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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1849

plained of the dismissal of a gentlemen from
office in a colony from party motives. The town-clerk of
Stockport had no more notion of his dismissal than Mr.
Fairbanks had, nor had he committed any greater offence.
He considered it very wrong in municipal authorities to
dismiss, and a very great hardship on municipal officers
to be dismissed, merely from party motives.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'clock.

NEW MEMBER.
Mr. MUNDY' took the oaths and his seat for Derby-
shire. The Hon. Member was introduced by Mr. Packe
and Mr. Fuller.

THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time :—Notting-
ham Gas ; Roxburghshire and Berwickshire Roads
Amendment; Waldy's Divorce.
PETITIONS.

Mr. WALTER presented a petition from Nottingham
praying for an alteration in the law of settlement.
Mr. DISRAELI presented a petition from Nova
Scotia signed by six hundred persons, stating that the
honour of the Crown had been violated by the Secretary
for the Colonies, in scrutinizing the removal of certain
officers and magistrates by the Colonial Legislature, and
praying that such a constitution might be granted to the
colony as would give to the people a just control over the
management of public affairs.
Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from several
places in Scotland against the Registration Bill for
Scotland.

Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from the
Primitive Methodists of Salford in favour of international
arbitration.

Mr. BOUVERIE presented several petitions praying
for the liberation of Mr. Shore.

Mr. COWAN presented a petition from the Edin-
burgh Financial Reform Association praying for a re-
duction in the national expenditure ; also, a petition
from the county of Haddington in favour of interna-
tional arbitration ; and, a petition from the paper
manufacturers of Edinburgh praying for the abolition
of the duty upon paper; also a petition from a Baptist
congregation in Edinburgh in favour of the Affirmation
Bill.

Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from Ire-
land in favour of tenant-right; also one from the Wes-
leyan Methodists of Rochdale, in favour of a measure to
prohibit trading in seduction.
Sir E. BUXTON presented a petition in favour of the
measure to allow clergymen to secede from the Church.
Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition to the same effect;
also three petitions in favour of international arbitration.
Lord RENDLESHAM presented a petition from
Norfolk, praying for the repeal of the malt-tax.
Mr. G. THOMPSON presented a petition from
Southwark in favour of international arbitration.

Mr. MULLINGS presented a petition praying for the
abolition of parochial settlements and assessments, and
for the establishment of a national poor-rate upon all de-
scriptions of realised property.
CONFINEMENT FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT.

Mr. HUMS moved for a return of persons who are at
present confined for contempt of court in any of her Ma-
jesty's gaols in Great Britain and Ireland, under process
issuing out of all courts, civil and ecclesiastical; stating
the time at which, and by what court, each person was
committed, and the cause of committal. Also, return of
all persons who were in confinement for contempt of
court in March, 1839, and of all persons
who have been imprisoned for contempt of court
in those gaols in each year since 1839; stating severally
the names, the cause or grounds of imprisonment, the
amount of debts or costs for which imprisoned, and the
date of discharge (in continuation of Parliamentary
Paper, No. 278, of Session 1839).—Agreed to.
4; ARBITRATION.

Mr. LABOUCHERE presented a petition in favour
of international arbitration.

Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from a
congregation of Protestants at Birmingham to the same
effect.

The HON. MEMBER also presented a petition, praying
for the superannuation of poor-law officers.
ABOLITION OF FLOGGING IN THE NAVY.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from a person in
the navy against the punishment of flogging.
POLICIES OF ASSURANCE BILL.
On the motion of Mr. FAGAN, the following Com•
mittee was appointed:—Mr. William lapin, Mr. At-
torney-General, Mr. Mackinnon, Mr. Roundell Palmer,
Mr. Headlam, Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. 'Wood, Sir H.
Willoughby, Sir Edward North Buxton, Mr. Napier,
Mr. Coles, Sir William Verner, Mr. Spooner, Mr.
O'Flaherty, and Mr. Mullings.
POOR--LAW.

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Mr. WODEHOUSE gave notice that on an early day
after Easter he should call the attention of the House to
the establishment charges under the poor-law, with the
view of their being further provided fur out of the Con-
solidated Fund.

