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Y EVENING, MARCH l, 1845.

some weeks afterwards that he had learned, through M.
MAzzINI, that such had been the fact. He had brought
down to the House several letters which had the
appearance of having teen " operated on," but their
contents wer.: not of a treasonable character; and if any
tre.sona!ole letters had been directed to him they must
have been kept back by Sir JAMES GRAHAM. He had
obtained his information by no underhaad or dishonour-
able means. He feared not inquiry, and let the odium of
cowardice rest on those who refused it. He concluded
by moving that Colonel ManEaLY be ordered to attend
at the bar of the house.

Mr. D'IsaAELI supported the motion. The warrant
ought to be produced in order that its validity might be
tried.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM opposed the motion, but stated
that no circumstance had come to his knowledge, in re-
lation to the Hon. Member for Finsbury, which cast any
imputation on his character as a loyal subject of the
QUEEN, or derogated from his dignity as a Member of
that House.

Lord HowicK had hoped that the Government would
have introduced some measure to guard against these
abuses for the future. As they had not done so, he felt
bound to support the motion.
After a few words from Lord SANDON and Mr. WAR-
BURTON,

Lord JOHN RtJBSELL said that, as the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet had distinctly declart d that nothing had transpired
to show that the Hon. Member for Finsbury had acted
otherwise than as a loyal subject of her MAJESTY, and
that nothing had come to his knowledge that affected his
character as a Member of that House, he thought that
the position of the question was materially altered. He
was ready to take the declaration thus made. Had it
not been made, he might have felt that, considering the
circumstance that a high privilege of that House had in
his opinion been violated, a further investigation was ne-
cessary. But he thought that that declaration made a
material difference, and he now conceived that that in-
vestigation was now uncalled for.

At the conclusion of Lord J. RUSSELL'S speech the
House became very impatient for a division, and Mr. M.
MILNES, Mr. HUM Hp Mr. WATSON, Mr. A GLIONBY, and
several other Hon. Members, spoke amidst much con-
fusion.

Sir R. PEEL then rose and defended himself and his
Government against the attacks of Mr. T. DUNCOMBE
and Mr. D IsBAELL

On a division, the motion was lost by a majority of
75, the numbers being—for the motion, 113 ; against
it, 188.

On the order of the day being read for the House re-
solving itself into a Committee of Ways and Means on
the subject of the sugar duties,
Mr. Hocc brought forward his resolution for itn •
posing an equal duty upon East and West In Tian
Sugar.

After a lengthened discussion, the motion was with.
drawn.

The House then resolved itself into Committee, the
resolution was agreed to, and the report was ordered
to be brought up on Monday.
The House adjourned at One o'clock.

