The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-06 00:00:00

SECOND LETTER

" Donegan—You may prepare your coffin the moment the
last egg is counted, for giving your eggs to that bloody orange
villain, Ganley, and also any other person from your country
will be treated in the same manner. Signed by the friend of
the Society.
" Addressed—Nichls. Donegan, Egg Market."
His brother was convinced that the hostilities threatened
in the letters were followed up by the beating which he
received. His brother said he did not know the persons
who assailed him.

Mr. James Lynch examined—ls a surgeon ; saw the de-
ceased upon the night of " the beating ;" he had four
wounds upon the head, and his hand was broken ; he was
attacked with fever ; the fever abated, and about five days
after the beating his brain became diseased ; he died on
Sunday morning ; the cause of his death was two frac-
tures upon the head ; the wound upon the top of his head
was something like a sword wound ; it might have been
inflicted with a spade ; the wound upon his hand was occa-
sioned by a stick.

John Dunfield examined—Recollects the night of the
22d ; was coming down from his work about nine o'clock ;
heard two blows struck, and a man cry " murder ;" ran
towards the place from which the noise came, and saw the
man lying in the channel, and also the shadow of a man
escaping ; raised the man up, and as he fell back again,
he was obliged to call upon the spectators to assist him,
which they did, and the deceased was placed upon a car ;
the spectators were all strangers to him (witness.)
Margaret M'Carroll examined—Was in bed on the
night of the 22d, when the deceased was 'beaten. Her
;father was in bed when the man was beaten. Heard a
person in the street crying out " Murder." Asked a
woman what was the matter, and she replied that a man
was beaten in the streetl Her father asked her (witness)
what she was doing, and told her not to beat the chilli..
She (witness) replied that she was not beating the child,
but that the noise was made in the street, where some
persons were beating a man. " Hold your noise," said her
(witness's) father. Witness contradicted herself as to this
expression, and most emphatically denied that she, her
mother, or her father, knew anything about " the beatinff."
She closed, and put a spade against the door that night
before she went to bed.

The spade which was found in Mr. M'Carroll's dwel-
ling was here produced, and the surgeon said that the wound
inflicted upon the deceased's head might have been caused
by that implement.
Robert Saul examined—The witness (M'Carroll) also
told him that he ran out with the spade when the man was
" beating," and that the crowd exclaimed, " Here is
M'Carroll with the spade, and he will cleave your skull."
M'Carroll was again examined, and he denied having
made any such statement to Mr. Doyle or the last witness ;
upon his oath he did not do so.
The witness was again sworn by Alderman Perrin, to im-
press more forcibly upon him the obligation of an oath, but
he persisted in his declaration that he did not make any
such statement to either of the gentlemen. He also stated
that it was he who shut the door and put the spade against
the door, and that he did not hear any noise at all except
the crying of the child at the foot of his bed ; witness was
67 years old.
Margaret McCarron was re-called, and she persisted in
the testimony which she had previously given, in reference
to her putting the spade to the door, and the noise in the
street ; the only difference in her evidence was, that she did
not make use of the word " noise" to her father.
Eliza Deaker examined—Had a conversation with
McCarron the morning after the deceased was beaten, in
which he told her that his daughter called him up on the
night of the 22d, and that he ran out with a spade. He
also pointed out the spot where the deceased was beaten.

M'Carroll was a third time examined and he denied that
he made such a statement to any.
The brother of the deceased here put the Bible into
witness's hand, and witness, alter much equivocation, an-
swered to a question repeatedly put to him, that no person
ever desired him, since the death of Mr. Ganley, to sup-
press the facts.
Alderman Perrin said that he regretted to see so old a
man as witness perjuring himself, when no object could be
attained by it.
Mr. Peter Ganley requested the Coroner to detain
M'Carroll in custody, in order that he might be indicted
for perjury, for such barefaced perjury never waa before
heard of.

Alderman Perrin said be would band the man over to
he police authorities, for he never before saw such a shock-

in' old man.
M'Carroll was taken into custody and brought to Henry-
street Police-office, where he was remanded for examination.

The Jury deliberated for a short time, and returned a
verdict to the effect that the deceased died in consequence
of a beating which he received upon the -night of the 22d
September, by some person or persons unknown.

COMMERCIAL DISTRESS.

PUBLIC MEETING IN BIRMINGHAM.

Pursuant to a numerously signed requisition, including
the names of the most influential inhabitants of every po-
litical distinction, a meeting was convened at the Town

Hall on Wednesday, for the purpose of considering and re-
ceiving the report of the Committee of merchants, bankers,
manufacturers, tradesmen, and workmen, respecting the
general distress, difficulty, and embarrassment of the com-
mercial classes. Among the company present were the
high and low bailiffs, Robert Webb and James James,
Esqrs., the two Members of Parliament, Thomas Atwood
and Joshua Scholefield, Esqrs., Messrs. W. Chance, R.
Spooner, Van Wart and Godbold, extensive American
merchants, and a numerous muster of other gentlemen, not
only connected with the trade of the town, but with
America.

Mr. G. EDMONDS, in proposing the high bailiff to take
the chair, remarked, as the meeting consisted of all po-
litical classes, Tories, Whigs, and Radicals, he begged they
would abstain entirely from party feeling.
Mr. RICHARD SPOONER rose—l do most conscientiously
believe that a more important meeting never was convened
before me. This manufacturing district is in a state of
distress which ought not, must not, continue, and which we
will try to alleviate. In referring to monetary matters, he
said the credit of this country is built upon a too narrow
basis—there is nothing will afford a full, clear, and sufficient
relief but a difference in the circulating medium—not the
arglmzentum ad hominem; but the argumentum ad pochetum.
He recollected the Earl of Stanhope once asking the Earl
of Liverpool why he preferred gold as the standard of this
country ? The reply was this—" England, being the richest
country in the world, should have the richest standard ; or,
to use an old saying, they who drive fat oxen should them-
selves be fat." If they, the working classes, imagined
their sufferings would be alleviated by the present Mi-
nistry, they were labouring under a mistake, for such a
thing, in his humble opinion, would never occur, but be an
entire delusion. Mr. Spooner then read the report, which
.was as follows :