The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-28 00:00:00

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ELECTION OF VESTRYMEN..

Frilly, pursuant to the provisions of Sir irdrierllobhouse's Local
Act, a public rneet!ng of the parishioners of St, George, Hanove
square, was held in the scheol.room of the workhottse,
toun t,strrer Persons
to
Gros'venor.square, for the purpose of electing fit and pr:
servc. the office of vestrymen and auditors for the ensuing Year' re-
Mr. Thomas Wilson and Lord Grimston, the churehwardeng,
sided, and having stated the objects of the meeting,
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Mr. CHAPPEL, the vestry clerk, then stated that the number d required
to be elected for the present year was thirty four vestrymen,.
an • five
rej
auditors of accou ts.
A or t discus:lon havin,-; ensued as to the merits of several Ilfdtedh:
candidates, the folbwing list of gentlemen were moved and sC°"cteci,
and, having been carried, the chtvcit wardens declared them elolY ,
namely, the Marquis of Ercadalbane, Park-lane ; Marquis of Salikutriy;
ArlingtOn-street; the Right Hon. Lord Cowley, Grosvenor.street
Right Hon. Sir Stratford Canning, Grosvenor-square;
Right Hon. -
P.
Robert Dawson, Upper Giesvenor.street; Right Hort. R. Clive,villc
,'Grosvrnor-stuct ; General Gascl.Vne, South- Audley-street ; Gren
Berkeley, Esq., Wilton-crescent ; I'. Wilson, Esq., Eccleston-streoetvt,
ut,
W. Ewalt, Esq., Eaton-pl.:cc ; John Taylor, Esq., Knightsbridge; h
Frederick Tinkey, Esq., Ilerkeley-square; Charles Hanbury TracY'r„;;
M P., Dover..trret ; Mr. Henry Noley Turner, Upper I3elgrare•P '_,,,
Thomas Cuudy, Chester-5(0::e; Thomas Postaus, Brewer-street,
iico ; John Gunter, Berkeley square ; John James Thornhill, I,levigb
str,:et ; John Smith, New anicl-street ; James Stewart, AlbemarLe-streed,
Thomas Hodgkinson, New Bond-street; Bynan Wilkinson, Oxford,
street ; Charles Edward Clarke, Lower Grosvenor-stteet ; John
Conduit-street ; William Giblett, New Bond-street ; 'Swan NO.', „Toy
ford-street; Giles Redmayne, New Bond.street ; Harry PhilltPa,th
Bond-street ; Stephen Lewis, Regent-street ; William Goslett,
Molten-street; Thomas Gill, I.ower Brook-street; John Goldicotv
Clarges street; Wright Ingle, Chapel.street ; and WilliamWilliamClark,
inercial-rood. Joseph

Fon Auntrons.—Mr. Edward Bailey, Mount-street ; Dfr• et:
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Cowell, Terrace, Pimlico ; Mr. Bene. Uper Eaton-str_r
Mr. John llenry Wagstaff,, neeadilly ;dict and B
Mr.aker, Thopmas Brockell, _

Bond-street.
Thanks having been paned to the Churchwardens for their
• "UlPOtia
conduct in the Chair, the meeting separated.

EXECUTION OF MRS. JEFFREY'

FOR MURDER.

