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The Sun. — 1854-01-02 (London, England)

AUGUST. 1. Police meetings interdicted by the chief commissioner. Railway accidents, South-Western Railway. Trial of the Hon. F. Scott, chairman, and Joseph Beattie, superintendent of the locomotive department, for manslaughter; both found not guilty. Strike of the market gardeners' labourers at Fulham. Railway communication from Fenchurch-street to Kew opened. _ _ _  2. Strike of dock labourers. 3. Execution of Hans Macfarlane and Helen Blackwood, at Glasgow, for the murder of Alexander Boyd, shipcarpenter. 4. Advertisement duty ceased this day. 5. Strike of workmen in her Majesty's Dockyard, Devonport. 6. The first sod of Portsmouth Railway cut. 8. Smyth v. Smyth; this celebrated case of imposture tried at Gloucester, before Justice Coleridge. 11. George Richard Smyth, the plaintiff in " Smyth v. Smyth," committed for trial for forgery aed uttering documents, &c. 15. Dreadful accident at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham —l2 men killed, and many others dangerously wounded. 17. General Sir F. Adam, G.C.8., died. 18. Mr. Bransby Cooper, F.R.S., died. Major-General Lord Saltoun died. 20. Presentation of medals to Viscount Palmerston by the Polish Historical Society of Paris. Prorogation of Parliament. Speech from the Throne. The break-up of Chobham Camp. 22. Public dinner in honour of R. Steplensoh, Esq., M.P., at Montreal. The Hon. Sir George Cockburn, G.C.8.,F.R.5., &c., died, aged 82. Strike of coalheavers. Singular charge against Mr. Wilkinson, it the Mansion-house, of unlawfully bargaining for an East India appointment. 23. Maynooth commission nominated. Account of another ascent of Mont Bla?u, by Lieut. A. C. Murray, R.N. Report of select committee published as to picture cleaning at the National Gallery ; precautions for the future ; reforms and improvements. New act to prevent the defacinc; and bending of coin. Death from cholera in Millbank Prison. Marriage of Vie Duke and Duchess of Brabant, at Brussels. 24. Murder of his wife by Nathaniel Mobbs, and attempted suicide by the murderer. Death from cholera in Bethnal-green. Loss of the Meridian, off Amsterdam blind. 26 Prince Albert's birthday. Great destruction of shipping along the coast during a gale. 27. Loss of the British ship Sea, off Por Philip Heads, May 31; 17 lives lost. Loss of emigrant ship Charles Clarke, on 27th July last ; 95 lives lost. Royal visit to Ireland, departure of her Majesty from Portsmouth for Holyhead, and embarkation therefrom. 29. Royal visit to Ireland ; arrival of her Majesty with the fleet at Kingstown, and entry into Dublin. Lieut. General Sir Charles Napier died. Strike of factory operatives at Hull. 30. Strikes of the navvies engac'ed on the sewer works, and of lightermen of the port of London. Royal visit to Ireland. Visit of her Majesty and Prince Albert to the Dublin Industrial Exhibition. 31. Railway accidents. Great Northern Railway (Hornsey). Many persons injured, amongst whom were the Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Enfield, the Lord Mayor, Sir James Duke, &c. Mrs. Harrison had a compound fracare of the leg.
