The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-22 00:00:00

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LARS OF MILLIE'S MURDER.

On Tuesday last the Police-officers of Newcastle were em-
ployed in searching Bolam's House, at Sedgwick-place, in
Gateshead, and they found the key of the safe of the Savings'
Bank, which bad been missing. Whilst there, it occured to
them, to inquire of a next door neighbour whether any one
had heard the noise of the breaking of a pane of glass on the
Thursoay evening (the evening when the murder was com-
mitted), and on going to one of the neighbours, they learned
that on that evening such a noise had been heard. The officers
then went to Bolam's house, and told Mary Walker, the
housekeeper, what had been told to them ; on which she be-
cme alarmed—clasped her hands—burst into tears—and
said, that what she had sworn before the Coroner as to her
master's coming home after her, and what she had said about
breaking the pane of glass on the Wednesday evening, was
false. The officers then brought her to the Police-office to
have her statement tak, n down in writing in the presence
of a Magistrate; when Mr. Alderman Batson attended, and
the woman made a statement of which the following is the
substance

She said that when she gave her evidence before the Coro-
ner's Inquest last Thursday, she swore that she broke the
pane of glass in the kitchen window herself, on the Wednesday
evening, as she was fastening it, and that she had also sworn
that her master came home after her return home. Both these
statements she said were false. She then went on to say, on
leaving the Savings' Bank, after carrying her master's dinner
and tea, she went to the house of her sister, Mrs. Mould, in
Swan-street, in Gateshead, and took her tea, ?fter which she
went straight home; she supposes that it might then be about
five o'clock in the afternoon. That she opened the door
leading into the yard with a sneck key, and on entering
the yard she was surprised and alarmed to find that the
sash of the kitchen was thrown up. That on going
to the window, and looking in, she saw a man stooping
down in front of the fire-grate, as if endeavouring
to get a light, the fire being very low. That she
asked " Who is there ?" and was answered " It is me ;"
when she knew it was her master, from his voice. She
then opened tne back door with the key which she had
in her pocket, and went into the kitchen, and found her mas-
ter there, and said to him, " I did not know that you were
coming home 1" to which he replied, he had come up for a
key. She then lighted a candle, and took it into the parlour,
and was followed by her master, who went to his desk and
opened it; and she closed the parlour window shutters, and
then left her master at the desk, and went hack to the kitchen
and lighted another cand'e. That her master did not remain
many minutes in the parlour. That he came to her in the
kitchen, and told her to fasten all the windows, lest any per-
son should break into the house. He then left the house by
the back door. When she first went into the kitchen, she
shut down the sash of the window, and thus discovered
that a pane was broken. It was a pane in the lower sash,
at the top of it, next the door. When she discovered the
broken pane, she said to her master, " You have broken the
window ;" and he replied—" It was an accident." She said
he had no other way of getting into the house, but by the
window. He had a sneck key of the yard door. She said
she did not observe anything particular about him. He left
the house about six o'clock, and never returned. Next morn-
ing, about eight o'clock, her sister's husband came, and told
her that a man had been murdered in the Savings' Bank, and
asked her whether her master was at home ; when she told him
all about finding him in the house when she came home. She
went over to Newcastle, and into the Arcade, and then heard
that Millie had been murdered, and that her master had been
taken to the Infirmary ; but almost immediately after, she
heard that he had been taken to Mr. Glenton's. She then
went there, and saw her master, as stated in her evidence be-
fore the Coroner. She declares that no one had advised her
to tell the untruth, and that she had been very unhappy ever
since. The Magistrate after she had signed the statement,
suffered her to go home.—Sunderland Herald.

THE EARL OF DURHAM.

(From the Sunderland Herald of Friday, Dec.. 21.)

We have this week the gratification of gi.ing publicity to
the reply of the Earl of Durham to the Address of the Inhabi.
tants of Sunderland ; a document which, we feel assured, will
he perused with interest, not only by those to whom it is ad-
dressed, but by the " People of England," to whose patriotism
it makes a direct and irresistible appeal. The Noble Earl's
answer is as follows :

LONDON, Du% 14, 1838.

SIR,—I request you to be assured of the sincere pleasure
with which I have received the Address of the Inhabitants of
the Borough of Sunderland, which you have transmitted to me.
Every manifestation of sympathy, every proof of esteem and
confidence, emanating from my fellow countrymen, must, at
all times, be most gratifying to me, especially at a moment
like the present, when I have been subjected to such unme-
rited oppression ; but, when these declarations proceed from
those, who, like the inhabitants of Sunderland, are connected
with me by the closest ties, both public and private, their
warmth and cordiality must naturally inspire me with feel-
ings of the most affectionate gratitude.
The approbation which the meeting has been pleased to ex-
press of my conduct as Governor-General of British North
America, is very grateful to me. lam proud to say, that the
same sentiment pervades all the loyal and well-affected inhabi-
tants of the provinces, of which the Government bad been en
trusted to me by her Majesty.
I have won their confidence by an impartial system of ad-
ministration, by the most unremitting and laborious attention
to their interests, and by repeated proofs that I was determined
not to relax in my exertions until I had placed the general
Government of those important colonies on a sure and per-
manent basis.

