The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

Williams, police-constable, 26 S, stated that the Big-
nalls were still lying at the Whittington and Cat, Hol-
loway, and so ill that they could not be removed ;
neither was the other sufferer, Rebecca Mead, able to
attend.

Thomas Ratcliffe, a gardener, residing at Highgate,
deposed that about nine o'clock on the evening of Sun-
day, the Ist instant, he saw the, prisoner in a four-
wheeled vehicle at the top of Holloway-hill. The pri-
soner seemed to be endeavouring to check the horse,
which was proceeding at the very top of its speed ; be
did not succeed, and about 200 yards further on witness
heard a crash, and screams and groans. On reaching
the place he saw the two Bignalls lying in the kennel ;
the woman was bleeding and insensible ; John Bignall
was hardly able to speak. In the middle of the road he
saw Rogers lying with his face towards the road. Wit-
ness:raised him up and asked him what was the matter
with him ; he did not say a word, but shook his head,
and witness saw that he was in a dying state. Subse-
quently assisted in conveying the deceased and the other
sufferers to the Whittington and Cat.
Three other wittnesses were examined, whose testi-
mony left no doubt that the horse ran away, and the
occurrence was accidental.

Mr. BINGHAM said, under these circumstances, he
must discharge Mr. Murphy, who left the court ac-
companied by his friends.
Mr. Murphy had !scarcely left the court, when Mr.
Coulson, landlord of the Whittington and Cat, Hollo-
way, said, that the poor people who had suffered so se-
verely by the accident had been lying at his house
since then. Mr. Murphy had, in the first instance,
directed that they should be supplied with everything
they required at his (Mr. Murphy's) expense ; and, ac-
cordingly he (Mr. Coulson) at considerable cost, pro-
cured for them everything needful. Mr. Murphy now re •
fused not only to pay that bill, or any part of it, but even
some restoratives with which he had been himself sup-
plied immediately after the occurrence. But what vexed
him more than all was the unfeeling indifference dis-
played by Mr. Murphy towards the condition of these
helpless, and now almost destitute, people.
Mr. BINGHAM asked him if any one was present when
Mr. Murphy gave him these directions ? and Mr. Coul-
son having replied in the affirmative, the worthy Ma•
gistrate told him the debt might be recovered by a civil
bill process.
Mr. Coulson who has shown the greatest humanity
and kindness to these poor people, thanked his Worship,
and withdrew.

TREATY OF COMMERCE.—Yesterday the treaty of
commerce and navigation between her Majesty and the
Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin, which had
been laid before Parliament, was printed. The treaty
was signed at Schwerin in May, and the ratification ex-
changed on the 10th of August last, at Dobberan.
There are eight articles in the treaty, and three con-
taining the accession of the Grand Duke to the treaty of
commerce. The vessels of the respective Powers are to
be subjected to the same charges as national vessels.
All articles of the growth, produce, and manufacture of
the two countries are to pay the same duties, whether
exported or imported in vessels of Mecklenburgl-Schwe-
rin or in British vessels. The following is an extract
from the sth article :—" In consideration of British ves-
sels, together with their cargoes, being by the laws of
Mecklenburgh-Schwerin admitted to enter into the ports
of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin when
coming from the ports of all countries, and in considera-
tion of British trade and navigation with Mecklenburgh-
Schwerin being placed upon the footing of the
most favoured nations, having regard also to the
facility which the application of steam-power to
inland navigation affords for the conveyance of
produce and merchandise of all kinds up and down
rivers, and to the new opening which may by these
means he given to the trade and navigation between the
United Kingdom and her Britannic Majesty's posses-
sions abroad on the one hand, and the Grand Duchy of
Mecklenburgh-Schwerin on the other, it is agreed that
vessels of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin, together with their
cargoes, consisting of all such goods as for the time
being may or can be legally imported into the United
Kingdom and her Britannic Majesty's possessions abroad
by the said vessels, from any port of Mecklenburgh-
Schwerin, shall, when coming from the ports of Barth,
Stralsund, Greifswald, Wolgast, and Stettin, or from the
ports in the Trave Elbe, the Trave, and the Oder, be
admitted into the ports of the United Kingdom and of
her Britannic Majesty's possessions abroad, on the same
terms as if the ports from which such vessels may come
as aforesaid were within the dominions of the Grand
Duke of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin ; and such vessels shall
be permitted to import such goods as aforesaid upon the
same terms on which such goods might be imported if
coming from ports of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin; and also
that such vessels proceeding from the United Kingdom
or her Britannic Majesty's possessions abroad to the
ports aforesaid, shall be treated as retnrning to a port of
Mecklenburgh-Scb werin."
AWFUL THUNDER AND LIGHTNING STORM..-.-.0/1
Thursday night last the city of Gloucester and the im-
mediate vicinity was visited by a terrific storm of thunder
sand lightning. Considerable damage was done by the
'latter in Whitcomb& Park, the seat of Lady Crome. A
_fine old oak tree, measuring twelve feet in circumference
at the trunk, was completely shattered to pieces by the
electric fluid. Pieces of the tree struck a valuable horse
tha t was grazing near the spot, and completely blinded
the poor animal in both eyes. A strong brick wall,
which enclosed the park near the place, was completely
shattered to pieces, a distance of 50 yards. At Newn-
ham and Broakoak hailstones fell, measuring four
inches in circumference.

