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The Sun. — 1842-09-06 (London, England)

BANKRUPT GAMBLERS.—For the edification of these gentlemen, we give the following clause in the New Bankruptcy Act, which comes into operation next No vember :—" No bankrupt shall be entitled to the certificate under this Act, and any such certificate, if obtained, shall be void if such bankrupt shall have lost by any sort of gaming or wagering in one da y twenty pounds, or within one year next preceding his bankruptcy have lost 2001. by any contract for the purchase or sale of any Government or other stock, where such contract was not performed within one week after the contract, or where the stock bought or sold was not actually transferred or delivered in pursuance of such contract.' A curious custom prevails among the Solonais, in the department of Orleans, when a young couple marry without the means of commencing housekeeping, as is ordilwrily the case, the contributions of the neighbourhood being always forthcoming to supply the deficiency. The mode of collection is whimsical enough. Five pparoen;,,etll vhtiock make eons ists the ()rqu n young peasant girls, dressed in their best costume de fete, the assembled.com, eel:o73°l'g the entire population of the parish. Their operations are thus conducted : —The first girl holds a distaff and spindle in her hands, n hich she presents in turn to the company, while she sings— " L'epousee a Bien quenouille et fuseau, Mais de chauvre, helas ! pas un echevan Pourra,-t-etle done filer son trousseau  The second darnseirect;i;e;theotferingsProduced. by this appeal in the husband's drinking cup ; the third acts the part of Hebe, and pours out a draught of wine, which she offers to each contributor to the store ; and the fourth carries a napkin, with which she wipes the month of the guest after his draught; anti thus prepared the way for the performance of the duty entrusted to the fifth—always the prettiest of the party—that of rewriis in' him ter his generosity with a kiss. The General Steam Navigation Company's new steam-ship Princess Royal, Captain J. W. Morris, which left Granton Pier, Leith, on Saturday afternoon, arrived yesterday morning at nine, at the Company's w harf, Poplar, after an excellent passage. She .pesied the same Cwnpany's swam ship Clareoce, off Cromer, on her way to Edinburgh. The Princess leaves • for Edinburgh again to-morrow evening.,  At the Court ot Assizes of the lierault, held JaA week, a man named Rascal Fabre was tried for having, on the .2tith of last June, murdered his father. His Either went u.s usual to work in the' fields. On his way he met a neighbour, to whom he expressed his rears that his son would murder him. The son came up with the father in a few minutes after, and eelibefatelv raising the gun, discharged it in his face and neck. '1 he old man dropped dead, and the parricide then took to flight. lle was arrested the same day,. and, at on 'e coalesmt his guilt. The sentence of the Court was, that he should be taken td the place of execution -at Montpcliier in his shirt, his feet naked, and his head covered astir a black veil, to be there exposed whilst the sentence of t%e Court was read, and immediately after executed.
The Sun. — 1842-05-21 (London, England)

THE CONVICT GOOD. A great change has taken place in the demeanour and the appearance of this wretched criminal since he has been acquainted with the time fixed for his execution. He appears very much depressed, but still maintains a calmness that could hardly be expected in one guilty of the enormous crime of which he has been convicted. '1 he awful fact was not communicated by Mr. Sheriff Magnay, as has been befere stated, but by the Rev. Ordinary. a part of whose duty it is to convey the dreadful information, and by whom it is invariably done. Sheriff Magnay and Rogers were present on the occasion, as were also At r. Alderman Gibbs, the City Solicitor, and one of the Under-Sheriffs. On receiving the intelligence, Good appeared at first to be taken by sui prise, but said not a word until the Chaplain had addressed a few wor.is of exhortation to him, when he fell upon his knees, clasped his hands, and emphatically exclaimed,—" I declare to Almighty God that I never laid hands upon her." He was then asked what could have induced him to commit the mutilation? To which his reply was, " Suppose I had gone and told anybody that there was a dead woman in my master's stable, wouldn't they have thought that I had Mutt&red beF'? 1 made up my mind to get rid of the body the best way I could." He then repeated his former For fear of that, ,statement respecting the assistance he received from another man in consuming, the body In reply to a question from one of the Sheriffs, he said that the reason of his throwing the penknifc,away.was, that it belonged to the deceased, and would have been known again, and might have been used against him. To all other interrogation and pertinaciously adhered to his former statement, f called upon his God to witness the truth of it. As is usual in the cases of convicted murderers, he is never left alone, and is frequently visited by the Governor, to whom he appeari thankful for his °kindness. The convict will attend the chapel to-morrow, to hear, for the last time, the performance of Divine worship. Out of the number of applications already made for tickets of admission, not one quarter could be accommodated. THE IL DE RE EL CO orz R. --Thomas Cooper, the murderer of Tiroothy Daly, the policeman, at Hornsey, has continued, ever since his committal to Newgate, iq the same sullen temper he evinced on his examination. Cooper will not be present to bear, the condemned ser,i.on to-morrow, as was expected by those whose curiosity I..ads them to seek admission. Mutt the baker, and 'Voss the policeman, are approaching to convalescence.  The insolvency and dissolution of the Commercial Steam Packet Company took place by agreement of the shareholders on Thursday. The - Company's liabilities were stated in January to be 140,0004;_ the disposal of their vessels and other property will reduce this sum to 28,000/., a deficiency which the shareholders are desirous. of discharging. Competent trustees have been appointed.
The Sun. — 1842-06-15 (London, England)

