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The Sun. — 1852-10-25 (London, England)

GERMANY.  The King and Queen of Hanover arrived on the 20th inst., at Stuttgardt, on a visit to the Royal family of Wurtemburg. The Cologne Gazette, of the 23d, says that Baron Prokesch d'Osten will not retire from his post this year, and that it is not known whether he will be succeeded by Baron Keller or Count Rechberg. Count Arnim is dispatched on a special mission to Florence, to interpose on behalf of the Prussian Government in the affair of the Madiais. The betrothal of her Royal Highness Princess Anna (Charles) with Prince Frederick of Hesse did not take place, as was expected, on the King's birthday, but the ceremony will be solemnized in the course of a few days, and will be confined to the royal family, Court, and inisters. .  One of the most prominent and not least respectable members of the Frankfort National Assembly, commonly known as " Old Jahn," died at Freiburg on the 15th inst., at the age of 74. He was the son of a pastor of Lanz, in the Priegnitz district. The political trial at Cologne advances with all due dispatch. The proceedings of the 18th presented more than ordinary interest, from their being devoted to the examination of M. Steiber, Police Councillor, who attended in England on the part of the Prussian Government during the Exhibition, and in the course of that period was accidentally enabled to make important discoveries of papers and documents relative to the secret societies which had their headquarters in London. M. Steiber entered with much lucidity into details of great interest, corroborated fully by documentary evidence and admissions on the part of individuals arrested at Paris and elsewhere. Among these individuals was a man named Cherval, described as one of the chiefs of the French Communists. A letter from this personage to an emissary at Valenciennes, dated February, 1851, is characteristic of the Communist doctrines. The following is an extract, laid before the Court :  " What you propose is very good; but I hold it advisable not to speak of murder in our letters. That is the medium for carrying our principles into effect, but it would be hurtful tospeak openly of this medium. Excite hatred against all reactionaries, but do not preach this hatred openly. I laughed heartily when I read your article—" Murder all the clergy without mercy." Only think of some fifty head of this black breed, bound hand to hand, like so many sheep and calves, to be led to the shambles, and there slaughteredi In another letter addressed to the same emissary, named Gieberich, arrested at Strasburg, the following extracts were cited :—" Our principles are simply these : all men (except the clergy and reactionaries), it is to be supposed, are brothers. Property is robbery. All men have equal rights. The oppressed have a right to revenge themselves on their tyrants by all possible means." The letters containing these and sundry other passages of equal brutality were found in the possession of individuals arrested, and acknowledged by them and their authors, who, it appears, were almost all arrested by a plan well concerted between the French and German police.
The Sun. — 1852-10-25 (London, England)

GERMANY.  The King and Queen of Hanover arrived on the 20th inst., at Stuttgardt, on a visit to the Royal family of Wurtemburg. The Cologne Gazette, of the 23d, says that Baron Prokeach d'Osten will not retire from his post this year, and that it is not known whether he will be succeeded by Baron Keller or Count Rechberg. Count Arnim is dispatched on a special mission to Florence, to interpose on behalf of the Prussian Government in the affair of the Madiais. The betrothal of her Royal Highness Princess Anna (Charles) with Prince Frederick of Hesse did not take place, as was expected, on the King's birthday, but the ceremony will be solemnized in the course of a few days, and will be confined to the royal family, Court, and Ministers. One of the most prominent and not least respectable members of the Frankfort National Assembly, commonly known as " Old Jahn," died at Freiburg on the 15th inst., at the age of 74. He was the son of a pastor of Lanz, in the Priegnits district. The political trial at Cologne advances with all due dispatch. The proceedings of the 18th presented more than ordinary interest, from their being devoted to the examination of M. Steiber, Police Councillor, who attended in England on the part of the Prussian Government during the Exhibition, and in the course of that period was accidentally enabled to make important discoveries of papers and documents relative to the secret societies which had their headquarters in London. M. Steiber entered with much lucidity into details of great interest, corroborated fully by documentary evidence and admissions on the part of individuals arrested at Paris and elsewhere. Among these individuals was a man named Cherval, described as one of the chiefs of the French Communists. A letter from this personage to an emissary at Valenciennes, dated February, 1851, is characteristic of the Communist doctrines. The following is an extract, laid before the Court : " What you propose is very good; bat I hold it advisable not to speak of murder in our letters. That is the medium for carrying our principles into effect, bat it would be hurtful tospeak openly of this medium. Excite hatred against all reactionaries, but do not preach this hatred openly. I laughed heartily when I read your article—" Murder all the clergy without mercy." Only think of some fifty head of this black breed, bound hand to hand, like so many sheep and calves, to be led to the shambles, and there slaughtered! In another letter addressed to the same emissary, named Gieberich, arrested at Strasburg, the following extracts were cited :—" Our principles are simply these : all men (except the clergy and reactionaries), it is to be supposed, are brothers. Property is robbery. All men have equal rights. The oppressed have a right to revenge themselves on their tyrants by all possible means." The letters containing these and sundry other passages of equal brutality were found in the possession of individuals arrested, and acknowledged by them and their authors, who, it appears, were almost all arrested by a plan well concerted bemean the French and German police.
