The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-18 00:00:00

THE WILLS FORGERIES.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Eliza Rosser was then called and sworn. She said—l live
at Bristol, and am in the service of Mr. Taplin. I formerly
lived with the prisoner Saunders. He was a fishmonger.
Before I left Mr. Saunders' service, Mrs. Saunders had been
in London about two months. She gave me warning to leave
in about a week after she returned. When Mr. Saunders
returned home, she brought with her- three silk dresses.
While Mrs. Saunders was in London, Mr. Saunders left
Bristol for a few days. He returned about a week before
Mrs. Saunders. Mrs. V Dorey on one occasion paid a visit to
Mrs. Saunders for about six weeks.

Cross-examined—iNir. Saunders was one of the largest
fishmongers in Bristol. Ile was often absent from home.
Mr. Edward Gill—l am a clerk in the bank of Messrs.
Stuckey and Co., of Bristol. I know William Saunders.
He had an account at our bank, which account was opened in
September, 1842. He has an account with us now. On the
sth of September, 1843, he paid into the bank one thousand
sovereigns. When this money was brought in, I remarked
to him, "You must have a mint in your house." The pri-
soner made no reply to that. The sovereigns were new ones.
Cross-examined—The endorsement on the note produced
I believe to-be in the handwriting of the prisoner Saunders.
I do not know the prisoner Fletcher's handwriting.
Cross-examined by Mr. WILKINS—The letter produced I
believe to be in the handwriting of Saunders.
Daniel Forrester, examined by Mr. ERIE, said—l went
with Miss Neville to Dorey's shop in Oxford-street. I
afterwards went to Bristol to look for Mrs. Saunders. I
took the dresses produced from the daughter of the pri-
soner Saunders. I took the papers belonging to Mr. Bar-
ber. The paper produced I found on the table in Mr. Bar-
ber's office. It is the certificate of Miss Slack's death. It
was handed to me by Mr. Bircham.
Cross-examined by Mr. WlLKlNs—Barber had been about
an hour in custody when I took the papers from his office.
The papers relating to Slack's transaction were tied Up toge-
ther, and bore an endorsement to the effect that they related
to Slack's affairs. I had been set to watch Mr. Barber's
movements for some time before he was taken into custody.
I began to watch him in the middle of November. I did not
always watch myself. I directed occasionally some one else
to do so. Amongst Mr. Barber's papers I took his diary for
the year 1843. I handed that diary, by the wish of Mr.
Barber, to Mr. Freshfield. I handed Mr. Barber's papers to
Mr. Weare yesterday. Applications have been made for
copies of those papers: I took everything from Mr. Barber's
person ; his pocket-book, keys, and everything that he had ;
but they were returned to him several days afterwards. The
keys enabled me to open drawers in Mr. Barber's office. I
ransacked every place in that office, and I ransacked the
cash-box. I did not go to his residence in Nelson-square.
Re-examined—When I searched the drawers, Mr. Bircham,
Barber's partner, was present during the whole time. There
was also a gentleman of the name of Price present. The
papers I handed to Mr. Freshfield were those which either
Air. Giddy, Barber's attorney, or Mr. Barber himself requested
me to give to Mr. Freshfield.
John Forrester sworn, said I took Mr. Saunders into cus-
tody in Edinburgh, on the 13th of March. I took his wife
into custody on the 20th of March in the same town. The
male prisoner waas taken in the street, the female at her
lodgings.
Henry Hyatt was then called, but
Mr. GREAVES objected to his being examined, supposing
that he was called to speak to facts which he had already
stated on the other trial.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said the proper time to take any
objection was when objectionable evidence was tendered.
The witness was then examined, and said I lived at Mar-
low in 1840, and in that year I saw Mr. Fletcher. It was in
May, I think.

Air. Emx—Did he say who he was ?
Mr. GItEAVES objected to the question. What name Air.
Fletcher went by in 1840 had nothing whatever to do with
the case.

Mr. 'WILKINS said that if the object of the examination
was to show that Messrs. Barber and Fletcher were acquainted
in 1840, then they had attained their object, for he (Mr.
Wilkins) would be ready to show that the parties were ac-
quainted in 1839.
Mr. Justice 'WILLIAMS thought the evidence was admissible.
The witness then said in 1840 Fletcher came to me, and
said his name was George Jones.
Mr. GunAvEs again objected to this examination. This
was evidently an attempt made to prejudice the minds of
the jury.
Mr. Justice WILIWIS—I think this had betterbe reserved
till the end of the case.

