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The Sun. — 1860-11-26 (London, England)

KIDNAPPING AND MURDER.—In America, the Chteego .I),.ess and Tribune of the 2fith ult. states that Jerry Boyd, an honest, indust• ions, and inoffensive coloured dravman ef Galena, Illinois, where he had led a sober and reputable life for twenty years; his wife, Mary Boyd, whom he had bought out of slavery with money earned by the sweat of his brow • a girl, also coloured, but also free, aged 12 to 14, who lived in Jerry's family ; and a white child that Mary took care of for a poor woman at service, were enticed away from their homes two or three weeks ago by a couple of persons, upon the pretence that the threw oldest persons of the party were to have profitable and pleasant employment on a farm and in a hotel at Des Moines, lowa. They were last seen in Johnson County, of that State, in a covered waggon, going westward. A few days after their departure from that county, the body of a man was found by the roadside near where they were last seen, and from papers in his pocket it was plain that it was the body of Boyd, and that he had been murdered. News of his death went back to his friends in Galena, and then for the first time a suspicion that the party had been kidnapped for sale into slavery was excited. That suspicion grew into a certainty by further develop • ments, and the people wno used to see Boyd every day at his work, earning honest bread, offered, though he was a mulatto, a reward of 500 dollars for the apprehension of the villains who had committed a double crime, and despatched two trusty men to follow the criminals up. The kidnappers effected a sale of their victims in Nlissouri, but before the money was paid over, one of the negroes, Mary Boyd, revealed the whole truth, in consequence of which the kidnappers and murderers were arrested. Their names are John Goodwin and Peter I. Bolton. One of them, Bolton, the first captured, was committed to gaol in St. Joseph, under a charge of kidnapping, in default of 2,000 dollars bail. The other Goodwin, was taken charge of by the gentlemen from Galena, who brought him within 40 miles of Hannibal, Missouri, on their way to Galena, where he slipped his irons, and jumped from the car window while the train was running at the rate of 13 miles an hour and escaped. Mrs. Body states that when the party had travelled three days out from Galena, they encamped by night about 16 miles from lowa city. Here some movements made by Goodwin and Bolton excited the suspicion of her husband that all was not right, and he loaded his gun and revolver in the presence of' the kidnappers. The next morning Goodwin and Bolton held a consultation, Goodwin urging the necessity of getting rid of Jerry by killing him. While Jerry was sitting down near the waggon, Goodwin stepped up to him, saying "Jerry, I am afraid ef you," and fired, first shooting him in the breast and then in the head. The murder was committed in the presence of Mrs. Boyd and the mulatto girl. A
The Sun. — 1860-09-10 (London, England)

CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR HAULBOWLINE. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 6th Sept., 1860. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 18th instant, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into Store at her Majesty's Naval Yard at Haulbowlin e,  1,500 Tons of SOUTH WALES COALS,  fit for the service of her Majesty's Steam Vessels.  A form f the Tender may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unle.s the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing.  Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary, of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Ooals for Haulbowline," and must also be delivered. at Sometiet-place, accompanied by a letter signed by a responsible person, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of £3OO, for the due performance of the Contract.  