The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

" APPENDIX.

`` POWERS OF LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH, WHICH
OUGHT TO 13E STRINGENTLY EXERCISED AT THIS TIME,
"1. UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.

"To provide that a.l streets within the district, in-
cluding the foot-pavements, are properly swept, cleansed,
and watered, and the dust, ashes, rubbish, filth, dune*,
and soil therein collected, and removed. (Sec. 55.) '
" Ter provide that all drains and water-closets, privies,
cesspools, and ash-pits aro constructed and kept so as
not to be a nuisance or injurious to health, and to give
authority in writing to the surveyor to enter and examine
any premises with reference to the state of the drain,
water-closet, privy, cesspool, or ash-pit. (Sec. 54.)
" To drain, cleanse, cover, or fill up, at the owner's or
occupiers expense, all pools, ponds, open ditches,
sewers, drains, and places used for the collection of any
drainage, filh, water, matter, or thing of an offensive
nature or likely to be prejudicial to health, with power
to pay the whole ur part of these expenses out of the
general or special district rates. (Sec. 53.)
"To order the removal, within 24 hours, of any nui-
sance arising from swine, kept so as to be a nuisance to
any person. (Sec. 59.)
" To proceed against any person who suffers waste or
stagnant water to remain in any part of a dwelling-house
for 24 hours after notice, or who allows the contents of
any water-closet, privy, or cesspool to overflow or soak
therefrom. (Sec. 59.)
" To take proceedings against the owners or occupiers
of any houses which, on the certificate of the officer of
health, shall appear to be in such a filthy or unwhole-
some condition tbat the health of any person is affected
or endangered thereby ; and to direct the whitewashing,
cleansing, or purifying thereof where this would tend to
prove r,t or check infectious or contagious disease. (Sec.6o.)
" To prevent the business of a blood-boiler, bone-
boiler, fellmonger, slaughterer of cattle, horses, or animals
of any description, soap-boiler or tallow-welter, tripe-
boiler, or other noxious or offensive trade, business, or
inanufec'eire being newly established in any building or
place, without the consent of the local board, unless the
General Board shall otherwise direct. (Sec. 64.)
"To prevent the occupation of cellars as dwelling-
Louses, unless certain conditions be attended to. (Sec. 67 )
"To provide a proper and sufficient supply of water
for their district if the Waterworks Company established
within such district are not able and willing to furnish
such a supply upon terms certified to be reasonable by
the General Board of Health. (Sec. 75.)-
" To require that houses be supplied with water, if
such supply can be furnished at a rate not exceeding 2d.
per week. (Sec. 76.)

" To cause all existing public cisterns, pumps, wells,
&c., used for the gratuitous supply of water to the in-
habitants to be maintained and plentifully supplied with
water ; or to substitute and maintain other works
equally convenient ; or to construct any number of new
cisterns, pumps, &c., for the gratuitous supply of any
public baths or washhouses established otherwise than
for private profit, or supported outof any poor or borough
rates. (Sec. 78.)
"To recover penalties from any person fouling any
water under the management or control of the local
board. (Sec. 80 )
" 2. tINDER THE NUISANCES REMOVAL ACT, 1855.
" Tu appoint, or join with the other local authorities
in appointing a sanitary inspector, a power of entering
into premises being given for the following purposes :
" 1. To ground proceedings.
" 2. To examine the same where nuisances exist, to
ascertain the coarse of drains, and to inspect works
ordered by justices to be done.

" 3. TO remove a nuisance in case of non-compliance
with order, or to inspect articles of food, &c.
" Where a nuisance exists a justice shall, on com-
plaint, require the person causing it, or, if he cannot be
discovered, the owner or occupier of the premises where
the nuisance is, to abate it, and in case of non com-
pliance snch person is liable to certain penalties. Where
the person causing the nuisance and the owner or occu-
pier of the premises are unknown the order of the magis-
trate may be addressed to sad executed by the local
authority.

" Any nuisance removed may be sold after five days'
notice, but where that delay would be prejudicial to
health jutices may direct au immediate removal.
" To provide that when any ditch, gutter, drain, or
water-course is a nuisance, and cannot be rendered inno•
cuous without a sewer or other structure along the same
or instead of it, such sewer, eze., be laid down, and to
keep it in repair; and assess parties using the ditch, gut-
ter, drain or water-course as a means of sewerage to the
expense thereof, such payment to be either immediate,
annual, or extending over a term of years.
"To enforce the penalties where any person or com-
pany may foul water with gas washings—the penalty
thereof being 2001., and (in addition) a daily penalty of
201. (imposed by the 25th sec.)
"To provide that all meat, vegetables, flour, &c., ex-
posed for sale, on their way to, or in the course of being
prepared for sale, or landed from any vessel in any port
in England, be duly examined by the sanitary inspector,
and if in his opinion they are unfit for human food, to
have them seized and taken before a justice, who shall
make order thereon.

