The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-08 00:00:00

AME RICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.
The United States mail steam-ship Union, Capt.
Adams, has arrived off Cowes en route to liavre,
with the French and English mails, cue. She left
New York on the 25th ult.

THE LATE HORRIBLE AND MYSTERI-
OUS 111 UNDER AT BRISTOL.

A very remarkable circumstance has just transpired.
It wilt be remeinbered that at the time of the discovery
of the unfortunate girl's mutilated remains an opinion
was entertained that the assassination was the work of
some lunatic, and that a man seemingly insane had on
more than one occasion been seen near the spot, where
he had frightened several ladies, and bad on one occa-
sion run after seine children with what was believed to
he a razor in his hand.
A day or two since a letter was received by the super-
intendent of the police force, Captain Fisher, from the
police superintendent at Neath, stating that a young
man, evidently in a state of insane depression, had been
found sitting d ,wn near the Vale of Neath Railway. Tile
communication stated that the young man had no hat,
that his clothes were torn and -disordered, as if he had
been lying about in woods ; that he was .exceedingly sul-
len, and would give no account of himself, and that
the only eine which could be discovered to his place
residence was the fragment of a Bristol grocers bill,
which had been found in his pockets. Inquiries were
made by the police, and it was ascertained that a young
man, of somewhat gloomy and eccentric habits, had gone
away from there, and had been sought for in vain.
Nothing had occurred at that time to suggest inquiry
as to the period of his departure, but the sup,:iintendent
of police at Neath was at once communicated with, and
the lunatic was brought to Bristol by packet. All
' the way on the voyage he preserved the same sullen
silence until he.had got up the river above the Black
Rock. He then pointed right across to the gul:y where
the body was found, and said, "There's where a zuur-
'deit was committed." The officer in whose charge he
was affected ignorance of the occurrence, and said,
" Who was murdered there—a man or a woman ?" to
which he replied, "A girl." After this he returned to
his former sullen mood, and said scarcely a word more
until delivered to his friends. Now, it is very possible
that the young man might have spoken of the murder
from having heard of it, but the circumstances altogether
were so remarkable that the police are employed in mak-
ing a diligent inquiry on the subject, particularly with
reference to how he was employed on the day of the
I tragic occurrence.

THE EXAMINATIONS FOR CIVIL SERVICE APPOINT-
MENTS.—The standard of examination adopted by the
Civil Service Commission varies with the different
offices, but we are assured that, as respects nine-tenths
of the junior situations, no candidate need fear rejection
who possesses a good acquaintance with arithmetic,
writes a plain hand, and can spell properly.—Civil
Service Gazette.
FRENCH COTTAGE ORNES.—I was much pleased with
some newly-erected villas and cottage °rub which I saw
at Passy and Auteuil, in which a highly picturesque
effect was produced by the employment of black and red
brick and stone without any elaborate decoration. Some
of these were in the latedomestic French Gothic style—.
a style peculiarly adapted, I think, for modern resi-
dences, and of which there are numerous specimens ex-
isting in'good preservation. Its adoption and introduc-
tion to this- country would give cne more element for
thOsekliic:sy -e.c.iiiibinations. of • known' ,forms which must
henceforth in architectdre take the place a Originality.
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