The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-05 00:00:00

RESOLUTION.

" The forwarding and distributing of the paper called
Constituti'ind Germany, published at Strasburg by G.
Sllbermann, is prohibited in all the states of the Confe•
deration, and the Governments are requested to publish
this resolution, to take proper measures to enforce it, and
to make the Diet acquainted with them as soon as possible."
VIENNA, Nov. 23.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 86;
Four per Cents., 77; Bank Shares, 1,133.

The Bristol Ultras have, it seems, in the ex-
tremity of their desperation, resolved on an
address to his MAJESTY, pointing out to him
the dangers of conceding to Reform, and
advising him not to " listen to councils
which would lead to so fatal a result." We
can regard this address in no better light
than as a braggart, insolent attempt at dic-
tating to the SOVEREIGN. We wonder how any
truly loyal subject can dare to put his signature
to such a brazen composition. But despair and
malignity seem to have wholly possessed the Bris-
tol Ultras, to the exclusion of every better feeling.

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The work is beautifully got up, and is superior,
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impressions. Nothing can be more laughable
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CONSISTORY couRr.—(THIS DAY.)

NEELD V. NEELD.

The further hearing of this cause was resumed this
morning. Counsel was heard for and against the produc-
tion of an affidavit to the effect, that Mr. Neeld had writ-
ten a letter to Lady Caroline, requesting her to leave Lon-
don, and come to Littleton-house, and that when she did
arrive there, in pursuance of her instructions, Mr. Neeld
had previously left the house, and was not present to re-
ceive her.

The COURT—The circumstances of the case were not
such as warranted a production of the affidavits at present.
The KING'S ADVOCATE then went over the various alle-
gations, grounded on the letters of the parties, and endea-
voured to show, that no proposal for a separation in the
first instance emanated from Mr. Neeld, but on the con-
trary, it came from Lady Caroline, and that a letter in
evidence was written by Mr. Neeld to Lord Shaftesbury,
in which the former, by desire of his wife, requested of his
Lordship that arrangements might be made for effecting a
permanent separation; it was further in evidence, that
Lady Caroline admitted, that in a moment of irritation,
she might have wished for a separation. Mr. Neeld pro-
tested against the imputation of proposals for a separation
being laid upon him. Again, on the arrival of the parties
in London, Lady Caroline, in a communication to Mr.
Neeld, says that she had prepared two bed-rooms in their
house in Grosvenor-square, and sbe waited to know which
of them Mr. Neeld meant to occupy, to this the latter re-
plied, " you have driven me from you, and I go to a hotel
to-night." It was alleged that Mr. Neeld had practised
cruelty in order to force a separation, and his own rate of
maintenance on Lady Caroline, but that allegation was
only grounded on a letter in which Mr. Neeld simply tells
his wife that he did not mean to have a town house.

The Kaiso's ADVOCATE (on behalf of Mr. Neeld) con-
tended that from the letters which were now produced
there was proof given that Mr. Neeld had behaved with
kindness to his wife. Lady Caroline Neeld had persisted
in staying at the house in Grosvenor-square though her
husband had previously requested her to leave it. With
respect to that article in the allegation which alleged that
Mr. Neeld had taken no steps to defend his lady's character
from the attack in the Satirist, what was the fact ? In
one of these letters now produced, and which it was said
on the other side were immaterial to the cause, it appeared
that Mr. Neeld had sent to his lady requesting her to leave
Grosvenor-square and return into the country, as he had
taken measures to punish the author of the libel upon
her in the Satirist, and that as her object in going to
town to make affidavits to defend herself was accomplished,
she sl•ould return. He (the King's Advocate) thought
this fully showed that Mr. Neeld had not treated his lady
in so cruel a manner as described. The King's Advocate
referred to other letters to show that Lady Caroline might
have gone to her father's house, and not have remained
in that in Grosvenor-square. Mr. Neeld, in fact, sug-
gested that it was indelicate for her to remain there while
the house was to be let ; and whe❑ she refused to leave it
he ordered the furniture to be removed. After a few other
remarks, the Learned Counsel concluded by expressing his
conviction that the libel ought to be rejected.
Dr. PHILLIMORE followed at some length on the same
side—A perusal of Mr. Neeld's letter to Lady Carolina
would convince the Court that he had acted with propriety,
a due attention to Lady Caroline's feeling pervaded them
all ; they not only decidedly disproved acts of cruelty, but
chewed that the case was a mere treaty for money ; the al-
legations of cruelty were exceedingly frivolous ; in one of
the articles Mr. Neeld is charged with cruelty, grounded on
the following sentence at the end of a letter to his wife,
" I wish you a good morning, I am going to London."
The other twenty-four allegations of separate acts of
cruelty, said to have been committed in seven and twenty
days, were equally frivolous—namely, whether she should
have fish and pastry to dinner; and that Mr. Neeld had
hurt her hand when pulling her into his cabriolet, and
such like. The Learned Doctor read extracts of Mr.
Neeld's letter to shew that the latter had exhausted all
means of effecting a reconciliation, He had been charged
with committing a series of injuries and insults ; but
again he (Dr. Phillimore) called upon the Court to look to
the letters produced; what did they say? In reference to
the dismantling of the house in Grosvenor-square, Mr.
Neeld gave his wife repeated notices that it was a proceed-
ing necessary, previous to a sale of it ; nay further, that
Littleton-house was ready for Lady Caroline's reception,
when she should leave the town house, and that he (Mr.
Neeld) had given directions that ill her comforts should be
attended to. These allegations were not worth the use of
serious arguments in their refutation. Lady Caroline's
refusal to quit the house in Grosvenor-square was an act
of disobedience to her husband. She also demanded four
post-horses, while there were plenty of Mr. Neeld's in
the stable, and whilst he was of opinion that two were
enough for her, either for the purposes of business or
pleasure. The Learned Doctor concluded by observing
that the case ought to be discharged.

'The present number of resident members of
Cambridge University is 1,692,—viz., in College, 1,136;
is lodsipssi 556.

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THE. CONENSION OF

THE MUItDERERS.

