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The Sun. — 1839-03-18 (London, England)

GARDENS.—The interest of the establishment at the Regent's Park is ' now considerably increased from the probability of a broad froth the female giraffe, which is expected to take place next month. So little are naturalists acquainted with the history of this animal that the period of their gestation is unknown. The two males and the female are in remarkably fine condition, and ag this is the third %tinter that they have been in the Society's possession, it speaks Well for their judicious management in the same room with these is tiM female ouran outang, and the chimpanzee, which from its great resemblance to the human form is an object of great attraction: It displays all the sagacity of the former individual of thi3 t)ebieg that visas in the colketion, and is at present in very good and healthy condition. The vtihole of the animals have been in good condition throughout the winter, with the exception of the carnivore, of which within the past Month there have been lost avaluable tiger aid tigreta M YST? ildnitlßLE AL( ,NRYOUS MURDEff.On Friday last, Edward Hardy, steward or girimitetper I to that excellent and popular country gentleman, Mr. Alcoeke of Wilton, departed from his house at Kilgibbin, for the feiteof Eneiscorthy, which town lie left about eight o'clock in the evening, for the ptiipoie ihtiiriiing to that house he was never more destiaed to behold. On the following morning, about six o'clock, Ralph Townsend, steward to Itite Oethirnts, whilst proceeding to his work, discovered the remains °tithe unfortunate roan besmeared with blood, in a pool of water, by the road-side contiguous to his own house, On examination of the body it was found that the vital spark had coffipletely flown, the scalp was torn from the head, a hole which penetrated to the brain appeared over the temporal artery, and the eyes and nose were much swollen and discoloured, as if he had received a violent blow of some heavy weapon thereon; deceased's hat, with a shilling on the tn.° en of it, and a large walking stick having knots, one of which was much battered and bloody, lay at some distance fi om the body. These facts having been communicated to Mr. Hawkshaw, our active and intelligent county Coroner, that gentleman proceeded without delay to the scene of this deplorable catastrophe, to hold an inquest. Three persons have been arrested on suspicion, in consequence of its having been known in the neighbourhood that some misunderstanding existed between said persons and deceased. The authorities, the most active of whom is the Hon. Captain flay, aided by the inhabitants of the district, are using the most strenuous exertions to find out and bring the murderers to justice. The Wexford Independent, from which the above is taken, contains a long account of the evidence at the inquest. A. man named Furlong, and two persons named Kelly, were arrested on suspicion. The jury, on Monday evening, returned the following verdict o—" We find that Edwar 1 Hanly was wilfully murdered by some person or persons at present unknown." A large reward is in progress. Mr. Alcock has put down hi; name for 1001.
The Sun. — 1839-06-06 (London, England)

CENTRAL AMERICA.—By the kindness of a gentleman in one of our large mercantile houses here, we have been favoured with information of a most distressing description as to the state of this unhappy country. It was expected that after the hostile operations of General Carrera ceased quiet would be allowed to reign for a considerable period, and the attendant blessing of commercial prosperity which the country is so well calculated from its fertility and resources to enjoy ; it would appear that these hopes are far as ever from being realised, and this ill-governed Republic is still in the greatest anarchy and confusion. The people of the:i:l . Leon, in conjunction with a party from Honduraso.• on their march to oppose the Federal troops. On or about the 28th of February last, 1,500 men of the Leonese party took possession of San Miguel, which had been abandoned for some days previous by its miserable inhabitants, who well knew the horrible scenes of pillage and murder that would ensue on the arrival of the hostile troops. " The insecurity of property in a country so distracted as that of the State of Guatemala, is so glaringly great, that we should think few merchants would be influenced to run the risk of investing any of their capital in its purchase, or to hazard the loss of their goods by sending them to correspondents there, however tempting may be the profits. When this deplorable state of things is likely to be put an end to, we believe none can guess.' From the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date : " They write from Brussels that the ratifications of the treaty of peace will be sent off this evening to M. Dutp, Secretary of the Ambassador at London." Exports of manufactured goods to the United States.— The exports of British manufactures to the ports of the United States would seem to be brisk, judging from the cargoes of the ships for New York. The Indep the packet of the 25th ult., was quite full; and the Virginian, the packet of the Ist inst., refused goods. The Carroll of Carrolton, and the Troy, transit ships, are crammed full, having shut out merchandise. The first Baltimore spring ship, the London, will carry out about 1,400 tons measurement goods. Even the Philadelphia packet of the Bth has more goods awaiting for shipment than she can take. Consols, which closed yesterday at 931 94 for the opening, opened this morning rather lower, 93; ; and the Three per Cents. Reduced at 924. At present there is not a feature in the British Market worth observation. Exchequer Bills, 28 30; India Bends, 29 31; Bank Stuck, 1934 194} ; India Stock, 257 for the opening. Spanish Acti7e is a shade lower, 19i I ; Portuguese as they closed, 34 ; Three per Cents. 20i 21 ; Colom. bian, 301 31} ; Brazilian 79 44 • Mexican 252- 26-1 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 54 56; Five per Cents., 102 i 4.
