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DREADFUL MURDER IN IND
I have to acquaint you, with the feelings of the . _ea
horror and regret, of the shocking murder of Lieutenant
and Adjutant Johnstone, of the 3d Light Cavalry. Thy
lamented officer took his usual drive with his wife ou
, the 24th 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 little children;
in less than 1 9 hours afterwards he was a breathless corpse.
His wife and one child were seated at table with him,
and ho 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 ha 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 ;error and surprise, were at first thunder-
stricken. No ono pursued the murderer, though one
of the servants actually saw the wretch as be 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 ar dinner. Lieutenant Johnstone
was soon surrounded by breathless friends, and many
were speedily in search for doctors, for the 3d Light
Cavalry had been fcr many weeks without one. The
doctor arrived, but the sufferer was wounded beyond
human cure. The bullet had passed through his back
to the surface of the skin in the lower part of the
stomach. He lingered on, but with a mind anchored
fast on the Rock of Ages. He seemed to know from
the first that he had no more days to live, but be knew
that his soul was struggling towards Christ, to a brighter
day than ever lightened this world. He was perfectly
collected and without fear to the last. From seven
o'clock P.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." He
amoreed his will without one symptom of alarm ; calmly
sign
peaceful expression;
his features ew
extremi-
ties became cold, the expression of gr
his breath came with difficulty,he sobbed
eon t
speak; assuming
his
more serene,
and his soul departed with a
—sighed—was dead, . fir t•
amilo to the
where to look
his widow's grief, but she too knows
he lay, his features
for comfort. Most duteous was the attention shown
carbine cartridge and some wadding
heevereyeasmedom t
European staff of the
to the sufferer by the subordinate
regiment, who watched by his aide all the long hours.ot
that sorrowful night. Bat the murderer is still undis-
covered. The bullet extracted from the body is God who gave it. Most a icing was
pre-
cisely the same as that in use for the cavalry pistol; a
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 head.
The whole station is thrown into horror and dismay at
this awful event, as you may suppose. LieutenantJohnstone is to be taken to his long last home to-mor-
row morning,—Jaulnab, April 25.--Madras Athena,May 6.

[PRICE SD.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—GOODWOOD, 1851.
Acceptances for the Goodwood Stakes.
Yrs. st. lb.l Yrs. st. lb.
Cariboo
Pitsford .
Old Dan Tucker... 5 7 12iUnity
Backbiter
Windischgratz ... 4 7 9 Runny mole .....
Strongbow
Dac-an-Durras, ... 6 7 518 fby llarkaway,
Montagu©
Duxbury 4 7 2 Rowena
The Cocktail
5 7 0 Kick-up-the-Dust 3 5 7
Remunerator
Vampyre a 611 out of Empress 3 5 5
Borneo 5 6 11 Presto 3 5 3
Champion
Tilsit
5 6 sln Aitude . , 3 5 0

Cnmus 3 6 4 Flurry Scurry...... 3 5
Crystal Palace 6 6 4 Girdle
Clarissa
The Ebor
Humphrey
Gladiole
Narcissus
The rest pay 5 sous. each.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TuizsDAT.
NEWTON 111 A-NOR Cur.-2 to 1 agst Langton (t), sto 2
agst Chantrey (t), 5 to 2 agst Duxbury (t), 4to 1 agst
Abbess of Jerveaux (t).
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.-7 to 2 agst Uriel, 6to 1 agst
Testator (t), 5 to 1 agst Neasham (t), 7 to 1 agst England's
Glory (t), 10 to 1 agst Jenny Lind (t), 100 to 6 agst
Cyclops (t).
GOODWOOD STAKES.-13 to 1 offered on the field.

Sr. LEGER... 7 to 2 agst Aphrodite (t), 6 to 1 agst Her-
nandez (t), 10 to 1 agst Bliserrima (t), 11 to 1 agst Moun-
tain Deer (t), 16 to 1 agst Exeter (t), 20 to 1 agst Clasher.

AQUATICS.
HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA—Finn DAY.
The great meeting at Henley commenced yesterday, and
shone with a brilliancy, liberality, and effect which gave in-
creased lustre to the celebrity which it had acquired in the
aquatic world. No less than a dozen races, besides two
matches not included in the card, all of which were marked
with features of peculiar interest and importance, were con-
tested, and event followed event so rapidly as to leave the
visitors but little leisure, and to render the task of recording
them a busy operation. The committee had been indefati-
gable in their endeavours to promote sport and to ensure the
comfort of all concerned, and their endeavours were carried
out most satisfactorily.
The grand stand, as usual, was filled with the elite of the
neighbourhood, and two lines of splendid equipages were
drawn up on the bridge, from which a view could be com-
manded of nearly the whole of the course; while the mea-
dows on the banks side and towing-path were thronged
with visitors from London and various parts of the country ;
the weather was remarkably fine, and the scene was
altogether one of the most animated and picturesque cha-
racter.

