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The Sun. — 1851-05-26 (London, England)

THE LATE MURDER NEAR LEIGH. The adjourned inquest was held on Friday, before Mr. Rutter, coroner, at the Greyhound lan, Bedford, but, as will be seen by the subjoined evidence, no further facts have as yet been obtained to bring the offence home to the reel perpetrators. John Green, being sworn, said—l reside at Astley, and keep a beershop. I was going up the lane last Wednesday night but one, with Thomas Collier, about a quarter-past ten o'clock. I was smoking my pipe when we met the deceased, George Green. I have often traded with him. I turned back with him to see if I could have a bit of trade with him. As we came up the road I went into Mr. Darlington's saw-yard, and he (the deceased) went to the house to get a gill of beer. I came afterwards to the canal bridge with him, with some chips in my hand. I told him I would sell him some manure, and allow him 3d. a ton if he would give me 7s. a ton for it, and he told me to see him on the following afternoon. I left him at the bridge, and I never saw him after. We had agreed to meet the next day about the manure. When I left him he went straight down the lane, and I could not see which way he went. lie was not drunk, but he had had a few gills. He had two ways to go— either along the canal bank or over the fields. If he had gone over the canal bank he could not have gone near the pit where he was found. I then went home, but afterwards went out again, smoking my pipe, and met John Smith, who lives close to my house. I stopped talking to Smith a quarter of an hour in the lane. When I parted with Smith, I stopped at the end of the house until John Guest, known by the name of " Captain," came up. When I left George Green on the bridge I did not see any one about. The most direct road for the inwhichdeceased h toe wgeats iotohuind. his house would have been past the pit  This being the only witness able to give any satisfactory evidence. it was suggested by Captain Shepherd, superintendent of the county police, that if the inquiry was closed at once, the police would no doubt be ab'e to pursue their investigations with more facility. The coroner and also the jury acquiescA in this suggestion, and a verdict was returned of " Wilful murder by some person or persons unknown."—Alanchester Courier.  Powers' statue of Calhoun constitutes a prominent object of interest to the visitor in Charleston. It occupies a •17 unfortunate position in a cheerless apartment of the City Hall. p' It would be unfair to form an opinion of it as a work of art," says a paper quoted by the Literary World, aod h tehlikeness there in ne the ".while it stands in so bad a light, to say nothing of its discolouration by the salt water, and its mutilation in the loss of the right arm. The figure, however, is very noble, number of capital daguerreotype likenesses of American celebrities, , mortal he is.--.Builder. divialsiboonunof: tahe strange .ElolCohkii Exhibition, n hseoijne. 8 well nigh perfect."—By the way, amongst a o'f e
The Sun. — 1851-10-10 (London, England)

SOYER.—The plaintiff in this action sought, in the Brompton County Court, to recover 151. for the hire of a band of musicians on the opening-day of the Great Exhibition, the Ist of May. The King of Cuisines demurred to the charge as being exorbitant, inasmuch as Mr. Grattan Cooke, the leader of the 2d Life Guards' band, had furnished the Symposium with celestial trumpeters at the rate of 51. per fete. Mr. Flexmore, the ballet master and celebrated clown and monkey, of the Princess's Theatre, was called to prove the engagement, when it appeared his agile faculties had got him into difficulties ; for, to amuse the Emperor of Gore House and his suite, Mr. Flexmore bounded over an eight feet wall into a laundry. His apparition so scared the wash-tubs that the cries of " Murder" and " Thieves" brought the "bobbies" before ho could bound back again, and Police-constable 85 introduced Mr. Flexmore to the Judge amidst a round of merriment. He deposed to being a friend of M. Soyer's, who intrusted him to engage a