The result of Conrvoisier's trial for the murder of Lord

William Russell was mentioned in our second edition last week. We now give a fuller account of the proceedings on Saturday, the third and last day, for the benefit of our country readers. The Judges took their seats in the morning soon after ten. The Duke of Suss':x was not present, but the attendance of ladies of rank was more numerous titan on the pre- vious days. The prisoner was very pale and downcast when placed at the bar, but preserved composure of demeanour.

lifr. Charles Atusnstus 'Rivers, a sculptor, explained a model of the premises to the Jury. Sarah Manse! was recalled, and stated that the prisoner did not leave the house in Norfolk Street fr0rn the time the murder was discovered till lie \WM taken into custody.

:ills Charles Phillips them, eddressed the Court and Jury for the pri- soner. Ile commenced by declaring, that after twenty years' experience in criminal courts, lie had seldom risen to address a jury under more painful or anxious sensations— There were certain circumstances in this case revealed More the Magis- trates which had caused him much anxiety; and !se left them to conjecture how in uell that anxiety must b.: im.feased lEy the production, without any

notice whatever, of evidaae whirls the life of the unhappy mars et the bar might be placed in the grcalc,,:: peril. Ile said "might," liceause he did not consider even that additional proof, for reasons which lie should state to then!, by any means conclusive. Ile felt that in the situation in whirls he stood, he should have their kindest sympathies ; lie should also have the isynipathy of his associates. They were embarked together in as common cituse ; they Lad incorrect toErether c``" ''

intrusted to ' '' '' ''' vesponsihilty ; the life of a fellow-ereat aro wad

...me keeping; and so surely as they draft with that life unjustly, surely would they have to answer for it to the God who made Hiatt!.

He had not merely the fsets of the case to deal with, but the odious prejudices which the preliminary investigations must have engendered filled bins with apprehension— The horrid nature of the crime itself; the rank of the deceased, the nume- rous connexions mourning, their hereavemeiit, the opinions promulgated before the prisoner could be heard, the fact that Isis case had not been left to the or- dinary instruments of justice, but that speculation had been stimulated by the offer Ma Govcrnms ut reward, as it' the grave knew any aristocracy—these things did fill him with apprelscitsion. AttEl when he looked around him on that crowded Court, and saw tile intensity of the public gaze, and almost heard the throb of popular indignation, and when he turned bins to the dock where the wretched object of this outburst stool, alone andd this multitude, far fro:a his native land, far from the friends that loved and the associates that in Isis hour of danger would lucre crowded roam poor, solitary, isolated, help- less foreigner—he did own that he should feel his spirits fainting iitst within him, were it not fist. the anchor by which lie held, an anchor that was centred its the breasts of the Jury. Ile relied upon their integrity, upon their sense of justice ; he participated in that g,encrous reliance which the prisoner showed, when he refused all foreign interference, and trusted his life to a jury of Eng- lishmen. Ile thought the prisoner was right ; he had no fear in appealing to such a tribunal. Ile knew that the case, whatever it was, would by such a tribunal lie thirty, fully, impartially heard, and justly decided. lle should pro- teed, then, to consider the most extraordinary told unheard-of cirannstances of this case ; and, having done so, lie should submit that in such a ca, e, wrapped up in clouds, in mystery, and darkness, there was not cult' nothiag upon which they could sari ly convict the prisomr, but that here I here pro- babilities started up which !night make them suspect that lie hal been made the victim of an unjust and depraved conspiracy.