add to the fund of information already before the public.
Now let him direct attention to the Cuff-street Savings'
Bank. It was established in 1818, and the usual com-
plement of trustees, managers, and actuaries were ap-
pointed. They opened, under the authority of an
Act of Parliament, an account with the Com-
missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt,
and the bank continued to receive deposits from the
public, and exhibited all the various signs of inward
prosperity, from that period of 1818 until that of 1831.
On one occasion the deposits exceeded 300,0001., while
they were seldom under 200,0001. In February of the
year 1831 the officer called the actuary absconded,
and it was found that he had been guilty of malversation
of the money of the Bank, a full statement of the de-
linquencies and of the frauds he had committed,
were transmitted to the Commissioners for the
reduction of the national debt in London,
and that central authority departed, a gentleman
who had become notorious not only in Eng-
land but in Ireland, namely, Mr. Tidd Pratt, to visit the
Cuffe-street savings' bank in order to inquire into and
report upon the frauds, and to decide upon the best
course to be adopted for the interest of the depositors.
The trustees of that day were different to the trustees
of 1847, and were all solvent and respectable individuals.
Mr. Tidd Pratt entered upon an investigation of the
affairs of the bank, and found a deficit of 8,000!., which
had been received by the actuary and not accounted for.
Having tinkered up the affairs in the best way be could,
he returned and informed the then Chancellor of the Ex.
chequer. The trustees wished to wind up the bank, to
divide the assets Pro-rata among the depositors, and to
clean their hands of the whole matter, but Mr. Tidd
Pratt told them as they had good credit to keep
it open, and depend upon making up the deficit by the
surplus profits. From a statement of the bank accounts
it appeared that, in 1832, the profits over and above the
expenses amounted to 4,4764 10s. 5d., but in the follow-
ing year, in consequence of fraud and peculation, there
' was a deficiency of 3,671/. 12s. 3d., and from
that year it gradually increased until 1849, when
the deficiency amounted to nearly 33,0001. From
1832 to 1847 the Chancellors. of the Exchequer
were cognizant of the fact that the bank in Cuffee-street
was insolvent, and could not pay 105. in the pound, and
yet they allowed the poor hard-working mechanics of
Dublin, who denied themselves the necessaries of life in
order that they might save something from their earnings
to be defrauded of their earnings.—(Hear.) A com-
mittee sat in Dublin for some days, the depositors were
called before them, when it appeared that the sum of
32,000/. was due to them, which was subsequently
swelled on inquiry to 48,0004; and, in fact, 50,0004
was due to 1,664 persons from the two trustees
where securities would not be taken in any bank in
Ireland for 1,0001. All the money placed to that credit
of the bank in the Bank of Ireland was but 821. He
complained that Mr. Pratt was a flippant individual,
and had calumniated the people of Ireland by
saying in a letter to the Treasury from Tralee
that he regretted many of the depositors had placed
money in that bank in order to avoid the payment of
their rents, and that many were subsisting upon charity
and receiving out-door relief, and that they had been
guilty of perjury and of subornation of perjury in order
to substantiate their claims. Mr. Tidd Pratt had said he
examined many of the depositors upon oath, and Mr.
Tidd Pratt charged them with subornation of perjury,
and when he was asked what subornation of perjury
meant he could not translate the offensive term.—
(Laughter.) Now he (Mr. Reynolds) called that whole-
sale calumny. Let him then call attention to the
Cuffe-street depositors. He knew Mr. Tidd Pratt
had been trying his hand at calumniating them too.
He should read for the information of the House the
classes of persons to whom that money was due, and
then the House would say whether they ought
to be so calumniated. The number of depositors
in the St. Peter's Savings' Back, Cuffe.
street, Dublin, under 11. was 59 ; under
21., 71; under 34, 56; under 41., 72; under 51., 92; under
101, 193; under 15/, 175; under 201., 131; under 251,
125; under 301., 82; under 404, 143; under 504, 190;
under 601., 62; under 701., 38; under 801, 27; under 904,
24; under 1001., 21; under 1101, 14; under 1201., 16; un-
der 130, 17; under 140/., 11; under 1501., 8; under 1691.,
11 ; under 170/., 3 ; under 180/., 10 ; under 190/., 7 ;
under 1954 4 ; under 2004, 4 ; and under 237/. and
2804, I—making the total depositors in the Cuffe-
street Savings' Bank, whose deposits were under
150/., 1,617 ; and, with those that varied from
1501. to 2004, making a grand total of 1,665.
The average sum for each depositor was as close as pos-
sible 27/. Then the House of Commons would be able
to estimate the wide spread misery which the failure of
Cuffe-street bank had occasioned. He was not anxious
to harrow up the feelings of the Member of that House,
but he was bound to say that the scenes of human
misery which he had witnessed within the last
eighteen months in the city of Dublin, and which
had grown out of the failure of that bank, were,
he believed, unparalleled in the history of human
suffering.—(Hear.) He knew an industrious bookseller
who had contrived by great self-denial to save a little
money, and a man with a wife and seven children
That poor man had lodged about 1501. in that
bank, which was his whole all. His anxiety
of mind consequent upon the failure of the
bank, brought on brain fever, which ultimately
turned to typhus, and he died, leaving his wife and seven
children penniless, and five of those children were now
ill of typhus.—(llear, hear.) He knew, too, of some
cases of suicide which had occurred from the same cause.
Here, then, were 1,664 persons practically working out
the principle of self-reliance by accumulating
50,000/., and intrusting it in a bank which
was believed to afford Government security.
A case of gross fraud had been practised, but the trus-
tees had denied their liability, and a mandamus
had been sued for and denied. Another man-
damus had been sued for, which it was in-
tended should either establish or entirely disprove
of the liability :off the trustees of savings banks.—
(Hear, hear. He begged the particular attention
of the Right Honourable Baronet the Chancellor of
the Exchequer to this part of the result of those
inquiries. The decision of the Court was that they had
no power whatever to interfere. The arrangements lay
between the trustees and the commissioners of the
national debt, and under the Act of 1844, there
seemed to be no power to interfere. A verdict
which had just been given at Tralee, seemed to
confirm this decision. There was no power to institute
an investigation into the books, and the only persons
entitled to make any investigations were the Commis-
sioners of the National Debt, and even so far as they were
concerned, it must be a matter of private arrangement.
between them and the trustees of the particular bank to
which any reference was made. In order to render any
,rustees liable it was necessary, under the act of
1844, thst they should give their consent in writing to
become responsible. A question on this point had
been submitted to Mr. Tidd Pratt upon this subject, in
which it was stated that out of the 50,000/. for which
the bank had originally been indebted, the amount
of the debt had been reduced to 37,000/. since
1844.—(Hear.) The Honourable Gentleman then read
various extracts from a correspondence between Mr.
Egam and the official of the Commissioners for the
National Debt, showing in the first place that the on
ginal debt would if proper care had been taken of the
assets have been reduced to as low as 27,7224, and in
which a request was made to send a professional accoun-
tant down to investigate the circumstances, and to un-
ravel the several details, but that assistance was refused.
It was in evidence that the trustees had neglected to put
their balance sheets in the bank in Dublin, in order that
the depositors should not know that they had been
robbed; and for that neglect the Commissioners for
the reduction of the National Debt were responsible,
By the Parliamentary return it appeared that there were
1,364 depositors in this very bank, while the total
number of depositors in Dublin exceeded 20,000.
(Hear, hear.) He would not speak of this in any
angry tone, but he was desirous of improv-
ing the law in order that the minas banks
might be what they were intended for, namely, a place
for the safe keeping of the earnings of the poor, which
they were not now.—(Hear, hear.) He held in his
hand a paper, by which it appeared that in all
Ireland the number of depositors in 1844 were
91,243 whose aggregate gainings amounted to 1,749,0171.,
but if they had a return for the present year, so great
had been the doubt created in the public mind as
to athese banks by the Cuffee-street disclosures, he
very much feared the figures would be greatly reduced,
By the same paper it appeared that the number of de.
positories in England and Scotland on the 3oth of No-

vember, 1844, was 1,120,047, who had lodged with the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt,

no less a sum than 31,275,6361.—(Hear, hear.) Now,
tho House having indulged him ao long, for which
he felt more than thankful, and for which he felt it was

