struggle that I heard I considered at the time | vent-garden, detailed the voluntary declara to be a family quarrel.

By Mr. Justice Littledale-Not more than a minute and a half elapsed from the time of the two men leaving till their return.

Hannah Woodcock, wife of the last wituess, sworn-She stated that Bishop, his wife, and family, and Williams and his wife, occupied No. 3, Nova Scotia-gardens.

tion made by Bishop, that he got the body from a grave; but the reason of not telling where the grave was, was on account of two watchmen who knew of it, and had large families. May, he said, also made a declaration (it was read, and stated that he had been to the country, and brought home two subjects, which he took to Mr. Grainger's, and from Joseph Higgins, a new-police constable, thence to Guy's Hospital. He also related the sworn-Ou the 9th of November, in couse-public-house at which he had been, and of quence of some instructions, I went to No. 3, Nova Scotia-gardens; and on searching it, I found two crooked chisels, a brad-awl, and a file. There appeared to be blood on the brad-awl, which at that time looked fresh. I searched May's premises, No. 4, Dorset-street, New Kent-road, on the 11th, and found a pair of breeches, which had marks of blood on the back part, which appeared to be fresh. There was also a waistcoat with marks of clay on it. On the 19th, I went again to Bishop's house with James Wadey.

Mr. Mills, the dentist, was recalled, and examined by Chief Justice Tiudal-The teeth had been forced out: I should think the bradawl now produced would afford great facility in forcing out the teeth.

The evidence of Higgins was then continued -When we went to Bishop's, house on the 19th, we searched the garden behind the house. We first attempted it with an iron rod, but finding something impeding it, I desired Wadey to dig, and a jacket, trousers, and small shirt, found; that was about five yards from the back door. In another part we dug up a blue coat, a pair of trousers with the braces attached to them, a striped waistcoat, which appeared to be a man's, and taken in for a boy, with marks of blood on the collar and shoulder, and a shirt that was torn up the front. (The witness here produced all those things.) The clothes are those which would be useful to boys like the deceased. There were ashes over the place where the clothes had been buried.

James Wadey, also a constable, corroborated the last witness's testimony.

his meeting with Bishop aud May; that Bishop told him he had got a good subject, which he was offered eight guineas for, and if he, May, cou.d sell it, he should have all above nine guineas for himself. This he agreed to ;. and his account of the subsequent transactions was similar to that in the early part of the evidence). The witness next read Williams's statement.

Mr. Wm. Burnaby, clerk of Bow-street Police-office sworn.-When the brad-awl was produced at Bow-street, May said, "That is the instrument with which I punched the teeth out."

John Kirkham, police-constable, stated, that when the inquest was sitting he had charge of the prisoners in the station-house; behind where they sat there was a printed bill posted referring to the murder; Bishop looked at the bill, and then leaned over Williams to speak to May; he said to May, "it was the blood that sold us." Bishop then got up, and looked a second time at the bill, and referring to the words "marks of violence," he said those marks were only breakings-out in the skin.

Mr. Thomas, the superintendent, was recalled by Mr. Bodkin-When I first saw the body there were patches of dirt on several parts. There were also marks on the left arm as though they were the impression of fingers, and it appeared to me as if the chest had been pressed in. There was a stream of blood from the forehead down the face to the breast.

Mr. Adolphus stated that this was the case for the prosecution.

Mr. Davies was recalled, and stated that he had the day before purchased two bodies of the prisoner May.

The prisoners having then been severally called upon for their

DEFENCE,

Edward Ward, a little boy, six and a half years old, was next examined-My father lives in Nova Scotia-gardens. I remember last Guy Fawkes-day, at which time I was in the habit of going to school. I remember my mother giving me a half holiday, but I don't know Bishop stated that he was 33 years old, and on what day it was. I went to Bishop's house. had a wife and three childreu. He was forBishop has three children, two of them boys. merly a carrier at Highgate, but for the last On that day I saw the children in the house, twelve years he had obtained a living by supand they showed me a cage with two little plying the various Hospitals and Anatomical white mice; the cage turned round. I had Schools with dead bodies, but he declared that often played with Bishop's children before, but he never was in any manner concerned in never saw them with a cage of white mice improperly obtaining subjects. He had been before that. in the habit of getting bodies from workJohn Ward, an elder brother of the preced-houses, and sometimes with the clothes reing witness, stated that what his brother had just related took place on Friday, 4th NovemHis brother on that day told him what he had seen.

ber.

