The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

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TITIC DR Xll UL ISTURAR /X,
GOLDEN-L
ADJ QUI*.
(Continued from our Afternoon ' 'f?x!iifyestnrdayt)
John Moore, of No. 9, Cup .*W:w4g.--riext
examined. • He said that on Satu • illbatt
`font.' o'clock he was awoke by a kaoollkil yfiktifig,.wur-'
lie opened the window, when Harriefrarker called
out, "It's me, Mr. Moore; I want to speak to your
wife ; do not hinder her ; I'll not keep her fins
minutes." Witness told his wife, who went down
stairs, where she remained a few minutes. Upon her
return she made a communication to him which in-
duced him to get up and go for a policeman. He
met two constables, and he went with them to Blake's
house. They got in at the window, when they. found
the two children lying on the bed quite dead. The
clothing of the bed was very much disturbed.
Jane Moore, wife of last witness, stated that upon
going down stairs she found Harriet Parker
waiting at the door. She went into the lower room,
and sat du wn, exclaiming, " Oh, Mrs. Moore, I
have done it." Witness asked her what she had
done, when Parker replied, " Blake came home last
night to take me to the play, and on going out he
met with a strumpet or stump (witness could not
recollect which), who took his arm and they ran
away immediately, saying that she was Parker's
mistress." Witness considered that she was greatly
excited, and she told her that it was not a fit time to
call her up to tell her of it. Parker than got up and
walked towards the door. She :vl;,-(1 her whether or
not Mr. Blake hail conic home. Parker replied, " No,
he has not, and a pretty spectacle there is for him
%hen he does come home." Witness asked her what
she had done, when Parker placed her hands on her
shoulders, and said, " I have murdered his two chil-
dren." Witness said, " You don't mean to say
that?" and she replied, " I do, and I am now going to
give myself up." She then went away.
Police-constables Renden, G 11, and Brown, 223
G, described the state they found the room, and the
position of the children when they entered at the
window. The former witness was of opinion that
the deceased children had been strangled by the hand,
from the marks on the throats.

George Fowler, 161 G, said that about four o'clock
on Saturday morning Parker came to him in Play•
house-yard, and said to him " I give myself up." He
asked her what for, but she refused to tell till she got
nearer to the station-house. Another policeman came
up and asked him what he was going to do with her,
was it anything to do with Cupid's-court. She said,
" Yes, I have murdered the two children, I intended
to do this nine months ago; now I have done it, more
to my sorrow, but I knew what I was about."
William Grubb, living'at 3, Cupid's-court, deposed
that when he and his wife returned from Sadler's
Wells Theatre about twelve on Friday night, Park.-r
passed him as lie was standing at the corner of the
court. On his going in he saw that the window and
shutters of her room were open, and t'.e two deceased
children sitting on the bed at play.—(Great sensation
in the court.) He went upstairs to bed, and heard
nothing till he was awoke by the noise in the court in
the morning.
To the Coroner—Saw nothing of Parker after twelve
on Friday night, nor did he hear any noise or cries till.
the knocking at four the next morning. He believed
she was of sound mind. Quarrelling took place be-
tween her and Blake sometimes. She appeared quite
sober when she passed him.
Policeman Kinchin, 26 G, was next called—Had
charge of the cell in which Parker was from six till
nine, on Saturday morning. No promise or threat
was made to her. She spoke out loud knowing he
was present. She said, " I committed murder to
revenge the father of two children, they are innocent,
lam guilty. lamof a vindictive mind, through my
wickedness I have done it." He cautioned her, and
she paused. She continued, " I loved him, I doated
the ground he walked on. I am not like a person
that was drunk, 1 knew well what I was about. I
was sober."

! The CORONER said it was a most extraordinary
case, from the admissions made. lie thought as this
was only the second day, Sunday included, after the
discovery of the dreadful crime, it would be better to
adjourn the inquiry, when the surgeon's concluding
evidence would be taken, and it would give the
wretched woman an opportunity of corresponding
with her friends. From the long remand the case
could not possibly be sent before the present grand
jury at the Old Bailey.
The inquiry was then adjourned until Thursday
next.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY, JAN. 3.—The Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's splendid new
iron steam-ship Euxine, Captain Wilson, sailed this
afternoon for Gibraltar, Malta, and Constantinople. She
takes the Bombay mail to Malta, where it will be trans-
ferred to one of the Company's steamers for Alexandria.
The Euxine has 45 passengers and a full cargo, con-
sisting of 450 tons of bale goods for Constantinople and
Trebizond. The Spanish steamer Isabella Napier, Cap-
tain Coxhead, arrived on Saturday from Oporto with s
cargo of oxen. The Jupiter, Captain Meehan, is ex-
pected on Wednesday with the Spanish and Portuguese
mails.

