The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-26 00:00:00

MURDER AT liOXTON,

This day -.we have to. announce the' loss of
another life, in conseqiienee of the death of a man supposed to
have been murdered to Ithodcs"s-fields, Homo!), on Friday
night last. It was stated in yesterday's Paper,that the unfor-
tunate mall had been mariled, hut did not live with his wife
for some time past. We bate silica. learned that he left his
wile about twelve -weeks ago; his name wa' ChiirleS Tiylor ;
hebad been a nr► plasterer, but lately he coati iVed to
get sonic business on his own account. Wizen he left his
wife he had a niece living in ,respertablc service at Islington,
a young woman of unimpeachable character tip to. that pe-
riod, and he persuaded Itcr.!. quit her pace ;Ant live 'V It
him. He brought tier and V' tale-vet. little trifle she had 'tired
in serene to the Pose nod Crown. in Lln,thill-1 abet, he
was known ; it seas then late la Ili?. evening, and request-
ed to be accommodated with bed, passiog the young Am
man as his wife. •- He succeed, d let flit. first int-lance to get
a bed, •under these pretuudens, and atterw-at its was per-
mitted :to tont-lime in the
.ofl:.;iag. They fm.th passed fur
Mr. and Mts. Taylor, and none .of their acquaintance: knew
the contrary. On the evening of his flt,Atli Le quittrd tl is
(loose rather early, --and was thou -it. a cheerio! di:position.--
They were k token to he poor, bill not in s-at ico
When the circumstance Of death readmi the young
woman she betrayed raft tact conct.trn and anxiety to :ire his
body: she appeared distracted, hot ewes y consttlatiou was
afforded to her by those with 'whim, site ass;tciat ed. Crock-
well, one of the beadels, agreed to -in !Ira' see the, body
yesterday morning, and it was arranged that her landlord
would accompany her. The boor appointed hating passed,
the landlaey %Vela TO call lttr np—whtn,- findlng the dour
shut, the called her by name. ti t• (the. deceased) answered
in a faint Voice, bile could not get up. The dour was forced
open, and she was in hed, Situ the sheets and bed•elothes
on's:ft-A all nceF with blood; a lair of -scissars bloody, and
two &oiler-knives, wt re found close .to her: she was Not
dead, and the parish sargemi was sent for, bait lie did riot
attend. It apPeared that she attempted to, bleed herself to
death by cutting the artery in her arms with the scissors but
this not succeeding, she stabbed herself with is-knife in three
different parts of the bony, and then cut her thrum. She ex-
pired about one o'clock ;-es:eyday ;minting. Taylor had no
children by either his wile or his niece. Alt foque,t will Lc
held Mi both the hod i s this iliev.—(iffrOwiort ..Pctue4

MERCANTILE Pc few days ago,'t wo gen-
tlemen on the Liverpool Exchange Were con-
versing on the badness of the times _(the usual
topic of conversation at present;) when a flock of
pigeons happening to fly over their head 4, at-
tracted their attention. " How happy," exclaimed
one, "are these pigeons ; they have no .accep-
tances to provide for."—" You are wrong therp,"
replied the other, " for they have their Biils.to
provide for as well as we." _ _

NEW FASHIONED PAYERIENT.—A method of
diminishing. the resistance to wheel-carrriages,
arising from the inequalities of the surface of the
streets, has been practised in some of the towns
of Italy-, and is about to be tried in one of the
streets of Edinburgh. The plan consists in lay-
ing parallel to each other, and at the distance of
the usual breadth of carriages, pieces of granite
about four feet long, and of the width, of our
kirb stones, in the carriage-road, somewhat like
the fashion of a groove, but not lower than the
surface of the other stones. This experiment
.has, within the last two days, been put to trial on
a small scale, in the narrow part of Wych-street,
next the Strand. From the narrowness of, that
street, however, one great annoyance appears
likely to result from its adoption in that place_
There being no other kennel in that part, of the
street, the grooves must become the channels of
the slop and dirty' water; and being close to the
foot-pavement, which has recently been increased
in breadth, they cannot fail to expose passengers
in that frequented thouroughfare to be splashed
even more than heretofore.

