The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-11 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1831.

then waiting to receive him at the meeting of the new
Union, in Glasshouse•street. The working classes, although
the most numerous, were certainly the weakest part of the
nation, for the want of organization.
A MEMBER suggested, that as it had b:•en more than
once said that there were spies in the Committee, the
persons ought to he pointed out.
Mr. CLEAVE said, that no Member wishing well to the
objects of the Union could desire the expulsion of any spy,
aa, in fact, so far from their proceedings being too much
published, it was a matter of complaint and really an injury
In their cause, that what passed amongst them was not
made sufficiently public.—(Hear.)
Mr. BENBOW proposed a resolution condemnatory of
the declarations put forth by the " Whig Union," of which
Sir F. Burdett was at the head, expressive of the satis-
faction WhiA the Committee felt at the frustration of the
jesuitical attempt of the Committee of the National Union
to cajole the working classes to employ their moral and
physical force in support of the Whig Reform Bill, and
denouncing all unions whose object was not to obtain for
all the people equal laws and equ 11 rights.
The CHAIRMAN joined with Mr. Watkins, Mr. Cleave,
and other members, in deprecating the introduction of the
resolution, on the ground that the Union at the Crown
anti Anchor had not yet assumed any character, and that
it could not be known what its principles were to be until
its rules and regulations were drawn up and agreed to at
a public meeting of the members. It could not now be
s ad that the gentlemen had determined what the character
of the Union was to be, as they had left it to a general
meeting of the members to be held to-morrow (Thursday)
night, to appoint a Committee, which should, in a month
from that day, propose to another public meeting, rules
and regulations for the government of the Union. It was
also to be borne in mind that there were to be thirty-six
working men upon the Committee, and the members of
the Union of the Working Classes ought to go to the
meeting to-morrow night, and support the appointment of
such men as would make the principles of the National
Union their principles, and its objects their objects.—
(Hear, hear.) Major Beauclerck and other gentlemen bad
already declared that they would not accept the Whig Bill
if it were to be a final measure—(Hear,)—and it was on
that account that Mr. Barber Beaumont and others were
attempting to get up Unions pledged to ask nothing beyond
the Bill, for the purpose of cutting up the National Union.
After some further discussion, Mr. BENBOW withdrew
his motion, with the intention of submitting it to the next
meeting of delegates.
Mr. TIPPER proposed a resolution, that it was expe-
, client that the members of the Union of the Working
Classes should subscribe for the purpose of renting land,
• ❑pon which they could employ such of their brethren as
might not be able to obtain a livelihood by their respec-
tive tradea.

It was suggested that the motion was ill-timed, and Mr.
Tipper accordingly withdrew it.
CLEAVE said that there was nothing moire to be re-
gretted, in the present state of excitement, than the want
of a free Press. He concluded by giving notice of a re-
solution on the subject of the freedom of the Press on
Monday next.
Mr. COOPER gave notice that he would, on Monday,
propose a resolution to the effect that, looking to the con-
duct of the Bishops in the House of Lords respecting the
Reform Bill (whereby they sanctioned crimes opposed to
the religion they profess), the Committee has learned, with
indignation, that the Bishops have presumed to put forth
a prayer against the Indian cholera—a disease dreadful in-
deed, but slight in comparison to the political cholera of
elm detested boroughtnougers ; that the Bishops having,
in their prayer, confessed themselves to be wicked and sin-
ful men, we hereby exhort all persons to reflect upon this
confession, and consider the propriety of the Church being
governed by men so sinful and wicked."
A desultory conversation then arose on various minor
iffairs ; in the course of which Mr. RUSSELL said that at
a meeting of the North-western Union, held in Castle-
street, thanks were voted to the General Committee for
postponing the public naeeting.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. WATKINS said that three cheers were given for the
Committee in the last meeting at the Rotunda, for their
having postponed the proposed meeting at White Conduit
House.—(Hear.)

The Committee, having disposed of their routine busi-
ness, adjourned to Monday next.