He had great reason to complain of Mr. Adolphtss's opening address, and the prejudice lie endeavoured to raise against the prisoner by telling the Jury that it was the common practice of foreigners to murder when they robbed— Mr. Adolphus was a MA-orlon, and history ought to have taught him the character of Coarvoisier's countrymen—ought to lucre taught him, that if' there were in any corner of the world a nation free frosts crime, it was that Switzer- land of which he was a native. I.et the Jury search their memories and sue if they could recollect an instance of a Swiss murderer. They rob, he said, and murder when they rob. He believed that instances of robbery were very rare in that country—he was sure that instances of murder were still more rare. And yet a mad who ought to have addressed the Jury coolly and calmly, set out out by insisting that because the man at the bar was a foreigner, he was a murderer. fle had the experience of live or six days in observing the manner in which the Jury had attended to the cases; anal he believed from Isis heart and soul that the attempt to excite a prejudice in their minds upon any sorb ground would be entirely frustrated. Let him beseech the Jury—for that was the way to test the generosity of the expression—to imagine for one instant that they were in a court of criminal justice in Paris or Madrid, and saw an unhappy fellow-countryman arraigned on trial for his life—to imagine the advocate whose bounden duty it was to state the facts on which he founded his accusation calmly, dispassionately, and truly, rising and saying to the Jury, "Gentlemen, this male Mlles from the country of Patch, and Cl'rcenuere, and Tleurtell; and Englishmen murder when they rob." With what burtfoisao:nit'unt dignation would their souls be filled! Could they restrain their indignation the attempt to snake an individual the victim, not merely of others' crimes, of a foul calumny upon his country ?

Mr. Phillips also protested against the attempt of Mr. Adolphus t

explain the motives of the murder, which he assumed that Cou ° had committed— The omniscient God alone knew who did this crime: he was not callwetnlro: tt, rend asunder the dark mantle of the night, and throw light upon this deed of darkness. They were bound to show the prisoner's; guilt, not by inference, by reasoning, by that subtile and refined ingenuity which he was shocked to hear

exercised in the opening address of his friend, but to prove it by do • h clear, open, palpable demonstration.

Mr. Phillips then elaborately dissected the evidence of the witnesses; pointing out some discrepancies, taking advantage of every piece of testimony which could raise a presumption of the prisoner's innocence, and artfully insinuating that he was the victim of a conspiracy among the Policemen, anxious to divide the large reward of 450/. over Cam. voisier's coffin. Much had been made of an expression which fell from the prisoner—" I wish I had old Billy's money, I would not be long in this country "—

yet it was not ate unnathral wish for a foreigner to express, tailing for his daily sustenance, yet longing to revisit his fatherland, rugged though it be- " 1 wish 1 had the wealth of such an one, I would not be long away from my own country I" Ambition's vision, glory's bauble, wealth's realitv, were all. nothing as compared to his native land. Not all the enchantments of creation, not all the splendour of scenery, not all that gratification of any kind could produce, could make the Swiss forget his native laud : " Dear is that siestto which his so,i1 conforms, And dear that hill that lifts bins to the storms; And, as a clad by Tarring sounds oppress'd, Clings close and eioser to its mothcr's breast, So the loud torrent ;,m1 the whirlwind's roar liut binds tiro to his native mona,ins inure: " There never dropped from human lips a more innocent or naturid expression, " I wish 1 had old Dilly's money, 1 would soon be in my civic country." It was not a strong suspicion or a moral conviction which would justify the Jury in finding a man guilty of murder-

lf, mite ithstanding that suspicion, they tilt bound to acquit the prisoner, be was still answerable to the laws of this country for the robbery, if guilty ; ma, even supposing bins guilty of the murder—which baked was kniE,iitivisitiltioisAiii:t,sitgdhltiye Cod alone, and of which, for the sake of his eternal soul, Mr.

was innocent—it was better far that its the dreadful solitude of exile he should, though not in the sight of man, yet before the presence of God, atone by a lin- gering ma:Mance for the deed, than that lie should now be sent in tits dawn- ing of his manhood loan ignominious death, in a case where the truth was not clear. And having now travelled through this case of mystery and darkness, It;s anxious task was done : that of the Jttry was about to begin. Might Cod direct their judgment l One of the attributes of the Alntighty was that day given to them—the issue of life and death was in their hands. To them was given to restore this man once more to the enjoyments of existence and the dignity of freedom, or to cousin him to an ignominious fate, and brand upon his grave a murderer's epitaph. Ilk had been a painful and an awfal task, but

