The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-10 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

INTERESTS of ScrExcE.—Yesterday, before Sir R.
CARR GLYN, Elizabeth Shearing was charged on suspi-
cion of having sold the dead body of her father to the
anatomists; and William Shearing, her husband, was
charged with having aided, abetted, and assisted her therein.
The prosecution was instituted by the Committee of the
Grub-street Asylum for the liouseless Poor, upon the fol-
lowing facts ;
On Tuesday last an inmate of the Asylum, named John
Evans, after having been ill a day or two, died there ; and
the body was sent to Cripplegate workhouse for inter-
ment—as usual in such cases. On Thursday, the female
prisoner applied for it, saying the deceased was her father,
and she would conduct the funeral at her own proper cost.
She gave her name Elizabeth Evans, described the dress
and appearance of the deceased minutely; produced an un-
dertaker's contract to furnish the funeral for a stipulated
sum ; and " manifested so much filial affection," that the
Committee ordered the corpse to be given up to her. On
the following evening, Friday, she and her husband, and
another man, appeared at the workhouse with a cart, and
the corpse was delivered to them. It had been prepared
for burial by the parish officers, but the prisoners and their
companions removed it from the coffin to a shell, which
they brought with them ; and they even stripped it of the
grave clothes, saying they had "no use for them." They
then put it into the cart, and having rewarded the help-
ers with a shilling, they drove off at a great rate—leaving
the female prisoner behind them. These circumstances
excited suspicion ; and an officer of die Asylum, who had
attended the delivery, ran after them to take the number
and name of the cart ; but he could net overtake them,
for " the more lie called after them, the mole they
would'nt stop." The prisoners were next day taken into
custody, at their:dwelling, No. 9, Molder's-row, a row of
small houses in the brick-fields at Ball's Pond. In the
house were found several spades, mattocks, ropes and other
such implements as are used by the dealers in human flesh.
This was the substance of the evidence for the prosecution.
The female prisoner, in her defence, said she did not
know that the deceased was her father ; but a man, named
" Bob Bonner," told her that another man, named " Old
Patchy," had told him that her father was lying dead in
the Asylum ; and therefore she applied for the body.
Her husband, when asked by the Magistrate what he
bad done with the body, replied—" I went with the cart
as far as Fore-street, and there I got out. Su it isn't
likely I should know what's become of it."
They were then admonished and discharged—on the
ground (we believe) that, as the corpse was delivered up
to them, they could not be legally indicted for stealing it.

REX V. BARRY.—This was a proceeding by the same
Committee against Edward Barry, for wantonly and ma-
liciously breaking the lamp in front of the Asylum.
Mr. Barry, a fine specimen of "the fitiest peasantry on the
face of the earth," has been a resident there for the last
fortnight. On Sunday morning last he went out, and
when he returned in the evening the following colloquy
took place between him and the attendant Committee-
man :—" Why did you go out when there was Divine
Service here, with plenty of food ?"--" Because I'm a
Cutho/ic." " Have you been to a Catholic Chapel then?"
„
" No, devil a bit ! —upon which answer the Committee-
man ordered him to he expelled as a worthless disorderly.
About eleven o'clock the same night the door-keeper hear-
ing the great lamp, in front of the building, break, looked
not and saw Mr. Barry, wha said, " T'was I did it ! for
I'm resolved I'll lodge somewhere to-night !" So they
took him to the watch-house, and lodged him there.
He was sentenced to get one month's board and lodging
in the Compter.
40W.STREVr,

It was confidently stated yesterday in this office, that
the means resorted to by the monster Burke and his confe-
derate in Edinburgh, to procure subjects for dissecting-
tables, are practised in this metropolis at the present too-