By the great kindness of Mr. Sheriff PIRIE,
Mr. Under. Sheriff ELLts, and Mr. WONTNER,
we are enabled to give the folkt'ing ekact 'copies
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frog the Orliriinal tOnfessiOns of the prisoners,
Bishop and Williams i 11
VJOHN BISHOP. do lierebt4l,:•;' re anti confess that the
ITV sitlVre%! et3' be. toe Italian boy was a Lincolnshire boy. I
“nd Williams took him to my house about half-past ten o'clock
on the Thursday night, the third of November, from the Bell,
in Smithfield. He walked home with us, Williams promised
to give him some work. Williams went With him from the
Ball to the Old-Bailey,Watering-ibits.C; "Went to thel'Ortline of WitV iliiams came fct;iat the Old-Bailey
Ote F&rttirie 'of War for me, leaving the boy stand-
Ist the corner of the Court by the watering-house in the
I 'directly with Williams to the boy, and
tee walked then all three to Novi Scetiti.ge.itien!,, taking
'a pint of stodt !t S public-house near Holloway-
ls,rle; S)uoreditch, on our way, of which we gave the
boy a part; we only stayed just to drink it, and walked on to
my house, where we arrived at about eleven o'clock. My
wife and children and Mrs. Williams were not gone to bed, so
we put him in the privy, and told him to wait there for ns.—
Williams went in and told them to gO to bed, and I stayed iii
the garden. Williams Cann; but 'direcily, and We bOth 'walked
'Cut of tfiC ihrtlen a little way to giVe time for the family get-
ting to bed ; we returned in about ten minutes or a quarter of
an hour, and listened outside at the window to ascertain whe-
ther the family were gone to bed. All was quiet, and we then
went to the boy in the privy, and took him into the house; we
lighted a candle, and gave the boy some broad and cheese, and;
after he had eaten, we gait him a cup full of rum, with about
half a small phial of laudanum in it. (I had bought the rum
the same evening at the Three Tuns, in Smithfield, and the
laudanum also in small quantities at different shops.) There
was no water or other liquid put in the cup with the rum arid
laudanum. The boy drank the Contents bf the sip
directly in two draughts, Bid afteYwards a little beer.—
In abbut ten minutes he fell asleep on the chair on which he
sat, and I removed him from the chair to the floor, and laid him
on his side. We then went out and left him there. We had
a quartern of gin and a pint of beer at the Feathers, near
Shoreditch.church, and then went home again, having
been away from the boy about twenty minutes. We
found him asleep as we had left him. We took him directly
—asleep and insensible—into the garden, and tied a cord to his
feet to enable us to pull him up by, and I then took him in my
arms, and let him slide from them headlong into the well in the
garden, whilst Williams held the cord to prevent the body going
altogether too low in the well. He was nearly wholly in
the water of the well—his feet just above the surface.
Williams fastened the other end of the cord round the
paling, to prevent the body getting beyond our reach—
The boy struggled a little with his arms and legs in the water,
and the water bubbled for a minute. We waited till these
symptoms were past, and then went in doors, and afterwards I
think we went out, and walked down Shoreditch to occupy the
time, and in about three quarters of an hour we returned and
took him out of the well, by pulling him by the cord attached to
Isis feet ; we undressed him in the paved yard, rolled his clothes
up, and buried them where they were found by the witness who
produced them. We carried the boy into the wash-house,
laid him on the floor, and covered him over with a bag. We
left him there, and went and had some coffee in Old-street.
road, and then (a little before two in the morning of Friday)
went back to my house. We immediately doubled the body
up, and put it into a box, which we corded so that no-
body might open it to see what was in it ; and
then went again, and had some more coffee at the same
place in Old-street-road, where we staid a little while,
and then went home to bed—both in the same house and to
our own beds as usual—we slept till about ten o'clock
on Friday morning, when we got up—took breakfast toge-
ther with the family, and then went both of us to
Smithfield, to the Fortune of War—we had something to
eat and drink there, and after we had been there about half
an hour May came in—l knew May—but had not seen him
for about a fortnight before—he had some ruin with me at the
bar, Williams remaining in the tap-room ; May and I went to
the door, I had a smock-frock on, and May asked me where I
had bought it—l told him " in Field-lane ;" he said he
wanted to buy one, and asked me to go with him ; I went with him
to Field-lane, where he bought a frock at the corner shop; we
then went into a clothes shop in West-street to buy a pair of
breeches, but May could not agree about the price; May was
rather in liquor, and sent out for some rum which we and the
woman in the shop drank together ; May said he would treat
her because he had given her a good deal of trouble for nothing.
We then returned to the Fortune of War, and joined Wil-
liams, and had something more to drink ; we waited there a
short time, and then Williams and I went to the west-end of
the town, leaving May at the Fortune of War. Williams and
I went to Mr. Tuson's, in Windmill-street, where I saw Mr.
Tuson, and offered to sell him a subject—meaning the boy we
had left at home. He said he had waited so long for a subject
which I had before undertaken to procure, that he had been
obliged to buy one the day before. We went from there to Mr.
Carpue's, in Dean-street, and offered it to him in the Lecture_
room with other gentlemen; they asked me if it was fresh ; I
-told them, yes ; they told me to wait. I asked them ten
guineas, and, after waiting a little, a gentleman there said they
would give eight guineas, which I agreed to take, and en-
gaged to carry it there the next morning at ten o'clock.
I and Williams then returned to the Fortune of War; we found
May in the tap-room, this was about a quarter before four
o'clock in the afternoon ; we had something to drink again and
I called May out to the outside of the house, and asked what
was the best price price given for " Things"—he said he had
sold two the day before for ten guineas each I think. I told
him I had a subject ; he asked what sort of one ; I said, a boy
about fourteen years old, and that I had been offered
eight guineas for it ; he said if it was his, he would
not take it ; he could sell it where he sold his for
more. I told him that all he could get above nine guineas he
might have for himself ; we agreed to go presently and get a
coach. I and May then went to the bar, had something more
to drink ; and then, leaving Williams at the Fortune of War ;
we went and tried to hire a cab in the Old Bailey ; the cab-
man was at tea at the watering-house, and we went in and
spoke to him about a fare, and had also tea there ourselves.
Whilst we were at tea the cab-driver went away, and we found
him gone from the stand when we came out; we then went to
Bridge-street, Blackfriars, and asked a coachman if he would
take such a fare as we wanted ; he refused, and we then