offering up their General to their lox e of absolutism they were effectually relieved from what otherwise might have seemed the rather pressing necessity of fighting for it. A course combining so many advantages was absolutely irresistible ; so the General was murdered with every circumstance of ferocity and barbarity, and his troops, having thus relieved their feeling by this sanguinary protest against liberalism in the person of Briganti, disbanded themselves at once, and left liberalism in the person of Garibaldi at liberty to march in triumph to the metropolis, That goal he reached yesterday, to the inexpressible relief of the inhabitants, who naturally expected from the retiring dynasty a bombardment, if not a massacre and general pillage, executed as nearly as possible according to the pattern of the 15th of May, 1848. Tyranny, however, in this instance had to be humane for lack of instruments audacious enough to execute its cruelty. Retribution would have followed too closely. Even a Neapolitan railway does not consume more than two hours in the journey from La Cava to Naples, and Garibaldi was known to be at La Cava.  What his course will be when master of Naples we forbear to speculate; facts will speedily speak for themselves; but one service we hope he will render to the enlightenment of the human race —towards exploding the grossest and most baneful superstition. We hope he will possess himself of the mixture called the blood of St. Januarius, and cause it to be submitted to a searchinv chymical analysis, and make the results, whatever they may be, known to the civilised world. It is worthy of the hand which has just emancipated the people from the fetters of temporal oppression to expose one of the grossest and most impudent frauds which even the priesthood of -gle_South of Italy ever practised on the credulity of a semi-barbarous population.—Times.  LORD WODEHOUs'E ON
The Sun. — 1860-02-01 (London, England)

EMPEROR—the Univers is warned and warned again, and at last extinguished ! As Englishmen we, of course, should  like the Univers and any paper in Paris to write and publish what opinions it pleased—but there is one old text which commends itself to every judgment by its own weight, as well as by that of him who gave it. " With what measure ye mete withal it shall be measured unto you." And this is the judgment which the Univers has received. It is too equitable not to be approved in England. All free or none free, is the:only rule we can tolerate here or abroad.  What follows must be awful, indeed, at Rome and in Ireland. The leading Paris journals all seem as if the blow which had knocked down the Univers had struck off their fetters. Above all, the Constitutionnel argues out the whole case with the most unflinching audacity—an audacity borrowed, of course, from Imperial inspiration. And the EMPEROR is right,—politically right we mean—not supposing that EMPERORS can care for any other right. He has appealed to a principle no one can impugn, and to traditions of which France has reason to be proud. It is notorious matter of history that the Gallivan Church has always been proud of its liberties. Frenchmen would be good Catholics, but not slaves, to a pope who transcended his spiritual jurisdiction. The Catholic principle that his jurisdiction is purely spiritual no intelligent Catholic could deny ; the fact that France had in her best days always denied any other, is equally incontrovertible. In this great controversy, therefore, the EMPE ROR has all whom he wants on his side. The army, for they are angry that the POPE and the clergy cheated them of the glory of finishing the Italian war according to its original programme. The people, for they love their traditional ecclesiastical liberties more than they do the rabid Ultramontanists of the day. The Italians—they of course are ready to worship him for holding off from them the brutal hands of Austria, and of the murderers of Perugia, while they are consolidating their liberties. The intelligence of England and of all Europe, for the absurdity of the Pope's temporal  rule is the laughing-stock or the hatred of all lovers of freedom. Napoleon has, besides, 60,000 men in Italy to bid all would-be interveners keep their distance—and now he has plainly told the POPE that  no one shall hurt him if he keeps quiet at Rome, but that all his subjects outside its walls may choose  a better master as soon as they please ! This is  clearly the meaning of the last clause of the Imperial article in the Con stitutionnel, which our readers will find in another column. %Ve can only say, the sooner the better. Rome is too much to  be sacrificed to the temporal despotism of a spiritual power ; and the first step will probably soon be, that Rome will acknowledge in the POPE its Bishop only.
