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The Sun. — 1856-07-23 (London, England)

TURKEY.  CONSTANTINOPLE, July 14.—Another atrocious crime has been committed near the capital, on board the English barque the Globe. She had a mixed crew, the master, the mate, two sailors, and a boy being English, and the five other sailors Italians—namely, three Neapolitans, a Venetian, and a Triestine. These latter determined 'to assassinate all the English on board, take away whatever they could, and make their escape in the boat. The vessel was coming in from the Black Sea to the Bosphorus when they resolved to carry out their design. They had carefully prepared everything, and went even so far as to secure all the table knives which could have served as arms,- Aboutr 3 o'clock in the morning, on Monday last, the boy awoke, hearing a groan near him, and, looking up, he saw one of the Italians busy cutting the throat of one of the English sailors, who was asleep. The boy, frightened, rushed to the cabin where the master and the mate (his brother) were sleeping to give the alarm; they had only just time to shut themselves up in the cabin when the murderers, having shot the other English sailor who was at the wheel, came up and tried to force the door. Seeing that they could not succeed, they lowered the boat., took with them whatever they could lay hands on, and pushed off for the Asiatic coast. When they were gone the mater and mate brought in the vessel with great difficulty,:and gave information of what had happened to Admiral rGrey and the Turkish authorities of the port. The Admiral sent off immediately the Recruit, one of the Prussian gunboats, in pursuit of the fugitives, while the Turks gave a detachment of marine soldiers. After following the coast for about thirty miles, they got the first information at a place called Shivi, where three European sailors had been seen. A party of soldiers was landed, who attacked them, and two were captured and identified by the master. The third escaped. While this party was chasing these three the Recruit went on to the next place and caught another. There are indications that the fifth man has been murdered by his accomplices. The Recruit has brought back the three who were caught, and they will, I hear, be sent to Malta to be tried there.  On'Saturday, at 3 o'clock a.m., the town of Pera was put in commotion by the cries of " Fire," and before two hours had passed six wooden houses in one of the narrowest streets were burnt down, in spite of the speedy assistance which English, French, and Turkish engines rendered. The fire was only stopped by the storehouses on each side. While the fire lasted the plate of Major Brett, who lives in the same street, but was that day in the country, was stolen. The practice is on these occasions to remove as much as possible from the neighbouring houses. This was done in Major Brett's house, and when the things were taken back again the plate-chest had disappeared, together with that officer's lndian. medals.
The Sun. — 1856-03-25 (London, England)

SURREY.  Mr. Henry Alayhew's well-known series of sketches, biographies, and statistics has boon selected by the dramatist of this theatre as the basis of the Easter novelty. The title of the new piece is, "How we live in the World of London," and is presented in the form of a three-act drama. It is a modern version of " Tom and Jerry," introducing characters in low life—costermongers, matchsellers, hawkers, dog-stealers, pickpockets, et hoc goats onzne, whose peculiarities are brought out in the progress of a sort of melodrama, the principal characters of which avail themselves of the services of these representatives of the several grades of London low life, on the one side, to further the purposes of villainy, and, on the other, to thwart them. The plot appears to turn upon the adventures of a certain Sir Jasper Steelhard, who, having married a woman ha adored, and finding her afterwards faithless, pursues her with unrelenting vengeance until she is driven to the streets for a living ; but, by some one of those inexplicable and mysterious agencies which occur only in Surrey melodramas, his son is stolen, becomes a houseless wanderer and a ragged-school boy, and, by equally extraordinary means, manages to prevent the commission of some additions to the catalogue of crime his parent has to mourn for, and at length to be just in time to witness the consummation of the respectable gentleman's last crime, the murder of a pettifogging attorney, who had been his instrument, but who was endeavouring to conceal from him the evidence of his son's birth, in the written confession of a Hindoo beggar, by whom the young gentle. man had in his infancy been stolen. There is a peculiarity about the drama which, as far as our recollection goes, is certainly not drawn from Mr. Mayhew's book—that is, all the London low-life characters, costermongers, street boys women of the town, Hindoo tract-sellers, aresentirnentally honest, scorning to accept a sixpenee for which they do not give the very extreme value, either in goods or labour, and with high moral principle continually in their mouths and in their actions. Even a dug-stealer, returned convict, and attempted murderer, is made to moralise and exhibit, in words at least, something like an abhorrence of crime, though he is ever ready to commit it for a "consideration," his doctrine being, probably, that as crime is his vocation, ho has a right to live by it. The acting was in general good, especially that of Mr. Rickards, as Sir Jas• par Stoolhard, the villain of the piece, who play° I a very difficult part with much discretion. Mr. Widdicemb, as Joe Brent, the sentimental and ultra-honest costernaung,er, was as amusing and as broad as he always is. There is some very effective scenery; amongst which may be noticed Covent-garden Market by gaslight ; the dark arches under the Adelphi, with the Thames and Goding's Brewery in the distance ; and the burning of a private distillery wherein Sir Jasper, having committed the murder, perishes in the fire. Mr. Shepherd announced the piece for repetition amidst general applause.
