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The Sun. — 1850-01-30 (London, England)

ITALY.  The following are the particulars of the liberation of Dr. Acurw, as communicated to the various journals by Sir CULLING EARDLEY : " It has been already stated that Dr. Achilli is set at liberty, and thtt this intelligence reached Paris by telegraph last Friday. We under:4,nd from Dr. Achilles friends that they aro able to prove tl at the assistance of the French military was fraudulently obtained for his arrest, and ti at the French Government was falsely informed that he was imprisoned fir murder and (Vier crimes. The inquiries instituted at 'Viterbo by his friends forced the accusing power to drop the mask and to avow that he was seized for religion alone. A similar local investigation in Rome enabled his friends to prove to France, by the evidence of her owu officers, that a detachment of her troops on duty at her Prefecture of Police at Rome were parties to the seizure, though the Prefect made a return that there was no such entry in his register. The soldiers were dispatched for the purpose without the cognizance ( f the Pi erect, by word of command of a subordinate. TLe second in command of the French police is an Italian gentleman, employed formerly in the police of Gregory XVL The chief of the French army and diplorr a-4 in Rome, Gen. Barnguay d'iiiltiers (soon after the 10th of December), applied in person, at Portici, to the Supreme Pontiff for tLe prisoner's liberation,which was positively refused on no ( ther ground than that the prisoner had done muck harm to religion, and would do more, if ha e.' Owing, however, to proceedings, the nature of which is not known, the French Government received in Paris, on December 20th, a telegraphic message from the General that the Roman Government offered the French Government to  literate Dr. Achilli, on condition that the English Government and his friends would insure his leaving Italy. The British Ambassador in Paris, with the kindness which has characterized him throughout, wrote himself, extra-Aficially, to Dr. Achilli, engaging him to do so. his friends dA the same. The French Government intimated to the GencTal and Ambassador its cos currence in the arrangement. The French General communicated the reply to the Supreme Pontiff Lt Portici, arld claimed the fulfilment of tae promise. It vas answered that he mould take time to consider it, and would arrange the matter on his return to Rome. In the mean time, and subsequently to the arrival of the reply from Parie, the Fiscal of the Ir quisition visited . Dr. Achilli prison several times, intimating to him that he was to be put upon his trial, and that he (the Faito be his judge. The ki.owledge of this d,i;al) acyand of the accompanying circumstancis retched Paris about t'-.e 10th of January. TLe Government of the Republic took up the matter strongly, and communications of an urgent charact,r were made to Rome. a"s'aaslrmeaaddye on his (asOn hasthe 25th n stthaetedF)rethnacht DGr.ovAercnbmineinwt way from RA. ale to Pat if," King BOMBI has refused to accede to the earnest request of the POPE, that he would grant an amnesty. In the sitting of the 23d of the Chamber of Depu
The Sun. — 1850-02-13 (London, England)

THE WORKING MAN'S WORST ENEMIRIL—The Hull Advertiser is prosecuting an " Inquiry into the social condition of the working classes in Bull," by its " own commissioner," whose letters show a zealous activity a abound in interesting matter. The following is an extract from the last letter of the series :—" The unjustly-paid and unjustly-treated working man must. however, not wholly blame the masters for the privations which he and his family have to endure. It tes commonly happens that working men are the worst enemies c,t working men. The worst masters are generally those who have most recently been servants; and on the other hand, evert good masters are spoiled by bud servants. I here allude to the unskilful and indolent class ot workmen, who are always the last to whom employment is gii en, and who not unfreqeently would starve, could they not obtain work by holding out the inducement to the employer of executing it at a lower rate of wages than , the etas ployer would think of offering to a butter alias of workmen. There have been, in many traders in Hull, scores of traitors among the working c'aises to their own order, and to whom the working classes at large owe more of their sufferings than to the established masters. It is from the petty Insisters—the journresym haertremasters, if I may ,so term them—that the otehne are so much injured. Working learned those practices by which wosrkinng the icventors esh, will have with him at the same Teaenl Bidhotisi twoillfrearlefrrombe that watthrekiwngorkminegifs man iniseri men his The old club system for obennehmaantde—inthet emsaantn we wages is all but finally exploded, and it hrooowmo.r maintaining workmen generally, noton y h should now become an important owto protest themselves against masters, but consideration with against men of their own position." The Duke of Devonshire, on his late visit to his estates in Ireland, brought back with him that very curious relic of antiquity, the crozier of the ancient bishops of Waterford and Lismore, which come into his Grace's Inside, we believe, with the property of the B.,yles, Earls of Cork. It is of bronze, ornamented with enamel and beads; and if it do not belong (as some antiquaries contend it does) to the eighth or ninth century, it is certainly nut of later manufacture than the very commencement of the twelfth century, the reign of Henry I. It has been privately seen by not a few Irish antiquaries, who are of opinion that it is of the workmanship of that country, and the Duke has kindly consented to its exhibition at the Society e f Antiguan,* in London, on an early occasion, in order to ascertain the decision ot that learned body as to its precise age, and the part of the world where it was made. It seems clear that it did not come origirally from Italy. Mrs. Bleai.by, before committal to Armagh gaol, where she was escorted in ter own phaeton, on the corona lvienrdt , nfoarndtsiet emurderi toofr, h eivr rh. Cat, mdeposited a will in the hands tee solicitor, Mr. .1. Cumming, bequt athing 22,0006 to her children. She was dressed in deep mourning. .
The Sun. — 1850-03-26 (London, England)

