The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-21 00:00:00

7:9" SUN,_ LOND'ON, SATURDA EVENING-, AUGUST 21, 1847.

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KILKENNY COUNTY.
CLOSE OF THE POLL.
Greene ... ... 276
Butler ... 261
Hely 248
Th 3 High Sheriff then declared the two first
duly elected.

KILDARE COUNTY.
OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE POLL.
On Wednesday the High Sheriff announced the
state o• the poll to be
The Marquis of Kildare ... 544
Mr. Soutnwell Bourke .. 413
Mr. J. A. ... 301
and declared the two first duly elected.

THE MURDER OF THE DUCHESS

OE PItASLIN.

The dreadful fate of this unfortunate lady (whose
murder we announced yesterday) has filled all Paris
with consternation. We suljom the extracts which
we find on the subject in the different Paris papers.
It will be at once seen, from reading these accounts,
that the crime is still involved in the greatest mys-
tery, and that the efforts of the magistracy to clear it
up, at least as far as is communicated by the press,
have been hitherto by no means successful. It is
perhaps as well cot to repeat th-,. whole of the stories
in circulation with respect to this dreadful affair.
Many of them are, no doubt, untrue, and most of
thetn are incorrect or exaggerated. There can, how-
ever, be no impropr.ety in stating, that the idea of
the crime having been committed by persons whose
object was plunder has been greatly attenuated in the
course of the inquiry, and that it is feared that it will
be ultimately found that vengeance or jealousy was
the true motive which led to this frightful crime. All
the persons who were in the house at the time of the
murder have been arrested, and among others the
Duke de Praslin himself, who is not allowed to leave
the house, where he is kept under the close surveil-
lance of the police.
(From Galignani's Messenger.)
We mentioned yesterday the murder of this lady,
who was the mother of nine children, the only daughter
of Marshal Sebastiani, and niece of Lieut.-General
Tiburce Sebastiani and the Duke de Coigny. The
details of this lamentable event, which took place at the
hotel of Marshal Sebastiani, in the Rue de Faubourg
Saint Honor 6, 55, near the British Embassy, are various
in many respects; but all the accounts concur in stating
that the Duchess, who arrived only on Tuesday evening
from the country, had retired to bed at her usual hour,
but very early in the morning the bell of her bed-room
rang, and a servant rose and went to the room, but could
not enter, it being bolted in the inside. The door was
forced open, and the Duchess was found weltering in her
blood from several stabs—not quite dead, but utterly
unable to give any account of the murderer. She ex-
pired soon afterwards. As no robbery had been com-
mitted, it was evident that the act was one of private
vengeance; but suspicion could not be fixed on any par-
ticular person, as the amiable character of the Duchess
did not permit her to have a known enemy. The autho-
rities were instantly informed of the lamentable event,
and by six in the morning the Procureur-General, M.
Delangle, the Procureur du Roi, M. Bondy, and two
examining magistrates, MM. Broussais and Legonidec,
arrived at the house. All the servants were closely
interrogated, as was also every person who called
during the morning; and in the course of the day the
police went to a boarding school in the Marais, where
resided an English governess who had lived with the
Duke and Duchess, and who received a pension from the
family. She was absent when they presented themselves,
and all her papers were seized. It is not, however, be-
lieved that she is involved in the crime. During the
whole of yesterday a large crowd was stationed opposite
the door of the Duke's hotel, and various rumours were,
as usual, current; but as tew persons were allowed to
quit the house, very little information
could be obtained
as to what was passing in it. The late Duchess had not
yet reached her 42d year. She was alike remarkable
fur her elegance of manners and the superiority of her
education; and, in addition to being an excellent mother,
was distinguished for her active and extensive benevo-
lence.

(From the Moniteur Parisien of Wednesday.)

