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The Sun. — 1858-06-24 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET.—John Hoare, a middleaged man, described as a labourer, was charged upon his own confession, wi h violently assaulting Mary Hoare, his wife, and thereby causing her death.  Critchell, of the R division, said—Last night, at 11 o'clock, I was on duty in Bell-gre3n, Sydenham, when I saw the prisuner standing against a fence, and I heard him say, "I hope God will forgive me for what I have done." I asked him what  it was he had done, and he replied, "Go below, and you will hear what I have done ; it is very bal. He then hesitated, but added, " There was a piece of work at home, and I took the pokei-, struck my wife with it, and murdered her.".  Prisoner—That iz false ; I did not say that I had mandered her.  Officer—Yes, be did say "murdered her." I then asked him where he came from, and he told me Sarah's place, Brick-lane, Spitalfields. He was peifectly sober, and said no more about his wife then ; but I afterwards asked him where he did it, and at what time, and he said about a fortnight ago. I then took him into custody and at the station at Sydenham he made a statement to the sergeant on duty, who took it down in writing. By the Prisoner—When you first met me you were standing on the footpath, and when you said " Go below," I thought yin meant me to go down the hill to a public-house, as persons were about. Strgeaut Strength, 49 R—About a quarter past 10 last night I was in lower Sydenham, and saw the prisoner in cuslo.ly of the constable Critchell, who, in his hearing, told me what he has now stated upon oath. While at the station-house prisoner exprelsed a desire to make a statement, as he was very unhappy. I gave him the usual caution, and then took down in writing this confession, which he signed. He afterwards remarked that his wife was buried at Bow Cemetery. Tile Sergeant then read the following :—" About a fortnight ago I was at home with my wife and the girl. Some words arose, and the girl took up the poker ; I thought to strike me with. I got it away from her, and then my wife took up a stool and struckme on the head, causing a wound. Ihad the poker in my hand, and struck her cn the ribs with it. She called police-constable 81 11, but he seeing the blood on my head refused to take the charge. My wife got ill, and went to the London Hospital. They wished her to stay, but she came home, got worse, went again, stayed a few dam.and returned. I fetched some medicine from a dcctor's shop near Vhitechapel Church, buf. she died on the following Monday.—John Hoare." Sergeant Strength—When the prisoner signed this he was sober, but excited. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Have you ascertained how far this-is correct ?  Sergeant Strength—I have not had time, sir, to make minute inquiries, but I b.dieve the woman died from violence.  Mr. D'Eyncourb—l will remand the prisoner, and let the officer alluded to in the statement then be present. Prisoner—l had been drinking. I recollect nothing about it. _ _  The accused was then ordered to be brought up on Wednesday next.
The Sun. — 1858-10-29 (London, England)

AMERICA.  SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.  The Arago, Captain Lines, with New York mails of the 16th inst., arrived at Cowes and proceeded to Havre. Her advices are one day later. She has 07,000 dols. for. Havre ; none for England ; 17 passengers for this and 155 for Havre. She passed off Sandy Hook, bound in, the ships Hussar, New -World, and British Trident. Oct. 21, at 1 p.m., in lat. 48 25, long. 47 15, saw a barque propeller, bound west.  Exchanges for Arago were done at 109; to 110 on London, and 5.131 to 5.121 on Paris. Stock-market firm. Closing prices were—Missouris, 871, to ; Central, 84 to 841 ; Erie, 154 to ; Reading, 501 to 51 • Michigan Central, 56 to 561 ; Panama, 118 to 1181 • Illinois Central, 80 to 801; Galena, 821 to .-14 ; itock Island, 65a to 1 ; Pacific Mail, 105 to 1051. The market closed weak.  Cotton market irregular. Sales about 1,700 bales Flour without change in price and in better request, with larger sales. Wheat unsettled, and sales limited. Corn in good demand, with tolerably free sales, at 70c. to 72c. for Western mixed, and common white ditto at 731 c. Barley and rye steady, and in good demand. Pork more active, and prices firmer. Sugars declined about 4c. per lb. on the week's sales. Coffee firm, with a light stock. Freight engagements moderate, and no change in quotations. California news is to the 21st ult. The Democratic majority in the State was about 8,000 over the combined opposition. The Hon. Wm. Ferguson, a State senator, shot in a duel with George P. Johnson in August last, had died of his wounds. The next Legislature of California will stand 24 Administration Democrats to 10 Opposition in the Senate, and a large Democratic majority in the House,  The Salt Lake corre'spondent states that the territory was quiet at latest dates. Intelligence from Mexico confirms the rumour of the defeat of Vidaurri by Miramon, and other battles on a smaller scale had occurred, but results doubtful.  Fraser River dates are to Sept. 16. The Indians continued to molest the miners, and had murdered several parties. The steamer Seabird had been burnt on the river, but without loss of life. Advices from Jamaica are to the 6th inst. The inhabitants were much pleased with the arrangement by which the Panama steamers are to touch. at Kingston monthly. The weather was fine, with moderate rains. From the French West Indies we learn that Guadaloupe had received a large accession of labourers, comprising 700 Africans and 750 Asiatics. The sugar crop of the current .year in Martinique was estimated at 55,000 hogsheads. The cotton market at New Orleans was unsettled on the 15th ; sales, 5,000 bales, and market closed heavy. Sugar firm, at 71c. The deaths from yellow fever on the 15th were 52. The United States' brig Dolphin sailed from Boston for Paraguay on the 15th. The steamer Lady Eglinton was to leave Quebec on the 16th for Galway. Accounts had been received of heavy white frosts in South Car crlina and Georgia.
