The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

UEEN-SQ UARE.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT OF A HUSBAND TO MURDER HIS
WlFE.—Philip Gamp, a Geri an, about forty years of
age, was on Thursday placed at the bar before D. W.
GREGORIE, Esq., charged with inflicting several severe
wounds with a knife on the person of his wife.
The unfortunate sufferer, N'vho has great pretensions to
personal attractions, was brouglia in a coach from St.
George's Hospital, and, in consequence of weakness, was
accommodated with a chair.

Martha Gamp resided at No. 62, South-street, Chelsea,
and has been married to the prisoner eight years. His
conduct latterly has been so strange and incoherent as to
attract her attention. It had been particularly so for the
last six weeks. On last Friday week she remarked that he
carried a knife in the breast pocket of his coat. Witness

inquired why he did so, remonstrated on the impropriety,
and added, " Pray put it away ; you know I don't like it."
He replied, " If you charge me again I shall stab you with
it."—( Witness had never given evidence against him, or
complained of him in any way.) But he said otherwise
he would not hurt a hair of her head. On Saturday week
at half-past twelve at night he went to bed, but expressed
his fears that somebody would take him into custody in the
course of the night. A few minutes afterwards she saw
him fidgetting the knife about, but at that moment he did
not feel any apprehension for her own safety, but she was
afraid that he would injure himself. She got out of bed
and said, seeing that he still had the hand on the handle of
the knife, " You wouldn't hurt me; you wouldn't do as
the man did at Pentonville ?" At this moment he struck
her a very violent blow on the side of the head, and from
that moment she was insensible. He had only been a few
weeks out of an institution for lunatics.

The wife was then removed, and in passing the dock was
considerably agitated. She exclaimed, " Oh, my dear,
dear husband, how could you do so ?" It was with diffi-
culty that she was removed, but he did not appear conscious
of her presence.
The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial.
William King Kent, a person who has been in the em-
ploy of his Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests
as a deputy surveyor, was yesterday placed at the bar for
re-examination, charged with having embezzled the sum of
5,0001.
Mr. William Marsh Round, Accountant to the Corn-
' miisioners of Woods and Forests, proved that it was the
prisoner's duty to account for the felling of timber, and the
whole of the moneys received by public sales or by private
contract. He had in short to account for the whole of the
produce of the forest, and those accounts were to be ren:.
dered quarterly, and made up annually. There was a de-
ficiency in an account of the 11th of April, 1833. In
1834, when the prisoner had absconded, Mr. Turner, de-
puty surveyor of the New Forest, was sent down, and in
examining the accounts the discrepancies were discovered.
Mr. Palmer, a tanner, of Olney, Bucks, proved the buy.
ing of a quantity of bark. It was on the 11th of April,
1833. He paid the prisoner in the respe.ctive sums of
22/. 15s. ; 17/. 125..; 71. 10s. 6d. ; 181.75. 6d. ; 241. ss. ;
and 21/. 2s. 6d.; amounting in all to 1111. 12s. Gd. for the
six lots.
Mr. Round produced the account supplied by the pri-
soner of the receipt of the respective sums to the Commis-
sioners. He had thus accounted.for them :-15/. Bs. 6d. ;
91. 17s. ; 4/. 18s. ; 12/. ss. ; 141. 17s. ; 161. ss. ; making
a deficiency of 38/. 2s. on this charge. It will appear that
not one of the sums are entered to their full amount.
Mr. Thomas Jones, of Hartwell, Northamptonshire,
tanner, in May, 1833, purchased. back to the amount of
46/. 10s., and paid to the prisoner 11/. 45., and the re-
mainder to Mitchel, an assistant of Kent's. There ap-
peared to be in this account a deficiency of 23/. Bs.
John Mitchel, one of the woodreeves, proved paying the
money which he had received over to kent. There were
some accounts of wages, but they did not interfere with
the stated embezzlement. In examining Hartwell Lodge,
the official residence of the prisoner, at Salsey, he found
a book, containing the bona fide amount of sales, and ano-
ther the amounts which he had furnished to the Commis-

sioners.
After a lengthened discussion, the parties were bound
over to prosecute at the Central Criminal Court.

Monday next is fixed for a grand dinner of the
Conservatives of the western division of Devonshire. It is to
take place in Exeter.
BONE MANURE.--Years have now elapsed since
it was currently said of an application which, however unpro-
mising in appearance, is most potent in reality, that it had
added ss. per acre to the value of all the light and sharper
soils in the south of Scotland • but that, we suspect, was too
low a figure, and wherever the land is of easy access to man
and beast, three half crowns or a trifle more may be safely sub-
stituted for the former number. Portability in manures, as
in many things else, is a leading virtue ; and wherever the ele-
vation of the land is such as to oppose an insurmountable bar-
rier to the transport and application of ashes, cow, and stable
dung, it would be difficult to sat limits to the value of an ar-
ticle the qualities of which were so long hidden that few
things in the world were considered more proverbially worth-
less than " dry bones." But mark the change. Steeps which
for centuries grew nothing but grass, and grass too of inferior
quality, are now covered in regular rotation with turnips, oats,
barley, and even wheat ; and allowing for some difference of
climate (the effect of which is felt more or less in backward
seasons) are all but undistinguishable from the plains below.
It is considered a good plan to deposit in drills or furrows
common manure first, and then spread a sprinkling of bones
on the top. In this way there is action and re-action, and the
fermentation natural to the one article affects the other fa-
vourably by bringing its latent virtues sooner into play. In
some parts of England two quarters per acre, or sixteen
bushels, is considered sufficient, and a writer in the Marie Lane
Express strongly recommends mixing crushed bones with coal
ashes passed through a riddle, that the finer parts may be
taken and the rougher rejected. From all this it is plain that
extreme portability is the leading virtue of bone manure, and
there can be no doubt that it is on the strength of this quality
chiefly that so many upland hills and steeps in almost every
county in Scotland, previously bare even of blades, have been
reclaimed almost from a state of nature to a state of great and
growing fertility—vastly to the augmentation of the agricul-
tural wealth and resources of the country, —Dumfries Courier-