Mr. Corder, vestry-clerk of St. Paul's, Co

maining on them. All the gardens about Nova Scotia-gardens were easy of access, and were only divided by a low, dwarf railing. As to the wearing-apparel found in the garden, he knew nothing; but, regarding the cap, he

said he should prove that his wife purchased it of Mrs. Doddeswell, who kept a sale-shop in Hoxton Old Town. As respected the prisoners Williams and May, they knew nothing of the manner in which he got the body, and he declared that he only got it in the way by which subjects were usually obtained.

Williams alleged that he knew nothing of the means by which the body was procured by Bishop, who invited him to go to the King's College. He, Williams, was not in the habit of dealing with subjects, but got his living by working as a glass-blower.

May said he was formerly a butcher, but for the last six years had followed the trade of dealing in subjects and supplying them to hospitals. On the day when he met Bishop at the Fortune-of-War public-house,it was merely by accident, when Bishop asked him where he could sell a good subject, stating that he had been offered eight guineas for it. He (May) told him, as was the fact, that he had sold two to Mr. Davies, at ten guineas each, the day before, and he would try if Mr. Davies would buy that one. Bishop told him he should have all above nine guineas for himself, and then he agreed to endeavour to sell it. He assured the Jury that he never asked, and, of course, he never knew how Bishop got possession of the body.

Rosina Carpenter stated that she lived in Nag's Head court, Golden-lane. On Thursday, Nov. 3, between four and five o'clock in the afternoon, May came to her house, and remained with her till nearly twelve o'clock the next day, not once going out during that

time.

Cross-examined-May has several times passed his nights with her; she did not know

whether he was married or not.

house.

said at Bow-street. The blood on the breeches found at May's residence was not perfectly dry when they were found.

Mr. Edward Wm. Doosen, a surgeon, stated` that he had been subpoenaed by the prisoners, but he was not aware that he could state anything. The prisoners' counsel declined to examine him.

After this, the Chief Justice summed up the evidence. The Jury retired to consider of their verdict at eight o'clock, and returned into Court at half-past eight.

They returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners.

Within a minute after the verdict being pronounced, it was communicated to the multitude outside that had assembled to the number of several thousands, and they for some minutes interrupted the business of the Court by their loud cheering and huzzas.

MR. DRUMMOND AND

LORD GREY.

ON THE SUBJECT OF REFORM.

A LETTER, published by the former of these gentlemen, in the shuffling and bloody old Times newspaper, last week, has attracted a good deal of public attention; has produced a sort of challenge from Lord Grey; and has drawn a long commentary from the Morning Chro nicle. The letter arose in this way: Mr. Drummond was, it seems, at a Sarah Trinsley, who was examined for the meeting of bankers and others, who prosecution, was called by Mr. Barry. She differed upon the question of reform had never seen any white mice in Bishop's and who met for the purpose of coming Mary Doddeswell, wife of George Doddes-to a compromise, if they could, as a well, of 56, Hoxton Old Town, sworn-I keep sort of prelude perhaps to a sort of a clothes and sale shop for the second-hand compromise between the hostile factions goods. My husband is a journeyman pastry-in the state. Some person, under the cook. I know Bishop's wife, and sold her a cap two years ago; I should know it again signature of A. B., attacked Mr. Drumnow; it was a cloth cap with a black front mond, in the bloody Times, for his con(the cap produced for the prosecution was duct at this meeting; Mr. Drummond, fur cap). in his own name, sent his answer to the same sanguinary vehicle. I will first insert Mr. Drummond's letter, then the correspondence between him and the irritated Lord Grey; after which I will insert the sour commentary of the Chronicle upon Mr. Drummond's letter, and will make my remarks upon that, passage by passage, as I proceed. First, then, let us take Mr. Drummond's letter, which, slightingly as the Chro nicle speaks of it, is worthy of a good deal of attention.