CONSOLIDATED TRELEIGH COPPER MINING COM-
PANY.—The quarterly meeting of this company was held
at the Offices, 57, Old Broad-stn?et, yestarda Mr.
Ashley in the chair. The chairman said that the direc-
tors were very anxious to give a dividend to the adven-
turers in the company, but the depressed state of the
times, and the low prices at which copper ore had ranged
during the past three months, prevented them prudently
doing so. Mr. Nicholson then read the accounts, which
showed that the receipts, including a balance in hand at
the last meeting of 8,832/. 19s. 101., amonnted to 6,3901.
15s. 63., and atter defraying the expenses of the quarter,
including a dividend amounting to 1,5221. 10s., there
remained available assets of 2,829/. 13s. I Id. (exclusive
of a reserved fund of 450 L), subject, however, to liabi-
lities amounting to 989/. 6s. 10d. Mr. Birdsey and Mr.
Lindo thought that a dividend of ss. per share might be
declared, but, after some conversation, in which it was
explained that the assets consisted principally of mer-
chants' bills not yet converted into cash, it was resolved
not to declare a dividend for the present; and thanks
being voted to the directors, the meeting separated.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Friday, a man ramed
Benjamin Rogers, servant to Mr. Walter Williams, of
the Albion Works, West Bromwich, was sent to Bir-
mingham, and having received 70/. in silver, he put it
into a leathern bag, which he strapped round his shoul-
ders, and returned by the packet-boat. He left the boat
at Bromford bridge, and was walking along the canal
side, when four men suddenly stopped him and de-
manded his bag. He refused to give it up, and they
proceeded to force it from him. Rogers shouted for as-
sistance, and attracted the attention of Betts, the parish
constable, but before he reached the spot the robbers
made off with the bag. Betts immediately pursued the
men, and succeeded in taking a man named John
llewson, alias Jones, and said to be a notorious house-
breaker. The other robbers effected their escape, but
two of them have since been apprehended. The three
prisoners underwent examination on Saturday, and Ro-
gers identified Hewson as one of the gang who robbed
him. The prisoners were then remanded until Saturday
next.— Birmingham Gazette.
A VETERAN.—Lieutenant-Colonel John Babington
died on Saturday, at his residence in the Regent's-park.
He had served with a detachment of the 14th Light
Dragoons, to whioh regiment be remained attached
throughout his whole career, in the unfortunate expedi-
tion to Quiberon Bay, and tho occupation of the Isle of
Diev, on the coast of La Vendee, in 1795.
, He was sub-
sequently engaged for two years in St. Domingo after
its celebrated revolt from the French. On his return to
Europe he served in the Peninsula and south of France
from 1809 to March, 1814, including the different affairs
with the enemy on the 10th, 11th, and 12th of May,
1809; the crossing of the Douro; the battle of Talavera;
the atlairs with the enemy's advanced posts on the 11th
of July, 1810, in front of Ciudad Rodrigo, when Colonel
Talbot, commanding the regiment, was killed; the Pas-
sage of the Coa; and various actions covering the retreat
from Almeida to Torres Vedras; the battle of Busaco;
and in all the actions with the enemy in their retreat
from Santarem to the frontiers of Spain, the Pass of
Maya, the Lines of Ainhoa, the passage of the hive and
Nivelle, Cambo, Hasparen, Hellette, Garris Sauveterre,
St. Gladi, and the battle of Orthes. He was wounded
(horse killed) and taken prisoner on the 14th of March,
1814, in a cavalry outpost affair at Clarac, between Aire
and Pau. After the conclusion of peace in the same
year, he had arrived at Bermuda with two squadrons of
his regiment en route for the United States, when he was
recalled in consequence of the escape of Napoleon from
Elba, to join the army under the Duke of Wellington,
in Belgium, but only reached Europe after the war
had been happily brought to an end by the battle of
Waterloo.

SPARROWS.—Ii is proved that a pair of sparrows,
during the time that they have their young to feed,
destroy on an average every week 3,360 caterpillars.
This calculation is rounded upon actual observation.
Two parents have been known to carry to the nest forty
caterpillars in an hour ; and, supposing the sparrows to
enter the nest only twelve times during each day, which
would cause a consumption of 480 caterpillars, this Sum
gives 3,360 caterpillars extirpated weekly from a garden.
But the utility of these birds is not limited to this cir-
cumstance alone, for they likewise feed theiryoutig with
butterflies and other winged insects, each of which, if not
destroyed in this rnanntr would become the parent of
hundreds of caterpillars.

