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-, • . • - 11• " A „ •-3'4-4-11 43rtianwtt ent hills had coMprisa tie cdiiptained oi the siiict a ness required in the notice to be given by the claimant, as con trasted with the generality and laxity of th 6 notice to be given by the objector. He censured as needless end vexatious the frequency of the proposed revisions. He inveighed still more bitterly against the power vested in the assistant-bar rister of striking off such voters as should not keep their ceases, rates, and taxes paid up. All this, he said, was con ceived in a spirit of confiscation and , disfranchisement. There was quite enough of strictness in the already existing requisitions of the law, as prescribed by the Reform Act ; but, when those strict requisitions had been complied with, the voter was surely entitled, unless new circumstances should arise destructive of his franchise, to retain it for the eight years guaranteed by the law. He protested against that sort of justice to Ireland which would extend to her whatever was harsh, and deny . to her whatever was liberal, in the constitution of England or of Scotland. That was the system of Mrs. Sneak in the farce, who made her husband eat the drumsticks of the fowls, but allowed him no share of the brown of the roast beef. He ended by proposing an amendment retainining the franchise until the end of the voter's existing term, except where new matter should have occurred to invalidate it. Lord STANLEY had hoped that the time at length was come when these enactments were to be discussed seriatim and in detail: he had not expected that when the first clause alone was properly before the committee, the whole scope of the bill was again to be made the subject of animadversion. The details had been discussed ad nauseam, when the house should have been occupied with the principle, and DOW the principle was again debated when the house should be occu pied by the details ; and all this on a clause verbatim et lite ratim the same with one introduced into a former bill by the noble lord himself. The clause was called a wholesale dis franchisement of the Irish people. Why was it more a wholesale disfranchisement of the Irish people than the Eng lish reform act, requiring annual registration, was a whole sale disfranchisement of the English people ? The same clause had been introduced into all the former bills, and no man had ever thought of raising this cry. Nay, the bill brought in by the Irish Solicitor-General this very ses ion, and now pending, contained a section equivalent to this " disfranchising" clause, a section invalidating the existing certificates, and rendering the new registration the sole test of the franchise. (The Irish Solicitor-General here nodded assent.) Why, then, what became of all this clamour about wholesale disfranchisement? But really this sub stitution of a general discussion for a discussion of the details was a mere keeping of promise to the ear ; and he called to the house not to let the government thus shrink from their pledge. It was said that the bill exposed the voter to harassing objections. An objection in England might harass the voter, for in England the voter had to prove his title afresh every year ; but in Ireland, under the present bill, the voter was relieved from this obligation, and the bur den of proof was thrown upon the objector, All this should have been argued on the ulterior clauses, but it better suited the noble lord to club up all the objections against all the clauses, in order to prejudice the house on this one. The amendment proposed an exception in case of new matter ; but in case of fraud, of perjury, of personation, the amend ment proposed no exception at all. In some 500 cases in the county of cork the voters had sworn their values at £lO, which very values, when a rate was to be made, those same voters swore at a little more or less than £5. Yet these voters must be left untouched, because there was no charge in the circumstances of the franchise since the registration. The doctrine that one successful trial should be conclusive of the franchise for ever, would lead to a great increase in the dangerous practice of intimidating witnesses. He apologized to the house for having travelled into all these matters ; it was a course into which he had been driven by the generalties of the noble lord. Mr. SHEIL repeated that this clause was a disfranchising one. It destroyed vested and continuing rights, while the amendment proposed to affect the vote only where the right whereon it was founded had ceased. Much was said of per jury, bribery, and other abuses; but if the indignation were sincere, why was the evil let alone in England, and all the virtue reserved to assail the Irish? If there had been such an excess of undue influence in creating votes, how happened it that the Irish constituencies were not larger? Tipperary, with a population of 402,000, had a constituency of only be tween 3,000 and 4,000. Lord Stanley had Quoted a letter from the agent of a conservative club, relating to some indi vidual votes ; and in contradiction of this letter, Mr. Shell read another from a correspondent of his own. He proceeded to say, that small as was the constituency, it had proved too large for the views of the Tories ; and he gave a sketch of the hardship which, under this bill, would be endured by a voter, harassed by his landlord with an appeal, amerced in costs, and sent away penniless, as a warning to refractory tenants. If the divisions which existed soon after the Reform Act be tween the Irish members and the Whigs had continued, this bill would not have been pressed forward. The Spottiswoode combination failed to dispossess the Irish members of their seats, and now the attempt was renewed by this bill. He then delivered an antithetical invective against Lord Stanley, who, he said, was not fitted for the nice and delicate task of legislating for Ireland. Ireland had been till now in a state of general calm ; Lord Stanley was letting loose the elements of a new agitation ; it was for the house to stop him at the outset, or Sir R. Peel, who last year felt Ireland to be his great difficulty, would have occasion to regret the policy of his noble and formidable friend. Mr. D'ISRAELI asked the members who call themselves the representatives of the masses, how they could support a Government which was kept in office by a party desirous of overturning the state, and which administered its justice by giving impunity in Ireland to offences which in. England they visited with punishment ? He must look on this occasion to these considerations, and not solely to the specific clauses of a registration bill. He had never given a vote hostile to the Irish people ; he had not, like the Ministers, voted for a coercion bill. He trusted the House would support the ori ginal clause. Dr. STOCK opposed the clause, in a short and wholly in audible speech. Mr. Serjeant JACKSON entered into the particulars of cer tain votes, to contradict Mr. Sheil's correspondent and to show the frauds of the present registration. He was briefly followed by Mr. BEAMISH. After him Lord POWERSCOURT, referring to a former dispute about certain fictitious votes alleged to have been fabricated in the county of Wicklow, said a few words which were controverted by Mr. J. GRATTAN and Mr. O'CONNELL. Mr. CALLAGHAN followed against the clause, and Sir MONTAGUE CHAPMAN entered into some explanations about the conduct of Mr. Tighe, a revising bar rister, which were corrected by by Mr. LEFROY. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for Ireland said the question was not upon any of the various classes of fictitious votes, but whether the House should adopt this large clause, or limit it by the proposed amendment. When the Reform Bill for Ireland passed, there existed about 20,000 of these £lO voters. Were they obliged by that Reform Bill to register tgain ? No ; they were left, as Government pro posed to leave them now, upon the register. They ought, surely, to be some repose ; the holder of the franchise ought to be perpetually disturbed. You ought not to have a tribunal so unsatisfactory as to require the constant repetition of investigation. You would not allow fresh appeals from the courts of common law or equity, on the ground that fresh evidence had been obtained since the former decision. The present tribunal for the determination of the franchise had been twice selected, first in 1829, and secondly in 1832 ; and the Legislature ought to rely on its decisions, and leave them final. Some of the present voters had been registered 11 years, and had polled at five elections ; and now it was pro posed to deprive them of their vested right, and this upon a question of value, on which there was always much difference of opinion, and much temptation to the valuers to strain their judgment. Was there not a danger that you would destroy more good votes than bad ones ? Sir E. SUGDEN said he would propose nothing for Ireland which he would not accept for England. He entered into a parallel between the bills of Lord Stanley and of the Govern ment, and argued that, of the two, Lord Stanley's was the more favourable to the voter. Gentlemen talked as if this bill would enable objectors to disturb the voter without cause. No such thing; the cause must be proved. Mr. MACAULEY said, the effect of the amendment would not be to perpetuate the franchise, but only to continue it for the term to which it would have endured without this bill, a term of eight years from the date of the registration. He regarded this as a bill to take away the right of voting, under pretence of ascertaining it. As often as there should be a new assistant-barrister or a new judge on the circuit, the same objection might be repeated ; then an appeal to the King's Bench : a fresh attempt next time before the barrister; another before the circuit judge, and then an appeal to the Common Pleas ; and so on, year after year. No such system was allowed with respect to to the rights of property, and though that might cause some instances of individual hardship, yet the sufficient answer was, that there must be an end to litigation. Some wrongful votes, no doubt, would be displaced by the bill ; but the bi ll was as hard on the rightful as on the wrongful claimant. Sup pose a man of great wealth and vindictive temper, giving orders to his agent to object against all persons obnoxious to him, would it be too much to suppose that such a man might become so far the master of an Irish county as to return both its members to parliament ? His objections to this bill were increased by the consideration that the franchise in Ireland was a restricted one. There were more voters in the county of Westmoreland than in Cork, the most populous county of Ireland. If the Irish franchise were to be altered at all, it should be rather by extension than by restriction. This was the first step in a great retrograde movement. It mattered little what might be the law of right if you could contrive to vitiate the law of remedy. The present struggle was as much for English as for Irish liberties. Or, if no similar design were entertained against England, the injustice was only so much the more glaring. That was not the spirit in which Mr. Pitt effected the union, a settlement which he himself would defend alike against the member for Dublin and the noble lord. The house divided. For the amendment, 296 ; Against it, 289. Majority for Ministers, 7. the Lord hon house riaNcir.F.y come , th e h n e s s t h a n t e u d l d , t o h ff a e t r a f n t e o r f t u h r e t h d e e r c i n s p i o p n o t s t o h n i which the amendment on the remainder of the clause. It having been admitted, gain, and d t ommittee report pro , rress Lord STANLEY moved, sit a gain, to which that, thlOusliad come, declared however ' nand; to with the further progress of the bill h a h n e e d m a i sgkh wouldit leave regret i e ll for Monday next. Lord J. RUSSELL declared his opposition to the tot • an d would propose some other day i ns t ea d o f Monda y. on' Sir R. PEEL remonstrated against such a postponem ent, as contrary to the usage which allows the mem b er having 'the conduct of a bill to choose his own day, subject to the deci sion of the house on Hwje ouron that o day havingaywhethe e r x o p r re n s o s t ed i t t s t h h a e l I samethen proceed. And opinion, Lord John gave way, and left it to be decided on Monday whether Lord Stanley s bill or that of Mr. Pi go t should 'then come on for actual discussion. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, seeing the noble and learned lord (Lyndhurst) in his place, wished to ask him the course he meant to pursue to-morrow with reference to the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill. He wished to know whether the noble and learned lord meant to proceed with the bill, or to propose amendments, or to adopt a course which had been taken on former occasions, to propose the amendments pro forma', and move that they should be printed for the information of the house. Lord LYNDHURST said, it was not his intention to oppose going into committee, but to propose a number of amend ments similar to those which he had proposed last year. He should therefore propose that they should go into committee pro forma', when be would move that the amendments be printed. A long conversation ensued, in which several noble lords took part ; but the noble and learned lord (Lyndhurst) did not intimate that he should adopt any other course. The Bishop of EXETER gave notice, that he should to morrow move for a copy of the royal instructions given to Mr. P. Thomson when he went out to Canada. The bills on the table of the house were then forwarded a stage, and the house adjourned at a quarter to six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TnunsDAY. The Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition from the Leeds and Manchester Railway Company, praying the house not to adopt the clause in the bill proposed by the noble lord, making it imperative upon the railroad companies to pass their accounts in a particular manner. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Sir J. GRAHAM rose and said, that it had been asserted in the Morning Chronicic of yesterday, that on Tuesday last he (Sir J. Graham) had stationed himself in the lobby, and there endeavoured to prevent the members from coming into the house, for the purpose of making a house. It was well known that after prayers and before four o'clock, the speaker sent a messenger to all of the committees, giving them notice to attend in the house for the purpose of making a house ; and he (Sir J. Graham) conceived that any member disobey ing that order, and endeavouring to obstruct members from entering the house acted in a manner altogether unparlia mentary. (Hear.) As related to his own case, it so hap pened that on the day in question he was in attendance on the committee of the bank commission. He had not imme diately obeyed the summons of the speaker, but at four o'clock he was proceeding from the committee to the house, when he was informed that the house had been counted out, and that the speaker had not consequently taken the chair, and he then instantly returned to the room which he left. That was the entire history of the case; and he should not have noticed the subject if the Morning Chronicle of to-day had not made a statement which he conceived to be an aggra vation of its first assertion. It was said that it was true he (Sir J. Graham) was not in the lobby,on the day in question, when the house proceeded to prayers, but that there was an equivocation in that denial, inasmuch as he had previously taken means for preventing a house being formed. He need not say, that such conduct on his part had been highly un becoming, and in the most positive manner he should be per mitted to deny—(hear, hear, hear)—that either directly or indirectly he had prevented any member from attending the house.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WaantatToN said, that, as a member of the commit tee, he could confirm the statement of his right hon. friend. Sir CHARLES BURRELL thought that the repetition of the charge should not be passed over by the house without some animadversion. CANADA GOVERNMENT BILL. Lord JOHN Russ — LL,llaving moved the third reading of this bill, said, he had considered the proposals made, and he had resolved to adopt the recommendation of the right hon. baronet the member for Tamworth, that the debts contracted by the province should not form a charge upon the consoli dated revenue before the civil charges. He would not adopt the right honourable baronet's advice to the representative body. Then his right honourable friend, the member for Coventry, had advised the omission of all the clauses as to district councils. Upon the whole, as there were so many objections, he proposed to leave out the clauses giving extensive powers to the councils. He was most anxious that the bill should pass with every possible unanimity. (Hear, hear.) If anything should be lost by the omission of the clauses in point of advantage to the provinces, he thought infinitely more would be gained by the general agreement of the house to the bill in the shape he now proposed it. Mr. HUME was sorry to have heard the speech of the noble lord, because much that was good in the bill was now, it ap peared, to be taken out, and the people were to be altogether deprived of the self-government of their own resources. The noble lord would find that he would not carry the opinions of the people of Canada with him. He knew how useless it was to offer any opposition to a proposition from the govern ment connected with the colonies, whatever it might be ; but he must enter his protest against the course pursued by the noble lord, because it would leave the Canadas without those district and local courts to manage their affairs until the assembly should have time to make some arrangement. He begged to enter his protest against the partial destruction of the little that was useful in the bill. (A. laugh.) He thought a general amnesty should be passed before the bill of the noble lord was adopted by the house. He wished to ask the noble lord whether the habeas corpus were still suspended in Canada ? Lord J. RUSSELL said, he believed that according to the last accounts, suspension continued still. Sir C. Grey hoped the honourable member for Kilkenny would not press his objections to the establishment of coun- Sir R. PEEL said, that he approved of the main provisions of the bill of the noble lord. He thought that the establish ment of the civil list was one of the best provisions of the measure. He gave his assent without hesitation to the pas sing of this bill. He could not conclude the part he had taken on this measure without expressing his cordial prayer that the measure which had received the countenance of that house might promote the interests of the two provinces, which were as dear to the imperial legislature as to any of their fel low-subjects, and that it might lay the foundation for the prosperous, glorious, and permanent connection between the two Canadas and this country. (Hear, hear.) Sir T. COCHRANE had great fears that this bill would be the virtual declaration of the independence of Canada. Some discussion took place between Mr. Hume and Lord J. Russell, on the subject of district councils, which termi nated by Mr. HUME declaring that if his lordship, i n the despatch accompanying the bill, would recommend into their local legislature to take the subject of district councilsp their consideration, he should not divide the house.' The bill was then read a third time, and passed. COUNTY CONSTABULARY BILL. On the order of the day for the further consideration of the County Constabulary Bill, Sir E. KNATCHBULL moved that the bill be referred to a select committee. He admitted the defectiveness of the old system of police, but one great objection to the new measure was the immense expense which it entailed on the country. A discussion ensued, in the course of which Mr. Fox MAULE said, the amendment, if carried, would exclude the measure from passing during the present session. Though the system might on the t'ace of it appear to be some what expensive, he was sure that in the long run the counties themselves would approve of it. He would reserve the con sideration of the details until the house went into committee on the bill. _ On a division, the motion for going into committee was carried by a majority of 105 to 39. The clauses up to 17 were agreed to, after which the Chair man reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Monday next. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL obtained leave to bring in a bill to exempt stock in trade and other personal property from being rated to the relief of the poor. The house adjourned at a quarter-past one o'clock. THE WATERLOO BANQUET. On Thursday evening his Grace the Duke of Wellington gave his annual banquet at Apsley House, in celebration of the battle of Waterloo. A great number of persons collected at the gates and in Hyde-park, and among the crowd were recognised several veterans, wearing their medals, adorned with a laurel leaf. During the arrival of the gallant guests the band of the gre nadier guards (the duke's regiment), stationed in the hall, played marches and selections from the most admired operas. The whole of the officers who were engaged in that glorious victory were invited. The noble duke, who was in excellent health and spirits, sat at the head of the table, supported on the right by L ord Hill, (a se a t of ho nour usua lly occupied by the Marquis of Anglesey.) We believe the noble marquis was prevented din ing with his grace from slight indisposition. Covers we re l a id f or seventy , an d among the gallant muster were recognised General Lord Hill, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, General Vivian, L V .I e i s n c t o e u n n B a n t t .G e e r n c sefroarid Sir , t dw ard Major-General K e r r is Sir nn Hussey Bart., JohnMr a L ni o rd Sa be rt ,n Sird y s L Peregrine e re o g r r d i n S e attou Maitland,n Colonel n u el m r w a o e d o e d n , a S I d i r , Colonel Rowen, Colonel Elli ce , Si r A n d rew B arn ard, Col. Townshend, Colonel Davies ' Colonel Clive, Sir Edward Bo water, Colonel Drummond, Colonel Freemantle, Colonel Henry H e eon t lr i or i u n,secHCo Reeve, i lo rerde n civn e en l g: B cn, Drummond, lior r Charles kiheatrtl,e Ellison, s m ßroke rj ons S kri i vGT M ehe o rnn n een: e r y aaGsl , e.vvßn S eieyrrynanGldeDhellao,,mrog:ey Lordise cl i ry:n r James Clark, Sir Robert Gardner, &c. There were also his Excellency General Alava, the Spanish minister, and his Excellency Prince Castelciela, the envoy extraordinary from the King of Naples. All the guests were in full uniform, and wore all their de corations. At the termination of the repast, " the Queen" was the first toast, and the customary toasts " the memory of the heroes who fell at Waterloo,' and " the health of our brave companions in arms," were given in due order. The party separated shortly before half-past ten. ~`;~ ~ -~ . _ TRIAL OF COURVOISIER, FOR THE MURDER OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL. FIRST DAY, THURSDAY. This case came on for trial on'Thursday morning last, before Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Mr. Baron Parke. Ten o'clock was the hour fixed for the commencement of business, and about a quarter of an hour before that time his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex entered the court, pre ceded by the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, who conducted him to a seat on the bench. The whole court rose to receive his royal highness. Some of the nobility and gentry were also present, and every part of the court was excessively crowded. A model of the house in which the unfortunate nobleman was murdered, was placed upon the table in the centre of the court. _ _ The counsel for the prosecution were Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Chambers; and for the prisoner, Mr. C. Phillips and Mr. Clarkson, The prisoner, Francis Benjamin Courvoisier, was placed at the bar at ten o'clock. He looked pale, and thinner than when under examination at Bow-street, but he seemed firm and collected. Having,been arraigned, he pleaded not guilty in a low tone of voice ; and, in reply to the clerk of the arraigns, said, that he would be tried by an English jury, waiving his right of having half the jury composed of fo reigners. . _ _ kr. ADOLPHUS stated the case for the prosecution. It was, he said, a most remarkable circumstance, that the father and brother of the deceased nobleman had both come to an untimely end, but their deaths had been the effect of acci dent, whereas