The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-04 00:00:00

MON DAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1848.

I feeling that ought always to exist between masters and
workmen, and which in the present instance had been so
unfortunately interrupted.!
Mr. CLARE:SON, who appeared for several-of the de-
fendants, and Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. CAREY, who rip-
peared for others, stated that they most cordially con-
curred in the observations made by their Learned Friend.
Mr. Bodkin nn the part of the prosecution. They wi,'neri
to add, for their respective clients, that they had neither
committed or contemplated any violence.
The RECORDER was happy that his sugge3tions had
been adopted, and the matter settled in so satisfactory a
manner to every one.
At this point of the case, when every one in court,
judge and counsel, and every one present, expected
so satisfactory a termination to the case,
One of the defendants stood forward, and said that
they would be no party to any compromise. They had
already paid upwards of 180/. for conducting the de-
fence. They had been put to much trouble and incon-
venience, and had lost a great deal of their time, in
consequence of the prosecution ; and feeling strongly
their own innocence, they felt bound not to consent to
enter into any rceognizances. They were determined,
as they were then in court, either to take their trial,
let the consequences be what they might, or be allowed
to leave the court unfettered.
The RECORDER said that if there were any of the
defendants who objected to enter into their recogni-
sances, he had no doubt the prosecutor would indulge
them with a trial.—(A laugh.)
Mr. BALLANTINE said that he and his Learned Friends
had acted upon the instructions given to them by the
solicitor.

The RECORDER—A gentleman, who no doubt, under•
stands well the consequences to his clients if they are
convicted, and who can look upon the case with coolness
and deliberation—

➢ir. BALLANTINE observed that as the defendant re-
fused to be guided by his advice, and übjected to abide
by the arrangement which had been proposed by the
prosecutors and agreed to by his friends and himself
as the best thing for their clients, he would have nothing
more to do with the case, but would return his brief.
Several of the defendants still persevered in their de-
termination not to enter into their recognisances, and,
after some discussion,
Mr. BODKIN applied to tho Court to have the trial
postponed till next session, as, in consequence of under-
standing that the matter was arranged by the prosecu-
tor, he had not:his witnesses in attendance, he, therefore,
asked that the recognisances of all the defendants might
be respited till next session.
Some conference then took place between the defen-
dants and their legal advisers, but they obstinately refused
to enter into any compromise of their recognisances.
TheRECORDER said that he would accede to the appli-
cation for postponing the trial, but he would not respite
the recognisances. The defendants could now leave
the Court, and if the prosecutor intended to go
on with the prosecution, or he received any annoyance
from any of them, as there was an indictment still ex-
isting he could obtain a warrant against any of them,
and have them:again taken into custody, when they would
be obliged to find fresh bail, which, perhaps, they would
find rather difficult to obtain, after the determation they
had shown to run counter to the advice of their solici-
tors and counsel.

The defendants appeared to be rather staggered at
course adopted by the Court, but they still stubbornly
persisted in refusing to enter into their recogniaances,
and left the court in a body.
ROBBERY.—George Lawrence, 46, described in the
calendar as a carman, and Caroline Lawrence, his wife,
were indicted with stealing two bars of steel, of the
value of 155., the property of Thomas Charles Mutts
and Co., and George Cook, 24, a smith, was charged
with feloniously receiving the property, well knowing it
to have been stolen. _

1 George Lawrence pleaded Guilty, but Caroline Law-
rence and George Cook pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Brierly was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
Parry defended the prisoner Cook.
From the statements of the Learned Counsel and the
evidence adduced, it appeared that on the night of Mon-
day last the female prisioner and her sister was seen by
police constable Wild, of the L. division, in Suffolk-
street, Borough, with two bars of steel in their hands.
They met Cook, to whom they gave the bars of steel.
Upon the policeman going up, Cook said that he was
going to make tools of the bars for Lawrence. On the
following morning the policeman went to Law-
rence's house and found several pieces of iron
there, and on searching Cook's forge he dis-
covered several pieces of steel there, and from two
to three cwt. of tools. One piece of steel found at
Cook's had the same mark on it as the two bars which
the female prisoner had.
Mr. Mutts, a coacbmaker in the Borough, stated that
the prisoner Lawrence had been in his employ as a car-
man. The bas of steel produced were his property.
lie had missed three cwt. of steel of tha same description.
The RECORDER directed the female prisoner to be dis-
charged, on the ground that the presumption was that
she had acted under the direction of her husband.
Mr. PARRY addressed the jury for the prisoner Cook.
The jury acquitted Couk and the female prisoner, and
The RECORDER sentenced Lawrence to two months'
imprisonment and hard labour.

Cook was then agai❑ indicted with receiving several
other bars of steel, but as the evidence was the same as
in the last case, he was again acquitted.
After the disposal of several unimportant cases the
session terminated, and the Court adjourned to Monday,
the 18th instant.