meat. Certain it is that several persons have lately disc
appeared in the neighbourhood of London, whose sudden
absence can be accounted for in no other way. The old
woman named Bray, who came from the country to visit
her friends who reside at No. I, Pancras-place, has never
been heard of since she was last seen in the neighbourhood
of Chelsea Hospital,' where she had spent the day. When
the information of her absence was first given at this office,
about a fortnight ago, Mr. HALLS directed that an officer
should go round to the several hospitals and workhouses in
and about the metropolis, to ascertain whether the poor
woman might not have met with some sudden accident, or
had fallen down in a fit, and in that state had been cha-
ritably removed to some place where surgical assistance
was at hand. On inquiry, however, it has been ascertain-
ed that no such person Lad been taken in at any of the hos-
pitals or workhouses at the time stated, and the friends of
the poor old woman, having made every exertion them-
selves to solve the mystery attached to her absence, are
now firmly convinced that she has been unfairly treated.
Two elderly persons Kaye disappeared in the same unac-
countable manner from the neighbourhood of Hackney
within a very short period of time; and it was stated
yesterday as a positive fact, that a little boy in the course
of last week was actually trepanned to a house near the
Kent-road, for the purpose of making him a subject for
the surgeons. The story is almost incredible, but it has
been repeated by so many, that it must, iu some degree at
least, be founded iu truth. The boy, it is said, was car-
rying his father's breakfast, when he was met by a man,
who said he would give him a penny if he would carry
note for him to a certain house, situate in an unfrequented
street near the Kent-road. The boy promised he would '
do so, but first went with his father's breakfast, to whom
he accidentally mentioned the circumstanoe, showing the
note which he was commissioned to deliver. The father,
knowing that the street to which the boy was directed
bore an infamous name, looked into the letter, and to his
horror found these words—" I send you another young
subject—dispatch !" The father having consulted some
friends, it was determined that the boy should deliver the
letter according to the address. He went, followed by his
father, and several men; and the moment he entered the door
of the house to which he bad been directed, it was closed upon
him., The father and his friends immediately rushed forward,
and forced their way into the house just in time
to save the boy from being strangled. Two dead bodies
were found in the house, but in the confusion which pre-
vailed, two mien and a woman, who were in the house,
effected their escape. Such is the story which was repeated
in this office yesterday, and which received some degree of
confirmation from the fact of its having been repeated in
the course of the morning by several Bow-street officers.
'Whatever credit may be due to the above statement, it is
certain that the demand for subjects at the present moment
has never been exceeded. In the course of the last week
two bodies were stolen from the bone-house attached to the
workhouse of St. Clement Danes. Three strong locks
were forced in the night-time, and the bodies carried off.
A warrant was applied for at this office to search a house
in the neighbourhood, to which suspicion attached; but
the bodies have not been traced..

Information was given yesterday to Sir R. 13thstr, that
a young man in livery, who lived with Mr. Bowles, of St.
Paul's Church-yard, has been missing since Thursday even-
ing last, when he was sent with a parcel to Burton-crescent.
Ile delivered the parcel, and was seen in Portugal-street,
Lincoln's-inn-fields about ten o'clock the same night, in-
quiring his way to the Strand, since which time he has not
been heard of.

Sir It. flittNin directed that he should be sought after•
His Ether, who gave the information, stated that he was
wily 20 years of age, and stood nearly six feet high.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 8.---Wind N.W.---High
water tour minutes past two.—Arrived the Isabella, ---,
from Demerara ; John and Mary, Cowan, from the lila
of Man ; Anne, Rowe, from St. Michael's; Iris, But.'
cher, from Santana ; Malta, Vurau, from Gijon ; Janet,
, from Westport ; Betsey, Hurell, front Larne ;
Dolphin, Smithet, from Newry.
sailed—The America, —, for New York ; Herald;
—, for Baltimore ; Gulnare, —, for Naples; Wm.
Iluskisson, ---, for New Orleans; Georgia,
for Boston.

The great seal itself, when not in the Kings
own costa:fly, was entrusted to the " Chancellor," whose
salary, as fixed by Henry the First, amounted to five,
shillings per diem, besides a " livery" of provisions. And
the allowan,e of one pint and a half, or perhaps a quart,
of claret, one " gross wax-light," and forty candle-ends/
to enable the Chancellor to carry on hie housekeeping'
may be considered as a curious exemplification of primi-
tive temperance and economy.—Quarterly Review.
A lover, in a village on the northern side of
the Forth, lately fell upon the following notable expedient,
in order to deter his rivals from visiting the fair object of
his affections. He conveyed from a gentleman's grounds
in,the neighbourhood, and fixed in a conspicuous situa-
tion in front of her door, a board containing the folloW-
ing notice in very large characters :—" Persons found
trespassing within this enclosure, being private propertP
will be prosecuted according to law." To this notice he
added the words, " except A-- alluding t°,
himself : and it is said that his mistress was so mu°
pleased with his ingenuity, that she has consented to b 6
come his bride.—Stirling Journal.

