The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1844.

his utmost energies, and be met by a vigorous oppo-
sition, both within and without the walls of Parlia-
ment? If he did not mean resolutely to brave every

obstacle, and do his best to surmount it, why did he
take the question in hand at all ? Why raise expecta-
tions, only to disappoint them ? We have no notion of
a public man thus playing fast-and-loose with a great
cause—thus voluntarily sowing the dragon's teeth,
and then taking fright when be finds them spring-
ing up into armed men. Lord Asur.EY—there
is no denying the fact —has abandoned post
after post to his opponents in proportion to
the vigour of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S advance has
been the rapidity of his retreat—and now we find
Him in full flight from the field, for the purpose, as
he tells u 3, of taking up some other position which he
well knows is untenable, seeing that the wirole neigh-
bourhood is in the full possession of the enemy. And
he has acted
_in this ignominious spirit, because the
question is one beset by difficulties! Why, this is
the very reason of all others that should induce a man
of any boldness or energy to grapple with it—to per-
severe in it to the last. Was there ever a great re-
medial measure yet agitated in Parliament that was
not beset by a host of difficulties ? Had Sir ROBERT
PEEL or Earl GREY listened for an instant to this
unworthy plea, the one would never have carried

To decline administering some searching remedy
to admitted disorganisation of the most threatening
character is a weakness, a folly, a tampering, of
which we are unwilling to believe—until we shall
find that plea formally offered—even the Govern-
ment of Sir ROBERT PEEL guilty. If the lapse of
five-and-twenty years is to be accepted as a legitimate
or expedient bar to remedial legislation in such a
matter—for what enormous presumption, reckless-
ness, and guilt must these Parliaments he responsible,
who threw down the Revolution-consecrated "Test
and Corporation " barriers, which would, else, have
excluded, to this day, all Protestant Dissenters from
the House of Commons ?—who erased, from the
statute book, the penal and civil " disabilities" that
had, in like maaner, for upwards Of a century closed
the doors of both Houses of Legislature upon all
" Roman Catholic " subjects of the Crown !—who
transported into the "penal colony" of a. statute
against roguery (schedule A, in short, of the
Reform Bill), those rotten boroughs which had
all the claims of venerable prescription, and
of occasional practical advantage, in their
favour,—and could not, without equal " inex-
pediency," be dismantled. But the working of the
Currency Bill is too great and palpable a disease in
our social system to be much longer. endured. It
demands a mode of treatment which palliatives can
no longer satisfy. It has reached a crisis wherein the
sole choice Les between gradual, but certain removal,
and instant extirpation. Some fearful evidences of
this disease, and of its intensity, we pointed out in
The Sun of Saturday last, in showing the frightful
annual increase of the poor-rate, and the stationary
or retrograding scale upon which wages are now paid
to famishing scores of thousands of our industrial po-
pulation. These demonstrations we will not here re-
peat : but we must remark, in conclusion, that with the
Currency Act still in force, that population cannot hope
to be better paid : manufacturers cannot obtain more
remunerative prices, out of which to raise the scale of
those wages : and that large proportion of the landed
interest which has still to defray the principal or in-
terest of old mortgage encumbrances, and of family
settlement charges, in an artificially enhanced money,
cannot consume manufactures to that which should
be the legitimate extent of their ample, but paralysed
means. If Ireland has been,—the state of the Currency
will be,—" the greatest difficulty" of the very candid
Sir ROBERT PEEL.

Catholic Emancipation, nor the other the Reform
Bill. But Lord ASHLEY, it may be urged, has only
abandoned the Ten Hours' Bill for this session, and
will agitate it with increased energy the next. We
wish to GOD he would leave it alone altogether, for
we now see clearly enough that he is not the man to
deal with such a mighty question. It is not fur the
dwarf to wield the bow of ULYSSES.
Passing from his Lordship to a man of much more

