The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-17 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, ISM.

THE SUN,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

EITRAORDINARY ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A TRADES.,
MAN.-Mr. John Banger, shell fishmonger, No. 372, Oxford-
street, was charged before Mr Knox with being drunk and
attempting to commit suicide.

Sergeant Stephens, 11 C, said—About.four this morning
I was in Oxford-street and heard a noise in front of the
house, No. 372, Oxford-street, and on looking up at the
second floor I saw the defendant hanging out of the win-
dow, having on only his shirt. Knowing the defendant,
I said, "Mr. Banger is that you ?" I then knocked at the
door and was let in by Mrs. Banger. I went to the second
floor as quick as I could and found the defendant out of
the window holding the window sill with one hand. I took
hold of his arm, and with tho assistance of another con-
stable got him inside the room, and then found that ho was
drunk. I asked him why ho had done it, and ho replied,
" My family has made mo do this, and I'll do it again."
Mr. Eliza Banger, the wife of the defendant, stepped
forward, and said, in answer to Mr. Knox—My husband
has no other cause for acting as he has done but drink. He
is a habitual drunkard.

Mr. Knox —For all your sakes 1 will have him detained
a few days so that he may be kept from drink and spoken
to by the chaplain, and it may be a warning to him.
The defendant, who remained silent, was then taken to
the van.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CUBA.

NEW YORE, March 7, Morning.
The following are the heads of the news brought
by the Cuba .

The Reconstruction Committee in the House of
Representatives have reported a resolution to admit
Tennessee into the Union on certain conditions.
A resolution has been introduced in the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs for the United States
Government to guarantee a Mexican Republican
loan of $50,000,000.

The Fenian agitation continues active through-
out the country, and subscriptions are pouring
nfro m all parts.
Money easy. Gold, 1231. Exchange on Lon-
don, 145 ; on Paris, 3f. 90c. Stocks firm, but
active. New York Centrals, 90i ; Illinois, 114 ;
Erie, 86i ; Five-Twenty Bonds, 103 k. Cotton
quiet ; middling Upland, 44. Flour steady.
Wheat dull. Corn declining. Provisions dull.
Coffee steady. Sugar quiet. Molasses dull. Pe-
troleum—crude, 27 ; refined, 44.
The week's exports of cotton from New York has
amounted to 17,000 bales.
NEW ORLEANS, March 3.—Cotton, 46.

The North Shore Tragedy at Sydney.

AUCKLAND, Jan. 8.