The Sun. — 1854-01-02 (London, England)

REMARKABLE EVENTS DURING THE  YEAR 1853.  JANUARY.  1. New Ministry. Re-election of Hon. W. F. Cowper, Sir James Graham, Sir George Grey, and Sir Wm. Molesworth, severally for Hertford, Carlisle, Morpeth, and Southwark. _ _ ..._ .  3. New Ministry. Mr. T. Baines' Lord Palmerston, Lord John Russell, and Sir Charles Wood, severally reelected for Leeds, Tiverton, London, and Halifax. 4. Hydrophobia.—Admiral Tremlett's specific for the bite of a mad dog proved effectual. Banquet to the American Minister at Liverpool. New Ministry, &c. Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Alfred Hervey, James Moncrieff, C. P. Villiers, Sir W. P. Wood, severally re-elected for Marlborough, Brighton, Leith Burghs, Wolverhampton, and Oxford City. 5. Nathaniel Alexander, Esq., M.P., died. 6. Subterranean telegraph operations commenced between London and Liverpool. New Ministry. R. Bethell, the Hon. F. M. Berkeley, Right Hon. E. Cardwell, and Lord Alfred Paget, severally re-elected for Aylesbury, Gloucester City, Oxford City, and Lichfield. Malicious attempt to upset a railway train, by placing four wooden sleepers across the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln line.  8. Duke of Wellington's will proved under 800,0001. Singular bequest : between 800 and 900 persons regaled with a new year's gift of a penny roll each at Colchester. 10. Execution of Horler for the murder of his wife. Great overflow of the river Thames. Robert Ferdinand Pries charged at the Mansion House with obtaining 35,000/. by forgeries. Walter Scott Lockhart Scott, of Abbotsford died, aged 27. _ _ _  11. Death of the oldest clergyman in London, the Rev. W. Antrobus, D.D. _ _  Sale of the oldest ship in England at Sunderland, the Old Concord.  Caloric steam-ship Ericsson made her trial trip at New York. 12. Ravages caused by yellow fever on board H.M.S. Dauntless ; attacked, 120 ; died 59. - Mr. Monsell re-elected for Limerick county. 13. Fracas between Eighth Hussars and mechanics of Nottingham. Grand banquet at Southampton to the directors, &c., of the General Screw Steam Shipping Company. New Ministry. Viscount Drumlanrig re-elected for Dumfries county. Great ten-hours meeting at Stockport. Execution of George Christie at Aberdeen for a double murder. 14. Female poachers from Arbroath captured. Extraordinary death of Mr. Jones, in Acre-lane, Brixton. 15. Execution of Samuel Barbour for murder at York. Commission of lunacy on the Earl of Eldon. 19. Death of the Earl of Oxford ; title extinct. 20. Dover cliffs, immense fall of 8,000 to 10,000 tons. New Ministry. Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, returned for Oxford University. Suicide of Dr. Rice, Head Master of Christ's Hospital.  27. Perm Conference held at Manchester. 29. Marriage ceremonies of Louis Napoleon, Emperor of France, civil contract. 30 Fire at Wilton Abbey, the seat of the Right Hon S. Herbert, M.P.
The Sun. — 1854-01-02 (London, England)

DECEMBER. 1. Inauguration of St. Martin's-hall, Long-acre. 3. Shipwrecks, &c. Intelligence of the loss of the Marshall, Hull steam-ship, with 170 lives. 4. Vice-Admiral Dawes died. _ _ _  5. Royal commission on the recent prevalence of cholera at, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Extraordinary occurrence at Portsmouth ; the authority of the Queen defied by a Russian officer, in respect to men who had deserted from-a Russian frigate. 6. Opening of the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford, and Shrewsbury and Hereford Railways. 12. The late fog ; 14 vessels wrecked. Russia and Turkey. Naval victory over the Turks by !he Russians, Nov. 30, at Sinope. 16. Russia and Turkey. Intelligence of the defeat of the Turks at Akalsik ; 4,000 Turks slain.  17. Resignation of Lord Palmerston. 22. Lord Palmerston returned to office, after a resignation of five days. 25. (Christmas-day) Tremendous fire at Esher—partial destruction of the Royal paper mills. Dr. Mill, Regius Professor of Hebrew, &c., died. Dr. Gilkrest, Inspector-General of rmy Hospitals, died.  26. Christmas-day falling on a Sunday, this day was observed as a general holiday, the shops being closed. Pisces of amusement open as usual. The transfer and dividend offices at the Bank of England were closed, and all business suspended except in reference to bills falling due; the Customs and Excise Offices shut.  28. Colonel Layard, late M.P. for Carlow, committed suicide. - •  =lntelligence of war declared by Persia agains'  Turkey. - Railway accidents. Taff Vale ; rush of a train down the inclined plane, near Dowlais, from alleged neglect : one woman's back broken, many other persons dreadfully injured. 29. Skating in the parks. News received of Lord Dudley Stuart's visit to Constantinople, to persuade the Porte to accept the services of the Polish refugees. -- Intelligence of an attempt by the Russians to set fire to the allied fleets at Constantinople. Rumour of Turkey having accepted the last proposition of the Four Powers.  30. News of a treaty, offensive and defensive, between Russia and Persia.  Meeting of Parliament fixed for the 31st of January, 31. Rumour that the Emperor of Russia formally re. jects the protocol and note of the sth of December.
