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The Sun. — 1836-10-28 (London, England)

THE LONDON FIRE ESTABLISHMENT.—It is important that the residents of the great towns and villages within twelve miles around London should know that in any emergency from fire the London Fire Establishment, as now constituted, is not only ready, but even anxious, to afford the assistance of its large engines and firemen to any extent, which the nature of the danger may require. Nay, further, a messenger arriving at the stations with information of the outbreak of an alarming fire within the above distance around London, would be liberally paid on the following day, provided he gave the alarm in sufficient time to enable the engines to arrive so as to be of real service in checking the spread of the conflagration. The following atrocities, instances of which are of more rare occurrence among our neighbours than with us, happened at Dieppe within the last few days. On Sunday evening the 16th instant, while the Cure of St. Martin, a village between Dieppe and Eu, was at supper with his niece and servant, about eight r.m., some persons knocked.. at the door, rushed in, stabbed the servant with a knife, and murdered the priest and his niece. He was much respected, and had nearly attained the advanced age of eighty years. On Tuesday, a man named Vincent Degre, went into a public-house at Oaville, with a friend, whom he invited to take a glass or two with him, but on the recke,iiing being called he found that he had no money, and his frond paid the score. After this the friend in joke cut off the the rim of his hat, at which Degre only laughed, and, and both parties left the house. Degre, however, being met by some acquaintance, they so joked him about the damage of his hat, saying the landlord had played him a pretty trick, and that he ought not to put up with it, &c., that the weak infuriated man returned to the house, where first meeting the landlord's wife he felled her to the ground with a stick, and then attacking the landlord beat him in so dreadful a manner that the poor man only survived a few hours. The assassin was immediately taken into custody. Poor Jack, the ourang-outang, at the Garden of Plants, Paris, has been so severely indisposed since the weather has been so damp and cold, that the faculty entertain apprehensions of his not going through the winter. His affection is an acute pleurisy. He is visited every day by four or five eminent physicians, who hold frequent consultations on his case. Several distinguished professors of the Garden of Plants also call on him, but he receives all his visiters ill, except the negro servant of the giraffe, in whom he expresses great confidence. To bleeding, leeching, cupping, and other remedies prescribed, he manifests the utmost aversion, and, instead of the patience and resignation so desirable in his situation, betrays moroseness, depression, and irritability. . The remedies applied have hitherto produced little effect ; his movements are slow, his skin cold, his eyes dim, and a fatal result is apprehended.  . .
The Sun. — 1836-11-28 (London, England)

RAILROAD ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. —The Company of Shareholders, at the head of which is Mr. Beddle, an United States man, and M. Azuero, a Colombian, having lodged the necessary securities, and perfected their guarantees with the Government of New Grenada for the making of a railroad, as conceded to them by a decree of the 6th June last, and rendering navigable a stream which goes the remainder of the way across this Isthmus, which separates the Atlantic from the Pacific Oceans, the grant was finally perfected on the 26th of August, and the works are to be commenced without delay. —Colombian Paper. During the last week a report was spread in the village of Saulzoir that a horrible murder had been committed, that a man bad been cut into pieces, and that a hand covered with blood had been found. This report lost nothing in its circulation ; every atrocity was attached to it that could render it more horrible. The greffier proceeded to examine the mutilated member, when, on close inspection, it turned out to be nothing but a beetroot, which a freak of nature had made into that form. It is a most perfect resemblance in every particular of a human hand, even to the length of the different fingers.—Paris paper. The copyright, steel plates, and entire property of Lodge's celebrated work, the Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, with the accruing profits of the fifth edition, now publishing by Messrs. Harding and Lepard, were last week sold to Mr. William Smith, of Bouverie-street, for four thousand guineas. During the last week a girl, of the name of C. Mason, working in the Old Field, Pollockshaws, was supposed to be with child, by one of the soldiers. She was taken badly on the night previous to Halloween, and, as she appeared next morning at her work, no notice of the affair took place, she having been as merry as the rest in cutting the tails off her old lovers coats, and pulling the stocks from the yards on Halloween night. But the fiscal of the Slms, from information, discovers the existence of some dark deed, and in consequence she was apprehended, and confessed that she threw her child over the Pollockshaws-bridge. Her sister and mother were takea rom Pollockshaws in a coach along with the girl to Paisley, where she now lies awaiting her trial. No circumstance, for a great number of years, has caused such an extraordinary speculation as the above.—Caledonian Mercury. GOOD FRlDAYS.—Fridays are said to be unpropitious days ; but now and then some favoured individual appears, upon whom the unlucky spell is powerless. Forrest, the tragedian, seems to be one exception to the geral rule, as he was born on a Friday, received the first approval of a New York widienee on a Friday, opened at the Park Theatre on a Friday, sailed from Havre on. his return home on a Friday, will leave for London rthe packet of the 16th, which falls on a Friday, and, ace mor( mg English audience his present arrangements, will appear before an audience on a Friday also. Heretofore all Fridays have ..have been good Fridays to him,—Neto York Mirror,
The Sun. — 1836-01-05 (London, England)

