The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-28 00:00:00

parties to be more moderate, and Stowell must use
better language. What was it he required ?
Stowellt'said he was sorry for being so hasty before
his worship, and forgetting the duty he owed before
1 a magiatrate, but Mr. Bingham interfered with
MM. He required to have the original notestaken
by Mr. Puckle, the chairman at the sessions, pro-
duced, and the original indictment from the office
of the clerk of the peaca.
Mr. Combo said that, under thess circumstances,
he should adjourn the case until Saturday, the sth
of next month, and in the meantime he should
write to Mr. Puckle to forward a copy of his notes,
or the originals.
13oth Mr. Solomon and Mr. Bingham coincided
with big worship, and would be satisfied with the
notes, without the attendance of Mr. Puckle.
The further hearing of the case then stood ad-
journed until Saturday, the sth of December, when
Stowell said he had to make charges against four
°tilt r persons for conspiracy. Had he better make
them now ?

Mr. Combo told him he had better let the pre-
sent summonses be investigated before he mado any
fresh charges.

Stowell-Then I'll do as your worship directs.

CONFESSION OE MURDER.

A great deal of excitement has been created in
Weymouth during the past week, says the Sher-
bombe Journal, in consequence of a rumour that an
old woman on her deathbed had confessed that she
was a participator in a most foul and, cruel murder
committed more than half a century ago, but the
re tl perpetrators of which at that time could not
be discovered. The particulars of this dark deed
we have gathered from the testimony of many old
persons still living, and who can distinctly recollect
the circumstance that about the period mentioned
great alarm was felt in the town in consequence of
the discovery of a human body wrapped in a linen
sheet, lying near the foot of the old bridge on the
Melcombe Regis side of the harbour. On exami-
nation it was found that death had been caused by
a blow on the head, causing a severe fracture of
the skull, as if committed by some iron and blunt
instrument. Blood was traced from the spot across
the bridge to a house in which the deceased woman
resided, situated in High-street, Boot-lane. This
was then the only house of ill-fame in the town. It
is supposed that on the night of the, murder the
unfortunate man, whose name was Tillroyd Morgan,
by profession a jeweller and engraver, was at this
house, in company with a farmer named Hardy,
who resided at the village of Chickerell, but who
died many years since. A quarrel is said to have
arisen between these parties, which resulted in a
death-_blow_• being inflicted on Morgan. After the
fatal blow had been struck the body of the de•
ceased was wrapped in a kind of sheet or sack, and
was then placed on Hardy's horse, which was
standing at the door of the ill-famed house at the
time of the occurrence, and brought to the bridge,
the intention of the murderers being to throw it
int) the water. In this it would seem they were
baffled, for the night was dark, and several
voices were heard, which thwarted their
designs, and they on landing at the Mel-
, combo side dropped their burden in the
street. As daylight dawned a workman near
the spot saw the bundle, and on opening it a most
horrid sight presented itself, the head of the unfor-
tunate man being completely smashed in. An alarm
was instantly raised, and a search instituted, which
resulted in spots of blood being traced through the
whole of the route they had taken, and to the very
door of the house in which the murder was com-
mitted. Suspicion was at once raised as to the
guilty parties, and the deceased woman and her
associates were at once arrested and brought before
the tribunal at Dorchester, but the evidence failed
to substantiate the charge, and they were acquitted.
A few days ago the last of the survivors of those
supposed to be participators in the dreadful deed
died—Priscilla Guppy. On her deathbed her state
of mind was truly frightful ; she had attained a
great age, being upwards of 90. It is stated that
previous to her decease she confessed she was a par-
ticipator in the murder, having beat him on the
head with a piece of iron or heater, such as is used
i❑ ironing linen. She implored the Divine Creator
to have mercy on her sett], anu forgive the sins she
had committed. We understand also that she st ited
that when she was arraigned before the bar of
justice on the trial she had the gold watch and
chain of the murdered man concealed in the hair of
her head, and that after the commission of the crime
Hardy went home to his own house an I imme-
diately on entering put back the clock two hours.
Be retired to rest, and a short time after wards
awoke his servant and told her to go down stairs
and see what was the time, when she returned and
told her master very innocently the hour, not know-
ing,th at the clock had been altered. This servant was
brought forward on the trial, and thus her,testi-
many as to his being home at the time the crime was
supposed to be committed led to his acquittal. The
body of the murdered man was interred in the
churchyard of St. Mary's Church, where now to this
day may be seen his tombstone with the following
inscription :—" This stone was erected by public
subscription in remembrance of the cruel murder
committed on the body of Tillroyd Morgan, who
lies here, on the 27th of April, 1792, aged 22."

NEW COMMISSION OF LIEUTENANCY
FOR TILE CITY OP LONDON.

