Star.
London, England, 1826-09-14 00:00:00

MURDER.

Yesterday afternoon, an Inquest was held before Mr.
STIRLING, the Coroner for the county of Middlesex, at
the Hog in Armour, Great Saffron•hill, on the body of
Ann Perry, who was found murdered in hrr apartment,
in Lilley-street, Saffron-hill, on last Tuesday morning.
The Jury having been sworn, proceeded to view the
body, which appeared a most appalling sight, the head
and face being dreadfully fractured, and the room in a
gore of blood ; after which the following evidence was'
examined.

George Thomas, of No. 4, Lilley-street, said, that he
knew the deceased, who lived in the same house, in an
adjoining room to the witness, and cohabited with a
man named John Ambrose. On last Saturday night,
the witness came home about ten o'clock, and went up
stairs, and heard Ambrose and the deceased quarrelling,
and heard several blows struck, and very violent and
threatening language from Ambrose to the deceased,
who said she could get a nice dinner of pork and French
beans for to•morrow. Ambrose continued using horrid
oaths to the deceased, and struck her again, when she
fell, and the witness did not hear the deceased speak
afterwards ; but Ambrose continued for some time
thereafter talking to himself, which he was in the habit
of doing, and the witness shortly afterwards went to sleep.
About half-past six on Sunday morning, the witness
came down stairs, and inquired of the landlady if she
had seen Mrs. Ambrose (meaning the deceased), and
was answered that she had not, but that she heard them

fighting the preceding night. The witness then went
out, and returned about half-past eight in the evening,
and retired to rest ; he then heard Ambrose in his own
room, and supposed that the deceased had gone to her
brother's, whom she occasionally •isited. The witness,
for the last time, heard Ambrose in the room about ten
o'clock on Monday morning, speaking to himself. On
Tuesday morning the landlady, and a lodger in the
second floor, went into the roonroccupied by Ambrose,
and found the deceased murdered therein. The witness
went into the Loom, and saw the deceased lying on one
side, and streams of blood running from where she lay
to the door, and the position of the body was such, that
it could not be seen without going completely into the
room. Ambrose is a shoemaker, and the deceased

wrought as a dress-maker. The deceased had oftener
than once been absent from Ambrose's lodgings for
three or four days at a time, and on those occasions
another woman used to come and sojourn with Am-
brose. but she always went away upon the return of the

deceased. Ambrose, the witness believes, was sober on
Saturday night, and is a man of temperate habits ; the
deceased used to drink to great excess, and he thinks
' she was intoxicated on Saturday night. The deceased
was about 50, and Ambrose looks like a man of 65 or
•70 years of age.
William Robinson, a bookbinder, the lodger who was
mentioned by the first witness as having, along with the
landlady, discovered the deceased on Tuesday morning,
being sworn, said, that he occupies the room underneath
that occupied by Ambrose and the deceased. He was
at home on Saturday night, but did not hear the quarrel
and noise in their room. On Monday morning, the
witness sent up his son for a flat iron borrowed by Am-
brose, who did not give the flat iron to the boy, but
brought it down himself in a few minutes afterwards,
and he then told witness that his wife (meaning Ann
Perry) had been out all night, and had gone, be sup-
posed, to her brother's. The wit►►ess saw Ambrose for
the last time about eight o'clock on Monday morning.
He had no acquaintance with Ambrose, and would
hardly know him if he were to meet him in the streets.
On Tuesday morning, the witness suspecting all was
not tight, tapped gently at the door of Ambrose's room,
he received no answer, and the door not being locked,
he walked into the room, and discovered the deceased
lying as described by the first witness. He then alarmed
the house, and Mr. Jay, the landlord, and the witness
returned to the room, and found the deceased quite
dead and cold. The witness thinks she must have been
dead some time, as the blood round the body was in a
congealed state.
Mr. Shepherd, the surgeon, of Hatton-garden, was
called upon oh Tuesday to view the body of the de-
ceased, which he found lying as described by the first
witness. He examined the body, and found the marks
of many blows on the temples, and indted all over the
head and body. These contusions were of a dangerous
nature, and no doubt occasioned her death. The witness
opened the head, and found a great quantity of extra-
vasated blood between the scalp and pericranium, and
between the inside of the pericraninm and the outer
skin of the brain, and also upon the cerebellum. He
attributed the quantity of blood found in the head to
the external violence received by the deceased.
Another medical Gentleman who assisted Mr. Shep-
herd in opening the deceased's head, confirmed.bis tes-
timony as to the appearance of the inside of the peri-
cranium,&c.which was, no doubt, caused by the external
violence received by the &ceased, and which occasioned
her death.
• Mrs. Jay, the landlady of the house where the de-
ceased lodged, was examined ; but her testimony was
only confirmatory of that given by the two first wit-
nesse,. The last time tie witness saw Ambrose was about
five o'clock on hlonday afternoon. He inquired of the
witness if she had seen his wile (meaning Ann Perry)
and added, that she should never rob him any mote.
Ambrose had been in the habit of ill•treating the de-
ceated, and they were often quarrelling.
The Coroner summed up the evidence to the Jury, who returned
a •erdict of " Wilful 'Murder against John Ambrose."
The murderer has not yet been apprehended.