The Sun. — 1852-12-22 (London, England)

THAMES.— William Bedward, described as a journeyman cheesemonger, who has been for the last fortnight out on bail, appeared before Mr. Yardley, charged with an attempt to murder his wife on the morning of Tuesday, the 7th inst.  Mary Bedward, a delicate-looking woman, who has just been discharged from the London Hospital, seemed pale and faint, and was accommodated with a chair. Her right eye and the side of her face were greatly disfigured fitim the effect of severe blows. She stated that she had been living at 8, James-street, Limehouse, was married about ten years ; that her husband was in the habit of being out very late, and frequently came home intoxicated and ill-used her. On the night in question he came home about two o'clock ; she had sat up for him, and had a mutton chop cooked for his supper, which see placed before him. Not satisfied with the quantity he threw a large jug of water on the fire, blew out the candle, and commenced a furious attack on his wife. He struck her with his clenched fist in the face, grasped her throat with both hands, pushed her down I on the floor, and beat her face against the boards, severely injuring her jaws and loosening her teeth. She screamed murder," and begged of him not to strike her any more. He answered, " You devil, I'll finish you now ; I'll die for you." As she endeavoured to pacify the children he struck the bedstead, land broke the front of the roof, with which he again struck her, knocked her down, and beat her unmercifully about the head, face, and arms, after which he again seized her by the throat with both hands, and she believed she would have been strangled had not the officer broken in the door, and saved her life. She became so confused and stupified from the effects of the blows that she broke the windows and cut her hands with the glass, by which she lost a great deal of blood. Police-constable Scales, 249 K, stated that, being on duty, in James-street, about two o'clock in the morning, he heard cries of "murder" proceeding from No. 8. He rapped, and demanded admittance, but could get no answer. The screams were renewed, and he broke in the door. He found the woman lying on the floor covered with blood, and the prisoner standing near her. He took him to the station house, and had the woman conveyed to the London Hospital. The prisoner, who is a savage looking fellow, offered no defence.  Mr. Yardley committed him for trial at the next Mid dlesex Sessions.  He was informed that bail would be accepted, himself in 1001. and two sureties in 501. each. Bail was not forthcoming, and the prisoner was removed in the van. Mr. Yardley ordered the poor woman a sovereign from the poor-box, and told her to make application to him again after the trial of her husband.  FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of
The Sun. — 1852-10-02 (London, England)

GERMANY.  The following passage from the memoirs of the late General Von Muffling, written by himself, under the title of " Ans meinem Leben," will perhaps at this moment be read with some interest. Muffling was the agent of all communications between the head-quarters of Blucher and the Duke of Wellington during the march of the allies on Paris, after the return of Napoleon from Elba : "During the march (after the battle of Waterloo) Blucher had once a chance of taking Napoleon prisoner, which he was very anxious to do; from the French Commissioners who were sent to him to propose an armistice, he demanded the delivery of Napoleon to him as the first condition of the negotiations. I was charged by Marshal Blucher to represent to the Duke of Wellington that the Congress of Vienna had declared Napoleon outlawed, and that he was determined to have him shot the moment he fell into his hands. Yet he wished to know from the Duke what he thought of the matter; for if he (the Duke) had the same intentions, the Marshal was willing to act with him in carrying them into effect. "The Duke looked at me rather astonished, and began to dispute the correctness of the Marshal's interpretation of the proclamation of Vienna, which was not at all intended to authorize or incite to the murder of Napoleon; he believed, therefore, that no right to shoot him in case be should be made prisoner of war could be founded on this document, and he thought the position both of himself and the Marshal towards Napoleon, since the victory had been won, was too high to permit such an act to be committed. I had felt all the force of the Duke's arguments before I delivered the message I had very unwillingly undertaken, and was, therefore, not inclined to oppose them. I therefore,' continued the Duke, wish my friend and colleague to see this matter in the light I do; such an act would give our names to history stained by a crime, and posterity would say of us, they were not worthy to be his conquerors; the more so, as such a deed is useless, and can have no object.' Of these expressions I only used enough to dissuade Blucher from his intention."  