The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-12 00:00:00

COLONEL STONOLLODDART AND CAPT.
CY.

Captain Grover has received Dr. Wolff's journal up
to 413. 6. He left Tabreez on Jan. 20, and, after a peril-
ous and painful journey, reached Tehran, in perfect
health, on Feb. 4. Fifty-six miles from Tehran he was
obliged to write to Colonel Shiel, petitioning that five
horses might be sent to his assistance. Colonel Shiel
instantly sent the required horses, and wrote in the
kindest terms, inviting the Doctor to take up his
quarters at the British embassy, and promising wiry
assistance. The Doctor says, " Could anything be more
kind than this ? He (Colonel Shiel) has also detained
in his house Meshede Rajah, who was three years ser-
vant to Colonel Stoddart, and by whom he (Meshede
Raab) was sent to Canbul. He had been imprisoned at
Bokhara. I have taken him into my service, and he will
accompany me to Bokhara in about ten days time. I
have East with the greatest kindness and hospitality from
Colonel Shiel, and the gentlemen attached to the embassy,
and I wish this to be understood in the strictest sense of
the word."
Dr. Wolff further says, " Colonel Shiel told me that he
had seen the Ambassador from Bokhara, who told him
that he did not believe that Colonel Stoddart or Captain
Conolly had been killed, but that they were kept in
prison!" Dr. Wolff had seen Count de Medem, the
Russian Envoy. and received from him an account of his
interview with the Ambassador, which differed but little
from that published some time ago in the_ papers. The
Doctor has not yet been to visit the Bokhara Ambas-
sador, as he wishes previously to bo presented to the
King of Persil.
Dr. Wolff says Colonel Stoddart's servant told him
that " people had been frequently confined for five years
at Bokhara, and believed by all the inhabitants to have
been killed, and then suddenly had made their appear-
ance again." The Doctor then Says :
" So much is certain that no one at Bokhara has wit-
nessed the execution of Stoddart or Conolly, and my de-
termination therefore of going straight to Bokhara is
unshaken and unabated. I shall now begin to draw
money on Drummonds in good earnest, for I must appear
respectably at Bokhara, as the Great Mullah from
England, described by the Sultan, and the Seik at Islam ;
but as the Mjallahs among the Mahonamedans live with
great simplicity, I shalrdo the same.
" I shall not neglect to make search for the other
British officers at and near Bokhara, and every Sepoy I
might pick up."
The King of Persia evinces the greatest zeal; he has
already written to the Umeer Bukhara, claiming these
unfortunate men as British officers of distinction, and
urging him to send them immediately to Tehran with
all the honours due to their exalted rank. His Majesty
has also ordered a Mehmandah to accompany Doctor
Wolff to the Bokhara territory.
Such is the result of the powerful aid so kindly af-
forded by the Earl of Aberdeen; without that aid Dr.
Wolff never could have reached Tehran, and we may
now confidently expect that the fate of these officers will
not long remain a mystery.

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.
ANTWERP, APRIL s.—The Antwerp Steam Naviga-
tion Company is goinr, to make a direct communication
between Antwerp and' Hull. The fine steamer the
Princess Victoria, which was employed between Ant-
werp and London, will be placed on this line. There
will be at least one departure weekly from each port.
The first will be at the end of the month, and in the be-
ginning of May.
AMSTERDAM, APRIL 9.—The Minister of Finance has
announced that a voluntary gift has been received by
the Treasury, though the giver would not be liable to
the extraordinary income-tax ; this person is Mr. Wm.
Dennison, an inhabitant of Java, who is here for a short
time, he has given a cheque for 10,000 florins on his
agent at Batavia.
TURKISH FRONTIERS, MARCH 26.—Letters from Bu-
charest announce that Prince Bilx•sca seeing that in the
unfavourable temper of the Assembly any agreement
in a resolution tending to promote the interest of the
country was impossible, had suddenly dissolved the As-
sembly.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
GLOBE.—The Times should really adopt the alias
of " The Sorrows of Walter." To what a degree those
sorrows supply motives for its daily diatribes is every
row and then disclosed by itself, as the most natural
thing in the world. That the public should espouse the
cause of Mr. Walter against all adversaries, and that
whenever any public man is sounconne d'etre suspect
of want of allegiance to Mr. Walter, he should be
(avowedly therefore) run down by the Times, seems a
rule requiring no concealment ! The Times office is a
lio'y office of inquisition into the faith of statesmen
.—and the first article in the faith of statesmen is
be'ief in Wal:er. Without it there is no salvation.