The Sun. — 1839-04-11 (London, England)

THE NEWCASTLE MURDER.—The fund subscribed fur the maintenance of the children of Millie, the Rank, assistant clerk in the Newcastle Savings' amounts to 1 000/ , of which sum the bank has contributed 60/., being, one. year's salary of the murdered man. 'DIE PRIVILEGES OF THE CITIZENS OF Loxr,ox. The Police Commiitee of the Corporation of London recommenced their sittings at the Exchequer Coffee House, Palace Yard, on Monday. The assurances of aid against the New Metropolitan Police Bill are daily increasing, and the general expectation is that the Bill will he immediately withdrawn. Already have several Members of the Government expressed their regret that it was introduced. Letters from Windsor, Weymouth, Maidstone, and many other places, enclosing copies of resolutions in favour of the preservation privileges of the city of London, have been received. The Countess of Lincoln was safely delivered of a daughter on Sunday evening, at the new residence of the Noble Earl in Park-lane. Her Ladyship and infant are going on well. The Duchess of Hamilton, who had been sojourning at the Hyde Park Hotel, to be near the Countess at the period of her ace. on, Portman M ourh.ement an- square. _removed,are yesterday, to the Noble Duke's mansion, Baron cyersdorff, late Russian Ambassador at the Court of Stutgardt, has been appointed Russian Ambassador at Berlin. His Excellency is to be succeeded by Baron Brownow, one of the attaches of the F • orei -gn-office, at St. Petersburg. LIGIIT may not generally be ch. known that by 6 and 7 Will. IV., 37, bakers can sell bread only by weight. They are compelled, under a penalty of Si. not only to have. correct weights and scales in their shops, but also in their carts where bread i 3 carried cut, and to weigh when required, every loaf previous to its being purehnied. This is now the only protection the public, have against their being cheated, and they are therefore recommended to see that each loaf is cf the full weight before it is purchased. At a vestry meeting held last Thursday, at Croy don, a resolution was unanimously agreed to, requesting the Town Commissioners to oppose, by all the legal means iu their power, the Police Bill before Parliament, and to use their endeavours to prevent its proposed introduction into that district. TAXATION IN NEW SOUTH \VA LES AND THE CAPE or GOOD Hors. _The populaeion of New South Wales is about 77,000. The population of the Cape is about 156,000. In New South Wales the' revenue exceeds 380,000/. ; the revenue of the Cape is about 167,000/. In New South Wales the taxes amount to about 5/. a head. At the Cape they scarcely exceed 1/. a head. Great Britain spends annually on the defence of the colony against external enemies a sum much larger, we believe about twice as large, as the whole of our revenue. And the people of Great Britain spend annually en chapels and schools for the colonial poor, thrice as much as the Colonial Government sets apart for the church and school establishments for the whole colony 1 Is this the conduct of a " stepmother 1 Commercial Advertiser.