SURREY SESSIONSS-4THIS DAY.)
The adjourned quarter sessions for the county of
Surrey commenced this morning, at the Court-house,
Newington-causeway, before Mr. Puckle and a full bench
of magistrates. The calendar is extremely heavy. The
grand jury having been sworn, the CHAIRMAN addressed
them as to the nature of their duties, and dismissed them.
John Evans, 22, and John Walker, 16, were indicted
for stealing at l3agshot a quartern loaf from the
, shop of Ann Friruley. On the afternoon of the 28th ult.
the prisoners went into the shop of the prosecutrix and
demanded to be supplied with bread, and on being re-
fused they deliberately seized a quartern loaf, and broke
it in halves, when they commenced devouring it. The
prosecutrix having been similarly treated on the same
day, called a police-constable, and gave them into custody.
In defence, the prisoners said they were starving, and
took the bread to appease their hunger.
The constable who took them said they were tramps,
and in the habit of sleeping in the unions, and stealing
whatever laid in their way.
The jury found them Guilty, and
The COURT sentenced them to three days' imprison-
ment each, and to be once privately whipped.
Richard Smith, 49, a man formerly in extensive busi-
ness at Farnham, was indicted for stealing a sixpence
and a penny.
It appeared that the prisoner was in the habit of fre-
quenting a beer-shop at Godaltning, kept by a man
named Coles, and the latter had fri quently missed money
from the bar after he had left. Ile acordingly marked
some money on the 26th of October, and placed it on a
shelf inside the bar while the prisoner was there, and
after he left witness missed the money. He followed
him out and taxed, him with the robbery, when he ex-
claimed, " Her? s your money; I only took it for a lark,"
at the same time handing witness a sixpence and a
penny which were marked. On being searched at the
station-house, 41. 19s. was found on him, which he had
received the same morning from the bank. The jury found him Guilty, and the Court sentenced
him to six months' hard labour in Guildford House of
Correction.

The inquiry into the expenditure of the Treasury,iiibe
the Home, Foreign, and Colonial office
ducted by Sir Charles Trevelyan cond-
, Mr. Gibss'onw Craig, an
Mr. Herman Merivale.—Observer.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 30.—1 t is not only a pleasing
but a grateful duty to intimate to you—as we find our-
selves
justified in doing—the existence of a consider-
able advance upon the improvement which we noticed
as prevailing at the date of our last circular. November,
you do not require to be reminded, is always looked
upon as a month of inactivity. In this year it has, how-
ever, proved an exception, and no approaching parallel
to the extent of its transactions has occurred since
1842, when upon receipt of intelligence from China of
peace having been concluded, immediate and extensive
operations ensued. Large, however, as the transactions
of that period were, those of the present month exceed
them. The demand throughout the month has been
gradual and progressive, and to such an extent as not
only—with few exceptions—to take off stock, but to
place most of the spinners and manufacturers under
contract for some time to come. This is a gratifying
feature, as the operatives will thereby be enabled to se•
cure full employment during the greater portion of the
winter months. An advance, varying from about 24
to 5 per cent. has so far been established upon both
cloth and twist generally—with the exceptions pre-
viously particularised—owing in some_ measure, if not
entirely, to the rise in the value of cotton, which is
equal to about one halfpenny per pound from the lowest
point upon the lower qualities of that article. The
market has, however, within the last few days assumed
a less animated character, and to experience a pretty
general indisposition on the part of buyers to
operate at
any advance upon the rates of the previous week, as
producers, unless for imme-
diate
demanded by some of the
We should b© glad to
and unavoidable wants.
see both manufacturers and spinners well remunerated,
but it is clear enough that no sudden or material ad-
vance will be yielded to; any change in that direction,
to prove beneficial, can only be gradual, and produced
from and regulated by the nature and extent of a legi-
timate demand. As regards cloth, the demand has again
been chiefly for export: that for the country trade
having been of a moderate character. of some de.
scriptious of yarns, however, our home manufacturers
have taken very extensively.—From Messrs. llPNair
Greenhotv, and Irving's Circular. ,
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.--fpn Saturday
evening two accidents occurred at the Seacombe Slip
Prince's Pier, which had nearly proved fatal. The Dublin
mail-boat was at the landing stage, and persons passing to
the Seacombe and Egrement boats had to climb across
her in order to get to those boats. The facilities afforded
for this purpose are extremely insecure, and not at all
sufficient to protect persons from the danger of falling
into the river. Two gentlemen, in their endeavours
to
get on board the Seacombe boat, fell into the wa:er, and
it was only by the greatest promptitude being exercised
that they were recovered. One of them got underneath
the paddles of the Dublin steamer, and a working man,
named Jennings, whose conduct is worthy of all praise,
nt overboard to his assistance; he also had
well nigh
fallen a sacrifice to his humane exertions, as the tide
was running strong at the time, and there was a heavy
swell on the river. It is highly necessary that some
better arrangements should be made by which pas-
sengers g,,ing on board the ferry-boats, when the large
steamers occupy the slip, can be severed against risk of
personal injury.—Liverpool Mercury.

