The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-03 00:00:00

IRE DENHAM TRAGEDY.

Jones's conduct in the prison has been just eueh.as'
might have been expected, savage and brutal, injuring
himself in mad fits of passion, and threatening others.
The other day Daniel Love, the warder of Reading Gaol,
told him he was sorry to see him in for such a crime, to
which he replied " Why should you be sorry ? I a'nt
sorry ; they can't but swing me," jumping from the chair,
and indicating the fall of the drop. He is narrowly
watched day and night. The disappointment was very
great at Slough on Tuesday when it was found
the prisoner would not leave Aylesbury. Crowds
of persons entered the town from far distant
places in the hope of seeing him. Many were satisfied
on being told by the police that he was not there, but
something like a hundred remained, threatening to break
into the police court, if he were not brought out, and
they had not all dispersed until six in the evening.
The departure of Superintendent Dunham with his
witnesses in the morning was thought a mere ruse, as it
was stated that they had merely gone to Taplow, and
would return with the prisoner. The police have not
yet given up possession of the house at Denham, which,
we understand, the owner will shortly cause to be
destroyed.

Sir Charles Mordaunt will, it is believed, make an
appeal to the House of Lords against the decision of the
majority of the judges in the Divorce Court yesterday.
A horseshoe manufactory in course of erection at
Glasslough, the property of Colonel Leslie, 1V1.p., wat,
demolished on Tuesday night.

A meeting of the Royal Sanitary Commission was
held yesterday—the Right Hon. Sir C. B. Adderley, u.p.,
K.C.M.G., in the chair.
Some of the Norwich Liberal electors are in favour
of inviting Mr. Milner Gibson to offer himself as a candi-
date for that city. One gentleman has offered to sub-
scribe £250 to defray the necessary expenses.

A. reward of £l,OOO has been offered for infor-
mation leading to the conviction of the parties concerned
in the destruction of a tombstone in Monaghan Cemetery,
belonging to a gentleman named Woods.
The Yorkshire Post states that Colonel Akroyd,
M.P., is recovering from his recent accident, but he will
not be able to return to his place in Parliament for some
weeks.

A man was charged at the Bradford Police-court,
on Wednesday, with throwing a bottle containing explosive
material at a building. The bottle exploded outside, and
broke a window. Had it exploded inside it would,' it is
said, have killed a man. The prisoner was remanded.
THE MURDER AT CROYDON. —The adjourned in-
quest on the body of Mary Carver, who was stabbed by her
husband on the 26th ult.,was held yesterday before Mr
Carter, at the Blue Anchor Inn, Croydon. The evidence
adduced was precisely similar to that given at the examina-
tion of the accused, John Carpenter Carver. After a few
minutes' consideration, the jury returned a verdict of " Wil-
ful mud! against the prisoner.
RELEASE OF AN IMPRISONED EDITOR.—Quite a
demonstration was got up when Mr. Shimmin, editor of
the Liverpool Porcupine, who was recently sentenced to a
month's imprisonment for libel, was released from prison.
On arriving at the Porcupine office in Cable-street there
was a strong manifestation of popular feeling, and the re-
leased editor was immensely cheered. The street was
dressed with flags and streamers, and the office of the
paper was gaily decked. The Liverpool public have sub-
scribed about £5OO over and above Mr. Shimmin's costs.

His Royal Highness Prince Christian of Schleswig-
Holstein presided yesterday at a meeting of the General
Purposes Committee appointed by her Majesty's Com-
missioners for the Exhibition of 1851, to carry out the
series cf annual international exhibitions, the first of
which will be held in 1871. There were also present Sir
Francis Sandford, Mr. Edgar Bowring, Mr. Cole, Mr. T.
F. Gibson, Colonel Ponsonby, Mr. Thring, and Lieut.-
Colonel Scott, R.E. r secretary). Mons. Corr- Vander-
rnaeren was present at the meeting, as representative of the
commission appointed by the Belgian Government to co-
operate with her Majesty's Commissioners in carrying out
the series of exhibitions.

A. K. H. B.—One of the most distinguished mem-
bers of the committee engaged in the preparation of " The
Scottish Hymnal," the use of which has just been sanc-
tioned by the General Assembly of the Established Church,
is Dr. Boyd, the " A. K. H. B." of Eraser's Magazine, whose
essays have attained such general popularity. Referring
to his literary productions in the course of a debate as to
the name of the hymnal, the Doctor created much amuse-
ment by saying that the title was a matter of vital import-
ance, in fact ho had known a volume of sermons which if
published under the title of sermons would probably never
have sold at all, but of which 50,000 or 60,000 had beensold
in a year or two.
HORRIBLE DEATH.—Mr. Coroner Heath held an
inquest on Wednesday evening at New Radford, near Not-
tingham, on the body of a married woman named Jane
Harrison. The deceased was employed at the Clyde Works,
New Radford, and on Tuesday afternoon went into the
engine-house for the purpose of washing the floor. The un-
fortunate woman incautiously approached too near the
engine (which revolves at the rate of 124 times per minute),
and her clothes became entangled in the machinery. A
woman named Taylor, seeing the occurrence, immediately
stopped the engine, and assistance being obtained, deceased
was disentangled, but was found to be quite dead. It WAS
stated that deceased had no business iu the engine-house•
A verdict of " Accidental death " was returned. Deceased
has lef, a family of five children.

BETTING IN PARlS.—Another prosecution for
organising sweeps on horse races has just taken place in
Paris. Proceedings were last year instituted against the
proprietors of the betting offices, and resulted in an acquit-
tal, for what is called mutual betting, on the ground that,
as the public selected the horses on which they placed
their money, the transaction was not a game of chance,
but the sweeps,in which the runners are drawn by lot, were
forbidden, as unauthorised lotteries. The keepers of the
agencies have, however, continued the latter kind of opera-
tion in open defiance of that verdict, and six of those men
• have now been summoned afresh before the Correctional
Tribunal. The court acquitted one, named Cheron, but
condemned the others to fines ; Bazon and Bouillon each
of 100 f. ; Durgeat,. Duverdier, and 011er, each of 500 f.
The five defendants were also ordered to pay the costs in
equal portions.