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The Sun. — 1844-03-09 (London, England)

CENTRAL CRIVIINAL COURT.  William 311' Gregor, who was convicted on Thursday of attempting to make a revolt on board ship, was brought up- for j udgment. Mr. Justice PArrEsox said that the jury had coupled with their verdict the expression of aw opinion that the lightest sentence permitted by , the law should be passed' upon and also censuring the.conduct of the captain and the owners of the v=essel, and at the same time strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy. The opinion-Of the jury had been notified to Lord Abinger, who tried the case, and his Lordship requested him to.state that he did not at all concur in the opinion of the jury. lie considered the offence a very serious one, and passing a very light sentence was quite out of the question ; but the recommendation of the jury would, be so far attended to, that the 'prisoner would not receive so serious a punishment as he would otherwise haVe been sentenced to. The Learned Judge then said that the sentence he 'had to pass upon him was, that he be imprisoned for one year in the gaol of Newgate, with hadit labour, if the discipline of the gaol permitt edit. • Joseph Murray, 22, Alfred Bevis, 22, and James Bevis, 25, were indicted for feloniously cutting, and maiming Nathaniel Nevell, with intent to murder him, and in other counts the intent -was laid to be to maim and disable the prosecutor.  Mr, Wilkins. appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Ballantine defended James Bevis, and Mr. Wilde defended Murray. The circumstances of this case will be fresh in the recollec-; tion of our readers from the full roped that appeared of the prisoners' examination at the police-office, and it will, therefore, be unnecessary to repeat them on the present occasion. The prosecutor is a boot and shoemaker, carrying on business in St.. John's-street, and on the night of the 7th February, be was disturbed by hearing if noise in his shop, and on going there he saw three men, two of whom he-identified as Alfred Beiis and Murray. They immediately attacked him, and one of them struck him with a life-preserver, and inflicted a very severe wound upon his head, and he was otherwise very much injured. Confirmatory evidence was 'adduced tending to show the guilt of the prisoners Murray and Alfred Bevis, but the evidence was very Slight against Janies Bevis. The jury accordingly found the two first-mentioned prisoners Guilty, and acquitted the prisoner James Bevis. Mr. Wtu having takena technical objection to the indictment, which would have required the postponement of the judgment,  jiistice.PATTESoN 'expressed his opinion that it would be advisable to try the prisoners upon another indictment that had been preferred against them.' The prisoners were accordingly arraigned upon that charge. The evidence was precisely the same, and the jury returned the same verdict as in the former case. Mr. Justice PArrEsoli then sentenced Murray, against whom ,a Previous conviction for felony *as proved, to be transporledlor life, and Alfred Bevis for ten years.
The Sun. — 1844-07-08 (London, England)

CONNELL AND OTHERS.  • Mr.. KVILLY (in continuation froth our :Aftermoon Edition of Saturday) said—Supposing . that itipon the same sheet of paper eight persons agree to rob -a garden, three of the .eight!:, agree!' to murder the inhabitants of a house, and seven. of • the eight agreed to rob another person- on, the ,hightvay, would it wake any difference that these three agreemerits were on the same sheet of paper, er'entered into at the same time? Would it be one or three agreements? at was perfectly clear they were. three agreeinente for three different purposes. To carry this a little-further, he would suppose that three persons were frirlieted:for a conspiracy to compass the Queen's death, MIA thitat five persons were indicted for a conspiracy to 'ci*Critivd'llie Legislature, and that the three ,were found' ;City of high treason, and were pardoned by-. th!....giteen. If it were one conspiracy the party could not .he_instieted over again if he had been acquitted cf thb.cheige of high treason or had received 'the-Qii.e.en's pardon. In that case the party could not he indicted again for the conspiracy to commit, yea‘ion. Suppose three of the parties 'hid agreed together to compass the Queen's death, and four Other parties in the same room, not knowing of .thi4 Pres-Leos agreement between the three, agreed with them to do certain; acts for the •purposc-of,: everawing the Legisiature, could it .be colterided in such a case where three parties had agreed to (ti 'One thing, and those same three, with five others, had agreed' to do a different thing, that it vies one and 'the: same conspiracy? He would bring it to another test. Suppose the Sovereign had giv'en the 'three, a free pardon for the treasoh, would that 4 free pardon also be a free pardon foi the conspiracy' with the five to overawe the Legislature? . Here were eight persons charged with attemptingto:create disaitee4on, in the army. Five were found not gailty,l If it Were one conspiracy they were improperly found not 'guilty, because three had been found guilty.: New,-the same person could not be guilty and not_guilty of oneuad the -•atne conspiracy. That led hini to. the charge which f^..l been made: o the jury. If this were one conspiracy, 'on as evidence had been given against all the-de. :as, every act done by one was evidence against tl, '-hole. He would ask,- would evidence against of these persons who were proved to been 'guilty of conspiring. to spread Istion in the army be admissible against the five, there was no evidence to convict themwith being .