Bishop-My wife purchased two caps of her. Mrs. Doddeswell I never sold but one cap to Mrs. Bishop. I know nothing of Bishop or his family, but that his daughter lived servant with me twelve months ago.

Mary Anne Hall, of No 4, Dorset-street, New Kent-road, where May lived, stated that on the 30th October, May went into the country, and I saw no more of him until the following Wednesday night, and then he went to bed. The next morning he went out, and did not return until the Friday night at half-past

11 o'clock.

Mr. Thomas stood up, and addressing the Court, said he wished to repeat what he had

and

ployment in our towns; by repeal of the Corn Laws, and of all monopolies and restrictions on trade; and by restoring our foreign policy to its uniform course, from the days of Elizabeth to those of Lord Londonderry, which was to support small free states against their powerful neighbours; and, above all, by taking effectual measures to liquidate the public debt, which must cramp the energies of the country so long as it exists; and, lastly, by a reform of the House of Commons as efficacious as that now proposed, and yet not revolutionary.

This, aud much more that cannot now be stated, must be done before the nation can be tranquillized. It is shaken too deeply to its very foundations to be calmed merely by declarations of merchants and bankers, or by Whig expedienrs of violating unblemished corporate rights like those of Guildford, and of collecting the deputed wisdom of aggregated dirt and disease from Brighton and Cheltenham. Nothing short of what is above enumerated can end otherwise than in increased discontent; and since there arises from no side the discretion fit to guide us, we have only to stand prepared for the crash which the infatuated projects of our rulers must produce, and see in their blindness the judicial hand of an offended God, whose counsels they having despised, he at length has left them to their own.

"SIR, It would have been more creditable to 'A. B.' to have discussed his differences with me where I was present, instead of deprecating discussion there, and then stating anonymously and falsely in your journal that I was an intruder into a meeting to which I had received a special invitation, and had, consequently, come from the country at much inconvenience to attend. There was gross imposition in calling that 'au accommodation meeting, wheu nothing was intended by A.B. but that they who were known to disagree with him should sign, at his dictation, a document which had been previously approved of by the Ministers as a perfect exposition of their late bill. Another false pretext held out to urge us to sign was the distressed state of the country. It is indeed distressed-that is, the working classes are oppressed to a degree almost past further endurance; but he must have a fool's head or a traitor's heart,' who says the late misuamed Reform Bill would give them the smallest relief. The bill took power from the crown, and gave it to delegates of the middling classes, thereby converting the monarchy into a bad republic, but left the working classes just where they were. The passions of all ranks have been excited by Lords Grey and Broughum against the ministers of religion and the hereditary councillors of the King who opposed them, in order that the upholders of our ancient institutions might "Begging A. B.,' in which prayer you, be intimidated into becoming accessories to Sir, will no doubt join, to choose some other their new constitution; and it is vainly ima-arena than your colums for the further discusgined that the labouring classes will submit sion of these subjects, to be discarded and to sink again into their former degradation as soon as they shall have served the purposes of these profligate politicians. I wish political power to remain with the aristocracy, because by such means aloue! can the monarchy exist: if that power is to be transferred to another class, it is revolution; to give that power to all classes, has justice and consistency; to give it to one only,

hás neither.

"No one measure of relief to the suffering labourers has yet been proposed by the Miuisters, while the people have been cajoled by the phantom of reform. True relief is only to be obtained by the repeal of all taxes on articles used for private consumption-such as malt, hops, candles, leather, &c. This might have been done honestly by laying on a gra duated property-tux, increasing as it ascended by fixing the amount of paper currency by Act of Parliament, and making it legal tender; by disbanding the whole of the standing army, excepting the household troops and the artillery; and this might have been done safely by embodying fencibles and militia, in each county, aud training them every year, by which domestic peace would be preserved, as well as security from foreign aggression; by enacting Poor Laws for Ireland, by which the Irish gentry would be compelled to support their own people, instead of sending them over here to exclude any extra labourers which our villages may contain from the means of em

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"I am, your obedient servant, "HENRY DRUMMOND. Albury Park, Nov. 26."

