The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-04 00:00:00

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MARRIAGE AND EXECUTION or PAT. KIRBY.
LIMERICK JULY 29.—After the sentence of
death was passed upon this man on the 27th, for murder, he
was conducted from the Court-house to the gaol, a distance of
more-than half a mile, on foot, handcuffed and accompanied by
a guard of soldiers armed with muskets. The scene exhibited
was beyond the power of description. There was the unfor-
tunate man, in the midst of the soldiers,•walking firmly, and
apparently quite unconcerned ; and there too were his half-
naked relative, to the number of fiftysor perhaps a-hundred,
piercing the air with ales as heart-rending as they were terrific.
His mother, a poor old woman, was entirely devoid of reason,
and absolutely raving with grief. She was almost in a state of
nudity. She had no shoes or stockings. A large grey cloak
thrown over her shoulders was her principal garment. She had
torn her cap from her head, her bosom was bare, and her cloak
and grey hair waved wildly in the wind. She sometimes threw
her, long and shrivelled arms about her head, and at others
violently struck her bosom, and exclaimed in her native lan-
guage, filogh-bohnit bragil Mogh bragh,!—(Oh I my
fine boy ! my fine boy !) There was 'a young woman,
one of the prisoner's sisters, whose conduct was not .less
remarkable titan his mother's. .Her howlings and screams
were horrible ; and it was with difficulty 'she could be
• prevented from rushing upon the bayonets of the soldiers,
if possible, to 'embrace her brother. The prisoner himself ap-
peared quite Minloved. Hesometimes turned round, and in
a mild tone of voice bade them be quiet, othold their tongues.
His conduct ht.:Akin/4. to the geol•wast similar to that evinced
upon his trial, and during his sentence, firm and unmoved,
though apparently not brutally unmoved. Just as the pri-.
, soner approached the gaol, and was nearly under the gallows,-
a woman ran towards the soldiers, exclaiming " Surely you'll
let the poor boy take a drink of beer." The soldiers halted
for a moment, and the prisoner drank with a good deal of
avidity. When he gat to the gaol, as -if weary with the la-
mentations of his friends, •he snastened through -the passage,
when the door immediately-closed, and the howl became, if
possible, ten times mote NehementAhan ever. One of the pri=
soner's sisters fainted, and fell upon the ground. Water was
procured, and in about ten minutes sensibility was restored.
She raised her head, and opening her eyes, beheld the gallows
just above her, on which her brother, in a few hours, was to
fi-4 su.—The short time that elapsed between the-prisoner's sen-
tence and the execution was spent in religious exercises. He was
attended by three clergymen of the Church of Rome. Previous
to his being btolight out for 'execution, he was married to
Bridget Dillon, the woman who was tried with Lim for the
murdering Mr. Hurst, and who, it appears, lived in a state of
concubinage with that gentleman. Kirby, since his conviction
up to the hour of execution, declared-that he was innocent
of the murder : his fortitude did not forsake him for a mo-
ment when he appeared on the scaffold, the immense crowd
that had assembled in front of the jail seemed desirous for
him to address them, as it had been rumoured among them
that he persisted in declaring his innocence. He was evident-
ly anxious to speak; but instead of addressing the people, he
turned round to the gentlemen on the platform and declared,
in the most solemn manner, that he was prepared to dies
that he did not fear death, and as he should be shortly be-
fote the face of Almighty God, he did not commit the mur-
der, nor was he present at its committal, or any way .con-
cerned in it. The priest then cautioned him as to the conse-
quences of uttering a falsehood on the brink of eternity, but he
still persisted in his innocence. After the drop fell, lie did
not appear to struggle in the least, but was observed to strike
his right hand seven or eight times against his breast, as though
he was mentally exclainiing, in the language of the publican,
"'God be merciful to me a sinner!" Although this man met
his fate with the greatest apparent composure and resignation,
and with a declaration of innocence even on his dying lips, no
person entertains a doubt of his guilt. Indeed, it is reported,
that the woman to whom he was married, and who was sup-
posed to be present at the murder, has declared that Kirby alone
was the guilty man. He was a tall, well-made, and good.
looking young man.

Ull DER.-( Skibbereen, July 29.)—0n Wed-
nesday, the 27th instant, was discovered, on the lands of Gurt-
nagrough, in this county (Cork), the body of a man named
Browne. Some time prior to the last Bantry Sessions of the
Peace, the deceased, who, it seems, was one of a party of
thieves who infested the neighbourhood of Balidebob and
Bantry, gave information against his associates in crime.—
A few days previous to the Sessions, he was waited on by
some of the party, amongst whom were the near relatives,
of his wife, and ordered to hold himself' in readiness to
go that night on one of his usual excursions. This, it ap-
pears, was the plan devised to allure him into the snare
laid for his life. The deceased accompanied them at the time
appointed, when the assumed friends became,the brutal assas-
sins, and committed the atrocious deed. The body was first
discovered by a boy attending cattle. A man is in custody tin-
der Circumstances which will probably lead tq the discovery of
the murderers. The body was found in a bog hole, with large
stones tied to the extremities and middle, and exhibited marks
of violence. The arms were broken in various places, and the
skull fractured in many parts. An inquest was held, and a
:verdict,pronounced against some person or persc.ns unknown.

A large block of grit-stone, with the inslention
of a palm leaf near the base, and exhibiting other symptoms
of organic remains, has been this week brought from the quarry
'at Bromley Fall to the Central Market, where the workmen
'have prepared it for the building. But large masses of petri.
fled timber are so common this neighbourhood as scarcely
to produce any surprise in the mind of the geologist. The
labourers are breaking them continually upon the highways,
and our streets are paved with that material which, in one stage
of its existence produced fruit for the -tables of our antedi-
luvian ancestors. In the quarries on Headingley-moor speci-
mens of organic remains abound. The Eupitorbia, a native
of Asia, the sugar-cane of the east, and the palm-tree of Egypt,
are all•to be seen many of them erect in the mine, with their
fibrous roots shooting from the trunk to the distance of several
yards, and leaving not the slightest doubt of their vegetable
origin. The Museum of the Leeds Philosophical Society ex-
hibits many choice specimens gathered in the neighbourhood,
and Mr. Calvert's collection is rich in them.--(Leeds Mercury.)'