The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-24 00:00:00

ROGRESS OF MANUFACTURES

IN SPAIN.
It is perhaps not generally known that the consump-
tion of linen in Spain is greater than that of England,
France, and Belgium, put together; and it is most re-
markable that, until very lately, there did not exist one
manufactory in Spain %here fine linen was made, the
whole of that article of a better quality being imported
from England and Belgium. There are, however, and
there have been for some years, three or four small
factories where a very coarse kind of linen was manu-
factured, but of a quality no better than that made by
the peasants themselves. This attracted the attention of
Madame Laurens, a Spanish lady by birth, but educated
in one of -the manufacturing towns in the south of
France, where she possesses a small manufactory; and
accordingly, after much trouble and expense, she esta-
blished a linen factory at Aviles, a small seaport town
on the north coast of Spain, where, after encountering
great difficulties, she has succeeded so well that, at the
exhibition of national industry held at Madrid last
summer, the specimens of Spanish manufactured linen
presented by Madame Laurens were awarded the
first prize. Tho Government of Spain, naturally
anxious to promote the welfare of an enterprise
of so beneficial a nature, immediately presented
Madame Laurens with a large plot of ground
near to Aviles, and on which there is a large building,
formerly a monastery. This was given to her and her
heirs in perpetuity, subject to the condition that it
should be converted into a linen factory. Finding. her-
self thus encouraged, Madame Laurens immediately
commenced a tour of inspection through Belgium and
England. In England she visited all the great manu-
facturing towns in the north, in order to carry to Spain
all the most recent inventions in the machinery of a
linen factory ; and though the object of her visit was
known, and it was to be expected that she would become
a formidable rival to our manufacturers, she was treated
with the greatest courtesy, and every information she
asked for was immediately given, and given in a cordial
manner. Madame Laurens has now left England, and
there can be no doubt that, before another year is past,
Spain will be in the possession of a linen manufactory,
where the quality of the article produced will be as fine
as the finest manufactured in this country.

TIIE LATE CASE OF MURDER AND PIRACY ON
THE Huns SEAB.—The twelve Judges, before whom the im-
portant question of international law, in this case, was argued
on Saturday, the 15th, have not yet been able to come to a de-
cision, and have intimated their wish that the points should be
argued again by civilians from Doctors'-commons ; the 3d of
December has been fixed for the argument by one Learned
Doctor on either side in the Court of Exchequer. The respite
of the prisoners, which expires to-morrow, has been extended
to meet the delay consequent upon this arrangement.
Observer.
SINKING OF A BRIG IN THE RIVER.—On Saturday
a large brig, heavily laden with granite from Scotland, sud-
denly sprung a leak in the Pool. Every exertion was used
by the captain and crew to stop it but witltost effect, and on
arriving at Limehouse-hole she began to sink, when the crew
tok to their boats and affected their escape. In less than
ten minutes afterwards she sunk in deep water, her masts
being only partly seen above.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR.—We regret to hear
this morning from Turville-park that Lord Lyndhurst is in a
much more precarious state than is stated by our London
Contemporaries. If what we have heard be correct, and we
see no reason to doubt it, there is but little hope of his Lord-
ship's eventual recovery.—Berks Chronicle.

A FULL-BLOODED DEMOCRAT.
A meeting of the democratic republican electors of
New York was held upon the Oregon question a night
or two before the Hibernia sailed; and as a specimen of
the mode in vi hich they conduct business on the other
side of the Atlantic, and of the order and harmony which
seem to prevail among them, we take a few extracts
from the report:—
" The Chairman, amid great confusion and uproar,
proceeded to state the object of the meeting. Ilere, a
low, ruffianly•looking individual, pushed himself for-
ward on the platform, and took his seat beside the
Chairman.
" Captain Rynders immediately seized the offender,
and, in the true democratic spirit, coolly knocked him
down.—(Great confusion, hisses, and yells.) The used-
up individual shouted that he was a full-blooded de-
mocrat.
"Captain Rynders—Well, then, behave like one—
that's all we want.—(Hurrah, shouts, and thafenirg
cheers. 'Go it, Rynders—show your authority—hit him
again, old boy'—were among the exclamations which
this patriotic sentiment celled forth.)
" Voice in the crowd—l move that Captain Rynders
make a speech.
" Captain Rynders—Shut up; I shan't.
"Here a very fat, greasy-looking fellow, with well-
plastered soap locks, called for three cheers fur Mike
Walsh.
"Edward Straing attempted to make a speech, but in
consequence of the uproar, and cries of 'Put him out'—
` Stop his mug'—'llurrah'—' Boots,' &c., was obliged
to desist.
" A fight now took place on the platform—several
men got on the reporters' table, and their object beetned
to be to ascertain who could yell the loudest.
" Three groans for Tilden were then called fcr and
given. The vast hall was in a state of commotion—rows,
tights, and yells, the order of the night. Hats were
knocked off and crushed—noses smashed—eyes [Jack-
( ned, and shins bruised.
" A man in a blue coat on the stand now cried Til-
den's nomination's carried.' ,
" Fat man in the crowd—You be d—d; you're a
Custom-house officer; go to h-11.
"Another Voice—Three cheers for Tilden.
"Fat man, who had now lost his hat—Three groans.
Where's my hat?—(Laughter, hisses, and shouts.)
" Barn-burner-1 move we pull the Chairman down.
"Captain Rynders again attemptt-d to make a speech,
but failing to obtain a .hearing, said, didn't care a
d—n for anybody.'
" The Chairman read a series of resolutions.
" After one of the greatest scenes of confusion weever
witnessed, during which several rows occurred, some-
body said the resolutions were adopted.
" The cries for Walsh were now renewed from all
quarters.

