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The Sun. — 1851-09-10 (London, England)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. CAPE TOWN, AUG. 1, 11 A.M.  The frontier mail arrived early this morning. The dates are from Graham's Town, July 26, and from head-quarters up to the 23d. A patrol under command of Colonel Michell had returned that day without booty, nearly all the Kafir cattle, as we►l as those taken from the colony, having been driven to a distance; a patrol under Colonel Eyre had not yet returned.  The news from Krell is pacific. Two messengers had arrived at King William's Town, with a message from him to the Governor. The substance is stated to be a desire for peace, a profession of fidelity towards the British Government, and, as a proof, a request that the British Resident may be sent back in order to be the medium of future communication.  Sandilli, it is said, contemplates a removal with his people to beyond the Kye. He had sent messengers to Pato, who had gone to Fort Murray to receive their communication. What the substance was is not known.  The next intelligence is very distressing ; another attack has been made on the fron! 'ler mail near L?euwe Foatein, between Graham's Town and Fort Beaufort, by the Hottentots. The party (among whom were two respectable tradesmen of the latter town, who availed themselves of the return of the post) were fired on ; six were killed and one wounded, the man who brought the intelligence alone escaping. On the same day a party of tht European levy, in pursuit of some cattle, met with a severe repulse from the same enemy, five of the levy being killed. General Somerset had sent out a strong force in pursuit. From Port Elizabeth information had been received of the great destruction of property in the Zuurberg and Oliphant's Hoek. It is said that the line of Sunday's River, if not that of the Zwaart-kops also, is contested by the enemy.  (From the supplement to% the Cape Town Mail of Aug. 1.) Cape Town Mail Office, Friday, Aug. 1., 11 A.M. The post which has just arrived from the frontier brings additional intelligence of a painful and disheartening character. The Kafirs and rebel Hottentots were spreading themselves in large parties over the country, from Sunday's River to the Amatolas, slaying, pillaging, and burning in all directions. Some atrocious murders of frontier colonists had been committed by the Hottentot banditti. In British Kaffraria there was comparativ'e peace. The patrols sent out from King William's Town encountered few enemies, and obtained no booty, the cattle of the Kafirs having been driven to a distance. The accounts of the irruption of the Kafirs into the Zuurberg are confirmed. A great number of cattle and horses had been swept off from the neighbourhood of the Sunday's River, and numerous fires had been observed in the direction of the great Zuurberg and towards Oliphant's Hock. Two engagements had taken place (as mentioned in yeaterday's paper). in which five of the Ke.firs were killed, and three of the colonists were wounded. The following letter and extracts comprise all the important intelligence received by this post :
The Sun. — 1851-12-01 (London, England)

CAUTION TO JURYMEN.—At an inquest held on Saturday before Mr. J. Payne, the deputy-coroner, at Guy's Hospital, the Court was kept waiting for upwards of half an hour by one half the jury who did net attend. The Coroner declared them all fined in a sum of 203. each. On Saturday morning Mr. Carter held an inquest at the King's Arms, Canal-bridge, Camberwell, on the body of a young woman; aged about 25, who was found dead in the Grand Surrey Canal on Thursday morning last. There were no marks of violence on her person. In her pocket was found a phial containing a brown liquid which smelt like laudanum. There was also taken from her person the letter produced, to which there was neither address nor signature.  The Coroner then proceeded to read the letter. He said it was very difficult to decipher; but, as near as he could arrive at it, the co❑tents were these : " Dear Friends—l have Rot the least doubt but what you will think it strange at my doing what I have ; but I have been very unhappy for some mo❑ths concerning a young man whom I was very fond of and who I believe was very fond of me until my illness, when he was over•persuaded by another young woman (whose name could not be distinctly made out). I never met the young man once but that I fancied I could cut my throat." The writer then went on to hope that they would not blame the young man, as there was no one to thank for it but the young woman mentioned above. She then went] on to say that her last prayer was for Samuel, and she hoped he would never marry that young woman, as if he did he would never be happy. She then consigned her soul to God, expressed her forgiveness of everybody, and prayed that she might be forgiven for the wicked deed. In conclusion, she made some remarks about her mother, and wished all her friends a merry Christmas and a happy new year. The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased person committed the act, being at the time in an unsound state of mind."  Mr. Baker held an inquest on Saturday, at the London Hospital, on the body of Robert Golder, aged eleven years. The deceased was in the ly bit of rolling over and tumbling in the,streets for the amusement of his companions, and on Friday week he walked about on his hands, with his heels in the air, when he fell heavily on the ground and injured his right shoulder, and died on Thursday from consequent injuries.—Verdict accordingly. On Friday Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at the Queen Elizabeth Tavern, Walworth-common, as to the death of Elizabeth Edwin, aged 66. The deceased was in the habit of washing for her daughter, and on Tuesday the latter pulled her nose and slapped her face. Deceased sat down, became very much excited, and after a short time suddenly fell to the floor, exclaiming, previously, " God will repay you, if I don't." The jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God."  ATTEMPTED MURDER at
The Sun. — 1851-08-23 (London, England)

