The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-04 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, MONDAY, FEB. 4, 8.55 A.M.

The Indus has arrived, with advices from Con-
stantinople of the 24th, and from the Crimea of
the 22d of January.
Despatehes leave at 9 a.m.
There is little doing in the port of Marseilles.

VIENNA, SUNDAY.

Prince Gortschakoff, when signing the protocol,
asked that Prussia might be invited to take part

,n the conferences.

Count Buol supported this demand.

M. de Bourqueuey, and Sir Hamilton Seymour,
said they must refer to their Governments on

;hat point.

BERLIN, SUNDAY.

The King of Saxony will not support the unre-
served adoption of the proposals—the increasing
chances of peace will probably modify the hesita-
tion of the neutrals.

COPENHAGEN, SUNDAY.

The Holstein Diet has adopted, by a majority
of 40 to 7, a motion for an address embodying
the impeachment of the Minister for Holstein ;
and, by 41 against 6, a motion for framing a
formal accusation against the Minister.
The King has refused to receive the address of
the Diet.

A Royal rescript declares the adoption of Count
Reventlow's motion for a responsible Ministry,
but prohibits the publication of debates in the
Chambers.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur of to-day, at the head of its in-
telligence,
" has the following announcement :
Certain errors /laving crept into the article of
the Moniteur published yesterday (Saturday), we
here give the exact text."
The corrected article then follows :

" Russia has adhered to the five propositions
which are to serve as the preliminaries of peace, and
which were presented to her acceptance by Austria
with the assent of France and England. This un-
reserved adhesion was announced in a note ad-
dressed by Count N'esselrode, Chancellor of the
Russian Empire, to Count Esterhazy, the Austrian
Minister at St. Petersburg, and in a despatch com-
municated to Count Buol by Prince Gortschakoff,
the Russian Minister at Vienna. The Russian
Government, in consequence, proposed the signa-
ture of a protocol at Vienna, to set forth the ad-
hesion of the contracting courts to the proposi-
tions intended to serve as the bases of negotia-
tion, and to establish that the plenipotentiaries
will have to assemble in three weeks (or sooner if
possible), in order to proceed successively to the
signature of preliminaries, to the conclusion of
an armistice, and to the opening of the gene-
ral negotiations. The British Government had
already expressed a desire that the conferences
should be held at Paris, and the Austrian Govern-
ment having, on its side, eagerly acceded to that
suggestion, it is therefore in the French capital
that the plenipotentiaries who may be appointed to
deliberate on the conditions of peace will assemble.
The protocol setting forth the acceptance of all the
parties was signed at noon yesterday kFriday) at
Vienna, and it was decided that the plenipoten-
tiaries of the powers who are to take part in the
negotiations shall assemble at Paris before the
20th February."
, The following telegraphic despatches have beeji
received here :

VIENNA, Feb. I.—This day, at one o'clock, com-
menced the drawing•up of the protocols relative to the
acceptance of the Austrian propositions.
VIENNA, Feb. 1, Evening.—After the signature of
the protocol, which took place to-day, the conclusion of
an armistice was decided on in principle. The protocol
which has just been signed will be communicated to the
Diet of Frankfort. Prince Paskie witch is dead.
MADRID, Feb. I.—ln the Cortes the discussion on the
electoral bases is being proceeded with. The Gazette
contains an article filled with praise of the Duke and
Duchess of Montpensier for their charitable acts at
Seville.

Bour.sE, Feb. 2.—The following were the quo
tations

Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4i per Cents. e6 60 —f. —c.
3yer Cents 7l 90 73
New Loan 72 50 _

Bank Shares — Roman
Credit Mobilior 1570 Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes
Piedmontese (5)

THE MURDER IN WESTMINSTER.

Examination This Day.

The murderer, ZVilliam Rousficicl, was, this morning,
placed at the bar of Marlborough Police-court before
Mr. Bingham for examination.

