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The Sun. — 1857-10-30 (London, England)

THE QUEEN'S PRISON MURDER. Antonio do Salvi was placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of Mr. Robertson in the Queen sßench Prison. The prisoner put in a plea of antre fois acquit —that he had been put in jeopardy for the same offence, and ought therefore not to be tried for the murder. Today was appointed for hearing the arguments on each side in reference to the plea previous to the pri soner's being put upon his trial for the charge of murder. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clarke, appeared for the prosecution : Mr. James, Q C., Mr. Sergeant Parry, and Mr. M`Nlahon, M.P., appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Bodkin said the Court was aware that the prissoner stood indicted for wilful murder, and had in answer or bar to that charge put in a plea of autre fois acquit ; that had been demurred to by the Crown, and he (Mr. Bodkin) had to submit to their lordships' that the prisoner's pies was bad in law, and no bar the verdict. The averment in the plea should be identical with the charge, but in this case it was omitted. It appeared to be conceived by the plea that the intent to murder was a necessary ingredient in the commission of murder, but it was not so, and there were numerous instances where murder had been committed without any intention on the part of the parties charged to commit murder. Mr. James contended that the prisoner had rightly and correctly pleaded to this indictment. The plea sets out the prisoner's acquittal on au indictment charging him with wounding with intent to murder, and he (Mr. James) had to submit to their lordships that that offence arose out of the same transactions as those on which the indictment for murder was founded. It was clearly laid down in all the authorities that where there were two charges against a prisoner, though not precisely the same in point of degree, an acquittal on one was an acquittal on the other. The murder with which the prisoner was now charged, it was admitted by the prosecution, arose from the same blows and transaction as the charge of wounding with intent to murder, of which he was acquitted ; and, therefore, the charge of murder against the prisoner, as a murder resulting from the same wounding of which be had been acquitted, could not be tried, and the prisoner put again in peril. Mr. IVl'Mahon followed on the same side, quoting a number of authorities in support of the prisoner's plea. At the conclusion of a very elaborate and learned . sraument,  The Lord Chief Baron, after consulting with the other learned Judges, overruled the plea, and the prisoner was accordingly put upon his trial on the charge of murder, a mixed jury of Englishmen and foreigners having been sworn. Errl Granville, in whose service the prisoner formerly was, as valet to his lordship, was aceonpuodated with a seat on the bench, and appeared to take great interest in the proceedings. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. Sentence deferred.
The Sun. — 1857-06-08 (London, England)

CHINA. HONG KONG, APRIL 27. The steamer Cadiz, with the bi-monthly mail to Europe has been detained to receive the largo cargo of silk from Shanghai per steamer Formosa. Every attempt to get off Commodore Keppel's ship haS failed ; the greater part of tier guns, and all her standing and running rigging, spars, &c., have been saved, but esevere loss—the most serious —is the large amount of new and peculiar shell on board, which it will take months to replace. Arrangements have been made by Commodore Keppel with the Chinese to raise the Raleigh, and hopes are entertained of getting her to some place of repair ; but the hope is a distant one ; and it unsuccessful the wreck will be blown up. Commodore Keppel and his officers p issess the affection and esteem of all, and the casualty to his ship is a Ater of universal regret. The murderer of Mr. Marwick, Government auctioneer at Hongkong, after much shuffling diplomacy on the part of the Chinese authorities, has been surrendered and will undergo his trial ; the prisoner has made disclosures which proves that he had a number of confederates ; that the murder of Europeans was projected on a large scale, and that rewards were offered for success ley the Chinese authorities.  The rock the Raleigh struck on is said not to have been marked on the English chart. In trade little has been done the last 10 days. The long drought is said to have affected the first crop of Canton silk, which will be a short one.  