There are three dispatches given by Miffing in the appendix to his memoirs, in which the execution of Napoleon is urged on the Duke of Wellington by Blucher ; they are signed by Gneisenau, and leave no doubt of the determination to revenge the bloodshed of the war on the cause of it, bad he fallen into hands of the Prussian Commander. Blucher's fixed idea was that the Emperor should be executed on the very spot where the Duo d'Enghien was put to death. The last dispatch yields an unwilling assent to the Duke of Wellington's remonstrances, and calls his interference "dramatic magnanimity," which the Prussian head-quarters did not at all comprehend. Probably but few Frenchmen are aware of the existence of this correspondence, or that it is an historical fact Napoleon's life was saved by his rival, whom it eost no small exertion to save it.
The Sun. — 1852-01-07 (London, England)

MURDER,IN GOVAN, NEAR GLASGOW. It is our painful duty to record the particulars of a barbarous murder, committed late on Thursday night on Friday morning on the body of a Margaret Lyle, residing in the vicinity o f the o rearlymed village of Govan, near Glasgow. Though several persons are in custody charged with the perpetration of the bloody deed, and though the whole womannagreateri eh part of them may be found to have in its commission, we understand the evidencerh has been collected points more directly to one of their number, a carter of the name of Neil Strachan, as the person who actually caused the death of the unfortunate beeno t implicated w which woman. From the isolated position of the heuse in which the murder was committed, and the fact that all who could have any knowledge of it are more or less the objects of suspicion, the precise circumstances are as yet involved in some degree of mystery; but enough is known to show that the deceased was beaten to death in the most cruel and barbarous manner by one or other of the , persons now in custody. The features are swelled to twice their usual size, and are disfigured almost beyond recognition. The head is cut in several places ; the neck and shoulders are one mass of wounds ; and, in short, the whole body is covered with bruises as if it had been hacked by a raging maniac. The house in which this horrible murder was perpetrated forms the extreme corner of a range of low brick buildings standing in the fields near Boltonstreet, South ginning-place, and used as stables by, Mr. Brownlie, contractor. They are completely detached from the surrounding houses, and, with the exception of Neil Strachan and his family, who resided in two small apartments at the end of the range, were untenanted. Strachan is an old gray-headed man, a widower, and the father of four children, two of them under ten years of age. He is described to be a quiet, inoffensive person while sober, but one of those who go mad under the influence of intoxicating liquors. It is alleged he had formed an improper connexion with Margaret Lyle, the supposed victim of his passionate violence. This ill-fated woman:was about,3o years of age, was unmarried, and was the mother of two or three illegitimate children, of whom Strachan is said to be the father, though he never acknowledged the paternity, nor allowed them to live in his house. She usually resided with her mother in Long Gavan, but frequently left her home to cohabit with Strachan, and was regarded by all who knew her as a woman of profligate habits. It appears that Lyle, a female friend of similar character, and a labourer named John Watson, met in Strachan's house on Thursday morning, for the pur' pose of passing the day of the New Year in their own way. They were visited in the forenoon by one of
The Sun. — 1852-09-20 (London, England)

