The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-19 00:00:00

ROYALTY IN TROUBLE.

A stout, well-dressed man of colour was taken to the
Marlborough-street Police-court yesterday,: charged
with having severely beaten one of his countrymen.
The defendant, when asked for his name, in a stentor-
like voice, said, " I am Prince Christopho d'Hayti, broder
to de King of Hayti."
The complainant, John Harris, of Poland-street, said
he had the misfortune to become acquainted with his
sable Highness at a time when his exchequer required
replenishing, and feeling compassion for a fellow-coun-
tryman, of his own complexion, he was induced to take
him into his house and provide him and his suite (among
which was a female attache), until a debt bad been
created amounting to 1502 His Highness promised
to liquidate the amount as soon as he obtained pos-
session of those revenues sacred to the scions of Hay-
tian royalty, and more particularly when he got about
a million and a half of money which be declared his
late Majesty, his brother, had lodged in the Bank of
England, and left him heir to. The blackirrince,
however, did not keep his word, but served him as he
had served many others who had previously befriended
him. The Lord Mayor last year interested himself
on behalf of fallen royalty, and got up a subscription,
the proceeds of which were handed over to the defendant.
Complainant begged to have a sovereign or two of the
money, as he had nearly ruined himself in finding funds
to pay for his board and lodging. His royal lodger re-
fused to part with a farthing, and shortly afterwards left
the country. Complainant heard nothing more of the
" Prince " until yesterday, when walking in Piccadilly,
on his return from the residence of the Duke of Wel-
lington, to whom, having been an old soldier, he had sent
in a petition for assistance, he met his quondam lodger,
and then he asked him for a trifle off the debt. The
Prince at first would not know him, and threatened to
give him into custody if he did not go away, but finding
he could not get rid of the complainant he lifted up his
royal umbrella and gave him a blow on the face, which
laid his cheek open. The " Prince" repeated his blows,
and was at last taken into custody by the police. The
complainant said he had made inquiry at places where
the defendant was known, and had ascertained that
he was no " Prince," but " von big bagbone and
swindler."

"'The "Prince" was required to state why he bad con-
ducted himself in such a plebeian manner towards his
benefactor.

" Sare Magistraat," said the Prince, " I only speak
some Inglis dat is broke. I strike him face ven he call
me blackguard. Hah ! dat word (gnashing his teeth
with rage)—very bad word in England, very bad word in
Hayti, very bad word for gentleman, very bad word for
prince, very bad word for broder of a king."
Complainant—Vy you nebber pay me ?
Prince—Dore 's de law for you in de Bench ob de
Queen.
Complainant—llo., ha, ha. Sue him beggar, catch
him louse.

Mr. Maltby said there appeared no justification for the
assault, and he should therefore inflict a fine of 31., or
one month's hard labour.

His Highness, being out of cash, was escorted to an
ante-room until the arrival of her Majesty's royal omi-
bus, in which he was to be removed to her Majesty's
palace of Tothill-fields.

