The Sun. — 1839-04-22 (London, England)

NORTH HOUSE. 4, Parliament Street, London, 15th April, 1839.  • Perhaps I ought to have stated in this dedication, that ray motive for asking permission of the Lord Mayor to inscribe it to him was to put on record the feeling I entertain (and it is an unanimous ono, excepting only those interested in the monopoly) of the very great ser. vices of his Lordship, and in order, if possible, t 0 strengthen his Lord Lip's hands. I have inserted all the scurrilous and disgusting attacks, whether from peer or pedlar, though some of them could only bare been expected from the lion. Member, (if there were one,) for Billingsgate ; satisfied, as I sin, that such miserable weapons will only wound the hand that uses them. When Peers forget to be gentlemen, and Members of the Common Council to practise common civility, they can little injure one who invites to his table his bitterest opponents, and points to his hearth to answer their arguments.  MURDER OF JULIA JotrzcsoN.--A report has; been very prevalent that as deceased was an Irish woman the neighbours celebrated a national wake over the body ; but this was not the case. From inquiries made on the spot we learn that nothing of the kind occurred, that a few old women of the neighbourhood merely sat up with the son to comfort him in his affliction, instead of leaving him alone in the house with the corpse of his murdered mother, and that the whole of the drink they had was a few pots of beer. The deceased was doatingly fond of her son, and is said to have been distracted with grief at his leaving the town to avoid appearing before the magistrates for assaulting a woman who had ill-used his mother in a drunken quarrel. The young man has been in a very desponding way since his mother's death and the committal of his father on like horrid charge of murder. lie has now no home of his own, fur tho landlord took possession of the house immediately on the removal of Julia Johnson's body, and is therefore lodging with Mrs. Donnerl;, the old widow who lives opposite ter where the Johnsons used to ieside. He neither eats nor drinks any thing, nor does he go out at all. Ile is rather more than eighteen years of age, was brought up to no trade, but got a living by making fancy articles and painting in water colours, such as colouring theatrical prints and other chap engravings. The prisoner Johnson himselfhas since his committal to Lewes gaol preserved a moody silence. Ile had been married 30 years : both he and his wife came from Dublin. They tramped into Brighton about seven years ago, when Johnson wrote a letter to the late King, detailing some essential service rend:red to his Majesty )ears before by Johnson, (his) father ; and in consequence of this communication Johnson was ordered to the Palace, and presented with 201. as a token of Royal gratitude. Upon the receipt of this sup. ply Johnson took the house, No. 81, Nottingharn-street, and expended the King's present on furniture. His riciOta hours give him the character of a good.tompi red, kind' hearted little fellow, even when he was drunk, and state that when he sometmes endeavoured to get his wife home from the pnb!ie house or beer shop he would do it in a very conciliatory manner, telling her that if she wanted a little more liquor he would take it home for her : to this she frequently replied by telling him, " You go home, Bryant... which was a bye name she gave le her husband, if you like, I'll come presently." She is said to have been head. strong and of a most aggravating temper when in liquor. Johnson is a Catholic, and has always been very regufar in his attendance at the Catholic chapel : his wife wet a Protestant. It is not true that Johnson has made a con_ fession ; on the contrary, he still asserts that he is innocent of the crime imputed to him.—Brighton Gazette.