The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-12 00:00:00

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COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, SEPT. 11.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.

SEPT. 5. Zephyretta schooner, Henry' Hope, Req., fi om
Havre; Whim cutter, Charles Brett, Esq., from Plymouth;
Wvvern schooner, Duke of Marlborough, from Scotland and
Plymouth last; Charlotte cutter, Hon. Wm. White Hedges,
from Guernsey and Cherbourg ; Lupa cutter, Lord John Scott,
from the westward; Stormfinch cutter, Lieut.-Col. Bowers,
from the western ports.
9. Brilliant schooner, G. H. Ackers, Esq., from Plymouth.
10. Adelaide cutter, Sir Robert Gore Booth, Bart., from
Southampton, and sailed for Plymouth and Kingstown.
SAILINGS.
SEPT. 4. Gulnare lugger, W. Peareth, Esq., for Sandgate.
6. Flirt schooner, Sir B. R. Graham, Bart., for the west-
ern ports.
7. Pearl cutter, Marquis Of Anglesey, for London ; Zephy-
retta schooner, Henry Hope, Esq.. for"Portsmouth,to lay up;
Camilla schooner, Thomas Hallifax, jun., Esq., for Gravesend.
9. Stormflnch cutter, Lieut.-Col. Bowers, for Weymouth,
and other ports; Albatross yawl, Sir Wm. Gallawey, Bart.,
for Cowes Harbour, to lay up.
11. Emerald cutter, J. L. Symonds, Esq, Cowes Harbour,
to lay up.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Schooners—Brilliant, Maud, Gem, Fair Rosamond, Wy-
vern, Magic.
Cutters—Charlotte, Sea. Flower, Whim, Forest-fly, Eliza-
beth, Amazon, Witch, St. Margaret, Turquoise, Spider,
Gauntlet, Aurora, Adelaide.
Yawls—Duchess, Susan.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
Her Majesty and the Court will leave Osborne House on
Tuesday next, on their return to Windsor Castle. The Court
is expected back for a short sojourn early in November. The
new wing to Osborne House is to be occupied by her Ma-
jesty on Monday next, and great exertions are being used to
get the building ready for her reception.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert proceeded yesterday
evening from Osborne House, in the Fairy, to Southampton,
to attend the meeting of the British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science.
DEPARTURES.—The Marquis of Anglesey and family from
Cowes Castle, on-Monday; Lord Cadogan and family, this
day, from Adelaide Villa, for Jersey ; Sir Ralph Froward,
Bart., and family, from Gothic Villa, for Berkeley-square.
ARAIVALS.—Lady Farnham. from Beach Villa ; Lady
Davis, at the Pavilion ; Lady. Ashbrook, at White Rose
House; Mr. Mullins, at Gothic Hall.
The Bishop of Jamaica has taken the 7th cottage; Mr.
P. Erle, Beach Villa.
The following fashionables are residing here :—Lady Wil-
ton, at Grove House; Lord Faversham, at Prospect House;
Sir Bellingham Graham, at Grantham House; Lady Baynes,
at Sea-View House; Sir Edward Paget, at Egypt House;
Sir W. Heathcote, at the 9th cottage; the Hon. Mrs. Fleming,
at the sth cottage; Mr. Powell, at Oak-bill House; Mrs.
Bedford, at Beach Cottage; the Rev. Mr. Clever, on the
South Parade; Sir George Dashwood, at ditto; Mr. White
Hedges, at York House; the Marquis of Blandford, at Park
Cottage.

Her Majesty's ship Ajax, formerly a 74, one of the "Forty
Thieves," has so far progressed in her conversion to a steam
guard-ship, that she will be unlocked next spring tides from
Messrs. T. and J. White's. On Saturday last the Surveyor of
the Navy, Sir W. Symonds, minutely inspected her, and
expressed himself highly satisfied with the work done to
her. The inventor of the screw propeller, Mr. Smith, has
also paid his official visit to this ship. The following is to be
her future armament :—On the quarter-deck three heavy guns,
namely, one 56-pounder, of 85 cwt., and two 8-inch shell
mortars, of 65 cwt.; on the forecastle, one 56-pounder, of 85
cwt. ; upper deck, twenty-six 32-pounders, of 42 cwt., and
on the lower deck an equal number of 42• pounders, of 66
cwt. each.
There are two fine brigs building in the front yard of the
Messrs. White, which will be launched this month, one
called the John Wesley, for a missionary ship, and the other
the Mary, destined for the Mauritius trade, belonging to Mr.
Roberts, of Liverpool.