Lord William Russell, in the retirement and seclusion of his own house, at the advance of 73 years, had been most foully murdered, and it was the object of their present inquiry to determine whether that murder had been perpetrated by the prisoner at the bar or not. The learned counsel proceeded to detail the transactions of the day pre vious to the murder, as they related to the deceased and Courvoisier, the state of the house on the following morn ing, the behaviour of the prisoner, and the discoveries which had subsequently been made of the property concealed in his pantry and elsewhere. Having taken a close survey of the evidence that was to be brought forward, and drawn his conclusions from its several parts, the learned counsel said, that he would next anticipate the probable defence. It might be said that the prisoner was without motive. But there was not altogether an absence of motive. It would appear in evidence, that the prisoner was un happy, and had a desire to return to his own country. He also supposed, as foreigners generally do, that English noblemen always have a considerable some of money about them. The natural supposition from seeing the Russia box with the ivory rouleaus constantly in his lordship's possession was, that they were filled with gold ; and, if so, here was sufficient motive. Foreigners, unfortunately, generally made murder the prelude to robbery ; and the prisoner undoubtedly expected to get a large plunder in ready money, which would have enabled him to escape at once ; but, being disappointed in this expectation, he adopted the measures he had done to induce the supposition that a burglary had been committed. Doubtless the jury would be warned against convicting on circumstantial evidence ; and he would read to them what had been said in the case of Patch, who was tried for murder thirty-six years ago, on the subject of circumstantial evidence. Chief Baron M`Donald then said, that the circumstantial evidence was more satisfactory when the chain was complete, than even direct evidence. It might also be attempted to show, that the witness Mansell was unworthy of credit, and, from what had been published, he imagined that such would be the defence. Her character had never been impeached. He then proceeded to vindicate the character of the police from any imputation that might be cast upon them. The Bedford family merely prosecuted here as petitioners for public justice; they had no desire to hunt an unprotected foreigner to an ignominious death. The feelings of pity might be appealed to ; but let them remember, that mercy was a mitigation of punishment, not a denial of justice. The safety of the community depended upon the verd.ct of juries in cases similar to this; and it was - for them to determine whether the defenceless female, the decrepid old man, and the helpless infant should retire to rest and remain in their beds in safety. The first witness called was Sarah Mancell, the house maid, whose testimony was similar to that given at the preli minary investigation. The witness was cross-examined, at great length, on behalf of the prisoner, by Mr. Phillips. The only material point elicited was, that a step-ladder was kept on the premises, which was sometimes placed in the back yard, and sometimes in the bath-room which opened from the yard. On Tuesday Courvoisier, at her request, carried this ladder out of the passage of the house, and on the morn ing of Wednesday it was found leaning against the wall, with the summit of which its upper part was nearly level, so that any person could have put his foot from it over the wall. Respecting this ladder, not a word had been said in the evi dence given at the preliminary investigation. Mary Hammen, the cook, gave testimony similar to that already published. On cross-examination, she corroborated the statements of last witness in relation to the ladder. William Yorke, the coachman, Emanuel Byring, butler to a gentleman in the neighbourhood, Mr. Elsgood and Mr. Nusscy, the surgeons, Thomas Selwyn, a servant at the house next door to that of the deceased, and Baldwin, a policeman, repeated their former evidence. Nothing ma terial was elicited in the cross-examination of the witnesses. The examination of Baldwin concluded the day's proceedings, and at five o'clock the court was adjourned until ten o'clock the following morning. The prisoner, during the latter part of the day, was accom modated with a chair. His firmness never deserted him for a moment. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDA.R. Several bills received the royal assent by commission. Lord LYNDHURST then, in pursuance of the course which he had stated bis intention to adopt, moved the order of the day for going into committee on the Irish Municipal Corpo rations Bill. The Bishop of EXETER, however, said that he could not consent that the bill should go through any further stage. It would evidently tend most materially to injure the inte rests of the Protestant church, by increasing the power of a large body of persons who were its fiercest enemies. He would take as an instance the corporation of Tuam, in which, after it had been thrown open, the Roman Catholics had so far outnumbered the numbers of the established church, that they had been able to appropriate all the funds of the corpo ration to the support of their own cathedral. The number of corporate bodies which would be immediately affected was very great, but it would be, moreover, in the power of the Crown to make any town having 3000 inhabitants the seat of a municipal body, which would use all its newly-acquired rights to the injury of the church. It had been said that amendments securing a just property qualification would be introduced, but all experience had gone to prove teat such a test could never be relied on in Ireland. He trusted that the bill was not to be passed for the purpose of a spurious conciliation which sought to silence an enemy who could not conveniently be opposed, but that appeared to be the policy which was now acted upon. It had been held that even in this country the period for the corporations had passed by, but, however that might be, they had been established iu Ireland for very different purposes than those which were now urged as the object of their extension. They were instituted for the special aid of those English who settled in towns, and the plain fact was that every charter had been granted with the view of keeping up the Protestant connexion. He did not think that any amendments which could be introduced would afford adequate security for the established churca, which it was the particular duty of the House to protect, as the Roman Catholic population had proved themselves so utterly unworthy of the concessions which had been made in their favour. The most strenuous agitation had been set on foot by men who had on oath disavowed their intention of subverting the church establish ment, but who openly deelared that they would use every means in their power to deprive it of its revenues. The measure was itself repudiated by the very class whom it was intended for conciliate, and he could not certainly join with tbose who supported the motion. The Duke of WELLINGTON considered that it would tend greatly to the convenience of the house if the arrangement which had been made by Lord Lyndhurst on the preceding evening were carried into execution, and the objections of the right rev. prelate might then be discussed in committee. The house having then gone into committee, Lord LYND HURST put in his amendments, which were ordered to be printed, and it was afterwards agreed that the subject should be resumed on Monday next. Lord ABERDEEN then rose to present a petition from the seven members of the Strathbogie Presbytery who had been suspended by the General Assembly of the Church of Scot land. The noble lord proceeded to state the peculiarly diffi cult circumstances in which the petitioners were placed, which were, however, fully entered into in the course of the debate upon the introduction of the non-intrusion bill. The prayer of the petitioners was to the effect that they might by some legislative measure be protected in the discharge of their duties, and that the church courts might be restrained from punishing those who only acted in obedience to the supreme court which gives effect to the statutes of the realm. His lordship concluded by regretting that ministers had thought fit to oppose the measure which he had introduced, without themselves bringing forward any bill to put an end to a state of things which was a disgrace to the legislature. After a short discussion, in which several peers took part, the petition was ordered to lie upon the table. The Loan CHANCELLOR'S bill for the better enforcement of church discipline was read a first time. —Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. LORD STANLEY'S BILL. The house having resolved itself into committee on Lord Stanley's bill without a division, Lord STANLEY proposed, with reference to the filling up of the blanks for the dates, that by reason of the lateness of the session, the operation of the bill, if carried, should be postponed for one year. Lord MoRPETH said he must at once interpose with an amendment, which he had no regret in introducing thus early upon a clause disfranchising the whole existing body of Irish electors. He thought there could be no fair objection, where no new circumstances had occurred, to let every voter now registered retain his franchise during the remainder of the term for which the law had guaranteed it, but he would willingly allow the revision in all cases where new circum stances had intervened to destroy his right. It would be said that the clause would be in the very words of former bills introduced by the government themselves. True, this clause and some others were the same as in the bills of the government; but then the clauses in this bill were unaccom panied by those qualifying and beneficial provisions which the ±.. . r -r ,-; . t •:%' 1 " - r -1 Q 3 1.,,' s ^re 7 W: e ittee.t . ..„U s , 4 1 : - VS„::'• -, v =:1 - fy.2 . j ',.'l •ti .., t jl;i: ,1,. , .Zti , lol . .e •.-.- Y Y - . 4. '•‘; iT . ; . :' - i• - ' .:., rar A SECOND DAY-FRIDAY. The trial was resumed at ten o'clock on Friday. Mr. Adolphus said, that, before proceeding with the trial, he had to inform the court, that some additional evidence had been procured yesterday, and he wished to know whether he should state to the court what it was? Chief Justice Tindal asked if the counsel' for the defence wished to hear it? Mr. Phillips wished to hear nothing on the subject. He had only heard of this evidence about a quarter of an hour ago. The officers of police who bad examined the premises of the late Lord William Russell, gave their testimony touch ing the course of the scrutiny, and the discoveries which they had made. Each of them underwent a se/Arching cross-ex amination, but nothing new was brought to light. Ellis, his lordship's former valet, was called, and he identified the plate, the locket, and other property, and also several articles of plate produced by Mr. Cummins, a solicitor. By the evidence of Mr. Harrison, 'a clerk in the bank of Messrs. Hoare and Co. of Mr. Thos. Wing, solicitor, and of the Baroness de Clifford, the £lO note found in the prisoner's pantry was traced to his deceased lordship's possession. Lady Sarah Bailey repeated her former testimony respecting the locket. Charles Ellis, the keeper of the hotel at Richmond, where his lordship supposed he had left the lost locket, pro duced the letter which was written to him by Lord Russell on the subject, and described the search that was made in conse quence. The watchmaker, who repaired his lordship's watch, identified the watch found concealed in the sink as the same that he had in hand. The next witness called was Charlotte Piolaine : My husband's name is Louis, I live in Leicester-place, Leicester-square. I know the prisoner at the bar. I have known him about four years. He came to take a place as waiter at our hotel about four years ago. We used to call him " John." French is the language generally spoken at the hotel. He stayed a month or five weeks. 