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The Sun. — 1838-05-12 (London, England)

PEEL'S PATHETIC APPEAL.  [We copy the following clever Squib from a Morning Contemporary (the Chronicle). It is (or ought) to be sung this evening by Sir Robert, at the Merchant Tailors' Hall, before dinner, and the guests may set to with what appetite is left.]  'Sow winter's frost is past and gone, And cheerful summer comes, But still we're left to sigh and groan, For others cat our crumbs. Against us is the palace barr'd ; Whitehall we seek in vain ; Our lot appears to be ill-starr'd ; We'll ne'er get place again. " We'll ne'er get place," oh ! word of fear That makes our party sad; It fills with grief my Lyndhurst's ear, Sets Graham and Stanley mad. Why did we charge from left to right? Why ? all exclaim with pain; And now we're told, our hopes to blight, We'll ne'er get place again. Sly Aberdeen vows night and day He cannot longer wait; And Goulburn sighs for quarter day, And Sugden looks sedate. Lord Francis to Lord Sandon speaks In mild and courtly strain, And drawls, " My heart it almost breaks; We'll ne'er get place again." Lord Lorton, in the Upper House (As some it please to call), Joins, slumbering Tories to arouse, With Wicklow and Glengall ; While Londonderry, pink of peers, Distuibs his feather brain, And roars, mid ministerial cheers, " We'll ne'er get place again." This was the learned Jackson's hope, For this did Litton, West, Denounce the Ministers and Pope, With Shaw, and all the rest ; 'T was this that made the Colonels "four" All ridicule disdain ; Though now they shout in wild uproar, We'll ne'er get place again. Kilmarnock's " Saint" 4- his tale of woe In vain doth nightly tell, How Orange blood is made to flow, How Popish murders swell ; And Times and Standard both unite To " slay again the slain;" But still they hint in all they write, We'll ne'er get place again.  Then, Winchilsea, oh ! cease the bray, It cannot serve our case ; And thou, my Phlllpotts, weia-day, May close thy pious jaws. Sir Francis, too, may stay at home; What boots his pranks insane, When he must hear, where'er he roams, We'll ue'er get place again?  May 9, 1838.  The gallant four are Conetly, Perceval, Thomas. and Verner, and never before did so warlike a quartet band come to the rescue of Toryism in St. Stephen's. Gad a mercy ! What would holiest " Jack Falstaff" say, who was himself a Right good Conservative of the olden times, could he but behold our four Hibernian chieftains ! t The emptying of the " grievance wallet" of the Member for Kilmarnock was, perhaps, as serio-comic an exhibition as has taken place in St. Stephen's for a length of time, and was extremeely useful, so far as it enabled Lord Morpeth to afford a sample of the meek disposition of the persecuted Orange party in Ulster.
The Sun. — 1838-09-08 (London, England)

MURDER OF A PRIEST. —A cure of the environs of Ajaccio, who was greatly beloved by his parishioners, was assassinated on the festival of St. Louis whilst in the act of performing mass at the altar. His marderer fired two musket shots at him in succession from behind one of the pillars of the church. The first shot only wounded the victim the second extended him a corpse on the steps of the altar.— Galignani's Messenger. An Italian Correspondent of the Courrier Francais states that Prince Metternich and M. Thiers have had an interview. They met on a terrace at Como, and the French statesman paid a visit next day to the Austrian Minister. The following lines, extracted from the Journal du Havre, may give an idea of the irritation that prevails among the merchants of that town :—" It is affirmed that M. Martin (du Nord) far from giving up his proposed visit to Havre will very shortly arrive in our town, If the Minister of Commerce is at all anxious to meet with a brilliant reception among us, we think it our duty to inform him that he could not have made a more unfortunate choice of the moment to honour us with his presence. In the paroxysm of the crisis in which our colonies and our seaports are now placed by the protection afforded to beet-root sugar, M. Martin du Nord might have reason to fear that the merchants of Havre would let him hear language very different from that which was addressed in 1834, to M. Thiers, when M. Martin's young predecessor held out to our maritime commerce promises which have been so strangely fulfilled."  Is was re-ported on 'Change that the King had suddenly arrived from Eu, but on inquiry the news proved to be false. The Madrid Gazette concludes an answer to some attacks made on the Press, with the following remarkable phrase : " As for an arrangement, it is impossible, and such a word has never been spoken in the sense ascribed to it by the adversaries of the Government. Victory alone will decide the principal questions ; as for the secondary question, there are some on which an arrangement may be made—such, for instance, as the fueros of the Biscayan provinces. This is one of the cases respecting which the Government may and ought to be sparing of the blood of our brave defenders." The Semaphore, which announces the conclusion of a commercial treaty between Turkey and France, says further : " One of our correspondents at Constantinople writes to us that France and England have again promised the Porte that no infraction of the treaty of Kataget should take place. In the course of the 16th a diplomatic courier arrived from Vienna. The instructions of which he was the bearer, on the part of Prussia and 'Austria, direct the representatives of those powers to give to the Porte analagous guarantees of the maintenance of the status quo, and of the intention of the Prussian and Austrian Cabinet to unite with France and England to prevent any interruption of peace."—Le Commerce.
