The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-14 00:00:00

CLERICAL DISPUTE.

Two clergymen of Easter Ross, having the same
surname, the one the parish minister of the Established
Church, the other of the Free Church of Scotland, were
lately brought into collision, by letters intended for one
of them having been sometimes received and opened by
the other. In consequence of a special case of recent
occurrence, the minister of the Establishment complained
to the Sheriff; and demanded an interdict in reference
to the future. A litigation ensued, and the result, which
will be seen from the following judgment of the Sheriff-
Substitute, affirmed by the principal Sheriff, J. Jar-
dine, Esq., advocate, is, we think, interesting and in-
structive :

" Tain, 19th May, 1847.
" The Sheriff-Substitute, having considered the closed
record and productions, finds it admitted that the letter
from the Rev. Mr. Forbes to the petitioner, referred to
in process, and which originally bore the address, The
Reverend Mr. Campbell, the Manse, Tarbet,' was opened
by the respondent; but finds that, when the letter came
into the respondent's hands, the words, the Manse,'
had been deleted from the address, though still plainly
legible, and that the respondent, in the admitted cir-
cumstances in which the said letter was delivered to him,
might naturally have conceived from the address thereon,
as alto ed, that the letter was intended for him ; finds,
that the address originally written on the said letter—
viz., the Manse, Tarbet,' was the proper address of the
petitioner, as being the minister of the parish, and not
that of the respondent ; sad that the respondent is not
entitled to open letters bearing that address ; therefore.
c 'ntinues the interdict ; but, in the whole circumstances
of the case, and particularly in respect of the unaccorn
modating spirit in which both parties appear to the
Sheriff-Substitute to have conducted the negotiation for
an extra-judicial settlement of the point in dispute, as
exhibited in the correspondence produced, finds neither
party entitled to expenses, and decerns.
(Signed) " R. S. TAYLOR."
" Tain, sth July, 1847.

" The Sheriff-Substitute having advised with the
Sheriff, who has considered the two several minutes of
appeal (numbers 20 and 21 of process, together with the
previous proceedings, dismisses bDth appeals, and ad-
heres to the interlocutor complained of.
" R. S. TAYLOR."

" NOTE.—While the Sheriff agrees with the Sheriff-
Substitute in the opinion expressed in his note as to the
unaccommodating spirit' displayed by these two reve-
rend gentlemen, in a matter which, by a little forbear-
ance, might surely have been adjusted without legal
proceedings, he cannot help regretting such a spirit in
those whose peculiar duty it is to inculcate Christian
charity and forbearance on all who enjoy the benefit
of their ministration ; and he hopes he may be forgiven
for observing that moral duties are alway enforced with
most effect when precept is illustrated by example.
(Signed) 64 J. J."