The Sun. — 1860-02-01 (London, England)

EMPEROR—the Univers is warned and warned again, and at last ex tiuguished! As Englishmen we, of course, should like the Univers and any paper in Paris to write  and publish what opinions it pleased—but there is one old text which commends itself to every  judgment by its own weight, as well as by that of him who gave it. " With what measure ye mete withal it shall be measured unto you." And this is the judgment which the Univers has received. It is too equitable not to be approved in England. All free or none free, is the only rule we can tole rate here or abroad. What follows must be awful, indeed, at Rome and in Ireland. The leading Paris journals all seem as if the blow which had knocked down the Univers had struck off their fetters. Above all, the Constitutionnel argues out the whole case with the most unflinching audacity—an audacity borrowed, of course, from Imperial inspiration. And the EMPEROR is right,—politically right we mean—not supposing that EMPERORS can care for any other right. He has appealed to a principle no one can impugn, and to traditions of which France has reason to be proud. It is notorious matter of history that the Gallican Church has always been proud of its liberties. Frenchmen would be good Catholics, but not slaves, to a pope who transcended his spiritual jurisdiction. The Catholic principle that his jurisdiction is purely spiritual no intelligent Catholic could deny ; the fact that France had in her best days always denied any other, is equally incontrovertible. In this great controversy, therefore, the EMPE ROE has all whom he wants on his side. The army, for they are angry that the POPE and the clergy cheated them of the glory of finishing the Italian war according to its original programme. The people, for they love their traditional ecclesiastical liberties more than they do the rabid Ultramontanists of the day. The Italians—they of course are ready to worship him for holding off from them the brutal hands of Austria, and of the murderers of Perugia, while they are consolidating their liberties. The intelligence of England and of all Europe, for the absurdity of the Pope's temporal rule is the laughing-stock or the hatred of all lovers of freedom. Napoleon has, besides, 60,000 men in Italy to bid all would-be interveners keep their distance—and now he has plainly told the POPE that no one shall hurt him if he keeps quiet at Rome, but that all his subjects outside its walls may choose a better master as soon as they please ! This is clearly the meaning of the last clause of the Imperial article in the Constitutionnel, which our readers will find in another column. We can only say, the sooner the better. Rome is too much to be sacrificed to the temporal despotism of a spiritual power ; and the first step will probably soon be, that Rome will acknowledge in the POPE its Bishop only.
The Sun. — 1860-07-31 (London, England)

ABD-EL-KADER, who has behaved most nobly throughout. At evening 300 soldiers were sent out, but they joined the mob in the plunder and massacre. As might be expected, " the whole Christian quarter—which includes some of the finest palaces to be found in the empire —was soon one mass of flames ; and (for this there is the positive authority of a European eye-witness, who was hiding in the neighbourhood all that fearful night), as the Christians tried to escape from the flames they were thrust back on the burning piles by the bayonets of the Turkish regular troops troops. However, when we recollect that one of the military chiefs who commanded in Damascus was OSMAN BEG, the miscreant who but three weeks previously had delivered up at Hasbeyia upwards of fifteen hundred Christians to be massacred by the Druses, all wonder at the conduct of the military ceases at once. The burning, slaughter, and pillage went on till the whole Christian quarter was burnt down, and we road that " What the Turkish authorities did may be summed up in one word—" Nothing." • No less than six times did that gallant old man, Mr. Brant, the English consul, and the Rev. Mr. Robson, Irish Presbyterian missionary, at the utmost risk of their lives, go together to the Pacha Achmet, and urge him to do something to save the lives of the Christians. No : h e said he could, and showed that he would, do nothing, but remained " consulting" in the castle. Can we wonder that the prevalent opinion should be that the vs hole is a gigantic scheme of the 'urkish Government to crush Christianity out of Syria ? So uniform has been the conduct of the Turkish authorities, so evident their complicity in the murders, so barbarous their indifference to the urgent wants of those who are deprived of food even, that the inhabitants of all classes can hardly avoid the conclusion that they act on secret orders from the Government, That such orders can have come from Constantinople we may well disbelieve. The SULTAN must know but too well, even were he the savage to do such things, which he is not, that prompt awl summary inter• ference from Powers but too glad of the pretext, would be the immediate result. But, that his bigoted representatives iu these remoter provinces are of one mind—and that the most Satanic which can be imagined, there is little doubt. It is but too evident that something decisive must be done. That the Turkish Government must be made responsible for peace and security in Syria, or that the Christian Powers must take the business into their own hands.  The Earl and Countess Delawarr left town yesterday for their seat, Buckhurst••park, Sussex, for a few days.  Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston returned to London yesterday from Osborne.  Lady de DunstanNille left town yesterday for Audley-end, on a visit to Lord and Lady Braybrooke.  Lord Clyde has returned to Wallace's Hotel, St. George's-place, Hyde-park-corner, from Osborne.
