The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, PRIDAY. MAY 22, IA4O.

En tIlt• C1,111C110115, a great number of petitihns were
presp.wed, chiefly for and against Church Extension.
PoweßscouaT pi.esetited one from Bath, sighed,
he said, arnonst others, by Colonel NAPIER, praying
•he House to take mea,urEs to suppress the National
Aqgneiation of Dublin as a seditious asserni.dy. Mr.
O'CoNNELL said the allegations of the petition were
falso.

Mr. PAKINGTON gave notice that he would move
t of tie Canada Government Bill, when it
was brought forward ; and Mr. HUME said that he
should, on the same occasion, move to restore the
Habeas Corpus Act to Canada. To-morrow Lord J.
RUSSELL is to move an adjournment till Tuesday, on
account of her MAJESTY'S birth-day.
A new writ was issued for Coekurmouth, in the room
of Mr. HonsmAN, become one of the Lords of the
Treasury.
In reply to Mr. PAKINGTON, Lord JOHN RUSSELL
said he meal it to bring in a new Bill for settling the
question of the Clergy Reserves in Canada, but he did
not think it would be ready before the (liseussion on the
Canada Government Bill came on.

Mr. WARBURTON has presented a petition
to the House of Commons, and given notice
that he will call attention to its statements, from
persons confined in Chester gaol, for political
offences. We publish it entire, in order that the
public at large may know what such offenders are
doomed to suffer, that the timid may not tread in
their steps, and the bold be incited to a more indig-
nant and vigorous opposition to a system full of
injustice and cruelty.
The petitioners are not accused of having even
attempted to injure the person or property
of any human being, yet are they treated
worse than felons, kept on a more miserable
diet, and literally doomed to disease and slow
starvation. They are now locked up in their ceiis
eleven, in the winter thirteen, consecutive hours
every night, which is enough to wear down the
strongest constitution. They are petmitted only
to communicate with their friends once a week,
and some inquisitor—by what right ?—examines
their letters, and withholds them if they contain a
political .allusion. They are thus debatred from
serving their families or putting out to use the
talents with which GoD has endowed them. They
are not permitted to have any books or newspap•rs
but such as Mr Inquisitor approves of—who con-
fines their reading, as far as newspapers are con-
cerned, to the LONDON " TIM Es,' "a daily paper
wholly opposed to their views."
To be so patronised by the country gentlemen,
to be forced on the attention of political prisoners,
for the sake of the principles it inculcates, must be
highly flattering to the limes. It is a testimony

Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that he should move an
instruction to the Committee on Lord STANLEY'S Bid
to define the existing. franchise.
Sir R INous withdrew his motion relative to
Church Extension till after the Whitsun holidays, on
account of an intimation he had received from the
SPEAKER, that as the motion involved a grant of money
it must originate in a Committee of the whole House,
to move for which he must give a regular notice. The
delay will enable the public to form a correct opinion of
this new scheme for plundering the p,ople by law.
Mr. O'CONNELL moved that the petition of Mr.
HERCULES BRADSHAW, complaining of the loss he bad
suffered by his manufactory of beet-root sugar having
been suppressed by a tax, be referred to a Select Com-
mittee ; but subsequently, has ing understood that the
matter might be settled, he moved to adjourn the de-
bate to Tuesday, which took place accordingly.
A Bill for taking the Census was ordered, on the
motion of Mr. F. MAULE, to be brought in.
Mr. F. FRENCH moved for a Select Committee to
inquire into the case of Mr, ROBERTS, who complained
of having been deceived and ill-treated by the Hon.
Member for Bridport. Mr. ROBERTS is, we believe,
a person who has found out a means of so preserving
dead bodies as to make fewer subjects necessary for
the anatomists, and Mr. WARBURTON, on this being
represented to him, undertook to recommend Mr.
ROBERTS to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, for
a grant of money, which lie afterwards declined, on
learning that Mr. ROBERTS made it his business to
decry the Anatomy Act. After a brief conversation
the Hon. Member withdrew his motion.
On the Order of the Day for a Committee on the
Sale of Beer Bill being read, the House, on the motion
of Generfd JonNSTONE, was counted out, and adjourned
at a Quarto. past Seven.