"To see that complaint be made to justices of nuisances
arising from noxious trades or manufactures, and of any
house so overcrowded as to be injurious to health, the
persona causing the same being on conviction, liable to
penalties.

43. UNDER THE ACTS FOR THE WELL ORDERING OF
COMMON LODGINGHODSES (14 AND 15 VICTORIA, CHAP.
28, AND 16 AND 17 VICTORIA, CHAP 41.)
"To give all keepers of common lodginghouses notice
of the Act, calling upon them to register their houses ;
the ►ocal authorities are to keep this register, entering

therein the particulars required by the Act. From time
to time, and as circumstances may require, to make re-
gulations for fixing the number of lodgers who may be
received in such registered houses, for promoting cleanli-
ness and ventilation therein, and with respect to the in-
spection thereof—such regulations to be confirmed by
one of the Secretaries of State, and to enforce these re-
gulations by the imposition of penalties. To see, by
their officers, who have free access to these houses at all
times, that the provisions of the Act as regards cleanli-
ness, lime-washing, &c., are duly carried out.
"To see that no house is used as a common lodging.
house until the same has been inspected and approved as
fit for the intended purpose, and registered, and to re-
fuse registration unless the person applying can produce
a certificate of good character.

Should fever, or any infectious or contagious die•
ease, break out in a lodgingholise, to provide for the re-
moval of the patient to an infirmary or hospital, the au-
thorities thereof consenting. To take care that the
clothes and bedding are disinfected or destroyed, and
compensation to the owner for any loss or injury made
out of the poor-rate.
"On receiving a certificate of the existence of nuisances
under the Nuisances Removal Act, to order (when no-
cessary),the causes of compl•sint certified to be removed.
"To take care that no lo iginghouse is kept by any
person disqualified by three convictions under the Act.

* Subsequently to the epidemic of 1854 this company
has had recourse to parer sources of supply.
t Report of the'Committee for Scientific Inquiries in re-
lation to the choleia epidemic of 1853-4.

A, •io
ago on
SCENE AT AN EXECUTION.— A .orri....eBCeDB (says the
Hanover a few days
Weser Gazette) took place at H
the occa?ion of an execution; Not only did a large Crowd
—many of them carrying bottles of brandy---assemble
and commit gross exces,e., but a number of individuals
subject to epilepsy rushed to the Ecaffold at the moment
the criminal's head fell to drink the blood, the popular
Lielief being that it is a cure for epilepsy, and the execu-
tioner readily gave it to them ! This frightful scene has
caused an iminene sensation in Hanover, and petitions
:o the Government, praying that executions may no
longer be public, have been numerously signed.

The adjourned inquest on the body of James
Henderson, farm.er,. of Bramall (or, as it otherwise
called, " Bram- hall' ), Cheshire, who was shoo while
in bed on Wednesday morning last, was held at the
Victoria Inn, near the Braman station of the Mac-
clesfield Railway. The coroner, Mr. W. Johnson,
took his seat at 10 o'clock. The jury was princi-
pally composed of farmers, anti Mr. Maraland, a
landowner of the neighbourhood, was the fore-
man. Mr. W. P. Roberts, solicitor, Manchester,
appeared for James Hendersmi, deceased's eldest
son, who was present in custody. The police de-
scription of the prisoner is—" height, sft. 4in. ; com-
plexion, light ; eyes, hazel, sharp and deeply sunk
in the forehead ; hair sandy ; cheeks very hollow."
He was brought from the Stockport county lockup
in a cab by Mr. Superintendent Andrews and Mr.
Little, deputy constable, of the Cheshire County
Constabulary. A considerable crowd of country
people, many of whom must have been known to
him, were congregated round the door on his arri-
val, and on alighting from the vehicle his lips
quivered and he appeared somewhat nervous. The
township of Braman is composed of scattered de-
tached farms and cottages, and the population is
about 1,800 in number. The scene of the murder
Is about three-quarters of a mile west of Braman-
hall, the seat of CUL Davenport, the owner of the
farm, which is an ancient brick and timber man-
sion, said to have been: erected in the reign of
Richard II I. The jury-room was exceeding crowded
with people, some of whom had come from Stock-
port, and many of them from the village of Hazle-
grove, which is only a couple of miles east, and
Cheadle, about the same distance west, of the
township.
Michael Malnlkney, sworn.—l am a farm la-
bourer, and was in the service of the late Mr. Hen-
derson at the time of his death. I lived on the
farm, and slept in the granary with John Dillon,
a fellow. servant. It will be 15 weeks to-morrow
since I entered. his service. On Tuesday night last,
Sept. 29, I weld to bed at half-past 8 o'clock, and
Dillon did the same. I was awoke about 2 o'clock.
I suppose it was by the prisoner, who called from
the kitchen or pantry for me to get up quick. I
commenced dressing. My sister also lives as ser-
vant there, and she and the prisoner came and
called again soon afterwards, and desired me to
" come down smart," and not to dress. I and Dil-
lon then went down and found the prisoner in the
kitchen with a gun in his hand. The prisoner's
brother Thomas was there, my sister, and Blaize, a
servant-lad. Prisoner asked if we had heard any-
thing, and we said, we did not. He said, " Come
up stairs,` there are -robbers about the house." I
went up stairs, but we (James, and Thomas, and I)
first went into the cellar. We found that there
was no one there. He then said, " Come upstairs
and we'll try the rooms." We all then went up-
stairs. James (the prisoner) then went into one of
the bedrooms, but net that in which deceased lay.
He had a candle and only looked inside that room,
and then he went into deceased's room. The door
was not open, because I saw him raise the latch.
We followed him io, his brother Thomas following
first, and then myself and Dillon. The prisoner
said, "'Come on out, my father is killed." He had
not been up by the side of the bed, but he went a
little past the foot of it. He did not touch his
father, nor did Thomas. We then left the room.
No search was made to see if anything had been
taken. The prisoner then went into his mother's
room, and I heard him tell his mother his father
had been killed. I did not go into her room, and
did not hear whether she mtle him any reply. I
did not hear any shriek nor any expressions ofgrief.
We next want down to the back kitchen door, when
the prisoner gave the gun to his brother to fire,
and Thomas discharge t two shots, one after the
other, out-ide the kitchen door. The prisoner thin
took us into his sitting room, and showed us h's

