The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-14 00:00:00

♦PPOINTMENTS.

Commander—J. B. West (1846) to the Southampton.
Acting Master—Alfred BalliGton, late of the Kite and
Gleaner, to command the Myrtle steam tender.
Assistant-Surgeons—E. D'Anvergno to the Hibernia;
J. E. Johnson (acting) to Hasler Hospital; Joseph Slop
(acting) to the Bramble.

Clerks—J. W. English and T. Bradbridgo to the
Southampton.
Naval Cadets—Gerald B. Vivian and Fuliar G. Craven
to tho Southampton.
ROYAL MARINES.

Andrew'Millar, surgeon, to the Plymouth
The following acting lieutenants, mates, and midship-
men passed the College last week for the rank of Lieu-
tenant:—lfessrs. G. M. F. Molesworth, A. B. Hodg-
kinson, P. Johnson, G. A. Pidcock, George Gray, Row-
ley Lambert, Maxwell Fox, W. L. Staniforth, and H.
W. Dawson.

Mr. T. Baker, chief engineer of the Victoria and Al.
bert Royal yacht, is promoted to the rank of Inspector
of Steam Machinery in the Navy.
The Cyclops steam frigate, Captain the lion. G. F.
Hastings, arrived last evening from Dublin.
The Sharpshooter iron steam schooner (screw), Lieu-
tenant-Commander Bailey, after undergoing a refit,
consequent upon the damage she sustained by being run
into on the sailing of the Squadron of Exercise, was
undocked yesterday, and the Phoenix screw steam sloop
taken in to be overhauled.

Wind S. W. Nloderate breezes and thick hazy
weather, with small rain.

MURDER, OF A WOMAN.

COLLINGDURN, SATURDAY AYTERNOON.—A great
sensation has been creased in this pelt of the collo), of
Wilts, by a tragical occurrenca, not unmingled with mys-
tery, which has taken place in the neighbourhood of this
village. On Wednesday afternoon a woman, about 31
years of age, well known in the country, was found lying
on Straw-hill Common, insensible and covered with
bruises. Her face was black from the violence to which she
had been subjected, and on examination it was found
that she had bees stabbed with some sharp weapon in
the neck. The unfortunate female, who was a single
woman, was found by a gentleman who had been
passing the place, and with the assistance of some
of the peasantry not far distant, she was conveyed to
this village, where she remained till yesterday, when
she died, without ever having opened her eyes or spoken
a word since she was found on the common. No con-
jecture was in the first instance formed as to how or by
whom the unfortunate woman had come by the mal-
treatment to which she had been subjected, until it was
recollected by a neighbouring farmer that a young
man with a fustian coat and trousers had been speak-
ing to her an hour or two before she was found,
but the farmer, knowing nothing of the young man,
could give no information which could afford
a clue to him. It three or four hours after the
woman was found, a young man, seemingly about
twenty years of age, called without a coat at the rectory
of the Rev. Mr. Haddo, of Everleigh, some few miles
distant from Shawhill-common. Ile represented him-
self as being, in want, and asked relief. The Rev.
Gentleman refused to give him anything, observing that
he was a young athletic man, and ought to earn a liveli-
hood by working instead of begging. No sooner had
Mr. Haddo made this remark than the ruffian, putting
his hands into his pockets, pulled out several stones,
and with one of them hit the Rev. Gentleman on the
arm. The Rev. Gentleman, with great presence of mind,
slammed the door in his face, just as he was in the act of
throwing another large stone at him, and which had
it struck him might have been attended with serious
consequences. Eventually the assailant of Mr. Haddo
was taken into custody by some persons who wit-
nessed the assault, and on being brought before
the magistrate, so far from denying the fe-
rocious attack, he expressed his regret that he
had not succeeded in murdering the rev. gentleman, ad-
ding, that he had already murdered one person that day,
of which they would afterwards hear. Ile was committed
to prison for the assault on the rev, gentleman, and soon
afterwards the idea occurred to the magistrate that he
might be the person who bad committed the attack on the
dying woman. The coat which was found near the body
of the woman was ascertained to belong to the prisoner.
It was made of the same material as the trousers. It
it right to add, that, without saying whether it was his
or not, he at once put it on, and has since worn it. The
prisoner give his name as James Smith, and represents
himself as a moulder by trade, but his statement is not
credited. Ile is a perfect stranger in the neighbourhood,
uo one ever having seen him before.
Nothing has transpired which would lead to a
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femhich he
female. Some
influenced
orucaposed that one of the objects he had in view was to rob
her, but this is very improbable, as, in the first instance,
her appearance would not have led him to suppose that
she had any considerable sum of money about her
person ; and, in the second place, had that been the
prompting motive, a young man of his athletic propor-
tions and determined appearance could easily have taken
the money of a helpless female, iu so secluded a place,
without resorting to an attempt on her life. Five shil-
lings and some pdd pence were found in his pocket, a cir-
cumstance which renders his application to the Rev. Mr.
Haddo for relief more remarkable He was this day sent
securely chained, to Devises, with the intention of his
being tried before Mr. Justice Coleridge at the present
assizes for assaulting Mr. Haddo, but on consultation
with the proper authorities it was deemed better to defer
the trial until it shall be seen whether the coroner's jury,
who are to sit on Monday on the body of the unfortu-
nate woman, return a verdict of wilful murder against
him, in which case ho will be tried on the capital charge.
Ile maintains a sullen silence, and refuses to answer
any questions put to him; but in reply to an incidental
observation from one of the police-constables, that he
would in all probability suffer for his crime, he re-
marked that he did not care, for that he was quite tired
of life.

