The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-02 00:00:00

OLDHAM ALLIANCE

was proved.
The remainder of the sitting was occupied in going through
the clauses of the Bills the preambles of which had been
proved.
The Committee then adjourned till Friday.

GROUP XXXV.
MANCHESTER AND STOURPORT
(BRANCHES, &c.)

The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock, Mr.
Roebuck in the chair, when they &dared that the preambles
of the Manchester and Southport Branch of the London and
North-Western Company, and the Ormskirk and Rainford
Branch, were proved ; that the Southport Branch of the East
Lancashire line was not proved, but that that of the Preston
Extension was proved.
The Committee then went into the consideration of the
clauses. •

GROUP XLV.
EDXN73I7EGH AND NORTHERN (TAT
IMPROVEMENTS, &c.)

The Committee, Sir Denis Le .a.archant, chairman, met at
twelve o'clock, and were engaged all the morning hearing
evidence against the promoters on the part of the Dundee
Harbour Trustees.
Mr. W. Clark, shipmaster, Dundee, Mr. Boyes, one of the
Harbour Trustees, and Mr. Stephenson, engineer to the
Trinity House, all expressed their disapprobation of the
scheme.

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
The Standing Orders Committee in the House of Lords
sat this day at twelve o'clock in the King's Gallery. Lord
Shaftesbury presided.
LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.
After hearing the usual eviclet.ce the Committee decided
that the promoters of this undertaking had complied with
the standing orders of the House.
CHARD CANAL AND RAILWAY EXTENSION.
A number of witnesses having been called and exatnined
respecting the levels and requisite notices, the Committee
adjourned the further hearing of this case till the 15th day
of June.

WEXFORD AND VALENCIA.
The Committee decided that in this case the promoters had
complied with the standing orders of the House, and that
the Bill do pass.

HORRID MURDER OF A FEMALE
BY A FEMALE.—(THIS DAY.)
It appears from the particulars gleaned on the spot by our
reporter, that the murderess, Mary Ann Hunt, a female
about thirty years of age, but out of a situation, about eight
weeks since engaged the share of an apartment with an aged
female, named Mary Stowell, occupying the back kitchen at
Mr. Baylis's, baker, No. 40, Adam-street West, Bryanstone-
square. This morning,;about half-past four o'clock, akPolice-
constable Battersby, No. 124 D, was on duty in Queen-street,
Edgeware-road, he observed the prisoner walking along with
two bundles, one in each hand. Suspecting that there was
something wrong, as she appeared greatly agitated, he stopped
her, and asked her where she came from, to which she at
first made no reply, but immediately afterwards said
No. 40, Adam-street. The constable repaired there with her
in his custody, and having alarmed the inmates, en pro.
ceeding to the apartment lately occupied by the prisoner and
deceased a horrible sight presented itself. On the floor, front-
ing ,the fire-place, lay the deceased, her head literally
smashed to atoms, wallowing in blood, cold and stiff, a
poker, covered with blood and brains, with which evidently
the diabolical crime had been committed, lying by her side.
A thick piece of rope was round her neck, tied in a knot,
from which it would appear that the prisoner had first at-
tempted to strangle her while in her sleep, but her efforts
being ineffectual, she had had recourse to the act above
described.
At half-past eleven o'clock the prisoner, a masculine-
looking female, was placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlinson,
at Marylebone Police-court, when the following evidence
was adduced, the magistrate having in the first ins,ance
asked her if she wished ans friend to be sent for inisntgta,itmNevdehiatloes
obtain legal advice, to which she replied in the negative.
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me she withdrew, with two bundles which she held in her
hand, and closed the door. Thinking from her manner some-
thing was wrong, I hid myself behind a doorway in a mews
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opposite till a quarter-past live, when she again opened the
door, the bundles still in her hands, and almost
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a cab, and not watched till the were out of sight;"
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when she replied, " youdoubt their b • • leave them with you, and callbeing mine, I will
cer-
tainly not, and you don't part withagain. I said," Most
in the house who knows Prisonerme till I see some person
been living with an old lady then said, "I've
go and knock at the door.' stairs, and you can
same time ascended the Prisoner at the
stairs in advance of me,