The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-05 00:00:00

TRADES' UNIONS, TUNBRIDGE.-----A
highly respectable builder of this place, of the name of
Jeffery, who had instructed one of his men (originally
a bricklayer) in the art of plastering, met with a sin-
gular instance of the ingratitude in his refusal to work
at the latter branch of the business. " A turn out" of
this man and others was the consequence, these mis-
taken men supposing the Union would support them ;
but a letter from their secretary plainly stated to the
contrary, for which we give the society all due credit.
We have to record another instance of this refractory
(or rather perverse) spirit, displayed at a treat given
by the proprietor of a new built house upon its being
roofed in. " God save the King" was proposed to be
sung by some of the company, when some five-and-
twenty of the men rose up and left the room imme-
diately ! They pretend to deny the fact, but we have
the most respectable testimony of its truth.—Green-
wich Gazette.

REPORTED MURDER.—A report having
very generally got abroad at Hornsey and its neigh-
bourhood that a young married woman had met with
her death by foul means, the following particulars pre-
paratory to the Coroner's inquiry have been collected :
—On Easter Monday Jane Bond, about 16 years of
age, came to the Sluice-house at Hornsey, and in a
short time she joined company with some young men,
with whom it appears she was previously acquainted.
They remained together the whole of the day drinking.
In the evening she went to the bar in company of two
young girls, with whom she was also well acquainted,
and ordered some rum and shrub. As her appearance
was very youthful, the landlady cautioned her not to
take too much, upon which she remarked, that she had
plenty of young men to take care of her, to her sor-
row. Between nine and ten o'clock the girl went
away with some young women and a number of the
young men, with whom she had passed the day. No-
thing more was heard of the party until last Wednes-
day,. when a blacksmith of the name of Tagg, living
in Earl's-place, St. John-street-road, called at the
Sluice-house, and made inquiry respecting his daugh-
ter-in-law, Jane Bond, who, he said, had remained
from home ever since Monday. The landlord told him
the above particulars, and recommended him to go to
some of the parties in whose company she had been
seen on Monday. The next day the father-in-law,
accompanied by the father of the girls with whom she
had drank at the bar, called at the Sluice-house, and
told the landlord that Jane Bond had left the company
of the young women, and had sat down on the path-
way to wait for the young men. The landlord, upon
hearing this, sent for the drags, and, after dragging
in the New River for a few minutes, the body of a girl
was brought up, which was immediately recognised to
be Jane Bond. The place where she was found
was within a few yards of the place where she
sat down. There were marks of violence on the body,
and other circumstances of such a suspicious nature
were discovered, that the father-in-law ( Tagg) gave
a man named Sexton, and another young man who
had been in the deceased's company on Monday, into
custody, on suspicion of having been accessary to the
girl's death. The two persons were taken before
.Mr.
Ray, a magistrate, living at Finchley, who examined
them, and, after hearing their statements, directed
that they should be liberated, on their own recogni-
zance, to attend on the forthcoming inquest. The de-
ceased, young as she was, it appears, was married, but
had been deserted by her husband, a portrait-painter,
nearly thrice her age. There are other reports in con-
nection with the case, which, at this stage of the in-
quiry, cannot be more than alluded to.