IREL AND . DUBLIN, SE. '• ig.—ln the case of the Queen at ~. ' :t Mr. Wallace, the proprietor of the f the colonel and officers of the 31st Rtheexpirnroesnectuatgi: raper, Anglo- Celt nevisiht; Magistrates at the head policeofficebefore for libel, the defendant at tended t put in bail for his appearance in the to-days .0 Court of Queen's Bench. on the first day of next terw. counsel wi- Mr. Rae, solicitor, for the prosecution. Mr. Dowse, "aaj *th on the part of Mr. Kemmiss, with Mr. Matthew Pully, solicitor, appeared Mr. Wallace. The informations of Lieut.- Colonel bCl.llrrorr.wisnter, - . y,. for Mr. Captain Eagar, and Lieut. Hutton, of the 31st Regiment, were read out by Mr. Porter. They set forth the circumstances relative to the affair at Sixmile-bridge, and denying that the party of the 31st had committed wilful murder on that occasion, or had slaughtered the people without provocation. They also charged as wickedly false and untrue the allegation contained in the alleged libel that the 31st ever brbuet thengaut, n the contrary, they hadiloty of cowardice, or had legilostttmheeint bad r facing ever exhibited the utmost gallantry. Mr. Dowse, on the part of the defendant, having declined to crossexamine the witnesses, Mr. Wallace was called upon to enter into security, himself in 2001, and two sure• ties in 100/. each. Dr. Gray and Mr. Matthew Tully, solicitor, became securities in the sum required, and the recognizances having been perfected the parties left the office.  IMPUDENT REPRESENTATION —O police-stations ions of imposition iSaturday the following asforwarded practisedinformonat a great number of highly respectable tradesmen at the West-end OFaudaciousTu Eto Et andXh Pi Rm metropolitanEp MuidEeimpudent by a fellow representing himself as Lord John Russell, the ex• Premier. 'the individual in question, who decidedly bears a very strong resemblance to 1118 Lordship, called a few days since on the proprietor of an extensive establishment in Pimlico, and requested that a tilbury should be immediately prepared for him to proceed t.) the Barracks at Hounslow, to see his nephew, who he sail belonged to the Bth Dragoons. Having stated himself to be no ether than Lord John Russell, the tilbury was placed at his disposal, and was driven off in the direction of Hounslow. During the journey be several times ordered the servant to pull up at various establishments in Kensington, and, again making use of his former tale, obtained sundry sums of money and divers articles from the tradesmen to a considerable amount. Arriving at Hounslow, the rogue dismissed the servant with the vehicle, and proceeded to the George Hotel, wbere, by the same means, he hired a postchaise, and went on to Windsor, where he asked the servant for a little money, if he had any. The unfortunate dupe „a„,e him all be possessed, being about W. 145., and be went off, saying he should soon return and drive back to Hounslow. It is almost needless to say that nothing has since I been seen or heard of the imposter.
The Sun. — 1852-03-06 (London, England)

MARCH 6, 1852. °  school-yard work.hoo bl William Mason my arms round her and kissed togefer. The hour of na our reternicg tro work depends , upon the wind and the tide: When my boat droppect anchor the policeman and three other men came on-.board from a small boat, and they put several quifitions to me; but I did not know what they came On board 'for. The policeman asked me if I had ainy;razors, and I told him I had two. He then asked isitephere I kept them, and I told him. He then asked me where my knife was, and I told him in my pocket, and gave it him. These questions led me to suppose somettdag had happened at my cottage, but I was riot informed of what had actually occurred until I met Mr. Solly, bAt Ido not recollect that he called me on one side and said that something dreadful had happened, beforel akted him if my wife was murdered. The plan where I ras at work was in a contrary direction to Sake% I hell to pass the osierbed, where the hedge stake was fours "on going to niy from my ttage through the -yA person ardgat going gate, would also pass thq,Osier bed. said, I sin a dredgrman, and I lodged n cob cottage, at Tollesbury, ache time this affair happened. I went to bed about nine o'clock on the night before the murder, and got up about six the next morning. I and Cobb dressed ourselves, and I