The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-29 00:00:00

some person with me. The table is five feet from
the fire. I never saw the papers. It was impossible
I could have taken them. What earthly object
could I have ? What could. I want with them ?
Mr. Jardine—That is a matter of argument, not
a question of fact upon which you can get evidence
from this witness.

Mr. Miller—l wish to observe that I attend here
to-day simply as a matter of public duty. I have
no ill-feeling against Mr. Guernsey.
Mr. Thomas Walker, 37, Doughty-street. I am
the responsible editor f the Daily News. On the
12th of November despatches from the lonian
Islands were published in the Daily News from
printed copies • they bear date 10th of June, 1857,
and 14th of July, 1858.
Mr. Bodkin—Did the prisoner bring those
despatches to your office ?
Witness—l first met with them lying in their
envelope unopened on my table with many other
letters.

Mr. Bodkin—ls this (producing an envelope) the
envelope in which you found them ?
Witness—lt is.. [The envelope bore the words
"On her Majesty's service" on the face of it, and
the Royal arms on a cameo formed the seal. From
the middle of the :face the Portion which would
contain the address had been cut out and retained
on delivery of the envelope to the Colonial•office.]
Mr. Bodkin—Have you the missing piece of that
envelope, and if so, produce it.
Witness (to the Court)—Does the Court require
of me the production of the piece of paper re-
quested ?
Mr. Jardine—l think so.

The witness then produced the wanting piece.
The direction was " Editor of the Daily News,
Bouverie-street."

Examination continued—The envelope also con-
tained the enclosures or appendices referred to in
these despatches. They were all stitched together.
Om the representation of the Colonial-office I fore-
bore to print the enclosures. I have since returned
them to the authorities at the Colonial-office on
their application. The despatches which- I did
print were cut up for the purpose of printing, and
so destroyed. I received them on the Wednesday,
and published them on the Friday.
Mr. Bodkin—Have you seen the prisoner at the
bar ?

Witness—l have seen him once only ; that was
in the middle of the week after the publication of
the despatches.
Mr. Bodkin—Do you say after the publication ?

Witness—Yes. -
Mr. Bodkin—Did you receive any written note
with the despatches ?

Witness--7 Yes.

At the request of Mr. Bodkin witness produced
this note, which was addressed, like the envelope,
to ".The Editor of the Daily News," and was to the
effect that the writer had forwarded therewith
some despatches relating to the lonian Islands
which would be interesting to the public, and pro-
bably give a clue to the objects of Mr. Gladstone's
mission. It was signed "W. Guernsey," and dated
" 22, Regent-street, W. C."
Examination continued—On the evening of the
day on which the despatches were received I wrote
and sent by, post, according to the addiess given, a
note stating that such despatches had reached
the Daily News office, accompanied by a written
note, and I inquired whether Mr. Guernsey's
name had been properly used. On the following
day I received a second note, to the effect that all
was right, and that the despatches were intended
for the editor's use. The writer added, that of
course he did not 'wish his name to be mentioned
in the paper. I produce that letter.
Mr. Bodkin—When you saw him did he come
voluntarily to you,, or had you sent to him ?
Witness—l wrote to say I wished to see him,
and it was in consequence of that communication
that he came to me at the office. I told him I had
been waited on by a gentleman from the Colonial-
office, and that I understood many innocent people
were in trouble through the publication of those
despatches. I asked him to tell me how he ob-
tained them. He said a person had left them at
his house. I asked him if he chose to tell me more
about it. • He said, " No, not now." That was the
substance of what passed. I have had' no further
communication with him.
Mr. Bodkin—Mention has been made of some
other communication made by the prisoner to the
paper respecting General Lopez.
Witness—l know nothing of that. Besides the
notes I have mentioned, and the single interview, I
have had no communication with the prisoner.

Prisoner—When I saw you did you not say that
you had given satisfaction to the Colonial-office by
the addendum you had made to Mr. Drummond
Wolff's note ?

