The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-09 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
M'ss Adelaide Kemble gained another triumph on Thursday
night in her performance of Amina in Bellini's opera of La Son-
nambula, which was for the first time, brought out in an English
dress. Mr. Leffler appearedas Count Rudolpho, and Harrison
as Elvino ; in addition to whom, as singers, were Miss Grant,
Mrs. 11. Hughes, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. G. Horncastle, and
Mr. Wigan. No drama better than that of Sonnambula could
have been chosen for the display of Miss Kemble's versatile
and commanding powers. It ahounds with opportunities for
the musical expression of fear, hope, despair, and joy, on the
part of the love-stricken Amina, a character for which Mali-
bran and Grisi, on the Italian stage, have created a lasting po •
polarity, to be at length equalled, we hope, by that. which Miss
Kemble will undoubtedly obtain for it on the English boards.
A primary difficulty in the representation of Amina, is the ne-
cessity which exists for distinctly, yet delicately, marking the
difference between her waking and sleeping singing. This
necessity can be observed only by those who have a high feel-
ing for art, an.d when the observation has been justly and
properly made, it does not follow as a matter of course
that there is a corresponding ability to realise its de-
mands. Miss Kemble realises those demands. She has
made herself great in Norma and Elena Überti, but.
she is still greater in La Sonnambula. The most difficult
piece of execution in the play, which depends upon the mo-
ment that marks the difference between her waking and
sleeping singing. was that which was represented with the
greatest tact. Mr. Leffler's singing and acting were both
excellent in their way, and Miss Grant accomplished her
task, which was arduous, in a very satisfactory and delightful
manner. At the termination of the opera, bliss Kemble was
called before the curtain to receive the congratulations of
the audience, and her reception on this occasion, as well as
throughout the opera, was enthusiastic. The house was com-
pletely filled with a delighted company. The opera is to be re.
pealed on Monday next, for the benefit of bliss Kemble.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

The following ar,, the results of " A Table of Mortality in
;he Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending April 2, 1842." The Table is
ssuod &nut the Office of the Registrar-General:—

Weakly
Average
1838-940-1
Total.
Four I Four
Winters Year,
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 125 199 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 140 160 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Okseases of the Hea-t and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion ...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c
Cbildbed, Diseases sf the Uterus, Ste 9 11 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 3 7 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c 0 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat l2O 115 104
01.(1 Age, or Natural Decay 53 90 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern-
pet ante
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes . 832 ---
Average Weekly Deaths lOl7 912
Population Average Deaths
renu- Weekly in
merated Deaths the
1541. 183•:'-9-4. -1. Week.
West—Kensington, St. George
( Hanover-squ are), Westmin- Four
I Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye rs. Wint •rs.
St. -lames
North—St. Mary-le-bone, St
Pancras, Islinxton, Hackney 365,660 162 182 179
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon
don, West London, City of
London 373,806 188 213 177
East—Shoreditch,Whiteehapel,
Bethnal Green, St. George •
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;49 206 223 154
South—St Saviour, St. Olave,
St. George( Southwark),Ber-
mondiev, Newington. Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Bother-
Lithe, Greenwich 438,060 221 243 191

CAUSIS OF DEATH.

Total 1,870,727 912 1017 832
It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—•
and the parishes of St. ,larylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith .;'laapelry), St. Luko (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom-
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 1840, and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEDIPERATUKE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
March 19. April 2.
530 58'
34 36
42 49
7, 1842.

Highest

Lowest .

Daily Mean .
General Register Office, April

184.'2.
The following is the House List of Governors and Directors
of the Bank of England, for the year ensuing :_..

FOR GOVERNORS.
William Cotton, Esq., Governor.
John Benjamin Heath, Esq., Deputy. .Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.