ATTIcSI2T AT ASSASSI Sunday af-
ternoon, as Alexander Hoskins, Esq. of the Cstle
of Newcastle, in the county of Limerick, 'Agent
to Lord Courtenay's estate, was walking in, his
pleasure-grounds, he observed a man, in a
shrubbery, who presented a blunderbuss at him,
which missed fire. The assassin very delibe-
rately shook the powder in the pan, and snapped
it a second time, with a like result; and,then,
throwing the blunderbuss down, drew from his
bosom a large pistol, which he cocked and fired
at Mr..Hoskins. Most fortunately, the ball only
grazed his shoulder. The villain, finding that his
shot had not the desired effect, ran off. We un-
derstand that several persons are implicated in
this attempt at assassination, and that some have
been arrested on suspicion.---(Limerick Chronicle.)

WORSHIP.sTRIET.---in consequence of the
nurnerons robberies. lately committed in Shereditch, the
City.ronl,.,&c., the Magistrates on Friday night issued it
search warrant, and ordered the Officers Li bring all SUS-
piciout charaFters found' in the of at any of the not- ,
CCI public-houses which they frequ'ent, betore than. The
whole of the Officer, went ta execute this duty, and appre-
hended no less risen 40 welt known thieves. Amongst than
were, C. Flemming, G. Rawlins, G. Holt, 3, Coston, W.
Nightingale, R. 1,10,d, S. Staples, S. Rowe; T. 3ohntora,
Rd. White, M. ricgajs, J. Parker, G. Weyer, .1. Flemsninr4, J.
Ityan, and Wm. Cu:lnnings, some of whom were taken in the,
act of committing street robberies. A great number of gentle-
tnen, who had bras rolstsed, attended to identity the prisoners,
bite only a few were rec ;;Wised; they %vele coininis Led for the
felonies, and the-rest, who were well known thieve!, were
committed under the Police Act. Others were ordered to
find sureties for their good behaviour, and such as could give
a good ;season? ef themselves wero discharger', •
On Saturday eloping there was an inferdal at-.
tempt in murder 011 C of she. partners who ismanager of the
-I.3nderwom! Cotton ;ley. This at tempt was made so ear-
Iv as a quarter 'past ten, al.d on ier circurn;tances peculiarly
daring. Iriquiry had iwe it wade for him ;it Gut 7 itifferen;t placre
its the course of the evening, and, at the time above;mention-
ed, he was found at the house of a friend in.•Canseysido-stiert,
one of nearly the most public st rats in Paisley. The perion set s
called for bias WaSt egtietv.l by the servant to step intp a-par-
lour, which t be a,sassi n declined, pleading urgentbusiness.
gentleman had scarcely reached the thrysiid of the streetdoor, when lie was.9l'ut cd by a discharge of I,la,!eitiiistrils, but
most providentially without receiving any injury. slur bullets
have si tit& been found one of which had strUCli t be daot,t heot her
it were found in the lobby. The assassins were four in num-
ber, who instaltly !wade off. Three men have beetiappre
hentied on sovicion,•aud a precuguitiUn has sinte beat going
on —(Ectiliburgh Paper.)
-• The new -College founded at .Seratn' pore in
the Mist Indies, is now in a very prosperous.tstate.
'The library has lately- received . a considerable
addition, by a vainahle selection of Ilehrew,
Syric., Greek, Latin and English books present-
ed to the College, by a Gentleman of Durham.
In the neighbourhood of 'BitstOu; in Stafford-
shire, a piece :of coat land. of t•ix.teen acres sold
. .
lately for the enormous Sam of 'eleven hundred
and thirty pounds per acre.
A poor woman, on going up Church-street,,
• .
Blackburn, one ,evening a .shocctime.- acs, acci-
dentally lit SOuls thin,4. with her' foot, Which she
conceiviid tv ne:a samil bandle of
,rages; however,
on inspection,
,proven to be a po4,:et.book.,
containing bills and notes to the arnottnt of 2 or
,(.3001. whiCh htd herein dropped by a traveller.
The woman i:.iniedintely 'got- the bell-man to
publish the .event: The'ploiley. was claimed by
the tr.t.ieller, who made the honest wotnan a hand-
..
some ;or her -
•

