The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-27 00:00:00

was afrai,l ;per hence ;
washing himself ; did not see Allen at all ; did not give
the refreshment ordered by Mr. Spelman for the three
men, they were taken away so soon ; witness did not hear
of Mr. Spelman's exciting the mob to perpetrate this deed ;
did not see him speaking to any one but herself.
It appears that two policemen were cognizant of the si-
tuation of the sufferers, Allen and M‘Kenzie, on the first
day of their detention. They knew, it is said, that the
poor fellows were maimed and wounded, left to die without
medical or any other assistance whatever, and yet it seems
neither of these policemen had courage or humanity enough
to approach them. Justice evidently demands that an in-
vestigation should be instituted into the alleged cowardly
and inhuman conduct of these policemen.
LONGFORD MURDER.—There was a man of the name
of Thomas Farrell murdered a few days since at Bally-
mahon, county Longford. The persons accused were two
men of the name of Johnson, father and son, and a man
of the name of Frayne. The former were persons in rather
a respectable rank of life, and reputed Orangemen, and
renters of the tolls. From the part they took at the elec-
tion, the people determined to do away with the tolls, which
it appears by the result, the Johnsons had no right to leuy.
Farrell was active in the proceedings which deprived them
of the tolls, and as the Johnsons were heard to use some
threats of revenge, report connected the murder with the
toll proceedings. The following is the unanimous verdict
of the jury, upon which were three men of the Tory party :
" We find the deceased, Thomas Farrell, came by his
death by wounds inflicted on his left side with a sharp in-
strument by John Johnson, while he (deceased) was in con-
flict with John Frayne, and that Andrew Johnson aided
therein ; and that John Frayne was accessory thereto."
There was an immense excitement in Longford, where
the Johnsons were committed to prison, 10,000 persons
having assembled to attend the funeral of Farrell.—Pilot.
EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGATION.—The Irish Papers
contain an exceedingly long report of an investigation which
took place last Saturday, at the Arran-quay Office, into a
most atrocious outrage, which was stated to have been com-
mitted on the banks of the canal, near James's-street, on
the previous Sunday. A statement of the transaction in
question appeared in Saunde, s' paper, in the shape of a
letter from under the hand of Mr. J. O'Reilly, in Dc•lphin's-
barn, which caused some respectable inhabitants of the
neighbourhood to set an inquiry on foot, with a view of dis-
covering the perpetrator of so foul a deed, and bringing
him to that punishment which he so justly merited ; but,
'upon a very minute inquiry, those persons who set the in-
quiry on foot were of opinion that the thing did not occur,
arid they were anxious that the neighbourhood should be
relieved from the imputation, and they accordingly called on
the Magistrates to investigate the matter, in order that the
I facts might go before the public. The Magistrates, when
this call was made upon them, sent word to O'Reilly, who
published the letter, to come forward and sustain, by the
best proof he could, the statements he had made. O'Reilly
being thus in some measure compelled to establish the
truth of his charges, came forward, attended by Counsel and
witnesses.