Mr. Lush said they had none.

The learned Judge asked the witness if he could see any flames through the windows in the gallery.

The witness said he did not see any through the windows.

The learned Judge.-Was the fire so far advanced that if the windows had not been obscured by something you could have seen them?

The witness said the fire seemed to him to be at the top of the house, and going towards where young Temple stood.

Dr. Hamilton, the plaintiff's medical attendant, was the next witness called, and confirmed his evidence. He said that when he had been at the house he found Mr. Wolley generally at work, either in the gardens or about the house. He had seen books laid out three or four years ago-with their leaves open to dry. On the night of the fire he found Mr. Wolley in a very nervous and excitable state, and was afraid that he was likely to have an attack of a complaint he was subject to, and which was dangerous, and he took him to his house. He said Mr. Wolley seemed very anxious about the Temples. He continued to attend Mr. Wolley at his lodgings, where he was in a very excitable state, with fits of excitement and despondency, and not at all in a condition to prepare statements, and, indeed, the witness said he forbade it.

Cross-examined.-He saw a good many books on the occasion alluded to, and there was a fire in the room at the time, which was damp. He had not seen them out in the same way before or since. There were a good many books. He had not seen the salvage.

Crozier was the next witness called. He said he had been four years with Mr. Wolley, and had been before with Colonel Paget. He had been in the habit of always going about with him. In November, when they went to Brighton, no furniture was taken, but plate, linen, &c. They went by the railway van, he believed thirty-six packages. Before that he remembered some things having been sent to Brighton, some cane-seated chairs out of the theatre, which Temple had bought. Nothing else, except a few ornaments. The Brighton house was furnished from Campden House; he did not know where it came from. There was a good deal of furniture stowed away there, not in use. "I was examined by Mr. Ford (the company's attorney) at the office, and was asked if I knew of two sofas covered with crimson gilt, and I said they were there, and I swear they were the day before the fire. I was also asked about other things. There were four suits of armour at the time of the fire. They asked me about the curtains-there were some in the drawing-room and dining-room, and tapestry in the gallery (or ball-room) which I believe was to be arranged as curtains; they were to be mended; and were put up for the purpose; Mrs. Temple came in and asked why they were so, and Mr. Wolley said it was to mend them. In December I came up with Mr. Wolley to see Mr. Philips and Temple, and I took him to the stables to see them. The house had not then been cleaned, but the varnishing had been begun before we left for Brighton. When we came up in March there was a difference in dirt and dust. The varnish done was all covered over with dust, and it had to be done over again to make it look well, and then it was covered up. The Temples had a good many relatives and visitors there, and sometimes showed the house to them, at which Mr.

Wolley was angry. The walls were covered with paper got from the nearest paperhanger's, Colston's, Allason-terrace. It was not got all at once. I fetched it as we wanted it. It was the cheapest I could get, and Mr. Colston asked what it was for, and was told. The pictures were covered with paper, put up in

long slips, as purchased, fastened with pins. Other pictures were taken from the corridor, and put upon the sideboard in the dining-room that they might be more easily covered up while Temple was papering the corridor. When we came back in March the varnishing was not all done, and Mr. Wolley went on with it. Temple did some while we were away, and Mr. Wolley had done some before we went away. I did some of it. I varnished the sideboard—a beautiful sideboard in the dining-room. I covered up the hall all round with a large cloth which had been down in the gallery, and Temple helped to take it up. We put curtains up at the windows and nailed them all round, to cover the carvings, which had all been varnished by Temple, but they were looped up on one side. Mr. Smythies called one day and went into the gallery and through into the garden where Mr. Wolley was working. He worked there very frequently. There was tapestry up at the ball-room windows. All the candles they had came from Oxford-street, but I do not know the shop, as Mr. Wolley ordered them. They were put into the pantry, and there was a mistake and another box was brought, but Mr. Wolley said they might as well be kept. They were some of them taken down to Brighton and used there. The other box was put into the cupboard. I remember the books being put out on the table to air, and to beat them, as they were so dusty. On the day before the fire Mr. Wolley worked in the garden and amused himself in the house; and Mrs. Temple brought him a cup of tea in the library. I went up to town with him, and we dined at a restaurant, and came home. We got home about half-past ten, and I bought some new-laid eggs close to the house. We came home by Brompton, and Mr. Wolley bought a pair of goloshes. When we came in we went into the pantry, and I lighted a candle and took Mr. Wolley into the library, and he said, 'If my room is ready I'll go to bed;' and I went to see and told him it was not, as the fire was not lighted, and I lighted it and told him to stay in the library until it was burnt up. I went into the green-room and found Mr. and Mrs. Temple frying sausages. That was under Mr. Wolley's usual bed-room and under mine, but not under the one he slept in at that time. I got Mr. Wolley's room ready and sat down by the fire to watch it burning up, and Mr. Wolley came up and said, 'Is it ready?' and I said, 'It is.' I said, 'Is the gas put out?' He said, 'No,' and I said, 'I'll go and put it out.' He said, 'I'll go with you,' and we went. We fastened up the offices. While I did so he sat on the stairs. I don't know which of us put out the gas. There were two or three burners. After I saw the Temples in the green-room we met Temple on the stairs, and Mr. Wolley said, 'Are you going to bed?' and he said, 'Yes.' We did not say we were going to sit up late that night; and we were not going to do so. We were going to bed, and we did so. I undressed my master and left him in bed. We were neither of us out of the house after eleven. I went to bed myself. The next thing I heard that awoke me was Mr. Wolley calling out Temple! Crozier!' and thumping at my door. I thought that he had one of his nervous fits, in which he sometimes came to my room at night. I opened the door and found smoke, which nearly suffocated me. He said, 'For God's sake, Crozier, make haste to the back staircase!' We went down and got the door opened somehow. It was not open; we fastened it overnight. We got through it into the kitchen, and then we got the other door open, and then another into the garden. I and Mr. Wolley screamed with all our might, 'Fire! Murder! Thieves!' He called out Temple.' I could not say how long it was before Mrs. Temple appeared at the window. We were both in our shirts. I saw Mr. Freer and the policeman; to the best of my belief it was first Mr. Freer; I

