The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-25 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, JUNE 22.
The Archbishop of Saragossa has just died, at the
ago of 88. He had been a bishop during a period
of 27 years.
The magnificent net.tr.,, hi the itlatid of
11/41.'in-cit 114 s burnt down. The loss is esti-
mated at 20,0001. stealing.

•
THE SUNKEN SHIPS AT SEBASTOPOL.—AItbough the
American contractors who undertook to raise the
Russian vessels sunk at Sebastopol have, from the man-
ner in which these vessels are eaten by worms, had to
abandon their project, a certain number of men under a
Mr. bl'Gov.ai have entered into arrangements with
the Ru-sian government to clear the port of Sebastopol I
..f the hulls of the vessels. The rest cf the Americans
have -rrived in tte United States.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE.—Speaking of Russia. we are
reminded cf a statement we hr.ve seen to the effect that
the present Emperor has not only reconstituted the
Russian Bible Society, which was suspended under Ni- 4
cholas, but that he has made a donation of 25,000 rou-
bles (4,0001.), and has promised an annual subscription
of 10,000 ronbles (1,6001.). The consequence of this
,atronage is extraordinary activity, and anew edition of
:30,000 New Testaments in Finnish and Estbonian has
just been printed, while religious tracts and books are
oircnlated in immense numbev. We hope this fact will
satisfy those who wish to know hors far the circulation of
the Scriptures in the vulgar tongues is permit sible under
the Russian rule. It is not Bibles alone which the
subjects of the great empire seek after. We observe
that in Finland these are now published 18 newspapers,
10 of which are Finnish and 8 Swedish ; not one aFI
pears there in Russian.—CielicalJourna.

Advices received at Washington from Lieut.
Rodgers state t'ca,t Lieut. Pym, of the Jasper, had
info' rued him that he had criers from the A'hnirat
to search for the Styx ar.d s'op her high-handed
proceedings, and that tie Deva taVon was at Ha•
va3nah for the saute putpoz?. Lieut. Pym
ez-
pree,ed the greatest £u rp iso that the course of the
British cruisers had caused an irritation in the
United States, at:d infn`rr^l T• : Eli
•117 under no new orders, but only
carrying out thos::.. issued in 1819.

The mws by t' e Asia of the D.rby Government
having tent out t r !e7s to the West India flcet to
stop the visits to Anietic n vessels hid created a
favourh'e impression in Yo. k, and the diffi-
culty wai toneidercd flt an end.
The Senate and the Howe of Representatives
were at issue on the OCFan Mail question. The
former bad authorised a -contract with the Collins
line from Non York to Soathampton for 346,500
d 01.., and also authorising the Postrnaster-Gmeral
to cause the tw:ils t ) be conveyed from any Ameri-
e:tn port to Europe for the pet,taglbes received, and •
adopt otbec measures for the ma I rervics. All the
St nate's amendments were rejected in the house;
this action eutt.ng off the appropriation to Crdliw.
In the house the Senate amendment to the Naval
Appropriation_lllll. providing for the cons'ructton
i)..peiters anu one side-wheel steamer for
the China se,s, was amended, by increasing the
number of propellers to 10. This proposition had
Leon r.ej?cted by the S_nate, but it was said the
house would insiit.
The schooner yacht Wanderer and the schooner,.
Charttr Hope had been zed in Long Island
Sfaind by the revenue cutter Harret Lane, on
suspicion of being about to engage in the slave
trade, but no proof was obtained, and they were
released.

Telegraphic communication with New York was
materially Medan. d wi h on the afternoon and
evening tf the 11th by 11, avy thunderstorms.
The market was quit for money and exchange.
Rates on London easier than for previous steamer.
Bank b lls ranged 109 to I{)9 per cent. Time was
not Much business for Vie Ni, them L'ght. Stock
market more irregular. Prices had an upward
tendency, an advance being realised in several in-
s. anct s.

All the South Carolina banl;s resumed specie
payments on the Bth.
New York cotton-market without an'rnation on
the 11th. Sales were confined to ab Int 4.)0 or 500
bales, closing dull at 11/ for middling. Uplands
fl ur heavy, especially for inferior and lower
grades, while a fair amount of sAles were made for
home use, including some lots for export. Prime
qualities of wheat scarce, and little offering.
Corn sold rt 654 c. to 66c. for New Orleans, mixed
sound ; western ditto, at C6e. to 70c. ; and yellow
ditto at 75c. to 76c. Pork dull. Sugars less active
and steady. Coffee quiet, tr:ces unchanged.
Advance in freights sustained, and engagetutnta
to a fair extent.

DRCOVERY OF THE MURDERERS OF A
POLICEMAN IN 184 G.

