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TElt SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY' EVENING,' FEBRUARY 25, ItNB

was not married, to whom she had subsequently
assented to be married in Scotland ; but, not feel-
ing satisfied afterwards with that marriage cere-
mony, had been married again at Liverpool, and
that the present prosecution was really instituted
by Wilson to get rid of her, that he might marry
another woman. •

His Lordship said, enough had been stated to
satisfy him that this was not a case for punishment.
Indeed, he had been at a loss to understand why
the prosecution had been instituted, as the pri-
soner was clearly the wife of Carruthers, who was
dead, and not of Wilson. The prisoner must take
care not to annoy Wilson, and be should discharge
her on her own recognisances not to do so, and she
was now a free woman.
The prisoner left the dock apparently highly de-
lighted at the result of the trial.

out to him that, if the man should die, he would.
be tried for his life.

Prisoner—l do not know what transpired after I
got into barracks.
He was then remanded for a week.

CLERKENWELL—THE NEw PASSPORT REGULA-
TIONS.—SINGULAR APPLICATION.—Two Neapolitans
applied to Mr. Tyrwhitt for recommendations to the
Foreign-office, for passports to enable them to go to
Naples. They were not known either to the magistrate
or to the officers of the court. They had previously
applied to the Neapolitan Minister, who Lad refused
to comply with the wishes of the appqeant4.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that it was a singular reason for
applying to him for the necessary recommendation t)
the Foreign-office, when the applicants had been refused
by the Neapolitan Minister. He could only grant re-
commendations to British subjects, or naturalised
British subjects, and he should, therefore, refuse the
spplieation. If any wrong bad been done to the appli-
cants, it had not been done through the British authori-
ties, but had been caused by their own ambassador.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—THE HYDE-PARK
MEETING. —lir. Sheen, of Bedford-row, accompanied
by one of the committee who promoted the last Sue-
day's meeting in Hyde-park, attended, in consequence
of the remarks reported to have fallen from the magis-
trate at the conclusion of the charges of disorderly con-
duct oa Sunday in Hyde-park, heard in this court on
Monday last, and begged to be allowed to make a short
statement on behalf of those he represented.
Mr. Beadon said he had read the report alluded to in
the papers of the day, and could only say be considered
it quite a fair report. He had stated that ruffians and
pickpockets had been drawn together, and this must
have been foreseen as a consequence by those who pro-
moted that meeting. The applicant had the course
open to him of making what explanation he pleased, but
the police court was not the place for that purpose, and
therefore he must decline to hear him. He considered
that applicant could make his explanation on the part
of the committee through the medium of the papers.
Mr. Sheen submitted that the explanation he attended
to offer ought to be heard and made public.
Mr. Beadon said he had no control over reporters.
They r:dght do as they liked. Bnt he should certainly
decline to hear any statement on the subject in court,
because, as he had said before, that was not the place
for such purpose. He (Ur. Beadon) could only repeat
that ruffians and thieves had been ea:led together
through the meeting.
Mr. Shaen—Just as they are on public occasions—
racecourses, processions, fairs, and the like.
Mr. Beadon—But not on a Sunday. He considered
that applicant bad better, if it should be thought neces-
sary, make his explanation in the public papers. He
had nothing to do with the public preys, and could not
permit the business of the court to be interrupted by
such an application.

Mr. Sh'aen, hoping at least that the press would notice
;hat his application had been refused, withdrew.

LAMBETH.—WHOLESALE SMASH MG. —Mary Du t-
ton, a middle aged woman, who stated her place of resi-
dence to be Whitecrosa-street, St. Luke's, and Margaret
West, a young woman, who gave her address, 4,
Baker's-terrace, Shoreditch Church, were brought before
Mr. Elliott on the following charge :
Sarah Barker, barmaid to Mr. Hill, of the Gibraltar
Tavern, St. U3orge's-road, Southwark, said, a short time
before the prisoner Dutton came to the bar, called
for half a pint of beer, and tendered in payment a
counterfeit sixpence. Witl:eTi Ir:rle it with her
teeth and threw both pieces on the counter, when
the prisoner said it was a very hard case, as she
had been just paid for her work with the bad

