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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-13 00:00:00

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THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

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CALCUTTA MAIL.
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1 1/INFORCEBIENTS FRO ENGLAND.
ttth4 tit:t,followin
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t 1 a phic h was
4%, f`,,,1.e t in-agfue,:-ora-4 12,despatc at 12.30 p.m.receive (Yes" d
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-4 lie Briiisill Vice-Consul at Trieste :
SThe'ALEXANDRIA, ocr. 7, 1857.
ept kl ' Calcutta, of the 10th
fie,,,el4l4llabringsdatei from
ft426trib„ ; Madras, 15th September; Galle, 27th
t -P4l 14:1. ; and Aden, 30th September. The news
eiv - 71°11h- p t provinces is not later than
h" ti 13 w 6 I
AA eil,t, cmtbay.
1'410.D; 41e Alma passed Galle, her MNieSty'S Ai!!
oe4Le'4ll,,ea ;41111:1 CiletoPal, with troops oa board, h. d
2 500 troops were reported
e .11.e11(1).1aaer(r''‘f:terld at the Mauritius.
(Signed) JOHN GREEN.
(Signed) RAVEN.

mA f 4
-''etrtheT
A lgPele ra hie despatch is. to the follow-
trtil . ~,t4 •
tiT-I°4le—sa, Senfember 10th, the safety of. t.lie,
recill.°fl4llekri--oi'v was looked upon .as perfecd)
1ie0'21e11.,,,
ree'.elee ttated LueknOw, September 2nd, had
tti:l.tl i:l°ed from General Neill. second sue.
10 4 likiltie had been made, two guAnbsroaL•agp.ttu.red,
li into
f4t to quarktity of provisions
1, h4t •
~Atlp kb'
ott b t% -ices from cGalle are to September 27th.
tZi4'l IVtlerB Cleopatra, and Penelope, with_
,:lyoaoi
pilety'lltinc.,h pw3fieers, and 205 d
Otln ".-t coaled at Galle an
It i • ingeonne olin to
44: antra that 2.500 troops were known
1,
.e 41,..;__ some
.t.lis
tb' ie
e'-ved at the Mann 1 •
Tetlll.l4elleci that the troops at Bhopaul had
le 4e b,
r'fils, ".‘,!3,, who continued Me
4"ue Europeans in Safell•
Friendly had already
ir
{Pr
poi I:tithl °lll the third edition of the . limes.] , -I
1)01.;11 a ~,,' ()et• 12.—Tbe Austraielixaten(de•r)i
"A .-4" in 107 hours from A
1,,, . t) 1..,.,. which
...!trriveo
(1,0'1(114„ I'l. on. the 7th Oct.
14'el f' Illaite left Alexandria on that day w,i..`l!
•11 ,0,1, ,
4t 'aril 0 a.clitta to 10th September, Mani Em
4qeith eYlon 20th. The safety of the garrison
‘11.N..‘"" was looked upon as perfectly
tt44telliz
44i4Illitte,1;ce, dated Lucknow, Sept 2u.d had been
4la e had' begineneral Neill. A second succ, I
fett: Cillatitity
IN - made, two giins captured, an.
of provisions brought into the

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CHINA.

.411. The Hteamer had not reached

44151714,
tekrtt 'A, , COMMERCIAL.
to te. Icariter• 40. —Prices in export market declined.
kokalt 4q-xetu, continued dull. Money excessively
°al °Re. 23. 31d
'moo a . The Bank at Bengal refuses
Nt'Ab, tc tha , gatnst Government papers or Bills,
hoest. 48, 8o 11 3') daya to
Pember 15 run'
'`Ws er,,,°4e, 00„,. --Hardly any change in import
AlQiio One rlei
decline`,'easy Government securities
go 24.42f41.1Ph0
"WI 4 downward tendency.

111„ BERLIN, SUNDAY NIGHT.
night.
health of the King is a little Bette r

VIENNA, SUNDAY NIGHT. A Piet for
the 4ll4tria, overthrow of the Government of
has been discovered at Belgrade.

