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TiN SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEIVING,, JANUARY 8, 1845.

before the next month. Mr. Woolier, after conferrir,7
with the prisoner, said he should pref,r the case standing
over for tome days, and the prisoner was remanded till
Monday r ext.

DISCOVERY OF A SUPPOSED
MURDERER.
During the last fortnight an extraordinary degree of
excitement Las prevailed throughout the extreme
western and north-western portions of the county of
Middlesex, in consequence or its having become known
that some information relative to the perpetrator of a
murder committed under very mysterious circumstances
about eight years since had been received by the local
magistrates, who have evet since been actively engaged in
furthering the ends of justice, and entering into a
searching investigation into the matter.
The scene of the crime is situate in the rural and re-
tired parish of Ruislip, about four miles north of the
town of Uxbridge, the actual spot being a wood called
"Young Wood,'' which abuts on a crossroad leading
from Uxbridge to the town of Rickmanswortla, in
Hertfordshire, and about midway between those towns,
which with another wood adjoining it, called " Mad
Bessy," consists of about 130 acres, the whole of which
is covered by a thick underwood about five feet high, I
through which there are no paths, with the exception of
blind paths or hares' tracks, and which is altogether a
place well adapted for the perpetration of any atrocious
crime without the chance of immediate detection. The
object for which the murr'er was committed was at the
time considered to have been revenge, the unfortunate
youth, who was only fifteen years of age, having shortly
before given evidence against a party of poachers, who
were on that evidence convicted, and by whom, both at
the inquest and at the examinations before the local
magistrates, threats of vengeance were directed against
him.
The name of the murdered youth was John Brill, and
the circumstances, as they appeared in evidence, were as
follows:—John Brill was the son of a labouring man,
living in the village of Ruislip, and was in the employ of
Mr. C. Churchill, an extensive farmer in that parish.
On the morning of Thursday, the 16th of February,
1837, Brill left his father's house about a quarter past
six o'clock, and proceeded to work on a farm of his
master's, who about ten o'clock set him to fill up some
gaps in the hedge of " Young Wood," and directed that,
after he had finished doing so, be should then watch some
poles which had been cut in the wood. Not returning to
the farm in the evening, as was his custom, a search was
in consequence instituted with lanterns in the wood, but
no trace of him could be discovered. On Friday morn-
ing, the 17th, Mr. Churchill's men were sent out in vari-
ous directions, but they all returned without any intelli-
gence respecting the unfortunate lad. On the Satur-
day the search was again renewed, but with no better
success ; and on Sunday morning a large body of vil-
lagers joined in the search, when, about noon, the ill-
fated youth was discovered by a man named James La-
vender (the father of one of the men who it was alleged
had threatened his life), in a hollow in a remote part
of the wood, where he was lying on his back quite
dead. His clothes were in disorder, and his face was
covered with dirt, as if he had been rolled in the de-
cayed leaves with which the spot was covered. On
examining the body the mark of a severe blow was
discovered under the right ear, which was considerably
swollen, and from which a quantity of blood had issued.
About six yards behind him the bill-hook which he
had been using was found, and on a hedge, just above
him, was his cap, which had apparently been caught by
the furze as he fell. There were also marks on the leaves
for five or six yards, as if he had staggered as he fell.
On lifting him up—although every joint of his body was
stiff and rigid—his neck was found to be remarkably lax,
and indicated every appearance of having been broken.
The body was then conveyed to the Six Bells public-
house, about 500 yards from the entrance of the wood,
where, on the following Wednesday, an inquest was held
on the body by Mr. T. Stirling, the late coroner for the
western division of Middlesex, when, after a lengthened
investigation, the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful
murder against some person or persons unknown."
Early on the Monday morning following the finding
of the body, in consequence of information communi-
cated to Mr. Thomas Dagnall, a county magistrate, re-
siding at Cowley, warrants were issued for the appre-
hension of Charles Lamb, Thomas Lavender, and James
Bray, junior, labourers in the village, on suspicion of
having been concerned in the murder, who were immedi-
ately taken into custody by Murray, the active
police-constable of Uxbridge, and other officers. The
examinations before the magistrates at Uxbridge occu-
pied two days, during which the town wus crowded by
persons from all the neighbouring parts, anxious to hear
the evidence, which was, however, not considered con-
clusive against them, and after the termination of the
inquest they were discharged from custody by Sir Wil-
liam S. Wiseman, Bart., and Mr. Dagnall, both of whom
were in attendance at the Six Bells to watch the inquiry.
After the prisoners were discharged and their hand-
cuff, removed, Bray begged a favour of the magistrates,
which was, that he might be permitted to see the body
of the murdered youth, saying it would give him_plea-
sure, -as he had suffered a good deal through him. Most
probably he demanded this test by way of impressing
the bystanders with a notion of his innocence, there
being a superstition among the uneducated classes that
the blood of the murdered person will burst out if the
murderer approaches the body. The request was granted.
All the three prisoners were taken into the room in
which the body was lying, and after looking at it for
some minutes they merely asserted their innocence and
retired.
From that time, notwithstanding every possible exer-
tion has been used by the local authorities to trace the
actual murderer, the matter has remained in abeyance
until the present time without even any reward being
offered in the case. The intense interest excited at the

