The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-06 00:00:00

THE DOUBLE MURDER AT WALTVORTH.

At the Lambeth Police-court yesterday, after the
night charges had been disposed of, the prisoners
Thomas Faller Bacon, and Martha Bacon, his wife,
charged with the wilful murder of their two infant
children, were brought before Mr. Elliott on
remand.
Ou the arrival of the male prisoner at the court,
Cook (the gaoler) asked him if he had any message
to deliver or a communication to make to his wife
and his reply was, "No ; not any, Mr. Cook
but please to give her my lore." The prisoner
then ordered a pound of rump steak, a pint of
ooffee, and bread and butter, and this he devoured,
leaving not a scrap behind. The substantial meal
so soon after his breakfast did not seem to raise his
spirits or improve his appearance, for, when placed
at the bar, he seemed more downcast than on any
preceding examination. Mrs. Bacon al,c, appeared
much more thoughtful and depressed inspirits than
on the last examination.
Neither of the legal advisers of Bacon nor his
wife were present, and InspeAor Young said it was
not big intention to offer any additional evidence
against them.
Mr. E!liott, without offering any observation,
remanded the prisoners until Wednesday next,
when it is his intention to cammit them to the Old
Bailey for trial.
The prisoners were then removed from the court.
At about four o'clock Bacon requested to be sup-
plied with tea, plenty of bread and butter, and a
thick chop to !accompany, and his request having
been complied with, he cleared off the whole, thus
keeping up the character which he had always held
amongst his friends and acquaintances—that of
being a great eater.

MR. HENRY LESLIE.s CHOIR.

The second °Lau announced series of public con-
certs by Mr. Henry Leslie's well-trained choir took
place last evening, at the Hanover-square Rooms.
The programme consisted chiefly of concerted vocal
compo,itions without accompaniment, and rarely,
indeed, have we heard a better performance of this
difficult species of music. The solo instrumentalists
—Damply, the celebrated Angelina and Mr. Waley
(pianoforte), Mr. John Foster (organ), Mr. Pal-
lo± (oboe), and Mr. J. D. Pawle also,
distii,ruished themselves honourably ; especially
the lady, whose remarkable talent as a composer
was likewise strikingly exemplified in two "Lieder
Ohne Worte," both very musicianly productions, in
the style of Mendelssohn. Madame Weiss, the
only solo vocalist, did ample justice to Mendels-
sohn's "Hear my Prayer," and was also highly
successful in Mr. Waley's song, "Sing oa ye Little
Birds." On the whole the concert was most satis-
factory, and every way creditable to the artistic
taste and knowledge of Mr. Henry Leslie, who, we
should add, conducted the entire performance with
masterly skill.
The rooms were densely crowded.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

GLASGOW, THURSDAY.
CLOSE OF THE POLL.
Buchanan (Liberal)..
ry

5,979
2,943

Majority for Buchanan

EAST SUSSEX.
CLOSE OF THE POLL.
Lord Pevensey
Mr. Dothon 2,211

GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
8...105 Per
Cent
106.
United States 6 per Cents.
1867-186abl
United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868_105 106
Alabama 5 per Cent • 78 80
STATE SECURITIES.
Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds)
Redeeme.
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds).
Mississippi 6 per Cent. pl. Bk.
Bonds
Mississippi 5 per Cent. Union Bk Bonds ••• 16
Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock •
75
Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds lB4l-187.. 40
1877... 80
Tennessee 6 per Cent. Bonds ▪
83
Virginia 6.per Cent. Bends 1886... 82
1.
Virginia 5 per Cont. (Sterling Bonds) —.lBBB 84
LOANS OF CITIES.
Montreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... 82
New Orleans 6 per Cent. Stock
RAILROAD BONDS.
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. ist Mortgage,
not Convertible .............................. 1875... 90
Illinois Central 6 per Cent .................. 1375... 87
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland
Bonds . ................ . ....... .... 1860...108 110
Illinois Central (Shares), $3O paid....., 30 32 p
Michigan Central 8 p. Cent., Con vert 1860...
Do. do. do. 1869... 9 t 92
New York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 93 95
New York Central 6 per Cent., not
Convertible 1883... 80 82
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort

Majority for Lord Pevensey..

