A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle states, that the subscrip-
tion•in London towards erecting a monument to the memory of Muir and Palmer amounts to 7001.; and that the fund with interest is in- vested, until about 300/. more is received, in order to enable the Com- mittee " to execute their trust as they are anxious to do."
Mrs. Stammers, wife of a barrister, hung herself with a cord to a beans of the kitchen, on Sunday morning. The motive for this suicide is not mentioned.
On Sunday morning, Sergeant-Major Sheppard, of the second batta- lion of the Royal Foot Artillery, stationed at Woolwich, was murdered by George Willis, a private under his command. Willis, who was a slovenly soldier, had been reprimanded by Sheppard for disorderly ap- pearance on parade ; and on Sunday, being much exasperated, he loaded his rifle, and shot Sheppard in the back, before the regiment. He allowed himself to be seized without the least resistance ; saying- " Damn it, l've done for him ; I've shot him." On Tuesday, all the theta were stated to a Coroner's :fury, and the prisoner was committed for trial on the charge of "wilful murder." He is sunder thirty years of age. Sheppard was nearly fifty, and has left a large fissility-.
On Thursday evening, one man was killed, and two were dreadfully scalded, by the bursting of a boiler on board the steam-boat Archi- medes, lying in the East India Dock.
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