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The Sun. — 1851-04-10 (London, England)

YARDLEY—Did you lose anything ? Mr. Baldwin—l don't know that I did. I had bank-notes in my pocketbook, and they attempted to take it. There were only a few halfpence in my pocket. I was not very sober, Sir. The prisoner, on being asked if he had any questions to ask, said he was at Rotherhithe-stairs, on the Surrey shore, when he saw the gentleman come down and walk straight towards the River, and he called out to him, " Mind where you aro going." The gentleman came towards him, and appeared to be very tipsy, and he said, "You had better be oft away from me." The gentleman stopped twenty minutes, and he asked him what he wanted, to which the gentleman replied that he wanted a boat. firectly after that the gentleman got into conversation with five or six other watermen, who took him to a public.house, and washed the blood off his face, and cleaned it. The gentleman had a fall before he came to the plying place. Mr. Baldwin said he fell down and cut his face before he came to the plying place for a boat. He cut his eye. His face was wiped by the watermen. The prisoner I was at home when the gentleman went into the boat. I went home before he went over the water. Mr. Baldwin - I am certain he was in the boat when I was thrown overboard.  The prisoner—l rowed the gentleman over by myself to this side of the river. He would go back again with other watermen. I was not with him. Did you not ask for change for a 20/. note in the public-house over the water? Mr. Baldwin—l was in the public-house, and pulled a 20/. note out of my pocket and asked for change, but I put it in my pocket-book again. They tried to get at my pocketbook, but could not, and knocked me clean overboard. I saw the prisoner afterwards taken from behind a barge while I was dripping with wet and bleeding from the mouth. The prisoner said he went behind a barge to relieve a call of nature, and not to conceal himself.  Alexander Cowe, of 63, Anchor and Hope-alley, Wapping, said he was en engineer, employed at Pavitt's steam flourmills, at Execution. dock, and on Tuesday night, soon after 12 o'clock, he was in the mill, and heard cries of " Murder!" and "Police!" proceeding from the river. He listened, and the cries continued, becoming fainter, and accompanied with a "suffocating noise." Not being able to reach the waterside from the back of the mill, he went round to the front, and saw the prosecutor struggling in the water and get out and come up the steps of the plying-place. He went to his assistance, and the prosecutor said, "They have been robbing me, and thrown me overboard." At that moment he saw the prisoner running by the bide of a barge on the shore, and he endeavoured to conceal himself. Witness ran a'ter him, and he said, " It's not me what did it, it's not me." Witness said, " No one said it was you," and detained him until a policeman came.  Police-constable Miller, 115 K, stated that a carman, or a man named Carman, saw the prisoner shove off with the boat, and had promised to attend, but had f piled to do so in consequence of an engagement elsewhere.  ~ -Mr.
The Sun. — 1851-11-03 (London, England)

CMGS —A. man named Wainwright,aHnOTlNG AT THE ted Shoot peg 'la tco am policefor trial at the next Y, k A remarkable circumstances. The officer, in officer, under d a warebousema,nr. a.tssßizrotofrodr, " Murder," and saw the house, heard a woman screa en. Shortly afterwards the . shadow of a men loadin and said, " Stand out of the way, going his rounds on Tue.- aymnigohutt, when near the prisoner's prisoner came to the door, and only part of the shot him. Tis officer crouched down. isoner fired the gun he was entered his bat. When the rr . after discharging the or I'll blow your brains, out, and immediately fired a gun at an immediately The po tcem gun he went into the house. t Burniston went up to his ten or twelve yards from the officer , i. called for assistance, and sergeant into his bedroom, and fired aid. The prisoner then went up arden. Ile again loaded brains out if they came near his g hem; but they evaded his gun, and fired a third time at t risoner then again at the policemen, swearingthat he would blow their wall. The p . the shot by crouching under the came out of the house, and commenced nclot done right, and man who stood by, who told bin be had d have a round with that if he would fire his gun off he would un into the air, him. The prisoner immediately fired the g _ . and It was not . um:rolling with a and made his escape again into the house, k open the door. apprehend him, and then they had to brea n hid be. until seven o'clock in the morning that the policemen could When they got into the house they found the gu some tween a mattress and a bed, and the powderflask and shot on the table. Oct. ARSENIC EATERS —A letter dated 'Vienna, 15, contains the following singular statement:--" APr ing case at Cilli has procured the publication of some inter- tria eating facts respecting the arsenic eaters of Lower Ans a and Styria. In both these provinces it appears to be common custom among the peasantry to consume every morning a small portion of the deadly poison, in the same manner as the eastern world consumes opium. Dr Tschudt, the .well-known traveller, publishes an account of several cases which have come to his knowledge. The habit does not seem to be so pernicious in its results as that of opium eating. It is c. mmenced by taking a very small dose, say ; somewhat less than half a grain, every morning, which is r gradually increased to two or three grains. The case of a . hale old farmer is mentioned, whose morning whet of arsenic reached the incredible quantity of four grains. The effect it produces is very curious. The arsenic eaters grow fat and , ruddy, so much so that the practice is adopted by lovrs of both sexes in order to please their sweethearts. It relieeved the lungs and head very much also when mounting steep ' bits and entering into 1% more raritled atmosphere."  SPIRIT of the
The Sun. — 1851-06-25 (London, England)

CORE.—Flour —First 12s Od to 13s 6d ; extra 14s 04, seconds, 1 is Od to 12s Od; households 9s to 108 Od; thirds, 7s to Ps per cwt. Oatmeal 1 1 s to 1 Is 6d; Indian rneal7s 6d to 8s0d; wheatmeal. 9s 6d to 10s per cwt. Indian corn 71 Os Od to 8/ o.od per ton. Bran 80s to 82s 6d per ton. Hay—Farmers 35s to 395; average 00s ; dealers 46s to 00s Od; average 00s per ton. Stz aw--Farmers 21s Od to 318 Od; average OOs; dealers 35s Od to 00s Od; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf bid to 64; household loaf 4id to bd per 41b. Fresh butter, 9 d 104 per lb. Eggs-3s 84 to 38 10d per hundred. Coals— Newport 14s Od ; Lydney 15s ; Landore 003 ; Culm, Ns 64 per ton. Tallow 38s Od to 40s per cwt, Whisky, 25 o. p., ba 9d per imperial gallon. Meat —Beef bid to 7d; mutton 5d to 7id ; veal 444 to bd ; pork 44 to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages bd per lb. Hops 61 lOs to 0/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates Si 2s 6d to 315 s per ton. Bark—Barbary 710 s to Si Os; Valonia 151 to 01; French 61 Os ; Spanish 01 per ton. Fleece Wooll4s to 15s per stone. Hemp 321 to 34/ per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 193 to 00s ; red ditto, 26s to OOs per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ Os to 111 per ton. Timber—Memel, 808 per ton ; red pine, 31 10s ; yellow ditto, 2/ lbs per ton; deals, 12s to 15s per 100. Hides— Market 22s to 325; salted 23s to 32s per owt ; calf skins 3d to 3,1 d per lb. Potatoes, white 10d to 124; Minions, 12d to 1 bd. Guano— Peruvian, 11/ 10s • Ichaboe, 81 to 910 s per ton. Tar.-Archangel, 19s per barrel.  60s 561 51s 46a 39a  MURDER OF A CHILD AT DULWlCH.—Yesterday a long inquiry was gone into before Mr. W. Carter. the coroner, at the Marlborough Arms Tavern, Camberwell, concerning the death of a female child, found murdered at the residence of Mr. Nails, a gentleman of fortune, residing at Dulwich. It appeared from the evidence iat a female named Theresa Jane Flayer, was housemaid to Mr. Naile, and from appearances she was suspected of having given birth to a chile. Search was made, and the body was discovered underneath her bedstead. Sergeant Godfrey, of the P division, was called, and on opening the parcel he found the body of a female child recently born. There was a piece of white ribbon tightly tied round the neck; the tongue was protruding from the mouth, and WAS much swollen. The female Flayer was aftewarda taken into custody to the workhouse, where she at present remains. Mr. Flower, surgeon, who had made a post mortem examination of the body, said lie had no doubt the child had breathed some time, and its death was from strangulation, caused by a ligature round the neck. The jury unanimously returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder against Theresa Jane Flayer."
The Sun. — 1851-08-25 (London, England)

TUE EXECUTION OF MONTCHARDIONT.  " Four day tig in au opeu -qa4re of a Freuch town, and in the face of day and civilisadon, the law, that is to say, the divine and sacred force t.f society, laid held of a wretched man, who plunged and kicked, and having bound him neck and heels, draggs-d him by the hair of the head to the Ecaffold, bleeding from his lacerated skin. Faur days age, before a populati..n in profound coest, rn awn, the law, for an boor together, wrestled with crime. What hod this man done against society ? He bad kided. What was society d dug to thin man? Why, making him a marfyr. Partizans of capital punishment, what was your co jest in bringing this wretched assassin to the guiltottue? To show apparenly to all, human jestic, in its force and power—to raise in the minds of the ma,ses- the sentiment of right, by calling on them to as,ist at the punishment of a vile ere aurk—to accomplish, in tact, a solemn, iw posing. end terrible act. What have you dons-? You have committed a violent, horrible, and regre•able ac ; instead of enli.,ifig the crowd to the aide o! the law, you have slmost 'wide them, ranged them, on the side of the sufferer! This man, who bad a little before been an object of horror, you change into an object of pity. You employ two, then tour, then I know not how Enemy, to kill this man, who struggled against being put to death. The first executioner failed, then You call a veond; at length, atter half a day of toil and efforts, you succeed in pu Ling an end to him, and you wipe off the blood from your knife, and the sweat from your brow. No ! you have not hien imposing—you have not been solemn—no, you have not been terrible. Be it well done or ill done, an execution is never a good sight for society to behold. Whatever be the hand which commits it, a homicide is never moral teaching. However honest and conscientious may be your tribunals and your judges, it will never be by killing that you will prove a thou must not kill.' Modern society has condemned the law dit !alien (of retaliation), to practise it is the reverse of progress; it is to take from society, from justice, and from the magistracy, a portion of their proper consideration, Each time you effect a public execution you cause the law to descend in national respect in an inverse ratio to the height of your scaffold. If you will preserve your barbarous penalty of death, do as they do in America— do not show, but hide yourself ! Do not invite all France, the whole press, all eyes to see you, and all hearts to judge you, when you are executing, and particularly when your executioners do not know their trade, and your guillotines are as badly made as your laws. For our part we are profoundly afflicted, and oven alarmed, for all those dear and sacred interests on which public tranquility reposes. We protest, and will ever protest, against those spectacles of another age, when society, forgetting the Ciospel, drags a wretched human being to a horrible death, holding up to bis eyes an imago of Christ, which he does no loono kt ae way t.  Huoo."
The Sun. — 1851-01-25 (London, England)

FOREIGN. 76 34 Ainiens and Boulogne. •••••• .• -•• •• 1,107 1,026 44 Dieppe .. . 4eB 392 63 Montcreau and Troyes ........ „„ „ 568 874 336 Northern of France •.•• • • • ......... 14,586 15,888 143 Orleans to Boutges (Cent.) .. ... . 2,028 2,658 72 Orleans to Bordeaux .............. „ 2,256 2,697 82 Pr ris and Orleans .... •• . .... 6,054 7,910 85 Paris and Rouen . .................. 5,401 5,170 593 Rouen and Havre .. .. .. .... .. „ 2,251 2,121  METROPOLITAN SEWERS ComaussioN.--Yesterday a meeting of the joint General Committee of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers was held at the chief office, Greek-street, Soho, at half-past eleven o'clock precisely, for the purpose of considering " the joint report of Mr. Frank Forster, the engineer to the Commission, and Mr. Haywood, the surveyor to the City Commissioners, on the drainage of that portion of the district north of the Thames, referred to them." There were present Sir Henry de la Beche, R.E. (chairman) ; S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P.; Philip Hardwick, Esq. ; J. Lawes, Esq. ; Thomas Hawes, Esq. ; Captain Dawson, R.E. ; and the undernamed City Commissioners, viz : Deputy Peacock (Chairman of the City Sewers) ; Deputy Harrison, Alderman Lawrence, and Henry Lowman Taylor, Esq. A synopsis of the proposal for the northern drainage was submitted to the Commissioners present, and approved of by them ; and, in consequence, an order was made by the Committee that the officers of the City and Metropolitan Courts should report, in full, at the next public meeting, which, it was agreed, should be held on Friday next, the 31st instant. The Committee then adjourned.  CHILD MuaDaE.—During the last few days the vicinity of John-street, llolloway-mount, Curtain-road, has been in a state of excitement in consequence of the discovery of a child murder under circumstances of considerable atrocity. It appears that on Tuesday morning a man named John Dutton, a shoemaker, residing in the house of Mr. Wilson, No. 7, John-street, Holloway-mount, Curtain-road, Shoreditch, went to the water-butt in the back yard, to procure some water, when his attention was attracted by some peculiar sounds in the water-closet, and conceiving that it might be a puppy dog belonging to one of the lodgers in the house, he made an alarm, and on looking down the closet, they discovered the body of a newly-born child, lying in a cramped position, and whining. They took it up in a dying state, and instantly sent for Mr. Bowers, surgeon, of the Curtain-road, who rendered it every assistance, and ordered it to be taken to Shoreditch workhouse, where it shortly afterwards expired. Yesterday an inquest was he'd upon the body of the deceased child, when it was adjourned, with instructions to Sergeant Harvey to use his best efforts to trace and apprehend the unnatural mother. There is a freemasonry in sorrow which makes all brothers, and which the common children of that sad parent are seldom slow to recognise.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
The Sun. — 1851-08-15 (London, England)

WANDSWORTH. Mr. Edward Richardson, a gentleman living in the, Bridge-road, Battersea. cane before Mr. Paynter as a stated the following circumstances:-Mr. Richardson said, that on Wednesday evening about seven o'clock be was visiting a friend who resident in the Brighton -road, Lower Tooting, when they were suddenly alarmed by screams of " Murder," and, os proceeding into the street, he saw a woman who wike smothered shiiitist-With-her blood, lying in the road, and a man, who was said to be a tray.liing tinker and the. woman's husband, giving her the most desperate ‘b jobsunder her chin with his clenched fiat till the chin was I mass of bruises. She hal also a deep cut over the eye. Ac the fellow continued his brutality after the wornall had become insensible be remonstrated with him, and the man asked him what business it was of his, and said if he interfered with him he should not be, particular is serving him in the same manner. This occurred in 11.00 of he Rising Siiri, in the Brighton-road, the entire neigh' bourt,,,d was alarmed, and the cry was, " Where's the policy- ?" but not one eoliceulau ci.utel be lound, when It geeteman he was well acquainted with ctate by in hi. phaeton and took applicaut up, and they went in ssarch ,if the police, of whom they found two, viz., 134 V Ind 324 V. with whom they galloped back to the spot whet° he (Hr. Richardsoe), as he supposed, h-ft the woraea dying. On their return the pour woman was still lying OS the ground and weltering it, her blood. He told the police. men what he and some others had witnessed, and the‘ very coolly replied, that as they had seen no blow Aran they could not interfere. By dint of threats that the case should not step where it was, the constables LOU the man to the station house; but on arriving thud he sergeant or acting inspec.or was on duty to take the charge; and upricant ltfs fur home, receiving a plecie from the police that they w,,uld convey the prisoner to. Wandsworth police-station, and he wits to meet theta a: the police•court at ten o'clock that morning. He 118" been punctual, and had waited en hour a halt; but no votice or prisoner had made their appearance, and the police on du y at the staloa appeared to know nothivg of the transaction  Mr. PAYNTER, after putting some questions to Ser' geant Read, said the police of this district were eon° smelly oriuging up charges cf a trifling character, tind at eons:Lindy r. tusiug to interthre in cases where the/ atl-g.d they did not see the offence. He had as re' pea;edly read the clause of the Act of Parliament to them and explained the law, but it appeared they is it at defiance. In this case they could see that tn. woman's lace was cut. They did not know %hat otal injuries might have been flitted, end still they refused to iuterfere. He should advise the applicant to II his complaint before the Commissioners of Police, 111°.`:, if they did not attend to it, to apply to the Secretary of state.
