The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-22 00:00:00

MURDER NEAR OXFORD.

A murder has been committed this week in t 4
small village of Ensham, situate six miles from Oxford, on the road
leading to Cheltenham, which, from the respectability of both the
unfortunate victim and the person standing charged with the mur-
der, has produced a most powerful sensation in that part of the
country, where they are both well known, having 'resided there
fur many years. The person murdered is a young man, about 20
years old, of the name of Thomas Maley. Hie mother, who is la
widow, formerly kept the Red Lion Inn, in that village, but for the
few last years had been living a retired life, being in palsession of
a small annuity, and was looking forward to the time when the
deceased, her only son, who had just completed his apprentice-
ship to Mr. . Wilkins, a builder and wheelright in the vil-
lage, would be able to contribute towards her support and
Comfort. Her friends arc highly respectable, the town clerk of
Oxford, and Mr. Cox; the banker, of the same place, both being
wady allied to her. The perpetrator of the horeid deed is
Mr. Edward Arnott, a man upwards of seventy rears of age,
of good and opulent connections, and following the business
of a farmer and baker. The eircumstatices under which it
occurred, we understand, are as follow:--The deceaspd, in com-
pany with another young man, was, on the afternoon of Mon..
day last, walking near the house of Arnott, when ',their atten-
tion was called, by hearing a person in the houpn repeatedly
cry out " Murder r They immediately hastened 'to the Iva, 1
and having passed through the front garden, were iin the act of
entering the house, when they .saw Arnott advancing from a
back room towards them with a gun in his hand, and heard
him with an oath declare, that if they did riot go away,
be would shoot them. They instantly drew back. and the de-
ceased, who was last, was in the act of closing to the door, when
Arnott levelled his gun, and fired at them ; and the ball, after
passing through the door, entered the body of; the deceased,
who exclaimed, "' I am murdered," and dropped down.—
Medical assistance was procured, but without avail, as the
ball had penetrated to the vitals, so as to cause instant death.
The report of the event soon brought a crowd to the spot, by
whom Arnett suffered himself to be secured, without the slight..
est resistance. He is said to be a man who, in former instances,
has shown himself to be of the most ungovernable temper ;
and the present calamity affords a most melancholy proof
of the dire effects which sometimes ensue from uneontroulled pas-
sion. It appears that it was his own wife that he was ill-treating.
He had dragged her down stairs, and was proceeding to use still
further violence towards her, when her cries, joined to those of
her daughter, brought the unfortunate deceased to the spot, and
thus diverted hia rage from her to him. The ion with which the fatal
deed was perpetrated, was one of three which he always kept loaded,
as a protection against thieves. The body was removed to the
Red Lion, the very house the deceased's 'pother formerly kept, and
where himself was born. Ott the fell° ing, day, a Coroners' In-
quest was held there, the result of vvhie was a verdict of Wilful
Murder against Arnett, who was the . ame day conveyed to-Ox-
ford, and lodged in the gaol of that piac!.

. ;
. The late Bishop of DURHAM died by no means in
friends knowing that no applicatiQmlvere ever made to him in
so wealthy a strains has been considered by the public; but his
vain to assist any persons under pecuniary difficulties, are net dis-
appointtyd. His Legacies to Public ICharities are said to have
amounted to no leas a sum than 20,000/. Among his donations
were—to the Church Missionary Society, 500/. ; the Magdalen
Hospital, 500!.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Our letters contain no news from the ports.

Dispatches have been received from Vice-Admiral Lord Aurelius
Beauclerk, K. C. 8., Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's ships
in the Tagus : nothing of importance had occurred.

The Aurora frigate, now at Plymouth, is to be docked imme-
diately to have the protectors removed from her bottom, practical
results having proved their inutility on sea-going ships. The
protectors of the Dartmouth, on her arrival from the West Indies,
from whence she is shortly expected, will likewise be taken off
from her sheathing.

Lientenant Chappell, of the Hyperion, at Newhaven, has been
promoted to the rank of Commander.

Mr. Goodwyn, Purser of the Prince Regent yacht, died on
the 20th instant.

[FROM LLOYD'S.]

DEAL, APRIL 21.—The wind has been light and variable

throughout the day ; this afternoon it is easterly with fine weather.
A Bark, reported to be the Mary, Bridgei, for Jamaica, with se-
veral others, are now (5 p. m.) coming through the Gulls. The
St. David, Salmon, for Quebec; and the Ward, Hare, for St.
John's, N. 8.,• are off the South Foreland.
PORTSMOUTH, Aran, 21.—Wind S.E.—The Arab transport
went out of harbour, and remains at Spithead. Sailed the Sally,
Allen, for Waterford; and the Graham Moore, Dixon, for London.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 20.—Wind variable, light airs.—Arrived
the Fly, Carlisle, from Figueira. Sailed the Andromeda, Blair,
and Suppho, —, for Quebec; Nymph, Linn, for Gibraltar ;
and Sea Nymph, —, for Newfoundland.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 20.—Wind variable, light airs.—Arrived
the Duke of Kent Packet, from Lisbon, sailed the 9th inst. Off
the Port the Nautilus, Hull, from London, for Barbadoes. • Sailed
the Fame, Anwyl, for Jersey.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 20.—Arrived the Frances, Gillespy, 'from
Barbadoes ; British Tar, Newby, from New Orleans ; and the
Thetis, Newton, from Odessa. Off the Port the Medusa, —,
from La Guayra; and Union Packet, from New Orleans.

