The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

HORRIBLE MURDER.

The Jamaica Standard furnishes us with an ac-
ount of the following horrible murder :
On Thursday last the inhabitants of this town were
throw,i,into an unusual state of painful anxiety, re-
various rumours which were in circulation
-respeentig a murder that was alleged to have been
perpet..ated on a young black girl, near Providence
estate, and accompanii.d with circumstances of the
most revolting brutality. We lost no time in sscer-
tinning the facts connected with this tragical event,
from the most authentic sources, and it is now our
painful duty to state that the most exaggerated
report of the occurrence which had reached us, has
fallen short of the reality. On Thursday last, as
Mr. M'Callum, the overseer on Providence, was
taking his usual ride round the estate, his attention
was attracted by the appearance of an unusual num-
ber of crows hovering above a certain spot lying off
the public read towards the sea beach ; he was there-
upon induced to ascertain the object of their attrac-
tion, and, on advancing towards the place, a dis-
til:lse of about 80 yards from the road, he was horri-
fied on observing the skeleton of a human body on
which the birds had apparently fully completed
their horrid banquet. Mr. M•Callum lost no time
in summoning persons from the estate, and a more
minute investigation of the skeleton took place. The
sex of the deceased was determined by the clothing
which, though torn, appeared to be that of a girl
of about twelve or fourteen years old; with the
exception of the hands, the throat, and the
legs, on which the skin remained, the body
was completely divested of flesh. The arms
were bound so forcibly with withes as to have
cut through the skin, and thus stretched out to
their greatest tension ; the legs were also bound
about the uncles loosely with the same substitute
for cordage, a piece of stick was found driven up
the left nostril, and the general impression on the
minds of those who were present appeared to be,
that the unforttinate deceased had been violated by
some monsters, who had thus cruelly secured her
prson in order to accomplish their hellish object ;
after which, to prevent detection, they h:...1 thus
ruthlessly murdered her, and abandoned het .liser-
able remains in the callous manner in they
were foun'd. _ _

A coroner's inquest was promptly held before
Edward Evans Esq. on the same day, at Providence
estate, and adjourned to Monday, when the Jury
will meet at the Court-house, in this town, at ten
o'clock, A.M.
• The deceased was a girl of 14 years old, called
Maria Duncan, the daughter of a black woman,
named Mary Duncan, living in this town; she had
been residinc, for a short time with a relation at
Running Gut, and was returning to this town on
,Sunday lase; on reaching Dunn's Hole at nine, a.m., a
woman residing there recommended her not to pro-
ceed any further until she could do so under the pro-
tection of some older person, as sonic men had been
attacking people on the road • the girl accordingly
remained at Dunn's Hole until half past twelve r.m.,
when she, expressed her impatience to proceed, al-
leging that her mother was expecting her, and would
be disappointed if she did not come ; the renewed ad-
monitions of the kind-hearted woman she silenced by
observing that several persons would be on the road
on their return from church, and in this confident ex-
pectation, the little traveller recommenced a journey,
whose fatal interruption and its horrible concomitants
has cast an odium on the country, and an appalling
gloom on the minds of its inhabitants that will not
long be forgotten.
We have as yet had no intelligence of the capture
ci any of the murderers of the poor girl Duncan.
The father, mother, and family have all been in
town since the transaction was discovered, and im-
pute no small degree of blame to the relative of the
girl at whose house she resided in the country, and
frun whence she was returning unprotected, when
waylaid, ravished, and cruelly murdered. There is
strong suspicion fixed upon a well-known offender in
this community, of the name of Pendrill, or Penril,
a brown lad, that was once in the employment of Mr.
Parkinson of this town. The police, we learn, has
keen out in search of those suspected persons, under
the command of Inspector Marltcn, and there may be
some hope of their discovery, if they be not secreted
on some of the estates near where they have been prowl-
ing, bv- some equally guilty persons with themselves.
'Since writing the above, a detachment of the police,
,under the command of Inspector Marlton, returned
to this town at half-past twelve, r. am., having been
every night, since Thursday last, engaged in scouring
the woods on or about Providence estate ; they suc•
ceeded at daylight, yesterday morning, in taking into
custody four of the late captured Africans, viz., John
Waite, William Spence, William Ross, and Sammy
Dunbar ; these persons, all young men, had been en-
• gap-t, recently in labouring for Providence estate,
and occupied an old hospital on that property. We
understand that circumstances of strong suspicion at-
tacit to them.—Cornwall Gazette.