Robert Barclay, Esq. George Warde Norman, Esq.
Edward Hen. Chapman, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
I3onarny Dobree, Esq. James Pattison, Esq.
Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. Christopher Pearse, Esq.
Kirkman Dan. Hodgson, Esq. Charles Pole, Esq.
J. Gcllibnind Hubbard, Esq. David Powell, Esq.
Chas. Frederick Huth, Esq. Sir John Rae Reid, Bart.
Alfred; Latham, Esq. William R. Robinson, Esq.
William Little, Esq. Thomas Charles Smith, Esq.
James Malcolmson, Esq. William Thompson, Esq., anti
Humphrey St. John Mildmay, Alderman.
Esq. T. Matthias Weguelin, Esq.
James Morris, Esq. Francis Wilson, Esq.
The Election for Governor and Deputy-Governor will be
held at the Bank, on Tuesday, the 12th April, and for Direc-
tors, on Wednesday, the 13:11 April, from ten in the forenoon
till four in the afternoon.
DEATH OF IIR. ELLAR, THE HARLEQUIN.—EIIar,
the most celebrated harlequin of his day. died on Monday
advanced age of sixty-two, at his lodgings, No. 15,
Itlonnt-row, Lambeth. He has left a \site and .child totally
unprovided for.

The following are additional particulars of the horrible mur-
der of which we gave a brief account yesterday :
On Wednesday night, a murder of a most appalling nature,
and which, in the annals of crime, has only been equalled in
atrocity by that of Hannah Brown by Greenacre, and that of
Mr. Pass at Leicester, was discovered to have been committed
in Surrey. The scene of the tragedy is on Putney-heath, in
the hamlet of Roeheonpton, on the premises of Quelee Shiell,
Esq., Granard Lodge, Roehampton.lane, or otherwise Putney
Park-lane, a bye-road, running opt of he road from Putney
to Roehampton, and about a mile and a half from the former
village. Who the unfortunate female is who has been the vic-
tim of the murderer's violence is at present unknown, but the
individual who is suspected of having perpetrated the deed is a
man named Daniel Good, who for the lost two years has flied
the situation of coachman in Mr. Shiell's establishment, and
who has absconded. The discovery of the occurrence was first
made between ten and eleven o'clock on Wednesday night.
It appears that about half-past eight o'clock on Wednesday
evening, Daniel Good drew up with a four-wheeled pony-
chaise, belonging to his master, at the door of Mr. Columbine,
a pawnbroker; residing in High-street, Wandsworth, and asked
to look at a pair of black knee-breeches, which he stated he
wanted to purchase. He agreed to purchase them, and, being
known to Mr. Columbine, he departed with them without pay-
ing for them. As he quitted the shop a lad, who is in Mr. Co-
lumbine's employ, observed him to take off the, counter a pair of
black trousers, and put them under the flap f his great coat,
and, on reaching the chaise, place them with the breeches under
the cushions of the scat. The lad immediately communicated
the circumstance to Mr. Columbine, who ran to the door, and
asked Good if he had not made a mistake, and put a pair of
black trowers up with the black breeches he had just pur-
chased? Good replied that he had not, end instantly. drove
off, before Mr. Columbine could search the chaise, or give the
delinquent into custody. Mr. Columhinosaten lost no time in
acquainting tho police on duty of the robbery, and police con-•
stable William Gardiner, V 279, accompanied Mr. Columbine's
lad, and a young man named Robert Speed, in the employ of
Mr. Cooper, a. grocer, residing next door to Mr. Columbine,
immediately proceeded to Rocampton, to the residence of Mr.
Shiell, for the purpose of apprehending Good.
The policeman, Gardiner, states, that on reaching Roe-
hampton-lane, they first went to the dwelling-house of Mr.
Shiell, which is quite distinct, and nearly a quarter of a mile
distant from the farm where the stables are situated, where
they inquired if the coachman ( meaning Good) had come
home, and were told by the footman that he did not know, but
they could ascertain by going to the stables. On reaching the
gate of the firm, Gardiner thought it prudent to keep in the
background, and allow Speed to ring the bell, not wishing to
alarm Good, shculd he answer the ring, which, as it happened,
was the case. On Good opening the gate, Speed inquired if
the coachman had come home, when Good replied, " 1 am the
coachman." The policeman then went forward and told him
that he had directions to take him into custody on a charge of
stealing a pair of trousers from the shop of Mr. Columbine, at
Wandsworth. Good, with the utmost apparent coolness, said,
" Indeed? why yes, I bought a pair of breeches from Mr. Co-
lumbine, but I have not paid him for them yet, and I will give
you the money we agreed on, and you can pay him for them."
Gardiner told him that was a question he was not autho-
