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The Sun. — 1848-01-08 (London, England)

THE MURDER NEAR NAILSEA.  WESTTOWN, FRIDAY EVENING. - The adjourned inquest on the body of John Wall was resumed this day. Thomas Dix, a labourer, working for Mr. Radbard, of Backvvell-mill, on Friday, Dec. 17, at about a quarter before two o'clock in the afternoon, saw the prisoner Charles Manfield, ith his brother and another lad, pass in the direction to Wall's cottage. Charles Manfield was carrying a gun. George Burchell, beerhouse• keeper, of Nailsea, at about half-past three o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of December, as he was passing along a footpath near to Wall's cottage, saw the deceased hobbling along. The prisoner told him that he had been shot. The blood was running down his thigh. Samuel and Maurice Noble, cousins, deposed that on the 17th of December last they saw Charles, Robert, and Anthony Manfield running across some field,, about a quarter of a mile from Wall's house ; it was about half-past three o'clock in the afternoon. They were near a path leading from Wall's house. Charles Manfield had a gun in his hand. On being asked why they were running, they answered, they were afraid of being caught by a man from whom they had been stealing holly. Mr. H. J. Macey, surgeon, deposed that the death of Wall was occasioned by lock-jaw, produced by a gunshot wound in his thigh. Mr. James, clerk to the magistrates, for the Wrington division, produced the deposition- of Wall, taken before Mr. .W. Counsell, and on the 20th ult. It stated, that between three and four o'clock on Friday afternoon, the 17th of December, he was in his cottage by himself. Ile heard a pane of glass broken. On turning round he saw a man standing at the window with a gun in his hand ; the muzzle of the gun was thrust through one of the panes, and immediately the gun was discharged he was wounded in his thigh. lie did not know the name of the man at the time, but he had seen him in company with two others, at the hack of his house, a few days previously. The man remained at the window a few seconds ; he (Wall) went to the back door, when the man ran away. The prisoner was the man who fired the gun at him.  Thomas Day, constable of Nailsea, took the prisoner into custody early on the following Monday morning. He denied at first that his name was Charles, but afterwards said it was. He told him (the constable) that the gun was loaded with a pipe of powder and a pipe of shot, and if it had not missed fire the first time, most likely Wall would have been killed. John Haines, constable, into whose custody Manfield was afterwards given, said that Manfield said that they had no .intention of shooting Wall till they got to the house, when they said " Let us shoot the old fellow."  The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Charles Manfield, and a verdict of aiding and abetting him against Robert and Anthony Manfield.
The Sun. — 1848-04-15 (London, England)

SURREY ADJOURNED SESSIONS. (Before THOMAS PUCKLE, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates.) In the early part of the week James M'Coy, James Crawley; Richard Hennesey, and Timothy lifiCarthy, four powerful•looking fellows, were indicted for assaulting Thomas Streams, police-constable 148 L, while in the execution of his duty, The full particulars relative to this case have already appeared in The Sun under the Lambeth Police, but to remind our readers of the cowardly attack on the policeman, we give the following brief facts : Between the hours of eleven and twelve of Saturday, the 18th ultimo the complainant was passing the Jolly he Gardeners public-house, in Broad-street, Lambeth, when saw M`Coy open the public-house door, and making use of disgusting language, put his fist through a square of glass, and ran away. He followed him, and attempted to take him into custody, but as soon as he came up M'Coy struck him a severe blow on the mouth. The other prisoners then came up, when one of them knocked his hat off, and kicked it into the street. He then had a struggle with M'Coy, when they both fell down, and the others kicked him. While on the ground M'Coy bit him severely on the fleshy part of his arm, and prevented him from getting hold of his rattle. Mr. John Butterfield, landlord of the Jolly Gardeners said that the prisoners came into his house on the night in question, and commenced abusing his customers, and using disgusting language. He told them that he could not allow them to insult his customers, and requested them to leave his house. They then wanted some beer, which he refused to serve them with, and on that account M`Cay smashed the window. He saw the assault on the policeman, and endeavoured all in his power to prevent them from committing further injuries on him. Stratton, police-constablellB L, said thathe witnessed the assault, and while he was assisting his brother officer they attacked him in a fierce manner. Providentionally, assistance came up, or he had no doubt they would have murdered Streams. Several witnesses proved the cowardly and ruffianly manner in which the prisoners conducted themselves. The prisoners, In their defence, rather aggravated their case,. and The jury instantly found them all Guilty. The CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, said that great .credit was due to Mr. Butterfield for the manner in which he had acted. The prisoners had acted in a cruel manner, and as M'Coy and Hennesey seemed the worst, the Court sentenced them to twelve months' hard labour each, and the others nine months', in Brixton House of Correction. Owing to the Quarter Sessions being held at Reigate last week, and the. Surrey Assizes, very few prisoners were for trial, and those were for such minor offences, that they could not have interested the public in the slightest degree. Mr. Rees, of the Black Prince, in the Walworth-road, appealed against the decision of the Licensing Magistrates, who refused to renew his license, and after some consideration, the Court granted a license, on condition that he sold the house before next transfer day.
