The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-18 00:00:00

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I eve to acquaint you, with the feelings of the deepeligfi•-, ..
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horror and regret, of the shocking murder of LicutOatTa.,
i and A6jutant Johnstone, of the 3d Light Cavalry. tiil4 3,1K,Fr,,' t 3
lamented officer took his usual drive with his wife e ~:.,±,.a
i-eltertAth instant, after his evening duties, and sat down --"'
to dinner with good spirits, the happy husband of an af-
fectionate wife and the doting father of two li:tio children;
in less than 12 hours afterwards he was a breathless corpse.
His wife and one child were seated at table with him,
and he had stood up to carve, when a deafening report
and a cloud of sulphurous smoke burst upon them. The
poor victim of an assassin's cowardly shot leapt up in
amazement, thinking that a firework had accidentally been
discharged into the room; but soon he staggered, turned
deadly pale, and fell on his face upon the ground; a bullet
had entered his back, and he lay senseless and weltering in
blood. The condition of his horror-stricken wife may be
imagined, but cannot be described. Never had death come
more unexpectedly upon a human being. The servants,
in their terror and surprise, were at first thunder-
stricken. No one pursued the murderer, though one
of the servants actually saw the wretch as he turned
and fled. He had fired at his victim when his back was
turned towards him, from an open window of the room
where the party sat at dinner. Lieutenant Johnstone
was soon surrounded by breathless friends, and many
were speedily in search for doctors, for the 3d Light
Cavalry had been for many weeks without one. The
doctor arrived, but the sufferer was wounded beyond
human cure. The bullet had passed through his back
to the su:face of the akin in the lower part of the
stomach. lie lingered on, but with a mind anchored
fast on the Reck of Ages. He seemed to know from
the first that he had no more days to live, but he knew
that his soul was struggling towards Christ, to a brighter
day than ever lightened this world. Ho was perfectly
collected and without fear to the last. From seven
o'clock r.m. unil four A.M. the next morning he writhed
in tortures, with short intervals of comparative quiet;
about that time death began to gain the mastery over
life. His devoted wife often knelt by and prayed with
him. His voice grew more and more faint; he was well
on his way to where "the weary are at rest." l Hi o
signed his will without one symptom of
he lay, his features everymoment assumingalarm ;
a calmly
ties became cold, the expression ofhis▪ features
peaceful expression; he ceased to speak;his
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more serene, his breath came with diffic•
ulty, he sobhbed
---sighed—awas dead, and his soul departed it
a
smile to the God who gave it.
Most afflicting was
his widow's grief, but she too knows where to look
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for comfort. Most duteous was the attention shown
to the sufferer by the subordinate European staff of the
regiment, who watched by his side all the long hotirs of
that sorrowful night. But the murderer is still undis-
covered. The bullet extracted from the body is pre-
cisely the same as that in use for the cavalry pistol; a
carbine cartridge and some wadding were found near the
house of the deceased. It is to be hoped that the as-
sassin will soon be discovered, for the blood of a mur-
dered man crieth from the ground and will be heard.
The whole station is thrown into horror and dismay at
this awful event, as you may suppose. Lieutenant
Johnstone is to be taken to his long last home tomor-
row morning.—Jaulnah, April 25.-ll7adr4s
A thenceuni,
May 6.

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SOCIETY for IMPROVING the DWELLINGS
OF THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES.
The annual meeting of the Metropolitan Association
for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
was held on Saturday afternoon at Willis's Rooms. Sir
Ralph Howard, who presided on the occasion, took the
chair at two o'clock. On the platform we remarked the
Lords Radstcck and Ebrington, Dr. Southwood Smith,
and Messrs. Alexander and Gibson, who successively
moved and seconded the various formal resolutions
which constituted the business of the day. In his ad-
dress to the shareholders the Chairman commented
on the various statements of the printed report which
had been distributed; and while he admitted and la-
mented the fact that the society's establishment for
single men, in Albert-street, Spitalfields, had not
hitherto obtained a sufficient number of inmates and
become a self-supporting concern, since 120 only out
of '234 rooms had been taken, he strongly advised
the shareholders to continue their exertions, since the
financial position of the association, though at present
unsatisfactory, was evidently tending to more satisfac-
tory results. After a few words from Lord Ebrington,
Dr. Southwood Smith rose to advocate the self-support-
ing character of the institution, and to comment on a
certain paragraph in the report which discourages the
declaration of a dividend. Dr. Smith was of opinion that
establishments like those of the association ought not to
be charities, though commenced in a charitable spirit,
but that they ought to stand the money test, and he had
no doubt hut that they would ultimately do so. But be-
sides the money test, there was the comfort test, and the
disease test. That the establishments in Albert-street
and Pancras-road were oomfortable had been freely
admitted on all sides; and as to the disease test, Dr. S.
ST showed that those establishments during
eig teen months' occupancy had a mortality of only one-
;of the general mortality of the metropolis and of
two-thirds of the mortality in the worst parts of Lon-
don. In the report the shareholders were informed that
a sum of 1,7801. had been invested in the purchase of a
piece ot freehold• land acid houses in Pleasant-row, im-
mediately adjoining the 'society's buildingf in Albert:!.
-streetalsitalfielfis; that the 44eherakiirs for single ment7
in Cotertt n-street, Soho, had been acquired for the pur-
poses of the society; that the buildings in the Dick
Pancras-road remain fully occupied; and that the ac-
count shows a balance of 6814 in favour of these build-
ings. The buildings for families in Albert-street, Mile-
end New-town, have likewise produced an income of
727/. The directors have obtained a supplemental
charter which empowers them to raise a provincial
capital of 1,000,000/., and to apportion the same to
different provincial districts; and branch associations
have consequently beau formed at Ramsgate and at
Brighton.