The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-21 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

From the Paris papers of Sunday, which did not
arrive until a late hour this afternoon, we learn that
the division in the Chamber of Peers on the previous
day, was looked upon by the Ministry as a great
triumph.
The following appears in the Presse :
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" It was confidently stated yesterday (Saturday) that
the Minister Plenipotentiary of her Britannic Majesty at
Washington had received his passports after a very warm
discussion, which he had with Mr. John Calhoun, Secre-
tary of State, and in which he declared to the latter
gentleman, that if the United States should persevere
in their intention to annex Texas, England on her
side would resume the designs which she had formed
relative to the island of Cuba, and which she had
given up, with regret, only on the representations Riede
to her by the United States. If our information be cor-
rect, it was in consequence of this declaration that the
American Minister, after having defied the Britannic
Envoy to realise his threat, signified to him that he had
nothing else to do but to take his passport. Although
this news came to us from a good source we confine our-
selves to stating it, without guaranteeing its exactitude."
We do not believe there is a word of truth in this
statement.

The National publishes a report drawn up and
signed by several French merchants and eaptains of
ships on the Gambia, relative to the seizure of the
Carieuse. They declared that there was nothing in
the outfits of the Carieuse which could in the slightest
degree lead to the suspicion that she was engaged
in the slave trade, and that since ships are seized
upon such frivolous pretexts, they tremble for the
ships of which they themselves are the owners, or
have the command. They also complain that in
passing to Albreda French ships are obliged to de-
posit their papers with the English authorities.
The National says that the only way of getting a
remission of the treaties of 1831 and 1833 is by
giving orders to French cruisers on that coast to give
such trouble to all English merchantmen carrying on
trade upon that coast as will make the right of search
past bearing.

The Journal des Debats says, that on Friday,
which was a cold frosty night, M. GUSTAVE D
BEAUMONT and the Marquis DE LANGLE watched all
night at the door of the Chamber of Deputies, in
order that they might he the first to inscribe their
names on the list of the speakers against the Address.
A letter from 'Warsaw, of the sth instant, says
that the Emperor of RUSSIA was expected there in
the beginning of May.

Accounts from Switzerland says that several can-
tons are in open warfare. At Argovie the insur-
gents, after having taken the arsenal without any
resistance being offered on the part of the Govern-
ment, seized on the ammunition and other stores,
which were then collected in large quantities and
marched towards Lucerne, where they were to meet
the insurgents of the other cantons. The canton of
Berne was taking measures to refuse a passage to
persons coming from Friburg to join the other mal-
contents at Lucerne.

THE RUISLIP MURDER COM-
MITTED EIGHT YEARS AGO.

EXAMINATION OF THE ACCUSED THIS DAY.

Charles Lamb, a prisoner in the House of Correction,
Cold Bath-fields, to-day underwent an examination be-
fore Mr. Mills, an Uxbridge magistrate, in the board-
room of the prison, on a charge of having murdered John
Brill, a youth of sixteen, who was murdered in a wood
at Ruislip, in February, 1837.
George Sibley, also a prisoner in the House of
Correction, was the first witness called. He stated—l
came lately from Harefield. I am now in this House
of Correction. I know Charles Lamb. I have known
him rather better than twelve months. I have been inti-
mate with him. We used to go out poaching, and
were at hide and seek together. About a fort-
night before Lamb was sent to prison I was
coming from Rickmansworth to Harefield with him, and
when we were in a lane at the bottom of a field we
began t. talk about getting into trouble and getting out
again. I said, " It is easy enough to get into trouble, but
not very easy to get out again." Lamb said to me, "You
have been in prison haven't you ? I have heard it is very
bad." I said, "Of course it is ;" and he then said, "I
would sooner be taken for murder than go to prison
for this." I said, " Murder ! Charley ?" and he replied,
" Yes. I was in Churchill's wood getting a bundle of
wood when John Brill came up to me, and I took
and struck him and knocked him down. A few
momenta after that I took and picked up his cap, and
hung it upon a bough, and put his bill hook ano cap
beside him, to look as if he had fallen out of a tree."
Lamb then said to me, " Nobody else knows of it but
you, and if you tell, I will kill you." He said that when
Brill came up to him, as he was walking along the wood,
he said, " Well, master Lamb, is it you ?" Upon
which he took Sand struck and knocked him down. I
had heard of the murder some years ago ; aid that a
man named Lavender had been had up for it. I have
always been on good terms with the prisoner Lamb.
The reason of my making this statement was that I
had had such queer dreams. I thought something
would happen if I did not tell. I have voluntarily
made this statement, without promise or favour from
any one. I first made it to Mr. Hoare, the chief warden
of the House of Correction, having first told the yards-
man that I wished to do it. I was twenty-five years of
age last August. lam now looking Lamb in the face,
and I state that he told me what I have now said, and it
is the truth, and nothing but the truth.
Mr. Woodbridge (the clerk)—Now, Lamb, have you
any question to ask the witness ? Lamb—No, Sir ; I
can't ask him anything. I never told it to him. If God
Almighty refuses to receive me into heaven I never did
it. You must be a very wicked man to say I told you
so ; you must be worse than the man who did the mur-
der, whoever that was. Thank the Almighty, I have
not to answer for that, let me go where I will, or suffer
what I will for it. You are doing this just on purpose
to get yourself out of prison.
Colonel Chesterton, the governor of the prison, told
Lamb not to make these declarations, but to confine him-
self simply to putting questions to the witness if he had
any to put.
Lamb repeated he had no questions to put.
James Brill was next called, and stated—l live in
the parish of Ruislip. I once had a son named John
Brill. He was about 16 years old in the year 1837 •, it
will be eight years, come next February, he worked
for and lived with Charles Churchill, a farmer. He
was missing on a Thursday, and his body was found on
the foJewing Sunday, in what is called Young Wood, in
the parish of Ruislip. I saw the dead body in this wood
lying on its back. James Lavender first discovered it,
and called out to me. I was about 300 yards from him
at the time, in the act of searching the woods. His cap
was hung on a little white thorn bush. By the side of
him lay a bill-hook and " hedging cuff," or sort of glove.
I saw the body lifted up, and blood gushed out both
from his nose and mouth.

