The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-02-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PORTSMOUTH.—The Indus, 84; Captain Sir James Stirling, will remove from her hulk during the week, and proceed to Spithead to complete her crew. The Tweed, 20, Commander Douglas, will also go out of the harbour in a few days, reported for the South American station. The Snake, 16, in Sheerness Basin, and the Bittern, 16, at this port, are to be brought forward for commission. The steam-frigate Salamander, Commander Henry, remains at Sheerness, under Admiralty orders ; her destination is not accurately known. The Dee steamer, Commander Sherer, and the brig Satellite, 16, Commander Robb, are ordered home from the North American station. The latter was at Bermuda, on the 15th ultimo, all well, refitting. The Dee left Halifax, it is supposed for England, on the Bth of November ; but as she has not yet arrived, must have taken a circuitous route. The ships at Spithead are the Iris, 16, a new corvette, Capt. Hugh Nurse, and Pelican, 16, Commander Napier, the former destined for the Cape and West African station. Both are awaiting Admiralty orders to proceed. The Calliope, 26, Capt. Herbert, and Samarang, 26, Capt. Scott, are on their way from the Brazils to the coast of China, to join RearAdmiral Elliott. The steamer Alban, Mr. King master, is refitting in the harbour to proceed to the Irish ports, when ready, for men for the navy.—Brighton Gazette THE MURDER AT HORFIELD e I dreadful occurrence was in ty  —Since our account of this  Vie, we learn that on Thursday morning a purse, which was supposed to be that of the deceased, was picked up near St. Matthew's Church, Kingsdown, on the road from Horfield to the prisoner's residence. The purse, however, is not known to be that of Mrs. Shedden. It was confidently stated yesterday in this city, that the prisoner had made a confession of the murder to a magistrate. This, however, we learn, is incorrect. We understand that there is a slight inaccuracy in the statement given as to Miss Sowerby. That lady, we are informed, stated, not that she heard the deceased answer the door at three o'clock, but that she heard somebody walking in the house, and, on looking at her watch, found it was five minutes after three. Now if Miss Sowerby be not mistaken on this point, we may infer that the murder had not been committed before that time, as any stranger, seeing the corpse in the state in which it was found, would instantly have given the alarm. The person heard walking about was probably the actual murderer ; and the question then arises, with the evidence of Rudge's father and Louisa Knight, that the prisoner was at Kingsdown from half-past one till ten o'clock at night, whether he can have been the guilty party ? Among other on Bite on the subject, it is stated that two suspicious characters, ballad v  /endors were seen lurking about the neighbourhood on Sunday; and it is a rather singular circumstance that on Saturday evening a man (not the prisoner) was seen grinding a lathing-hammer, the very deiotion of weapon with which the so,— q  ~.aeon Hs the murder_w as committed, at a grindstone on the roadside, by a blacksmith's shop, within a few hundred yards of Mr. Shedden's residence. This circumstance would not have been at  all remarkable had not the man been turning the grindstone himself, and evidently using it by stealth. The policeman told Rudge he was taken for murdering a woman at Horfield, and then he said "Mrs. Shedden." We understand that Rudge states he cari,prove by numerous witnesses, that he was at his father's lmuse to dinner at one o'clock, and that after dinner he went to' a beer shop in the neighbourhood and there remained till e'en at night.—Bristol Journal. ,