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The Sun. — 1844-01-30 (London, England)

AMERICAN NEWS.  LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.  The American ship Ohio, Captain Lyon, sailing from New York, on the 6th inst., arrived here this morning with intelligence from that city two days later than before, but as the packet ship Ashburton has been signalled by telegraph to have passed Holyhead this morning, we may shortly expect dates by her to the 9th.  The news by this arrival is not of much importance. In the Senate, on the 29th ult., Mr. Allen brought forward a number of petitions and memorials, signed by the citizens of Ohio, including whole brigades of militia, asking the immediate occupation of the Oregon territory. General Thompson, United States Minister at Mexico, had resigned, but no person had been named as his successor. It is stated that the President intended to nominate Mr. Spencer as Justice of the Supreme Court, vacant by the death of Judge Thompson. The interest in the Repeal question was again reviving. A meeting of the Irish inhabitants was held in New York, on the 3d inst. ; being one, the Herald states, of a series of simultaneous meetings, which were to be held the same evening throughout the Union.  A very brutal murder of a woman and her infant child had been committed at Staten Island, New York, by a woman named Bodine, and her paramour Waite, both of whom were in custody. The woman (Bodine) was subsequently delivered of a child, whilst in the gaol, which it is believed she wilfully suffocated, as it was found dead beside her, with marks of violence.  The news from Texas, to the 16th ult., state that the trade between that Republic and the United States, in consequence of an Act passed in the last session of the American Congress, was rapidly declining, and that in the same proportion the trade between Texas and this side of the Atlantic was on the increase.  A deputation from the Free Church of Scotland had arrived at New York, and Dr. Cunningham, the principal delegate, was announced to preach in the several Presbyterian churches in the city of New York.  Murders for the sake of plunder are on the increase in the United States. In Providence, Rhode Island, Mr. Amasa Sprague was found about a mile from his house, having been beaten to death about the head in a horrid manner. A reward of 1,000 dollars had been offered for the discovery of the miscreants. " The demand for money," says one of the papers, " which continues very abundant, is slowly increasing ; but the banks find it still necessary to resort to loans on stock, and other than strictly legitimate business, for the purpose of making their regular dividends.  Stocks were quiet. In Foreign exchange nothing of importance had been done. The rate on London is quoted at 109 to 1091. •  In Ashes little had been done. Pots are quoted, nominally, at 4.60.; Pearls, 5.12 f. Flour was inactive. Genessee held at 4.62 k to 4.684. Prime yellow Bees-wax sold at 29 cents.  There is no news from Canada of interest.
The Sun. — 1844-01-22 (London, England)

WARREN—State from your notes what Mr. O'Connell said at Mullaghmast ?—There was considerable confusion at that meeting, which inconvenienced me, and prevented my taking some of the first of Mr. O'Connell's observations. I had not an opportunity of taking his first words, but he was speaking of Tara ; I put down the word Tara first, 'and then I ge on. The witness here read Mr. O'Connell's speech, which agreed as nearly as possible with Mr. Hughes's version of -it, and very slightly differed from the report as originally published in the Freeman. Whenever he missed taking down a woi d, he said, " I lost the next word ." He read on until he came to the passage—" Peel has 500 colours inhis flag, and not one of them permanent—to-day it is Orange, to-morrow green—and next day it is neither one nor the ether.' One of the Scotch hi,torians, Allison, says that if Wellington got well out of the battle of Waterloo, it was by the British troops, and by their unconquerable. I have lost the remaining words of that sentence. He then came to a quotation from a song, which he introduced— " At famed Waterloo - Old Wellington would look blue, Only Paddy was there too." And I have lost the rest.—( Great laughter.) He said further about the Duke of Wellington, They had no place for him in the Cabinet, nor no 44 for him to perform, except that of a sort of inspector-of Anti-Repeal Wardens. I selected this Rath for obvious reasons to hold this meeting, for it was the spot on which English treachery, and Irish treachery too committed a massacre unequalled in the annals of history, except by the murder of the Mamelukes." When the witness was done reading the speech, Sergeant WARREN asked him if he was at the dinner in Mullaghmast ?—I was. I suppose you took a note of Mr. O'Connell's speech at the dinner :0-1 did. Can you recollect how many of the traversers were present at Mullaghmast ?