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The Sun. — 1867-10-28 (London, England)

SPECIAL COMMISSION AT MANCHESTER.  The Special Commission for the trial of the Fenian prisoners charged with the murder of Policesergeant Brett, at Manchester, on the 18th of September last, was opened on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Justice Mellor drove up to the Assize Courts in the carriage of the High Sheriff a few minutes before four o'clock. Mr. Justice Blackburn had not reached Manchester, but was expected by an early train. A crowd of people had assembled in the vicinity of the court, but the attendance inside was not large. Mr. Justice Mellor came upon the bench fully robed, and not in civilian attire as on ordinary occasions. There were some of the magistrates of the visiting committee present, including Mr. William Rayner Wood and Mr. Hibbert, with a rather stronger force of county police than usual, but in no other respect was there a departure from the course adopted at the opening of other assizes. The reading of the Commission occupied only a few minutes, and the Court then adjourned till Monday (this day).  Mr. W. P. Roberts received a final answer -from the Home-office on Saturday evening. After his latest published letter to Mr. Secretary Hardy he telegraphed to the press on Saturday morning as follows :  " This morning brings me letter from the Treasury Solicitor, with list of 25 additional witnesses, none of whom were ever heard of before, to give evidende against Allen and others. It is altogether impossible that proper defence can be made without time for inquiry and consultation with prisoners, no two of whom can be seen at the same time. The supposed evidence, corresponding with what these new witnesses would have said before the magistrates, should have been sent to me at least a fortnight ago—as, indeed, was promised when the case was before the magistrates. This course is always adopted in such cases. I have telegraphed the Home Secretary that the prisoners in iy not t e tried till as long after Monday as can be given, and that the supposed evidence may be sent me directly." The answer from the Home Secretary, received by telegram on Saturday evening, was as follows : " I cannot interfere in any way with the opening of the Commission. lam informed that it is not necessary, but common as a matter of fairness, to give the names of new witnesses who may possibly be called. This has been done as soon as was practicable. Your application by letter that the Government should bear the expenses of the defence cannot be entertained."  The following is the list of counsel actually retained by the Government to conduct the prosecution : The Attorney-General, Sir J. B. Karslake ; Mr. Pickering, Q.C., Mr. Sowler, Q.C., Mr. Hannen, and Mr. Higgin. During Saturday Mr. Sergeant O'Brien and Mr. Digby Seymour were communicated with on behalf of the prisoners, and an answer was received on behalf of those gentlemen that one of them would reach Manchester on Saturday night, and the other yesterday. Mr. Ernest Jones and Mr. Cottingham will also hold briefs for the defence.
The Sun. — 1867-08-13 (London, England)

FRANCE.  In the Paris corn market last week the six marks of flour were 25c. higher—at 75f. 25cthe157 kilos. ; wheat was unchanged--at 461. the 120 kilos. ;':_rye fell 50c.—to 25f. 50c. the 120 kilos ; barley was unaltered at 221. the 100 kilos. ; and oats were unvaried—at 26f. 50c. the 100 kilos. At the last cattle market at Sceaux, oxen- sold at lf. 40e. to lf. 68c. the kilo. ; calves, at lf. 58c. to lf. 95c. ; and sheep, at If. 36c. to lf. 72c. A murder was committed the evening before last in the Bois de Vincennes. An artilleryman, named Tainare, was on terms of intimacy with a young married woman of light character—the husband, a workman, apparently concerning himself but little with the misconduct of his wife, and spending a large portion of his time in wineshops. Tamare had incurred some disciplinary punishment, and while confined to his barracks for a few days was told that he had been replaced in the good graces of his mistress by his corporal, and the first evening after he had recovered his liberty, he, in fact, met the two walking together. He exchanged a few words with the corporal, and then offered his arm to the woman, who accepted it ; then conducting the woman to a lonely place in the wood beneath some trees, he stabbed her in the heart with a large clasp knife, killing her on the spot. He afterwards allowed himself to be arrested without resistance. The bulletin of the Paris Observatory of Saturday  morning gives the following as the atmospheric situation :--" The glass rose since Friday by 4mrn. at Brest, and 5 min. at Paris. Gentle winds prevail. A centre of depression exists in the Bay of Biscay ; and a storm may not improbably burst forth in that region. The borometer is low in the Baltic, and marks 754 mm. at Riga." BouasE, August 12, Two o'clock.—The market is fir►u, and though the attendance is but thin quotations exhibit considerable -improvement. Threes have advanced 271 c., to G9f. 70c. ; and Italian Fives 25c., to 491. 