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The Sun. — 1838-02-10 (London, England)

TRADES' COMBINATIONS.  Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from near 4,000 of the inhabitants of Dublin, signed by the Mayor, the Sheriffs, several Aldermen, and numbers of person.; differing from him in politics and religion, complaining of the illegal combinations of workmen in the city of Dublin, which had produced a variety of outrages and several murders. He was sorry neither of the Members for the University of Dublin ( Mr. Shaw and Dr. Lefroy) were present. He moved that the petition be printed, to meet the motion of his Honourable Friend (Mr. Wakley. ) Ordered to be printed. Mr. 11 UTTON said he had looked over the signatures of the petition, and they included the names of persons in every station—of every religion, profession, and political opinion. No subji et could be of more importance than that to which the petition related It had occupied the attention of the llouso many years ago, but no measures were taken to follow it up. He hoped that the prayer of the petition would be complied with by the House, and that an enquiry would be granted on a basis suited to the importance and magnitude of the subject. The petition was ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed with the votes. _ _ .  Mr. NV. BUNCOMBE presented a petition from the Dean and Chapter of York, complaining of certain clauses in the Act relating to the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; also a Petition from the same body relative to the Tithe Commutation Act. The Hon. Member presented also a petition from the Stage-coach Proprietors and Post masters of the city of York, praying for a reduction of the duty on post-horses. Mr. LO\VTHER presented a petition from the city of York, complaining of the clause obliging parties to give notice in case of the registry of births. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented petitions from the towns of Reading and Newbury, in the county of Berks against the abolition of the See of Sodor and Man.  Mr. DENNISON presented a petition from Rye, in favour of the Vote by Ballot; and a petition from the same place, praying the House to re-consider the Poor-law Amendment Act, and make such Amendments therein, as might appear necessary. THE DANISH CLAIMS _ .  Mr. CRESSWELL presented a petition from several individuals, praying for compensation for the losses sustained by them, by the capture of their vessels by the Danes in 1807. The Hon. Member moved that the petition be printed with the rotes, and gave notice, that he intended on Tuesday the 23d of February, to call th• attention of the House to the subject. Lord SANDON presented a petition from Liverpool, signed by Lbw persons, praying the House to reject the Bill for rating landlords of small tenements. The Hon. Member also ISD:pmTrDaaagEyilalNiUindngGAestbTßftosT a reduction of the duty on plate and presented a petition in favour of the summary process for the presented a petition from the Marquis the Belfast Water Works Bill. N presented a petition from the City Mr. PE ASE presented a petition from the county of Durham, for the abolition of the negro system of apprenticeship. Mr.
The Sun. — 1838-04-14 (London, England)

SERMON AT NEWGATE (YESTERDAY.)—At half-past ten the jury who have to decide upon the case of Mr. Williams were conducted by the officers of the Court who have them in charge (Mr. S. Warren and Mr. Miller) to the chapel of Newgate, and were placed in the Sheriffs and Govercor's pews. Directly they had taken their places the male prisoners were brought into the body of the chapel from the different wards, many of whom already know their doom. There were some who await an awful judgment, but only one was placed in the "condemned pew," as it is called, and that was the boa Allison, convicted of murder. Mr. Williams, whose trial is pending, sat in the Ordinary's pew, in view of those who will have to decide upon his guilt or innocence. The Rev. Mr. Cotton read the liturgy, lessons, and psalms appointed for Good Friday in his usual impressive manner, and during the service the greatest solemnity prevailed. Perhaps there is not a sanctuary in London where more decorum prevails than in the chapel of Newgate ; and among the motley groups (or classes) of worshippers there were, doubtless, many sincere ones. The sermon preached was an impressive one. The text was Hebrews, chap. xiii., verses Id and 14, •` Let us ga forth, therefore, unto Him without the camp bearing his reproach. For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come." To give even an outline of the excellent discourse would occupy too much space. His concluding remarks upon the " fragility of human life, and the consequent necessity for preparing to take a journey to a snore enduring inheritance—an habitation not made with hands," were honourable to the lips of the preacher, and from appearances made a suitable impression on the hearts of those who heard his voice. In a spot, near Caixas, in the Pyrenees Orientates, as we learn from a Perpignan paper, there used to be a remarkable rock, called the Roc de Jalere, standing 60 feet high, and having at its base a copious spring. It was the favourite rendezvous for parties from the environs, and an object of curiosity to strangers. But a short time since sounds were heard in its vicinity, resembling an earthquake, followed by a powerful explosion. Some of the inhabitants, on going to the rock, found it shivered into innumerable calcined fragments, and the spring totally gone. At St. Omer many of the windows are still grated like prisons w;th iron bars. A few days ago, as a female ser- ' vent was cleaning the panes of one of these windows, placed rather high in a ground-floor room, her attention was attracted by a dispute in the street, and she put her head out from between the bars to see what was going on, but, leaning too far forwards, the chair on which she was standing slipped from under her, and sic was left suspended by the neck. Strangulation was nearly produced, and her senses were entirely gone before she could be relieved from this painful position.
