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London, England, 1857-11-19 00:00:00

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ME E RUT.

The following is from Murree, dated Sept. 14 :
" We have a tale to tell of danger near us, which
it has pleased God to avert for the present. It is
the reason of my being up here. Our general weak-
ness in the Punjaub was found out by these moun-
taineers, and general plans for plundering Murree
and throwing off our yoke were started. But the
population immediately round Murree precipi-
tated matters and a,saultad on the Ist i❑st., be-
fore the country were ready. These men were
promised an easy victory by some villanous
anees in the cantonment, who offered to use, in
favour of the insurgents, the great opportunities
they had for murdering the English. A woman,
wife of the head of a village, however, sent word in
the evening of the Ist Sept. to a man of Lady Law-
rence's guard, to whose son her own daughter was
betrothed. Her husband was one of the rebels,
and knew not of lie r act. The intelligence, though
verbal, was believed. The 200 European soldiers
and 200 Punj Lbee soldiers, who formed the sole
defence of the place, were called out. The gentlemen
were armed as volunteers, pickets were posted, and
when the assault began at 2 a.m. on the 2d, the in-
surgents were warmly met and repulsed from the
first picket. Thes checked the country generally
from joining. Those who had committed teems& yes
were attacked and dispersed on the 3d, having been
driven out of a strong position they took up. I came
up on the night of the 3d with reinforcements, and
since then we have been punishing those actuary
committed and quieting the mountains generally—
not Wing strong enough to take a very high line.
Tee ladies behaved well, and the mea ce.celleetly.
The volunteers elected their leader, and senior offi-
cers served cheerfully under him, their junior.
There is danger, but, with God's blessing, we may
hope to avert any more open revolt by vigilance
and judgment. The fall of Delhi, if granted to
us, will remove many difficulties."

