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King's Arms Inn, Uxbridge, to consider how the pri-
soner could be brorght to Uxbridge for examination,
and it was determined to address the following letter to
the Secretary of State for the Home Department:—
" Uxbridge, Dec. 30, 1844.
" gir,=We are iliatfileie,ei by lier-MaJesty's justices of
the peace acting for the exbridge difietotii and Who sat
in petty sessions here to-day, to enclose for yotif Verusal
cOPy df a , letter addressed by Mr. Chesterton, the
Governor of the liaise of 0,..e rection at Coldbath-fields,
to Sir W. S. Wiseman, Bart., one of the justices, and to
acquaint you that, in consequence of that letter,
W; S Wiseman, Bart., and Thomas Dagnall, Esq.,
Uxbridge magistrates, attended at the House of Correc-
tion on Saturday last, to make inquiry into the circum-
aiantes; when George Sibley, one of the prisoners, in
the presence df Charles Limb, the other prisoner, de-
posed to on oath, and sighed the statement, of which a
copy is also enclosed.
"John Brill, a lad of about 15 years of age, was mur-
dered in Ruislip Woods in February, 1837. The
ecirdner's jury, at the inquest, returned a verdict of
' Wilful Murder against some person or persons un-
known.' Several circumstances' attending the murder
stated by George Sibley in his deposition are corrobo-
rated by other testimony. Charles Lamb was always
suspected of being the murderer, and was apprehended
and taken before the magistrates at the time, but the
circtictistential evidence against him not being deemed
quite sufficient to authorise his committal for trial, he
was discharged.
" Charles Lamb has since the murder been tried for
sheepstealing and acquitted. He was shortly after-
wards tried at the Old Bailey, and convicted of felony,
and sentenced to seven years transportation. After
having been imprisoned on board the hulks at Ports-
mouth about four years, he received her Majesty's
pardon, and returned to the neighbourhood of Ruislip.
He was lately summarily convicted of poaching, and
committed in October last to the House of Correction
for six months. George Sibley was convicted for a
like
.offence, and was committed to the same for a like
term.

" The Magistrates consider, that in consequence of
George Sibley's statement, the matter of the murder re-
quires further investigation, but submit the whole for
your consideration. If you should concur with
them, they beg to know whether 3ou will issue an order
for Charles Lamb being brought down here, that the
evidence of the witnesses be taken before them, and
that George Sibley may also be brought down to give
his evidence. The term of . Lamb's and Sibley's impri-
sonment will not expire until about three months hence.
" If you should approve of the course submitted for
your consideration, will you instruct the magistrates
what line of conduct they ought to pursue on the
occasion ?—We have the honour to be your most obe-
dient servants,

" RICHES AND WOODBRIDGE.
" Clerks to the Magistrates."
To that application to Sir James Graham, Bart., the
following answer has been received :
" Whitehall, Dec. 31, 1844.

" Gentlemen,—l am directed by Secretary Sir James
Graham, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
31st instant, and its enclosures, and to inform you, that
he is not able to make any order for removing the pri-
soners George Sibley and Charles Lamb from gaol, and
taking them before the magistrate at Uxbridge for exa-
mination. There is no -objection to the magistrates
taking their examination in the prison, and this appears
to Sir James Graham the proper course to be adopted.
" I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" S. M. PIIILLIPPS.
" Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, Clerks
to the Magistrates, Uxbridge."
The above answer from the Home-office has greatly
disappointed the Uxbridge magistrates, as it compels
them to put the county to great expense for the convey-
ance of the numerous witnesses, who are all residing in
the neighbourhood of Uxbridge, when the transmitting
of the two prisoners to Uxbridge would have been at-
tended with little cost.
On Saturday last a muster of the witnesses examined
at the time, both before the magistrates and at the in-
quest, took place before the magistrates at Uxbridge,
the front of the King's Arms Inn being crowded with
persons waiting the result. Their statements, however,
were only taken down to see how far they recollected
the facts, and the decision of the Bench as to the course
it will eventually pursue in conducting the inquiry has
not yet been made known.
On Monday, being the day on which the petty sessions
is held, the Magistrates' room and the road outside the
inn were again crowded, in the expectation that a public
examination on the matter would take place.