MAR YLEB ONE.  CHARGE OF MURDER.—Yesterday Jame: Quin, a labouring man, was placed at the bar before Mr. RANYLINSON, charged on suspicion of causing the death of Andrew Ryan.  Mary Ryan, wife of the deceased, and her husband, lodged at No. 3, Baker's-court, East-street, and the prisoner resided in the same house. On Sunday morning, about eleven o'clock, she returned home with her little dog, and entered the front parlour occupied by the landlady, and at the door of the room stood the prisoner, who lifted his foot and gave the dog a desperate kick. Witness asked him his reason for so doing, adding, that if he had any spite he might ill-use her—not the dog. He then abused her, and some words ensued between them, which finished by his shutting the door in her face. She then went up to her own room and told the deceased what had occurred, when he said ho " believed they would hang him and the dog too, if they could." Nothing more passed on the subject, and they sat down to breakfast, in the midst of which the deceased got up and went down stairs, and shortly after hearing a scuffle, she followed, and in the passage saw the prisoner and the deceased fighting. She tried to part them, but was unable, and immediately after the deceased went out into the court, exclaiming, " That's not fair—that's not fair." The prisoner went out after him with a tea-cup in his hand, on seeing which deceased said, " That's no weapon, use your arms ;" and witness then returned up stairs, and saw no more. The deceased, soon afterwards came up stairs, and, seating himself in a chair, leant back and closed his eyes. She asked him what was the matter, but he made no answer. She then laid him on the ground and sent for a surgeon; before whose arrival her husband was a corpse. Elizabeth Balby, who said that her husband was a servant at the residence of the Marquis of Conyngham, lodged in the next room to the one occupied by the deceased's wife. On Sunday morning she heard deceased say that he would kick the very liver out of any man that would kick his dog. Shortly after she heard a disturbance, and on going into the passage saw the deceased knock the prisoner down, and then drag him by the hair of his head to the street door. The blood was then flowing copiously from the mouth and nose of the prisoner. Witness tried to separate them, when they both went into the court, but no blows took place. They then returned into the house, when the prisoner went into his room (the back parlour), and, taking up the firetongs, swore he-would have his revenge, and aim a blow with them at the deceased, but missed him. The deceased then-went to his own room, and witness believed that as be was afflicted with an impediment in his speech, he was not able to give vent to his feelings, and worked himself up to such a pitch, that he was actually choked with passion. Witness did not see any cup in the hands of the prisoner, neither did she see him strike the deceased once. The prisoner was remanded till the result of the Coroner's inquest was known.
The Sun. — 1836-07-13 (London, England)

