The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-05 00:00:00

WEST PORT MURDERS.

The irritation and alarm excited in this city by the
West Port murders is beginning to subs.de. Hare and his
wife are still in close confinement, and there is a possibility
that they may both be yet brought to the punishment they
deserve. If, as was stated in our last, the public prose-
cutor can command evidence sufficient to satisfy a jury,
that Hare, or any of his associates, has been access try to
any other murders than those libelled in Burke's indictment,
they will cert linty expiate the crimes with their lives: The
silence and solitude of his cell have given the monster Hare
an opportunity of reflection, and the latent sparks of feel-
ing and humanity are beginning to revive in his breast. He
is fully aware, that a likeness of his horrid physiognomy
will be taken, to excite the indignation and disgust
posterity, and he seems resolved to prevent it so far as
lies in his power. He is seen by gentlemen in authority
only, and when any of them enter, he instantly muffles
himself up in the bed-clothes, so that nothing more than
his eyes and forehead can be seen. Yesterday he declined
to avail himself of the felons' privilege of walking his
time in the ward, and chose to want, or run the risk of
wanting, his supper, rather than go for it to the gate like
other criminals. His wretched wife also remains con-
stantly- in her cell, and maintains a dogged silence re-
specting the atrocities of their past lives.
With respect to Burke, it is not likely that his name
will again pollute our pages, till he ends his life on the
scaffold. Indeed he would not have been mentioned at
present, bad it not been that two circumstances were
omitted in the harry of getting np our last report. It was
mentioned already, that he denied when in the lock-up,
that he was present at the murder of James Wilson,
known by the name of " Daft Jamie," and he gave the
following details When I was at work, Hare's wife
came and told me that they bad a lad of the name of
Daft Jamie in the house and were intending to
"do him" for the doctors. She stated that she had
already got a good deal of whiskey, and asked me
to come and help to finish him. She told me to come in
and ask if he had:got any whiskey, and if he said yes,
I was to send for some more. I was detained with a
shoe for about twenty minutes, and when I went to the
door it was fastened ; but I was told by a female voice
to stop about three minutes, and all would be over.
When I got in I saw Hare, his wife, and another man I'll
not name, and Jamie lying quite dead. The body was
stripped, and when I looked at the clothes, I said these
clothes will answer —, and they were sent to him."
When asked if he had no compunctious visitings of na-
ture—no remorse—no stings of conscience—he replied
that fox a long time after he had murdered his first vic-
tim, he found it utterly impossible to banish for a single
hour the recollection of the fatal struggle—the screams of
distress and despair—the agonising groans--and all the
realities of the dreadful dee!. At night the bloody tra-
gedy, accompanied by frightful visions of supernatural
beings, tormented him in his dreams; but he aitisnately
became so callous, that a murder added but little to his
mental anguish. It is something consoling to reflect that
this revolting monster has been overtaken in his path of
blood, and is soon to expire on the gallows.—Scotsman.

THE WEEKLY DISPATCH.—The Proprie-
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withstanding both Mr. Richard Taylor's steam-engine
machines have been continually employed in printing the
DISPATCH since Friday Evening last, the supply has been
insufficient to answer the immense demand for that paper;
and in order to accommodate those persons who have
hitherto been disappointed in obtaining the first number of
the ENLARGED SERIFS Or THE DISPATCH, and may still
wish to obtain the same, together with the ENGRAVING,
which is given (maws to every purchaser, the proprietors
will continue the publication throughout the present week.
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,Several of the Portuguese officers embarked
on hoard the transports last Wednesday, and it is expected
the greater p:irt of the troops of the line will embark on
Friday, shout: the weather prove favourable. No transports
are as yet engaged for the conveyance of the volunteers or
civilians.—Plymouth Journal.
It is rumoured in the Court circles, that Dr.
Bris,,ol, the domestic chaplain of the Duke of Wellington
Nring the Peninsular war, is likely to succeed to the pre-
bendal stall in our Cathedral, now vacant by the resignation
of the Rev. Professor G3isford.—. Woroester Journal.

The quantity of coals shipped at Alloa, for
Dundee, for the quarter ended loth October last, amouata
to 5818 tons.—Caledonia: Mercury.

We regret to hear that the typhus fever is at
present raging to a considerable extent in Stornoway. It
pervades, more or less, all claws, and has also extended to
shelesser islands in the neighbourhood.--Inverness Courier.

We are happy to state that sickness is rapidly
disappearing from among the population to the east of the
city. Drentery, which prevailed to a great extent a short
time ago, has now almost entirely subsided; and a case of
fever seldom occurs.— Glasgow chronicle.

We are sorry to observe, that the increase of
prisoners in our county gaol, lately, has been so great as
almost to exceed any former precedent. The number
committed within the past week is :Id, and most of them
for heavy offences.—Warwick Advertiser.
A bittern was last week shot in Westmorland,
which measured in length three feet four inches.—Caledo-
nian Mercury.

A thrush was heard singing in Kennoway Den
on Suuday—a rare occurrence on the last Sabbath of the
year.—Caledonian Mercury.
Dartmouth is to have a new Church, to be
built in the centre of St. Petrox, and the present edifice at
the mouth of the harbour, is to remain as a cemetery for the
dead.— Western Times.

ON-DlT.—The Lord Lieutenant's servants
are ordered to prepare for a march in a fortnight. The
Lord Chancellor has been closetted with the Marquis for
the last two days.—Dublin Freeman's Journal. -

The foundation-stone of his Grace the Duke
of Athol'e new palace will be laid with due masonic
honours, and a magnificent procession will take place on
the occasion.• A general " gathering" within the county
is expected; particularly as it is understood his Grace
himself, who has lo►:g been at the head of the fraternity
in Dunkeld and in the county, intends being present at
the ceremony.—Glasgow Chronicle.

