The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-22 00:00:00

FOKEIGN FUNDS.

isu..•rran, 5 per cent..., 114 Portuguese, 5 per cent. 73
ISelgian, 5 per cent lO6 Ditto, New Ditto —
liraailian 80nd5.......... 77 Prussian, 5 per cent.,, —
Pl.l,!tiGS Ayres6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent ll7
Cnilran, t per cent. — Ditto, Metallic .....
42o.,tioltian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent —
oitto It-24 — Ditto, 3 per cent... —
Cu'ia Bonds, 6 per cent lli Ditto, Deferred.... ~ , I:2i
Danish, 3 per 'ent — .French, 5 per eent. —I. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange ...... ...• —f. —C.
Alexican, 5 per cent 33 French, 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 211 per cent. 54i
Peruvian, 1825,6 perct. = Ditto, 5 per cent.... 101

SHARES. -
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid)
Eastern Counties (23 paid) lo*
Ditto New Shares (25 paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) 59
Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham (21, p) 21
Great Western (75 paid) ••• 110
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
London and Brighton (50 pa d)... .
London and Blackwall (161 131 4d paid)
London and Birmingham ( paid).. ..... 243
Ditto New Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 3O
London and Greenwich Railway (12/15s 4dpd)
Ditto Preference, or Privilege ... J 74
London and South Western (41/ 6s 10d pd) 741
London and Croydon Railway ( Trunk) ... 16
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Norwich and Brandon (2 paid) .....
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
North Midland (100 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (40 paid) 46
. .... ..._ ...

South Eastern and DOvei (50 paid) ...... .. 35i

THE WILL FORGERIES

MANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.)
Mr. CHAMRERS (in continuation from our Afternoon Edition)
said—He demanded, therefore, that the evidence should be com-
pleted or a valid excuse made upon oath, for the apparent negli-
gence of the prosecutors ; and, secondly, that copies of the de•
positions should be granted to the prisoners.
Mr. HUMPHREY' the solicitor to Fletcher, made some com-
munication to the Lord Mayor.
The LORD MATOR—The depositions have not yet been
taken. You demanded copies of the depositions. The exami-
nations alone have been taken.

Mr. BALLANTYNE reminded the Lord Mayor that those
very examinations were depositions in point of law, and that
it was the duty of the Magistrates to have the depositions, as
they were called, made out at the close of every examination.
The Learned Couwiel then proceeded to animadvert ♦ery
severely on the conduct which had been pursued in relation to
Griffin, who had been virtually told by the prosecution that
unless he chose to say something that should be agreeable to
the prosecution, he should be committed. He entreated the
Lord Mayor to bring the matter at once to a conclusion.
Mr. CLARKSON—As far as regards the three first charges
he was willing that they should at once be committed on them,
so as to enable the prisoners to have copies of the depositions.
With regard to the last charge he asked for a remand, but he
begged that if at the trial additional evidence should be ad-
duced: in relation to this charge, he hoped that he should
not be taunted with producing evidence which had not been
produced before the magistrates.
Mr. CHAMBERS characterised the offer made as pretended
candour, but real oppression. He demanded that Mr. Barber
should be made acquainted with his real position. He should
not have fresh evidence started upon him at his trial. What
he desired was, that, from time to time, copies of the deposi-
tion should be furnished to him.

The Loan AlArox—No opposition has ever been made on
the part of the prosecutors to your having copies of the deposi-
tions.

Mr. WILKINS again complained of the conduct pursued by
the prosecution in relation to Griffin. The counsel for the
prosecution had held out an implied premise to him, which
was at once an appeal to his hopes and his fears. He pro-
tested against this delay, as calculated to bring forth a host of
such witnesses, and to break the spirits and hearts of the
accused.

!he LOAD MAYOR--I will state at once that lam prepared
to commit the three prisoners on the three first charges, and to
remand them on the last. 1 remand them until Friday en
all
the cases; and when brought up they will have the evi-
dence, in the first threw cases read over to until. I re-
mand them until three o'clock OA Friday.