" Mike Walsh now obtained a hearing, and was
greeted by tremendous applause, shouting, waving of
hats, caps, and handkerchiefs. At great length be spoke
of the affected sympathy for the hard-working man dis-
played by rich loafers,' who were ever ready about
election times to step up and affectionately shake by the
hands any poor man who had a vote, though the wind
might be playing hide and go seek through the tattered
seat of his breeches; but, asked Mike, when did one of
these nabobs, rolling in luxury, the fruit of the sighs,
groans, sufferings, and even premature deaths of the
poor men, think of inviting his ragged friend' to
dinner?

"Three cheers were then given for Mike Walsh, and
amid shouts, yells, confusion, and several small rows the
meeting broke up." ,

HORRIBLE MURDER of a FEMALE,
AND ATTEMPT AT ARSON, IN THE UNITED
STATES.
Our city was thrown into a great state of excitement this
morning by a report that a most appalling murder had been
committed at the West-end, in a disreputable house in Cedar-
lane, which act was stated in our second edition, but without
any other particulars.
A Coroner'sjurT was empanelled this forenoon, and, under
the direction of Colonel Pratt, proceeded to examine the
body, and the premises in which the deed was perpetrated—
a preliminary step to the inquest, which will take place at the
Court-house to-morrow. The scene of the murder is a small
two-story brick house, in Cedar-lane, between Cedar and
Charles-streets, occupied by Mr. Joel Lawrence and wife,
who have lived there something like 25 years. For some
years past, as we understand, the premises have been used as
a house of assignation—rooms being kept for the accommo-
dation of those in the habit of visiting it.
The body, that of a young and beautiful female of 23 or
24, was lying on the floor, covered all but the breast, head,
and feet, with a bloody sheet, which had been thrown over
it. She lay on her back close to the grate, with the head
turned over on the right side. The head was thrown back,
exposing a ghastly and terrible cut from ear to ear. The
jugular vein and windpipe were entirely severed, the razor
which the murderer used having entered to the bone. Her
hair was partly consumed, and her face charred and blackened
by the action of the fire.
The room, which was a small-sized bed-room, in the rear
of the house, in the second story, contained fragments of
burnt clothing strewed about, and the walls were spattered
with blood—probably done whoa she was dragged from the
bed and thrown upon the floor. A chair standing near the
head of the bed contained a pool of blood.
We gathered from a conversation with Mr. and Mrs. Law•
rence, and a girl in the house, that they were awakened about
tire o'clock this morning, by a shriek up stairs, and a heavy
fall, which apparently jarred the house; immediately after,
and before they were hardly awake, a person came down
stairs, slipped in his haste and fell, but recovered, and rushed
out of the front door.
The family then smelt fire, and going up into the room,
found it filled with flame and smoke. The fire was set in
three different places—the bed which the murdered woman
had occupied—the closet containing her dresses, and a bed
in an adjoining bed-room, which was unoccupied, were all
more or less burnt Against the door of the front bed-room,
occupied by a girl who lives there, a pile of bed-clothes had
been placed and then set on lire—it seems to have been the
intention of the murderer to bury all evidence of his fiendish
deed, in the conflagration of the house, and the death of its
occupants.
The name of the murderel woman was Maria A. Bickford.
She was of slight, graceful figure, and very beautiful. She
has been married, but has not lived with her husband for
some time past. He is a shoemaker by trade, and was lately
in the employ of Mr. Smith, in Cambridge-street. He is
now in Bangor, where this ill-fated woman formerly belonged.
The wash-bowl in the room contained a quantity of bloody
water, from which it is evident that the murderer washed his
hands after his bloody work.
A letter was found in the room addressed A. J. T. to M.
A. B. ; also a pair of men's drawers, cane, and stocking, and
a bunch of keys. Dr. Moriarty, who was present at the exa-
mination, said it was impossible for her to move after she
received the death wound, and he must have dragged her
from the bed. In the straw bed under which she slept, a
bunch of matches were found nearly burnt up.
Suspicion, amounting almost to certainty, is fixed upon
Albert J. Tirrell as the murderer, though he has not yet been
arrested. Tirrell was arrested some time since, at New Bed-
ford, on a charge of adultery, and was lately discharged, bay-
ing compromised the matter. He is said to be a native of
Weymouth, in this State.—Boston Mail, Oct. 27.

