The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-20 00:00:00

THE MURDERER RUSH.

A Norwich correspondent supplies a probable reason
why Rush, after ho had shot Mr. Jertny, sen., wr•nt
round by the servants' door and risked detection
passing along their passages. Ho says," It is explained
by the fact that in a box in a closet at the end of the
passage leading to the staircase hall Mr. Jermy kept his
papers and the mortgage deeds relating to Potash-farm,
and that Rush's intention was doubtless to secure those
deeds at all hazards, fur, according to the forged docu-
ments cancelling the mortgage, all the deeds and papers
of a prior date relating to Potash-farm were to be
burned. Young Mr. Jenny just reached the door open-
ing into the recess when Rush reached it, and therefore
Rush fired at him. After shooting young Mr. Jermy
he very likely went into the dining-room to shoot any
person there, and thus to prevent the possibility of his
being interrupted while he was employed in securing the
deeds. The two women ran to the same recess, and
further prevented his purpose being carried out ; and
when he came out of the dining•room he fired at them,
doubtless with the view of escaping detection." A cor-
respondent of the Bury Post says:—" As everything
appertaining to the Stanfield-hall tragedy appears still
to be full of interest to the public, perhaps the follow-
ing particulars of the unfortuate but not to be despised
Miss Sandford, will be acceptable to your readers, and
may also act as a salutary caution to those who may
have any young friend seeking her livelihood as a go-
verness—a class greatly to be pitied. They also tend to
show the extent—the intricate ramifications of the as-
sassin's complicated scheme of villany. Rush, as before
stated, put an advertisement in the paper for a gover-
ness for his children. Mrs. Sandford, the mother of ten
children, seeing this, took her eldest daughter to the
reference in the advertisement, a very respect4le house
in a good street in town, where they found Mr. Rush,
occupying the first floor. The landlady had been in-
duced to represent that she knew Mr. Rush, and spoke
of him as a worthy_kind of man; and after various in-
quiries and witnessing her handwriting the daughter
was engaged to go down to Norfolk to educate Rush's
children. Some months after having been there she
was rather surprised at receiving no letters from her
mother, and the latter was equally so at receiving no
replies from her daughter. During this state of things
Rush, when in town, called upon Mrs. Sandford, who
very naturally expressed surprise at not having heard
from her daughter, whereupon Rush said he believed the
fact was she was become engaged to a Mr. James, a com-
mercial traveller, but for some reasons she thought it
would be a match her mother would not altogether
approve, and therefore preferred not writing at all to her.
The fact no doubt was, Rush had intercepted these
letters both ways, and thus caused an estrangement be.
twee) her and her friends, to facilitate his own pur-
poses and her ruin. She now felt her dependence upon
Rush, and in the simplicity and confidence of her nature,
and her ignorance of the world and its snares, soon
became first his victim and then his instrument. He
subsequently compelled her to write to her friends in
such a way as to repel any attempt on their part to
interfere in her welfare. So late as ten day betore the
murder Rush again called upon Mrs. Sandford, and told
her her daughter was married, and had been in France
for six mouths with her husband, Mr. James. The
inference of all this is evident. It would have accounted
for her disappearance, bad such taken place, of which
there is little doubt in the minds of those intimately
acquainted with the minutia) of attendant circumstances."
—Twelve o'clock to-morrow is the time fixed for the
execution of Rush.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]--.CONSUMPTION, BRONCHIAL,
ASTHMA, INFLUENZA, &c.—The following cases of the
severest forms of disease are selected from the clinical
report published by Dr. Cronin:—Mrs. Osborne, 8, Ox-
ford-street; Mr. Morley, Messrs. Croncock and Co., Bow
Churchyard; Major Lynch (late 14th Foot), 7, Wood-
land-place, St. John's Wood; Mr. Bryant, 7, Padding-
ton-street Marylebone; Mademoiselle Dupres, Royal
Academy of Music; Miss Erwood, 72, New Bond-street;
Miss Robb, at the Baroness Bassett's, Tehidy Park, near
Truro, Cornwall; Mrs. Thurmott, 29, Bedford street-
Covent Garden; Mrs. Williams, Portobello Areas,
Kentish New Town; —, 14, Leicester-place, Leicester,
square.
THE NEW NOVEL, " ROCKINGHAM ; OE, THE
YOUNGER 13ROTLIER."—Higbly as this remarkable work
has been spoken of in the Quarterly Review, juat pub-
lished, the Times gives it a still larger 'need of praise
" Rockingham (says our contemporary) is as attractive.
a novel as ever presented itselt from Mr. Coulburn's
prolific shelves—a structure of highly wrought romance,
which from first to last rivets the reader's attention, and
in which, under the alluring garb
of
wisdom and truth is conveyed than is fioefttieonn, tomboeramoetf
t
y female with in works of professedly far more
heart serious
The author has studied the character.
with the acute-
ness and accuracy o f Miss
herself."
THE RULING PASSION.-Lately an old miserly
woman died in Manchester, she was upwards of 93
years of age, and her only surviving relative is a brother,
aged 89. On her deathbed she was very anxious about
a box, which contained
sovereigns. She did not k a
Ilargeie number of guineas and
to entrust the key to any
one, but telling her miserable attendant to give the box
to her brother, and while she was in extremis, absolutely
81%11911A the key.

