The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-04 00:00:00

SUSPECTED MURDER.

On Christmas-day morning Samuel White, the
horsekeeper to Mr. (heave% of the Rutland Arms Inn,
Bakewell, on going to his stable found a female dead
in one of the stalls, six horses being in the place.
She could not have been frozen to death there, though
the night was severe. Information was given to the police
and a surgeon called in by Superintendent Rust. Thi;
body was removed to the union, and the coroner sent for.
A strict investigation will take place, as no doubt remain,
but that this female has been violated and died from foul
wane. •Two navvies have been detained at the Bakewell
lock-up, and seine has been obtained which it is hoped will
bring this painful case to light. Great sensation has been
reused in the town through this sad affair, many persons
thinking this female bad been brutally used and murdered.
An inquest was held on Thursday, before Mr. W. Bennett,
the coroner for the High Pratt, wises some strange revela-
tions were made, inioatin five or six men living in
Bakewell in a very serious &arge. The evidence against
them being very meagre, the inquest was adjourned, in order
to give time fur the FlOllOB to thoroughly investigate thecae..
From the medical evidence of Mr. Walters, surgeon, who had
made sport saortem examinational tke body, Superintendent
Rust as to the state he found the body, and other collateral
evidence, no doubt remains as to the utiility shown to this
poor creature. Acting Sergeant Holmes proved her name as
to him when she applied for a vagrant relief ticket, as
Vary Ann Wilson, lately coming from Chesterfield, but of
the Potteries, being a married woman, seeking her husband,
working in the lime-kilns at Longstone or Buxton. On
Friday • special meeting of the magistrates W3ll held at the
Town-hall, by Mr. R. W. IL Nesfield and Mr. William All.
card, when Superintendent Rust laid before them a state.
ment of the case and the attendance of Mr.Walten, surgeon,
proving beyond doubt the violence, and an information was
laid against some suspected persons who could be shown to
have been at and near this stable, and the persons, together
with one remanded, have been in the custody of Superin.
tendent Rust, and are now awaiting further examination.
The case will be thoroughly sifted by the coroner's jury
and the magistiatee—there being strong presumptive en-
deuce against the men in custody. At present the names
of these men remanded are withheld, five of them are Bake-
well persons, one being • navvy. —Notti agham Journal.

Two melancholy incidents which haw taken
place in the neighbourhood are recorded in the columns
of the Mniu•Aester Examiner of this morning. The one
of a poor travelling fiddler, who was found frozen to death
on a haystack, in Stockport-road ; and the other of a per-
son belonging to Newton Moor who was found deed on the
railway, near Gorton. The poor fellow last•named had been
knocked down by a railway train. His legs were severed
from his body, and the &oddest appeuis to have been dis-
covered the morning after it happened.
CHIIRCH DIFFERENCID3 AT BATTIRSEA.—A COITe•
spondeat seeds us the following :—A curious cise,
ing an important point of ecclesiastical law, has arisen in the
parish of Battersea, and has excited much interest amongst
the inhabitants, A few years since a beautiful church,
called Christ Church, was erected in the parish, a consider-
able distance from the mother-church, and the vicar (the
Rev. J. & Jenkinson, M.A.) nominated en incumbent.
From what has been gathered, it appears that at Christ
Church there are two parties, one or other of which gene-
rally contrives to make matters extremely unpleasant to the
minister. Some weeks ego the incumbent resigned, as seve-
ral incumbents had done before him since the opening of the
church, and the vic.r nominated a snooessor in the person
of the Rev. Thomas Rutherford Dickenson, M.A. of
Cambridge, formerly Perpetual Curate of Salesbury, near
Blackburn, and more nr.ently Rector of Nymet Rowland.
in the diocese of Exeter. The rev. gentleman at ours com-
menced his d uties. and applied to the Bishop of Wiuchesterfor
his license, which, much to the astonishment of himself
and the vicar, the bishop point blank refused. Application
was made to the bishop with a view to ascertain the grounds
of hie refusal, as it was known that there were no objections
to Mr. Dickensou'e moral character or theological views, and
that the vicar's right of presentation to the incumbency was
undisputed. The bishop replied that be had received a me-
morial signed be 31 members of the congregation assem-
bling et Christ tliureh objecting to the appointment, and
that so long as one objected be should withhold his license.
His lordship further stated that the chief point of the me-
morial which he had received was a representation that Mr.
Dickenson was not sufficiently "polished" for such a con-
gregation. So strange a reason for renting the rights of a
patron has naturally created seine amusement, as well as a
vast amount of perplexity, inasmuch as in the event of the
bishop determining to act neon the protest of a single
oh-
jeeter, one of the two parties who are struggling for En-
;.:retn..cy at Christ Church will resist say nomination which
the vicar may noike, and so Christ Church runs the risk of
being left without any minister at all,

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