The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-27 00:00:00

WITH THE REMAINS.

,
On Monday, October 19, and on Wednesday, Oct. 21,
with the
at retnihae in
BRow-street
..station policewere shown to we by
various articles of clothipir, stated to have been found in
asucpaerrpieu entt-ehnadgwth
t
Din the presence of Mr. Painter. ,
Overco.,t—Tbe lining of the left sleeve in the arm-pit
The right sleeve is cut or torn up in its
isecteduch there. tained with blood. It appears to have col-
length. On the collar behind and towards the left side
there is a cut, or stab, as from a double-edged knife.
Under-coat (Frock-coat)—This is completely cut up
much
l
the back from behind, and in the hollow corresponding
to the left arm-pit thegs is ad eo stain of blood. On the
left side of the collar behind is a stab or cut as from a
double-edged knife, apparently corresponding to the cut
ou the collar of the overcoat.

torn up the back. There are
r
:taliV...nsai6Otcn°atth—e Tlebfl.:is
sidei from blood (inside) apparently
diffused
nthretop of the collar behind,
he i
m a double-edged knife,
etorerresp so
nh acut
or
d y i
ug wetting.in :1
f os
Stab
and direction to the cuts in the
as fo
collars of the over and under coats. In the waistcoat
this cut was f mad to be in its long axis five.eighths of an
inch in length.
Trousers—These are torn up at the back. There is
stabsuP correspondi g in Ou the left side
no appearance of blood inside or outside. There are
some stains of dirt and other matters.
.
ni.eliilagyehvitencisiltts o
tiomtrnrion to cuts or stabs in
tinnhuemfrontuben
number and
Shirt—Theea
rtnhdoebralerpr,
pi.
aregahr t
There
here was no appearance of blood
about these cuts, either inside or outside ; but the front
of the shirt, at the upper part, praseated a generally
diffused redness, suoh as would b 3 produced by blood
diluted with water. .
axia upwards and a little
Under Shirt (inenno)-.-This is torn in its length
largest of olfonthgese was three quarters of an
at the side and behind. n
- -I the left side,
and in front, there. were eight. cuts or stabs near to
and the smallest one a quarter of
an inch. There were no
.marks of blood about these
slanting.ienacchh i other thite rs
ITloehnagav ialnaxgri s ,
cuts either inside or outside ; but the shirt was much
stained with justblood above them both inside and out-
side in a direction towards the left shoulder. The blood
appeared diffused as if by wetting, except under one of
the buttons where it had wagulatod, as it does when it

issues from the body of a liviog person. There was also
much blood (diffused) on the wrist of the lef,, sleeve.
The Drawers—These were cut up the back. There
was a diffused stain of blood on the right side. In the
waist, in front, there was a puncture or ntab, about three•
eighths of an inch in its greatest length, such as would
be produced by a sword cane. This apparently corre-
sponded to apertures in the trousers and on the shirt.
Thu Socks—One of these presented on the inside
diffused marks of blood. On one there wal a distinct
spot of blood near the toes.
Half of a black satin neck-ti a—There was a slight
reddish stain on the lining.

CONCLUSION.
The examination of these articles of clothing leads me
to the conclusion that the body of the person who wore
them must have been subjected t ) great violence. The
stab penetrating from behind the double collar of the
overcoat must have been inflicted with great
force, as it extends through the collar of t'te
undercoat and waistcoat. It is chiefly on the inside
and on the left side, towards the left arm-pit, that the
principal stains of blood are met with in the overcoat,
undercoat, and waistcoat. The only wound found in the
remains is a stab on the left side, which, by its situation,
might have led to the effusion of blood. Asaming that
the clothes belonged to the deceased, these fact,
appear to receive an explanation. The clothes
have, however, been t xposed to wet since they were
stained with blood, and this creates a difficulty in form-
ing an opinion. The cutting and tearing of the coat,
trousers and drawers at the back, and the cutting and
tearing of the rightsleevee of the overcoat, undercoat and
shirt, are "consistent with the assumption that the
body had become rigid after death in a distorted
and that the clothes were violently torn from it. Tills
position is indicated in the remains, especially on the
right side, by the flexed or bent condition of the hip and
elbow joints. Some of the stains of Ll )(id present the
appearance of having flowed from a li vint, person, and this
renders it, therefore, probable that the c!othes were on a
living body when the wounds, producing such effusion
of blood, were inflicted. While there is nothing to prove
directly that these clothes were worn by the deceased,
they have, in my opinion, been worn by some one who
bas sustained striou■ personal injuries. Their con-
dition, however, is consistent with the supposition that
they were actually worn by the deceased individual with
whose remains they were found.

