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The Sun. — 1869-01-25 (London, England)

SUN" NEWSPAPER.--G. R. GLEN lE, ters, who did not scruple to try threats if persuasion • tions of the empire. He said that Roman Catholic priests 4 5 ..§..E. b:. - 2 sommunions. Then bishops-perhaps ev( I.verststioossutiL NEI: tz .3.1 5.E... 42 .e.t.• c: 7= 2 If York-habitually offending, not only A Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road, excited the Roman Catholic electors at Drogheda L;pnlorit,ii-L Ng: 29 -_- 2:11:: 2 g E.S.E. mco.le -_-_- _3 lelivers the LAT ,t. DITION of "THE SUN "at the earliest proved ineffectual. At Westminster a still more possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver - 3 its of confirmation to candidates by the sr some of these instances, but also by s Jopies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country daring member of the begging impostor fraternity L'Orient - N 5 4 E.N.E. b.c. - 3 T.N.E.' E 54EN 1, b• 1 ill these, as well as countless less or gee at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by since the elections two landlords have been shot at. Roch efort - • . . • • • 9.45 o'clock made his appearance in Court. His entry was volun- Biarritz - - - - - - - -- - eolations of plain rubrical directions, an Orders by pos punctually attended to It may be as well to remind Mr. HARDY that the v3,Lr es sneel sa .. . - 1tary, though his exit, luckily for the public, was con- -7-- :: :: 11 -7--- ----- = )ossible abominations to us, but we ha' Inger to interfere, nordo meanto a excitement which prevailed during the elections SParis - :•-• - - - - - ' • trasbourge - - - - - - - - - LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN ducted in a different form. He asked for relief from arose from the hostility which existed against the 1.4',,0f5.•• •••• 3071-6 ir R. GLENIE, of the Suorting Lailarary the magistrate, who directed him to the relievingHeart's9 Con-1 r' eon are all asking, should we be dial Of s 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, London, W., begs t I ' li 1h t fth t Conservative rash policy, cy, anc t a as or e wo tent (9 a.m.l -36 3-1 N- .E. 3 --4- I. ;Ts. ---4 lo not wish to disturb others ? I *eerie his customers, and the Licensed Vietuselers in gc-norc. officer. He refused to go, and threatened to break Irish murders, they will be balanced by a good many local time) ! - - - - - - - -•— inless I have given the answer already i tte ho has been appointed Agent for the above-named panel. i, church triumphs through weakness." Ilition to his agency for the Sporting Edition of " Tee 'eleN ' some windows. Upon this a policeman endeavours] more than two on this side of St. George's Channel. earLANATION hen goes on to state how the service na can supply the same on Friday evening, if required, in tow,Barometer coriected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The tr country. to remove him, when the hero immediately turned Mr. GLADSTONE having, as Mr.
The Sun. — 1869-09-14 (London, England)

WILLIAM PITT FESSENDEN. Indeed from the beginning it was known that by no legal quibbles or subtle speeches could his clear judgment and knowledge of law be warped, nor could the overwhelming influence of his party be expected to bend him in the slightest degree from his fixed determination to do what he considered it to be his clear duty as a judge. In vain the representatives wheedled and stormed ; in vain the press thundered and denounced ; in vain his constituents of Maine assembled in great mass meetings, headed by his own brother, to dictate his course. " I take no notice," he said in the words of Lord Eldon, " of what is passing out of doors, because I am supposed constitutionally not to be acquainted with it. It is the duty of those on whom a judicial task is imposed to meet reproach and not court popularity! The people have not heard the evidence as we have heard it ; the responsibility is not upon them, but upon us. They have not taken a►n oath to do impartial justice according to the constitution and the laws. I have taken that oath ; I cannot render judgment upon their conviction, nor can they transfer to themselves my punishment if I violate my oath. The consequences which may follow, either from conviction or acquittal, are not for me, with my convictions, to consider. The future is in the hands of Hl3t who made and governs the universe ; and the fear HE would not govern it wisely and well would not excuse me from the violation of His law." But the " war-horse" party never forgave FESSENDEN for their defeat, and as his Senatorial term would have expired