The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-26 00:00:00

rEE CH.ditOß .40.41 NAT BR. I. BUTT, X?.

The committee re-assembled yesterday morning;
Sir denies Graham, Barr, M.P., in the chair.
Mr. Roebuck, in answer to • queen°. put by the chair-
man, raid he prop.eed to-day to call Mr. James Coffey, one
of the brothers or the last witness, and Mrs. Parr, the lady
whom name wee so frequently mentioned yesterday. To-
morrow hr should call Mr. Vernon Smith, M.P., Mr. Man-
pie.. M.P., the chairman of the Best India Company, and
Sir Jam,, Weir Hogg, one of mho directors.
Mr. Pea.y having teen informed by the chairman that
the coomiiime would sit on Saturday, said he proposed to
examine Mr. Butt on that day.
A clerk in the Bank of India proved paying the amount of
the cheque drawn by the Ameer in favour of Mr. Butt.
Mrs. Parr wee called. The first question put to her by
Mr. Roebuck was se to the residence of her beamed. She
said he was in Muesli, sail from a letter she had received
that morning, she feared he was dead. She said she was •
trafficker in opera bone*, and resoled at 17, Old Bond-street.
Mr. Code, introducedi the Ameer to her at bee bout, and
she obtained opera boxes for bin, as well as executing other
OCClUliNticalP with which the Ameer expressed himself much
satiated. Mr. butt risked her in her box at the opera, and
told ber he we going to India for the Amor, and should
return a very rich man. Ile tutted her about the advisability
of fending the Ameer beck to India. To this she made
ao pisitive answer, am she thought Mr. Batt was intend-
Mg to entrap her, and she told him so. The Amer
book a gnat fancy to her youngest son, and em she was
about taking her son to Paris to End • college for
him. the Atneer expressed • wish that they might
meet in Paris. They did meet, and travelled on in the same
railway train to Vienna. Mr. Coffey travelled with then.
At all the stations along the route when the Ameer staved
she stayed also. At Vienna they remained in the same hMal,
and their apartments were on the same door. While she was
there the chamberlain of the King of Sweden called upon
her in reference to the affairs of the ADMIT. On returning
to Ragland she heard that a telegram had been sent to Mr.
Vernon Smith aspersing her character, and she oommunl•
cited with that gentleman at the Board of Control. She re-
ceived • letter from Mr. Granville Vernon (Mr. V. Smith's
son), stating that 'nothing had been said about her in the
telegram, and remarking, If I can be of any further service
to you in this matter please to let me know." Clime
chairman and the other members of the committee spied
that them last words were in a different handwriting,
and written with • different ink from the bodLELIte
lett, r. In an interview she bad with Sir Hamilton
that gentleman said that Mr. Butt had informed that
Mr. (-Miry wise blackguard, sad that therefore he (Mr H.
Seymour) was anxious to hunt him down. She serer heard
that she had been introduced to any one em Mrs. Coffey. She
had heard that the had been :Token of in telegraphic commu-
nications as Mrs. Coffey, the Ameer having, it was said,
come to the conclusion that the lady he had seen in Mr.
Coffey's apartment was his wife. In the course of her jouroey
she went to Venice, whence she wrote to Mr. Coffey, re-
questing to me him, as she (bought it was not right that he
should go away with aspersions resting upon him of which
he was innocent.
Mr. Strout Deasy said that before he proceeded with the
craw examination of the witness he would request that Minn
Ali Allib&r, en agent of the Ameer in England, should be
culled to prove two letters which he had received from the
Ameer—one from Paris sad one from Trieste—during his
outward journey to India.
Mims Ali Ahhber was called, and produced the two letters,
both of whisk hs send were written to him in Persian by the
Amcor. The lost of these was from Perla requesting him to
examine the hotel bills, which he said he would forward from
Cairo, and requesting him to go to the Mercantile Bank in
London to vet him 2,000 rupee, lie said he wished witness
to examine them to ascertain whether he bad been robbed by
that son of Satan (Mr. Coffey), who was detaining him.
Mr. Roebuck objected to thia letter being read, iaaamuch
gait did not beer the usual formal signature, which, however,
the witness said was not necerary.
Upon this point the room was C. 11.11, I.
On the readmission of parties, the witness was recalled,
sad read the remainder of the letter, in which the Anvers re-
quested him not to allow one ailment to pass, but to proceed
to the bank for 2,000 rupees, and to remit it to him without
delay. He expressed a hope ihat the money would reach
him before his arrival at Trieste, as "the bastard" was de-
taining him on the journey. The Arn er requested that hie
compliments might be given to Sir George Cork, Sir Henry
Rawlinson, and Lord Ellsaborough. The letter was d-
ined to him in English, but he did not know the hand-
writing. The seal was that of the Ameer. The Ameer did
. sot know his address, and he, therefore, forwarded it to the
Mercantile Bank. The inside of both letters was in the
same handwriting. The second letter was from Tricots; no
date. The following were the material portions
•• Before this I rent you a letter from Paris, and in that
letter I explained to you the cireammances of the bad conduct
of this devil. Up to this day I have received no answer—
perhaps through the villany of this accursed you have not
received it. However, this is the circumstance of this
place. On my arrival at Paris instantly I told him to pre-
pare fur proceeding to-morrow morning. He told me he was
sick, and made many excuses. He kept me in Patna for four
or flee days, end then he left Pans. In every stage he
makes excuses gad pretences. At some places he kept
me five days, and in another place he kept me Mx days,
and all for ao benefit. I arrived at Trieste on the
21st. On my arrival, the boat had started for Alexan-
dria. Now ha tells me, What ran I do ? Another
boat may go in another 16 days. That is also doubtful. It
may or may not go.' At other times he makes other excuses,
and tell me to get to Akbar, my minister, to send tne on to
Bombay. At other times he tells me the English government
have ordered me not to go to Scinde, and sometimes he tells
me that Mr. Butt is coming, and that I had better wait for
km. This is the fourth day that 1 am remaining et Trieste,
and I have nothing to do here. There is no one here who
muderstanda my language. The men of this place even do
mot speak F:oglivta. You know that Mr. Vernon Smith and
BM G. Clerk pressed me to go quick and perform services for
the English. How can Igo quick when Imu here like •
r? Oh, my friend, the disposition of this Satan I.
Tell Sir George Clerk that I was going quick for the
11111TiCII of the English, but what can I d fur 1 don't under-
eland the langusge, and I am perfectly helpless. Perhaps I
may be detained here for another month. God knows fur
what purpose this Satan det-dr.: me,"