LITERATURE.
r OLD LONDON BRIDGB. Twelve Parts. By
G. Herbert Rodzvell.
The graceful musical composer, the facetious bio-
grapher of the "Umbrella," has adventured upon a no-
vel theme, even for a novelist. He has invested the re-
collections of an old bridge with the interest and fasci-
nation of romance—but that bridge is one of historical
celebrity—the first stone bridge ever built on the
Thames—the masterpiece of the priest architect, Peter
of Colechurch—the structure built in thirty years, dating from 1176—" Old London Bridge.
Now that the narrative is completed, we may commend it
as tt companion story with the " Windsor-Castle" and
the "Old St. Paul's," and the " Tower of London,"
•
by Harrison Ainsworth. And while we may speak
thus
thicalelyenogfraiMvrng
.Rs obdewfoerle us the illustrator,
we may say that
in
fear no comparison even with such
etrinAensthleyan, may
d practised designers as " Pbiz" and
Cruikshank.

THE LAND WE LIVE IN. Part XXI.
Newcastle—that splendid city which has been
transformed from hovels into palaces by the industry
of Grainger—is the subject for pictorial representa-
tion and literary description in this now veteran
periodical. The Tyne and the collieries are not
overlooked in the &lineation.

HISTORY OF ENGLAND DURING THE
THIRTY YEARS PEACE. Part VI. FirBl
Half.
.M6s Martineau continues her narrative with her
usual lucidity, and gives, in short, every promise of
worthily completing what was so well commenced by
the distinguished publisher, Mr. Charles Knight.
The present instalment is embellished with a capital
portrait of Jeremy Bentham, the philosopher.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SELECT LI-

TERATURE.

Part 111.

Charles Knight, the gifted commentator on Shaks-
pere, here continues his ingenious studies from the
dramas of that Immortal. One of the best annota-
tions ever written by Mr. Knight upon any one of
the plays of Shakspare—" man who was not for an
age but for all time," as Cousin Feenix says—is the
elaborate and scholarly paper on Henry IV. in the
number just published of this splendid serial.

MACPHAIL'S ECCLESIASTICAL
JOURNAL.
In this periodical we hare, for April, a second
criticism on Macaulay's " History of England," with
reviews on Felicia Hemans and other attractive sub-
jects, penned, generally speaking, with the apprecia-
tive delicacy and eclectic taste befitting true criticism.

QUARTERLY EDUCATIONAL
MAGAZINE.
There happen to be so very few publications pre-
tending to advocate in an efficient manner the rights
and necessities of education, that we observe the con-
tinuance of this intelligent periodical with peculiar
satisfaction. The number before us is the sixth, and
promises a multitude of successors.

MEMOIRS OF FRANCIS HORNER Part I.
The celebrated work recounting the career of that
eminent and most excellent man Francis Homer—a
work penned by his brother, Leonard Homer, and
already familiar to thousands—is here commenced in
the form of a republication, being ushered again
before the public in a cheap edition from the esta-
blishment of the Messrs. Chambers. The biography is
already so highly and deservedly appreciated, that it
were idle to do more than simply announce the fact
of its reappearance. Every one with any acquaint-
ance with the political, social, and intellectual condi-
tion of England during the last half century cannot
fail to regard with profound interest the account of
the career of so gifted and good a contemporary of
Brougham and Mackintosh, and the rest of that
illustrious generation.

THE PHYSICAL ATLAS. Part I. By A.

K. Johnston, F.R.G.S.
This magnificent work—suggested by Humboldt
and produced by Keith Johnston—is being re-issued
for the benefit of general subscribers. The republi-
cation will terminate in twelve months, the twelve
parts being printed in imperial octavo. The "Physical
Atlas" is worthy of the reputation of the geographer.
TIE"

.E ILLUSTRATED ATLAS. Part I. Edited
by Montgomery Martin.
Mr. Martin, well known from his " Colonial His-
.ory," has undertaken the editing of an atlas of a
rather singular character, each plate being surrounded
with illustrations. The first part is a creditable
specimen.

THE SCIENCE OF LIFE; or How to Live
and What to Live For. With Practical Remarks on
the Health, Diet, and Longevity. By a Physician.
This is an excellent little manual of education, of
morals, and of dietetics. It should be carefully
studied by all engaged in the education and bringing
up of young children. The author's precepts for
securing the mens suna iu rorporc sano, without
which life becomes a burden, in many cases too
grievous to be berm., are plain, intelligible, and emi-
nently practical, and will secure in the majority of
instances, to tho o who adopt them, health and loner
gevity.

THE SUPPLE:VE.Ik T TO THE POST-
OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for
1849, containing amongst other information the
Peerage and Parliamentary Directory, with Town
Residence during the present Session, and Country
Seat of each Peer and Member of the house of
Commons ; and Complete Postal Directory, cor-
rected to the date of Publication.
'We have here, for the price of one shilling, a list
of the Members of the Houses of Peers and Com-
mons, and a complete postal directory, furnishing all
the regulations of the Post-office, as effecting the
receipt and dispatch of letters—post towns and prin-
cipal places in England, Ireland, and Scotland, in
alphabetical lists, in which are distinguished the
places at which money orders can be obtained or
cashed. To those places not granting money orders
in all cases are shown the exact distance of the place
from the town at which money orders may be had;
to each place is prefixed the town at which letters
from London are delivered, and after each is stated
that at which the box closes for letters to London ; so
that the return of post can be always calculated. The
"Postal Directory" likewise contains an alphabetical
list of the five thousand principal places throughout
the world to which mails are dispatched, with the
kingdom in which each is situate, and " universal
rates of postage" on letters and newspapers, with
days and hours and dispatch ; town and country de-
livery of the London district (late twopenny) post,
with hours of dispatch and places in the country,
delivery of, with the nearest money order office to
each place ; list of receiving houses in London ; the
whole corrected up to the end of the month of
March, 1849. The work is by the editors of the
" Post•office London Directory," and they boast, and
have a right to boast, that in no other book produced
at the price of one shilling can information at once so
accurate and so various be obtained.

FINE ARTS.
THE ART JOURNAL.
Gradually, month after month, the treasures of the
Vernon Gallery are being represented by the en-
gravers employed upon this brilliant and enterprising
publication. In the number for April we have copies
from an original historical painting by 11 ard, and
from an original landscape by Stanfield—the first,
" The Fall of Clarendon," being engraved by Bacon;
the second, " The Schelt, Texel Island," being en-
graved by Wallis. In addition to this, we have an
ingenious mechanical engraving of the freize of
the Parthenon, a capital sketch of " The Village
Minstrel," by Goodall, and a drawing, by Fairholt,
of " The Tabard Inn," immortalised by Chaucer.
Mrs. S. C. Hall makes her pilgrimage, this month,
through the streets of London to the tomb of John
Stow. The rest of the contributions are of an overage
character.

THE Imagined by Horace
Mayhew;
:George Cruiluhank.
TOOTH-ACHE,
w, Oa
nOTdH-
Realized H E b
Reader, if you wish to indulge in a side-splitting
laugh—none of your refined namby-pamby titters,
but a regular guffaw—get the " Tooth-Ache." It is
to be had of D. Bogue, and all booksellers.

Tilee e
xßeftc It: BRISTOL
ofll :a
11IrD T TI. 're day at present fixed
for th
homhas is Friday (this day).
The execution will take
place
• at ten o'clock in the
morning to suit the conymence of ,
hangman," who has written
0
aloraft, " the bead
i
professional engagement aetuNto say
that he has another
Norwich on Saturday morn-
ng, and must, therefore, Fridaleave Bristol by mid-day on
y. As we stated last week great exertions are
being made to prevent the execution taking place. Me.
mortals have been got up by the Society of Friends, and
other religious
denominations, by the Young Men's As-
sociation, and by the inhabitants generally. One me-
morial to the Queen from the women of Bristol received
in two days 2,000 signatures. It is thought, however.
that in spite of all these exertions the law will be allowed
to take its course. Two members of the Society of
Friends, Mr. Samuel Capper and Mr. Samuel Bowden,
have, during the week, waited on the Earl Fitzbardinge,
as Lord Lieutenant of the county of Gloucester and the
city of Bristol, and besought his Lordship's interest with
the Home Secretary in behalf of the wretched girl. Lord
Fitzhardinge, however, frankly stated to the deputation
that he could not concur in the prayer of the memorial,
:.,..
although he was willing to transmit it to the Home- •
office, for which purpose it was left in his Lodship's
hands.—Cheltenham Examiner.
GUTTA PERCHA TUBING.—A coil of tubing, 940
feet in length, has just been manufactured by the Gutta
Perch& Company for a gentleman in Warwickshire to
convey the supply of water from the park reeerteire to
i bie maAtiou•llouse! . .