The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-01 00:00:00

COVET----rAsszONAII LE.

The Queen has just patronised that excellent charity, the
Indigent Blind Visiting Society, by contributing a donation
of 501. to its funds. The objects and claims of the charity
were brought under the Queen'snotice by her Majesty's Royal
Consort.

The Earl of Leicester is expected in town after the Easter
recess from Holkham Hall, to meet the Dowager Countess
'and Mr. Ellice on their return from Italy, and to take the
oaths and his seat in the House of Lords on his coming of age.
The Earl of Kintore, in consequence, it is understood, of his
recent domestic calamities, has disposed of his valuable pack
of hounds to Mr. Ramsay. The Noble Earl is pdssing the
winter in seclusion, at Keith Hall, near Aberdeen.

The Earl and Countess of Zetland are expected to remain
at Aske Hall, near Richmond, until the second week in April,
and then return to Arlington-street for the season. Lady
Charlotte Dundas, who has been visiting at Aske, has re-
turned to her seat, St. Nicholas, where her Ladyship will re-
main till her turn comes round to go into waiting on her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
The Earl and Countess of Albemarle are expected to leave
Berkeley-square the first week in the ensuing month, to at-
tend the Craven meeting, which commences on the Bth of
April.

-The latest accounts from Howick Hall state that the vene-
rable Earl Grey continues convalescent, and is daily gain-
ing strength. His Lordship will complete his 80th year on
the 13th inst.

The Earl of Altamont, eldest son of the Marquis of Sligo,
has arrived at the family mansion in Mansfield-street, Port-
land-place, after a lengthened tour in the East. His Lord-
ship left town yesterday for Southampton, accompanied by
his brother, Lord James de Burgh Browne, who is going to
join his regiment, the 9th Lancers, at Bombay.
riaSCELLAPIrZOITS.
The Caledonian Society's anniversary ball took place on
Thursday evening, at the Hanover-square Rooms. Dancing
was kept up with great spirit until an early hour on Friday
morning; but the attendance was not quite so numerous as
we have been accustomed to see upon these occasions.

The Bishop of Salisbury has issued a circular to his clergy,
directing them to make a collection in their respective
churches on Sunday next, in aid of the fund for the endow-
ment of additional colonial bishoprics.
About a century ago an insurance company at Madrid
took the Virgin Mary into formal partnership, covenanting to
set aside her portion of the profits for the enrichment of her
shrine in the city. Not doubting that she would protect
every vessel in which she had so manifest an interest, they
underwrote ships of all sorts at such reduced rates that in a
few months the partners were all declared bankrupts.
The New York papers contain a letter from Mr. Webster,
in which he declines the honour of becoming a candidate for
the next Presidency.
The month of March has come in with the finest weather,
clear sunshine, and mild west wind. The thermometer at
2 P.M. had risen to 52 degrees.
On Thursday evening the members of the British and Fo-
reign Institute held their third soiree at their rooms in
George-street, Hanover-square. The attendance was very
full, though not so crowded as on the occasion of the visit of
Prince Albert at its opening.
A meeting of the electors and other inhabitants of the
borough of Finsbury was convened last evening at White
Conduit House, for the purpose of considering the propriety
of supporting the policy of Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., in
withholding the Supplies until the grievances under which
the people labour have been inquired into, with a view to their
redress. The large room was densely crowded before seven
o'clock, at which hour T. Duncombe, Esq., M.P. for Fins-
bury, Dr. Epps, James Duncombe, Esq., Mr. Moore, and
several other leading Liberals arrived. After several speeches,
resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting were
adopted.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.

LONDON, MARCH I.—Wind, moderate westerly breeze, and
fine clear weather.

RAMSGATE, FEB. 29.—Arrd. Anna Maria, Amsterdam,
for Surinam. The Actif, Sjoberg, from Rio to Hamburgh,
which put in here yesterday, leaky, has commenced dis-
charging her cargo.
DEAL, FEB..29.—Wind W.N.W. to S.W., moderate.—
Arrd. Earl Grey, Moßison, Calcutta.
YARatouni, ISLE OF WIGHT.—Put back, Meanwell, for Rio.
Tonnnv, FEB. 29.—Arrd. Funchal, Bean, Sierra Leone,
with loss of sails, rudder, and other damage.
DART3IOUTII, FEB. 29.—Arrd. Sylph, Corunna, for Guern-
sey, with cattle—experienced very severe weather, and threw
seven head overboard.

