The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-10 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER

A number of houses were illuminated last night
in honour of the Prince's visit. The principal streets
were crowded with the working classes. They be-
haved in the most orderly manner.
DUBLIN, Tuesday Night.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales opened
the International Exhibition with great eclat in the
presence of about 10,000 persons. His Royal High-
ness, accompanied by Lord and Lady Wodehouse,
the Duke of Cambridge, a brilliant staff, and an
escort of the 11th Hussars (the Prince's Own),
passed through the city in a close carriage, greatly
to the disappointment of the thousands upon thou-
sands of persons, principally ladies, that crowded
the windows along the route from the Viceregal
Lodge. He was received at the Exhibition Palace
by the Exhibition Committee, including his Grace
the Duke of Leinster, Mr. G. Sanders (the chair-
man), Mr. G. Wood Mannsell, Mr. Bagot (the sec-
retary), Mr. Martinson, the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, and members of the corporation in their
robes, together with the judges and several of the
leading members of the bar. On the arrival of the
Prince the national anthem and other music selected
for the occasion was performed by the splendid
orchestra, composed nearly of 1,000 performers,
after which the Prince formally declared the Exhi-
bition opened. He returned to the Viceregal Lodge
at 4 o'clock. In the evening his Royal Highness
was everywhere received with the utmost demon-
stration of welcome. The Prince was entertained
at a splendidball in the Mansion-house by the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, to which a large number of
the nobility and gentry were invited to meet his
Royal Highness. The city is again illuminated to-

night.

Murder and Robbery in a Lodging-house,

Last evening Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner for East
Middlesex, opened an inquiry at the Seven Stars Tavern,
Brick-lane, Spitalfields, on the body of Joseph Rickles-
work, aged 77 years, who died from violence under the
following extraordinary circumstances :
The coroner and jury proceeded to view the body, which
was lying in a small compartment in a licensed lodging-
house situated at No. 199, Brick-lane. The place was not
larger than a common-sized cupboard, :and the body pre-
sented a sad and attenuated appearance.
Bridget Hogan, the landlady of the house, said that the
deceased was formerly a broker in a large way of business,
but for several months he had occupied a bed and small
room at her house, for which he had paid 2s. per week.
He was generally supposed to be a rich man, and was
represented to be so by the neighbours and the lodgers.
He had been ailing for a considerable time, and had kept his
bed through an injury ho sustained some time since. On
Friday evening witness left home for a short time, and
when she returned the deceased called her to his room.
He said " Black Charley and Johnny Boyden have drugged
and robbed me." Ho added, "They have ill-treated
me ; and while Boyden held the door Black Charley
rifled my pockets, and turned over the bed for my
money, which they have taken away." He called out for
assistance, but, as witness was not at home, no one went
to him. Deceased told witness that one of the men held
his head while one poured something down his throat to
drug him. On the following morning the deceased became
worse, when she sent for Dr. Swyer, of 32, Brick-lane, who
attended, and pronounced life extinct. Witness was
of opinion that the deceased had been first drugged, and
then ill-treated and robbed. He paid his rent regularly,
and was a steady man.
By the Coroner—l am of opinion that the deceased has
died from violence inflicted upon him by the two men, who
were well known in the neighbourhood. They got their
living the best way they could. They were well known to
the police.

Police-sergeant 81 H said that he was called to the
house on Saturday morning, and found the deceased in
bed. He was very ill, and told witness that two men had
robbed him of his money, which ho had saved for years.
He did not know the exact amount. One of tho men held
the door while Black Charley robbod him. Witness had
been in search of the two men, who slopt in the noighbour-
bouring lodging-house. They had gono away from the
district, but from inTormation that had been received they
would soon be captured.

Dr. Septimus Swyer, of No. 32, Brick-lane, Spitalfields,
was called, and found the deceased dead. He could not
positively
account for death, but from the symptoms de-
scribed ho believed that the deceased had died from the
effects of a powerful narcotic which had been administered
to the deceased a few hours before death.
After the examination of another witness, who gave
confirmatory evidence,
The Coroner said that the case was one in which ho
should order a post-mortem examination of the body. The
deceased had, no doubt, been robbed, and had come by
his death by foul means. The two men who had been
engaged in the robbery and death of the deceased had
made their escape from the house, but, no doubt, by the
next meeting of the jury the police would be in possession
of some important testimony. He should order an analysis
of the contents of the stomach by Dr. Letheby after the
body had been opened by Dr. Swyer.
The proceedings were then adjourned for a week.