SIT

ter
,
The prisoners Barber, Fletcher, and Mrs. Dorey wilre
removed.
A person named Packham, who had been a clerk to Mr.
Barber, wished to state that he had not been given anything
for the use of his name.
Ntr. Alderman m NIERY—What is your Christian tiatne
Mr. Paidshatn—Robert. _
Mr. Alderman 1-11:1IPIIERY—Then you are not lihrr run.
The Christian name given w 55 Clarence.
Thomas Griffin w..,s then placed at the bar. and the dtposi-
of Mr. I'ott and of Daniel Forester were read over t• rim, and
be %vas asked it lie had any questioi.s to put to those witne=ses,
to %%inch he replied that lie had been taken by surprise yester-
day, and had no questions to ask.

Forrester amended his deposition, by stating that he had
mre!e inquries in Duke-street, Oxford-street, and in addition he
Stated that he had told Griffin that he had sought after
him for making an affidavit in the ease of Eliza Stuatr.
he stated that he had done so, and would state all that he
knew about it. I then told him that I had a. warrant. He
then made a statement, which Mr. Wear took down.
Mr. Wear-- lam a clerk in the office of Mr. Freshfield. I
was present when Forester apprehended the man Griffin.
Fe rester had some difficulty in meeting with him on
Sat urday. I therefore accompanied him on Sunday
morning and knocked at the door. I asked if a tailor
named Griffin lived there, the person who came
said " Yes," and that she was his wife. At this time
Fore,ter came in ; I said I was sure Griffin was in the house,
and I should insist upon seeing him. Forester asked which
was the room, and she opened the door, and we ssent in to-
gether. She knew Forester and said her husband had
done nothing wrong. She went oat and brought
hint down to us. I asked him if he knew a
Mrs. Stuart, and he said yes. I asked him if he knew
Mr. Stuart; he said no. He said Mr. Stuart had lodged in
the same house ss ith him twelve or thirteen years ago in
Poland-street. I asked him for how long a period, and he
said, about a twelvemonth. I asked him whether he had any-
thing to do Mrs. Stuarts' affairs, and he said he had signed a
bond to the Stamp-office, and gut some letters by him in
which he was a good deal alarmed. Either Forrester
or myself then said there was a charge against him
for having sworn to some paper. Then he appeared desirous of
saying all that he knew about it, and was proceeding to state
what he knew, when I asked him if I might take his state-
ment in writing ? He said, " Certainly ;" and Forrester sent
out for some writing paper, and I took it. I produce the
statement. I took it from his month. I read it over to him.
He put his name to every sheet of it.—(The statement
was then read. It declared that he had lived in
Poland-street twelve years ago, with some persons
named Sanders, and Miss Richards, an old lady who he an-
derstood was the mother of Miss Richards, and Mrs. Sanders.
Sanders was a fishmonger, and afterwards went to Bristol to
take his mother's business as a fishmonger. In 1640 the old
lady called upon him, and asked him to become security to
the Stamp-office on account of some property left her by a
brother who had died in Berkshire. He agreed to do it
and she promised to pay him fir his time. She said she lived
in Southampton-terrace, Camberwell, snd would send to depo-
nent. She afterwards sent word, and they met in Paul's-
chain, arid went to Potts, the proctor. The old lady had a
person with her, who had advanced her money. De-
ponent signed the bond. He met her again after
and she was accompanied by her scliciter. He was
called on to sign a paper which he understood was the same as
before. He signed her name, and kept a book. That was at
a different office. He got a sovereign each time from the old lady.
He afterwards had letters from the Stamp-office respecting the
duty. He made inquiries of Pots, and was directed to
Fletcher, to Barber, and to Mrs. Stuart. He then saw
Grorgiana Richards, who said her mother was dead. She ul-
timately gave him a letter to Barber, who said he knew all
about it. that he was in treaty with the Stamp-office, and I
should hear no more about it.
Examination continued—l then read over the affidavit to
him, and he said that he should never have signed his name :
to it if it had been read over to him so as that he could have -
understood it.

The prisoner Griffin said he had no questions to ask, and
he desired him to procure a legal adviser.
The prisoner was then remanded until Friday next. He
was immediately removed in custody.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DIY.

