The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-12 00:00:00

Staines (I don't know which); I will leave our things there, and
go over to your mother and know the rights of it.
Hannah Murphy—l was at Marlborough on Sunday morning,
when my husband and the prisoner Page fought. Page had on a
kind of sleeved plush waistcoat; I did not
.see any flannel cuffs
hanging down below his wrists, and did not` see that any part of
Page's dress was torn ; there was no blood spilt that I saw..
At the conclusion of the evidence on Saturday last, Mr.
CitAIIBERS addressed the Prisoners; observing that none of the
witnesses brought forward in their behalf accounted were Page
Was on the night the murders were perpetrated.
Page.—lt's all nonsense to suppose I was near Leatberhead on
the night the murders were committed. Do you think my pony
could have done the distance from Weyhill and back again in the
time Y_-Why the distance would have been more than 100 miles:
A person, named Charles Painter, well acquainted with horses,
said that it was a most extraordinary animal, and added that he
had no, doubt he .could go the distance with ease within the time
on the aniline.
Page.—Aye, you are a smarter man than I am. You might
do it, but Such a countryman as me, would never do it in the time.
Mr. Cuassexas gave direction; to Painter, a man of the pri-
eonees weight, to leave teatberhead, on his pony, on Monday,
and proceed front thence to Weyhill and back again, in order to
ascertain the exact time in which the journey could be perff.rmopl.
On hearing the directionq given to Painter, the prisoner again
said, " Aye, he might do it; because he knows how to ride better
than I do."
Mr. CHAmaims.--Why you have been in the army ; you must
know how to ride well. You formerly belonged to the Waggon
Train.
Page appeared rather surprised when Mr. Chambers said he
belonged to the army. Ile then said, " I admit that ; but I
never rode fast, never going out of a trotting pace; besides, I was
but a short time in the Waggon Train." He then exclaimed,
" I don't care what you do with me when I know I am an intro-

cent man."
The Magistrates here made some olmervations on the marks
apparently of blood that appeared on the panniers ; to which-
Page said, " It's not blood; it is rust, if they. are mine." He
then said, on being shown the flannel jacket, with the spots 'of
blood on it, " That was all caught in the fight with John
Murphy."
When that part of the old man's skull that was injured was.
produced for the inspection of the surgeon, Page looked stud-
lastly at it, and his countenance underwent a visible change.
Wb-n the skull was taken from his sight, he summoned his usual
composure, and frequently appealed to Heaven of his Innocence.
The Magistrates' having consulted together for a-short time,
Mr. CHAMBERS addressed the prisoners, observing, that no pains
had been spared in order to bring forward those individuals whom
they. (the prisoners) wished, but they had failed completely in
proving an alibi; all failing in the proof of either of them having
been seen at Weyhill on Thursday. The Magistrate then re-
marked, that there were such powerful circumstances of suspicion
against them, that he had made up his mind to commit them for
trial, in which-delermination his brother Magistrates had perfectly
concurred with him.
The prisoners were then taken from the office, and conveyed to
Horsemonger-lane Gaol.

Frightful are the ravages which Fever is 'now inak.,
Mg among the poorer clams of Wexford and neighbourhood. We
understand there were twenty-eigbt sufferers taken to the Fever

Hospital on i‘londay.—Dubli. n Paper.
It is our painful duty to announce the death of
John Carruthers, late of Hales Owen, in the county of Salop,
Esq., wbo departed this life about four o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, in the Fleet Prison, after an incarceration of nearly ten years,
at the suit of a relation on a disputed demand.--Sunday Paper.
A serious accident befel Capel Cure,, Esq., of Blake
Hall, BobbingWortb, F.ssex, on Monday, when hunting with Mr.
Conyers' hounds. The horse of the worthy Aiagistrate fell ; the
consequences were, a broken arm, and one shoulder dislocated.
During Mr. Cure's residence at Oxforri, a similar accident hefel
him, and' so serious was the injury jie then received, that his life
was for wine time in danger. _

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A Fitchew was caught on Monday last, in the coal-
pit at Crompton Fold, by John Fletcher and two other workmen
of M. Fletcher, Esq. . At the depth of :12 yards, the little animal
had firmed itself a hole in the • coal-hell a foot deep, It was
taken out alive, and carried to Mr. Fletcher's as a curiosity. It
is not satisfactorily accounted for its being there, unless having
fallen down in the night, it clung to the side, and there embedded
i tself. —Bolton Express..

