The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-16 00:00:00

MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Yesterday morning, about a quarter to eleven,
the neighbourhood of the Clerkenwell Police-court
was thrown into a state of great excitement by the
announcement that a most dreadful murder had
been committed at 52, Swinton street, St. Pancras,
nearly opposite to the above police-court.
From inquiries that were made on the spot by
our reporter it appears that a working jeweller, of
the name of John Croft, has resided with his wife
and family for some time past in the front and back
parlour of the above house. About two months
since his wife, Elizabeth Croft, was confined of her
second child, and since then she had been in a very
desponding and low state of mind in consequence,
as was stated, of her imagining that she would not
be able to take proper care of her children. Mr.
Selwood, the surgeon, of Percy-street, had been
attending her, but since Saturday, owing to
domestic afflictions, he had ceased visiting her, and

it was understood that she was about visiting some
friends in the country.
About nine o'clock yesterday morning the hus-
band went to his employment in the City, and
afterwards the wife was seen about the house as
usual. Shortly before eleven o'clock Mrs. Croft
sent her servant, a girl about 14 years of age,
out for an errand, and after an absence of about
twenty minutes she returned and found that she
could not obtain admission. Feeling somewhat
alarmed she communicated with a Mrs. Clarke, and
she also knocked at the door, but could not obtain
a reply. After the lapse of some time, and not
hearing the children cry or any one moving about,
Mrs. Clarke called in Mr. Liddiard, a painter, re-
siding at 11, Swinton-street. A ladder being placed
next 'the back parlour window, Mrs. Clarke
ascended, and seeing that the children were covered
with blood and the woman lying in a very peculiar
position, the parties communicated to the police their
suspicions that all was not correct.
Inspector Allen, of the G division, at once pro-
ceeded to the house, and police-constable Thomas
Bailey, 451 A, effected an entrance by the back
parlour window. A most frightful sight presented
itself. On a French bedstead lay the lifeless bodies
of Mrs. Croft and her two children, the blood at
the time being quite warm, and oozing from the
wounds.

The children are both females, one being of the
age of three years, and named after the mother, and
the other, named Ann, as before stated, about tno
months old. Both their throats were cut from ear to
ear, and the incisions were very deep. The elder
child appears to have two wounds on the throat,
and from its appearance would seem to have been
awake, and to have put its hands up to its throat.
The mother, it would appear, cut the throat of the
eldest child first, and then the youngest. After this
she must have sat on the side of the bed, and cut
her own throat with her right hand, and when she
fell on the bed, with her left hand covered her face
with the end of the sheet. The children were in
their night clothes' the mother fully dressed, and.
her clothes saturated with blood.
The razor with which she committed the dreadful
act was found between her feet, and is now in pos_
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Inspector Allen at once took possession of the
room, and information was immediately forwarded
to Mr. Wakley, the 'coroner.
During the day large numbers of persons sur-
rounded the house, and had it not been for the
excellent arrangethents of the police, the street
would have been impassable.

THE INQUEST.
This morning 111 r. Wakley, the coroner, opened
an inquiry into the causes attending the death of
Elizabeth Croft and her two female children.
The jury having been empannelled, proceeded to
view the bodies.

On their return to the inquest room, •
The Coroner said he thought, before they com-
menced their inquiries, it would be advisable to
have a lost nzortein examination of the head. of
Mrs. Croft, in order to ascertain her state of mind
at the time she committed the deed.

The jury consented, and the inquiry was ad-
journed until Saturday morning next.

THE NAVY .

