A statue to the late Mr. Thomas Attwood was formally
inaugurated at Birmingham, on Wednesday. The statue, which is nine feet four inches in height, is carved in Sicilian marble. It is the production of Mr. John Thomas, and is very simple, broad, and effective in its treatment. The artist has discarded all conventionalities of costume, and has represented Mr. Attwood in a loose surtout with a fur collar. The political orator is in the act of addressing a Newhall Hill meeting. The right hand is out- stretched, and in the left is placed a scroll, the end of which rests upon a bundle of sticks tightly bound together, and symbolical of the truth so often illustrated in the career of Mr. Attwood, that " union is strength."
At a place called Princes End, near Lipton in South Staffordshire, a murder of the most horrible kind has been recently committed. The crime was brought to light by the discovery of the mangled body of a wo- man floating on a canal near the place above-mentioned. The fearfully bruised and wounded condition of the body told but too plain a story of the atrocious treatment of every kind which she had been subjected to before her murderers completed their work. Four men, forgemen, living at Princes End, have been arrested on suspicion, i
evidence having been given by Harper another forgeman, to the effect that he saw them in company with the deceased on the Sunday before the Thursday on which the body was discovered. Another man, not in custody, was also with them, and Harper saw him strike the unfortunate woman.
Isaac Jones, the clerk suspected of having committed the Ledbury murder, las been committed for trial at the next Hereford assizes by the magistrates who have been investigating the charge.
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