TBE LONDON JOURNALS.'

tt)AILY ExTß?►C'F`i FRoNI Tim MORNING PAPERS.I

r Morning Post.]
The intelligence from Italy by the French Papers is of
great importance. The Austrian Army is +tated to hate
.passed the Po, with the intention of proceeding directly to-
the Invasion of Naples. T 1 article from Mikan affirms, that
a report prevailed in that city, that the river was passed by
the invading arasy in three divisions, the first commantled.by
t3eneral Fremont, the second by the Prince de Liebtenstelp,
and the third by the Prince of i'llerartzenbeig—the Whole
4emy being under the supreme command of Prince Ferdinand,
Puke Of Parma. An army of 80,009 men, still continues on
the Adige, and Wlll cot follow the expeditionary army until
after the art iral of the new troops, who are rapidly advancing
through Carinthia. The whole of the Austrian forces that
will be employed in ltaly,including these. expected reinforce-
ments, will, it is snit!, exceed .200,000 men. this sivent
,term to hate been expedited by the evasive nature of the
Answer returned by the Parliament of Naples to the proposi-
tions transmitted by the Congress of Troppan ; which were
submitted to the Parliament on the Ist inst. be the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and strongly recommended by him for
areproval. The discussion was held with closed doors, aid is
said to have. beets vrty violent. The Minister stated, that by
7..ecepting the terms, war might still he avoided ; but selerat
'elerobers repelled with great warmth every proposition which
tended to effect any change in the bases of. the Constitution.
It is added, .that the Parliament finally resolved that it coed
not tudertake the consideration of any subject which should
st+ter fvra with the discussion of those modifications in the
Constitution which bad Inert referred
:to the Parliament by
he Crosernment. The pre?posittimis of the Allied Sovereietts
;were thus rejected, and war became inevitable. It it possi-
bly, however, that these accounts nosy not lei quite correct.
\--If they were to be relied upem,,all doubt of the actual cont-
. mencersent of war would of course he removed ; nor could
the result be deemed . for a single moment Iris
'flee overwhelming disciplioecl forces of Austria, cToild expo-
rietlce no effectual resistance from the comparatively few and
.fax less valorous legions of Naples; and if the hostile more-
merits of the forme,: took place at the time nottitiotard
in
'Rest mace-mute, -the probability is, that a war commenced
eAre.,ee such circumstances, bat before this time reached its
cntechtsion. It is possible., see mast however repeat, that ro
moue rime itat a respect materially exaggerate the facts t and
rberefOre ssait the arrival of more certain accounts before
we ',areas .0%2-Fs-elves nonce hilly upon the subject.

[Morning Chronicle,]
We understaud that t Treaty is actually iu negociation for
terntnercial intercourse with France upon terms which can
at helm:Sr-IA to both coontries—those of reciprit-
_
<Av.. It it said to be in contemplation to redoce the import
'duties on -certain crannierated art ides, from 7b to IS per cent.
*tl valirrerti—a rate which would Attereace the Contturintinn in
bf7al countries •ef the articles which they respectively want,
end while. it puts an end to the expensive and useless
preverg7k'e syslerti, would, in all prohahility, rather add to
ri.:lttitivtnixiisti the revenue. We sincerely with that it -may
Ive re.alised, and that it maY also lead to the s-dtletnent of
ofittiniercial trexties with ecery other wation. It
is only ty the liberal principle of give arid ta{e, that the
equiiitriintei of which lite French King speaks, cats he re-
eti:nell. Foreign tnarket-...1 cannot buy our produce if we do
Pot take-their s in exchange ; and it is to otar interest to make
•our cuslouters opulent.