The Sun. — 1839-07-03 (London, England)

PARIS PRISONERS.  C:OURT OF JUNE 30. Eugene Marjolin, a youth only 13 years of age, was call'A to prove the attack on the post of the Palais de Jvstice. The witness stated that he was on the spot when the insurgents came up. The officer having refused to F xtrrender, he was shot dead. The witness being desired t.c‘ explain the manner in which the murder had taken pl ace, said, " When Barbes had approached the officer, the 1 s tier turned away the gun with his sword." (Great surpqrise appeared to be excited in the Court by the mention oc: the name of Barbes.) The President—Marjolin, should you be able to recognise those who were concerned in the attack ? The witness having replied in the affirmative, the ace' used were all desired to stand •dp, and the witness, after a p ause, having pointed at Del Fade, who sits behind Barbe 4, scud, " I recognise that person in the blue blouse." The President inquired if that was the person:vale fired -upon the officer? The witness said, " I think not," and, after another pause, pointed at Bar:bfs and said, " I think it was that gentleman."  - Martin, one of f.ll e accused, who sits behind Delsade, here rose and wit:n some emotion said—" M. le President, I have an obserta.tion to make to you—the Brigadier de Gendarmerie iilio is placed by the side of Delsade and behinde Barl-,0% designated Barbes to the witness with his finger-4.G teat sensation)—and it was not until then that the witness recognised him." Pointing to the persons who sit 'eehind the accused, the witness said--" Ask those gentle,men if what I say be not true."—( Increased agitatior, in every part of the Court.) f-lere a voice, either from the body of the Court or one of the tribunes, exclaimed, " It is true, I saw it." The brigadier said it was true that he had raised his band to his chin, but not for the purpose of making a sign. The President —Who, then, made the sign? The Lieutenant of Gendarmerie replied, " It was my brigadier." Barbes_-Yes; and what is more, the Lieutenant twice ordered h;.m not to make signs.—( Sensation.) The w itness now declared that it was trae the gendarme had mae.e signs to him, but that he had recognised Barbes bef°re 'that by his long beard. The President—What I he really made a sign to you ? M arjolin—Yes, he seemed to ask me if that WAS the Per son I meant to point out as Barbes. The Procureur-General—The sign of the gendarme is 'easily to be explained—as the child did not clearly designate the perso'a whom he had fixed upon, tie gendarme by his sign inep.nt to say, " Is it this one or that one ? This rernark of the Procureur-General excited a profound sensation. There were many exclamations of dissatisfac..ion, and M. de Montalivat, one of the Peers, said, "` M. le Procureur-General, do not justify it—Do not ju.stify it 1" Thle President here suspended the sitting for a quarter of un hour.  On the resumption of the sitting, The President proceeded to the interrogatory of the prisoner Bonnet, but nothing of consequence was elicited. The Court then rose, it being half-past five o'clock.
The Sun. — 1839-02-14 (London, England)

THE NEWCASTLE MURDER.  n7eiyxtnedolillorcitToulroloafmY,eisiatesr(diepayo.)sed that she heard the back door of his house, and the outer (AA bl ra iddyg, e d who from lived the te door of his yard, open and shut several times on the night of the murder, between 5 and 10 o'clock, while Mary Walker stated no one was at the house again that night, neither was she herself ever across the doors. It will be recollected that she swore at the Coroner's inquest that the pane of glass which the police observed to have been broken, in the window of the kitchen at liolam's house, had been broken by herself, but that afterwards being told that one of the neighbours heard a a pane of glass broken on the Thursday night, she confessed that what she had sworn before the Coroner was false, and that she found him there when she went home. She hasstated that she sat up for Bolam till 3 in the morning, and felt very uneasy at his absence, as he had not remained out all night before. It would appear, however, by the evidence of a man named Tweddle, a jobbing gardener, that early on the morning of Friday, having heard that either the Commercial Bank or the Savings' Bank had been set on fire at Newcastle and a man murdered, and knowing that Bolam was connected with the Savings' Bank, he thought he would go and inquire ; and accordingly he knocked at the back door, which was opened by Mary Walker ; this was at eight o'clock, and he asked her if her master was at home, and she said " No, he had gone out." He remarked, " Why, he has gone out early." " Oh, yes," she said, " its throng time, they arc making up the books." He then told her what he heard, when she replied that it could not have occurred at the Savings' Bank. for there was no man kept there at night—besides, Mr Bolam had gone out that morning quite well. The gardener then left. The object of this evidence will be to show that Bolam must have made a confidant of this woman on Thursday night. We are enabled to state that the intelligence we gave a few weeks since that a young woman, named Jane Sanderson had stated that Mary Walker had sponged her her toaster's sleeves, is quite correct. And as a confirmation of this statement it will be shown that one of the police found a sponge in the kitchen at Bolam's house, which was out of its proper place, and it has the appearance of having been boiled in soda. We have heard that; Bolam last week expressed a wish to see a Magistrate, and one would have been sent to him, but his solicitor came in the meantime, when nothing more was said about it. Up to this day Bblam had not decided where he will be tried, whether in the town or the county ; he osciliates between the two, but cannot fix.
