The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-17 00:00:00

HAMBURG PAPERS.

BitFDA, AUG. 11.—The advantage which we have
gained over the corps of Daine has Proied a complete de•
feat of the litter. Old officers lay they never witnessed
such a complete rout as that of the' Belgian army of the
Meuse. If the enemy had not fled with such excessive
Precipitation, or if the second division hid come up a little
sooner, not a man of all Daine's corps would have escaped.
Three hundred prisoners; eight cannon, a quantity of cas-
somas, baggage-waggons, ammunitiOn, arms, B:c., have,
kmever, fallen into our band,. In all the engagements,
our two Princes were seen at the head of the troop:, lead-
ling them. on with the greatest courage. It is only feared
they may expose themselves ton much. Among the papers
left by Daine at the head• qua. tern was found the following
Order of the Day to his now defeated and dispersed army
of the' Meuse

" Soldiers !—At the moment that I was going to an-
nounce to you his Majesty's satisfaction, I received the
official news that the Dutch have denounced the arristice,
and are going to attack us. I give you this information
with joy, as I know that you most ardently long for the
day of vengeance. Our cowardly enemy ch Menges our
courage. The Belgian never suffers himself to be waited
for on the field of honour, and we will spare him half the
journey.
" Soldiers !—Let each of you have his arms in readi-
ness, and recollect that he must save his country, and that
he has to revenge the affronts but lately put upon him.
Belgium for ever ! Lung live the King!
" Bassett, August 3; five o'clock A.M.
" In the name of the Commander-in-Chief and General
of Division, " DAINE.
"The Colonel Deputy Chief of the Staff,

" TONSON."

AMSTIIRDAM' AUGUST 12.
. • Actual Debt, t1.,/,', per cent. 35 to 435%
.Voluutary Loan
. Alma 'Sniffle; 4M-pr-r-cent.—. -4 .. r'..-: . 4 56 -40 57
Ditto, ditto, 31% per cent. - 45.4 to 464
Exchange on London ll 92 3.10 to 11 90
Two Months B7 5-10 to 11 85
—Amsterdam Courant, August 13.

MURDER AND FRIGHTFUL MUTILA-
TION OF A HUMAN BODY.

(From the Briyhton Guardian )
The unfortunate woman whose unhappy end we are
about to record, was born !it Ardinely, in this county, of
,
poor, but industrious parents. Her maiden name was
Celia Bashford. About six years ago, she married a man
named John Holloway ; but unhappily their tempers did
not accord, and marriage, instead of being a blessing to
the deceased, appears to have entailed on her many of the
miseries of human li'e, and leading, it is but too well
feared, to that dreadful act, which sent her uncalled before
her maker. Celia Holloway, it appears, although not
const,,ntlY living with her husband, has had two children
Ly ; one was Still born, and the other has, under the
circumstances, been taken to a better home. The unfor-
tunate woman was far advanced in pregnancy when Ihe
cruel and relentless murderer put his life-destroying hand
upon her To use the lenguage of one of the witnesses
at the Inquest, " had she, !deceased) been spared another
month, she would have given birth to a third child."
Thus have two lives been sacrificed, we fear, to the demon
of
revenge. The report of the murder was very general
in the early part of Saturday, on which day the trunk
ati',led
earth in a
thighs,s in three separate parts, were dug out of
iaw or copse a little al,ove the road in the
plantation of Mr. Stanford's farm at Preston. The spot
where these p iris of the mutilated body' were found is in
a sort of hollow retreat, overhung by- the branches of
tree.; a little to the left of the narrow-footpath which
serpentines up the ascent, in a zig-zag direction, from the
spot called "the bole in the wali" leading to Church Hill.
It is the sweetheart's arbour, and this spot, consecrated to
the tender passions, was selected by the murderer to re-
ceive in its bosom a part of that female form which he had
first
relentless)}'
deprived of life, and then separated "limb
from This horrid deed was com
ts r
d, e
about five weeks ago.
m limb." itted, it is sup-
-1 A labouring man, named David Maskell, discovered a
piece of a woman's garment above the mould some three
weeks since; it resisted his endeavours to displace it ; he
poked with a stick, and a strong putrid smell was emitted,
and he then desisted. He spoke of the matter to several
r ns, pone of whom seemed to heed his suspicions;
.arrthe matter remained a secret till Friday evening last,
~
when he again went to the spot with one Gillam, in order
to have a further inspection. Gillam having reached his
home, communicated what had occurred to his wife and
his mother, the curiosity of the women was raised, and
they agreed to go with him to the place early next morn-
ing, " to know all about it." The women came, and
their curiosity did not rest till tine contents of the grave
were investigated Half a yard of a woman's dress was
first freed from the earth, arid they then went to the con-
stable of Preston, who returned with them, and by the
use of a sp mile they exposed to view a spectacle the most
revolting and appalling,—the thighs of a human being, and
the trunk of a female form enclosed in a pair of stays,
and wrapped round with a linen garment—the whole in
the moat putrid state, and a foetus of what, on examina-
tion, turned out to be a male child protruding from the
trunk. The news of the horrid deed now spread like
wild-fire ; hundreds flocked to the spot ; the garment was
cut into stripes,
and eagerly seized by the populace. In-
quiry was now busily on foot ; the pattern of the gar-
Holloway Was
ment corresponding with that of a gown which Celia
known to have worn, led to the suppesi-
tion that she was the unfortunate woman, part of whose
corpse had been discovered. The ill-treatment she bad
constantly received from her husband quickly connected
hint in people's minds with the foul deed ; anti the
police visited his lodging, where they took into custody
a female, Ant Kennard, with whom he had been
living, and who represented herself as also being mar-
ried to him. Search was made for Holloway, and
at night he voluntarily delivered himself up to the police
uthorities. A gloom was spread over the town by a re-
p,tition of the horrible story, and Sunday's dawn saw
thousands wending their way towards Preston, to which
place the trunk and limbs had been removed, enclosed in a
wooden box, and deposited in Mr. Stanford's barn, to await
the view of the Coroner's Jury. We grieve to learn that
this melancholy svelte was converted into an exhibition by
the mercenary being to whose care we suppose the sad re-
mains were confided.. We are shocked to hear that he
made a price of showin-, the horrid tight, and that people
were so unthinking as to give money to be allowed to view
A most revolting spectacle. In the meanwhile the sue-
, aeons examined the remains, and men were engaged in

earchinefor the rest of the body ; but their se:rch is a 9
vain. 'Up to the period of ou wl ne'ther h !ad, h-te,
nor arms brie been'fonnd.

On Sunday morning the fennale prisoler d, sired to see
a clergyman.. The Rev. Mr. Wagrer tr..a sei t for ; and
a rumiitir was quickly spread ihat she had "made a con-
-le4skut of the crime. This was incorrect. rTI,e Rea'. Gen-
lewan also visited Holloway; w! n, it is sa:(1, intimated a
preference for a Wesleyan Mirfster. Whether one of that
denomination was sent for, we have not been able to learn.