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"."-''s---TAWDON:
SATTIRDAY, MAY 23, 1840.

In the Lords, after a considerable number of peti-
tions had been presented, the Insane Prisoners' Bill
Went through a Committee, with some alterations eug;-
gested by the Duke of RictemoND.
The Bishop of LLANDAFF, who once had the repu-
tation of being a better metaphysician than a church-
man, on presenting a petition for Church Extension;
declared that for one Christian establishment which
was formed, there were hundred: of an immoral cha-
racter. The Right Rev. Prelate, being provided with
the means of drinking wine, by the extorted produce of
the people's labour, intimated that beenhouses were
immoral establishments. He never drinks in them, and
therefore knows not their value or their character.
There is no reason why they may not be as Christian
As a Bishop's palace, at which nobody's thirst is gene-
rally quenched but that of lordly Prelates and their
retainers.
A short discussion took place as to rating stock in
Made to the poor, which was remarkable for a declara-
tion of Lord PORTMAN, that all the laws relating to this
foNject ought to be repealed, and all the property sub-
jeeeed to the rate set down in one Act, which sensible
xenotrk seemed to meet the general approbation of the
Leals ; but it will make sad havoc with their Lord-
abipepreViously passed and honoured laws.
rrh, House adjourned at a very early hour.
The Lough Foyle and Lough Swilly Bill was with-
drawn ill, the Commons.
Petitions were, as usual, numerous.
Notices were given by Mr. EASTIIOFE of a motion
on Church oates for June 2 ; by Lord Eeroe relative
to New Zealand on the 26th inst. ; by Mr. EwAwr
for the estabrahment of schools of design ; by Sir C.
LESION for papers relative to the Cape of Gond Hope ;
by Lord MOaPETII of a Bill to amend the Irish regis-
tration ; and by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL of a Bill, in-
stead of a clause in the Poor-law Act Amendment Bill,
to exempt stock in trade from Poor-rates.
Sir G. CLERN brought under the notice of the House
the circumstance that Mr. HoESMAN had accepted
office on the 18th. but had not vacated his seat till the
2l at.. As he got no particular satisfaction, he is to re-
peat his question on Tuesday.
Mr. AGLIONBY asked some questions about Mr.
FEARGUS O'CoNNOR, which drew from Mr. MAULE
the information that he was sent to York Castle by the
sentence of the Judges, with which the Homo-office
had nothing to do, and that Mr. O'CoNNoR would be
subjected to the rules of the Visiting Justices.
In reply to Lord SANDON, Mr. LAROUCHERE stated
that the rule followed by the Board of Trade was not to
grant any privileges to a Company for steam-boats
which could not be obtained for individuals.
In reply to Lord INGESTRIE, Admiral ADAM stated
that Government had received no official account of the
discovery of the North West passage.
Lord STANLEY, in moving the Order of the Day
for the Committee on his Bill, fixed the 4th of June
for the further discussion of it.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, after making some observa-
tions on the business of the House, said that be intended
to lay before the House, on Tuesday, his Bill for the
Registration of Voters ; and the Solicitor-General for
Ireland would move for leave to bring in a Bill relative
to the registration of voters in Ireland. and be should
',Press it an the House to decide which of the registration
Measures it would prefer. We are sorry to see the
Noble Lord taunted by the Tories into doing what he did
not intend immediately to do. The registration is not a
crying evil, and can wait. There are oilier evils of far
greater moment, of which the Gros-eminent has not yet
undertaken the cure. The zule-ct was closed by a
little squabble amongst the Irish 7,secrebers.
On the motion for the second reading of the Cus-
toms Duties Bill, Mr. HERRIES called attention to the
injustice that was do,e to the dealers in rough rice.
Mr. WenounToN objected to the timh'r duties.
Mr.WrwArds opposed thuall, us continuing an LIPjUSt
system of taxation, and moved that the Bill be read a
second time in tix nlontbs.
Mr. HUME seconded the motion, and complained
both of the system of taxation and of the extravagance
of the flovernment.
After a ,slebite, the second reading was corriel
by
107 to 15, the Tories voting fir taxation, and the Ra-
dicals veiling against it.
Nothing else of importance was done, and a'. half-
past eleven the House adjourned till Tuesday.

The Times of yesterday contained an account of
a pew contrivance, called by the strange name of

the " f;:r the protection of life and pro-
perty, from destruction by fire, thieves, or murde-
rers. It is described as a kind of clock, operated
on by strings or wires, and so sensitive, that at the
slightest disturbance of its mechanism, it begins to
strike an Alarum, and pouts forth for a quarter of an
hour a peal that would waken the soundest sleeper,
and frighten the most determined depredator. It
has also the extraordinary merit that its clapper is
set agoing on a considerable increase of tempera-
ture, so that it will warn the inmates of a house
and a neighbourhood against fire as well as against
thieves. We very much admire the ingenuity
manifested in the contrivance, but we deplore much
more the state of society which requires such pre-
cautions. The Indians, when engaged in war, and
obliged to watch lest they be scalped, trusting, as
they do, when assailed, to their own right arm for
protection, live not subject to more alarm and terror
than many of the inhabitants of London.
There are many houses in the metropolis which
shake throughout when any body moves heavily
in them, and in such houses, provided with a
Biophulax, a child could not tumble out of bed, nor
a person hasten unthinkingly down stairs in the
dark, without setting the Alarum in motion, and
waking all the inmates and all the neighbourhood
with the dread that they were at once to be robbed
and murdered. Such a cure is worse than the dis-
ease. It is buying security, if the Alarum can give
security, with worse evils than a condition of open
warfare.

Our Paper yesterday contained an abridgement
of the evidence given on the Coroner's inquest on
the gamekeeper who was shot by his master at
Roundhay. On that occasion the gamekeeper was
very near shooting his master and his fellow-ser-
vant, and three persons might have been sacrificed,
as one was, to the apprehension that the lives and
property of Mr. NICHOLSON and his family were
not in safety. The employment of a gamekeeper
or watchman to prowl about in the grounds and pre-
vent depredation, is another species of ALARUAI,
which may buy security at too dear a rate, and
may brine, on people the very worst evils they can
ever dread.

