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INQUESTS . up Suicide or as Amur—Before Mr ** U * k * £ > coroner at the sign of the < i « een « f ^' .-f * f p fi : terrace , KingWd , Chelsea , on the bodv of Mr Joseph William Brett , aged 3 : years . The deceased , who was an artist , was the son of aderKmtn of the Ohurch of En » Iand . and lived w tbh . a 2 ed parents in a cottage . No . 4 . pP £ el ;?™?? J South ! The deceased was # ne of tne largei number ef . r & ts -ho competed for the prizes offered for cartoons to embellish the new Houses of Parliament , and , like the majority <* his compeers , was an unsucJessful one . The incident he took for the subject
oftii ' picture was * King ; Richard forgiving the soldier who justlnm . ' The deceased , althoug hlhenevcroomplaineiofhis disappointment , was never afterwards in < uch * EOod health , audsincclAprillast had | gradually been gettins weaker . On Wednesday morning the dec ? Ased ' was f .. und bv his father in his bedroom with his throa ' t cut . After a lengthened inquiry , a verdict was returned that * The deceased was found dead with his throat cut , supposed by his own act , bat that there was not . fuffisient evidence before the jnry to show them what was the state of his mind at tbf lime he did it . '
FAia Fight on Board Ship—At the London Hospital , respecting the death of Robert Wjsc , aged fiftv-fire vears , who died on the 10 th inst ., from a fracture of the spire , alleged to have been occasioned by a sailor , named Morrison , who stands charged , on his own confe ^ sieE , at the Gravesend Police Court , with bavin ? caused the deceased to fall down the Sold of the ship Herefordshire , whereby he received the injury . John Scott , a shipwright , stated that he was at wcrk with th deceased and his son , in repairins the ship Herefordshire , at the time she was hauled out of tha East India Dock , on Thursday , the 23 rd ult . When the vessel reached Woolwich Reach , witness - saw several sailors approach deceased ' s son , and one of them struck him a violent
blow ,- which caused him to fall upon the chains . "Witness went to his afsistance , and forced the sailor from him . He rose from the deck and went down the ho'd , and witness was afterwards informed that deceased was ; ki o ked down the hold . The sailors bad been drinkinz , and were much intoxicated . When the vessel arrived off Gravesend , Morrison , one of the crew , stated that during the scuffle he pushed the deceased . ' Webb , the constable , said that all the witnesses who were present , and could give evidence relating to the transaction , were gone to sea in the Herefordshire , which was bound to Gibraltar . The coroner then directed Webb to make inquiries at Gravesend , and thought It advisable to adjourn f » r that purpose . The jury assented , and the inquiry wa . < adjourned .
Starvation of a Mother akd Child . —Before Mr W . Cartvr , at tbe Swan Tavern , Battersea Bridge , upon the body of Sarah "Font , aged thirty-one , and Henry Tout / her son , aeed four , who were alleged to have died from an insufficiency of food . —The jury proceeded to a small house in the vicinity to view the bodies , and en the door being opened the exhalation of hot and impure air was so great as to drive back those who were entering , the coroner remarking that he had not in the experience of eleven years met witk so abominable a nuisance , and that it T ? as more a pest-house than a dwelling for human beings —Anne Polt stated , that she was sister-inlaw of the deceased woman , who was the wife of William James Tout , a sawyer by trade , who had
recently supported himself , his wife , and three children bv making hat and bonnet boxes , which be hawked about the country . Witness had been living with them the last fire months . Her sister-in-law was osly taken ill on Friday evening week , and on the following day she obtained a m < dical order of Mr Tow , tha overseer , and saw Dr Connor ' s assistant , who a ! sf » gave an order in kind to the relieving officer . The assistant attended within the hour , and saw both her sister and the child . S me medicine wag supplied , and he vuited them again on the Sunday evening . He did notvisit tbem again until Tuesday , and in the interval the child had died and the mother had become much wor .= e , and died the same evening , her boy having expired on the previous
eight . The medicine only lasted till Monday morning , and her sister had no more till the doctor came Si the ensuing day . Bewared had said that if she had more medicine she would be better .. Her brother had not been home ( until now ) since a week before Christmas ; and the last time they received any money from him was the last week in tho old year . Taere were two children still living—a girl and an in ait four months ol ' . For many weeks past they had beea living very short indeed , and her sister often denied herself food that the children might have it . Ste was certain that her brother did all he could to support his family , bat he earned very little ; and to add to their distress they received a letter f om him on the 5 ' . h inst ., stating that he was then lyina ill at Southampton , and had not a farthing to send home . Mrs Freeman , a laiy in the neighbourhood , had bsen very kind to her deceased sister during her confinement , and since on many
occasions they had no food but what that lady supplied . Deceased had an aversion to parochial relief , and did not make known her distress . A woman , named "Wise , gave evidence which went to show that the fa-nily were in a very bad state ; and she believed the illness ef mother and child arose solely from want of food . They had the typhus fevenj and one child was then suSsrinc from it . —The coroner Faid . it was a great shame for the medical man te have exposed the jury and himself to such a risk . He ouaht to have informed them of the nature of the disease , or at least have seen that the house was well ventilated before thejury entered it . —Mr J . S . Miles , a surgeon , and assistant to Dr Connor , assured the jury they had nothing to apprehend , and deposed thathe was railed in to the deceased on Saturday week ; they were in a state of low fever , and exceedingly ill and enuieia ' ed . Ue asked if the woman had food , and was told that she had none . —Verdict— ' Died from natural causes . '
ScigidsofaScrgkos . —Before MrWakler , M . P ., at tha Sevmour Arm * , Seymnur-street . on the body ofMr [ 1 . W . Bcrall , surgeon , aged thirty , late of ? 4 , TJpner Seymsar-street , Euston-square . —Mr H . M . Aldjid ^ c , surgeon , of Upper Seymnur-street , said he ha > l known deceased for five or six years . He was formerley in practice in Meltori-Ureet , Euston . sqnare ; subsequently in the M'rnineton-road ; and had resided a few mentis at 74 , Upper Seymourstreet . On Friday evening , a young woman , with whom deceased lived , asked him to come and see Mr Boxall on the following day , as he appeared ill . Between two and three o ' clock on Saturday afternoon he went to see deceased , and found him standing Eeiril ; e fireplace with his throat cut . On seeing
witnr ? -, deceased exclaimed , ' Ah , it ' s no use ; I have done it effectually . ' Witness went towardhim , but deceased ran round the table , and struseled violently , throwing witness over a b : s . Allthistime tbe b ' ood was spoutin ? profusely from his neck . It was s ~ in o minutes before wi'nt-ss &> u ! d sesure deceased . He the i iried to stop the bleeding by pressure en the vessels of tbe neck , and called for assistanco Deceased still p'roseled violently , and called out . for prcssic acid . He straggled to the last to prevent any attempt to save his life , and died in about a quarter ofanhou' -from the time witness first saw Mm . lie had made a cut with a razor , dividing tbe carotid . artery and all the larger vessels on the left side . De eased w . is of a nervous lemperameEt , and
drank at limes . He w . - . s very strange in his manners , and had told witness that he suffered from delirium tremens . —Mary Ann Norman deposed to having lived wi : h deceased four ye & rs . He had latterly b'en in great distress , on account of his father , who resided at Brighton , having refused to assist him . He went to Briehtonon the 29 th of December , and returned on the 5 "h inst . He said he Bad b ? en staying with his father ' s friends ^ who made him drink brandy till he was mad . On Friday sight , he was under a delusion that he would be taken np at twtlve o ' clock that night and hanged at JJet ? i ? ate for a conspiracy to shoot his father , and he « aid he must die . This induced witness to ask Mr
