The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-19 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS. •
GROUP LXVII.
This Committee met for the first time to-day. bob
Members present—Sir J. T. Buller (Chairtnan), ca
:nners; Hon. G. H. Cavendish, Mr. New degate, and r
M
foligivi!g
tam Pluinridge, to whom have been referred the
Bills:
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, and Glasgow, Paige-'
marnock, and Ayr (No. 1).
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, and Glasgow, paisley,'
marnock, and (Ayr (No. 2).
North British (No. 2).
Caledonian (Branches to Canobie, &c.) CAP
Caledonian (Lease of part of Glasgow, Dumfries, ag-
A
lisle Railway).
Ayrshire and Galloway.
On inquiry it was found that the only Bill in a position t°
go forward was the
AYRSHIRE AND GAZZOITINZ ors
It being the only one in which the Railway Con
had as yet reported. he Colt'
This being an unopposed it was agreed by t-_„- d the
mittee to refer it to the Chairman of Committees,
Aiernbers who brought in the Bill. er
After entering the appearances on behalf of the otb
with the titions aainst them, when it jS
The Co petitions
mittee adjourned till Thursday next,
expected all the reports will be ready.

GROUP V. Present'
The Committee met this morning at twelve..., Gore?
Lord H. Vane (chairman.), Hon. M. Sutton, Hon. .2"1.
Mr. Rice, and Sir E. Elmer. virooll-.-1
LONDON 11. ND SOUTH-WESTERN
ING THEREOF, ETC). gor
Counsel for this Bill, Mr. Austin, Mr. Hill, and fir'
agents, Messrs. Dorrington and Co. Said 616
Mr. AUSTIN in opening the merits of the Bill, woo
object of it was to widen that part of the Setitb".upetirtil
line extending from Nine Elms to the the eee
with the Richmond line at Falcon-bridge 013 0 thii
hand, and to Hungerford-bridge on the other,l,,,e fees
four lines of rails might be laid'down to meet
increase of traffic which would press upon that PIOOOO the
the ON
line. The cost of that would b
i about 24,0004 an vie eV
opposition likely to be made to t would arise trout
prietors in the neighbourhood of Falcon-bridge. 010
of
Mr. Locke, the engineer of the company, m tug!, the Ito,
his examination proved the amount of estimate r•-04 te•
miles of two additional lines of rail to be 2-10°Th.1311_ .112
property about Falcon-bridge interfered with by
...L.—, en •
be of no other importance than to give the evinerinisted.'"
for-compensation. The York-road Station was es"..-
.78,000/. land cost, and 40,000/. cost of erection. t
Mr. Bovii.L, on:the. part of the proprietors ise.eroft-'
bridge, cross-examined the witness; but immerlenniosio
wards intimated that he would notpersitt fn 13° '
to the general Bill. ved:lb•
The CHAIRMAN then declared the iireamble
_.„//b1
the Committee proceeded to go through the cisusaiirOw
with some amendments, were agreed to; and the e. ,
announced that he would report the Bill the Hope

MURDER AT NC RWOOVii• stlie
MURDER OF A WIFE AND CHILD, VD
CIDE OF THE MURDER'L,,,:..,,t;sis
Yesterday (Sunday) morning, about halequrrei,
o'clock, the quiet inhabitants of Lower Igorwood).no otta
were thrown into a state of alarming consterna%rdeo
excitement in consequence of a most frtghtful
which had been.committed by a man named Jehildipg
aged 21 years, an artificial flower-maker, ra!'to
High-street, Lower Norwood, who succeeded lo
met
the lives of his wife and child, and afterwards enn3,,,ircettr
self-destruction with the same instrument, under .