... 89 91
_lOl 102

SNAKES (NOT POLITICAL!).

Plutarch tells us, in a matter-of-fact sort of
way, that when Cato the Younger led his army
into Egypt he took in his train some of the peo-
ple called Psylli to charm the ferocity of the
snakes and cure their bites. Unfortunat*y their
secret (as well as that of the Ophivenes, who cured
by touching the wound) has been lost. In its place
the po!ice-commissioner of Bombay has been
lately compelled to resort to the only kind of
charm which in no age of the world ever yet lost
its potency. He reports that more deaths are oc-
casioned by snake-bites than by tigers, and the local
government have adopted his suggestion to offer
rewards for the destruction of the reptiles.
It results that three hundred a day aro now
being killed, and the hunters " shuffle off the mor-
tal coil" at the inspector's door, and receive
their eight annas for every ordinary snake and
twelve for every cobra. The bulk of those hitherto
destroyed has consisted of the foorsa, or whip
snake (whipper-in), the most ugly and venomous
of the whole species. Of this snake the civil
surgeon of Balnagherry reports (Bombay Courier
that " he knows no remedy for its poison, ammonia
being of no avail, as in the bite of other snakes. It
appears that the poison does not act on the nervous
system, like that of the cobra (Query Cobdenites),
but on the blood alone."

_
gage _ 1883... 85 87
N. York and Erio 7p. Cent. Convertible 1862.. ISO 8 t

•
The business transacted this morning in Railway
Shares has been rather active, but at a decline of
about Ito per cent. on most of the chief lines
compared with yesterday's prices. Great Western,
North-West-rn, South-Western ; Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincoln ; North British, and South-
East,•rn declined ss. ; Caledonian, Great Northern,
and Midland, 10s. ; and North-Eastern (Berwizk),
15s. Paris and Lyons have receded 10s. Sambre
and Meuse advanced 55., Groat Western of Canada
55 , and Great Indian Peninsula ss. British, Foreign,
and Colonial Mining Shares have been very inactive.
South Wheal Frances brought 335 ; Tin Croft, 4g ;
and North Frances, 18a and United
Mexican, 4i.
In Joint Stock Bank shares no business of any
importance has been done. Ottoman Bank im-
proved 10s. ; and Union of Australia declined 15s.
Miscellaneous shares are inactive. Canada Land
are 151 ; National Discount Company, 4.1 ; and
Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 68.

MR. JOHN MACGREGOR, LATE M.P.—A letter was
received yesterday from Mr. Macgregor, our late mem-
ber, dated Boulogne, February the 28th, and addressed
to sx•Baillie Macgregor, in which Mr. Macgregor says
that nothing but bodily infirmity would have made him
so long silent, and for the last six months his health has
been greatly impaired, and that he still suffers from
severe and protracted illness. Finding his constitution
undermined, he says that he decided on resigning his
seat in Parliament, and proceeded direct to London for
that purpose. Mr. Macgregor further states that it was
not his connection with the affair of the Royal British
Bank, but painful infirmity, which caused him to resign
his seat in Parliament, as he found that it would be im-
possible for him to perform his duties ; and that, there-
fore, it would have been wrong to deprive Glavgow of
the opportunity of having an efficient member, when,
in reality, it ought to have three members in addition
to Mr. Hastie. Had be been able he would have com-
municated with his c3nstituents, and he is desirous they
should be informed of the position he is in.—North
British Daily Mail.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The report of this
company, just issued, states the amount of stock fraudu-
lently put forth by Redpath to have been about 220,0001.
Against this there will be a set-off of the houses and
property seized, the value of which the-directors are not
at present prepared to estimate, although it is believed
in other quarters to be about 50,0001. It appears that
Redpath was installed in his important and uncontrolled
position at the economical salary of 250/. per annum,
and that the directors were at the time fully aware that
he bad been a successful speculator. They thought, how-
ever, that he was satisfied with his success, a result
hardly ever yet known in gambling history, and upon
his making a " promise" to abstain for the future
" from speculating in shares or stocks of any descrip-
tion he was appointed registrar." This is their simple
avowal, and it emains for the shareholders at the meet-
ing appointed for Thursday next to express an opinion
upon it.*

BRITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES —TB IS DAY.
(from the Oifictal

sank Stock
2
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
93
3 par Cent. Console Annuities ........ "
New 3 per Cent. Annuitie5............... 94 3i if
Lotig Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860_, Shut
Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859 Shut
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885._ Shut
India Stock
Consols for Account
94 3 4
E tohequor Bine, 2;6;

kaOSO
par 3 p
£5OO
par 3
!Arran p
.................... 2 p 3
Ditto Advertised .......................... 5 d
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cent. .......... 981
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent............,,.,.. 1026
Mexican 3 per Cent ..............................
Ditto Account
Peruvian Bonds 46 per Cent .......... . 221
Ditto Account
Russiau Bonds, 1622, St., 5 per Cent lo7s ••
Ditto, 46 per Cent. -
Sphaah Roads, t oads, 3 per Cent
41
Ditto Account .....
Turkirsh Bonds, 6 per cent
Ditto Account
Dividends ,o the above payable in DOndon.
French Routes, 46 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent ..... . 71f. 25c. ex 25f. 25c.
Dutch Exchange, 26 per Cen;., 12 Guilders
Ditto 4 per Cont. Certificates
7.IIREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, money 931 6
Ditto, ecount (March 5)

THE NAVAL COMIIAND OF DEVONPORT.—As the period
approaches for the Commander-in-Chief Sir William
Parker, Bart., G.C.8.. &c., to strike his flag at Devon-
port, speculation is rife as to who is to succeed him in
the important command. In addition to the officers al-
ready mentioned, Vice-Admiral Bowles, brother-in-law
to Lord Palmerston, and Vice-Admiral Sir Barrington
Reynolds, are named.