Oar readers will probably recollect that in the summer
of 1846 great excitement c xi.ted in Dagenham and its
neighbourhood, in consequence of the discovery of the
body of George Clarke, a policeman of the K Division,
whose body was found amongst some standing corn, in
a field on his beat. His head was nearly severed from
his body, his :101l was broken, and there were other
marks and injuries upon his body which left no doubt
of his having been foully and brutally murdered.
Every inquiry tray instituted et the time to discover
tl e murderers, but without success, and their discovery
wet considered hopeless. At the time of the murder a
coroner's inqeest was held on the body, before Mr.
Lewis, the coroner, at the Cross Keys, Degenisam,
which was adjourned from time to time, and at the
end of two months the jury returned a verdict of wilful
murder against some psrson or persons unknown. Since
that time suspicion had rested on certain individuals,
but nothing had transpired since they until within the
last few week, when information was communicated to
Sir Richard Mayne, chief commissioner of police, who
deemed it advi,able to Institute further icen'rien, and
take the necessary proceedings for apprehending the
party implicated ; and for that purpose he placed the
matter in the bands of Inspector Whicher, of the metro-
politan de': ctive police force, one of the most efficient
members of the farce, who h.s Nucceeded in apprehend-
lug the murderer, and !edging hiih in Ilford gaol, Tile
information referred to rests on the statement of a wo-
man named Smith, wife of a labourer .cf that name, re-
sic:iag at Dagenham, and the season assigned by her
fur making known the facts arises from bar being
troubl d iu mind, and a fear of death without divulging
them. It appears that Mrs. Smith ea, first married
to a man named Page, who was i.npl cated in the mur-
der ; and her statt went is, that at the time of the mur-
d r she was livirig With her first husband Page at
Dagenham. On tee evening of the 29th June, the
night of the murder, her husband came home about eight
o'clock, and had his tea. He informed her that he Mill
going to meat Ned Wilcocks at George Blewett's, the
man now in custody, f.r the purpose of stealing corn
from Mr. Brittaiii, a farmer, in whose employ Page and
Blewett were. He, however, afterwards said he would
not j dn them, and he and his wife went to bed about
10 o'clock. She was, however, awoke about 11 o'clock
by her husband dressing himself, and in reply to some-
thing she said to him, but which she could not then re-
collect, he said to her, Now, for your impudence, you
shall get up and go with me," and he made her dress
herself and accompany him to George Me witt's cottage,
which was situate }tsar Mr. Briitain's btrn. At
Blewett'; c Maga they found Blewett, Ned Wood,
and George Clarke. They remained in t'ie cot-
tage till near twelve o'clock, when Blewett
said to her husband (Fag ), " Now, then, Bill,
its time for 11l to be going," and they rose to leave, but
before goirg out one of them can!. "if the
policeman interferes we'll settle him." They then all
erecaeded to the barn, her husband leaving her to watch
policeman or any other outsi le to give an alarm if a
per-
eon came in that direcion. The her men entered the
barn with f:4l ,e keys Blewett had in his possession, and
after they had born there about flue minutes she saw a
policeman elating round the corner of the barn ; she int-
medietelyran to the door an' gtve an alai m,e 1 inn to her
husband, " Bill, Bill, the policeman is coming." Her
husband came out of the barn with a stick in his hand,
known among agriculturists in the heighboudhoad as a
" loading stick,' and some of the others had f nks in
their hands. Liar husband sad to the policeman,
" What the b—y h are sou watching us for !
The policeman replied, " Because i• is my duty to watch
you." He was then seized by the mer, and her hus-
band struck him several severe blows with the stick
on the upper part of the body, and called
to the others to " come on, the b--y policeman is
here." Mrs. Smith was so frightened at what had oc-
curred that she nay; she ran off to Blewett's cottage,
where there was only a child, and afterwards she ran to
her own house. About 2 o'clock in the morning her
husband came hothe, and they lit a fire and burned his
smock and trowsere which were smeared with blood.
He went out again about 4 o'clock that morning, telling
his wife that if any inquiries were made about him to
say that he went to bad at 10 o'clock, where he bad
remained till 4 o'clock the following moruirg. Oa the
Saturday evening following the discovery of the body,
which did not take place till some days after be was
missed, she, her hu band Page, and Blewett went to
Itomford, and as they weregoing along the road Blewett
said to her husband, " Who would have thought of see-
ing him (the policemen) there—did you Bill I" He said
; but we well served him out for his trouble."
" Yes, hei never thought it would have
Ble welt replied,
esem to that ;" and when al
lout to part, her husband said
to Bei sett, "I have ab— go-.d mind to serve her
(his wife) the same, to get nil r f h c." !hit 12i west
replied, " on't de that 1:..11, it t. lit only be making
1, er e•' tier husband Page nas accidentally killed
about 12 months alter the murder. It is a singular fact,
in ennnoctinn with ties mysterious affair, that most of
the persons alleged by Mrs. Smith to have participated
in the murder have met with violent deaths. She im-
plicates five persons. Her husband, as stated above,
who was accidentally killed ; Ge• rge Blewett, the man
in curt tdy ; Ned ‘hh cd, who attsreards hung himself ;
Ralph Page, a small farmer, who was waiting; to receive
the stolen corn, who poisoned himself about six years
since; and Cnalk, who is sup paced now to b 3 in Au. tr the.
Immediately on the fhc.e tieing communicated to In-
spector Whicher, that indefatigable and experienced
officer, yesterday proceethel to Rc.inford and laid the
feats before Mr. A. 111. shit r, the resident mageteute
fir that district, who issued a wart ant for B owett'e
apprehension, and he was taken into custody by Inspec-
tor Whicher the same afternoon, as he was working in
a field in the occupation of Mr. Seabrooke, of Dagen-
ham, and brought before Mr. Mashiter, who remanded
him tor further examination till Monday next. Blewett
was last night lodged in Ilford gaol, where be will re-
main to await his further examination, The murdered
policeman was found amongst some ;tending corn in
field about a quarter of a mile from the barn, and Mn.
Smith [states that Page informed her that after they
had knocked him down and disabled him, they removed
him to the spot where he was found, where Chalk beat
in the deoeased's skull with the heel of his boot by
stamping on his head. The apprehension of Blewett,
after so long a period from the time of the murder, has
caused great excitement at Dagenham and its neigh-
bourhood.