The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MIS 27, 186 C

case which had been referred to by the noble lord were of a
strictly legal character.
After some remarks from the Earl of Donoughmore and
Earl Granville,
The subject dropped.
The house adjourned at twenty minutes to eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening.
The sitting was resumed at six o'clock.
THE MAGISTRACY OF TEWKESBURY.

Mr LYGON gave notice that to-morrow he would call
the attention of the house to the late appointments to the
magistracy at Tewkesbury, and move for correspondence
on the subject.
THE YORKSHIRE RESERVOIRS.

In reply to a question from Mr FERRAND on the sub-
ject of the reservoirs of Yorkshire, .

.. . .
Sir G. GREY said the report of Messrs. Rawlinson and
Beardmore had been printed and circulated, and any mem-
ber could refer to it himself ; but he did not find it in the
statement ascribed to them by the hon. gentleman. They
did not pretend to assign the precise cause of the accident ;
but they thought the manner in which the pipes were laid
might have affected the puddle wall.

➢ir FERRAND asked whether it was the intention of
the Government to appoint a commission to consider the
question.

- Sir G. GREY did not thing it was necessary to issue a
Royal commission, but that two or three engineers might
be employed to investigate the matter.
Mr FERRAND could assure the right hon. gentleman
that the lives of thousands of persons were in danger by the
present state of those reservoirs, and they were looking
with anxiety to have something done before Parliament was
prorogued.

Sir G. GREY said, if the Government made any change
in the law, it could only have a prospective bearing. If the
lives of thousands of persons were in danger, he would re-
commend the hon. member to put himself in communica-
tion with them, and adopt the measure he had pointed out
the other night, and which he believed would be an effec-
tual remedy.
PARTY DEMONSTRATIONS IN IRELAND.

Mr MAGUIRE asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland
whether his attention had been called to recent party de-
monstrations which had taken place in Armagh during the
present month, and whether it was intended to adopt more
stringent measures for their suppression.
Sir R. PEEL said no action could be taken by Govern-
ment in such a case unless information was sworn before a
justice of the peace; but no such proceeding was taken.
Those party demonstrations in Ireland were fast dying out,
and he believed the reports in the newspapers of the recent
demonstrations were somewhat exaggerated. It was not in-
tended to make any change in the Party Emblems Act,
which was fully equal to meet any emergency that might
arise.

The Murder and Suicide in Somers-town,

Yesterday afternoon inquiries were made by Mr.
Inspector Gibson, with a view, if possible, to dis-
cover the motives which prompted the murderer
James Brown, to take away the life of the deceased
Rosetta Bishop. On interrogating the old woman
Lodi, or Loader, who resides in the front kitchen,
she admitted that she was the medium of a clandes-

tine correspondence between the deceased Rosetta
Bishop and a man she was in the habit of occasion-
ally meeting, and she believed that Brown had
lately by some means discovered the connection.
She then produced and handed to Inspeotor Gibson
a letter which had been addressed to the deceased
woman under cover to herself no later than Saturday
last. The inner envelope was addressed Rosetta
Bishop, and although there was no address, and it
was simply initialed "J. W.," the writer addressed
her as " My dear Rosetta," and wished her to meet
him that night at the corner of Liverpool-street,
King's-cross. It is now believed that the knowledge
of this connection led to the frequent quarrels be-
tween the woman and her paramour, and led to the
ultimate commission by him of the double crime.

Daring the afternoon the sister of the deceased
woman and some other relatives visited the deadhouse
of St. Pancras Workhouse with a view of speaking
to her identity, and, notwithstanding the advanced
stage of decomposition, they at once recognised it.
The coal•cellar or cupboard in which the body of the
murdered woman was thrust after the commission of
the murder is so small that the murderer must have
had some difficulty in getting her into it, more es-
pecially as she wore a somewhat large and stiff
crinoline, which had to be cut off before the corpse
could be got into the shell in which it was conveyed
to the dead-house. It was generally asserted in the
neighbourhood that the house in which the deed

took place, No. 15, Smith-street, as well as one or
two others adjoining, belonged to Brown, but that
is not the case. In consequence of the number of
previous engagements, Dr Lankester will be unable
to hold the inquest before to-morrow. . .

