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the Inquisition, except that it added bodily torture to :mental,
never exceeded this. Was this fair play p was this conduct that
ought to have been practised by any men? But it was done,
and this same fellow tells you en his oath that he expects to
share the plunder, 450/. reward to be divided among them on
the coffin of Courvoisier. lie thought the days of blood.money
were over. Never, since the innocent men were led out years
ago to execution, in consequence of the perjury of police officers,
had any reward been offered. He was aware there was the humbug
ofa reward in the case of Mr. Templeman,but he knew that he had lain
five weeks in his grave without such a reward being offered. But the
reward was offered on conviction, not for the discovery of facts ; the
receipt was to be written in the blood of the prisoner. The Govern-
ment might have been actuated by the purest motives in offering
it, although it is curious that no reward was ever offbre.l until one
of their own body was touched ; but the effect of it was to induce
the forgery of evidence. Let them take that miscreant Baldwin
as an example, who first swore lie had never heard of any reward,
and then admitted that it had beets read out in his presence. He
told the Government with the freedom of a man who had nothing
to hops or to fear from them, that any Government which, in a
case like this, offered a reward, was accessory to the murder of a
prisoner. What had been the consequence of offering a reward in
Temple can's case ? Why, two innocent persons, a man and his
wife, might have been trepanned its consequence. In construing
the expressicns of Courvoisier, it should be recollected that be
was a foreigner. " If these things had not beets found in ray
pantry it would not be so hard against me ;" a most natural
expression. But who hid them there. It was the last place in
the world where he could have hid them, if he wanted to
escape the detection. Who hid the handkerchiefs ? Who hid
the gloves Y The same persons might have hid these things in the
pantry in order to throw suspicion upon Cuurvoisier. He k%ew
the Jury would give all these things full consideration beesre they
doomed Courvoisier to death. It has been represented that be
said, if he had as much money as his !nester he would not re.
main long in this country, and from this expression made use of in
the presence of the servants of his master, it was sought to
be insinuated that he contemplated murder and robbery. He
must have been mad, had he contemplated crime, to have
made use of such an expression. If they were poor and in
a foreign country, what would be more natural than for them to
give utterance to such an expression on seeing some rich man.
Let them recollect the country to:which Courvoisier belonged. To
a Swiss the bubbles of ambition, the realities of wealth—all was as
nothing eomparrd with the native land he loved. No expres-
sions could be more natural. Then a great deal was said about his
money—nothing could exceed the nonsense that had been uttered
on this subject. They found its his pocket a 51. note, which un.
questionably had been Lord W. Russell's, and yet he hides a 101.
note, and rings, and all sorts of other articles. He admits the 5/.
note bad been Lord W. Russell's, and that he changed it. lie is
asked if Lord W. Russell had more money. lie says at once ho