THE MODERN OitLANDO.
The following sketches of political leaders are quoted
from this new poem, where they are introduced as the
viva voce musings of that eccentric nobleman, the late
Lord Dudley.

LORD BROUGHAM.
-" I hate all characters in leading-strings;
like Br—gli—m's vigour, terseness, vehemence,
When his fierce jests around the House he flings;
,2rovided always—not at my expense),
His hurricane of words, shrewd wit, and bile intense.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
0 Jack R--ss-11 charms me, with his quiet air,
His simple phrase, and purpose undesign'd ;
Smooth without langour, polished without glare;
Feeling his way, until his coil is twined;
Then, darting all his meaning on the mind!
L—ndh—rst's is peerage-language—proud and bold;
Yet proud howe er the tongue, the heart is kind;
I know it, and the tale shall yet be told)
A heart unstain'd by power—a tongue unsway'd by gold.

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH
LANCASHIRE.
DINNER TO MR. W. BROWN, M.P.
WARRINGTON, FRIDAY.—A public dinner was given
last night at the Nag Hotel in this town, to Mr.
W. Brown, M.P., io celebration of his return as the re-
presentative of South Lancashire, and of the triumph of
free-trade principles. The &air was occupied by W.
Altcar, Eq., and there were present, besides the Hon.
Member, about one hundred tried friends of commercial
freedom. Among them were Mr. Thomas Bayley, jun.,
chairman of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Mr,
J. Stubbs, Mr. J. Hardy, &c., &c.
The customary loyal toasts having been given,
The CHAIRMAN gave the toast of the evening, " The
health of Mr. Brown," and warmly congratulated the
county upon having a representative of such character
and eminence in the mercantile world.

Mr. BROWN, in rising to reply, was received with great
applause. The Hon. Gentleman spoke as follows :
I can hardly express to you, gentlemen, the pleasure I
feel in meeting you on this occasion, to celebrate the
triumph of truth over error. To our worthy chairman,
who has spoken of me in so flattering a manner, and to
you, gentlemen, for the response you have made to
those remarks, I beg to return my grateful, my naturally
grateful acknowledgments. It is true I have had the
honour of being your representative but for a very short
period ; but short as is that period,it has been productive
of, and as your representative I have taken part in, some
most important events. Taking, indeed, the whole ses-
sion together, it has probably been one of the most re-
markable, perhaps the most eventful, which this country
has ever witnessed.—(Loud cheers.) And to give a
cursory resume of what has been done, I will commence,
as it is meet I should, with the corn-laws. (Loud
cheers.) From the supporting arch of these laws, early
in the session, by the exertion of our friends, we
wrenched the key-stone, and the result will be—if it has
not already been—that the rotten fabric of monopoly
will go down, stone by stone, until not one vestige of the
hideous mass remains.—(Cheers.) To Mr. Cobden—
(Vast applause) —to Mr. Bright—to Mr. Wilson—
(Cheers)— and to other gentlemen—we owe, for this
great work, a debt of gratitude which this nation, great
as may be the desire, will, I think, never be in a position
properly to repay. These were men who, unceasingly
and with prodigality, lavished upon the cause all they
possessed—mind, purse, and health ; and we have now
met to celebrate and glory in the success which they
achieved. —(Cheers.) These were the-men who created the
public opinion we have noticed; and public opinion in this,
as in every other case, has proved omnipotent. That it
was omnipotent who can doubt? It was the manifestation
of this opinion which first induced Lord John Russell to
write that marvellous and memorable letter of which
you are all cognizant ; and it was that also which, later
in the day, compelled the then Premier at last to be-
come a free -trader, to make the announcement which ste
greatly gratified us, and so greatly dismayed and con-
founded the protectionists.—(Hear, hear.) For both
the letter and the action we are grateful ; and we will
cheerfully admit that nothing could have induced Sir R.
Peel to sacrifice place, power, and to throw overboard
so many of his political friends, but the conscientious
conviction that he was serving, and serving well, his
country.--(Great cheering.) This country and pos-
terity will, I am confident, do him ample justice ; for
my own part, I consider him one of the greatest bene-
factors to mankind.—(Cheers.) I have little doubt that
he will be amused, as we all are, by that small section of
the protectionist party which is left. I say it is a small
section, and sincerely do I hope, for its own sake, that it
may soon grow beautifully less.—(Laughter.) Still,
however, do they retain the hope of regaiaing their po-
sition, and their ground of renewed attack upon us will
be that we have not at once created for them an El
Dorado, that gold is not already to be picked up in the
streets. We confess that in this, indeed, we have
failed ; but let them exercise some common sense, and,
calling to memory their knowledge of agriculture, not
forget that it is usually necessary to sow the seed
before reaping the harvest.—(Hear, hear.) Commerce
is not a thing to be created in an hour. Give to it every
facility, and, such, is its nature, it will still be the work
of years, the labour of centuries.—(Hear, hear.) But
we have not altogether failed ; if we can only manage
to retain our present ground and pre-eminent position,
if we can only so extend and sustain this trade we pos-
sess, as to supply the wants, and afford all comforts to a
rising population, then we will assert that free-trade has
done a great deal.—(Cheers.) And though the ultimate
and final benefit is not yet in sight, we are nevertheless
already gaining many advantages from the free-trade
movement. The Roman Pontiff has liberalised his
tariff ; the Two Sicilies have adopted the same wise
policy ; the Emperor of Russia has given notice of some
thing like an approximation ; and evenin his dominions
I hope we shall ere long see " a step in the right direc-
tion."—(Cheers.) And, more than all this, I as fully
believe as I am Lure that I exist, and that we are in this
room, that if it bad not been for the shadowing forth of
free-trade principles in the United States before we saw
free-trade become the law of this land—that, with such
a bone of contention between us as the Oregon territory,
if it had not been for free-trade being thrown like oil on
the troubled waters—we should at this moment have
been at war with America.—(Cheers.) Further, I em
convinced, that if we had not indicated reciprocity, Mr.
Walker would never have been able to have car-
ried his free-trade tariff.—(Hear, hear.) What would
now have been our condition had free-trade failed ?
Were the protectionists prepared to have had their taxes
doubled? A great authority has given us a great maxim
—that England can never again have a little war ; and
if that be the fact, were the protectionists prepared to
add, and to be responsible for adding, 200,000,0001. to
our national debt ?—(Hear, hear) When we go to war
we must fight in right earnest, and sincerity in that kind
of game is very expensive.—(Hear, hear.) They must
have been prepared for all this, ready to sacrifice the
blood and treasure of the country in a war which, in all
probabilty, would leave us in the exact position from
which we started.—(Hear, hear.) There can, therefore,
in England, at least, be no very great regret at the dis-
ar pearance of the corn-laws. Next among the impor-
tant enactments of this session is the change in the
sugar duties. I think that this change was equally im-
portant with the adoption of free trade in corn; it was
important as the asseveration of a principle, as showing
us that the present Government repudiate protection,
that they repudiate all class legislation and all differen-
tial and prohibitive duties. The Government has laid
down a broad and intelligible principle, and has de-
clared its intention to pursue one path only, to im-
pose only duties necessary for the maintenance of the
revenue.—(Hear, hear.) This change in the sugar
duities was, in my opinion, beneficial in two ways: first,
as being the proper means of increasing the facilities of
the people in purchasing what may be called a necessary
of life ; and secondly,because I thinkit was the best means
of adding to the revenue.—(Hear, hear.) The effect in
this must be the same as in every other case. Look at
the penny postage. There was a reduction of sd. on a
letter, and yet the revenue derived from the charge of ld.
a letter amounts nearly to what the revenue was when the
charge was 6d. I might give you a dozen illustrations
of the fact that low duties bring the greatest revenue
I might point to the reduction in the coffee duties ; but
tte most prominent and the best known is in the instance
of the penny postage. The great objection urged against
the new sugar law, which you sent me to Parliament to
vote for, was, that it might possibly, nay, was certain, to
increase and extend the slave trade. That objection, as
an objection of principle, is worth nothing. We admit
American rice, American tobacco, American sugar,
American cotton, and coffee from slave-labour countries;

