The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-26 00:00:00

LIFE DEPARTMENT.

J. T. CLEMENT, Esq., Actuary.
A sum far more than equal to the value of the Policies is in-
vested in the public securities, in the names of the Trustees, se
as to be at all times available.

At the last quinquennial meeting there was added a bonus to
the Life Policies equal to twenty-five per cent. .on the sums
paid, and a bonus of five per cent. vas added to the Shares in
addition to the payment of the annual interest.
For the convenience of parties wishing to assure for a spe-
cific sum, without a prospective bonus, a new table, at lower
rates, has been calculated, on which, as well as on the partici-
pating scale, ONE-HALF THE PREMIUM MAY RE-
MAIN ON INTEREST AT FIVE PER CENT. FOR
FIVE YEARS, thus enabling a person to assure his life for
1,0001. on the immediate paymentof thepremiura for 5001. only.
The following are the annual premiums for the assurance of
1001., for the whole life, one-half of which may remain for
five years by merely paying the interest annually at five per
cent., and should the policy become a claim in the interim the
amount due will then be deducted :

Age 20, without profits £1 13 0 with profits £1 18 0
30
40 . .... ........... ... 2 14 3 ... 3 1 3
50
Fsr short periods the premiums are considerably lower, and
f.rany ages or contingencies not usually advertised, information
may be obtained on application to the Actuary or Secretary.

• FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Company insure Houses, Furniture, Stock in Trade,
Farming Stock, and every description of Personal Property,
against loss or damage by Fire.
*** The Directors beg to remind their friends, whose Pre-
miums become due at Christmas, that no extra charge is made
at this Office for the Transfer of Policies, and that they will be
rated on terms peculiarly favourable to parties insuring.
Ir surances may be effected for. any period of time • if for
SEVEN years, the Premium and Duty will only be Charged
for SIX. W. T. FA WCETT, Secretary.
December, 1842.

HORRID MURDER, near ILKLEY.
On Saturday morning last, the inhabitants of Ilk-
ley, Addingham, and the neighbourhood, were hor-
rified by the finding of the murdered body of a man,
aged about 50 years, in a field in the township of
Nesfield, through which the public highway from
Ilkley to Beamsley and Bolton Bridge passes, about
a mile distant from Middleton Lodge, the residence
of W. Middleton, Esq., and less than a mile distant
from the village of Ilkley.
The. gamekeepers and watchers of Mr. Middleton
(six in number) found the body about tworo!oloak on
Saturday morning. Life was .net then quite extinct.
The deceased was laid on his; right side, and his hat
over his face. On the keepers .attempting to raise him
up, and on. removing his hat, they •discoverocilthat his
head was broken to piece!, and his hat ilea:4y filled
with bloCid:- He expired immediately on beingmoyed.
Asshert -Walking-stick with a most formidAle(head
was found, by the body,
.eokered• with. blood. The
body was., then moved t 9, Ilkley, by the constable, ;
whom the keepers at --onee.applied to, and the body
was identified as that of Win. Hustlirick, 413eamsley; .
a labourer, who, it Was asbertained; badieft Ilkley,
about half-past ten o'clock' the night before, in com-
pany With his cousin, Joseph Hey,.otßeanasley, a
carpenter. . . •
. On the body being undressed, a most frightful spec-
tacle was presented. Although the face was not much -
difigured, the head was literally smashed to pieces,
and almost the entire body and limbs Were covered
with bruise 4: Hey was immediately inquii-ed after,
and taken into custody, to await the result of the Coro-
ner's inquest, which was held on Monday, before
Thomas Brown, Esq., of Skipton, and a. respectable
Jury chosen from the townships of Nesfield,
and Addingham ; G. 0. Green, Esq., of Woodhouse,
was foreman. E. C. L. liaye, Esq., of Farfteld Hall,
the nearest resident Magistrate, was also in' the jury-
room, with several neighbouring gentlemen, and a
crowd of other spectators,
There was great excitement exhibited during the
examination of the witnesses, which occupied ahout
seven hours ; but the material facts deposed to may
be more briefly stated.
John Lister, of Ilkley, innkeeper, proied that the
deceased and Joseph Hey, both of whom he well
knew, came together into his house on Friday even-
ing, and that they left in company together.
Thomas Hardwick, the house watcher at Middleton
Lodge, said—At ten minutes or a quarter-past 12 he
heard a distant noise from the direction of the river
where the body was found (distance a mile). The
night was windy. It was a man's voice. He went
to the front of the house to hear more distinctly, and
walked backward and forward for an hour, during all
which time he heard repeated sounds from the same
quarter, as of blows, or as if stones were thrown into
the river, and occasionally from the same voice he
thought he heard words like " Help me up," or
" Let me get up," but could not be certain. About
one o'clock the sounds ceased. About half-past one
the keepers came to him at the lodge. He mentioned
what he had heard, and set off to lead the keepers to
about the place where the sounds came from. He led
them almost direct to the place.
After all the evidence had been heard, Joseph
Hey said,—" After going a short way, deceased began
to stagger, I took hold of his arm. ',Ve went gently
on. He would sic down. We got too near the lime-
kiln. He then lay ,down and said he would stop. I
said, Nay, come on. He said, I'll lie down a bit and
then follow thee. I then left him. He went on to
state how he had proceeded homewards sitting down
in different places, hearing a clock strike twelve,' and
getting home at two.
The Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder,"
against some person or persons unknown. The mur-
dered man was not married. hey, after the verdict,
was set at liberty, and attended the funeral of the de-
ceased next day by invitation of his friends.—Leeds
Mercury of Saturday.

SeIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP SATURDAY.
GLOB E.—We shall not enter upon a controversy
to the causes of the distress which desolates Paisley
—where out of a population of sixty thou Sand, eleven
thousand are daily dependerit' on the precarious, in-
swoulddecreasing
bropireilt
private
antebdenneecveosiesanrciely.
It
Militate against
the design with which we bring this lamentable
:,oli, tt
of the public, were we
rgument,
possibly
etoxhimbiatli:nen ibteththree ttheexteyoef
leading to a controversy, but little advantage-
OU3 to the general sympathy we would fain create
for the sufferers. It may be, and robably is,
true, that the staple manufacture of Paisley has
ceased to be in demand, because of the change which
ever-varying fashion has undergone. Shawls of a
cheaper fabric, manfactured elsewhere, have super-
seded those long almost exclusively produced in Pais-
ley. With distress, however deplorable and extensive,
caused by such fluctuations, the Corn..law, say its
'r)Al
advocates; can have nothing to do.
-t if want of
'mployment for the labouring population, occasioned
to a great extent by the restrictions imposed upon trade
by this and other modes of :protecting cla,ss-interests
at the expense of the community, had not inflicted
iistress and suffering upon every , manufacturing dis-
trict in the kingdom, the unemployed work-people of
Paisley would have sought, and many of them would
have found, a market for their labour in other places;
while those who remained would have obtained relief
by the benevolent efforts of the inhabitants.. The
local funds would not haVe. been taxed, as they
have
been, beyond their powers of endurance ; and these,
if necessary, would have bectil increased by
supplies
sent from - other quarters, i:aised by those appeals.
which are never made in cases o real necessity,
without being responded to with promptitude and
effect by those who possess the power of doing
good. But the widely-spread depression of trade in
the manufacturing districts has called for the utmost
efforts of the benevolent, who possess the means, to
mitigate the suffarinis of the Unemployed who dwell in