in 1871, we learn by the latest election news from Maine that an opposition to his re-election was being organized. One of the charges brought against the Senator was that the Hon. BENJAMIN WADE, who would have succeeded to the Presidency in the event of ANDREW JOHNSON being found guilty, had been his successful rival for the Presidency of the Senate, when VicePresident JOHNSON passed into the White House, from which the murdered ABRAHAM LINCOLN had been carried to his grave. Such a charge was without weight against such a man, and the course of Mr. FESSENDEN had a great effect in influencing the opinion of the country, for his judgment, knowledge, and honesty were confidently relied on. A man so fixed in principle, holding so tenaciously to his conscientious conclusions, guided by a comprehensive mind, and moving towards his object with great ability, could scarcely fail to leave his mark on the country ; while to these qualities were added a keen sense of equity and honesty. Hewas never carried into extremes, but calm and judicial in his decisions, meeting a question on its merits, little influenced by personal prejudices. Ile was a consistent Republican, and so acted throughout the war. His loss will be greatly felt in Maine, and more still in the great Legislative C lumber of which he was so conspicuous an ornament, and where, we regret to say, men such as he can ill be spared.  (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Cable announces the death of two eminent Americans, General
The Sun. — 1831-06-23 (London, England)

SLAUGHTER AT NEW.  TOWN BARRY  - • (Front- the Dublin Freeman's Journal of Tuesday.) On Saturday at Newtownbarry was perpetrated one of tile-most frightful massacres of which there is,any record in a civilized country—perpetrated by the yeomanry armed not six months since amidst repeated warnings of ' their bloody disprisitione. The people, men, women, and children, were slaughtered. like sheep. Nurnberg were shot; dead in the streets, others were driven by a murderous fire into the river Slaney, which was covered with hats and bonnets floating down the stream! No resistance was offered, not a yeoman hurt, when a body of them, 154 in number, poured volley after volley without mercy into the crowd, and literally heaped the streets with dead ! No accurate estimate has yet been received of the victims.. Some make them 20, some 30 or 40 slain, and great numbers wounded. The Saunders," whose information we suppose was derived from the head police-office, states the wounded at 100. The loweit mentioned number of those shot dead on the spot is 17 ! The circumstances, as far as we have been able to collect them from various quarters, and particularly from an intelligent inhabitant of Newtownbarry, with whom we conversed to-day, were these :—Two heifers, the propertY of a farmer named Doyle, were seized for a tithe demand of fifty shillings by the Rev. Mr. M•Clintock, brother of the late Member for Louth. Tney were put up for sale on Saturday, no bidders appeared, and they were driven off to pound. A large force of police and yeomanry were present. Of the litter alone there were 150, some state them at 400—and as will appear they• were prepared to seize any pretext. Newtownbarry is the property of Lord Farnham, the yeomanry are all orangemen, and of course panting for an opportunity of shedding blood. They were commanded by Captain Graham, the agent of Lord Farnham. They had been furnished previously with 50 rounds of ball cartridge, and their pieces were primed and loaded. As the cattle were driving off, a large crowd of men, women, and children, followed, land attempted to turn them away. 'The police and yeomanry interfered to prevent the rescue, the crowd opposed an inert resistance, and continued to drive the cattle ; some idle boys threw a few stones, no one was struck, but Captain King, the chief of police, foreseeing the consequences, entreated the yeomanry to draw off and leave the offenders to the punishment of the law. His humane remonstrances were of no avail, the excuse bad been Liven, and the yeomanry at once opened a terrible fire on the t crowd. The young, innocent, and helpless were 'laughtered ; numbers, we are informed, rushed from the merciless carnage into, the river, and were drowned; some were shot in the river ! ! The town and its neighbourhood is one scene of mourning. We will not call upon the Government to take any steps —to institute a special investigation or send down a Special Commission. The man whom such a massacre cannot move is dead to every call, and law, protection, hunianity, and life are mockeries to him. TO
