The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1839

Within the last month a meeting of one of the Irish
Northern Railways took place in Manchester—two-
thirds of the capital subscribed was English capital ;
and notwithstanding the discouraging circumstances in
which they were placed, the English shareholders came
forward and increased their subscriptions, calling upon
the Irish proprietors to do the same.--(Hear, hear.)
It was important that these facts should be generally
known, and that Parliament should be apprise of the
views of the people of Ireland on that subject.
The KNIGHT of KERRY explained. He made no
objection to an application being made to Parliament;
on the contrary, he would be most anxious that the
application should be made.
Mr. NORTHHOUSE had been in communication with
several Member: of Parliament who had voted for Lord
Morpeth's motion, but who had expressed their deter-
mination to oppose the further progress of the Govern-
ment measure.
Mr. J. GRATTAN had expected, with the Knight of
Kerry, that a larger number of Irish gentlemen would
have been present. It was, he admitted, very desirable
that a grant of two millions and a half should be ob-
tained for Ireland in its present circumstances, but he
confessed that he should rather see the money in the
Treasury than improperly or partially applied. He
would recommend the adjournment of the present meet-
ing to a future day.
Lord FITZGERALD and VESCI then addressed the
meeting, expressing his anxiety to promote any measure
which would tend to the improvement and welfare of
Ireland. He fully concurred in the proposition to
submit the adoption of the best lines to a Select Com-
mittee of the House of Commons, and agreed with Mr.
Grattan in the propriety of postponing the meeting for
a few days, when he hoped all those interested in the
prosperity of the country would attend a meeting having
for its object' not alone the improvement of communica.
tion but the improvement of the social condition of Ire-
land.—(Hear, hear.)
After some further discussion the meeting was ad-
journed till Saturday next, the 27th inst.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated.

TRURO CHURCH-RATE WAR.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
TRURO, APRIL 15, 1839.

This town still eontinues in a state of considerable
excitement, and almost all the conversation of its inha-
itants is on the Church-rate question. Denunciations
and threatenings are heard from the Tories of what they
mean to do if the anti-Church-rate people do not suc-
cumb, while the latter are as determined in their oppo-
sition as ever. Indeed the late prosecution has excited
feelings stronger than those ever before known in this
borough, and it is quite certain that till Church-rates are
abolished li-Jre there will be neither peace nor quietness.
So some of the wiser of the Church people believe them-
selves, for they have strongly urged that the Town Council
should give up their seats in the Church, and then
they will forego the making a rate in St. Mary's
(the principal parish in the borough) in future. But,
much as some of the Dissenters would be glad to see
this done, yet there is no hope that relief will be ob-
tained by this means ; for many of the Council think
they have no right to sacrifice property entrusted to
them by the whole town, for the benefit of an individual
parish. Even this proposition, however, carries some-
thing suspicious on its face, for the Churchwardens,
when they made the offer, said that they estimated the
rental that would accrue from the letting of the seats
at about twenty-four guineas a-year. A Dissenter im-
mediately said that if the Council felt it to be their
duty to continue to hold these seats as the representa-
tives of the town, the Dissenters would subscribe money
to the amount named every year, and give it them, if they
would forego the making a rate. Will it be believed that
the idea was scouted, that the very party making the
proposition flew off, and said that the money was
not the thing required, but that the Wardens wished to
have the room—that they wanted more scats, and did
not care at all about the money ! Another gentleman
asked the Rector whether, if a memorial were drawn
up, requesting the Council to give up the scats for the
benefit of preservine, the peace of the town, he would
sign it ? The Rev:Gentleman said he would ; the me-
morial was got up, and then sent to the Rector, who,
however, now refuses to sign it ; because, he gays, the
Churchwardens have no power to make any engagement
that can be binding on future Churchwardens. Does
not such conduct as this look like shuffling? Does it not
lead one to infer that the object of the party was to
make a proposition that they thought the Dissenters
would not accede to, and then to throw all the odium,
if any such attached, on the shoulders of those who re-
fused to concur ? The same Rev. Rector of St. Mary's,
to whom I have alluded, is just about to leave this borough
for the parish of Newlyn, whither he has been translated,
and which will bring some two or three hundreds a year.
more into his pocket. He yesterday preached his fare-
well sermons, and though, heretofore, commanding the
regard of many of the Dissenters of the town because of
his abstaining from those exhibitions of party zeal too
frequently seen in the west of England, as well as else-
where, yet he could not avoid showing the cloven foot
by mixing up " Deists, Dissenters, and Romanists," as
beings of one class. He strongly urged the people to
stand by the forms of the Church—forms useful and
highly beneficial to himself, and likely, of course, to excite

