The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-27 00:00:00

THE SUPPOSED MURDER.

The soldier suspected of having murdered Mr. Neale was
apprehended by Stowell, the officer, on Wednesday night,
and brought before Mr. RAWLINSON yesterday for exami-
nation at Marylebone police-office. His name is John
Butler. He is an athletic hard-featured man, and a pri-
vate in the 2d battelion of the Grenadier Guards.
The case commenced with the evidence of Ann Norris,
cook to the deceased, at 16, Great Castle.street, Regent-
street, who stated that her master came borne at half-past
12 on Tuesday night. He went out about nine; he was
very much intoxicated when he returned, but he was sober
when he went out. A :nan came home with him, and she
was positive it was the prisoner; he was then dressed as a
soldier, with a grenadier's cap. She opened the door, and the
soldier told her he had picked her master up in Hammer.
smith, and had brought him home, or else he would have
been dead. They walked into the parlour, and sat down,
and the prisoner said her master had desired him to stay
in the house all night, and take part of his bed. Her
master was sufficiently sensible to know what the prisoner
said ; he said nothing, but seemed quite agreeable to it.
Her master called for the key of the wine-closet; she went
to get it, anti was desired to say there was no wine or
spirits in the house. Her master ordered her to go tip to
Mr. Neale's sister, who was ;n bed, for the key (we noticed
the circumstance that Mrs. Neale went to Paris on Mon-
day, in our first report of this occurrence), and when she
came down, the cupboard door was broken open, whether
by her master or the soldier she could not tell, and there
were four bottles upon the table, and one bottle of wine
was in a decanter. She had before brought in some wine
glasses, and a part of a shoulder of mutton, for the soldier's
refreshment. He said he could not eat it without vinegar,
and she got him some. She then went and fetched Miss
Jane Neale, a young lady, about twenty years of age, her
master's cousin, and left the room for a short time. After the
soldier had drank some wine, an attempt was made by
Miss Neale and her to take Mr. Neale up stairs to bed, but
the soldier undertook to do it, and he anti Mr. Neale fell
upon the floor together. She then said to the soldier,
‘• You see it is impossible for my master to go up stairs,
will you sleep down here?" He said in reply, he could not
think cf leaving her master, and consented. She fetched
down two pillows, two blankets, a sheet, and a counterpane.
She put one pillow under her master's head, who was upon
the floor, and left the sheet and counterpane by his side.
She laid one of the blankets and a pill°. in a corner of the
room for the soldier to sleep upon, gave him the other
blanket and a sheet to cover himself with, and insisted
upon his hying down before site left the room, because she
was afraid of his falling against a glass hook-case ; but he
said he must undress himself, and take his stockings off,
for he had got a dreadful bad heel, and far that reason she
went away, and as she was going, he asked her at what
time she would rise in the morning, and she told hi'n she
should come up at seven, or a little after. She then went
' to the front kitchen, where she generally sleeps, and where
her fellow-servant was in bed, anti sat up all night. It was
about half-past two, and about half-past three her fellow-ger-
%atilt being awake said she hearth a frightful noise. Miss Neale,
who was sitting up with them, remarked, " Mr. Neale does
snore very dreadfully," and nothing more at that time was
thought of it. A short time afterwards, the witness went
out of the kitchen, and when she was in the passage, she
heard the sound of a foot in the parlour, as if some one
roee up ; but she felt no alarm. She was certain it was not
her master, because he was too much intoxicated. About
half-past five, Miss Neale laid herself down upon the bed
with the other servant, and the witness went to sleep.
She awoke about a quarter before seven. Miss Neale and

the other servant were awake, and when she had laid the
fire, she went up stairs. As soon as she got into the pas-
sage of the ground floor, she saw the bar of the street door,
which :Hiss Neale put up and secured, was taken down,
arid the parlour door wile open, and when she looked
into it she saw with astonishment the collier was gone,
actl her master was lying on his back in the middle of the
room, with the pillow under his head which she had
given to the soldier, and a blanket and a counterpane over
him, and a sheet rumpled up under his shoulders. The

blanket and counterp me covered his mouth, and part of
his m se, aml they were laid so smoothly that it was im-
pssible lie could have done it himself. She directly per-
ceived he was dead, his lips were very black, and his nose
was bent on one side ; and as soon as she was able, for
the fright deprived her of speech, she told Miss Neale and
her fe;low-servant of it.