GERMAN LEGENDS of the DEVIL.
In many countries of Germany there exists monu-
ments which tradition attributes to the devil. Near Al.
tenburgh is a rock, which the united efforts of five
hundred men could not move, the devil put it on his head
for a hat, and carried it in triumph through the fields.
In the church of Gorlar, there is a hole in the centre of
the wall which can never be filled up. The Abbot of
Isulda and the Bishop of Hildisheim were disputing
about precedence, and so great was their pride, that they
came to blows in the church. The devil entered by this
hole in order to prevent any reconciliation and keep alive
the rage of the combatants. Many similar traditions,
current in other countries, at once present themselves ;
Ireland has its Devil's Bit, its Devil's Punch-bowl, &c.
But these legends of the devil seem to offer to view a
singular feature of the human mind:—the way in which
it can caricature an object of fear, render it absurd and
grotesque, without at the same time trembling one de-
gree the less before its own ludicrous creation. The
devil of the middle ages is a being tricked, played upon,
bargaining for a soul as a farmer for an acre of land,
and, strangely enough, always keeping faith, always
strictly adhering to his part of the compact, while monk
and peasant make it their boast to overreach and outwit
him. The malice attributed to him is in little keeping
with the simplicity which makes him lose in almost every
transaction his gold and his pains. Like some mighty
crag, around which the clouds grope and shape
into many a grotesque form; the fearful adversary
of man, seen through the legends of the middle ages,
appears no longer, as in the awful colouring of Scrip-
ture, a being whose mysterious power is only surpassed
by his soul-destroying malignity. Who would imagine
that the term Old Nick applied in derision to Satan,
had in its first origin a far different meaning, borrowed
as it is from the title of an evil genius among the an-
cient Danes ? Keysler mentions a demon worshipped
by the ancient Germans and Danes, under the name of
Nocca or Necken, styled in the Edda, Nikur, which be
derives from the German ungen, answering to the Latin
necare, to slay, kill, or hurt.
Countless are the legends in which Satan is repre-
sented as cheated and foiled by some clumsy artifice.
When the cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle was building,
money was wanting, and the burgomaster was obliged to
suspend the work, to the great dismay of the citizens,
who took pride in the rising church. The devil came to
their assistance ; he proposed to finish at his own ex-
pense the building, on condition that the first living
creature that entered it should be his. The bargain
is struck, the work begins, the devil's money builds
the church, and soon it is completed ; not a
pane of glass, not a gilded cornice left un-
finished. Now comes the point, who is to pay
the devil ? Nobody seems particularly anxious to
be the man. The bells were rung, a great holiday
given out ; all in vain, not a soul would go near
the church ; the priests themselves kept at a respectful
distance, and those who had mortal sin on their con-
science would not go within sight of it. At length a
senator of the town, a man of sense, and ever since
venerated as a saint, devised a mode of outwitting the
devil. He had a wolf caught in the forest, and brought
on Sunday morning to the door of the church ; the
hells were rung, the great door was thrown open, and
two men let loose the wolf into the body of the church,
where the devil, who was lying in wait, seized upon
him ; but suddenly perceiving that he had got nothing
but a wretched wolf, he shook the brazen gate of the
temple with such fury that be broke it. The next day
the priests entered the church in full procession, and the
people quietly flocked in to prayer.
We meet another story, as creditable to the devil's
simplicity of character. A peasant of Hesse was in
great want of a barn, but could not afford to go to the
expense of erecting it. One day while walking in the
fields, and turning in his mind how he could accomplish
his object, he saw an old man coming towards him, who
said, " I know what is upon thy mind, and I undertake
to build the barn between this and to-morrow morning
at cock-crow, if thou, on thy part, will give me a trea-
sure which is thine, though as yet thou knowest not of
it ; if the cock crow before the barn is finished, I
shall have no claim upon thee." The peasant who
knew very well all his possessions, thought he had made
a very good bargain, and run' in delight to tell it
to his wife ; but his wife said to him, " Unhappy
one! What hest thou done? lam pregnant! This is
the treasure the devil spoke of, and thou hast given up
our child to him." Meanwhile the devil has set to work;
thousands of labourers hew the stones and saw the
beams. In a few hours the foundation of the barn is
laid, and the walls built. Already the doors turn on
their hinges, the shutters are put up and the roof covered
in. Only one or two tiles remained to be added, and it
was still night. The peasant's wife, who had anxiously
watched the progress of the work ran into the poultry-
yard and imitated so well the crowing of a cock, that
instantly every cock awoke and began to crow. The
devil fled in a rage, and never could the tile wanting be
put on; placed there in the day, it was taken away at
night by some invisible hand.—Sliarpe's Magazine.

ANOTHER ASTRONOMICAL
DISCOVERY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—l beg leave to make to your astronomical
readers the earliest possible announcement of a verifi
cation I have been enabled to make of the existence of
a satellite of the planet Neptune, my suspicion of which
was announced in my letter to you, published in the
Times of the 14th of October last.
At about a quarter before 2 o'clock on the morning of
yesterday, I viewed the planet with the 20-foot equa-
torial, when it appeared in the field accompanied by some
smaller stars, whose position I shall endeavour to de-
scribe. The planet was north—following a star of the
10th or 11 th magnitude, which I shall call (a), at an
angle of 28.7 degrees with the parallel, and distant from
it in right ascension about 11.2 seconds.
A much smaller star (b), perhaps the 12th magnitude,
followed (a) at a distance of 11 seconds, and made an
angle with the parallel northwards of 32.3 degrees.
The planet was, therefore, situated very near to the star
(b), distance by estimation about three diameters of
Neptune, and very nearly south of it, but a little follow-
ing. On the parallel, following (b), and slightly more
distant from the planet, was a far more minute star (c),
which though a very faint object, was yet indisputably
visible. On turning the telescope about the same hour
this morning to the same point of the heavens, no trace
of the minute star (c) could be discovered, and the
planet then occupied a position in the line joining (a)
and (b), and about four-tenths of their distance from (b).
The atmosphere this morning was much less favour-
able, and, indeed, it clouded over before I had time to do
more than ascertain the non-existence of the star (c) is
a veritable satellite of the planet ; and I shall embrace
every available opportunity of observing it, with a view
to ascertain its distance and period of revolution.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM LASSELL.
Starfield, Liverpool, July 9.