went to Farringdon-street, where we engaged a yellow
chariot. I and May got in, drove to the Fortune of War, and
(Williams joining us by the George, in the Old Bailey, on our
way). At the Fortune at War we drank something again, and
then (about six o'clock), we all three went in the chariot to
Nova Scotia Gardens, we went into the wash-house, where I
uncorded the trunk and shewed May the body. He asked,
" how arc the teeth ?" I said I had not looked at them. Wit
Hams went and fetched a brad-awl from the house, and May
took it and forced the teeth out; it is the constant practice to
take the teeth out first, because, if the body be lost, the teeth
are saved ; after the teeth were taken out, we put the body in a
bag and took it to the chariot ; May and I carried the body, anti
Williams got first into the coach, and then assisted in pulling
the body in; we all then drove off to Guy's Hospital, where we
saw Mr. Davis, and offered to sell the body to him ; he refused,
saying that he had bought two the day before of May ; 1 asked him
to let us leave it there till the next morning ; he consented, and we
put it in a little room, the door of which Mr. Davis locked. Wil-
liams was, during this, left with the chariot. I told Mr. Davis not
to let the subject go to any body unless I was there, for it be-
longed to me, and May also told him not to let it go
unless he was present, or else he should be money out
of pocket. I understood this to mean the money paid by
May for our teas at the Old Bailey (about 45.) and the
coach fare, which we had agreed with the coachman
should be 10s. May had no other interest or right to the
money to be obtained for the body, except for such payment,
and for what he could get above nine guineas, as I had pro-
mised him. May paid the coachman 10s. on our leaving the
hospital, but, before we discharged the coach, May and I ran
to Mr. .Appleton, at Mr. Granger's school, leaving Williams
with the coach. We offered the subject to Mr. Appleton, but
he declined to buy it, and May and I then joined
Williams, discharged the coach, and went to a pub.
lic.house close by and had something to drink. After
this we got into a coach in the Borough, and drove
again to the Fortune of War, where we had something
more to drink; this was about eight o'clock in the evening. We
all three staid there about one hour, and then went out, got a
coach in Smithfield, and went towards Old-street-road—stopped
in Golden-lane with the coach, and drank something, and then
on to Old-street. At the corner of Old-street (the Star corner)
May got out of the coach and said he was going home, and I
and Williams drove to the corner of Union.street, Kingsland.
road, where we got out and paid the coach-fare out of money
lent us by May (he having advanced to each of us 35.). We
then walked home and went to bed that night as usual. We
had agreed with May On his leaving us to meet him at Guy's
Hospital at nine o'clock the next morning (Saturday). 1 and
Williams went at eight o'clock on Saturday morning to the
Fortune of War, where we met Shields, the porter, and en-
gaged him to go with us over the water to carry a subject. I
rsked him to go to St. Bartholomew's Hospital for a hamper
which I had seen there; he refused, and I fetched it myself. We
had a pint of beer there, and I, andWilliams,and Shields went to
Guy's Hospital, Shields carrying the hamper. We met May there
Williams and Shields went to a public-house, whilst I and May
went to Mr. Appleton, and offered him the subject again. He
again refused to buy it, stating, that he did not want it. May
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and I then joined Shields and Williams, and h.al some drink,
and then left them again, crossed the water in a boat to the King's
College, where we inquired of Mr. Hill, the porter, if he wanted'a
subject ; be said he was not particularly in want, but would
.peak to Mr. Partridge, the DemonstratotMfre.wPmaritlrluidtgees
came, and asked what the subject was.
subject." Mr. Partridge asked the price. May said "twelve
guineas." Mr. Partridge said he could not give so much,
and
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whete all fOtir haderrie lief-steaks .4141 beer; aid atteit'affig
Went to Guy's Hospital, packed the body itr thlllhanaperi.,,aa
put it on to Shields' head, telling him to take it to the King's
College, where we went, Williams and Shields walking, and I
and May riding part of the way in a cab. On reaching the
King's College we carried the body into the theatre, and then
into a little rooim. totik lilt boat' ;Pt. Mr: Hill
.'o'Ae`.!! at it,, sod asked that it tiled qt. May answered that he
did not know, and it did not concernhirri. Mi. Hill asked how
a,cut; which was on the forehead, came. Ltplcl hitn that it was
done liyMaY throwing it out of, the sack on the stones; which way,
thq truth. Hill told uS to remain in the other room, and he ivOtild
ti :rig in the money. We went into the other room and waited for
some time, when Mr. Partridge came to us, and showed me a
fifty-pound note, and said he must go and get it changed, for he
had not sufficient money without, and he pulled out his purse,
and counted three or four sovereigns. I said he might let us
have that, and he could , give us the remainder on Monday.
ho, he ik'senla iather nay it all together, and Went aijay:
We waited some time, when the police-officers came, and took
us into custody. " 'JOHN BISHOP:"
" Witness, ROUT.
I declare that this itaternent It all trite, hint: that it i7ontains all
the PACts l'ar as I fan recollect. May knew nothing of the
murder, and Ido not believe he suspected that I had got the
body except in the usual way, and after the death of it. I al-
ways told him that I got it from the ground, and he never
knew to the contrary until I confessed to Mr. Williams since
the trial. I have known May as a body-snatcher four or five
years, but I do not believe he erpr obtained a body except iii
the common course of men in that calling, by stealing from
the gimireS. I Slsia cOnfe.4 Ilia I find Williams Werh
concerned in the murder of a female, whom I believe
to have been since discovered to be:Fanny Pigburn, on or about
the oth October last. I and Williams saw her sitting about 11
or 12 o'clock at night on the step of a door in Shoreditch, near
the church. She had a child four or five years old with her on
her thp. I asked why she was sitting there. She said she
hail no home to go to, fbr her landlbrd. had turned her
out into the street. I told her that she might gei homy With us,
and sit by the fire all night; she said she would go with us,
and she walked with us to my house in Nova Scotia-gardens,
carrying her child with her. When we got there we found
the family abed, and we took the woman in and lighted a fire,
Ly which We all sat down together ; I Went out for beer, and
We all took of beer and rum (I had brought the ruin flails
Smithfield in my pocket); the woman and her child laid down
on some dirty linen on the floor, and I and Williams went to
bed ; about six o'clock next morning I and Williams told her
to go away, and to meet us at the London Apprentice, in Old-
street-road, at One o'clock; this was before our families were