still more awful was their responsibility. To violate the living temple width tilt,: Lord had made—to quench the flit that his breath had given—

was au awful and tremendous responsibility. The word once gone

forth was irrevocable. Speak not that word lightly. Speak it not su smkiciots liswevir ttron:!, on morzl con s;c:.!e' !...-2Titt, on inkreace, u.,t, or any thing- lent a clear, irresistible, la :gist, noonday certainty. Ile spoke to iu ro spirit of hostile admonition ; 1 I.:area knew he did. not. Ile spoke to them in the spirit of a friemi and tillow Christian ; and in that spirit Ile told them, that if' they pronounced the word lightly, its memory would never (lie within them. It would accompany tiscus in their walks; at would follow them in their solitary retires-mots lil(e a :;.glow; it would haunt them in their sleep and hove' round their bed ; It would take the shape or an RUUS.- :lig spirit, and confront and condetmt theta before the judgment .scat of thew God. So let them beware how they acted.

Some witnesses to character were called. life. Jennings, proprietor of the British Hotel iu Jermyn Street, James Noble, waiter at the same inn, Jean Piton, servant of Lady Julia Lockwood, Jeanne Pecan, his wiin, and Lady Julia Lockwood, gave evidence that the prisoner was a nmeleat. good-tempered, inoffensive men : he had lived iu the service of Mr. Jennings root of Lady Julia Lockwood. Chief Justice Tindal charged the Jury. Ile placed before them all

the material eoints of the evidence ; parts of which were read by Baron,. Parke. He directed attention to the chief circumstances in favour of and against the prisoner ; and was at pains to guard them from being misled by the counsel on either side. The evidence of Baldwin the Policeman he considered unworthy of credit, on account of his preva- rication ; bat Sarah Manse) ought to be believed. He remarked, ;bat without the oar of reward, many crimes would remain undiscovered; but it was for the Jury to consider how far the credibility of witnesses was affected by their expectation of reward. As to the conversation among the servants, Ile thought little stress ought to be laid upon what persons of that class said of their masters in their private talk. Evi- dence to character, he reminded the Jury, was of great value in cases

of doubt, but could not have so much weight where proofs of seta were strong and decisive. He left it entirely with the Jury to say whether in this case the facts proved put the guilt of the prisoner be- yond cloubt. if they had any hesitation, the prisoner ought to have the benefit of it.

The Jury retired; deliberated for ma hour and twenty-five minutes; and then returned with a verdict of " G crur v." The prisoner heard it unmoved. Chief Justice Tindal prefaced the sentence of death with a brief and feeling address, interrupted by his own sobs ; his utterinece at times was quite choked. The prisoner looked very pale, but it other respects betrayed little emotion. Some after the verdict was delivered, it was rumoured in court that the prisoner had made confession of his guilt to Mr. Phillips belbre the commencement of the clay's proceedings. But this can hardly be true, for it will have been seen that Mr. Phillips solemnly assured the

Jury that Almighty God alone knew who had committed the crime; and according to the report in the Courier, the accuracy of which has been questioned, but positively reaffirmed, Mr. Phillips said, " On my soul I believe Courvoisier innocent of the crime." It seems incredible,

therefore, that the prisoner could have confessed to Mr. Phillips before the defence but that he did snake a confession on Saturday is undis-

puted ; and the Observer on Sunday published the following statement ; which, however, is full of inaccuracies-

