The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-31 00:00:00

Xibition

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Cloch.

MARYLEBONE.—(THIS DAY.)
Daniel TVright, the young man who had been remanded
from Friday last, on a charge of having received 390/. from
the .;ing-house of Sir Claude Scott and Co., Cavendish-
square, la, means of a forged cheque purporting to have
been drawn on the Bank of England by William Pulsford,
Esq., of 11, Hyde-park-terrace, in favour of Mr. G. Red-
mayne, the eminent silk mercer of New Bond-street, was
placed at the bar for final examination this day.
:he evidence taken on the previous occasion, and which
was fully reported in The Sun of May 25, was then read
over. A brief recapitulation of the principal facts connected
with the case may be given. The prisoner called at Sir
Claude Scott's bank on the 3d May, and presenting a cheque
for 390/., said that Mr. Redmayne would feel obliged if it
were cashed for him. Mr. Taylor, one of the clerks in the
bank, as Mr. Redmayne had an account there, did so, and
paid him in six 50/. notes, four 20/., and ten sovereigns in gold.
On the succeeding morning a messenger from the Bank of
England returned the cheque as a forged one ; and on the
evening of the same day Mr. Pulsford called, and stated that
the handwriting was not his. Information was given to the
police, and one of the officers in the Detective force traced the
prisoner to Birmingham, and subsequently back to London,
and at last succeeded in taking him into custody in the Vic-
toria Hotel, near the railway terminus at Euston-square,
where he had lived with a companion (a female) for a few
days. In his possession was 5/. 4s. 6d., and in a box belong-
ing to him was a further sum of seventy sovereigns, and a
handsome gold watch and appendages, besides several other
articles of jewellery. There being no evidence against the
female she was discharged on the first examination. It was
stated on that occasion that the prisoner had run up a bill at
the hotel of 36/. in the few days he had been there.
The evidence taken this day was of very little moment.
Mr. Arthur Maitland, from the Bank of England, said that
it was the practice of the Bank to pay no cheques excepting
ruch as were drawn upon the regular printed forms of the
Bank. The cheque in question was not upon one of those
forms, neither was the writing like Mr. Pulsford's.
Mr. Pulsford, 11, Hyde-park Terrace, said that the signa-
ture was not his. He did not know anything of the cheque.
The prisoner's father was a clothier in Conduit-street, Re-
gent-street, and had supplied witness with clothing. lie did
not know Mr. Redmayne, of Bond-street.
Mr. Redmayne said, he knew nothing of any part of
the case. On looking at the cheque, it appeared endorsed
with the name of his clerk, Mr. Cates, but the writing was
widely different, and the name was also differently spelt (on
the cheque it was written Keats). The prisoner's father was
a most respectable man, and one of his sons, the prisoner's
younger brother, was in his (Mr. Redmayne's) employ.
Mr. Cates, clerk to last witness, said he knew nothing of
the draft whatever, neither did he know the young man at
the bar.
' Mr. LONG, said he would commit him (the prisoner) for
trial, and asked if he had anything to say in defence.
The prisoner, who was bathed in tears, had nothing to say,
and he was removed to the lock-up cell.
Mr. Burgoyne, solicitor to the banking house of Sir Claude
Scott and Co., attended to prosecute, and another professional
gentleman, whose name we could not learn, appeared for the
misoner.

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i
Antwerp 25 90
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14
Altona l3 14i
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles 25 90
Bonrdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine 122
Petersburgh, 3Us 364'
Berlin 7
'Vienna, eifee. fl. 3 M 953
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 37
Cadiz

SGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar •
Leghorn 3O 45
Genoa 25 90
Milan
Venice ........
Naples ........
Palermo, per oz ll7 .
Lisbon 54
Oporto 53
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
Newlork,2ldyssight
Philadelphia
MOM OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars. 5.3 17 9
IPortugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons-- 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9i
Silver in Bars 0 4 114

Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36
Bev ills

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC. JOURNALS
FROM TILE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The sentence upon (Monnell and his co-defend
tints is now befiire the.-public. We shall be excused if we
abstain from comment, at least for one day. The astounding
severity of the infliction, personal and pecuniary, espe-
cially upon Mr. O'Connell, will, we fear, tend to de-
prive the law: of, that reverential respect in which even
its terrors should be held. Except in the estimation of
the Ultra-Protestants of Ireland, for whose special gra-
tification the finale of the State prosecutions seems to have
been reserved, as a compensation for the delays of ven-
geance of which they so bitterly complained, there is no one,
let his party politics be what they may, who will not deplore
the extreme severity of the sentence. The effect upon
the public mind in Ireland, will, we fear be dangerous
in the extreme. But we will not trust ourselves with
the use of those burning words of indignation which are
prompted by the vengeful visitation upon a political offen-
der. It will remind the people of Ireland of the iucarcerations
of the reign of terror in that unhapppy country; while in
England it will be compared with the inflictions of pains and
penalties in the days when Castlereagh and Sidmouth sought
to suppress agitation by a severity in which judgment. was
uutempered by mercy. It remains to be seen whether the
sentence will be carried into execution pending the writ of
error. Previously to the sentence being passed, notice was
served on the solicitor for the Crown, on behalf of the
traversers, that they intended to " apply to the Court, that
whatever sentence the Court should think fit to pronounce
upon *se respective traversers, shall be directed not to
commence until such a day, as the Court in their dis-
cretion shall think it right to order, to enable the tra-
versers to prosecute their writ of error, and have judg-
ment thereon between the said time of pronouncing
the said judgment and such day as shall be so ap-
pointed by the Court." The law requires that sentence
should be passed before an application could be made to
suspend its execution until the writ of error is decided by the
House of Lords. To-morrow's post will bring the decision
of the Court on this application, and place the entire proceed-
ings at the close of the State prosecutions--so far as the Court
of Queen's Bench is concered—in the hands of the public.
STANDARD. The House of Commons re-assembled last
night. Mr. Fitzroy Kelly moved for leave to bring in a Bill
establishing a Court of Appeal in cases of felony. The Hon.
and Learned Gentleman urged the necessity of an appellate
jurisdiction in an exceedingly able speech, supported by many
melancholy examples. Sir James Graham, without oppos-
ing the motion, or unreservedly condemning its object,
expressed doubts of the necessity of any change of the law in
the pifticular referred to, grounding these doubts upon the
high character of the law of England, his own experience of
Its just administration, and the inconvenience of multiply-
ing courts and judges. Now, we cannot admit these reasons
tii ithout very considerable qualifications. As respects the
,character of the law—the law is one thing, the mode
of administering it another—and the law may have and de-
serve the higk character that it maintains, in defiance of any
little irregularity sand injustice practised at Kingagate-
'street, at the police-offices, or at the Central Criminal
Court. We fear that if the law were to be held respon-
sible fez the manner in which cases of life and death
are often slabbered over in the last, the law would
soon have a very unenviable character. But the cbarac-
ter'cf the law of England has been maintained in spite of
its most vicious administration—it flourished even when the
administrators of the law applied the peine forte et dare ex-
hibited the rack, would not allow the prisoner to defend him-
self by sworn witnesses, while the depositions of absent wit-
nesses were heard against him ; when juries were punished by
' imprisonment and the pillory for verdicts displeasing to
the Court, while prisoners were not allowed to be
heard by a single counsel. The character of the
law has, therefore, really nothing to do in the case.
Sir J. Graham, again, is satisfied with the general result of
the present administration ofjustice ; but Sir James, with all
respect, is no competent judge in the matter; for he himself
it is who produces those results which are satisfactory, not
only to him, but, as we gratefully acknowledge, to the
country. He may think that every other Home Se-
cretary would act with the same conscientious dili-
gence, the same sagacity, and the came humanity which
• distinguish his administration of the department ; but
though the opinion is natural to an honourable, candid, and
• modest man, it is not our opinion ; nor is it, as we believe,
the opinion of the public. We all know that there is
nothing, for example, to prevent such a man as Dlr.
being a Home Secretary ; and we also know
that if Mr..: had had been Home Secretary a
month ago, Mary Farley would have been hanged
.by the neck until dead, on the 6th ult. The truth is, that
the appellate jurisdiction, which Mr. F. Kelly calls for as a
public tribunal, sits already as a secret tribunal, and the ad-
ministration of justice would be intolerable without it. The
disadvantages of secresy in such a matter are, however,
very great. A secret tribunal may be negligent,
cruel, unjust, corrupt, which in a free country
an open tribunal can never be ; and though the
Home Secretary, in whose breast the constitution of
the tribunal lies, will be commonly a man of decent cha-
meter, it is a rare and a happy accident to have a Home
Secretary as zealous, acute humane, and just, as Sir
James Graham. The shocking sacrifices of life previous
to Sir Robert Peel's accession to office, prove that a
very respectable nobleman or gentleman may be a very
insufficient court of appeal in criminal cases. There
is, besides, another injustice, arising out of the want of a
public appellate jurisdiction in cases of felony, which cannot
come under Sir James Graham's notice—we allude to the
number of improper acquittals. Juries will frequently demand
a higher amount of evidence than the justice of the case war-
. rants, when they believe that their verdict must be final,
and thus it will happen too frequently that dangerous cri-
minals are let loose upon society, who would not so escape
were it publicly known that there existed a court of appeal.
As to the difficulty of finding judges, we can scarcely think
that Sir James Graham will, upon serious reflection, find that
difficulty insurmountable. The qualifications for a good
• judge are different front those of a great lawyer—some-
times a little at variance with them. All of profes-
sional qualification that is wanted for a judge is an ele-
mentary and scientific knowledge of legal principles ;
pied sense, integrity, patience, and a modest diligence will
do the rest. The young and comparatively inexperienced
men who are sent to the colonies make excellent judges, ab-
• solutely equal, and relatively superior, to the judges of West-
minster Hall. Meanwhile, it is satisfactory to know that the
Government has promised a candid consideration to Mtt
- Kelly's proposition. There are some, and they are men
whop wtt respect, who hold a very different opinion of Mr.
- Roebuck, his talents, objects, and proceedings, from that
. which we hold ; we shall therefore say nothing of that gen-
tleman's speech last night. We will not say what we think
upon the point ; let others speak well of the Member for
'ath it they can. To do justice to the speeches of Lord
Stanley and Mr. C. Buller would be to do justice upon the
Learned Member for Bath, and that office we resign to our
readers.

TUE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 30, 1844.
AiIS3IREILS RETURNED TO SERVE IN TIIIS PRESENT PAR

Boaotru it or BUCKINGHAM.—The Right Hon. Sir Thomas
Francis Fremantle, Bart.
CITY or CHESTER.—The Right Hon. Arthur Lennox, com.
monly called Lord Arthur Lennox.
WAR-OFFICE, MAY 31.
6th Dragooir—Lieut. H. Stone, from 37th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Fleming, who exchanges, May 31.
9th Light Dragoons—Cornet A. Ilawtrey to he Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Colville, promoted in the Royal Canadian
Rifle Regiment ; C. F. Clifton, Gent., to be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice Hawtrey, May 31.
15th LightDrageous—Cornet W. B. L. Sleigh to be Lieu-