rised to enter into, as the charge upon which lie apprehended
him was of a felonious nature. Good then said—" Very well,
I Bill then go with you to Wandsworth, and settle with Mr.
Columbine," hut. Gardiner told him he must first search the
chaise with which he had been to Mr. Columbine's shop, and
the stabling, to see if he could find the stolen trousers. Good
offered no objection, and the stable having been searched with-
out effect, they went towards another, when Good immediately
stood with his hack against the door, Gardiner told him he was
determined to search that stable also, upon which Good said—
" Oh no, we had better go at once to 'Wandsworth, and get the
matter settled." At that juncture Mr. Oughton, Mr. Sheill's
bailiff and gardener, whose residence closely adjoins the
stables, hearing a loud talking, came out of his house,
and walked up to the Tot, and inquired what was the matter.
Gardiner told him that he had taken Good into custody upon
a charge .of felony, at which Mr. Oughton appeared very
much surprised, and insisted on Gardiner searching the stable
in question. They all then went in, vie., Good, Mr. Oughton,
Gardiner, Speed, and Mr. Columbine's lad, and on entering,
Gardiner desired Speed and the lad to stand by Good
for the purpose of keeping him in charge while he (Gardiner)
prosecuted his search. After he had searchpd two of the stalls
and the hay-racks, Gardiner examined the corn-bins, and while
doing so Good exhibited great uneasiness, and pressed most
urgeetly that lie should at once be taken to Wandsworth, that
ho might settle the matter. Gardiner, however, declared that
he would not leave until he had made a diligent examination of
the place, and missing the third stall in which two ponies were
placed, proceeded to search the fourth stall, which was at the
further extremity of the stable, and very dark, and appeared to
be filled with a number of trusses of hay. On removing two of
the trusses, he found that there was a quantity of loose hay
underneath, and when he had removed that he discovered some-
thing which appeared to him to be a dead pig. He immediately
exclaimed, What's this?" and at the same instant Good
rushed out of the stable, shutting the door after him, and before
Gardiner or his companions could collect themselves suffici-
ently to prevent him, Good succeeded in locking them in on
the outside, and taking out the key, which was subsequently
found in a shrubbery near the spot. He then effected his
escape. Speed immediately endeavoured to break open the
door, in which he was assisted by Gardiner, &c., but, cape- •
riencinw great difficulty in doing so, they all proceeded to exa-
mine what it was that Gardiner had found secreted. On a
more close examination, it was found to be the trunk of a human
body, which had been divested of the head, arms, and legs.
It was lying with the back upwards; and, when turned over
by Speed, was discovered to be the trunk of a female, and the
abdomen was found to have been cut open, and the entrails,
&c. extracted. Renewed effors were immediately male to
break open the stable. door, in which they were shortly success-
ful. Gardiner then dispatched the lad to acquaint the police on
duty in the neighbourhood with the finding of the body, and
the escape of Good, with a view to his recapture.
On the arrival of lnspec or Bicknell at the stables, Mr.
Shillito, of High-street, who is the divisional surgeon of
the police was sent for. Mr. Shillito being from home,
Mr. Allen, his assistant, examined the body, and found that
the head had been taasen off at about the third or fourth
cervical vertebrte, apparently after death had been caused.
The right arm had also been taken off above the shoulder joint,
and the left arias under the shoulder joint ; through the chest
were two incisions. The legs had also been taken off just be-
low the head of the thigh-bone. The whole of the cuts through
the flesh had been evidently made by a very sharp instrument,
the edges being remarkably clean, while the bones had, on the
contrary, been divided by being hacked or chopped with some
blunt instrument, the edges being much jagged. The stomach,
as well as the whole of the intestines, the liver, uterus, &c.,
had been removed, and were, like the head, arms, and legs,
nowhere to be found. In the opinion of Mr. Allen, which was
esterday confirmed by Mr. Shillito, the injury by which death
was caused must have been inflicted on the herd of the victim,
there being rot the slightest mark or wound on the back or
front of the body.
In the opinion of the surgeons the body is that of a female
from 24 to 26 years of age, and from the appearance of the
body it is considered the unfortunate woman had never been a
a mother, but whether or not she was enceinte at the time of