" mark and likelihood," and carrying a much greater
weight of metal, we have a crow to pluck with Mr.
Waste of Sheffield, for some hasty remarks on the
Ten Hours' Bill, which fell from him on Wednesday
night at the League meeting in Covent-garden. He
told his hearers on that occasion that it was the
sheerest folly to legislate on such a subject,
and that the only way to do real good was
to attack the system that caused excessive la-
bour in factories. This is perfectly true, but what
is to be done in the interim with the poor overworked
women and children ? Are they to be left unpro
tected, till the vast, complicated system that blunts
their moral faculties, ruins their health, and consigns
them to a premature grave, is wholly extinguished ?
It may be years ere this desirable consummation is
effected, and are those who are now leading the lives
of slaves, oppressed by disease, penury, and suffer-
ing in their worst forms, to be expected to
wait patiently till then ? Pressing wrongs
demand prompt remedies, and no one can deny that
the case of the factory women and children calls for
the instant interference of Parliament. But, say our
opponents, trade will be injured—which, by the bye,
we doubt—by such interference ; well, be it so ;
trade is, no doubt, a great consideration, but it
is not every thing ; it is not the question or
questions—it is not the one paramount inte-
rest before which all others must give way.
The claims of the breeches pockets are by no means
superior to those of humanity; and that wealth is
dearly purchased, which is purchased at the expense
of the health, the happiness, the temporal and spiritual
welfare of thousands of our fellow-creatures. Mr.
WARD went on to state—and he threw himself into
an attitude of elegant horror when he made the state
meat—that if the Ten Hours' Bill were carried, wages
would inevitably fall. Now, if he had read the report
of the Delegates at the Sunday Manchester meeting, he
would have found that the operatives were prepared
for this alternative, and quite ready to submit to it.
Their almost unanimous opinion was, that it was
better to have less onerous labour, even if they re-
ceived less remuneration. 'lhey would take their
chance, they said ; and their determination, however
paradoxical it may appear, was a truly sagacious
one, and prompted by a generous considera-
tion for the comfort of their wives and children.
Precisely the same language was repeated at the last
Manchester meeting, at which Mr. WALTER, who
was present, met with admirable force of argument
the common-place, selfish doctrine that the Legisla-
ture has no right to interfere in matters of contract
between the employers and the employed. "In
reply to this," observed the speaker, " I will beg
leave to observe that the doctrine is only sound
and good, when the employed are able to
defend themselves. Are women and children able to
do so ? Assuredly not. And does not the law in-
terfere in all other cases to protect the weak ? Are
not infants, and minors, and persons of weak under-
standing protected by the law ?" To close, cogent
reasoning like this no satisfactory answer can he made,
and accordingly we do not at all expect that any will be
attempted. At the great meeting to which we have
just alluded, the Sub-Dean of Manchester remarked :
—" In these manufacturing towns what large num-
bers are to be found with distorted limbs, rickety
knees, or crooked spines." Large numbers, indeed,
as any one must remember who has ever visited a
Lancashire trading town ! And in what spirit do the
political economists meet this dreadful statement ?
Oh, " It is a thousand pities," they reply, " and we
are heartily sorry for the poor defor.eed Creatures ;
but
pit can't be helped ; no immediate remedy can
be applied ; because if you do attempt anything of
the sort, our manufactures V ill be injured ; less money
will be made by our great capitalists, and conse-
quently there will be less means for supplying
the wants of the poor." These objections
are certainly not without their force; but
still recurs the great qUestion—are hundreds—
thousands of our fellow-creatures to be annually
blotted out from the book of life, in order that
the worldly interests of the manufacturers may
remain unimpaired ? In the august name of Huma-
nity, we emphatically reply, No!

Madrid journals of the 11th have been received.
They are almost entirely filled with the new decree
relative to the press, which, of course, is highly
praised by the Government journals. All the others
are gagged or extinct.

Tr.e Three per Cents. were done at 361 at 60 days
and the Fives at 23 cash, and 231 at 60 days.