up ; she met us again at one o'clock at the London Apprentice
without her child ; we gave her some halfpence and beer, and
desired her to meet us again at ten o'clock at night at the same
place ; after this we bought rum and laudanum at different
places, and at ten o'clock we met the woman again at the Lon-
don Apprentice; she had no child with her; we drank three
pints of beer between us there, and stayed there about an hour.
We should have stayed there longer, but an old man came in,
whom the woman said she knew, and she said she did not like II
him to see her there with anybody ; we therefore all went out ;
it rained hard, and we took shelter under a doorway in the
Hackney road for about half an hour. We then walked to
Nova Scotia-gardens, and Williams and I led her into No. 2, ,
an empty house, adjoining my house. We had no light. Wil-
liams stepped out into the garden with the rum and laudanum,
which I had handed to him ; he there mixed them together in
a half-pint bottle, and came into the house to me and the
woman, and gave her the bottle to drink ; she drank the whole
at two or three draughts ; there was a quartern of rum, and
about half a phial of laudanum ; she sat down on the step be-
tween two rooms in the house, and went off to sleep in about
ten minutes. She was falling back; I caught her to save
her fall, and she laid back on the floor. Then Williams and
I went to a public-house, got something to drink, and in about
half an hour came back to the woman ; we took her cloak off, tied a
cord to her feet, carried her to the well in the garden and thrust
her into it headlong ; she struggled very little afterwards and the
water bubbled a little at the top ; we fastened the cord to the
pailings to prevent her going down beyond our reach, and lett
her and took a walk to Shoreditch and back in about half an
hour ; we left the woman in the well for this length of time that
the rum and laudanum might run out of the body at the mouth ;
on our return we took her out of the well, cut her clothes off,
put them down the privy of the empty house, carried the body
into the wash-house of my own house,where we doubled it up and
put it into a hair box, which we corded, and left it there. We
did not go to bed, but went to Shields' house in Eagle-street,
Red Lion-square and called him up; this was between four and
five o'clock in the morning ; we then went with Shields to a
public-house near the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, and had
some gin, and from thence to my house, where we went in
and stayed a little while to wait the change of the police. I
told Shields he was to carry that trunk to Saint Thomas's
Hospital. He asked if there was a woman in the house
who could walk alongside of him, so that people might
not take any notice. Williams called his wife up, and asked
her to walk with Shields, and to carry the hat-box which he
gave her to carry. There was nothing in it, but it was tied up
as if there were. We then put the box with the body on
Shields' head, and went to the hospital, Shields and Mrs. Wil-
liams walking on one side the street, and I and Williams on the
other. At St. Thomas's Hospital I saw Mr. South's footman,
and sent him up stairs to Mr. South to ask if he wanted a sub-
ject. The footman brought me word that his master wanted one,
but could not give an answer till the next day, as he had not time
to look at it. During this interview, Shields, Williams, and
his wife were waiting at a public-house. I then went alone to
Mr. Appleton, at Mr. Grainger's, and agreed to sell it to him for
eight guineas, and afterwards I fetched it from St. Thomas's
Hospital and took it to Mr. Appleton, who paid me 51. then and
the rest on the following Monday. After receiving the il. I
went to Shields and Williams and his wife, at the public-house,
where I paid Shields 10s. for his trouble, and we then all went to
the Flower Pot in Bishopsgate, where we had something to
drink and then went home. I never saw the woman's child
after the first time before mentioned. She said she had left the
child with a person she had taken some of her things to, before
her landlord took her goods. The woman murdered, did not
tell us her name ; she said her age was 35, I think, and that her
husband, before he died, was a cabinet-maker. She was thin,
rather tall, and very much marked with the small-pox. I also
confess the murder of a boy who told us his name was Cunning-
ham. It was a fortnight after the murder of the woman. I
and Williams found him sleeping about eleven or twelve
o'clock at night, on Friday the 21st of October, as I think,
under the pig-boards in the pig market in Smithfield.
Williams woke him, and asked him to come along with him
(Williams), and the boy walked with Williams and me to my
house in Nova Scetia.gardens. We took him into my house,
and gave him some warm beer, sweetened with sugar, with
rum, and laudanum in it. He drank two or three cups full,
and then fell asleep in a little chair belonging to one of my
children. We laid him on the floor, and went out for a little
while and got something to drink, and then returned, carried
the boy to the well, and threw him into it, in the same way as
we had served the other boy and the woman. He died instantly
in the well, and we left him there a little while, to give time
for the mixtures we had given him to run out of the body. We
then took the body from the well, took off the clothes in the
garden, and buried them there. The body we carried into the
wash-house, and put it into the same box, and left it there till
the next evening, when we got a porter to carry it with us to
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where I sold it to Mr. Smith for
eight guineas. This boy was about 10 or 11 years old, said his
mother lived in Kent-street, and that he had not been home for
a twelvemonth and better. I solemnly declare that these are
all the murders in which I have been concerned, or that
I know any thing of; that I and Williams were alone
concerned in these, and that no other person whatever knew
any thing about either of them, and that I do
not know whether there are others who practice
the same mode of obtaining bodies for sale. I know nothing
of any Italian boy, and was never concerned in, or knew of the
murder of such a boy. There have been no white mice about
my house for the last six months. My son, about eight months
ago, bought two mice, and I made him a cage for them. It
was flat with wires at the top. They lived about two months,
and were killed, I think by a cat in the garden, where they got
out of the cage. They were frequently seen running in the
garden, and used to hide in a hole under the privy. I and my
wife and children saw one of them killed by a cat in the
garden whilst we were at tea. Until the transactions
before set forth, I never was concerned in obtaining
a subject by destruction of the living. I have followed the
course of obtaining a livelihood as a body-snatcher for twelve
years, and have obtained and sold, I think, from 500 to 1,000
bodies; but I declare, before God, that they were all obtained
after death, and that, with the above exceptions, I am ignorant
of any murder for that or any other purpose.