and why then take this exception, and exclude the sugars
of the Brazils and of Spain, merely because they happen
to be produced by the slave-labour which produces every
one of those other articles.—(Hear, hear, and applause.)
And as an objection of fact, I must say that
I doubt if it is of value. A great change of
opinion has recently taken place as to the best
mode of putting down the slave trade. Many well-
thinking men, and many of the anti-slavery societies,
have come to the rational conclusion that the gcod work
is not to be accomplished by coercion.—(Hear, hear.)
We have 56 sail of vessels of war on the African coast,
all more or less employed in the suppression of this ne-
farious traffic ; they number 800 guns; they are manned
by 9,000 seamen, at the cost of 700,0001., and at the sa-
crifice yearly of many hundreds of our fine fellows dead
or invalided.— (Hear, hear.) This is the cost of our
humane attempt, and this attempt, I need not tell you,
has hitherto proved a total abortion, a complete failure.
Coercive measures will not do. What will do ? At an
early period in my commercial life, when I resided at
Baltimore, in the United States, I noticed that labour
was very high—so high that the owners and captains of
vessels found it their interest to resort to Ireland and to
Holland, there to berth their vessels for passengers,
with the statement that they were not only willing to
receive those who could, but also those who could not
pay their passage, the latter class with the proviso that
on arriving in the United States they would consent—
labour being.there so high—to sell their labour for one,
two, or three years, thus to reimburse the ship. The
plan succeeded; thousands of Europeans went out under
the name of " redemptioners," and the result was, so
much was free labour reduced, that the value of slave
labour fell also, and the slaves became so cheap that
they were sold to the southern states, where the price
was higher.—(Hear, hear.) Now, it strikes me, that it
a portion of this 700,0001. was applied to endeavouring
to induce the hill-coolies, or others of the African races,
to embark, free as " redeniptioners" in some of the
colonies, the object we have in view, to deprive the
slave nude of its profits, might be accomplished quite as
effectually, and certainly with as much humanity, as b)
the means we now adopt.—(Hear, hcar, and applause.)
I believe that the middle passage between Africa and
the Brazils is more open than we have any idea of.—
(Hear, hear.) I spoke, not long ago, with a Dutch
gentleman, who had resided on the ceast of Africa
fourteen years, and he states that he has seen a fleet of
twenty-six sail of slave ships succeed in landing their
cargoes without passing a single vessel of war. We are
aided by the French vessels and others, and yet the col-
lected force, as this fact shows, is altogether insufficient
for the purpose. The cruelties, as he gave me to under-
stand, practised upon the slaves are fearful; when they-
cannot be disposed of, they are put to death ; and I
think it would be somewhat more humane if our 700,0001.
were applied to carrying them free to our West India
colonies.—(Cheers.) At any rate, I don't think the new
measure is calculated to increase the mischief. I may,
before I have done with the corn-laws, mention a matter
of some importance, Some three or four months ago, at
a public meeting, I attempted to prophecy that a free
trade being adopted, so far from there being any danger
of Europe overwhelming us with corn, my only fear was
we would not have enough. I was jeered and laughed at,
at the time, but now it seems I w as not far out. A gentle-
man of East Lothian, a protectionist, used, when he spoke
in public, to tell the farmers, that if they lost protection
they would be ruined, their fields would become sheep-
walks; and he added. the usual commentary about the
total destruction of British interests, British industry in
general, and British landowners in particular,—(Hear.)

Now, what do we find him doing? An estate, the
other
day, was put up for sale in East Lothian, and it' was
knocked down to this very gentleman at an enormous
price, :?7 years' purchase.—(Hear, hear.) This is
arguing one way and acting another, and I only men-
tion the fact to prove to you that I was a better prophet
and somewhat more sincere in my assertion than this
gentleman.—(Hear, hear.) During the sport time I
have been your representative, another question has oc-
cupied the careful attention of the House ; and I must
confess, that on that question, I regretted being in a
minority. I did regret that the minority was not a
majority; but I am not sorry that I gave my vote as I
did. I allude to the discussion on flogging in the army.
—(Cheers.) I thought, and lam pretty confident lam
right, that other modes of punishment might be adopted
without in the slightest degree endangering the necessary
discipline. Subsequently I found that the Duke of Wel-
lington, in the House of Lords, expressed a hope that he
would live to see the day' when flogging, as a means of
discipline, would be entirely abolished; and when I
read the speech in which that sentiment occurred,
I flattered myself that I had not done anything wrong in
voting for the entire abolition of this digractful system.
And now I may state the general views which I take, and
according to which, as your representative, I will act.
I, gentlemen, am for non-interference in religion.—
(Cheers.) I think that every man has a right to worship
the Author of his being in that way which he considers
best, and which his conscience dictates.—(Cheers.) I am
also for non-interference in commerce further than is
required for the purposes of revenue.—(Cheers.) I am
for non-interference in the political squabbles and con-
tests of other nations.—(Hear, hear.) I think we have
had enough of that at Madagascar and the Rivcr Plate;
and, for the future, I trust it will be thought wiser to
leave the people of the continent and the Americans to
settle their own differences in their own way.—(Hear,
hear.) The Quixotism which we once practised is not
only absurd, but we cannot atfird it—(Hear, hear)—we
cannot afford to spend English money, and lavish English
blood, when no advantage is to be gained; and so long
as you honour me with your confidence, so long will I
use my utmost exertions, fulfilling my responsible trust
to preserve the peace, and thus best benefit our
country. The Honourable Gentleman concluded amidst
loud cheers.
The health of Mr. Cobden (warmly received), of Mr.
Thomas Bayley, of Mr. Stubbs, and of several others
pt esent were then drank, and the company separated.