The Duke and Duchess arrived yesterday (Tuesday)
evening, at about nine o'clock, from a watering-place,
with the intention of staying a few days iu Paris before
their return to the country. As they had been for some
time absent, they permitted, on their arrival, most of
their servants to go and see their friends and relations,
and to remain absent unfit the following day. They
kept near them only two or three persons. After seeing
their children put to bed, the Duke and Duchess re-
tired to their separate apartments. Their servants who
remained in the house, being, I:Ice their master and mi,s
tress, fatigued with their journey, did the same, and
every thing was soon silent; but two or three hours
afterwards, viz., towards two o'clock in the morning, the
noise of a bell, irregularly rung, announced that the
Duchess required the attendance of some person, and a
servant rose and proceeded to the room of the Duchess;
but the door was fastened in the inside. The servant
was about to retire, but, hearing some groans, forced
open the door and entered, when a frightful sight pre-
sented itself. The Duchess was lying in her blood,
which was flawing from some large and deep wounds
in the threat; her hands were covered with blood ;
the mark of a bloody hand was seen on the bell-pull,
showing that the Duchess had rung the bell after she
was struck. Some hair torn from the head of the
Duchess was lying on the floor, and showed that she
had struggled with her murderer ; but there was no
trace of any theft ; no drawer or secretary had been
broken open, and there was merely a confusion as to the
situation of some light furniture and moveable objects
which might have been caused by the struggle or the
precipitate flight of the assassin. The cries of the
servant roused the Duke de Praslin, who hastened to the
spot, and threw himself on the bleeding body of his
wife which he embraced. Surgeons were instantly sent
for, and everything possible was done to save the
Duchess, but unfortunately the wounds were too serious;
she died two hours afterwards. The magistrates who
who had arrived examined the hotel and its depen-
dencies, and endeavoured to find by what issue the mur-
derer could have escaped. but nothing could be ascer-
tained. The medical men who were present, amongst
whom were MM. Orfila and Pasquier, were of opinion,
from the appearance of the wounds, that they had been
inflicted with a kitchen knife or a cutlass.

