The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-16 00:00:00

nOnril D. -1.U.1?;1)17,F5.

• A ribiiible rdurcler io Lisbon i-t.#4
fßonfli;••irftieff fiiiitiTst.
Potftigiitie OiHee'r baying drc'!..a.ri s‘i•ord at fsoe
of ftis si'§tetir? 1111 Caellttelferitnet 41r
cut 00tsc uud.ht-abb„,i) he .tittcr
-nse t;l4,,et Ea ~!so
drsperatvi,v tv.o.oritted .;• the
afteolpf ~her.rser4;)e froth 'the. eirarnbet•.wherit
this, crag' y w-4s • %I-as prc;ripitattd
wo a ti!g lit 9f stOlie al.(1 'ber ae:••
hired tue ‘"vi et ched. th,
?moo Cite • Abreet, inn apPitarcd
totnily indifferent to the blu9dy,deelis he had ter
ptirdtt2d: "*, .

•
A mu.' ntrricioni• Initrder
at a tilLige near A'obinn, on the horderS'of
But,;:ingloon,Lite; on Friday last, I,y Irishman,
nained.Putrick • Free, upon d and f..mnpa.
[lion Skerret, also a ratite .4,1. The sister
country. It seems that the•raO- men had been ra:. •
ve11in,,.4 in that.ovighbonthood for stone time past;
i search of work, and•on the night menth tied bad
retiredth an outhouse belonging to a farmer, fur time
remaining, there till iitatnin. About the
middle of t he nigh t the inhiibitants of the I:arm-house •
adjoinmg the place in which they hadtaken ehige,
wet e alarmed by most dreadful g .MS S
one in the •ag,nies 'of death Some pursuits got
tip, and proce-eded-to the-pi-lee whence the groans
seemed to issue, • and, having
.procured a light,
they-discovered Skerret lying on*some straw, wel_
tering in • his..:bloyd,-and his head and various
parts of his 'body:mangled in a most horrible
manner. The instrument •hy which the bio6ny
deed had been -effected rhls found lying near
the unfortunate sufferer.:,, It was what is call 7
ed a bill-honk, the .point end of which had
entered the poor
.fellow's skull.. He lived about
ten ;ninnies after being found by the people, anal.
he, had just strength sufficient to inform them that.
his companion haul risen upon in the night,
and-h avin.•n beat hint with the 'bill,hoOk aid
lime stick until he was rendered helpless, he het
rifled his pockets of about 335. and stuipptd hint
of his clothes and left hint. The poor ctea e,
shortly after relating these circumstances, (.3tl►tretL
A Coroner's Inquest was,held. , the follon'hig
day, and a verdict of Wilful Minder; against
Patrick Free was rettuned.

A ilreadtul murder was committed on Tuesday:*
last on a young woman, named,Elizabetli Shep-;
.herd, age(' about 17 or 18. The body Was dis-
'covered lying in a diieh, in the parish of Sutton.;,•
in-Ashfield, Nottinghatuthire.-11er bead pre-
,
senteJ a most Shocking spectacle, being so dis-
`figured't hat her features could scarcely he reCog-
nised—the brains protruded front the skull, anti
one eye was completely knocked out of the soekeri
and Ity upon her cheek. From the disordered
state of her dress there is reason to conclude,
that the rutlian:a3sailant had made some attempt
hupon her chastity ;• arid it is not intpro!iahle that
the efforts she wade to r,:sist h,m.had•aroused•the
fury of the Wretch, Hod iletermiocti•him instantly
to depti%e- her of Inc.t From a vat iery of circum-
stances, which we. have not here rown to detail,
tell upon a 11140, who
rear Loughbolsigh. Fie ,says ;his name is
Roilterham, that he is a native uf
Shetrield„by trade a scissor grinder. On exa-
miniog his clothes, stains of blood appeared in
various places': and lie had sold in his flight a pair
of shoes t:ttid an umbrella, which are believed to
have been the-property of ti,e oniorrullate inte-
resting, girl. Ile was conveyed heavily ironed to
Sutton ; and we have cause to state that he was
yesterday•fully committed for trial. The ototliei
of the deceased has been in a state of phreuzy
since she heard of her daughter's melancholy
end I.—(i.Sttegeld Mercury, July 12 )

CITY PHlSoNS.—Yesterday the Loaf:, MAYolt,
accompanied by Sir WILLIAM CUR fIS, &c. visited
the different pri.ons of the City, and sttictly in-
vestigated the state of the prisoners, and tlie sys-
tem of government adopted towards them.
Newgate, since the appointment of the New
Keeper, vatious rules and re4tdations have been
adopted under the inouediate direction of the
Loa D MAYOR, which afford not only Comfort and
security, but proniise to produce much Mural good
to the inmates.

CniatNuY-SWEEPING.—A very curious machine
has been constructed by a Mr. JAMES BUTTERSi
junior, which is intended to supersede the inhu-
man practice of sweeping chimnies by climb-
ing boys. This apparatus, in form, is nut
unlike w hat' is called a Turk's-head brush.
le has a strong spring .enclosed' within it ; this
being wound up, the L4ol)4E:ails is introduced
into the thr'bat of the chimney, which it then
climbs to the inmost height. Having found
its way. through the top of the pot, its remain-
ing• power k then rapidly epentledi when it
May be pulled down by an bleached cord, whielt
it takes up along with it, and so sweeps the chim-
ney as effectually as a boy could do. As lIIRIVf
chimnies are irregularly formed; being narrower
in sonic places than •others, -the inventor has,
very:judiciously, made the brush to dilate and con-
tract that it may touch the flue in every paet, and
pass through it with ease. ' As this sWeeping au.
1011101011 is ttflittii, by experiment, to ascend
crooked chimnics %till) • the saute facility, •ag
straight Ones; it admits of being generally ,sp-
plied, and cannot fail (if the plan be adopted)
to protvote the desirable object for which hutha.
Wily is.so laudably exerting itself.
Z•.:',“lRlNG.—Scroggins bat! a . benefit at the
Fives-court yestei (My , and the company
that although beaten, he was not forgotten.---
Giegson, Littler, and Painter arc nut in London,
but thet'e was good setting-to with Oliver, Bel-
cher, Richmond, Purcell, Lancaster, &c. Scrog-
gins did' hot e,tltlbit from Litheness, nor did 'fur-
tier, who svias present. 01.-er weS the star of the
flay, although there was a flue e b bitiJrl betiveeti
Belcher and Lancaster. Oliver was first pitted
againgt Spring, a Athler:C young butcher,
wholll the ghi ye had represented as an oat ante
outer ; he was howevet shewn the- difference be-
tween tapping.and hitting, and his promise was
much•lessoied.

Last week a butcher tnneracteti With o public
iostizatimt in Exeter, to solip;1, it With meat at
Itreepenre liaitinutty per pourick, to deliver only
Tillie VicCM