"It appeared that while the examinations were going on at the house of Lord William Russell in Norfolk Street, after the murder, the attention of Mr. nobler, the solicitor for the prosecution, was called to the table-knives belong- no. to his deceased Lordship ; and among them were four carving-knives, witlt ILoaseus blades and balance ivory handles. When Mr. nobler saw the knives they had all been fresh cleaned ; hut. on a close inspection of one of them, a large carving-knife, he discovered on the blink, near the handle, a rusty spot; and, although this knife appeared to have been cleaned with the rest, the blade was muck duller in appearance than the others. Mr. Holder, upon a close examination, could not find any notch on the blade; but from its general appearance, he suspected at once that it was the very instrument by which the

murder WaS effected. He consequently separated it tiann the rest of the knives, seed placed it in the bankers of the deceased nobleman 11.1r safe custody, where it has ever since remained. On Thursday night, when the additional evidence respecting the missing plate came to light, the articles so sinsatisrly discovered were closely examined by Sarah llooseI, the housemaid, and Ellis, his Lordship's late valet, who at once identified the plate as his Lordship's pro- retty ; had the fact of the finding of the articles was not disclosed to the pi- scine: until the thllowing day. (Friday.), when Madame Viol:tine, mist re,s of the Franck hotel in Leicester Place, Leicester Square, came to Newgate, and having seen the prisoner, with some other men who were brought heti ye her tin. the purpose in the Press-yard, she at once identified him as the man by whom the parcel containing the missing plate had been left nt her 'loose. The fset of the plate having been tints discos ered, and the identity of the prisoner proved, it communication to thst effect was made to the prisoner, and on hear- ing a piece of intelligence so astounding and 1113expeeted, the prisoner turned dessilv pale, and became extremely agitated, nod before the time arrived fOr his being again placed at the bar, he sent for 3Ir. C. Phillips, his counsel, and at once disclosed to him the following o:nfession of his guilt.

" lie stated that on the night of the fatal occurrence he was in the lower part of his Lordship's house, in the net of secreting the different valuable arti- ele .lesCE111cd in the evidence on the trial, in the places where they were sub- s..•;nottly Ibund by the police. Ile then stated that his Lordship being sud- (let:1y taken ill, and coming down stairs unexpectedly while he was so employed, esught him in the act of concealing the property in the mainr ileserihed. Ills Lordship immediately charred hint with robbing, and (Metered that he would discharge him from his servo, e on the billowing morning. Finding him- salt' thus suddenly detected in plundering his toaster, and receiving outlet. :hat lIC weuld be discharged on the following morning, he IYOS roused to a stilt, of Itt lie=s; and having waited until his Lordship retired to rest, he then stole softly into his bedroom, and finding that his Lordship Was sound asleep, he eat Lis lhrnat with the very carving-knife with which Mr. Bolder so justly oos- ptted 111;11 the dreadful deed had been perpetrated. We pre-u tie that this or-atomic:a ion On the part of the prisoner mainly changed the line of der,oce intended to be taken by his counsel ; for it Iva: getterally rumoured that o

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severe attack would be made on the fellow. servants of the prisoner, am 1 also 4111 the police who were engaged in the in vestigatian. We nutlet, however, do Mr. :Phillips the justice to state that with that honourable zeal which always dis- tinguishes him fur his clients, he made the best of a very bad ease ; thoegh surroundedby difficulties, his speech for the prisoner was most energetic and impressive. 0 It is somewhat singular, that shortly after the minder the prisoner, when interrogated respecting it, said, ' When [ find that the truth has beeo spoken, I will then tell all I know about it.' It would appear from this that the pri- soner, being from the first conseions of his guilt, waited until he knew the pro. liable effect of the evidence against him, bethre he emili.ssed his crime; tool whet] he knew that there was no chance of eseeping from the consequences of hie guilt, he determined to unburden his mind at once in the manner he has already done."

The Globe on Thursday published a confession as sent to the Home Odiee from Newgate on Tuesday. This must be taken as the official statement of what Courvoisicr said : how far it is true or false, is another question.