housemaid) was. getting p, and the cook said she was awake.
fie did not think this was an important discrepancy as, if the
cook did nat speak, it might have been natural to suppose she
was asleep. With regard to the warming-pan having been left
on the stairs, he did not think that a circumstance of any im-
portance one way or the other. With regard to the observa-
tions 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 description, sent to such a di-
stance 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 bad
money," he thought the jury must not lay too much stress upon
expressions used by persons in the prisoner's class of life when
discoursing with their fellow. servasts ; 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 by the Counsel about the seeming contradiction in
the evidence given by the housemaid in the Court and before the
Coroner, she ought to have had the evidence given before the Coro-
ner read, and to have given her an opportunity of explaining it ; as
it was, her evidence was uncontradicted ; and even admitting all
that the Learned Counsel had said, he really did not think it was a
discrepancy of any importance whatever. With regard to the break.
ing into the house, the Jury, 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 evi-
dence 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 Baldwin deposed were also deposed to
by Rose, on whose character no such imputation rested, 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 f glass front this
window, and have gone down a story lower, for the purpose of get.
time into the house by the back area door. Some strong observa-
tions 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 care against
the prisoner. Now it was for the Jury to determine 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,. w hen the
shirts were shaken. They had 'seen the police who had been
examined before theft), and it was for them to determine whe-
ther 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 importance than the finding of a pair of
white gloves, so slightly stained with blood as to render it almost
impossible they could have been worn by a person sslien engaged
in such a horrible transaction as this murder? Very strong ob-
servations had been made on the conduct of Pearce ;
now, nothing could be more proper than to show
any things which might be Grand to a prisoner, and
to ask him any proper questions; 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 be
produced by the conduct of Pearce in the present instance.
No blame, he thought, could be attached to Mr. Maine, notwith.
standing the observation of the Learned Counsel on his conduct.
With regard to the reward, crime would very often go undetected,
persons perhaps would not use their utmost diligence unless they
were stimulated by the hopes of a reward, and the remarks of the
Learned Counsel would apply equally to every case in which a re-
ward was offered. If a witness were influenced by the hope of re-
ward it would certainly go to diminish the credit due to his tes-
timony, but that was a question entirely for the consideration of
the Jury. With regard to the discovery of the handkerchiefs aad
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 un the former occasion, although he did not recollect that
he had then seen the handkerchiefs. They now came to the evidence
as to the missing property—evidence which had Men discovered
since the prosecution had commenced. Had the case remained
without this evidence, there might have been strong obser.
vations 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 be might have left a quantity
behind hint ; but if it were proved that that property had been
removed by the prisoner himself before the murder took place,
their 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 for the murder. The Learned. Judge then read
the evidence of Mrs. Piolaine, and said that observations had been
made upon 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 have put in the paper to contradict her. It
was certain something must have happened to direct her attention
to the parcel which had been left with her. With regard to the
conduct of Mr. Comp) he thought it was exceedingly proper, as it
was the duty of every good stillest to assist in the administration of
justice, and to bring forward every fact which may come to his
knowledge, whether it be for a prisoner or against him. There
was considerable difficulty in corning to the conclusion which the
Counsel fur the prisoner wished them to come to—that the various
articles were concealed in the pantry by the police, for the purpose
of convicting the prisoner. These articles were missing on the
morning of the discovery of tit? murder, and had been in their
places the night before. Where coted the police have found them,
or could they Lave had any opportunity of placing them there ?
They would have to consider all these things, before they could
conic 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 ad-
duced. Evidence as to character was merely of a secondary
nature, and to be weighed against the direct testimony
in 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 evidence 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 innocence or guilt
of the party. In this case it was their duty to weigh well and con-
sider every circumstance of the case, and to draw their in.
ferences. They were to give the case their best cOnsidera.
thin, and to say whether the prisoner was innocent 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 circumstances into their consi.
deration, there could be no doubt as to his guilt, then, how.
ever painful it might be to them, it was their bounden
duty to pronounce him guilty. It Was for them, how.
ever, to exercise their deliberate judgment upon the
case, to weigh well every circumstance, and to pronounce their ver.
dict accordingly. his Lordship finished his summing up at five
o'clock, and
The Jury then retired to deliberate on their verdict, and after at)
absence of an hour and twenty.five minutes, returned, and de.
livered a verdict of—GUILTY.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.
THE ECCENTRIC SOCIETY

On Saturday, Mt!. Honey, landlady of the Sutherland Arras
Hotel and Tavern, Great May's Buildings, St. Martin's•lane,
appeared before Mr. Jardine, to answer a complaint preferred
against her by the Inspectors of the F division of police, for
having, on the 14th inst., being Sunday, unlavt fully kept open,
her house for the sale of beer, wine,. and other fermented
liquors, the ,arne not being for the entertainment of travellers,
to which she pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Moore, the barrister, appeared for the defendant.
Inspector George Musgrove stated, that at one o'clock in the
morning of the day in question, he v.ent to the defendant's
house, which is situated in the parish of .St. Mat tin's-in-the
Fields, and within the Metropolitan Police District, where he
knocked, and being admitted, he found, in a room up stairs,
from fifteen to twenty persons, some of whom were smoking,
and others drinking.
Mr. JARDINL asked if he could say what the company were
drinking ? Witness considered from the appearance, that it
was spirits and water, but just before two o'clock, a constable
saw a number of persons leave the house.
Cross-examined—When he got to the door it was shut, and
he told the person inside the door that he was a police officer,
and he might have said that he should be admitted. There
were two police sergeants with him at the time, but he did not
receive any orders concerning the house in particular, and at
the hour in question everything was perfectly quiet.
Sergeant Weston corroborated the evident•e of the last wit-

Cross-examined—Heald a loud talking up stairs, but not
such as would authorise a policeman to enter the premises.
There was no noise or rioting; and after entering the room
with the Inspector, and seeing what was going forward, they
went away very quietly. He saw no person enter the house,
and he had occasion to caution the landlady respecting the
same circumstances on a former occasion.