stances of the most painful and awful character.. ,100
'0 P aft
Its ppears from the subjoined particulars II- the IS":
been gleaned from an authentic source, that
riiib bU
Young, who is twenty-one years of age, 1iv,.,.„d t 001
wife, Jane Young, aged twenty, and an in,*" 07
Jane Bolton Young, aged only two months, at ..tificis'
shop in the High street, where they exhibited
he,:a bietl
flowers, &c., for sale. The murderer YOlll4lO often
of weak intellect for some time past, which
attracted the notice of the trades The
tradespeople in the Tbe'd
who were frequently speaking of his peculiar ali° ;ion es
is no doubt that they had suffered great Priva ersler
distress, from the state of the house and the g
pearance of the victims and the murderer. grtisePh
Shortly after six o'clock police-constable
siden ce,
Armstrong, 278,P, was going off duty to his 1:ehat tee
near the scene of the dreadful tragedy, but at 'owl
nothing attracted his attention, but whilst on golos
himself he was alarmed at the cry of Murder Slit sad •
screams. He instantly ran out partially dress, A d
saw another constable named Robert Archeri;e.
they
hastening towards Young's house. BY theistst neigh
had reached the place several of the innewrso, sow
hours were running from_ the front of the prers to goetr ..
as the officer Archer proceeded to the dooroarsme on a
fain the-cause of the alarm, the man Young.c and`
the threshold, with his hands covered with hlt_n°,, e
table knife in the left hand, also.smeared with -fr . o con'-'
for a moment stood transfixed to the spot, ita%nd fool"
stables r)
seeing him armed with such a weapon,
ing what had taken place from their previous kna,-.„ itito
of him, they drew their truncheons and followed brow
the houSe. lie rushed upstairs to the first fluor, sou„,,fid
the officer reached the first landing-place a tnostreso, •
spectacle presented itself. The lifeless body ch,'„„iy;
Young lay with her head almost severed from her es.---14,!
she was lying ip a pool of blood, which had streasi.j.
from the wound completely down the stairs. lien
he
was' on the top step and her feet were in the bed
room. They pursued htm into the front room, and o'
fore they had time to secure .him he sharpened ill!,
knife by rubbing it up and down the stonewor*
round the,fireplace, and stood:before the looking gh's* .
where he drew the knife across his throat, inflicting!'
most frightful and extensive wound. When the ofnce;,:;
had entered the apartment he was standing in a etonP'o74
position behind the door, and bleeding from the sveno.,
he had inflicted on his neck. Whilst he was Vil3g pd
the floor the officers rushed into the adjoining room seo.
there discovered the lifeless body of the poor infanta
the bed, with its head cut completely off, only hangole
by a small piece of skin at the back. The scene
st
lea
period was one at which the officers felt much tree
and horror-stricken. Several persons by this time. 00
to the aid of the - two constables, who, seeing
Young still alive, and the other unfortunate victio3l:olo
warm, instantly dispatched a messenger with sill P°4004:1,
speed for the aid of Mr. Chapman, surgeon, of 14°'
who attended with promptitude, but when he ~0
the house the mother and child were quite (lest. or
man was still alive, but when the surgeon saw
juries on his person, he was of opinion that hitelrbel,
not survive many minutes. He was placed nn 1 cottick'
but notwithstanding everything medical skter ova
devise and suggest, he died in about acluar in the
hour afterwards. A knife was found on the bed 06
front room, and -the stone work round the stel,:eped
smeared and covered with blood, where he had ebsii"
the deadly weapon. thel
As soon as the officers found the man Young dead ~ac•
immediately forwarded information of the awful er,se.
tilde and deed to the Brixton station of the P diviewoi
and in a very brief space of time Inspector Gifford atbe
a small body of officers repaired to the scene of go
murder, which, b) eight o'clock, was surrounded lot
least 500 persons, who were with great difficulty ,;11,i
back by the police, who took charge of the bodies,„.
Plgo.
the per mises. A constable was also dispatched to .'
use,
laud-yard with the particulars of the horrible -0
which cast a gioop over the whole village. ota
From subsequent inquiry it appeared that the toe.
