The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-11 00:00:00

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We have just returned from Constitution-hill,
where we left several policemen actively engaged
in searching for the bullets, which, however, had
not been found up to the hour we left. The dust
underneath the wall where the bullets struck has
been swept into heaps and removed in a wheel-
barrow, and will be carefully sifted, under the
superintendence of the police. The assassin,
when seized, is reported to have said, " Well,
I have done it I" It is also rumoured that he has
stated the pistols were given to num by a gentle-
man for the purpose of being employed in this
diabolical attempt. The trees in a line between
the place where the assassin stood and the marks
on the wall, appear to have been wounded. We
understand Chat her Majesty, immediately after the
occurrence, drove to Belgrave-square to call on her
illustrious mother, the Duchess of Kent, and returned
from thence to the Palace. The Park is crowded
by persons anxious to ascertain the particulars of the
horrible affair. The crowd on the spot where the
diabolical attempt was made is so great, that it has
been found necessary to station a body of police
there, to preserve order. On her return from her
ride, as the carriage approached the Palace, her
Majesty gave orders to the postilions to proceed
slowly, in order to afford her an opportunity of re-
ceiving and returning the enthusiastic greetings of
the thousands of her loyal subjects, assembled
there to congratulate their Sovereign on her provi-
dential escape.

The prisoner is under the care of a Superin-
tendent and two Police Sergeants at the station in
Duke-street, Westminster. He states his name
to be Edward Oxford, and in answer to questions
put to him by the Superintendent be said that
he had been a pot-boy, and left his situation
only two or three days ago, since which he has
resided with his mother in West-square. He is
a tall, slight lad, and rather decently dressed--

he evinces no signs of insanity whatever, and re-
plies to the questions put to him in the most
rational manner. The pistols, which are of a
superior description and quite new, are about five
inches long in the barrel. From the position in
which he was standing at the time he discharged
them the muzzle must have been within ten feet
of the carriage and on a line with her Majesty's
head. The balls passed on the opposite side of
the road along the wall in a slanting direction,
and it would appear that he fired the shots as

the carriage was approaching towards him. It
was rumoured that one of the bails had penetrated
her Majesty's bonnet, but this we have ascertained
to be without foundation. When the prisoner was
asked where he had purchased the pistols, he said,
in a significant manner, " Don't you wish to know
that very much ?" He has been repeatedly ques-
tioned as to his motives, but he is quite silent on
that topic. It is supposed that he will be removed
to the Home Office, and that the investigation will
take place before the Marquis of Normanby to-night.
The woman wl.o was standing near Oxford when he
fired the shots was taken into custody, but on giving
her name and address she was discharged. Vast
crowds are still congregated round the station in
Duke-street, and the greatest anxiety is manifested
by all patties to learn the particulars of this diabo-
lical affair.