The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-17 00:00:00

DUTCH FUNDS.-AMSTERDAM ;lAN. 10.

ARRIVAL OF MORE OF THE CHINESE RANSOM.- Yesterday,
at one o'clock, a speciql train arrived at
Nine Elms, froui Gosport, conveying that portion
of the Chinese ransom money brought over to this
country from Hong-Kong by the Pelican sloop. The
train consisted of five waggons and two: .carriages ;
the former contained the boxes holding the ayeee
silver, each waggon carrying about three tons and
a half weight. A gentleman from the Treasury
and a detachment of the 59th regiment' accompanied the
treasure from Gosport, and the latter mounted guard in
the railway company's premises daring the removal of
the silver from the baggage vans to some waggons be•
Longing to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, the car6ers of
the Company. In the course of the afternoon the trea-
sure was conveyed in nine waggons to the IZG3 al Mint,
Tower-hill, the detachment of the:s9th accompanying it.
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND'S MISSION TO THE JEWS.-.-
A 'very crowded meeting of the friend's of this branch of
the Church of Scotland's missionary hitiours was held in
Swallow-street, yesterday evening. Truly interesting and
impressive addresses were delivered by the Rev. Mr.
M‘Glashan and the Rev. J. Cumming ; and the Pleasius'
sight was witnessed, of three Jewish missionaries on their
way to Tunis, in Barbary, to proclaim the true Wssial to
their fellow countrymen ignorant of' Hint. The Church
_ of
i
Scotland, it was stated, has nearly
tilledall vacancies
was made at the door
created by the seceders, and w!th men -of up
r itseal Christian
a
worth. A very handsome collection
in behalf of these zaisaiea,i.
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Money,. Bills,
Actual Debt, 21,4 per Cent 6414 •65
Ditto, 3 per Cent... 78.74 791
Ditto, 4 per Cent..;. 9844 9911
Ditto, 5 per Cent.
3A
Anton Syndic, 414 per Cent 99 )00 4
Ditto, 31,4 per Cent.
Commercial Company,4l/2 perCt 1464) 1471
East India Loan, 4 per Cent 98% 9914
Exchange on London, one month 12 1214,
TWO, months l2 171,.2
At sight —
On Hamburg
Two months 35 50
On Parts
Two months —
Dutch Papers, Jan. 11.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JAN. 7..
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Bills. Money.
• St. Schuld Sch., 31,4 per Cent 99:-!4 • 99 q
Truss. English,Bonds, 1830,4 per Ct —
Exchange on London, 2 mouths
Universal Prussian Gazette, Jan. 8.

THE SHAPWICK MURDERS.
BRIDGEWATER, THURSDAY MORNING.—Last evening
the inquiry into the cause of Mary Dimond's death was
gone into. The inquiry terminated in the committal of
the prisoner to take her trial at the next assizes fur the
wilful murder of her mother. She evinced the utmost
noncluilance throughout the whole proceedings, and e -
peared to be as little affected as tie tlio,t careless ob
server. Once or twice during the day little matters oc-
curred which caused a titter in the Court, and no one
seemed to enjoy the smile more than the unfortunate
woman against whom such serious charges are made.
To-morrow inquests will be held at Shapwick on the
body of her husband, who died in 1843, and on the body
of her child. It will be recollected that both bodies
were exhumed, and the stomachs and intestines handed
over to Mr. Ilerapath, who is of opinion that arsenic is
to be found in both.

UNHEARD OF BARBARITY.
(From the New York Herald.)
One of the most deliberate and barbarous
outrages ever perpetrated in a civilised. com-
munity was committed yesterday morning in
the upper part of the city, by a wretch who claims
to be of the human species. Of all the terrible
crimes that were ever attempted in this city, this
one is the most shocking, and one can scarcely think
of it. without shuddering.
On Sunday morning a woman, named Catherine
Hanlin, wife of Edward, who lives in a little shanty
on the north side of Fifteenth-street, was stand-
ing at her door, when a tan, named Andrew
Klem, who occupies a shanty adjoining, threw
several stones at her, whiih struck her side, and
brui'ed her considerably. She could only attri-
bute his conduct to a trifling squabble they had
a few days previous. On Monday morning, about
half-past seven o'clock, a short time after her
husband had left the house to go to his work,
Mrs. Hanlin, who was lying asleep in her bed with
her infant child and a boy named Lawrence, was
awakened by a hammering at the door, and on look-
ing up, heard the blows of an axe, and soon saw
a portion of the door burst in, and fire and smoke
pour through the aperture. Dreadfully alarmed,
she sprang from the bed, with the child in
her arms, and rushed to the door, which was the
only means of exit from the house, except the
window. In her terror she saw Klem in front of the
door, piling up burning straw, wood, and shavings
against the door, and on attempting to go out, he
took a long pole, which he held, and thrust it at
her with both hands. She immediately felt a sharp
instrument pierce her thigh., Seeing that Klem was
sober, she became suddenly convinced that his intention
was. to burn her and her children to death, and in this
awful situation, with the prospect of' a terrible
death before her, she frantically screamed murder,
and, milling to the window, endeavoured to
escape there. Klem, however, perceived her in-
tention, and, jumping upon a barrel that was in
front of the window, with a large piece of board in
his hand, brandished it in such a manner that.
she dared not attempt to get out. The smoke
by this time had filled the room so that sb
could scarcely breathe, and the child was scretein-
ing in agony and gasping as if in the last stru'gle.
With the strong feeling of a mother for its
offspring, and as a-last hope of saving its life, she
covered it up in a feather-bed, and immediately after
MI down insensible. Thus much of this thile of hor-
ror she relates herself. The residue of the frightful
narrative is told by other persons.
Mr. Archibald Brown, of Sixteenth-street, heard
the alarm of fire about half,past seven o'clock,
and on looking towards the, house of Hanlin,
saw a man in front of it piling up straw
and wood, which was in flames ; he ran towards
the spot, and there saw a mancr,uvre that he could
not understand, and just before he reached the spot
the man went into the adjoining house, and a
person named Lee came up, accompanied by
others, and smashed in the window. The boy
Lawrence sprang out and gasped forth that his
mother and her child were dead inside. Some of
the party went to the back of the shanty, and
with an axe burst it in, and brought out the
inanimate bodies of the mother and child,
who soon after breathed again. The . other
party burst into the adjoining house, and there cap-
tured Klem. In one corner of the room they
found an instrument with which he must have
stabbed Mrs. Hanlin. It consisted of a large file or
rasp, about a foot long, which had been ground down
to a point. This was stuck in a pole or stick, about four
feet long, and must have been used as a pike, and made
expressly for the purpose to which it was applied.
Mrs. Hanlin and her child were conveyed to the City
Hospital, and Klem to the Upper Police. Ile was.
perfectly sober. He is an Irishman, and is repre-
sented as the most stolid, brutal looking person ever
seen there. Apparently he is about forty years of age.
The unf a.tunate woman is burned considerably in
the face and right arm, and the stab in "her thigh is of
a serious character, and may produce death. In all
human probability the child will die. The punish-
ment for arson in the first degree, which consists of
setting ti re to an inhabitedienucz,ilpsietlrhl
tooking, of
and
tat
oer
aniJilulasttiiocen TofaaLorrs,.
mitted Klem to a cell at the Upper
Police, to await
the examination.hospital,
ps
al death.