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The Sun. — 1864-06-18 (London, England)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.  EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—DISGRIOEFUL CONDUCT OF A " GENTLEMAN."—Mr. John Seymore, but whose real name is said to be Henry Bruce Ogilvy, and who gave the address 2 A, Brook-street, St. Georges, and described himself as a " gentleman," was charged before Mr. Knox with assaulting Mr Maurice Kehullet, wine merchant, of 17, Panton-street. Mr Kehullet said he lodged at No. 17, Panton-street. About half-past one that morning he heard screams in the house, and directly after the prisoner rushed down stairs. He stopped the prisoner, who said it was all right. He told the prisoner that he could not let him go till he saw whether it was all right, when the prisoner gave him three blows on the head with a sack, wounding him and smothering him with blood. The prisoner then broke three large and thick panes of plans with his stick, and on the complainant succeeding in getting the street-door open the prisoner rushed out of the house, leaving his hat and stick behind him. He with assistance pursued the prisoner and gave him into custody. Inspector Walker said that some prostitutes resided in the house.  Mr Knox asked if there were any other persons present, and the complainant said there was a boy. Wm. White, a boy about fifteen years of age, residing at No. 27, Grafton-place, said he was taken to the house in Panton-strect by a female who invited him to sleep with her. On getting there connection took place between him and the female in the prisoner's presence. He afterwards saw the prisoner struggling with the complainant. Brown, a constable of the C division, said that hearing cries of murder, he went to the house and saw the complainant bleeding from the head. The complainant said the prisoner had assaulted her, and gave him in charge, He noticed that there had been several panes of glass smashed in the door. The prisoner was sober.  Mr Knox asked the boy whether the prisoner touched him at all, and the boy said, " Only once." Mr Kehullet said he stopped the prisoner because he did not know what had occurred.  The prisoner said he went to the house with a female, and another female asked him if, he would like to see her have connection with a boy, and he said " Yes." I did so. He might have put his hand on the boy by accident. He was afterwards going downstairs when he was stopped, and then struck the complainant two or three times, because he thought he wanted to extort money from him, and because he refused to let him leave the house. At last on the door being opened he ran out of the house. Mr. Knox (who it should be stated had cautioned the prisoner before he volunteered his statement, that what he said might be used in evidence against him) remanded the prisoner for a week.  Subsequently Mr, Edward Lewis, of Great Marlboroughstreet, applied that the prisoner might be admitted to bail, but Mr. Knox refused the application till he was made aware whether the complainant was out of danger or not.
The Sun. — 1864-12-02 (London, England)

CONVICT'S VIEWS ABOUT CONVICTS.—The only thing you have to guard against is keeping them in prison too long. Long imprisonments defeat their own end. In the first place, after a time they lose their power to pain ; so all powerful is use that probab!y no sys tem could be devised, short of one involving the most revolting cruelty, which would not come after a while to bo borne with indifference. Thus, there is scarcely a prisoner to whom the routine and confiement of prison life continue to be a sourco of anything like acute suffering after the first year, or whom the close of the second year does not tied callous and comfortable. All would prefer being at large—some for love of wife or child, left in the hard world outside—all for love of personal independence. But few feel much, those who feel at all aro touched through their affections, and it is hard to cause any but the finer and more highly educated natures much suffering even through these. The same relief comes to them which seems to come to all in great and irremediable trouble. . • . This power of living for the present acorns to be possessed by a'l alike. It is by no means confined to the class of which I am now speaking. The dark, morose, sullen ruffian, and the conscience-stricken melancholy criminal, who is the convict of our imagination, has no existence in reality, or is to be found only during the first few months after conviction. On the contrary, such unvaried cheerfulness, such general forbearance, such a power of taking everything pleasantly as animates, almost without exception, those who have been long in confinement is not, perhaps, to be met with in any other social circle in the world. Look into the  exercise-grounds at Fremantle, and you will say that no party of pleasure was ever apparently so free front distutbing influences, or displayed so great an amount of tranquil enjoyment as the denounced and