The snceessor -of Mr. Canni r4l; is rot yet known. Thr ge-
neral opinion is, that Mr. Peel wilt not accept the offer of
tht Presiikncy tire Board of 1..:ontrool. Mr .Einsliisson,
no iJitle and Isnsiness-like person., and consequently very At for
tt:c deems of the office which Mr. Cannitrg has left, has been
sfgrifeet. ef;—lrat he is a conut.xion of Mr. Cattoitig's and,
Moreover, the Ministers bare irlin alrenay. Fir:ally, Mr. V.
TV. Wynn has been talk?.d of: his :appointment, it is suit-
pr.sed, would Ex the Grenville p.-irtlt in tire interests of the
Nittistry; towards which they here been gradually approxi•
stg

It win tn•rpfis.er..en the nelherrnti of NI-mister; to halm
thet They tee tdroot tt> :Troll-It a friett.l of Lord Caolereagit
to the tins ire phwe of ttect,icer-Gvlteral of the.ett=toins,
teitL alialary of -90()01. a rear. Notv it is a notorious fAct,
that. ttre !ate worthy Mr. Pvcivell (wlrtse tamentee death trwt
over:skirled the s-aeaticyl ri-vver once lc:Jur thy iosidi• of his
face kw the 'Last sacs of taiS lire, tive wh.ole of 04,
laborious Autivs per-formed ily the 5:;1,,,t1:5.. considtri,l
the deprersed state of this bra,meli of the Revezltte, ami that
the seriteral!if ti;AtfX.s4.e4l state Id the country all is4,..ircs
otiittmstlnal4 we trio fl.t 14N5iLlitt to proaroonet
ork-Kt scartill;mus -lob.. It is coat acts at 114,«e that R.X-
Cite Vitmic .escattivitt Awl toivarris Nlioisters, an,'
trader a tars:- military force necessary in 4ii!ep &twit the rf•
feritsccitce of popolar ittdtiznation.—(ibid..)

The Pub& LcdEer.]
ft is peri stat,cl, that the stli:e.ct of the secret diteus
*ion in the Neapolitan Government, en the Ist inst. wa.s the
evert:ores fiat the OongreSs TioppL4l, proposing- certifier
etodileations of treConstitutinit, ai the price of ti,nce. It is
2.(141ed, that the Drike of (Camp' Cl aro strontly rec,misnetti,l-
vd that thersitKitil Ire acoelieri to; hut the President, after
coniultior liic Iblenitrers, replied, that Parliament was eo-
Frwir,(..l in consirlering the troftif eatinns ref which the Constitu-
tion m g3tt 44C' stp.cevrible; hot that they st,ould resolutely
rej,ct nrynlicht „Appear to he dictated by foreizn force,
sad t4,-At.sti the M,shoiers of the Nalion.il Parlament would
I
refer to nun all the risk of ,war, rather thanthe tragt
11111,3vati,q1 on the esscuti4l lvolis of the itoton- .1
he
siss,wfw of the Neapolitan SolYtekli to 211 r CCrtigl-rsi of Trop-
Fall, of 011I1SP, corns/tunic-4a this dreition eft t iIC PArliameut;
Co the rereirt rof which, according to an article from Vienna,
zontiter ei.1,01:13 14114, trisn-.Mlitted to Naples, and it was deter-
tiiirt the two Eniperars should remain at Tioppati
Wail the arrival the answer to this latter coustnettication,
winch would decide the qu,stiou of peace or v-ta. If this
ttatment lte correct, it would follnwt that tile advance of the
Attotrians is to he retarded, for the present, only as a mili.
tiry tiertioastrAtion to give grater effect to this reiterated
Ilitetiacc of the tiovvrei4tK•

Ncrt Tillltu .1
.'rte accrytint s from Si. Petershuilth ,gate the decease of the
Eraper,,,e of Chiria, and ntention that the winter was setting
in towards tDte l.rtter eipd of N.K.eml)er last. Kelractoriness
bal beets manifested ha a regiment in the Russian sertice.—
" The indivirtuals thin bare so misronducted themselves,"
szys the ()pier rte the " are no lonizer worthy to wear the
ttniforin of the regiment (Guards): and his Majesty is. there-.
farr, tinder the siainful necessity of di-banding it."—Colonel
Schwartz, it is added, cnntnianded this ri violent. was
forthai':h to be tried by a. Coirt Martial, because he did not
understand, by his conduct, how to I,eep the regiment in
Obedience. There is nothing ofi terest in the Parisian news.
if we except the reiterated rumour. from Mitan, that the
Austrians had crrwiti the Pn. -Oebatittrc trAtibs, it is titan-
!joust). known, contributed most effecttially to overturn the
Itfustareby of France; and it appears that even the present
King. of St%Tclrn finds it necessary to confirm the tuppressiun
of the Debating Society in his dominions.