Aldridge to see him . Witness identified a note found on deceased's ^ table as his handwriting , and said she saw him write it on Saturday morning . It ¦ was addressed , ' Mr Boxall , Brighten , ' and waa as follows : — ' Daar Father , —Will yea be kind enough to send me a little money , as I am much in want of same . —Yours , truly , H . W . Boxall . ' ( No date . ) The witne-s made several charges against the father of the deceased of refusing him assistance , but this was denied by a gentleman , who said to his knowledge deceased had had £ 4 10 * . within eight or nine days . —Other witnesses corroborated the foregoing testimony . —The jury returned a verdict , * That the deceased defrayed himself while in an unsound state of mind . '
Cruelty ~ 3 as Apprentice . —Before Mr W . Payne , at St Bartholomew ' s Hospital , respecting the death of J . Keller , aged 17 . an apprentice , who was alleged to have died from the effects of the ill-usage of his roaster , Mr Fletcher , gold and silver paper layer , residing in Norfolk-street , Lower-road , Islington . — Mar ? Macdonald , of 0 , Newton-street , Holborn , the wife of a taller , stated that the deceased washer son , and was apprenticed from Tooting School about four year ? and a half ago . He had been sinking for the list two years from the want of proper nourishment and hard work , which he said was sixteen or eighteen h > . urs a day . It was two years ago when the master was first before tbe magistrate for beating him with
arrpe , and " was reprimanded . The master appeared before the magistrate since that time ' at the instance of a policeman , whn heard the boy ' s cries , but nothing was then dene .. The . food . he had consisted of three Siicis of bread arid but ' ter and milk and water for his breakfast ; , two slices and the sime for tea ; boiled Tier , o-ch ? ese .. or bullock ' s liver for dinner , and sometime , be would have a couple of sausages and some ethbue . Riee . 'Bo wever , was hia chief dinner . She bad frt . qtwntly taken him victuals , but his mistress would uever let her see it given to him . About two months ago he did not come to his dinner on Sunday as usual and . tewrt ; on the . Monday , and he was Jji uron the bench in the wo rkshop withenlvh-ssbJft M- trousers on . The next Th ^ ffififfi lose , when he contained of being very weak and
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the following Monday , December 28 , ho was admitted into the hospital . —Wra . Macdonald , husband of the last witness , stated , that he had made a complaint to the master , at Tooting , of the boy ' s treatment , but he refused to interfere . —The Coroner said it waa hw duty to hSYC done so . —Macdonald added that the last words the deceased spoke at home were , when he asked htm what had brought him to that state— I shall say on my death-bed that Fletcher starved and worked me to . deatb . '— Mr Newell , assistant apothecary to the hospital , deposed that the death of deceased was caused by consumption , of at least two years ' standing . In his opinion it was tho result of exposure to cold , or sleeping in damp clothes . —Thos . Round , an apprentice , deposed thathe was bound two ¦„ , .. _ n 0 u . ^ ..,,,,,...
months after tho deceased , and slept and eat with him . The work was not hard , except burnishing . They had three slices of bread and butter nearly an inch thick for their breakfast , and two for tea , and about a p int of tea at each meal . For dinner they had riee and sugar one day , liver and rice or liver and potatoes another , and b . ead and cheese another . They might have eaten more if they had had it . They always had meat two or three times a week , and rice or cheese the other * . No beer , but cold tea . They used to have 21 ., 31 ., or Gd . a week for ever-work , and they used to buy apples or other things with it . —Mrs Fletcher explained that when Mrs Macdonald complained that the bays had not sufficient food , she was so satisfied they had , that after that she did not give them the hot supper she used to do . They had meat four times a week , and rice and cheese the other daya . She persisted they had both been treated well ,
and that the observation about the gruol waa a mere jake . —Mr Fletcher , the master , asserted the same thing , and that they had even been preferred to their own children . They had been unruly , and tried to get the upper band of him , —The Coroner said it was not likely two boys of that age would attempt it . —A Mrs Moss , the aunt of Round , who had interfered when she found they worked en a Sunday and slept on the floor , said she had np reason otherwise to coinplain of their treatment , and the deceased once told her he was satisfied . —Tbe Coroner summed up , observing the great question was what was the ctwe of the consumption of which the bo ) died ? He should suggest that they should have further evidence . —The jury returned a verdict— 'That the deceased died ot consumption , and they considered the conduct of the master and mistress very reprehensible in keeping the deceased on such short diet . '
A Child Fb'Zkn to Death . —Before Mr Baker , at the Halfmeon and Punchbowl public honso . Bucklestreet , Whitechapel , on view of the body of Bertha Dohl , aged four months . The parents of the deceased are natives of Germany , and a few days since they left Rotterdam for the purpose of emigrating to America . They travelled in an omnibus , oa the windsw of which the ice was an inch thick , and when they arrived at the first station , after tbey had left Rotterdam , the deceased , who was a very healthy child , was found quite dead . The child had been lying npon her arms for several hours , and she considered the deceased was asleep . A surgeon could not be obtained , and when they arrived at the next station the deceased was examined by a medical gentleman , who said that her death was caused b y the severity of the weather , the cold hating caught her breast . The parents then carried their dead ehild on board the Rainbow steam vessel , which arrived in the river on Sunda y last . Verdict— ' Found dead . '
ACCIOEKTS , OFFEKCES , BIO . The Latb Dreadful Accident at Eu 8 Ttw-so , DARE Station . —Charles Gage , one of the sufferers by the fall of the buildings at the Euston-square Station , died on Sunday in the University College Hospital . This makes tke second death amongst the wounded . The others are doins well . Determised Spicidb of Sir J- Mildmat , Bart . — We have tfl record the premature death of Sir John Mildmay , Bart ., which took place by his own bands , at an early hour on Monday morning , at his residence , No . 6 . Halkin-ierraee , Belt-rave-square . The deceased gentleman had resided as above for about five years , occupy ing the upper part of the house , the ground floor bein ^ let to Mrs Cos , a milliner ; his establishment , consisting of two male and an equal number of fe'nalo servants ; and his health of late was stated to be tolerably good ; but for several days past his valet had noticed that he appeared low and
depressed in spirits . On the previous day ( Sunday ) the deceased appeared somewhat better , and partook of hia meals , apparently , with a better appetite . He retired to rest between eleven and twelve o ' clock , and nothing more was heard or seen of him until shortly before five t ' clock on Monday morning , when his valet was awoke by a deadened report of firearms . He was undecided for some time what te do , bnt eventually he went up stairs to Sir John ' s bedchamber , on the second floor , when on entering the room he was horror-struck on discovering his master lying prostrate on the carpet weltering in his blood , and lifeless ; his head was shattered to atoms , and the walls and ceiling were covered with his blood and brain ? , a small double barrel bolster pistol , which had been recently discharged , was lying close to his right hand , and had evidently been discharged in the mouth . Several medical gentlemen were promptly in attendance , who pronounced death to have been instantaneous .
MRES . Alarmisg Fire . —A fire , nearly attended with disastrous consequences , broke out upon the precises belonging fo Mr John Baldock . licensed victualler , carrying on business at the Kent and Esses inn , situate in Kent and E sex-yard , Whitechapel . The flames originated Irom some unexplained cause in the front bar , and when discovered tbey were making fearful havoc amongst tbe spirits . The whole of the inmates were immediately aroused , and a messenger sent for the engines . There being an abundant supply of water , the further progress of the alarming element was cut off , but not until a considerable quantity of spirts had been consumed and the bar burned out . Fortunately Mr BaWock was insured in the Licensed Victualler ' s Fire-office .
Destruction of Property . —On Tuesday night about a quarter past ten a fire was discovered upon the premises ot Mr Laws , a baker , at T 8 , Gibraltarrow , Bethnal Green . An alarm was spread , and Mr Laws and his family were without delay apprised of the outbreak , which had barely been done when a large sheet of flame shot through the windows , and with such fury did the Sre travel , that it was at one time feared that the whole of the contiguous houses would have fallen a prey to its fury . The engines of the parish , London Brigade , and other ? , were re . markably quick in reaching the spot , but the fire had previously extended to the whole of the upper part
of the building , every room being in a general blaze . The firemen being snpplied with an abundance of water , the engines began operating , and vast streams of water were scattered into and upon the burning property . Notwithstanding , the work of destruction continued , and it was not till pas . t eleven o ' clock that the fire was safely got under , and not until every portion of the premises , with the exception of the front shop was destroyed . The total loss is considerable , and it is understood that the sufferer is not insured . The origin of the fire is not precisely known ; but the general opinion is that it was occasioned frem the spark of a lighted candle falling amongst ssme wearing apparel .
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50 RFOLK . Small Debts Court . — The . following letter is worthy of notice , and we extract it from a contempopary . —Sir ' : Without grea t vigilance on the part of the press the Small Debts Courts may be made the means of a vast amount of petty tyranny and oppression . Poer peopleseldom take bills or keep receipts . An unprincipled man may , in nine out of ten cases , be pretty sure of recovering small sums which may have been contracted and dischaged , if he summon the parties into the courts . I will offer you one instance of the oppressive way in which it works . A man formerly in trade , but who failed through his own misconduct , having twice or thrse times compounded with his creditor ? , lives on the small sums he obtains through the small debts court : he usually has two or three , sometimes more , summonses out against parties every court day . On the last court
dav he summoned the wife of a labouring man for a ,, debt of I 8 s . When put upon his oath he said that the woman had paid 13 ' . 6 d ., but he thought it made no difference whether ho summoned her for tht debt he claimed or for a larger sum , He claimed on oath upwards of 4 s . The woman had fortunately kept his bill , and produced it receipted for the whole amount , with the exception of Is ., and he owned to the correctness of it . The judge immediately adjudged her to pay the shilling , with all the costs , amounting to several more , and refused to hear her speak in her defence . She was ready to declare on oath that she had repeatedly offered to pay the man the real balance of hia bill * hut that lie refused to take less than the amount claimed . If thecreditora had considered that the man had any just claims upon these and numerous other poor people they would , one would have supposed , have retained his books and recovered themthemselvea .
GL 0 UCESTEH 8 HIBB . Bigamy asd a Titlb . —An extraordinary case of bigamy has been investigated at the Cheltenham Police Court . A richly-dressed female , who has lately introduced herself into fashionable circles in this town as the Lad y Ada Alice Wyattville , was placed in the deck , charged with bigamy . From the evidence produced asainst her , it appears that she was married on the 8 : h of November , 1833 , at Kensington Church , under the name of Octavia Sarah Moore de ' Bellvue , daughter of Lucius Monro de Bellvue , Marshal of France , to Mr Henry Wyatt , architect , son of Mr Matthias Ctoles W yatt , the celebrated sculptor , of Dudley Grove House , Harrowroad , London . Subsequent to the marriage , the parties went bo reside at BouIogne-sur-Mer , but they separated after a . short residence there . A correspondence , however , has been kept up between them ever since . It further appeared that in May last the prisoner was charged with bigamy at the Marl .
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borough-street police-court , London , by intermarrying with a person named Kolles , from which charge she escaped . The offence of which she is now accused is , that she married , at the parish church , Cheltenham , on the 17 th of December last , under the name of Lady Ada Alice Wyattville . with Mr Thomas Hinckley , civil engineer , son of Mr Arthur Hinckley , a gentleman residing in Cheltenham , her first husband , Henry Wyatt , being alive at the time . The marriage at Kensington was witnessed by Mrs Uannah Murray , of Brompton ( then Miss . Cully ) , and the parish clerk ; and that at Cheltenham by a female servant , and a man named Edwin Patter , The prisoner was committed to take her trial at the next Gloucester assizes . ho mn h ^^
SURREY . The latb Medical Neglect at Crotdon—On Saturday last , a special meeting of tho board of guar * dians at the Croydon Union was held , for the purpose of taking into consideration the course to bo adopted in consequence of the verdict of the coroner s jury , imputing great inhumanity to Dr Berncastle , one of the medical officers of the union , in reference to his cendi'ct toward the woman Hopkins , and expressing their opinion of his unfitness any longer to hold tbe office of a medical parochial officer . There was a numerous attendance of guardianp , but , in consequence of a determination on the part of the board not to admit reporters , we are
unable to state precisely what took place . It appears that a very strong discussion arose upon the motion for the immediate dismissal of the officer , and some of the guardians who took his part urged that ha had merely acted under the impression that ho was performing his duty . After a discussion , which lasted several hours , the decision of the board was adjourned to a fnture occasion ; but so strong is the feeling of the ratepayers and inhabitants of Croydon upon the subject ) that if the board should resolve to continue the objectionable person in his present appointment , it is intended to hold a public meeting , to address the Poor Law Commissioners , and requite his dismissal .
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PBHTHSHIRE . Shipwreck at the Mouih op thk Ta ? . —Last week , the schooner Industrious , of Whitstable , Wolt , master , laden with railway iron , for Perth , was totally lost on Abertay Sands , when all on board , consisting of the master andseven of a crew , perished . There was a stormy south-east wind , with a flood tide , and drifting snow showers : About half-past seven o ' clock , signals of distress were observed by the lighthouse keeper , who made the requisite signals to Broughty Kerry , and the life-boat , manned by a erew of fifty men , waa speedily floated . They got so
near the unfortunate vessel as to be able to hear the cries of the crew , bat found it impracticable to get at her through the breakei s . They remained near the spot till about midnight , but sap nothing of the vessel after ten . o ' clock . ' . So great dissatisfaction has been expressed at the boat not making greater exertions to reach the vessel , that the harbour-master and secretary to the Tay Life Boat Society made personal investigation into the case , and have reported that there are times when wind and tide make it totally impracticable to reach the scene oi danger , and that this was one of those cases .
kincardineshire . Serious Navvie Disturbances . —One Life Lost , and ' haht Persons Imuked . —Since the works on the Aberdeen Railway , in the neighbourhood ot Stonehaven , were commenced , there have been located in the town about five hundred labourers , nearly all of whom are stout young men , principally from the Highlands . They have generally lodged by renting small rooms from the people , at from 5 s . to C . a week , buying in their own provisions , and getting them cooked by those with whom they lodged . The price of provisions last winter having advanced at leastfiftyper cent ., the Highlanders took it into their heads that this was partly , if not chiefly , oc ^ casiuned by a combination among the provision
merchants , and from that time forward they felt as if they owed those people a grudge . From timo to time slight disturbances took place , nnd much illfeeling was engendered . About two months ago , the works were partially stopped , upon which half the navvies left the place , and the rest were employed ata reduced rate of wages . For some weeks after this no disturbances took plaee , but it teems that the old grudge was still harboured by the Highlanders . On Wednesday week , the inhabitants of Stonehaven were alarmed by hearing the bellman call a meeting of the railway labourers on the Square , and soon after between two and three hundred navvies bad assembled , with bludgeons , knives , and pikes ; and , as they conversed together in Gaelic , the people of
the town did not know their plans . After consulta tion , a number of those who had no sticks went to the woods of Dunottar , where they cut branches from the trees , and about three o clock the whole entered the Old Town in a body , kd on by a few men belonging to the ' gang , ' flourishing their sticks and pouring forth volleys of oaths in Gaelic . They made their fit st attack on Mr Walker , a slater , who had formerly assisted to quell an outbreak , knecked him down with their bludgeons , and gmaghed a lot of windows in his master ' s ( Mr Thorn , son s ) house , who had also been obliged on a former occasion to resist the navvies . Having beaten Walker , they left him , and proceeded to the Square , which they paraded , shouting ' Victory ! ' and vowing
further vengeance . Mr Weir , the superintendent of police , thought it hopeless to make any attempt to repel the attack , but watched the ringleaders , with a view to their apprehension . About half-past five the Highlanders marched through the town in order , shouting and smashing every window where a light appeared . At the bottom of Ann-street they met William Murray , a young man who had just come in from the country to see his friends , whom they knocked down and left lying on the road . They then went to the Commercial Inn , where they smashed a 1 the windows and attempted to force the house , but were unable . They next attacked the
'Mill Inn , broke several windows , and attempted to force admission , but Mr Melvin and the other inmates were able to keep them at bay . Passing on from the Mill Ion , they met with one of Mr Melvin ' s sons , who was maltreated , but , though dreadfully bruif el , was able to make his escape . The mob now went direct to Mr Knox , the saddler ' s , another of the doomed houses , and here they broke open the door , smashed the windows , frames and all , and but for the determined resistance of Mr Knox , his two sons , and a party who happened to be in the honsc , the consequences would , inall probability , have been of the moat fatal character . Mr Knox fired blank
cartridges among the Highlanders , which at first frightened them ; but , finding that there was no ball , they renewed theattack . It being hopeless to effect an entrance here , they again betook themselves to parade the town , assaulting every person they met who could not speak Gaelic ; and breaking , aa before , every window in which there was light . About nine o clock the Highlanders dispersed , and there was quiet for the night . The unfortunate man Murray , already alluded to , was found lying in a state of insensibility , by a girl who was passing , and on being carried to Mr Milne ' s , in the Old Town , it was found tbathis back was broken , and his skull fractured . He was only able to say , 'lam murdered , and the navvies have done it , ' when he died . John Hobb , who was also struck in the street , was dangerously bruised , but is recovering , Altogether , about twenty
people were maltreated , and , for anything the meb cared , were in some instances left for dead in the streets ; but they are now out of danger . Throughout the town , the cries of murder were heart-rending , ard the scene appears to have been one which can scarcely be described ; indeed , such was the state of the town , that no man was safe to leave his house , and , consequently , no official steps could be taken by the Jocal authorities . Ear ' y on Thursday week , a special meeting of the justices of the peace was held , when it was resolved to send an express for a detachment of the military to Aberdeen , and Captain Barclay and Mr Grahame Munro were charged with the commission . On Thursday evening , twenty soldiers and two officers arrived in Stonehaven , and since then there has been no further disturbance . Eleven of the ' ringleaders have been apprehended .
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MESSRS . MITCHEL AND B 057 X . —ANNIVEESABV Off THE IBI 8 U COhrEDBBATIOH . c THE ' OLD' ABO * VODKO ' iaiLiSDEBB . —THE SPECIAL COMMISSION . —THB LOBD HAVCE ' s ' 8 PEEAD . '—FATHEB MaTHEW .
( Frmi car won Correspondent . ) Dublin , Jan . 17 th , 1848 . In my last letter I promised that I would dwell at some length this week on that very singular transaction now engrossing so much of public attention in Ireland ; The reader will probably guess that I allude to the unfortunate dissensions which have so prematurely sprung up between the writers and pro- prietor of the Natiojt newspaper . However , as I h ' nd last week ' s Stab publishes the leniarkable letters of Mr Mitchel and Mr Duffy , which throw full light on the subject , and as Mr O'Connor has alluded so particularly to the affair in his able letters , I find it would be a work of supererogation on my part , were I to enter minutely into the details of the matter . All I will therefo re say , is , that though Mr Mitchel
appears to act the honester and the nobler part , he will have no chance of gaining the ear of the public just now ; for however well disposed the peasantry may be to try the chances of a struggle with England , the clergy and the middle classes are entirely opposed to any such project , and will not hearken to any proposal to that effect , no matter from whom such counsel might proceed . Mr Mitchel , therefore , might as well preach to the winds or waves , as try to create anything like a respectable war-party in Ireland at present , and though he appears . resolved to proescute his long-cherished project with renewed and untrammelled energy , he must not hope to succeed—at least for many a day to come . Mr Duffy , though suffering in the estimation , of many of his own party , and though * jumping' as nimbly as any political ' Jem Crow' of them all , latterly , seems to
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i ^ stewpjss iSSS a revolutionist as any of his compeers j « mi whe n he finds that tnettung w . n go a « w « » S To very prudently ' draws in bU horns / and iSHi to steer in the , wa & e of the more pg nlaceand less poetic coiirse . of dodg ng agitato ^ marked out and solongipersevered in by the late Daniel O'Connell . I * ji hud , ^ conjecture bow th is , Sr will terminate . ' , H # P U & W , » .. deep wouncTto theinterest ^ dflh ^ Young . ^ M ^ rty , 3 if 1 err not .-tbat confederacy haa alread y seen the gin-down of tho , best of its days in trelapd . In man y of myprevious letters to . the Stab , , 1 ^ dieted not the BeiTMed to aqhieyethe _ . . look-out to . hi . own phonal , ^;
Sat those were salvation of a natioa ; and though I always . said , and sav still , that their principles in mf t points were SLllent , nevertheless , I knew well that other hands mus break ear chains-thai wjseir and more singleminded men must devise measnrta . foronr amehora-Son and that it was reserved for more daring spirits to work out the disenthralment of Ireland from her Ldage . - Time will prave that ^ have , not erred in 1 calculation . ; A-short period hence , and , ( he world will see that the raw and ignorant , and selfooneeited young « buckeoiuV . of D'Ollerratreet , aro not Semen destined by fate ,, or chance , of providence to lift up our country , from her present degraded state , make her free and happy , and give her a place amongst the nations of the earth .. I maybe utterine what is bitter to thousands of my readers , but , asWav inlrekudy Time is the-best of
fortunetellers . It is said that Mr Mitchel . has become , or is about to become the purchaser of Mr . Pagan ' s journal— The Cork Souihebn Reporter—and that he intends to conduct it with aviewto the dissemination of bis own peculiar views and opinions . If so , the fate of that gentleman and of his paper will quickly be decided—I need not add in what manner . , The' Irish Confederation' held their first anniversary meeting in the Round Rdomof the Rotuhdo , on last Tuesday night , the llth inst . : There was a pretty full attendance , owing principally-to-the opinion that Mr Daffy and Mr Mitchel would treat the audience to a discussion on the' split , ' its . causes ! and probable results , which has latterly taken place
in tho Natioh camp . ... . In . this , however ,. they were doomed to disappointment , as the subject was not even incidentally alluded to This dis - played good taste on both sides , 'but did - not seem at all palatable to many of those who came * tOsse , ' as considerablenumbers walked away at anenrly stage of the proceedings . The principal speakers were Englishmen , and they . were very , favourably received by the , assembly . Mr . i Feargus O'Connor too ( was not forgotten . Repeated rounds of cheers were raised for . that gentleman , though the fact happens to be passed over in silence by the Dublin press . However , the growth of Mr O'Connor ' s popularity cannot how be impeded ; and despite the petty machinations : of certain parties , he will , ere long , eclipse both f Old' and ' Young' Ireland , and be the 7 ruling ( spirit' in his
native land . But though the . Nation rugtnre was not brought on the tapis , lit Mitchel , seemed to engross much of the cariosity and attention of . the meeting . Though his doctrines are , looked on as dangerous and impracticable justnow , the heroic gentleman himself is highly popular and highly admired , even in the circles of his most strenuous opponents . A considerable time was oecupied in reading the statistics of the ' Confederacy , ' from which , - amongst other matters , it appears that 11 , 000 members are now enrolled in the ranks of that party—that , it dhbursed the sum of £ 700 . in the course of the past year— -that it published six pamphlets , making an aggregate of 13 , 000 copies , nnd has established seventeen clubs hi Ireland , and ten clubs in England . The ' speeches were good , and . on the whole , the meeting was conducted with the strictest decorum and regularity .
Iu consequence of Mr John O'Consell , at his late visit to Limerick , having made overtures towards a reconciliation with ' young Ireland , ' a deputation from the combined trades of that city waited , on Saturday the 8 th inst ., to consult Mr Smith . O'Brien , aad ask his determination on the subject . I regret Jo addi that this interview led to no favourable result , for Mr O'Brien seemed impracticable , and unchangeable in his resistance to the policy of Conciliation Hall . The deputation , though receivedfwith politeness and affability , were allowed to retire without , in the least degree , having succeeded in altering , the sen & ments ofthatnoble-nearted Irishman . The Commission for the punishment of the Southern Rockites , goes on as well as could be hoped for—or
even desired ! The majesty of the law (!) has been admirably vindicated in the conviction of scores of unhappy wretches—the convict hulks will be tenanted again with the Munster peasants , and several will be offered up as victims of expiation en the gnllows ! Yet , singular to say , crime has not decreased ! Nay , it has even appeared where heretofore it was unknown , and seems now ( spreading with renewed impetus all over the country . In the Queen ' s County outrages have become frequent . Four men have been committed last week for conspiring to shoot J . R . Price , Esq , a magistrate , residingat West Field Farm , near Mountrath in that ceunty . On the night of the 12 th inst ., an armed party fired shots into several houses at Trummera , in that county also , and served Rockite
notices . signed' Captain Fireball / warning the inmates that if they refused to' abide by the commands' of the redoubtable ' Fireball , ' they might prepare themselves for the most summary vengeance that doughty hero could inflict . Sir Charles Coote , of Balljfinn House , the premier baronet of Ireland , has also received missives from ' Captain Fireball , ' in consequence of which that gentleman has fled from home in alarm , and sails for Italy with hia family in a few days . In tho county Cnrlow , too , outrage has appeared ; whilst in Ulster and Mnnster , crime has increased considerably within the past week . A dreadful murder was perpetrated at Annascoyle , county
Kerry , on an unfortunate man unknown ; nnd on the llth , at Six Mile Bridge , county Clare , a fine young man , named John Fitzgerald , was shot dead in his house by an armed party of nine Rockites , who attacked several houses in that neighbourhood of . that night . Minor crimes have increased fearfully , and it is said , even by the Orange journals of Ireland , that the Coercion Act will make things worse instead of better , and that 'Captain Rock ' will goto the devil headlong as soon as the commission in Munster will have terminated ! I predicted this several weeks ago , and I confidently maintain still that I did not do bo rashly or unadvisedly .
On the night of last Wednesday , the 12 th , our new Lord Mayor gave his civic banquet , in imitation of the Lord Mayor ' s Feast in London . It was a splendid affair , truly , and was attended by the Lord-Lieutenant , the members of thevice-regal court and house hold , Sir E . Blakeney , Lord St Lawrence , Lord Otho Fitzgerald , the great law officers at present in town , and , in short , by most of the elite of this metropolis . All the usual honours were observed , and all the ' loyal' British toasts drank , and responded to : but it is a singular ' sign of the times' that , at
a feast given by a Catholic and Repeal Lord Mayer , and in the midst of a Catholic and Repeal corporation , the name of Daniel O'Connell was omitted , and those men , who , enly forhisexertions , would certainly never figure at a civic entertainment in Dublin , ' spoke not one word of sorrow ' or condolence for the illustrious Irishman , who , but one short year ago , was the lion of the assembled hundreds who , on a similar occasion , sat at the same boand . This was base ingratitude , and has called forth unmeasured censure and reproach from . every class in this city .
The celebrated Fathew Mathew , I learn , is starting for a short sojourn in Rome . He stops but for a few weeks , and immediately after his return ( in April it is said ) , he intends to proceed , on a tour of some months , to the States of America . God speed his mission is my fervent ejaculation .