—There were present, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Ray, Mr. Steele, and Dr. Gray. Now, at the dinner who did you see ?—I saw Mr. O'Connell, "Mr. John O'Connell, Dr. Gray, Mr. Steele, Mr. Ray, and Mr. Barrett. Did you take a note of Mr. O'Connell's speech upon the latter occasion ?—Yes. Read it.--1 will. I have also notes of Mr. Barrett's speech on the same occasion, but my notes of his speech are very incomplete. Mr. M‘Dostou cm—Your Lordships, perhaps, did not hear what the witness said to Sergeant Warren. He stated that he has a very incomplete _ note of Mr. Barrett's speech. Now, we had from Mr. Hughes yesterday a very perfect note of that speech ; and I take the liberty, on the part of Mr. Barrett, to apply to the Court not to receive the incomplete note. Ido not think it fair. Sergeant WARREN (to witness)—Have you a complete note of any part of Mr. Barrett's speech? if you have not I won't ask you a. word about it. Witness (having looked over his notes)—No, Sir. Sergeant
The Sun. — 1844-01-22 (London, England)

WARREN—State from your notes what Mr. O'Connell said at Mullaghmast ?—There was considerable confusion at that meeting, which inconvenienced me, and prevented my taking some of the first of Mr. O'Connell's observations. I had not an opportunity of taking his first words, but he was speaking of Tara; I put down the word Tara first, and then I ge on. The witness here read Mr. O'Connell's speech, which agreed as nearly as possible with Mr. Hughes's version of it, and very slightly differed from the report as originally published in the Freeman. Whenever hr, missed taking down a woe d, he said, " I lost the next word." He read on until he came to the passage—" Peel has 500 colours in his flag, and not one of them permanent—to-day it is Orange, to-morrow green—and next day it is neither one nor the ether. One of the Scotch hi.torians, Allison, says that if Wellington got well out of the battle of Waterloo, it was by the British troops, and by their unconquerable. I have lost the remaining words of that sentence. He then came to a quotation from a song, which he introduced— " At famed Waterloo Old Wellington would look blue, Only Paddy was there too." And I have lon the rest.—( Great laughter.) He said further about the Duke of Wellington, They had no place for him in the Cabinet, nor no duty for him to perform, except that of a sort of inspector of Anti-Repeal Wardens. I selected this Rath for obvious reasons to hold this meeting, for it was the spot on which English treachery, and Irish treachery too committed a massacre unequalled in the annals of history, except by the murder of the Mamelukes." When the witness was done reading the speech, Sergeant WARREN asked him if he was at the dinner in Mullaghmast was. I suppose you took a note of Mr. O'Connell's speech at the dinner ?—I did. Can you recollect how many of the traversers were present at Mullaglineast ?--There were present, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Ray, Mr. Steele, and Dr. Gray. I Now, at the dinner who did you see ?—I saw Mr. O'Connell, Mr. John O'Connell, Dr. Gray, Mr. Steele, Mr. Ray, and Mr. Barrett. t Did you take a note of Mr. O'Connell's speech upon the latter occasion ?—Yes. Read it.—l will. I have also notes of Mr. Barrett's speech on the same occasion, but my notes of his speech are very incomplete. Mr. APDoszoralr—Your Lordships, perhaps, did not hear what the witness said to Sergeant Warren. He stated that he has a very incomplete note of Mr. Barrett's speech. Now, we had from Mr. Hughes yesterday a very perfect note of that speech ; and I take the liberty, on the part of Mr. Barrett, to apply to the Court not to receive the incomplete note. I do not think it fair. Sergeant WARREN (to witne;s)—Have you a complete note of any part of Mr. Barrett's speech ? If you have not I want ask you a word about it. Witness (having looked over his notes)—No, Sir. Sergeant
The Sun. — 1844-01-22 (London, England)

WARREN—State from your notes what Mr. O'Connell said at Mullaghmast ?—There was considerable confusion at that meeting, which 'inconvenienced me, and prevented my taking some of the first of Mr. O'Connell's observations. I had not an opportunity of ',taking his 'first, words, but he was speaking of Para ; I put down the word Tara first, and then I go on. The witness here read Mr. O'Connell's speech, which agreed as nearly as possible with Mr. Hughes's version of it, and very slightly differed from the report as originally published in the Freeman. Whenever he missed taking down a %void, he said, " I lost the next word." tle read on until he came to the' passage—" Peel has 500 colours in his flag, and not one off them permanent—to-day it is Orange, to-morrow green—and next day it is neither one nor the ether. One of the Scotch historians, Allison, says that if Wellington got well out of the battle of Waterloo, it was by the British troops, and by their unconquerable. I have lost the remaining words of that sentence. He then mine to a quotation from a song, which he introduced—. " At famed Waterloo Old Wellington would look blue, Only Paddy was there too." And I have lostithe rest..