THE MURDER AND lIMTILATION
IN DERBYSHIRE.
VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER.
HASL,!ND, NEAR CHESTERFIELD, FRIDAY.—After the
account of the adjourned inquest on the remains found
in a mutilated state at Chesterfield had been dispatched
on Thursday afternoon, the following evidence was
taken :

Henry Knight (brother of the prisoner by the mr,ther't
side), a horsebreaker in Chesterfield, had got the watch
produced from Platts on the 30th of January to pledge.
Witness pledged it in his own name for Ils., and gave
Platts both money and ticket. On the 22d of February
bought from Platts the pair of boots produced, which
witness had worn up to Saturday last.
William Beaumont, alias Lanky Bill, denied that he had
ever sold Platts a watch.
James Kirk sworn—l am a butcher in Chesterfield,
and reside in the shambles. On the 7th of December I
was sitting in my own house with my sister, between
seven and eight o'clock. My sister came to me, and
said, "Jem Jem Jem ! run out, there is somebody
very ill in this shop, come directly." I ran down bang
against the door, and said, "Open the door, you little
beggar, you have got Hannah in." He never spoke,
and I said, " Open the door, ill have her ont" He
then opened the door, and came. I said, " Bring her
out," and he said " No, James, she is not in." I said
she was in, and said, " What have you been making
this noise at ? " He said he had been having some
liquor, and had been throwing up. He then went into
my sister's house, and I saw no more of him. When I
ran to the shop the door was bolted.
Ann Platts sworn—l live jn Chesterfield, on Durham-
green. My daughter lives with me, and my son, John
Plato, the younger, used to live with me. He is turned
22 years of age. I have another son, Henry Knight,•
who has lately left Chesterfield. Platts gave me a pawn-
ticket, a week ago, to fetch a watch out of pawn. He
gave me 12s. 6d. to redeem it. I went to Mr. Wilcock-
son's to fetch it out. I left it on the dresser of Mr.
Thompson's kitchen.
William Sharp, policeman, Chesterfield, described the
finding of the bones, &c.
...Humphrey Belfit, sworn—l am a shoemaker. On the

17th of June I asked Platts where George Collis was,
and he said, "The - was gone to Manchester with a
woman, and he had seen him there six weeks ago driv-
ing a cab." Platts also said that Collis owed him 5/.,
and he wished he had never known him. I asked him if

