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The Sun. — 1865-08-28 (London, England)

CONSTANCE E. KENT.  " < To Mr. R. Rodway.'" " She told me that when the nursemaid was accused She had fully made up her mind to confess if the nurse had been convicted, and that she had also made up her mind to commit suicide if the was herself convicted. She said-that she had felt herself under the influence of the devil before she committed the murder, but that sho did not believe, and had not believed, that the devil had more to do with her crime than ho had with any other wicked action. She had not said her prayers for a year before the murder, and not afterwards, until she came to reside at Brighton. She said that the circumstance which revived religious feelings in her mind was thinking about receiving sacrament when confirmed. _ _ .  " An opinion has been expressed that the peculiarities evinced by Constance Kent between the ages of 12 and 17 may be attributed to the then transition period of her life. Moreover, the fact of her cutting off her hair, dressing herself in her brother's clothes, and leaving her home with the intention of going abroad, which occurred when she was only 13 years of age, indicated a peculiarity of disposition, and great determination of character, which foreboded that, for good or evil, her future life would be remarkable. "This peculiar disposition, which led her to such singular and violent resolves of action, seemed also to colour and intensify her thoughts and feelings, and magnify into wrongs that were to be revenged any little family incidents or occurrences which provoked her displeasure. " Although it became my duty to advise her counsel that she evinced no symptoms of insanity at the time of my examination, and that so far as it was possible to ascertain the state of her mind at so remote a period, there was no evidence of it at the time of the murder, I am yet of opinion that owing to the peculiarities of her constitution it is probable that under prolonged solitary confinement she would become insane.  " The validity of this opinion is of importance now that the sentence of death has been commuted to penal servitude for life ; for no one could desire that the punishment of the criminal should bo so carried out as to cause danger of a further and greater punishment not contemplated by the law.  " I have the honour to remain your very obedient servant, "
The Sun. — 1865-08-28 (London, England)

CONSTANCE E. KENT.  " ' To Mr. R. Rodway.' " " She told me. that when the nursemaid was accused she had fully made up her mind to confess if the nurse bad been convicted, and that she had also made up her mind to commit suicide if she was herself convicted. She said that she had felt hersehi under the influence of the devil before she committed the murder, but that she did not believe, and had not believed, that the devil had more to do with her crime than he had with any other wicked action. She had not said her prayers for a year before the murder, and not afterwards, until she came to reside at Brighton. She said that the circumstance which revived religious feelings in her mind was thinking about receiving sacrament when confirmed. "An opinion has been expressed that the peculiarities evinced by Constance Kent between the ages of 12 and 17 may be attributed to the then transition period of her life. Moreover, the fact of her cutting off her hair, dressing herself in her brother's clothes, and leaving her home with the intention of going abroad, which occurred when she was only 13 years of age, indicated a peculiarity of disposition, and great determination of character, which foreboded that, for good or evil, her future life would be remarkable. "This peculiar disposition, which led her to such singular and violent resolves of action, seemed also to colour and intensify her thoughts and feelings, and magnify into wrongs that were to be revenged any little family incidents or occurrences which provoked her displeasure. " Although it became my duty to advise her counsel that she evinced no symptoms of insanity at the time of my examination, and that so far as it was possible to ascertain the state of her mind at so remote a period, there was no evidence of it at the time of the murder, I am yet of opinion that owing to the peculiarities of her constitution it is probable that under prolonged solitary confinement she would become insane.  " The validity of this opinion is of importance now that the sentence of death has been commuted to penal servitude for life ; for no one could desire that the punishment of the criminal should be so carried out as to cause danger of a further and greater punishment not contemplated by the law.  "I have the honour to remain your very obedient servant, "
The Sun. — 1865-08-28 (London, England)

