The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-23 00:00:00

[MORNING CIIRONICLL]

The Rev. E. R. Butcher has addressed a Letter
to a Contemporary from Brixton Grove, Surrey,
in which he says— •
" I claim no merit for having been an unwilling prosecutor,
but as a contrary inference is attempted to be raised, allow me
to say, that the Worthy Magistrate who committed the prisoner
thought it right to bind me over to prosecute, observing, that it
was a duty which I owed to the public. My legal adviser in
London expressed the same opinion, and gives me authority to
use his name whenever it shall become necessary. It was well
known with what strictness the Grand Jury investigated the
whole business before they found ' a true bill.'—A witness is
said to have sworn that, at the time when I said my wife was
too ill to attend at the Magistrate's, she was, in fact, well
enough to be, and actually was. at the house of the witness,
about three quarters of a mile from her own dwelling. My
answer is, that I can decidedly prove that my wife did not leave
her house on that day, or the previous day, or during the two
subsequent days. That Mrs. Butcher was too ill to attend the
Court at Horsham, her uncle and my father will readily esta-
blish. They prohibited me from taking her there on account of
her particular situation and extremely delicate and precarious
state or health, unless the prisoner should be advised co require
her attendance under a subpoena. My legal adviser before
alluded to gave it as his opinion, that my wife's attendance was
wholly unnecessary on my part, as both the removal and the
identity of the articles were admitted, and could be sworn to
by myself and other witnesses ; observing at the same time, that
if the prisoner meant to set up in her defence, that the articles
enumerated in the indictment, which were nearly twenty in
number, and of considerable value, were given to her by my
wife, her Counsel would of course direct Mrs. Butcher to be
subpcenaed, in which case she must attend, or chew, by a me-
dical man, a sufficient cause for her absence."

As it is probable this case will be brought before
a Court of Justice, we will not enlarge upon the
statement of the Rev. Mr. Butcher. He seems
a fortunate man, for he has acted in such a man-
ner as to entitle him not only to the approbation
of his own conscience, but also to the approbation
of the Grand Jury, " who investigated the whole
business before they found a true bill, with what
strictness is well known," as well as to the appro-
bation of the Committing Magistrate. How singu-
lar, that the Petit Jury and some of the Magis-
trates on the Bench should have so far misun-
derstood the motives of the advice of his Coun-
sel, not to produce Mrs. Butcher, as to say the
case was one of the most disgraceful that ever
stained a Court of Justice. With every respect
for Grand Juries, especially Salford Grand Ju-
ries, acting on the advice of the Rev. Mr. Hay,
not to trouble themselves with evidence, and
getting through the bills at a steam-engine rate,
and believing, as we do,
that the liberty of the
subject cannot he better secured than by such

a bulwark, we of course, cannot but be of
opinion that the committing Magistrate does
well in placing the same reliance on it. The
three months' imprisonment before the Grand
Jury enters on its duty is a mere nothing. There
are some people, however, who think it would
he amiss if Committing Magiitrates were to leave
the Grand Juries a little less to do, by taking
the trouble to sift a case before band, to save
itthorence fron► unnecessary suffiering and po-
sihle colitt:mioation,

AN ATTEMPT TO BURY A MAN ALIVE,

Wednesday evening, Britain's private burial
ground, Church-row, NVldtechapel, was made the
scene of great uproar and confusion, which spread
through the whole neighbourhood, arising froal
the following cause :

It appeared that on Tuesday week a woman named Luca,
was taken to the London Hospital, where she was provided
every medical assistance ; yet her disease baffled the skiltof her
attendants, and she died in a day or two afterwards, and there
being marks of violence about her face, the parochial authorities
deemed it necessary to institute an inquiry into the real causes
of her death, and on Saturday evening a Coroner's Jury se`
upon the body, and after hearing the evidence of several wit:
nesses, the surgeon who had attended her in the lioapitt"
clearly shewed that her dissolution was not attributable to the
injuries on the face, but entirely owing to a fever which was
very prevalent at this season of the year. The Jury accorditigit,
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decided, that she had died from natural causes, and not fr°l"
any violence inflicted by the husband.
The result of the inquiry slid not at all satisfy the though
neighbours and friends of the deceased, who persisted in staging
that she had been 'massacred by her husband, against wii°._l4
they vowed vengeance. All the dissentients were Irish sT,
Roman Catholics, whose opinions were much strengthened Pi
the fact, that he would not allow the body to be interred gtc,';
cording to the Catholic rites, or even permit her to be " wakeSt
as is customary among the Irish. This was the cause of di'.
satisfaction among them, and the greatest confusion that atti
be pictured prevailed for the last two or three days, and °o
Wednesday evening the burial of the wife took place.
At the hour appointed for the funeral, all the friends of tit°
deceased assembled together, with vast numbers of their cod
try-people, from all parts of London, not merely out of resr.ir
to the departed, but for the ostensible purpose of wreaking t„d
vengeance on the head of the unfortunate and unoffelitt'
widower.
As the funeral procession moved on, the multitude inereasoe4
and when it reached the burial-ground, not less than fro
eight or ten thousand persons were present, and such was ;o,
uproar, that the Rev. Mr. Nicholl, the clergyman, was 'of
terrupted repeatedly, while reading the service, by severalo
the Irish calling out that the deceased did not belong t° rat
flock. After the corpse was lowered into the grave, the geltedif
shout was to " serve out the husband." At this signs;
husband, who was the chief mourner, was seized upon, and "ost
solutely forced to the edge of the grave, they using the Pio,
dreadful asseverations, that he should be buried alive With
the
wife, whilst others were prepared with shovels to fill uP
grave. The poor fellow struggled with all his might,,a of
called for assistance, and fortunately at this moment a h°lo
officers from Lambeth-street Office rushed forward to save of
from the dreadful sentence that awaited him, in which t uto
succeeded with the utmost difficulty, but not till his gortreirl-
were reduced to rags ; and had it not been for this timetY.ots
terference, they certainly would have carried their purpose t_,,4
execution. The affrighted man was placed in a coach,
accompanied by the officers for safety to his house.

