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The Sun. — 1869-03-31 (London, England)

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)  PARIS, TUESDAY, March 30.  There is an odd collection of notable—though not exactly famous —Spanish personages in Paris at this moment. The Count and Countess de Girgenti have arrived from England, and are the guests of Queen Isabella. Senor Gonzales Bravo has been in Paris some little time. Lastly, the Count de Jam, the murderer of Don C. Olozaga, in the recent disgraceful duel at Madrid, has just made his way to the great haven of Spanish refugees. It is not likely that any of these persons are connected with the Carlists, but it is confidently asserted that the Carlist movement is now more vigorous than ever. Its centre, says the Gautois, is at Paris, and it is displaying extraordinary activity. The Liberte improves upon this announcement in a letter from Madrid, which speaks of agitations, risings, and movements, Carlist or nonCarlist, in every part of the kingdom. But the correspondent is careful to state that the whole of this discontent is by no means due to reactionary men. sures.  Baron Haussmann has just shewn that he can be useful, albeit enormously expensive. Yesterday there was a heavy fall of snow. It descended so rapidly and thickly that the streets would soon have become impassable. As it was the snow was a foot deep by ten o'clock in the morning. Then came a change ; the clouds cleared off, the storm ceased, and soon the sun converted the mess in the streets into the delightful mixture of dirt, half-melted snow, and water, which is graphically called " slush." In London the slush produced by snow a foot deep would have stopped business, but in Paris every trace of the fall was swept away in a few hours by the Haussmann host, A lady—Madame Olympe Andouard—has got into trouble at a public meeting. She las been summoned before the Tribunal of Correctional Police for using seditious language.  The Patric contradicts the statement that the Emperor is about to make a voyage in the imperial yacht Hurondelle.  An English ship was wrecked at San Sebastian during the tremendous tempest which has for many days past raged on the coast of France. The vessel was named the Eshcol, Captain Foster, and was bound from Sunderland to Bayonne, with coal. The storm drove her into the Bay of Zurriola, close to the spot where, not long since, the British Vice-Consul at San Sebastian, Mr. March, so nobly exposed his life in saving the crew of a French vessel. The Commandant of Marine of the province of Guipuzcoa, Captain Rodrigo y Herrera, perceiving the approach of the Eschol through the breakers, hastened to the beach with a number of pilots and seamen to render assistance, and so well did he take his measures that the crew, consisting of seven men, were safely brought to shore by means of a life-line fired by rocket over the hull. The crew behaved with great coolness and intrepidity. The captain and mate were the last to leave the ship, although she was expected to go to pieces every moment. They were taken charge of on landing by the British Vice-Consul, Mr. De Brunet. High praise must be given to the Spanish vice-commandant for his energetic exertions to rescue the crew.
The Sun. — 1869-06-12 (London, England)

STRANGE 'IRIAL FOR MURDER.  A trial for a remarkable double murder has just concluded at Tours, in France. A husband was charged with murdering his wife, and his son was accused of attempting to murder her paramour. Owing to the good position of the prisoners and the peculiar circumstances of the case the trial has excited great interest throughout thecountrv. The &der accused. 1- 1 ,- rn married twenty years ago to a young lady possessed of a fortune of 160,000 f. (t 6,400). Five children were born of the marriage—Arthur and Theodore, now aged 19 and 17 y ears, and three daughters, of which the eldest is under 13. About ten years ago M. Patry observed too much intimacy between his wife and M. Baillou, a friend of his partner in the bank. After some violent altercations between husband and wife on this subject, both of them went to Auvergne to visit her father, and returned to Tours after a year's absence. Soon the intimacy between M. Baill',u and Madame Patry was renewed, and her light conduct became the town scandal. During the temporary absence of the husband, Baillou was frequently- seen by the neighbours and the children visiting the wife. Patry was aware of the state ofaaffairs, and sought to deaden his sorrow by stupefying drinks. On the 23rd of February last, at nine o'clock, the father and two sons retired to their rooms on the first floor. The mother went to hers on the ground floor, where her daughters also slept, the youngest being then absent. At the end of her chamber was a door opening on a staircase of five steps, leading into the garden. The accused tells his own story. Not being able to sleep, he happened to look out of the window about eleven o'clock, and saw a light in his wife's apartment. Going down softly he listened at the door, and- distinguished the sounds of two voices. He then went upstairs, took a gun and loaded it, awakened his son Arthur, and bringing him to the window looking out on the garden, desired him to watch there and fire at the man who would endeavour to escape. Then he took another gun and went and knocked at his wife's door and demanded admittance ; she refused to open ; with a violent effort he burst in the door, and, as be did so, heard two shots fired by his son upon the man in the garden. Madame Patry was nut in the room. Mad with grief and rage, the unfortunate man rushed to the stairs, and fired at his wife, who had fled to the garden. Then he returned to his son and daughter, and wept and prayed with them. Madame Patry died instantly, one ball having penetrated her brain and the other her heart.  Much sympathy was felt for the unhappy murderer, whose domestic troubles were well known, and whose reputation was unimpeachable. The case concluded as such trials in France always do—both prisoners were acquitted. the verdict being received with loud applause.