The Sun. — 1848-02-23 (London, England)

MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount i Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. X. s. d. , C. a. Q. Australian A:rieulturl - 100 0 I; 30 0 $ Anglo-Mexican Mint., 11. 4s. 10 0 0 I 15 0 0 16 Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 -Canada ......... •• .. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 31 Uppr Canada Bonds N. per cent. - - City 80nd5.......... 3341. pr cent. - - 89 Comp. Cppr Mara Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 -Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp.c. &c ba, 21 100 II 0 100 0 0 Equitable Iteversienry 434 '. pr cent. 100 0 0I 95 0 0 Gee. Steam Navigation 11. fis. 15 0 0 14 0 0 2414 London Institution ." - - I - 11 Peninslr & Orient.Stm. 2!. per cent. 50 0 •j 50 0 I 593 Reversionary Int. Soc. 33,11. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 95 Royal Mail Steam.... 3.41. pr eent. 100 0 0 60 0 0 South Australian ... .. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Van Diemen's Land.. - 100 0 I 23 0 0 Universal Salvage.... - 25 0 1 j 5 0 0 MURDJR AT Sze.—ln accordance with an Admiralty order on Saturday, a mariner, named M. Fitz patrick, was delivered into the custody of the Governor of Nowgate, for trial at the next sittings of the Central Criminal Court, for the wilful murder of a fellow sea• man, of the name of Walter Jenkins, on the high seas. According to the depositions returned by the solicitor to the Lords of the Treasury, who will prosecute, the following are the brief facts connected with the affair:— The unfortunate deceased mad the prisoner were fellow apprentices on h,ard the brig Sibson, of the port of Bl)th. On the 24th of last December the vessel was in the Mediterranean, making a voyage from Ketsch, in Russia, and about eight o'clock us the morning of that day both parties were in the forecastle, with several other seamen. Tho prisoner, it appeared. had been using a pannakin belonging to the deceased, and had left a quantity of slops in it. Deceased complained to him of his neglect ; and seeing that his caution had but little t fleet, the unfortunate man threatened to strike the prisoner with a piece of rope as ho was leaving the forecastle with the utensil to clean. The prisoner was then heard to say, "I will have your life if you touch me again," upon which deceased remarked, "You will, will you?" at the same time attempting to strike him. The prisoner had a knife in his hand, and in pushing Fitzpatrick along, plunged it into his abdomen on the right side. The poor fellow immediately fell, and cried, " I am killed !" Ile was conveyed to a berth, and treated at 131 ewmailliatasrty sphhosoeointal,board could prescribe, and the prisoner was placed in irons. On the following day the vessel arrived in Tunis, and the wounded man was removed to where he died in dreadful suffering. The English Consul advised the conveying the prisoner to England, and on the brig entering the Channel the prisoner was taken ashore, and examined before the Mayor and magistrates at Falmouth, by whom he was fully committed to the Central Criminal Court for trial.
