The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL RACES.—(This Day.)

(Ey ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

TRIAL STAKES.

Special License
Odd Trick

Two ran. Won by half a bead.
Arrived—Black Swan.

THE CHARGE AGAINST MR. ISAAC
BUTT, M.P.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE.—TrIIS DAY.
The committee for investigating the chargss in the
petition of Mr. Coffey against Mr. Isaac Butt re-assem-
bled this morning at 12 o'clock in No. 13, C3mmittee-
room. The room was densely crowded.
Mr. Roebuck stated that as Mrs. Parr's husband died
last night she was unable to attend the sommittee, and
she left her honour and her character in the bands of
the chairman.

Sir J. Graham read the following letter from Mr.
Edwin James :

" Brookes's Club, Monday, Mareh 14
" Madam,—My name having been menticned in the
course of the inquiry now pending in the peti:ion against
Mr. Butt, with reference to a very serious charge against
yourself, viz , that of your having been a party to an at-
tempt to extort money, under threat of publishing a defa-
matory libel upon myself and others. I think it due to you
to state that, upon an investigation into the circumstances
referred to, I have reason to be convinced that no imputa-
tion of any kind should rest upon you with reference to
this transaction, and that the explanation given by you to
the committee is correct, which explanation has removed
the impression I entertained when I mentioned the subject
to the advisers of Mr. Batt, and authorised them to ask
the questions which were put to you. I was Trepared to
give this explanation verbally to the committee, but this
letter may perhaps susce.—l am, Madam, your obedient
servant, _

(Signed) "EDWIN JIIES.
"To Mrs. Parr, 17, Old Bond-street."

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The Chairman asked Mr. Butt if he had found Mr.
Roebuck's second letter to hint relative to the presenta-
tion of the petition. Mr. Butt's answers had been put
in and published, and it was only right and fair that
Mr. Roebuck's letters should also be produced.
Mr. Butt said he was sorry to say he could Lot find it.
He recollected its purport. It was that Mr. Roebuck
wished to act in a fair and honourable manner towards
him in bringing forward this charge.
Mr. Butt having corrected some slight errors that had
crept into the minutes of evidence, was cross-examined by
Mr. Roebuck. He said he definitively concluded (accord-
ing to the best of his recollection) with the Ameer to go to
India after the 21th July, 1857. He determined early
in August to test the sincerity of the Ameer by asking
him for 5001. ; and the cheque for 3001. bore date the 11th
August; this was all the money he ever had from the Ameer
before the 2,0001. Ho had received money from Mr.
Coffey, but on matters entirely private, and had
nothing to do with the Ameer. When he received only
3001. he was not satisfied, and he wanted to enter into an
agreement with the Ameer personally, but Mr. Edward
Coffey objected. The Ameer, before leaving for
India, wanted a dispatch reinstating him in his
lands. He told him he could not have it, but that
he might rely on one being sort to India, and
arrive/ there as soon as the Ameer. lie never promised
the Ameer that he should see a copy of the despatch before
leaving England, nor said anything that could have led to
such a belief. A few days after, the Ameer received a
reply from the Board of Directors before leaving this coun-
try. He was unable to say why he delayed leaving. He
believed much misapprehension existed between him and
the Ameer owing to misrepresentationaarising from trans-
lating the conversations. The first arrangement with the
Ameer was that he should have 5,0001. on starting,
and 5,0001. on landing
in B°2'44Y- Afterwards
it was changed, and ho was to be paid 3,0001.
in cash and 7,000/. /by bills, ptyable at Bom-
bay. At one time it was suggested that the bills
should be accepted by the Mercantile Bank of India in
Broad-street, but it was afterwards abandoned ; he gathered
from Sir H. Seymour at Vienna that he had neverseen Mr.
Coffey, and the result of his information was from hear-
say statements ; ha could not say it the Ameer expected
he would now go out to India, but he believed the Ameer
was under the impression he coull call upon him
to go out. If ho did not go he should not raise the
question of forfeiture of the money. If he did not
go out he should return the money., but if it
was
nut for the interest of the Ameer he should go to India
he should not return the money. When he was at
Trieste the Ameer made him a larger offer, but he declined
to accept it, from the Ameer being entirely under his
power. When he mentioned to the Ameer ho was to have
10,0001. he thought he saw an expression of surprise in the
Ameer's features that led him to believe the arrangements
had not been correctly represented to the Ameer. Ho de-
clined to have further negotiations with the Ameer until he
was in the hands of agents upon whom ho could rely. He
was never to receive any money, except for his services in
Bombay. There might have been this contingency, that,
if the answer of the Board of Control had Leen positively
unfavourable, there might have been no ergagement be-
tween him and the Ameer.

