The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-17 00:00:00

N 7 FEBRUARY 17, 1852.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Constitutionnel has an article in commendation
of the circular letter of the Minister of Police to the
Inspectors-General. It enters into an elaborate eulo-
gium of the control and surveillance which are in the
attributions of the New Ministry, concluding in these
terms :

" A power which has a popular origin ought to govern
le the interest of the people, who have . given it their
confidence, and who constitute its force. To alueliors.te
the position of the working classes ought to be its con-
stant object. The present Government can alone realise
for the masses the well-being which the factious- pro-
mised, but could not give them, by consolidating order,
re-enunating industry, and giving a legitimate satisfac-
tion to the real wants of the populations.

The illoniteur says :—" ku-mourit which have not
the slightest foundation are ag4in in circulation rela-
tive to intended changes in the Ministry. We are
authorised to contradict them in the most formal
manner." _

A decree abolishes the royal ordinance of Dec. 8,
1830, for the creation of battalions and companies of
military workmen in the ports and arsenals of the
marine. This measure is based on the dissolution of
the national guard, and on the consideration that the
said companies and battalions have never been in
reality anything else but the assembling as maritime
national guard of the working population in the ser-
vice of the marine.

The Prefect of the Saone-et-Loire has dissolved the
Municipal Councils of 19 communes of the arrondisse-
ment of Chalons, and several members of other Muni-
cipal Councils have been dismissed.
M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, in a letter addressed
to the Corsican journals, expresses his intention of
declining the candidateship for the representation of
Corsica, wishing to live in retirement and completely
aloof from politics.
M. DE MORNY is to be brought forward by nume-
rous electors of the Ist arrondissement as a candidate
for the Legislative body. The Duke DE MONTEBELLO
presents himself in the 10th arrondissement. The
Gazette de France announces that the Marquis DE
LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN, for personal reasons, refuses all
the candidateships offered to him.
The Bourse was dull, with a slight decline as com-
pared with the prices of Saturday. The Five per
Cents., opened at 103 f. 90c., and fell to 103 f. 50c.,
they closed at 103 f. 55c. for the end of the month;
the Three per Cents. closed at 651. 50c.; Or-
leans Railway Shares, 1,1301.; Rouen, 645 f. ; Havre,
265 f.; Great Northern, 580 f.; Avignon, 227 f. 50c.;
Vierzon, 5221. 50c.; Basle, 2151.; Bordeaux, 4401.;
Paris and Strasburgh, 477 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes,
3001.; Amiens to Boulogne, 297 f. 50c.; Paris and
Lyons, 583 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEE. 16.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11%—Northern of France, 1914—
Orleans and Bordeaux, 83i—Paris and Strasbourg, 163A—
Tours and Nantes. .

[PRICE SD.

BRUTAL MURDER OF A WOMAN.
At the Marylebone Police-court yesterday, after the ordi-
nary night cases had been disposed of, a man named William
Styles, a horse-keeper in the service of the London Convey-
ance Omnibus Association, was placed at the bar cn the
charge of having murdered Emily Styles, his wife.
Hampson, 230 D, said—Yesterday mcsning, at a quarter-
past 2, the prisoner came to me in Salisbury-street, Lisson-
grove. I said to him, "Do you want me?" He replied,
" Policeman, I wish you to go with me up here into the
mews, for my wife is dead, and she is cold, with blood all
over her." I asked when he had seen her last alive, and he
said, "At seven o'clock lust night." I said, " Have you not
seen her since that ?" and he said, "Not until just now, when.
I went in and found her dead. I went home at 9 o'clock, at
which time she was out, and I endeavoured to find her, but
could not do so." _

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alr. BROUGIITON—Did you observe anything particular
about him, when he accosted you?
'Witness—Nothing more than he seemed rather agitated.
I went with him to 16, Victoria-mews, with other officers,
when he went into a loft, and there lighted a candle, after
lf,o,lcdteedd. I saw deceased lying on the bed, with her hands
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across her breast, her mouth and eyes were partly
was entirely naked with the exception of her boots and
stockings, and was lying flat upon her back. The bed-
clothes had been thrown loosely over her. I looked about
the room, and on the left side of the bed
there was' 'a great
quantity of blood. There was also a pool of blood upon the
floor, and marks of blood spattered on the wall. On the
right arm of deceased was a mark as if she had been held
tightly, and there were finger marks upon her throat. Her
legs, from her ankle to her knee, exhibited eiuomplete mass
of cuts and bruises, such as I should think Very likely to
have been caused by kicks from a person with nailed boots.
There was a great deal of blood on the prisoner's clothes,
and on my asking him how it came there, he replied, " It,
was through my leaning over the bed to see if she was cold
or not." I then told him he must consider himself in my
custody on suspicion of having caused the death of his
wife. He said " Very well," and he was conveyed to the
station-house.
Sergeant Chester, 23 D —Between two and three o'clock
yesterday morning I saw the first witness and Grantham,
38 D, going along with the prisoner, and I went with them
to his (prisoner's) room. (The sergeant here detailed the
appearances nearly in the same terms as they were given by
Hampson).
Mr. BactuGirrox —Do you think he had been drinking?
Witness—He had perhaps taken a little to drink, but
there was a very slight appearance of it. He was much
excited, but in my opinion not through liquor. After the
prisoner was locked up, I and the other officers returned to
the prisoner's room, and we there found a shift, a pair of
stays, and a petticoat rolled up in a piece of drugget lying
upon the floor, which was smothered with water. The place
appeared to be in much confusion. There was bread lying
upon the floor, and also some sticking to the wall as if it had
been thrown with great force. I saw a considerable quantity
of blood on the edge of the bedstead, as also many marks
upon the wall, the curtains, and the pillow. The hands of
deceased were clenched.