Next came the challenging affair, in the following words, as published under the authority of the Duke of Richmond, who, it appears, was the bearer of Lord Grey's letter to Mr. Drummond.

"Albury Park, Nov. 29. Duke of Richmond, that some expressions in "MY LORD,-1 regret to learn from the my letter to the editor of the Times of this day's date, are construed by your Lordship to As nothing was farther from my object or wish imply an attack upon your Lordship's motives. than to impute any thing to your Lordship individually, while I reserve the right of declaring myself freely on your Lordship's public measures, I have only to express the sincere regret I feel at any expression of mine having given unintentional pain to your Lordship.

"I have the honour to be,

your Lordship's obedient servant, HENRY DRUMMOND..

"To Earl Grey."

"Downing-street, Nov. 30.. "SIR-I have had the honour of receiving your letter of yesterday, which has been brought to me by the Duke of Richmond, and beg leave to express my satisfaction at your

assurance that nothing was farther from assures him that he did not mean to "your object or wish than to impute to me confine the charge to him only. Did individually any thing improper; and that

"I shall feel it necessary, as was understood between you and the Duke of Richmond, to give publicity to the letter which I have received from you; and have the honour to be,

"Sir,

"Your most obedient servant,

"GREY."

while you reserve to yourself the right ever libeller defend himself against a "(which it never could be my wish or inten- charge of defamation against A by altion to dispute) of declaring yourself freely leging that he had made the same " on my public measures, you felt sincere charge against B, and did ever A express "regret at any expression having given me "unintentional pain.' himself satisfied, and at once drop the suit upon the making of such an allegation by a libeller? But there is some. thing so childish in all this; something so waspish and at the same time so incomprehensibly mild and dull, that, really, when one looks at the part which How sensitive we are become all of a Lord Grey has taken in it, and reflects sudden! And, how soon we are tran- that he is the Prime Minister, one quillized! Lord Grey is quite satisfied, cannot wonder at the state of confusion, when he finds that Mr. Drummond did suspense, and terror, in which the counnot mean to say any-thing against him try is now placed. That pretty gentleindividually; that is to say, in a state man, too, the DUKE OF RICHMOND, separate from all others. Not knowing might have been better employed than any-thing of the qualities of the mind of in the publishing of this puerile corre pain, I cannot say "what intentional spondence. Much better, very much pain can mean;" but, knowing well better, for him to have been at the what individually means, and knowing General Post-Office, clearing up the that it means a thing or a person con- mysterious affair of my lost letter sidered in a state of existence separate from Farnham, which has never yet from all other persons and things, I per- been found, and for the loss of which ceive that this noble Lord's mind does I have never received the smallest not differ materially from that of a great intimation of an intention to give me many very vulgar persons, who think that any sort of redress! The letter was a disgrace, by being divided, becomes dimi- heavy one. It contained more than ten nished; and it is even said being hanged pages of writing, on quarto paper; the in company forms a sort of consolation postage would have been four or five to the worst of criminals. Mr. Drum- shillings; for the leaves were all sepamond does not say in plain terms that rated, and written upon only on one side. Lord Grey has "a fool's head, or traitor's Had the country post-master equivoheart;" but he says flat and plain that cated, the loss of the letter might have Lords Grey and Brougham are "profli- been imputed to him, or it might have gale politicians." It is not "indi- been doubted whether it was put into vidually," that he characterizes Lord the post-office at Farnham. But, for Grey; but, he calls two men profligate politicians, and ke names the two men; consequently he calls each of them a profligate politician. TREVOR, one GORDON, and the LIAR, ascribed certain conduct, ascribed blasphemy indeed to COBBETT, CARLILE, and TAYLOR, which was accusing me of blasphemy; but not me any more than the other two. Mr. Drummond says in fact, that Lord Grey is a profligate politician. He says the same of the Scotchman at the same time, to be sure; but he says this of Lord Grey, whose taste makes him perfectly satisfied, when Mr. Drummond

the credit of the General Post-office, it unfortunately happened, that the postmaster at Farnham received the letter from my son in the presence of a gentleman of that town, which latter, upon receiving a letter from me, complaining of the loss, went to the post-master, who, in the presence of another witness, acknowledged that he had received the letter at the time specified, and declared that he and his wife were both ready to make oath that it was duly put into the bag. Therefore, it is certain that the letter came to the General Post-office in London, and we have proof upon proof,

the postman.