exiled men before you. And so completely is this the result of other causes than light punishment, that those undergoing the additional and terribly severe sentences• fur attempting to escape, and other prison offences, are as careless and happy as the rest. Loaded, many of them, with 281 b of iron night and day, condemned to wear them for one to three years; placed, some of them so loaded, on lib of  bread a day for GO or 70 days at a lime, and presenting,  after such fasts, such a spectacle of emaciation that, if they _ _  Were to appear (just as they are) in the streets of London,  . _ .. they would raise a general burst of indignation ; they yet  dofy it all. Their punishment is very painful at firkt, and sufficiently painful all along to make them feel very savage, and quistly cherish a future revenge, But  after th© first 14 days, which they say is worse than all the  rest. they suffer no acute pain. Borne up by the elasticity of youth—strong in their motto, " I can do it," and becom . log better able mentally, if not physically, to bear their  sufferings every successive day—they grow as inditlerent to their own additional sentence as they did to their original one.—Cornhll Magazine.  A YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED BY lIER
The Sun. — 1801-11-27 (London, England)

BAIRD.—Our three Companies were removed to two small Transports ; sailed on the 14. th of April, and landed at Cosseir on the I - th of July. General BAIRD had marched with the Army to Kenne, on the banks of the Nile. We were inime. diately ordered to hold ourselves in readiness, and commenced the march across the Desert, on the evening of the 2.2. d.; after suffering greatly from the want of water, and the dreadful fatigue of nine nights march, we arrived at Kenne, hardly able to stand. We had to march near fifty miles, Without a drop of water, and that in a country where you have the most insatiable thirst.—l have been for an hour not able to litter a word, from the dryness in my mouth ; the Officers had asses to ride, bet the poor soldiers marched the whole way ; every mile or two they were found lying,on, the ground, sinking under fatigue and thirst.—Frequently, when on the rear-guard, I have marched from six o'clock at night till eight in the morning, obliged to drive the sick On by force ; they got sO languid,- and in such a situation, that they preferred to lie on the ground and die, rather than march a step farther.— One of our men was murdered in the most barbarous manner by the Bedouin Arabs, savages who inhabit the mountains ; they came down at night to pick up stragglers. General BAIRD had procured boats for the whole Army, and. had dropped down the Nile as far as Grand Cairo (about 3co miles) before our arrival. We embarked immediately, and after ten days, at last had the happiness to find the General and Army encamped in the Island of Rhoda, about a mile•from Grand Cairo, a very unhealthy climate. We had 'a thousand. men in the hospital out of our small Army ; the general complaints of • this season are sore eyes and fevers—some months of the year they have the plague ; the remainder, rhcumatisms, fevers, and sore eyes. This season 60,c00 of the inhabitants of Cairo fell viaims to that shocking disease, the plague. It is seldom you see native with good 'eyes. The French had a great number of their army blind., 1 was only two slays at Rhoda when was attacked- with sore eyes, when on picket, and continued in the greatest agony for five days ; I expected to have lost the t.igiit of them entirely ; it is something in the night air that is the cause of it. The Army remained three weeks at Rhode, and embarked for Rosetta,• where we arrived on the 3 ist ult. the day ,that Alexandria surrendered, which was. a great disappointment to General BA IRD sand to the whole Army, after .bringing an Anny from the Indian Ocean to the :`,.Mediterranean, and with the greatest .expedition arriving almost in sight of Alexandria, the day it surrendered to the English, is particularly hard. We move to a new encampment .to-mor_ row morning, about a mile from Aboukir, where it probable we may remain till the English Army rmbark, and then proceed to Alexandria.".  LO NDO N Prime,' by  At the
The Sun. — 1862-01-06 (London, England)

EXPCI7.nbAs. Newfoundland .. Jan. 8. been greatly retarded since leaving Gibraltar by Horse Guards regulations of the sth of April, 1861, keel), whereby great capacity is obtained without India, where there P f4O vessels buil are upwards o t having done so. I had some conversation with Mr. Jan 11. Oporto and Vigo . . strong N.E. gales ; consequently her news has been will commence at Chelsea Hospital this morning, increasing the resistance, the lines of the on this rinciple, at a cost of £200,000. Windhana about some person having been intimate At Bo' 1 ......