Her Majesty's steam sloop Virago, 6, Commander
Dunn, returned to Falmouth on Monday. afternoon
from Pembroke, to embark the remainder of the
Hants Artillery for that place, having been absent
on her last trip but 48 hours.
Lied. W. H. Cuming has been appointed to the
screw steamship Trafalgar, 91.
Rear-Admiral Sir C. Fremantle, R.C.8., made
arrangements to leave Plymouth Sound yesterday
afternoon for Portland, in the screw. steamship
Royal Albert, 121, Capt. E. B. Rice.
Twenty seamen for the navy arrived at Plymouth
on Tuesday morning by rail, and 20 by steamer
from Liverpool.
The training brig Nautilus, 6, Lieut. W.
Grant, left Plymouth on Tuesday for Dartmouth.
The naval transport Diligence, E. Crook master,
with old stores from Pembroke, arrived at Ply-
mouth on Tuesday.
The repairs of the screw steam troopship Ilinm-
laya, Commander J. Seccombe, are progressing ex-
peditiously in No. 1 dock, Keyham Plymouth, and
it is expected that she will be ready to leave the
yard by the end of the week. About nine months
mute she received a coat of Peacock and Buchan's
composition, which seems to have contributed in a
great degree to the rapidity of her movements. On
the voyage to and from the Cape of Good Hope 58
days only were occupied at sea. Since the applica-
tion of the composition the Himalaya has traversed
26,000 miles, and the authorities at Keyham are
well satisfied with the result. Usually with
such an amount of service a coat is given every
six months. In the present case, notwithstand-
ing the lengthened interval, the plates and rivet
hems continue in excellent preservation, and the
bottom presents a very smooth appearance, being
merely covered with a dark thin slimy sub-
stance. It is, however, remarkable that grass has
grown on the " pressure" part of the screw, on a
portion of the rudder, and those parts of the bow
• and water line where the composition seems to have
been rubbed off, and that encouragement hag been
thus given to vegetation by the exposure of the under
coating of red lead. To prevent a repetition of this
evil, red lead will not be used now, but two coats
of the composition will be applied, the under one
direct against the bottoth. The Himalaya is re-
ceiving 1,000 tons of coal in dock.
The Urgent screw steam troopship, Com. Hire,
will be placed in dock for overhaul and repair at
Portsmouth to-morrow. Her crew will be paid
down and granted 10 days' leave of absence.
The Neptune, 91, screw steamship, Capt. Sir W.
•Hoste, completed shipping her tanks in the steam
basin at Portsmouth yesterday.
The Pearl, 21, Captain E. S. Sotheby, C.B. and
A.D.C.,will be paid off at Portsmouth this day.
The toyal steam yacht Victoria and Albert was
placed in No. 7 dock at Portsmouth yesterday to
ascertain the amount of damage she may have re-
ceived on, the occasion of getting on shore at the
mouth of the Scheldt.
The Vulcan screw steam troopship was yesterday
warped alongside the north quay of the steam
basin, to receive her tanks, &c.
The Melpomene, 51, screw steam frigate, Capt.
Ewart, and - the Pioneer, 6, screw steam despatch
vessel, both at Spithead, are under orders to pro-
ceed to the Mersey, to enter seamen. The former
vessel in " clearing hawse " on Tuesday carried
away one of her hawse pipes, which may possibly
delay her a short time at Spithead.
The Locust, paddlewheel steamer, Cora. Field,
arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning from the
eastward with supernumeraries, and sailed again
in the afternoon.
An order has been received in Portsmouth Dock-
yard that any of the Marine pensioners at present
serving. under the steam reserve as labourers who
may wish for their discharge can at once obtain it
by making application on board her Majesty's ship
Asia, the ordinary guardship of steam reserve. A
large number of these men have been non-commis-
sioned officers of Marines, and at the time they
were called upon to serve were either in a small
way of business or in some situation. A number
of others have been musicians, and at the time they
were called upon were adding a little to their pen-
sion in teaching music. Both classes were evi-
dently quite unfit for dockyard labourers, and the
present order is hailed by them as a great boon.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty.:—Capt. Richard Moorman
to the Cossack, commissioned ; Lieut. George Todd
to the Agamemnon; Lieut. Thomas Stackhouse to
the Hogue ; Lieut. Bernard J. Cooper to the Ex-
cellent ; and Lieut. William Menzies to the Scout.

