The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-25 00:00:00

The Abduction and Murder at Islington.

Yesterday afternoon the prisoner Wm. HenryClarke,who
stands charged with the murder of the child Elizabeth
Hunter, was again placed at the bar of the Clerkenwell
Police-court, but nothing farther than that which is already,
known was proved. The proceedings were merely suffi-
cient to justify a remand.
CORONER'S INQUEST.
The coroner's inquiry into the circumstances attending
the death of the unfortunate child Elizabeth Hunter was re-
Burned to-day, at the Florence Arms, Florence street, Isling•
ton. The prisoner Clarke was present, and the whole of the
evidence taken on former occasions was read over to him.
The most important witness xamined during the investi-
gation was a person named Wm. Shrosbree, of 12, Ivy-lane,
Hoicton, who said his son some time ago purchased thd pair
of gold earrings produced from a man he Shoreditch for
threepence. He corrected him for so doing at the
time, as he believed they had been stolen by the person
who sold them. The person of whom he bought them
wore a billycock hat. His son, since the occurrence,
had unfortunately died, but before his decease he said the
person of whom he purchased the earrings was a young man
of very dark complexion, and about the height of the pri-
suner.
The mother of the child said her daughter wore
gold wires exactly like those in court, but she could not
positively swear that they were hers.
The inquiry was adjourned for a fortnight.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—Yesterday
the usual weekly meeting of the Board was held at
the offices, Spring. gardens—Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair.
The Thames Embankment Committee brought up their
report, submitting form of advertisement for tenders for exe-
cution of the works of the horthern embankment, and sug-
gesting that the board should name the day for receiving ten-
ders. Submitting specification of works for the Thames em-
bankment ; and recommending the board to adopt the same.
The report was received and adopted. Mr. Savage moved
that the board do adjourn on the 7th August till the 25th
September, and that the officers have leave of absence, as
the chairman may decide. Mr. Harris seconded the motion,
which gave rise to some discussion, in the course of which
several amendments with regard to the time of the reassem-
bling of the board were moved. Ultimately the original
motion was declared to be carried, and after the transaction
of some other business of a merely routine character, the
board adjourned.
A POLISH WAR, FROM A PRUSSIAN POINT OF
VIEW.—The People's Gazette of Berlin, of the 20tb,
gives us a Prussian view of the situation. Our contem-
porary says :—" We do not think it likely that the Polish
war will be postponed till the spring. If war is to be waged
it should be done now, or all the advantages to the Poles
will be sacrificed. France has every kind of motive for not
allowing to escape the facilities which are offered by a
war this autumn, and for not waiting the doubtful
situation of the approaching spring. When we remember
the facility with which France sends expeditions into the
most distant countries where neither its honour nor its
interests are absolutely engaged, we cannot see why she
hesitates to make an
expedition in Poland. An autum-
nal campaign would have this advantage, that it would
probably be very short. It would be a localised war, com-
mencing in Lithuania, but of which the Principle object
would be in the Kingdom of Poland. This country would
be very quickly delivered, and a peace would be concluded
which would not essentially modify the map of Europe.
On the other hand, a war in the spring would take much
wider proportions ; it would be a grand war against Russis,
in which Austria and England could scarcely remain
neutral, and of which it is impossible to calculate the

consequences."
DESTRUCTIV E FIRE AT SHEFFIELD.—A serious
conflagration took place at Sheffield early yesterday
morning, by which the Attercliffe Steam Corn Mills, the
property of Messrs. Stephenson and Dodds, were entirely
destroyed. The mills, which are five storeys high, and
contained 300 sacks of flour and 1,200 sacks of corn, were
discovered to be on fire about half •past 12 o'clock at night,
just after the men had left work. The engines arrived
about one o'clock, but though they wero well supplied with
water, they were only successful in saving the euginehouse,
the remainder of the building being entirely burnt in about
an hour and a half. The damage is estimated at .f. 5,000.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO A ROPE-WALKER.—
The inquest on the body of " Madame Geneive,"
killed at Aston-park, Birmingham, on Monday, by falling
from a rope 30 feet high, was concluded yesterday. After
the evidence of Mr. Porter, surgeon, who had made a post
mortan examination of the body, the jury returned a ver-
dict of accidental death, accompanied with the opinion that
all dangerous or degrading performances should be sup-
pressed,