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/I,III.THVR FARII4 CLAIM

[From " The Connorghe Jor►rrl."]

In our publication of Tharsday last. we had the
pnitifill duty of announcing to our readers the death
of the much-lantented Edward Browne. in the par-
ticulars of winch we were tolerably accurate. not.
itlistaiiihng the lateness of the hour when the news
reached our office.

The following particul ire we have from a Gentle.
man nisei§ whose veracity we can rely, and whose
statement coincides, in a greet measure. with the
other reports we have heard. On Thursday last,
Mr. Browne, accompanied by hi• permit, left big
uncle's Inise, at Moyne, in a gig, on his wry to
Mount Bellew (where he went to transact business);
shortly after bus departure. Mr..hiseph Nolan ar-
rived there, and bring informed of the direction
Mr. Browne took, set out immediately after, anal
overtook him. Both Geist!vitro agreed to travel
in the gig, and that the servant bhoui 41 return to
Moyne, with Mr. Nulats's horn.. The servant was
scarcely fifteen minutes gone, and the two gentle.
men travelling leisurely ill the gig. when au assassin.
from behind a wall, near Horseleap, levelled Ins
gust at Mr. Browne, and shot him through the
heart. which immediately deprived him of existence,
having scarce time to articulate the words "Joseph,
ant shot." It was about two o'clock in the after-
noon. Mr. Browne, at the moment he received the
fatal shot, had his arm extended, describing to his
companion a passage in a play performed a few
evenings before at his brother-in-law's 110114 e at
Ballisiderry, in which Mr. Browne, with several
ladies and gentlemen, sustained a part.
Mr. Nolan, after securing the money and papers
in Mr. Browie's possession, perceiving a man on
the road, called him and requested he would hold
Mr. Browne, while he repaired to an arljecent bole
to call fur assistance to immix the villain ; as he
approached the forge, several men came thereout,
who lie begged would accompany him in the
pursuit ; but they peremptniilv refused, at the
same time saying, that Mr. Nolan should be
cautious, and take care of himself. Mr. Nolan,
from exceseive grief, and seeing his own pen.
lous situation, was quite overpow.red. The life-
less body of Mr. Browne was shortly after con.
veyed into a house. Two of the above men
have been since taken on strong suspicion, as
also the man whom Mr. Nolan first called to hold
Mr. Browne. One of the former is supposed to
have beta from Longhrea—and the latter, who
has been in the capecity of a servant, could not tell
in whose employ he was last, but said that the mail
from Louglirea was the first person he saw after the
shot, who, upon being thus accused, betrayed, by
trensulatiou and • faulteriag iu his speech, strong
symptoms Of his criminality.—Those persons es-
emitted have deposed. that if they supposed it was
Mr. B. that was murdered, they would assirt in the
apprehension of the delinquent*. We have every
reason to suppose that Mr. B. wee not the object
of their vengeance, as his back was partly turned
to the asseseins when he was shot ; and we are in.
formed that Isis dress Corresponded with that worn
by a Rev. Gentleman, nut very friendly to their
measures, who passed that way the preceding day.
and whose return was. it is raid, expected, the day
Mr. B. was sisal. There are reports ill circule.
tion, which we give. not pledging ourselves for their
authenticity, namely, that, after the shot was fired,
the persons at the forge exultingly eaclaimed, "the
Parson is shot !" another states. that these men saw
the assassin, after firing the shot, walk leisurely
to an eminence, distaut about forty yards. where he
deliberately re-loaded his gun. If these rumours
are correct, we hesitate not to say, that the persona
at the forge have been tioplic.ited in the atrocious
deed. We have not yet ascertained the result of
the Coroner's Jury. held on Saturday—we suppose
they continued for a long time in deliberetioe,
thereby expecting to elicit some evidence that may
lead to a direenmee of the perpetrator. I.•,rge sub.
wriptious have been entered into by several Gentle-
mei,. and the immediate relatives and friends of
the detested. The Gs/vet-nutria, always ready to
bring offenders to condign punishment. we have no
doubt, will offer a further reward.—His retnaisoi
were conveyed, at seven o'clock yesterday morning.
from Ballinderry•house, for interment, at
Mo. near Team. It is impossible to describe the
affliction this melancholy affair hiss caused to his
relatives.

giamormii

MEM

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MANCIIKS77IR, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27.