The Sun. — 1856-07-05 (London, England)

COVENT GARDEN.  THE FRENCH IN AFRICA.  A despatch from the Governor of Senegal to the Minister of Marine, dated St. Louis, 17th May, gives an account of the events which had occurred since his last despatch of the 6th April. At the beginning of April, one Ali, a boatman in the service of the French, was murdered in the village of Dialmath, and the governor ordered the population to give up the assassin, which they did, and L he was tried and shot. The delivery of the criminal was considered an important fact, as it was contrary to usage, and showed the terror with which the French aro regarded. Two of the soldiers employed by the French in making a road near the camp of Koundi, established opposite Podor, to support Sidi Elli against Mohammed Sidi and the Traza, having been killed by the Moors, a detachment of 160 infantry with two howitzers, under the orders of Capt. Guillet, attacked on the 20th a bivouack of the Moors, and dispersed them after killing eight. One of the eight was the Cheikh of the Ouled Daman, the principal warrior of the Tratzas, father-in-law of lEing Mohammed-el Habibandseveral other princes, and his loss would be more severely felt by the Moors than that of a half hundred ordinary people. Two days after the Moors attempted to cut off a detachment of 20 men sent by the French to forage at about three-quarters of a league from the camp; they killed four of the men, but were unable to capture the rest, who fled to the camp, and the Moors had one of their own band killed. The French having left the camp of Koundi to establish themselves on the bank of the river, the Moors on the 22d arrived to set fire to what they had abandoned. This visit having been foreseen several loaded shells were left in the heaps of straw, and when the fire caught the straw the shells exploded, killing two of the Moors and some camels, and wounding the nephew of Mohammed-el Habib. The Trarzar, completely demoralised by all their losses, then left the Bracknas, to return to their own country ; and Mohammed-Sidi, being abandoned by almost all the Bracknas, had also retired into the interior. Sidi-Eli, on the other hand, had greatly increased his forces, and was warmly supported by the Fouta, so that the French hoped that he would soon be able to return to Podor. At Podor gum was beginning to arrive ; a number of beasts had gone there from St. Louis to purchase it, and merchants were constructing permanent establishments in the place. On the 28th a horse patrol of 14 natives, in the service of the French, killed a band of seven Moors on the Ouala ; they, however, bad their chief slain. On the 9th, the governor left St. Louis to make a razzia in the centre of the country of the Trarzas between Dara and Mbal : and in two days he returned with 3,650 oxen, 120 asses, and 20 prisoners. The Moors fled on seeing him, and had two men killed. He ascertained that the Trarzas were literally dying of hunger; their only food was roasted roots. The share in the razzia falling to the Government was calculated at about 10,000 f.  The supplies of fruit and vegetables are extensive, yet the demand is steady, at our quotations.