leathslr desk (like that tprOduced), which had
been broken open. He went and examined
the desk, aad said, " Here's where my money
was, and it has been taken out." I think-
he said there was .15/. 10s. We all then went
into the kitchen, and the prisoner and Thomas told
us (me and Dillon) to go and dress ourselves ; we
did so, and returned. We found the prisoner and
Thoara7, when we returned, in the back kitchen,
and Ddlon was:sent with ThomaS to fetch the po-
lice. Tue prisoner and I remained by the kitchen
fire to guard the house. While I was there my
sister c one down. The prisoner asked me out after
the others had gone—at:out five minutes after—to
look at my bedroom door, which is outside the
house. He said, " Come Mick, le .'s go look at
your door." He had a light in his hand, and went
up to the steps to the door before me. I was open-
ing the door to go in, and he " Oh, Mick,
look whaL's in your door," and he got hold of a
piece of wood that was stuck in the inch. [The
door is fastened outside by a wooden late!), and
persons- inside -could only open it by putting one
finger through a hole under the Mehl • The piece
of wood he showed me sticking in the latch, was
about the size nowshown tome. I said" Oh, James,
what put this here ?" and he said, " That's a bit of
wood put there to keep you in." We returned to
the kitchen, and soon after the prisoner asked me
to come from thefire in. o the hick kitchen. He told
me to st )p there while he went to look about the
hedges and ditobe,, and I did so. He took no light
witlhim, nor any weapon. He remained away
nearly half-an-hour. - When he returned he asked
me t i go upta;rs with him, and I Went into his
own bAiootn with him. He went to his drawer or
box, I cannot say which, and he pulled out some
papers and put them into his pocket. He did not
go into deceased's chamber again, but went down
stairs to the fire. lieie he pulled a quantity of pa-
pers out of his p3cket. and threw them into ills fire
and burnt them. One of the pieces fell out and he
got hold of and put it int') the fire again. My
sister Nancy Wa.l present at the time.
The prison -, who was t ,king notes at a table
behind his Litt nmey, hero handel a slip cf his notes
to Mr. Robert,, but the latter founded no quest'on
upon it.
Witness continued—l hive seen de,cewed and
the prisoner together in the harvest, but I never
saw them speak together. I never heard them
speak together at meals, but the old man usually
to At his weals alone.

By Mr. Itiberts—lt was nit long after we wera
called before we went into the cellar. I should
think it might be fiva minutes, but not much more.
I never saw the old man and the pri3oner eat t,)ge-
ther, or talk t )gether, but I h,lia eeee the whole of
the rest of the finally walking togALer and tilking.
By the Cur mer—The old man was not th ere then.
I never saw them speak togethl'. I never saw any
falling out among them, but they never spoke.
By Mr. Roberts—Toe deceased was a good, ten-
der-hearted master, and kind father to his children.
All of.thelti so lamas I saw, were welt:behave i to
Mtn. The prisoner used to go out at 8 o'clock to
ManchestQr evjry m ,rnint,c,, and sornetamis returned-
at 7 e'cloec, or I ,ter, in the evening. The old min
used to rise athalf-past 4 sometimes, and went out
with us milking. Don't know what' time the pri-
s.oaer umally rose in the morning. The fire was
10 when the prisoner put the paper ia.
By the Groner—He did not put anything else.
on the firs besides the papers. _

By Mr. Roberts—Did you sea any differenc3 be
twe3n the cundua of James witti his father and th©
others I

Th 3 Coroner thong:a this wa•3. not a proper quel-
tion, and asitcd the .witness wheth,q--tul other-neat-
bets of the family talked with the' father.

