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found these documents tied up in the usual manner in England, described by the Sultan, and the Seik at Islam ;
which they would be tied up in an attorney's office. but as the Mullahs amon• the Mithoratnedans live with
Mr. M‘Pherson recalled—The desire of the writer of great simplicity, I shall do the same.
the second letter was in the certificate of the marriage " I shall not neglect to make -search for the ' ether
of John and Janet Stewart. I should change the British officers at and near Bokhara, and every Sepoy I
name Janet into Jane, and the reason given might pick up.'-z- - • -- •
was, that Jane was the -word used England The King of Persia evinces the greatest teal; he has
for Janet. On ''receiving the first - letter, I i already written to the Ulmer riokhara, claiming them
had written to state that I had found the entry of The unfortunate men as British officers of distinction, and
marriage of John and Janet Stewart, and then came the I urging him to send them immediately to Tehran with
letter asking for the certificate, and suggesting that I all the honours due to their exalted rank. His Majesty
should make the alteration. The name of Stewart is has also ordered a Mehmandah to accompany Doctor
common in the parish of Callender, and several parishes i Wolff to the Bokhara territory.
around. It is the name of the family of the Earl of Such is the result of the powerful aid so kindly al'-
.
Moray. "' forded by the Earl of Aberdeen; without that aid lir.
Cross-examined by Mr. GREAVES—The date of the Wolff never could have reached Tehran, and we may
certificate was January, 1756: Ido not recollect the now confidently expect that the fate of these officers will
words of the lettef. not long remain a mystery.
By Mr. Baron GVENEL—Applications are frequently
made to me fur certificates. I never on any former oc-
casion recieved 2L for one. -
Edmund Keine—l am clerk to Mr. Potts the proctor.
I remember Fletcher coming to our office in July or
August, 1840. Ife was accompanied by an old lady.
He gave instructions for letters or administra-
tion for the effects of John Stewart deceased:
II asked him who he was recommended by. He said he
knew Mr. Potts. He did not mention his own name.
tie said the female was the sister of deceased. There
is a printed affidavit entered at the Stamp-office, in
which there are blanks for the name of the person
deceased. I made inquiries of him to fill up
the blanks. This was done in the presence of
the elderly female. She took •no part in it. I
prepared the usual document showin-, the relationship
of the proposed adtninistratrix to the deceased. The
document produced is the one whichi filled up from the
instructions of Fletcher.
Cross-examined by Mr. GREAVES—I never saw Flet-
cher before, but I saw him three times afterwards. I
have been at the Mansion-house, but I Ras not ex-
amined. Mr. Potts, my employer, was.
(The Stamp-office affidavit was then put in and read.
It purported to be the affidavit of Elizabeth Stewart,
lister of John Stewart, deceased. The property was
sworn as under 1,5001.)
Examination resumed—l told Mr. Fletcher that a
bond must be entered into, and that sureties would be
required. He gave me the name of Thomas Griffin as one
of the sureties. Fletcher was told an affidavit would be
required to account for the delay. I accordingly pre-
pared this affidavit from Fletcher's instructions. (The
affidavit which purported to be the affidavit of Elizabeth
Stewart was read. It stated that deponent had been
residing. in New York, and had not heard of her brother's
death until the month of May preceding)
Examination resumed—Mr. Fletcher asiXd me if I
could procure another surety. •
(The trial was proceeding when we went to press, and
is expected to last two or three days.)

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Tuesday week an unusual scene was presented in
Droitwich, in the funeral of Master Solomon Greaves,
son of Mr. Greaves, of Droitwich. This interesting
child was well known in this county as a regular at-
tendant with the Westwood troop of Queen's Own Yeo-
manry, when on duty, wearing a corporal's uniform,,
riding a diminutive pony, and having all the trappings
pertaining to such an officer in the Yeomanry. He was
buried with military honours, having been followed to
his uarly grave by a guard of twelve privates of the regi-
ment to -which he was attached.— Worcester Journal.

'We regret to hear that Sir John Pechell still re-
mains. in a very precarions state. The Hon Lady Pechell
does not leave the house, and the Duke and Duchess of Nor-
folk are constantly in attendance upon their near relatives.