The Sun. — 1858-10-29 (London, England)

AMERICA.  SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.  The Arago, Captain Lines, with New York mails of the 16th inst., arrived at Cowes and proceeded to Havre. Her advices arc one day' later. She has 427,000 dols. for Havre ; none for England ; 17 passengers for this and 155 for Havre. She passed off Sandy Hook, bound in, the ships Hussar, New World, and British Trident. Oct. 21, at 1 p.m., in lat. 48 25, long. 47 15, saw a bargue propeller, bound west.  Exchanges for Arago were done at 109 i to 110 on London, and 5.131 to 5.121 on Paris. Stock-market firm. Closing prices were—Missouris, 871 to ; Central, 84 to 841; Erie, 151 to ; Reading, 501 to 51 ; Michigan Central, 56 to 561; Panama, 118 to 118/ ; Illinois Central, 80 to 801 ; Galena, 821 to 1; Rock Island, 651 to I ; Pacific Mail, 105 to 1051. The market closed weak.  Cotton market irregular. Sales about 1,700 bales Flour without change in price and in better request, with larger sales. Wheat unsettled, and sales limited. Corn in good demand, with tolerably free sales, at 70c. to 72c. for Western mixed, and common white ditto at 731 c. Barley and rye steady, and in good demand. Pork more active, and prices firmer. Sugars declined about tc. per lb. on the week's sales. Coffee firm, with a light stock. Freight engagements moderate, and no change in quotations.  - California news is to the 21st ult. The Democratic majority in the State was about 8,000 over the combined opposition. The Hon. Wm. Ferguson, a State senator, shot in a duel with George P. Johnson in August last, had died of his wounds. The next Legislature of California will stand 24 Administration Democrats to 10 Opposition in the Senate, and a large Democratic majority in the House,  The Salt Lake correspondent states ,that the territory was quiet at latest dates. Intelligence from Mexico confirms the rumour of the defeat of Vidaurri by Miramon, and other battles on a smaller scale had occurred, but results doubtful.  Fraser River dates are to Sept. 16. The Indians continued to molest the miners, and had murdered several parties. The steamer Seabird had been burnt on the river, but without loss of life. Advices from Jamaica are to the 6th inst. The inhabitants were much pleased with the arrangement by which the Panama steamers are to touch at Kingston monthly. The weather was fine, with moderate rains. From the French West Indies we learn that Guadaloupe had received a large accession of labourers, comprising 700 Africans and 750 Asiatics. The sugar crop of the current year in Martinique was estimated at 55,000 hogsheads. The cotton market at New Orleans was unsettled on the 15th ; sales, 5,000 bales, and market closed heavy. Sugar firm, at 71c. The deaths from yellow fever on the 15th were 52. The United States' brig Dolphin sailed from Boston for Parauay on the 15th. The steamer Lady Eglinton was to leave Quebec on the 16th for Galway. Accounts had been received of heavy white frosts in South Carolina and Georgia.
