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THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1849, we shall ever be in such a state of excitement as ! miin features of the case so far, but there are details to these witnesses were then in ; but who con say that which I shall shortly direct your attention—l say shortly, he would have his faculties sufficiently about him because if the main features do not satisfy you of the under such circumstances to observe what happened? prisoner's guilt, I never would have you to rely on very even where there is no excitement a great difference in minute circumstances, as they are apt to deceive, and the minute details of evidence always arises. In the you cannot fully depend on them. ' These minor circum present instance, one witness who had his e y es to the stances are these. The murderer dropped two papers in door saw a figure and a flash of light, while the other, the Hall. It has been attempted .to beshown that these whose attention was not directed in that way, saw no- papers came from Rush. (EN Lordship read the notices thing. About twenty minutes af ter th e b o d y of Mr. signed " Thomas Jermy.") That Thomas Jermy knew Jermy was found in the porch, and was carried with nothing of these notices was quite clear. Who then that of his son into the dining-room, both were ex- wrote them? In order to show that it was the prisoner, mined, and from both a number of pieces of lead were Jesse White swore it was his handwriting, though in a taken. Whether these pieces of lead were like round - disguised hand, and that there were two or three of the shot or slugs is entirely unimportant to the question letters which he knew to be Rush's. Now, I must say, if which we are now considering. What, then, do we I were a juror , I would not attribute a feather's weight infer from all this? Whatever other matters are in to this. The witness, no doubt, thought he was right, doubt, it appears clear that the person who shot young and might be so , but in printed characters such as these, Mr. Jenny was gu ilty of the murder of Mx. Jermy, sen., it would be almost impossible to speak with ,confidence, also. I cautio us ly use t h e words " gu il t y o f the mur- and such evidence was unsatisfactory. All you can say der," because it is a possible hypothesie that the hand is, the papers were written by some one whose writing that shot young M r . J ame y w as not the hand that shot is not dissimilar to that of the prisoner. But there is his father. I need, however, hardly tell you that if two other evidence of some importance. Among Rush's papers or more persons come together. on a common enterprise, were found two books, just of the size and with similar and one kill s one v ictim and the other another, they are covers, to those produced. The prosecutors say that the both equally guilty of the murder of each. If it was covers on which the notices were written were like the done by two persons, it was done in concert, because covers of these books, and I can only say the same also. the hypothesis that they should come for such an In the books found in Rush's house are two, with the object without concert is obviously absurd ; but labels on the makers (" Messrs. Gerrard") upon them. if there is any doubt about that, the similarity Mr. Gerrard, on being called, says, that in lBefi he made of the slugs found in the two bodies and on the floor up certain books for the purpose of teaching book proves the thing to demonstration. Therefore, it is keeping, in sets of five, three large and two small. The clear that the man who was in the house was guilty of three large had labels upon them. The probability the murder of Mr. Jermy, whose body was found in the therefore is, that whoever bad bought two of these books porch. There remains, then, only one thing, viz., to would have bought the third, and inasmuch as only two discover who was the man who shot Mr. Jermy. The were found in . Rush's house, that he must, at some time prosecution says it was the prisoner, and that is the or another, have had the third. It is said that the covers point which you, gentlemen, must satisfy yourselves on which the notices were written are exactly such co upon. To show you who was the man, the first evidence vers as those of the missing book would have been. They is the same that I have already called your attention to are of three sheets of paper in order to make them in showing what the prosecution was. (The Judge read strong for children's use. This evidence is to my mind the evidence of Watson, Chestney, and Reed on this much stronger than that of the handwriting; butl do not point. He was interrupted by the prisoner, who wished rely much on it, for, after all, who could tell but that the to have mentioned some little discrepancy as to his book might hare been taken from,the prisoner by some movements. The Learned Judge then. continued .)—lt other person, and the book might still be somewhere at makes no difference in the world where the man was his house? It is suggested that where two books are when Watson met him. It does not 'matter a farthing found you should find three; and this goes in some whether he had turned the corner or not. You see that degree to connect the prisoner with the notice. out of the five witnesses who saw the murderer at Stan- Prisoner—There is one observation I wish to make, field-hall, four state their confident belief that the pri- my Lord. Mr. Gerritrd sold 100 sets of these books. Do soner was the man. The fifth never saw him before, you think you could get them complete in every house and could only say that the murderer was a stout-built you went to? This is really very extraordinary. man. Now, this is very cogent as evidence, but at the same The JUDGE—WeII, that is very fair. I put the case time several observations would apply to the evidence if in another way. There is another circumstances men it rested there. The very confusion attending such oc- tioned, but I don't think you can attend to it. The book currences was unfavourable to such evidence, and I have missing is the cashbook. In the cashbooks of the set pointed that circumstance out in every case when laying faint lines have been made on the covers by the ruling, evidence of the kind before a jury. There is no sort of and if there were light enough you could see similar evidence that is given which is more convincing, and yet traces on the covers produced. In addition to this it has which has been muro frequently proved to be completely been relied on for the prosecution that the prisoner was unfounded. A striking instance of this occurred in a in the habit of going out about the same hour on several case where a jury convicted a man of a gross and mur- nights before the 28th, and the suggestion is that he did derous attack upon another person. It afterwards turned so with the intention of committing the same crime out that they were mistaken. But, at the same time, in which he afterwards had an opportunity of doing. my experience, these mistakes were in the instances Whether that may be so or not I will not say. where men had a long time to look at a person who was Prisoner—lt's extraordinary to say I went out at the previously a stranger. We are less likely to be deceived same hour, my Lord; no such thing was proved. in the appearance of a person we know than by looking The JUDGE-1 really don't think it matters whether fur a while at one we don't know. If any of you, gen- you went out half an hoar more or less. (His Lord tlemen, begin looking at a man sitting at that table, and ship then reviewed the effect of the evidence so far, and he goes out, I think you would pause before you swore continued.) The morning after the murder the police to him afterwards; but if you have only a sufficient went to Potash, and somebody at the hall must have knowledge of a man's appearance, a momentary glance told them to do so. It is stated by the prisoner that will in an instant tell you that it is him, Take, for in- this should go to his favour, because they went there on stance, one of your children; you will recollect him at account of his known hostility to Mr. Jermy. At all once by signs which perhaps it is impossible for you to events they had the police watching the farm, sad the describe. You will say, " I don't know how, but I am prisoner conducted himself like a man who had COM as certain as lamof my own existence. I feel a degree mitted a great crime, as well as giving a false account of of confidence which it is impossible for me to doubt." himself when ho is arrested. The question, therefore, comes—Have these four wit- Prisoner—But was it likely I should have made the nesses a sufficient knowledge of the prisoner Rush? observations I did to Emily Sandford if such a thing had That as to Mrs. Jermy is as follows:—Rush