The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-01 00:00:00

POLICE.-(TiliS DAY.)

MA RYLEB ONE.
TEIE EDGEWARE-ROAD MURDER.
At an early hour all the avenues leading to the office were
crowded with persons anxious to obtain a sight of the prisoners
Greenacre and Gale, charged with being concerned in the
above atrocious crime. The prisoners were conveyed from
ele,rkcllwcll at 6 o'clock this morning, in a hackney coach,
tinder the charge of Frahhllin Collard, and Jones, three offi-
cers of the Nlarylebone station, The Magistrates were in at-
tendants: about half-past 10 o'clock, and the ordinary night
charges were ilfst disposed of.
The Reporter for the Standard applied to Mr. Shutt to
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vy the gentlemen of the press in attendance :some accom-
. Modation, as it would be impossible for them standing in the
crowd to discharge their_ duty properly or efficiently.
Mr. Stturr said he had no accommodation for them.
he Reporter pointed out a vacant space on one side of
tile Bench.
Mr. Sttutr said that it was for the accommodation of the
Wish officers.
The Reporter observed that the Court of King's bench re-
copised the.' ight of Reporters to attend and report the pro-
ce •dings, arid every facility was afforded them for that purpose.
Mr. Snurr said the Reporters who usually attended had
the p;aces allotted to them, but the others he knew nothing of,
and they might make the best arrangement they could.
About ball-past eleven Mr. IZAWLINSON took his seat, and
another application was made to him by the reporter of the
Morning A dverli,•cr for some accommodation.
Mr. Sauer said it was extremely improper to make a second
application to another Magistrate for the purpose of resersieg
Iris decision.
At a few minutes past twelve the prisoners were brought
in, And the examination of the witnesses was immediately pro-
ceeded with.
Mr. flobler, jun., :Mendel on behalf of the male prisoner.
Matthias Ralph deposed that he lived at Stepney, at John-
stone's-lock of the Regent's-canal. On the 6th of January,
about half-past eight, he found a part of a human body in the
canal. He was called by one of the men, who said there was
sornetning in the gate which prevented its shutting. A
hitcher was procured, and the head was raised ; they at first
thought it was a dead dog, but when it was raised
witness saw a human ear. There was a wound, or vio-
lent blow, by which the eye bad been forced out, and
the left jaw-bone was broken, the bone protruding through the
skin. The jaw might have been broken by the gate, but the
blow over the eye seemed to have been inflicted two or three
days previously. He examined the head, but did not see any
other wound. The ear-ring appeared to have been torn out
of one ear, but the seam was healed up again, as if it had been
done several years previously. The eye was cut clear out of
the socketg
James Page, lab surer, lives at Ccal Harbour-lane, Lam-
beth. Found part of a human body on Thursday. the 2d of
February. Witness was cutting oziers in Coal Harbour-lane
on that day, and found a sack among some bushes. There was
a hole in the sack, and witness saw part of a knee, and the
young n an who was with him opened the sack a little further,
and saw two legs and thighs. Witness then went to the
station-house, and brought some policemen with him, and
strewed them the sack, and left them in charge of it.
Ihe depositions of Air. Girdwood, the parish surgeon, were
tl.en read, and they referred to the examination of the head,
trunk, and legs of a human body at the parish workhouse.
The parts all fitted, and appeared to have belonged to a female
whose death had been sudden, and immediately after having
taken food.
Mr. Girdwood was then examined—Some of the wounds
on the head appeared to have been inflicted after death
—the blow on the eye previous to death. The effect of such
a blow would be to produce stupor and perfect loss of power
for a time. if not death.
The depsitions of Mr. John Birkwhistle, surgeon, of Mile-
end-road, %%Tee then read. They were to the same effect as
those of Mr. Girdwood, with the addition that the throat ap-
peared to him to have been cut immediately before or after
death.
Mr. Birkwhistle was then examined—The left ear appeared
to have been twice pierced, the first hole having given way.
His opinion relative to the effect of such a blow as appeared
to have been inflicted upon the eye, concurred with that of
Mr. Girdwood.
Policeman P, 157, assisted in taking away the legs from
the ozier bed to the section-house in Coal Harbour-lane.
After the Coroner's Inquest witness assisted in conveying
them to the station-house at Paddington, and thence to the
workhouse.
Susannah Dillon—Resides at 6, Carpenter's-place, Wind-
mill-lane, Camberwell. Knows both the prisoners. The
male prisoner is her landlord, and the prisoners had lived in
her house twelve months previous to Christmas last. Gale
came there in October. Witness lived about twenty yards off
on the opposite side, but does not know whom his family con-
sisted of. Witness and her husband were passing the day
after Christmas, about seven o'clock in the evening, and saw
Gale at the gate picking up the child, who was screaming
violently. The prisoners left the house about eight weeks
ago. Never spoke to the female prisoner until she went to ,
live in their house.
Henrietta Edmonds lives at Windmill-lane, near Carpenter's-
place, and woiks. at her needle. Had previously lived at Car
penter's-place, and knows both the prisoners for more than 12
months. Remembers passing about ten days befcre Christ-
mas, and saw the female prisoner binding boots. The Friday
before Christmas witness was passing the prisoner's house, and
saw Mrs. Greenacre (the female prisoner) there. Witness
always looked hard at the female prisoner, from the reports
that were about in the neighbourhood. The shutters were on
one of the windows for three or four days at Christmas, and
during that time, on one occasion, witness saw the male pri-
soner coming down towards his own house with a blue bag,
such as the lawyers use. That was three or four days after
Christmas. The female prisoner was then living in the
Louse. The house was to be let three weeks after Christmas,
and witness and Mrs. Dillon went to look at it, and the
house had a very strong smell of brimstone, as if the house had
been fumigated. The chimney of one of the stoves was bar- '
ricadoed up with a board.
There are about a dozen more witnesses to be examined, and
the investigation is likely to last to a late hour.
The Magistrates' office was crowded to suffocation, and there
were a great number of females present who were mounted on
tables, chairs, and every place from whence a glimpse of the
prisoners could be obtained.
The fumale,prisoner was observed to speak in a low tone of
voice occasionally to Greenacre, and a policeman was placed
between them, to prevent any communication. On one occa-
sion Greenacre was about. to ask one of the witnesses a ques-
tion, but his solicitor, Mr. Hobler, interfered, and made some
suggestion to him, to which he appeared to assent ; and he
subsequently contented himself with taking an occasional note
of the evidence. His demeanour throughout was perfectly
-cairn and collected, while the female prisoner appeared to be
anxious an uneasy. They were accompanied to the bar by
the child, who was extremely noisy and troublesome during
the proceedings.
Lord Montfort was on the Bench from an early hour, and
assisted Messrs Rawlinson and Shutt in the examination of the
witnesses.
We understand that the evidence of the remaining witnesses
merely confirmatory of the facts already before the public,
and it is generally understood that the prisoners will be again
remanded.