(From the Patrie.)
The Duchess de Praslin came from the chateau of
Praslin to be present at a distribution of prizes at an in-
stitution where several of her children were placed. The
Duchess, fatigued with her journey in the heat of the
day, retired early to rest. Her femme- de-chambre was
lodged above her. About half. past four this morning,
this woman was aroused by hearing the bell rung, and
was surprised that her mistress should have awoke so
early. The femme-de-chambre got up, dressed herself,
and descended to her mistress's room, where a terrible
spectacle struck her with astonishment and horror; the
room was all in disorder; a pool of blood inundated the
floor; and in the midst lay the unfortunate Duchess,
the body still warm, having the head nearly separated
from the trunk. The femme-de-chambre gave the alarm,
and the servants and family flocked to the spot. It was
then found that nothing had been stolen; and it was re-
marked that the person or persons who committed the
crime must have got into the hotel by the back, where,
there were houses in consttuction, and must have es-
caped by the same way. At six o'clock the Prefect of
Police, the Procureur du non and it is even said the
Minister of Itnerior, were at the Hotel Sebastiani to
commence an investigation. The hotel had all its issues
carefully guarded, an last night the law officers were
still on the peetnises.
Marshal Sebastiani, the father of the Duchess, is at
present absent in Corsica.
Another account says :
" The Duchess de Choiseul Praslin, who left Paris at
the beginning of last week to visit her estate at Praslin,
and be present at the distribution of the prizes of a school
placed in some respect under her patronege, and in which
two Of her children are educated, returned to town on
Tuesday evening. She intended to pass only one night
in her hotel, and was to have left yesterday with the
Duke her husband for Dieppe, where part or their house-
le .1d had preceded them. Fatigued with her journey,
the Duchess went to bed at an early hour, and as per-
mission had been given to most of the domestics to ab-
sent themselves, she remained in the hotel with her
femme de chambre, who sleeps in the story above, a go-
verness of the children, and two male domestics. The
hotel of the Marshal Sebastiani, which was occupied by
the Duke and Duchess de Choiseul Praslin with their
family, only presents on the Faubourg Se Honors a very
narrow façade, composed on the entrance door sustained
by two columns, and of a small apartment on the right
serving as a place for the concierge. After having
passed the door a long avenue has to be traversed, at
the end of which the façade of the hotel developes it-
self. The back of the hotel, or rather the second façade
of the hotel, faces the gardens, which extend in the
direction of the Chumps Elysees. The apartment of
the Duchess de Praslin, situated on the ground
floor but at a certain height (a flight of six steps having
to be ascended to reach it), is on the second façade, and
the bed-chamber in particular, situated towards the
south, has its windows on the garden. From eleven
o'clock in the evening a profound calm reigned in the
hotel, all the lights were extinguished, and the concierge
himself went to bed, thinking that every person was
asleep. Between four and five o'clock, when it was broad
daylight, the femme de chatnbre, who, as already said,
slept above the apartment of the Duchess, was awakened
by the noise of a bell pulled with violence. She rose in
great haste, and ran to the apartment of her mistress,
the door of which she in vain tried to open. She lis-
tened, and thought she heard a feeble groan; she then
called the domestics to her help, and in uniting their
efforts they succeeded in breaking the door open. They
then saw lying on the floor, in the midst of a pool of
blood, their unfortunate mistress, who appeared to give
no sign of lite. A wound, in which three fingers could
have been put, was seen gaping on the left side of
the throat ; there were two other profound wounds in
the breast, and a fourth had almost entirely separated
the little finger from the right hand. These
different wounds appeared to have been made with
an instrument have a large double-edged blade. Every
thing in the bed room showed besides that, though sur-
prised in her slumber., the victim had offered a strong
overthrown;resistance to
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saomleittloebjetacbtsleofh artad been
overthrown; porcelains and some objects of art were
spread about; the drapery on the wall bore the traces
of a bloody hand, as did also the rope of the bell, the
ringing of which had awakened the femme de chambre;
and finally between the clasped fingers of the left hand
there was some of the murderer's hair, whilst
a more
considerable quantity of the hair, pulled out in the
struggle, was scattered here and there on the floor, on
which the coagulating blood had fixed them. The ma-
gistrates hastened to the theatre of tee crime. At the
moment of their arrival a judicial examination was com-
menced. At the same time the medical men who had
been called in tried to save the Duchess, but their efforts
were useless; she expired in some instants, without
having been able to utter a single word, without even
having recovered her consciousness. The very first ex-
aminations made by justice showed that no robbery had
been committed or even attempted. The garden was
examined with the most minute eve in eel parts. and
seas found in such a state that it esas evident t.'eat no
one had penetrated into it, either to enter or
to leave tha hotel ; and nowhere could any
tracte of breaking-in or of breaking-out be found.

until five o'elc:± in
semi 10 the morning
the afternoon, the Procureur-Getieral, the Procureur iiu
Roi, M. Brousstiis and M. Legonidec, juges de ?instruc-
tion, were occupied in interroetorie6, at Which the chief

of the secret pike was present. Last evening the in-
vestigations were resumed, and they appeared to occupy
likely the whole night. The medical men who were
called in under these painful circumstances were M.
Orfila, M. Pasquier, M. BLh de Loury, and M. Tar.
dieu."

Another circumstance has added to the general con-
sternation caused by this tragic affair. In the same
quartier, and nearly the same hour, a daring attempt at
burglary was committed. Four men, armed with knives,
and provided with skeleton keys, introduced themselves
into the upper story of a house iu the Rue Neuve des
Mathurins. The cook of Madame de Maupas, who oc-
cupies the house (No. 11 ) , was asleep with her husband
in the upper story of the house, and owing to the sultry
weather had left the window open. Being awoke by a
slight noise, she perceived the forms of two men cross-
ing the leads. She aroused her husband, who, being a.
man of some courage, stepped out in pursuit. One of
them succeeded in making his escape by the roof, but
the other, having made a false step, fell off the roof on
to the balcony of the boudoir of Madame de Ver-
neuil, from whence he rebounded and fell into the street,
where he was killed on the spot. Another was arrested
at the gateway. On examining the miscreants, a bunch
of false keys and pointed daggers were found in their
boots. The body was conveyed forthwith to the Morgue.