The Sun. — 1858-03-03 (London, England)

LORD.  and by— " The whispered hint, the shrug,, the hum, or ha, These petty brands that calumny doth use,"  wilfully injure their fellow. One accusation may be of the most fearful character—may charge a wife with adultery, a maiden with want of chastity, a man with something nearly allied to swindling ; but if the charge does not show that they had incurred the penalty of a criminal offence, the sufferer could not be justified ; while in a journal, anything calculated to bring into contempt or disrepute, although merely repeated, and its author stated, might be subject to heavy damages and costs, and, at all events, to its own expenses. This should be remedied. Let Lord Cimritm, undertake it, and he will build for himself " a monument more enduring than brass." A law that will ever be associated with his name, and render it illustrious when other honourable acts mazy hwantt....  The Government of Lord Rutz; from the very peculiarity of its position at the present montent, appears to us in a manner to demand  at the outset of its existence as a right, almost as a debi of gratitude, at the hands of the Liberals —a patient hearing and respectful consideration. Whatever the circumstances may have been in consequence of which Lord PALMBRSTON'S Administration came the other day to an unexpected and untimely-end, they were not of Lord DERBY'S contriving—neither did they trace their origin to the ingenious device of any one of the noble earl's supporters, whether within or without the walls of Parliament. The majority, not, remember, upon the second reading of the Conspiracy to Murder Bill, but simply upon Mr. MILNER GIBSON'S very adroit and persuasive amendment—may certainly, without doubt, be again designated " a fortuitous concurrence of atoms," but it most positively cannot, with any show of reason, be seriously termed for one moment a factious combination. The situation took its rise in the first instance from a vexatious act of—,what we may accurately call—Ministerial reticence. There was a despatch unanswered—a despatch very singularly worded, to say the least of it, and communicated with what our neighbours across the water call a considerable amount of empressement to her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government— Lord PALMERSTON'S recent administration. This despatch coming to us from a "faithful ally," was nevertheless so strangely and so strongly expressed throughout that a good many of us—[a rather moderate computation we take that to be, all things consideredj—a good many of tl3 would have vastly liked to have had that same despatch answered, and that moreover befittingly and betimes. It was not answered. The member for Ashton proposed to the House of Commons that it should at any rate precede the vote for the Second Reading of the Conspiracy Bill with an expression of regret that the despatch referred to had not been answered. Thereupon a clear majority of nineteen decided in favour of I Mr. GIBSON'S amendment. And thereupon, as a further consequence, the Noble Viscount the exPremier decided upon tendering his resignation, and that of his colleagues, to his
The Sun. — 1858-11-09 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.  MURDER IN THE QUEEN'S COUNTY.  The Freeman's 'Journal states that a rumour reached town on Friday evening that a gentleman named Richard Ely had been shot at a plau called Kyle, in the Queen's County, and dangerously wounded. On Saturday night a further account reached announcingthat the unfortunate gentleman had died from the injuries he had received, and that up to the present the murderers had not been detected.  The following additional particulars appear in the morning papers :—" Parsonstown, Saturday.— On last evening between 7 and 8 o'clock a determined 'attempt was made to take the life of Mr. R. Ely, who resides at Ballaghmore Castle, midway between Borris•in-Ossory and Roscrea. The assassin was concealed in r..a shrubbery contiguous to his residence, and while Mr. Ely was passing through a small wicket he was fired at, and the contents took effect on his left arm, above the elbow, which is greatly shattered, and it is apprehended will end fatally. Mr. Ely is a gentleman of the most benevolent and popular habits, and was one most unlikely to make any enemy. This attempt on his life is unaccountable, and has caused a great and widespread sensation." " Another Account.—Mr. Ely was going to his brother's house when he was fired .at. It is said that he will this day undergo amputation of the arm; but faint hopes are entertained of his recovery. _ _  " farsonstown, Sunday Evening.—A televaphic despatch which appeared in our second edition of Saturday last stated that the life of the abovename respected gentleman had been attempted by an armed assassin, who fired at him on the previous evening when passing through a small gate on his ~rounds, and wounded him, as apprehended, fatally. The unfortunate gentleman lingered on till about 1 o'clock on the following day (Saturday) when he expired from the effects of the wound so inflicted. As already stated, he was a gentleman of kind, benevolent, and popular habits, and his savage murder can only be accounted for by a supposition, which has been hinted at, that it was in consequence •of carrying out the suppression of prevalent poaching habits in that part of the country. Another report attributes his murder to the fact that he wi.s mistaken for a landed proprietor in the neighbourhood ; but this is not credible. Other causes have also been assigned ; but all is merely. conjecture. Mr. Ely was a large-sized man, and it is supposed he was passing sideways through the small gate when he was fired at. A hat was found at the spot of the murder,which is supposed to have been worn by the assassin, and dropped by him in his haste to escape. This may lead, and is reported has led, to the commencement of a clue which may conduct to the discovery of the murderer. There has been distributed at the various surrounding police stations a description of a person suspected, and who, it is said, has absconded. Should any further particulars of consequence transpire as to this terrible crime, which has occured in what was supposed to be a peaceable , neighbourhood, they will be forwarded immediately by telegraph. •