LLOYD'S SIIIPeING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals-Asia, Paterson, from Port Philip, in the
Downs, sailed 30th April ; Diana, Strickland, from
Bombay. In the Downs, sailed llth May, St. Helena
• 17th July ; Kingsdown, from the South Seas, in the
Downs ; Eneltantrts.,, Cormaek, from Ceylon, in the
Downs, sawed 2d April, St. Helena sth July ; Andro-
meda, Coltist, from Bengal, in the Dow us, sailed 92d
March ; Falcon, Anstruther, from Mauritius, off
Falmouth, 'sailed 23d. May, St. Helena, 11th July ;
A in :toms, White, from China, off Cork, sail-
. 30th March ; Alan her, M`Kechnie; from
Botobav, at Li, crpoiA, sailed 16th April, St. Helena 14th
Fear!, Bdrrows, front China, in the'Downs, sailed
March, St. Helena 10th July; A nnabella. Ward,
from Bengal. ,at Liverpool. sailed 2d May, St. Helena
1 Itit July ; Troubadour, Sharpe, from Bengal, at Liver-
' poo!, sailed loth April, Mauritius 7th June, St. Helena
13:h July; James Moran, Ferguson, from Bombay, at
railed sth May; Nerio, Hi:l, from Port Philip,
it the London flocks, sailed 14th May; Bland, Callan.
front Bengal, at Liverpool. sailed 25th April, Cape 29th
Juno.. St. Helena 12th July; Margaret Pollock, Pye,
from Bombay, ut Liverpot,l, sailed lOth May; Robert
scourtield. fit.tt, from Moulmein, off Falmouth, sailed
I Oil; March. St. Helena 30th June, St. Michael's Aug. 9.
.Arrivals at St, Helena-Dowthorpe, Lofty, July 9,
from Sit.gapore, and sailed. 13th, to London ; Jones,
Paslcv„ 10th, from Calcutta, and sailed 12th, to London ;
11ar1.1et L. Pico.. llth, front Jianritiss, ar.d sailed 12th,
; •var.ev, Chiv'rs, 12th, from Bengal, and
• salted I`2th, I.) London; Morayshire, Lamotte, 12th, from
8.-ngul and Cape, and sailed 14th. to London ; Nine,
from Bengal, and sailed 16th to London.
,rulitte. Woodward. 13th, from Ceylon and Simon's
And sailed, 14th, to Liverpool ; .Barbara Gordon,
14th, front Batavia, and sailed, 15th. to LouAl.mo. Anderson; 14th, from Batavia, and sailed,
1-tth,, to liantburgh ; Bellii,ven, Crawford, 14th. from
to London ; CturMens, Baird, 15. h, from the
Josephine, 16th,
aint sailed, 15th, to Halifax ;
and sailed, 16th to Bordeaux ; her Ma-
J`.'rY a 5111 V Smyth,, from the West Coast of
t* ;en, to Ascension
prize to the Grcei ;a P ortuguese schooner, 16th.
. an
and Aorn.
Arrivals at Sydney-spig..uasha, April 22, front Ho.
hart Town ; Dorset, April t.
)8, from Adelaide ; General
.April 19, from Boston and Cape; Ifunduras, April
. U. from Loudon.
Depart:it-es front Sydney_
tines ; Sir John Byng, t„ 1./.oabuas;
S I April 9, to Isle of
Auckland ; Alligator. Cook, Apr.iit,BTownx,;Be.rrthsa,
sttc:
Ltiwrence, and Lord Amherst, ,to .r.aurit.o
April 28 ; Flora herr,'
41pri1 29, all to Guam.
Arrival at Launceston-Riehard Mount, April 25,
from London.
11ppartnres from Launceston-Lord Saumarez, kpril
14, for New Zealand ; Nourmahal, April 18, to London,
Arrival Arrival at Hobart Town-Plizabeth,
...Liverpool ; Marianne from London ; Osprey
, St'dgwick,
April 16, from London, and sailed 21st to New Zealand •
:Matilda, April 18, Triton, 19, Caroline 20, and Sir John
liyng.:22, all front Sydney ; Canada, April 23, from
London ; Slates, April 24, from New Zealand. ,
Departures front Hobart Town-John Brewer, April
16, to Sydney.
•Ai -rivals at Port Philip-Hopkinson, May 2, from
Livery 101 ; Sally Ann, April 5, from Launceston.
Depa..tures from Port Philip-Nimrod, April 24, to
Nelson ; 'Cindy), May 5, to Sydney ; Ben Nevis, April
11, to New .7.ealand.
Arrival; at
.A.delaide---Hawk, April 21, from- New
Zealand ; Wilt s7Arateh and Challenger, from Launceston.

Tux SLIDING o::CALIC.—A failure is announced in
namburgh, owing to corn speculations, the house of
• Gralinm and Co in that city .having suspended payments.
There have been bankruyteies in all the foreign cities
•'-I;nown aA export 4!epots of corn to this city. Nor has
`'the mischief been confined to the sea-ports, but has re=
acted to the districts where the commodity is raised, and
..wide-spread mischief has been inflicted on foreigners, as
4t us on our people; by the poisonous action of the
•sibi;ng seek.
ifs currently reported that the Duke of Welling-
. ton intends to avail himself of his present position as
General Commanding in Chief. to recommend to her
M.lll..isty to confer come Liarl: of he: Royal falour on his
race's old, companions in glory, the officers who served
th him in, the peninsular war.—United Service
Ga,zette.