The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-06 00:00:00

MURD'

OF COLONEL HANMER'
GAMEKEEPER.

On Tuesday morning last, about ten o'cloct, the neigh-
bourhood of Leighton Buzzard, Beds, and Great Brickhill,
Bucks, was thrown into a considerable state of alarm by the
information that James Gillrow had been found dead on the
south side of Bragenham Warren, and the whole of his fea-
tures were so completely disfigured that his most intimate
friends recognised him with difficulty. He had not been
home during Monday night, and his wife went up on Tuesday
morning to Stockgrove House, the residence of Col. Han-
mer, M.P., and an immediate search was set on foot. A
small piece of the stock of a gun, with a guard and percus-
sion lock, was picked up by John Adams about seven or eight
yards from the body, and were immediately recognised as
belonging to a gun which a man named Thomas Bates, of
Heath and Reach, had in his possession the previous night.
This led to an immediate apprehension of Bates. An inquest
was held on the body on Wednesday, at the Boot public-
house, at Soulbury, Bucks, when the prisoner, Bates, made the
following statement :—" When I left Rushmore Pond I went
through the warren into Mr. Chew's wheat stubble field. I sat
by the gate a little while, thinking to see a rabbit. I saw
a cock pheasant coming towards the hedge. I waited till
it got near enough, and I then shot at it. I thought
I hit it, but it flew into the warren. I then went into Six
Acres, under the hedges At that instant I saw Gillrow run-
ning towards me, as fast as he could, and I popped through
the hedge into the warren, and squatted in the ditch. Gill-
row passed me ; he went into Mortimer's field, and soon
came' back again. When he saw me in the ditch, he
said, I've got you at last ; I have been looking for you
a long time, and now have got you.' I said it was the
first time, and hoped he would forgive me. He said no, he
would not ;he told me to come out of the ditch. I said I
would not, but I soon got out of the ditch, and we walked
up by the side of the freeboard, and I again asked him to
forgive me several times, but he said no. I then raised my
gun, and knocked him down with the butt end. He said,
Oh, dear,' and I kept hitting, him. I then left him, and
went home, and got to bed about half-past eight. I got
up early next morning, and went to look for the piece of
gun. The moon shone bright, but I could not find it. I
was there an hour, and then left, for fear somebody might
see me, as it was getting light, and went to work on the rail-
way, where I was taken.' The prisoner afterwards told
the constable where the other part of the gun was, and the
pieces of gun were produced, having been found in a pond
described by the prisoner. The Jury returned a verdict of
" Wilful Murder" against Thomas Bates, and he was com-
mitted accordingly for trial.—Northampton Mercury.

Letters received this morning from Hamburg, of the
date of Friday last, the 2d, mention that the General Steam
Navigation Company's splendid new ship, Ocean, had arrived
that day with the mail of the 31st, after a very rapid pas-
sage. The Ocean made the voyage to Cuxhaven in forty hours,
and would have arrived at Hamburg within forty-five hours had
she not been detained by a thick fog. The General Steam Na-
vigation Company's steam ship Britannia, arrived at Hamburg
at the same time with the Ocean.
MUNICH, AUG. 24.—Her Majesty the Queen anti
King Otho arrived herb in good health yesterday evening.
The whole of the Royal Family are now together. The very
pleasing report is spread that the marriage of King Otho with
a Princess of Oldenburg will be celebrated here in October.
- BERLIN, AUG. 24.—We have the following from
Neufchatel:—" Stromeyer, formerly editor of the Friend of
liberty, has been conveyed under an escort of Gendarmes
through Neufchatel to France. Fifty other fugitives, escorted
• in a similar manner, have passed through our canton."
STOCKHOLM, AUG. 23.—The tlAy before yester-
day, being the I.Z.qe of the Princess, and the anniversary both
of the choice of the King as successor to the Swedish Throne
and of the coronation of Queen, the King gave a dinner
to about 100 persons in the Palace of Drottningholm.
Though there were no public festivities, the inhabitants of the
,capital went in great numbers to Drottningholm to see the
Royal Faintly.
IMPROVEMENTS IN •THE PARKS.—Yesterday
• morning the Commissioners of Woods and Forests engaged a
number of workmen to cleanse and entirely drain the Serpen-
tine River, for the purpose of discovering and afterwards fillip,*
tip the numerous dangerous holes in its bed, which have provedr
fatal to so many inexperienced bathers. The workmen have
enmmenecd erecting a dam entirety across the river on the
eastern side of the new bridge, at Kensington-gardens. The
works are under the superintendence of Mr. Hoff, of Ham-
mersmith. The improvements have also commenced in Hyde-
park, on a most extensive scale. The handsome new brick
lodge is completed for Mr. Humbry, the principal keeper of
the park, and is situated only a few yards from the old one,
which is to be immediately pulled down. By the command of
the Duke of Sussex (as Ranger of the Park), there is to be a
superb grand carriage and foot entrance into the park from the
Uxbridge-road in front of Hyde-park-place; the whole of the
remaining and unsighty brick wall, extending to Bayswater, is
to be immediately taken down, and light iron railings are to
substituted. All the hollows in the Deer Park will be filled
up and levelled, and the two beautiful springs have already
. been cleared out, and properly paled in. Gravel-walks arc to
be made in various parts of the- park, communicating to the
bridge over the Serpentine. These, with the young planta-
tions, which it is in contemplation to make in various parts of
the park, will present a great improvement. Four handsome
lodges for the keepers, belonging to the interior of St. James's
Park, arc to be immediately built.
FIRES ABROAD.--The lifercure Beige says—
" We announced yesterday the terrible fire which destroyed
the Lonisherg, 'near Aix-la-Chapelle; wo learn to-day that a
much greater devastation has visited the Rhenish provinces ;
-the magnificent chateau of the Duke of Armberg, situated
above Dusseldorf, has been entirely destroyed by the flames.
There remains only the ruins of that princely mansion. We
are informed that the misfortune is owing to the carlessness of
a workman, who left fire on the roof."
The celebrated naturalist, M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire,
accompanied by Dr. Martin St. Ange, has left Paris for
London.

