Star.
London, England, 1827-09-24 00:00:00

THE MURDER AT PRESTON.

After many inquiries mark ktillassoot part of the'
county, for the y man who was saspemod to have
committed the -mnrder in Bridgasttost. Year
on Sunday, the _ inst. and who was supposed to
have abstonded, it turns oat that be had been in the
town ever since the murder, and was living not more
than two or three hundred yards from the spot where
the cruet deed had been committed. This individual
proves to be a pension named George Thornton, a young
man about ss years of age, and answering very mi-
nutely to the description given of him by the witnesses
who were examined before the Coroner. About eight
ticlock on Sunday night week, this person came to a
small shop in the Back-laoe, and sat down. A woman.
who happened to be there, was forcibly struck with the
likeness he bore to the description given in the adver.
tisement which had appeared; and after turning her
suspicions to another person, went to the. lock-op and
informed the constables. Rishton immediately •pro.
needed to the place,• and took him into custody. He
acknowledged at once that be was the person who was
with the spurdeced man and his relations, as stated, but
of course denied that he had any participation in the
bloody deed. He underwent an examination the same
evening before the mayor and T. B. Addison. Esq. and
was then remanded to the House of Correction foe fur.
Cher examination.. On Wednesday the inquest suet
according to adjournment, when, after a long minus I-
tion of witnesses, the Jury returned a verdict of " wa.
ful murder against George Thornton." It appears that
Thornton has lived in Manchester, and been employed
there in some branch of the fustian cutting business,
but for the last two or three months he has resided with
his mother, sister, and a brother, the last of whom he
has occasionally assisted in his trade of a shoemaker.
The family came originally from Lancaster, but have
resided in Preston for the last sir or seven years. The
house whe.e Thornton wis taken is kept by an old
4cogple who sell trait in the streets. He first began to
visit them about the races, and used to call frequently
since, mostly spending a few coppers in fruit or other
articles which they sold. Beyond this they had little
knowledge of him. He was there about two o'clock
in the afternoon on Sunday week, and again on Thurs-
day evening. At present the most material fact,
against him is, that on examining his clothes, a pair
of dark blue trowsers have been discovered, upon:
which there are the marks of blood in numerous
places.. The front of the thigh part seems to have
been very much sprinkled, the right hand
_pocket is
smeared with blood, and there is a hole io one corner,
where the substance of the pocket appears to have been
torn away. The coat in which he was taken beats also
the marks of blood.

among the ancient customs of this country, one of
matchless absurdity was continued eves to so late a period as the
reign of George the First. Daring Lent, an ancient officer of the
Quern, styled the ales Cbek Crews, crowed the hour each Night,
within the precincts of the Palace. Oa the Ash Wedwesday after
the accession of the House of Hanover, as the Prince of Wale*,
afterwards George the &mood, sat down to supper, this officer ab-
ruptly entered the apartment, and in a voice resembling the shrill
pipe of a sock, crowed a past ten thaw*" The astonished' Prince
et first maseiving it to be a premeditated rose to resent tb;
Jesse I bet ups the mown, of the ceremony being explained to
Ham be was satisfied. &nee that period, tats status:, which war
introdamsd be remind the Court of their errors, by that clarkm
raids called bock Peter to repentance, Ism been sliecou:laved.—
Nein gat Doeilewas.