The Sun. — 1848-03-25 (London, England)

CHIEF JUSTICE WILDE.:  THE QUEEN V. STAUGLITON. This was an indietment fur a rape upon a female child of the age of l2i years. Mr. Macata,A.v conducted the prosecution, and at the request of the Learned Judge watched the case for the prisoner. The prosecutrix, a very intelligent mad modest-looking girl, of the age above stated, had been sent on the 7th of January last from Barrowden to Uppingham, a distance of six miles, to carry a letter to Mr. Hope, a chemist there. When near Glaston, a village one mile and a half from Uppingham, she was passed by three men, with whom was a dog of rather remarkable colour and appearance, which in the evf nt served as a material piece of evidence to establish the identity of the prisoner. The three men and the Wog passed her on the road going towards Uppingham, and she lost sight of them. When within about ono mile of Uppingham the prosecutrix was accosted by a man, whom she positively swore to be the prisoner, and who was accompanied by a dog exactly resembling the one she had previously seen. She then described the details of the offence perpetrated upon her, which was not effected until he had inflicted some blows upon her face and used frightful threats to intimidate her. When released she made the best of her way to Uppingham, and presented herself to Mrs. Hope in a state of the utmost distress and suffering. From the description given of the man the police set off in quest of the prisoner who was well known as a railway navigator in the neighbourhood, and after a protracted search he was found concealed under a bed in the house of a friend, where he was denied when inquired for, but the dog being in the house the search was persevered in. All doubt as to the accuracy of the prosecution in speaking to his identity was removed by the evidence of two witnesses, who proved that he was one of the three men seen, as above stated, by her near Glaston, and that the dog was the same dog, and had been recently stolen by the prisoner. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty; and the prisoner was sentenced to be transported for the term of his natural life. In the case of murder the grand jury ignored the bill. The prisoner was a young girl employed nursing a baby. The prosecutrix, the mother of the infant, on coming into the room, found the baby in a dying state, and on smelling at the mouth detected the smell of laudanum. Shortly afterwards she saw the prisoner shut an oven, and, on going to.look into it, discovered a bottle containing laudanum, There was no evidence, however, of the administering by the prisoner, or of her having purchased, acquired, or been herself in the possession of any laudanum. We believe that nearly all the evidence against the prisoner was that above mentioned, but the facts did not transpire in co urt, the bill having, as before stated, been ignored by the grand jury.
The Sun. — 1848-01-13 (London, England)

GUIZOT. The fifth paragraph of the :Address was at last adopted. On the sixth paragraph being proposed, MM. TASCUEN and C. DUPIN proposed the following amendment, which was supported by the Count DE MONTALIDIIIIIRT  " Christian nations contemplate with admiration the courageous initiative of the Holy Father, and the happy assistance given to him by the most enlightened Sovereigns, to open to the people of Italy a new era of civilisation, of wise liberty, and of collective power. Italian independence, necessary for the equilibrium of Europe, will rest on the success of that great experiment, which is the subject of all our good wishes and our hopes."  The third murder was, if possible, more incomprehensible than either of the others. A trifling dispute had occurred between the families of a small farmer named ld'EtilltY and of the prisoner, which had been investigated at petty sessions. On the following Sabbath night a numerous party attacked the house of the former, which, after a short resistance, they broke open, and, having first robbed the dwelling of a gun and some money, they dragged the unfortunate owner from Ms hiding-Place, and brutally murdered him in his own yard, he having received two gunshot wounds, his skull having been fractured in ls that have been twosupelhaceasr,e a the his backhesicle rokn. ninbgdeetai proved, on the clearest and most convincing testimony, before the judges at Limerick, although there had been nothing relating to the occupation of land in RENEHAN'S case, and it was but an act of vengeance... arising from a private dispute, it may be traced, and not very remotely, to the same cause. AA the Lord Chief Justice remarked, in the able and impressive aildress to the grand jury, with which he opened the proceedings of the Commission, "The principal objects of the combination and the illegal confederacy is the destruction of the rights of landlords, for violence and intimidation 6 an resintrad to, wad CYCLIIIIII/Cier ltagll PerPetritted)lll  The Count DE ST.AULAIRE, at the conclusion of the address of the Count DE MONTALEMBERT, moved the adjournment of the debate to the following day, which was agreed to. _  The debate was resumed on Wednesday by the Count ST. AULAIRE, who warmly defended the policy of the Government. He was followed by M. GUIZOT, who protested against the remarks that had been made about holy alliances and armed intervention. He regarded those ideas as phantoms, which it was sought to assemble round the Cabinet, and congratulated himself on living in a constitutional and free country. In this country, he said, as in every other, it was necessary to adopt a free policy, and to he at liberty to select those alliances which were most conformable to the interests of the nation. The Government of July had conquered that liberty by the sweat of its brows. That liberty he claimed for the Government which he had the honour to represent, and ho hoped it would render it ; /ingot Benue than  the bastard policy which it was sought to fasten on it. NONE Y and
The Sun. — 1848-02-07 (London, England)

LOSS OF THE BRITISH SO-YE REIGN WHALING SHIP AND MURDER OF TIIE CREW.  Letters were received at Lloyd's on Saturday, dated Sydney, August 17, communicating the total loss of the barque British Sovereign, a whaling. ship, Captain W. H. Jules master, on the eastern side of the Sandwich Islands, and the reported horrible massacre by the natives of nearly the whole of the ship's crew. The vessel left Sydney on the Bth day of January last, for New Zealand, and thence to the South Sea Islands. In the course of the passage site called at the island of Thanna, where she shipped about twenty of the natives, to assist in procuring sandal wood. The captain then determined to make for Sandwich, first sending hack the natives to Thanna in the ship's boat, in charge of the chief mate and several of the men. The ship left Erromanga on the evening of the 23d of April, and at daybreak the next morning, the 24th, she was found to be close in upon the eastern coast of Sandwich. She was immediately hauled on a wind, and two boats were lowered for the purpose of keeping her off the land, but being within the influence of the ground swell the boats had no effect upon her, and she soon struck upon a rock, within a cable's length of the shore. She then fell on her broadside, and though her masts were cut, and every means adopted to save the vessel, she in a few hours broke up and became a total wreck. For three days the crew remained near the wreck, in the hope of saving some of the stores, the natives behaving in the kindest manner. The captain and the crew, it should be observed, were rescued from the rock by the natives, who threw ropes to them from the shore. They wished them to remain, but it was coi:sidered necessary by the captain to make to the leeward harbour, to which vessels resort in visiting the island. After about four days' travelling, they came to a bay on the south side of the island, where the natives appeared on the same friendly terms. They gave them sugar-canes and cocoa-nuts to eat, and the chief to whom they were introduced took great liking to a child, a fine little boy, who was along with the captain. Amidst this apparent good feeling a tumult broke otit among the natives, who fell upon the unfortunate crew, who were off their guard, and most of them were brutally slaughtered. The captain endeavoured to escape, and retreated into the water. They were, however, too close upon him, and his skull was smashed in. The man Weir and three others succeeded in getting clear by springing forward into the sea, and swimming to a canoe, with which they reached an adjacent island. The natives pursued them, and Weir's companions were overtaken, but their fates were unknown ; Weir contriving to conceal himself in the bush, where he remained for several days. Fortunately, the first day he ventured out to the beach the Isabella Anna hove in sight, when he swam off, and was picked up. The number supposed to have been massacred is twenty-nine.
The Sun. — 1848-04-22 (London, England)

DAVIS." The following are the inclosures alluded to : " Canton, December 7, 1847. " Sir,—Referring to my dispatches of yesterday's date, I have to report to your Excellency that towards evening I received information that a report was spread among the Chinese that the six young men therein alluded to had been murdered by the villagers of Hwang- chu-ke. I have heard several versions of this atrocious act, all of which agree in the fact that soon after our countrymen had landed near the village just mentioned, they were surrounded and attacked by the inhabitants, in consequence of which an affray ensued, in which two of our people were killed. The remaining-four, who had no arms of defence, save, perhaps, a cane, fled, but were hotly pursued by the villagers through several places, and at last overtaken at a place called Hang-kaou, where the combat was renewed, and here it seems the fugitives were overpowered by numbers, captured, and put to death on the following morning. This report could not but cause a great deal of excitement among the foreign population of Canton ; and some among the British residents, impatient at the slow proceedings of the Chinese authorities, and the suspense in which they were kept for want of official information regarding the fate of our young countrymen, had resolved to proceed to the spot and act for themselves. Asithis would be interfering with the duties of the magistrates, who had already been dispatched to the vil!age by the Imperial High Commissioner, with orders to investigate the matter, I thought it right to warn the British residents not to adopt such a course, in a notice, of which I have the honour of inclosing a copy. "In order to obtain early and positive information upon a subject which absorbed all other considerations in the minds of our countrymen, I instructed Mr. Vice-Consul Elmslie to proceed to the village at an early hour, there to meet the magistrate to urge him to greater activity, and, above all, to obtain a clue to what had become of our missing countrymen. From that gentleman's report, of which I enclose a copy, your Excellency will observe that no progress had been made in the matter for the last twenty-four hours, and that the affair is still involved in the same mystery as before. Under these circumstances I have again addressed the Imperial High Commissioner, complaining of the apparent want of energy in the proceedings of the local authorities, and hope to be able to inform you of the result of my application in my next dispatch. I inclose in the meantime a copy of that high officer's communication, which he sent me in answer to my first report of the unfortunate occurrence, from which it is manifest he loat not a moment in giving the necessary orders for its prompt investigation. " I shall be expecting your Excellency's instructions how I am further to proceed in this melancholy affair; and as Ido not wish to detain the extra boat which I have hired for the conveyance of this 'dispatch, I have only time to add that " I have, &c., (Signed) "
The Sun. — 1848-08-08 (London, England)

FIELD-LANE RAGGED SCHOOL.—Last night a special meeting, for the purpose of re-opening the above school in a larger and more suitable edifice, was held in the new school-room, Victoria-street, Holborn-bridge. Lord Ashley, M.P., who presided, addressed a numerous audience on the occasion. He observed that it was the accidental viewing of their former school that induced him to throw himself, heart and soul, into the cause ; be strongly objected to any alteration of the name " ragged," it was the appropriate term for those who laboured "in the mire and the gutter." He was happy to inform the, meeting that her Majesty's Government proposed to take 150 pupils each year from the ragged schools, .and send them to the colonies.—(Cheers.) This created a spirit of commendable emulation among tke boys ; and ho could affirm with certainty that those lads sent out to the colonies, and provided with certificates of good conduct, would be almost sure to obtain remunerative eta. ployment. Fourteen had been already dispatched from the school. After some further remarks, the Noble Chairman recommended the formation of " Industrial classes." Mr. Ware, the secretary, then read a brief history of the rise and progress of the school, and stated that there were 62 of those admirable institutions now in the metropolis. A letter of apology was read from the Duke of Argyll, enclosing a contribution of 201. Several speakers addressed the assembly, among whom was Mr. S. M. Peto, M.P., in support of resolutions' South A vote of thanks to the Noble Chairman closed the apprehendedM U R D E R suCave o Monday, the 17th ult., Mr. Robert Sowerby, the On p policemanrosctreaefitdp iEncg HaTss. D Hassle, n suspicion of stealing a number of articles, which he had previously seen in their bundle on the road near Hassle. The articles in question consisted of five fine shirts, 20 shirt collars, a pocket book, a silver-bladed fruit-knife with a pearl haft, a black fro k c -coat, and several other; articles. No owner could be found for these articles for some time; but, . thanks to the unaeaslng activity of Mr. Sowerb it was at length discovered that the things belongedYti a solicitor, or solicitor's kMr.fJonads EdwTarhd. 'nodule, ge ntleman left Leeds on the lstr July,clerk, and from, there is account of his being° at lrk, No thence lt Darlington, Ferryhill, and Durham. He lerr, thAael.eNr.on,, Newcastle Arms, New Elyet, Durham, on the 10th of July* and d from that time nothing further has been heard of hlt appears the missing gentleman was in communication with a young lady of Leeds, and she received three letters from him, dated the 3d, 6th, and 9th of July, since which date she has not received any letter.. The two men in custody are named Henry Bunting and Edward Bateman, and it has been ascertained that the', arrived in Hull on the 16th from Newcastle, by VI-8 steamer. No clue whatever has yet been found to the missing gentleman, and the circumstances altogether le ad to the belief that the unfortunate man has been murdered and robbed by the two men now in custody.—Durlaara Advertiser.