The Sun. — 1842-12-29 (London, England)

MURDER.—Yesterday information was forwarded to Bow-street, and thence to the various metropolitan and city polic2-offices and stations, that a man, named James Crowley, of Warwickshire, stood charged with having committed wilful murder on .Christinas-day last ; the full particulars of which, however, were not appended to the informeion. Crowley is described as follows, viz.:-5 feet 9 inches high, stout made, has a mark or seam over one of his eyebrows, goodlooking, and of gentlemanly appearance, and when last seen was dressed in a dark cloth coat, black shining boots, and leather leggings. After committing the murder, he absconded, taking with him a horse of the following description :—A bright bay, switch tail, nearly thorough bred, one hip down, black legs, ewe necked, and about fifteen hands one inch high. A reward of 201. will be paid for the apprehension of the murderer,, oil application to Mr. B. Johnson, churchwarden, Spernal, Warwickshire. A biography of the late King of Prussia, Frederick William 111., is announced by a Berlin journal. it is written by the Protestant Bishop, Dr. Eylert, who during his late Majesty's life was at the head of that Church, and admitted to close intimacy with his Sovereign. Dr. Eylert gives some details of the visit of the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours to Berlin, and among others relates the following anecdote :—" When the French Princes came to take leave of the King, the Duke of Orleans several times made an attempt to kiss his Majesty's hand, but Frederick William would not admit him to pay this mark of homage. The Duke then earnestly entreated him to accept it, saying that the King of the French had expressly, on his leaving Paris, commanded him to kiss the hand of the Sovereign who had, during twenty years, maintained pence in France. Upon this, the King of Prussia not only gave his hand to be kissed by the Duke of Orleans, but, at the same time, embraced him cordially." A paragraph which, we believe, originated in the imagination of the London correspondent of a Scotch paper, has been so generally circulated, and so confidently reproduced in various forms, that it may be as well to give it the flat contradiction it deserves. The report stated that the increasing infirmities of the Duke of Wellington, in addition to the cares of his new office as Commander-in-Chief, had induced that venerable statesman to declare his intention of not resuming the leadership of the House of Lords, and that it was proposed to supply the place of the Noble Duke by immediately calling Lord Stanley to the Upper house. It was insinuated that this course was objected to by some members of the Cabinet, and that Lord Aberdeen, especially, would dispute with Lord Stanley the honour of being the mouth-piece of the Government among the Peers. We are enabled to state that the Duke of Wellington will, in the approaching Parliament, as in the last, act as the leader of the Upper House, and that no intention exists, or has ever existed, of anticipating .Lord Stanley's elevation to the peerage by the ordinary process of succession.—Times. The &Wine& of Bayonne publishes a notice from the British Consul, that the British Government, having been informed that several inhabitants of Biarrits had, at the peril of their own lives, saved the crcw of an English schooner wrecked in the night of the 24th of October, had sent 300 francs to be distributed among„those brave men ; to which the Lloyd's Com, mittee had added 300 francs more.