The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-02-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JOHN SADLIER, M.P.-ASTOUNDING  DISCLOSURES.  There is every reason to believe that when all is known it will be found that the amount of the frauds of which the late Mr. John Sadlier has been guilty will not be much under £1,000,000. First, it has been ascertained, beyond all question, that Mr. Sadlier had forged no fewer than 50,000 Royal Swedish Railway Company's Shares and Obligations, of £5 each, on which large sums of money are raised. This forgery alone is to the nominal sum of £250,000 only ; it is not yet known what amount he was able to raise on the shares and obligations. In addition to these forgeries there are forgeries of several deeds and mortgages of estates, in Ireland. As regards these, however, the extent is not yet known. But, perhaps, the bWdest and most daring forgeries of all, are these which relate to deeds for the purchase of property in the Encumbered Estates Court ,of Ireland. These forged deeds purport to bear the signatures of the commissioners,' the registrar, the chief clerk, the solicitors, in the various causes, and the commissioner's seal. The extent to which this class of forgeries has been committed may be inferred from the fact that the stamp duty alone on these amounted to several hundreds of pounds. A considerable number of forgeries on private individuals, also, have already been discovered, and there is every reason to believe that o'hers yet remain to be ascertained. These which have been detected are supposed to amount to nearly 4100,000. In addition to the classes of forgeries already enumerated, Mr. Sadlier has been guilty of the assignment of deeds held in trust by him to an enormous amount. The drafts of all the forged deeds and mortgages are in Mr. Sadlier's own handwriting. The forgeries of signatures are, in every case, remarkably successful. Those of the Encumbered Estates Commissioners are said to be so perfect that the most experienced eye could not detect the forged deeds from the genuine. The act of selfdestruction was, it is believed, precipitated by the circumstance of one of the holders of deeds, relative to the purchase of one of the Encumbered Estates, who having, on Saturday last, gone over to Ireland with his solicitor for the purpose of having the deed registered. Mr. Sadlier endeavoured to frustrate the intention of the party, but failed. On the Continent too, where his transactions were to an enormous extent, great alarm prevails. In a letter, which he is supposed to have written, immediately before leaving Gloucester-square for Hampstead Heath, where he put an end to his existence, he declares that, without the knowledge of any human being, unaided and unassisted, he committed the most diabolical crimes of which it was possible to be guilty, that those crimes must now be discovered, and as they would involve the ruin of hundreds of innocent families, he had preferred to die rather than witness the sufferings which they must endure. The crime of suicide must have been contemplated by Mr. Sadlier for some time before he committed the act, for he had purchased "Taylor, on Poisoning," and had evidently read it through till he came to the chapttr on the essential oil of bitter almonds, when he turned down the page as if he had made up his mind. The frauds of Sir Sir John D. Paul, Strahan and Bates, are not much Smaller in amount, but they are tame compared with his. They denote a combination of criminality, boldness, ingenuity, versitality, and tact, such as the world never betore witnessed,—Mortaing Advertiser.