The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-20 00:00:00

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ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY.

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ABERGAVENNY FRIDAY, Two o'CLocK, P. m,
A meeting of ate inhabitants of this ancient town has just taken
place In tNe Town Hall, to cTonhgercathu:te the Queen on her recent
Decal
from assassination.
filled by that truly
Focral and enlightened Clergyman. Chair was ably
thebßuseii;essWo.f th e Powell,
meetingiiih e'
Vicar of Abergavenny. In opening the
that portion of the
gave a severe and well merited castigation
Preen who have sneered and treated lightly the
and atrocious at.
tempt on the life
of our most gracious Sovereign ndher illustrious
Consort. He eulogised in the warmest terms the
toher conduct of her
Majesty, and after paying a just tribute of respect
Royal
Father, the late Duke of Kent, to whom he said he hadythe ho.
naur of being known, concluded a truly eloquent address b
on his parishioners, situated, as they were, in the immediatcealvliicing
nay of the recent tumults, to rally round the Throne, and oiler
their heartfelt congratulations to the fairest and purest Monarch
that ever reigned over and in the hearts of an affectionate and
loyal people.

The Reverend Gentleman sat down amidst loud and reiterated
applause.

Mr. HILEY MoausN moved the address, which was seconded by
W. Pewst,L, Esq., of Tanne, and adopted by acclamation.
[A few such liberal-minded Churchmen would be a great bless-
ing to our country.]

AN HONEST CABMAN.—This morning at SA
o'clock, on the arrival of the mail train from Birmingham at
Euston-place, a gentleman of the name of Cotwell, of the firm
of Cutwell and Ce., American merchants, of Liverpool, arrived
by the train. On alighting from it kis luggage was placed in
a cab, and driven with himself to Guilford-street, Ruswll-
square. After returning to the stand, the driver on opening
the door discovered a pocket-book tied up, and on opening it
country and Bank of England notes, amounting to upwards of
2,700/., were found in it. The driver instantly drove off, and
restored the hook to the owner, who at the time was uneon-
scions of his loss. The honesty of the cabman was most libe-
rally rewarded by the gentleman.
ROYAL EXCHANGE.—The General Court of
the Mercers' Company met yesterday to receive the report of
tie GI esham Committee (the Mercer's side) on the subject of
Mr. Tite's design for the Nevi Royal Exchange, The report
contained the recommendation of eleven out of twelve of the
committee that the design should be adopted. The Court con-
fl Tried this recommendation by a very large majority, and re-
lotred it. back to the joint Gresham Committee to carry th.
same into effect without delay,

LONDON:
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1840.

The House of Peers, after receiving several petition s
for protection to the Church, and against the Irish
Corporation Bill, &c., proceeded to read the Order of
the Day for a Committee on the Corporation (Ireland)
Bill. It was understood that no discussion was to take
place on this stage, that Lord LYNDUURST was to in-
troducs his amendments, have them printed, and dis-
cuss them afterwards—a mode of proceeding which, as
we some time ago explained, spares a good deal of un-
necessary talk, and enables the Legislature to come
to a more satisfactory and better-thoughted con-
clusion. On the Order of the Day, however, being
read, up started the Bishop of EXETER, the STANLEY
of the Upper House, and made a long speech against
the motion and against the Bill altogether.
He took this step on behalf of the Church,
on which the Bill would inflict, he said, a
serious injury. The Prelate satisfied their Lordship;
that it was on religious, grounds he wished to
thwart the people of Ireland. Miss MARTINEAU in
her " Retrospect of Western Travel," observes, that
the American Statesmen could not believe Lord Jong
RUSSELL in earnest when he talked about removing
one stone of the Irish Church, and yet expected to
keep up the cumbrous building. They treated the
continued existence of that Church as an impossibility,
and regarded the Statesmen who attempted to maintain
it as ninnies. The Bishop of EXETER. is about to prove
to the strongheaded men of the United States that
they are mistaken, and that this Church can
not only be kept up, but can support a yet
greater load of infamy than now weighs on it.
The Bishop describes it as the main obstacle to poli-
tical improvement in Ireland.

The Duke of WELLINGTON rebuked the Reverend
Prelate, by reminding their Lordships of the unchr-
standing they had come to, but by which the Bishop
declared he was not bound, He had the modesty how-
ever not to press a division, in which he would probably
have stood alone. The Bill was sent into Committee.
Lord LYNDHURST moved his amendments, which were
ordered to be printed, and taken into consideration,
that is, spoken to and decided, on Monday week.
Tne Canada Government Bill was brought up from
the Commons, read a first time, and ordered to be read
a second time on the 30th instant.

The Earl of ABERDEEN presented a petition from
the suspended ministers of Strathbogie, and repeated,
as Viscount MILBOURNE said, by taking a single case,
and thereby showing:the possible horrors of the Veto Act,
the debate on the Scotch Kirk. Most of their Lord-
ships, except the Earl of BREADALBANE, condemned
the conduct of the General Assembly, as most illegal.
The petition was laid on the table.
At eight o'clock their Lordships adjourned.
In the Commons numerous petitions were presented,
including one by. Mr. GILLON, signed by 19,000 persons,
from Edinburgh, denouncing the conduct of the Ge-
neral Assembly, and praying for a separation of Church
and State.