(Signed) ALFRED S. TAYLOR, ALD , F.R.S
15, St. James's-terrace, Regent's-park, Out. 23.

Ws being the whole of the evidence,
... _ _

The Corol;er addressed the jury, observing that he
thou4ht they had sufficient evidence on which to arrive
at a verdict, leaving it to the police to discover if the
party was murdered, and by whom it was done. All
the coroner's jury had now to find was the cause of
death, sex, age, and occupation of the party. What he
now asked them to consider was the cause of death,
proba le age, and the sex of the party, because they had
no means of arriving at his occupation.
The jury, after a short consultation, returned the fol-
lowing verdict That the remains were thoqe of an
adult male person who had been wilfully murdered by
some person or persons unknown."
The inquiry then terminated.

lIOW TO ESTABLISH OUR EMPIRE IN INDIA

(From the Examiner)

The best way to establish our Indian empire on irir
pregnable foundations will be to act upon principles as
opposite as possible to those on which it has beenhere-
tofore ruled by that singular corporation the East India
Cempany. For a whole century our possession of
India has been a mere military occupation, six parts out
of seven of the occupying army being compot-ed of the
conquered races, and the most routi. ous and inflammable
niateridla which could be collected together. No wonder
that such a Government should at last have exploded in
mutiny and murder, and with such prodigious havoc of
public aid private property.
The chief means, by which other nations of all races
and of all ages have maintained their authority over
conquered countries, have consisted in the free and nu-
merous settlements of the conquering race among the
conquered. But these are the very means which ba e
been most pertinaciously and obstinately repudiated Ly
the East India Company. Colonisation was the mode in
which the little country of Greece spread its language,
its arts, and its religior, over Italy, Egypt, and Asia
Minor. It was thus, far more than by its legions, that
Rome made Italy, France, and Spain, Roman in lan-
guage, laws, manners, and everything compreheiqled in
the Roman name. It was the method followed by our
S-axon forefathers when they conquered the Britons, by
the Normans when they conquered the Sax ins, and by
the Anglo- Normans when they subdued the Celts of
Wales and Ireland.
All over the world it was this plain course that bas ever
been pursued by conquering states. The Greeks pursued
it in Africa and Asia, as they did in Europe They
planted a colony on the very verge of India itself, in the
midst of predatory barbarians, unsupported by a mother
country, and same 3,000 miles distant from it, they
established a civilised kingdom which lasted more than
three centuries..

Asiatic conquerors have followed the 84E40 track
wherever they have made permanent oonqueNts. In tbi.
manner, the Arabs conquered some of the finest parts
of Spain, and although 3,000 miles distant from txtir
parent country, held dominion over them for eight cen-
turies. The very Turks, still more remote fr ,in their
original seat, and cut off from all communication with it,
have held away over seine of the most fruitful provinces
of Europe for four centuries. Even the shepherds of
Tartary, by virtue of the free settlement of their race in
China, have been enabled to Establish a dominion, and
iu general a peaceful and aucce'ialul one, over an empire
as populous as India.

Bast the most pertinent instance of all is to be found in
the Mahomedan conquest of India itself, to which we
have on former occasions alluded. The original adven-
turers were a sort of marauding crusader, composed
not of one, but of several nations, distinct in manners
and language, and united by no common tie save that
of religion. They settled freely among the native
inhabitants, intermarried with them, and converted
them to a number which is thought at present not to
fall short of ten millions. By these means, and with
the help of a little occasional fresh blood from their
parent countries, they were enabled for seven centuries
to maintain their ascendaicy over the Hindus, who
always exceeded them in number in the proportion of at
least twenty to one. An Afghan dynas,y displaced a
Torcoman, and a Tutcoman an Afghan, and it was not
until we ourselves had lopped off the most fertile and pro
duo.ive province of the Empire, that a Hindu nation,
the Mahratta, obtained a temporary superiority .over
the Mahotnejans.

