A few days since, at a house in Tottenham Place,
a boy went to the door to give an answer to a man who offered matches for sale: be refused to buy any; when the man suddenly stabbed him with a knife in the belly, saying " Tuke that, then ! " and ran off. The boy died of the wound on Wednesday 'tight. There was no witness to the murder ; but the boy described the match-seller as a "soldier-dressed man," and said that be and other lads were in the habit of teazing a person like Lim. There is to be an inquest on the corpse this day.
A correspondent of the Post states, that a clue has apparently been reamd to the discovery of the murderer of Eliza Grimwood ; that Hubbard, the paramour of the unfortunate female, is a party implicated ; and that means are now in progress for the apprehension of that person, who, it is stated, left this country for America shortly after his libera- tion from custody.
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