We received last night a series of German Papers, and also
a Dote!, Mail, by %shirt) the iotelligence is corroborated of
Austrian I rotr.'ds being at fe,:izth prep ired to Pass the Po.
Certainly *hen, nethi:,g is likviy to satisfy the Corset of
Vienna short of prompt " sulimissron" on the part of these
Reads, who have tatett the Neapolitan people under their
direction." We are dr.sveirrz to the close of ad eventful year;
bate perhaps,*ne scarcely less eventful is prepared to dawn.
Thirty-one years of revolutionary strife, and twerity•seven of
dese,iating- war, hare engendered such consequences as pot•
trrity way yet have reason to regret in all the bitterness of
Isrnentation. The contagion has unhappily gone forth, and
Atilt threatens to spread throughout the Civilised- world.—
(Aid).

[The Times.]
The spirit in which the French Government is likely to be
administered has jnst displayed itself in an important acres.
&inn to the Cabinet Council of three distinguished public
men, Nlessrs.'Laine, Corhieres, and Villele. It appears from
our Private Correspondence, that immediately after the re-
turns under the new Election Law bad thrown into the Cham-
ber a decided nr,jority of t►tel aristocratic interest, Minist, rs
opened a negociation with the body of 'Royalists, frith a view to
strenathen by official tics the connexion between them and the
King's Government. As, however, the tw., parties, the mo-
derate and ultra, composing the Royalist force, had hitherto
remained in apparent union, the pretensions u hitt' they ex-
hit►ited we suspect to have been more than the Ministry
could think of satisfying. lience the treaty broke off. It was
resumed, however, with better fortune, and su far as we can
judge, in a manner the most beneficial fur tl►e King's Govern-
ment and fur the country at large. The moderate, oc what
may be called the liberal Royalists, hare thus been detached

front their more extfArfigantotO tlangeroUs tithes. The notion
derives from the 'known chafacter and principles of the
new Miniiters, a security against those •schimies Of ilcspe
rate re-action imputed to the extr,:ne of the rote draft;
and those whom it is fair to consider as not merely in son
junction with the other Ministers, the rational support-
ers of constitutional monarchy, but as the personal friends
of the House of Bourbon, will constitute a majoiiry of silt
members to five in the cabinet as actually composed. The
three new Ministers, with M. de Serve, cono4ine unqttestion-
ably a greater share of talent than has yet been discovered by.
'an equal number of individuals, either in office under the
Crown, or in either assembly of the legislature. " In the
meantime it is conjectured that the ultra party will choose
for their leader M. de Vaublanc, formerly Minister of the
Interior.

[British Press.)
The Spanish Papers still speak of plots. and conspiracies,
which occasionally lead to p irtial excesses in various pro-
vinces of Cailiz and in San-.T,igu, p pillar comm.-
tknis took place to A- very serious extent, but tb,y were hap-
pily checked by the energy of the constituted Authorities. At
Oviedo there was, on toe '9th of last month, a seditious as-
semhlage•ot about 500 peasants, who had formed a plan to
seize upon the town ; they made the attempt, but were suc-
cessfully oppo•al by a division of the Ring's trnops, nod dis-
persed'. Complaints are made of the ext, usive system of con-
trabati4 which prevails along the whole coast of Split!, but
particularly in the nei!,:hbonrhood of Gibraltar, and on the
frontiers, ut France. it affirmed that the contraband trade
in the former place employs 4000 desperate armed men,whose
power is too formidable not to excite serious alarms even for
the political effects it mizto produce.