In the House of Lords, the debate of Thursday night
last was productive of sense passages of extraordis.ary in-
terest. Lord BEAUMONT addressed a few stringent
questi6ns to the Earl of ABERDEEN on a subject on which
we have often had occasion to appeal, not without senti-
ments of profound grief and indignution, to the sympa-
thies of our readers. We allude to the military execu-
tions summarily inflicted on a handful of Italian re-
fugees, who, under some treacherous information or en-
couragement, and the influence of their own unaccount-
able infatuation, had made a rash and ill•concerted
descent upon the coasts of Calabria, and a dis-
orderly march upon Cosenza, in June, 1843.
It will be recollected, that among the victims
who perished by decree of the •` Commission," erected
for the trial, as it was called, of these ill-fated martyrs
to the cause of " Young Italy," were the two nobly-
descended brothers, BANDIERA, sons of the Admiral
commanding the fleet of the Emperor of AUSTRIA.
The untimely fate of these distinguished young
patriots—for such they were, if an enthusiastic
and disinterested devotion to the country of their birth
and connexions be of the essence of patriotism—did not
fail to attract that degree of commiseration throughout
Europe, and especially in this country, which its touch-
ing and mournful appeal to the most generous feelings
of our nature was so well calculated to excite.
How the gallant and accomplished brothers can have
been induced to embark in as attempt so romantic as
that of releasing by a demonstration of physical force
some colleagues, who bad been taken prisoners in the
same political cause which they had espoused, from the
State Prisons of the Neapolitan or of the Austrian Go-
vernment, against the organized power of either of
those ancient and established monarchies, with means
so utterly inferior to the boldness of their undertaking,
and resources to fall back upon in case of failure, or
even of temporary exigencies so falsely calculated, as
those which they commanded, or those which they were
induced to expect from the aid and concurrence of their
southern compatriots ;—all this is to a great extent an
unexplained mystery, the key to which is buried in the
grave of the unfortunate sufferers. M. MAzzINI (whose
name has been so often brought up in recent Post-
office debates, as the " Magnus Apollo " of the move-
ment, and the destinies of Young Italy), has shown that
so far from encouraging the
design of the BANDIERAS,
he used every means and all advice to dissuade them
from carrying it into execution. But he has adduced,
without absolute proofs, or the very strongest presump-
tions, to establish the fact, that they were betrayed into
the snare of concocting the expedition to Calabria by pre-
tending colleagues in their schemes, who were, in
fact, spies upon their counsels and _actions, in the pay of
the Government
; and who, at Corfu, had per-
suaded(after abandoning, in conformity
these
e fou fge Napleses
with M. MAzziNs's remonstrances, their original design
of an attempt to effect a rising within the States of the
Church) to embark in a new scheme for effecting a
landing, with the same purpose of bringing about a
political reaction, in the Neapolitan dominions. The
story of their disasters, their utter disappointment of all
co operation, their defeat, their dispersion, and the bar-
bar( us judicial murder of their leaders, must be
still fresh within the memory of all English-
men. Now, certainly, in relation to the dis-
graceful precedents of this affair and its catastrophe
which had happened in this country—to the
case charged and established on behalf of MAzziNt,
against the English Government, of habitually violating
the seals and purl( ining the intelligence confided to the
safe and honourable custody of its Post-office Depart-
ment ;—these transactions did assume a most suspicious
appearance of a preconcerted /iidnapping of brave,
though, it may be, misguided men, into the toils set for
their lives by a perfidious foreign Court, with the as-
sistance and complaisant turpitude of the British Go-
vernment. Lord BEAUMONT, therefore, had reason to
assert, that if the truth of the facts which had gone
abroad should be established, the " British Government
had been conspirators in one of the foulest deeds of
treachery that had ever been perpetrated by the most
absolute and tyrannic States."
But we are bound to acknowledge—and we do so
with unfeigned gratification (not having been slow to
impute to the Noble Foreign Secretary a degree of cul-
pable complicity in lending himself to the sanguinary
resentments of the Courts of Austria and Naples)—that
the Earl of ABERDEEN, last night, completely vindicated
himself, Lord SEATON, the Lord High Protector of the
lonian Islands, and the Governor of Malta, from every-
thing in the shape of previous knowledge of, or subse-
quent participation in, any of the measures which led to
the concoction of the Calabrian expedition, the
betrayal of the unhappy parties into the power of the
Neapolitan Emissaries, the failure of the design, and
the extermination of the BANDIERAS and their
coaspanions. On all these points we most frankly
and cordially acquit Lord ABERDEEN, whose speech of
Thursday night— pervaded as it was throughout by a
tone of high moral feeling, ingenuous frankness, and
humanity—was concluded by protestations, the impres
sive earnestness and solemnity of which have not had
s
the walls of Parliament. The great moral lesson it has
many parallels in Ministerial addresses delivered within

:aught, however, is that to which we adverted in a

recent paper—namely, that the dishonest tampering—
the sham less larceny-like practices of the Government to
which Lord ABERDEEN belongs, with the sealed corre-
spondence passing through its Post office,—h avo resulted,
as all guilty means result, the specious pretext for

