The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-11 00:00:00

FATAL AFFRAY

At the Liverpool Police-court Edward Bailey, a pork
butcher, 26 or 27 years of age, who lived in Ennerdale-
street, off Bevington-hill, has been brought up charged
with the wilful murder of Arthur Brock, a cooper, 25
years old, who was employed at Messrs. Allison and
Mayor's brewery, Gildart's-gardens, and lived in Currie-
street. Mr. Walter, prosecuting solicitor, made a state-
ment of the facts, from which it appeared that between
six and seven o'clock on the previous evening the de-
ceased and other men employed at the brewery in ques
tion went to a public-house in Bevington-hill. About tei
o'clock one of them named Richard Cropper, left to g'
home. Near to Currie-street he met Bailey in compare'
with his wife. Bailey, who was a perfect stranger to
Cropper, said to the latter, " You're one of them that's
come to murder the Papists, I suppose?" Cropper replied.
"No, indeed, for I'm one myself." Bailey then took oft
his jacket, and putting himself in a fighting attitude, said,
"Then, I'll give you something for it." Cropper rejoined,
"Nay, nay, lad; leave me alone. I've done you no harm,
and you've done me no harm." At this moment Cropper't
fellow - workmen having heard of the disturbance,
came from the public house, intending to take his
part. Finding Bailey standing in front of Cropper in a
threatening manner, Brock stepped between the two men,
asking, " Dick, what's he going to do at thee?" at the
same time pushing Bailey away. A scuffle ensued, and
Bailey then deliberately drew a butcher's knife from a
sheath at his waist, and plunged it with all his fore,
into Brock's left breast, in the region of the heart. The
wounded man shouted out, " Dick, I'm stabbed—l'm
killed. Murder ! Police !" He was able to walk home,
but as soon as he got home he lay down upon his bed and
immediately expired. Directly after he stabbed the
deceased, Bailey ran to his house and locked the door. He
was apprehended a few minutes afterwards, and when
charged with the murder by Police-constable No. 828,
replied :" There were three of them going to pitch into me,
They called me a Papist. What I did was in self.
defence." None of the men were drunk at the time the
sad affair occiirred. Bailey was remanded.

MURDER OF A PRIEST AND A CLERK.—A. paper
of Florence says :—" M. Antonio Rannozzi, a clerk in the
Post Office of Terni, and a priest named Russi, head of
the college, were assassinated in that town on Sunday, at
eleven at night. The murderers have not been discovered,
nor cin anyone divine the motive of this crime."

RI PRESENTATION OF SUNDERLAND.—We are au-
thorised to state that the Mayor of Sunderland (Alder-
man G onrley)'will offer himself as a candidate in the
Liberal interest at the next parliamentary election for the
borough of Sunderland. —Northern Daily Express.

TIER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—AIthough
no precise date Las yet been fixed, it is expected that hes
Majesty the Queen, and their Royal Highnesses Princesses
Louise and Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, with Prince and
Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, will leave Wind•

sor either at the end of the week or about Monday next,.
for Balmoral.

Her Majesty the Queen, it is understood, has
been graciously pleased to cammand the mayor and cor.
poration of Windsor to attend an audience at Windsor
Castle at the latter end of this week, when her Ma-
jesty will receive the address relative to the atrocious
attempt to assassinate his Royal Highness the Duke of
Edinburgh.

THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER AND THE REV
MR. RUGG. —ln this case, heard in the Archo Court and
reported, the defendant has lodged an appeal to the Privy
Council, and the case will appear in the list. The ques
tion is, whether a clergyman with two churches in one
benefice could be required to do duty every Sunday at
both. Sir R. Phillimore, as Dean of Arches, held that he
was bound to obey the directions of his bishop , and hence
the appeal to the Judicial Committee.
THE MURDER DV A BARONESS. —The Baroness
Julie Ebergenyi has not appealed from the judgment
which condemned her to twenty years' hard labour, but
her father has done so, being authorised by the Austrian
law. The lady offered her defender, Dr. Nenda, the sum
of 1,500 florins, which the latter refused. The chapter of
the Canonesses to which the prisoner belonged has pro-
nounced her solemn exclusion—an act which has never
before occurred since the community was founded.

THE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION.—On Saturday
afternoon a meeting of the supporters of the Irish Church,
convened by the high sheriff of the county, was held it
the Guildhall at Shrewsbury. The Crown Court, it
which the meeting. assembled, was densely crowded,
and the chairman (Mr. C. S. Lloyd, high sheriff), on
taking his seat, stated that there were a large number
of persons outside anxious to obtain admittance. It was
suggested that the meeting should adjourn to a larger room,
but the proposition met with the strong disapprobation
of those who had been fortunate enough to obtain sitting
or stand:n.; room in the court, and it was withdrawn.
Letters of apology for nonattendance were read from
the Earl of Powis, the Earl of Dartmouth; Lord Edward
Hill Trevor, M.P., IV. Ormsby Gore, M.P., and others.
A telegram received from the Earl of Derby was read;
expressing his lordship's regret that he found it impossible
to be present at the meeting. The speakers included the
Earl of Bradford (Lord Chamberlain), Mr. Kenyon, and
General the Hon. Percy Herbert. Resolutions condemna-
tory of Mr. Gladstone's resolutions were adopted.
THE POISON OF THE COBRA. —An extensive
series of experiments has recently been conducted in India
by Dr. Shortt, to test the efficacy of a large number of
reputed antidotes to the poison of the cobra. These
antidotes have been brought forward by claimants for the
prize of 1,750 rupees offered by the Maharajah of Travan-
core for the discovery of a specific, but not one of them
has been found to possess any counteracting influence
over the rapid and deadly action of the poison. In con•
sequence of communications which be has received from
various parts of Europe, Dr. Shoat has made arrange
ments with Dr. Tilbury Fox to superintend any experi-
ments which may be made in England with the view of
discovering any real antidote which may be in theposs-
sion of anyone in Europe. Dr. Fox has biene suppliedn
the liquid
and crystalline for,n, for the purzs
with an ample stock of active poison,. both
.1)r. Shortt will
finally test the virtues of any spec: ;inch may possibly
be discovered.
INCENDLtRISM IN Bums.—There were last week
first was on a farm of Mr. Charles
Aylesbury. The
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two more incendiary fires on farms in the vicinity of
Pic,:ernig s, at Heath and Reach, and two large stacks of
straw were destroyed. A farm labourer named William
Spacey gave himself up, saying he had fired the property
in order to be transported, as he had neither work nor
food. Ife was taken before the Rev. G. E. Whyley and
committed for trial. The other fire was on the premises of
Mr. John Thompson, a farmer at Little Hampden, and the
perpetrator was a little boy of 13, who, in company of
another urchin, went to a heap of dry furze, lighted his
pipe, and then threw the burning lucifer match upon it,
the fire extending to, and totally consuming, two of the
farm sheds. The young miscreant, John Kebbles, asked
his mate to "keep quiet," but he at once went and told.
l'he Aylesbury magistrates, who heard the case on Satur•
!ay, thinking corporal punishment preferable to a term of
imprimnnent, ordered that he should be corrected by hi 4
father by nlcculs of p, birch, rod.