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

LATEST NEWS.

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

The Indus has arrived, with ahlvices from Con•
htantinople of the 24th, and from the Crimea o:

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

in the conferences.

Count Buol supported this demand.

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

that point.

BERLIN, SUNDAY,

The King of Saxony will not support the unre-
served adoption of the proposals—the increasing
changes 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 EvFsrNo.
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 Nesselrode, Chancellor of the
Russian Empire, to Count Esterhazy, the Austrian
Minister at 3t. 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 (Friday) 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 been
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 toolr rh,o. th. ~,,no,usioo of
an armistice was decided on in principle. The protocol
which has just been signed will be communicated to the
Diet of Frankfort. Prince Paskiewitch is dead.
MADRID, Feb. I.—ln the Cortes the discussion on the
electoral bases is being proceeded with. The Garde
contains an article filled with praise of the Duke and
Duchess of Montpensier for their charitable acts at
Seville.

BOURSE, Feb. 2.—The following were the quo.
tations

Cash. fr. a, End of Month
4i per Cents 96 60 —f. —c.
3 per Cents 7l 90 73
New Loan 72 50
Bank Shares — Roman
Cr&lit Mobilier 1570 Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Throes
Pieklmontes( (5) SS 75 Houle Debt
RAILWAYS-10H CASH.
Ir. c.

fr. o
Orlimn!' - Wostera B4O
Northern ..... 940 Straabneg
Lyons_ ...... 1240 Now Ditto B2O
Mediterranoan 1390 Grand Central 640
Lyons Geneva 740 Taste .. . —
Cette - Austrian Com. ...... 860

THE MURDER, IN WESTMINSTER.

Examination Thi3 Day.

The murderer, William Bousfield, was, this morning,
placed at the bar of Marlborough Police-court before
Mr. Bingham for examination.
In consequence of the prisoner haying surrendered
himself to the officer on duty at B tw-street station, a
great crowd of persons assembled this morning iu 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 pm 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 and
departure from the police-office. During the day the
house, the scene of the murders, situate at 4, Portland-
street, Wardour-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
I3eudle, the deputy-gaoler, and police-constable Silver
ton, and was in that weak and exhausted state that he
sank into a 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 he
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, hut imme-
diately sat down exhausted, and continued in that posi-
tion with his eyes on the ground during the examination.
The prisoner's left band was bound up in a pocket hand-
kerchief, and blood was visible about his hands and
under his finger nails.
Police-constable 68 F, Alfred Fudge, examined by
Mr. Ledley, chief clerk, deposed that about a quarter
past 7 o'clock yesterday morning he was on duty at
Boy: street station. Ho 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 had committed the murder'?" He said "No. 4,
Portland-street, Soho." I then took him to Inspector
Dodd. I was afterwards ordered to search him.
Mr. William Dodd--About seven o'clock 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 f" and he replied, " No. 4, Portland street,
by Wardour-street." I ordered the prisoner 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 canoe 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 28 years of age.
She was lying on her back, with her head on the left
side, and bad a large cut in her neck, under the right
ear, covered with blood. I sent the last witness, who
was with me, for Mr. Hadaway, surgeon, 36, Berwick-
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. Her
left leg was hanging down. She had a wound on tL•
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 wall, and face
close to the pillow. The child lay on the right
side. There was a wound on the neck which was
oovered 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
die dead body of the woman ; and under the body of
the male child 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. On 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 hands 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 ho 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 reaso❑ for
the prisoner's act, except that his wife was frequently
complaining of his idleness, he having been out of work
for the last seven years.

Mr. John Jones, father-in-law of the prisoner, de-
• posed—l live at the prisoner's residence, arid am a car-
. penter by trade. Tho prisoner occupied, with his wife
' end three children, the parlour and back room. Be
sold tobacco, toys, &c. His wife attended to the busi-
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 le. or ls. Gil. a night.
• The prisoner and his wife lived on very goad terms till
the third child was 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 comfortablr with each other. I beard
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, Joha
William. I bad no idea of what had occurred to them
until the police gave me notice. I occupy the rooms on
the first floor, and sleep iu the back rc.orri, but I heard
no noise of any kind during the night. I put them into
tne shop, and have supported them for years.
Mr. Balaway, surgeon, deposed to be?ng 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 incised
, wound in the neck, but I made no particular examina-
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, and 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
and children, and were such as might have been inflicted
by the chisel and razor produced. The wound on the
woman was rather jagged ; there were several super-
ficial wounde on the arm of the woman—two on the
right and two on the left arm.
Police constable 88 F, Charles', J. Venis, deposed—l
had charge of the prisoner. Whilst be was being searched
I hold his wrist. MO 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 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
prisoners parlour door on Saturday night about half-
past 12 to ask for some wood, which was one of the
articles the prisoeer sold ; the decea.ed woman was in
bed with her husband at the time, and replied to her is
a most cheerful voice. She desired her husband to get
her the wood, bat ho declined. The wife then said that
as she should he up at 6 o'clock in the morning she
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 ray to the charge. Ire replied "I have no-
thing to say."
The prisoner was then remanded.
The icquest on the bodies of the unfortunate woman
and her children wi I be held to-morrow morning.

LONDON AND WORTS-WESTERN RAILWAY.—We un-
derstand that the half-yearly accounts the 31st De
to
cernber last bare 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 acid some
40,0001. to the reserve carried over from last Jane
account. We also learn that while the receipts have in-
creased the working expenses bate been reduced.
SALAION.—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 roast successful rues on record. Be.
tweeu 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.
THE LATE GOLD ROBREEY.---Mr. John Hall, who
was stated to be possessed of considerable property, and
who resides at No. 8, Peter-street, Hackney-road, was
placed at the her 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 11dersgate-street, 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 1,0004 was
taken.