The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-04 00:00:00

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her,

htful gash, inflicted

Lrp instrument, over the right eye
the back of the skull, which wee
I caused the brain to protrude. In
idity of the ground, occasioned bf

the intense frost, no traces of footsteps or of struegling
were discernible; but the deceased had evidently died
very hard, and had fallen once or twice before he fell on
wal indicated
a also bespat-

the spot where he was four
by the large pool of blood,
tered with it. The bottom rail of the stile was broken,
and against this, it would appear, the unfortunate man
must also have staggered, as, at the point where it waS

and the wall

as covered with blood
marks of bloody fingers on the stile, _ .
have been those of the murdered man, as, on examination,
there was no blood whatever found on his hands. Oa
Monday an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley ; and,
from the evidence adduced, there could be no doubt that
a savage murder had been committed, and that the de-
ceased had been robbed of a gold watch and other articles.
Upon bim was found a letter from a female, who signed
herself " Caroline." and requested Mr. Delarue to meet
her at the place where they had spent.so many half-hours
together, as she had something of the first importance to
communicate. The inquest was adjourned. It is said
that some clue bas been obtained likely to lead to the dis-
covery of the murderers, supposed to be three men.

broken, it

There were also
but they could not

ienry Hooker, a young man, of about twenty
five years of age, in the same profession as the deceased
and an intimate acquaintance, is in custody on suspicion

story is, that Delarue gave it to him, at ten o'clock on
Friday morning, to get it sold for him. The prisoner bad
also duplicates of pledged pr,perty belonging to the de-
ceased. He underwent an examination on Wednesday,
and was remanded till this day. The police, in a
further search of the premises where the prisoners lived,
have discovered amongst some rubbish a diamond ring,

of which he at onee gave them inform ition, and accompa-
nied Inspector furlong of the S division, to the Maryle-
bone Police-court, when the ring was exhibited to the

lereased

brother, who at once identified it. On Kirtfie;;;;;;fl
being made the gold chain described by Mr. Daniel De-
larue as being attached to his brother's watch when he
last saw him alive was discovered, and there are here and
there spots of blood clearly indicating that it was taken
from the body after the murder was perpetrated.

Another highly-important discovery has been made.
Amongst the papers at the supposed murderer's lodgings
has been discovered an exact copy of the letter, signed
" Caroline," and on their being compared, the handwrit-
ings (which have been proved to be those of Thos. Henry'
Rocker) in both are identical. The letter found on de-
ceased's person had the envelope stained with blood, and
the inference, therefore, is that on the murderer disco.
vering what it was he returned it to the deceased's pocket,
in order to allay suspicion. A third black kid glove, co-
vered with blood, was found in the clothes of the deceased,
and on it being compared with the one discovered by the
police at Hocker'a residence, it is found exactly to match.
The inquest was resumed on Saturday, when the prisoner
was again absent, Mr. Kilsby, the gaoler of the New
Prison, having in compliance with the general erder of
the visiting justices, refused to send him before the coro-
ner. Mr. Wakley said he was in the bands of the jury,
and would proceed if they thought fit, though he bad al-
ready expressed his opinion of the impropriety of such
course. The majority of the jury were strongly opposed
to proceeding with the investigation in the absence of the
prisoner, and the inquiry was again adjourned.

NATIONAL EDUCATION-THE BISHOPS, THE
CLERGY AND THE PEOPLE.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)

It is with the highest pride and gratification that we
this day publish the several important documents, with

reference to the above-named topics, which we shall, each
in due place, subjoin—documenls which are calculated to
encourage in the paths of principle and duty those faith-
ful and truly Christian churchmen who have hitherto,
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gardless of worldly profit or preferment, walked in the
right way : and to cheer the lately downcast spins of our
Protestant people, by proving to them that, whilst we
have leaders who are not, thank God I afraid to make
the trumpet speak with a most certain sound, we have
also thousands through our land waiting

ly I,r such a

call to declare themselves on the side of the church, in
her faithful straggle for the unfettered use of the Holy
Bible.

The first of these documents is the address from the
united diocese of Down and Connor and Dromore, to his
Grace the Lord Primate, and those other Prelates, who
lately signed the, declaration of their lordship's sentiments

respecting the education of the poor in Ireland :
"May it please your lordships,—We, whose names are
hereunto affixed, resident in the united dioceses of Down
and Connor and Dromore, deeply anxious concerning the
`education of the poor in Ireland,' and sincerely ' inte-
rested in the maintenance and extension' of seriptUral
schools throughout our land, beg leave to tender to your
lordships our grateful thanks for the 'counsel and sur-
' upon this imporant subject, which, under th,
guidance and blessing of Almighty God.' you ha.- '

enabled lately to affor
"To the sentimer

forth in your lordships'
address we desire most cordially to respond. To the "re-
luctance and regret' which you feel when conscientiously
obliged to disapprove of any of the provisions of the state

of education, despite of certain modifications of its rules
from time to time introduced by the commissioners'—to
the grounds of such objections, namely, the continued
exclusion of the word of God, during the hours of
ral instruction—the injury thus done to the t

st interests

of the youthful poor of all religious denominations—the
insult thus offered to that fundamental principle of our
reformed faith, the sufficiency of the holy scriptures
—and the aid thus given to ' the false principles of the
church of Rome,' by submitting to its spiritual tyranny
in this respect '—to your lordships' sentiments as lately
imparted to us on these all-important subjects, we most
cordially and thankfully respond.

" We praise God for the faithful and effective manner
in which He bath enabled you to expose the specious sub-
stitution of apparently parental, for really Papal authority ;
and to detect the sophism, with which perv, rted human
wisdom has endeavoured to involve the sinwilcity of the

fifth commandment, by marking, as your have done. the

important distinction' 13,,tween the excitement of undue
resistance on the part of the child, and the sanction of
unlawful, because um=criptural, restraint on the part of
the parent. Your effort. thus to vindicate for the Ro-
manists of Ireland rights which otherwise would be Fur-
rendered ; to preserve for the child of tender years liber-
ties he cannot assert for himself; and to maintain for silt
the sufficiency and supremacy of God's holy word

come your high and sacred station, add clue weight to
your ecclesiastical authority, and must prove a blessing 10
that portion of Christ's church, ovt r which you are ap
pointed to preside.
" And if we thank God f

' pure,' we
n.' We de-

principle in 'the defence of
:ouratrymen, in watchfulness