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The Sun. — 1862-11-12 (London, England)

MURDER IVEAI2 PRESTON.  A diabolical murder has just been perpetrated at Ribchester, a small village a few miles from Preston. The victim of the outrage is an old woman 80 years of age, named Ann Walne. She was a widow, and kept a beer-house, called the Joiners' Arms, in Fleet-street-lane, Ribehester. Ordinarily she resided by herself. Beyond keeping the beerhouse she was the owner of a few cows, which were  attended by a labouring man in the neighbourhood. The impression in the locality was that the old woman had a good sum of money. She was of careful habits, did a very fair trade, and although fourscore years of age, managed to serve in the bar and superintend her affairs with remarkable facility. On Monday night she shut up the house and retired to bed in good health. At seven o'clock yesterday morning the cowkeeper came to the place, and, as usual, knocked at the front door in order to get some cans, &c., out of the house. He knocked for some time--longer than usual—but no one came to the door. He then went to the back door and knocked there, still there was no response from within, and he began to suspect that there was something wrong. His idea was that the old woman was dead. On looking on one side he found that one of the back windows was open. This circumstance alarnaedhim, and he went for one or two of the neighbours. On returning the door was broken open, and they went up stairs, where they found Mrs. Walne in bed with her hands tied to the higher bed-posts, and two shawls over her face. On removing the shawls they saw that she was quite dead. Her face was black, her eyes were swollen up, and blood was oozing from both her ears. She had evidently been suffocated ; first tied down, and than gagged with shawls and smothered. The news speedily spread throughout the neighbourhood, and one or two policemen were quickly on the spot. There is no direct clue to any one as to the commission of the murder, but it is supposed that the guilty parties reside in or about Ribehester, that they know the circumstances of the old woman, and that their object was money. It is not known yet what or whether anything has been stolen. The village is greatly excited, and the police are busy making an investigation into the tragedy.  Kent . 25'24 188 East London New River The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the gallon 2'35 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution, of which *605 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal origin. , At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.969 in. The mean daily reading was 30 in. on the last two days. The reading was 29.75 in. on Sunday, and it rose to 30.21 in. on Friday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 44.9 deg., which is 0.7 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The air temperaturethwear was cold on the last three days. The highest day the lowest night temperature was .31 4 deg. on Saturday. The range of the thermometer in the [
The Sun. — 1862-04-24 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET.---Yesterday Mr. Nathaniel Chantrey was charged with shooting at his wife with intent to murder her.  Mrs. Maria Chantrey said—l am the wife of the prisoner, who is a gentleman, and we reside on Tyssen-terrace, Ralston-lane, Hackney. Last night at a little before 10 o'clock be returned home very tipsy, and I reproached him for staying out, saying "It is very strange where you go to." He struck me upon the elbow, and exclaimed "I will shoot Sou ; I'll see you dead before morning." I left the room and went up to bed, and was standing for a short time at the side of the bed, when I was startled by the discharge of a gun, and some shots came through the window, breaking six panes of glass. They fell in the room. I opened the window and called loudly for the police, and while so doing I saw my husband in the garden with a gun in his hand. From the outside of the house a person could see me standing at the side of my bed, and the shot fell only about three yards from me. It is a small room, and at the time the gun was discharged I was standing certainly more than one yard from the window. My husband is in the habit of using dreadful language to me, and behaves so badly that I am weary of my life. Cross. examined—l am not in the habit of incessantly abusing him, nor did I taunt him by saying that he had some one else to go to. He is not accustomed to fire in the garden to alarm thieves or destroy cats. He is so illiberal that he has only allowed me 10s. a week since the 13th of March, Eliza Utting—l am 14,and reside with my parents in Frederick-place, Upper Clapton. lam distantly related to Mrs. Chantrey, with whom I was staying last night when the prisoner came home. His wife and he had some conversation together, when she and I went upstairs. After I had got into bed, and she was standing at the side of it, I heard the discharge of a gun, and some shot came into the room through the window panes. She was then standing, I should think, about four yards from the window. I had heard the prisoner say before we went up that she should not be alive in the morning. Foden, 177 N—About 10 last night I heard loud screams in Dalston-lane, and, on hastening to the prosecutrix's house, I saw her at the window. In consequence of what she said to me I went into the back garden, and there I heard a voice, with an oath, threaten to blow: my brains out. I went to the place where the voice seemed to come from, and there found the prisoner with the gun I', produce in his hand. I asked him for it, but he refused to give it up. We had a sharp struggle for the possession of it, and on my getting hold of it he said," I wish there was another charge in it, and we'd see who'd have it, you or I got the gun from him, and took him and the piece to the station. There I told him the charge against him, and he said that the reason he had discharged the picot)  SPORTING II'yLJLLzG•