%s hich is the attainment of a' presumed good end. Es'i

beginnings have led to evil conclusions. Lc t the wire

drawn distinctions between giving up the suspected let-
ters themselves, and only communicating the sum of
their pilfered contents, go for the utmost at which it
can be put by those who rely upon it—what then ?
Certain it is, that what intelligence was communicated by
England to Austria (with the the view even of diverting
the latter Power from putting into execution her menace,
that, in the alternative of our giving refuge and protec-
tion in our colonies to the Italian subjects proscribed by
her Government, she would march troopi into the Papal
States, and take military possession of such pasts as she
might consider requisite guarantees for her own peace
and safety) ; that information was reciprocated between

the Courts of Austria and Naples, and sealed the bloody
doom of the young and brave BANDIERAS.

Madrid papers of the 21st ult. have.been received. A
military commission had been summoned to meet at

Vittoria for the trial of the thirty-ot.e offi...ers and non-
commissioned officers arrested for a plot against the Go-
vernment. No bus:ness was done in the Chambers on
the 21st.

The Three per Cents. closed at 33i at 60 days ; the
Five per Cents. at 24 for cad:), and 241 at 60 days ; the
Debt without Interest, at 71 at 60 days, with 4 prem. ;
and the Vales at 94 at 30 days.

The domestic intelligence in the Paris papers is with-
out interest. The accounts from Switzerland are on
the whole satisfactory. No disturbances or collisions
between the adverse cantons had taken place, and hopes
began to be entertaine,l that the differences would be
settled by peaceful negotiations. The Extraordinary
Diet met at Zurich for the first time, on the 24th ult.,
but no business Nas done. The first question for dis-
cussion was the admission of the popular Deputies from
the Clinton de Vaud, which would be brought on the
following day. The Paris paper, the Patric, publishes
the following extract of a letter, dated Zurich, Feb. 23 :
" The envoys of the great Powers, and even those of the
small German States, near Switzerland, have had conferences,
in which all the eventualities that could arise in this country
were considered. The canton of Lucerne has already yielded
to the represcatations of one 'of the great powers (France),
by withdrawing the order which had been given to General
Sonnenberg to enter the territory of Argau in order to pre-
vent the attack with which Lucerne was menaced on that
side. The accounts from Berne and Lausanne, whilst they
express serious fears as to the maintenance of order, on the
hypothesis of the Vorot not acting according to the instruc-
tions given to the Deputies of those cantons, say there is no
reason to hope that the free corps will be restrained from
action until after the decision of the Diet. 'Whatever may
happen, France, Austria, Sardinia, Baden, and Bavaria, aro
firmly resolved to surround with a rigorous cordon of blockade
all the cantons which may take any part whatever in the
movements that menace the existence of the federal compact.
M. de Pontois displays great activity. He is on excellent
terms with the Catholic cantons. The new envoy of Prussia
is expected to-day."

The French Funds remained nearly stationary. The
Five per Cents. closed at 122 f., the Threes at 85, and
the New Loan at 85f. 90c. Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,213 f. 75c.; Rouen, 1,1201.; Havre, 927 f. 50c.

