The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-13 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE VESTRY.

THE VESTRY ADDRESS TO SIR ROBERT PEEL,

AND THE LATE PREMIER'S REPLY,

"Whitehall, June 30, 1846.
" Sir Robert Peel presents his compliments to Mr.
Flood, and begs leave to acknowledge the receipt of his
letter of the 27th instant. Sir Robert Peel has been un-
able hitherto to fix a time for receiving the deputation
referred to in Mr. Flood's letter, and as he is in daily
expectation of being obliged to leave tows for a short
time, he fears that if he were now to make an appoint-
ment he might be unable to keep it. However gratifying
it would be to Sir Robert Peel's feelings to have a per-
sonal interview with the gentlemen who compose the de-
putation, he feels it right to request, under these circum-
stances, that the resolution of the vestry of St. Maryle-
bone may be transmitted to him by letter.
" To C. Flood, Esq., Vestry Clerk, St. Marylebone."
In consequence of this communication, the address of
the Vestry had since been forwarded to Sir Robert Peel,
who had been pleased to send the following reply
thereto:—

"Whitehall, July 7. 1846.
"Sir—l request that you will convey to the Vestry of
St. Marylebone my best acknowledgments for the ad-
dress which they have presented to me, expressing their
approbation of my public conduct in reference to mea-
sures recently proposed by me in Parliament.
"I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

" ROBERT PEEL.
"To C. Flood, Esq., Vestry-clerk, St. Marylebone."
The Vestry ordered both communications to be en.
tered on the minutes.

THE ADVERTISING VAN NUISANCE—DISTRICT ASYLUMS
AND PRISON DISCIPLINE.
Sir P. LAURIE said, in consequence of the change
which had taken place in her Majesty's Government, it
rendered it necessary that the Vestry should either
renew their proceedings, or take some other steps in
reference to the street advertising van nuisance, to bring
that subject under the notice of the newly-appointed
Secretary of State, Sir George Grey. He would, there-
fore, suggest that copies of the correspondence which
had already passed between the Vestry and Sir James
Graham should be forwarded to Sir George Grey, with
the expression of a hope that he would carry out the
remedy about to be proposed for the evil by his prede-
cessor in office. There was another subject to which he
wished to direct their attention. At the beginning of
the session there was a Parliamentary Committee ap-
pointed with respect to the metropolitan district asylums,
and a Committee appointed by that Vestry to watch
the proceedings, but, as far as he could ascertain, he
could not find that a report had been made by either
Committee.
The motion with respect to the advertising vans hav-
ing been put and carried unanimously,
Mr. JOSEPH said, in answer to the inquiries of the
worthy Knight, as to the matter of the district asylums,
they would all remember that some time ago a Commit-
tee was appointed at the instigation of Sir Charles Na-
pier to inquire into the conduct of the Poor-law Com-
missioners,:relativeto-the establishment of these Metro-
politan district asylums, and twenty•six er twenty:
seven days were consumed in hearing evidence. That
evidence was such that no unbiassed person who read it
could be of any other opinion than that these asylums
would prove a monstrous nuisance, instead of a benefit,
and that its whole tenour was in favour of the exemption
of Marylebone with respect to them. When the Par-
liamentary Committee got to the end of the evidence,
certain resolutions were proposed by Sir Charles Napier
and Mr. Hume on the one hand, and Mr. Cripps and
Mr. Manners Sutton on the other, the result of which
was, that the Committee-room became a regular bear-
garden, and although the Committee came to certain
resolutions, they had up to this time never reported to
the House at all.
ALLEGED ENCROACHMENTS ON THE STOPPAGE OF RIGHTS
OF WAY OVER PRIMROSE HILL.
The secretary to the West London Central Anti-En-
closure Association, came before the board, on the part
of that association, to enforce on the attention of the
vestry their duty, as the conservators of the parish, to
prevent the rights of the rate-payers and the public
being invaded by the blocking up of certain rights of
way and ancient footpaths, especially on the Kilburn or
Marylebone side of Primrose Hill.
After some routine business the vestry separated.