A cow was killed about three weeks ago by
Mr. Gar:vtt, of Stratton St. Margarets, in this county,
grazed by Nr. Woodford, of Snow.hill, near Swindon, and
expected to have calveft some time in March last. She
bad, however, passed over the period, and on opening her
a calf was found weighing eight score, having the appear-
ance of a calf a year old. The cow fatted very well, and
the beef proved to be very good.--Hants Advertiser.
In Paisley, the New Year has been welcomed
in by the usual festivities practised in the west of Scotland.
Considering the depressed state of trade in that town at
present, the petiole have enjoyed themselves pretty freely on
this occasion.— await, Chronicle.

Bedford-gaol and Penitentiary are very full ;
and there are now upwards of 40 prisoners confined under
the game laws. There is one from Woburn (Clare), who
has taken up his usual winter-quarters for the twenty-first
time. The offence of being found armed at night with
intent to destroy game, &c. is punishable with transporta-
tion for seven yea's; but this sentence is seldom, if ever,
carried into effect. —Bucks Gazette.
During the reading of the prayers of St. Peter's
Church, on Sunday last, a respectable-looking female sud-
denly gave two piercing shrieks, and sank down senseless
on the floor. She was 4arnediately raised and carried out,
when she was dis.-overed to be z oerson ruined Eddy, living
as housekeeper to Mr. Ellis, it. the London-road. Medical
assistance was at hand, but its applicatiu:t. Was in vain, as
she breathed her last in about an hour and a from the
time she was carried home. —Br ighton Herald.

We forgot to mention before, that two sur-
gical instruments, a catling and a scalpel, were found in
Burke's' house ; and from the quantity of blood with
which the straw in the corner was deluged, there is every
reason to believe that they have been occasionally used,
though in a very peculiar manner. The latter ins*.
ment is well known, and the former we will not describe.
It is our conviction, however, that it was employed, in
some cases, to ensure and hasten death, in a mode ana-
lagoua to that in which Pollock murdered his wife. We
cannot go further, but the intelligent reader will easily
divine the nature of the murderous operation to which we
allude. Of course no external wound was inflicted, and
no esternai trace of the infernal act visible, cave the blood
which floured from the victim, and for which the ac.ientific
process of destruction mentioned in our last will by no
means account. The hmmorrhage consequent on suffo-
cation produced by compressing at once the respiratory
organs and the trachea would in all cases be exceedingly
small ; and there is no possible way of accounting for the
quantity of blood on the straw, except by the horrific end
unnameable operation to which we have rekletantly al-
1-wiled.-- Caledonian 4lfercurb'.

FOREIGN iNTET,LIGF.NCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Gazette de France of Saturday.)

Pa ills, JAN. 2. —Our readers save yesterday what the
Azotriun Observer has said of the pretended correspond-
ent of the Journal des Debats at Vienna. To-day it is
the turn of another paper, which pretended that it had a
letter, stating that accounts from Transylvat,ia, received at
Vienna, announce that General Geismar, being surrounded
on sides at the camp at Kulafat, had been obliged to
surrender to the Turks. The Observer ad.'s that on the
2.2 d of December—that is to say, 18 days later—no such
report hail been heard of at Vienna, and that, on the con.
trAry, every body there knew that the Russian General,
who had not even been attacked, still remained in his posi-
tions in Little Wallachia. The Observer cannot account
for,this propensity to invent lies, but by ascribing it to
some psor devil who does not know how to obtain authen-
tic news, and endeavours, however, to earn his pay as well
;is he can,

Val ions accounts in the Augsburgh Gazette announce
that the Turks, under the command of Omer Vrione, had
sallied from Shumla, towards the end of November, to
attack the Russians at Bazardjik; but the latter, who were
on r:,eir guard, hai repulsed them. The Turks had re-
turned to their position. _ _ .

By a singular concurrence of circumstances, the Pro-
vince of the line is the only ship before Algiers. All the
other vessels of the squadron are now in our port (Tou-
lon). Some have 1,. ought despatches to our Government,
the others are come to repair.
The merchants have every reason to complain of so ri-
diculous a blockade, and the negligence of the Ministry is
unpardonable. Negseiations are indeed spoken of, hut we
,1 not think they will_end favourably fur us. On the
other hand, it is announced that the Algerine squadron has
been dismantled, but in two or three days it might arm
again and get out to sea. At all events, is it prudent to
leave to one ship the care of blockading all Algiers? Let
us hope that the Government will take speedy measures to
repair this negligence, and to make the merchants easy.
Several of the inhabitants of Verdun, creditors of the
English prisoners of war for a sum of 3,500,000 francs,
have been presented by M. Rauthier, their Consul, to the
Count de la Ferronays, Minister of Foreign Affairs, who
has promised to recommend their claims to the English
Government. His Excellency has declared, that be had
delivered an official hate on this subject to Prince Polig-
nac, French Ambassador at London. The claim of the
inhabitants of Verdun has been supported by Messrs.
Etienne de St. Aulaire and Desbassvns de Richentont,
Deputies of the Meuse."
FRENCH FUNDS.-Five per Cents., 107 f. sc. ; Three
per Cents., 73f. 95c. Bank Stock, 1,300 f. ; Naples
Stock, 77f. 30e. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 76Y. ; Spanish
Rents Perpetuelle, 46f. Exchange on London, one
month, 2M. 20c. ; three months, 25f. 10c.