William Yarrington, pot-boy at the Cock and Lion,
Wigniore•street, stated th,t the prisoner came there at
half-past seven o'clock on Wednesday morning ; he was
eased in soldier's clothes, with a grenadier's cap; be was
tipsy, be sat clown in the tapsroom and called for half a
gill of vinegar. He brought a frock-coat under his arm,
and a hat inside his cap, and two bottles of wine in his
pocket. Two Irishmen came in with him; he treated one
with a pot of half and half, and the other and the witness
with some of the wine which he brought, and changed
his soldier's clothes for the others, and went away at half-
p ist eight, leaving his cap and regimentals with the wit-
ne-s, and said he would come fur them at ten o'clock.
Miss Jane Neale was examined—She appeared greatly
distressed, and corroborated the maid servant's statement.
She said she went into the parlour after Mr. Neale came
home, and asked him if she should light him to bed. Mr.
Neale said nothing, but shook his head with a smile, as if
he meant no. The soldier appeared to want him to go to
bed, and said he was to take part of it with. him. She
asked Mr. Neale where he had been, and he replied, " Oh,
Jane, I have hem to see my old true Irlritain," but she
did not know what he meant by that expression.
The soldier asked her to take a glass of wine, she refused
it once or twice, but Mr. Neale said do, and she sipped a
little, and took the remainder of the glass into the kitchen,
and gave it to the servant. The soldier seeing the name
of Dr. Dennis on the door, supposed that to be the name
of Mr. Neale, and said Dr. Dennis knows my master very
well, he is a doctor in the army. He told her lie must
stay there all night, for he was past his time, and Mr.
Neale must write a note in the morning to his master, to
account for his absence. The soldier appeared sober when
he came in, but intoxicated when he fell down with Mr.
Neale. Mr. Neale remained upon the floor, for they could
not raise him, and the soldier got up and sat down if' a
chair, and she went up to Mr. Neale's sister, to know
what should be done, and the bed clothes were sent down
by the cook.
Henry Stowell, the officer, was called in about ten o'clock
on Wednesday morning to Mr. Neale's house in conse-
quence of what had happened ; he saw the body of the
deceased, and it had marks of violence on the nose. He
received from the cook a description of the prisoner, which
enabled him to trace him, and he apprehended him on
Wednesday night, at the barracks, in Birdcage-walk, where
he was confined as a deserter, with Mr. Neale's coat,
wristeoat, hat, and stock upon his person ; and lie found
a memorandum-book belonging to him in his breeches
pocket, and he was tipsy. Stowell asked him if he re-
collected taking a gentleman home the night before. He
paused a short time, and then said, " No, I don't ; I went
home with no gentleman. I was in Oxford-street, with
three girls."
Mr. RANCLINSON told the prisoner he bad heard the
evidence against him, excepting what the surgeons may
have to give, after they have opened the body, and that he
thought he had better be taken, in the first instance;, before
the Coroner; he should therefore remand hits until gatur-
dry, but if he wished to say any thing, he was at liberty
to do it.
The prisoner denied the charge altogether, for he never
used any violence towards Mr. Neale.
He stood unmoved, with a sullen look, during the ex-
amination, and offered no excuse for having the clothes of
Mr. Neal in his possession, and be had torn the coat across
the back by screwing himself into it.

CAUTION TO COFFEE-HOUSE KEEPERS:
Too frequently tEe above-named individuals have to com-
plain of the manner in which they are treated by fellows
who enter their houses, and call for a cup of coffee, but
wholly bent on stealing the newspapers, and the different
publications that they procure for the accommodation of
their customers.

LAW ARRANGEMENTS IN IRELAND.—The
Chief Baron has been raised to a British Peerage, by the
title of Baron ROCKBARTOIsr, of Rockhartm, in the county
of Limerick, and his Lordship has vacated the bench.
This arrangement was long contemplated. It is stated, we
know not with what truth, that Lord PLUNKETT succeeds
him as Chief laron of the Court of Exchequer. This
station is not so high in point of rank as that at present
held by Lord PLUNKETT ; but it is assigned, as a reason
far the change, that his Lordship prefers the Exchequer,
where much equity business is transacted ; and this ap-
pointment may be regarded as a step to the Chancellor-
ship, for which Lord Pl.o.lixErr is so eminently qualified.
It is stated that Mr. DOHERTY i 5 to succeed Lord PLuN-
KETT, as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and that Mr.
WALLACE is to be Solicitor-General. The promotion of
these two gentlemen, so distinguished for their legal talents
anti integrity, could not fail to afford public gratification.
If it were the object of the Government to place in the
station of Solicitor-General a Barrister of profound talents
and great legal attainments, they could not possibly make
a better selection than Mr. WALLACE.—DubIin Morning
Blister.

PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS IN THE

FOREIGN POST.