THIS _DA Y's NEWS

LATE MURDER AT HAMPSTEAD

ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUEST.
(THIS DAY.)
The adjourned inquest upon the body of James Delarue, the
unfortunate man who was so barbarously murdered in the
field near Haverstock-hill, was resumed this morning, be-
fore Mr. Wakley, Mr. G.. 1. Mills,and a mostrespectable jury.
From the observations made by the Coroner on the last day,
and the expeetation that the prisoner would be brought up, a
considerable crowd thronged all the avenues leading to the
Yorkshire Grey, on tiptoe to see him, and the inquest- room
itself was thronged with the respectable householders in the
neighbourhood, among whoM we observed the Rev. Thomas
Ainger and other clergymen, the churchwarden and over.
seers of St. John's, and other persons of public note in the
parish. Mr. Lander attended, as before, to observe the pro•
ceedings on the part of the parishioners. The prisoners
were undefended.
Precisely at twenty minutes to ten o'clock the Coroner
entered the room, and the names of the jurymen having been
tailed over, the Court was opened by the parish constables.
Inspector Gray was called into the room, and he was asked
by the Coroner if he had, agreeably to his instructions, called
upon the Governor of the House of Correction relative to the
production of the prisoner at the Coroner's court ? Inspector
Gray replied in the affirmative, and that the governor stated
he could not give up the prisoner without the order of the
committing magistrate. He had then proceeded to Mr. Raw-
linson at the Marylebone Police-court, who verbally ex-
pressed his wish that the Coroner's request should be complied
with, and communicated that desire to the Governor of the
Gaol. Under these circumstances, he (Inspector Gritty) had
not gone back, feeling assured that the prisoner would be
produced this morning in the custody. of the proper officer.
Mr. WAKLEY—Then the prisoner is not here.
Inspector Haynes—He is not, Sir.
Mr. WAKLEY said that all these difficulties had arisen, in
the first instance, from mismanagement at Hampstead. On
the first sitting of the inquest he (Mr. Wakley) had given
instructions that he should be informed at the very earliest
period if any one were taken into custody. There had been
a person taken up on suspicion of behig concerned in this
murder. Now, by the evidence of the policeman Scotney, it
appeared that he had been taken into custody at half-past
one on the-morning of Wednesday, yet no information had
been forwarded to him .(Mr. Wakley) until nine o'clock of
the same morning. It then appeared to him to be perfectly
useless to call the jurymen together, particularly after he
had been informed that the prisoner had been conveyed from
Hampstead to Marylebone about the same hour that he had
received his information. He should wish to know the pre-
cise hour he was taken away ?
Inspector Partridge—About seven o'clock, Sir.
Mr. WAKLEY--That was two hours before then. All this
difficulty and contention, so unseemly in a court of justice,
was solely. to be attributed in the first instance to mismanage-
ment. He wished to know from Inspector Gray why in-
formation had not been conveyed to him at an earlier hour ?
Inspector Gray stated that he had forwarded a letter to the
Coroner between the hours of two and three of the same
morning.
Mr. WAKLET believed that the ease was otherwise. The
letter informing him of the circumstance had been received
at nine o'clock. If things had been managed as they ought
to have been there would have been no difficulty with the
police 'court. They should have proceeded with the inquiry,
and they would have had the prisoner before them without
any necessity for his going to the police-court at all. Such
a thing had happened in the case of Marchant, who had mur-
dered a girl in Cadogan-square. He had not gone before the
magistrate at all. There should be no difficulty at all, for if
they were a court of justice why should there be any hesita-
tion in allowing the prisoner before them ? In the case of
Crouch, also, it was in his (Mr. Wakley's) option to have
sent him to the county gaol at once, the Coroner's jury
having returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder" against him.
But, what did he do? He told the policeman to whom the
warrant had been given not to execute it immediately, as the
magistrate might wish to have the prisoner produced before
him. He (Mr. Wakley) addressed a letter to the Home
Secretary, and, on the day before, an answer was returned by
him. He would read that answer :
"Whitehall, 28th Feb., 1845.
am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this morning,
representing that you have adjourned the inquest on the body
of James Delarue, and that you trust there may be no im-
pediment to the production of Thomas Hocker, who is now
in custody, charged with his murder, at the adjourned inquest.
" Sir James Graham has no objection to the Governor of
the New Prison producing the prisoner Hocker, in the
custody of his own officer, at the inquest. on receiving a
requisition from you to that effect; and lie will direct that
this information shall be given to the Governor. This course
Sir James Graham hopes, will prevent all difficulty; but it
must be understood that the prisoner is to appear before the
magistrates, on his remand, with which the course proposed
by you is not to interfere.—l have the honour, &c.,
"T. Wakley, Esq." "S. M. PHILLIPPS.
That letter appeared quite satisfactory for the purpose. In-
spector Gray received his (Mr. Wakley's) requisition to the
Governor of the New Prison, and his (Mr. Wakley's) instruc-
tions to the inspector were, that if he did not receive a dis-
tinct answer he should come at once to him at the House of
Commons. The inspector was not to blame. There ap•
peered every reason to be perfectly satisfied with the com-
munication he had received from the Governor of the prison.
He (Mr. Wakley) had afterwards received a letter from Mr.
Kilsby himself, and that also he would read to the jury.
The following letter was then read:by the Deputy-Coroner :
"New Prison, Clerkenwell, Feb. 28, 1845.
sir,—.l g leave to acquaint you that upon receipt of
your letter this evening, requesting the production of the
prisoner, Thomas Henry Hecker, before your inquest to-
morrow, I informed Inspector Gray, the bearer thereof, that
the communication which I had received from the Home-
office, signifying that Sir James Graham, the Secretary of
State, had no objection to the production of the prisoner at
the inquest, did not sufficiently authorise me to send the
prisoner without an authority from the consulting magis-
trate, or to disobey the order of the visiting justices of this
prison, posted on the 20th of Jtine, 1842, a copy of which I
have subjoined, but that I would send an officer to accom
pony him with the documents to the committing magis-
trate, who would probably give an authority to deliver
the prisoner to the police, for the purpose required. The
committing magistrate declined giving such authority, but
intimated that he had no objection to the production of the
prisoner before you.
" I regret, therefore, that I have no positive order upon the
subject besides those contained in the warrant of commitment
and the minute referred to.