—( Great laughter.) He said further about the Duke of Wellington, They had no place for him in the Cabinet, nor no duty for him to perform, except that ofra sort of inspector of Anti-Repeal W ardens. I selected this Rath for obvious reasons to hold this meeting,. for it was the spot on which English treachery, ind Irish treachery too committed a massacre unequalled in the annals of history, except by the murder of the Mamelukes." When the witness was done reading the speech, Sergeant WARREN asked him it he was at the dinner in Mullaghmast ?—I was. I suppose you took a note of Mr. O'Connell's speech at the dinner ?—I did. Can you recollect how many of the traverser, were present at Mullaghmast ?--There were present, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Ray, Mr. Steele, and Dr. Gray. Now, at the dinner who did you see ?—I saw Mr. O'Connell, Mr. John O'Connell, Dr. Gray, Mr. Steele, Mr. Ray, and Mr. Barrett. Did you take a note of Mr. O'Connell's speech upon the latter occasion?—Yes. Read it. —I will. I have also notes of Mr. Barrett's speech on the same occasion, but my notes of his speech are very incomplete. Mr. M`Dosouctr—Your Lordships, perhaps, did not hear what the witness said to Sergeant Warren. lie stated that he has a very incomplete note of Mr. Bart ett's speech. Now, we had from Mr. Hughes yesterday a very perfect note of that speech ; anti I take the liberty. on the part of Mr. Barrett, to do napoptslt:h•rgittte:katnhitte orA.ußr EnNo t too jet ens,. i e) _t h i r a vi eco Im. incompletecomplete note W (t of any part of Mr. Barrett's speech? If you have not I ve.ns't ask you a word about it. Witness (having looked over his notes)—No, Sir. Sergeant WA
The Sun. — 1844-11-12 (London, England)

STATE OF TIPPERARY. Mr. Sergeant Rowley, in addressing the quarter sessions grand jury at Thurles, on Wednerday, thus alluded to the recent murders in this county •—" I feel I ought not to pass over, without remark, the crimes—the many heavy and dreadful crimes—which have been lately perpetrated within this riding of the county. If they do not carry with themselves a strong persuasion to the welldisposed portion of the community, of the necessity, upon their part to awaken from their criminal inthfferatee—l will not say sympathy with the murderers —and vigorously to co-operate in the detection of the guilty delinquents, I cannot think that any means I might employ could be more effective for that purpose. How many are there who would themselves shrink from the crime of murder, think it no harm to conceal facts which might help to the detection of offenders if promptly stated to the official authorities ? Such persons may weakly imagine that it tends to their own security not to mix themselves up with such matters—they are as foolish as criminal in thinking so. No man knows, if daring villians gain confidence from impugnity, how soon the blows may reach himself ; for every transaction of life, no matter how trivial, may lead to such crimes, and has been in this county a sufficient motive to the murderer to strike his victim and carry out his sanguinary proscription. Instances are well known of men who have refused to impart information they were capable of giving, falling in their turn victims to that system of crime which, if aidth in checkingeyha had not andtactu puttingallyp down.omotl promoted, they did not at least m be very desirable, with a view to prevent the gentlemen,continuance of such violent crimes, to endeavour to trace the motives how far those causes (if proper to be rem which ascertain mayw h abte asuu spepsoms eady haveh apv produced dproduced them—to should be set aside, or be so qualiaed as not to stimulate to violence may see and blood the passions of the people. I will not say that those who enter upon such discussions n actuated by the best intentions, and with a perfectotb e desire, by the modes to which they resort, to dry up or to exhaust the springs of crime ; but I cannot help thinking that it is not quite wise, while the act of murder is still recent, to raise up collateral discussions on the general causes of crime, or the particular motive that may be supposed to have produced the offence in question. Explanations at such a moment are too likely to be interpreted as a justification of the dreadful act, and not only to give additional boldness and confidence to the ill-disposed, but tend in some measure to keep back others from aiding in the detection of the criminal, by throwinv, round him the false colours of retributive justice. Whilst the pursuit is hot, the only cry should be against the murderer—and it appears to me that clinical lectures on the exercise of rights over the mangled remains of the unhappy victim, are, to say the least of them, ill-timed, and may be very mischievous."
