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The Sun. — 1857-05-14 (London, England)

HONG KONG. Mr, DUNLOP asked the Secretary of State for the  Colonies, with reference to the fact, appearing from th e Parliamentary paper No. 147, of last session, that, whils the emi:ration officer at Hong Kong had refused to grant a certificate for more than 81 Chinese coolies being taken to sea by the John Calvin, bound for Havana, that vessel carried away 297 such passengers, of whom 110 perished on the voyage, by suicide and disease, and 23 more in quarantine and hospital at Havana : whether the conduct of the master, in taking passengers exceeding so greatly in number that for which the certificate was granted, was a contravention of the Chinese Passengers' Act of 1355, and, if so, whether instructions bad been given for enforcing the penalties under the bond granted at Hong Kong in terms of that act ; or, if it be not, whether her Majesty's Government would propose an amendment of the act to remedy a defect which gave occasion to kidnapping and its consequences : and, whether any communication had been made to his department of an explanation having been demanded or received from the British Consul General in Cubs of the statement, so far as regards the John Calvin, contained in his report on the cases of that vessel and the Duke of Portland, that he had minutely inquired into them, and that there was no blame whatever attached to the masters of that vessel I  Mr. LABOUCHERE said that the officers at Hong Kong only licensed for 80 coolies, and that the others were carried against that license. The authorities were considering whether the law was sufficient to prevent such conduct, and if so, measures would be asoordingly taken, and if it was found the law was defective he should take steps to amend it. With regard to the conduct of the Consul at Havannab, no blame was justly imputed to him.
The Sun. — 1857-08-22 (London, England)

THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY TO SCOTLAND.—Her Majesty the Qaeen, with the Prince Consort and the younger branches of the royal family, will arrive at Buckingham Palace on Thursday evening, from the Isle of Wight; and on the following morning, at eight o'clock, the illustrious party will leave the Great Northern Railway station at King's-cross, for Scotland. Her Majesty will bleep at Holyrood Palace on Friday night, and on the following day the journey to Balmoral will be completed. The Duke of Montrose has, during the last week, been on a visit to the Earl of Eglinton, at his shooting box in Ayrshire. The noble duke and his lordship have had excellent sport.  The Duke of Wellington has returned to Apsley House from a short visit to his grace's estate in Norfolk  The Doke 9f Rutland and Lord George Manners have arrived at Longahawe, Derbyshire. The Marchioness of Londonderry, has left Seahatn Hall tor liarronlowin,uva iciuyouw o ooau ILLhue county Antrim.  The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, accompanied by Viscount Powerscourt, left town early in the week for Powerscourt, the noble viscount's seat in Retain. The Earl and Countess of Durham are at Lambtone Cattle, Durham. Lord and Lady Aberdour and family have arrived on a visit to the noble earl and countess. The Earl of Sefton and Mr. Grenfell are in the north of Scotland for the shooting season. Viscount and Tiscountess Villiers leave town to-day, for Upton Park, Warwickshire. Lord Sondes left town yesterday for Germany. Lady Sondes and the Hon. Misses Milles leave on Monday for the family seat in Norfolk. Lady Stuart de Rothsay is making a tour of the German watering-places. The Barons de Ronne and F. de Klossmann left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, yesterday, for St. Petersburg. Sir Alexander Cockburn, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, left town yesterday for Homberg, for a brief relaxation from his judicial functions. ATTEMPTED SUICIDES —Two women, of middle age, living in different parts of the metropolis, were removed to St. Thomas's Hospital yesterday morning, having taken oxalic acid with intent to commit suicide. The assertions communicated at official quarters in London to csrtain foreign ambassadors with respect to Indian affairs is—her Majesty's Government is using every effort to despatch troops by the overland route, and that for some time to come a large European force will permanently occupy India. A letter from Toulon, of the 18th inst., informs us that a small Russian squadron is shortly expected in that port. It is composed of the corvettes Zoubre, Ryes, and Oudaff, under the command of Commodore Libatcheff. On the occasion of the Emperor's fete 25 convicts sentenced to labour at the galleys in Toulon received their pardon. VISITING LADrES AT
The Sun. — 1857-08-22 (London, England)

THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY TO SCOTLAND.—Her Majesty the Qi?en, with the Prince Consort and the younger branches of the royal family, will arrive at Buckingham Palace on Thursday evening, from the Isle of Wight; and on the following morning, at eight o'clock, the illustrious party will leave the Great Northern Railway station at King's-cross, for Scotland. Her Majesty will sleep at Holyrood Palace on Friday .night, and on the following day the journey to Balmoral will be completed. The Duke of Montrose has, during the last week, been on a visit to the Earl of Eglinton, at his shooting box in Ayrshire. The noble duke and his lordship have bad excellent sport. The Doke of Wellington has returned to Apsley House from a short visit to his grace's estate in NorfJlk. The Duke of Rutland and Lord George Manners have arrived at Longshawe, Derbyshire. The Marchioness of Londonderry, has left Seaham Hall for GarronTower, her ladyship's seat is the county Antrim.  The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, accompanied by Viscount Powerscourt, left town early in the week for Powerscourt, the noble viscount's seat in Ire?ann. The Earl and Cluntess of Durham are at Lambton Castlo, Durham. Lord and Lady Aberdonr and family have arrived on a visit to the noble call and countess. The Earl of Sefton and Mr. Grenfell are in the north of Scotland for the shooting season.  Viscount and Viscountess Villiers leave town to-day, for Upton Park, Warwickshire. Lord Sondes left town yesterday for Germany. Lady Sondes and the Hon. Misses Mulles leave on Monday for the family seat in Norfolk. L-dy Stuart de Rlthsay is making a tour of the German watering-places. The Barons de Ronne and F. do Klossmann left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, .yesterday, for St. Petersburg. Sir Alexander Cockburn, Lcrd Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1-ft town yesterday for Homberg, for a brief relaxation from his judicial functions. ATTEMPTED SUICIDES —Two women, of middle age, living in different parts of the metropolis, were removed to St. Thomas's Hospital yesterday morning, having taken oxalic acid with intent to commit suicide.  The assertions communicated at official quarters in London to c:rtain foreign ambassadors with respect to 'lndian affairs is—her Majesty's Government is using every effort to despatch troops by the overland route, and that for same time to come a large European force will permanently occupy India. A letter from Toulon, of the 18th inst., informs us that a small Russian squadron is shortly expected in taat port. It is composed of the corvettes Zoubre, Ryss, and Oudaff, under the command of Commodore Libatcheff. On the occasion of the Emperor's fete 25 convicts sentenced to labour at the galleys in Toulon received their pardon.
The Sun. — 1857-09-21 (London, England)

AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPDOL, Saturday.—The Bri Arabia tish and Nerth American Royal Mail steam-ship Commander James Stene, railed this forenoon for New Yodc, with the United States and Canadian mails, 140 passengers, and a full cargo of merchandise on freight. DANCING CONGRESS AT VlENNA.—Another congress has just been held at Vienna—one of dancing master., It was attended not only by all the principal masters of that city, but by deputations from Prague and Odessa The object of it was to deliberate on the grave question of the introduction of new figures in dancing, and the congress, after much anxious reflection, came to the resolution of adopting a new quadrille invented by a dancing master of Prague, of the name of Eichler. SUICIDE OP Ma. LEGREW, THE SCULPTOR Satur day Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the residence of the late Mr. James Legrew, aged 54, St. Alban's-road, Kensington, sculptor, who committed suicide by blowing hie brains out with a large horse pistol. Mrs. Jane Legrew, deceased's sister, who was deeply affected, said the deceased had for some months past laboured under 1.1103• extraordinary delusions, and appeared quite an altered man. Oa Wednesday she was fetched from her own residence in Victoria-road, and found that her brother had shot himself through the head. The deceased was unmarried. He was in affluent cireunistancee, and die knew of nothing that preyed on his mind. He was held In high estimation as a sculptor and artist (some of hi, productions may be seen in the Crystal Palace.) Several servants spoke to the deceased's strange state of mind for months past, and Dr. Turner said he found decee,e.i lying on the floor of the drawing room quite dead, his head being shattered by the explosion of the pistol. Death must have been almost instant.—Verdict, temporary insanity. Accounts from Frankfort confirm the news that  IBiron de Richb3rg, the Austrian Minister to the Diet, who was about to start on leave of absence, ha. 4 received instructions to remain at his post, in conwequence of the active interchange of notes now taking place on the Holstein questions.
The Sun. — 1857-03-07 (London, England)

