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The Sun. — 1837-11-17 (London, England)

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VzzxNA, Nor. 7. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents.. 77% B.ink Shares ' 1397% —Allgemeins Zeitung, Nov, 12.  The French Journals of Wednesday have all been received. The following telegraphic despatch from Spain was communicated to the Government only a few 'hours before the departure of the mails for London :  " BAYONNE, Nov. 14.—Espartero arrived at Pampeluna on the 10th instant, with 23 battalions and 11 squadrons. It is  asserted that his intention is to make the same example at that place, of the authors of the insurrection of August last, that he lately did at Miranda of the murderers of Escalera."  In the insurrection here alluded to, General SAARSFIELD was killed, in the attempted commission of an act of military tyranny.  The Chimere steamer arrived at Toulon on the 10th, having on board the body of General PEREGAUX, who died of his wounds during the passage. The French Princes and their Staff had returned to Bona, leaving only 2,800 men under BERNELLE, to keep possession of Constantine. Marshal VALLEE has asked to be recalled, probably dreading that a longer stay in Africa might tarnish his laurels.  We have no advices of any moment from Madrid. A dispatch from ORA& estimates the loss of the Christinos in the engagements of the 25th and 26th ult., in the plains of Villar de Cascas, at 12 killed and 90 wounded. ORAA claims a victory over CABRERA, but this is not probable, inasmuch as the Carlists remained masters of the field.  Advices from Constantinople of the 25th ult. state that the coolness between the French and the Ottoman Governments increases daily, and that some alarm was created by the appearance of the French fleet off Smyrna in the wake of the Turkish squadron. It ap. pears also that France and Russia are not on the best terms, and that the EMPEROR is doing all in his power to force France to come to an open rupture with him. The following are extracts from the Papers :  The Memorial Bordelais of the 12th contains an article on Spain in which we have remarked the following lines :—" The Cortes are to meet on the 19th November. The Queen will find herself again surrounded by her friends, the moderate aristocrats, who will undoubtedly have a great majority. It is said that the Queen is to propose to the Cortes the plan of an amnesty to make an appeal to the Spaniards, who keep aloof from the throne of her august daughter ; this measure is said to have been suggested to her by the Mole Ministry, always faithful to its system of conciliation." Tommx, Nov. 10.—A Tunisian corvette has arrived here, and after firing the salute usual between allies, delivered the dispatches which it had on board, and which contain, it is said, an autograph letter from the young Bey of Tunis, thanking the King of the French for the service which his ships ren incr.R--th it wil -
The Sun. — 1837-08-08 (London, England)

ELECTIONEERING.  The brewery at FJrres, .occupied by Messrs. Urquhart and Macdonald, was in a great me,sure destroyed by fire, which accidentally took place from the ignition of malt on the kiln.—inverness Paper. The consumption of brandy in England was greater half a century ago than it is at present. Mr. Cresswell, the new member of Liverpool. has gone to East Cumberland, to assist Sir James Graham ie contest for that division of the county. A great number of sea gulls were noticed hovering over Bradford, for some time en Sunday. A visit so far inland, of these birds is generally considered as the precursor of Weather. rouA.. The ,:aze_tte de France of Saturday says :—" The depart eof L... .ron de Fagel fur London, to convey the' congratulations of his .ALjesty the King of the Netherlands to the young Queen of Ent:.land, is said to have excited great uneasiness at the Tuileries. Jr is i,ffirined that the mission of the diplomatist, who is worthy of the entire confidence of the House of Nassau, is said to add to its ostensible object a project for a union between Queen Victoria and one of the sons of the Prince of Orange." The Senate at Lubeck has issued an Oraiance, in consequence of its accessioo to the treaty between. Great Britain and France, for .the abot:tiou of the Slave Trade. The King of Belgium is about t,-.) purchase the estate of Mr. Lejeune Halmaors, S3rt near the great forest of Hersogenwald, to serve as a huntiur scat. We perceive by an extract front the Dutch official paper, called the Nedrrlandsche Shreds Cot,:rant, dated the 25th of February, 1837, that in a siting of the o,..ates General Secr.nd Chamber of the 23d, a copy of a pamphle by Mr. J. G. Kanngiesser, of Amsterdam,- one of the proprietor: of the journal, was presented to the Chamber. The pamphlet treats of a new system of levying duties on corn and grain of all descriptions, projected by him, and partly adopted by the States General. Its ple-pose is to raise the depreciated home price by a tax on corn imported from the Baltic arid the Rhine. Its acceptance was ordered in the usual form. 