15c. Credit Mobilier have improved 5f., at 328 f. 75c. ; Spanish Mobilier 3f. 75c., at 217 f. 50c. ; and Credit Foncier 7f. 50c., 1,392 f. 50c. Cotnptoir d'Escompt3 shares gain 111. 25c., which is attributed to the success of the Russian Loan just fully subscribed to. Suez Canal shares are also in demand, with an advance of 101., at 325 f. Railway shares are at an advance generally of from sf. to 7f. 50c. English Consols are likewise telegraphed I higher, at 95. Three o'clock.—The following were the closing prices :-4I per Cents lOO 25 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. Do. end month 69 75 Credit Mobilier 330 Do. end month Credit Foncier 1390 Do. end month 1390  Bank Shares Italian Loan 49 Do. end mouth 49 Mexican Loan l3O Do. Bonds ll5 Spanish Threes 34 Home Debt Deferred
The Sun. — 1867-02-23 (London, England)

VIE SUN, LONFON, SATUROA I' EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1861.  to remove slavery by the use of the same means they were using to prevent intemperance. Several members of the United States Senate had recommended this work. The slaveholding members of the Senate resolved that to recommend Mr. Helper's book was a disqualification for the office of Speaker. So while Congress assembled at Washington, December 5, 1859, they attempted to carry out this resolution ; and parties were so balanced that this book during eight weeks blocked the business of the Senate, as every attempt to elect a Speaker failed.  If the slaveholders would do this when face to face with the representatives of the Free States, what would they not do in the Slave States ? The civil war in Kansas revealed the demoralised condition of the non-slaveholders in the South. Missouri represented the other Slave States in its constituent elements. It was certain that Kansas, governed by a majority of its citizens, would become a Free State. But the non-slaveholding Missourians, led by slaveholders, entered Kansas, and by terror, fraud, forgery, and murder, attempted to extend to that territory the reign of the slaveholding oligarchy.  As clay in the hands of the potter, so were the non-slaveholders in the South moulded by slave' holders. The former joined the latter in seven expeditions within two years after the Pro-Slavery President Pierce had entered upon his office—one to make Sonora, against her will, an independent republic; one to rescue Tamaulipas from the control of her own inhabitants ; one to aid imaginary revolutionists in Cuba ; one to give undesired succour to Ireland ; one to occupy a grant of land in Costa Rica, which Costa Rica denied ever having made ; one to help foreigners to overthrow the national Government of Nicaragua ; and one to perform the same office to Lower California. All of these paraded the American flag, and declared themselves missionaries of freedom, and every one of them was made up mainly, if not wholly, of the defenders and extenders of slavery. I close with a short extract from a speech made in Congress, Feb. 4, 1833, by John Quincy Adams. He said :—" Not three days since, Mr. Clayton, of Georgia, called that species of population (viz., slaves) the machinery of the South. Now that machinery had twenty odd representatives in that hall, not elicited by the machinery, but by those who owned► it. And if he should go back to the history of this Government from its foundation, it would be easy to prove that its decisions had been affected in general by less majorities than that. Nay, he might go further, and insist that that very representation had ever been the ruling power of this Government." How terribly has the South been corrupted—how deep has been its degradation 1 But the darkness is passing away ; slowly but surely it is being regenerated ; and it will yet leap for joy, becaus slavery and its evils, which rested like an incubus on all its energies, have been removed no more to return.—Yours very truly, Bristol, Feb. 19, 1867. EDWARD MATHEWS,
The Sun. — 1867-10-12 (London, England)

LOUDWAIER.  Yesterday morning the inhabitants of the quiet Buckinghamshire village of Loudwater were thrown into a state of considerable excitement by a dastardly attempt at murder committed about eight o'clock. From inquiries upon the spot it has been ascertained that a police-constable named, it is understood, Deacon, keeper of the lock-up at Wycombe, in pursuit of a man whose apprehension was desired, left the latter place by the 8 5 a.m. train, and arrived at the Loudwater station of the Aylesbury branch of the Great Western Railway at 812 a.m. The constable was in plain clothes, and while the train was stopping at the station, chancing to look out of the carriage window he saw the man he was in quest of walking upon the platform. Mr. Rimes, the station-master, had just issued a Victoria-station ticket to the man in question, who, on being recognised by the constable, turned to leave, and was accompanied by the latter. As the man went out of the wicket ho gave up his Victoria ticket to George Rimes, the son of the station-master. When the two got outside into the station-yard