The ill. PARIS, MONDAY NIGHT.
Here lee Per cent Rents which ten days ago
Quoted at OS'. 70c. closed to-day at 60f, 90c..

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The 1, ALEXANDRIA, Oar. 4
'eptepar,°l33baY mails, with dates to the 17th o, f
4„tettpl"", leave for Malta to-day by her Majesty s
ittipetr Caradoe, which also conveys hence the
The illbassador and suite.
Ibet. hiCOunter reached Suez on the 30th of Sep-
lit ' Ilr detention is attribated to the bad
The her her coal.
~,Ikttryl:ltLelligence from Delhi extends to the 30th
iL Sens'. The siege train was expected on the 5.
uala,lenTher, after which the place would pto
On tbe itarnediately assaulted-
)4lieli left 26th of August a body of the rebels,
the ei left th City with the object of interceptin,
ttt 11,?g2,train, Was attacked by General Nicholson
theniqtliiillor) and utterly defeated, with loss of all
A yptb •
c11411tt" ist of SeWember General Outram was at
IN • h toil 8 Wit., strong reinforcements, and ex-
Th to reach -Cawnpore on the 9.h.
,_ t
(leelei!arrison of Lucknow, it was thou„h , would
1.44;ei :ed kr( the 15th of September, up to which..
.141 tp,"'‘s confidently expected that they could
. GiCt without difficulty.
`l,bit:l.4l havelock had Again attacked the rebels
.d
relisi,°°,l% on the 16th of Angus', and obtained
9t returning to Cawnpore on the fol-
f 4tA cIY.
ert, 01a all
was well. A detachment from the
t
ettr2per major Montgomery, attacked a body o
tilli'll All ehur, on tho 24th of August,
'r,,°•e°lllPlete sucYcet'ss, and trifling loss on our
,411 1 ,t
totl.‘„tli 52f)..1,1' Native laeantry mutinied at Peshawur
i',:,itiey-,,:u of August..
By the following day th.e
ll'A‘tte-ing,Ets completely crushed Mutinies of par..
Lttio '„(,.4,1--4,ht Infantry at Ferozepore and o a
Ihjilli.,,"` tne 55th at Hazarah eve in like manner
1.44 Aron
suppressed.
41%-tßatrison at- Arrah, after being
_.
orreel.ieved, by
day ,yre Ire, had Safely reached Dinap
,deß:ad Embseqaently attacked Knor Singh at
b.t',heit":ll'.. The rebel force had beea broken.
e'lli. snrgents were trying to make their way to
A p.,,
klit•-itiall . •
,t,ltiiel 9m tion of the sth Irregular Cavalry had
,411 e 9, at 13111guipere
R 441 d',•"'d Fusiliers had arrived at Calcutta.
-el''tt- '''igio leliclefrosr Hon, Kong on the 3rd of
litie Nil, ber.
lat.ti,a.bleidia and Hyderabad country continue
tiOe re •
I" brilatnder of the Joudpore Legion hasmino-
-114111 "tit 13 further outbreak has occurred
Is, ottits_y o
al;itts",,,t_ army..
'hi) t,,`l Regiment had arrived from the Cape,
~,'iti i'lth. Was hourly expected.
AltA liras pi..ilideuev was. perfectly tranquil,
Parte" J'lo'nur- rum*. hud p-assed off quieLly in all
4 iterui India.
'llec.Ett Was ev
z',,tttli of Jule.
acUated by the Persian troops on
G 2 ngQ at
to lv.:rnme Bombay closed at 2s. 111. 4
tem nt securities had improved, but.agaitno
+ow ed to 80 for Fours and 90 for Fives, owing 411entations froth Calcutta.
gooey yesports continued to advance.
.A4;l' plentiful.
tilkttile-ABPltn'it:h from Madras announced the arrival
th the ii from Calcutta on the 13th, and stated
eotit„ ink of Bengal had refused advances on
riY's paper.
eilred
MALTA, CCT. 8
„„
'43 lust arrived. Nothing new.
Th -

THE GREENACRE TRAGEDY.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

SUPPOSED DISCOVERY OF THE HEAD.

