The Sun. — 1846-04-01 (London, England)

CONFESSION OF A MURDERER.—In September, 1842, a farmer was found dead by the side of a public road, in Oxfordshire, and up to the present time the cause of death has remained a mystery, but now it appears, from a confession which has been made, that he was murdered. A travelling tinker, of the name of Isaac Skerry, who has been oonfined in Banbury gaol, has confessed that he was a party to the murder of the above individual, Mr. George Mobbs, of Dean-hill farm, North Aston, who, on the 29th of September, 1842, who was found dead by the side of the road leading from the Fez, at North Aston to Dunstew. Skerry says that Isaac Sherriff and James Biddle assisted in the murder, and the police have sue. ceeded in apprehending them. On the 28th of September Mr. Mobbs went to a sale at Staple Aston ; a friend went with him part of the way home, and left hire about eleven o'clock at night, at elan* near to the Fox Inn. The friend's road then lay in a somewhat different direction, and he heard Mr. Mobbs' hor-c go steadily along the lane towards deceased's hems. On the following morning Mr. Mobbs was found dead, and lying on a heap of stones in Dunstew-lane, in a contrary direction to his house. His collar bone was broken, he had received severe injuries on the head, and a great quantity of blood had 11 flown from him. The horse was found in ono of deceased's fields. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons gave his customary grand Parliamentary entertainment on Saturday evening to a numerous circle of ltfernbers of the Lower House, among whom were Viscount Acheson, Mr. Warburton, the Hon. Captain Berkeley, Sir George Staunton, Mr. Tancred, Sir Mr. Morris, Mr. Pattison, Mr. iJrhunne'Connell, Mr. Fltzstephen French, w Charlesh e r em Lemon,r. Duncan, a lr ll3errns Mr. Wyse, Mr. Carew, the Hon. Craven Berkeley, Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr Bowes, Dir. J. H. Vivian, Mr. Ewar B. Sheridan, and Mr. H. Lambton. 4 Captain Dalrymple, Mr. . The Indianipapers allude to an attempt about to be made to introduce an insolvency law among the Straits traders. The subject was mooted some years ago at Singapore, but the public esling was so much against it, that after a few feeble endeavours to obtain the consent of the chief mercantile houses to a petition, nothing further was done, and the question died a natural death. In December last the Chamber of Commerce, bye majority of live. adopted a series of resolutiens in favour of the introduction of a law for the relief of insolvent debtors, and these toting submitted to the Governor, the Hon. Colonel J. W. Butterworth, an .s recomrnendaanswer was received, stating that he would forward them with his tion in favour of the measure. There is a party ht Singapere who oppose tho extension of the insolvent law on the ground that are e the Chinese specially given to &nide dealing, and • can easily send away thole property to China and other places, through their own countrymen, and Baia elude the demands wouldof who, it is supposed,lose all hope payment it of a creditor, were deprived of the power of incarceration. But It is said that he any ilindoos in Calcutta are not less slippery in their transactions than the Chinese at Singapore; yet there has for a long time been an Insolvent Court in the City of Palaces, and the ;oss sustained by native bankruptcy has borne no comparison to that oconsioned by the insolvency 01 Europeans. In Singapore, moresver, it has been found that of the whole number of persons ansigned to Wodsonment for debt, only one-fourth are Chinese. As the old system of leaving the debtor to die or starve in a gaol is so repugnant to all notions of civilised life, the Indian papers s-em to think that the proposal, backed as it is by the recommendation of the Governor, will induce the Legislative Council to give it their hearty ecneurrence, and speedily to pass measures for ruirterlog the process effective 's