'raking io the hospital, there is said to be more tea consumed in Greenwich, than in any town of the siz.! in the kingdom. At this season th?re are whole streets apparently dedicated to no other purpose but tea-drinking, and where it is as difficult sometimes to escape the importunities of the teamaker as those of the vendors of old clothes in Holy well-street. A respite was received at the County Gaol, Nottingham, on Saturday, for Thomas Greenstnith, the murderer of his four children.  Amongst other instances of Tory despotism that has come to our knowledge, we bear that a barn has been engaged at the Dissillery, for the purpose of ' putting in the voters in the Netherdale estates ; and from thence to march them, as at last contested election, like a flock of sheep to the poll at Bamff—one young master heading them as shepherd, and other two actiog as collies in bringing up the rear. Will resnectable electors suff,r themselves to degra led in this manner? We hope not. —Aberdeen Herald.
The Sun. — 1837-12-11 (London, England)

MURDER AND ROBBERY.---The annals of guilt scarcely record a more inhuman and bloody deed, perpetrated for the possession of only a few shillings, as that which will be found in the following abstract of the evidence given at an inquest held on the body of the murdered boy, Goorge Teague, at the Fir Tree Inn, Writhlington, on Thursday last, before R. Uphill, Esq., county Coroner. It appeared, from the evidence of James Kittlety, who, in company with the deceased, proceeded on Tuesday last, with their employer's cart from Bradford to Huish coal-pits, Writhlington, that they arrived there about one o'clock in the afternoon of that day, but that they were too early for the supply of coal, which was not yet drawn from the pit; that they both then went to the drawing-house fire, contiguous to the pit, and sat down to warm themselves, and that, about nine o'clock at night, they went together to the Fir Tree Inn, at a little distance, and had a pint of beer ; that while there, two of the prisoners, young fellows of about 24 years of age, named James Lynes, alias Lyons, and Hancock alias Tiler, also came in ; that shortly afterwards Teague and the witness went back to the drawing-house, and lay down by the fire; Teague lying down on a door that was on the ground, and witness by him ; Teague had 9s. in his pocket : that about ten o'clock he (witness) was awoke by several violent blows, and that a third prisoner, aged about 44, named Solomon Plummer, alias Smith, as he rose knocked him down with his fist, and then stuffed his mouth with straw; that he then saw Teague on the door covered with blood ; and that he (witness) ran off to acquaint a man named Heal, who usually slept at the drawing_ house, with what had happened. The stick which had been used upon poor Teague was twenty-one inches long and six in circumference, of alder, and part of his hair was maw d in the bark ; near it lay an oak stick, of equal thickness. but far heavier. Mr. Bayntun, surgeon of Radstock, examined the head of the deceased, inside and out ; there were five fractures one of which was on the right parietal bone, and measured two inches in length ; the other was on the os occipitis, or base of the skull, which had caused a large effusion of blood on the brain, and which had, in his opinion, occasioned death. The prisoners were present during the hole examination, and presented not the slightest appearance of feeling or remorse. Their looks were peculiarly hardened, and indicated profligate a.d dissolute habits. Mt: Jury, after patiently investigating all the circumstances, an I hearing evidence for 12 hours, brought in a verdict of Wi:ful Murder against all three of the prisoners. When Mr. Uphi I made them acquainted with the result, a look of terror passed over their countenances, the only indication of feeling exhibited by them throughout the whole day. They were the then directed to be forthwith committed to Shepton Mallet Gaol, to 'tend their trial at the next Assizes.—Balk Herald.  - . . •
The Sun. — 1837-01-10 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.  MARLBOROUGH-STREET.  TIIE MIIRDER IN OXFORD-STREET,—Jonathan Bayley, the man who was brought to this office last week on the charge of having ill-treated his wife in such a manner that her life was considered endangered, was yesterday brought before Mr. CONANT, his wife having died during the inter-. val of his being remanded, and the Coroner's Jury having returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against him. The prisoner appeared very much altered since his first examination, and seemed to be deeply affected at the awful situation in which he was placed. The MAGISTRATE, addressing the prisoner, said the Co-. roner's Jury having, after a full investigation of all the facts of the case, come to the conclusion of finding a verdict of Wilful Murder against him, he had nothing further to do than to perform the painful duty of committing him to Newgate to take his trial for the murder of his wife. The prisoner was then asked whether he wished to say anything? and he replied, " Not at present." He was then committed to 'Newgate, upon the Coroner's warrant, to take his trial for the murder of his wife at the next ensuing session of the Central Criminal Court.  