SURREY THEATRE.  A new drama has been produced at this theatre, under the title of "Fraud and its Victims," and, we may add, with irnmen=e success. A fraudulent banker receives tin thousand pounds from a customer, who falls dead in a fit immediately he has paid it in ; and the banker, about to become a bankrc pt; never enters the sum in his books. He has, however, given a receipt for it, and this his clerk and confederate takes from the person Gf the deceased depositor. These events are shown in the prol tgut', and are supposed to take place in 1845. The first act of the veritable drama commences in 1857, and we then find the fraudulent banker has become a millionnaire, and has assumed the name of Warrington. The clerk has become a desperate vagabond, and haunts Piccadilly with ten-bladed knives. The son of the depositor (who was a captain in the navy) and his wife and daughter appear on the scene, vainly struggling with genteel poverty, only ultimately to be sunk to the verge of star cation and suicide. The clerk now crosses his former master, and endeavours to extort money for the document he possesses ; and the family undergo a variety of vicissitudes, which admirably fill lip the four acts, and exemplify all the phases of poverty. In the• end the fraudulent banker is convicted, the family are restored totheir fortune, and all ends happily. Mr. Creswick played the father and son with great force and with a gentle power that show him to be fully 'aster of his art.  r Mr. Shepherd made up admirably, as he always does, for the vagabond clerk, and played a long and arduous part with great humour as well as force. It must, iticked, be pronounced as one of the best pieces and one of the most decided hits this theatre has made, and is evidently destined for a lengthened popularity.
The Sun. — 1857-03-07 (London, England)

SURREY THEATRE.  A new drama has been produced at this theatre, under the title of "Fraud and its Victims," and, we may add, with immense success. A fraudulent banker receives tan thousand pounds from a customer, who falls dead in a fit immediately he has paid it in ; and the banker, about to become a banker: pt, never enters the sum in his books. He has, however, given a receipt for it, and this his clerk and confederate takes from the person of the deceased depositor. These events are shown in the prol)gue, and are supposed to take place in 1845. The first act of the veritable drama commences in 1857, and we then find the fraudulent banker has become a millionnaire, and has assumed the name of Warrington. The clerk has become a desperate vagabond, and haunts Piccadilly with ten-bladed knives. The son of the depositor (who was a captain in the navy) and his wife and daughter appear on the scene, vainly struggling with genteel poverty, only ultimately to be sunk to the verge of star iation aad suicide. The clerk now crosses his former master, and endeavours to extort money for the document he possesses ; and the family undergo a variety of vicissitudes, which admirably fill up the four acts, and exemplify all the phases of poverty. In the end the fraudulent banker is convicted, the tamily are restored totheir fortune, and all ends happily. Mr. Creswick played the father and son with great force awl with a gentle power that show him to be fully ;caster of his art.  Mr. Shepherd made up Malleably, as he always does, for the vagabond clerk, and played a long and arduous part with great humour as well as force,.  It must, indeed, be pronounced as one of the best pieces and one of the most decided hits this theatre has made, and is evidently destined for a lengthened popularity.
The Sun. — 1857-03-18 (London, England)