GOOD SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—We were the other
dayinformed by a gentleman who had last week jour-
neyed through Moray, Banff, Aberdeen, Kincardine,
Forfar,
and Fife Shires, that the crops in these counties,
never in the memory of man looked more luxuriant.
Our informant states that in many places there is a double
crop. At most of shipping ports as be passed along, he
learned that most of the vessels he saw in harbour and
the offing were laden with foreign grain. At Dundee,
on Friday last, he noticed a large cargo of foreign oats
put up in lots of 400 quarters each, which was slowly
sold by auction at 245. 9d. per quarter. It seems that
the millers of that district, in consequence of having
their granaries and stores stocked, did not appear at the
sale. One of the parties who had bought at the above-
mentioned price, fearing that a further reduction would
soon take place, only offered on the day following his
first purchase, 22s.—Ross-shire Advertiser.
LOOK AT IT AGAIN.—A labouring man of the
parish of Bradworthy was last week working in a field,
and dug up a coin; ho looked at it, and threw it down
thinking it of no value, but from curiosity picked it up
I
again, and on rubbing it found it to be a guinea
James 11., dated 1658. A few years since a guinea of
the same
the same date MIS found in a similar way in

THE HEALTH OF CHELTENHAM
(From the Cheltenham Free Press.)
A most extraordinary representation has been con-
veyed to the world in the reports of the Parliamentary
proceedings in the daily papers, to the effect that
, our
beautiful town—the " Queen of Watering Places •' had
a per centage of deaths greater than in any other town
in England ! How such a mistake could have arisen,
we stop not now to inquire, but it is essential to our
very existence that we should take the earliest oppor
tunity of contradicting and disproving the assertion.
The staple commodity of our town is health ; and
blessed as we are with a salubrious atmosphere, we know
of no town to which invalids may resort with greater
expectation of life than to Cheltenham. It is from the
knowledge of this fact that our town has become the
resort of invalids, who with wasted constitutions flock
here from all parts cf the world, to spend the remainder
of their days amid the repose and other appliances
of health which Cheltenham so pre-eminently affords,
This, of course, to an important extent increases the
per-centage of mortality, the number of deaths being
reckoned, but the statistical tables saying nothing of
the numbers who come here sickly and return to their
homes with recruited health. None but a most perverted
imagination would spy that this is any reflection up on
the healthiness of our town. As well might it be urged
that as a greater proportion of sick persons, while under
the care of medical men, die, compared with the deaths
among a number of healthy persons who have not
thought it necessary to apply fur medical assistance,
that this should be a warning to the sick and infirm'
against ever resorting to medical aid! Any one who
calmly considers the matter must tit once see the utter
want of foundation to such an argument. Even Lord G.
Bentinck must have known it, when, fur :he sake of rais-
ing a laugh against a political opponent, who was strug-
gling against his Lordship and his small knot of Filth-
Conservatives, he uttered his most slanderous " warning to
invalids." With the frogs in the fable, we may say to
his Lordship, " This may be fun to you, but it is death to
us;" aye, and it may be death to those who, while suf-
fering under sickness, are deterred by your jokes from
resorting to a town where above all others they have the
probability of their health being renovated. The popu-
lation of Cheltenham, at the time of the census in 1841,
wits about 31,400 ; it is calculated that throughout the
country the increase of population every year is about
1 per cent.; at this ratio the population of Cheltenham
in 1846 must have been about 33,000. The average
number of deaths in Cheltenham in the years 1844,
1845, and 1846 (which last was a sickly year through-
out the country), was 662. Dividing 33,000, the
number of the population, by 662, the number
of deaths, we obtain the rate of mortality—one in
fifty. Compare this with the rate of mortality of
other towns in 1844, which is the last year to
which we have the complete official returns, and
which was we believe about an average year :—Brighton,
1 in 44 ; Bath, 1 in 41i-; Bristol, 1 in 36 ; Clifton, 1 in
43 ; Worcester, 1 in 42 ; Birmingham, 1 in 361 ; Man-
chester, 1 in 32 ; and Liverpool, 1 in 30, and then say
whether Cheltenham is not pre-eminently healthy. In
all large towns where masses of individuals are assem-
bled together in a confined space, it is hardly possible to
prevent some deterioration in the expectation of life as
compared with that of those who inhabit healthy rural
districts. When, therefore, we consider how large a
number of the lower classes are crowded together in the
badly drained and ill-ventilated portions of the town',
when we consider that in Cheltenham we have a large
Workhouse establishment to which the poor of the
country districts are sent, that we have numerous lodg-
ing houses occupied by vagrants attracted here by her
reputation for charity which the visitors of Cheltenham
have acquired, that we have a general hospital and
dispensary at which the afflicted from the surrounding
neighbourhood are relieved, we are astonished at the
healthfulness of the superior districts to which our
visitors resort, which overbalances all these disadvan-
tages, and gives an average of only twenty deaths among
a thousand persons. We only regret that it is not in
our power to furnish a return showing the rate of mor-
tality in those superior districts alone; we believe it
would challenge comparison with that of any spot on
the habitable globe.

