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London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

idea who could have written them ; for, although he had
certainly been threatened with personal violence by a near
relative of Tapping, immediately after the latter's execution,
for the evidence he had given upon the trial, the threat he
had used to appeal to the law for protection appeared to have
been effectual, as the annoyance had ever since been discon-
tinued ; and he was, therefore, quite at a loss to say from what
quarter the threatening letters had emanated.
Mr. BROUGHTON said, that the feelings of apprehension
under which the applicant was labouring were certainly en-
tirely justified by the menacing tendency of the letters which
had been produced, the last of which in particular contained
a direct threat against his life; and he should therefore order
Fitzgerald, the warrant-officer, to use the most vigilant efforts
to discover the author of them,.if possible, in which event he
would instantly issue a warrant for his apprehension.
The applicant thanked the magistrate for his attention,
and left the court with his solicitor.

subject. In the head, internally, I found congested blood
between the occipital and frontal muscles and pericranium.
The parietal bone was fractured to the extent of four inches,
opposite to and beneath the external wound. The fracture
was a jagged one, and the dura mater was separated from the
skull. When I opened the dura mater one ounce of blood
flowed from the pericranium. There was congested blood
near the brain. There was no other morbid appearances in
the head. All the organs of the body, excepting the left lung,
were healthy. The condition of the lung had no material
effect on the child's health. The injuries to the head, not re-
sults from natural causes, produced death.
By the CORONER—The fracture of the skull was the result
of violence—of a blow. All the injuries were simultaneously
inflicted by some hard substance. Nothing but a blow or a
fall from a great height could have caused them, I never
knew such injuries caused by a slight fall. One severe blow
would have caused them.

RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES

IN THE
PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN ENGLAND
SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.

SHEFFIELD, OCT. 2.

Sarah Swantoon, maternal grandmother of deceased, said
she was with her daughter about eleven o'clock on Saturday
night last, and left her near her home. Witness went about
her own affairs, and did not return to her own home for half
an hour, when she was told of deceased's death, and went to
see the mother. She found two other women with her. The
husband came in soon afterwards, and appeared much agi-
tated, and asked if the child was dead. The witness then
corroborated the evidence of the mother of the child relative
to the threats and cruelty of her husband towards it, and his
constantly expressing a wish that it was dead.
Chatherine Shephard said she was called in to see the dead
child, and found the mother greatly distressed. She saw the
lumps on the child's head, and accused the prisoner of being
the murderer. He made no answer. A week before the child's
death she heard the accused wish "the little (horrible epithet)
was dead." He wished so more than once. The mother was
kind to deceased.

By the prisoner—When you spoke about the infant you
were out of temper. I never saw you ill-use it.
Mary Foll, of 15, Somers-street, said she saw the child in
its mother's arms, in a pawnbroker's shop, half an hour
before its death. It was then awake, and looked remarkably
well. On Monday week the accused used expressions against
the child too gross to repeat. He frequently wished the child
was dead, and said that at night he used to stretch his arm
over his wife and strike the child on the head.

Mr. Whitfield, the surgeon, re-examined The child's
death might have been instantaneous. It might have lived
half an hour after the reception of the injuries described.
The prisoner here said that a person told him that a man
named Hurley had said that he often saw the child fall "from
the girl's arms that used to nurse it, and that he wondered
it had not died before. The prisoner wished to have him
called.

A man named Clair corroborated the statement of the pri•
soner.

The prisoner here addressed the Court, and said that it was
true he had in his passion often threatened the child. He had
not seen it for an hour previous to its death. If he had killed
the child he had plenty of time to escape ; but his conscience
told him he was innocent, and he therefore remained to abide
the result of the coroner's inquiry, which he knew would take
place.
The man Hurley here entered the room, and said he often
saw the child fall from a girl's arms, or rather slip out of her
lap, as she sat nursing it on the steps of the door. He did
not consider the falls serious. He did not see the child fall
on Saturday last, but he saw it in the girl's arms, who was
rubbing its head, whilst it was crying as if from pain in the
head.

The jury finally, without more than a moment's delibera-
tion, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against William
Hill."

QUARTERLY NAVAL OBITUARY,

Flag Officers—Vice-Admiral George J. Shirley, Rear•
Admiral James H. Tait.

Captains—Robert Maunsell, Edmund Waller, Sir William
S. Wiseman, Bart.

Commanders—Charles Haultain, William Minchin, Adam
C. Duncan, Edward C. Earle, John Lodwick, Robert Palk,
Robert Flicker, Samuel Cuming, W. S. Oliver, Charles Til-
ley, Samuel Mottley.
Lieutenants—John K. Tudor, Charles J. Cater, Robert
Darke, Joseph Lowe, James Newton, Stephen R. Walsh,
Charles Dangerfield, William Pinhorn, Christopher Smith,
Robert Inman, Isaac Avarne, Robert Brown, Sydenbam
Wylde, Daniel Woodruffe, Frederick Hennah, William W.
Wilson, Sir Francis Freeing, Bart., Robert G. Campbell.
Masters—Robert Tyrrell, James Pearn, William White,
(A), Walter Ramsay, Thomas Baseley, Edward M. Chaffers.
Second Master—Thomas Walker.