The Learned Counsel then said, I, on the part of the society
to which I have the honour to belong, am induced, after such
evidence as has been given, to ask if I still live in the same
England where I used to lire some years ago? I had always
thought, that before a police officer took the liberty to enter the
premises of any housekeeper, he should be armed with a war-
rant, and until the Magistrate dispenses the law on that point,
I shall entertain the same opinion. Tho Metropolitan Police
Act, be it remembered, is a penal Act, and the clause under
which the summons has been granted admits of different con-
e although it should be clearly and literally under-
stood. A well known society, called the Eccentric Society,
has held its meetings at the house of the defendant for the last
forty years, and it can show on its books the names of peers,
barristers, doctors, artists, statesmen, together with gentlemen
connected with the press. The meetings are not of apolitical
but a social chsracter, and if the Court come to the same deci-
sion as on a former occasion, it will be the means of dissolving
the society entirely, as the memberscouid not disperse exactly at
twelve o'clock. I cannot for a moment suppose that the Legis-
lature was willing to interfere with such a society, and I considered
it a fitting time to cone forward, hearing that the landlady had
been summoned, to try the question. When the Metropolitan
Police Act was first passed, I did not hesitate to express my
opinion upon it, and I had the concurrence of eminent persons
at the bir as to the operation of it. The clause, it was well
known, ought to be construed literally, and it appeared to me
to have been introduced to cure the lower classes of the people
of squandering their hard earnings in gin-shops; but if it was
intended to interfere with innocent amusements in a public-
-house, it seemed rather strange . that the Legislature had
omitted to include theatres and lobster shops, provided they
sold no spirituous liquors. The words were, that no licensed
victualler do open his house, that is take down his shutters
and open his shop in the regular way, for the sale of his
goods. The days on which he was forbidden to open until
a certain hour were Good Friday, Christmas-day, and Sun-
days; but there was not not one word in the Act to show
that the company was to be turned out. The defendant
was in the habit of closing her house at the hour required by
law, and, up to the present time, the members of the society
were allowed to hold their sittings up stairs. The clause, in
my opinion, should have mentioned that a licensed victualler
should have ordered all company out of the house, and it should
be entirely cleared, to authorise the police to take such steps.
I am anxious that the question should_ he decided upon prin-
ciple, as the Act says nothing about Saturday night, and it
could not come into operation until the company broke up,
when it was broad daylight. Ido not know how a Magistrate
can inflict a tine in such a case, when it can be seen, by the
3Sth clause, that the hoer of eleven o'clock was specified for all
business to cease in fairs, and such other places of public re-
sort. In another Act, where mention was made concerning
sheep and other cattle, it was found necessary to have a law
passed for the purpose of introducing cows and horses, so re-
quisite was it to have a penal Act literally understood. John-
son says that night was the time from darkness till light ; and
Dyke defines it to be only the time between sun-setting and
sun-rising, neither of which could Mean twelve o'clock in the
previous night, and consequently it could not be made afpli-
cable in a penal Act, which was evidently passed to prevent
i persons lying about the streets n a state of drunkenness,
who might be encouraged to it through the cupidity of li-
cence,' victuallers. The only thing proved was, that persons
were found sitting with something like spirits and water be-
fore them, and as it was not shown that any liquors were
sold after twelve o'clock, I truss that the lays will not be
strained so far as to order the defendant to be convicted.
Mr. J.\ aDI E said he would be glad to consider the
clams? referred to, in order to enable the proper authorities
to know in what manner they should act on a future occasion.
Mr. Mu ire said it was of great importance to the public
as person,: were liable to be tjected from a house the moment
they were enjoying their refreshments, and the society of their
friends.