It would almost appear that there is a rivalry between
Sydney and Auckland in crime as well as in trade. It is
certainly remarkable that two atrociaus murders should have
been committed in these two toWnS at the same time. The
Kinders, husband and wife, who figure so largely in the
Sydney tragedy, are well known in this town, where they
resided for some time before their removal to Sydney.
Henry Kinder, the murdered man, was a younger brother
of the Rev. John Kinder, a graduate of the University of
Cambridge, and head master of the Auckland Grammar
School, who married the daughter of Archdeacon Brown,
of Tauranga. The younger Kinder hold the appointment
of teller in the Auckland branch of the Union Bank of
Australia, and, though known to be a man of intemperate
habits, discharged his duties in such a way as to secure the
confidence of his employers. During his residence at
Auckland he formed the acquaintance of a Miss Wood, the
daughter of a land agent or land shark, who enjoyed the
reputation of being wealthy, and made her a proposal cf
marriage. It is said that the girl, who was then only 20
years of age (this happened six years ago), was extremely
averse to the match, and opposed it in every way till her
father compelled her to accept Kinder's offer. The latter,
after his marriage, became more addicted to intemperance
than ever, and it was understood that their union was an
unhappy one, but no public scandal occurred during their
residence in Auckland. They' afterwards removed to
Canterbury, where they formed the acquaintance of a
settler of the name of Jackson, one of the subordinate
actors in this immoral drama. An improper intimacy
sprung up between this man and Mrs. Kinder, which was
carried on when they had made the wretched husband in-
sensible with drink. Jackson wasishameless enough to
confess this in open court. After temporarily residing in
Canterbury, Daiiedin, Iniercargil, and other places in the
south of Now Zealand, the Kinders removed to Sydney,
and occupied a lionAe at the North Shore. The husband
was removed from the Union Bank, and found employ:-
ment as teller in the City Bank, whose appointment he
continued to hold till his death. A skilful dramatist collects
all the principal characters to form a grand tableau before
the curtain falls—the niceties of art have been equally
preserved in this case. Hood, the land shark, after pur-
suing his call in different parts of New Zealand with in-
different success, found himself reduced to poverty,
and removed to Bathurst, near Sydney, in the
hope of improving his fortunes. Jackson, Mrs.
Kinder's paramour, who seems to have been equally
unfortunate in his affairs, followed her to Sydney,
took up his abode, in her house with the coniv-
ance of her wretched husband, who seems to have had no
sense of his own infamous position. A new actor now ap-
pears on the scene in the shape of the most unlikely per-
sonage of romance, a Hebrew dentist. Bertrand, the Jew,
is a married man, but at the sight of Mrs. Kinder he forgets
his marriage vows, and resolves to make her his own. He
mesmerises his wife, or, at least, exercises some occult in-
fluence over her till she becomes his accomplice, and aids
him in carrying out his plans. He sends Mrs. Kinder his
dianiond ring, and is accepted as her lover; Jackson is dis-
carded and bribed by the Jew to remove to Melbourne.
Bertrand tells him significantly, on leaving, that he may
soon expect to bear of Kinder's death, and Jackson seems
to have fully understood what this expression implied. No
wonder that such a man should declare in open court that
the mind of man is very base—he, assuredly, was the basest
of the base. I wish to skim lightly over the surface of this
mars of moral ordure ; I envy not the man who Would wish
to probe it to its lowest depths. Bertrand, the Jew, re-
solved to murder Kinder, to divorce his own wife, and to
marry Mrs. Kinder ; he certainly displayed the subtlety,
the energy, and the heartlessness of a demon in carrying
out his plans. One day it was repeated in Sydney that
Kinder had shot himself through the head with a pistol;
no one acquaintedwith the habits of the man was surprised
to hear that he had taken his own life. Mrs. Kinder, Ber-
trand, and his wife gave evidence at the inquest, and a
verdict of temporary insanity was returned. The report
of Kinder's death reached Jackson at Melbourne, and he
resolved to profit by it. In a letter which he addressed to
Bertrand he reminded him of his parting words, and swore
that he would denounce him as the murderer if he did not
pay him .£2O. The Hebrew was more than a match for
him ; instead of yielding to his demand, he denounced
him for having written a threatening letter, prose-
cuted him, and had him sentenced to 12 months' imprison-
ment. Murderers have often an irresistible impulse to eon-
fess their crime. Bertrand yielded to this impulse, and told
his sister that it was he who fired the pistol at Kinder's
head, and gave him poison to put an end to his sufferings.
The Duke of Buckingham, who spent the night with the
Countess of Shrewsbury after killing her husband in a
duel, was thought a monster of vice. What name shall
we bestow on Bertrand, the Jew, who compelled his
own wife to share the same bed with himself and the
widow of his victim ? The story would be incredible if
the evidence were not overwhelming, that these three un-
natural beings descended to this the lowest depth of
human infamy. After a time Bertrand's sister found it
impossible to conceal the guilty secret which had been
confided to her, and denounced her brother as Kinder's
murderer. Tho three accomplices in the crime were at
once apprehended, and, at the investigation which ensued
circumstances transpired which leave no moral doubt a;
to their guilt, though there is reason to believe that Ber-
trand's wife acted from :compulsion. Jackson, released
from prison, repeated the words which Bertrand had used
in reference to Kinder's expected death on his leaving
Sydney. Bertrand's apprentice swore that his master fre-
quently avowed to him his intention to murder Kinder,
and induced him to purchase a tomahawk and pistols, and
to accompany him to his house at night for that purpose.
Bertrand's sister gave the minutest details of his confes-
sion. Among Bertrand's papers was found a diary, in-
tended for Mrs. Kinder's perusal, and written after her
removal from Sydney, to Bathurst, where she joined her
family after her husband's death. No love-sick hero of
romance has ever written or spoken anything half so
extravagant or absurd, and the style betrays the
greatest intimacy with the sensational novels of the day.
It contains nothing which will servo directly to incriminate
him, though it contains many expressions which might be
applied to the crime of which he is supposed to be guilty.
His confession to his sister was of the most extraordinary
character. He was driven to madness by the thought that
the woman he loved was at the disposal of another man,
and resolved to destroy him. His wife and his mistress
were to bo witnesses of and accomplices in his crime.
Everything was arranged beforehand—the day, the hour,
' and the place. While Kinder was standing iu a room in
his own house, with the two women in front of him, Ber-
trand discharged the pistol at his head, seated him on a
chair, and placed in his hand the pistol he had just fired,
and letters written by Jackson to his wife, containing evi-
dence of their guilt. It was only when his arrangements
were completed that the two women turned round and saw
Kinder holding the pistol and the letters in his hands. The
wound was not mortal, though it affected his intellect and
his power of speech. Often and again the poor wretch
affirmed to the doctor who visited him that ho did not
shoot himself, though his mind was too much impaired to
allow him to give any account of the affair. Bertrand,
dreading discovery, resolved to anticipatea by administer-
ing poison to his victim. The cup was mixed by Mrs.
Bertrand, and handed to Kinder by his own wife. All
were thus equally implicated in the crime, and had an
equal interest in concealing it. Bertrand's next object was
to obtain a divorce from his wife. He
placed temptation
in her way, and tried to induce her by threats to yield to
it ; but ho writes in his diary—" It is my misfortune to
have a wife who is virtuous." Ho had pledged his
word of honour to his wife that he would never cut her
off by poison; and this fact proves that the poor woman
had reason to apprehend such a fate. Much sympathy
is felt for her, as sho was merely a blind instru-
ment in the hands of herhusband, and no more responsible
for her acts than if she had been an automaton. At least
such was the general impression, and her release from pri-
son has given general satisfaction. While there can bo no
doubt of Bertrand'J guilt, it is doubtful whether the evi-
dence will be sufficiently strong to convict him. The affair
has created quite a sensation in Auckland, whore the Kin-
tiers were well known, and the trial of Bertrand will rank
among the causes cilebres of criminal jurisprudence in the
Australian colonies.