We scarcely extend the analogy too far when we
say that the armed police pacing through our streets
and scattered over the country, that the perpetual
interference of the Magistrates with the concerns of
individuals, that the numerous laws made to repress
and punish petty offences, and the sharp but costly
penalties appropriated to them, are another species
of ALARUM, constituting a mass of real evils greater
than the imaginary or merely apprehended evils they
are intended to prevent. At any rate these multi-
plied precautions, these cares by individuals and
the public to guard life and property—which are
not, at the same time, very successful—bespeak a
condition of society which demands serious investi-
gre ation. We live as if we were surrounded by our
enemies, and in a state of war. We are not as
brethren or fellows of one community—for the mem-
bers of the Same tribe of savages war not on each
other,—but we are as deadly foes, who can only be
kept from each other's throats by the sword of some
superior power.
Some persons, setting out from the notion that
the ALMIGHTY has created man weak and wicked,
conclude that the great increase of crimes of which
we complain is the result of the multiplication of
mankind. Such a notion is beat down by the cer-
tain fact, that man has grown more humane as
society has advanced, and has taught humanity to
the lawmakers themselves. Individual dependence
is the palpable result of the increase of population,
and that single change necessarily tends to extin-
guish the angry, arrogant, and bloodthirsty passions
which prevail amongst scattered savages.
With the increase of population, too, there has
grown up certain habits and certain inventions
which may be said to constitute a natural police.
The diversified occupations of civilized life send
abroad at all hours some of the honest and indus-
trious portion of the community. The mail coach
is always running ; the streets are no sooner de-
serted by those who go home after the business or
pleasures of one day, than they are occupied
by those who crowd to the markets to sup-
ply the wants of the neat. The houses are
no sooner closed which are required by
those who labour or take pleasure in the evening,
than others are opened to do some kind service
for those who commence their work with the dawn.
The compositors, reporters, and editors of the Morn-
ing Papers, as they retire to rest, meet bricklayers
and milk-girls going to their early labours. In con-
junction with this succession of the industrious and
honest classes who never wholly desert our streets,
the invention of gas supplies us with a perpetual
light, so that civilized man lives, as it were, under
an ever-watchful eye. He is rarely shrouded in
darkness, rarely in solitude, and unless it can be
supposed that the great majority of society are
scoundrels, which is incompatible with its continu-
ance, all these circumstances, which are attendant
on an increase of population, are favourable to vir-
tue and favourable to the security both of person
and property.
This continual presence of the honest and indus-
rious classes in every place constitutes a kind of
natural police. Besides this the line of roads con-
fining individuals to certain places, the turnpike
gates through which they must pass, or the rail-
way station whither they must go to proceed to any
distant spot, all supply what may be called natural
facilities for knowing whence persons come and
whither they go, so as to prevent evasion. They
compel rogues to travel in honest company ; they
almost make them give an acount of themselves ;
thee keep a register, as it were, of travellers, and
serve to detect a vil lain or prevent his escape. We
do but glance at circumstances, many of which
every man may trace for himself, for they fall un-
der every man's observation, which seem to rebut
the opinion that the great increase of crimes which
plagues society is caused by the increase of people.
'What, then, may be asked, is the cause? We
may be unable to find it out, though able to
prove that some of the causes usually assigned are
erroneous. We will not, however, begin such an
investigation at the tail of a long article. We will
conclude as we began, by putting it to our readers
whether the supposed security to be obtained by
alarums, prowling gamekeepers, armed policemen,
meddling Magistrates, and all our present cumbrous
and not very successful contrivances, be not real
evils, equal in magnitude to our worst appre-
iensions ?

The analysis we offered to our readers on Tues-
day, which reduced the element of offence in all
libel cases to damage done to some indivi-
duals, forced us to conclude that the only per-
sons who could possibly be injured by what is
called a blasphemous libel are the priests ; and they
are only injured, in so far as their authority may
be weakened by attacks on the doctrines they
teach. It also forced the conclusion on us, that
the law was required to uphold the authority of the
priesthood. We beg our readers will connect this
with the demand of the priesthood for Church Ex-
tension. First, the State builds up and endows
the Church ; next, it enlarges it ; and, thirdly, it
punishes those who speak against the authority of
the priesthood. It is clear, therefore, that the 1
Anglican priesthood and their Church have no
other foundation to rest on, no other hold of the
hearts and affections of the people, than the de-
crees of the Parliament.
However much some persons may boast of that
Church, it is only a bastard kind of Papacy. It was
put together out of the fragments of Romanism, as
they w ere spared by the Royal authority. It was
modelled after the Roman Catholic Church, and
retains many of its most reprobated features. For
example, that striking feature, which Mr. HUME'S
amendment makes so manifest, of the superior
orders of the priesthood wasting the wealth of the
Church while the work is done by badly paid infe-
riors, was very prominent in the Roman Catholic
Church before the Reformation, and still is in those
countris where it yet prevails in anything like its
pristine splendour. That feature seems very early to
have attracted the attention of Church Reformers
in England, though it has since grown more ugly than
ever, for the following description of it occurs in
the third volume of Homes History in speaking
of the reign of HENRY IV.:---

The Commons were not discouraged by this re-
pulse, in the eleventh of the King they returned
to the charge with more zeal than before. They
made a calculation of all the ecclesiastical revenues,
whi.h, by their account amounted to 485,000 marks a-
; yeor, and contained 18,400 ploughs of land. They prc-
., posed to divide this property among fifteen new Earle,
1 500 Knights, 6,000 Esquires, and 100 hospitals, besides
20,000/. a-}car which the 'Ong might takf. for his own
use ; and they insi:,;ted that the tier ical
,functions would he
better performed than at present, by 15 000 parish priesN,
paid at the rate of seven marks a piece 01 yeartu stipend,
1 This application was accompanied with an adclres for

mitigating the stAutes enacted against the LoHarris, whi,:h
shows from what source the address came. The King
gave the Commons a severe reply; and further to satisfy
the Church, and to prove that he was quite in earnest, he
ordered a Lollard to be burned before the dissolution of
Parliament."

This is an exact picture of the present circum-
stances of the priesthood. All their duties might be
performed, as the Commons in the time of HENRY
IV. thought, for the fourth part of their revenue ;
but the cormorants of the Church then swal-
lowed up three-fourths of that which was set apart
for the religions instruction of the people, and
~neo-
let-d their duties ; for the Commons said the
e, -
cle-
rical functions would be better performed by abolish-
ing the rich benefices and reducing the scale of
emolument to a Presbyterian simplicity. Nor is the
feature of persecution wanting. Change but the
burning of a Lollard into an imprisonment for a
libel, and the circumstances are exactly the same.
If not the QUEEN, yet the Ministers, to show that
they are in earnest, as they must be after the
Bishop of EXETER'S address, have burned th :ir
Lollard before the dissolution of Parliament.

The House of Commons by its recent decisio n
in the cases of Ludlow and Cambridge, issuing
writs in the face of proved corruption and bribery,
invited a repetition of those infamous practices, and
its invitation has been promptly accepted. Both
Ludlow and Cambridge, we can state on excellent
authority, have been carried by bribery, and evi-
dence sufficient of the fact has been obtained to
warrant a petition to Parliament in each case.
The Tories will not be allowed to occupy their
seats uncontested, but should they be unseated,
the House of Commons, so tender of offences
which touch Hon. Members—though so angry about
a little imaginary corruption in Ireland, will no
doubt again treat the offence as venal, and not
think of disfranchising the corrupt electors. It
gives us great satisfaction to hear, and we hope
it will be proved, that the Retormers in both cases
resolutely refused to buy a single vote ; for it is
better to lose all, save honour, than to lose honour,
the fountain of all moral victories. We ate not
indeed surprised at the conduct of the Tories. To
their agents, who run no risk, the contests
are a golden harvest ; to themselves, if they
gain, the result is a rich reward. A few
corrupt scoundrels in one or two boroughs
may now decide the majority in the House of Com-
mons, and one or two corrupt Members in the
House of Commons may decide the momentary fate
of the empire ; so that the whole nation, unless the
honest portion of the population bestir themselves,
and put down the shameful corruption, is at the
mercy of a few knaves in Parliament and out of
Parliament.

