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SUPPOSED R04;17 AND MURDER AT
CASIBEItIVT,LL.
Yesterday eveeing, an in
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adjourned fr trn—F: i-
day last, was resumed end eoecitand before, Mr.
Ihker, at the Prince of Wales, Buxton-arrest, Mile-
end New-town, on view of the body of William Hon-
' ner, aged 50, late a traveller in the establishment a
Messrs. Grey and Co., No. 71, Ring William-etreet,
who is supposed to have been knocked down and
robbed by some men at Camberwell, and to have died
of the injuries inflicted on that occasion.
Mr. E. Wood, of the establishment of Messrs.rey
G and Ca., stated that deceased was at his usual duti
on Saturday week last, when he was in good health Oa Monday following witness received a note from
him, dated the Police-station, Camberwell, in which
he observed that he was in difficulty. Witness found
him at the Police-court, and that he had been fined
10i. 6d., which he advanced for him. Th-ceased in-
formd him that he bad been knocked down and rob-
bed. He had a wound at the back part of the head.
John Munden, porter at the Metropolitan Lodging
House, Buxton-street, said that deceased was a
lodger last, Tuesday. Witness went to his
room and knocked at the door. Witness beard that '
he was in the room. This was between seven and
eight o'clock in the morning. Witness went again at
eleven o'clock, but got no answer. The next morning
he rapped at the door, after which he looked throregh
Ia window, when be saw him in a chair. Witness
burst the door open, and discovered that deceased was
dead. He had been in bed.
Inspector Briddle, of the P division, deposed that
about two o'clock on the morning of that (ley week
(11°adaY), he saw the deceased leaning against the
Ledo Lion, adjoining Camberwell-gate. He asked
thehim where he was going to, when hs replied, "'So
City." ri
e --o further stated that he had been at the
Half Al.°°n, Dentnark-hill, and that after leaving
there, while in the valley, he observed two or three
men following him, 11, was knocked down by
them and robbed of 31. He observed that he re-
ceived a blow on his head. There was a wound
at the back part of his head, 'reel a quantity of
blood bad flowed from it. Ilis cloa.es carte muddy.
He was taken to the station, and tis'he was in liquor, and incapable of taking care of himself, he vg43 charged with - - •
being intoxicated.-waste
was eenifor who dressed
the wound. The same day he was token before the
magistrate and fined 10s. 6d., the amount of the sur-
geons bill.
In answer to the Coroner and jury, the witness
added that the Red Lion is about three miles from the
Half Moon. 'Witness subsequently made inquiries at
the Half MOOD, and learnt that deceased was there on
the afternoon of Sunday, and that he left about nine
o'clock at night. He had not been able to ascertain
anything about the men alluded to by deceased.
Mr. Champneys, who attended deceased at the
police-station, stated that he had made a post mortem
examination of the body. There was a diagonal
wound at the hack of the head, and in removing the
bony covering be found, in a corresponding position
with that injury, a quantity of blood effused. The
brains adjoining were also in a state of inflammation.
He attributed death to these causes. There was a
mark under the breast as if deceased had received a
blow, and his left eye was blackened.
The jury returned a verdict, " That death was
caused by a wound on the beak of the head, causing
inflammation and effusion on the brain, but by what
means these were caused there was not sufficient evi-
dence to the jury to show."
The CORONER observed that he had no doubt that
the police would make every inquiry into the_cese.

NAVAL INT_ELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC.
29.—Captain Alexander
Milne, one of the Junior Lords of the Admiralty,
arrived in this dockyard to-day and made a cursory
inspection. After visiting the Port-Admiral and
Admiral-Superintendent, Captain Milne, accompanied
by Captain Henderson, C. 8., and Captain Sir Richard
Grant, went round the yard. They inspected the
Neptune, 120, fitting out as the depot ship at this
port ; also the Vincent, 100, in the basin; and after-
wards went on board the Simoon steam•frigate, where
they remained from half-past eleven until twelve
o'clock, when they repaired to the office of Rear-
Admiral Prescott, C.B. Sir Richard Grant and Capt.
Milne returned to London this afternoon, the latter
having, previous to departure, gene on board the Rod •
ney, 92, Captain Graham, C. 8., thence to tha Mala-
bar coal depot, and thence to the Britannia, 120, Cap-
tain Goldsmith, fitting for the flag of the Commander-
in- Chief elect of the Mediterranean scpadron.
The Simoon iron steam-screw frigate is receiving
her tanks. She will have steam up again on Wed-
nesday, to try her engines, and will come out of the
steam-basin on the 6th proximo, when she will be
taken out of harbour by Captain Henderson, to test
her speed and stability.
The Dee steam troop-ship, Lieutenant West com-
manding, came into this harbour to-day to replenish
fuel, after which she will proceed to Woolwich to be
pLid off.

The Echo-steam-tug went-out to Spithaad to-day
to bring in the naval and marine invalids brought
home by the troop-ship .Resiatance' Master Com-
mander Bradshaw, which remains at Spithead await-
ing orders.
The Resistance land, d her invalid seamen, mrines,
and soldiers (about one hundred), and she will pro-
ceed to Deptford with the stores she brought home
from the Mediterranean.