MURDER IN LIVERPOOL—About two o'clock on
Sunday morning last, two police-officers, named Fair-
clough (78), and Price (88), were on duty in Toxteth
Park, and went into a brothel for the purpose of sup-
pressing a disturbance among the inmates. After they
had succeeded in their object, and when they were again
going on duty on their respective beats, a fellow, named
William Jones, followed them from the brothel into
Whitfield-street, where he made a fierce attack upon
both with a large poker which he brought from the
house. Fairclough closed with him and attempted to
wrench the poker from his grasp, but in the attempt the
ruffian struck him a blow with that deadly instrument
which fractured his skull, caused the brains to protrude
through the opening, and laid him senseless at his feet.
Price, in endeavouring to render assistance to his com-
panion, also received a blow of the poker, which
knocked off a part of the bone immediately above his
right eye-brow ; but he was enabled to call for assist-
ance, and to point out to the officers, who speedily ar-
rived, the brothel to which Jones had returned after
inflicting the blows. The door of the place was in-
stantly broken open, and the fellow was arrested and
taken off to bridewell. Fairclough was conveyed to the
Southern Hospital, where he died yesterday. The pri-
soner has been brought before Mr. Rushton, and will be
committed for trial to-day, on a charge of wilful murder.
—Liverpool Albion.
DREADFUL FIRES AT LYME REGlS.—lntelligence
was recived in the course of yesterday at the several fire
insurance-offices in the metropolis, of two most destruc-
tive fires having taken place at Lyme Regis on Sunday
night, occasioning a serious loss of property. The out-
break happened between 11 and 12 o'clock, when on the
alarm being raised it was found to have originated in an
uninhabited house in Church-street, and from circum-
stances which have since transpired, it is tuo sadly
feared that it must hare been the work of some incen-
diary. Owing to the roof of the building being thatched,
like most of the rest in the town, and a strong S.E. wind
blowing at the time, the flames raged with extreme fury,
and fired the adjoining houses. The engines stationed
in the borough were quickly drawn to the spot, and as
promptly got into active operation ; but so firm a hold
had the destructive clement of the property, that before
it could be in any way mastered, four of the adjacent
houses had fallen a sacrifice. One of them was tenanted
by a man of the name of Lynn, the oldest person in the
town, who being bedridden, it was generally supposed
that ho had perished amidst the flames. It was, how-
ever, afterwards ascertained that he had been carried out
of the burning building. Scarcely had the inhabitants
recovered from their alarm before they were again
startled by the bursting forth of another fire in the same
street, about 60 yards higher up, on the opposite side of
the way, at a house in the occupation of a Mr. Garland.
The firemen and their engines were almost immediately
in attendance, and notwithstanding the most strenuous
exertions on their part, they were unable to stay the
progress of the flames until three buildings, in addition
to the one tenanted by Mr. Garland, were destroyed.
This second calamity is also said to have
.been caused by
some miscreant intentionally. The town during the summer
was visited by a fire which consumed the Custom-house
and upwards of 40 houses.
THE PATRONAGE Or EAST INDIA DIRECTORS.—Sir
Henry Willock, the Deputy-chairman of the East India
Company, has given an Addiscombe cadetship to be
competed for by the pupils of Kensington School, which,
after a severe struggle with many other deserving candi-
dates, has just been gained by Mr. J. G. Medley. This
is the second instance in which this liberal Director has
conferred this favour on the same school, and we are
happy to learn that the successful candidate on the
former occasion has j ust been appointed to the engineers.
Such discreet exercise of India patronage does honour
to the Company, and, by insuring the appointment of
officers of talent, tends to promote the welfare of our
vast Eastern empire.
The Duke of Northumberland has subscribed 501.
towards the sum for the protection of the salmon in the
river Tweed. This is the second subscription which his
Grace has given within the last twelve months for this
purpose.

LOUIS NAPOLEON.
The Presse publishes the following letter, addressed to
that journal by Prince Louis Bonaparte :
" Fort of Ham, Dec. 14, 1844.
" Sir,—l am ignorant of the person, calling himself
my friend, who has called at your office to attack the
history, as yet unpublished, of the captivity of the Em-
peror which General Montholon has written under my
eyes. I feel bound loudly to disavow the step taken Py
that alleged friend.
"I regret, no doubt, that a history so serious, so tragical
as that which describes the agony of the chief of my fa-
mily should appear in kleuilleton ; I regret even that this
patriotic publication should have been accepted by a jour-
nal (La Presse) devoted to the Government. Never-
theless, I am happy that the authentic account of the last
sufferings of the Emperor and his last thoughts should
be at last made public.
" To suppose that a man who has shared the captivity
of the Emperor, and now shares mine, could write by
my side anything derogatory to the memory of the
martyr of St. Helena, is to offer me a personal insult.
This is the reason that has induced me to address you on
the subject.—l am, &c.,
" NAPOLEON LOUIS BONAPARTE."

A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
(From Punch.)
To Church betimes ! The Christmas chimes
Are calling high and low in ;
To Church then all, both great and small !

CHORUS OF MANY VOICES.
We've not a coat to go in I

Like our old sires, with roaring fires,

The fangs of winter braying:
Huge logs pile high, to sit thereby.

CHORUS.
We've not a single shaving I

Good Christmas fare is physic rare
To warm the regions inner ;
Plum-pudding join to stout sirloin.
CIIORUB.
We're not a crust for dinner

Fill glass and bowl, each jovial soul,
As round the hearth we close in ;
Our wine is bright in its ruddy light.