The Sun. — 1838-12-03 (London, England)

WAR IN SPAIN.  A memorial is going the round in the City for signature, addressed to Lords Melbourne and Palmerston, as her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, on the subject of the barbarous and atrocious system of warfare now carrying on in Spain, and- grounding thereon an appeal to this, in conjunction with all the civilized countries of Europe, to interfere, and, if possible, to put a stop to so signal a disgrace:to humanity. A copy of it is subjoined, which tells its own story in such simple and affecting language as to render comment upon it perfectly unnecessary. It was offered to the Lord Mayor for signature on Saturday, and was imdiately signed by him, with nearly all of the Court of Aldermen, and in the course of a few hours a great number of the most respectable names in the City were added to it : " My Lords,—We have the honour to entreat the most earnest consideration of your Lordships to the appalling condition of the Spanish people. .4 We have been brought together, without reference to political or personal opinions, for the expression of one sentiment common to us all.  " War, even when waged in a righteous cause, against foreign aggression and under the conventional usages of civilized nations, is a desolating scourge ; but civil strife, where the children of the same soil and parents are arrayed against each other, magnifies the horrors of war, and ends in barbarism, misery, and degradation. " The kingdom of Spain is rapidly sinking into this condition ; every arrival brings intelligence of cold-blooded and atrocious murders that hitherto were only known in the history of barbarous ages. " The pacification of that unhappy country appears to us to be the special province of those nations that rank foremost in power and enlightened policy, and whose position enables them to exercise a genial influence over the destinies of weaker states.  " In the name, therefore, of suffering humanity, we appeal through your Lordships to our most gracious Queen, and to the ruling powers of the civilized world, and do implore that such measures may be adopted by her Majesty's Government, in concert with her Majesty's allies, as shall extinguish a revolting warfare—one that for its cruelty and ferocity can scarcely be paralleled in the page of his. tory, and one that, while it continues, hardens the feelings of surrounding nations. " As men of all parties and opinions, we entreat your Lordships to regard this expression of strong feeling from the city of London, as a proof that its inhabitants consider this subject to be one of the highest order that can engage the attention of their fellow-men, and they trust that the general opinion throughout Europe is, that no policy can be merciful or just while it neglects the pacification of unhappy Spain.  6; We have the honour to be, " Your Lordships' most obedient, humble, and devoted servants, "6 S. WILSON, Mayor, &c. " November, 1838.  To the Right Hon. Lord Melbourne and Lord Pal. merston, her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State."— Times.
