The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 26.

The Queen and Prince, with the royal children, accom-
panied by the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, attended
by the Marchioness of Ely, the Count and Countess Gus-
tave de Lannoy, Lord Charles Fitzroy, the Hon. Mary
Seymour, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A Gordon,
left Windsor at half-past ten o'clock this morning for
Osborne.

The Marchioness of Ely has succeeded the Countess
of Desart as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty.
The Earl of Aberdeen and Lord and Lady Robert
Grosvenor left the Castle this morning for London.
OSBORNE, Nov. 27.
Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Duke and Duchess
of Brabant, and the whole of the royal family, arrived at
Osborne yesterday, at two o'clock.
The Duke of Brabant, attended by the Count de Lan-
noy, left again in the afternoon for Dover and Ostend.
CABINET COUNCIL—A cabinet council was held at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street, on Saturday. The
ministers present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John
Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of
• Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir James Graham,
Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and
Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat three hours
and a half.

After the breaking-up of the Council, the Marquis of
Lansdowne left town on a visit to Lord Ashburton, at
the Grange.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town on Saturday
morning from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial•osice on Satur-
day to the Governor of Gibraltar.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 26.
Her Majesty, Prince Albert and the royal family,
accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, ar-
rived at this port to-day per South Western Railway
from Basingstoke), at 12.45 having made the run down
from Basingstoke in little more than an hour. The
following officials of the South Western Railway accom-
panied the train down :—Mr. Crombie, secretary ; Mr.
Scott, traffic manager ; Mr. Beattie, locomotive depart-
ment ; and Mr. Godson, superintendent. Her Majesty
was received by the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral
Sir T. J. Cochrane, K.C.B. ; the Lieut.-Governor,
Major-General Simpson ; Admiral Superintendent Fan-
shawe, C.B. ; Captain Courtenay, Superintendent of
Clarence-yard ; Captains the Hon. J. Denman and
Crispin, of the Royal Yacht ; Mr. Davies, of Clarence-
yard ; the Flag-Lieutenants of the Commander-in-Chief
and Admiral Superintendent; Town-Major Maitland
and Brigade-Major Purvis, and a guard of honour fur-
nished by the 42d Highlanders, with the band of that
regiment. Having alighted from the royal train, her
Majestyimmediately proceeded on board the Fairy
steamer, and crossed over to the Isle of Wight, amid the
usual salutes from the ships in harbour and at Spithead
and the garrison. The shipping was dressed in colours.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Brabant received
three messages per electric telegraph in the course of the
day requiring his immediate return to Brussels on mat-
ters of moment. One came direct from Brussels by
submarine telegraph, and another was from Dover, in-
forming him that a Belgian steamer had arrived there to
convey him across the Channel. His Royal Highness
having accompanied her Majesty across to the Isle of
Wight, immediately returned again in the Fairy, and
left per special train on the South-Western Railway.

The Queen has bestowed the vacant Garter upon the
Earl of Carlisle.

The public will learn with peculiar satisfaction that
Sir Edward Parry, the veteran voyager of the Arctic
Seas, has been appointed Deputy-Governor of Greenwich
Hospital.
The Queen has appointed the Rev. John Colvin to the
living of Maryhill, and the Rev. Frederick Cruikshank
to the living of Lethnot and Navar, in the Church of
Scotland.

The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. Charles
W. Doherty to the rectory of Pilhaw, in the diocese of
Lincoln.

The Rev. Dr. Crawford and Mr. Charles Baillie, ad-
vocate (1830), are appointed to fill the vacancies at the
Bible Board in Edinburgh.

MURDER OF AN AGED CRIPPLE.