ASSASSINATION OF A FATHER-

IN-LAW.
A man named Mann was tried last week by the Court
of Assizes of the Bouches-du-Rhone for the assassination
of his father in-law, named Imbert. The prisoner was
born at Strasburg, but got his living as a stonecutter at
Marseilles. There he married the daughter of Imbert,
at that time aged only 16. In 1846 the prisoner, his
wife, and father-in-law went to live at Ala. The
prisoner was remarkably jealous of his wife, even to the
extent of seeing with pain her communications with
her father. Notwithstanding this, he took one of
his workmen, named Vogt, to live with him, and,
having only one room, made him sleep in the same
chamber as himself and wife. His business caused
him frequently to be absent from home, and he never-
theless allowed
_Vogt to continue to sleep in the same
room with his wife. This led to a criminal inter-
course between them, and on his return home one even-
ing the prisoner found them in the same bed. Although
he Was of a violent and irascible character, he made no
complaint or reproach at this discovery ; but his wife,
fearing that his calmness was only the result of a de-
termination to take terrible vengeance, left him, and
went with her children to reside with her father. He
complained of being thus abandoned, and accused Vogt
of having taken away the woman. He, however, would
not allow Vogt to quit him, or to cease to work
with him. Having during a whole week made in vain
repeated entreaties to his wife to return to him, he
went one morning to her father's house, where he
found them seated at table together. He again
begged his wife to return to him, but she refused.
He then cried, " A misfortune will occur?" At the
same moment he seized a knife. His father-in-law
begged him to lay it aside; he refused, because be said
he intended to kill himself. "You are too cowardly for
that!" retorted the father-in-law, thereupon the pri-
soner rushed on him and stabbed him. The man cried
"I am assassinated," and fell dead. The prisoner then
stabbed his wife several times, though fortunately the
wounds were only slight. He then rushed into the
street covered with blood, and cried, " I have done what
I wished. I have satisfied my caprice." He held
his young son by the hand, and said, " Come
my son, your father is about to die." He
proceeded to his pllce of work, no one daring
to stop them, and shouted to some men that
if they did not fly he would kill them. He shortly
after plunged a knife into his throat. With bloodstreaming from the wound, and with the bloody knife in
his hand, he hastened to the. guard-house, and said.
" Arrest me ; I have just killed my father. in-law and
my wife." At the same moment he fell exhausted. For
some time after he was unable to sreak, but he signified
by signs that he killed those two perbo.ts. He was con-
ve) ed to the hospital, where, after a chile, he began to
recover. A close watch was placed on him, a Leeper
being continually by the side of his bed. He neverthe-
less conti hod to escape by rising oue night, and putting
on the clothes of another patient. fie then hastened
to his own house, where he found Vogt and his wile
together. He tried to seize them, but they escaped.
He then called the neighbours to bear testimony that
adultery had been committed by them, and afterwards
went to the commissary of police, and reconstituted him-
self a prisoner. tlis wife gave evidence against him,
and in doing so admitted with great effrontery that she
really did not know who was the father of the child will
had. driven him to which she was enceinte. The :prisoner said that all the
thatfacts t
he alleged
misconductag a insot f himh wife
but he pleaded
were true ;
with having carried
des-
peration, and he accused his father-in-law of having en-
couraged it. He even charged him
on an incestuous connextion with his daughter. This,
however, was not proved. The jury found the prisoner
guilty of murder without premeditation, and on provo-
cation, and the Court condemned him to five years' im-
prisonment.

LOLA MONTES AGAIN.—The Gazette des Tribunaux
publishes the following letter, dated the 12th inst., from
Wurzbourg, in Bavaria:—" The bull dog of Mdlle.
Lola Montes, which, as will be remembered, was the
cause of a great tumult at Munich in February last, has
just put the town of Wurzbourg in commotion. The
day before yesterday (Sunday), at about eleven o'clock
in the evening, Mdlle. Lola Montes entered the King's
Garden, the public promenade, followed by this animal,
which, it appears, accompanies her whenever she goes
out on foot. The sentinel placed at the gate of the
garden told her that dogs were not admitted, and
he stopped the passage with his bayonet. The
impetuous Spaniard became irritated, and struck the
soldier such a violent blow on the head with her parasol
that his shako was knocked off. A crowd of persons
assembled, and shortly after the commandant of a batta-

