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The Sun. — 1831-07-04 (London, England)

OLD BATLEY.-(THIS DAY.)  OLD COURT.  This -day, shortly atter ten o'clOck, Mr. Justice JAMES PARKE took his seat ou the bench. John Cronie, aged 48, described in the calendar as a shoemaker, was put upon his trial 9n an indictment charging him with maliciously stabbing Thomas Fuller, with intent to murder him.  Thomas Fuller examined—On the `2•2d of April last he was a new Policeman of the E division, and was on duty in Red Lion-street, Holborn. He knew the prisoner for some time, he having had him in custody three or four times, since which he has frequently threatened him with bodily harm ; on the afternoon named in the indictment, he saw him lurking about the corner of Red Lion-street and Theobald's-road, and as usual he commenced abusing and threatening him. The prisoner remained lurking about his beat till nearly five o'clock, when he proceeded down Theoliald's-road towards Gray's Inn, and he lost sight of him till near seven o'clock, when he saw him again near the corner of Red Lion-street, Holborn, and resumed his abuse. Witness then went towards him and desired him to go about his business, as he wished to have no altercation with him. The prisoner said nothing, but walked on for about 30 yards and witness followed, when he (the prisoner) stopped and drew a knife from his trowsers pocket which he brandished, and said, If you come near me I'll do for you." Witness pulled out his staff and advanced towards him, and the prisoner made a step towards him • witness kept his staff close to his breast, and with his lets hand he caught a* the prisoner's right, which had the knife, but missed his grasp, and the prisoner then threw his left arm round his neck, and stabbed him with a knife on the left breast, he withdrew it and again stabbed him. Witness then struggled with the prisoner, who stabbed him a third time. He then struck him over the head with his staff' for th.a first time, and finding that he could not overpower him, he called out murder, and endeavoured to make his escape towards Holborn. The prisoner pursued him for about 10 or 12 yards, and again stabbed him in the back. Witness became very weak from the loss of blood, and staggered across Holborn, when he fell from exhaustion ; upon which the prisoner ran down Holborn, and witness was carried to the hospital, where he remained five weeks, and he, still felt the effects of the'wounds and should be disabled for lite.  In his cross-examination by Mr. ADOLPHUS, the witness denied having called the prisoner an old cuckold, and that he knew his wife as well as he did. George Ryley, another policeman of the E division, saw the prisoner running down Holborn, and assisted to secure him, when he heard him say, " I hope the -- is dead; I went home on purpose to sharpen the knife to do for him, and if I am committed and tried for it I shall die happy, as I have had my revenge, for he called me an old cuckold." The prisoner had been drinking, but he knew well what he was about. Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character as a kind and inoffensive man. The Learned JUDGE then summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of
The Sun. — 1831-08-02 (London, England)

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)  CITY, TWELVE O' CL CK. By the arrival of the American Papers to the 9th July we have received later accounts from Jamaica and Tampico. From Kingston (Jamaica) to the 17th June, files of Carthagena Papers have been received, stating that the country was bankrupt, and that John Bull bad at last found out that he only shipped goods to Colombia to enrich her General, but it has been discontinued, and the Columbiana are in a towering passion ; Mr. Watts, our Consul, is grossly abused for his endeavours to protect the English interest and British commerce. A report was current at Kingston that all the British subjects at Santa Fe had been murdered. Two clerks in the employ of Duncan, Haldane, and Co. were mentioned. The advises from Tampico of the 12th of June state that the colector at Tampico had notified to the Mexican Consul at New Orleans that the law of the Ist of May, which laid a duty of one per cent. o❑ foreign goods,wares, and merchandize going into the interior, went into effect on the 13th of June. One per cent. more will be paid in cash after the 10th of December next. Montreal Papers to the 3d of July, and Quebec Papers to the Ist of July, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house.  (From the Quebec Papers.) " EMIGRANTS, WAGES IN UPPER CANADA,  DISTRESS, &c.  " In the recent discussions which have taken place on the conditions of emigrants, and many of whom, it mast be confessed, are in a state of great wretchedness, the rate of wages has been variously estimated for both provinces. In this province it is more difficult to fix a standard than in Upper Canada, but we are ena')led on good authority to state, that in Newcastle district the following werethe general prices paid during the past month :—Carpenters and masons 7s. 6d. per diem, without board ; labourers by the day, 2s. 6d. to Ss. and found in board, by the month 40s. to 605., and board; women servants living in the family, earn from 15s. to 20s. per month. It is also stated, that tailors and shoemakers find ready employment." The private letters from Hamburg this morning state, that the cholera morbus has now appeared within eighty miles of Berlin, likewise in the vicinity of Vienna ; at Hamburg preparations are making to prevent it reaching ' that city. The general topic of conversation in the city this morning relates to the magnificent display yesterday at the opening of the New London Bridge, which has highly gratified those persons who were present. We have no political news yet of any consequence ; the public are much disappointed in the meagre accounts from the theatre of war by the arrival of the Hamburg steamer. Consols, which left off yesterday, at twelve o'clock, at 82i j for the account, opened at the same price this morning, with little doing ; they have reached 82k, buyers, but are at present 824 The Foreign Market is scarce worth mentioning—nothing doing.  BRITISH Bank Stock, WO% 2C43% India ditto, 200% I% 3 per Cent, Cons 82% Ditto, for the Acct. 812% 1.4 3 per Cent. Red. 83,A 3s, per Cent.
The Sun. — 1831-05-19 (London, England)

LIFE OF DAVY.—The publication of this valuable work in octavo will place it within the reach of many to whom it was not accessible in its more expensive form. Of this illustrious man, the Spectator observes " the general powers of his mind entitle him to rank with those few names whose works and thoughts have elevated them above all qualification. It has been said there is a point, high in the realms of imagination, where the minds of HOMER and NEWTON may be considered as uniting; there is a point reached only by genius, where classification ceases—where the human mind seems to he equal to every thing, and to surpass all in that department to which its attention happens to be turned. This point was reached and by Davy. No one who reads this book, and studies the processes by which DAVY arrived at his grand results, will hesitate to place him in the rank of immortal genius, with this characteristic distinction, that it is he above all whose creations have become most immediately and most extensively beneficial to his fellow-men."  RESURRECTION EXTRAORDINARY,--A great degree of alarm was created a few days ago in a town not far from Perth, by the suspicion of a foul murder having been committed. A frail damsel, who had infringed on the bounds of strict morality, fell upon a rather novel plan of obtaining damages. She first explained to her sweetheart that she was in that situation which called on him to make an honest woman of her, but having an utter aversion to matrimony he declined. She then tried to wheedle him out of money, but this would not do either, and the parties separated ; but she was determined to find some groundwork for a process of damages. Sow time after she sent for an undertaker to make a coffin for her child, which he, honest man, made and took home; be expressed a curiosity to see the child, but the mother answered that " that it was na' warld like"—and the man not wishing to hurt Ler feelings, put the child in the coffin and departed. The funeral proceeded and the child was interred. The gude folk were not a little surprised at these proceedings, as none of them had observed the usual indications, or heard of the birth of the child ; and suspicious of foul play began to be whispered, which at last reached the ears of the fiscal of Perth, and off be set with two officers and took the girl into custody, and sent her to that town. They then proceeded to the church-yard, expecting to have their fears realized, and dug up the coffin. All faces were stretched towards it in hot rible expectation while the lid was taking off. The beadle proceeded to unroll the corpse, when, lo ! a large frosted turnip presented itself, with the long shaw and portions of hay rope for arms. The bystanders were agreeably and comically surprised. The men of law have searched the books from