The greatest excitement prevals in London reipeeting this extra-
ordinary affair, and wa proceed to ,umm rise the additional partial-
lars which have come to light respecting this most extraordinary
ocncrrence.

A minute examination of the dress and the condition in which it is
at present, seems to sh m at least the manner 'in which the murder
was committed. There! are marks of three stabs in the brick, between
the shoulders, three in the abdomen, and no less than seven exactly
over he region of the heart. All these are clean cuts, showing that
they mast have been inflected with a deub'e-edged kn fe, about the
thickness of a crown piece in the centre a point trd-bladed' weapon
similar to thou called Spanish knives. The waistcoat 18 not pierced,
so that it mast have 'wen un uttoeed at the time the murder was
committed. The trousers also must hive been partly undone, as they
are on'y punctured in one spot, though the shirt shows ma ks of the ee
stabs having been inflicted. If any conolusion can be founded upon
these appearances, they would certainly lead to the belief that the
des seed must have been first stabbed from behind, and that then a
desperate straggle ensued, for the other wounds in the back and
abdeinen are wide apart, as if the asseilant Arne% when and where he
could. As deceased became weaker, and offered Las resistance, the
frnishing wounds in the heart appear to have been given w.th ferocious
rapidity. They almost all lie within the circle of a crown piece, and
must therefore have been strnel Eli rapidly as the hand could rise and
fall. - The balk of the greatcoat is marked with white, as I. the mur-
dered men had eeruggled hard with his back ageinst a white or
lightly papered wall. After the assassination had been effected it is
su opo ed that the body must have been left as it fill upon its face fur
twelve or twenty-four hours, as the blood has completely s:stur ted all
the front parts of the dress. The coats, waisteo it, shirt, and trousers,
also, are all split dawn the beck in two helves, and the sleeves of the
coats ripee4 open, which leads to the supposition that the body must
have become perfectly rtgi.l and in a contorted and unnatural positi- n
before any attempt was made to remove the dress. The hcpes which
exist of the carpet bag being tracel are founded up rn the fact of Its
being a •comparatively new and very peculiar one, wth the trade
mark of a shopkeeper, a" 43 se" in elk Lewes on the handle. Tho
bag itself, though nearly new, is extremely old-fashioned with
regard to form, being teach three fe t deep and two wide ; in
fact, its great a* zo and peculiar appearance would place its
ideatlficaton by these who had once seen it beyond the
possibility of doubt. That this bag containing the re-
mains was the one ail ch was carried on the bridge by au
elderly woman on Thursday night is dis:inet'y established by the
statement of Etherington, the toll taker. Ptherington was himself
formerly a const,b'e in the A division, and remarkable for lie
shrewdness ant caution, and this fact, couple 1 with the pet:miler cir—
cumstances which he mentiens, apparently place he accurapy of his
statement beyond a doubt. He states tha- the woman came from
the Middleeex side of the water, and paid the toll at Oct, western
tollgate. He took the toll, and saw that she had with her a b own
paper parcel tied with cord ; it wastong, balky, anclapperently heavy.
She had also the carpet bag in which the aema'ns were afterwards
found, and which a'so seemed full and heavy His attention was
particularly directed to the woman in cense 2.ence of her turning the
turnstile twice whim endeavouring to get the caxpeabag through.
He spoke to her shun. this, said that he would have to pay the money
himself, and that she should have been more careful. The worn an didnot
reply, but looked at him sMadily while he lifted up the c arpet bag for
her and placed it on the top cf the turnstile. She then muttered
ssmething ie a very gruff soles to the effect that it could not be
helped,took the carpet bag and walked slowly away. As it was
thought possible from the gruffness of ins voice, that it might have
been a man i i wcman's clothes, Etherington has been questioned
on this p .ant, bet is pastas.° as to its being a woman, as he saw her
Lice most datinctly, and furthernere that he remarked she was short
evee fora woman. The police who are engaged in endeavouring to
