The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-02 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED,

T. Man) and 4. W. Reeve, stationers Canterbury.
J. Mein and J. Nicholson, grocers, Whltechapel-road.
E. Lee and Co., tallow-chandlers, Long Bennington, Lincoln-
shire,.

J. Cinder and S. Hulse, earthenware•manufacturers, Lane
Delph, Staffbrdshire.
T. Bushell and S. Price, wine-merchants, Great Surrey-street,
Christchurch.

Jones and J. Smith, auctioneers, Leicester-street, Leicester-
square (as far as regards J. Smith).
J. F. Keesler and C. Groeger, comb•makers, Great Guildford.
street, Southwark.
J. Butterworth and W. Sladin, chymists, Ashton-under-Lyne.
T. Hatch and Co., calico-printers, Clayton-le-Wolds, Lanca-
shire as far as regards T. Hatch).
G. Robinson and W. Wright, tailors, Dartmouth-street, West-
minster.
'Putt and .1. Bigwood, victuallers.
J. Mallinson and G. Banks. dyers, Leeds.
C. Sayers, and H. Glassposile, attorneys, Great Yarmouth,
Norfolk.
T. Bill and Co., Church Hill Colliery, Wednesbury, Stafford-
shire.
H. Patteson and Co., stockbrokers, Threadneedle-street.
G. Green and Co., merchants, London.
1). Clowes and Co., dealers in stone, Kerridge, Cheshire.
R. D'Arcy Newton and E. W. Straker, newspaper agents,
Warwick-square, Newgate-street. -
G. and B. Robertson, tailors, Albemarle-street.

THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The large
piece of land, on the south side of the Zoological Gardens
in the Regent's Park, which the Society has recently
takt.n on lease of the Commissioners of the Woods and
Forests, fur the purpose of enlarging that part of their
gardens, has already commenced employing a number of
excavators, and other workmen, for the purpose of form •
lug the boundary hulks, and which are being thickly
planed as a shrubbery. The ground is planned out for
tasteful gravel walks, with numerous ornamental fish
ponds, and other waters, for water fowl, and is nearly
ready. Workmen of all descriptions are busily employed
in erecting habitations fur the numerous quadrupeds and,
birds to be located in the new grounds.,

The LORD MAYOR 'said that WEIS a very strange
mode of explaining the übjee;ri4nahle points of the
apprentice.
The master then said that the boy one day was
dissatisfied at something, and, inking hold of a knife,
chopped of his finger. From such a strange cir-
cumstance he (the master) suspected that the boy
was deranged.
The mother of the apprentice denied that any-
thing was the matter with the boy's intellects.
The Loki) MAYOR (to the boy)7.-Why did
you chop off your finger ? Boy—Aireause it pained
me a good deal ; I thought-Viebest thing I could
-?-aa to dip it.—( Laughter.)
Mr. 10.1er---Pil you. think it- would grow.
again ?—(Great laughter.) -U4,—NiThy„ I didn't
give that a thought.

BOW-STREET. ,
Yesterday Mr. Chilton, one of the members of the
Wyndham Club, was summoned by W. Flaeller;
driver of the cabriolet No. 717, for refusing to pay
him the sum of 2d. to which the complainant al-
leged he was entitled, as the balance of his fare.
Mr. Chilton did not attend, but a person who
appeared on his behalf, admitted that he refused to
pay the 2d. demanded by the complainant, conceiv-
ing that he was entitled to 15...6d. only.
It appeared from the statement of the driver,
that Mr. Chilton hired him at the Horse Guards,
and that he drove him from thence to the Wynd-
ham Club in. St. James's-square, and subsequently
to Hanover-gate, Regent's Park, being a distance of
more than two miles and a half, for which he de-
manded Is. 81, and received but ls. 6d.

Sir F. ROE decided that the claimant was en.:
titled to .his demand, and Mr. Chilton was ordered
to pay-Bs.-81, being 4s. for the summons, 35. for
the .driver's lots of' time, Is. 6d. for the hearing,
and the disputed 2d.
QUEEN- S QUARE.
• •

Yesterday the two men, who gave their names
Thomas Williams and Charles Johnson, were brought
up for further examination before Mr. WIIITE,
charged with obtaiuiog money by delivering two-
penny-post letters with a forged post mark.
Samuel Taylor, servant to Mr. Wall, of No. 79.
Cadogan•place, stated that; on Monday evening
there was a double knock at the door. On opening
it, a man who bad a bundle of letters in his hand,
said " A letter, 3d." which he gave him. The let-
ter produced is the one he took in. To the best -of
his belief, Williams delivered the letter.
Thomas Stevens, servant to Mr. Robert Stewart,
of 95, Sloane-street, proved that Williams delivered
a letter is him in a similar manner on Monday, and
he paid him 3d. ,
A number of other gentlemen's servants in the
same neighhourhood were examined, who had taken
letters in of Williams, and they gave similar testi-
mony.
Mr. Cromar, one of the clerks of the Twopenny
Post-office, proved that all the post marks were
forgeries. The contents of all the letters were
merely fictitious bills of parcels.,
Mr. James Mellor, of No. 21, Cheapside, lace-
dealer, had known.both- the prisoners for about/our
years. The name of the person who called himself
Charles Johnson was Charles Littler, and the other
Thomas Littler.