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hardly necessary for him to offer any apology, as the
subject was one of great importance. He would just
recapitulate the facts connected with this bank. It was

established in 1818, continued prosperous until 1831, but
it was insolventfrom that period until 1844, as the return
of the trustees to the Commissioners of the National Debt
showed that at the first there was a deficiency of 3,7001.
and ie 1847 of upwards of 32.0001., and yet the Com-
missioners had not the courage to put a stop to the pro-
ceedings of the managers. The Hon. Member concluded
by imploring the House to agree to the appointment of a
Committee.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. NAPIER seconded the motion, and said he could
hardly think, after the able and lucid statement of
The Honourable Member for Dublin, that there could
be any reasoonable doubt whatever that this was a
fit case for a full and searching inquiry be-
fore a Committee of the House. The whole
facts had been so fully and correctly stated, that he
was spared the necessity of entering into any details,
but he wished to refer to one matter, viz., that the
proceedings which were pending in the Queen's
Bench against the trustees would not stand in
the way of an investigation, and he was authorised to
state, on the part of the trustees, that they were desirous
of appearing before the Committee to give any evidence
that might be required of them.
(LEFT SITTING.)

THE WAR IN THE PUNJAUB.
(Extracts from the Journal of a Subaltern in the 2d
Europeans.)

CAMP CIIILLIANWALLA.

JANUARY 15.—Two days have passed over, and, thank
God, I am here to tell you we have had as severe an
action as ever was fought in India. But I will go back,
and give it you all in detail.
On the morning of the 13th we marched at seven
o'clock, struk our tents, took a glass of wine all altogether,
and drank to every man's escape during the anticipated
action. Marched about ten miles, and came upon a
thick jungle, where we were halted about an hour.
The artillery went a-head, and presently we beard
the cannonading commence—bang, bang, went our guns
one after the other, in one continued stunning roar, and
our hearts beat and our pulses quickened with anticipa-

ti&n, The enemy took it up, and a tremendous fire was
kept up for half an hour, when the word came for the
infantry to advance. " Fix bayonets—load—deploy into
line—quick march !" And just then came a roll of
musketry that drove us almost mad. " Quick march
And into the jungle we plunged in line with a deafening
cheer—the roll of musketry increasing every moment.
On we went at a rapid double, dashing through the
bushes and bounding over every impediment. Fester
rolled the musketry, crash upon crash the cannon poured
forth its deadly contents, and down upon them comes
our brigade, and, gaining an open space in the jangle,
the whole of the enemy's line burst on our view.
" Charge !" rang the word through our ranks, and the
mon bounded forward like angry bulldogs, pouring in a
murderous fire. The enemy's bullets whizzed above our
heads—the very air seemed teeming with them. Man
after man was struck down, and rolled in the dust ; but
a passing glance was all we could give them. And on-
ward we went, bearing on their line with a steadiness
which nothing could resist. They fired a last volley,
wavered, and then turned and fled, leaving the pound
covered with dead and wounded.gorsuit in a jungle like
that was useless, where we could not see 20 yards before
us, so we halted, and began to collect our wounded; when
all of a sudden a fire was opened upon us in our rear; a
large body of the enemy had turned our flank in the
jungle, and got between us and the rest of the troops ;
another party were on our left, and we found out selves
with our light field battery completely surround( d and
alone in the field ; the word was given "Right about
face ! " and we advanced steadily, loading and firing as
we went, and the artillery pouring in grape as steadily
as if on parade. If it had not been for that battery we
should have been cut up to a man. The fire was fearful,
the atmosphere seemed alive with balls; I can only com-
pare it to a storm of hail, they rang above my head and
ears so thick that I felt that if I put out my hand it
would be taken off. A man was knocked over on
either side of me, and I expected every moment to be
hit, so incessant was the storm of balls. I thought about
you all, and breathed a short prayer—it was all I
had time for, for we were obliged to be almost every-
where at once, keeping the men in line, which from the
jungle was extremely difficult. Our firing was beautiful,
every man was as steady as a rock, and fired low and
well, while the Sepoys on our right were blazing away
into the air, and taking no aim whatever.
All this time the enemy were dodging about the
bushes, banging away at us, and then disappearing. At
last General Gilbert rode up, and said to Steel, " Well,
Major, how are you? Do you think you are near
enough to charge?" "By all means," said Steel.
" Well, then, let's see how ycu can do it." Men of
the 2cl Europeans, prepare to charge—" Charge!" And
on we went with a stunning cheer. Poor Nightin-
gale was shot in the head, and fell at my feet. I
had just time to order two men to pick him up. The
Seikhs fought like devils. They charged down on us,
singly, sword in hand, and strove to break through our
line—but it was no go; and after a short struggle
we swept them before us and remained masters of
the field. This is only what happened in ona part of
the field. The battle was general all over the line, and
we were in the extreme right, and the thickness of the
jungle prevented our seeing what was going on anywhere
else. We took three of thir guns in our second charge,
and spiked them on the ground. After all was over we
did what we could for our wounded, and a fearful sight
it was, and one to make a man's heart bleed ; poor
fellows lying on the ground and writhing in agony, and
not a doctor or drop of water to be got ; one poor fel-
low in my company was mortally wounded in the
stomach ; another had his leg shot off. The enemy lay
in heaps around—some dead, some dying, but fierce and
untamed even in their dying struglo; numbers of them were
bayonetted by our men in the act of rearing themselves
up and taking aim at the officers. The battle lasted
for three hours, and so maddening was the excitement
that it seemed scarcely half an hour. The chief rode
down our line afterwards; we gave him three cheers,
and proud we were of the praise he gave us. In short
we hare gained ourselves a name. The Brigadier and
Major did all that commanding officers could do; the
colours were carried gallantly by De Mole and Toogood,
the senior ensigns, and were shot through and through.