appears to been on my mind? have then on odd terms with Mr. Jermy,sen , sometimes The JUDGE—The prisoner suggests, gentlemen, that calling on him, and sometimes quarrelling. what he said when he went home was in his favour, Prisoner—My Lord, I don't know this elrs. Jermy. and you are not to mind the inference I draw, but to Baron Rooeo— That is a prover observation, and I form them for yourselves. The next question is what don't complain that you set me right. Yetone can't un- could have prompted the prisoner to so dreadful an act derstand but that Mrs. Jermy must have been in the habit —one happily so unusual and unprecedented as for a of seeing the pi isener. That being so, he was in the po. man to go out in the dusk of evening to murder the owner sition of a man not an entire stranger. The servants and the son of the owner of the adjoining estate, and to were in the habit of seeing him go along the passage. attempt the life of a lady and her servant? It is true It is meth) out that the man who was seen there on the great crimes are often perpetrated without any imagine night of the murder was disguised—how, we don't know. ble motive, but when motives did appear to exist they But if a person is well known it is not quite so easy were so far a means of arriving at a satisfactory con for him to disguise himself as at first sight may be sup- elusion. On the part of the prosecution it is attempted to posed. That being so, the four witnesses swear as I be shown that a most malignant feeling existed on the have read to you. I would advise you not to pay much part of the prisoner towards Mr. Jermy. I confess I pay attention to the difference between the use of such words no regard to the evidence of Howe. I don't inquire as " I believe it was the prisoner," and more posi- whether it is true or not; but suppose a man talking to tive expressions. All you know is th e confidently a lawyer or his clerk about a lawsuit to use angry ex expressed opinion, that the prisoner was th e man. It pressions, it suggests no more to my mind than if he thus becomes very important to see what other evi- said, " I'll break his head." Other observations of a si , dence there is; whether there are circumstances con- miler kind I would dispose of in the same way; but these sistent with the guilt of the prisoner ;and inconsistent remarks do not apply to two letters which the prisoner with his innocence. The main evidence that is relied on put in evidence—one dated April 26, containing a most for this I proceed to notice. Rush is living at Potash-farm malignant strain of expressions towards the deceased, His Lordship then proceeded to read his notes of the and another of an earlier date. But in addition to this, evidence of Emily Sandford, and when he came to that there is attempted to be shown a long series of transac .. portion of it where she said the prisoner went out and tions which led to the result, that if the Jermys could returned about 9or half-past 9 o'clock, observed—" Now, be murdered, a large property, to the amount of many tf lie is a guilty man, it was daring the interval he corn- thousands, would come into the possession of the mitted the murder; if innocent, he was otherwise occu- prisoner, and which if they were living he could not get. picti." Having concluded the notes of her direct evi- If this be true it is not confirmed or weakened by any dance, his seurd.:hip proceeded to her cross-examination. thing I have said. The evidence of this motive is to be , , The prisoner's account of his behaviour was that he was foundia the papers to which I shall now callyour attention. moyel to tears by reflecting on his behaviour to her, and There were in-London two claimants to the Stanfield by thinking in how terrible a position he had placed her, hall and other estates, named Jermy and Lerner. The so Oat he could not take her to the concert. He said prisoner held leases of two farms at Felmingham, of lid was touched by her ready acquiescence, and moved which the leases would expire on Michaelmas. In _to tears by the way in which she at once consented to October he entered into a negotiation with these men to forego her wishes with respect to the concert. She goes put them into possession of the Felmingham property, o n t o say that on the night in question he went out about on the understanding that they would sign an agree 7or half-past 7 o'clock, ment to give him a beneficial lease of those farms; but Prisoner—When you get on further, my Lord, you as possession could not be had till the 11th of October, will find something else—she said it was an hour and a there was another agreement actually carrying out the half between the time I went out and I returned. terms of which the agreement of the 3d of October con- The JUDGE—I can only state what I have got here. tained the effect, signed subsequently. It was arranged In her cross-examination by the prisoner it was ad- that Emily Sandford should come down to Norwich on mitted by this witness that he went twice to her room the sth of October. She was met by Rush, and he brought that night, although she said nothing about the second her over to Potash. At that time it was occupied by his occasion of his going into her room. It further ap- son and son's wife. She was taken to Rush's bedroom, peered in her account of that night that the prisoner on which was separate from the rest of the house. On going into the room had talked a good deal, and that Tuesday following it was proposed she should go over to among other matters they had spoken about the concert; Norwich. It was arranged that Savory, the servant and so far this bore out the assertions of the prisoner, boy, should drive her. The prisoner was to go in the for they conducted themselves as if they were man and gig with her towards Stanfield-hall, where he said he ; wife, and as if nothing horrible had taken place. How- wanted to go. They went as far as they could in the ever, it is for you to say whether this was a blind or not, gig, when they got out. He went to the ball. She but lis far A 3 it goes it bears out what he says about the waited 20 minutes; and when he returned he said he concert. Supposing nothing else had been proved, had not finished his business with Mr. Jermy, but hoped these facts would not show what he did, but they he should do so. (His Lordship then read his notes of would show that he was at something or other the subsequent evidence of Emily Sandford as to the which pra ssed very heavily upon him. If the evi- copies of papers which she made at Rush's request while deuce rested there, the effect of it would be that Mr. at Norwich. His Lordship then read the papers, and Jermy was murdered—that four people felt confident, commented on them with great care and minuteness, more or less, that Rush was the murderer—that he during which he was several times interrupted by the was out at the time of the murder, and returned home prisoner.) If those papers had been prepared before the under circumstances which showed his consciousness of murder it is useless to speculate on any further something very terrible having happened. From the motives. The forgeries could of course have been de first. moment this evidence was given my attention was tected during the lifetime of Mr. Jermy, but after his given to show how the rest of the evidence might he death these could have been put forward as genuine brought to bear upon it, and how it could be explained deeds. Supposing the wicked designs actually fixed on away; for as it stood there were two or three modes there was no time to be lost. On the Thursday following by which it could be cleared up. The prisoner, for in- the murder Mr. Jermy would have a right to take pos stance, might have been out in search of a poacher, session of Potash. Here, then, the prisoner is connected and, might have met and shot him. His agitation so far with deliberate fraud, and he waited till the last roo showed ohatesomethin g terrible had happened, but not went of time when it was desirable to carry his design 'thafte was a murderer. fiat coupling it with the fact i o . n vi o r e a x l n i tion. the eofevidel o h e a t v o e a l e o e o i k f ed very carefully last night that he was recognised at Stanfield hall, it might be difs ficult to come to any other conclusion than that he was the credi t there is anything to affect place Emily a Sa ti n i dford on these points, for, as to the guilty man. The prisoner therefore made a state- what took night of the murder, it is im isttaistealmitted by the prisoner. hat, if in charity we talent the object of which was to show that all the wit- possible to deny it e beca e u t w he a r s at least eer ness stated was true, not strictly so, but slightly coloured, In her first depositions alre but that his conduct arose, not from the fact that he had must not think to be a deliberate w - been-murdering Mr. Jermy at the hall, but that he knew stated with an intention to deceivieerjuarai something was going on and that he was therefore agi- tainly reason for distrusting, thoug . h not di b the evidence of a p erson who has departe d fro m the g i : tated and alarmed. it Prisoner—After I heard the fire-arms. Yes. truth. (His Lord s h i p t h en read his notes of the The JUDCE.