Star.
London, England, 1827-07-06 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, fd A RIC.LANE, Jinx S.
The mailing trade was rather heavy than otherwise tbis morning),
and although the sales effected were sot numerous, the consumers
being still somewhat cautious, yet there was a &omen in the trade,
and Moaday's prices fully supported fine samples of Wheat, Barley,
Oats, Beans. and Puss.—Arrivals English Wheat, 4030 qrs. Bar-
ley, 1,130 qrs. Clats,l7o.ooo qrs. Fluor, 4,430 sacks.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, Jets d.
There is no akeration worth noticing io Beef or Mattis, bat
I /Amble on the decline, Ss. to Ss. 641. per atom being the price. Pork'
remains moo Moodiy. and in Veal there is no variation worth no-
Min.—Beasts. 431 ; Sheep, 11,430 i Pigs, SOO ; Calves, 347.
Bee, per swot, to Is. 4d. Mutton, 4s. to Ss. Veal, Is. to
sd. reek, 44. to Is. 4d. Lamb, Ss. to 30. It—Hay. per load,
,e 4 to .14 lie. Clover, AS to £6 1:4. *raw, £1 2a. to at So.

HORRID MURDER;
HUNTll4loDOKlrcesteme. y, Jerr 4.
A more atrocious and unparalleled instance of human
butchery-has seldom been recorded in modern tinter
'(Weare's perhaps, excepted) than that which took place
it' the neighbourhood of this town yesterday morning.
vfietween 10 and 11 o'clock. The unfortunate victim of
the blood • thirsty assassin was the Rev. J. JOSHUA WA Trio
HOWIII, Fellow of Catherine-hall, Cambridge, and Rector
of Croton and Little Stukeley, about 65 years of age.—
He has for many years resided in the Rectory-house, in
the latter village; and being of eccentric habits, only one
room in the house was furnished—the kitchen, in which
the old Gentleman at all times resided. Although he
farmed the land attached to the living. he kept no
servants in the house, and a charwoman was in the
habit of going every morning to make his bed. and
perform other little duties. The house is situate nearly
in the centre of the village, but stands alone, in the
farm-yard, about 50 yatds from the street, the only en-
trance used bring at the kitchen door, which opens in
the yard and communicates by a 1 .ng passage with the
kitchen ; and this circumstance will somewhat account
for the cries of the unfortunate man not being heard at
the time of the murder. Yesterday morning he arose
about five o'clock. and was recopied with his farming
and other business until breakfast time, when the char-
woman left; and after giving some instructions to one
of his labouring men. about ten o'clock, the deceased
Gentleman remained alone in the house. Between this
hour and 11 the murder was accomplished, and in such
a way that the heart sickens at the reflection, and horror
steals through the frame.
Every circumstance leads to the probable supposition
that the villain rapped at the door, and immediately
upon its being opened by the Rev. Gentleman, at.
tempted to knock him down with the instrument he
held in his hand (supposed to have beta a hatchet or
bill-hook), a severe cot being inflicted on the counte-
nance. Finding him elf thus assailed, he naturally at-
tempted, as he retreated backwards up the passage, to
defend his head and lice by holding up his Hass, which
the inhuman monster literally backed to pieces: his
hands were also dreadfully cut, as though he bad
vainly attempted its the struggle to wrest the weapon
from the grasp of the assailant. It was impossible for
an unarmed man to stand long against another, whose
determination to annihilate his victim seems to have
been as strong as it was guilty and bloody ; and when
they had reached about midway up the passage, Mr.
Waterhouse appears to have been rendered incapable
of further resistance; the ruffian then completed his
desperate purpose, by severing the jaw quite horn the
ear to the chin, inflicting several wounds on the breast,
and cutting the throat nearly from ear to earl In this
state he threw the murdered corpse into a brewing-tub,
which was stand ng under the staircase in the passage,
the head partly hanging over oo one side, and legs on
the other ; the blood flowing from the sounds in such
profusion as nearly to cover the bottom of the tub, In
this position be was found within 20 minutes after the
crime had been done, and almost before life was ex-
tinct, by some of his labouring boys, who came in as,
usual, about 11, for their morning's allowance of beer.'
Alarm was immediately given, surgical assistance in
vain procured, and every exertion set on foot to discover
the murderer—unhappily without effect. In the even-
ling an Inquest was held before Was. Margetts, Etq.
Coroner for the hundred ; but no evidence was adduced
calculated to fix the crime upon the perm aad the In-
quest was adjourned till this evening. in the hope that
in the mean time something might transpire to lead to
a speedy discovery.
On entering the house,. a most horrifying spectacle
presented itself to the Jury. The walls on either side
of the passage, as well as the floor, were bespattered
and covered with human gore, whilst here and there
lay pieces of flesh which had been hewn from the body
of the murdered man. On reaching the mutilated
corpse, every one was horror-struck; and whilst the
tear of compassion started in the eye, justice and ven-
geance on the murderer were the feelings which predo.
minated in the heart.