to the completeness and the success of its political
apostasy. We offer not ourselves for the patronage
of these Magistrates, but the Post, the Herald
and the Standard have a good right to complain of
their partiality.
We have, in conclusion, to say that one of the
petitioners is Mr, M•DouALL, whose admirablu
defence proved him ,o he a man of a humane dis•
position, and of sterling

We stated yesterday the substance of Sir 11.
INGLIS'S motion for extending the power of the
ptieta.liood, and we now publish, in another part
of The Sun, Mr. HUME'S amendment to that 'no-
tion. It is full of facts and valuable information.
13:;rhaps it is too long to submit to the House as a
' motion, but the facts it contains cannot be too
widely known, nor too deeply impressed en the
public mind. Sir IL INGLIS was unable last night,
on account of an informaliiy, to bring on his mo-
tion, which will afford tune for considering the
bearings of the information which Mr. HuME has
so opportunely and so comprehensively laid belene
the public.
Before we discuss it, we wish to direct public
attention to a great and beneficial change in the
mode of conducting public business. There has,
of late, grown up a practice, both in the Lords
and Commons, of printing all the motions, reso-
lutions, &c.—except those for altering taxes—
and all Cie amendments to them, and to
Bills of any importance, some days be-
fore they are discussed. Every Member, therefore,
who pleases, can make himself well acquainted with
the subject before it is actually debated in the
House; and it has of late frequently happened,
particularly in the Lords, that voluminous amend-
ments to Bills have been carried by common con-
sent, after being thus made known, without much
discussion. Tile practice is a great improvement,
and may be extended with advantage, though that
will not redound to the honour or promote the elo-
quence of Parliament. It will cause, as it is ex-
tended, the most important business to be trans-
acted with very little debating, and make all the
oratory of Parliament overflow on such factious
and disgusting brawls as have been forced on by
Lord STANLEY, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and Lord
DARLINGTON'.

• The French Papers of Wednesday are as barren of
interesting intelligence as those of I be- three preceding
days. The only fact they announce is the receipt of
letters from the Duke of ORLEANS, complaining of the
blundering; warfare of Marshal VALLEE, and stating
that his Royal Highness would embark on the 23d ins,.
for Toulon, on his way to Paris. Hunting Arabs is
not an employment altogether to the Duke's taste.
We fiat' in the Coustitutionnel of Wednesday, and
the Madrid Cutreo Nacional of the 13th inst., an official
account of the efforts of the Carlists to resuscitate in-
surrection in the Basque Provinces, and they would to
some extent have succeeded but for the vigilance of M.
TRIERS and the French police. The first important
seizure were CABRERA's despatches to Don CARLOS.
In thent he recommended that one of the young Princes
should be sent to Spain. The 4,000 Spanish Carlists
in France had orders to escape across the frontier. The
French police, however, prevented their movement.
General ELIo was arrested at Bayonne. General
ALZAA was taken in the disguise of an ecclesiastic at
Dax. Colonels ITURMENDE, ALTAMIRA, ÜBAGO,
LANZ, Cure ZABALA, &c., were also arrested. Colonel
GAETA, an aide-de-camp to CABRERA, was arrested at
Toulouse, on his way to Bourges. At Perpignan, a
Carlist junta was discovered, and its papers seized.
Amongst them r.ore notes for three millions of reals,
signed LALANDERS, Minister of Don CARLOS. Father
CYRIL has been closet), watched at Montpelier, MA-
NUEL ONATE at Marseilles. Amongst other reports
on this subject, is that of removing Don CARLOS from
Bonrges, to the Castle of Blaye.
The Madrid Journals are of the 13th, but they, too,
bring no news of interest. _