The Clerk—Do you wish to ask him any question ?
Lamb—No, Sir, I have no question to ask him.
Charles Churchill—l live at Ruislip, and am a farmer.
I recollect as well as if it was but yesterday, that John
Brill was in my employment on 16th Feb., 1837. I
recollect the day on which his body was found. On
that morning, about half-past nine o'clock, I sent him
to take three cows into the meadow. He had a bill-hook
in his hand, and a cuff to stop up the gaps in the hedge,
which the fox-bounds had broken down. I told him
when he had finished the gaps to go into the Young
Wood, and then into the path which leads up through
the Young Wood to my house, and to watch that wood
until towards one o'clock.

By Mr. MILLS—I was to watch it against persons
cutting wood. I had been out before, and I was going
out. I told him if he saw any one cutting not to inter-
fere, but only to get near enough to see who it was. I
was going to Uxbridge market on that day, and when
I got down against the Six Bells, the landlady came out
and asked me to give her a ride. A man named
Meadows came out and asked me if I had heard a gun
go off in my cover ? I said, no ; but got out and went
across to John Brill, whom I found stopping the gaps
according to my direction; that was the last time I saw
him alive. I then told him, when he went home to his
dinner, to stay at home until I returned, which would
be about three. On my return, finding that tie did
not come to open the gate, I thought something was
amiss, for he was a lad that was always to his time. If
you told him to be anywhere in the middle of the
night, he was sure to be there. I had heard threats
against the lad, because he was a witness in a charge
of poaching which had been preferred against a man
named Lavender. I then went into the woods to see
if I could find him ; and searched about the woods, but
could not find him. I then sent to his father, who,
with another man, went in search of him, but could
not discover anything of him. Next morning, at
daybreak, the search was renewed ; but did not find
him. Did not search on Saturday, having heard
that he had run away, and had been seen at West
.End. There were one and twenty persons search -
ing the wood on Friday. On Sunday the search
was resumed, and had not been continued more than
half an hour, when he was found by James La-
vender, who cried out murder. I went up and saw him
lying on his back dead, by a bush, with his arm hooked
up against a bush ; his. cuff and bill lay at his feet.
Some blood ran fro his ears. The body was taken
to the Six Bells, Ruislip-common. His head dropped as
if his neck was broken, when they first lifted him up. I
was not present when the surgeons examined him. I
did not see any bruise on the temple or other part of the
head. I saw on the Monday that some underwood had
been cut at about 20 or 30 yards from the place where
the body was found.
Mary Allday—l am the wife of Thomas Allday, and
live at Ruislip Common. My husband is a labourer,
I recollect John Brill being lost on the 16th February,
1837. On that morning I saw the prisoner Lam at

the Six Bells, I was looking s;)t at an upstairs window
of my father's house, where I then lived. lie Wits
going down the footpath leading to the wood now over-
looked by Churchill, and had a bill in his hand.
I saw him again a little after twelve the same day; I was
up at my grandmother's house at the time. He was then
coming from the direction of the wood with a bundle of
wood on Ms shoulder—large green bits in the middle;
and the smaller pieces outside. It was green wood, and
apparently freshly cut. He went towards his own home.
Mr. MILLS (to the prisoner)—Have you any question
to ask ? Lamb—No, Sir, what she.bas stated is perfectly
true.