.....1.-- -
Victoria . Rifle corps yesterday afternoon at Kilburn,
and eirc messed himself highly gratified at the smart
anti soil dierlike manner in which the various evolu-
tioas -si 'ere performed. The Kilburn rifle ground
has.. of late become one of the great centres of attrac-
tiol a. ' the Queen has been pleased to accept the re-
sig nation of Major the Earl of Perth. It isrumoured
tha t the commission will be offered to the senior
offi Der, Capt. Clifford.
'I he detachment of the Fifeshire Militia, to re-
plat ?e the Hants at Pendennis, have not yet reached
that garrison.
Tho Royal Radnor Rifles assembled for training
L on Tmesday last, under command of Major Peel.

THE MEAD-QUARTERS OF THE ARMIES
IN ITALY.

(From the Times.)
We have been favoured with the following letters
ondent who described the
from the same corrosp
Battle of Magenta :
Malegnano (lialf-way between Milan and
Lodi), June 9, Morning.
while Milan was still in a frenzy of joy at the
arrival of the two allied Sovereigns, this place was
the scene of a sharp combat with the Austrian
.rear guard, which had occupied and fortified this
1.8,.tge town with a considerable force, intending
to gain time for the retreat of their army
and baggage from Pavia to Lodi and across
the Adda. This time it was the first corps
of Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers which had its turn.
Three divisions of it—Bazaine's, Forey's, and
l'Amiranles—had left the neighbourhood of Milan
only yesterday morning, to advance on the high road
in the direction of Lodi, while other troops went in
different directions to gain the Adda, and thus to
cut off, if possible, some of the Austrian troops.
" One look at the map will show you how import-
ant the position of Malegnano was for the Austrians
in their retreat, for its possession by the Allies cut
off the retreat of everything coming from Pavia
which had not yet passed San Angiolo. Besides, Ma-
legnano is on the river Lambro, which, although a
small river in itself, is a tolerable obstacle to the
advance of an army from the complicated system of
irrigation for which it lias been employed. Just
before the place itself three little streams, diverted
into no end of small channels, unite into one, the
Vittabia, coming from Milan, and skirting the road
is a deep canal of considerable width. It crosses
the road at some hundred yards from the village,
anti unites to the left of it with thb two others (the
La.mbro and Muzza), coming down in a northerly
and north-easterly direction ; all three united flow
through the town and fructify all the neighbour-
hood, famous for the produce of its dairies. The
country is the same alluvial plain as heretofore, with
the ditches and willow trees around the fields, the
only difference being that the corn becomes rarer
and hayfields abound.
" It was known that the enemy had occupied the
town and its neighbourhood since Sunday last, the
day of his retreat from Milan, and that he had con-
siderable forces assembled there. The dispositions
were, that the Division Bazaine was to attack the
position in front from the high road, the Division
Forey from the right, by one of the numerous
byroads which connect the villages on both sides
with the main road, while the Division l'Amirault
had to take the town likewise by one of the byroads
from the left.
"The three columns advanced accordingly. They
halted on the road to cook their coffee, which is to
the French soldier what grog is to the English.
After a short rest on they went again, until at 5
p.m., they arrived in sight of the town. The day
had been close, the road dusty, and the march Imo.,
yet as soon as they arrived at the point of attack
the order of battle was formed ; the centre column
with the Ist Zouaves and the left with the 15th of
the Line a-head, and the 10th Chasseurs-5.-Pied
and the broken ground in the interval between the
two. The right column was used more for a flank-
ing movement than an actual attack, for the road
from Magenta leads out to the right of the town,
and it was not presumable that the enemy would
hold much on the opposite side of it. The real
object of this column was to gain the high road
and molest or intercept the enemy's retreat.
" Before attacking, a few cannon shot were fired
from the bridge before the town, which the Aus-
trians had again left standing. These latter did
not reply ; on this the order to advance was
given, and the Zouaves, full of desire to emulate
their comrades, who had distinguished themselves
at Palestro and Magenta, rushed on with, even for
them, unusual elan. No resistance was met until
they came to a cemetery to the left of the road, just
before the entrance to the town. It is surrounded
by a wall from 15 to 18 feet high, and covered
outside with tombstones of black marble imbedded
in it. The only entrance to it is a large, massive
iron gate. This cemetery the enemy occupied in
strength. Benches, from a little chapel which is
enclosed by the wall, and ladders were placed
