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The Sun. — 1844-08-02 (London, England)

SINDE.  Our intelligence from Sinde at the date of last month's dispatch, extended to the 16th of May, and now comes down to the 4th of June. The news of the month is much less interesting than we had ventured to anticipate. The meeting of the Beelooche chiefs at Hyderabad on the 24th of May went off very quietly s from 15,000 to 20,000, including at. tendants, are believed to have been present : from 30,000 to 35,000 were expected. The principal object of getting them together is said to have been to warn them solemnly against persisting in the territory-appropriating practices to which they have hitherto been occasionally addicted; spoliation requires to be practised on a large scale before it becomes legitimate, and our new subjects are required to attend to the precepts, net the practice, of their conquerors. The Governor and his unruly guests are said to have parted mutually pleased with each other. Her Majesty's birthday was celebrated at Khyrpore in a manner similar to that in which it was kept at Hyderabad. The thermometer at Hyderabad ranged from 86 deg. to 110 deg. in the shade ; sickness had not increased this year so fearfully as last at the corresponding period. Her Majesty's 86th had lost fourteen men very lately, of whom nine had fallen victims to strokes of the sun.  From Kurrachee we have intelligence by boat to the 4th of June. His Excellency the Governor had returned thither on the Ist, from the meeting at Hyderabad. Mr. John M'Leod, late of the Bombay Land Revenue Department, had been appointed Collector of Sea Customs for the mouths of the Indus. The communication by sea betwixt Bombay and Kurrachee will continue closed for some months to come. Our latest letters from Sukkur are to the 31st ofMay. The Beelooches seem for the present to have suspended their marauding operations around Shikarpore ; we must of course pocket the affront of the repulse at Foolajee, or be prepared for worse.' The Bengal 64th were at Shikarpore, still sulky and discontented. One sepoy had lately shot another, and his comrades had refused to surrender the murderer to justice. The mutineers were detained, at Sukkur. The 7th Cavalry, which had just come down from Ferozepore, had crossed the Indus from Roree, and were about to proceed to Shikarpore. General Hunter had arrived on the 7th at Sukkur, and taken command. General Simpson continued at Shikarpore. Shere Mahomed was said to have still a larger number of men and amount of money at his disposal than could have been imagined. Sir C. Napier was said to have solicited from Lord Ellenborough active employment in the Punjaub ; and to have proposed moving a force into Mooltan simultaneously with the advance of the main army on Lahore. The recal of the GovernorGeneral is likely to have given the death-blow, for the present, to the system of general aggression and periodical war known by the name of " Peace in Asia."  • however, we are happy to say everything had returned to its wonted quiet.—Canton Press, March 16.
The Sun. — 1844-08-02 (London, England)

ANOTHER MURDER IN NOTTINGHAM.—NOTTINGHAM, WEDNESDAY.—ScarceIy had the Judges of Assize left Nottingham, after leaving a fellow-creature, with his days numbered for the savage crime of murder, than another case, involved in the greatest mystery, has occurred. On Monday morning, the inhabitants of Finkhill-street and neighbourhood were all astir and busy with tales and conjectures, as to a female of the name of Burton having caused her husband's death by administering poison to him. The population of Finkhill-street consists of the lower orders of society, and the street itself serves as a link to connect the park and the meadows, running down by the side of St. Nicholas's Church. The excitement owlsinned by such a tale had the most singular effect, crowds being collected round the house, so that the police had much difficulty in keeping the people from entering. Michael Browne, Esq., the Coroner for the town, summoned a jury to investigate the particulars of the case, the same afternoon, arid they met at three o'clock. The evidence adduced was to the effect, that the deceased's wife had repeatedly threatened her husband, and behaved in the most violent and cruel manner towards him, and several witnesses distinctly swore that she had declared she would Five him an inch of cold steel, and that she would poison him out of her sight. It was also proved that on Friday week, in the afternoon, deceased's wife sent for a pennyworth of arsenic and soap, as she said to kill bugs with ; but, although the soap was found, the arsenic could not be found, and it is believed she administered it to him, as he died in great agony, and much contorted. He was taken ill on the following Monday, and expired on Monday last ; but no medical man was Galled in by his wife, and he was unable to move. The jury, after hearing all these particulars, wished to have a post-mortem examination of the body, and the Coroner accordingly adjourned the inquiry till Tuesday, to allow of an examination by the medical faculty; but the body had decomposed so rapidly that it was with mach difficulty the examination was taken, and the Coroner and)ury meet again to-night to decide on their verdict. There is no doubt it will be " Wilful Murder," as the evidence of-arsenic in the body has been clearly detected. The family of burglars recently apprehended at Staleybridge, were examined on Saturday before the magistrates of Ashton, and remanded. There are upwards of twenty serious cases against them. The persons at first apprehended were Peggy Swan, the mother; JamytesiA,ll9lareotliirgeye.,tJi joolihnn, and marrTeadinduaeili,gshotnesr: la'negdgyhe,randuasubganhdte,rß; Aobelarr n ar ey, a Swan, the father, was apprehended on Thursday.—Manchester Guardian..  viscount Leveson, M.P., Lady Leveson, and Sir John Acton, the Dowager 'Viscountess Dillon, Countess of Newburgh, Mr. Charles Mahon, Colonel Bodges, Colonel Limond, the Rev. Mr. Chatfield and family, the H9n. Mr. Kennedy, and Sir Francis Doyle, were among the passengers that embarked yesterday at BlaCkwall Pier, on board the General Steam .\ avigation Company's steam-ship S9ho, for Antwerp.
The Sun. — 1844-02-10 (London, England)

