Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-05 00:00:00

THE WATERLOO MURDER AND STREET

LITERATURE.

The excitement with respect to this obscure tragedy, wh'c's has
agitated the pablic mind from the first discovery of the bag to the
present moment has found its vent, as usual oo these occasions, in
street ballads, originating in some Seven Dials or Whitcechapel poet,
and sung to a doleful air by wandering minstrels of the Jem Bagg s
ordi.r. Of one of these we hay- passesied ourselves, and fled that
some stanzas of it (might to be prase .vei in a more permanent form.
Lord Malanlay sets such veins on tha)e exponents of popular feel-
ing, that he once) mrnayed all the way to Vie east end ,f London to
make a collet ioa for some I.te ary ,urpose ; tonch:ng which expedi-
tion a retesque story is told, to the effect that the boys of whom the
historian made tin purchase fol'o7ei him al' the way back to the
Albany, and, being then perceived, and req sired to explain th it
m hive for such suspicious conduct, replied, rderring to their ballads,
We was only guvasr, to hear yer slug 'em." Ho never
this may be, a street balled is a vs, itVole bit of Oar Civilisation ;"
and we therefore make a so'ee':don from " Ths Waterloo Tragedy, cr
the London Mysterious Murder," retaining all its felicities of gram-
ma”, spelling, punctiation, and versification:

" Oh such a year for dre bifal morciers
As t!,i 3 before was terer seen,
In England, Ireland, Britain ov,,
Such horrid eri.n:s has never bean.
But this whic't no ,v has been ditcovaed
Vary far ex:ee Is 1113 w 1019,
The very thought makes man to shudder,
How horriYe for to u 'fold.

" See and real b every paper,
Thia dr !lOU cr Oak my,tery,
Wore far worse, than Jame*Gretmcre's
Is the Loudon mystery.

" Rio blly it was ent to pieces.
Oh, how dreadful was his fate,
Then pla:e 1 in brine and kid iu ,ecret
Horrib e for to relate,
The hea 1 and liaot had been divided
Where parts were tdk 3n no one knows
In a ear,et bag they pa-A 3d the body
Over Waterloo bridge t' ey did it throw.

" It Is suppo.el thst a f.fm tie mmst,r
Iler via !ms body eawlrd dryggel
With i.o compiniou to ass 'C her
All p eked within a carpet big.
Justice determined i 3 t 3 take her,
When with sut doubt she'll puislsh A b.,
The attrozi sus female Grae'sacra
Of the Want*lo3 Bridge Trage ly.',

There being asp ice at the b3to aof the slc3rri cilama of this
ditty, which the po3t has lacked invention to 11'1 up, a pie,ure cf a
rose is inset eI, which the re der may, if he p'eas., consider as a
portrait of the fl) ye: is the paste 'a of the m33aorable c trp t bag.—
Leaier.

ANOTHER SU4PECTED rASt OF MYSTERIOUS MURDER.—
EASTBOURNE, Nov. 2.—On TLu slay morning List.
between 8 and 9 o'clock, as Sergeant Jams King and
Charles B trtlett, gunge of the Royal Artillery, stationed at
Langley Fo t, near to Eislanuroe, were strolling on the
beach, they saw a b tit lsinr a lit'le 13:1 it. he. water mark.
spring a b ard, when they discovered ha hind of a human
tv,dy. The hox and its conten s were then taken to Langley
Fort, and inform ttitzi of the dissov‘ry was as early a
p,s,db'e given to the pollee. Tie b w s then 07:ened,
and the bldy was kuni to be that of a boy of from
thirteeo to fourteen years of age. It was wrapped in cis
pieces of canvass, new and old, a new table cloth, ar d on
the b dy was a coarse shirt, a cottan handkerchief being
tied round the neck, and on the head was a black clo'h
cap tamed up with plush velvet and a grill taste'. Oa
Saturday an inq vest wis held on the bols before Mr. F.
11. Gall, aril in addition to the evidence, of which the
above is a narrative, Pr. Jeffery gave the result of a post,
mortent examinatioa. He. w,,s of opinion that the boy
hal been almost starved to death, and then struck on the
temple with a heavy blunt instrument.. He was of opinion
that the body had b. et dead f ono six to ten days. The
invest was adj,u7ned, in order for the palice to make
it goiri as into this rn:starions affair.
DesTatcnoN OF Tag BRIGHTIN MUSIC HALL.—E lay
on Monday mon ing. ab Alt a quarter to four o'clak, an
alar a w.as given that the Sas3ex Misic Hall, Edward-
strew, was again on fire, and the police. were quickly on
the spot with the fire ho-ing, bit all a'tenapts to get the
fire under were utterly useless, and in less than half an