The Sun. — 1851-06-04 (London, England)

GOOD NIGHT, SIGNOR PANTALON.  Nothing could by possibility be in better taste an the terse but suggestive speech, in which the President BONAPARTE addressed the functionaries of Dijon on the occasion of his arrival amongst them. Like all the other orations delivered by the Prince since his elevation to the chief magistracy of the Republic, the harangue in question will be found on perusal to have been characterised by that earnest but unaffected patriotism which has never failed to arouse the enthusiasm of his fellow-citizens. His reference in it to the project of a reform in the Constitution is marked, moreover, by the calmness of an impassioned spectator, of one perfectly indifferent to the dictates of either political antipathy or political predilection. While the terms in which be alludes to the hostile power of the State, the power unfortunately by necessity antagonistic to his o namely, that of the Legislature as contradistinguished from the Administration, are of a kind honourable to him as a statesman in their union of dignity and amenity. From all these things, it is scarcely possible to prognosticate otherwise than advantageously to the Republic, so long as the head of the nation continues thus true to his oaths ofaallegiance. Meantime the conspirators against the Constitution in its entirety are flittering themselves into the belief ±at at this moment there is something more than the possibility of a Restoration. With the elder and the younger branch of the house of BOURBON still in existence, they are even now sanguine that the revolutionary outbreak of 1848 may be turned to the advantage of Legitimacy—handing over the liberties of the French people to the more secure custody of the descendants of their ancient Sovereigns. Availing themselves of the excitement provoked by the suggested modification of the Constitution, they are looking forward to the possible, and to them not only possible, but probable, rupture of the whole of the existing system. Nevertheless, in defiance of all these hostile expectations, the true and moderate Republicans may, we are satisfied, await with the confidence expressed to the people of Dijon by the President BONAPARTE, a confidence that the Assembly will fulfil its duties of revision in a patriotic and conscientious spirit, aware of the awful responsibilities hanging over them in the emergency, more especially seeing that the great election of 1852 will come off so very speedily afterwards. Let each of the representatives say, as earnestly as Lours NAPOLEON said on Sunday, " Whatever duties the nation may impose it will find me ready to accept, and, believe me, France shall not perish in my hands." Let them speak thus, and think thus, and feel thus, and the Republic may still laugh to scorn the evil machinations of its antagonists. It may survive the plots of the ultra-Legitimatists as securely as it did the murderous assaults of the Red Democrats. We have confidence that such will be the case, if the majority of the citizens of France remain true to the examples of probity and patriotism hitherto afforded by the
The Sun. — 1851-05-26 (London, England)

TILE LATE MURDER NEAR LEIGH. The adjourned inquest was held on Friday, before Mr. Rutter, coroner, at the Greyhound Inn, Bedford, but, as will be seen by the subjoined evidence, no further facts have as- yet been obtained to bring the offence home to the real perpetrators. John Green, being sworn, said—l reside at Astley, and keep a beershop. I was going up the lane last Wednesday night but one, with Thomas Collier, about a quarter-past ten o'clock. I was smoking my pipe when we met the, deceased, George. Green. I have often traded with him. I turned back with him to see if I Could have it bit of trade with him. As we came up the road I went into Mr. Darlington's saw-yard, and he (the deceeied) wept to the house to get a gill of beer. I came afterwards to the canal bridge with him, with some chips in my band. I told him I would sell him some manure, and allow him 3d. a ton if he would give me 7s. a ton for it, and be told me to see him on the following afternoon. I left him at the bridge, and I never saw him after. We had agreed to meet the neat day about the manure. When I left him he went straight down the lane, and I could not see which way he went. Re was not drunk, but he had had a few gills. He had two ways to go— either along the canal bank or over the fields. If he had gone over the canal bank he could not have gone near the pit where he was found. I then went home, but afterwards went out again, smoking my pipe. ,and met John Smith, who lives close to my, house. I stopped talking to Smith a quarter of an hour in the Jane. When I piFted 'with Smith, I stopped at the end of the house until John Guest, known by the name of "Captain," came up. When I left George Green on the bridge I did not see any one about. The most direct road for the deceased to get to his house would have been past the pit in which he was found.  This being the only wit9ess able to give any satisfactory evidence, it was suggested by Captain Shepherd, superintendent of the county police, that if the inquiry was closed at once, the police would no doubt be abie to pursue their investigations with more facility. The coroner and also the jury acquiesced in this suggestion, and a verdict was returned of " Wilful murder by some person or persona unknown."—Manchester Courier.  Powers' statue of Calhoun constitutes a prominent object of interest to the visitor in Charleston. It occupies a very unfortunate position in a cheerless apartment of the City Hall. "It would be unfair to form an opinion of it as a work of art," says a paper quoted by the Literary World, " while it stands in so bad a light, to say nothing of its discolouration by the salt water, and its mutilation in the loss of the right arm. The figure, however, is very noble, and the likeness well nigh perfect."—By the way, amongst a number of capital daguerreotype likehesses of American celebrities, in the U. S. division of the International Exhibition, there is oEe of Calhoun: a lunge weird-locking mortaille