te would get anything from him; and he said, "Hold
:hy noise, I've got a pain in my stomach." He then
ooked very ill. I said nothing more to him. He had
not complained of any pain before, but was then all of a
tremble, and seemed a good deal confused.
Ellen Beresford sworn—l saw Co watch just before
he left our house; he pulled it out to see what o'clock it
was. It was on Sunday night, and he said he had pro-
mised to meet the butcher, John Platts, at half-past six
o'clock, at the Old Angel. Collie said he was going to
settle with him, and that Platts owed him money. He
said he had promised to pay him this time and the other
time; and added, " I'll make him pay me to-night."
The watch produced is the one which George Collis had
when he was at our house on Sunday evening, Dec. 7.
Mrs. Mary Thompson said—Ann Platts was my char-
woman, and was with me on this day week. She
brought nothing in the house that lam aware of, John
Platte called about ten o'clock. He asked for his mother,
and they spoke to each other ; after which she said she
wanted to go on an errand. She was away half-
an-hour. About eleven o'clock he came again, and as
soon as she saw him she said, " Jack, it's on that white
table 1" and be went forward and took something off ; he
then want away. I did not know what it was. I never
saw her bring a watch into the house.
John Metcalfe said—l am constable of Hasland. Mr.
Bunting has a field in our township. In consequence
of someting I heard, I went to that field on the 2d of
this month, and found a quantity of bones, a coat, two
handkerchiefs, and part of a pair of trousers, braces,
and two garters (one red and the other white). The
clothes are the same as I have shown this day to Ellen
Beresford and Mary Mawkes. I fetched the skull from
the House of Correction, one hat, and one arm-bone. I
have heard Collis say that Platts owed him money.
Mrs. Mawkes was recalled, and identified the watch,
which she said was her lad's watch, and nobody need be
afraid of swearing to it ; she had it many a time. She
never paid John Platts any money, nor did he ever come
for any. He never came to her house to ask for him
after he was missing ; he had frequently come before
that time, but never since, a rascal. She asked him if
he had seen George, and he said, " Yes, but it is a good
bit since." He said, " I want to see him, to have a bit
of settling with him ;" and then he turned his back,
and never said another word.

Dr. H. E. Walker, surgeon, in Chesterfield, said—At
Mr. Bunting's request, I went to his field on the 2d inst.,
and found a spine, pelvis, and bones of the extremities,
except the hands; at that time, also, one foot was want-
ing. I observed them to be the bones of a human
skeleton. From the lower bones of the body I have no
doubt it was that of a male. It must have been above
23 or 24 years of age, from the development of hi'
teeth. The teeth in the front part had been extracted
the day before. Had the teeth been left, the body
might have been recognised. What remained of the
soft parts of the body were converted into a substance—
a fatty substance—and was chiefly attached to the spine
on the left side of the pelvis. The bones were quite dis-
jointed. The ligaments had given way, but not from
any violence. Neither the ribs, nor long bones, pre
sented any marks of violence. On Examining the head,
it was separated from the spine—the soft parts were in
a great measure removed by decomposition, except in
the orbits in the eye sockets and some cavities at the
base of the skull. That in the right orbit was further
advanced, and in a different kind of decomposition,
On the inner or nasal edge of the right eyebrow
was a large fracture, half an inch in length, and in
direction upwards, and towards the left side ; the
edges of this fracture were separated about the
eighth of an inch, as if something had passed in to a cer-
tain extent. From this fracture were three others of
smaller extent, one extended into the right orbit above
the eye, a second pas:ed across the forehead into
the left eye, and the third passed up the fore-
head, about five inches in extent. The small bones

forming the nasal side of the eye-socket were very much
broken—much comminuted; the brain was in a very de-
composed state, a semi-fluid. The inner surface of the
frontal bone—a portion of it—was depressed about one
inch and a quarter in length and an inch in width; it
separated or dropped out when I washed it; when re-
placed in its proper position, the centre would nearly
correspond with the fracture over the right eyebrow.
Half way across the base of the brain was another frac-
ture extending half way across the base of the skull. It

would require-great violence to commit such an injury
on the skull; it must have been of long standing; from
the discoloured state of the contents of the right eye-
socket, I should surmise that the fracture was caused
previous to death. The edge of a butcher's axe would
be sufficient to inflict such a wound; such a blow would
render a man insensible, and I should say he would
never be conscious afterwards. It was quite sufficient
to cause death. The head might have separated from
decomposition. The hands, the ribs, and part of the
vertebrae are still missing. I am of opinion that the
body was not cut up before death, and that it was
thrown into the soil with the trousers on, from the fatty
substance adhering to the inside. From the length of
the thigh-bone, the man would be about the middle
height.
Charles Cotterill, inspector of police at Chesterfield,
said—On this day week, when the inquest was adjourned,
John Platts, the prisoner, overtook me on the road, and
asked me if I knew bow they had brought it is? I told
him it was adjourned to that day week. I said, " John,
when was the last time you saw Collis?" and he replied,
On the 6th of December, that was on Saturday in the
afternoon, when he came to my stall, and asked me to
let him have 21. 10s., and I let him have it; he also came fur

