The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-26 00:00:00

DUNDRY.

ASHTON, MONDAY AFTERNOON.—+The investigation
by the county justices, the Rev. H. Morehouse, W.
G. Langton, and J. Shorland, Esqs., touching the
murder of Mr. Walsinghaffe Hazel!, at Dundry, under
circumstances of a most mysterious character, were
resumed this day, at eleven o'clock. The two
nephews, Benjamin and John Haze and Jobs
Hall, were again present in custody. The room was
crowded by spectators, anxious to be present at the
proceedings.
Mr. John Sherland, surgeon, of Rattichouse, near
Dundry, deposed that he was called up on Thursday
morning last to examine the Lody of the deceased,
which he found lying on the ground, near the dry well,
from which it had been pulled. On examining it he
discovered a very extensive blow over the left eye.
It was a contused wound, and such as might have
been inflicted with an instrument like tle6 bludgeon
produced. There were various ether wounds on
the head and fraetares of the bones of the skull, ex-
tending half-way round it. The wounds could not all
have been produced by any fall—they were sufficient
to cause death. Witness thought it probable that the
deceased was first struck over the ear by some one
from behind, and that being felled by the blow, the
other wounds were inflicted afterwards. The face of
the deceased was covered with blood, and uttering to
the blood were some hay seeds and hay motes, similar
to which witness afterwards observed lying under the
manger in the stable. Witness afterwards examined

the stable and hayloft, in company with Mr. Dow-
ling, a surgeon, and his servant man. Witness and
Mr. Dowling examined the loft without discovering
anything suspicious, but as they were descending
again the servant man called attention to forty
or fifty spots of blood on the right-hand wall of the
stable, near to the door. Some time afterwards
witness was led to look under the manger of the
stable, and he there found a brick lying in a pool of
blood, and the stones of the wall, for about four.
inches above the ground, covered with blood. There
were also quantities of hayseed and motes there,
similar to what were on the face of deceased. Should
not think that one man could have carried the de-
ceased from the stable to the well without dragging
him along the ground. Did not discover any marks
of blood from the stable to the well. When he first
saw the deceased his clothes were drawn upwards
towards the top of his body, as if he had been dragged
by persons holding him under the arms.
Benjamin Vowles, a farm servant, and the sister of
the deceased and of the prisoners, were examined, bu,t
their testimony threw but little light on the myste-
rious affair. It was stated that the prisoners assisted
in searching for the deceased, and the only fact being,
in the slightest degree against them was, that of James
Hazell having kept the stable keys in his pocket on
Monday night, instead of hanging them up on a.nail,
as usual.

The magistrates sat till it late hour, and the exami-
nation was then adjourned.

WRECK of HER MAJESTY'S BRIG

SNAKE.

The overland mail brings us the following particu-
lars of the loss of this vessel. Our Bombay corres-,
pondent says—Accounts have been received here of
the loss of her Majesty's brig Snake, Commander
Brown, on Santiago's Reef, near Mozambique, on
the night of the 29th of August. The crew were all
saved, and had been conveyed to the Mauritius by,
the French brig of war Voltigeur. The Cerneen of
the 3d of November gives the following account of
the disaster :—" The Voltigeur, cruising on the
eastern coast of Africa, arrived at Mozambique on
the 7th of September last, and found the Snake ashore.
on a reef near Mocambo, ten miles south of the
island of Mozambique. It learned from the crew
that was encamped on the shore that the Snake had
been wrecked on the 29th of August The French
captain hastened to offer to Mr. Brown, the Com-
mander of the Snake, his assistance in saving the
materiel of his ship, and a passage for his men. Only
the leiter offer was accepted. By the 14th of
September they had succeded in taking from the
vessel almost all she contained, except the two large,.
guns. A Portuguese ship, the Progresso, was
chartered to convey to the Cape of Good Hope all
the things saved, and part of the officers and crew,
consisting of the sick. The proximity of the
Portuguese settlement was very favourable to the
security of the shipwrecked, who would otherwise
have inevitably been harrassed and plundered
by the barbarous hordes inhabiting that coast.
As the bad season was coming on, it was
necessary to quit those latitudes. The Voltigeur,
which since the 7th of September had made an ex-
cursion to, Pomba-bay, having returned, took on board
76 men, among whom were Captain Brown and six
officers, some casks of water which had become ne-
cessary from this increase of men, and set sail for
the Mauritius on the sth of October. The Progress()
was to leave Mozambique four days later. The Com-
mander of the Snake and his officers having arrived
safe and sound at Mauritius, would not allow the
brave sailors of the Voltigeur to return to Bourbon,
where they are expected, before having received a
striking mark of their gratitude and esteem. They
gave them on the following day a splendid dinner at
the Hotel d'Europe, at which, in warm-hearted toasts,
they took pleasure in expressing to the French sea-
men the noblest and most affectionate feelings. Fralnk
and cordial replies on the part of the officers of the
Voltigeur to their comrades of the Snake gave to this
brotherly festival a touching eharacter of heartiness
and deep sympathy. On Monday morning the Vol-
tigeur continued her voyage to Bourbon, taking with
her the agreeable recollection of her new fniends, and
regret at being so soon separated from them.