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:STEVENAGE, Nov., 18.
This morning Jeren iiah Carpenter, who stands
charged on the coroner's inquest with the murder
of John Starkins, of the Hertfordshire County po-
lice, was brought befoue the bench of magistrates
at Stevenage. The rmogistrates present were the
Rev. Mr Prodgers, this Rev. Mr. Harding, the
Rev. Mr. Knapp, and Me. Morris Pryor.
Mr. J. W. Fitjohne solicitor, appeared to 'etch
the case on the part of the prisoner.
On the prisoner being brought in Captain Ro-
bertson, chief constable of :Hertfordshire, stated
that, although he sva.‘e himself quite prepared to
conduct the examination of the prisoner to a close,
he thought that at the present stage it would be
more respectful to the bench and more satisfactory
to the county if he place d the matter in the hands
of a professional gentleman, and he had therefore
directed Mr. Hawkins, of the Honie Circuit, who
had a perfect knowledge of the locality of the mur-
der, to be retained on the part of the police.
Mr. Hawkins said that he thought it would be
better if he were to state to the magistrates an that
as yet had come out with respect to this most brutal
murder. The learned counsel then proceeded to
give the following narrative of the circumstances
that have come to light in this intricate case :—The
deceased, he observed, lived in the town of Steven-
age, and having received instructions from Inspec-
terllawkes which would carry him to the neigh-
bourhood in which the crime was committed, he
lett the station at 5 o'clock, and was seen on the
railway bridge about 25 minutes after by a fly-
driver, who had been examined. He had been seen
also by two persons named Pottrel and Rowe
standing on a gate which led from the railway
bridge in the direction of Cooper's Braches. He
was observed to move hastily from the spot, and
nothing more was seen of him until 11 o'clock on
Monday morning following, when his body was dis-
covered by a fellow-constable. The body was in a
pond in the field, one foot being out of the water
and his hand just covered. On taking the body
out of the water it was discovered that the throat
was cut from ear to ear. There was no doubt that
the man had come by his death by the most cruel
violence, and, iu point of fact, had been brutally
murdered. The body was taken to the Chequers
public-house in Stevenage, where the post mortern
examination took place. On the discovery of the
body a search was very properly made to ascertain
the state of the field, and it was discovered that
somewhere about 20 yards from where the body
was found there was a large mass of blood ; one of
the witnesses described it as a patch as large as the
top of a bushel, and another said that the ground
had the appearance of an animal having bsen
slaughtered there. There were marks of a violent
struggle having taken place, and at a
short distance in another part of the field
was found a quantity of wheat, with a few kernels
of barley of a peculiar character. With regard to
the prisoner, he would state the circumstances
which tended to fix him as Wing the perpetrator of
the crime. He was at work on Friday, the day of
the murder, and also on the previous day, in a
field which formed a portion of the farm of Mr.
Horn, of Norton-green. He was engaged in sowing
wheat, and had occasion to go from the field to
Norton-green to fetch some wheat, and that wheat
was of preci.ely the same description as the wheat
foand in• Cooper's Braches, where this unhappy
man was murdered. The prisoner was not seea on
Friday, but his usual time of leaving work was from
5 to half-past. The distance from the railway seld
to the prisoner's cottage on the high road between
Stevenage and Six-hills was a mile and one or two
yards, and making a very liberal allowance for that '
journey, it could not be supposed that it would
occupy him more than 20 or 25 minutes. If, there-
fore, he left his field at 5 o'clock, which he might
have done if he thought fit, he would have arrived
home at half-past 5. The first point in the case was
what time clidhe arrive home ? Not till past six, so
that there was half-an-hour to be accounted for
from the time he left the railway field until he
reached his own cottage, even supposing him to
have walked at the slowest pace. After his arrest
on the Monday he himself described the route which
he took, stating that he had gone along a sort of
cartway into the road that led across Norton-green,
1 and, having crossed that road by two cottages, had
reached his cottage at half-past 5. Now, that state-
ment, it could b 3 shown, was untrue in two particu-
lars ; first, he was not at home until more than half-
an-hour after that time, which would have allowed
ample time to commit the crime, having been seen
by a lad named Sheppard to come in at the back-
door through the garden at 6 o'clock ; and it would
be proved also that he did not pass the cottages on
his way home, as stated by him. He (Mr. Hawkins)
believed that before this inquiry terminated they
should be able to show the exact route taken by
Carpenter. The next point to which he would call
their attention was the dress of the prisoner. His
usual dress was an old srnockfrock and an old
wide-awake, and it would Le shown that he had
gone to work in his ordinary dress that
morning. He had complained of no accident dur-
ing the day, and there was nothing to account i
fora remarkable lameness which wi.s apparent when
lie got home at 6 o'slock. When obserred by the
boy he was dressed in his old smock, and was no-
ticed to be lame. He went into his cottage, and
after a period of about 20 minutes an alarm was
given by Mrs. Carpenter to Sheppard, the father,
that her husband had met with a serious accident ;
that on going to get soma clumps of wood lying by
the aide of the road, one of them had fallen on his
leg, and he could not extricate it. When they went
to him it was perfectly true that he was found lying
on the ground, with his face to it, but in a most
peculiar position, and what was still more suspi-
cious, it was found that between the time he was
seen coming in and the time of the alleged acci-
dent he had changed his dross, and gave as his
reason for doing so that he was going down to Ste-
venage for seine pigs' victuals. The clumps of wood
referred to had been inspected, and the witness
who had examined them would tell them that they
had never been removed at all. The man was un-
doubtedly lame before he arrived at his cottage,
and of course, if it was true that he had been en-
gaged in a struggle with the policeman, and had
received an injury either by a fall or a kick, it would
become a matter of first-rate consequence to frame
some tile to account for the injury as speedily tie
possible. The next morning he went to work still
wearing his beat smock, but was obliged to return
home from his lameness, and he remained at home
until he was taken into custody on the Monday.
Oa being taken into custody he was asked for his
knife. That knife was afterwards taken from his
son by the police, and had been examined, and a
spot of blood found upcn it, and it was a strong
circumstance as against the prisoner that not only
was his basket discovered to be spotted with blood,
but in the interstices of the wicker work was dis-
covered some red wheat mixed with barley of pre-
cisely the same description as that found in the
field. On examining the clothes of the prisoner
it w as foun d that some of the buttons were wrenched
off; as well as from the gaiters, and the thread
that was left was stained with blood. Without
wishing to press the case unduly against the pri-
soner,
he was bound to mention that the policemen
in investigating the matter had sifted the surface of
the ground at the spot at which the corn was found,
and they had found a pearl button, which might or
might not Lave been on the prisoner's gaiters.
Those that remained were all odd buttons, and one
of the buttons on the trousers was found to be
tinged with blood. It was quite evident that from
the time between the murder and the apprehension
of the prisoner there must hive been abundant op-
portunity to have got rid of the old stnockftock, and
it was not surprising that all the efforts of the police
to find it had been uteiucce,sful. The prisoner's
cottage had been several times searched, but in
vain. At length, after an interval of three or four
days had elapsed, and probably when the inmates
thought that there would be no further searching.
Inspector Hawkes discovered in a cupboard two
pieces of an old smock stained with blood, and
which it must be presumed, in the absence of any
evidence on the subject, belonged to the prisoner.
Those facts, he thought, would, when proved, be
quite sufficient to justify au immediate cmuni;tal ;
but if the Bench thought it would be better to re-
mand the prisoner from time to time, in order that
the police might obtain additional evidence, he had
no objecdon to such a course, and there would be
no injustice in ire inasmuch as ttie prisoner was al-
ready detained under the coroner's warrant.
At the conclusion of the learned couesel's addsers
a great number of witnesses were examined, but
few additional facts came out. A very strong sus-
picion exieta in the minds of the police that the mat)
Sheppard knows a great de .1 more about the matter
than he cho')ses to tell ; he was accordingly con-
fronted with a woman to whom he had made a
statement respecting the prisoner's condition on the
uight of the murder, and sujected to a severe exe-
minaticn by Mr. Hawkins. He said that when he
was called to the prisoner's assistance ho was re,t-
ing on tl'e ground on his lewd and one knee, and
his right foot was caught between two of the ate bbsd
up roots, and when he moved th , root thEi prisoner
f 11 down on his back. The root upon which the
leg was resting might have been between three
and foar feet high. Ho must have got on the top
of the heap of roots for sus h an accident to have
taken place. When his boot was taken off, which
might have been about 10 minutes after he was got
out of the heap of roots, Sheppard said, "Dear me,
Jerry, it's swelled already." He was taken into the
house as soon as they could get him up.
By Mr. Vesey—The skin was not broken, nor
did I see any blood upon his boot.
Inspector Evans stated that he had examined the