The Sun. — 1831-11-28 (London, England)

LAMBETH -STREET.  On Saturday Mr. Smith, the vestry clerk of the parish of St, Mary, Whitechapel, waited on the sitting magistrates, Messrs. NORTON and WALKER, and had a private interview with them on the subject of the supposed murder of Mrs. Walsh. The particulars or nature of his application were not divulged, but were strictly private. One thing, however, is knoen, and that is, that the body of the old woman who died in the London Hospital, of the name and description of the missing woman, was on Saturday for the second time disinterred, and it is said that there are donlys still on the minds of the parties, as to whether she is not the identical Caroline Walsh who has been so long missing, and who is alleged to have been Barked by Cook and the female Ross. A delicate-looking woman, apparently about 18 years of age, came before Mr. WALKER to complain of the parish officers of St. Anne's, Limehouse, for having refused to purchase a wedding-ring, and pay the expenses incidental to her marriage with a young man who has kept her company fob• some years, and with whom she had latterly lived. The applicant stated, that her lover was willing to make her his lawful wife, but being out of employment some time past, he was unable to pay the marriage fees, or to purchase the ring, lind she therefore made an application to the parish-officers, in the hope that they would do so; they, however, peremptorily refused to grant this request, and she hoped his worship would compel them.  Warring, the beadle of Limehouse, had very little doubt but that the parish-officers would have done the needful if they thought the applicant would be bettering her condition by her marriage, but the fact was otherwise. She wished to w'ed a man who was out of employment, and who was consequently unable to support her. The parish officers therefore recommended her to go to service, and relinquish, for the present, her matrimonial intentions. Mr. WALKER said this was the very best advice that could be given to her; by complying it would enable her to save as much money as would pay her marriage expences, without being at any time liable to the unpleasant idea of having been Married at the parish expence. The applicant bad no particular objection to go to service, but she doubted much whether she would find the man who offered to make her his wife in a similar humour; be might change his mind, and she would be deprived of an opportunity which might never again present itself. Her intended was an excellent mechanic (a ship-carpenter and joiner), and if he had employment was well able to support both. Mr. WALKER could not interfere in the matter, hut recommended her to take the advice of the parishofficers. The poor girl seemed to think that delays were siraaynignegrohuesr, caansde wasts at hvee Yikiee hardvery much dejected, one, and that it was ioo bad to be thus deprived of a husband. Q
The Sun. — 1831-06-03 (London, England)

BOW-STREET. Last night Mr. Riley, a licensed victualler, residing at Chelsea, came before Mr. MINSISULL, and asked him to render his assistance to obtain redress for a most violent outrage, and, in fact, murderous attack, made upon him at Lisbon in 1827. Mr. Mthtsittru., possessed no jurisdiction over offences committed in Portugal. Mr. Riley—lf the Worthy Magistrate would be so kind as to hear his statement, he felt confident that he would entertain a different opinion. He pro ceeded to state, that he travelled for a commercial house in 1827, and resided for some time at Lisbon. He was one morning in a wine-room in that city, sitting with a friend, and in the same room were a party of non-commissioned officers belonging to an English regiment of Hussars. A conversation arose respecting the Italian and Portuguese nations, as to the grade they held in the scale of nations, when one of the Hussars, without any angry words or the slightest provocation, rushed from his seat towardhim ( Nlr. Riley), seized him by the collar, threw him on the ground, and kicked him on the body and head till he was insensible. Several of his teeth were kicked out, and for a long period he was attended by medical men, and continued in extreme danger. When he had so far recovered as to be able to leave his lodgings, he applied to the legal authorities for redress ; but he was only laughed a., and