The Statesman. — 1818-08-10 (London, England)

ANOTUER ACCOUNT.  During the last week the town and neighbourhood of Epsom has been in the greatest agitation and alarm, in consequence of the diabolical murder of Ely Cos, Mr. Tessier's gamekeeper, on Sunday week. By information which we have received from a correspondent, we can venture to slate, that very sanguine hopes are entertained that the tourderer will he soon brought to justice, circumstances having transpired which have furnished the officers (May and Hall, of (Jnion-hall Police-office) with a clue to his person. It was ascertained by the officers, that a man of an. Ibrious character, who travels with a caravan drawn by a Junky, and who is generally accompanied by his two sons, was within a quarter ore mile of Ceoch. enhain-corner an the night preceding the rooming the . murder was committed. The man lives the life of a gypsy, and supports himself and family by the same inlawful means. On the morning of the day r Cos was (Dead murdered, this man was seen by some coutirrg Kepi* in a very weak slate; he complained of en injury of his back, and said that it lead bled any much+ and he wis afraid lir should bleed to deMh.— His enquiries were after his wife, who, it appeared. I according to his account, was " gone a foraging," or seeking for food. Ile said he had received the injury in an all ay. It is believed that he was wounded in the back by the contents of Cues pistol, which had been discharged when it was found on the ground some distance from the body. The sock of a shoe was found also near the body ; and it is a singular cis-COMIItaIICP, that the man so strongly suspected (not merely from what we have related? but .in.,ctinsequence of his having decamped from that part of the country) was observed, a few days prior to the murder being committed, putting socks into his shoes, as be was sitting by bis baggage on she road side near Woodcot Park. The vigilance and activity of Mr. Trotter and the other Magistrates, who have formed themselves into a Committee to investigate the murder, and in use means to bring the perpetrators to justice, has been very greatly manifested by their unceasing esertions to discover and apprehend the I murderer.  PIITLOCOPHICA L DISCOVER, Es.—M r.STEINIIAWER,  filelie, has informed the world; that our globe is a **(snow ball, the interior of which perhaps contains a little Solar System. From e long series of observa. lions. on the variations of the magnetic needle, it seems to him to follow incontrovertibly, that at the depth of 170 German, about 765 English miles, a body revolves round the centre or the earth, from West to East, but very slowly, as it take* 440 years to accomplish one revolution. This body is endued with a very strong magnetic power, and is the cause of the variations of the magnetic needle. The calculations M. STEINUAUSER, are stated to be perfectly conlit to experience ; and he foretold, in 1805, that the needle would first becotne stalionary, and then, about the present time, return towards the East, Which has in fact happened. Hitherto, navigators helm merely judged empirically, from the variations •f the needle, whether they have been driven by currents ton far to the East or the West ; but in future they will observe the position of the sublerraneous body, called Pluto, and thereby determine their position %Ms as much certainty as by the more tare celestial phenomena! On Thursday night, Mr. MONK, the wife of a botcher in Long-alley, Finsbury-square, sat up to have her husband's breakfast ready at the early hoer he intended to go to market. About two o'clock, falling asleep, she dreamed that one of her children had fallen out of the window, which terrified her so much that she suddenly started to *eve him, and enfortonately fell out of the third floor window into the street, by which the was dreadfully cot in various parts of her head and body. She was conveyed into 'the house in a senseless state. Hopes, however, are entertained of her recovery. There remains at this time but one single fragMent of the once famous strong hold of the Earls of Ross, at Dived!, in Scotland, the whole of the site hating Dow* stop of oats growing upon it.