The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-09 00:00:00

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A MAN SHOT AT ANDOVER,

(FE.OIII A CORRESPONDENT.
ANDovart, FEB. 7.—An extraordinary degree of excite-
ment has been witnessed here this day, whilst the market
was being held,
intelligence having been received that a
person named Brierly (employed as timekeeper at Redrice,
the mansion of the Rev. Mr. Best) had been shot by another
person, also employed on the works. From the best informa-
tion we could obtain, it appeared that the assailant, Mr. T. M.
Shunnur, who was formerly in business in this town as an
architect, had bean engaged by Mr. Beverstock, of Marl-
borough, contractor, for extensive improvements and addi-
tions to the present mansion at Redrice. Shurmur's duty
was to direct the workmen and pay their wages. The indi-
vidual so seriously injured lodged at the house of his as-
sailant, in Andover, and a dispute arose as to a sum of money'
missing, and which Mr. Shurmur accused his lodger of
taking, but who denied having done so. On Saturday
morning Shurmur called upon a gunsmith in this town, and
selected a large horse-pistol. This he loaded with powder in
the presence of the gunmaker, and then asked for a bullet,
which, having obtained, he placed it in the pistol, and ex-
claimed, "1 intend with this to well frighten a fellow." He
then proceeded by the Magnet coach, which goes near the
works, to Redrice, and ceiling Brierly into the counting-
house, locked the door, placing the key in his pocket. Soon
after, the report of a pistol was heard, and a cry of murder.
he other workmen hastened to the spot, and, with a crow-
bar, wrenched open the door, when the unfortunate man fell
into their arms, having received the. ball in the cheek,
just below the eye. The ball passed under the un-
fortunate man's ear and came out at the back of his
Lead. Surgical assistance was immediately obtained,
and we are glad to learn he is at present going on favour-
ably, and unless lock-jaw or mortification should take place,
it is the opinion of the medical attennant he may recover.
Shurmur was immediately secured, and, the magistrates
being then sitting, was taken before them, and remanded
until Monday next, the 9th inst., at ten o'clock.

PREPARATIONS FOR VAR.—Whatever may be the
result of the present aspect of affairs, the standing army is
about to be placed iu a most efficient state by the addition of
10,000 men, and the militia will be brought into readiness for
inimed,ate training on the shortest notice. Tice Ordnance
Corps is to be increased betwixt 1,400 and 1,500 men, ore
half of that number to form a battalion of the Royal Regi-
ment of Artillery, consisting of eight companies of Royal
Sappers and Miners, commanded by officers of the Royal
Engineers. There are at present seven troops of Royal Horse
Artillery, three troops C H, and Rocket troop, at Woolwich;
one troop E, at Newcastle; one troop F, at Leeds; one troop
D, at Dublin ; and one troop A at Limerick. Each of six of the
troops has four guns, which are to be increased to six, with the
usual number of gunners in proportion. The Royal Marines
are to be increased to the extent of 2,500 men, and the
land forces of the line regiments 6,000 men, but
whether the latter will be added in battalions or
additional regiments is rot yet made known. The increase.,
in the navy will be about 1,000 men, but it is already- in
very efficient state, and steam-vessels of very great power
can be manned by a far lea number of hoods than ships of
war. This is a very great advantage, and a great saving of
life during engagements, as the destruction on board of
crowded vessels is far greater in proportion to the number on
board, as was recently shown by the great loss of life on
board the French vessels at the engagement with Rosa.s in
the river Plate, the number on board being generally about
one-third more in French vessels than in English of the same
class. A very important addition is about to be made in all
large war steamers of the British navy by the addition of
two or more light six-pounder guns, mounted in every re-f
spect in the same manner as the light six-pounder guns o
the Royal Horse Artillery. These guns are to be fitted with
men harness, to be taken on shore when required, and moved.
from one place to another, with or without the aid of horses.
FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE.-0/1 Sunday morning, at
about ten minutes to three o'clock, police-constable Sullivan,
172 11, whilst on duty in John-street, St. George's-in-the-
East, saw an object issue from the house No. 13, and run
up the street blazing away like a tar-barrel. He gave in-
stant pursuit, at the same time springing his rattle, and on
coming up he perceived it was a woman enveloped in flame*.