. .
The honours of our Indian heroes are before us—
a G.C.B. to Sir John Lawrence, li. C. Bs. to Have-
lock and Wilson. If these are instalments we have
nothing more to say. We are neither li Igetty nor
impatient, we can wait for justice,—we can wait a
proper, a reasonable time. The Indian affair is not
yet over. But it should be understood that we are
waiting—that the British public watches with a
generous and keen jealousy there wards of its faithful
Indian servants, that it claims justice for them, and
will be content with nothing less. Meantime we
can only remark that the man who has—so far as
one man can be singled out for such praise—saved
India, has got just the reward of the Geaeral who
did not take the Reclau ; that Havelock and Wilson
have got for the relief of Lucknow and the capture
of D lhi just what Lord Lucan and Lord Cardi:ea
and Sir Richard Airey got for doing—we all know
what—in the Crimea ; and that Van Cortl :nit and
Chamberlain are C.B.,—an honour distributed in
the late war by the dozen.
The country has formed its estimate of the services
of these men, and is not likely to recede from it.
Tie country is proud of these men. Those espe-
oially who constitute tie La •is and source of political
power, who dictate the policy and govern the G--
-comment of England, the middle classes, are proud
of these men. They see in these men not only use-
ful
instruments, convenient tools, agents for particu-
lar services which are wanted, labourers who must
be paid their wages, but men who are au honour, a
boast, and a pride to the nation. They see a cha-
racter in them which demands honour a' its natural
reward, and which can bear the weight of honour,
carry off any quantity of it, and wear the crown
nobly. It may suit poets and romancers to repre-
sent the aristocracy of a country as the natural pri-
vileg d recipient of honour, to describe a nation as
wholly depending upon its aristocracy for all the
great and brilliant feats which are required for
maintaining its supremacy or rank in the family
of nations. This is the language of old romance.
The " nobles" do everything there ; they are the
only men who take castles and citie= and storm
forts and win battles ; they are the only men who
have heads, or wills, or aspirations, or eaer:ies, or
anything of which the human race is proud ; they
are the petterns of the genus men, the show speci-
mens of the race, the samples of what our nature
was dssigeed to reach ; they fulfil the ordained
type of humanity, exhibit all its great traits and
do all the great acts—everything that is difficult,
grand, and lofty. No presumptuous plebeian is
allowed this privilege—high action is not meant for
such as he ; he must stand by as a spectator, and are
the "nobles" act, and execute everywhere the task
of the champion or the saviour of the State. They
alone even are allowed to sacrifice themselves, and
are endowed with the spirit of martyrs. Such
were the Horatii and Curiatii, and such was
Idt—wealmost say of
present age in which
tChuet-mtiuosdeomf tkweorOldldbeWfoorre
we live. i
This is ancient thought, but we may say with
perfect certainty now that this is obsolete thought.
It was very natural for poets to talk thus—it was
convenient ; perhaps it was once true ; perhaps
noble blood did once fulfil this work. At any
rate, we do not grudge romance its machinery
fer creating interest, and its dramatis personae of
Knights, Princes, and Barons. We are amused
with it all, and take it to express the sentiment of
the day ; and still less would we cancel one page
of the world's past history. But, whether or not
this may have been true once, it is certain that it is
not true now. If this was ever history, it is
now fiction. As a matter of fact the middle
classes now produce that type of wind which may
be called the governing one—that character which
rules mankind, which accomplishes
great objects‘
which marshals means to end-,gives life to a na-
tion, and produces the great events and the noble
achievements of the day. There is not one singly
feature, intellectual or moral, which was once
thought to attach to the operations of the nobility
alone, which does not every whit as fully and truly
attach to the careers of our Indian generals, born
and bred in the middle ranks, and imbued with the
whole tone, temper, and ethics of middle life.
There is not one single feature of energy, or self-
sacrifice, or daring—not one single solid, not one
single brilliant trait which belongs inhistory or
romance to the deeds and careers of aristocracies iu
publ c, civil, or military life, at home or abroad, in
the Senate or in the field, which does not belong
to the nicer of Neill, Nicholson and Havelock.
These middle-class men do exaiitly now, step for
step, whet the representatives of aristocracy wore
once alone thought capable of doing. There is no
duty and no service, no force of brain or of will, no
me, tie, no fight, which was once attributed to no-
bility alone which these n ea l'o not display. These
men do all that any nobles in the werld ever did.
Open any iii•tory and see if any pr.vilegod order has
done more for a country than they.
Here, then, we say, is the true arist- crecy of El-I,p
land ; so fir as our noble f undies come ue to r his
type they belong to this aristo racy ; the path is
open to them ; 1 ut to speak of them at this ,ime of
day as in ex. lu-siese posse!sion of this type is the meatfroth of tom :nee.Teird-: ate nove'iste, who slic-
e -eel to the °its Bete theories as footmen do to the
enttquat ed di ess, the p ) w der, is igs, velvet breeehe e
and silk etookiugs of former days, or who wish to
insi ivate themselves into the circles of fashion by
Ile tery, may snarl at the middle classes of England,
may d /initiate middle life to exalt upper,
may lodge
all the magnanimity of the nation in the one rind
ad its emptiness, feebleness, and vulgarity in the
other ; but this is the mere dream and bubble of
a selfish brain in the face of facts. No theory of
the exclusive greatness of Nevilles and Grevilles

