The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-29 00:00:00

children. In the army and navy, where strict disci-
pline is preserved, no men are more valuable than
those taken from among the Irish peasantry. It is
not precept, it is not example, but the force of disci-
pline alone, which breaks their bad habits. Look at
them in St. Giles's, look at them on Saffron-hill, look
at their habitual riots and habitual filth, though they
must every day see examples that should teach them
better. Or see them in the country ; let any man who
is strong of nostril and stout of shoe venture into the
lanes which they inhabit about Chiswick, or turn into
a passage which leads from about the three-mile stone
on the Fulham-road, towards the market-gardens,
which lie upon the right hand. There will be seen
the habits of the lower order of Irish, where no coer-
cive discipline interferes—there will he behold, exhi-
bited in all their filthy deformity, habits which example
from without will not alter, nor shame from within
amend. There must be coercive discipline ; but try
that, and there will be no shouts of popular applause
—none of that preposterous adulation—which Whig-
Radicals look upon, or pretend to look upon, as evi-
dence of good government.—Morning Post.

THE LIDLINGTON (BEDFORD)
MURDER IN 1809.

Reports have been circulated during the last fortnight
which have caused the most intense excitement throughout
the whole county, that a butcher named Kingston, residing
at Apsley, and who died about three weeks ago, had be-
fore his death made a confession that he was guilty of the
murder of Mr. Crick and his housekeeper at Lidlington,
in the year 1809. The particulars of that barbarous act
are still fresh in the memories of many old inhabitants.
On the morning of Saturday, the 21st of January, 1809,
the body of James Crick, a dairyman, was found about
half a mile from his house with several stabs in his side
and his head, and his throat cut from ear to ear. The
body of Rebecca Read, his housekeeper, was also found
with the head nearly severed from the body, lying at the
top of the stairs at Crick's house, and with one leg through
the bannisters. The sensation created at the time was
great in the extreme. Several persons wrre suspected and
examined before the Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Upper
Ossory, &c., but the real murderer remained to this day
undiscovered. Our reporter has made inquiries at Apsley,
near Woburn, where Kingston died, and both the medical
man and the nurse who attended him deny that any con-
fession was ever made to them. Nor does it appear
that at the time of the murder Kingston was suspected
of it. The report, which seems to have gained credit
from Kingston's known bad character, originates from
an observation made by a man, whose name we cannot
learn, at the Bell Inn, at Apsley, to the effect " that be-
fore Kingston died it would be known who murdered
Crick and his housekeeper." Thus, then, is the main
foundation for the report that Kingston hail made the con-
fession. A man named John Bollard was taken up on sus-
picion, from the circumstance of a watch being found in
his possession, which was supposed to have belonged to the
murdered man Crick. It appears, however, that the
identity of the watch was difficult to prove, as nobody lived
with Crick but the housekeeper—Bollard was therefore
dismissed. In 1811, he was taken up for sheep-stealing,
and at the Bedford Lent Assizes, in 1812, was transported
for life for that offence, aged 40. Since his transportation,
the man who lived in the house previously occupied by Bol-
lard had occasion to take up some bricks at the sink, and
underneath them found a long bladed strong ease knife,
very carefully and effectually concealed. By whom this
knife was placed there, and for what reason, or for what
purposes it may have been used, are facts which probably
may never be made known. On the morning of the mur-
der the ground was covered with snow. Footsteps of two
persons were traced from the house to where Crick's body
was found, and the footsteps, marked with blood, of one
person only were traced back to the house. Such numbers
flocked to the scene, that these footmarks were soon com-
pletely obliterated. It is, indeed, extraordinary that 28
years should have elapsed without any clue being found to
the perpetration of this diabolical and inhuman murder.—
Cambridge Independent Press.

At the Hull police-office on Saturday a child of
eight years of age was examined on a charge of stealing wool
from the dock warehouse, in which a scene of the most revolt-
ing depravity was divulged. There is a man residing in Os-
born-street who was in the habit of seducing children of a
tender age from their homes, and sending them out to thieve,
and bring the proceeds of their robberies home to him, The
miscreant has his house full of young thieves, from six to ten
years of age. The child in question was given up to its parents,
and a warrant issued for the apprehension of the hoary tempter,
who has absconded.—Hull Observer.
A few days ago, a fellow calling himself John
Scaife, who had just migrated from Wakefield House of Cor-
rection, where he had been confined for a month for vagrancy,
bent his course to Ripon, where he was consigned by his own
desire to the " new lock-up," and next morning sent out of
the town ; but during the day he again returned, and appeared
to invite a second committal, by begging, in front of the resi-
dence of the Mayor. His worship, however, recognised him
again, and committed him to the House of Correction, for
fourteen days hard labour on the treadmill ; but when about
to be placed on the wheel, he became indisposed, and com-
plained of shortness of breath, &c., &c. The Governor told
him as he had cured two notorious deaf and dumb fortune-
tellers, and a Scotch cripple, he was determined to effect a
similar cure upon him, as he perceived that his complaint, if
any, arose from being too fat, and want of bodily exercise.
The fellow, however, refused to work, although urged to do
so by a visiting Magistrate, when the Governor had him lashed
up by double hand-cuffs to the racks above the tread-mill,
where he had the choice of keeping step, or bearing the con-
sequences ; finding all his schemes had failed, he declared be
would give in—his working and bodily health daily improved
to the satisfaction of the visiting surgeon and magistrates—and
at the expiration of his commitment, on Friday, he left the
prison in an excellent and improved state of health, with an
assurance that he would never again pay a visit to that district.
—Hull Observer.