Sir ROBERT PEEL adverted to the persecuted Jews
at Damascus, which he described as a subject worthy
of being mooted in the House of Commons, aid as-
serted that the persecution bad been connived at by
some Christian authority.

In answer to another statement made by the Right
Hon. Baronet, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the
speech of the Governor of Jamaica, congratulating the
House of Assembly on the happy termination of the
Session, which had appeared in the newspapers was
correct, and the despatch received on the subject would
be laid before Parliament.
The House went into a Committee on Lord STAN-
LEY'S Registration Bill.
On the first clause being put, Visccamt MORPETH
moved an amendment, the purport of which was to
leave out the clause and insert another, which went to
keep the names of the present voter on the registry,
unless in cases of death. The Noble Lord supported
hip view in an able and forcible speech.
Lord STANLEY defended the clause, denied that his
Bil► disfranchised any person, and stated that he did
not expect opposition at that stage of the measure.
Mr. SHIEL made a sharp, brilliant speech in favour
of the amendment, and showed up Lord STANLEY in
a very handsome manner.

Mr. D'ISRAELI followed Mr. SHIEL, and followed
him at a very humble distance.
Dr. STOCK spoke in favour of the amendment.
Mr. Sergeant JACKSON went into all the old stories
which the Fictitious Vote Committee had collected.
Mr. E. B. BARRY rectified an error of the Learned
Sergeant as to Cork.
Lord PowEßscoußT admitted that he had made an
incorrect statement on a former evening, and then made
other charges against individuals, which will probably
turn out as inaccurate as the former.
Mr. J. GRATTAN had convicted the Noble Lord of
his former error, and would procure information to cor-
rect his present statement.

Mr. CALLAGHAN corrected some other mistakes of
Mr. Sergeant JACKSON.
The Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. PICOT,
showed that the Bill would disfranchise a great '
multi-
tude—that it is contrary to the Reform Act, which had
guaranteed the existing franchise—and would increase
the temptations to perjury.
Sir E. SuGnEs showed that a clause, similar in effect
to the clause which the Ministers proposed to cut out,
was in the Bill introduced by Mr. PICOT. He entered
nto a minute explanation of the clauses of the Bill,
and was coughed down for his pains.
Mr. MACAULAY closed the debate, by an able and
effective speech.

The Committee then divided, and Lord MORPETII'S
amendment was carried, by 296 to 289—majority for
Ministers, 7.
The House then resumed, and after a little squab-
bling as to the future day for proceeding with the Bill,
which was appointed, we believe, for Monday, and the
future course of proceedings, the other Orders of the
Day were disposed of, and the House adjourned.

Another great party debate occupied the House
of Commons last night, the subject being Lord
STANLEY'S Bill. Like all such debates it took a
somewhat personal turn. For nearly two hours the
Committee was occupied with the complaints, cri-
minations, and recriminations of Messrs. Sergeant
JACKSON, Mr. E. B. BARRY, Lord POWERS-
COURT, Mr. J. GRATTAN, Mr. D. O'CALLA-
GIIAN, Mr. MONTAGUE CHAPNIAN, and Mr.
LEFROY. These disputes turned on charges of
perjury, which Messrs.JACKSON, POWERSCOURT,
and LEFROY had at some time or other made
against some portions of their countrymen. If
those accusations were not true—and some of them
appeared to be completely disproved—the gentle-
men who made them are surely guilty of a crime—
that of falsely calumniating the absent, which is
quite as heinous as the perjury with which they
brand the Irish.

A little reflection, indeed, may lead to the con-
clusion that the Irish Members of the House of
Cominons only rail so bitterly against the people to
conceal their own delinquencies. They follow the
example of more than one celebrated preacher, ad-
dicted to the vices of the world, who make it a
rule to alarm their hearers by fearful denunciations
every Sunday, so that they may have neither tune nor
inclination to watch the pleasure-loving pastor.
What the Irish are accused of—we do not say con-
victed--is a little false swearing, to attain a political
or party end. What many Members of the House
of Commons stand convicted of is, that they habi-
tually trample under foot all moral obligations, to
reach their particular political purposes.
They may not, technically speaking, commit
perjury—they may not violate any express form of
oath, but they daily and habitually sacrifice the duty
they owe their country to party and factious pur-
poses. An elector takes a false oath, with a view
of sending Mr. 0. or Mr. M. to the House of
Commons ; that is his political purpose—there be-
gins and there ends his crime. But Mr. J. or Mr.
L., who is sent to Parliament, promising, swearing,
to devote his life to the public service, and promote
by all the means in his power the public welfare,
no sooner takes the oaths and his seat than his
whole thoughts are devoted to the means of pro-
moting his own and hiS party's purposes. This is
a kind of practical perjury, as far exceeding in
guilt the perjury of the Irish peasant, as it surpasses
it in its mischievous consequences. The one
only degrades and debases individuals, the
other plunges a nation in distress, shame, and
ruin. We will not dwell on particulars, but the
existence of Corn-laws—for which most of the
Members who bawl so loudly against the perjury
of the Irish voted—the existence of one code for
the rich and another for the poor—the poverty to
which the industrious classes are reduced, and the
extortion which the Legislature sanctions, are irre-
fragable proofs that the Members of the Legisla-
ture care less for the obligations they contracted
than the Irish, whom they delight to brand with
the charge of perjury.

