The Sun. — 1864-10-08 (London, England)

HOUSEBREAKER SHOT AT BIRMINGHAM.— Yesterday, at tilt, Public Office, Birmingham, a man named John smith, was charged with breaking into the warehouse of Mr J. Randall, jeweller, Hukley-street, and stealing 14oz. of gold and 5s worth of postage stamps; total value, £2B. The prisoner was suffering from the effects of a gunshot wrund, and had to be brought from the General Hospital where he had lain some days, to appear before the magistrates. A few nights ago the prisoner and three other suspicious-looking fellows were seen  loitering about the prosecutor's premises ; and Mr. Green, the landlord of a neighbouring publichouse, and his man Grice, set themselves to watch their movements. Grice armed himself with a gun loaded with blank cartridge, but did not perceive in the hurry that the ramrod was left in the barrel. Alter watching the men for some time they saw the prisoner coming out of the warehouse. They called upon him to slop, but he made off at the top of his speed. Gr:ce pursued him, threatened to shoot him if he did not stop. The prisoner did not heed the threat, and at last Grice fired. The ramrod struck the prisoner and passed through his thigh, but fortunately the wound i. flitted was not of a dangerous charaettr. The prisoner iminediat: ly rose and showed fight and was only secured alter being knocked down with the gun. The prisoner's companions escaped. The quotation or gold at rails is about 3 per milli; pm., and the short exchange on Loudon is 25.32; per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, it appe...rs that gold is about 3-letha per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.  The Last Scene in the Windsor Tragedy  Yesterday morning, at 9 o'clock, the funeral of the murderer and suicide, John Richard Cook, and the four murdered children, Mary Ann, Agnes Josephine, Eugenie, and Louisa Elz ibeth, took place at Old Windsor. The dreadful nature of the circumstances in connexion with the deaths of the suffer rs atti acted a large number of persons, notwithstanding the early hour fixed for the performance of the sad and mournful ceremony.  The bodies of the father and children were placed in neat elm coffins, bearing plates with suitable inscriptions, and were furnished by the parish, at the expense of which the funeral was carried out. The friends and relatives of Cook and his children having assembled at the cottage at Old Windsor• green, the scene of the murder and suicide, a funeral procession was farmed, the body of Cook, with the coffin covered with the usual pall, being carried first, on the shoulders of four of the undertaker's men, Next came the four little coffins containing the corpses of the poor children, each covered with a snow white cloth and borne on the shoulders of eight young men, selected from the village. These were followed by the relatives of the deceased, in black, the police-constable George Lovell, who discovered the murder, also taking part in the procession, which was followed by a large number of the villagers and spectators. It was a sad and touching spectacle which the mournful procession presented as it wound along the road in the bright autumn morning, on its way from the cottage so lately the scene of such an accumulation of horrors to the Old Windsor churchyard,where the remains of Cook and his children were to be interred. The churchyard is about a mile from the house of Cook, and was reached about half-past nine, when the body of the murderer, by the kindness of the amiable vicar, the Rev J. Blunt, whose Christian feeling of charity prompted him to do all that a minister of the Gospel could to spare the feelings of the refativele was taken through the west door into the body of the church; the coffin containing the bodies of the murdered children being taken round the church to the great door on the south side of the sacred building, where the Rev. J. Bluat,having previously met the procession, commenced reading the Burial Service,the coffins being also placed in the body of the church, while the service was continued. On leaving the church the coffin containing the body of Cook was taken to and placed in a grave or hole which had been dug in an obscure corner at the west extremity of the churchyard near the wall which separates the graveyard from the road. There it was deposited without any ceremony, while the four little elm coffins of the girls were placed in one common grave, over which the remainder of the service was performed by the vicar, the relatives and crowd standing round and listening most attentively to this beautiful and touching service, while many an eye was wet at the remembrance of the shocking fate which had cut short the tender and innocent lives of these four poor innocents. Towards the conclusion of the service the vicar briefly but earnestly addressed the crowd around the grave, and in doing so remarked that though he did not wish to say anything to blacken the dreadful deed, he would exhort them to pray earnestly to God, who, of His great mercy, would grant them true repentance for their past sins, and ho begged the young men whom he saw around him not to play with sin, for if persisted in it would lead them to the depths of hell; and finally concluded the ceremony in the usual manner, atter which the crowd of villagers and spectators left the churchyard, evidently much impressed with the very fervea address they had just listened to.