The precincts of Buckingham Palace have been again invaded by
a young man named Jones, who was two years since apprehended for a similar offence. In the present case, he succeeded in gaining access into the Queen's dressing-room; where he was found on Thursday morning, concealed under a sofa, on which the Queen had been sitting two hours before. lie was discovered by one of the Queen's Pages. When asked what brought him there, he replied, that he wanted to see what was going forward in the Palace, that he might write about it, and if he was discovered he should be as well off as Oxford, who fared better in Bedlam than he did out of it.
The prisoner was examined before the Privy Council on Thursday ; and the Council came to the decision, that, as no property or dangerous weapon was found on him, he should be merely committed as a rogue and vagabond for three months. The prisoner is seventeen years of age, and the son of a tailor. When tried at Westminster Sessions for his former intrusion into the Palace, he was discharged, as there was no wish to prosecute. He is supposed to be insane. The statement he is reported to have given of the man- ner in which he obtained access to the Palace is this-
" On Monday night he scaled the wall of Buckingham Palace garden, about half way up Constitution 11111 : he then proceeded to the Palace, and effected an entrance through one of the windows, Be had not, however, been there long liefbre lie considered it unsafe for him to stay, as so many people were moving about ; and he left by the same mode as he entered. Next (lay, (Tues. day,) about nine o'clock in the evening, he again effected an entrance over the wall on Constitution Hill, and by a window, its the same manner as on the previous night ; and Ile went on to state that he remained in the Palace the whole of Tuesday night, the whole day on Wednesday, and up till me o'clock on Thursday morning, when he was discovered."
The prisoner pointed out all the passages and places be bad gone through previous to his arrival at the room in which he was discovered and apprehended ; and his statement was believed.
The Times of this morning adds the following particulars to the account of Jones's intrusion into Buckingham Palace- " From a well-informed source we have heard, the sofa under wIdell Jones was found was in the ante-rotas) in which the Princess Royal, and Mrs. 'Alley, her Royal Highness's nurse, repose. On the night in question, the latter had not long retired to rest ere she fancied she heard a noise similar to that likely to be caused by a person who suns endeavouring to prevent his presence from being discovered, and was moving iii a stealthy manner. Mrs. 1,i11ey at first treated the matter as of no moment, thinking probably that the noise it have liven imaginary. Its renewal, however, created an alarm ; and she instantly sum- moned those of the tilt ii who were on guard iii the adjoining ante- chamber. Out their arrival, the offender was quickly discovered and drawn from his place of hiding. The statement then f;f0CS MI to say, that her Ma- jesty, who but three hours previously had been sittiog on this mirticular mute in been disturbed by the confusion to which the event had given rise, called out and desired to be billowed as to its cause. As 811.11111111.4101Si011 Ve. SS, huts e sir, entertained that the sudden communication of the nught
Ire attended with an unfavourable effect on her Majesty, the Mt endanb■ gave mmii evasive answer. The Queen repeated her command, and then the fact of the boy'ic concealment and subsequent apprehension were nettle known to her. The circumstance at that time appeared not to produce any very visible efieet on her Majesty ; hut our Thursday symptoms of other than a sationictory chit- racter were apparent. It affords us the highest gratification to be able to add that a few hours of quietude tended to the restoration of her Majesty."
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