cannot recollect seeing Mrs. Temple. She threw herself on the ground, I believe, while I went for a ladder. When I came back I saw Mr. Wolley picking her up. I think Mr. Freer came while I was gone. I heard a knocking at the front door, and went round and saw a policeman, and told him it was no use, and that they wanted a fire-engine, and he said, 'I don't know where to go, I am a stranger here;' and I said it was at the church; pray make haste or a boy will be burnt. I saw several policemen afterwards, but not for a long time. The articles in the claim were read over to me, and what I recollected I mentioned. So far as I know, there is nothing down in it which was not there. But since it was made up I have recollected a great many-hundreds-not in that list." Mr. Merewether.-Now, did you set fire to the house?

Crozier. No, certainly not.

Mr. Merewether.-Well, did you assist in setting it on fire?

Witness.-No. I should be sorry to do any thing of the sort, for the sake of my character.

Cross-examined.-Old curtains were put up to one of the hall windows; not nailed all round, but at the top and one of the sides. That was before the fire. I can't say how long; more than a week; it might be a fortnight. It was before the tapestry. The candles came in not in March, but in the time before March, for I took some to Brighton. We did not go to Brighton in March.

Mr. Lush.—I know you did not; that is the reason why I ask whether they did not come in March ?

Witness. They could not, because I took them to Brighton.

Mr. Lush. Do you say that if they came in March you could not? Will you swear they did not come in March?

Witness hesitated a little, and said he believed they did not, but would not swear it positively.

The cross-examination was continued very stringently as to the incidents of the night in question, as to which the only new point elicited was that he said he saw a light in the green-room as he went up to bed, after parting from the Temples as they went up to bed. He was pressed a good deal as to this-why he had not opened the door, and he said he thought some one might be sleeping there; and he was asked why he thought this, and said that sometimes the Temples had friends there. He was asked whether he had mentioned this to the attorneys of the company when examined, and admitted that he had not done so, because he said he was not asked.

Miss Coape was then called, and examined by Mr. Serjeant Ballantine. She stated she had been an inmate of Mr. Wolley's house before and since his marriage, and had an interest in his furniture to the extent of 13,0007., and had lent him thousands more. "I was well acquainted," she said, "with the house and furniture, and when we went down to Brighton in November, 1861, the house was in the usual state. In 1859, I had conversations with him about insuring. Subsequently there was a negotiation about letting the house, and I suggested to him adding to his insurances. He was reading about some fires, and in consequence of that I made the suggestion. I knew the premises were insured for 40007. I heard that something was said about the cost of reinstatement, and as the result the insurances were increased. The value of the furniture was considered between Mr. Wolley and myself, and I should have insured it for 10,000l. I consider it was under-insured. I know what immense sums had been expended upon the house-I should say 30,000l. He was in the habit of buying pictures, and was

very fond of the pursuit. Before the catalogue was sent in I went through it, and in my judgment it was a fair account of the articles on the premises as far as I could recollect. I have since recollected other articles not in that list. While we were at Brighton I remember writing to Mr. Wolley about candles. Candles require to be stored, I believe. I know of some things being taken to Brighton, not furniture, but such things as a family would require for use. The house at Brighton was furnished from that at Tunbridge. I was there when Mr. Wolley and my sister were there."

Mr. Serjeant Ballantine.-You were there when your sister died?-Witness. -I was.

Mr. Serjeant Ballantine.-Mr. Wolley, I believe, was away at the time, at Windsor P-Witness.-He was.

The witness went on to state that Mr. Wolley's eyes were very weak.

Cross-examined by Mr. Denman.-The late Mrs. Wolley was my eldest sister. We had equal fortunes-about 35,000l. I have advanced to him some thousands beyond the 13,000l. I have upon security. The residue is what I have to live on. It is sufficient; and it is expended on our housekeeping where we live.

