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London, England, 1825-09-06 00:00:00

A7IIOCIOUS PARRICIDE.

(From the American Norfolk llerald.l
A disclosure has been made since the Inquest tffi Rudder,
which has given an entirely new face to this horrid trans-
action, and stamped it with features Of a much more exe-
crable cast. It will be recollected that the evidence given
by the family of the deceased at the Inquest, stated that he
was murdered by a coloured man, who entered his room be-
tween the hours of 7 and 8 in the evening, and perpetrated
the deed in the very face of his wife and children, who were
sitting in a contiguous room.
As the deceased was known to have had some dis-
turbance with a fret coloured man named Lam Cuffee.
suspicion immediately fell on him, and a warrant was
named to appreheni him. Still, however, it was difficult
to conceive how he, or any other man in his senses, whether
instigated by revenge (and there could have been no other
inducement in this case, Rudder being a poor labouring
man) or by plunder, should have gone into a hottte where
there was so large • family, to commit a murder almost in
broad day-light (for the time the murder is stated to have
been committed could have been but a few minutes after
sun-down)—how he should have known of Pudder's going
to bed at that uncommon hour—and haw it was that no
effort was made by the three stout females present to rescue
the unfortunate man from the grasp of the murderer.
Dark surmises and suspicions began to arise, and in-
quiries to be made, all too well justified by the sequel, for,
by the voluntary confession of one of the children, the
horrid deed was proved to have been committed by one of
Rudder's own daughters!
The whole family were upon this discovery sem-
moned before a Magistrate; and Betsey Rudder, the young
woman charged with the horrid deed, was committed
to gaol. The rest were discharged, the evidence of their
participation in it not being sufficiently strong to warrant
their commitment. The witness, Nancy Rudder, stated,
that her sister Betsey effected her bloody purpose by means
of an iron pestle, with which she literally beat in her
father's skull ! Some other facts have been related to us.
which it would be indiscreet to publish for the present.
Enough is known to shock and disgust every reader of or-
dinary sensibility.
Rudder is represented to have been a bard-working and
rather well-disposed man ; at tunes addicted to intoxicative,
when he was apt to be cross; sad en the whole lived
upon very bad terms with his wife and children.

District Societies, for promoting the building and eh-
largeMent of Churches and Chapels. have been established
at Exeter and Plymouth, and we shall feel much pleasure
in seeing the examples set by those places, followed by the
laree towns in this county.—Winchester paper.
• There are now living in one house in New-street, Great
Torrington, two men, each under 40 years of age, who
have had six wives.

It is said that the next Old Bailey and Clerkenwell Ses-
sions are likely to be heavier, in point of number of pri-
soners and the nature of some of their offences, than has
occurred for some time.

The crime of horse-stealing is still carried on to an
amazing extent, and scarcely a day passes that information
does not reach the police Wee' of one or more horses hav-
ing been stolen. On Sunday night five valuable horses
were stolen from a field near Edgeware, belonging to a Mr.
Thompson, of Kilburn, who, we believe, had the care of
them. They were valued at above seven huntlred gui-
neas. One of them was stated to be the property of Chief
Justice Best.

