The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-23 00:00:00

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pto Michael last not only made my rent, but
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more than obtained 10 per cent. for my capital in-
vested in live and dead stock.
" I therefore am come to this conclusion, that all
and each of you shall have the opportunity of accepting
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the terms herein proposed :
" Of re-hiring your farm upon a new valuation, or
of giving up your farms, according as may be consi-
dered best for your advantage under the altered nature
of your tenure..
" I shall request that a reply from each may be sent
within 14 days from the date of this document.
(By direction of)
" Your sincere well-wisher And landlord,
" W. iissox."

MURDER and SffICIDE in MANCHESTER
A moat tragical occurrence has just taken place in
Broughton, one of the suburbs of Manchester, which
has filled the whole of that neighbourhood with the
deepest consternation.
The facts are briefly these :—Mr. Lewis Novelli,
a young merchant, wealthy and well-connected, died
some months ego, leaving a widow and two children,
whom he confided to the care of his brother Alex-
ander, as one of his executors. Mrs. Harriet No-
velli resided, together with her children, under the
roof of Mr. Alexander, at Cliff Polo', Broughton.
The greatest possible kindness was always mani-
fested towards his sister-in-law by Mr. Novelli. On
Sunday evening the servants retired to bed as usual,
leaving Mr. Novelli and Mrs. Novelli in the dining.
room. On coming down stairs on Monday morning,
their horror may be conceived, when Mrs. Novelli
was discovered lying lifeless on the floor of the dining.
room, while on proceeding to the bedroom of Mr.
Novelli, he was found hanging by the cord of his
dres4ng-gown from the rail upon which the bed.
curtains were suspended. He was also dead, but the
body was warm. Surgeons were procured, and the
body of the gentleman was cut down, while an exa-
mination was made of the body of the lady.
An inquest was held in the evening of Monday,
at five o'clock. The following was the evidence
adduced :
Miry Radcliffe, a servant in the house, deposed
to the finding of the bodies about eight o'clock on
the Monday morning; that of Mrs. Harriett Novelli
lying in the dining-room, and the body of Mr.
Alexander Novelli hanging from the bedpost in his
own room. Both were quite dead. Her evidence
was confirmed by John Ferguson, the servant of a
gentleman in the immediate neighbourhood, who
had enters d the house shortly after the discovery.
Mr. Edward Coston, of the firm of Todd and
Coston, who was the next witness, said the deceased
took tea at his house on the Sunday, after church,
and remained until about half-pact nine o'clock,
when they walked home. He observed no pecu-
liarity about the manner of either of them. He was
sent for on Monday morning, and on arriving at
the- house he first saw the body of Mrs. Novelli
lying upon the floor of the dining-room, as though
she had fallen from her chair. She was dead and
cold, but there was no appearance of injury. Drs.
Ainsworth and Harrison came shortly afterwards, and
on examining the body-found that life was extinct. Her
dress was the same that she had worn at his house. He
then went up stairs„ ae4ompanied by the two medical
gentlemen, into the _room of Mr. Alexander Novelli,
where they found hirn-"suspended by the waist cord
of his dressing-gown, fiiam the curtain-rod of the bed.
His neck was bare. The body was perfectly warm,
and the bed also. HOsid apparently not been out of
bed more than half an hour. There were marks of
vomiting upon his clothes. He (the witness) thought
that he had risen from bed and put on his trousers.
There were appearances of vomiting in the dining-
room, near the sofa ; and he imagined that Mr. No-
velli had vomited in that room. There was a little
of something like spirit in a glass near Mrs. No-
velli. Mr. Alexander Novelli was about 29, and
Mrs. Novelli about 30 years of age. Mr. Novelli was
out of business.