The Mon tear of Thursday, which we have re-
ceived, together with the other Paris Journals of
the sar,:e date, contains the following telegraphic
despatch from French Africa :
TOIMON, MAY 20, 1840.
TENIAII DE MOUZAIA, MAY 13.
'MARSHAL VALLEE TO THE MINLSTER CF WAR.

The pass of Mouzaia was carried yesterday by the army,
after a brilliant engagement with all the troops of Abd-el-
kader.
The army is now constructing the road which is to lead
to Mcdeah.
Our losses have not been censidt:rable.

The Princes are in good health.
By occupying the pass of Mouzaia the French
army shuts out the Arabs from the plain of Mitidja.
It is the only pass of the mountains of the lesser
Atlas; is 3,000 feet above the level of the sea; of
rugged and difficult approach ; and at the summit
not quite 400 yards wide. This pass was thrice
before in the possession of the French, but for some
reason or other to us inexplicable they neglected to
fortify it. The first occupation of it was by Mar- i
shal CLAUSEL in IS3I, at a cost of 200 men
killed ; after which it was successively crossed by
Generals BOYER and BERTHEZENE. The Na-
tional, in commenting upon this despatch, recom-
mends the removal of Marshal VALLEE, but dis-
approves of replacing him by Marshal CLAUSEL.
VVe entirely agree with our -Gallican contemporary,
Marshal CLAUSEL is not fit to be trusted with the
civil administrative functions of any colony. All
the world knows him to be a brave soldier, but his
past career in Africa must ever blast his preten-
sions to the honest administration of the duties of a
Governor.
The Bank of France's Charter Renewal Bill
was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies on Wed-
nesday. On Thursday the Chamber proceeded to
vote it article by article, and when the post left
Paris the following eight articles had been agreed to :
Art. 1. The privilege granted to the Bank of Frazee,
by the laws of the 24th Germinal, year 11, and 22d April,
1806, is prolonged to the 21st December, 1867. it may
however, cease or be modified on the 31st December, 1855,
if so ordered by a law voted in one of the two Sessions pre-
ceding that period.
Art. 2. The capital of the Bank of France, represented
by the sum of 67,900 shares, of I,ooof. each, cannot be
increated or diminished, except by an express law.
Art. 3. All public securities in France shall be consi-
dered a sufficient guarantee, as provided by Art. 12 of the
decree of January, 1808.
Art. 4. The Bank discounts shall be continued every
day, with the exception of Sundays and holiday s.
Art. 5. The Minister of Finance shall publish a quar-
terly statement of the average affairs of the Bank, and
every six months a detailed account of the operations dur-
ing that period.
Art. 6. The discount offices of the Bank of France
cannot be suppressed, except by royal ordonnance, or at
the request of the general council.
Art. 7. The Bank shall be authorised to make certain
modifications in accordance with the decree of the 18th of
May, 1808.
Art. 8. No prOvincial bank can be established withou
an express law for that purpose, and the banks now cx-
stine•b cannot obtain an extension of their privilege, ex-
ceptby a special law.
The Toulon Correspondent of tho Connizerce

states that the Lamer steamer, arrived on the
night of the 16th inst., from Naples, with im-
portant despatches, which were instantly forwarded
to Paris. It is rumoured that the KING was as
averse as before to the payment of an indemnity to
Great Britain, and it was thought that the media-
tion of France would prove unavailing. Three
English ships of war, and one French ship of the
line sere off Naples, watching the progress of the
negotiations.
tLetters from the Spanish frontier state that
CABRERA has thrown himself into Morella.

BOIRISE.—PARIS, TiIUIISDAY, MAY 21,
t irst liiighest Lowest Last
Price l'rice. Price Price
'rend) 5 per Centc ll5 (if)... 115 75 ... 115 50 ... 115 15
4),4 per cents._ lll 5J ... 111 50 ... 111 50 ... 111 50
4 per Cents lO5 ... )95 ... 105 ... it
3 per Cents B4 90 _. 81 90 ... BI SO ... 8-1 90
Bank of France 3395 ...3450 ...2395 ...315,1
Laltitte. Bank 1,0001. Sh llOO ...110C ...MO ...1110
5,090 f. Sh 52,1) ...5202 50 ...52 ,3 ..5.2.:,./ s'l
Belgian Bank 9.2 50 ... 905 ... 1102 50 ... 95)5
b per Cents 10334 ... 10.1 g. ... 103 ... 1031,4
3 uer Cents 75 75 ... 79 ... 75 75 ... 70
New York 92 5 ... 92 5 ... 92 5 ... 92 5
Ohio 10.3 10 ... 10:3 10 ... 103 It) ... 103 10
State of New York
United. States Bank Loan 9B ... 93 ... 93 ... 93
Dutch 2% per Cents 54t.; ... .51,-; ... 5156 ... 54,.;
Siniitish Active 29t4 ... 2934 ... '..i1),,‘ ... 9?..
Passive 7% ••• 7% ••• 7% ... ;%
Neapolitan
1101nar 103)., ... 1t3% ... 1C35 ... 10„;
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, It. B l'4s ... 575 ... 570 ... 570
L.B. 3Bl 25 ... :81 25 ... `.8!) ... .51 95
Orleans .. NB 75 ... 5151 ... bi,B 75 ... 510
Hontpellier to Cette
B.rasburc, to Bale 4ll 25 ... 411 25 ... 411 '25 ... 411 25
____

German and Brussels Papers of the late4t uates
have reached us. In a letter from Galatz, in Wal-
lachia of the 2d inst., we find a further confirmation
of the destruction of nine of the Russian garrisons
on the Circassian coast. Only two remained, and
they were menaced by 20,000 gallant mountaineers,
burning with vengeance against the invaders of their
country.- The EMPEROR had ordered 10,000
troops to be embarked at Odessa to defend Anapa
and Soudjouk Kale—all that now remains of the
Circassian conquests of the Autocrat :
BERLIN, May 14.—His Excellency, the Minister of
State, Von Altenstein, died this morning at one o'clock,
after
l incurable.sufferingong from a disorder which his infirmities
rendered The Minister, Von Nayler, and the
Master of the Household, Von Sehilden, were present at
his last moments. He was not fully seventy years of age.
HAMBURGII, MAY 17.—Count WOTORZOW and family '
' have arrived here from St. Pctcrsburgh.
BIMILIN, MAY 17.—M. Herman Henoch has published
a notice in one of the journals that domiciliary visits bad
been made in his house, and that of his father and other
re!atives in Bcrlia and Giessen, at the instauce of the
examining judge at Bonn, under the pretext of his having
abstracted affects to the value of $6,000 from the estate of
A. H. Welff, bankrupt at Bonn. fie declares that he shall
take legal proceedings against the author or authors of this
measure, and against all those who propagated false reports
respecting him and his family.
General Von Borstell has obtained his discharge from
the Prussian service, with the rank of Field Ma.t EL
HAMEURGII, MAY 19.—The Duke of Brunswick sm, out
on the 13th, for southern Germany, and perhaps will go to
I'alV• He will be several months absent.
The Estates of Brunswick are adjourned to the Ist cf
January.
The issue of paper currency has been rejected.
burgh Papers, May 19.
FROM TILE WESER, MAY 10.--- The Magistrates of the
town of Hameln have app!ie;l to the German Diet, rc-
questing it to be rleascd to issue an interpretation of its
resolution of the S•J-1 of September, 1830, and to declare
whether by this resolution the constitution of the year

