The Sun. — 1839-03-23 (London, England)

SAVANNAH.—By the Eli, Whitney, w•e have received Savannah papers of the date of the 25th of Feb. The Augusta Chronicle informs U 3, that the centre of the island of Guadaloupe has sunk considerably below the level of the sea, and that the consequences of this calamity, the occurrence of which is attributed to the earthquake which has recently devastated Martinique, are, that many rich plantations and costly edifices are engulphed beneath the surf.ce of the yawning and dissevered earth. The continuance of the disturbances which the Indians who skirt and infest the frontier have fomented, is indicated by the fact, that agrarian outrages are daily committed by them. In the district of Tallahassee they have successfully hazarded a Rock.te expedition; and in the course of their lawless career, deliberately murdered the greater portion of the family of a highly respectable resident. The glaring inefficiency of the armament dispatched to check the aggressions of these marauders, appears to have become the theme of general complaint ; and a reinforcement of forces, sufficiently formidable in numbers and equipment, to defeat the designs and to repel the advances of their merciless invaders, is imperatively demanded by the inhabitants of the province. _ _  THE LATE MURDER AT Fis AtaYti Engs.t—hait nthemostof , the papers of Monday last there appeared an account (copied from a Sunday paper), grandfather of Mr. Francis Hastings Medhurst, against whom a verdict of wilful murder has been returned by the Coroner's inquest 1131 d on the body of Mr. Joseph Alsop, had some years since killed his wife by cutting her head off, and afterwards placing it on the table, and saying to it, " There now, will you hold your tongue ?" We arc however, assured from an authority on which we can rely, that the statement is in many respects incorrect. There is, it appears, no doubt that Mrs. Medhurst died by the hand of her husband, but not in the manner described; the fact being that an altercation taking place between them, Mr. Medhurst, whose mind had been for some time affected, in a violent passion stabbed his unfortunate lady, and instantly throwing down the weapon fled the house. He was ultimately tried for the murder, at the York assizes, in 1804, and acquitted as stated. on the ground of insaity. At that time the unfortunate gentleman was a stockbrolier of eminence, and possessed of large property in the county of York, where he kept an extensive establishment, and a pack of hounds. tic is now, however, an inmate of the lunatic asylum of Messrs. Stilwell, Moorcraft House, in the parish of Hillingdon, near Uxbridge (and not at Hayes, as has been stated), is approaching to near fourscore years of age, and from illness and debility is fast hastening to " that bourne from whence no traveller returns," and is, of course, quite unconscious of the serious charge against his grandson. The parents of Mr. Francis Hastings Medhurst are not, as has.been stated, both dead. His father died about two years since, but his mother is still living, and he has several brothers and sisters. One of the brothers is a clergyman of the Established Church.