The Sun. — 1839-04-06 (London, England)

CROWN COURT. THE QUEEN V. WILLIAM DAVIS. The prisoner was indicted for the wilful murder of John Butt, at the parish of Westbury-upon-Trym, within the city and county of Bristol. John White.—l am a police-officer at Bristol. I know the prisoner, and had known him for three weeks before the 9th of February. In consequence of something I heard, I went on the 10th of February to the Old Passage, which is twelve miles from Bristol. I saw the prisoner come to the Passage. I was in plain clothes, and was leaning on a wall waiting at the Passage-house, hen the prisoner came up, and I directly took him into the Passage-house and searched him. I found a purse in his pocket. There was a fourponny piece in the purse. I asked him whether the fourpenny piece was his own, or whether it had belonged to a watch ? Flo said that it belonged to the watch. In the purse was a half-sovereign, a half-crown, a shilling, and two farthings. In the other pocket I found a knife and tobacco-box. It was a large clasp-knife with a rivet spring. I took the prisoner to the police-station in Bristol, and about six o'clock the same day he was taken to the infirmary. I was present when the fourpenny piece was shown to the deceased there. It was done in the presence of the prisoner and two Magistrates.  Thomas Phillips, a sergeant of police of the Clifton division—l was at the station-house on the first day the prisoner was in custody, and went into the place where the prisoner was. When I saw the prisoner in the cell, I said to him, " William, is it you ?" The prisoner immediately answered, "It is, and it is a sad job." He further said, " They all say that I struck him with a hammer. It was no such thing, I did it with a stick." The statement of John Butt, the deceased, was then put in and read. It was to the effect, that being at the cowhouse of Mr. Warre, his master, in a field adjoining Coldharbour-lane, the prisoner came and spoke to him; that on leaving the cowhouse shortly after, and going down the lane, the prisoner had struck him with a heavy stick on the head, end beat him very severely; that after he was on the ground the prisoner had taken his watch from him, to which was fastened by the chain a fourpenny piece, which was the same fourpeany piece which had been found upon the prisoner and had been shown to him at the infirmary ; that he, the deceased, had then endeavoured to crawl along the lane for assistance. The statement made by the prisoner, was to the effect that he struck the deceased with a stick, and not with a hammer. _ _  Mr. Justice ERSKINE summed up the evidence to the Jury, who found the prisoner Guilty; and the Learned Judge sentenced him to death.