Turning now to Mr. HumE's statement; it is
there set forth that the average gross annual -e-
-venue of the Church of England, in the three
years ending 1831, was upwards of 3,750.0001.,
exclusive of glebes, and of the amount of fines on
the renewals of leases, fees, Easter offerings, &c.,
&c. But since 1831 the Tithe Commutation Act
has been passed, which has added considerably to
the revenue of the priesthood. Moreover, it ap-
pears from a return just made by the Treasury, and
mentioned by Mr, HUME, that since 1809 the sum
of 2,750,000/. has been advanced out of the public
taxes for the extension of the Church, or, more ,
justly said, to swell the power, pomp, and wealth,
of the priesthood. Fo► the augmentation of poor
livings alone the people have had extracted from
them, since 1809, 1,100,000/. That has all gone
into the pockets of the priesthood. Looking at all
these items, we cannot doubt for one moment that
the annual income of the priesthood is at least
5,000.0001.
Tile chief reason assigned by Sir R. INGLIS
foc demanding more money is the increase of popu-
lation, which, as we yesterday stated, is about
three-fold since the Revolution. We must now
ad l the then amount of the revenues of the
presthood, and its subsequent increase. In
" Wade's British History," it is stated on the
excellent authority of Mr. GREGORY KING, that
the income of the Spiritual Lords in 1688 was
33,800/. ; of eminent clergymen, 144,0001. ;
of lesser clergymen, 400,0001.; total, 577,000/.
['his includes the whole priesthood then in the
kingdom ; and it therefore appears that while the
population has increased only three-fold si7ce the
Revolution, the wealth of the priesthood has aug-
mented more than eight-fold, and yet they are not
contented. Properly husbanded, and properly ap-
plied, if the wealth of the Church at the Revolu-
tion was sufficient for all useful purposes, instead
of not being sufficient to provide spiritual instruc-
tion for three times the amount of the then popu-
lation, it should be sufficient to provide for eight
times as many.
Now mark what Mr. HUME says of the effi-
cacy of this wealth-laden priesthood. Every per-
son knows that the curates and the resident rectors
constitute the efficient and working clergy. In
1838, however, 4,307 incumbents out of 10,742
were non-resident. In 1831, 5,230 curates ac-

The Phare des Pyrenees of the 10th has the following
letter :—.

PERTHUS. AZAv 14.—The bands of the Cabecilla
Fetip have passed so near to Olot, that the cannon of the
place fired on them. Two moveable columns are going to
be organised in Lampourdan, to check their depredations.
The main body °rale faction has been vigorously attacked
by the columns of Genera! Clemente, comitut from Ma-
niesa, and of General Salcedo, who was at Vich. The
partisan Boquica is at Villalong,2l with 600 men.
The Army of the Centre is shortly to go into Cata-
lonia, to put an end to the insurrection in that province.
Espartero intends to proceed against Berga towards the
middle of June. "—Le Commerce.
BOURSE.—.PAkts, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20.

. _
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
ranch 5 per Cents ll6 5 ... 116 10 ... 115 63 115 65
4 per Cents lO5 ... •15 ... 105 ... 105
3 per I 'erns sa 10 85 10 ... 85 5 85 5
:lank of erance 3295 ...3:11 5 ...3395
Lattitte (tank 1,0001: Sli llOO ...IP,: ...IPA) ...II 0
5,000 f. Sh stlo ...5‘200 ..520n
Belgian 5 r.cr Cents 1044 '
... 10314 10356
8 per Cents 76 20 76 20 76 10 ... 7fi ..0
New York ...
Uhio lOl ... 103 ... 103 103
ani,h Ac tve. 93 19i4
Passive • ••• 7% —•
',:ea! °tit,'

tirtian 1134 ... 11356 ... Ii 34 1143 N,

RAILWAY SHARES.
(iermai,
Versailles. R. B l7O ... 770 7 7CO 0 ...
577 1.0 577 ... 57? 50 572 50
L.B. '?81 21,
Orleans ..
•tr_isburg to Bale

AECHIMEDES STEAMER.

PORTSMOUTH, N:AY 21, 1840.