The Sun. — 1869-04-27 (London, England)

RECENT MURDERS.  Murders seem to have come, all at once, in a batch ; and some of the papers seem to be full of them. Two most sickening cases are reported. The aspect of the Tipperary tragedy has changed somewhat. At the inquest there was a hint that the case was not agrarian at all ; but that it arose out of jealousy and unhappy domestic relations. But the question was not investigated, for fear that it might frustrate the ends of justice. The jury found a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown.  A dreadful murder has been committed at Derby. A man named George Wiggin Ingham, a porter at the Midland Railway Station, lives at Barrow-street, Litchui ch, Derby. He was married about four years ago, his wife, Annie Ingham, being 27 years of age. They had two little boys—one three years and one nine months' old. The father went to work as usual on Monday morning, leaving his wife and ycuagest child in bed. Between seven and eight o'clock in the morning the wife got up, secured her husband's razor, and deliberately cut the throat of her youngest child. She then went downstairs, and told the next door neighbour what she had done. Mrs. Ingham was then taken into castody. It is stated that the accused, who confessed to having cut the child's throat, has been in a low desponding way for some time past. An inquest was held the same afternoon. The evidence proved that the murder was committed by the child's mother, although it was pretty conclusive that at the time of doing so she was mentally derang,rd. The jury found her guilty of Wilful Murder, and she was committed for trial at the nextDerbv Assizes.  A murder of a very brutal character was committed at a solitary farmhouse, on the borders of Breconshire, between Saturday night and Sunday morning. The farm is called Nant-y-Derri, and the unfortunate victim was a widow, who was generally known to her neighbours as Mary Nant-y-Derri, but whose proper name is Mary Morgan. She was last seen alive in a shop at Hirwain, the nearest village, at six o'clock on Saturday night, and on the following morning, a neighbour going into the house, found the deceased lying on the floor quite dead, her body burnt, and the slumbering embers of a quantity of hay which had been piled on her body. Her head was covered with a piece of carpet, and when this was removed there was seen a deep bole on one side of her head, and the other side was complete!y charred from the effects of the fire which had evidently been ignited for the purpose of destroying the body, and probably the house also. The deceased was of miserly habits, and was reputed to have a large sum of money in the house. This, no doubt, tempted the murderer, but he must have been foiled in his hope to secure it, for the sum of £'3s was found concealed between the bedstead and mattress. The murderer, who is at present undiscovered, must have entered the house through the window. No clue has been obtained to his identity.