By the learned Judge.-You do not know of any means possessed by Mr. Wolley except what was provided from his marriage with your sister and from your generosity?

Witness.-I do not know of any.

Captain Coape, the brother of the late Mrs. Wolley and of the last witness, was then called. He said he had made Campden House his town residence for four years before the fire. The fittings were expensive and valuable.

The roofs were

handsome and the carvings rich. Some rooms were covered with velvet. The furniture throughout the house was valuable and antique, and people came to see the house. Mr. Wolley had devoted years to enrich and adorn it. The witness was aware of the advances made by his sister to Mr. Wolley; he was aware she used to pay her income into his hands. Since the Brighton house was furnished he had been to Campden House, and there was no removal of furniture that he could observe. He had been examined by Messrs. Ford and Randall, the attorneys for the companies. He remembered a conversation as to the increase of the insurances. He also recollected the varnishing just before they went to Brighton. His sister said that Mr. Wolley and Crozier were varnishing the panels, and the witness himself took a little part in it. That was in the autumn of 1861.

Cross-examined.-That was the first he heard about it. The Brighton furniture came from London; he did not know more particularly where it came from. He was not at Campden House after February, 1862.

Re-examined. He said the house was well furnished when he saw it last. There was no difference that he saw.

Miss Coape being recalled, stated that she had suggested the varnishing, and that it was a great improvement; and she was aware it was going on and had helped in it herself. She entered heartily (she said) into all her brother-in-law's pursuits, especially as to the decoration of the house and fittings-the panelling, &c.

Mr. James Coape was called to confirm the evidence of the plaintiff as to the condition of the house and furniture. He spoke in particular as to the Venetian glass at the end of the "long room," for which he said he would give 7007. It was the handsomest thing in the house.

Mr. F. N. Clifton, architect and surveyor, deposed that it would cost 12,7837. to replace the burnt building.

Mr. M. R. Hawkins, architect, said he concurred in the opinion of the last

witness, but there would be a further expense of 500l. or 600l. for the architect's commission.

Mr. Hardwick, architect, gave similar evidence.

Ellen Perry, housekeeper to Mr. Wolley for fourteen years, said she remembered when the candles were purchased. She had previously asked for them. It was the custom when the family went out of town to cover the furniture and fittings with brown paper. The furniture at Brighton was taken from Tunbridge Castle. Some furniture was taken from Campden House. When Mr. Wolley came to London, in March, just before the fire, witness heard something about his going to hire a new gardener.

Mr. G. Springer said he was at Notting Hill when he saw the appearance of a fire, and he gave an alarm to the firemen as he went along. He discovered that the fire was at Campden House. He knocked at the gate, but got no answer. There was no fireman or policeman there then. He heard Mr. Wolley calling out "Thieves" and "Murder," three-quarters of an hour before the engines arrived. Witness assisted to remove some pictures to Mr. Egg's house adjoining. He saw Mrs. Temple jump from a window, but he thought it was a bundle of clothes. He first saw the fire at half-past three o'clock.

Mrs. Charlotte Hart, housekeeper to Mr. Egg, said she was awoke on the morning of the fire by a great noise, and she roused her fellow-servant. Temple came running along the leads, crying out, "For God's sake, let me in, my wife and child are burnt to death." He was dreadfully burnt, and his flesh seemed to peel off his hands. The house was in a complete blaze before the engines came up. Witness alarmed a man named Ellis, living close by, but she did not see him at her master's house till twenty minutes afterwards.

Several witnesses deposed to the value of the fittings.

Mr. Lush, defendant's counsel, here said that he would admit that Mr. Wolley had laid out a great deal of money on the building, and also that the fittings might have cost him 70007., but they would not bring that sum if sold. He disputed the value of the furniture, which was insured for 50007.

Robert Finch, formerly in the service of the Hon. Mr. Curzon, and who occasionally acted as waiter at Campden House, when there was a party, said he had been in many noblemen's houses, and he never saw one more fully or more elegantly furnished than Mr. Wolley's. He had seen as many as four hundred persons at some of Mr. Wolley's parties.

Mr. J. Cotton, furniture dealer, deposed that he estimated the value of the furniture at 80007. or 90007.

Mr. J. Tompsett, of Torquay, corroborated.

Mr. H. B. Lennard said the articles of furniture were such as were only seen in palaces. It had cost witness in all 28,000l. to fit up a much smaller house in Hyde-park-gardens in a similar style.

Mr. G. F. Duncombe, of the art and science department of Kensington Museum, also said that the house was beautifully furnished.

Mr. Greaves, of New Oxford-street, tallow chandler, said that, in January last, sixty pounds of candles were purchased at his shop and sent to Mr. Wolley's house.

The witness Crozier, being recalled, said that Mr. Wolley sat on the stairs while witness was extinguishing the gas and fastening up the offices. There was no accommodation for any one to sleep in the green-room, except on the sofa. This concluded the plaintiff's case.

Mr. Lush then addressed the jury on the part of the company. He said he