The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

THE SUN,

GREAT FIRE at the MODEL ESTABLISH-
MENT of BATHS and WASHHOUSES.
Last evening, at a few minutes past six o'clock, a
fire broke out in the extensive premises erected by the
Committee for Promoting the Establishment of Baths
and Washhouses for the Labouring Classes, situate in
Goulston-square, Whitechapel. The flames com-
menced in one of the dryinghouses, a temporary
building of timber, erected by the committee for the
purpose of testing its efficacy previous to building a
more substantial compartment. Contiguous to this
erection was the washing department, containing 84
washtubs, and on one side stood the mangling-
houses, and on the other the ironing compartment.
The whole extended in one direction about 100 feet,
and in the other 75 feet.
The poor women who had been at work at the
baths during the day having left, the dryinghouse
was filled, as was the usual custom, with towels today.
This dryinghouse was heated by means of two
radiating stoves, and there is little doubt entertained
that the heat of these machines was the cause of the
terrible fire we are about to narrate.
At the time stated above some of the managing men
of the establishment were greatly alarmed by per-
ceiving a dense mass of smoke pouring through the
different passages leading to the various compartments
in the extensive range of premises. Upon gaining
the dryinghouse the whole of the horses used for
drying the clothes were, together with the linen
hanging thereon, found to be enveloped in flames.
Over this building were several large tanks, contain-
ing in the whole upwards of 3,000 gallons of water,
and in order to guard against the ravages of fire the
ccmmittee had proper engine hose attached to these
tanks, so that in the event of an outbreak a ready
supply might be brought to bear upon the flames.
The first thing attempted by the persons belonging
to the premises was to fly to the hose connected with
the tanks, and scatter the water over the flames.
Unfortunately, although the roof was formed of iron,
the ceiling was constructed of timber, and the flames
having reached this, they travelled along the top
of the building almost with the rapidity of
lightning, and so intense was the heat from the
flames that the glass windows in the ceiling quickly
became broken, when the fire rushed through the
openings in immense bodies, rising so high into the
air as to threaten destruction to the whole of the sur-
rounding houses.
Not a moment was lost in sending information of
the misfortune to the engine stations, and forthwith
the machines from Whitechapel and Aldgate parish
reached the spot, followed in rapid succession by nu•
merous engines of the London Brigade, with Mr.
Braidwood, the superintendent, and Mr. Fogo, the
foreman of the district. The West of England engine
and firemen, under the direction of Mr. Connorton,
were also remarkably early in arriving.
Tne firemen then found that the flames bad ob-
tained too strong a hold to be easily extinguished ;
but fortunately there was an abundant supply of water
obtained from the plugs of the East London Company's
works, with which the firemen set their machines in
full play. By order of the superior officers, the hoses
of some of the engines were conveyed through the
front baths, and were brought to bear upon the great
seat of fire, whilst a number of firemen were at the
same time sent up the scaling ladders to mount that
portion of the roof not in flames. By so doing they
were enabled to scatter many thousand gallons of
water at once upon the fire, but, in spite of every ex-
ertion, the work of devastation continued, and it was
not till after nine o'clock that the flames could be

conquered.
The damage done is very considerable. The dry-
ing-house is entirely consumed and all it contained.
The mangling and ironing compartments are also
destroyed, but fortunately nearly the whole of the
tubs in the washhouses have escaped with trifling
injury. Although some of the other parts are burnt
out, the iron roof is still hanging ; but, owing to the
ceiling under it being formed of timber, it is very
seriously injured, and, what is worse, the back wall
has bulged out, so that it is feared it will have to be
pulled do wn. Fortunately the premises were insured
for 12,000/.
LATEST PARTICULARS.-ELEVEN O'CLOCK P.M.