went to my work, leaving Cobb behind in the 'cottage. I did not notice what time it was exactly when I left the cottage; but I know that I went before Cobb. The deceased and her together. The child was ananduospbtaetiddchilivledd, avnedrythhey"biloyth appeered very fond of it. When I came home again, I found that my box bad been ransacked, and eleven or twelve shillings were taken from a 1 small till that was in it. , I am sure ) there .were two quite Safe tsto dap before the halfcrowns among the money.e I ‘....; ;;_i a...5*w nothing but the money., My box was. murder. A short time before:- November, the prisoner Purchased a pair of boots frame ass.... -4F. f'r eighteen pence. He only paid one sixpence and I hadataked him for the pay me 'as as he could. Ireal,iyan.adskiliorshaiiradf;4the woulddmy mina, 4;eily ill safe when I Went t 6 tiey'w.ork,'lid the morning . Skrisurder. _Cross-examined--1 have'sai4 i belvoeti six and I:11 seven when I left the cottage; but I cannot speak positively to half an hour. I cannot tell what time it was .when I got to my work. ' Edward Pewter said—ln November last I was lodging with Cobb at Tollesbury; but on the night before the murder I had gone on board a smack at Woorcreek, about a mile from Tollesbury, and went in her to Nazing, where I was engaged in dredging and fishing until the Wednesday following. I left my box of clothes all safe, and when I returned I found my box opened, and all my clothes thrown about. I had lodged some months at Cobb'a cottesre, and during that time I never heard Cobb and his wife have an angry word together. By Mr.
The Sun. — 1852-10-04 (London, England)

NAPOLEON. Ln.&,S.W.Ce.3ds.s/. is 3% -3% n experience at th these two peneions, of 10,599/. 23., were given, not very important point to the comfort of electors, and In the Sydne! (Cotrntersigned) "A. DE ST. ARNAUD, THE QuERN.-Her Majesty the Queen, Prince Lon. & En. % Sh. all p 13 -14 ' for the life of the gren tee alone, but made heredi- indeed to giving us the full constituency indicated by . Minister of Wee." Albert, and such of the Roe el Family f'S are at Balmoral, we Man., Sheff., S/ Linen. , appeared midair tary in his family ; thet the present Duke receives the Reform Bill itself. Thousands of votes The Bishop of MARSEILLES has received Demi h are happy to hear, intend, in retniaing to the metropolis, to Qr. Sh., No. 1...a1l INI 9 -- 10 Money market f t e pay a visit to the Principelit • d f h M 'est 's accom. . y, an or er aj y Do. New 161. all pd 11% -12 upon it, The le this 10,599/. 23. every - f his life ; that it vt;11 be are lost, because persons will not submit PRINCE PRESIDENT the cross of the Legion of D ' ••• 3l. tod 5 0. 6/. year o =dation the greater part of the Penrhyn Arms Hotel, at A - eft p twO mercantile 1 receivable by all future Deists, and that, incredible to the loss of time and unpleasantness of waiting Honour. Bangor, has been secured for Wednesday week, the 13th inst. Maiyport and Carlisle, The principal pr es it may were, the pekes of GRAFTON for hours in a Registration Court. And where the According to a letter from Marseilles, the window Thou h her •t a visit • g . Maps y' . will be private, yet there can be 4 per cent all pd eidis. - ea p venue on gold 1 f the room in which it was intended to lace a, no douot that the inhabitants of Bangor will feel it their Do., 4% per ct. 6% p eedis. - et p them at twelve n have already received as much money from this cases are defended, our columns at the present time •° p rue duty to receive her with such demonstrations of afectionate Mid. Con. 6p c St, 100/. ... - ... -infernal machine, was to have been mesked b a r d this were done I Do. Con. Bri& &Bin, grant 89, at accumulating interest, would now amount will show, that the majority of persons who cannot lar i h d • f h• h ge eag e, t e out-sprea wings o w ic were so .1v y _Tar as are due to ber exalted character and position.oath Wales Chronicle. 6 per cent...looL pd 148 - 150 being based on e to over 1,200,000,000/e or more than one end a half sustain their vote, lose it through some worthless in- contrived that by touching a spring tbey would have RE-OPENING or THE A Do Erewash vel 11'3 _ . __.a_r .•• - ••• be extended larg the entire National Debt. It is too much to expect, formality, being meanwhile of the very class which folded together, end unmasked the murderous ma- OFFIcE IN