The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-24 00:00:00

MURDER OF THE EARL OF MOR-

LEY'S GAMEKEEPER.
SALTRAM, THURSDAT.—This morning an inquest was
held at the Union Inn, Underwood, by Mr. A. B. Boney, (as
the body of Edward Tothill, the gamekeeper, whose unfor-
tunate death in an affray with poachers has been already
mentioned. Application was made for the admission of the
pres., but the Coroner refused to allow any but the witnesses
to be present at the proceedings. It is, however, understood
that the evidence of Mr. Belvin, the head-keeper, wasp in
substance, as follows :
"At four o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, the 21st
inst., I was out in Earl Morley's preserves with a party of as-
sistance, nine in number. The deceased, Edward rothill, was
the second keeper. The first intimation we had that there
were poachers out was from reports of suns in the Morefield
preserve. We proceeded in that direction, and came up with
the poachers, who were armed, and had dogs with them. In
the hope of deterring the party we fired upon the dogs, and
they ran away. I then challenged the poachers to stand,
which they refused, and three shots were fired at us. One
of the keepers, named Belevin, was struck in the shoulder,
though not seriously injured. Judging from their number
and daring character that our lives were in danger, I ordered
the keepers to fire in the direction from whence the last two
tiaLhes appeared, and after discharging their guns to rush
in upon the gang. They did so, and while I was reloading
my gun, I heard one of the keepers call to me for assistance.
I ran towards him, and found him struggling with one of
the poachers, named William Foote Read, whom the keeper
had by this time got down. My assistant, Timothy Ilpierf
was endeavouring to wrest from Read a double-bane
gun. In the 'struggle Read got away and discharged the'
gun at Loper, but fortunately without effect,
the charge passed over his head. I
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Calling the men together, we went in search of afterwards heard another shot further down the planta-
tion.
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bill, and found him lying on his face ; he had either a gun or
pistol wound in the breast, and was quite dead. Next morn-
ing, when sufficiently light, I proceeded with some assistance
to the place, and close to where the body of Tothill lay, we
found three hats belonging to the party who had escaped ;
one of the hats had several shots through it, so that I have
no doubt but that some of the party were wounded."
Several witnesses are still to be examined, and it is pro-
baUle that the inquest will last for at least another day. It
appears that the man in custody, who was not actually prey
sent when the murder was committed, was formerly a sur-
veyor, but has latterly kept a butcher's shop. He has -re-
ceived some small shots in the head, but is not considered
in danger.

CHICHESTER.—An instance has just occurred in
this vicinity of refusing to read the burial service at the
grave of a child baptised by a Dissenting Minister. The
circumstances of the cue are as follows :—An infant whose
parents are members of the Independent chapel in the vil-
lage of Bosham being unwell, their minister was sent for to
baptize the child ; subsequently it died. The vicar of
Bosham being applied to to bury it, he sent for the father,
and told him he could not read the burial service, because
the child had not been baptised by him, who, being a
successor to the apostles, was alone qualified to perform
that religious rite, and that the Dissenting Minister acted
only by Satanic agency. These arguments, however, having
no influence with the father, another stratagem was resorted
to in order to induce him to consent that the child should b
interred without the usual forms, viz., that the reading of
the burial service could be of no service to the dead; to
which the father, being a conscientious man, assented. The
vicar then asked if he would be satisfied if he attended the
funeral without reading the service? The father replied that
feeling conscious the child could not be benefited, he' should
not insist on its being done: but he wished for the sake of
others that it might. A witness being called, he left the
vicar's house. The Dissenting Minister having hea.rx,l,
what had taken place, was on his way to lay
met by
matter before the Bishop of the diocese when he was n?Tv_IL
the father, who told him that the vicar had not positively
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refused to read the service, and that he felt u
would. The child was, however, taken to tiie_gP,orerardsv,es apnrdayaeir
lently interred, after which the vicar readt the 1
Thej not imitate his
and the Benediction only. What a p
holding the sentiments of Dr. Newm Vicar of Bosham
example and go at once over to Rome.heretuses the burial rites to
will do well to be cautious bow y that individuals
' litsulomit so quietly to his priestly
father will be found who
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another Dissenter's child, as not very likely that another
authority.—Brighton G. efta
tljkhaltTall Committee
We that it is the intention
understand
TO RAILWAY RILLS,— on Monday PROPOSITION
of Sir Robert reel to propose
THE GOVERNMENT
should be formed of the Members of both Houses of ParliaL •
ment, for the purpose of instituting a preliminary examina=
tion into all the proposed railway schemes, to as to :select
those projects which, either for local or general benefit, it
would be most desirable to carry into execution, and 'that
the Bills for the lines so selected will alone be permittei to go
before the Standing Orders Committee.
The Barbadoes Globe, of the 18th of December, gives
the following account of an,accident to the Governor:—" It
is with exrreme regret that we announce an accident which
this day occurred to our esteemed and indefatigable Governor.
While walking in his gardens at Pilgrim, this afterfictOnrhig
Excellency, by some chance, tripped and fell, unfortunately
breaking his right leg just above the ankle."