1 never saw him afterwards until about six weeks ago. He asked me how I was, and after remaining a short time, he went away. He knocked at the door, and 1 said " come in," and he walked in. I did not recognise him at the moment, and he said, " Don't you recollect me ? " I said" No," and he said, " I am John, that used to live with yon in the square." He said he was in a situation. In about a fortnight afterwards he again called on a Sunday. He asked me how I was. He had a parcel in his hand. It was a paper parcel. He asked me to take care of it till the Tuesday following, and he would call for it. I said I would do so, and he left it and went away. I locked up the parcel in the closet. I did not know what the parcel contained at the time. It was tied up and sealed. I never saw him since. I heard of the murder of Lord Wm. Russell. The parcel was left before I heard of the murder. I took the parcel out in consequence of some thing I saw in a French newspaper. My cousin read it to me, and showed it to me. I had some communication with my cousin, and I sent for Mr. Cumming and another person be fore whom the parcel was opened. It had never been opened before from the time it came into my possession. The parcel produced is the one left with me. It contained silver spoons and forks, and two pair of new stockings, an instrument for for assisting hearing, and a jacket. There was tow in the parcel, which prevented the plate being felt. We immediately put up the parcel again, after making an inventory of the articles, I signed the inventory before putting up the parcel. Re-examined : There is no pretence on earth for calling our hotel a gaming-house. The police never took any one out of the house. I used to talk to my husband about things that passed and forgot them. I had no idea that the person I knew as " Jean" was Francis Benjamin Courvoisier. There is not such a thing as a backgammon table in the house. By the Court : The parcel was left about a week or a fort night before the murder. Cross-examined : "Our house is an hotel. A billiard-table is kept at our house. The police have not been there lately. There was no gang of suspected persons taken out of the house lately, I have never heard of such a thing. The house is frequented by foreigners. The prisoner was called " John" for convenience. I never knew him by any other name. We take the English papers in. I very seldom read them. I have not often heard of the murder of Lord William Russell. My husband is in France : he is master of the hotel. He has been in France a fortnight. Ido not recollect him speak ing to me of the murder. Igo to church on Sunday, but I never saw placards of the papers as large as he who runs may read, containing the words, • Murder of Lord William Rus sell." 1 heard of the murder the day after it occurred. 1 cannot recollect whether I spoke to my husband about it. I have not time to recollect those things. I was shocked, but I do not recollect talking about it to his partner, to my knowledge. I did not say anything about it to anybody, that I remember. I cannot say whether I spoke to my husband during three weeks about the murder. Louis Garde, an acquaintance of M. Piolaine, deposed, that he was at the house of the latter, on a Sunday, when a man left a parcel there. He could not say it was the pri soner, or that the parcel produced was the same, as, being only a visitor, he did not give much attention to the circum stance. He was taken to the hotel the preceding day, by the partner of M. Piolaine, in consequence of something which the latter had read in a French newspaper. It appears, that the paragraph in the French journal was copied from an English paper, with an addition, to the effect, that the murder being supposed to have been committed by a foreigner, it was probable the plate might be lodged iu the house of some foreigner. Mr. Louis Garde further stated, that the parcel was pro duced in the presence of Mr. Cumming, Mr. Vincent, Madame Piolaine, and himself, and an inventory of its con tents made out and signed by them all. He believed it was shortly before the murder of Lord William Russell that he saw the parcel delivered. parcel n a client andit . w a ofs N My Richard Cu m mi ng , th e g e n tle m an who bad produced the articles show n t o Elli s , th e va l e t, d e p ose d as follows :—I am a solicitor, and carr y on b us i ness i n Old J ewr y. I saw Mr. Gad Mr. Vincent aoiddh veu. ciceedme ow,ta a s t wam m seke y n: o cit t iooe office the e pe s h t is e onu r tb d ebjl areyoc.wt together,n ofp Piolaineapepaper. and i a opening opened I s not again. whose s ßefore titvi d a o s i . n g t fo u u p n l d saw the as t the e rest o crestn the fth e fork sß I made a li st o f t h e art i cles it contained, and put it up cre Bedford family, spoons, and I went to the bookseller ' s shop to ascertain family, and I went to • a magistrate and was told to come here. I came about six o'clock, and sent a note to the solicitor for the prosecution. I then came in madeand to Mr. Wing and Mr. nobler. The a communication e parcel was wrapped in brown paper. The spoons, forks, and plate shown to Ellis w ere those found in the p arce l. There has be on the parcel. It is nearly erased. Besides the spoonsan address forks, there was an ear apparatus in the parc e l. It forks, contained, ad in all, four table spoons, four dessert spoons, two silver tea spoons, four silver forks, one leather box, containing an instrument for the ears, two pairs of white stockings, one pair of white socks with marks on each, [they are marked '• C 4"," one flannel jacket, and a small quantity of tow. Mr. Mortimer, a print-seller, identified the paper in which the articles alluded to were wrapped as having been sent from his shop. It was his practice to put a ticket of his address on parcels, and he had , on the 27th April, sent h is lordship, who was a customer, a parcel containing a print of " The Vision of Ezekiel." Mr. Vincent, the person alluded to by Mr. Cumming, corroborated the statements of the witnesses relative to the opening of the parcel. Eleanor Brooks, who had washed for the prisoner , exa mined the socks produced. They were marked with Cin the heel. The prisoner' socks Thomas D s socks were were always marked C. B. at the top . workman in the employ of Mr. Webst er, an optician, .proved, ' that the silver instruments for assisting hearing, produced from the parcel, were made by his master for Lord William Russell : and the valet, Ellis, and Sarah Mansell, the house maid, stated, that they had seen similar instruments in his lordship's possession. The jacket found in the parcel was was identified as the prisoner's by Henry Carr, a former fellow-servant. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Phillips ap plied to have the case adjourned till the following day, which was complied with, and the prisoner was removed from the bar abbut eight o'clock. THIRD DAY.—SATURDAY. • Long before the opening of the court, the bench and every part of the court .was crowded by well-dressed persons. Never has there been known such an assemblage of ladies on any preceding occasion in a criminal court. Every chair in front of the bench had its lady occupant, and, during the whole of the three days, the ladies have been indefatigable in their attendance, many of them not quitting the court even during the time of the adjournment. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex was not present to-day. Shortly after ten o'clock the judges took their seats upon the bench, and, immediately afterwards, Francis Benjamin Courvoisier was placed at the bar. He appeared pale, and downcast, and anxious; but his firmness never deserted him. C. A. Rivers, who made the model of Lord William Rus sell'whouse, was examined. _ . _ Mr. C. PHILLIPS then rose and addressed the jury for the defence. After having commented, at considerable length, on the evidence for the prosecution, the learned counsel said, that he now came to a portion of the case of which he had loudly to complain. Up to the evening of Thursday, not one word was said about the missing plate. Nothing could be more shameful than the way in which that man was treated, in the not having, within an hour of Mr. Cum mings's arrival, notice of the new evidence to be produced. They ought, at least, to have had the night to have investi gated the character of the witnesses to be brought against him. He knew not who Mrs. Poilaine was, and, if she did not tell the truth, those who came to corroborate her proved nothing. He hoped they knew Leicester-place. Here was a billiard-table at the Hotel de Dieppe, where any person might go in and play. Here was this woman living with her husband, who most conveniently goes to France, and she swears that she never opened her Bps to her husband on the subject of the murder, because she was too busy. Had they ever heard anything so absurd? Was it not odd that such a discovery should have been made in the middle of the trial, a reward of £5O having been offered previously for the dis covery of the minutest portion of this plate! A French newspaper is read to this lady that puts her in mind of the parcel. Now, he begged their attention to this. Courvoi sier was never known in that house by the name of Cour voisier. He was known only by the name of John. How could the French paper direct her attention to this ? Mr. Baron PARKIL—You have no right to raise a doubt upon the paragraph in the French paper, unless it is put in in evidence. Mr. C. PHILLIPS.—Did it not subject his client to any fresh mine that might be sprung, without notice, upon him, by calling upon them to put in fresh evidence ? The whole depended upon the evidence of this woman. She knew so little of Cosirvoisier that, when he first called, she did not know him, and that, when she opened the parcel, she sends for half-a-dozen people, who all sign a sort of round-robin as to the articles found in the parcel. All that was consist ent with the woman not having received the parcel, from Courvoisier. They attempted to identify the clothes, but they utterly failed ; and that woman proved, if she proved anything, that the sock was not Courvoisier's. He was sure; if the jury could find their way out of the case consistently with justice, without shedding that man's blood, they would do so. Now, supposing they admitted everything connected with the property, that it was left there by Courvoisier, was that conclusive of the murder? He thought not.. But it was conclusive of robbery, for which he might be convicted, and sentenced to be transported, to suffer a lingering death upon Norfolk Island. Here was a golden bride for them to pass over. If they entertained a suspicion, and yet felt themselves bound to acquit him, still he might be punished for it ; and he mould say, if he should have been guilty of the murder, which he hoped to find he was not, better, far bet ter, would it be that he should repent, in the bitterness of such an exile, than be sent, in the dawning of his life, to an ignominious death. This did not come so in aid of the for mer proof as to compel them to convict him. " Now," said the learned advocate, " my anxious task is ended, and yours is about to begin. • One of the attributes of the Almighty God is now committed to ycu : the issues of life and death are in your hands. You are to restore that man once more to the enjoyment of existence and freedom, or to send him to an Ignominious death, and brand upon his grave a mur derer's epitaph. Awful is the consideration—still more awful the responsibility. Violate not lightly that temple which the Lord bath made. Recollect, the word once gone forth from you, it is irrevocable. Speak it not lightly. Speak it not upon suspicion, however strong—upon moral conviction, however cogent—not upon argument, not upon probability— but upon broad, clear, irresistible noon-day conviction. I speak this in no hostile spirit, but with a Christian feeling. If you do this deed, do it oot light, or its consequences will follow you like a shadow—it will accompany you in your crowded walks—be with you in your homes—and his accus ing spirit will hover over your deathbed, and confront and condemn you at the judgment -seat of your God. Beware what you do !" The address of the learned counsel was listened to with breathless interest by the most crowded court we ever wit nessed, and at the conclusion of it many of the people present were affected even to teers. Several witnesses were then called to character, and ex mined by Mr. Clarksor. All the witnesses to character having been examined, the Court adjourned for refreshment previous to the summing up: The Court reassembled