Cotton ii quoted 91 dols. to 11 dole. for Bengal and Bombay.  Cotton Yarn.—Nos. 28 to 32, 34 dols. to 35 dols, ; Nos. 38 to 42, 42 dols. to 44 doh'. Longcloths. —Grays, 6i catties, 2 dols. sc. to 2 dols. 10c. ; whites, 54 reed, 2 dols. ; 64 reed, 2 dols. 40c. ; no sales.  Nail rod iron, 4 dole. ; tin plates, 10 dole. ; lead, 81 dole. nominal. Rice declined to 2 dole. 660. to 2 dole. 90c., but is again quoted at 3 dols. to 3 dols. 10c. Prices are expected to rule high for some time. Exchange on England, ss. Old. to ss. Odd. ; on India, 233 r. to 233 r. ; sycee silver, 10 per cent. premium ; gold, 22 dole. per tad ; clean Mexican dollars, 4 to 1 per cent. premium. Freights have improved, and vessels are wanted to load sugar to Great Britain at C. to 4/. 55., and 10s. extra to the continent. Ships are also stilt re quirel for emigrants and to load lice. The total export of tea to Great Britain from the Jet of July, 1856, to the end of April, 1857, it is estimated will be about 58,000,0001 b. against 80,000,00016. to the same time the previous year, being a deficiency of 22,000,0001 b. Silk arrived, 87,000 bales. On the market, 2,000 bales. Quotations were—Tsatlee, No. 3, 405 do's. ; No. 4, 390 dole. ; inferior, 360 to 380 dols. Taysaams, good, 360 to 380 dole. ; middling to fair, 315 to 345 dole. ; inferior to middling, 275 to 310 dole. Throwne, 400 to 410 dole. Exchange on England, 7s. 4d. to 7s. 51 ; for Mexican dollare, ss. 4d. ; and on India, 335 rs. to 338 rs.
The Sun. — 1857-06-08 (London, England)

CHINA. HONG KONG, APRIL 27. The steamer Cadiz, with the bi-monthly mail to Europe has been detained to receivethe largo cargo of silk from Shanghai per steamer Formosa. Every attempt to get off Commodore Keppel's ship has failed ; the greater part of her guns, and all her standing and running rigging, spars, A:c., have been saved, but asevereloss—th most serious —is the large amount' of new and peculiar shell on board, which it will take months to replace. Arrangements have been made by Commodore Keppel with the Chinese to raise the Raleigh, and hopes are entertained of getting her to some place of repair ; but the hope is a distant one ; and if unsuccessful the wreck will be blown up. Commodore Keppel and his officers y)ssess the affection and esteem of all, and the casualty to his ship is a matter of universal regret. The murderer of Mr. Marwick, Government auctioneer at Hongkong, after much shuffling diplomacy on the part of the Chinese authorities, has been surrendered and will undergo his trial ; the prisoner has made disclosures which proves that he had a number of confederates ; that the murder of Europeans was projected on a large scale, and that rewards were offered for success by the Chinese authorities.  The rock the Raleigh struck on is said not to have been marked on the English charts. In trade little has been done the last 10 days. The long drought is said to have affected the first crop of Canton silk, which will be a short one.  Cotton is quoted 91 dols. to 11 dols. for Benda; and Bombay.  Cotton Yarn.—Nos. 28 to 32, 34 dole. to 35 dole. ; Nos. 38 to 42, 42 dole, to 44 dots. Longcloths.—Grays, 6i catties, 2 dols. Sc. to 2 dole. 10c. ; whites, 54 reed, 2 dols. ; 64 reed, 2 dole. 40c. ; no sales. Nail rod iron, 4 dole. ; tin plates, 10 dOls. ; lead, 8 dole. nominal. Rice declined to 2 dols. 66c. to 2 dole. 90c., but is again quoted at 3 dols. to 3 dols. 10c. Prices are expected to rule high for some time. Exchange on England, ss. Oid. to ss. od. ; on India, 233 r. to 233 r. ; sycee silver, 10 per cent. premium ; gold, 22 dols. per tael ; clean Mexican dollars, A to 1 per cent. premium. Freights have improved, and vessels are wanted to load sugar to Great Britain at 41. to 4/. Sc., and 10. s. extra to the continent. Ships are also still re quired for emigrants and to load rice. The total export of tea to Great Britain from the Jet of July, 1856, to the end of April, 1857, it is estimated will be about 58,000,0001 b. against 80,000,0001 b. to the same time the previous year, being a deficiency of 22,000,0001 b. Silk arrived, 87,000 bales. On the market, 2,000 bales. Quotations were—Tsatlee, No. 3, 405 dole. ; No. 4, 390 dole. ; inferior, 360 to 380 dols. Tayseams, good, 360 to 380 dole. ; middling to fair, 315 to 345 dols. ; inferior to middling, 275 to 310 dols. Throwns, 400 to 410 dole. Exchange on England, 7s. 4d. to 7s. sd. ; for Mexican dollars, ss. 4d. ; and on India, 335 rs, to 338 rs.