____„e_______ U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Jan. 8. c ock on Setturday morning David Brandanticipated. She was commissioned in No-v-f 857, before the Vice-President and members of the Coun- bow being composed of easy curves, on a principle At the meetin ••A' t" ' Hee. with his wife after the marriage. He told me that gof the British ssocia ion in by U.S. packet.... rick, 20 years of age, was exenuted at Stafford for by cepa j. A. Paynter, now commanding the Ex- cil of Education. The first day will be devoted to specially contrived for the purpose, by which the the circumstances were brought to his knowledge b - . by Canadian packet. Jan. -. I proposed as follows :-" That the Great Eastern y the murder of Mr. ,Tohn B ;-* Jan. 10. mouth, 90, screw. Capt. Chamberlain took com- the medical examination of the candidates. best form for entering the water may be obtained, be provided with a rudder at the stem as well as . two letters written by Mrs. Windham having come on the 29th of September. aglot taothier at Bilston, 'W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe I be remembered Bahamas, via New York mend in May, 1860. Lieut.-Colonel Brise, commanding the West and for laying on the plates without serious bend- to him from the Dead Letter office. He said he that t o oth Mexico . • 6• • Jan. 28. w . er men, Jones and Maddox, were constern, and that there be fitted before the after rud- was very d d t k • angry, an propose never o spea to All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Jan. 13. The Warrior, 40, iron frigate, Capt. Hon. A. A. Essex Militia, recently tendered the services of that log. This Bat elliptical floor is continued to the vieted with Brandrick of the murder, the three der, and above the screw shaft, a steering wheel or her again, because the letters were addressed ito h • California,and British Columbia Cochrane, C•Be weighed her anchor at Spithead on regiment for garrison or colonial duty in the event forefoot, and thus the fore section is made self-supeying run away from the house with portions of armed paddle across the stern, the wheel another gentleman as "My dear darlina-- " three . . , th a e e stolen property while the deceased was still
The Sun. — 1862-03-13 (London, England)

CHARLTON.—The Home Secretary has had under consideration it was inferred that the dying man had criminated victed at the last Berkshire assizes of the wilful murder Of himself inconsequence of the real perpetrators having his daughter at Windsor on the 30th of December last; and threatened tolmmediately on the following rimming the Gohave his whole family murdered if he told also that of John Charlton, found guilty at the Carlisle the truth. Goassizes of the murder of Jane Emmerson, an old woman, vernment caused the prisoners to bo shipped off to some who kept the gate at the Durran-hill crossing of the railplace unknown; the head turnkey was dismissed, and the way, and who was recommended to mercy by the jury on others declared responsible for any new event of the kind account of his previous good character ; and Sir George On searching the ward several weapons were found. Grey having received reports from the learned judges who EIGREAT ROBBERY IN CORNHlLL.—Yesterday tried the respective cases, does not see any reason for inter- ,norning it was discovered that a robbery had taken place fering with the due execution of the sentence, and the a Messis. Dodds Brothers, 40, Cornhill, goldsmiths. No wretched men will accordingly pay the last penalty of the particulars have transpired that can be relied upon, but it law--Gould at Reading Gaol, on Friday, at twelve o'clock is rumoured tbat the loss is about £5,000. The pannel of and Charlton, on Saturday, at twelve o'clock, at Carlisle the door was found broken in, and a large quantity of jewellery, watches, &c., had been taken. Gaol,  " 'Berlin, March 11.'" President Grabow then thanked the Chamber for the support he had received from it in his department, and concluded by proposing three cheers for the King, Which were responded to by the house.  Thei depot companies of the nine new Indian regiments, namely, the 101st to the 109th, recently added to the British army, will be stationed at Chatham, and arrangements have been made for three of the depots to be attached to each of the three battalions of infantry at that garrison. The 4th Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia, Lieut.-Col. J. Striven commandant, has been ordered to asemble at its county head-que.rters• Hounslow, for 21 days' training, to commence on the Bth of May next. Volunteers enrolled since the commencement of last training to be assembled 14 days prior to that date.  Lieut.-Col. Levett, commanding 3d King's Own Stafford Rifles, has received the Queen's commands to assemble his regiment for 21 days- training at Newcastle-ander-Lyme on the Bth of May next. The whole regiment of Royal Wiltshire Militia, numbering nearly 800 men, is to be called out in the early part of May next for three weeks' training and drill. The men are to assemble at the head-quarters of the regiment at Devizes on the Bth of the above month, but the recruits are to w,eet fortnight previously in order to undergo a pi •eliminary course of drill.