had a 5/. note and a 10/. note. This turned out to be
true. The 101. note is afterwards found in the pantry. Did
this look like guilt? Would ha have admitted that the 5/.
note had been his master's if he had been guilty. Valuable
property is left behind, and yet the cook's thimble is taken and
left ostentatiously in the passage. Who nut it there—the same
person that hid the things in the passage ? The case was full of
doubt and mystery, and if the Jury convicted him, it would be at
the peril of their souls, for he should show them, that if they be-
lieved the prisoner guilty cf an.ything, he might be subjected to the
highest punishment the law could inflict short of death. Why
should the housemaid introduce the circumstance of her having
felt drowsy after taking the ale, before the Magistrates, a!:d why
was It abandoned now ? He thought he could point his finger at
the man who had said, If you rely upon thar, the Jury will laugh
at you, because he drank of the ale himself. Ingenuity induced
the suppression of that which eagerness for conviction
had produced. Was it likely that Courvoisier would have de.
stroyed a shirt and economized a front—and oh the
stupidity of these policemen, the front, of all other parts of the
shirt the most likely to be spotted with blood in such a case. Not
an article marked with blood was found in his possession—not a
mark of blood upon his person—not a mask of blood under his
nails, where it was notorious it would remain in spite of all wash-
ing, like the blood-spot on the hand of Lady Macbeth.
Why was it that, after going to all the expense of the
model, the rooms in which Courvoisier and the servant
slept should not have been on the model. Courvoisier's
room was next to that in which the servants slept. Courvoi.
sier's bed was against the partition on one side, and Courvoisier's
was against it on the other. Courvoisier was found in his room in
the morning; the cook was awake when the housemaid got up;
and yet, during the livelong night, no noise whatever was heard

in Courvoisier's room. lie now came to a portion of the case of
which he had loudly to complain. up to the evening of Thursday

not one cord was said about the missing plate. Nothing could be
moreshameful than the way in which that man was treated, in the
not having, within an hour of Mr. Comyn's arrival, notice
of the new evidence to be produced. They ought at
least to have had the night to have investigated the
character of the witnesses to be brought against Wu'. He knew
not who Mrs. Piolaine was, and if she did not tell the truth,
those who came to corroborate her proved nothing. Ile 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 lips 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 discoveryshould have been made in the middle of the trial,
a reward of AL having been offered Previously for the discovery 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 at-
tention to this. Courvoisier was never known in that house by

the name of Courvoisier. He was known only by the name of
John. How could the French paper direct her attention to this ?
Mr. Baron PARKE—You have no right to raise a doubt upon the
paragraph in the French -paper, unless it is put in evidence.

Mr. C PHILLIPS—Did 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. Thewhele depended upon the evidence of this
:woman. She knew so little of Courvoisier 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 consistent 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 proied anything, that the sock
was not Courvoisier's. He was sure if the Jury could find
i their way out of the case consistently with justice, without shedding
that man's blood, they would do so. Now, supposing they ad.
'flitted everything connected with the property, that it was left
there by Courvoisier, was that conclusive of the murder? He
--thought net i but'it -woo conclusivssof robbery, for which he might
be convicted, and sentenced to be transported to suffer a lingering
death upon INTorfolk Island. Here was a golden bridge for
them to pass.. over... . If they . entertained a suspicion,
arid yet felt ' thernseiies , bound to acquit him, still he
might be punished' for it ; and he would say, if he should
have'been guilty of the murder, -which he hoped to find he was not,
better, far better, would it be that he eh Inld repent, in the bitter.