THE MARKETS.

' ?GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN,
For the Week ended Nov. 4, 1431, made up from the Returns
of the Inspectors in the di flerent Cities and Towns in England
and Wales, per Imperial Quarter.
Wheat...-- 61s. 3d. Oats 225. Ild.f 40s. 4d.
Barley ail Rye 395. 2.1 Pease--... 445. 4d.
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECKDING.
7d.1 Oats -. '22s. 40s. 7d.
8ar1ey.....-345. Odd Rye 375. 7,14 Pease.M. 445. Id.

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
265. Bcl.l Oats -12 s. 9d.I 9s. 6d.
Barley-- 4s. 10d.I Rye 14s. Od.l Pease...—. 3s. (A.

SOUTHALL MA RK ET.—Nov. 9.
This day's market exhibited about an average time of year
supply, and was tolerably well attended by buyers. '1 he trade
with each kind of prime meat was rather brisk, with that of
middling and inferior quality very dull, at the following prices
per stone of Slb. to sink the opals
Beet 3s. Od. to 4s, Od 1 V 4s. Od. to ss. Od
Mutton 3 8 4 8 1 Pork 4 2 5 0
The foregoing quotations arc Pork 2d. per stone higher than
on this day selnught ; prices of Beef, Mutton, and Veal, sta..
tionary. Beasts, 279; Sheep, 3125 ; Calves, 54 ; Pigs, 67. some
but not a very great proportion, of the supply, left the market
unsold.

LEWES MA It KET.—Nov. S.
Beet IPd. to 3s. 10d. Veal 3s. 10d to 4s S(1,
Mutton I 8 4 4 Pork 3 5 0
A moderately good supply, and a dull trade.

RKET.—Nov. 9.

RUMFORD M.
P. d. to s. d. 8. d. s. d
Beef . S 3 8I Veal llO 416
Mutton 1 4 4 4 Pork 1 $ 5 8
Suckling Calves from 14s. to 40s. ; Quarterold Pigs 125.t0 ISs. each,
A moderate supply, and a sluggish trade.

MURDER OF AN ITALIAN BOY BY

" BURKING."

ADJ 0 URNED INQ UES T.

The Jury again assembled yesterday afternoon at
the Unicorn to pursue the inquiry relative to the
death of the boy who was supposed to have been
" Barked," and sold by some t esurrection-men, now
in custody. The Jury-room was crowded to excess,
and the most intense interest manifested.

Joseph Higgins sworn—l and a police officer of
the F division, No. 35; yesterday evening I was at
the Fortune of War, a:.111 saw a person who mere-
Rented herself to be the wife of Bishop; the wife of
Williams was also present ; the Fortune of War is
is Giltspur-street ; I stopped some time, and Mrs.
Bishop said a man in company was one of the same
profession as her husband (a body-snatcher). Wit-
ness went to the lodgings of Mrs. Bishop, No. 3,
Nova Scotia-gardens, Crabtree-row, Hackney-road,
which I searched, and found two wrenches and chi-
sels, which Mts. Bishop said were her husband's
tools. I said to her, I knew for what purpose they
were used, and Mrs. Bishop said, '' I dare say you
do, but I do not wish you to speak in the presence
of my children." Mrs. Bishop observed, the chisels
were used for opening coffins ; I also found a brad-
awl with dry blood on it; I asked her for what pur-
pose it was used, and she made no answer ;on which
I observed, it was used for punching out teeth, but
she made no answer to my observation. I also found
in her possession a written paper, which I now pro-
duce. The following is a copy of this paper ;

" The humble petition of .John Bishop, and three
others, most humbly showeth—
___.