the Austrian Credit Bank pys to the shareholders about TONEY MARKET
31 per cent, on the capital eaployed. -
"The net profit of 4,510,28f1. 4Sk. was thus disposed of :
—lO per cent. of that sum (t 1,0271 53k.) was set aside as AND
a reserve fund; 5 per cent of the remaining sum of COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
4,059,25011. 55k. was divided between the members of the
Board of Administration, and another 5 per cent. among
the directors and clerks d' the establishment. As 10 per CITY, Two O'CLOCK,
cent. on 4,059,250 n. 55k, makes about 400,00011., the sum, Letters from Liverpool mention that the Cotton
of 3,600,00 A. remained, which was divided between the Market yesterday closed quietly, but prices were
300,000 shares, so that eah share received, in addition to fully
the 5 per cent. interest, htl. or 6 per cent. maiatained. The sales were estimated at
" By the end of Nover ber last 1;0 per cent. per share
i 7,0.00 bales, 1,000 of which were taken on specu-
had been paid up, and on he 31st January, 1357, another moon. The Railway Share Market exhibited a
Payment of 10 per cent. ws made." quiet appearance, but closed steadily at a slight
After the matter of be report had been disposed ,advance in value.
of, Count Zichy prodreed a list of the 90 persons The transactions this week in most descriptions
who had the largest nunber of shares, and proposed of For ign and Colonial produce have not been so
that a certain "lumber &them should he appointed extensive as for some time past ; the pressure for
by the President to examine the written votes discounts, the arrangements connected with the
of the Assembly which sad to elect three members fourth of, the month, and the Ministerial defeat
of the hoard, and three ether persons whose duty it having all tended to induce cm ion and limit ope-
would be to audit the accounts of the company. M. rations. In sugar the dealings have been contracted,
the proprietor ant editor of the most influen- and as from the commencement of the week the
tial of the Vienna papers objected to the plan, and buyers have shown a strong disposition to pay late
insinuated that nominates "auditors" might possi- rates, a slight decline which
on West India qua-
bly neglect to perform their duty to the s disfaction lilies amounted to Gil. per cwt. has been submitted
of the Assembly. Insteak of allowing the President to. Coffee has been quiet but firm, holders evinc-
or his substitute to settle the matter, the Imperial ing a determination not to accept lower rates. In
Commissary interfered,anlvith mostunseemly-vehe- Tea a large speculative business has been done, the
mence decreed that six "auditors" should be ap- late adveces from China having stimulated opera-
pointed by the President. Prince Schwarzenberg, tions at advanced prices. A considerable quantity
who evidently did not approve of the tone em- of Common Congou has changed hands at ls. lid.
ployed by the representative of Government, put to ls. 10. per lb. Rice has been very quiet at pre-
the somewhat ruffled assembly into the best pos- vious values, although on Tuesday some kinds of
sible humour by appointing the suspicious gentle- Bengal were lid. per cwt. dearer. Rum has been
man to be one of the six auditors. When the guys- steady. Saltpetre inactive. Cochineal at full
tion relative to the dividend was brought forward, rates, and Tallow dull, at a decline of
M.Z- again rose, and began a vehement tirade 61. per cwt. Nutmegs, Cassia Vera, and
against the board, accompanied by such violent Pimento have been dearer. Mace is steady,
gesticulation that he was called to order by and pepper rather heavy. The public sales of
Count Zichy, who told him that lie who had foreign and colonial wool are progressing with a
for many years been accustomed to speak remarkable degree of firmness, the competition for
in public (in the Hungarian Diet) thought it right the parcels offred is very active, and there is a
to inform him that his tone and manner were any- large attendance of both home and foreign buyers.
thing but " parliamentary'' After this reproof Notwithstanding the general prosperity of the
M. Z - became calmer, but as he displayed an trade of the country, and the caution evinced in all
inclination to wander from ,eis subject, the Im- departments of business, father mercantile failures