From the inquiries made by the brigade as to the
extent of the damage done, it seems that, notwith-
standing so much property has been consumed, the
whole of the engineer's department has escaped.un-
injured. The boiler-rooms have likewise escaped
any injury, except from water. The steam-engine
and the machinery have also received no damage, ex-
ewpt by water. At one time it was feared that the
sudden application of cold water to the machinery,
would cause an explosion, but, owing to the admira-
ble arrangements of the firemen, nothing of the sort
occurred. Had it not been for the present unfortu-
nate occurrence, it is quite probable that in the course
of a few days, the dryinghouse, which has proved to
have been the cause of the disaster, would have been
pulle'l down, and a more substantial building erected
in its place. The greater portion of the private baths
have likewise received no injury of any importance;
hut, notwithstanding, the damage is considerable, and
the poor people for whose accommodation the baths
mere Specially erected will be put to great incon-
venience.

DAVIS'S STRAITS FISHERY.—The Advice, Captain
Penny, arrived in this bay on Friday week, from Divis's
Straits, and proceeded for Dundee. Captain Penny
does not bring any later intelligence, having left the ice
immediately after the vessels which have already ar-
rivt d.„/"It will,;be remembered that the Advice was the
vessel which accompanied the Truelove of Hull, in the
endeavour to examine Lancaster Sound, in search of the
discovery chips of Sir John Franklin and Sir James
Ross. The Alexander, Sturrock. also passed through
the bey on the same day. She left the ice on the 15th,
and had a very rough passage. The Advice brings 17
fish-170 tuns; the Alexander, 22 fish, a bumper ship.
This is pretty nearly in accordance with the accounts
previously received. These vessels bring no further news
of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The St.
Andrew arrived here on Wednesday evening, with 20
fiih-140 tuns. She brings intelligence of the acciden-
tal death of her respected master, Captain Dring. In
the month of June, while Capt. Dring was at Lancaster
Sound, in search of the discovery ships, he, unfortu-
nately, got his hand injured, while in the act of ffring a
harpoon gun. From this accident he had perfectly re-
covered; when, about the 10th September, while in the
act of stepping on the taffrail, with a gun in his hand,
to shoat some wild fowl, the trigger came in contact with
the wheel rope, and caused the gun to go off, lodging its
contents under his arm and side. The surgeon of the
R.galia, of Kircaldy, immediately came on board, and
pronounced the wound mortal. He died of it three days
afterwards. His death is much regretted by all who had
the pleasure of his acquaintance, for he was a man of
strict integrity and obliging disposition; he was also
thoroughly acquainted with his profession, this being
his sixth voyage as master to the northern regions, and
in none of which he ever carried a surgeon, it being his
expressed opinion that, with strict discipline and whole-
some provisions, it WAS unnecessary.— Aberdeen Herald.
THE AGE OP CHEAP CONVEYANCE.—Few things
in modern times have been such influential agencies as
the omnibus. Their history is one of more dignity than
shows on the surface. Those social conveniences have
revolutionized all the chief capitals of Europe. Invented
in 1827, they ruined the elder branch of the Bourbons
in 1830. The accidental upset of an omnibus suggested
the first idea of a barricade, and for a long time consti-
tuted an essential part of the structure which changed
the whole science of revolutions. The overturn of the
cerriege was converted to the overturn of a monarchy.
Since that time the omnibus, as we have said, has made
the tour of Europe. Among ourselves it is a peaeeful
and health-giving instrument. By its help all the
world is able to live out of town. Barristers,
merchants, artists, and men of letters, who formerly
crowded the narrow courts and passages of Fleet-
street and Cheapside, live now, by its permis-
sion, in snug suburban cottages in Norwood, Hamp-
stead, Putney, or Blackheath. The Johnsons and
Goldsmiths of the last age met in close courts and
stifling taverns for want of the omnibus. It is not
very miry years since a single coach ran from Hamp-
stead to London once a day—the charge eighteen pence!
A man may now ride from Charing-cross to any part of
the suburbs of London, at any minute, for a sixth of the
money. This change in the distribution of the inhabi-
tants has tended greatly to. raise the value of property
in the suburbs, and to diminish the rate of mortality in
London. Wherever a good and cheap service of omnibus
is established, rents along the road go up. As a conse-
quence which might be expected, owners of cottages are
beginning to see the wisdom of themselves setting up
such services where they do not already exist. Our
attention is called to the subject by reading the report
of a meeting of owners of property, who ended their
conference by forming themselves into an omnibus com-
pany. Civilization has had its triumphs of many kinds
—has built pyramids and armadas, temples and tunnels;
but it has seldom achieved anything for the comfort and
physical benefit of mankind to surpass the class-results
which have been derived from the halfpenny steam-
boat and the penny omnibus.—Atheneum.
ADVERTISEMENT.—The Observer of Sunday, Oct
28. with its gratuitous supplement, together 60 of the
Observer folio columns, the price only sixpence. A very
full report and original introductory remarks, over 20
columns of the Dilannings' trial and conviction' with a
rep tition of their profile wood cut likenesses. The
Observer, of Oct. 28, be kept on sale all next° week.
The extensive publication of the Observer commences.
at four o'clock on Sunday mornings. Newspaper agents
can have any number of ecopies before five o'clock in
Sarelay morning, in time to s. ,
supply plssengcrs goar,g, by
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puLlisheil at four o'clock on Monday afternoons.
RIOTS AT WHEATLEY, 0Y,.0N.---11113 parish for
some time past has literally been in the hands of a set of
drunken and disorderly individuals, whose con duct has
been such as to compel the clergyman and his wife to
leave the place and to live in an hotel in Oxford. Dr.
Barrington, one of the bench of magistrates, said, that
this desperate and disreputable state of things at Wheat-
ley is owing to the constables not doing their duty, one
of whom is a maltster, and supplies the houses which
the &Unguents frequent with beer. Mr. Marsham and
Major Weyland suggested that Mr. Garrett, the curate
of Wheatley, should make a deposition, showing the ne-
cessity for a special constable, and that document the
magistrates would transmit to the Secretary of State,
and if he sanctioned it, all the difficulties of the case
would bp surmounted.

TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATIONS.
The second of a series of " Great Temperance
Demonstrations" was held last night in Exeter Hall.
The subject of address was " The Influence of the
Temperance Movement on the Extension of Religion
at Home and Abroad, and the Moral Obligation of
professing Christians to promote it."
Mr. JOHN CASSELL was called to the chair ; and
in the course of a lengthened address be endeavoured
to show that all the most eminent characters in Bible
history were total abstainers from strong drinks. In
our own country there was consumed every year a
quantity of intoxicating liquors sufficient to make a
river 3 feet deep, 30 feet wide, and 168 miles. Need
we wonder, under such circumstances, at the existing
amount of crime, pauperism, and prostitution ? He
reckoned that England alone contained 600,000 con-
firmed drunkards, and that there were 60,000 deaths
annually from this sole cause. Here then was an ob-
vious curse, that ought to be forthwith arrested ; and
should not society at once combine to arrest the de•
stroyer ? It was useless to preach the Gospel to the
drunkard; it might as well be preached to the insane.
The mind of the drunkard might be compared to a
great bog or morass. To such a mind the Gospel
I might be preached in vain, for there was no adapta-
tion of the soil to the seed. But let the machinery
of temperance be applied to the making of tee-total
drains, let it dig the dyke of total abstinence, to
drain men's brains of alcohol, and immediately the
soil would become adapted to the seed, and the
drunkard cry out for higher sources of gratification.
Teetotalism was indeed a pioneer of the Gospel; and
it would be found to contribute to the salvation of the
world, by removing one of the greatest obstacles that
ever obstructed the progress of Divine truth.
The Rev. W. MORTON, late missionary at Calcutta,
in narrating the results of his own observation and
experience in the East Indies, remarked that
a majority of the population of those regions
were water-drinkers, but strong drinks had been
introduced by Europeans among the lower classes,
and he was sorry to say that this vice had been so
encouraged by the Government, that they had
been compelled to resort to the licensing system. To
such an extent had the evil amounted, that at length
a native millionaire in Calcutta had, within the last 1
few years, headed a temperance movement among the
native population, avowedly to stem the tide of
drunkenness which Europeans had introduced. This
man was a heathen, a very heathen of heathens ; and
he need not enlarge upon the lesson which this simple
fact read to professing Christians. In our own
country population was increasing faster than con-
version—in other words, conversions were not pro-
ceeding so as to overtake the rapidly increasing po-
pulation. What, then, was required to aid and in-
crease the spread of the Gospel ? He had no hesita-
tion in saying it was the general adoption of total
abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
Mr. D. G. PAINE, of Deptford, was the next
speaker, and he strongly urged the truth and im-
portance of the principle of abstinence.
The Rev. SAMUEL DUNN, late member of the
Wesleyan Conference, who was received with very,
warm congratulations, in impressing upon the meet-
ing the virtue of total abstinence, gave the results
of his personal experience in that respect. He
stated that he bad never drank a glass of brandy,
rum, or gin, smoked a cigar or pipe, or taken a
pinch of snuff in his life. He had now passed his
fiftieth year. During his time he had travelled as many
miles, preached as many sermons, delivered as many lec-
tures, seen as much public service in various climes un-
der various circumstances, by night and day, by sea and
land, as most ordinary men, but never had tasted
strong drink. Yet the present was the first total
abstinence meeting at which he had ever spoken—a
fact which he attributed to certain restrictions in the
existing practice of Methodist society.
The Rev. JOHN KIRK, of Edinburgh, addressed
the meeting at some length upon the influence of the
drinking customs of society upon the spiritual in-
terests of the classes engaged in the trade of dealing
in strong drinks. These classes were represented as
requiring all the energies of the advocates of the ab-
stinence cause ; and he said it was remarkable that
when individals belonging to them became sensible of
their spiritual condition, they all feel obliged to forsake
the trade.
The CHAIRMAN announced the subject of address
at the next " Demonstration," on the first Monday
in December, to be " the importance of the tempe-
rance reformation in connexicn with the Sunday
schools and Sabbath school teaching ;" and after a
doxology had been sung, the meeting separated.