At sunset we collected as many of our wounded as we
could find, blew up all the ammunition that we had
taken, and moved out of the jungle into the open
ground, where we piled arms and bivouacked on the
ground, and a more wretched night I never passed; it
came on a thick drizzling rain, and we were wet to the
skin; sleep was impossible, and we were almost perish-
ing with thirst, but not a drop of water was to be got.
In my wanderings about in search of it I came upon
the field hospital, and the sight I saw there I shall re-
member to my dying day—poor wounded wretches
lying on the ground without a thing to cover them;
" Water—water—water," was their ceaseless cry, and not
a drop was there to slake their thirst. All the hospital
apparatus was behind, and there was not a single com-
fort for the poor fellows: even medical assistance was
very scarce; many were lying bleeding on the cold
earth for hours without having a soul near them; the
ghastly sight of suffering, the fearful wounds and hideous
gashes that met my eyes, would poison an angel's dreams.
Never was dawn—a miserable and a rainy one as it was
—so welcome.
Jan. 14.—At daybreak the ground was marked out for
an encampment, and we moved up in order. The Chief
rode all along the line and congratulated us on our
success. The way is which the 14th behaved is a black
business, but give them another chance and I would
stake my existence on their doing well. At four o'clock
I went with the rest of the officers to the funeral—
a melancholy office it was. The heavens were black
with clouds, and the rain poured down incessantly.
25 officers were buried in one spot; 13 of the 24th
(Queen's) were brought up one after another, and buried
in one grave. Brigadier Pennycuick and his son were
buried in another. The father was cut down first, and
his son threw himself on his body and was killed there.
Major Christie was buried in the same grave with his
men; they fell together, and now they sleep together in
the bed of glory. Ekins, the lleputy-Adjutant General,
was buried there also. He fell in trying to rally the
14th Dragoons.
JAN. 16.—Still raining—wretched, wretched weather,
and very disheartening to the troops. Went to the hos-
pital—the men arc most of them doing as well as can be
expected. One poor fellow in my company, who was
shot close to me, died in the night. Nightingale is in a
dangerous state, but hopes are held out of him. At four
o'clock we buried poor Walden; the clergyman was un-
able to attend, so I had to read the service over him; the
rain was pouring all the time, and as there was no grave
digger present the men had to fill in the grave with their
hands and bayonets. The enemy's tents are plainly to
be seen on a hill about four miles off. A sepoy, who had
been taken prisoner, was sent back this morning with a
message from Shere Singh. He says that the enemy's
wounded are lying in heaps on the hill without any at-
tendance—left to die of their wounds.
January 17.—A beautiful day, thank God!—the
bright sunshine has come out again, and no one who has
not experienced the misery of wading through a wet
camp with mud up to the ancles can appreciate the
blessing dry weather is to a campaigner. Rode out to
see the battle field—a sickening sight it was. The
enemy had come down in the night, after we left the
ground, and murdered every wounded man. Many of
them had evidently only been hit in the legs, and they
were gashed about in a fearful manner; every man had
his throat cut, and many their heads clean cut off. One
poor man of ours was obliged to be left behind in the
charge, and a lot of the enemy came down and literally
hewed him in pieces. Another, who is now lying,
doing well, in the hospital, was awfully cut about too.
He says that they took him and tossed him up in
the air, to see if he was alive; but, as he himself
quaintly expressed it, he had presence of mind to
be dead. The most fearful sight of all was in front of
the battery where the 24th had been repulsed. 150 of
them lay dead on the ground; they were literally in
heaps. The hideous way they had been mangled by
these inhuman fiends no tongue can describe, and no
mercy will be shown by our infuriated soldiers to any
who may fall in their way. There were immense heaps
of Seikhs lying there too, but they had taken away the
greater number.
Jan. 20—Two of the 9th Lancers who were taken pri-
soners the other clay wero sent back this morning with
Shere Singh's compliments. They seemed rather sorry
to come back, as they had been treated like princes,
plied with champagne and brandy to the masthead, and
sent away with ten rupees each in his pocket. Shore
Singh is evidently providing for the worst, and making
as favourable an impression as he can. The Sirdars are
a fine set of fellows enough; it is only the rabble that
perpetrate alt these atrocities. There are six of their
wounded now in our hospital, and treated with the
greatest care.
Jan. 21.—Divine service at 11 o'clock in the mess
tent; after that, took a walk out to the trenches. There
is a breastwork thrown up along the face of the camp,
interspersed with batteries here and there. Whilst we were
down a lot of the enemy came and attacked our cavalry
picket, and fired at the videttes. However, a 9.pounder
shot, pitched into the middle of them, was very persua-
sive, and they quickly went to the rightabout. We are
expecting an attack every night and day, and are all
ready for them.
Jan. 24.—Toward the evening the Seikhs fired a salute
of 21 guns. Heaven only knows what for; but I sup-
pose some other blackguard has joined them. With the
battery spy-glass one can see beautifully into their camp,
and nice work they are evidently preparing for us.
Large parties aro working away all day, throwing up
defences. A fresh battery appears every day. Walked
out to the advanced picket to see what was going on;
saw a large body of cavalry moving along to the right;
the sun was shining on them, and we could even see the
hilts of the sabres as they flashed in the light.
Jan. 25.—About two o'clock there was an alarm, and
my company was ordered out in advanced picket; took
out my miserable old tent, and arranged ourselves for
the night. However, nothing took place. At sunset we
were visited by the Brigadier, and received orders, in
case of au attack, to hold our position until most of us
were killed, and then retire on the breastwork in rear of
us. At ten o'clock it began to pour with rain, and
lasted, without a lull, all night.
Jan. 26.--Woke at daybreak; still raining violently.
The tent was so flooded that the water was half way up
the legs of my bed; on the top of which I lay, very
much in the position of the ark on Mount Ararat. Not
being able to rise, I made the best of my position, and
went to sleep again. At eight o'clock it ceased, and
the sun came out brightly; the clouds all cleared
away rapidly, and slunk cif as if they were ashamed
of having spent a night in persecuting three harm-
less subalterns and a company of unfortunate Euro-
peans. Fished about till I found a piece of dry
ground, on which I stood to get dry. Breakfasted there,
and then laid down on my bed and read till the sun
had dried up the greater portion of the surrounding
pools. At two o'clock a Royal salute, thundered from
our big guns, announced the welcome intelligence of the
fall of Moultan. At last the place is ours! I was look-
ing through a glass at the Seikh camp at the time, and
As the first report from the heavies came bowing

through the air it Foamed to swarm with human beings.
I could see thousands of them rushing about; they evi-
dantipdid not know what to make of it. Bowie, one of
our Politicals, who was taken prisoner with Herbert,
came into camp to-day with a proposition from Shere
Singh, on parole. Share Singh treats him " like a
brick." He has twenty men to guard him all day and
night; and such is their idea of us that he has a bottle
of brandy plac€d on his breakfast tale every morning.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.
DECLARATION OP DIVIDEND.
J. Peake and T. Hall, Lichfield, ironmonger, 5s 7d.,
on Thursday, March 15, or any subsequent Thursday,
between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Valpy,