Arrived off Dartmouth the Fair Arcadian, from Demerara.

THE ARMY.

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Wednesday a Board was held at Chelsea College,
for the purpose of admitting invalids, on that Royal Establishment,
when upwards of 300 were selected as out-pensioners.
Detachments belonging to the 7th Dragoon Guards, 15th Hus-
sars, and the 10th, 26th, 50th, 58th, and 77th Regiments of
Foot, marched on Tuesday morning, from Westminster, for
Bristol, on route to Ireland.
The First Royal Veteran Battalion marched into Athlone on the
14th instant, in order to be disbanded, on Monday next, and three
Companies of the 54th Regiment, under the command of Major
Davies, of that corps, marched from Athlone to Burr on the 12th
instant. _ _

Detachments belonging to the 66tb, 7lst, and 94th Regiments
of Infantry, marched on Thursday morning, from 'Westminster,
for Plymouth.
A detachment of the 85th Regiment of Foot, marched on Thurs-
day morning, from Westminster, for Winchester.
Detachments belonging to the Ist, 37th, and 76th Regiments
of Infantry, marched on Thursday morning, from Westminster,
for Portsmouth.

A Detachment of the 70th Regiment of Foot, marched on
Thursday morning, from Westminster, for Guenssey.
The 2tl Division of the 63d (West Suffolk) Regiment of Infan-
try, disembarked from on board the Diadem transport, on the Bth
instant, at Chathatn, from lieland.
Detachments of Recruits arrived in town, on the 18th instant,
from Scotland, on route to join their respective Corps and Depots.
Detachments of Recruits arrived in town, on Thursday morn-
ing, from Bristol, on route to join their respective Battalions and
Depots.
The 18th (the King's Royal Irish) Regiment of Light Dra-
goons), (Ilussari) is ordered to snatch on the 25th instant from
-Hounslow Barracks, for Brighton.
'the 12th (the Prince of Wales's Royal Regithent, Lancers), is
ordered to march on the 25th instant from Hampton Court to
Hounslow Barracks.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY.—(This DAY.)

r.xrAnTr: MILLS, ni TILE MATTEL (IF PARKES, BANKRUPTS.

His Lonnsnir said, he had given this question of
appeal from his Honour the VICE CunNeEttoq's judgment,
the greatest attention, and the result was, that he thought his
Honour's decision correct. The question was, upon the manlier of
proving,upon promissory notes and securities of the bankrupts, under
the Commissioners, there being both joint and separate Commis-
sioners. The appeal was dismissed ; but, in consequence of the
intricacy of the matter altogether, without costs.

=PARTE PICKERING AND OTHERS, IN THE MATTER or HUTCIIIN.

SONS, BA NK nil PTS,..-STOCKTON BANK.

In this matter two petitions were presented—one praying that
the Court would renew the existing Commission, introducing three
or four new CommissiOners in the room of those who had refused
longer to act, and giving leave to have the Commission worked at
Stockton, where it could not now be worked ; and the other pray-
ing
that the Commission might be entirely superseded on the
ground of Concert, and another directed to be taken out. '
His LORDSHIP stated, the affidavits did not support the ground
of concert; he could not find that this Commissioner was the
Commissioner of the Bankrupts. As to the refusal of certain of
the Commissioners further to act, the Court had read the affida-
vits of Mr.. Grey and Mr. Roundtree, the former a Commissioner
of gentlemen, Solicitors under the commission, as well as a cre-
ditor ' • and the latter a Commissioner, alleged to be connectel
with fraudulent preferences; from which affidavits it appeared
that Mr. Grey, Mr. Franks, and another Gentleman, had re-
fused to continue Commissioners, and that there were so
much delicacy about Mr. Roundtree's continuing so to act,
that, on reflection, in all probability, that Gentleman him-
self would wish to retire, so that if the Commission were to be re-
newed, it would be necessary to have four new
,Commissioners......
The question therefore was, whether, under all the circumstances,
the Commission 'ought to be entirely superseded, or renewed, di-
recting it to the new Commissioners. His Lordship would take
a little longer to consider what should be done, but in the mean-
time wished to have four names, as new Commissioners handed
up from each side.
Mr. Honnx was authorized to state, that Mr. Roundtree had
no wish whatever to continue.
His Lonnsite felt it aAnty then to say of that gentleman, that
in so instructing his Counsel he was sustaining that character he
had all along maintained.
Mr. Mum) in a short time afterwards said, the parties on both
sides had agreed on four names, which he then handed in.