band for the opening of the Symposium. He accordingly engaged Mr. Dean, who had the first orchestra in London, and that gentleman attended at defendant's place on the )st of May, and played from eleven to six. M. Soyer afterwards said that he was glad he sons the hand, and was delighted with their performance. From what he knew of the customary charge for orchestral fetes, he should say that one guinea per musician was but fair, and that Mr. Grattan Cooke, by charging 51, for ton performers at a fete, was doing an injustice to himself, his profession, and M. Soyer Mr. Sutton, and ether members of the band, deposed to their playing, and to the terms being very reasonable, M. Soyer said ho resisted the demand, first, from nun-liability; and, secondly, from exorbitance. It was true, Mr. Flexmore spoke to him about the band, but he thought Mr. Flexmore must have laboured under a mis take-whon be stated that which ho had. He was pestered with applications from orchestral leaders, and he believed, tt t the time he gave Mr. Flexmore permission to send some wind—(Lam.Thter)—that it was done to coax him, by their strainr, to give them a permanent engagement. Ho, however, had engaged another band, and who, upon finding the band of Mr. Dean upon the grounds, at once became jealous, and refused to blow a reed or whack a drum.—(Loud laughter.) His company did not come until the Exhibition closed, when, to his dismay? Mr. Dean refused to play another " God save the Queen," alleging that it was not for want of loyalty, but for want of wind.—(Roars.) He was thus left for the evening without musio, save some hurdy-gurdies the !list boys brought in.—(Shouts.) Mr. Donoghue, superintendent to tho Symposium, deposed to the refusal of the plaintiff to perform after six o'clock, and said that Grattan Cooke's band performed twice the time for half the amount.  His Honour said, that if Mr. Grattan Cooke chose to play for nothing, he could do so—with that the plaintiff could have no concern. He thought the justice of the case would be met by giving a verdict for 104 and costs.  [
The Sun. — 1851-10-10 (London, England)

THE PROME MURDER.— b) and William Maggs, The Most Rev. Dr. Mq-lalelefhtisLEonmdinonencyeecstaerrddinaay for Hilton Grange, in company withi of hr Iva ipnpgr ebheeenndeeodnbeye r nitecit Detective i theve mitred on the poor Sarah Watts. the This morning . ny vraneare jborohnugshintkiunps, beforetsizis NwVh.exHihSeheevpihdeernde,e usilton. the deceased was taken, and also of a man named Watts, who saw the prisoners, in company with others, going in the Sleartgeeant horrible Smith,On murderB direction of the house where the murder was committed, on the day of the murder. There are other circumstances of a T. Sth.ellfaatrrheirsoof suspicious nature against the prisoners, 'which must not for the present be made public. Sergeant Smith applied for a remand of the prisoners until Monday next, which was granted. M. and Lady Jane Peel are about to break up their establishmeat at Brighton, and reside abroad for six 1 months. Mr. and Lady Jane Peel have returned to Kemp Town from Butler's-green, and we believe their departure for the continent has been delayed by the serious illness of one of their sons. M. De Savigny, member of the Academy of Scia. e nt Versailles,known n advanced agefor his works on zoology, has just expired  THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,  We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. It is said that the PRESIDENT, feeling alarmed at the consequences likely to ensue from the almost insane lengths to which M. LEON FAUCHER is carrying the system of repression, has determined, in order to ' get rid of that most dangerous Minister, to break up the Cabinet and to form a new one, of which MM. .ABBATUCI, ODILON BARROT, and DE FALLOUX, will be members, and which will propose to the Assembly the repeal of the Electoral Law of the 31st May. M. DE LAROCHEJAQUELEIN has just addressed a long letter to the Gazette de France, in the course of which he states that it is his intention at the meeting of the Legislative Assembly to bring forward the following