The Sun. — 1837-01-09 (London, England)

THE KIRTON IN LINDSEY MURDER.—NO fresh particulars transpired at the examination on Thursday week of John Dimsey, the supposed murderer of Marshall and his sister. The prisoner would give no account of himself. A reward of 201. by the magistrate, and 1001. by the Government, and an offer of free pardon for any accomplice who will cause the conviction of the actual perpetrator of the horrid deed, have been for some time announced. Marshall was 69, and his sister, Deborah Hutchinson, 75 years old.  We regret to learn that the late extraordinary vicissitudes of weather have produced a greater degree of illness than has been experienced in the metropolis since the last memorable influenza(.  The notorious Joseph Ady has been writing letters to the inhabitants of Derby, offering his services in recovering large sums of money on receipt of ss. for his trouble.— Derby Mercury. The immense lime-tree at Winnezeele, in the canton of Cassell, which was several hundred years old, 36 feet in circumference, has been rooted up by the late storms. It was held in great veneration by the inhabitants.—German Paper. Jack, the celebrated ourang-outang of the Garden of Plants, at Paris, died on Tuesday morning last, at 5 o'clock.  A Montreal paper of the 29th November says : " The ravages of the wolves in the township of Pittsburgh, near Kingston, have been so alarming that a general hunt to destroy them was to take place yesterday. The inhabitants of Kingston and its neighbourhood were requested by advertisement to turn out en masse. The number of men necessary for that purpose is one thousand, as the line extends ten miles."  The frost has been so intense during the last few days that the navigation of the river is much impeded. It is almost impossible to give a description of the frozen state of the river Ouse. Between Howden-Dike and BoothFerry it is a representation of Greenland in miniature. The stupendous rocks of ice near the shore, and the prodigious masses floating in the river Ouse convey to the imagination of the beholder some faint idea of the situation and suffering of the ice-bound whalers in the arctic regions.— llnll Advertiser.  We cannot preserve our gravity when we think of this great Peel demonstration. Dr. Patrick 111‘Farlane, the eloquent advocate of Catholic emancipation, is to sit beside its fiercest denouncers, without recantation or explanation on either side. Mr. Leckie Ewing is "linked and allied in office" with the friends of Negro Emancipation, neither party having yet given in to the other. Mr. Charles Stirling, who abominates free trade, is colleague of Mr. Leadbettcr, who procures Lord Brougham's Lectures. on Political Economy for the Mechanics' Institution. Principal Maefarlan, who in the meeting in the Assembly Rooms timed the resolutions hostile to the Irish national system of education, is there ; and so is Sir D. K. Sandford, who moved the amendment which was carried against them. The editor of " Blackwood's Magazine," whic denounces Peel's Bill, is there along with the author of that measure. Bailie Bain, who is said to be opposed to additional endowments, is snugly ensconced among the members of the church-extension society. And what is this crowd of many hired incompatibles met to do ? To testify their admiration of the character which our readers will find powerfully and truly pourtrayed in Blackwood's Magazine, in the Peel Papers, No. V. Nor can his worshippers say that they have now confidence in him : the extracts from Fraser's Magazine of the present month show the distrust with which Sir Robert Peel is still viewed. They point at a line of policy, which, if openly propounded at the banquet, would inevitably occasion a blow up. And this is to be an imposing festival ! a joyous meeting! The Tories will cheer Sir Robert as their champion, but they will remember that he allowed the Tories of Manchester to do the same, after he had betrayed them.—Glasgow Angus.