ANTIQUARIAN SOCIEtY OP SCOTLAND.
This learned body haWritely opened their mettle
to the public— and what is almost untirecede led
this country. they base opened it gratis. I. occer.—
one of the upper lateral galleries in the floral Soren
Buildings, (by the bye, this conspic tests soutane
to have a more distinctive, name), and has been sr
ranged' y Mr. Muni. Ceptainitay,--1167-3ohn and;
eon, and Mr. Macdonald, the inenibers enoubled
with
;14 superintendence, with peat siererata mum. :hi.
quarialaskill. A range 9f cabinets f urnishtd %lilt *Niel
hoots, and divided into compartmtots, runs on one j w
of the' poem and these are appropriates' for the smaller
relics which ate exhibited to The best advantage, tog
have descriptive tickets appended to each. Above tltt
cabinets, and on the other tide of the gallery, ant
military weapons. armour, bowers, Indian 14rities,,,4
many other curiositits are suspended; but in this de:
partment the Museum is less rich than In the wood
articles, which are so utlnserous that it would itigair;
days to inspect them. Among others, we panicularlf
noticed—lit, a gun barid found in 1824, on the shift.
ing sands at St. Andrew's, and presented to the muse,.
,by Sir Henry Jardine. It is thickly encrusted by a pt.
trifled coat of sand and shells, appmently trained by
the great corrosion of the metal, except at the etazit,
where a fracture has laid the tube bate. According
to conjecture, it is as ancient as the time of the Spaaaa
Armada, and supposed to have belonged to one of the
unfortunate vessels that wet e separated from that
and wrecked on our coast.-2d, The spurs of the great
Gustavus Adolphus, " the Lion of the North,' wont
by him at the bale of Luise°, and taken from tyska!:
after his fall by his aide-de.camp, Colonel Hugh saw
merville.-3d, The thumb:kin', an instrument of tots
tore, used in Scotland in former times to extort coo•
fession—a small instrament made of steel, and urns.masted with brass—insignificant in site and appearance;
but
ePPlicatiom-4th. A stand' of
coka eizscurusecdiabtlngibiin covenanters at the battle of Bothwell
Bridges, and afterwards, in 1745. by a corps of Bar.
ghet *seceders, associated for the defence of Sdiaborgfa
—And, sth, a pair of massive richly ornamented Masi
brooches, found beside a skeleton in a Reath coin w
Caithness. But the resides that. interested es most,
were thesontestepf a small apartment adj.Aning the
allery, including, among other relics, the pulpit of
jowl Knox and sr the Maiden." The former is as clumsy
a piece of empowerlrak as is antiquary could desire
to Ise. Ibis laMerkas our /*Aden will recollect, is the
original Scotch galllptine—tba invention of the Retie
Mortal, and the immune:a ivy which be himself pa
tithed, as did the famous Marquis of Montrose, the
Earl of Argyle, and several other distinguished mis.
This extraardituery machine was presented to the Society
by the Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh, and II
authenticated beyond dispute. It it constructed of dark
oak—an axe, laden with a mass of lead, rises ins
groove, by means of a rope,which was regulated by de
executioner, and having reached a due height, drop
heavily by its own weight on a thin block inlaid mid
lead, intended to support the neck of the victim. A
more simple, and we may add a more humane contr"
vance—admitting that those who suffered by it aleso
deserved to the—could hardly be invented. Tbeblade
so often stained with illustrious blood is coveted with
rust. It is needless to add, that.• to a Scotchmanstall
acquainted with the history of his country, this is a
object *of na ordinary interest, and calculated to coypus
up a thousand solemn associations connected with the
memory of the past. The relief it all bat renders the
great men who have lesiva,' their being 'sneak*
edge our coetempormss. for the imagination overleap
ing the lapse of time, almost brings them back from
the grave. We have only
,to add, that every par
who takes an interest in antiquities, will think their use
well spent in making a circuit cf the gallery; mid*
cannot sufficiently commend the liberality which In
thrown it open gratuitously to the public. Upward'
of three hundred individuals have already been to.vie
it; and we have no doubt that few intelligent strange,
will pass through Edinburgh, without availing thee
selves of the opportunity so bandso=fixded of it
:pectins its contents.—Ediaiarga •
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and Me following day. Begin net I. beild, *my the enrolment
when the Moon is in licospie, fee the edifice wilt woo kg se k
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torn er epelit.—The Sdof Md, with the Jews, a fast for the MI!
der et Gedelia.—See Jane. 44.
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lg.—The New Sheriffs are sworn in at GailalhaiL
aItIVILDAT—Quees at Witrunnberg born 1744.—Boliday at be
Bank.--Michaelmas Day.—The Lord Mayor is dewed at GPM.
bail, nod the old Lord Mayor gives the new wie a grand dime
the Mansion Meese.—King itieberd 11. deposed sod marismi,
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MARRIED.
Priday ss'esight, at Ikon Merck Henry Crosby, &split Dit
Guards, to Hartioc Erases*, youngest daughter of WiCum Com
Rol Ikon Court, Mossioutlisbirs.

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