The Sun. — 1869-04-27 (London, England)

RECENT MURDERS.  Murders seem to have come, all at once, in a batch ; and some of the papers seem to be full of them. Two most sickening cases are reported. The aspect of the Tipperary tragedy has changed somewhat. At the inquest there was a hint that the case was not agrarian at all ; but that it arose out of jealousy and unhappy domestic relations. Put the question was not investigated, for fear that it might frustrate the ends of justice. The jury found a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown.  A dreadful murder has been committed at Deiby. A man named Gecrze Wiggin Ingham, a porter at the Midland Railway Station, lives at Barrow-street,Litchurch, Derby. He was married about four years ago, his wife, Annie Ingham, being 27 years of age. They had two I:ttle boys—one three years and one nine months' old. rih;_, father went to work as usual on Monday morning, leaving his wife and ycuigest child in bed. Between eeven and eight o'clock in the morning the wife got up, secured her husband's razor, and deliberately cut the throat of her youngest child. She then went downstairs, and told the next door neighbour what she had done. Mrs. Ingham was then taken into custody. It is stated that the accused, who confessed to having cut the child's throat, has been in a low desponding way for some time past. An hyluest was held the same afternoon. The evidence proved that the murder was committed by the child's mother, although it was pretty conclusive that at the time of doing so she was mentally deranged. The jury found her guilty of Wilful Murder, and she was committed for trial at thenextDerby Assizes.  A murder of a very brutal character was committed at a solitary farmhouse, on the borders of Breconshire, between Saturday night and Sunday morning. 'The farm is called Nant-y-Derri, and the unfoitunate victim was a widow, who was generally known to her neighbours as Mary Nant-y•Derri, but whose proper name is Mary Morgan. She was last seen alive in a shop at Hirwain, the nearest village, at six o'clock cn Saturday night, and on the following morning, a neighbour going into the house, found the deceased lying on the fluor quite dead, her body burnt, and the slumhering embers of a quantity of hay which bad been piled on her body, Her head was covered with a piece of carpet, and when this was removed there was seen a deep hole on one side of her head, and the other side Was completely charred from the effects of the fire which had evidently been ignited for the purpuae of destroying the body, and probably the house also. The deceased was of miserly habits, and was reputed to have a large sum of money in the house. This, no doubt, tempted the murderer, but  he truit have been foiled in his hope to secure it, for the sum ( f k 35 was found concealed between the bedstead and mattress. The murderer, who is at present undiscovered, must have entered the house through the window. No clue has been obtained to his identity.
The Sun. — 1869-02-22 (London, England)

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.  Details nave been received of the recent defeats of the natives in New Zealand. Intelligence from Hawke's Bay says that the rebel position was attacked on the sth of December. After a short struggle the Maories were driven in, leaving thirty dead and 6,000 rounds of ammunition. From Turanganui, December 4, a telegram from Mr. Richmond states : " Two-thirds of the enemy have ieCamped. Eighty .men left behind were attacked by criendly natives and twelve Europeans, and were dispersed. rhirty-seven dead bodies were found on the field, besides ,thers burned (or buried). The loss of the enemy was supposed to be fifty dead in aIL Hama (the man who led the murderers at Turanga) was amongt them. Six thousand founds of ammunition were recovered. Our casualties in the last fight were two Europeans wounded, one danrerously ; one native wounded. Total of casualties in all ;heir operations, six killed, twenty-three wounded. Mrs. Wilson is out of danger." This last item is, however, contradicted by later news from Poverty Bay, which states ;hat Mrs. Wilson is dead.  The following account of another expedition is from the Wellington Independent of the 22nd December :—" Capt. Finnimore, with the Wanganui volunteer cavalry, had nade a most important expedition against the Hauhaus. After passing Manutahi, the force—some sixty strong— nroceeded into the bush, attacked a pa, poured in a volley, Ind killed two Hauhaus. The troop then marched for ;he village of Mokoia, making a long detour, as 10 one knew the direct way. The village was also burnt. Al flock of 250 sheep were found on the Manawapou by two Patea settlers who accompanied their troop, and they were brought into Patea and restored to their milers, under cover of the cavalry. The village of Ihupuku was also destroyed. Titoko.Waru's camp tnd main body is still in the same position at Nukumaru. the fishing village of Ototuk, this side of Nukumaru, was burnt. A magnificent canoe, together with a number of smaller ones, were broken and burnt, and the work of devastation in the late expedition ceased, the tavalry arriving quietly in town shortly after dark. I'hus ended an expedition in which five villages, one of them a war pa, growing crops of potatoes, canoes, and about twelve wharves were destroyed, two Hauhaus 'tilled, a large quantity of stock recovered, and the enemy aughed at in his very den, after the work had been done, tnd all without the loss of a man or horse. The loss to ;he enemy cannot be less than £3,000, while the moral effect must be infinitely greater."  A meeting of what is called the Hull Guardian society on Saturday passed the following resolution : —" That t.tx on trades and professions being impolitic on principle 'ncarablo of realisation even approximately with equity, and being most vexatious and offensive in its operation, is a tax which should only be resorted to in cases of great uroncy. and ought now to be repealed."
