The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-10-24 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

THE LATE MURDER NEAR SUNBIGGIN.-011 Friday, an inquest was held at Mrs. Taylor's, the Fleece Inn, before George Thompson, Esq. coroner, on view of the body of Thomas Patrick, who was found on the 2nd October, lying by the road side near Sunbiggiu-tarn, with the back part of his head and face frightfully mutilated. Near him were found a stick and two stones stained with blood, and with part of the unfortunate man's hair attached to them._ The poor  sufferer was first found by two men named Hodgson, and a young man from Sunbiggin, but was unable to speak; he was removed to Orton in a cart, and placed under medical treatment; he remained insensible up to Sunday, when he partially recovered consciousness. From what he was able to state, it appeared that his name was Thomas Patrick, a native of Roscommon, that he had a wife and family, and that he had been earning a few shillings by driving some cattle, which money was taken from him by two men who maltreated him. He lingered in much pain until the 11th instant, when death terminated his sufferings. The perpetrators of this horrible murder are supposed to be two excavators; two men were met by Mr.. Guy, of Raisbeck, not far from the place, having the appearance of "navvies," one rather tall and_ the_other not quite so tall. A little after  meeting them, Mr. Guy came up-with the unfortunate victim, whose life they had sacrificed for the sake of a few shillings. A more audacious act of cruelty has not been perpetrated in the parish of Orton, since the 18th of November, 1837, when Thomas Hunter was waylaid and shot dead by a daring assassin not far from his own door; that which makes this murder more audacious was its being committed in broad daylight, on the road leading to Brough Hill. A travelling doctor whose name is Burnett, was near the place at the time, and heard the cries of distress, but through fear of his lire, dared not render assistance. He proceeded to Little Ashy, where he gave an alarm—but the ruffians having sufficient time to escape, have not yet been captured. At the conclusion of the inquest, the jury returned a verdict of" Wilful murder" against some person or persons unknown.— Westmoreland Gazette. THE SLAVE TRADE IN BnAzir..—Some remarkable arti• cies have recently appeared in the Brazil papers on slavery. They realise in some degree the hopes that ,were so confidently expressed by the free-trade leaders in advocating the admission of foreign sugar, regardless of its mode of cultivation and- manufacture; and they beget- expectations that right of search treaties will not be so indispensable to the destruction of this horrid traffic as it has been the custom to believe. For in them we have indications that already there is a party in that empire which recognises the wickedness, which sees the evils which fears the consequences, and which, consequently, advocates the extinction of slavery therein, and the abolition of the slave trade. This is exactly what Mr. Cobden and his friendspredicted would be the result of free trade with Brazil. A party is formed which avows its object to be what we, having no right of interference, failed to achieve. This party is heard; it denounces, in language strong enough to excite Exeter Hall, the crime—the guilt of the slave trade; it argues against its pecuniary profit to the empire; it shows how by this agency the internal safety of Brazil is in constant jeopardy : it points out how the profit of cultivation is swallowed up by that mortality of labour which has to be continually replaced by fresh importations of slaves, and thus how the planters, natives of the soil, are but tributaries to the slave dealers who are generally foreigners; it proves bow the health, the wealth, the safety, the very existence of the empire are interested in its emancipation from this, the greatest of human crimes. This is a great and happy, as it is a natural change in Brazilian public opinion. The party thus formed may be as yet small in number; but it is from such beginnings, covered and fortified with truth, that all great moral and political triumphs proceed. And if its appeal to the prosperity of Pernambuco be based on truth; if it really be the fact that since 1830 no slaves have been imported into that province; and yet that since that year it has gone on more rapidly advancing in wealth, in happiness, and in morality, the case presented to the other provinces of the empire is very strong, more especially to that of Bahia. For in Bahia the dangers of slavery are very great indeed. Tux