The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-20 00:00:00

MURDER AT SYDNEY.

From Port ,Philip accounts of the 2d of June had
arrived at Sydney, and gave the horrifying particulars
of the murder of Mr. Morton and his servar.t by the
b!aeks in the interior in the month of May last. The
Port Philip Gazette of that date contains a letter from
the party who disec.vered the bodies. Describing the
discovery he sa:.l-.." A little on the right of
the -track I observed what I considered at first
was a white log, with a large eagle-hawk perch-
ing upon it ; upon my nearer approach the bird
rose slowly and heavily from the mangled re-
mains of poor Mr. Morton. He was stripped quite
naked, and lying on his face, the greater part of which
was actually cut away ; his head is one mass of fright-
ful wounds, end many bruises on different parts of the
arms .and body, which is torn. by hirds of
_prey. About.
fifty yards off lay the remains or skeleton of Larry,
from whose bones the flesh 41 been completely cut
off. The skin was cut a I,t 1.0 aboie the wrists and
anefes with a sharp knife or instrument , from all other
parts the fl:-sh was cut, and nothing left but bare
bones. God only knows whether they did not this be-
fore life was extinct, as-the struggle with him had been
long and dreadful ; his arms were extended, and were
speared through the wrists to the ground."
The scene of this horrible narrative was a place
called Mustharn.

BLACKWALL RAILWAY.—Some portions of
the line were flooded by the overflow of the Thames on
Monday, and the trains were stopped for a time. No
damage, however, was done, and as a proof of the excel-
!Nit manner iu which the line has been constructed we
can state that the trains now go as usual, and that the
numb sr of passengers is as great as ever.
THE MOH TlDE.—During the extraordinary
high tide which was experienced yesterday afternoon,
much alarm was fylt by the emigrants, in the Emigration
Depot, Grove-street, Deptford, three hundred of whom
arc now waiting fl.r shipment to New Zealand) for the
safety of their property. Owing, however, to the admir-
able exertions of Mr. E. 11. Mears, the proprietor, and
his assistants, it appears that the water was prevented
from snaking its way either into the house or the build-
ings appropriated for the baggage, although the Dock-
yard in front was completely flooded and damaged to a
considerable extent, as well as the adjoining houses.
On the night of Thursday last a man, wha ap-
peared to be under the influence of liquor, went into the
Cricketers public-house' on the Staines road, near
Hounslow, and inquired of the landlord if he could be
accommodated with a bed for the night. lie was an-
swered in the affirmative, and while there, the landlord
observing soizething very odd in his behaviour, from his
declaring that his name was Julius Cscsar, that he was
related to the lloyal and had been present at
the marriage of the Queen and Prince Albert, and was
going to Windsor to be in attendance at the accouche-

