The Sun. — 1846-02-17 (London, England)

BERWELL. sooi otir Shortly after seven o'clock yesterday morning' the neight.--oste of Southampton-place, Camberwell, was throwd into the goo consternation by the screams of a woman, who had JostScoitrto escape, by the back door of No:s, Wellington-place, st residence, only two stories high. The first person WM pd the spot was Mr. Pratt, a surgeon, who resided at No. s,ito",„ upen entering, was horror-struck at the scene which prestdt.: In an upper room, upon the floor, lay the lifeless body oft or rote Moreau, a Frenchman, aged 53, with his throat cut froTitiist; ear ; on the bed, his son, aged 13, quite dead, shockinglYriotnlo about throat ; and in a lower room another son, aged lrw throatthe cut, a wound on the cheek, and his hand muchlacera toilio. to at first supposed to be dead, but afterwards showed some srui of to, life, but totally unable to articulate or give the least accotolv offf In dreadful catastrophe ; and in a short time afterwards a foultral aged eight months, was found dead in a water butt which i 5 the garden, but having no wounds whatever about its nerlonittle pears that the unfortunate man had resided at No. 5 %es. .0 twelvemonth, supporting his family as a teacher of langula, °i o 0 had been in the habit of rising about seven in the Ivell:00 °OO usually took down stairs with him one of the twin infante, riling:Jo in the same bed as he and the n:other. Yesterday Lne.,,,'"itri ,tee dressing himself, he did the same thing, taking one child zairto, and leaving the other in bed with the mother. In a fect, the mother, being alarmed, by a loud shrieking, went to tbo ile";a1 and on opening the door was met by the younger boy, 21 t.,11001 diately ran down stairs bleeding, at the bottom of which be row 'OO apparently lifeless; and on entering the room Mrs. l'f,rost,„ta her unfortunate husband in the act of cutting his ovo 100 pot before she could interpose he had fallen down a corpse' -could ifif farther, she discovered her eldest son dead in the bed, bat silo t perceive any traces of her infant child, who was, boweNlearteret'i afterwards discovered to have been drowned in the rot There is no doubt whatever but that the unfortunate father r‘icit to the garden instantly on leaving his bedroom, and 110114,,itere't An the child, then ascended to the children's room, where he - 000 ge io perpetrated the other murders committing suicide the P,ope, ef alarm was raised. As no vital: organ has been severed, entertained that the youngest boy's life will be saved, --,Do ri• course, there is great danger that he will not survive. 'their rtDie There seems to be little , doubt but that owing to ..,4e of for vations, temporary insanity was the immediate CO'. DO po shocking affair, as his pecuniary embarrassmeotto. some weeks past induced great depression of oPL! to PicS widow states that she believes it was her husband's inteol'f; murdered her, and all the children, before he destroyed hunt cos efgis he doubtless would have done, had it not been for the sere,gtoor-1 to son Philarete. Such precautions had he taken, that the , doe ;,0 was found so twisted that she could not open the streelo escape, had he made an attack upon her life. She sass 1a(00V been married nearly twenty years ; that the deceased A schoolmaster at Leicester, but had of late been obtailo;',7oo °Jo subsistence for his family y teaching the French and ltd, eliere guages. In the back room, first floor, were a crib bedstl, Ole mattress, and scarcely any clothes to cover the child_rero, were neither chairs, tables, or any other article of furrlit..,olll.Ki, adjoining room was an old mattress, on which the inao v7O e'coof fortunate wife, with her twin children, slept. There of the stead, only three old chairs and a table. The whole "  rooms were perfectly empty. . . . RAILWAY SHARE MARiivr Sttd,