ELLENBOROUGH. said he would suggest that the Commissioners described in the clause should be appointed in the same way as the Commissioners under the New Poor Law Act. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he had no objection, and the amendment was agreed to. The clause was then agreed to. Upon clause 4, Lord ELLENBOROUGH moved as an amendment that the Commissioners be invested with the same power of appointing assistant commissioners, clerks, raid merengers as is given to the Commissioners under the 'Poor Law Act, subject to the control of the Treasury as to salaries and number. The amendment was agreed to, -and the clause, as amended, was agreed to. Upon clause 10, Lord WYNFORD proposed that considering the very important duties to be performed by the Commissioners, an oath should be substituted for the declaration required by the clause. The Duke of RICHMOND objected to the system of requiring oaths from persons appointed to almost every office. The amendment was then agreed to. The clause, as amended, was agreed to. The clauses up to 33 (with the exception of clause 22, which was postponed) were severally put and agreed to. In many of them a number of unimportant amendments were made. Clause 34 was agreed to, with the several verbal amendments. On clause 35 being proposed, Lord WYNFORD suggested a proviso that the Commissioners in any case in which they .stated they could not find the real value of the tithe, should be required to give reasons for that statement. After a short discussion, the question was put and the clause negatived. Lord WYNFORD should move the proviso again in a subsequent stage of the Bill. The clause was then agreed to. Clause 36 was also agreed to. • Upon clause 37 being proposed, Lord ASHBURTON inquired if the payment of tithes in a parish would not be varied, according to the fact whether hops were or were not cultivated. • The Marquis of LANSDOWNE admitted that it certainly would be an exception to the principle of the Bill, which was to fix the payment of tithes. The clause was agreed to. Clause 38 agreeSto. Upon the motion ,of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, " orchards " were included in the 39th clause. The remaining clauses were then agreed to with verbal amendments. The postponed clauses were also considered and agreed to, as was also the preamble. The House resumed, and the Bill, as amended, was reported and ordered to be printed with the amendments. The Murderers' Execution Bill went through Committee. The Holyhead Road Bill was also committed without amendments. The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned at a quarter past twelve o'clock.  In her new work, " Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw," Mrs. Trollope has again taken the ground whereon she formerly reaped ,so much renown. Her descriptions in the above product►on of the scenery on the shores of the Mississippi are exceedingly grand and striking ; while in developing the character of her hero (the son of a " squatter in the bush)," she has displayed with irresistible effect, the mind, morals, language and pursuits of a genuine Yankee adventurer.
The Sun. — 1836-11-03 (London, England)

LUTHER'S BIRTH-PLACE.ThiS great Reformer was born at Eisleben, a town of 7,000 inhabitants, on the Bose, a small stream. The house in which he was born, 1483, is not far from the gate leading to Halle, a few doors from the Post-office. His portrait is placed over the entrance. The original building was partly consumed by fire in 1689, but there is still enough left of it to give interest to it. It is now converted into a school for the gratuitous education of poor children, and contains his cap; cloak, and other relics. In St. Andrew's church is the pulpit from which he preached. Luther was the son of a poor miner, and the greater part of the inhabitants are still of the same profession, working in the neighbourhood of the copper mines. Luther died here in 1564. An attempt at robbery took place at Sandon, in the house of Mr. Adams, grocer, on Tuesday night, between twelve and one o'clock. Mr. Adams, some time after he had been in bed, indistinctly hearing some persons softly moving in the house, and then trying to open his sleeping•room door, got out of bed and opened it, suspecting it was his daughter. Three ruffians stood on the staircase immediately opposite, one of whom he thought he heard say, " You are the villain we want," and instantly struck him with a plough coulter, repeating the blow ten times, chiefly on the head, as if their only intention was to murder him. He asked what they wanted ? " Your money," was the answer. He then said, "Do not use me thus, and I will give you what I have ; but I paid it all away in the evening except two half-crowns and some sixpences." " You lie, you —," was the reply. He repeated that what he had told them was true. " Have you any sovereigns ?" was the next question. " No, not one," replied Air. Adams, and repeated again what money he had. His daughter entered the room in her night dress, and the apprentice rushed out of the house to procure assistance. Miss Adams then laid hold of the man who had her father down, and begged of him to desist, saying she would give him all she had. Immediately she received a blow on the face and arm, and the men knowing that one of the family had escaped to give an alarm, and having obtained the cash box, they made off, but were met at the door by a Mr. Cannon, whom the apprentice had fetched. " you," said one of them," " what do you mean ?" Cannon said " I will let you know," and immediately struck him a blow on the temple, which occasioned him a considerable flow of blood. The cash box was dropped in the struggle, and the fellows escaped. Three men have since been apprehended, one of them having a severe wound on the temple, supposed to be the villain struck by Cannon.— County Chronicle. Two men, named John Crister and James Bolton, are in custody on a charge of setting fire to the barn of S. Grace, Esq., at Frant, in Kent, which was burnt down on the night of the 19th ult. They have undergone several examinations before Daniel:Rowland, Esq., the Magistrate of Frant, by whom they have been fully committed for trial. It is said that one of the men has made a full confession of the crime.
The Sun. — 1836-04-15 (London, England)