CHORUS.
Our very water's frozen

Right late we'll sup, and keep it up
Till time to morn shall creep on ;
Then sink to rest in downy nest.
CHORtti,
We're not a bed to sleep on ;
Loud be the song, the laughter long
Our joy no care shall leaven ;
Christmas is here but once a year.

CHORUS.
For that, at least, thank Heaven !

DRURT-LANG THEATRE.—The deepest interest
continues to be manifested in behalf of the benefit which
is to take place here on Monday next for the family of
poor Clara Webster. The Committee have forwarded
251., and Mr. Bunn has received numerous other dona-
tions.

ST. JAMES'S THELTRE.—A concert was given last
evening at this theatre by the Messrs. Distin and the
Misses Smith. The names of these professionals are
sufficient to guarantee a very delightful musical enter-
tainment to the public, nor were the public disappointed
in their expectations. The concert was diviJed. into
two parts, according to the usual course in these tul'..les-
In the first part there were a quintette by Mr. Distill
and his four sons on the improved Sax horns, " Fra poco a
me" (Lucia di Lammermoor) ; a terzetto, " Dolce tran-
quilite,' by the Misses Smith ; and a variety of other
airs, &c. The duet, " The light guitar," by the Misses
Stnith, was sung with great taste, and was most de-
servedly encored. A quintette, " Robert, toi qua
j'aime" (Robert le Diable), arranged and executed on
the horns by the Messrs. Distin (Meyerbeer), and said
in the programme to have been performed, by command,
before her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, at Windsor Castle, on Saturday last, was very
effective, and was received with loud applause. In the
second part, some equally good music, both vocal and
instrumental, was performed, and altogether the concert
was one which deserved patronage. It will be repeated
on Monday next, when some additional inducements will
be in the bill of fare. The house was well attended ;
the boxes were completely filled, and there was a tole•
aably good pit.
ANOTIIER INCENDIARY FIRE IN HERT9.—HERT-.
FORD, TUESDAY.—Last night a very large straw rick on
Hightield farm, Hemel Hempstead, in the occupation of
Mr. Thomas Woodman, farmer and auctioneer, was dis-
covered to be on fire, and no doubt the entire contents
of an extensive and valuable farm would have been de-
stroyed, had not the burning rick been a considerable
distance from the others, and also from the buildings,
sheds, out-houses, &c. A large number of the surround-
ing farmers, labourers, and others were soon attracted
by the reflection of the flames, and very fortunately the
fire was confined to that stack in which it broke out..
That which gives rise to the supposition that it was the
act of an incendiary is, that the isolated position of the
stack precludes the possibility of its having been acci-
dentally set on fire by any of the farm servants passing
that way with a light.
EXPORTATION or BEER.—An instance having re-
cently occurred at this port of a quantity of beer, entitled
to Excise drawback, having been noted as shipped on
two certificates issued by that department, for the same
goods, and it having been suggested, with the view of
preventing the recurrence of a similar irregularity, that
the shipping searchers be directed, in future, to note on
the shipping bill, the date of their having certified the
fact of the shipment on the Excise certificate, orders
have been issued for the said officers to govern them-
selves accordingly in future, and copies of this order
have been furnished to the several departments for their
information.

A foot race came off on Pitchcroft on Monday,
which excited a good deal of interest among the little
sporting world. The competitors were one Albert, it
vendor of nuts, and bereft of one arm, and a man named
Smith, a dealer in eggs and bacon. They had to run
round the whole of the course, or about two miles, and
to jump over ten hurdles. Smith had a slight advantage
in the starting, but they both remained together for the
first three-quarters of a mile, after which the baconian
fairly ran away from him of the nuts, and finished the
race at a tremendous pace, accomplishing the whole two
miles in a few seconds under thirteen minutes I He
cleared the hurdles in capital style, but his opponent,
who was completely " done up" long before the goal was
reached, touched them nearly all. Four or five hundred
spectators seemed greatly gratified with the scene.-
IVorcestershire Chronicle.

