The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-04 00:00:00

THEIR MAJESTIES.

(From the Windsor Express of Saturday.)
Their MAJESTIES and suite arrived at the Cistle at
half-past ten o'clock last night, from the Baroness HowE's,
at Twickenham. In consequence of the unfavourable
state of the weather, the company did not go out on the
lawn to view the regatta, and the Royal party left at nine
o'clock.

The KING drove through Windsor about eleven o'clock
this morning towards the Great Park. His MAJESTY
also drove out this afternoon, accompanied by Lady
Sidney, and returned to the Castle a little before five
o'clock.

Among the distinguished personages visiting their MA-
JESTIES are Lord and Lady CLINTON, Lady S. SIDNEY,
Lady FALKLAND, Baron and Baroness Boum and family,
Lord PALMERSTON, SIC J. BEYNETT, MISS BOYLE IS
Maid of Honour.

This evening his Royal Highness Prince ALBERT, from
Prussia, arrived at the Castle to dinner. His Itnyal High-
ness stays on a visit to their MAJESTIES for a few days.

The KING has notified to Dr. KEATE his intention of
being pres,nt at the Eton regatta on Monday next.
The KING goes to town on Wednesday to attend the
Levee. On Whit-Tuesday it is expected that the Court
will attend the Eton Montem ; on the 14th the QUEEN
holds a Drawing-room, and on the 15th a Grand Ball
will be given, bath at St. James's. It is expected that the
Drawing-room and Ball will be the last for the present
season, after which the Court returns to Windsor for As-
cot Race, and will remain for some time.

The KING and QUEEN continue to enjoy excellent
health, hut that of Princess Louise, we regict to say, is
still in a very declining state.

THE CONVICT ORDERED FOR
EXECUTION.

John Druitt, the unhappy culprit to be executed to-
morrow morning at Newgate, is a young man about 27
years of age ; and it appears, from his own statement, that
his relations arc persons of respectability, whom his mis-
conduct had induced to turn their backs upon him. He
was tried at the April Sessions, Old Bliley, and convicted
of two daring burglaries; his wife, a young woman of 22,
and a woman named Reeve, who lived with them, being
tried with him as receivers of the stolen property. One
of the indictin.nts was for r, Ming the house of Mrs.
Sarah Harriet Watteridge, in York-,quare, Regent's Park,
of plate and other property to the amount of 2001. It
appeared upon the trial, that on the 26th of January, the
prosectitrix having gone to the theatre, the prisoner went
to the house about half-past nine, and told Hannah Fran-
cis, the servant, that he had been sent by her mistress,
who had fallen out of a coach, and was then at a doctor's
shop near Covent-garden waiting for her cloak. The
servant accordingly took the cloak, and accompanied the
prisoner, who, however, left her unperceived when near
James-street, Covent-garden. Finding, upon inquiry,
that nothing had happened to her mistress, she hurried
home, and discovered that the house had, in the mean
time, been entered, and robbed of the property stated in
the indictment, part of which was found when the pri-
soners were apprehended. Druitt pleaded an alibi i❑ his
defence, hut the proof against him was clear, and he was
convicted. The second indictment charged him with
breaking into the house of Mr. Kemp, a tobacconist, in
Broad-street, St. Giles's, and stealing 1121bs. of tobacco,
301bs. of cigars, and about 101bs. in copper money. The
depredation was committed early in the morning of the
sth of March, and the property carried rafr in four sacks.
Part of this property was found on the following day, and
the prisoners apprehended, under rather singular circum-
stances, at their residence, in Grove-place, City-road. It
appeared that some of their neighbours, having seen sacks
carried in at an unseasonable hour, suspected the occupants
of the house of being markers, and that the sacks contained
the bodies of their victims. Information was accordingly
given to the police, and on searching the house, the four
sacks, a quantity of tobacco, and some of the copper mo-
ney, stolen from Mr. Kemp, were finny!, besides a nurn•
her of housebreaking instruments and pawnbrokers' du-
plicates ; and evidence was obtained of various other
depredations. A policeman, named Delany, about half-
past two on the morning of the robbery, saw Druitt in
Broad-street, near Mr. Kemp's ; but shortly after missed
hint, and a coach from the stand. There were other in-
dictments against Druitt besides the two abovetnentiond.