The Sun. — 1856-07-05 (London, England)

RAILWAYS.  Leasih Compiuil  Clodne ?ricer yes erlsy.  "Witness tlis lay.  A despatch ft.= the Governor of Senegal' to-the Minister of Marine, -dated-St. Louis, 17th May, gives an account of the events which had occurred since his last despatch of the 6th April. At the beginning of April, one Ali, a boatman in the service of the French, was murdered in the village of Dialmath, and the governor ordered the population to give up the assassin, which they did, and he was tried and shot. The, delivery of the criminal was considered an important fact;- as it was contrary to usage, and showed- the terror with which the -French-are regarded. - ofthe soldiers employed by the French in making a road near the camp of Koundi, established opposite Podor," to support Sidi Elli against. Mohammed Sidi and the Traza, having- been killed by the Moors, a detachment of 160 infantry with two howitzers, under the 'orders of Capt.-Guillot, attacked on the 20th a bivouack of the Moors, and dispersed them after killing eight. One of the eight was the Cheikh of the Ouled Daman, the principal warrior of the Tratzris, father-in-law of King Mohammed-el Habib and several other princes, and his loss would be more severely felt by the Moors thin that of a half hundred ordinary people. Two days after the Moors attempted to cut off a detachment of 20 men sent by the French to forage at about three-quarters of a league from the camp; they killed four of the men, but were unable to capture the rest, who fled to the camp, and the Moors had one of their own band killed. The French having left the camp of Koundi to establish themselves on the bank of the river, the Moors on the 22d arrived to set fire to what they bad abandoned. This visit having been foreseen several loaded shells were left in the heaps of straw, and when the fire caught the straw the shells exploded, killing two of the Moors and some camels, and wounding the nephew of Mohammed-el Habib. The Trarzar, completely demoralised by all their losses, then left the Bracknas, to return to their own country ; and Mohammed-Sidi, being abandoned by almost all the Bracknas, had also retired into the interior. Sidi-Eli, on the other hand, had greatly increased his forces, and was. warmly supported by the Fouta, so that the French' hoped that he would soon be able to return to Podor. At Fodor gum was beginning to arrive ; a number of beasts had gone there from St. Louis to purchase it, and merchants were constructing permanent establishments in the place. On the 28th a -horse patrol of 14 natives, in the service of the French, killed a band of seven Moors on the Ouala ; they, however, had their chief slain. On the 9th, the governor left St. Louis to make a razzia in. the centre of the country of the Trarzas between Dare and Mbal : and in. two days he returned with 3,650 oxen, 120 asses, and 20 prisaners. The Moors fled on seeing him, and had two men killed. lie ascertained that the Trarzas were literally dying of hunger; their only food was roasted roots. The share in the razzia falling to the Government was calculated at about 10,000 f.
The Sun. — 1856-08-23 (London, England)

BOMBS. rule no false delicacy ought to prevent immediate action. Mr. CoBDEN will, of course, lectura us on the rnischief.s of intervention, and on the necessity of leaving nations to se:ale tar-ir own quarrels. Will he plead for allowing a madman to set his own house on fire, to the peril of his domestics' lives and of his neighbours' property ? Yet more— will he justify our leaving the Sicilians and Neapolitans at the mercy of au armed madman, whom tee placed upon the throne on the assumption that he was of sound mind ? England is especially responsible for the policy by which the Bourbons everywhere, and FERDINAND among them, were restored in France, Spain, and Naples, and she owes it to their victims to place them, if possible, in as good a position as they would have been in without her wars for despots. Let England first reverse the effects of her legitimist wars, and untie the halide of the peoples, and then we may consent to the Manchester nonintervention policy. Till that is done, non-intervention simply moans abetting the cruelties of despots. We have put all into their hands, they have abused our unwarrantable folly far worse than mortal could have divined, and now we are to be called on to leave them to do their worst ! In the face of all civilised Europe, and in these days of rapid intercourse and growing brotherbetween nations, the conhood and sympathy Science of civilisation is to be aggrieved by complicity with the barbarities of a BO3IBA We say by complicity, for when a few of our spare firstrates and gun-boats have but to visit the tyrant's den in order to insure the liberation of his captives, it is complicity, and nothing else. But the pious petticoat-maker royal to the VIRGIN tells Lord PALMERSTON of " doing to others as we would that others should do unto us !" For the hundredth time we are reminded of the DEVIL quoting Scripture. The barbarous gaoler, the literally slow murderer of the perfectly innocent and noble Ponaao, to talk of doing as we would be done unto ! Why, the principle in practici would load Berea with immense weights of iron, would deprive hint of association with the polished and educated (no loss to him that), would chain him to felons of the lowest glass (again he might be at home), and would consign him to a damp dongeon, which must be but a lingering death. The perpetrator of these infernal cruelties on a man every way as worthy respect and esteem as Lard Joffe; RUSSELL, or Mr. GLADSTONE, or Mr. WALPOLE, taking into his mouth before all Europe the fundamental principle of Christian morality ! Was SATAN himself ever so shameless ?  But, endeavouring to writ© with C 34111104 in a  case of such atrocity, we deny that our intervention in such a case will justify the hypocrite Austria in her interventions. It would be, indeed, but the necessary consequence of her abuse of intervention. The