111 r. JAl:nisi thought that the Learned Counsel might have
lost sight of the 4th and sth of William I V., called the
Amended Beer Act, by the siith Section and 7th Clause of
which the police were authorised to enter any house in which
beer or itirituous liquors were sold ; but if he was disposes! to
decide tyon a minute point, that it was not the defendant
who had opened the house, but the police, he might appear to
have shrunk from his duty, and under such a circumstance it
might be proper to call evii!ence, to show that a certain society
was in the habit ot l uldinn meetings at the house.
Major Revel proved that he had known, and was member of,
the Eccentric Society, us hich held its meetings at the Suther-
landfor the last 39 years. He thought it had been
'
establish
fur forty years; and the objects of it were conversa-
tional and ititellecinal recreations. Every member must be
proposed, anti being seconded, he is elec!ed by ballot. Three
balls exclude. The ir vetings have been held every night at
nine o'clock, with very few exceptions. Saturday nights were
attended more fully than others, being leisure time for pro-
fessional men, and persons connected with the public press.
The hour of seraration vat ied, and on a full night it might be
later than usual. The society. was composed of members of
both Houses of Parliament, medical men, together with person/
eminent in the fine arts, and some of the most eloquent men
that England could boast of have been attaches! to it.
Mr. J I:DINE-1$ there any exclusion ? Witness—There
is no rule, but the candidate must he 21 years of age, proposed
and seconded in the usual way. No stranger could be ad-
mitted, and subjects on religion and politics were excluded from
the discussions. It a member introduce a stranger he was lia-
ble to expulsion.

