The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-07 00:00:00

WINDSOR CASTLE THE.dT.RIC.ALS.

The first of the series of royal dramatic entertainments,
presented for some seasons past before her Majesty, Prince
Albert, and the royal family, at Windsor Castle, will be
given next Thursday evening, in the Rubens'-room, as
on former occasions. The arrangements will, as here-
tofore, be under the direction of Mr. Charles Kean.
Mr. Phelps, the distinguished actor, and lessee of Sadler's
Wells Theatre, has been complimented by being se-
lected by her Majesty to inaugurate the representations
this year by the performance of Shakspere's historical
play of King Henry the Fifth, as revived by him at his
theatre. The play, we understand, will be cast in the
principal characters by the following artistes, selected
chiefly from the Sadler's Wells and Princess's com-
panies :

King Henry the Fifth Mr. Phelps.
Duke of Exeter Mr. John Cooper.
Duke of Bedford
Duke of Gloucester Mr. Younge.
Archbishop of Canterbury Mr. H. Marston.
Earl of Salisbury Mr. F. Cooke.
Earl of Cambridge
Earl of Westmoreland Mr. Belford.
Lord Scroop
Bishop of Ely Mr. Lacy.
Sir Thomas Grey -Mr. Harris.
Sir Thomas Erpingham Mr. Addison.
Gower Mr. Cathcart.
Fluellin
Bates .. Mr. Ray.
Williams
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Bardolph,
Pistol Mr. Harley..
Boy Miss Kate Terry.
Charles VI. of France Mr. Lunt
Lewis, the Dauphin Mr. Leigh Murray.
Duke of Burgundy
The Constable of France Mr. Graham.
Governor of Harfleur
Montjoy
Isabel, Queen of France Mrs. Ternan.
Katharine
Mrs. Quickly Mrs. H. Marston.

FRENCH ARCHIVES.—The Minister of the Interior,
says the Monitcur, who has given an active impulse to
the re-organisation and classification of our departmental
archives, recently ordered some researches to which we
shall be indebted for a series of documents valuable to
science and history. Having heen informed that the
greater part of the parchment employed by the Artillery
for making gun cartridges came from the old archives
dispersed at different periods, the minister requested his
colleague of the War Department to order these
parchments to be collected and submitted to the exami-
nation of a special inspector of archives. This in-
vestigation has been attended with favourable re-
sults. Out of 4,000 cartridges which have been un-
sewn and examined at the artillery depot in Paris, 3,000
produced very important documents connected with our
history. Among them were 1,200 pages of the old
manuscript accounts of the Kings of France, Charles VI.,
VII., and VIII., Louis XI. and XII., Francis 1., to.,
These lists of expenses, by pointing out the employment
of the budgets of these different reigns, throw light on
many points of our national history. They interest at
the same time the annals of diplomacy by mentioning
the personnel of the envoys as well as the object and the
expense of each mission ; the history of the arts, by
stating the orders given to painters, musicians, statu-
aries, architects, &c. ; picturesque history of furniture,
costumes, &c., by giving the names and exact descrip-
tion of each object, with the price affixed ; and lastly,
the history of the habits of the court, and manners
in general, by the details of the gifts and alms granted
to the persons of the suite of the kings, or to those
who met the royal cortege ; gentlemen, soldiers, and ad-
venturers wounded in war ; girls to marry ; pilgrims ;
hermits ; poor persons affected with king's evil, waiting
for the king to touch them ; and others with all kinds of
diseases. Among these cartridges, so fortunately per-
served we may also mention 1,200 decumentsconnected
with the old chamber of accounts of Dauphiny, a
series which comprises some very important docu-
ments, dating as far back as the thirteenth century,
of feudal investitures, dominal grants, accounts
of expenses, and a number of maps emanating
from the princes and seigneurs of Dauphiny
and Savoy ; seven hundred charters of the church
of Meaux ; Papal Bulls ; letters patent of the Kings
Saint Louis, Philippe-the-Bold, Philippe-le-Bedl,
500 documents from the archives of Artois a_
Flan-
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centuries ; accounts of the artillery of Dukeub
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The inhuman atrocity perpetrated at Burnham Abbey
has excited the inhabitants of the district for miles
around ; and from an early hour on Saturday morning
up to an advanced period of the evening, Burnham Abbey
Farm, the scene of the murder, has been visited by hun-
dreds. Indeed, since the murder committed by Tawell
some eight years ago, at Slough, about two miles from
here, nothing approximating to the horror now enter-
tained has been witnessed or could have been antici-
pated. It has been already stated that the groom,
Moses Hatto, was apprehended on suspicion of being
the murderer, but it yet remains to be explained upon
what ground his arrest was decided on by the police,
inasmuch as the facts were not elicited before the coro-
ner. It appears from the statements of Superintendent
Perkins, of Eton, Superintendent Thomas, of Slough,
and Superintendent Symington, of Burnham, in whose
hands the case had been placed by the magistrates, that,
notwithstanding the perfect freedom which Hatto had
enjoyed subsequent to the discovery of the burning body
of the deceased, their suspicions of the man's guilt
were strong, and as they silently yet minutely inves-
tigated the circumstances attending the awful occur-
rence, they became further fortified, the result of which
was their decision to arrest him on the charge on Fri-
dayhimselfbetrayingmattermanner morning. Upon taking Hatto into custody at the
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sequently he preserves the same insolent bearing in the
police station at Eton, where he is now under remand.
The three superintendents, acting upon the informa-
tion furnished by Mrs. Bunce, wife of the foremao of
Mr.- Goodwin's farm, of the-de-Cease-Xi complaint to her
a few hours before the murder, of the offensiveness of
Hatto in his language, gleaned the fact of the young
woman having, on the night prior to her unhappy death,
been to Burnham village to post some letters, and of
her being accompanied a portion of the distance home
Marsh, of Mills by a former fellow-servant named John