CHARLES WS WATCH.- :—Our readers may be in-
terested in hearing the fate of the King's watch,
which he gave to "Mistress" Jane Lane in acknowledg-
ment of her services in helping him to escape from Moseley
to Bristol, at the same time signifying his wish that it should
always belong to the eldest daughter of the house of Lane.
Tho watch was regularly handed down to the eldest Miss
Lane for the time being, until three generations back,
when the then eldest daughter married Mr. Lucy, of
Charlecote, Warwickshire (grandfather of the present pro-
prietor of that estate), and took the watch with her. It
was hers, of course, for life, but she lived to a great age,
and at her death, the Lucys pleading that, owing to the
number of years which had passed, the claims of the Lanes
had lapsed to them, somewhat unfairly it appears, retained

it at 6harlecote, leaving the Lanes to their remedy by an
action at law in trovor. But ill-gotten goods never stay
long with their new owner; and the watch, together with
other valuable property, was carried off from Charlecote
by a gang of burglars who broke into the house some fif-
teen years ago or more. The watch was never recovered,
having probably been melted down for the value of the old
mateiials.—Onee a Week.

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Dufferin, Sir R. Peel, Lord Alenee4 Ggeral
, Knollys, Colonel Teesdale, and Colonel Curzon. A
'special train was in waiting on the pier to convey
the Royal party into Dublin. At Westland-row
Terminus large numbers of people were waiting in
the adjoining streets for the arrival of the train.
Numerous flags were suspended from the houses in
Westland-row, Lincoln-place, Nassau-street, Great
Brunswick-street, and along the line of route to the
park. The Lord Mayor, with some members of
the Corporation in their robes, were in attendance
at the station to receive the Prince. The Lord-
Lieutenant's carriage was in waiting to convey his
Royal Highness to the Viceregal Lodge, where
the following party had been invited to meet
him :—The Lord Primate, the Lord Chancellor,
and Mrs. Brady, the Duke of Leinster, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Drogheda, the Marquis
of Conyngham, the Margais and Marchioness of
Kildare, Earl Spencer, the Earl and oCuntess of
Meath, the Countess of Milltown, the Earl and
Countess of Dunraven, Viscount and Viscountess
Gormanstown, Lord Henry Loftus and Louisa
Countess of Seafield, Lord and Lady Farnham,
Lord and Lady Oranmore, Lord and Lady Lurgan, -
the Hon. J. Wodehouse, the High Sheriff of the
county of Dublin and the Hon. Mrs. Preston, Lieu-
tenant-General Knollys, Mr. Herbert Fisher, private
secretary to his Royal Highness ; V. C. Major
Teesdale andLieutenant-Colonel keppel, Equerries
to his Royal Highness ; Mr. Corry Connellan, Cap- •
tain W. Everard, the Captain of the Guard, and
Colonel Musters; Lieutenant-Colonel Forster, Mr.
Edmund W odehouse, and Captain Arkwright, Aide-
de-Camp in waiting. Afterwards there was an even-
ing party, at which the following had the honour of
being present :—The Lord Mayor, the Recorder of
Dublin, Mr. and Lady Margaret Stronge, the At-
torney-General and Mrs. Lawson, the Solicitor-
General and Mrs. Sullivan, Right Hon. j., Mrs.,
and Miss Napier, Right Hon. A. Brewster and
Mrs. K. French, Right Hon. Judge and Mrs.
Keatinge, Right Hon. Judge and the Hon. Mrs.
Fitzgerald, Right Hon. Judge Keogh, the Chief
Baron and Mrs. Pigot, Right Hon. Baron and Mrs.
Deasy, Right Hon. Judge O'Hagan, Right Hon.
John Hatchell, the Adjutant-General and Mrs.
M'Kenzie, the Quartermaster-General, Brigadier-
Gen.
Napier and Mrs. Napier, and aide-de-camp ;
Hon. Mrs. White, Sir George and Lady Hodson,
Col. Whitmore, Sir Bernard and Lady Burke, the
Dean of Deny and Mrs. Tighe, Col. and Mrs.
M'kerlie, Mr. and Mrs. William Le Fanu, Mrs.
Lee Guinness, Mr. F. Brady, Mr. and Mrs. Vance,
Mr. Cornwall, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Sadleir, Sir R.
Griffith, Dr. and Mrs. Hatchell, Dr. and Mrs.
Hughes, Dr. S. Hughes, &c.
At Kingstimn the 78th Highlanders were present
on the pier as a guard of honour to the Prince, and
at Westland-row the 60th Rifles. The 11th Hus-
sars escorted him from the terminus to the Vice-
regal Lodge.