As a proof of the stir created by the county election, a farmer from the country was complaining sadly on Thursday last that his colly dog could do nothing these three days past, from barking at writers and bill-posters.—Renfrewshire Reformer. _ _  Typhus fever is spreading with a terrific velocity, throughout Glasgow. Its victims are not the eiekly or the pre-indisposed, but the young and vigorous, the matured and healthy man, the veteran, whose iron frame, after having braved all the accidents of flood and field, were yet as likely to stand as many winters more, are the first to fall before the grim and pestilential destroyer. The alarm produced by the awful visitation of cholera was doubtless great ; but the alarm now beginning to be felt for the effects of fever are likely to be still higher. We understand the deaths in the fever wardsof the infirmary have amounted to upwards of one hundred weekly, independent of the vast numbers who have died in the various quarters of the city and suburbs.  A partial thaw has commenced in Inverness and neighbourhood, and the late snow storm has gradually sub-. ided. It seems to have been infinitely more severe in Engs land and the south of Scotland than in the northern counties. The mails here are still very irregular. The south mail yesterday was about fourteen hours behind. On the Saturday previous, the bags were forwarded with the guard in a gig, from Aviemore ; but this arose chiefly from the want of horses, an extra number being employed during the storm. The Aberdeen mail keeps its time pretty well, being yesterday only an hour too late. North of Inverness, the roads are heavy, and the mail was this morning an hour and a half behind. No accident has occurred from the storm.—lnverness Courier, of Wednesday.
The Sun. — 1837-12-04 (London, England)

MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.  John Leggatt, master of the barque 3fargaret, of Glasgow, and James Nesbitt, mate of the said vessel, were brought up at the Liverpool Police-office on Friday last, charged with the murder of Joseph Brown, one of the crew, during the voyage of the Margaret from St. Andrew's, N. 8., to this port. James Carr was engaged at St. Andrew's, N. 8., to ship on board the Margaret, bound for this country. Soon after they left St. Andrew's the captain said, " Bring that fellow from below. I'll see whether he cannot work, and if he does not work he shall have nothing to eat." Deceased was then brought up. It was the first time witness had seen him, or knew there was such a person on board. Deceased was very sickly and lame. His body was swelled all over. He appeared hardly able to stand. He was placed on a chair at the wheel, and kept there four hours,with scarcely anything to cover him. The night was very rough and cold. About a fortnight after, when crossing the banks of Newfoundland, the deceased was placed at the cat-head to look out, although not able to stand. He was hauled upon deck by the captain's orders, the captain going below and putting a rope round him for that purpose. Deceased called out that they were very much hurting him, and egged of them to desist. After having been kept on the look-out some time, he was let down in the same way that he was hauled up. On the 1 lth of November, when off Cape Clear, witness was below in the forecastle. Deceasd appeared to be in a state of insanity, and talked a great deal in his sleep. Shortly after the mate came down and put a rope round the deceased and ordered him to be hauled on deck, where the captain was. The captain then struck the deceased, and knocked him down. On one occasion, while lying on the deck, unable to rise, the mate threw a quantity of water, in which some salt beef had been steeped, upon him, and gave him a kick, and desired him to leave the deck. The cook assisted in hauling the deceased on deck on the last occasion alluded to. Some time after witness assisted in placing the deceased on some deal boards, which were part of the deck cargo. While lying on the deck the sea frequently washed over the deceased. When the captain was told of the situation the deceased was in, and the crew thought he was dying, he replied, " Let him die and be d—d, if he likes." The deceased expired about half-past 12 that night. He was thrown into the sea the day following, without any prayer being said over him. William Sear, John Brandt, and William Davis, seamen on board the vessel, fully corroborated the statements of the preceding witness, and bore testimony to various acts of cruelty of a similar nature to those which he had stated. The prisoners Leggatt and Nesbitt were asked whether they wished to say anything ; to which they answered in the negative. _  They were then committed to take their trial for wilful murder at the Central Criminal Court, held in the Old Bailey, London.
