The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-18 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK MAGI3TP.ACY.

Sir M. Wool) presented the follotring report to the
Court :--
To the Wors'aipful the Police Committee of Aldernacn.
Gentlemen,—ln obedience to your order directing
ute to prepare a ease iu relation to this City's jurisdic-
tion in Ole torm and borough of Southwark, and to lay
the same before the Attornev:and Solicitor-Generals,
Sir William Follett, and the usual City Law Ofieers
for their opinion, I have prepared a case, and sub-
mitted it to Counsel accordingly. And I have the
honour to annex hereto a copy of their mpinion thereon,
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient humble servant,
CHARLES PEARSON, City Solicitor.

COPY OF COUNSEL'S OPINION.

Ist. We think the attendance of a Ttlegistre.te at
the Town Hal!, Southwark, can be discon tinned with-
out prejudice to the rights and privileges. which the
Corporation enjoy under their various charters.
2d. We think that the Aldermen, as Magistrates
of Southwark, have no right to act in the case of sum-
mary convictions for offences under the statute 2 acid 3
Victoria, c. 47 (see sec. 76 of that Act,) and inasmuch
as by the 12th section all summonses and warrant's to
be issued in any proceeding in the Metropolitan Po lice
District, must be. executed by a constable of the
police force and no other, and the Alderme►
as Magistrates, appear to have no control over the police '
force, their power to act effectively as Magistrates out
of Sessions in criminal proceedings appears to be
virtually taken away by that section. Subject, however,
to these exceptions and reductions, we think the
Aldermen have still the power to act as Justices of the
Peace in Southwark, to attend the Quarter and Petty
Sessions, and act as before in cases respecting the
Poor -laws, and in civil matters.

31. We think they would not he compelled by mull—
(Nous to act, except in those eases in which the Justices
cf the Police Courts ate not in the habit of acting.
4th. In those cases excepted in the 42d Section, the
clerks will still have a right to take feed.
sth. In civil proceedings by the Magistrates, their
own officers may still move and execute their summonses
and orders-

6th. At every Criminal Court in the district the
police arc required to attend, but there appears to be no
power given to the Aldermen as Justices of the Nab*
to order their attendance on them.

7th. The Aldermen as Justices of the Pence, in
Southwark, have certainly acquired no new power under
the recent Act.

J CAMPBELL,
THOS. WILDE,
CHAS. C. LAW. &corder.
\V. W. FOLLETT.
JOHN MIREHOUSE, Corn.-Sorg.

MURDER AT ISLINGTON.

Daring tile whole of ye-stcrday the neighbourhood of
Islington was involved in the utmost excitement, in eon-
seque::ce of the discovery of a most inhuman murder,
perpetrated cn the person of Mr. John Templeman, an
elderly gentleman, who resided in an obscure cottage
in 1.,13 cock's-fields, at the back part of Liverpool-road, .1
adjacent to liarnsbury-park, Islington.
It appears that for some years past the deceased
gentleman occupied the above cottage, and resided by
hirniell in a most retired manner, occasionally amusing
himself with his garden, consisting of an acre of land.
His residence was surrounded by numerous other de-
tached cottages, commanding a view of the Hampstead
and Highgate hills, and is romantically situated. He
was possessed of an income arising out of some houses
belonlino' to hint in the neighbourhood of Sonters-
town, and by all accounts was in the habit of boasting
of and exhibiting his money to his neighbours, which it
is said led to the catastrophe which has so fatally en-
sued. On Monday last he proceeded to Somers.tows
for the purpose of collecting his rents, and on his return
home in the afternoon he sent for a. woman who lives
adjacent to his cottage, and whom )ae occasionally em-
ployed as charwoman, for the purpose of procuring
some necessary articles, and to request her son-in-law,
whom be also employed to job in his garden,
to attend upon him, and upon. her arrival at the cot-
tage she found the old gentlemuxi taking tea by him-
self, when he laughed, and told her that he had been to
collect all his rents, and he had. been paid all in silver
instead of gold ; and at the same time telling her that
her would be in bed at six o'clock that evening. The I
woman, whose name is Thornton, left the cottage and
returned home ; and yesterday morning, at about eight
o'clock, she sent her daughter with some writing paper,
which the deceased had requested her to purchase for
him, when she knocked at the door, and called him
by name, bat not receiving any answer, she returned
and informed her mother, who proceeded to the cot-
tage of the deceased, and looked through the parlour
window, and not seeing him there as was his usual custom
prior to that hour, she proceeded to the window of his bed
room, which is upon the same floor, there being only
two rooms in the cottage ; and upon elevating herself
upon a stool, she peeped through the window which she
pushed open, and she perceived the bed all tumbled, and
the pillows and bed-clothes saturated with blood ; and
on stooping over she was horror-stricken at beholding
the deceased stretched upon the floor, with both his
bands tied with a cord ; a bloody atocAing was tied
round his head, so as to bandage his eyes ; the floor and
carpet were covered with blood, and the chwoeased's head
was literally dashed to pieces, and he 'was a corpse.
Mrs. Thornton neglected to give any infor nation to the
police, and delayed telling anybody of the
discovery she had made, until the a rrival home
of her son-in-law at eleven o'clock, who is entployed as a
private watchman at Sadler's Wells Theatre, when
instead of giving information of the murder to the
police, he was despatched to make the circumstances
known to the deceased's grandson, Mr. Herbert Tern-
, pleman, so!icitor, ot. Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square.
In the course of the afternoon, a foreigmx of the
name of Capriani was brought before the Magistrates
at Hatton-garden, suspected of having been,. 'amplicatsd
in the murder, and after a lengthened exailai nation he
was remanded to a future day, in order that. ;a more full
investigation of all the particulars of the In arder might
be made.