THE MURDER AT SUNDERLAND.
SVNDERLAND, THURSDAY NIGHT. Since any last
communication was written, the police have made the
strictest investigations into this distressing affair, and
the result of those inquiries leaves not the slighte st
doubt on their minds that the unhappy young woman
Hindmarch had been brutally murdered. The circum-
stances are, however, still undiscovered. The deceased
was in good health and spirits when she left her father's
house, and was expected to return from the errand on
which she was sent in a few minutes. She contemplated
visiting South Shields, in company with a young man,
on the following morning (Sunday) by the Brandling
Junction Railway, and had laid out her linen and other
clothes for that day, previous to going out. It is rather
remarkable that, up to this period, it has not been as-
certained that any person saw her in the street or on the
road to the Rector's Gill, near which she was fuund, al-
though, being Saturday night, there must have been
several persons moving about at the time.
A variety of rumours are afloat which it would be im-
proper to publish. The circumstance of the bonnet
which she wore, and the plate with which she went out
of her father's house with money upon it, being found
laid on the edge of the bank, quite precludes the suppo-
sition that she may have fallen over ; besides, what
could she be doing on this lonely spot, at so late an
hour, and so far from the shop to which she had gone for
articles, which the family required for immediate use ?
It is highly improbable that she should have committed
suicide by throwing herself over this embankment, when
the river was so near ; and if we conclude that she might
have done so, the circumstance of the bonnet and plate
being found on the edge again presents an insuperable
difficulty. There are also marks of violence on her per-
son, and especially the wrist, as if she had bad a long
and severe struggle. This may well have been, tor she
was a very strong young woman, and weighed about 11
stone.

It will be distinctly proved, too, at the inquest to-
morrow, that a man and girl (the latter answering the
description of the deceased) were seen together on the
Rector's Gill, very near the spot where the body was
found. The man was pulling the girl about, but as it
was supposed they were " sweethearts," no particular
notice was taken of it, and, of course, no interference
occurred on the part of the woman who observed it. Two
or three witnesses will also be called, who speak to
having heard the shrieks of a woman proceeding from
the direction of the Gill ; and one young man, named
Scott, states positively that, about half-past twelve, or a
little later, he heard cries of murder three times, as if
uttered by a woman, as he was going home. He could
not ascertain whence these proceeded; but they might
have been from the Rector's Gill. He was alone, and
so much frightened that he did not dare to go the place.
Other evidence of a like description will also be given,
and a Mrs. Spedding is prepared to swear that about two
o'clock on Sunday morning, she saw three men running
very quick, either from the Gill or Ayre's• quay.
Suspicion attaches to a young man who is not in cus-
tody, and whose name it would be premature to men •
Lion ; but the landlady with whom he lodges states that
he came home between nine and ten o'clock on Saturday
night, and that he was never again out of the house.
She says that she knows this because she locked him in
his room for a particular reason, which will be mentioned
to the jury. He will, however, be examined to-morrow,
and his examination, it is said, will be very satisfactory,
as exculpating himself from the horrible crime which
many impute to him.
The bank over which the unfortunate girl was thrown
is of very great height. and there is a ledging between
the top and bottom. This, like all the ground near, is
grown 01 er with grass, and a small quantity of grass
was found near the body of the deceased, which she
had torn away in her descent—probably at this ledging,
which must have broken her fall, otherwise she would
have been dashed to pieces.
Not the slightest impropriety of moral conduct has ever
been attributed to this girl, so that how it happens she
should have been enticed away at so late an hour, and
to suck a
•lonely place, is as mysterious as every other
part of the transaction. Her parents are in a state of
the deepest distress, and as may be supposed the event
has occasioned a very strange and painful sensation in
the town.
Some years ago a murder, under somewhat similar
circumstances, was committed here ; a widow, who
cohabited with a married man, having been thrown
over the cliff on the sea shore. The latter was tried at
Durham assizes for the alleged offence, but acquitted.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Dover Chronicle.)
MAIDSTONE.—The hops have not made that progress
the last week that was expected ; even where they have
been clear and well, they get yellow, and seem to want
rain. At many places, where they are foul, they appear
completely gone. The crop must be short.
WATERINGBURY, MEREWORTH, TESTON, &c.—The
hops grow, but get worse, and the insects still follow the
young shoots, and some of the weak grounds have
yielded to the blight. There must be something out of
the usual way to give anything like an average crop.
CANTERBURY.—The hops exhibit a great improve-
ment on tha past week. The vermin is decreasing, the
plants are now tolerably clear, the bine is vigorous, and
the burr just showing itself. There are few suffering
from honey dew. The duty is set at 135,000/. General
accounts state the bine mostly looks healthy, and bids
fair ti,r a moderate crop and the duty is variously laid
from 140,0001, to 150,0001.

CAUTION TO HOP GROWERq,—AII hop growers will
do well to remember that, during the present month,
they roust deliver to the proper officer of excise, a true
entry in writing of the number of acres in plant, also all
oast-houses, oasts, and store-rooms used by them fur
the purpose of curing and storing hops ; a neglect of
which will subject them to heavy penalties, under the
Act 4 and 5 William IV., cap. 51, sec. 5.

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On Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry,
Mr. John Williams, of the Regent-circus, in the chair,
the vestry clerk stated that he had to lay before the
vestry the communications which he had received in his
official capacity from Sir Robert Peel, in reference to the
late addresses carried by the vestry to the Right Hon.
Baronet, on the subject of the recent measures of com-
mercial reform introduced by him into Parliament. The
first was as follows: