The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-24 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

TITHES AND POOR RATES. Yesterday Dr.
Barnaby, the Rector of St. Dunstan's, Stepney,
appeared before the Sitting Magistrates, Messrs.
NORTON and HARDWICK, on a summons issued at
the instance of the parish officers of St. Mary's,
Stratford-le-Bow, to show cause why he refused to
pay the sum of 6/. odd for poor rate on the tithe
collected in that parish.
The Rev. Gentleman observed that his reason for
objecting to the payment of the sum claimed was his
being rated at nearly three times the sum which he
should have been.

Mr. Drewery, the Vestry Clerk, replied that the
officers had reduced the rate of the Reverend De-
fendant the last year from 401. to 321., and this
they thought was as low as they could possibly
make it.

Dr. Barnaby had always paid rates on a higher
sum than he received, and he was in a situation to
prove that, though in the present instance he was
rated on 321. for the last year, all he had received
was 121.

The decision in the case was postponed to a fu-
ture day to give Dr. Barnaby an opportunity of
producing his agent to prove this fact.
During the hearing of the case a respectable cler-
gyman, who happened to be on the Bench, observed
that nothing could be more vague or incorrect with
respect to the value derived from tithes than public
report. It had been asserted, and generally be-
lieved, that he derived an income of 2,0001. per
annum from the tithes of his rectory, but he would
be very glad to filaPsome person who would pay
him one-fourth of that sum for them. It was also
generally believed that they, the clergy, were
very rich, but his own opinion was, that they were
very poor.

TURKISH MANNERS.—The Turks of all
classes have more innate good-breeding than any of the
European nations. Though suddenly raised from the
dregs of the people to offices of the highest distinction, one
can never detect any deficiency of dignity in their demea-
nour ; and their affability and condescension to their in-
feriors, put the latter at their ease after the first moment
they are in company.
MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER.—The
Hereford Journal of Wednesday states that on Saturday
morning, about half•past one o'clock, a gamekeeper,
named Davis, employed by E. B. Clive, Esq., M.P.,
whilst pursuing some poachers through Bullock's Wood,
in the parish of Allenemore, was shot in the throat by one
of the men, and died almost instantly in the arms of his
companions. When the deceased and three other game-
keepers came up to the poachers one of them presented his
gun, and threatened to shoot the first man who approached.
Davies pursued another man who was retreating, and, as
he was about to jump through a hedge in pursuit, re-
ceived the contents of a gun in his neck. The gun was
fired so close to the deceased that the shot lodged in a
mass in his shoulder blade. A Coroner's inquest was
held on the body on Monday, and a verdict of " Wilful
Murder against some person or persons unknown" was
returned. A man named Evans, who was seen in the
wood a short time before the murder, has been appre-
hended on suspicion.

ASSASSINATION OF GASPAR HAUSER.

(From the Ghent Messenger.)

The reader remembers, no doubt, to have
seen in the journals of the time some details of
this singular man, who was found one day at
Nuremberg, without any one being able to dis-
cover who had brought him there, from whence
he came, who he was, and whose mysterious
destiny is still enveloped in an impenetrable
veil. This Gaspar Hauser appeared to be about
30 years of age, had never learned to speak, and
to all appearance had remained that number of
years in a narrow and dark dungeon, where he
was obliged to keep himself constantly seated,
with only bread and water for his food. His
height was four feet nine inches; a short and
very delicate beard covered his chin and upper
lip. His complexion was very pale, his limbs
were slender, and his feet bore no mark that in-
dicated they had been confined in a shoe. The
sole expression of his countenance was a gross
stupidity. He scarcely knew how to use his
fingers or his hands, and when he walked one
would have said it was a child who for the first
time attempted to make some steps. For his
food he would allow nothing but bread and
water, to which he was accustomed, and his re-
pugnance to every other was such, that even the
smell of meats affected him disagreeably, and if
he swallowed a few drops of wine or coffee, he
was instantly seized with violent vomiting.
More lately, he stated that he knew nothing
of himself nor of his family ; that it was at Nu-
remberg he learned, for the first time, that be-
sides himself and the man with whom he had
always been, there were any other living crea-
tures. As far back as he could remember he
had always inhabited a small low chamber,
which he sometimes called a cage, continually
seated on the ground, his feet naked, and having
only a shirt and trousers for his whole clothing.
He had never seen the sky, ands remained the
greater part of his time deprived of the light of
day. When he awoke he found near him some
bread and a pitcher of water. Sometimes this
water had a bad taste, and when that happened
he felt his eyes grow heavy in spite of him, and
he was forced to yield to sleep ; after-
wards, when he alloke from his sleep,
he perceived that another shirt had been
put upon him, and that his nails had
been cut. He had never seen the face of the
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made, that his keeper came one day into his
chamber, and keeping behind him, so as not to
be seen, had guided his hand as if to make it
write something ; that shortly after he placed
him on his feet and attempted to teach him to
walk ; that, finally, this man took him on his
shoulders and walked away with him. Hauser
was not able to tell much respecting the journey
that followed, except that he fainted several
times during its continuance.
In the first period of his arrival at Nurem-
berg, the whole right side of his body was sub-
ject to strong convulsive contractions, particu-
larly when the sight of some new object struck
him. When he slept noise did not appear to
have any effect upon him, and even violent
treatment could not awake him. He could not
bear the rays- of the sun, which inflamed his
eyes. Prints and pictures appeared to him to.
be cut in wood.

The multiplicity of impressions which his
mind received quickly excited his nervous system
to an extraordinary degree, so that in a little
time the muscles of his face were agitated with
nervous contraction ; his hands trembled so
violently that they could hold nothing : his
hearing was become so sensitive that not only
the sound of a drum threw him into convul-
sions, but he felt violent pain when any one
spoke near him in an elevated voice. Shortly
he lost his appetite, and his health required that
he should be removed to a quiet house where
nobody would see him. It was then that he lay
upon a bed for the first dme, and that he began
to dream, which had never happened to him
before.

One of the things which he found most dif-
ficult was to accustom himself to our sort of
food. It cost him months before he could suc-
ceed. Hot meats caused him a parching thirst,
which he could not quench by drinking 10 or
12 measures of water a day ; but when he be-
came a little accustomed to our sort of victuals
the convulsions ceased, the excitement of the
brain diminished, his eyes lost their feverish
brightness ; in fine, his health gradually revived.
A fact worthy of notice is that the change of
living (hygiene) caused him to grow two inches
in a few weeks.

The sort of life which Gaspar Hauser had
led for so many years, separated from the rest of
the world, had furnished him with so little op-
portunity of exercising his mind, that it was that
of an infant, and it was a long time before he
could comprehend the difference between ani-
mated beings and the objects which have not
life. He imagined that the movement produced,
no matter what the object might be, was spon-
taneous ; so that if the wind should carry away
a sheet of paper he thought that it had by a
voluntary impulse flown away. lle supposed
that a tree 'manifested the life within by the
movement of its branches and of its leaves, and
that the rustling of the latter when agitated by
the wind was the language in which it commu-
nicated its thoughts.
His sight was very remarkable ; he saw as
well in darkness as in the broad day (this was
proved by an infinity of experiments). In the
darkest night he could distinguish blue from
green. His sense of hearing was also exces-
sively developed ; but his sense of smelling,
above oil, was a source of torment. All the
of bread, of
odours, with the exception of that
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smell,
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theirr foliage. mtmeisn, were to him more
or less disagreeable. At a great distance he
from all others by
it, and which was perceptible toagne.one butWhenhe
passed near a cemetery, the odour exhaled from
him-
self, gave him an access of fever. The smell of
a rose caused him to faint.
But that which appeared, perhaps, the most
extraordinary in the organisation of Gaspar
Hauser, was his facility in feeling magnetic and
metallic effects. One day they
gave him a lead
stone ; he took it, held it some moments, then
threw it away, observing, that it made him feel
disagreeable sensations. Professor Daumer,
having learned this circumstance, made some
experiments upon him with the magnetic needle,
and when it was directed at his side lie com-
plained of a violent pain in his stomach, and
said that he felt besides„ a sensation like that
which a current of air would cause escaping
from his body, and precipitating itself towards
the needle.

Metals acted also violently upon Gaspar
Hauser, and caused him to feel, by their contact,
a sort of attraction, and a cold that penetrated,

according to the size of the object, inure or less
into his arms. If he took a cat by the tail he
experienced a bruising, and felt like as he would
a blow upon the hand. This incredible facultt
disappeared afterwards gradually.
The following was latterly his mode of living :
—He ate every kind of meat, except pork, but'
he required that they should be slightly seasoned,
and the seasoning which he preferred was still
that of fennel and cummin. He continued to
drink water, for which he often substituted in
the morning a cup of chocolate : he had a gteat
aversion to all fermented liquors, wine, beer, &c.,
as well as to tea and coffee. He was, in other
respects, like all the rest of the world, except that
he still could see in darkness, although less per.
fectly, and he had nothing more extraordinary
than the remembrance of his strange destiny.
The unfortunate Gaspar Hauser is no more.
He died on the 17th of this month (December)
of a wound made by the blow of a dagger,
which he received on the same day from an un-
known assassin. He lived at Anspach, where
the President of the Court of Appeal had given
him a little employment in the Registrar-office.
Lord Stanhope, during his stay at Anspach, had
also provided for his support. It is presumed
that the assassin is the same person who had
already made an attempt upon his life. He dis-
appeared without leaving the least trace of him.
On his return, at mid-day to his office, Hauser
was accosted in the street by a person who.pro-
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silence,tmh inissleeidetcilia'idgmnedniit tomwnent after dinner to the place of as-
signation. The stranger was waiting for him.
He took him aside—there he gave him a blow
with a dagger, which has put an end to the ex-
istence of a man whose life and death have been
equally unfortunate.
The history of Hauser is one of the most
singular events of our time, and perhaps more
mysterious than that of the man with the iron
mask. It might be conceived that the policy of
a despot might have an interest in the conceal'
ment of an important personage ; but what hue-
rest could it have in bringing up in complete
isolation an infant—in making it a prisoner
during the whole of its infancy, in the hands of
a gaoler, and afterwards abandoning it to public
charity, and finally to cause its assassination ?
How can there exist in our age a monster capable
of such a refinement of cruelty ?
What is scarcely less strange is, that the Br
varian police, which is always on the watch for
political objects, and which suffers nothing to
escape that would offend the Holy Alliance, has
not been yet able to discover the least trace off
the wretches who have several times attempted
the life of this poor young man, and who have
at last accomplished their abominable purpose.
The Chief Burgomaster of Nuremberg hag
caused to be inserted in the journals of Bayarie
the following notice, on the subject of this caws'
trophe :
" Gaspar Hauser, my dear pupil, is no more. He died
yesterday, at ten o'clock at night, at Anspach, from
wound which he received from an assassin. .The prob'
lems which Providence had attached to his mehincholi
existence are now solved for this victim of the horribl°
barbarity of his relatives. God, in his justice, will car
pensate him with an eternal spring of the joys of infanct
which were denied to him, for the vigour of youth of wbil
he was deprived, for the life which has been destroyed ooli
five years after it had begun to be acquainted with hunaell
society. Peace to his ashes.
,4 BINDER, Chief Burgomaster.
"Nuremberg, Dec. 18."

The following are some new details, not give'
in our recital :

It was three o'clock in the afternoon thaS
Hauser left home, to go the place of assignation
appointed by the unknown person. In half an
hour after he ran, quite out of breath, to the
house of his tutor, appointed to take care
him, and was able to utter at intervals, the word 4.
" Parc—bourse—Uz—monument," but almd
immediately fainted; it was not until then thng
his master perceived the unfortunate young m•
was wounded. He then sent a soldier of the
police to the Castle Park, who found near the
monument of the poet Uz a small lady's work
bag, made of violet-coloured silk, containing
paper, on which was written the following words
but so crosed that it was found necessary g'
place this paper before the glass of a window t'
read them:—

" Hauser will be able to tell very distinctly how I bad
acted and whence I came. To save Hauser the trouble
tell you myself whence I came ; I come from the Bao
rian frontier upon the river of I will tell you eel
more, the name, M. I. 0." . .A

Hauser was struck with terror, and was able '
give to the police only few particulars of the ct
scription of the assassin.