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Riley and B. Stott, Manchester, bookbinders and
stationers—J. Whittaker, W. Whittaker, and J. Whit•
taker, Sowerby-bridge, Yorkshire, ironfounders and mill-
wrights—W. J. Cannon and W. P. Browne, solicitors and
attorneys—J. M‘George and R. G. Rose, drapers, St.
John-street-road—W. T. Miskin and R. White, Water•
lane, City, ship and insurance brokers, and Custom
House agents—J. Lewis and T. Turpin, Brighton,
timber and coal merchants—C. Taylor and H. Aylmer,
Manchester, commission agents for cloth and yarns—T.
Walker and E. Holmes, Keighley, Yorkshire, manufac-
turers of anions and other worsted goods—Mary Usborne
and R. Dickeson, Dover, wholesale and retail grocers,
teadealers, and cheesemongers—C. W. Greaves and W.
Greaves, St. John-street, Clerkenwell, teadealers and
grocers—W. W. Brown, J. Whitaker, E. Janson, T. C.
Janson, 11. Oxley, and E. Whitmore, jun., London and
Lewis, bankers (so far as regards E. Whitmore)—C. E.
E. Mousley and F. Lonergan, Port St. Mary, Spain—
Jane Vigor, Mary Vigor, and Matilda Vigor, Bristol,
schoolmistresses (so far as regards Matilda Vigor)—
W. Yeo and G. Shapland, Barnstaple, Devonshire,
teadealers and grocers, dealers in wines, spirits, and
compounds, and ales and porter—W. White, S. Green-
well, W. White, jun., C. G. Collins, and C. Dear,
Watling-street (so far as regards S. Greenwell)—
W. White, 6. Greenwell, and W. White, jun., and C.
G. Collins, Cheapside (so far as regards S. Greenwell)—
W. White, S. Greenwell, D. L. Hubbard, and J. Ro-
binson, Blackfriars-road (so far as regards W. White)—
P. W. Fry, J. Loxley, and P. S. Fry, Cheapside, solici-
tors—W. Gardner and R. Cordner, Stanhope -in-Wear-
dale, Durham, iron, fire, and freestone quarrymen—W.
Welton and D. Gledden, Sunderland wharf, Rotherhithe,
and Greenwich, timber merchants, and dealers
in fire bricks, tiles, slates, stones and coals
—G. L. Graves and W. T. Graves, Iron-
monger-lane, woollen warehousemen—G. Brough-
ton and R. Noakes, Fenehurch-street, button
manufacturers and hardwaremen—T. B. Tyetil and H.
Luscombe, Plymouth, stock and share brokers—A. San-
derson and W. Thompson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, gro-
cers and tea dealers—E. Staunton and T. Cromer, jun.,
Great St. Helen's, general and commission agents.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
John Humber, Potteries, Staffordshire, clogger and pat-
ten maker.
John Punchard, Bootle .cum-Linacre, Lancashire, hair
dresser.
George Chalklen, New Brompton, Kent, beer retailer
and baker.
Thomas Kent, Longton, Staffordshire, beerseller.
Edward Clemmy, Manchester, joiner and builder.
Thomas Hewick, Manchester, boot and shoe maker.
Harry Alexander Small, Haversham, Buckinghamshire,
clerk.
Joseph Towler, Manchester, hatter.
Thomas Fry, Ulcomb, Kent, farmer.
William Edmeads, Mere worth, Ken t, farmer and fruiterer.
John Collins, Lenham, Kent, innkeeper.
John Pigott, Marton, Cheshire, farmer.
Isaac Smith, Keresley, Warwickshire, market gardener.
John Risley, Northampton, baker.
John Payne, Coventry, ribbon weaver.
John Cooper, Coventry, sub-contractor.
Henry Coleman, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, common carrier.
Edward Dawson Stones, Burgh in the Marsh, Lincoln-
shire, ironmonger.
Frederick 0 urnell, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, coach and
__carriage maker.

William—Johnson, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, coach and
carriage maker.
Thomas Halliday, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, currier.
John Marshall, Horncasile, Lincolnshire, brewer's dray-
man.
Joseph Cliffe, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
Jonathan Swallow, Almonbury, Yorkshire, merchant.
Matthew Crossley, Halifax, Yorkshire, boot and shoe-
maker.
Morgan Robinson, Shotton Colliery,!Durham, coal miner.
William Harrison, Barnard Castle, Durham, straw bon-
net manufacturer.
John Henry Badcock Gurney, Paul, Cornwall, solicitor.
George Line, Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, blacksmith.
Thomas Simpson, Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, road
contractor.
George Tinkler, Cheltenham, cooper.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
G. Young, Glasgow and Dundee, merchant, to meet
within Cowrie's Royal Hotel, Glasgow, April 3 and May
1, at one.

D. M'Arthur, Greenock, woollen draper and clothier
to meet within Melvin's Temperance Coffee•house
Greenock, March 31 and April 24, at twelve.
Janet Dunmore, Cults, Wigtonshire, shipowner, to
meet within Mrs. Hawthorn's Inu, Whithorn, April 3
and 24, at two.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BurasELs, MAneu 28.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ............
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ......
Loan of Thirty Millions, FourperCeut• •
Ditto Three per Cent
Ditto Thirty-seven 31illions,ditto
Ditt0,ditt0,1840......
Ditto,ditto, 1842 ......
Ditto, 1844...........
Ditto, 1836...........
Ditto, 1838 .......... ••• • • .• 56%
Ditto of the City, 1832 .........• •• •
Ditto, 1843 ........ •• • • ..
Bank of Belgium...—. ....... • • • • • • 69 IA
Issue of 1841 • • ••• • • .. 100
Exchange on London, 25.441, .
ritussuic FU/NDS.—Bxxxizi, 31sucu 23.