!(From the London Gazette of last evening.)
WHITEHALL, Nov. 4, 1857.
The Queen has been pleased to issue a new Commission
of Lieutenancy for the City of London, constituting and
appointing the several persons under mentioned to be Her
Majesty's Commissioners for that purpose, viz. :---
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the Lord Esquire, Lord Mayor of our
Mayor of our said
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Cityiom aasf Q.Luoens
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city for the time being; and our trusty and well-
beloved
Esquires,S Laurie, Knight, Charles Fare-
brother,Copeland and Samuel
Wilson,
C
apman Marshall, Knight, John
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William
liPeter
Sir
Taylor
Humphery, Esq., Sir G. Carroll, Knight, Sir James puke,
Baronet, Thomas Farncomb, Esquire, Sir John Musgrove,
Baronet, Thomas Challis, and Thomas Sidney, Esquires,
Sir Francis Graham Moon, Baronet, and David Salo-
moos, Esquire, Alderman of our said city of London;
our trusty and well beloved Russell Gurney, Esquire, Re-
corder of our city of London, and the Recorder of our
said city for the time being ; our trusty and well beloved
Sir Robert Walter Carden, Knight,David Williams Wire,
uires, Sir Henry
dmothiguaCerairdtge:
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William
Anderson Rose, William Lawrence, Warren Stormes
Hale, Thomas Gabriel, and Benjamin Samuel Phillips,
Esquires, Aldermen of Our city of London, and the Alder-
men for the time being of Our said city; Sir John Key,
Bart., Chamberlain of Our city of London, and the Chain-
berlain of Our said city for the time being; Henry A...
Merewether, Esq., Doctor of Civil Lawand Serjeant-at-Law,
Town Clerk of Our city of London, and the Town Clerk
of our said city for the time being ; Thomas Chambers,
Esquire, Common Sergeant of our city of London, and the
A Johnade
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ar kieg , Thomas Common Sergeant of our said City for the time being;
Y, Richard Hicks, Walter
Peacock,Wileneli°armStevens, Thomas Pewtress,
John Britten, Daniel Cork, Edward Harrison, Robert
'Obba,rd, Samuel Unwin, Thomas Lott, Henry Kebbel,
Edward Godson, Thomas Jefferson Holt, William Archer,
-Eugenius Fenning, Beoj thin BoWer, William Christie,
Robert Butler Whiteside, Wm. Elawtrey, Thomas Dakiu,
James Davies, Herbert Lloyd, John Johnson, George Vir-
tue, James Michael Barnard, William Rathborie George
Aitcheson, Edward Conder, Esquires, Deputies of city
of London, and the Deputies of our said city for the time
being ; "John Southby Bridge, Thomas Watkins, Edward
Eagleton, Jeremiah Evans, John Briggs, George Meadway,
Wm. Tylor, Francis Bennoch, Sheffield Neave, Bonamy
Dobree,. Thos. Baring, Henry Wollaston Blake, Travers
Buxton, Edward H. Chapman, Robt. Wigram Crawford,
William Cotton, Benjamin Buck Greene, Charles Pascoe
Grenfell, Henry Hocks Gibbs, Thomson Hankey, Johii
Oliver Hanson, John Benjamin Heath, Kirkman Daniel
Hodgson, Henry Lancelot Holland., John Gellibrand Hub-
bard, Thomas Newman Hunt, Alfred Latham, George
Lyall, Thomas Masterman, Alexander Matheson, James
Morris, George Wattle Norman, Thomas C. Smith, Thos.
Matthias Weguelin, H. Hulse 13,rens, A. E. Campbell,
James Pattisson Currie, Charles Frederick Huth, James
Malcoluison, and Thomas Tooke, Esquires, Ross Donnelly
Mangles, Esquire,.Sir Frederick Currie, Baronet, Charles
Mills, Russell Ellice, William Butterworth Bayley, John
Shepherd, and Martin Tucker Smith, Esquires, Sir Henry
Willock, Knight, Sir James Weir Hogg, Baronet, William
Henry Sykes, Elliot Macnaughten, Wen. Joseph Ea,twick,
John Harvey Astell, Henry Thoby Prinsep, and J. Pollard
Willoughby, Esqs., Sir Henry Creswick e Rawlinaon, Kt.,
Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
Sir Robert John Hussey Vivian, Knight, Commander
of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Our right
trusty and well beloved Councillor SirL. Peel, Knight, our
trusty end well beloved Sir Jas. Law Lushington, Knight,
Grand Cross of the Most Hon. Order of the Seth, Was
Wigram, Esq., Sirltobt. Campbell, Bart,JilinL: John
Masterman, Henry Shank, John Shisph•rd,•l'al Atm,
William Henry Chichely Plowden, Johr.ol%-mo't bite-
man, Henry Alexander, William Dent, t I -udicy
Coutts Majoribanks, Esquires, Charles Franks,'. od Philip
Pleydell Bouverie, Esquires, Sir Richard Plumtree Glyn,
Baronet, Charles John Manning, William yhillimore,
Newman Smith, John Thornton, George Whitmore,
Charles John Baker, James Whatniau Bosauquet,
Frederick Charles Gaussen, Henry Lannoy Hunter,
Brice Pearce, George Smith Thornton, John flied
Nicholl, Ebenezer Fuller Maitland, Thomas Henry Allen
Poyuder,
and William Pole, Esquires,
Baron de T Henry Vigne,
eissier, James Tulloch, Henry Jeffreys, Biiihby,
awl John Neville Warren, Esquires, Baron Lionel do
Rothschild, Baron Nathan do Rothschild Sir Moses Mon-
te.ore, Bart , John Garrett,' Abraham Willey Robarts,
Geor4e Carr Glyn, George Rickards, Jonathan Muckles-
ton Key, Abraham John Valpy, and Robert Seeley, Esqs.,
Sir William Henry Poland, Knight, Thomas Alors Han-
key, Henry Butterworth, Edward Tyrrell, William Croft,
John Alexander Hankey, James A nilerton, Daniel
Britten, George Dodd, William Hughes Hughes,
Francis Bligh Hookey, William Hughes Hughes, jun ,
George Meek, Ambrose Moore, Joseph Oldham, jun.,
Josiah Wilson, Alfred Wilson, Cornelius Lea Wilson,
Peter Nor thallLaurie, Edward Wilson, Richard Lea Wil-
son, Robert Ellis, Win. Peters, Jas. Walkinsimw, Joseph
Seines, Samuel Gregson, George Manny, John Master-
man, junior, Daniel Mihired, Frederitk Mildred, Richard
Sir
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berton
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