THE EXECUTION OF MONTCHARMONT.  " Four days ago, in an open 'quare of a French town, and in the face of day and civilisation, the law, that is to say, the divine and sacred force of society, laid hold of a wretched man, who plunged and kicked, and having bound him neck and heels, dragged him by the hair of the head to the scaffold, bleeding from his lacerated skin. Four days ago, before a population in profound consternation, the law, for an hour together, wrestled with crime. What had this man done against society? He had killed. What was society doing to this man? Why, making him a martyr. Partizans of capital punishment, what was your object in bringing this wretchedassassin to the guillotine? To show apparently to all, human justice inits force and power—to raise in the minds of the masses the sentiment of right, by calling on them to assist at the punishment of a vile creature—to accomplish, in fact, a solemn, imposing, and terrible act. What have you done? You have committed a violent, horrible, and regretable act ; instead of enlisting the crowd to the side of the law, you have almost made them, ranged them, on the side of the sufferer! This man, who bad a little before been an object of horror, you change into an object of pity. Yuu employ two, then tour, then I know not how many, to kill this man, who struggled against being put to death. The first executioner failed, then you call a second; at length, atter half a day of toil and efforts, you succeed in pu, ting an end to him, and you wipe off the blood from your knife, and the swe,t from your brow. No ! you have not been imposing—you have not been solemn—no, you have not been terrible. Be it well done or ill done, an execution is never a good sight for society to behold. Whatever be the hand which commits it, a homicide is never moral teaching. However honest and conscientious may be your tribunsls and your judges, it will never be by killing that you will prove thou must not kill.' Modern society has condemned the law du talion (of retaliation), to practise it is the reverse of progress; it is to take from society, from justice, and from the magistracy, a portion of their proper consideration. Each time you effect a public execution you cause the law to descend in national respect in an inverse ratio to the height of your scaffold. If you will preserve your barberous penalty of death, do as they do in America— do not show, but hide yourself I Do not invite all France, the whole press, all eyes to see you, and all hearts to judge you, when pm are executing, and particularly when your executioners do not know their trade, and your guillotines are as badly made as your laws. For our part we are profoundly afflicted, and even alarmed for all those dear and sacred interests on which public 'tranquility reposes. We protest, and will wretchedhiseyes evheernsociety,protest,to against those spectacles of another age, w forgettinga horrible death, s e human being on the way an imago of Christ, which he does not look at. G Gospel, holdingdra drags a to  "
The Sun. — 1851-09-15 (London, England)

SEPT. 2. "The steamer Cincinnati has arrived from Hevannab with dates to the 25th ult. The accounts via Havannah are confirmed, including the death of General Enna, with considerable loss to the Spanish troops, and the advance of Lopez towards Havannah. " The Cincinnati passed the Spanish war steamer Pizarro at sea." From Canada we have nothing of importance. The Canadian Parliament closed its session on the 30th ult. A man named Graham was robbed and murdered near Saratoga, on Saturday, for the Belie of about 100 dollars in money. Mr. Naar, son of Judge Naar, was drowned at Elizabeth Town on Saturday. The Belize Watchman, just received from New Orleans, says that— " A Spaniard named Pedro 'Vargas was brought into the town by four other Spaniards, on the night of Friday, the 13th inst., heavily chained, and lodged in the police station, charged with the murder of two Spaniards, named Jose Fermin Sosa and Tomasa Torres, at Rowley's Bight, on the morning of the previous 'Wednesday, under circumstances of the greatest atrocity. It is alleged that at about the dawn of morning of that day the prisoner went into the house where Sosa and Torres resided with the daughter of the woman, a girl of fourteen or fifteen years of age, and deliberately chopped first the man and then the woman, who were asleep in different hammocks, with a hatchet, in several places. The girl, who bad awoke whilst the prisoner was engaged in the work of butchery, escaped out of the house, and ran down to the water side, where she got into a dorey, and paddled to the house of a neighbour, not far off, to whom she told what had happened, who hastened with assistance to the mutilated victims. The villain from whom she had escaped came to the water's edge after she had put off, and shouted to her to return and get her share. It is supposed that he then made off. The motive of the deed is supposed to have been either revenge on the man and woman who bad refused to give him the girl to cohabit with, or a determination to possess himself forcibly of the person of the last. The prisoner was apprehended on the day of the deed in Northern River Pine Ridge." The Florence (Alabama) Gazette has the following : " On last Saturday, near Waterloo, in this county, a most daring and cold-blooded murder was committed upon the person of David N. Martin, Esq., one of our most respectable citizens, and for the last fifteen years a devoted pious member of the Methodist Church. Between one and two o'clock in the afternoon he was engaged in the sowing of turnip seed, within fifty yards of his own door, end two of his sons ploughing near him, when he was shot by some person supposed to have been concealed behind a large stump. The ball entered below the right shoulder-blade, and came out under the right nipple. The deceased lingered in great pain till Monday evenieg, and died at .feek• two o'clock. • • " Suspicion fell immediately upon Robert R. Chaney. He was arrested, and implicated by his statements a negro man belonging to his father-in-law, John Price. His brother, David B. Chaney, and the mug were iikewiie &nested, and after a log and te.
