vier than when it first came to his place. He knew the prisoner when he lived with Mr Stephenson, in Vansittart-terrace, as a servant ; the prisoner used to wash his master's gig near the pond where the hammer was found, from which pond he used to get the water. The lane which ran by his house communicates with Mr Smith's grounds, and the pond was in these grounds. Witness heard of the murder on the Sunday afternoon; he saw Hussey the same afternoon; he came to his home about half-past three that day; a relation of his was with Hussey; he stayed until about ten minutes after five, and then went away, saying, he was going to his brother's at Peckham; he said he had promised his brother to dine with him that day, but had dined at his washerwoman's. When he came that day, witness observed to him that he was quite groggy, and he replied that he had been at the Tiger's Head the night before, where he had been drinking; he said he had been drinking in the morning at the Ship and Last; that he dined with his washerwoman, and could not do less than give her something to drink. After this conversation, he left the room for about ten minutes, then returned, asked for something to drink, and sent for some porter. Witness saw a pair of gaiters produced before the magistrate; he thought they were the gaiters of the prisoner. Some time after the murder, Hussey and Hazleton came together, and he was putting on a pair of gaiters, which he said he had bought of an ostler at the Prince of Orange for 4s.

Jane Goddard was called. She ap. peared much agitated. She lives in Deptford; is related to the prisoner by marriage; remembers a box being brought to her house on the Monday after the 14th of February. The box stood in the shop, and remained there three weeks before it was opened. Her

husband opened it, and found, the first thing, the silver ladle, then sheets. There were in it old clothes, which she returned to the box. The box was again opened about two or three hours afterwards, in the presence of some gentlemen of Greenwich. Hussey came the next day after the box was brought, and opened it. She was present when the box was opened a second time, and should know the articles in it.

Cross-examined by Mr Nolan.Witness deposes, that Hussey's box was not locked, and that when he came he never spoke of removing it.

Joseph Goddard deposed to the contents of the box. He first saw a bundle, with a silver ladle. There was a pair of loose pantaloons, with a winestrainer in the pocket. He saw also a waistcoat with sleeves. He saw on one of the sheets the letters G. S. B., 1. He then gave information, after having corded up the trunk. The constables, Larkin and Hodges, came, but he was not present when they came.

Cross-examined by Mr Adolphus. Deposed, that no directions were given to take care of the box, but that it was left corded in the shop for any body to look at. Hussey was reckoned a humane, honest man; witness never heard any thing to the contrary.

Thomas Hussey, the brother of the prisoner, who was exceedingly affected, deposed, that he lives at Peckham; that he saw him about 4 or 5 o'clock on Sunday, when the murder was discovered. He had asked him to come and dine with him on that day. He did not come to dinner, but afterwards. He did not come in a coach, but on foot. When he arrived, he said he had taken something that had turned on his stomach, and asked witness if he had heard of the horrid murders at Greenwich. Witness said, no. Prisoner then said an old gentleman and his housekeeper had been murdered

opposite where he lived. Witness ask ed why he did not come to dine, and he answered that it was owing to the shocking murder, which made Green wich like a fair. Prisoner was dressed in a black coat and waistcoat, with mixed pantaloons. Witness asked prisoner to go to London with him the following day, to which the latter ob jected, saying, he had a person called William to meet with at the Red Bull at Peckham. Witness pressed him to go to London, and he went. He did not return with witness, but witness saw him at his house that night, when his pantaloons were wet and dirty, he having fallen into a ditch. Witness sent him a pair of pantaloons, and the prisoner, in turning out his coat pocket, took out broken pieces of buckles like silver, which prisoner said was silver. His brother, who was by, proposed that witness should take the silver, which he took, and paid him 5s. an ounce. He kept it till the watches were discovered, and then threw it in to the fire, but took it out before it was melted. A part of this silver witness delivered to Mr Smith, the magistrate. He heard nothing of the purchase of sheets by the prisoner.

Cross-examined by Mr Nolan. Deposed the prisoner received a legacy of 60%. on the Wednesday after the murder.

Eliz. Goodwyn, the sister of the prisoner, much affected, and in tears, deposed that she lives at Peckham. The prisoner did not send her a box, but the box came about the 8th of February. It was full of her deceased mother's clothes. Afterwards the prisoner came, and had access to the box; he opened the box twice, the last time on the Tuesday, when he returned from the country, which was three weeks after the murder; she opened the box herself on the Thursday fol lowing, and found in it the two watches and the notes. Her husband and bro

ther took them. There was on the watches the name of Bird. Her husband is J. Goodwyn, She had not seen the box from the time it came with wearing apparel, and when it was found with the watches in it. Her deceased sister had no sheets.