The discussion in the French Chamber of Peers on
the Secret Service Money Bill was brought to a close
on Wednesday, when it was adopted by a majority
of 131, against 18. During the debate, which
lasted for three days, the affairs of Otaheite formed
the prominent feature. The Marquis DE BOISSY
charged the Government With disowning the act of
Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS from fear of England.
M. GUIZOT said he really did not know what to reply
to that allegation, which he constantly found in his
path, and which had been so often disproved. He
had only to deny its truth, and declare that they had
been actuated by no fear of England in their decision
relative to the absolute sovereignty, any more than
in ratifying the protectorate. Undoubtedly they had
taken into account the state of their relations with
England, for it was their duty so to do. But was it
right to apply the term pusillanimity to such conduct ?
Ite felt convinced that the Chamber would reply in
the negative. Another measure of some importance
was discussed on this motion, namely, the Educa-
tion Bill, on which the Count of MONTALEMBERT
warmly espoused the cause of the clergy, and
considered them justified in setting human laws at
defiance. llis arguments are well summed up in
these words :—" Make laws in your own way, but
we will obey them only when we please. Pronounce
judgments, we laugh at them, and at the judges. Our
consciences, as Catholics, place us above all that. We
know no sovereignty but our own—we are our own
law, our own rights, and we shall ever have the last
word." In fact, his arguments are those which have
been held by every dominant church. The priests
in nearly all ages have asserted that they have Divine
authority for their guide, and obey the civil law only
from fear or necessity. In reply to the bigotted
speech of the young Jesuit, MONTALEMBERT, the Mi-
nister of Public Instruction, said, "the skilfully written
unamfesto of the Count DE MONTALEMBERT would
meet with more than one reproach. On some special
paints it would receive that of the ;Minister of Jus-
tice ; and on the others it would meet with the opinion
and astonishment of the country. They will ask him
whether, under the title of Ambassador of GOD, any
body of men have the right to set themselves above
the laws, and above their civil and political institu-
tions? No, let them render unto GX.SAR what be-
longed to CZESAR7 and by the word CIESAR he would
be understood to mean the ensemble of the institutions
which governed the country. The language used by
the clergy had been that of menace, a threat of ex-
communicating the public authorities if they made a
law displeasing to them. Religion had resumed a
salutary influence in France, but the Government
would not make use of that influence as an instru-

We yesterday reprinted, from the Morning Post,
a letter addressed to the editor of that journal
by Mr. THOMAS ATTWOOD, formerly the re-
presentative of Birmingham in Parliament. The
letter is eminently entitled to the most attentive
perusal of our readers. It is really a powerful and
masterly resume of the history of PEEL'S Currency
Bill of 1819—its antecedents and its consequences.
There is a naive simplicity in Mr. ATTWOOD'S
Comment on the " remarkable obliquity " of under-
standing evinced by certain Jews and lawyers, which
has as much of biting truth as of quiet sarcasm about
it. "At one period," he says, " they could see no
depreciation whatever in the paper money of the late
war; in the next moment they took a curious alarm,
and everything appeared depreciated in their eyes."
He affects gravely to notice the inconsistency of such
conduct, without once imputing to them the in-
fluences under which they distinctly acted, of sordid
and selfish avarice. Thus, he observes, whilst they
were lending 1,047 millions of pounds sterling to the
Government during the late war, they stoutly af-
firmed that their money was Nov depreciated. At the
very moment this lending system came to an end
and the repayment of their 1,047 millions was to
commence, they turned round upon their victims, and
audaciously called the paper money "worthless rags:'
11 Yet, strange to say, with this very expression—
worthless rags"—still in their mouths, they re-
fused to make an abatement of even one farthing in
the pound from their fraudulent and swindling claims
upon the nation, and very coolly proceeded, without
the slightest inquiry, to enforce the repayment of
their " murderous bonds" in full and in standard gold.
This is substantially true. As for the landed interest,
the late Lord LIVERPOOL scarcely exaggerated when he
told them that, having, in paper money, about trebled
the value of their property, they must not expect to
ke'p up such rents in standard gold. Obviously they
could have no reasonable title to exact such rents
under a currency of enhanced value. But surely the
Minister was guilty of an unpardonable weakness,
seeing so clearly, as he did, the loss and ruin which
the Bill of 1819 must entail on a very great body
of their tenantry, to content himself with this well-
bred intimation of his hope, instead of devising some
guarantee for the fact. Now, whatever might be his
Lordship's real expectation, the result of the esta-
blishment of the legalised gold standard has been, not
to bring down rents to their natural or gold
level, but to leave the tenant in a statute-rivetted
incapacity to realise profits on his produce, which can
afford rents that are still so little below what they
were in the days of his prosperity and of paper
money. How this fatal legacy of 1819 has operated
in the successive stages of its transmission to land-
lords, (for they, themselves,_ in innumerable instances

ment."