HERRING TRADE.
(From the John o'Groat Journal.)

WICK, JULY I.—Little has yet been done in the fish-
ing.—On Weduesday morning, Donald Bain again
brought ashore a cran ; but attempts made by others
were unsuccessful, until this morning, when the same
individual brought ashore upwards of 12 crans of capital
fish. Another boat had about 7 crans, and another 5.
We believe they have been sold at 265. per barrel, and
part at 245. This has created quite a stir amongst the
fishermen, and a good few will go to sea to-night in con-
sequence. The fishermen inform us that Reiss Bay is
" full" of herrings, but that they are still small, and the
nights are yet rather clear. They are, however, in high
hopes of success at the proper time.
On the 18th ultimo, the first shipment of herrings,
caught by the Belgian boats at Scalloway, was made by
11. N. M. Cerberus, consisting of 90 barrels. On the
22d, the schooner Marie Louise took off 100 barrels for
the same destination—Hamburg ; and several other
shipments have since been made. By advices from Ham-
burg, we learn that the Alarm had arrived, from Stor-
noway, with 202 barrels ; the Albion, from Wick, with
146 barrels, which had been sold at about 255. per barrel.
Up to the Bth ult., 613 barrels of Lews herrings had ar-
rived at Stettin. of which about 280 had been sold. Old
Scotch herrings were selling at about 5i dollars, with
but little demand.

During the past week, GOS barrels of herrings have
been landed here from the Lews, Lochbroom, and Scal-
loway, making a total import, since the 10th of May, of
3,667 barrels. since last report, two vessels have cleared
out, with cargoes for the Continent, consisting of 620
barrels. All the local boats have returned to the Lews,

to make the necessary preparations for the home fishing.
They have been pretty successful. They left some FOC
boats still prosecuting the fishing with considerable suc-
cess. Some of these have made a good season of it, both
in the capture of cod and herrings.
Considerable importations of salt have recently taken
place, and more is daily looked for. Several cargoes of
Norwegian billet-wood have also arrived.

STORNOWAY, JUNE 21.—The fishing, since the 15th
instant, has been rather backward—the fish keeping
out to sea, and in deep water. Unless the present
week is more favourable, the greater portion of
the stranger boats will proceed home. There was
a good fishing at the Sound of rortree, in Skye,
last week--frum six to ten crans per boat, of
tine herrings. Captain Setwell, commissioner for
the island of Harris, is, at present, in conjunction with
Government, furnishing all the poor fishermen in that
island with cod and ling fishing materials, so as to en-
able them to make a living, as there is no other employ-
ment for the numerous inhabitants.

ZETLAND.—At Seanoway, for the past week, the
highest boat had 40 trans. Amongst the Belgian crews,
the highest boat, on Friday night, had 50 trans.
These boats had more or less every night, and it may
be safely said that they are taking the meat out of our
mouths.

