The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-12-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AT WARRINGTON.--011 Monday last, the examination of a sweep, namedClough, was added to the number of depositions already taken against John Gill, the young man committed for trial on the charge of murdering Sarah Moulds, in the fields adjoining Warrington Church yard, on the night of Saturday, the 13th of November. The testimony of this witness, if true, goes seriously to affect the life of the accused. Soon after the coroner's inquest, Clough came, late inie night, in a state of intoxication, to the police office, Warrington, and, to the surprise and astonishment of the parties then present, declared that he had. on the night of the murder, met Gill (whom he knew) in company with the deceased, in Howley-lane, and to having seen them together in the fields in which the deceased's boa was afterwards found, and also to hearing two distinct cries of murder in the direction in which the body of the deceased was found, and about the time spoken to by Miss Kitchen and Miss Caldwell in their evidence before the magistrates. This at the time was considered to be nothing more than the bombast of a drunken man. He was asked to attend at the police station or before the magistrates on the following morn ing, when reason may have been expected to have resumed her seat, to repeat the same statement. He failed to do so, and but little heed was paid to him until he was next found making a somewhat similar statement at St. Helens. The necessary steps'were then taken to secure his attendance as a witness before the magistrates at Warrington. In his deposition he detailed the circumstances already narrated, and accounted for his being in the fields at such an unseemly hour of the night, by stating that he had been engaged in cleansing the flues at Wharf Meadow factory, and had gone home by way of the Howley warehouses with the intention of taking with him some apparatus appertaining to his calling as a sweep, which he had that day, after sweeping some chimneys at Howley, concealed in a hedge row. On being asked why he did not go to the rescue of the person from whom the cries of murder proceeded he said he knew Gill to be a strong re. solute man, and did not think it prudent to endanger his own life by coming in contact with him.—Manchester Courier.  In the course of a few days a case of breach of promise of marriage, of a singular and extraordinary character, will be brought before the Court of Queen's Bench. Briefs, almost unprecedently voluminous, have been placed in the hands of the solicitor-general (Sir W. Follett) and Mr. Platt, with a fee of 150 guineas each, for the plaintiff; and to Mr. Thesiger for the defendant, with a similar fee. Junior counsel are  engaged on both sides, with proportionate fees. The fair plaintiff, who is beautiful and highly accomplished, but who has been some seven or eight years out of her teens, resides in the vicinity of Hampton Court; the defendant is an octo genarian, a gentleman of wealth and professional eminence, and resides in one of the fashionable squares in the metropolis. The damages are laid at £5,000. The defendant  pleads that he never promised, but that if he did he has given several sums of money in satisfaction. The venerable defendant, who in one of his letters describes himself as being . .  constitutionally in all respects equal to a man of thirty, has paid attentions to the lady for a period of nearly four years, during which period he has written nearly 700 letters, of a most extraordinary description, but clothed in language of superior eloquence ; their contents, however, strongly indicate that the writer's love was subject to uncommon fluctuations, as, while at one period they would breathe vows of eternal constancy, at other times they were imbued with theological subjects, arid their love would be termed celestial, and the lady would be compared to an angel ; in the former case the love would be termed terrestrial, and prospects of a happy union be held out, as also observations made relative to the regulation of the household; from this the style would change to one of a frigid character, arid then the defendant would describe himself as her platonic lover. In these various fluctuations had the greater part of the time been occupied, until at length the defendant thought proper to withdraw himself wholly from the plaintiff's society, to discontinue visiting Hampton, or of continuing to write those singular but elegant epistles, and ultimately wholly ceased to correspond with the plaintiff.  LOYGEVITY of