The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-09 00:00:00

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MURDER OF LORD W. RUSSELL.

LATEST PARTICULARS.

Norfolk-street, half-past Two o'Clock.

Up to this hour Caurvoisier still remains at the resi-
dence of his late master. He is not in actual custody,
although strictly watched. Nothing further has trans-
pired, but the inquiry still continues, the strictest se-
crecy being observed as to every thing that is elicited.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET POLICE
COURT, FOUR O'CLOCK.

Up to this hour no person has been brought before the
Magistrate, charged with being concerned in the mur-
der of Lord William Russell, although a report was
very prevalent during the morning that Courvoisier
would be broughtto the office during the course of the day.
It is reported that certain articles of jewellery, supposed
to have belonged to the ill-fated Nobleman, have been
found in Courvoisier's possession, and that Ellis, the late
valet, has been sent for to ascertain if he can identify
the property. The watch has not yet been discovered.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FRON THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAL.
(From the Globe.)
That Irishmen should be temperate in their language,
as well as their cups, and disappoint the broad-sheet
under Mr. O'Connell, as well as starve the revenue
under Father Matthew, is surely asking from mortal
men too much at once. Nothing less, however, will
satisfy the Times of this morning. In its virtuous
horror of violent language, or in revenge of poaching
on its own manor, the Tnnec pounces upon some ex•
pressions of Mr. O'Brien Dillon, in Tipperary, which
contain something about muskets and bayonets, and
Repeal of the Union. We are quite of the opinion of
the Ghost in Hamlet, that speaking daggers is much
less indiscreet than using them. Our readers may re-
member that we rather discountenanced the cries of
" treason" by some of our contemporaries against the
and Robys. When people talk sedition
on the scene of its actual occurrence, or when there is
any direct connection between talk and action on such
occasions, it may be necessary to punish words as deeds..
Or when a public functionary toasts the triumphs of
civil war, it may be due to the public feeling to remove
him. But these are nowise parallel cases to this of Mr.
O'Brien Dillon, which the Times labours so hard to
invest with prodigious importance. We look upon
such sallies as of about equal practical moment to Mr.
Bradshaw's declaration that he (Bradshaw) would re-
sist the Queen's Government. It is quite understood
that these are figures of speech at Canterbury and in
Tipperary. Besides, even on the Times showing, Mr.
Dillon's recurrence to the old arguments of the Irish
proposed hypothetically, and as
Volunteers was only
the hypothesis is not likely to be realised, the more
harmless is the menace.
(From the Standard.)
We arc informed that a majority of the gentlemen
connected with the provincial press have made ar-
rangements for the purpose of addressing to Parliament
a petition for a revision of the unjust and mischievous
law of libel. We rejoice that the subject has been
taken up by the provincial press, because, for reasons
which we shall presently explain, the provincial
press is entitled generally to more consideration upon
such a question, than the aggregate press of the
metropolis, However, it is the duty of all of us
who are sensible of the danger and degradation to
which we are all exposed in the present state of the law,
and who feel that it is unmerited in our own several
cases, to join heartily in the pursuit of justice opened
by our provincial brethren. Of one thing we may be
well assured, that if we do not urge our own cause, it
will not, whatever they may promise, be urged by others.
Peers and Members of Parliament, judges and lawyers,
will not protect us if they can help it ; they all impartially,y,
hate us, and.alLwith to retain us in that state of sub-
jection and debasement to Which we' aro condemned
by the present state of the law. This is a point upon
which all ranks of public men, and all parties, are
agreed : they feel that the press has some power in
spite of them, and they prefer to check the increase of
that power, by degrading laws, to giving it a right
direction, by placing us in our proper position. The
public may not know this, but we who are behind the
scenes see it every day. The very men who almost
crawl to us in private would not deign to recognise one
of us in public, still less to render a kindness which
could be detected ; while a gentleman who even offers
an ordinary civility to one of our proscribed order is
denotmeed by his equals as a person who descends to
" toady the press."