DESERTIONS FROM THE NAVY.—We have been
informed on undoubted authority, that within the last
five years our men-of-war on the South American
station have lost from desertion above 2,000 seamen, and
it has been ascertained for official purposes that the
American men-of-war on the same stations are
more than half manned with English men-of-war
and merchant seamen. We are likewise in-
formed that the Admiraliy have now under
their consideration an arrangement for increas-
ing the pay of all petty officers in the
navy, and that they are at present in close corres-
pondence with the Port Admirals on the subject.' With
regard to the preference shown by British seamen for
ether than their Queen's service, whilst we deeply
when we consider
onsidtoerathhine
rdeigtfereretnintewenfcapnanyotgwivoenndeirnatthiet,
British
seamen in comparison with the pay given in the
American and other services. Even the Brazilian which
so recently left Plymouth, could find the best English
seamen, who freely entered, when at the same time our
own ships fitted out could not obtain enough hands to
put to sea with. The reason is obvious, and the remedy
simple. The Brazilian gave 31. 12s. per month for
"A. B.'s," the British navy only gave 345. per month
for "A. B.'s." At this moment the St. Vincent, Howe,
Victory, Vengeance, Odin, and Scourge, at Portsmouth,
and indeed nearly every ship on the home station want
hands, but how are they to be got when other services
so considerable outbid us in the desire to possess them ?
—Shipping Gazette.
PROSPECTS OF THE GROUSE SEASON.—We regret
to have to state that an epidemic has been prevalent
in the moors this season, which has caused great
havoc among the grouse and other hill birds. It
broke out soon after the hatching season, and is
generally attributed by the shepherds to something in-
jurious in the young shoots of the heath, the bilberry,
and other mountain plants upon which the grouse feed,
arising from some atmospheric influence last year
similar to that which affected the potatoes. The disease,l.o
which attacks old and young birds indiscriminately,
lasn and
the nature of croupe, or inflammatory sorell
y prevalent
cuts off the birds in a short time. It is c
already caused, the ensuing season is p
on high and low grounds, and from t.heeirueenaatele
for many years.
tost"becttiohne
ago two hives
worstp erifio,
—Perthshire
sportsmen
Courier. which has been
few days
CASE FOR LAWYERS.—
of bees, situated in this neighbourhood, but about half a
rd and the other westward, when both
its way northward, Lively about the same time. The one swarm was making
met at right angles. On getting disentangled, the one
was augmented by about two-thirds, while the other wat
p Ep
Ao proportion.—Elgin oßnm. —s g CE uGr eor
L. G
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the south side of the harbour
ed
is the extraordinary rock noticed by Cook, which forms
xe t Atoh
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Y OF
KERGUELF.N ISLAND.—On
so conspicuous an object in his accurate drawing
of this place. It is a huge mass of basalt
much more recent than the rock on which it
rests, and through which it seems to have burst in
a semi-fluid state. It is upwards of five hundred
feet thick, and rests upon the older rock at an
elevation of six hundred feet above the level of the sea ;
and it was between these rocks of different ages that the
fossil trees were chiefly found, and one excee-ling seven
feet in circumference was dug out and sent to England.
Some of the pieces appeared so recent that it was neces-
sary to take it in your hand to be convinced of its fossil
state, and it was most curious to find it in every stage
froth that of charcoal lighting and burning freely when
put in the fire, to so high a degree of silicification as to
e
scratch glass. A bed of shale, several feet in Weknss,
which was found overlaying some of the fossiltrees,
t naa
w
probably prevented their carbonization h
lava poured over them. A still moreisthe numerous
extraordinary
feature in the geology of this island
seams of coal, varying in thickness from a few inches to
four feet, which we found imbedded in a trap rock.—
R0.:..9's Voyage of .Discorery