Let us now glance at the policy which we have our-
selves pursued in India, and which we are now r. aping
the bitter fruits. That policy has been the very antithesis
of all that has succeeded with all other nations. We
have not only discouraged the settlement and. colonies-
Lion of our own countrymen, but Img visited the very
attempt to settle with pains and per.at ties. The commer-
cial monopolists, in whose name the conquest. was made,
hoodwinked the nation and the Lvislature, and made
them believe that India was cafe only in their own hands
and those of their creatures. Here are a few particulars
of the legislation made under this pernicious delu ion.
By the Charter Act of 1793, the simple act of being found
in the East Indies without the leave and licence of the
East India Company, was declared to be " high crime
and Misdemeanour." In 1813, or 20 years later, the
" high crime and misdemeanour" of being found in the
East Indies without licence was re-enacted, and It was
punished, for the first offence, by a fine of 2001 , or
two months' imprisonment, and for the second of 400/,
or four months' imprisonment. But besides the fines
and imprisonment, the functionaries of the Company in
India were armed with the power of arresting and eject-
ing forcibly from India any unlicensed Briton, or at
pleasure tl revoke licences without assigning a reason ;
and if the arrested party prosecuted the Company, the
proof lay on himself, and failing to prove malice, the,
law mace him liable to treble costs.

It was net until 1833, or three-quarters of a cen`ury
after the victory of Plessey, that the nation came in
some measure to its senses, and then for the first time
were Englishmen enabled to bold the fee simple or land.
Even then, and the prohibition is to this hour unre-
pealed, Englishmen are excluded from visiting residing
in, or bolding land, in all the conquests wade by the
nation during the present century, and these embrace
some of the finest and most extensive poets of
.Bengal,
and nearly the whole territory of Bombay. But this is
not all, in the greater part of the Indian territory, fluc-
tuating, excessive and arbitrary taxation, bad police and
bad laws, make it wholly out of the question for Eng-
lishmen to invest their capital in land, and the result
is, that the number of British landholders sprinkled over
our vast territory is very trail' indeed.
The result of this factitious and unnatural system
pursued by the jealous spirit of monopoly, has come t
this, that the total number of British-born subjects in
India, not in the public service, amounted, according to
the most recent returns made to P adiament, to 10,000
—or, to be correct to a unit, to exactly' 10.006, the
India House reporter observing, on the return, that no
accession to this number had taken place for 20 yenta.
Nearly the whole of this number resided in the three
presidential cities, where they had the protection of
English laws administered by professional judges named
by the Crown. Of the 10,000 only 317 were residing i•
the provancek namely, 275 in those of Bengal, in snort
of which there is a permanent settlement of the lard-tax,
and only 42 to be divided among those of Madras and
Bombay, where taxation is arbitrary, excessive, and va-
riable—under the first of those Governments, indeed,
often varying from year to year. The little Cogn c •loey
of Ceyl)n, 1-60th part of the area of Continental India,
and containing 1-80th part of its population, has at
present as large a number of Englishmen engaged in the
culture of the single article of coffee (a branch of industry
of little more than 30 years' standing), as continental
India has in the culture of sugar, indigo, and silk. Toe
colony of Algiers, which has been possessed by France
about one-fourth part of the time that we have poesebsed
India, had an European population two years ago of
155,600, or above 15 times as many as all British Indic.
As to the number of the mixed race in British India
springing from the naiou of Englishmen with natives

of he country, no account whatever has 'nett
and most probably none exi..Ets. Aa to t'l:) •
Christianity, which have been made nl,ii, r Vqe East 1716
Company's withering rule of a century: we sn4)ect*th.
the return moat be pretty nearly nil, alth,:n4it
Nlahomedana have been tolerably ha-y durin, the eau;
and have probably increased their number b
pio
to or
r
three indlions.

Now had India, for the ]OO rare that it bay been
under the excluding system of the cerepany, been sulject
to the Government of the Crown, Englishmen would have
had free access to it, with power t hold the fee-sinarl-
of land on a certain and safe tenure, as they have every.
where else under the British sceptre. Under such
auspices they and their descendants, whether creole or
of mixed blood, along with the converts to the Ocoee
whom they would inevitably have made, would have b, en
counted not as now, by hundreds, or by thousands, but
by hundreds of thousands, or even by millions. All such
persons would, by their examele or by their teaching,
have proved the most effectual missionaries of their own
faith, and from the mere necessities of their position, to
whatever sect of Christians behnging, the cleepest and
the most effectual snpport of British peril. Tnat ueb
would assuredly have been the result we may learn from
what is passing ill the present revolt, since we know that
it is a principle adopted by the Mahotneilao aed Hindu
conspirators to exterminate every man, women, and child
of whatever sect or colour, passing under the name of
Christians. Englishmen ought long ago to have been
much too numerous in India for any mutiny or rebellion
to have speculated upon their extirpation. With each a
body of settlers as we ought to have had a ter a hundrei
years
,of supremacy, it is impossible to conceive that
we eli;Uld ever be overtaken and surprised by a rebel-
lion taging from the Ganges to the Fides,.
It is not often that we can gain it lesson of political
wisdom from the Spaniards, but the yeetion of settle-
ment and colonisation, in so far as concerns their Hest sr.
colonies, certainly aff tr.& one example. Fit the 300
years that the Spaniards have been settled in the Philip.
pines, these fine islands have been a •ces-ilde tc every
Spaniard, and Spaniards in common with the eative- are
there landholders on very Say ,nrai,ll tenures, Tbe
Spaniards and their descendants at present amount t
25,000, and these and their f,refath-r: Lave elnverted
nearly the whole poonlatien, amounting at present
1,000,000; the native Cirrietiane being so strong attached
to the Spanish Crown, that owing to theta, the Phillip-
pine Islands may be eoneidered not only secure from
internal insurrection, but impregnable acaiust any
foreign invasion, so that they are likely to continue a
colony of Spain long after. Spain has lost the rest of its
foreign dependencies. Even the Government met Spain,
then almost the worstin Europe, has been wiser than that
which we tolerate, but shalt not, tolerate much 'ongete
under the name of the East India Company.
The false policy, then, which, to a greater or less d. -
gr e, we have pursued in our g overntnent of India for a
hundred years, may safely be averred to have led to the
results for which the nation is now sorrowing. By sys
tematically discouraging the settlement of our country-
men in our conquest, we have virtually set our faces
against the dissemination of European civilisation, and
of the religion of that civilisation. By that false policy
we have been left friendless in the hour of need, unsup-
ported, ignorant, and surprised by a ;conspiracy ef Brah-
mins and Mabomedans which has shaken our dominion
to its basis. By reason of that false policy, pursued for
three-quarters of a century, the commsrceof the Indies,
instead of an advantage, became a serious detriment to
the nation. It is high time then to repudiate and aban-
don it. Our quarrel, we must aid, is not with mistaken
men, but mistaken principles. We do not quarrel with
East India Directors of the present or any other genera-
tion. Blinded by their position, they no doubt believed
that what was profitable to themselves was equally bene
ficial. to the public.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY.

THE LATE MURDER IN TIPPERARY.
The Nenagh Guardian supplies the following
particulars of the shocking murder of Mr. J. E'lis,
a brief account of which appeared in The Sun of
Monday :

" Tem- plemore, Oct. 23.-4 have just time to
state that Mr. J. Ellis, steward to Mr. J. Trant,
Doves, was brutally murdered last night on his
way home from this town. He arrived here by the
4 o'clock train from Dublin and left shortly on his
own car, which had been in waiting at the station
for his residence. When he arrived at Kilrush
they found some bushes placed across the road,
which the servant got down to take out of the way.
He had scarcely stooped to remove the obstruction
when his master was fired at from behind the ditch,
and he received the contents of the piece, which
was heavily loaded wit slugs, through the body.
He lived only an hour after. I have not heard if
any person is yet arrested for the offence, but the
police are on the alert, and I hope their efforts to
secure the assassin will prove effectual. Mr. Ellis
was a respectable and unoffending man. He was
a native of Scotland, but had been for a number of
years in the employment of Mr. Trant, by whom
he was respected for his integrity and upright dis-
charge of his duties, and he is said to have be-n
well likei by those who ha i iintnefilate dealing with
him ; but what mattered that in the e,flMttiou of
Tipperary murderers ? Mr. Ellis purchased 1 day
property it. the Encumbered Estates Court, and on
the place coming into his hands he was compelled
to evict some tenants. This is the only cause that
can be assigned for the bloody and foul deed which
has left a widow and, as I understand, nine help-
less orphans to lament the untimely end, and
mourn the irreparable loss of a loving husband and
a good father."

-Another account says :—" As Mr. Ellis, steward
to Mr. John Trant, Dovea, was proo.ading to his
residence at Kill.ihara, from this town on Thurs-
day night, after returning from Dublin by the 11
p.m. train, and while he was proceeding down a
narrow road leading to his dwelling, he was fired
at from behind a hedge on the right hand side of
the road, and killed on the spo.,ueveral slugs having
entered the untortuna e man's body, causing in-
stantaneous death. The midnight assassins laid
their hel ish plan well. Bushes were previously
laid across the road so as to intercept Mr. Ellis's pas-
sage, and it was while his servant had alighted to
remove the obstruction the bloody deed was o :m-
-utated. . Nothing has been seen or heard of the
perpetrators since. The only motive that can be
assigned for this heinous crime is that deceased had
served an ejectment process against a tenant of his.
Mr. Ellis had a sum of 901. in his pocket, but re-
venge not plunder seems to have been the object,
for the money was not touched."
THE LATE STII ROYAL IRISH DRAGOONS..
_

It is stated that Col. Dunne, the late member
for Portarlington, has positively made an offer to
the Horse Guards to raise in a short time, so as to
be available for immediate active service, a regi-
ment of Irish dragoons to fill the vacuum in the
army list between the 4th Light Dragoons and We
Gth Enniskillen. The reduction of the Irish con-
stabulary now being effected would probably be
the means of furnishing a considerable number of
roctuits of the very best class for such a regiment
--tall, well-f wined fellows, requiringcomparatively
but little drilling to render them efficient cavalry
soldiers. Many of these men are already making
preparations to dep irt for the United StateP, and
the question is whether it might not be well to afford
them A fair opportunity to serve their country by
joining the ranks of a corps to b 3 c mposed, if such
be the national desire, exclusively of Irish men ? The
Leinster Express, which has initiated the move-
ment, gives the following sketch of the late sth
Dragoons, and the causes which led to its disband-
ment :

" The sth Royal Irish Dragoons were raised in
1688, atid served with • distinction under Marl-
borough ; and no regiment in her Majes'y's service
pursued a more glorious career up to the period of
its precipitate disembodiment. We have documen-
tary evidence before us to prove tha the charge of
disloyalty, upon which the regiment was disbanded,
was at best very partial. The regiment haviugbeen
very much reduced in numbers at the clot() of the
Irish rebellion, in which they fought with bravery
at Ross, Lsrkin-hill, IFinegar-hill, and Ballymore
Eustace ' • but being obliged, from the lopes they
sustained, to recruit their numbers, sverd persons
who had been involved in that insurrection, being
desirous to escape detection, os its suppression
enlisted in the sth. Two deserters named Ferny,
having been taken prisoners for a robbery, were
admitted as evidence that a conspiracy existed in
the regiment, and, although it is reasonable to
suppose that disloyalty prevailed among the new
accessions, it does certainly appear rather harsh that
a regiment, which had for over a century proved
itself equal in all the proud and honourable dtsti
tions of brave soldiers, should be for ever eon-
donned. They were disbanded for disloyalty, and
their place in the Army List remains a blank, an
insult to the Irish nation, which will scarcely be
deemed just by those who will look at the °chi)
of the 18th, 87th, 88th, or the stand trd of thj,:
Hussars, or 4th Dragoon Guirds, not to calculate
the victories which decorate the banners of regi-
ments designated English and Scotch, but which
were won by the aid of Irish soldiers, of which
many of those corps are chiefly composed.''
THE RECENT TEA FRAUDS.
There are no tidings yet of t'Aii whereabouts of
Mr. John James Moore, the ingenious Customs'
swindler. On Friday an inquisition was held ; t
the sub-sheriff's office, iu pursuance of a writ of
extent which had been issued by the Court of Ex-
chequer at the instance of the Crown, b discover
what lands and tenements and what goods and