at half-past one o'clock, and the jury having answered to their names, The Lord Chief Justice TIND AL commenced the summing up. He desired the jury to discharge from their minds all they might have heard previous to being sworn, and calmly to consider the evidence they had heard, and consider whe ther it was sufficient to bring home to their minds that the prisoner was guilty. If they entertained any doubt on the subject, they were bound to give the prisoner the benefit of it ; but, if they came to the conclusion, that it was by the pri soner's hand that Lord William Russell died, then, however painful it might be, they were bound to convict him. The ease was one of circumstantial evidence, and, if circumstan- tial evidence were to be always rejected, crime would almost always go unpunished, because it was very seldom that per sons committed atrocious crimes in the presence of witnesses. But it would not be enough for them to be satisfied that such and such circumstances were consistent with the guilt of the poisoner, but that they were utterly inconsistent with any other supposition than that the prisoner was the person who committed the crime. He would first offer• some general observations on the case and then read the evidence. It was beyond a doubt, that Lord W. Russell was murdered in the night between Tuesday, the sth, and Wednesday, the 6th of May. There was no possibility of saying that he had com mitted suicide. It was also perfectly clear, that, in the course of that night a robbery was committed. Various valtiables were taken away, all of which were afterwards found con cealed in some other part of the house. It was for them to determine whether it was within the reach of human possi bility that that robbery was unconnected with the murder. Whether there could have been a robbery by one set of peo ple, and a murder by another, in the same house on the same night, was a most important point for them to consider — whether that robbery was committed by persons breaking into the house, or by the inmates residing in it. At 7 o'clock in the morning it was fount' that the front area door was fas tened, the front door open, the back door fastened, the back area door open, and a cloak was found folded up, with a nan kin lying upon it, in the hall, near the front door. Upon the first impression, therefore, the natural inference would be, that some person had entered by the back area door, which bore marks of violence, had robbed the house, murdered Lord William Russell, and afterwards made his escape by the front door, leaving his booty behind him. But were there any circumstances leading us to suppose that this was merely a contrivance, for the purpose of avoiding detection by the real perpetrator ? Now, it appeared, that no articles were really taken away, and that many articles easily port able were left behind, and they were to consider whether a real thief would have left such articles behind him, some con cealed with great care, and others left close to the door, when the thief might have taken them away with him on his per son without exciting suspicion. Then, with regard the door, they would have to say whether they were marks produced by a person breaking into the house, or made by a person after the door had been opened. He should wish them not to place any great reliance on the expressions made use of by the prisoner, or on his agitation, as the conduct of a person under such circumstances depended so much upon his tem perament and education, that it would he harsh to draw any inference from them. Neither should they suffer some of the observations of the learned counsel for the defence to pro duce too great an effect upon them. They were placed to administer not mercy, but justice, and to give their verdict accordingly. They were bound to put the most favourable construction they could on the circumstances, and, having come to a conclusion, they were to recollect, that they were under the obligation of an oath to administer justice, and they must find their verdict accordingly, regardless of the consequences. The learned Judge then proceeded to read the evidence, assisted by Mr. Baron Parke. On reading the evidence of the cook, his lordship said, that it had been com mented on, that the housemaid said the cook was asleep, while she (the housemaid) was getting up, and the cook said she was awake. He did not think this was an important discrepancy, as, if the cook aid not speak, it might have been natural to suppose that she was asleep. With regard to the' warming-pan having been left on the stairs, he did not think that a circumstance of any importance one way or the other. With regard to the observations which had been made upon the expressions used by the housemaid, " Let us go and see where his lordship is," he thought it was merely a natural expression of anxiety for his lordship's safety under the circumstances. With regard to her preventing the prisoner sending to Mr. Russell, by a labouring man passing by, her idea might have been that a man of that de scription, sent to such a distance as Belgrave-square, might have loitered by the way, or, perhaps, not have gone at all : however, they had heard the observations of the counsel upon it, and it was a question entirely for them to determine. With regard to the expression used by the prisoner, " Old Billy was a rum old chap, and had money," he thought the Jury must not lay too much stress upon ex pressions used by pers.:ins in the prisoner's class of life when discoursing with their fellow-servants : all the inference that could be drawn from the expression was, that the prisoner thought Lord William Russell was a rich man. With regard to what had been said to the counsel about the seeming con tradiction' in evidence given by the housemaid in the court and before the coroner, he ought to have had the evidence given before the coroner read, and to have given her an op portunity of explaining it : as it was, her evidence was un contradicted ; and, even admitting all that the learned coun sel had said, he really did not think it was a discrepancy of any importance whatever. With regard to the breaking into the house, the JuiY, before they came to any decision as to the prisoner's guilt or innocence, must make up their minds as to whether it was a real breaking in for the purpose of robbing the house, or merely a simulated breaking in for the purpose of directing suspicion and inquiry away from the real perpetrator of the crime. With regard to the evidence of Baldwin, it did not appear to him (the Judge) that he gave his evidence in such a way as entitled him to full credit. Yet, the prevarication of which he had been undoubtedly guilty could not alter facts, and, as all the material facts to which he deposed were also deposed to by Rose, on whose character no such imputation rests, he should read Rose's evidence to the Jury, omitting altogether that of Baldwin. With respect to the glass door being undisturbed, it was very remarkable that any housebreaker should have neglected the comparatively easy method of getting into the house by removing a pane of glass from this window, and have gone down a story lower, for the purpose of getting into the house by the back area door. Some strong observations had been made upon the fact of the gloves having been found in the prisoner's trunk upon the second examination, and not upon the first ; and it had been insinuated, that they had been placed there by some one for the purpose of getting up a case against the prisoner. Now it was for the jury to de termine whether it was not possible for the gloves to have escaped observation on the first examination, when the shirts were merely unfolded, and yet to have fallen out of one of them on the second examination, when the shirts were shaken. They had seen the police-officers who had been examined before them, and it was for them to determine whether they thought those persons would have been wicked enough to have got up evidence against the prisoner in that manner ; and, if they had been so wicked as to make evidence against the prisoner in the manner charged, would they not have invented some circumstance of infinitely more import ance than the finding of a pair of white gloves, so lightly. stained with blood as to render it almost impossible they could have been worn by a person when engaged in such a horrible transaction as this murder? Very strong observa tions had been made on the conduct of Pearce : now, nothing could be more proper than to show any things which might be found to a prisoner and to ask him any proper question : at the same time, it 'was exceedingly improper in a minister of justice to attempt to entrap a person into a confession of guilt, and it was for the jury to determine what was to be the effect likely to 19e produced by tile conduct of Pearce in the present instance. No blame, he thought, could be at tached to Mr. Maine. notwithstanding the observation of the learned counsel on his conduct. With regard to the re ward, crime would very often go undetected, persons, perhaps, would not use their utmost diligence unless they were stimu lated by the hopes of areward, and the remarks of the learned counsel would apply equally to every case in which a reward was offered. If a witness were influenced by the hope of re ward, it would certainly go to diminish - the credit due to his testimony, but that was a question entirely far the considera tion of the jury. With regard to the discovery of the hand- . kerchiefs and the shirt-front, the same observations would apply to them as to the gloves, except that Shaw said he had seen the front on searching the box on the former occasion, although he did not recollect that he had seen the handker chiefs. They now came to the evidence as to the missing property,—evidence which had been discovered since the prosecution had commenced. Had the case remained with. out this evidence, there might have been some strong observations made upon the circumstance of the property being missing, and of the probability of a person having entered the house by the back, and left it by the front, taking with him the property that was missing; although he might have left a quantity behind him ; but if it were proved, that the property had been removed by the prisoner himseif before the murder took place, then he would be deprived of the advantage of that conjecture ; and he supposed, it was with that view that the evidence had been adduced, because they were not there to try the prisoner for robbing his master but the murder. The learned judge then read the evidence of Mrs. Piolaine, and said that observations had been made on the improbability of her having seen an account in the French paper calculated to excite her suspicions. Now, in justice to the prosecutors, it must be said, that they could not make this paper evidence, but that the counsel for , the prisoner might have cross-examined her on the subject, if he had thought fit, and might have put in the paper to contradict her. It was certain something must have happened to direct her at tention to the parcel which had been left with her. With re gard to the conduct of Mr. Cummins, he thought it exceed ingly proper, as it was the duty of every good subject to assist in the administration of justice, and to bring forward every fact which may come to his knowledge, whether it be for the prisoner or against him. There was considerable difficulty in coming to the conclusion which the counsel for the prisoner wished them to come to,—that the various articles were con cealed in the pantry by the police, for the purpose of convict ing the prisoner. These articles were missing on the morn ing of the discovery of the murder, and had been in their places the night before. Where could the police have found them, or could they have had any opportunity of placing them there ? They would have to consider all these things, before they could come to the conclusion to which the learned counsel would lead them. With respect to the evidence as to character, it was to be observed, that all cases were to be tried by the direct evidence adduced. Evi dence as to character was merely of a secondary nature, not to be weighed against the direct testimony of the case, and if the circumstances of the case were so strong, although he did not say it was so in this case, that being for the Jury to determine, as to leave no doubt on the subject; then