The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-23 00:00:00

THE BRUTAL MURDER IN NORTH
DEVON.

COMM ETTAL OF THE MURDERER.
The brutal murder of a young woman, named
Maria Blackmore, on Wednesday night, at the
fashionable watering-place of Lynton, in North
Devon, has already been recorded. On Saturday.'
last an inquest was held on the body at the Castle
Inn, Lynton, before R. Bremridge, Esq., coroner
of the district, when a young woman named Han-
nah Mogridge, an acquaintance of the deceased,
said that on the evening of Wednesday she met
deceased near the Valley of Rocks Hotel. The
latter said, she heard there had been fine work at
the Globe Inn, and that Barwick (the man in cus-
tody charged with the murder) and a man, nantell-
Lethaby, had been fighting. Deceased said she-
should like to see Barwick (with whom she kept
company), and, on her suggestion, the witness
Mogridge went over to his residence, and told him
that he must go over to deceased as she
wanted tosee him. This was a little after nine o'clock, all
on Barwick joining the deceased the witness heardo
her say to him, tc You have been drinking to-day
Barwick replied that he had not. Deceased said,
" Yes, you have, for I have been told so."
be
also said, " I heard you had been fighting," ell'e
replied that he had. Witness then went for soul
milk, and on returning to whore the deceased and
Barwick were standing, she said to the former,
" Are you coming ?" Deceased replied, "Not for
a few minutes," and witness passed on ; but in
few minutes deceased ran into. her lodgings)
ing at the neck, and was place I in a chair, but in
It ss than five minutTs fell on the floor a corpse.
Before she expired the deceased said that Barwick
had inflicted on her the fatal wound.
Mr. John Clark, surgeon, who was called in to
the deceased, said he found her quite dead. °A
bleea.
examination witness discovered a wound in be
throat, &'out an inch and a-half in length and the
same in depth, in the direction of the internal jar;
lar vein and common carotid artery. The wonlrd,.
appeared to have been made by a knife. peat'
was caused by the division of the arteries.
Police-constable Woodrow, •who apprehended,
Barwick at Lynton on the night of the murder, sett'
he asked prisoner" what he had been doing. .0"
e.
replied, "If you had not come when you did, jou
would not have found me alive." Whilst witness
was there, James Ridge and Richard Norman Came
in, and the latter said, "She is dead." Witness
said to Newman, " Who is dead ?" and he replied
" Maria Blackmore." Witness then told Baravfek
that he should take him in chargé for the murder
of Maria Blackmore. On searching Barwick •he
found in his pocket two knives and a razor, whick
he produced. The large knife had
'a quantity of
blood upon it, which *as apparently fresh. There_
were spots of blood on Barwick's hand when be took
him into custody. After cautioning Barwick, be
said to witness, "She told me that she should break
off all correspondence with me that night,
and that
caused it." s
The jury found a verdict of wilful murder against
John Barwick, who was then conveyed by the
North Devon Railway to the Devon county gaols
at Exeter, and will be tried for the capital offence
at the Devon March assizes.

Country Markets.

LIVERPOOL-DSO. 22.

There was only a slender attendance this morning, and
the transaJtions in wheat, flour, and Indian-corn were re'
striated to the daily requirements for consumption, end
rather better prices were insisted upon and obtained 133'
holders, who looked forward to easier monetary mattero,
and an upwardly tendency in prices with the new Ye ca
eall
No marked change occurred in the value of any articl
tho corn trade this morning.

HULL—DE 52.
Wheat, English red, 483 to 51s ; white 56s to Ges • 03419
29s to 324; barley, 42s to 46s ; Indian corn, 393 ; GCs;
cakes, Hull, 11/ Os to —/ —s Od; ditto, foreign, 'B/ 15s to
101 lOs ; rape cakes, 6/ 58 0.1 to 6/10s guano, et. to 151• ;
bones, 140 s Od.; flow-, —s to --s; tares, to

LEEDS—DEO. 22.
The supply of grain is only moderate, and millers are
very slow purchasers. There is a dull tone in tho market,
and prices scarcely equal to Friday. Barley inactive, and
without material alteration. Beaus in limited. demand•
Oats and other articles at late rates.

Averages week ending Doc. 19 :
Wheat, 49s 00. I Oats, 22s :101(1 I Itye, Peas, 41s
s 9W.
Barley, 33s 54d I Beans, 40s 71d10d.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-YESTERDAY.

msterdsm 11 16%
Ditto, three months .. 12 1%
•• •• •• •• •• 80
3. oak
nratttireedri
Brussels
:25
,10
aamburgh 13 1014
Saute. •• .• •• • • • • • • • •
Paris. -.. • • .... 25' 32%
Do. three months . 25 80
Marseilles • • .. . • . • • • • • 25 85
Bourdeaax .. • • ..
Frankfort-on-Maine .... 121
Berlin •• •• •• •• • • • • •• • •
Vienna •• •• •• • • • • • • • • •• 10 55
Irioste•• •• •• •• •• •• we 10 58
retorsburg ............ 33
Madrid • •• •• •• •• • • 4714
Cadiz • •• •• •• •• •• •• eia••
Bsreelona • • •• • • • • •• • •
Selrille•••• ••••••,„„„,„ p

Gibraltar ....... .....
Leghorn .. •• •• ........ 30 70
Genoa ......26 15
Milan •• •• •• •• ••
Venie4.. ......
Naples ..•• .......... 41
Palermo ••1223
Messina • 123
Lisbon •• •• • • . ••.. 51M.
Oporto ........ . 52%
IRio Janeiro ..... .• • ....
!Buenos Ayros...•
New York,6o dayesight
Philadelphla • • ......
ramE/Out BULLION, rzß Qx
Foreign Gold .in Bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Mexican Dollars .... 0 0
New Dollax3 0 0
iSilver in bars

LOCAL 'SHARE MARKBTA.'

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 22.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market opened steady to-daY,
with a marked improvement, and prices of all the leading
stocks are again a shade better. Chester and Holyhead,
171--Caledonian, 418 i —Grand Trunk of Canada, 11
London and North Westerns, 96/—Sheffields, 39
Great Westerns, 541—Midlands, 898—South Eastern, 20i
Great Luxembourg coustit., 7 # —North British, 128'
Great Western of Canada, 18 2-16—Lancashiro and York-
shire, 94—Royal Insurance, 31 pm.--East Lancashire, 92
North Union, A, 220—Dutch Rhenish, 41 dis.
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BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Business in the market generally
active to-day, with the prices in advance., In local shares
little doing.