Great inconvenience is sustained at Liverpool,
Manchester, and several other important manufac-
turing districts, from the imperfect accommodations
given at present by the Post-office to their increas-
ing foreign correspondence. At the two former
towns considerable interest is taken by the com-
mercial community in the establishment of a
new foreign mail coach. A commercial gentlemen
has forwarded to us the following account of the
inconveniences sustained under the present system;
and also the outline of the proposed new plan, with
the time-bill, which is generally approved of, and
has been submitted to the Post-Master-General, and
to the Secretary of his Majesty's Post-office.
The foreign mails are dispatched from the Gene-
ral Post Office in London each Wednesday and
Saturday morning at one o'clock : they reach Har-
wich at about ten o'clock, and sail about noon.
All the inland mails formerly arrived in London
each morning from six to seven o'clock ; after the
foreign mail had left, consequently, foreign letters
lost 18 or 19 hours in London. Of late years, three
mail coaches, viz. Liverpool, Leeds, (and Glasgow,
since discontinued) were expressly established over
800 miles of road, to arrive each night between ten
and eleven o'clock, for the purpose of carrying the
foreign letters to London on Tuesday and Friday
evenings ; thus a few places are partially favoured in
the dispatch, which has neither been made general,
agreeably to the just recorded principles by which the
Post Office is bound to act, nor on the converse has
any attempt been made to expedite the receipt of let-
ters arriving from the Continent, which are liable to
similar delay.
The importance of improved regulations may be
easily exemplified by the arrival of any packet with
letters at Harwich, on any day after six o'clock in
the morning, which are not for Warded until the fol-
lowing evening from London for the interior, whilst
they might by a direct mail coach to Huntingdon,
proceed the previous day from Harwich at five p.m.,
as per time-bill herewith, to places of the north of
England, all Scotland, and the north of Ireland, and
above 50 miles nearer than is now the case.. Sup-
pose a packet to arrive on Saturday at Harwich, the
letters by it now reach Liverpool, Danchester, Leeds,
Wakefield, York, Hull, &c., the third evening, being
Tuesday, and cannot be answered sooner than by
the next Saturday's packet. Those for Edinburgh
and Glasgow are delivered there the fourth evening,
being Wednesday, and cannot be answered before
next Wednesday's packet.
By establishing a mail coach 106 miles, in lieu of
existing posts, now nearly all the road, at conve-
nient hours, from Harwich, to join and be connected
immediately with the mail coach, at and from Stam-
ford to Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, &c., and
by sorting the foreign letters at Harwich as at
Falmouth, all the packet letters which might arrive
before three or four o'clock, (or if assorted on board
during the voyage by a responsible officer,) any ar-
rival up to five p. m. on Saturday at Harwich, or if
landed at Yarmouth by three p.m., would reach Liver-
pool, Manchester, &c., the second morning, being
Monday ; Leeds, York, Hull, &c., first evening,
being Sunday ; answered on Monday evening from
Liverpool, Manchester, &c.; and on Tuesday
morning, from Leeds, York, Hull, &c.; the
answers would be returned by Wednesday's
packet, and save one post, or three days. Those
letters for Edinburgh, Glasgow, &c. would be de-
livered there the second evening, being Monday,
answered on Thursday mottling, would be returned
by Saturday's packet, thereby also save a post, or
four days.
It is not less true than curious, that a packet
letter directed to Harwich itself, is never delivered
for two or three days after it arrives, having to
travel first to and from London, and an imposition
of the inland postage charged for this unseeming
delay. If such a letter arrive, and be in Harwich on
Wednesday or Saturday morning, that letter cannot
be answered by the returning packet of that day, nor
yet by the second packet, but it is actually sent back
by the third packer, which sails eight days after the

