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The Sun. — 1855-08-08 (London, England)

THE VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH.—DOVER, Tuesday Evening.—We do not believe that there is any foundation for the rumour that her Majesty will pass through Dover on the occasion of her visit to the Emperor and Empress of the French. We understand that the Mayor of Dover, Mr. W. H. port would Dover, be graciously and s e e c tiePayn, communicated, a few days hack, with the n Horne-office on the subject, desiring to know whether her Majesty of gasietd asto h heronroouurteththe ancient Paris on the approaching august occasion ; but we believe that the reply, although adverse to the rumour in question, was not positive, her Majesty not having yet decided on the point. The Dover people are extremely anxious that her Majesty should pass through this port on her way to Paris, and they are determined that no exertions or expense shall be spared to give her Majesty a loyal and hearty welcome. At a meeting of the Town Council, which was specially convened by the May or on Saturday last, a resolution to this effect was unanimously voted. No orders respecting the arrangement for her Majesty passing through Dover have been received by the naval or military authorities at present, and the opinion in official quarters is that the Queen will set out from Osborne in the Royal yacht, and will land at Boulogne as previously arranged. We understand that inquiries r eventing the dspth of water in that port on the 17th and 18th of Au:zus` have been made by the Hon. Capt. Denman, the commander of the Victoria and i Albert ; there is therefore some ground for bell, and that Boulogne has been seb cted for the Royal debarcation, and that her Majesty Osbolne sill sail direct from .  Our readers well know the supreme importance we have from th'e commencement of the War atta.ched•to the formation of a Polish Legion, and further to an invasion of Russia through Poland itself. The Foreign Enlistment Bill was more odious to 11',-r-tS a mean and dastardly evasion ofthe great advantage of a Polish Legion than even as an enlistment of mercenary fcreigners. Bad in the latter point of view, it was cowardly, selfish, unrighteous, and unpatriotic in the former. Cowardly, because it was done through fear of offending Austria—a power which lay at the mercy of honest Statesmen; selfish, because it was done to please the aristocracy of England, who grasp all administration ; unrighteous, because it was a sacrifice of the righteous claims of the most fiagrantly oppressed nation in Europe, to the villany of the three Royal Robbers, whose hands are still red with the blood of the murderous partitions ; unpatriotic, because it was throwing away the aid which must have invigorated, and therefore shortened, the War, and thereby saved thousands of our brave men more than any other measure whatever. The Ministers of a petty German Court may smooth it over as they will, but it cannot be doubted that really English Ministers would never have sold their country to the
The Sun. — 1855-11-13 (London, England)

AND ATTEMPT ED  MURDER NEAR BRISTOL.  BRISTOL, Monday.—A very daring highway robbery, accompanied by an attempt at murder, was committed last night at Knowle, near Bristol. A young man. named Roberts, a native of London, who bad been staying on a visit with a relative at Knowle, had occasion to go into Bristol to fetch two accordions, bw— hic“ be had been somewhat delayed he was ''' sent to a musical instrument maker's to repair, Owing to the repairs having prevented from quitting the city until nine o'clock at night, when it was very dark. His nearest course lay across , the fields, but apprehending danger (although he took the precaution of going round by the turnpike-road ke.radhoe b. Had noe par , ticulor grounds for such apprehension), Toll-gate, and was had passed through the Totter ding g to the Redoatch Farm, pwrhoecneebdieusgawdo:wvno amt esitlteinadgi on n a stile, and wished them ~Good night ;" but they male him no reply. In a minute or two he heard them behind him, and almost he received a blow with a heavy bludgeon t instantaneously garcoronsnsd.the One back of of the villains then knelt upon his chest, estnuing h hiitns m a: mouth fi the full same time with instant death if be ed the head, which felled him to the of mud, and throttled him, threatdared to make th against the road e least noise. They then beat his head at the same time , so as to render him all but insensible, all the me plundering his pocket of his watch and money he had about him, and robbing him of both . It was the accordions. It evident from their language and mariners that the villains thought that they bad killed him, and they then seized theother b s • d him, one by the shoulders and y the legs, and carried him to a field belonging to a gentleman named pond. The poor fellow during this time was ficaroelY conscions of what they were doing with him, as the violence to his head had partially stupified him, but upon his falling into the pond the cold water- revived him, and he succeeded in getting to the bank and scrambling out. ' It was a very fortunate thing for him that he was an ex, pert swimmer, as the water in the pond was eight feet deep, and, there being no assistance within hail, his death must otherwise have been inevitable. He succeeded io, reaching his relative's house and gave the alarm, but the robbers had decaroped. His that was found the next day in the pond into which the robbers threw him. Information of the outrage was given to the police, who are exerting themselves in the hope of tracing out its perpetrators, to whom there is, as yet, no clue. Daring the last winter several daring highway robu beries, with violence, were committed the same highway, which leads from upon travellers by and it is thuught now that the Bristol to Wells, Roberts for a yourg farmer who villains mistook poor resides near the lane.