The Sun. — 1854-01-02 (London, England)

AUGUST.  1. Police meetings interdicted by the chief commissioner. Railway accidents, South-Western Railway. Trial of the Hon. F. Scott, chairman, and Joseph Beattie, superintendent of the locomotive department, for manslaughter; both found not guilty. Strike of the market gardeners' labourers at Fulham. Railway communication from Fenchurch-atreet to Sew opened. 2. Strike of dock labourers.  3. Execution of Hans Macfarlane and Helen Blackwood, at Glasgow, for the murder of Alexander Boyd, shipcarpenter. 4. Advertisement duty ceased this day. 5. Strike of workmen in her Majesty's Dockyard, Devonport. 6. The first sod of Portsmouth Railway cut. 8. Smyth v. Smyth ; this celebrated case of imposture tried at Gloucester, before Justice Coleridge. 11. George Richard Smyth, the plaintiff in " Smyth v. Smyth," committed for trial for forgery and uttering documents, &c. 15. Dreadful accident at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham —l2 men killed, and many others dangerously wounded: 17. General Sir F. Adam, G.C.8., G.C.M.G., died. 18. Mr. Bransby Cooper, F.R.S., died. Major-General Lord Saltoun died. 20. Presentation of medals to Viscount Palmerston by the Polish Historical Society of Paris. Prorogation of Parliament. Speech from the Throne. Th break-up of Chobham Camp. 22. Public dinner in honour of R. Stephenson, Esq., M.P., at Montreal.  The Hon. Sir George Cockburn, G.C.8., F.R.S., died, aged 82. Strike of coalheavers. Singular charge against Mr. Wilkinson, at the Mansion-house, of unlawfully bargaining for an East India appointment. 23. Maynooth commission nominated. Account of another ascent of Mont Blanc, by Lieut. A. C. Murray, R.N. Report of select committee published as to picture cleaning at the National Gallery ; precautions for the future ; reforms and improvements. New act to prevent the defacing; and bending of coin.  Death from cholera in Milibank Prison. Marriage of V. le Duke and Duchess of Brabant, at Brussels.  24. Murder of his wife by Nathaniel Mobbs, and attempted suicide by the murderer. Death from cholera in Bethnal-green. Loss of the Meridian, off Amsterdam Island. 26 Prince Albert's birthday. Great destruction of shipping along the coast during a gale.  F 27. Loss of the British ship Sea, off Poe Philip Heads, May 31; 17 lives lost. Loss of emigrant ship Charles Clarke, on 27th July last ; 95 lives lost. Royal visit to Ireland, departure of her Majesty from Portsmouth for Holyhead, and embarkation therefrom. 29. Royal visit to Ireland ; arrival of her Majesty with the fleet at Kingstown, and entry into Dublin. Lieut. General Sir Charles Napier died. Strike of factory operatives at Hull. 30. Strikes of the navvies engaged on the sewer works, and of lightermen of the port of London. Royal visit to Ireland. Visit of her Majesty and Prince Albert to the Dublin Industrial Exhibition.  31. Railway accidents. Great Northern Railway (Hornsey). Many persons injured, amongst whom were the Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Enfield, the Lord Mayor, Sir James Duke, &c. Mrs. Harrison had a compound fracture of the leg.