The Sun. — 1862-04-24 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET.--Yesterday Mr. Nathaniel Chantrey was charged with shooting at his wife with intent to murder her.  Mrs. Maria Chantrey said—l am the wife of the prisoner, who is a gentleman, and we reside on 'fyssen-terrace, Dalston-lane, Hackney. Last night at a little before 10 o'clock he returned home very Tipsy, and I reproached him for staying out, saying "It is very strange where you go to." He struck me upon the elbow, and exclaimed "I will shoot you ; I'll see you dead before morning." I left the room and went up to bed, and was standing for a short time at the side of the bed, when I was startled by the discharge of a gun, and some shots came through the window, breaking six panes of glass. They fell in the room. I opened the window and called loudly for the police, and while so doing I saw my husband in the garden with a gun in his hand. From the outside of the house a person could see me standing at the side of my bed, and the shot fell only about three yards from me. It is a small room, and at the time the gun was discharged I was standing certainly more than one yard from the window. My husband is in the habit of using dreadful language to me, and behaves so badly that I am weary of my life. Cross•exammed—l am not in the habit of incessantly abusing him, nor did I taunt him by saying that he had some one else to go to. He is not accustomed to fire in the garden to alarm thieves or destroy cats. He is so illiberal that he has only allowed me 10s. a week since the 13th of March. Eliza Utting—l am 14,and reside with my parents in Frederick-place, Upper Clapton. lam distantly related to Mrs. Chantrey, with whom I was staying last night when the prisoner came home. His wife and he had some conversation together, when she and I wont upstairs. After I had got into bed, and she was standing at the side of it, I heard the discharge of a gun, and some shot came into the room through the window panes. She was then standing, I should think, about four yards from the window. I had heard the prisoner say before we went up that she should not be alive in the morning. Foden, 177 N—About 10 last night I heard loud screams in Dalston-lane, and, on hastening to the prosecutrix's house, I saw her at the window. In consequence of what she said to me I went into the back garden, and there I heard a voice, with an oath, threaten to blow my brains out. I went to the place where the voice seemed to come from, and there found the prisoner with the gun I produce in his hand. I asked him for it, but he refused to give it up. We had a sharp struggle for the possession of it, and on my getting hold of it he said, "I wish there was another charge in it, and we'd Sec who'd have it, you or I." I got the gun from him, and took him and the piece to the station. There I told him the charge against him, and he I said that the reason he had discharged the piece
The Sun. — 1862-11-29 (London, England)

BANK BULLION.  According to the return published yesterday, the Bank bullion is now at a point below any previously touched during the current year. On the 11th of June last, when the rate of discount was 3 per cent., as at present, there was a decline to £15,033,100, and the total shown yesterday is only £15,018,993. But the peculiarity is observable that, owing to the restric ion of trade, the total of unemployed notes held by the Bank, instead of diminishing, as is usually the case when a continuous drain of gold is in progress, shows an increase, and is now £654,495 in excess of the amount at that period. Some further considerable changes, therefore, must take place before the question of another advance in the rate of discount is likely to be entertained. Last November, when the bullion held was only £14,210,774, and, therefore, £808,219 below its present sum, the rate was reduced from 31 to 3 per cent., and although the difference then existed that there were signs of an approaching influx of bullion, while now there is but a doubtful anticipation even of a temporary check to a long continued efflux, there will apparently be no special reason for further action until a reduction to that point shall have taken place. The drain has now been of almost unprecedented duration, but there has rarely been a time when so much uncertainty prevailed as to the probabilities either of a continuance or a turn of the tide. There are no larie amounts immediately expected from Australia, and consequently for the present it is upon the West Indian and American supplies we must depend entirely for our Indian requirements. The quotations of exchange received this morning from Bombay do not hold out any prospect of a heavy or speedy lessening of the process of absorption going on there; but, on the other hand, there are reports to-day from Paris of an improvement in the condition of the Bank of France, and of a cessation of the recent efforts of that establishment to attract gold from all available quarters. Our grain importations are still on a scale equal to more than a million sterling per week, but these will gradually diminish, and as there will be heavy payments to come from America at the commencement of the new year, and the Australian arrivals both of wuol and gold will at that date be numerous, it is possible that if no upward movement of the rate of discount should previously be found necessary the position of the market will then admit of the operation being further postponed. Meanwhile, it is satisfactory to notice that the Government balance at the Bank is 75 per cent. in excess of its amount at the corresponding period of last year, and to undr rstand that, notwithstanding the trials consequent on the cotton crisis, the revenue receipts throughout the United Kingdom are very favourably maintained.  The Giornale di Napoli states that the body of the notorious brigand Esposito was found a few days ago near Centola (Principata Ullteriore) with five stabs in the neck. It is believed ho was murdered by his own companions.  ST.