The Sun. — 1851-12-03 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET.  Charles Richard Burdett I,Valker, alias Gray, alias 2lfeymott, alias the lt,y. Charles Burdett, Matthew. Matthews, Francis Williams, Richard Law, alias Frederick Dewhurst, Horatio Stainbrilge, alias Ebsworth, alias Stephens, and Elizabeth Buckle, who stood charged with having conspired together to obtain goods to a large extent from tradesmen and others under false pretences, were placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncourt for final examination. Mr. Lewis attended as before for the London Trades' Protection Society to conduct the prosecution; Mr. Andrews appeared for the woman Buckle; and Mr. Ablett for the rest of the prisoners. The depositions, which were very voluminous, in the general charge of conspiracy against the whole of the prisoners, and also in a separate charge of forgery against the prisoner Burdett, the particulars of which have already been detailed in this paper, were now formally completed and read over, and they were all fully committed for trial. The prisoner Law was then put to the bar alone, charged with having stolen several black cloaks, two palls, and other articles of mourning, of the value of 501., the property of Mr. William Dunkley, a furnishing undertaker in Tower-street, Westminster-road. The prosecutor stated that on the 29th September last he entrusted the property in question to the prisoner, who was at that time in his service, with directions to deliver it at the house of Mr. Harding, a builder, in Union-row, Clapham. He had occasion on the same evening to discharge the prisoner, from whom ho received a letter about a week afterwards, in which he admitted having pledged the articles at the instigation of a man whose name was not mentioned, and entreated his forgiveness. The witness identified several mourning cloaks and other articles produced as a portion of the stolen property. Mr. John Matthews, a pawnbroker, in Richard's-row, Lambeth, identified the prisoner as having called at his shop on the 29th of September, representing that he had been sent by Mr. Dunkley, and pledged the property for 54 10s. The prisoner was next charged with having stolen a quantity of property of a similar description during the time he was in the prosecutor's service, was committed the case having been conclusively established, ho for trial upon both the charges. An elderly man, named John Spring, was charged his wife, with with feloniously cutting and wounding intent to murder her. Police-considerable N 296, stated thatin on the consequence of information he had received he repaired preceding evening to the London Hospital, where he found the injured woman, who was suffering from a severe wound in the lower part of her person, and having elicited from her that the injnry had been inflicted by her husband, with an oyster knife, he proceeded to his house and took him into custody. A certificate was produced from Mr. Jackson Kent, house-surgeon at the hospital, stating that the woman had received an incised wound in the abdomen, and was in a state of great danger. The prisoner, who declined saying anything, was remanded for a week.
