The Sun. — 1846-02-17 (London, England)

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT  MURDE R.— Yesterday, about seven o'clock, the utmost excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood of Great Wild-street, Drurylane, by the discovery of a most deliberate attempt at murder, very similar in its character to that recently committed at Newington; and which, like that, is most likely to terminate fatally. The following particulars have been obtained from the brother of the victim; and, no doubt, can be relied on : A Mr. James Rostock, a brass-founder, has a workshop at No. 4, Pitt-place, Great Wild-street, and resided in the house. It was usual for one of the apprentices to call him up in a morning, and this was done by one of them, Cox, it is supposed, in the morning at the time above stated. Mr. Bostock came down in his shirt sleeves and apron, having been in the act of shaving, and a candle in his hand. He had no sooner reached the door than the report of a pistol was heard; and upon a man, named Goodwin, going to the passage, he found Mr. Bostock lying on the floor in a pool of blood, which had issued from a wound under the right ear. Be was insensible, and conveyed to King's College Hospital, where he lies in very dangerous state. The pistol was supposed to have been loaded with slugs, as one wis got out of the panel of the door, and is now in the hands of the police. A lad named Cox purchased some powder at an oilshop on Saturday, and has not been seen since. It is stated that Mr. Bostock missed eight shillings last week, which he deducted from Cox's wages on Saturday, and thus it is that he is strongly supposed to have some connexion with the diabolical act. At one o'clock little hopes were entertained of Mr. Bostock's recovery, nor was any mein custody. Crowds were assembled near the spot.  foßisetti'has left Paris are of his Physician, for ice. No hopes are entertained of his recovery. A fourth edition of " The Crescent and the Cross," by Eliot 'Warburton, Esq., ha, just been published, in two vols., price 21s. bound. This delightful work (as the Morning Post truly observes) is one of the moat readable books of travels that peregriStator ever penned. it is, from first to last, a splendid panorama of Enstern scenery in the full blaze of its magnificent.. It is impossible to read " The Crescent and the Cross" without being transported for the time ow to the sedgy hanks of the eternal Nile, into the country of our old friend Haroun Al Jiasehid, with ell its delightfid delusions, which, though partly dispelled, can never be forgotten. Moreover the crowning merit of the book is that it is evidently the production of a gentleman anti a meo of the world, who has lived lw the best society, and has hi'eu an attentive observer of the scenes, incidents, and iudn',W variety of characters which have passed before him during his joyous existence. To a keen sense of the ludicrous he joins a power of sketching and grouping width are most happily demonstrated.  -rt.(.; Gentlemen who shave themselves the following query l& ppeposed.—Why do all the first cutlers of Europe use and recommend Saunders' Feur-sided Tablet Razor Strop? The answer is, simply because it is the only one that gives to a razor a teen and smooth edge. ManufaAory, 21, Strand, Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has transmitted the sum of 20/. to the funds of St. Vora schools, Burslcm. .