THE MURDERS AT STANFIELD-
HALL.
WYMONDUADI, DEC. 3.-I'he county magistrates and
the coroner were busily engaged during the whole of
Saturday and the previous day in conducting a rigid
inotun v into the circumstances of the assassination of
Mr. Recorder Jenny and his son. The magistrates
conduct their investigation with closed doors, bat it is
understood that the disclosures made before them hourly
increase in importance,
Last night it was currently reported that a mask had
been found concealed in a chest in the prisoner's house,
and that three daggers were discovered in the prisoner's
bed. Rush had applied to the magistrates to have his
own bed and bedding from his house. The bench
granted this request, and it is rumoured that in this bed
the daggers were found. A most important link in the
case has been supplied by a woman named Emily James,
a widow, who appears to have resided with the prisoner
at the Potash Farm. This woman at first swore that
Mr. Rush was at home during the whole of Tuesday
evening, except for about ten minutes. Being questioned
more minutely as to the exact time of Rush's leaving
the house and returning, she did not appear very sure
about it. " She Vi a s reading a book which interested
her very much," she said, "and did not keep a very accu-
rate account of the time." This woman, who is now in
custody, has since confessed that Rush was absent from
the house all the evening of the murder. She now states
that when he came home he appeared to be in a state of
great agitation, and rushed into the house, saying he
was very ill. He went into his own room and shut the
door. She looked through the keyhole and saw him take
off a covering from his face. The witness is further un-
derstood to have stated that Rush frequently went out in
disguise, and that on Tuesday night he cr-sed the
poachers, pretending to go out after them.
Mrs. James having made this statement before the
magistrates, and in the presence of the prisoner, he was
asked whether he had any question to put to her. His
reply is said to have been—" No; she has said enough
to hang me already." He left the room for a short time,
and walked with a firm step across the passage, boldly
telling the people who stood around to move out of
the way.
Mrs. James is kept under strict surveillance at the
Bridewell, Wymondham, and the magistrates will not
allow her to appear before the coroner's jury, nor wit!
they allow Rush to be present at the inquest.
A witness examined before the magistrates yesterday,
Mr. Bacon, sheriff's officer, gave evidence as to certain
expressions of Mr. Rush, indicating revengeful feeling
towards Mr. Jermy.
The bench yesterday refused admission even to brother
magistrates, and to the police, except those specially en-
gaged in the inquiry. They did not adjourn until
half-past nine o'clock, when they ordered the prisoner
to be remanded for safe custody to Norwich Castle. At
ten o'clock last night Rush was brought out securely
ironed, and placed in a carriage, in which he was con-
veyed to Norwich.
Mr. Rush has bon been well known In this part of
the county of Norfolk as a farmer and land agent, to
which he added, until within the last four or five years,
the business of an auctioneer. The prisoner at first
farmed nearly 500 acres under Mr. Jermy, who had so
much confidence in him, that he appointed bim as his
bailiff or steward. He also occupied a farm at Fel-
mingham, the property of Mr. Jenny, and the Potash
Farm at Hethcl, which is his own property, but was
mortgaged to Mr. Jermy.
Things went on very comfortably till on the sth of
October, 1847. Mr. Jermy (who was then living at
Yarmouth), in consequence of some communication he
received, went over to Stanfield, where he found Rush
had six thrashing machines and several dressing
machines at work, getting out his corn, the produce of
the last harvest, as quickly as possible. Mr. Jenny
had then warrants of distress in his pocket ; but
on going to the Potash Farm he saw there
100 fine bullocks, many score of sheep, and about 250
fine pigs, which he was told were well worth 455. each ;
as the machines were also well horsed, he felt satisfied,
and thought, as a landlord, it would be wrong to dis-
train ; and he returned to Yarmouth. On the 10th he
received an express, urging him to go over to Stanfield-
hall Fat m, which he did, end on his arriving he found
the whole a scene of desolation. There was a complete
ruin ; the corn was removed, and the straw lying about
the farm in heaps. All the property on the Potash
Farm had passed into the possession of Rush's mother,
who told Mr. Jermy that she paid 600/, the amount of
the valuation. Distresses were then put on the farms ;
and ultimately Mr. Jermy obtained possession of the
Standfield-hall Farm ; and also, in an action against
Rush, for breach of covenant, obtained a verdict—the
damages and costs amounting to 477/. 10s. 10(1. Rush's
lease of the farm at Felmingham expired at Michaelmas,
1848, and he ought to have given it up ; but he refused,
and a distress was issued. He resisted it ; but ulti-
mately paid the money. Of that farm he still retained
the possession, and latterly has chiefly resided there.
Rush, a few days after the distress was put in at Stan,
field, called his creditors together, and offered them
12s. 6d. in the pound. One creditor stood out, and re•
fused the composition; and he (Rush) was made a bank-
rupt—we believe on his own petition. The bankrupt
appeared for his final examination in August last.
It is stated that a mortgage for 5,0001. due to the de-
ceased gentleman ought to have been paid off on Thurs-
day, the 30th of November ult., on the second day after
these atrocities took place. We learn that on Sunday
last, in the afternoon, the prisoner went to Stanfield-
hall and saw the late Mr. Jermy, and that his object
was to induce that ill-fated gentleman to allow the mort-
gage to remain for three years more. This request was,
we believe, refused, and very high words ensued.
The late M-. Isaac Jermy, sen., was born on the 23d
of September, 1789. He was educated at Westminster
School. and proceeded thence to Christchurch, Oxford,
where he graduated in due course. On leaving college
he became a student of Lincoln's Inn, and was called to
the bar as a member of that society. He succeeded to
the Stanfield-hall estate on the death of his father, the
Rev. George Preston, and subsequently changed his
name from Preston to Jermy on the acquisition of the
Jenny property, of Stanfield•ohall, near Wymondham,
An adverse claim to this property was, en the death
of the late Rev. George Preston, attempted to be set up
by a family of the name of Lerner ; and on the 24th of
September, 1838, John Lerner, accompanied by a
London attorney, named Wingfield, and bucked by some
eighty or ninety labourers and smell tradesmen from
the neighbouring villages, took forcible possession of
the hall, turned out Mrs. Sims, the housekeeper, and
a Miss Bloomfield, who was staying with her ; placed
the fureiture on the lawn, and barricaded the premises,
which they held against all efforts of the civil force to
dislodge their, and were only expelled by a military
force. No fewer then eighty-two persons were taken
into custody ; and at a subsequent assizes, in April,
1839, they nil pleaded guilty to a charge of simple riot.
Since that time Mr. Jermy remained in quiet possession
of the property, although some rumours have recently
been circulated of another attempt being designed to
deprive him of it ; and we understand some of the Lar-
ners have been residing at Mr. Rush's, at Felmingham.
We have already stated that a long continued mis-
understanding had existed between Mr. Jermy and Mr.
Rush, and that legal proceedings had been taken by
the former to recover damages for breach of farming
covenants.
The following document, forming a kind of pretest
against a distraint which Mr. Rush regarded as illegal,
was issued a few weeks ago, and will be regarded with
that interest which must attach just now to any docu-
ment which throws light on the personal circumstances
of the accused, or on the quarrel existing between him
and the deceased :
" Felmingham, October 23, 1848. To Mr. Isaac Jerry,
and to Robert Martin, his bailiff, and to all others
whom it may concern.
" As executor of Mary Rush, deceased, I hereby give
you and each of you notice, that I protest against the
legality of the distress made by you on the 18th of Oc •
tober, 1848, upon the farm, land, and premises com-
prised in an indenture of lease dated the 16th day of
March, 1839, made between the said Isaac Jermy of
the one part, and John Rush (since deceased) and my-
self on the other part. Now, be it known to all whom
it may concern, as it is well khoitin to both Isaac Jermy
and Robert Martin, that I have never been owner of any
of the property or produce on the farm mentioned in
the said indenture of lease; and it is also well known to
both of you, that a distress was put on this farm fora year's
rent up to the 11th Octeber, 1847, and that the late
Mrs. Rush met, by appointment of Isaac Jermy, to pay
such distreess off; that the money was left for that
purpose with Isaac Jermy's solicitor, Clarke, of Wy-
mondham; that he nor Jermy would give an order to
have the bailiffs taken off the aforesaid premises, and
that Mrs. Rush was obliged to pay the money over again
to you, Robert Martin, before you would give such
order: it is well known both to Isaac Jermy and Robert
Martin, that such money has never been returned to the
late Mrs. Rush or her executor, and such being the case
no rent is now due for the said farm: that on the face
of this another distress is put on the aforesaid premises,
on the 13th of October, 1848, for a year's rent pretended
to be due on the 11th of October; that an inventory is
left, where it is set forth that 16 bullocks, and the barley
in the barn, &c., is distrained for the above; a man is
left in possession, but gives up possession by going off
the premises several different times, and that before five
days are over he gives up possession altogether of his
own accord, and gives up the key of the barn, where
there is property almost sufficient to pay off the whole
distress. After all this takes place Robert Martin comes
again on the 18th of October, and makes another dis-
tress on the aforesaid farm, and for the same
rent as was distrained for on the 13th, which
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TIIE CORONER'S INQUEST.
We subjoin a few extracts from the evidence adduced
before the coroner's inquest:—
Mr. W. P. Nichols, surgeon, of Nom kb, stated—On
Tuesday night the 28th ult., I was called to attend at
Stanfield-hall. I arrived there about two o'clock on
the Wednesday morning, when I was shown the body of
Mr. Isaac Jermy, which was lying in the dining-room.
There was a large wound, apparently on the left side,
and the clothes were saturated with blood, arising from
very recent death. Yesterday I made a post mortent ex-
arnillatiO4 Qf the body Of the deemed, I found a large