The Sun. — 1851-12-03 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET.  Charles Richard Burdett Waller, alias Gray, [dies Meymott, alias the Rev. Charles Burdett, Matthew Matthews, Francis Williams, Richard Law, alias Frederick Dewhurst, Horatio Stainbrilge, alias .Ebsworth, alias Stephens, and Elizabeth Buckle, who stood charged with having conspired together to obtain goods to a large extent from tradesmen and others under false pretences, were placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncourt for final examination. Mr. Lewis attended as before for the London Trades' Protection Society to conduct the prosecution; Mr. An• drews appeared for the woman Buckle; and Mr. Ablett for the rest of the prisoners. The depositions, which were very voluminous, in the general charge of conspiracy against the whole of the prisoners, and also in a separate charge of forgery against the prisoner Burdett, the particulars of which have already been detailed in this paper, were now formally completed and read over, and they were all fully committed for trial. The prisoner Law was then put to the bar alone, charged with having stolen several black cloaks, two palls, and other articles of mourning, of the value of 501, the property of Mr. William. Dunkley, a furnishing undertaker in Tower-street, Westminster-road. The prosecutor stated that on the 29th September last he entrusted the property in question to the prisoner, who was at that time in his service, with directions to deliver it at the house of Mr. Harding, a builder, in Union-row, Clapham. He had occasion on the same evening to discharge the prisoner, from whom he received a letter about a week afterwards, in which he admitted having pledged the articles at the instigation of a man whose name was not mentioned, and entreated his forgiveness. The witness identified several mourning cloaks and other articles produced as a portion of the stolen property. Mr. John Matthews, a pawnbroker, in Richard's-row, Lambeth, identified the prisoner as having called at his shop on the 29th of September, representing that ho had been sent by Mr. Dunkley, and pledged the property for 51. 10s. The prisoner was next charged with having stolen a quantity of property of a similar description during the time he was in the prosecutor's service, and the case having been conclusively established, he was committed for trial upon both the charges. An elderly man, named John Spring, was charged with feloniously cutting and wounding his wife, with intent to murder her. Police-considerable N 296, stated that in consequence of information he had received he rspaired on the pre• to the London Hospital, where he found ceding evening the injured woman, who was suffering from a severe wound in the lower part of her person, and having elicited from her that the injury had been itilicted by her husband, with an oyster knife, ho proceeded to his house and took him into custody. A certificate was produced from Mr. Jackson Kent, house-surgeon at the hospital, stating that the woman had received an incised wound in the abdomen, and w:.ts is a state of great danger. The prisoner, who declined saying anything, was remanded for a week.
The Sun. — 1851-11-19 (London, England)

LAMBETH. Yesterday Henry Tarling, who had been formerly a cabman, but who has been convicted of housebreaking, and has had several periods of imprisonment for desperate assaults on different persons, and Ellen Tarling, his wife, were placed at the bar for final examination before Mr. Elliot, for the following murderous attack upon a police-constable : Charles Selston, 142 P, deposed that about twelve o'clock on the night of the Ist instant he found the male prisoner quarelling with another man in Eastlane, Walwortb. The other man wanted to go away, but the prisoner, who followed him, wanted to make him fight. Witness went up and told the prisoner to go home, upon which he turned round and hit him a blow on the ribs. He asked him what he bad done it for, and at the same time laid hold of him; upon which they both struggled and fell down together. The prisoner got up and threw bim again, and on his getting up, he (the prisoner) said he would go quietly to the station-house. He did go quietly for a short distance, but, on reaching a dark place, some man who was following cried out, "Now give it him, Harry." The prisoner then said, d What you want with me, you ?" and instantly struck him a violent blow on the nose; and he (witness) at the same time having grasped him, they both fell together. While on the ground some person kicked him (witness) violently on the ribs. He drew his truncheon, but the prisoner, by a great effort,r got on the top of him, and knelt on his throat. the female prisoner, who was with her husband when witness first saw saw them, got hold of his face, and ex claiming, Now you you b----, I'll have your eye out," tried to force his right eye out of its socket. She put her fingers into both his eyes and tried to pull them out, and repeated the expression she had before used. His ' right eye she succeeded in nearly pulling away, so that the pain ho endured was most excruciating, but he ultimately, by the greatest possible exertions, endeavoured to get up. He had scarcely got on his feet when the male prisoner gave him a desperate blow on the mouth, which knocked him down, and both prisoners endeavoured to take sway hi. truncheon, but did not succeed. While on the ground this time some person; whom he believed to be the fetnakt prisoner, struck him on the head with a stone, but he still clung to the male prisoner, and held him till another constable came up to his assistance, when the male prisoner was taken to the stationhouse. The female prisoner riin away when the ortn-r constable came to his assistance, and he v.'s. frctly satisfied she was the parson who hurl assisted her hus• band in assaulting him. He knew her from seeing her on that night, as well as on a previous occasion, when she wished hitn to take her husband into cus tody on a charge of assaulting her. His (witness's) right aye Wes so severely injured that he could, even at thtt present time, see but dimly through it, and at one time. it was the opinion of the surgeon who attended him that he should not be able to see through