that it was not delivered at Bolt-court, on trade, and, above all, by taking effectual to which place it was directed. There measures to liquidate the public debt." What were my printers waiting the arrival of the paper currency, we know not, and thereMr. Drummond means by fixing the amount of Then at last something fore we pass over this specific. But with reelse was obliged to be got to fill up the spect to the other specifics, which may be Register; there were my readers all over summed up briefly in the words relief from the country disappointed, the Register Drummond have the hardihood to contend taxation, and from monopolies, will Mr. coming out too late to be sent by the that an unreformed Parliament would ever post that evening; and what was their have consented to them? The great argument surprise at seeing a long article break off for a reform of Parliament is, that those who in the middle! Better, I say, much better voted the taxes had an interest in increasing, instead of diminishing the expenditure. The for this Duke of Richmond to be em- object for which the boroughmongers combat ployed in giving me suitable redress for Reform is, that they may retain possession of this great injury, and in adopting regu- the power of sharing among themselves the lations to prevent the same in future, property of the nation, by means of the very than in carrying messages from the at- wishes to dry up. Is it not known to every channels of expenditure which Mr, Drummond once waspish and gentle Prime Minister, tyro in English history, that ever since the and publishing a correspondence of compact entered into between the Crown and which a couple of drapers' shopmen the aristocracy, at the so-called Revolution of 1688, the Parliament, which was honest so ought to be ashamed. But, now we long as the Crown contended for the suprecome to matter worthy of the attention macy, became itself corrupted, and that boof folks that are grown up; namely, to roughmongery has grown with the growth of the commentary of Doctor Black on the the taxes? To expect that an unreformed letter of Mr. Drummond. The Doctor Parliament should destroy that for the sake of which Reform is opposed, if the expectation be and I are getting together by the ears not assumed, betrays an inability to reason again! I disagree with him upon the approaching to fatuousness. But Mr. D. is subject of arming the rich against the obliged to close his catalogue of specifics with poor, one of his objects in which seems the House of Commons, as efficacious as that the admission of a necessity for a Reform of to be to compel the poor to have the now proposed, though that efficacious Reform dead bodies of their relations sold to the is to be, it seems, not revolutionary-that carcass butchers, that buy them for the is, is to have all existing interests unaffected, and consequently the interests of the bopurpose of cutting them up, or rather sold to the cutting butchers, by the roughmongers. carcass butchers. I detest the Doctor for this, and shall undoctor him, if he do not take care; but I have now to remark upon his commentary on the letter of Mr. Drummond.

Mr. Henry Drummond, for an honest man,

seems to have a wonderful aptitude in imbib

The Doctor does not deal fairly with Mr. Drummond.. Mr. Drummond's specifics would be quite sufficient; for› he proposes a disbanding of the standing army, in which he, of course, includes the dead-weight; and he proposes a paper money to be made. ing the tactics of a dishonest school. The a legal tender, which, indeed, would working classes are, no doubt, as he says, opdo the whole thing at once, and pressed to a degree almost past further en- this is precisely the thing which the durauce; and the Reform Bill, certainly, will Doctor says he does not understand. If. not give them immediate relief. But the he do not, I do: and, whatever Mr. Reform Bill will remove some of the most formidable obstacles in the way of their ob- Drummond's intention may be, most taining relief." Relief," says Mr. D., " is assuredly this part of his plan would only to be obtained by the repeal of taxes not only pay off the debt, but would op articles used for private consumption by rectify every abuse in the course of laying on a graduated property-tax-by fixing the amount of a paper currency by act of Par- a few weeks; whether Mr. Drummond liament, and making it a legal tender-by means this or not, I cannot be certain disbauding the whole standing army, excepting but certain I am that paper money, the household troops and the artillery, and made a legal tender, would blow up the substituting fencibles and a militia-by enact ing poor-laws for Ireland-by repealing the whole system at once, and leave us to corn laws, and all monopolies and restrictions choose another in its stead, which we