The Sun. — 1822-09-28 (London, England)

FATAL ACCIDENT AT BLACK ROCK.—We have this week to record the loss of another life in the vicinity Qif Black Rock. For some time past, on account of the dangerous state of the Cliff, all persons have been prohibited from getting stones from the beach near that place ; but, notwithstanding, it has been frequently done by stealth ; and early on Wednesday morning, at about three o'clock, two men were employed in drawing up stones with a basket, ,one being placed at the top of, and the other below, the Cliff. While thus occupied, an immense piece of the Cliff, extending no less than sixteen feet from the edge, separated itself from top to bottom, and fell down, burying the man beneath. It is supposed that .a small piece first struck him, as he was heard by his companio►► to cry out. The other man escaped in, a most providential manner.—Hearing the ground crack beneath him, he was immediately alarmed, and calling to the one below to get away, he himself ran from the edge of the Cliff, and at the moment of his springing to make a leap, the ground actually sunk beneath his feet. One moment more must have precipitated, him in the chasm. Labourers were set to dig for the body of the unhappy victim; but up to last night their search continued to be unsuccessful. lie was upwards of 60 years of age; his name is unknown, and he was a stranger to the person with whom he was working; the name of the latter is Johnston.— (Brighton Gazette.)  I _ MuitnEn.—(Frost a Madrid paper of thelfith instant.)— Yesterday, at two in the evening, Don Santiago Iruegas, Alcalde of the Barrio de la Cruz, was called, by the neighbours, to a house in the Calle de la Vittoria, in which Don N.,lleros, a clerk in the Treasury, lives, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause of the cry of " murder" in the voice of a female. The Alcalde proceeded immediately to the plate pointed out, and finding that no attentihn was paid to his request to open the door, he ortlered it to be broken open, and, accompanied by some friends and the neighbburs, went 'up to the second floor, whence the cries had proceeded. They no sooner entered the outer room than they found, bathed in her blood, anti alread quite dead, Donna Valentia Gomez, housekeeper to Don N. }leros. It was observed that she had received a deep wound in the neck, and others of a slighter description in different parts of the body. To this melancholy sight was added, that of a man lying by the side of the deceased, who was also wounded in the neck • his wound was apparently slight, but his face and hands were covered with blood. Them were in a purse-six hundred reals—one ounce in gold, and the rest in ,dollars, all covered with blood, and besides a receipt for the like sum from the deceased. A switch, also stained with blood, was found on the floor. On the first search no weapon . whatever was discovered, but afterwards there was found under a mat a small knife, which is supposed to ' have been the I murderous instrument, as it is much marked with 'blood.— The wounded man was 'removed to the hospital. Notwithstanding the numerous questions which have there been put to him, he has not articulated a single word ;'but his signs seemed, at first, to indicate that - he wished it to be understood that he and the deceased hail been attacked by two men who escaped. Afterwards he appeared to signify that the crime was perpetrated by one man : but neither of these intimations agreed with the statement of a cobbler who lives at the entrance to the house. He states that ' the wounded man waited in the 'portal for the return of the unfortunate Donna Valentina, who had gone out : that when she came home, he went up stairs with her ; and that soon after the cries were heard which caused the people in the neighbourhood to collect round the house. —The cobbler further declares that, except the wounded man and the deceased, he had seen 'nobody either come out or go into the house. It may be inferred from the receipt, which is supposed to have been executed in favour of the wounded man, that his name is Manuel Castello. These circumstances have given rise to a thousand conjectures, and the Constitutional Alcalde (Don Ramon Casellas) has set on foot a diligent investigation respecting this horrid and extraordinary assassination.