The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1836.

of the Rosbercon police, an investigation was gone into
before the Magistrates at Borris, when, horrid to con-
template, this execrable monster, with the two others,
named Aylward (father and son), and from the part
of the country where the murder was committed, were
fully committed to Carlow, to take their trial at the next
assizes. Though the whole of the evidence given at the
inquest has not yet transpired, enough is known to fully
inculpate `►'arm. Magrath, the brother, as the principal in
the fratricidal act. It seems there had been a jealousy
and constant bickerings between these young men since
the death of their father, which took place not long since,
connected with the property at Castlehyde, the younger
brother having been left in possession, the elder having re-
ceived his portion previous to his father's death. William,
the elder brother, came some time since, having buried
his wife, to Castlehide, and seemed on rather good terms
with the deceased ; on the Saturday previous to the mur-
der, a letter arrived by a countryman, the youngest of
the Aylwards above alluded to, purporting to be from a
young woman who lives near Bagnalstown, and to whom
the deceased had been recently paying his addresses, re-
questing him to come up immediately, as she intended
going off with, and getting married to him, and that if
so, he would be sure of her fortune, 2001. The deceased
set off with the messenger, and waited about Bagnalstown
for the greater part of the next day, expecting to meet the
young woman ; i❑ the meantime, the brother by whom
the letter was concocted and forged, hastened after his
unhappy victim, and met him in company with the two
Aylwards, and a man named Gaul ; the deceased not sus-
pecting anything, had something to drink along with them,
after which he was told by Aylward that the young woman
would see him at a certain lonely spot on the Barrow, where
he repaired, and was there cruelly strangled and murdered,
his own brother first knocking him down and strangling him
with a handkerchief, while one of the hired assassins held
his legs, and the other hammered him with stones on the
head. They were above ten minutes dispatching their vic-
tim, when they carried his mangled corpse, and threw it
into a deep part of the river, where it remained covered
with sedge and weeds till it was discovered on the 19th
inst. by some country people. One of the wretches, Ayl-
ward, has turned approver. After the murder, the fratri-
cide came to Castlehyde, took possession of the place,
and reported that his brother, the deceased, had given him
up the care of the place, while he was away, as he had
gone to the North to get married, and would not be home
for some time. When first taken he persisted in his inno-
cence, but it is said that he has since become quite de-
spondent, confident of the fate that awaits him.— Water-
ibrd Chronicle.
MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE.— HENRY-STREET.—
Two ladies of respectable appearance came before the ma-
gistrates on Thursday, and made the following statements :
—They said that some time in the month of July last, a
lady of respectability came before their worships, at that
office, to say that she dreaded her husband would send
her to the madhouse, and requested advice from the ma-
gistrates. Mr. Cole said that he remembered the cir-
cumstance perfectly well, and it was one which surprised
him a good deal, as the lady appeared to have been per-
fectly sane at the time. He then told her that if any
attempt was made upon her liberty by her husband,
from whom it appeared that she was living separate,
her friends could bring the matter before the bench.
One of the ladies, in continuation, stated that such was
precisely the case. That a few weeks after the lady in
question made this application, she was standing with
informant in her garden, when they saw three desperate
looking fellows pass by ; the lady exclaimed, " there
are the three men whom my husband got to beat me in
my own house." On the following day the lady was
carried off, and placed in Swift's Hospital, where she has
' remained since the 13th of last month. She wrote to this
lady, who went to see her ; it was her opinion that she was
perfectly sane, and that she got very bad treatment, not
being allowed any tea or any kind of comfort. The go-
vernor of the prison mentioned to informant that he was
surprised the lady should have been allowed to remain in
the house, that she was not a subject for it, and that he
would wish she was out of it. Here the lady took a let-
ter from her pocket, written by her friend in the mad-
house, and read it to the magistrates. It appeared to have
been the production of a person perfectly sane, and the
writer complained of the harsh treatment she got, being
denied tea and every other comfort and necessary to which
she had been accustomed. The lady further mentioned
that the husband of the unfortunate woman had consented
to allow her a guinea a week as a separate maintenance,
and that it was for the purpose of getting rid of the pay-
ment of that sum that she was sent to the mad•house ; it
was said too that the husband was living with another woman.
The magistrates said it was altogether the most extraor-
dinary case that ever came before them, and they would,
in the first instance, write to the governor of Swift's, and
have a private interview with him regarding how the lady
got there, or if any doctor had certified as to her insanity,
and then they would better know what course to adopt.
The gentleman against whom these charges have been made
holds a lucrative situation in one of the public offices. On
Friday, Mr. Cummins, governor of Swift's Hospital,
attended before the Magistrates, and stated various circum-
stances to show that the lady about whom the application
had been made, was subject to temporary derangement ;
that, when suffering in this way, she had accused her hus-
band of robbing the Bank of Ireland, and that two medical
men had certified her insanity. Mr. Fullam, who appeared
as the friend of the lady, contended that she was perfectly
sane—that she had been cruelly treated, and he mentioned
the names of two medical gentlemen who had certified her
sanity. Under these circumstances the Magistrates de-
clined to interfere, and Mr. Fullam declared that he should
bring the matter before the King's Bench.

