The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-26 00:00:00

THE REIN FO RCEMENTS FOR INDIA.

The following Vessels have been taken up by the
East India Company, and wilt take troops to the
respective ports :
Ships. s Destination. Troops.
Akbar • • Calcutta... Company's Recruits
Vittoria
Poiotters

Ja-on
Indiana

It •••

91 •••

If ••• PP
... Drafts of Queen's

Abeona ...... 19 •••
Antel-pe

Regiments.

Sultan (via Egypt) Bombay._
Tweedside Madras ...
Aberdeen Calcutts."

Captain R. P. Anderson, 25th Bengal Native
Infantry, who commanded one of the outposts
during the whole of the siege of Luoknow, has
safely strived in London. His interesting narra-
tive of the siege is now in Messrs. Thacker and
Co.'s hands for publication, and is expected to be
ready in time for the next mail steamer for-India.
CHANGES AND PROMOTIONS IN THE SECRETARY'S
OFFICE, EAST INDIA HOTTSE.—Sir J. C. • Metvitl,
K.C.8., baying resigned' the service, Mr. -J. D.
Dickinson succeeds to the office of secretary ;
Mr. J. C. Melvin, becoming deputy-secretary ;
and Mr. I. Danvers assistant secretary ;
Mr. A. R. Onslow lst clerk, and clerk to the com-
mittee of bye-laws ; Mr. C. F. Shepherd, 2d
clerk ; and Mr. R. Dickinson, 3d clerk. The
clerks below Mr. R. Dickinson to be promoted
each one step in the office.
Her Majesty has Leen pleased to appoint Sir H.
Davinson, Puisne Judge at Madras, to be Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at
Bombay, vice Sir W. Yardley. —Thacker' s User-
and News.

DIABOLICAL MURDEIt IN THE HAYMARKET,
AND ESCAPE OF THE MURDERER.

Inspector Burnett, of the C division, mentioned
to Mr. Bingham at the Marlborough-street Police-
court yesterday that a murder had been discovered
iu Arundel-place, Haymarket.
The following particulars have been collected
from reliable sources :
On Tuesday night a foreigner accosted three
French girls in the street, and after a short conver-
sation accompanied one of them, known as Madame
Louise, to her lodgings, 8. Arundel-street. Hay-
market, a house kept for, and inhabited by, foreign
prostitutes. They went to bed, and nothing more
was heard of them until Wednesday morning, at
ten o'clock, when the foreigner left the house, the
servant letting him out and noticing nothing parti-
cular about him. In the course of the day, when
dinner time came, and Madame Louise did not
make her appearance, the keeper of the house and
the lodgers began to have suspicions, and about 7
o'clock in the evening resolved to search the room,
' when they were horrified at finding Madame Louise
dead and quite black in the face from strangulation,
as there were finger marks on the throat, and indi-
cations of a violent struggle. Medical aid was im-
mediately procured, but the doctor pronounced
that the woman had been dead for some hours.
There was a small quantity of blood on the pillows.
On examining the room it was discovered that
nearly all the wearing apparel of the dead woman
was missing ; also some pawnbrokers' duplicates
and money. The black velvet cloak the deceased
wore when she met the foreigner was also gone. As
he earrings were torn from the ears of the deceased,
t would seem that robbery was the motive of this
barbarous murder.

The deceased went by the name of Madame
Louise. She was a Frenchwoman about 22 years
of ago ; and when she came to England about six
or eight months ago, set up in the business of
laundress in Little Windmill-street. Being encum-
bered with two children, she could not get a main-
tenance by laundry work, and then she joined that
numerous herd of foreign prostitutes who parade
Regent-street and adjacent streets. On the even-
ing when the deceased went home with the foreigner
she is known to have worn a gold watch and chain,
which can nowhere be found. Inspector Park, of
the C division, was engaged throughout yesterday
in the inquiry.
The following description of the murderer has
been sent round to every police station :—" A Ger-
man, about 30 years of age, 5 ft. 6 or 7 in. high,
speaks German and French fluently, and stated
that his father was a captain in the navy ; he was
dressed in a dark grey paletot coat, with wide
sleeves, grey trousers, and strong wellington boots."
Mr. Groom, the coroner's officer, has forwarded
the information to Mr. Bedford ; but no day is yet
fixed for the inquest.
Throughout the entire day the foot pavement in
the street was densely crowded by idlers, anxious to
force their way into the house, in order to obta.n
view of the chamber in which the fearful tragedy
was enacted ; but a number of the C divis on
were kept on duty, and no one unconnected with
the house was allowed to enter.
It is somewhat extraordinary that none of the in-
mates of the house heard any noise, and it wasp e-
lieved that after he had left the house she had gne
to sleep again.
On information being given to the police at Vine-
street, which is within a very short distance of the
place where the crime was committed, Inspec-
tor Park and Superintendent Hannant proceeded
to the spot to endeavour to elucidate the mystery.
I An examination of the room was at once com-
menced, and a question was asked whether the de-
ceased was known to have had any property. It
was elicited that though not in affluent circum-
otances, the deceased was known to possess some
+IQ-oat of mousy, a gold watch, which iiihts toxily4

wore of an evening, and also a pair of very valuable
earrings. None of this propertycould now bt found,
and it at once became apparent that the murder had
been committed for the purpose of robbing the un-
fortunate woman ; and this the murderer had ac-
complished, and even took the earrings from her
cars after be had perpetrated the diabolical deed.
In addition t.l the property above mentioned seve-
ral duplicates, known to have been in possession
of the deceased prior to the. dreadful occurrence,
were also missed.