In consequence of the prisoner having surrendered
himself to the officer on duty at Bow-street station, a
great crowd of persons assembled this morning in front
of the station to obtain a glimpse of him. At one time
the crowd was so dense that vehicles and pedestrians
could but with difficulty pass up and down the street.
As soon as it became known that the prisoner would be
examined at Marlborough police-station, in which dis-
trict the tragical occurrences took place, the crowd
speedily dispersed. At Marlborough-street a similar
crowd had assembled at an early hour, and remained
with much pertinacity and evident composure in the cold
and fog for several hours, to gratify their curiosity in
getting a sight of the wretched man on his arrival al d
departure from the police•office. During the day the
house, the scene of the murders, situate at 4, Portland-
street, `Yardour•street, was visited by thousands of

persons.
The prisoner arrived at the Court in a cab, about 20
minutes to 1 o'clock, in custody of Inspector Dodd, of
the F division, and five policemen, three behind the cab,
and one on each side of the driver.
The wretched man had to be supported into Court by
Bendle, the deputy-gaoler, and police•constable Silver
ton, and was in that weak and exhausted state that he
sank intoa chair immediately on his getting into the dock.
He is a thin man, upwards of 6 feet in height, with a sallow
complexion. He has thin features, marked with the
small pox, black hair and eyes. He at first sank in a
very dejected manner into his seat and appeared unable
to give any answer to the questions who and what be
was, occasionally passing his hand over his forehead as
if to recollect himself. No satisfactory answer could be
got from him, and on one occasion he rose from his seat
and endeavoured to wrestle with the officers, but imme-
diately sat down exhausted, and continued in that posi-
tion with his eyes on the ground during the examination.
The prisoner's left hand was bound up in a pocket hand-
kerchief, and blood was visible about his hands and
under his finger sails.
Police-constable 68 F, Alfred Fudge, examined by
Mr. Ledley, chief clerk, deposed that about a querter
past 7 o'clock yesterday morning he was on duty at
Bow-street station. He was standing in the passage.
The prisoner came to the door, opened it, and walked
in. I asked him where he was going, he replied, "I am
going in here." I asked him " what for ?" He said, " to
give myself up for murdering my wife." I asked him
"where he bad oommitted the murder?" He said "No. 4,
Portand-street, Soho." I then took him to Inspector
Dodd. I was afterwards ordered to search him.
Mr. William Dodd—About seven o'clocl on Sunday
morning the prisoner, William Bousfield, came to Bow-
street station, and stated to me, " I have killed my
wife." I said, "What do you mean—where is she ?" The
prisoner said, "In the back parlour." I said, " Where
do you live ?" and ho replied, "No. 4, Portland•street,
by Wardour-street." I ordered the priteener to be
searched, which was done by the last witness. I found
a wound on the prisoner's neck covered with blood, and
a cut on his left hand, also covered with blood. I sent
for the divisional surgeon, who came and dressed his
wounds. A latch key was found on him, which I took
and went in a cab to the prisoner's residence. I opened
the front door, went in, broke open the back par-
lour door, and found on a French bedstead the body of
the prisoner's wife, who was said to be 23 years of age.
She was lying on her back, with her head on the left
side, and had a large cut in her neck, under the right
ear, covered with blood. I sett the last witness, who
was with me, for Mr. Hadaway, surgeon, 36, Ber wick-
street, who attended immediately. I also found on the
same bed the body of a female child about four years old,
with her head towards the foot of the bed, and her right
knee close to the right shoulder of the woman. HPe
left leg was hanging down. She had a wound on the
neck, and was covered with blood. On the other side
of the bed I found the dead body of a male child about
eight months old, with his head near the wail, and face
close to the pillow. The child lay on the right
side. There was a wound on the neck which was
covered with blood. I also found on a press bedstead
in the same room the body of a female child about six
years old. She lay on her left side ; had also a wound
in her neck covered with blood. I also found a 5-8
chisel covered with blood, as now produced, on the pillow
of the French bedstead, and close to the head of the
dead body of the woman. I also found part of the handle
of a razor smeared with blood under the left shoulder of
the dead body of the woman ; and under the body of
the maielthild I found the blade of the razor also covered
with blood. The bed-clothes and beds were saturated
with blood, and a great quantity of clotted blood
on the beds by the sides of the dead bodies. I
also found a quantity of blood on the floor,
and spots and smears of blood leading from the
beds into the shop. Oa the key which was in
the lock of the shop door I also found blood, and
there were marks of blood on the door and door- post
as if some person had touched them with hand.: covered
with blood ; it was quite wet at that time. Thera was
blood on a slate-book on the counter. I then secured
the rooms and returned to Bow-street station and saw
the prisoner. I told him that he was charged with the
wilful murder of his wife and three children ; he said,
" That's all right." I have since ascertained from the
neighbours that they are unable to assign any reason for
the prisoner's act, except that his wife was frequently
complaining of his idleness, be having been out of work
for the last seven years.
Mr. John Jones, father-in-law of the prisoner, de-
poeed—l live at the prisoner's residence, and am a car-
penter by trade. The prisoner occupied, with his wife
and three children, the parlour and back man. He
sold tobacco, toys, &c. His wife attended to the huei-
ness, whilst he was out at least three parts of his time
doing nothing. Recently he has been engaged at a
theatre as a supernumerary, at is. or is. 6il. a night.
The prisoner and his wife lived on very good terms till
the third child wee born, the only unpleasantness being
an occasional complaint from the wife that he did not
get employment. I last saw the prisoner and his wife
together on Saturday morning last, and appeared
quite comfortable with each other. I heard
not of a single unpleasantness between them that
day. My daughter's name was Sarah ; the eldest child
was called Anne ; the second, Eliza ; and the boy, John
William. I had no idea of what had occurred to them
until the police gave me notice. I occupy the rooms on
the first floor, and sleep in the back mom, but I heard
no noise of any kind during the night. I put them into
tne shop, and have supported them for years.
Mr. leTaja way, surgeon, deposed to being called to
the prisoner's residence yesterday morning, about a
quarter-past 7 o'clock. He saw the bodies on the beds,
they were all quite dead ; the woman had an iecised
) wound in the neck, but I made no particular examine.
tion, the woman being dead ; on the eldest child I found
two wounds on the neck, one deep, the other a slight
one ; the second daughter had an incision on the left
side of the neck, tend another below the collar
bone; on the infant I found two incisions
on the right side of the neck, and super-
ficial one by the left ear. I believe
these
incisions
were the immediate cause of the deaths of the female
. t.
and children, and were suchdascemdi.ght
The have
woun been
d infli
cted
by the chisel and razor pro u on. the
was rather jagged ; there were severalsuper-
fiwcoiamlawnonnds on the arm of the woman—two on the
right and two on the left armi v
Police constable 88 F, Char es; J. enis, deposed—l
had charge of the prisoner. Whilst he was being searched
I held his wrist. Ile threw himself forward to strike
his head against the mantelpiece, saying, " Kill me at
once out ofthe way," and then, " Fetch a doctor—fetch
a
e doctor to my poor wife." After that the divisional
surgeon attended to him.
Mary Anne Bennett deposed—l reside in the second
floor back of No. 4, Portland-street. I rapped at the
prisoner's parlour door on Saturday night- about half-
past 12 to ask for some wood, which was one of the
articles the prisoner sold ; the deceased woman was in
bed with her husband at the time, and replied to her in
a most cheerful voice. She desired her husband to get
her the wood, but he declined. The wife then said that
as she should be up at 6 o'clock in the morning eh°
would leave it at her door.
This being the whole of the evidence forthcoming to
day, the prisoner was asked by Mr. Bingham if he had
anything to say to the charge. He replied " I have no-
thing to say."
The prisoner was then remanded.
The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate woman
and her children wid be held to-morrow morning.