could obtain none, his purse not being of sufficient length to satisfy their rapacity. Ile left Lisboa soon afterwards, and had not seen or heard of the man who so brutally maltreated him till a few days ago, when he saw his name announced in one of the Newspapers as about to appear before the Insolvent Debtors' Court, to take the benefit of the Act. Had not the injury he received been of so serious a nature as to have deprived him of the enjoyment of health ever since, he would not, after such a lapse of time,  have made the present application. Mr. MlNsuum, said it certainly was a hard case, but, in his opinion, it was quite impossible he could afford him the slightest redress. Mr. Riley had been informed that a case occurred many years ago, in this country, which showed that cognizance could be taken by the law authorities in England of a crime committed in a foreign country by an Englishman. He said that a young Englishman having shot a lady at Lisbon, was, on his return to England, apprehended for the murder, and was tried for the offence, and executed at the Old Bailey. Mr. MiNsiium, was aware of the case to which Mr. Riley had alluded.* In that case the accused party was tried by a Special Commission ; but in such a case as the present, he was confident a special Commission would not be granted. At all events, he, as a Magistrate, could not interfere in the matter. . .. .  Mr. Riley thanked the Magistrate and withdrew  Q
The Sun. — 1831-11-14 (London, England)

THE ITALIAN BOY.  On Saturday Mr. Corder, vestry clerk of St Patirs, Gwent-garden, who has been actively engaged in obtaining. evidence against the gang of " Resurrectionists, " who stand charged with " Bu. king" the Italian boy, came before GEORGE ROWLAND MiNstiun, Esq., at Bow-street, and stated that the murder of the boy had been taken into consideration by the Government, and the Secretary of State for the Home Department had informed him (Mr. Corder) that he (the Secretary of Stat,) was pleased with the exertions which had beet! used to bring the murderers to justice, and hi; M.je,ty's Government had determined to offer 200/. reward, and a free pardon, to any person who would bring the parties concerned in the murder (except those who actually did the deed) to justice.  Mr. MissuuLt. directed the clerk of the office to advertise the reward in the newspapers. Thomas, the superintendent of police, sa.d that he expected to have some additional evidence against the accused in the course of the day. A Jew, named Divis, residing in Field-lane, Holborn, who said he was a salesman and dealer in clothes, entered the office, and stated to the Mrigis!rate, that on Friday week, about half-past two o'clock in the day, four men entered his shop, arid two of them purchased articles of hirn. One of them bought a pair of small-clothes, arid another a smock-frock, worked in front. The man who pity chased the pair of small-clothes left a pair behind him in exchange, on which were marks of blood. Mr. Thomas here observed, that one of the accused wore a smock-frock like the one described by the above witness.  Mr. Missum, directed Davis and the policeofficers to go to Cleikenwell prison, and see if he (D iris) could identify either of the prisoners its the persona who had purchased apparel at his shop so recently after the supposed murder.' Davis proceeded to the gaol, and there recognistd May arid Bishop as two of the four persons who came to his shop and made the purchases. lie could not speak to the other two prisoners. At eight o'clock on Saturday night Mr. Girder and Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent of Police, appeered before Mr. Minshuli, and a long consultation took place in a private room before they appeared in the public office. Mr. MINSIIULL observed to Mr. Thomas that he thought they were now in the " thickest" pert of the horrid affair.  Mr. Thomas observed that the facts certainly thickened upon them, end he hoped the guilty would soon be brought to justice. lie added that he had been at the dentist's at whose shop the prisoner May had sold the teeth of the boy for 12s. 6d., and he produced the same in a box, which he handed to the Magistrate. Mr. MINSHULL said that the inquiry could not be gone into further at that moment, and the evidence which had been obtained must be brought before him on Friday next, on the examinwion of the parties concerned. Some other facts tran,pired, but it was wished they should not obtain publicity, lest they might operate to thwart the ewis of justice.