CORONER'S INQUEST.
Yesterday an inquest was held by Mr. Baker, st the
George the Fourth public-house, Vincent-street. Old.
street-road, on view of the body of Caroline Lawson, EL
widow, found dead in a cab, and upon suspicion of causing
whose death an Irishwoman named Moriarty, alias Ma.
earthy, is now under remand from Worship-street
Police court.
Several additional witnesses were now examined, and
their testimony tended to render the death of the de-
ceased even more mysterious and doubtful, if possible.
than that before given. It was distinctly proved that
the deceased eas perfectly sober and in sound health
when she quitted her home at four o'clock on Saturday
last; and it did not appear that she bad either seen or
spoken to the woman Macarthy since the preceding
Tuesday (when Macarthy threatened to be revenged
upon her for turning her out of her house, in consee
quence of her nearly biting a lodger's finger off) until
about nine o'clock on Saturday night, when the deceased
entered the house of a publican with whom she Was fl
(painted, in Ilolborn, and was shortly after followed in
there by the prisoner Macarthy, apparently topacify and
get rid of the latter, who was quarrelling with and at•
tempting to strike her; she called for some spirits, but
drank none, and then left with a female friend, and wer t
to another public-house, where they called for a pint of
porter; but as :soon: as it was drawn Macarthy followed
her in again, using most disgusting language, and swear-
in that she was determined to go to the deceased's house
that night, although the latter refused to admit her, and
the deceased accordingly quitted this public-house also,
leaving the beer on the counter, without drinking
any of it, and Macarthy remained behind. It was now
about ten o'clock, and at that time the deceased and
Macarthy entered a third public-house, in Gray's Inn-
lane, kept by a Mr. Jessamy, apparently on somewhat
friendly terms, and there, as deposed by Mrs. Jessamy,
the deceased only drank two very small drops of brans 7
in stateds Smithfield, diluted with water, and left with Macarthy at ten minute
or a quarter past eleven, seeming quite sober then also!
About half an hour or three-quarters after that the tsi a)
ePuddick,
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called
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g:h oasu s e
for some soup and some eatables; but, though Macarthy
devoured her share, the deceased ate nothing, but sat
looking about her, and was shortly afterwards noticed
by Mr. Puddick to be choking or strangling, and alto-
gether so dangerously ill that he carried her out into the
street, and having placed her against the railings, ran in
for a tumbler of water, on his return with which he found •
the deceased lying on her back on the ground, to which
she had just been knocked, with a blow on the back of
the head, by a man who was seen leaning over her, and
suspected to have been attempting to rob her, and he ran
away immediately he was spoken to, and some silver
rolled out of the deceased's bosom. At the time that
these distressing circumstances were occurring to her
friend in the street, the prisoner Macarthy remained in
the eating-house, never once inquiring about or looking
after her, and displayed such heartless indifference to
the woman's fate, that Mr. Puddick ran in, and, re-
proaching her for her conduct, desired that she would
go out and see to her, on which the prisoner exclaimed
that the deceased was an artful —, and nobody could
do her any harm very easily. She did, however, at
length go out, and after shouting for the police, using
vile language, and conducting herself otherwise very in-
decorously, assisted in placing the deceased in a cab,
which a young man named Thomas Gearing, who was
accidentally passing, and recognised the deceased, pro-
cured for the purpose, Gearing taking his seat on the
box with the driver, and Macarthy riding inside with
the deceased. On reaching two streets off the deceased's
residence, the prisoner stopped the cab and got out, and
just before doing so the deceased was observed to be
sitting up in the cab, whether alive or dead was not
known, but on opening the door to lift her out, she
was found to be a corpse, lying at the bottom of the
cab, and with her head doubled up either against or
under the seat opposite that on which she had been
sitting.
The evidence, which was so far as consecutive as could
be expected, only went to prove that the deceased had
partaken of nothing, since she was known to be perfectly
sober at nine o'clock, but two small glasses of brandy,
before spoken of, up to the time of her death ; but
Mr. Coward, the divisional surgeon, now stated that
he had performed a post mortem examination of the de-
ceased's body, and on so doing had found the stomach
nearly filled with porter, and the internal parts very
flaccid and weak, and exhibiting signs of inflammation,
in his opinion produced by the beer which had been
imbibed, and the brain so much surcharged with bloods
that he had no hesitation in saying—as there was no
wound at the back of the head, on which the deceased
had fallen when knocked down by the strange man in
Smithfield, nor sufficient injury on any other part of the
bode to otherwise account for it—that she must have
come by her death from apoplexy.

Several of tho jury wiihsurprise remarked on the
total discrepancy between the medical testimony and
that given by the other witnesses ; and one in particular
drew attention to the discolouration spoken to by the
police as existing round the deceased's neck, as if pro-
duced by fingers ; but
The CORONER said that this discrepancy between the
medical and other evidence was of very frequent occur-
rence, and that it was impossible for non-medical persons
to account for it ; and, having related several instances
of a like description, which would be somewhat ludi-
crous if not arising from such serious occurrences as
death from poison and such like events, expressed his
opinion that the death was involved still in very great
mystery, not unattended with suspicion ; and he would
therefore advise the jury to return an open verdict,
which would still have a field for further investigation.
The jury, after considerable consultation, ultimately
coincided in this advice, and the verdict returned was,
" That the deceased was found dead in a cabriolet, but
by what means she so came by her death there was no
evidence before the jury to prove."
The inquest appeared to excite a great deal of interest,
and ihe house where it was held was in .onveniently
crowded towards its termination.

