The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-13 00:00:00

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
HER MAJESTY AND PRINCE ALBERT.

During the early part of yesterday, police-constable
Brown, A 85, who took the prisoner into custody, was en-
gaged with others in examining the shrubberies in the
Royal gardens opposite where the pistols were discharged,
with the view of discovering the bullets. Their exertions,
however, were unattended with success.
The several witnesses who were examined at the Home-
office on Thursday, have been bound in their own recogni-
zances to appear and prosecute, in the sum of 2501.
Sergeant Otway, as was stated in our paper of yester-
day, proceeded to Birmingham by the seven o'clock morn-
ing railway train on Thursday, with private instructions
to make such inquiries as might lead to some light being
thrown upon this atrocious affair.
Mrs. Oxford, the prisoner's mother, who is a respectable
and good-looking woman, about forty-four years of age,
was staying at a victualling house at Gardiner's-end, Bir-
mingham, and on hearing of the sad news she became like
a maniac.

The prisoner, when questioned by the officers, stated
that he bad the pistols, sword, and bullets given to him
by some party, but ho could not recollect by whom, but
this statement is in a material degree contradicted from
facts which have subsequently been discovered.
Oxford, it appears, was in the habit of frequenting Mr.
Green's shooting-gallery, in Leicester-square. His cus-
tom was to spend one shilling at the gallery upon each
visit, and he generally divided that sum in the practice of
pistol and rifle-shooting; in the use of the latter, it is
stated, he was much more expert than in the former. It
was also ascertained for a certainty that upon the occasion
of his last visit, he purchased of Mr. Green a dozen pistol
bullets, and the officers now have a ball of a corresponding
size in their possession.
The sword found in the prisoner's chest resembles a sci-
mitar, and the edges have been recently ground.
One important fact that has not yet been published is,
that a new mould far casting bullets was discovered at the
prisoner's lodgings, and was produced at the Home-office
in evidence against him.
The letters and treasonable papers found at the same
place bear no post mark.
Tho rules of the suppose-el society (twelve in number)
are of a most treasonable character, and are not printed,
but written on two sheets of foolscap, bearing a similar
water-mark to the Government paper.
It was thought by many that the prisoner had probably
written these documents himself, but such can be now
positively ,fated not to be the fact, his autograph having
been obtained from him, and on comparing it with the other
writing, it is found to differ most essentially.
Inspectors Pearce, Hughes, and Partridge, with Sergeant
Otway and other officers, were last night making every
exertion to find out the place where the " Young England
Society" was held.

About four o'clock yesterday his mother called at the
Home-office, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Phelps,
and the prisoner's uncle, Mr. INlarkwell, the proprietor of
the Ship Tavern, Talbot-court, Gracechurch-street. The
distressed relatives si,cceeded in obtaining an interview
with Mr. Phillips, the Under-Secretary of State, and har-
ing been privately closeted for some time, he handed her
an order for admission to see her son in Newg,,te.
The unhappy parent of Oxford states that her husband
died about twelve years since, and that during his lifetime
he evinced great irritability, which left litle doubt of the
occasional unsoundness of his mind. Upon one occasion, in
a fit of excitement, he cut the bedclothes up into shreds,
and on another he rode into his sitting-room on horse-
back. She says that at times she is afflicted with nervous
delusions, and she describes her son as an inoffensive and
affocConate child, and declares her belief that he com-
mitted the act in a boyish frolic, and that there were no
balls in the pistols at the time. The pistols, she says, he
brought home about a month ago, and one morning he held
one of them (empty) to her head, and threatened her in
a joke, which exceedingly alarmed her.
When Oxford descenued the steps of the Home-office
on Thursday, after the solemn investigation that had been
instituted, he laughed at some girls who were attend-
ing in the lobby as witnesses, and took off his hat
to :hem in triumph. His conduct, however, since
he has been in Newgate, has been altogether
changed. He has been low, and depressed in
spirits, and the Governor and Chaplain, who have been
unremitting in their attentions to him, have frequently
found him in tears. Upon inquiring the cause of his grief,
he is said to have replied, " I know my own life is gone ;
and that I care little about; but I am fearful that I shall
also sacrifice my mother's."

THE FOLLOWING IS THE COPY OF THE COMMITMENT OF

OXFORD.
[Seal of Office.l
" The Right Honourable Henry Constantine Marquis of
Normanby, one of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council, and Principal Secretary of State for the Home
Department, &c. &c.

These are in her Majesty's name to authorise and re-
quire you to receive into your custody the body of Edward
Oxford, sent you for high treason ; and you are to keep
him safe and close until be shall be delivered by due course
of law, and for so doing this shall be your warrant.
" Given under my hand and seal, at Whitehall, this 11th
day of June, in the year of our Lord 1840.
(Signed) " NORNIANBY.
" To the Keeper of her Majesty's Gaol of Newgate."

The orders given by Mr. Cope, the Governor of New-
gate, to the officers of the prison, were that they should ab-
stain from putting any questions except such as related to his
necessary wants. The only observations that are reported
to have fallen from Oxford in reference to his examina-
tion on Thursday were, that " they (meaning the official
authorities) had made quick work of it—that be thought
he should have been sent back for another examination ;
but, after all, perhaps, it was as well that it was over at
once, for they would get no more out of him." At a little
after nine o'clock he was locked up in one of the strong
cells—those usually allotted to prisoners convicted of ca-
pital felony,