lion, chief of the post of the garden, presented himself to
Mdlle. Lola Montes, with whom he was acquainted, and
politely invited her to withdraw, in order not to cause a
disturbance. Mdlle. Montes replied that before speaking
to a lady of her rank he ought to take off his hat, and
which she requested him to do. The officer declared
to her, that, being in the discharge of his duties, he
would not and ought not to uncover himself before any
body, and that he would cause her to be arrested if
she did not immediately go
away. Mdlle. Lola biomes
complied with this order—she returned to her hotel, fol-
lowed by a multitude of the lower classes, groaning at and
hissing her without intermission. In the evening Mdlle.
Montes went to visit a councillor of state. During this
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The Brighton Gazette has the followin: " The chronicles
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of' scandal announce positively that the King of Bavaria
has become wearied of the infamous Lola Montes, and
that he has already taken a Russian Countess into favour
in her place. But the bola Lola swears she will not be
turned off, and vows vengeance on the Majesty of Ba-
varia. The King, it is added, is so frightened, that he
runs from place to place to avoid her."
MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY.— Monday last was
an eventful day in the village of Kirkconnell, Dumfries-
shire. Rich and poor, Young and old, were early astir,
bent on having a holiday.
The opening of the Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway, or a royal visit, could
not have produced a greater sensation than the mere fact
that Mr. John Hyslop, a farmer, High-Cairn, the oldest
tenant of the " bold Buccleuch" in that district, had been
" proclaimed" on Sunday, and was on that day to be mar-
ried for the second time. Mr. Hyslop, though not a
native of, has long been resident in, the parish of Kirkcon-
nell, and by perseverance and industr) has now acquired
a competency, being, as he himself sap, " the proprietor
of a nice bit lairdship
the parish of Dunscore. The
late partner, to whom he had been married for the long
"
period of sixty years, died about six months ago in her
ninetieth year. Throughout a wide extent of country
they were familiarly known by the homely names of
Johnny and Jenny, and a more loving couple, notwith-
standing the many peculiarities of both, we have seldom,
if ever known. They had seen grow up around them a
numerous race ofchildren, great, and great grand-children,
when Jenny, in a ripe old age, was peacefully gathered
to her fathers. This event bad not long occurred, when
Johnny, an enfeebled old man, who required to be taken
to the field in a cart, to superintend the operations on
his farm, like the eagles, seemed to "renew his youth,"
for he soon afterwards went "a wooing." Meeting with
a number of refusals from those who might be considered
on a footing of equality, he was somewhat daunted, but,
like a `• brave knight," ho determined " never to give up"
till he had obtained a " help meet." A few weeks since
he proposed to a buxom widow of about 60, a pauper on
the parish, who, without hesitation, preferred the "broad"
lands of Cairn to the paltry alms of Kirkconnell. That
the widow had an eye to the main chance there can be
no doubt, but with Johnny it must have been " all for
love."pdrov G i otan—
e providedwiths sbusile
and the other arrangements having been also completed,
the " happy couple," after a three weeks' acquaintance-
bthclaotthwiansg herby tnhaeln "eg—aywas speedily
Lothario,"
acquaintance-
ship. were, on Monday last, in the presence of a few
friends, united in the "holy bands" of wedlock. Their
united ages amount to abaut 150 years. On taking their
departure, immediately after the ceremony, for the
High Cairn, where they will spend the honeymoon' they
were most enthusiastically cheered by the crowd. After
this, it may be truly said, " wonders will never cease,"
and that " truth is strange, stranger than fiction," the
pauper of yesterday, depending for sustentation on the
alms of a parish or the charity of neighbours, being now
mistress of the " broad" lands of Cairn, and joint pro-
prietor of Stepfoord.—North British Mail.
INCREASE OF SCURVY IN LONDON.—From the
last weekly report of the Registrar-General, it appears
that this frightful disease is greatly on the increase, as
during the quarters of 13 weeks each, ending g March
and June, 1845, the number of deaths registered
amount d to only six, whereas during the same period
in the present year they had increased to 41. This
great mortality is no doubt owing to the recent scarcity
of potatoes and the high price of vegetables generally.
From the same report it appears that the number of
deaths from all causes, registered during the past week
amounted to 550 males, and 558 females—total, 1,108;
the number of births registered in the slim-, period being
639 males and 593 females—total, 1 232; the weekly
..vt_rag? dc-rived froca deaths if 1842-3 4 5, acrd, 6, ant!
corrected for incraas© of population, bt..it..g 41-D muLiz anti
431 fercalcs—ote.,l, 940.
POTATOES.—Abuneip.nce of fine s'-iund ot3.
p-
t°Qh- ro-vn in the fields, are now brougi-J 3 3;.i,
yket
daily.' They are sold at sixpence per stone at present,
but low as the price is, the good wives daily expect a
reduc Um—lnverness Courier.