We received the Flanders and Hamburgh Mail last
evening, but their contents are destitute of interest.
The only circumstance deserving notice is contained in
a letter fromßerlin to a Hamburgh journal, which states,
that the late King of PRUSSIA enjoined his son above
all things to use his utmost endeavours to preserve the
peace of Europe, to maintain a strict alliance with
Austria and Russia, and to beware of innovations, with-
out going into the contrary extreme of being swayed
without reason in favour of whatever is old.

The French Chamber of Deputies voted the Trans-
atlantic Navigation Bill on Thursday. The lines are
to be established between Bourdeaux and New York
for North America, and between Marseilles and the
River Plate for the South. The Opposition Journals
see no advantage to the country in this measure. They
appear persuaded that the English Companies will beat
the French out of the field. This is not at all unlikely.
The following extract of a letter from Constan-
tine, contains the only news of the slightest interest in
the Paris Journals of Thursday
CONSTANTINE, MAY 23.—The ex-Bey Achrnet, who had
still 1,500 horsemen, has just been driven front Dyr, where he
tad taken refuge, and robbed by his own peeple, who were near
bringing his head to Constantine, as a proof of the good faith of
the Arabs, who have made their submission to the Lieutenant-
General.

Fifty Chiefs of various tribes situated on the frontier of Tunis,
in the environs of Tepsa, with the Kaid of that last place at their
head, have come to announce to the Lieut. -General that they re-
present theliemenchas and the Arnarons, and that they submit to
the French authority. We have hitherto had no intercourse with
these tribes. The Arab chiefs told the Lieutenant-General
that they had attacked Achmet Bey, had killed several of his
people, and forced him to retreat into the mountains on the
frontier of Tunis, after having captured his tents, several
camels, and a part of his flocks; that the ex- Bey had
a horse killed under him, and that he narrowly escaped
falling into their hands. This event deprives Achmet
of all hopes of recovering his power ; he lately
received, it is said, tho diamond insignia of some order from
the Sultan ; and he boasted of it in order to gain credit for
a report which had spread, that he was going to receive
Turkish troops to make war on the French, but now he must
consider his cause as totally ruined. A column of 1,200 men, com-
manded by Col. Livasseur was sent against Achmed-el-Cherif,
which perfectly succeeded. The chiefs of tribes of Riga, which are
subject to us, have been protested against the hostile Arabs ;
the flocks which had been taken from them have been
restored, and the column brought back a good number
of cattle. Achmed-el-Cherif fled, and the chiefs who had not
yet acknowledged El-Mokrany, the Kalify of Medjana,
threw themselves at the feet of the Lieutenant, asking
pardon, which was granted on their furnishing hostages. This
portion of the Medjana is now tranquil. Those tribes will stop
the battalions of Abd-el-fader, should they attempt to move to.
wards Biscara.—Ls Constitutionnel.
LIOURSE.—PAKIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 18.

P irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents ll7 5 ... 117 5 ... 116 90 ... 117
44 per Cents lll 75 .. 111 75 ... 111 76 ... 111 75
4 per Cents lO5 25 ... '0.5 25 ... 105 25 ... 105 25
3 per Cents B4 60 ... 84 60 ... 84 60 ... 84 60
Bank of France 35130 ...2570 ...35€0 ...3370
Latlitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lll5 ...1115 ...1110 ...1110
5,000 f. W 5250 ...5250 ...5250 —5250
Belgian S per Cents
ipaimh Ac, ive
Passive 6% ... 6% ... 6% ... 6%
Old Deferred 64 ... 64 ... 64 ... 64u
Neapolitan lO4 '25 ... 104 ... 104 25 ... 104
Roman lO4 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104
Portuguese 3 per Cents
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, R. B 727 50 ... 727 50 ... 725 ... 72b
525 ... 525 ... 520 ... &29 SO
L.B. 230 ... 230 ... no ... 320
Orleans
kt on tpellier to Cette
Strasburg to Bale 420 ... 4tl 25 ... 415 ... 421 '25

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT GARDEN MARKET.

