The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-01 00:00:00

CLARE COUNTY.

Thomas Macnamara was recalled this morning, and
examined further as to the kidnapping of voters. Wit-
ness was employed by the sitting members' agents to stop
all the voters he could lay hands on coming into Ennis.
He had a party of the boys with him. All the voters that
would not promise to vote for Sir T. Fitzgerald and C.
O'Brien they carried off, and shut up, but the others
were well treated, and had something to drink. Witness
paid for some of the drink, and S. Green (an agent of
the sitting members) paid for the rest.
Cross-examined—Witness was employed to canvass
for Mr. O'Brien. By canvassing witness understood
that he was to try and induce and force people to vote
for Mr. O'Brien, and if they refused, to give them drink,
and prevent them voting at all.

SLIGO.
The case for the petitioners was this morning con
eluded, and the learned counsel proceeded to sum up.

PETERBOROUGH.
The evidence before this committee was entirely unin
teresting.

DEATH OF A DISTINGUISHED OFFICER.—We have to
record the demise of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Fuller,
C. 8., an old Waterloo and Peninsular officer, who died
on the 27th instant, at Greenwich, aged 62. The de-
ceased was for many years connected with the 59th Foot,
with which he served during the greater part of the late
war. He was at the battle of Vittoria, the siege of San
Sebastian, the battle of Neve, where he was wounded,
the battle of Waterloo, the storming of Cambray, and
the capture of Paris. He afterwards proceed to India,
and was at the battle of Bhurtpore, under Lord Corn-
bermere. The deceased held three medals viz. one for
Waterloo, a war medal, and a medal for San Sebastian.
THE LADY FRANKLIN AND THE SOPHIA.—These two
vessels, recently employed in the search for Sir John
Franklin, are now lying in our harbour, the first named
one having arrived on Thursday morning, under the
command of Captain Penny, and the latter yesterday.
It was reported some weeks ago that they had been
purchased by Captain Penny for the Royal Arctic Com-
pany, to proceed .to the Arctic Regions, but as this has
been contradicted, and as we have been unable as 'yet
to see the gallant voyager himself, we can do no more at
present than report their arrival here. Aberdeen
Herald.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE IN HEREFORD.—Great excite-
ment was created in this city on Wednesday morn-
ing by the report, which subsequent inquiries
proved to be too well founded, that a Miss Prince,
who resided at Putson, near this city, had com-
mitted suicide. A considerable degree of mystery
attaches to this melancholy event. Miss Prince was
an elderly lady, possessed of an ample fortune, whose
kindly disposition and unbounded generosity deserv-
edly won for her the respect and esteem of all who
knew her. It appears that on Wednesday evening Miss
Prince retired to rest at an early hour, her usual habit
being to rise at seven o'clock in the morning. Not
hearing her moving at eight the servant knocked at the
door, but, receiving no answer, burst it open, when she
discovered that the bed not been slept in, and that
her mistress was apparently sitting on the floor near
the window in her night-clothes, her head resting
against the wall. A piece of new rope, skil-
fully tied in a noose, was found round her neck,
the other end being fastened to two of the bars of the
window. Assistance was immediately procured, but
life had evidently been extinct for some hours. Not the
slightest reason can be assigned for this lamentable oc-
currence. The verdict was, "That the deceased de-
stroyed herself while in a state of temporary insanity."
The maternal uncle of the deceased, from whom she in-
herited the property, committed suicide by shooting
himself many years ago in the same house.—Hereford
Times.

PARLIAMENTARY ORATORY AND DIGNITY.—We que-
tion if the whole range of broken metaphors employed
by American orators " on the stump" can supply a pe-
rallel to that with which the hon. member for Cambridge-
shire electrified the house on Monday night. " Looke"
he said, in an awfully solemn tone, " Look at the posi-
tion of Ireland ; as one risen from the grave she was
reeling with weakness, her sere clothes soarcely shaken
off. At such a moment, he would ask, ought not the
Government to give her strength—to repair her energies?
Yet, instead of this, here was the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, instead of administering restoratives, diluting
her, bleeding her, purging her." (Great laughter.) In
the course of another speech on the same evening, cries
of "Divide, divide," were kept up for some time, and in
the midst of them an honourable member below the gang-
way, on the Ministerial side, amused the committee with
an imitation of the opening notes of Paul Bedford's
"Jolly Nose." Are not these stupid buffooneries some-
what dangerous in these days ? Weekly News.
A WISE EDITORIAL PROPOSAL.—An American paper
says it will publish original poetry "on the same terms
as advertisements."