On searching the back kitchen the first point

that attracted attention was the evidence that the
hearth in front of the fireplace had been recently
taken up, and it was removed by the police with
the greatest care, but immediately under it ran the
drain. It is believed that but for this it was the
intention of the murderer here to have buried the
body. Having replaced the stone, Dr Sutherin,
the surgeon of the S division, next directed atten-
tion to the hearth-rug, which lay folded up in a
corner. On being opened it was found saturated
with blood, and contained a quantity of brains, and
among them a very cleanly-cut piece of the unfor-
tunate woman's skull. This clearly indicated the
fact that the murder had been perpetrated on the
hearth rug and in front of the fireplace, corrobora-
tive evidence being afforded by the fact that the
murderer mast have himself collected a portion of
the brains and skull after the commission of the act
and thrown thsrr on the file, as a portion of brain
and clotted blood was found partly burnt adhering
to the back of the grate. From the appearance of
the piece of skull found, as well as the wound on
the right side of the deceased woman's head, it
was the opinion of Dr. Sutherin that the blows
had been inflicted by a chopper or hatchet.
Brown was known by the lodgers to possess such
an instrument, with which he was in the habit
of chopping wood to light the fire in the morning,
but during the whole of Monday afternoon and
evening the most diligent search on the part of the
police failed in finding such a weapon. The only
other instrument calculated to have inflicted such
injuries as those found in the skull of the murdered
woman was a large iron gas key, about 18 inches in

length, and haying a sort of pincers at the end, but
on being carefully examined there were no traces of
blood upon it. A chisel was, however, found, upon
which there were spots of blood. Yesterday morn-
ing about 8 o'clock, Inspector Gibson, who, with

constable Woodrow has charge of the house, die-
covered what appeared to be spots of blood on the
waterbutt in the back yard, and the circumstance at

once suggested to him the probability that the mis-
sing weapon might have been thrown into the water.
He directed it to be drawn off, and, as he conjec-
tured, at the. bottom of the waterbutt was disco..
vered a large sized axe, such as carpenters use for
chipping wood. It was at once taken possession of,
and sent to Piatt •street station, where, on being
examined by Dr. Sutherin, it was found to still
retain, notwithstanding the action of the water,
evidence of human blood and a large quantity of
woman's hair adhering to it, leaving no doubt that
it was the instrument with which the diabolical deed
was committed. The bodies of the murderer and his
victim having been conveyed to the deadhousa of
St. Pancras Workhouse on Monday night, Mr Jack-
son, of Brewer-street, under the orders of Dr. Lan-
kester,,the coroner, made a post mortem examination
of that of the wnraan yesterday morning. Mr Jack-
son was the only surgeon called in after the disco-
very of the bodies on Monday, and it was he who
took the body out of the coal cellar. Yesterday he
found the whole of the right side of the skull battered
in, and a large portion of the brain on that side gone.
From the nature of the injuries and from the fact that
a chair was found near the fireplace in the back
kitchen broken down on the left side, it is believed
that the first and fatal blow which drove out the
skull before alluded to was given behind, while
the deceased woman was seated on it; but the
ecreatns that were heard would make it appear that
other blows were given deceased by Brown prior to
this fatal one. It would appear that deceased was
enabled to get her own living, irrespective of the
man with whom she cohabited, as there was a large
quantity of female wearing apparel found, and a
circular on which was printed, " Mrs. Bishop,
dealer in ladies and children's wardrobes, 47, Adam-
street west, Bryanstou-square," and also a book of
the Marylebone Savings-bank, with several pounds
entered in her name.

It now appears that the man Brown, although
he slept in the back parlour on the Tuesday night
after the murder, and on the night following (when
he sent Mr. Townsend's, the first fbor lodger, little
boy for some beer) had net been seen in the place
from that time until the Saturday, when he came
home about 8 o'clock with his son, a youth about
19, and slept with him. The son dined with him and
the Townshends on the Sunday,
and, accompanied
by Mr. Townshend, they went in the evening to
his:daughter's Mrs. Johns, 9, Coburg-street, Euston-
square. The son declined to return home with
Brown, and he came back to the house with Towns-
bend about half-past 12. On
entering the passage
the latter spoke to Brown about the smell, and he
said it was the meat Mrs. Bishop had left locked
up, and he would go down and remove it. Towne.
bend wished him good night, went upstairs, and
Brown unlocked the front parlour and went in. It
is believed that he had been afraid to sleep in the
house by himself, and that finding himself alone he
then determined to commit anicide.