The Sun. — 1854-09-05 (London, England)

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.  The Priam, from Portland Bay to London, July 29, lat. 13 N, long. 25 W. The Armorique, from Nantes to Monte Video, Aug. 1, lat. 15 N, long. 26 W. The Hamburg Barque, No. 187, Aug. 4, lat. 18 N, long. 33 W. The Fanny (brig), from Adelaide to London, Aug. 24, lat. 46 N, long. 21 W. The Ulrica, from Singapore to Liverpool, Aug. 26, lat. 47 N., long. 67 W. The Venus, from Antigua to Bristol, Aug. 29, lat. 50 N, long. 12 W. The Joseph Shepherd, from Constantinople, Aug. 30, lat. 50 N, long. 11 W. The Cares, from Liverpool to Honduras, July 21, lat. 20 N, long. 40 W. The Emma (Hamburg schooner), outward bound, Aug. 30, 1r t. 49 N, long. 8 W. The Asia (s.), from Liverpool, Aug. 23. The De Witt, from Liverpool to New York, Aug. 23, let. 49 N, long. 13 W. The Emilia (Hamburg brig), No. 139, Aug. 25, lat. 49 N, long. 6 W. The Ellen Hardy, from Malta to Quebec, Aug. 6, let. 46 N, long. 56 W.  RAILWAY ACCIDENTS,—From a Parliamentary paper just printed, it appears that there were 100 persons killed and 119 injured by accidents on all the railways in the United Kingdom during the half-year ending June 30, 1854, there being 81 killed and 102 injured in England and Wales, 14 killed and 13 injured in Scotland, and 5 killed and 4 injured in Ireland. Of those killed, 22 (3 passengers and 19 rail Way servants or contractors) met their death from causes over which they' had no control, and 40 (4 passengers and 36 railway servants) in consequence of their own misconduct or want of caution. In like-manner 72 passengers and 19 railway servants were injured from causes over which they had no control, while 3 passengers and 44 servants or contractors met with injuries from their own carelessness or misconduct. 38 trespassers or other persons, not passengers or servants, were killed and 5 injured while crossing or walking on the railway, There were no suicides. These accidents occurred on 7,813 miles of railway, of which 5,964 are open in England Wales, 996 in Scotland, and 853 in Ireland. The number of accidents to trains was 47, 36 being to passenger and 11 to goods or mineral trains. Of the 36 accidents to passenger trains 21 were collisions between passenger and other trains or engines, and of the 11 accidents to goods and mineral trains 5 were collisions. The total number of deaths resulting from accidents to trains was 11, and of injuries 85. Of these no less than 9 deaths and 64 injuries were caused by collisions alone, 2 deaths and 57 injuries being to passengers, and the remainder to railway servants.  TREATMENT OF JUVENnE
The Sun. — 1854-08-10 (London, England)

CHESTER.—CROWN COURT, AUG. 9. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) Sarah Featherston was charged with the murder of Joseph Chadderton Featherston, her son, aged eleven months, on the 28th of July last. The prisoner, who is a respectable-looking girl, not quite twenty years of age, has followed the business of a dressmaker at Stoke, near Crewe, for some time past. About two years ago Elbe was seduced by a young man, who afterwards deserted her. She gave birth to a male child, and about two month since put it out to nurse to a woman Darned Hanns.h Latham. The prisoner had been promised marriage by another young man recently. The child was a very sickly one, and as no money had been paid by the mother for its maintenance, Mrs. Latham said she could no longer keep it. Accordingly, on Friday morning the 28th ult., the -prisoner fetched the child from the nurse. Nothing further was seen of it until the following Tuesday morning, the Ist inst., when, as the constable of the district was passing a small pit near the Shropshire Union Canal, close to the nurse's residence, something in it attracted his attention, and he took from it the body of a male infant. The