penetrate the mystery Which surrounds the whole case, believe that
a woman so unequal to carry a heavy weight, as the 'amen at the
bridge evidently showed herself to be, must either hive been assisted
by male accomplices, or have driven to the neighbourhood of the
bridge in a cab. Against the formm supposition, is the fact that
none of the police in the vicinity of Wellingtin-street, have seen
persons carrying bundles such as described, though the carpet bag
could not have escaped attention and remark had it been so con-
veyed. On the other hand, the most minute enquiries have
been set on foot among the cabmen throughout the metropolis
as to whether any one answering the description of the woman
with a carpet bag and bundle, or any one et all with a
carpet bag and brown paper parcel, was set down in the
neighbourhood of Waterloo-bridge on Thursday night. As yet these
inquiries have elicited nothing, though it it still hoped that, as the
deta is of the atrocity committe I are widely Reread. information on
this point may be obtained. The police are inclined to the opinion
that in case of no cab having been employed the murder must
have been per; °hated at same of the houses of ill-fame which a e
numerous enough almost within a stenos throw of that end of the
bridge. Of course, the most vague and contradictory rumours hare
been circulated everywhere as to the discovery of the other portions
of the body. 'I hough some of these r ports and rem :nrs were in
the lest degree absurd, they were a'd carefully sifted and inquired
into, and a •me of them ce tainly bora unexpected f rails. Wco .may
here mention that the police entertain lit* le hopes of recovering the
head, hands, or feat of the body. In their opinion these members
were in the brown pat e- pareel takes on to the bridge, and
have been thrown into the river. Every part of it forme-,
diately bece eth the bridge, on both the eastern and western
sides, has been carefully dragged; but, as might have been
anticipated in a search far s a BMA 1 a parcel, and one so likely t be;
carried about by the slightest currents. without success. It was
confidently stated yester 'ay that the guilty parties had been trace%
and that the women who carried the bag on to the bridge had been
nded. We regret to say that there is not tbe least truth for
such assertions. Literally nothing mire was known at a late hour
last ntgtt than was known within an hour after the mutilated remelns
were in the handy of the authorities; not only has so clue been
obtainer!, bat uoihing whatever has been elicited that would even
lead to the h pea of the mystery being eventually cleared up. ',ever-
toeless, Mr. Superintendent Durkin is tode fatigable MIA endeavours
and is exhausting all Gee resources of the detective police in hi,
endeavours 't, bent; the matter to light. Among the he-
terogeneous mass of in,or nation which he received on
eaturdae, all more or less irrelevant and useless, were
two co nmunications,—one to the effect that a bag supposed to
contain something connected wail the murde had been wished
ashore at Lambeth, the other staiog that the head of a man had been
found slightly concealed under the soil of the eneicsure et Sussex-
gardens, Hyde Park. 'I he police immediately proceele to inquire
into these reports, and found that a leathern bag had been eva had
ashore at Lambeth, containing among other sundries,- alpistol-c tee
and some bullets, all being the past proceeds of a burglary committed
a few days since at the mansion of Sir W. Poland, mite Blackheath.
On piocceelng to Sussex-gardens the police found that two-human
beads had recently been dacevere I therm—one of a man eel another
of a woman, but inquiry into the matter showed most satisfactorily that
the man's bad been hurried some months, and that both had been
used for the purpose of ra,ular anatomical examination, and were not
in any way connected with tine present mysterious case. As we hive
mentioned the en' jest of anatomical examination, we may refer to
what has been sazgestefi by some of our Sundae cotempotariee—
name y, teat this suppcsed murder will turn out nothing more:nor
less than a medical stndeat's hoax. This supposition is simply abiu:ds
and shows entire ignorance of the way in whisk a l mcd cal students
pursue their anatomical studies. The inquest upon the remain
show that beyond a doubt that one of the most deliberate murders
which we have hal to record for many years has been comnaittel.