The Sun. — 1869-02-22 (London, England)

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.  Details nave been received of the recent defeats of the natives in New Zealand. Intelligence from Hawke's Bay says that the rebel position was attacked on the sth of December. After a short struggle the Maories were driven in, leaving thirty dead and 6,000 rounds of ammunition. From Turanganui, December 4, a telegram from Mr. Richmond states : " Two-thirds of the enemy have iecamped. Eighty men left behind were attacked by eriendly natives and twelve Europeans, and were dispersed. thirty-seven dead bodies were found on the field, besides )there burned (or buried). The loss of the enemy was supposed to be fifty dead in all. llama (the man who led the murderers at Turanga) was amongt them. Six thousand rounds of ammunition were recovered. Our casualties in ;he last fight were two Europeans wounded, one danrerously ; one native wounded. Total of casualties in all tbeir operations, six killed, twenty-three wounded. Mrs. Wilson is out of danger." This last item is, however, tontradicted by later news from Poverty Bay, which states ;hat Mrs. Wilson is dead. _  The following account of another expedition is from the Wellington Independent of the 22nd December :—" Capt. Finnimore, with the Wanganui volunteer cavalry, had made a most important expedition against the Hauhaus. kfter passing Manutahi, the force—some sixty strong— lroceeded into the bush, attacked a pa, poured in a volley, tnd killed two Hauhaus. The troop then marched for :he village of Mokoia, making a long detour, as to one knew the direct way. The village was also burnt. 4. flock of 250 sheep were found on the Manawapou 5y two Patea settlers who accompanied their troop, and :hey were brought into Pates, and restored to their )wners, under cover of the cavalry. The village of Ihupulai was also destroyed. Titoko-Waru's camp tnd main body is still in the same position at Nukumaru. The fishing village of Ototuk, this side of Nukumaru, was burnt. A magnificent canoe, together with a number of smaller ones, were broken and burnt, and the work of devastation in the late expedition ceased, the cavalry arriving quietly in town shortly after dark. Elms ended an expedition in which five villages, one of them a war pa, growing crops of potatoes, canoes, and ►bout twelve wharves were destroyed, two Hauhaus killed, a large quantity of stock recovered, and the enemy aughed at in his very den, after the work had been done, tad all without the loss of a man or horse. The loss to :he enemy cannot be less than £3,000, while the moral effect must be infinitely greater."  A meeting of what is called the Hull Guardian Society on Saturday passed the following resolution: —" That be tax on trades and professions being impolitic on principle incapable of realisation even approximately with equity, ►nd being most vexatious and offensive in its operation, is a tax which should only be resorted to in cases of great urgency. and ought now to be repealed."