A very curious specimen of the good old Tory
times in Ireland has just appeared in a return from the
Court of Chancery, printed by order of the House of
Commons. By this document we find, that within the
short period of eight years the four Masters of that Court
have drawn from the public purse a sum of nearly
100,0001. !—one-half of which would, :n all reason, have
been ample remuneration for the services of those gentle-
men, who are not of the first grade in their profession,
and whose office attendance, we are informed, seldom ex-
tends beyond the hour of three o'clock each day during the
sittings of the Court. To another officer, the Registrar of
the Court, a sum of 35,5001. has been paid during the
above-mentioned period, as a retired allowance, at the rate
of upwards of 4,0001. a year ! and for which no attend-
ance or value has been given. Then to two Examiners
of the Court 9,0001. between them; and among the Six
Clerks a suns amounting to nearly 60,000/., one half of
which sums would have abundantly compensated thosa
worthy public functionaries, particularly the Six Clerks,
whose duties might be altogether dispensed with. The
total of these extravagant payments for salaries and allow-
ances amounts to nearly 200,000/. ! and, Irish like, the
Chancery fund, which was appropriated by Parliament to
meet those payments, has not (luring the time produced
much more than 100,0001. Now we would ask Mr.
HUME out of whose pocket the difference comes? And
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We must no longer be reproached with the law
having become, both here and in Ireland, " not a refuge
to the poor, but a luxury to the rich"—nor our Courts of
Justice represented as " open to the indigent only as spec-
tators"—where " the farther or the peasant, oppressed or
defrauded to the amount of 10/., cannot buy even a chance
of redress in the lottery of the law for less than 601."
where " by victory or defeat lie is equally and irreme-
diably ruined. This system must be amended—abandoned."
Lord HARBOROUGH is adding to the beau-
ties of Stapleford Park, near Melton, and increasing its
boundaries. Miss LOVE, late Mrs. GRANBY CALCRAFT,
still lives with him, and he seems to have shut himself
nut entirely from the world for her sake. He has lately
commenced an action against a member of the Melton
Hunt, for a trespass on his sanctum sanctorurn.—Leices-
ter Journal.
THE REFORM BILL.—The inhabitants of
the populous town of Kettering, Northamptonshire, con-
,idering the Bill as already virtually passed, have begun
to display some symptoms of that boundless joy which will
soon revel in every vein, and beam in every countenance
throughout the three kingdoms. Ever since Saturday week,
the small turrets which form the buttresses of their lofty
church spire, have been profusely decorated with oak in-
tertwined with chaplets of flowers. The inhabitants of
Kettering have indeed peculiar reasons for rejoicing, for
almost the entire property in that extensive parish is copy-
hold, and has consequently never yet been represented,
the existing law making an absurd distinction be-
ween copvhold and freehold property. The inhabitants
have also another source of joy, arising from their ton n
having been fixed on for the place whence the from tle
northern division of Northamptonshire is to be made,

MURDER AT LEICESTER. ,

ADDITIONAL FACTS.