Cn Sunday evening, at six o'clock, a gentleman attende 1 at the
Bow-street police steles, a- d stated that ha wished to make an
important communication re'reive to the above horrid 3 murder. He
NM shown in to Acting-Inspector t hams, No. 9 F, to whom he gave
h's card, which was a r follows:—" Mr.' Robert Faker Jones, 4,
King's-bench-walk, Teinplo." lie made the following st rtement :--
" On the let of Oetober, a'oout the middle of the day, a na m's he .d
was discovered at the loser end of Sussex-gardens, corner of West-
Loarne-terrace, oppoiste Spring-street, and near the Great ‘i est am
Railway Hotel, Peedingtnn. The herd was discovered th a garden in
front of the house, under a wild currant tree, and a mars-servant
from the opeosle house brought a shovel, and a little boy
with a basket accompanied him into the garden. A policeman
I behave 'belonging to the D divide; was soon 'n aVeiclance. The
servant then put the head in the bastes, and the policeman covered
it with some grass and took it away with him; The head was
covered eith linen, or something of that kind, and my relative, a
lady of the hi:lest respectability, who lives in one of the houses, end
whose veracity could not for a mom nt Le doubted, informs me that
she distinctly saw the head herself. She saw that it had hair and
whiskers ripen it, as some of the hia'r came through an aperture in
the linen. I paeael by the spot not much more than an boa ago in
company with this lay and her cleueiter end a gentleman, a d with
them I pereeived a portion of the re.; still imbedded in the atone in
the garden. We also noticed, about ten yards from the first railings,
that the ground appeared to have been recently dug up, sal my
relative informed us that since the head was discovered she had
passed tha spot, arid exper:enced a very bad smsli, which made her
quite sick. I therefore think it likely that the feet and other por-
tions of the body missing may be found buried there. I spoke of the
matter to a person this evening, and he informed /123 that a surgeon
was shown the head soon after it was discovared, and he said he did
not believe the head had Le,n, off from the body more than twelve
tours. diving heardof the Waterloo-bridge affeir, I thought it my
duty to come hero and inform the authorities of the circumstance,"
as there appoers every likenood :that the head is the one missing.
Daring Sunday right. and the whole of Monday, a cousi ierable
number of persons attended at Bow-street Pac station, for the
purpose of inspecting the clothes with a view to their identification,
but upon this head everything remains unsatisfactory; and here ae
might ranaik upon the extraordins-y number of persons missing, if
,the statement o° those who haeo atteadtd c,t B .w.street are to be
bellevtd—we imagine, however, that marry ate attralted to the place
by a reeling of curl '517. The police had enterteined a hops that
Monday's p- st would haye brought intelligence which might lead to
the identificrion o: the clothe., the general belief b.-ing th it they
belonged to a pers )n from the country on a visit to London, but they
have, we regret to state, been disappointed. Preparatory to the
inquest, a fllrtlier 04 i=inatio.2 p 1 time t'e3lains tlok pare in the