time of the murder has, however, been revived, by the
receipt, on the day before Christmas-day, by Sir W.
Wiseman, Bart., of the following letter :
" House of Correction, Coldbath-fields,
Dec. 23, 1844.
"Sir,—A voluntary declaration has this day been
made to me by a prisoner named George Sibley, the
younger, who was committed to this prison by you on
the 14th of October last, to the effect that Charles Lamb,
also a prisoner, committed by you on the 14th October
!ast, had told him (Sibley) that about a fortnight before
their committal, one afternoon, between four and five
o'clock, when on their road from Rickmansworth to
Harefield, a few years since he (Lamb) had killed a
lad, named John Brill, in Mr. Churchill's wood at
Ruislip ; that he struck the lad with a stick, and when
he lay upon the ground he took the lad's cap and hung
it on a tree, to make it appear that he had fallen out of
the tree ; and that he left the lad's billhook and glove
lying near the body. Sibley says, that Charles Lamb
had warned him, that if he said anything about it, it
should be the worse for him. Sibley made the same
communication to the chief warder yesterday, asking
him, if he gave the information, whether he should get
his liberty. This is a suspicious circumstance ; but I
have thought it desirable to put you, as one of the local
magistrates, in possession of what has been stated to me.
You may send any person whom you may think fit to
sift the matter.

" I shall inform the visiting justices at their next
meeting also of this communication, in order that they
may take any steps which they may deem advisable.
" I sent for Charles Lamb this forenoon into my office,
and, without informing him of the charge against him,
simply asked him if he had ever known John Brill. I
watched his countenanee, but could not discover the
slightest emotion on the mention of the name. Lamb
said, he had been apprehended on the charge of mur-
dering Brill, but added, "Thank God, I am clear of
that.' I must add, from my observation of Sibley, Ido
not attach much credit to his statement ; still, however,
I consider it my duty to make it known to you, with a
view to some investigation.—l have the honour to be,
Sir, your most obe3ient servant,
" G. L. CHESTERTON, Governor.
" To Sir W. S. Wiseman, Bart., Hillingdon."
Immediately on the receipt of that letter Sir W. Wise-
man communicated the fact to the other magistrates of
the Uxbridge division, and it was eventually determined
that Sir W. Wiseman and Mr. Dagnall should proceed
on the following Saturday to the House of Correction for
the purpose of taking the deposition of Sibley in the
presence of Charles Lamb. Accordingly, on December
the 28th, both magistrates visited the House of Correc-
tion, and having sworn Sibley in the presence of Lamb,
took the following deposition :
" Middlesex to Wit.—The examination of George
Sibley, late of the parish of Ilarefield, in the county of
Middlesex, labourer, and now a prisoner in the House of
Correction, Coldbath-fields, in the said county, taken on
oath before Sir W. S. Wiseman, Bart., and T. Dagnall.
Esq., two of her Majesty's justices of the peace in and
for the said county, this 28th day of December, 1844 :
" Who saith, that he knows and, has been well ac-
quainted with Charles Lamb, now also a prisoner in the
House of Correction, rather better than a twelvemonth.
That about three months ago he and Charles Lamb
having been convicted of poaching, and being ordered to
be sent to prison for it, were at hide and seek to-
gether. That about a fortnight before Charles Lamb
was taken to prison, Lamb and the witness were
coming from Rickmansworth to llarefield between four
and five o'clock in the afternoon in the lane there ;
we was talking about getting into mischief and trouble,
and stating that it was easier to get into trouble than it
was to get out, for Charles Lamb said, I'd sooner be
taken for murder than come to prison.' Murder?' I
said to him, ' what murder?' Upon which Lamb said,
I was in Churchill's Wood getting a bundle of wood,
when a boy named John Brill came up to me, and I
knocked him down. I stood a few minutes, and took
his cap and hung it up on a stem, and laid his glove and
billhook by the side of him, as if he had tumbled out of
a tree, and,' he says, • nobody else knows on it but you,
and if you tell anybody I'll kill you.' Lamb said the
boy was walking round the wood.
" Witness had heard of the murder some years ago,
and that Lamb had been had up for it. Witness also
said to Lamb, when he mentioned the murder, What
—murder Charley ?' to which Lamb said, Yes.'
" Witness says he has always been on good terms with
Lamb ever since he has known him.
" Witness says, that his reason for making this state-
ment is because he has had such queer dreams, and
could not sleep on account of his knowledge of the
murder.

