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

ADJOURNF,‘I:) INQUEST.

(Continued from our Afteinoon Edition of yeste. rday.) 1
John Moore, of No. 9, Cupid's-court, was .next
examined. He said that on Saturday morning, about
four o'clock he was awoke by a knocking at the door-
}
lie opened the window, when Harriet Parker called.
out, " It's me, Mr. Moore; I want to speak to your
kvife ; do not hinder her; I'll not keep her five.
at: iutes." Witness told his wife, who went down.
littirs, where she remained a few minutes. Upon her
re:•.,:irn she made a communication to him which in-
duces him to get up and go for a policeman. He •
met two :onstables, and he went with them to Blake's
house. Th.'got in at the window, when they found
the two chird''.reo lying
on the bed quite dead. The
clothing of the bed v,':;swife or ,:very much disturbed.
Jane Moore, ast witness, stated that upon
going down stairs she found Harriet Parker
waiting at the door. She wet into the lower room,
and sat down, exclaiming, " Oh, Mrs. .Moore, I
have done it." Witness asked 11.°r what •she had
done, when Parker replied, " Blake c:; me hom-e last
night to take me to the play, and on going °G.'. he
met with a strumpet or stump (witness could n.'t
recollect which), who took his arm and they raft►
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 then got up anti
walked towards the door. She asked her whether or
not Mr. Blake had come home. Parker replied, .. No,
he has not, and a pretty spectacle there is for him
when 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." itness 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 Brqwn, 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, Parker
passed him as he 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 the 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 Coroneti----.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
(panelling took place be-
she was of sound mind.
tween her and Blake sometimes. She appeared quite
sober when she passed him. 'red--Had
_Had
Policeman Kinchin, 26 G, was next ca.l.._.
till
charge of the cell in which Parker was from sk. ~
nine on Saturday morning. No promise or threa►
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 coniLlued, " I loved him, I doated
the ground he walked on. I am not like a person
that was drunk, I knew well ven,:t I was about. I
was sober."
The CORONEB said it was a most extr:ordinary
case, from the admissions made. He thought a. ..this
was only the second day, Sunday included, after th.
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, cones
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 •
cargo of oxen. The Jupiter, Captain Meehan, is ex-
pected on Wednesday with the Spanish and Portuguese
mails.

CONSOLIDATED TRELEIGIT COPPER MINING COM'
PANT.-The quarterly meeting of this company was held
at the Offices, 57, Old Broad-street, yesterday, 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 8,8321. lAs. 10d., amounted to 6,390 E
15s. 6d., and after defraying the expenses of the cjnarteri
including a
,dividend amounting to 1,5221. 10s., theta
remained available assets of 2,8291. 13s. I Id. (exclusive
of a reserved fund of 450/.), subject, however, to liabi-
lities amounting to 989/. 6s. 10d. Mr. Birdsey and I.lr.
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 ,flamed
Benjamin Rogers, servant to Mr. Walter 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. lie 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
Ilewson, 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 Ilewson 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.
Ho had served with a detachment of the 14th Light
Dragoons, to which regiment he remained attached
throughout his whole career, in the unfortunate expedi-
tion to Quiberon Bay, and the occupation of the Isle of
Dieu, on
th
He Was sub-
sequentlyengaged for two years in St. Domingo after
ec coast of La Vendee, in 1795.
itsceleb rated revolt from the French. On his return to
Europe he served in the Peninsula and Eolith 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 affairs with the enemy's advanced posts on the 11th
of July, 1810, in front of Ciudad Rod' igo, 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 Niue 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 Airs
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 tho battle of
Waterloo.

SPARROWS.—It 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 founded upon actual observation.
Two parents have been known to carry to the nest forty
caterpillars in an hour ; and, supposiag 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 (lir-
cumstance alone, for they likewise feed their young with
butterflies and other winged insects, each of which, if not
destroyed in this manner would become the parent of
hundreds of caterpillars.

A FELINE FISHER.—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 fi.h that may be
floundering there, and bears it off in triumph.— Western
Flying Post.
DIABOLICAL OUTRAGB.—Last night, about seven
o'clock, a ball, supposed to have been discharged from
nn air-gun, passed through the parlour window of a
house in Gower-street, Bedford-square, and struck
lady on the forehead. The window being formed of
plate glass so greatly lessened the force of the missile
- that no serious injury was inflicted.