The Sun. — 1858-03-24 (London, England)

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.  NORFOLK CIRCUIT. -BURY ST. EDMUNDS, MARCH 22. CROWN COURT. CHILD MURDER AND SENTENCE OF DEATH.  Emma Groom, domestic servant, was indicted for the wilful murder of her illegitimate child, John Groom, 13 months, at Oakley, in July last. She was the mother of two illegitimate children, the first a girl, now five years old, living at the house of the mother of the prisoner, who contributed towards its maintenance ; the other child was the deceased. In Nov , 1856, prisoner went into service at Bramford, and on being engaged, admitted having this child, which she was allowed to visit and-have brought to her occasiondly. She obtained leave in the month of July, 1857, to go on a holiday visit to her parents and took the child with her to ass station, from whence she proceeded to Oakley. On arrival at her mother's, she had no child with her (and the mother stated she was not aware of her having a second illegitimate child), but only a reticule and a brown paper parcel. The body of a child was found iu a pond about half a mile from the mother's house the next morning, with a napkin on its body and a handkerchief tied loosely tied round its neck. Suspicion being directed against the prisoner, on being informed that such was the case she admitted to a Mr. Ling contents of pare I ., by the person to whom the child was put out at two shillings a week, to have been those it was in the habit of wearing. A medical gen lf-naan named Miller deposed that death proceeded from drowning but he stated on his cross examination the appearances were equally consistent with those of death from graddal suffocation or strangulation. One or two witnesses proved that the prisoner was always ford of the child and of children generally. Mr. Mills, for the defence, contended that the reasonable presumption was, not that the woman destroyed her child whom she so loved, but that she, on her way to her mother's, discovered it to have died from suffocation, that she had a natural aversion to take home to her mother a child suddenly dead, and that this might lead her to be desirous to sect ete the body by putting it into the pond, first decently putting a napkin round its body and a handkerchief loosely round its neck, and carefully keeping the little thing's clothes. The absence of any proof of violence supported this presumption, and the medical testimony, instead of detracting fi orn, really made it fair and reasonable that there was nothing in the case inconsistent with the sup;:osition that accidental suffocation, while the child was being carded along by its mother, was the cause of death.  His Lordship, who summed up most elaborately, put it to the jury whether death was caused by drowning, or whether it might not have arisen, as suggested by the counsel for the prisoner, from accideni al suffocation.  The jury, after Jetiring for an hour, returned a verdiqt of Guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. His Lordship, in an address delivered with great emotion, passed sentence of death on the prisoner.
The Sun. — 1858-03-24 (London, England)

NORFOLK CIRCUIT. BURY ST. EDMUNDS, MARCH 22. CROWN COURT. CHILD MURDER AND SENTENCE OF DEATH. Emma Groom, domestic servant, was iudicted for the wilful murder of her illegitimate child, John Groom, 13 months, at Oakley, in July last. She was the mother of two illegitimate children, the first a girl, now five years old, living at the house of the mother of the prisoner, who contributed towards its maintenance • the other child was the deceased. In Nov., 1856, prisoner went into service at Bramford, and on being engaged, admitted having this child, which she was allowed to visit and have brought to her occasionally. She ob:ained leave in the month of July, 1857, to go on a holiday visit to her parents and took the child with her to Diss station, from whence she proceeded to Oakley. On arrival at her mother's, she had no child with her (and the mother stated she was not aware of her having a second illegitimate child), but only a reticule and a brown paper, parcel. The body of a child was found iu a pond about half a mile from the mother's house the next morning, with a napkin on its body and a handkerchief tied loosely tied round its neck. Suspicion being direwed against the prisoner, on being informed that such was the case she admitted to a Mr. Ling and to • her mother that the child was hers. The contents of the parct-1 and the napkin were proved by the person to whom the child was put out at two shillings a week, to have been those it was in the habit of wearing. A medical gen•leman named Miller deposed that death proceeded from drowning but he sta•ed on his cross-examination the appearances were equally consistent with those of death from gradual suffocation or strangulation. One or two witnesses proved that the prisoner was always fond of the child and of children generally. Mr. Mills, for the defence, contended that the reasonable presumption was, not that the woman destroyed her child whom she so loved, but that she, on her way to her mother's, discovered it to have died from suffocation, that she had a natural aversion to take home to her mother a child suddenly dead, and that this might lead her to be desirous to seciete the body by putting it into the pond, first decently putting a napkin round its body and a handkerchief loosely round its neck, and carefully keeping the little thing's clothes. The absence of any proof of violence supported this presumption, and the medical testimony, instead of detractingfrom, really made it fair and reasonable that there was nothiug in the case inconsistent with the supposition that accidental suffocation, while the child was being cart ied along by its mother, was the cause of death. His Lordship, who summed up most elaborately, put it to the jury whether death was caused by drowning, or whether it might not have arisen, as suggested by the counsel for the prisoner, from accidental suffocation. The jury, after retiring for An hour, returned a verdiet of Guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. His Lordship, in an address delivered with great emotion, passed sentence of death on the prisoner. j  WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Bormric, MA.Rcir 22.