On opening the safe in the back kitchen there
was found a piece of cooked loin of pork and part
of a currant pie, both of which were mouldy, as
well as a quantity of hard stale bread, indicating
that no one had touched it since the date of the
murder.

The first intimation that anything wrong had
taken place was discovered by_ a woman named
Margaret Murphy, who resided in the lower part of
the next house, and who knew the deceased. She
had once or twice expressed her want of belief that
Mrs Bishop had gone away, and she bad such a pre-
sentiment that something had befallen her that she
once or twice went into No. 16. She at last, in cense•
quence of the smell, determined on making inquiries.

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The Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident
Association,

Last night the 25th anniversary festival of this
asseciation was celebrated at the Freemasons"ra.
vern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. The
chair was taken by Andrew Lusk, Esq., Alderman,
and about 120 ladies and gentlemen sat down to
dinner.

From a report which was circulated in the room,
it appears that the amount distributed in pensions
and temporary relief had been increased this year
to £6l. 8s 4d, and the funded capital augmented to
over .E 2,000, and a balance in hand to be carried to
next year's account, of .-E2l 3s sd.
After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had been
duly honoured,
Mr Alderman LUSK, the chairman, gave the toast
of the evening, " Prosperity to the Newsvendors►
Benevolent Institution." He said he would not
waste their time by any remarks deprecatory of
himself. (Laughter.) He would not enter into a
long explanation of how sorry he was that the duty
had not fallen into other hands—(laughter)--be.
cause he felt proud of the duty which had been
entrusted to him, and he remembered that when a
chairman, on a similar occasion, had said how sorry
he was that the toast had not fallen into abler hands,
some ill-conditioned,' person rose and said, " So we
are all." (Laughter.) He would therefore not apo-
logise, but do the best he could. (Cheers.) The
object of their assembling on that occasion was to
further the interests of a deserving institution; and
without attempting anything brilliant he would try
to bring a common-sense view of the question
before them. He admired the orator who was so
fluent and attractive that the listeners were tempted
to exclaim, "Flow on thou shining river." (Cheers
and laughter.) He admired the intellectual feats
which were performed every day by those who pro-
duced the newspapers of this country. (Hear, hear,
and cheers.) He gazed with wonder and with ad.
miration upon the sheet of paper which to-day was
a perfect blank and to-morrow was vital with
":words that breathed and thoughts that burned."
(Cheers.) That which to-night was a blank was
to-morrow the reflex of the progress of the world at
large. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) But this mighty
engine for the promotion of progress in the world
would be shorn of half its power were it not for the
newsvendors, who distributed its wondrous in-
fluences and made them permeate the entire
social fabric. (Cheers.) He sympathised with the
newsvendors in the trials incident to their vocation.

(Cheers.) He kn©w practically the value of the part
which they played in the dissemination of intel-
ligence. (Hear.) People were not apt to be over
considerate with newsvendors. They were generally
cross if " the paper" was a little late--(cheers and
laughter)—and he had often wondered if newsven-
dors were as impatient with the public, as the public
often were with them ? (Cheers and laughter.) In
this, as in all other occupations, from a variety of
circumstances members of the trade fell into distress,
and it was the bounden duty of those who had been
more successful to administer to the necessities of

their suffering brethren. (Hear, hear.) He was
glad, therefore, to do all he could to promote the
prosperity of an institution such as this. It they, as
a trade, were only true to themselves, this institution
would erjoy a far higher degree of prosperity than
it had hitherto known. (Hear, hear.) No task could
be more noble than that which they had undertaken.
He was glad to see so many ladies present, for he
was sure that he should not appeal to them in vain.
(Cheers.) He concluded by proposing "Prospe-
rity to the Necrsvendors' Benevolent Institution."
The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm.
Several other toasts were given, and the proceed-
ings closed in the usual way.
Mr. Toole was, as usual, an efficient toastmaster,
and the subscriptions reached to nearly £l5O.