Witness sail, the others talkcel. w:t the father a
g .od deal. •
By Mr. Itolleris—Never saw any differance be-
tween the C induct of James and ut qtr members of
the find' y towards the father, exc ipt V;at t'!e3e two
never spoke to4etber. James (the prisoner) 'never
attended to
.the faun business as far as I saw, but
when he came home at night he would talk to us.
John Dillon, firm labourer, sworn —I had b.en
in deceased's service 14 or 15 weeks, and slept on
Tueidiv night last with Maluc'gney. I was called
up at the suns time with my fellow-servant. I
only put on my "trousers. James said when we got
int-3 the kitchen that there were robbers about.
Went' upst4i,s with James, and Tho Mas, and
Michael,-and Nancy, and Bla z James went into
a bed-room, and returned,
aand went into his
father's room. The door wasie slut, but I cannot say
whether it was latched. went to the end of ail
He bed, or a little beyond it. Went furthe it into the
room. Ho did not examine the or touch it.
lie said either, "My father is
father is s
searchffov;-" but I am not sure whiC,, h.orN:c,‘
fur-
ther was made in decease l's bedroom,
we came out and prisoner went into his mother
bedroom, and told his married sister, Mrs. Earle: 8,
that his father had been killed. I and MahicknmeY
afterwards wept, to dresffl, and I went for the prili..,!e.
John Bla. Z 3 or B' swozn—l am a far.n la
bourn, and- entered the service of the de.leased list
Monday week. I slept in the attic with a sifvant
boy, and Thos. Henderson slept in the stale room. I
went to bed on Tuesday night about 8 o'clock, and
the boy with me. About two o'clock in the morn- 1
ing I heard the discharge of firearms. - I heard a i
second discharge directly afterwards. I then got out
of bed and COMmenced dressier. Thomas, who hadl
got out immediately before I did, was also dressingi
any kind. I afterwards
I heard nothing
aft.-)r the second report—no nois-3 o
heard James call Thomas.
and say, Thima
arleitibieres robbers in the house.'
Thomas went down
secondfi l
first,
and o followednhwdhiircehc directly.
When I got to the
ga
bedrooms of the first floor openini' uF
saw t
James standing at his bedroom d e priso.nie)
one hared
andd he
dh a
a double barrelled gun in on
candle in the other, and said there were robbers in
the hoise. The candle flame was full, as though it