A Vicious lloasu.—The National states that a
waggoner, who was proceeding on Saturday last with a
cart-load of paving stones along the boulevard, near th•
Barriere de Sevres, having had occasion to give his horse
a blow of his whip, the vicious animal rushed at the
man, threw him down, placed one foot on his breast to
prevent him from rising, and whilst in that position,
seized the waggoner's arm with his teeth, and broke it in
two places. But the horse's revenge was not yet satis-
fied, and he would have strangled the man had not gime
travellers come to his assistance, and with considerable
difficulty conveyed the man to an hospital, where be lies
in a dangerous state.
STEAM-BOAT COLLISION OFF OSTEND.—lnforma•
tion has been received that the Princess Mary and the
Princess Alice came into collision on Tuesday, as the
former, in a dense fog, was leaving Ostend with the
mail, and the latter entering. No lives have been lost,
but much damage has been done to the vessels, the
Princess Mary suffering the most ; a week or two will,
however, put her right. The mail was landed, and will
come over to-day. A. vessel will be immediately put
upon the station, to fill the Princess Mary's place until
she is able to resume her post.
ALICE HAWTHORN THE QUEEN OF TILE TURF.

—Alice Hawthorn was bred by, and is the pro-
perty of, Mr. John Plummer, who resides within
a few miles of York. In consequence of Mr. Plum-
mer's pleasure not being in racing, but as a breeder, he
did not put his: mare into training as a two-years
old, but sold her to Colonel Cradock, who, not liking
his bargain, returned her. Mr. Plummer again endea-
voured to sell her, his price being 300 guineas, but not
meeting with a customer he determined to put her into
training. In 1841 she started three times and won twice;
the following year he leased her to the late Mr.
Leonard Heseltine, of Hambleton, the celebrated
trainer, for 1501. for that year. Her perform-
ances were excellent, having won for her lessee
the sum of 1,7451. in stakes. Mr. Leonard heed-
time dying, she continued to be trained by his nephew;
Mr. Robert Heseltine, who leased her for the season of
1843, for a larger sum than had been previously paid
for her, but very small in comparison to what she
won, viz., 2,1661. G. Salvin, Esq., of Croxdale,
near Durham, became her lessee this year (1844),
it is supposed in conjunction with Mr. Robert
Heseltine; the sum paid for the season was 800 guineas.
Her performance this year has never been surpassed,
having started 23 times, won 20, and ran a dead heat.
She has undoubtedly proved herself one of the beat
horses that ever was bred. She is now by many called
The Queen of the Turf"—well does she deserve it..
Alice Hawthorn has started 61 times, won 47 lost 13}
times. Won 18 cups and 7 Queen's Plates, and won in.
the aggregate 7,476/. in four years. The celebrated
mare Bee's-Wing was on the turf eight years, and note
50, lost 13; won 23 cups, and in the aggregate 6,8911.—
Tyne Mercury.
ENTERTAINMENT TO VICE-ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM
PARKER.—A grand entertainment was given on Tues..
day evening, at the Royal Naval Club, in Bond-street.
to Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart., G.C.8., oat
his return from service in China. Admiral Sir Bye=
Martin was in the chair. On his right hand was tht
Gallant Admiral and Vice-Admiral Sir G. Kamonch
and on his left he was supported by Admirals Sir III;
Codrington and Sir C. Ogle. Captains Sir C. Napier.,
and Lord F. G. Ilallyburion were the Vice Tresidenta.
Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm with which the
health of Sir William Parker was received by his brothel!
officers, on its being introduced by an eloquent and well..
deserved eulogium from the President, on his successtut
career in the war with China. The dinner was serve it
in the new dining-room of tho Club, in elegant style,
from the cuisine of Long's Hotel. There were preset
also Admirals D. Gould, G. Martin, and E. King • tlic
Earls of Cadogan and liardwicke ; Lord Edware,
Russell,
THE STATUE OF WILLIAM THE FOURTH..-01114

siderable interest was on Wednesday excited in
neighbourhood of Eastcheap by the raising upon *d
pedestal of the colossal statue of his late Majesty WI
liana the, Fourth. Three-fourths of the sculpture p
placed upon the plinth prepared for its reception, and.
is expected that this day the remaining portion will j
I completed.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Mr. Justice Coleridge, in the course of
his charge to the Durham Grand Jury on Monday
last, made some strong remarks on the general mode
of arranging the jury lists, which will, we trust, lead
to an early improvement of the present system. His
Lordship alluded to the exemption—by a custom
nhich is unsanCtiened by the law—of persons placed
on the special jury-lit from serving on common
juries. When the heavy pecuniary expenses in-
curred by a residence of several days in an assize
town, at a time when the price of food and lodging is
increased by the influx of strangers, joined to the in-
convenience and loss to which the small farmer or
tradesman is subjected by being removed from his
avocation, are considered, the injustice of placing this
combination of inconvenience and loss on those least
able to sustain it, becomes obvious. As if to en-
hance the unfairness of the system, the special jury-
man is paid a guinea in every cause he serves
on ; while the common juryman receives only eight-
pence in every civil cause on which he is sworn,
and nothing in criminal cases. The distinction is
manifestly unfair, and pointedly invidious and
ought to be abolished. " The gentry," said Mr.
Justice Coleridge, " to use a common term, never
serve on common juries." To be sure they do not.
If, through inadvertence or mistake, the officer of
the county has summoned one of the privileged
orders on the common jury, he regards it as a per-
sonal Inclignisr—an affront to his rank and sta-
tion. We have occasionally witnessed the manifes-
tation of wounded pride with which one of the
" gentry" will address the Court, and plead exemp-
tion from serving on the common jury, on the ground
of his name being en, or his quality giving it a right
to be on, the special jury list. the claim has been
allowed—rather in compliance with custom than
in conformity with law. Mr. Justice Coleridge has
openly declared that the custom is " unsanctioned by
law." His Lordship has also pointed out the injury
inflicted on the administration of public justice by
ttie practice, as well as the inequitable distribution of
the inconvenience and expense of serving on juries,
which it entails :—" If the special juryman," -said
Isis Lordship, " had no right to be exempted from
serving on cog2mon juries, he was enjoying
a privilege at the expense of his poorer neigh-
bour without the sanction of the law. In addi-
tion to numerous other reasons, he could not help
thinking that it would be desirable, in many cases of
an intricate character, that there should be a little
more intellect upon the common juries than was at
present always to be had; and he thought, therefore,
it was absolutely necessary that the common juries
should be drawn from the whole jurors' list of the
county." If individuals of a certain class be sum-
moned to serve on a special jury, that service is incl.
dental. It is additional to the general obligation which
ought to be shared in common by all those whose names
are on the jury-list. It is therefore made the subject of
special provision. The richer suitors choose to have
their cause tried by a jury chosen from a superior
class of society ; and he pays for his preference. The
special juryman receives his guinea for the special
service he has been called upon to give—not to the
public justice of the country, so much as to the pre-
ference of the party who thinks proper to have his
cause made " a special jury cause.' Mr. Justice
Coleridge also alluded to the frequent lack
of intellectual competency in jurymen. "He could
not help thinking it would be very desirable, in
many cases of an intricate character, that there should
be a little more intellect upon common juries than
was at present to be had." To obtain this increase
of intellect, the Learned Judge " thought it was
absolutely necessary that the common jurors should
be drawn from the whole jurors' list of the county."
It is only necessary to enter a court of
justice—whether of civil or criminal juris-
diction—iu an agricultural district, to induce a
cordial concurrence in Mr. Justice Coleridge's
remark. The clodpoles who are often to be
seen in the jury-box, on whose verdict the
property, the character, the liberty, possibly the life,
of an individual may depend—but whose vacant stare
during the proceedings evinces a lamentable lack of
ability to understand the evidence, or their duty with
reference to it—exhibit the danger, no less than the
indecorum, of the existing system. Trial by jury is
valuable because of the protection it affords to the li-
berty and property of the subject. But, to secure its effi-
ciency, juries must understand their duties. Ignorance
may prove as mischievous as corruption. If the common
- jurors were drawn indisceiminately " from the whole
jwy-list of the county," there would be an infusion of
instructed mind into the constitution of juries, which
would give dignity and efficiency to the administration
of the law. "The glorious privilege of Englishmen,
trial by jury," is often on the lips of men who, most
inconsistently, shrink from taking their fair share of
the duties connected with the privilege. To this in-