... 8734

Bills. Money.
St.Sehuld Sch., 3% per Cent .. . SO 79%
Prussian 5 per Cent • . „ • •• • 10114 100%
Foreign Exchanges—
On London, three months 6 25% 6 25%
On Harnburgh, two months ...... 150% 150%
On Paris, two months... ...... 81 1-3 80 1-6
lIADIBURGH FUNDS, M.kacit 2L
Bills. Money.
Q

Hanoverian New Loan, 5 per Cent..... —.
Ditto, 3% per Cent. .. • • ...... •• • • --
Bank Shares.. .....• •• • ...........
Prussian 5 per Cent. ........ •••• • .• 100% 100
Russian Certificate .......... —.. • ..• 96
Anglo-Russian Loan ...• • ........ 101%
Ditto, Certificate ................ mit
Russian 4 per Cent....• .......... • ...
New 5 per Cent., Hope and Co. —•• ••
Ditto Stieglitz .... .......• ......... 81
Belgian Loan, 23. per Cent...........•
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...... 663! 66
Ditto, in 1001. shares ........ —• .
Angio-Swc.lish Loan ................ 96 4 -
Ditto, Transport Loan .. —....•• .• • •
Norwegian Joan, 1848 —•• .• ... •• • • 97
Spanish New 5 per Cent...—. •....... 9 8%
Ditto 3 per Cent ........ •....... 20% 20%
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent .•
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent...—.
Ditto 3 per Cent. ........ •••• •• • •
National Bank Shares ..............
American, 6 per Cent. .. • .. .. .• 105
RAILWAYS.

Hamb. Bergd.
Ditto, Priority Shares ... ........ 100
Berlin and Hamburg .... .....• .• 52 51%
Ditto, Priority Shares .. ..... •• •• 903( 90
Cologne and Minden ............ •• • • 74% 74 Ditto, Priority Snares ...... •••• .. 92 .
Mecklenburg• • •••••••• •. • ........• 3414 34
Altona and Kiel ......... • • ... ..... 86% 86
Gluckstadt .. ••.• • • ...... • • •.......
Rendsburg.. ..
Hanseatic Steam Company ...... —..— —.

BEGGING IN THE STREETS.—Yesterday afternoon
an inquest was held before Mr. W. Baker, jun., Deputy
Coroner, at the Plough, Plough-yard, Sboreditch, re-
specting the death of an infant named Michael Donovan,
aged nine months, who was alleged to have died from
starvation and exposure to the cold air. The deceased
was one of twins, and the mother was constantly in
the practice of begging in the public streets, with the
two infants in her arms. She generally left home about
ten o'clock in the morning, and remained out all day
with her two children until late at night. She usually
sat upon the steps of doors in Finsbury-square, for se-
veral hours together, exciting the sympathy and
commiseration of the public, who frequently gave
her money, as she appeared in deep distress.
In January last the deceased was attacked with
a pulmonary disease, and an order was issued
by the medical officer of the union, who directed
that the child should be properly attended to. The
surgeon visited the child daily until the dth of March,
but the mother heeded not the surgical advice, and again
exposed the two children in the streets. The surgeon
discontinued his visits after the 6th instant, and the
deceased gradually became worse. The mother never
applied for the assistance of a surgeon, nor stated that
her child was worse. On Friday last the deceased was
apparently dying, but the mother took him out with the
other infant, and did not return home until the evening.
The deceased became worse, and expired early on Sun-
day morning. Mr. Hall, surgeon, said he attributed
death to chronic disease, which might have been accele-
rated by the frequent exposure to the cold air. After a
short consultation, the jury returned a verdict of
" Death from chronic disease, aggravated by exposure
to the cold air." The Coroner, by the directions of
the jury, severely censured theheartless mother, and
cautioned her to take proper care of her remaining child.
DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN IRELAND.—We
intend giving in our succeeding numbers a series of
articles, based on the Government regulations, and on
Parliamentary documents, illustrative of the present
condition of the District Lunatic Asylums in
Ireland, considered as curative hospitals. These
are without any resident medical control or
authority whatsoever to minister to the urgent
wants of their unhappy inmates, varying from 140 to
nearly 400 in each. We frankly and unreservedly state,
that it is not against individuals, but against a system,
we enter the field; a system which we may ven-
ture to say only lingers now in an unhappy
country united to the most powerful, most civilized,
and most exalted nation in the world; but which stands
out, in her social condition as the most painful fact of
the nineteenth century. Let us not be misunderstood.
For all existing officers we will advocate the full
and entire amount of their present salaries ; and in
the event of compensation being deemed desirable
to superannuated parties, we will advocate jus-
tice to its fullest extent ; but we loudly proclaim
as scientific journalists, that the great institutions of
Ireland should at once form an object of humane interest
to the legislators and philosophers of Great Britain, who,
by their own acts, are deeply responsible fur the system
which at present particularly marks their medical C 94.
trple—Neclical

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STANFIELD-HALL MURDERS.

NORFOLK ASSIZES.—NORWICH, ‘VEDNFSDAY.
The bills against Rush were found by the grand
jury to-day, at three o'clock, after an investi4ation
which lasted little more than half an hour. There are
four indictments against the prisoner—two for the mur-
ders of Mr. Jeimy and his son, and two for wounding
viith intent, &c.