The Sun. — 1838-06-13 (London, England)

MANCHESTER RA CES, SATURDAY.  Hurdle Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 40 added ; four yrs, lOst. 51b ; five yrs, llst. ; six yrs, list. 61b ; and aged, list. 81b ; winners once, slbs ; twice or more, 71bs. extra. ; and thorough-bred horses, Mb. extra. Heats, twice round, with three leaps over hurdles four feet high. 7 Subs. Mr. Stephenson's ch. g. True Blue, by Jujube, aged 1 I Mr. Vevers's b. g. Charity, aged, half-bred Mr. Holland's ch. m. Harriet, aged, half-bred Mr. Gardnor na. br. h. The Artist, 6 yrs The Innkeepers' Purse of 60 sovs., added to a Handicap Stakes of 3 sovs. each, for the beaten horses of the week. Heats, one mile and a distance  Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.  Ogden's bl. c. Black Prince, by Voltaire, 3 yrs, 7st ... 1 I J. Astley's br. g. Clitheroe, aged, 7st. 101 b Arrowsmith's b. g. Orcus, 3 yrs, 6st. 41b J. Smith s ch. f. Prattler, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b 0 4 Betting-2 to 1 agst Black Prince.  `While London, Liverpool, and the West of Scotland, have been visited by thunder storms and very tempestuous weather during the last ten days, we have enjoyed extremely fine weather in Aberdeen. The fall of rain has been occasional, but very slight. The country around Aberdeen looks remarkably well, the fruit trees are in fine bloom, and the crops, although late, promise to be extremely productive.—Constitutional.  During the past week the days have been fair, but the nights have been cold and unkindly to the growth of vegetation ; on Friday and Saturday mornings there were sharp hoar fro•ts.—The grass crops are said to be very light in this neighbourhood owing to the want of rain.—The produce of two or three meadows in the immediate vicinity of the town has been cut and stacked. The hedge rows, we are informed, are beginning to be infested with myriads of caterpillars.— Sussex Advertiser.  A man named Al‘Crade, at Philadelphia, while praying at his bedside, fell and expired. On the night of Friday last two of the workmen employed on the Southampton Railroad having, unfortunately, drank too (reels', and placed themselves between the txo lines of railway, had forgot that they had attached the rope to the waggons from the engine across the middle of the road, in consequence of which they w,re knocked down by the lope and thrown under the whole of the waggons. The were dreadfully injured, and but little hope remains of their re• covery. This had nothing whatever to do with the trains by which the y passengers are conveyed. Monday morning, between two and three o'clock, a desperate attempt at murder was committed by William Hoole, reoitling in Peter-street, St. James's, on his wife, by stabbing her with a knife una,:r the left ear, with such violence that the blade perforated the cheek. By the prompt interference of some lodgers the infuriated man was prevented frorei egrrying his deadly intentions Into effect. The poor woman was conveyed to Cil4ring-eross hospital, where her wounds wre ingnedi4telv attended to ; but siltPrnains in a very dangerous s. state.
The Sun. — 1838-10-17 (London, England)

SURREY SESSIONS-TUESDAY.  KINO!TON, Ocr. 16.—Yesterday the General Quarter Sessions for the county commenced at the Sessions House, Kingston. B. Burnard, Esq., in the chair. Among the Magistrates present were Colonel Chaloner, the High Sheriff; Sir R. Frederick, Sir H. Fletcher, the Honourable Charles Perceval, M. P. ; C. Barclay, Esq ; R. Hedger, Esq. ; the Rev. G. W. Onslow ; W. Goss, Esq. &e. &c. The calendar contains the names of fifteen prisoners for trial for felony, none of which, however, possess any public interest. Mr. Smallpiece, the Treasurer of the County, submitted his accounts, from which it appeared that the balance in hand last year to Midsummer was 3,4171. Os. 10d. ; and that the balance in hand, fur the current quarter, amounted to 5,928/. 19s. sd. A report was read from the Visiting Magistrates of the county gaol, recommending the Court to make application to the Secretary of State to grant a free pardon to a woman named Allington, convicted some time ago, and sentenced to be transported. The above recommendation was on the ground of the severe bodily illness of the unfortunate convict. The report was agreed to. Cook, a constable of Kingston, said that he had an application to make to the Court. Some time since he expended 3/. 3s. Bd. in apprehending a man who murdered another, returning from Epsom races. The Coroner, Mr. Carttar, who was in attendance, granted applicant a certificate for his expenses; but upon applying for the amount to Mr. Clarke, the Clerk of the Arraigns at the Central Criminal Court, that gentleman refused to pay him, on the ground that the certificate did not bear the signature of a Magistrate. He (Cook) explained that the reason of its having been signed by the Coroner was, that the accused never went before a Magistrate at all, but was committed on the finding of the Coroner's Jury. Being unable to procure his money, he applied to Mr. Carttar, who told him he could not pay it, as he would not be allowed to charge it in his quarterly expenses. Mr. Lawson, the Clerk of the Peace, said that no such expenses as those mentioned were included in the schedule of allowances and disbursements to Coroners, annexed to the recent Act of Parliament. Mr. Carttar expressed his willingness to pay Cook, if the Court would authorise him to do so. Several Magistrates gave it as their opinion that they had not the power to interfere, as the constable had acted without having any warrant to apprehend the alleged murderer. Mr. Barclay said that the difficulty should be speedily remedied, if possible ; for if it was once to go forth to the county that no expenses would be allowed under such circumstances, in a very short time no constable would act. It having been stated to be the opinion of several of the Alagistrates that the Court had the power to alter and vary the schedule, and to order all reasonable expenses to be paid connected with the holding of any inquest upon a body, it tw as ultimately resolved, upon the motion of Mr. Hedger,_ o refer . the schedule to the Committee who settled the allowances, in order, if possible, that they might enlarge it.
The Sun. — 1838-11-20 (London, England)

MURDER IN MA NCH ESTER. —The supposed-murderer( Whittel)of the travelling Scotchman named Henderson was committed last Friday, on whi eh daynguest was held. After the evidence ained against Whittle had been a which n h heard, the jury found a verdi.i of IYilful Murder against him. The prisoner was accordingly committed to Kirkdale, fur trial at the Liverpool assizes.  The Queen's Advocate (Sir JOHN DonsoN), in support  of the libel, wished, in the first instance, to assure the Court that his client, the Rev. Mr. Breeks, in bringing this case foritard, was not in the most remote idea actuated by feelings of personal enmity against Mrs. Woolfrey ; but he considered, as a Christian minister, who had sworn to maintain inviolate the doctrines of the Church of England, that it was his bounden duty to prevent, as far as in him lay, any breach in the discipline of that Church. His (Sir John's) duty would be to show to the Court that the inscription in question was contrary to, and at variance with, the existing canons and constitution of the Church of England ; and to prove that such tombstone was erected without obtaining leave of the Vicar of the I Diocesan. His Learned Friend Doctor Addams said, if so, why was not Mrs. Woolfrey admonished to remove it, and if he (Dr. Addams) bad been applied to for advice, he would have recommended its removal. Now, the fact was, Mrs. Woolfrey had been frequently called upon to remove the stone, but she positively refused to do so, and, therefore, he considered the proper mode of proceeding against her was by articles, and not by monition. The proceeding adopted was the only proper one, and the only one which could have been resorted to for the purpose of obtaining a legal authority peremptorily to order the monument to be removed. The inscription he considered completely at variance with and contrary to the discipline of the Church of England. The quotation, "Itis a good and wholesome thought to pray for the dead" was taken from 2 Mac., xii. 46. Now, he wished to inform the Court. that the quotation was taken from the Roman Catholic edition of the Bible, and formed part of the doctrine of the Popish Church. In the English version of the Bible the words real different, and there was not a 46th verse of the 12th chapter of the Second Book of Maccabees. The English translation, he wished to press upon the mini of the Court, was in different words to the Romish version ; and the inscription was taken from that part of the Apocrypha used by Roman Catholics in support of the doctrine of pu,g,ttory, which ,he (Sir John D elson) contended was at total valiance with the 22d article of the Church of England. It was impossible for the Court to say that the erection of a tombstone with such an inscription was not at variance with the cations and discipline of the Established Church. Sir HeneEtte. Jeetelea said, the Court would take time to consider its decision, as the c ;s-, was a novel one.— ledgment postponed.
The Sun. — 1838-11-26 (London, England)

MURDER-AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY, AT HAREFIELD, MIDDLESEX.—Considerable excitement prevails at Harefield, Middlesex, in consequence of the death of a man named Edward Jones, who was waylaid and brutlly illtreated by two persons at present unknown. Jones, who was sixty years of age, was head, gardener to Mr. William Haynes of Harefield-park, in whose service he had been but a few weeks. Yesterday fortnight he went to Uxbridge to call upon a few friends. He paid a visit to Mr. Stacey, the gas proprietor, where he stopped the greater part of the afternoon. He there drank a few glasses of wine, and when he left he was quite sober. He called at the Swan and 80t...  tle, a public-house near the bridge over the canal, where he made an engagement with the landlord to preside at a concert which was to take place on the following Friday. He left perfectly sober about nine o'clock. That night he did not return to his home at Harefield. The next morning he was found among some timber over a wall by a constable of the Uxbridge police. He was almost insensible, and upon examination his head appeared to have received some severe injuries, and a great quantity of blood had escaped from the wounds. A portion of the unfortunate man's hair was upon the timber. He was taken to the station-house at Uxbridge, from whence he walked home. He took the road by Denham, and on his way called at a beer-shop, where his face and head were washed. From this place he proceeded towards home, which he reached about midday. He complained of great pain on the right side of the head, when, as he seemed to be suffering severely, he was put to bed. Upon being questioned, he stated that shortly after he left the Swan and Bottle he met two men, who, on seeing him, made way for him to pass between them. One of them gave him a tremendous blow at the back of his head, which was immediately repeated by the other man. He instantly fell, and for some time was unable to breathe. After this he scarcely knew what became of him. He did not know how he got over the wall, but the general opinion is that he was flung over. He states that he had some money in his pockets, but none was found on searching them at his home. He says that one of the men was tall, and dressed in a fustian frock-coat, and that the other was shorter, and dressed in a Guernsey coat. Jones was promptly attended by Mr. Haynes and Mr. Norton, surgeons, who rendered every assistance in their power. No danger was apprehended till Tuesday last, when the symptoms of delirium, which had previously shown themselves oecasionally, assumed an alarming character. From that day he gradually sunk, and died on Friday last. On Monday last Atkins, the constable of Haretield, gave information to the high constable of Uxbridge, who has given notice to Mr. Stirling, the coroner, that an inquest may be held upon the body.