The supply was large and a good trade was dons. Plants,
Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per dozen; Celery, Is. to Is. 6d. per bundle;
Oranges, Bs. to 16s. per 100; Lemons, 4s. to is. 6d. per 100 ;
Apples, 123. per bushel ; Cherries, 4d. to 3s. 6d. per lb. ;
Cucumbers, Is. to 2s. per brace; Cabbages, 10d. to Is. 6d.
per dozen ; Spinach, Is. to Is. 6d. por sieve ; Green Goose-
berries, 6s. to ds. 6d. per sieve; French Beans, Is. to 2s. 6d.
per sieve; New Potatoes, 3d. to 7d. per lb.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

A moderate supply of Grain and Poultry at market, trade
was brisk, but prices cannot be quoted higher. Goslings, 45.6 d.
to 6s. 6d ; Leverets, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. ; Chickens, Is. 6d. to
2s. 6d. ; Fowls, 2s. 6d. to 6s. ; Rabbits, Is. 6d. ; Pigeons, 4d.
to 9d. ; Surrey Capons, Ss to 10s. ; Guinea Fowls, 3s. 6d. to
4s. ; Ducklings, 3s. to 4s. ; Eggs at previous rates ; Plovers, 4s.
p•r dozen. Meat, a good supply, trade moderate aid prices un-
altered; Beef, 3s. to 4s. ; Mutton. 3s. to 4s. 2d. ; Pork, 3s. 4d.
to 4s. Bd. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 10d. ; and Lamb, ss. 4d. to 6s.
per stone of 81b.
WHITECHAPEL MEAT MARKET.

Trade dull, notwithstanding the supply was short. Beef, 3s.
to 4s. ; Mutton, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 4d. ; Lamb, 4s. 6d. to ss. Bd. ;
Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 9d. ; Pork, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 7d. per stone.
WHITECIIAPEL HAY MARKET.

The market was rather liberally supplied, but the demand
being good, prices were not affected. Clover Hay, 31. to
51. 12s. Meadow Hoy, 21. 10s. to 4/. 43. Straw, 32s to 365.
per load.

TEA MARKET.
There was a fair business done, and former rates were fully
supported. Company's Congou steady at 2s. Id. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
The demand was steady, and former rates were supported
for P. Y.C. on the spot, and to arrive.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDkL and Mr. Baron FARIE.)

TRIAL OF COURVOISIER FOR THE MURDER
OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL.

Long before the opening of the Court, the Beneh and every part
of the Court was crowded by well-dressed persons. Never has
there been known such an assemblage of ladies on any preceding
occasion in a criminal Court. Every chair in front of the Bench
had its lady occupant, and during the whole of the three days the
ladies have been indefatigable in their attendance—many of them
not quitting the Court even during the time of the adjournment.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex was not present to.day.
Shortly after ten o'clock the Judges took their seats upon the
Bench, and immediately afterwards Francois Benjamin Courvoi.
sicr was placed at the bar. He appeared pale and downcast, and
anxious; but his firmness did not desert him.
Lord Chief Justice TINDAL suggested the propriety of examin.
ing the person who had made the model.
Charles Augustus Rivers was cross-examined by Mr. BODKIN--

lam a sculptor. I made the model produced. It accurately re-
presents the premises. The height of the back wall is 16 feet. 3. It
continues along the whole row of houses. The height of the wall
on the right side is 8 feet 7, and of the building on the other side,
10 feet 4. The height of the weather boarding 6 feet 10. Imme-
diately behind it on the other side is a bottle rack. It was in a very
rotten &tate. I cannot form a judgment if it would have borne
the weight of a man. The height of the wall Pram Sir Howard El.
phinstone's garden next dooriis 14 feet.
Sarah Mansell recalled. The prisoner remained in the house in
Norfolk street from the time of the discovery of the murder until
he was taken into custody.