LEIGHTON BUZZARD, BEDFORDSHIRE,
SUNDAY EVENING.
The greatest consternation has prevailed in this popu-
lous market town since Friday last, in consequence of a
most brutal murder having been committed at a place
distant about a mile and a quarter from here, called
Ileathaad Reach, by a man named Jno. Burrows, upon
an aged and cripple woman, named Glemister.
It appears that the murderer, who is an agricultural
labourer, is a married man, and, when at home, lives in
the village mentioned, but he bears a very bad cha-
racter, and has been frequently is the habit of ill-treat-
ing his wife and deserting her for weeks together, so
that they have led a very unhappy life. He had but
very lately returned home, after being absent for some
time at Watford, where he had been spending his time
in the most profligate manner. On Thursday night
he went to bed with his wife, but they had not
been there long before he began to ill-use her ; and
at last, seizing her by the throat, tried to strangle
her. After a violent struggle, she managed to get away
from him, and rushing out of the house, nearly naked,
she went to his father's, which is a short distance, there
to seek refuge from his brutality. The old man, learn-
ing what had taken place, at once gave her shelter, and
said he would go down to his son and try and pacify
him. He did so, and finally lay down upon the bed
with him. He lay there until about three in the morn-
ing, when Burrows began to abuse him, and pushing
him from the bed, swore he would kill him. He then
beat his head upon the floor until the poor old man was
almost insensible. In this state the wretch left his aged
parent, and went in search of his wife. He then bent
his way to the house of his father, expressing his de-
termination to do for his wife ; but she, observing him
approach, and fearing she would be deprived of life
should he get hold of her, slipped out of the house, and
concealed herself in a passage close by. At home
he found his mother, who had been for nearly five
months confined to her bed with illness ; and, learning
that his wife had fled, he commenced a most brutal
attack upon the poor old woman. His fiendish ven-
geance being partially satisfied, he sat down and began
eating some breakfast, apparently quite calmed. In the
room, and attendant upon the sick woman, was the
deceased, who was a cripple and used a crutch. During
the breakfast she happened to make some remark about
the ill-treatment of his wife, upon which Burrows seized
a long-handled hammer, used for stone-breaking in the
roads, and attempted to strike her. So great was her ter-
ror at seeing this that she manaued without ber crutch to
get from the house and into that of a neighbour named
Adams, and, going into his bedroom,t sought his protec-
tion.s Adams got up and took h
arms, but no sooner had he done soe rhoaonr
Burrows creature
i n
rushedhi
w
into the room armed with the hammer andwhilst the
ceased was in Adams's arms struck he; three
blows
on the
head, completely breaking in the skull, and causing the
brain to protrude. Her death was instantaneous. Bur-
rows than turned upon Adams, and aimed a blow..
at
skull, which he providentially missed ; and Adams, rush-
ing"
past him, escaped by leaping the entire flight of
stairs, and running out into the road, where he raised an
alarm. Burrows quickly followed him down stairs, and
again attempted to strike him on the head with the ham-
mer. Adams, however, having avoided the blow, and
some of the neighbours coming up, Burrows kept them
at bay. Having threatened any one with instant death
who should oppose him, however, and swearing that he
meant to take the life of his wife, he compelled those
round him to give way, and walked off to find her ; but
three working men who had watched him turn his back
came from behind, and, throwing him to the ground,
got the hammer from him, though not before they had
been much hurt by his kicks. They then procured a
strong rope and bound his legs. The constable by this
time arrived, bringing with him the handcuffs and leg-
irons, and ultimately the prisoner was secured. They
then returned to look after the deceased, whom they
found lying where she first fell, quite dead, and sur-
rounded with so much blood that it seemed all she pos-
sessed had oozed from her body. Two surgeons from
Leighton were speedily upon the spot, but their services
were unneeded except to render some assistance to the
other persons who had been so furiously attacked. The
prisoner's father, an old man apparently verging upon
70, was most fearfully lacerated and bruised about the
face from the violence done to him by his son.
The prisoner, after he found himself secured, made a
variety of grimaces, and affected to be insane, but the
two medical gentlemen who saw the attempt pronounced
it to be a most clumsy act, and it was a matter of doubt
whether lie had even been drinking.
Re was ultimately conveyed to the Woburn lock-up,
and the police having taken up the inquiry have dis-
cw7_sred grounds for suspecting that the attack upon his
int: ‘,van not the result of a quarrel, but a preconcerted
nt to murder her, and that having been foiled in that
he had wreaked his bloodthirsty vengeance upon the
poor unoff
ending creature who lies a corpse, mangled in
a manner horrible to think of. Prisoner's last regular
employment was with Mr. Bassett, the banker, of Leigh-
ton, and upon l
woman, who thoeuatg that service he ran away with a
which recently feft him a single man, but from letters
truth, and the intoexistence her hands she found out the
their acquaintance. is
sf the wife was deemed a bar to
d he had met this woman
on the night of:the murder,
his wife,
faaei
and was afterwards heard to
utter threats against
It appears that when his victim first gained the interior
of Adams's cottage, she had time to r the door against
him, and that he struck it with such force that the ham-
tmearing away all the fas tenier went right through th
ngs.e door, forcing it open, and
The deceased, whose name was Charity Glemister,
a widow, her husband having been killed by a fatlllvaosi
sand in a pit some years since. She leaves several chil-
dren, but none very young.
Contrary to the usual custom, no officer or official Wag
left in care of the corpse, which lay upon a bed in the
room where the deed was committed.
The place where the deed has been committed is one
of a few small old-fashioned cotter houses, about a mile
and a quarter from Leighton, on the Woburn road.

EXTENSIVE EURGLAET.—ScarceIy had the above me-
lancholy affair become generally known, when a fresh
cause for excitement occurred in the town, namely, the
robbery, by some London thieves, of the shop of Mr.
Matthews, watchmaker, of the High-street. Between
Friday night and Saturday morning they had effected an
entrance from the first floor window, drugged the two
clop, lit the gas in the shop, and swept off all they
could find, many being valuable watches left to repair.
The plunder is estimated at 1,6001. No clue to the
thieves has been obtained.