FOREIGN. The accounts from Spain axe very alarming. Alicante and it is said several other, places had revolted against the Government, arrested the civil and military authorities, and formed juntas: The Gazette is full of the most severe decrees directed aglinst the insurgents. The provinces of Alicante, Murcia,' and Castellon de la Plana, are placed under martial-law. _ _  The ekarnination of the Budget continued in the bureaux of the French Chambei of Deputies. The seventh and eighth bureaux terminated the discussion on the Estimates of the War and Finance departments, and then commenced the Budget of Receipts. The other seven bureaux would not terminate their labours until Thursday, or perhaps later. In the eighth, a strong opinion waa given in favour of the conversion of the Five per Cents. A late letter from Philippeville (Algeria) announces the arrival there of 200 military convicts, who are to be employed on the projected works at Stora. It states that the spring, which in ancient times supplied Stora with water, has been discovered, with parts of the Roman aqueducts and conduits, many of which are still in remarkably tine preservation. The letter,states that they are to be restored, and the water brought down again to-the village. " Foreign commerce," says the Echo de la Frontiere, " begins to take advantage of the Valenciennes railroad. A portion of the merchandise sent to France, either for consumption or transit, and which formerly was sent by Forbach, now comes in by Valenciennes, and the commission agents of this town begin to enjoy the profit arising from the opening of this new way of communication with Germany. The Seine has risen in consequence of the snow which has lately fallen. Its level is now upwards of three feet higher than what it was a few days back.  —.Afe;7lays mayor of the commune of Villediere, in the Cate d'Or, owner of the mill of Beaulieu, was seated ;bout eight in the evening by the kitchen fireside, surrounded by his wife and three servants, he was fired at through the window, which had neither shutters nor curtains, and two bullets were lodged in his back, by which the spine was broken. He lingered several days in great agony, and then expired. The execution of Poulmann, condemned a few days back for the murder of the innkeeper of Nangis, took place on Tuesday morning, about eight o'clock, at the Barriers St. Jacques. From the time of his condemnation the prisoner testified an anxious wish to have it all over.  Dr. Marel Lavallee, in a communication to the Presse, on the state of auatotomy in China, says :—" The Chinese frequently boast, and with justice, of their great advancement ttt civilisation, but their medical men scarcely know as much anatomy as c, man in Europe. They never inspect the internal organs, but leave all to the imagination. As a proof of this, they coneetvc that. thvr.;.. long vessel descending from the heart through the perinieum, which directs the moral functions of the heartY'  X.
The Sun. — 1844-05-27 (London, England)