The Sun. — 1862-04-29 (London, England)

THE COLONIAL ALLOWANCE TO HER MAJESTY'S FORCES.—We understand that a question of considerable difficulty has arisen which threatens to render somewhat embarrassing the relations between the colonial Government and the officer commanding the imperial forces in this • colony. For several years past a rather liberal colonial allowance has been granted by the Parliament to supplement the Imperial pay of the military stationed here. A ' despatch has, however, been lately received by his Excellency the Governor, from the Duke of Newcastle, informing him that, in the opinion of Her Majesty's Government, the rate of colonial allowance granted to the troops is an excessive one, and directing that it is to be reduced to that paid in the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. The reason given for this redaction is that the excessive allowance to the troops in these colonies operates unjustly towards those serving on other stations. We believe that Colonel Kempt has been informed of the arrival of this despatch; but that pending the receipt of an official intimation from the Horse Guards it will not be acted upon. It will be remembered that the voting of the allowance in • questionquestionhas frequently met with opposition in our Legislative Assembly, and after this direction from the Home government the desired reduction will probably be readily fr e-ected by the local Government. It does not ap- pear that the rate to which the colonial allowance is to be conformed bears any fair proportion to the expenses of living in New South 'Wales, and it is apprehended that the enforcement of the order would excite much dissatisfaction among the soldiers, and would interfere with the maintenance of military duic!plite. It is stated that a military Board has been appointed to inquire into and report upon Herald, Feb 15. the matter.-7802eY 11.---Infancy in London INFANTICIDE IN LONDo has to creep into life in the midst L( of fora We hear often of the impoverished or poisoned air of 1 ose alleys and rooms unfit for habitation, and now the coroners infants hav© just told us in their cfficial returns that 67 under two years of age were murdered last year in the metro polis. 150 more were found dead," a large proportion of them left exposed in the streets; how many of these were "persuaded not to live" must remain a secret till the disclosure of all secrets. 'Cf above 50 others we learn that they either lost their lives 'through the misconduct of those who should have tended them, or that their deaths are attributable, wholly or in part, to neglect, want, cold, or exposure; the mother of one was only 13i years old. More than 250 infants were suffocated, very generally in Led, and in upwards of half these cases there was no evidence how the suffocation was caused, or the juries did not state in their verdict that it was accidental. 1,104 deaths of infants in London in 1861 under two years old were such as to demand a coroner's inquest upon them. The age is the same as in the massacre which Christendom annually remembers, but the size of this great metropolis causes it to out-Herod Herod.  '
The Sun. — 1862-11-07 (London, England)

PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY AT THE EAST-END.—.Yesterday afternoon orders were received ty the several superintendents of the G, H, K, and N divisions from the chief officer of the Metropolitan Police Commissioners, Great Scotland-yard, for an additional supply of mounted police and other constables for night duty, in consequence of the increase of garotte and other daring robberies after nightfall. At the extreme eastern portion of the metropolis numerous burglaries have been perpetrated with violence. In the district of the H division, situated between Bow and Stratford, the public carriage way and the adjacent thoroughfares are badly lighted, and but very i mperfectly protected by the police. The police authorities have likewise issued printed notices to the housekeepers to properly secure their front doors and back premises, as organised gangs of garotters and housebreakers are prowling about at aii nours of Lt.. ul6-lu, in search of plunder_ The Court of Assizes of the Ain has just tried a man named Cochet, aged 40, on a charge of attempting to murder a widow named Chaffot, aged 71, residing at Bage• la-Ville. The victim of this crime lived alone, and cultivated a piece of land belonging to herself. She was in easy circumstances, and her husband, who died a few months before, left her 3,000 f. in cash, which she kept in  the house, and that fact was known to all the village. On the evening of the 2d August