The Sun. — 1868-12-16 (London, England)

THE LOSS OF H.M.S. RATTLER.  The officers and crew of the Dupleix, a rrench corvette stationed in the Sea of Japan, have earned the gratitude of Englishmen by their efforts on behalf of the seamen and passengers of the Rattler. This ship was wrecked in the Strait of La Perouse on the 24th Sep. tember, and on the 7th October the intelligence reached the British Consul at a station to the north of Japan. He informed the commander of the Dupleix, who, though his ship was being repaired, lost no time in setting out. After a very stormy passage through a most dangerous part of the Pacific, the French ship arrived at the scene of the wreck, and, though the embarkation was very difficult. succeeded in bringing off every man in safety  (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, Saturday, Nov. 28.  Some murders of an extraordinary character have lately been perpetrated. At Philadelphia, on Sunday night, Mrs. Mary E. Hill was killed by her son-in-law, George S. Twichell, with a poker. She was a wealthy, twice-married widow of 65 years, wealth Twichell and his wife, who was arrested as an accomplice, are alleged to have been instigated by the desire to possess. A servant arriving at the house saw the old lady lying below the window in the rear, and her cries brought the police to the spot. Twichell came up and looked with perfect coolness on the body, suggesting that she had fallen from the window. His dress being stained with blood the police arrested him, and further evidence showed that Mrs. Hill had first been murdered and then thrown from the window. The people of Philadelphia were greatly excited when the circumstances became known, and would, had they been permitted, have lynched both the prisoners. The trial is looked forward to with interest as the family is among the wealthy. It has already transpired that in a deed Airs. Hill had directed Twichell to prepare had been executed in his wife's name instead of in that of his mother-in-law. On Tuesday night in this city, Felix Larkin, who had acted as bottle-holder to O'Baldwin, the pugilist, was murdered in a low oyster shop kept by a man named Campbell. It appears that at three o'clock in the morning Larkin, with two others, forced themselves into the shop and insolently ordered three oyster stews. Not being served sufficently quick, Larkin, who was a strong man, got into a quarrel with Campbell, who in the struggle stabbed him repeatedly with a dagger, while the bar-tender and a woman servant joined in the melee, till the police arrived, when Larkin was found dying and the others more or less injured. Strange to edpistaollino:tt htirmnhudrut,rintghoutghhe LsaLiCnamhapdbefillredeslcraisp struggle. Larkin was one of those Ward politicians to whose ruffianism New York owes so unenviable a notoriety. The tragedy, however, which has excited most interest in the country is that of Richmond (Virginia), wherein James Grant was the murderer, and 11. Rives Pollard, the victim. Pollard was a well known Southerner, the editor of the Southern Opinion, and a strong supporter of the South. He was the brother of Edward Pollard, the editor of the Political Pamphlet, and the author of the " Lost Cause." Last Saturday he offended the Grants, who are wealthy tobacconists, by hinting at immoral conduct on the part of a young lady of the house, whose alleged elopement he them gave an account, although the girl had simply gone to Philadelphia 'on a visit to a schoolfellow. Pollard was alighting from his carriage on Tuesday morning at the door of his office, when a shot was fired from the upper window of a building opposite, and he fell, dying almost instantly, his body being