FREDK. MILNE, House Surgeon." The prisoner, though cautioned by the Magistrate, entered into a long and rambling history of the affair, and of the general conduct of his wife. He said that on Monday evening, on returning from his work, he found his wife in the act of dressing, and he took her out for a walk and to purchase her a new dress While out they drank some beer, gin, Sze., and on their return home had more half-and-half with their landlord and landlady. They then went up stairs to their room, taking with them a pot of half-and-half, and he boiled some eggs in the kettle for supper, and while enjoying the latter they had some words. When about to eat his fifth egg he had a knife in his hand, and was going to cut the top off, when his wife rushed upon him, and he stretching his arm out to defend himself, the knife pressed against her, and inflicted the wound before mentioned. On his doing so his wife accused him of having cut her throat with a razor, and screeched out murder; but he assured her it was no such thing, and requested she would not make a show of him. The prisoner here proceeded to state that his wife was a person of drunken and vicious habits ; that she was in the habit of getting up after he went to bed, going into the streets and getting drunk, and going with strange men to improper hous..s. '1 he landlady of the house where the prisoner lodged, on the contrary, gave the wife an excellent character, and said he had been in the habit of treating her with great brutality. She also said that his wife had frequently declared on that morning that he had cut her throat with a razor. Driscol, the constable, also said that he had known the prisoner for some time, and that he always treated his wife, whom he ( Driscol ) believed to be very different to that which he had described her, in a brute-like manner. Mr. HENRY remanded the prisoner until his wife was able to attend and give evidence against hint.  J. Atkinson, bobbin manufacturer:, Greenbank. Westmor land, July 6, at one, at the King's Arms Inn, Kend,l—J. M. Ainsworth, saddlers' ironmonger, Birmingham, July 6, at twelve, at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham—J. Page, jun., carrier, Gloucester, July 11, at half-past twelve, at the Office of C. Smallritige, Gloucester—J. Hutchinson, machine maker, Elland, Yorkshire, July 8, at one, at the White Swan Inn, Huddersfield—ll. A. Haber, Inaltster, Lindfield, Sussex, Ju'y 8, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Brighton—W. Robins, ironmonger, Stone, Staffordshire, July 6, at two, at the Vine Inn, Stafford—ll. C. Squibb, rope maker, East Cowes, I•le of Wight, July 18, at one, at the Fountain Inn, Cowes—J. Hun • nybun, ironmonger, Cambridge, July 8, at one, at the Hoop Hotel, Cambridge—J. and B. Schofield, clothiers, Hon!ey, Yorkshire, July 8, at one, at the White Swan Inn, Huddersfield —F. W. Hartley, chemist. Halifax, Yorkshire, July 15, at ten, at the White Linn Inn, Halifax—J. and R. L. Nash, brewers, Bristol, July 19, at twelve, at the Commercial-reoms, Bristol— T. Bourne, cotton broker, Liverpool, July 12, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool.
The Sun. — 1842-02-09 (London, England)

CIOURT--PASHIONABLE. It is not the intention of the Queen Dowager to reside again at Sudbury Hall ; and the furniture there will, in consequence, be removed to Bushy or Marlborough House. Lord'and Lady Marybarough give a grand entertainment on Friday week to the Duke of Cambridge. Lord Southampton is entertaining a distinguished party at Whittlebury, Northamptonshire. Countess St. Aulaire arrived at Hertford House on Monday evening from earls. Viscount Alford is expected in town to-day from his seat in Northamptonshire. The Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch contemplate leaving Mon. ago House at the close of the season for Scotland. MIS C ZIMANEO The Forty-eighth Anniversary of the Licensed Victuallers' So. ciety was celebrated last evening, at White Conduit House, when between 400 and 500 gentlemen sat down to dinner. The Secretary read the Report, from which it appeared that since the establish. ment of this excellent Institution the enormous sum of 216,7451. had been distributed for different charitable purposes. On the motion of Mr. Ewart a return has been ordered by thel 101/Se of Commons of the number of persons executed, for al it London and Middlesex, during triennial periods from .821 up to 1839, together with the number of persons committed for murder in the same periods respectively. The solemnities observed on Ash Wednesday of old in the Church were severe and exemplary. Silence was obs,rved; common prayers used, and ashes and holy water sprinkled on the heads of the Monks, the l'ricsts saying, " Iteaumber you arc but dust, and to dust you must return." On this eveving, also, boys used to run about with firebrands and torches. A tire broke out at Drontheim on the 23d inst., when 300 houses and the hospital were consumed. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has issued a commission to in. quire into the state and circumstances of all the public charities in Dublin receiving Parliamentary aid, and the sums voted for the maintenance of which form a portion of the annual estimates. On Saturday morning last, the guard of the Limerick mail-coach was severely wounded on the Moneygall read, by a shot from a blunderbuss, discharged from behind a ditch. The splendid presents made to the Prince and Princess Esterhazy, arrived front Venice and Ratisbon, and displayed on Monday even. ing at Lady Jersel 's, were valued at 12,0001. The most magnificent were a beautiful tiara of the purest diamonds, and a rich necklace of pearls.  The boy Jones has again vanished in a most mysterious manner. He left home in a clean chirt on Friday morning last, since when he has not been seen, though a letter has been received from him, bearing the Portsmouth post.mark, stating that he is going to sea again. The letter is supposed to have been writen at the dictation of others. We dare say that the boy will be again found shortly in Buckingham Palace.  Mr, Maley, alluding to the recent railway accidents, observed last night in the House of Commons, that " when one or two Lords had lost their lives, the House would be disposed to sympathise wills them; but until come noblemen had been •sacrificed
The Sun. — 1842-06-18 (London, England)

ATTORNEY-GENERAL. The whole trial was conducted with a calm solemnity, and the verdict Was so clearly based upon the evidence suhmi:ted to the Jary by a host of eye-witnesses, that we do not believe there exists a person in the British empire who eould rationally anticipate any other result.  —, But now comes the grave, the solemn question, ought the awful sentence of death recorded upon Fa.t.Ncrs to be carried into effect ? Will the execution of this wretched criminal, as a "false, convicted traitor," deter wicked, abandoned men from attempting a repetition of his treason ? We most firmly believe that it would riot 'We care nothing about the prisoner. What is now to be considered is how our beloved QUEEN may be preserved in future from similar attempts. This is not to be done by reviving the barbarous and revoking punishments of a barbarous age. In such sinks of corruption as are to be found in such an immense capital as London, there arc many wretches whom the strong excitement of an atrocious punishment would stinplAte to the commission of the most revolting crime. The strong tide of popular prejudice is, we well know, opposed to this doctrine, but it is nevertheless true. Revo!ting punishments, and especially capital ones, brutalise the mind instead of inspiring with any wholesome terror of the rope and the dissecting knife. We would punish all such wretches as FnANcts by instant condemnation to incarceration for life in lunatic asyltens in a penal colony. We would have this done sudcnly, and as silently as possible. We would put an end to, the mock-sentimental system of parading atrocious criminals, as things to be staved at, and talked about. We would have no pious ladies,, fond. of strong excitement, to visit them in their cells—no Sheriff's and prison governors to shake hands with them, order them At inC, -and lionize thein to the edification of a gaping mob, astonished at the footing of equality with which fine ladies-and gentlemen associate with the greatest ruffians. The- poor ignorant clod-hopper sees that 110think short of a murder or two can qualify him to shake hands, on affectionate terms, with a Sheriff, or a .Sherirs lady, and of course his horror of the crime is worrierfull? abated. Now we would put a stop to all. this. There should be uu maudlin sympathy witl great criminals, nor would we admit any intercourse  withithem after conviction. Fa.ixcts no doubt read in the papers that a number of fine ladies and gentlemen isit,e,d the ruffian Oxford—that he was comfortably lodged—enjoyed luxuries denied to honest, hard-working mens----that he indulged tastes for drawing and music— and that, in short, it would, be a very good thing to be equally well provided for at the public expense. That he seriously meditated the murder of the QUEEN we do not believe, although perfectly satisfied with the finding of the verdict. What rnANcts sought was notoriety, and a life of idleness, and that was to be obtained by frightening the QUEEN, not by destroying her. This was a very Wanton and atrocious crime, and well sub• jects FRANCIS to confinement for life in Norfolk Island. AS the place of
The Sun. — 1823-12-19 (London, England)