I deeply regret that I have not been permitted to terminate
there what had been so auspiciously commenced. But I still
hope, that, encouraged and fortified by the support of the
people of England, I may yet be enabled to accomplish this
important duty in Parliament, and thus provide for the security
of the colonies—their permanent connexion with the British
empire—and the due protection and encouragement of those
great commercial interests, which are, and ever must be, iden-
tified with their prosperity.
I am, Sir, your obliged and faithful servant,
DURHAM.
_ _ _

To the Mayor of Sunderland, &c. &C. &c.
Every honest Liberal, every real Reformer, nay, every
Englishman of right feeling, who took part in the public
meeting at which the address to Lord Durham was trium-
phantly carried, in spite of the most factious opposition, must
feel deeply gratified that he, on that occasion, had the honour
of aiding in a " manifestation of sympathy,"—" a proof of
esteem and confidence,"—which, coming from those who
know Lord Durham best, and " especially at a moment like
the present," when he had been " subjected to such unmerited
oppression,"—has been as balm to the wounded spirit of the
Noble Earl, and has inspired his generous bosom with "feel.
ings of the most affectionate gratitude."

MANCHESTER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR —As the columns of The Sun have not, to my know-
ledge, contained any account of the contests, ill blood, and
party warfare, the result of the Charter, lately granted by her
Majesty to the inhabitants of this borough, perhaps a concise
history of what has occurred may not be uninteresting to your
readers.

Some eighteen months since, a petition in favour of a Char-
ter, signed by abeut 11,000 rate-payers, was forwarded to
London. A counter one, signed by the astounding large
number of 32 or 33,000 names in opposition thereto, was also
forwarded about the same period. This latter host of signa-
tures at first astonished and even alarmed the Liberals, until
by some little inquiry and some voluntary disclosures (disclo-
sures arising from the want of pay by the Tory agents to the
obtainers of names by the sheet) made the thing look a little
more intelligible. It soon appeared, even without a very mi-
nute investigation, that a majority of the 33,000 were absolute
and positive forgeries, many of whose names could not even be
found on the rate-books. Representations were, of course,
made to the Privy Council to this effect, and two Commis-
sioners were promptly despatched to Manchester, with instruc-
tions to ascertain the genuineness of both petitions. This inquiry
took up many weeks; and, after reducing the anti.corporetors'
petition to considerably below that of the advocates for Munici-
pal Government, the Commissioners returned to London to make
both their report and personal explanations to the Council. The
Tories, no way disheartened, made an other assault on the
Privy Council, and with some temporary success, which ended
in the Commissioners' return to commence a further investiga-
tion. Strange, however, as it may appear, it is nevertheless
true, that although the petition had been purged of upwards
of twenty two thousand fictitious names, the Commissioners,
without much trouble, struck out more than six thousand other
signatures; not finding a single genuine name along some par-
ticular streets, notwithstanding, the petition purports to con-
tain almost a name for every house in such street. After this
second ordeal, by which the numbers were reduced to fewer
than five thousand, they returned again to London to make
their second report.
Before this further report was laid before the Privy Coun-
cil, the Commissioners took the precaution to go through some
of the longest streets, calling at every door ; in which excur-
sion they only found one name improperly attached to the peti-
tion for the Charter, and from this sample, they took it for
dlofoulslo awnin a
granted, the genuineness of the remainder. The Charter was
do doubt granted on the report on the question. The Tories
now maintain, after having utterly disgraced themselves by so
sea
gtteamndpt
otorhiampspoosteh,er grounds .
that the Charte. r is invalid
on the
•—1 That it is
illegal to grant a Charter to the part of any new Parramen_
tart' BoJougli—(
the late Charter excludes a small township
or two). 2. That the
general
to make Act ofoo
tltBh3e4i, i
st
tauthorisesite
Char-
ter churchwardens and
overseers called upon David Price, Esq., constable, so to do).
3. That the going Judge • •
should appoint the Barrister to
revise the list (the Charter
appointed
Edward Rushton, Esq.,
to revise it). These are some of the grounds on which the
Conservatives mean to show that
the document is an in-
valid one.
That the Tories should feel sore at a
power and influence
so long 1 i exc.us.vely possessed by them, thus passing away, never,
never to return, need excite no surpaise. Mankind are mainly
influenced by such feelings. That they will do their utmost
to avert so great a calamity as long as possible, though they
should ultimately fail, is now matter of certainty ; and it is
equally so, that they have abundance of funds for any contest
however long it may continue.
Since the election of Councilmen on Friday last, and the
Aldermen and Mayor on the following day, no time has been
'sinews of war for the defensive. A fund lost in preparing t he.
of indemnity has been formed, to which the Mayor, Thomas
Potter, Esq., has subscribed 1,000/. and forty-four Aldermen
and Common Councilmen 5001, each, to which must be added,