Witness, Robert Ellis, Under-Sheriff.

JOHN BISHOP.

I, THOMAS HEAD, alias WILLIAMS, now under
sentence of death in Newgate, do solemnly confess and declare
the foregoing statement and confession of John Bishop, which
has been made in my presence, and since read over to me dis-
tinctly, is altogether true, so far as the same relates to me. I
declare that I was never concerned in or privy to any other
transaction of the like nature—that I never knew any thing of
the murder, of any other person whatever—that I was never a
body.snatcher or concerned in the sale of any other body than
the three murdered by Bishop and myself—that May was a
stranger to me, and I had never seen him more than once or
twice before Friday, the 4th of Nov. last—and that May was
wholly innocent and ignorant of any of those murders in which
I was concerned, and for one of which I am about to suffer death.
Witness R. Ellis. THOMAS HEAD.
Newgate, Dec- 4, 1831.
The above confessions taken literally, from the prisoners,
in our presence,
T. WOOD, R. ELLIS, Under Sheriff's.

NEWGATE, DEC. 5.

Besides the foregoing statement, Bishop and
Williams, just before going to execution, confessed
that May had attempted to murder two men by
giving them laudanum, but the dose having failed
in both instances, they escaped.

At Worship-street, this day, THOMAS KET-
TLE, a well-known resurrection-man, and BRIDGET Cur.-
KIN, were brought before 51r. TWYFORD, charged with
decoying away and murdering a female child, about nix years
old. The weum w 0.9 remanded, mad the wan discharged

‘4

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P

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CL °CS
Montreal Papers to the 4th of November, and Quebec ,t',
2d of November, have been received at the North and

American Coffee-house.

(From the Montreal Papers.) '
threat
We perceive, by the New Brunswick Gazette, that
those who were arrested and confined in Treductown, for I'' I
created disturbances among the Madawaska settlers, were brlgt do' j
to trial on the 15th ult., and found guilty by the Jury on thedr,
' and were brought up for judgment, and severally senteD`r;tlo' '
pay a fine of fifty pounds, and be imprisoned for three 10 d
other indictments have been preferred against them.
We understand that several shares of the Montreal bank
sold a few days since at 112 per cent. fl
The Quebec Papers state, that the number of seamen 10°,40e
employment in our colonial trade is greater, or at all event% 01,
to the number engaged in trading to every other part
world, and by another return it appears that althollg'"of,,Ji
registered shipping of the British plantations has decreased ;yet
one-half since the year NlB, it still consists of 443 vessels asic
10) tons, 3,202 vessels under 100 tons, navigated by 14,077 set,grite
The Jamaica Chronicle of the 4th Oct. states that the so
Lion in Jamaica for the sufferers at Barbadoes amount' .wOO9
dollars. The order of the British Government for emaock
the Crown slaves has been carried into effect in Jamaica.
THE FUNDS.
To the present hour we have no arrivals of consequeneeA
our funds have improved, which is attributed to the rise ty:,
French funds. The chief attention of the public is tows o
li
morrow, the opening of Parliament. Consols, which 'ea
on Saturday at 83% %, opened at 83% for the Account, an
at present 83% 84.
irohveeatrneanoty JO
HALF-PAST 0 nt -
Consols continue improving, and may be quoted at pres.e"fts
buyers, they have been done at 84,,i for the Account;
posed thatl some of the parties have got a hint of the con,- 11'
his Majesty's speech to be delivered tomorrow, which
ca
steamer which brings the Dutch Funds rather higher. 6
RIMS of importance by the Puttl'
ten
Our Sunderland letter this morning, bring 17 new case 'cji
recovered, one died; the nurse of the hospital has al!°. Ire
a great number of medical men are arriving there, thil,gs
cauvvsede
dthois
t
looking better than the previous day.
THREE 0 CL 0 C
Consols, S 4.

Despatches arrived this morning from LI of
tenant-General Sir RALrit DARLING, the GoverOr

New South Wales.
Much distress exists among the CovetUto
ribbon-weavers. They are memorializing Governtlo.

prohibit the introduction of foreign ribbons.
nfi,
PREMATURE INTERMENT IN CHOLER
IC
—Tbe bodies of persons apparently dead of cholera P:vg,
been in some instances observed to move. M. L°r:igied
President of the late Warsaw Commission, has e%Pr'ipt,
his belief that many have been buried alive in the corn e el
The author of " Pelham" has a new Ocot
just ready for publication. The story is founded 0 re,
singular history of "Eugene Aram." The life of tbiiite,
inarkable man, who possessed unusual talents and 061:4 0
molts, it is well known, was sullied by a deed of bl°
extraordinary in its details es any upon record.

loci

!hey ntel
Yo'
Iltin:"Y re;

I rat} ANDi.I
'I HIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAPPESSION 1
7. .
.A E CneAUNIIDTigi
DEAL, DEC. 4.-Wind &W.-Arrived the Mary, 8e..a.c.b...4
FROM LLOYD'S.
from Van Dieman's Land.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 3 AND 4.-Wind S.W.-Arriv.-
William Miles, late Crystal!, from Sierra Leone. el
HASTINGS, DEC. 4.-Arrived the Lady Harewood, St,
house, froth `flew SoUth Wales. -
PENZANCE; DEC. 3.-Arrived the Earl of Eldon, ThacilpOn tf_
from vlkombay., ~ .. , .
,ill
• SCILLY,. Dgc. 2.Arriyed the John and Robert, Ta. nee the real
from, Yew Fort. , , "., . .., ~ , fli tef the culpr
LIVERPOOL, DSk. 3.-,Arrived the Barnet', Banken; i
Quebec. a '',l to the
GREENOCK, DEC. 2.-Arrived the John, Benmer, frost Aehd„ .
Vincent's ; and Sarah, Franks, from Richebucto. it uo, In whi
l'anion M. 1
et'th aY The Fame, Banks, from St. Petersburgh to London, was t eO,
wrecked on the Shipwash Sand on Saturday night ; crew sae or e-nam
`Williams ad
I4PPY b '
TI-114 MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.) et d eings, b
e their d
ill
t Ilsd
~CORY EXCHANGE. A been st
t 0 ti
In the course of the :f,rceerllng deeki ths,arrivals of most liitVilliSter we!
of Grain were but there is ilot much fnrh of arlL. they had
fresh up this morning. The arrival of Flour is considtzfae;e4l,tionaro6l.l
The Wheat trade is not quite so brisk as on Friday, as the c1u,:,,,i- "'es that w,
is chiefly so tender that our millers object to purchase. Bar'`if i
/,,eii,, II °f drink, t
Tetoetosthaerralthuearlitbieet:.er sßeansale, b
aurt:
ifin.noeveqrnuael!,ttydofoers
im,oatletixntgen
more plentiful, and sell slowly at last quotations. Pease of live 0
have obtained
oabretaiiiifileadlterraeduierOrnatosrfienind buyersoney .silhouelyF,lobuurt gtrolsaiir,t, kith cattle
caattOtiTlf
heavy at the terms last quoted. In .
i, with, and
PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP.
Wheat, Red (old)
_White (old) Rs- 9s. ! - (old) .....-s. 11, 4114 on hi!
- Red (1831) ... 4Ls. 545. - Tick (new).... 36s '44;4. *fie,
Fine sss. 5810. 4 .4--...-v-- (914, .::: 40s. ‘lt . which
.JO4 lt;
Superfine.. 635. 665. 1 - Harrow (non,r).-4-- pactt
the gard
- White (1831). 485. 565. ;
Fine s7s. 645. ' Brank 425. oiled wag ti6ad....
Superfine. 68s 745. Oats, Feed
,„,2°L .Ply *es upon t
- Foreign (Yee 506. New -,,,, 44 111„,
Rye - Poland 245. ''', it '' at a put
,1, sar • .
Barley ' , •• •• 245. 30s New ct-,. 44 legation ,
---•-• Fine ' ' 'V.s. 345. -,-. Potatoe
Superfine New 3Gs. 495. --,...,-,.-.. Now Os. leg, th,,, el' 11110 X
Malt 6os fkis - Scottli 2-gs' 90 ' rPC"IntM t
- Fine New 7os. 725. - Irish „,O 21s li en ,
' g.
Plied Pease, Grey New 4os. 425. Flour Town (per sack) 5Ss ~by 4ih her
- Maple New 42s. 445. - Seconds 50s. iff *, " 4 adticien
-- White - 365. 40s. - North Country 50s. p ' p
--4,44-Boilers . 445. 505.: Bran
,a,.iht and
ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN Logottil 11*.JAING LAST wait-% oie '
-", Y succet
Y cr
0 0 ' 1 euected tl
El. '4 2 R ' end .
From Whence. o 7,- r . p , , - tonveyt
i. ‘...
---- -1 .4' end 1
- ni,,, , pus
Sv '
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. ot. a her up
Aldborough....., 2111 1338 WO - 15 55 J ti
Boston - 3283 4 ..10 /it er clot
Clay - 1000 -•- - '-' 'tt the were
Dartmouth - (e t
- - - - - 'to the 11.
, Colchester 145 410 711 - 518 105 ti tour , ta 1
...; Harwich - 444 IN [. q Oleted him
?:', Leigh 677 83 - 55 87 189 :,.' Otheh
-.4 Maldon 285 102 - - 123 202 4.7 he '
Exeter - - 5 - - 'it culprits
Gainsborough - - 5 - - 1 -- / toi, ,
Hastings - 23 - - 11 -i?, ed, erable
Hull 422 - - 212 - 24 !1 , both in
Ipswich 363 812 2375 - 545 19 4'4: "ak
Kent 574 170 20 179 255 242 ~,, t h at all
Lynn 9BB 1703 - - 208 -- 1 hi, ° assisted
Poole - - 120 - - -- /. ral i
Spalding - - - - -- ;le oth or sale
Stockton 5O - - - - -- /4- at e
g, xcepti
Wells - - - -- / tha.
Wisbeach 1373 - - 270 - -14044 t ,L they 1
Whitby _ _
-- ' led his in!
Woodbridge too 931 - - 11 15 oy that -fl. ,
Yarmouth llO 420; 1115 - 16 66 / irk -..isnoi
Aberdeen 4 se the-se-- disc
Iserwick - 140 - -- / happy
Dunbar 93 115 - 95 - / qn, thLlVretChl
Cornice 5 - - - -- /le ,-tiere na
• ri
trverness 177 62 - 31 - -- / wet .
Leith 7 _. - __ - -- /Ceof e In vrai
Montrose 374 - - - --
1 th the She
----- Elt
10078 14537 6387 4513 2237 1046 Co Were a
1151511. )1 I
"eSSIO
Dublin - - 55 - -- / te.'4l4 na'
Limerick - - 3471 -•-• ,Jpa e men.
~, 4 the ad
FoREiGN. / c.. 00, IF
Copenhagen - - - 100 /iy 'nee of
Emden _ _ 26 63 8/ q held as to ,
Howenwacht - - - - 50 / tO the ,
Kallundborg - - _ -- /it ~.. •-4 untia
Kiel 3306 _
...... , was, after s
Nakskov 7OO - - - - - / ,teltatio„
Odessa lBOO _ _ _ _ -- / i(ie,,,, ..) res(
Rostock 350 723 - - - 6°5 / L arded iris
St. Petersburgh 3'720 - - - - - / 'tts or
Wolgast _ _ _ _ _ 615 1, ke, i the c,
----- Flu Prio, of
Total ... 16988 19066 6337 8065 2300 2428 J 'of °till .1
WI ed II
AGGREGATE QUANTITY OF OTHER RINDS OF PIII- 4 ~iia ,
Rye, 0--Tares, 500-Linseed, 178,8-Rapeseed, 140-Braille' ,ttod enS s wi
. Mustard,•3sl--Seeds, 254.
....At .Y during t
I kl
I4erable
SMITHFIELD MARKET.
0,4 mind pa
ID by
This day's supply of Beasts and Sheep was moderately gfiii,4, ;i4, the
of Calves and Porkers rather limited. The trade with 13°114! i S trill, he
account of the Christmas boiling being wanted, was sonigd.
~ ~
brisk, at an ad% anct. ; .
• . lth Veal at a depression of from , /me,. the cc
t i ,
4d. per stone. Mutton and Pork were in steady demand a Ito t 1 toys an
day's quotations. lb ,
ti 4 e oew C
PRICES PER STONE OF SLIS. TO SINK THE OFFAI,9',)„, led L.,
S. ci. to s. d. s. d.tol,7iptit. bill to
Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Large Lambs
second quality ditto 3 0 3 4 Prime small ditto,,, 0 0 45, genti
Prime largo Oxen... 3 8 310 Large coarse Calves 3 6 714 Leman v
Prime Scots, &c..... 4 0 4 4 Prime small ditto 4 8 4,3 4 u! Offeritl
Inferior Sheep . 8 210 Large Hogs 4 0 ; A ye„
Second quality ditto 3 2 3 6 Small Porkers 4 8 o'reo i 40g get
A n
Coarso-woolled ditto 4 0 4 4 Suckling Calves 12s. to44,,s'egipit ~ July last
SmthdownWethers 4 8 5 0; Quarter old Pigs 125.t0 1•0' 11, .„.oco,
to th
SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. . ' W
I 0
Beasts. Sheep' and Lambs.' Calves. I no. `p ti otner lo
2,563 1 17,4'30 141 1 160 41 tlao
,tr,t th nets ha(
About 1300 of the beasts came up the St. Alban's road i 0.1, e Unt,
700 up the other northern roads; about 250 (including !de 'do k f °liana
from the western and midland districts; about 200 from voll)i vkho,
folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; about 50 front 0 p lit til ,e
and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marsh' 1,,116 ankell
in the neighbourhood of London. ---It^e „3- above ;
14tt
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. 1,, of Sat
At per stoned. by the Carcass.
s. d. to s. .. d.t4041! s
I! (FIJI
Beef .43 8I Veal
Mutton...
„ Irot thrwent to
NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET-Dec. 3. „aka, ,t ow_ ' 110uf
We had a fair supply of Wheat from the farmers fr.; se I
g ding I't Monti
which was generally in poor condition ; the best samPle'dvr tilt, er,_
readily at late prices, the other descriptions dull, and,l,l;ef; 41i.,6 eve, ' Lit
lower. Oats met a heavy sale at Is. per quarter lower. '.'„, ‘ll, . "'ng, a
rivals of Barley have lately been large, but the suppl" y 8014t4 sworn
now mostly cleared off at our quotations. k i how a
New. old. , tQiid, .e . g
Wheat, Northumberland 525. 63s sBs. 65" 'O, whose
- Norfolk and Suffblk '''" td T
565. 646
- Berwick and Scotch 545. 565....... -s. ""y. i ti4Lhite stet.
- Foreign 325. 625....... -s. --', 4,_ 41e4 ring
Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk -s. -s -s. ''''' 1 'll 44fOcat
...4. k v. ,
- Foreign 3.35. 37s -5...4, -leie -et], W
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk-365. 40s -s. , 4 11, Y 6.
- Grinding and Feeding o4s, 28s --s. --: 1 i 4-44, 4_.,-. thro
1 Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 665. 70s -s. ••"*", I IN, " after II
Beans, Small 40s. 42s --5.'"-: ilt I Yea',
--- Tick 3Bs. 40s -6. '-':, ntv„, -ees,
Pease, White 445. 48s -5. 7...,„ 'can,, ,- Corn r
' - Gray 38s. 40s -s. -, -4 and I
--- . ' Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ... ...... 275, 295. -6. ~ ill, to IF
Feed .23. 24s -s.-"- hV' say 1
-.....-S, 41,10..
- Foreign -s -s s
Flour, Fine (per sack) -s. -s 46s. 485' ell 440 p and N
1' 14 th
trilteta. e, habit
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AY.)