A serious accident occurred on Saturday afternoon,
about four o'clock, on the London and North-Western
Railway, to Janes Littlemore, one of the stokers em•
ployed for some time on the line. It appears that as the
train, which leaves Birmingham at 12 A.M., arrived near
Watford station, the attention of the engine driver was
suddenly called by the cries of the stoker, who, as ho
was standing on the side of the engine attending to some
part of the machinery, accidentally got his foot entangled
inah
moulaeine
in contacttlmsplash•
with
-hoard (the train being in motion),
which the
flywheel
of
the
engine.
By this means he sustained a severe compound commi-
nuted fracture of the bones of the leg and foot. As soon
as the engine was stopped he was extricated from this
perilous situation by the driver, and conveyed to London
by the same train, when he was taken to University Col-
lege Hospital, where the limb was amputated by Mr.
Morton, under the influence of chloroform.
MURDER AT THU BRITANNIA RAILWAY-BRIDGE.
—BANGOR, AUG. 11.—John Pritchard, the watchman,
who deposed on the inquest that ho witnessed the
murder, has been arrested on the charge of murder,
owing to the discovery of several suspicious facts.
After a short examination the prisoner was remanded
until to-morrow (Saturday), when he will undergo a
more lengthened examination. The railway authori-
ties are adopting every possible means to bring to light
the perpetrator of the atrocious set.
RELEASI OF LIHUTENANT MONRO.—The period
for which Lieutenant Monro, late of the Royal horse
Guards (Blue) was sentenced for causing the death of
Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett, in the fatal duel with that
tehweg
authoritiesst e , car ry
gallant officer, will expire to-morrow (this day), when he
w with him the highest
opi In
i
ing
who have come in contact
with him during his imprisonment. It is believed he
will at once proceed to join his family at Baden.—
opinions quit of
Observer.
Commissiobt or Lurriar.— On Saturday a com-
mission de lunatico znguirendo was opened at the Guild-
hall, High Wycombe, Bucks, before Mr. Commissioner
Wieslow•and sixteen special j
Jurors, relative to the state
of mind of John Brand, Esq., a resident of that town.
The commission was taken out by a sister of Mr. Brand.
In its support appeared Mr. A. W. Hoggins as counsel,
and Mr. J. S. Hubbard, of Queen-street-place, as so-
licitor; and from the evidence adduced, it appeared that
the unfortunate gentleman bad, for several years, been
affected in his mind, but ever since the period of Mr. B.
Disraeli's unsuccessful contest for the representation of
High Wycombe, had become embued with peculiar de-
lusions relatiive to that gentleman, from whom he
imagined all go6aiiid evil was to come, and also that he
lived in that gentleman's house, and was supported by
him. He also believed that his attendant was Mr.
Disraeli; in fact, the name of Mr. Disraeli was con-
stantly in his mouth, while from the time of the election
alluded to, ho had occasionally indulged in a propensity
for smashing his own windows, as well as those of
several tradesmen in the town. Tho unfortunate gen-
tleman, at the conclusion of the evidence, was introduced
and examined. He appeared remarkably cheerful, fre •
quentiy indulging in immoderate laughter, but Lis're-
plies tally bore out the evidence, and a verdict was ac-
cordingly returned, dating the unsoundness of mind from
October 1, 1842.
ADMIRALTY HOLYMEAD STEM[-PACKETS.—The
Admiralty issued orders on the 11th instant that the
new packets Banshee, Llewellyn, St. Columba, and Ca-
radoc shall in future leave Kingston, Dublin, for Holy.
head, at eleven o'clock each morning.
TIIR ROTAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.—The follow-
ing has been definitively settled as the augmentation
which the corps of Roy al Sappers and Miners is to re.
ceive. Four companies will be added to the existing