" THE DEATH of LUCRETIUS" ill said to be the
title of the Poet-Laureate's new poem.

SIR EDWIN LANDSEER has actually completed the
second model of tho lions for the base of the Nelson column!

THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE IMPERIAL " VIE DE
JULES CESAR" will not be published, it is said, till the Em-
peror Napoleon 111. has satisfied himself whether a third
Alesia in Savoy has any title to dispute the claim of
authenticity with those put forth for Franche-Corot! and
Burgundy.

THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE is reported to have
been found at last. Hermetic art and alchemy are no longer
fabulous things of the past. MM. Dr. Henri Fabre and
Franz have placed before the Academy their discovery of
the means of transmuting silver, copper, and quicksilver
into gold. Our readers, who wish to grow rapidly rich are
referred to a paper in the Revue Scientiftque portion of our
Paris contemporary, L'lllustration, of the 3d of February,
for the details of this great discovery.

DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Last evening, between
seven and eight o'clock, a most destructive fire broke out
at Mr. Stephen Cox's livery stables, Clifton-road, Maida-hill,
adjoining the Spread Eagle. We are sorry to say that Mr.
Cox lost nine horses, two of them being very valuable, be-
sides other property. Tho sufferer, we understand, is not
insured. •
EXPECTED FENIAN DISTURBANCES AT LEEDS.—
We learn by electric telegraph that in consequence
of rumours of an expected Fenian outbreak at Leeds the
police force has been Augmented by the addition of 40
county officers and 50 resident pensioners. A large num-
ber of members of local volunteer corps and 600 tradesmen
have been sworn in as special constables. The mayor an-
nounced to them that pike-making and secret drilling were
going on in the town, and that there was a regular com
munication between Dublin and the Fenians there.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, March 16.

The grand jury of the county Roscommon, The
O'Conor Don, foreman, have declared their approval
of the measures of the Government against the
Fenian conspiracy, and passed the following resolu-
tion with reference to the constabulary :—" The
high sheriff and the grand jury of the county Ros-
common, assclubled in spring assizes, 1866, unite in
bearing testimony to the universal loyalty of the
constabulary in this county during these times of
temptation ; and wish also to testify to their good
conduct, skill, activity, intelligence, and zeal in the
faithful discharge of their duties."

