The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-09 00:00:00

HEATHER'S TRUST.—Under the Manage-
ment of the Clothworkers' Company.—At the Court to be
holden on the 2d of December next, this Company will distribute to
six poor Widows ef Decayed Hou.ekeepers, the amount divisible
under the above trust, being about 81. to each. Printed forms of
application may be obtained at the Company's Temporary Offices,
Barbers' Hall, Monkwell-street, Cripplegate, London. The appli-
cant must state therein such particulars relative to .her condition
and circumstances as may be proper to be considered in deciding on
her clatia, and name references from whom information may be ob-
tained lor verifying such statements.
The application, accompanied by certificate of marriage, and a
certificate or other proper proof of the death of the husband, must
be left at the Company's Offices previous to the 23d November instant,
addressed to

ROBERT BECKWITH TOWSE Clerk.
Barbers' Hall, November, 1857. ,

OYAL FRE F, HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
11) —The AID of the benevolent is earnestly solicited.
John Masterraan, Eq., Nicholas-lane, is Treasurer, by whom
donations will be thankfully received: also by the following bankers:
Meows. Coutts and Co. ; Drummdnd and Co.; [lorries and Co. ;
Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Ciliste, and Co. ; Snayth, Pay.pe, and Co.;
Glya and Co. ; Jones Loyd alid Co-; Barclay and Co. ; benison and
Co ; Williams, Deacon, rd Co.; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Mae-
terman and Co.; by Mesirs. Nisbet and Co., Burners-street; and at
the Hospital from Ten till Five.
By order, S. S. SMITH, Secretary.

NO MORE PILLS Nitet ANY OTInR MEDICINE
7131tES ( n ithout Physic) pr Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation,
Flatuleni y, Phlegm, all Nervous, Silions, and Liver Complaints,
Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation.
Rearthuri, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms,
Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits,
Cough, A.,,thma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com-
plaints are effected by
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inconvenience, or ekpense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other
remedies. It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids
generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter-
feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch
and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and
muscular energy to the most enfeebled.
We extract a :eve out of the many thousand expressions of grati-
tude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon.
the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit
rrom Da Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to
yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines.
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pool : a cure of. ten ye,tt's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita-
bility. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation, dyspep-
sia, nervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Sborland of dropsy
and debility. Cure >To. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits.
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prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of
cramps, spasms, and daily voraltings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Har-
vey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wartzer
of consumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunts, Esq., barrister,
.o of
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years
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partial deafness. Cure No 4 814. Mr. Samuel Lawton, Leicester,
of two ye-irs' diarrhoea. Cu. reNo. 52,612.
gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Mis
many years' nervous irritLhueitDyo,whiagle,eraCnodunintedis.s
gumption, after her medicaladviserss
of Castleatnart, ot
Virginia Zeguers, cured of con-
stipation. indigestion, and deb Twenty-five years' nervousness, con-
recovery. Cure No, 180.
misery, and which no medicine „ had abandoned all hopes of
My, from which I have suffered great
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o ds° Food in a very short time. W. R.
Peeves, effectually
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Food. I shall be
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to
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even, Ridlington Rec-
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Barri''s health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, ArehdeeT
with pains
Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. " Thirteen years' cough", noflte"'
and general debility have been removed by Du Itarry'a indigestion,eceueh
hevalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth.. t
Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious indite-
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cellor Sir William Page Wood granted an 1
The Vice• Chan
h 1854, against Alfred Hoo 'guile-
the lOth Marc , per Neville, for
tion on A bic F od "
Barry's Revalenta ra a o .
Imitating "Du
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215 4s 6d; 51b Ils , 1211 s 225. The 1211fcar.
lib 2s 9d ;
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canisters,
receipt of,
nags free, on
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veyors Co.. 77, Regent-street, ,
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street ;i: Oxford-street.
street, and 150, aa.? 15,

The Moniteur contains the official tariff for telegraphic
despatches from France to Algeria by the Mediterranean
submarine line. The charge for 15 words to Boca is
151.; Philippeville, 161.500.; Constantica, 181.; Algiero,
19f,_50c. ; and Oran, 22f, 600,