Died on Monday last, in Liverpool, age°,
32, Mungo Park, nephew of Mungo Park, the celebrate"
African traveller, and son of the late Mr. Park, of the I'S
of Mull, whom Sir Walter Scott, in the notes of his notesil
of " Guy Mannering," acknowledges was the origiii
from whence he drew the character of Dandie Dinmone•

818 THS.
On the 23d inst., in Mecklenburg-square, the lady of JO
Bethell, Esq., of a son.
On the 22d inst., at Hampstead, Mrs. Thomas WhitehOl
Reid, of a daughter. . d

On the 23d inst., at Camelford-house, Mrs. Charles MillS,
a daughter.

On the 23d inst., at Highbury.grove, the lady of J. E. Hadd
Esq., of a daughter.

On the 21st inst., at Old Windsor, the Hon. Mrs. Every,
a son.

On the 23d inst., at St
MARRIED.3Iarp
Paddington, John Thom'Williams, Esq., second son of the late William Williams,
of Plas-y- Ward, Denbighshire, to Elizabeth Sophia, el&
daughter of Sir Richard Ottley, late Chief Justice of Ceylon;
On the Bd inst., at St. George's, Hanover.square, VS
Jadis, Esq., to Angelica Frances, youngest daughter of the 11'
Dr. Harris.
On the 22d inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Mr. Thos. 01'
of Silver-street, Falcon-square, to Maria, fourth daughter
Edward Price, Esq., of Basinghall-street.
On the 21st inst., at Milton, Kent, Mr. James Livermore,'
Tower-street, to Emily, second surviving daughter of the
Albert Jones, Esq., of Champion.hill, Surrey.
On the 10th ult., at York, Upper Canada, William Gantt°
Esq., merchant, to Elizabeth Bowles Brenchley, daughter
Charles Brenchley, Esq., Denmark-hill, Camberwell.
On the 20th inst., at St. Benett's, Gracechurch_streeto Mr. 1
J. Frodsham, to Miss Emma Bailey, daughter of Alfred Bai"
Esq., of Baker-street, Portman-square.

DIED.
On the 10th inst., at Monikie manse, George Scott Por4
youngest son of Robert Purdie, Esq., Heriot-row, Edinburgh'
On the MI inst., in Stamford.street, John Hodgkinson, 564
in his 54th year.

On the ISth inst., at Reading, Mr. Jeremiah Hergest, late-
Finsbury.place, aged 69.
On the 20th inst., at the house of her grandfather, Sri
Admiral Tollemache, Amelia Selina Locke, aged three ye.3j
eldest daughter of the late Captain William Locke, and Sell!'
his wife.

On the 3d inst., at Bath, Mr. M. Mean, of Loughton, OF!,
On the 22d inst., John Woollams, Esq., of Connaught
race, Edgeware-road, aged 57.
On the 22d inst., in Mark-lane, Thomas, the son of .1
Reay, jun., Esq., aged 6.
On the 16th inst., at the Lower-park, Dedham, EsseX, 351,4
52, Henrietta Margaretta, the wife of Alderman Manning.:::
On the 19th inst., at her seat Mount Mascal, Kent,
.Robinson, relict of the late Rev. Sir John Robinson, Bart.
On the 17th inst., at Finchley, in his 35th year, WilloUglil
Wigston, Esq., third son of the late John Wigston, Esq.,,
Trent Park, Middlesex. _

On the 20th inst., at Southwood, Highgate, Miss Langf°_,7
At Tutnell, near Broomsgrove, Worcestershire, Mrs. NW.
Smith, widow of the late Mr. John Smith, of that place.
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