The Sun. — 1839-06-14 (London, England)

POOR-LAWS. The Earl of STAN HOPE presented a petition from the clergymen of five different parishes, in three adjoining Unions in the county of Kent, complaining of the working of the present Poor-law system, and the arbitrary mcnner in which its proslsions had been exercised, and praying that they might be carefully examined, for the purpose of altering them, especially the bastardy clauses, which tended to the increase of seduction, and the crime of child murder. The Noble Lord had also a petition to present, to a f,itnilar effect, from a person of the name of Thomas Coombes. As that petition had been printed, it would he unnecessary for him to enter at any length into its details. Lord BROUGHAM trusted that the Noble Earl would not present the latter petition to-night, as he had not had an opportunity of reading it. He thought the presentation of one petition a night, attacking the Poor. law Com misiioner felt bound to persist in s, Was quite sufticient.—(Hear.) EarISTANHOPE presenting the petition. The Noble Earl then presented the petition upon e of RICHMOND felt bound to say a few wthe petition, in consequence of the Noble Earl having given its contents too great a circulation oTr dhse. D through the medium of the public press. The new law had given the poor a boon. Under the old law no man could get relief if he lived out of his parish —but now if he lived in a Union he was relieved by the Union. The Guardians of Westbourne were as humane as any men in the land—aye as humane as the Noble Lord himself. The man and woman in question on their arrival were put in the probationary room, and the man being ill was at once waited on by the Surgeon and was removed to the Infirmary. Soon after, his wife expressed a wish to see him and was at once taken to see him, and also, again on the following morning, when the man expressed himself as uite satised and comfortable. The statements had noqt been taken from the lips of the man, but from the woman, who was dissatisfied, and forced her sick husband out of the house. She had told some of the paupers in the house that she had no fault to find with the house, but her object was to get the Guardians to allow her some money out of the house. It would have been as well had the Reverend Gentleman made some inquiry into the truth of the information given him. He (the Duke of Richmond) was quite sure that the Guardians would have been pleased to have given him every facility for inquiry into the case. Lord WYNFORD said it was perfectly impossible that eleven persons could be properly fed on twelve shillings a week—that was starvation. The Poor-law Bill must be inquired into, even by this do-nothing Parliament. He hoped to hear no more of these statements and counter-statements—their Lordships could make nothing of them. He would suggest that if there were truth in any of the allegations contained in the petition, the Guardians should be indicted for a misdeLueanor—iu that case the truth would be found out and
The Sun. — 1839-10-25 (London, England)

CIVILIZATION IN EGYPT.  CAIRO, JUNE, 1839.—As I intend spending some time at Cairo I shall be able to afford you some sketches of the interior of the country. lii the meantime I deem it an indispensable duty to acquaint you, in hopes that you will give it all the publicity it deserves, with an atrocious scene which passed some days previous to my arrival at Cairo, where it has excited universal indignation. The occurrence, which is still the theme of all conversations, has been related to me by eye-witnesses, whose veracity cannot be questioned. Doctor Clot Bey, Officer of the Legion of Honour, and, as you are aware, Inspector of the Sanitary Service of the Viceroy's Land and Sea Forces, Member Correspondent of the principal Academies and Societies of Medicine of France, Italy, &c., had long applied for leave of absence, in order to restore his health in Europe. The favour was granted immediately after Mehemet Ali's return from his journey to the celebrated mines of Fazoglou, and Clot Bey was about to start, when the arrival of M. Cochelet, French Consul-General at Alexandria, who alighted at his house, obliged the illustrious Doctor to postpone his departure for some days, in order to do the honours of his residence and of the capital to his new guest.  One morning as M. Cochelet was receiving some visits in. his apartment, among others M. Tippel, French Consul at Cairo, and M. Jouanin, the Chancellor, cries of " Help I Murder I" were suddenly heard, uttered by a female voice, in the neighbouring room, where was M. Clot's cabinet. The door was opened, when a woman in tears, and covered with blood. came and threw herself at the knees of M. Cochelet, whose clothes she covered with blood, imploring his protection against Ciot Bey, whom she accused of wishing to kill her. The latter immediately appeared, pale, agitated, furious, and justifying in some measure by his aspect the terrible charge borne against him. The following had given rise to the scene :—About to quit Egypt, Clot Bey summoned before him his slaves, and informed them that in his absence they should inhabit a house which he mentioned. One of these poor creatures, whom her master had rendered a mother, took the liberty of observing that she should not invoke the rights which that sacred title gave her according to the Mussulman law (which was applicable on the occasion, since Clot Bey lived as a Mussulman), but that she begged him to make other arrangements with regard to her, as she could not live in the house he pointed out—a house in which she had so much to suffer during his preceding journey to Syria. M. Clot heard no- more, but seizing a forceps that lay close to him, he rushed upon the woman, furiously gave her several blows with the instrument, and cut open her skull. He would have infallibly killed her had it not been for the interposition of M. Cochelet and of the persons who happened to be with him at the moment_  After this act of violence Clot Bey was neither arrested nor molested, but shortly after he parted with the Consul-General of France for Alexandria.—Extracted from the Journal de Smyrne, Sept. 9.