A FELINE FISIIER.—A cat, kept at the East Mill,
in this town, has shown an extraordinary propensity
for catching fish, which she does very adroitly, and
with considerable sagacity. She seems to have learned
to know that when the hatches are raised, the fish are
washed over by the force of the current, and that when
they are closed the water suddenly recedes, leaving the
fish for a moment exposed on the stones at the bottom
of the fall. As soon as she hears the hatch lowered,
she rushes out of the house, and, springing to the bottom
of the fall, seizes any poor unfortunate WI that may be
floundering there, and bears it off in triumph.—Western
Flying Post.
DIABOLICAL OIITRAGE.—Last night, about seven
o'clock, a ball, supposed to have been discharged from
an air-gun, passed through the parlour window of a
tioa-c in Gower-street, 11. dford-square, and struck
lady on the forehead. The window being tormed of
plate glass so greatly lessened the force of the missile
' that no serious injury was inflicted.

MRS. TROLLOPE'n NEW NOVEL.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
TOWN AND COUNTRY;
OR,
THE DAYS OF THE REGENCY.
By MRS. TROLLOPE.
Authoress of " Father Eustace," &c.
Henry Colburu, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-straet

Now ready, in post Bvo., price 10s. tid., with Portrait and Plates.
DVENTURES OF AN ANGLER
In CANADA, NOVA SCOTIA, anal the UNITED STATES.

By CHARLES LANMAN.
Rtohard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
(Publisher In Ordinary to her Majesty.)

RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE.
NyESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY
IL SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends
and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and
to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c.,
take place every WEDNESDAY, at One o'clock, (instead of Tuesday
and Friday, a. 3 hitherto), at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-
..treet, Loudon, to which place, favours, containing instructions
(w:th a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed.
Ali Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day
pre Acras to their being offered; and advice, of results will be
f_rwrzded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme-
diate; y cdsposed or according to instructions.
Sales and purchases of all descriptions of stook and shares
ffected by private cJatraet, every day, as usual.
Onicee, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Un !er the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
EVENING
THI
Will be psesented ShakspereS 's Comedy of THE TAMING OF TILE
SHREW. Baptista, Mr. Gough; Vincentio, Mr. Tilbury; Lucentlo
Hr. H. Ynntlenhoff ; Petrucio, Mr. Webster ; Grumio, Mr. Keeley ;
Kathariria. Mrs. Nisbett Blanca, Mrs. Seymour.
To ecmclude with a New and Original Burlesque Spectacle entitled
THE WORLD UNDERGROUND; or, the Golden Flute and the
riven Waters.
9,tage Manager, Mr. Farren ; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster.
J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper.
Boxes, ss. ; Pit. 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is.
Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the direction o: Madame Celeste.
TIIIS EVENING

Will be presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF
THE OCEAN ; o:, the Prince and the Mermaiden. Principal cha-
racters by Messrs. Waye, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, Wennaire,
Cv.'lenford, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss
Ellen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, mad Madame Celeste.
To be followed by the Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD
;the property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha-
racters by Messrs. Wright, Culienford, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed-
ford. Mr.s. Laws &c., &c.

To conclude with an Italian Pantomime, entitled PIERROT, the
Married Mau ; and roucHINELLO, the Gay Single Fellow.
Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.
I boors open at lialt-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestris.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING

Will be presented new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRA-
GEDY QUEEN. _ _

After waich, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN
BRANCH.

To conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX.
Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. Mac.
namara.
Dress Boxes, 55.; tipper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. N.
half-price to any part of the house.
The iN'ew Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the
Public every day, from Ten till six.
The Inter!or of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W.
liradweli of the Colosseum.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street,
Portland. place.
THIS EVENING

will be presented the Tragedy of THE GAMESTER. Mr. Be-
verley, Mr. Cooper ; Stukely, Mr. Ryder ; Lewson, Mr. Conway ;
Bates, Mr. C. Fisher; Jarvis, Mr. Gilbert; Dawson, Mr. Norton ;
Mrs. Beverley, Miss Emmeline Montague ; Charlotte, Miss Susan
Cushman ; Betty, Miss Somers.
After which, the popular Farce of FIGHTING BY PROXY.
Characters by Messrs. Compton, Cowell, Conway, J. Vining, Ne.
vine ; Mrs. Selby, and Miss Somers.
To conclude with a new Christmas Pantomime, entitled OLD
FATHER TIME ; or, Harlequin and the Four Seasons.
Dress Circle, 55.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.

FRENCH PLAYS.—ANTIGONE.
Lessee, Mr. John ➢litchell, 33, Old Bond-street.

