of April, 1833, I sold a cow to Mr. John Barnes at my house. He came about half-past five or six o'clock. He told me he had not been at Smedmore that day, but had left the day before and been all round the country. I made a memorandum of the sale on the 11th of April.

Sarah Cooper corroborated the testimony of the last witness.

Mary Purder. My daughter was married on the 10th of April, 1833. Mr. John Barnes was at my house at Charlton that morning

Thomas Bascomb.-I am in the preventive service. On Wednesday the 10th of April, at eight in the morning, I went to inquire for Mr. John Barnes at Smedmore house. I saw Mrs. Churchill, she told me he was not at home. I went again twice that day, but was told he was not at home. Mrs. Churchill told me that Mr. Clavell had died without a will.

Cross examined.-I can't tell the month in which I communicated these circumstances to any one. I conversed several times with Voss about it. I can't recollect the day of the month; I went to Wareham to be examined on the day I went into the preventive service. George Senwick, parish clerk of West Lulworth. Our meeting was held on the 10th of April at four o'clock. I waited till after five o'clock before any one came. In about ten minutes Barnes and his son Samuel came in.

Matthew Randall.-I keep the Red Lion at West Lulworth.Samuel Barnes and his father came there on the 10th of April, and William Barnes came in about half an hour after.

Mary Best. Mrs. Churchill told me Mr. Claville had never made a will. Miss Churchill told me VOL. LXXVI.

she was in hopes there was something left to her mother. She cried and said she was sorry therewas no will.

The letters of administration to Mr. Clavell, dated the 16th of Aug., 1833, granted to Mrs. Richards, and sworn under 25,000l., was put in and read.

Robert Taylor, post-master at Corfe.-I received directions about Mr. Clavell's letters from Mrs. Churchill. I am acquainted with Mr. Clavell's handwriting. The signature to this will I believe not to be in his handwriting.

Cross-examined. — I doubt the signature to the lease being his as much. I should doubt this also (another lease). I should say this was not his (the presentation of the Lulworth vicarage to Mr. Whit). I believe this to be his writing (the instructions for the leases).

Mary Durden.-I was at Miss Churchill's school. Mr. John Barnes used to come in the evening, and the pupils were generally sent to bed when he came. I don't know whether he slept there. He was there very often.

Mrs. Fromage. I live at Corfe I worked as a washerwoman at Miss Churchill's school. They kept one servant. I have seen John Barnes there often in the evening. I used to leave at 7, 8, and 9 o'clock. I have left him there. I

never knew both the Miss

Churchills go away together. Every Saturday one of them went to Smedmore. Mr. Barnes said when he was married I should have some bride-cake. Miss F. Churchill was present. He said he was going to have the farm near Smedmore as soon as he was married to Miss F. Churchill.

Elizabeth Stroud.-I was servant to Mrs. Clavell. I was at Smedmore. I did not see anything

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particular between J. Barnes and F. Churchill. I told her I supposed Swalland farm would be where she would live. She said it was very much out of repair, and she did not think that would be the house, but Orchard farm. I knew at the time that John Barnes had those farms. She asked me if I would come and see her when she got there.

Cross-examined. This was in August, 1832. It was not a jocular conversation.

L. S. Green. I valued the effects of the late Mr. Clavell. While I was doing so, John Barnes claimed some hay, saying Mr. Clavell had given it to him. Eales claimed a boat. Colonel Mansell said, that was very odd, when Mr. Clavell's name was on it, and he would not give it up. He said he should not wonder, if Barnes was to claim the estate. He did not say he was once near having it.

W. Downes.I was formerly footman to Mr. Clavell. I remember his paying a visit to Colonel Mansell in 1818. Mr. Clavell stayed there some days. There was a christening. When we got home Mrs. Eales wished him much joy of his son and heir. He thanked her, and said he had him called John Clavell, because he should not be christened twice, as

he was.