PESSION AND CONDUCT OF BISHOP
AND WILLIAMS, THEIR

ECUTION THIS DAY,

AND RESPITE OF MAY.

)°n the highest authority we are enabled to
'lnce the real facts connetted with the eonfes-
°f the culprits Bishop and Williams, which
,11
(10 to the Rev. Theodore Williams, the vicar
end° in which they completely exculpate their
Lion May from participating in their guilt.
t‘,'hore-named respectable clergyman, Bishop
illiams admitted having murdered three
fed beings, but both strongly denied that they
ei.cl their diabolical purpose in the manner
had been stated by the newspapers—that no
'Plaister was used in depriving them of life.
they had committed three murders, and
that were found in Bishop's garden were
to those whom they had slain. The
,:unate being that fell a victim was a boy,
of a town in Lincolnshire, who came up to
•11 cattle for Smithfield market, whom they
With, and after making him stupid from the
0f drink, took him home, where they placed
on his mouth to stop him from calling
which they dragged him to the well of
the garden, and held him heels upwards
&ad.—The next murder that they com-
*SS upon the female, Frances Pighurn, whom
met at a public-house in Bethnal-green, and at
solicitation she drank some liquor till she be-
ll'ther intoxicated—that they met her again
Atment on the following night, and they
'lied her with drink, but she was not
4 sufficient state of stupor for them to effect
n,-Ouse. Another appointment took place, the
thighs, and then they gave her so much liquor
eY succeeded in effecting their purpose.
effected their end by holding her breath
a
°d conveying her by much force into the
4°(-1 pushed her head first into the well,
her up by the heels till she ceased to
Rer clothes they buried in the garden,
they were found by the Police. With re-
t° the Italian boy, they also confessed to has-
d him in a similar manner, and burying

at
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r emancir-

from Lieti-
at
Goveror

Coyest 0
overnnleP"

cAA'
:HOD- fe
cholera bspo,
/11. I•°74oeJ
as e%Pr'
he come
pOCe'
new die
unded 00
.fe of tbi1e
and acqd
"A
of blou"

culprits, upon being asked whether or not
7erable companion May was at all impli-
uoth in very strong terms denied that
at all implicated in the murder, but
assisted in conveying the body to the
for sale, and that he was quite innocent,
exception; he had not the slightest know-
they had murdered the boy. May also
his innocence, and that he had said all
4t Bishop coulds,the Rev exonerate him.
these disclosure. Gentleman left the
Wretches, and proceeded to the private
4here Baron Vaughan and Mr. Justice Little-
o;e in waiting, and to whom, and in the pre-
th the Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, and a select
cttitff. were admitted into their presence, read
1 4b
iession as he had it from the lips of the
U emen.
p,
the admission of Bishop and 'Williams as to
I:ieence of May, a consultation was immedi-
it —LI
the as to what steps should be taken with re-
-44 °
n Hippy man.
Was 4 ? ter some time had been occupied in the
t afi°ll) resolved that a communication should
*ded instantly to Lord Melbourne, stating
of the confession, and we believe intimating
'rely of sparing the life of May, and we
led that a reprieve is hourly expected.
As's wife, who had been discharged from
during the morning, had an interview with
able partner shortly after he had relieved
by the confession, and it is said their meet-
truly heart-rending.
the confession was made, Mr. Evans, a
In toys and hardware in Newgate-street, came
New Count much affected, and presenting a
bill to -Air. Wormier, asked him if the
had, in their disclosures, mentioned
'tleman who was alluded to in that bill. It
),40'11 offering a reward of 501. for the discovery
rg gentleman, a resident of Hampstead,
tideuly last went out to take a walk, and from
to the present had never been heard of.
°lltner looked at the bill, and told Mr. Evans
Aers had made no allusions at all that alluded
Pfurtunate gentleman whom he sought. Mr.
kwhose nephew it was had disappeared,)
thanked Mr. Wontner, retired.
above appeared in the Second Edition of
of Saturday.]

ten (FURTHER P ARTICULARS.
o'clock on Saturday morning the Rev. Mr.
o, thl went to the prisoners, and remained with them
ow" hours, during which he took in writing from
MoUthS the communications made to him of
11 e prsisted in teir stateet f the pre-
„ asy toe the boy being a drovemr,n in o
stead of an
it',l4: 'worn to by the witnesses against them. And
Itl)iicinc'wledged the murder of Frances Pigburn ; also
TWhose dress was found in the garden, and
ia poor
• .II"Y state that they " hocussed" their vctims,
'fllstering laudanum to render them insensible,
suffocated them by throwing them head-foremost
hvelli which is in Bishop's garden.
throughout most strongly protested his inno-
go after his conviction he said, "I have been guilty
tio:fienoes, and have led a profligate and wicked life,
'NI, tier committtd murder. lam prepared to die like
na I pray God to pardon all my sins, but I am
Say I have not to solicit his forgiveness for this

ie trk and Williams have declared that they had long
'e habit of supplying the dissecting-rooms with
it:4Y never thought of adopting that horrid mode
ag them for which they are doomed to die this
`"eY read in the newspapers the accounts of the
iu 'Of that mode by Burke and his associates at
4'4'; They have also declared that all o
ther resn:
114 IQ Loudon, when driven to extremities for
k. a adopted the same murderous means to obtain
Ilthe '''he Rev. Mr. Williams says, that previous to the
it Prisoners made confessions to him, confidentially,
'Tvell prison, similar in nature to those above de-
-1 aaii-i7 almost to an equal extent.
pd "en ascertained that Bishop several times endea-
tLirlveig le to his residence the sister of the young
hood h° was some time ago missed from the neigh-
NC Of Bethnal-green, and whose scalp and hair, itis
,Yri,„'vere those found in the privy, but fortunately
Ld -ng woman resisted his importunity. He also pre-
rik :t.i.11 Young woman to leave her place, under a
.pro.
Iletf;t4e her. into keeping, but. she
.felt compunctions,
Tire, ed his overtures just in sufficient time to save
Ikt;:Mraordin y change in the appearance of the pri-
Z!v:inteee, t.h.ey received sentence, has astonished all who
rj*es, them. Mr. Williams said on Saturday, that
ihll:u '0 altered, that although lie had seen them
.the
114d°,,ight at the bar, he could not have recognized
"e again met them in any other place than the
'lt'd cells. Their agitation is awful, and, strange
)tk, earl ese Wretches who have lived by supplying sub-
,t4° Often in so atrocious a manner, are now lior-
,,L4' I't.
at the idea of being dissected—that part of
nee' indeed, seems to dwell peculiarly on their.
~..Tllll'4-°I3II es terrible in the extreme. Numerous appli-
..,4y, i,ere Made for seats in the chapel of Newgate. yes-
'nil, Persons who have been led to believe that a
raki, neat be there obtained of the prisoners ; but no
bertriOn is reached in the cases of persons
c'i" to die for murder.p The " Burkites" heard
r 111111'.1 their cells, but they did not attend the chapel.
Itbe ft.`'s, alias Head, one of the convicted murderers
P4,th boy, in custody not long since charged
',At:-4441g i"niowaahouse in a court situate near the
:,°lltlit.nad, and stealing the corpse of a widow's son,
:rth;,fl3 ti :le.SixteTehneor seventeen, who who had died a day or
had left her home for a
t theme °nly, and on woman
return found the corpse bad,
"R 1440 ~'"eat, time, been stolen. Some of the female
the "rs then recollected that while they were standing.
kiht: enurt skortly before, a man passed them with. a
I,l'l aect:snita_ staining something' which. smelt very offensive,
thunen them to look particularly at the man, al-
,it he 'Y had no suspicion, until the alarm was given,
I,Pti carrying off the corpse of the widow's son.
r 8
-L.4 wa'i immediately commenced, but without SUC-
-14,1 milt the description given, however, a policeman
to
_,lended Williams on the following morning, and he
Inent'fi
Led by the females as the man whom they had

seen near the house with a basket as stated. No trace of
the body, nor of the manner in which it had been disposed
of, could be discovered, nor any further evidence obtained,
and, after an examination before a Magistrate, the pri-
soner was discharged upon a recognizance. Williams was
horn at Highgate, and was apprenticed to a bricklayer—
dissipation, however, led him to abandon his business and
to become the associate of thieves. His conduct nearly
ruined his mother; and after he had been repeatedly in
custody on various charges of felony, about six years since
he was apprehended in Shoe-lane, selling a copper which
he bad stolen, and was convicted at the Old Bailey, and
sentenced to seven years' transportation. Subsequently
he was sent to the Penitentiary,which he left a few months
since, and he then became a resurrectionist, and continued
that horrid profession until apprehended. 'We understand
he had only been married seven weeks previous to his ap-
prehension.
From a momentary forgetfulness on the part of the
Recorder, when passing sentence of death upon Bishop,
Williams, and May, these wretches nearly escaped the ad-
ditional judgment of dissection. The Hecorder, in the
usual manner, had ordered them to be hanged on Monday
(this day), and was passing on to the end of his address,
" and the Lord have mercy upon your souls," when Mr.
Justice Littledale whispered tie the Learned Gentleman,
who then stopped short in the concluding sentence, and
ordered their bodies to be givers up for dissection. We
had been extremely sorry if these monsters had escaped that
fate, after death, to which they had consigned the bodies
of their sacrificed victims.

The prisoners (Bishop and Williams) have since ac•
k❑owledged that all the clothes found in the garden of the
cottage in Nova Scotia-gardens, belonged to persons who
have been murdered by them. It further appears that in
the course of an hour after the death of their victim, they
were accustomed to knock out the teeth from the scarcely
cold body with a gimlet. Bishop says lie never had au
idea of murdering people for the sake of their bodies till
he had read in the Papers the atrocities of Burke and his
associates; and he adds that he does not doubt that the
same course has been resorted to by almost every other
resurrectionist. Bishop, in the cause of Saturday after-
noon, admitted that he had been guilty of five murders.
He further stated that he had furnished from 500 to 1,000
subjects, but nearer the latter number, to the hospitals.
It was strongly reported that he had made a full and co❑t-
complete confession to the Rev. Mr. Williams, but the
s'atement was premature.
The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, assisted by the City
Marshals, Messrs. Brown and Cope, were busily engaged
in adopting precautions to guard against the possibility of
accident. All the officers of the various wards in the
city were ordered to attend ; and, besides the usual force
of the city police, a large body of special constables were
sworn in.

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