The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN. SUNDAY EVENING.—The continual arrivals
of bread stuffs into the port ot Cork have created quite
a panic among the Irish Protectionists, and all sorts of
gloomy prophecies are indulged in respecting the ruin of
the agricultural interests. In two days 26 vessels laden
with grain arrived in Cove. On Friday a fall tooth place
in Indian corn of 7s. 6d. per ton.
The petition praying for the commutation of the sen-
tence of transportation on the state prisoners to a short
imprisonment is this day being signed at all the. Roman
Catholic chapels in this city. A similar movement is getting
up in the provinces. In consequence of an outrage on the
household and person of Mr. Sharpe, a steward of Lord
Monteagle, in the countylof Limerick, his Lordship has
issued an addresss to his tenantry there, announciing that
he has given orders to suspend all useful works upon his
property and dismiss all the persons employed thereon.
According to the Limerick Chronicle, the Ma:rquis of
Sligo has been appointed to succeed Lord Earns as
Governor of Trinidad; be will be accomptunied by
Arthur White, Esq., as Colonial Secretary.
Emigration is proceeding at a rapid pace from /he port
of Belfast. Some ot the persons emigrating are of the
most substantial class of farmers. One man bad 700
sovereigns in his trunk, and many more had sumo nearly
as large.
Mr. Butt left town for London, having been su cnnicnied
to attend before the Parliamentary Committee on Irish
Poor-laws on Monday (yesterday).

THE IRISH STATE PRISONIERS.
The following document has been forwarded to seve-
ral mercantile houses in the City of London:—
"TO HIS EXCELLENCY TEE EARL OF CLARENDON,
THE LORD-LIEUTENANT GENERAL AND GIiNERAL
GOVERNOR OF IRELAND.
"May it please your Excellency,
" We, the undersigned inhabitants of desire
most repectfully to represent to your Excelltnacy the
general feeling with regard to William Smith O'Brien
and the other State prisoners, at present cop:fined in
Richmond Bridewell.

" The high personal character which these gecntlercen
bear, their long sufferings in prison, and their serious
pecuniary losses, have excited a lively and universal in-
terest in their fate among a!I classes of society, and men
who are unalterably opposed to all their political opi-
nions are most sincerely anxious that their lives should
not be wasted in painful exile or protracted imprison-
m en t.

" The sincere humanity, and the respect for pr operty
'phial' they are known to have exhibited 4under trying
circumsttsnces, have deepened this sympathy is. their
favour. And we are thoroughly convinced, and can
therefore most respectfully and most confidently repre-
sent it to your Excellency, that it will meet the goneral
wishes of the country—now restored to profound ',peace
—if their sentence be commuted to the smalleSt-pu.lish-
ment your Excellency may deem fit.
" Trusting that your Excellency will take the prayer
of this memorial into your gracious consideration, with
that humane spirit which will meet the wishes of the
country, and which you have hitherto evinced towards
them, your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever
pray."

A WIFE P6ISONING HER
HUSBAND.

MORPETII, SATURDAY.—Considerable excitement
and feelings of horror prevail at the present time
throughout this neighbourhood, in consequence of the
discovery of another supposed case of secret poisoning,
and the committal to the county gaol of the alleged
murderess. The circumstances connected with the
case, as far as they have yet been ascertained, appear
to be as follow :—Some few days since, a married
man, about 26 years of age, named William Hornsby,
who resided at Haltwhistle, was taken suddenly ill,
and he died shortly afterwards, from what was at first
believed to be inflammation of the stomach, produced
by natural cau=es. The man's death having become
generally known through the district, a report be-
came current that his wife, on the day pre-
ceding tke death, had purchased some arsenic,
for the alleged purpose of poisoning rats.
The neighbours and other parties at once made in-
quiries respecting the mysterious affair, which satis-
fied them that the poison had not been used for the
purpose stated. Mr. Stephen Bird, the coroner, was
therefore made acquainted with the suspicions that
were entertained that the deceased had not met his
death fairly. The result was, that that gentleman
gave the necessary instructions for holding an inquest
on the body, when, after the examination of sundry
witnesses, the inquiry was adjourned until Monday
(this day) to allow time for a post mortem examina-
tion of the deceased's body to he made, and also for
an analysis of the contents of the stomach to be made.
Dr. Glover, and another medical gentleman of this
town, have been directed to proceed with this part of
the inquiry, and it is stated that they have discovered
indications denoting the presence of arsenic. The
magistrates have also taken the case up, and the
evidence brought before them was of such a nature
as to warrant them in committing the deceased's wife
'to Morpeth Gaol, on suspicion of murdering her
husband.