The Sun. — 1844-08-08 (London, England)

POLICE. The case of Herbert v. Day, tried at Guildford, was brought to a close on Tuesday, when a verdict was entered for Mr. Day, on the ground that Bloodstone was three years of age, and therefore not entitled to the stakes run for at the last Ascot Heath races.  The Norwich assizes terminated on the sth. In the course of the day the four prisoners, English, Fary, Powing, and Potter, were placed at the bar to receive sentence for the crime of arson, of which the three first had been severally found guilty, the last having pleaded guilty. Mr. Justice Williams went into an explanation of each case then before him, and concluded by sentencing English to fifteeen years' transportation, and the other prisoners to terms of imprison ment varying from three months to two years, according to the peculiar features of the case. The Shrewsbury assizes commenced on Monday. The following is an analysis of the calendar, comprising 38 cases and 42 prisoners :—Burglaries, 5 ; bigamy, 1; horse-stealing, 2 ; rape, 1; concealment of birth, 1 ; stealing from the person, 3 ; maliciously wounding, 2 ; larcenies and minor offences, 27. No cases of interest was tried during the day. The Chester assizes commenced on the same day. The calendar contains 46 prisoners, of whom there are charged with arson, 1 ; bigamy, 2 ; burglary, 6 ; cutting and maiming, 3; shooting with intent to murder, 1 ; highway robbery, 6; horse stealing, 5; housebreaking, 1; manslaughter, 6; perjury, 1; rape, 3; stealing from the person, 2 ; unnatural crime, 1; and various offences, 9. This does not include a charge of a very serious nature, preferred against the Rev. Mr. Cresswell, of Stockport, whose case excites the most intense interest.  John Weaver, aged 21, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with having fired a pistol at John Coyle, at Hampton, with intent to murder him. The Learned Judge ordered judgment of death to be recorded against him, with an intimatiyn that he would certainly be transported for life. At Worship-street Police-court a young man of respectable appearance, who gave the name of Joseph Walker, but whose real name was ascertained to be Joseph Ingham, was brought up for final examination before Mr. Bingham, charged with having feloniously uttered two forged cheques on the London Joint-stock Bank, with intent to defraud Mr. James Samuel, a bootmaker, in East-road, Hoxton. *He was fully committed. Amelia Alsery, the young woman who stands charged with attempting the murder of her two children and her own destruction on the 29th ult., was brought before Mr. Clive at Wandsworth for final examination. The Magistrate felt it to be his duty to commit the accused to Horsemonger-lane gaol, but he said she should see her children. She was evi- . dently deranged when she committed the offence. At the Thames Police•court Jane Skelton, the wife of a blacksmith, residing at No. 2, Bromley-place, Bromley, was committed to take her trial for cutting and wounding George Skelton, her husband, with a poker. _ _
The Sun. — 1844-05-09 (London, England)

ALDERSON.) THE MURDER AT MARYLEBONE.  At ten o'clock this moriliag the prisoner, William Crouch; who was described in the calendar as " a groom, aged 28, remanded from last session, standing indicted for the wilful murder of Frances Elizabeth Crouch," was placed at the bar. The prisoner is rather boyish in his appearance, with a somewhat pleasing expression of countenance. Mr. Parry prosecuted, and Mr.. Clarkson defended the prisoner. . . . .  Mr. Parry having stated the case, called Mrs. Elizabeth Haynes, who said, I am the wife of Samuel Ha% nes, who resides at Chesterfield-street, Marylebone. I have known the prisoner since September last, at which time he resided in the same house that I did. His wife was residing with him. I remember the morning of Saturday, the 30th of March last, and saw the prisoner on that morning between seven and eight o'clock. He went out that morning about half-past ten. I saw him again about four o'clock the same afternoon, when he came home with a man. I went outside the door to him. I asked the prisoner If he had seen my husband, and he said he had not. He then left the housz. again and returned in about an' hour afterwards. He was alone then, and I told him he had been clanking, but he denied it. His appearance was that of a drunken man. He sat down in the room and said, "It must be done—it must be done—l can't wait." I said, " What is that, Mr. Crouch, are you in a hurry ?" and he repeated the words three or four times. He then fell asleep, and I said nothing further to him. He was asleep for