1819 is to be recognised as the sole valid foundation of
the laws in the kingdom of Hanover, and in consequence,
the abolition of the constitution of September 20, 1833„ to
be considered as having legal force ; or whether the said
resolution Was. not intended to decide on the validity of
either constitutions.
OELG lAN EU NDS--iBRUSSELS, MAY 5.'0.
Actual Debt, 'A', per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant •ll2lfi
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
---------- 3 per Cent. 71,14
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent —
Society of Commerce, ilYiper Cent llO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent B3
National Seciety ....
Exchange on Londola (short)
—Brussels Papers, May 20.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MAY 16.
Bals. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares -
An .10-Itussian Lea!, • Into% iO9 1.,
Rossi: 11 5 per Cent. Ist bertes, Certificate
Inseription, Ist Seriei lO2
Rusrian 5 per Cent. Hop. and Co. &l and 4th
Sefics — 9:-.144
Ditto in Certificates - gig, 0:--11
Dutch Actual Debt, 21;, per Cent 52.'
Ditto 5 per Cent 'il)
Pons') Bonita
Nog ''icket
Anglo- 04trisli Loan, 3 per Ceti,
Norwegian Lean, 1s:14, 4 per Cent... ......
Spanish, New 1 per Cents.... ..•..... ....a 21)4
EXCHANGES (..7 LONDON.
HAN/BURG, MAY 1,.--13. sk—Two months, 13 4.
PETEIISISURGII, MAY 8.---Two months, 3'44 pence
STOCKHOLM, WAN* 12.—Seventy-five days, 12, it!,
CiIItISTIANiA. MAY It—Three months, 4 LO.
LEIPSIC. MAY I\—Two mo ths, C. 1334.
Beau:4, MAY 16,-Three months, 6. WA. .
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIEZiIIA, MAY 12.
five per Cents. Metailiques
Fear per Cents.
Three par Cents. . S 2 y,
Bank Shares .....,.. ..........
—Allgemeine Zritung, May 17

REPRESENTATION OF WESTMINSTER.—This popu-
lous borough, which long made such a noise in the
political world, and was alike remarkable for riots, con-
tested elections, and violent, sometimes eloquent, repre-
sentatives, h-ie since the Reftirm Bill almost sunk into-,
obscurity. For years it has been treated by its Repre-
sentatives like an old rotten borough. They go and
come as they please---.-vote or not as suits. their conve-
nience, and the gentle end accommodating electors take
all in good part. 8ef0...e Burdett threw off his old Ra-
d:cal mantle and declared himself a Tory, he was absent
from the House Session after Session. Ccl. Evans at
the same time performed his Parliamentary duty in
Spain, and when a question of vital importance to the
sister kingdom was decided against the Liberal party the
other night. The Gallant Representative of Westmin-
ster was again abroad on pleasure, or personal affairs.
and the borough left to shift with one Member.
Lord Howick and Mr. C. Wood are not, it is said,
wholly lost. They showed strong signs of shame after
the division, from which it is inferred that they may yet
repent. Instead of walking boldly and erect out of the
House, which might be expected of men who had fought
a good fight and gained a great victory, they sneaked
up through the gallery and so stoic away from the cheers
which awaited them. Tory honours sit ill on the brow
of a Grey, and the Representative of the Reformers of
Halifax could not brave the frowns of the Reformers of
the House of Commons. We can, on same occasions,
readily excuse a staunch Reformer like Mr. Swynfen
Jervis for not voting with the Ministers, but the division
on Lord Stanley's motion was on a question of principle.
The most determined Radicals who have on other oc-
casions voted against the Ministers, such as Mr.
Leader and Sir William Molesworth, voted with them,
and it was not creditable in Mr. Jervis to have walked
out of the House. The Hon. Member is a votary of
the muses, hut he ought not to allow. than to carry
him off from the service of his constituents.
The leading articles in the Morning Journals are
destitute of interest except to those personally con-
cerned. Recrimination and abuse are the prevailing
themes. The Times sneers at Ministers for not resign-
ing—the Chronicle abuses the Secretary of the Society
for the Protection of Agriculture for putting forth a
dishonest document—the Morning Post denoimces Mr.
Horsmen es " a thorough place-hunting back"—the
.tiforning, Advertiser attacks mercilessly the whole mo-
derate clergy in Scotland, as they would, if they could,
be the " ruin of the Kirk"—and the Morning Herald
calls the Globe a " ministerial Zany," " the dullest of
Daily Journals," " the afflicted and grinning Globe,"
and the political " Jerry Abershaw."

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.--The trans-
actions this week are light, the demand continuing mode-
rate ; but as there had not been much disposition to press
saps, prices of American descriptions have remained
pretty steady. In Brazil there is a further decline of id. per
lb., and for Surat it is difficult to obtain last k's
quotations. At public auction to-day 1,236 Sea Islands
were offered, and 162 Surat; but as buyers were not dis-
posed to give the previous current rates (though since the
sale a few of the lots have been sold upon that scale) only
90 of the former were sold, at 121 d. to 184 d. and 20 of the
latter at 6a. to Bid. The Surat (230 bales) were taken in at
40. being bid. Exporters have taken 2,500 Mu-
rcia), and reeculators 2,000 bales. 2,400 bales of Surat
(Madras) are declared for auction on Friday, June 5.
The sales to-day arc about 4,000 bales of all kinds.