There tan be no doubt but that the perpetrator of the
foul deed was well acquainted with the Rev. Gentle.
man's habits of life, as well as the premises; but u
plunder does not appear to have been his object, none
of the drawers being ransacked, it is supposed revenge
for some real or imaginary grievance was the stimulus
to the murderous transaction.

This horrible transaction has, of course, excited great
consternation and intense anxiety for the discover/ of
the murderer, for whose apprehension, it is almost un-1
necessary to add, every exertion is diligently making;
and may jug retribution speedily light upon his head I
Tax o'cLocK, Niont.—A verdict of " Wilful Mur-
der" is just returned by the Jury, and one person is
already in custody upon suspicion.
_
MURDER OF • PROTESTANT GENTLISIAL—It is
with feelings of no ordinary pain that .we record ano-
ther atrocious murder, which was perpetrated on
Saturday last, in the neighbourhood of the town of
Tipperary, on R. Chadwicke, Esq. a Protestant Gen-
tleman of good property, and high connections.--
It appears that Mr. Chadwicke was walking on the
high road, about one o'clock in the day, in com-
pany with one of his tenants, when two ruthans
jumped over the hedge, and placing themselves,
' one before the unhappy Gentleman, and the other close
to his side. they discharged the contents of two guns
loaded with slugs at him, and he immediately fell
thus swelling the number uf victims which have already
been offered up to the insatiable vengeance of the mob
legislators of the land. No reason can be assigned for
the atrocious act, save. Mr. Chadwicke being a Pro-
tenant. The deceased Gentleman was the nephew of
Richard Sadleir, Esq. of Salleir's.wells, near Tippe-
rary.—hish Paper.

The Mayer, Aldermen, and Common Council of
Newcastle, have appointed a Committee to eramice
into the state of the Tyne, and report what can be done
towards its improvement, especially bow fat the shoals
can be removed or diminished.

By various statutes from the time of EDWARD I. the
hundred in which a person was robbed on the highway
was liable so make good the damage sustained (not
exceeding 2001.) except such person was travelling
upon the LORD'S Day other than to a place of wor•
ship, or the robber or one of the robbers was appre-
hended within a certain time. The principal statutes
upon this subject are now repealed by the General
Repealing Act, which came into operation on Sunday
last, and there is no provision is the new Act, which is
represented in the title to be a consolidation of the laws
relative to remedies against the hundred, giving persons
robbed a right to recover compensation. This Act is
(confined to cases of damage, " occcasiond by persons,
tiotously and tumultuously assembled."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF MG'S BENCH. Sings S.

DRU6I6IOND V. 111tAltelt.
This was an action of trespass.
Mr.Cu trait opened the pleadings, and Mf .BROOOMA m
stated the case.—The plaint.ff. Mr. George Halley
Drummond, a Gentleman of large fortune, and heir to
the wealthy banker, has found it absolutely necessary
to bring this action against the defendant, who is a se.
spectable tradesman, for a trespass committed upon his
property at St.nmore. People who are fond of sporting
ought to enjoy it at the fight season of the year, and at.
all events in the right place; but the defendant chose
to trespass, in the beginning of last March, upon the
soil and freehold of the plaintiff; near Stanislav, in spite
of a notice which the plaintiff had distributed and 6sed
up throughout the neghboushoed, and which was
printed sufficiently large for the defendant, who is au
optician, to have seen it without the aid of his that's).
meats. This notice was given in last August, and on
the sth of March, the defendant, with a number of
persons in his company, came upon the plaintiff's
ground after a hare; and the defendant, on being
stopped by the plaintiff's gamekeeper, as he was in the
act of breaking down a gate, told the gamekeeper that
be had as good a right to be there as he or his master
bad, and that he was impertinent. Mr. Brougham sup-
poseJ the defendant meant to set up some title: but
this wou'd not do, for the land was in the occupation of
the plaintiff himself ; and as the defendant actually did
damage to some amount, the plaintiff did not bring the
action for mete nominal damages, but called on the
Jury to read the defendant a lesson how be ventured to
trespass again upon other men's grounds.
David Jones, gamekeeper to the plaintiff, eiasnined by Mr.
Ctorrer.—l stuck up notices, warning people from sporting over
the plaintiff's land, in last September. I put up one near the de-
feodant's premises, and another near the plantation of the plaintiff,
which surrounds the field called the Warren. In last March I was
about 600 yards from the gate in the plantation, when I saw the
defendant ride up to the gate. There were about ten people with
him 00 foot. St was on horseback.' Nichols' hounds were with
him. He rode =to the gate, which was fastened with a seepte,
and pushed It open. He was In the Warren field wken I get up
to laim. I said—.o Gentlemen. call your dos off; there are a good
many bares here, and I wish you to go off."' The defendant an.
swered. that be bad as much right to be there as I or Mr. Drum-
mood bad. I said—" There an three young leverets to the war.
tea and Too ought to be ashamed to COMe this time of the year."
I hest the dogs oat of the plantation, sad followed the defendant
out. There were five gaps broken down in the fence, at the plan-
ted= whit* were new. It occupied me a day sod a bad to
repai;thent.