Mr. Mitchell respectfully announces that the celebrated lyrical
tragedy of ANTIGONE,-from the Greek of Sophocles, with the en-
tire music of the illustrious composer Mendelssohn, will Ise pmluced at
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
TO-MORROW EVENING.
Ilisiribution of the Characters.—Creon, M. Bocage, as originally
performed by him at the Theatre de l'Odeon, Paris, and by whom the
Mise en Scene at this theatre will be conducted ; Demon, M. Pech-
ter ; Tiresias, M. Lemonier ; Le Garde, M. St. Marie ; Le Coryphee,
M. Henri Alix ; Antigone, Mine. Kabul Pechter (her first appear-
ance this season) ; Ismene,Mdlle. Baptiste ; Eurydice, Mdlle. Berthe.
Director of the Music ...... ....M. Jules Benedict.

For the efficient performs Wee of this Celebrated composition the
following professors have been expressly engaged, and will consti-
tute the orchestra :—First Violins—Messrs. Burotte, Deloffre, News-
ham, Mellon, Thlrlwall, Brown, Goffrie, and Morris. second
Violins—Messrs. Ella, Payton, Zerbini, Neweham, jun., Elsinore,
and Watson. Tenors—Messrs. Lyon, Glanville, Weslake, and It.
Blagrove. Vialencellos—Messrs. Lucas, Pilet, L. Phillips, and
Guest. Double Basses—Messrs. Howell, Campanile, Severn, and
Griffiths. Flutes—Messrs. Itibas and King. Oboes—Messrs. G.
Cooke and Nicholson. Clarionattes—Messrs. Boose and Maycock.
Corns—Messrs. Charles Harper and Callcott. Bassoons—Messrs.
Larkin and Winterbettom. Trumpets—Messrs. Thomas ll:rper and
Handley. Trombones—Messrs. Smithies, Healey, and Winterbot-
tom. Drums—Mr. Chipp. Harp—Mr. T. Wright. Conductor—
Mr. Benedict.

N.B. A numerous and powerful chorus has also been engaged under
the superintendence of Mr Crice and Mr. Lee.

A new scene has been painted To; the subject by Mr. Muir and
assistants,

A detailed prospectus of the general arrangements, and of the
pieces which will be produced during the season, may be had at Mr.
Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bend-street ; and at the Box-office
of the Theatre, which is open daily, from 1 to 5.
Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. Gil.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, No. 1, Davidge•terrace, Kensington-road

SLirrey.

THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with the
celebrated Opera or
THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT.

Characters by Messrs. 11. Phillips, King, Horucastle, Rafter, Att-
wow', M`Mahon, and Miss Poole.
To conclude with a new Pantomime, entitled BA.TTLEDOOR and
SHUTTLECOCK ; or, Harlequin Trap, Bat, and Ball.
A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which
have been re-titled). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the
Stinclpal Librarians ; and at the Box-oillze of the Theatre, which is
open daily from Ten until Four.
Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed THE LIGHTERMAX of BANKSIDE ; sir, the
Orphan of Bermondsey. Characters by Messrs. Dale, Henderson,
Hicks, Searle, forman, Higgie ; Miss Vincent, Mrs. Lee, and Miss
Burroughcliffe.
After which, the new grand scholastic and instructive Pantomime,
entitled TILE WORLD OF WONDERS; or, Harlequin Caxton and
Hie Origin of Printing, with wonderful scenery and decorative ap-
pointments. Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ;
Harlequin, M. Lupino ; Sprite, Signor Molino; Columbine, Mdlle.
Lutilli.
To conclude with HOUNSLOW HEATH.
Ilexes, is. ; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 4d. No Half-price is any part
of th• house.

Doors open at Six, to

at llalf-past

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty.
Mr. Batty's performing Elephants.
THIS EVENING,

The Grand Spectacle of THE CAMP OF SILESIA.
Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of
the Establishment, in the various modes of equestration.
To conblude with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitled
HARLEQUIN DOCTOR SYNTAX AND HIS DAPPER GREY
MARE, in which those popular artistes Herr Den'tn, Mdlle. Theo-
dore, Mr. Anderson. and Mr. Bradbury, as Harlequin. Columbine,
Clown, and Pantaloon, which will exceed in splendour and enact
all former productions at the Amphitheatre,
Box-office open nom 11 till 5
Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W West.

i LIE WEATHER.—SIIN OYFICE, JAN. 3.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42 ; Highest, 49 ; Noon, 43.
BAROMETER, 30.05.—W1ND S.S.E.; fin•.

Ai .11 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning.. 23 minutes after 12. I Evening .. 46 minutes after 12.

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