The Sun. — 1856-10-24 (London, England)

GESSLER. No—if Italy is to be restored, if Poland is to be revived—that revival, that restoration, must bo effected by the Poles and Italians themselves. And so let us leave them till the Hour shall b e struck by the fiat of GOD, as struck it infallibly will be in His own good time—Hope still growing more fully, ever and ever, in the breast of Pole and Italian, Faith in their cause still nerving their arms more and more firmly, Love for their common nationality still lighting up their mutual memory of the past with the unquenchable flame of their heroic and affecting aspirations.  A little more than a week since a letter, headed  " Railways and Revolvers in Georgia," appeared in a morning contemporary, containing a narrative so startling in every respect, that it was by many set down as a miserable hoax, intended to bring a journal which had spoken freely and undisguisedly on the atrocities perpetrated by the slaveowners and their supporters into contempt and disrepute. The Times itself explained the mode in which the statement had obtained admission into its columns, declaring that it had been held back until it had investigated and been fully satisfied as to the credibility of the writer, and adding that it would welcome any refutation  of the horrible tale of murder. This invitation  brought two American writers into the field, who strongly contested the authenticity of the account, and undertook to institute stringent inquiries as to the facts of the case, demanding, that in the event of being able to show that it was a pure invention, the name of the author of a hoax so unmanly and cruel should be given up to public reprobation.  The author of the statement has, however, voluntarily come forward, giving his name and address, and' reiterating all the fearful circumstances of the case. As we have already stated, it requires a high degree of moral courage for any man to expose himself voluntarily to the danger he must incur from such sanguinary and bloodthirsty ruffians, as the " highly respectable merchant from Weston," described by Mr. ARROWSMITH, who " was bound to bring down some one before he was done," and would " put a chunk of lead right,off into the woolly head of any dog gauned Abolitionist," or " the tall, muscular, and hard visaged man of about 50," who coolly perpetrated such atrocious murders within the time occupied in a single journey by railway. It was, therefore, very natural that Mr. ARROWSMITH should, in the first instance, have " suppressed his name, as a matter of personal safety ;" and he is entitled to great credit for having, when his veracity was impugned, cast aside all personal considerations, and boldly come forward to substantiate the most awful statement that ever appeared in an English journal.  We are now bound to credit the awful narrative, and we are the more justified in so doing, inasmuch as it details matters strictly analogous to those related by Mr.
The Sun. — 1856-03-28 (London, England)

THE MURDER BY A GERMAN LEGIONARY.  Hans Hansen, 34, described in the calendar aaa stocking weaver, late a soldier in the German Legion, was then placed at the bar, charged with the wilful murder of Chas. Jacobi, at Maker.  Counsel for the prosecution, Messrs. Coleridge and Yonge ; for the prisoner, Mr. Stock. The facts of this case have lately appeared at conside'rable length in The Sun. The prisoner and the deceased man, Jacobi, were privates in the Jager regiment of the German Legion. The last time deceased was seen was in company with the prisoner, about 8 at night. They were then seen in company by two or three witnesses, ranging in time from 6 to 8 o'clock, after which no one ever saw the man Jacobi alive. Both parties were much intoxicated whey last seen, and prisoner was carrying a large stone under his arm. The next morning• the corpse of the man Jacobi was found in a field, with fractures and contusions about the head ; near the corpse, in a hedge, a large stone was found with blood and hair upon it, and also a militarycap, the prisoner having lost his. The prisoner returned to his barracks on the night the murder was committed, long after the proper hour—he ought to have been in the bar. racks at 8 o'clock, whereas he did dot reach there till 12 o'clock, and then in a most excited state. There was a great deal of blood on his hands, and his clothes were stained with blood. Prisoner was asked on different caecalions to account for the blood, and he gave two accounts of it quite inconsistent with each other—one of them not at all probable or likely. On another occasion, before the prisoner could be at all aware of the death of Jacobi, if he had been innocent, he said, " I did not kill Jacobi." This was said in reply to a statement which had no reference whatever to the death of Jacobi, and the prisoner had no reason whatever to suppose he was 6harged with the crime.  Witnesses were canal who proved these facts, and one also spoke to the altered demeanour of prisoner when he returned to the guard-nom on the night of the murder. His conduct was quite different from what it usually was when he was drunk ; he scarcely spoke, and luoked quite wild, and when they spoke of Jacobi, he cast his looks on the ground. On the following morning he neither ate ncr drank.  Mr. Stock, for the prisoner, made an able speech, commenting on the improbabilities of various portions of the evidence.  His Lordship then summed up, and The jury, after five hours' deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty. The Judge, amidst most profound silence, delivered sentence of death in the usual form.  The prisoner was much agitated throughout the proceedings, and on hearing his sentence his countenance turned exceedingly pale, and he was removed reiterating his innocence of the charge.