nese 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 former
proof as to . compel them to convict him. " Now," said the
Learned Advocate, "my anxious task is ended, and
yours it , about to begin. One of the attributes
of the Almighty Cod is now committed to you—
the issues of life and death are its your hands. You are to restore
that man once more to the enjoyment of existence and freedom, or
to send hint to an ignominiotis death, and brand upon his grave a
murder'er's epitaph. - Awful is the consideration—still more awful
the responsibility. Violate not lightly that temple which the
Lord hath made. Recollect, the word once gone forth
from you, it is irrevocable. Speak it not lightly.
Speak it not ripen suspicion, however strong—upon moral
conviction, however cogent—not upon argument, not upon proba-
bility—but upon broad, clear, irresistible noon-day conviction. 1
speak this in no hostile spirit, but with a CI ristian feeling. If
you do this deed, do it not lightly, or its consequences will follow
you like a shadow—it will accompany you in your crowded walks—
be with yell in your homes, and his accusing spirit will hover over
yourdeath beds, 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 breath.
less interest by the most crowded Court we ever witnessed, and at
the conclusion of it many ofthem present were affected es en to tears.
The following witnesses were then called to character and exa-
mined by Mr. CIARICSON.
Mr. Jennings—l am the proprietor of the British Hotel, Jermyn.
street. The prisoner has lived in my service, and both myself
and my wife remarked the probity, modesty, diffidence, and even
simplicity of his character.
James Neble-1 am waiter in the service of the last witness.
I knew the prisoner while in the service of Mr. Fector, who is
now going abroad, and always considered him a quiet, humane,
and inoffensive man.
Jean Pcton—l am in the service of Lady Julia Lockwood. I
knew the prisoner while he was in her Ladyship's service. I
have known him four years, and consider him a well.conducted,
good tempered, quiet man.
Jeanne Susanne Peten-1 am the wife of the last witness, and
am in the service of Lady Julia Lockwood. 1 have lived with her
Ladyship fifteen }ears. I have known the prisoner ever since his
arrival in England, and have always considered him a kind, good-
hearted man. CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER.
Lady Julia Lockwood—The prisoner lived in my service for After the,verdict had been returned, it was very generally reported
nine months as under servant. I have had opportunities of observe that the prisoner had made a full confession of his guilt. We, in
ing him, and think him to be deserting of the character of a kind. consequence, made every possible inquiry into the truth of this
heat ted inoffensive young man. rumour, and found that it was strictly correct. The following is
All the witnesses to character having been examined, the Court the information which we received upon the subject :—During
adjourned for refreshment previous to the summing up. the examination that took place of the house of Lord William
The Court re-assembled at Half-past One o'Clock, and the Jury Russell, and the plate and other articles, the attention of Mr.
having answered to their names, Hobler, the solicitor to the prosecution, was called to the table
Lord Chief Justice TINDAL commenced the summing up. lie knives belonging to his Lordship. Among them were four large
desired the Jury to discharge from their minds all they might have carving knives, with Damascus blades end balance ivory handles;
heard previous to being sworn, and calmly to consider the evidence they were all fresh cleaned when Mr. Hobler saw them, but on a
they had heard, and consider whether it was sufficient to hring very minute inspection of one of tl em, he found on the blade near the
home to their minds that the prisoner was guilty. If they enter. handle a very small rusty spot, and that this knife, though recently
tamed any doubt on the subject, they were bound to give the psis cleaned, was much duller in appearance than any of the others.
soner the benefit of it, but if they came to the conclusion that lie examined the blade most minutely, but could not find
it was by the prisoner's hand that Lord William Russel died, then, that it was notched in any part of it; but, from its general appear.
however painted it might be, tl were bound to convict him. rune, he was satisfied that that was the very instrument by which
The case was one of circurnstagtial evidence, and if citcum. the deceased nobleman had been deprived of his life. He conse.
stant:al evidence were to be always rejected, crime would always quently separated it from the rest, and placed it in the hands of the
almost go unpunished, because it was very seldom that persons bankers of the deceased nobleman, in whose custody it has ever since
committed atrocious crimes in the presence of witnesses. But remained. On Thursday last, when the uexpected discovery had
it would not be enough for them to be satisfied that such and been made as to where the missing plate had been deposited, it
such circumstances were consistent with the guilt of the prisoner, was carefully examined by the deceased nobleman's domestics, Sarah
but that trey were utterly inconsistent with any other suppo. Mancell and Ellis, who at once identified it as the property of their
salon than that the prisoner was the person who committed late master ; but the fact of the finding of the proper. y was not made
the crime. lie would first offer. some general observations known to the prisoner until the following (Friday) morning, when
on the case and then read the evidence. It was beyond a doubt Madame Piolaine came to Newgate, and the prisoner and some other
that Lord W. Russell was murdered in the night between Tues. men being marshalled before her in the Press-yard, she at once iden.
day, the sth, and Wednesday, the 6th of May. Th, re was no pos- tilled hint as the man by whom the parcel containing the plate
sibility of saying that he had committed suicide. It was also per. had been left at her house. The fact of the plate having been