presence of several medical gentlemen, and the ()platen they expressed
finally d sPoses of the absurd supposition that it is the work of mediesi
students. As usual on au h occasions the pollee are inandat d with
litters (anonymous and otherwise) contahiing suggestions for the
so'ution of the mystery. As the murder appears to have been
perpetrated on the Middlesex side of the river, and the remains taken
to the Surrey side to avoid det ctlon, the po'ice have placed under a
strict surveilance several notorious streets in the precincts of West-
minster Abbey, the Strand, and the Haymarket', in which brothels o
ti.e worst descr:ptlsn abound. The Thames police galleys continue
to search the Thames, and sere-al amateurs In wherries and dingies
assist IA the labours. A notification of a Government reward was
expected to apppear in this evening's Police Gazette, and if, as p o-
bably wll be the cace, a free pardon shauldbe promised to any person
cot actually the mnrde-er, this may possibly lead to the discovery of
the real craninal. 0,1 Saturd,y night, at elate hour, Etherington, the
toll collector, was taken by the police to a certa n 1 cality, which,
for obvious reasons, it would be Imprudent to specify, and shown two
women, somewhat answering the d,scr:ption of the woman spoken to
by him, to identify, bat after a lengthened and careful scrutiny of 'hem
without their knowledge of the object cf his visit, he declared
that neither of them was the party. Various conjectures are
cutroLt as to where this frightful murder and mutilation took
place. Cne is that it was commit el in a den of infamy on the
Surrey size of the water, and that the reunion are those of a person
evidently a forei ,nor, who a few e elks since made Weisel conspicuon
in that locality, from the ext-a- rdina-y character of his chess and hi
lavish expenditure of money, beating every one he met with to
drink. Another idea is that the remains are there •f a person who
was seen a short time share hustled by several women into a doorway
of a house in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane; this latter informa-
tien is given by 'a lad in the empioy of the Morning Pest, who has a
strong impression that the clothes found in the bag correspond wi.h
thos4 worn by the person he reers to.
THE IN QU ES T—YESTERDAY.

The) ury;tif.er viewi ,g the mutilated remains, procee led to hear the
evidence.

Two witaesses deputed to finding the ear; et bag with its contents
on the battreas of the bridge.
Mr. Poynter, sargeon ts, the police, dsecribed the remains. He
put them together, and found them to be bones of me individual,
forrring a complete skelelon, the parts wanting being the head,
the cerrical, and seven of the dorsal bones. The deceased had evi-
thntly been a vigorous Aiwa He attrtbutsd the preservat on of the
bones to the presence of saline matter, which had made them like salt
beef. Tae vahole of 'he viscer t was missibg. Between the third
and fourth ribs was a cut of rather smal:er size ruin the hale in the
shirt and under the waistcoat, whet' portion of the ribs, when placed
in their natural position, had a stab or hole corresponding in pasition
ant d,rection. Atroand the wound a great deal of blood had
extravasited into the tissues, showing that the wound must have
bzen ir fl et:d during life. The *blood having infiltrated roun
the wound to the extent of abcut au on examining
the to.retea with regard to the sex, he found they war
of a larger mks than usually in females, he was of
odin:on that the bones were those or a male, although he would
not swear. He beiiaved the bones were those of a person of 5 feet 8
inches in height. He also found a goof deal of hair adhering to the
mu des, some of a bl-4ck and some a dark colour, as 1.1 a whisker;
besides those, he found four hairs that, from their length, might
have belonged to a, feme'e, but did not think they belonged to the
body. He ha! no doubt that the b3dy was cut after rigidity of death
and that the cuts or stabs had been infliete 1 during life. Font the
remains of the ja•nts the bones taight have been holed. He felt
aatisEed there was no appearance about the remains to justify the
supping they had been used for anatomical purposes.
Henry Ehtington,thetoll-keoper, examined :.--a boat ha' f-past e'even
on Thursday night, ho recollected a female passing over the bridge
with a carpet bag, wiziah he diftel over the turnstile. He L'entified
the bag pioluraal as the one lifted over. The woman was about five
fat three 'aches high, with a masculine voice.

THE BIRKENHEAD MURDER.