proposition : " The Legislative Assembly decides that the Constitution ought to be revised in totality (Art. 111 of the Constitution). " In consequence a Constituent Assembly, nominated by the electors inscribed on electoral lists, to be immediately drawn up, in virtue of the law of March 15, 1849, shall assemble on the 28th of May next (Arts. 1, 24, and 25 of the Constitution). " The electoral domicile of each Frenchman shall be on the premises of his real one. It shall be decided by the conditions stated in chap. 3 of book 1 of the Civil Code, and shall be made public according to the forms therein declared (Art. 27 of the Constitution). " The elections for the Constituent Assembly shall take place on the fourth Sunday of the month of April, 1852 (Art. 31 of the Constitution). " The election of the President of the Republic shall take place on the second Sunday of May, 1852 (Arts. 46 and 116 of the Constitution)." The Revolution announces that a committee has been formed to manage the funds, &c., of a subscription of five centimes each for a medal to be presented " to the workman of Marseilles who swam off to the Mississippi to shake hands with
The Sun. — 1838-09-04 (London, England)

COCKING'S PARACHUTE.—This machine, which, it will be recollected, was eonfi3cated to the Crown by the Coroner's Jury, after the fatal descent, near Lee, in Kent, was yesterday restored to Messrs. Gye and Hughes, the proprietors of Vauxhall-gardens, conditionally, it being under. stood that those gentlemen will not makcit an object for public inspection.  The roads in the neighbourhood of Steyning, Sussex, are made and repaired with materials taken from the old baronial castle of Bramber; in former times we had castles without roads; now we have roads, but no castles. The inquest on Anderton, whose murder we mentioned the week before last, and which was adjourned until Friday, terminated on that day. The only evidence tending to bring home the perpetration of the dreadful act to the person suspected, was that of Elizabeth Levick, who lived next door to Guest. She deposed that Guest came home on the night of the murder, and demanded of his mother where his pistols were ; that when he went into the house the mother fastened the door, and that being unable to aod his fire-arms, ho seized the scylte-blade, with which the murder was committed, and, unfastening the door, he rushed out, followed by his mother, who almost Instantly uttered a loud scream, as Guest exclaimed, " I've cut him down." A man came up at at the time, and said, " What the devil have you. done ? The man meant you no harm ; you have almost killed the man." She did not hear the deceased speak after the blow was given. The body had been dragged a considerable distance from, where it was cut down by the assailant, and the man was left to perish on the roadside. The Coroner summed up the evidence at great length, and the jury, without b.'asitation, found a verdict of wilful murder against John Guest.— Derby Reporter, At the Cheltenham Police-office, on Tuesday, a young gvntleman, named Loveday, was charged with cruelly beating an old one-armed pedlar, and nearly knocking out one of eyes. In his defence, Mr. Loveday said that the man did not tell him on being asked by him who.he was, and seemed displeascal at the question being put to him. At the time he beat him ho did not know that he was a cripple, and as ke had a plaster put to his wound at his own expente, he hoped that might be considered a defence to th,e. charge. The Magistrates, being of a differet4 opinion, fined the defendant 4/. and costs. (714e/ien k apt ckroniele. X•otlishire gentleman, whtl had more leisure and patience than, the gc.ocrility of peeple are gifted with, made, on the !Ztli 9,1 the last mouth, A. eaticulation of the number oft I'4 444401 P2tsing repassing London-bridgQ, frog? o'clack in the mourning to eight o'clock in the eventing, and _ result was, that during t,,hoike 4mArB va,naia carriage and repaired the larkdge,, which awraged in an spot is ntopiin.ea r or eveg rnimkty,, ox. one every foal. sacands c ?psi:dyed the gry4t,(At tutaomiihfiAre in London.