anent of her Majesty ; and seeing that be was accom-
panied by two or three persons of very suspicious ap-
pearance, requested him, before going to bed, as
he had money about him, to place it in his care
until the morning, the landlord at the same time adopt-
inc, the caution of calling in a police constable to witness
what he received. The man then placed in Mr.
Strange's hands three sovereigns, three shillings in sil-
ver, a book, and some papers tied up in a canvas hag,
The next morning the man got up and took breakfast,
after which he asked the landlady for his money, which
she gave him, and told him she would go up stairs and get
his papers ; but he said," Oh, never mind, I will make you
a present of them ;" and before she could return down
stairs with them the man bad left the house and has not
been since heard of, although every search has been
made for him. Upon examining the papers they were
found to consist of vouchers for monies in the Bank of
England, in the name of " Julius Ceaser." One of them
for a life annuity of 381. odd, which had been purchased
for 67T/. Three per Cent. Consuls, was dated the "14th of
October, 1841," (Thursday last); the brokers' names are
"Kitchen and Harrison, No. 18, Threadneedle-street."
Among the papers was also a certificate to be signed by a
magistrate in case the party entitled to the money should
be unable personally to attend to receive his dividends,
and was filled up with the name of" Julius Ceaser, coach-
.maker, Eghant, Surrey."
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 18.—During the whole
of last night it blew a heavy gale of wind from S.W.,
the few outward-bound ships at Spithead and the Mother-
bank rode the gale out in safety. A melancholy and
fatal accident occurred between the hours of 11 and 12
last night, u hich has thrown a perfect gloom over this
place :—Ensign Rushbrooke, attended by. a corporal
I named Williams of the 32d Regiment (to which they both
belonged) were on the detached guard in the Dock-
yard, and in going the usual night-rounds, both these
poor fellows, owing to the darkness of the night, fell
into the dock and were drowned ; the bodies were
dragged for at any early hour this morning and found.
Ensign Rushbrooke was a very young man, and I un-
dentand but a short time in the army ; he is a son of
Colonel Rushbrooke, M.P. for Suffolk. The Styx,
steam-frigate, Captain Vidal, arrived yesterday for the
pnrpose of embarking Sir Charles Bagot for Canada.
The Britannia, 120, Captain Mansell, is hourly expected
at Spithead from the Mediterranean.
THE NORTHERN WHALE SHIPS.—DUNDEE,
OCT. 16.—8 y the arrival of the Princess Charlotte at this
port to-day, the success of the fishery 15 reported as
having been extremely deficient. The above vessel left
the ice on the 21st of September last, bringing a carp
of four fish and sixty tuns of oil. The condition of the
ling other ships tI intliose seas is reported by the sCom-
mander to be as fUilirNS—viz., Alexander, three fish,
thirty-eight tuns of oil ; Caledonia, clean ; Truelove,
four fish, ninety butts; Abram, one ditto; Lord Gambier,
one ditto; Lady Jane, clean; Chieftain, three fish.
ACCIDENT ON TIIE GIIENT AND BLIUS4BLEI
It.mnoAD. .
_we have often noticed with uneasiness
a
dangerous practise of the railway conductors—that of
passteg from ono carriage to another while the trains
are in rapid movement. A fatal accident happened on
Saturday in consequence of this fool-hardy habit. One
of the conductors in a train travelling from Ghent to
Brussels fell on while passing along the side of the car-
riages and had both his legs cut off by the wheels, which
welly over him.--Brussels Paper,

HOLBORN BRIDGE VIADUCT
TO THE EDITOR 0.? THE SUN.
SIR—I read with much pleasure, and perfect appro-
bation, your objection to a toll in the heart of the city.
It would be a greater nuisance than I.,ennington-gate
on a Derby day, and that all the year yetn:d. But be
under no apprehension ; the plan requires AO Act of
use of
Parliament, and I shall demonstrate to the .tli.
Commons that it is a piracy, and a BAD one, of if pert
of plans I have had before Government, the Par!is-
mew, and the City authorities for several years, for
ti,e improvement of Railways, to prevent the possibility
of engines and carriages running off the rails, and for
the erection of Colonnade Railways in London, to clear
the streets of the omnibus nuisance, and other evils.
Therefore, whatever may be the ultimate fate of my
plans, I rely on the justice and common sense of Par-
liament not to let Mr. J. A. Galloway's pira:Y Pass
into a law.—l am, Sir, your obliged servant, and On-
stant admiring reader, IL T. WEBB TURGIN.
18, Wyndam-street, Bryanston.square, Oct. 17.

DISTRESS AT LEEDS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stn—The transcript you gave in The Sun, on the
11 th inst., from the Leeds Times, is indeed heart-
stirring. It diaressed me, as one would suppose it
could scarcely fail to do any breast of common hu-
manity, deeply; and an immediate contribution for-
warded to the place was a token of the sincerity of the
feeling. But, wide and indisputable as the suffering is,
must we not, on a little calm consideration (and, truly,
such is the magnitude and momentousness of the sub-
ject, that it demands consideration equally patient and
intense), come to the painful conviction that the cause
has not been wholly in external circumstances ? That
the parties, if they will look home, must admit they
have themselves more or less to blame. However
work may have become short, provisions become dear,
and wages been reduced, must not multitudes of fami-
lies confess that, when in the receipt of ample earnings,
a large part was squandered that would now form a
reserve ?—that pounds have been thrown away in drink,
and others, perhaps (by the wife, perhaps), in foolish
dress or ineulgences, that they now vainly look for in
the shape of food and necessary clothing Do not the
palpable habits of artizans almost everywhere show us
how fearfully they are agents of their own woes ? If it
be grievous on any one occasion to see God's means
prostituted thus to the mischief of the body, disquiet of
the mind, and general distress, what must be the accu-
melaeod sin and misery, where it is the practice, week
after week, by hundreds of parents, in n_ thousand
places ? And the consequences are inevitable. And
among the many lessons of the present crisis, there is
none more imperative the working classes can draw for
themselves than that, henceforth, intemperance, lavish-
ness, and folly, shall not, by their system of acting, lay the
foundation for overpon oring want and distracting misery.
With the truest commiseration for them, and a pa-
tient eye of attention to the continuance of their embar-
rassments, I am, Sir, your frequent reader. S.

