The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-30 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Saturday a young man named Oakey, the son of a
pianoforte-maker in Newington, was charged with having
robbed his father tinder aggravated circumstances.
From the father's evidence, it appeared that his incor-
rigible son had evinced, from an early period, a most de-
praved character, being in the habit of committing thefts
whenever an opportunity offered. A short time ago he
committed a robbery, and was tried at the Old Bailey, but
was acquitted, owing to the influence used in his favour
by the friends of the family. On his acquittal he was
taken home, and the very first night he slept at his Ether's
dwelling, an elderly lady who lodged there was awakened
by a noise as if persons were breaking into her apartment.
She instantly gave an alarm, and Mr. Oakey, having
armed himself with a loaded pistol, imagining thieves had
broken into the premises, hastened down stairs, and dis-
covered his own son concealed in the coal-hole ; he was
armed with a knife, but on perceiving his parent made no
attempt at resistance. The prisoner, it appeared, had pre-
viously entered his brother's bed-room, and having'pos-
sessed himself of a new suit of clothes, together with a
watch, then proceeded down to the old lady's room, where
in his ettempts to break into it he was overheard, and
afterwards found concealed in the manner above described.
It was also given in evidence, that the prisoner had
threatened the life of Loth his parents on several occa•

If a man fall with a violent fall, might it not injure his
inside, think you ?—We did not find any injury of that
kind when the body was opened.
Well, Sir, respecting this violent blow on the nose,
might that not proceed from a fall ?—I stated my opinion
before, that it had been grasped by two fingers and a thumb.
You say you found two under waistcoats upon the body,
were they tight?—No, loose like night-shirts.
Well, Sir, I have no more questions to ask you at present.
Mr. RAWLINSON asked Mr. Kirton what was the im-
pression on his mind respecting Mr. Neale's death, and he
said he believed it was occasioned by violence.
The prisoner begged permission to ask if a gentleman
named Laycock was present. No one answered to the
name, and Mr. Rawliuson sail if he would give his ad-
dress, some one should immediately fetch him. He de-
scribed Mr. Laycoek to be a Madeira wine-merchant, at
No. 2, Northumberland-eourt, Charing-cross, and a rela-
tion, and said he had requested him by letter to attend the
examination. The office Directories were searched, but
no such person's name was in them. The prisoner con.
chided he had changed his residence, and his letter had not
reached him, and exclaimed, " I am now lost !"
Mr. RAWLINSON said—The Coroner's inquest has re-
turned a verdict of wilful murder against you, and you
must be committed to Newgate for trial; your friend may
be of service to you there, but can do you no good now.
You are in a very awful situation, but you shall have every
assistance afforded you.

'I he prisoner said he was aware of his peril, and thanked
the Magimtrate.

Dr. Dennis repeated the evidence he gave before the
Coroner.

Mr. Joshua Brookes, of Blenheim-street, surgeon, pre-
ceded his statement by saying, he had been reprimanded
by one of the newspapers for making use of technical
terms at the inquest. He would now divest his statement
as much as possible of them, yet English names could not
be found for some parts of the human frame. He pointed
out the diseases to which, upon dissecting the body, he
found the deceased was predisposed, but in his opinion the
maladies were neither of them sufficiently extensive to cause
instant death. He particularly noticed the state of the
nose, and judging by all appearances, gave it as his opinion
that the deceased was stifled.
The prisoner, addressing Mr. Brookes—You say, Sir,
you found two marbles in the head of the deceased, how
long do you think they had been there? Mr. Brookes-1
said I found tumours there about the size of small marbles.
They are produced by disease, and vary in size. I have
found them as small as a pea, and as large as this ink-stand,
according to the stage of the disease.
Prisoner—Were they in their right places ? Mr.
Brookes—They have no right places ; they are, as I said
before, produced by disease.
Prisoner—Would drink act upon them to produce
death ? Mr. 13roekez—No, Ido not suppose it would.
Prisoner—You observed blood o❑ the brain, might not
that have been in conseqtrence of a rumpled sheet, which
was found under the back of the deceased. It raised his
back up, and the blood would of course run into his bead ?
Mr. Brookes—No ; certainly rot.
Prisoner—Do not you think it was produced by exces-
sive drinking ?—Mr. Brookes—That would cause a de-
termination of blood to the head, but not in so great a
quantity.
Prisoner—Do you think violent falls would not have
injured the nose in the way you describe ?—Mr. Brookes—
There was not the least appearance of contusion—nothing
like black and blue marks, as they are called ; but the left
nostril appeared pressed in with a thumb, it was a horrible
spectacle, such as I never witnessed before ; and (turning
to the Magistrate) the firmness of the mouth was extraor-
dinary ; friends generally watch for the last moment of a
dying person, and tie up the under jaw, to prevent its fall-
ing and producing a ghastly appearance, but here the mouth
was firmly closed.
Prisoner—The deceased was in liquor before, and drank
a great deal after he got home : if I was to drink to such
an excess, and my blood got up into my brain in conse-
quence would it not make my body in a curious state?
This question was not immediately answered, and he
put another.
You speak of the organ, was that in its proper place ?
Mr. Brookes explained to him, that any and every distinct
part of the body, complete in itself, is called an organ ; and
the prisoner said be hail no more questions.
Ile asked if the two young women were there, and Ann
Norris (the cook) was called in.
Prisoner—You said you heard your master snore, as
late as half-past five ?---No, I did not hear him snore at
all; I said my fellow-servant heard a noise at half-past
three, and Miss Neale thought it was my master snoring.
The prisoner said he wished to ask no more questions,
and he was commit'ed to Newgate for the alleged murder,
and ordered to be detained for the robbery.