THE MANNINGS' TRIAL.
MR. SERGEANT WILKINS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS.

Sir,—Pray allow me, through the medium of your
widely-circulated journal, to make public the expres-
sion of surprise which I have heard this day in
every quarter at the misreport in a leading morning
paper of that which the Attorney-General said, when
replying on the part of the Crown, in reference to
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins's defence of the convict Man-
ning. In the paper to which I refer the Attorney-
General is reported to have said (alluding to Mr.
Ballantine's observations upon the Learned Ser-
geant's speech) "he considered Mr. Ballantine was
justified' in his animadversions on the Sergeant's
speech, whereas the actual words used by the At-
torney-General, and correctly reported in every other
paper I have seen, were, "he considered Mr. Ballan-
tine was NOT justified," &c., and proceeded to observe
that the Learned Sergeant had only done his duty to
his client, &c.
Comment on this unfair attempt to prejudice Ser-
geant Wilkins would be worse than superfluous.
Permit me, however, to take this opportunity of
saying that I believe there exists amongit all unpre-
judiced and impartial persons, professional as well as
non professional, who wete present at the trial, but
one opinion as to the propriety of the course adopted
by Sergeant Wilkins, viz., that no other line of de-
fence would have been at all feasible ; and that, con-
sistently with his duty to his client, he not only could
Int have acted otherwise, but, in fact, had no
alternative. I am, &c.,

A BARRISTER ?RESENT AT THE TRIAL.
Temple, Oct. 27, 1849.

SILK TRADE.—Probably the oldest silk manufac-
turer cannot call to memory a time when raw silk was so
low in price as during the late political struggles on the
Continent. With that forethought peculiar to our
countrymen, they took advantage of cheapness, and pur-
chased the entire crop, thus securing to themselves at
least a year or two's supply. The consequence of which
is, that our Spitalfields weavers ar© now actually em-
ployed in throwing silks for the Lyons manufacturers.
The most beneficial effects are derived by our own con-
sumers from the markets being enormously stocked, so
much so that the Messrs. Jay, of Regent-street, have
literally " stacks" of black silks, purchased at nominal
rates, during the French commotions, and passing into
the public hands for not more than the prices of that
period, although raw silks are now at least 25 per cent.
dearer than at that time, with every inclination to ad-
vance and maintain high quotations.—Morning Post.
WESTERN LITERARY INSTITUTION.—The fourth
Monday evening glee concert took place here last even-
ing, and much exceeded its predecessors in the selection,
arrangements, and execution of the several musical
compositions. The first part consisted of the whole of
the splendid music in Macbeth, excellently executed by
the following performers :—First Witch, Miss M. Hud-
dart ; Second Witch, Mr. Howe; Third Witch, Mr.
Genge; Hecate, Mr. Lee. Herr George Pigall gave a
Styrian song, " The Spring," very beautifully, which
was rapturously applauded. In the second part we had
a Grand Fantasia, introducing the airs of " "Tie the
harp in the air," " Non piu meats," "In this old
chair," and " Rule Britannia," brilliantly executed by
Mr. H. S. May on the piano-forte; and also a fantasia
from Mose in Egitto, the Recitative, Prayer, and Air
Vari6—all performed on one string (the 4th), by Mr.
G'riesbach on the violin, very admirably. Altogether it
was a most excellent concert.