Yesterday the Archimi des steamer arrived here

from Southampton, having made the passage to the
harbour's mouth with sails alone, • going nine knots
per hour. This day at noon, having taken on
board Sir Edward Codrington, Naval Commander-
in-Chief, Admiral Bouverie, second in command,
Lord Dundonald, Sir Thomas Hastings, Captain
of the Excellent, Colonel paisley, Royal Engi
neers, Captain Mitchell, R.N., of the Magi-
cienne, Captain Basil Hall, R.N., and about
twenty other naval officers, together with several
scientific gentlemen from the Royal Dock-yard, she
started with a fair wind for St. Helen's, under sails,
without any fires lighted. She afterwards luffed
up, and made several tacks through Spithead ; and
finally, taking in all sails, lighted the fires, con-
nected the screw, steamed into harbour, beating
both the Isle of Wight steamers, though they
had steam and sails, and the Archimedes had
steam only. As a finale she kept threading in and
out among the line-of-battle :ihips, backing and
turning in every direction. Sir E. Codrington,
and the other leading men expressed their entire
satisfaction at the result of this experimental trip.

tively employed received on an average 791. per
annum each ; showing, as Mr. IlitmE states, that
nearly one half of the whole duties of the priesthood
were performed for lcss than 420,0001. a-year.
Consequently, an additional 500,0001. a-year, or
at most a million in all, on the scale of
remuneration which the rectors bestow on the
curates, and which, according to their estimation,
is enough fur a clergyman, would pay for all the
duties actually performed. Instead of one million,
however, the priesthood has five millions ; four mil-
lions being employed to support the pomp and
splendour of the hierarchy, to foment and sustain
avarice, and low-minded worldly ambition, and to
spread demoralization through the land—and four
millions for this encouragement of vice is not suffi-
cient for the priesthood ! 'When we find such a
large proportion of the national wealth devoted to
ec ri
ee
ncey o
oft
thesuch objects, we cannot be surprised at that in-
a s
priesthood
crime, w hieli testifies
a moral
police,
to th the
aiint
de ffi
to-
the evil effects of taking such an immense sum from
the people to minister to their luxury, splendour,
andpomp. r
he
business of the Government and Legislature
is to provide for the security of life and property, '
and the physical wel—beingChurch of the whole people.
'
No one has ever defended
Establishments
1:
except as a means of promoting the morality
of the
people, and so rendering life and property secure.'
At present, however, the peoule are suffering from
poverty,
while the priesthood are wallowing in
lt
h 0
ex-
torted wealth ;anditisastotliurde from
astoundingly impudent to
propose to take something nopeople
b and (live something more to the priesthood. The
Bishop of LONDON, for example, has nearly
14,000/. a year ; the labourers at Foothill, at
Tewkesbury, at Nottingham, at Preston, &c., have,
as they emphatically say, not as much as "the keep
of a d 0,,." The working classes, to the extent of
_
their sugar,cotton,hie h t theirhe night,
their consumption, are the great tax payers. Their
bread,
tea, are all taxed. Ttilliahrtl,esbe..‘f,!;re the gallery was opened, as Lord Howick and Mr.
Immediately after the division on Wednesday
tan observed°,dthsa.etro,sretliioriroigtfrom the.t Hhoutse, Mr. Henry. Grat-
CHANCELLOR of 012 EXCHEQUER is about
their
i r
additional beer,
their
taxes w'
to levy will fall heaviest on them. 11l pro- binson Crusoe and his maneFiZ'l.
Itijyo,rhe .watoolluesotderoevtioruerd
tion ;tr.--
portion, their coarse cotton garments, the i vent the Bill making the slightest further
progress.

coarse tea they cen,um,, pay more to the State
than the fine cotton garments and the fine tea of

the opulent. Induce!, it may be said that the
labourers pay' all the taxes ; and, white the great
.nultitude are in _a state of destitution,—while the
land is full of complaints that men cannot get a fair
day's wages for a fair day's work,—while the just
grievances of the people have excited almost univer-
sal disccntent, which threatens the existence of the
State, Sir R. INGLIs pioposes to lry additional bur-
dens on them to build more churches, while those
we have are only half used ; and to endow more
priests, while the half of those now in existence
do nothing for the riches which the law extorts
from the rightful proprietors and bestows on them.
This example of the impudence of unchecked dis-
honesty was never exceeded, and its impolicy is
quite equal to its impudence.