A description of the man who had accompa-
nied the deceased to the house on the previous
night was then given to the police, who came
to the conclusion that it corresponded in all essential
particulars with that of a man who had been fre-
quently seen in the neighbourhood, and this cir-
cumstance leads the police to imagine there will be
very little difficulty in procuring his apprehension.
He is described as being about 5 feet 7 inches in
height, and about 30 years of age. He was dressed
in a dark grey paletot, with very wide sleeves of
foreign mark. The general belief is that he is a Ger-
man, although in a convereation he had on the pre-
vious night with Vide. Levi, the landlady of the
house, he deniel that he was, and in reply to a
question from her said he was an Italian, and that
his father held an exalted position in the navy.
Superintendent Remnant without delay took the
most vigorous steps to effect the apprehension of the
supposed murderer, and circulated a description of
the articles which had been stolen from the cle-
ansed. The watch bears the name of Vieyres,
Pall-
mall, engraved on the inside case, and there are
small stones round the verge. 'A full description of
the man was also sent to the, various railway sta-
tions and steam boat wharves, and as no peisOri
answering to it had been seen, it is believed he is
secreted somewhere in the metropolis.
At 12 o'clock last night the greatest possible ex-
oitement prevailed in the Haymarket and neigh-
' bourhood, consequent • upon a report that the mur-
derer had been apprehended ; and in a few minuses
afterwards a man closely guarded by six policemen
was taken to the Vine-street police station, followed
by several hundreds of persons, many of whom ma-
nifested their horror at the commission of the tra-
gedy by hisiing and hooting. The man was taken
before Acting Inspector Webb, and the servant girl
and other persons in the house where the crime was
perpetrated, were summoned with a view to iden-
tify the person in custody. When they arrived,
howeved, much to the disappointment of all present,
they stated it was not the assassin. He was at once
set at liberty, in a state of considerable agitation
caused by the enormity of the accusation preferred
against him. He was an Englishman, and was taken
in the Haymarket.
Last evening Mr. Tothill, the divisional surgeon,
made an examination of the body of the murdered
woman. He discovered marks round the neck as if
her throat had been firmly grasped by her unna-
tural assailant in order to throttle her. He came to
the conclusion that the unfortunate woman had
been smothered with a pillow, and thus prevented
from raising any outcry.
In addition to the articles mentioned above the
murderer took two silk dresses belonging to the
deceased, and also an alpaca skirt and jacket, a
white silk parasol, a cape with a hood attached, and
various other articles of wearing apparel.
The servant girl remembers that when she saw
the man leave the house he had a parcel with him.
Before leaving he securely locked the door of the
room, and took the key away with him.
From the factthat the murderer was seen loiter-
ing about the neighbourhood for two or three
nights previously the police are of opinion that he
had been watching for a female having an exten-
sive display of jewellery, and that he induced the
woman to take him home with the fixed determina-
tion of taking her life for the purpose of allowing
I him to commit the robbery.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, Feb. 25.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Wigktman.)
Henry Edward Legge, a young man of gentle-
manly appearance, surrendered to take his trial on
an indictment which charged that he, being in the
service of her Majesty as paymaster of the 2d Regt.
of Royal West Surrey Militia, received in that ca-
pacity divers large sums of money on the public
account, and that he unlawfully and feloniously
embezzled a sum of 1,3001., portion of the monies
so received. In other counts the prisoner was
charged with unlawfully appropriating a large sum
of money he had received on account of the public
to his own use.
The Solicitor-General and Mr. Bodkin conducted
the prosecution, which was instituted by direction
of the War Office ; Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and
Mr. Kerr, of the Northern Circuit, were specially
retained for the defence.

Several witnesses baying been examined,
The Jury almost immediately returned a verdict
of Not Guilty, and the prisoner was at once dis-
charged from custody.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Crompton.)
Joshua Valentine Hollingsworth, 34, cabinet-
maker,- pleaded guilty to an indictment charging
bin' with attempting to obtain money by false pre-
tences from Wm. M'Kewan.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted, and Mr. Gil and defended.

The prisener had, it appeared, attempted to open
an account at the London and County Bank, by
bringing, in cash, about 3001., and with it a num-
brr of acceptances, purporting to represent an
amount exceeding his cash. Upon some inquiry
being made about the bills it was found that the
persons whose names and addresses were to them
did not exist.

The Court sentenced the prisoner to 18 months'
imprisonment.

George Walker, one of the store-keepers to the
Eastern Couetiss Railway Company, pleaded guilty
to having stolen a quantity of stores le2longing to
the company.
The Court sentenced the prisoner to three years'
penal servitude.
Zachariah Pinson, 49, weaver, was indicted for
the manslaughter of John Webber.
Mr. Payne prosecuted.
Both patties were, it appeared, the inmates of
the East London Union poor-house at Homerton.
The deceased, who was a very old man, was in a
delicate state of health, and used at night iu his
sleep to make a considerable noise. The prisoner
slept in the same ward, and upon the 18th Feb.
deceased, annoying the prisoner by the noise which
he made, the latter got up and turned him out of
his bed, and turned the bed and bedstead over
him. The result of this violence was that the old
man died some few hours afterwards. .

The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was
sentenced to two months' imprisonment.
Francis Henry Laws, 37, locksmith, was indicted
for the manslaughter of Charlotte, his wife.
Mr. Salter prosecuted, and Mr. Sleigh defended.
The parties lived in Cartwright-street, West-
minster, and upon the 12th of last month, some
words arising b tween them, prisoner struck de-
ceased a blow upon the head with a tin saucepan,
inflicting a slight wound, which resulted in erysi-
pelas, of which she some weeks after died.
The medical evidence being somewhat uncertain
upon the point, and it being proved that the de-
ceased was very much addicted to drinkin,of the
jury returned a verdict of not guilty.