--The Earl and Countess of Jersey returned to Ber-
keley_square yesterday from a visit to their Majesties, at
Windsor. Her Ladyship's parties have been discontinued for
a short time. in consequence of the demise of her niece, the
Hon. Aliss Maria Fane.
On Thursday last, at a numerous meeting of highly
respectable Dissenters, an address, expressive of thanks to his
'l".lesty's Ministers for the liberal and just measure brought
fcirviard on the subject of Church-rates, was adopted.
France, .I believe, has been compared ton ugly
Picture set in a beautiful frame ; and, from my own observa-
tion Should not hesitate to say that the simile is a most cor-
rect one. Some few spots there are, no doubt, in the inte-
rior of the eountry. well worthy of admiration ; but, for how
ntlanY hundred miles must we travel for to reach them, and
4,°,r distant are they from each other ; and, after all, when
they have been discovered, who that has gazed upon the sur-
', /),Psing beauty and magnificence of the frame, and the varied
',"a4scter of its workmanship, will not agree with me in de-
. els;ring that those natives and foreigners who have formed their
13,1" i" of " France pittoresque" from the scenery on the
mks of the Loire (the " garden of Fiance," as a part of it
Is absurdly styled).
or any, or all of the "charming spots"
sO thhilY scattered through the interior of that exten-
!iye country, can have but a very inadequate conception of the
Ingh rank which France, by reason of the glorious frame in
which she is encased, is entitled to hold among picturesque
countries._Summer in the Pyrenees.
The new premium offered by the INlelodistst Club
for the best approved words of a song was awarded, at a ge-
neral meeting of the Club held on Thursday, to Mrs. Corn-
" Wail Baron Wilson. Silver medals were awarded to the
authors of three other songs, selected from 217 which had
Johnbe g
received, who proved to be George Ellis Inman, Esq.,
William Bur or E and John Gaywood, Esq., of
Hartlepool, Durham.
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I lie Theatre Royal, Haymarket, has received from
liis Majesty an extension of its license to ten months. This
favouritethe
place of entertainment is about to change hands by
instrumentality of Mr. George Robins,-it is either to be
sold or to be let. -
The appointment of eight Guardians of the Poor
for the parish of Greenwich for the ensuing year was made
quite a, party question—a struggle between Liberalism and
Toryism. Thirty-two candidates were nominated, the major
Part of whom were of the Conservative party. In spite, how-
tQtveer, of the most insidious means used on the part of the latter,
bet could only succeed in electing two out of the whole nurn-
" • So much for re-action !
The following is the rule for admission to the read.
I,,ag;room in the British Museum :—Any reader is at liberty to
introduce °duce others, by addressing a note to the librarian, stating
Itni
rname and address of the gentleman or lady he wishes to
'setttdoduce. If unacquainted with a reader, a stranger should
statics note, directed "To the Librarian. British Museum,"
g his request, giving his addrexe, and naming some per-
vi
unho will answer inquiries.
drems:rgaret Munalow, of Oswestry, had placed uoine
before the fire, and fell asleep ; the linen took fire,
'nraldt cos
into o
m municated with the poor girl, who, waking in terror,
the street, where the fire was extinguished, but too
Butedreafslays
°save her life. She was 18 years o age, and presented
berry to spectacle. The mother 4 of the deceased, bee
and
received 0 her child, unfortunately fell down the staircase,
very severe bruises.

