The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-25 00:00:00

COUNTY CORONERS BILL.

The House then went into Committee on this Bill.
Clauses 1 to 6 were agreed to.
Mr. 111.INIE then objected to the Bill proceeding be-
fore such a thin House, and moved that the Chairman
report progress.
After a short conversation, the motion was agreed to,
the Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to
sit again on Wednesday next.
Mr. F. FRENCH was then proceeding to submit a
motion respecting the Dublin Jury Lists, when
An HoN. MEMBER moved that the House be counted,
and there being but 23 Members present, the House ad-
journed at a Quarter to Eight.

It is impossible to read the proceedings at the
Woodstock election, onlMonday, without a strong feeling of
indignation against the conduct of the Duke of Marlborough.
Without assuming all the statements made on that occasion
to be accurate (in truth, we know that accuracy is rarely to
be looked for ix rival speeches at contested elections), there
does appear to be sufficient foundation for the very grave
charges made against the Duke, to call at least for denial
or explanation on his part. If the charges be left unrefuted,
we must say that they leave a most unenviable reputation
to the patron of the borough of Woodstock. We trust, and
we believe, that of no other so conspicuous member of the
aristocracy of England could such tales of heartlessness be
told with any semblance of truth. We shall be vet" glad to
learn that the Marquis of Blandford, in his promised re •
searches on the subject, succeeds in either refuting or reme-
dying the hardships complained of. The conduct of that
young nobleman, on the occasion referred to, evinced both
discretion, talent, and good sense. We trust; his future con-
duct will be in accordance with this early promise. But we
feel bound to say, that the disclosures both of the Rev. Mr.
Bowles and of Mr. Humphrey present a strang' practical
commentary upon the character of the man whose name
was placed by the Standard newspaper at the head of a lay
address upon the suoject of the Oxford theology. Wherever
our divines study the doctrines of religion, we would strongly
recommend them to keep as far aloof as possible from the
Marlborough school in their tenets touching the duties of a
poisessor of property professing to be a Christian.—. Post.

- THE WILLS FORGERS.—lmmediately after the sen-
tences were passed on the convicts Barber, Fletcher, Sanders,
Mrs. Dorey, and Lydia Sanders, they were reconveyed to the
different wards of the prison, and kept as they were before
the trial, separate. The only time they saw each other was
when brought up into the Court, and then they held no com-
munication with each other. Since the sentence has been
passed, Barber entertains the same confident hopes as he did
before and during the trials, that he shall yet be at liberty;
and when he was found guilty, and after he was sentenced,
his counsel was heard to remark that the verdict would not
stand, and that the sentence would not be carried into effect;
and the necessary steps, it is stated, are already being taken
for the purpose of preparing a case to be laid before Sir James
Graham, and thereby to obtain, through the Right Hon. the
Secretary of State, her Majesty's free pardon. It is also un-
derstood that, as no proof was given as to the forgeries of the
different wills, that a question on this point will be raised,
so as to obtain the opinion of the Judges. Even on this the
friends of Barber are sanguine that the result will be favour •
able, and terminate in the indictment being quashed
Fletcher, who entertains no such hopes as his fellow convict,
is, from his state of health, expected not to survive a very
long period of time, for since his committal his disease, that
of an affection of the heart, has increased. The other con-
victs, particularly the two females, consider they have been
most mercifully dealt with, and it has been remarked, that
from the time of the committal up to yesterday, Mr. Dorey
has not been once to see his wife, nor have any of the parties
been visited by any one except their professional advisers;
and, although kept separate from each other, not a single
inquiry was made by any one after each other; the only in-
stance of anything like sympathy being exhibited, was when
Mrs. Sanders heard the jury find her guilty. She burst into
a violent flood of tears when her sister took her by the hand,
and Sanders put his left arm round his wife's waist. They
both begged of her to be composed and to bear her fate with
fortitude. Should the intended application on behalf of
Barber prove unsuccessful, the three male convicts will
directly afterwards be removed to the Millbank Prison, pre-
paratory to their being sent to New South Wales. '
NEWFOUNDLAND AND BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
SOCIETY FOR EDUCATING THE POOR.—On Tuesday afternoon
the twentieth anniversary of the above Society was cele-
brated by a sermon being preached by the Rev. S. S. M.
Anderson, M.A., Chaplain to the Queen Dowager, at St.
Dunstan's Church, Fleet-street, on behalf of the above So-
ciety, which was founded in 1824, and has for its purpose the
founding of schools for the education of poor children in New-
foundland and Upper Canada, in North America The So-
ciety has establisbed forty-six schools in Newfoundland,
and fifty-two in Canada, in which many hundred children
are educated, independent of the day schools. A number of
adult schools have also been established. The Rev. Gen-
tleman advocated the , objects of the charity, and, after I
Divine service,- a collection was made in aid of the funds of
the Society.