Connell, who was tried for thiweaselrtaebteyproleinsoeernroithf,laetlhidnetintityrili)tulfge
coaches.
Awneunmt offber onof
pe Sundayrsons
of them he was cheered, which compliment he teturtied
by bowing to them, and taking oft' his hat. He appeased
to he in high spirits.—Chester el,ronkle.
J.11.1E8 PATTEEN.—A letter was received ytEerday
morning from the Secretary of State's office, by Mr. Tat-
nail, the keeper of our county gaol, stating that Mr. Secre-
tary Peel having fully considered the ease of James Pat-
tern, now under sentence of death in the gaol of Warwick,
he could not, consistently with his duty, advise his Ma-
jetty to grant the prisoner any extension of the royalinerey.
Pattern will, therefore, be executed this morning.--;-Bie-
mingham Journal, Sept. S.
ACCIDENT THROUGH AN Ext•Losiow.—The family cf
Mr. Connor, North-street, Cavendish-square, being ex-
pected home from France in a few days, the servants were
yesterday morning busily occupied in cleaning, and em-
ployed a man and two charwomen to assist them ; they
made a very large fire in the back kitchen, and while sir.
ting near it at breakfast, the whole house was suddenkt
shook by the fire exploding with a loud noise, and with
such violence as to shatter the tire-grate, copper, Stc.'and
throw down not only them, but everything in the place;
the man, who was sitting tkrthest from the tire-place, had
his skull fractured by the falling of an iron weight or
smoothing iron ; the housemaid was sodreadfully scorched
and burned in the face, that it is feared she will lose hat
sight ; vise of the charwomen was very much injured in
her breast. The cook was also hurt by the hot wiser burst-
ing over her. Two of the injured persons were removed
atoppethe
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ARCHBISHOP OF TUAM.
t From the Galway hedrpetident. 1
We thought we had given a sufficient answer, in the
abort comment which appeared in our paper of the 24th
44;4,0t:t0i1* letter which Mr. Eneas M.Donnell address-
s•el to ibis truly dignified and admired Prelate, and which
so: cared in the Morning Chronicle only a few days since,,
llieugh dated the 2d of last February,
.e period now nearly
ei.;lit months past; but we did not notice all his facts—and
us we have heard of some persons so infatuated as to con-
clude that there were something in them to which our for-
bearance was to be attributed, we will now remark, and
vac beg leave to say that we arc authorized to remark, upon
the two most important paragraphs of this rnostimportant
letter—the rest of it, when placed in juxta-position with
the observations which his Crime condescended to make on
the 19th of last January, upon a letter of Mr. McDonnell's,
which was copied from the Morning Chronicle into the
Dadin Evening Post of the 4th of the same month, will
speak for itself.
This Mr. EneAs 11I'Donnell boldly (notwithstanding
what his Grace had said) repeats the story of the Arch-
bishop having refused 27,000/. for the renewal of one
single lease. He says, "he certainly was so informed ;
and as there is no other reason to doubt it but the assert ion
of his Grace, it will not be expected by those aho have
read the letter that he should yield to such authority."
He says " be was informed of the parish and county in
which the lands are situated, and also the name of the
tment. but he does not feel it necessary or proper to state
either the one or the other, as it might injure the respect-
able gentleman to whom he alludes." Now, if Mr.lllDon-
nell has been so informed, we are authorised to state that
he has been informed of what is not true: this, then, no
/mg( r rests on the assertion of the Archbishop of Tuam,
however conclusive any assertion coming from his Grace
must be—the proof rests with Mr. 111• Donnell himself.
We call upon him, by authority, to produce it ; we call
upon him to name the tenant—he can suffer no injury
whatever by Mr. 'McDonnell's doing so; on the contrary, he
will be very considerably served by it ; be will thereby put
how his pocket the difference between 27,000!. (which he
must have thought the renewal worth, or he would not have
offired it, and then the Archbishop could not have refused
ir,) and 3,373/. which is the one-eighth of that sum ; and we
pledge ourselves (we have authority for doing so) that the
Archbishop of Tuam will renew with this respectable gen-
Ohm, or with any other tenant under the 8::e of Tuam
and Ardagh (and there still remain on his Grace's estates
several of the most important, and by far the most va-
!liable, leases nnrenewed, not one of which has ever been
renewed by him), for any single lease, or any number of
leases which he or they may hold directly under his Grace,
vp to the 23th of last December (a period later than that
for which Mr. bi`D. asserts that he was certainly informed
that 27,0004 was refused, and consequently adding value
to the property) for less than one-eighth of the sum of
21,0001. We challenge, then, this Mr. M' Donnell to name
his respectable gentleman—his doing so can hurt no man
living ; but if, thus challenged, he declines to do so. it will
manifest, that if he was informed of what he has assert-
avid repeated, be has been informed of what is false ; and
he has published and re-published a falsehood, for no good
purpose.
" Again, Mr. McDonnell repeats the assertion, that cer-
tain persons near Ballitasloe hail received arms, accoutre-
ment>, and ammunition, from Dr. Trench, the Archdeacon
of Ardagh, in the last winter, to the great annoyance and
alarm of the peaceable inhabitants of the town and its Vici-
nity." Now, we are authorized to restate emphati-ally,
that this is not true ; no annoyance or alarm could have ex-
isted aninog the peaceable inhabitants of that town and
vicinity of liallinasioe upon such account, because no arms,
ace. were so distributed. Archdeacon Trench being a wit-
ness at our last Assizes, was examined to this very point,
and he swore that not a single stand of arms had been de-
livered to any person by him or by his sanction, advice, or
wasent, since the frightful disturbance that existed in the
County of Galway the latter end of the year 1819, and in
the beginning of 1820. If the Archdeacon has sworn
falsely, his testimony is upon record, and he can be made
amenable to justice.
Here then, we will leave this angry letter—we think we
have now said enough to satisfy the most infatuated party-
man amongst us that our former forbearance was produced
nos by any fear of touching it—but by our conviction that
is carried its own- antidote ; and we will conclude our re-
marks by advising its absurd and intemperate writer to ab-
stain in future from giving implicit credit to the slander
and falsehoods of which lie may be informed—and not again
gagerly to publish what he bears and understands, and
learns, and believes, for the wicked purpose of doing in-
jury to a Prelate whose character is far above any thing he
can say, and who did not provoke ur deserve such an attack
from him.