wound situated about two inches above the nipple of the
left breast. The bullets passed through the skin—three
of the ribs, the fourth, fifth, and sixth, directly back-
wards, destroying the entire body and apex of the
heart—three through the posterior part of the left
spine, where there were several portions of singularly
shaped pieces of lead lodged. They were lodged in the
muscular mass behind the tubercles of the fifth and sixth
ribs on the left side, both of which were destroyed. In
the substance of the lungs I found a foreign body, which
I wiii produce to the jury. I believe that substance to
be the covering of a cartridge. I have no doubt that
death ensued from the result of either a gun or pistol
shot. Upon examining the body of Mr. Jermy, I
observed a small hole in the waistcoat, covering the right
side of the chest. On removing the dress I found a small
wound about an inch above and to the inner side of the
right nipple of the breast. The wound I found went
backwards between the third and fourth ribs, through
the base of the heart, a portion of the right lung, de-
stroying the body of the sixth dorsal vertebra, into the
mass of muscle situate behind the spine. At the back of
the spine were deposited several portions of lead of irre-
gular shape. The wound was produced by a gun or
pistol shot.
It having been requested by the jurors that the had
should be weighed, it was found that the two pieces of
lead taken from the body of Mr. Isaac Jermy weighed
—the one thirteen grains, and the other eleven. The
fire pieces taken from the body of Mr. Jermy Jenny
weighed as follows—two thirteen grains and the other
eleven grains each.
James Watson stated—l am Lutler at Stanfield-hall.
About a quarter past eight o'clock on Tuesday evening
I was in my pantry, when I heard the discharge of a gun
or pistol shot at the front of the house. I left my pantry
immediately after hearing the report, and when I got to
the corner of the passage, not more than five or six feet
from the pantry-door, I saw a man walking past from
the back passage towards the staircase hall. The man was
not past the lamp at the time I first saw
him. His face was towards me, with something
over it, apparently a mask. He had a cloak on.
It had a cape to it. His head was covered with some-
thing, but Ido not know what. He was a short man
and stout. It was a dark cloak. The man was carrying
a pistol in each hand. They were large pistols, but I
cannot say the size of them or the length of barrel. He
did not speak to me, nor did I speak to him. I believe
he saw me. At the time I saw the man passing the cor-
ner, it occurred to me that it was the person of Mr. Rush,
whom I had ofteen seen at Stanfield-hall lately. The
last time I saw him there was on Sunday, the 26th of
November, when he asked me if he could speak to Mr.
Jenny. Therefore I knew Mr. Rush perfectly well.
The man I saw was like Mr. Rush in size, height, and
in his walk. The man was passing me quickly towards
the door leading to the staircase hall, the door of which
was opened by Mr. Isaac Jenny Jermy at the very mo-
ment that the man I suppose to be Mr. Rush reached it.
I saw the man fire a pistol, and Mr. Jermy Jermy in-
stantly fell back. I saw the pistol pointed at Mr. Jermy
Jermy. Mr. Jermy fell backwards into the hall. I
went back into my pantry. As soon as I was there I
heard two other reports. I then came out, and went
towards the hall staircase. When in the passage Mrs.
Jermy rushed past me towards the back staircase. I
went on, end opposite the door leading to the hall stair-
case, I saw Eliza Chestney lying. She screamed out,
"Oh ! take me up, or I shall die." I did take her up,
and took her towards the back staircase. The nursery
bell rang for some,water. I went to get some. I then
went to the stable-yard, and saw the groom. I told him
not to take the horse, but to go the back way. I went to
Mr. Gower's, and he and his two sons came soon after. I
and Mr. Gower afterwards went to the front of the house,
when by the light from a gig which had driven up, we saw
the body of Mr. Isaac Jermy lying in the porch. It was
about half-an-hour after I saw Eliza Chestaey to the
time when I saw the body of Mr. Jermy. The body of
Mr. Jermy was lying on the face, with the head towards
the door. The body was removed into the drawing-room.
The glass door of which I have spoken, and through
which Rush entered on the Sunday, was never locked
until about 9 o'clock. Mr. Rush was in the habit of
coming into the house by that door without knocking or
ringing. On the Sunday evening previous Mr. Jermy
did see Mr. Rush. I showed him into the room and left