Mr. James Gudge examined, said I am clerk of journals of
the House of Commons. The Right Hon. Charles Shaw Le-
fevre is Speaker of the House of Commons.
Mr. Freshfield was then called and examined—l am the
the solicitor to the Bank. On the 15th of November last
I called on the prisoner Barber. I told him that I came
from the Bank of England with reference to a sum of stock
which had been transferred in the name of Anne Slack, under
a will which appeared to have been proved by Mr. Barber,
and which was irregular. He said that he remembered the
transaction; that Miss Slack came to him with the will,
which was quite regular; that the property was mentioned
in the will ; and that she stated that her aunt had died about
six weeks before ; that he got the-will proved, and got her
the money, which was all he knew of the business. I asked
him who the lady was, and he said she resided in some street
out of Holborn; she was a most respectable person, and he
had no doubt that the transaction was all right. I asked
him if she was introduced, and by whom. He said he had
no doubt that she was, but he could not recollect by whom ;
but he would endeavour to recal the facts : as to him it was a
mere matter of business, and he knew nothing more of it.
I told him that was quite inconsistent with the fact of his
having been in communication with Captain Foskett for
some months 'before the alleged death of Miss Anne Slack,
respecting this very property. He said he certainly had had
some communication with Captain Foskett, but not, he
thought, respecting this property, but he could not recol-
lect. I told him that his letters were distinctly respecting
the property of Miss Anne Slack. After some hesitation,
he said it might be so, he could not deny it, but that it was
a mere matter of business, and he did not feel authorised in
disclosing the affairs of his client. I told him that I did
not wish him to tell me more than he chose—that I should
not at all press. him ; but it was necessary that I shoul I
apprise him that a fraud and forgery had been committed,
and that he was gravely implicated in the transaction,
having been inquiring and negotiating respecting this very
property six months before the alleged death of Miss Anne
Slack, and before the right of his clients accrued; and
I desired to know under what circumstances he had
se negotiated. He said he supposed he could tell,
aria he would endeavour to recollect. He said Miss
Slack was a most respectable woman, and that he
had no doubt that it was all right. I told him that was be-
side the question, which was, how he came to be intergring
six months before he saw her? He said that he did not know
that he could tell, or ought to tell, but he would refreshhis
memory; and he wished me to look at his books, that I
might see that it was a mere matter of business with him.
He then produced a probate, and his ledger and account-
book, which he opened. There was an entry in his ledger of

Mr. Fieshfield—Well, then, I decline to do it.
Mr. WILKINS—Very well ; that will do as well for me.
Cross-examination continued—Mr. Barber expressed a
good deal of angry feeling. He said, I hardly understand
in what character you put these questions to me." I wil-
fully omitted this when I read my statement. Mr. Barber
did not express indignation more than once. I will swear
that he did not say he must decline furnishing me with the
name of his informant for the present. He did not say " I
think at the present time I ought not to mention his name."
I have never been examined before. Mr. Barber did not
offer to show me his diary. I did not instruct the Messrs.
Forrester to watch Mr. Barber's office, nor am I aware that
such instructions were given. It was about three weeks
after I called on Mr. Barber that he was taken into custody.
I never called on Mr. Barber afterwards, although he had
said that if I called in a few days he would give me an ex-
planation.
Re-examined—l told him that I should not call again,
but if he wished to send any explanation I would report it.
I have no part in getting up this case beyond reporting it to the
Treasury. This prosecution is instituted by the Lords of the
Treasury.
Samuel Robert Goodman examined—l am the chief clerk
at the Mansion-house. I was there when the prisoner Bar-
ber was first brought up, and when the forged will of Emma
Slack was produced. After examination Mr. Barber applied
to be discharged on bail. Mr. Clarkson said that further
evidence would be brought forward, and therefore he opposed
the application of Barber, and the Lord Mayor declined ad-
mitting the prisoner to bail. Mr. Clarkson inquired if
Fletcher was present, and no one answered. Soon after this
Mr. Barber was seen talking to a person, who turned out to
be Fletcher.
Cross-examined—Mr. Barber cross-examined Fletcher and
Miss Slack also. I have a copy of that cross-examination.
Re-examined—When Barber called Fletcher as a witness,
it was after the Lord Mayor had refused to bail him. The
proceedings were kept waiting, I should think, a quarter of
an hour, while Barber was in conversation with Fletcher,
before Fletcher was examined as a witness.
The forged will was here put in and read, as also was the
affidavit for obtaining probate. The letters which passed be-
tween Barber, and Fletcher, and Captain Foskett, were
then read.