Farm, Brittle, who had been paying her some attention,
and whose regards were reciprocated. This, it appears,
had considerably augmented the dissatisfaction of Hatto,
who, also had been manifesting au affection for the de-
ceased, who so far from encouraging his passion, re-
pulsed him, and, indeed, treated his advances as ema-
nating from one beneath her in station, she, in fact,
holding the position of housekeeper, while the prisoner,
though called a groom, in point of fact only performed
the duties of stableman, and was of a disposition far
from calculated to impress with favour a young woman
of taste, such as undoubtedly the deceased was for one
in her walk of life—a fact amply testified by the little
matters found in the unfortunate girl's bed-room subse-
quent to the butchery inflicted upon her. The police,
having satisfied themselves of the jealous feeling of the
prisoner, then closely examined the premises, and found,
from the statement of Mr. Goodwin, the deceased's
master, that her constant custom, prior to retiring to
bed, was to take whatever plate might have been in use
during the day from the sideboard-drawer in the par-
lour, and lock it up in an upstairs room. On the night of
the murder the plate was not removed from the ground
floor, nor was it at all disturbed—a fact fully convincing
the officers that no burglar had committed the atrocity.
It was also perfectly clear to them that the few rings
and two pencilcases missed by her master had been
taken, not for their intrinsic worth, but merely to give
a colouring for suspicion of a robbery, whereas, if plun-
der had been the object, there was a valuable quantity
of plate easily removable. There is in the room where
the deceased was burning fearful evidence of a desperate
struggle with her assassin ; and so, indeed, is there in
the narrow gallery leading to the apartment, and on the
walls of which are several impressions of, from the size,
a female hand stained with blood. Subsequent to the
violence here used, the last and most desperate effort of
the deceased is presented by the appearance of her bed-
room. The body was found lying before the fire-place,
the head in the direction of the window. Marks of
blood are in various parts of the room, a complete splash
being as far up as the mantel-piece, while on one side of
the floor, near the bedstead, are drops of blood, as if they
had trickled down while the poor woman was flying
about in the hope of escaping with life, or at least pro-
longing existence.