-Crose-ezandned by the CONKOa Sanenane—The defendant lives
at Edgware, and occupies Caanon's Park. He keeps as dup.
The dogs With the defendant belting to Mr. Nichols. He lives in
the raidgiabourhood, at Hinde. The Warren &id is in the occupa.
tion et Mr. Bateau& The plaintiff's plantation separatevtbe
Waives4eld frogs Icanstore.park, whirls is also in fiateman's oc-
cupation. Esteem has a way to the Warren-Odd.
The entice was pioduced, and the Cellicsor of Stan-
more proved that the plantation field was situate reds,
county of Middlesex, and that plaintiff was rated for it.
The Common SZIORAST.-.My friend has not quite
made out so serious a case as he anticipated. do
not mean to deny that the plaintiff is the heir to an ins•
mense fortune ; but he might employ his money much
better theft lu bringing ill-natured actions. In this
case a hare started in the defendant's ground, and ran
through the plaintiff's land ; and the d. fendant could
not, in the heat of the moment, resist the temptation
of following it. My friend has alluded to the business
of the defendant—the notice was printed certainly
large enough to be seen without the aid of optical ie.
strumintia but, I trust, if a verdict is found for the
plaintiff, that the damages will be of so very small a
wig, as will require the aid of optical glasses to make
it visible. The plaintiff has already brought one
action against Mr. Nichols fur this trespass—he has
submitted, and paid the costs. The defendant, how-
ever, feels that he ought to resist this action, and his
defence is, that he bad a right to be where the game-
keeper found him, for he had the lease and licence of
Mr. Bateman, and the warren in which in fact the tres-
pass was committed, was in Bateman's, and not the
plaintiff's, occupation. It wis only betw.en gate and
gate that there was any trespass upon the plaintiff's
land, and through this open space B..teman was in the
habit of passing from one field to the other; ands
therefore, in the.eye of the law, as far as regards this
action, it was Bateman's land. The plaintiff might
have been satisfied with the action he had brought
against Nichols, without the present one against the
defendant, who was as respectable, though not so
opulent a person, as the plaintiff. As to the gaps,
which may have been broken through the hedge by
other people, the defendant has nothing to do with
them; he had only rid his horse a few yards through
the land of the plaintiff which separates tie two fields;
and neighbourly feeling should, if nothing else did,
have preiented this action.

Santini Nickola, examined by Mr. Puss—l am a farmer
riding near Stanasore. I was out with my hounds on the sth of
March. We started a:liare on the defendant's park, near Cancans.
1 The defendant was not then with as. The hare crossed over stye.
ral flelds,and went to &anmere-park, which is in the °crept/en
of Bateman. The defendant was in Ms faros-yard at Cannon's
looking over Ms men who were at work. 'He did not then follow
Ds. I saw him afterwards crossing the
the warren•beld. lie did not cheer on the dogs I opened the gate
nearest the warren.fieid. The defendant was then dose behind
me. Ide not knew who opened the first gate. The keeper swore
at the defendant, who abused him terribly, and said be would have
an action against both of us. He kept his word with respect to
me. Thera were three of us named in the writ. I paid fear
guineas, and the action was net proceeded wit► against nee. The
defendant and I were on }orsebaek--t►ere wens several labessing
men with us.

Cross.ematined by Mr. BILOOONIAM—I don't thick I was fa.
vourably used by Drummond. He has not st all behaved kindly
to me. Ido not in the best feel obliged to khan. I did sign
paper at apology.
Did not Mr. Drummond behave kindly to Jos, in accepting the
apology, and not proceeding with the action 7—He would have be-
haved kindlier if be had nut brought any action at aIL
How came you, then, to sign the apology 7-1 am not ford of
law. Jonas, the gamekeeper, was very abusive. Hr did ay it was
a shameful thing to hunt at this season of the year.
Mr. Batew.an proved that he used the road between the two
gates to cart his hay from the warren-ield, and he also used the
road to go from out field to the other. He did not consider it
unsportenianslike to bunt hares in the early part of March, and
never objected to the defendant coming on ►is ground. The plan.
cation field was about ten acres. The gate was not broken, only
the staple.
Mr. BROUGHAM replied—:His friend was a hi,h au-
thority in civil, and a still higher one in criminal mat-
ters, where he was a judge; and he (Mr. Broodiest)
would bow to his opinion wi:h the profoundest defe-
rence, if he were pleading before him as a Counsel, or
it he were even to stand before him in that situation that
his friend would have to tell his fortune, as they phrase
It, and which fortune, when pttignosticated by his friend,
would be more likely to prove trueethan the prognos-
tieatioas of soothsayers generally proved. But with all
this, his friend was, perhaps, at very worst possible
authority on any question touching the chew, because
he has no fellow-leeling about the sport of bunting,
which he only knows by the effect. That. indeed. in
common with every good citio-o, he Milks when he