Mr. WHITE—Were either of them in your em-
ploy ? Witness—Yes, Charles Littler was in my
service as a town traveller.
Mr. Mellor was here desired to look at all the
letters, and after having examined them closely, be-
lieved the whole of them to be written by Charles
Littler.
A police-constable of the T division, N 0.4, from
information which he received, went on Wednesday
to No. 17, Brane's-row, Mount-pleasant, Cierken-
well, where he understood the wife of Thomas Li'-
tier lived. He found her in a back room on the
second Aoor, and told her that her husband was in
trouble and he was directed to search the apart-
ment. In one of the drawers he found a small quas.-
tity of type in a paper, anti to appearance they had
been used with some sort of red stuff. He pot
them in his pocket, when the prisoner's wife threw
herself upon her knees, and begged of him, for God's
sake, to give her back the type and let her destroy
it, as she knew it would go against her husband.
The type was here produced, and the letters ex-
actly corresponded with the post marks on the letters.
The prisoners were then removed, but will be
again brought up next week,

During Wednesday nigfit hat, one of the watchers
on the estate- of Sir G. Heathcote, Bart., of Nor-
mattonishout six miles from Stamford, on going his
usual -rounds, when near to what is called Ernp:ng-
ham Old Wood, situate between the north road .t,l
the village of Empinighaturibout twerve at night,
heard :11...E....barge of three guns; he immediate)),
,Untie-hii way to. Empingham, to communicate the
fact to Sir Gilbert's head keeper, named Peach, and
the second keeper, named Morris. On this, Peach,
Morris, and another keeper, named Johnson, with
two assistants, went to the wood in pursuit of the
gang, who had been heard carrying on their work of
plunder
presfoerritseezerahlutpreevluiodtetsd nitghhets
vigilance
itgiththeneeef surround-
ingtiie
keepers, who had several ,times gic%en them chase.
On arriving at the,wood, the keepers heard the
ry '-par,waillitiffrom end to end; discharging several
.runs. in their progress,- and the pheasants falling
From the trees, but, the night being dark, could not
distinguish them. Peach and another laid down by
the side of the .wall which skirted the wood, and
overheard the conversation .which passed amongst
them, whilst Morris and two assistants planted
themselves lower down on the same side, where
they etePected the party to retreat from the wood
over the*wall.

In a few minutes. three of the poachers scaled the
wall juit where Peach and his companion were laid,
on which they rose, and Peach accosted them.
Hearing. this.the Jest of the party ran to the spot,
Morris exclaiming, " Come on, _lads, here they all
are !" Instantly a gun was discharged by one of
these cold-blooded murderers; and Peach fell to the
ground, arid cried " 0 Lord, I'm shot." The man
who discharged this gun was of low stature, and is
suspected to be one of five notorious poachers, re-
siding not far from the spot, but his features, in
consequence of the darkness, could not be recognised.
Morris, seeing his friend • fall to the ground,
rushed towards the man who had shot him, when
another of the party cried out " hint, shoot
him too ;" which was instantly obeyed, an-
other gun being levelled at his head and discharged,
the contents lodging in his left ear, temples, and
hat, and two shots in the corner of his eye. On
this Morris dropped on his knees, and a pistol which
he held in his hand fell from bis grasp; however,
he was able immediately to rise again, and corn-
Menced looking and feeling for his pistol and hat,
which was blown off . his head by the discharge of
the gun. At this two more of the gang (making a
'total of--five).. casee:averr.tbe. wail, and seeing poor
Morris,. whore- they had witnested shot, on his legs,
one of them cried " Whim, 'shoot' him again,"
and instantly another gun was poinred at hint and
fired, and the contents perforated through his coat
and shirt, spreading 'ever the small of his back, but
fortunately was only Sufficiently strong to slightly
mark the skin, without inilictipg any serious wound.
The keeper's assistants seeing these dreadful and
deliberate acts of bloodshed and murder, fell back to
a distance, completely dismayed, as all except Mor-
ris were unarmed; but Morris now hearing the
heartrending moaner and cries of his friend Peach,
after being shot a second time, went to his assist-
ance, on which Peach exclaimed, • " Jonathan,
they've killed me !" At this time the savage and
murderous.ruffiatis stood, and calmly looked- on to
witness and hear what took place'betWeen the two
helpless objects of their Vengeance, and then deli-
berately walked off from the wood at a sloW pace.
Peach and Morris, now left weltering in their
blood, were again joined by their assistants, who
witnessed the departure of the poachers, and it was
found necessary to fetch a cart and horse to convey
them to•their homes at Empingham.
* Peach lies in a very dangerous and almost hope-
less state, the shot being lodged in the lower part
of the abdomen, the thigh, &c., but Morris (from
whose lips our report has been taken), although con-
fined to his bed, and dreadfully wounded about the
head, is in a fair way of recovery.--Lincolnshire
, Chronicle.