The Sun. — 1860-08-14 (London, England)

SUMAIER ASSIZES. •  NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIVERrooL, Aug. 13. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) This morning Captain Leslie, found guilty at the last assizes on an indictment for falsely imprisoning fire Chilian gentlemen, who were political prisoners sentenced to 4e banished, and who was employed by the Chilian Government to bring them in his ship to this country, and land them in Liverpool, was brought up for judgment. A case having been reserved for the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeal, the conviction was affirmed, that Court being of opinion that, although perfectly justified in detaining the prosecutors so long as his ship was in Chilian waters, yet that their detention against their will was unlawful when the defendant had passed out of the boundaries of that country. His lordship sentenced the defendant to be fined ls., and to be discharged. James Halloran, 17, and Phillip Mack, 18, were indicted for the wilful murder of Patrick Gibbons, at Liverpool, on the 2d of May last. Mr. AsDinall and the Hon. Dudley Campbell prosecuted; and Mr. Deighton defended the prisoners.  It appeared that the prisoners were shoeblacks, following their vocation in Bispham-street, Liverpool, and that the deceased man had recently come into their street as a rival. At about half-past 11 o'clock on the night of the 2d of May the deceased and a lad named Hayes went down Bispham-street, and the two prisoners and a third man were on the opposite side of the street. One of the three men threw a stone at the deceased, and immediately crossed over and asked Hayes and the deceased if they wanted anything. At that time the prisoner Mack had a poker in his hand with which he struck Patrick Gibbons on the head, knocking him down. Hayes then ran away, followed by Mack, and it then appeared from the evidence of a woman named Archibald that the two prisoners, on seeing the deceased in the street, ran into the house where they lived, and said, " they wanted a poker to beat a lad at the top of the street." Mack then got a poker from the fireplace, and the other prisoner obtained a sling shot, with which they went out ; and after Mack had struck the deceased with the poker, and, while he was chasing Hayes, Halloran struck the deceased various blows with the sling shot, and the third man who was with the prisoner raised the deceased up and dashed his head against the footpath. On Mack returning he jumped on the deceased, who was lying on the ground, saying, "he had stopped the - from saying anything for three months, and perhaps for six." The deceased died three days afterwards from the injuries he had received. His Lordship having summed up, The jury found the prisoners guilty of manslaughter.  His Lordship, in passing sentence, said it was as cruel and as bad a manslaughter as he had ever heard, and that the difference between it and murder was very slight. The sentence of the Court was, that they be sent to penal servitude for the term of their lives.  [
The Sun. — 1860-08-14 (London, England)

SUMMER ASSIZES.  NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LivERrooL, Aug. 13. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) This morning Captain Leslie, found guilty at the last assizes on an indictment for falsely imprisoning five Chilian gentlemen, who were political prisoners sentenced to be banished, and who was employed by the Chilian Government to bring them in his ship to this country, and land them in Liverpool, was brought up for judgment. A case having been reserved for the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeal, the conviction was affirmed, that Court being of opinion that, although perfectly justified in detaining the prosecutors so long as his ship was in Chilian waters, yet that their detention against their will was unlawful when the defendant had passed out of the boundaries of that country. His lordship sentenced the defendant to be fined ls., and to be discharged. James Halloran, 17, and Phillip Mack, 18, were indicted for the wilful murder of Patrick Gibbons, at Liverpool, on the 2d of May last. Mr. Aspinall and the Hon. Dudley Campbell prosecuted; and Mr. Deighton defended the Prisoners. It appeared that the prisoners were shoeblacks, following their vocation in Bispham-street, Liverpool, and that the deceased man had recently come into their street as a rival. At about half-past 11 o'clock on the night of the 2d of May the deceased and a lad named Hayes went down Bispham-street, and the