The Sun. — 1831-02-22 (London, England)

GERMAN PAPERS.  ITALIAN SWITZERLAND. FEB. Il.—We have laying before us a letter dated Bologna, Feb 8, which gives the  a . Mowing details of serious disturbances in that city : " For some weeks a fermentation in people's minds had been observed, which was kept up by proclamations secretly distributed by meetings in the coffee-houses, &c. The absence of the Archbishop, who was at the conclave at Rome. and the smallness of the garrison, of not more than 700 infantry and SO cavalry, in a city with 70,000 inhabitants, seemed' to encourage the agitation. On the 4th a report was spread that Modena was in a state of complete insurrection, and that the citizens were fighting with the soldiers. When the mail, which arrived towards the evening, confirmed the report, the conspiracy broke out here. A great number of young men assembled in the coffee-houses : several speakers addressed them, and especially exhorted them not to stain their arms with useless murders. The young men took an oath to this effect, and engaged to risk every thing for the freedom of Italy. The Pro-Legate hastily assembled the principal nobility and the most eminent citizens, to deliberate with them on the danger that threatened. While he was deliberating with them, about midnight, the young men advanced in arms towards the Palace. The terrified Pro-Legate had already given orders to the little garrison to remain passive, from a fear that military aid would be of no avail, as the conspiracy was so widely extended. The young men, who were prepared far a serious resistance, did not find even a sentinel on duty at the Palace. They hereupon required the Pro-Legate to sign a paper, by which he resigned the administration to a Provisional Government. He at first refused, but the increasing tumult without doors, and the threat to throw him out of the window if he persisted in his refusal, soon obliged him to yield to the demands of the insurgents. By this document all the troops of the legation w, re placed under the Provisional Government. On the following day (February 5), the Pro-Legate and the dismissed Colonel of the troops of the line set out with an escort to Florence. In all these transactions not a single drop of blood was spilt. On the sth, early in the morning, the courier arrived from Roisse with the news of the election of the Pope ; he was quite astonished to find the city illuminated, and the citizens rejoicing in the streets, till it was explained to him what all this meant. Ile had the more reason to be surprised, as the Archbishop had affirmed at Rome that he would be answerable for his flock. It is added in a postscript :—" We have just learned that Romagna Ferrara, and the march of Ancona, had followed the example of Bologna. The Duke of Modena has left his duchy. It is said here that an insurrection is expected to take place to-morrow in Parma and Piacenza."
The Sun. — 1831-12-24 (London, England)

THAMES- OFFICE.  Yesterday Mary Bennett, a common prostitute of the most abandoned character, who had been fre• li quently brought to this office on charges of robbery and assault, was charged with attempting to murder her daughter, a little girl aged nine years, and bearing the same name. It appeared from the evidence of James Graham, a policeman, No. 49, K, that about two o'clock that morning he was on duty in Union-street, Shadweli, when he heard the prisoner calling police ; and on proceeding towards her, she said she had killed her own gill, at the house, No. 2, and implored of him to go and fetch a doctor. He, however, first proceeded into the house, and on entering the prisoner'v room saw the child lying on the floor, apparently lifeless, and weltering in its blood, which was flowing profusely from a deep wound in its head. lie asked the prisoner what she had been doing, and she said that the tail of the bedstead had fallen upon the child's head, and inflicted the injury. A north• country sailor, whom the prisoner had brought home, and was lying on the bed, immediately told him that the prisoner struck the girl with the rail, as she was lying on the floor, at the same time uttering dreadful exclamation. The sailor now repeated this statement.  William Butler, a policeman, No. 48, K, stated that while Graham carried the child to a surgeon, he conveyed the prisoner towards the station-house, and on their way there asked her how she could hurt her own child. She replied that three of her children, by different men, were lying in the churchyard, and she wanted to kill this, and did not care how soon she got rid of it. The girl, who appeared in a weak and dangerous state, was carried into the office, and said that her mother was a little tipsy, and struck her with all her force on the head, with the bedstead-rail, fur nothieg at all.  The rail was produced covered with blood. The prisoner, who hid her face in her hands, and sobbed audibly, and was apparently absorbed in grief, said that she was very sorry for what she had done, and that she dearly loved her girl, and would not injure her again. Mr. BALLANTINE said he was quite staggered by, such infamous profligacy and heartless cruelty, and a more unfeeling wretch than the prisoner he had never heard of. He should not be doing his duty as a Magistrate if he did not prevent the unnatural mother from again having the care of the girl, and punishing her to the fullest extent. He then convicted her in the highest penalty of .51., and, in default of payment, to two months' imprisonment. The worthy Magistrate ordered the girl to be provided for in Shadwell workhouse.  The prisoner no sooner heard the sentence than she uncovered her face, and abused Mr. Ballantinr and Captain Richhell in the most vile terms, and said " they and the girl might go to -." She was removed by the officers, uttering the most horrid Tecations.