Witness—l do not remember referring to that
addendum in any way.
Prisoner—Did you not say that you would not
mention my name in connexion with those de-
spatches ?
Withess—lt is very likely indeed that I did, for
that was my feeling and intention; at the same
time, we all obey the law.
Mr. Jardine—By that expression I understand
you to mean that you now give evidence because
you learn here that you are by law compelled to do
so? e

Witness—That is what I wished to convey. It is
always understood that editors of newspapers will
obey the law. It is in that view of the case that
I appear as a witness. lam now under the pres-
sure of the Court, .and must, of course, give evi-
dence. I have not divulged the prisoner's name,
nor produceahis handwriting until now.
Mr. Miller, recalled—l have corresponded with
the prisoner, and know his handwriting. The ad-
dress produced as cut out of the envelope and the
two notes produced, are in his handwriting.
Inspector Thornton, of the detective police—l
took the prisoner in custody on this charge in Great
Russell-street last night. I told him I had a war-
rant for his apprehension, and he had better go
with me to the station, where I would read the
charge. Going along he asked me the nature of
the charge, and I told him. He said, " They have
made a mistake ; they have gone the wrong way to
work; they should have written to me." At the
station-house he said he could prove he was in
Dublin in October, and that he knew nothing about
the despatches.
Sergeant Tanner, of the detective police—l went
by Inspector Thornton's instructions to the pri-
soner's lodgings, where I found 16 of the envelopes,
I now produce. [They were official envelopes;
similar tai that in which the despatch to the Editof
of the Daily News was enclosed. Envelopes of
this kind are not now used in any department at
home, and these are supposed, as was explained by
Mr. Bodkin, to have come into the prisoner's pos-
session while serving abroad.]
The Magistrate said—lt is my intention, Mr.'
Guernsey, to commit you tor trial. If you have
anything to say you can now say it, but anything
you say will be taken down and used upon your
trial.

Mr. Guernsey—l have nothing I wish to say.
The prisoner was then formally committed for
trial, an application he made for bail having been
refused.

THE WEATHER.

METEOROLOGICAL.REPORT FROM THE HIGH

FIELD-HOUSE OBSERVATORY.

Thursday, Nov. 25.—Greatest heat in shade, 47.0 deg.;
adopted mean temperature, 40.9 deg. ; mean pressure,
29'173 ; mean temperature of evaporation, 38.9 deg. ; range
of temperature, 19.0 d4g. ; amount of rain at 10 p.m..
0.105; oione; 0; direction of wind at 10 p.m., S.S.E. ;
amount of cloud at 10 p m.,.10.0 ; the weather, slight rain
all day, mild; windy night.. Friday morning, the 26th.—
Greatest cold, 45.8 deg. ; minimum temperature on grass,
44.5 deg. ; amount of rain, 0000 amount of evaporation,
0.020 ozrne, 1; temperature at 9 a.m., 50.2i(deg. ; baro-
meter correctd at 9 a.m., 29.143 inches; wet bulb ther-
iniClineter• at 9 a.m.,149.2 dog.; amount of cloud at 9 a.m.,
; direCtion of wind, S.E. ; weather, fine and mild.
E. J. Lown.

LONDON TEMPERATURE.

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY'S RECEIVING-HOUSE, HYDE.

PARK.

Nov. 2.4.—Thermometer, 9 a.m. deg.; noon, 30 deg. ;
night (minimum), 32 deg. ~Barometer, 9 a.m, 29.84.
Wind during the day, S.E. Weather gloomy.
Nov. 25.—Thermometer, 9 a.m, 41 deg. ; noon, 46 deg. ;
(minimum), 48 deg.' Barometer, 9a.m. 29.44. Wind dur-
ing. the day, S.S.E. Weather, cloudy, with light rain.
Nov. 26.—Thermometer,.9 a.m., 53 deg. ; noon, 55 deg ;
night (minimum), 46 deg. Barometer, 9 a.m.,. 29.31. Wind
during the day, S. Weather, moderate and cloudy.
H. WILLIAMS, Superintendent.

THAMES TUNNEL, AND OUTSIDE IN TILE YARD,
ROTHERHITHE.
Nov. 26:—Thermometer.—Noon, tunnel, 54 deg. ; yard,
56 dog. ; night (minimum), tunnel, 54 deg. ; yard, 44 deg.
W. W. MASON, Superintendent.

Mr. Charles Pearson has addressed a circular to
the shareholders of the Great Western Railway Company,
in which he urges upon them the great benefit which would
be conferred upon their property by the establishment of a
Great Central Railway Terminus. He therefore begs their
attendance at the public meeting which the Lord Mayor, in
pursuance, of a requisition, extensively signed by the citi-
zens, has convened for the Ist. December.
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