The Sun. — 1857-10-15 (London, England)

MURDER AND  MI,TILATTHIY.  LATEST PARTICULARS—(THIS DAY). Up to the time of our going to press the clothes found with the remains in the carpet-bag had not been identified, notwithstanding the many thousands who have inspected them. Seven days have now elapsed since the remains were found, and not the slightest clue of any kind has been discovered by which the guilty parties can be &mod, and we fear from the manner in which the investigation is proceeding that it will turn out a failure. We are inclined to believe that the fault does not rest :0 much with the police who have the case in hand as those under whose direction they act. To show the loose manner in which the case is being investigated, we have only to remark that the police up to the time (.f the inquest were under the impression that the clothes were wet when taken out of the bag by Kilsby, instead of which, we find from his evidence before the coroner that they became saturated and dirty by his laying them in the wet muddy water in the bottom of the boat. Then, again, there was the absence of ono sock and the necktie, a circumstanee at the time that greatly puzzled the anthori ice, but after some days had passes] over, the articles were brought to them by one of the boys, he having found them in the boat —shoving clearly that the search by the police had not been of that minute and careful character which the circumstances of the case imperatively called for. But probably the most inerplicable portion of the mystery is the doubt that still rests in the minds of the authorities relative to the sex to which the remains belong, the manner in which they have been mutilated, the period whoa it was done, and the wound on the breast, for beyond all doubt the shirts do not present that bloody appearance fairly to be expected from the committal of so foul and dastardly a murder as the cuts in them would load to believe. The day following the commencemencenaent of the inquiry before the coroner, a gentleman of eminence in the profession of anatomy spent a considerable time in examining the bones, Arc., with Mr. Painter, and the result of his examination, we are informed, went to corroborate all the opinions expresstd by Mr. Painter before the coroner, but for some reason best known to the police, the name of the g,entlealati is withheld—a manifest injustice to Mr. Painter, for it is only fair to him that the name should be given, especially as the authorities do not appear to be satisfied with the corroborative opinion, because we understand it is their intention to call in (if not already done) a professional gentleman, to report to them his opinion that they may be fortified in the course they will be called upon to pursue. Such a proceeding must naturally cause a great distrust in the public mind, and lead to the inference whether the authorities have not some misgivings of its being a murder awl how the .remains were placed on the buttress. It will certainly be a most extraordinary circumstance if the opinion expressed shortly after the discovery of the remains that it was a medical student's hoax, should turn out to be true, and remembering Mr. Painter's evidence as to the conformation of thepelvis, that the bones are portions of two human beings instead of one. We fear the public mind will not be relieved fro n the suspense' and anxiety under which it at present labours for a considerable period, and we regret to have to add our fears that reports of an unsatisfactory character will gain credence from the ignorance or reserve of the police in communicating circumstances in connection with this, to say the least of it, most mysterious affair, that might otherwise appe ise the public mind, and in all probability tend to the furtherance of the ends of justice.  The authorities at Bow-street police-station, are pilot-ant of the circumstance connected with the  finding of a human skull near Greenwich, as stated in some of the morning journals. The carpet bag, and clothes found with the remains are now being hung on a lino across the yard at the back of the station for hotter exam:nation, to which the public have free access. Throughout the day thousands of persons, consisting of men, women, and children, gratified their morbid curiosity by a minute inspection and examination of them.  . _