Mr. Edward Wolfe was then called and examined, and
said—l am the articled clerk to Mr. Flower, who is the at-
torney for Mrs. Dorey. The statement produced was made
voluntarily by Mrs. Dorey.
Mr. WlLicurs said he could not object to this being pro-
duced, but he had to complain of his Learned Friend not
mentioning it in his opening.
Mr. Eau said he would not press the statement, and it
was consequently not read.
Mr. Wolfe wished to state that, when he was examined
before, he was understood to say that he was the attorney
for Mrs. Dorey. This was not the case, he was articled clerk
to Mr. Flower, who was the attorney for Mrs. Dorey.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The Court then adjourned.

THE CURRENCY.

TO THE EDITOR OF TEE MORNING POST.
_. _

1. Sir,—ln your journal of the sth instant, I par-
tially explained the fatal delusions under which the
terrible Bill of 1819 was made the law of the land.
Well might M. Say exclaim, " Voila l'Angleterre !
elle se coupe la gorge r There is no public man alive
now, I believe, who does not readily acknowledge that
in 1819, the unanimous votes of both Houses were
" a gigantic error ;" but, wonderful to say, the very
same men now commit a still greater error by assert-
ing that "it is too late to retreat !" I believe that
this last error is more terrible than the former. If it
is not an error, I have only to observe, that in my
humble judgment, the doom of our country is sealed.
In the words of Napoleon, we might well exclaim,
"It is then written above, that we shall now commit
nothing but errors."
2. It is very remarkable to contrast the extraor-
dinary obliquity of intellect which the Jews and
lawyers have exhibited at one period, with the wonder-
ful coolness and assurance which they have exhibited
at another. At one period they could see no
depreciation whatever, in the paper money of
the late war : in almost the next momen
everything appeared depreciation in their eyes.
Whilst they were lending one thousand and forty-
seven millions sterling to the Government, during
the late war, they stoutly affirmed that their money
was not depreciated, and that it was of equal value
to the money which existed before the late war ; and
at one period, when the depreciation was greatest,
they literally induced the House of Commons to pass
a resolution solemnly declaring " that a one-pound
note and a shilling were equal in value to a guinea,"
meaning, of course, the guinea as it represented the
values of society before the war. But the very mo-
ment the lending system came to an end, and the re-
payment of their one thousand and forty-seven mil-
lions sterling was to commence, they gravely turned
round upon their victims, and audaciously called the
paper money "worthless rags !" And, wonderful to
say, with this very expression, " worthless rags," in
their mouths, they refused to make an abatement of
one farthing in the pound upon their fraudulent and
swindling claims upon the nation, and very coolly
proceeded, without the slightest inquiry, to enforce
the repayment of their murderous bonds in full, and
in standard gold!
3. The late Lord Liverpool had afterwards the
honesty to tell the House of Lords, that " they had
doubled and trebled their rents of land in paper
money, and that they must not now expect to keep up
such rents in standard gold." This was tantamount
to a confession on his part, that in selecting a standard,
of value, the " most convenient and beneficial to the
nation," he ought to have coined ten shillings of our
ancient coins, or even six shillings and eightpence of
such coins, into a pound sterling, instead of adopting
the standard of Queen Elizabeth, strung up ten per
cent. in value beyond that mortal level.
4. But in the midst of this frank confession, Lord
Liverpool never condescended to tell the House of
Lords how they were to deal with their mortgages
and family settlements. During thirty years the
whole of these monetary changes upon land must ne-
cessarily have been raised in the same degree as the
monetary rents of land, llow, then, was the land-
lord to reduce his rent to the ancient metallic level,
whilst the law compelled him to discharge his mort-
gages, and family settlements, and debts and taxes
of many kinds, at the paper level ? As I expressed
it at the time, the landlord, " under a penalty of ruin
to himself, would be compelled to execute ruin upon
his tenants, tenants would be compelled to execute
ruin upon the labourers, and the unhappy labourers
would be ground down into the workhouse, or the
grave."..