REFORM MEETING AT COVENTRY.

_
Coventry, Sept. 27.
Yesterday Mr. Williams, the Member for the city of
Coventry, visited his constituents to render them, according
to his promise made to them at the time of his election, an
annual account of his Parliamentary conduct. A public
dinner took place at St. Mary's Hall, previous to which Mr.
Williams addressed the electors of Coventry from the bal-
cony of the Half-moon Inn.
Mr. WILLIAMS commenced his address. He had come
amongst them to attend to any complaint they had to make
against him in his public conduct. He had attended his par-
liamentary duties in the House of Commons every day during
the sessions, from the very first day the sessions began to
the day they ended. It was true, that notwithstand-
ing the sessions had been protracted for an unusually
lengthened period ; notwithstanding the Parliament had
been sitting upwards of seven months, little good had
been done for the people. The House of Com-
mons had indeed passed many important measures
of reform—measures that would have been most
acceptable and beneficial to the nation, but which never
became the laws of the land, having been either strangled
or defeated in the House of Peers. Twenty-seven Bills of
importance had been totally rejected by the House of Lords,
and seven had been so mutilated and deprived of their be-
neficial tendency by them, that the House of Commons
were obliged to reject them. As a sample of how the Irish
Corporation Bill had been treated in the House of Lords,
he would tell them that out of 140 clauses which were in
that Bill, 100 of them had been altered or rejected by the
Peers, who had also added 18 new clauses, by which the
whole principle, and even the very title of the Bill had
been completely altered. Another Bill had been passed by
the House of Commons, by which a reform would have
been made in the Irish Church. The main object of that
Bill was to provide amply, fully, and consistently for the
wants of the clergy, and then to apply the overplus to the
education of the people of Ireland generally, without refe-
rence to the particular religious tenets they professed. The
House of Lords had rejected this Bill, containing so much
good. What was to be the end of all that he could not tell ;
they could not collect the tithes in Ireland. Perhaps, that
meeting recollected that two years ago, a million of money
was advanced for the relief of the Irish Clergy ; that money
was to have been repaid ; it had not, however, and in his
opinion never would be paid.—(Hear, hear.) The clergy
were without the means of support, unless these were ob-
tained by extracting their hard earnings from the pockets
of the people. Was it in accordance with the principles of
justice that the people of Ireland should be subjected to
such a system any longer ? They would not, he was as-
sured, submit any longer to this, and in justice to them-
selves they should not do so.—(Hear and cheers.) It now
became an important question what was to be done in a
state of affairs like this, when the two Houses of Parlia-
ment were in direct opposition to each other, one passing
Bills which the country required, and the other rejecting
them. If the House of Lords proceeded in their present
course, it must be self-evident to every reflecting mind that
it would be impossible to proceed farther in the various re-
forms which the people required, as the fruits of the Reform
Bill. Was it to be endured that 250 of these Lords were
to set at nought the wants and wishes of 24,000,000 of
the most intelligent of the people in the world ?—(Cheers.)
The question then was, how the House of Lords was to
be brought to work for the people instead of against them ?
The only mode of proceeding was to reform the House
of Lords, and that could only be done by the people them-
selves. If the House of Commons were really elected by
the people which could be the case when they achieved the
vote by ballot, and an extension of the suffrage, then there
would be such an assembly of their real representatives as
could and would manifest a position of determination and
independence, as would at once render void any efforts of
the Lords to constitutional legislation.—(Loud cheers.)
The Hon. Gentleman then entered into a lengthened ex-
planation as to his Parliamentary conduct.
Mr. J. HEAD then came forward and proposed the fol-
lowing resolution That it is the opinion of this meeting
that the steady, faithful, and unflinching support given by
Mr. Williams to all those measures calculated to confirm
and extend the liberties of the people, is deserving of our
warmest applause and continued confidence and esteem."
The resolution was carried with acclamation.