The following is the number of men borne on the
books of the undermentioned ship, including tenders:
—Britarnia, 650; Birkenhead, 130 ; Dee, 60 ; Excel-
lent, 670 ; Neptune, 560 ; Rodney, 340 ; Retribution,
290 ; Victory, 530 ; Victoria and Albers, 110 ; Men-
beim, ordinary, and supernumerary engineers, 20.
PLy motrn, DEC. 29.-11. r Majesty's 8-gun brig
Rapid, Commander Mane, which left Spitbead on
the 11th inst. for Madeira, Rio Janeiro, Hong Kong,
and the Mist India station, having experienced a
succession of very heavy gales, by which she recuived
some damage, has put back to this port. On the
17th, in lat. 44.24 north, long. 9 50 west, she encoun-
tered a gale from the south-weet, which bilged the
boat hanging over her quarter and carried away the
tiller two feet from the rudder head. This gale lasted.
about 48 hours. She met a second from the south-
west on the 20th inst., in lat. 42.40 north, long. 11.24
west, accompanied by torrents of rain and very heavy
squalls. Commander Blane then determined to bear
up for Liiben, but on the 23d, in lat. 44.21 north,
long. 9 50 west, the wind shifted suddenly to south-
south-east, and finding that the bowsprit was sprung
they were compelled to run for the nearest lee port
in England, and carried the gale with them to within
60 or 70 miles of the Lizard, when the wind fell
light. For seven days she was hove to under clme-
reefed maintopsail and fore staysail, which canvas
best suited leer, but she was very wet ; ell the time
she strained considerably, and scarcely a man on board
had a dry jacket. After bearing away she behaved
uncommonly well, ri4cg freely over the seas. Her
topsides were so much worked that the officers could
not sleep in their cabins on account of their leakage.
A survey will be held to-day on her defects, and it is
expected that she will go up harbour to have a new
bowsprit and be caulked.
gale 9 .soonwtehset
,s 21sth instant, e
x chang e latitude
colours
with
the
north,p
si
ship
nggtiht longitude de
Augusta,
outward bound.
The steam-vessel Fury is ordered from Woolwich
to this port to be paid wages, previous to sailing fur
the Mediterranean.

Letters dated 15th October have been received
from her Majesty's- sloop Daphne, 18, Captain Ed-
ward G. Fanshawe. She is reported to have lost her
three masts and quarter boats, three da} s from CA-
fornia, on her way to kngland.
Chatham, transport, Lieut. Luckraft agent, with
troops from Bermuda, which put in here with a foul
wind on the 24th, sailed this day for Woolwich.
Aboukir, convict-ship, sailed this day with convicts
for Van Diemen's Land.
In the Sound, Rapid ;
in Banpool, rinate.
In Harbour Impregnable, St. George, ROI'
Avon, Nautilus, liotEPur l Conliance,
Devon,cone ,
Tortoise, and Rochester, lighter.
Sarrcen was takm into No. 5 dock Ye'terd3Y.

AN ECCENTRIC S
well-dres:cd body, ths-
appeazs in the F:ench pspera"7 °Ea a tree on the road from
covered this morning banging tro.
letter was found :
Versailles to Seeaux,
Inc IDE._—Thae- foll ow in g paragrrtnt h
the
bodyfoilowing
swaying; itself at the
Those who shall discosiv IP)
Finds, did tho-se formerly suspended to the
impulse of the lvi„°,---0-',aivi:l, no doubt; feel either terror-struck
[lle at liront'7o---n'‘ Behold,' they will exclaim,' another
or moved ippy'l.heyj vf.e-ielll
tbheantawistitaiki eonld
.
a.t
is to avoid the slightest
Infirmities, and
rtlagynr
di ehfi
P ' end to my life. This may appear absurd, but lam of
agea
will
ecmomost petty annoyance, that I have determined to
put an
has livedcomfortablyfor than
sixty that when one more
sixty years one ought to have had enough of life. I am
victim
have
winao
itiaryiestshi/eniedrni
nu. epi
atone in the world. I was not an inhabitant of Paris; I
therefore think it will be imps,ible to know who I rm.
Besides, I have taken every precaution for insuring this;
and, if the last wish of a dying man commands any respect,
I entreat that no inquiries may be made on the subject. I left
my home after selling everything, and giving out that I was
starting for a foreign country. My property is all realise!,
and the bank-notes which it has produced will have yester-
day reached the hands of a honest Either of a family, whom
it will render happy. 1 have so managed that he should he
ignorant of their source. having no further busin:ss in this
world, lam going. Good bye! (Signed)--Ara Original."
CANINE REVEINGE.—About ten (LIB 11,10, ,111 r. J.
Cooper, a young farmer in the neighbourhood, by snmelnetag
offended his dog; and on his entering his bedroom
evening, he was rather surprised to see the dog
nerae
he had never seen him before, Ile went u toPno friendly
friendly trimmer and patted him, but , receivedlittle of it, acknowledgment in return. He thought little
on him With
how-
ever; but, on turning his back, the brF.t; sP-
uooper having no
fury, seizing him by the thigh. •al
to attempt to suffocate
weapon, his only tnode of defences W
5
A down his throat. By this
his opponent by forcing his haPLin
d gaining the mastery, but
means he eventually succeed
d being much injured. The
at the expense of both ban
malty with his life, and Mr.
savage brute has P !
oliAdtulloeugpli it must be some time before
thertitnNioniii
Cooper is doing well, --.1
he regains the use of his hands. —Brechin Paper.