The Sun. — 1856-08-25 (London, England)

DOCKS. that the letter posted at Turin could and should Brilliant (Commodore) cutor of what had been going on, and the whole fraud The trial of Betsy M‘Mullen, charged with the m urder nf begetting apathy and supineness instead of increasing Dividend Amount , Sunbeam (W. Price Esq.) was thereby discovered. These facts were fully conthe efforts of the labourer to which,the obligation of high per of Paid. Price Name of Company. reach London on the morning of the third, not of of her husband, Daniel M'selullen, at Bolton by admithe fourth day. It is needless to add that the A Third Dingy Race. Open to all. First prize, 1/. nistering to him repeated doses of an timon we's resumed firmed by Mr. Steele. Annum. Share. ages lays him under. 'Every large employer of hired 104 ; second, 1/. ; third, 15e. ; fourth, 10s. ; fifth, sq. Mr. Randall Stopp, clerk to the.prosecutor, now exlwebour in this part of the kingdom can, we presume bear works of the Victor Emmanuel Railway will very this morning before Mr. Justice Willes. 3' X s. d. X s. d. Maraquita (F. B. Carew, Esq.) plalned the manner in which,,the bueicess was conducted, Commercial ...• ....•• 5/. pr cent. Stock. Stock. 8 3011 shorten even that distance by eight or ten Eliza (D. Gaub) ample attestation to the truth of this assertien., The disease re-appeared amongst the potato crop iu this part - 127 a.in hedrepohshd to thaedefacit of entrietsno! lharguek quhantities of hours, and a tunnel through the Alps will briprus Haidee (C. Harvey) nd phosecdu rsd fo sh. y N,..eary, - of the kingdom abeut eight days aeo, but u to the nearer by twelve hours more. Pallas (W. Gawn) 4 that the case could not be proved one of murder against t amhich hademng.evemr been elivere ,an or w ich 1 ossey present date it has had a far lesbs humbling effect p,Eo,atissitocani,i:,,tiliitit.eys.t. .In. it i.a. .... 12fii/5... ppprriecisi,itt,t... BSttoocckk.. - I 7 There is, in the meanwhile, Borne mismanage- Caiman (H. 0. Roe, Esq.) had been paid by the prosecutor. - , - I 90 ment in the French mails which occasions the loss Mane (J. Haynard) The prosecutor was examined and mentioned various upon the leafy system than formerly. The Scotch ~ • o tha ton ........ 131. Os er c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 • P of twenty-four hours in the postal communication Express (J. Knapp) - . . ' instances in which he had been defrauded of large half-past twelve o'clock to consider their verdict. After • • sums • Dons are stili so vigorous that the disease is only snienterijanP..•••• a .... I 51. per cent. • discernible by a close inspection. The tubers as yet are stpleitattortaarliiiiels. :: .... .... ::!' 441•ppeerrececinitt: St-ock. 20 0 0 10 0 0 • 20% ______________ between England and Piedmont. For instance, Brilliant (Commodore) an absence of nearly two hours and a-half the jury re- of money through the collision of Feeney and Neary. by no means fully developed, except in the case of early '