and De Veres and Do Burghs can stand against
facts. It must vanish like any other dream of as-
trology or alchymy, like old geography, or old
mechanics, or old astronomy, or old medicine. The
repository of the governing type of character is the
British nation, and no one class singly in it.
Our [radian Generals, then, we say, are the proper
objects of the highest honours. High honours do
not suit our aristocracy alone, though some may
think so ; they suit those men of the middle classes
also ; they suit them admirably, suit them per-
fectly. There is no disproportion, and there
will be no incongruity. These men have earned
honour well, and they can wear it well. Nor let us
forget one particular honour appropriate to the
dead. General Neill has left a family behind him.
A national provision for tElem, and that a generous
one, is an honour wh,ch such a General can justly
claim from the tomb. Such a provision will be an
honour to the dead and to the living,—to him who
earned it, and to those who receive it. The or-
phans of our soldiers are the children of the nation,
and their national adoption, while it is their neces-
sary support, is also by its associations their pride
and glory, the noblest of all family escutcheons and
insignia.

PARLIAMENTARY _REFORM.

(From the Daily News.)

When the ministerial organs tell us that there is
so much unavoidable business to transact that we
must not expect Lord Palmerston to fulfil his pledge
by bringing in a Reform Bill, the answer to that
plea i❑ abatement is—let Lord Palmerst in, now
that he has summoned Parliament in December,
only go to work vigorously on the ordinary business
of the country in the second week of January, and
there will be ample time for India, the Bank ques-
tion, Military Improvement, and the Reform Bill
too. But if Lord Palmerston refuse to pursue that
obviously natural and useful course, if he have only
summoned Parliament to release the Government
and the Bank from the legal consequences of vio-
lating the law, if he mean afterwards to adjourn
the Legislature until February—then we may be
pretty sure that his policy is to escape fro:n the
honourable fulfilment of the most unpleasant under-
taking he ever contracted. It is in this sense that
we must understand the article in yesterday's Times,
which so suddenly changed the ground on which
the postponement of the Reform Bill is advocated,
from the indifference of the country and the per-
tinacity of Lord J. Russell to mere want of time.
Thera will be no want of time if time he properly
husbanded and properly used, and if there be a
hearty desire to deal with the great question of
Parliamentary Reform. But there will be plenty
of opportunity to waste time if Lord Palmerston
desire to wriggle out of th 9 engagement, and if the
Liberal party will endure the humiliation of being
trifled with on a question so momentous.

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