The Hamburgh mail has arrived of the date of the 19th
of May. Exchange on London 13 51 short. Gold has
get up to 431, being 2s. higher than the last arrival.
Metalliques 1088, Bank Shares 1,855.
" The Second Chamber of the States General adopted
yesterday evening the Budget of Expenses by 32 votes
against 22, and that of Ways and Means by 33 against 21.
The debates were very long,"
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MAY 19._The vote of the
Budget had a favourable effect on the national funds, and
most of the prices were higher, and remained firm. The
actions of the Society of Commerce were rather flat,
owing to several sales being made, which caused them to
fall from 1811 to 1801. The receding of these funds pre-
vented that of the National from getting up at the closing
of the bourse. The prices continued firm, and it is ex-
pected that the adoption of the Budget will have a favour.
able influeneelon the Foreign Funds. Ardouins remain
without any variation. Dutch Funds, Two and-a-Half
per Cents. 514 ; Five per Cents. 100 346:

THE FUNDS.
Consols are not quite so good as they left off yesterday.
at 921 i, for the Account; at present 92i- both for Mo-
ney and the Account; for the July Account, 93 to 93i;
Exchequer Bills, 23 25 prom ; India Bonds, 2 4 prem. ;
Bank Stock, 176 177 ; India Stock, 251 253;-.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active a little better,
25.8- :1,, ; Diferred, 13. a 0; Passive, 711,- it; Portuguese, 35+ A:
Three:per Cents., 24* i ; Colombian, 26.1 iii; Mexican.
31i 32i : Brazilian, 7.5 i 76 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 5441 i; Five per Cents., 1011 i.
Shares, Real del Monte, 3i 6:1; (,rest Western, 20-
27i prom ; London and Brighton, 41; 4 die. ; Blackv:all,
2i prem. ; Birmingham, 86 88 prem, ; Southampton, 521
53i per share.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 1761 I India Stock ... ...... ..• -
3 per Cent.lled 9lii Ditto Bonds ...... 31 4 pm.
3 per Cents. Con. -
3i per Cent. -
Ditto !led ' 99E1 100 New Ditto -
New 31i per Cent. loli 1 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 -
New 5 per Cent. - Exch. 8i115,1,000/. ... 25 pm.
Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto ...... 500/. ... 25 pin.
Jan. 5, 1860... 13 13-161 Ditto Small ...... ... 25 pm.
Oct. 10, 1859....13 11-16 k Ditto Commercial
Jan. 5, 1860. ..... 14 Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, 1880. - Bank Stock for Acct... -
April 5, 1880. ... - India Stock for Acct... 253
Jan. 5, 1870.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Augtritin Bonds - Peruvian Bond, . . -
Belgian Bonds - Ditto Account -
Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds -
Brazilian Bonds - Ditto New Bonds ... -
Ditto Account -
Buenos Ayres Bonds - Ditto, 3 per Cent ... -
Ditto Aceount - Ditto Account 24;
Cbilian Bonds - Prussian Bonds ..... ..• -
Ditto Account - Russian Bonds, 1822 ... -
Columbian Bonds - Ditto Account -
Ditto Account. - Ditto Melanie ...... -
Columbian Bonds, 1824 - Spanish Bonds .. 2.Stli
Ditto Account - Ditto Account 28.4
Danish Bonds ••• 794 , Passive
Ditto Acc0unt........ - Defer rod l3ia
Greek Bonds ... ......... -- French,s per cent... -f. _c,
Ditto Bonds, 1825.... - —7- 4 per cent-. -f. -c.
Ditto Acc0unt......... - 3 per cent... -f. --c•
51exicanBonds,5 per cent Exchange..
271 Dutch, 2i per cer: -. f.
.54.14.
Ditto Account ...... ...Ditto Account
Ditto 5 per cent 544
Ditto,6 per Cent...... . -
- Ditto'Account
Ditto Account ...... ...
- 101
Neapolitan ............. .
PRICES OF SHARES A
THIS DAY TO.
THIS
s. d. NE
Paid. Per Share.
RAILWAYS.
to
Hull and Selby. ............... ...... 40_ ....
3307 i,
London and Brighton ............ .
6350 ..... -2- ... to 30
84 -
Manchester and Leeds ..••••••••
JOINT STOCK BANKS. .
---
Australasia .......................... tt!) .......... 60
45
to -
Provincial of Ireland ............... . .
r) HSI, 01, EXCHANOK 2 k..Y i'mulAy,
co- --- • 4 1 o ibra:::. ..
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ditto, at :iight ..............
1,2
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~...............:::..%
25
75
Rotta.krr.....• ............ 12 4y, i Milan ... ...1., ...., ~ :0!
Antwerp... .................. 13 12 Venice ,... ..... ~......•••, 47
Alliatrotu.r..g. .. :::::::.. .......... 2153 4320 • }4llN'azilc"rmi" o ...
Paris, 3 dayesight .... iis. •25 f 6 Limcn ...,...................„ .„, '54 61
,1:11-11rt.coe.i.i.iel....
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.. 2.1 9 I 0igrita0n.e.1.1.,..........: ..... •,.'••4 - 4 Vi 1. v
Bounteous ............... ...
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Frankfort on Main,,,pisl'.7-311r i ieuosAyel, .
~...., g 3
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17.1
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........................ .............. ........ ..
~t_lii. Ii l'.,li.lpC Portage.l' .ti, 1
i.:.,,,1.t 131,1:::),./.2t.t:z%::iv-e4 t.,: 4
6% tit CAT nembLiti,23 • ......,.. !I t I I,
i r.ign t•-• 1 ••!uais... 3 17 10%
CAdiz..... ..................... 1-i_ _
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Barcelona ....... ... ....... ~m.
Seville ................... auxs Silver --. .:.;its
-....-..."*". 0 5 ii
HALF-PAST ONE.

Money, which was very scarce in the course of
afternoon of yesterday, and lent at 6,7, and 8 per cent.,
may be obtained this morning in the House at 5 to öf per
cent.
The only feature worth noticing i
sn the Consol Market,
to the prescnt time, is a sale of mall amount of NeW
Three-and-a-Half per Cents, ; in other respects it has
been a blank day for speculation. The weather being
thin of its members, who are
fine, the House is getting
retiring into the country.
Consols may be quoted at one o'clock for the 26th inst.,
at 92 ; foi-- Money 94; Exchequer Bills, 25,3,5 prem. ;
,
India- Bonds, 3,1, 4 prem. ;• Bank Stock, 1764 ; India
Stock, 2531.
In the Forbign Market, little doing. Spanish Aetivi.'t
284 ; Deferred. 13N ; Passive, 7-4-; Portuguese Three
per Cents„ ;
-Brazilian 76 ; Mexican,,24; Dutch
Two•atid.a-Half per Cents., 544; Five per Cents., 1011.

BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.)

THE MURDER OF LORD WM. RUSSELL.
RE-EXAMINATION OF COURVOISIER.

This morning the examination of Francois Benjamin
Courvoisier, charged with the wilful murder of his master,
Lord William Russell, was le3umed.