DuEL.—A duel was fought on-Sunday morning, on
Wimbledon CoMmon, between Mr. M--r---n and a Captain in
the Army. The cause of the meeting was a dispute at a coffee-
room in Bond-street. The .'ground being measured, the partien
fired, when the Qtptain received the contents of his opponent's
pistol in the right shoulder. The shots were skilfully extracted
by a surgeon on the ground, and the Gentleman was removed to
his house in a fair way of recovery.'
A JUDICIAL. JOKE.---Mr. 'Justice Gaselee in a ra-
ther small man, and his learned brother, now op the circuit with
him, Mr. Justice 13ay1ey, rather a large one. The other day at din-
ner, one of the 'Magistrates of this County happening to speak of
them , collectively, designated them in the usual phraieology of
Judges of Assize.—" Speak not falsely, my dear Sir, said Mr.
Justice Gazelee," with eminent humour, " call us not Judges of
A-Site, but Judges of a Gaol Delivery."—llerta Mercury.

As a specimen of the wit of .ore of our Contem-
porarie,s, we subjoin its account of Thursday night's proceedings in
the House of Commms. In the Commons, Mr. Hume, who has of
late been so much in' " troubled waters," floundered most con-

(oundedly in cape Hay, where he found himself as completely
deserted by Hope, that he was forced to seek refuge in a most
Weak and frail bark, in which; after a tempestuous voyage, be at
length found himself cast away on the rocks of Silly. This cal-
culating Gentleman should really not be so very adventurous.
Let him, as a modern• Athenian, • Confine his floating speculations
to the Coast of Greece; where he has already appeared with such
high interest, and employed his patriotic principal to the best
possible advantage! •
Low) ELoos tx ins YOUTFF.—What a coil
the newspapers make about the abuses of the Chancery Court;
it is indeed an Augettn stable. The recalls a letter written
by a clerical friend of mine, now no More, containing the fol-
lowing anecdote of Lord Eldon. It is at all events curious.
The writer says " Just before I exchanged London for Ox-
ford,. and .retired to. the house in that university, where the
good Bishop Herkley died' i,n the office of watching over his son's
education, I left one day, my friend. (as be culled himself) Lord
Chani:ellor Thurluw sitting in Lincoln's-inn Hall, where I had no
briefs, and I met Jack Scott, who had. no mere briefs than I,

under the gateway that goes into Carey-street, where the eloquent
Allcyne died of'a broken heart, because 'all his talents could not
procure him briefs enough. 'So you are going to leave us,' said
Scott,-' as I hear, to return to Alma Mater and to take orders.'
-.-. Why yes, the Chancellor promises we his patronage, though
he called me yesterday at dinner, in his piouslanguage, ' a daunted
fool for quitting the Bar.' So you, Scott, must give your patron-
age to an old friend when he is a poor curate, and you fill Thor-
low's seat.'.—' oby Jove,' said Scott, ' 1 shall soon follow you ;
if not to take orders, as I have not, like you, a Thurlow for a
friend, at fleet to be a country counsel in some corner of my na-
tive county.'—' Then, Scott,' said I, ' you will certainly do
wrong ; your perieverence and talente4ill carry you through by
Ind by. I cannot trace a single brief to the appearance which
the partiality of my frientle was plearied to think I made with my
first in the' Court of IChaneery. As to you, my friend, you have
ever yet bad any briefs; perhaps. the first will be followed by
uch success as Alleyne deserved to have found after the Negro
' tree, and'irs Faskineboth &levee and finds after the Greenwich
ilcispitid cause.' 'Thus Scott and I talked in 1781." Twenty
tears after, Seotftwits Lord Chancellor in reality, making good,
indeed that there is " a tide in the affairs of men."--New Monthly
Magazine.
E hind •
LORD ERtriKINE IN HIS Aor.---The last time
I •:,w him, 'Ashley,
.was at the Bank of _lig , , showy
Previous to hie death. I had business there; and in wait-
ing I observed in the crowd a man of needy appearance, with
an old threadbare 'striped' great-Coat, making up in its excels of
quantity what it wanted in quality; 4 hat conformable to his ha-
bilimeut ; a tattered cotton umbrella under one, arm, while the
other was extended to require gold in change for a fire-pound
.note, for which be awail44l PatientlY as the ptippy of a jack-41-
'OWe eyed the ii-cliancellor of Great Britain keenly and inquir-
Ingly. A rude common :men trete Vim made Willa coarse ob-
alentivantiff il, meiteantheh delay both tkit!rienceti ;, his answer was. Mila
lint I tlionftht there *is a shade of itiniiiti as his
comftoinee, and the eye that need to glisten so eheerfnlly.(let
De Quiney'say wherefine) Was sad and doivitcast. I wished to
heaven the note had had some cipheitrattiched to its unit, for it
~„,ned as if they might have gladdened his heart at thatinornent,-
is wee not. the 'Minister but the man' I. Pitied; he had been se-
metometl to the most refined of ell life's enjoyments : the idol of
a nation atonntime ; the boon friend a malty ; the efijet.
officer
fitrgotten,.antliWirerta.henottrable to him.
ail. state, one whose Worts, in'the MOW of liberty and whewintuits), ; yet be was then old, and 1 tear
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