SHOCKING TM URDER.—A tinker named Butler has been committed to Cork gaol, charged with the murder of his wife. lie is suspected of the murder of another tinker named Sullivan, and it is supposed he got rid of his own wife in order to marry the wife of the latter.  T is British Legion has certainly nothing to thank General Cordova for; while the claims he has to the gratitude of his country will be considered very low by the impartial observer of passing events. General Cordova, who has scarcely attained his 38th year, is unquestionably a man of coasirable talent, but of that order of mind superficial rather than profound, which, with peculiar tact, appropriates as its own the profundity of others. Under a fascinating polish of exterior and an air of military frankness, he conceals the most restless ambition and a spirit of consummate intrigue, which, fertile in resource and flexible in varying its means, has enabled him, while directing the operations of the army in the north, to direct at the same time the manoeuvres of a strong party et Madrid, of which he is the head. His political opinions are notorious. One of the warmest partisans of the despostismo illastrado, Cordova has become a Liberal, par ton, rather than par sentiment. His liberalism dates from the period of his diplomatic mission to Portugal. Appointed since to the command of the army, he has carried into the camp all the wiles of diplomacy, and has filled the army with his creatures. The game which he has been playing has been a deep one. While opposing the Carlists in the north, he closely watched the movements of the Exaltados in the south, from the conviction that the extinction of the Carlists would insure the Movement party in power. This party Cordova hates with all the rancour of political animosity. Rather than see this party in power, he would, to-morrow, make common cause with the more moderate section of the Carlists. Hence the Fabian policy he has pursued in the field—hence his dislike to the Legion, a force that he feels, if brought into play, would inevitably, by its operations, thwart his treacherous policy—hence all the resources of his talent for intrigue were called into play to lower it in the estimation of the Spanish nation, and to compromise its military character, in which he has well nigh succeeded. But one of those unexpected events which often sport with the most profound combinations has, at the eleventh hour, foiled him ; this was the despatch, received lately, from Lord John Hay, the commander of the British naval forces on the coast of Cantabria, announcing that he ha'd received orders from his Government to co-operate actively with the forces of the Queen. To Cordova this intelligence—delighted though he pretends to be—has been a death-blow. Events are now beyond his controul, and he already sees the necessity of changing his line of operations, the first indication of which has been a well-feigned sympathy for the sufferings of the legion, formerly with him a subject of derision, and complimentary remarks upon the military appearance of the troops.
The Sun. — 1836-11-09 (London, England)

MAR YLEB ONE.  Yesterday- John Savage, a middle-aged, determinedlooking Irishman, and a savage by nature as well as by name, was brought up in custody, and placed at the bar before Mr. RAWLINSON, charged with having made the following desperate effort to murder Henry Batson, Esq., of North Villa, Regent's Park, in whose service he had been living for a short period as footman : Mr. Batson proceeded to state that the prisoner came into his service in the beginning of last month, but soon afterwards received notice to quit on account of uncleanly habits and general bad conduct. On Monday morning, at breakfast-time, he waited at table with a linen jacket on so very dirty that Mrs. Batson desired that he would pull it off, and send it to be washed. He replied in a very insolent tone that he should do no such thing; as he had no other to wear. Soon after this he asked for and obtained leave to quit the house, upon business. He returned home in about three hours in a state of intoxication, and on seeing Mrs. Batson he swore he would murder her, and ran after her with the fury of a maniac. He (Mr. Batson) was at this time sitting in the library reading, when Mrs. Batson ran screaming to him for protection, followed by the enraged prisoner, who snatched up the poker from the fire-place, and swinging it round to give it, more force, aimed a terrific blow at his (Mr. Batson's) head, at the same time exclaiming, " O'Connell for ever, down with the English ; this is the way to serve them all." Prosecutor instantly raised the book •he had in his hand to guard head, and the stroke fell on it with such force that although a thick quarto volume, the binding and several of the leaves were completely cut through. Prosecutor in• scantly sprang up, and seizing the ruffian, forced fk,e poker from his grasp. The prisoner, disarmed, still vr,wed vengeance against the English, and that either himself or some of his countrymen would have prosece.tor's life for having given him warning to leave. Mr. BrAson stated in conclusien that the prisoner was to have left on the same day that he committed the outrage. The book was here produced, and appeared, as Mr. Batson had described it, completely cut through. The prisoner, who pretended t 4 'aave but a slight recollection of the matter, supposed he was exasperated at being forced to leave. _ _  Mr. RAWLINSON said that. was no reason for murdering his master. His conduct v;as the most ruffianly and audacious he had ever met wit'a, and to teach him batter for the time to come, he was find hole full penalty of 51., which, though inadequate to F.u.zh au offence, was, he regretted to say, the highest be eGvad impose. Prisoner—l can't pay such a sum. Mr. ItAwuNs ON—Then you'll go to prison for two months, and Itliink you richly deserve it. lie was aczordingly locked up.  WRECK AND Loss OF