the evi dence as to character would be of no avail ; but where the scales of justice were evenly balanced, there, character would be of avail in determining as to the probability of the inno cence or guilt of the party. In this case it was their duty to weigh well and consider every circumstance of the case, and to draw their inferences. They were to give the case their best consideration, and to say whether the prisoner was in nocent or guilty, if they thought that there could be any doubt, taking all the circumstances into their consideration, that the prisoner was guilty, then they were to give him the benefit of that doubt ; but if they felt that, taking all the cir cumstances into their consideration, there could be no doubt as to his guilt, then, however painful it might be to them, it was their bounden duty to pronounce him guilty. It was for them, however, to exercise their deliberate judgment upon the case, to weigh well every circumstance, and to pronounce their verdict accordingly. His lordship finished his summing up at five o'clock, and The Jury then retired to deliberate on their verdict. And, after an absence of an hour and twenty-five minutes, they re turned, and delivered a verdict of guilty. The prisoner seemed to be unmoved by the delivery of the verdict. Lord Chief Justice TINDAL, in passing sentence of death upon the prisoner, said,—You have been convicted, by the verdict of an intelligent and impartial Jury, of the crime of wilfurmurder. That can be proved, not by the testimony of eyewitnesses, but by circumstances which have proved it. It has been demonstrated in this instance by the Providence of God in no ordinary manner, that the crime committed in the darkness should be brought to light. The crime of murder is, without exception, the deepest that can be com mitted, coming before us in this instance under circumstances of peculiar aggravation. The age of your victim, his situation of master to you, all had no effect upon you. To atone to society, which has received a shock by your crime, and to prevent the recurrence of it, you must suffer a speedy and an ignominious death. What may have been your precise or actual motive it is impossible to state. I fear it has been lust-of filthy lucre, and I beseech you to make use of the short time which remains to you, in endeavouring to make your peace with your Creator. The learned Judge then passed sentence in the usual manner. He was dreadfully affected, so that at times his utterance was choked. The prisoner was pale, but quite unmoved. CONFESSION. OF COURVOISIER. (From the Morning Herald of yesterday.) After the verdict had been returned it was very generally reported that the prisoner had made a full confession of his guilt. During the examination that took place of the house of Lord William Russell, and the plate and other articles, the attention of Mr. Hobler, the solicitor to the prosecution, was called to the table-knives belonging to his lordship. Among them were four large carving -knives, with Damascus blades and balance ivory handles ; they were all fresh cleaned when Mr. Hobler saw them, but on a very minute inspection of one of them he found on the blade, near the handle, a very small rusty spot, and that this knife, though recently cleaned, was much duller in appearance than any of the others. He examined the blade most minutely, but could not find that it was notched in any part of it ; but, from its general appear ance, he was satisfied that that was the very instrument by which the deceased nobleman had been deprived of his life. He, consequently, separated it from the rest, and placed it in the hands of the bankers of the deceased nobleman, in whose custody it has ever since remained. On Thursday last, when the unexpected discovery had been made as to where the missing plate had been deposited, it was carefully examined by the deceased nobleman's domestics, Sarah Mencer and Ellis, who at once identified it as the property of their late master : but the fact of the finding of the pro perty was not made known to the prisoner until the follow ing (Friday) morning, when Madame Piolane came to New gate, and the prisoner- and some other men being mar shalled before her in the press-yard, she immediately identified him as the man by whom the parcel containing the plate had been left at her house. The fact of the plate having been discovered, and his identification as the party leaving it, was communicated to the prisoner, and on hearing this unexpected intelligence he turned very pale and was ex ceedingly agitated, and before the time when he was to be again placed at the bar of the Central Criminal Court he sent for his solicitor, Mr. Flower, and at once made the following confession of his guilt. He stated that on the night of the fatal transaction he was in the lower part of his lordship's house in the act of secreting the different articles of plate, &c., the property of his lordship, in the several places were they were afterwards found secreted by the police as stated by them on the trial, when his lordship, who was suddenly taken unwell, unexpectedly came down stairs, and caught him in the act of concealing his propqrty in the manner above stated. The deceased nobleman immediately charged him with robbing him, and declared that he would discharge him from his service on the following morning. Finding himself thus suddenly and unexpectedly detected in plundering his master, and receiving notice that he would on the following day be dismissed from his service, he was roused to a state of phrenzy, and waiting until his lordship had retired to rest, he then stole softly into his bed-room, and, finding his lordship was sound asleep, he cut his throat with the very carving knife with which Mr. Hobler so justly suspected that the dreadful deed had been perpetrated. We presume that this communication on the part of the prisoner entirely changed the line of defence which his counsel intended to have adopted for him, for it was generally rumoured that a severe attack would be made by him on the prisoner's fellow-servants, and particularly on the police who were engaged in the investiga tion. We must, however, do the learned counsel the justice to state that, with that honourable feeling which has always characterised his professional career, he did the best he could for his unfortunate client, at the same time abstaining from indulging in insinuations respecting the prisoner's fellow servants of the police, which he knew at the time he was addressing the jury were altogether without foundation. It must be a source of great satisfaction to the jury, who tried this most important and, up to almost the last moment, doubtful case, to know that the conclusion to which they ultimately came was a just one, and that, by returning a verdict of guilty, they were only, as it were, confirming by that verdict a confession which had previously been made by the prisoner. The prisoner paid great attention to the proceedings • throughout the whole of yesterday, and displayed none of that levity which was noticed on Thursday. The court was crowded in every part during the whole of the day. On the bench with the, learned judges were the following distin guished personages : Earl Sheffield, Earl Mansfield, Earl Scarborough, Lord Rivers, Lord A. Lennox, Lord Edward Russell, Lord A. Paget, Lord Gardner, Sir W. Lumley, Col. Fox, Col. Wood ford, Lord Bentinck, Lord F. Gordon, Sir M. Chapman, Lord Louth, Lord Sondes, Lord Cadogan„ Lady Burghersh, Lady Sondes, Lady Anson, Lady Granville Somerset, Lady Charleville, Lady S. Bayley, Lady Georgiana Russell, Lady • de Clifford, Lady Julia Lockwood, Earl Lucan, Sir S. Can ning, Sir G. Stephens, Baron de Cetto—the Bavarian minis ter, &c. CHURCH OF ENGLAND LIFE AND FIRE AS SURANCE, TRUST, AND ANNUITY INSTITU TION. An association has been formed, and is progressing favour ably, which, from the objects peculiarly embraced in it, ap pears deserving of the attention and support which it is receiving in various quarters. 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The two professions of the law and medi cine are respectably and commendably represented in cor responding institutions ; and the clergy of the establishment have now one also, which they may call their own.—City Article _of the Morning Herald. :. THE GORDOVIGION ROYAL EISTEDDFOD, OE, MEETING OF• THE BARDS. THIRD DAY.—FRIDAY. The attendance this morning was very considerable, but not so numerous as on the preceding day. There was, how ever, no diminution of interest or enthusiasm. The hon. President took his seat at half-past eleven o'clock. The business commenced with the recitatation by the bards of apigrammatic stanzas, chiefly in praise of the Pre sident and the objects of the meeting. Mr. WM. JONES, (Gwrgant) of London, addressed the audience in Welsh, and was highly applauded. An air was then performed by seven harpers, who had been drilled until they became capaple of playing in pretty correct time. The Rev. J. WILLIAMS, Rector of the' High School of Edinburgh, and Archdeacon of Cardigan, - was then jntro duced by the President, with a high eulogium on his abili ties. The rev. gentleman spoke as follows—Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentleman, as the greater part of my address is more didactic than rhetorical, I shall take the liberty of begging your patient attention. My present address is di rected to the English now before me, as well as to all those who may be led to conclude that the English literature and English language have no connection with the objects of meetings like this. I hope to be able to correct this erro neous conclusion, and to prove to every true Englishman that the philosophical learner of his own magnificent lan guage must have recourse to us and to our scholars for the illustration of much that is obscure, or else that he must be content to remain ignorant of much that is valuable and im portant. The staple out of which the modern race of Eng lishmen is formed, has been partly imported from abroad, and is partly of home growth. Not to speak of the Saxons, the Jutes, and the Angles, we know that the Danes and Normans contributed no small portion to the national exist ence. Still, however, the Britons themselves, of whom we know, from the Saxon laws, that they continued to live in social union with their conquerors, must have deeply mingled their blood with that of the fair-eyed and blue-eyed sons of Germany. The result of this amalgarnatiou has been the modern Englishman, who seems to have embodied in his own ideal character the leading virtues and qualities of those dif ferent races to which he must look back as his common an cestors. The language of the Englishman was formed on a principle similar to that according to which his national cha racter was formed. The thread of that magnificent web which is now denominated the English language, has been borrowed from various tissues ; and this very variety gives both a charm and splendour, and, what is more valuable, durability and strength, to the article thus heterogeneously formed. (Cheers.) The words which are current in the mouths of Englishmen may be compared to coins, bearing the stamp and impress of foreign mints, with the laws of the land, or what, iu such cases, is more powerful, custom, has rendered a legal and sufficient tender for all debts incurred in our mutual intereoUrse. Some of these words bear distinctly, others more faintly, the character of Kellaric, or Grecian pa rentage; a great portion of them have the image or superscrip tion of the Roman Cmsars indelibly impressed upon them ; whilsta third class were imported neat, by the original proprie tors, from the wilds and forests of Germany and Scandinavia, Yet there still remains no small portion of household terms, of the very words you use in your daily intercourse, of which we Welshmen are the original proprietors, and of which you in vain seek the true interpretation at the hands of the Greek, Roman, German, or Scandinavian scholar. (Applause.) For the solution of your difficulties, in such cases, you must have recourse to the Welsh ; and, trust me, ladies and gentlemen, that as, in the words of the philosophical and judicious Niebuhr, "their language is the most imperishable monu ment of their fame, which nations can ever rear," it is your duty, possessed as you are of one of the most impressive and energetic languages which the world