THE MARXETS-(Ti-hS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

The arrivals of English Grain hove been small ; of Irish
Oats and Foreign What. good. The trade for Wheat dull at
Monday's prices. Barley, Beans, and Pease unvaricd. Oats
well maintained their former terms. Flour meets a moderate
demand, at no variation in value.
SMITHFIELD.

A large supply of Sheep and Lambs, and the trade is very
good, at 4d. per stone advance. The Beef trade was also good
at last week's prices, and Pork and Veal sold equally as well as
then reported. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Mutton, 4s. 2d. to
ss. 4d. ; Veal, ss. to ss. Bd. ; Pork, 4.5. 4d. to ss. 4rl. ;
Lamb, 63. 6d. to 7s. -W.-Beasts, 707 ; Sheep and Lambs,
9,090 ; Pigs, 326 ; Calves, 267.
BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
Good supplies to day, and a fair trade ; prices steady.
Turbot, ss. to 20s. ; Cod, 3s. to Bs. ; Soles 6d. to 3s. 6d.
per pair ; Lobsters, 104.1. to 4s. ; Mackerel, 4d. to 10d. ;
Whitings, 4d. to Bd.; Haddocks, 6d. to Is, ; Salmon, lid. to
4s. per lb.

TALLOW MARKET.
This department is still very dull, and the nearest price of
P. Y. C. 495. 6d.

TEA MARKET.

Very little business done. No current prices could be
named, but perhaps the nearest price for Company's Congou
was 2,. 21,-d. cash.
COLONIAL MARKET.
Very little done either by public sale or private contract.
Raw Sugar very firm, and the prices tend upwards. B. Y.
sold slowly at 595. 6d. for brown, 645. for middling, and 71s. 6d.
to 725. for fine; Relined Standard Lumps, 845. to 665. ; 2,200
bags Mauritius sold at 58s. to 70s. ; 5,150 robins Malabar
Pepper went in part at 3i, for the best; Coffee very flat, and
prices uncertain; 5,000 bags Saltpetre sold in part at 225.
to 275.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LITERPOCL Corros MARKET, THURSDAY.—The sales
of this day are 4
.000 bates, hviders rather stiffer at ycstcr•
day's prices.

DESTk CCTIVE Fl IN OR h

ryIINS.! ER.

Accounts have been received in town this morning
of a second and stiil more destructive fire than that
kindled by Martin in this megnificent and venerable
cathedral. About nine on Wednesday an alarm was
given that the Minster was on tire. The alarm was
raised by two or three boys, who observed a light in the
belfry of the building, which they considered a remark-
able circumstance at that hour of the night, and imme-
diately intimated their suspicions to the passers-by,
amongst whom was one of the bell-ringers to the Min-
ster. The alarm was found to be too true, the fire bell
teas rung, and the news " The Minster on fire!" ran
through the streets with a perpetual echo ; messengers
were instantly despatched for the fire-engines, the sol-
diers, the police, and the officers connected with the
cathedral. In a short space of time the Yorkshire, the
York and North of England, and the barrack engines
were on the spot, arid a special railway train was de-
spatched to Leeds for engines from that town. A
plentiful supply of water was instantly at hand, and by
the excellent arrangements made, the crowds which
were immediately attracted to the spot were alike pre-
%related from risking their own lives and retarding the
operation fire-engines.
On investigetion it was found that the fire had origi-
nated slid was very rapidly spreading in the belfrey of
the Minster-, at the south western end. To this part,
therefore, two of the engines were instantly sent, but
notwithstanding their exertions, the flames advanced so
rapidly that within an hour that elegant part of the ve-
nerable building was reduced to a mere shell, the falling
of the bells carrying along with them the floor and wood
work, materially increasing the conflagration, and
causing alarm and dismay amongst the owners of the
adjoining property. At first it .was hoped that the fire
might be confined to this part, but the hope was soon
found to be vain. In a very short time the roof of the
nave was in a blaze, and the lead with which it was cc-
verud poured in red-hot masses on the marble floor below,
several of the windows being broken, and the wood-
work seriously injured. Great fears were next ex-
pressed for the great lantern-towers, which, it was
stated, contained highly combustible mate-ials, and
which, if ignited would have caused the destruction
of the entire fabric. The firemen were accordingly di-
rected to play on the roof along which the flames
were spreading, to prevent them from reaching this
tower, and, happily, the unremitting exertions and cou-
rageous conduct of the firemen secured the object.