5. This has been the unhappy fate of tens of thou-
sands of farmers, and of hundreds of thousands of
honest labourers. That it has not been the fate of
all, is solely to be ascribed to the monetary relaxations
alluded to in my last letter, which are now drawing
to an end.

6. But I have spoken of the extraordinary obliquity
of intellect among the Jews and lawyers. No doubt
it is very strange to hear Hon. Gentlemen crying out,
"No depreciation exists;" "The depreciation is only
three per cent. ;11 and then that the paper money is
mere " worthless rags," almost in the very same
breath. But still it is our duty to place the best in-
terpretation upon such conduct; and I am fully wil-
ling to attribute it to ignorance, and to the hallucina-
tion which imagined interest and passion are calculated
to throw over the human judgment.
7. When I was recommending to the House of
Commons the necessity of either a reductiorti.
these
resea
total abolition of the standard of value,
gesetnimtleambleen,
man,in allh aodthetrhe respects a
to very one
cry assurance
" Fraud!" upon, which I remarked to the House,
o able and
"Here, of Shakspeare, and
that I should be very much disposed to treat the
Hon. Member after the mariner
,
that I would say to him,
have thy gold, bought with theigebhlot J
an ew, thou shalt
dad full fineness;
and tears of the
people. It shall be of full weight
but it shall be melted gold, and poured down thy
threat."
8. Some historians report that the Queen of the
Seythians struck off the head of Cyrus, and threw
it into a vessel filled with human blood, exclaiming,
Now glut thyself with that for which thou' didst
ever thirst." If examples like these are necessary, it
is probable that the vessels might be filled with
human blood with much less cruelty to mankind than
with molten gold.
9. The Jews and lawyers could see no injustice
and no " fraud" in taking, advantage of a " Three
per Cent." quibble to double every tax, and rent,
and debt, and moneyed obligation in the king-
dom. They could see no crime in halving the em-
ployment, and in halving the daily wages of hun-
dreds of thousands of honest workmen at the same
time, and thus quadrupling the burdens of industry;
they could see no crime in secretly and fraudulently
:transferring the burden of the taxes contracted for
the de.fenc4 of.property upon the shoulders of po-
verty, but the very; moment the friends of justice,
humanity, and common sense and honesty cry out
against these murderous opressions, and insist upon
their being rectified, or at least arrested, in their
mortal career, they are to be met, it seems, by the
Times paper with a counter cry of " tyrannous ras-
cality!' And these really " tyrannous frauds upon
people are, it seems, to be represented as things
done, and when once done never to be recalled or
overhauled. Indeed! Why the ancient poor-law

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...- .- _ _ 9Ol. proctor's bill, and 15/. for his own. H . --
,
Ile said that was all was a . thing done a literal contract with the poor,
he got out of the transaction ; that his bill amounted as cast
when they were induced about two-and-a-half cen-
to 13/. odd, and Miss Slack made it 151. The book showed
the produce of the stock to be 4,5001., and the entry was tunes ago, to give up their ample share in the-na-.
signed " Emma Slack." I then told hire that that was not j tional property in exchange for it. And yet this
the question, and he again said that he would endeavour to great privilege -of the poor could be 'overhauled and
refresh his memory, and if I would call on a future occasion undone without difficulty when the plunder of the
he Would let me know the result. I told him that his cha-
racter was implicated, and that I desired to give him an poor became necessary to protect the property of the
opportunity to explain if he pleased, but I did not mean then rich from the necessary effect of their own Bill of
18191 So, also, the labourers of England have been
to press him, but that I should report the case to the Trea-
sury., who would no doubt prosecute it ; and that if he chose compelled, during all their lives, to pay taxes and
to send me any explanation, I would report that also, but expenses of many kinds for the protection and sup-
that- I could not delay. From that time to the time of his
being apprehended, he never made any communication to me. port of property and of law. These payments of he
The witness read this statement from notes which he made labourers must either have constituted a species of
at the time. savings banks for their old age, and have given them
Mr. Wiraints—Now, Mr. Freshfield, put the paper by, an additional right to a comfortable and honest main-
and then give the statement to the jury without looking at tenance from their country whenever their labour
the notes.
should fail them ; or they must have been the grossest
Mr. Justice WiLmuis—That is a matter entirely with
frauds, and the cruelest oppressions upon the poor.
Mr. ERLE—If Mr. Freshfield wishes to look at the paper
himself. He may do it if he chooses.
We can overhaul and repeal, it seems, just and equi-
again, I submit that he has a right to do so if he pleases. table laws for the protection of the poor, laid deep in
Mr. Freshfield--I could give the account without the paper, the foundations of nature, sanctioned by the Holy
but of course there would be variances in words. Scriptures, protected by contracts of 250 ears' dura-
Mr. WILICLNS —Of course, and those variances are what I y
want to hear. tion, and confirmed by the payment of taxes durizr