GLOBE.—The Irish State Trials continue to progress at
the same :nail-like pace which marked their commencement,
and of which the heavy, lumbering opening speech of the At-
torney-General was an appropriate precursor. The whole of
Friday was taken up by the cross-examination of Mr. Charle
Ross, a well-paid agent of the Ministry. This gentleman, by
his own account, undertook the special mission of a Govern-
ment spy ; while he, most impartially, acted as the corres-
pondent of the Morning Chronicle, and received payment
for his communications at the regular rate. He also
transmitted similar communications to the Standard !
Whether the matter transmitted to the latter journal was in-
cluded in the suns Mr. Ross received from the Treasury, or
was a separate item in the list of solid advantages he derived
from his special commission, does not appear. We hope,
for the honour of the press, that few of its members would
have consented to act in this treble capacity. The
exhibition which Mr. Ross made in the Court of Queen's
Bench, Dublin, on Friday, will, we trust, operate as a
caution rather than as encouragement to the profession—
a beacon to warn, rather than as a precedent to be
acted upon, under similar circumstances, in time to
come. Saturday was consumed to little purpose. But one
witness of any moment was examined. This gentleman was a
correspondent of the Morning Herald, rather than a reporter--
of the art of reporting, strictly speaking, he seems to have
known little er nothing. He was rather a collector of scrape
of information; which, to use his own expression, he dressed
up with the aid of fiction, for the amusement of " fools," whose
credulity induced them to swallow the creations of his fancy as
veritable facts. This industrious, but not very accurate
chronicler, was emplo)ed by the Herald to inform the
public, through its columns, of what was passing in the
repeal meetings at ]he Cern Exchange ; and, in due
course, was pounced upon as an important witness by
the law officers of the Crown, whose evidence would
assist the Government in its crusade against O'Connell and
Repeal. Small assistance did Mr. Jackson give the prosecu-
tion I The admission he was compelled to snake—first, of his
own incapacity to report with anything approaching to accu-
racy—secondly, that the greater part of his communications
to the Herald` was derived from the short-hand notes of others,
or from the printed reports of the Dublin journals—rendered
his evidence of no advantage to the prosecution, while, in many
particulars, it materially served the defendants, One circum-
stance deserves to be mentioned to Mr. Jackson's honour—he
seemed heartily ashamed of his position in the Court. Before
he left the table he requested permission to make one remark,
as essential to his own " character before the world."

STANDARD.—We have expressed our determination to
abstain from all comment on the evidence given on the Irish
trials, and great as is the temptation which the indecent Whig
press in regard to it would seem to offer to us to deviate from
such a resolution, we have neither the intention nor disposition
so to do. We cannot, however, refrain from deprecating the
atrocious attempts which are making in and out of Court
to retard the ends of justice, and the insolent dicta-
tion of certain Roman Catholics of Dublin, who hate met to
denounce the composition of the jury as an insult to " all the
Roman Catholics of Ireland." The conduct of these personshas,
has, however, been completely out-Heroded by the Morning
Chronicle, which, not content with ridiculing the infirmities
and ailments of such members of the jury as attempted to get
excused on their account, hinted very significantly to the coun-
sel to the traversers, that if they can manage to protract the pro-
ceedings some five or six weeks, they may hope to break
down the energies of some one or other of that body. A few
days ago we were told by this abstinent observer of the pro-
ceedings, that the Law Officers were about to swear in their
packed jury, and on the ensuing day it endeavours to inti-
midate that jury, assuring them that they are not merely
trying Air. O'Connell and the other traverser', but the
whole country !—and there is no alternative but a
compromise or civil war ; and if the jury do their duty, the
result " must discredit jury trial altogether, and with it our
whole system of egal jurisprudence." The daily recurrence
of these libels on these gentlemen, increasing as they do,
would lead to the belief that the Repeal conspirators have little
to expect from the merits of their case' and look to every
stage of the prosecution as confirming them more and more
in this impression. The Morning Chronicle, aware of its
deviation from all ordinary usage in such cases, and that
after having been the foremost to deprecate any comment on
the evidence during the progress, has been compelled to
attempt its its justification by charging the impropriety of
which it has been guilty on the Conservative press, and whilst
it abstains' however, from specifying the name of any particu-
lar journal being justly chargeabse with such an indecorum,
has the hardihood to declare that it will abandon the course
which it had prescribed for itself, and of which " decency and
justice" alike prescribe the observance.