pence and other moneys.
Mr. Frederick Hill said that having heard the
conversation between his barmaid, the last witness,
and the prisoner Dutton, and seeing the latter
pick up the two pieces of the broken sixpence from
the counter, he determined on watching her. He
accordingly passed out at a side door, and while
crossing the road he observed Dutton making signs
with her hand to some person, and then go to the
front of Mr. George Butterfield'e' the Fountain,
nearly opposite, and stoop down for a moment at
the grating. She was then joined by the prisoner
West, and both walked towards Lambeth-road,
where they separated, and Dutton entered Mr.
Healey's, the St. George's Tavern. He (Mr. Hill)
followed her, and just as he got in she was in the
act of tendering a sixpence in payment for half a
pint of beer, which ws pronounced by the barmaid
to be a bad one, and placed on the counter again.
Witness instantly laid hold of the prisoner and the
sixpence, charged her with utt..:ring one of a similar
description just before at his own house, and handed
her over to the charge of a constable. He (Mr.
Hill) then took a constable with him to secure the
other prisoner, whom they found at a short distance
from the house standing by the Blind School. He
(Mr. Hill) laid hold of one of her hands, and the
policeman the other, and the latter took a bad six,
pence from the hand he laid hold of. She struggled
hard, and while doing so he saw a black bag which
had been taken from the same hand by the
constable, and which contained counterfeit
money. After both prisoners had been se-
cured, witness went to the Fountain, an .l
having told Mr. Butterworth what had occurred,
both went down to the cellar, and each picked
up the half of the counterfeit sixpence produced,
and which they found right under the grating over
which he had seen the prisoner Dutton stoop.
Miss Bonner, barmaid to Mr. Healey, the St.
George's Tavern, cirroborat2d the testimony of
Mr. Hill, respecting the counterfeit sixpence
offered to her by the prisoner Dutton.

Police-constable, 193 L, deposed to having re-
ceived the prisoner Dutton into custody, and find-
ing 2s 7id. in good money on her. Constable, 125,
spoke to having secured the prisoner West, and.
Sergeant Butt], 9 L, produced a black bag, con-
taining 14 counterfeit sixpences, which he had
taken from the prisoner. The broken sixpence
which the prisoner Dutton had first offered was
positively sworn to by Miss Barker, barmaid of
Mr. Hill ; and Mr. Hill himself had sworn to the
pieces- as those picked up in Mr. Butterfield's
cellar, one by himself and the other by Mr. But-
terfield, in his presence, yet the clerk from the
Mint Office applied to the magistrate that the
testimony of Mr. Butterfield might also be taken,
and also that he might be bound over as a witness.
The prisoner Dutton, in reply to the charge,
said she was not aware the sixpences were bad, and
West declared that the black bag with the couut,-r-
-felt sixpences in it had been given to her to take
care of by the other prisoner, who gave her 2d.
for doing so.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial
Mr. Hill (addressing the magistrate) said that in
cases of this description the publicans were double
sufferers, for in the first place their pots were stolen
to make the base coin, and there were no class of
tradesmen who suffered more by the passing of bad
money than they did.
Mr. Butterfield said that on the night before no
less than four attempts to pass base money had been
made at his house, and he could not help thinking
that the law on the subject required immediate
attention.