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Mr. Roebuck asked the witness several questions, in reply
to which he said he was formerly on good term with Mr.
Coffey, the petitioner, and Mr. David Coffey, hie brother, but
they trealid the Ammer disrespectfully, end he told them of
it. They presented to the Anwer accounts which were
umatiefectory. He (wittier) examined them, and found
them to be very confused. They did not slate any dates or
pieces, and Mr. Coffey refund to mention the names of the
preona to whom he had paid the money. Since that time he
had spoken to Mr. Coffey, but there was not that cordiality
between them which formerly misted.
Mrs.. Parr was recalled and crow-examined by Mr. 84r-
just Dewy—Sbe did not see Mr. Butt in 1856. In 1867
she thought she saw him four hmem ; on mellowest= at her
own house. On the second occasion she was mealtime ee a
gent/moan in bee drawing room on loudness, when the deer
T
opened sod Mr. Butt and Mr. Colby aim
la. The gentleman who was with her wee Sir Alassaist
Cockburn. In consequence of what passed, Sir Alassmier
Mr. Butt to his house. Sir Alexander Cockberasever
copyread to her en opinion in reference to the Ameer's
loyalty or disloyalty. Mr. Coffey was °every Intimate terms
Mth her while in London, and came to her home almost
daily. The Amer came pretty frequently also. flhe was
frequently in the habit of taking opera hose' for him. While
on the route she frequently heard Mr. Coffey urge the Amem
to go on. Mr. Coffey spoke Hiodostanee, which she did not
understand. What she said to the Ammer was translated to
him ty ea interpreter. She did not think ahe should be
much surprised to bear that the Amon had complained of
Mr. Coffey detaining him on hie journey, as she had reaaon
to believe that the Amore was not sincere. His pantomime
wee perfect, and he knew English well enough to ootivey
what he wanted. She might doubt his sincerity to his own
agent—that would &peso upon whore his agent wee. If it
was the perms she thought the learned eerjeant
maw,
Itit wee very possible the Armee might deceive hha.
meant Ali be
the last witness. She seat
far Ali Akhhar last Thursday. and he
A celled
her in reference to • box for which the meer was inepos-
debted to her. At that interview he told her that Mr. Coffey
led told such 'tortes of him es constantly to keep him la het water. Her object in going to Si, liamil'on Seymour
wee
to relieve herself from the aspersions thrown upon her eke-
meter in orenimion with the charge of Mrs. Coffey. She
had been anxious that this eaysnare should not take plate. She had et ',Wood all the matter to Mr. Roebuck. Ones she
saw him at her own house, and once at his ; mote then that
—primp' half a dozen times—and always in reference to the
peados. She had to en deprived of her husband, bat elm
d never gone by any other name than that of her haelmill
and her own. Her own name wea Ryan, and she now traded
under the name of Ryan and Co. She had never threatened
to publish any statement or memoir with regard to my gen-
geom. She had never demanded from any one my ma of
money fir suppressing or withholding such publication. She
lad sever been threatened with prose tiou on aceouat
of
such a publication. (The witness entered into a long Maar
meet on this matter.) She stated that she once met a lady
m a packet, 'ad was informed that she was not a proper
person. Thie lady mme to her home and read •
which she (Me.. Parr) Imprudently mentioned toloangi=
him a umber of parliament, and a member of the gem-
mat, who imprudently mentioned it again. She proceeded
to say that a Mr. Hawke bad celled upon her with mimed to
the paper alluded to, but she did not know that it wen to re-
km°, to any threatened publication. Mr. Hawke did sot
threaten a
to
prosecution agium, t end site did sof haw
The d
that be held oat such a threat against the lady referred to.
ocument was kfl for • long time to Maims. Her
without ker permission, and showed it to a barrister in the Temple. The document was highly defamatory,
ia the manes of some of the !lighten people in Englandbrin,tl
Matra( conversations she alleged to have had with
there. HIM said she intended publishing it. la the
document it use stated that she bed paid t be
260 &nem as •fee, le bring m radon on Ire baba
end Itegalmet a distinguished perste, for a breath of promise of sesseless,
woe ow tlis gentleman's WWI that Kr. linerke 864
os at shouldt sayM tae. hat ehe had not the doemoont to her pre-
wittier The wittier said that she could disprove the intimeaskaa
mat spa her by the evidence of spacebars of pasilement mid Maim of distinction, end if thaw gumption. Isere mellstied In elm hoped she might be allowed to mill taws pus-
arsa. (Laughter.)
Rurstnation continued—Sas never saw Yr. Mika
Jams, Q.C., on the subject of that publication, Sts Wee