Inspector Tedman recalled. I examined the bottle rack, but not
perfectly. Beresford examined it. He is sent for.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS then rose to address the Jury for the defence,and
said that after thirty years' considerable experience in his arduous
profession, he had seldom had to address a Jury under
more painful or anxious circumstances. There were circumstances
produced before the Magistrates calculated to cause censider.
able anxiety, and he left them to judge how much more that ti
anxiety must have increased by the production of evidence yester-
day, without notice, calculated to increase the danger of the union.
tunate man who now stood at the bar. lid said danger, because
he should show presently that that evidence was by no means con-
clusive against him, and he had the sympathies of the Jury in his
favour, as they were embarked in the same cause, and if they came
to an unjust decision en surely would they have to answer for it to
their Goa. He V 7,3 filled with dread when he considered the po.
pular prejudice; which had been raised agai st the prisoner before
any investigation had taken place. When he considered that this
case had not been left ti, be dealt with by the ordinary in
struments of justice, but that the investigations had been
stimulated by a large Government reward, as if the grave
knew of any aristocracy, arid when he saw this crowded Court,
and almost heard the throb of indignation which beat in every
bosom on considerine the crime with wh;e!) the prisoner was
charged; and when ho saw that unfortunate man at the bar, steed.
ing there alone, friendless, for front his friends, his country, and
all those who in his misfortunes could have afforded him comfort
and assistance—the object of all this prejudice and this indigna-
tion, he owned he should have felt dread, did he not fix the
anchor of his hope in the justice and good sense of the Jury;
and he was sure that when the prisoner, two days ago, re-
fused a foreign Jury, he was perfectly right in trusting himself
to an English Jury. The case was most mysterious. He
had to complain of Mr. Adolphus in his opening. That
gentleman had attempted to excite a prejudice against the
prisoner because he was a foreigner. Foreigners rob, and murder
when they rob. It was a libel on the human race. His (Mr.
Phillips's) countenance fell when he heard Mr. Adolphus say this—.
he dared not look up, lest he should see some of the representatives
of those foreign nations who had every day crowded this Court.
Mr. Adolphus was an historian, could he point out an instance of a
murder in Switzerland ? Was not that country celebrated for its
humanity, its kindness, and its virtue, and that was the country of
Courvoisicr. What would be their feelings if in a Court of Jug.
tice in Vienna or Madrid they were to see a fellow. countryman on
his trial for life—what would be their feelings, if they were to hear a
Counsel say, This man comes from the country of Patch, Greenacre,
and Thurtell, and Englishmen always murder. What must have
been the feelings of Courvoisier's countrymen in listening to Mr.
Adolphus's speech? Mr. Adolphus had attempted to induce them
to believe that crimes might be committed without a motive.
He could attribute no motive to Courvoisier, and therefore he had
recourse to this absurdity. His allusion to the case of Oxford was
most unfortunate. -He firmly believed that he was a maniac. If
actuated by morbid motives of notoriety he had dared to direct his
murderous aim at her, the beloved, the beautiful, the virtuous,
who was enthroned in her people's hearts, he must have been, if not
mad, at least on the very verge of madness. What motive could
Courvoisier have fcr committing this crime--revenge ?
There was no quarrel between him and his mas.
ter. Jealousy ? He was a favoured and a trusted
servant. Plunder ?—He had every opportunity of plundering
wholesale, almost to any extent, without suspition, or if suspicion
were excited, shared among him and others. He could imagine
a midnight plunderer entering the house, and, to prevent discovery,
committing the horrible crime with which the prisoner stood
charged. But even supposing the prisoner to have committed the
crime) must he not have been mad—mad to have committed it
without motive—mad to have remained after the commission of the
crime in a place where he could scarcely avoid being detected.
Let the ingenuity of the bar discover a motive, if they could.
They had endeavoured to do so ; they had failed. They then said
a crime could be committed without a motive—a contradiction to
experience--a contradiction to common sense. This was a
case entirely of circumstantial evidence, and therefore every
minute circumstance was entitled to their consideration. The pro.
secutors were bound to prove, not by inference, not by argument,
not by subtle ingenuity, but downright palpiole demonstration,
that the prisoner had been guilty of this crime. It was not for
him to say who did it. If they asked him who did it, he would
say, ask the omniscient God—he knew not—he was not called upon
to rend asunder the mantle of darkness, and throw a brilliant light
upon this most mysterious crime. He imputed it to no one. He
sought not, as had been insinuated, to cast any imputation nn the
female servants. The first fact relied on by Yr. Adolphus was the
prisoner's agitation. Now here he was called up by the housemaid,
and she said to him, Let us go and see where my LOrd is. He
owned that expression struck him as very remarkable. If
she had said, let us tell my Lord that the house has been
robbed, it would have been natural ; but why should she

suspect that my Lard was not safe ? Coutvoisier did as

ha was bid—went first into the room, opened the shutters, I
the housemaid saw a spot of blood upon the screamed, and
ran out. Now he had referred to the Coroner's depositions, and
Mr. Adolphus had very generously said that he might put in
these depositions, and the prosecution would waive the right of
reply. The Judge had very properly interposed, but the Coro.
ner's depositions were before the Bench, and the Bench could see
what she had said before the Coroner. He should not put in the
depositions, because he could not expose the prisoner to another
exercise of Mr. Adolphus's ingenuity. The shutters were opened,
the prisoner saw his master murdered—aged, respected, veners.
ble, beloved—there he lay, welieling in his b:ood ; and tt was ex-
pected that the prisoner should show no agitation. Had he shown
no agitation, would it not have been said that a cool, deliberate,
cold-blooded wretch, who could look upon such a scene without
agitation, would have been the man, of all others, capable of corn.
sniffing the crime. Why, his own witnesses exhibited the
same agitation. I say the agitation is a proof of their
innocence. He says it is a prcof of that man's guilt.
He wished Mr. Adolphus had been in Hyde Park with
him the other day to have witnessed the agitation of the bye-
standers when the attempt was made upon the life of the Queen.
If agitation was a proof of guilt, there was not a person there
but was guilty of the attempt upon the life of the Queen. But
he rendered no assistance. He slid as soon as he recovered. He
went to write to Mr. W. Russell. He (Mr. P.) knew that gentle-
man, and deeply did he sympathise with the grief of that last scion
of that illustrious stock. While writing he was interrupted by the
housemaid, with that feminine exclamation, " What the devil are
you doing here." He is told Mr. Russell must be sent for, he
goes to the door, and calls the first man he sees, to send him—
but is again interrupted by the servant. There were horses "in
the stable, he had an opportunity of taking one of them, and es-
caping—he had some hours to have done so—but he remained
answering every question put to him, and answering those ques.
tions truly. He is left closely watched by the police—tortured
with questions which he answers truly—and every question
he answers truly increases the suspicions against him.
The occasion of taking him into custody was the finding the locket
upon him. " Dare you look me in the far e?" said the police.
man. " Yes," said Courvoisier. "It is the murdered man's," said
the policeman. "It is mine," said Courvoisier, and he is taken into
custody. The locket is shown to Ellis, he says "It is very much
like my Lord's." "It is mine" said Courvoisier. His Lordship's
locket is found concealed in the pantry, and Courvoisier turns out
to be right. If it had not been found this locket would have been
produced. Ellis, like an honest man would have said it was like
it, and it would have been insinuated that the locket found in the
prisoner's pocket was the murdered Lord's. Again, the impression
of the seal was found in the possession of the prisoner. He said
this was given to bins by Mr. W. Russell, but this, although said at
Bow-street Court, did not suit the gentlemen conducting the pro.
secution to admit, but he must do justice to one of the gentlemen
attending for the prosecution, the worthy representative of the
Bedford family, Mr. Wing. That gentleman had heard what