People may talk of priestcraft, and the dark ages ;
but to our view the dark ages were luminous, compared
to this age of press-craft. Is it creditable—(look at the
Times of this morning to see if it is not true)—is it
creditable that a journal, assuming to take such a lead
of opinion as the Times, should put forth, in its leading
article, the wrongs, or supposed wrongs, of a proprietor
AS the evident provocation (we did not know it before)
eon which it proceeds, in the set purpose it has lately
evinced of running down the present Home Secretary !
Is, it possible to call the public a great gudgeon in plainer
ter.'ns. than by thus flaunting the naked hook before it,
confident it will bite none the less? We may be asked
what Interest we have in defending Sir James
Graham against the Times. Evidently none, except the
-common interest of all rational men in discountenancing
iu system of political agitation, in which imputations of
tthe grossest nature are caught from such lips as a Fer-
scowl's, to heap on a persital enemy! Sir James Graham
is iv friend of ours, but we say, notwithstanding—
Non tali auxilio, non of-fensoribus istis.
If the ebject were to render the Home Secretary re-
spectable to those whose respect is worth having, there is
nothing more a..dapted than this Times and Ferrand league
to effect it. Mr. ()ostler has been improving at Brad-
ford on Mr. Ferrand's style of aspersion at Leeds :
" He would tell them why Sir J. Graham made him-
self so very ridicuous before a rational world. Sir
-T. Graham knew that the Queen of England had an
0.
opi,tion upon this question. He knew that her mater-
nal Wart was yearning towards the emancipation of
her sex and of the youth of her dominions from their
excessive toil, He knew that she was not an adept in
commercial aculations. He, 'therefore, was deter-
mined to mystify and bewilder the Royal mind, to raise
up hobgoblins to frighten her Majesty from her benefi-
tent resolution. He knew also that his own tenure of
Ace depended upon his success, and it was fur that—
that only, that Sir James Graham continued to ring
in the Rouse of Commons that the stability of our
institutions depends upon the excessive labour of women
and children in factories."
We have alrody stated that it is the case of adult
women, not childi-en, which is now concerned ; and the
continual appeal about children by one and all of these
agitators, as well as their continual adducing of cases of
over-work fifteen or twenty years back, affords no very
strong presumption of consciousness of the strength of their
real case. Let that case be gone into on its real merits. Let
it be shown that grown-up persons of average health (for
that id the real point) suffer by twelve hours' work in
cotton mill more than the fatigue of other ordinary
occupations. Let it be shown that injury and dis-
couragement to investment of capital in manufactures
is not to be apprehended from a further legisla-
tive restriction of adult labour. Let these things
be made out, and none will acquiesce more gladly
than we shall in the change. Bat let not fraudu-
lent use be made of the tender age of children, who
are out of the question. Let not fraudulent use
be made of cases of overwork some twenty years remote.
(Such were the cases quoted by Mr. Smith from the
Leeds Infirmary.) Let us not be deluged by men, who
seem to find it impossible to speak truth on any subject,
with aspersion and contumely against every public man
who has courage sufficient to take what is deemed the
cold-blooded part of caution—and to sacrifice the sort
of popularity which is so easily and cheaply earned.
It is clear that to do this demonstrates a strong
conviction against the safety of change. And whether
that conviction is well or ill founded, adherence to it on
the part of those who hold it is fulfilment of a public
duty. It is said, indeed, that Ministers should yield
their opinion to the majority of the House of Commis.
To a majority in favour of what? Will any one be kind
enough to tell us? Not of a Ten Hours' Bill, for that,
as well as the plan of Government, has been negatived.
Ministershave to choose between some compromise,which
will unsettle everything and settle nothing, and adhe-
rence to their own view of a point essential to the safety
of important interests. Of course they may be wrong in
their notion of what is essential to manufactures. So
may Mr. Senior, whose views, we perceive, were quoted
at the Bradford meeting. can only say that neither
their views of the risk,
nor his, seem to us to have been
shown unfounded.
HERALD.—The vacancy of the chief seat in the
Count of Exchequer, and the m
•PL rtant changes conse-
quent upon the death of its late, and the elevation of its
future occupant, are naturally exciting very great inte-
rest, not only in legal circles, but in the public at large.