Her shrieks were heart- rending. Sullivan at once proceeded
to tear away her flaming garments, in which humane Leek
he was soon assisted by 120 K, and in a short time they
succeeded in quite denuding her, but not until she had suf-
fered most frightful injuries. Information was instantly con-
veyed to the Denmark-street station-house, when Inspector
Donegan immediately bad her conveyed on the police
stretcher to the London Hospital, where she lies in a most
precarious state. The unhappy sufferer is a young woman
named Mary Anne O'Connor, and it is supposed her clothes
ignited whilst she slept before the fire, and she was in
complete blaze on reaching the street.
REVOLTING OCCURRENCE.—The neighbourhood of
Farringdon-street and its vicinity has been for the last two
days thrown into a state of considerable excitement from a
rumour which gained credence in every quarter, that a
young woman of the name of Taylor had sold her illegitimate
child, a little boy of the tender age of three years, under
circumstances as singular and romantic as they evince a
total want of feeling. It appears that in the course of
Thursday last a lady, bearing all the outward indications of
the highest respectability, drove into Farringdon-street in
her carriage, which was pulled up at the end of Harp-alley.
There she made some inquiries with respect to a child, of
which she expressed a desire to become possessed. The
lady introduced herself to a female relative of the young
woman Taylor; and on finding that Taylor had a male
child of the age stated, she desired to see it, and for that
purpose returned to, and waited in her carriage while the
female first addressed proceeded to the mother of Taylor, who
with her hustand, is in charge of an unoccupied house, No.
00, Farringdon-street. The mother instantly set out to fetch
her daughter and the child from their domicile in Chandos-
street, at the West-end, and on their return together the
child, a smart, intelligent, and prepossessing little fellow, was
exhibited to the lady, who at once made overtures for his
purchase. The unnatural mother of the child, and her equally
unnatural parent, consented to the sale, and received the
earnest of half a sovereign. The carriage drove off with the
lady and her newly-acquired purchase, but returned in a brief
space of time, and showed the unconscious boy denuded of
the dirty rags with which his limbs had been encased, but
now superbly clad in new clothes, and hat and feathers of the
most tasteful and expensive kind. They again drove off, the
lady promising to renew her visit on Monday next, and then
to pay any sum, from 21. to 5/., they might require. The
grandfather of the child was only made acquainted with the
occurrence late on Friday night, and the poor old man, who
exhibits more of humanity than either his wife or his
daughter, is loud in his denunciations of their conduct, and
in his determination to trace the matter to the bottom. At
present the name of tl:e lady or her abode is matter of the
most perfect mystery. —Sunday Times.
S.UTH DERBYSHIRE AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION
SOCIETY.—DERBY, SATURDAY.—Yesterday afternoon a spe-
cial general meeting of the members of the South Derby-
shire Agricultural Protection Society was held at the King's
Head Inn, Derby, to consider what steps should be taken
in reference to the measures proposed by Sir Robert Peel.
Not more than sixty assembled on the occasion, including
Mr. E. M. Mundy,M.P., Mr. E. S. Chandos Pole, the Hon.
and Rev. Alfred Curzon, Mr. Harrison, Mr. W. Eaton
Mousley (Mayor of Derby), Rev. Reginald Pole, Mr. J. G.
Johnson, Mr. Roper, Mr. Child, &c. The president, Mr.
E. C. S. Pole, was called to the chair. Mr. Mundy, M.P.,
in the course of the proceedings, assured the meeting he had
given the questicn of protection his most serious considera-
tion, and he had made up his mind to oppose Sir R. Peel's
measures.—(Applause.) He heped, as he had hitherto been
consistent, his constituents would deem him worthy of their
future confidence. It was agreed that petitions against Sir
R. Peel's measures -should be adopted, and entrusted to Mr.
Mundy and Mr. Colville for presentations to Parliament, and
the meeting then separated.