Mr. Henry Pavey, surgeon, Lyon-terrace, Maida-hill,
said—l was called by the police about half-past two o'clock
yesterday morning, and on entering the room pointed out
to me as the prisoner's, I saw deceased lying in bed upon her
back with her hands on her chest. She was then dead and
nearly cold.
Mr. BROUGHTON—To the best of your judgment, sir, how
long do you think she had been dead? Witness—Probably
between three and four hours.
Mr. BROUGHTON—What do yon imagine her age to have
been? Witness—Somewhere about forty.
Mr. BROUGHTON—In what state as to wounds, &c., did
you find the body? Witness—The head was bruised in va-
rious parts, and blood was flowing close to the left ear from a
lacerated wound, which might have been caused by a blow.
The eyes were half closed, and the tongue, which was pro-
truding from the mouth, was slightly wounded. On the
throat and the upper part of the chest were marks as if
caused by severe pressure. Upon the lower parts of the
body there were no wounds. There was a wound between
two fingers of the left hand, which was completely black ;
and there was extravasated blood under the skin. There
were distinct marks of a hand on the right arm ; there were
no bones broken. Yesterday I again made an examination,
and after removing the stockings I found that the legs were
much lacerated and torn.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Did these injuries appear to have been
recently inflicted ? Witness—Most certainly.
In reply to further questions from the magistrate,
Witness said—l observed no appearance about the head
likely to have caused death. There might, however, with-
out the appearance of any fracture, be concussion of the
brain. There had been an attempt to remove blood from
the floor. An artery in the hand had no doubt been divided.
In his (witness's) opinion death had arisen from suffocation,
and it appeared from the position of the body that it had
been laid out after deceased was dead. She could not have
placed herself in such a position herself as that in which I
described her.

The female apparel previously alluded to, and also a gown
which belonged to deceased, were produced, and the whole
of the articles were quite wet, and numerous marks of blood,
which it had evidently been attempted to wash out, were
still visible upon them.
Grantham, 38 11, gave evidence corroborative of a great
portion of what had been previously stated, adding that he
saw a tub of water of a reddish colour under the window,
and close by was a gown wet through, and which no doubt
had been used to wipe up the floor.
Amelia Cldnients said that she lived at No. 15, Victoria-
stables, next room to the prisoner. The last time she saw
deceased alive was on Saturday night, at half-past nine
o'clock, in the mews. She then made no complaint to her
whatever. The deceased was a quiet sober woman.
Mr. BROUGIITON—When did you bear of her death?
Witness—Yesterday, morning, at half-past eleven o'clock.
The night before I heard a sort of knocking, but took no
particular notice of it, thinking that it might have pro-
ceeded from some of the horses. I heard no words pass be-
tween deceased and the prisoner. I never saw her the worse
for drink.

Frances Jones, living at No. 14, adjacent to prisoner, said
that she bad known him and deceased for about six months.
She had complained frequently of her husband not behaving
well to her, alleging that he had punched her while in bed,
and just before Christmas had given her a black eye. At
half-past seven o'clock on Saturday evening she told witness
she was afraid to go". home to him as he was of such a
dreadful temper. Three weeks ago deceased showed witness
a quantity of broken china, which damage had been done by
her husband.

Prisoner—l deny giving her a black eye.
Powell, foreman at the mews, deposed that the prisoner
was in his employ, and that he had known him eight or ten
years. Prisoner and his wife had not lived upon good terms
together. Witness had never seen him beat her, but he had
seen her with black eyes. The last time he saw her alive
was on Saturday.
____

Mr. BnouGHTort—When did you last see the prisoner?
Witness—At 20 minutes past twelve o'clock on Saturday
night. He then went out of the yard. I live in the next
room to his over the stables, and I heard no disturbance. If
there had been a quarrel of a serious nature, I must have
heard it.