—The account, he gives is this—(His deuce of Emily Sandf or d at length, and - Lordship read from his notes the statement in with her depositions as he went along.) Looking at questiou, which has already appeared in the the case chronologically, you have a stron g motive papers, and continued)—Now, gentlemen, if this pressing on the mind of the prisoner to get rid of were true, the prisoner certainly would not be Mr. Jermy. Two nights before the time when it was guilty of the nanieler of Mr. Jermy, but, morally. I could necessary to murder him to make the forged documents pot see much difference in his conduct. He had heard available he was murdered. He was seen by five people, shots fired and the bell rung at the Hall. He must have tour of whom say that it was Rush, though disguised. guessed something terrible had happened; but he went On that night he was from home at the time of the quietly hack, and made no effort to assist the people liv- murder. He confessed that there was something going ing there. However, the morality of his act has nothing on; he was greatly agitated on his return, and told the to do with his present guilt. But let me see if it is pos- woman he was living with that he was only out ten Bible to give credence to this account, setting out of view minutes. Before the magistrates he gave no explanation, that fact, that in spite of his animosity he should but but now he cones out with the story you have this day have tried to save the life of one whom he called his heard for the first time. It is quite clear that the dress friend, and of his son. When he was taken up next he was out in that night has been made away with. morning at 8 o'clock, and when the police said to him, He confessed that he had burned the green frock, and " You are said to be the man who murdered Mr. Jermy the pair of boots in his bedroom were not accounted for. last night," would he not, it he possessed common sense, Do these things not convince you that he did the mur have said, "I murder kr. Jermy ! Never. I know who der? If from anything that has been said you have they were that did it, and I will give you the best ac- doubts, your verdict must be Not Guilty; but at the count in my power. One of them is a man named Joe, same time it is not permitted to any body of men to con and another is a man named Dick, and another calls jure up doubts, if in the bottom of their conscience they himself a lawyer. They were the people who feel none. did it, because I know they were going to take Th e j ur y th en re ti re d an d were a b sent for six minutes. forcible possession that night?" That was what a On their return— man's interest, under the circumstances , w o u ld h a ve in- The Clerk of the Crown addressed them—Gentl emen duced hi m to say. You, gentlemen,' may form your of the jury, how say you; have you found the prisoner own opinion upon it, but I confess that is the light in guilty of the murder or not? which it strikes me. lam bound to see equal Justice The Foreman—GUlLTY.—(Sensation in court.) jione between the prosecutor and the prisoner, and I see The prisoner immediately seized, with a convulsive no other way in which I can put this- He knew a grasp, the sides of the dock with both hands, and ex dreadful outrage was goin g to be committed; next morn - claimed — " I know it is all up now, nry Lord." ing he hears that two gentle had been murdered, The Clerk then p r oc eeded— Gentlemen, that is your and a lady and her m a id all bu m t e r t nurdered and he never verdict —you say the prisoner is guilty, and so you says one syllable about the , whole a f t air except on this say all 9 day, and in the course of last January, wh en h e Her e the jury bowed assent, and most of them added, wrote a letter to his solicitor with an intention s of s s a fa s tin i g e in an audible voice, " All." all he knew about it. Here, then,thteheerfaideetn:stand thus. The Clerk then addressed the prisoner —James Blom ---(His Lordship recapitulated You see, then, he returned home at the timeaci far.) field Bush, you have been accused of the murder of Isaac n the greatest possible agitation. He knew something hor Jermy on an indictment preferred against you and found rible had happened, because, according to his own state-- by the grand jury, to which you pleased not guilty, end meat, he had heard shots fi red and th e h a l l be ll put yourself on a jury of your country, which jury have ring. He is taken up: and he never gives the least found you guilty. What have you now to say why sen tencehint of his story, though it would have absolved him s o o t; the profound silence at once if true; fur if so, there a ould have been some . 117 r? „, to law? deat t h arceE sh tp o hr u eo l ne d epe not be passed upon you according Baron ese trace of the people he creations—some of these persons °s waged in the business would have come forvrard and awful sente nce a u dwe t on to the pas s bla ck a p c o k n c ti a i p e , and amidst prisoner the sa?d, I was en .I+, takine possession, but I was not and measured emnity, .anidlethar)skeeveirneaditgonnietyofofslh°iws I --e?rosatrai3et—ejda, power of trhis language, produced the an accessory to a mu: der. But no one of these people manner, and the is found—no one comes forward. I have watched with profoundest impression the greatest anxiety, and have looked over the papers to Rush, after a trial 'anus; w e i a l s f: th m e u re rd i e s r e — y Peroetrate on 'another which I had access most carefully, to see what explain- found guilty of the char ge m y e o s u h ß a l ve m b fi e e e l n d to , mo od be given, and the moment he came to this part the highest any human b ein g e ear trim © h l in g , of his ease, I gave it my most undivided attention, and the deepest under any ciruemasntances of extenuation; this is my deduction. But if this statement should be an but I regret to say that is your untruth, how does the matter stand? Not only do all which could add a deeper dye to guilt the most hor these people sa y it was Bush, and not only is it proved rible. It appears from letters which you yo in that to the father of the unfortunate victiii:oefifltt he conducted himself in an extraordinary way on the night i l l question, but some time after he is arrested he concocts malice you owe a debt of deep gratitude a completely false story of his whereabouts at the time of menced a career of crime by endeavouring cheat y r u co rn. oa the transactions which th en too k pl a ce . These are the landlord; you followed it up by making the unfortu - nate girl whom you had seduced the tool whereby you shoyki.commit fergery ; ar.rl ha,ine.: done that, you terminated yonr guilty career by the murder of the son and grandson of your friend and benefactor. More can not be said. It unfortunately sometimes happens that great guilt is too nearly connected with something that is calculated to dazzle the mind; but, fortunately, in your case you have made vice as loathsome as it is ter rible. There is no one who witnessed your conduct during the trial, and who heard the evidence produced, who will not feel as the result of that evidence that you must quit this world by an ignominious death, an object of unmitigated abhorrence to every well-regulated mind. I shrink not from making this statement, in order to point out to you the position in which you now stand. To society it must be a matter of perfect indifference what your conduct may be during the few remain ing days of life that remain to you. No conceal went of the truth in which you may continue to persevere willful cast the slightest doubt upon the pro priety of the verdict. No confession you can make can add a taper light to the broad glare of daylight guilt disclosed against you. So far, therefore, as society is concerned, the conduct you may pursue is matter of indifference; but to yourself it may be all-important, and I can only conjure you by every consideration of interest that you employ the short space of life that yet remains to you in endeavouring by penitence and prayer to reconcile yourself to that offended God before whom you are shortly to appear. In the mysterious dispensa tions of the Almighty, not only is much evil permitted, but much guilt is allowed to go unpunished. It is per haps presumptuous therefore to attempt to trace the finger of God in the development of any particular crime, but one has felt at times a satisfaction in making such investigations, and I cannot but remark that if you had performed to that unhappy girl the promise you had made to her, the policy of the law, which seals the lips of a wife in any proceeding against her husband, might perhaps have allowed your guilt to go unpunished. 