The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-09 00:00:00

THE PATSHULL MURDER.

WOLVERHAMPTON.—On Monday last the inquiry
touching the death of John Larkin, who was found
murdered in a pool at Patshull-park,'near this place,
was resumed before G. Henchcliffe, Esq., Coroner.
The only circumstance of importance, in addition to
the particulars which have already appeared--im-
portant, as it tends to divert suspicion from the parties
towards whom it was directed—was contained in the
evidence of Samuel Husselby, who stated that on
last Sunday fortnight an Irishman, who had been
reaping, and who was one of those who had slept in
the stable, was walking round the large pool of the
park. He asked him (witness) which was the deepest
part of it. He did not know his name. It was not
either Larkins or Kelly.
The Coroner then summed up the evidence, and in
a short time the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful
Murder" against some person or persons unknown.

THE EMIGRANT FEVER.—Out of 476 passengers
who left Liverpool in the ship Virginius, for Grosse Isle,
the extraordinary number of 158 died on the passage of
foyer, and no fewer than 186 were ill on landing.
JENNY LIND.—A young man named Thomas Ro-
berts was this morning brought up at the Borough Court,
charged with having borrowed and pawned ten handker-
chiefs, the property of Jenny Lind, in order to raise
funds wherewith to enable him to visit the theatre on

Saturday night, the last on which the renowned songstress
was to appear. It appeared that Mdlle. Lind's linen
had been sent from the Albion Hotel to be washed by a
Mrs. Pearson, the mother-in -law of the prisoner. The
young man, who is a striker in the service of the Man-
chester and Leeds line, was pressed by some of his fel-
low workmen to go and hear the Lind. He, like
many other persons, possessed all the inclination, but
lacked the means. He went home, tried without success
to borrow the necessary funds, and then heroically de-
termined that Jenny's own property should furnish the
means of enabling him to see and hear her. He took
away ten of her handkerchiefs, and got a woman to
pledge them for him, in Port-street, for ss. 6d. He de-
clared, on being apprehended, that he had no notion that
' Mrs. Pearson would have wanted the things so soon, and
that it was his intention to have released them early in
the present week. He was ordered to pay ss. 6d., the
value of the pledged property, together with a penalty of
205., and in default to be imprisoned for one month.—
Manchester Examiner.

TERRIFIC CONFLICT BETWEEN WIND AND WATER.
—The experimental trip on the railway to Skipton on
Wednesday was accompanied by the Bradford teetotal
band and their banner, bearing the very unpretending
motto of " pure water." The banner is now, alas I
among the things that were. Soon after the train left
Keighley a storm came on, and in the conflict between
wind and water, the former came off victorious. The
banner began early to show symptoms that it was not
made of the most durable materials, for shreds flew off
thick and fast into the adjoining fields. The teetotal-
lers, however, disdained to haul down their colours, but
determined to hold out to the last (rag), and they very
soon had to hoist little else than bare poles to the wind,
—infinitely to the amusement of the anti-teetotallers in
the adjoining carriages.—Bradford Observer.
CAN IT BE rossixinE?—An impudent and daring
robbery was committed on the Bootle road this week.
A gentleman, after descending from the omnibus, was
knocked down in the presence of the passengers ; his
watch was wrested from his pocket, and the villain
made his escape in the direction of the canal, the pas-
sengers all the time quietly looking on ! This is one
of the coolest highway robberies within our memory.—
Liverpool Times.
DREADFUL SUICIDE AT NEWCASTLE.—NEWCASTLE-
ON-TYNE, TUESDAY.—A general gloom has been cast
over our commercial community to-day by the discovery
of the suicide of Mr. George Burnett, a most extenaive
and highly respected manufacturer, connected with some
of the first families of the district. The unfortunate
gentleman was observed late last evening walking de-
spondingly in the vicinity of Scotswood, a village about
three miles west of Newcastle ; and about eight o'clock
this morning some harvest labourers found him lying in
a corn field, with his head partially under a sheaf of
corn, and a deep gash in his throat, evidently
produced by a razor which lay open at his side. He
was then quite dead. The motive which prompted the
commission of the dreadful deed remains a mystery. He
was wealthy and beloved; and charity and probability
alike point to a temporary aberration of mind as the
cause. He was in the prime of life, unmarried, uniformly
active in works of benevolence, endowed with a highly
cultivated mind, and widely known as clever in the
peculiar business with which he was connected. He was
partner in the firms of John Lee and Co., chemical
a manufacturers ; Locke, Blackett, and Co., lead and shot
manufacturers ; and Burnett Brothers, steam-engine
manufacturers—all occupying very high positions in the
north of England.
LIEUTENANT MUNRO.—The following is an extract
of a letter addressed by Lieutenant Munro to a friend in
London, the day following his trial:—" Newgate, Aug.
19.—1 cannot express how much I feel indebted to you
for the very friendly interest that you have so kindly
taken in my unfortunate case, but I beg that you will
accept of my most grateful thanks, if only as a token of
my appreciation of your disinterested solicitude about
me and my family. I thank God I feel perfectly satis-
fied with the course I have adopted in surrendering to
take my trial by the laws of my country. I might at
once have obtained a higher rank in the Austrian army
than I can ever expect now
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rank, nor riches, nor even honours,
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experiences, as I have often smcoesition with my fellow-
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men. Id fdeletaarlstoo ttahea!
be, even Imceyre,
feelings and reflections if I continued self- expatriated,
and shunning a trial. It is only when a man has been
driven from his country and his friends that he feels the
full forcer of those ties that bind him to the land of his
birth. From those feelings and a knowledge of the re-
sponsibility I incurred as a father, from not bringing up
my children properly (which I could not do before),
came and surrendered; and again I say, I thank God
that I determined to do so. You will have seen my
trial in the papers; I have no observations to make, for
judge, jury, and Attorney-General only did their duty."
SAGACITY OF THE CROW.—A few days afgo, the
attention of several persons was excited at St. Ives by
an unsual noise made by a crow, which had built her
nest and hatched her young in the chimney ed an unin-
habited house, near the Wesleyan Chapel, in that town.
On examination it appeared that a cat had discovered
the young birds, and was trying to dislodge ,hem; but
every time puss put her head into the chimney the crow
pounced upon her hinder parts, and then flew off to a
neighbouring chimney. The crow, perceiving that she
was unable singly to put the enemy to flight, flew to the
tower of the church, and brought seven others, which
proceeded to assail the cat in the way before described,
until she was so severely wounded as to be obliged to
retreat, minus pretty much of her fur, and bleeding pro.
saidto
fusely.— West Briton.
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be very numerous, and the young birds are remarkably
strong. We have not heard of any crack feat by our
neighbouring sportsmen, who, by the way, may not
yet,
perhaps, have get into good practice.--Cumberland
,
Pacquel•
A BRIEF RErowr.—We, the Commissioners ap-
pointed to report on legal education in England, beg to
report accordingly :—There is no legal education in
England. (Signed) THE CoMMISSIoNERs."—Punch.
INDIAN CoßN.—The Banner of Ulster says :
,‘ Indian corn and Indian meal boiled, is now the general
food for horses, who thrive on it amazingly, at a redac-
tion of 12 per cent., compared with oat feeding.
There has just been cut, amongst others as pro-
lific, on an allotment in the Parish of Cheriton Bishop,
the extraordinary number of 55 stalks of wheat from the
produce of one corn of the " Old Lamas sort," which 55
ears produced 2,064 corns. The allotment is in the oc-
cupation of Joseph Tancock, of the same place, through
the liberality of Dr. Pennell, the owner.— Western .Lu-
minary.