consistency may be traced the deplorable incompe-
tency of the juries in many parts of England, and
universally in Wales. Let the " gentry " no longer
shun the common jury-box, as a place in which it is
beneath their station to be found ; and their humbler
fellow-citizens will, by their aid, become more com-
petent for the duties of jurymen. The reproach which
is occasionally cast upon the most valuable institution
of the country will then cease.
STANDARD.—Mr. Thomas Attwood, of Bir-
mingham, and the Morning Post have clubbed their
geniuses to demonstrate a fact which has hitherto, we
believe, escaped the observation of all other persons
—namely, the fact that there is no such thing as rent
in England. The demonstration is somewhat tedious
and a little perplexed ; but here is the propositum
laid down in the very words of our morning Contem-
porary :—" We insert in another column a letter
from Mr. Thomas Attwood, on the subject of the an-
nihilation of rent in England—a result which we
lately attempted to show has been virtually ef-
fecttcl by the action of Sir Robert Peel's recent
industrial policy, combined with the action of his
deadly Currency Bill." As we have said, the de-
monstration of Messrs. Attwood and the Morning Post
is tedious and somewhat perplexed, and therefore we
decline the task of replying to it in detail, which;
would involve the previous task of unravelling it
and we avoid the labour the more willingly, be-
cause there is, we think, not only abundance of evi-
dence patent to all, as well as a vast body of wit-
nesses easily produceable, to prove that there is still
lingering a remnant of rent in this ruined country.
If we wanted to convince a stranger upon this
point, we should lead him from Leadenhall -street,
via Cornhill, Cheapside, Ludgate-street, Ludgate-hill,
Fleet-street, Strand, Charing-cross, Haymarket,
Piccadilly, Regent-street, and so on to Portland-
place, a promenade, say, of about two miles, in the
course of which he would see exposed for sale by re-
tail, more goods in value and amount than are in all
the cities of all the world beside, and then we should
remind him that all this vast amount of property was
held out to tempt a class of the community said to
be rentless, for as the Leaguers admit that they, as
manufactures, are only "summer birds" (hoarse
anti-corn Crakes), all the goods exposed for sale
on the 18th of December must be intended for some
peieons deriving their means of purchase, directly
or indirectly, from the land. In the same pro-
menade the stranger would no doubt see, if the time
were between four and six rex. more numerous
and more splendid equipages than all the world could
muster, and at least nine out of ten of these equipages
would belong to the class said to be rentless, or to some
of the classes immediately dependent upon that class.
This is patent proof that there still lingers a remnant
of rent in England. And let us, by the way, take
leave to remark that we have offered precisely this
same proof before to the Leaguers, when they
pretended, with about as much truth as Mr. Attwood
and the Morning Post new advance their paradox,
that the retail traders have no interest in supporting
the landed interest, as certainly they would have none
were rent annihilated. But this proof that rent
survives, though as obvious and satisfactory as
that of the philosopher who proved the possibility
of motion by walking across the floor, is not in direct
terms, and therefore we shall call a witness above ex-
ception—a gentleman known to the whole country,
and deservedly respected for talents and integrity by
all who know him ; a gentleman, moreover, whose com-
petency to give evidence upon the point every one
must admit. Our witness is George Robins, Esq.,
who has probably transferred more landed property
than any other man ever did. Well, Mr. Robins ;
you frequently in a day sell three or four hundred
thousand acres—do these acres pay any rent ; and if
not, what consideration do you offer for the 301. or
401. per acre that you not unfrequently obtain for the
seller? We will abide by the answer of Mr. George
Robins. We might produce a scare or more highly
respectable gentlemen, extensively engaged in the
same line! of business, but one of a class is suffi-
cient. We next regtest the evidence of the Commis-
sioners of Property-tax. We would respectfully
ask of these gentlemen, from what funds do they
suppose the landowners have been able to
pay the millions that they have pain within
the Net two years ? But next, we hare,
indeed, a crowd of witnesses, honest and
hearty feflows, but a little boisterous in mirth or
anger, dud not likely to be put into the best of
humours by offering it as a doubtful question,
whether there is any such a thing as rent ? Let the
hearer prepare his ears for such a roar as never
before greeted them, when the question is put to
the farmers, "Is there any such thing as rent ?"
That shout is decisive ; but, indeed, we need not go
beyond the Morning Post's own article for proof of
the ludicrous absurdity of its proposition.
" Can
landowners afford to hand
over S
,to the mortgagee
the last acre of their pesseesions " asks our Con-
temportbry ; but if its proposition that the land
affords no rent be true, the question ought to be,
can " mortgagees afford to take the land' off the
hands of its owners," paying or sacrificing a loan
at the same time. There ,nay he concerns, perhaps
the Morning Post knows something of such, that

DISCOVERY OF A LONG -
CEALED MURDERER.
CHESTER, SATURDAY.—A considerable se°
was produced here this morning by the arrival °ft
~,hte
police officers, one from Parnell, in WarwiePe
and the other from Alcester, who severally lestil
sented to Mr. Hill, the superintendent of the C7OO
police, that they were in search of a man named
Crowley, of Parnell, charged with the wilful 1021.
of William Tilsley, also of that place, as far 71
the 25th of December, 1842. In consequence
formation supplied by the officers in pursuit, Pf;
' sent some of his men to the Black Dog public-
where the party in question had been stayingferon
time. He had, however, removed to a lodging
gy
Eaton-road, leading to the seat of the MOLDY-
Westminster; but it was ascertained that his i;11,4
and other moveables had recently been hoS4
to the Castle and Falcon, a small public'
in Watergate-street, kept by a person ,0711 iii
Mary Jones, at which place he on
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called for refreshments, and, on '';',/lef)
Mr. Hill was given to understand that he (Crocoo
was expected there at about noon to-day. Accoir
ingly two officers from Parnell and Alcester, Sc
panied by two of the Chester police, repaired of
house at the time specified, and there found Crow
seated with a glass of ale before him. It Woi the
that he was always provided with pistols, and bits
fore due precaution was used in appreheadhlgit ad
He was seized by each arm before he n't
aware of the presence of the officers, who legei
formed him of the nature of the heavy charge
against him.
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" I admit it !" he at once exclaimed; A opcs
quently, as they were placing the handcuffs
him, he added, " I am a dead man." sol
He was forthwith taken before the ma,'-500'
magistrates ; and on being searched, thirty-1,
reigns were found upon him, together with aib to
barrelled pistol. The weapon was not loaded,' of
paper, containing a number of balls, and a LP'
powder, were found in one of his pockets.
It appeared by the statement made before wit?
gistrates, that the prisoner had formerly resi&uooo
his parents at Parnell ; but, in consequeneL,
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violent conduct, his father had forbidden n°"6
house, at the same time providing for him lti
cottage in the neighbourhood, and allowing ° N
per week and a horse to ride on. Notwitb, 0,110:1
this arrangement, however, the father havt
reason to dread some fatal act of violence on 141 00
Of his son, had one of his farm-servants, ,sle for
William Tilsley, sworn in as a special constsu toff
his (the father's) protection ; and on Christoss'ios
1842, the family and a party of friends halonefil
taken their seats at the dinner table, the pr's
mother suddenly started up, and said to herfloel
"For God's sake, go up stairs ; there's 000
coming across the field with his gun to skenti,
of us." The old man accordingly hurried treap bf
apartment, and the prisoner, who had been 510 tY
his mother through the window advancing,. °fel
way she described, went round to the back
house, and thrust the muzzle of his double•tati
gun through a pane of glass. In the 'Soper'
Tilsley went out to expostulate with the 1:'"40:
who, on seeing him, retreated a few paces, elfe
ing, "It's you, is it ?" and at the same instant ..OR' tY
the unfortunate man, and shot him dead 1140
spot. He then shouldered the gun, and v00..°
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say as he walked away, "I've another eb,s'e„
somebody else." No one ventured to stop 11,11'..
went home, saddled his horse, rode to TIP;
there left his horse at an inn, took the tyrol
stopped at the first station, where he bought II 00.°
spectacles to disguise his person, and was he ,beej
more until a few days since. He has, it apps
in the United States in the interim, but has 10,
ever since March last in Chester. A NOMA
whom he has recently cohabited in a fit ofd
betrayed him.
The prisoner, after having been duly ell°
signed the following declaration:— hogide°
" I have to say I am guilty of what 15-,0(14
again to-morrow. I did shoot the man in or
I think I did my duty."
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He was ordered to be taken to Warwick, if
will undergo further examination.