The Sun. — 1838-03-12 (London, England)

STAMFORD.---A ,shocking murder was perpetrated on Tuesday morning last on the body of a female named Elizabeth Longfoot, aged about 51, who was possessed of a little freehold property, on which she lived. The deceased was of very eccentric habits, and had on many occasions alarmed the neighbourhood by cries of murder. Cries of murder were heard about four o'clock in the morning, but were disregarded, the hearers imagining that it was the deceased in one of her customary fits of mental aberration. About seven o'clock in the morning, hownver, a woman gave the alarm, and on entering the house, the door of which was open, the body of the deceased was found lying in the first room a kitchen, on the stone floor, quite dead. Much blood was found in the room, and likewise in the yard, where it is supposed that she must have been first struck on the temple by some blunt instrument and stunned, and then the murderer, kneeling on the clay beside her, completed his diabolical deed by stranglingher with his fist, the marks of his knuckles being very visible on the right side of her neck. A wound about a quarter of an inch in circumference, on the left temple, exactly on the temporal artery, was supposed to have caused instantaneous death, and from this the blood had flowed copiously, suffusing the hair (which was in paper), the bonnet, and the cap of the de.. ceased. Andrew Porter, of Easton, baker, was on Thursday committed to Oundle prison for re-examination on Saturday next, on suspicion of being concerned in the above murder. The three brothers (Archers) were late in the evening released for the present. The investigation still continues-Northamptonshire Herold.  On Monday evening, a great excitement was caused in the vicinity of Goodramgate, York, from the following circumstance :—The female servant of a gentleman, living at Dringhouses, had been, about six o'clock in the morning, delivered of a child without any assistance. In the afternoon, she went with a bundle to Mr. Grant's house as above, and in passing through the pessage she nut down the bundle and quitted. A neighbour having picked up the bundle, took it into the room where the girl and her friend were at tea, when she owned it, and said it was the still-born child of a friend, and that she would give the woman a shilling to bury it, which was accepted. The woman took the child to her own place, where, about two hours afterwards, she heard a child scream, and on opening the bundle, she found the infant alive, although its bead had been tied between its legs, and a cord tied round its throat. Information was given to the girl's master, who immediately had her taken into custody, and ordered the infant to be taken care of for the present at his expence.— Ywh Courant.  On Tuesday afternoon a little boy, about four years of age, the son of Joshua Taylor, a joiner, residing at Pittso'-the-moor, near Bury, was seen playing in an entry adjoining the Horse and Jockey Inn, on one side of which was a hole looking into the brewing cellar of the public-house, and beneath the hole was the brew-pan, at that time filled with boiling liquor. On the brewer going into the cellar and stirring up the liquor he perceived through the steam a substance like a bundle, and on further examination be pulled out the body of the little boy abave-mentioned, of course quite dead. —Leeds Intelligencer.  . In the m,ght of the 28th ult. the tower of the ancient church of Sollies Ville, in the Var, was struck. y \ight7 nihng, which destroyed the works of the descen',l,jl into te vestry, shivered the eliP.4: 'An which tl.l. priests' robes were '4ca deposited, and t'en made ifs way to the sanctuary, whence it -'l2e(l ivy the window, breaking a quantity of the coloured glass, and knocking away the keystone of an arch. A FIoPPING