The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-02 00:00:00

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.

" A most horrid murder was perpetrated to-day
close to this place, and which was discovered in the fol-
lowing singular way .—I had been calling on Captain
Macau on business, and when leaving the tent in which
we had been seated, I observed a peasant, with blood on
his clothes, standing a short distance from the door. I
immediately, on seeing him, asked the sentry who he
was, and what he wanted. lie replied that he had
asked him several times without eliciting any answer.
I now asked him myself in Persian and Affghanee, but
beyond a stare and moving some clay about with his
hands, I could extract nothing like an answer from him.
At last, getting impatient, I proceeded close to where
he sat, and spoke rather harshly to him, telling my men
to take him away. Seeing me thus annoyed, he was de-
termined I should not remain any longer ignorant of the
cause of his silence. So he raised up his head, and ex-
hibited to view a gash in his throat, which reached from
ear to ear. A more horrid sight I had never witnessed.
Recovering myself, however, I asked him to make known
to me who had committed the act, when, by signs, he
made it very evident that he was attacked by robbers on
his way from Candahar ; that he, with another man,
had; had their throats cut and buried by the way side ;
that he had worked his way out of the grave, but that
his companion still remained there. The way in which
he explained this was curious enough. With the assist-
ance of a little stick he made two small holes in the
ground, and, touching himself, he put his hand into one
of them, which he had no sooner done than he filled it with
earth, leaving a little heap on the top to indicate that it
was a grave. He then pointed towards the spot where the
murder was committed, and touching the other hole he
filled it up also. After he had done this, he put his hand
on it, but with the other hand touched himself, and began
to root the earth from the other grave, indicating that
his friend was still in the other grave, but that he had
rooted himself out of his. The surgeon soon arrived,
and found that, although the throat had been severed,
the carotid artery was only slightly injured, and gave us
some little hope that, with great care, he would be able
to heal the wound, and thus enable us to discover the
perpetrators of this horrid murder. I sent my men to
look for the grave in which the other man was buried,
thinking he also might have escaped ; but they shortly
afterwards returned, stating that the graves were there
as described, but one of them contained a man with his
head almost cut off from his body, and that, finding the
grave close to the surface, they had dug it deeper and
left the body. There was a quantity of dry fruit scat-
tered about the spot, which leads to the supposition that
the sufferers were on their way to our camp with dried
fruit when they were attacked. If the poor fellow now
in our hospital had come to me with his head in his hand,
I could not have been more surprised than I was when
he threw up his head and exhibited the awful gash in
his throat."

THE LEGAL REVIEW and QUARTERLY
JOURNAL of BRITISH and FOREIGN JU-
RISPRUDENCE. November, 1844. No. I.
Owen Richards, 194, Fleet-street.
This first Number of a new Legal periodical con-
ains several learned and interesting articles, and a
selection of adjudged points, which we regard as
likely to prove eminently useful to the profession.
Independent of the enormous expense of taking in the
reports of the several Courts—an expense which
places them quite out of the reach of all except the
rich student, or already flourishing practitioner—their
bulk is absolutely appalling. The present system of
legal reporting is most vicious ; the reporters are paid
by quantity, and the booksellers who have a mono-
poly of the legal branch of the trade are free to charge
by bulk ; and most extravagantly they do charge ac-
cordingly ; while the purchaser is not only condemned
to wade through, but to pay for a heap of useless
matter, and harassed moreover in a wearisome re-
search for the two grains of wheat in the bushel of
chaff, and destined not unfrequently at last to find
them mildewed. For the practice is to report almost
every case without regard to the fact whether it does
or does not come under the governance of some pre-
ceding case, and to report it at the utmost length.
It must, accordingly, prove a great ease, as well to
the pocket, as to the reading of the student, to have
access to a selection of adjudged cases in which the
points are concisely put ; and the cost is vastly more
than proportionately reduced with the bulk. The
leading article is the first of a series, hereafter to form
la volume, on the subject of "The Science and Study
of Jurisprudence,"—a subject of the deepest interest
not to lawyers alone, but to all concerned in the busi-
ness of legislation. or the administration of the law,
and in fact to every scholar. The paper is written'
with great learning and ability. There is also an ar-
ticle on a fearfully important matter to the litigating
portion of the community, " The Law of Fees and
Costs ;" and several others on the principal statutes
lately passed fur the amendment of the law, together
with a very able and brilliant biographical sketch of
the late Lord Abinger. The new Review is evidently
strong in its cps of contributors.

THE DOUBLE SUICIDE.—It having been reported
that the bodies of the unfortunate couple would be in.
!erred in one grave, on Sunday afternoon, in Beaumont
Cemetery, Stepney, a large concourse of persons of both
sexes assemble.l to witness the std though novel cere-
mony. They, however, were somewhat disappointed,
as the relatives of the ill-fated young woman objected,
notwithstanding her dying wish, to laying her remains
with those of her deceased suitor. The parochial officers
expressed a hope that the bodies should not be buried
together, as such a proceeding might be calculated to
give a kind of countenance to such tragedies. Accord-
ingly, the body of the female was, on Saturday after-
noon. consigned to its final resting place in Globe-fields
burial-ground, Globe-road, Mile-end. The funeral was
kept strictly private. Yesterday afternoon, however,
the body of the young man was privately interred in
Beaumont Cemetery. It has not been noticed that a box
belonging to the young man was broken open, and all
the letters which the poor girl had sent to him were
found secured in an envelope, with the following super-
scription :—" Anguish and sorrow. The inclosed letters
were given to me by my dear Elizabeth. Let them be a
Ewing monument of my cruelties, and as a memento of
grief.—(signed)—C. A. D."
After a successful herring season our boats have
been laid up in order to be prepared for the mackarel
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most money made by any one boat has been 4301.—the
were fifteen.

The ablest article in the Number before us of this
—by far the best Irish—periodical, is a critical one,
and the subject is " Eugene Sue," whose novels are
just now attracting the attention of continental
readers in no ordinary degree. The Reviewer, on the
whole, is highly favourable to Sue, and in support of
his opinion quotes some extracts from his " Mysteries
of Paris," which are certainly replete with pathos and
vigour, though there is a little too much of exagge-
ration about them. We have been struck with this
observation, which does credit to the Reviewer's sense
of literary propriety :—" A parent who has the mis-
fortune to see a son abandon himself to vice and in-
famy, does not so deeply lament his having brought
that wretched being into the world, as an intellectual
creator ought to deplore the having originated one
bad seductive idea; for when the vicious conversa-
tion of an individual corrupts at most those only
with whom he comes in contact, vice, winged by
genius, and multiplied by the Press, overspreads at
once a whole continent." The "Pretended Patriarchal
Inscriptions of Arabia" is rather a heavy piece of
antiquarianism, which will be caviare to the general
reader. The " English and the Irish Universities "
is a dexterously reasoned essay, penned in a more
temperate spirit than we should have expected. Our
readers will, no doubt, be entertained with the fol-
lowing extraordinary anecdote, which we extract
from " Major Lynch's Journal of a Residence
among the Ghilzies in 1839 and 1840:"