CONSTANCE E. KENT.  " To Mr. R. Rodway.' " "She told me that when the nursemaid was accused she had fully made itp her mind to confess if the nurse had been convicted, and that she had also made up her mind to commit suicide if she was herself convicted. She said that she had felt herself under the influence of the devil before she committed the murder, but that she 'did not believe, and had not believed, that the devil had more to do with her crime than he had with any other wicked action. She had not said her prayers for a year before the murder, and not afterwards, until she came to reside at Brighton. She said that the circumstance which revived religious feelings in her mind was thinking about receiving sacrament when 'confirmed. " An opinion has been expressed that the peculiarities evinced by Constance Kent between the ages of 12 and 17 may be attributed to the then transition period of her life. Moreover, the fact of her cutting off her hair, dressing herself in her brother's clothes, and leaving her home with the intention of going abroad, which occurred when she was only 13 years of age, indicated a peculiarity of disposition, and great determination of character, which foreboded that, for good or evil, her future life would be remarkable. " This peculiar disposition, which led her to such singular and violent resolves of action, seemed also to colour and intensify her thoughts and feelings, and magnify into wrongs that were to be revenged any little family incidents or occurrences which provoked her displeasure. "Although it became my duty to advise her counsel that she evinced no symptoms of insanity at the time of my examination, and that so far as it was possible to ascertain the state of her mind at so remote a period, there was no evidence of it at the time of the murder, I am yet of opinion that owing to the peculiarities of her constitution it is probable that under prolonged solitary confinement she would become insane.  " The validity of this opinion is of importance now that the sentence of death has been commuted to penal servitude for life ; for no one could desire that the punishment of the criminal should be so carried out as to cause danger of a further and greater punishment not contemplated by tho raw. "I have thehonour to remain your very obedient servant, "JOHN CHARLES BucKNILL, M.D. "Hillmorton-hall, near Rugby, Aug. 24"  DR. PUSEY (according to the Reader) is said to have in the press a formal reply to the letter which Archbishop Manning recently addressed to him on behalf of Anglo-Romanism. From what we learn of its contents, says the Church, Times, it will be almost as remarkable a work as the "Apologia" of Dr. Newman. It will contain, we are informed, not only a personal defence of Dr. Pusey's position and policy, but a full and complete vindication of the catholicity of the Church of England. Dr. Pusey will address the letter formally to Mr. Keble, preferring this to entering into personal controversy with Dr. Manning.
The Sun. — 1865-02-18 (London, England)

THE MURDERER'S SUICIDE.—Among other pieces of the evidence sworn to by the prisoner who sat next George Townley in chapel immediately before his act of self-destruction on the prison staircase, were the following :—I recollect that on Sunday, the 12th instant, I was sitting on the right of the deceased at chapel. He was very quiet till the last hymn was sung. He then got up, opened his Prayer-book, and sang out the two last verses very loudly. I never heard him do that before. He said to me, "319th hymn." That was tho right hymn. He afterwards shut his Prayer-book, repeated the Service, and then, going before me, walked out. He made a full stop at the bottom step in the chapel, dropped his Prayer-book, got huld of the rails round the gallery, put his feet on the steps, and sprang right over, head over heels, and, as he fell, he exclaimed, "Oh !" He fell flat on his face below. I always sat by his side. I never saw anything particular in him. He was always very quiet. He never used to speak. I have never been spoken to by any one on the subject of his death, and I speak without the least fear what I know of the case. We were all singing when the deceased began to sing. He sang very loudly the following hymn I Thee ed atteahrasnndotobless, bitterness; i Where is death's sting ? Whore, grave, the victory ? I triumph still, if Thou abide with me. Hold Thou Thy cross beforemy.closg ineyes, o Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies. Illsf e ahra n v foe, n weight,wwith T breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee, 0 Lord abide with me. In life, in death, Heaven's morning  Amen.  Ile used to walk out of his cell and go into the chapel and sit down. He never used to speak to any one. When he jumped over the warder was about twenty-four feet from him. He sprang over so suddenly that I had no opportunity of catching hold of him.
The Sun. — 1865-02-18 (London, England)

TIIE MURDERER'S SUICIDE.—Among other pieces of the evidence sworn to by the prisoner who sat next George Townley in chapel immediately before his act of self-destruction on the prison staircase, were, the following:—I recollect that on Sunday, the 12th instant, I was sitting on the right of the deceased at chapel. He was very quiet till the last hymn was sung. He then got up, opened his Prayer-book, and sang out the two last verses very loudly. I never heard him do that before. He said to me, "319th hymn." That was the right hymn. He afterwards shut his Prayer-book, repeated the Service, and then, going before me, walked out. He made a full stop at the bottom step in the chapel, dropped his Prayer-book, got hold of the rails round the gallery, put his feet on the steps, and sprang right over, head over heels, and, as he fell, he exclaimed, " Oh!" He fell flat on his face below. I always sat by his side. I never saw anything particular in him. He was always very quiet. He never used to speak. I have never been spoken to by any one on the subject of his death, and I speak without the least fear what I know of the case. We were all singing when the deceased began to sing. He sang very loudly the following hymn :  " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ;"  and accordingly discretion is the betterh reading,pa part of, Gen. BUTLER'S valour. According to failures, if they are not disasters, are to be accepted as triumphs. So far from success being a virtue, it is rather a reproach, for what great battle was ever won without loss of life ? Gen. BUTLER has three feathers in his military cap, and if the world calls them white rather than red, that is his very subject of self-congratulation. " 44 the credit and the I claim," he says, glory ot not haying assaulted  I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless, Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness ; Where is death's sting ? Where, grave, the victory ? I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.  Hold Thou Thy cross before my .closing eyes, Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies. Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee, In life, in death, 0 Lord, abide with me. Am • en. He used to walk out of his cell and go into the chapel and sit down. He never used to speak to any one. When he jumped over the warder was about twenty-four feet from him. He sprang over so suddenly that I ham) opportunity of catching hold of him.  , Fort Fisher," and to this triumph he fortunately LATEST INTELLIGENCE adds two others. He failed at Big Bethel, and he • failed at the Dutch Gap Canal. It would really (
The Sun. — 1865-04-24 (London, England)