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE%  RENT WINTER ASSIZES—MAIDSTONE, Dac. 17. • Thomas Edney was indicted for assaulting Ann Rockall, on the King's highway, on the 3lst of July, and robbing her of a bundle, containing various articles of wearing apparel The prosecutrix stated, that she was servant in a Gentle., man's family residing at Sydenham. In the evening of the, 31st of July, she took a place, at the Elephant and Castle, on the Sydenham coach, to go home froni London. She WAR put, inside, there being no other paasengers. In the course Orthr journey prisoner waa also put into the coach; they fell into, conversation, and the prosecutrix freely communicated to the prisoner whither she was going. The prisoner told her that he was a relation of her master, -and said he would be happy to see her home, to which she readily steeented. They were put down on Sydenhani common, sow distance from 'her master's house. She took hold of the prisoner's srni, relying upon his kind protection ; he prevailed upon her to take &short cut across the common, instead of continuing on the high road; in about ten minutes the prisoner stopped, and suddenlyseized her by the shoulders behind, d----d her eyes, and said that if she made any alarm ho would butcher her; he then snatched her bundle out of her hands, and beat her sits it ;About her head two or three times ; in addition to this violence he kicked her, and tried to throw her down ; two young men'eame up in consequence of her .screams for help; and one of them said to the prisoner," Is that you, Tom ?" The prisoner re. plied in the affirmative, and said it was only a common wo. man he had picked up In the street, and the young men went on. The prosecutrix called out " Murder" two or three times, and two of the llow.street Itorseliatrol came to her assistance, and she told them of the prisoner's conduct. In the presence of the patrol the prisoner beat her again, and kicked her. The pri. wrier ran ow with the bundle; but in shout two hours atter. wards he was taken in his bed at his lodgings in a public.house at Sydenham. The liow.street patrol :corroborated 'the proaecutrix's statement, as far as they hall observed the transaction. It appeared to them that the prisoner was quite sober at the time. The prisoner left his defence to Counsel. The driver of the Sydenhain coach proved that the prisoner and the, prosecutrix had drank together two or three times be. tween Sydenham and London; and when they got down at Sydenhern.common, they set off together, erm.imarrn, in a friendly manner, the prisoner having the bundle in his hand. Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent diameter from his youth upwards. Mr. Justice PARK summed up the evidence for the Jury, and they immediately found the prisoner GaittS Sentence of death was recorded ; but the Learned Judge held out hopes of mercy to the prisoner, on acconnt of his preiiiins good character. Several capital convictions took place for Intrglary and housebreaking, but none of the cases were of public interest. •  •
The Sun. — 1823-11-14 (London, England)

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—This morning, about 11 o'clock, a dreadful accicknt happened in Smith. field, occasioned by an infuriated bullock that broke from its halter. The beast ran amongst the others, foaming at the mouth and bellowing in a most tersific manner, and the dogs belonging to the drovers increased his fury. At length he was driven into a corner for the purpose of, securing him by ropes, when shocking to relate a man, in attempting to throw a rope over his horns, was tossed in the air a considerable height, and fell to the ground with such violence that One of his legs was dreadfully fractured, and his right shoulder dislocated. He was carried on a shutter to the hospital. The bullock made off up St. John's Street, towards Islington. Q tr EEN's-SQ u tit a.--List night a desperate fellow, who has had three narrow escapes at the Old Bailey, named John Millard, was brought tiy a.putrOle for having m his possesion implements of houee-breakit lg. The officer stated that he saw the prisoner in Perkins' Rents—a notorious horde for thieves, with a bundle in his possession. Knowing him to be a bad character, he questioned him as to what it contained ; —" Rags, you old b—," was the reply. The parole detained him, and upon searching be found the "rags" were two ladies' Leghorn bonnets; and, concealed up the sleeve of his coat, he found a well-constructed "Jemmy," (a small crow. bar) fit to wrench open any place. lie instantly conveyed him to the Office vend ,to the Magistrate he said he had brotight them from Walworth to his master in Barton-street, Westminster: and subsequently he said he found the bundle on. Vauxhall-bridge.--lie was remanded. the late E3lagdon Fair, FORTUNATE Loss.—At Mr. RICHARD Poos, butcher, of Culmatock, Devon, had his pocket picked of a purse and its contents, and soon after recognized the fellow who had committed the robbery, whom he instantly seized, and threatened to knock him down, unless he immediately restored the 'property. After a little demur, the fellow averred that' be had not got the purse, but knew the man (one.of his cornrunions) who had it, and engaged to find him, and give up the booty on being liberated. TM To this r. Pook objected, without having► some security for his return; upon which the delinquent handed hint a M. note, and on gaining hit liberty, -made such good use of it, that he wee not seen after. wards. The „mans of the purse, of ;which Mr. Pook was plundered, only amounted to a one pound note and a few ehiietv, /  When Mr. excursionSADLEß. from Derby, last week, he passed over Selston, and was so near that he spoke to the was on his aerial people from his trumpet. A young wumi, and Dui at some i man, of the name of Samuel Waterall, the son of a farmer of that entpolvacre, hi Its n awrheet:thebrideglTettl returnh otheemiet,aintec'xpsed his that he had not had his gun with him, that he might have fetched that huge thins down, for he mightas well have had it Al any body else ! and added, that he threw some_ stones, but mild not hit it I—(..Vottingleam Review.)  THE MURDER OF Mlt.