the man ran away, but was overtaken near a long wall attached to the village post-office, in the occupation of Mr. Saunders, who at the time of the occurrence was sitting at break fast with his wife. While looking through the window he saw two men, as he thought, wrestling with each other, and as they seemed both to be respectable he did not interfere. Presently he saw one of them draw a knife and stab the other, and on going to the door to render assistance both men ran past him. It seems that when the constable attempted to arrest the man upon his overtaking him the latter stabbed him several times, wounding him on the arm and various parts of the body. Weakened by the extreme haniorrhage the constable was easily thrown, and then his assailant made off as quickly as possible. The constable attempted to follow, but was unable, and eventually stopped, bleeding and faint, near the Happy Union inn, the landlord of which, Mr. Partridge, with other assistance, got him into a cart. Mr. Partridge then drove the wounded man to Wycombe, about three miles distant, where the injuries \were attended to by Mr. Turner, a surgeon, and where Deacon lies in a most dangerous condition. In the meantime, 'William Partridge, a boy of about 15 years of age, the son of the landlord of the Happy Union, mounted a pony, and went after the miscreant and gave information to the police at Wooburn-green and Beaconsfield. As the boy on his return came out of Beaconsfidld he met the man who had attempted to murder the constable, and who regarded him somewhat curiously. He disappeared soon afterwards over some railings, and the boy went and told the Beaconsfield police of the circumstance. The man was eventually run down and captured in the morning, and taken first to Wycombe, and in the evening to Aylesbury. It appears that the constable wanted him for a robbery which he had committed at a publichouso in Wycombe, where he had been staying, and where he had stolen a watch and some money.
The Sun. — 1867-10-12 (London, England)

MURDER OF A TOLICEMAN LOUD WA7ER.  Yesterday morning the inhabitants of the quiet Buckinghamshire village of Loudwater were thrown into a state of considerable excitement by a dastardly attempt at murder committed about eight o'clock. From inquiries upon the spot it has been ascertained that a police-constable named, it is understood, Deacon, keeper of the lock-up at Wycombe, in pursuit of a man whose apprehension was desired, left the latter place by the 8 5 a.m. train, and arrived at the Loudwater station of the Aylesbury branch of the Great Western Railway at 812 a.m. The constable was in plain clothes, and while the train was stopping at the station, chancing to look out of the carriage window he saw the man he was in quest of walking upon the platform. Mr. Rimes, the station-master, had just issued a Victoria-station ticket to the man in question, who, on being recognised by the constable, turned to leave, and was accompanied by the latter. As the man went out of the wicket he gave up his Victoria ticket to George Rimes, the son of the station-master. When the two got outside into the station-yard the man ran away, but was overtaken near a long wall attached to the village post-office, in the occupation of Mr. Saunders, who at the time of the occurrence was sitting at breakfast with his wife. While looking through the window he saw two men, as he thought, wrestling with each other, and as they seemed both to be respectable he did not interfere. Presently he saw one of them draw a knife and stab the other, and on going to the door to render assistance both men ran past him. It seems that when the constable attempted to arrest the man upon his overtaking him the latter stabbed him several times, wounding him on the arm and various parts of the body. Weakened by the extreme hastnorrhage the constable was easily thrown, and then his assailant made off as quickly as possible. The constable attempted to follow, but was unable, and eventually stopped, bleeding and faint, near the Happy Union inn, the landlord of which, Mr. Partridge, with other assistance, got him into a cart. Mr. Partridge then drove the wounded man to Wycombe, about three miles distant, where the injuries iwere attended to by Mr. Turner, a surgeon, and where Deacon lies in a most dangerous condition. In the meantime, William Partridge, a boy of about 15 years of age, the son of the landlord Union, mounted a pony, and wentor after the thilapempiysereant and gave information to l the police at Wooburn-green and Beaconsfield. As the boy on his return came out of Beaconsfidld he met the man who had attempted to murder the constable, and who regarded him somewhat curiously. He disappeared soon afterwards over some railings, and the boy went and told the. Thaconstield police of the circumstance. The man was eventually run down and captured in the morning, and taken first to Wycombe, and in the evening to Aylesbury. It appears that the constable wanted him for a robbery which he had committed at a publichouse in Wycombe, where he had been. staying, and where he had stolen a watch and some money.