DETECTOR.  For notices of this starting work see the "Saturday Re view" of April 1, entitled "Quacks and Quackery ;' the " Weekly aspatch" of April "The Quacks and their Crimes " The Sun" of April 12, "'Detector's' Broadside on Quacks and Quackery." GUIDE TO THE QUACKS OF LONDON . .  A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in the " Medical Circular," with the signature of "Detector," has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. The reader of "Punch" should read this pamphlet also. He has often read, in the pages of "Punch," of certain Quacks, fraudulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences, and more money by menaces and extortion, from green young men. For their names, which " Punch" would not advertise, he has referred his readers to the lower corner of the advertising columns of low newspapers, amongst which too many of Mr." Punch's" contemporai ies, especially in the country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to publish the information that a nominal list of these miscreants, with copies of their pull's and other particulars concerning them, n-.edfut to be known, will be found in the pamphl t above referred to, which is entitled "Revelation of Quacks and Quackery." and is to be had at the "Medical Circular " Office, 20, King William-street, Strand, W.O. The vile practices, the monstrous impudence, the cruel rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they work, even to the causation of suicide, are iully.set forth in " Revelations of Quacks ai,d Qackery." And mark espec'ally that, as aforesaid, the names of the Quacks are publishet The pamphlet in question thus constitutes a regular Quack Directory, by consulting which every young man may know where he may go if' he wishes to get plundered and destroyed. Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy " h evelations of Quacks and Quackery." Its contents will astonish and amuse whi e they invoke your indignation and disgust. 01 coarse you do not want it on account of its warnings for your own sake, but you doubtless do for ghat of the many simpletons with whom you must be acquainted, if your acquaintance is large. " Who are tne Quacks that 'Punch' Means ?" Consider what it is to he able to answer V.is question of the young and inexperienced, and, _for charity's sake, if for no other, go and provide yourself with "Revelations of Quacks and quackery," by Detector.--Punch, April 12.  Demy Bvo.. extra cloth, 6s. ticl.,  LIFE: Its NATURE, VARIETIES, and
The Sun. — 1865-05-09 (London, England)

GUIDE TO THE QUACKS OF LONDON. A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in the " Medical Circular," with the signature of "Detector," has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. The reader of " Punch" should read this pamphlet also. He has often read, in the pages of "Punch," of certain Quacks, fraudulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences, and more money by menaces and extortion, from green young men. For their names, which "Punch" would not advertise, he has-referred his readers to the lower corner of the advertising columns of low newspapers, amongst which too many of Mr. "Punch's" contemporaries, especially in the country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to publish the information that a nominal list of these miscreants, with copies of their puffs and other particulars concerning them, needful to be known, will be found in the pamphlet above referred to, which is entitled "Revelations of Quacks and Quackery," and is to be had at the "Medical Circular" Office, 20, King William-street, Strand, W.C. The vile practices, the monstrous impudence, the cruel rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they work, even to the causation of suicide, are fully set forth in " Revelations of Quacks and Qackery." And mark especially that, as aforesaid, the names of the Quacks are published. The pamphlet in question thus constitutes a regular Quack Directory, by consulting which every young man may know where he may go if he wishes to get plundered and destroyed. Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy " Revelations of Quacks and Quackery." Its contents will astonish and amuse you, whi e they invoke your indignation and disgust. Of course you do not want it on account of its warnings for your own sake, but you doubtless do for that of the many simpletons with whom you must be acquainted, if your acquaintance is large. " Who are tne Quacks that 'Punch' means I" Consider what it is to he able to answer this question of the young and inexperienced, and, for charity's sake, if for no" other, go and provide yourself with "Revelations of Quacks id Quackery," by Detector.—Punch, April 12.
The Sun. — 1865-05-09 (London, England)

GUIDE TO THE QUACKS OF LONDON. A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in the " aiedical Ciroular," with the signature of "Detector," has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. The reader of " Punch" should read this pamphlet also. He has often read, in the pages of "Punch," of certain Quacks, fraudulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences, and more money by menaces and extortion, from green young men. For their names, which " Punch" would not advertise, he has referred his readers to the lower corner of the advertisint; columns of low newspapers, amongst which too many of Mr." Punch's" contemporaries, especially in the country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to publish the information that a nominal list of these miscreants, with copies of their puffs and other particulars concerning them, needful to be known, will be found in the pamphlet above referred to, which is entitled "Revelations of Quacks and Quackery," and is to be had at the "Medical Circular" Office, 20, King William-street, Strand, W.C. The vile practices, the monstrous impudence, the cruel rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they work, even to the causation of suicide, are fully set forth in "Revelations of Quacks and Qackery." And mark especially that, as aforesaid, the names of the Quacks are published. The pamphlet in question thus constitutes a regular Quack Directory, by consulting which every young man may know where be may go if he wishes to get plundered and destroyed. Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy "Revelations of Quacks and Quackery." Its contents will astonish and amuse you, whi e they invoke your indignation and disgust. Of course you do not want it on account of its warnings for your own sake, but you doubtless do for that of the many simpletons with whom you must be acquainted, if your acquaintance is large. " Who are tne Quacks that 'Punch' means 2" Consider what it is to be able to answer this question of the young and inexperienced, and, for charity's sake, if for no other, go and provide yourself with " Revelations of Quacks and Quackery," by Detector.—Punch, April 12.
The Sun. — 1865-05-09 (London, England)

EDWIN M. STANTON, Sec. of War."  It is reported from Havanna that serious apprehensions exist there of an insurrection by the slaves. Deposits of arms have been found, and several negroes arrested. The plot is said to embrace the slaves all over the island. It is stated that the exchange of 6,000 Union prisoners, now going on at Darien, will take all the Confederates hold, while we yet hold from 65,000 to 70,000.  There was a report in New Orleans on the 18th inst. that Jeff. Davis escaped to the west side of the Mississippi river on the night of the 16th, crossing at Tinker's Bend. At the same time it was reported that the rebel troops of the Trans-Mississippi army, under Kirby Smith, were being disbanded and returning to their homes. The latest advices from Mobile say that General Canby had prohibited the entrance into the city of all persons excepting those connected with the army or navy. - A blockade runner with 1000 bales of cotton on board had been captured above Mobile in the Mobile river. On the 14th inst. Gen. A. J. Smith's corps of national troops was 11 milesbeyond the town of Blakeley en route for Montgomery, Alabama, in pursuit of the retreating rebels. The national gunboats sunk by rebel torpedoes and obstructions during the operations against Mobile were the Milwaukee, Osage, Laura, Ida, • Iberville, Blossom, Rover, Scotia, and No. 48. Nearly all the monitors were up to the city on the 14th inst., and the remainder of Admiral Thatcher's fleet would immediately follow. A despatch received by the New York 7imes says that Payne, the assassin, has, since his confinement, attempted suicide by butting his head against the iron walls of his prison, reducing it almoet to a jelly. The same journal states that Johnston at first proposed to surrender on the terms granted to Lee, but Hampton objected, whereupon Sherman granted a delay for the opportunity to consult with Jefferson Davis. The next day another meeting took place, when the remarkable propositions sent to Washington by Sherman were presented. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, April 25.—The rebel Colonel Jessie, with 28 of his gUerillas, were captured near Eminence yesterday morning by Colonel Buckley's men. Loss small on both sides. A despatch from the Secretary of War, received in New York on the 27th inst., announces the death of J. Wilkes Booth, the murderer of President Lincoln. Booth, together with an accomplice named Harrold, were driven from a swamp in St. Mary's county, Maryland, and took refuge in a barn. The pursuing party set the barn on fire, when Booth in attempting to escape was shot. Harrold was captured. Booth's body was conveyed to Washington. By a collision in Chesapeake Bay, on Tuesday night, a transport was sunk and fifty soldiers drowned.  Secretary Seward was able to ride out yesterday.