The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-27 00:00:00

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued
I Other securities... 2,964,900
Gold coin and bul-
lion 12,863,507
Silver bullion 1,934,723

X 28,798,230
M.
Dated the 25th day of Septi

£28;798,230
fARSIIALL, Chief Cashier.
!Luber, 1845.
:PARTMENT.

BANKING DI
X.
Proprietors eapita1,14,553,000
Rest
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exche-
quer, Savings-
banks, Commis-
sioners ofNational '
Debt, and divi-

Government secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight
Annuity)
Other securities 13,297,048
Notes 8,327,895
Gold and silver
coin 549,319

dend : accounts) 8,222,109
Other deposits-- 8,110,787
Seven day andother -
bills

£35,522,9051
M. MA
Dated the 25th day of Septei

£35,522,905
LusHALL, Chief Cashier
;tuber, 1845.

THE MURDER OF MR. PEACOP. •
CHESTER, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The four prisoners
charged with the murder of Mr. Peacop, at Rock-ferry,
about a mile and a half from Birkenhead, having been at the
.
close of the last examination removed to Chester Castle, it
was determined by the magistrates to take their further
examination here, instead of at Birkenhead, and accordingly
the Nisi Prius Court Was fixed upon. Distance, however,
did not damp the ardour of the lower class of Irish to be
present. Such as could afford travelled by the railway, but
great numbers left their homes as early as five and six o'clock
in the morning, and walked •to this city, the road being at
one time actually crowded with pedestrians ; and at Chester
the court doors were besieged long before the hour appointed
for the examination. About lialf-past eleven o'clock the
following magistrates took their seats on the bench :—The
Rev. R. M. Fielden, the Venerable Archdeacon Clark, Messrs. '
J. D. Case, J. R. Shaw, •W. Jackson, and W. Potter. ' •
The prisoneiss Tallant, Lynch, and Nowlan were then
placed at the bar, as was also the approver Burns.
The depositions of the witnesses taken at the first exami-
nation were then read over, the only additional fact affecting
any of the prisoners being an answer from Mr. Keyzar, the
witness who went up to Mr. Peaeop at the time of the rob.:
berysand who received a blow on the forehead which ren-
dered him for a time insensible. He stated that the head of
the hammer, which was found in the house of Lynch, would
fit such a stick as he was struck with.
Mr. Chew; the attorney for the prisoners, then requested
permission to ask Burns (the approver) a few additional
questions, which was granted by the bench, with an intima-
tion that he must confine himself to questions pertinent to
the subject before them.
Burns then stated that he left his lodgings in Liverpool
on the 31st of December last, at half-past seven o'clock in the
morning; that he walked to Chester all the way, and when
there only saw some " navies," whom he did not know, who
told him there was no chance of his getting work, as people
were working for Bd. and 10d. per day. He did not remain
in Chester many minutes. Went into no house, walked
back, and reached Birkenhead about half-past five o'clock
in the evening. Was never in any prison in Ireland. Never
committed any robbery on his brother or sister. Did take a
pair of trousers belonging to his brother-in-law, and pledged.
them, but did not account that robbery, as it was done for
his sister. Does not know a man named Macnamara. Never
read pamphlets in his presence. Was at school twelve months,
but could not be taught to read. Whea in Ireland was kept
by money obtained from his friends, but would not tell who
those friends were.
Several witnesses were then called, who had passed along
the road on the night of the robbery, and who deposed to
having seen persons about the shop and near the spot where
Burns stated he and his fellow-prisoners had met, but they
were unable to identify the prisoners as being any of those
persons. The night, however, was very dark and foggy.
Thomas M'Convill was then called, and he said the pri-
soner lodged with him about three weeks in the month of
December last, and for four or five days in the month of
January. On the 31st of December he left home about two
o'clock in the day, and did not return until after one o'clock
in the morning. Witness saw him at eight o'clock, and asked.
where he bad been so late, and he replied " getting in coals."
He was never out so late except on that occasion,
Joseph Farrell, a mason, living at Oxton, deposed to the
prisoner Burns having worked for hire, ; that he was sober
and industrious during that time, and left without being dis-
charged.
It was then proved by Mr. Vickery, manager of the gas-
works at Birkenhead, that the prisoners had worked for that
company. Tallant, Lynch, and Nowlan worked in the same
gang in laying pipes in the streets. Lynch was at the head
of the gang, and was entrusted with the control of the rest.
On the 23d of December Lynch worked at Rock-ferry.
In cross-examination lilr. 'Vickery gave the prisoners a
good character, as sober and industrious men.
The prisoners were then asked whether they had anything
to say ?—They said they should leave it to their attorney.
Mr. Chew said, in law there was no case whatever against
the prisoners, as it was impossible to believe the testimony of
that villain Burns, unless substantially corroborated ; so far
from that being the case, he was positively contradicted by
the person with whom he had lodged in Liverpool.
The Bench inquired whether Mr. Chew intended to call
witnesses? Mr. Chew wished first to know whether the
magistrates intended to commit the prisoners?
Mr. Fieldens.-That is a question you have no business to
ask at present.
Mr. Chew then called Elizabeth Hughes, who stated that
she lived near the prisoner Lynch, and was in his house on
the 31st of December last ; that she went in for 35., which
Mrs. Lynch owed her, She knew the day because She had
been in Liverpool to a christening, and crossed the river by
the eight o'clock boat, and went direct to his house. Lynch
was reading a tale called " The Wandering Jew." Stayed
there an hour or an hour an half, until it was finished, when
Lynch and his wife accompanied her home. Ile there lighted
his pipe, and he and his wife went away.
Mary Williams, another neighbour to Lynch, deposed to
going into the house at nine o'clock, on New Year's eve, She
saw the last witness sitting in the house with a book in her
hand, and Lynch was reading a paper. Went to borrow ls.
from Mrs. Lynch, which she got and went away. Lynch
was In the habit of reading aloud to his neighbours.
Thomas Macnamara stated that he lodged with Burns, at
the house of a man named Halfpenny, and was in the habit
of lending Lloyd's Miscellany, and such publications to him,
which he (witness) has heard him read, though imperfectly.
John Walnut, a person employed at the gas-works, Birken-
head, stated that he was in the habit of watching the works,
and on one occasion Lynch lent him for his defence a stick
loaded with lead at one end.
Mr. Chew stated, that the brother of Burns was present to
prove the utter worthlessness of his character, but he would
not call Lim,
The Magistrates then retired, and after being out of court
about a quarter of an hour they returned, when the Rev.
Mr. Fielden said, they had taken into their consideration the
evidence adduced on both sides, and as they could have no
previous knowledge of that to be produced in behalf of the
prisoners, it would perhaps be most satistactory to all parties
that time should be afforded to inquire into it. The Bench
had, therefore, come to the determination of further remanding
the prisoners until Saturday next.
The prisoners were then remanded accordingly,