The—police officers have gleaned from the foreman
Bunce a material contradiction of a statement made by
Hatto, on the first day of the coroner's inquiry. The
prisoner stated, hearing the dog barking, he alarmed
Bunce ; but the latter most positively asserts that he
was not called to by him. His statement is that, hear-
ing the dog bark, he got up and went to the window of
his bedroom, which he opened and looked through for
the purpose, listening, his wife observing that no doubt
some birdcatchers were about the adjoining hedges. At
length hearing footsteps in the yard at the rear of his
master's dwelling, he called aloud; and for some minutes
received no reply. Calling, again, however, while in
the act of dressing himself, the prisoner came to the
yard-wall separating his (Bunco's) cottage from that
area, and said, "It's me. The colts have got out, and
I've come to tell you." If this statement he correct,
the police consider that their prisoner ought to have
answered when first challenged by Bunce. The state-
ment of Mrs. Bunce is, that she heard Hatto call to
her husband, but the latter persists that she was asleep
when he first cried out " Who's there ?" and that she
only awoke at the moment when the accused replied to
his repeated summons.

Such are the grounds of suspicion upon which the
officers are acting, but it is right to observe that they
have just become masters of grave facts, which they do
not consider themselves at present justified in disclosing.
The police, assisted by the farm labourers, have been
searching the water-closets and other places about the
premises, in the hope of discovering the rings and two
pencil-cases, stolen from Mr. Goodwin's dressing-table,
but as yet their search has not proved successful.
The clothes worn by Hatto on the evening of the
murder were taken by Superintendent Symington to
London, to be submitted to Professor Taylor for an
analysis.

THE FRAUDS UPON THE LIVERPOOL CORPORATION.--
William Rowson (contractor) and William Clark (clerk),
whose cases were remanded on the 29th ult., were again
brought before the magistrates at the Liverpool Police
Court, on Saturday, and after a lengthened examination
were committed for trial at the assizes. They were
admitted to bail—Rowson in 1,0001. and two sureties in
5001. each, and Clark in 5001. and two sureties in 2501.
each.