" Witness says, on being asked by Lamb whether he
could look him in the face, and say that ho told him
such a thing, that you certainly did,' and ho has told
nothing but the truth, and that it is true as that he
stands here.

" Witness says, that he voluntarily makes this state-
ment, and that no person has held out any promise or
favour to him to do so.
" Witness first made the statement to Mr. Hoare, the
chief warder of the House of Correction, having told
the wardsman he wished me to see Mr. Hoare. Mr.
Hoare came and said, 4 What's the matter?' 'Witness
said, ' Charles Lamb told me of a murder.'
" Witness is 25 years of age last August.
"The mark of pd GEORGE. SIBLEY."
Charles Lamb, who treated the matter with stoical in-
difference, on the deposition being completed, said, " All
the statement made by George Sibley is untrue."
On the Monday after taking the above deposition, a
, meeting of the trusters was hold in petty sessions at the

King's Arias Inn, Uxbridge, to consider how the pri-
soner could be bru.ght 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.
" Sir,—We are instructed by her Majesty's justices of
the peace acting for the Uxbridge division, and who sat
in petty sessions here to-d.ty, to enclose fur your perusal
a copy of a letter addressed by Mr. Chesterton, the
Governor of the House of Correction at Coldbath-fields,
to Sir W. S. Wiseman, Bart, one of the justices, and to
acquaint you that, in consequence of that letter,
Sir 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-
stances, when George Sibley, one of the prisoners, in
the presence of Charles Lamb, the other prisoner, de-
posed to on oath, and signed the staterMnt, 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
coroner'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
circumstantial 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' trdnsportation. 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 Nou will issue an order
for Charles Lamb beieg 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 tick no wledga 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
try 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 sce bow 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,
Gouge, 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 Array, 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 were cheered by the company. A variety of other
toasts were also 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-
riages, of various sorts, by which the streets at this
angle 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 Air. 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.
fled without stiffness, and easy without coarseness. It
is of granite, colossal in its dimensions (the figure of the
King and the pedestal gn 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 country, 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-
cated to him, take an opportunity of viewing this testi-
monial to her deceased husband, and that his Royal
Highness Prince Albert and the Duke of Wellington had
expressed their intention of inspecting the labours of the
artist. A statue of Queen Adelaide on the 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.
DEATI4 Off' 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,
" I'll give it you for keeping me waiting." They
.then
heard what they termed a " sobbing and wheezing"
unableeezing"
noise, as if made by a person trying but
to cry out, and shortly afterwards theyh heard the
sound of a heavy fall upon the floor, wine was suc-
ceeded by the coming
out of Harmon on the landing
of
said,
the stairs asking for succour, as something. he was
the matter with deceased. The witnesses, Eliza Dur-
ham and Mary Carman, went into the room and found
deceased lying on the floor on her side, with her head
partly under the bed, her hair dishevelled, and her night-
dress disordered. One eye was closed, and froth was
oozing from her mouth. The woman Durham was in
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,and:that 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
mortemexaminationiwhether volonce 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' hard labour in Maidstone gaol.

COURT CiRCULAR.
WINDSOR, TUESTAT.—The Queen walked out for
some time this morning, attended by Lady C. Cocks.
Prince Albert, accompanied by the Austrian Am-
bassador (Count Dietrichstein), the Earls of Liverpool
and Delawarr, left the Castle this morning on a
shooting excursion in the royal preserves, attended
by Mr. Anson and Colonel Bouverie. -
'lames Bentley, Esq., the treasurer of St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital, Thomas R. Bartrum, Esq.,
Richard Gilbert, Esq., and John Dixon, Esq.,
Governors (a deputation from the hospital), attended
by Mr. William Wix, the clerk, had the honour of an
audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert at the
Castle this morning, to present to his Royal High-
ness a green staff, and a copy, on vellum, of the reso-
lution of the Court, upoa his Royal Highness be-
coming a Governor of that ancient foundation, which
the Prince was pleased to accept. The gentlemen of
the deputation were most graciously received, and
were invited to partake of a luncheon in the Castle,
after which the deputation took their departure for
London.

