The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-26 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION• 1 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock

7/10}1 THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
( From the Globe.)
Lord Stanley's Bill for disfranchising a large portion of
the Irish constituencies, will this evening be again intro-
duced to the House of Commons, in a Committee of the
whose Houso. The courage, or rather reckless daring, of
the Noble author of this now well-understood schema for
acquiring by fraud what farce was found powerless to
wrest from the Irish people, and the vaunted confidence
of the Noble Lord's aiders and abetters in this design,
have strangely cooled. The vote of Friday has caused a
change to pass over the spirit of their dreams of approach-
ing triumphs—the preludes to place and plunder. The
monster-measure has been deprived of much of its ori-
ginal potency for evil. It was formed to pounce upon, and
seize, and mutilate, and eventally to destroy the freedom
of the Irish people ; to bind them to the will of these who
behold in their devotion to their country's interests, an
efhetual barrier to their own resumption of the power ,
which they formerly possessed, and so terribly perverted
to purposes as aggrandizing to their own interests as they I
were insulting. irritating, and injurious to the great body
of the people. Tbc Bill is to-night doomed to undergo a
similar operation to that of Friday last ; and thus onward,
until it is reduced to an innocuous and misshapen mass—a
memorial of its author's designs—a memento cf its party's
disappointment.

(From the Courier.)
It will be remembered that Lord John Russell engaged
that neither Ministers nor their supporters should
offer any opposition to Lord Stanley's Registration
Bill going into Committee to-night. If the matter de-
pended solely upon the Colonial Secretary, we should
bo perfectly satisfied ; but who can answer for the good
faith of the rabid " Tail," who do the bidding of
O'Connell, or for the good faith of O'Connell him-
self, should an opportunity be given by a thin attend-
ance of Conservatives, for moving the committal of the
Bill this day six months? We hope that no such op-
portunity will be given, for though the Bill is consider-
ably injured by the adoption of Lord Morpcth's amend-
ment, it is still calculated to put an end to the noto-
riously dishonest system of registration which reflects
such disgrace upon Ireland as never visited any other
country. The Chronicle of this morning, in a very la-
boured article, attempts to show that the constituency of
Ireland is too small in proportion to its population ; but
this disproportion, admitting it to exist, is no reason for
suffering the operation of a system of which t'ae direct
effect is in reality to diminish the real constituency by the
intrusion of votes for which the qualifications have been ob-
ta:ncd by means of fraud and perjury.
( From the Standard.)
Lord Stanley's Bill is to be committed this night, and if
any faith can be reposed in the promises of Ministers, no
opposition will be made to the commit cal. We have no faith,
however, is the promises of Ministers : we will not affect
to be courteous at the expense of truth and sincerity. We
believe Lord John Russell capable of any degree c.f
falsehood to compass even a very secondary party
purpose. We do not forget his Lordship's Totncs
speech; we do not forget the mean subserviency to Mr.
Daniel O'Connell, vs ith hich he acted when Lord
Stanley first proposed his Bill ; or the degrading bondage
to the basest and the most dangerous individual in the
empire, in which his Lordship and 1 is c &leagues have con-
sent, d to crawl, since they sold and signed away
their free agency and their honour by " the
compact of Lichfield House." Lord John Russell's pro-
mise will be understood by every rational man only as a
w lining to expect a course of conduct exactly the oppo-
site to that for which it engages should the opportunity
arise. Every Conservative Member of the House of Com-
mons must, therefore, be at his post if he does not wish
to give to Ministers and their master another victory—a
victory which would be mischievous in many ways.

CONFESSION OF COURVOISIER

The confession of Courvoisier, which we pulvlished yes-
terday, contained allegations respecting the police which,
as was obvious, called for close investigation on the part of
the Commissioners. That inquiry has been made, and
has resulted in the following contradiction to the parts im-
puting negligence to the police officers in their investiga-
tion of the circumstances connected with the murder
of
Lord William Russell.

We are enabled to state that there is no truth what-
ever in these statements of the culprit. It might,
perhaps, be sufficient, in order to prove that the confes-
sion in these parts is not entitled to the slightest credit,
to state that since it was made, this wretched being has
made two further confessions, in which he acknowledges
that the statement in his first confession relating to
Lord W. Russell's coming down stairs on the night of
the murder, and all that then passed, is wholly
untrue; and that as to the statement of his making the
marks on the back door on the Monday night, he now ad-
mits it to be also false. We understand that a positive
contradiction is given by the two workmen who were em-
ployed in the scullery, as well as by the police engaged in
making the search there, to the statement of Courvoisier
that he concealed the seals and ring upon the Friday in the
places where they were subsequently found.
As to the gloves, &c., and the places where they were
afterwards found, it might be enough to observe that the
extreme improbability of his being able to conceal them in
those places is not the only answer to Courvoisier's false
statements. The police and workmen positively state
that he never could have reached, or got near to, the
places where they were found. He was all the time in the
custody of a very vigilant police constable, who never al-
lowed him to move beyond his immediate observation.
His statement also that he kept the watch and seal
in his pocket until Friday, is fully answered by the evidence
of Inspector Tedinan, both before the Magistrates and on
the trial, who swore that on Wednesday, the day after the
murder, about 11 o'clock, he strictly searched the person
of Courvoisier, whom he then suspected of the crime; that
he made him turn inside out every one of his pockets,
and unbutton his waistcoat and shirt, and that only
two pocket handkerchiefs and a few shillings wore found
upon him at that time. We need hardly point out
also the extreme improbability of any one who had com-
mitted such a deed, and who admits that he afterwards
concealed these articles in such places that it seems almost
miraculous they were discovered; that he should have put
property, such as a watch and seal with the arms of his
Lordship upon it, into his pocket, and keep them there
so long after the police were in the house; property so
easily discovered, identified, and affording conclusive evi-
dence of guilt if found upon his person. The assertion
as to the conversation, and what passed with one of the
police about the locket, is likewise met by a distinct
contradiction.
If it could be conceived that any of the police put blood
upon the gloves, and placed them where they were found,
they would have had a different appearance. It would
have been far easier, as well as more conclusive, to have
made the marks of blood more like what would appear to
have been caused by such a deed, had they been worn by
the murderer at its perpetration. It is also positively
denied by all the police, and the servants
(the only per-
sons who could have access to the linen in which they were
found) that they knew nothing of these articles being so
concealed.
An observation to this effect was made by the Learned
Chief Justice to the Jury, and is applicable likewise to the
shirt-front and handkerchiefs found in the portmanteau of
Courvoisier.

