The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-12 00:00:00

4, LONDON, THT_TRSDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 1857

curity, a stated to bo between threo millions and
three 113. illions and a half, while those to other
Partit..tl may be about 200,0001. The great majority
of th', bills held being perfectly good, and such as
worild be discounted by the Bank of England, the
[ o.fJpositors will not in these cases suffer any incon-
Tenfence, and the effects of the stoppage will there-
Clre be very limited when compared with the mag-
th,`nde of its appeirance. Ten years ago the house
snap ended during the crisis which then raged, and
in less" than five months resumed business, Mr.
Sandeman being admitted as a partner. An equally
favouraMe -result is confidently hoped for on the
present .wcasion. The principal difficulties of the
firm 'nave arisen from the failure of the Liverpool
Boi.ough Bank and Dennistoun and Co., but from
nether of these sources can any ultimate deficiency
be, much apprehended :
" King William-street, Nov. 11.
" It is with Extreme pain we have to announce to you
th at our house is under the necessity of suspending its
be tsiness,—an event which was wholly unforeseen and
us ,expected by us.
" The pressure of the times and the recent lamented
de: ith of our senior partner, Mr. Sanderson, have left
us no alternative but to take this step, which we trust
will be but temporary. The accounts are being made
up •with all despatch, and in a few days they will be
in a state to be submitted to those interested,
'' We are, &c.,
" SANDERSON, SANDEMAN, AND Co."

TEE MURDER 1N lIEBTFORDSEIRE.

STEVENAGE, Nov. 11.
This Morning Jeremiah Carpenter, a farm la-
bourer in the employment of Mr. Horne, of Norton-
green farm, and who has been apprehended on sus-
picion of baying murdered John Starkins, one of
the Hertfordshire county constabulary, was brought
before the Rev. K Prodg,era and Mr. Morris Prior,
magistrates of Hertfordshire, and formally charged
with the offence.

The prisoner, who is a powerful-looking fellow,
about 5 feet 9 inches in height, and apparently
about 40 years of age, was respectably dressed in
the usual clothes worn by the labourers of the dis-
trict, but wore no smockfrock. Ho seamed to re-
gard the whole proceedings with callous indifference.
He was not handcuffed.

All the exertions of the police to discover the hat
of the policeman and also the smockfrock in which
the prisoner was dressed on the night of the murder
have been hitherto unavailing. Some clothes
seized by the police at Carpenter's house, which
the prisoner stated were his, were sent to Professor
Taylor for examination, and the evidence of that
gentleman will be found below. The case presents
many points of difficulty which require to be
cleared up, and so important is it considered to ob-
tain some additional evidence that Capt. Robert-
son has brought almost all the inspectors to assist
in the search, which has been hitherto unremit-
ting. Mr. Beaver, surveyor, of Hitchin, has been
employed to make a plan of the fields in the neigh-
bourhood of the murder, which was produced at the
examination.

conduct him to Birmingham, it was thought Un-
necessary for Mr. Baker to attend. The officer
then produced the correspondence which had passed
between that office and the Birmingham police, and
having satisfied the court on that point, the a!der-
maa ordered the prisoner to be given into the offi-
cer's cu3tocly to be conveyed to Birmingham, to be
dealt with by the authorities of that-place.

WORSHIP-STREET. Edward Jackson, an
oil and colourman, in Leonard-street, Shoreditch,
and his wife, Anne Jackson' were brought up for
re-examination, charged with having been found in
possession of various valuable articles of wearing
apparel, the property of the Countess of Ellesmere,
and which had been abstracted, with a travelling
trunk containing property to the aggregate amount
of 15,0001., from her ladyship's carriage during her
journey to Windsor Castle on a visit to her Majesty.
Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, attended as before
for the defence' but no counsel or attorney was pre-
sent to conduct the case for the prosecution.
The facts adduced at the former hearing have
already been published, and the following addi-
tional evidence was now proceeded with.
Charles Frond, the driver of a cab 10,932, statod
that at 6 o'clock on the evening of Jan. 12, 1856,
(the day of the robbery) he was called off the stand
in Davies-street, Grosvenor-square, by two men,
one of whom directed him to assist in placing a
largo black box inside of ilia cab, and, after having
taken leave of his companion, he entered after it,
and directed to be driven to Willow-walk, Shore-
ditch. As they were passing through Finsbury-
square he was ordered to proceed into Leonard-
street, on reaching which the man got out and
walked away with the box, which witness had
placed upon his shoulder, and be saw no more of
him. He noticed at the time that the box was very
weighty, and, to the best of his belief, it was ;he
one now produced by the police as the property of
Lady Eli esmare.