fectly clear that in the course of that night a robbery was crim. discovered, and his identification as the party leaving
mitted. Various valuables were taken away, all of which were it, was communicated to the prisener, and on hearing
afterwards found concealed in some other part of the house.
It this unexpected intelligence he turned very pale, and was ex-
was for them to determine whether it was within the reach of ceedingly agitated, and before the time whets he was tc be again
human possibility that that robbery was unconnected with the Placed at the bar of the Central Criminal Court, he sent for Mr. C.
Phillips, his counsel, and at once made the following confession
murder. Whether there could have been a robbery by one set of
people, and a murder by another, in the same house on the same of his guilt. He stated teat on the night of the fetal transaction
he was in the lower part of his Lordship's house in the act of se-
night, was a most important point for them to consider—whether
that was a robbery committed by persons breaking into the house, creting the different articles of plate, &c., the property of his
or by the Inmates residing in it. At seven o'clock in the morning Lordship, in the several places where they were afterwards found
it was found that the front area door was fastened, the front door secreted by the police, as stated by them on the trial, when his
would
di:.
Lordship, who was suddenly taken unwell, unexpectedly came
oppti, the back door fastened, the back area door open, and a cloak
hii.11:1,11 The
anddece:esceidarnedoblichmatanii
e immediately
down stairs and caught him Ist the act of concealing his property
was found folded up, with a napkin lying upon it in the hall, near the
therefore, the natural itsfe.manneri
m w
iaboveth stated.
robbing
front door. Upon the first impress
rence would be that some persons had entered by the back area door, l't
chargedthe ll
harge him from his service on the following
which bore marks of violence, had robbed the house, murdered Lord morning. '
That
char
himself thus suddenly
W. Russell, and afterwards made his escape by the front door, d . g . . and unexpectedly detected in plun-
ering his master, and receiving notice that he would on the
the following day be dismissed from
leading us to suppose that this was merely a contrivance, forhis service, he was
avoiding detection by the real perpetrator? Now, it roused
.to a state. of phrenzy, and that he waited until his
propose of Lordship had retired to rest,
appeared that no articles were really taken away, and that many are
into
tides easily portable were left behind,and theywere to consider whether his bedroom, and finding that his Lot ds •-hip d
was sound
a he cut his throat with 1
thief would have left such articles behind him, some con. Is tile very carving knife which Mr.
a real nobler so justly suspectedthat
crated with great care, and others left close to the door, when the s ... -
might have taken then. away with him on his person without )rated. vs e presume that this communication on the part of tire
thief would prisoner entirely
exciting suspicion. Then, with regard to the door, they changed the line of defence which his counsel in-
have to say whether they were marks produced by a person break- tended to have adopted for him, for it was ger.erally rumoured that
• to the house, or made by a person after the door had been a severe attack would be made by him on the prisoner's fellow-
ing in servants,.
opened. He should wish them not to place any great reliance onand particularly on the police who were engaged in the
expressions made use of by the prisoner, or on investigation. We must, however, do the Learned Counsel the
the
his agitation, as the conduct of a person under such circumstances justice to state that, with, that honourable feeling which has always
depended so much upon his temperament and education, that it , characterized his
at the rofessiona I career, he slid the best be could for
client,
would be harsh to draw any inference from them. Neither should his unfortunatesame time abstaining from indulging
they suffer some of the observations of the Learned Counsel for in insinuations respecting the prisoner's fellow-servants, or
the defence to produce toe great an effect upon them. They the police, which he knew at the time he was addressing the Jury
on. It must be a source of great An I • i •
were placed to administer not mercy, but justice, and U. were altogethet without foundation. Istor cal Novel, of a sing,ularly interesting
give their verdict accordingly. The). were bound to Put satisfaction to the Jury, who tried this most important, and, up to I character, is about to appear, from tire pen 'of the Hon.
the most favourable construction they could on the circumstances, ! almost the last moment, doubtful ease, to know that the conclusion ' Grantley Berkeley, entitled, " Sandron Hall ; or, the Days of
and having come to a conclusion, they were to recollect that they 'I to which they ultimately came was a just one, aed that by return- Queen A111.e." It is said to describe the adventures of a young
were under the obligation of an oath to administer justice, and log a verdict of Guilty, they were only, as it were, confirming by , cavalier of good family in the stirring days of Marlborough's
they must find their verdict accordingly, regardless of the cause- that verdict a confession which had previously bsen. -made by victoeies, and the rogueries of t
ea 'Wild, with all the
quences. The I.earned Judge then proceeded to read the evi. 1 the prisoner. pictuteotie additions which we have joyed in our acquaint-
desire, assisted by Mr. Baron PARKE. On reading the evidence i l'he prisoner paid great attention to the proceedings, and tbs. once with .-;ir Roger de Coverley and his associates.
of the cook, his Lordship said that it had been commented an Played none of that levity which was noticed on Thursday. The , The Rev. Dr. Charming, of Boston, has res
that the housemaid said the cook was; asleep, while she(the court was crowded in every part during the whole of the day. signed his pulpit.—New York Paper.
4 i