Since the I discovery of tip mutilated remains of
a policeman in a pool of water near the village of
,e
Stevenage, Hertfordshire (as a,uno"inced in a pare-
-raph in The Sun of Thursday last),
6
perpe-
tratorunfortu-
o.
-f the murder. The name of the
circumstances
nate policCtaan w
merly in the ..° Earl of Verulam, at,
as John Starkins ; he we: for'
rnploy of the
St. Alban s, and
lan. force a few m07411.s ago. He had, however,
only joined the county coustabu-
displayed so much activ:ltY
loonf occasions where in
and intelligence that h. e
was frequently employed 1.
ordinary cases the services 0..
d Numerous
members of the force are engag'e •
more experience
lace in the
petty depredations have recently take P
(lance
neighbourhood of Stevenage, and in conseq.
the police have received strict orders to search the
baskets or wallets of the farm labourers returning
from their work. On the afternoon of Friday, the
30th ultimo, Starkins was directed by his inspector
to look after the men returning from their work on
the Hertford side of Stevenage, and he was particu-
larly ordered to watch the proceedings of a man
named Carpenter, who was suspected of stealing
his employer's corn, and who had been frequently
herd to say that no one policeman should ever
search him. The constable was also directed to
return to the police station and report himself at
6 o'clock. At half-past 5 o'clock he was seen in a
lane leading from the high road to Norton-green
Farm, in the occupation of Mr. Horn, about 150
yards from thn spot where his body was
subsequeutly discovned. Nothing more was seen
or heard of until the following Monday, when
in consequence of a strict search having been
ordered to be made for him, a police-constable
named Isgate entered a field called the " Baehes,"
and in a pool of water at the lower end he observed
the foot and hand of a man above the water. He
immediately obtained assistance, and on recovering
the body it proved to be that of the unfortunate
man of whom he was in search. It presented a
4hocking spectacle, the throat being cut and the
head nearly severed from the body. There were
also several wounds on the back of the head and
shoulders, which appear to have been inflicted by a
knife or dagger. The ground near the pond bore
traces of a desperate struggle. The grass for some
distance was trampled and torn up, and in the field
lay a pair of handcuffs, as though the struggle had
occurred while the constable was attempting to
make a capture. The man who has been appre-
hended, and upon whom suspicion rests as the
perpetrator of the murder, is the labourer men-
tioned above—Jeremiah Carpenter, an athletic
young man, who for some time had been employed
)n the Norton-green farm, and who lived in one
of four cottages at the south end of Stevenage,
about 300 yards out of the town, and about
A mile from the farm. The grounds of suspi-
cion against him are as follow ;—On Friday, the
day of the murder, he was not employed at the
farm, but in a field at some distance from it. He
left work about half-past 5 o'clock in the evening,
and his nearest way home was across the secluded
field in which the murder took place. He did
not, however, reach his cottage until 10 minutes
past 6 o'clock, having taken 40 minutes in going a
distance which he usually walked- in 2G. A man
named Shepherd, who works on the same farm, and
lives in the cottage adjoining to that occupied by
Carpenter, was detained on the farm for a quarter
~f an hour after Carpenter left, but reached home
first, and shortly afterwards saw Carpenter come
from the direction of the railway over a fence into
his own garden, whence he entered his cottage by
the back door. Shephered noticed that the smock-
frock which Carpenter wore was twisted round his
shoulders, and soon afterwards he reappeared from
the cottage dressed in his Sunday clothes, and went
into Shepherd's house, where he stated that he had
been attempting to split the trunk of a tree and
had hurt his leg. Shepherd examined the leg,
which was much swollen, and advised Carpenter to
see a doctor. As soon as the above facts reached
the ears of the police Carpenter was taken into
custody. At the time of his apprehension he wore
the clothes which he had on on the slay of the
murder, and on examination it was discovered
that his smockfrock, boots, and pocket-knife, bore
marks of blood. He, however, stoutly denies his
guilt, and accounts for his unusual delay in reach-
ing home on the night of the murder by stating
that he took a circuitous route, At the spot where
the struggle evidently took place in the "Bathes"
a quantity of corn was found lying upon the
ground. - It has been examined by Mr. Horn, the
respectprisoner's
similar employer,to
somewll who shtiacthe shthat
beenit is
in
every
abstracted
from his premises. A post mortem examination of
the body has been made, and the medical evidence
goes to show that the unfortunate mati
strangled, probably by the murderer grasping him
was
by his neckerchief, and that his throat was cut
while he lay in a state of unconscousness upon the
ground. Carpenter has been examined before Mr.
Prime at Hitchin, and stands remanded. The
adjourned inquest upon the body will take place at
Stevenage this day (Monday.)