The residence of the supposed murderer, Cook, is situa-
ted in Wellington-street. A kind of tool, used by book-
binders, was found upon tbat counter of the woihshop,
besmeared with blood and brains, and there is little doubt
but the murderer despatched his victim by striking him on
the head with this instrument, before he proceeded to the
butchery of the body. Mr. Paas was the first tradesman,
in his line, in the kingdom—a man of good property, and
had connexions in trade in Germany, Holland, Swit
zerland, and Russia. He has left a widow and large
family in good circumstances. Mrs. Pass had, we have
beard, about a fortnight since 10,0001., left her by a re-
lation. A rather singular circumstance is connected with
this horrible affair. Just about the time of the murder
Mrs. Paas put on a widow's cap, and looking in the gl ass,
said she looked very well. Her mother, upon hearing
her, said, " I hope, my dear, it will be a long time before
you have occasion to wear one." We understand that a
brother of Mr. Pais was burnt to death at the time
Govent-garden Theatre was destroyed.
A meeting was convened by the Town-clerk of Leices-
ter late on Friday evening, which was attended by most of
the Magistrates belonging to the Corporation of that
place. The result was, that a reward of 2001. was
off, red for the apprehension of the murderer, and Acers
were eespatched in all directions in pursuit of him. The
driver of the Rocket coach, who left Leicester at nine
o'clock in the morning, describes in strong colours the ex-
citement into which the town has been thrown by this
atrocious murder. Several of the most respectable inhabi-
tants of Leicester not only put down their names as con-
taibutors to the reward which has been offered, but volun-
teered their services to go in pursuit of the murderer. The
following handbill has been issued at Leicester :—" Mur-
der—Absconded from justice, James Cook, an inhabitant
of Leicester, and by trade a bookbinder, stands chargtd
with wilful murder, and has absconded this morning. IL-
is supposed to have made his way towards Liverpool, for
the purpose of embarking for America. The following is
a description of him :—About 22 years old; 5 feet 6 or 7
inches high ; dark brown hair, very bushy at the sides ;
dark eyes, dark whiskers, pointing to the chin, long visage,
sallow complexion. He had on a lappd blue coat, black
waistcoat, dark trousers, Blucher boots, and wears a black
stock, with shirt collar above the stock. Walks upright."

LATEST PARTICULARS RECEIVES) LAST NIGHT.

The day after this horrible murder is supposed to have
been committed, Cook went to a public-house, not far
from his workshop, and played several games at " four
corners" and " skittles," and was observed frequently to
cast an inquiring eye towards the window of his shop ;
when he paid his reckoning, he displayed a considerable
quantity of cash, and seemed very impatient, and it was
noticed that he trembled violently ; this, however, was
attributed by his companions to the exertions he hail used
in the course of the game. Several constables have been
put in possession of Cook's house, and although ever
search bas been made for the head of the unfor-
tunate gentleman, no trace of it can be found,
nor is there anything by which the body cin be
identified, although the snuffbox, and other articles found
in Cook's house, belonging to the deceased, leaves not the
slightest doubt of his horrible murder. It has now been
ascertained that the deceased bad a considerable sum ni
money in his possession when he called upon Cook, which
he carried in a long dark-green purse, and which was
filled with sovereigns, besides a quantity of bank notes.
The amount cannot be correctly ascertained, but it i-
supposed, he had at least six or seven hundred pounds.
From inquiry we learn that the suspected individual is a
young man much respected, and of remarkably sober and
industrious habits; his employment being sedentary, hi
occasionally indulged in those amusements that were likely
to be beneficial to his health, of which he was very careful,
being always extremely abstemious. Such are the exer
tions used to discovsr and once more secure the individual
Cook, that his escape appears ❑ext to an impossibility.
Mr. Cook, sen., has always borne the most irreproachable
character, and is universally respected.