MAST ANNE PARSONS. On the postmortem examination he discovered " another bruise on the back part of the head, and there was considerable extravasation of blood ; the membranes of the brain were considerably congested, and at the base of the brain there was also extravasation of blood." He considered that the "external injuries of the head were the cause of death, but could not form an opinion how that violbnce bad beers inflicted." And on cross-examination he stated that "odtfhtaeo lilis t testimony incasesmony le appearancesptohpel eaxcyciacquittal of the prisoners.. in the head were thesame There was abundant evidence to show that both had flogged and cruelly beaten the child ; that they had inflicted the injuries on the other parts of the person, but nothing to bring the fatal blow home to either. Deeply as we regret dust such infamous conduct should be perpetrated w:.,th impunity, fully as we participate in the just indignation of the bystanders who gave utterance to the remonstance—" What! are these persons to go entirely without punishment ?" we cannot dissent from the view of the case taken by the accomplished rid amiable Judge who presided on the trial. He ros sworn to administer justice equally and impart ially, to hold the scales with an indifferent hand bet wean our Sovereign Lady the QUEEN and the prise r:ers at the bar. He could not suffer any personal feelin of horror and disgust to influence him in the dibcha; -ge of the important trust confided to his charge. The prisoners were unquestionably morally gtiilty. No doubt could remain that through their inhuman conchic t the miserable girl had been brought to a cruel and. untimely death; but, unfortunately, there was not ..the legal evidence of their guilt which the law wad .society require. Far better that such criminals 51 loult I escape unscathed than that the law itself should  be strained and violated, and a precedent established of the most formidable character. If the strict letter of the law could be disregarded, in order to bring offenders like the BIRDS or MARY NEWTON to punishment, there would be no protection for British subjects, the " trial by jury" would be a vain and tireless ceremony. The Irish jury, who found'a man guilty of murder because he stole a mare belonging to the foreman, for which he could not be convicted, would have acted in a manner worthy of imitation. None perhaps in the community would feel a more intense horror of the crime, and a more lively detestation of the criminals than Mr. Justice TALrouity, but he had a higher duty to discharge. His was not a " maudlin sympathy" with the offenders, but a strong sense of justice that compelled him, however unwillingly, to give even to such persons the benefit of the strict letter of the law. Their crime might have been punished, and justly punished, under a despotic government, but better that tl-,ey should escape than that the rights and liberties of Englishmen should be endangered.  MONEY and
The Sun. — 1850-12-06 (London, England)