For three hours the flames continua d without abate-
ment, presenting, amidst the darkness of the Hight, a
grand and awful spectacle, far exceeding in sublimity
that presented when this venerable pile was before
partially destroyed by the hand of the incendiary
fanatic Martin. About two o'clock yesterday morning
the flames were partial), got under ; but the engines
were still on the spot when our account left York.
The Lord Mayor, several of the magistrates, the
dignitaries of the cathedral, and other highly influential
gentlemen were promptly on the spot, and did all in
their power to prevent the cathedral from becoming a
heap of ruins ; and the inhabitants generally assisted
with cheerfulness and pleasure in working the engines,
and otherwise endeavouring to extinguish the fire.
The damage done must be immense, but its amount
cannot, of course, be at present estimated. The in-
terior of the building is, however, greatly injured as
well as the exterior, and many thousands will be re
quired to render this Minster again what it was in
former days. Indeed, this it never can be again, as
its ancient architectural decorations never can be sue-
; cessfully restored. The belfry tower, the roof of the
nave, many of the windows, and some of the interior,
are destroyed, or left mere skeletons, relics of their for-
mer grandeur and beauty.
As to the origin of the conflagration, that, at present,
remains i mystery. Workmen from Leeds have lately
been repairing the clock, and one of those, it is stated,
was at work on the evening shortly before the fire com-
menced, in the belfry, where it orig;nated. But it is
generally supposed from the rapidity with which the
flames spread, that this is the act of an incendiary.
It is somewhat singular that at the very time this
fire commenced, a great Protestant meeting was being
held in the Festival Concert Room, at which about
1,500 persons were present. During the proceedings an
announcement was made that a fire had taken place in
the city ; then a gentleman stated that this was a
hoax, upon which the audience cheered and remained.
It being whispered, however, that the Minster was on
fire (which but few were credulous enough to believe),
the Lord Mayor went out to ascertain the fact, when
he returned with the painful declaration that the ori-
ginal announcement was true. The auditory instantly
rose and rushed out of the building, many of them
being afterwards most actively engaged in extinguishing
the flames. At present suspicion attaches to no indi-
vidual.

During the night the streets have been crowded, and
hundreds of individuals have poured into the city from
the adjoining district. On the fait fire in the cathedral
the choir and cast-end were destroyed ; this time the
conflagration has been confined to the opposite part o!
the budding.

The fire-was extinguished at seven o'clock yesterday
morning.

anoAier account the following description of the
awful scene is given :—The flames illumined the inte-
rior with more than midday brightness ; the light pour-
ing through the crevices threw aHaney over the