James Goodwyn is a tailor at Peckham, and the husband of the last witness. He saw watches which came from the box, but did not see them in the box. He examined the watch.papers, and on one of them was the name of Bird. This was a month after the murder. He delivered them to Mr Smith, the magistrate.

George W. Bird, the son of the de ceased, identified the watches to be his father's, which were afterwards shewn to the jury. The one was a tortoiseshell watch, and the other a metal one. Only one of them had a watch-paper. Mr Bird said, the last time he saw it in his father's possession was ten days before his death. The tortoise-shell watch was his mother's, and since her death hung up in the little room in which he was found. The metal watch he had seen in his father's possession about three months before his death.

Thomas Larkin is a constable; went to the house of Mrs Goddard at Dept. ford on the 14th March, and found a trunk, which was produced, with the same cord then on it with which it was now fastened. He found in it two shirts, three sheets, a silver wine strainer, a silver soup ladle, a pair of gaiters, a cotton pocket handkerchief, a pen sioner's ticket, with the name of Charles Hussey on it. Witness produced the articles, which were examined by the Court and Jury. One of the sheets was marked R. B., another was marked B. at top, S. and G. forming a kind of triangle, and the other sheet had no mark at all. Witness was at Mr Bird's house about twenty minutes after the discovery of the murder. The gaiters had marks of blood and vomiting, and

witness observed vomiting near the body of the housekeeper when he first went to the house on the Sunday of the murder.

Mrs Litton being called, said, that the gaiters appeared to be those of Charles Hussey; but on cross-examination she stated she could not say they certainly were his. She had sown on the strap on one of his gaiters, and remembered that the gaiters she sewed were the same colour, and every way the same as those produced, but she could not swear that they were the

same.

Kesiah Bell deposed to the sheet marked G. B. S. being George Bird's, his wife's name being Sarah; she had washed the sheet many times; she had observed the marks when she hung them out to dry; she remembered the sheet marked R. B., which belonged to the family, Rebecca being the grandmother's name; she knew the shirt likewise to be one of those she washed on the Monday previous to the murder in Mr Bird's house. The other articles found in the trunk were said to be the prisoner's by Mr and Mrs Litton, to the best of their knowledge. Richard Hodges, the constable, deposed to the other articles contained in the box deposited at Goddard's, which had remained in his possession ever since. The wine-strainer and the soupladle, Mr Bird, the son of the deceased, could not identify, but he said that such articles had been missing ever since the murder; that such articles were in the possession of his father before the murder, and resembled those he had seen in his father's house during his life. The bank-notes were identified to be indorsed by his father, some of them with the letters "G. B." and "January 12," and "July 18, Bank," with other marks on other notes. On every one of the notes was the signature of the deceased. The witness, Hodges, saw the hammer found on

the 1st instant, in the pond in Mr Smith's garden. This pond was visible from Vansittart's terrace. It had been drained, and the hammer was discovered. The hammer was produced, and identified by Mr Litton, the cooper, to be his, the one which he had lost before the murder. It was mended in the handle.

William Hallibone is secretary of the lodge of Odd Fellows. He remembered the lodge-meeting of Saturday the 7th of February. They made an odd fellow that evening. He knew the prisoner; he is an odd fellow too, but not of their lodge. The prisoner was there that night about a quarter past 9 o'clock. The lodge meets generally about 7 o'clock, but that night they did not meet till near 8, and the prisoner did not come till a long time afterwards.

Stephen Epsom, was at the Odd Fellows' lodge on Saturday, the 7th of February; he did not know what time Hussey entered, but it was about an hour before the lodge closed, which was at ten o'clock.

William Coulter, is a painter at Greenwich. He was at the Odd Fellows' club on Saturday night; Hussey was there, but he did not arrive till 20 minutes before 10 o'clock. If he had been there earlier witness would have observed him.

Mrs Bennet proved that he dined with her about one o'clock on Sunday the 8th of February, and left her house about three.

This was the case for the prosecu

tion.

The prisoner was then asked by the Court what he had to say for himself. He declared his innocence; he said, about 7 o'clock on Saturday he went to sell some clothes at a woman's house, though she could not recollect any thing of this; he went then to an eating-house, called Perret's; he stopt to hear some singing in the street, and

went then to the Tiger's Head about half-past 8 o'clock; he then stated what happened in the lodge at the Tiger's head; he then related a long irrelevant story about his conduct on Sunday and afterwards. He repeated this string of incoherence with considerable fluency and composure; no look of terror appeared in his face, but he seemed fatigued by standing in a crowded court for so many hours, from ten in the morning till six in the afternoon. The prisoner then wished Hallibone to be called again, to be examined as to the time he entered the lodge on Saturday night.

Mr Adolphus addressed the Court, and said, that a new fact, of which he was not aware, had been disclosed in the prisoner's defence, it was the circumstance of his arrest and subsequent discharge for this offence.

