The Sun. — 1838-11-27 (London, England)

PATTESON—Prisoner, you have been convicted at the last Assizes at Liverpool, upon an indictment which charges you with having secreted a witness who was a material and a necessary witness in a charge of murder. It apppears that she is the daughter of the person charged with the murder, and that you are the brother of her mother. You state in your affidavits that, the mother being ill, you assisted her in getting her daughter sway from Niancliever to Nottingham, but that when she .was there you deny using any controul over her, and you state that, being twenty years of age, she was perfectly her own mistress, and could have gone back if she had pleased. That may be the fie, but it is quite cle tr that you assisted her to go away in the first instance, and thus evade the performative of a duty, painful it is true, but most necessary for the safety of society. The affidavits which have been laid before us show that you have been ruined in circumstances by this conduct ; that you have long wandered about the country, but that you have recently been in prison, being apprehended after the verdict given against you. The Court takes all these circumstances into consideration, but it must be well understood by all persons whatever, that this is an offence of a most serious description. You have occasioned a perversion of jusqce, and have prevented from being fairly tried a person charged with a foul and atrocious untuler. You, at least, assisted .n procuring such a result. Everybody must be aware that it is the duty of every subject of the country, not only-not to screen, but to bring an offender to justice. This is a painful case in some respects, as the person removed „through your agency was the daughter of the prisoner. It does not, therefore, surprise any one that you should have felt a wish to act as you have done, but you ought to have resisted that wish, for it was your duty to take care that she should have appeared in a court of justice as a witness. You have suffered already some imprisonment—you have suffered in circumstances—and the Court trusts that the example of what you have suffered will deter others from committing the same crime. The sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned in the gaol of Rutland for two calendar months.  The Stock Exchange was in a state of considerable agitation to-d,ly, through the announcement of some extensive frauds committed by Mr. Terry, the Managing Director of the Anti-Dry Rot Company. The report is, that the shares havin been called in for the purpose of registration, as many as 2,400 out of the whole 10,000 shares into which the capital stock was divided, were re-issued, or lodged with parties against advances of money by the person alluded to, without any authorization of the owners, and of course without the privity of the directors. How far the company stands committed by this fraudulent act of one of its confidential servants does not yet appear. It is stated. on the part of the directors, that the Company is not held liable for the transactions of the party, although in its employ, and the shares so misappropriated having been confided, not to the individual, but on the faith and according to the terms of an order of the Board of Directors, explanations will doubtless he afforded in proper time by the parties concerned, for the satisfaction of the shareholders at large, many of whom being at a considerable distance must he exceedingly anxious with respect to the security of their property. This circumstance has led to the recent decline in the shares of this company, of which a great number were thereby thrown upon the market, and not any alteration in its general prospects, which are favourable.