" Newgate, 22(1 June 1St°. " On the Friday before the minder was committed 1 began two or three

times not to like my place. I did not know what to do : I thought if i gave warning, none of my friends would lake notice of me again, and I thought by making it. appear a kind of robbery he would discharge me ; and on the Sixtus- de). before I took this plate to Letee,ter Place. I had a mind to rob the house on Monday, and after 1 had forced the door down stairs, I thought it was not risht, and went to lied : nothing further happened on the Monday. On Tues- day night, when his Lordship went to bed, (he had keen rather cross with Ina bet ..re about the carriage,) he gave roe two letters, one thr the post, and told me rather angrily, thut he was obliged to write those letters in consequenee of my forgetting the carriage ; this was in the drawing-room, alma eleven o'clock at night. I then went down stair into the kitchen, and stood rending, n book for some time. About twelve o'clock he rang the hell ; I went up to him and fouls the lamp out. After that 1 thought le lied "one up-stairs to his hedroom; and when he rung his bedroom bell, I thought it was to warm his bed; snit I. took the warming-pan up with coals in, just as usual, and he be- gan to grumble because I did not go up to see what he wanted, instead of taking up the warming-pan. I told him he always used to ring the bell for the vat:Peg-Ilan, and that it was for that purpose he had rung and he said that I ouglit always to go to answer the hell first, to see what lie wanted. He took oif his clothes, mid I came down stairs again with the warming-pat; and 1 waited there until about twenty minutes. past twelve. Ile rang again for me to warm his bed. lie told me rather crossly that I should take more notice of what I was doing and what he was telling me, and pay him more attention. " I did not answer at all, as I was very cross. 1 went down stairs and putt every thing in the state it was found in the morning. As I was in the dining- room with it light, he came down stairs to the water-closet ; he had his wax- light ; I was in the dining-room, but its he had his slippers on, I did nut hear him come down. Ile opened the dining-room door, and saw me. I could not escape his sight. He was quite struck, and said, ' What are you doing lwre ? You have no good intentions in doing this; you must quit my service to- merrow morning, and. I shall acquaint your friends with it.' I made him no answer. Ile went to the water-closet, and I went out of the dining-room down stns. He was about ten minutes in the water-closet, and I waited to see what he would do after he came out. While he was in the water-closet I putt some of the things to rights again in the dining-room. When he lift the water-closet, lie went into the diming-room, where he stayed about a minute or two. I was on the corner of the stairs that goes front the dining-room to the kitchen. I watched hint 11p-stairs. I stopped perhaps an hour in the kitchen, not knowing what I should do. As I was coming up-stairs from the kitchen, I thought it was all up with nie ; myyharacter was gone, and I thought it was the only way I could cover my faults by wondering him. This was the first moment of any idea of the sort entering into my head. 1 went into the dining-room and took a knife from the sideboard. 1 don't remember whether it was a carving-knife or not. I then went up-stairs. I opened his bed-room door and heard him snaring in his sleep; there was a rushlight in his room burning at this time. I went near the bed by the side of the window, and then murdered him ; lie just moved his aria a little, lie never spoke n word. 1 took .a towel which was on the back of the chair, and wiped my hand and the knife ; after that I took his key and opened the russia leather box, and put it in the state it was fountl in the morning, and I took all the things that were found down stairs : the towel I put over his face. I took a purse, '1 also took a ten- pound note from a notecase, which 1 put in the purse, and put them in a basket in the back scullery ; the day after, I thought it would be better to put it behind the skirting-board. I had before I went to Richmond lost a shilling behind the skirting-board, so I thought that would be a good place to put it.

" While at ltichmond Lord NVillioni's locket dropped from his coat while I was brushing it. I picked it up, and put it in iny trousers pocket, but had not the least idea of taking it. I intended to bare returned it to his Lordship while 1 dressed lihn in the morning. I put my hand in my pocket at thal time, but found I hod vhanevd my trousers; this was on the morning we left Itichmond for Camden 1101. 1 did not put the trousers on again While we were at Cansleti hill. 1. did not recollect the trousers being different, and thought 1 had lost the locket. 1 then thought it best to say nothing about it. 011 the Fiiility mornitig, 1 was bolting it some of my old Oakes, the Policeman who had cut his chin was watching pc. and in taking the trousers out of the drawer in the pantry, the locket fell unit of the pocket ; it was wrapped up in a piece of brown paper ; the Policeman opened the paper, and looked at it and said, What's that ' I said to him it was a ',whet ; but in the position its which I (11:1 nut like to say it was Lola NVilliam•s locket ; and if I told. the truth 1 eh•ittlii not be believed ; the Polirenian then returned it to me, and I put it ill my trousers pocket. 'the WaIch ai:11 seal were in my jacket pocket, whirl' i had on until the Friday morning, and then I undid the riband and took the .o.:11 off; it was the day the sweeps were in the house, which was either the Thursday or Friday ; having the watch in toy pocket Illy glass came oat;