last, while the poor woman was milking her cow in the stable, a man suddenly entered and asked some question about her son, which she had scarcely answered when she was knocked down by repeated blows with the coulter of a plough. Her assailant then went away, after tying the door with a cord, and hid himself in a plot of hemp close by, apparently to wait till dark before he entered the house to search for the money. Notwithstanding seven severe wounds on the head, Madame Chaffot so n came to herself, and having got out of the stable by cutting the cord which fastened the door, she raised an alarm. Some neighbours immediately came to her assistance, and as they passed the hemp-plot, they saw a man run away. The description they gave of this individual exactly corresponded with that of the prisoner, who was accordingly arrested, and it was established beyond all doubt that he had been lurking about the place before the crime, and was the man who had been seen in the hemp field. Several persons also deposed that he had been making indirect inquiries respecting the widow Chaffot and her property. The prisoner, who was a rather good-looking man, and possessed of considerable intelligence, stoutly denied the charge, but was unable to give any satisfactory  account of how le had passed his time on the evening o, the crime. The victim herself could not positively identify him. as she was knocked down almost as soon as she saw her assailant. The jury, however, thinking the evidence conclusive, found the prisoner guilty, and the Court sentenced him to 15 years' hard labour.
The Sun. — 1862-11-07 (London, England)

PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY AT THE EAST-END.—Yesterday afternoon orders were received by the several superintendents of the G, H, K, and N divisions from the chief officer of the Metropolitan Police Commissioners, Great Scotland-yard, for an additional supply of mounted police and other constables for night duty, in consequence of the increase of garotte and other daring robberies after nightfall. At the extreme eastern portion of the metropolis numerous burglaries have been perpetrated with violence. In the district of the H division, situated between Bow and Stratford, the public carriage way and the adjacent thoroughfares are badly lighted, and but very i mperfectly protected by the police. The police authorities have likewise issued printed notices to the housekeepers to properly secure that front doors and back premises, as organised gangs of garotters and housebreakers are prowling about at all hours of the night in search of plunder. The Court of A... Leos "f arm. Ain L.o ilaot tried man named Cochet, aged 40, on a charge of attempting to murder a widow named Chaffot, aged 71, residing at cage-la-yule. The victim of this crime lived alone, dud cultivated a piece of land belonging to herself. She was in easy circumstances, and her husband, who died a few months before, left her 3,000 f. in cash, which she kept in the house, and that fact was known to all the village. On the evening of the 2d August last, while the poor woman was milking her cow in the stable, a man suddenly entered and asked some question about her son, which she had scarcely answered when she was knocked down by repeated blows with the coulter of a plough. Her assailant then went away, after tying the door with a cord, and hid himself in a plot of hemp close by, apparently to wait till dark before he entered the house to search for the money. Notwithstanding seven severe wounds on the head, Madame Chaffot so n came to herself, and having got out of the stable by cutting the cord which fastened the door, she raised an alarm. Some neighbours immediately came to her assistance, and as they passed the hemp-plot, they saw a man run away. The description they gave of this individual exactly corresponded with that of the prisoner, who was accordingly arrested, and it was established beyond all doubt that ho had been lurking about the place before the crime, and was the man who had been seen in the hemp field. Several persons also deposed that he had been making indirect inquiries respecting the widow Chaffot and her property. The prisoner, who was a rather good-looking man, and possessed of considerable intelligence, stoutly denied the charge, but was unable to give any satisfactory account of how he had passed his time on the evening of the crime. The victim herself could not positively identify him, as she was knocked down almost as soon as she saw her assailant. The jury, however, thinking the evidence conclusive, found the prisoner guilty, and the Court sentenlcendEhivmito LlllsERyesarss'ChAaNrDd