The Sun. — 1838-06-30 (London, England)

ATTACK UPON BRITISH OFFICERS AT DETROIT. ( From the Sandwich Herald.) Colonel Hill, Captain Sparke, and Lieutenant Robinson, of the QUetnl.3 Light Infantry, in full uniform, accompanied by Dr. Dawson, surgeon of the regiment, in plain clothes, went over to Detroit about noon, on Friday, and whilst walking through the streets were assailed repeatedly by the c:y of " Tory I Tory 1" from individuals, and also by disgusting and ahu.iive language, and were thrice pelted with .:tones, evs, and mud, of which they took not the slightest notice. On their a/rival at the wharf they found that the ferryboat had just left, and they accordingly had to wait its return, and therefore took another stroll through thc.. streets. On their return a second time to the wharf, Captain Sparke was struck tw ice with eggs, which broke on h back ; and'On his turning to cross the street to where Col. Hill and Lieut. Robinson were standing in a store at the corner of the street, opposite to the ferry wharf, a man pushed purposely against him, and struck his sword, which the man construed into an alTrunt from Captain Sparke. A mob of twenty or thirty scoundrels immediately collected, and closed round the officers, and used most disgusting, insulting, and brutal language, evidently with the view of provoking them to draw their swords, which, had they done, there is not the  slightest doubt they would all have been murdered. The officers behaved with the greatest forbearance, and, at Colonel Hill's request, went quietly on board the ferry-boat; but in turning to do so, Captain Sparke was kicked by the cowardly rascal, who first pushed against him; sererel eggs were also thrown at the officers when on board of the boat, one of which passed close to the head of Miss Mason, sister to the Governor, who, with other ladies, and Captain Rowland, of the Brady Guards, came on board the boat as she was pushing off. Only one individual, a respectable-loaking person, standing in the store with the officers, attempted to interfere in their behalf, and repudiazed the conduct of his fellow citizens. He having seen the man wantonly push against Captain Sparke, expressed his opinion freely to that effect. Captain Grant, late of; the Royal Cavalry of Sandwich, was present at the affray, and exerted himself very' handsamely in favour of the officers, and openly expressed his indignaton at the brutal conduct of the " free and enlightened citizens of the greatest republic in the world." Another officer, Lieut. Cameron, of the Queen's Light Infantry, who had been sent on th.:! 17th with dispatches to AmhertE,burg, on his return last Sunday morning in the steamer General Porter was grossly insulted and pelted with stones and mud whilst proceeding- on horseback from the landing to the ferry-beat. Lieutenant Cameron was informed that the man who led the mob on Friday and Saturday was a fellow named Appleby, ci decant captain of the I piratical steam-boat Caroline, and now of the steam-boat I Constitution.
The Sun. — 1838-09-13 (London, England)

NEAPOLITAN DECREE AGAINST DUELLING.  The King of Naples, as we stated the other day, has issued a decree against duelling. The following is the text of its provisions :  Every challenge, whether written or verbal, shall be, punished with imprisonment to the third degree, with incapacity to fill any public function, and with forfeiture of all pensions from two to fire years after the expiration of the imprisonment. The same penalties shall be inflicted upon every one who accepts a challenge. Every one who insults, strikes, or beats another who refuses to accept a challenge, shall be punished according to the existing laws, but in this case the punishment shall be increased one degree. The pains of banishment or imprisonment in irons shall be at. tended with loss of pensions. If death ensues, the culprit shall be punished with death. If two parties meet, and yet no duel takes place, they shall nevertheless be punished with banishment and loss of pensions. If a duel takes place without either of the combatants being wounded, they shall both receive the punishment of connement in irons, with loss of penSinns. If wounds are given, the wounded, if be has not given a wound, shall be punished with confinement in irons anal loss of pension, and the party wounding shall be punished according to the maximum of the existing laws. Death given in a duel shall be punished as murder. The bodies of those who shall be killed in a duel, and of those who may be executed in consequence of having given death in a duel, shall be buried in unconsecrated ground, without any religious ceremony ; and no monument shall be erected on the spot. The seconds, bearers of challenges, and all persons who take part in duels, shall be punished according to articles 1,3, 4, and 5 of this decree. Among military men, as duelling is an act of insubordination, it is punishable by the articles of war, but it shall nevertheless be subject to the provisions of this decree, and in this case the maximum of the penalty applicable shall be raised in one degree, unless it shall thereby involve the pain of death. Banishment and imprisonment shall involve loss of honours and court dignities. All infractions of the laws against duelling shall be referred to the Grand Criminal Court. —Galrgnani's Messenger.  The " Animals' Friend Society," of Mark-lane, last week, caused William and George Webster and Joseph Payne, to be fined by Mr. Chambers for great cruelty to asses at Hampstead. Also a drover, 721. and another drover named Nichols, to be fined for great cruelty to a sheep and an ox in Smithfield. At Margate the Society has been very active during the week, but has met with much opposition from the Rev. Mr. Hodgson, Minister of St. Peter's, Margate, who acts as solicitor for offenders charged with ill-treating dumb animals, and is endeavouring to get an officer punished by the Magistrates for having demanded and obtained the stick with which a fellow was belabouring an unfortunate donkey.