" Under all the circumstances, however, I have thought it
my duty to send the above documents for the perusal of such
of the visiting justices as can be communicated with early
to-morrow morning, and shall be guided by the answer I re-
ceive.

" I hope this will reach you before you leave town in the
morning, as I am extremely anxious to assure you, that in
the event of any disappointment taking place at the inquest,
I have done all in my power to comply with your request in
the absence of definite instructions.
I have the honour to be, &c.,
" THOMAS KILSBY."
The order of the visiting justices, to which he referred, was
this

(Copy of the Order.)
" NEW PRISON.-VISITING JUSTICES.
" June 20, 1842.
" Resolved,—Thet it appears to the Visiting Justices that
the keeper will not in future be justified in sending any pri
Boner committed for re-examination by a Magistrate on a
charge of homicide before the Coroner, in order to be present
at the inquest."
Now, unless the Governor had received a peremptory
order from the Secretary of State, he (Mr. Wakley) was not
surprised that he should have acted as he had done. Bat he
was certainly surprised that Mr. Kilsby had not before re-
membered that this resolution of the justices was standing
upon the books of the gaol. Thus the matter stood. The
prisoner was not present, and, under those circumstances, he
was disposed to recommend that the inquiry be further ad-
journed till half-past nine on Monday morning. He would re-
peat, then, what he had said on the last occasion, that if it was
the jury's desire to go on with the inquest in the absence of the
accused person, that person being only remanded, and not
committed for trial by the magistrase, he (Mr. Wakley)
would start no objections; he would subject the jury to no
further inconvenience, but go at once with the investiga-
tion. If it was their opinion that they should go on in the
absence of the accused person he would do so, but he
had endeavoured, since he had been appointed to that
office, to discharge its duties with advantage to the public. The utility of the Coroner's office was asubject ofthe greatest
importance that could arise in this country. The office was
calculated to ensure the greatest security to the liberties of
the subject, and unless the Court had the power to have be-
fore it the pe; son accused of the murder, the very foundation
of the office was gone. Let them suppose that a ti:ne of
commotion might arise. Such had been, and such might be
again, and that a public meeting was called to complain of
certain or general grievances. The people might entertain
one opinion with regard to the right of public meeting, and
the persons in power might entertain another and a very dif-
ferent opinion. He did not mean to refer to the present Go-
vernment, but to whatever Government might be in power
at the time. The people, he said, might entertain one opinion
and the Government another, and the latter might require
that the meeting should at once disperse. sup-
posing , that they did however meet, and that human
life was lost, that either the police or the soldiery