perial Commissary seized the bell, and ringing it are reported. Since the recent suspensions among
violently, desired the President to take the sense the Greeks a few English firms have succumbed,
of the assembly as to the dividend. The assembly and two more are now added to the last. These
unanimously agreed to the proposition of the are Messrs. Copland and Barnes, of London, an
Board, although every one present seemed to feel old established firm in the provision trade, with
that M. do Brentano had not shown due respect liabilities roughly estimated of 50,0001., and Messrs
either to M. Z--, or to the noble President. Train and Co., of Liverpool, engaged in the Arnie-
rican trade, with liabilities of about 100,0001. ;
with regard to the assets of these two honses no
reliable information has yet transpired.
Au active business is still being transacted in the
silver market, and it is expected that the shipments
on the 20th will be heavy. The fixed price for bar
silver is id. per oz. higher, being 611 d per oz.
A meeting of the Garnett and Mouseley Gold
Mining Company has just been held ; Mr. Gill in
the chair. The report stated that from the last
appeal to the shareholders only 2,0001. had been
raised towards the payment of the debts of the
company, leaving upwards of 10,0001. to be pro-
vided. In consequence of the different opinions as
to the value of the property, it was agreed to send
out a competent person to report on the position of
the mine.
The applications for discounts in Lombard-street
and at the Bank of England have not Leen quite
so numerous this morning, but whether the market
is about to become easier is very doubtful, notwith-
standing the sanguine views which many entertain
on this subject. besides the inquiry for the leeiti-
mate purposes of trade, which alone are almost suffi-
cient to keep money dear, there are several schemes
which will absorb large amounts of capital now
hanging over the market. One of this is the
Natiofial Bank of Turkey, with a capital of
10,000,000/. It has recently transpired that the
concess'ou for this important undertaking has
been granted to Mr. Wilkins, the represen
tative of the English Company. One por-
tion of this amount will be sent from this
country, tut, added to other schemes, which will
be introduce I at the first favourable opportunity,
there is a prospect of a continuous efflux of specie
from England to the Continent. The silver opera-
tions are still withdrawing large quantities in gold,
and 30,000/. or 40,0001. in that metal was sent
away yesterday. These movements will continue
to arrest a decline in the minimum, and there is
reason to believe that although the pressure may
not become more severe, there is just as little pro-
spect of much additional ease.
Continued flatness characterises the English Stock
Market. Business is dull, and politics now exer-
&se paramount influence. A short time since money
was the chief consideration with the speculators, but
the proceedings in Parliament have lately directed
their operations. With an approaching dissolu-
tion there is naturally a disinclination to enter into
large
_operations, and the market consequently
droops. Consols have been 93i s and 93ii for
money, and 94 to 941 for account. The New
Threes are 931 to 94, and the Reduced, though
shut, have been 931 Bank Stock is 220 i. Ex-
chequer Bonds are par to 3s. prem.
Foreign Securities were also very quiet. Turkish
,per Cents, have been 974 g, Spanish 3 per
Cents, are 41, Dutch 4 per Cents. 98i1, Mexican
3 per Cents., account, 22k, Peruvian efi per Cents.,
account, 781., Russian 5 per Cents. 107, and ditto
4 per Cents. 981.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :---Grenada Deferred Bonds. 6l 7 ; Mexi-
can, 221 u ; Peruvian, 44-- per Cents., 79 80 ;
ditto Three per Cents., 55 57 ; Portuguese 3 per
Cents., 44 46 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 107 109 ; do.
eq per Cents., 97 99 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 40.1 I;
ditto New Deferred, 24i ; Ditto Certificates,
6i ; Ditto Passive, 5i 6.
Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co., report that the
market for American Securities during the past
week has been inactive, and the transactions have
been quite limited, and at prices generally in favour
of the buyer

CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day.). =

THE GREAT CITY FORGERIES. - SENTENCE
OF THE PRISONERS.

Ilia morning James Townshend Saward, and James
Anderson, found guilty yesterday of forgery to a large
extent on the -City Bank, were placed at the bar to
receive sentence.
Beth prisoners presented a very dejeceed appearance
to that of yesterday, particularly Saward, who held his
head down during the whole of the Chief Baron's ad-
dress to them previous to passing sentence.
On being placed at the bar,
The Clerk of Arraigns called on each of there, :nd
said—You are convicted of forgery. Have yeu any-
thing to say
why the Court should not proceed to pass
sentence upon you ?
Saward--Before your lordship passes sentence in ray
case, I humbly ask you to defer it till next session. I
have no complaint to make to the verdict on the evidence
adduced, or to the impartial, just, and impressive sum-
ming up of your lordship ; but I make the appli-
cation under the following circumstances :
ask at your lordship's hands to be shown a little
consideration in consequence of my unfortunate and
defenceless position; and perhaps your lordship will have
the kindness to order that a copy of the notes of your
I)rdship's evidence of certain witnesses which I will
name shall be lodged with the Governor of Newgate,
to be made such use of as 1 may be hereafter advised.
The Chief Baron—Your request is entirely novel. I
never heard, in the whole of my experience, nor have I
met in the whole course of my reading, of such an appli-
cation being made and formed on no grounds whatever.
Saward—My position is a most unfortunate one.
The Chief Baron—You do not state for what object
you want my notes of the evidence.
Saward—My reason is that I consider much of the
evidence received yesterday was inadmissible.
The Chief Baron—Then the proper course for you to
have pursued was to have objected yesterday to its ad-
mission. I thought the whole of the evidence was admis-
sible. It was the subject of continual consideration in
my own mind, and its admission was frequently the
result of the joint opinion of myself and Mr. Baron
Bramwell, whose aid and assistance I have had on
this occasion. I was mysaf very careful not to ad-
mit anything that did not appear to me to be evidence.
I objected at first to the admission of certain matters,
but after consideration they appeared to me to be ad-
missible, and I admitted them. You (b.) not now state
any grounds for your application, except that you
want the notes. You do not state what objection you
have to take, and it appears to me that you only want
them to have an opportunity of finding out any ob
jection.