against the enclosure to serve as a banquette to the
defenders. In spite of these preparations the re-
sistance on this point was not great, for already had
the 10th Chasseurs, to the left, turned the position.
When they arrived at the river, which, as I said
before, crosses the main road. and runs to the other
side of the town, they found the bridge leading
over it broken. Nothing daunted by this, they
jumped into the stream and made their way through
it in spite of its depth. Immediately behind the
cemetery is a large farmhouse, which forms the first
house of the town on this side. The wall of it
had been loopholed, and the windows were occupied
by riflemen. This was attacked first, and carried.
What follows after it was a street fight, the Ist
Zouaves, supported by the 3d of the Line, on one
side, and the 10th Chasseurs and. the 15th of the
Line on the other. Every horse was strongly occu-
pied and obstinately defended. Concealed behind
the windows, the enemy, sufficiently protected,
directed a murderous fire on the attacking columns,
They never showed themselves for an instant in
the open, but, loading behind the walls, ran out
and fired. In spite of this disadvantage, which occa•
sioned a good deal of loss, one house after another was
cleared of the Austrians. Juston the outskitts of the
town is a large building, once a chateau, and lately
used by the Austrians as a House of Correction ; it
stands in the midst of a square, and is surrounded
by a large dry ditch. To this square a large mass
of Austrians was pressed back. There is a double
gateway, the outer a square tower, having evi-
dently once been connected by a drawbridge with
the inner one ; now a causeway leads over it, and
through this the Austrians had to make their way.
They were caught by the Zouaves, and a number
of them bayonetted. Those who could get through
in time ran to the garden which leads off the
courtyard into the fields. A massive iron gate
separates the two, and the Austrians found means
to shut this. The building on all other sides is
surrounded by a ditch, flanked with masonry, about
15 to 20 feet high, so that there was no issue on
that side. Besides, the Austrians had thrown up
some earthworks in the fields facing it. But this
interruption lasted only just ling enough to allow
another body to go round, and, once in the open
field, it was child's play.
"In an hour and alalf the Austrians were
driven out of the town with a loss of 1,000 priso-
ners, one gun, and at least 4,000 dead and wounded.
By the time this was done the Division Forey had
come up on a byroad on the flank of the Austrian
uponthero .thel close columns
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line of retreat, and opened our, with two batteries
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retreat
of the Austrians more precipitate.
" The losses on our side, although not yet dis-
tinctly known, are
case in a streetsevere,. as must always be the
fight,
especially if, out of considera-
tion for the property of our friends, we abstain
from using cannon, usually
the most effective means
in such a case.
" Such
however, have this advantage—
they give confidence
to the soldier, for if he can be
combats,
victorious under such difficult circumstances
he
thinks he can do almost anything.
ge MILAN, JUNE 9,
" The cannon at Malegnano did not much disturb
yesterday the joy of the Milanese, but so much the
more did the rain, which came down in torrents
yesterday evening, and spoiled considerably the
illuminations and other gaieties with which the
Milanese were to have celebrated the arrival of the
two Sovereigns. But if the Milanese forgot in
their joy that others were fighting in their cause
a few miles off, they remembered that after the
fight it was their duty to do everything to alleviate
the sufferings of the wounded. Last night, indeed,
but more especially this morning, hundreds of pri-
vate carriages from the most stylish equipage down
to the common two-wheeled cart of the country,
went down to the battle-field as improvised ambu-
lances, and they came back with the wounded.
Every family who can afford it gives linen,bedding,
and charpie ; the ladies go as volunteer nurses to
the hospitals, sends all kind of dainties—do, in fact,
everything that can be desired; and all this is done
spontaneously, and with a good-will and readiness
which show that they know how to appreciate the
services of their liberators.'
" If the Milanese had their pleasure rather spoiled
yesterday by the storm, they were indemnified for
that by the splendid sight which the procession to the
Duomo and the Te Deum offered them. The whole
Infantry of the Guard, coming from the Piazza
d'Armi, near the arena where they are encamped,
traversed the streets, music in front, and then
formed in line all along the Corso, through which the
Emperor went to the church. I should have only
to report myself in recounting the reception ; it
rained flowers and laurel ,crowns, the air resounded
with enthusiastic hurrahs, every one was radiant,