• .rties to that conspiracy ? Suppose eight agrOed to do N--. 1 cud 2, seven to do Nos. 3 and 4; and- three to do ;—suppose evidence offered against the three on that could that be admitted as evidence against the re:Joining five, on a charge of spreading disaffection: sie,anst the Queen ? Would not the judge he teltrid to- tell the jury that the sets 'done t,y the three, in furtherance of one conspiracy,, wee,, not admissable in evidence against the other five, who were charged with a different conipiracy ? • • The
The Sun. — 1844-05-09 (London, England)

LERICEN WELL. Peter Yone, la* private in thetsth Regt. of foot, yin° charged with an assault of an Unusually violent and II". provoked nature, on police constable 175 N. The officer. who appeared to be suffering from tt.e juries he had ''received, deposed that at five o'cloct the previous evening, he was on duty in the New" a7_ii Pentonville. The prisoner, who was under the nt. ence of liquor, had, by his violent language and ice tures, attracted a crowd round him. The officer quested him to go away, but the prisoner became „ill.. violent than before ; the complainant repeated his ~,te quest, when the prisoner knocked him down two times, twice so violently that his body' descended With somersaults on the flags. Assistance, however, arrifthe and the prisoner was, with difficulty, removed tO .0 station-house. Witness felt much pain from the iO3° he had sustained. The superior officers of the division to which the ell; plainant belongs gave him a most excellent chars e`44, and Mr. Combe said, as far as his' "` knowledge extesuew he was one of the most quiet and inoffensive men 0 force. I. had The MAGISTRATE asked the prisoner what he say to the charge. doe Prisoner—l was drunk at the time, and I arts ~see when lam drunk. I am very sorry for what 1 ,70 done, and hope on account of my aged mother w° present, you will forgive me. tea Anne Yone, the mother came forward, and entrecsor of the magistrate to discharge her son, who was in air trious and affectionate towards her. He had 1311100 charged from the army on account of a physics',. be in his constitution. When he took, strong drink o'" came quite insane. 014 Mr. COMBE said assaults era the police were bee° ow of such frequent occurrence, and of so aggravated," ratter. that unless the: were put a stop to, no vess man would join. P7Ae force. ft. plea of drunken, et' was no excuses !and if liquor had such a maddenintit, feet on the ing it. PAsoner, he was the more blameable forrisor U`: would fine him 11. or a fortnight's Wipe? *ne money not being forthcoming he was lee LA;SUPPOSED MURDER AT HAMPTON COURT - r .41540 --Tuesday Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Mitre Tavern, 'lO 00' ton Court, held an inquest, to inquire into the circuret, por attendant upon the death of a newly-born male W3°4 pelf tions of whose mutilated remains had been found in,„ll. to the sewer belonging to Hampton Court Palace. The titulars already adverted to having been narrated Wakley observed that there was no proof that this c nlocbeen murdered, but where a concealment of birth too 4 r and that was followed by horrid acts of mutilatio34l:ool ' ference would be, that it had been killed. He was (' bats,/ that this child had not come from the Palace at all Lueif ed; had been thrown into the barrel drain, and veryuyTfiglao some person coming from a distance. The jury, hay,, Virl liberated for a few minutes, returned a verdict of Murder against some person or persons unknown.  London : Printed and Published The /Jun O CRDOfficeh "i'us ti 0 0 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Strand, in the Precinct of the Sant Pl► in the Middlesex, Thursday, May 9, 1144«
The Sun. — 1844-09-14 (London, England)

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. WALEstiv.) Yesterday an ill-looking man, about 35 years of age, named Wm. Patten, and a female named Ann Webb, were indicted for assaulting and cruelly illtreating Wm. Patten, aged seven years, the son of the former prisoner. The prosecution, which was instituted at the instance of the parish authorities, disclosed as heartless a case of cruelty towards an unfortunate and helpless child as was perhaps ever brought under public notice. The facts of the case have been recently published under the head of our Lambeth street police report. The Deputy-Assistant JUDGE having summed up the evidence, the jury, after a few minutes' consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty. The COURT in pronouncing sentence upon the prisoners, said they had been convicted on the clearest evidence, which must have shocked and horrified every one who heard it. More inhuman conduct he had never before heard described, more particularly on the part of the male prisoner towards his own offspring. It was fortunate for the prisoners that their career of cruelty had been stopped so soon, for from the nature of the medical testimony, it would appear that they had had a narrow escape from an