The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-06 00:00:00

TR k_GEDY IN NORTHUMBERLAND.

On Saturday afternoon a gentleman farmer, named
Sinclair, was riding on horseback towards Morpeth, and
when he was near " the Kennel," a mile and a half out-
side the town, a labouring man, who was lying in a hedge
side, armed with a double-barrelled gun, fired at him, and
shot him on the head and in the face. Mr. Sinclair fell
from his horse, bleeding and insensible, and his assailant
threw down the gun and ran towards the river Wans-
beck, into which he plunged. The report of the shot
attracted the attention of some persons near, and they
had Mr. Sinclair removed to a house, where a number of
shots were extracted. Mr. Gillard, an innkeeper, at Tyne-
mouth, an expert diver, went into the Wansbeck after the
ruffian, whom he succeeded in getting hold of, but by the
time he got the would-be murderer to land the latter was
quite dead. The deceased was about 50 years old, and, it
is said, occupied a cottage belonging to Mr. Sinclair, who
had given him notice to leave. Mr. Sinclair is expected
to recover.—Manchester Guardian.

The body of the late Sir William Curtis, Bart., has
been brought from Nice for interment.
Her Majesty's ship Urgent was to have left Ports-
mouth at daylight this morning for the coasts of Spain
and Algeria, with a number.of savans, who have b ‘en
appointed to observe the eclipse of the sun on the 22nd
inst. We understand that the bulk of the party will
proceed to the French colony, as being better adapted for
their purpose than Spain. The Urgent will be absent
from this country about a month.

The Prince and Princess of Wales will to-day
proceed to Blenheim Palace on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Marlborough. After staying there several
days they will return to Sandringham.—The Prince and
Princess of Wales on Friday night gave a county ball in
celebration of the opening of their new house at Sandring-
ham. About 300 persons accepted the invitation of their
royal highnesses.
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A. county court judgeship has become vacant, not
by the death of Mr. Gurdon, as the Times put it, but by
the resignation of another gentleman, whose place will
be supplied by Mr. C. E. Coleridge, of the South Wales
circuit, who has for some time occupied the post of pro-
secuting counsel for the Miet at the Central Criminal
Court. He is in every way qualified for the post, and
has large and varied professional experience.
A contemporary says about £4,000 has been
collected for the relief the Welsh farmers who were
evicted in consequence of the votes they gave at the last
election. In Cardiganshire 63 of these political mnrtyrs
have been compensated by a grant of £2,090 ; in Car-
marthenshire, 21 have received £690 ' • in Carnarvonshire,
£450 has been distributed among. 25 applicants ; one
claimant in Denbighshire has received £l5 ; and two in
bxerionethshire £l5O

The War Victims' Fund haR been established for
the relief of the peasantry and other non-combatant
sufferers in France and Germany, and its primary object
is to help the ruined, in contradistinction to the wounded
of both nations. The fund is distributed under the direc.
tion of a committee of the Society of Friends, whose
efforts have as yet been chiefly confined to the distribution
of bread, salt, and flour in the villages round Metz. The
subscriptions now amount to about thirteen thousand
pounds.

There was a fall of snow yesterday in Lon Jon.
The barometer had fallen at all but the western stations,
and was lowest in the south. Temperature has changed
considerably since Saturday. Winds are very irregular.
They have been generally light from north-east since Sa-
turday, but light westerly breezes have now made their
appearance both in Scotland and the south of England.
The amount of cloud is very variable over the British
Isles, and thick fog is prevalent in several places. The sea
is moderate or calm.
In the Roman Catholic Chapels on Sunday an
Archiepiscopal letter from Dr. Manning was read,
describing the invasion of Rome as a vioiation of all right,
and an attack which is both sacrilegious and politically
unjust. The pastoral further declares, from evidence
which the writer says is beyond suspicion, that the Ple-
biscite was not genuine. Mazzini's plan of Italian unity,
the Archbishop thinks, can only be carried out by the
destruction of Christianity in Italy. The pastoral invites
all Catholics to combine in three days' earnest prayer for
the Pope.
Dr. Lyon Playfair, M.P. was amongst those who
dined with the St. Andrew's Medical Graduates' Asso-
ciation on Saturday. In responding to the toast of
" The Houses of Parliament," he said that the bill of last
session to effect a reform in the General Medical Council
of the United Kingdom had been shipwrecked ; and he
regretted that the offer of the Government to have the
subject inquired into by a select committee had not been
accepted, as it was not unlikely the Government would
have taken the matter up with a view to give effect tq
the recommendations of the committee. He had within
the last few days, he was glad to say, ascertained that the
; Government did not make such objection to the bringing
in of a bill as he had anticipated.

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