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Mr. Wing with the greatest kindness and humanity informed the
prisoner's Counsel of it, and thus they were saved from
the safety of the prisoner by being driven to put Mr. Russell
into
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Adolphus's ingenuity in reply. Every answer
out to be true. In the opening '
turned
it was said that the candle
was so placed that his Lordship could not read in bed. Now it
appeared in evidence that it was not so placed. • Again,
his
trunk was
searched ; and, said Mr. Adolphus, do you think he would have
put the evidence of his guilt into his own trunk. Indeed he must
have been a fool or a madman if he had done so. Tedman, to
whom he would do the justice to say that he had given his evidence
mcst fairly, searched his trunk on the 6th, and found nothing in it.
Now what would an apprentice policeman of the old school have done?
Why,for the interests of justice it was his bounden duty to have corded
and sealed that trunk, and put it in some place of safety, where no
miscreant, tempted by a reward of 4001., should have an oppnrtu.
nity of introducing proofs of guilt, but it was left open to all the gang
of police in the house and to the maidservants. They ex .mined It
again on the Bth—Why ? And Tedman, an honest man, examines
it again on the 13th—Why ? He gives an honest reason. The
uncle of the prisoner came and requested a change of linen for the
prisoner. The prisoner sends his uncle to the house to the police
to get a shirt out of his trunk, which had been searched on the 6th.
Tedman goes and takes out a shirt anti shakes a pair of bloody
gloves from it. Who put the gloves there whilst the man was
in gaol? Or would he, knowing they were there, have sent the
robes to examine it ? Tedman does not have recourse to the
scoundrel's excuse, that he did no: search minutely. Was there
not practice in this ?
" Thus bad begins, but worse remains behind:.
Collier, who, for reasons best known to himself, would not go to
the trunk without a witness after the search by Tedman on the
6th and on the 13th, goes to the trunk on the 18th, and finds, in
the very top of the trunk, two bloody handkerchiefs, marked with
the prisoner's initials. The trunk had been examined after Cour.
voisier was in prison ; so that he could not have had the oppor.
tunity of putting evidences of his guilt into his trunk. Why did
the policemen go one after another to this same trunk, which had
been proved to be free :from suspicion on the 6th ? Suppose
the shirts might not have been secreted, how did they account for
the handkerchiefs and the shirt front ? 'Tedman saw nothing of
them on the fith ; they were not seen on the Sth ; who put them
into the trunk Not Courvoisier ; he was in his dungeon. What
villainy had been at work. Why was the injustice done
of not cording and sealing up his trunk, so that it might
have been produced as it was found on the morning of the murder ?
Had not some one been at work to make the prisoner the victim of
his machinations ? He supposed he was not going too tar in saying
there were strong p
that the trunk had been practised on;
those who had done that might do other things. Mr. InspeCtor
Pearee,who would not intimidate a wretch to endeavour to hang him,
finds the things in the prisoner's pantry, and takes them up and
shows them to hint. There was no need to use words to intimi.
date the pri ' soner under these circumstances if he had been guilty ;
he shows h•
things,and Look here, Sir, dare you look
those says,
me in the
- face? Was anything so likely to strike a petson dumb
as the production of these things and that inquisitor inflicting worse
than physical torture? Courvoisier did look him in the face, and
said he knew nothing
about them—he was innocent. Contrast the
conduct of these two men, and see on whose brow guilt is most
deeply branded. Did you not use them to intimidate the
man ? said my friend. I did not, said Pearce. Now, could
he believe him ? Mr. Maine was in the house at that time.
Mr. Hobler was in the house at the time. Why did they let
that fellow go up to the prisoner and exhibit those articles be.
fore him, and try to intimidate him into a confession ? It was ,
their duty to have gone up themselves to him, and said, These
articles were found in your pantry—can you account for them ?
but instead of that they send this fellow to torture him, Why, !I

