The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

ROSCOMMON SPECIAL COMMISSION.
Patrick Russel was put to the bar, charged with
attacking with fire-arms, &c., the dwelling-house of
John Mahudy, in March, at Ballagh, in this county.
John Mahudy examined by the ATTORNEY-GE-
NERAL —Liv es at Banagher ; his house was attacked
in the month of March; a noise awoke him, and he
was called up to open the door; one had a pistol, an-
other had a pitchfork ; witness had a pitchfork also.
The party continued to throw stones at him; heard
a shot, and saw the man who fired; a ball entered
his door, which the sergeant of the police took out.
When the pistol was presented witness was inside,
at the other part of the house ; a man was passing
by the door suddenly, when he struck him with a
pitchfork ; the party said they would go and strip
the house. His son had another pitchfork, and he
said, " Take the ladder, and go up on the loft, and
make no noise, and, as he strips the thatch, wick
him." Heard the noise, and saw the light coming
in where the thatch was stripping ; the party said
they would make a speedy dish of it, and set the
house on fire; saw straw and light coming across
the field, vi hen he went to his family and told them
to pray for their souls, as the house was going to be
set fire to. Has five children. A woman, with two
children, in the house, prayed for mercy; they took
her out through a window, and then the house was
set fire to under the eave round the house. The
neighbours were called by the woman outside as the
party went off, ar►d came to his assistance. It was
on the 23d of March, in fine weather and a clear
night. His house was attacked four different times;
came to look for a shilling for people in prison.'
Witness identified Pat Hussey as one of the party;
he was throwing stones; knew the prisoner before
that ; he lived near him.

The direct testimony was supported by the sub-
sequent witnesses for the prosecution, and had not
been repelled or weakened by the evidence for the
defence.—Guilry.
There are three more for trial for the same offence.
The prisoners are protracting their trials by not
joining in their challenges.
Gibbons was put to the bar, charged with
having, on the King's highway, with force and me-
naces, demanded fire-arms from the Messrs. Morow.
From the evidence of the direct and cross-examina-
tion the following face were elicited :

The prosecutors, two respectable individuals re-
siding at Roscommon, had been on an island in the
river Shannon fowling, and on their return, within
two miles of Roscommon, had each double-barrelled
guns. Two men in their shirts, with breeches only
appeared before them, and said, " Stand and de-
liver." The assailants and the assailed presented
mutually, but did not fire. The assailants asked
the assailed, were they looking for the policeman
who had wounded one of the peasantry the previous
25tli ult. ? After some altercation the parties sepa-
rated, and no further injury followed. A boy, whom
the assailed had met on the road, said one of the
white-shirt men was named Brenan. He was ar-
rested in the darkness of the night, and some doubts
then were shown by the Morows as to his identity
until the following morning, when they identified
him from amongst three men.
For the defence, a man named Brenan had been
in the house with Gibbons for an hour, and the
assailed, Morows, were passing the door, when the
dog barked, which brought them out, and it was
only then they learned of the attack, the prisoner
being in his own house at the time.
Bridget Conry deposed having been in the house
and getting a drink of milk, and that the prisoner
was there during the attack.

Duffery, a man aged 77 years, was also in the
house; the prisoner was not outside the door.
One or two of the Counsel for the Crown here
indulged in some gesticulation, which excited great
warmth on the part of Mr. BLAKENY. He protested
against this unfair mode: he saw a system of en-
trapping witnesses going on. His client's witnesses
might, perhaps, be ridiculed as wearing frieze coats;
but he challenged the Crown to impeach them. He
had witnesses of respectability to sustain their
character. He deprecated a " laughing practice."
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL rose--When Mr.
Blakeny said he had no imputation against the At-
torney-General, from him he expected fair play.
Mr. Kelly, a gentleman of rank in the neighbour-
hood, gave the prisoner an excellent character. He
believed good and bad characters were implicated in
the disturbances.
The JUDGE charged the Jury.—Guilty.

The O'Connor Don has addressed the county,
and has claimed the indulgence of not personally
canvassing, owing to the late event of his father's
death.

Captain Lloyd has also addressed the county : he
has Lord Lorton's interest.