The Funds on Wednesday continued firm. We
subjoin the only other extracts from the papers of in-
terest:—

from•
a ct afteraddsas
onoticing,‘:Algiers,es(governor-General
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states
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tively po fe eT
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totihnu the
ioavfni sguookhefeinsde ther,aAabl
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pretend that Marshal Bugeaud will be permanently replaced
by the Duke d'Aumale, while others affirm that he conies
home on leave merely to take part in the debate on the budget
tbr the colony; .and this last version appears to us to be the
most probable. Still the return of the Marshal at the moment
of the expedition to the East, planned by himself, is on the
point of being undertaken, somewhat surprises us, and we
must wait for further information before we can make up our
minds on an event of so much importance."
"We learn from the Havannah, says the Globe, " that,
thanks to the energy and firmness of M. Mollien, our Con-
sul:General at Cuba, the five Frenchmen arrested on the
absurd information of slaves, compromised in the last attempt
at revolt, viz., Messrs. Frederic Meynadier, A. R Descha-
pelles, RiolleFouche, and Alfred Roussereau, has been set
at liberty, after a summary examination by a magistrate.
It was full time to have justice done them, for considerable
agitation already was apparent in the numerous French po-
pulation within ten miles round Matanzas, to which distance
the execution of the Llan of revolt, true or false, attributed to
the slaves, was to extend."
The Lloyd Nantais has the following from Hayti, March
9th. We may remark that a general colour of exaggera-
tion pervades the late intelligence from this quarter :—" On
the 27th February the town of Santo-Domingo rose against
the llaytians. After a combat, the latter entrenched them-
selves in the arsenal where they were besieged by the Spanish
population. 'The French Consul having intervened the com-
bat ceased, and a capitulation ensued, by which the coin
bat
were to deposit their arms at the residence of the French
Consul, and a vessel was to be hired to convey them either
to Jacmel, or Port-au-Prince. It was stated at the latter
ii!ace that the Spanish part of Hayti bad risen generally.
"rime insurgents had put down the Haytian authorities, and
ibrnied themselves into a republic with a provisional Go-
v ernment."

THE BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17.
Firm, Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents 122 50 •• 122 50 • • 122 • • 122
lour per Cents ••• • • • 106 30 .• 106 30 • • 105 60 . • 106 30
Three per Cents..... 83 60 .. 83 60 • • 83 50 83 50
Rank of France. 3095 • ..3100 ••3095 •3100
Laihtte Bank, 1,0000 Slur 1170 ..1170 • • 1170 . • 1170

.. nnareslii.
5,000 f. Sliaressoss .•5035 • • 5055 • • SOM
Belgian Bank .............. 700 .. 700 .. 700 .. 700
Belgian Fivcs,lB3l. • 103 .. 1031 • • 103 • • 103/
1840
1842 ........ 107/ .• 107 f • • 107 f 107;
Spanish Active • 34/ .. 34f • • 34f • • 341
Three 5............ 37# • • 3: • • 371 • • 37f
Passive 6# • • 6! • • GI • • 61
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 46# • • 461
• • 46i • • 46i
N,apolittui ......... ....... 102 .. 102 .. 102 .. lO2
Roman •
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain .............. 832 50 .. 832 50 .. 830 .. 830
Versailles, •..•••• • • • .. 240 240 .. 240 • • 230 • • 232 50
Rouen •
Rouen to Havre ••••• • • • ..
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale • • • • • • • . • • 278 75 .. 28`z 50 • ••277 50 • • 277 50
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
St Germain
Versailles, L. 8.• ••• • •
Rouen
Rouen to Havre ...... 710 .. 710 • • 708 75 .. 70S 75
Orleans •••••• • • • • • ••• • . 951 25 • . 952 50 • • 950 .. 950
Strasburg toBale• . 280 285 • 277 50 .• 278 75

have been sacrificed by it), to tenants, farmers, and TII I S DA.Y' S NEW S.
others—and to labourers—Mr. Arrwoon describes
with great distinctness and forco in the fourth para- TIIE WILLS FORGERIES.
graph of his letter. That paragraph abounds with
truths, which, inasmuch as they mark the course and
track of the mischief that has happened, all should
study who would avert the mischief which is yet to I
come. If the Legislature cannot be persuaded, in 1844,
to arrest the downward course on which they launched
the monetary career of the country in 1819, we may
expect a crisis more terrible than, under any other
condition of circumstances, that which would ensue
even upon the bankruptcy of the Bank of England.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