Benjamin Warwick.-I am a seal engraver, in Regent-street, London. I have seen the seals on the will, as well as Mr. Clavell's seal. I have endeavoured to see if the seal was impressed with this seal, and it is my opinion that it was not. It has been impressed with some seal, the impression of which is smaller than this. There is something like an impression of a coat of arms. On the inside seal there is no impression whatever,

It is impossible that if this will had been about the person of any one for one day and two nights, it could have so effaced the impression. I have kept an impression near my person for the last seven days, and that has confirmed my opinion. The inside seal appears more defaced than the other.

Cross-examined. I can see a neck of an animal, but I cannot imagine what it is. I cannot discover any similarity between that and the seal. There is an appearance of a shield and an animal's head. Some sealing-wax will become effaced much sooner than others.

George Day. I am in the banking-house at Wareham. I knew Mr. Clavell. I have seen him sign a dozen times. I should think this signature to the will was not his writing. I paid him 300% on the 30th of March, 1833.

Cross-examined.-I should not believe this to be his writing (the instructions to the lease). This is something similar, but I should have doubted it (the other instruc tions). There is something of his style to this (the lease). I can't say whether, if it had been to a check, I should have doubted it. I should think this was not his (the grant of the annuity to Mrs. Clavell, produced by the plaintiff.)

Thomas Bascombe, cashier of the Dorchester bank.-I was acquainted with Mr. Clavell's handwriting. This signature to the will appears of a lighter character than his. I should not like to pay a check with that signature. I should not be lieve it to be his.

Cross-examined. 1 have expressed the same doubt before. There is a similarity. I should consider this more like it (the instructions for the lease). I should

believe it to be his. I think this is his (a lease to William Barnes). I should not believe this to be his (the other lease.) I think this is his (the instructions for Mr. Barnes's lease).

George Bramwell, of the firm of Dorrien and Co.-We received the dividends for Mr. Clavell. I have known his handwriting ever since 1817. I do not believe the signa. ture to the will to be his writing. Cross-examined. I saw him write once, but often received let ters from him. I don't think that we showed the checks to any one but Colonel Mansell's party. We refused to show them any more, because we were tired of it. This I believe to be his writing (the instructions). This is very much like it. I should think it was his (one lease), and this (the other lease), and also this (the grant of the annuity).

Thomas Bartlett. I am an attorney at Wareham, and was concerned for Mr. Clavell. I pre pared two or three leases for him. I saw him on the 30th of March and beginning of April at my office. The two Barnes's were with him. It was stated that they came to give me instructions for some leases to Messrs. Barnes. They said it was for 21 years. Mr. Clavell said "No, certainly not." He asked me if it was usual. I said no. He then said he would not grant them, for he would not part with his estate for so long a term, and he was exceedingly violent. They were contending between 21 years and 16 years for a considerable time. The ultimate instructions were for 16 years. Mr. Barnes said if he would grant the lease for 21 years, it would be an encouragement to them to improve. They spoke of draining to

Mr. Clavell, and it was agreed to have the usual covenants in the lease. No leases were prepared from these instructions. In all the leases I have seen in this county, and I have seen a great many, that covenant not to assign is invariably inserted. Down to the time of Mr. Clavell's death nothing had occurred to interrupt our connexion. I was never concerned for Mr. Voss in the dispute between him and Mr. Clavell. The two letters, the one anonymous, the other from Mr. Clavell, I received. I also received this letter from Mr. Cla vell, thanking me for my exertions in the affair with Voss. I have received the rents from 1829. Mr. Voss had been his bailiff for many years. No differences arose between Mr. Clavell and Voss that I heard of, until the Barneses came there. I have heard him say he was greatly indebted to his tenant, Voss, for the exertions he made, and he had done all his business gratis. From my knowledge of Mr. Clavell, I should not think him capable of dictating such a will as this. He, certainly was not a man of business, and, undoubtedly, inferior to the generality of gentlemen. very much doubt that this signature to the will is Mr. Clavell's writ ing. I do not believe it to be is.

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Cross-examined. I have seen the will before. I think this is his writing (one of the leases). I do believe this is his writing (one of the instructions), and this (the other); and this I must believe to be his writing, though it differs (the other lease). In 1829, he altered the formation of his C. This copy of Mrs. Eales's will is, certainly, in his writing: she died in 1830.