the streets bright and sunny—in fact, everything
beautiful and satisfactory.
" The Emperor was received by the clergy at the
door, and the whole ceremony passed off as these
things usually do. Only the attitude of the people
was interesting, for rarely was there a thanksgiv-
ing, I believe, U which so many hearts sincerely
joined—not only those privileged to go inside, but
the thousands and thousands outside. Imagine
besides this the splendid cathedral and the square
before it, the magnificent troops, still surrounded
with all the halo of a recent victory, and an Italian
sun, rather hot, but brilliant. It was a sight such
as it rarely fails to the lot of man to see.

~ MILAN, JUNE 10.

" I gave you some of the most salient features of
the events which have occurred in Milan since the
retreat of the Austrians, but as the process by
which Lombardy is progressing by degrees to the
formation of a provisional Government may not be
without interest to you, I will attempt to bring it
before you in chronological order.
" The turning point was on Sunday, the 9th
inst., the day after the battle of Magenta. Some
time before that, however, rumours were afloat that
the Austrians were preparing for the evacuation of
the town. In spite of the measures taken to keep
the population in the dark about the rapid advance
of the Allies, the news spread, and it was in a great
measure due to the gradually increasing probability
of being delivered so soon from the Austrians by
the efforts of the Allies alone that the population
kept its temper, and did not do anything to pro-
voke a collision with the Austrian troops. In the
evening of the 4th and the night following it, a
considerable number of troops arriving from the
frontier passed through the town to the Citadel,
and the Piazza d'Armi before it, where they
stopped only sufficient time to rest, and then went
on in different directions. This retreat lasted the
whole night and the next day till 9 10 a.m., by
which time almost everything had been cleared
out. Before the last troops left the populace had
already made its way into the Citadel in search of
the things left there. Three boxes with silver
coia, the remains of 12,000,000 (P) lire, lately
brought here, were found left behind ; one of them
was forced, but the two others were saved in time
by the authorities. A great mass of provisions,
grain, flour, rice, B:c., was likewise found, and in
part carried away under the very eyes of the
Austrians, who took no notice of the proceeding.
Probably, they thought it wise to occupy the popu-
lace and humour it while they were effecting their
retreat. They were successful enough in this, for,
except one insignificant collision between two
soldiers and some of the people, nothing seems to
have occurred to spoil this mutally satisfactory ar-
rangement.
"By 10 o'clock, with the exception of a few
stragglers, all the Austrians had left, and the
people, who had found, besides the provisions and
money, a number of muskets in the Citadel, and
taken possession of them, disarmed all these
stragglers, without any resistance on their part.
" The own of Milan was thus left without a
Government ; the allied army was seven or eight
leagues off as yet, and the old masters had departed.
The moment was critical, for in a large town there
are always, and must be copious elements of dis-
order, which would not have failed to take advan-
tage of the interregnum. There remained of the
established authorities only the Municipal Council,
and the Podesta at the head of it. Under the old
regime this latter had all the power, and was con-
sequently always a creature of the Austrian Govern-
ment, while the Council was little more than a
shadow.
"The Podesta was naturally impossible, so he
withdrew, and the Municipal Council, or eongre-
gazione, as it is called, took the government of the
city into its hands.
" Its first care was to provide for the maintenance
of order and tranquillity ; as soon, therefore, as it
bad become the only power in the city, it appointed
trustworthy and influential persons in each parish
to maintain order and security in its precincts, and
published a proclamation summoning all respectable
citizens to range themselves under these chiefs. At
the same time another proclamation threatened with
all the rigour of the law those who should make
themselves guilty of an attempt against persons or
property. There must have been an apprehension
of the evil propensities of the mob, for every one
who had something to lose flocked under the banner
of his parish, where a number of them were pro-
vided with the arms found in the Citadel, or those
they had themselves, and a kind of national guard
was thus organised, of which Carlo Prinetti, one of
the popular men, was named commander.
" All those who were in possession of arms of any
kind were called upon to bring them to the head-
quarters of the National Guard in the Palazzo
Marico, and deliver
.them against a receipt. Those
who kept their arms without entering the lists of
the National Guard were declared at the same time
' suspect!
"In order to protect the town against the
marauders of the enemy, and perhaps likewise to
give the mob an, innocent occupation, the citizens
were requested to erect barricades at the entrance
of the principal streets. The alarm bells were to
be the signal for resistance.
" As soon as these provisions had been made for
the security of the town, a proclamation appeared,
signed by all the members of the municipal body,
which asked the citizens to prepare for the reception
of the Emperor and the King who had done so much
for the freedom of Italy, and to proclaim King
Victor Emmanuel, who has prepared the war of in-
dependence for the last ten years, to renew the
connection of Lombardy with generous Piedmont.
" Everything went on as orderly as possible, so
that in the evening the provisional postmaster
could announce that the mails would leave for
Turin as well as Switzerland."