The Sun. — 1855-03-26 (London, England)

SUNDAY.-On visiting the ruins to-day it was scarcely petitors. The little unlucky KING 07 TRUMPS will be Pyrrhic ...... ..... 37 2 London.• ............ - 50 0 0 Do., Parl. Preference 6:. p .3r cent. 25 C 0 9 1 .-- • 25 . 0 .. j every explarattion. (Hear.) He hoped they were satis- murdered man. He said that he had receivtd a severe possible to have believed the effects produced by the ex- out of his distance ; still he may, after all, be the card to The Althorp Park Stakes of 10 says each, with 50 P..co ix ............. 41. per cent. 60 0 0 50 0 o ee fied that the director', as their trustees, were doing their fall fr en his horse last spring ; that on the 10th of July plasion of !eat night. The roof of the lerulding is corn- added, for two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst i.el_ t., Ranitleaffts.Q; ". -- . ei. 190 00 90 1.9 0 71% in with. -Meteors is entitled I , ' - • h h w . to tle supper. eine s e al ...... U. 53. 00 0 0 tee duty to the members generally. He thought the report, L e was met on the high road by the prisoner Timothy pletely bat wn off, the thick walls rent in twain from top 31b. An • bef . t rt. t 511) e tra uv ye winner. .oie s a ing o carry x • 1 estminster Chartered 5 . per cent. ,60 0 0 9 f 39% as far as hie bumble judgment went, 'WU very eaes• Ryan aud his brother John, when the former expressed t )I)6lAm-deers, windows,.and skylight blown t materna; has received, and with her favourable - im ost she will P T.Y.C., straight run in. 27 subs. Ditto, New .... -•. 51. per cent.. 53 0 0 10 e 0 factory. Ho considered the bonus which they der:ved regret he bad not died of the far, and added he would and on the opposite side of the way, which is called unquestionably be dangerous. Mr. I'. Parr has a tower st lb st lb- , from those policies was an inestimable blessing. The•- be "Up to me.or my sons." Witness had eight chin Marlborough-row the whole of the windows were blown of strength in The Tower, and entertains sanguine ex- Sirocco 8 7 Pyrrbine received thereby, whilst living, soino advantage from theer dren, the eldest of whom, the deceased, hal lived with to pieces, the roo'fs destroyed, and an aperture made pectations of success. Of the other animals Huniaerfoed, cby Bay Mindleton, Duet • 8 3 Dividend Amount care and economy, and this Wa3 otme of the principles on him. H.e (witness) nau had disputes with the firit through one of the walls as though struck by a heavy Winkfield, a,nd "lain& e are most entitled to a- e per out of Slander 8 7 FlyaWay (51b extra).. 8 3 Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. -which time soeiety was established.- Since last th t ey me cousin of the prisoner Ryan. Holds several farms. shell or shot. Even at 100 yards distance the shock notice. The lot which lam inclined to " stand , on" .St. Dunstan 8 7 Spiudle 8 3 two of the directors bad died. Mr. John ltlendharn,wns _____ was so great as to dest 11 tie gless and crockery of eoy a l , Diego - 8 7 • _ the first whose loss they had te deplore; and tho direc• . ' one houee, and the inieatee imagined nothing short of comprises DEFIANCE, IRELAND'S EYE, aed
The Sun. — 1855-11-08 (London, England)

THAMES.  SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.— Daniel Sullivan, a labourer, of No. 28, Sidney-street, Commercial-road East, was brought before Mr. Ingham, charged with assaulting his wife, Mary Ann Sullivan.  The complainant, a' thin, careworn young woman, stated that she had been married 4i years, and for the last three years her husband had been in the practice of beating her at intervals, and was in a state of intoxica. tion two or three times a week. On Tuesday night he came home drunk and turned her out of doors, and afterwards threw all the things in the room into the street. She was admitted into her house again, and had to sleep on the stairs at night. Her husband did not work yesterday, and came home sober in the evening and went to bed. She entered her room soon afterwards, and her husband got out of bed and threw a large bundle of slop work she had to make up at her head and knocked her down. He then seized her by the hair of her he..d and dragged her about the room until she became insensible. Her husband beat her, kicked her, and nearly strangled her a few weeks ago, and she took out a summons against him which he never appeared to, and she forgave him. He was kind to her when sober and all she required was that he should be