The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-29 00:00:00

GEORGE HOBSON calls the attention of the
Public to his Superfine Black Cloth Dress and Frock Coats,
21. 155. Od. to Three Guineas. Dress Black Trovfsers, it. ss. Od.
A choice Selection in Walstcoatings from the first makers in Paris.
Excellence with Economy.
GEORGE lIOBSON, Fashionable Pallor,
57, Lombard-street.

SALMON, ODY, and CO. most respectfully
Inform the public that their PATENT SELF-ADJUSTING
TRUSSES afford more EASE and SECURITY for the RELIEF of
HERNIA than any other instrument for the purpose. They wi I
answer for right or left side, requiring no under:strap or any galling
bandage. Persons in the country are requested to send the circum-
ference of the body once inch below the hips. A Female attends b
appointment Prom 10 to 2.—Manufactory, 292, Strand.

MR. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet-
street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI-
FIC lAL TEETH Axed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so
perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from
the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or
decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used.
This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful
operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is
guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication ; and that Mr.
Howard's improvement may be within the reach of the most econo-
mical, he has fixed the charges at the lowest scale possible. De-
cayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useitl in mastica-
tion.-52, Fleet-street. At home from ten till five.

'FEE SICK POOR—During the past month
A. 9,397 sick persons, on their personal application alone, were
relieved at the ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
The Charity is not endowed, but is entirely depexdent on volun-
tary contributions and legacies from deceased benefactors.

John Masterraan, Esq., Nicholas-lane, is Treasurer, and by whom
donations will be thankfully received. Also by the following
bankers:—Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co.; Berries
and Co. ; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smyth, Payne,
and Co.; Glynn and Co.; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co.;
Denison and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Masterman and Co.; by Messrs. Nisbet and Co., Berners-
street ; and at the Hospital.

By Order.

S. S. SMITH, Secretary.

CONTR&CTS FOR WHEAT AND COCOA.

Departmmt of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport
Services, Somerset-house, 26th January, 1858.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland do Hereby Give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 9th Feb.
next, at half-past One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and
delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, the
undermentioned articles, viz. :
WHE A.T 3,000 quarters.
C0C0A......... ........ .• • .... 100 tons.
One half to be delivered in three weeks, and the remainder in throe
weeks afterward•, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering.
A proportional part of the price per bushel of Wheat will be pail
for any weight exceeding 60 lbs. per bushel.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the articles.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ter-
ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part
thereof only as they may deem lit, or for a greater quantity, or )f
not contracting forany, and also an unlimited power of selection.
The Cocoa to be exempted from the Customs' Duties, and Parties
tendering are to state where it is lying.
Samples of the Wheat (not less than 2 quarts) and of the Coon
(not less than 2 lbs) mast be produced by the parties tendering.
The Samples produced by persons whose Tenders are not accepted
are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the Con-
tracts have been decided.

No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro-
vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on applicatioo at
the said Office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet service
at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol.
The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten-
tion is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and
Bristol. No tender will be received after half-past one o'clock of the
day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering,
or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the office on the day of
contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be
communicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for ," and
must also be delivered at Somerset-house.

1-AFFICERS PROCEEDING TO INDIA,
also CIVILIANS, can effect ASSURANCES on their
LIVES with the COLONIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY on
the USUAL TERMS, the Directors having RESOLVED NOT TO INCREASE
THEIR RATES at this time.

Premiums can be paid to the Company's Agents at Calcutta, Ma-
dras, cr Bombay, or at any other of_theiv Agenelealit theßast.

Tl:e Director; also advance Loans on good security for temporary
periods. •• _
The Colonial have Agencies in every BritiVilo,try, where Pre-
miatna are received, and claims settled.
WILL. TRO. THOMSON, ActuarP.
SAMUEL R. FERGUSSoN, Resident Secretary

L0ND0N...................... El, Lombard-street (E.C.)
EDINBURGH (Head-office) .... 5, George-street.
DUBLIN.. • • . . • • .......
GLA3GOW••

THE WADSTVO.RTH-MOOR MURDER.