FROM: aaren. EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The Times should really adopt the alias
of ," The Sorrows of Walter." To what a degree those
sorrows supply motives for its daily diatribes is every
now and then disclosed by itself, as the most natural
thing in the world. That the public should espouse the
cause of Mr. Walter against all adversaries, and that
whenever any public man is soupconne d'etre suspect
of want of allegiance to Mr. Walter, he should be
(avowedly therefore) run down by the Times, seems a
rule requiring no concealment ! The Times office is
holy office of inquisition into the faith of statesmen
—and the first article in the faith of statesmen
belief in Walter.. Without it there is no salvation.
People may talk of priestcrafr, and the dark ages ,•
but to our view the dark ages were luminous, compared
to this age of press-craft. Is it creditable—(look at the
Times of this morning to see if it is not true)—is it
creditable that a journal, assuming to take such a lead
of opinion as the Times, shculd put forth, in its leading
'article, the nrongs, or supposed wrongs, of a proprietor
us the evident provocation (we did not know it before)
On which it proceeds, in the set purpose it has lately
evinced 4' running down the present Home Secretary !
Is it possible to call the public a great gudgeon in plainer
terms, than by thus flaunting the naked hook before it,
confident it will bite none the less? We may be asked
what interest we have in defending Sir James
Graham against the Times. Evidently none, except the
common interest of all rational men in discountenancing
a system of political agitation, in which imputations of
the grossest nature are caught from such lips as a Fer
rand's, to heap on a personal enemy! Sir Jarres Graham
is no friend of ours, but we say, notwithstanding—
Nen tali auxilio, non of-fensoribus istis.
If the object were to render the Hume Secretary re-
spectable to those whose respect is worth having, there is
nothing more eclat:God than this Times and Ferrand league
to effect it. Mr. Oastler has been improving at Brad-
ford on Mr. Ferrand's style of aspersion at Leeds
Ile would tell them why Sir J. Graham made him-
self so very ridicuous before a rational world. Sir
J. Graham knew that the Queen of England had an
opinion upon this question. He knew that her mater-
nal heart was yearning towards the emancipation of
her sex and of the youth of her dominions from their
excessive toil. He knew that she was not an adept in
commercial calculations. He, therefore, was deter-
mined to mystify ane bewilder the loyal-mind, to raise
up hobgoblins to frighten her Majesty from her benefi-
cent resolution. lie knew also that his own tenure of
office depended upon his success, and it was fur that—
that only, that Sir James Graham continued to ring
in the House of Commons that, the stability of our
institutions depends Upon the excessive labour of women
and children in factories."
We have already stated that it is the case of adult
women, not children which is now concerned ; and the
continual appeal about children by one and all of these
agitators, as well as' their continual adducing cf cases of
over-work fifteen or twenty years back, affords no very
strong presumption of consciousness ofthestrength of their
real case. Let that case begone into on its real merits. Let
it be shown that grown-up persons of average, health (f)r
that is the real point) suffer by twelve hours' nork in
a cotton mill more than the fatigue of otherordinar)
occupation.s. Let it be shown that injury and dis-
couragement to investment of capital in manufactures
is not to be apprehended from a further legisla-
tire restriction of adult labour. Let these things
be made out, and none will acquiesce more . gladly
than we shall in the change. But let not fraudu
lent use be made of the tender age of children, who
are out of the question. Let not fraudulent use
be made of cases of overwork some twenty years remote.
(Such. were the cases quoted by Mr. Smith from the
Leeds Infirmary.) Let us not be deluged by men, who
seem to find it impossible to speak truth on any sub:ect,
with aspersion and contumely against every public man
who has courage sufficient to take what is t.leemed the
cold-blooded part of caution— and to sacrifice the sort
of popularity which is so easily and cheaply 'earned.
It is clear that to do this demonstrates a strong
conviction against the safety of change. And whether
that conviction is well or ill founded, adherence to it on
the part of those who hold it is fulfilment of a public
duty. It is said, indeed, that Ministers should yield
their opinion to the majority of the House of Common!.
To a majority in favour of what? Will any ones be kind
enough to tell us? Not ofa Ten Hours' Bill, for that,
as well as the plan of Government, has been negatived.
Ministers have to chcosebetween some compromise,which
will unsettle everything and settle nothing, and adhc
rence to their own view of a point essential to the safety
of important inters sts. Of course they may be wrong in
:heir n!)tion of what is essential to manufactures. So
may Mr. Senior, whose views, we perceive, were quoted
at the Bradford meeting. We can only say that neither
their views of the risk, nor his, seem to us to have been
I shown unfounded.