The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-19 00:00:00

NEAR MANCHESTER.

(ritom OUR CORKESFONDENT.)
An atrocious murder has recently occurred at a village
called Swinton, a few miles from Manchester. On
Friday morning last, about four o'clock, as the labourers
of Mr. White, an extensive farmer of the above place, were
proceeding to their work, they discovered in the orchard
something to all appearance like a person asleep near one
of the trees. On going up to the spot, they were horror.
struck at finding that it was a human body quite dead,
and weltering in blood. Upon further examination
it was discovered to be that of James Parkinson,
a young man in the service of Mr. White, who was
employed to convey milk to the Manchester market.
The carotid artery was completely severed. On inquiry,
it was ascertained that, on Thursday last Paikinson had
procured permission of his master (Mr. White) to go to
Manchester races, and he proceeded there with two young
women of his acquaintance. On arriving at High
Leigh, on their way to the race-course, they stopped
at a public-house and drank two pints of ale, and
whilst they were drinking, a young man, named
Wyche (the son of a wheelwright now in custody)
came up to the public-house with his milk-cart, and com-
menced jeering and laughing at the deceased and his fe-
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n came off the victor. It was
also ascertained, that after the defeat of Wyche, that per-
son went to his father and brother, and told them that
Parkinson had thrashed him, and used him very ill.
Old Wyche and hie son appeared much chagrined to hear
that Parkinson had proved the victor, and inquired
where he was to be found. This was about half-past
ten or eleven o'clock at night. Brownbill, the master of
young Wyche, who was present, said that he could be
found at his master's (Mr. White's), and volunteered to
go with them in search of him. Accordingly they went
to White's, and it appears, from a variety of cir-
cumstances, that White was from home : Parkin-
son never came home again. From the appear-
ance of the wounds, the horrid deed is supposed to have
been committed with a tool used by husbandmen called a
gouge, which is a sharp circular chisel.
These facts having been elicited, the Magistrates
thought it their duty to issue warrants against the two
Wyche', father and son, and Anthony Brownbill, which
were placed in the hands of the constable, and they were
apprehended without difficulty.
The young man, Wyche, who fought the battle with
the deceased is not in custody, as it was proved that be
was not of the party who went in search of Parkinson.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK

A mail from Vera Cruz has arrived, which sailed on
the 3d of May ; also one from Rio Janeiro, two days later
than the last account.

The accounts from Rio Janeiro by the Brazil mail are
of the same description as the last arrival. No political
news. Exchange the same, 331,1 34. Stocks, 44 to 1,4.
The American packet-skip of the 24th of May is off Li-
verpool ; no papers or letters have as yet been received.
The treatment the Duke of Wellington received yester-
day on his return from the Tower by the lower class of so-
ciety, is looked upon in the City as unjust and degrading
to the name of Englishmen.
The accounts received to-day from Rio de Janeiro are
of little importance. All was quiet there.
The accounts from Vera Cruz state that the civil war
betweea Santa Anna and the Government will be a war
of r rocrastination.

By the Dutch mail this morning it appears that the
Dutch Funds are about per cent. lower.
Consols opened this morning at the same price they left
off yesterday-84}i fer the account ; at present they are
841 sellers, with little doing.
In the Foreign Market not a feature worth observation
has taken place.

HALF-PAST ONE.
The gloom which has prevailed for some days past over
the Consol Market appears, within the last hour, to have
dispersed. Consols in the early part of the morning were
at 841-1 for the account, and at present may be quoted at
84 Bh, with a good deal of business doing. The c,iuse of
this start in the market is not exactly known, and up to
present hour it has a healthy appearance.
Neither of the packets from Rio de Janeiro or Mexico
have brought over any dollars.
The private letters from Mexico state that it was ex-
pected that the War Minister would resign, which would
be the means of bringing about a peace with Santa Anna.
The Foreign Market continues void of interest.
It is now stated that the cause of the rise in Consols is
owing to a broker who sold largely, and came again into
the market to repurchase.
It is reported that a new Protocol, of a pacific nature,
has, this day, been despatched to Holland.
THREE 0' CL 0 CI.

Consols for account 84i 85.
FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES.