when Lady Matheson met with a lamentable accident
that deprived her of her life ; but it was true that he
attended the court meetings from October, 1855, to
February, 1856, when the conspiracy was said to have
taken place. But no evidence had been given that such
wall the case ; for it had not been shown what they did
or said with a view of defrauding the shareholders of the
bank, and he defied the prosecution to do so. Mr. Staple.
ton assiduously attended to the meetings of the court
and of the former committees during the above period,
when he took a prominent part in considering the state
of four debts—one was the bills of H. Brown, and after.
wards his debt • the second was the Welsh mines ;
thirdly, the debt of Oliver ; and fourthly, Blacker's
debt. In consequence of an irregularity committed by
Mr. Cameron in reference to Brown's debt, Mr. Staple.
ton was annoyed with both Cameron and Brown, the
result of which was that the former retired from the
general management, and the latter from the directory,
and yet Mr. Stapleton was charged with a conspiracy
with men with whom he held no communication at the
time when it was stated the conspiracy took place. He
called on the prosecution to state the day, the time, and
occasion, and the moment when Mr. Stapleton conspired
with Cameron and Brown, and defied the public
at the time when he was not on speaking terms with
them. To conspire, it was necessary that parties should
be on good terms, and the offence commenced in recret,
and therefore it did not appear at all probable that Mr.
Stapleton conspired with these parties, and at the time
when Cameron was making out the balance-sheet up to
December, 1855. He complained of the course adopted
by the Crown in making all the directors defendants,
which had the effect of shutting all their mouths, and
preventing them giving that explanation of the circum•
stances of the case which it was desirable should be known.
The learned gentleman, with great minuteness of detail,
entered on a consideration of the evidence that had been
adduced on the part of the prosecution in reference to
the debts incurred by the British Bank, anti the securi-
ties taken, as well as the meetings of the Court of Direc-
tors and the committee meetings, in the c .ur-e of which
he areued that with regard to Brown's debt he had given
a greater security than his debt, but that the deprecia-
tion in the value of ship, and the forced sales under the
bankruptcy, were the causes that led to their deprecia-
tion. Of the whole of the debts said to be incurred,
Brown's was the only one that ever came before Mr.
Stapleton in detail. At that time (1855) Mr. Brown
was in good credit-, and no man would have dared to
have said then that he was insolvent. Had it been
stated at a meeting of shareholders the party would have
been proceeded against by Mr. Brown, who, there was
no doubt, would have received exemplary damages from
such a jury as themselves, under the direction of his
lordship. The evidence showed that Mr. Cameron estab-
lished the bank upon a series of leading principles, one
of which was that the manager should have tke sole
control of the debts and making up the balance-
sheet, without the interfere, ce of the directors.
The directors in succession, from 1849 to 1855, had
acquiesced in it, and Cameron bad reprimanded and
threatened the dismissal of a clerk for merely having
communica,ted to a director something that canto within
his (Cameron's) peculiar functians of general manager.
The balance-sheet of Dec., 1855, was made up and
prepared by Mr. Cameron, with experienced persons
under his control, who had access to all the books of
the bank, and ;there-m.ls duly audited by the auditors
appointed by the shareholders, and was it to he expeetee
theta young and inexperienced directoroi 3 roonthe' stand-
ing could have had suspicion that he was being deceived.
The prosecution had taken 12 months to deal with these
accounts, and arrive at the result which had taken 10
days t i prove. Yet all that was suppo,ed by the pro-
secution to have been known in seine incstnprehensive
way by Lir. Stapleton at one nie:r log of the directors,