Mr. Names Bowen Harrison, surgeon, was next ex-
amined—He had, in conjunction with Dr. Ainsworth,
made an examination of the bodies of the deceased.
On the head of Mrs. Novelli there was no appearance
of external injury, though about the neck there were
marks such as might have been produced by the finger
nails. The brain was highly congested, and the great
vessels about the neck were gorged with blood. On
no other part of the body were there marks of in-
jury. The lungs and heart were highly congested.
In the stomach nothing peculiar was observed.
There were no traces of poison. The condition of the
lung?, head, and heart were quite sufficient to account
far death, and this, in his opinion, had resulted from
strangling.
Mr. Ralph Faucett Ainsworth said that from a sub-
sequent examination of the body he believed death to
have been caused by strangulation ; the marks upon
the throat being such as would be produced by the
violent insertion of the thumb into the throat. With
regard to Mr. Alexander Novelli, the witness ex-
pressed his opinion that a struggle had taken place
between the two, and that in the struggle the slight
bruise had been made upon the nose of Mr. Novelli.
A brooch which Mrs. Novelli wore was very much
Lent, and this corrobarated the conjecture.
The surgeons did not believe that any poison had
been used. Mr. Novelli had evidently died from the
effect of hanging. The vomited matter which was
found near and upon his person did not appear to be
impregnated with corrosive poison of any kind.
The female servant Radcliffe was again called in,
and stated that Mr. Novelli and his sister-in-law bad
supped from oatmeal porridge on the preceding night
Mr. Coston said that he had known Mr. Novelli
for several years, and he had not observed any symp-
toms of derangement of intellect. One of Mr.
Novelli's brothers had committed suicide some time
ago. He could not account for any motive which
could induce Mr. Novelli thus to act, but he ha►d heard
that he was attached to the lady, and that his addresses
were not favourably received.
Such in substance was the evidence adduced. The
Coroner said that he did not see how the jury could
come to any other decision than that of murder and
felo de se. They might, however, adjourn the verdict.
An adjournment was then made until to-day.
Though no living evidence can be procured which
may lead to the discovery of the causes which
have immediately led to the appalling result which
has been described, the general impression is that Mr.
Alexander Novelli, who, it is reported, was passion-
ately fend of his sister-in-law, had been on the Sun-
day evening tendering his suit, that he was rejected,
and that in a moment of frenzy he strangled the object
of his love ; that afterwards he retired to his cham-
ber and to bed, but that, overcome by feelings of
remorse and horror, he destroyed himself as before
stated.

ANOTHER MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON A WARDER.
—On Saturday morning last the interior of the Mill-
bank Penitentiary was again the scene of a most despe-
rate outrage, which was committed by one of the pri-
soners under sentence of ten years' transportation, upon
a warder named Balls, who narrowly escaped from being
murdered in a similar manner as the la-a unfortunate
warder Hall. It appears *bat, on Sunday morning last,
the warder Balls let the prisoner out of his es.' for the
purpose of allowing him to empty his stops in the ens-
tomary manner. Alter the prisoner had done that duty,
the warder proceeded along the passage, followed by
the prisoner. They had not gone far when Balls re-
ceived a violent blow on the side of the head with the
utensil, which partially stunned him, but on recovering
his senses directly afterwards, he turned round, and saw
the prisoner in the act of striking him a second blow.
The warder dexterously avoided the blow, and called
out instantly for assistance. In the meantime the pri-
soner commenced a most murderous attack upon the
warder, inflicting several severe blows upon the head,
face, and arms, and causing extensive wounds, from
which the blood flowed profusely. The warder, after a
most desperate struggle for his life, succeeded in closing
with his antagonist, and although he was weak from the
loss c f blood, he ultimately forced him to the' ground.
At that moment several warders, who had heard Ball's
cries for.assistaxce, entered the passage, when the pri-
soner was secured and removed- to one of the strong
cells. Balls was conveyed to the infirmary in n.very ex-
hausted condition, but fortunately no bone was fractured.
Dr. Baly afterwards_ visited the wounded warier, and
under his skilful treatment there are itrolige-hopes that
he will speedily recover.
SUPPOSED MuItDSILS AT Lrxer.—
In our last we
London t
mentioned the arrival of an officer of the —6.oC-
five force (Sheppey)
to .make an inquiry into the mys-
terious disappearance ofo
John Kirk and John Bell, the
Jla
first of whom has been missing since the 12th of Octo-
ber, and the latter since the 13th of November, with no
•
clue to their fate. A very singular discovery has been
made with regard to John Bell, which may lead to-im-
portant results. Some persons from Middleton on Mon-
day last informed the officers that a purse and knife had
been found by a Middleton man by the side of Worm--
gay Drain. The officers immediately went to Middle-
ton, and possessed themselves s f these articles. Upon
the purse being shown to the niece of John Bell, she im-
mediately exclaimed, " That is my uncle's purse. I
know it, because I made it myself." She
then observed
that if it was her uncle's it was mended in one pact with
a double thread; and on examination so it proved to be,
—Norfolk Chronicle. •

EMILY SANDFORD.—By a letter received yester-
day, dated Port Philip, Oct. 1, 1849, we ive
that this unfortunate f- male met with a sad ceisfortot
by the loss of her brother, a few days after their arrival
in the Casper emigrant--hip, in Port Adelaide,harbour.
The brother, it will be remembered, volunteered to ae-
comi a-y his sister and child as a protector. By some
tnearo,, in attempting to gain the shot() from the ship, he
fell into the water, and, in spite of all exertions to save
his life, he sank, and met with a watery grave. The
young man was 22 years of age.
WHAT, INDEED !—lf our descendants should be
astonished that we so long tolerated the Gents, what
will they, on perusing a report a the nonsense ut-
tered by Mr. Disraeli, and swallowed by his auditors
at Aylesbury, say to the present race of Bucks 7
, Ptisquin.