The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-05-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THURSDAY.—This day Curvoisier was again brought up for examination. Previous to Mr. Hall taking his seat on the bench several persons of distinction arrived, and were accommodated with seats near the magistrates, among whom were the Duke of Brunswick, Count Alan, Earl Clarendon, Colonel Angelo, Earl Mansfield, Captain Donellan, Colonel Fox, Sir George Beaumont, Mr. Murray, the secretary to the church commissioners, the Earl of Essex, the Hon. Edw. Phipps, Mr. Hodgson, private secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Watkin W. Wynn, and several others. It was stated that some persons of distinction bad attended for the purpose of giving evidence respecting the character of the prisoner while in their service. After the examination of the maid servants was again gone into at great length, the prisoner was remanded. During the examination he paid the greatest attention to the evidence, and seemed perfectly composed. The crowd collected opposite the house of the late Lord William Russell has been to-day considerably less than on any of the preceding days, the point of attraction being the police-office, Bow-street, where it was known Courvoisier would be examined.  About twelve o'clock Mr. Commissioner Mayne arrived at the house, as did also Mr. Superintendent Barker, but in consequence of most of the persons who have been actively engaged in examining the premises being required to attend for the purpose of giving evidence before the magistrates, the examination was not proceeded with to-day. The whole of the property missed from the house, and supposed to have been stolen, has been found on the premises, with the exception of the silver tablespoons and brooches. The watch, as was stated yesterday, was found on Wednesday. It was discovered in the sink removed from the pantry, and which, after its removal, was thrown into the yard, where, on Wednesday, it attracted the attention of a sergeant of the C division, who began examining it, and eventually turned back the lead from the wooden frame, where he discovered the watch artfully placed in between. The lead had evidently been beaten down after the watch had been introduced, and the glass of the watch was broken, which was apparently all the injury it had received. There was no chain or seals attached, and what makes its preservation most remarkable is the fact that the sink, since its removal, had been repeatedly used as a stool, without a suspicion being entertained that it was the repository of a portion of the property. Under the flooring of the pantry a sovereign was also found, which is supposed to have been one of those stated by Courvoisier to have been seen by him with the £lO and £5 notes in the possession of his lordship on the evening previous to the murder.  Soon after one o'clock Mr. Commissioner Mayne left, and shortly after a hackney-coach drew up at the door, into which Superintendent Baker, accompanied by the cook and housemaid, got, and proceeded to Bow-street, followed by Inspector Tedrr an in a cab, with a number of bundles and other property.  The following paragraph appeared in the Sun of Saturday, hut we do not find it corroborated by the morning papers of yesterday : Norfolk-street, Saturday, Three o'Clock, p.m.  , . . " The workmen engaged at the residence of this ill-fated nobleman, resumed their researches at an early hour this morning, anticipating that the whole of the missing articles would be found.  " In the course of the day Inspector Tedman, Sergeant Pcllard, and four constables, made an important discovery (which, it is stated, was a shirt spotted with blood belonging La Courvoisier), which was the resultfof their labours yesterday. It is reported that they found this morning a waistcoat, also spotted with blood, belonging to Courvoisier."