BRUTAL MURDER. (From the Dumfries Courier.) We have the painful duty of recording an occurrence in the usual tranquil county of Dumfries, involving the commission of two capital offences, under circumstances of peculiar and painful atrocity, by which a reqectable female has been suddenly and awfully deprived of life. About seven o'clock of the evening of Wednesday, the 27th ult., three persons left Dumfries, two of them, at least, with the intention of proceeding home to the village of Kirkland of Tinwald ; John Hamilton and his wife, accompanied by William Laurie, a shoemaker. Hamilton is a ploughman. They had one child, a daughter, about fifteen years of age. Before leaving Dumfries the party had been together in a publichouse, and Hamilton had become much intoxicated. About ten o'clock the same night Hamilton found his way home, and went to bed alone. Being questioned as to his wife, he said she was with some people, and would be in directly. About two o'clock next morning several persons, in returning from Dumfries with a horse and cart, found a female in a state of complete insensibility lying on the road side. They placed her in the vehicle, and she shortly afterwards died. Various marks were observed upon her face, and contusions and discolorations of an extensive character. A medical examination was forthwith ordered, v. hen, in addition to the marks of violence on the face, three severe contusions were found on the upper part of the head apparently caused by blows and not through a fall. Further examination also disclosed the fact of the perpetration of another capital offence, which must have been preceded by a fearful struggle and great resistance on the part of the unfortunate woman, and accompanied by the most brutal violence at the hands of her assailant. These dreadful facts having been communicated to the Procurator-Fiscal, no time was lost in apprehending Laurie and Hamilton, who are both in prison ; and of course a minute and searching investigation into all the circumstances of the case is in progress. It appears that, some time between Hamilton's return home and the discovery of the murdered woman's body by the party in the cart, a young man, who was passing along the road, found Laurie standing beside Mrs. Hamilton, who was lying on the roadside in a state of insensibility. He helped Laurie to carry her for some distance towards her house, and then offered to wait beside her until Laurie went for more assistance. Laurie refused to go, however, and the man most unaccountably left them and rent home.  It also appears that, if this statement be correetf the woman must have been carried back to the original spot, where she was again found by the parties who eventually conveyed her home. On a p:=rsonal examination, after apprehension, Laurie's clothes were found to be stained and marked with blood, Laurie is a strong, thick-set, middle-aged man, and resided in the village of Amisfield, about half a mile from Kirkland.  CORONER'd
The Sun. — 1850-02-09 (London, England)

ORSIIIP-STREE T. TUE CASE OF SUPPOSED POISONING AT HACKNEY. —Anne Merritt was placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, for re-examination, charged with the wilful murder of her husband, James Merritt, a turncock in the employment of the East London Waterworks Company, by administering to him a quantity f arsenic. The case appeared to have excited an intense de. g,ree of interest in the district, and the court was inconveniently crowded throughout the investigation by persons anxious to witness the proceedings and obtain a sight of the prisoner. The evidence taken at the former examination was now read over, and the witness Mary Gillett, who deposed to the sudden and serious illness of the deceased after partaking of some gruel which his wife had prepared for him, although she had seen him in ipparently his usual health in the morning, and which terminated in his death on the same night, was now recalled, and having been again examined at considerable length, stated, in addition to her former testimony, that on the Monday previous to the fatal occurrence she had a conversation with the prisoner on the subject of some money to which a widow named Bartholomew, whose husband was a member of the same benefit society to which the deceased belonged, was about to receive on the death of her husband, which'had just taken place, on which occasion the prisoner remarked, that if anything should happen to her (the prisoner's) husband, she would be entitled to the full benefit of 101., instead of receiving only 71. 10e., which was all that was allotted to the woman Bartholomew, in consequence of her husband not having been sufficiently long connected with the society to be entitled to more. Alfred Andrews, summoning officer for the parish of Hackney, stated, that on the morning after the death of the deceased he proceeded to the house, where he found the last witness, who observed that she supposed there would be a coroner's inquest, to which the prisoner replied, "I do not thinli there is any necessity for it, as my poor, dear husband died a natural death." Oa the Monday following, he accompanied two medical gentlemen to the house, who intimated that they were directed to make a post mortem exami• nation of the body, in reference to which the prisoner, who was greatly agitated, said that she had no objection to it herself, but that her husband had made her promise that his body should never be opened ; to which she added immediately afterwards, "Thank God I am innocent ; if there is anything wrong I know nothing about it." The witness added, that she had previously informed him that her husband, the first thing in the morning, bad partaken of the liquor of some Irish stew, made over night, and sub The bankrupt, who was described as of Milton, near Gravesend, bookseller, &c., and who was proprietor of the Literary Gazette, came up to pass his last examination, supported by Mr. Sturgeon. The bankrupt passed. (Before Mr. Commissioner
The Sun. — 1850-01-15 (London, England)