The Sun. — 1867-05-14 (London, England)

THE DREADFUL TRAGEDY AT BUCK UURST HILL.  THE EVIDENCE OF MISS GRIPPS THIS DAY. WALTHAM ABBEY, Tuesday. At a quarter to 11 o'clock this forenoon the magistrates took their seats upon the bench; Mr. Dowes was chairman.  Mr. Abrams, of Bow-street, London, appeared to watch the proceedings on behalf of the accused.  Mr. Jessop, the clerk, read aloud the charge, which stated that Frederick Alexander Wahine had maliciously stabbed and wounded Matilda Grippe with a dagger in a field at Buckhurst-hill with intent to murder her.  The first witness called was Matilda Gripps. She appeared to be very weak, and she was accommodated with a seat.  She was sworn, and Mr. Jessop then read over to her the depositions which she had previously made. He read it in the third person, and as ho stated the facts that she had deposed to, she answered "yes" in a very feeble tone of voice. The depositions stated that sho had met with the accused on the night of the 24th of April near her father's house, and that he invited her to take a walk, and that she consented. When in a field near Buckhurst-hill he charged her with speaking to other young men, and that she denied it. He then struck her on the head and then with a dagger on the breast.  At that point she said, in a very faint voice, "And behind the blade bone."  The clerk then continued reading the depositions, and said that he stabbed her several times, and that she know not what happened.  Clerk—Have you anything to add to the depositions that you have made ?  Matilda gripps—Nothing.  Mr. Abrams then said that he should like to puka few qKestions to her, and he asked her if she had not always been very affectionately treated by the prisoner ? Miss Gripps —He always treated me with the greatest affection and attention. I know that his father had an estate. I made the prisoner's acquaintance at his father's house. He never complained to me of pains in his head. He never told me that watchmaking gave him pains in the head. He did say that brickmaking agreed with him better than watchmaking. He said he had better health. I recollect his having his ears pierced, but I do not recollect that he had it done on account of pains in his head. I walked out with him on Easter Monday. He told me that he had been to the stag-hunt. He did not tell me that he was uneasy in his mind. Ido not recollect that he told me that he could not sleep at night. 1 would not venture to swear that he did not. He came to my house on the Tuesday evening. Ido not think that he was in an excited state. He came at a quarter past eight o'clock. We left the house at, half-past eight o'clock. I did nut notice anything peculiar in his manner. I do not recollect his reply to me, " Matilda, I feel unhappy in my mind." He might have said so.  'At this stage of the examination the witness became quite overcome, and she closed her eyes, and lay back in the chair. Dr. Horne at once came to ker assistance. Mr. Abrams said that he would make the examination as short as possible. Miss Gripps was here assisted out of the count.