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SPECIAL COMMISSION . On Thursday the 6 th the special commission for the county of Clare was opened at Ennis , when tire Lord Chief Baron addressed the Grand Jury . His Lordship alluded to the results of the trials ia Limerick , and lamented to say that there was reason to believe that outrages similar in character , if not equal in number , had occurred in the county of Clare . Having forcibly dwelt on the direct and immediate results of the crimes which were committed for the purpose of csntrelling the enjoyment of property , his Lordship continued : — Bat , gentlemen , the evil does not stop here . The
spirit which involves tho rights of one class of the com . munity will extend to tho destruction of the rights and liberties of ethers . Yesterday the landlord , the agent , the bailiff , may have be « n the victim . To day the far . msr , the humble person in humble life , may become thi object of outrage . If I were to point out the class of the community who are placed in the greatest risk , ami for whose protection the administration of the law ' if most n < 5 fedfcd , I Would point t 6 thnt large class of thi people—from the wealthy occupier to the person who supports himself by his industry with a small holding and scanty capital—I would point to the farmers , who , by their numbers , must form a large portion of the population , and who are possibly in the greatest risk , an i most need protection .
The co-operation of all classes of society , his I Lordship observed , was essentially necessary to suppress crime and prevent its extension . To " the want ef that co-operation—nay , to something worse—to the connivance or sympath y of the farming class much of the crime is attributable . It is impossible , sold his Lordship , that crime should have been perpetrated to such an extent if that class did their duty , and lent to tha determination of tho law the co operation they sought , In some instances that co . operation may have been withheld from the influence of the prevailing iiuitnidation—in others , from a lament , able but mistaken sympathy . . ' . ;'; ., '; The Court was occupied during the remainder of the day with the trial of Patrick R yan ( Small ) « nd James Hayes , charged with the wilful murder of Mr James Watson , of Ballyoorney , in the county of Clare , the agent of Mr Augustus Arthur , upon the 17 th of May . 1847 .
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, ' A plan of the scene of the murder and the country immediately adjacent was exhibited , and proved dj a surveyor . ' , „< / A littlo . boy named Bartyn , about , eleven years ot age : said he remembered the day Mr Watson was killed . He was at school , but one of the boyscalled himidat , saving XThere were Torriea coming , with guns . ' . It wpa ; thfin between nine anoVten o ' oJqck . He saw two men oh the road , and . had never , seen either' of them ; tkforev They were going towards where Mr vTatsOn was killed . > Ohe of them had . a gunj and he was putting the barrel down-hiS i trousers , andithestock ' uhderhis ' arm . ' The two men were close 'tb'feach other . " lie then turned > back tothe ^ school , 'but . hearing a shot ran ; back ; towards the place where it appeared to have been fired , and saw , _ , __ . rn . f thfl murder and the country ^ gtS / KSS ^ a , ^ ibitodi and proved by
Some men raising Mr Watson up and taking him to Welsh '?;' house , Mr Watson , was still- alive .. He followed them to Welsh ' s , and staid there , until Mrs Watson Sad her ' girls' came up . ' He did not see either of the . two menafter he beard , the shot . ; lle did npt see a boy named Crowe . . The boy was asked whether either ef tne prisoners was one of the two men * but he did not identify them . ¦ , . _ , - In answer , however , to a question by Mr Bennett , he said that two months after the murder he was in Limerick , and he was then shown ! several men by Mr Browne , the . magistrate , and from : thorn- he pointed out one as one of the two men he saw on the dav of thesmrder . .. ... James Laoya respectable looking labourer , was
, then examined . He said he lived between the place where Mr Wataon was killed and the school-house . Qn the morning of the murder , as he was going to his breakfast , he saw two men coming up from the road where the murder was committed . He had the barrel of a gun in his band , The stock was gone . At that time Mr Watson had , in fact , been killed , but he did not know it . The mea then went on a field , and were theh joined by a third party . The witness looked roflnd the court ; and identified the , ' prisoner Ryan , who is known by the name of Ryan Small , as tbe man ho had seen with the barrel of the gun . The party who joined the two men in the field was the prisoner Hayes . ,. Ue had knawn ' . hinv before . The third man ho did not know at the time ;
but he had since heard that he was William Ryan ( Pack ); fhis'ls the' man who > was convicted at Limerick , and is now under sentence Of death for the murder ot John Kelly . He was going on when Denis Fly an called him . He then r # n upto . him , and then saw Mr Watson' lying on the road , and a stock ef a gun under him , broken . The barrel was gone . . . ; This witness was subjected to ' a severe cross examination by Mr 0 'HKA . ~ He admitted he was taken up by tbe police , for being suspected of the murder . It was after he was taken up he made-the disclosures contained ia the evidence he had just given , but he
bad been released at the time . When Mr Watson was taken . to Welsh ' s heuse , the . police asked him if he saw any person , and he then told them he did not . He went to . Limerick , and there saw Mr Browne , ' the magistrate , bnt he did not disclose tbe matter to him then . He told him afterwards at home . When at Limerick he had been trying to get from Mr Browne who had succeeded Mr Watson as . the agent of Mr Arthur ' s land on the estate . In his information before the magistrate thewitness had also sworn that llayea viaa one of the two men he : first saw . He now swore that they were Ryan ( Small ) and Ryan ( Pock ) .
In answer to a question by one of the jurors , why he did not give information to the police on the day of the murder , about the two men , he said the reason was he did not think well of it . The next witness'was James Crowe , a lad of 16 years of age , remarkably shrewd and intelligent . He said that John Crowe ( who is the person referred to by the Attorney- ^ General as having hired the prisoners to commit the murder ) was his uncle ; the murder was committed about half a mile from hia uncle ' s house . He had then known William Ryan ( Puck ) and Ryan ( Smiall ) about two months . He saw them at his uncle ' s house a fortnight or three weeks before Mr Watson was killed . He also knew the prisoner Hayes : and he knew him tor twelve months
and more before the murder . On the morning it occurred ha saw the prisoners , with William Ryan ( Puok ) , coming down the side road towards the hi gh road ; at that time they were not near enough for him to know them ; they crossed a field and he lost sight of them in a hollow . Mr Watson came riding up the road about thirty or forty yards from him ; his horse was walking ; and the witness then saw Ryan ( Puck ) jump over a ditch and cock a gun at him . Mr Watson was at that time about three yards only from Ryan ( Puck ) . The gun hung fire . Mr Watson saw it , and directly turned round his horse , and was going down the road back to his own house , when Ryan ( Small ) stopped him on the way . Ryan ( Small )
had come out of a field into the road , having a pistol in his hand . He seized the horse by the bridle . The horse made a couple of springs ,, and , doubling reund , threw his unfortunate rider . When Mr Wataon was down the , witness saw Ryan ( Puck ) go up to him . Mr Watson immediately took from his pocket a pistol and fired . It appeared to miss , and Ryan ( Puck ) then struck him on his head with the butt-end of a gun . Ryan ( Small ) also struck him with a pistol . lie called out for mercy , but Ryan strnck him on the head with the gun . Both the men then ran away together . Hesaw Hayes standing still in afield , and the two Ryans went up to him . Hayes at the time had something in his hand , but he oould not say whether it was a gun or a blunderbuss .