Mr. JA itniN —ls any arrangement "made with the person
who keeps the house as to rent ? Witness—None, except
what she may receive for the articles consumed. The room it
lighted with candles at the expense of the Society, and in con-
sequence of the decisions at this Court, of late, very particular
directions have been given to the landlady not to allow any per-
son after 1•? o'clock. Members of Parliament, as well as mem-
bers of the bar, have been excluded after that hour on Satur-
day nights, since the passing of the Metropolitan Police Bill,
but not before. _ _

The prisoner seemed to be unmoved by the dlivery of the
verdict.

Lord Chief Justice TINDAL, in passing sentence of death upon
the prisoner, said, Francois Benjamin • Courvoisier, you
have been convicted, by the verdict of an intelligent and
impartial Jury, of the crime of Wilful Murder. That crime
has been 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
or diteary manner, that the crime committed in the darkness should
be brought to light. :The crime of murder is, without exce-
lion, the deepest that can be committed, 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 ettbct 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 motive it is impossible to tell. I fear it
has been the lust of filthy lucre, and I beseech you to
make use of the short time which remains to you, in endea-
vouring 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.

Mr. JA KOINE, having consulted with Mr. Bingham, said_
that the case was distinct from that of another public-house,
and as he could not decide that it was an opening of the house
for the sale of fermented liquors, seeing from the evidence
that the regulations of the society had ben strictly observed
by the members for such a number of years, the summons
should be dismissed on that ground and on that ground alone,
Mr. James Her Bey, proprietor of the George and Dragon,
in Long-acre, was also summoned for a similar offence, alleged
to have been committed on the same day.
Inspector Musgrove proved that at twenty-five minutes past
twelve o'clock lie went to the defendant's house, which was
closed, and being admitted he found four men in the tap, one
of whom was smoking, and another with a glass of malt
liquor before him.
The defendant hiring satisfied the lia,vistrate that 'some of
them were lodgers, and another a traveller the case .was dis-
missed.

Mr. Jaines Cox, of the Cross Keys, Belton-street, Long-
acre, who has been a licensed victualler for thirty-three years,
without once having a complaintpreferred against him, was also
summoned to answer a similar charge, but the police failing to
prove their care it was dismissed.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCF.

( From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

_ -
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 20.—The Apollo, troopship, Mr.
Karley, Commander, arrived at Plymouth on Alonday, from
()lichee, with the 11th
. _

The Crane packet, Lieut. Hill, arrived at Falmouth on Mon-
day, from the West Indies—on freight 4,300 dollars. She
brought home the Bishop of Jamaica and family.
The Linnet packet arrived at Falmouth on the llth inst., and
the Opossum on the 12th from Mexico; the former with
380,000 dollars, and the latter with 540,000 dollars, making
1,220,000 in toto, including the Linnet's freight, in two days'
arrivals. This amount is chiefly on account of the Real del
Monte Mining Company.
The Psrsian, 16, Commander 11. Quin, arrived at Madeira
from Plymouth, May 12, and having watered, left 15th for Cape
Coast, to send home the Wolverine, 18, to be paid off.
The Thunderer, 84, Hon. Capt. M. F. F. I3erkelev, has ar-
rived in the Tagus, and, before her i-roceeding to the Mediter-
ranean, was to have a trial cruize with the Revenge, 76.
The Charybdis brig, Lieut. Tinting, arrived at Jamaica,
from Santa Martha, on the 28th April.
The Snake sloop-of-war, Commander Hay, arrived at Port
Royal, on the 14th May.
The Racehorse, 18. returned Font Bermuda to Barbadoes,
on the 20th April.
The Victor, 16, Commander Dawson, sailed on Sunday, for
Jamaica, with despatches for Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey,
and lint into Plymouth on Tuesday.
The Magicienne, 28, Captain Michell, sailed on Monday for
the Mediterranean, tmiching at Li bon. She was at Torbay
on Thu sday.
The Jupiter, troop-ship, Mr. Fulton, Commander, sailed on
the same day to Madeira, the Cape, Ceylon, and Singapore,
taking despatches for hear-Admiral Elliot; also supernumerary
Marines and Boys, for the Squadron, and a vast quantity of
Naval and Ordnance stores.
The Pantaloon, 10, Lieut. Tryon, returned to her cruising
to-day
sailed on Tuesday for the River ; and
around
tl I d I ynedoch transport followed to-day.
-le 'or C t 'it Willis. has this season left London
Tl,e ship ere, •ap
which discharged at Quebec, and has returned
The
with a cargo,i
loifforilatriietlit-asinis'po
to Portsmouth, with a re-cargo of timber, in the short space
of eleven weeks.
The ship Midas, Kerr, is at Spithead, bound to Bombay,
waiting a uind.
The ship Serixgapatam, Captain Hopkins, arrived last
night, bound to Madras, to take in her despatches, stock,
and passengers.
The New York packet-ship Gladiator, Britton, arrived on
Wednesday from New York, with passengers ; she left on the
22d ult. The St. James, Sebor, is hourly expected front
London for New York.
In Hartriur—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Royal George,
Vanguard, Raven cutter, Echo.

At Spithead—Seringapatarn (East Indiaman).
Assistant-Surgeon W. H. Brent has been appointed (acting)
to the Donegal.