Young had been under the care of his friends at 0.,40
ney, owing to his mind being somewhat impaired•
rely
on Saturday afternoon he returned in the care Of a /,/or-
tive, who had great trouble with him on the 'MY t° 414
wood in the omnibus. The whole of Saturday neoo-
Mrs. Young sat up at work for the purpose of. is,
plating a small order, and the general su totne'
that Young laid down on the bed with part of his e-- cat
on, and at the time of the murder his wife, rifl3o be
with labour, went to sleep by the side of him, wiles&
awoke at the time above named and comnaittedth.t, spa
ful deed. The fire in the grate was still burnolß'roorn
the few articles on the table which stood in, the.:,"thes
were two cups and an old tea-pot, which W:76,110
they had only ppositie .
recently partaken of tee. 'r .4. left
were removed into the front room, t°
Est
in the charge of police-constable 202 Priv.'
the place.
Towards noon the High-street,
most impassable, and hundreds of persons _ 4 tee
he relatives
from all the surrounding districte, T A was stst'-'
murdered woman are very respeemble, Amu' it r grog
reside in Brunswick-square. It -seems rat e
tale/
that the friends of. the man roling,',Jaiould havet be wee
him to go at large when they were aware tlis d it 10
labouring under some 'aberration -Of intellect, sahuiptie
mower
It°llvp°o°d'urero
suggested by his relations to f •to 100
as get
asylum. the
Upon further search of the bodies the fingers °,,t 'a
left hand of Mrs. Young were much cut, no thedeu."•
endeavouring to save herself from his grasp, and to 0
'struggle. Her death must have been instantaneous fro
the appearance of the injuries, and the poor little inia4
must have died in a few seconds. ' There is little doe'',
but that he meant to make his escape; but when be sow
the police so near he retreated back again into the house'
where he committed suicide.
At ten o'clock last night large crowds of persons were,,,
round the house, and the greatest sympathy seetae
prevail for the murdered female, Who bore a most
13
emplary character for cleanliness and industry.

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THE OPERATIVE BAHERS.—On Saturday
very fully attended meeting of the masters and journey ,0
at
bakers of the metropolis and environs took place a•
Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand; on behalf of the Opero
tive Bakers' Society. Lord Robert Grosvenor, bf•P,
lYj
” %lour
the chair. His Lordship having spoken stronglY w
sio-
of the objects sought by the society, and of the ear
ing movement in general, the meeting was sthire there
several other gentlemen. It was stated that
were in London 2,000 bakers and 9,000 journeymen, the
majority of whom were favourable to a limitation of the.,an
of labour. It was now the general custom for journei_7-Ag
to work from five o'clock in the evening till eleven 0 We..
the next morning, and have very little rest Oa Suodal* alp
solutions deprecatory of the system were carried tioasifir
the
after which thanks were voted to the Noble Lord 111
the chair, and the meeting broke up. . = gootit
ANGLING.—The first clean salmon of this se
llv
100
taken from the Ness, by rod-fishing, was caught in the
of
Pool last Wednesday, by Charles Woodmag, Escl• lieret;eo
in most of the northern rivers, the spring fishing have thilt
very unproductive ; but from the quantity. of spa', "'" ea,
have gone down the rivers in February and March, it e"
pected that the late fishing will make up for the early and
the Beauly Lord Lovat has taken three clean saltrion.hoo,
the Master of Lovat six. From the Blsickwater,
•
Esq., landed the same number within the last fort
fact%
air
THE GAME NUISANCE.—It is a notorious
gamekeepers, When they have g6t a poacher ini3O 4to
"snare, in the way of conviction worryfOr. harm for
penalty. 'The half-penalty system is a direct preni+Pibeit
perjury, and that it has been committed.by keepers and Ida
men (who are'mostly ignorant and impudent) to 0 eh,,..nerc, of
extent is also a notorious fact. These, and a WAWA' g
evils, more,_ through the . game nuioalk.ee Ban-
mintr7 4TI MVP t 4 04, VW*.

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