apparent
confirmation—a confirmation made by himself, and ob-
tained independently of the offence he had committed. The
learned sergeant then proceeded to analyse the statement
of Agar on that hypothesis, and he charged Agar with
stating a deliberate lie when be said the sovereigns ob-
tained for the gold were changed into notes. It was
not the object of thieves to obtain notes, but to be
possessed of sovereigns, which did not lead to detection,
and pas,ed in all parts of the world. The two 1001.
notes bearing Tester's name bad never been in his
possession, nor was the handwriting his, but the
result of an ingenious, well-concocted, and well-
contrived scheme of forgery. The notes got into
the bank with Tester's name attached by fraud,
in order to divert attention from the real cul-
prits. Agar was a man who bad been connecte I
with forgers in England and America, and he bad,
there could be no doubt, concocted this excellent plot
with the assistance of a well-known person of the Inner
Temple, "Jim Saward " by name, who, he be.
lieved, as soon as the punishment of death was
abolished for forgery commenced that career which it
was probable he would now soon terminate in this
court. In conclusion the learned sergeant asked the
jury to disbelieve Agar, and acquit a man deemed of
irreproachable character until this time.
Mr. Baron Martin, in summing np, said that the pri-
soner Pierce, if found guilty, could only be convicted
of a simple larceny, he not being in the company's ser-
vice at the time of the robbery, but the others
could of felony, because they were in the company's
service at the time. That had nothing to do with th.-ir
forming their guilt or innocence of the prisoners, but it
would be for the consideration of the judges in sentencing
them if they were found guilty. The man Agar was a
thief by profession, and from his own account he was
applied to by Pierce as others would a professional man
of ability on legitimate affairs, and to convict the prisoners
on the evidence of that man, he ought to be corroborated.
They ought to besatisfied that the story he told was a true
one. If they were convinced of that, and that there were
circumstances connected with it which he could not or
had not the means of framing with other persons, con-
firmed by ind-pendent witnesses, that would be a suffi-
cient corroboration for them to find the prisoners guilty
If, on the other hand, they did not believe Agar's -tats
meet it was equa ly their duty to consider the eteer
evidence, as it referred to the prisoners. Without his
evidence there was no case against Burgess and Tester
After going minutely through the evidence,
The Jury retired to consider their verdict.

At five o'clock, after an absence of ten minutes, they
returned into omrt with a verdict of guilty against the
three prisoners.

Pierce was sentenced to two years' imprisonment,
with the Ist, 12th, and 24th months' solitary confine-
ment, the highest punishment he could inflict on him ;
Burgess and Tester were transported for 14 years each.
In order to facilitate Redpsth and Kent's case, they
were placed at the bar, and arraigned ; they pleaded not
guilty to each of the indictments.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day

The following appointments were made at the Ad
miralty this afternoon :
Clerks—F. M. S. Dufour, to the Retribution ; Rus.
soil Hill, to the Waterloo.

Mr. Augustus Mayford, William F. Law, George P.
Heather, and W. H. Obree, have been promoted to the
rank of Master.