A NEW VEGETABLE.--THE QUEEN AND PRINCE
ALBERT PUZZLED.—As a specimen of the stories afloat
regarding the peregrinations of the royal party in the
vicinity of their Highland residence, we give the follow-
ing from a vernacular correspondent of the Montrose
Standard. We copy it word for word :—" Her Maijestie
sometimes gangs into ither folk's houses. Wheel, her
an, the Prince gaed into an auld 'omen's hause last week
wha bides about a mile frae the castle. The wifie
kent them brawly, and' bade them sit down.
They accepted the invatashon, an' kindly speired for her
welfare. After lookin' roun' the house, an' particularly
on the fireplace on the floor (nae grate, ye ken, but just
a wee bit holie, an' a sod or twa roun' the bodom o' a
little kail pottie), the Prince said, Gif if it be nae ill
manners to speir, fat are ye to dine upon the day? Fat
are ye boilin in yer pot?' The auld wifie said, In me
pat? Ou, there's neaps intilt, an' carrots intil't, an' leaks
intil't, Stop, stop I said her Maijestie," What kind
of a vegetable is intil't?' Intilt?' replied the ould'oman,
astonished at the question; Intil't! On, plaise your Mai-
jestie, name ava, but jist that there's neeps in tire, an'
carrots intil't.' Beg you pardon, my good woman,' said
her Maijestie; tell we what vegetables you mean by
intirt." Intirt ? intil't ?' replied the woman, holding
up her hands in surprise, and beginning to lecture in her
loof with her finger; intil't, Lord keep your
Maijestie, just intil't; there's carrots intik% an neeps
intil't, an' leeks intil't, au' a gie curn barley intil't; a'
that things are intil't, an' ye see brawly that the pattie's
00 the fire, hinging on the crook.' I see the pot,' said
the Prince, but we are fairly at a loss to know what you
e re,s heartnele'
ns iil t repliedn,
t, the wile, mean by one vegetable in it, which you intil't.
Bless
yourth ns
iat itl naane,
leeks,i' the
pat; wcair'ero'
an' .' Here the woman was interrupted by her
Maijestie, who could contain herself no longer, but rose I
to her feet, and ran out to the door, being ready to burst
with laughter, and she was followed by the Prince,
who
left the woman standing on the floor with her finger in
her loof and the words, Carrots intil't,' sticking between
her teeth."
STRASBURG.—We read in the Archives Israelites de
France, that a teacher in the Jewish national school was
recently elected a Member of the National Assemby of
France. The pedagogic M.P. had to vacate his situation
according to Art. 28 of the Constitution.—Jewish
Chronicle.

CHOLERA AND DIARRHEA

ENGLAND AND WALES.
The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and
Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health
October 29, 1849 :
SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT.
Deaths.
Cholera. Dlarrh.
O 1
• 0
1 0
2 0
O 5
O 1
O 1
8 0
O 1

Ashton-under-Lyno
Aylsham (Cottibhall)...
Belford... ...
Berwick ..• •••
Birmingham ...
Blackburn
Bradford (Allerton)
Bridgewater ...
Bridport ••• ..•
Clifton Union (St. Philip and

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• • • ....

• • •

• • • "-.

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• • • ....".