The Sun. — 1838-02-19 (London, England)

MURDER.—Accounts from Montevillien, Sein3 Inferieur, dated the 14th of January, state, a horrible murder was committed yesterday morning, in the hainlet of Mar Carelt near Bolbec. A man named Lecompte, turned of 73 years (?r age, after a violent discussion about money matters with 1;2: wife, a woman of 55 years of age, struck ber v olently on 1. head with an iron crowbar ; the wretched victim of his 00"1 fell dead from her chair on the spot. In order to obliterat, the traces and evidences of his crime, Lecompte dragged tal body to the chimney-place, and having placed the fracturou head upon the fire for pa sufficient time, went out and told the neighbours, with pretended alarm, that ho had just found his wife fallen into the fire, and that drunkenness had doubtless been the cause of her death. Lecompte, notwithstanding the plausible story, was arrested in consequence of some suspicious circumstances in his manner and answers, and the affair is now undergoing judicial investigation. On the crime being made public, the Procureur du Roi of Havre immediately proceeded to the house, and instituted a court of inquiry into the circumstances of the case on the spot. It was a curious circumstance, that both husband and wife had been married three times.  AFFAIR OF HONOUR AT BRUSSELs._In consequence of some discussion relating to places at the theatre, Lieut. Belson, of the Rifle Brigade, was assailed and struck with a stick on the hack of his head, not only in the most unprovoked manner, but when totally off his guard, by a Pei gian half-pay officer. Although the aggressing individ offered to apologise upon the following morning for this outrage, Lieut. Belson, with the spirit and proper feeling becoming the gallant corps of which he is a member, rejected t this offer, and insisted upon more positive reparation. A oi"._ . ing therefore took place on Tuesday morning, which tert:n! nated in Lieut. Belson (whose pistol missed fire) receiving his adversary's ball in the thigh. The wound, though severe!, is not dangerous. The alternative to which Mr. Belson found himself reduced and the issue are the more unfortunate, since his adversary subsequently declared that he had struck him by mistake.  On Thursday evening a very prolons,red inquiry took place at the Hero of Waterloo Tavern, 'Waterloo-road, 00 view of the body of Mr. Alexander Stewart, aged 54, a gentleman holding an appointment in the Custom-house, Who was discovered dead, with considerable marks of violence on his person, at the bottom of the steps on the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge, at an early hour on Tuesday morning last. There was a deep and extensive wound on the left side of the, head, the left eye and nose were also severely injured. The surgeon was of opinion that the death of the deceased wee produced by the severe scalp wound described occasioning concussion of the brain. The Jury returned the following special verdict :—" That the deceased was found dead, wits extensive marks of violence on his person, but to what they were attributable there was no evidence to prove."
The Sun. — 1838-04-16 (London, England)

HALF-PAST ONE.  Both the British and Foreign Markets arc in an inactive state, and there is so little doing in Consols, that up to one o'clock there was not a bargain done in Consols for the Account ; fir Money they may be quoted at 931 r 4 ; and for Time, 934 4. Exchequer Bill, 69 67 premium ; India Bonds, 72, premium; Bank Stock, 206; India Stock, 2696. In the Foreign Market, the only business transacting is in Portuguese and Spanish Active ; the former may be quoted at 30A- 31. Three per Cents., 204 21—the latter still heavy at 204 to 4 with Coupons. Colombian, 27 ; Mexican, 271 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 514. In the Share Market little doing. Brighton 24 premium ; Aqphalte fallen to 13i. premium. In British Iron nothing doing. Letters have been received from Rio Janeiro to the 27th January, but they do not contain any political news of consequence. We have received a Montreal Paper of the 17th March, which states from the Burlington Sentinel, from good authority, that Papineau is residing in Albany, and has been in constant communication with Governor Marcy, and other United States officers, for the last three weeks, maturing plans for a Canadian rebellion, but his success was considered very doubtful. Exchange at Rio Janeiro, 27 to 271-, on the 28th January. THREE O'CLOCK Consols for Account, 93i I.  