or from conversations with the directors, in an incre-
dibly short period of time. Referring to the value of the
Welsh mines in Dec, 1855, the learned gentleman said
Mr. Stapiston had hot been down to examine t rem, and
if he had he doubted if he would be able to form an opt
nion of , heir value more than he was to the exact distance
of the earth from one of the fixed stars. Mr. Stapleton
was never called on to tura his attention to their value,
and from all he had heard he was led to believe they
were valuable and productive. Either in Nov. or Dec.
his attention was called to a report thet had beers pre-
sented to the bank that it railway communication could
be made from the pi 's mouth with the South Wales
Railway, the mines would amp'y repay the bank for its ad-
vances. There were only Lhreeorfour meetings in reference
to the mines, and the result was that an arrangement, had
been made by the Bank with the Llynvio Valley Com-
mittee that would accomplish the above abj, ct, and
thereby increase their value. The learned gentleman
referred to the report of Mr. Clarke that ceuid not be
found, which valued the mines at 93,0001. in 1851, and
remarked that there was no evidence te 'show
that information had been communicated to
Mr. Stapleton that this estimate was an erroneous one;
and, referring to the pale of the mines very recently fer
6,0001., he said that, in May 1856, Mr. Strict valued
the ruides as wortti 16,000/ a-year,a;oi which would have
made them ample security for the advances c,f the bank.
The mines were not worth leas in Dec., 1855, than they
were :a June, 1855, and if Mr. Stapleton had been
asked a question of that kind be would have
been answered they had always been treated in
the same way, and be would of course have
considered they had been treated
_rightly and-r the
superintendence of the previous directors. All the other
debts existed in June as they did in Dec., and he knew
as little of them then. as he did in June. If they
were bad debts so much the worse and if they bad
not been entered as they ought to have been, that w
the fault of those who prepared the balance-sheet in June,
1855, when Mr. Stapleton joined the directory. After
some further ro,naiki on toe bad debts of the bank,
and the publiattien of f rise reports and balance- iheets,
the learned gentlemaii, ia conclusion, said he did not
rest Mr. Stapleton's ca-e on the question of good or had
debts, but that when he became a shareholder he be-
lieved that the balanu,sheet of 1855, and the report of
Jan., 1856, published in February f dlo ming, were car-
rect, and that Ife had no reason to believe the insolvent
at that time was insolvent.
Lord Campbell said that Sir F. Thesiger admitted, in
his opening addresa that when Mr. Stapleton came into
the directory he was ignorant or the state of the bank.
Sir F. Ke.ly—Exaetly so. It was that that had led
him earnestly and cenfielently to hope that when
the case for the prosecution was closet that those who
represented his friend, Sir F. Toesiger, who bad been
justly elevated to the distinguished office of Lord
Chancellor, that they would Lave done Mr. Stapleton
the tardy justice of conseutiog to his acquittal at that
stage of the proceedings. He, however, defied his
learned friend to point out any one particle of evidence
agaiost Mr. Stapleton. He said teere was none ;
eve,' to the last moment of its exi-tence he believed in
i s solvency. The failure ef the beak took him as much
by surprise as it did the public, and it was only a few
days before he wrote his relative, Mr. Alex. Matheson,
to join the bank, believing that it would become one of
the leading institutions of the metropolis. He c mtended
there was eothieg in Mr. Stapleton's conduct that could
cast suspicion on the honour, the integrity, and good
name of that gentleman. (Applause.)
L rd Campbell said he hoped such ebullition of feeling
would not be repeated, and that the persons present
would recollect they were in a court of justice.
Mr. Sergeant Shee, in addressing the jury for Mr.
Alderman Kennedy, said that that gentleman had Tent
the greater period of his Hue in India. He was the son
of an Indian general officer, and had himself' spent 32

