Star. — 1826-10-21 (London, England)

THE MURDERS NEAR LEATHERHEAD.  Intelligence reached Union Hall late on Thursday evening, from an inhabitant of Beckenham, in Kent, that a party of gipsies had, early that morning, encamped near the village, and from the description given of the parties suspected of being implicated in the bloody deed, an individual among the gipsies resembled one of the people described. Newcome, an officer from Union Hall, was instantly dispatched to the place pointed out, called Green-lane, in which two tents were pitched. It was near midnight when the constable reached the spot, and, it may be naturally ezpected, the gipsies had gone to sleep. After examining their" features, he was persuaded that they were not the parties wanted. He found that Hall and Pople, who have been out two days searching the country for the fugitives, had visited the same party in the course of the day, whom they had left with their address, in order to stew, if any one went to their tents, that an investigation had been already accomplished. The gipsies, how. ever, began t' relate to Newcome, that they knew very well :Mary Ayres, and the man with whom she cohabits ; they stated further, that they had seen them near Guildford lately, but on further inquiry, it turned out that this was full three weeks back. On being asked where they (the party with whom Newcome was conversing) were on the night that the murder was committed? it was answered, near Sevenoaks, in Kent.— They said, that the murder was spoken of wherever 'they went. In addit'on to this information we have to stare; that application from the country, requesting accurate and lull descriptions of the suspected individuals, which were accordingly sent off without loss of time. A letter 'reached Union Hall yesterday, that a woman dressed in a similar manner to the description given of Mary Ayres, was seen in the metropolis on Monday last; but the information being anonymous, no attention was paid to it. A rumour prevailed yesterday, that suspicion now attached to another individual, against whom hitherto no imputation was raised, and that the suspected party was then in custody. Grassmith, who went down to Fetcham with the gipsies whom he apprehended near Windsor, had not returned yesterday afternoon, nor was it known whether they had been liberated or not. The probability is that they had.  Botzotr, Ocr. 18.—Thomas Holt and Thomas Kay were apprehended on Monday evening, for intimidating and preventing James Jones and Robert Jeffreys from working at Mr. Jones's mills. From the depositions of the several witnesses, viz. John Jones, Esq. Robert Jeffreys, and James Jones, it appeared, that on the 2d of October il the informants, who had been employed, and were still employed by Mr. Jones, had applied at bis mills for etpploy, when they were intimidated by the prisoners; under threats of being killed if they went to their work. After a stormy debate, the prisoners (who came prepared with bail) entered into recognizances to appear and appeal at the next Kirkdale Sessions. These cases have etched ahe greatest interest. The prisoners boas that they want for no money ; and Mr. Jones says, if it cost him 100,0001., he will bring the whole of these men to justice. • hots Toanz.—At the Staffordshire and Shropshire Quarterly Meetings last week, iron was advanced one pound per ton. There is a considerable number of orders on hand at the larger works, and the demand on the irhole is materially improved. The iron trade of Scotland has much revived, pig iron, No. 1, having advanced 10s. per ton, the price being now 71. The hardware trades are slowly, but decidedly, recovering from their late depression, and considerable exportations have taken place to France and America. Oa the whole, the trade of the midland counties is reviving— a fact, which the steady tonnages so the canals place beyond doubt. _  Yesterday morning, at a very early boor, the house of a hair-dresser, named Walters, who resides in Kennington•road, was broken open, and his shop, which was well stocked with perfumery, false curls, Ike. was robbed. The thief was an expert workman, taking out a pane of glass to admit his hand through, for the purpose of unfastening the bolts which secured the window. When in the- shop, he was heard by Mr. Walters and his wife. Mr. Walters was very anxious to run down stairs and secure him, but his wife would not allow him, being apprehensive that he would be murdered. The thief accordingly walked off with his booty, and Mr. Walters saw him carrying it away when he looked out of the window.