!tire

24 la.,s • e.•d, w•liet ;
w re n the 1 •e, of tea,
the tal.:e w c , wit.; .0 the est:in Ito,!
t ab ri 6)01. He e do ttllwhtth-rth•tte,a
w's M ‘ore's -Avt. • b fn.ii,,g it le: e, he took for
gra.rt d, until th c ntrary had b. enproved, that
wit, , N't ore' . T •.e e the yrd six casks
of ,ta• di, he 't 81. Th .re were two
p ckag of , v a' 6 1)1. He cmisi•
furirtur &:., in the
house, worth ab:,ut 401. So far i:s h. could a certain
fram Moore's books, bet wa.tn bi 14 cr one hin.; tir
anclther, there. was about 1,0001. cite to Mo. r 4, hut
Ise could mot state what, claims mi,&rt be against
him. In the whole, the p'ope:ty supi.os,.d. to
be ~rig to Moore arnminted to 1.7731. Ho cli'l
toot know that there was any bat,nce to Mom's
credit in the bank. Mr. G.-org o..rrati er4 i eieg
examined, stat-d that Mr. G.—gligati, of the
.1t0:00.
si'ilddhona:l:l3,t; bee
Bank of Ireland, held a ecuri!-,v- of 'Moo. e's for
odgnalniNvvseharieduhpi
Nxaipdi -caatlnel od: dht
btMr.
Gwoougldh he
e
lha
drawn y Moore bad I), •n paid but he !brieglrit
they all would be paid. In as v .u. t Mr. Ca-
rut;lers, Mr. Godfrey said, that '56 , a ka .es f tea
had been mov.-41 by the Custo els' au' hori,;-teri from
Mo ,te's balding sto est the Cu--tout-hour stores.
Thee 256 panxages were valu-ii f r about 1,0001.
Mr. rung inquired why th•-• Cu t ant io, ides
took away twee 256 pa .tkages allosvel 137 to
eu3aiu in Moot e's st&e ? Mr... Godfrey replied,
that it was bectuie the former were warehoused by-
Moore, wh 1 the later were not. Mr..Sm th said
that by 'he Customs' laws tie anthotities eonlidered
the 256 p.c1,ag.!,4 folfe,ite I. A question was then
cared by Mr. Young and otter jurors as to whe-
ther certain winas, brandies, &u.. bel nging to Mr.
Samuel Gelston, atid watehow-ed iu a mere of
Moore's rent d by Mr. Gelreon, and of which he
kept the key, should u t, prima facie, be con-
si,,er.Al a.; Moi,ra'a property as well ai the teas
found in M,-o e's st r,?s, and ultinta.ely it was
ruled OA !hey a. 0111,1 h 8 so cm.si lered. Mr. Gel-
s who a- first refits .d to atten.i the inquisition,
ultimately came, a. the requ st iif the sub-sh-riff.
He sAid he knew nothng of Moore, and declared
that he could lot form any estimate of the value of
his wines and t•pirits, but they were worth, he
could say, at all events, 2,0001. The jury ulti-
inhtely found th it the e were 256 packages of tea
in th., Custom-lious-, removed from Moore's store,
of the value of I,tloo/. ; that there was at present
in the hinds of la, m imager of the Bank of Ireland
a,ce;tsinseentity or change on lands in Ireland, on
which the directors of the Bank of Ireland have a
lien, and which the jurors valued at 7001., less
1401,, leaving 5601. as a balance ; and the jurors
further said that, at the time of taking the inqui-
sition, there were c-.•rtain wines and spirits in a
cellar of the said Jo in James Moore's store, which
wines and spirit.; have been claimed by Samuel
Geist in as having been bonded by him, and in his
name, and they found that these wines and spirits
were of the value of, and did appraise 'them at the
sum of, 2,0001,"

DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING.
THE BROADSTONE TRAGEDY.

The Crown has sustained anuber defeat 'n;th.
attempt to mike James Spollen amenable to jus-
tice.

Tile commission was opened to-day before Barons
Greene and Richards, and the latter having deli-
vered his charge, the grand jury retired to consider
the several tills sent up before them. After an
absence of about two hours, they returned into
court, and the fuvraan announced that they had
found "No' bill" in the case of James Spollen,
charged with the robbery of the late Mr. Little.
Spollen is to be discharged from custody in the
ordinary course at the close of the commission ;
and so ends the Broadstone tragedy.