LONDON AND NORTEC-WESTERN RAILWAY.—We un-
derstand that the half-yearly accounts to the 31st De
camber last have been made up, and that the balance of
net profits will enable the directors to declare a dividend
at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum, and add some
40,0001. to the reserve carried over from last June
account. We also learn that while the receipts have in-
creased the working expenses ha7e been reduced.
SALMON.—The river Derwent for the last 12 years
has not had half so many salmon as have been caught,
known and seen, this winter—the oldest kipper catchers
having made the must successful runs on record. Be-
tween Workington and Coekermouth, the lowness of
the water preventing the fish getting into the lake,
groups of from 20 to 40 noble salmon have been seen
together in the day time, some with their back fins out
the water.--Carlisle Patriot.
TRH LATH GOLD RosnEßY•—Mr. John Hall, who
was stated to be posees,ed of considerable property, and
who resides at No. 8, Peter-Areet, Hackney-road, was
placed at the bar of the Mansion House, on Saturday,
charged with having had in his possession on several
occasions, at the shop of Messrs. Johnson and Walker,
gold refiners, of Aldersgate-strest, 50 ounces of gold, the
property of Messrs. Bult and others, supposed to have
been stolen on its transit from London to Paris. After
a long examination the presiding alderman ordered Hall
to be remanded• Bail to the amount of 1,000/, was
taken.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.)

OLD COURT.

(Before the Recorder.)

The February sessions of this court commenced this
morning before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the
Right Hon. the Recorder, Aldermen Sir Robert Carden,
Carter, and Lawrence, the Sheriffs and Under-Sheriffs.
The first edition of the calendar contains the names of
87 prisoners, 3 of whom stand charged with murder,
and no fewer than 21 for passing base coin, and two
with having in their possession an engraved plate for the
printing of notes purporting to be those of the State and
Government of Prussia. The other cases are felonies
and misdemeanours of the ordinary character.