The East India Company's ships Lord Low-
ther and Edinburgh arrived in Anjeer Roads on the 3.1
of August, and the Canning on the 4th of the sone mouth.
The craniologists have just discovered that
their science, which has been ushered into notice zni
" something new and strange," was equally well kl.o.vn,
and took a temporary hold of the ,public f,ur ce.}.
furies ago.

HORRID MURDER AT.ABTHOR-PE;NRA-R

TOWCESTER,
OF A 1179.11 AN BY HER HUSBAND,
AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

(Abridged from the Noithampton Free Press of this day.)
The scene of this dreadful murder was at Abthimpe, a
village about three miles from Towcester. On Tuesday
evening, the inhabitants of the town of Towcester, and
the sutrounding villages, were thrown into. the greatest
consternation and alarm, by a report that a labourer named
John Horne, residing at Abthorpe, had inhumanly mur-
dered his wife, and afterwards cut his own throat. It
appears that he was a man of an extremely irritable tem-
per, and subject to the most ungovernable fits of passion.
The deceased was in the habit of visiting a neighbour,
which induced a jealousy on the part of her husband. But
according to the prevailing opinion of her neighbours, it
was more from the effect of ill treatment, than a desire to
gossip, that she was induced to leave her home. All speak
highly in her praise, as an industrious and careful woman.
Frequent bickerings of late have been manifested between the
deceased and her husband, and on the morning of the mur-
der, while she was sweeping the hearth the brush was acci-
dentally burn', and with a horrid oath the husband swore
she would ruin him. In consequence of his threats, the
unfortunate woman considered her life in danger, and
leaving her home, sought shelter in a neighbour's house,
where she remain rd during the day. Upon the husband
leaving his work, in the afternoon, he visited his wife.
and after endeavouring to persuade her once more to come
home, which she refused, he put his rims round her neck
and kissed her, which apparent token of affection was in-
stantly followed by the pepetration of the horrid deed.
The wretched man drew forth a razor, and nearly severed
her head from her body, after which he cut his own throat ;
and the two with an infant which had been sitting upon
the lop of the wife, fell upon the floorlogether. Mr.
P.rker, surgeon, of Towcester, who was sent for to the
deceased, found it impossible to afford her any assistance
as the wounds had caused instant death. The surgeon
then turned his attention to the wounds of the hus-
band, which he carefully and very judiciously cloied :
and although for some time it was believed he could
not survive, in the coulee of Wednesday, he rallied con-
siderably, on proper restoratives being applied, and at
the termination of the inquest, was able to hear the evi-
dence which had been taken, read over, and made several
remarks ; sometimes corroborating, at other times denying
the minor details, not affecting the evidence of the wit-
nesses; but of the clear and indubitable proof of his guilt,
there was not entertained a shadow of doubt. On Wed-
nesday morning, an inquest was held on the unfortunate
woman, whose name was Anne Horne. The deceased
was wrapped in a sheet, on one side of the room, and at
the distance of not more tha❑ a yard, on
,a straw bed,
lay the miserable perpetrator of the murder and attempted
suicide. The first witness called was—
John S. Hindes, who was sworn, and stated—l am
constable at Abthorpe ; I knew Ann Horne, the deceased,
for some years;_ she has been married seven years.. I also
know her husband, Jobn Home; he is a labourer, and
they have two children. On Tuesday, Millis Stokes
came to me, and told me that Horne bad threatened to
murder his wife, and wished rile to go to his house,
which I did immediately, in company with `Mr. Pinkard,
ore of the overseers. I producerl my staff, and desired
him to keep the peace. I told him what I bad beard
about his threatening his wife, and be replied that he would
murder her if she entered the house dgain. I again pro-
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