ROBBERY AT THE POST-OFFlCE.—Another of those
peculiar and mysterious robberies which, of late, have
been so frequent in the metropolis, took place on Thurs•
day night, at the branch post-office in Lombard-street,
and from the manner in which it was accomplished
there is little doubt that it must have been committed
by members of a practised gang. The office, as our
readers may be aware, is situate in a narrow court lead-
ing out of King William-street into Lombard-street,
and at the close of the day's post is left in charge of the
housekeeper and some attendants, who occupy the floor
above the letter department. On the place being opened
on Friday morning, it was discovered the office had been
entered by a window which overlooks the small yard ad-
joining St. Mary Woolnooth church, access to which
could be obtained by scaling the church railings in King
William-street. The window is protected by several
iron bars, spiked ; but it seems there is sufficient space
at the top to admit of an expert burglar, after lowering
the window, to pass through, and drop into the office.
It was by this means that the entry was effected. The
drawers were ransacked, and there is little doubt that
the burglars anticipated finding a number of money and
other valuable registered letters, awaiting despatch by
the various foreign mails, situate, as the branch is, right
in the heart of the banking establishments. In the an-
ticipated existence of such spoil, however, they were
disappointed. They broke open one of the desks, and
stole 4/. or Si. in gold and silver, but a drawer which
contained 1701. in gold escaped their notice. In the
absence of things more valuable they took possession of
some of the clerks' clothing, and depositing the whole in
a letter bag, the thief put on, it is thought, a postman's
coat, and opening the door, marched up the court into
the street, and so got clear off. Considering the exposed
situation of the yard under the window, it is somewhat
remarkable how the robbers could have found an oppor-
tunity to enter the place without being observed,ter
persons are passing at all hours of the night.—D
SELF-ACTING LITHOGRAPHIC MACHINE.
Maclure, Macdonald, and Macgregor, the
eminenteLondon
litho-
graphers of Walbrook, have become Messrs.isa
patentees of a machine which promises
as it secure.
extend the uses of lithography, inasmuch
has been
tot materially
that rapidity of production which hitherto
supposed beyond the reach of accaccomplishment.n neta now
. For
the first time, after many attempts, impressions
be taken by a steam machine, and that
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be easily
800 per hour, or 8,000 per day. The P
are opened out by this interesting
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estimated, when it is stated.
achievable by the old handpress
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when the
average per diem of 150. copies, an
workmen is as industrious as skilful. Nothing coul4
f the work b
beauty and certainty of the new
exceed the beau
machine. The stone,
which lies upon the bed oefteaafmra.mpeew, as
in the ordinary press, moves i
to and fro by
passing beneath a
damping roller of ngenius construct
tion, and then coming in contact with the inking rollers;
after which it catches pressure, and the
two in number ;
work is "delivered" into the hands of a recipient )1
ordinary book or newspaper work.as
Messrs. Maclure
and Co. do not at present counsel the adopton of the machine in the higher classes of lithographic printing,
but it is quite obvious that for maps, circulars, book
illustrations, and the like, it offers advantages of which
the commercial and publishi comunity will be gla
to avail themselves. It is difficultng to predict the uses t
which lithography, under these circumstances, may pre
sently be applied. The ease and quickness with whit
tranferences may be made on to the stone, suggest th
possibility of it being used for book and newspaper pub
lication, coupled,.as these ready transferences now are,f
with a ofpressprinting as rapid in its operations al
make
steam eauoc
it. The apparatus in question is the
invention of TierrSigl, of Berlin. I
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" Amongst the persons supposed to have been lost by
the failing of the briclget. is a young man named Buckley,
who was employed as a porter in the establishment of
Mr. James Hogg, Patrick-street. Buckley left the shop
at a quarter past eleven o'clock on Wednesday, with
orders to call with goods at some places over the bridge,
and has not been heard of since. He was a married
man, and leaves a wife and child to deplore his probable
loss.
"A man named Cornelius Delea, a labourer, from the
neighbourhood of Barrack street, is missing since Wed-
nesday, and is supposed to have been drowned off the
bridge. As yet none of the bodies have been found,
and it is very doubtful whether any of them will be re-
covered.
"On last evening, under the direction of the magis-
trates about 150 families received tickets for relief in the
shape of coal, bread, and straw, through the agency of
the mayor's secretary, Mr. Pierce Fitzgerald, assisted by
two of the constabulary. This morning 250 families re-
ceived similar relief. At an early hour the mayor per-
, sonally visited several houses in the Marsh for the pur-
pose of ascertaining their condition, and the best mode
of affording some alleviation of the privations they had
to undergo.
"It is somewhat singular that the inhabitants of
Queenstown, Monkstown, and Passage were quite igno-
rant of the destruction that was going on through the
city. Several ladies left Queenstown and Passage for
the purpose of making purchases in Cork, but were glad
to escape to their respective homes with the least pos-
sible delay.

LYCEUM THE AT It E.
Under the Management of Madame Vestris.

THIS EVENING, Nov. 7,

Will be presented A CURIOUS CASE. Principal character by
Sr. C. Mathews.
After which, THE COMMENCEIIENT OF A BAD FARCE
which. however (it is hoped), wil. in the cad, show HOW TO
35IAXE HOME. liAt'PY. Principal character by Mr. Wright.

To be followed PATTER v. CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr.
Charles Mathews.
To conclude 'with WRIGHT AT LAST.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 7,
Will be performed THE DISCARDED SON. Characters by
1.431;,h Murray, Paal Bedford, and Keeley; Mrs. Keeley and Miss
'Woobgar, &c.

After which, THE C..MP AT CHOBHAM.
To be followed by "HOTEL CHARGES!" or, How to Cook
To conclude with COMING OF AGE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 7,
Will be performed THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac-
ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Robson, Cooper, and Galli ;
Ilfesdames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Horton, Chatierley, E. Turner, and
Wyndham.
To be followed by PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters
by Mr. F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling.