The Sun. — 1857-03-16 (London, England)

CLRKENWELL.— The election to the incumbency of Clcrkeuwell has been Sue fur the 30th instant. The Rev. Horace Roberts has retired from the contest, having been*appointed curate of Bedford Episcopal Chapel Chapel, Bloomsbury ; and it is supposed that there will be no strong opposition to the election of the Rev. R. Maguire, the secretary of the Islington Protestant Institute. The Court of Assizes on Friday tried a man named Plu for the murder of his sister. On the morning of the 27th Dec., the man, who for five years had lived with his sister in the Piece d'Armes at St. Denis, informed some of the occupiers of the house that he had found his sister lying dead in bed. Those persons immediately wont up to the novo, and found the woman dead. The man said he would have the corpse buried at once, and that he himself would prepare it for interment ; but his .neighbours informed the commissary of police, and that functionary had an examination made of the body. It was then discovered that the deceased, after receiving a blow on the head from some blunt instrument which stunned her, had been suffocated by having a large piece of wool thrust into her mouth, It was further discovered that a number of pieces of gold, chiefly foreign, and some securities, which the woman was known to possess, had disappeared. The man was suspected, as for some time he had been on bad terms with his sister, and had frequently illtreated:her ; and the cause of their dissensions was that he was lazy and drunken, and made her maintain him.. On the previous evening the people living in the adjacent rooms had heard the woman bitterly reproaching some one, and shortly after they beard smothered cries. As the woman had scarcely any friends, it was morally certain that the person whom she reproached could be no other than her brother. Moreover, there were no signs of any forcible entry having been made into the apartment, and the brother alone had a key of it. He pretended that he bad passed the whole of the previous evening and night in a new lodging which he had hired in a different part of the town, but, lon inquiry, it turned out that he had not been near the place. He was searched and a eurn of 306 f., of which 230 f, were in gold, was found on him ; some articles of jewellery, a voucher fur 141 f. rente, and a bond of the City of Paris of 1,000 f., were besides found in a trunk which he had secreted in a garret. He pretended that be had saved up the sums in question, but he could not state how he oricinally became possessed of them. A further sum of 1,860 f., chiefly in gold, was found in a drawer, and when it was discovered be alleged that it was his, but he could not state what the precise amount was ; so that it was reasonable to assume that ho had secreted it without counting it, But what was the strongest proof of his guilt was that the gold found on him was of the reigns of Bonaparte Coneel, Napoleon 1., Louis XVIII , and Charles X , and his aivter had bad pieces of those reigns, and took plee• sure in shoiving them to her neighbours ; and, besides, he bad some pieces of Italy, England, and Holland, which also his sister had possessed. The jury dechred the man guilty, not of murder, but of manslaughter, and the Court condemned him to 20 years' hard labour.