The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-14 00:00:00

INF,I.VTICIDE.

A murder of cm infant, under circumstances of moisnal
and appalling barbarity, occurred a few days ago near
Scot's honor, in the county of Monaghan. A young un-
married woman, the daughter of a farmer, in c un-
fortable circumstances, and rather above the common
class, hail e visibl wil child for some ie pes
and report abe
ttn ributedy it tot an illicit intercoursetm witht a
Roman Catholic clergyman, who was intimate at the
house, and whom report stated to have seduced and
got pregnant another sister, who was some time ago
delivereti,lbough no trace was ever heard of the infant.
A few days since, the young woman lay-in ; and shortly
after her father, mother, and two uncles were in the room
with the door clinical ; and a servant oute'de heard the cry
of the child, and also beard its mother say to her own mo-
ther, " Oh, mother, dept kill toy child." There was no
appternice of the infant afterwards. Suspicion was CX•
cited, by the mineral knowledge that the young woman
lay-in--the ili,arpearance of the infant—the former con-
finement of her sisttr—anil the diaspreurance of that
child—and. from some hints which fell from the servant
maid, a search t.as made about the place, which lcd to the
discovery of a fresh interred child, and the bones of an-
other, in an of 1 fort near their house. The discovery
,caused the mother of the chid. her parents, and her two
mules to abccand.• Colonel Madden, of Hilton, a Magis-
!tate, has been exertion" hiiwelf for their apprehension,
and the elucidating of this dr, ailful atrocity ; but as yet
his rxertiens have net sum ded in effecting their appre-
hension. We are sorry the character of a elcr,zyinan
should be conceded in any manner with so dreadful an
nfrenre ; awl we hope, for his sake, and for the sake of the
religion to which he proftascs to belong, that it rill be so
factorily elm idafeil. as to hurl down on him, if guilty,
that iglioniiiiicus punishment, which would be I. nity for
such a sefi:s of foul and horrid offeiscea ; or, if innocent,
to r eine his character from that dreadful surpicion multi
which it now laboitra.—Ce Herald.

ll'aN TON CRU tLTIf . -AO act of the most wanton and
deliberate cruelty was catmint ti in New Elect, in this
cit.!, on Sunday forehemi last. A Frain belonging to the I
town, of the name of Janus (' man, was going up that
strea, in *Aurally with a youtt,r man, and l'ollowell by a
deg, tele n a tine terrier, the property of Mr. (linen. sum
cern, hi Old Elect, and the dog belonging to Cowan
(panellist, and Mr. Green's deg having got the best of it
and made the other animal cry out, went down slice ai:el
had got about SO yards, when it was foilsmen by Cowan,
who at lain it and brought it back to the spot where the
turn-up took place. lie then gave it some hoary kicks
with his feet ; but not content with doing this, laid
hold of its neck, and dulled it in the most meal. manner
against tile wall two or three time, and finally threw it on
the ground. The poor iodise! was severe by injnnal by this
treatment, anal bad one of his 04;h-bones broken, and its
this pitiable state it made its way heme on three !cgs. Se-
veral resp,setable permits witnessed this brutal scene, sonic
of whom remonstrated ileitis him an his cruelty, but he
aide muttered something about Mr. tireen's dog baring
bit his, and walked away.—Unshorn Popes.
A melancholy event nceurrel near slit Thorne on Satur-
day List. .1 respretabh• maltster, named Russel, litlng at
Millierne-Porc, left tile thatrge lust, in company with his
son, in a gig, the former being mods isitemicaten. as the
read an altercation ensued, during which the still cut the
reins, m.ti was cruel twice by the patent. The cry of
murder was afterwards heard ; and on his return home
Mr. Russel Lem tOr the tithitignum to take hie son into
custody; he then w.ut into the yard, fell down, and ex-
pect'. The only wooed siea;lc ns a slight gear on the left
(31 -brow, but his death is supposed to hare bei n eceasioned
by an internal injury. The young man it; &wined till the
result of the Coroner's Inquest is known.

Ileay. Seer. 10.—On 'euesilay last, a serious accident
happened to Arthur Brook, gt:4l. of llorringer, near Bury.
As that gentleman was out shooting, aeetonpahied by his
boy, in pursuit of his game, he got eating!' a hedge into
an adjoining Held, givieg his double-bundled gins to his
boy to hold ; when on th.: teller side, he cartel to the lad
for the piece, and at the same time saying, .• mind—it is
I cock, d," 1 ut before the last word was out of his tumuli the
piece went of, and the contents of the charge lodged in Mr.
Brook's shoulder, and we are sorry to say he now lks in a
dangerous state. Another aceitlimt had nearly occurred
from the same ,'ices; the buy takiog it into the kitchen,
was in the act of showing the aid-s.tvant how his master
was shot, when the other barrel went or, but happily the
contents lodged in the coiling.—Sekek (4rmride.
Ma. G.W EST. I MATIOI FOR VOL, SOVERI 10 xs.--This
first-rate pedestrian started y 4 sterility wonting, at two
o'clock, to go on foot to Maidstone, Kent, and return to
a given spot, completing sixty-six milts in thirteen boom
The road, from the number of hilla, alter a few mate tra-
velling, is decider:ly the most difficult out of London, and
man, INAS at 6 to 4 were OIR4C at the sportieg-housee, the
prer.iing night, on time. Mr. Barclay seas the chosen
umpire for each side. The pedestrian performed the first
eight miles to Eltham within an hour, and he proceeded
on to a friend's house between Farninghain and Kingdown.
If miles, to breakfast. Ile stayed there half an hear, and
reached half the distance in two minutes over six hems;
be returned through Larkflehl Gate, leaving himself Sip
miles to accomplish in six hours and five minutes; he
walked, and now and then shogbed between five and six
miles an hour. and won with apparent care, with ten lei-
hutt s to spare.