LIVERPOOL, F. 29.—Wind W.N.W. to S., moderate.—
Arrd. George Washington, Allen, New York, 7th inst. ; Cla-
rissa Andrews, Colby, Commerce, Ashton, and Hope, Lorde,
New Orleans ; Gun, itio Grande • Havannah packet, Bonny,
sailed Dec. 16 ; Neptune, Reichbery, Charleston ; Sovereign,
St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Skylark, Azores.
Manley, Laguna.
CLYDE, FEB. 26—S1d. Grange, Mauritius; Mariner, St.
John's, New Brunswick. _

OFF CORK, FEB. 27.—Elephanta, Ross, Manila, and sailed
for London.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 29.—The Mariner, from St. John's, New
Brunswick, to Dublin, was abandoned at sea, Dec. 29, with
six feet water in her hold—crew saved. The Letitia, Hayne,
bound to this port, was aground on the south-west bar of the
Mississippi, about 27th ult. The Virginian, hence to New
York, passed a quantity of ice on the Banks. A ship was
seen ashore in Table Island, 3d inst., with masts standing, by,
the Republic, hence to Boston.
YARMOUTH, FEB. 29.—The Runcia, of Cullen, from Portsoy
to London, got on the Barber Sand this afternoon, and remains.
CASTLETOWN, FEB. 27.—The Majestic, M'Laren, of Kin-
cardine, from Marseilles to the Clyde, has put in here with
considerable damage, having been on the rocks in Darbyhaven
Bay, and must discharge.
LOWESTOFIE, FEB. 29.—The Lord Howick, on shore in
Kissingland Beach, has been got off and into this harbour.
PADSTOW, FEB. 28.—The Brutus,Hutchings, from Sligo to
London, has put in here very leaky, with loss of bulwarks,
spars, &c., and must discharge.
SCILLY, FEB. 28.—The Nickerie, Harvey, of, and for
Rotterdam, from Semarang and Batavia, was wrecked during
the night of the 20th instant on the Western Rocks off these
islands ; crew (except two) drowned. Vessel and cargo
totally lost.

BIRTH ERTRAORDINARY.—OR Sunday, the 25th
inst., at the Zoological Gardens, Regent's-park, Zaida, the
cara sposa of the Giraffe Selim, of a third son. The mother
and her offspring are doing as well as can be expected.
MORNING MAILS.—The follorNing order has been
posted at the General Post-office :—" On and after Friday,
the Ist of March (this day), the following towns will be
supplied with bags by the morning dispatch :—Barnsley,
Belper, Chester-le-street, Darlington, Derby, Durham,
Leeds, Leicester, Nottingham, Rotherham, Sheffield and
York." ,

THE WILLS FORGERIES.

MANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.)
This morning having been fixed for the re-examination
of the persons charged with being concerned in the late ex-
tensive wills forgeries, the Court was crowded as soon as the
doors were opened. The Lord ➢layor took his seat upon the
bench shortly after eleven o'clock, and almost immediately
afterwards William Henry Barber, Joshua Fletcher, Thomas
Gnyin, and Georgiana Dorey, were brought up in the custody
of Forester, the officer. The male prisoners were placed in the
dock, and the female prisoner was'accomodated with a seat
at the table.

Mr. Freshfield, the solicitor, attended on behalf of the pro-
secution; Mr. Parry appeared for the prisoner Barber; Mr.
Hunifrev, the solicitor, for Fletcher, and Mr. Wolff, the clerk
to Mr. Plower, of Hatton-garden, for Mrs. Dorey.
Mr. Freshfield intimated that he did not intend to offer any
additional evidence.

Mr. Parry said, he understood from Mr. Freshfield that it
was not the intention of the prosecution to offer any fresh
evidence. He had stated on a former occasion that he be-
lieved the prosecution was suppressing a case which,
if made public, would raise a strong presumption on
behalf of Mr. Barber. It had not been stated at the time
that Mr. Barber was not in any way connected with that
case. He now, however, stated, and he trusted it would go
forth to the public, that Mr. Barber was not in any way con-
nected with the transaction to which he had alluded. He
wished that case to be brought forward, because it would ap-
pear that another solicitor had been entrapped in precisely
the same manner in which Mr. Barber had been entrapped.
A solicitor employed by the Government had been entrapped
—the standing counsel of the Bank had been entrapped—
the matter had been carried before one of the highest tri-
bunals in the country, and such had been the consummate
art displayed, that all parties had been deceived. With that
case Mr. Barber had not been in the remotest degree con-
nected. Mr. Barber's solicitor had been employed in tracing
out the facts, and had communicated all the information ha
could obtain on the subject to the prosecution, but Mr Fresh-
field had not thought it right to bring the case forward.
The last fortnight had been consumed in making these in-
quiries, and there had not been time to prepare Mr. Barber's
defence ; he therefore asked for a remand over the ensuing
Sessions.