a life of industry, economy, and care; but the very
moment we propose to reconsider and rectify a frau-
dulent and destructive law, passed but a few years
ago, under the grossest delusions, for the unjust ag-
grandisement of the rich ; a law, too, which is not yet
carried into full effect, and has not yet completed one
fifth part of its murderous operations, we are to be
accused of " tyrannous rascality." The audacity of
such a charge is almost equal to its falsehood. Un-
happy, indeed, must be the fate of a nation in which
doctrines like these can prevail—doctrines which make
war upon the moral economy of nature, and are cal-
culated to produce a state of society in which every-
thing is overturned.
" In which Life dies, Death lives, and Nature breeds,
Prodigious, all abominable things,"
10. I was once conversing with a nobleman of the
highest rank, and distinguished for his virtues, and
his well-deserved influence in the nation. He said to
me, " I do acknowledge that we committed a gigantic
error in 1819, but it is now too late to retreat;" upon
which I remarked, "My Lord, I told you in 1819
that you were committing a gigantic error—did I
not ?" • " Yes," said he, " I must honestly acknow-
ledge that you did • but I must repeat my opinion
that it is now too late to retreat." Then," said
"my Lord, mark ! I that told you, in 1819, that you
were committing a gigantic error, which error you
now acknowledge, and which error was thee remedi-
able, I tell you, that in saying that it is now too late
to retreat, you commit another error, which error is
fatal." " Well," said he, " I can't help it ; to the
Devil we must all go, I suppose." And thus our
melancholy conversation closed.
11. But the restoration of the standard of value,
under the Bill of 1819, is not a thing done. As I
hare stated before, the tab- 's and etaT

monetary re-
laxations of many kinds have suspended its mortal
pressure, and are at this very moment suspending it.
Only about one-fifth part of it has been yet brought
to bear upon the nation. It is true, that out of the
grinding misery of the last seven years, we have now
elaborated and collected sixteen millions sterling of
bullion, and we are now again just commencing an-
other period of short and delusive prosperity, like that
of 1824 and that of 1835. Under our present system,
every man who trusts to this delusive prosperity, and
who embarks his capital and industry under confidence
in it, is certain to be ruined. As the employment of
labour increases, and the wages of labour
rise, a great part of the sixteen millions of
of bullion will be quickly drawn out of the
Bank of England, and be scattered throughout
the country in working the great uses of industry, in
feeding, clothing, and lodging the people ; and as
English prices rise, so as to check the exportation of
English manufactures, and to encourage the importa-
tion of foreign produce, the remainder of the sixteen
millions will inevitably be driven abroad by the arbi-
trary law of 1819, which binds down the prices
bullion at the ancient level. Then, again, will the
contraction of the metallic money be followed up by
the consequent contraction of the paper money, and
the nation will again be plunged into a frightful state
of poverty, ruin, and exasperation.
12. It is difficult to estimate the political results of
this next period of depression and distress to which
I allude. Unless arrested by timely legislative in-
terference, it is certain to arrive within the next two
years. In my petition to the House of Commons,
presented in August, 1842, I represented that the
principal benefit which I anticipated to the nation
from the great changes (since effected) in the corn-
and provision laws, was that " of bringing the owners
of land into a community of suffering and of feeling
with the unhappy owners of labour, and thereby in-
ducing them to use their powerful political influence
in relieving the common sufferings, and arresting the
common dangers, by repealing the fatal Bill of 1819,
from which they all proceed.' If experience should
prove that the tariff of 1842 has produced this great
effect upon the mind of the agricultural interest, I can
only express my opinion, that Sir Robert Peel will
he entitled to the eternal gratitude of his country.
It is very possible, that without some additional influ-
ence of this nature, brought forward to his assistance,
he may not have the power to break through the masses
of ignorance, prejudice, and interest which surround
him. The unhappy structure of humanity is such,
that so long as men are gorged with riches them-
selves, it is scarcely possible for them to believe in the
existence of undeserved poverty in others. As I have
often expressed it, it is not until ruin knocks at their
own door, that the fountains of their hearts are
opened, and that, " taught by their own miseries, they
learn to feel for the miseries of others."
13. No ! The Bill of 1819 is not yet a thing done.
It is, at this moment, under the mask of returning
prosperity, just commencing `the beginning of the
end. When the payment of monetary rent shall
have ceased ; when the taxes which support the na-
tional debt shall have been abolished ; and when social
order shall have been reduced to the wildest anarchy
in England, then the Bill of 1819 will be " a thing
done," but not till then.—l am, respectfully, Sir, your
obedient humble servant,