years of his life in India, as physician general at Bom-
bay, and when he resigned his appointment he left BOm-
b+y in the enjoyment of the highest possible estimation
for his honour and integriy Mr. Ald. Kennedy, when
he arrived in this country, with an ample comperencyf,waa
about 55 years of age, and he was desirous of obt tining
some means of employing it to his own benefit and that
of his countr,men. He became a member of the Cor-
poration of London in 1854, when he was elected an
aklertnan for the ward of Cheap, and whatever inigat
have been sail of the Corporation of London, they had
never
trep,,a o
drort:Alnloed a man to remain a mem-
berwhose character was open to
the slightest su-vicion a:zainst his credit, which was a
thed
strong pre,utopti:m of his houourabe character in his
of yet am
Ci , • t
favour. Mr. Aldermao Kennedy was one of the origi-
nal promoters of the bank, in which he had staked the
whole of his torture, and during the time he had been
connecter with it he had never trafficked in its shares or
earned a shilling in connection with it. He wa.4 one
of the earlieA promoters of the bank, and when he be-
came a ,are of some di,mounts in connection with :Vlac-

gregor, who, from his having been under-secretary to the
Beard of Trade in Sir R. Peel's Government, was be-
liered to be a man of substance and respectability. He
left the directory, but was induced to return in Oct.,
1854, and remained the stoppage of the bank, doing
his beet to mitigate the losses that had been incurred
since its establiditneet. The learned gentleman then
referred to the evidence given of the connection of Mr
Alderman Kennedy with the losses of the bank, and
his conspiracy to defraud the public by iniere-
pretenting the state of the batik, and in c,inelasion said
there could be no doubt Mr. Alderman Kennedy knew
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of some locicf..,-up of the hank, through the Wail] mittes
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and other advances, but there was no reason to btlieve
'anntl the A'wlausboard
Vied iodni nt
that
it was impossible to say Mr. Alderman Kennedy had
been guilty of the charge of conspiracy by whice he wee
to render depohre the hearths :in,f li,nies of throe() for
whose benefit he was induced to establi,h the bank, He
irni lured them to ieeiernber that drring the end of
1855 and nearly the whohi of 1856, Mr. Alderman
Kennedy was prevented from attending to the
board meet rigs owing to his having to discharge the
arduous and reeponsinle dill of ehtriff of L.tnden and
Middlesex-- an uflice the most laborious that coed he
found, from its occupying the time of the holder both by
dayand night—in the :oriner in tfischarging the busire es
part of the office, and 1;y night di-peneing huspitality anh.
d
countenancing acts of charity aed benevolence throin_y,
Kennedy was a.b.ent, how could he have con,pire
out the whole period of his year of office. If fvMr.w
ith
others to defraud the pub ic ; end if he had beei;,kc.,9g.
nieant of the true state of tie bknk, it was not likely
dh,apvoe.
be would have brought • his brother-m-law, Mr. e .
induced his nephew and inetner-in-
itors. The heirned gentleman's address occupied the
court till its rising at half-past five o'clock.
v, foient-, into the Directory in. Fleatw).
tiOBsbd:coaili
There ore four•uther learned gentlemen to address the
jury in support of their respr.ctive ciients. It is under.
stood that some of them intend to tali witnesses, but it
is confidently anticipated the case will be concluded by
Saturday night.

PRESCOTT, TIE AMERICAN lIISTORI.IY, reljet
to letan, by a letter da,Lo,t •'Bostot,, Mite./ .Stores,
February 5," that this-celebrated writer is suil,,rirg
iroin an attack of paralysis.—Scotsman,

THE CHARGE AGAINST MR. ISAAC

BUTT, M.P.

gPARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE.

[The following appeared in our late edition of last
evening :—]
The committee for investigating the charges in the
petition of Mr. Coffey against Mr. Isaac Butt re-assem-
bled this morning at 12 o'clock in No. 18, Committee-
room.