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 Radstock and Ebrington, Dr. Southwood Smith,
and Messrs. Alexander and Gibson, who successively
eso ciestyp:sfie l d
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, in
the fact that the society's Albert-street,
hitherto obtained a sufficient number of inmates and
become a self-supporting concern, since 120 only out
of 234 rooms had been token, be 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-
establishment
had
dn foro
t
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 but 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 comfortable had been freely
admitted on all sides; and as to the disease test, Dr. S.
Smith showed that those establishments during
eighteen months' occupancy had a mortality of only one-
half 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 1,7804 had been itevested in the purchase of a
piece 01 freehold land and houses in Pleasant-row, im-
mediately adjoining the society's buildings in Albert-
street, Spitalfields; that the " chambers for single men,"
in Compton-street, Soho, had been acquired for the pur-
poses of the society; that the buildings in the Old
Pancras-road remain fully occupied; and that the ac-
count shows a balance of 6811. in favour of these build-
ings. The buildings for families in Albert-street, Mile-
end New-town, have likewise produced an income of
7271. The directors have obtained a supplemental
charter which empowers them to raise a provincial
capital of 1,000,0001., and to apportion the same to
different provincial districts; and branch associations
have consequently been formed at Ramsgate and at
Brighton.

The sports commenced at twelve o'clock, and were con-
tinued until nearly eight in the evening.
FOUR-OARED CHAMPION RACE, open to all the world. First
prize, 100/. ; second, 20/. ; third, 101.
First Heat.

Richmond crew 1

1. T. Mackinney
2. J. Mackinney,

13. A. Chitty
I R. Newell, stroke
Cox, steerer.

Wandsworth crew .. ..

1. John Salter: I 3. Thomas Salter
2. Henry Salter I Geames, stroke
A third crew had been entered, but, owing to some mis-
apprehension or neglect, were not in attendance to complete
the necessary arrangements, and became disqualified.
The general excitement with respect to this race was most
considerable. The entry list contained, besides the above, a
formidable crew of R. Coombes, the champion of the
Thames, and a fourth composed of the renowned Clasper;
(brothers), of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, whose extraordinary
boat and beautiful rowing, seven or eight years ago, at the
Thames Regatta, rendered them objects of considerable
interest. Large sums of money had been speculated upon
this event. At Newcastle the -Claspers had been backed
against the field—if we may be allowed the phrase—an
example followed in many parts of the north, while in Lon-
don the Champion's crew and Mackinney's divided the
attention, but Coombes's had the call.
The start was even, and the contest in the above heat such
as to show that the Wandsworth landsmen had no small claim
to celebrity as oarsmen. Stroke succeeded stroke with but
little variation in their position until half the distance had
been rowed, when the landsmen began to" shut up," and the
others won by four or five lengths.
Second Heat.

R. Coombes's Crew

1. Messenger
2. Pocock

I 3. Cole
Coombes, stroke

D. Coombes (son of the champion), steerer.
Claspers' Crew
R. Clasper 1 3. W. Clasper

11. Clasper, stroke
Clasper, steercr.
An accident of a most mortifying description prevented
that which would, no doubt, otherwise have been a most
determined race, and inflicted the utmost disappointment
upon the spectators. The signal was given, when in the
second stroke taken by the Clasper', the bowman's thawl
gave way, and thus disqualified them from proceeding; and
as by the recognised laws of rowing every boat must stand
by its accidents, they of course lost the race, the Coembes
party rowing leisurely over the course.
Third Heat.

2. E. Clasper

The Qaspers
Wandsworth:Crew
This race had no reference to the grand heat, but was to
decide who was entitled to the third prize. The Clappers
took the lead, and won easily.
Grand Heat.

Mack inney's ( Richmond 6ew)l:.:-. . - I
Coombes's .. 0
_ _

It was a fine race, but ended, in the heat of the con-
test, in a foul, at a moment when it was difficult to de-
termine which had the greater chance of success. The
umpire decided that Mackinney's crew was entitled to the
victory.
DIAMOND CHALLENGE SCULLS AND PRESICiTATION CUP.