" That your petitioners have supplied many subjects on
various occasions to the several hospitals, and being now
in custody, they are conscious in their own minds that
they have done nothing but what they have been in the
constant habit of doing as resurrectionists; but being un-
able to prove their innocence without professional assist-
ance, they humbly crave the commiseration of gentlemen,
who may feel inclined to give some trifling assistance, in
order to afford them the opportunity of clearing away the
imputation alleged against them. The most trifling sum
will be gratefully acknowledged, and your petitioners, as
in duty bound, will ever pray, &c." •
This petition was not signed.
Mrs. Bishop added, that Williams had only " been
out" three times, and had given a fictitious name,
and said that he was very respectably connected.
Mrs. Bishop also stated, that her hthband ►vent out
the evening before he was taken up, and on his re-
turn the following morning he washed his hands in
a basin, at the bottom of which there afterwards
appeared a quantity of mud.
James Weekes, the under porter at Guy's Hos-
pital, corroborated the evidence given by Mr. Davis,
the principal porter, on the former day.
James Appleton, Procurator to -Mr. Grainger's
Theatre of Anatomy, in Webb-street, Borough, de-
posed that May and Bishop came to the theatre
about seven o'clock on Friday evening, and offered
a body for sale (the one in question), but the pur-
chase of which was declined; the prisoners, May
and Bishop, said it was a rare fresh subject; they
came again the following morning, and offered the
same subject for sale, but it was again refused.
Mr. Cribb, the Foreman, observed, that Mr.
Starbuck had called upon him, and stated that he
was mistaken in supposing that the deceased was
the same Italian boy whom he saw on Thursday'
near the Bank, inasmuch as he had seen the boy
since in the street.

Mr. Corder, the Vestry Clerk, bad ascertained
the name of the deceased to be Giacomo Montaro,
and that he was brought to this country by a man
named Petro Massa, who had lived in Vine-street,
Liquorpond-street, but who had left the coun.ry.
Mr. Corder here observed, that the parochial au-
thorities could carry the case any further at present;
but the inquiry should be prosecuted to the utmost,
even if the verdict of the Jury should be one of
" Murder against some persons unknown." He had
the satisfaction of stating that he had received a
communication, which enabled him to say that the
Government had determined to carry on the inquiry
by every possible means. He suggested the pro-
priety of having the prisoners brought before them.
After a short discussion, it was resolved that the
prisoners should be brought before the Jury, and
Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent, with a body of
the police, was sent to bring them from Bow-street.
Shields was first introduced, and the Coroner in-
formed him that he had been sent for in conse-
quence of the evidence adduced before the Jury. It
had been alleged that a dead body had been found
in their possession under circumstances which placed
shtiam (h t
ettiwe prisoner) and
the
require
the other three
greatest
persons
caution
ou in n a
the
part of those accused : and he now informed him,
that if he wished to say any thing the Jury would
willingly bear him, but at the same time what he
now said might or might not hereafter be brought
forward for or against him. The prisoner was then
sworn ; he gave his name
Michael Shields, of No. 6, Eagle-street, Red
Lion-square, and stated as follows :—I was hired by
this man, Bishop, on Saturday morning last; I met
him accidentally in Covent-garden market, about ten
o'clock; Bishop came up to me alone, and said if
I would go with him to London-bridge he had a
job for me to do; I went with him to Guy's, where
he left me, and in about an hour and a half he re-
turned with Williams and May ; they then took me
into Guy's Hospital, where I waited for half an
hour, when I saw a man in a flannel jacket, and he
and Bishop put a hamper, tied, directed to "
Esq. King's College," on my knot, saying that
I must be careful and not fall down ; I then went
off with the hamper over London-bridge. The other
prisoners accompanied me, being sometimes behind
and sometimes before me ; we were, however in com-
pany. I had never been in the King's Col-
lege before, and the prisoners May and Bishop
went down first and I followed them. May
and Bishop knocked or rung the bell, and the door
was immediately opened. On the door being opened
the prisoners took the hamper from me, and left me
waiting outsiwork at the idmef
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was a fire below, and we might go down and warm
ourselves. About three quarters of an hour after he
was taken into custody by the police. The other
three prisoners had been apprehended a few minutes
previously to this. This is all I know of the matter,
if I was the first mart to suffer death. I did not
know the contents of the hamper. I sometimes
assist as a grave-digger, when the man is overrun in
digging graves. I sometimes go a fortnight or three
weeks without being employed. I have known
Bishop about six or eight months.
Cross-examined—l cannot swear that I have not
known. Bishop three years ; I cannot swear exactly.
rlesduird.reteitoitoll:::: what were his means of living until
the present time. I did not know Bishop was a
before. I was never before employed
by hint ; I was never before employed by May or
Will,ams to carry anythiog.
Several of the Jurors here cautioned the witness
as to the course he was pursuing. The Coroner, also,
used tire strongest term as a warning to the witness.
Re-examined.--I don't think Bishop ever before
employed me to carry anything whatever; I was to
have received half-a-crown for carrying the hamper;
I cannot say I never before worked for a resurrec-
tionist; I do not know the residence of any of the
prisoners ; I did not carry a package to Guy's Hos-
vital on Friday evening last ; I was at the Fortune
of War on Friday afternoon ; I may have seen