Nancy Maluckney sworn—l lived as servant to
the deceased at the time of his death, and had been
there better than three months. I went to bed on
Tuesday night after the men-servants, leaving Jane
and her mother up, and also the prisoner. Thomas
was not then in tha house. The first thing I heard
in the morning was the prisoner crying
out that
robbers were in the. house. I slept in one of the
attics alone. I had heard no report of firearms. I
came down and saw the prisoner in the back kitchen,
and afterwards went upstairs with them. I went
into the room where deceased lay; but cannot say
whether the door was open or shut. I heard the
prisoner say afterwards to his sister that lus father
was shot. On a Sunday, when there was company,
I have seen James and his father and family in the
sitting-room together. I never saw them sit toge-
ther alone. I have seen Thomas and his father
talking together, but never saw James and his fa-
ther talking together.
ty Mr. Roberts--James used to take his meals
often in the sitting-room. All the family were
friendly together. I never heard any quarrelling.
The old man was a little hasty, but I never took
any notice. I never saw the broken braces pro-
duced. I do not recollect seeing James and his
father ever walking alone together in the fields. All
the family used to dine together on Sundays.
George Oswald Andrews, superintendent of po-
lice, sworn—l received information of this murder
between 3 and 4 o'clock on the morning of Wednes-
day last, Sept. 30, and want to the spot immediately
after. I met with the two brothers, James and
Thomas Henderson, at the house. I had taken
Sergeant Cooper with me. I said, " You have had
something serious here." James said, " Yes." I
sahl, " Have they taken anything ?" and he said,
" Yes, they have broken open my writing-desk and
taken 14!. 10s. in gold." The sitting room door
was open, and I went in. James pointed to the
writing-peak produced, which lay open on the table.
IL pointed where the money was taken from, and
he picked up the brass fastening, saying it had been
broken from the writing case. We had a candle,
but I made a slight examination of it only. I then
lecked the door and brought away the key. In the
passage I asked how the entrance had been effected,
and James said that he had found the back door
open, and that he supposed some one must have get
in during the early part of the night., concealed
themselves in the cellar, and after the family bad
gone to bed had let ;,the rest of the gang into the
house. He had been up last, seeing all the doors
fast ; that he want to bad about half-past 12, and
thought he heard a shuffling noise, which caused
him to turn several steps back, ut all was then
cniet and be went to bed. Myself and James and
Th Harms and one or two officers then went upstairs,
and James pointed out a pane of glass on the laud-
ing broken by his having shot at a man he saw
standing on the stairs. I said, "Did you think you
hit him ? " He said, " Yes, for he uttered an excla-
mation as if hurt." I examined the landing where
the man was said to have been standing,
but could find no traces of blood. We then went
to the next landing to James's room, and at my
request he got the double-barrelled gun and showed
me the rositicn in which he stood when he fired.
I asked what was the very first thing he heard, and
ho said the report of firearms in his father's room,
upon which he said he jumped out of bed, seize 1 a
gun that was against the drawers, opened his bed-
r out door, and, seeing the outline of a man against
the window on the landing, he immediately fired
at him. I said, " Thd you not call out before you
fired, because it might have been yaur brother or
some otto of the family." He said, " No, I did
uot." I aske 1 what next took place, and he said
he could see a light from his father's room, but the
raiment he fired it was extinguished and two men
rushed out down the stairs, and he believed from
the noises there we- e two or three persons outside
the house. lie said the feet of all the men were
muffled. I then went into deceased's room. I
foetid the deceased lying upon his back in bed with
a severe wound on the face, the face blackened as
if from an explosion of powder, and I noticed that
the features were placid, so that I formed the opi-
nion that. he must have been shot while asleep.
Ills arms lay upon his chest and were crossed. A
tehic that stood under the window was pointed out
by the prisoner as the place where the old man kept
his Money. I found the top locked, and the table
bad no appearance of having been dieturbel. The
room struck me as in a remarkable state of neat-
ness and order, considering what I had heard ha I
t Licen place. There was a piece of carpet by the
bedside which hid not been d sturbed. I then
locked the teem and went to make inquiry at Stc ck-
port about a discharged man-servant. I returned
about 9 o'clock in company with Messrs. Graham
and Son, surgeons, of Stockport, and called their
particular attention to the position of the body as
to whether deceased had been shot while asleep.
I then made a search of the bedclothes,
and picked up about 12 pieces of paper on the body
and bed' and side of the bed, which appeared to
hove been need as the wadding of the firearms with
which deceased was shot. They are blackened
with Lowder and singed. They are new produced
in the state in which I found them. They were int
places where they might be expected to be found if
a guru ha I been discharged at the deceased, at or
near thiefoet of the bet. I also produce two teeth
found there. I then made a minute search upon
the stairs where,James had said the man stood that
he fired at. I was assisted in this se irch by Ser-
geant Hammond, and we picked up a number of
pellets that had been flattened with the disch argue
against the wall, and Sergeant Hammond picked
ue what appears to Lave been the wadding of the
gun and handed it to me. I afterwards found in the
prisoner's la-droonal in the chamber-pot, two pel-
lets. Mr. Little, the deputy chief-constable, was
then assisting me, and 1 sa'v him take from the
chamber-13w, the piece of paper produced, and he
took from the same utensil a spent cap. Upon the
floor of the chamber I found a quantity of sh at and
another spent cap. These I produce. 12 of the
ale: t or pellets, and 12 of the flattened pellets found
on the stairs I delivered to Mr. John Graham, and
saw him compare them with pellets he hid in his
p session (taken from the body of deceased) and
weigh them t ,getiter, 12 of each, and they wet°
pric:saly the same weight. In the dressing-room I
found a number of publications called 'The Cot-
tage Girl, or the Matriage Day." A rotten of one
of these I now produce. The pages are 1,185,
1,136, •1,199, and 1,200. On one of the pieces of
wed taken from deceased's bedroom were the
cieners of pages 1,197 arid 1,193, the fourth figure
being torn off, There is letterpress also on the
piece of paper. I pred ace a perfect number of the
saute public:.' ion, commencing with page 1,185, an i
ncluding with 1,200 which has been since pur-
chased.

Mr. Rober::s said he objezted to this as not
evidence..

Tin Coroner overruled the objection.

