The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-05 00:00:00

THE MURDER NEAR HERNE BAY,

CANTERBURY, Monday.
Alfred Algar was placed at the bar of the County
Police•court, Canterbury, charged with the wilful
murder of Richard Steed, at Maypole, a short dis-
tance from Herne Bay, on Saturday evening last,
Mr. William Delmar presided, and Captain Starke
and Messrs. Plummer and Neame were also on the
bench.

The prisoner, who is 32 years of age, is a native
of North Kent. He has served 12 years in the army,
first in the 92d and afterwards in the 52d Regi-
ment, and has been discharged without a character.
He is married and has one child, and for about four
months has resided at Maypole, having been en-
gaged as a labourer on the railway works in pro-
gress in that neighbourhood. The prisoner bears a
very indifferent character. He did not display much
concern at his position, though he watched the evi-
dence with interest, and occasionally cross-examined
the witnesses..

The particulars of the murder have already ap-
peared. At the termination of the examination of
the witnesses, the chairman said—lt is our duty to
commit you to a jury to decide whether you are
guilty or not.

Prisoner—l do hope that something will be found
out to clear me of the charge of murder, or at all
events to lighten my crime. I have not seen the
deceased since we parted after leaving Herne-street.
He was then removed and conveyed to St. Augus-
tine's Gaol.

GOETHE'S BIRTHPLACE.--The restoration o
Goethe's house in Frankfort has been com-
menced. The object of the Goethe Stift is
to render the house what it was in 1749, when the poet was
born in it, and what it remained during the years which he
passed in it as a child. The small room at the top of the
house, which was the boy's study, and which has for some
time been shown to visitors in Frankfort, is being stripped
of the papering that dates from the year 1836 (as is proved
by a series of newspapers of that year being pasted at the
back), and the old papering has been discovered under
several layers of subsequent imposition. The most curious
result of this discovery is that the paper of 1754 bears the
old colours of the German Empire, yellow and black : an
additional testimony to the formal and deliberate character
of that geradliniger Frankfurter
Reichsburger who was the
father of Goethe, and of whom Mr. Lewes gives us so pecu-
liar a picture.
ELIZA GRIMWOOD'S MuRDER.--Five-and-twenty
years have elapsed since a thrill of horror passed
over the town at the news of the murder of Eliza Grim-
wood. No reader, whose memory extends so far back, can
fail to recall the intense interest with which every detail
that came out on the inquest was watched. A girl, of the
class we are accustomed to call unfortunate, was accom-
panied to her lodgings in the Waterloo-road by a man with
whom she had some previous acquaintance. He was known
by sight though not by name to several of her companions.
His appearance was more remarkable then than it would be
at the present day from the large size of his whiskers ; he
wore glasses, his dress was gentlemanly, and he was be-
lieved to be a foreigner. The pair were driven up to the
house by a cabman, who had ample opportunity of observ-
ing the man as he stood talking to his companion for some
minutes close to a lamp before getting into the cab, and
they were let into the house by a servant girl. In the morn..
ing the woman was found dead on the floor of her bedroom.
One savage cut at the back of the neck had divided the
upper vertebrae of the spine, another in front had severed
the windpipe and large blood vessels, and two stabs, one
above and the other below the breast, had penetrated many
inches. The murderer had disappeared. His person, as
we have said, was well known to several individuals; his
clothes must have been literally soaked with the blood of
his victim ; one would have thought that escape was next
to impossible; yet from that day to this, though a quarter
of a century has elapsed in the interval, no trace has been
discovered either of the perpetrator. of the crime or of the
motive for its commission.—The Mirror.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.--The council
held their monthly meeting on Saturday. Mr, syd.
ney Ringer, M. 8., professor of materia medico, was ap-
pointed assistant physician at the hospital. The council
considered the rules of competition for the Joseph name
and Ricardo scholarships in political economy andjurispru-
dence, and adopted an interpretation by Which,
after the
present year, eandidates will be required to have attended
the respective classes in the session immediately preceding
the awazd. At the request of the council, Sir F. Goldamid,
Bart., M.P., president of the senate and treasurer of the
hospital, undertook, as representative of the college and the
hospital, to accompany a deputation of treasurers of chari-
ties to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to press the claims
of the institutions to a continuance of exemption from in-
come tax. The attention of the council was called to the
urgent need of public support for the hospital, and to the
fact that the committee at their last meeting Were
indebted to the treasurer for a loan of £5OO to enable them
to make payments on account to butcher and baker.
THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OP A FRENCH GEN-
TLEMAN IN THE CITY.--M. Hippolyte Linde, who
attempted to commit suicide at Fiveashe's Hotel, under
such determined circumstances, still lies in St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital in a very dangerous condition, but some
hopes are entertained of his recovery. The
unfortunate
gentleman has conversed freely with Mr. Lawrence, the
surgeon under whose care he is, and he has stated that he
placed a six-barrelled revolver to his left side, with the in-
tention of piercing his heart. The clicking of the hammer
e
of the weapon, however, caused the stock to become de-
pressed at each of the three discharges, and the bullets con-
sequently took an upward direction, and did not produce
outt h e
o result
or,
d e r,
which intended.
circumstanceThreeof thebitrrla Were somewhat
prevented him from dis-
charging all the six balls into himself, and he reloaded the
discharged barrels with the intention of carrying out hie
purpose. One of the balls, it i a thought, lodged in the
upper portion of the left lung.