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On the adjournment of the Commons for the Easter recess, the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Montrose availed himself of the opportunity for the purpose of directing the attention of Parliament to the disturbed state of the public mind in several of our most important Colonies. In consequence of his direct allusions to the excitement prevailing in Jamaica, Demerara, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ceylon, and the Canadas, Lord JOHN RUSSELL appeared to consider himself called upon to deliver a decisive defence of the conduct and policy of the Noble Earl the Secretary for the Colonial Department. It is a somewhat fortunate cir cumstance, therefore, that, immediately before the temporary dispersion of the representatives, the community is enabled in some measure to arrive at a correct estimate of the difficulties recently accumu• mulated round our numerous and scattered depen- dencies. In the accusations made by Mr. kluatE, and in the attempted rebuttal of those accusations by the First Lord of the Treasury, the whole question with its different arguments, for and against, has been succinctly submitted to our consideration. Remembering that there are no less than FORTY. THREE Colonies obedient to the sceptre of her Britannic MAJESTY, it is scarcely surprising—. (we admit that at once)—that the Colonial Government should be liable somewhere or other to obstructions and misunderstandings. That discontent should occasionally arise in the ma nagement of so many and such remote possessions, cannot for one moment remain a matter of astonish ment, when we reflect that those forty-three divisions of our empire are distributed through almost every quarter of th e g l o b e, that they are territories extend. ing into both hemispheres, that they stretch north wards and southwards to the arctic and antarctic circles, that some of them are broiling under the line, while others are basking in the warmth of the tropics of Cancer and of Capricorn. In directing the destinies of their inhabitants, the statesmen of England have per petually to take into account their diverse and multiform requirements —a necessity fraught with embarrass ments arising interminably from the variety of races, of customs, of creeds, and of languages. Added to these vast and almost insurmountable difficulties, are the differences existing between the political institu tions of our colonial population. When these facts are seriously borne in recollection, it is absolutely impossible to deny that the uninterrupted preserva tion of amity in each and all of our dependencies is sufficient to tax the utmost of even the most con summate abilities ever applied to the science of Colo nial Government. Nevertheless, while these circumstances are re membered, it must be admitted by the Prime Minister, nay by Earl GREY himself, that the very presence of all these complicating obstructions to the glib working of the machinery of the Administration renders it more than ever essential to temper autho rity with conciliation in the treatment of our colo nists. Now the real accusation implied in the re marks made last evening by the Hon. Member for Montrose was that the policy of the present Colonial Secretary did not display this subtle combination of command and concession, of sternness and leniency. And the arguments upon which Mr. HumE, and all the conscientious opponents of my Lord GREY, base their charges against his system of managing that department of the public service are so far from being in any respect hypothetical, that they are ac tually furnished by the deplorable condition of affairs in no less than ten or twelve of our most valuable possessions. We shall refer, however, to only three or four out of these discontented dependencies. We shall give the benefit of every imaginable or unimaginable doubt to the delinquents in regard to Nova Scotia, to New Brunswick, to Van Diemen's Land, to the Cape, to New Zealand, to British Guiana, Trinidad, Deme rara and the rest of our sugar-growing territories. We shall simply make allusion to the disturbed loyalty of Jamaica, of tl:e Canadas, and of Ceylon. What ever the Prime Minister may say with the intention of allaying in some degree the general anxiety ex perienced in regard to these three distant, widely separated, and most important colonies, it is certain that there is serious cause for that anxiety in conse quence of the opposition offered to, or the odium ac quired by, the respective representatives of the SOVE REIGN. Now about Ceylon. It scarcely required the indignant voice of the Hon. Member for Inver ness-shire to pronounce from the floor of the House of Commons the condemation of Viscount TORRINGTON. The cruelty of his proceedings as Governor, parti cularly towards that priesthood which is the peculiar object of veneration amongst the Cingalese, was a matter of notoriety long before Mr. BAILLIE breathed a syllable upon the subject within the precincts of Westminster. And no sane man has the shadow of a doubt as to the culpability of the Governor of Ceylon, notwithstanding the attempt made in his behalf to shift the responsibility from his shoulders to those of his subordinates; notwithstand ing that Mr. CHARLES WYNN PAYNE, in the first of his admirable pamphlets on the Crown Colonies in the Eastern Empire* asserts very confidently that " the subs in office are supers in error." Something more than an incidental declaration to the contrary is required to remove the onus of blame at present tottering over the head of Lord TORRINGTON. Some thing more than the promise of a blue book is neces sary to prove that Nobleman's competence to preside over the destinies of two millions of the Asiatics. Again, as to Jamaica. That island, which the repre sentative of Montrose mournfully referred to last evening as baying been hitherto regarded as a "pattern colony," has now assumed a rather serious attitude from the breaking out of hostilities between the two Chambers of its Legislature. The Council of Kingston have declared their open opposition to the Assembly—a state of things equivalent to a rup ture between our Lords and Commons—and yet it is pretended that there is only cause in all this for con gratulation ! Before any such opinion can be formed by the community at large, some more explicit andsatisfacfrtoomry s d i is r p e at a c A h ß es L m Es u G st ß b E e y r . eceived in Down ing-street Lastly, there are the Canadas. And does any Minister possess the consummate effrontery to expect that the nation will exult in the situation of affairs in that quarter ?—when the Chamber of Representatives are voting compensation to rebels, and are thereby offer ing an insult to the SOVEREIGN, an outrage to the mother country, and an indignity to the Supreme Government when riotous crowds are assem bling in the streets of Montreal, and burning effigies of obnoxious Deputies in the Place d'Armes? It would certainly require an almost miraculous ingenuity on the part of the Earl of ELGIN and KINCARDINE to transform these troublous occurrences, in our estimation, into reasons for feeling secure as to the retention of our North American dominions. Why, as to the average tone of the Administration over the two Canadas, what says a very able commentator upon the history of those Colonies,'' Lieutenant MILLINGTON HENRY SYNGE ? llesays this, "Let the regret with which these colonies revolted be always borne in mind Generations have succeeded; yet in the hearts of many of the best and noblest that lingering regret remains ; not that the revolt took place, not that it was successful, but that it was rendered neces sary." And yet it is coolly maintained that while these sentiments are retained, while the local Legisla ture is dispensing indemnities among the insurgents, while the detested policy is continued, while the people are inflamed to a state of infuriation, we need only fold our arms and rest contented ! All things considered, we are satisfied that Mr. HUME was authorised to speak as he did last evening upon the alarming condition of our colonies—and that his justification, if discernable nowhere else, is visible in the present condition of Ceylon, of Jamaica, and of the Canadas. We have, on a former occasion, given a brief description of a life-preserver from shipwreck, on a principle as novel as it is simple. %Ve now learn, that the merit of this invention is due to the indefatigable Captain BULLOCK, R.N., a copy of whose letter to the First Lord of the Admi ralty