The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-08 00:00:00

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Southern 502 50 .. 503 75
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THE NAVAL RESERVE.—LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—
The Mercantile Marine Service Association of Liverpool, at
its meeting to-day authorised the council to enter into com-
munications with the Board of Admiralty, with the view of
ascertaining the intentions of the Government as to the
appointment of merchant captains as officers in the Naval
reserve. It was stated during the proceedings that the
naval volunteer movement had hitherto proved a complete
failure on account of the want of confidence felt by the sea-
men in the regulations of the force, as they thought they
were too much akin to those of the Royal Navy ; and that
the best means of removing this doubt from the minds of
the merchant seamen was to appoint captains and officers of
the mercantile marine to commissions and appropriate rank
in the Naval Reserve.
VicromA PRESS.—We understand that her Ma-
jesty has graciously signified to Miss Emily Faithfull her
approval of the establishment of the Vict9ria Press at 9,
Great Coram-street, for the employment of female compo-
sitors, adding that all such useful and practical steps for
opening new branches of industry to educated women must
meet with her entire approbation.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—A dread-
ful crime has just been committed in the town of Draguig-
nan, in the Var. A young shoemaker, named Goin, mar-
ried last year a very young female, daughter of a respect-
able tradesman ; but he ill-treated her so much, that she,
though enceinte, was obliged to leave him and return to
her parents. He went to live at Avignon, and several
times wrote to order her to join him in that place, but she
refused. About a fortnight ago he returned to Draguig-
nan, and as she persisted in her determination not to live
with him, he uttered terrible threats against her. Four
days ago he bought three pistols and some gunpowder and
ball; and in the evening, happening to meet his wife and
her mother on the esplanade, he uses abusive language
towards both, to which they replied angrily. The two
women then returned home, and seated themselves with
some neighbours at the door. Shortly after the man came
up, and without saying a word fired one pistol at his wife,
another at her mother, and the third beneath his own chin.
The mother was not struck, the man himself received only
a slight wound, but the youne, woman was wounded in the
breast so deeply that it has notb been possible to extract the
ball. She lies in a dano-erous state, and the gravity of her
situation is increased by'her being on the eve of childbirth.
As to the man, he was at once taken into custody by some
police officers, who happened to come up just as he fired.
WIPE MURDER IN LIVERPOOL.—On the Bth
June a man and wife named Gallagher, who had been
living separate, met and went into a friend's house, when a
previous quarrel was renewed, which resulted in the man,
Thomas Gallagher, taking up a bread knife and inflicting
severe wounds on different parts of the body of his wife.
She was removed to the Infimary, where she died from the
effects of the wounds. At the inquest on the body of the
deceased yesterday the coroner's jury returned a verdict of
" Wilful murder" ac,ainst Thomas Gallagher, who was
accordingly committed to the assizes,