The Sun. — 1838-09-10 (London, England)

VIRGINIA.—With regard to the tobacco crop, the Petersburgh Intelbgencer of Friday says :--1 The last letters from all the tobacco secti an of country south of James River represent the crop to b.:. in a most deplorable state. We have no very late information from the north side of James River, but fo n the unusual drought wa bel eve the same state of things exists all over the state of Virginia. The tobacco speculators must r( ap a good harvest this year." " The following portentous bulletin corn s in a slip directed to the Gazetie'—whether the New York paper of that name or some other, we know not ; but at any rate it is in our bands and we hasten to place it before our anxious readers,' though heaven only knows what it means precisely. Whether the editor is in danger of Indians, Canada Patriots, Judge Lynch, or the sheriff, is more than We ran say : " Office of the Darien Telegraph, August 4.  " It is with mortified feelings that we have to announce to our readers that we will discontinue the publication of the Darim Telegraph fir the present. " Our friends may be assured that it is no slight cause that leads us to this course. When we say,• tat if we do not do so, our house will be burned, our helpless, innocent children and b•loved wife murdered, and the few gallant friends we have, sacrificed, and that property would be i'estroyed in the city, that fifty years would not replace, we say the truth. But enough at present. " • Those who are indebted to us will please make immediate payment to the persecut.'d editor.'"  (From the British Colonist, Aug. 9. ) " The whole of the militia force, with the exception of one company of the Toronto City Guards, have now returned to their homes. Colonel Hill's Regiment of Queen's Light Infantry, being the last, arrived here on Saturday from Stndwich. It will be seen from an extract from the Sandwich Herald, that Sir John Colborne, when there, had made arrangements to fortify tha Western frontier, where, we understand, there are no more thin about 100 troops stationed at present. The province has now assumed its wontel peaceful appearance ; we hear of no invasions or piratical incursions upon the frontier. How long this may continue it is hard to say, as there are still on the opposite shore numbers of refugees and pirates." We take the following items from the last Montreal Courier. The first of them is very doubtful : '• A report was pretty general yester.lay that Lord Durham has received instructions by the Great Western to order  the execution of Sutherland and Then, r. " The wives of Chandler and Waite, two orthe condemned prisoners for the Short aff.ir, went down last night in the Canada. They intend waiting on Sir John Colborne at Sorel, and thence proceed to Quebec, for the purpose of imploring Lord Durham to spare the lives of their husbands. One has been married only eighteen months, and the other has a family ,sf seven or eight children." '6
The Sun. — 1838-05-08 (London, England)

MRS. JEFFRAY, THE MURDERESS•  This wretched woman, who was on Monday last convicten at our circuit Court of two separate acts of deliberate murder, calls herself 33, but appears to be nearly 40 years of age. She is a native of the north of England, but on her father, who svei tin innkeeper, failing in business, she was removed to a small town en the Scottish border. This occurred when she was about eight years of age. As she grew to womanhcod her suir,crior personal attractions struck the eye of a Noble 14',ari, and it is said that for some years she lived under his protection. Af Wliat time she married we have not been able to ascertain, but her htigiiand is universally spoken of as a well doing and most respectable tnatt, Per motive for murder ing the old woman Carl can scarcely be guessed at. The Crown counsel hinted, that having the other murder in her eye, she might wish to make a safe experiment et the effects ofr arsenic on a frail old creature, whose death would cause neitker surprise ror inquiry. Be this as it may, however, the motive f, the murder of Munro is too painfully aPparent. Munro had .lodge ee in her hands 61. or 71., which -he was about to require, 45 had was going home to the Isle of Skye. This money she :trent. Her pride, for she appears to have been a woman of air ambitioto spirit, could not brook the idea of having the debt exposed to the world, and she made use of the poison to get rid of her creditor, She manifested much firmness and prehasence of mind during her long trial, frequently calling counsel towards her, and pointing out to him a particular line of cross-examination to follow. When, however, the public prosecutor began, in his address to the jury, to bring the evidence home to her, she fairly gave way and fell into a swoon. She shortly recovered, and during the masterly appeal of Mr. Cra,,N ford, counsel for the defence, her eyes were often turned with an anxious expression to the gentlemen of the jury. Sb°d became afterwards visibly weaker and more abstracted, An left the bar seeming scarcely aware of what she was doing' Her behaviour since is said to have been becoming. She is in, deep distress of mind, but she still denies all knowledge e' the manner in which the arsenic was put into the old womans drink or Munro's porridge. She says some of it might hoc been put by accident into the dish into which the porridge wag afterwards poured. In closing this short notice of a woman whose crimes bring to our recollection those of Burke and Hare, and have caused a thrill of horror to go through the community, we cannot refrain from making one remark en the verdict of the jury. Had the charge been found not proven we could have had nothing to say. The evidence was entireli. circumstantial, and, though well connected, might be cent dcrcd deficient by many. But to declare the prisoner glint) of two separate acts of cold-blooded murder, perpetrated urn individuals who never harmed her, and towards whom she el: pressed kindness, and then to recommend her to mercy Ira' certainly, to say the least of it, a most extraordinary course.' Glasgow Chronicle.