her death could not be determined, the uterus, &c. being
removed.
During the time occupied by the examination of the body,
Sergeant Palmer, V 6, was attracted by a strong and very
disagreeable smell, to the harness room, which adjoined the
stable in which the body had been found. The door was found
to be locked, and, upon its being opened, the stench was moat
overpowering. He observed a pile of wood in the fireplace,
where there was no stove, and found that the pile had been
laid ready for ignition as follows :—Two blocks of wood formed
the base, about a foot and a half apart ; across those blocks
were two bars of iron transversely placed at either end, and
upon that other wood had been placed with coal, the object of
thus forming it being evidently to secure a quick vent, similar
to that of a furnace, Having carefully removed the material
of the pile, Painter discovered a quantity of ashes, chiefly
wood ashes, and, in examining them, he discovered among
them a number of fragments of human bones, in a highly cal-
cined state, and on their being shown to Mr. Shilliea and
Mr. Allen, they at once declared them to be portions of the
skull, arm, and thigh bones, and bones of the fingers, &c., of
a human body.
• The horrible occurrence, as may be supposed, has thrown
the family of Mr. Shiell into a state of the most painful die-
tress. Mr. and Mrs. Shiell are, it is understood, aged
(croons, and were on the eve of removing from Granard
Lodge, which has been disposed of. Mr. Shiell, who is
stated to be an East Indian merchant, is at present from home.
Granard Lodge was formerly the residence of Sir Thomas
Farquhar, Bart.
As speedily as possible after the discovery of the murder,
Mr. Bicknell, the superintendent of the V division, forwarded
the following description of the supposed murderer, by route,
to all the station-houses of the metropolitan and city police
force :—" V, or Wandsworth division, April 6, 1842. Ab-
sconded, at half-post nine o'clock this evening, from Mr.
Shiell's, Putney Park-lane, Daniel Good, the coachman. He
is an Irishman, about fifty years old, of dark complexion, and
dark eyes • was dressed in a dark frock coat, breeches and
gaiters, and black hat ; his height about five feet six inches.
He is suspected of haying murdered a female, whose body was
found in the stable."
Soon after daybreak Sergeant Palmer, 6 V, recommenced
his search, and in turning up some hay in the stall, next to
where the trunk was found, he discovered a large quantity of
blood. This apparently was the place where the unfortunate
woman was murdered, and from thence dragged into the next
stall, which is wider, for the better convenience of the fiend
ed the stable still more
minutely, and found hid under some straw in one of the wSehri et ane tngPagaelmd Palmer afterwardsseveringtheexbamodiny into separate portions.
man-
gers, a mattress, two blankets, and a sheet.
Inspector Husain succeeded yesterday morning in finding a
large carpenter's axe in the harness room, with which, no
doubt, the murder was committed, for the pole was covered
with blood. He also found a small hand-saw, which was also
covered with blood.
About one o'clock police constable 90 V, accompanied by
Thomas Turnbull, a labourer, was examining the hedges and
ditches in the immediate neighbourhood of the stables, when
the latter found a small lantern, something similar to the
used in the police force, in the middle of one of the hedges.
Upon being brought to the stables the gardener at once iden-
tified it as belonging to Good, and said that he could not have
left in his flight, as he had with him no lantern when they
were making the search, the only light in the place being held
by Gardiner.
See geant Palmer ascertained that
During the forenoon
Good, after locking the door of the stable upon the policeman
and the others, ran into the lane, passed the frontage of the
stables and the gardener's house, and clambering a high wooden
fence, made his way over a field towards Putney. In his flight
he had broken off a piece of 1
Pa-m_g, and his footsteps were
plainly discernable in the soft earth half way across the field.
It is a somewhat remarkable fact that Mr. Paynter, one of
the sitting Magistrates at Wandsworth, observed to a friend as
he was coining into that town to perform his judicial functions,
that he had that oay been a twelvemonth acting as Magistrate
at Wandsworth, and had never had a serious charge brought
before him, which circumstance afforded him extreme satisfac-
tion. The worthy Magistrate had, however, hardly taken his
seat upon the Bench before he was informed of the above
dreadful occurrence.
Many statements were made in the course of the day at the
spot as to the victim.
Mr. Gougb, a farmer, living at Putney, and the gardener to