The dinner took place at four o'clock, in St. Mary's Hall,
which was thronged with the constituents and supporters of
Mr. Williams.

After the usual loyal toasts had been drunk,
Mr. WILLIAMS (on his health being proposed) again
addressed his friends.

After several other toasts had been proposed, and speeches
made, the meeting separated.

Yesterday afternoon, about half-past three o'clock,
a female, very respectably dressed, was observed by two water-
men, named Williams and Hart, to descend the steps on the
lower side of Waterloo-bridge, and before the men could get
to her she had plunged into the water, which at the time was
at least ten feet deep ; she instantly sank under some wherries
that were moored off the stairs. The two above named men,
with much intripidity, jumped into the boats, and after much
difficulty succeeded in keeping her head above the water. The
unhappy creature was conveyed ashore, and carried to Mr.
Morris's, the Wheatsheaf public-house, in the Strand, and Mr.
Renshaw, surgeon, of the West Strand, was promptly in at-
tendance, by whose directions the practice of resuscitation was
adopted, and in a short time she was so far recovered as to be
enabled to say that her name was Harriet Newman, but
nothing further could be elicited from her.
Last night, between eight and nine o'clock, an
alarming fire, which for some time threatened serious:conse-
quences to the surrounding neighbourhood, broke out upon
the premises of a glass-blower, situated in Brandon-street,
\Valworth. The flames were as first discovered by a passenger
raging with great violence in the upper part of the premises.
A policeman immediately sent a messenger to the different
fire-stations in the metropolis, and in a very short period an
engine belonging to the London Fire Establishment arrived,
which was quickly followed by those from the Waterloo-road
and Watling-street stations. In the interim the flames had
extended with amazing rapidity, and great fears were enter-
tained for the safety of the adjoining houses. Fortunately, at
the time of the arrival of the engines, a plentiful supply of
water was obtained, and by the exertions of the firemen, the
destructive element was with difficulty got under, but not be-
fore considerable damage was done to the premises.