(From the courier.)
A numerous meeting of the solicitors and attornies of
the metropolis, which was held yesterday at the Law
Society's-rooms in Chancery-lane, was with reference to
an objcet of peculiar interest, not in respect of legal
practitioners only as a class apart, hut of the public at
large ; that is, for the expression of an opinion very ge-
nerally entertained privately in favour of the removal of
the Courts of Law and Equity from Westminster Hall,
where at present located, to some central situation in the
vicinity of Lincoln's Inn. For those conversant with
Courts as now held at Westminster, we mean
suitors, jurors, auditors, as well as the legal profession,
there needs no description to recall or impress upon
their senses the exceedingly inconvenient, ill-arranged
small, and therefore crowded state of the offices on
business days. Their narrow and huddled accommoda-
tions, if accommodations they can be called, are really
derogatory to the dignity of the administration of
justice. Some notion may be formed indeed of the way
in which Judges are disposed of into all sorts of holes
and corners, when wanted', by one specimen cited
by Mr. Vizard in the course of his very effective
speech at the meeting—" It was found necessary," said
he, " that the Master of the Rolls should sit in the
morning at Westminster, instead of the evening in
Chancery-lane. He was first put into a Committee-
room in the House of Commons, and afterwards up-
stairs in a room the ceiling of which any man
might almost reach with his hand, and the approach to
which was a disgrace to a Court of Justice." The in-
convenience or disagreeableness to the Judge is not,
however, the worst feature in the case, for the cause of
the suitor may be damaged from the hindrances thrown
in the way of free communications with his counsel and
solicitors.

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON.

(THIS DAY.)

The annual meeting of the members of the Royal Yacht
Squadron took place at the Thatched House Tavern, St.
James-street. The Right Hon. the Earl of YARBOROUGH,
Commodore, in the Chair.
The following members were present :—Vice- Admiral
Sir G. E. Hamond, G. C. 8., Joseph Wild, Esq., Joseph
Reynolds, Esq., the Earl of Ilchester, John Moore, Esq.,
Captain Thomas Garth, R.N., Charles Pratt, Esq.,
William Delafield, Esq., Captain A. L. Corry, R.N., Sir
Hyde Parker, Bart., the Earl of Wilton, Menon Hall,
E-q., Edward B. Beaumont, Esq., S. D. Horsey, Esq.,
M. P., John Bayley, Esq., Sir B. Graham, Bart., R. W.
Cooper, Esq., George Tomline, Esq., William Hanhane,
Esq., John Beardmore, Esq., Viscount Exmouth, and
Petre, Esq.
The following Noblemen ann Gentlemen were elected
members :—Benjamin Boyd, Wanderer, 141 tons; Vis-
count Powcrscourt, Antelope, 90 tons; Lord Lovainc,
Turquois, 78 tons ; Captain W. B. Ponsonby, Heron,
46 tons.
The following were elected honorary members :—Copt.
C. B. Swinburne, R.N. ; Commander J. C. Par'i.er,
lI.N. ; Commander H. E. Coffin, R.N. ; Commander
Charles C. Dent, R.N. ; Commander John Henry Wind-
barn, R.N. ; his Majesty the King of Naples; John Cos-
pin, Esq., her Majesty's Consul at Corunna ; General
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That the Annual Ball do take place on Tuesday the 18th
August.
That the Club Cup, value 100 guineas, be sailed for on
Wednesday, the 19th August, by yachts of the 4th class,
from 55 to 70 tons ; and
That the Annual Dinner do take place on Thursday, the
20th August.
Thanks having been voted to the Noble Chairman, the
meeting broke up.

Mrs. Wyndham entertained a fashionable circle
on Thursday evening, in Grosvenor-place.
and Lady William Keith Douglas left the
Burlington Hotel on Thursday, en route for Carlsbad.
Lady William 13entinek has left Vernon Douse,
park-place, for Paris.