SALFORD SESSIONS.

I.IBEL.
were the Res. W. It. Hay, Merlin. C. W.
.Elltaistose, and Horton; J. Norris, R. Fletetier, ).
Sil-
'wester, and J. Watkins; Captain Raley and Mr. Moore.
Joh* Charlton stood indicted for that he, being an in-
disposed and malicious persons, soil maliciosuly cootrieint
to twos; the soldiers of suer Sovereign Lord she Kiag now
discredit, and disgrace, by charging theta with murder and
cruelties, had published the following ride Man-
cheshrr Olmerrer, Saturday, August 28, 1889 :
Peter Lou Manners. ! !!—lost published, Ns. I. price 2d.
of the Peter Lou Massacre, contaissing a fall, tree, and faith.
legs sit of the legitimate murders, woualliags, egad usher
essonstross cruelties ised by a set of infernal@ (min.
called soldiers) Opel§ au ouarined and distremed people., who
were constitutionally amembled to colonic, of the best, most
legal, and most efficient means of alleviating their 'unparal-
leled esoffirings, when they were broken in upon by bands of
armed ragiaas, who murdered many, and cut sal maim-
ed hundreds more in a horrid
Verdict—Gailly.

Joseph Shaw, was indicted for that hr, being as evil-ills.
posed person, and wiobitig to excite is certain of his Ma-
jesty's liege subjects a hatred and contempt of the laws sad
government or this realm, and also a haired mid routempt
of the Moses of Parliament, dist, an the 23J of August
teat, publish a certain oeditioos libel, emitted, " A Lefler
to the &Allem on the State of the Country, sad *hewing
the means that were wed tat separate them from the great
body of the people." llsis ester was published in one Id
hertrin'• Political Registers, she date of which was mot
menii .... ed; but whirls, from what was afterwards moils
limbed by the Defendant, we could infer was Rrst publishid
in lasidmi about the tat of August. . . . .