CHILDREN BY THEIR MOTHER, AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERESS.—A murder and suicide have this week taken place at the village of Sunnybrow, near Bishop Auckland, Durham. The murderess is a woman named Jane Parkinson, the wife of a pitman working at Bowden Close Colliery, and the two victims are her children, the eldest a boy aged two years and nine months, and the youngest an infant aged about nine months. The mother was in her 28th year, had only been married about 18 months, and resided with her husband at Sunnybrow. On Tuesday morning the husband left home at 8 o'clock, and proceeded to his work at the pit, and about 10 the deceased woman dressed herself, and stated to the neighbours that she was going to Willington to fetch home her husband's shoes, which had been sent to be repaired. She also dressed both the children, and said as they had not much fresh air lately she would take them with her. At this time nothing remarkable was observed in her demeanour except an unusanl degree of gaiety. She proceeded along a ,footpath through Sunnybrow•wood towards Witliegton, and nothing more was seen of her until noon. Shortly after twelve, Peter Naylor, a stonemason, was going towards Willington to his dinner, when he saw a woman extended at full length in a small stream of water which takes its course throuu,h the wood above mentioned, and passes under the Bishop Auckland Railway. She lay with her face in the water, and by her side was a little boy, whose head was also immersed, and the woman's arm was passed over him, and seemed to hold him down. Naylor ga"e an alarm, but before assistance arrived be raised up the body of the woman and then discovered an infant lying beneath her. All three were quite dead. Scores of people soon flocked to the spot, and the bodies were quickly identified as those of Jane Parkinson and her two children. On opening the woman's dress, he found in her bosom a small tobacco box, containing the money she had taken with her to pay for the shoes. The stream at the place dep whetrh, theae nd the boy's cap w bodies wv a over only e inches in r h i eyes. The position and appearance of the bodies would lead to the conjecture that the woman bad first immersed and drowned the eldest child, and had then thrown herself into the water upon the infant. 6
The Sun. — 1857-03-18 (London, England)

CHILDREN BY THEIR MOTHER, AND SUICIDE OP THE MURDERESS.—A murder and suicide have this week taken place at the village of Sunnybrow, near Bishop Auckland, Durham. The murderess is a woman named Jane Parkinson, the wife of a pitman working at Bowden Close Colliery, and the two victims are her children, the eldest a boy aged two years and nine months, and the youngest an infant aged about nine months. The mother was in her 28th year, had only been married about 18 months, and resided with her husband at Sunnybrow. On Tuesday morning the husband left home at 8 o'clock, and proceeded to his work at the pit, and about 10 the deceased woman dressed herself, and stated to the neighbours that she was going to Willington to fetch home her husband's shoes, which bad been sent to be repaired. She also dressed both the children, and said as they had not much fresh air lately she would take them with her. At this time nothing remarkable was observed in her demeanour except an unusnal degree of gaiety. She proceeded alqng a gotpath through Sunnybrow-wood towards Willington, and nothing more was seen of her until noon. Shortly after twelve, Peter Na3l,r, a stonemason, was going towards Willington to his dinner, when he saw a woman extended at full' length in a small stream of water which takes its course through the wood above mentioned, and passes under the Bishop Auckland Railaay. She lay with her face in the water, and by her side was a little boy, whose head was also immersed, and the woman's arm was passed over him, and seemed to hold him down. Naylor gave an alarm, but tefore assistance arrived he raised up the body of the woman, and then discovered an infant lying beneath her. All three were quite dead. Scores of people soon flocked to the spot, and the bodies were quickly identified as those of Jane Parkinson and her two children. On opening the woman's dress, he found in her bosom a small tobacco box, containing the money she bad taken with her to pay for the shoes. The stream at the place i_ where the bodies were found was only inches o in deptb, and the boy's cap was drawn over his eyes. The position and appearance of the bodies would lead to the i conjecture that the woman bad first rnmered and drowned the eldest child, and had then thrown herself into the water upon the infect.
The Sun. — 1857-11-23 (London, England)