We pregame that no difference of opinion
the qualification of Sir Frederick exists as to
Pollock, who will,
doubtless, on the termination of the important cause at
the Old Bailey, which he is now conducting, receive the
appointment of Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. He
is s man of powerful intellect, a high tone of moral
yedino., a sound and accurate knowledge of law, of great
experience, and a mild and dignified temper and de-
meanour ; qualities which will enable him to adorn the
bench, aud as to some of them at least afford a gratify-
ing contraet to his predecessor. Sir Wm. Follett will, of
course, become the Attorney-General, and we presume
the new Solicitor-General will, of course, be Mr. Fitzroy
Kelly, a gentleman whose claims to that honour are
universally recognised. It is of the last importance
to secure for both those posts men not only of the high
ostler of intellect, for which both Sir William Follett
and Mr. Kelly are so pre-eminently distinguished, but of
that ready, exact, and extensive legal knowledge by
which they are equally eharacterised, and in whioh they
are unrivalled at the bar. When the variety of questions
on every branch of law upon which the Government re-
quire prompt information from its official advisers is
conshiered, it is evidently of the last importance to
secure the hest lawyers which the bar can affor.l : clues-
tions on international law, foreign law, colonial law, con-
stitutional law—in fact
on every branch law
,which,
of the la,
which, if .tiot answered promptly and accurately, must
occasion toe the Government serious embarrassment. We
r therefore u ufeignedly in the prospect—nay, per-
haps, the fa, It of Mr. Kelly'so appointment, which will not
only gratify the, bar, bar, amongst whom his uniform good
nature and atA•bility are proverbial, but reward him for
many years of intense professional exertion, and also for
tan
his staunch )cacy of Conservative principles
and the
sacrifices he kia.s made on behalf of his party. We observe
that some of ode. Contemporaries have mentioned the
names of two other gentlemen as probable objects of Sir
R. Peel's choi fe—Afessrs. Godson and Thesiger. With

every respect, however, for these gentlemen, we conceive
that the idea of putting either of them in competition
with
i Mr. Kelly is little less than ludicrous. Mr. Thesi-
ger s an elegant and fluent speaker, and possessed of
much tact at Nisi Prius ; and Mr. Godson is a man of
seund sense and respectable legal attainments; but we
must be pardoned for doubting whether even they them-
selves would think of entering the lists as candidates for
the post of Solicitor-General—at all events, in competi-
tion with such a man as Mr. Kelly. Mr. Stuart Wortley
is not an unlikely successor to Mr. Kelly, provided the
latter remain in office long enough to enable Mr. Wortley
to acquire sufficient length of standing in the profession
to warrant his elevation to so distinguished and respon-
sible a station. As the son of Lord Wharncliffe, and
also as an able an eloquent advocate, and possessed of
rapidly-increasing legal knowledge, and one of the most
rising leaders on the Northern Circuit, he has un-
doubtedly strong claims.

THE FACTORIES BILL.
It seems to have been very unadvisedly asserted by
some of the opponents of the Ten Hours' Bill that it
was not really desired by the operatives of the country.
Nothing is more unsafe than to hazard too openly as-
sertions of this kind in a bad cause. They are sure
to draw on their maintainers a tremendous practical
refutation, which not only sweeps away the original
misrepresentation, but displays a power, energy, and
determination, which might have lain for unacknow-
ledged, and therefore comparatively ineffective, with-
out the application of this unintended stimulus. Such,
certainly, will be one effect of this most infelicitous
statement. On Monday night a numerous and re-
spectable meeting was held at Leeds, for the purpose
of passing a series of resolutions in favour of Lord
Ashley's Bill, which is to be the first of a number of
similar demonstrations throughout the manufacturing
districts, and which, with them, will furnish the Mi-
nistry with a tolerably complete demolition of the
theory on which they would fain repose. A similar
meeting has since followed at Bradford, of which a
report will be found in another column. At the Leeds
meeting Dr. Hook, the vicar of the parish presided, a
number of gentlemen connected with the place ad-
dressed the meeting, and among the strangers who
attended from a distance, Messrs. Ferrand and Oastler
spoke with their usual decision and force, and were
listened to with enthusiasm like their own.
Judging from the report before us, and the "loud
cheers" which greeted every allusion of an uncompli-
mentary kind—and we did not observe any of an op-
posite tendency—to the character or conduct of the
Home Secretary, Sir James Graham seems pretty
clearly understood by the good people of Leeds. We
need hardly express our own cordial sympathy with
them in this respect. We do not indeed participate
in the sanguine expectation of Mr. Ferrand, that
" backed as Lord Ashley will be by the determina-
tion of the masses, and by the religious feelings of the
Church and country, Sir R. Peel will yield, Sir J.