his disinterested zeal, for the same Bishop who sent him

from Devon—it was said for preaching a political ser-
mon—to Truro, and from Truro to Newlyn, tnny have
the power of conferring upon him a richer living still.
The Tories and Churchmen were in ecstacy after hear-
ing his sermons yesterday.

The Liberals here mean to hail the liberation of the
State-Church-persecuted sufferers with a public dinner,
and thus show Baron Gurney that if he supposed that
he could put down Church-rate opposition by the
means he adopted, he was very much mistaken. There
is but one opinion of the Judge's summing up. What
that opinion is it can be hardly necessary to say, for
the Judge's address has met with the censure of every
liberal journalist who has noticed it. The Judge's name,
like the auctioneer's, is execrated here.
There have been appeals made to every part
of the county, and it is hoped that those appeals
will be successful. The legal and other expenses
of these persecuted men amount to between two and
three hundred pounds. More than one hundred have
been subscribed since the Commencement of the pro-
ceedings, and the alacrity which individuals show in
support of the cause augurs favourably. It is well
known that the Tories have large funds at command,
but the Liberals hope to show them that, as far as
the sinews of war are concerned, the persecuted indi-
viduals now lying in Bothnia goal subjected to the
treatment of common felons, snail not suffer to the
extent of a farthing. On this subject I shall quote
another letter from Mr. Tooke, who has in this
matter. rendered himself doubly dear to those of
his old constituents who know how to appreciate
manliness of sentiment, vigorous intellect, and honest
straight-forward independence :
" Russell-square, April 8, 1830.
"My dear Sir—l have read with deep concern the
report of the result of the piosecction of my respected
and conscientious friends, Mr. Richard Barrett, Mr. J.
C. Idwards, and Mr. Samuel Randall.

" My habitual respect for the due dominion of the
law, exercised through the medium of a jury, restrains
me from giving scope to those feelings which that report
is calculated to excite in every liberal mind ; hence it
behoves juries no less than Judges, to consider how far
respect may be impaired, and institutions themselves
endangered, by permitting an unholy spirit of partizan-
ship to invade the very sanctuary of justice.
" This powerful visitation on our friends is one of
the consequences of the unworthy policy pursued by the
present Administration, who, had they fairly carried out
their virtual pledge of abolition of that most odious and
unchristian impost, the Church-rate, would have ac-
quired a right to that popular confidence and support
which they have still the assurance to claim, without
possessing the honesty to deserve.
" You will recollect, that under somewhat similar
circumstances, and, as I apprehend, under the same
auspices, our revered and lamented friend, Dr. Taun-
ton, became the object and the victim of a heartless at-
tack by that insatiate party, which, whether it proceeds
by force or guile, still knows no other motive, and acts
under no other influence, than that of private corrup-
tion for purposes of public wrong.
" The men—the professing, independent men of
Truro, have, however, only themselves to thank for the
insults and degradation they have lately experienced ;
they might have crush'd the snake they only scotched ;
they did worse, they admitted the snake into a partner-
ship of power, and then, serpent-like, it
.assumed the
dominion, and infused into the general body its fatal
compromising venom.
" IF, as I trust, a spontaneous demonstration will be
made by subscriptions to come in aid of the pecuniary
fine inflicted on our friends, I beg leave, in addition to
the 5/. already contributed by me towards their de-
fence, to be allowed to subscribe a like amount to the
general fund.