Console --
----
--
Danish
000 67
Ditto for Account 84i -1 Greek, 1825 29
Brazilian Bonds 46 Mexicali, 1825 __
Buenos Ayres... Peruvian .. ......
Chilian Ditto.... ..... Russian —..
Columbian 1824 ..... Spanish

LITERATURE.

THE MESSIAH: A P OEM.
LONDON', 1832.

" The Messiah" is unquestionably, by many
degrees, the best work Mr. Robert Montgomery
has yet put forth. It is fuller and pro-
founder in its turn of thought ; more rational
and unaffected in its show of feeling; more easy,
simple, and unostentatious in its style. Orca-
stonal passages may be found of a really magni-
ficent character, and not a few marked only by
verbiage and obscurity. But it is pleasing to
be able to add, with perfect sincerity, that
throughout " The Messiah," the beauties con-
siderably outnumber the defects, and are of a
bolder and more decided cast. We have been
much struck by the passage descriptive of the
appearance of our Saviour to some of his
Apostles after the resurrection. The language
is simple, yet stately in its very simplicity ; and
the whole description finished with great care.
"'Twas on the ev'ning of this hallow'd day
That two disciples, down a western vale
To where Emmaus in the sunset show'd
Her whitening cots, with pensive step approach'd.-
0, dying hour of beautiful delight!
The painter's worship, and the poet's song,
How few adore thee with a purer thought
Than one, whose dreaming boyhood loved to form
Romantic visions of the unreveal'd,
From thine own hues; when, like those fairy clouds
That float and perish, yearning fancy shaped
Bright unrealities long roll'd away!—
Divinest Evening 1 when thy Syrian glow
On verd`rous olive, sycamore and palm
Descended, not unfelt thy magic woo'd
These holy pilgrims :—homeward, flocks and herds
Were wending; while around them, richly soft
The ling'ring decadence of light began;
But more than Nature on their brows has hung
A solemn meaning I—of the day they talk,
Of Death, and Resurrection : such their theme,
When, silent as the shadow of their forms,
ANCYIBER came! and mingled word with word,
In deep communion : then of Christ He spake,
From prophecy to prophecy unroll'd
Each revelation, till the shade of doubt
Fell from their spirit, like a film removed
From blindness, letting in the light of Heaven!
But when, abiding to partake their meal,
He sat before them, and the blessing gave,—
That eye so eloquent with awe devout,
That voice heaven-toned, That calm majestic mien,
Declared Messiah!—lo, at once He gazed
Upon them, featured like their living Christ,
So often follow'd, worshipp'd,—and forsook
Within them how each wond'ring heart had burn'd,
To hear Him like an oracle reveal
The Word of Life, and Everlasting Will!—
But, like a vision of the soul He fled."

There are, in addition to passages of this
character, whose length and number forbid us
to extract them, single lines and, couplets,
many of them of exquisite beauty. The follow-
ing, in allusion to the remorse which the apos-
tate Judas felt when he had betrayed the Sa-
viour, is as fine as any thing of the sort in the
whole range of modern poetry. Had Mr.
Montgomery, to adopt the language of Dr.
Johnson, written often thus, it had been
vain to blame, and useless to praise him." The
following are the lines to which we allude :--
"The earth grew fire beneath his guilty tread;
All heaven hung o'er him like a vast reproach."

Describing the Crucifixion, with its attendant
circumstances, of our Saviour, Mr. Montgomery
gracefully observes,
" Those hands are bleeding which have blessed a world ;
Those feet are tortured which have never moved
Except on errands of celestial love."

We have no space for further extracts ; so
must close our brief notice with the remark, that
the " Omnipresence of the Deity"—and th e
" Satan," still less the " Oxford," of NIL
Montgomery, are no more to be compared to
The Messiah " than " Hyperion to a satyr.'
The last, though it has numerous blemishes, and
some of a very wilful character—such, for in-
stance, as lines which possess neither measure
nor meaning, which are either too short or too
long by a foot or so, and epithets which are
neither English nor any other language with
which we are acquainted, such as " orbal,"
"firmamental," "meekened," &c.—the Messiah,
we repeat, despite these defects, is really and
truly a fine poem.