Disgraceful Riot by University Nen in a

Roman Catholic Chapel.

THE INS'

POLAND.

(From the Times Correspondent.)

for horses, carts, and corn, I must give them what
they want, or they will hang me. If, on the other
hand, I let them have anything more than I am ac•
tually forced to give, you will hang me. However,
if they hang me my son will never find a wife in
Poland nor my daughter a husband, and 50 years
after my death peope will turn their backs upon
my children ; whereas if you hang me 1 shall have
monuments erected to my memory. On the whole,
then, as mere matter of calculation, I cannot refuse
assistance to the insurgents."
I believe that in this particular instance the Ge-
neral was satisfied with the explanation given by the
proprietor, who. perhaps, might have added that
before long all his class will be drawn into active
co-operation with the national movement. Hitherto
they, the actual owners of the estates, have left
persons to represent them on the field, though
they have supported the insurrection indirectly in
and directly by means of money
caovnatrriiebtaytioofns
. ways,

It is notorious that the spirit of the Polish women
'3n
o w
is more Polish even than that of the men.
Occa-
sionallybeeneonsapimrianng
aNtav hdofigfohrtiupwardshis
of 0
country_ Seals
has
in Poland, now in Hungary, now in Turkey, now in
Italy—and reflects that it is still quite as much at
the mercy of the partitioning Powers as ever, will
have moments of despondency and count the cost
of the insurrection, thinking how many villages
will have been burnt, how many inoffensive per-
sons massacred, and, above all, how many of the
best young men in Poland will have given their
lives for the lives of an equal number of the most
savage ruffians that the Russian empire can pre
duce. All such reflections are looked upon by the
Polish ladies not as uncalled for and out of place
but simply as disgraceful in a moral point of view;
and any one who talks in such a strain is avoided as
though he had spoken against the Christian religion
or attempted to defend the Marquis Wielopolski.
It is not strange that they should not dance now,
and that they should all be in mourning, inasmuch
as there is not a family here which has not lost a
relative, either in a battle or in a massacre or by
exile, for as many as 2,000 Poles have already been
sent into the interior of Russia.

ArilB.
We hear to-day from Warsaw that Archbishop
Felinski is confined to his palace, and that 14
canons have been arrested. An Archbishop has
also been arrested in Sanaogitia, a part of Lithuania
which is said, since its comparatively recent
conversion to Christianity, always has been Catho-
lic. This unceremonious treatment of the high
Catholic clergy in Poland is perhaps intended as a
reply to the Austrian Note. I cannot say that the
news has produced an unusually bad effect. It has
excited more natural indignation; but the last mea-
sures of the Russian Government are also locked
upon as signs of a kind of madness which may lead.
to a catastrophe. The cause or pretext for the ar-
rest was the refusal of the clergy either to forbid or
to abstain from assisting in the procession in honour
of St. Mark (26th inst.). The Archbishop was not
mpreenstentto ast the ceremony,
aythatheh b
held
hiumtswelrfote to the
responsibleG ofovrerin-
ts
having taken place. When the news of the arrest
of the canons and of the detention of the Arch-
bishop in his palace reached St. Petersburg orders
were sent back to liberate them at once ; but
it has been proved that the Russian Government
at Warsaw does not see any impropriety in subject-
ing the clergy of the country to the orders of the
police, and that fact of itself is important. The
Archbishop of Warsaw, from being one of the most
unpopular, is fast becoming one of the most popular
men of the day, so thoroughly does the Russian.
Government understand the act of turning even its
fancied supporters into its open and declared
enemies.