strength of the corps, making 23 companies in all. The
strength of each company is 100 rank and file, and is
thus made up:—One colour-sergeant, four sergeants, five
corporals, five second corporals, two buglers, and 83
privates. The whole strength of the corps will, there-
fore, be 2,500 rank and file, with only one commissioned
officer—a quartermaster—the regiment being officered
by the corps of Royal Engineers, which consists exclu-
sively of officers. There is no present intention of
augmenting the Royal Engineers. The nineteen com-
panies of the Royal Sappers and Miners now formed are
distributed as follows: Four at Woolwich, two at
Chatham, one at Liverpool, ono at Wakefield, two at
Dublin, one at Southampton, one at Halifax, tthe North
America, one at Bermuda, one at Corfu, one at
at the Cape of
Mauritius, two at Gibraltar, and two
d on forti-
Good Hope. Detachments are also empoluoyhe
Australia,
fications and surveys at Sheerness, S
Falkland Islands, Hong-Kong, Hudsont B a ay, and
Canada.
The last accounts fvom the island of St. Thomas
mention, that the newly emancipated negro population
have continued to behave in the most peaceable man-
nor. During the out
break at the sister island of
St. Croix serious apprehensions of some violent ebuli-
tion were entertained in St. Thomas, but all danger was
now considered at an end. Great satislaction was felt
by the British residents at the conduct of Captain
Edward Barnett, of her Majesty's snip
p Thunder, who
delayed his departuie from th
long for the purpose of
e island
there existed the
affording them protection so as
slightest cause of apprehension.
MONIES IN THE ExclisQUEE.—lt is shown by a
Parliamentary paper yesterday printed, that there was
no money in the Exchequer on the 22d ult., but that
to complete the aids granted by Parliament for the ser-
vice of the years 184 G and 1847, the SIMI of 1,010,980/.
6s. fKI, was to be raised.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 12.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN RE J. E. JONES.
The bankrupt,san engineer, sculptor, and patent lamp
manufacturer, of Upper Charlotte-street, came up to
pass ;his adjourned lust examination, the case having
been previously adjourned sine die, on the ground that
the accounts were not satisfactory, and their truth not
sufficiently vouched. He came up at his own expense.
It appeared by the official assignee's report, that the
balance-sheet commenced in 1838, when the bankrupt
was insolvent, and he now owed 5,952/., to meet which
the assets were :—Cash at the bankers, 71.; a debt due by
the executers of Dwarkanauth Tagore, Calcutta, said to
be good,' 200/.; a debt due by the King of Holland,
1501.; a debt due by Sir J. S. Lithe, for the Bode
light, considered doubtful, 8711.; and other doubtful
debts. The property in the hands of creditors, con-
sists of plate and the King of the French's medal.
The profits were 4,9521., including a small profit
on the purchase and sale of railway shares, be-
sides which, he had been presented with a gold medal by
the King of the French, and plate by friends in Dublin.
The expenses were 5,944/., exclusive of losses, to the
extent of 3,012/., including the loss on the publication of
the O'Connell medal anti the O'Connell bust. Amongst
the creditors wero the Britannia Insurance Company and
the National Loan Society. The bankrupt disputed his
liability of 2051. on account of the Belfast and County
Down Railway Company, and included, amongst his
debtors, Brown's Patent Pavement Company, and the
Highgate Inclined Plane Company. He had also mo-
delled the busts of several distinguished personages.
Mr. Lawrence appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr.
Depree for certain creditors, who prayed that the case be
further adjourned, on the ground that the accounts were
still unsatisfuctory and unvouched.
His HONOUR thought no good could result from au
adjournment, and allowed the bankrupt to pass.