EXTENSIVE, FIRES.—GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PRO-
PERTY.—Yesterday morning, between six and seven o'clock,
a lire, attended with a considerable destruction of valuable
property, broke out upon the premises in the occupation of
Mr. J. laney, a cabinet inauufacturer, in Skinner-street,
Bishopsgate. The discovery was made by Sergeant Tongue,
of the City force. Without loss of time an alarm was spread
in the usual way, and other constables coming up, they en-
deavoured to remove same of the property contained in the
manufactory. In that endeavour they were, however, unsuc-
cessful, for in less than ten minutes after thel first discovery
the flames were rushing through the roof and windows, threat-
ening destruction to the premises belonging to Messrs. Flo-
rence, known as the Bishopagate Distillery, and also to the
adjoining property of Mr. Bateman, timber merchant. Nume-
rous engines belonging to the London brigade came in rapid
succession, and a plentiful supply of water was dischargel
into the burning premises; but it was nearly.
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o'clock before the conflagration was entirely.extin
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but that was stated to be 6001. or 7001. below the loss. The
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broke out on the premises belonging to Mr. Wm. Cooper„
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dust contractor, in St. Anne-street, 'Westminster, , a very nay •
row and densely-populated neighbourhood. The flames olio
ginated in the straw loft, a long building, extending about
fifty feet over the wheelwright's shop and breeze sheds. A.
number of the workpeople removed a large quantity of straw
from the lofts to a place of tafety, and, owing to the com-
bined exertions of all parties, and the timely arrival of the
fire-engines, the fire was safely extinguished shortly after
six o'clock.
A young man, named Wm. Williams, is in custody at
the Worship-street Police-court, charged, upon his own con-
fession, with stealing eighty sovereigns. It appeared that
prior to the commencement of business the other morning he
addressed, by letter, the office-keeper, and said that he
wished to give himself up, for he had stolen 801., and his
conscience would not let him rest. He proceeded to state
that he was a hair dresser, and had been in the service of a
Mr. Ball, at Eccles, near Manchester, but one day in
the month of October, a person whom he believed
to be a cattle-dealer, entered the shop to purchase
some tobacco, and went away, leaving his purse
upon the counter. The prisoner said he could not
resist the temptation, but took the purse unperceived, and
found in it 801. in gold, and he immediately went off with the
money, which he had since dissipated. He was not awar4
he said, whether any inquiry had been made about the loss.
Upon this statement of his, information was forwarded to the
place he mentioned, and an answer has been received,
from which it appeared that his statement was correct, ADA
the owner of the money was an Irish cattle dealer. The pri•
toner was remanded for the production of the evidence.
MARYLEBONE VESTRY.—On Saturday a deputations
composed of Dr. Cox, Cochrane, Esq., and othere,
sented a memorial from the working classes, PraPta poor
the casual poor be placed upon the same footbfranase said, iE
of the parish in the mode of relief.—mr. gym a moat ener
appeared that the destitute poor were trceia
bread and gruel
feeling manner : they were allowed onlyn
arliarrtment, uion a
and coup, and had to sleep
in a canunr to their beds. Thou-.
long shelf, without a partition toereseps
relieved by the district.
sands of destitute parsons
i Irieltered, and he could not toes
asylums, and welts ma "%is
---14",asiould not take measures for the-,
why the parish authorni,p
or.—Mr. Wilson moved, that
better relief of their casual::,
eAcv administered relief to the
. and not the
the guardian-,
they were equa
,ty attentive to the wants Os'
poor, and that
the
casual
poor.' 'This motion was adopts`'
their own and
and read to the deputation, in answer to their memorial. is
resolution was next proposed and passed for renewing tls .
contract for wooden pavement for three years, after which th -
vestry adjourned.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.--The Government e(
tract for 100 tons of sugar was taken, on Friday, by Mnowden, and that for 1:
60 tons of Smyrna raisins by AIL
Wallaby, at 121. per ton, on account of an importer, being,
good chi. fruit. Contracts were alsoere taken for tobacco, met
other articles required for the navy.
NEW I -TAMAN OPERA Housu.—Covent- garden Theatre
has been taken fur the purpose of playing Italian operas fat
ballets. An engagement was concluded en the sth of later
month, for three years certain, to open on the Ist of NOMA
be next,