EXECUTION OF WM. CROUCH,  THIS MORNING.  This morning, at eight o'clock, Wm. Crouch suffered the extreme penalty of the law in front of the gaol of Newgate, having been convicted at the last sessions of the Central Criminal Court of the murder of his wife. Crouch stated that he was impelled to commit the act through the artifices of a female named Cousins, who persuaded him that his wife was unfaithful to him. He expressed himself fully conscious of the enormity of his crime, and added that he had tried to exhibit by outward signs the sincerity of that repentance which he felt inwardly, but that he could not do so. At six o'clock the Rev. Mr. Davis arrived at the prison and joined Crouch, with whom he continued in earnest prayer until shortly after seven, when the sheriffs and under-sheriffs arrived. The wretched man, about half-past seven, was led into the press-room, where he was formally delivered over into the custody of the sheriffs by Mr. Cope, the governor of the prison. At a few minutes before eight o'clock, the announcement that all was ready having been made, Calcraft, the executioner, advanced towards the wretched man, who subjected himself to the awful process of pinioning without a murmur, and apparently without the agitation of a muscle. The Rev. Ordinary then addressing Crouch, said it would no doubt be a satisfaction to him to confess before the numbers then assembled, that which he had already frequently admitted to himself and the sheriffs— viz., the justice of his sentance. The Rev. Gentleman then asked distinctly whether he was satisfied that he had had a fair trial—that he had been tried by a merciful jury—and that his life was the necessary sacrifice for his awful crime? To all which questions the unhappy man answered distinctly and firmly, " Yes, Sir." At five minutes to eight, all being in readiness, the procession moved from the press-room, through the chapel-yard, towards the scaffold, the Rev. Or-. dinary reading the impressive service for the burial of the dead.  The crowd outside the prison, which, up to seven o'clock, had been by no means numerous, was by this time increased to a great extent, and there could not have been less than ten thousand persons present. Within a very few seconds of his arrival on the scaffold, Calcraft had completed the awful preparations, and having drawn a cap over the wretched man's face, retired. The Rev. Mr. Davis, who had continued reading the burial service, was in the act of repeating the Lord's Prayer, the prisoner joining fervently with him, when the signal was given, the drop fell, and in a few moments Crouch had ceased to exist.  have put down their nam es for 1001. towardsWe are informed that Messrs. Grote, Prescott, and al fund which the Chartisits are about to Co.t the et hbeann bank teirosn, raise for the purpose of purchasing an testate for Mr. Thomas Duncombe, as a testimonial of their sense of his services to their cause, both in and out or:Parliament.
The Sun. — 1844-01-08 (London, England)

WIGHTMAN.) CHARGE OF MURDER.—SamueI Maddocks, ageds3, was charged with the wilful murder of one Matthias Bailey, gamekeeper to Mr. Wilbraham, at Cuddington. The Attorney-General, Mr. Townsend, and Mr. Egerton, were for the prosecution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Temple. It appeared that the prisoner was a tailor, and lived with his brother, who is a farmer, in the vicinity of the place where the murder was committed. The deceased was gamekeeper to Mr. Wilbraham, of Delamere-hall, and had f:equently suspected the prisoner of poaching. On the 28th of July, the deceasesd went out about 4 o'clock with his gun, and John, the brother of the prisoner, was sees soon after running without a gun, the deceased running after. It was the habit of the deceased. to pull off his coat and throw down his gun on those occasions, to enable him to run faster. The prisoner had a gun, and when the deceased was running after his brother, it was alleged that the prisoner came behind the deceased, and discharged the gun, the charge of _which penetrated the nape of the neck ; he instantly fell and died. The principal witness in the case was Joseph Clarke, who, upon examination before the Magistrates, had sworn to have been an eye-witness of the murder. Several witnesses were called on to prove the state in which the body was found.  Joseph Clarke then deposed—l am a labourer, residing in Noxley. I remember getting up on the 28th of July to get turnips ;it was about half-past three o'clock. I met Matthias Bailey at Smallbrook, about four o'clock. I knew Bailey before, and I asked him to give me leave to get some turnips from Mr. Wilbraham's field that was alongside Camomile-lane, where the murder was committed. Bailey and I parted at the turnip field gate. Bailey went along the woodsicle when he parted from me. I heard the report of a gun shortly after ; it came from the direction in which the body lay. In five minutes I saw Samuel Maddocks coming down the lane into the turnip field. He had a gun with him. As soon as he saw me he laid himself down. I was then 100 yards from him, and then I saw Bailey running down the lane, and as he was going past Samuel Maddocks, the latter rose up, clapped his gun to his shoulder, and shot him. He was about two yards past him when the prisoner fired. He was running very fast. He did not run above a yard or two afterwards, but the hedge intercepted my view, and I did not see any more. The prisoner then jumped over the hedge, and ran down the lane. I did not speak at all. I stopped about five minutes, pulled a few plants, and then went home. I did not say anything about it. I have known the prisoner a great while. I did not attend th• inquest. I heard of a reward being offered soon afterwards. I gave no information of what I had seen. I first gave information three weeks ago last Saturday. I did not give information at the time, as I wanted to let it stop till near the assizes. I gave it to Mr. Wilbraham. I went myself. I heard of the Maddockses being taken up about a week after the murder. I have never had any quarrel with either of them. Cross-examined by Mr.
The Sun. — 1844-12-13 (London, England)