Mr. Roebuck said he should require Sir J. W. Hogt!
and Mr. Mangles, chairman of the East India Company,
to be ca led as witnesses, as also the several clerks of
the hanks who paid the cheques of Ali Moorad.
Sir J. Graham said he would write a note to
gentlemen requesting their attendance. -
Sir James Graham to Mr. Coffey—Have you been
able to ascertain the precise date of the cheque handed
to Mr. Butt for attending the cansultation ?
Mr. Coffey—My cheque is dated February 15, 1857.
The cross-examination of Mr. Coffey by Mr. Deasy
was then proceeded with—ln 1857 it was thought advis-
able that the Ameer should go to India. The Atneer
saw Mr. Vernon Smith, and it was his advice that the
journey should be undertaken- as expeditiously as
possible. The Ameer and myself left London
the day the cheque for 1,9991. was drawn, the
29th of, August. I did not tell my brother that
we were to sail by the packet of the 27th. We
stopped in Paris two days, and I believed we should
be able to reach Vienna the day after we quitted Paris.
We reached Dresden, to the best of my recollection
on
the sth of September, after leaving Paris on the 27t.11 at
the previous month. We reached Trieste on the 11th,
but the packet for Alexandria sailed on the 10th. •We
were acc'mpanie , some part of the way by a lady named
Parr and her son. She remained at Trieste three or
four days. She was present when Mr. Elliot spoke of
Indian affairs. I was not dismi-ged from the Ameer's
service. He was my friend and I was not his servant.
When Mrs Parr parted with the Atneer she wentto Venice.
I went there and met her. I have been living lately in
London. lam a married man, but lam not living with
my wile. We are not separated. There was a differ-
ence between us in consequence of our religion. I first
told Mr. Roebuck about this petition eight or ten days
ago. I have had three or four interviews with that gen"
tleman. Mrs. Parr was present at the first of the,' in-
terviews. She has been taking an active per-. in this
petition, as she was referred 'to by inference, not by
name, by Mr. Butt, and it is to viricLeate herself
from a foul •aspersion that she now comas forward.
The aspersion is that I introduced her as my wife at the
interview in Vienna. I became aware that Mro Butt
had made the assertion by a letter from my brot.er.
Before the receipt of the letter I had suspended pro-
ceedings. Some three or four days after received the
letter I saw Mrs. Parr frequently, at her residence in
Band-street.
Letters were here put in Showing that the petitioner's
brother had remonstrated with him for introducing the
soi-disant Mrs Coffey.
Cro s-examination cantinued— -Up to the receipt of that
letter I had only written to Mr. Vernon Smith, but I
had not taken any steps with respect to this petition. I,
only commenced proce-dings when Mr. V. Smith de-
clined to interfere. I recs.ved an answer to my applica-
tion to Mr. Smith on the 20th Sept last. I have never
given a written statement 01 my case to Mr. Roebuck.
I never gave one to my parliamentary agent. Holmes
i the name of the gentleman who was nay agent. He
acted for me up to the time my petition was presented.
He is not acting for me now. He was engaged
in my business about eight day,. Tne only
persoa I ever gave a written statement of the contents
of that petition was my brother.
Tee written statement forwarded by Mr. Coffey to
Mr. Vernon Smith was. here put in and read by the
Chairman. The sriter complained that Mr. Butt hivi
accused him of attempting to tell the Aineer, that Mr.
Batt bad drawn large sums of money from the Arne- r
without ever accounting for them, that Mr. Butt hail
informed the Ameer on the autberite of the President of
the Board of Control that unless the Arneer dismissed
him (Mr. Coffey) he would never obtain satisfaction for
his claims fr rn the British Government,
Another letter was read from Mr. Coffey to Mr:Vernon
Smith, asking whetner Mr. Butt was accre iited byhe
Board of Control to proceed to Trieete, also whether
Messrs. Irving and Langley had been appointed to
supersede .him (Mr. Coffey), and also wh-ther auth irity
had been given Mr. Butt by the Board of Control ro
inform the Atneer that unless he dismissed the writer he
would never obtain any satisfaction from the B iard of
Control, and finally whether Mr. V. Smith had ever
accused him (Hr. Coffey) of selling the Ameer.
Crose•examinationcontinued—Thestatemeetjust read
is correct. I have spoken to my law agents about the
statement, but in the preparation of the documents just
read I was nit as-isted by any parliamentary agent. I
drew it up myself with the assistance of a gentleman
named Hale. My petition was presented to the House
of Commons four or-five days after .1 saw Mr. Roebuck
I made some statements to Mr. Roebuck, but they were
verbal. I sent a telegraphic message to Mr. Butt from
Trieste. It contained the words " cash safe."
Mr. Mangles and Sir 3. W. Hogg here entered the
room, accompanied by Mr. Ptinsep, and, as the examina
tion of Mr. Coffey had not concluded it was arranged
that the evidence of Sir J. W. Hogg and Mr. Mangles
shoeld be taken on Friday.
Mr. Prineep then translated a Persian document
written by the Ameer arranging for the services of Mr.
C iffay as secretary for a period of three years, com-
mencing on the let A.oril, 1856 to the 30th of March,
1859, at the salary of 1,000 rupees a month. The do-
cument specified that Mr. Coffey was to prosecute the
Alneer's claims with tne English Government.
A letter was also translated from the Ameer to Mr
Batt. It complained that Mr. Coffey had kept him fir
15 days in a strange country, and continual:), made ex-
cities to delay going on to Bombay. It said that Mr.
Coffey had given him no information, and prayed that
Mr. Butt would release him from his troubles, which j
were like imprisonment.
Cross-examination continued—By "cash safe" I measat
that I had some money. Before Mr. Butt left England
an arrangement was made that be eb _uld have 3 0001
in cash, and 7,0001. in bills. The 3,0001 was not given
tor Mr. Butt for the purpose of remunerating hie, for
staying a year in :India. It was given him for doing
'the Aineer service wito the Indian Government.
By Mr. Roebuck—Mr. But, had distinctly under-
taken to obtain from Mr. Vernon Smith a despatch
restoring the territory to the Ameer, and it was for
those services as well as his advocacy of the Aineer's
claims in Parliament that he was to reerive the money.
Mr. Roebuck—Wee the money to be paid for Mr.
Butt's influence with Parliament, the East In lie Com-
pany, an,t the Government, on behallof the Atneer
Mr, Coffey—Decidedly.
The Chairman—l don't like to interfere, but I think
such a question lookii like leaai sg tue witness.
Tee question was after wards put in another form, ut
the came answer was returned.
Mr. Roebucic—Was the money given to Mr. Butt
professionally.)
Mr. Coffey—No ; Mr. Butt said it was not lawyers
that were required. He always objected to the employ-
ment of lawyers ; what he said was wanted was a num-
ber of members of Parliament who knew the usages
of the house.