Re-examined.-From 1817 to 1829 he affixed his name to all in

struments with a long C without any deviation; and from 1829 he adopted the small C.

George Filliter.-I am a solicitor at Wareham, and manager of the bank there. I was acquainted with the handwriting of Mr. Clavell. I believe this signature to the will is not his.

Cross-examined. I think this is (the instructions). I have heard the witnesses say what they had been examined to. I am inclined to think this is his (a lease); I think this is more like his writing than the other (the lease).

Mr. Bartlett re-called.-There is invariably a dot put between the J. and the C.

Lord Denman.But I don't see it.

Witness. Oh, I see it's put in the wrong place here. I am sure he was agitated at the time. This is his handwriting, but there is not the dot, nor is the C made in the same way. I went to the house the morning after his death. Mrs. Churchill told me that if I had not made the will, she did not think he had made one. I found in the small box an old 50%. note and some shillings, which, with what I received from Mrs. Churchill, made 75., and that of a man of 3,000l.

a-year.

George Coulson.-I am a clergyman. Mr. Clavell was not a man of splendid capacity. He was inferior to most men. I should say he was not of a capacity to dictate such a will. The signature to this will is not his writing.

Cross-examined.I have seen him write. I believe this to be his writing (the instructions). I

never saw him write on parchment, and, therefore, I cannot form any belief as to this (the lease):

Witchell, clerk to the late Mr. Pike, a coal-merchant. I paid money to Mr. Clavell for tithes. I believe this signature to the will is not his.

Cross-examined. I went to London to see it before. I believe this is not his handwriting (the instructions). I cannot say this is (other instructions). I believe this is (a lease). I believe this is (the instructions he had first said he did not believe was his). I believe this is his (this was the will folded up in a different way).

Several letters were read which had been written by Mr. Clavell to some members of his family, couched in the kindest manner.

Lord Denman summed up. The question for the consideration of the jury was-whether they believed the four witnesses for the defendant. If they were speaking that which was untrue, they were not only guilty of forgery, but guilty of a capital crime-of forging a will; and there must also have been a great deal of conspiracy. They were to deliberate upon this; and he would not pay the jury so bad a compliment as to suppose any warning was necessary to discharge from their minds any wishes or feelings, but they would apply their judgment to the evidence that had been laid before them. His lordship then read over the whole of the evidence, and at 11 o'clock on Thursday night the jury retired. At halfpast 4 on Friday morning they, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, thus invalidating the will.

EXTRACT from a dispatch from the Lord Lieutenant to Lord Melbourne, dated Dublin Castle, April 15, 1834.

My Lord,-The abstract of the reports for the month of March, 1834, from the four chief inspectors of police has been submitted to your lordship and his Majesty's government, and the detailed reports are now forwarded to the Irish office, for reference to the particular condition of each province and county.

These documents are calculated to exhibit a view of the comparative state of crime in the months of January and February, 1834, and also of March 1834, and the corresponding months in 1833.

There is a distinct statement of the class of crimes of an insurrectionary, political, or intimidating character for the same period of time.

Although these papers, with the daily reports transmitted to your lordship, and with the observations of the sub-inspectors, and the chief inspectors, might be deemed to furnish his Majesty's government with a sufficient view of the general state of Ireland,

your Lordship will probably expect from me, at the present season, the addition of my remarks and opinion.

The province of Ulster, upon the whole, is in a tranquil and even a flourishing condition; and although a large increase of crime (104 under the general class, including twenty-two under that of insurrectionary character) appears on comparion with the corresponding month in 1833, the heavier crimes have diminished on the same comparison. No general combination for purposes of insurrection, intimidation, or assumption of legislative or executive powers, is to be discovered in this province.

A part of the county of Monaghan requires vigilant observation; but I trust it may be restored to tranquillity by the ordinary employment of the magistracy, police, and military.

Agriculture and internal trade are all in an improving state in this province, and (with the exceptions already stated) there is no cause to apprehend any interruption of peace or good order in Ulster.

The province of Connaught may be considered generally in a state