Saward—Just so, my lord. I was not aware until
yesterday morning that I should be tut:defended.
The Chief Baron—l can be no party to yam. appli-
cation founded on that ohjPction. Tne apdointment
for the trial was made and the arrangements cory.:hrlefl
as early as Saturday last. You are perfectly aware
that you ought to have made such au application e.•.riier,
or at any rate that you ought to have made appliaa-
tio❑ on affidavit, prepared by an attorney, and wbieh
should have state.] wby you were not prepared with
counsel. I think you were quite as well prepared now
as you would have been had ouch an application been
made.

Saward —The briefs were prepared yesterday, but un.
fortunately I could not get the money in time.
The Chief Baron then proceeded to pass sent euce in
the following terms :—Ja es Townshend Saward and
James Anderson, you are to receive the judgment of the
Court, founded on the verdict of the jury delivered yes-
terday, which pronounced you and each of you to be
guilty of the offences charged in the indictment, that of
forging and uttering on the 18th of Augwet last year an
order for the payment of 1001., which order was de-
scribed in various counts of that indictment a so as a
cheque.. The trial lasted many hours. Atue!a evidence
was given, and much which in one sense might be con-
sidered somewhat unusual, and which I painted out to
the attention of the jury is summing up the case last
night. It is not usual in the administration of the
criminal justice of this country to have more than one
crime proved at a time against one individual charged
with many, but as I then stated and think it right again
to state, that for the purpose of making out a guilty
knowledge of any person included in the indictment it was
necessary to prove the commission of crimes, and the rule
that excludes evidence of the commission of other, for fear
of creating prejudiceagainet a prisoner ceases, and it then
becomes the imperative duty of the judge to admit that
sort of evidence which otherwise he ought to reject. The
case against you made out yesterday presents one of the
most astonishing and alarming instances of crime that it
has been my misfortune to witness on any occasion since
I have been a judge, and I am not aware that the history
of the criminal justice of this country presents any case
more formidable than that which was disclosed by the
evidence adduced against yon yesterday. It is a
maxim in the administration or the criminal Jaw
that combination renders crime mire mischievous and
alarming, and that it calls for greater severity of punish-
ment than when a c. ime has been the single act of one
individual, and there never was a clearer specimen of
the proof of the propriety of that practical maxim thSn
appeared yeiterday in the evidence against you. It was
glade out to the satisfaction of the jury, and to my en-
tire aed perfect satisfaction, that there had existed for
many months, possibly for many years, a combination,
of which you, James Townshend Saward was a patty, by
which the crime of forgery was to be comrnitted,by a com-
bination of parties, and all of them involved in the same
guilt. With the assistance of an individual unconscious
of the crime he was furthering—innocent so far as any
in tention on his part was concerned altogether of the
off ence—but by extraordinary ingenuity and cant: ivance
made possibly not a reluctant, but a ready, assistant in
the crime of which he was altogether unconscious, and
by such means as these it was now perfectly clear that,
in a great many instances, crime was successfully perpe-
trated apparently with perfect success and security, and
for a long period the parties escaped the justice of the
country. This scheme appears to have been carried out,
by a strange connection with burglars and pickpockets,
to obtain blank cheques and cancelled cheques, and where
the latter could not be obtained recour-e elks t ad to
fictitious cheques, whereby the writing of the party was
obtained by his cheque being given for the amount, and
thus facilities were obtained for imitating his hand writ-
ing. The learned judge then referred to the plan adopted
of taking lodgings in a forged name, and of inviting
persons whose education in the country would
prevent them from knowing much of London
life, and whose -years probably . induced them
to become innocent parties, without having the
least idea of the crime they were promotitee showing
that arrangements were made with such skill and dex-
terity that the police were baffled in the pursuit of those
persons who, they. were well aware, were c.olducting,
apparently in secrecy, a great scheme of l lun er. At
length an accident gave a clue to the whole matter, and
it was brought forward for public investigation, and then
the whole truth became manifest. It was dis-
tinctly proved that you, James Anderson, inveigled
innocent parties, as I have described, and you, Ja nes
Townshend Saward actuated by that caution in which
you appar4ntly prided -yourself, freely communicated
with those men who were stamped with the character of
felons, and who could scarcely be creditable witnesses
against you. You cautiously kept out of the way when
cheques had to be presented or money to be paid or re-
; ceived, but it so turned out that the proceedings of souse
of the party at Yarmouth and Norwich were discovered,
and their could be no doubt that the letters were in your
handwriting as well as the writing on the forged docu-
ments. It is impossible to doubt the truth of the
statements made yesterday by Attwell and Ilardwicke,
however unworthy of credit they may appear to be from
the crime which stains their past life and character, that
you both were a party to the entire scheme of sending
forth to the world the cheques and hills that were pro-
duced yesterday, at the bottom of which you, James
Townshead Sawa* was probably the most conspicuous.
This was one of the most alarming and serious cases of
forgery to which the attention of the public had for a long
time been called, and had not the laws of the country,
which met with his concurrence, received a more peaceful
form than formerly, there can be no doubt but that each
of you would have expiated your crime by an ignomi-
nious death. I rejoice, however, that I have not to pass
that sentence, but whatever the law holds out with a
view to deter from such oflisnces, appear to me to be the
just measure of punishment to persons who have
filled up - the largest measure of crime. I was
requested yesterday to take notice of the case
of one of you with a view to a mitigation of
the sentence but after full consideration I feel
bound not to listen to the appeal of Sir F. Thesiger,
and had the prosecution been conducted by the Attor-
ney-General, and he bad made a similar application I
should have felt bound not to comply with it, but to
pass the full sentence, leaving it to the executive to
consider and determine thereon. Should an application
be made to the Home Secretary, and I am applied to, I
shall have much pleasure in giving it my careful atten-
tion. In the present state, of the case I can
make no distinction. between the cautious indi-
vidual, who, though. a party to the whole trans.
action, screens himself so far as possible from being
personally mixed up with it, and the person who has
acted as agent, but who has displayed a capacity for
crime, and an ingenuity and an abundance of resource
for the purpose : of committing that crime worthy of a
better cause, and which would, in all probability, have
produced wealth, and_ whatever might have rewarded
successful• ingenuity, where it has received a virtuous
instead of a criminal direction. I lament that, with re-
spect to you, Jas.Townshend Seward, that you must have
been at one period ofyourlife in circumstances far different
from those in which the justice of the Court has found
you involved, at least, for many months—possibly for
years. It is stated, and not denied, that you are a
member of an honourable profession ; and I deeply re-
gret that that ingenuity, skill, and talent, which has re-
ceived so perverted and mistaken a direction, has
not been guided
...by :a sense of virtue, and
directed to more honourable and useful pursuits.
I am called upon to pass sentence upon you, and for the
reasons that I have aseigaed it is impossible for me to
stop short of the utmost limit to which tee law permits
the punishment to proceed, Any mitigation that may"
belong to either must come from a different source.
The learned judge then passed sentence of transportation
for life on each of them in the usual terms.
The prisoners were then removed from the dock