some time. When he woke up, I told him that Mrs. Lynes had sent his clean clothes ; and he said, " I shall never want them ;" and hexot up and opened the bundle of clothes, and, puling out a shirt which was torn, said, "There is a pretty thing for a fellow to put on his back." He said it had been lying in the box for six weeks, and " she " was too lazy to mend it, or sew any buttons on it. I told him I could sew buttons on it before the morning, and he said he should never wear it any more He sat down for a few moments, and then get up and looked for a pair of stockings, and, not finding them, he said, " I have not had a pair of stockings for these six weeks." He said, " Why the b— h— could she not mend my stockings?" He remained for a few moments, and then left the room, and went into my bed-room, where his own box was placed. He unlocked the box, and locked it again, and then came into my rootn, and put the box key into his waistcoat pocket. He sat down for about five minutes, and then left the house. I did not see him again until seven o'clock, when an alarm was given, and on looking out of the window I saw him running. The prisoner's wife had left him about a fortnight before. Until that time she had lived with him, and 'after that time she used to come backwards and forwards. The night the prisoner's wife left he said, "I will lie wait for her, and give her a good hiding ; and if I had her here I would cut her throat with' a razor."  Cross-examined by Mr.
The Sun. — 1844-10-16 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.  Yesterday afternoon an investigation took place before Mr. Higgs, at the Pine Apple Tavern, in Hungerford-street, Hungerford-market,f relative to the death of a man, name unknown, and who is strongly suspected to have been murdered. The case excited a very strong senstation in the neighbourhood, and the inquest-room was crowded to excess. Mr. J. W. Monks, of the Rose and Crown, ShadThames, deposed that he had seen the body of the deceased, and could positively identify it as being that of a man he well knew by sight, but whose name he could not recollect. He was, witness believed, the master of a schooner commonly called a " billy-boy," latterly employed in bringing stone from Yorkshire to the New Houses of Parliament. _  Richard Penin, aged ten years, the son of a waterman plying at Hungerford stairs, deposed that, on Sunday morning, he was in a boat on the river, with another boy, near to lungerford, and while rowing between the Duke of Buccleuch's and Whitehallstairs he saw the body of the deceased floating on the water, face downwards. Witness fastened a rope round the body and towed it ashore. The deceased had on a blue cloth jacket, such as is worn by seafaring men, a black cloth waistcoat, brown woollen trousers, of railroad pattern, worsted stockings, Wellington boots, newly fronted, a flannel waistcoat next his skin, and a striped cotton shirt over it, with Indiarubber braces; he also wore a truss. Mr. John Nathan Bainbridge, of No. 86, St. Martin's-lane, surgeon, stated that he saw the body of the deceased at St. Al artin's workhouse ; it was that of a well-formed man, about five feet five or six inches in height, with light sandy hair, without whiskers ; the forehead was slightly bald ; there was discolouration of portions of the budy, arising from putrefaction having commenced. There were five punctured wounds about the trunk, four near the pit of the stomach, and one about two inches and a half lower down, towards the right side. The four wounds were about an inch apart from each other. There were openings in the flannel-waistcoat and the shirt corresponding with the punctures. One of the wounds was four inches in depth. Witness opened the body yesterday. He should think that the deceased bad been dead a fortnight. The wounds penetrated the cavity of the abdomen. The two upper ones were close against the lower end of the breast bone. The liver was wounded and the stomach perforated. None of the intestines were wounded. The punctures must have been inflicted with a sharp pointed cutting instrument, such as a clasp knife. Witness was of opinion that the deceased could not have inflicted the wounds on himself. Each of them was likely to produce instantaneous death. Inspector Lewis, of the Thames-police, said that he had made every inquiry between Richmond and Chalton, but could not hear of any person answering the description of the deceased being missing. Several of the jurors expressed a wish that the inquiry should be adjourned, in order to trace out the relatives of the deceased.  The inquest was accordingly adjourned until Tues. day next.