we insert with much pleasure in another column. Of late years, many plans for saving life have been submitted to the public ; but like many clever systems of short-hand, which, looking well on paper, nobody can read, so the neat life-preservers are found in a storm to be not only worse than useless, by adding to the danger of the waves, as clumsy stirrups, put to poise the rider, serve but to drag him under the horse when his feet get entangled in the confusion of falling. " Captain BULLOCK'S safety raft," by which de nomination he modestly hopes to attach his name to the cause of humanity, is free from all these objections. It can be readily constructed —easily launched—is cheap and valuable as it is simple. As those who run may read when time presses, so in moments of awful emergency those who sail may swim, and swim safely, inßuLLocK's buoyant raft. All honour be to the gallant inventor ! for if he who makes a blade of grass grow, where none flourished before, surely he who contrives to save life is at least as worthy as he who destr o ys it, wheth er on l and or water. " The path of glory lead s b ut to the grave " , while " The proper study of mankind is man." And that Captain BULLOCK proves to have very much at heart. The laborious and protracted investigation into the wholesale butcheries known by the name of " the Stanfield-hall murders," has at length been brought to a conclusion. After a trial which lasted six entire dap, during which the prisoner was allowed every possible advantage of which he would accept, the jury without hesitation recorded the only verdict consistent with the solemn obligations they had un dertaken—a verdict which consigns the wretched criminal to an ignominious death • upon the scaffold. It would be impossible to overrate the intense anxiety felt by the public generally in relation to this extraordinary outrage. Every detail of the trial was sought after with the utmost avidity. We at least discharged our duty in this respect. Notwithstanding the pressure of Parliamentary matter, and the im portant debates that took place in both Houses, we gave each day a full and detailed account of the pro ceedings, together with a summary of what had taken place to within a few minutes before our usual hours of publication, which bad been received by electric telegraph; and last night we published an Extraordi nary Edition within a quarter of an hour after the verdict of the jury was delivered, and even while the Learned Judge was passing the dread sentence of the law, announcing the result of the trial. Whatever doubts or difficulties might have been entertained in the earlier stages of the in quiry were completely dispersed after the exa mination of the unfortunate woman who was residing at Potash- farm with' her seducer at the time of the perpetration of the double assassination. The train of presumptive evidence was indeed complete; no link in the chain was wanting. Although the crimi nal bad vainly imagined that his concealment was perfect, that no one living could speak to his identity, the combination of circumstances, each, perhaps, minute and insignificant in itself, produced a moral certainty not inferior to that which would have been attained had the blood of the victims been shed in the broad light of day, and in the pre sence of many unimpeachable witnesses, by whom the murderer had been seized " red-handed," surrounded with all the evidences of his awful guilt. Every ad ditional fact only served to render assurance doubly sure, to force conviction upon every unprejudiced mind. The bloodstained criminal himself was, perhaps, the only one who entertained any doubt as to the result. He, indeed, appeared to underrate the force and power of the vast body of evidence that was accumulated against him, and, with a blind per versity, to hope even against hope, and to suppose th a t he could succeed in deceiving the arbiters of his future fate. With that same perversity he declined availing * "The Eastern Empire. Crown Colonies. (First Series.) Ceylon. By Charles Wynn Payno, Esq." Bvo. pp. 20. 1847. G. Odell: London. f " Canada in 1848, being an Examination of the Existing Resources of British North America, &c. By Millington Henry Synge, Lieutenant, Royal Engineers. Bvo. pp. 32. 1848. Effingham Wilson; London. himself of the professional assistance which could not have been refused by a of Learned aiithquen on the circuit, and vainly imagined that he could conduct his own defence with greater skill and judg ment than any of the talented gentlemen whose services on the occasion he so foolishly repudiated. They, indeed, had good reason to rejoice at being spared a task so painful and disgusting, a task which nothing but an overwhelniming sense of duty could induce any person to undertake; but the fate of the criminal was thereby rendered inevitable. He sealed his own doom by his absurd self-reliance. It is scarcely possible that the most skilful advocate could have struggled against the overwhelming array of facts that were adduced, but every chance was flung away when he determined on acting as his own counsel. How could he have hoped to break down the testimony of the unfortunate woman whom he had ruined under a pro mise of marriage a promise sustained and strengthened by a hypocritical affec tation of religion, and a plausible but most futile and infamous train of reasoning? Every question by which he endeavoured to entrap his victim into some apparent contradiction—to cast upon her the imputa tion of perjury in addition to the deep injuries he had already inflicted, only prejudiced his case, and added to the deep feeling of disgust and condemnation that must have been entertained by every one who had heard of the atrocious outrage, and who witnessed the audacious bearing and the almost inexplicable con duct of the assassin. It afforded an additional and most powerful illustration of the truth of the old adage— " Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat." As we have already stated, the case was one com pletely of circumstantial evidence. It was true that all those who witnessed the awful transaction expressed their thorough belief that the prisoner at the bar was the assassin. The faithful girl, ELIZA CLIESTNEY, who was so seriously wounded, spoke with the greatest degree of certainty, and described the reasons by which she was influenced. There was, however, no complete or satisfactory identification, and unless their evidence had been corroborated by additional and more conclu sive testimony, the crime could not have been brought home to the offender. But when we find four unimpeachable witnesses, all agreeing in describing the demeanour and aspect of the mur derer as coinciding with that of the prisoner, so that every one was at the very moment impressed with the opinion that he was the man— when in addition we find the motives for the offence in the animosity he entertained against the murdered gentleman, the long course of litigation in which he had been involved, and the fictitious deeds, which could only be rendered available after the removal of the party whose signature had been forged, the proof of his handwriting to the notice dropped in the Hall, notwithstanding the disguised character in which it had been prepared ; the coincidence of the paper on which it had been written with two books found in the farm, of a set of three that had been sold to him by Mr. JARROLD, one being unaccounted for ; when, we say, we find him absent from home at the. very time that the frightful butchery was going for ward—his hurried return—the singular caution he, with a species of half-confi knee, gave to his compa nion, and his own statement that he was aware of something extraordinary having happened at Stanfield hall, and that he knew he would be suspected, and that he consequently buried the coat he wore in the pig-stye, where it must have been eaten by the pigs, no reasonable doubt could remain, but everything connected with the murder became but too painfully conspicuous. There is now no danger that the perpetrator of :a cold-blooded outrage almost unparalleled in the annals of atrocity can escape with impunity from the penal consequences of his crimes. A general relief is expe rienced, the thrilling interest that was felt has subsided, and JAMES BLOOIIIFIELD RUSH will descend to his dis honoured grave without regret or sympathy. rHE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Moniteur du Soir contains an, official an nouncement of the arrival of King CII&RLES ALBERT in Paris from Bourges, which he left by spec i a l tra i n at half-past ten yesterday morning. This announce ment was, however, subsequently stated to be in correct. A !etter from Turin, published in the semi-official Patric, thus explains the views of the new King of SARDINIA, to ask advice on which from the