A lecture was delivered at the Mechanic's Institu-
tion on Wednesday evening last, by Mr. D. Harrison (of
Bath), illustrative of a system of mental calculation, which
he is about publishing. The members were highly delighted
at his ready man►ier of calculating mentally the most intricate
questions that could be put to him. His second lecture in con-
tinuation will be delivered on Wednesday the 2d November.
The first general meeting of the Directors and Share-
holders of the Thames Haven Dock and Railway Company,
was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street ;
Horace Twiss, Esq., M. P., in the chair. Mr. Amsinek, the
Secretary, read the report. It contained a detailed statement
of what had already been done, and a variety of calculations as
to the future prospects of the Company, which were described
as very encouraging. Several resolutions were afterwards
passed. One was that 5001. should be presented to the Pro-
visional Committee for its services in the formation of the
Company ; and another that 1,2001. a-year should be divided
among the Directors. In acknowledging the latter grant, the
Chairman stated that his co- Directors and himself would not
think of accepting any pecuniary payment till the works were
fairly in progress. The usual votes of thanks were then agreed
to, and the meeting adjourned.
SWEARING IN OF THE SHERlFFS.—Yesterday
the new Sheriffs, Mr. Duke and Mr. Johnson, the Under-
Sheriffs, and several privare friends, breakfasted at the resi-
dence of Mr. Duke, at No. 5, Manchester-square, from whence
they proceeded to the Mansion-house, where the Lord Mayor
gave a dejeuner to several of the members of the Corporation.
They then, preceded by his Lordship, proceeded to the Guild-
hall, where they were sworn into office with the customary
forms. _

Barnard, the stamper, who was injured by the ex-
plosion of the three letters at the Liverpool Post-office, is
going on very well, but the use of the left eye is irrevocably
lost. His face appeared as if it had received a charge of small
shot, which was occasioned by the ends of small brass tacks,
with which the letters were charged.
LONGEVITY.—Died, on the 14th instant, in the
vicinity of Florence-court, at the advanced age of 108 years,
Mrs. Oliver Wallace, wife of Mr. Oliver Wallace, who is
himself in his 102 d year. Mrs. Wallace has left behind the
numerous progeny of 50 grandchildren, 1,804 great grand-
children, and 30 great-great-grand-children. She enjoyed
good health until a few days before her death, and her memory
was quite perfect, as is that of her husband still. There is
living in the same neighbourhood at present a travelling tinker,
named Coyle, known by the appellation of Paradubh Coyle,
who is in his 108th year.—Enniskillen Chronicle.
SAFETY CABRIOLET.—In addition to " Hanson's
patent safety cabs," that have recently been started in the
metropolis, another description has been brought forward, the
door of which is at the back, like that of an omnibus.
Although this plan would greatly facilitate escape, in the
event of the horse running away, it also offers an admirable
opportunity for taking a cheap ride, inasmuch as, when tired
of the journey, the passenger has only to open the door and
step out, a movement that the driver cannot possibly be cog-
nizant of. A ludicrous instance of this nature took place in
the Strand yesterday, the knave of a passenger having enjoyed
a comfortable ride all the way from Kensington.

The House of Commons is now filled with work.
men, who are making repairs and improvements in that edi-
fice, under the superintendence of Dr. Reid. The roof is to
be lowered. A chimney, 120 feet high, is constructing in
order to ventilate the House.