Tbe,.w:tness continued—lt containi the whole of
Via page 1,198, and oa comparing the pieces of
paper found in dezeased's room with this peifeJt
copy:of the work I find many of the words on ea h,
an-1 on-comparing the waddint, found on the stair s,
and the piece of paper found in the chamber-pot
iz the prisoner's room, I find they contain the
same matter as that on the lower parts of the same
page. I examinel the door of the granary, and
found the pieces of wood now produced, one being
in the latch and the other at the bottom of the
steps, being picked up by police-constable Smeatoa.
The. prisoner, James Henderson, was not at home
at this time. Before I left the first time be said
1:0 was cashier to a firm in Manches'er ; that was
of importance he should go down there, as he had
keys and books that would hinder the business.
I told him the-re could be no objection to-his going,
but desired him to gat back ai soon as possible to
aikist is the inquiry. He rerurned in the afternoon,
a little time after I toftl him I suould arres
Lim. 011 the ehtrg3 of com;nittinff th's murder. 11e
sald " Indeed Upon what grounds ?" I said
'` Grounds of strong
t-tined till the matter has been f
suspicion, and you will be de-
llo said, "Very well ; urt_herinv •
mother r I said he es: igated
mi4lrsaonl; mayh speak to my
gook a her to get him a cup of tel. Het
also went to ask
hand-
ful of gold and sib erfrorn his poelte which he gave
into his mother's hanth, but which tookwlinr btr
and found to be 71. 10s. in gold, anti 93,
which he said ho had from his brotl!er Thoniass, silver,a
111%1
which the latter said he had given him to pay 0
bills.

By Mr. - Roberts—l searcbrd about the house
that morning, and had seve:al officers about and
around the premises making a minute search during
that and the following day. My attention was
not drawn to any footsteps. Two days afterwards
I heard there wa3 a faint mark of a elo'r under

On re-assembling, one of the 15 jurymen (Mr.
John Lees, of Bramhall) was missing, and the
coroner said he should not proceed :with the inquest
until he was present, and that he should report
his conduct to the Home Secretary. The missing
juryman was accordingly sent for, and fined 403.
At tie time we dispatched our parcel the inquiry
was again about to proceed, and we understood that,
besides the
.medical witnesses to be called, there
was other very important evidence to be given,
showing the animosity which has for a very long
time existed between the prisoner and his lather
and also to prove the abstraction by the pritsoner
from his father's possession of the lease by which
the farm is held of Colonel Davenport. The lease,
was given to the witness by the prisoner last March,
who will also, if his evidence is admitted, prove
that the father had, on one occason, been violently
beaten by the prisoner.
The village is in a very excited state.

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VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER.

A verdict of " Wilful Murder" has been brought
in by the jury against the prisoner James Hen-
derson.

THE FRATRICIDE IN LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 6.
At the policy-court this morning William Jones
was again brought before Mr. J. S. Mansfield, the
stipendiary magistrate, charged with having stabbed
and kided his brother, Robert Jones, during a
quarrel in their own house in Trowbridge-street
on Sunday night.
The -keeper of the Bridewell stated that the
prisoner was taken to the Bridewell about a quar-
ter before 12 o'clock on Sunday, the officer who
had him iu cuitody stating that he was charged
with killing his brother. Witness asked whe'her
the man was dead • and the pi isoner replied, "Yes,
deal enough." Witness then said, ' Jones, you
aratharged with stabbing and killing your brother.
You need not say anything, without you wish to
do so, and what you do sly will be given in evi-
dence again ,t you." He replied, " I was obliged
to do so ; he forced me to it ; he struck me first in
the face." Witness then saw blood about his face,
and that his hand was cut. Witness draw the
prisoner's at ention to the latter circumstance, and
he said " they (meaning 111.4 brothers) cut my
`hand." About. two hours after the prisoner was
brotight to the Bridewell witness visited him in
the cell with officer 193, when the prisoner told
him that two of his teeth had C)1110 out, and he
found one on the floor.

The surgeon (Mr. Allen) who bad received the
body of the deceased at the infirmary, described the
nature of the wound, which he said was about four
inches in depth, penetrating to the heart. The
wound was the cause of death. It was also shown
when the quarrel commenced the prisoner was
using the knife at the table, getting his supper.
Mr. Mansfield said th 3 case was as shocking as it
could well be, but it clearly did not amount to more
than manslamghter, on which charge he must be
cmunitted for trial at the as3izas.
At the inquest on the body this morning before
tl borough coroner, a verdict of manslaughter was
also re:uraed.

The facts of theformer examination have already
appeared in this journal. An arrangement having
been come to between the respective solicitors, no
evidence was taken yesterday,. but it was agreed
that it should be fully gone into next week.
The prisoner having renewed his recognisances.
two bail in 151. each, and himself in 301., he was
discharged.
Elizabeth James, a respectably-attired young
woman, said to be well connected, a housemaid in
the employment of the proprietors of the Great
Northern Railway Hotel, King's-cross, was charged
with stealing at the same place six pocket handker-
chiefs, a gold pin, one shirt, and other articles, the
property of Dr. Talbot, lately residing in the hotel.
Mr. MacPhail attended for the prosecution, and
Mr. Lewis jun., for the defence.
From the evidence it appeared that on Sunday
week last, when Dr. Talbot was leaving for Brus-
sels, he told the chief of the hotel that he was per-
fectly satisfied with all but one thing, and that was
because there were thieves in the house. As soon
as that gentleman had left, the head waiter had all
the females' boxes searched, but the prisoner
seemed rather to object. In the box owned by the
prisoner were found the six pocket-handkerchiefs
and the neck-tie, but the pin could not be dis-
covered. She ien said that she had found the
articles in the fireplace, and, not knowing to whom
they belonged, had taken them to her room. Police-
constable Andrews, 86 S, was called, and upon
making a further search he found a shirt and a pair
of silk braces, which belonged, it is suspected, to a
gentleman who formerly lodged the hotel.
After some further evidence,
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner until Satur-
day next.