them together. There was no other person present. I
heard Mr. Rush leave the house about fire minutes after
I had shown bim into the room. I did not see him. I
heard nothing that passed between them. I did not see
Mr. Rush after that, until I saw the man in the passage
on the Tuesday night, who I believe to have been Mr.
Rush.
Margaret Read, cook at Stanfield-hall, stated—On
Tuesday evening, the 2iith of November, about a quar-
ter-past eight o'clock, I heard the report of a pistol pro-
ceeding from the front of the house—the porch, or from
that direction. I then heard a second report, a third
report, and then a fourth report. The reports followed
each other very quickly. There was a very short space
of time intervened between the first and second reports.
It is my business to lock the side-door, and it is not
locked until nine o'clock. On Tuesday night I had not
locked that door before I heard the report of the pistols.
It was not Rine o'clock. After I heard the last report I
went to the door of the servants' hall leading to the pas-
sage of the staircase hall. I did not leave the door. I then
saw Miss Isabella Jermy within a few yards of the
door, running along the passage towards the servants'
ball. When she reached the place where I was stand-
ing, I saw a man coming towards me down the passage.
There was quite sufficient light for me to observe and
describe his general appearance and his dress. I did not
see his face. The moment I saw him it struck me it
was Mr. Rush, who had very frequently, within the last
five months, been at the hall. Before he got to the pas-
sage leading to the side entrance I left the door with
Miss Jermy, and do not know what became of the man.
The man was dressed in a loose garment. I cannot say
whether it was a cloak or not. It had a small cape. Ills
right hand was down by his side, and had rather a long
pistol or a short gun in it. I did not observe the position
of his left hand. The man was stout and short. Ile
held his head a little on one side, just in the way Mr.
Rush always carries it, and had apparently a very short
neck. It struck me the moment I saw him, from his
form and his carriage, that it was Mr. Rush. I did not
speak to him, nor did I see his face, as there was not suf-
ficient light for me to do so. When Miss Jernsy came
up to me she was screaming, and said, "Bless me, get
out of the way, or we shall all be murdered." The gar-
ment the man had on did not reach below his knees.
Maria Blanchflower, nurse to Mrs. I. Jermy Jermy,
stated on the evening of Tuesday, the 28th inst., I heard
the report of four shots, one after each other. After
hearing the fourth report I ran down stairs, When I
got to the servants' hall door, having heard a footstep, I
turned round and saw a man coming in the same direc-
tion as I bad been, ,between the foot of the stairs and