PATTESON.) Sarah leeves stood indicted for having, at Whitwell, in this county, on the 29d of July last, unlawfully and mali• elously cut and wounded John Hall. with the intent to murder, to do grievous bodily harm, &c. The prisoner, as usual in such cases, was variously indicted ; but the Ldarned Judge remarked, in his charge to the grand jury at the open, ing of the assizes, if in the present ca,so death had ensued the offence would have amounted to murder. Mr. Wildman conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner was undefended.  The case was similar in some respects to many which have occurred during the present circuit. Wakes constitute an annual joyous day or festival in the rural districts of this part of the country, and it unfortunately happens that the recurrence of these festivities is usually accompanied with some brutal atrocity, On the 23d of July last, Whitwell Wake took place, and amongst other persons who were guests at a public-house kept by a person named Green, were Hail, the prosecutor, a man named Ellis, another named Sparrow, the woman Reeves (the prisoner), and various other parties. According to custom drinking and dancing was the order of the day and the night, and the prisoner was among the party so early as three in the afternoon. At nine, according to the evidence of the police, the prisoner, a married woman, whose hus)and resided in the neighbourhood. was quite drunk. About two o'clock in the morning, the party having then left the house, wrestling and larking commenced ►n the road opposite. Ellis and Sparrow were wrestling together, when Hall, apparently for the purpose of parting them, in a friendly spirit laid hold of Ellis's arm. From what motive did not appear, but during this apparently very amicable encounter, the prisoner plunged a knife into the side of the prosecutor, Hall ; but, most fortunately, the intestines were not penetrated, or death must have ensued. lie was the principal witness for the prosecution to-day. It further appeared that during the same morning and within a few moments of the time the prisoner committed this murderous assault upon Hall, she also stabbed Sparrow and others enjoying the festivities of the wake. The prisoner was afterwards apprehended at another public-house by Holden, the constable of the district, and when taken said (producing a clasp knife), "This is what I did it with." The facts of the case were undenied, the prisoner's defence being that she was so drunk she did not know what she was about.  The jury returned a verdict of Guilty with Intent to inflict grievous bodily harm (not finding with the intent to murder), and The Learned JUDGE deferred the sentence. David Gosling and George Hall were indicted for burglari ously breaking into the house of Samuel Cooke, at Ludworth, on the 7th of August last, and stealing various articles of wearing apparel. The two prisoners were old offenders. The jury found them Guilty, aad The Learned JUDGE sentenced them to 15 years' trariaportation.—Hall immediately threw his hat into the body of the Court.
The Sun. — 1844-12-17 (London, England)

JUDSE—I cannot allow such observations to be made ; there has been ample time to take everything down. Mr. Poixoca said he was a very young man in the profession, and he had too much respect for that profession to degrade it by any observation on the Court, to which he was bound to pay every respect ' • but he was determined to do his duty to his client, and he did complain of the mode in which his Learned Friends had conducted the case.  At the conclusion of his address the jury retired, and after being out of Court a quarter of an hour, returned and pronounced a verdict of Guilty. His LORDSHIP proceeded to pass sentence as follows —" Prisoner at the bar, the jury have been compelled, by the evidence which has been laid before them, to find you guilty, guilty of a foul, cruel, wicked, and I fear, deliberate murder. To a man who has discovered such an utter absence of all feeling, I am afraid that any admonitions of mine would be useless. Lose no time in applying to God, your maker and your judge, for that mercy which my duty to the public forbids me to show to you. The sentence of the Court upon you is, that you be taken to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution ; that there you be hanged by the neck until you shall be dead, and that your body be afterwards buried within the precincts of the prison in which you shall be confined. And may the Lord have inercy upon your soul !" The prisoner bowed respectfully to the Bench, and walked steadily from the dock. Saturday, Dec. 14. Richard Leach was indicted for arson in setting fire to a steer of timber, the property .of Thomas Graham, at Little Bolton.  Mr. Hulton and Mr. Pollock conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Monk. It appeared that the prisoner belonged to a sawyers' union, and had several times, in the absence of Mr. Graham, forced his way into the yard, and endeavoured to intimidate the men who were at work in the s.a,wpit. He had also at various times held out threats of injury to Mr. Graham. On the evening in question a person who lived in the neighbourhood saw a sudden blaze of light in the timber yard, and immediately after two men, who got over the palings and ran away. One of them had clogs. Within a few minutes the prisoner was seen in a public-house near, in company with two other men. An alarm of fire having been given, the parties belonging to the yard succeeded in extinguishing it. Close to the steer or click of wood in which the tire broke out were found two ginger-beer bottles, which seemed to have contained turpentine One was a good deal smaller than the other, and they were of different colours. It appeared that a very short time before the fire broke out the prisoner went into a chemist's shop not far font the yarc with two bottles of similar appearance and got a gill of turpentine in each. Mr. MONK addressed the jury for the defence. His LORDSIIIP summed up, and the _jury, after some consultation, found the prisoner Guilty. To be transported fbr • Moen years,