She farther 'wiry int) this most painful aed mysterious case was
resumed yesterday morning the Police Court, Birkenhead, before
Mr. J. Jaci son, the magistra'e, who has, from the commencement,
presided at the hearing of this case.
At the fo-mer investigation (a full report of wit ich we puleished on
Wednesday last) evidence was adduced which proved that, on the
Sunday night, a number of the navvies and other parties engaged in
the making of the doekis, were at a public house called the " Eggs
and Baeoe," situated some short distance from a clam,' of buildings
called the Dock Cottages, chiefly inhabited by that class of persons.
At the time appointel for closing that house, all the pakies left, and
nothing further was heard of them untilethe policeman on duty re-
ceived informatoa that a man tael been stabbed. This provel to be
a feet, and, likewise, that another nerson hadbeen murdered. eeeThis
led to come further iarealry, when all that. Sitie illfcited wig, that
a young man was to king to a young evehean at the • entrance
to one of Weeks, when two of the- acpseea came tip, and, as
he coned not sati'factorily explain Silty .he was there, they
atta?ked him. He e nut " Marilee" n several parties came
up, and. after that a iegular indee took place, the cid of which was,
that the body of John Drury was found quite dead, with several
stabs in it, and but a short d stance was off w:.s found the Pri-
soner Francis Smith, pale -tly insensible from a wound inflicted by
a stone, under whose right hint was a knife coven.] with blood.
Another man,Dnin, had also been stahl3 d, but he hal m tee his
escape, and hsvine told the coasteees of what had oceuered, was
taken to the hovilal, where he for so netime remained in a most
precarious state, but subsequently so fee recovered as to be enable!
to give eisstetem-nt, and fro n what he stated before the C ironer
it wan quite c'ear that he coati not il edify any of the accused as
the person who stabbed him.
Yesterday morning, the Ores persons amused, Francis
.smith,
Peter Gallagher, and Jahn S nith, were age'n troeght before the
magistrate, when the additional evidence, as taken before the
Coroner at the inquest, w s rempitniated, and only was to the same
effect as that already published in the calrenne of this journal.
After the several witnesses had been examinee, all of whom gave
evidence similar to that on the farmer occasions, excepting a few
slight verbal discrepancies,
Mr Brether.on. in an able and elle:pent speech, addressed the
bench on behalf of the ;accused, contend'ne that the evidence was
insufficient to convict his clients of th time imputed to them. In
the first ineanee, there we; not the slightest identifleati )n of the
knife which had been prodleed, a most pet:teller instrument, and one
which. if it ever had been in the posses ion of any man metrieg in the
yam, sphere as the prison ere, C3llll have been ea tily identitied. But,
notwithstaneing all the exertions of the policemen, th it knife had not
been Identified as ever hiving been in the possession of either of the
prisoners; therefore, taking all •he matters tato consideration, theies
wan not the'slightest title of evidence to cenneet the men with the
murder or the stabbing. After recapitulating and conam•nting upon
the whole of the evidence, ne eneeetaly that portion of which
related to the knife, and its nat having been prayed as
to belonging to either of the actu ei, he said he should
there leave the case in the hands of tee Magistrate, t 'sew
well assured th it ha wetted, after a careful and impartial
returns of the whole case, be of opinion that neither Jelin Smith nor
Peter Gallagher con's bs implicate' in the murder of Drury, or of
the stabbing of the man, Dunn, who, a'thmelt he had stated that
whea he hoard tee noise ha ran into the entrance, but had not,
although it wan moonlight, been able to identify any of the prisoners.
With reg rd to the other' pr'soner F -ands Smith, the only po'nt
against him was the finding of tee knife, near or under his hand,
but as to that he had before referred.

The Magistrate, Mr. Jack:on, then obs 3rve Ith the case was one
of 13 much imea:trice Vest he did net wish to take the responsibility
of giving a dec's'oi until ha hal again carsf,lly hokal over all the
deposit I ens.
Mr. Bretherten, on the psrt of the prisal-rs, expees3e4 his satis-
faction at he careful way in which the w 1013 CU) lila bsen irquired
into, and sell he was cpit t sere that ev:estersr the daefs'oe of the
bench might b his die its, who wera mett desply involved, we uhl
be cont•nt with the decision.

Mr. Jackson sal that he hal been obliged to take the w:hile, case by
himself', ache had commenced up at it; bat hi aisnred the court th it
he felt deeply the r sponsib' ity that had devolved upon him, bat ho
would say that he would calmly read over the elide= as given, and
would then give a fair an I impartial d
The prisoners were then real tided until Welnesl ty next.
It b,ing after five o'alo k in the aftercoon before the inquiry was
concluded, the Court adjo .reed.