I :lid not knife tritut to do with it, as the v.ere waMitima- me, so i took the watch Preto my pocket std put it in bettt Len the lining Of my jauket twisted the packet until I smashed the e lass ; ;it:ter that. I dropped some of pieces about the dining-room, and at dit'feretit times put the large pieces in my mouth, and stain ards haying broken them smith my teeth, spat them in the fire-place. The watch I had by me until Frdlay morning. I then burnt the riband, and pit the watch under the keel in the sink. I kept the seal in my pocket until they eame into the (lilting-roam I() show me the ring they had found held...I the skirting-board. When 1 was called to go down to the pantry I let the seal full tool put my foot upon it, and afterwards put it labile] the. water-pipe in the scullery. Nerestnd mill Cronin, and two 11111501o, were there it the time taking the drain up, hut (lid not see Inc do it. The watch, the seal, mid the Inchet, together with two sovereigns, 1 had about nor until the Friday, and if' they had searchtal me they must have found in ; but they did not 110 so 1111ffl Friday, after Iv was taker into cost ody in my bed- room. 'Elie two sovereigns I afterwards (on the Friday, when 1 slipped the locket tinder the hearth-stone) also slipped down near the w all under the flooring. There is no truth in saying that I put any thing in the ale or beer, for all that tittle 1 had tin idea of com t Mg the deed. I had scarcely had any leer ell the wich, and the ale that I hail drunk tint night, together with the wine, and some more I took after the cook went to bed, alketed me. The gloves were never placed in the shirt by me, or to my knowledge. When I left 31r. Feetor's, 1 gave all my white gloves to the coaeltortn. The handker- chiefs that were baud in my portmanteau were never:put there by me. Theg Were in my drawer where I used to keep my dirty linen, or in my hag with toy dirty linen in the pantry. II' there is blood upon them it most have' been front my nose, as it sometimes bled. 1 know nothing of the shirt-front. I turned up my coat and shirt-sleeve of my right hood when I committed the murder.

slid not use the fellow at all. " After I had committed the murder, I undre.isal and went to bed as usual.

made the marks on the door oil the outside, none or them from the inside, for the ',moose of having it believed that thieves hod broken in. I never mode use of the chisel or the fire •irons. 1 played the things about the house to give the appearance. of robbery. It is not trite that the bottion halt MIS never used to Si care the door—it will bolted that night. 1 took the jewellery after I had

committed the deed. All the marks on the door were made from the outside on Monday night ; ror I got out of the pantry window and broke in at the door,

and while getting out of the pantry-i, liside a little math on the wall outside, near the water-pipe, 1, biell Ile itness Yotion ate', and mentioned in his evidence. 1 went to bed shunt two 111111,-d Imthing, 1 did not wash my lanals or the knife in the bidet in his Lordship's liedroom. Sarah Mansel knew nothing shout it ; 11eill■cr did the cook, or any of the other servants. I am the only person who is at all guilty.

t‘ FRANCOIS iltssisiniet f'orlivottinso.

W " Julie 1810. Witness," " Thomas Fluiver. " Wm. Wadt1;1111 Cope."