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This morning the sentence of death pronounced upon Mrs. Jettle„„l'
at the late assizes in Glasgow, was carried into effect at the usual pw.:
of exceteion: be remembered that she was convicted of o'l
nistering poison to 11. Munro, a Highland miner,
and Mrs. Carl, Id
both resided as lodgers in her house in Carluke. The evidence adalf
a;:ainst her was circumstantial, but conclusive, and established again'
her-to oof the most hideous murders to be met with in the criminal ea;
lendar of Scotland. Am. jority of the Jury returned a verdict again.A
her, tethough, for snme reason hitherto unexplained, they
it with an unanimous recommendatlon of her to mercy. She heard
the
condemnation unmoved. During her subsequent imprirSonment,
chief object of her solicitude was the result of the 'application for 7,1
clemency of the Crown. Shy was throughout cold and ieservecl 3
on the subject of the murders always maintained thc tit.r°l7s,
caution—weighing, apparently, the import of every word tha",„;
accorePtor:
was about to expre2-s. She continued to assert hel innereneib'
and her statements, which were uniformly consiitent
In
themselves, and with her declarations prddueed at the trial, Were he
effect that she could not recount for the death of the woman—that s
hod repaid Munro his money, and that his death must have been
ducal by arsenic being accidentally mixed with the food he ate at
fast. She was visited by several of the city clergymen and other re,
individua's, to whose instructions, and admonitions she listened
spect, but manifested no symptoms of penitence. When alone she ""tba
sionally employed herse:f in reading the Bible. In the meantirne,_lo
Jury united in sending a petition in her favour to Government, %O'er,'
was second, d by another float several hundreds of citizens,on the elope
ground of opposition to capital punishments. Afterevery ground orutto
had Leen -removed from the wretched woman ou Saturday by
sbe
arrival of the answer to the second petition in her behalf'
still entertained au expectation that -a reprieve wound Wive,. al.
ten'ay. -She was much downcast by the disappointment, bo.rd-o,
lied oc-asionally, as she had done on .Friday and S3tUalter'
Indeed her mind seems to have been exclusively occupied with
~dive
ations of hope and d:seondency even to the last. The only rel who
who visited her as far. as we could learn, was her husbandsnirig,
walked from Carluke last night, and reached her cell this Inerdher
about half past two o'clock, where he remained till four. ne "gt:tiorls
strongly to confess if she was guilty, and she replied with prate.; c
scat
of innocence., and avowed her resolution to repeat them on Vof her
fold. She gave her husband some directions as to the diFposat
Nas
rings and clothes, and parted with him coldly. The poor eirled to
confused and stupitied, and the interview between thern is reP:
have been without excitment on either part. The fry 1!° 'to the
cipal Macfarlane, the Rev. 'Mr. Fowler, and the ChaPla'll„and
gaol, attended her from an early hour in the went"
cti, the
accompanied her to the seam Id. About eight ards
Magistrates entered the Court Hall, and shortly afkr t. for
Mrs Jefll ey was brought up from • her ern. She 5a.,.", fo
a few minutes, and was addressed in whispers by' her attends.; waS
whom she only repaed by a shake of her head. The iMPressi.,°s alto"
that she persisted ill asserting her innocence. Her conduct "'degree
te'ller cold, reserved, and unsatisfactory; and she maintainetlfra,o her
of firmness not usual in the tame circumstances. On the sea devil
Mt :Wants engaged in prayer, and she apparently continued o
o" over-
lion for some time after they had retired. The sequel was s„, oaf at
Jeffrey was not a repulsive looking woman; indeed her festuriiated "
nt
one period have appeared handsome. She seems to have hcen c
,utoe r
her neigl.bours for her revengeful spirit,h and the public "lost of l'e
hevidence of her clogge resolution ad heartlprevious to to essness, burial °-
ad was taken for thd e Phrenological Society, bied oft
her body wlthin the precinct of the gaol. The crowd that ass?'lll
f
he occasion was enormous.— Scottish Guardian of Monday last.

flees
The duchy of Luxemburg extends over a sur,ru, to
of 126,000 German miles, and has 342,000 inhabitants. Arenr*:ha.
the article.., Holland is to have 46 000 square miles, and 134,000 le
bitants; and Belgium 80,000 square miles, with 158,000 inhabitant f
Limburg contains 86,000 square miles, with 383,000 inhabitants, °,
which 30,000 'Mies awl 156,000 inhabitants are to belong to Hollann'
and 50,000 miles, with 287,000 inhabitants, to Belgium. Nearly thc
whcle of Luxemburg and Limburg are imbedded, as it were, in Belgiulf;
and berm:, arises the difficulty of making the partition.—Casscl GOO'
LAW.—If a man give you a black eye you 'Ile:,
If.m ray for it; but if he put out your eye you get nothinfr, and
J°l
ever is talon from him goes nominally to the King; really LO
Stokes or Jack Nokes, who has no concern at all in the matter. If a"
kill your pig you get the value of it; but if lie kill your
child you get nothing: if anything is got out of h'm it goes to A Arne,
as before. A man sets your house on fire; if by misfortune,
ceive amends ; if through malice, you receive nothing —B.entha"jA"
A CUNNING ICOGUE.—A clerk, going uc',„g
- d peer° .
Wall.strect to make a deposit, had his bankbook peering an
from his coat pocket, while he stopped to gaze, at the numerou! ui,
catures near the new Custom-Hodse. A well-dressed rogue earn_edio-
ivife or
_l°,o,
behind him quietly, and, while winking and smiling to the m0b,:."1, out
viting them by signs to look at a neat trick, he slipped the bank-b_ox to
of the pocket of the clerk, took out the notes, and returned the nu _ the
the pocket without disturbing the clerk, who was still gazing. A of
pictures. The bystanders, believing him to be an intimate's frieled
at
the clerk, were I.ighly tickled at the trick, and laughed and nc:_head,
theanticipated surprise of the clerk. The rogue walked siovil cajoin
turned smilingly to the crowd, put his finger on his lips t? thus
silence, and actually disappeared with a large sum in bank-noLee'; who
obtained openly, while hundreds were looking on. No one Ic°_,,vet A
he was, nor has the money been recovered. It was a bold, s"".
most dexterous robbery.—American Paper. ago'
NEWSPAPERS.—Since the reduction ten too
the annual consinnption of stamps has arisen inns,o,° front
19,000,000 to 29,000,000 ; in the English provincial teviLlo,ooo;
8,000,000 to 14,000,000 ; in Scotland (mom 2,500,000 to 4,°'
and in Ireland only from 5,100,000 to 5,c00,000. . 1 d bee°
TELL A GOOD'UN."—A person who d, to a
to London, was describing a large dinner which he had atteeneetot of
country friend, when; in order to give him a good idea of tli
7:01.
th
the dinner, he said—" It took twenty men five hours tO FP"
cloth." 0011
Oil Saturday an inquest was held at the Ile child,r
-public.house, Old Brentford, on the body of a nesv-hnilt ficartry Afte
blind under the following circumstances :—lt appeared that So oon!
five o'clock on Thursday Morning, a man in the employ of jr.A.' 7f0t103
coal-merchant, of Kew Bridge Foot, while watering his 11011 e
a parcel tied up in a blue handkerchief under one of the archesh;%o the
pody
Middlesex side, which, on being opened, was found to contain t wbene.
of the deceased. It was immediately taken to the station hense'ofern
it was examined by Mr. Radcliffe, one of the surgeons atilt!, had bee,.n
UniOn, who gave it as his opinion that it was full grown' a...": 0 /fe.;
born alive. The jury, alter considerable consultation, retttr"3 Un 0
die tthat "The deceased child had been found indecently el'°ooo,
an arch of Kew Bridge, and it appeared not to have been still ot, b°w'
its death to tient-Y.:en caused by neglect, whether wilful or °-
ever, there is no evidence to show." . -nagge
Ja°
On Saturday last Mrs. Colgrave, of Great ;fief
. $
brought up a bottle from the cellar; which she supposed to con,
Aving
wine, made by her aunt, since dead. She uncorked the bottle,!,,g oen
glas;, of the liquid to her three children and her brother, and tacsr'e „Jon
to herself. Its the course of a short time the whole family g
ill, and a medical man was sent for, who, finding then' snire,fnolotig
the effects of mineral poison, administered such antidotes as
Tit to coP4
necessary, and on analysing the contents of the bottle he foon° s°
tai' extract of lead: The youngest daughter died the sanie.
the others remain in great danger.—Chester Chronicle. •