The Sun. — 1857-07-09 (London, England)

SPAIN.  The contents of the Madrid journals of the 4th are of a certain degree of importance. A baud of from 100 to 150 men, armed with carbines and muskets—many of them new—and mounted on horses, had invaded—the date is not given—the -town of Utrera, which is at five leagues from Seville, and contains a population of upwards of 12,000 souls. They were under the orders of a chief whom they called colonel, and their cry was "Long live the Republic!" The gendarmerie having attempted resistance were overpowered, and the _insurgents burned down their barracks, at the same time shooting one of them ; they than burned down the Town-hall, and with it all the archives ; afterwards they notified that the population must pay a sum of 8,000 piastres in three hours. The sum was paid, and they left for Osana and the Sierra Morena, taking with them 29 horses of the town or neighbourhod. When the news of these exploits reached Seville, detachments of cavalry were sent in pursuit of the Insurgents ; but shortly after symptoms of insurrection manifested themselves in thetown, and especially at a spot called Don Hermann ; the authorities' in fact, learned that an outbreak was imminent. Accordingly, the Captain-General, Don A. Aleson, hastened to publish a bando declaring the province of Seville in a state of siege, and estallishing a courtmartial to try personsguilty of sedition or appearing in arms ; also forbidding groups of more than three persons to assemble in the streets. The preamble to the bando is rather curiously worded :—" Whereas a faction has shown itself in this province and has carried into execution its Vandalic ideas of devastation and incendiarism, I have," etc. The journals also state that movements have taken place at Malaga, Jaen, Cadiz, and La Carolina (the place at which the mail was recently robbed), but they give- no details. They also state that disturbances were expected at Badajoz. A telegraphic despatch, dated the 7th, says ha the insurrection of tltrera had ben completely put down, and .that 20 of the insurgents had -been killed ; also that 22 others, who had been arrested, were to be shot.  The Indipendente of Turin of the sth says : " We learn from Genoa that Miss Jesey Meriton White ,has been arrested, having refused to quit the country, and declared her intention of undergoing a trial rather than leave. She has, it is said, written to Advocate Brofforio to ask him whether he would be disposed to undertake her defence."  Advices from Constantinople of the 25th ult. state that on the preceding night Chefki member of the council of police, was assassinated out of vengeance by one of his subordinates. The Litter penetrated into the harem of his superior and killed him with repeated stabs of a dagger. The wife of the murdered man having sought to detain the assassin, was likewise killed by him. He subsequently gave himself up to the authorities and admitted his guilt,
The Sun. — 1857-07-09 (London, England)

BAROMETER, 2%94. WIND, N.W. to W.N.W. ; variable, with sunshine and cloudy weather, inclining to change. Two o'CLocK —Wind, N.W.; feeph and squally, with fine cloudy weather.  4-IA, ,e• 3,3, I L, 2-22%:1--,4 ; - ((t  sternly reppressed there, and, fOr that matter, elsewhere—being restricted almost exclusively to the rebel city of Delhi, at the period when our last despatches from India took their departure— that Sudden and Audacious Revolt, though dealt with thus resolutely and summarily, indicates—. What does it not indicate ? Hatred—Fear— Cupidity—Ambition—above all, an indomitable and an in.atiable native lust of Vengeance ? Every fiercest incentive to outrage and Rebellion. And a]l this—of course--resulting from our treatment, from our own fatal, suicidal, all but insane system of mis-government. From this, obviously ! From this, notoriously I The Proverb says, " There never is Smoke without Fire." And so —as truly may it be declared, must it, by necessity, be declared that— Fire is always Kindled ! Even the Fire of Spontaneons Combustion And the Kindling of those Hot Ashen of Alienation—of those fierce Flames of Revolt—of those Eruptive Explosions of Rebellion—is entirely, manifestly, undeniably our own Kindling ! We have sapped and mined our own standing ground, we have laid the train and lit the match, and then applied it—and when the inevitable result follows we affect astonishment. Mr. MANGLES spoke truly on the 12th of June at Addiscombe—he spoke wisely, be spoke judiciously—when he recommended the young Cadets to treat their Sepoy comrades as comrades. He spoke no less truly, wisely, and judiciously, when he advised them, at the same time, to treat the native soldiery with kindness and respect." Observing that, "it was by such means alone, that a few hundred officers could hold the command of many thousands of men:" and adding that, " These were the principles upon which India had been won by their predecessors." A startling inference follows, naturally enough, from this last mentioned consideration. Shall we now, in our turn, hazard the less of India by a perverse, a wilful, and a wanton violation of those same wise and humane principles ?  A horribly lurid light has just been thrown most unexpectedly upon the atrocities perpetrated by our Chinese antagonists. The atrocities we mean perpetrated by them on our own unfortunate fellow-countrymen —murder, arson, stabbing, throat-cutting, poisoning, and every kind of wholesale and retail assassination:! The way in which this new and unlooked-for flood-of-light has been thrown upon the dark deeds of those Most Exemplary Foes may, in a very few words, be related. Commodore the Hon. C. J. ELLIOT captures, on the 4th of April—not three days earlier, observe! for the facts are really true and undeniable— captures, upon the 4th of April, some junks hard by the Sin-on coast off Hong-Kong. On board one of these junks there is found, among other prizes of more or less value, a correspondence. As a matter of course, this correspondence is in Chinese —but the perpendicular hieroglyphics of the
The Sun. — 1857-07-09 (London, England)

SPAIN.  The contents of the Madrid journals of the 4th are of a certain degree of importance. A band of from 100 to 150 men, armed with carbines and muskets—many of them new—and mounted on horses, had invaded—the date is not given—the town of Utrera, which is at five leagues from Seville, and contains a population of upwards of 12,000 souls. They were under the enders of a • chief whom They called colonel, and their cry WAS "Long live the Republic!" The gendarmerie having attempted resistance were overpowered, and the insurgents burned down their barrack, at the • same time shooting one of them ; they then burned down the Town-hall, and with it all the archives ; afterwards they notified that the population must pay a sum of 8,000 piastres in three hours. The sum was paid, and they left for Osana and the Sierra Morena, taking with them 29 horses of the town or neighbourhod. When the news of these explois reached Seville, detachments of cavalry were sent in pursuit of the insurgents ; but shortly after symptoms of insurrection manifested themselves in thetown, and especially at a spot called Don _Hermann ; the authorities, in fact, learned that an outbreak was imminent. Accordingly, the Captain-General, Don A. Aleson, hastened to publish a haudo declaring the province of Seville in a state of siege, and estahlishing a courtmat tial to try persons guilty of sedition or appearing in arms; also lot bidding groups of more than three persons to assemble in cite streets. The preamble to the bando is rather curiously worded :—" Whereas a faction has shown itself in this province and has carried into execution its Vandalic ideas of clevastation and incendiarism, I have," etc. The jour- • nals also state that movements have taken place at Malaga, Jaen, Cadiz, and La Carolina (the place at which the mail was recently robbed), but they give no detail. They also state that disturbances were expected at Badajoz. A telegraphic despatch, dated the 7th, says ha the insurrection of Utrera had been completely put down, and that 20 of the insurgents had been killed ; also that 22 others, who had been arrested, were to be shot.  The Indipendente of Tuiin of the sth says : " We learn from Genoa that Miss Jesy Meriton White has been arrested, having refused to quit the country, and declared her intention of undergoing a trial rather than leave. She ha 3, it is said, written to Advocate Brofferio to ask him whether he would be disposed to undertake her defence."  Advices from Constantinople of the 25th ult. state that oa the preceding night Chefki Paaha, member of the council of police, was assassinated out of vengeance by one of his subordinates. The Litter penetrated into the harem of his superior and killed him with repeated stabs of a dagger. The wife of the murdered man having sought to detain the assassin, was likewise killed by him. He sub. sequently gave himself up to the authorities and admitted his guilt.
The Sun. — 1857-06-18 (London, England)

TIIE MURDER IN PRE CALEDONIAN ROAD. This morning Ruben Robinson Tripp, aged 62, was indicted for the wilful murder of James Scott.  Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Metcalfe. The facts of the case have already been reported in The Sun, and therefore it will merely be necessary to remind our readers that the prisoner resided at 23, Giffordstreet, Caledonian-road, and that on the morning of the 7th of April the deceased entered the house of the prisoner, between the hours of two and three o'clock, it is supposed to speak to the prisoner about the payment of his rent. An altercation took place, and afterwards a quarrel, during which the prisoner stabbed Mr. Scott in the side with a sword. A. number of witimes were examined, whose evidence went to- prove that the prisoner was in arrears with his rent, and that the deceased went there armed with a distress warrant to levy a distress. Scott being the owner of the house keot a street-door key by which he was enable 1 to enter the house at any hour he pleased.  For the defence it was contended that the prisoner was not guilty of Lhe murder of the deceased, and that his death was occasioned solely by his endeavouring to force his way into the apartment of the prisoner at an unseasonable hour of the night.  Mr. Baron Watson, in summing up the evidence explained to the jury the law with respect to murder and manslaughter, and observed that one of the witnesses spoke to the deceased having a paper in his hand, what it was thought was a witness's warrant. Now, if the deceased had gone to the house in which the prisoner lived to levy a distress in the dead of the night, he committed an illegal act, as no person had the power to levy a distress between sunset and sunrise. No landlord possessed the right of entering the house of a tenant in the dead of night. There was no evidence as to what took place during the quarrel which the deceased bad with the prisoner, and it would be for the jury to form their own conclusion whether anything then took place, such a blow or provocation which would reduce the crime to that of manslaughter. It was clear that an angry feeling existed between Scott and the prisoner, and if the jury had any doubt on the point they would, of course, give the prisoner the benefit of the doubt. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of manslaughter. Mr. Baron Watson, in sentencing the prisoner, said the jury had returned a verdict of manslaughter, and therefore they had materially reduced the crime. It was impossible for any person but himself to know what really took piece during the quarrel, and under these circumstances the jury bad taken very merciful view of the case. He felt that the crime of manslaughter of which be bad been convicted was one of the worst description, he should therefore sentence him to eight years' penal servitude.
The Sun. — 1854-01-04 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.  WORSHIP-STREET.—Thomas Stone, an athletic fellow, described as a journeyman tailor, was charged before Mr. Hammill with having violently assaulted, and seriously injured a young married woman, named Maria Bayley, residing in Flour and Dean•street, Spitalfields.  The complainant, a delicate looking woman, in an advanced state of pregnancy, who gave her evidence with manifest pain and difficuity, stated that she lived opposite to the house occupied by the prisoner, and that she had repeatedly had occasion to interfere for the protection of his wife from his brutal treatment. At a late hour on the previous night she was disturbed by a terrible uproar, accompanied by the cries of murder, in the prisoner's apartment, and on proceeding there to ascertain the cause of the disturbance, she found him stooping over his wife, who was lying on the floor, and beating her unmercifully about the head and face with a heavy iron candlestick. The father of witness, who had accompanied her into the house, instantly seized the prisoner, and was attempting to wrest the candlestick from him, when he knocked her down by a violent blow on the forehead, and at the same time commenced a similar attack upon witness, whom he, also knocked down and kicked her in a savage manner about the lower part of her person. The prisoner then made a rush towards his wife, who was crouching down in a corner of the room ; and after mounting upon a wooden bench, so as to place his feet on a level with her head, dealt her a brutal kick in the face, which dashed her back against the wall in a state of insensibility. The prisoner was then in the act of renewing his attack upon witness and her father when a policeman fortunately made his appearance, and, after a desperate resistance, he was overpowered and taken into custody. The witness added that she had been ever since in a state of extreme suffering and debilityfrom the maltreatment she had received, and which was likely to result in very serious consequences, as she was in the last stage of pregnancy. Police-constable Jackson, H 59, stated that upon entering the room the prisoner commenced a furious attack upon him, in the course of which he grasped hold of,his throat, until he was nearly strangled, and he was compelled to draw his truncheon in self-defence ; but it was instantly forced from his hand by the prisoner, who repeatedly struck him with it about the head, until he obtained further assistance, when the prisoner was at length secured, and conveyed to the station-house. In answer to a question from the magistrate, it was intimated by Sergeant Suggii that although the prisoner's wife bad been so dreacfully bruised about the face that her features were scarcely discernible, she positively refused to prefer any charge against her husband, and was not now in attendance.  Mr. Hammil said that it was a most brutal outrage, and sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for assaulting the witness Bayley, and also an additional term of one month for the attack upon the officer.