sad, but quite calm and cool. I see the person I call Acton in the court. He is the prisoner in the dock. I cannot say whether he was surprised or not; he certainly looked horrified. Mr. Tracy showed him the hoe, and asked him whose it was. He replied immediately that it was his, and said, that he had left it leaning against one of the pillars by the fish-pond, while he spoke a few words to Miss Rose Tracy; he also said that he had quitted the garden immediately after speaking with Miss Rose." "Did he make any remarks upon the hoe?" asked the examining counsel. "He took it up," answered the witness, "looked at it for a minute, and then said the murder must have been committed with this." The examination in chief here closed, and the counsel for the defence rose to cross-examine the witness. "You have told us," he said, "that when Mr. Roberts called at Northferry House, in the evening, you remarked his face well. Had you any light in the hall?" Witness.--"No Sir; but there was light enough to see, and the gentleman was quite close to me. The evening light comes through the glass doors; and what there was of it fell right upon him, so that I could see him quite well." "That might very well be," said the barrister, "at a quarter after five, or even later: is it not so?" "Oh dear yes, Sir," replied the witness; "and I recollect now, it could not be more than ten minutes after five; for Mr. Taylor said to me just the minute before, 'James, it is past five, and you have not rung the first bell;' and I looked at the clock over the kitchen door, and saw it was six or seven minutes after. I was running up to ring the bell when the gentleman came, and asked for Mr. Acton." "Then was it ten minutes past five when Mr. Roberts called?" "About it," answered the witness. The Judge.--"How long would it take to walk down from the house to the place where the body was found?" Witness.--"About ten minutes by the walks, my lord." Judge.--"What do you mean when you say 'by the walks?'" "Why, a man may cut across the lawns," said the witness. Judge.--"Did Mr. Roberts cut across the lawns?" Witness.--"Only a little bit; and then took the gravel walk on the right, through the shrubbery." After a short pause, this witness was ordered to go down; and Lloyd Jones was called. I shall proceed, copying from the report of the trial in "The Times."