The Lake of Geneva at present is lower than it was
ever known to be. The four steam boats belonging to Geneva are
sanded up, and do not ply.
POOR LAWS SWITLEMENT.—A case of some nicety
has come before the Magistiltes at Mary-la-bonne. A
poor man was about to be removed from Mary-la-
bonne palish to Diss, in Norfolk. On his examination,
it turned out that he had rented a house at '241. a year
in Paddington, fora twelvemonth,which,byMr. Sturges
Bourne's Act, entitled him to a settlement. The parish
contended that lie had not paid his rent. In fact, he had
paid 101. and given a bill for 141. of which 41. were still
due. The Magistrates, after a long discussion, declared
their joint opinion, that the man had gained a settle-
ment, and that the acceptance ofd bill by the landlord,
though not an acquittance of the debt, was tantamount
to an abandoning of his right of distraint. A case was
cited, in which the King's Bench had held a contrary
doctrine, but the Magistrates adhered to their decision.,
Last week fourteen stocks of bees were taken by Mr.
Edward Day, of Coldblow farm, in the parish of Hock-
ing, in Kent, of which the produce of honejwas 5761b5.
He has got ten stocks more to take, which will produce
neatly 401bs. per stock.

HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

In consequence of the early assembling of Parliament
—for to meet before Christmas is now considered an
early meeting—there is a good deal of bustle about
Voth Houses, to complete alterations and improvements
commenced during the recess, and to make the requisite
renovations customarily resorted to preparatory to each
Session. At the House of Lords, the workmen are en-
gaged in finishing, and some of the officers of the
House in furnishing and occupying portions of the new
buildings erected in part of Cotton Garden for the new
" Parliament Office." Extensive and tolerably well
arranged offices have been built for the reception of the
Lords' Papers, the Parchment Originals of the Acts,
icc. and most of such Papers have been removed from
the inconvenient accommodation heretofore had at the
temporary Office in Abingdon-street. Amongst these
new buildings, but neat to the Chamber in which the
Lords assemble, and close by the Painted Chamber, is
formed a new and commodious library for their Lord-
ships, to be provided with Parliamentary Journals, &c.
There are already several hundred volumes—and a
Gentleman, the clerk of Mr. Courtenay, when he was a
Master in Chancery, has been appointed to the new
office of Librarian to the House of Lord,. 0 her build-
ings for Parliamentary Offices and accommodation are
planned in Cotton Garden: workmen have been long
engaged in clearing out for the foundation, having had
to pick out, as if they were separating so much solid
stone, the bases of old walls, near the memorable cellars
of Guy Fawkes, which now no longer exi.t.
The only alterations within the body of the House of
Lords are the customary renovations of new leather
covers to the seats, new matting to the floor of the
House, the passages, ecc. all these are in progress : the
Throne was regilded, &c. shortly after the last Session,
and its tout ensemble is now very gorgeous and beauti-
ful.—The House of Commons is, now occupied with
workmen, ripping up the old seats, repairing them, and
making preparations for re-covering them with green
leather, icc. Considerable alterations are taking place
in several of the Committee Rooms. To the Committee
Rooms opposite to the Members' Chamfer, known by
the name of the " Smoking Room," there has been
formed a passage, so that it will not now be requisite to
go through one Room, to get into that beyond it.
The floors of the C,Enniittee Rooms, in Vie stone
buildings opposite to Henry Vll.'s Chapel, and which
were recently added to the Commons accommodations
for Committees, have been considerably lowered ; so
that they now form fine and lofty rooms. A new Com-
mittee Room, and chamber for the library, are now
building in a corner of Cotton Garden, close to what is
at present called the Journal Office, and approachable
from the Lobby of the House. The present library.
which is in the gallery leading to Mr. Bellamy's Coffee'
House for Members, was found to be much too small
for the Commons' Library and Journals. There have
likewise been some alterations in the offices and resi-
dence of the Speaker, Mr. Phillips, the Speaker's Secre-
tory, ecc. and of the accommodation for the vote office
papers, by which one room has been taken away from
such office—the object of such alteratious being to
afford more convenience for Committees of the House,
on private bills, disputed election returns, Etc.