frock was pinned over its head, and two half-bricks were fastened within the frock against the head. The child was quite dead. A post mortem examination was made, and from the evidence of the surgeon on the trial, it appeared that death had not been caused by drowning, but by the bruizes on the back of the head, evidently produced by a blow or a fall on some very hard substance. The clothes ,which the child had-on, were identified as those which the infant Featherston wore, although none of the witnesses spoke positively as to the identity of the child. After her appiehension the prisoner said to the special high copstable immediately prior to her being taken before the coroner, "I wish you to tell Mr. Edleston solicitor), that he need not attend, for I am guilty of the crime ; it is of no use me denying it." For her , defence, it was stated that the prisoner's father died in a state of insanity, her uncle is at present in a lunatic asylum, her sister is an idiot, and it was said that she (the prisimer) had attempted some months ago to commit suicide. The probability that the death might have been caused by a fall, and that the unfortunate mode of getting rid of the body, adopted by, the prisoner, was in order to avoid the shame of a public ;funeral, was , pressed upon the consideration of the jury; in an earnest appeal by the learned counsel for the prisoner. She was found guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy. , 1 • His lordship, having put on the black cap, passed sentence of death in the usual form. The recommendation to mercy should be forwarded to the proper quarter, but at present he could hold out no hoper His lordship was very much affected while passing sentence. Mr. Swetenham then pleaded the prisoner's pregnancy, and a jury of matrons was immediately empanelled. They found, after seeing the prisoner in the gaol, that she is not quick with child, and this verdict was accordingly added to the former one.
The Sun. — 1854-06-02 (London, England)

JOCKEYS. fiance and Pique steamers took her through Hamoaze into the Sound, whence, at 4 o'clock, a favourable breeze Crouch. carried her out of sight of land in about two hours. Flatman. The engineers, boiler makers, &c., volunteers from the S. Rogers. factory at Woolwich for service at Malta, leave Woolwich Wells. to-day for Southampton, toleinbark in the Candia, screw islopeful J. Osborne. steamship of the Peninsular and Oriental Oteam NavigaBartholomew. tion Co., for a passage to their destination. ) yesterday to join the Woolwich division of Royal Marines. They aro principally volunteers from the Shropshire regiment of Militia. .ston el, —' " ery left the garrison at Woolwich at 6 a.m. yesterday, and embarked at Roff's wharf in one of the Woolwich Steam-boat Company's vessels, for conveyance to Shoeburyness, where they are to join the Ist company of the _ _ same battalion, for practise with the Minis carbines in the mornings and with the siege guns and long ranges in the afternoons. They are two of the six companies under orders for foreign service. Gunner and Di iver, Fuller, until lately groom to Captain and Adjutant Telfer, of the Royal Artillery, committed suicide yesterday morning at six o'clock, while getting ready for guard-mounting. By some means he loaded his gun unobserved by the other men, and, with the aid of a piece of twine and his foot, pulled the trigger after he had placed the piece under his chin, and blew his head almost entirely off. The deceased had been 15 years in the service, and has left a wife and two children. Lieut.-Colonel Yule has been appointed to command the Royal Engineers of Jersey, in the place of Lieut.Colonel Alexander, who has gone to join the army in Turkey. A detachment of the 44th Foot proceeded b y railway yesterday morning from Portsmouth to Waliner, to join the depot. from Leds.