It is said that the recent failure in the stage-
coach trade have been rrincipally owing to the ruinously
low'rates at which the spirit of competition has induced
many of the parties engaged itt it to under-drive each other.

(From the Manchester Times.)

We stated last week that a number of the princi-
pal spinners in this town had determined to shorten
the hours of labour, in order that their workpeople
should not make more than four or five days' labour
in the week, and we expressed our gratification that
they had so resolved, rather than to reduce prices,
because a lessening of the quantity produced would
tend to relieve the market of the overstock of yarn.
We are sorry that we have now to state, that the
owners of factories in which fine yarns are spun
have -resolved upon making a very material reduction
in the prices which are now paid. The reduction
is to commence at No. 80, the spinning of which,
according to the scale proposed, is to be paid at
about five per cent. less per pound than is now paid
for it, and the scale of reduction goes on increasing,
till at No. 250, it is upwards of twenty-five per
cent. below the present rate. We understand that
the reason alleged for this proposed reduction,
instead of a shortening of the hours of labour,
is, that by the latter a premium would in fact be
given to the country spinners, who would use their
exertion to fill up the vacuum in the yarn market
which might be thus created. The masters also
say that this measure has been forced upon them by
the spinners in the neighbourhood paying consider-
ably lower prices than are paid here. The men on
the other hand say, that it is known that the Ash-
ton spinners have resolved to lower prices twenty-
five per cent. whenever any reduction takes place
here ; so that reduction after reduction in this man-
ner might go on till the whole of the spinners were
reduced to a state of misery as deep and hopeless as
that in which the weavers are sunk. The convic-
tion that such would be the result of agreeing to a
reduction, has, we understand, determined the men
who are employed on fine numbers to turn our. This
is, it must be confessed, an exceedingly unfortu-
nate state of things at the very best season of the
year for business. We trust that any communications
there may be between masters and men will be con-
ducted with temper and moderation, so as to lea-le
the door open for friendly arrangement; and as both
classes are suffering by the depression of the times,
it is not too much to hope that each will have that
feeling for the situation of the other which will lead
them to avoid every thing that may be an obstacle
to speedy agreement.

A man named FITZGERALD was killed on
Tuesday, at Ardpatrick fair, by a party of fellows, who
literally smashed his skull to atoms.—Limerick Chronicle.
LOST GREENLAND.—CAPTAIN MA NOY,
whose mind is ever actively employed, has printed and
given private circulation to a series of papers connected
with a plan he contemplates for the recovery of these lost
regions, and which he considers so be " eminently impor.
tint to humanity, highly interesting to history," and
likely to "afford an extensive source of information to se-
veral branches of science; it would also, besides renewing
an intercourse with a forlorn people, probable tend to open
a beneficial traffic with this remote and almost unknown
part of the Polar world." This colony was peopled (if at
all—which is matter of doubt) about SOO years ago ; it
continued to hold some commerce with Iceland and Norway
till 1406, when " no intercourse was ever after accompli.4ll-
- " Capt. IVIANBY now purposes to makethe discovery of this
land and this colony, their existence or extinction, the sobject
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