INQUEST ON THE BODY.
Yesterday, at twelve o'clock,.Mr. Carter, the Coroner for the
Eastern Division of Surrey, and a Jury of 17 inhabitants of the
parish of Putney, alsembled at the Angel Inn, Roehampton, to
investigate the circumstances connected with the death of a
female unknown, whose trunk and mutilated remains were dis-
covered in the stable adjoining the mansion, and belonging to
Quelez Shiell, Esq., of Putney Park-lane.
The most intense interest prevailed during the proceedings,
and the jury having been sworn, proceeded to view the remains
of the body. It was the mere trunk, divested of arms, legs,
and head,neither of which could be found. On searching the
harness-room, however, it was quite clear that the remainder of
the body had been burned, for a portion of a jaw-bone, and the
ashes of human bones, was found amongst the cinders of the
fire-place. On the return of the jury the evidence was entered
into as follows:—
William Gardner, police constable 279 V, was first sworn.
He said on Wednesday night last, the 6th of April, about a
quarter to nine o'clock, I was on duty in High-street, Wands-
worth, when, from information I received from Mr. Cohn-
borne, of High-street, pawnbroker, I went with two lads to the
house of Mr. Quelez Shiell, Putney Park-lane, in the parish of
Putney. The names of the lads were Robert Speed and Sa-
muel Smith Dagnall. On arriving there I rang the bell, and
the footmen answered it. 1 inquired of the footman if the
coachman had come home. He said No ; but directed me
down to,the stables, saying he might be there. The stables
are about two hundred yards from the house. I desired the lad
Speed to ring the tell. He did so, and the coachman came
to the gate. The lad asked it the coachman had came home,
and the person said, "I am the coachman." I then went up
to the man, and told him I had come to take him into custody
on a charge of stealing a pair of black trousers, which was
my only object in going there. The man said, " Yes, I bought
a pair of breeches from 11r. Colinborne, and I did not pay him
for them." He pulled out his parse, and wished me to take
back the money for the breeches. I told him I would not take
the money ; the breeches had nothing to do with the charge of
stealing trousers. lie then said, "Oh very well ; I will go to
Wandsworth, and settle with Mr. Colinberne. I asked him if he
would allow me to look over the chaise and stables. He made
no objection, but said " Yes." I went from the lane where I was
standing, accompanied by Speed and Dagnall, and the coach-
man went with us and pointed me out the chaise• house and
stable. I searched the chaise which was outside, then the
chaise-house, and from there I went to the harness-room ad-
joining the stable, and from thence to the stable. When I was
about entering the stable the coachman said " No no; let us
go to Wandsworth and make it all right." I replied "No, I
will not until I have searched the stable," as 1 had not then
found the trowsers. Before I got into the stable a person came
up, whom I understood to be Mr. Houghton, Mr. Spiel's gar-
dener. He asked me what was the matter, and I told him the
object of my visit. I then went into the stable accompanied by
the two lads and Mr. Houghton, the coachman, and a child
about ten or eleven years of age. The door of the stable I found
open. I desired the lad Speed to stand by the coachman
while I made the search. I searched the first and
second stall from the door, and then proceeded to the
corn binna on the left of the doorway. I had
searched two of the binna, when the coachman said Let us
go to Wandsworth and have it settled, and appeared very anxi-
ous. I again said I would not until I had made a diligent
search. After this conversation I searched one more binn, and
while searching that, the coachman went to the lower stall—the
fourth in the row—in which there was a quantity of hay. I
went after him, and saw him move some hay from one side of
the stall to the other, and under the window. I made a re-
mark, that I did not want his assistance, and the lad Dagnall
was holding my lamp whilst I began to move a portion
of the hay that 1 had seen the coachman move. I moved two
trusses, and under it I found some loose hay which I moved
with my foot. I then observed something lying under it,
and I moved the hay with my hand, and said' to the lad,
Dagnall, " What is this?—here's a goose !" Dagnall drew
close towards it, and the lad, Speed, also, and the same moment.
Speed came towards us, the coachman rushed out of the stable
door, pulled it atter him, and locked it on the outside. I
said now we are done," meaning he had escapedfrora being my
prisoner for stealing the trowsers. We all ran to the,door,
and the lad Speed and myself took up a hay fork and com-
menced prysing the door. I left him doing so and went back to
the stall to see what that really was under the hay, and the two
lads came also. Each of us passed some remarks as to what it
was, and the lad Dagnall exclaimed, " Why it's a human