The murderer also made the following inure concise statement to Siteriff Esents- " Mier I had warmed his Lordships heel, 1 went down stairs and, waited about an hour, (luring whielt time I placed the different articles as they were fottod by the Police. I :1AerWards went to the dining-room nod took one of the knives from the sideboard ; I Con entered his billets/1m and found hint doop. I went to the side of the had d and (hew the knife across his throat. Ile appeared to die in.:tautly. t. Ile.x3.‘mtx Cul:ILVO1S11:11. " l'risou of New gate, i3il June IS lit.

"'Phis declaration was made before me, this 33(1 of June 1540. "\Vit.r.r.ttt EvAss, Sheriff."

An account of a conversation between Sheriff Evans and the pri- soner is also given in the Morning Chronic/c, as follows- " In the couversation which sheriff Basis Intl on tie day this declaration was made, noel which lasted for au hour, the inioderer as,lired the SIteriff that there was no truth itt the statement that Lord lVilliain Russell had gone down stairs, and after charging hint with dishonesty threatened to discharge him next (lay without a character. Nothing at all oi the kind had occurred. His Lordship never went down stairs in the night at all, and never threatened any thing of the sort. 1-lis Lordship had certainly spoken to him in a cross tone, and ti lel him to he more attentive to his business, but that was all. There was no Collier pity:teat:ion. " The 1311eriff having expressed some surprise at the variance between the two accounts, the murderer said that his uncle had entreated him most solemnly to tell the facts exactly as they I /17(.1111,11 : Mid he determined to state nothing but what was actually correct. Ile therelbre acknowledged, not only that he had committed the murder under the circumstances just described, but that he had contemplated the :mailer and rohlwry for a week prevhitisly.

with the death of Eliza Grimwood, who was murdered near the Waterloo Road. Have you any thing to say upon that subject?' Courvoisier assured the Sheriff that he knew nothing in the world about that or any other murder, except the murder of Lord William Russell. He knew, he said, that he must die, and if he had committed any other dreadful offence, he would not hesitate to mention the fact to the Sheriff. Ile expressed much regret that any imputation should for a moment have been east upon either of the poor unoffenffing female servants who had been so unfortunate as to have been in the house with him.

" The Sheriff then asked him how Lord William Russell's finger happened to be cut ? The murderer replied, that when lie drew the knife across the throat, his Lordship's hand started up as if by a convulsion, and must at the moment have come in contact with the knife, and immediately fell back again, for death was instantaneous. His Lordship never waked.

" ' How,' said the Sheriff, ' did you get rid of the blood, for your hand must have been bloody ?' Courvoisier replied that his hand was bloody, but he wiped it on the towel, which lie immediately afterwards placed over his Lord- ship's face, He then, he said, went up to bed, but he did not sleep. " These were the strongest features of the conversation between the Sheriff and Courvoisier. The murderer frequently in the course of it stated that Lord William Russell never walked down stairs, as seemed to be the general opi- nion, but was taken off exactly as he (Courvoisier) described to the Sheriff; and he frequently, too, declared that he was indebted for the idea of committing the atrocious crime to Jack Sheppard."

In reference to Eliza Grimwood's murder, the Standard has thefol- lowing rather mysterious paragraph- " We have authority to state that there is no foundation whatever for the story of Courvoisier's having confessed himself the murderer of Eliza Grim - wood, given in a respected morning contemporary. So for our authority, which is the best. For ourselves we may add, that the murderer of Eliza Grimwood is, we believe, perfectly svell known to be a detestable miscreant, who, in this country, moved in a much higher rank than Courvoisier, and is now supposed to be somewhere in Italy, of which he is a native."

Last night the Globe published another statement,,apparently official, which charged Courvoisier with numerous falsehoods in his confession. It would seem that almost every particular circumstance—about the hiding of the watch, the locket, &c.—is falsely stated.

Courvoisier's conduct in prison before his conviction was not remark- able. He read a good deal in a French Testament ; and his spirits were buoyant until he ascertained that he had been identified by Madame Piolainc—then he gave himself up for lost. Since his convic- tion he attempted to choke himself; by thrusting a towel down his throat ; but a Policeman put to watch him prevented the suicide.