Mr. HALL, the Magistrate, took his seat upon the Bench
shortly after ten o'clock, and the prisoner was almost im-
mediately afterwards placed at the bar. He appeared pale
but collected, and more firm than yesterday.
Mr. Nobler, assisted by Mr. Wing, the Solicitor to the
Duke of Bedford, attended as usual for the prosecutor,
and Mr. Flower for the prisoner. There were several gen-

amen on the Bench, among: whom we -observed the Earl

•
of Clarendon and the Earl of Mansfield. The Court was
quite as crowded as on any former occasion.
Before the prisoner was placed at the bar,
Mr. l-losler handed a sealed letter to the Magistrate,
which he stated hid been left at Lord William Russell's,

addressed to the prisoner.
Mr. HALL (handing the letter to Mr. Flower) said
that it was not desired to read any private communication,

but under the circumstances it would be advisable that

some person should be with the prisoner when he opened
it. It appeared genuine, as it had the foreign post-mark.
Mr. Flo.aer assented to this arrangement.
The first witness edited was Inspector Pearce, r: divi-
sion of police—l went to Lord Wm. Russell's on the 6th
May. I went into his Lordship's bedroom with"lnspector
Tedman, and saw his Lordship dead. I then went down
stairs; and saw the prisoner in the parlour. He was pointed
out to me. I asked him if he was the valet, and he said

yes. I then went to the pantry ; the door of the safe was
pointed out to me by Inspector Tedman as having
been broken open. I then examined it, and
saw the mark of two implements that had been used to
force it open, one v.as a pointed instrument, and the other
a large round mark, which appeared as it the round instru-
ment had been put into wrench the door open; it had in-
jured the wood, and had left a round black mark on it. I
found on a bench in the pantry the screw-driver produced,
and I applied the point of it to the mark in the wood, and
it fitted the mark with the greatest nicety. It was on the
following morning ( Thursday) that I found these things
so the pantry. I then found in the fire-place in the same
room, near the safe, the tongs produced, and I compared
the point of the tongs with the round mark I have
described, which also fitted. There are four drawers in
the same safe, the top one of which was also broken open.
There is a mark of an instrument having been applied be-
tween the drawer and the frame, just in the centre of the
drawer, and the chisel produced 1 applied to the mark, and
the chisel will make such a mark, but I cannot speak so
positively. The chisel I found on a bench in the same
room on the evening of Wednesday. On Wednesday I.
noticed the back area door, and saw that great violeace
had been used to it, but examined it on the following morn-
ing. The door is a common ledge door, and there are
two bolts, one at the top and the other at the bottom.
I noticed that the socket of the top bolt was
hanging by one nail ; the upper nail and another nail
I found on the ground near the door ; it was bent, as it
appears now. The bottom bolt was rusted in so that it
could not be moved to bolt the door with, and on examin-
ing that socket I found that it had been started recently
from its position by some instrument put into the socket,
and force had been used from within to wrench it off.
There was the mark of the point of a blunt instrument on
the door post, about half an inch beyond the socket. There
had evidently been some instrument applied to the upper
socket, and it had been so applied when the door was
open. On putting the door to and bolting it at the
tea, there was a space of about lull an inch from
the bolt to the wood work, so that the bolt could not touch
the weed; but there were maths of great pressure on the
wood, the woad havinar been driven back under the socket,
and at the edge of the door Test, in a line with it, the
wood being indented. It was evidently recently done, the
wood being fresh, and 'there was a black mark which ep-
peered to have been made by the instrument used to wrench
the socket off the doer. It had evidently been applied
several times. The masks mut have been made by some
person from the inside ; • it is impossible they could
have been made from the outside. Such an in-
strument as the poker produced, and which I found in the
butler's pantry in the fire-place would have made such
marks. It is now produced in precisely the state in
which I found it. It is bent and cracked, and it appears
to have been recently done, as the fracture seems bright.
I then examined the outside of that door, and there were
a great many marks outside, from the top of the door and
door post to the bottom ; evidently near the bottom bolt
' there had been cutting. The wood was cut away by some
instrument, such as a screw-driver. Those marks corre-
spond with each other; they all aepear to hare been pro.
duced by the same instrument at the same time, and
they were all equally fresh. When the door is bolted,
it does not fit close— there is a space of a quarter of an inch
between the door and the rabbeting. The hammer I now
produce, which I found in the cupboard in the pantry, if
placed with the claws between the door and the door-post,
on pressing the handle down, fits into the marks exactly.
Near the bottom of the door-post in the rabbeting I saw
the marks of an instrument. That instrument must have
been applied from the outside when the door was closed,
as there were marks of paint being knocked off the edge
of the door. That mark could not have been made from
the outside, if the bottom holt had been bolted,

the mark being so far in. I compared the screw-
driver
produced, of which I spoke before, to the
mark last spoken of, and it exactly fitted it.
By Mr. HALL—I noticed all these marks on the Wed-
nesday, but did not examine them minutely until the
Thursday. Tho prisoner was present on one oceac.ion for
about a minute during the examination, but he made no
observation, and I said nothing to him.
By Mr. flobler—He was sufficiently near to see what I
was doing. On the Thursday I made a general search.
I asked the prisoner where the plat. found in the passage
was taken from, and he pointed out a cupboard in the
drawing-room. I asked him what money his • Lordship
had, and he said his Lordship had had a hl. note, and Pa
101. note a few days before, in a pocket. He told me how
long he had lived with his Lordship, and who he had pre-
viously lived with. He also told me there were rings
missing, which his Lordship was in the habit of wearing.
He did not describe them. I, on the Friday afternoon,
examined the prisoner's boxes up stairs, and his roem.
Police Constable Shaw wits with me. There was a port-
manteau, a square deal box, and tome drawers, and a
carpet bag. I turned every thing out, and examined
every thing 'minutely, but I found nothing in theM to
excite my attention. I examined the portmanteati, and.
found nothing there to excite my attention. I searched
generally throughout the room. I saw shirts, but lam
not positive whether I unfolded each thoroughly. • I sass
dirty linen there. I examined ail I saw,•and there was no
mark. I threw the things I examined on the bed. Soon
after that the prisoner was brought up into that room. I
saw him putting the things back into the boxes. A con-
stable was in the room with him when I left. I had looked

at some clothes before that, but bad not made any search.
I had been in the room, and looked about it first. I corn.
maim.' a minute search of that part of the premises on the
Friday morning, between nine and ten o'clock. The
prisoner had before told me the pantry was his room. I
went there with some workmen, and ordt red them to take
up the drains. Constables Sbaw and Cronin were with
me, and I commenced the search of the pantry. I first
examined the floor and the skirting round the room near
the side of the fire-place. Near the sink is an angle which
is formed by the two pieces of skirting board now, pro.
duccd. At the edge of one of these pieces I observed