Mr. Ito-tinck—Did Mr. Butt ever tell yon that he
was authorized to sneak i.n behalf of Mr. Vernon
Smith on the affairs of India ?
Mr. C ffev—Mr. Butt was daily in communication
with Mr. V. Smith. He introduced the Atseer and
himself to the President of the Board of Control.
Mr. Roebuck—Did Mr. Butt speak as with the autho-
rity of Mr. Smith with respect to the despatch.
Mr. Coffey—Yes • certainly.
In answer to further questions from the non. gentle-
man, Mr. Coffey said Mrs. P.irr was an old acquaint-
Duce of his family—she might almost be osted a relative.
The circumstance that led Ler to Paris was to see her
children.

Sir J. Graham—When was the petition of Ali Moorad
presented to the IT,LISIti of C immune by Mr. Butt,
Mr. Coffey—ln June, 1856.
Sir J. Gratiani- Had yo u any conver,,ation with Mr.
Butt about tnonay before thl presentation of the peti-
tion

Mr. Coffey—No, not till afterwards.
Sir J. GrAharn —What was the spirit of the conversa-
tion with Mr.
,Butt between the presentation of the
petition in June and the moving for papers in July
Mr. Coffey—Mr. Butt ~aid the advocacy of the claims
of Alt iVloorad be attended with much exuen,e of
time, and that he was not in a position to ive up his
time without remuneration, more e,pecial:y as there
would be an immense responsibility in carrying on the
case with Parliament and the Government.
Sir J. Graham—You are c,rtain that Qua conversa-
tion took place before the motion for 'papers ?
Mr. Coffey—C
Mr. Sergeant Kinjake—How are you so cer!win that
this conversation took place prior to the motion for

papers ?
Mr. Coffey—Because I told the Ammer the paps
were actually necessary when I mentioned the aubifel

to him. -
Mr. Sergeant Kinglike—What formed the prim:ion
point in your conversation with Mr. Butt respectin

money?
Mr. Coffey—Mr. Butt di4tinctly stated that if it wa•
worth 1314 while he would carry the Ameer's okom,
through Parliament. ile did not rrieution azly specig,
sum. * _

there ever any person
--Air. Sergeant Kinglake—Was
present at at.y of ;heNe converFivions ?
Mr. C•,ffey—No—no perBon but unpelf and Mr. Butt.
The examinati in of this witrie4s then Aioncluied, and
the committee adjourned until to-morrow.