AFFECTING STORY.---At a time when 'OW,
totny, subjects, resurrectionists, murders, &c. are the al'
engrossing topics of conversation, the following affecting
story, the accuracy of which may be depended on, will bg
read with more than ordinary interest. Some time ago
physician in a neighbouring county, in the course of B,P,
interview with two resurrectionists who were in the habit
of supplying him with subjects, intimated to them
anxiety to procure against a given time, the hody of a dee'
child for anatomical purposes. The brace of resurrectionii°
assured their employer that no exertion should be wantir4
on their parts to gratify his wishes. In the course of tw°
or three weeks after the interview in questiono•the retie'
rectioniets waited on the physician, and handed over l,
him the body of a deceased child, for which they 0,
ceived a certain sum, and then departed. On the lb'
lowing day, the Doctor's wife having occasion to 11
inside the counter of the shop, saw the head-dress .°
her recently interred child, which she more react
recognized in consequence of having made it W't.l;
her own hands. She instantly exclaimed in half frantl
accents, rushing at the same time into an adjoining ap3a
went in which her husband was at the time, how iP ,
name of Heaven had he procured the head-dress of her
child ! Before the husband had time to return an answer'
his wife recognised oa the dissecting table, in a shockin6.l7
mangled state, the remains of her child. She fell down lig°
a state of insensibility at the painful spectacle. The ab°co
which her feelings received at the discovery produced t
partial derangement of intellect, but not to such an exteP,
as to render her afterwards unconscious of the affecting eiri,
eurnstance which had taken place. It preyed unce4Nolf
on her mind for the period of three months, at the f,lase
which time it brought her to a premature grave, It
unnecessary to add, that until his wife made the dos,",
very, the physician was not aware it was his own child
had dissected.—Elgin Courier.

Blra lIS.
On the Slii inst., the holy of T. J. pl#l, Esq.,
tock-tquare, of a eon.
la3l On the t-3th inst., at Croom's-hill, Greenwich, the
of Captain Popple.well, R.N., of a daughter.
On the sth inet,, at Satsden, the lady of the Rev-
Ruler, of a son.

MARRIED.
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On the 7th inst., at St. John's, Hackney,. by the v
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William Lloyd, of Lillingstone-Lovell, Oxon, flerheit
Lloyd, of Tliavies-inn, solicitor, to Mary Ann, youngell
daughter of the late John Gilbert Saggers, Crosby-squat
solicitor.

DIED.
On the 7th inst., at his house in Southampton-POP
John George Graeff, Esq.
On the sth inst., at Hampstead, Charles Jacob, f'q.'
surgeon, aged 46.
On the 3d inst., at her father's, Addlestead-house,
Peckham, Kent, Sarah, wife of Mr. W. Town, Reg°
street.
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On the 7th inst., at St. Mary Cray, Emma, it'll-
r
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daughter of the late John Drew, Esq.
On the 7th inst., 4t Monmouth, Mary, wife of sloi3P
Norton, Esq.
On the Bth inst., Mr. John Sly, of Southampton-bid'
ings, Holbotn, aged 71. tbl
On the 6th inst., at Parkiditee, Paddington, Emily, •
wife of Mr. Alfred Turner. ti)t•
On the 7th inst., at Manchester, John Howtirsh '
son of the Rev. John Addison Cootnl, -
On the 3d inst., at West ptuton, in the North Rid'/4
of the county of York, William Purehas, Esq., aged if'',
On the 7th inst., Edward Everard, Esq., of Aliddlet'H
near Lynn, Norfolk, aged 68.

PRINTE and PullustiEn by 111URDO YOUNG, 83 "
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