RAILWAY SHARE IVIARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, J.tx. 25.
_ _

Krocit EXCIIANGIS.— The sales are—Ambergate and East-
ern Juncti ,n, 2, dis.—Birkhenhead, Lancashire, and Che-
shire Junction, 5% dis.—Ditto, 22/. Shares 5 per cent. in
1847 and 1848, and 6 per cent. in 1849, 74 dis.—East Lan-
cashire, New, 34 dis.—Great Western, Fifths, 24—Ditto,
Halves, 61—Great Northern, 51. 118. Bd. di .—Lancaster and
Carlisle, 54%—Lancashire and Yorkshire, t•ixteenths, 6
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southp-rt, tly dis.—London and
North-Western, 1531,4—Ditto, New Quarters, 61/4 p..—Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Prett'rence, 1/8
land, 115%—Ditto, Halves, 11,i die.—North British, New
Quarters, par—North Staffordshire, % p.—Shrewsbury,
Oswestry, and Cheshire, 5 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover,
No. 4,1% dis.—York, Newcastle, terwick, No. 1,4% p.—
Ditto, Nu. 2, ! p.
MANCHESTER, JAN. 25.

STOCK Excn'amis.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire Junction, 5 11-16 dis. —East Anglian,
New Preference, 3 .16 dis.— East Lancashire, 21%—Ditto,
New, 31,4 dis.—Kendal and Windermere, 12—Lancashire and
Yorkshire (West Riding Union), 234 dis.—London and
North-Western (Manchester and Birmingham), WA—Ditto,
Quarters (C), 4 p. - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 214
dis.—Matichester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield and
Lincolnshire), 5%9 dis.— North Staffordshire, 7-la p.— Shrop-
shire Union, 2 s dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,1%
dk—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Extensions, No. 2,
p.

BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 25.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties,
.614 —Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 214 dia.—Cale..
donian, 36—North Statlonishire, 13s. 96. p.
HULL, J. 25. _

STOCK EXCHANGE —The 'sales are—Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton, 81/i dis.—East Anglian, Preference, 4s. dis.—
Hull and Selby, Halves, 501 A—North British, Quarters,
Thirds, p.
BRISTOL, JAN. 25.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The market to-day displayed much
activity, and prices had an upward tendency. The sales are
—Bristol and Exeter New, 4LA dis.—Great Western, Quar-
ters, 23/4 p.—South Devon, 1634 dia.—Kennet and Avon, 51/4.
YORK, JAN. 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales are— Great Northern,
43/4 ex int.—North British, Thirds, 214—Ditto, Quarters,
4%—Ditto, Extension, 11s.— York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
No. 2 (late New Berwicks), 12/. 18s. 9d.—Ditto (G. N. E.
Purch. ), 91. 18s. 9d. ex iut.—York and North Midland
(East and West Riding Extension), 35 t%
EDINBURGH, JAN. 24.
Swot EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 235.
—Dundee and Northern, 275. 6d.—Edinburgh and Northern
(Newport), B—Great orthern, 94e. 6d.—North British,
Quarters, 5/. 95.—Ditto, New QuSrtere, 1 le.—Ditto, Thirds,
425. 6d.

TRH GERMAN HOSPITAL, DALSTON.—In corm-
queues of the proceedings in connexion with this insti-
tution, at the meeting at the London Tavern on Satur-
day, and which were reported in our columns on Monday,
Dr. Freund, the directing physician, has addressed a
letter to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
and the other governors of the hospital, tendering
his resignation as directing physician of the hospital.

BIRTHS.
On the 81st inst., at We,stbourne-grore, the wife of Frede-
rick Tayler, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 22d inst., at Whitnash Rectory, Leamington, the
wife of the Rev. James Reynolds Young, of a daughter.
On the 22d inst.; at Kingsbury Episeopi Vicarage, Somer.
set, the wife of the Rev. J. K. Fowler, of a son.
On the 23d inst., at Spring-hill, near Gloucester, the lady
of the Rev. P. G. Bentley, of a son.
On the 23d inst., at Addington-place, Camberwell, the wife
of William Harts, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 24th inst., Mrs. Leech, of Finsbury-square, of a son.
On the 24th inst , Mrs. B. H. Stacey, Winfield- lane,
Kentish-town, of a son.
On the 24th inst., at Streatham, the wife of William L.
Sidgwick, Esq., of a son.

MAW ED.
At Trinity Church, Lambeth, Loalli Butcher, late of Cathie-
rine-Ftreet, Strand, to Elizabeth, third daughter of John
Matthews, coal -merchant, Palace-new-road, Lambeth.

On the 15th inst., in Upper Berkeley-street, Mary, wife of
Henry Eyre, Esq.
On the 21st inst., at Bellevue Lodge, Newington, Edin-
burgh, Peter Forbes, Esq,
On the 22d inst., in Oxford-street, Mr. William Green.
On the 22d inst., Arend Jacob Guitard, Esq., of Kenning-
ton-common, aged 81.
On the 22d inst., Mr. Philip Barnard, of Woodbridge, Suf-
folk, aged 70.
On the '23d inst., at Chiswick, Herbert Morse Welch, the
infant son of Montagu Suart Welch, Esq., barrister-at-law-
On the 23d inst., William Dell, Esq., of Barnet, Horts.

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