The Sun.
London, England, 1814-10-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Within the last week, a woman mined Mar•
garet Collins- has been safely delivered of a daugh-
ter ; :she is the %% ife of a labouring man, and is at
preSetit in her tif:y-ninth-year, as appears by the
registry of the ',arid) of Kilipipe, in the County
of Wicklow, having been baptized there' on the
Gth day,of May, 17:A. Botch the mother and child
may be seen at•a small cabin on the lett hand side
of Kimmage rood. Many personS in the neigh-
bourhood having heard_of the circumstance, have
been to visit the poor woman,
_,who lays no other
claim -to relief than her distress ; she doeS
not seek to gull the ignorant by blasphemous
pretensions as the old lady at the other side
of the water' does :: indeed, this country . does
not !went posses eel of a sullicient stock of
gullibility for such gross deceits to be even to-
lerated in The circumstance of a woman, at
tht age of lifty-nine, bringing forth a child, is
certainly one of a very extraordinary nature ; but
i, it there!ore that the ignorant and superstitious
are to be left by their rulers to be deluded and
cheated by • impious and barefaced pretensions to
special commissions trout Heaven, &e. The Po-
lice of this country, although generally inferior
to England, would not, we are assured, tolerate
for a week, the Anti-Christian frauds which are
practised in England respecting the alleged preg-
nancy of Joanna Southcott. _ _

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Margaret Collins has had two husbands, and
never had a child' before by either. She has been
attended by a midwife of the name of Brumley,
who can attest the par6culat's respecting the birth
of the child, &c. Several medical gentlemen have
been, within these few days, at the dwelling of
Mrs. Collins.— (Dublin Correspondent, Oct. 19.)
On Wiiednesdaymoeningjast, itbout two o'clock,
a most daring attempt was made to rob the house
of SOLOMON DAncus, Esq. of Larne. The vil-
lains had got over- the garden Wall into the yard,
but their unseasonable visit producing; an unusual
noise among the fowls, induced Mr. Daacos's
man to get ont of bed (as his master was absent)
and on looking through the stair-case window, lie
discovered a -felloW in the yard, standing at
a little distance from the house. Ile imme-
diately returned tip stairs . for a gun, which
was charged with large shot, and came again
to the window, and throwing up the sash, de-
sired the fellow instantly to come forward`and de-
clare his business, otherwise he would shoot him;
upon this the fellow. -retired behind a shade wall,
and fired a pistol at the young man, the ball from
which passed through his thigh, and lodged in the
stairs. lie, with the greatest fortitude, instantly
recovered the confusion the wound produced, and
seized his gun again. By this time some others of
this banditti, w ho had hroke open the cellar window,
and was removing some bottles of wine to allow
them easy access, became alarmed and fled, and
were making their way over the garden-wall, when
this lad, suppofting himself as well as hecould, fired
the gun at them, which, it is hoped and believed,
took effect, as a considerable quantity of blood
-was left on the wall ; and this circumstance, we
trust, intly lead -to a discovery. It was an un-
fortunate circumstance that there was no other
man in the house, as some of those rascals would
Otherwise have been secured. Every thing ma-
gisterial aid can effect, will, it is hoped, not be
-wanting to bring them to deserved punishment.
(Aid)
On Saturday the Bth instant, a shocking and
most unnatural murder was committed in the
townland of Drutnarragh. A brother and sister
were reaping together on that day, in the same
field. An altercation arose between them on some
trivial subject, when the brother, inflamed with
passion, uttered some angry reflections against the
character of the sister.' She plunged her reaping
IMok into hiS Irnwels.—Death ensued. The mi-
serable fratricide has been transmitted for trial to
Downpatrick.

, A further examination of a Frenchman, com-
mitted to the gaol of Canterbury, charged with
tittering forged Bank of England Notes, has taken
place before the Magistrates, when one of the in-
vestigators of Bank Notes, upon inspection of the
three ri/. Notes paved by the prisoner, deposed
on oath the one (numbered 17,2'67) to be a ge-
nuine Note, and the two other forgeries, one-of
which was a fac simile (executed with Indian
ink) of the genuine Note, anti the other precise--
lysimilar, except as. to a difference in the nulli-
fier. The depositions of the several witnesses as
to the- passing of one of the forged Notes were
accordingly taken, and the examination further
postponed till Wednesday the 2Gth instant, to af-
ford the
,prisoner an opportunity to produce evi;
dente of his innocence. He 'stated himself' to be
Charles Duhamel, a native of Calais, where his
father was Captain of 'a packet-boat, and his
mother kept an inn, from whom, be said, be had
received the Notes; ignorant of their being for-
geries.
A daring attempt was made by four felons to,
break out of Newcastle jail on Sunday last. They
'were all confined in one cell, and had burnt a
hole at the bottom of their door sufficiently large
to pass through. They then proceeded tb another
heavy door, from which they contrived to burn
the ponder Ons lock, by piling coals on a large iron
plate which they had taken from their beds. Their
design, however, was discovered by the smoke
issuing from a niche in the wall,, about four
o'clock in the afternoon, when the jailor, accom-
}milled by a guard of soldiers, secured them ; and
they are now chained to the groand.till the doors
are replaced.
A lice pardon bas been received for T. Bryan,
who tens convicted at Stafford' Assizes-of the.mur-
der of his wife it Bliston, and be was set at L-
berty yesterday-week.