Mr. Alderman Lucas, the Presijent of St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital, was unfortunately prevented, by
indisposition, from accompanying the deputation to
present the address from town.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the
Princess Royal, were taken for their accustomed air-
ings to-day.
The Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Diet-
richstein visited her Royal highness the Duchess of
Kent, at Frogmore House, this afternoon.
The Countess IVratislaw has been confined by a
cold at Frogmore House for some days past, but is
now much better.
The Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Bean-
vale, and Mr. Patrick Fraser Tytler, left the Castle
to-day.
Captain the lion. A. Duncombe has succeeded
Major-General Sir Frederick Stovin as the Groom
in Waiting on the Queen.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Equerries in Waiting, went to the riding school in
the afternoon, to take equestrian exercise.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
Lady Fanny Howard, the Right lion. Sir William
Fremantle, Mr. George Edward and the Bon. Mrs.
Anson, and Sir George Couper.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at-
tendance during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended,
and performed the remainder of the evening.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester
House.

The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt had a meeting yesterday at the Trea-
sury. The Commissioners present were the Master
of the Rolls, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy-
Governor. Mr. Higham Secretary and Comptroller-
General was in attendance.
A deputation from the Shrewsbury, Wolverhamp-
ton, Dudley, and Birmingham Railway Company,
consisting of the Hon. R. H. Clive, M.P., Mr. W. R.
Collett, M.P.; Mr. Richard Smith, of Dudley ; Mr.
Dugdale Houghton, of Birmingham ; Sir John
Rennie, Mr. Richard Roy, and Mr. George Knox,
the Secretary, had a lengthened interview at the rail-
way department of the Board of Trade yesterday.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche—
quer, at his official residence, in Downing-street.
Bishop Griffith had an interview with Lord
Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an
interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. _

Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of Ceylon, and also
for the Governor of Hong-Kong.

THE BISHOP OF EXETER v.
ROYALTY.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The mild and tolerant Bishop of Exeter, in his letter to
Mr. H. M. Phillipps, very kindlyonsigns to the uncove-
nanted mercies of God all those who have not been in-
troduced into the true Church, i.e. the Church of Eng-
land, by the rite of baptism, through the medium of
men episcopally ordained. Now the Bishop, if be really
believes his own doctrine, is placing in 'an exceedingly
awkward position two illustrious members of our royal
family, Prince Albert and the Queen Dowager. IVe
suppose these royal and excellent personages were bap-
tised by Lutheran clergymen, whose ordination is not
Episcopal, and that they have not been rebaptised in
England; they, therefore, are not included in the cove-
nant of mercy! Prince Albert may be exemplary in all
the relations of life; the Queen Dowager may give " all
her goods to feed the poor," and to build churches and
parsonages, but lacking—not that godlike spirit of
" charity," or love, which with St. Paul was of such
great account, and with " H. of Exeter" is of such small
moment —but lacking baptism by the bands of the priest-
hood of the " Anglican Church,' they are, according to
this good Bishop, in point of fact, no Christians! 'the
Bishop, however, proves one thing most satisfactorily;
and that is, that he is no PROTESTANT! He would un-
christianise all the Protestant Churches of the Continent
of Europe—those Churches which were more truly the
offspring of Protestantism than the Church of England;
nine-tenths of the people of Scotland, and one-half of the
people of England, besides the vast majority of our
trans-atlantic Protestant brethren. He, thertfore, cannot
be a Protestant ; and if a Christian himself, he is a
very unapostolic one!