The answers of this witness , on his cross-examinations , are so characteristic , that we give the examination nearly as it took place . Mr O'Hba . —I suppose you told this at once to the police ?—No ! It was near Christmas before I teld it . What took you out that morning ?—To walk about for myself . What particular amusement were you about f—I had none . Were you going to school ?—•! was not . I am not in the habit of going there . What do you do for your living•?—I was at labour whilst the Board of Works was going on ; afterwards I was doing nothing at all . Did you see the boy Barton ?—I did not . Now tell me what took you out that morning ? On your oath , Sir , tell me . —I had no business at all . Had you a pisf ol at all ? —I had . " Was it loaded ?— It . was not . Did you ever load it ? - ^ I did : Did you ever fire at a mark ?—I did . I often fired at my cap , when I had nothing better to fire at . Did you ever fire at a bird ?—1 did . Did you ever fire at a dog ?—I did . Did yeu
ever fire at a cap with a head in it . You understand me ?—I never did . At a goat ?—I never did . Were you ever charged about a goat . ?—I'll tell you . I was a great deal in my uncle ' s field l & ttevly j there were goats about the place , and it was because I let some fio astray that I was charged . Were you ever charged with stealing your uncle ' s wheat ?—1 was : but I was charged with it wrongfully . Did not your uncle turn you out ?—Lie never did ; and never will . I am not dependent upon him , I was living with my grandfather , and since his death with my aunt . Is there any quarrel between your aunt and vour uncle ?—Yes . Are not you to be the heir of " your aunt ' s land if she survives your uncle ?—I am not . Is your uncle trying to turn your aunt out of her land ?—He is . Are you friendly towards your uncle ?—The witness , —with a most significant look , —I am . Do you care for your uncle ?—I do not ; for he does hot care about me . ( A laugh . ) I am telling the truth .
Mr O'Hea . —You may go down , sir . The trial lasted the whole day , and thejury returned at half-past five o ' clock . In a few minutes they returned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners , who received the announcement of their fate perfectly unmoved . Sentence was not passed . After the trial waa concluded , several prisoners against whom true bills had been found by the grand jury were brought up to be arrai gned . Amongst them were Thomas M'Inerhehy and five others , for the murder of a' man named M'Mahon , on the 3 rd inst ., and M . 'Inefhetny , on the- Clerk of the Crown asking Kim whether ; he waa guilty or not guilty , immediately answered , ' I am guilty , my lord , but these five others are not . ' Mr O'IIsa said it must be some misapprehension .
The Lord Chief Justice pointed cut to the prisoner that , if he persisted in his plea of guilty , he must be hanged . The prisoner . —I am guilty , my Lord , and there were five others with me ; but not these men in the dock . The LoRD ; CniEF Juwoe then directed an attorney to explain to the prisoner the position in which he was placing himself ; and , after a few minutes' conversation between the prisoner and the attorney , the question was again put , and they all then pleaded Not Guilty , .
Immediately on the Bitting of the court on Saturday , at Ennis , Ryan and Hayee , convicted of having aided and assisted in the murder of Mr James Wataon were ealUd up to have sesiteneo , pronounced upon them . There wss little alteration in the appearance of the prisoners since their conviction ; Haysa , wks is ratter a mild . loohing man , seemed of the two most to foal the awful position in which ho stood , The cltrk of the crown having asked the prisoners what they had to say why sentence of death and execution should not be passed upon them according to law . Hayes said : I have nothing to say , onl y that I ' m in . nocent of the charge . I never saw Billy Ryan from the day I was born to this . I did not see him on tbe day the murder was committed , nor did I put my feet in the county that day . That is all X have to say . I'm innocent , my lord .
Ryan said : I have to say the same . I was fifteen miles from home on that day . It ' s a droll thing that men ' s lives will bo taken away for money by perjury . The witcesses against U 9 were all starving , ani nil striving to get the reward . God sees us . The Lord hulp them that ' s inuocant . We hope ' he will ' see what they have done to ua this day . I hope your lordihips will give n » a long day . I ata innocent—innocent as the the child unborn . Their lordships having put on their black caps , the Chief Justice proceeded to pass sentence . He said it was his duty to refer to the facts of the ease , not for the purpose of increasing the misery in which tho pri . eoners stood , but because it formed part of his palnm ]
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duty , as holding- out a warning and example to oth « # by pointing attention to the circumstance of this crime and the punishment awarded for it . His lordship having recapitulated , the facts of the case , and &<* eh at iotn length upon tho euormity of th « . crlme , said that in tfaig instance the crime ot murder had bees committed for the purpose of controlling the power ' of property In the ewcation of the rights conferred by law , . But tne gjsreot of such outrages , if they were allowed to be con tinned , would / be , that the owners of property would be com . polled on tho one hand to b . come absentees from the duty , as holding out a warning and e « ample to others , ^^^ ^»^ , ^ t r ^^ ! ^
country , and abandon tho enjoyment of property , and the perf jrmance of its duties ; or ; en the other to remain in ihecountiy at the peril if thtirlltea . The erll , however , did not end there j « noh patrages sflected tfis safety of tbe . farmer and tbe peasant alio . The landlerd might be the first victim , bat the farmer and peasant wault ! be the neit . His lordship having implored of the priioners to take advantage of the time remaining to them , and to «» k that pardon from Heaven which tbey could not obtain on earth , in the usual manner sen , teaced thorn to be executed on the 15 th of February , their bodies to be buried within the precincts of the
prison . The prisoners were thon removed from the bar , Ryan saying aa he retired , ' Thanks bs to God , we are innocent . ' Tho principal trial was that of two men named B a tier and Hourigao , for the murder ofn man named Patrick Cleary , in the month of November last . Tbe prisoner Butler is a man about forty-five years of age , of small frame , and emaciated in appearance . Hourigao , ia considerably younger , and a fine-looking , powerful man The unfortunate victim was a respectable iockomith and pedlar , residing in Limerick , and the only ground that has been suggested for the murder is , that he and bis wife had given evidence ia certain cautcs . at the last spring and summer assizes , and that he was suspected , though without any good foundation , of being in the pay of the police .