Bishop there, but I don't recollect ; I cannot swear
that I had no conversation with May and Bishop ;
I drank no " egg not" with them at the Fortune of
War; Bishop told me be would want me the next
evening to do a job for him; I have heard say the
boy was taken to Gay's Hospital in a coach; I met
Bishop on Saturday at the Fortune of War, and
not in Covent-garden; I sail wrong before; I did
not speak the truth when I said I met him in
Covent-garden ; it was about eight o'clock in the
morning when I met Bishop at the Fortune of
War; I was not at the Covent-garden market at all
on Saturday ; the empty hamper was brought from
Bartholomew's Hospital, and we carried it by turns;
I cannot say, if I was the first man to suffer, how
the deceased came by his death; Bishop, in coming
along the police van, said he could state where he
got the body, and laughed at the whole concern ; he
said it was got from the ground, and lie could tell
them where be got it.
John Bishop was next introduced, and the same
caution as that given to Shields was also given to
him by the Coroner, who said it was not possible
that a person could be in possession of a body tha•
was almost warm without knowing how he came by it.
The prisoner said, it is impossible it could be
warm, for it had been all night at Guy's Hospital.
I got it from a grave, out of which I dug it. I was
entrusted by two watchmen, who had the care of the
ground from which I got the body. They are both
men of family, like myself, and I do not wish to
deceive them, and that is the reason I do not choose
o mention the name of the burial-ground. I cannot
account for the death of the deceased. This is all
I can say about it. I shall certainly keep it a secret
where I got the body.
James May was next brought in, and after a
similar caution, said—l live at No. 4, Dorset-street,
Newington. I went into the country last Sunday
week, and returned on the following Wednesday,
bringing two subjects with me, and took them to
Mr. Grainger's Anatomical Theatre, in Webb-
atreet, Borough, the same evening. The nest (lay
I removed them to Guy's, and gave them to Mr.
Davis; after receiving the money, I went to the
Fortune of War, and staid there two hours; be-
tween four and five o'clock I went to Nag's Head-
court, Golden-lane, where I stopped with a female
until between eleven and twelve the next day; from
there I went to the Fortune of War again, and
stopped there drinking until six, or past, when Wil-
liams and Bishop came in, and asked me if I would
stand any drink, which I did; Bishop then called me
out, and said," Where can I get the price forthinga ?"
I told him I had sold two at Guy's; upon which
he said, " I have got a good subject, and have been
‘-iffered eight guineas for it ;" 1 said I could get
more for it ; upon which he said, all I could get
aver nine guineas I should have, paying the ex-
penses ; I then went to the Old Bailey to a water-
mg-house, where Bishop and I had some tea ;
Williams was left at the Fortune of War; after tea
called a chariot off the stand, and drove to Bishop's
house, where he showed me the lad in a box or
trunk; I then put it into a sack, and took it to the
chariot, and thence to Mr. Davis, at Guy's Hos-
pital; Mr. Davis said, " You know,John, I canno•
take it, because I took two of you yesterday, and I
have not got names enough down far one, or else I
would; I asked him if he would be kind enough to
let me leave it there that night ; and he said
" Certainly." Bishop then desired Mr. Davis not
to let any person have it but himself, as it was his
awn subject, and Mr. Davis desired his man Jame-
riot to let any other person have it. I told Mr.
Davis not to let it go until I came, as I should I),
money out of pocket if it went. I went home than
evening, where I slept, and the next morning wen'
ro Mr. Davis's. I had not been there many minutes
before Bishop and Shields came in with a hamper,
and we took the body to King's College, where I
was taken into custody.
The prisoner expressed his perfect willingness to
sign the foregoing statement, if necessary, but was
told he need not do so.