HORRIBLE MUTILATION AT

REIGATE.
On Thursday morning the quiet village of Chepstow,
Surrey, situate about six miles from Reigate, was thrown
into a state of painful excitement in consequence of a
most alarming riot between a large number of English
and Irish reapers. It appears that about midday on
Wednesday a party of reapers and their wives assem-
bled at a public-house called the White Hart, at Chep-
stow, Surrey, where after a short time they commenced
singing and drinking, until a man named M'Carthy was
called upon to sing a song. He refused, and walked out,
followed by a number of men and women, and when
they reached a spot a short distance from the public-
house, one of the ringleaders, named George Fisher,
told M'Carthy that if he did not go back and sing a
song, or pay for a pot of ale, he (Fisher) " would cut
his arm off with the fagging-kook." M'Carthy refused,
and the next moment Fisher, who had the sharpened
hook in his hand, raised the weapon and inflicted a most
awful gash on M'Carthy's head, who raised his left arm
to defend himself, when Fisher again rushed forward
and gave him two more frightful gashes across the left
arm, which completely separated both bones of the
limb, which was shockingly mutilated. By this time
some assistance arrived, when the wounded man was
carried into the White Hart public house in a state
of total insensibility, and bleeding most copiously
from the several wounds. In the meantime, the pot-
man was dispatched for the nearest surgeon, and in a
short period one arrived, who promptly rendered every
necessary aid in dressing the wounds. The left arm
seemed to be completely amputated by the violence used,
and the head of the unfortunate man had sustained se-
veral extensive lacerations, and several portions of the
skull had been shaved off by the weapon used by the
man Fisher. The man (Fisher) was, soon after the
murderous affair, taken into custody with the other ring-
leaders, and removed in charge of several active officers
to the county gaol, Reigate. Yesterday morning the
prisoner George Fisher, Ann Fisher, his wife, and others,
were brought before Mr. John Currie, of Gatton, Surrey,
one of the magistrates for the county. Mrs. White, the
landlady of the White Hart public-house, and several
important witnesses, swore positively to seeing the pri-
soner Fisher strike M'Carthy on the head and left arm
several times with the instrument called the " fagging
hook," and to using other violence. The magistrate, upon
receiving information that the unfortunate man M'Carthy
was in a very precarious condition, proceeded by railway
to London-bridge terminus, and thence to the accident
ward of Guy's Hospital to take the depositions of the
injured man, who had been removed to that in-
stitution. On Thursday evening, at half-past six
o'clock, Air. John Currie, magistrate of Reigate, and his
chief clerk, proceeded to the accident ward, where they
were introduced to the wounded man. The prisoners
Fisher and his wife were present in custody. The
wounded man, M'Carthy, on being sworn, gave a clear
account of the transaction, but he could not swear posi-

tively that it was the prisoner. He was sure it was a
man who cut him first on the head and then on
the left arm. The man was dressed like the prisoner.
He (M'Carthy) had nothing in his hand when the riot
commenced. The man who inflicted the injuries threw
the hook at him, which he picked up, but at that time
he was so weak that he fell from Kiss of blood.
11/Carthy, in answer to the magistrate, said, " I never
used any violence, nor did I strike any one in defence.
I left my fagging-hook in the field where I had been at
work." The prisoner having put a few questions to the
man M'Carthy, which did not shake his evidence in the
slightest degree, Mr. G. Hinton, the house-surgeon, was
next called, and said that M'Carthy had received very
extensive incised wounds on the back and top of the
head, and two wounds on the left arm, separating both
bones near the elbow. He was in a very precarious
state, but was going on as well as could be expected.
The prisoners were formally remanded to Kingston gaol
until Monday next.