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A FUGITIVE SLAVE IN LIVERPOOL

(From the Liverpool Albion.)
On Saturd,y afternoon A poor fugitive slave, wbo
arrived three weeks ago at Liverpool, from New
Orleans, stowed away in the hold of a cotton ship,
was brought to, this office. The following is his
own plain unvarnished tale, taken down as the
narrative fell from his lips.
a_
" My name is Tom Wilson, I arrived here in
ship called the Metropolis, Captain Foster. lam
slave-born ; I have been under slave bondage ever
since I was born lam now 45 years old. I be-
longed to Mr. Henry Festman, of New York, cot-
ton-presser. I was undr,r him for the space 0f
seven years. Before then I belonged to Colonel
Barr, of Woodford, Mist-iissippi. There I had a
wife and three cnildren, besides having had another
child which died. I was:sold by auction by Major
Bairds, auctioneer, for 2;500 dols., and was taken
down to New.Orli ens, away from m wife and chil-
dren; and I haven't seen them since.y Shortly after I
got t h ere Mr. Fes, ma rr's overseer, Burks, commenced
to ill-use me. I didn't understand tying the cotton;
it tsar new to me, and I was awkward, so I wan
flogged. They used to tie me down across a cotton-
bale, and give rile 200 or 300 with a leather strap.
I am marked with the whip from the ankle-bone to
the crown of my head. Some years before I was
sold from Mississippi, the overseer there, because I
resisted punishment once, cut my right arm across
the muscle, and then had it stitched up. He did.
that, as he said, to weaken me, because I was too
strong in the arm. About a year and a half
'Ater I had been iu New Orleans I ran into the
woods. I was followed by Burks and a pack
of blood-hou.-Is into the • Baddenrush Swamp
The dogs soon caught me. They tore my
legs and body with their teeth. Here are the
marks yet. [As he spoke he turned up his trousers'
legging, and exposed formidable seams, extending
up the calf and above the'knee-joint.] Burks (he
continued) rode tip to me with his gun, and shot. me
in the hip with 14 buck-shot, which can be seen and
examined at any time. The dogs continued to pin
me with their -teeth. After that I knowed nothing •
abont what they did to me for about a week.
When I got a little strong they burned my
back with a red-hot iron, and my legs with
spirits of turpentine, to punish me for map-
jug. They put an iron collar round my neeirt
which I wore for eight months, besides two irons,
one on each leg. After teat I was watched very
closely; hut one night, about a week after Christ-
mas, I ran away, and hid myself under the sawdust
in a sawmill pit, below New Orleans. I was fol-
lowed by Burks, the overseer, and the dogs., but
they did not find me. I crept nut and ran away;
for more safety, to the Great Salt-water Lake,
behind Orlearis, secreting myr-elf under the bushes
and vines. There ate alligators in the lake, and as
I wailed up to the knees in the water, the
alligators followed me, grunting and bel-
lowing, and trying to get me. I had several:
times to climb up trees te escape them ; but I fell
safer atsong the alligators than among the white ,
men. Iu the morning, at 4 o'clock, I went down
to the wharf. On the road I came across some of
the men who were cut watching for me, with
guns and dogs. It was just getting light. I begail,
to whistle and sing, and walked close by them, and ,
they paid no at ention to me. When I got
down to the wharf, some of the coloured crew
of the American cotton ship Metropolis took me on
board, and hiil me away among the hales. One
of the coloured men split on me, and there was
a astuch for me that day ;- but they did not
fuel ma, though they came very near me, and I
trembled to think I should be taken back and
torturel I was frightened, too, for the coloured
men who had befriended me. I was kept out of
the sight of the white men,' and Captain Foster did
not know anything about it until after the men had
been paid off at Liverpool. I remained hid from
a week after Christmas until about three weeks
ago, when the ship came here. During the time
I was secreted I was kept alive by the coloured
men who had been so good to me. IVY
brought me something to eat and drink every
night. When I first lauded , here I was
frightened at every whde man I passed, and I hid
myself about where I could, and begged at night
for bread. I was afraid I should be taken into
slavery ag tin. I did not know I could not be s
slave here.''

With regard to the future, poor "Tom Wilsonll
sail he would he gad to take a firernau's place on
board a coasting steamer. When in slavery, ill
America, he had been hired out as a fireman on one
of the lake steamers. He said he could do chat
work very well, and could stand anyama of
heat.

•
From inquiries we have made we are induced to
13-libve that the foregoing narrative, which reads
like a lot chapter of " Uncle Toin's Cabin," is sub-
stantially true.