PRICK 4D. STAMPED 5D .]  security of gas rates. The resolutions of this meeting were not a subject for a committee ; they could be dealt with by that board. It was perfectly h. c itnerical to suppose that they could establish ;as w( rks for one parish, and the vestry had no legal'' power to assess the ratepayers for any such purpose. No one would ever make him (Mr. M'Evily) believe that these gas companies would be mad enough to raise the price of gas ; that act in itself would be suicidal, for it would arouse the whole metropolis. Dr. BACIIHOFFNER said he for one was perfectly satisfied with the present price of gas at 45. 6d., but he wanted some guarantee that it would not soon be Gs. per thousand feet. Mr. FREETH believed that if the gas companies were at once to raise the price of gas it would not only he suicidal, but au act of downright felo de se. (Roars of laugAer, and cries of " Wirtt's the difference ?") Those who were fel de se were proposed to be people in their sound senses. (Hear, hear.) He urged that appeals should be made to the S,creLary of St4te or Parliament, if they c,,uld not get proper control "over gas companie2. They had overcome the gigantic monopoly of the water companies, and was it to be said they were to allow the ga, companies to do as they liked. (Hear, hear.) Mr. VESEY thought the vestry would run into immense difficulties if they erected, their own gas works in reference to site. Mr. MARKS said the proper parties to get up a gas company were the consumers themselves. Th.coming th-re under a belief that the vestry could aid them was a delusion. Mr. BELTON contended if the vestry had not the power to erect gas works, they could soon go to Parliament and obtain it. _ _ _ . .  Mr. BRIDGMAN had put his hand into his pocket formerly to establiAh a gas company, and lost his Money, but be would never de so again. Nor would he put his band. into the rate-payers' pockets, to run the risk with their money which he would not do with his own.  INl.r.,Coix,and other gentlemen sup-, ported the reference of the resolutions to the gas committee, and the motion was carried by a large majority. The vestry then separated.
The Sun. — 1857-09-10 (London, England)

GUILDHALL.  ATTEMPTED SITICIIDE.—Kate Finhagan, a young woman 20 years of age, was placed at the bar before Sir P. Laurie, charged with attempting self-de-truction. It appeared from the evidence of police-constable 709, that this morning, about a quarter before two o'clock, he was on duty near Blackfriare-bridge. He saw the prisoner on the steps near the water, and went to her and asked her what she was doing. She said she was waiting for the tide to rise to destroy herself. She was in a very agitated state, but she promised not to destroy herself, and he let her go. Oa his return to the bridge he again found her there, when be took ht,r into custody. After she was locked up she attempted to strangle herself with a piece of bonnet ribbon. This was the third time she had attempted self-destruction. Her mother, a wretched looking woman, was present, and in answer to the alderman's question-, said that her daughter was a servant, but had been out Gf service about two years. She believed the cause of li'r conduct on this occasion was grief at her father's illness, who was not expected to live out the day. She attempted self-destruction at Blackfriare-bridge about six months ago. Drink was then the cause of it. Police-constable 709 said that the girl told him she had had words with her mother that induced her to leave her home. Sir P. Laurie expressed his doubts that the mother's explanation was the true cause of the prisoner's conduct. Police-constable 707—Her mother t)ld him that the prisoner took poison once. The prisoner having promised not to offend again in a similar manner, was discharged. Sir P. Laurie said that a very important inquiry was now going on relative to the number of attempted suicides that had taken place in this way, and ho many had been prevented. It would be ready about the end of the month. It was a subject ho had paid much attention to with a view to its prevention, and when the return he alluded to was furnished the public woul I have an opportunity of judging how far he had been eoccessful. 'The prisoner then left the dock.