The Sun. — 1869-11-16 (London, England)

THE MURDER OF A FENIAN IN CORK.  Circumstances have, it is said, come to the knowledge f the police authorities at Scotland-yard whhich serve to throw score light upon the tragedy enacted in Cork on :unday week, when a young man named Callaghan was shot dead. It has been ascertained that Callaghan was in London some six weeks ago, when he purchased, at a guninaker's  in Gnmechurch-stre. t and elsewhere, a number cf ii.-chambered revolvers, which, he said, having been  dressed like an officer of a ship, were for " his skipper," whose ship was at the time lying in Victoria Dock. During the time the deceased was in London he visited, on several eccassions—as he had been in the habit of doing when in London—a public-house which has been recently brought prominently before the public as the rendezvous of either Fenians or Fenian sympathisers. While in this house one evening two revolvers were presented at his head by brother Fenians while in the midst of an argument respecting the disposal of the arms which the unfortunate man had come that week to London to purchase. Some Fenian spirits cooler than the rest interfered, and saved Callaghan's life, which, at a later period, and in his own native city (Cork), was brutally sacrificed. The deceased, having been continually threatened dui ing his stay in London by a faction of Fenians, rivals of that to which he belonged, left England, taking with him the arms, consisting of rifles, revolvers, sword bayonets, and stilettoes, which he had come to this country to purchase. When he arrived at home the news of his intention to appropriate the arms in a certain way and in a certain quarter was in Corkbefore him; and as he had expressed a determination to carry it out, he fell a victim to the jealousy of disappointed traitors. The deceased man Callaghan was well known among the Irish population of London, among whom he was esteemed an enthusiastic, earnest, sincere young Irishman. It is highly probable that, through certain facts which have transpired in London, a link wanting in the chain of circumstances to bring home the murder to its author will be almost immediately supplied ; and it is said that division in the London Fenian camp will be instrumental in furnishing it.  The use of the Bible and the singing of hymns in the public schools of Cincinnati has been prohibited by the Board of Education, but an injunction against the board was granted lately forbidding such prohibition.  It is stated in the London correspondence of a Sheffield paper that Lord Stanley of Alderley is about to issue a pamphlet upon the position taken by the Catholic peers when the proposition for concurrent endowment was before the House of Lords last session.  Some interesting additional discoveries have been recently made at San Clemente, Rome. A prior has found a vast subterranean chamber beneath the pavement of the ancient Basilica. Part of the walls are formed of woodwork, and part of bricks of peculiarly fine manufacture. A beautiful series of chrome-lithograph plates have been published, and are on sale in Rome.  ST.
The Sun. — 1869-07-07 (London, England)

IRISH LIBEL CASE.  An interesting and important action for libel has just been concluded in the Court of Exchequer of Dublin, before Mr. Baron Fitzgerald and a special jury. The case arose out of the murder of Mr. Anketell, the stationmaster, of Mullingar. The plaintiff was the Rev. Michael Gogerty, a Roman Catholic clergyman of Mullingar, and the defendant Mr. John Robinson, proprietor of the Daily Express. The plaintiff claimed £l,OOO damages for a libel on him contained in two letters in the Dublin Express. The alleged libel consisted of two letters published on the Bth and 10th of March last. In the first letter, which was written by the Rev. C. P. Reichel, vicar of the parish, it was stated that Mr. Anketell had for some time known he was "a marked man ;" that on the 16th of December last he took the writer aside on the platform of the station, and, to quote the words of the letter, told him that "his dismissing a railway official had been referred to from the altar of a Roman Catholic chapel in such terms as induced two most respectable Roman Catholics, both personally known to me, to go to him and disavow all sympathy with what had been said." The second letter, signed "A Looker-on," referred to Mr. Reichel's, and asked why a priest should not be amenable to the law, and remarked that it would be too much to expect that Cardinal Cullen would suspend him. The defendant pleaded that the words were a fair and bond fide comment on the conduct of the plaintiff, and were published without malice. The facts were that Lawrence Moran, a railway policeman, who had been a great many years in the employment of the railway company, bad been dismissed, and that a great many persons who thought him a very estimable servant addressed a memorial to the directors to have him reinstated, and also raised a subscription for him. The subscribers to this testimonial stated that they thought him hardly treated. The Rev. Mr. Gogerty was ized to recommend the matter to his congregation, and he did so in the chapel on the 6th of December last. He said nothing hostile to Mr. Anketell, and did not even mention his name, but he said that Moran had been hardly treated on account of his religion. It seemed that this was not so ; Moran was dismissed because he disobeyed Mr. Anketell's orders, but there was a strong feeling against the station-master in the neighbourhood. The case for the plaintiff was that the letters alleged that he was the instigator of the murder. But several Roman Catholics gave it as their opinion that the plaintiff committed an indiscretion, and that they had told him so. The jury did not think the letters said much more. They found a verdict for the defendant, at the same time exonerating the plaintiff from any intention to injure Mr. Anketell, and stating their belief that his object was charitable.