the passage leading towards the side entrance. The man
was a low stout man. have only been a month at Stan-

field• hall.

Solomon Savory stated, I am in the service of James
Bloomfield Rush. He came to the Potash farm about

a week or fortnight since. I saw him last Tuesday
afternoon. He was about the farm in the afternoon till
about half-past five, when he came home. He went
into the house. I saw him in the back kitchen about

half-past six o'clock. Ile spoke to me in the back
kitchen. I saw him again between seven and bait-past
seven o'clock. I never saw him after that. He had his

in-door dress on. lie pulled off his boots when he came
home, and put his slip-shoes on. I cleaned his two
pair of boots that night between five and six o'clock,
the same boots he had worn on that day; I
put them to the fire to dry. He did not put them on
any more that night; I put them away, locked the door,
and pat the key in my pocket. I saw him have the
slip-shoes on his feet next morning. I went to bed be.
tween eight and nine o'clock on Tuesday night. There
is no ono living in the house besides me now. The two

other men went to bed at the same time; I d• not know
that any one else was up. I do not know whether Mr.
Rush went to bed before me or not. I never know when

he goes to bed. 1 saw the boots the next morning.
The side next the fire was dry, and the other side was
not. I did not leave a very large fire. I never
knew Mr. Rush to be at the Potash farm before,

when Mr. and Mrs. James Rush and all the female

servants were away. I never saw but two pair of
boots belonging to Mr. Rush at the Potash farm. I
cleaned both pairs, and set them at the fire to dry.
There was ono pair heavy, and the other light. I would
know them both if I were to see them. Mr. James Bush

left a pair of heavy boots in the passage near the kitchen;
they were mouldy, and had not been used for some time.
A female lives with Mr. Rush that I have not before
mentioned. She has lived at the Potash farm about a

month, and to the best of my knowledge she sleeps in
a room adjoining Mr. Rush's room. She is called Widow
James. After I locked the boots up in the back kitchen
I kept the key in my pocket. I unlocked the door next
morning myself. A. person who had a key might have
gone in without my knowledge. I got up on Wednes-
day morning between five and six o'clock. I
called up by the team man, who told me that the
police were there, and they wanted to see Mr. Rush.
I went down and spoke to the police ; I then went
to call Mr. Rush up. After I knocked, I said, " I
want to speak to you. I called out two or three
times. Ile knocked once or twice when I called him,
but he did not speak. I then went to the front of the
house and rang the bell. Ile opened the window and
said, " What do you want ?" I said, " Mr. Pont
has come, and has told me to tell you that there was a
very serious thing took place at Stanfield-hall' and Mr.
Cann wished Mr. Pont to let you know." ll© answered
will be down directly." He then shut the window,
and came down almost directly, and said,
" I don't know." He What is the
matter ?" I said,
opened the
outer
door. The
police stood against the door, and he
said, " Walk in." I went out. When I have' called
Mr. Rush before, ho used to answer me
with a knock.
Elizabeth Cooper deposed—l am a single woman,
living at East Carleton. On Tuesday last I was walking
in the drive from Stanfield-hall, about half-past four
o and when near the Ketteringhatn Lodge-gate
I met alr. Rush coming from the lodge-gate towards
the hal. Mr. Rush addressed and stopped me when
he met me, and said, "Do you belong to the hall ?"
I said, " No, butil now come from there." He said,
"Do you know whether Mr. Jermy is at home ?"
I said, " Yes, ho is at home ; I saw them both about
half an hour back, with the men that are plant-
ing." I walked on, and soon after, when I had got
through the gate and on the road, I found Mr. Rush
followed me on the road some little way.
_ye called to

Le, and asked me the same question. He again said,
"Do you belong to the hall?" I said, " No, but I come
from there." Ile was dressed as I bad usually seen him,
He had dark clothes on—a dress coat, such as he usually
wears.