VICTORIA. It would be the interest of Queen VicTORIA to damage in every possible way the credit of Russia; it would be the interest of BARING Brothers to uphold it—to which of the two would. Sir FRANCIS Trioasintes. BARING pay his allegiance ? Would the First Lord of the Admiralty do his utmost to damage Russia ? Could he forget that he was a member of the firm of BARING Brothers ? This money is not wanted to complete the railroad, it is wanted for purposes of war—ef war to be carried on against the interests of England, perhaps against England herself; it is wanted to defray the expense of the Hungarian and Polish campaigns ; for admitting for the sake of argument that the money thus raised will be expended on railroads (a supposition so monstrous as to amount to a self-evident absurdity), still but for that Hungarian campaign the Emperor of RUSSIA would have bad funds sufficient to have completed his railroad without a loan—the money is wanted, as Mr. COBDEN justly observes in his admirable letter to the Secretary of the Peace Society, " to pay the savage instruments of the devastation el' Hungary," to pay the murderers of BATTIIYANY and of AULicH, it is blood-money that Messrs. BARING Brothers have undertaken to lend—it is blood-money that they ask the capitalists of England to supply. To every man to whom they have addressed a circular, asking his subscription to this loan, Messrs. BARING Brothers have offered a deliberate insult. We trust that no Englishman (BARING Brothers are, thank GOD, more American than English), we trust that no Englishman will be found sufficiently base to take part in this " unholyand infamous transaction ;" should there be any such, let bim be regarded as excommunicate and a castaway ; the blood of BATTEIYANT, the blood of AuLicu, the blood of the murdered of Arad and of Pesth, will be on his head ; his will be the guW, the shame, the disgrace of the woman-flogger. Never again be his red right hand grasped in friendship ; let all mankind avoid him ; the subscription to the Russian loan will be as the mark of Cans branded on his brow. Bat we will not believe that England holds any man who will join the BARINGS in this infamous transaction. W e devoutly hope, for the honour of our country, that not one single application will be made to them from any English house, but that they will be permitted to monopolize the unhallowed gains, whatever they may be, as they will in that case the itifemy and guilt of this most unholy compact. We are rejoiced to find that Mr. COBDEN has taken up this question, and is bestirring himself to convene a meeting in the City as an indignant protest in reprobation of this " unholy and infamous transaction." There are many points on which we consider Mr. COBDEN wrong, and we have never hesitated to state as much whenever the occasion seemed to require it, but in this he is right, and every honest man will go with him cordially. Let the meeting be held without delay, and let it be followed up by meetings in every town in England.  42, -;=.-i•-•z, Aikk 2),,,„ •  lllk. etrtidirta nit
The Sun. — 1842-04-15 (London, England)

GILBERT' UNIONS. i,. Captain PECHELL said, from the determined silence tor the Government, not only with respect to the Poor-140-, but the Gilbert Unions, he must move for certain ~ tocuuients, that whenever the measure came hefore Parliament, he should be enabled to show the Government that the uniformity of practice said to exist in the Poor-law tnions,' was not carried ont. He thought that the Government ought to show them some inducement fur throwing themselves into the arms of the Poor-law Conunissioners. He proved, ftom a case of ill-treatment °fa pauper named Smith, who had been brought to the • last stage of ill-health by being kept to bone-breaking in the bone-house of a Poor-law• Union in Suffolk, that the treatment of the poor was harsh. The immediate matter of complaint was that Mr. Brooker made observations on the case, and charged those who worked the Poor-law of being guilty of moral and constructive murder. An 4ortourable Member had said, in answer, that the charge of Mr. Brooker was a libel, but that Gentleman instructed him (Captain Pechell) to say that he was ready to meet the charge that was made against him. He state that the charge of a " gross libel" made against jut was uncalled for, and that , he would stake his character for respectability upon the fact. The honourable Member who said the pamphlet was a gross libel, was not in the House, and he would tot enter upon the statement he made, but he believed the agricultural laborers would not again draw him to the hustings. He (Mr. Brooker) stated that he would again renew thr., charge of moral and constructive murder, and tivat he would be ready to meet the charge Made age:inst him. He begged to be understood he did not trAke those statements on his own 't.thority ; but he ',toped an inquiry would be instituted. fie,.w.ished to ..:now when it was probable the Right Hon. Baronet would introduce the Poor-law Bill, because it was desirable the country should know, and also that Hon. Gentlemen might have an opportunity of recording their • votes agreeably to the promises they made their constituents. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving "" A. Return of the Poor-law Unions, distinguishing those in which there were no orders of the Commis' skaters prohibiting out-door relief." Mr. CURTEIS said that he had a conversation with the Chairman of the Board of Guardians of the East' ,oeurne Union, who requested him, on behalf of the Board and himself, to state that they desired an inquiry. lie begged to be understood that he did not pronounce ,any opinion on the pamphlet of Mr. Brooker, as he tad not read it. The motion having been put, Sir J. GRAHAM said he did not wish to offer 'any 'oPposition to the motion of the Hon. and Gallant Officer, and though at present he could not name any time for the inquiry, he could assure the Hon. and Gallant Officer that there should be no delay. He begged to dove, as an addition to the motion, for " a similar return of unions in which such orders have been issued by the Commissioners." After a few words from Capt. PECHELL, the return, With the addition, was ordered to be made.