bound over to keep the peace towards her, rand keep away from her. She could obtain her own living. Mrs. Elizabeth Dureidge, living in the same house as the complainant, said she heard screams of murder, and saw the prisoner dragging his poor helpless wife about the room and knocking her with great violence against the door. The complainant was very much hurt, and bad been ill all night. A police-constable said he was called into the house, 23, Sidney-street, last night, and found Mrs. Sullivan lying upon the floor insensible, and she continued in that state for some time. The prisoner said he was very sorry for what he had done, and it would not have happened if he bad not been drunk, and should not happen again. He was willing to be bound over to keep the peace. Mr. Ingham said the longer he 15.4 t in a police-court the more he was convinced that nine-tenths of the crime in London was caused directly or indirectly by drunkenness. The prisoner had been in the practice of beating his wife at intervals for three years. He looked on the pesoner's drunkenness as an aggravation of the offence, and although the wife had begged that her husband should not be punished, he could not overlook the brutality of the prisoner, which had been exercised so often on his young and most unfortunate wife. Ile seetenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two months, and also to enter into his own recognisance in the sum of 201. to keep the peace towards his wife and all her Majesty's subjects for the next twelve months.
The Sun. — 1855-11-07 (London, England)

TAB MA TEEN MURDER.  NEWCASLE-ON-TYNE, Nov. C.—The inquest on the body of Dorothy Bewicke, who was found murdered in her own dwelling-house, at Waterloo, near Matfen, in Northumberland, early on Sunday morning, the 21st ult., was resumed yesterday, at the Crown and Thistle Inn, Matfen, before Mr. Reed, coroner. Three men—namely, James Conroy, who had occupied one of the cottages belo-nging to the deceased, and had left his home two or three days previous to the murder, and two men who had lodged with him, named Michael Allan, alias Anderson, and John Simms, were apprehended on suspicion shortly after the murder, and have since been confined in the county gaol at Morpeth. They have undergone several examinations before the magistrates, but the chief points against them were given in evidence at the inquest. Ann Robson spoke to a conversation with Conroy in her home at Sweethope, near Kirkwhelpington, a two before the murder took place, when Conroy referred gor to the reputed wealth of the deceased, and observed that she would have as little money as he had. Isabella M`Dougall spoke to the three prisoners coming to her house on the Saturday before the murder, and going away again in the afternoon ;they had sticks with them newly cut of mountain ash, which they left behind them and which were afterwards given to the police. William Robson, the receivedbrother-in-law notice to quit the cottage he occupied r-in-law of the deceased, spoke to Conroy havingbelon the deceased, and to their having had words about Conroy to Conroy taking in disorderly persons to lodge. He bad observed some sticks of mountain ash out from the Dane at Sweethope, and on the Saturday before the murder saw the three prisoners come out of the Dene, and proceed in the direction of the house occupied by the last witness. John Gillespie, constable, had compared the sticks left at M`DouPirs' and also another found in the house of the deceased after the murder, with the stumps in the Dene, and found them to correspond. A hammer with a hazel shank was also found in the house, and the shank corresponded with the cutting off a stump near to where the mountain ash sticks had been cut. Witness had taken a leather strap, with a buckle attached to it, from the hands of the deceased, and a rope from her legs. He found drops of grease upon the body of the deceased, which showed that a candle had been used. Rebecca Hudson, a married woman, at Kirk Harle, identified this belt and buckle as resembling one which Allan had round his leg when he was at her house along with Simms eight or nine days previous to the murder. Patrick O'Callaghan saw the three prisoners on the Saturday before the murder at West Harle, when Allan had with him a hazel stick, which witness identified as that which formed the shank of the hammer found in the house of the deceased after the murder. The inquest was adjourned till Monday, the 19th inst..