At the sitting of the Court this morning the primers Bar-
ber, Fletcher, Saunders, and Georgiana Dorey, were again
placed at the bar.
Mr. ERLE then rose to reply on the part of the prosecution.
He commenced by expressing his astonishment that his
Learned Friend on the other side should have stated that the
object of the prosecutors in this case was to steal a verdict,
and that the proceedings on their part had been conducted
with acrimony. They wished to obtain a verdict by no other
means than fair and legal ones. This case was one of great
public importance, and demanded the fullest and most rigid
scrutiny. Of Mrs. Dorey he would say nothing; she, by
pleading guilty, had admitted her crime. With regard to
Barber and Fleteher there was no doubt that they had been
in connection on the subject of the will and the transfer of
the stock. At the Bank of England they were found toge
titer with Philpotts, the stockbroker, and a conversation took
place about changing one of the 1,000/. notes into gold.
Philpotts spoke of it as if Barber and Fletcher had a joint
interest. After alluding to the evidence as it affected Lydia
Saunders, he told the jury they had heard a most elo-
quent address from his Learned Friend (Mr. Wilkins),
but he cautioned them against being led away by allu-
sions foreign to the real matter they had to try.
He had alluded to the value of the priYiledge of trial by jury,
a topic very important where there was a question betwt
the Government and the people, but wholly foreign to the
question they had to try. He entreated them to pay no at-
tention to the address which they had heard from counsel,
except so far as it bore on the real merits of the case before
them. He prayed them to give the most calm consideration
to this cause That Barber and Fletcher had co-operated to-
gether was his statement in the opening, and the Learned
Counsel who addressed them on behalf of Barber had dealt
with. that fact as if Barber had merely acted as attorney for
Fletcher. Now, he begged of them to remark, that in his
opening he had charged Barber as an accomplice, and as
having a criminal knowledge of the fraud which
was going on. That he had acted in the ca-
pacity of attorney in the matter there was no doubt;
but; it should be recollected that the assistance of an at-
torney was absolutely necessary. It could not be said that
he was merely acting as attorney for Fletcher in entire igno-
rance of there being any fraud. They must have known
that the stock about which they were making inquiries from
Captain Foskett, was the property of Miss Slack ; that
another parson of the same name resided somewhere else;
as Mr. Barber was keeping back from Captain Foskett and
Miss Slack, the fact which was in his knowledge, that 3,5001.
Consols was standing in the name of that lady in the Bank
of England. The Learned Gentleman then went on to com
ment on the various arguments of Mr. Wilkins. He said,
advisedly, that the question they had to consider was, whe-
titer any ordinary man of business could entertain a reason-
able doubt that Barber had known that he had found the
real owner of the stock, for he had got all the facts which
would enable him to identify Miss Slack as the person to
whom it was owing. Barber stated he believed her
to be the person. The treaty with Captain Foskett, and
Miss Slack was closed, because there was no offer made.
There was a promise given to communicate any information
received on the subject, but no communication was made;
and shortly after the second act of the drama, which con-
cluded in the appropriation of the property, was perpetrated.
Could any person reasoni.bly doubt that Barber knew, that
Anne Slack, of Abbot's. Langley, was the owner of this pro-
perty- ? No doubt the case was most ingeniously managed,
and if it did not afford a melancholy evidence of human de •
pravity, they must be greatly surprised at it. How could
they account, after this, for Barber receiving the woman
Saunders and the will ? Not all the eloquence and fine figures
of the Learned Counsel could explain this, on the ground
thrt he was only acting as a skilful and shrewd attorney.
Barber and Fletcher had been looking for the owner of the
stock ; if they had found her, there was an end of the matter.
But after some time the very will relating to the matter is
brought, and Barber is employed, it is said, as an attorney
by Fletcher. Did it raise no suspicion on the part of Bar-
ber, that after having been looking for the owner of this
property, a will was brought to him respecting it by Flet-
cher? Why, what had Fletcher to do with any property left
by Anne Slack ? Could any reasonable person be misled in
supposing that this was the act of a guilty accomplice?
It was said that Mr. Barber was a respectable man, and had
'heretofore borne an honourable character. They all knew
that when great frauds were to be committed a person of re-
spectable character was the person most likely to perpetrate
them. Such a person was frequently indispensable to the
commission of crimes of this nature. Was it the business of
an attorney fairly employed to
.go to the Batik and receive
600/. in gold almost uncounted into his hand ? The clerk
said it was a most unusual thing to receive so much money
in gold. He did net ask Fletcher any questions as to how he
made out the supposed Emma Slack, or where he had found
her. Was there no suspicion in this ? Three thousand
pounds of the money had been traced to Lydia Saunders and
Fletcher. More than 4,000/. had been received. It was