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLA CA' IV 00D.

"Ye whose veins are like your glasses,
From the same decanter filled,
With a ruddy generous liquor,
Which, God ,end, may ne'cr be chilled 1
Come 1 ( Id friends and near relation!,
Take the oath we couch in song ;
Hand-in-hand, come pledge it fairly
All who've known each other long I
Gray heads, green heads, join in chorus,
All who can or cannot sing,
Put your hearts into your voices
Till we make the old house ring !
Let us swear by all that's kindly,
All the ties of old young,
We will always know each other
As we've known each other long !
By the house we oft have shaken
(House were most of us were born),
When the dance grew wild and ro.npitl,
And we kept it up till morn !
By the old convivial table
Where we oft have mustered strJag,
By the glasses we have emptied
To each other's health so long
By our school-boy freaks together,
In old days with mischief rife—
Fellowship, when youth on pleasure
Flung away redundant life!
By bereavements, mourned in common—
By the hopes, a fluttering throng,
We have felt when home returning
Parted from each other long !
By the fathers who, before us,
Silver-haired together grew,
Who so long revered each other—
Let us swear to be as true I
Swear no selfish jealous feeling
Ere shall creep our ranks among,
E'er make strangers of the kinsmen
Who have known each other long !
No ! whate'er our creed or party,
Riches—rank—or—poverty,
With a second home, without one,
True and trusty still we'll be
Still we'll drink and dance together—
Gather still in muster strong—
And for ever know each other
As we've known each other long !

The Number before us is a capital one. Christopher
North—" that old man eloquent"—heads the van of
contributors, by an article which he quaintly entitles
" Our Two Vries," and in which he makes one or
two touching allusions to the rejection of his addrcsss
by that gentlest of widows, Mrs. Gentle. There is no
mistaking the true language of the heart, and never
was that language more unequivocal than in these
Sorrows of Christopher. " Howsomever"—as he ob-
serves in a graceful paroxysm of pathos—it is idle for
him to complain, so he forthwith plucks up spirit and
waxes critical. Many of the poetical specimens which
he brings before us are exquisitely beautiful—witness,
for instance, this " Song for a Family Party" which is
the composition of a young writer named Alfred
Domett

Who is this Alfred Domett ? He is a fine young
fellow, full of heart, and the true healthy, social spirit.
We will back the above festive lyric of his against the
very best of Tom Moore's. There is nothing maudlin
in it—nothing showy or finical in sentiment. It is
manly, and intelligible, and strikes a chord to which
the soul of the least reflective reader must respond.
How unaffectedly pathetic is the allusion to " the old,
convivial table !" How calmly energetic the_ closing
stanza ! The Song is evidently prompted by a recol-
lection of the" Sayings and Doings" of Kit North at
Ambrose's, for the cordial spirit of the " Noctes" per-
vades every line of it. " The World We Live In" is
desultory and pointed as usual. " L'eutenant Jack
Ricketts and the Widow" is a broad, humourous
sketch—something after the manner of O'Doherty—
as its name imports. " Fragments from the History
of John Bull" is a continuation of those clever series of
allegorical Papers which attracted so much notice a
year or two back. Its political heresies are less to be
praised than its comic spirit. In the " Napoleon in
Council" the writer lays the lash on Bonaparte with
merciless severity. Why should this be ? There never
was a man whether in ancient or modern times, who
obtained such overwhelming power by so few crimes.
As for " littleness of mind," all the anecdotes—and
their name is Legion—that we have of the French Em-
peror, tend to prove, with scarcely one exception, that
he was remarkable for his magnanimity. A little mind
could never have swayed Europe ; twice pardoned the
treachery of Talley rand and Murat ; or given utter-
ance to such a grand conception as " Soldiers, from
yonder Pyramids, forty centuries look down on you."
No, no. Napoleon may have been arbitrary, but not
mean. Meanness is the very antipodes of ambition
like his. " The Whigs, Radicals, Middle Classes, and
the People" is a furious Tory diatribe, evincing
throughout the same contempt for facts, that Sheridan
used to show for the demands of his creditors. " Pe-
ricles and Aspasia" is an eloquent criticism on Mr.
Landor's last publication of that name.

THE SLIN, LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1837.