Ten were arrested yesterday by Inspector Arm-
strong and a large party of police, on suspicion of
Fenianism. Two, Warren and Nugent, a supposed
deserter, were found in a lodging-house, 19, High-
street ; and Fix, at 112, Francis-street ; and two
more at 149, in the same street. They gave
the following account of themselves :—J. Hayden,
is an ex-policeman from Waterford ; J. Leedom a
gunsmith from London ; J. Heron from Listowel,
Kerry ; J. M'Enery, tailor, from Nenagh ; R. Lacy,
from Castle Dermott ; J. Gannon, from Roscom-
mon ; J. Joyce, a native of Dublin, who served
in the American army ; and O'Brien, a pikemaker.
They had all come to Dublin within a few mouths,
some within a few weeks, and, though out of em-
ployment, they were living comfortably. It is sup-
posed they were waiting for the " rising." A young
gentleman was brought up yesterday charged with
having a double-barrelled pistol in his possession
without licence, but as the police did not think he
had any evil intentions he was admitted to bail.
Hugo and O'Curry, arrested on the Ist of March
for being in possession of ammunition and military
instruction books in Nelson-street, were yesterday
allowed by Mr. Stronge to stand out on bail, but '
their companion, Hunt, arrested at the same time
and place, was committed under the Lord-Lieuten-
ant's warrant and sent to Mountjoy Prison. Nine-
teen prisoners under sentence in the Antrim county
gaol have been removed to Downpatrick Gaol, to
make way for the prisoners sent from Dublin.
Yesterday another batch of 25 Fenian prisoners
was sent from Mountjoy Prison to Belfast by the
8 o'clock a.m. train. They were taken to the ter-
minus in prison vans strongly guarded by mounted
police. In the course of the day a number of pri-
soners of the same class arrived by train from Ennis-
killen, and were lodged in Kilmainham Gaol.
Two more Fenian prisoners have been lodged in
Clonmel Gaol from Carrick-on-Suir. The Clonmel
Chronicle states that in that town and neighbour-
hood 26 persons have been arrested, one of them a
travelling agent of the brotherhood. lle always
took a first-class ticket and lived at first-class hotels,
faring sumptuously every day.
FRIDAY EVENING.

The Gazette of this evening contains an order in
Council under the recent Act 29 Vict. cap. 4, for-
bidding the importation intu Ireland from Great
Britain of any swine, gnats, turnips, mangold wurzel,
dung, hay, straw, fodder, or litter likely to carry
infection.
The Lord-Lieutenant has proclaimed the Baronies
of Narragh and Itheban East and West, Kilkea and
Moone, in the county of Kildare.
Mr. H. A. Herbert was elected to-day for Kerry
without opposition.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,

Miles opened. Receipts.