The Sun. — 1831-04-26 (London, England)

PETERSBURG'',.APRIL 9.—The St. Peters.inagh Gazelle contains the, following Ukase to the Directing Senate : " Ahead' at the first breaking out of the insurrection in the kingdom of Poland, expecting that it would not fail to influence weak minds, ready to be misled to disturb, by illegal and visionary motives, the public tranquillity in the prcvin tes which the Russian Empire recovered from Poland, we, always attentive to the welfare of our faithful subjects in those Governmonts, addressed ourselves to the Nobility as the most considerable class among the inhabitants. and expressed the hope that they would use all their efforts, under the existing circumstances, to prove their fidelity to us and to the country, and a firm zeal for the general good. Our expectations were almost everywhere reali,ed. The nobility of the Governments of Grodno, %Vilna, and Volhynit, hastened to express to us, through the provisional military Governors, the unalterable sentiments of devotedness, and immediately a'terwards proved bv deeds how ready they were to give their property and their exertions to provide fur the manifold and great demands for the supply of the army. The greater, therefore, is . the sorrow with which we now learn that a band of ingrates, not worthy to be called noble men, disgarding their oaths and lately renewed vows of fidelity, has had the audacity to disturb the public tranquillity in the cit cies of Seise'', Schowell, and Rossieny, in the Government of Wilna : we are firmly resolved to inflict on them the exemplary punishment which they deserve, and which, we hope, will cause the wavering to reflect, and the misled to return to the obigations of their duty and their oath. " We ordain—  "1. All Nobles (or Shlachti) taking part in the insurrection, and offering an armed resistance to the legitimate, authorities, are to be tried by Court Martial, according to military law, and the sentence to be carried into execution on being confirmed by the respective commanders of detachmen ts.  "2. The landed property of such et hninals is to be confi.cated, and the revenues to fall to the treasury of the invalids.  "3. With respect to all male children of those Nobles punished for the crimes specified in the first article, our further pleasure is hereafter to be taken ; the children of those who describe themselves as Shlaehti, without being able to give satisfactory proofs of their quality, are to be received as military cantouists. " 4. Persons of inferior rank taken with arms in their hands, to whatever province they ►uay belong, are to be taken as recruits, and to he sent into the Siberian battalions of the line.  "5. Their male children are to be taken as military cantonist4.  •6. All those convicted of homicide during the course of the disturbances, are also to be judged according to military law. "7. Person: of low rank, who have been induced to join the insurgents by threats or in obedience to the orders of their landlords, if they lay down their arms and return to their homes, are to be pardoned. ,(Signed) "
The Sun. — 1820-06-09 (London, England)

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.  CAMBRIDGE, JUNE B.b—The Rev. S. Brereton, of Queen's College, and the Rev. N. Every, of Clare-hall, were on the 31st ult. admitted Nlas• ters of Arts.  The Anniversary dinner of Noblemen and Gentlemen educated at Trinity College will take place on Wednesday next. The Chair will be filled by the Earl of Lonsdale.  The Representatives in Parliament for this. Borough gave an elegant dinner at the Town-hall, on Monday last, to about 300 persons, among whom were many ot the principal inhabitants of this place. After the cloth was removed, various loyal, constitutional, and appropriate toasts were drank, several excellent songs and glees ►were sung, and mirth, harmony, and good humour, prevailed during the whole of the afternoon. Col. Trench apologised for the ahsence of his Hon. Colleague, Mr. Cheere, who was deprived of the pleasure ot meeting his friends by the dangerous illness of his daughter.  'Yesterday an inquest was held at the Green. .coat Boy, Tothill-tields, before Mr. GeLL, Co. Toner for Westminster, on the body of Mrs. Sarah Poole, aged 50. The deceased was a resnectabla Lady residing in Willow-walk, Westminster ; on the preceding day she dined with her family, and appeared cheerful and in as good a state of health as usual. In a few minutes after the dot!) was removed, her bead sunk, and she fell off the chair in a state of insensibility. The whole of the family were very much alarmed at the circumstance, and a duet-►r was immediately sent for, who attempted to bleed her, but in vain ; she expired instantly. Verdict—' Died by the visits• tion of God."  