There ware only four witnesse3 examined—the cook
and butler at the Hall, Dr. Dickson, and _Emily Sand-
ford (alias James.)
At one o'clock Eizi, Chestney, the maid, left Stan
field Hull in a swinging cot, convoyed by a party of
men, superintended by Colonel Okes, of the police, and
proceeded slowly towards Norwich, where she was ex-
pected to arrive about four o'clock. She is very ill, but
bore the fatigue of removing with great fortitude.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD CIRC 11. I T.— Munmoutfi, March 27.
CROWN couivr.—(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN )
John Collins was indicted for the manslaughter of Joh-i
Richardson, at Tyilcc, near Ner.rort, ou the 9th of De-
cember last. Ile was also charged on the coroner's in-
quisition. The facts of the case were as follows:
In the month of December last, the deceased, who was
an Irishman, went into a beerhouse at Tydee, about live
miles from Newport, for the purpose of sellin, his wares,
consisting of tin articles, &c., and •y bile there in friendly
conversation with two or three parsons, he was asked
some question by the prisoner, who had just come in
off the tram road, where he had left his team. They
got into conversation about the purchase of
two or three tin articles, and a quarrel en-
sued on the part of the prisoner, who was of
violent character. He beat the deceased very much, and
at length, having knocked him down, called out, " I
have sent one -- Irishman to sleep; let's see for
another now." The deceased got up after some time,
recovered, and proceeded towards Pye•corner, on the
road to Newport, where he again saw the prisoner, who
once more beat him, on his saying he would have him
taken into custody. The prisoner then went on to New-
port with his team, and just as he was getting his horses
into stable there, the deceased again came up to him, and
asked him where the tins were he had stolen from him
(deceased), and that he would make him pay for the
beating. Prisoner thereupon again beat him, and
knocked him down, and in falling it was said deceased
struck his head against a stone. He was taken up in a
senseless and exhausted state, and removed to his home,
where he died in a few days, leaving a widow and seve-
ral small children.

The jury found him Guilty of an assault, and he was
sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard lubcor for
three months.

NORTHERN CHWCll7'.—Liverpool, March 28.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
Wm. Cornforth Demaine, who was tried for arson,was
Acquitted by the jury.
Mary Ford, an elderly woman, was arraigned on three
indictments for uttering forged seamen's notes. I❑ the
first case she obtained her acquittal; but was tried on a
second indictment, and no less than seven forged orders
were put in evidence against her, and the ease proved
was too strong for her ingenuity, and she was convicted.
It seemed that the prisoner had become acquainted
with such notes by keeping a lodging•house for sailors,
who are accustomed to pay the expenses of board and
lodging, at least the latter part of their stay on shore,
by notes given by the masters of vessels, which only be-
come payable on the men being actually shipped, but
there are many persons who, as in this case, cash them
at all risk, as the men obtaining them do not often fail to
go aboard according to their engagement.
His LORDSHIP told the prisoner it was a bad case,
and he sentenced her to be imprisoned for two years in
Lancaster Castle. Ile remarked she was too old to be
transported.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSIO2V-HOUSE.
Gecrge Grcen vi as brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged with having attempted to break open the
premises of Mr. Frith, wine-merchant, in Bishopsgate-
street.
The policeman had seen, about one o'clock in the
morning, a man close to the alley leading to the back of
Mr. Frith's premises, and soon afterwards found that
the warehouse door had been partly forced in, and that
part of a housebreaking instrument was stuck in the
timber. Upon turning his lantern down the alley he
saw two men crouching down behind a dung heap. One
of them was the prisoner; the other escaped. A crow-
bar and some skeleton keys were found in the dung-
heap, and its appearance corresponded with the marks
on the warehouse door. Upon the prisoner was found
some lucifer matches, a piece of candle, and other articles
calculated to lead to suspicion.
The prisoner was committed to Bridewell for three
months.
Thomas Fawcett was charged with having kicked his
daughter, a girl between 18 and 19 years of age, in so
dreadful a munner that considerable doubts are enter-
tained of her recovery.
The wretched prisoner had gone home oa Saturday
night and began to beat his wife, who, however, es•
caped from the violence it was supposed he intended.
The daughter was not so fortunate. The prisoner
kicked her twice. She cried out " Murder," and soon
after became insensible, and since that time had been
repeatedly attacked by hysterical fits, and it was ap-
prehended on Sunday that she would have died in one of
the paroxysms.
A female, who had see❑ the poor girl, gave a painful
description of her sufferings.
Mr. Hall, the surgeon, called to examine the injured
girl, and she complained of having been kicked in the
abdomen. ller condition was rather doubtful, and she
was open to danger from laying subject to tits.
The prisoner was remanded.
GUILDHALL.
A young man, named James Anderson, was charged
with stealing a box, supposed to contain a quantity of
wearing apparel, the property of the Rev. John Co1gh••
lan, of Barnet.
Daniel May, 357, said, that at six o'clock the previous
evening he was in Fleet-street, when lie observed the
prisoner its company with another walking along, and
knowing them well, he followed them for upwards of an
hour, until they arrived at Throgmorton-street, when
Anderson lelt his companion, went behind a cart, and
took a large box from it, and entered Copthall- court.
His companion, however, observing witness, gave the
" office," that is the signal, upon which the prisoner
dropped the box, and ran into a court, which, however,
was no thoroughfare. He then put his hands into his
pockets, turned round, and coolly attempted to pass him,
but witness instantly apprehended and conveyed him to
the station-house.
Alderma❑ SALOMONS asked from what part of the cart
the box was taken? May replied that it was taken
from behind the cart.
Thomas Searle, of Barnet, cabinet-maker, deposed to
being employed by the Rev. Mr. Colghlan to convey the
box in question, with others, to Old Broad-street, pre-
vious to their transmission to Jersey. lie heard a cry
of " stop thief," and immediately directed his boy to run
after the prisoner, which he did, and afterwards returned
with the box.
Alderman SALOMONS asked the prisoner if he wished
to say anything?—The prisoner denied all knowledge o
the box, and said the officer was entirely mistaken.
Alderman SALomotes thought differently, and sen-
tenced him to three months' imprisonment.
L.43IBETH.

