The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-14 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—There was no improvement in the state
of the market yesterday ; the demand, both for goods and
yarn, was exceeding flat, and lower prices were very generally
submitted to.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, FEB. larH.—
To-day has been a dull market, and very little business has
been done, but prices have undergone no change. In the
wool market there has also been very little doing, but,prices
remain firm.

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, FEB. 11.—This was one of the
best markets for many months past, both as regards the
quantity of goods sold and the prices realised. The chief.
demand was in low fancy woollens and some descriptions of
light fancy goods. Prices begin to look up, but are far from
being remunerating. Wools are in greater demand, with a
tendency to rise. Work is more plentiful, and orders for
spring and summer goods are tolerably extensive. The
warehouses gradually assume a more active aspect. On the
whole, there is a decided change for the better.—Manchester
Guardian.

ANTI-PROTESTANTISM. -iril"thT
I NbieseTnEßcloAmLmAitNteTi —" What injuries
Lord Morpeth, while piously endeavouringenarne of Protestantism''said
haveM
Po-
pery was a kind and beneficent mystery, to show that
humane in its administrators. WYe should beetle in itself, and
what occasion Protestants had exhibited be sorry to learn
them
wise than in their true character, name' selves other-
telligent, tree community of Christians; Yw' we know
a merciful, in-
casions where Protestantism and Popery were not no occa-
lar in their deeds as in their doctrines. Let Irish ahistoryii-
tell
if Protestants have not fallen Lye scores—murdered b
strunaents of the priests. t French history tell tih ine.
massacre of St. Bartholemew, and the history of the Walden-
sestii and the Albigenses relate the unhappy fortunes of those
Christian people. Where are similar accounts laid to the
charge of Protestantism ? Nowhere. Lord Morpeth knows
he was only encouraging Popery when he abused Protestants,
and that to charge Protestants with wanton cruelty or intoler-
ance would be as false as it would be true if applied to Popery.
Bolton Chronicle.

We regret to have to record a most brutal murder, com-
mitted on Monday night week, in the county of Flint—a county
generally remarkable for the infrequency of capital crimes,
and the lightness of capital offences. But in this case, the
particulars will disclose a case scarcely exceeded by any on
record, for the cold-bloodedness and brutality with which it
was perpetrated.
The unfortunate victim is David Evans, gamekeeper to
John Wynne Eyton, Esq. of Leeswood, near Mold, for his
property in the parish of Northop, being near to Coed-y-Hen-
dre mine, near Mold.
The deceased, who was a man about 45 years of age, had
on Monday last been following his usual occupation, and was
returning home in the evening. A little before six o'clock,
he passed through the farm-yard of .Mr. Jones; a respectable
farmer, living near to Coed-y-Hendre mine, on the mountain
leading to Halkin ; and in passing he had some conversation
with Mr. Jones and his men. He left them to proceed along
the bye-road leading to the mine ; and in a very few minutes
they heard the report of a gun, and a man's voice exclaim,
" Ohl Lord !Oh ! God ! ' In about ten minutes, a boy
leading a mare came.tO the house, and stated that a man was
lying in the lane either dead or drunk, and that he had hard
work to get the mare to pass him. It is remarkable that the
boy had passed the same part of the lane on his way to the
farm some few minutes before, when the body was not then
there ; and having missed his way he had to turn back, when
he discovered the body ; but in the interim he had heard a
gun fired. Mr. Jones immediately summoned his men; and
it being dark, they went with a lanthorn to the place described
by the lad, where they found the body of a man, amid a mass
of fresh blood. One of the men immediately recognised the
body as that of David Evans, the keeper, who had left the
farmyard not many minutes before. They guarded the body,
and instantly despatched a messenger to Peter Parry, Esq.
the coroner, residing at Mold, and he, after sending inforrna •
tion to Mr. Wynne Eyton, proceeded to the place, accom-
panied by his brother, Robert Parry, Esq. surgeon. Mr.
Parry directed the body to be taken to the deceased's own
house, and Mr. Jones got a cart and followed his direction.
The body of the deceased when examined, presented a most
horrid appearance ; the head being nearly separated from the
body with some sharp instrument, and the face contused as
if with a blow, and the head lacerated in several parts. A
minute examination showed that the unfortunate man had
first been shot at. A charge of shot had grazed the muscular
part of the right arm, then penetrated the skin on the right
side of the breast, carrying with it a button from the waist-
coat, passed under the skin to about the centre of the breast,
when a part had broken the skin and escaped, the rest pro-
ceeding under the skin, fracturing slightly the second and
third ribs, and ultimately lodging in the muscles of the left
side : only one shot had penetrated the chest, and that was
found loose, the lungs and other intestine objects being en-
tirely untouched. This wound could scarcely have been at-
tended with fatal results. The murderer must then have
stunned his victim by a blow with the fowling piece, as a
contusion, as if inflicted with some blunt instrument, was
found on the forehead and face, the cartilage of the nose
being divided. Then the murderer must have resorted to the
use of the knife, as there was a cut of one inch long in the
forehead ; four on the right side of the head, one being two
inches long. The knife bad been stuck in the throat on the
left side under the ear, and by one vigourous slash, the whole
of the muscles, arteries, windpipe, &c., divided in the front
to the other side, leaving the head attached to the body by the
vertebra of the neck and the back muscles. Death must then
have been instantaneous.