HORRIBLE MURDER and SUICIDE.
Last evening, between the hours of four and five, a
tearful tragedy was enacted in Hickman's Folly, Ber-
mondsey, by which the whole of the neighbourhood has
been thrown into a state of painful excitement. The
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Griffin's, ann
named Matilda, 19 years of age, had been correspond-
ing with a person named Henry Parker, about 21 years
oeage, who lodged in the same house. During the past
few days Parker had accused the young woman of being
attached to another person, and added, on more than one
occasion, that rather than any one else should gain her
affections, he would lay violent hands, not only on him-
self, but also on her. Nothing particular, however, was
thought by her of the threat held out, but her mother
had frequently cautioned her, and told her if she broke
off the correspondence, to keep away from him, as she
feared he contemplated something dreadful.
During yesterday the young woman was at home
nearly the whole of the day, and Parker was noticed to
go in and out of the house more than usual, yet nothing
transpired during the morning to excite the suspicions
of any party. About a quarter to four o'clock the young
woman was singing, as she proceeded up stairs, the well-
known ditty,

"There's na luck about the house,
There's na luck at a',"
little imagining what was about to follow. About an
hour and a half afterwards the people living in the place
were alarmed by hearing loud screams proceeding from
the upper part of the house. Mr. Cremer, who occupies
the parlour, immediately hastened up stairs, but as he
proceeded along he met Mr. Griffin's little buy, who was
crying out, " Oh, ray sister is killed." On going into
the back attic he discovered an appalling spectacle.
Upon the floor were lying the bodies of Matilda Griffin
and Henry Parker, literally covered with blood, which
was then issuing from both their throats. Mr. Cremer
immediately ran out to obtain medical assistance. In
the space of a few minutes Mr. Martin, surgeon, of Ber-
mondsey, arrived, and at once pronouncedlifeas found
lying by the side of Parker, with which the in both
cases extinct,. A razor covered with blood
_eed had been
N!
that the man first
accomplished. There can be no doubt
cut the young woman's throat, and afterwards added to
his crime that of suicide. d
in answer to an
woman, whilst talking vaMeresi.dC.
" Oh! pretty well; but
inquiry as to how shefelt,
throat cut." She, no doubt, at
I am going to haved
It is not a little remarkable that the unfortunate
the first instance was made by Mrs.
The discovery in
who feeling suspicious daughter ' being
upstairs at her s
Griffin,
s te,irs
rather longer than she expected, went to look
that period allude. tmoysome threat held out by Parker.
after when, on entering the room, she found the,
bodiesas
previously described.
Mr. Superintendent Evans, of the M division of police,
p
Sergeant
uHormsby, and several officers immediately re-
pairedj
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to the place, and it was with the greatest diffi-
cultyp
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the family to enter.
The young man who committed the dreadful deed was
in the linendrapery line, but his place of business could
not be ascertained.
The two bodies have been taken in charge by Mr .
Slow, the coroner's officer, who will keep possession of
them until after the inquest is held,

A report having been circulated that Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Smiths were amongst the parties
likely to contract for the proposed loan of 1,000,9004, to
be raised by the Spanish Government by
.an istme of
Treasury bonds, it is• important to mention_
_without
A.
delay that the statement is wholly erroneous. M
.se,
Smith, who is doubtless the party. intended tokhave been
alluded to, bas no connexion with the ban
and it is, moreover, extremely, doubtful even if he, way
el
momenttisiiteruyla t
suchlon.
dealings as toll damage
the consent of the firm to which he
.belongs, will ulti-
mately
and n idl i
prudence
reputation
The position
ith the
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Itoiciniosemmh:mtcyrioet
hfdah.
ainitlmdtphiscasetuolalf:ty(ti:ot) hurvtilhosistor
lid'
at once have prevented. the possibility of their names
being confounded with such a proceeding.-7'imes.
Smith, Payne,
MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 14 per mille, which, at the English Mint price 'of
31. 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives nn
exchange of 25.50 ; and the exchange at Paris on Lon-
' don at short being 25.40, it follows that gold Is 0.39
per cent. dzarer in Paris than in London. By advices
from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4314 per mark,
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 d. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.81;
and the exchange at Hamburgb on London at short being
13.9, it follows that gold is O. per cent. dearer
in London than in Samburghi