The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-17 00:00:00

CAVAN, MARCII 13.

Our assizes commenced here on Thursday. The ez-
lendar is enormously heavy.
Yesterday morning at nine o'clock the Crown Court
was opened by Mr. Serjeant GOOLD, when the five fol-
lowing persons were arraigned for the wilful murder of
Miss Jane Deane, daughter of the late Mr. John Deane,
of Drumouslin, who was murdered at Skeane on the 15th
of November last—namely, Laurence Finnegan, James
Connell, Felix Murphy, John Murphy, and Patrick
Crodin.

An approver named Peter Igo stated that in consequence:,
of a previous arrangement he went on the night in gm-
tion, in company with the five prisoners, to Mr. Deane's
house. They saw the deceased and her sister sitting at
the fire combing their hair, when Finnegan fired through
the window. The deceased cried out, " Oh, Margaret !"
and fell. The prisoners then fled.—(This witness under-
went a severe cross-examination, in the course of which
he admitted having been previously convicted of a petty
larceny and imprisoned, but his direct evidence was not in
the Isast shaken.)

Margaret Deane, the sister, stated that when the shot
was fired, Jane fell into her arms. She saw none of the
prisoners. Her sister lingered till next day, when she
died. Several other witnesses were examined, whose evi-
dence corroborated the approver's in all the main points.
The defence was the usual Irish one—an attempt to
prove an alibi, which completely failed.
After an able and luminous charge from the Learned
Sergeant, the Jury retired, and returned in about half an
hour with a verdict of Guilty. They were immediately
sentenced to be executed on Monday morning.
The prisoners conducted themselves with much pro-
priety, and seemed deeply affected on the announcement _
of the verdict. They are all stout fine-looking young
men. Finnegan is 23 years of age, is married, and has
one child. The Alurrays are brothers; one aged about
22, and the other does not exceed 18. Their father is
rather a decent farmer. M'Connell is about 26, and
M'Crodin 28. They were labourers. The only offence
which Miss Deane committed was her father having
taken lands from which the previous possessor had been
ejected.

EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTS FOUND AT
THE TUILERIES.-The Court Journal of Saturday will
contain several most curious and interesting DOCUMENTS
which were found in the writing-desk of the Duchess
D'ANGOULEME at the sack of the Tuileries, in July last.,
They consist chiefly of autograph letters from Crowned
Heads to her Royal Highness, with copies of the
Duchess's answers, &c. The letters, &c. will be printed
in the original with English translations appended.
ALLEGED ROYAL PUN.--The two Sheriff's
of London were knighted upon presenting the corpora-
tion address to the KING. It was expected that his MA-
JESTY would be pleased to name, on this occasion, the day
when the City shall have the honour of entertaining him.
Upon being sounded on the subject, it is said his MA.irsry
immediately replied, " No ; I will not now give the City

a day, but I will give them two knights."—Morning
Paper.

BURGLARY AT ASIIBY PUERORUM.--
JAMES PARKER and JOSEPH FIDLING were indicted for a
burglary in the house of ELIZABETH CLARKE, at Ashby
Puerorum, and GEORGE PARKER as an accessory before
the fact.--The prosecutrix, who is a maiden lady, gave
the following account of the transaction. In the morning
of the Bth of last January her dressing-room window was
broken open, three men entered her bed-room, and came
to her bedside. One of them said to her, " Don't be
alarmed, for no personal violence shall be done to you or
your servant." He put his hand into her pocket and
took out her watch. She said, " Surely you are not
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keys. When they found her keys in her pocket they gave
them to her one by one, until she told them which was
the right key, viz. the key of her cabinet. She wished
them not to unlock it themselves, as they would spoil the
lock. She got out of bed to put on her dressing-gown,
and the man who first spoke to her said, turning himself
from her at the time, " 0, I know the regard due to the
delicacy of the sex as well as any man." She opened
her cabinet and gave them about 61. or 71 , a great por-
tion of it silver, when the polite robber said, " I beg your
pardon, madam, for the trouble I have given you, but
urgent necessity compelled me." They then went away.
After a very long and interesting trial, "the polite rob-
ber," who had passed seven years in Van Diemen's Land
for not being sufficiently expert at his trade, being ad-
mitted evidence on the strength of
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of 1501. and a free pardon, corroborated by ofirst i
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soners, and the latter was acqutted.
Stamford Champion.