The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVRNING, AUGUST 15, 1863.

moment arrives. If such a man live long enough it

I must arrive ; for there is a time in the existence of
every nation when she throws aside the frivolous
courtiers who have amused her leisure, and seizes
instinctively the strong arm which can avert the
threatening danger. Lord Clyde's early fortune
led him to the West when the Waterloo campaign
was about to ennoble its heroes, and to consign the
Peninsular soldiers who were not present with them
to a long oblivion and obscurity. But he was
known even to those who stood in his way as a
master of his profession, and he loved it so welt
that slight and the sense of wrong could not force
him to neglect his duty. Duty was to him a sen-
tient, warm-blooded principle, not a cold, pas-
sionless, brutish idol, and her first rule was in
his min
g his position
"obedience." The struggle to obey left
same traces of its influence on his spirit. He could
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though he rarely spoke of himself, and there was a
loftier independence in his words when he thought
of these things, which might have been mistaken
for anger. The more he was neglected the greater
became his attachment to the soldier. No man
ever studied so thoroughly and knew so intimately
the character, the virtues, and the failings of that
strange human aggregate which is to so many offi-
cers a mere locomotive creature, to be drilled and
wheeled, and reviewed, to be paraded, and black-
celled, and be-striped, to be " kept in his proper
place "—to be cursed at on occasion too—as Lord
Clyde. His rugged brow knitted fiercely and his eye
flashed no doubtful fire if he heard a word spoken
to the soldier's disparagement, or detected any ac-
tion to his detriment. Though he did not call them
his children, they were dear to the childless old
chief, and, if he addressed them, his words flowed
with an eloquence and sympathetic charm which de-
serted his lips when he had to speak to less congenial
audience. When in India the authorities determined
on transferring the European soldiers of the Company
to the army of the Crown, without seeking their
consent, he pointed out to them the injustice ana
the consequences of the step, and resisted it by every
means in his power ; but when the Government bad
resolved to adhere to its policy he repressed the in -
subordinate outbreaks he had prophesied with
vigour and determination. A nature like his must
be earnest in love and in hate, and he dwelt little
on the neutral ground which lies between them.
But his affections were ineradicable by anything
but ingratitude, and that stung him like a serpent's
tooth. If he was gratified with the honours he had
learned, he felt their value was for him well nigh
buried in the graves of those for whose sakes he
would have exulted to have won them. They had
come too late for full fruition.

In person Lord Clyde was well knit, symmetrical,
and graceful; but of late years his shoulders became
somewhat bowed, though he lost little of the acti-
vity which was remarkable in so old a man. To the
last his teeth remained full and firm in the great
square jaws, and his eye pierced the distance with
all the force of his youthful vision. His crisp, grey
locks still stood close and thick, curling over the
head and above the wrinkled brow, and there were
few external signs of the decay of nature which
was, no doubt, going on within, accelerated by so
many wounds, such fevers, such relentless, exacting
service. When he so willed it, he could throw into
his manner and conversation such a wondrous charm
of simplicity and vivacity as fascinated those over
whom it was exerted, and women admired and men
were delighted with the courteous, polished, gallant
old soldier. In the other mood he could be quite
as effective.

The nation will, doubtless, accord to his remains
the mark of respect and gratitude due to their most
faithful servants. No better soldier has ever been
borne within the sacred walls of our Christian
Pantheon. When England needs one to defend her
flag, to vindicate her honour, and to uphold the
renown of her arms, may she ever find a champion
as trusty, as pure, and as true as Colin Campbell
Lord Clyde ! Times.

time to say that he would kill his wife "if he got hung for
her." The woman threw a bucket of water over him and
attempted to escape, but the prisoner followed her, and again
wounded her in six places with the chisel. She was at-
tended by a surgeon, and was for some time in a dangerous
state.

For the defence it was urged that the prisoner did not
intend to inflict grievous bodily harm, and that being in a
state of intoxication, the crime might fairly be reduced to
unlawfully wounding.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and ho was sentenced
to 15 years penal servitude.
John Knowles, 20, was indicted for feloniously wounding
Benjamin Hall, on the 23d October, 1862, on board the ship
Clan Gregor, then lying in the Old Calabar river.
Iho prosecutor was clerk and the prisoner steward on
board the vessel, and a dispute had arisen between them as
to the genuineness of some yams. The prisoner became
very excited, and struck Hall on the face. Nothing further
took place then, but the prisoner subsequently rushed into
the cabin, and returning with a carving knife, gave the pro-
secutor such a dreadful wound in one of his eyes that the
sight was entirely destroyed, and the other eye most seriously
impaired.

For the defence it was urged that the prisoner did not
know what he was about, as he was in drink at the time.
The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to 10
years' penal servitude.

Nist PRIUS CounT.
(Before Mr, Justice Mellor.)
PARKER V. BRADFORD.
This was an action brought by a clerk and traveller on
commission residing in Johnson-street, Manchester, to re-
cover compensation for a false imprisonment. 11.1 r. James,
QC., appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Pope for the de-
fendant.

