The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-28 00:00:00

ITALY.

Sir Henry Bulwer, the British Ambassador at
Florence, is charged with a commission to Rome of
more Importance than the release of Edward Murray
from the prison of Ancona. Notwithstanding the
malaria he has gone to Rome to negotiate with the
Pontifical Court. A concordat for Ireland is stated
to be one of his objects, and some means of over-
coming the religious difficulties at present disturbing
that country. Great hopes are entertained of the
success of Sir Henry, on account of his diplomatic

A letter from Florence of the lgth, in the Ri:sorg,i-
utento of Turin, states that the loyal Court is still
Occupied with reading the documents relating to
Guerrazzi's trial, so that the sittings are now with-
out interest. A rumour is current that Guerrazzi
has addressed a letter to the Grand Duke, praying
his Highness to go spontaneously into court, and give
his testimony in favour of his ex-Minister.
In a letter dated the 18th, the Paris correspondent
of the Risorgimento of Turin states that Marshal
Solt once complained to him that he had unac-
countably lost a voluminous correspondence he had
carried. on with the late Duke of Wellington, con-
taining very interesting historical facts. The corre-
spondent expresses a hope that the Marshal's heirs
may have found the letters alluded to, which would
throw much light upon the history of the Empire.

A WOMAIV 81-IOT By HER SUITOR.
A crime was perpetrated on Friday evening at
Newport, which, it is feared, will terminate in the
death of the unfortunate victim--a middle-aged
woman, named Etheridge, ho was shot at by her
suitor, named Samuel ning, formerly the guard
e
of a coach, and latterlyt-Y the assistant of Miss Ethe-
ridge's blind father, who
keeps a public-house and
tow
n
of market garden, a short distance from the
of Newport.
Greening had long
paid his addresses to miss
Etheridge, who is his cousi:), and, being a resident in
the same house frequently gavt. herd occasion to re.
habits, he being
....
monstrate with 'him on his dissipate
s member of a band, from whose
rf
fre-
quently came home drunk. She performances he
fused, it is stated,
to be married to him on the ground of these habits.
These jealousy,
under would appear to have cause
d a fit of
under the effects of which he again resorted to drink.
For two or three days last week he is stated to
him-
self been intoxicated. A continuous quarrel between.
the day
self and Mtb bliss Etheridge was the result. On
previously to the shocking occurrence, he was observed_
examining a pistol, which Miss Etheridge kept by
her, in consequence of the garden being sometimes
visited by plunderers, whom she (being a daring woman)
would have shot at, had any come within reach of the
house. Greening was seen trying a cap on the pistol, and
pretending to fire up the chimney. The pistol was
afterwards found to be missing from the place where it
.Bas usually kept. On the evening in question Green-
rg, still under the effects of intoxication and
Je?337) was again quarrelling with his sweetheart,
a" tor a moment or two was missed from the room
where miss Etheridge and an assistant gardener were
seated at a table. On Greening's return he walked up
and dOwn the room again still bickering with his con-
sin ; when suddenly he rushed up to where she was sit-
ting, presented a pistol at her, and fired. The unfortu-
nate woman s -
shrieks,' as she fell down, awoke her father,
who had retired to rest; and when assistance was
procured, she was taken up insensible, bleeding pro-
fusely from the mouth, ear, and cheek, on the left
side of the face, the contents of the pistol, which
or hard wadding, having
were supposed to he shot
and
enteresmad just
shed besomelow the
pehar, f
of
~ e teeth, passing
-matured the left jaw,
afterwards
aurgeo_n, one of the borough
through the mouth. She was I.
a- once, conveyed to
bed, and Mr. Woollett,
ouse cell.
magistrates, was called from 24 e.wKrt• Greening
still remained about the house,
,in a half-drunken,
sullen humour, till he was apprehendedh by the
bo-
rmgh police, and lodged in the station-
The prisoner has since stated that he was not aware
the pistol was loaded, though this does not agree
With
the fact of his snapping and trying it in the chimney
on the previous day. He is also stated to have told.
his victim that if she did not have him, but married
another, it should be no good to her—he would pre.,
vent her happiness.
The wounded woman, when consciousness was in
some measure restored, in the course of the night
frequently expressed a desire to see Greening, and
appeared to feel deeply from the consideration that
be would have to suffer in prison for what he had
done. Both her father and herself, it was thought,
were more desirous that Greening should not be
taken into custody than otherwise ; and it was not
expected that either the father or the assistant gar-
dener, the latter being an eye-witness of th© whole
transaction, would further the ends of justice, if
evidence against the
they could avoid it, by giving
prisoner.
On Saturday the prisoner was brought to the bar
at the police-office,.t. before ie Rev. T. Pope and Mr.
Morgan, M.P., county magistrates. Evidence was

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taken to establish the charge of wilfully shooting;
but the case was adjourned in order to obtain the
evidence of the wounded woman.