PRESI DENT of the French Republic is the object of the mission of GIORERTI. The letter which is dated March 30, says— "We are entering on a new Oasis. The king, who hesitated yesterday, has come to a decision to-day. He desires peace, but an honourable peace, for Piedmont. Everybody now expects that the Chamber of Deputies will be dissolved, and that soon afterwards there will be a medificatian of the Royal statute in the following sense —a fixed electoral qualification, a modified liberty of the press, and the exclusion of Lombards and Vene tians from public offices. As to the views of the Cabinet of Vienna, the following are, if I am well informed, the basis of the treaty of peace, which will be pro posed to the King, and which, it is said, he is dis posed to accept. An offensive and defensive alliance with Austria ; a war contribution of 100 millions of francs, but, in exchange, the annexation of the Duchies of Parma and Placentia to Piedmont; a complete am nesty for the Lombards and Venetians; an Italian Con gress for the federation of all the states of Italy under the patronage of Austria; the seat of the federation to be at Milan; and the votes to be as follows with refe rence to the extent of territory:—Lombardy and Venice, 10; Naples, 10; Piedmont, 10; Rome, 6; Tuscany, 3; Modena, 2; the re-establishment of the Pope and of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. As to the kingdom of Ve netian-Lombardy it will form a separate Government, with a very liberal constitution united by the bonds of fraternity with the other states of the Monarchy. The entry of Gioberti into the Ministry has caused a great sensation. The demagogical journals are furious; but the King seems resolved to give him an immense in fluence. He was in' conference with him during the whole of the night, and at the close of the conference Gioberti set out for Paris. The troops are returning to Turin. They know how the Republican journals have spoken of them, and are therefore full of animosity to the red party. Antonio Profumo, the Mayor of Genoa, has applied for troops to keep down the agitation in that city. The corps of De la Marmora, now composed of 8,000, will be sent to maintain order." The object of the mission of Chevalier HUBNER, the Austrian Envoy Extraordinary, is said to be to represent to the French Government how heavily the yoke of Russia presses upon Austria, and to request the assist ance of France in shaking it off; in order to do which it will be necessary that France should come to an understanding with Austria on the Italian question. He is, consequently, commissioned to urge upon the French Government the necessity of intervening in the affairs of Rome while Austria takes possession of Tuscany. Huttrait, faithful to his old instincts acquired under METTERNICH, does not hesitate to have recourse to cunning and misrepresentation in order to induce M. Ditouirt DR L'Hurs to expel the Lombard exiles from France, which is in all pro bability the real object of his mission. He declares that the administration of RADETZSKY has been of the mildest possible character —that the Lombards gene rally are devoted, heart and soul, to Austria, and he urges that the exiles should be forced to return with out Austria being called on to give any guarantee for their safety. Towards the close of the sitting of the National Assembly on Tuesday, that most unfortunate and testy of Ministers, M. LEON FAUCHER, suffered another defeat. He moved for a grant of money to defray the expenses of the political and moral superintendence of the theatres; but the Assembly recollecting that the political and moral superintend enceasootifnli tlpyupi t eiitoeonofeen pieces ks,l arpermit,neridiculing e r LEON itgbi ni but to twytneuoevtcaoßan encourageEefi o l t parnb,ni dhdoeea d at sahca nebel they slightest b e eeh n yyt eacshai majority representationl tdlah Republicanie. representatione oug r rrp t i o etyeL oi not oonosnii Monarchy or Monarchs, or containing the faintest ghost of a joke against any member of the Ministry, notthe t ` o ‘ s fa a t y , t b r a a l i d to - r h o e u a s de s d up V er i i s n ie te r BARROT, refused to sanction a grant of such One-sided, 365 to 332. • LOUIS BLANC, CAUSSIDIERE, HERMEAU, LATIREON, SEIGEUNT, and NAPOLEON CHANCEL have been con demned by default to transportation for life. TM. PROUDNON'S jour na l , L e 7 'euple, was seized on uesday for publishing an article asserting that the PRESIDENT of the Republic had contracted obliga tions of a pecuniary character, by which he was so hampered that he was prevented from exercising his own free will and judgment in political matters. The Vnion„ the organ of the Legitimatists, states that the members of the jury panel of the High Court of Bourges, which was composed of representatives from all the Councils General of the Departments of France, held several meetings previous to the striking of the jury, on the state and prospects of France, which were presided over by M. RAVE; the celebrated Pre sident of the Chamber of Deputies under the Restora tion. The conclusions arrived at are stated by the Union to be as follows :—"France is not yet prepared for any other Government than that of the Republic. The three great parties who wish to re-establish Monarchy in France, the Legitimatists, the Or!esnists, and the (brie, wh,rn •!. country, but each is in a minbrity it lie:: compared with the other two, and with the Republicans of all shades. To destroy the Republic would therefore be net to restore the Monarchy, but to precipitate France into new catastrophes which would infallibly deliver her over to Demagogues and Socialists. Wisdom and prudence then commands the maintenance of the existing Constitution until the period of its revision shall arrive, when the course of action to be pursued can be determined on according to the then existing state of affairs." The Estafette says :—" On Sunday evening and Monday two columns of Savoyards, Sardinians, Piedmontese, and other Italians, left Paris, going to the relief of Italy. A certain number of old Gardes Mobiles of Paris and Lyons accompany them." The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the following official announcement of the blockade of' Sicily : "The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has ad dressed the following circular, dated the 3d of April, to the Chambers of Commerce of our principal ports : " The Government of the Two Sicilies has notified to the Minister of the Republic at Naples, that the Gulf of Palermo has been placed in a state of siege and blockade by the naval forces of his Sicilian Majesty. This blockade will be put in execution from the first day of• the present month. M. de Rayneval has been at the same time informed that the Neapolitan cruizers have received orders to watch all the coasts of Sicily, in order to prevent absolutely the introduction of arms and all matters fit for war.' " Although the arrival of CHARLES ALBERT in Paris was announced in the official Illonitexr du Soir, it appears that there was no foundation for the an nouncement. The mother of CHARLES ALBERT, the Countess MONTLEART, who has for some years resided in Paris, has received letters from the unfortunate Monarch stating that he had no intention of visiting Paris, but intended proceeding without delay to Portugal. PARIS BOURSE.—WEDNESDAY APRIL 4. THREE O'CLOCIL—The Funds were very steady all this day, and the rise made some further progress. The squabbling in the National Assembly has very little effect on the Funds. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, APRIL 4. Boulogne and Amiens, 9—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 14 1 —East Indian, 4—Namur and Liege, 8 —Northern of France, 11 I A —Orleans and Bordeaux, 3 1 / 2 —Paris and Rouen, 22—Rouen and Havre, 11 3 4—Sambre and Meuse, 4—Tours and Nantes, 21%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 29th have been received. The contents are unimportant. MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 29.—The Five per Cents., 10i, paper; Three per Cents., 214. Ex change on London, 50 money. GERIVIANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES AUSTRIA. Vienna letters of the 28th state that the Russians had entered. Transylvania in great force, and had driven BEM into Wallachia, having taken five of his superior officers, whom they had subsequently caused to be hanged. We trust that this last account is not true. The Magyars have taken many Austrian offi cers of superior rank, on whom they could make re prisals ; but as the intelligence comes from Vienna the probability is that -the whole account is merely one of those useful falsehoods for the fabrication of which the Austrian Chancery has ever since the advent of METTERNICH employed a regular staff of forgers. It is said that Russia has marched 60,000 troops into Transylvania. The account of the successes of GEORGY are confirmed. He has broken the Austrian line, and threatens Buda, Pesth, Losenez, Belassa, and the Austrian forces besieging Comorn. The relief of Comorn is probably the object he has in view. PRUSSIA. The Frankfort deputation arrived at Berlin at 5 P.m. on the 2d inst. They were received at the station by the deputations from the two Chambers of the Town Council, and were conducted in proces sion to the Hotel prepared for their reception on the Linden. .