The Sun. — 1867-11-20 (London, England)

PEARSE V. PEARSE AND OTHERS.  This suit, which is instituted for the purpose a  testing the validity of the will of the late Mr. Pearse, a solicitor in Westbourne-terrace, was further heard  ;his morning.  Miss Louisa Searle, examined by Dr. Tristram, said that she was the eldest sister of Mrs. Pearse. Witness was present when they returned from their wedding tour. Witness had seen so  nary acts of cruelty from Mr. Pearse to his  wife that she could hardly specify any particulars. He used to perpetrate the most disgusting cruelty. He would twist her arm, take off her wedding ring, punch her, and turn her out of her bedioom. On one occasion she had seen him take a knife, and threaten to stab her because she would not lie in the position he wished her. Witness ran between them, and rang the bell, and sent to her father. In 1851 she had the small-pox. In 1853-54 they went to Brussels and lodged at Madame Hank's, then he turned her out of her bed-room, and she came to witness's room and he afterwards threatened to stab her. In 1857 Mrs. Pears° was confined of a little boy, and Mr. Pearse objected to have a wet nurse, and said it would not be his child b'st the nurse's. He spat on the child and detested it. He said he did not like the expense. 'Witness only stayed till the child was six weeks old. She was invited by Mr. Pearse. She never went there unless so invited after the first year. She went because they were afraid he would murder her. She remembered the Duke of Wellington's funeral. They all attended it. Mrs. Pearse sent to say that she was locked up. She dined with them that day, and the next day Mrs. Pearse went with her father to Mr. Borthwick. She had heard mention made by Mr. Pearse of a lady named Mary. She had heard him say that he wished he had married her rather than her sister.  Crass-examined by Dr. Spinks, Q.C.—Witness did not know what age her sister was when she was married. She thought about 20 ; but he could find out. (Laughter.) She could make no calculations without putting pen to paper. When Mr. Pearse committed the acts she had described he looked like a madman. He was a most incomprehensible man ; he would fly into a passion in a moment. He also threatened to stab his wife a few weeks before the first little child was born. Her father was a clergyman in Hampshire, and was now unable to speak. At the time of the marriage he was living on his means in Loudon. He did not keep his bed, and that was the worst of it, because it was impossible for him from the nature of his illness to do so. He could speak to his family, but he could not keep up any conversation, &c.  (The case was still proceeding when we went to press.)
The Sun. — 1867-11-20 (London, England)

PEARSE V. PEARSE AND OTHERS.  This suit, which is instituted for the purpose of testing the validity of the will of the late Mr. Pearse, a solicitor in Westbournc-terrace, was further heard  Lis moruing,  Miss Louisa Searle, examined by Dr Tristram, said that she was the eldest sister of Mrs.  Pearse. Witness was present when they returned from their wedding tour. Witness had seen so many acts of cruelty from Mr. Pearse to his wife that she could hardly specify any particulars. He used to perpetrate the most disgusting cruelty. Ile ,would twist her arm, take off her wedding ring, punch her, and turn her out of her bedroom. On one occasion she had seen him take a knife, and threaten to stab her because she would not lie in the position he wished her. Witness ran between them, and rang the bell, and sent to her father. In 1851 she had the small-pox. In 1853-54 they went to Brussels and lodged at Madame Hank's, then he turned her out of her bed-room, and she came to witness's room and he afterwards threatened to stab her: In 1857 Mrs. Pearse was confined of a little boy, and Mr. Pearse objected to have a wet nurse, and said it would not be his child but the nurse's. He spat on the child and detested it. He said he did not  like the expense. Witness only stayed till the child was six weeks old. She was invited by Mr. Pearse. She never went there unless so invited after the first year. She went because they were afraid he would murder her. She remembered the Duke of Wellington's funeral. They all attended it. Mrs. Pearse sent to say that she was locked up. She dined with them that day, and the next day Mrs. Pearse went with her father to Mr. Borthwick. She had heard mention made by Mr. Pearse of a lady named Mary. She had heard him say that he wished he had married her rathor than her sister.  Cross-examined by Dr. Spinks, Q.C.—Witness did not know what age her sister was when she was married. She thought about 20 ; but he could find out. (Laughter.) She could make no calculations without putting pen to paper. When Mr. Pearse committed the acts she had described he looked like a madman. He was a most incomprehensible man ; he would fly into a passion in a moment. He also threatened to stab his wife a few weeks before the first little child was born. Her father was a clergyman in Hampshire, and was now unable to speak. At the time of the marriage he was living on his means iu London. He did not keep his bed, and that was the worst of it, because it was impossible for him from the nature of his illness to do so. He could speak to his family, but he could not keep up any conversation, &c.  (The case was still proceeding when we went to press.)