proved that 600/. had got into the hands of Barber. Where
was the rest? They did not pretend to be able to tell. It
was the duty of a clever person, of course, to leave no trace
of it. Let them weigh what had been the conduct of the
prisoner Barber after the forgery of the will had been found
out, and after Mr. Freshfield had spoken. to him of the sub-
ject. If he had felt himself an innocent man, would he not
on the instant such a charge was made against him, say, " I
only acted as attorney in the matter; I acted for another;
'Fletcher is the man- who is guilty, if anybody is guilty ?"
Then it was said that he was watched by the police,
and that he bad never been seen speaking to Fletcher.
Why, if he was guilty he would be the last person
whom he would be seen speaking to. There was no person
whom he would more cautiously avoid. When Barber was
brought to the Mansion-house, and had heard the case
against him, and after his application to be let out on bail
was refused, he then for the first time after a short consi-
deration gave up the name of Fletcher, and said he was the
man who employed him. The Learned Gentleman then
alluded to the attack which had been made upon Mr. Fresh-
field by the counsel on the other side (Mr. 'Wilkins).
He regretted that his Learned Friend had been be-
trayed into such an attack. Mr. Freshfield was a gentle-
man of undoubted respectability, and what could be more kind
on his part than to go to Mr. Barber and inform him of the
accusation which was made against him in this very act for
which he was now attacked. It had been insinuated that Mr.
Freshfield was not to be believed, because he had suppressed
an important fact. The fact said to be suppressed was one
entirely immaterial, and had nothing whatever to do with
the material point, namely, the suppression of Mr. Fletcher's
name t y Mr. Barber. But the statement of Mr. Freshfield
was most important, and the Learned Counsel wished to do
every thing to damage it. The Learned _Gentleman,
after some further observations, concluded a very able and
temperate speech, by calling on the jury dispassionately to
weigh the evidence in this important case, and to give a ver-
dict according to their reason and their judgment.
Mr. Justice WswAsts then summed-up, and told the jury
to admit nothing for their consideration except what appeared
in the evidence before them. They must discard everything
which had been said by counsel on both sides, except so far
as it was founded upon the evidence. The first thing he had
to remark was that there was no evidence at all as to the
actual person who forged the will ; but that did not dispose of
the important case before them, for there was no doubt that
the, will was forged. As he referred to the evidence, he
should make such observations upon it as he
thought proper, but if the jury did not coincide
with him as to their justness, they would of course
disregard them. With regard to Lydia Saunders, the case
against her rested a good deal on the testimony of the
Neville's, but there were two or three others who spoke of
her with more or less certainty as being-mixed up in the
transaction. With regard to Barber, the main and pressing
question for their consideration was, whether he had acted
truely and solely as an attorney, fairly employed, without
any guilty knowledge of the will being forged. There was
no doubt that it was Barber who tendered the wilt for pro-
bate. There was no question raised upon that point,
but it was said that this and everything else which
he did in the transaction was done as an attorney,
It had been proved that he received 600/, and that he went
away with it, but what he did with it afterwards nobody
knows. Whether he returned it to the supposed owner, or
whether he appropriated it to himself, they had no means of
judging. That part of th e case which required their most serious
consideration was the negotiations which were carried on in
the autumn of 1842. Who induced or directed Mr. Barber to
write to Captain Foskett they had no proof. He had cer-
tainly informed him that the subject on which he was inqui-
ring was for the benefit of Miss Slack, for he asked whether
she was a person of nerves strong enough to bear an ad-
dition of a large sum .of money to her means. After the
correspondencafarhich had taken place between Mr. Barber
and Capt. Foskett, it would'be for them to consider whether
Barber had not been the real person to whom the money
belonged. The next thing they would consider was the con-
duct of Mr. Barber atter this correspondence. The general
result of the evidence of Mr. Freshfield and Capt. Foskett
was to raise an inference against Mr. Barber, but whether it
did so or not was for the consideration of the jury.
Mr. Wistessrs begged to remind his Lordship that Captain
Foskett described his sister as a lady of 28, whereas the cer-
tificate at Doctors'-commons had described the person in the
will as a person 68 years of age.
Mr. Justice 'WILLIAMS said, that when the whole of the
evidence and documents was before the jury, they would
consider whether Mr. Barber was in such a position as would
have led him to suppose that the will was a forgers. When
Mr. Freshfield told him he was suspected, it was' for them
to say whether he ought not to have said that he was only
an attorney in the case, and that he acted throughout for
Fletcher. After some further observations, the Learned
Judge was proceeding to read the evidence, when the jury
retired to take refreshment.