The Sun. — 1838-07-23 (London, England)

KENSINGTON POLICE. (THIS DAY.)  THE DARING ATTEMPT AT HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND. MURDER.— The office was crowded to excess this morning in consequence of the exa. mination of John Brown, who tern brought before Fir JOHN SCOTT LILLIE and Mr. BARLOW, charged with attempting to rob and murder Mr. John Senior, of No. 2, Noriand•place, Notting-hill, on Saturday afternoon, between the bouts of four and five o'clock. . Mr. Senior was not in attendance, owing to illness, produced by the wounds he had received in the groin and in one of his hands, in thrusting away the muzzle of one of the pistols presented at him by the villain by whom he was attacked. Ihe evidence of the complainant, however, had been taken on Saturday, immediately after the outrage, at the Pcliceoffice, and it having been read over to the prisoner he was now asked if he had any person in attendance whom he wished to be examined.  The prisoner's father, an elderly man, stood forward to give some account of his wretched son. From the old man's statement it appeared that the prisoner had recmtly returned from Spain, where he had been for some time in the service of the Queen, and that since he came back he had no regular employment, but was occasionally in service at different public houses. Owing, however, to the extraordinary manner in which lie was in the habit of conducting himself since his return to this country ; he (the father) thought frequently that his mind was deranged.• The father added that the prisoner had married a young woman on Easter Monday without having the means of supporting her, and this circumstance had strengthened the opinion in his (the father's) mind that his son was not right in his senses. Miss Auterac, by whom the prisoner had been stopped and robbed on the Wednesday preceding, identified him, and in answer to that charge the prisoner said that he had nothing to say in his defence. In answer to the interrogatories put to him by Sir John Scott Lillie the accused catered into a history-of his life up to the time of his apprehension ; in the course of which he said that while in Spain he was taken prisoner by the Carlists at the battle of Fontarabia ; that he and two other Englishmen taken at the same time were sentenced to be shot, and were brought out fur that purpose. Just however when the sentence was about to be executed upon them, through the intercession of three English officers high in rank in the service of Don Carlos, he (the prisoner) and his companions were reprieve& and sent home through France.—The witnesses having been bound over, the prisoner was committed for trial to Newgate.  It has been positively stated that the Earl of Durham has received secret instructions to come to a definitive arrangement of the boundary question with the American Government, in which event there wil be no occasion for the further intetference of the King of the Netherlands in this tzdions question.—Northern Herald.
The Sun. — 1838-07-03 (London, England)

LUCHANA."  As a counterbalance to this success, the Government had learned that the Carlists had seized upon a convoy of thirty-five waggons between Madrid and Temblique, and that a: courier with official dispatches for Generals NARVAEZ and ALDAMA had been made prisoner. The inaction of NARVAEZ was the subject of much surprise in Madrid. No officer did so much to inspire public confidence, and none could do more than he is doing at present to prove that it was ill-founded. Rumours of intrigues to oust the Cabinet continue in circulation. For the first time for several: weeks we hear the name of Senor PILO Pizzanno mentioned as a s2cret candidate for the office of Premier. MENDIZARAL is not idle, though we are not informed to what extent be has overcome the Regent's repugnance to his presence at the council table.  The debates in the Cortes are uninteresting, and will continue to be so till the loan affair is settled in some shape or other.  For some time past no exertions on the part of the Executive have been spared to extinguish the liberty of the press in Soreden. The KING was in some sort driven to adopt measures personally distasteful to him to quiet the alarms of Austria, Prussia and Russia, who cease not even now to remind him that to their forbearance is he indebted for the Crown with which the genius of anarchy encircled the head of a military adventurer. What feelings the conduct Of the KING has engendered in the breasts of his hitherto loyal subjects may be inferred from the following extracts from letters from Stockholm, published in the German papers received this morning : STDcsaot.m, Juxx 21.—The language lately tml by the ultra-Liberal press has unhappily led to very unpleasant consequences. Yesterday a great crowd assembled before the Town.hall, where 51. V. Crusenstolpe it confined, and loudly demanded his release. Slaving of course refused, the mob, among which, however, some persons of t he better classes were observed, divided into sever.il bodies, one of which proceeded to the house of the Antic Chancellor, another to that of the Chancellor of Justice. Vehement threats were, it is said, uttered, in partieutaragainst the latter, all whose windows were broken. The fe,lings of the savage mob may be inferred from the fact that some of them remarkalthat this was Fersen's day (the day on which Count Fersen was murdered twenty_ right years ago) ; while others vociferated a Percat to our emcellent Ilerxelens (who was on the jury). Some hundred troops immediately occupied the points that were threatened, and no further violence was attempted. The personal appearance of our beloved Crown Prince, and of the Governor, Baron von Sprengporten, sufficed to induce the people to disperse. Some of the rioters have been arrested, but immediately released. We do not hear that any person has been injured. P.S This morning early, when I dispatch this letter, a large detachment of troops is on foot, ordered, it is said, to escort M. von Crusenstolpe to the fortress of Wasehohn, and to maintain public tranquillity, which it is hoped will not be further disturbed.