The Sun. — 1861-07-04 (London, England)

OOZ. stock South Eastern ........ 100 82 82/ 82 5 20 Riga & Dunaburg...... 18.8. - thin iron lates will do, giv. ing our Th last week's railway receints ascertained un stock South Wales .......... 100 61 63 625 20 Royal Dani5h.......... all 13 14 is a saf P e course. Jack has always been inclined to clos.e 5 , ttoyal Swedish ........ all - tain height-which we are sorry is not given- e --- . , , stock S. York. and River Dun 100 94 07 1860. ,25 DO d 0 20 Staines, Wok,. and Wok all 4 7 4 I Do. 7 per cent. Pref...., all - quarters, he has a natural taste for attack-all our expen- to this day, are in round figures as under :separates into two branches. It will also be 0b£9432:883290 £94,51:894743 1861. 25 Stockton & Darlington all 39 40 20 jSambre & Meuse ...... all 51 51 ence proves that. served that at the smallest part the trunk measures /3 91 104 r, 23 10 j Do. 51 per cent. Pref..... all 81 a 2! 81 ' " Give him as good a ship as possible, but let him have about ten feet in diameter. airotrnusshtyi weapon, and we need not fear for the result. If Great Wes.tern North-Western 100 - - 20 San Paulo, lim, a. 7 p.c. 4 2lf f 20 S.Aust.&Lomb Venetin 16 1 Ids s South-Western - _ 26 Southern of France.... all 22 23 ps are to be the future vessels of our navy it is 7he Medical Critic and Psychological J-ournai, _qui.te_ certain that we cannot have many of them. Expense Brighton 23,312 22,689 21,404 21,951 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rail: 22 - ... aNleev.v. r„:02...... 20 S. East Portugal 7 p et. 4 - - s• 25 Do ...... 50 Ulster . - , , ah 554 561 ' 100 88 91 8/ West Flandero ' wwiatlrrbFat us as it is beating France at this moment. The . No. 3. Midland 23,380 25,178 37,624 38 991 j , Under the head of Quarterly retrospect, among South-Eastern do ior and the Black Prince are more costly than half a zen of the heaviest ships of the line. They cost over a Great Northern ti *1 Se : other matters we find an account of that remark- 23 West,rn of Austria...., 6 - 1 ilr la ion of money-so that expense will tell upon the longest able suicide and attempted suicide which took place ii . , I ancashire and Yorkshire rtoclko vriDleo (;f.N. ea:ih. ........., 2 20 Western of Switzer land! all - 5 erir:. time. But surely we have nothing to fear even in in Paris some short time back, such a crime as could ristol and Exeter 7,086 7,853 stock Watertord & Kilkenny: 100 - _ 6 Wiesbaden ... - it'll: North-Eastern .. - _ 6 Do. 8 per cent Pref.... all - 3 , pect, for as long a.s our coals and ir ,n last,.and su Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln - posinor th Ps only take place in France, when the two devoted a e sovereignty of the seas is to be won by ironsides, to West L0nd0n.......... all - _ . i 1 b f ' • •tt bl d overs, y way o giving a romantic urn o a oo y South Wales - -
The Sun. — 1861-07-11 (London, England)

DARING ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE IN A PUBLICHOUSE.—A respectably attired woman, who gave the name of Ann Bishop, residing at 13, Pool'sbuildings, and who seemed in a very excited state, was placed at the bar before Mr. Barker, charged with attempting to commit suicide, by taking a quantity of sugar of lead, at the Blue Lion publichouse, Gray's Inn-road. From the evidence it appeared that the defendant and three men entered the above public-house, and were served with a pot of beer. When the defendant took up the pot to drink, she put it to her mouth with both hands, and when she had drank she said, " I have done it—l have taken poison." Thinking that this was only done for the purpose of making a disturbance, both the defendant and her companions were ordered out. As soon as they had got outside some white powder was found in the pot, and the person who had served the beer, finding that the woman had fallen, and apparently was in a very bad state, Emit for Police-constable Turner, 157 G, who found her lying on the pavement, and he took from her hand a paper which was labelled " poison." The constable took the woman to the Royal Free Hospital, where she was seen by the house surgeon, and the stomach-pump being applied, a quantity of sugar of lead was taken from her. The prisoner seemed as if she had been drinking, and before she purchased the poison had been heard to say that she was tired of her life. The defendant, who clasped her hands and seemed  in a very excited state, exclaimed, "Oh ! where is my husband ; he ought to be here." Getting a little cooler, she said that she had been out in the morning, and had seen her husband in company with another woman, and that so upset her that she was determined to take her life. She was now, however, very sorry for what she had done. Mr. Barker, in a very feeling manner, told the prisoner that she had been guilty of one of the worst of crimes, for by taking her own life she was guilty of murder. As she was in such an excited state it would not be right of him to let her go. He would remand her until Tuesday next, and while she was in the House of Detention she would have the good advice of the chaplain. The defendant was removed screaming from the dock.