John Mortar deposed—l am a city constable. On
Tuesday night, November 28, there was some informa-
tion sent to our station-house at Norwich. Myself and
seven other policemen were sent by Mr. Hudson, the
magistrate, to Stanfield-hall. On arriving there I re-
ceived instructions from Inspector Amiss, and about
two o'cicck I accompanied him And eight others to a
place called rotaall. farm. We got to thia am, and

we surrounded the house. About n quarter after six i
the morning I saw Rush come to the door; after hearing
the bar slip I opened the door end went in andi 31Z 3 i
him by the arm, saying, " You are my prisoner." Ic
spector Amiss, Pont, and several other 3, entered the
house, and Pont handcuffed him. While doing so he
said, " The two Mr. Jermys have been shot, and you
arc suspected of doing it." Mr. Rush then said, " Good
God! I hopo they don't suspect me." Pont, Amiss, and
myself went with Mr. Rush into his bedroom. On
the bed I found the cloak which I now produce. It
was spread out on the bed where I found it. (The
witness, by request, put the cloak on, and the jury ex-
amined it.) In the course of the search, Mr. Rush said
to me, " What time did the affair take place?" I made
him no answer. Perhaps a minute elapsed, and then
he said, "I understand it was done a little after eight
o'clock." I said, "From whom, sir, did you under-
stand that?"

The CORONER said—You, had_ no right to ask that
question.
Witness—l asked him that, because lam sure he had
not heard it. Ile said, "I should have been there last
night about that time had I not understood that youttg
Mr. Jcrmy was at home. The young man is a great
enemy of wine, but the old gentleman and me have been
better friends than we were."

I Thomas Osborne, of the city police, deposed—Mr.
) Rush was left in my charge by Inspector Amiss. When
• Mr. Rush was getting his breakfast there was a woman
• dressed as a widow who made the tea. He said to the
woman, " I am accused of murdering Mr. Jermy and his
son, but that scoundrel Clarke has done this. It is he
that has done this. He has caused me to be suspected;:but
you and Savory can:clear me, as Savory washed my boots
at half-last five o'clock, and you know I did not go—"
He paused, and then said to the woman, " Did they ask
you any questions?" She said, " They asked me if
you went out in the evening." He said, " They had no
right to a3k such questions." He said, " What
did you tell them?" She answered, " I said you were
out between eight and nine o'clock for a quarter of an
hour." He said, " I was not out ten minutes." He
said, " You know I had my slip shoes on." Mrs. James
said, " I do not know if you had or not. I did not see
you put your boots on." He then said to me, " Which
one below stairs was it that named the time the murder
was done ?" I replied that not a word was mentioned.
Rush also said, " I have no doubt but that I shalt be
suspected, because we have lived on such bad terms, but
latterly the old one and me have been more friendly.
The young one was my greatest enemy," He asked
about his cloak, and said, " Why is the reason they
won't allow me to have it? I want to put it on." He
asked, "Do you know what they have against me ?" I
said, " No; we are sent by Mr. Cann to apprehend you,
and that is all I know of the affair."
Stephen Amiss, inspector of the Norwich police, de-
scribed the result of the search at Rush's house. In a
drawer in the bedroom I found a powder-flask and shot-
bag.--(These articles were produced.)—In a closet in
same room I found anotherpowder-flask, a shot belt, and
adu ce small dark pocket lantern.—(These articles were pro-
d.)
Robert Thompson, inspector of the Norwich police
force, corroborated the evidence of the other police
officers.
Mr. Standley, jun., produced the paper picked up in
the passage in Stanfield-hall by ono of the servants, as
stated in the evidence before the magistrates.
The following is a copy:—
" There are seven of us; three of us outside and four
inside the hall—all armed as you see us two. If any of
your servants offer to leave the premises, or to follow, you
will be shot dead. Therefore all of you keep nside the
servants'-hall, and you, nor any one else will take any
arms, for we aro only come to take possession of Stand-
field-hall property. THOMAS JEItMY, the Owner."
There were no more witnesses present.
The inquest was anjourned to Tuesday, the coroner
issuing his warrant for the apprehension of Rush's
housekeeper, who is already in custody.
Great anxiety has been evinced to ascertain the fate
of Mrs. Jermy Jermy and her servant. The arm of
Mrs. Jermy was mach shattered, but the medical men,
after consultation, determined not to resort to amputa-
tion, as it was feared that the patient would sink under
the operation. There is now, we are happy to hear,
hopes of saving the limb. The servant is also doing
favourably.

ADMIRALTY NOTICE.
NAVAL MEDALS.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 30.
It is requested that claims for a Naval Medal, ac-
cording to the forms shown in the Gazette of the 7th of
June last, be forthwith sent to the Admiralty.
It is not at present intended to limit the time for re-
ceiving applications, but it is desirable they should be
sent iu by the 15th December, 1848.
W. A. B. HAMILTON.