has ever seen, to take care that no clouds and darkness are allowed to settle on any portion of its sources, but that all are placed in the full light and brilliancy of day. (Much cheering.) The time will come when the English language will cover the world in broader and more continuous zones than have ever been occupied by preceding tongues. The Greek once held an extensive sway over no small portion of the ancient world, yet we have every reason to infer that twice as many human beings, even now, utter the language of Shakspeare and Milton as ever, during one age, re-echoed the words of Sophocles and of Homer. And if this be true now, what will the wonderful effect be when the whole of North America, when Australia, with its various dependencies, when Hindostan and Southern Africa shall have been peopled by men of English race and of Eng lish habits ? Oh, how will these various colonies, planted on every soil and under every clime, and'on whom it may be said, without hyperbole, that the sun never sets—how will they turn, in the days of their prosperity, to an examination of that language and of that literature from which their own civilisation will have taken its peaceful hue and character. If you knew the labour—often, I may say,:the fruitless labour-- with which learned men have sat down to illustrate the first principles of the Greek and Latin languages—to remove the dark cloud that hovers round and above their sources ; if you knew what volumes ou volumes have been vainly compiled concerning the Pelasgi of Greece, the Umbri, the Osi, and the Tassi of Italy, similar in their present feelings to Welsh men ' • for what the Pelasgi were to Greece, the Osi, Sabini, and Umbri to Rome, the old Britons of Cumberland, of Wales, of Cornwall, and of Brittany are to England. It is, therefore, your duty to take care that your countrymen do not commit the mistake which was committed by the proud Greeks and disdainful Romans, but to take the necessary steps to secure the transmission of your language and litera ture to your own descendants, in the various regions which Englishmen are destined to people, over the face of the whole globe. To do this, you ought to aid and help us in embody ing in your own immortal language our ancient literature, and to establish professors in the universities for the purpose of illustrating our important language and literature. (Cheers.) To prove that these steps are• necessary to the due under standing of the English language, I shall adduce a few ex amples—a few, not because the materials are scanty, but because philological discussions are not the most attractive subjects for a popular audience. (Encou raging applause for the rev. gentleman to proceed.) Al most the first words by which mankind embody their feelings are those expressive of the senses. I look around me now, and you look on me. You eye me, and lam eyed by you. Ladies and gentlemen, that word look belongs to our language. It is the root lug, and from that your English word look is derived. I hope, therefore, you will never look again on a Cambro-Briton without remembering to whom you are indebted for the word. In your language is the word hear, and you hear me now, It is a good Saxon word, de rived, by the addition of the aspirate, from the organ of hear ing. But when you venture to exert a deeper action in hear ing, you are then said to listen. Then you come to us ; for the word you call listen, is derived from the Welsh dust, the ear, and from clwych, to hear. I tread the stage now, for the first time in my life. (Laughter and cheers.) Do you know what the word tread means ? You do not ; you must come to us for that. It is derived from our own word traed, the feet ; and when you go to your past tense, trod, we have its representative in troad. I shall now come to dress ; for I am selecting, not the best examples that could be found, but the most striking. Now, ladies, you have gloves and sleeves. It is stated of your German ancestors that they had neither gloves nor sleeves. Tacitus expressly informs us that the German ladies were naked from the shoulders to the tips of the fingers ; therefore, not having the thing, they could not have the word. With respect then to gloves. The root of the word is our llaw. The first attempt at transferring it into your tongue is to be found in claw, but the nearest pronun ciation is llov. The glove, then, is nothing at all but the covering of the claw, or hand. We have been taught by the Romans to wear gloves and sleeves. The latter are called by us llavis, and the former manig, from the Latin manus. Descending to the nether extremities, we konw perfectly well that the Roman went bare-kneed. He emit' not, therefore, be what the Greeks called brachatus. I will leave the gentle men to translate the word for the ladies. The English word is - very plain, and deduced from the Latin. We call the co vering of the nether extremities coisau. It first appears in the .A,nglo-Saxon bosom, hose or stocking ; and from coisau comes our coeswr, and your hosier. It had been often said that we Britons, when invaded by the Romans were savages. This is a falsehood, and a malignant falsehood. Merely be cause Caesar said he had heard that up the country, some where in the Orkneys, perhaps, there was a wild race, that hearsay, evidence had been taken, and put against the strong and direct testimony of Caesar himself, who brought, to second his invasion, a larger force, and a more powerful body of le gionary troops than were employed in winning the battle of Pharsalia. He landed .at Deal, and the farthest progress he was enabled to make, in the whole course of a long summer, was to Kingston-on-Thames, which a modern army would reach easily in four days. Were they barbarians who could thus check the immortal Caesar in bis career? As the historian said, "he showed his terror stricken back to the Britons whom he had invaded." Caesar describes us an agricultural nation, as well versed in all the arts of life ; and when Cassivellaunus found that he was not able to withstand the infantry of Rome, he dispersed all his troops, and kept four thousand armed chariots to hang on the wings and hover over the rear of the invaders. Now, Caesar admits that he found us an agricultural people. Whe ther the Saxons brought grain with them from Germany, I cannot tell ; but this I can tell, that the words which repre sent the main ingredients in the staff of life were borrowed by the English from us. The first word is wheat, which is nothing but a translation of given yd, or, as it is now pro nounced, ywenith (corn). The English word rye is borrowed from the Welsh rhyg, and barley from our barlis. When we thus catch goods belonging to us in the possession of other persons, it is pretty plain that they have stolen them from us. I have something more particular to say on this subject. Pliny tells us there was a tradition that barley, which he called ordium, was the first grain improved by man for the use of bread, and, as a proof of this, states that in his days the first offering to the gcds was always made in barley grain. Now, coming to the Welsh, we find that the meaning of baths is bars-llys, (that is, the bread-herb,) showing that the word is ours, and ours alone. I will now take a common word or two, and show you that you cannot do without our help in your ordinary conversation, that is, if you want to know the meaning of the terms you employ, and not to suffer your language to remain like a barbarous tongue in your mouths. The names of the metals are in frequent use ; and two of the names which you employ are borrowed from us. Those are Gres, brass, and haiarn, iron. I have proved that many English words have been borrowed from the Latin, of which the Latin will give you no satisfac tory explanation, and for which you must come to us. There is a Latin word called torreo, which signifies to burn. Look at the participle, and you find that it means a rush of flow ing water. From torreo you have torrid, as the torrid zone ; and from torrens you have a torrent. Now, here is a most extraordinary class of words. Torrems signifies breaking with heat—breaking with cold. In our language, we have torn:, a torch ; and the root of that is also Welsh—it is torn, heat. Heat breaks by too great expansion ; cold, by too great contraction. The torrent breaks on the side of the hill with its fury ; and the torch breaks up matter into its component particles. Here, then, you have a common source binding up all these apparently incoherent materials in one general rule. (Cheers.) Were I not afraid of being tedious, I could enlarge considerably on this part of my subject. But there is one thing I must mention. Here is your president ; he is the lord of many manors—(laughter, which was excited by the emphasis which the speaker put on the last word, thus, by a pun, giving it a double signification) —but the manors, as well as the president, are truly Welsh. (Cheers.) The old word is maiwor, and to all the manors were attached charter -stones. To illustrate this 1 need not allude to the holy stone of Mecca, nor to the Scottish stone now in the tower of London, once considered the palladium of the independence of the Scottish kingdom. It was a very common occurrence to have things called charter-stones in the different parts of the empire, and within the last thirty years, in the west of Scotland, there was a dispute between the new town and the old town for the charter stone. Hav ing thus, Englishmen, deprived you of your manors, I am now going to repay you the compliment which you paid to our ancestors and to deprive you of your country.—Laugh ter.) I have often asked an Englishman what he meant by country. Sometimes he is going down to the country, using the word in opposition to town. I have asked him if he was not then (when in town) in the country, and his answer is, " Yes, I am." I have then pressed him for a further ex planation ; but no further explanation can he give. Of course he could not ; he could not, like the Romans, call it patria ; and what does he do ? He borrows a word from his vanquished foemen. Our word for country is not gwlad ; we employ that to signify a land reduced to social and civil order. Where a people were divided into classes of different degrees of polish, some were called tray, and some egftray. Thus in Cornwall the inhabitants say, countryvolk, (?) to signify men bound by some social ties, which is, in fact equal to the Greek polites, and to the Latin rives. It was not every man who had an equal right to the title, or to be con sidered as belonging to the cyftray. The speaker then re ferred to the fact of the names of numerous rivers and moun tains, particularly in the south of Scotland and north of Eng land, being of Welsh origin, illustrating his position by taking the names of those which he himself had passed in his jour- ney irom Edinburgh to Liverpool. He commenced with the rock that frowns over the capital of the North, called Arthur's Crag, and ended with Morecambe Bay, in our own county. Now, if, (said he) in addressing a popular assembly, I have been enabled to make out a case, is it not too bad that our language and literature should not be patronized by the go vernment of the country, as well as by Welshmen ? Have we not a right, a sacred right, to demand that some portion of those numerous revenues which the English extract from the Welsh for the service of England and Englishmen, should be restored to us for our benefit and the benefit of our chil dren ? (Cheers.) They have borrowed unmercifully from us —I leave other gentlemen to tell the tale ; but there is hardly an English college or cathedral which has not thrust its long hand into our purse. (Cheers.) 