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, 23
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 ten
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':
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
sheath at his waist, and plunged it with all his fore:
into Brock's left breast, in the region :A 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 whee
charged with the murder by Police-constable No. 82a
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 occurred. 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 can any one divine the motive of this
—ff.rTliTs7l7;l•''A :SZt OF SUNDERLAND.—WO are au-
thorised to state that the Mryor of Sunderland (Alder-
man Gourley) will offer hSzuself as a candidate in the
Liberal interest at the next parliamentary election for the
borough of Sunderland. —Nortlicrii Daily Express.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—AIthough
no precise date has yet been fixed, it is expected that her
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.

Iler Majesty the Queen, it is understood, has
been graciously pleased to command 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
Mn. RUGG. —ln this case, heard in the Arches Court and
reported, the defendant has lodged an appeal to the Privy
Council, and the case will appear in the list. The clues
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 BY 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.—OH 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), or.
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 non•attendance were read from
the Earl of Powis, the Earl of Dartmouth, Lord Edward
Hill Trevor, M.P., W. 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 adcpted.
THE POISON OF THE COBRA.—An extensivo
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 he has received from
various parts of Europe, Dr. Shortt 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 bebienenthseuposses-
sion of anyone in Europe. Dr. Fox
has
with an ample stock of aaive poison,bothr. shintnhrett liquid
and crystalline for:n, for the purp)s p will
finally test the virtues of any specific which may possibly
be discovered.
INCENDIARIS3I IN Bums,--There were last week
oon farms. in the vicinity of
Aylesbury.
n farm of Mr. Charles
two more incendiary
first rstfi fires
sas
Pickering's, at Heath and Reach, and two large stacks of
Is'royed. A farm labourer named William
e
straw were
gave himself up, saying he had fired the property
inS Y
:aocrede; to be transported, as he had neither work nor
food. He 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 hia
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
.iepri,onment, ordered that he should be corrected by his
father by 1)a9411P 9f. a. birch reel, "