The Sun. — 1862-08-01 (London, England)

MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT SHEERNESS.  Early on, the-morning of Wednesday the body of a man was found lying in a wheat field, a short distance from Sheerness, in a frightfully mutilated state, leaving no doubt that he had been barbarously murdered. The body was soon identified as that of a man named Wm. Elliott, 30 years of age, a single man, who was employed in Sheerness Dockyard: The deceased was last seen alive on the previous evening, but at whose hands he met with his death it has been impossible, up to the present time, to ascertain. It would appear that the unfortunate man was shot in the road, after which the body was dragged into the wheat field, where it was discovered.  Yesterday an inquest was held on the body by Mr. T. Hills, the district coroner, at Sheerness, when the following evidence was adduced :  John Cheeseman, shoemaker, Sheerness, identified the body of the deceased as that of Wm. Elliott, late of Queenborough. Deceased was a labourer, and about 30 years of age: Mr. Edward Stride, surgeon, said he was called to see the body of the deceased a little after 1 o'clock on the previous morning, and found it had been removed to that house. On making a careful examination of the body he found externa; marks of gunshot wounds on the right side of the chest, as well as some on the forehead and the whole of the face. Witness opened the body, and on the right side of the chest he found that, with few exceptions, the shots had entered the lungs. One of the shots had passed through the eye, and those in the face had penetrated it deeply. It ;was possible for all the wounds to have been caused by one discharge from the gun. Witness had no hesitation in saying that death had been caused by the shots penetrating the lungs, and the shots had proceeded from a gun held on a level with the chest of the deceased. No other marks of violence appeared on the body, nor were there any signs of the deceased having been engaged in a struggle. Superintendent T. M. Green, of the Kent county police, deposed that from intelligence he received he proceeded to a field called Pheasant's Field, at a few minutes past eight on the previous morning. The field was about a mile from the Halfway House publichouse. About eight or nine yards from the fence separating the field from the road witness found the body of deceased lying on its back with the hands by its side. On the road side of the fence he saw blood, and there was also blood on the fence, as if the deceased had been dragged through it. About three yards within the fence there was more blood, as if the body had been left there a short time, and marks were then visible of its having been dragged on the back in a semicircle about five yards further, where it was found. There was a great deal of blood at that spot. The Coroner here informed the jury that as there was no further evidence to offer, which would throw any additional light on the barbarous murder, it would be better to adjourn the inquiry. The inquest was then adjourned for a week.  7HE
The Sun. — 1862-08-01 (London, England)

MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT SHEERNESS.  Early on the morning of Wednesday the body of a man was found lying in a wheat field, a short distance from Sheerness, in a frightfully mutilated state, leaving no doubt that he had been barbarously murdered. The body was soon identified as that of a man named Wm. Elliott, 30 years of age, a single man, who was employed in Sheerness Dockyard: The deceased was last seen alive on the previous evening, but at whose hands he met with his death it has been impossible, up to the present time, to ascertain. It would appear that the unfortunate man was shot in the road, after which the body was dragged into the wheat field, where it was discovered.  Yesterday an inquest was held on the body by Mr. T. Hills, the district coroner, at Sheerness, whea the following evidence was adduced : John Cheeseman, shoemaker, Sheerness, identified the body of the deceased as that of Wm. Elliott, late of Queenborough. Deceased was a labourer, and about 30 years of age; Mr. Edward Stride, surgeon, said he was called to see the body of the deceased a little after 1 o'clock on the previous morning, and found it had been removed to that house. On making a careful examination of the body he found externs; marks of gunshot wounds on the right side of the chest, as well As some on the forehead and the whole of the face. Witness opened the body, and on Abe right side of the chest he found that, with few exceptions, the •hots had entered the lungs. One of the shots