A very extraordinary and interesting circumstance
occurred during the last week in connection with the
operation now going on upon the Royal George, at Spit-
head, under the directions of Colonel Pasley. Amongst
other relics brought up from " the deep waters," from
the wreck of that unfortunate ship, was the collar of a
dog, with the name of the owner, Thomas Little, as well
as that of the animal, " Victory," engraved on it. It ap-
pears that this collar has been recognized by one of the
oldest inhabitants of the town as the property of his
father, who was one of the many on board the vessel at
the tine she went down, but who, more fortunate than a
number of his ill-fated companions, was saved from a
watery grave, although his faithful animal perished.
The party in question is named John Little, who has
been long known as the owner of a passage-boat which
plies between Portsmouth and Wootton- bridge, in the
Isle of Wright, and whose brother was during the long
period of 30 years in the Customs at this Port, but is
now in Liverpool. The aunt of Little, Mrs. Harding, is
also a resident in this town, and knew the dog well from
its being a constant visitor at her mother's house. A
sister of Captain Little is also living, who is named after
the three wives of the father—viz., Mary Ann Eleanor,
one of whom was on board the Royal George with her
husband, and was picked up dead a few days after that
melancholy event. Thomas had 23 children, three only
of whom are now in existence. He sailed with the pre-
sent Captain Burford, Hydrographer to the Admiralty,
in the Phaeton frigate, then commanded by Captain
Stopford, now Admiral Stopford, the hero of Acre. Lit-
tle was then a boatswain, and was present in the action
of Admiral Cornwallis, as well as in several other en-
gagements, and died in the Phaeton during the command
of Captain Stopford. We are informed that the present
John Little has applied to Colonel Pasley for the collar,
as an interesting relic, and a reminiscence of the extra-
ordinary and providential escape which his father expe-
rienced from sharing the melancholy fate so many met
with in that ship ; and we are happy to hear that the
application has been complied with in a manner which
does infinite credit to the feeling heart of Colonel Pas-
ley, inasmuch as thousands would be proud in possessing
the slightest material which might be recovered from the
wrech at any price.—Hampshire Standard.
ETON COLLEGE, OCT. 18.—The Duke of
Buckingham has just made a present of a splendid bust
of the late Lord Grenville, executed by Nollekins, to
Eton College. Lord Canning has also presented the
Conks, with a bust of . his father, which is likewise to be
placed in the type, -school;
made a present of a bust of his uncle—the Minister,
Lord North. Almost all the Prime Ministers of the last
century were Eton men. Sir Robert Walpole and Lord
B,lingbroice commenced their animosities, as boys tog-e-
-ther, at Eton, where, it is recorded, they had " more
than one good stand-up fight." Lord Chatham, Lord
North, and Charles James Fox•were all distinguished as
scholars at this ancient seat of Jearning. Bishop Pearson
and the poet Waller, Fielding, the poet Gray, the scholar
Purson, and Bishop Sherlock, were also Eton men. At
a later period Eton can boast of having produced the
Duke of Wellington, Mr. Canning, Lord Wellesley,
Lord Grenville, Lord Grey, and Mr. Hallam.