the Inquisition, except that it added bodily torture to mental,
never exceeded this. Was this fair play ? was this conduct that
ought to have been practised by any men? But it was done,
and this same fellow tells you on his oath that he expects to
share the plunder, 450/. reward to be divided among them on
the coffin of Courvoisier. He 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 humisug
ofa reward in the case of MeTennpleman,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 offered 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 he had never heard of any reward,
and then admitted that it had been read out in his presence. He
told the Government with the freedom of a man who had nothing
to hope or to tear from them, that any Government which, in a
case like this, offered a reward, was accessorylto the murder of a
prisoner. What had been the consequence of offering a reward in
Templeman's case ? Why, two innocent persons, a man and his
wife, might have been trepanned in consequence. In construing
the expressions of Courvoisier, it should be recollected that he
was a foreigner. "If these things had not been found in my
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 lie could have hid them, if he wanted to
escape the detection. Who hid the handkerchiefs ? Who hid
the gloves? The same persons might have hid these things in the
pantry in order to throw suspicion upon Courvoisier. He knew
the Jury would give all these things full consideration before they
doomed Courvoisier to death. It has been represented that he
said, if he had as inuet money as his master 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 iu
a foreign country, what would be more natural than for them to
give utterance to such an expression on sesing some rich man.
Let them recollect tilt country to which Courvoisier belonged. To
a Swiss the bubbles of ambition, the realities of wealth—all war 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 tittered
on this subject. They found in his pocket a Si. note, which un-
questionably had been Lord W. Russell's, arid yet he hides a 101.
note, and rings, and all sorts of other articles. He admits the Si.
note had been Lord W. Russell's, and that he changed it. He is
asked if Lord W. Russell had more money. He says at once he
had a 51. note arid a 101. note. This turned out to be
true. The 10/. no e is afterwards found in the pantry. Did
this look like guilt? Would he have admitted that the 51.
note had been his master's if he had been guilty. Valuable
prop•'ety is left behind, and yet the cook's thimble is taken arid
Ileft ostentatioesly .n the passage. Who put it there—the same
;r• tson 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 of anything, he alight 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, and why
was it abandoned now ? He thought he could point his finger at
the man who had said, If you rely upon that, 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 she 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 mark of blood under his
neiis, 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 Courvoi-ier and the servant
slept should not have been on the model. Courvoisier's
room was next to that in which the servants slept. Courvoi.
aier'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 live-long night, no noise whatever was heard
in Courvoisier's room. He 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
more shameful 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 him. He knew
not who Mrs. riolaine was, and if she did not tell the truth,
those who came to corroborate her proved nothing. He 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 wills 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 discovery should have been made in the middle of the trial,
a reward of 501. 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 PARRE—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. The whole 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 ror h ,If 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 Courvoi..ier.
They attempted to identify the clothes, but they utterly failed ;
and that woman proved, if she proved anything, that the sock
was not Courvoisier's. He was sure If the Jury could find
their way out of the case consistently with justice, without shedding
that man's blood, they would do so. Now, supposing they ad.
mitted everything connected with the property, that it was left
there by Courvoisier, was that conclusive of the murder? He
tbought riot but it was conclusive of robbery, fur which he might
be convicted, and sentenced to be transported to surfer a lingering
death upon Norfolk Island. Here was a golden bridge for
them to pass over. If they entertained a suspicion,
and yet felt themselves bound to acquit him, still he
might be punished for it ; and he would say, if he should
hare been guilty of the murder, which he hoped to find he was not,
better, far better, would it be that he sh mid repent, in the bitter.
ness 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
Leal lied Advocate, "my anxious task is ended, and
yours is about to begin. One of the attributes
of the Almighty God is now committed to you—
the issues of life and death are in your hands. You are to restore
that man once more to the enjoyment of existence and freedom, or
to send him to an ignominious death, and brand Lpon his grave a
murderer's epitaph. Awful is the consideration—still more awful
the responsibility. Violate not lightly that temple which the
Lord bath made. Recollect, the word once gone forth
from you, it is irrevocable. Speak it not lightly.
Speak it not upon suspicion, however strong—upon moral
conviction, however cogent—not upon argument, not upon proba-
bility—but upon broad, clear, irresistible noonday conviction. I
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 you in your homes, and his accusing spirit will hover over
your death. 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 of thcm present were affected es en to tears.
The following witnesses were then called to character and exa.
mined by Mr. CLARKSON.

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 Nob 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, anel always considered him a quiet, humane,
and inoffensive man.

Jean Peton—l am in the service of Lady Julia Lockwoo.l. I
knew the prisoner while he was in her •Ladyship's service. I
have known him four years, and consi,ler him a well.conducted,
good tempered, quiet man.
Jeanne Susanne Peten—l am the wife of the last witness, and
am in the service of Lady Julia Lockwood. I have lived with her
Ladyship fifteen years. I have known the prisoner ever since his
arrival in England, and have always considered him a kind, good.
hearted man.