arrival of the letter, and the person to whom it is
addressed cannot help his difficulty, but has the
imposition of inland postage to pay. This surely
never can have been contemplated by the heads of
the General Post-office, whose meritorious and
prompt attention is always alive to remedy evils,
and accelerate all mails.
Packet letters, and all their answers to and from
Ipswich, travel 140 miles, instead of 10 miles; for
Norwich, 184 miles instead of 42 miles; for Hunting-
don, 130 miles, instead of 79 miles, and so on, being
taxed accordingly. Letters by packet arriving on
Saturday, might be delivered next morning at each
of those and other towns, viz.—Cambridge, Lin-
coln, Lynn, Yarmouth, Newark, Nottingham, Lei-
cester, Birmingham, &c., being within 130 miles of
London, but at present they are delivered the third,
being Tuesday morning, and cannot be answered
six days out of seven, without losing a post, or three
and four days—this loss at Huntingdon is commu-
nicated to nearly all the towns mentioned, except
Liverpool and Manchester, which only lose a packet
two days in each week, although they generally lose
a day or two in the receipt of all their letters.
Packet letters arriving at Harwich either on Sa-
turday or Sunday, are delivered at Sheffield, Leeds,
and Liverpool, Glasgow and Edinburgh, on the
evening of those great weekly markets, and when
the markets are all over. Whilst the proposed plan
will deliver the letters one or two days before those
important markets.
Suppose any packet arrives in Harwich harbour
after six a.m. with most important news, which
would affect pikes of any commodity ; what is there
to prevent a passenger travelling ten miles to
Ipswich, and there putting letters into that post-
, office before four p.m. to arrive in Sheffield, Hull,
Leeds, &c. next night, Manchester, Liverpool, the
following morning, or Edinburgh, Glasgow, &c. the
second evening, whilst the foreign bag and news are
laying in Lombard-street, to be delivered one or two
days after date.
-A horse post takes the letters at four p.m. from
Ipswich to Bury ; the Norwich mail from Bury
9 37 p.m. for Newmarket; when a flying post, eleven
miles an hour, runs off is catch the Edinburgh mail
at Huntingdon, 2 49 a.m. if it can, and there is the
dependence. Upon the latter this is such a drag,
that so long as it exists, no effectual remedy
can likely be accomplished in the contemplated acce-
leration of the northern mails—the ramifications of
the cross posts in the Huntingdon, or Stamford and
Grantham divisions, exceeding 1000 letters daily,
are so heavy and important that they require a fore-
runner by a subservient mail to clear the way, and
have all those letters previously assorted for the im-
mediate dispatch of the great northern mails when-
ever they should arrive—the Norfolk correspon-
dence is the heaviest, it departs in the Newmarket
mail from Norwich, at five p.m., joins the Yarmouth
coach and Ipswich cart at Bury, 9 45, reaches New-
market, 56 miles at 11 20 p. m., when an express
cart from Newmarket, 29 miles to Huntingdon, ar-
rives in three hours to meet the Edinburgh—from
Norwich to Newmarket, by the direct road, is 48
miles, thence to
Huntingdon is 29 miles or 77 miles.
London to Huntingdon 59 miles.
Difference of distance lB miles or two hours.
Therefore, as the Norwich mail departs at five p.m. and
the London at eight o'clock, there are three hours
difference, thereby leaving one hour for sorting or
casualties on the road. This proves the fact, that
by the Norwich mail leaving Bury out, and taking
the direct road by Barton to Newmarket, would save
seven or eight miles, whereas Bury would he sup-
plied by the foreign mail.
Allowing six hours for the Edinburgh mail
travelling to and from Huntingdon and London, it
might arrive from London, at two, instead of. 2h.
49m. p.m., and depart to London at 12, instead of
11h. 4m. p.m., thereby nearly saving an hour each
way. The Norwich mail might travel from Hunting-
don in eight hours each way, and allowing one hour,
which is more than sufficient, for sorting and casual-
ties, it would, as it now does, arrive at nine a.m. in
Norwich and depart at five p.m.
As the Glasgow and Edinburgh mails meet at
Stamford and not at Huntingdon, the former town
is preferable for all exchange of letters.

THE PROPOSED NEW FOREIGN MAIL.

BIRMINGHAM.

LEEDS CORN MARKET.—March 21.
We had a good supply of Wheat and Barley, but only mode,
rate of other Grain; the demand for Wheat was very limited, alw
to effect sales Is. per quarter decline was submitted to.—Fine
heavy Barley supported last week's prices, but all other qualltiel
were as dull as possible, and scarcely any sales effected. Oats any
Shelling dull sale at last Tuesday's quotations. Good dry Bean'
were in fair demand, but no improvement in value.
Wheat, Norfolk and Suflblk, 601 b.
York. and Lincoln. 601 b.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffialk 32s. to 345.
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
--•—•-•-• Grinding
Beans 63lb.
.390. 5,
Oats, Potatoe
—Mealing, Foreign 12d. to 13d. English 13d. to 14d. per F.
Shelling 32s. to ats. per 10.
Rapeseed, English, 321. to 311.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—March 24.
There were very few country dealers at this morning's market.'
the town millers also bought very sparingly, and on the whole the,
trade was dull ; the small advance obtained at the close of the
week could not be realized, and the prices of Wheat must be not
as on this day se'nnight. Prime Oats brought the same ratee,
but the secondary descriptions were offering on lower terms.;
Holders of Flour obtained an advance of Is. per sack, and the,
above.noted advance was realized on American.
WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b.
Red
Scotch, Welch, and Manx
- Irish, White 9 6 lO 0
-- Red 9 0 9 8
Foreign 8 0 10 3
OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 4 310
Irish
Foreign
BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 34 0 36 0 •
Scotch and Irish, per 601bs.
Feeding 4 3 49 •
BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter '36 0 40 0
--- Irish, &c.
Foreign l4 0 40 0
PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 46 0
Foreign
FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 52 0 54 0
Irish
OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 3l 0 32 0
INDIAN CORN, per 4101 b.
Rye, per Imperial quarter
0
MALT, per Imperial quarter
IMPORT OP GRAIN for the WeeK ending March 23.
Wheal Oats. 1 Barley, Flour. °atm e. I.
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. I Foreign, Prls [lrish, &c. Scks.l Losidi.
7,623 3,666 295 502 [ 1,977 1,838 ,