john Lundy, alias Edward hompson, alias Jones, and
Thomas Sheppard, alias Sheffield, alias Chapman, two
impudent " cadgers," who had been charged on the pre-
ceding evening with going about with begging petitions
and imposing on the benevolent, were again placed at
the bar before Mr. Elliott.
Mr. Joseph Dewhurst, an upholsterer in Crosby-row,
Walworth-road, deposed that on the preceding after-
noon Lundy entered his shop and requested something
to enable him to purchase a cork leg, to use for one lie
had lost by an accident. He at the same time presented
a petition containing a number of names with various
sums attached, and pointed his attention particularly to
the name of Mr Aston Key, the eminent surgeon of St.
Thomas's Hospital, with 1/. ss. attached, which he said
that gentleman had subscribed. Believing his represen-
tations, and that he was the deserving object he was re-
presented in the petition, he gave him a shilling.
Samuel Darnels, a constable belonging to the Mendi-
city society, said he knew both the prisoners very well
since March, 1840, and from that time to the present
both were gross impostors. Lundy's pretence generally
was that of requiring a cork leg, or getting his tools out
of pawn, to enable him to go to work, and Gardner's was
that of stating that his goods were seized on for rent,
and exhibiting a warrant, purporting to be signed by a
broker, and by this means both managed to get a good
deal of money from the benevolent portion of the public.
Their perseverance, however, led to the apprehension
and conviction of one of them (Lundy) no less than nine
times, and the other four.
Mr. ELLIOTT added another conviction, and sentenced
the prisoners to one month's hard labour each.
THAItIES.
Jane Strudwich, a young woman very smartly attired,
was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing
a variety of property belonging to her master, Mr. Ed-
win Harrison, eatinghouse-keeper, N 0.125, Royal Mint-
street, alias Rosemary-lane.
The prisoner had been in the service of Mr. Harrison
for three weeks only. On Saturday last, in consequence
of some money being missed from the till, and suspicion
falling upon her, she was discharged. On Tuesday af-
ternoon Mrs. Harrison had occasion to open a box in her
parlour, and missed a valuable coral necklace. She then
hastened to her bedroom, where her worst fears were
confirmed by missing ,two silk dresses, a pair of gold
earrings, and other property. She immediately obtained
the aid of police-constable Rich, 152 11, with whom she
proceeded to the house of a person named Davis, who
keeps a coffee-shop in Cable-street, Wellclose-square,
where she had been staying sinca Saturday night, and
found the prisoner wearing one of her gowns, her ears
adorned with her rings, and her neck with the coral
necklace, which had been stolen from the work-box,

Mrs. Harrison exclaimed, " You have got my property
on you," and cumpelb,d the prisoner to deliver up the
gown, earrings, and necklace. It further appeared that
the prisoner had given a neck-chain belonging to her
mistress to the landlady of the coffee-shop, and repre-
sented to her that she was about to purchase Mr. liar•
risons's eating-house business for 2001.
Mr. YARDLEY committed the prisoner for trial.

TIIB TEMPERATURE.—Yesterday morning,
at an
early hour, the temperature was down as low as 31 degrees
Fahrenheit; on Sunday morning It was even still lower;
falling to 28 degrees. Since Alonday, the barometer has
been falling rapidly—yesterday morning it stood at
29 40; at four in the afternoon, it was 29.30 ; and by
seven P.M. it had fallen still further ; being then 29.26.
This would seem to indicate a sudden change of weather
—probably a storm.—.Vancliestcr Guardian of yegerday. ,

MURDER AT LIVERPOOL.
Mancrt have this day to record
the particulars of one of the most horrible and cold-
blooded murders which we ever remember to have taken
place in this town. About is elve o'clock to day. a boy,
named Bradshaw, who is in the employ of Mr. Youlton,
of Leveson-street, was passing the house of Captain
Ilinrichson, who is in the employ of Messrs. James
Aikiu and Son, and master of the ship Duncan, at pre-
sent at Calcutta. On passing Captain llindri h .son's
re-
sidence he heard a loud and deep moaning, which was
often repeated, and feeling sure that something was
wrong in the house, he immaliately- ran to the police-
officer on duty in a neiglifiourit,g street, and gave the
alarm. Two policemen at once hastened to the spot, but
on their arrival there the alarm had become so general,
in consequence of the moaning inside the house increas-
ing, tha they feting the house had been already entered.
The persons who first entered the house (for on knock-
ing at the door, no admission could he obtained) did so
by breaking a window in the front parlour of the house,
having first looked tnroegh the window, and seen three
bodies 13 leg on the floor, aelterino in bloori, their
moans at the time being of the most pitiable description.
On the arrival of the police, they were of course let
into the house by the four men who had first entered.
A few minutes afterwards Mr. Martin and Mr. Sister,
surgeons, were in attendance, and seeing that life was
not extinct in the three bodies, they gave orders for
them to be at once conveyed to the Southern Hospital,
which was accordingly done. The other parts of the
house were then searched, and in the back cellar was
found the body of a child, lying on the floor in a pool
of blood, with its throat cut, and being quite dead.
The three bodies found in the front parlour were two
women and a child, and they were all lying surrounded
by pools of blood, but the murderer had not used the
same weapons as he had done to the other child. They
were all dreadfully beaten about the head and body. Ou
the forehead of one of the females (recognised as Mrs.
Hinrichson) there had been a dreadful blow inflicted,
the forehead being laid open to the depth of two or
three inches, and there were also several deep wounds
in other parts of her head and face. The other grown-
up female (the servant residing with Captain and Mrs.
llinriehson) had also received similar wounds on the
head and face, as also severe blows about her eyes, both
of which were black and swollen up. The body of the
child (Mrs. Hinrichsou's eldest child, a girl about seven
or eight years od) also presented a most dreadful ap-
pearance. The poor litle creature's head seemed to have
been beaten to a jelly by the inhuman ruffian, and the
wonder is that life was not extinct.
From the different positions of the bodies, it would
appear that the attempt was first made on the lives of
the servant and the children, and that at that time the
unfortunate Mrs. Hinrichson was out at the market, and
met her fate immediately on her return home. The
following explanation renders this fact extremely pro-
bable :—The parlour fender and the appearance of the
fireplace generally indicate that the servant was attacked
while in the act of cleaning the fire-grate, and that the
eldest child was near her at the time, for they were both
discovered lying close to each other in the middle of the
room, whilst the body of Mrs. Hinrichson was discovered
close to the parlour door, her bonnet being close beside
her bead, and a quantity of potatoes with an apron near
to them. The poker was also lying by her side.
A nian who lodged in the house has been apprehended
on suspicion; in his bedroom a towel, soiled with blood,
has been found, and upon his shoes and trousers marks of
blood are observed.
A:, drawer in Mrs. Hinrichson's bedroom had been
forced, and the whole of the house had been ransacked.