THE ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS.—DEATH OP THE
CELEBRATED STAG BIGHFLYER.—The royal buck-
hounds had one of the most splendid runs of this season
on Monday, but which, however, unfortunately resulted
in the death of Highflyer, one of the most celebrated
deer which has been hunted by the royal pack. The
meet was at New Lodge, the field numbering upwards of
200 of the neighbouring gentry and yeomen. Iligh-
flyer, upon being uncarted, took away in gallant style to
the Pump House, on to North-street, and Hatchet-lane,
to Ascot-place, into Miss Ferard's park, leaping the
palings into the road near the lodge, and thence over
Chevy-downs to the plantations at Swinlev, through
Easthampstead, to Henniker-lodge, near Finchamp-
stead, without a check, and at a rattling racing pace.
Here the pack were at fault ; but upon being laid on on
the heath, Highflyer made for Eversley, in Hampshire,
where he got into the mill stream, with the hounds close
at his heels, and was drowned before his fleet pursuers
could be called off. The sides of the stream were of that
soft, muddy character, that it was impossible for the
horsemen, or the yokels, who had assembled in goodly
numbers, to approach the banks. The scent was good,
and the run, which was over at least twenty-five miles of
country, occupied not more than two hours. Between
30 and 40 well-mounted horsemen—and none but the,
best of cattle could live the pace—were up at the finish.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.--WOOLWICH, JAN. 7.^
In consequence of Mr. Sunderland declining to have any
more experiments made with his propeller in the Rattler
steam-vessel, the intended trial, on Monday, did not take
place, but she will leave on Thursday morning, at tea
o'clock, to try Mr. Hodgson's " Parabolic Propeller."
The Styx steam-vessel, recently engaged in surveying
the Azores, was paid off at Woolwich on Monday, and
Captain Vidol, with Lieutenants Gill and Cox, are to be
borne on the books of the William and Mary yacht.
The Styx being rather large in her draught of water for
the surveying service, will be re-commissioned as a war
steamer, and have a crew of 145 men. Mr. Frederick
Sturdee,, late of the Daring, experimental vessel, has
been appointed additional master of the William and
Mary. The following ships are building at Woolwich:—
The Royal Albert, 120 guns, 3,330 tons burthen ; the
Amphion, 36 guns, is being lengtheued eighteen feet
forward, under the direction of Mr. White, of Cowes.
and will be fitted with a screw propdler, and hay.
engines of 300 horse power. The Sphinx steam vests
is r ow in frame, and will be completed about June next.
Mr. Penn, of Greenwich, is preparing her engines. The
other three building slips at this dockyard are at present
vacant, with the exception of one in which is a barge
seventy feet long, recently built and in progress of being
fitted with Mr. Foulerton's ship mancFuvrer, which is
formed of a three-bladed screw, and intended to show
that it is applicable to turning the largest vessels by are
aid of the crew in the event of any accident to thik
rudder, or during calms.
DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OP A CHILD IN THE
TRUNK OF A TREE.—Yesterday, between twelve and
one o'clock, the body of a new-born child was conveyed
by the police to the St. Pancras workhouse, having been
discovered near Highgate that morning under the fol-
lowing singular circumstances number of boys had
gone into the fields near the Highgate Cemetery, and
some of them proceeded to climb an old tree, situate be-
tween Swain's-laue, leading to the cemetery, and the
upper part of Maiden-lane. Whilst thus engaged ono of
the boys got into the hollow formed in the tree's trunk,
and whilst there felt, as he thought, something move,
beneath his feet. He put his hand to the bottom to feel
what the substance was, and pulled up a black bundle.,
which, on being opened, was found to contain the both;
of a child wrapped up in an old black stuff apron. Th7o
body was somewhat decomposed, but it is stated that
the head is much bruised, and there are marks of vio-
lence on its person, which leave little doubt it has been
murdered, and then secreted in the hollow of the tree.
where it was found.

WORKIIOII9I-111AXAGEIISNT.—At the Bicester
petty sessions on Monday last, the 6th inst., two. met
were brought before the magistrates (the Rev, A. jj.
Matthews and Mr. W. Style), in custody, from tht
Bicester lock-up, or cage, where they had been confined
upwards of 24 hours, charged by Mr. J. H. Mansell, this
governor of the Bicester union poorhouse, with having
on the previous day—Sunday l—refused to perform tha
task-work set them by the complainant in return for the
food afforded them. The men, it appears, were on
tramp, and on Saturday evening applied to the officer for
relict for the night. They were supplied with an order
for admission to the poorhouse, and in consequence ad.
mitted. Supper was given them that night, and lodging
in the Vagrant ward. On the following morning (Sint-
day), before their departure, the governor called on they
to pump a large tank full of water. This the men rO.
fused to do, as they said, because it was Sunday. the
complainant, in consequence, gave them into custody,
and they were taken to Bicester (about a mile), ant'
there locked up, as above stated. The parties gave the
names of William Smith and William Pudler..,
magistrates committed them to Oxford gaol for 14 days
hard lal4our.