Lady Julia Loc's wood—The prisoner lived in my service for
nine months as under servant. I have had opportunities of observ_
ing him, and think him to be deserving of the character of a kind-
hearted inoffensive young man.
All the witnesses to character having been examined, the Court
adjourned for refreshment previous to the summing up.
The Court reassembled at Half-past One o'Clock, and the Jury
having answered to their names,

Lord Chief Justice TINDAL commenced the summing up. Ile
desired the Jury to discharge from their minds all they might have
heard previous to being sworn, and calmly to consider the evidence
they had heard, and consider whether it was sufficient to hring
home to their minds that the prisoner was guilty. If they enter.
tained any doubt on the subject, they were bound to give the pri_
goner the benefit of it, but if they came to the conclusion that
it was by the prisoner's hand that Lord William Russel died, then,
however painful it might be, they were bound to convict him.
The case was one of circumstantial evidence, and if circum.
stantml evidence were to be always rejected, crime would always
almost go unpunished, because it was very seldom that persons
committed atrocious crimes in the presence of witnesses. But
it would not be enough for them to be satisfied that such and
such circumstances were consistent with the guilt of the prisoner,
but that they were utterly inconsistent with any other suppo.
sitton than that the prisoner was the person who committed
the crime. He would first offer some general observations
on the case and then read the evidence. It was beyond a doubt
that Lord W. Russell was murdered in the night between Tues-
day, the sth, and Wednesday, the 6th of May. Th. re was no pos-
sibility of saying that he had committed suicide. It was also per-
fectly clear that in the course of that night a robbery was com..
mated. Various valuables were taken away, all of which were
afterwards found concealed in some other part of the house. It
was for them to determine whether it was within the reach of
human possibility that that robbery was unconnected with the
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
night, was a most important point for them to consider—whether
that was a robbery committed by persons breaking into the house,
or by the inmates residing in it. At seven o'clock in the morning
it was found that the front area door was fastened, the front door
opptt, the back door fastened, the back area door open, and a cloak
was found folded up, with a napkin lying upon it in the hall, near the
front door. Upon the first impression, therefore, the natural infe-
rence would be that some person had entered by the back area door,
which bore marks of violence, had robbed the house, murdered Lord
W. Russell, and afterwards made his escape by the front door,
leaving his booty behind him. But were there any circumstances
leading us to suppose that this was merely a contrivance, for the
pus pose of avoiding detection by the real perpetrator ? Now, it
appeared that no articles were really taken away, and that many ar-
ticles easily portable were left behindmnd theywere to consider whether
a real thief would have left such articles behind him, some con-
cealed with great care, and others left close to the door, when the
thief might have taken them away with him on his person without
exciting suspicion. Then, with regard to the door, they would
hare to say whether they were marks produced by a person break.
ing into the house, or made by a person after the door had been
opens.. He should wish these not to place any great reliance on
the expressions made use of by the prisoner, or on
his agitation, as the conduct of a person under such circumstances
depended so much upon his temperament and education, that it
would be harsh to draw any inference from them. Neither should
they suffer some of the observations of the Learned Counsel for
the defence to produce too great an effect upon them. They
were placed to administer not mercy, but justice, and te,
give their verdict accordingly. They were bound to put
the most favourable construction they could on the circumstances,
and having come to a conclusion, they were to recollect that they
were under the obligation of an oath to administe; justice, and
they must find their verdict accordingly, regardless of the conse.
euenees. The Learned Judge then proceeded to read the evi.
dence, assisted by Mr. Baron PARKE. On reading the evidence
of the cook, his Lordship said that it had been commented on
was asleep, while ohs (the
that the housemaid said the cook

housemaid) was getting p, and the soak said she was awake. I
He did not think this was an important discrepancy, as, it the
cook did net 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 circunistanc 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 circutnstances. 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 had
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 nRh their fellow. servants ; 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, he 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
(To be continued in our SECOND EDITION.)

BOW STREET-(THIS DAY.)

THE ECCENTRIC SOCIETY.

Mrs. Honey, lanclla,ly of the Sutherland Arms, Great May's
Buildings, St. Mertin's.lane, appeared before Mr. Jardine, at
the instance of the inspectors of tl F division, for
having on the 14th instant, being Sunday, opened her house for
the sale of beer, wine, and other fermented liquors, before the
hour of one o'clock in the afternoon, for other pur?oses than the
entertainment of travellers.

The defendant pleaded not guilty. There were several gen.
tlemen who have been for several years members of the
Society present, and who appeared anxious that the case should
be fully investigated, their impression being that the meetings of
their body did not come within the provisions of the Metropolitan
Police Act.

Mr. Moore, the Barrister, who appeared fur the defendant, en.
tered into a lengthened history of the Society, which has been
established for forty years; and after enumerating many of the
most celebrated men who have been members of it, contended that
It was never contemplated by the Legislature to interfere with such
a Society, the objects of which were merely conviviality and in-
tellectual amusement, to the exclusion of religion or politics.
The ewe being proved,
Major Revel, who had been a member thirty-nine years, proved
that the sittings of the Society are necessarily delayed
on S.iturday night ; but the house is invariably closed at the hour
required by law, and the Society was anxious to have the decsion
of the Magistrate upon the subject, in order to remove doubt
in future.

Mr. JAROINE said he was satisfied the house had been kept open
for the public, and as the rules of such a respectable society had
been so strictly and orderly observed for such a number of years,
the case on such grounds should be dismissed.