The Sun. — 1855-09-20 (London, England)

NEW COURT.  (Before Mr. Justice Crowder.) henry TVatts, 38, coachman, was indicted for the wil ful murder of Sarah Watts. . _ _  Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clark prosecuted, and Mr. Parry and Mr. Francis defended.  The facts of the case, which Mr. Bodkin opened to the jury as one of manslaughter rather than murder, have been recently fully before the public. The prisoner, atthe time of the occurrence, kept a beer-shop in Spring-street, Paddington, and deceased, who was spoken of as a most exemplary character was his wife. Upon Saturday the 14th of July the prisoner, who was drunk, had been chastising his son for some offence, when the deceased interfered, and said that the prisoner had better do his duty to the children and send the boy to school. Upon this the prisoner struck her several times with the same cane, in consequence of which she began to cry, upon which he abused her and turned her out of the bar. She then tried to go up stairs, but he went up before her, and upon her reaching the landing he either struck or pushed her down the stairs, and she fell to the bottom, and became partly insensible. She was then taken into the room of a lodger upon the ground floor, and placed upon the bed. The prisoner followed her in, and again ill-used her, but was finally got out of the room,and the deceased remained there for about two hours, when, feeling better she left the room, and was assisted upstairs into her bedroom. Almost directly afterwards a scream and a fall was heard, and upon the lodgers in the house going upstairs, they found her lying senseless, and the prisoner ill-using her. They again placed her upon the bed, and tried to keep prisoner from getting at her ; but he succeeded, and repeatedly dragged her from bed, and struck, kicked, and beat her head about the floor. He said she was drunk, and not fit to live, and that be would do for her. This conduct he pursued from the middle of the afternoon until late in the evening, when the lodgers, finding that the poor creature was in a dying state, begged the prisoner to send for a doctor, but refused, and said she might die and be d—d. Finally a Dr. Reece was sent for. Prisoner abused him, and in his presence again tried to ill-treat the poor woman, who was then in a dying state. Prisoner said he would not let Dr. Reece attend her, and sent one of his children for Dr. Forbes. Dr. Reece then got her into bed and left her in the care of the lodgers. The prisoner then again dragged her out of the bed, shook her, beat, kicked, and pinched her. Finally, Dr. Forhes'came, and from that time the prisoner was prevented from d assaulting her. *Dr. Forbes found her quite insensible, in which state she remained until Monday night when she died.  The case had not concluded when we went to press,
The Sun. — 1855-09-20 (London, England)

NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Crowder.) Henry Watts, 3S, coachman, was indicted for the wilful murder of Sarah Watts.  Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clark prosecuted, and Mr. Parry and Mr. Francis defended.  The facts of the case, which Mr. Bodkin opened to the jury as one of manslaughter rather than murder, have been recently fully before the public. The prisoner, atthe time of the occurrence, kept a beer-shop in Spring-street, Paddington, and deceased, who was spoken of as a most exemplary character was his wife. Upon Saturday the 14th of July the prisoner, who was drunk, had been chastising his son for some offence, when the deceased interfered, and said that the prisoner had better do his duty to the children and send the boy to school. Upon this the prisoner struck her several times with the same cane, in consequence of which she began to cry, upon which he abused her and turned her out of the bar. She then tried to go up stairs, but he went up before her, and upon her reaching the landing he either struck or pushed her down the stairs, and she fell to the bottom, and became partly insensible. She was then taken into the room of a lodger upon the ground floor, and placed upon the bed. The prisoner followed her in, and again ill-used her, but was finally gut out of the room,and the deceased remained there for about two hours, when, feeling better she left the room,and was assisted upstairs into her bedroom. Almost directly