Mr. Peanuts thew °seemed the ease, and reset the priori.
pal parts of the alleged bled hues his brief. The substance
of the It ailing parts is es follows :---The letter berm by al-
holing to an Act passed in the year 1817, by which it was
nude a felony without benefit of clergy, for soy person to
attempt to seduce any so thee or sailor front his allegiance. or
to excite them to any art of nostisey or disobedience to their
officers ; mud et observed, that this Act was pasard because
the leormeghessungers (mei gg ioo g the Houses of Psoliaineol)
wen• afraiil, that if the soldiers embraced the dextrin,. of
reform, they could no longer look upon thew (es they now
did) as shier only hope and safeguard in the country,
and that they (the soldiers) would no longer subsoil to
be thie tools of such nem, in attacking their peaceable
fellowatubjects. It further stated, that it was not the
wiieh of the writer to disturb their allegiance Its the
king; that, it obierved, would ha a dangerous sohjera
and here actin it refereed to the Act of 1817. It was not
the wish of the writer to say any thing of the Royal Fatuity,
" fuer," it adeled,"Goel k Howe they are en po pee lar enough alrea-
dy ;" " but," it confirmed," to the boroughenerager. (nmeaniug
the lino :es of Parliament) you (meaning the soldiers) owe
an allegiance, and you ought to pet form nu duty to Awls."
It then wrist un to point out the use■ to which the army
were destined by %Mater*, one of alma, it observed,
bad said, that without the aid of the military fierce it
would be impossible to collect the taxes. It next adverted
to what it termed the military escort of the Sovereign from
Carlton Iluuse to St. Steptlees Chapel, sod contrasted this
alleged fondness for military guard with the conduct
of Mitten Elisabeth, who, when asked by the Spanish
Ambassador out her way to the Parliament Houle, where
were her guards? answered, that they were there (point-
isig tee the people). The buroughosuiegers (meaniug the
Maims of Parliament) were, it observed, afraid that
the soldiers wombd at length prove noveilliag to draw their
swords epos, their fellow subjects, whose distresses might
induce them to demand their rights from thole borough.
mongers (meaning the Houses of Parliament), tee whose
conduct all those distresses were to be attributed, and
in consequence of this few they were every day ticeorag-
beg armed associations is the cosseitry, In order that they (the
armed associations) might be ready to perpetrate thy...deeds
which an honest soldier would be ashamed to perform. The
question with the leserouglunotegers (surmising the Houma of
Parliament) was not whether they (the soldiers) were willing
to do their duty, but whether they would consent to noun.
der their fellow.subjects in cold blood; not whether they
(the soldiers) would support the King of England, but whe.
they limy would give allegiance to, and stippled king Castle-
reagh, bug Soiree,* and a thousand others of their descrip-
tion. It also alluded to the grant of 10,0001. a year to the Doke
of York, for going once& month to visit his 'Misted father a
few miles from Loudon, and melded a report that that money
h•d already been toll by his Royal Highness at play. In the
conclusion it staled, that it bail not tuncbe•d upon the
jert of the military: that it was not the iittention of the
writer so seduve moldiers from their allegiance, or to encou-
rage them to disobey their commanding officers ; but it made
a broad disiueliou (as, indeed, is did throughout) b. tweeze the
obedience to their consromiders, and that which they owed to
the boesseghwesmagers (mean i te g s he Houses of Parliament); but
it added, that it might nett be accused of omitting so borer-
taut a subject as an allusion to the individual cunditious of i
the soldiers, it begged their particular atientims to us, ex-
tract from Voltaire's Caadids. It then gave the extract,
beginning wish that part ah.•re Candid* is desired by his
comrades, on entering the regiment as a recruit, to "drink
the !King of Bulgaria. health," and ending with his de-
meription of the terrible carnage he bad witnessed in a
battle with Ilse enemy. The whole of winch, as oar readers
know, is a strong and highly coloured into, on the hard-
ships and privations incidental to the life of a soldier,
Mr. Wite.taela stated the ease at full length.
The publication having been proved.
Tbe Prisoner, i■ his defence, addressed the Jury to the
following effect
" Gentlemen of the Jury—You calmed expect any great
thins from me on this occasion, as I am but a poor labour.
log snechautc, sail only wee driven to telling little boob by
the badness of my trade. If the write r:of the article before
you was present, be would no doubt be better able to speak
to you than I ant. I caught a severe cold in being arrested,
and I have already lost two mooths of my time, and a great
deal of money. At the time my papers were mixed, the offi-
cer took away several accounts, by which I was prevents el
from getting several sums of mosey from my customers, end
t►ereby am soot now sehteerie pie* Larsraseil-frimed4Couneel)
to plead my moose. As to the libel, it it nothing to me; I
am nut the writer, .or the printer, uor have I had the books
from the publisher ; they missed through two ur three hands
before they came to me; trade being bad, I was glad to
do any little betimes' by which I might support my.
self and family, rather than be idle. The writer of the
article, Mr. Sherwin, is at large in Loudon, and has not
beets ponisbed in any way fur what he has done. It rests
then with you, Gentlemen, abettor 1 shell he allowed
to return to the lissom of say family, sir he incarcerated in
a dampen foe the set of another. As God it ney judge, 1
bad nu intention whatever of bringing his Majesty or the
Government into contempt by tiny thing I did. I sin nut
one of that sort. All that know my cheneeter know sue
to be an honest industries,/ man, eadeavouring to sup. i
port a wife and two small children. Whatever may be
done to me now, I shall always be ready to die my duty to
any Kole sod country. I think indeed the case is very hard,
that I should be pnaiderd, and that Mr. Sherwin should he
at large, though he is the writer. It is • eery hard ease,
indeed. Being a very poor man, I leave not bens able to
pay a gentleman of the bar to advocate my ClllOO fur me.
have done fee the presesa." Verdict—Gaffey.

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smooths, ■ud SO Aid seestitira, herself is 401. sail Iwo sore.
ties is la earls.
Sarah /lough was .►ntenesd to pay a Ilse of Si., sod to
be poprisoned,ill it sluphi he paid.
Jahn Charlton was seatraerd so be iespriwissesl for four
tionistbs, sad to nod sererities fur too years, binsself is 401.
and two sureties iii 201. tiirls.
DRILLING AND TRAINING.

Walton Gra:word was einivietrd of drilling, training,
wornacialt,riiiting, Joe. TYere were wine counts iu the in-
dietameni. The evidence applied only to training.
The Jury Nand a verdict of—Gni/IN.
&lunar trials are to lake place to-morrow.