Jacob) . .•
Clutton (Midsummer Norton)
Cockermouth (Maryport die.)
Darlington
Dartford
Doncaster
Dudley, Tipton, Sedgley, and

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Rowley Regis ...
Eccleshall (Bierlow) ...
Goole (S winefleet) ..•
llaslingden (Accrington district)
Hastings (Ore)
Hexham ..•
Huddersfield (Meltham dis.)
Huntingdon (Sawtry)
Knaresborough •••
Lancaster (Skelton) ...
Leeds ... • ..• ..•
Lexden (Copford)
Liverpool ..•
Manchester .••
Newark ••• •••
Newbury ...
North Witchford (Chatteris)...
Newton Ai(
sKtbribincogttsst)t
0(
nT oarnqdu a
Land
.
..•
[ Rotherham (Marabrough) ...
Salford (Regent-road)
Sculcoates (Drypool)
Sheffield (Handsworth)
South Shields (Westoe)
' Stourbridge
I Tadcaster (Aberford)
I Thorne
Thrapston (Titchmarsh)
Totnes (Brixham)
Tynemouth (Earsdon district)
Wakefield (Stanley) ...
Walsall (Borough) ...
West Bromwich and Oldbury
Westbury
West Derby (Walton-on-the
Hill district) ••• •••
Whitehaven (St. Bees district)
Wigan ... ...
Witham (Coggeshall) • ...
Witney, Burford, and Fulbrook
Wolstanton (Tunstall district)
Wolverhampton (Willenhall)

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1 0
- ••• ••• ......
3 2
•••
3 0
0 1
-
••• -
0 1
•.•
••• - 0 1

2 0
3 •••
0

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3 0
1 0
1 0
2 0
0 1
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3 0
•••
- 2 0
- 0 3

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Total ... ••• ...

1 0

12 1
O 2
2 0
O 1
O 2

SCOTLAND, OCT. 27.
Panbride, Oct. 24 and 25 ... 3 0
Hawick ••• 3 0
••• ••• .....
OCT. 29.
Panbrid© ... •• • 4 0
Ejinbargh (week eading Oct. 27) 5 0
.--..--.
Total ... ... ... ... 15 0

GENERAL TOTAL.
England and Walos 84 41
Scotland ••• ••• 15 0

Total 99 41
NOTE. —The deaths are returned according to the
superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im•
practicable to distinguish every place separately.

MURDER OF A PITMAN.
On Saturday night last a brutal and murderous
assault was committed upon the person of George
Hunter, a pitman belonging to Cowpen Colliery, near
Blyth, and which, we are sorry to say, resulted in
his death the following morning. Deceased had been
at his brother's house, at Cowpen-lane, on the above
night, and was returning home to Cowpen-square,
between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, when two
men, each armed with a stick, rushed upon him near
to the Cowpen North Pit, and beat him in a most savage
and brutal manners his cries brought one of the waggon-
men,
named Turnbull, from the North Farm to his
assistance, when the assassins ran off, the darkness
of the night favouring their escape. Hunter was
immediately conveyed home, medical aid was pro-
cured, and every :attention paid to him, but without
avail ; he sunk rapidly under the injuries he had re-
ceived, and died on Sunday morning, between nine
and ten o'clock. The unanimous opinion in the
neighbourhood is, that the horrid deed has been
perpetrated by some of the pitmen, to whom de-
ceased had become obnoxious by his refusing to con-
form to their proposal of restricting themselves to a
certain amount of work per day. We hope that every
effort will be made, and no expense spared, by the
owners of the colliery to find out the guilty parties,
and bring theta to justice. Hunter, who was a
quiet, steady man, and much respected, has left a
widow and three :young children to deplore his un-
timely end. It is said that, previous to his death,
he said he knew the guilty parties, but declined
' giving their nanote3. An inquest was held on the
body at the Ridley Arms Inn, Blyth, on Tuesday,
before S. Reed, .E sq., coroner, and a respectable jury,
but in order to give time for having a post mortem
examination, the inquest was adjourned until the 31st
inst. Hunter's remains were interred in Blyth
churchyard on Wednesday afternoon, in the presence
of a vast assemblage of persons. Two brothers,
named Gleghorn, belonging to Cowpen-square, have
been apprehended on suspicion of being concerned in
the murder, and a fter being examined, were remanded
to Morpeth gaol.— -Newcastle Guardian.