The plaintiff's case was that he was quietly walking b alono•
a street in Manchester, when the defendant, a washing-
machine maker in London and Manchester, met and stop-
ped him, and asked him his name and address. The plain-
tiff asked what business that was of Bradford's, and after
some altercation accompanied him to a public house near
at hand, and referred him to the landlord, who knew him,
as he had been there two or three times. Plaintiff offered
to go to the Ducie Arms and other places where he was
well known, but defendant refused to do so, threatened to
send for a police officer, and said, "If you will put down
£5O and the gold coins, aad the will, you may go." Par-
ker took Bradford to be a madman, and he told him so.
Bradford sent for two police officers and gave the plaintiff
into custody on a charge of having stolen from his estab-
lishment in Fleet-street, London, a cashbox containing £7O,
some ancient gold coins, and a will. Plaintiff denied that
he had ever been in London in his life, and now seeing that
the defendant was in earnest desired him to accompany him
to several persons who could prove his respectability. De-
fendant declined to do so. Parker was conveyed in a cab, ,n
custody of a policeman, to the police-station, where he was
locked up until next morning ; he then conclusively proved
that he was not in London on the day when the robbery
was committed, and the magistrates discharged him.
The defence was that, on the 27th of July last
year, two men entered the defendant's London establish-
ment while he was engaged with a customer, and after
being there a short time suddenly went away; that imme-
diately afterwards the cash-box was missed ; and that when
the plaintiff was given into custody the defendant fully
believed him to be oat of the men.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 80.

MURDER IN WOLVERHAMPTON.

WOLVERHAMPTON, Aug. 14.

A terrible crime has been Committed in this town. In
Bilston-street there is a wide court known as the Barracks,
but correctly as No. 4 Court. It contains about eight houses,
tenanted at 2s. 3d, a week. On the occupancy of one of
these there entered five or six weeks ago a young man and
woman, who seemed to obtain a livelihood by making and
selling forks and skewers of iron ware. On the Monday
evening, about a month ago, the woman locked the house
door and told a next-door neighbour that sho was going out,
and asked her to say if any one called that sho was gone
to the country. A few days after her departure P. respect
able-looking woman came from Willenhall, a neighbour: 2'g
township, and enquired for Mr. Williams, her son,who WaS
alledged to be the tenant of the house and who had passed
as the husband of the woman referred to. The message left
by the woman was delivered,and old Mrs. Williams desired
that her son should be told to write to his mother,as she wished
to bear from him. Whether or not the woman who mado
the inquiries was the person she alleged herself to be has
not yet transpired. After that time no one called, and the
house remained closed. An offensive smell, however; for
some days back has been noticed to proceed from the house,
and this morning the neighbour with whom the message
had been delivered by the woman-tenant began to suspect
that something was wrong. At her request, a neighbour
named Mary Lees procured a key and opened the door.
The smell then became very strong. Lees, however, went
upstairs,and saw a dead body lying in the front room. She
called out to a neighbour named Smith for assistance, and
they both entered the room. On the floor lay a mattress,
and upon it there was stretched, covered with a sheet and
coverlet, what was evidently the corpse of a man, it isneed-
less to say, in a horrible state of decomposition. The mur-
dered man, for such the deceased would seem to be, wore,as
he lay in bed, only a shirt and waistcoat ; and there is no
doubt that some hand must have tended him after he was
unable to do anything for himself. This is clear from the
manner in which his head was covered with the bed clothes.
These were fastened over the face tight enough to secure '
suffocation, if death had not previously taken place. The
colour of the hair and other circumstances convinced them
that the deceased was the young man Williams.
The inquest was held yesterday afternoon, Before the in-
quiry commenced a woman present volunteered a statement
to the effect that, some time since, she had known the de-
ceased by the name of Bill, and she now remembered his
name to be William Williams. She was able to identify
him by his trousers,which on one occasion she had mended.
His mother lived at Portobello, a small town near Wolver-
hampton. A letter addressed to him had once been left at
her house, and she had known him when he lived in Bir-
mingham. He was not married, but had lived with a
woman named Rose. This woman she had not seen for
more than three weeks. She had a very bad character.
Mary Lees, the woman who first found the body, and the
first witness called, said,—l last saw Williams alive on
Monday three weeks at the bottom of the court, and he then
appeared to be in good health. On the evening of the same
day I saw the woman with whom he lived go to the top at
the back of the building for some water. After filling her
kettle she returned to the house, and I have not seen her
since. The witness then stated what the woman had said
before geing to the country, and the manner in which the
body had been discovered.
A policeman who went to the house soon after the dis-
covery said that a pair of trousers was found under the
deceased's body. He added that in the house there were
some articles found which he could prove belonged to the
woman Rose,

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Rachel Barry corroborated the last witness in some par
ticulaz s.

The inquiry Was then adjourned until the last day of this
month. Br. Gibbons, the surgeon, in the meantime, was
instructed to make a careful post mortem examination of the
body.