--- RUSSIA The followi ng i s t h e text of the circular of the Russian Government to its foreign agents, on the entrance of its troops into Transylvania : " The news of the entrance of our troops into Tran- Sylvania being likely to give rise to false intepretations, we send you some explanations on the matter. It is notorious that great cruelties were committed in Transyl vania by the Hungarian insurgents, who, headed by the Polish refugee Bern, have been recently repulsed by the Austrian army. The terror which, in consequence of such revolting excesses, was occasioned in the environs of Hermannstadt and Cronstadt, and the temporary ab sence of military forces, which rendered the Austrian generals unable to defend from pillage those towns (placed as it were before the eyes of our advanced posts), caused the inhabitants to in velto through the authorities the assistance of the general in chief of our troops. The Austrian Generals on their part had, for the same reasons, expressed a desire to ascertain to what extent they could calculate if necessary on support from us. General Luders, who referred the matter to the Emperor, received, by order of his Majesty, the reply, that in case the towns of Rermannstadt and Cronstadt should be seriously threatened by an invasion of the Hungarian insurgents, at a time at which the Austrian Government should not possess the means of protecting them against such great disorder, he was authorised to send a sufficient force into these two towns ; that, however, he ought to do that iu the event of inevitable necessity, and only on the express demand of the Austrian military autho rities. When, after, the granting of this authoriza tion, the danger of the towns became more imminent, in consequence of an advantage obtained by the insurgents at Mediafels, and when the inhabitants had renewed their earnest prayers to our General, with an invitation in due form from the Austrian Generals Puchner and Schurter, General Luders did not think right to leave long unaccomplished wishes so expressed. He consequently caused the two towns to be occupied by detachments of troops, the effective of which had been previously indicated by the Austrian Generals. The inhabitants, especially the Germans, who justly feared the barbarous cruelty of the Szeklers, saluted the arrival of these troops with the liveliest marks of joy. Our soldiers were received with open arms, the population went out to meet them, and gave them bread and salt; and a number of German and Wallachian families, who had been preparing to cross the frontier, abandoned their intention as soon as they saw that their lives and pro perties were assured. Such are the facts in all their simple truth; they prove that the Emperor, in authn rising the entrance of some troops into Transylvania, was only influenced by motives of humanity, and that the matter was exclusively local, without any sort of connexion with armed intervention in the interior affairs of the empire of Austria. This empire has gloriously and recently proved by the energy with which it has crushed four successive insurrections that it is too powerful to require our material assistance in Transylvania. Austria is already victorious in Hungary, and the insurrectional domination will soon be at an end. Even if Bern, owing to the insufficiency of the Austrian forces, had succeeded in taking Hermannstadt and Cronstadt, that would not have saved the insurrection from the coniplliete defeat which awaits it. But, however brief such an occupation might have been, it would have sufficed to give up those two flourishing towns to pillage and murder, and it was this misfortune that, in accordance with the Austrian autho rities, we were desirous to prevent. Such was the object of the entrance of our troops ; it must con sequently be well understood that their presence will be only temporary. Already indeed lasso our generals received orders to recross the frontier as soon as the dangers which threatened the country shall have ceased to exist." ITALY. A letter from Genoa announces Unit a Provisional Government has been proclaimed in that city, and that energetic measures have been adopted to repel the Austrians. The British C onsu l at Genoa has Lusued the follow ing notice : " The disorder which reigns in Gonoa leads to the impression that there is a desire to OV.3rturn the order of things which exists in the states of the Ring of Sardinia, and put in jeopardy the lives and property of English citizens. In consequence I deem it my duty to protest against every act which may lead to such terrible con sequences, and to declare that, the cas e occurring, the measures forces at anchor in the port will take all the measures necessary to protect the su.bjects of her Bri tannic Majesty. " Genoa, March 29." RADETZKY returned to Milan on the 29th, after an absence of eleven days. b etween Lomb ar d The postal communication established. y and Piedmont has been re- The Tuscan Constituent Assembly rnet on the 27th ult. in secret committee, to consult 43ti measures for the safety of the country. After a long discussion it was resolved that full power should concentrated in the hands of one individual, in order that he should oppose with all the necessary energy the dangers which threatened the coun try ; and it was finally carried that these extraordinar: ) , powers should be confided to GUERRAZZI for that put•vose. General PERONE died at Turin on the 30th, from the wounds he received at Novarra. The following address of the Chaml3l2r of Deputies of Sardinia to the King CHARLES AN., BERT after his abdication, was agreed to nem. con. i;a the sitting of the 27th March:— " Amid the mysterious enmity of fortune, and the ineffable grief of their country, the . 0 eputies of the sub-Alpine people come to lay before you the expressions of their respect for the majesty of J.ni'sfortune: they come in order to pay a sacred debt of gr atitude, in the name of all Italy. " We fully understand the depths of rp , ur sorrow, we " T. Y. BROWN, 13ritish Consul. all the wounds of your heart, is a kinr.r, a se!ilieri ',oleo you nave adopted. Liu& it the 6,:sr, : vess el fortune, aid the errors of man have impre!Srd tipoe you the despondency of lofty souls, they have stirrly net shaken your faith in the cause of which you have been hitherto the soldier, and are now the venerated martyr. That glorious cause draws from your self-denial n ew arguments against the blind suspicious of party, and new lessons to the present and future generations, that they may learn how its final triumph requires the great est sacrifices. To that holy cause your name, encircled by the halo of glory and misfortune, will ever prove a banner and a source of strength. Your career of glory has not concluded—on every lip and in every heart are still resounding the magnanimous words that cheered out first disasters last year—the cause of Italian independ• ence is not yet lost. "To any of the phases of that great cause you have not been a stranger, and if you are now to disappear from the arena of its unceasing struggles you will be ever present to the thoughts and hopes of its champions. " Yes, Sir, if the affectionate eyes of your people shall seek you in vain among them, their admiration and their lasting afilictions will always find their way to your retirement. You will be with them in the Con stitution wherein your rights have been entwined with our own, in the liberal institutions you have founded, ie ihe pioviclent military dispositions towards an increase of the army. You will live in our memories, and in that of posterity, as an unparalleled example held out to Kings and to soldiers. "You sha'l live in your august son and successor, who will be proud to walk by the light of your example, and whom you have taught, in laying down your crown, the only conditions on which, in our days, it may be only borne. " Sir, you have wished to anticipate the judgment of history and posterity, and well you might do so. May God grant you the peace of solitary retirement_of the melancholy silence iu which you wish to take shelter. Many painful recollections, many glorious ones, will follow you there. May the first glide softly away from your heart; may the latter pour upon it the balm of con solation. We can pledge to you our