George Walker, a labourer, said, at nine o'clock on Satur-
day night he was with the prisoner and his wife.
Prisoner—The last time I saw my wife alive was about 7
o'clock on Saturday night. When I had done my work I
went out to see it I could find her, as she was not at home.
I went to the coffee-shop, but she was not there, and when
I got back home I found her in bed. I laid hold of her
and lifted her up, and finding that she was dead I instantly
went to the policeman and informed him of what was amiss.
I never saw her out all Saturday night, and the last time I
saw her alive was when I went to change my horses. I know
nothing of her death.
The Magistrate, after reviewing the whole of the evidence,
remarked that, taking all the circumstances into considera-
tion, he could come to no other than an unfavourable con'
clusion clusion as regarded the prisoner, whom he remanded
further examination on Monday next.
A great crowd assembled round the van in which the pri-
soner was conveyed to the Rouse of Detention.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Sampson, 6, steam-frigate, captain L.
_T. Jones,
and is hourly expected at port. We regret exceeding to
which brought the news to Lisbon, is ordered to Deyonlport,
hear that Lieutenant Gilbert Elliot, son of the Dean ofßris-
tol, and lieutenant of the Sampson, bad been missing from
that ship for some time, having been sent away with a prize
and in charge of a felucca. Nothing official has reaaked the
Admiralty respecting his fate. Lieutenant Williams of the
Royal Marine Artillery, p
who was wounded in three lacesi
the attack on Lagos, is the son of Dr. Williams of
Ports-
n
mouth. He is as fine, dashing, and gallant an officer
there is in the service.
'Kechnie, board ap-
es
poPin°teildTs3tol°exuTamil'inFe Einut.olt6h.e—pTrehsiesrv7mnienagts stubpeplied by F.
of the Royal Naval
comprising Dr. M
Hospital. Hasler, Mr. John Davies, m
Goldner,
Mr. Joseph Tinhorn, store-keeper of the -
aster attendant and
,
tualling Establishment, resumed their Royal Clarence Vic-
=wing stock returned into store labours upon the re-
Cormorant and Hecla. The from the steam-sloops
comprised upwards of three hundredquantity examined to-day
5 ilb. to 111 b. each, out of canisters, of from
condemned to the depths f which number about 110 were
to speak in terms a the sea. Of this lot it is diffi-
cultreader an idea of the stfliciently explicit to convey to the
some of the canisters. actual character of the contents of
gering in its effects The very first opened was so stag-
not proceed until •t upon the examiners, that they could
canister and all, .1 had been carried away and deposited
sters contained in the creek. Two of the small canis-
state, pulpou nothing but kidney in a gangrenous
78 canisters 8 with decomposition ; and of the last
opened, only seven were allowed to pass as
consumable within the next 48 hours. Two of the 111 b•
canisters contained
matter which there is no describing but
as the
contents of a common privy. As it could not be
poured out with safety there was no arriving at what it had
originally been. There was a large collection of heart,
_kidney, ligaments, palate, tongue, and such like, as deve-
loped in preceding examinations. But for the profuse use of
the deodorising fluid of Sir W. Burnett around the spot oc-
cupied by the board they could not have made a report upon
the nauseous task imposed upon them ; as it was, they were
compelled to
.retire to breathe a different atmosphere after
being a short time at their labours.
The Merlin steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Tur-
nour, arrived last night at Spithead, from the Mediterranean,
with the remains of the Right Hon. Richard Lalor Sheil, late
Minister at Florence, which were placed on board the steam
tender Sprightly, Acting Master Commander George Allen,
for conveyance to Dublin. She sailed this afternoon at half-
past four. The Merlin will proceed to Woolwich to be paid
off and repaired.
The St. Vincent, 100, has been masted to-day, it is re-
ported, preliminary to her being commissioned as a member
of a channel squadron.
The Odin, 16, steam-frigate, was taken out to-day by
Captain Henderson, C. 8., to test her speed and machinery.
The Emigrant, Kemp, from New Zealand, arrived here
to-day with Cowdie timber for this dockyard. She was
towed in this afternoon by the Echo tug. She has on board
the largest spar ever imported into England.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 16.—Eleven of the cases:
smallpox
from the Arethusa, Captain Symonds, now at the Royal
Naval Hospital, are progressing favourable; t
asthe twelfth,
Neilson, seaman, is considered dangerous. night Mr.
Dillon, Second Master, was brought ashore from the Sound
find sent to the hospital.
SzEwEss, Fral. 15.—aer riAjosty'a screw oteatu mud-