Upon the application of Mr. Lewis, the prisoner
was admitted to bail.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Wm. Shaw and Wm.
Whiting, boys 11. years of age, were charged before
Mr. D'Eyncourt with throwing missiles on to the
North London Railway, under these circum-
stance 3

About a 'week since the urchins were brought to
this court by same of the officials of the railway
station near DA on, from whose evidence it ap-
peared that while a down train was passing beneath
the arch of that bridge, the defendants were dis-
tinctly seen to drop two large pieces of brick, which
fell close to the engine-driver, who calling to the
plate-layer, they were perceived and taken into
custody.

On evidence they were remanded, and their
parents being now in attendanc,3, further testimony
to the same effect was received, in reply to which
the boys admi►ted that it had been their intention
to drop the bricks down ►he engine chimney if they
could, but had tried ineffectually.
Mr. Huriston, the chief clerk of this court, and
who resides at Hampstead, mentioned that he had
occasion to know this description of offences was
grea.'iy on the increase, and particularly on the line
in question. Very recently one of the firemen re-
ceived severe injuries on the head from some missile
thrown or dropped from a bridge or embankment.
This statement was verified by a servant of the
company_._
. _

ir. D'Eyucourt—This is manifestly becoming a
matter of very cerious character. The evil is grow-
ing' and something must be done to put a stop to
it. The logs of life might, ensue, and not anyone can
.determine where the mischief might end. I shell
make an example of these lads, and I do trust that
publicity may be given to if.. Let bills be posted
alongt'ne line as a caution. The next person brought
b- fore me I will assuredly send for trial. Now, I
will fine the offenders each 40r. or one month's im-
nrisonment in defauP.

The fathers of the children said this seemel a
very severe course, and
The Magistrate reminded them that th3ir sins
were liable to transportation.
William Brownhill, shoemaker, was finally exa-
mined, and committed for trial, on tho charge of
cutting and wounding his wife with 'inteat to
miir-der her.

L an elderly wo-
manA;l\lat7rerrdniii—aEndeenceneY
otsnuVtdos'f mon,ning, was
charged with stealing a coat, value 93. 6(1., thepro-
porky' of Mr. Edward Grove, the well-known
clothier, in the Lower Marsh,. Lambeth.

Mr. Henry Rish, foreman to the prosecutor, de-
posed that yesterday morning he observed the priso-
ner deliberately walkup to theporch of his employer's
prenlisieS, and take down the coat, which was hang-
in; outside. She concealed the garment under her
shawl, and was moving away with it, when the wi -
n.iss followe t and stopped her, and brought ht r
back to the shop, with the property in- her posses-
s) on.
:Policc-constable Hart, L 82, said he was sent for
to Mr. Grove's shop, when the prisoner was given
into his custody. When asked why she had taken
the 'eoAt, she replied that that was her own business.
She refused to give any address, and the witness
conveyed her to the station-house.
The p, i3oner a Imitted the facts adduced in evi-
dence a,,0-iinst her, but pleaded distress in extenua-
tion of the offence she had committed.
In answer to the magistrate,

The prisoner stated that four years ago she had
Evcd in a respectable situation in the Walworth-
r hid, but that now she was without a home or a
s7-agle friond in the world. The prisoner further
she would prefer that the case should be lis-
p used of here iustead of being sent to the sesAions.
5.143 added that she was guilty, and
IVIr. Elliott Fentenced her to two m'nths' hard
labour in the Wandsworth House of Correct on.

enlploy of the South-Eastern Railway Company,
SOUTHWARK,—John Smith, a porter in the
wits finally examine I cha-ged with stealing a large
qvantity of brass boiler tubing, the property of the
company.
Mr. Ro' inson, the law clerk to the company, pro-
secuted; and Mr. Solomon defended the prisoner.
it appeared that about the middle of last month
three and a hilt tons of brass boiler tubing were
telt t) the Bricklayers' Arms-station, from the com-
pany's factory at Ashford, in Kent, and 400 weight
ires missed from the trucks. The prisoner worked
at: the Bricklayers' Arms-station. audio with some
others was allowed to grow vegetables by the side of
tin, line, not far from where the trucks were left,
tvious to being
discharged of their loads.
About half-pasts on the afternoon of Wednesday,
the 23d ult., Thomas Hudson, an inspector of the
company's line, went intothe Gloucester-road, by:o e
sH'e of the railway, and saw two men jump over the
raring into the road, and the prisoner leaving them,
and seeing witness, ho went and got a shovel and
commenced digging. Witness believing that he
had just handed something to the men who had run
away, went after them; and near the fence he picked
tip a basket containing brass tubing, covered with
fr :tsh cabbage leaves. There were cabbages growing
near the spot where the prisoner was, and trom
in-
fc ho took him into custody.
Edward Rngets,
a labourer, said that on the
evening in question he saw the prisoner, with a
brtsket, near the Gloucester-road, and he was pot-
ting cabbage leaves in it. .He took no particular
n dice of that, as he thought he was putting them
there for r ibb ts.