THE MINERALS OF ALGIERS.
The Commerce gives some remarks on the mining resources
of Algeria, with the expression of a fear that they will- be
made the object of excessive speculation and jobbing, It
then says :

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"The principal veins discovered in Algeria are of copper.
iron, and lead. Those of copper and iron may give good re-
sults if they are v,-orked with intelligence. As to the lead,
however abundant it may be, it appears to be situated in
positions little accessible to industry, and could not probably
sustain a competition with the rich mines of Spain and the
United States of America."

The copper mine of the Teniah of Mouzaia, adds the Com-
merce, is the only one fur which there has been as yet a Go -
vernment concession, but the wonders related of it have led
to numerous demands for other grants. It appears, however,
that the yield is by no means so rich as has been stated. The
ore is in a very mixed state, and only a small portion of it
gives 25 per cent.; whereas it had been reported that this was
the produce of the entire mass, and in order to obtain the 25
per cent. from the richest portion of the ore it has to undergo
a very tedious and expensive process, and has to be carried
at a great expense to Blidah, and from thence to Algiers.
As the average yield of the ore is, according to the Commerce,
only 10 to 12 per cent., the speculation cannot be a very lu-
crative one, when the expense of carriage to Algiers, and of
transport to Marseilles is taken into account. There are other
veins of copper, says our Contemporary, in the environs of
Tenez, close to the sea, but the works that have been under-
taken in order to ascertain their value, are not yet sufficiently
advanced for any just notion to be formed, on the subject._
Algeria is richer in iron than in copper. In the environs or
Blidah there is a compact iron ore, and on the crown the_nfeo
Atlas, between Blidah and:Medeah, there are. ironm anydothpe;
per to a great extent. This is also the casoreem
anxious to
parts of Algeria, and speculators are not m
cient to have iron ore,
ob-
tain grants for iron mines than fors thoseu
the Commerce observes, it is not of copper; but, as
iron with speed and eco-
nomy.rce
resourcesitbn t
forA l Algeria
smelting,d o er
but to know how to convert_
as regards mines,
vast ideas
not present, .
The conclusiono
justify the vast that have been con-
carriage, &c., as tofore,
it recommends caution and pru-
iltheiterucr
speculators.
dceetuveede
toofipt, and, there

PrILMONART CONSUMPTION.—From the fourth an-
fluid report of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the
Chest, the following statistical facts may be gathered Of the
60.000 deaths which annually occur in England and Wales from
slow and lingering disease, upwards of 35,000 are due to pulmonary
consumption ; and as the duration of the disease, taking one with
another, is about two years, it follows that more than 70,000 per-
sons are constantly suffering from consumption.'' It may be well to
add that many, very many, of these poor sufferers are the acknow.
ledged victims of unventilated workshops, ill-constructed dwellings.
long hours of work, and the want of open places for exercise and
recreation, The new hospital for consumption, &c., now in the
Course of erection at Brompton, by those extensive builders the
Messrs. Bird, of Hammersmith, will be opened for the reception of
patients early in the forthcoming spring.
THUNDER-STORM.—ROC HESTER, SEPT. 22.—0 n
Thursday evening, between six and seven o'clock, this neighbour.
hood was visited by a fearful storm, which fortunately was but of
short duration. The vivid flashes of lightning were followed by
thunder-claps loud and deep, and accompanied by a heavy shower
of hail and rain, during which a young man named Can, a brick.
maker, about twenty years of Age, lost his life. He left Strout
at about the commencement of the storm, on his way home to
Ctixtona, a village on the bank of the Medway, about three miles
above RQchester.bridge, and before he had proceeded one-third o
the distance lost his life. - The corpse was found early this morn-
ing by a labouring man in_the employ of Mr. William Menclark,,
near whose farm the melancholy catastrophe occurred. The elem.
tric fluid appears to have struck the unfortunate man on his bead,
one side of the (ace being much burnt, and his hat and clothes
rent open, and_ shoes tort into shreds.
- SPLENDID STAG.—A few days ago J. Grant, Esq.,
younger, of Glenmorieton, killed a stag, which weighed up..
wards of 20 stone, sinking offalsi—Edinlnfre, Advertiser.

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