LAST GRAND DAHLIA SHOW.—On Tuesday a I
grand final review of those fine flowers took place at Salthill,
in the gardens of Botham's hotel. They looked to every ad-
vantage on this occasion, as the weather was remarkably
agreeable. Marquees of various sizes were prepared for the
exhibition and the accommodation of its visitors. hi the chief
one, wherein the choicest blooms were arranged, the initial
letters of her Majesty's name were very neatly represented in
dahlias, which were also used at the entrance to the grounds
to enwreath the words " Metropolitan Society of Florists."
From twelve to two o'clock the show was opened for the in-
spection of special visitors, and was then honoured by the pre-
sence of her Majesty and a large Royal party, who came to
Salthill in seven carriages. Her Majesty expressed herself
highly pleased with the whole display.
In the baptismal register of the parish of Hanwell,
Middlesex, is the following entry :—" Thomas, son of Tho-
reas Messenger and Elizabeth his wife, was born and baptized
Oct. 24, 1731, by the midwife at the ont, called a boy, and
named by the godfather Thomas, but proved a girl."
On Monday week, an accident which might have
resulted fatally, owing to the too great care which masters of
steam-packets have for their boats, occurred as the Gainsbo-
rough steamer was coming to this port. When a little on this
side Stockwith, a Miss Wrigglesworth, of Doncaster, who
was a passenger on board, was suddenly seized with a fit, and
in an instant leaped over the side into the water. The alarm
was immediately given, and the boat which hung at the stern
of the vessel endeavoured to be lowered, but it was found to he
chained and locked to the place where it was slung, and the
key had to be sought for. The engine was stopped imme-
diately ; but, what is most extraordinary, the lady floated upon
the water insensible : no doubt, that insensibility, by render-
ing her incapable to make any exertion, saved her life. The
vessel, fortunately, was near the shore, and a boat put off from
thence to the succour of Miss Wrigglesworth, who, still un-
conscious, was lifted on board. Had the accident occurred in
any other part of the river, fatal consequences would most
probably have resulted. —Hull Observer.
On Sunday a battalion of the 10th Legion of the
National Guards of Paris, and the battalion of Vanvres, met
on the plain of Clamart, to perform evolutions and practice a
sham fight. In the melee, towards the end el the mimic
battle, M. Carassi, of the Rue de Lille, an architect, and a
Lieutenant in the Chasseurs of the 10th Legion, was pierced
by the ramrod of one of the men, who in th confusion left it
in his musket. He was instantly conveyed to a house near
the spot, and received every surgical aid ; but his life is des-
paired of, as the ramrod was fixed so firmly in one of his
shoulders that it was found impossible to draw it out.

, .
Sr. MICHAEL'S DAY.—This Saint is in our al-
manacs and in the calendar of the Church of England. The
day ( September 29) is a great festival in the Romish Church.
Our forefathers were told by the predecessors of Alban Butler,
that Michael bore the banner of the celestial host, chased the
angel Lucifer and his followers from Heaven, and enclosed
them in dark air unto the day of judgment • not in the upper
region, because there it is clear and delightful ; nor upon the
earth, because there they should not torment mankind, but be-
tween Heaven and earth, that when they look up they may see
the joy which they
may see men mount to Heaven from whence they fell. The
have lost, and when they look downward,
relation says they fly about us like flies ; they are as innumera-
ble, and like flies they fill the air without number ; and philo-
sopher; and doctors are of opinion that the air is as full of
devils and wicked spirits " as the sonne bemes ben full of small
motes, which is small dust or poudre."
THE SASSANAGIL—When, in former days, the
rebel Chieftain O'Neale, was passing by the house of one of
the Anglo-Irish, he professed a vehement disgust against the
intrude'. ; and when it was remarked to him that the Barratts
had been there 400 years, he exclaimed—" Curse the churl,
I hate him as if he had arrived but yesterday."—Quarterly
Review.

During the trial of a man, named Lainouroux, for
the murder; of his wife, which we gave an account of the other
day, it came out that the corpse of the woman had earrings, a
gold ring, and a purse, on it at the time of being discovered
by the police, and that the porte-sonnette, a subordinate officer
of the commissary of police, had taken poszegsion of these
articles and sold them, with the knowledge of the commissary.
The judge
on discovering this fact declared that such an
action amounted to theft, and reprimanded the commissary of
police, named Lafontaine, and his man, named St. Yves, in
very strong terms of indignation. Yesterday the Moniteur
contains an order of the prefect of police, stating the facts as
above narrated ; and adding, that, on the porte-sonnette being
summoned to produce the earrings in court, he produced othcrs
that did not belong to the woman who was murdered ;as and
that the commissary Lafontaine, in asserting thatsuch
usual practice whenever a body was found dead,
and calumnious assertion, which imputed a tolerance of spo-
liation amounting to theft to the other commissaries_
his
The order ends by declaring St. Yves dismissed from
functions, and the commissary Lafontaine suspended until
further orders. d. e wa
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