steadfast word that wherever you may go, you will always be followed by the affections and respect of the sub-Alpine people, and of that other unhappy people which it has been your patriotic aim to make Italian once more, and to whom the name of Charles Albert will ever be the symbol of undying hope." The Sardinian Chamber of Deputies met in Se cret Committee, on the morning of the 29th ult., and at one o'clock both Chambers assembled, in the same hall, to receive King Victor Emmanuel, who pre sented himself to take the oath to the Constitution. His Majesty having been ushered in, with the usual ceremony, read in a firm voice the following oath, required by the 22d article of the fundamental law "In presence of God I swear faithfully to observe the Constitution, to exercise the royal authority only in vir tue of the laws, and conformably to their prescriptions to render justice to each, and to govern in the sole viol of the interest, prosperity, and honour of the nation." M. de Margherita then placed before the King three copies of the oath, and his Majesty having signed them, added— " In assuming the reins of the State, under circum stances of which I fully appreciate the gravity and bit terness, I have already informed the nation of my' intentions. The consolidation of our constitutional insti tutions, the security and honour of our common country shall be the constant object of my thoughts, and I hope to succeed, with the support of Divine Providence and your co-operation. Being fully aware of the gravity of my duties, I have accomplished in your presence the solemn act of taking the oath, which shall direct my future conduct." The Minister of Justice next tendered the oath to the Senators and Deputies, and announced that the King had conferred on Prince Eugene de Savoie Carignan the prerogatives and title of Royal Highness. The King having retired, M. Pinelli, Minister of the Interior, communicated to the Assembly royal decree proroguing the Parliament, during a feet days, in order to afford the Ministry time to inquire into the real situation of affairs, and make it known to the Chambers. The Concordia, however, is of opinion that they will be dissolved, and not called upon to pronounce on the armistice. In the forenoon of the 29th a deputation of the Senate waited on the King, to whom the President read the following address : " Sire,—The Senate, deeply grieved by recent events, and jealous of expressing to your Majesty the Baas faction and confidence with which it hails the accession to the throne of his ancestors of a prince no less dear to the nation, who admires his brilliant qualities, than to the army, in whose ranks he so often and so nobly diAinguished himself: Your glorious father, in consummating his last and regretable sacrifice, has crowned the virtues, which will ever render great in Italy the name of the restorer of our liberties. Your Majesty, charged with continuing that exalted mission, may rely on the sincere co-operation of the Senate for the maintenance and legal development of these s a me liberties. The Senate requests you, in the meantime, 1(, ) , accept the tribute of its h omage an d ent i re devotedness. lite King replied, with visible emotion— " I thank the Senate for the sentiments it has ex pressed to me, and it may be certain that I will attend to them. Our country has undergone and still under goes most painful and cruel trials. My hope and most ardent desire was to have had it in my power to shed all my blood for it, but that consolation was denied me. To-day I must endeavour to heal as speedily and as completely es possible our common wounds, and to bring to light more fortunate days for the nation under the liberal institutions which the King, my deeply regetted father, so wisely granted. I have need, in order to limns' pish this object, of the assistance of all honourable men. It is, therefore, most agreeable to me to learn that I can rely on the support of the Senate, and on that of all classes of citi zens. T he evils which' we have to re medy are immense, and immense ought to be the assist ance of those who wish to remove them. I, on my part, am ready to make every personal sacrifice—rely on my constancy and on my firmness as I rely on Your intelli gence and your patriotism." The Opinione of Turin of the 30th ult. has the following speculations in a leading article : " As to Italy, the peace with the King of Sardinia will be concluded on condition of his acceding to the Italian Confederation, to be formed of the Lombardo- Venetian, Tuscany, the Roman States, and the Two Sici lies. Our Ministry and the future Parliament must re nounce the Lombardo-Venetian territory, and acknow ledge the right of Austria to it ; they must give up the fortress of Alessandria to Austria, modify our constitution, and pay a certain man berof Millions, not less than 30 nor exceeding 100. In return for its adhesion to the Austro- Italian League, Piedmont will perhaps obtain the duchies, except that the castle of Piacenza will be occupied by the Austrians. Piedmont will also have to execute the Giobertine intervention —that is to send soldiers into Tuscany to restore order, and bring back the Grand Duke to Florence; while King Bombe. (Naples) will do the same with respect to the Pope, who in return will re cognise in the Austrians the right of occupying Ferrara militarily. The Lombardo-Venetian will probably form a state apart, with a tolerably liberal constitution, and connected by certain conditions with the Austrian monarchy." SICILY. A steamer from Sicily has arrived at Leghorn with the intelligence that 700 of the Royal troops in gar rison at Messina have deserted to the Sicilians, taking with them their arms, ammunition, and baggage. SHERIFFS' COURT.—( THIS DAY.) (Before M r . U n d er Sheriff BURCHELL.) There were only two cubes tried and undefended, and were not of the slightest interest. BAN KRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY. (Before Mr. Commissioner EVANS.) IN RE 13. E. A in the case o f thi s bankrupt, who was a licensed vic tualler in Upper Fitzroy-square, an application was mado by Mr. Sheard on behalf of the assignees, under the fol lowing circumstances. It appeared that a Mr. Wells had been solicitor to the assignees, and about two years ago recovered in an action, brought on their account, the sum of 2501., which he declined giving up, alleging that he held it till the costs had been settled. Mr. SIMARD submitted that Mr. Wells was not justi fied in detaining the money on such grounds. His HoNotra said, certainly he was not, as the assig nees would have seen him indemnified. Mr. FLEW, who aeared fur plaintiff id he would advise hi m to g i ve up the money, and the sa case was ad journed f or a week. 13 0 " - ' 3-CR EET.—(THIS DAY.) hi inzeleori Vlasto a young Gr ee k, w h o i s stated to be ghl , y connected in his own country, and in Vienna, where he was educated, was brought up on remand, be fore Mr. Jardine, charged with stealing a large quantity of coins, valued at more than four thousand guineas, from the collection of the British Museum. The Court was crowded with persons of distinction. On the bench amongst other noblemen and gentlemen interested, were the Earl of Enniskillen and General Fox, from whose coins collectiof con considerable value, as he had free access to them as well as to the collections of other of the nobility, in consequence of the great respectability of his recom mendations. Mr. Field, the inspector, stated that ho was not in a condition to go into the evidence to-day, and from the information he had received respecting other robberies, he did not think he should be able to complete the charges within a week or ten days. Mr. Clarkson said that he had been requested by some Greekgentlenaen to appear for the prisoner, for the purpose of inducing the magistrate to admit him to bail, whether in case of a further remand or a committal. After some discussion, Mr. JARDINE declined to accept bail at present, and directed the prisoner to be delivered into the same cus tody until the day to which the case is remanded. St,bOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING, 11 A.M. The United States Mail steamer Washington arrived here at nine o'clock, having left New York on .the 20th ult. She has experienced a succession of easterly gales on the voy age across, and observed a great deal of ice on the eastern edge of the Banks. After coaling she will proceed to Bremen. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.--Lablaehe, - and the two new tenors, Calzolari and Bartolini, have arrived. Labluehe will appear on Tuesday next, with Madlle. Pa. rodi, in Norma. EASTERN COUNTIES.—THE COMMITTEE OR INVES TIGATION —it is stated that the committee of investiga tion are likely to report in favour of the amalgamation with the Norfolk Company,