Chelsea Old Church is being repaired and beauti-
fied—the interior as well as the exterior. There is an
elegant iron railing being erected round the churchyard,
and the unsightly old wall taken down. The inhabitants
of Chelsea have opened a subscription to cleanse and
repair the nr,nument of Sir Thomas More, who was
beheaded by Henry VIII., and who was buried in the
interior of this church. Sir Hans Sloane's tomb will be
cleansed. His remains rest at the entrance of the church-

yEtrd, and from whom the Cadogan family obtained their
large property in Chelsea.
FOREBODINGS OF WINTER.—On Sunday evening
a large flock of wild geese passed over Chesterfield, on
t heir way, it is supposed,. to the fens of Lincolnshire.
inch a circumstance, at this early period of the season,
was hardly ever known, and it is considered to forebode
a -1 early and severe winter.—Nottingham Review.
The Senior and Junior United Service and the
oti. ier leading clubhouses are undergoing their annual
coui 'se of re-embellishment during the absence of most
of th\e members from town.

discovery of the fire had been made ; but said, as there
was no evidence to prove how it had originated, or
whether it was owing to the condact of the accused, he
must discharge them.

THAMES POLICE.
Thomas Thompson, a horse slaughterer, ofWhitechapel,
was yesterday finally examined on the charge of having
burglariously entered the house of William Patrick
Murley, near the Commercial-road, and stolen therefrom
a quantity of wearing apparel and other articles, to the
amount of nearly 401. (The case was remanded from
the 26th ult.)
It appeared from the evidence that, on Wednesday,
the 21st of August, the complainant, who is a dock
cellarman, 'went with his family to a benefit at Sims's
Saloon, Whitechapel-road, taking with him his lodger,
named .Lewis, the greater part of whose property had also
been stolen on the occasion. Complainant shut up the
house before leaving it, and then locked the front door,
the key of which he took with him. At the theatre the
complainant saw the prisoner leaning over the door, and'
he seemed to eye the complainant and his family very
narrowly, as if for the purpose (as it afterwards ap-
peared) of ascertaining whether they were all from
home. This was about nine o'clock in the evening, and
the prisoner disappeared shortly after. During the
evening, and especially towards the close of the enter-
tainment, a man named James Northeote, who was sus-
pected to be a confederate in the robbery, entered into
conversation with complainant, and treated him to some
half-and-half. About half-past eleven o'clock, just as
the performance closed, the prisoner returned to the sa-
loon, and again narrowly eyed the complainant and his
family. He also appeared to exchange significant
glances with Northcote, which, however, did not strike
complainant at the time. On his return home, Murley,
finding it difficult to open the front door, looked in
through the keyhole, and was alarmed at perceiving a
candle lighted in the passage. He immediately got round
through the next house, and burst in the back door.
There was no person in the house ; but every drawer
and lock in the place had been ripped open with a
chisel, and all that was portable and valuable taken away,
even to the children's pinafores. To sustain the charge
against the prisoner, a boy named William Pell, who
was going a message on the night of the robbery, saw
three persons, one of whom was Thompson, standing
near the complainant's door. They seemed to be in
conversation, and one of the party said, " Be sure you
get the graining done to-morrow." Upon the suspicion
' which these circumstances created, the prisoner was
arrested at his lodgings on the ensuing Sunday ; and as
no part of the property had been traced (nor has any
yet been discovered), the charge would live had little
or no foundation, were it not that Thompson himself
made certain admissions when taken into custody.
Police constable Mumford on arresting the prisoner
told him the nature of the charge, to which the prisoner
replied, " Yes, I know all about it." When taken to the
station-house and confronted with the lad Pell, who said
" That's the man," the prisoner replied, "Yes, you've
got me right, and you've well tutored that boy." He
then turned to the prosecutor, who was also present, and
said, " Never mind, Mr. Murley, you ought to have had
two or three more in this besides me." The inspecting
sergeant was present when the prisoner made these ob-
servations. The constable added, that the prisoner
had been in custody on three former occasions, once on
suspicion of having stolen a gin-glass, once for robbing a
waggon, and at another time for stealing a horse.
On Tuesday, the 27th ult., after Thompson's remand,
Northcote was brought up in custody of a City constable
as a party concocting and aiding in the robbery. The
charge as against Northcote was instantly dismissed.
In sending Thompson's case for trial, Mr. BRODERIP
observed that it was not quite so complete as it might
have been, for there could be no doubt that the'prisoner's
statement was correct when he said that there were
others connected with him as regarded this robbery.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, said,
as the magistrate was resolved to send him for trial, he
should reserve it until that occasion.
CLERKENWELL.
Yesterday Mr. John Stephen Murphy, residing in
Spencer-street, Northampton-square, connected with a
commercial house in the City, was brought upon on re-
mand, charged with killing and slaying Samuel Rogers,
and seriously endangering the lives of three other per-
sons—viz., Rebecca Mead, John Bignall, and Elizabeth
Bignall, who is still in extreme danger.
Mr. Moger, of Highgate, the surgeon who attended
the sufferers, and the Rev. Dr. Causton, rector of High-
gate, were in attendance.