It is dreadful to ref Let that an individual upon the verge
of eternity, should, frcm any motives, have made a confes-
sion which appears to be totally false; and even contradic-
tory to his own subsequent confessions. This one is so in
many material points. —Evening Paper.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

WAR OFFICE, JUNE 26, 1840.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant J. H. Gray,
from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Keown,
who exchanges, June 26.
7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant W. S. Greene
from halp-pay 54th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice N. Armstrong,
who retires upon half-pay, June 26.
10th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieutenant W. Arm-
strong, from the 6th Dragoons, to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Rowley, deceased,
une 26.
11th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Capt. J. C. W. Vivian,
from the 20th Foot, to be Captain, vice J. Tomlinson, who re-
tires upon half-pay Unattached, June 26.
15th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. H. Keown, from
the Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Gray, who ex-
changes, June 26.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Assistant-Sur-
geon G. Brown to be Battalion-Surgeon, vice Johnson, pro-
moted ; C. Nicoll, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Brown,
Jane 26.
20th Regiment of Foot—Capt. R. Doyne, from half-pay Un-
attached, to be Captain, vice Vivian, appointed to the 11th
Light Dragoons •, :.Lieut. Lord AI. Kerr, to be Captain, in
purchase, vice Doyne, who retires; Ensign H. W. Master-
man to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord 31. Kerr ; S.
T. Williams, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Master-
ton, June 26.
26th Foot.—C. H. Rhys, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Anderson, whose appointment has been cancelled,
June 26.
28th Foot. —Lieut. T. Bunbury, from the 60th Fcot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Love, who exchanges, June 26.
60th Foot—Lieutenant E. N. Love, from the 28th Foot, to
be Lieutenant vice Bunbury, who exchanges, June 26.
64th Foot—Ensign the Hon. G. F. W. Yelverton, to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Collinson, deceased, May 9;
Gentleman C. A. Tisdall, from the Royal Military College, to 1
be Ensign, vice Yelverton, June 26.
72d Foot—Lieutenant J. T. Hope, to be Adjutant, vice
Moylan, who resigns the Adjutancy only, June 26.
74th—Lieut. It. Walsh to be Adjutant, vice Fraser, who
resigns the Adjutancy only, June 26.
75th Foot—Capt. A. A. Browne, from half-pay Unattached,
to be Captain, vice W. Sutton, who exchanges ; Lieut. W.
Lucas, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Browne, who retires;
Lucas hW. Goodwyn to be Lieutenant, by purchase., vice
ucas ; C. Machen, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Goodwyn, June 26.
BREVET. C • •
TL,s4:a.Anette,ari2n.B.:R. Doyne, of the 20th Foot, to be Major
in the
rAirrmA
Assistant-Surgeon P. Nicolson, 51. D
from the 13th Light Dragoon., to be Assistant-Surgeon the Forces, vice Balfour, appointed to the -Grenadier Gmards,
June 26.
111F:310ItANDUM.—The promotion of Ensign F. Mundell, of
the 69th Foot, to a Lieutenancy in the Ist Wcst India Regi-
ment, and the appointment of Mr. IL V. Mundell, to the
Ensi,gney in the 69th Foot, in succession, as stated in Gazette
of the 17th April, are cancelled.
19th
ThJune,e surnis I3ewes,ame of thand e En
nsot Bowign appes.ointed to the 45th Foot, on

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JuNE
Royal Regiment of Artillery.--Second Captain F. Warde to
be Captain, vice A. Wright, retired on full pay ; First Lieu
tenant. J. E. Dupuis to be Second Captain, vice Warde ;
coed Lieutenant T. Knox to be First Lieutenant, vice Dupuis
June 15 ; Second Captain W. B. Ingilby to be Captain, vice E:
Sheppard, retired on half-pay; First Lieutenant J. Low to be
Second Captain, vice Ingilbr ; Second Lieutenant C. W.
Youngliusband to be First Lieutenant, vice Low, June 19.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Breconshire.
P. P. Williams, Esq., to be Depty Lieutenant, June 19.