Graham will retire into his fastnesses in Cumberland,

Lord Ashley in all probability will take his place, and
Sir R. Peel will continue to govern the country, hut
only if he governs it on constitutional principles.' Such
a transformation is a shade too magical for this en-
lightened age. The casting out of Sir James Graham,
as if he, simply and in his own person, were the devil
by which the Ministry is possessed, would scarcely,
we fear, suffice to restore the supposed demoniac. Cer-
tain evil influences of false political economy, lying
phantoms of unhealthy manufacturing greatness,
empty hopes and empty flars which at present infest
the Treasury benches, will not float away in Sir
James's wake, be his ejection ever so summary. He
represents, but unf)rtunately he does not entirely con-
centrate, hat multiform virus which alternately sti-
mulates the bitterness of the New Poor-law, and con-
geals the semi philanthropy of the Factory Reform
13i11. Not one person, but many principles, have to
be rooted out before the present Ministry will consent
to carry out with unflinching trne-heartedness the mea-
-1 sure of reform demanded for and by our labouring
population. Nor, perhaps, is the accession of Lord
Ashley to the expected vacancy in Downing-street
what the friends of that Noble Lord and his cause
would most readily anticipate or most earnestly de-
sire. his place is rather out than in. He will far
more effectually serve his clients as en unfettered
county Aleinber from his place in Parliament than as
Home Secretary, amidst the corruption and embar-
rassment of office. _ _ _

But the first question is not what is imme
practicable, but what is desirable; and the Leeds peo-
ple seem fully to participate in Mr. Oastler's ancient
and uncompromising conclusion, that "no good can
be done as long as Sir James Graham is a member of
the Government." _ _

To one of that Right Hon. Gentleman's delinquen-
cies Mr. Ferrand alluded, after his usual plain-spoken
fashion, in words which will carry with them the ,
sympathies of all opponents of the Poor-law. After
some animadversions on his general conduct with re-
spect to that law, be proceeds :
" That is not all Sir James Graham has done of late
for the purpose of putting duwn the advocates of the
poor in the Horse of Commons. You will remember
that Mr. Walter was returned for Nottingham, and I
have had the honour of battling by that gentleman's
side the enemies of the poor. No man has resisted the
Poor-law more vigorously or at greater sacrifice of
time and money than Mr. Walter. It was therefore
felt necessary by Sir James Graham to get him out
of the House of Commons, for Sir James was a man
who could not bear to hear the truth spoken,
especially on that subject. A petition was presented
against Mr. Walter's return. They could only prove
that his friends—not his agents—had spent between 30/.
and 401. in money and what they called treating. The
Committee was divided—three Whigs for throwing him
out, three Tories for keeping him in. Mr. Hogg, the
Member for Beverley—one of the most pure boroughs
in the kingdom, forsooth—(Loud laughter)—whether he
got his seat for 401. Ido not know,—but this Tory
Chairman aided Sir James Graham and the Govern-
ment in unseating Mr. Walter. Mr. Hogg tried to ex-
plain away his conduct on that occasion ; the whole of
the Government side of the House, on which I sat, lis-
tened with feelings of disgust while he higgled and hag-
gled through his explanation, but there was one man
who vociferously cheered, and that one man was Sir J.
Graham."
Mr. Ferrand speaks his mind distinctly and fear-
lessly. He is apt to say what he and many others
are convinced of, though few have the courage to lay
the accusation fairly before the world. The present
charge is a material one, involving not only a hostility
to the advocates of the poor, from which few will
absolve Sir J. Graham, but also an unhandsome and
underhand treachery towards one whose single vote
when Member for that same borough of Nottingham
turned the scale in favour of Sir James and his party
on the critical division which virtually unseated the
late Ministry. It is easy in political life to evade
the grasp of an antagonist, by throwing him on
the proof of one of those facts which, though nobody
doubts, yet nobody can prove by technical evidence.
It is easy for a practised debater to obtain a seeming
triumph over one who boldly asserts that of which he
has a solid and well-founded conviction, if he does
not also take the precaution of marshalling his au-
thorities, noting his dates, and carrying his reference
in his pocket. But many significant facts and coin-
cidences are well known in private which cannot be
alleged in the House of Commons, or verified by oath
in a court of justice; and the common sense
of the public, guided by the opinion of those
conversant in public life, pronounces an independent
judgment, and is not imposed upon by a dexterous
feint or parry. Sir J. Graham may answer Mr.