THE " STATUE OF WILLIAM IV."—The comme-
moration of the erection and inauguration of the statue of
the " Sailor King," which has just been completed by
Mr. Samuel Nixon, and is now placed on a pedestal at
the termination of King William-street, at the point
which faces London-bridge, was celebrated yesterday
evening at the Adelaide Tavern, at the foot of the
bridge, where, at six o'clock, a very numerous and re-
spectable assemblage of the influential gentlemen of the
wards of Bridge and Candlewick sat down to an excel-
lent dinner, provided by Mr. Softlaw, the proprietor of
the house. The chair was filled by Sir Chapman Mar-
shall, who was supported on the right hand by Sir George
Carroll (these two gentlemen being the aldermen of the
respective wards), and on his left by Mr. Samuel Nixon.
The musical arrangements were under the direction of
Mr. Talberan, who was assisted by Messrs. Sporle,
Genge, and Smith. Mr. Oakey presided at the pianoforte.
The healths of her Majesty, of the Queen Dowager,
of Prince Albert, and of the rest of the Royal Family,
were drunk with the usual honours, after which the
Navy and Army, the Memory of William IV., the
Healths of Sir G. Carroll, of Sir C. Marshall, and of
Mr. Nixon, were drunk with every demonstration of
good feeling. The three last-mentioned gentlemen ac-
knowledged the honour done them in the usual manner,
and a ere cheered by the company. A variety of other
toasts were alto proposed and drunk. The erection of
this statue is an era in the progress of good taste in the
City. It was originally intended only to erect a sort of
obelisk on the spot which it now cecupies, in order to
break the length of the crossing from the one foot-pave-
ment to the other, and afford foot-passengers a refuge
from the rapid and almost continuous succession of car-
riqgps, of various sorts, by which the streets at this
anre are filled. Fortunately a better genius than is al-
ways present at City councils presided, and the result is
the erection of one of the most ornamental statues in
the metropolis. The statue does great credit to Mr. S.
Nixon, who is already known favourably to the public by
the beautiful illustrations of the four seasons with which
the Goldsmiths' Hall is ornamented, and by other works
of art in different parts of London and the country.
This statue of King William IV. is in a pure and vigo-
rous state of art—it is felicitously correct as a portrait,
both as to features, person, and character—it is digni-
fied without stiffness, and easy without coarseness. It
is of granite, colossal in its dimensions (the figure of the
King and the pedestal on which it stands being upwards
of 40 feet in height). The monarch is neither idolised
into a demigod, nor vulgarised into the representation
of a boatswain. It is altogether an excellent specimen
of the advance of sculpture in this c; untry, and an orna-
ment to the locality it occupies. The Chairman, during
the course of the evening, stated that her Majesty the
Queen Dowager would, from what had been communi-
clikedo him, take an opportunity of viewing this testi-
mqiiiirto her deceased husband, and that his Royal
igh npas prince A lbert_ ancithe_Dukestf_WellingioiLliad
expresa,e4„thetiatention 9f in.specting the labours of.the
artist. A statue. -or Queen Adelaide on tfie Surrey side
of the bridge would be no inappropriate companion to
this of his late Majesty, and would be both an ornament
and a work of utility to the inhabitants of Southwark,
and to those who traverse the streets in the neighbour-
hood of the bridge.
DARING ROBBERY.—EarIy on Monday evening,
during the absence of the family, the house of Mr.
Turner, one of the Queen's marshalmen, in Graham-
street, Pimlico, was entered into, and property consist-
ing of plate, jewellery, wearing-apparel, and other things
was stolen therefrom. It appears that the thieves
effected an entrance at the parlour-window, and having
lighted a candle, lost no time in ransacking the whole
house. Doors, boxes, and drawers, were broken open,
and their contents turned out in a style which clearly
evinced that no inexperienced hands had been engaged
in the work. It is said, that some valuable articles were
stolen from the apartments of one of the lodgers, who is
holding a respectable situation in the royal household,
but who is at present, unfortunately at Windsor. No
clue has yet been obtained which might lead to the ap-
prehension of the offenders. Suspicion, however, is
entertained that a woman who had in the course of the
day applied for a petition to obtain relief from the Pim-
lico Philanthropic Society—of which Mr. Turner is a
member, and who was afterwards seen at a short dis-
tance from the house, was concerned in the robbery. A
report is also in circulation, that a gang of notorious
burglars is living in the neighbourhood ; and, from se-
veral attempts which have been made to plunder, the
police cannot be too active and vigilant in their exertions
to prevent a repetiton of these offences.
DEATH OP A FEMALE FROM ALLEGED VIOLENCE.—
Yesterday Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Star and
Garter, Great Peter-street, Westminster, on the body of
Mary Cotton, aged thirty, who cohabited with Isaac
Harmon, at No. 22, in the above street, who died under
the following circumstances:—Witnesses living in rooms
next to that of deceased, said that on Saturday night they
saw her alive and well, and that at about two o'clock
next (Sunday) morning, they heard Harmon come home
intoxicated. On entering he accused deceased of tardi-
ness in opening the street door for him, and said to her,
" give it you for keeping me waiting." They ther,i,
heard what they termed a " sobbing and wheezing
noise, as if made by a person trying but unatb
to cry out, and shortly afterwards they heard h
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dress disordered. One eye was closed, and froth was
oozing
the act of lifting the deceased up, when she groaned
feebly and died. Mr. Hanley, surgeon, of the Horse-
ferry-road, said he was called by Harmon to see de-
ceased, antrthat he found her on the floor quite dead ;with
no exterior marks of injury on the body. Their absence,
however, was no proof that violence had not been used.
Harmon had given him two different versions of the
affair. The Coroner and jury said that, under these
doubtful circumstances, the inquiry must be adjourned
for a day, in order that it might be ascertained by a post
rnorttmexaminationtwhether volence had been used or not.
UNWHOLESOME MEAT.—At the Maidstone Quarter
Sessions, on Saturday last, a pork butcher was tried for
having five hundred weight of unwholesome beef, &c.,
intended for the purpose of making sausages. The jury
returned a verdict of guilty, and the Chairman, as a
caution to other tradesmen, sentenced the prisoner to
nine calendar months' bard labour in Maidstone gaol.