On the 22d ult. the village of Chateau-Gail'
lard, in the Commune of Belles, was totally. 01,11
sumed by fire. Besides the loss of propertli
which reduces several individuals to a state
great indigence, a young girl aged, about
perished in the flames. The sad accident ;5 11,
to have been occasioned by the imprudence °i
woman who was heating an oven.—(Fren"
Paper.)
A recent letter from Frankfort says, " A tett'
days ago a serious robbery was committed he;:i
Forcible entry was made in the middle orat,ic
night into the country-house of a merchant. I
iron chest was broken open, and the cask7o'
' taken away. It contained money in
the amount of about 18,000 florins (1,60 01. tea
ling), the greater part of which had ill " for
deposited with the merchant, as a securitl
State paper."
rie
A robbery of rather a novel sort, and to a 'Lir
amount, was recently committed on the Su'd
non. A vessel from Prince Edward's Pilo
bound to Bristol, was met off the Heads oltict
the last fevi days by a pilot boat, which-tooAl
on board some of the passengers who "r,ior
to land. One gentleman, a Mr. Hugh lore
donald, was plundered by the boat's crew' beitl
landing, of a large sum in notes and specie' il'
having stated his loss to the Magistrates af:oor
rush, they investigated the complaint aaciftiP's
mitred three of the men and a boy 0 the
gaol for the robbery, after examiol"4s
boat, in which they discovered four sole'
and two guineas, part of the booty.

COAL MARKET, JULY 22. •e. di
Ships at Market. Ships sold raf CO?*
64i Newcastle . . 53} -30 s u`>4,,
36 Sunderland - -25 f . 29s 0L,1>,../
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COURSE ()F EXCHANGE, July t?. , ii•
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Ditto, at. Sight le 19
Rotterdam
Antwerp l2 3 .4.141
Hanthitrgh qt; 10 .1:19
R
AMIN. 36 1 I *4(IPI
Paris,3 Day's sight
50 e 6 il;
Ditto
flourdeaitx, ditto
Berlin 7 jtile
Frank fort on t lie I%laitt
Pet et shurgh . , 94 , t ;
Viennl
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Trieste ....• 9 61,, iref'• oit 11
Madrid . ,
~ , . 37 pre. 04
Cadiz
Bilboa S6I , '.
Barcelona
;eville
Gibraltar
Leghorn
Genoa . . 15 -Venice, Ital. Ur 27_
1 Malta
Ite Pcr
Palermo
Lisbon

Oporto
Bio.latteiro , , 49 ,
Bahia •, 54
Ilnblin .... 91 Cork 4i pet Cent..
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BULLION. n Orr .
Portucal 601,1,in Cnin L.O ...,
~g.:,
3 17 lu7
Foreign Gold, in Bars 0
New Doubloons
New Dollars 0 0 0
0 0
_......., Silver Sitandortl in liars.

BIRTHS. ofr
On the 20th inst., at Clapham-common, the lady
Shebbeare, Esq,
. of a daughter.
On the 19th inst., at Edwinsford, Carmarthen.-
Mary Hamlyn Williams, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On Thursday, at Edmonton Church, the Re/. vJr Sp,
Vyvyan, second son of the late Sir Vyell VyvYl ,11
Trelowarren, in the county of Cornwall, to Alctielerii
daughter of J. V. Taylor, Esq., of Southgate. 31140011.,/,
On the 21st inst., at St. Helen's Church, Mr. Tri 007
Glover, of Bishopsgate-street, to Miss Auguo3
the same place.

DIED. 5eP ,
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On the 21st inst., Henry Harrison, Esq., of
Russell-square, aged 44.
On the 11th ult., in a glandular consuraptioo.Xel
caela Lauriana, eldest daughter of Lieutenant-93,100
On the 21st inst., John smith, Esq., of Notuteet; .
New-road, St. Marylebone, and late of John-0— in
street, in the,6,sth year, of his age.
On tho 12th Inst., at her house, Brown-94-4"
Mrs. Sarah Cleghorn, in, the 97th year of her
perfect possepsiOn. OCliek

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