Mr. Eyton, on hearing of the fate of his servant, sent a
messenger off to obtain the services of Mr. Hill, superin-
tendent of the Chester police, and Mr. Copeland, police
officer, Holywell. The messenger sent to Chester never
went near Mr. Hill, but contented himself with informing
the Coroner for Cheshire of the circumstance, but Copeland
arrived in the course of the night. Mr. Eyton also proceeded
to the spot; and, in conjunction with Mr. Parry, the Coroner,
instituted the most active and searching enquiries, in order
to discover the perpetrator.of this horrid deed.
The exertions to find some clue that might lead to the de-
tection of the perpetrator of this inhuman slaughter were not
long in being rewarded. A lad, in the employ of Mr. Lloyd,
a respectable farmer, near to the mine, and concerned in
mining operations, stated, that some little time before the
murder was committed, and within seven or eight minutes'
walk of the place.wherq the deceased was found, a man ac-
costed him, dressed in a velveteen coat, and in hrteches and
gaiters, having a single-barrelled gun on his arm. He asked
him what hour David Evans, the keeper, passed morning and
evening, and whether he had heard any shooting ? The lad
replied, that he heard two guns fired within five minutes of
each other. The man replied, that he would hear him fire
soon • and asked him if the keeper carried a gun ? The lad
replied, that he did not know ; that he had heard shooting,
but he did not know whether the keeper shot or not. The
man appeared to have his face flushed, as if he had been
chinking a-little ; and, after telling the lad not to tell any
body what he had asked him, he went towards the lane where
David Evans was found dead. The time corresponded with
that stated by Mr. Jones as the time he saw Evans, and
would have enabled the man to arrive at the lane in time to
meet Evans there.

The description given by the lad answered to a man named
Edward Jones, who lived in a cottage on the edge of Halkin
mountain, about a mile from Coed-y-Hendre mine; and Mr.
Eyton, Mr. Parry, Copeland, and Price, , the Mold officer,
proceeded to his residence : this was early in the forenoon
of Tuesday. As they approached, Jones was outside the
cottage, and on seeing them he went in. The party went
into the cottage, and on seeing the prisoner he had some
blood on his face, and Mr. Eyton asked him how he got it?
He seemed confused, and said he supposed he got it in chop-
ping, gorse: He had also some spots of blood on his clothes.
They found a single-barreled fowling-piece loaded. They
informed Jones of the suspicion that attached to him, took
him into custody, secured the gun,' and brought him away.
Jones was identified by the boy as the man he had seen. On
their way to the .Leeswood Arms Hotel, Mold, they were
joined by Mr. Hill. of Chester, for whom a second iregsenger
bad been depatched. On arriving at that hotel, Jones was
told by Mr. Hill that he was suspected of having murdered
David Evans, and he replied that lie could clear himself, as
he had been drinking from a little before six o'clock till ten
o'clock, at a beer shop on the top of the mountain, kept by
John Jones, his brother. Mr. Hill then asked him how he
accounted for being seen by the lad ? He replied, no lad had
ever seen him, nor did the lad say so. Blood, apparently
.fresh, was found, on his jacket,, and on the inner part of the
right thigh of his small clothes ; and his hat had the marks of
bloody tin ers on the left side and on the left rim, and where
those marks were, was literally saturated with blood. He did
not account for these appearances. The shot in the charge
of the gun, when drawn and compared with the shot taken
from Evans' side, exactly corresponded. Mr. Eyt'on being
a magistrate, ordered Jones to be detained in custody, to
await the result of the coroner's inquisition.
On Wednesday, an inquest was held on the body of the
unfortunate man, at a public-house near to where the body
was found, before Peter Parry, Esq., coroner for the county,
and the following most respectable jury :—Mr. John Hamp-
ton, Great House, Mold,' foreman ; Mr. Robert Harrison,
Mold; Mr. William Marsden, druggist, Mold; Mr. John
Owen, nailor, Mold; Mr. John Snow Berrington, coachman,
Mold ; Mr. Robert Williams, Royal Oak, Mold ; Mr. Wm.
Williams, Ty Draw, near Mold ; Mr. John Jones, joiner,
Mold ; Mr. Evan Edwards, draper, Mold ; Mr. Thomas
Jones, saddler, Mold ; Mr. Edw. Roberts, Coed-y-Hendre,
near Mold ; Mr. Joel Williams, Rhydymwyn, near Mold ;
Thomas Richardson Truernan, Bryn Allyn, near Mold. The
inquiry commenced at eight o'clockin the morning, and was
conducted with great ability by the worthy coroner and
patience by the jury, and did not terminate until nearly eight
o'clock at night. Eight witnesses were examined in all, in-
cluding the parties on whose statement the above narrative is
drawn out. The body had been examined by Mr. Parry,
surgeon, who detailed most minutely the wounds, their
.ap-
pearances, and consequences. It appeared from the state-
ment of the witnesses who found the body, that Evans must
have first fallen in the middle of the road, and , afterwards
have either struggled or been dragged to the side, as his head
was lying under the hedge. There was a great' deal of blood
lying at the place next day; but nothing to indicate there
had been much struggling. In fact, the conflict, if there
had been one, must have been very short, and, as the result
proves, decisive ; and by coupling together the leading points
in the chain of evidence, not more than five or ten minutes
could have elapsed, from the time Evans left Mr. Jones, -to
the time his dead body was first discovered. The jury re-
turned an unanimous verdict of " wilful murder against the
prisoner Edward Jones," and lie was committed on the
coroner's warrant to Flint gaol, to await his trial for the
offence at the Spring assizes.
As might be anticipated the event caused great anxiety to
prevail. The atrociousness of the crime—and the novelty of
such an offence in this county—combined to attract together
a great concourse of people. Every one seemed anxious that
thelperpetrator should be detected. All parties directly in-
• terested in the enquiry displayed great activity and zeal—
..Mr. Eyton, Mr. Parry, coroner, .Mr. Parry,..surgeon, Mr.
Hill of Chester, Mr. Copeland of liolywell, and Mr. Price,
the Mold constable.