Mr. Sergeant Adams, DTs. T. Barber Beaumont, and Mr. Conant, had an interview with Lord John Russell, at the Home Office, on Saturday lnst, on the subject of the re- ' solutions agreed to at the recent Special County Courts of ' Middlesex Magistrates, upon the subject of restraining the sale of spirituous liquors in the night time, and on Sunday morning. Young Adams, who was acquitted at the last Bucks Assizes of the charge of murdering his father, is again an inmate of Aylesbury gaol, being committed for threatening the life of the old shepherd who gave evidence against him on the trial. He was examined also on Saturday on suspicion of robbing his late father, and remanded for a week. —Herts Reformer. At the meeting of the Norwich Town Council on Friday, it was announced that the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury had awarded to Mr. Fitzroy Kelly an annuity of 481. a year, as a compensation for the loss of the office of Steward of the late Corporation. Miss Cooper, who will appear this evening at the Haymarket, belonged to the Pavilion Company some seasons ago. Miss Elphinstone comes immediately from Sunderland, and though her advantages may be heightened by the excitement of provincial criticism, yet, in point of face, form, stature and power of expression, she gives great hopes of adding largely to the resources of iour metropolitan drama. Harley has transferred his valuable and popular services from Braham to Macready, and will appear on Saturday next as Mawworm in the Hypocrite, and Sir Harry, in High Life below Stairs, both being parts that no actor of the present day can more judiciously or effectively perform. We hail this engagement as the most desirable that could have been made for filling up a marked and serious void in the comic strength of the Company.
The Sun. — 1838-06-18 (London, England)

THE LAMBETH MURDER.  INVESTIGATION RESPECTING THE WRITER OF THE " CAVENDISH " LETTER. In consequence of its becoming known that an inquiry would be in_ vituted by Messrs. Jeremy and Traill, the Magistrates of lUnion-hal office, into the conduct of M`Millan, in reference to the letter which was forwarded to the police, signed " John Walter Cavendish," and the contents of which cur readers will find subjoined, considerable excite. ment prevailed throughout Saturday morning in the neighbourhood, and the greatest anxiety was evinced to be present. About one o'clock Mr. -Pelham, the solicitor, who is engaged on the part of Grimwood's relatives, entered the office, and Mr. Weeder also attended on the part of Hubbard. Inspector Field stated—On Tuesday afternoon I went with Mr. Pelham into Goswell.street.road, to find cut, if possible, the writer of the letter, but 1 was unsuccessful. On looking at the post-mark I found that it was either from Highbury or Holloway, and we then went to the post-office at the former place, kept by Mrs. Humphries, who is here; and I asked her if the stamp on the letter which I now produce was the mark of her post. She looked at it and said it was ; and, in answer to further questions by me, she said that she knew the gentleman who who brought it and the handwriting. She added that she recollected the circumstance of the person bringing it very well from its being directed to the Coroner. She then gave Mr. M`Millan's name and address. Mrs Susan Humphries was next examined—l keep the post-office at alighbury. I recollect Mr. M`Millan calling upon me with a letter on Wednesday or Thursday week. I was up stairs at the time. He asked me if the post was gone, and I told him it had. I did not sec him, but I heard his voice, which I knew very well. He is a sta. tioner, and does not live far from me. I afterwards saw the letter pro. diced in the box, addressed to the Coroner for Surrey, which then and now strikes me as his handwriting. The letter was then handed to Mrs. Humphries, and she immediately identified it as the one that was put into the box. Mr. TRAIL!. (to Mrs. Humphries)—Do you know any person of the name of Walter or Cavendish in that neighbourhood ? Mrs. Humphries—l do not. Mr. Tamar-a—Are you familiar with most of the names in the neighbourhood ? Mrs. Humphries—Yes, I am. Mr. JERENIY now desired M'Millan to be brought in, which was done, and in answer to the Magistrates' questions, he said, my name is Douglas ar Milian; I am a stationer at Highbury ; I am in the habit of putting letters into the posr.office there—sometimes every day, and sometimes twice or thrice a week. I recollect calling at Mrs. Humphries' yesterday week, and inquiring if the post were gone, DS I was anxious to put a letter in, but it was too late for the first morning's post, and I took it away with me; it was addressed to Mr. Clark, of WarWick lane.—(He here handed the letter to the Magistrates.) Mr.