DEATII OF MR. iionLEa.—We regret to state that
the venerable Mr. nobler, who was Clerk at the Mansion.honsa for
54 years, died this morning at his rosidence in Queen's.row, Pen.
tonville. Ile was in his 60th year. He had only recently retired,
and his portrait had within a few weeks past been hung up in the
justice.room at the Mansion-house, as a mark of respect for Iris long
services.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Friday night the fol—
lowing frightflsl accident occurred on the Uxbridge-road, mar
Shepherd's-bush :—About half-past ten o'clock, as Mr. Pattison,
Jun., of the Hippodrome stables, accompanied by two friends, was
riding on horseback in the direction of Notting.hill, Mr. Pattlion,
who was ahead of the other two, rode with great violence against
the point of the shaft of a cart belonging to a Mr. Hannon, 'thigh
was proceeding in a contrary direction. He was instantly thrown
with great violence to the ground. Upon being carried to an
adjacent public-house Mr. Bartell, a surgeon, was sent far, who din
covered that Mr. Pattison's left knee was frightfully fractured, in
addition to other injuries. Mr. Pattison was afterwards removed
to his father's house, and Mr. Liston, the eminent surgeon, was
called in, who immediately amputated his leg. Sone idea may be
formed of the rate at which Mr. Pattison was riding, from the
statement of a policeman, that subsequently to the accident he had,
by the light of his lantern, picked up in the road pieces of bone and
flesh forced from the rider's knee. The horse proceeded unhurt to
Notting.hill. Upon inquiry last night it was stated that Mr. Pat.
tison (who is about 21 years of age) was In a •ery dangerous state,
but no unfavourable symptoms had appeared.

, .
THE POOR-LAW.—Lastly, we will consider the
overseers of the poor, who sometimes literally oversee or overlook
the cases of distress requiring assistance. The poor.law of Eliza.
beth has been superseded by a much poorer law of William the
Fourth, the one great principle of which is to afford the luxury of
divorce to persons in needy circumstances. It also discountenances
relief to the able.bodied, a point which is effected by disabling, as
far as possible, anybody who comes into the workhouse. The poor.
law is administered by three Commissioners, who spend their tine
in diluting gruel and writing reports—trying experiments how
little will suffice to prevent a repeal of the union between the soul
and the body.—Punch.

SCIIOOL OF DESIGN, SOMERSET-ITOUSE..---A report
having obtained extensive circulation, to the effect that the school
for the instruction of ladies in drawing and engraving upon wood
had been abandoned, we made inquiry, and find that the rumour
was justified, in part, by a suspension of the operations of the
school, but that such is, by'order of the committee, again open.
The temporary closing of the school is to be attributed to the efforts
of several wood ergravers who twice memorlalised the council,
and obtained a hearing by deputation; the deputation insisting
that the formation of a school for the education el
ladies in the arts would materially interfere with the profes-
sion of wood engraving; reducing the income of its fol.
lowers by an increase of qualified persons ; and, moreover,
withdrawing from those who have position and standing the chance
of obtaining premiums with pupils, while the necessary knowledge
could be acquired at so small a rate as that charged by the Sehoel
of Design. It was urged, on the other side, that artists, drawing
equal
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of pupils in all branches is about :140
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jesty the King of Saxony (who
was invested with the insignia
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ar
with the crown, crest, seord, mantle, &e., in St. George's
Chapel, Windsor. The stall of the Saxon Monarch is situated
of o r dwe
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and Garter,sir Charles peses dYen Young,
on the prince's, or north side of the choir, between the stalls of
the King of Wirtemberg and the reigning Duke of Brunswick.
The only stalls now vacant in the chapel of St. George ars
those of the hts Duke of Dorset and the Alarqui3 Welletley.

IRISH STATE TRIALS.

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