Railways. ...,
1860. 1865. 1866 1865
.£ t
Belfast and N. Counties . CO/ 991 1,359 Le 97
Belfast and County Down.... 44} 14} 64.5 677
Blyth and Tyne 36 36 2,151 2,195
Brecon and Alert hyr
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 5,8,81 5.583
Caledonian, Scottish Central 415/ 408 25,561 23,553
Cambrian l3O 121 2,119 2.086
Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 311 - 388 -
Cockermouth and Workin - -
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 415 355
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l ei 142 122
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 651 651 1,660 1.499
Deeside l7 17 2 9 299
Do Extension
Dublin & itellastJ unction.... 83 61 1,3.1 1.250
Dublip and Drogheda 75 75 1.5;3 1.4;8
Dublin and Meath
Oub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 919 2,615 2,929
Forth and Clyde Junction - -
Furness, are 5O 6) 3,764 2.991
Glasgow &-Soutlf-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E. Union
Great Northern 404 dolt 33,703 83,84)
Great North of Scotland 6B 53 1,364 1.e35
Do Branches 42 1! 982 1,091
GL Norton. & IVestn. (Irel.) B3 711 6 5 445
'it.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3B'} 887} 7,844 6 898
Great Western 1292 1270 61,015 61.178
Hull & Hornsea
Highland
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,703 1,632
Lancashire & Yorkshire 4'..,3 403 42.780 37,260
Limerick and Enn:43 241 241 1
21
/ ..65
Limerick and Foynes 26} 26
144
Llanelly 461 441 595 591
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London .1z South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2931 2574 16,251 15,,163
Loudon, Chatham, & Dover; f 1349 127 1 7,811 6.713
all Metropolitan Extension /12 111 j 3,992 1,675
Do. Kent Loast
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Ilan.,Sheffieleh& Lincolnsh .. 246 2i 6 19,618 17,581
Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham.. 91 91 1,36/ 4%77
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (inch N.-Western) 6774 663} 48,539 44 7a9
Midland Gt. Westn. of Irind 2601 2609 4,778 4.676
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,t50 2,707
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12071 1160} 61.474 59,066
North London ll a 4.5:i2 3.277
North Staffordshire 258 258 7,:01 7.625
Pembroke and Tenby ll9 114 90 51
Rhymney Ai 191 1,055 1,075
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 5,455 11
24
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 1,1+7 816
South Devon
South-Eastern 315 328 19,071 37.652
Taff Vale 6l 01 5,91.2 6,19
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd ... 10 10 113 ,
Waterford and Kilkenny..... 31 31 415 /53
Waterford and Limerick..... 77 77 3,048 1,251
W'haven
EIGNCAeaNIDto,&EgN dint..
10 10 004 600
Fott COLOIAL.t ___
828 30,290 29,151
Austrian ..................... 8:28
Bahis and San Francisco .• • . 761 781 183 591
Belgian .Eastern J unction.... 261 261 331 3'9
Bombay, 13aroda, & Cen. India 306 185} 10,098 5,11 G
Detroit and Milwaukie 159 189 3,9E2 4,495
Dutch Rhenish ...... lOBl 1181 4,689 5,104
Eastern oi France l5 1 14;.,3 67,51 60,128
Eastern Bengal
East Indian - -
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 22,955 24,145
Great Centrai of Belgium 285 261 6, E 57 6.007
Great Indian Peninsula 6-19 585 41,931 20,5E6
Great Luxembourg l3l 134 5,586 4.533
Great Southeen of India
Great Western of Canada 315 345 14,1,72 6,303
Madras.
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 778 713 17,064 14,843
Northern of Canada ......., ~ 94 91 ~410 1,319
Northern of France 724 724 59027 51,419
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & slediterrn 2006 197) 136,48) 124,138
Paris and Orleans lB2l 1618 75,1..9 43,302
Recife and San Francisco. &c 771 77/ 2,311 1i55
Sc nde ll's 105 2,217 2,1 0
Do. Punjab, &c 253 45 1,818 '243
South Austrian, &c .....
Southern of France 663 823 2 ,132 26,781
Victoria
Welland.
West & N-Wn. of France

Foreign Mail Packet List

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Bouthamptou Mar. 22.
Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet April 6
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Asoension, and St. Helena Mar. H.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou; hampton Mar. 22.
Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16.
Falkland Islands

India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Mar. 21
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Mar. 16.
Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 25
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 18.
Mar. 16.

Ditto, via Marseilles _
Mauritius, via Southampton Mar. 16
Ditto, via Marseille 3 .........................
••• ....... Ap
II
ril 7.
Newfoundland
..,.,.April 0.
Portugal
.......... ....
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon•• • ............
United States and British North America, by Bri-
22.
tish packet ........................ • . ............ Mar.
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton ......................... .. ....
Ditto, via Cork ................. ..
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Mar, 16,
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico ............••• . Mar. 16
Cuba and Mexico Feb. 3....
Bahamas, via New York.
April s.
Bermuda. ditto
April II
West Coast of Afrioa. Madeira, o adeira, and Tenerilf
.... April 12

THAMES SUBWAY.—Last night, at eight o'clock, a
crowded public meeting was held at the Literary
Institution, Deptford, to take measures for promoting the
formation of a subway for foot passengers and vehicles
under the Thames from Deptford-green to the Isle of Dogs.
The chair was occupied by Sir Charles Bright, M.P., for
Greenwich ; and it was stated that the plan (the bill for
which had passed the second reading of the House of Com-
mons) was to have two iron tubes 17 feet in diameter, each
tube to have a roadway for vehicles of 14 feet, and two
pathways of 3 feet 6 inches on either side of the roadway.
Resolutions wore adopted in accordance with the objeCts,
of the meeting, and a local committee Ivas appointed to
[ promote the carrying out of the project.