The Sun. — 1838-05-21 (London, England)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.  OLD COURT.  Robert Galliinorc was indicted for having Committed wilful and corrupt perjury before the Newcastle Election Committee of the House of Commons. In this case, which was only in part heard Saturday, when our reporter quitted the Court, the case was adjourned at a late hour. t'Arl re. S:errg2eadne t..,Aidraolifliglesnaterianitilniete Courtrest. during the evening, but the cases  ted on Vvek nest ay upon a (rag° of mr. pATNE, upon their L9rdships taking their seats on Friday, fir the p:, ,tpmeine,nti of thei trial of Wlggins, a em_ Learnedwho was Counsel made the application upfai, the grr Ulid bezzlement. The , t had ti :.c to prepare his defence. The prisoner that the prisoncr bad Lo , n Wetmesday, and wlte;l the Grand Jury found a was detained in Court on committed to prison 1 rib oppbrtunity true BM, he•was intded him to bring witnesses in his favour. There therefore had be.c0,:,1 alio. sapolpiebietdort,soctileierkC, mat \pa, corrinth :5 and no examination had taken place before ama rt.iesrPnsiftoohimte;':ctierPftits'a l till ff,- ' ,d fa. that purpose yet. "Ilsli3ta'rrister s Clerk would likewise have to be subpamaed, but dergast ? Mr. Pommes asked if Mr. Payne alluded to the clerk of Mr. Prez]. Idr. PAyNE—Yes, ig' :0i ere t time a tnco. ' h fe.:,trs dienlaCyoi ,uartt athe thecapreventseon th a trnmounntt,.and therefore postponethere A rf isTtithliYer conversation, Mr. Justice PARK said he would sd been a ,itic , , k at Upon Joseph Thompson, a poor decrepid.looking wretch being placed the bar charger] with stealing 56 lbs. of lead, the property of The_ uns Kiss, r. Justice PARK directed. the Jury to be sworn to try whether he w,s M in a fit state of Mind to take his trial. Mr. Cope, the Governor, and Mr. Macinurdo, the surgeon of Newgate, were eXaminecl, and from their evidence it appeared that the pri_ smer at .imself Imes wasn extremely violent, tore his bed-clothes, and conducted 1 a maner (.; mind. to lead them to believe he was subject to aberration The Jury found the'prisonetirto be in an unfit state to take his trial, and Mr. JUSTICE PARK ordered him to be remanded until her Majesty's I,,„sure should be known. Mary Ann Leaver, aged 21, was indicted for the wilful murder of her female bastard child, on the 31st of March last. The circumstances under which the crime was committed were of the most revolting do. seription, as from the evidence of the mother and sister of the prisoner, and the surgeon who attended-her, it appeared that not only the umbilical cord had been torn asunder with violence, but that one of the legs of the child was nearly separated by violence from Ihe body. Upon being y closel pressed by the Learned Jude,g the surgeon stated that sueli hi,rks asbirth ; and foeappeared n the child might have been occasioned by an accidental from the experiments that had'been made on the lungs, he should not like positively to swear that the child had been born alive. The Jury, under the direction of the Learned Judge, after a short consultation, acquitted the prisoner.  Henry Simmonds