hat the mortar hadbeen disturbed. I int my fingers in-

side the board at that place; with asudlden jerli the piece of
skirting board came away in my hand, and I saw
the purse produced behind the skirting under the
sink, and about two inches in. Collier, the police
constable then came into the room, and I directed his
attention and that of the other constable to it. I then took
the purse out in the same state in which it is now produced.
I examined it and found it to contain five gold rings, five
gold coins or medals, one wrapped up in paper, and a bit of
sealing wax. I saw a ribbon, and on taking away the other
piece of skirting-board I found a Waterloo medal attached
to the ribbon, which I now produce. Further on behind
the skirting 1 found a lot note; it was folded up in a
square form. It Li marked H U, 41,447, 4 January, 1840.
Having found these things I took them up into the
parlour, where I saw the prisoner. I laid them open
before him as they now appear. I said, I have found
this property concealed in your pantry, behind the
skirting board. He said I know nothing about them. I
am innocent. My conscience is clear. I never saw the
medal before. He said nothing with regard to the note.
I took him down with me, and pointed out to him the
place where I had found these things. He said, I know
nothing of it ; I am innocent. The prisoner remained in
tire pantry some time with us. We continued our search,
and, behind a water-pipe by the side of the wall which rums
behind and above the safe, at the height of about sown
feet, I found the gold splitting now produced. The pri.
tamer had left the room before I found it. The prisoner
was then taken up into his bed-room, and an officer and I
searched him. I found a small gold locket (now pro.
duced) upon him, a bunch of keys, and about ha, in
silver. The locket and silver were in his right hand
trousers pocket. I cannot say if they were the same
trousers he had on on Wednesday. When I took the
locket up the prisoner said " That is mine." I left the
prisoner up-stairs, went down, and continued my search,
but found no more property in the pantry. There were
other officers searching there as well as myself.
By• Mr. HAI.L—I did not tell the prisoner I had found
the split ring. I believe that the keys belonged to the
house. His Lordship's name is on one of the riags. I
continued my search of the house, but found nothing further.
Mr. Flower declined asking witness any questions.,
George Collier, police-constable, 38 E---I was at Lord
William Russell's house on Wednesday and Thursday, 6th
and 7th of May. I went on Wednesday about two o'clock
and found the doors es described by Inspector Pearce, and
agree with him in thinking that many of the marks must
have been produced by force from within. I had seen
them before Inspector Pearce came; they were in the
Same state then as afterwards. I examined them all mi-
nutely. I assisted in searching the pantry on the Friday
with Mr. Pearce. I saw him take down the boards, and
find the articles in the manner which he has described. I
also saw him find the split ring. That same afternoon I
was sitting in the pantry with the prisoner for three or four
hours, while Mr. Pearce made a further search. I asked
the prisoner if those were his Lordship's rings which Mr.
Pearce had found. He told me they were, and his Lord-
ship wore them yesterday.
Mr. HALL—That cannot be.
Witness—So he stated to me. They were hie own
table words. I then asked him where his Lordship put them
when
he tookthetmoidoffmact right.
d Hodtohled
usedm to keep l
me on
a abe in
his
his bed-room. I asked him if his He Lordship had a gold
finals upon it I tlten said it was a most shocking thing,
lie said, It is. I am innocent of it ; but it would tot 10 k
so bad against me had not the property been forted in my
• pantry. I said it was very suspicious. his said te shou d
.1 say nothing until the last, until he heard if the whole truth
was told, That was all the conversation that took place.-

I then took him up stairs and saw Mi. Pearce search
him. (During 'the time the witness 'was detailing this
conversation the- prisoner coloured up, .and- appeared
fidgetty and slightly agitated.):, ,The next morning I
searched the pantry with Shaw, and behind a water.pipe
by the side of a plate-rack over a sink in .the sclliery
which leads out of the pantry, .1 :Mind the seal produced.
It has a white stone, engraved With a cept of .arms. I
foiled it against the wall, by the side of the leaden pipe,
fixed in the plate-rack and Wall. It was concealed.

I pulled it out with my finger, without removing the pipe.
It could not be found without a Minute seorch. This was
in the scullery, behind another leaden pipe, which' leads
from the,-pantry to the scullery. I found the seal-ring
produced. It is bent just as I found it. The bonded part
was down, pressed behind the pipe. The hoop of it. I
should consider the pressing' it down behind the pipe
would cause the hoop to bend. It was in rather light.
We coutimued the search, and found nothing until the
Wednesday following, when I told tlte plumber to take
up the flooring of the pantry, and under the second board,
I.:.ar the scniiery.door, I save the plumber pull up a hand-
fal of rabtish, Emongst which wiN the sovereign produced.
lie immediately gave it to me. I did not. find anything
sn'ore until the Thursday morning, when I found the two
pocket handkerchiefs I know produce, in the prisoner's
portmanteau, which I searched, assisted by Cronin, the
constable. They were nearly on the top of the portman-
teau. I examined them, and found several spots of blood
on them. I also found the shirt-front produced. The
initials of the prisoner are on the handkerchiefs. The pri-
soner had been removed from the house when these were
found.—(The prisoner leant forward anxiously to look a
tt;e handkerchiefs when they were handed to Mr. Flower
for examination.)
By Mr. HALL—TiIe board in the pantry did not appear
to be loose ; it was near the skirting board. The sove-
reign. I should think, could not hare been dropped through
the board. I assisted in getting up the board, and it
offered considerable resistance. The shirt front is a good
one; it has been torn off the shirt; I could not find the
body or sleeves. It is buttoned, just as I found it. The
prisoner has various sorts of shirts, some resembling this
front.

, .
Frederick Shaw, Police Constable, 114 C.—l went to
Lord William Russell's on Friday afternoon, at two o'clock.
i saw Mr. Pearce searching the pantry, and was ordered
by him to assist. I saw the prisoner with Collier. I as-
sisted in the search. I searched the pantry, but found
nothing on that day. On Friday evening I went up to
assist Mr. Pearce in searching the prisoner's boxes. We
turned out every thing. I saw Mr. Pearce search
the prisoner, and find __the- locket and other ar-
ticles which he has described. The next morning
lassisted Collier in searching the scullery. I saw him
find the seal behind the pipe, as be bas described. It is
the same produied here to-day. I then got upon the
window to assist the workmen in taking down the plate-
rack, and I saw Collier searching a lead pipe on the other
side of the scullery, and found the ring as he has
described. At five o'clock the same evening, while search-
ing the pantry, I found a gold locket, with hair in it.
1 now produce it. The hearth-stone had been taken
up, and I found it lying between the hearth stone and
the floor.

By Mr. BELL—I do not know when the hearth-stone
as removed.