The Court consented to have some of the witnesses called back to inquire into this fact.

Hallibone, the secretary, was now called back. He said he recollected Stephen Epsom having called Hussey out of the room of the Odd Fellows on the Saturday after the murder, to question him on the business.

Cross-examined. When the new odd fellow was made, he was sure the prisoner was not present; the making took place at a quarter past 8 o'clock on the Saturday evening.

Larkins was called up again; he said, that on the 14th February he heard Hussey and Hazleton had absconded from the Tiger's Head, he went there and found his information had been incorrect, as Hussey was there; and on being asked about money, he said he had got it by a legacy of between 60%.and 70l., which on inquiry proved to be correct. He received this legacy on the Wednesday after the murder.

Mr Serjeant Lens, who sat as judge

in the Criminal Court, then summed up.

At twenty minutes before ten o'clock the Jury consulted upon their verdict, and in about six minutes, and without withdrawing from the box, found a verdict of Guilty,

The Clerk of Arraigns then called on the prisoner in the usual form to know if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.

The prisoner, in a faultering accent, and a pale and agitated countenance, said, "My lord! my lord!"

The Court." Charles Hussey, have you any thing to say?"

The Prisoner."Yes, my lord. It is most awful, surely, for my life to be thus most violently taken away from me-to be suddenly torn from my little family, my relations, and friends, for a crime of which I am not guilty. I know, my lord, I deserve my fate for concealing the property; I feel I did wrong in taking it; but I am as innocent of the guilt of murder as you, my lord, who sit there. The Almighty has given me power to say this. He has given me the power of meeting him shortly with fortitude, where I shall attest what he knows to be the truth. I am prepared for death. I have made my peace with God, as well as the small means allowed me enabled me to do. I was long since told, indeed, that I could not escape-that I must suffer. I now again repeat I am innocent of the murder-God knows it."

The learned Judge then prepared to pronounce the awful sentence of the law, which he did with great solemnity and feeling. It was a painful duty to him to attend to this day's proceedings, and the most painful part of it still remained to be performed. After what the Court had heard to-day, and after the conclusion to which the Jury were forced to come, he wished the prisoner

had spared the declaration he made of his innocence. He hoped he would still be brought to repentance and contrition for his crime, of which there could remain no doubt in the mind of any reasonable man; and in the few hours which yet remained that he would make his peace with God, from whom all disguise was ineffectual or impossible. In this way he might secure par don above, while there was no chance of it here. Nothing now remained for him but to pronounce the sentence of the law, which was, that the prisoner be taken hence to the place from whence he came, and on Monday be carried to the place of execution, and there hung by the neck till dead, and his body given to be anatomized, and the Lord have mercy on his soul.

At the conclusion of the sentence, the prisoner cast an anxious agonizing look towards the bench, apparently wishing again to address the Judge. He did not do so, however, but retired under charge of the officers, without speak ing a word. His composure and firm ness of nerve during the whole trial was remarkable.

PALMER, COPE, &C. FOR IMITATIONS OF TEA, COFFEE, AND TOBACCO.

Court of Exchequer, May 16.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. PALMER.

Mr Walton opened the declaration, and stated, that this was an information filed by the Attorney-General against the defendant, which charged him, he being a dealer in, and seller of tea, with having in his possession a quantity of sloe-leaves and white thorn leaves, fabricated into an imitation of tea, whereby he forfeited 10l. for every pound weight of such imitation. There

were other counts charging the offence differently, to all of which the defendant pleaded not guilty.

Mr Dauncey stated the case to the Jury, and observed, that the universal use of tea made this question of universal importance. It was lamentable to think, that in this great town there were persons who were in the daily habit of selling deleterious drugs, under different masks; and that while the public were imagining they were drinking at their meals nutritious be verages, they were in fact swallowing a slow but certain poison; and this in order that parties like the defendant might take advantage of the sale of an article, which was not mercantile, at a price far beyond its intrinsic value. The defendant, Mr Palmer, was a grocer, and had no doubt reaped no small advantage from this nefarious traffic. It would appear that a regular manufactory of this imitation tea, as it was called, was established in Gouldstonestreet, and he should call a witness that would go through the whole history of the transaction. The parties by whom the manufactory was conducted was a person of the name of Procter, and another person named John Ma lins, the son of Wm. Malins, carrying on business in a place called Northum berland-alley, Fenchurch-street, professedly as a coffee-roaster. These two persons engaged others to furnish them with leaves, which, after undergoing a certain process, were sold to and drank by the public as tea. The parties ga. thering the leaves, which were of the white and black thorn tree, were paid at the rate of 2d. per lb. for the produce of their labour. These leaves, in order to be converted into an article resembling black tea, were first boiled, then baked upon an iron plate, and when dry, rubbed with the hand, in order to produce that curl which the genuine tea had. This was in fact the