WEST RIDING ELECTION.
WITHDRAWAL OF MR. ROEBUCK.
LEEDS—SATURDAY NIGRT.—The resolutions carried
at the public meeting, held in the Court House, Leeds,
on Wednesday evening last, have been communicated to
Mr. Roebuck through the medium of Peter Fairbairn,
Esq., the chairman of the meeting. The reply of Mr.
Roebuck has just been received by Mr. Fairbairn, and is
now in the printer's hands for circulation throughout the
riding :

" Reform Club, London, Dec. 1, 1848.
" My dear Sir,—Your letter enclosing the flattering
resolution of the Leeds meeting, respecting myself, has
roused many contending emotions in my mind.
But as to the course to be pursued, I cannot for a mo-
ment entertain a doubt.
" had I merely to think of myself in this matter—if
all that might and would be lost, were my labour,
anxiety, and time, I should have buckled on my armour,
and taken the field at once, without asking whether
there was a chance of victory. But lam bound to re-
member that, by such a proceeding, I embark my friends
in the contest. Their time, money, labour, and anxieties
are to be considered--and also it behoves us ail to weigh
the consequences to the great Liberal party of my ap •
peering as a candidate at this the eleventh hour.
" I am told, and I believe the statement, that alter all
that has occurred, success is not probable. A part of
the Liberal electors have been so anxious in the pursuit
of a particular object as to allow themselves for the mo-
ment (and I hope it is only for the moment) to forget
and neglect the interests and wishes of that immense
body from whom the great moral force of the Liberal
party has always been derived--I mean the non-electors.
A sectarian and not a national flag has been raised. The
watchwords of "Civil and Religious Liberty" have been
for the instant disunited, and the grand motive-force of a
generous patriotism has been disregarded and laid aside,
in order to have its place supplied by the more intense,
bat far less generous, far narrower feeling of religious
antipathy. This, for many reasons, I consider most un-
fortunate. The immediate result will probably be the
success of the Conservative candidate—the somewhat
more remote, but much more important consequence, may
be the permanent separation of the Liberal party itself.
To this latter effect I have more especially directed my
attention, and to it would most respectfully solicit
the attention, not only of my friends, but of those
also who, while they entertained liberal opinions,
have resolved to adopt and support a candidate whose
previously expressed political senttments have been in
direct opposition to their own. Upon this resolution I
will not presume on the present occasion to hazard an
opinion, except in so far as regards the future. My
great object during the whole of my political life, has
been the steady advancement of rational freedom. From
the pursuit of that object no temporary expediency, no
personal ambition, no party, or sectarian passion has
made me swerve, and now I wish so to improve the pre-
sent incident as to make it subservient to this great end
of all my endeavours, by healing all differences between
those who have long been friends, and uniting them
again into that bond of fellowship which has,if in
itr t
past
times, produced glorious results, and which w
maintained, lead to others not lessfri worihyno of
the admiration
present
and gratitude. To be among my ends
ypolitical
opinions during
gre the great
constituencyuuntest—tu tasofte my
w
itselfave a subject of gratulation and honourable pride. To
have beenbeen able to place this great contest on the broad
ground of national interests, in this hour of the world's
dismay and almost universal confusion, to have made
manifest to the world that my countrymen were still
self-possessed and ardent as ever in the pursuit of free-
dom, that they were neither frightened from their par.
pose by the follies of other nations nor excited to wild
hopes by theories and experiments not yet tested by ex-
perience, to have given them the opportunity of proving
themselves what they really are, cautious yet ardent,
tolerant to others while vindicating their own rights, and
loving and seeking freedom and security, political, social,
religious, not for themselves alone, but for mankind—to
have been ably fairly to do all this would have been a
reward for a long life of labour; but this I willingly
forego—any expectation of success I cheerfully relin-
quish, in the hope that by so doing I contribute to re-
unite the friends of civil and religious freedom—that I
afford an opportunity to old friends to forget present
differences, and to join heart and hand in the great
work before them—a work not yet half accomplished,
namely, the giving to the people of this great country,
in fact, and not merely in name, the government of
themselves.

" This, then, being my desire, you will, I hope under.
stand and approve of the step which I now take. I thank
you and all my friends, most heartily, for all the kind
expressions you have used respecting myself and my po.
laical conduct ; and I think I best show my gratitude
by remaining as I am, and not presenting myself directly
before you as a candidate for your suffrages.
Believe me, my dear Sir, yours most sincerely,
" J. A. Romincr..
Fairbairn, Esq., Woodsley House, Leeds."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—My attention has been called to a letter in your
poper of the 29th as to the West Riding election, in
which it is stated that, in conjunction with any brother,
Mr. Betts, I have subscribed 1,0001. to promote Mr.
Denison's return. You will much oblige me by giving
the most unqualified contradiction to it, as it is alto-
gether untrue.

I am, Sir, yours very obediently,
S. MORTON PETO.
Somerleyton Hall, Dec. 2, 1848.-

FlRE.—Yesterday evening a fire happened at the
Royal Oak, No. 2, Clarence-place, Old Kent-road, be-
longing to Mr. Oaief. It was caused by an explosion of
gas, which set the stall-board in the bar in flames.
Timely assistance having been obtained, the gas was cut
off, and the fire was extinguished, but not before consi-
derable damage was done.
MANCHESTER, SATEIRDAT ETENING.—The first
case of cholera bas occurred in Manchester. A gentle-
man returning from the north was seized while in the
traits last night. On his arrival here ho was taken home,
and attended by a medical man all night, but expired at
4vo o'clock ;his morning.