The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-02 00:00:00

LATEST PARTICULARS.-(THIS DAY.)

The police are as yet completely in the dark as to the
person who committed this infamous murder. Many
reports were in circulation in the course of yesterday
that the real actor in this diabolical deed had been taken
into custody ; but these rumours, on further inquiry,
proved unfounded. True it was, that a man named
Medhurst, or Meadows, a widower, with whom the un
fortunate deceased had, at a former period, cohabited,
had been by the mother of the murdered woman taxed
as the supposed assassin ; but this imputation had been
completely set aside by the positive assurance of the women
in the brothel that Meadows was not the man who had taken
the room in George-street on Monday night. 'There
is now no doubt, however, that the murderer is known
not only to many of the unfortunate girls in that neigh-
bourhood, but also to the police—known, we mean, by
sight—for his name is, as yet undiscovered. The
latest intelligence at the different police stations adds
nothing to the information given the first day, except
perhaps this somewhat meagre addition, that a man,
whose name need not at this stage of the proceedings
be given, culled at the police-station, in Marylebone,
and informed the inspector on duty, that he was
fully of opinion that he knew the murderer; that they
had been schoolfellows together, and had been in com-
munication since ; that he (the informant) met him on
the day after the murder, and had been told that he had
enlisted in the East India Company's service. The in-
' formant had no doubt from that person's manner, and
from other circumstances that had come to his know-
ledge, that that person had committed the murder.
A constable was at once ordered to go with
the informant to the East India Company's re-
cruiting quarters in Soho-square, for the purpose of
ascertaining if such a person had actually enlisted, and
also of identifying the party. The result of that in-
quiry is as yet unknown, but the whole circumstance
seems too vague to justify any exp,ctation that the real
criminal is the party.
On inquiry "at the George-street station-house our re-
porter received the general answer, that no intel-
ligence, calculated to lead to any instnediate de
tection of the murderer, had been received, and
consequently it may be confidently stated that nothing
can b. certainly known worthy of credence until the pro-
ceedings before the Coroner's inquest shall have been
reported, The warrant for the inquest has not yet been
issued, but it is expected to sit to-morrow.
The house in George-street is still an object of un-
abated curiosity, hundreds of persons attending from
the very earliest hour to gaze at its external features ;

and it is found a matter of necessity to have a posse of
constables in attendance to preserve some degree of order.
The inmates, it need scarcely be added, are under the
surveillance of the police.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.
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SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL I.—Sld. Port Glasgow, St. John's.
New Brunswick ; William Lushington, Quebec ; Tagus
steamer, Constantinople.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL .—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Switzer.
land, London, and sailed for New York. Sld. Permingham.
Pernambuco ; Aurelian, Quebec.

,
DEAL, Amu, 1, A.M.—Wind E.S.E., r.se S.E. by E., mo-
derate.—Arrd. Robert Fulton, Philadelphia ; Mary Frances,
Boston. Sld. Elizabeth Adnett, Quebec; Canton, ditto;
Eleanor, Mauritius, and the whole of the outward bound.
STANDGATE, APRIL I.—The Hawkhill, Miller, arrived
here, picked up off Cadiz the crew of the Cypress, from
Alexandria, which was run down the previous evening by a
schooner, name unknown.
RAMSGATE, APRIL I.—The Rouennais, Bigot, from St.
Domingo, for Havre, which put in here leaky 29th ult., com •
menced discharging to-day.
COWES, APRIL I.—Arrd. Mary Puns, Rio Janeiro.
FALMOUTH, APRIL I.—Wind E.S.E.—OfF, Europa, Ligert-
wood, Ichaboe, and sailed for Peterhead.
GUERNSEY, MARCH 30.—Sid. Adelaide, Demerara.
JERSEY, MARCH 30.—Sid. Ulysses, Cape of Good Hope ;
Jane, Auchat.

DUBLIN, MARCH 31.—Wind W..N.W—Arrd. Britannia,
St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Simeon Hardy, Barbadoes;
Industry, New York. The Jane and Susan, of Whitehaven,
Merryman, from Newry, missed stays, and drifted against
Dolly Mount Bull, capsized, and filled; crew saved.
ATERFORD, MARCH 30.—Ski. Cumberland, Quebec.
CORK, MARCH 30.—Wind W.S.W., fresh breeze.—Arrd.
Janet Guthrie, Ichaboe. Sld. Tradore, St. John's, N.B.
LONDONDERRY, MARCH 28.—Sid. Fanny, Philadelphia and
St. John's, New Brunswick. 29. Sea Nymph, ditto.
LEITH, MARCH 31.—Sld. Glance, Montreal.
CLYDE, MARCH 31.—Wind W.—Arrd. Jeanie Deans,
Brown, Ichaboe ; Conqueror, Blair, Trinidad ; Brilliant,
Bair, Mobile. Sid. European and Erromanga, Montreal;
Mandarin, Calcutta; Akbar, Mauritius and ditto.
BELFAST, MARCH 29.—Ski. Great Britain, Quebec.
ABERDEEN, MARCH 30.—S1d. Spring, New Orleans.
SUNDERLAND, MARCH 31.—Sld. Ilrown, St. John's, New
Brunswick.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL ind S.S.E.—Arrd. Ann Hall, St.
John's New Brunswick. Put back, Clydesdale, for Africa,
with loss of mainyard, &c. Off Champion, Laguayra ;
Carnia, supposed from Barbadoes ; James Moran, from
Mobile; Cockermouth Castle, Queen Dowager, and Diana,
Sid. Victory and Bahamian, Hong- Kong; Earl
Harewood, Ceylon; Luna packet, and Wilson, Ichaboe.
BELFAST, MARCH 31.—The Harriet Matilda, bound to
Liverpool, was thrown on her beam-ends yesterday, in a
gale, and was obliged to cut away her masts at the entrance
of the Lough. A steamer has gone to her assistance.
STRANRAER, MARCH 31.—1 t blew a gale yesterday, at
S.W., suddenly shifting in the afternoon to .N.W., with in-
creased violence. The Thomas Parker, of and for Dublin, from
Whitehaven, got ashore near here at high water, but has not
sustained much damage. The David, from Shields to Car-
thagena, stranded in the roads in January last, has driven
higher up, and is now sunk five feet is the sand. The Mary,
of and for Clyde, from Liverpool, has driven ashore near the
David, and is somewhat strained.