DUBLIN, SUNDAY.—I have just seen a
gentleman who arrived this day from Newtownbarry, in
the county of Wexford. lie states that yesterday several
inhabitants of that town were distrained for arrears of
rent ; that they resisted the bailiffs, and succeeded in res-
cuing a great part of the goods seized : that the police came
to the assistance of the Sheriff's officers, and were also
obliged to retreat ; that in the mean time the Newtown-
barry Yeomanry turned out and reinforced the law autho-
rities, and came to a regular pitched battle with the people,
whose numbers amounted to about two thousand ; and that
after two or three hours' hard fighting, the battle ended,
leaving twenty.three of the people, and six of the yeomen,
killed, and upwards of 120 of the unfortunate peasantry.
desperately wounded. My informant states that be saw
them lying in heaps about the town ; and that the scene
strongly recalled to his memory the melancholy period of
1798. Newtownbarry principally belongs to Lord FARN-
HAM (formerly Colonel BARRY.) We know bow nobly
the freeholders of the county acted on the late contest.
They threw overboard the influence of landlords, the
threats of agents, and nobly acted for themselves. The
causes assigned for yesterday's seizures are so preposterous,
that I cannot credit them until I learn further intelligence
on the subject. —Morning Herald Private Correspondence.
THE CHOLERA MORBUS.—More favour-
able accounts arrived yesterday, respecting the progress of
the cholera morbus in Riga. The following is an extract
of a letter from thence, dated Riga, June 6 :—" The epi-
demico
envnse gdl
rfhtseeodur
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the first
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taerosnesredes
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that the cholera is likely to be the scourge of the whole of
Europe, this or next season, and that no country, not
even excepting Great Britain, will escape. It may be
therefore well to be on your guard ; live temperately,
avoiding all sorts of fruits, vegetables, salted meat, and
fish, and every thing which is acid. Should the disease
leach you, the effectual antidote against the symptoms is a
wine-glass full of good brandy mixed with forty drops of
laudanum, which every one ought to have about him,
ready to swallow on the first twinge of the stomach :
nearly every one here now carries these things about him,
both as a preventive and a specific."
BEN HYAM THE TURK.—BEN HYAM the
Turk, who was committed from Queen-square Police-
office to Kingston jail, for not being able to find sureties
Aolfa sht ra al ft-esso,vaefi teeirg
has,
tapriots eseceunites,a fheenerna 1 eseunitai
for orbbbeyd hi
them
week's imprisonment, and liberated after entering into his
own recognizances, in the usual manner, to appear at the
Surrey
bunch Sessionsfer
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of
thelt statement, that llvAat is said, but we cannot
was liberated by the directions of the Secretary of State.

A GREAT MORAL LESSON.—To-day (Sa-
turday) the Duke of WELLINGTON, according to annual
custom, presents to the KING a tri•coloured French flag,
as the trophy of hi career and the symbol of what vva,
" put down "at the battle of Waterloo. On the same
day, and on all other days France presents a thousand tri-
coloured flags t.) all the world,,_ Toiler,

CHOLERA SIORBITS.

On Tuesday night a Supplement to-the Londoitl
Gazette mai published, containing the following dofi
&ilments :

" BY THE KING.-A PROCLAMATION.

" WILLIAM, R.
" Whereas alarming accounts have been received that
in dignant and infectious disease has spread aad extended!
itself to parts of the coasts of the Baltic, and to other:
places; and whereas we feel it to he incumbent upon us CO
employ such means as, under the protection and favour of
Divine Providence, may be best calculated to guard our
loving subjects against the visitation of so dreadful a cala-
mity, we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our
Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation ; and
we do herein, by and with the advice of our said Council,
most strictly enjoin and command all our loving subjects,
and more especially those residing at any of the sea-port
towns, or in any other places on the coasts of this king-
dom, whether they may themselves be liable to quarantine
or otherwise, as tl ey tender the preservation of their own
lives, and the safety and welfare of all the inhabitants of
this kingdom, most scrupulously to observe all the laws of
quarantine which now are or may hereafter be in force,
and all orders made by us with the advice of our Privy
Council, or by our Privy Council under the authority
thereof, and particularly most carefully to avoid any corn-
munication with any ship or vessel, or with any person or
persons coming therein from the Baltic, or from any place
to which by our Royal Proclamation, by and with the ad-
vice of our Privy Council, or by our Orders in Council,
the laws of quarantine are or may hereafter be extended,
or with any boat or person therein coming from or having
been on board any ship, until such ship, vessel, or boat,
with the crews and persons on board, and the goods, wares,
and merchandise imported therein, shall have performed
their quarantine in such places and manner as ate or shall
hereafter be directed in that behalf, and until they respec-
tively shall have been duly discharged therefrom; and we
do further strictly exhort, enjoin, and command all magis-
trates and persons in authority, and all our other loving
subjects, without loss of time, to give information to us,
through our Principal Secretary of State for the Home
Department, or to our Privy Council, of any person that
they may know or believe to have offended against any of
the said laws or orders; and we do hereby warn all per-
, sons whom it may concern, that we have given the
strictest order for enforcing with the utmost rigour the
most punctual observance of the laws of quarantine, and
all the orders, rules, and regulations relating thereto, it
being our firm determination, upon serious conside ration
of the great extent of misery and calamity which a single
instance of improvidently neglecting any of these regula-
tions may bring upon our loving subjects, to cause the
severest penalties which the law has provided or may pro-
vide to be inflicted upon all those who may be guilty of any
offence against the same : and whereas it is also necessary
to take the utmost precaution to prevent the spreading of in-
fection, iu case the said malignant disease (which God in
his mercy may avert) should unhappily manifest itself in any
part of our United Kingdom, notwithstanding the precau-
tions taken to guard, against the introduction thereof ; we
have thought fit, by and with the advice of our said
Council, to take measures for the establishment of a Board
of Health, to consist of men able, learned, eminent, and •
experienced in the study and practice of medicine, together
with persons most capable, from the knowledge of the ports
of our Kingdom, to afford assistance in the forming of re-
gulations respectively applicable to the local circumstances
of the said ports, such Board to be authorised and directed
to prepare and digest the best rules and regulations for the
speedy and effectual adoption of the most approved method
of guarding against the introduction and spreading of in-
fection, and for purifying any ship, or house, or any place,
in which any contagious disorder may have manifested
itself, and to communicate the same to all magistrates,
medical persons, and others of our loving subjects who may
be desirous and may apply to be made acquainted there-
with : and we most strictly enjoin and command all ma-
gistrates and persons in authority, all medical persons, and
others, our loving subjects, especially those within the ma-
ritime counties, to give immediate notice to us, through
our Principal Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, or our Privy Council, in case any person or persons
should be attacked with any disease attended with new
and uncommon symptoms, such as to afford ground for
apprehension that such disease is of the same nature as the
disorder called Cholera Morbus, prevailing in several parts
of Russia, and elsewhere, in order that the most imme-
diate and effectual measures may be taken, as well for
affording due and necessary assistance and relief to those
afflicted with the sante, as for preventing the contagion
from spreading amongst our loving subjects.
" Given at our Court of St. James's the twentieth day
of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
one, and in first year of our reign.
" GOD save the KING."

