holding with Methodism could be removed; neither
would separation and hostility be ground for removal.

An information has been filed by the Attorney-General
against the Archbishop of York as Visitor to a
Charity at Hemsworth, in Yorkshire. On the 9th inst.
the Solicitor-General appeared before the Master of the
Rolls to support the information. It appears that in 1548
Archbishop Holgate founded a free grammar-school at
Hemsworth, and endowed it with lands and an advowson.
For a long period the objects of the founder were
overlooked, and the funds of the charity were so grossly
misapplied that the office of master was a sinecure.
Some improvement took place in 1801; but the charity
has never been fully carried out. The Solicitor-General
asked the court to direct a scheme and an inquiry to
be made as to the present state of the funds; and
prayed that the advowson might be sold, and the
proceeds invested for the benefit of the charity. Hitherto
the master, the Rev. Mr. Graham, has not resided at
Hemsworth, but at Felcar, two miles off; and it was
prayed that Mr. Graham should not continue to be
schoolmaster unless he resided. The Master of the
Rolls decided that there should be an inquiry, and a
new scheme for the regulation of the charity.

A dreadful Murder has been committed at Burnham
in the neighbourhood of Windsor. The victim was a
young woman named Mary Ann Sturgeon, housekeeper
to Mr. Goodwin, of the Burnham Abbey Farm. An
inquest has been held on her body, and terminated on
the 8th inst. From the evidence, it appears that Mr.
Goodwin is unmarried, and that his household consisted
of the deceased and a groom named Moses Hatto. In
the farmyard there is a cottage occupied by J. Bunce,
the groundkeeper, who lodges in his house several
labourers employed on the farm. In the evening of the
1st inst. Mr. Goodwin left his home soon after six
o'clock on a visit to a neighbour, and returned about
half-past eleven. During his absence the young woman
called at the cottage of Bunce, where she remained
until about nine o'clock, when she returned to the
house, for the purpose, as she said, of preparing the
supper for the groom. The groom stated that he was
served with his supper by her, and that he soon
afterwards went to bed. The kitchen in which the groom
had his supper is separated from the other part of the
house, at night, by a door, which, he said, was locked
by the girl, the groom himself sleeping in a small
chamber approached by a ladder from the kitchen. He
further said that when he had been in bed some time he
was aroused by a noise of some one falling down, and
he thereupon got up, and proceeded to the cottage of
Bunce, who was partly dressed, with the intention of
looking round the yard, as he feared something was the
matter with one of the colts. This proved to be the case;
and, after the animal had been attended to, Bunce and
Hatto went round the yard, but could observe nothing
wrong. At half-past eleven Mr. Goodwin came home,
and Hatto took his horse as usual. Letting himself into
the house by his latch-key, Mr. Goodwin was surprised
not to find his candle burning, as was customary, and
on walking along the passage upstairs, after he had
provided himself with a light, he discovered on the floor a
human tooth and a hair-pin. He also perceived a dense
mass of smoke and a strong smell of burning, both of
which appeared to proceed from the young woman's
bedroom. Calling Bunce and Hatto to his assistance, he
went to the room, and there a horrifying sight presented
itself. When the door was opened and objects could be
distinguished through the smoke, the body of the
unfortunate woman was found lying with her head near the
mantelpiece, her Iegs on the hearth-rug, in the direction
of the bedstead; and on her legs and the lower part of her
body was a mass of fire still burning furiously and
consuming the flesh. A dressing-table and a quantity of
linen had been used as fuel. The fire had burnt through
the floor of the chamber, and was already consuming
the joists.—On examining the body it was found that
both legs had been burnt off nearly close to the trunk,
from which they were completely separated. The head
and upper part of the body were not injured by the fire,
but exhibited marks of great violence. One of the
teeth was missing—the tooth found by Mr. Goodwin in
the passage. The head was injured as if by some blunt
instrument. Near the head was a large pool of blood, and
on the door of the room and on the handrail of the staircase
there were marks of blood. At first it was believed
that nothing had been stolen from the house, but Mr.
Goodwin afterwards discovered that some valuable rings,
a gold pencil-case, and other articles, had been taken
from his bedroom. In the course of the investigation it
further transpired that the young woman had repelled
the advances of Hatto, while she favoured the suit of
John Marsh, formerly her fellow-servant; and that she
had seen Marsh on the night of her death. She usually
removed the plate before retiring at night; but on this
occasion it was not moved, and none of it was stolen.
Hatto slept immediately over the passage where the first
struggle had occurred; the passage above stairs, where
there were marks of a struggle, runs past Hatto's room;
there had evidently been a desperate conflict in the
bedroom of the deceased, close to Hatto's, and no doubt the
victim screamed loudly. It was therefore unlikely that
Hatto could have heard nothing of all this but the
sound of a fall. On this and other grounds of
suspicion, Hatto who had at first remained at liberty, was
arrested. He was brought before the inquest on
the last day of its sitting. He is of small stature, but
well-knit, and with a countenance rather pleasing than
otherwise. He behaved with coolness, if not audacity,
Mr. Goodwin stated that he did not discover that some
trifling articles of jewellery had been purloined till two
days after the murder. He concluded that the deceased
had not completed her duties when she was attacked, as
his bed-candle had not been placed for him, and the
plate had not been removed. Mr. Robarts, a surgeon,
described a bruise on Hatto's head, and marks of burns
on his hands: Hatto had accounted for the one by
alleging that a stake flew up and hit him, and for the
other by the fact, as known to Mr. Goodwin, of his
having burnt his fingers with naphtha. Mr. Robarts
found a poker in the grate of deceased's bedroom, which
had a piece broken off; and a few hairs, apparently
human, adhered to the poker. There were spots of
blood on the prisoner's hat. John Bunce gave
important evidence. After Hatto had roused him on the
night of the murder, Bunce told him to remain in one
spot while he went round the yard; instead of doing so
Hatto went through a gate, and ''guzzled into a shallow
pool of water somehow or other"—the pool was a mere
puddle formed of the drainings from a dung-heap, and
Hatto could hardly have tumbled in accidentally. The
result was, th his clothes were so soiled that he had an
excuse for washing them. Bunce saw him "messing"
his hands in the filth. The trousers were subsequently
taken to London to Dr. Taylor the chemist; who found
minute spots of blood, but the manure-water rendered
it difficult to say whether the spots were of recent
origin. Mrs. Bunce described Hatto as of passionate
disposition. The young woman had told her that she
had said to Hatto "that either he or she must leave the
place, for she could not live with him." Other
witnesses deposed that Hatto accounted for his clothes
being wet by his exertions to put out the fire; and that
he went out on horseback for some time late on the
Thursday night—he said he expected a parcel at Maidenhead
by rail. He was a long time making ready to
leave the stable. When the evidence had been read
over to the prisoner, he was asked by the coroner if he
had anything to say. He affirmed that he was innocent,
and was removed in custody. The coroner then summed
up; pointing out the different circumstances, but
observing that there was no direct evidence. The jury,
in a few minutes unanimously found a verdict of
"Wilful murder against Moses Hatto." On the same
night, he was committed to Aylesbury Gaol, for trial
at the ensuing assizes.

A case of Suicide, followed by a verdict of felo de se,
has occurred at Oldham. On the 19th inst., the house
of Mr, Stott, a farmer, near Oldham, was robbed; a man
named John Mills was soon afterwards apprehended
on the charge, and hanged himself in Oldham lock-up.
On the 14th inst. an inquest was held on the body, and
the above verdict returned. The coroner said he quite
concurred in the decision, unusual as it was. The law
required that the body should be interred within twenty-
four hours of the finding of the jury, and between the