Ferrand's accusation, he may try to run him down by
a slap-dash assertion that does not meet the case, or
he may raise a dust through which it may be diffi-
cult to see where he is, or how to hit him. But, do
what he may, we shall leave the matter with some
confidence to the judgment of experienced men who
have had their eyes on events—who understand how
to measure probabilities, and who will not be answered '
by a flourish or a manoeuvre.
But enough of Sir James. The meetings of Mon-
day and Tuesday show the sense of Leeds and Brad-
ford on this important question. " Having made
inquiries," said one speaker, "to some extent of
persons employed in mills, he had been unable
to meet with one, and, what was more, all that he
had spoken to told him that they did not know any ooe
in the whole range of their acquaintance who did not
most earnestly desire the limitation of labour to ten
hours ;" and the unanimity of the meetinggave weight
to his words. Let Yorkshire and Lancashire follow up
this demonstration with similar spirit, and we may
look for an early decision of this question. The Mi-
nistry are not unsqueezable, for all Sir James
Graham's bold face and high words. They have two
or three times been bullied out of an intended mea-
sure—let us hope it is not impossible to press them
into an unintended one. But, if this hope is doomed
to disappointment, we can only express our con vic •
tion with some of the speakers at Leeds, that Sir B.
Peel, and his friends, though Valuable, are not indis-
pensable to the good government of the country, and
our trust that some statesmen will be found able and
willing to carry out those measures on behalf of the
poor which humanity and wis require.—Timex.

llEnoxs.—This heronry is a noble appendage to
the Park (Windsor), and any Monarch might well be
proud of it, as well as the trees on which the nests are
built. As lam not aware of there being more than
eleven or twelve heronries left in this
,jr thecountry, it is to
be hoped that every care will be When
imposedcme re-
ferred to. Severn penalties were formerly
any person killing a heron ; and
that the laws enacting them have not been repeealld;
at present we find herons amongst the trophies nulled
by keepers upon some stunted oak-tree, in the midst of
magpies, jays, owls, and polecatt,, although the damage
they do to fish-ponds is comparatively trifling. feeding,
as they chiefly do, upon frogs, snails, water-rats, and
small eels. In the breeding season, when they have to
provide for their ravenous young, they may attack the
larger sort of fish, but the interest which must always
be attached to this royal bird, connected as it is with the
chivalry and ancient sports of this country, ought to be
sufficient to protect it from • wanton dvstruction inde-
pently of its own wild and picturesque character.—jesve's
Scenes and Tales of Counir, iffe.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Liverpool, April 10.
(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE and a Special Jury.)
DORAN V. RITCHER.
This was an action on a policy of insurance from fire,
in which the plaintiff sought to recover from the Phoenix
Insurance Company a sum of 4831., the amount of
damage sustained by him from a fire in the month of
September, 1842.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. James were for the plaintiff ; Mr.
Martin and Mr. Watson for the defendant.
As it was admitted on the part of the defendant, that
if the plaintiff was entitled at all he was entitled to the
full amount claimed, the defendant was held entitled, the
affirmation of the pleas being upon him, to begin.
Mr. MARTIN stated the defendant's case, from which

it appeared that the plaintiff was a marine store dealer,
in Crompton-street, in this town, and had effected the
policy in question in the Phoenix Insurance Company
for the sum of 5001. By one of the conditions of the
policy it was provided, that on any loss by fire taking
place, the insured should send in a true account of the
damage sustained, and that in case of any such return
being fraudulent, the policy should be forfeited. The
fire at the defendant's premises took place on the 26th
of September, 1842, immediately after the great fire by
which so large an amount of property was destroyed.
The premises consisted of a dwelling-house built of
wood, with an ir•n roof, and a store adjoining, also
built of wood. Behind the house was a stable, contain-
ing a number of horses, belonging to a person of the
name of Bushell, and over that was a hayloft filled with
hay. At the side of the stables were a number of pigstyes
under an inclined plane, that led up to the hayloft door.