AMERICAN WOMEN.—" The women of our own
mountains excel them altogether, being a more true medium
between strength and coarseness. Even Mrs. Trollope ad-
mits that the American women (perhaps she ought to have
said the girls) are the most beautiful in the world, whilst they
arc the least interesting. Mrs. Trollope had written a vast
deal of nonsense, putting Cockneyisms into the mouths of
Americans, and calling them Americanisms, but she has also
written a good many truths. I will not go so far as to say she
was right in the latter part of this charge ; but if our girls
would cultivate neater and more elegant forms of expression ;
equally avoiding vulgar oh's and ah's and set phrases s be
more careful not to drawl ; and not to open the mouth so as
to call hot" haut ;' giggle less ; speak lower ; have more
calmness and more dignity of manner, and think instead of
pulsating—l would put them, for all in all, against any wo-
men in the world. They lose half of these defects when they
marry, as it is ; but the wisdom of Solomon would come to
our ears with a diminished effect, were it communicated
through the medium of any other than a neat enunciation.
The great desideratum in female education, at home, is to im-
part a graceful, quiet, lady-like manner of speaking. Were
it not for precisely this place, Vevey, I should add, that the
women of America speak their language worse than the wo-
men of any other country I ever was in."—Cooper's France.
HERNE BAY.—The ceremony of laying the foun-
dation-stone of the new clock tower, which Mrs. Thwaytes has
volunteered to erect, at her sole expence, at this fashionable
watering-place, is to be performed on Monday next, and the
benevolent lady having consented, at the solicitation of the in-
habitants and visiters, to assist in the performance of the good
work, a grand festival is to take place in commemoration of the
event, so important in the annals of Herne Bay. It is in-
tended to form a grand procession of the inhabitants, which is
to leave St. George's Baths at 11 o'clock, and proceed with
the children of the charity schools (towards the foundation of
which Mrs. Thwaytes has so munificently contributed), and
meet her on the site of the intended building, with an address,
expressive of their feelings on the occasion, and present her
with a silver trowel. A platform is to be raised round the
excavation for the accommodation of the ladies to view the
ceremony; a military band will attend, and the plantation and
pier are to be decorated with flags. The charity children and
their parents, to the number of 500, will dine at the expense
of Mrs. Thwaytes, in the St. George's Assembly Rooms.
After the ceremony, boat races and a punt chase will take
place, and the day is to be devoted to festivity and amuse-
ments. The town will be illuminated in the evening, and a
model of the clock tower (which is to be upwards of 80 feet
in height, and illuminated after sunset), is to be exhibited in
fireworks.

WHALES ATQUEENSFERRY.—On Monday morn-
ing, about 10 o'clock, two whales of the bottle-nose species,
the one measuring 25 feet, and the other 15 feet in length,
got embayed near the shore at North Queensferry. When
first discovered, they were disporting in eight feet water, and
preparations were instantly made to capture them. Few peo-
ple were present at the time, but the Perth coach happening
to come up, the guard stopped the coach for a few minutes
to allow the passengers a sight of the " distinguished strangers."
Two gentlemen on the coach got so interested in the sport
that they joined the adventurous party at sea, and lent their
assistance in the nautical warfare, which was truly active and
spirit-stirring. The lesser whale was attacked first, with
sticks and table-knives, the only weapons at hand, and after
being stabbed and cut in several places, a rope was passed
through one of its fins, from which the poor animal liberated
herself by a bound, and dashed into deeper water ; but soon re-
turned to the same spot and was killed. The attack en the
larger fish was next commenced, but sticks, oars, and knives
were of small avail, until the assailants were supplied from
shore with a stout broad-sword, with which they managed to
inflict several desperate wounds on the poor bottle-nose. A
hole was then cut in her back fin, and a rope passed through
it ; but, like her neighbour, she also broke off seaward in gal-
lant style, lashing the water prodigiously, and dragging three
boats after her through a track reddened with the blood from
her wounds. After cruising round the bay, she also returned
to the spot where she was first struck, and was killed. it is
calculated the fish will yield upwards of two tons of 0i1...-.
Scotsman.