being." Speed said 'Oh, nonsense, and atcoped down and'
tarried it over, and then we saw that it was the portion of a
body or trunk of a female. We returned to the door and suc-
ceeded in getting it open with the fork about a
quarter of an hour after the escape of, the coach-
man. I told the lad Dagnall to run down the lane towards
Wandsworth, and tell every policeman, what had happened, and
give the coachman's description, and also to do so at Wands-
worth station-house ; and he left for that purpose, whilst I and
the others remained where we were at the stable. I remained
about twenty minutes, when constable 192 V, came up, and I
despatched him to Putney to give information. About half an
hour after, police constable Tighe, 199, arrived, and I despatched
him to Wandsworth to give information to Superintendent
Bicknell with a full description of the coachman's dress. The
Superintendent, Mr. Inspector Busain, and a medical man, ar-
rived in about halt an hour. After we had found the body, Mr.
Houghton's sort came down to the stable. We gave him in-
formation that something strange had been found, and he ap-
peared much alarmed, and said he would stay in the house. I
do not think he knew the body was concealed there. Ho
went to see it in the stall, and exclaimed " What a wretch
he must be to do such a deed," meaning the coachman. The
trunk was lying on its front when the boy Speed turned it over.
1 then knew it to be a woman by its breasts. The arms were
cut off close to the sockets. The legs were severed at the hips.
The head at the lower part of the neck, and the entrails, had
been taken out, the stomach being cut open. I searched but
could not discover the other parts of the body, but I have since
seen that which is described to have been a portion of the body.
By the CORONER-Mr. Houghton's son said it was dan-
gerous to sleep in the house. He might be murdered. We
believed that the conduct of the coachman in running away
and locking us in in the manner he did, showed that he was
the murderer, and had placed the body where it was found.
After the Superintendent came, I and Sergeant Palmer again
searched the stable, but did not find the stolen trousers ; but
in the third stall, which I had not previously searched, we found
a rrattress under some trusses of straw, with two blankets rolled
up inside.of it. There were some stains on the mattress, but
I cannot say if it was blood. It looked more like urinal stains.
The body, as it has been viewed this day by the Jury, is in the
position we found it, with the exception of being turned over
with the head part towards the manger of the stall. There
was straw under the body which was stained with blood, but
not to any great extent.
By a Juror—l saw the coachman's clothes hanging up in the
harness-room, but I did not minutely examine them. The
coachman made no observation when he rushed out of the stable.
Robert Speed examined—l am shopman to a grocer in High-
street, Wandsworth. About half-past eight o'clock Mr. Cohn-
borne, the pawnbroker, came and asked me to go with his boy
in search of a man at the house of Mr. Shiell, of Putney Park-
lane, who had taken a pair of trowsers that did not belong to
him. I went to Mr. Shiell's premises. We first saw a female,
and then a bov, who told us where to go to find the coachman.
We rang the bell, and a female came to the gate, accompanied
by the coachman we were in search of.—The witness here de-
se=abed what passed, and the discovery of the remains of the
murdered woman.—After the examination of several other
I witnesses the inquest was adjOurned till Tuesday.
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CupslNG FROM THE PULPIT.—The Edinburgh
Observer states that a Mr. Nixon, a kirk minister at Montrose,
last Sunday week, adverted in the course of his prayer to
the resolution of the Glasgow Railway Company to run car-
riages oa the morning and evening of Sabbath, and prayed
thus :—" Lord blast their unholy gains, and punish them in
the flesh."
INQUEST DEFERRED.—Thursday forenoon at nine
o'clock an inquiry was opened before Mr. Wakley, and a jury,
at the St. Marylebone workhouse, on the body of James Robin-
son, formerly a linendraper in an extensive way of business,
residing at Pentonville, who was brought to the Marylebone
Infirmary on Sunday last in a speechless and dying state, under
very extraordinary circumstances. The Coroner, considering
that circumstances had arisen involving the conduct of the
police, aad raising 4 question as to the deceased's confinement
in the station-house for sixteen or seventeen hours without
medical aid being called in to ascertain whether deceased was
really intoxicated when taken, er labouring under some de-
rangement of the brain, determined not to proceed with the
inquiry until a post morten examination of thOody could be
made, to ascertain the precise cause of death. The inquiry
was therefere adjourned.
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