1 would have travelled a thousand miles to have been enabled to give utterance to the feelings which I have expressed on this occasion ; and if there is a single Englishman who has sympathised with me, I beseech him to cherish the feeling, and tell his brethren that we are a much-injured, now an innocent and harmless race, and they ought to do all they can to place us on the same platform as themselves. Give us the same advantages which you possess, and we will show you as vigorous talents, as good scholars, and sound judgments, and as clear heads, in the mountains of the Cymry as in the more physically fa voured land of England. I speak from experience. I have taught numerous classes of young Welshmen, of young Eng lishmen, and of young Scotchmen, and do conscientiously declare this my o p inion, that the Welsh, in quickness, are superior to either the English or the Scotch. I don't say that they are equal in perseverance, because perseverance is the result of studious habits and education. Give them that, and I have no doubt that their quickness, backed by perse verance, will cause them, in time, to be welcomed by you as worthy countrymen of -Shakspeare and Milton, of Newton and of Locke. (Applause.) And now I address myself to the Welsh. We have been invaded both by Saxons and Nor mans. We did all we could to preserve our independent existence, though we were not successful : but I am sorry to tell you now that a Saxon has made an attack on the Cymry, not like one of the old times. He calls you not Cymry, but Cyrnmertur—that is, robbers. This is done by an English man, and a wise one, except for this folly. He says, too, that you are descendants of the Picts, and not of the old Britons. Is it not strange that such nonsense should not only be published but patronized by the public ? The rev. gentleman mentioned, in conclusion, that there were two societies the (as we understood) lona Society of Scotland, and the Royal Irish Academy, the secretaries of which had expressed an anxiety to know what Welshmen were doing, and accompanied with an offer to make known, in return, all that they were doing. It had been said by an Englishman that the Welsh arrogated everything to themselves, that the Scotch arrogated everything to themselves, and that the Irish did the same thing. He (the speaker) hoped that that day was now past, and that they would all make common cause to throw light on the history, the language, and the literature of one of the most ancient nations in the world—a nation which came from the Caucasus before either the Hel lenic or the Teutonic streams of emigration.—(The archdea con sat down amidst very animated and general applause.) The,Rev. T. PRICE then addressed the meeting at some length, but our limited space prevents us from giving his speech with the same fulness as the preceding one. His ob servations may be considered as continuatory of those of Archdeacon Williams. He said that when they had been in the habit of responding to the bardic call amidst their native mountains, they always came together in anticipation of hearing their land's language in purity, and of listening to the strains of the harp. So far, their gratification was purely selfish. Here, however, a new state of things had been ex hibited. Their able advocate had not only assured that their own language was in reality their own, but that it was inter woven with the very basis of 'the English tongue. This, cer- tainly, had never * before been put before the English • in so striking a point of view as Archdeacon Williams had done it. As to the Welsh language, they had always known it was their own, warp and woof ; but they were not aware that it had taken such a part in the formation of the English lan guage. As this was the case, however, perhaps the audience would permit him to lay before them some few remarks on the part which Welsh literature had taken in the formation of European literature. The first language formed in Europe, after the breaking down of the Latin, was the French. But in the eleventh century, if not in the twelfth, it was a com plete jargon, and bore no resemblance to the French lan guage of the present day. In the production of that period and jargon, however, the heroes of Wales, Arthur and the knights of the round table, were the principal figures. It might be said that chivalry and the romances of the trouba dours were not of Welsh origin ; but he was not ready to ad mit that, seeing who were the personages figuring in the romances ; and that the very names Caerleon and Cardiff were Welsh names. The troubadours of the south of France altogether depended for their materials on the importations • made from Cambria. It might, probably, be asserted that they got their materials from Italy ; but that assertion would would not stand the test of examination ; for the Italian language was not formed much before the time of Dante, and before he improved, or re-constructed it, it was a mere jargon. It was quite evident that Dante, Ariosto, and ' Tasso, were acquainted with the Welsh legends. Some one might say, " Ah, they had those from Spain ; the Spaniards were always a chivalrous na tion." But the Spanish language was formed still later than the Italian •, and, looking at the first essays of Spanish minstrels, what did they find ? Positively, the heroes of the Round Table, in so prominent a point of view, that it was quite plain that their literature was drawn from the fountain head of Wales. In order to bring this home to every person, the speaker referred to the novel of Cervantes, one of the most striking scenes in which was the forest-scene, the principal actor in which was the great enchanter Merlin. Romance, there fore, did not originate with the Spaniards. Could it be attributed, then, to the Saracens ? No ; for the Arabian Nights were not composed till the fifteenth century, though some few straggling tales might have had a previous existence. It might be said, " Look, then, at Germany." The Germans have an ancient language, not intelligible to the common people, which has disappeared, like all those of ancient Europe, with the exception of the Welsh. There is the romance called—(we could not catch the name)—true ; and the romance sets forth the actions of King Arthur and his Knights ; but in the descriptions many Arabic words occur ; the days of the week and months were Arabic, and some other matters evidently indicated an Arabian tint. Now, how did the Arabians happen to introduce Welsh names into the romance ? "Oh ! they are not Welsh, but Arabic." Well, if so, how did they come to introduce the name of Arthur? Why was the whole machinery perfectly Welsh ? And why did not they introduce Rustam and Iskander ? The romance was merely the embodiment of the tales of the crusaders, with the introduction of some Arabic words. After some farther remarks on the same subject, the rev. gentleman concluded. In the course of the subsequent proceedings there was a great variety of singing and harp playing. The prizes were then distributed BY JOHN HUGHES, M.D. 11. For the best English Essay, " Showing that there is sufficient talent and piety in the native clergy of the Princi pality to fill the Episcopal Bench." (Traethawd yn dangos fod digonol gynshwysder o Larth DyBg a Duwioldeb, yn Offeiriaid y Dywysogacth, i lenwi y swydd Esgobawl.)— A Premium of £5 or a Medal of the same value. Two compositions were sent in, but as neither came up to the required standard, no award was made. 12. For the best Poem (in Welsh) on the " Battle of Bos worth Field," (Am y Cywydd goreu ar Frwydr Maes Bos worth.)—A Medal, value £3, and a Premium of £2. For the second best on the same subject, a Medal, value £2. There were seven,competitors for these prizes, but no award was made, as nore were of sufficient merit, in the opinion of the judges, to deserve the prizes. There were no competitors for the Gwent and Morganwg Hirlas Horn, which, with a premium of £3O, was offered for the best account of the distinguished men of North Wales. 13.—For the best Elegy, in Welsh, to the " Memory of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, of Wynnstay, Bart., M.P., Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Denbigh and Merioneth." (Am y Bryddestawd oxeu, ar unrhyw fesur a ddewiso y Cyfansoddydd, ar " Farwolaeth y diweddar Bennefiy, clodfawr Syr Watkin Williams Wynn, or Wynn stay, Barwniy, A. S.)—A medal, value £5, with a premium of £5. There were twelve competitors. The price was won by Mr. Griffith William Edwards, of Llanberris, who had on a previous occasion gained a medal for the best Elegy on the death of the late Sir Watkin's lady. 14.—T0 the best performer on - the Triple Harp, of the air called the " Allurement of Love." (I'r Chwareuydd goreu, ar y Delyn Deir-rhes, ar y Do'n " Sere,: Dudal.") A new Triple Harp, value £2l. To be called the Gwent and Morganwg Harp. [Observe.—The winner of the Gor dovig Harp was not allowed to compete for this.] The competitors were ten in number, named Richard Pugh, of Corwen ; Reece Jones, of Llanrwst ; William Jones, of Beaumaris ' • John Robinson, of Bangor ; Mrs. Hearne, of Corwen ; Miss Mary Davies, of Liverpool,—a girl seven years of age; Thomas Griffiths, of Tredegar ; Henry Green, of Shrewsbury ; Miss Jones, of Corwen ; and Benjamin Rogers, of Liverpool. The judges awarded the prize to John Robinson, a youth of about 19. The mayor, at this stage of the proceedings, entered the Amphitheatre, and was loudly applauded. 15.—For the best Ode (in Welsh) on the " Disastrous Hurricane with which Liverpool, and other parts of the United Kingdom were visited on the 6th and 7th of January, 1839." (Awdl ar y Rhuthrwynt dinystriol a Tmwelodd a Llerpll manau ereill o'r Deyrnas, ar y fled a'r 7fed o lonawr, 1839.)—A medal, value £3, and a pre m i um o f £5. F or th e second best on the same subject, a medal, value X 2. Five odes were sent in. The first prize was gained by the Rev. Thos. Pearce, of Liverpool ; the second was awarded to the writer assuming the name of Ardrernydd. 16. To the best Singer with the Harp, after the manner of North Wales, (I'r Datgeiniaid goreu gyda's Delyn yn of trffn Gwynedd.)—A Medal, value £3. and a Premium of £2,—To the second best Singer, a Medal, value £2. [Rhaid i'r Datgeiniaid fod o nodweddiad parchus, a'u canuau pa foesawl ; os amgen, attelir hwy yn y fan.] The first prize was gained by William Evans, of New market; the second by Thomas Edwards, of Corwen. 17. To the best Female Perrormer on the Triple Harp, (i's Delynores oreu ar.y Delyn Deir-rhes.) The Mostyn Gold Harp. Miss Margaret Jones, of Corwen, Miss Taylor, of Bagillt, Miss Mary Davies, of Liverpool, and Mrs. Deane, of Cor wen, were the competitors. The last named carried off the prize. 18. To the best performer on the Triple Harp from among the general competitors, (I'r Telynar neu y Delynores ores ar y Delyn Deir-rhes o fgsg yr holl nymreigyddion). A Premium of £5. To shorten the performance, the judges called forward those only who had in the previous contests shown decided merit, namely, Richd. Pugh, Thos. Griffiths, Henry Green► and Benjamin Rogers. The victor was Thomas Griffiths, of Tredegar. The performances concluded, at six o'clock with " God Save the Queen." In the evening the harpers, bards, cantorion, datgeiniad, and others dined at the York Hotel. This morning, at nine o'clock a goraedd will be held in the old Infirmary yard, for the purpose of conferring degrees on the successful bards. The committee offered a premium of £5. for the best six stanzas on the Mayor of Liverpool, and his noble and muni ficent conduct. They are to be sent in to the committee ky ten o'clock this morning. Votes of thanks were respectively passed to the Mayor of Liverpool, to the Hon. Chairman, to Gen. Sir Love Parry, to Dr. Hughes, to the Judges, to the Rev. T. Price, and the Friends of the Eisteddfod in Gwent, to Archdeacon Williams, to the Managing Committee, and others. FOURTH DAY.—SATURDA Y. TAB GORSEDD, OR, ORDINATION OF BARDS, &C. This novel meeting was held in the " open air," at the Old Infirmary Yard, at nine o'clock this morning. The follow ing gentlemen were present :—Major-General Sir Love Perri Jones Parry, K.G.H.; the Venerable Archdeacon of Cardi gan ; Rev. Rowland Williams ; Rev. H. Parry; Rev. J. Jones, Precentor of Christ Church, Oxford ; the Rev. W. Jones, Anglesey ; Rev. E. Evans, Christleton ; John Ri• chards, Esq., Customs ; J. Hughes, Esq., M.D.; Richard Philips Jones, Esq., M.D., Chester, &c. A circle, outlined by twelve stones, with a large stone in the centre, had been formed. At the altar, or throne, the Rev. Evan Evans, the Bardic Druid, t oo k hi s position. the centre stone (the throne) was a sheathed sword. banded On with a blue ribbon. The Rev. E. Evans, with his rio t hand, the degree drew the sword from its sheath, and, slightly!idvaneing, said aloud, in Welsh, Who is here that has received of Bard ?" The Rev. J. Jones, (Tepid,) Oxford, and John Richards. Esq., Bardic Druids, advanced into the circle, bare-headed, to assist the minister in the performance of his sacred duty. By the Rev. E. Evans.—" Who is here that wishes to re-