The top of this inclined plane came up to the rear of the
plaintiff's dwelling-house, and any person could from
that point look into the loft over the dwelling-house, as
well as into the loft over the warehouse. Crompton-
street was in the immediate neighbourhood of the great
fire, and for some days a very great alarm existed in the
minds of the inhabitants from the apprehension of the
fire extending in that direction. Under that impression
many of them removed their goods, and, among others,
a quantity of furniture was removed from the house of
the plaintiff. The fire, however, was got under; the
alarm had subsided; and the greater number of the
neighbours had returned to their dwellings. No portion,
however, of the goods so removed from the plaintiff's
house was, it was alleged, brought back. On the 26th
of September the plaintiff and his wife were, as was
alleged, at the Amphitheatre, where an amateur per-
formance was being given, for the benefit of some of the
schools connected with the lloman Catholic places of
worship. One of the neighbours had occasion to go into
the yard adjoining Bushell's stable, and was surprised to
see a light in the hayloft, which he at first thought pro-
ceeded from a candle. Almost immediately after flames
burst out, and, communicating with the adjoining pre-
mises, occupied by the plaintiff the whole, in little more
than half an hour, was level with the ground. Shortly
after, the plaintiff sent in his claim to the insurance-
office, alleging that, among other things, he had lost four
tons of oakum, three-and-a-half tons of rags, eight or
nine tons of old rope, thirty-three flock beds, and other
bulky articles. Circumstances came to light which
induced a suspicion that the plaintiff had himself set
the house on fire, and he was finally com-
mitted for trial. At the following assizes he was
tried for the arson, and acquitted. It was now sought to
show that the property for which the plaintiff
sought compensation could not possibly have been on the
premises at the time the fire occurred. It was calculated
that the goods alleged to have been consumed would fill,
at the lowest estimate, about 3,952 cubic feet, and would
nearly fill the whole of the premises. It appeared from
the evidence of Mary Beckett, who was in the service of
Mrs. Bushell, that she had occasion to go into the plain-
tiff's house with a message to Mrs. Doran the day the
fire occurred ; that she found no one within, and that on
looking into the parlour and the kitchen she found them
empty. She was afterwards in the lower store, and at
that time there was hardly anything in it. Alice
Bushell and Samuel Jones stated that they had occa-
sion to go up the inclined plane already mentioned to
get some hay out of the hay-loft ; that the window of
the prisoner's house was open, that they looked in, and
there was at that time nothing visible but some remains
of burnt cotton which the women in the employ of the
plaintiff had been picking. The strongest eviden?e,
however, was that of two little boys, who stated that in
the course of the afternoon they got through the window
in question into th:? loft, and remained more than an
Dour playing at " tick." They said both the lofts were
all hut empty, and nothing to hinder their running about
in any part of them. It was further sought to show,
from the manner in which the premises burned, that
they could not have contained such goods as those de-
scribed. The engines were promptly in attendance, and
a great quantity of water was thrown on the burning
mass ; but the whole was consumed, so as hardly to
leave a vestige, within half an hour of the fire breaking
out. It was alleged by a number of witnesses having
great experience in such matters, that there would be,
under the circumstances, a great ma's of materials
among the ruins, had the stock on the premises been in
any degree of the kind and quantity alleged.
For the plaintiff, evidence was adduced to show that
the property in question was on the premises at the time
of the fire taking place. For this purpose a person of
the name of M'Gee, and some other parties, were called.
M‘Gee was in the service of the plaintiff, and is a rela-
tion of his. His statements went to show the existence
of property to the full extent alleged. He said he had
kept watch on the premises for several nights before this
occurred, but on that night, being very much fatigued,
Mrs. Doran, before going to the theatre, permitted him
to go to bed. He lay down in his clothes, with the ex-
ception of his coat, and on the alarm of fire being given,
he ran for the engine, and returning, got out a chest of
drawers, which were carried up the street, he knew not by
whom. The testimony of this witness was corroborated
by several others, as to the contents of the stores. It was
also alleged that when the house was burnt down, the
iron roof remained at least four; feet from the ground
and gradually sunk lower in the course of the few fol-
lowing days. It was alleged, too, that the ground floor
of the house was considerably lower than the street,
and that the fire broke out several times in the course of
the few succeeding days, so that, as was contended on
the part of the plaintiff, there might have been very cone
siderable;remains of.the goodsclaimed, which were slowly
burnt away, and disappeared.
Mr. MARTIN having replied,
His LORDSHIP summed up, leaving it to the jury to
decide on the credibility of the several witnesses whose
,estimony it was impossible to reconcile.
The verdict was finally returned for the defendant.