Medical Officers—Surgeon John H. Swann, Surgeon
George Walker, Surgeon James Farrell, Surgeon Patrick
Brenan, Assistant-Surgeon Thomas F. Wolrige (Act.)
Paymasters and Pursers—William Tuckfield, John Sulli-
van, Jesse Slogett, Silas E. Stretton, James Gregory.
ROYAL MARINES—Major Richard Parry, Captain Samuel
Matlack, Second Lieutenant Edward Mallard, Second Lieute-
nant William Colley.

SUICIDE.—On Tuesday, as two young women
were passing along a field near Haverstock-hill, Hampstead,
they discovered in a corner thereof a man, to all appearance
dead, lying upon the grass. They communicated the fact
shortly afterwards to a gentleman whom they met, and on
his repairing to the spot he found .the dead body, still
warm, of a person apparently not more than twenty-five or
thirty years of age. A quantity of blood had flowed from
his mouth, and in each hand was a brass-barrelled pistol, one
of which had evidently been recently discharged, and the
ether was loaded with powder and ball. Some constables of
the S division speedily arrived and removed the deceased on
a stretcher, to the Load of Hay public-house. He was
dressed in a blue jacket, blue cap, striped waistcoat, and
dark trousers, and in his pockets were a few silver and
copper French coins, of but trifling value. There were no
papers upon him by which any information could be gained
with regard to his name or address. He had moustachios
and very large whiskers, and it is supposed that he is a
Frenchman.

ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
—Between nine and ten o'clock on Tuesday night an acci-
dent, providentially unaccompanied with loss of life, occcurred
to the down goods train, which reached Bishops Stortford
near that hour. When the train was within a hundred
yards of the station, the engine was unfastened that it might
proceed to the rear of the train, and so push it into the sta-
tion. It had only moved the train a few yards when a pecu-
liar jerking noise announced that something was wrong; the
engine, a very powerful one, was instantly stopped and re-
versed, when it was found that two trucks, carrying several
tons of goods, and consequently extremely heavy, had run
off the points, owing to the nob which secured them having
been broken by some means or other. A number of men
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obliged to remain at the station for nearly au hour, and the
mail train for more than half an hour. The passengers who
came by the train, the trucks of which ran off the point, com-
plained in strong terms of the time they were compelled to
remain at the station, some saying, at half-past five in
the morning, that they had been there since nine o'clock
the preceding night. The luggage train was attached
to the mail train, and they proceeded to London. The
mail, which was due at twenty-two minutes after five, did
not reach Shoreditch until half-past seven o'clock. The
greatest consternation was caused amongst those who ex-
pected friends by the mail, owing to the unusual delay. The
accident will be duly investigated.
NORTHLEACH.—At Windrush a boy named John
Palmer, aged nine years, the son of a labourer, was found
drowned in the river at the above place. The circumstances
connected with this case are singular, and develop an instance
of juvenile depravity. It appears that on the Wednesday
preceding the father had occasion to punish the boy for some
delinquency by giving him a slight box on the ear, which
extorted from him a threat that neither he nor his mother
should have an opportunity of beating him again; from that
time until the following Saturday he was not heard of; the
probability is that he started immediately to the river and
perpetrated the deei. A prompt and diligent search was
instituted, and the body was found on the 20th of September.
Verdict, Found Drowned.— Wilts Standard.
MOST IMPORTANT TO BILLIARD TABLE KEEPERS.
—TheGames and Wagers Bill has passed in such a form, that
all billiard table-keepers, not licensed victuallers, and resi-
dent elsewhere than in Middlesex and Surrey, will be obliged
to shut up their rooms after the 10th of October instant until
October 1846, or until Parliament in its wisdom, can pass a
short Act to releive them. By the 15th section, billiard
table-keepers are to apply for licenses in a simlar manner,
and give similar notice to licensed victuallers; but, owing
to the measure not having become law till some time after
these notices ought to have been given, it is impossible for
them to comply, except in the counties of Middlesex and
Surrey, where the licensing day occurs in April instead of
August. By the 11th section, the Act is to come into ope-
ration as to all, except those resident in the counties of Mid-
dlesex and Surrey, on the 10th of October; and each billiard
table-keeper will be liable to a penalty of ten pounds a day
for keeping his table open without a license. This is a great
piece of injustice, inflicted by cramming the work of six
months' legislation into as many days, and the only mode
billiard table-keepers in the country can adopt to save them-
selves, will be to make arrangements with a licensed vic-
tualler, and remove the table to a licensed inn. The words
in the 10th section—" As near thereto as the' case will
allow"—do not help the matter, as it is quite clear they
only relate to the form of notice to be given by justices'
clerks, of the licensing days, mutatis mutandis.—Worcester-
shire Chronicle.
HERR STAUDIGL.—The • following particulars,
which have been communicated to a friend of the great
basso, will be read with great interest by the numerous ad-
mirers of that great artist, and it will be seen how much he is
, reverenced and beloved by his brother artists, and the public
of his native town (Vienna). On the day of his arrival
there, from his late visit to England, a grand serenade will
be given him before his house, the street will be guarded by
police, and a grand fete will be held—first will be a chorus
with quartets, a young Englishman (Mr. John Gregg), who
is studying the art of singing there, is entrusted with a solo
part; the celebrated Strauss, with the whole of his band,
about one hundred ; the chorus will be from fifty to sixty
persons. Staudigl is to know nothing of this ; a friend will
engage him to his favourite game, chess, while all will be
prepared ; it will not take place until ten o'clock at night.
The whole of the street will be illuminated ; there will be an
assemblage of about 1,000 persons. It will be the first sere-
nade given to any singer in Vienna. After the serenade
there is a grand supper, at which all the principal singers
will be present, in full dress.
THE ORDERS OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION.—The
results of the late exhibition, as regards the orders given to
the competitors, do not seem to have been rightly under-
stood. Mr. Dyce is to execute his cartoon of " The Baptism
of Ethelbert" •in fresco, in the centre compartment of the
House of Lords, over the throne; the Commissioners desire
to see one fresco done, that they may rightly judge of the
effect ; but they have guaranteed to Messrs. Maclise,
Horsley, and Cope that these gentlemen shall execute their
several subjects (with such revisions as they may consider
expedient) in the event of fresco painting being decided on,
after the completion of the work by Mr. Dyce. It is also
open to the two other artists—Mr. Redgrave and Mr. Thomas
—to revise their designs; at least, it is so understood ; for uo
other artists, treating the same subjects, have been preferred
to them; With respect to the other works, Messrs. Horsley,
Cope, Herbert, Severn, and Tenniel are commissioned to exe-
cute five frescoes in a hall where it is proposed to pbtoo
statues of the poets, each artist being to select a subject to
i'lustrate the poet who may be allotted to him. Six of the
poets are Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspere, Milton, Dryden, .aua
Pope ; there are to be two others, but they are not yet deter-
mined upon. The compartments in the Poets'-hall are 13 feet
high by 5 feet 7 inches wide. Mr. Maclise was offered a
compartment in the Poets'-hall, but he declined the com-
mission, being desirous of completing his fresco in thy, House
f Lords, for which he reserves himself.—The Art-Msion.
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A SECOND CROP OF BEANS.—We have beecn shows
a quantity of beans, part of a second crop grown in, a garden
on Greenhill, belonging to Mr. William Stalsworth,. of Qriay-
street. The beans sown were of the broad Windsor sort, and
the first early crop, which was a good one, having bun picked,
the stalks were cut off about three inches above , the ground,
and the roots suffered to remain. The result yeas tb,at they
sprouted out again, and are now yielding a second .crop far
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SUPPLFMENT TO THE EVENING_ SUN, FRIDAY OCTOBER 3, 1845.

p.—Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth (Daw's line), % p.
—Ditto (Head's), 3/4 p.—Cornwall, 4—Eastern Counties
Extension Stock, No. 2, 3/4 p.

STOCK EXCHARGE.—The sales are—Midland, Birming-
ham and Derby, 131—York and Selby, 50/. Shares, 82—Derby
and Gainsborough, 4/. 6s. 6d.—Goole and Doncaster, 64
Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 6/. ls. 6d.—Grimsby
Railway and Dock Extension, 114—Grand Union (Notting-
ham to Lynn), 44—London and York, 63%—Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, 84—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby,
71/B—South Wales, s%—Wakefield and Harrogate, 5%.

give an opinion. Some idea, however, may be formed when
we state that several hundred yards of the embankment and
a temporary sea walling was swept away, and sixteen or
eighteen waggons, besides trucks and barrows, severely
injured. Some of the waggons were found at low water
mark, others were embedded in the mud, and a great number
of tools are said to be lost. This part of the line has from
the first been deemed by persons acquainted with the locality
as impracticable as an attempt to control the tide. The
chief engineer, notwithstanding, thought differently, having,
as we have been given to understand by a gentleman likely
to know, drawn his conclusion from the fact of an old ruin
known as the Salt Pans, which is situated near the spot,
having preserved its present appearance for a number of years.
The intention of carrying the line this way it seems is now
abandoned, and a new one will be formed further in shore.
This project will be attended with an expense little anticipa-
ted by the shareholders at the commencement of the under-
taking.— Whztehaven Herald.