" COUNCIL-OFFICE, WHITEHALL, JUNE 21.
" His Majesty has been pleased to establish a Board of
Health, to prepare and digest rules and regulations for the
most speedy and effectual mode of guarding against the in-
troduction and spreading of infection, and for purifying
any ship or house in case any contagious disorder should
unhappily manifest itself in any part of the United King-
dom, notwithstanding the precautions taken to guard
a;ainst the introduction thereof, and to communicate the
same to all Magistrates, medical persons, and others, his
Majesty's subjects, who may be desirous and may apply to
be made acquainted therewith.
" The said Board hold their meeting at the Royal Col-
lege of Physicians, and is composed of the following per-
sons, :

" Sir Henry llalford, President of the Royal College of
Physicians, President.

" Dr. Holland, Dr. Maton, Dr. Turner, Dr. Warren,
Dr. Macmichael, Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians.
" Sir T. Byam Martin, Comptroller of his Majesty's
Navy.
" Hon. Edward Stewart, Deputy Chairman of Board
of Customs.
" Sir James M'Gregor, Director-General of Army
Hospitals.
" Sir Win. Burnet, Commissioner of Victualling Office.
" Sir William Pym, Superintendant-General of Qua-
rantine.

" Dr. Seymour, Fellow of the Royal College of Physi-
cians, to be Secretary to the said Board."

ON PLANTING.—The Society for the Dif-
fusio❑ of Useful Knowledge, having completed the publi-
cation of that excellent work on the Horse in the Farmers'
Series, Lunounce a first number " on Planting Forest
Trees."

DUBLIN, JUNE 20.—Saturday being the
Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, there was a review
and mock fight in the Park. The troops were reviewed
by his Excellency the Marquis of ANGLESEA, who came
on the ground at ten minutes past three o'clock. Imme-
diately upon his arrival the different Regiments formed in
line of battle, viz., the 70th Regiment formed the main
body. They were flanked by two detachments of Lan-
cers and some Light Artillery. The Highlanders took
possession of a wood, but after a few volies retreated upon
the main body, keeping up a hot fire all the time. Their
retreat was covered by a party of Lancers, who charged
in fine style. The main body then fired five or six dis-
charges, and likewise fell back, the retreat being covered
by a tremendous fire from the flanking artillery and some
of the Bth Hussars. The artillery, in a few minutes,
wheeled round and again flanked the 70th. The Rifles
advanced, and, supported by the L inters, kept skirmishing,
while the Highlanders were falling in with the 70th.—
The Rifles then fell back, and cavalry and infantry, flank
and line, commenced a thundering fire that almost deafened
us. After keeping it up for about ten minutes, the dif-
ferent regiments left the ground with the band playing and
colours flying in all the pomp and circumstance of glorious
war. We heard of no accident.—Freentan's Journal.

RTHS.
On the 22d inst. in St. Jamß I
es's-place, the wife of Archdeacon
of a daughter.
On the 21st inst. in Southampton-row, Mrs. Frederick Skey,
of a son.
On the 18th inst. in Caroline-place, Mrs. Edw. Addison, of
a daughter.

MARRIED.
toVi'Saizr,a Henrietta, widow
On the 21st instant, at Mangotsheld Church, Gloucestershire,
by the Rev. Robert Brodie, John Fryer, eldestl Thomas
aosf
William
erton Hall, in the same
Fryer, Esq., of Wimborne, Dorset, to Mary, eldest daughter of
Christopher Harding, Esq., of Milyerton-lcalge, Somersetshire.
On the 16th inst. at Coniscliffe, in the county of Durham, by
(hiiis;nfaioctflih
ate
hrr thesoc
Wrightson,kßetvx.
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