By Sir J. Graham—He had an express stipulation with
Mr. Vernon Smith that nothing he ever said should be
used against the intereste of Ali Moorad, and he also stipu-
lated to Mr. Mangles that nothing he might say should be
brought under the Court of Directors. His communica-
tions with Mr. Vernon Smith were to him as President of
the Board of Control, and they were masked private.
Sir J. Graham--Your correspondence with the Board of
Directors and the President of the Board of Control are
not recorded. Are not these facts consistent with the
agreement as to secrecy ?
Witness—No ; my communications to Mr. Vernon
Smith were addressed to him private, and I should have
been much surprised to have found any of them on record
at the Board of Control. It was understood that in the
new Parliament Sir F. Kelly should conduct the proceed-
ings and give the notices. There was an arrangement that
Sir F. Kelly should make the motion, and he (Mr. Butt)
make a speech urging the claims of ,li Moored. Mr.
nolt, a member of the house, urged him strongly to
speak, but it was after that that negotiations were opened
with the Board of Control. Mr. Coffey, on behalf of
the Ameer, said the whole question should be placed in
his hands, but he said he would not agree to it, as all he
wanted was that nothing should be done without his
knowledge. Coffey was very distinct in saying that the
Ameer was entirely iii his hands; and when it was
suggested to him to open negotiations with the Board of
Control, it was hinted that he might again have the parlia-
mentary control of the question, but the responsibility was
never assumed. He never told Sir J. W. Hogg that he
would bring the question before Parliament during the
session of 1857, without some concession were made to Ali
Moorad. (This part of the evidence of Sir J. W. Hogg was
read.) He did not say Sir J. W. Hogg bad falsely misre-
presented the conversations between them, but he had cer-
tainly entirely misrepresented it. Ho might have told Sir
J. W. Hogg that the Ameer had been an ill-used man, and
that the directors would be great fools to allow the question
to be raised in Parliament.
[To be continued in car last edttion.]

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

DOW-STREET—(THIS DAY).
Simon Bernard, who stands charged with being con-
cerned in the conspiracy for the assassination of the
Emperor Napoleon, was this afternoon again placed at
the bar, for the third time, before Mr. Jardine.
The excitement which the two previous examinations
produced had not in the least abated, in fact it seemed
to have greatly increased. The outside of the court
and the passages leading to the interior being crowded
with persons, mostly foreigners, anxious to be present
during the investigation.
Mr. Bodkin, on the part of the Treasury, appeared
for the prosecution,
and Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr.
Leverson, defended the prisoner.
Mr. Bodkin said—Before the inquiry was proceeded
with, I have to inform you, air, that some of the foreign
witnesses had been unable to give their attendance to-
day. This circumstance would prevent him going on with
the case in the order he should
wish.
The first witness called to-day was M. Joseph de Georgi
I reside at Brussels. I
assist in keeping the Café
Suisse, in Tichbourne-street. I know the prisoner Ber-
nard. I have known him some time. I first knew him
in Brussels, in 1849, but I have not seen him in Lon-
don until the 16th of October, when he came in the
ordinary way to the café I
left London in Decem-
ber last for Brussels. I saw Bernard there two or three
days before I left. I recollect the prisoner asking me about
gas. He asked me if I knew anybody connected with gasadministration. I said I knew a Mr. Bremacker, a gentle-
man connected with the gas works in Brussels ; and he then
said he should like to see this entleman, as he had a new
invention applicable to gas. le did not say anything fur-
ther that day, but on the following evening he brought five
pieces of iron, they were round--like an orange cut in two
—half a ball. They were hollow
them. There was a hole in them for a screw. I did not
try to screw them together, but they appeared to me they
would fit each other. , there was nothing in

Mr. Bodkin—Did you see small holes in them beside
the one for screw.
Mr. Sleigh objected to the question. It was leading
the witness. _

The Magistrate—l think you can hardly object to the
question.
The Witness There were a number of small holes besides
the one I have mentioned. Bernard gave me the balls to
take to Brussels for a new invention in gnas. He said,
4 Take
Liege, will fetch them away in my name?, C who is at
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Englishman
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ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY.—EarI Stanhope was yester-
day elected Lord Rector of the Aberdeen University.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—A. fatal accident happened yester-
day to a child named Mary Smith, aged 8 years, in P
Lower Fore-street, Lambeth.
the unfortunate deceased
was crossing the road, when a horse, drawing a heavily-
laden beer-dray, knocked her down, and one of the
wheels struck her head. She survived but a few hours.
THE PARRICIDE'S DRAM—The 13th article of the
Penal Code, which was read at the trial of the conspira-
tors against the Emperor, runs thus :
_" The criminal
condemned to death for parricide shall be conducted to
the place of execution in his shirt, with his head and
feet bare, and covered with a black veil. He shall be
exposed on the scaffold while an officer of the court reads
to the people present the sentence of condemnation, and
he shall be immediately afterwards executed."
Advices have been received from Belgium that
Georg i, the man who took over the Allsop shells from
London to Brussels, has been expelled from Belgium.
He was simply placed on board All ()dead oteatner and
lunged in Linda._