The prisoner, Edward Jones, appears to be a man about
fifty years of age, and has already been convicted of felony.
He is a widower, but has four daughters. He has generally
had the character of being a poacher ; and assuming that he
has committed this horrible murder, the provocation is sup
posed to be, that David Evans, the deceased man, was the
cause of him being, some time since, convicted in a penalty
of X,5 for shooting a pheasant. We are also informed that
his brother was recently. convicted in a similar offence against
the game laws ; but there is nothing to connect him with any
knowledge of or participation in this offence.
The deceased was a very quiet man, and a good servant,
and confined himself strictly to the duties of his situation.
He was about 45 years of age, and has left a wife and family.
Further enquiries are going on, in order to ascertain whe-
ther any reasonable suspicion rests against any other parties.

We have authority for stating that her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester was prevented from being present
upon the occasion of her Majesty's wedding, in consequence
of her royal highness having for this last fortnight been con-
fined to her house, suffering from the effects of a severe cold,
and not being sufficiently recovered to encounter the fatigue
of a considerable procession at so early an hour.—Morning
Herald.

REPRESENTATION OF WEST SOMERSET—PEERAGES.—
The conservatives of West Somerset must buckle on their
armour, and be ready for the fight. It is stated in some
well-informed circles that Mr. E. A. Sanford, M.P. for West
Somerset, will be included in the next batch of new peers:
And it is further rumoured that Mr. Labouchere, member
for Taunton, will be similarly honoured. Two vacancies will
thus occur, one for West Somerset, and one for Taunton,
and we trust that in neither case will the conservatives allow
themselves to be taken by surprise. The most remarkable
feature in the contemplated-bestowal of dignities, is the omis-
sion of the name of Sir Thomas Lethbridge.—Dorset County
Chronicle.
DESIRABLENESS OF THE QUBEN'S MARRIAGE.—We
copy the following from a pamphlet just published by Mr.
Murray, in the.form of a letter ".On the Marriage of the
Queen :"—" Without entering into the detail of the present
position and circumstances of the royal family of England, I
think I may assume that, by the general consent of the na-
tion, without distinction of classes or parties, it was held ex-
tremely desirable-that the Queen should contract a mar-
riage : most, if not all of us, felt this to be highly important
to the best interests of the country. Such being the case,
the Queen must marry either a subject or a foreigner. If
the former, I need not point Out to you the jealousies, the
intrigues, the thousand inconveniences that would probably
have ensued. The question then is reduced to this :—• If it
was desirable that the Queen should contract an early and a
foreign marriage, where shall we find in Europe a prince to
he preferred, on political, personal, or religious grounds, to
the consort whom she has herself selected ?' " The writer
thus continues :—" My friends, 1 have not yet touched upon
the personal character of Prince Albert, and I shall do so
very briefly now. If I were desirous of writing a panegyric
upon him, I might probably have little difficulty in adducing
satisfactory testimony, even at this early age, to the extent
of his accomplishments, and the excellence of his abilities
and disposition. But such is not the purpose of the present
letter. I write simply to warn you against unfair 'prejudice
—to remind you of what is due to justice, due to ourselves,
and to our national character. A young prince, of whom
we may at least say that report speaks favourably—respect-
ing whom even the tongue of scandal has spoken no evil—is
chosen as the consort of our Queen. Leaving his'native soil,
and a home where all his early affections have centred, he
comes, unattended by the friends of his youth, to throw him-
self!
ulidupon the candour and generosity of England, and, with
a
yet_ too fresh to be imbued with prejudice, he comes
to placen himself under England's laws, to adopt England's
usages,
and to be in every acceptation of the term (except-
ing only birth), an Englishman." We think every candid
and generous mind will
respond to this appeal. '

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