indictment for murder • indeed, he thought their conduct much more cruel and murderous than if they took a knife and cut the wretched infant's throat. The sentence of the Court was, that the male prisoner be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for four months, and the female for three months, with hard labour also. Francis Crocker, an elderly man, dressed in seedy black, was indicted for fraudulently obtaining from Mary Judd the sum of 15s. and a gold ring. The facts of the case, which, having recently appeared in the police reports, may be briefly stated as follows :—The prosecutrix, who was a servant in the City-road, had been courted by a tradesman named Nathan, who promised her marriage, and in consequence he bought a wedding-ring, which he presented to her, but subsequently changed his mind, and in less than a fortnight married another. She was therefore recommended by a fellow-servant to the prisoner to bring an action for breach of promise, and on applying to him he told her he was a solicitor, and required to have the wedding-ring as an essential evidence in the action, for which he gave an undertaking, stating that it would be returned to her upon payment of 15s. expenses for marking a writ against Nathan. She subsequently made several applications fur the ring to the prisoner. The prisoner having been called up for judgment, The Deputy-Assistant JUDGE, after commenting strongly upon the con duet of the prisoner, said he had been convicted of a cruel and heartless fraud upon a simple girl, and it was his (the DeputyAssistant Judge's) intention to have sentenced him to transportation, but in accordance with the opinions of several of the gentlemen on the bench, he would give him one chance more of retrieving his character. The sentence of the Court was, that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months in Tothillfields prison, the last weeks to be solitary.
The Sun. — 1844-10-11 (London, England)

MADRID BOURSE, 2D INST.—Three per Cents., 27-a for Account ; Five per Cents., 20i for Account ; Floating Debt, 66 for Account; Coupons, 261 for Account.  The Journal des Debats publishes a list of the State prisoners set at liberty by the late ordonnanceAmong thein are MM. DUPOTY, Dttroua, and BAZIN, implicated in the attempt made by QUENISSET on the life of Lours PHILIPPE; seven who took part with Louis NAPOLEON in his ridiculous expedition to Boulogne, and BOURDON and seventeen others convicted of illegal proceedings during the disturbances at Paris in 1839. Several of the journals again comment on this act of Clemency, and among others, the Constitutionnel, in the worst taste. After a brief reply to an article on the subject which appeared in the Journal des Debats, M. TRIER'S journal thus sums up the the grievances of France, and the burden of the lamentation is the insult offered to the nation by the hospitable reception of the French KING in this country :—" In the panegyric which the Ministry thus pronounces upon itself there is a phrase which has been remarked upon by every one who has read it for its assurance, which almost amounts to buffoonery. This is the passage :—' Never, whatever has been said, whatever may be said hereafter—never has France been more respected abroad than she is at the present day:. Respected ? By whom, if you please ? By England, perhaps, which has just imposed upon you the payment of a sum of money to a man whose speeches have already cost the lives of twenty-five or twenty-eight of our brave soldiers; by England, which, after having driven you out of New Zealand, has interdicted you from occupying a little islet in the middle of the sea, and rendered your remaining in it impossible! By Russia, which will not receive your Ambassador ! By The safe arrival of LOUIS PHILIFPE in this country, Austria and Prussia, which have always coalesced and his enthusiastic reception by the people and their with your adversaries ! By the smaller powers, like SOVEREIGN, have already accomplished a great maral Rosas, who murder your allies ! Like Mexico, which demonstration. The two ereists have thrown down shoots Frenchmen in contempt of the rights of in an instant the phantom barrier of sleepless trea- nations ! But you mean, no doubt, to speak of Mochery, of irreconcileable animosities, of unquenchable rocco. Yes, our soldiers have made themselves rejealousies, of distrusts, suspicions, envies, which the spected there at the points of their bayonets; but a ultra-Republican press of France has been busied for good army is in your hands like a sword which you the last fourteen years in the attempt to establish be- are afraid of, and dare not use. You quickly cast tween that kingdom and this. It has thus developed it down, or throw it far away, to obtain a peace upon all the unprincipled baseness, the reckless defamation any terms. Twenty millions to pay a promise not to of the most wicked—and, we fear we must add, the take an inch of territory from Morocco, an engagemost able—partizanship which ever embarked in the meat to be generous towards
The Sun. — 1844-03-15 (London, England)

DUELLING. " That duelling is immoral in its tendency, thatis Mr. TURNER then rose to move a rcsolutioei; brings into contempt the laws of the euuntry,„: contrary to Divine command, and ought to lg lished." The Hon. Gentleman said he regre, very much that after the declaration that had 70t made in her Majesty's speech the Government ilea' t tal, en some step, or introduced some measure, °to down this disgraceful practice. A Bill had !lir, brought into that House in the year 1713, r:ra the duel between Lord Hamilton and Ifer Mohun, and in which both lost their lives, in ("sr to suppress duelling, but that Bill did not pass , cond reading. He thought the practice of duel should should be as rigidly discountenanced among ei""Tbe as in the army. It was not so difficult to inaketd be law understood, and if once understood it wowrks of followed. He had in vain searched in many snee • eminence, and in every statute, for any countelLer to duelling—whenever it was practised it W.as for tinned in condemnation. The Hon. Meruheirbeea Salford said a few nights ago that duelling hau. ion it 0 created by public opinion, and by public 01 be would be suppressed. But why should the evi allowed to remain so long unremedied ? sent Government brought in a Bill for its suPPre;pe, brief in its nature and peremptory in its provis; jou duelling would at once cease, and the Right et Oa Gentleman would have conferred a great ben !i to the country. The Hon. Gentleman then (10te'0,4 observations of Paley, who stated that duelling murder, and should be dealt with as such. IC° t eseeP had a right to take away the life of another, goo by public authority and for the public good. 'Jot years ago Colonel Thomas, of the Guards, 1054.000 in a duel, and in his pocket after his death was''dolt a document, written the very evening before th or of which the following was an extract :—" ems'. If the pot rally and religiously opposed to duelling. .....",retre, not prove that one is a gentleman, nor that he 15:4000 nor does it afford satisfaction for an insult. •''''bt any man has physical courage enough to fi ugh duel, but few, alas, may have courage en°.ere, to stem the tide of public scorn." Few there ere, indeed, said the Hon. Gentleman, that would atte the to face public scorn. In a church-yard, ueattniecl, village of Chard, in Dorsetshire, an officer was ",„ar who had fought for his country in eighteen 01167,„a ments and died in a duel. He was glad to say;ves • the country would be.glad to learn, that there society established for the discountenancing of due , J• consisting of 349 members, 13 of whom ,fiere,„, 4 mirals, 67 field-officers, 36 captains in the 0%04 lieutenants, 32 captains in the navy, 17 iieutenan here ent,, the navy, 30 noblemen, 14 Members of Parlh°o t and 141 civilians ; but he regretted to say -- robe' but 1 clergyman of the Church of England s tile to Viscount
The Sun. — 1844-08-06 (London, England)

GREENWOOD—The children under Miss Roberts's care were four, five, and six years of age. Her salary was 201. a year. She was not nursery maid. I had a nursery-maid besides in my establishment. I had another governess for my eldest daughter, who is fourteen years old. On the voyage home the defendant made no secret of his affairs. He said he was captain of a merchant vessel, that was wrecked on the coast of China, and the greater part of the crew were murdered, and he himself was taken up the country and tortured, and con fined for eight months. He also said that he and six others were liberated upon the conclusion of the war with China. He used to relate the history of his sufferings, and I have no doubt the children and the governesses listened to him. I knew that his sister was at Southampton, but, as Miss Roberts did not appear to desire an introduction to her, I did not interfere. The defendant said if the introduction took place his sister would ery, and there would be a scene which he did not wish to see. We all lived in the same house at this time. I told the defendant that I thought such unequal marriages were unwise, and that it might produce unhappiness if the lady were not received in his family. He told me that be had been seventeen years absent from England. Captain Evans examined—l have been for many years commander of a vessel belonging to the Government. I did not become acquainted with the defendant until his arrival at Southampton, when he told me that he expected to get 6,000/. compensation for opium that had been seized by the Chinese. He also said ho had a few thousands besides, and consulted me as to the best mode to employ it ; and he likewise told me that he had freighted a ship, which he expected home very shortly. I did not come home from Malta ; but my wife introduced the Captain to me. I observed tiat he paid Miss Roberts such attentions as are usually paid by men fo a woman, with whom they are on the eve of marriage. Cross-examined—He did not tell me he was in debt when he went to London, and that he was going to get some money. I understood he was going to meet the vessel he expected from China. Captain Denham dined with me several times at Southampton with his sister, but Miss Roberts did no dipe with W. The plaintiff was about fourteen years old when she first came iritq ervice ; but she ueye' Doted 05 0 nursemaid, lier  father was suddenly killed by an accident, and chiefly out of charity I took her into my establishment, where she behaved so well, and her conduct was so excellent in my establishment, that she was eventually trusted with the care of everything in the house. Reexamined—Miss Roberts dined with the children.  By Mr.
The Sun. — 1827-02-17 (London, England)

BANKRUPTS. . himself. We are of the opinion of The Courier, that the crime best Ib' g I 1 for themselves-the ' ndin lain night inclusive-I,ooo' Surat, in bend- at 4P. Ireend. ci, a; ~ , . .1 ,-.7 OA r.• t • o ~. t of the murderer is venial, compared with that of the poisoner by flee labourers at home, tle es.t, pa i f , . ~. .. FeClarkea Oswesfry,!Shropshire, timber-merchant, to Kneenweek e g B al in ditto at rid .5 d . ' s. d Wholeiwde. So muchfor Our opinion as to these abominable prac- beat for the community, Of which. „they orm a part-and. 1 P , i.V.,.-. eb• 27, 28, and March 30, at one, at the George Inn, Li- a snd. ; 300 . en,gi, a r 'se urehiti,e •j 1 d. a -I . ; 50 Egyptian, ..----- ______ 'tie's- But . the...extent to which adulteration prevails must be toe oest .or that more enlarged community, tbe infinitely h h f votpeol: - 'Wheeler and 'Bennett, John-street, Bedford-row, Lou- duty paid, izd. .'e, p. , s inc u e tbe small quantity (Es- poled of at the public sale on Wednesday. The accoutits from le' •n: I,' 't g g I g it '?,I; A `1 a ... .seteo,, na e n, . g ire*.tlY exaggerated. Really, when we look around us every day great family of mannied-is to transport them from a si- den ;.4an-t_lroltiert, Liverpool. e Manchester state that Market heavy.. The late sales of Cot- e.. 14 •=1 '.21,1' .4 .4 ss, 121 A g ,v • g 1 5° .5 ale I.s 0 :: '''Persilg .alDat the streets, and see so many beautiful women, tuation where they are incumbsanees, to one where, ill- ' -N..P4419:-R-s;siningtma-latie, Lambeth, common brewer, Fru. ton at Liverpool average 1500 bags per day ; the price of Bowed* 2 13 .-47 -'''' -z,t:' 1".. .• 1.. t. i - 0 ~,, 1 f - w -maned, healthy-looking women, we here doubte as to their stead of livin o- h 20, 27 incl.-Mars ' luctive -. industry of others, they ~ ' h 50, lit .elevett, at the Court of Commissioners, are rather lower. , , nt 1 2 301 gjgl.l j 1 11 xg" 't 1. .. g _ ri.t e prot . . Fisher and niorenfta Holborrocourt, Graynelnn. - - . . . inb.i*l*.elteLualvallon poison, and suspect they are by uo means ' vhat eche s ite by their own.. Emigration, or t , p p , Feurr.----;The demand for Denies in baskets has considerably '-' 2-r, si •Erii ~; e.; .2 ...' .2 N 42, 3; E.; -yet come to tit= pen that we have only to choose between death may W. Banks, ‘Pain's-lane, Shropshire, -grocer, Feb. 26, at five, - e ea. n 51.‘i,, St7di gt c .. would be a better name, Colonization, is the necessary out- '27, and March so, at eleven, at the Sun Inn,. 'Wellington, Shrop- revived ; some large sales have been made, and some of a very in- 7:"-n, on. 4 4.' 4 ':,':. '4' ;•:., .4. A. x 414: ;14: •,:,, hnePoll°4.°Feninmition- The writer gays that duriug the Peninjet to the redundant population of an old State. The ques- shire. Big, -lane ; Nock, ferior description Is: lower., •Valeittiaa; in boxeS are more in- -.-. . eeler,ware,eefreziothe. adulterated bread Lid biscuits, the most go- e, Southampton-buildings, Chancery. quired after, but no sales are at present reported, tbe importers