Lord Ellenborough, dovernor-General of India,
intends to proceed to the seat of his government by the
overland mail, and not by her Majesty's ship Cambrian,
Captain Chads, as was originally intended.
Last night, an Irishman was brought to the
Polic2-office on a charge of being drunk' and disorderly
in the street. The poor fellow, on being brought to
the office, supplied sufficient evidence of the charge ;
and was, of course, ordered to be confined fur the night.
Oa searching his person, one of !Father Mathew's tem •
prance medals was found suspended round his neck.—
Edinburgh Paper.
We rejoice to be enabled to announce that the
great hardship of the regulation by which privates of
the Royal Marines have hitherto been required to serve
two years at head-quarters for one year's time for
pension, has been fully recognised by the Board of
Admiralty, and that it will be forthwith abolished.
Anothr crying injustice and fruitful source of heart-
burning to these gallant, steady, and well-conducted
fellows, will also be removed at the same time. They
are in future, in common with every regiment of the
line, to be supplied with great coats. The Board of
Admiralty is understood to have offered the Board of
Ordnance 1,0001. a-year for this purpose ; but it re-
quires 1,506/. There can, however, be no doubt that
this necessary portion of their attire will in future be
provided them.—United Service Gazette.
FORTIFYING HONG KONG.—It is stated in
the Indian Papers, that the engineer's estimate for for-
tifying- Hong Kong amounts to the enormous sum of
5,000,0004
The disposal of a highly-valuable property at
Tredegar Iron Works, Monmouthshire, is announced,
and the mode proposed is a species of lottery, the price
fixed •
of each share being at la
The property is j
divided into lots. One prize is no less value than 4,000
guineas, this being the Tredegar Arms Inn, Tredegar.—
. Cambric/71.

THE GARRISON OF PARIS.--The commerce
states, that the garrison of Paris is composed of 25,000
men, which, added to the troops employed at the forti-
fications, raises the number to 50,000. "With such a
force," observes the Commerce, " Paris ought to be well
guarded."
SUICIDE.--Yesterday the neighbourhood of
High-street, St. Giles, was painfully excited in con-
sequence of the report that Mr. Ramsay, a licensed
victualler, who for above thirty years was proprietor of
the Angel, High-street, had committed self-destruc-
tion. The report proved but too true. About ten
o'clock the previous evening Mr. Ramsay, who had been
previously serving at the bar, left to go into his bed-
room. As he was there a considerable time one of the
servants proceeded to the room, the door of which he
found locked inside ; a. smith was sent for, when on fore-
nig the door Mr. Ramsay was found laying on the floor,
with his head nearly separated from his body. A razor
was laying by his side. Mr. Bartlenaore, a medical gen-
tleman, was sent for, who stated that life had been ex-
tinct some minutes. Mr. Ramsay has for some weeks
past appeared very melancholy, and a late law-suit, it is
said, added to his despondency. In his room were found
nearly 3001. in gold, and a cheque for above 4001. In-
formation of the distressing occurrence has been for-
warded to the Coroner.
CENTENARY OF GARRICK'S FIRST AP-
PEARANCE ON THE STAGE, YESTERDAY.—Yesterday,
in the year 1741, the " British Roscius," as he was em-
phatically termed, made his first appearance as " a gen-
tleman who had never before appeared on any stage.'
From the copy of the play-bill that announced his first
appearance at Goodman's Fields, Oct. 19, 1741, he was
advertised to enact the part of King Richard 111. in
that play of Shakspeare's.
The following clever ruse is related by the
tobse.
Droit :—" A few-days ago a Belgian smuggler,
lz byer,
horse and its contraband lading had been s
aCustom-housend
proposed,
fora o officers oferreswa r r,
of
es he was
de' for
tios-leena-dAtrht;is'
they to-
bacco,wou
makingld be
itablea ctoonedffi
teicotn nh
however,
extensiveerseizureat
his personal se-
known to the smugglers, he sh.ou towaen.stpottowthheerme
The precaution ap-
curity, go with them in disguise.
pearing to bo a proper
him, and he was mounted on a
house officer was lent to
officers, also on horseback,
the
seizure.
horse to accompany
On arriving at an inn in
who were to make the seizeusraid
he was afraid to go one,. the the uniform of a Custom-
, the village of Hermies, h
said
but pointed out a barn
'the tobacco was lying,
wait for theta. They all
aat tint ears ,otmloelsedt
dhthiesetsmanh should be theeerrewecohourl
dsaiis
thatea in the stable of the inn, and the two
horses
on foot to make their capture. Dur-
ingthe smuggler saddled the best horse of
erioief4:eseher:
c. e
rode a with it.. It is needless to state
pot fiuetc uttehhpr :e proceeded r oea
nede
thatth
loot a horse without finding any tobacco."