It appeared that . on the 6 th of November last he bad occasion to go to Broadfoot ,, a short distance from Limerick , and having transacted hie business , he waa returning heme at about six o ' clook in the evening . The nig ht was dark but starlight , A policeman named M'Wheeney depoted thathe left Broadfoot goon after six o ' clock ; that walking fast he overtook and passed a msn whom ho recognised , as Butler , and a few paces further on he passed another man , whom he knew to be Cleary . He bad walked about nin « ty yards on when he heard a shot fired , and a cry of ' Harder ! ' Some policemen
were approaching at the moment , ' ho wafted for them , and thay then went together to thq spot where the shot appeared to have . been fired . He . there found Cleary lying on the ground wounded . and . on their raising him np fee said bs bad been shot , and believed be waa dying . At that moment M'Wheeny saw the } ' shadow oi two men flitting across the field , ' , Poor Cleary was taken to tha police barrack ,, and , remained there that night , and on tha following day he was removed to Sir U . Harrington ' s Hospital , in Limerick , and there , on tbe 21 st of the same month , ho died ,
It appt ared that on the poor fellow being found by tbe policemen , ho immediately declared Butler to have been the man who fired tho shot , and that Hourigan was with him at the time . Search was immediately made for the . prisoners , and they were captured the same night at their own homes . On the next morning the magistrates attended and took Clearj ' a deposition , and t » that deposition he wag sworn . The same day the prisoners were produced before him ; he identified them and , in their presence , hia deposition was read over to bira , and he again declar « d it to be true , but he was not re-sworn . After he was removed to the hospital , it appeared from the surgeon ' s evidence that Cleary at once gave himself up as dying , but the surgeon , against his
own opinion , gave him some hope of living . Ultimately , however , when his eni wns approaching , the surgeon apprised him of it , and at deary ' s tcqueit & magistrate again attended him to take his dying declaration . Hr W . Roche , late M . P . for Limerick , was the magistrate whe attended , and that gentleman stated that ho full y explained to the unfortunate man the situation in nhich he stood , and that hia declaration must be made with the same solemnity as if he were answering before his Maker . The man clearly understood the effect of what he was saying , and on Mr Roche ' s writing down the declaration , though in language of hia own , Cleary signed it , and within a day or two afterwards died , In that declaration occurred the words , that Cleary , 1 entertaining little or no hope , 'declared , & c .
Mr O'Hea , for the prisoners , objected to its being received , oa the ground of the declaration not being positive as to tha man's belief that he was dying . The Chief Justice , however , overruled the objection . But there was another declaration of the dying man , made to his wifejust before his death , and that waa new deposed by her . The description which the poor woman gave of the last melancholy scene in nhich that declaration was made was so simple and affecting that we present it to our readers in the language in which she gave it : —* I went to him ( said she ) about a quarter of an hour before his death ; he took my hand in his , and asked wherd the children were—we had three . ' I said , ' They are with their uncla O'Brien . ' Oh ! Jenny , '
says he , ' O'Brien will take Mike , and you and the tw © little ones must go to the poor-house , and may God help you . ' ' Ob ! Paddy , ' says I « God will help me , but you'll help me too . ' ' Oh . ' no , ' says he , ' I cannot help you , for I ' m dying . ' ' Oh ! Paddy , ' says I , « you say that to frighten me , because it is dark , ' ' Oh ! no , ' says he , 'I dou ' i mean to frighten you ; I am raley dying , ' I then called the xurse to bring a . candle , and I says , Oh ! Paddy , if you are dying , if you have any doubt about the men who killed you , don ' t criminate Miko Batlerand Hourigan ; ' and says he , 'It was Sutler whe shot th « pistol , and Hourigan was with him ; but I forgive them , ' and then the nurse brought & candle , and he died five oiinutes after .
Mr O'Hea addressed the jury for the prisoners , basing their defence upon the mistake as to identity into which , the poor man might havo fallen from the agony and . distraction o ( mind which his wounds must have produced . Afcer a short reply from the Solicitor-General . The Chief Justice summed up the evidence , and ex . plnined the law as to the meaning of a dying declaration , SSuoh a declaration was laid downaa being « on « made by a party in extremis , when every hope of this world is gone , every motive to falsehood silenced , and the mind induced by themest powerful considerations to speak the truth , ' Such a declaration , although not upon oatb , was legal evidence , and in this case the declaration made to the-magistrate wns confirmed by the later ono made to the wife . The Jury retired from the box , but in a few minutsa returned , and pronounced a verdict of guilty against both the prisoner ? .
The prisoners , who did not appear to be much aueoted , were immediately withdrawn . Tbe prisoners wtro brought up on Saturday , when the Clerk of the Crown haviag asked them what tbey had to say why sentence of death should not bo pronounced upon them , neither of them made any answer . Tbtir Lordships having pio on their black caps , tho Chief Baron proceeded to pass sentence . His Lordship , after some very suitable obserrations , fixed their execution on the 17 ih of February , their bodies to be buried within tho precincts of the prison . ^ In ? prisoners received the announcement without ex . hiliitlnff any emetion . On being removed from the bar , Butler said , ' Thanks be to God , we are innocent ; we are innocent bsfore tbe Court and the Lord in Heaven ' The other prisoner , Hourigan , said , 'Yes , we are inno - cent—innocent as the child unborn , though we are condemned to die , of this crime .
Tbo last case tried was that of four ill-looking ffillOWS , for posting a threatening notice on the park gate of Col . Vandeleur , of Kilrush . The following is a copy of the notice : ™ 4 Take notice . Croftoa Tandaluro If you don't change jour mind and give relive to theyoung as well as the old And Not td Put a stop to the Poblicke Worke as you are and also Captiu Kenidy if yo Dont be said by thi « Notice blive me I ; will do witae ye as I Did with Pirce Ca-vige ' ' So have yeir will mutd iu timo . ' A man named Carton said that , on the 31 st of December last , abont six o ' clock ia the evening in question , ho went to water his donkey at a pond near Colonel
Vandeleur s gate , and whilst so engaged he heard some mea talking about putting up a notice . At that unlucky mo . ment his donkey * sneezed' and the party discovered hia presence . They allowed him , however , to go home without molestation ; but an hour afterwards they went to bis house and made him swear that he would say no , thing about what he had heard . The notice was tbe next morning iound affixed to the gate , and Curton , with little regard to the oath he had taken , immediately stated to the magistrates what had occurred . Ho and some of his family identified the prisoners , and thejury having retired , after an absence of about an hour xeurned a verdict of guilty against them all .
I Earful Explosion Op Guspowdbr Asd Miba...
I earful Explosion op Guspowdbr asd Mibaculous Escape . —In one of the cottar-houses en the farm of Lumpuinnans , near Loohgelly , . last week , a fearful explosion of gunpowder took place under rather singular circumstances . In ono of these houses there were several barrels , of gunpowder deposited for the use of the quarry men on the Looh gelly branch of tb , e Edinburgh and Northern Bailway . Three children were left alun , e in the house ; and in the course of their play , the eldest , a boy about eight years of age , proposed to his sister to set off gome powder » and , emptying a good quantity out of a barrel that was broken bpen , the boy advised his sister to take a cinder out of the fire with tho tongs and fling- it among the powder , which she did . It may be
conjectured what were the consequence * . The two children were sent in a moment outside tke door the root went off the house , and , most singular to ' say , the youngest child , after being driven into a corner , was picked out . of the ruins without a single scratcj . 1 he boy is seriousl y injured about the head and face , and the girl about the hand and arm . Fears are entertained about the boy , but the girl is considered to be out of danger . Had the rest of the powder ignited , no doubt but all the three must havejost their lives , and in all probability some lives would have been lost in tho adjoining houses . Iho ice on the Elb at Hamburgh is now so thick that heavily laden waggons can cross the rivet upon it . The Hereford Times d « scribes a drake with three legs , to one of which two feet were attached .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 22, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22011848/page/6/
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