James Williams, the fourth prisoner, re'ided at
No. 3, Nova Scotia-gardens. He received the came
caution as the other prisoners. He said—l am
aware the present charge affects my life. The first
place I met Bishop at was in Long-lane, Smithfield.
I asked him where he was going? He said, to the
King's College. This was on last Saturday morning.
We went into the Fortune of War, and then to
Guy's Hospital. We afterwards went to the King's
College, where I met May and the porter against
the gate, and I asked them to let me go in with
them. There was a basket taken from the Fortune
of War, with which I helped him a part of the way
to Guy's Hospital. I had nothing to do with the
body myself. I get my living by my trade, which
is that of a glass-blower.
Mr. Hill, of King's College, begged to state, that
Bishop and May said they should only show the one
outside (Williams) eight guineas, and keep the other
between them. He (witness) did this to show that
Williams had actually an interest in the disposal of
the body.

James Seagrave, of No. 28, Coleman-street, ca-
briolet driver, on Friday evening last, about a
quarter before six, drove to the coach-stand in the
Old Bailey, and took the reins off his horse. He
then went into the watering-house to have his tea,
and was called out, and saw the two men, May and
Bishop. May said he wanted him to do a job ;
and being asked by witness what job it was, May
said, " I want you to carry a stir un .I" Witness
asked the prisoners what they would stand for it;
to which they answered, " a guinea !" He, how-
ever, declined to have anything to do with them or
their job.
Mr. Hill here begged to observe, that when Mr.
Partridge showed the prisoners the .50/.note,Bishop
appeared to suspect something, and asked Mr, Par-
tridge to give him what gold he had got in his
purse, at the same time observing, " We will come
again for the rcst." This took place, it will be
recollected, while the officers were being sent for.
At half-past ten the jury-room was ordered to be
cleared of strangers. On our re-admission, the
following special verdict was declared r—s‘ We, the
Jurors here assembled, find a verdict of Wilful
-Nlurder against some person or persons unknown.
The Jury beg to add to the above verdict, that the
evidence adduced before them has excited very
strong suspicion in their minds against the prisoners,
Bishop and Williams; and they trust that a strict
inquiry will be made into the ease by the Police
Magistrates."
After a very high compliment had been paid to
Mr. Corder and Mr. Thomas, for their respective
exertions, the inquest terminated.

We hear, with the greateGt satisfaction, that
the Duke of Noal-ouz. has collie to a resolution to supply
the dealers of this town with game, and that the proceeds
of the sale will be given by his Grace to his tenantry at
Hengrave, upon whose farms the game is principally
reared. Phisis a determination at once wise, equitable,
gameuxl
ha:
The Nobl e
rl),:akys been most unsparing, has
Duke, whew gratuitous distri-
hutiun of his
rightly judged that the only mode by which the illicit
trade can be checked is by co-operating in the design of
the Legislature to supply the demand through regularm
channels; and although the Act of Parliaent has secured
liberal.
to him the absolute disposal of the game upon his estate,
he feels a noble reluctance to make that a source of profit
to himself which is produced (in some degree at least) at
the expense of the occupier of the land. We hope that
the example will be generally followed. The market here
is now regularly supplied at fair prices; about is. a brace
for pheasants, 3s. 6d. for partridges, and 96. 43(1, each for
Peat,