The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-09 00:00:00

THE DISTURBANCES IN SPAIN.

As usual, there is much difficulty in obtaining news
of the conscription outbreaks in Spain. The ordinary,
telegraphic agencies send very little, and the few parti-
culars gleaned by the Times correspondent are not com-
plete. He telegraphs that according to the latest
news received the insurrection continued in Gracia,
San Andres, Olot, and Sabadell, all in the vici-
nity of Barcelona. There has been a gallant fight
in Sabadaell between the rebels and Volunteers of
Liberty, the latter sustaining a heavy fire, until relieved
by the troops. The rebels continued raising barricades,
burning railway bridges, and destroying telegraphs.
The Captain-General was waiting for reinforcements,
which were expected on Wednesday and Thursday from
Valencia, Madrid, and Zaragoza. Prim has dispatched
General Baldrich, who has just been gazetted Captain-
General at Porto Rico, to Barcelona, to direct the opera-
tions. Order continues, according to the latest accounts,
in Barcelona itselo itself, though frequent agitations and
constant attempts to raise barricades were keeping the
troops employed in destroying them.

w e learn from tne fforth (lemma correspondent
that in the approaching summer half-year, English lite-
rature will be made the subject of several courses of lec-
tures in the University of Berlin.
A. mason named John Welsh has been arrested at
Queenstown, under the provisions of the Peace Preserva-
tion Act, for having a six-barrelled revolver in his pos-
session.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF PERJURY.—CharIes Cooper, a
bricklayer, has been charged, at the Central Criminal
Court, with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury
at the Shoreditch County Coust. The alleged perjnilr
took place with regard to the delivery of a load of bricks.
A man, named Asser, had sworn at the County Court
that he had delivered some bricks on a certain day, and he
was tried for perjury and acquitted. The present defendant
had sworn in corroboration that he was present on
the Bth of October, when the bricks were delivertd,
and that he helped to unload them, and added
that he was in the employment of the prose-
cutor at the time. The prosecutor swore posi-
tively that no such quantity of bricks were delivered on
the day mentioned, and that Cooper was not in his ser-
vice at the time, and was not allowed to be on the pre-
mises, and this statement was contradicted by his son,
and by other circumstances. For the defence the man
Asser (who had been acquitted), his brother, and his
father, and a brother of the defendant Cooper, were ex-
amined, and they swore positively that the bricks were
delivered on the Bth of October, and that the defendant'
was present and assisted in taking them out of the cart.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the defendant
was sentenced to hard labour for four months.

AN INHUMAN MOTHER.—Mary Ann Buss, the wife of
a bargeman at Brentford, has been charged with assault-
ing her little boy, seven years old, with a red hot poker.
The poor little fellow had played truant front
school to go to the boat race, and on going
home told his mother a falsehood to conceal it.
She, knowing he was deceiving her, put the'
poker in the fire, and said she would burn his tongue out
for telling her a lie. When the poker was red hot
she took it out of the fire, and made a. dash at
the boy, burning his neck severely. His screams'
brought the neighbours, who called the husband, and he
gave his wife in charge. The prisoner said it was an ac-,
cident. She never meant to injure her son, but to flighten•
him. The poker, however, slipped from her hand.
The Chairman said the Bench could hardly believe that
a mother could be so inhuman as wilfully to brand her
child, and they therefore accepted her statement, dis-
charging her with a caution. She was hooted along the
the streets by a crowd of women.
THE MANSLAUGHTER OF A STEPFATHER.--James
Campkin, who has been tried for the manslaughter of
his stepfather, has been sentenced to a fortnight's impri-
sonment only, the great provocation which the prisoner
had received from seeing his mother ill-treated being
taken into account.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN BIRMINGHAM—Four young men
have been charged with highway robbery at Birmingham.
The prosecutor was going home on Sunday at about
eleven o'clock when he was stopped by a young man, who
blew a whistle. Some twenty or thirty others then.
;IL:lied out of entries and other places of concealment,
and attacked and robbed the prosecutor, who was so
seriously injured that he had to remaid some time in the
hospital. The prisoners were committed for trial.

PARENTS CONVICTED BY THEIR CHILDREN.—A pain-
ful incident has occurred at the Preston Quarter
Sessions. A woman, named Cullen, was charged
with stealing a bag containing £llO from the person of a
wheelwright, named Wearden, and her husband and
another man were charged with receiving the stolen
money. The principal witness against the two Cullens
was their little daughter, nine years old, who saw
Wearden in the back kitchen talking to her mother, and
after he had left she saw her mother give her
father a check ban answering the description of
the lost bag. Presently Wearden came back
and said he had been robbed. All the prisoners
were found guilty. The woman Cullen, who had been
formerly convicted of felony, was sentenced to seven
years' penal servitude, Edward Cullen to twelve months'
imprisonment, and Simpson, the other receiver, to five
years' penal servitude.
" BRAWLING" BY A MINOR CANON.—Proceedings were
commenced same time since against the Rev. V. 11.
Pullen, M.A., one of the minor canons of Salisbury
Cathedral, for brawling in church, and the case was
remitted by the Bishop of Salisbury to the Court of
Arches. It appeared that Mr. Pullen had objected to
the mode in which the cathedral services had been
performed, and had publicly protested against them
in the cathedral itself. He had also written a pamphlet
in which he very strongly urged his reasons. At the
sitting of the Court of Arches a motion has been made on
behalf of the promoter of the suit that the letters of
request should be withdrawn, Mr. Pullen having apolo-
gised, Sir R. Phillimore said he was happy to find
that the case had been settled so satisfactorily, and
gave permission that the articles might be withdrawn.

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