" The entire matter, as connected with the now
intolerable grievance of Church-rate, might be made the
subject of a public meeting, and of a strong petition to
the House of Commovs,:leaving me only additional cause
to lament, that owing to the same crooked policy which
I have described, I am not in a position to give such a
petition that strenuous and zealous support, which
otherwise duty and inclination would alike prompt on
the part of, dear Sir, -
" Yours, ever most sincerely,
"H. S. Stokes, Esq. " WILLIAM TOOKE."

MURDER AT LIVERPOOL.

LIvItErOOL, TUESDAY EVENINQ —A horrid murder was
committed last night in this town, on the bodies of a wo-
man, the wife of the murderer, and a policeman who en-
deavoured to render assistance to the former. The circum-
stances connected with this frightful outrage are Of a very
serious nature. It appears that the assailant whose name is
Daniel Cole, a lumper by business, resided with his wife in
a court off College-lane, and that on going home about ten
o'clock last night he found his wife in a disgraceful state of
intoxication. The reputation ofboth in their neighbourhood is
very bad—he is described as a violent and drunken cha-
racter, and is said to have been already in custody on a
charge of stabbing—she has been a most abandoned cha-
racter, and known to the police of the district as a regular
street-walker. On the present occasion their quarrel was of
an unusually violent nature, and so riotous as to attract
the attention of the police. The unfortunate deceased
entered the house, and seeing that Cole was armed, it is
supposed withdrew to procure assistance. He had no sooner
turned his back than the prisoner ran out of the house, and
attempted to escape. He was pursued, and on being over-
taken by the decased in Hanover-street, he made every
possible resistance. In the stru,agle he stabbed the deceased
which immediately prostrated
with a knife in the throat,
him to the earth. The blood gushed forth in the most
awful manner, and the spot where he lay resembled the
pool of blood of a slaughter-house. Oa raising the
body, to discover the nature and extent of the wound,
it was found that it had been inflicted with a knife re-
sembling a shoemaker's. The carotid artery was com-
pletely divided, and such was the rapidity of the flow
of blood from it, that the medical gentlemen (Doctors
31'Intyre and Callan) who were called in, stated
that the body must have been completely emptied
of blood in the lapse of ten minutes, and that all
human assistance, even at the instant of the infliction of
the gash, would have been totally unavailable. The .
name of the policeman Bailley (No. 338). He is
a native of Yorkshire, and has left a wife and two
children to deplore his sudden and premature death.
The residents of the streets in which he patrolled give
him the most unexceptionable character, for propriety
of conduct and peaceableness of demeanour in the dis-
charge of his duties. The wretched woman, whose dissipated
and irregular course of life led to this horrible murder, was
dreadfully mangled about the neck and throat by her hus-
band. The wounds inflicted upon her bled profusely, and
she died soon after being taken to the Infirmary. A
sailor, who also interfered along with the policeman to save
the woman, received several wounds on the hands and face
from the prisoner, and it was found necessary to use consi
derable force in order to restrain him from committing fur-
ther violence. He was finally, and with considerable diffi-
culty taken to Brideivell, and was instantly handcuffed, his
hands being pinioned behind his back. On being visited,
in a few minutes after, by one of the officers, :t was found he
had contrived, in a most adroit manner, to pass his body and
legs over his hands, and thus succeded in getting his arms
in front of his person. His arms were then secured in their
former position, and he became perfectly quiet. He
appears to be quite unconcerned about the matter to-day,
and last night he seemed to be altogether unconscious of it.
The melancholy occurrence has produced a great sensa-
tion in the neighbourhood where it occurred, and from an
early hour this morning, College-lane, and dhe adjacent
streets were crowded by persons anxious to learn the par-
ticulars of the shucking event. The door of the public
house, the Grapes, in which the body lies is literally be-
sieged by individuals desirous of obtaining a view of the
deceased. The Coroner's inquest will take place to-
morrow at eleven o'clock.