THE MURDER AT NEWTONBREDA. BELFAST,
Nov. 20.—0 n (he evening of Monday, the 10th inst., as two
brothers, William and Hugh Crawford, accompanied by some
of their friends, were returning from Belfast fair to Newton-
breda,a village three miles distant from Belfast fair the party
were waylaid and assailed near the former place by another
party, some of the persons composing which have been since
identified. The two Crawfords sustained such serious injury,
that one of them, William, died the same evening, and the
other is not yet pronounced out of danger. An inquest was
held on the IVednesday following to inquire into the circtun-
stances connected with the death of William Crawford. After
a number of witnesses had been examined it was adjourned
till this day, at ten o'clock. Dr. Tyrell, Coroner for the
county of Down, opened the Court, and proceeded with the
further examination of the case. The evidence adduced did
not cast much light on the motives which had led to the out-
rage, but sufficient transpired to authorise the Coroner to
commit for trial three men in custody, of the respective
names of James Spence, Thomas Spence, and John Woods.
They will, accordingly, be tried on the charge of man-
slaughter at the ensuing Downpatrick assizes, and have been
meanwhile admitted to bail, themselves in 1001. each, and
two sureties in 50/. each.—From a Correspondent.
Sourer DEVON.—During the last fortnight a large
quantity of rain has fallen in this county. On Thursday last,
about eleven a.m., a violent storm commenced, rain and hail,
accompanied by vivid flashes of lightning and load peals of
thunder. On Saturday the wind veered to N.W., and a
sharp frost set in ; the hills on the mountainous regions of
the forest of Dartmoor are covered with snow.
A report has been for some days current' of an
intention on the part of her Majesty's Government, not to
rely so fully as it has hitherto done upon the Chelsea Pen-
sioners in case of any occasion for their services, but to call
out the Militia for a short period of training. It is said that
the expediency of forming a better school of recruits for the
G SURREY.—This arnv will be put forward as the ground for this measure.
GUILDFORD CATTLE FAIR, REY. S —This cattle,
sheep, and horse fair was held on Saturday. The fair was
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vourable prices. The weather being mild permits the cattle
to run the marsh and pasture lands. Fat beasts at 4.9. Bd.
per stone, and many came to London ; beasts for stalling
sold at prices varying from 9/. to 12/. a head, and lean cattle
from 81. to 101. a head; milch cows made from 121. to 141.;
and large framed Yorkshire cows with small calf made
as high as 17/., W., and 191. each ; good bred cows,
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from 67. to 71. a lead ; fat wethers went off at 4s Bd. per
stone, and good wether sheep for stock, varied in price from
295. to 395. a-head ; tags made from 255. to 335.; and fat
lambs made :ss. per stone ; fat lambs, for stock, averaged
21s. per head; and a few choice breeds obtained 275; prime
South Down ewes made from 28s. to 365. a-head, and inferior
ditto made from 255. to 30s. ; horses young and sound were
in request, and went off at prices satisfactory to the sellers ,•
cart horses made from 18 to 25 guineas, and nags young and
well-bred ranged in price from 10 to 35 guineas; pigs were
caught up quickly, and at good prices.
FRENCH POTATOES.—A cargo of potatoes, COD..
signed to Messrs. Treeby and Co., arrived here on Monday
last, from Pont l'Abbe, in France. It is rather a novelty
in the commercial world, to see potatoes imported from
abroad. A duty of 3s. 4d. is payable on potatoes, the
produce of a foreign country, under the plausible
_pretenee
of affording " protection to the Agriculturist.”--Flounda
Journal.

THE DANGER OF LEAVING COAL.CELLAR FLAPS
INSECURE.—Yesterday afternoon a serious accident occurred
to Edgar Weyvill, Esq., a gentleman residing at Hamp-
stead, who, in passing through Seymour-street, Somers-town,
was thrown to tho ground by stepping on the iron flap of a
coal-cellar that was not properly secured, and he fractured
the right leg.
On Friday morning, at half-past nine o'clock, the
Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master Commander et.
B. Cook, having on board their Royal Highnesses Prince Fer.
dinand of Saxe Coburg and Prince Leopold, left Devonpore
for Lisbon. Royal salutes were fired from the Port Admiral's
flag-ship, the Queen, 110, in the Sound, and from the citadel,
as the beautiful vessel went out of Hamo:ae.
Neither the Great Britain nor the Great Western
will cross the Atlantic this season again, and the Halifax
boats will run only once a month during the winter.—Li •
pool Journal.

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CROWDED STATE OF THE PORT OF HULL.—The
docks and harbour of lull arc now crowded with shipping.
The blue flag has been flying these last two or three days,
signifying that no more vessels can be allowed to enter the
port.—Hull Packet.