Henry Woodman—l am a labourer, living at Ruislip.
I knew John Brill. I have lived at Ruislip ever since
the period of his death. On that day I saw Charles
Lamb near the wood, and he asked me if I had seen Mr.
Churchill and his wife go by. I said I had about an
hour and a half before, upon which Lamb returned into
the wood. I saw him get over the gate into the wood.
That same evening I heard that the body of John Brill
was missing.
James Lavender deposed to having found the body on
the Sunday, as deposed by the other witnesses.
Rachel Brill, mother of the deceased, saw a large
bruise on the side of his head when the body was taken
to the Six Bells public-house.
Mr. Charles Woodman, farmer, of Ruislip, saw the
deceased on the 16th February, 1837, at work mending
gaps in the hedges. He was then alive and well.
Charles Bray had met Lamb on:the 16th of February,
1837, on Ruislip-common, He was out of breath, was
sweating, and said he was not very well. Witness told
him if be would go to the Six Bells he would give him
half a pint of beer. They went together, and had two
pints of beer between them. Heard of the lad's being
lost the same night.
_ _ _

Mr. Robert Burton, late of Uxbridge, and now of
Dorset-street, Portman-square, stated that he assisted
Mr. Patten in examining the body of the lad Brill the
day before .the inquest. It was Mr. Patten's case, and
witness assisted him. Mr. Patten was since deceased.
The left ear was very much swollen and livid. Had
no doubt that he died from violence ' • on removing the
skull cap found the vessels very much gorged. There
was also a greater effusion of blood on the right side of
the brain than on the left. This would lead to the con-
clusion that the effusion had been caused by a violent
blow on the left side.

The first witness, Sibley, was recalled, and stated that
he recollected hearing of the murder, but did not help to
search for the body, and did not hear any particulars of
it. Only heard of it as a murder. Did nut hear of the
body being found, and had never heard of the cuff and
billhook, until told of it by Lamb.
As the witness was leaving the room,
Lamb said to him, " A'n't you ashamed of yourself,
George ? If you are not, you ought to be."
Mr. MlLLs—What do you now say to the charge,
Lamb ? Prisoner—All I have got to say, Gentlemen,
is, that I never named it to him if I was to die " mo-
mently."
Mr. MILLS then told the prisoner that it would be his
duty to send him for trial at the next session of the
Central Criminal Court.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

GLOBE.—We receive the following bulletin of
the Oxford: Ward campaign from a source which
may be relied upon :
WITDRAWAL OF THE NEW STATUTE
PROPOSED AT OXFORD FOR PREVENT-
ING FRAUDULENT SUBSCRIPTION.

OXFORD, JAN. 20.—"1t is said, that in consequence
of the remonstrances of numerous members of
Convocation, of liberal or Evangelical opinions,
who have been brought to consider the new
statute as capable of being abused and made an
additional test, a resolution passed the Hebdomadal
Board this day to refer that part of the measures recom-
mended by the Dean of Ch. Ch.'s Committee, back to
the Committee, for revision. The impression here is
that such proceeding is preliminaay to the total with-
drawal of the new statute.

" In this case there will remain to be submitted to
Convocation on the 13th of February two questions
only—one, of the consistency of Mr. Ward's proposi-
tion; with good faith, in subscribing the 39 Articles—
the other, of his being removed from his degree. It ap-
pears that the Rev. Gentleman has obtained an opinion
from the Queen's Advocate, and Mr. Bethell, Q.C.,
that the latter measure is illegal, on the same grounds
as were alleged by Lord Campbell, in 1836, against
the politico-religious movement of Convocation in
the case of Dr. Hampden ; but it is said that, what-
ever question may still exist as to the latter mea-
sure, the Hebdomadal Board have in the case of
Mr. Ward acted throughout under the best legal
advice. There is no doubt of the resolutions
against the book passing by a large majority, but
the degradation of the author will be resisted by the
whole force of the Tractarians, on the excuse of pre-
sumed illegality. Many liberal members of Convoca-
tion will also vote against it, or be neutral, on the
ground of its being a privilegium. Among the imme-
diate results of the present agitation, not the least im-
portant has been the appearance of several pamphlets,
on the part of the High Tory and Tractarian party,
abounding in panegyric on the comprehensive character
of the Articles, and in principles tending to the removal
of religious tests, as encouraging hypocrisy, and un-
suited to the present age."
We may now, then, consider the proposed test
as thrown overboard ; a result which the deliberate
opinion we had formed of its impolicy makes us
think matter for congratulation. We also think
it matter for congratulation that the natural
foes of religious liberty have been turned for the
nonce into its friends by the discussion of this
statute. And we call upon those Liberal Church-
men in the University who agree with them (as
we do) on this occasion, to test the sincerity
of such professions as the emergency] has wrung
from this party. Misery makes men acquainted
with strange bed-fellows; and we recommend
the bed-fellows not to let these gentlemen
shake off the acquaintance. If the Tractarian
party in Oxford really think religious tests premiums
on hypocrisy, it would be a pity not to avail ourselves
of this fine glow of liberal feeling in them. Of course
they hold themselves prepared to vote for any relixa-
tion which may be brought forward.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify
her pleasure that the Kettering Yeomanry Cavalry
should be henceforth designated by the, title of " The
Royal Kettering Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry."