The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-05 00:00:00

SVEAKiNO,

MURDER OF MR. DAVID OSHAUGH-
NESSY.—TIPPERA RV, Ann. 6.—With feelings of d.ep
sorrow I have to inform you of the melancholy fate of Mr.
DENts O'SFIALTdfiNtSSEY, surveyor of this town. He
was cruelly murdered about six o'clock yesterday evening,
hetwten Doneskea and Dundrum, about six miles from
Tipperary, while in the act of valuing tithes for the Rev.
Mr. AamsTRONo, of Clenkelly.
The following appointments of Lord Lieuten-
ants of Counties in Ireland, under the new Act, have al-
ready taken place:—
Antrim Earl O'Neill.
Armagh. Earl of Gosford.
Cavan Marquis of Westmeath.
Cork Earl of Shannon.
Donegal Marquis of Donegal.
Dublin Earl of Meath.
Fermanagh Earl of Enniskillen.
Galway Marquis of Clanricarde.
Kerry Earl of Kenmare.
Kildare . Duke of Leinster.
Kilkenny Marquis of Ormonde.
Mayo Marquis of Sligo.
Meath Earl of Darnley.
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Queen's County Viscount De Vesci.
Roscommon Viscount Lorton.
The Dublin Times Pays it is expected that Lord DONOUGII-
- Will be appointed for Tipperary, and that in the
county of Clare, where there is no re,ident Peer, it is not
improbable that Sir E. O'BRIEN will be the Lord
Lieutenant.

The materials for the colossal statue of
GEORGE the Third have now all arrived from London,
and the workmen are busily employed in putting them
together. The figure of the KING, and the head and
neck of the horse, were sent down the latter end of last
week, and an estimate may be formed of their magnitude
by the fact of these parts alone weighing sixteen ton..
Many persons have been attracted to the spot to view
these detached but gigantic portions of this noble work.
The figure lies extended on the ground, and as it is placed
o❑ the back with the left arm up, being an equestrian
statue, it presents a rather ludicrous effect. On Wednes-
day the headless trunk of the horse arrived, in one truck,
and some portion of the pedestal in another. The body
of the horse, placed on its back, its enormous legs in the
air, and drawn by fourteen horses, was an object of great
curiosity as it slowly passed along the London roid, and
even at Brentford hundreds of persons were collected to
view the sight. Winn nearly at the end of the journey,
namely—at the top of Snowhill—in passing over some
part of the new road, which was not quite set, the wheels
of the heavy machine sunk in, and it was not until addi-
tional horses were procured that it could be again set in
motion.—Windsor Express.
TAX ON 818 LES.—It is stated in the London
Papers that ANDREW STRAHAN, Esq. printar to the
King's Most Excellent MAJESTY, who died on Thurad iy
week, h,s left 700,0001 in legacies. It is not generally
known, but it ought to be generally known, that on the
printing of Acts of Parliament, the King's Printer has a
profit of about r ne hundred per cent. beyond that which
other printers, were there an open competition, would be
contented to take ; and that on bibles and testaments,
printed by the King's Printer and the two universities,
there is a profit of between fifty and one hundred per cent
charged to the public, beyond the ordinary printers' profit !
No wonder then that one who has shared in such mono-
poles should have been able to leave 700.0001. But what
a shame it is that the word of Gon should be thus taxed,
to put money into the pockets of a couple of individuals,
or into the coffers of a couple of lazy corporations. Of
the money subscribed to the Bible Society, for the distribu-
tion of the scriptures, no smaller a at►m than 500,000/. has
been absorbed by those monopolists! Or, in other words,
they have pocketed .as much of the money of that society
as would have put into circulation TEN MILLIONS of bound
copies of the new testament ! An enquiry into this most
flagrant abuse of patent rights is now taking place, and it
becomes every man who desires the distribution of the
scriptures to enter his protest against the, iniquitous im-
post.—Manchester Times.
BEAUTIES OF THE COURT OF CHARLES 11.
—lndependently of the great attractions of this publica-
tion as a work of art, its literary and historical interest
will be found remarkable. It ought to be particularly
noticed that the memoirs are written by a lady ; and as a
lady (in her feminine character) ought to write. Most of
the women were really amiable and interesting as well as
beautiful, and connected with our political history, and with
the noblest families of the present titne—several have been
effectually cleared front the aspersions cast on them, and
placed in a new and interesting point of view.
POLIGNAC AND HIS COLLEAGUES IN
PRISON.—We gave, a few days ago, from a French paper,
some particulars relating to the Ex-Ministers confined in
the Castle of Ham, proceeding from a soldier of the 19th
Light Infantry Regiment, on his passage through Valen,
ciennes for Belgium. The following letter in reply to
that statement has been since addressed to the Editor or
the Quolidienne by M. de PEYRONNET :•-•••
" Ham, Aug. 28, 1831.

" Slll,-Several journals have published an account,
pretended to have been given by a soldier, of which the
Castle of Ham Is the only and melancholy subject. This
letter contains little else than falsehoods. I am quite at
a loss to conceive what miserable motive can have led to
such a relation. The state prison of Ham is badly built,
insalubrious, and is surrounded by marshes, so that it is
for half the day enveloped in fogs. It does not contain a
garden for any one, and consequently there can be none
f9r the prisoners. Their only walk is about 60 yards
in length, at one end of the ramparts, so narrow,
that two persons can scarcely walk abreast, and
from the base of which infectious exhalations are constantly
rising. The food served to us is so refined and delicate,
that I have frequently made my dinner off a morsel of
bread. The prisoners of Ham do riot pass their time in
play; they have other things to occupy themselves with.
I do not know that this has happened to me once during
the whole of my thirteen months' confinement. Their lives
are what they ought to be—serious and sad. Study is
their only diversion. Those who seek to rob them of the
consideration due to misfortune sustained with dignity,
merit most to be pitied. This is my opinion, and 1 pity
them accordingly. " I have the honour. &c.

(Signed)

" PEYRONNET.'

MURDER NEAR WELFORD, NORTHAMP-
TONSIIIRE.—It has become our painful duty to r,cord
another crime of murder committed upon a young and
unoffendiog female at the little sequestered village of Sib-
bertoft, near Welford, in Northamptonshire. The victim
was DIARY CHENEY, or, as she was more commonly
called, Mae? WRIGHT. She was an illegitimate child,
and her mother's name was CHENEY, hut she has since mar-
ried a labourer named GRANT, who is uncle to the wretched
man now lying in Northampton gaol, under the dreadful
charge of murdering this poor girl. The murderer, Wm.
GRANT, is, according to his own account, 41 years
old; he has been in th marines, but was discharged on
account of deafnes,,, with a pension of 245. per quarter,
and has since been residing in this his native village. The
girl was2o years old, and of prepossessing appearance : nut-
withstanding the disparity of years, the prisoner conceived
an ardent attachment for her, and not meeting a corres-
ponding return, jealousy and rage took possession of his
breast, and hurried him to the commission of the foul
crime for which he is now called upon to answer. The
prisoner's mother died last week, at the advanced age
of seventy-six, and was thus happily spared the bitter
pang of witnessing her eldest son hurried from his
native village on a charge of murder. She was buried
on Sunday, and it should seam that the refusal of the de-
ceased to walk with the prisoner in the funeral procession
was one of the circumstances which rankled in his breast.
The deceased was servant to Mrs. MArrosr, and on Tues-
day evening last was sent by her mistress to Mr. BATES'S
in the village for some harm, when she met the prisoner,
who accompanied her on her way home,, and when in .a.
rather retired part of the lane leading to her mistress's;
suddenly drew out a knife and stabbed het' repeatedly in the
neck and breast. The screams of the poor girl brought a
person named HormAN to her assistance, who secured the
prisoner as he was in the act of kneeling on the girl and
repeating his blows. The girl died the next day ; and the
same evening the prisoner was fully committed to North-
ampton gaol for the murder.