The Recorder, in his charge to the Grand Jury, said
that with the exception of a few serious cases, the calen.•
der did not appear to present any serious amount of
crime, and the number of prisoners was about the usual
average for the period which had elapsed since
the last sittings of the Court. lie much regretted to
see that there did not seem ti be any diminu
tion of charges against persons for offences
against the coin, and notwithstanding the firmness
with which the law had been administered and the
severity of the sentences inflicted in such cases, the
number of persons charged at this session with that
offence was very heavy, there being no fewer than 21.
There were two cases of murder to be brought before
the grand jury. The first that of a young woman
charged with the murder of her illegitimate child.
The death it appeared arose from a fracture
of the skull ; but, according to the evidence, it
might have been the result either of a blow or an acci-
dental fall, and there did not appear, upon the deposi-
tions, any proof that the injury had been caused by the
prisoner ; so that, under these circumstances, it would
he for them to say whether the accused ought to be put
upon her trial for wilful murder. They would be at
liberty, if they ignored the bill for the murder, to return
one for the concealment of birth. The other charge of
murder was of quite a different character, it being a horrible
.case of assassination, of a most deliberate character
e,,mmitted in the open day by a young man named
Westron. There could be no doubt that the act was
committed by the prisoner, and the only question which
could arise would be the state of the prisoner's mind
when he committed the act. With this they would not
have anything to do, and their duty would be to return
a true bill for murder.

The Grand Jury then retired.
Toe ease of Dr. Vaughan, which has seen returned
to this court for trial, will, it is understoed, come on
first on Friday before the Judges in the Old Court.
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Ar. Bodkiu, and Mr. Clark'
son will prosecute, and the Attorney-General, Mr.
Ballantine, and Mr. Pridesux for the defence.

DEd7'll OF F,'ELD-MARSIIAL PRINCE

PASKE WITCH.

---
On Saturday we briefly announced the death of
Prince Paskewitch, the most distinguished subject
and servant of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia'
A long succession of bulletins had prepared the
public for the termination of the old Marshal's ill'
ness. The following notice of the principal features
of his career are taken from a memoir published 11
the Patric :
" Prince Ivan Fedorowiteh Paskewitch was born et
Pultava, of a noble and rich family, on the 12th of
May, 1782 ; he consequently died in his 74th year.
Having entered the corps of pages when very yowl'
and his acquirements as a stuient giving subse-
quently great promise, he was made a lieutenac'
i,t the unards and aide-de-camp to the Emperor
Paul, who often employed bias on important Eel!'
siuus. It was in 1805 that he first saw active service In
the field, having been sent by the Emperor Alexander to
the assistance of the Emperor of Austria against the
French. He had at that time attained the rank of ear
tam. In 1806 he was with the army in Turkey, and ee
long as the expedition lasted (from 1807 to 1812) dis'
tinguished himself by his military talents. In this can!'
paign he was wounded, and gained every step of bl 5
promotion at the cost of his blood. One of his big:
graphers, J. Tolstoy, relates that he was sent on several
missions to Constantinople, especially in 1808, and relates
the following event :
On his last diplomatic journey to that capital be
learned that the Turks, who looked upon him as a spy'
intended to assassinate him. The danger was Wl'
minent ; he immediately hired a four-oared boat,
stepped into the frail vessel, and compelled the tw°
mariners who managed it to take hint to Varna. II!
thus coasted a shore of One hundred leagues in the Black
Sea, the tempestuous character of which is well knows-
Several times they were all but but lost during this
dreadful passage, but the boat carried Paskewitch and
his fortunes, and he reached -Varna in safety. At tIU
place he succeeded in persuading the Pacha, who Wes
the military governor there, that peace had been coo
eluded, and thus his preserce of mind enabled him to
escape almost inevitable d, ath."
By the end of the campaign against Turkey—that is
to say, in 1812—Paskeo i s i was a general. France had
decided war against Russia, and the Grand Army was
advancing towards the Russian territory. Being in cow
mend of the 26th divi-ion of infantry, which formed
part of the corps under the orders of Prince Bagratioe,
General Paskewitch WaQ present at the battles of Disc
kofka and Soultanufka, Smolensk, Moskowa, &e.
In 1813 he commanded it) chief the blockading force
of Medlin. When the armistice was concluded at that
period, he left Poland and repaired to Bohemia. In the
month of September he took peat in the battle of Coke,
and one month after in that of Dresden, where he cote'
mended the variguard ; after this he was pre,ent at the
battle of Leipsic, obtaining there his promotion to the
rank of a lieutenant-general. Employed subsequentiT
at the blockade of Magdeburg. and again later, at the
of Hamburg, Paskewitch was appointed, in 1814, to the
~
command of the 2d division of grenadiers, which at that
time was in France. At the battle of Arcis-sur-Aube be
had a horse killed under
On his return to Russia in 1815, he married 14t8°
Griioyedoff, a lady of noble rank at Moscow. .-1-vq"n
years after the Emperor made choice of him to accora-
pany the Grand Duke Michael on his tour through Ger-
many, Unhand, and Italy. Returning in 1820, 031
Emperor gave him a division of the Imperial Guard, and
created him his aide-de•camp general.
War having broken out between Russia and Persle'
in 1826, the Emperor Nicholas, in compliance with the
request of General Yermoloff, who commanded in chi!f
the army of the Caucasus, sent him General PaskewiteLL
for his second in command. The latter, leaving Tiflis
at the head of a small army, advanced on Elisabetpol t°
meet the enemy, whom he utterly routed and soon eetn"
pelled to evacuate the provinces he bad invaded. The
Emperor Nicholas on this occasion presented him with
a sword, the hilt of which was adorned with diamonds,
and on which was the following inscription—" To the
Conqueror of the Persians at Elisabetpol."
Iu the year following, General Paskewitch succeeded
Yermoloff in the chief command. He penetrated into
the Persian territory, took several fortresses, defeated
Prince Abbas Mirza, took possession of Erivan and
Tennis, and forced, by his rapid successes, the Shah of
Persia to sue for peace, which was signed on the 19th
of February, 182 E. As a reward for his service the
Emperor raised him to the rank of a count of the em'
pira, with the surname of Erivan, and gaveliim a rail'
lion of roubles.