THOMAS ATTWOOD.
34, Connaught-terrace, April 10.

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DUTCH PAPERS.
AMSTERDAM. APRIL 13.—Last night we saw in the
horizon, to the south-south-west, the appearance of a
great fire, and this morning we hear that, in the village
of Aalsmeer, 46 houses in the best part of the village
are reduced to ashes. Many of the inhabitants of these
houses, among whom is the burgomaster, have saved
nothing but the night-clothes which they had on. A
great number of cattle are burnt, and four persons aro
missing. It is suppossd that the fire commenced in a
barn, in which a knife-grinder slept ; this man, too,
has not since been seen.
UTRECHT, APRIL 12.—We learn, from a respect-
able source, that the attempt to found a Euro-
pean colony in Surinam, will probably fail, as it
seems to be attended with insurmountable dif-
ficulties. The incredible fertility of the soil is
unquestionable ; but people are firmly convinced that no
European can endure the labours of agriculture in the
burning climate of the tropics, which is rendered still
more insupportable by the marshy nature of the coun-
try. We mast, therefore, wait for detailed statements
respecting the undertaking before we can encourage our
countrymen to take part in it.
13th April, HAGUE,
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FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS LOST.—Mr. George
Horlick, of cianham, in this county, lost from his pocket, on
Thursday last, as he believes, in Cheltenham fair, the large
sum of five hundred
_pounds, 3001. of which was the Glou-
cestershire Banking Company's 10/. notes, 100/. in Bank
of England paper, and 100/. in sovereigns. He had drawn
the amount out of the Gloucestershire Bank in this city, the
same morning, and imprudently carried it about his person.—
Gliteester Journal. . .

'INTERCOURSE WITH FRANCE.—In the week, from
the 2d to the 9th inst., the number of persons who passed
between Lngland and• France was as follows :—By Boulogne,
1,133; by Calais, 369. At the corresponding period last year
the numbers were :—By Boulogne, ;54; by Calais, 346.

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blENTS.—Worsdell's Vegetable Restorative Pills, pre-
pared only by John Kaye, Esq., of Dalton Hall, near
Huddersfield, have now, arising solely from their in-
trinsic merits, attained the highest celebrity, and be-
come the most extensively established Family Medicine
of the present day: but as many parties, anxious to ob-
tain this rardiein:, find great difficulty in doing so, owing
to many country towns yet being without an Agent,
from whom it can be procured; to obviate this difficulty,
the proprietor has now made arrangements by which
in any part of the United Kingdom,
h a single box, post free, direct from
mayper persons, s ,
supplied residing w t
the Wholesale Depot, in London, by forwarding fourteen
penny postage stamps ; or, for the larger box, 2s. 9d. in
stamps, addressed—Knye's Wholesale Depot, 44, Cole-
man-street, near the Bank, London.
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,RUMOURED LEGAL CHANGES.—It was currently
reported in Westminster Hall yesterday, that Sir William
Follett,n
Gthfeoelire ptrrhaeel ,s
behneantdes
session
retired
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.at order der t t new
the
Attorney-General,
coltoo or ne Italye
oy
Parlia-
ment, Lord Lyndhurst would retire from the Woolsack,
when Sir W. Follett wourd be appointed Lord Chan-
cellor, should his health be sufficiently renovated to.en— .
able him to undertake the duties of the Office. •