Inspector Pearce recalled—lt had been removed on
the Friday. It. was firmly fixed before, and required two
men to remove it. There were crevices, but none through
.which a locket could have been dropped.
Police Ctnstahle Paul Cronin, 158 C---I was ordered
to the house of Lord William ussell on the morning of
Wednesday, 6th of May, by Mr. Baker. I went at about
half-past ter. I remained there several days. On Friday
the Bth of Mn'., I assisted Mr. Pearce in his search of the
back weshhousc and the butler's pantry. I was present
when hefound the articles behind tee skirting-board, and
saw the gold.elesp purse lying concealed, as he has de-
scribed; as also the medal and other articles. On the
Tuesday following I was again at the house. The
sink had been . removed from the pantry to facilitate
the search. It was placed in a yard in the rear
of the house. It was a small had sink eased in wood.
and originally stood immediately over the tokirting-board
behind which the articles .were found. I saw it taken
down and removed into the yard. I went to the scullery
Leading front the butler's pantry. There is a vault lead-
ing fame the scullery, into which I went. I there
.felt
aloeg the bricks of the floor, and telt whet I thought was
a ring, between the bricks
.and the wall in a crack. With
some diffi:eilty I drew it out. It was part of a gold chased
watch-key, with the pipe and ring broken off, ee now pro-
duced. I continued my search round that spot, but
foiled nothing. The next day, Wednesday, May 13, about
half past two o'clock, I resumed the search with Collie;
I brought an iron chisel to examine some stones that ap-
peared loose in the back yard. I saw -the sink, which
had been removed from the butler's pantry, 'lying there.
I looked carefully round the edges of the lead, which
came over the wooden frame. saw in front the lead ap-
peared to have been smoothed or rounded differently from
the other parts of the sink. Seeing that I raiacd the lead
from the wooden case with the chisel, I looked in between
the case and the lead, and saw a watch there. I took it
out, and now produce it in the same state I found it, with
the glass broken. I immediately scaled it up, and it has
been in my possession ever since. (The watch is a flat
gold watch, apparently of French or German manufac-
ture.) I have not examined it so m'enttely as to be able
to say if the name of Lord W. Russell appears anywhere
about it or not.

Mr. Haler said he now proposed to a:-.k the police offi-
cers on duty in Norfolk-street on the night of the =Aril:el
to spew that they saw nothing extraordinary.
Mr. think we had better go through the evi-
dence relating to the property first ?
Mr. Hobler—Veiy well,- Sir • then I shall call
James Ellis—l am valet to the Earl of Mansfield. I was
formerly in the service of Lord William Russell as valet
and butler. I lived with him two years and eight months.
I left . his service the Ist or 2d of \lay. The prisoner was
in Lord William's service at the time of my leasing. He
bad been there two days before I left. His Lordship would
have been 73 in AuguFr. next. He was a very kind master.
His Lordship generally wore fiver ings. Of the rings now
produced (found in the butler's pantry behind the skirting)
I can swear positively' to three. The wedding ring is like
one his Lordship used to wear, but I cannot swear to a
wedding ring, and the other I rather think is his
Lordship's, but 1 um not so positive as I am of the
other three. His Lordship had a gold watch ; the
one now produced (from the sink) is the same watch
his Lordship used to wear, The name of Lord William
Russel; was never on the watch anywhere, to • my know-
ledge. I have opened it, but never examined it. 1 never
observed any name on .the inside, nor any Words. I have
observed the 11111110 on the face. The witness here opened
the watch, and said, I see-a name added now, but had not
observed it before ; it might have been there. His Lord-
' ship wore one seal, one seal ring, and two keys. The two
seals and seal ring produced I am positive arc the same ;
the key also, ezupt that it is broken ; and the split ring
appears to me to be the same. I have seen a Waterloo medal
of his Lordship's, when he has had occasion to remove any of
'the things•in the little russia-leather box in the bed-room,
but I have never examined it. I have no positive knowledge
of silk note-cases in the russia-leather box. I know the
watch stand. His Lordship's watch was always placed in
it the last thing at night, and it was placed by the side of
the bed, near the box Gll the table. 'I he russia-leather tray

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with the ivory cases I always consideted as belong'ng to
the box. I have seen coins similar to those. produced
loose in the bottom of the russia box. I never examined
them, and do not know their number. Ido not know this
purse (the one 'found behind'the skirting-board). The
watch was always placed in the case when his Lordship
went to bed, and the rings on the dressing table. Nothing
used to stand at the head 'of the bed in the stand. One
batik-note his .Lordship alwayS had in his pocket in a silk.
purse. He had a miniature of -a lady, anti he alWays ket
that, the tray, the medal, and the note-cases in the ruseia
leather box. The miniature produced appears lobo the
same. I have no recoleetion of the small box. The gold
pencil case is his Lordship's, and the toothpick also. The
spectacles are similar to those worn by his Lordship. He
always had theM in his pockets in the day time, and at
night they were placed on the same table with the
rings. The sugar-sifter and other articles found by In-
spector Tedman wrapped in the napkin are also
his Lordship's prorriy, excepting the thimble. The top
of the cayenne spoon being gone, I cannot speck posi,
tivcly to it. The thimble I have no knowledge of, The
caddy-spoon and the top of the matinees ore liko what his
Lordship had. The cayenne-spoon was kept with the
casters in the cupboard in the dining-plom. The opera- '
glass appears to me to be the eh'. that was kept on the
chimney-piece in his Lords);, 's bed-room. I do not
know the ivory ease prod:Ltd& The cloak is his Lord-
ship's. • ' His Lordsl'.;:p had a locket. I know but of the
two produced. -I
cannot say which is his Lordship's.
lam m's". aware ' that his -Lordship had two. The
lockbt was generally kept in the russia leather case.
' I should not like to give an opinion as to- either of the
lockets. His Lordship used generally to go to bed from
-II to 12. • He always had a fire in his bed room during
the winter months, generally for nine months in the year,
either morning or evening. His Lordship was also accus-
tomed to have his bed warmed during nine months of the
year on au average. lie always burnt a rush-light at
night. during the whole time I was with him. It was
placed near the wardrobe at the foot of the bed, in a proper
rushlight shade. He never to my knowledge used to i
have a candle by his side when in bed. When be got into bed i
the candle was removed and placed upon the little table 1
near the rush-light shade. ' I am not aware that his Lord-
ship was in the habit of reading by candlelight in bed. He '
was very careful over the fire and the candle in his room,
and has frequently cautioned me on the subject. I was
accustomed always to put his candle out before I left the
room. I never saw him reading in bed by candlelight.
. His Lordship never had. his door fastened at night.
I recollect the prisoner once asking me if his
Lordship had any lockets in his possession, and he
also told me that his Lordship had loat a locket. This
was two or three days before his Lordship's death.- I told
him t
I was aware hi Lordship had a loke in his osses-
sion. tie said hiss Lordship had lost it. - Whilep out of
town I was going to write to the proprietor of the Castle
Hotel, Richmond. to know if he had left it there. Ilk
LOrdship generally kept from ten to twenty pounds in the
- house; the paper money in the silk note-ease, and the
gold and silver in his purse for use.
By Mr. HALL—The prisoner did not complain of his
Lordship to me. He said his Lordship had _told him he
would suit him very well. .
's service,
By Mr. Hobler—When I left his Loqship
I gave the prisoner a list of the plate. Inspector Tedman recalled Said the prisoner bad told
hint he could not find the list, and it never had been found.
The prisoner did not deny having had a list. -
James Ellis (examination continued) The screw-
driver produced is very much like one I had ; the chisels
I have no knowledge of. The hammer is like one be-
longing to the hOuse. The poker and tongs look like
i those belonging to the pantry. I produce the original list
I have compared it with what
of his Lordahip's plate.
1 remains in the house, and find articles missing. I
'•1 counted it all over to the prisoner before I left, and be
I ' acknowledged it to be right. I made out this list soon
t after I entered Lord William's service.
13y Mr. HALL-1 examined the plate en Wednesdly