The Sun. — 1832-09-04 (London, England)

COBURG THE.I TRE.  A new grand serio-historical drama, called the Tower of Nesle, or the Dark Gondola, was produced at this theatre last night. It is a translatio❑ from a French piece, which has had a very popular run at one r.f the Parisian theatres. The main incidents of the story are founded on some of the alleged ga!lantri,s of Margaret of Burgundy, the Queen of Louis X. of France. The fate that awaited many of t',e gallants of Margaret is well known. They were known to have been invited to the Tower of Nesle, but from it none of them were ever seen to return. One exception to this fate was Captainßuridan (Mr. G. nett, 1 ite of Covent-garden theatre), and on his escap, and the means taken by him to avenge the death of his two companions, the chief interest and incidents of the piece rest. In endeavouring to trace the murderers of his friends he discovers that Margaro of Burgundy is the chief actress in the tragic deeds. Pursuing his inquiries further, he learns, to his horror, that Philip d'Aulnay (one of his murdered companions) was the Queen's own son, by himself (Bnridan), who bad formerly been a page in the Court of Robert of Burgundy, and that Gaultier D'Aulmiy, the Queen's chief favourite. is her second son. Possessed of secrets calculated to give him such influence over the Queen, and, through her and her weak husband, over the kingdom, his ambition is fired, and he determines NO to use them as to became First Minister of State. After a variety of plots and counterplots betwem him and his abandoned mistress, whose own father Robert he had by l;er desire murdered, he succeeds in his grand object ; but his success involves the destruction of both, and also of their remaining son, Gaultier. Many of the scenes and incidents arising out of these events are highly dramatic, and of intense interest. The part of Buridan was most ably performed by Mr. Bennett. The whole performance was got up with an attention to dress and decoration which does great credit to the taste of Mr. Davidge. At its conclusion the audience made an almost unanimous call for Mr. Bennett, who come forward, and was most warmly cheered. The house was filled in every part.  Mr. BUNN, the manager of Drury-lane Theatre, has made a valuable acquisition to Captain PoLHILL's operatic corps, by engaging Mr. BRAHAM for the whole of the ensuing season. The terms were ratified on Friday.  MONCK MASON, it is said, has again availed himself of the services of SEGUIN, and, instead of trusting to himself, is about to despatch thit experienced emissary to the continent to make engagements for him.  Mr. POOLE is writing a comedy for LAPORTE, to be produced early in the season. The principal character will be personated by Mr. R. JONES, who is engaged at 251. a-week. ELLEN TREE will be the heroine.  A Noble Lord, who has previously figured in a minor department as a dramatic writer, it is said, is preparing a little comedy for Drury-lane Theatre; the principal character in which (an Irishman) is to be personated by
The Sun. — 1832-10-29 (London, England)

ADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM TO THE  ANCIENT AND HEROIC POLISH NATION.  Brave men of Poland !—We call upon you frora the heart of England. Released ourselves from domestic oppression, our first thoughts are turned to you. Before we have had time to redress the wrongs and the miseries of our own country, we turn to Poland—unhappy, heroic Poland ! We desire to express to you our admiration of your noble conduct, our grief for your unhappy fate, our indignation and abhorrence at the conduct of your oppressors, and the deep and burning shame which overwhelms us, that we, the men of England, should have been cornpelted to stand by, inactive spectators, whilst the honour of our country has been violated, and the most frightful crime has been completed, recorded in the history of the world.  Men of Poland !—The laws of nations, the rights of humanity, the honour of England—all have been outraged in your persons. Treaties have been audaciously broken, to which England is a party.; England must vindicate her honour, and redress your wrongs, or she must descend from ber station among the nations of the earth, and be prepared herself to receive the fetters which she has basely suffered to be forged for you. Men of Poland ,—When the eastern barbarians burst in upon Germany in the height of their power, carrying terror and desolatio❑ in their career, your noble ancestors rushed forward with a generous ardour, and saved Europe under the walls of Vienna. The northern barbarians have now burst in upon your heroic country. But, unhappily for you and for Europe, no friendly nation has rushed forward to your defence.  