To the war against Persia succeeded that against
Turkey. General Paskewitch, on the news of the
declaration of hostilities, prepared to act, and advanced
on Kari, which was compelled to capitulate after a
sanguinary assault. Ho subsequently captured Ak-
haltzic, the garrison of which made a desperate defence.
Several places in the valley of the Euphrates fell like.
wise into the hands of the Rumians. As soon as the
winter season was over General Paskewitch
menced operations, and, after obtaining various sue'
ceases, entered Erzeroum ; hero he was preparing t°
continue his march on Trebizond, when the news
arrived that peace had been concluded. The Emperor,
who, in the course of the campaign, had already ont
him the order of St. Andreiv and made him a present
of two guns and a flag, named him field-marshal of his
armies.

ROYAL Bninsri BANS.—The annual general meeting
of the proprietors of the Royal British Bank was held at
the Strand branch to-day—Edward Esdaile, Esq., the
chairman of the board of directors, in the chair—when
a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, free of
income tax, was declared. The vacancy in the trustee..
ship had been filled by the election of Sir James Mathe•
son, M.P.
The Bulletin, de Lois publishes an Imperial decree,
prrimulgating the Convention by which the Ottoman
Porte and Sardinia have acceded to the Convention Of
the 10th May, 1854, relative to the enemy's vessels car
tured by the Basal forces of the two nations.
We are glad to learn that the progress of Lord Adol•
phus Fitzclarence towards recovery is of a nature to
give satisfaction to hie medical attendants. The visits of
inquiry by members of the aristocray during the past
week have been very numerous.
Madame George Sand)s new comedy, "Connie it
yens (As you Like it), imitated from Shakepeare," is to
be produced at Paris in the course of a few days.
According to official reports lying before me,
writes a St. Petersburg correspondent of the Cologne
Gazette), the army in the Crimea, which Prince
Gortschakoff has just handed over to General
Luders, is composed as follows :—The 4th, sth,
10th, 11th, 16th, and 17th division of infantry
(24,000 men), the 15th reserve division of infantry
(4,000 men), with the appurtenant rifle battalions
of artillery and cavalry, the drushines of the 38th
and 54th (7,000 men) militia of Kaluga, two regi-
ments of the 2d brigade of the 6th division of in-
fantry (2,000 men), a brigade of the 2d dragoon.
divisions (two regiments, 1,600 men). Tn the po-
sitions of Sarabus and Troch-Ablun, the 21 and 3d
grenadier division (8,000 choice troops) with artil-
lery, the half of the 12th division of infantry
(2,000 men) with artillery, the 39th, 40th, 41st,
and 42d drushines of Kursk (4,000 men). Of sr'
tillory, 280 field-pieces. The corps of observation
near Kertch, Thoodosia, and Eupatoria, are not in'
clude4 in this computation,