The Sun. — 1865-06-02 (London, England)

WAKEFIELD.  Sir John Hay, the sitting member, who has been in the town for nearly a fortnight, has issued the following address : "Attention to your business in Parliament obliges me again to leave the town. But in the short time which I have been able to devote to the duty of calling on my friends I have had the most satisfactory assurance of continued support. I have been happy to find a large number of those gentlemen whose names have recently been added to the electors strongly imbued with those constitutional principles which are the safeguard of the altar and the throne. And though my limited time has not permitted me to call on all those old and tried supporters who returned me so triumphantly in 1862, yet I have received the most cordial assurances that they continue to desire me to represent them in Parliament. In the course of my canvass I have found a small section of the Liberal party zealously endeavouring to obtain signatures to a requisition to a candidate of their choice ; but I have invariably been received by these gentlemen with courtesy, and I have been assured by many, even of my former opponents, that they would regret the prospect of a contest which might embroil the peace of the town, but could hardly alter the representation of the borough, I shall take the earliest opportunity of returning to continue my visits to my friends and supporters. I trust our cause to their vigilance in my absence, and I feel certain that their determined efforts will issue their triumph and my election."  Shockin3 Fate of a Servant Girl near Stourbridge.  On Tuesday evening the body of a servant girl was found in the canal at Wollaston Bridge, near Stourbridge, under circumstances which render it strongly presumable that she fell the victim of a murderer. Tho deceased's name was Mary Dorrell,•,nd she was 22 years of age. She had been a servant at places in the neighbourhood, where she was looked upon as a quiet and inoffensive girl, and bore an excellent character, one of her masters saying of her that if ever there was an honest and good-hearted girl she was one. At the time of the sad occurrence by which she lost her life she was in service at Mr. Henry Hicklin's at Wollaston. It appears that on Saturday night she asked permission to go into Stourbridge for an hour, and she accordingly started off at about 8 o'clock. She never returned. Her absence on the Saturday night, and subsequently, led to Mr. Hicklin's writing to her parents on Monday last to ask if she had returned home. The girl's friends live at the Wren's Nest, near Dudley, but they returned no answer to the inquiry contained in this letter. About six o'clock on' Tuesday evening a boat, belonging to the Stourbridge Ironworks, was passing the Wollaston-bridge, in charge of two men named Meese and Smith, when the motion of the water caused a dead body to rise to the surface. The boatmen saw the clothes in the water, and got the body out on the towing path. It was that of the poor girl Dorrell. She was conveyed to Mr. Sutton's, the Fish Inn, and the news spreading about caused great excitement in the neighbourhood. In the pocket of her dress was a pair of silk gloves, which she had purchased on Saturday night at Stourbridge, and doubtless intended to wear on the Sunday. This fact alone would tend to show she could not have any disposition to commit suicide ; but, in addition to this, a severe bruise on the right eye suggested that she had been wilfully pushed into the canal. On the removal of her clothing another bruise, apparently from a kick, was found on her hip, and her arms were scarred, though the latter marks might be, and probably were, caused by the passing of a boat. It appears to be the general impression that the girl has been murdered. It is incredible that she could have got into the canal on a summer's night accidentally, and no one entertains the notion that she threw herself in. As far as yet ascertained, no one was seen with the deceased on Saturday night, and the occurrence is shrouded in mystery. The police are leaking inquiries, and perhaps some evidence will be forthcoming at the inquest which will, it is expected, be held to-day (Thursday), tending to throw a light on the matter. The police wrote to the girl's father on Tuesday evening, stating the finding of the body, but up to between five and six yesterday evening none of her friends had been to the place where the body lies.—Birmingham Post.