The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-04 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

DUELLING AND MURDER.-At the Southwark Police
Court, on the 3rd instant, two brothers, named Jenkins,
living at Bermondsey, were charged with firing pistols at
each other. They were both very young, and it seems
that one took one of the other's pistols without leave,
which produced a quarrel, when they fired at each other,
and used their sailor's knives, both being employed in the
mercantile marine. The prisoners said they had been
drinking, and did not know much about it. They were
both committed to the Kingston Assizes for trial.

THE NATIONAL INCOME -TAX REPEAL ASSOCIATION.--.
At Warwick, a day or two since, James Martin and
Edward Crofton were charged with a conspiracy to obtain
money under false pretences. They had represented
themselves as authorised collectors for a society called the
National Income Tax Repeal Association. Mr. Whalley,
M.P., and others were said to be on the committee, and
vere examined on behalf of the prosecution to shew that
they had no connection with th affair. The case was
adjourned.

The Guardian regrets to say 'hat "the Bis'iop of
Salisbury is very much worse, and suffering greatly."
On Fr4ay Mr. Glyn intends to more f-r a new
writ for the borough of Drop heda, in the room of Mr.
'Whitworth, who was unseated for intimidation.

The total number of paurers (including lunatics)
in receipt of relief on the last day of 1868 was 987,621, an
increase of 7,2u0 over that of the previous year, 0.7 per cent.
A conviction for wilful murder took place on Tues-
day. John Colville, aged thirty, was tried at Durham As-.
sizes for the murder of Philip rainer at Darlington: itr.cl
was sentenced to be hanged.

The Stockport manufacturers have, as a rule, been
working full time ; but Ihis week six of the largest mills in
the town will be closed or partially stopped until some im-
provement in the state of trade takes place.

The Esmonde will case is to be tried again, the will
being now impugned by Sir John Esmonde, Bart., M.P.,
and Mr. James Esmonde, exe zutors of Sir Thomas Esmonde,
lately deceased.

The revolting murder at IVednesbury still causes
the greatest excitement throughout the district. The go-
verning body of the town (a local board of commis.
sioners), have met and adopted a memorial to the liomb
RaerPtarv. expressing their horror at the crime, and have
desired that a reward might be offered in this case.

A NOVELTY IN HANGING.—An American paper
states that "in the case of Carswell, recently executed in
Oneida county for murdering a girl, the hangman put his
victim under the influence of anaesthesia, and so projected
him into eternity."

STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER AT UPNOR CASTLE.—
In reply to a deputation consisting of Messrs. Martin and
Kinglake, the members for Rochester, and various in-
fluential residents of that city and Chatham, Mr. Card-
well, Secretary for War, stated that the Government was
fully alive to the danger of such an immense quantity of
gunpowder being stored at Upnor Castle, on the banks of
the Medway, and arrangements were now pending
between the War Department and the Admiralty for its
removal.

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN UPON HIMSELF
AND HIS VIEWS.—Mr. George Francis Train having
been asked by the American Working Women's Associa-
tion to deliver a lecture, replied:--"My opinions are too
pointed, my ideas too strongly defined, my Radicalism too
practical,
I am afraid, to do any good ; I tread on too
pany corns ; I raise too much antagonism ; my audience
me too mixed ; caste is too severely marked. No theorist,
my acts create hisses ; hence even your association will be
at loggerheads, I fear, with my views." Why did not Mr.
Train come to this conclusion before?
A DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE. —A very wicked and
daring ittempt was made by a party of men, armed, on
Wednesday morning, about the hour of one o'clock, to
blow up with gunpowder the house of a farmer named
Robert Allen, of Treansallagh, near Carrigans, county
Donegal. They placed a small keg of powder quite near
to the house, and exploded it with a fuse, but fortunately
no lives were lost, or any greater damage done than the
smashing of Allen's windows,nearly every pane in which were
broken by the explosion and the frames greatly damaged.
The tenants of the house were at once aroused, and Allen
fired a shot at the depredators, who at once decamped,
but
continued to fire shots as they went. Four men were
arrested by the police on suspicion of being concerned in
this outrage, and were brought before a magistrate, who
discharged two of them, took bail for another, and
remanded a man named John Friel %luta the petty genius
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