two pounds of steaks, and I let him have them." He
wished Platts to go and have some wish him at night;
he added that they had agreed to meet at Franks's on
Sunday night, to have a settling; and that he had gone
and waited up in a room with the ringers, and was never
out of the house within the time he was there, which
was from six o'clock to eleven. I asked if Collis met
him there, and he said " No, I never saw him." I said,
" If you had met and settled your accounts, how would
the balance have been?" and he said, " I should have
to receive from him—he owed me 9/." Wilcockson
said, " How came you to lend him 21. 10s., if he owed
you 91.?" He said. " I thought he was honest, and
would pay me again." I said, •' If he were living now,
how much money would he owe you?" and he said,
'Fake 21. 10s. from 91." and Mr. Wilcockson added,

" There remains 61. 10s." Prisoner said, " That's
what he owes me now" (having evidently deducted
the 21. 10s., instead of adding it to the 91.). From
suspicion I entertained I apprehended him, and he
said, " Oh, I can prove where I was." I went to :search
his box on Monday, and observed a purse similar to one
which belonged to the deceased, and on the following
day it was gone.—(A juryman observed that at the first
portion of the inquest Platts was in an adjoining room.)
The purse had a division in it, and a pawn-ticket, for
which the watch was pledged for lls. I searched again
on Friday morning, and the purse was gone.
Richard Parsons said—l am a blacksmith at Chester-
field. I remember being at Terry's public-house in
December last, and Harvey coming in and telling me a
story about some noise he had heard in Platts' shop.
Next morning I saw Platts himself ; he came into my
shop and brought two locks to be repaired. I said,
" Jack, there is strong suspicion that you murdered
some one last night." He said, " Who told you so ?"
and I said, " Tom Harvey." He said " I had some meat
in the shop and opened the shutter, and was going to
put it down again, when it overwhelmed me, and I fell
down, and cut my hand on the lantern ;" he also said
he had 3d. worth of rum at the Old Angel, and it made
him rather sick ; he said he had made some kind of a
noise that caused people to suspect him ; he blushed
very much at ae time, but I thought him then innocent.
This concluded the evidence, at about half-past seven
o'clock in the evening.
The jury, after deliberating about 20 minutes, returned
a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against John Pious.

DREADFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT GREENOCK.
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY NIGHT, ELEVEN O'CLOCK.—
The Princess Royal steam-ship, which arrived this
morning before nine o'clock, after a splendid run of
fifteen hours and a half, from Greenock, brings intelli-
gence of a sad disaster. Fairrie and Co.'s sugar-house,
Cartsdyke, Greenock, took fire yesterday morning, at
two o'clock, and the greater part nes consumed. The
damage is estimated at from 50,0001. to 80,0001. The
sugar-house
was situated contiguous to several streets,
and a building-yard, where two of the new Atlantic
steam-ships are building. One life was lost.
FOREIGN WALNUTS.—Yesterday, several hundred
baskets of walnuts, imported by the Will:erforce from
Antwerp, were sold by auction, at Adams's, Pudding-
lane. The quantity of foreign filberts and walnuts im-
ported this season exceeds that of any former year.

LATEST PRICES OF SHARES,
IN BANKS, ASSITRANCE, AND OTHER COM

PANIES' STOCK.