PROSTITUTION-THE NEED FOR ITS

REFORM.

(From t 4 Lancet.)
"This," said Mr. Disraeli in a recent speech, "I
believe to be the age of statistical imposture ;" and
an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer should be no
mean authority on such a point. As concerns pros-
titution, the elaborate statistics collected represent
in only a faint degree the amount of evil that is
doing. Like a hideous parasite, it has swollen into
rank and filthy luxuriance in the shade thrown over
it. Its dimensions have been very accurately mea-
sured. We know, on the best authority,* that
one house in sixty in London is a brothel, and one
in every sixteen females (of all ages) is, de facto, a
prostitute. Yet, startling as these figures appear,
we repeat that they convey but a feeble impression
of the effects produced on society by the mass of
sanctioned wickedness thus represented. High and
low, rich and poor, the virtuous and the vicious,
alike present evidence of the taint. We plume our-
selves on the decorum of our court ; yet the sworn
testimony of many witnesses in frequent trials
proves that there is a strong undercurrent of licen-
tiousness and immorality—that the powerful in-
fluences of the most virulent court in Europe
is no match for the allurements of Delilah—
that the high and mighty rush from the fane of
the patrician Pudicitia to abase themselves in the
temple of the Immodest Venus. There is, to be
sure, a flimsy veil thrown over such doings—and
herein only does the vice of the courtier differ from
twenty," that
Nveennt ot, ;h, tu, h
te
vo
es
st e
or,
pme on nl
yg e rin, wh hi
so as ti tne. m p,t,sßnuot co nc
one
e al-
in
' says Mr. Mayhew, "of the street folks,
who
theirlmivsettaesr-omf-afacn
talnirdeswaifres,
paarset minarrsiine,dh;y"
wana homif
is the first stone to be cast ?

It is, however, among the middle classes—in-
comparably the mast important to the welfare of
the state, that the chief mischief is done by the
evil that they are the most persistent in ignoring.
The typical Paterfamilias, living in a grand house
near the park, sees his Bons allured into de-
bauchery, dares not walk with his daughters
through the streets after nightfall, and is disturbed
from his night slumbers by the drunken screams
and foul oaths of prostitutes reeling home with
daylight. If he look from the window, he sees
the pavement—his pavement--occupied by the
flaunting daughters of sin, whose loud, ribald talk
forces him to keep his casement closed. Yet he
refuses to sanction any means for remedying the
evil, or to lend his aid to its reform. He not only
allows the dirt to accumulate, because it is dirt, but
scrupulously carries out the social code under which
prostitution has so notably increased of late years.:
It has grown into a custom to oppose to marriage
every resistance that the most over-strained pru-
dence can suggest ; except uuder circumstances sel-
dom attained until middle life by a man of good
and even high social position. In the meantime
society cares little what may be his private
life during the long years that he is ineligible.
It has even invented a lying, wicked phrase about
his "sowing his wild oats," (as though God had
freighted him with wickedness which must perforce
be scattered abroad), in order to shift the burden on
his shoulders, and thus avoid the recollection that
every incentive to immorality is encouraged to lead
him astray, and that even if he would avoid the
"social sin that wars against the strength of
South," his resolves are combated by temptation
from which there is no escape, and vice that dogs
his very footsteps in the streets, and solicits him to
evil
age, 40 per
`a`
In: unchaste look, loose gesture, and foul talk."
The effects of this arrangement may be easily sur-
mised
marry at more advanced ages, or not
Of women in London above 20 years of
number of brothelsce- are unmarried. In England and
y 50,000 illegitimate children are born
* Mr'T and other careful observers calculate the
prostitutes 80,000. in London at i,OOO, ami the number of