A suspension bridge, on a large scale, of French
manufacture, has been just put up at Rouen. The Prefet of
the Department and all the principal inhabitants were present
at the ceremony.
SILK WORMS.—It is calculated that 127 millions
of silk worms must have toiled through their short lives to
produce the quantity of silk contained in the new Vauxhall
balloon.
THE LATE Duc DE GRAMONT.—Amongst the
ancient Noblesse of France there was not one more justly
esteemed nor more deservedly regretted than the late Due de
Gramont. His attachment to the family of the Bourbons was
as warm, as unalterable, and was ever displayed in the most
disinterested zeal in their interests rather than in forwarding
his own, which were more frequently sacrificed for than re-
warded by them. The present Due de Gramont, long and
advantaecously known in England, is a most worthy successor
to the honours of his father, being remarkable for high charac-
ter, polished manners, and a kindness of heart, that has won
hint the good will of even his political opponents. The Due
de Gramont married the only daughter of General Count
d'Orsay, and sister of Count Alfred d'Orsay. The Duchesse
is considered one of the most beautiful women in France, and
is said to strongly resemble her grandmother, the celebrated
Princess de Croij, who was one of the richest heiresses in
Normandy. The remarkable beauty of the present Duc and
Duchesse de Gramont rendered them the most brilliant orna-
ments of the Courts of Louis XVIII. and Charles X., and
both these Monarchs took pleasure in pointing them out
the finest specimens of male and female beauty the
French aristocracy could boast. The late Due de Gramont
visited England es Ambassador Extraordinary on the occasion
of the Coronation of George IV., and gave some of the most
brilliant fetes ever witnesssed in London, in honour of that
event. The present Due's sisters are the Countess of Tan-
kerville and Sebastiani ; the latter is the wife of the Ambas-
sador from France.
THE PRINCE OF CAPUA.—A letter from Avignon,
of the 29th August, says that the Prince of Capua met with
his brother the King of Naples at the post-house of the Pont
Royal, between Avignon and Aix ; that they cordially em-
braced ; and that the reconciliation is complete. The Prince
of Capua had come alone. The King arrived at Toulon on
the 28th of August.—French paper.
The National announces that a reward is offered
for the apprehension of Isruriz and Alcala Galiano. Who-
ever shall conceal them, or not denounce them, are to be con-
sidered as guilty of treason against the nation.
The Belgian Papers say that the Prussian Govern-
ment feels very keenly the complaints which have been made
in some foreign journals of the Catholics being ill-treated in
Prussia, and of their property being appropriated in Prussia.
The Prussian Journals deny this and assert that it is notorious
to the whole world that in Prussia the Catholics and Protes-
tants live on the best terms with each other, and that they
manifest equal attachment to the Government.
MRS. HEMAN'S CHILDHOOD.—As a child, Mrs.
Ilemans was an object almost of devotion, for her extreme
beauty ; her complexion was remarkably brilliant ; her hair
long, curling, and golden. In the latter ,years of her life
its hue deepened into brown, but it remained silken, and pro-
fuse, and wavy, to the last. She was one of those, too, who
may be said to be born and nurtured in the midst of pro-
phecies. Who can tell bow little or how much impression
'passing words carelessly spoken may make upon one so sensi-
tive ? One lady incautiously observed in her hearing, " That
child is not made for happiness, I know ; her colour comes and
goes too fast." She never forgot this remark, and would men-
lion it as having caused her much pain at the time when it was
spoken.
SINGULAR INCIDENT.—A few days since a horse
at Mayfield, in Sussex, being annoyed with flies, kicked his
hind foot into his mouth, in such a manner as to require the
aid of a blacksmith ere the limb could be extricated.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-011 the morning of
Tuesday last, as Joseph Sopwith, of Brown's-building, near
Ckestar:lt
f4Hreet, was in the act of drawing a bolt from a
...teinaag y waggons near to the machine at the aas-
,.ojatig;ain-tliq.4fAthope and Tyne Railway, he was caught by
1."-7/.:11Katiniril;(--iileAis body was neatly cut in two. • He died
;The deceased was in the .58th year of his
il'al`bitsaia-ftla. widow and eight children to lament his un-
Cii TCnicle.
• Fssianding sun-aests die materials of reason-
ccircer...:the.reusim decides upon them. The first can only say
sk(c Iffo:isor ought to be so. The last it must be so.—Coleridge.