Mlteina.—The body of Thomas Maxwell (who was advertised last week as missing front Moorthwaite) was found in a wood near Scarrow Hill, concealed in a drain, murdered by a shot through the head from behind, with his pockets emptied of their contents. A strong suspicion having beets entertained that this dreadful act was committed by a young man named Lightfoot, servant to Mr. Leach, of Scarrow he was immediately apprehended, and on Saturday lodged its Carlisle gaol. It appears that Maxwell had been collecting money of different persons, a circumstance well known to Lightfoot; who, himself, it is said, paid the deceased a few shillings. He was observed to take the gun from his master's barn, go into the wood, and shortly afterwards the repent of a gun was board, and smoke seen to rise front near the place where the body was discovered. The wadding of the gun was also picked up in the wood, consisting of a portion of an 014 Liverpool Newspaper, and the corresponding parr was found in Mr. Leach's house. Lightfoot at first denied that he had been in the wood at all that morning; but on being told that he had been seen going thither, he confessed that he was there for the purpose of shooting eushats. The Coroner's Inquest held over the body of Maxwell, returned a verdict 0f— .6 Wilful Murder against Lightfoot," and he was fully committed yesterday afternoon, by Mr. MULLENDLA, the
The Sun. — 1820-03-17 (London, England)

DEFERRED STOCK.  Of the 224 March, 1817, 9B f. 50c. 22d Marsh, 1819, 9O 1. 50 c. 221 Sept. t 819, BB f. 70 c."  We have just received a private Letter from Paris of a very recent date, upon the information of which we believe that there is too much reason to depend. It appears that the French Government has received the most alarming accounts of extensive secret associations at Lyons, Grenoble, Dijon, Rouen, and several other places. The author of the Letter is a person in authority, and confidentially trusted with matters of importance. We should not have had this information from him if he had not reason to believe that the conspiracies were now known to exist, and if measures had not been adopted in order to endeavour to counteract them. We say endeavour, for we fear that the Radical spirit which has so long disturbed this Country is likely to be still more violent abroad, because no People. have so good a political frame of Government'as is in this Country, and because no other People on earth are equally free. The toleration of the Revolutionists in France, ar.d even the sanctioned return of some of the Regicides, has given new hopes to the rising race of Jacobins, and absolutely threatens the total extinction of Royalty. The Gentleman who favoured us with the Letter positively contradicts the account wirich has been given of the situation of Louver., the murderer of the Duke de 13eaar. The author has actually seen the Culprit in prison, -and he says that Louver. is not cased in irons, las reported, though strongly ironed. Nor is ,it true,.as reported likewise, that he has been repeatedly bled, in order to enfeeble him, and, by reducing him in mind and body, to tempt him to confess whether he had any confederates or prompters. It is said that . having bad an inflammatory attack in the chest, he was slightly blooded, but he has not bad any occasion for any other surgical assistance. The report of his baying been thus reduced by art, to extort confession, is nothing but an infamous fabrication, in order to, excite a belief that resort bad been had to a revival of torture, merely to bring an odium upon the Government, and excite compassion for a man who has achieved what too many of his way of thinking are ready to carry into the utmost excesses of revolutionary carnage. We expect to hear more of the Conspiracy which we have above noticed ; and ' shall immediately communicate it to our Readers. For our part, considering that Paris is now the vortex of Jacobinical turpitude, we expect to hear of some tremendous explosion, except the KING depends more on his own judgment than be seems hitherto to have done, and displays less facility in listening to those hollow advisers, who have no view but to their own interest, and who care not whether a BOURBON or a BUONAPARTB be at the head' of affairs, if they can be secure of place, power, and affluence.  New York Papers arrived this• morning to the ISth of Febroary.  (Fr(dne toe New nrk Commercial Advertiser, Feb. 10.) SOL"I'll AMEItICA  Sr.