From tie Official List,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING
LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11.
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-----
.ustralasia ...... •• • • £s.d.,.£ s. d. .
6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 22
BritshNorth American 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 43%
•Commercial of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 2O 0 0 -
'L'olonial • •
Lencln and Nirestnainstr 61. per cent 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Metropolitan ......... - 25 0 0 710 0
Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 48
Ditto, New... .. .. 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
National of Ireland • . 5/. per cent 50 0 0 20 0 0
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent 100 0 0 35 0 0 --
Ditto, New.- -•• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia.... 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0
Union of London... •• 1 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 11%
INSURANCE COINIPANZES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Albion •.•..•• • • • • • • • 31. 105 500 0 0 53 0 0 75
Alliance grit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 18%
Ditto Marine.. ••• • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
Atlas ... .. .. ..... .• . • 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16%
British Commercial • • 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 %
olerid,Med.&Gen•Life 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 , 2 10 0 6%
3/. 100 0 0 1 10 0 0
Crown -••• • • • -
Eagle .
Eng: & Scot Law •• •• N. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2%
European Life •.• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' ... -•• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
G:obe ••• • • • 61. per cent. Stock. - 135
Guardian •••.•. • • • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 48j4
Imperial Fire
imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15%
Indemnity Marine •• • • 1/. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 31
Law Life-- -••• • .. H. Ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 6%
Landon Fire .••• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14%
Landon Ship •.•• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14,1'
Marine -•• • • • ...... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10%
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
National Life •• • •
Collodium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. Os.
Phcenix .. • . ..... .. - - 205
Protector Life.... •• • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 -
Provident Lif- .... • • 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Rock Life.... -- -
Royal Exchange - -
Sun Fire.. - - 210
Ditto Life - ... • • 11. Os. - - 49
Universal Life -
C.ILIT.A.Mis.
4 I 4 Dividend
Names of le. ,Dividend Price. Names of 1), per Price.
Companies. :4 per - " Companies. As Annum.
in Annum. co
£ X
Ashtn & Oldh 975/.55. p e 70 Monmouthsh 100 V. -
Ashby-d-la-Z 1131 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51. -
Barnsley •• • • 160 12/. 180 Macclesfield . 100 - .-
Basingstoke.. 100 - 1 1 - Neath lOO 17/. 340
Brknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham l5O 121. r -
Cromford ... • 100 141. - Peak Forest 7B 31. 40
Dudley lOO 4/. - Regent's .... 33 1/. ss. -
Derby .• •• • • 100 6/. 73 Rochdale ..• • 85 41. -
Ellsmre&Chs 133 41. 55 Shropshire . • 125 81. -
Erewash •• • 100 32/. - Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 130
Forth & Clyd 100, 41. - Do.Lk Fd St I 2 61. p. c. -
GrandJunetn,lool 71. 86 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 295
Urand Union 100, 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. -
Glamorgnsh . 172 13%1. - Stourbridge- 145 20/. 315
i4lstr&Brkly, 'OO - - Strtfrdon Av 79 11. 10s. -
Glrantham • • 150 121. - Severn and] 26 11. Bs. 32
Huddersfield. 57 - - Wye Rail.
Kennt & Avn 39 7s. 6d. - Trnt & Mr-2 50 301. -
Lancaster 147 IL 10s. - sey, % sh.
Leeds&Livrp 100, 341. 520 Thams &Med 19 - -
Leicester ..•• 140' 101. 105 Worestr SD 178 21. 43
Leicstr &Nth 83 41. 52 Binning.
Loughborogh 142 701. 850 Wilts & Mks 67 11, 1 11

36OCKS.

Name of Company.

Dividend Amount
per of
Annum. Share.

Paid. I Price.

£ s. d. £ s. d.
Commercial .. . - 80
East and West India 6l. pr cent. Stock. - 141
East Country - 21
I_ anion .Si. pr cant. ; Stock. - 114
St. Katharine ••• • • • • 5 per cent. i Stock. - 100
Southampton • • ...... 1 4/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
W.ELTEI7.-WOILIES.
-
Dividend Amount -
Name of Company. • per of i Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d.
East L0nd0n.......... 81. 100 0 0 - 204
Grand Junction .• •• • • 3/. 10s. 41 13 4 - 90
Kent.- • ... •• •• •• 21. 10s. 100 0 0 - -
Vauxhall ............ 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 - 57
West Middlesex . - 130
LIST OP SCOTTISIC COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. i Price
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 , 171
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. -- 100 0 0 1 158
British Linen Company Si. per cent. - 100 0 0 223
Commercial Bank .• • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 164%
National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 14%
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 92%
Western Bank .• •••• • • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 85
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 7114
Clydesdale Bank ••• • • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 13/.75.
Eastern Bank.... •• • • 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 11
Caledonian Bank - 2 10 0 4/. 4s.
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6!. per cert. - 5 0 0 71. 4s.
Oity of Glasgow Bank . Si. per cent. - 10 0 0 13/. 8s
Scottish Union Ins. CO. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 245. 9d
llercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Insur. Co. of Scatind • . Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 94i
North British Incur. • . 534 1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 27%
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22
Edin4urgh Life Insur. 61. per cunt. 100 0 0 12 10 0 is 14
Edln. &Glasg. Railway I /.10s. per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Ditto, 4 Shares•-• 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 17%
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 •.:0 0 0 -
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 76
Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 .511 paid. 16%
Gisgw &Garnklrk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 40
Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37
Standard LifeAssurnee.l 51. per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 1 9