The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-12 00:00:00

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who hurried that event, and sent him prematurely to that
grave, might as well have spared his memory, and have
avoided the indecorum of putting his name upon the list.—
(Hear, hear.) Let them remember that when the Attorney-
General went to Parliament, he totally failed. The Govern-
ment was obliged to take out of his hands the conduct of their
Act of Parliament. So he ought to tell the twelve jurors
upon the trial—" Gentlemen, it is not the traversers
you are trying, it is me.—(Laughter.) Find a verdict for
me, or I will never be a Chief Justice.—(Laughter.) Oh,
don't mind, we will let them off; but if you don't find a
verdict I am gone for ever. No, penny, no paternoster—
no verdict, no justiceship."—(Laughter.) Well, it was well
they could laugh at those things ; but why should they not
laugh? The infant who put his hand against the running
stream of the Liffey, and thought to stop the water between its
fingers, might as well speculate upon turning up that stream to
the mountains of Wicklow, as any Attorney-General might
speculate upon turning away the stream of Irish patriotism,
Irish firmness, Irish quietude and peace, but Irish determina-
tion to have their country a nation again, and to
have their Parliament in College-green.--(Loud cheers.)
He would be sorry if he died before he saw that 'Parliament—
(Hear, and laughter)—but really he thoroughly believed that
it was most highly useful to the repealers Plat those. prosecu-
tions were commenced. He was delighted the last monster
meeting they intended to hold was stopped, for it had shown
their ready submission to the law, and bad demonstrated to
those who were frightened at their power that they might be
safe in their integrity, and in the consequences of their in-
fluence.—( Hear, hear.) Those prosecutions did not diminish
the ardour for the Repeal.—( Hear, and loud cheers.) He
trusted there did not live the anti-Repealer in Ireland who
did not believe that he would not for all the political
changes that could ever be formed deprive any man unjustly
of one shilling of his property, or spill, foe any human consi-
deration, and there could be no other for it, one single drop of
human blood.—( Hear and cheers.) Of course he was growing
old, and the period was drawing near when he would have to
answer before his Creator ; hut at all events, he had this con-
solation—that ardently as be loved liberty—animated as his
heart was in the cause of Ireland—desirous as he was of seeing
his country a nation, and writing his name on, he hoped, the
brightest page of her history, he did not wish for success unless
it were beneficial to Ireland.—(Cheers.) He wanted no tri-
umph of a sectarian or party nature, but that all should parti-
cipate in the good which would result from the measure he pro-
posed. These were the desires of his entire life—these were
his aspirations, and would continue to be his aspirations in the
cell or under the sod. He was an Irishman whose firstand only
thought was the good, the prosperity, and the liberty of Ire-
land.—(Deafening applause.)
TRIAL AT DUBLIN.

On the Bth inst. Thomas Rateliff, a half-pay marine officer,
and Jane Hunter, were indicted for &conspiracy, with the view
of debauching the daughter of the said Jane Hunter, she being
about 14 years of age. The particulars of the case were pub-
lished when the prisoners were examined before the Rolice in
Sept. last. The jury found both prisoners guilty. Sentence
deferred.

THE FORGERIES OF WILLS AND
TRANSFERS OF STOCK IN THE BANK
OF ENGLAND.

On Wednesday night, at a late hour, Daniel For-
rester, the officer, arrived at the Mansion-house,
having in his custody a respectably-dressed female,
whom he charged before the Lord Mayor, as a person
deeply implicated in the nefarious transactions with
which the names of Barber and Fletcher are mixed
up. The prisoner is the wife of a respectable trades.
man in Oxford-street, to whom she has been married
about twelve months. Her husband accompanied her
to his Lordship's presence, and suffered dreadfully
during the examination of two women, who were
produced by Daniel Forrester, as witnesses to her
identity.
The LORD MAYOR, upon hearing the statements of
the witnesses, committed the prisoner, who will be
brought up with Barber and Fletcher, together with
whom she is represented as having been a principal
performer in the forgery exhibitions at the Bank of
England.

Mr. Charles Freshfield, solicitor to the Bank of
England, attended the examination, and said that he
had reason to believe that in consequence of the ex-
traordinary exertions and skill of Daniel Forrester,
an unbroken chain of evidence would be produced,
connecting the prisoner, not only with the cases of
Miss Slack and Miss Burchard, the inquiry into
which has been already, to a certain extent, laid be-
fore the public, but with other cases of fraudulent
conspiracy under similar circumstances.
It was quite evident from the conduct of the hus-
band of the prisoner, that he was wholly ignorant of
the nature of the difficulty in which she is placed.

POSTAGE, PAID AND UNPAID

MAIMS.

" Complaints are continually being made that letters and
parcels beyond the twopenny rate are charged to the receiver,
after having been prepaid in money at the time of being
posted. This arises in consequence of postmasters and receiv-
ing-houses not being provided with stamps beyond " Paid
two-pence," and who are therefore compelled to mark in red
ink the postage, showing no difference between a letter thus
already paid and one to be received for."—Paragraph in
" TheSun"of Jan. 10, 1844.