The inquest on the body of Bethel Parkinson,
farmer, who was murdered on Wadsworth-moor,
near Halifax, on the 14th inst., was resumed before
Mr. Dyson, at the White orse Inn, Hebden-1
bridge, on Wednesday. Mr. Marsden, the solicitor
for the West Riding, was in attendance, and, with
the concurrence of the coroner, conducted the exa-
mination of the witnesses. Joseph Shepherd, the
person in custody on suspicion of being the mur-
derer, was also present, and cross-examined some
of the witnesses. He is a mild, intelligent-looking
man, of fair complexion and middle stature. The
evidence was voluminous. It was shown that on
Wednesday, the 13th, the deceased and the pri-
soner were in company together, when the former
nsked a brother-in-law, named Normanton, to lend
him some money, assigning as his reason for want-
ing to borrow it that Shepherd knew of a young
farmer who, his father having died without a will,
was going to sell offend pocket the proceeds. He
did not get the money, but the prisoner and the de-
ceased afterwards left the house of the latter toge-
ther, and were traced thence to the moor where the
murder was committed in company with each other.
About 7 o'clock the same night a man answering
the description was met on the read leading to Lud-
denden-foot, coming from the direction of the scene
of the murder, and shortly afterwards evidently
the same man took a second-class ticket at Lud-
denden-foot station for Halifax. On the arrival of
the train at Halifax the prisoner was seen at the
station, and he called a cab, telling the driver,
whom he knew, to take him up the back streets to
the Swine-market. He then got off and went to a
house of ill-fame, kept by aMrs. Eastwood, St.
James's-road. As to what occurred there, one of
the inmates, named Mary Gordon, said—" I re-
member Wednesday the 13th, about half-past 8,
there was a knock at the doer. I asked what was
wanted—whether it was anything 1 A man came
in, and asked if he could wash himself. He came
into the passage and asked Sarah Hay for warm
water and a sponge. I heard, him say, have lots
of money ; here's a sovereign ; get a bottle of sherry.'
I said, Come in.' He said, 'No, I can't ; you don't
know how I am.' He came to the parlour door and
said, ' Come here, I want you.' I went into the
passage; and there I saw the prisoner, Joseph Shep-
herd. I showed him into a bedroom on the same
floor. I tried to light the gas, but did not succeed.
I took up a candle fromthe dressing-table. I noticed
blood on his trousers. In one part the blood ap-
awbhloimod osectmthe
ap-
peared to have been rubbed in, and in another it
em
warma n's
waterfingers
a
scrubbing-brush. He lookied agitated, and was very
hemr
theHayi
into
utbos.
said,
cfip, a
,Famlletaai
mgno fighting
at with
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th ea
blackguard,
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oaw my el
toldah iuod
thwhilnemwft
fol-
lowed eel-
pale. I asked him what he had been doing, and he
f
he
had better take his sovereign. He took it back and
gave her ss. in silver. Shepherd went out, and
came back in about a guar ter of an hour. He
knocked at the back door, and Mrs. Eastwood let
him in. 1 noticed that the part of his trousers where
I had before seen the blood :had been washed, but
I saw spots of blood still left on his trousers.
. I
Sarah Hay fetched a bottle of sherry. Myself,
saidlswnn
ot arwti
es
esehi
atnua. spots.
fetched s
Sarah Hay, and Shepherd drank it. He then sent
for a second bottle, and wlaile we were drinking it
he had some beef and bread. While eating the',
meat and bread he said he would burn his trousers
and buy a new pair, if it was not so late in the
evening. I said, ' Why would you burn them—
they are a good pair ?" He said' I don't care for the
price of a pair ; I have plenty of money.' He said
he had not so d—d long to live, but while he did
live he would enjoy himself. He asked if he could
have a bed for the night, He asked Sarah Hay and
myself to go to Huddersfield with him next morn-
ing, and he gave a cabman ;a sovereign for a cab.
He stayed all night. Hay :and myself slept in the
same bed. In the morning the prisoner left about
half-past, six. Before leaving he took the scrubbing-
brush from the floor, and commenced brushing his
trousers where I had seen the blood, saying
it, it's not all gone yet.' " Sarah Hay, also an un-
fortunate," living at Mrs. EastwooeN, St. James's-
road, Halifax, corrol orated the evidence of the las
witness. The inquiry was then adjourned till yes-
terday morning.