UNION HALL.---:(THIS DAY.)
Elizabeth Ward, a young female in the service 6f Mr.
March, a gentleman in the East India Company's Service,
was charged with stealing a silk handkerchief, a quantity of
tea, sugar, and a bottle of rum, the property of her master,
and Thomas Sirett, a baker, was charged with being found
concealed in the above gentleman's house for an unlawful
purpose. _ _

It appeared that the policeman on duty on Peckham-rye
had his attention called to the circumstance of seeing a tall
stout young man, who afterwards turned out to be Sirett,
admitted into the complainant's house at very unreasonable
hours of the night, and let out again at day break.
The policeman havirg communicated the fact to the
family, a watch was accordingly kept, and between one
and two o'clock that morning both the prisoners were
found In the complainant's kitchen, regaling them-
selves with supper, and a bottle of rum was placed be-
fore the male prisoner. Both of them were taken- into cus-
tody; and when the girl's box was searched, a large quan-
tity of tea and sugar, together with a silk handkerchief, and
various other small articles, were found, all of which she had
pilfered from her master.
The policeman stated that he observed Sirett at least four
times admitted into the house, and had seen him leave again
early in the' morning. He had since made inquiries relative
to Sirett, and found he was a journevn.an baker, out of em-
ploy, and had the character of a loose idle fellow at Peckham.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that he regretted it was not in his
power to punish Sirett, to whose base conduct the other
prisoner had sacrificed not only her virtue but her
honesty. Had any of the articles produced been found in his
possession, he certainly should have sent him for trial. The
Magistrate then discharged Sirett, and remanded the other
prisoner for further examination.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—.( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 19.—Wind, light north-westerly breeief
and fine.
DEAL, APRIL 18.—Wind N.N.E. to N.—Arrd. Three Sis-
ters, Arthur, Buenos Ayres. Sld. Lord Wm. Bentinck, Port
Philip; Zephyr, 'CA. Helena; James Cruikshank, St. Vincent;
Agnes, Jamaica; Emmanuel, New York; Collingwood,
Quebec; Scotsman, Jamaica; Dart, Madeira.
OFF HASTINGS, APRIL 18.—puke of Cornwall, Calcutta.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 18.—Wind N.—Arrd. her Alajesty's
ship Pantaloon, Plymouth ; ditto Nautilus, eastward.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 18.—Wind, N.W., moderate.—Arrd.
Lancaster, Jefferson, and Albior., Calcutta ; George Buckham,
William Sorlie,
Singapore; Tarn O'Shauter, Buenos Ayres ;

M'lntosh, Bahia; Bewick Hailing, Christiana, Simpson,
Lord Maidstone, and Royal Adelaide, New Orleans ;
Marion, Mills, and Lord Palmeston, Charleston ; Shan-
doah, West, Philadelphia ; Elizabeth, Tickle, Ciufaegos,
(Ist inst.) Sld. Columbus for Pernambuco; Charlotte,
Erica; Mary, Charleston; William Fisher, Montreal.
Pootx, APRIL 18.—Sid. Olive-branch, Newfoundland.
CORK, APRIL 16.—Arrd. Hope, Liverpool for Montreal.
Sld. Colon, St. John's New Brunswick.
HULL, APRIL 18. —Wind. W.S.W., moderate.—Arrd.
Bonne Mere, Dove, Ichobce.
SHEERNESS, APRIL 15.—The King William, of Berwick,
ashore on the Island of Flotter, has been got off and beached
for temporary repair.
LIMERICK, APRIL 17.—Sld. Governor and.Ninian, Quebec.
MILFORD, APRIL 16.—S1d. Trusty, Quebec.
LONDON, APRIL 19.—The Ann Creighton. Creighton,from
London to Gibraltar and Marseilles, left Gibraltar on Jan. 12,
and has not since been heard of.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

The finest samples cf English Wheat were in steady de-
mand, at fully the quotations of Monday last ; but all other
qualities were again heavy, at barely.late rates. Only about
10,000 quarters of Foreign Wheat have been entered in
London, at 16s duty, which circumstance gave a little more
firmness to the tra,!e for that article. The supply of Foreign
Barley being large. that grain was quoted fully is per quar-
ter lower. In halt, Oats, Beans, and Peas, no alteration was
noticed.

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Irish..
Foreign