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS-RECEIVED THIS MORNING

We arc happy on being able to announce, that in tin
course of yesterday (Sunday) some most important fact-
were disclosed, which, by a most providential coinci-
dence, at once proves that the wretched man, James Cook,
was the actual murderer, and furnish a clue to his retreat.
The same train of circumstances also proves that the un-
fortunate victim, to a certainty, of this most treacherous,
premeditated, and horrid act, was M. Paas.
The brother and brother. in-law of the deceased arrived
at Leicester early yesterday morning, and an interview was
shortly after bad, at the Exchange Hall, between thest
gentlemen and the Town Magistrates, and their active ane
efficient agent the Town Clerk, Mr. Burbidge. Mr.
Paas produced an extract of a letter, sent by Cook to the
firm of Paas and Co., about a month back, containing an
order, and a request to know when Mr. Pass would call
on him. The clerk, before executing the order, wrote ti
Mr. Paas, stating the substance of the communication,
reminding that gentleman that Cook had been irregular in
his payments, and requesting advice how he should act.—
Mr. Paas, in reply, stated, that the order was to be exe-
cuted, and Cook to be informed he should call upon him
in three weeks. The fatal directions were obeyed, and,
as the visit of Mr. Pass to Cook corresponded therewith.
there is too much reason for fearing the period was em-
ployed by Cook in concocting and arranging the horde
plot. The horrid discovery was made the followint.,
morning, but the prisoner was then not to be found. B)
great perseverance and activity, it has, however, sub-
sequently been ascertained, that early on the morning o
that day he was seen walking in the direction from Leices
ter to Wanlip. At the latter place, which is five miles
from Leicester, he got upon the Courier coach, which hr
left at Loughborough. In this town he appears to have
spent about two hours, principally at the Black Horst
public-house, but he also visited a pawnbroker's there, or,
at least, a person answering his description did, and pledge,'
a shirt-pin, containing nine black stones, having a lock of
hair in a glass in their centre, and on the hack the initials
G. W. arid the ciphers " 1818." This pin was yesterday
identified by Mr. Paas as being one which the deceased con-
stantly wore as a memorial of the death of his mother-in
law. Here was obtained evidence most important and
conclusive in every respect. After remaining at Lough.
borough about two hours, Cook got upon the Defiance
coach, and went by it to 111anchester, where on alighting
lie instantly made off without giving the customary gra-
tuity to either coachman or guard. His object is sup-
posed to have been to avoid an observance of his person ;
but in this he failed, for the guard, to whom he was well
known, on his return to Leicester, anti learning what had
happened, gave instant information of the fact. Here
the trace of him at present, we believe, ceases; but it is
supposed he is journeying in the direction of Liverpool,
with the intention of embarking for America. It has
been ascertained that 41r. Paas must have paid at least
two visits on the same day to the den before he was mur-
dered. His first visit was about ten o'clock in the morn-
ing, for shortly after that hour he called on a customer
named Plant, and said that he had just come from Cook's,
and was to call on biro again in the afternoon, and that
in the mean time be would leave his samples with Mr.
Plant for inspection, and call for them on his return from
Cook's. He left them, but never returned. This was
on the Wednesday, and sufficiently fixes the day, ano
nearly the hour, on which the deed took place. On
searching the premises a receipt, signed by Mr. Paas for
twelve shillings, received of Cook on that day, was found;
and it is supposed that this receipt was given in du
morning, and that the afternoon invitation was under
pretence of giving an order. It is supposed that Cook
alone perpetrated the murder; but, from a variety co
little circumstances, the magistrates consider that he had
an assistant in cleansing the place, and removing thost
parts of the body of which no traces exist on the premises.
From a careful examination of the fragments found, it is
believed that the body was sawed in two above the pelvis,
and the upper part, without further mutilation, carried
away and burned, or sunk in sonic pit. Suspicion has at
tactic l to Michael Cook, a brother of the presumed mur-
derer, who lives at a village called Qucenybury, about six
miles off, and he has ken arrested, and now, with his
father, lies in the Crown Gaol. Michael had a horse and
cart, and worked for his brother. One circumstance is
dwelt on, and that is, that two men were seen on Thurs-
day evening, in the direction of the premises, with a corded
hair trunk, which they carried between them. It is a
singular fact, that on Wednesday afternoon, when thi
murder is supposed to have been committed, a gentleman
was seen to enter Cook's, and immediately after the ap-
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There is no murder on record of such a horrible naturt
as the murder of Mr. Paas since the year 1761, about 71
years ago, when a Frenchman, named Theodore airdelle,
an enamel painter, murdered Mrs. Ann King, his lant.-
lady, at his lodgings in Leicester-hquare ; and after robbing
her, burnt her body piece-meal to avoid detection.

The scarcest of SHA K SPEA RE'S minor piece:
is:the poem of " Lucrece," of which we never saw btu
one perfect copy, and that is in the possessio❑ of the inns
distinguished Bibliontanist of any age or country. Tlit
booksellers would gladly give fifty pounds for this ran
gem, which extends but to a very few Imo of small Co,