afterwards a scream and a fall was heard, and upon the lodgers in the house going upstairs, they found her lying senseless, and the prisoner ill-using her. They again placed her upon the bed, and tried to keep prisoner from getting at her ; but he succeeded, and repeatedly dragged her:from bed, and struck, kicked, and beat her head about the floor. He said she was drunk, and not fit to live, and that he would do for her. This conduct he pursued from the middle of the afternoon until late in the evening, when the lodgers, finding that the poor creature was in a dying state, begged the prisoner to send for a doctor, but refused, and said she might die and be d—d. Finally a Dr. Reece was sent for. Prisoner abused him, and in his presence again tried to ill-treat the poor woman, who was then in a dying state. Prisoner said he would not let Dr. Reece attend her, and sent one of his children for Dr. Forbes. Dr. Reece then got her into bed and left her in the care of the lodgers. The prisoner then again dragged her out of the bed, shook her, beat, kicked, and pinched her. Finally, Dr. Forbes came, and from that time the prisoner was prevented ;from assaulting her. Dr. Forbes found her quite insensible, in which state she remained until Monday night when she died. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to be transported for 14 years. The six navvies and the woman convicted yesterday of the riot at PeDge-common, were brought up for sen• tence, and severally ordered to be imprisoned for terms varying from 9 months to 4 years.
The Sun. — 1855-03-15 (London, England)

THE CRIMEA.  By way of Germany, Constantinople letters of the Ist March have been received. They publish accounts of the attack made by the French, in the night between the 23d and 24th February, upon the redoubts erected by the Russians in front of the left flank .f t £ and in some measure explain the contradiction existing between the despatch of Prince Menschikoff relative to that affair, and the despatches from French quarters. The latter represented the ' French as having stormed the redoubts, and completely defeated the Russians ; Prince Menschikoff's despatch, on the other hand, stated that the Fi 'ouch had been repulsed with a loss of GOO men. .It appears that the French did take the redoubts by storm, but then found themselves exposed to a .murderous fire from the batteries, and even from the guns of some Russian vessels anchored in the port. The position was not tenable, and having .destroyed the redoubts they had taken they withidrew with about 400 men hors de combat, of which 'number 100 were killed. _ _ _  The Monitcin de la Flotte publishes letters from different parts of the coast of the Crimea. The following is an extract from one dated Eupatoria, Feb. 22 :  "I have just been on shore, and am delighted at what I have seen. The Turkish soldiers at Eupatoria are tall strong men, well clothed, and well equipped. Almost all of them have muskets with percussion locks ; the Egyptians alone have flints. Every man, in addition to his arms, carries either a shovel or a pickaxe to 'work at the fortifications, and I can assure you that t hey make good use of them. When the Russians came ) visit us on the 17th, there were not near as many g uns mounted as there are now. Their attack has had th e advantage of showing the garrison their weak points, an d they have availed themselves of the information, as slow the place is out of danger of any regular attack. 'ht. storehouses are being tilled by degrees, and everythi'n g is being organised in the most satisfactory manner. Wl,•en our small detachments of marines first taok possess len of Eupatoria, they found there a number of cam ►ls and arabas (small carts of the country). A short tine ago, when it was wished to transport some materiel, these animals and carts were looked for, but no trace of them could be discovered. After some little time, however, i t was found that the Tartars of the town had eaten the earaels, and that the Turks, not to be behindhand with therm, had burnt the arabas to warm themselves and cook their victuals." The foL lowing is dated Kazatcis Bay, Feb. 24 : "An act of courage and humanity was performed here a few days: ago which deserves notice. In the morning of the 19th .a merchant vessel, the Nomad° of Marseilles, laden with military stores and having on board some