TUSCANY

(From the Correspondent of the Times.)

FLORENCE, JUNE 11

The confusion in the Tuscan Cabinet, about which
I gave you some hint in my letter of yesterday, is
becoming worse confounded as time wears on. Last
evening it was the State Secretary-General Celes-
tino Bianchi, who tendered his resignation. He is
a young literary man of some repute, who made
himself conspicuous about two months ago as the
writer of that pamphlet, Toscano ed Austria, to
which Ridolfi, Ricasoli, Peruzzi, Cempini, and
others appended their signatures, and which
sounded the death-knell to the Tuscan branch of
the Hapsburg-rorraine dynasty. Signor Bianchi
was the other evening coming out of the Teatro
Cocomero, when he was met by a party of young
men of the Fusionist party, who reminded him in
to very, mild or conciliatory terms, that he had
een an Italian patriot, and that it was unbecoming
for one like him to lend his help to a Government

which seemed unmindful of its mission, as far as
the independence and union of Italy are concerned.
Bianchi stammered out some apologies, stating that
he was only a secretary, and had no control over
the resolutions of the Government, but it seems
some twinges of self-reproach visited him at night,
as on the morrow he signified to Buoncompagni
that he could not conscientiously continue in office.
The Royal Commissioners and the Ministers suc-
ceeded in pacifying htm, on the ground, especially,
that for the last four or five days everything had
been done by the Government which could safely
be ventuvad upon, in order to lead Tuscany to its
annexation to the Italian kingdom.

I have been assured that no man has been
more earnestly urging the Ministers to this course
than Prince Napoleon, who represented to them
that the Unionist party was both strong in number
and resolution; that they could with great difficulty
be restrained from carrying their point by open
violence, and in the event of a disturbance he (the
Prince) reminded the Tuscan Government that his
mission here was purely military, and that he would
not allow a single French soldier under his orders
to take part in any civil commotion, either on one
side or the other, but would leave the Ministers to
fight their own battles as they best could.
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by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and to the absurd
bravadoes of the Duke of Modena, it is but justice
to place the conduct of the Bourbon lady who has
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son, Duke Robert, to recognise in. that deed of
blood " the finger of Providence." Since the death
of Charles lII.—I do not think any man of any
party will dare to gainsay it—the Government of