The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-20 00:00:00

Murder of a Female.

Two young men, named Richard Miles and James
Batchelor, were examined at the county magistrates' office,
at Sevenoaks, on Monday, on a charge of having murdered
a woman, named Bridget Goodall, on the night of the 9th
inst., near Westerham.
The facts showed that a very atrocious crime had been
committed. The deceased woman, who was generally
known in the neighbourhood as " Irish Nell," was in the
General Wolfe publichouse, at Westerham, on the night of
the 9th inst., drinking, until about 10 o'clock, when she left.
The prisoners were also in the house, and they departed
about the same time. On the following morning, between
five and six o'cicck, the body of the deceased was found in a
road called Water-lane. She was lying on her back, quite
dead, and her appearance altogether indicated that she had
been subjected to the most shocking treatment. Her face
was pressed sideways close against the ground, and her bon-
net was bent up and had a quantity of blood on it. In one
of her hands was some hair. The body was examined by
Mr. Rathill, surgeon, who stated that death resulted from
congestion of the brain, caused either by a blow or stran-
gulation. He added that his impression was that one person
held her down whilst some one else abused her. It was then
ascertained that the unfortunate creature was seen with two
men about 1 o'clock on the night in question near Water-
lane, and a little later screams and groans of a female were
heard, and the footsteps of a man running down the lane
were heard. In consequence of information conveyed to the
police, Superintendent Coleman, of the Sevonoaks division,
went to the house of the prisoner Batchelor, and he admit-
ted having been in her company on the previous Saturday
evening.• Batchelor then accompanied the officer to the
lodging of Miles, the other prisoner, and he also admitted
having been with Batchelor, and that they were with her
down the London-road. The superintendent then took them
into custody, and on the waistcoat of Batchelor and his
"slop" were found some smears of blood. He stated that
he had scratched his face. On the ball of the left hand of
Miles was found some blood, which was dry,
Mr. Richards having add eased the Bench on behalf of
the prisoner, they were fully committed for trial at the next
assizes.

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Gold Speculators in New V

The Washington correspondent of tho Cincinnati
Gazette gives the following c eeount
of the New
York gold market :—" Whether in gold or stocks'
everything in Wall-street depends upon having the
earliest news, and consequently thoro is not a lead-
ing stock-dealing firm in New York: that does not
have from one to a half-dczen core, espondents in
Washington, charged to spare no
pith ts or expen
is
sein furnishing them, by telegraph, and generally
cipher, the earliest intelligence of any success o
disaster in the field, any important action of the
Treasury Department, any rumour of foreign com-
plications—in short, anything likely to affect the
hopes or fears of the community, which find their
barometer in the wavering of the gold market.
These correspondents are gene?ally men supposed to
have the confidence of the officie Is, or access to early
despatches; and, for obvious reasons, their enterer*
ment is kept as Eeeret as possible. Last summer one
New York banking house, in a boastful moment,
claimed that it could always have news within aa
hoar after the President had it ; and another was
said to have numbered among its correspondents the,
chief of staff of a great army in the field. Of
course the services of such men are not enlisted
without a consideration' proportionate at once to
the risks they run in furnishing the desired news:
and to the nature and accuracy of the news
In general this consideration depends on what ls
.
made out of their information. Occasionally one et
these correspondents make a lucky strike mach
more often he furnishes news for weeks and months
without its having such an effect on the market as
to bring him more than the merest driblets of profit.
Bat the chance of 'something brilliant' has. its
fascinations, and the stock operators have no (16'
culty in inducing well-informed people to furnish
them all the news they get. A bureau ce'' the Go'
vernment resolves to recommend a tax on Patti•
cular article—before the recommendation reaches
Congress, certain parties in New York have it, and
have bought up all the article they can get; end
when the rise comes they pocket the proceeds. It
seems utterly impossible to prevent this. When'
news of important battles is coming in, Government
has sometime attempted it, but the effort was as tale
as it was foolish. A censor has been established at
the telegraph office, and he has wisely suppreesed
every despatch saying a word about the war. But
a servant girl comes in with a hurried scrawl on a
torn sheet of delicately-scented French paper in a
lady's hand—' George H. Montgomery, Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York, Do come home at once.
Mary cannot live 21 hours longer—Laura Montgo'
mery.' How can he stop that ? But George ll'
Montgomery' is a myth, and Mary's illness means
Hooker's defeat, and the hotel clerk has been in-
structed to send any such despatch by the speediest
means to somebody's bank down town ; and the
firm makes the money, and the Government censor
keeps blinking like an owl over the despatches, and,
rigidly stopping everything relating to the war;
and Mr. Staunton felicitates himself over having
made those newspaper pests send their accounts by
mail rather than by telegraph ! ' How little sense it
takes to run a Government,'said some wise man! Outs
du ring the summer a leading newspaper editor got
disgusted, and determined that the gold gambled
should not monopolise all the early news. So be
went into the cipher business too, but being rather
raw at it his first effort was not quite so good as
some subsequent ones. He forwarded the eipno
to his leading Washington correspondent. Pretty
soon the operators in his city who knew bin;
solely as a devoted newspaper man, were astonished
at receiving for him this dispatch from Washing'
ton :—'Have sold for you 15,000 bushels of corn at
35. The market looks squally.' The paper ga;
flounced the next morning that the main body 0.
Lee's army had crossed the Maryland line, and was
moving into Pennsylvania ; and his chief rival got
very mad and complained to the War Department,
that he was bribing the telegraph company; but ib
was whispered about among his friends that 00'
and-so was neglecting his business and going into
very rash speculations, and—he caangeel
cipher."