had passed through the eye, and those in the face had penetrated it deeply. It was possible for all the wounds to have been caused by one discharge from the gun. Witness had no hesitation in sa3ieg that death hed been caused by the shots penetrating the wigs, and the shots had proceeded from a gun held. on a level with the chest of the deceased. No other marks of .viiilence appeared on the body, nor were there any signs of the deceased having been engaged in it struggle. _  Superintendent T. M. Green, of the Kent county police, apposed that from intelligence he received he proceeded to a field called Pheasant's Field, at a taw minutes past eight on the previous morning. The field was about a mile from the Halfway House pubticbouse. About eight or nine yards from the enc.- separating the fi• id from the road witness found the body of deceased lying on its back with. he hands by its side. On the road side of the fence he saw blood, and there was also blood on the fence, as if the deceased had been dragged through it. About three yards within the fence there was more blood, as if the body had been lett there a short time, and marks were then visible of its having been dragged on the back in a semicircle about five yards further, where it was found. There was a great deal of blood at that spot. The Coroner here informed the jury that as there was no further evidence to offer, whiclA would throw any additional light on the barbarous murder, it would he better to adjourn the inquiry. The inquest was then adjourned for a week.  711 E
The Sun. — 1862-06-05 (London, England)

THE STATE OF IRELAND. Lord PALMERSTON moved that the house at its rising should adjourn until this day week for the Whitsuntide holidays. Mr. MAGUIRE availed himself of that opportunity appealed to the noble lord at the head of her Majesty's. Gtovernment on a matter personal to himself and of greaatrisn rest to the people of Ireland. He had been tert in that house, and nobody could accuse him of makingyedeliberately a false statement. From time to time hehadbrought forward, with pain and humiliation, the u b rject of the present distress in Ireland. The hon. me besrthenHors urged upon p the noble lord to produce the of Mr. ley, in order to satisfy the feelings of Irrieshoirnembers who concurred with him as to the distress prevailing in 171. After some observations by Mr. ScuLLl, Lord PALMERSTON said that he had not seen the report of Mr. Horsley, but he.would look into the document, and if there was nothing objectionable in it he would lay it on the table, or if otherwise he would direct the substance of it to be submitted to the house. With regouaain•ndttdrhytoaotfwsothmheinesremarks of the last speaker (Mr. Scully), he drew the attention to the fact of theh differencerif this feelings Ireland prevailed in!the minds ofratempaelosple country in regard to c crime was committed the public joined in'end' eavouring to bring the criminal to justice ; but in Ireland thepublic endeavoured t, scram him. Lord FERMOY traced the feeling in favour of criminals in Ireland to a want of confidence in the laws of the administration of justice. He contended that feeling must Mr. WIiiTY,SIDE considered that a commission was unnecessary, and that a vigorous administration of the law would be the best means for repressing crime in Ireland. necessarily increased in consequence of the injudicious conduct of the Secretary for eland in insulting the priesthood and the Irish members when they endeavoured to draw attention to that distress in Ireland, the existence of which he was compelled to admit. (Hear, hear, from the Irish members.) Sir J. BOWYER contended that there tvould be no security for the preservation of the peace of Ireland until that country was regarded as being a Roman Catholic country, and treated accordingly. After some remarks from Mr, LEFROY, After some remarks from Mr. LEFROY, Sir G. GREY said it had been property stated by the last speaker that Government had taken upon themselves the responsibility of adopting efficient measures for the protection of life and property in Ireland, and  I he wished to state that the Government felt bound to undertake that responsibility. If police were actually engaged in tracing out the persons engaged in the recent murders in Ireland, a commission would shortly be issued. Ho referred with pleasure to the fact that these murders in Ireland had nothing whatever to do with dissatisfaction towards the Government, and he was happy to hear it stated in the course of the conversation that a great number of the Roman Catholic laity in Ireland approved of the policy pursued towards Italy. (Hear, hear.) [