Men of Poland I. —You have arrested the march of the barbarians upon the Rhine. You have made a rampart with the bones of your countrymen in defence of the rising liberties of France. Be this your melancholy glory. You have s wed France, but lost your country. Men of Poland !—You are now a nation without a country—a people without a name ! The atrocious tyrant of Russia has murdered your heroes, robbed you of your country, and driven you out, as wanderers and exiles upo❑ the face of the earth. Your children—your unhappy wives—cursed be Europe if she forgive their wrongs. Men of Poland !—We would carry comfort to your desolated hearts. In the depth of your misery we would bid you not to despair. There is a God in Heaven, who avenges the crimes of tyrants when the cup of their iniquities is full. Your wrongs have excited the indignation of Europe. The Governments of Europe may forsake you, but, believe us, the people are with you. At this very moment the storm is gathering over the heads of your oppressors. The day is not distant when the exiles of Siberia will be restored to their homes—when you will yourselves go back to your native land—that glorious land where the bones of Sobieski repose, and when the joyous shout will echo throughout the world—" Poland is free!" Birmingham, October 15.
The Sun. — 1832-01-18 (London, England)

BILL. This Bill also was considered I Committee, and agreed to.—Report to-morrow. ANATOMY BILL this Mr. WARBURTON, in moving the second reading of Bill, said that he should not feel it neces.ary to detain of which the House at this eta e upon a Bill, the principle had been recognised gand acted upon by a former House of Commons. INGLIS thought that something more was due to the House than the brief announcement of the Hon. Gentleman, as there were several objections to the principle of this Bill, which required to be obviated before it could have his assent. There was, however, an improvement in the present Bill, as compared with that heretofore introduced, which placed poverty upon a level with murder, by making dissection a punishment awarded to both. That was taken away by the present Bill, but still poverty ought not to subject its unhappy victim to the knife of the anatomist. Prisoners also who died in gaol ought not to be made *objects, without the consent of their relatives. Mr. C. PELHAM considered the present Bill to he surrounded by serious difficulties. On the one hand it could not he overlooked, that the present high price of subjects operated as a bounty on unlawful means of obtaining them ; and on the other, by confining the operation of the B:11, in a great degree, to the poorer classes, it must tend to perpetuate their existing prejudices against a practice, which the usage of devoting the bodies of murderers only for the purpose of dissection had invested with the mast ignominious associations. Mr. HUME would give the Bill his moat cordial support, as one eminently calculated to remove the serious law placed in the way of the difficulties which the existing prosecution of me lical science. Mr. PERCEVAL had strong objectioca to the Bill, and  would much prefer a temporary measure for suspending all dissections whatever for two years. Such a measure would do more to put an end to the monstrous practice of " Burking" than any he was acquainted with ; and in the mean time they might inquire into tile safest and most efficient means of furthering the prosecution of anatomical science. There existed sufficient anatomical knowledge to meet the contingencies for two years ; the dissection of animals would suffice to " keep up" the manual dexterity of the present race of surgeons. Mr. POLLOCK was sure the House could not for a moment sanction the proposition of the Hon. Member, as its inevitable effect would be most prejudicial to the lives and physical well-being of the sick poor of the cominunity.—(llear.) At present surgeons were civilly and criminally respon►ible for the intelligent exercise of their professional duties, and yet with strange inconsistency the law prohibited the only means in their power for qualifying themsel►es to duly discharge those duties.—  (Hear, hear.) Mr. HUNT was of opinion that the Bill would operate as a bounty on " Burking," and illegal traffic in human bodies. _ .  The