• James Smith, a watchman in the employ of the
iso wally, said that he berrowed the basket in quei-
ti..on for the prisoner on the morning of the 23d ult.
z.n.d a liit!e before 5 in the evening
he returned it
t ) him near the place where the trucks stood.
Benjamin Lovell, an engineer employed at the
AAiford works, said that the brass tubing produced
arts a- portion of a large quantity taken out of the
'x ilerP, being worn out, and sent up to London as
ciiil metal. The whole of the metal sent up from
li.,:hforcl weighed 3 tons, and the rema'nder had
)s-
-since been Weighed, when 4 cwt. was missed.
Mr. Solomon contended teat the prisoner knew
xiothing of the metal in the basket ; but the magi-
strate thought otherwise, and committed him for
trial. _

AUSTRALIAN' MAIL —Amongst the mails on board
the India mail packet Indus, n hourly expected home,
there are about 50 boxes of Australian mails. It is „-
believed they contain the South Australian tnaill which f
missed the last overland Australian mail.

The. Austria, with. the 94th, sailed from Cork on
Sunday afternoon for India ; the Great Britain,
with the Bth Royal Irish Hussars and 17th Lancers,
Was expected to be in readiness on Wednesday or
Thursday next • the Calcutta awaits the arrival of
the 51st from Dublin ; and the Princess Charlotte
was hourly looked for to take out the head-quarters
of the 18th Royal Irish, with detachments.
The 17th Lancers left Dublin for Cork by rail-
way at the early hoitr of 5 o'clock on Tuesday
morning.
Orders have been 'received at the Provisional
Battalion, Chatham, for accommodation to be pro-
vided for the depot companies of the 18th (Royal
Irish), 33d (Duke of Wellington's), and 98th Regi-
ments, numbering about 300 officers and men, who
are now under orders to join the battalions of that
garrison on the emb :rkation of the service compa-
nies of their regiments for India. .
The rapid demands now made for the supply of
war equipments required by the East India Com-
pany have rendered it necessary to increase the
est iblishment of Woolwich Arsenal to a consider-
able extent, the carriage department being raised
to the same footing as during the Crimean war.
No difficulty has been experienced in obtaining
artificers and labourers of every class, and as soon
a 4 it became known that hands were ordered to be
taken on the gates were thronged by upwards of
1,000 applicants. The following addition has been
made in the carriage department—namely, 580 la-
bourers, 240 wheelwrights, 1704 smiths and assist-
ants, 110 carpenters, 80 cellarma.kf-rs, 30 painterg,
and 12 tinmeu—total, 1,222 ; making the aggregate
number in that department, as during the-Russian
war, 2 NO men
• - . .

The'freightship Francis has commenced shipping
war btores from Woolwich for Freemantle.

The Renown, 91, new screw seam-ship, pro-
ceeded out of her trial trip of her machinery on
Monday.. Her average speed was 101 knots by
patent log. Her engines made 53 to 54 revolu-
tions per minute with 201 b pressure ; vacuum, 2:.5i
to 26 ; pitch of screw. 29 feet ; diameter, 19-feet ;
length line of keel, 3 feet 6 inch's. Her machinery
in every respect worked very satiefactotily.
The Bacchante arrived at Sheerness yesterday,
at 7 p.m.
The Avon steam-vessel arrived at Sheerness yes-
terday from Woolwich to convey saperumnaries
from the flag-ship to Portsmouth to join the Ganges.

DR ICES OE SHARE&

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PUBLISHED EVEILY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENI
LONDON, TUESD 41Y, G, 1857.
CANALS.

Country Markets,

LIVERPOOL—Ocr. 6.

To-day we had a smaller atttndanco of buyers, and more
limited transwltions in the leading articles of the grain
Us, le. There was a nominal decline o❑ the week, as
follows :—about 4d per bushel on foreign, and rather more
on Irish new wheat; 6d per brrl and is to is 6d per sack
on flour ; ld per bushel on oats, and is 6d per load on oat-
weal ; 6d per qr on Indian corn, and is each on beans and
peas, and on barley about 3d per bushel.