Mr. Freshfield denied that there had been any desire on
the part of the prosecution to suppress anything. With re-
gard to the case of Mary Hunt, Mr. Barber's then solicitor
was in possession of all the circumstances of that case two
months ago. If Mr. Phillips, who had been called for the
proscution, was aware of circumstances favourable for the
defence, whose fault was it that those circumstances had not
been elicited upon cross-examination ? With respect to the
supposed case of forgery to which Mr. Parry had alluded,
the evidence amounted to this, that a person residing at a
house, in the name of a person who had made an affidavit,
denied that she had made such affidavit. That was all the
evidence in the case. His own supposition was, that a for-
gery had been committed; he believed he knew by whom that
forgery had been committed, and that individual was dead.
Mr. Barber was not in any way connected with the case, and
he could not see how it could possibly assist Mr. Barber to have
that case gone into. If the request for a remand had been
founded simply on the circumstance that there had not been
time to prepare the defence, he should not have objected to
it, nor did he object to it if it could be proved that delay was
necessary.
The LORD MAYOR thought he should not be justified in
consenting to a further remand, unless he had the consent
not only of the prosecutors but of the other prisoners.
Mr. Humfrey, on behalf of Fletcher, would not oppose the
application under the circumstances.
Mr. Wolff, on the part of Mrs. Dorey, gave a very reluc-
tant consent.

Mr. Parry then called Mr. Brumall, the solicitor to Mr. Bar-
ber, who was then examinedby Mr. Parry—and deposed that in
order to conduct Mr Barber's defence it was necessary to call
witnesses from various parts of the country ; that he had not
had time to subpoena one half of them, and that there was
one most material who was he believed keeping out of the
way, in order to prevent his being subpoenaed.
Mr. Freshfield having expressed his acquiescence,
The Loan MAYOR remanded the prisoners till the 23d
March.

The depositions of the witnesses in the case of Mary Hunt
having been read, the prisoners were taken back to the
Compter in custody of the Foresters.

LAW INTELLIGENCE

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY).
The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present
were Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell.

BYRON V. COOPER.

The further arguments in this part-heard tithe case were re.
sumed, and occupied their Lordships the whole day.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn-hall to-day.
WASTELL V. LESLIE.—JUDGMENT.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this
case, which was heard before his Lordship some time since
upon appeal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor of
England.. His Lordship said that the principal question in
the case was, as to the mode in which the testator's debts
were to be provided for, whether they were to be paid out
of the corpus of the estate, or out of the income, so as to
fall upon the tenant for life. The Vice-Chancellor of Eng-
land decided that they were to be paid out of the income,
and from that decision the present appeal was brought.
Now in his Lordship's opinion whether the debts were to be paid
out of the corpus or the income of the estate depended upon
the nature of the property, and the terms and construction
of the testator's will. The will was to this effect :—The pro-
perty in question was an old established lunatic asylum at
Hoxtou. The testator becoming embarrassed in his circum-
stances, made over his property to trustees, in the first place to
pay his debts,Jbut reserving to his widow 700/. a-year, after his
death. By his will he charged his real estate with the pay-
ment of his debts, and in the event of that not being suffi-
cient, then the personal estate was to make up the deficiency.
He then disposed of the 700/., and he gave two lega-
cies, one of 3,0001. to Amelia Smith, and another
of 5001. to Jonathan Smith, his son ; and he also gave two
annuities, one to Amelia Smith of 800/., and the other to
Jonathan of 1001., directing that they should be paid out of
this property.; and he then devised this concern to trustees,
the defendants in the suit, upon various trusts. The first was to
pay out of the property his debts and legacies, and for that
purpose to raise, by way of mortgage, and in no other man-
ner, the sum of 4,000/. He directs the trustees to carry on
the concern, and also to employ Mr. Wastell, who had hi-
therto conducted it, at the same salary ; but, in the
event of his not choosing to do so, they are
to procure another competent person for that pur-
pose. lie directs the usual accounts of the concern,
as hitherto taken, to be continued, and the expenses to be
provided. for out of the profits, and the surplus to be handed
ever to the trustees, who are to invest it ; and out of the in-
terest and profits of the concern the two annuities are to
be paid, and the surplus was given over to Wastell.
for life, subject to certain annuities on certain events to his
two granddaughters, the children of Wastell. Now, under
these circumstances, the question at issue depended upon the
nature of the property, and the rule adopted by the Court
in such cases. The rule of the Court was, where
property was of a permanent character, yielding an
annual income. in the case where it was charged
with debts and an interest given for life to any individual
and remainders over, the tenant for life kept down
the interest of the debt, and the debt itself was placed upon
the corpus of the estate. The question then was, whether
this property was permanent or not. His Lordship was of opi-
nion that it was. It was an old establishment yielding 4,000/.
a-year ; it had gone on for a long time doing so, and there was
no reason to suppose that it would fail. Then the next question
was whether there was anything in the will to induce the
Court to depart from the usual course in cases of this kind,
it did not appear to his Lordship that there was ; and upon
the whole, after a most careful consideration of all the cir-
cumstances of the case, his Lordship, considering the judg-
ment below to be correct, ordered it to be affirmed, and the
appeal dismissed with costs.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the whole
day with unopposed petitions and short causes of no general
interest.