scene which imagination cannot paint. The fife at this
time was wholly confined to the tower. After a space
of halt an hour the flooring of the belfry in the tower
began to be forced by the falling bells and lighted beams.
At this period the noise and grandeur of the scene was
extraordinary. The shouting of the firemen, the
roaring of the flames rushing up the tower with the
rapidity of a furnace draught, sounded in the high
and arched space awful and terrific. The falling
masses of wood and bells sounded like the near
discharge of artillery, and were echoed back from
the dark passages, whose gloomy shades and hollow
respon- es seemed mourning at the funeral pile that
burnt so fiercely. • In one hour the tower was com-
pletely gutted, and masses of burning timber lay piled
against the south-west door. The upper and under
roof', composed principally of fir timber, covering the
nave as far as the centre tower, had by this time be-
come fired, and burnt with extraordinary rapidity. Tne
firemen, by a well-managed direction of the water, pre-
vented the flames passing through the west windows of
the centre tower, and continued their exertions at that
spot until the whole of the roof had fallen in, and lay in
the centre of the long aisle a sea of fire.
The west doors had now became nearly burnt
through, and planks were brought to barricade them,
prevent the rushing of air to fan the embers to
ti,tmes, which might have communicated to the organ,
and thence throughout the whole plc of buildings.
The greatest regret, as might be expected, is felt in
York, and will be telt throughout the country, at the
irreparable damage done to the noblest Gothic cathe-
dral in the kingdom—we may say in the world ; but
we sincerely hope that the description of the injury sus
tained is exaggerated, and that the next accounts
will be more favourable.

BOW-STREE.T.-(THIS DAY.)

THE MURDER OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL

RE-EXAMINATION OF COURVOISIER.
This morning, at ten o'clock, wai; the time fixed for the
re-examination of the valet Cou,voitier, charged with the
wilful murder of the ill-fated Lord William Russell. All
the avenues to the Court were crowded at an early hour.
The doors of the office were opened at ten o'clock, and a
rw.h took place, which immediately filled the bcody of the
Court.

At ten oVock Mr. Hall took his scat on the Bench,
and immediately afterwards Francois Benjamin Cour-
voisier was placed at the bar. We observed on the Bench
also the Master-General of the Ordnance, Lord Blayney,
Major Anderson, Sir Felix Agar, and several other Ma-
gistrates._

- Sarah Maned! recalled.
Mr. HALL—You recollect telling me you entered your
master's room immediately after the prisoner. Did he
call to his master, and endeavour to assaken him ? Wit•
inns No, Sir. Whorl I came into tho room, I said—
" My Lord, my Lord ;" and he said " There he is."
Mr. HALL—At what time had he opened the window?
Witness—lle was opening it, Sir.
Mr. HALL—WiIy did you follow him into the room im-
mediately: waaass_Because I was anxious to se.
where his Lordship was. I had my dread about me,
knowing his Lordship was an old man, and seeing he was
unprotected. His Lordship was in the habit of burning a
rush. liht. I put up a whole rush light that night myself.
Nut more than ten minutes had elapsed before I went Into
the room the second time, after giving the alarm. Ido
not think there was any one up stairs Outing the interval.
I have had a conversation with the prisoner about his
Lordship's money. About a week before the murder the
arisoner said, old Billy was a runt old chap, and if he had
his money he would not be long in Ent-214nd. I said his
Lordship was not rich. He said, old Billy has got money,
and if I had his money I should not be long in England.
There was no observation made as to where the money was
kept, nor was any allusion made to the trinket box. No-
thing mere passed at that time respecting money. I heard
him repeat that at different times within a week before
they went to Richmond, and after their return. No corn.
plaint had ever been made of any plate being missing be-
fore. I did not on the Tuesday observe any marks
on the door of the back yard. The lower
bolt was never fastened. It would not catch. There
was a fire always left in the kitchen when we went to
bed. It was made up the la,,t thing. I did not go into
the kitchen when I first went clown on Wednesday. I
did not hear the prisoner go to bed on Tuesday night.
I have seen him come down without his shoes, and with
them, but this morning he had his shoes on. When I
! knocked hint up the first time, I did not hear him answer.
I •Asked him afterwards if he heard me; he said he had,
and that he thought he would begin to dress. This was in
the course of Wednesday. I never saw any razor in the
prisoner's room, nor do I know where he kept them. I
do not know how many shirts he had ; he always kept his
boxes shut. I have seen him wear a pair of dark kid
gloves, but cannot say whether he was in possession of
any others.
Mr. Flower did not know whether it was stated in the
repositions that the prisoner eamo down with his shoes on
that morning. He thought it material it should appear
in them.