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Corn -
T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith. &c., 47, ffiereh
London (Seven Doors from Gracechurcii-street), inforwoi; GOP(
lie, that he has a considerable variety of SECOND-HATIt4S
WATCHES, any of which he offers at EIGHT GI L' —1
They have all been carefully examined, and are evarrautet.
'Watches purchased in exchange.

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BIRTHS. 13.
On the 21st inst., in Gloucester-place, the lady of
of fat°ll-
- of a.daoghter, still-Loin.
On the 23d iust., the lady of C. R. Pemberton, s‘l"'
of 1)•
place, of a son. e lady ,
On the 23d inst., in the Sanctuary, Westminster, ill i„
Wilk
C. Humfrey, Esq., of a daughter. . J a
On the 234 inst., in Wii;npole-street, the lady a •
;Ay of 11'
son, Esq daughter.
0n the 23d inst., in Albion-street, Hyde-park, the 1
Rel.
Melville Esq., o
in f a daughter. , the
be
On th'e 16th st., at the Vicarage, Watford, the lady °
James Clutterbuck, of a son. __

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MA RR !ED. 1101er
On the 23d inst., at St, John's, Holloway, gr. 'IV% the on 1Y
of Rectory place, Stoke Newington to Elizabeth Ar 4.050%
daughter of Jamess Shaddack, F.sq., of Great Griostea yvvii. Faso
At Hoye, near Brighton, on the 21st inst. Captain martin, ,
shawe Martin, R.N., eldest son of Admiral inst., j3yan; svickwort'
Sophia, second daughter of Richard Hurt, Es+, '2"
Derbyshire.

On the 22d inst., aged
(oDmIEDh.
f Wtns'
.-, . att ew aI ,
worth-common. A 91,
Ch le Esq., 6
On the 17th inst., at Dartmouth Grove, Blackheath, accouth'
Mrs.Newnharn, widow of Thomas Newnhai' n, Esq., late °1 .
borough, near Bromley, Kent. f 00135
On the 17th in ,in Bedford-square, Lucy, wife c'' Th
square,
Starkie, Esq., Q. C.. Ts k Ile.
On the 20th inst., Emily Ann Gw - f South -an '
) nne, o
Pk'
gent's-park, aged 42.
On the 12th inst., Eleonora, wife of Whalley Artnitaget
of Mot aston, Herefordshire. r
On the 12th inst., at Jersey, Major-General Archibald CBll°
hell, C. 8., Lieutenant- Governor of that island. ii. tb i
On the 14th inst., at W. 1 101 aged 86 • John iees
me more- t , ,
Esq., Surgeon, Rins.. ectt
On the I3th N -, of Chaltoo•t., John Matthews, Esq •,
Somers-town, aged t 37. deg
On the 15th inst., agcd two years, Thomas Benton, young.. e‘
son of Owen Evans, surgeon, of Weymouth-street, Portland-Pl°

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