RUMOURED MURDER AT PORTSEA.—An inquest
was held last evening on the body of John Hines, late
a bandsman in the Victory, at the Portsea Island
Union-house. It appeared in evidence, that the de-
ceased was discharged in July last, in consequence
of misconduct, since which time he has been wan-
dering about the town almost in a state of destitu-
tion. The last time he was seen was in Portsmouth at
three o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday. His body
was found upon the slope leading to the rampart,
at the end of High-street, at three on Sonday morn-
ing. He was perfectly insensible. There was a recent
wound over the angle of the right eye, and some spots
of blood traced from Barrack-street to near the place
where the body was found, which appeared to be con-
nected with the circumstance of his death; but it appears
some Marines had been fighting, which accounted for
the blood. Deceased was removed to Portsmouth station•
house, and afterwards to the union. He was diligently
attended by Mr. Garrington up to the time of his death,
which occurred about five o'clock the same evening.
Deceased remained insensible until about four o'clock.
He had been bled, and became sensible for a few
moments, when he asked the nurse for a pint of beer,
for which he said he would pay to-morrow. The
nurse asked if he had been fighting? He said no;
and made some declaration that he had been struck

Jy some person; but as it did not appear that the
deceased was aware that he was in a dying state,
the Coroner refused to take that declaration as

evidence. The Coroner stated that any statement cal-
culated to criminate another was inadmissible, unless

the party making it felt himself to be in a dying
state ; and cautioning the jury not to allow it to
operate upon their decision. Mr. Garrington, who
examined the body, was of opinion that the death
of deceased was from apoplexy, and that apoplexy
was the result of either a fall or a blow. The Co•

roner observed that the police had been indefatigable
since Sunday morning to unravel the circumstances con-
nected with his death. He put it to the jury whether
the inquest should be adjourned or not ; but as it ap-
peared from the statement of Inspector Way, that it
was not probable that he could produce further evidence,
the coroner summed up, and the jury, after 1, few
minutes' deliberation, returned: the following verdict:—
" That the deceased, John Hines, died of appc!plexy,
produced by external violence ; but how such violence
was inflicted, there was no evidence before them to
show."—Hampshire Guardian.
THE LATE CASE OF MURDER IN EDINBURGH.—
The following are further particulars regarding this
melancholy occurrence, a notice of which we gave in
our last :—" It appears that a broker and seller of
watches in the Cowgate, of the name of James Edie,
after having been for several years a member of the
Edinburgh Total Abstinence Society, had been in-
duced four or five weeks ago to violate his pledge
and since then has been almost constantly under
the influence of liquor. This continued dissipation so
affected his mind, that he frequently acted in the most
outrageous manner, and sometimes force had to be
used to restrain his violence. On Thursday his
behaviour was of a most violent character. Notwith-
standing the exertions of some of his neighbours, he
proceeded up the Cowgate in an excited manner,
threatening and assailing all he met. His attention
was unfortunately directed towards a man of the name
of John Scott, who was standing at the bottom
of the Fish-market Close, and who, it is presumed, was
obnoxious to Edie from the odium which attached to
his profession, as being the common executioner for
the city. After i) brief altercation (though it is
also said that no words were exchanged), Edie assaulted
him in the most violent manner, knocking him
down by repeated blows on the breast ; and on Scott
being carried to an adjoining shop he was pursued
thither by his assailant, who again struck him on
the head, which produced immediate insensibility, and
resulted in the death of Scott in a few minutes after-
-wards. Scott bad been for a long time past in a deli-
cate state of health, which it was supposed had rendered
the assault fatal; but on a post mortem examination of
the body on Friday by Dr. Tait, we understand that
the cause of death was found to be suffusion of the

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