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hour attar its discovery it had barnt itself out, and this
place of amusement is once more a co aplete wreak. Thera
is not a piece of timber vending suffleient to make a laeire
meet ; the interior of the walls prese its no other view
than a heap o' ch vcoal and fragments of iron pillars. So
sudden was the conflavati‘m that not a thing was saved;
an 1, from the facts which we have gle ned, the interior
must have been completely gutt.d before the fire was oh-
s even, which was not dole till the roof fell in, when the
flames shot high into the air, iltimivating for a few
moments the baildilgs arounl, as far as the 'Pawn Hall,
and then gradually died ow, leaving nothing but the
anouldering ruins for the water to play upon. At a
quarter past three o'clock, a carpenter, livi eg opp)site,
'Joked out of his window, but saw nothing, and the p lice
emistable on that beat passel about the 'wile tire-, but
there was then no symnonas of fire. The origin of the
fire is at present a myeery, for everythi .g was car si lered
safe at hif past tweve, when the •proprietor, B iron,
rei el to bed ; and tvo of the s'rvants, whom he keeps
for the purp)se, examined the premi,es again about two,
but saw nothinz. Tll3 property is urtinsurel—Brqhton

Examiner.
two
GREAT BEITATN TiE W IMO'S MAT'.—We se.)
spo s huddled up nto a corner, a wkardly shot off to
a side, as it were, yet • facing the great sea, os the ye.),
verge and lip of the great waste of waters, with nothing
ou'side of them to protrct them ; not I,ke G.teere, or Lail',
or Egypt, in a M Aiferrane in bounded by a surroun hug .1
shore to be colts ed by timi t marines, bur, on the very
edge and verge of the great ocean, lo ,ki g out westward
to the exp.snse. If ah 3 launch at al', she mutt launch
with the fearless heart that is ready to breve old oc-an—
to take with him his gigantic wes'ern waves—to face
his winds an I hurricanes—his sammer hex s of the
dead still tropes—his winter Wasfs—his fairy icebergs
—his fogs like patp.Able darkness—his bias's and
his snow. Britain has done to. Fcora her island h mar
she has sailed oast and welt, north and south. She
has gDe on•wardly an 1 p'anted empires. Tae
themse'ves, now her comp er, were an offshoot from her
isle rd territ ore. Her desri,ly is to plant out nations, and
the spirit of cilonisition is the genius that presidas over
hsr career. She plants out Canad Australia, New
Z aland. and the Care. Ceylon and Mauritius she
occupies for trade. India she a vers with a net-work of
lax framed and woven in her Anglo-S xon l :one. Sae
clutches Chino, ant begins et least to break up the
cal still solecism. She lays hall of B vrneo, aid straugh
wiy piratical prahus are seen wrecked and stranded on the
shore, or blown to (ragmen's i I the air. She raisse an
impregnable fortress at the entrance of the Mediterranean.
an I ano her in its centre, as security to her sea-borne
trade. S'e dies the same in embryo at the entrance to the
Red Sea. Westward from Na vfo mull and she traverses
a continent, and there, is the Pacific, Vancouver's
Is!and—which may one- day become the new Great
, Britain of new Anglo-Saxon en erprise, des iced to carry
civilisation to the inwineerable islands of the great sea—
bears the Union Jack fir its island banner, and ackrow-
ledges the sovereignty of th! British crown. At Singapore
she has pnvision Illy made herself mistress of tae straits
of Malacca, and thou-I-Inds of miles away on the other
hand at the F Ilkl to i Island., near to the Land of Fire,
-the B i ish mariner may hear the voice of praise issuing is
the Anglo-S aon tongue. Io ad lition to this, she has
representatives at every court, and consuls at eveey sea-
port. Her cruisers bear her fl n every navigable sea.
Eur)peans, Asiatics, Africans, Ame.ic ins, and Australians,
are found wearing her u iiform, eating her breaa, burin:
her arms, and clotribwing to extend her dominion,—North
British Review, for Noremoer.