two prisoners and a third man were on the opposite side of the street. One of the three men threw a stone at the deceased, and immediately crossed over and asked Hayes and the deceasedif they wanted anything. At that time the prisoner Mack had a poker in his hand with which he struck Patrick Gibbons on the head, knocking him down. Hayes then ran away, followed by Mack, and it then appeared from the evidence of a woman named Archibald that the two prisoners, on seeing the deceased in the street, ran into the house where they lived, and said, " they wanted a poker to beat a lad at the top of the street." Mack then got a poker from the fireplace, and the other prisoner obtained a sling shot, with which they went out; and after Mack had struck the deceased with the poker, and, while he was chasing Hayes, Halloran struck the deceased various blows with the sling shot, and the third man who was with the prisoner raised the deceased up and dashed his head against the footpath. On Mack returning he jumped on the deceased, who was lying ou the ground, saying, "he had stopped the from saying anything for three months, and perhaps for six." The deceased died three days afterwards from the injuries he had received. His Lordship having summed up, The jury found the prisoners guilty of man slaughter. His Lordship, in passing sentence, said it was as cruel and as bad a manslaughter as ho had ever heard, and that the difference between it and murder was vety slight. The sentence of the Court was, that they be sent to penal servitude for the term of their lives.  [
The Sun. — 1860-05-12 (London, England)

WORKIIOUSE.—EIisabeth Travers, a bold, violent, and ill-conducted woman, about 20 years of age, a pauper chargeable to the Stepney Union, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charges with violently assaulting Julia Flower, assistant matron of the Wapping pocr-house, in which the adult females of the union are lodged and maintained. The prisoner has been several times before the magistates of this court for assaults on other paupers, and disorderly eonduct in the workhouse, and is answerable for muoh of the itsubordination which has prevailed in the building, and has led to inquiries on the part of the Centi al Poor Law Board and the Board of Guardians of the Stepney Union.  It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Flower, a most respectable and well-conducted woman, t'fiat while her husband was taking in the bread and weighibg it, the prisoner annoyed him and the baker, used disgusting language, and alluding to the infirmity of Mr. Flower, being pock-marked, said he had more specks in his face than would fill a bushel measure. She also called him cribbage-face, laughed at him, and applied foul epithets to the baker who was delivering the bread. Mrs. Flower repeatedly begged of the prisoner to desist, which she refused to do. Mrs. Flower endeavoured to remove her, and the prisoner swore at her, attacked her in a furious manner, and struck her a violent blow on her breast. Mrs. Flower seized the prisoner, but although a strong woman was no match for her fury ; she tore her dress, attempted to strangle her, and got her finger in her mouth and bit it. Mrs. Flower, with difficulty, extricated her linger and called upon her husband to assist in securing the prisoner. He did so, and the prisoner then made an attack upon him, threw him down, and scored his face with her nails, which were both long and sharp. Both Mr. and Mrs. Flower bore marks of the injuries they had received. Mrs. Flower also said, " You can't tell, sir, what I have to put up with from that woman. Sho has been abusing me for the last fort night. She came behind mo one day and threw me down, and laughed at me. She is the terror of the place." Mr. Selfe—l know she is. She has been convicted several times. Mrs. Flower—Five or six times.  The prisoner—It's a lie—only four times. Roche--She has been convicted three times for violent assaults on the pauper females, and been convicted of disorderly conduct.  The prisoner—l was knocked about yesterday. I was nearly murdered. Look at my head how it has been thumped. (There was nothing the matter with her head.)  Mr. Selfe—You are a moat desperate woman—a nuisance and a terror to the other inmates. Your conduct all the year round has been very bad. I sentenco you to six weeks' imprisonment and hard labour for an aggravated assault. The prisoner immediately struck the top of the dock in front of her, and exclaimed, " That humbugging sentence will take as much effect upon me as a blister on this board."