The Sun. — 1820-05-12 (London, England)

CAUTION TO SERVANT9.-Wednesday about sever o'clock in the morning, a man dressed in a fustian jacket and trowsers, and having the • appearance of a painter, called at the house of Mr. Parnel,- at Walworth, and told the servant maid that he came to examine the house by order of Mr. Paine', preparatory to its being painted. The girl, having no suspicion, admitted him without hesitation. He first surveyed the kitchen, where (as if inadvertently) he left his rule, and then proceeded to -look at the front and back parlours ; here he suddenly missed his ride, and desired the servant to fetch it, which she did ; after pretending to take the measure of the wainscot, and taking a tew notes on a piece of paper with a Mark-lead pencil, he went away, promising to call again when the family were-risen. • As soon as Mr. Parnel got up, the girl .communicated to him what happened; but as he had ordered no nainter to come, he immediately suspected a robbery, and .on examination, it was discovered that the sideboard drawer had been forced, and thirteen pieces of pl'ate stolen.  Tuesday evening, as Mr. James Smith, 'Vestry Clerk of St. Mary, ‘Vhitechapel, was passing along Haydon•square, near the Minories, a fellow corning by, •shoved him aside, and drew out his watch. Mr. Smith, not perceiving that be was robbed, turned round, and reprimanded the fellow for his conduct, when the thief made a polite apology, and walked off. Mr. Smith, on discovering his loss, pursued him, but without effect.  Between eleven and twelve o'ciock on Thur-s• day night, while a party of the Lanark County I'atrole ,were at the solidi end of the Thnber-bridge, Glasgow, they heard the report of fire-arms. It appeared to proceed front Warm. Waier-street, and on going up the street they met three fellows. On one of the pal role crying—here they are, the -fellows ran off. One of them, however, was secured, and a ii:stol was found next day on 'the inside of a wall near %chic!' the capture was made. It is supposed to have been thrown over the wall. The prisoner is an Irishman, a cotton•spinner, arid lives at Greenhead. The shots were fired into the house of an operative cotton-spinner in Narrow-street, Hutchesontown. The ruffians were displeased at the man for working for wages which they regarded as too low. They appeared to be well acquainted with the premises, as two of the balls lodged near the head of the bed, from which it is inftrred they intended to murder the family while asleep. The Irishman has been lodged in jsil,-and a precogni.ion is going UM—(Edinburgh Courant, May S.)  Ebrroß—ln 014 discussion of the Question relative to our Commercial Interests, much useless declamation has been employed to convince us of what must, be obvious to every reflecting mind ; at the same time much irrelevant matter has been introduced, and a variety of characters brought on the stage totally unconnected with the point under debate. Since, after
The Sun. — 1820-04-29 (London, England)

CURIOUS CASE OF CONVICTION ON CII:CLI3ISI'ANTI.U. EVIDENCE.  A man was tried for and convicted of the mutt..  der of his own father.- The evidence against bias was merely circtonstanti4l, and the principal witS:C lilt's his sister. She proved that her father possessed a small income, which, with his industry, enabled him to live with comfort ; that het brother, who was his heir at law, had long expressed tt great deshe to come into possessiop of his father's etlectS ; and that he had ling behaved in a very ~ndotiful manner to him, wishing, as the witness believed, to put a period to his existence by noeasiness and vexation; that on tt,e evening the murder vias committed, the deceased went a small distance front the house, to milk a cow he had fir some time kept, and that the wi tress also went out to Spend the evening acid to sleep, leavlug only her brother in the house ; that, returning home early in the morning, and finding that her father and brother were both abseil!, die was mode alarmed, and sent tOr some of the neighbours lis consult With them, and to receive advice what should he done ; that in company with these neighbours, she went to the hovel in a filch her father was accustomed to milk the cow, where they found him murdered in a most iiihurnan manner his head being almost beat to pieces ; that a suspicion immegiately falling on her bro. flier, and there being then sonic show upon the ground, in which the fooistri,s of a lihrnau bring, to anti from the bowel, We're observed, it %%Ai agreed to take one of the loothei's shoes, and 10 measure therewith the impressions in the snow ; this was done, and there did not remain a doubt but that the impressions were Made with his shoes.— Tiros confirmed in their suspicions, they then immediately went to the prisoner's room, and atter a diligent search, they loomd a hammer in the corner of a private drawer, with several spots of blood upon it, and with a ,mall splinter of bone and some brains, its a crack which they discovered in the handle. 1 he circurnstan. es of finding the deceased and the hammer, as described by the former witness, were fully proved by the neighbours whom she had called ; and upon this evidence, the pi isuner was convicted, and suffered death, but denied the act to the last. About tour years afterwards, the witness was extremely ill, anti understanding that there were no possiLle hopes of her recovery, she confessed that her father mod brother having offended her, she was determined they should hoth die ; and accordingly, when the former went to milk the cow, site toilowed hint with her brother's hammer, Hod in his shoes ; that she beat out her tamer's brains with the hammer, and then laid i where it way ktiertvnrds found; that she then went from home to give a better colour to this wicked business, stud that her brother was perfectly innocent of the crime for which he had suffered. She was immediatdy taken into custody, but died helm e she could be brought to trial.—(Anterican Paper.)