The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

NEWTOWNARLiS, DEC.`S.---There has lived in
this neighbourhood nearly 40 years, -in the town
land of Cunuingbtn•n, a man. who was deaf and
' dumb, of the name
.of Sam. Duncan, who has
worked all that time in flax-mills belonging to
Lord Londonderry. Last week, he-Was a. little
indisposed, so that he could not attend his work;
his wife has been in a poor state of, health for
some years, but was able to walk- about. Yes-
terday morning (Sunday) she rose about seven
o'clock, and made some. tea, of which she
drank, and _her husband also drank a cop i❑ bed ;
one of her daughters had been up at the
• same time, whom the mother advised to go to bed
again for an hour, as she said she thought herself a
great deal better than she bad_. been for some time
before; •that her father• was better also. The
mother went to bell again herself : and a little af-
ter eight o'clock the daughter went into the
room; and found her father and mother breath-.
less corpses, lying in - the-same bed. As there
was no Sign \of animation in either, and both ap-
parently in. the situation they lay down in, it iw-
generally thought they bad died about the same
time. Lord Londonderry has very humanely:or-
dered every thing requisite for a decent inter-
ment, to be provided at his cost ; and to-nior,.
row they will be tarried on one bier to the place
of interment.

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHE-.1t.-;--Yesterday
morning the Cattle and Implements, &c. ar-
rived in • Mr. SADLER'S Yard, at, the usnal hour;
and although it hall been annOunced that the Skew
would not open until the aftetnoon, a cousider.
able crowd surrounded the Repository gates during
the forenoon, and increased greatly afterwards,
notwithstanding the gates remained shut and-the
deluges of rain that fell : on inquiry we learned
that the cause of this disappointment arose gout(
• the complicated arrangements and consideratiOns,
that two sets of premiums, to many of which the
same animal was eligible, and, in other cases only
one set, had occasioned to the Stewards and
Judges, and the saute having greatly exceeded the
time that
_bad been calculated to allow *1 ..len4 for
examination, before strangers should he admitted
to the yard.—The Judges could not complet'e
their decisions in time to put up the usual labels,
announcing the prizes, before the yard closed Jai;
night.

As some workmen were lately digging a road
from -Burford, in Oxfordshire, to Barring ton,
they discovered, near the surface of the earth, a
stone. coffin, of an immense size, and extreinely
irregular, weighing nearly three tons, which, on
examination, was found to. contain the perfect
skeleton of a man, of middle stature, having his
teeth entire; also a.great number of short nails,
eompletelYoxydated and matted together in pieces
of hide, of which materials it is probable a shield
was formed. -Fro-m the size and 'appearance of
this coffin, and from the circumstance of its being
found near- to a' place knoWn by the name of
Battle Edge,.it may be presumed, with much pro-
bability-, to have, been deposited there after the
battle, recorded by many of our early histotians to
have been fought near Burford, "about the middle
of the eighth .century, between ETHELWALDv
King of Mercia, • and the West Saxon, King,
CUTH-RED, or CUTHBERT.-'Phis curious relict is
deposited in an 'aisle called Sylvester's, in Burford
Chinch, for the impection of the curious.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-The following af-
fecting accislent happened at Moughtre, near
Newtown, Montgomeryshire, on Saturday night
last.. By the- sudden slipping of a quantity of
earth, loosened by heavy rains that had fallen dur--
ing the day, a poor cottager's house, built under
a steep batik, had its walls beaten in, and himself,
his wife; and five small children, were instantly
overwhelmed by a torrent of mud ; two of the chiL-
dren were suffocated; one of them was an infant
at the breast of its mothor, who suffered the inde-
scribable agony of feeling its lasrstruggles with-
out the possibility of affording it the least re-
lief., She herself was forced upon • the fire,
by which her legs were severely burnt, and
her husband was driven outside the house, and
there fixed in the surrounding ruin, 'a distressed
spectator of, the sufferings of his- family, with-
out being, able to stir to their assistance. The

most prompt exertions were made by the neigh-
bours, but,they, were-unable to remove the •sisic
ferers from their perilous situation in less than
two hours. These unfortunate. people are in the
`greatest distress, being, by their bruises, rendered
unable to do any thing for the support of them-
selves and children:

On Thursday a Coroner's Inquest was held at
the Coach and Horses,
_FiAling, on►tle body of a
man, /whose Christian "name was William,
name unknown. The deceased was in 'Ole service
of Mr. Hawkins, of Drayton-green, farmer ;
on the day preceding the Inquest, Charles Crow,
as•he was going along Drayton-green_lace, found
the deceased lying in the lane on the title of the
road. He WO quite dead, but there did not ap-
pear. to be any marks of violence about
Yerdict—Died.by the Visitation of God:

AMER i ss: PAPERS.

CONGRESS.

lintlSE OF RKPRESENTATIVES, MONDAY, OCT. 1/.

Mr. Might, of Md. presented the petition of
Thcimas Bruff, inventor of the method of
mauu-
f.hcturing bullets aud..hot by compression, stating
the destruction of certain of his machinery pro-,
posed to have been connected with the steam en-
gine belonging, to the late Navy-yard in this city,
aAd prayiag that Congress will take his case into
evitsitteration. Referred to a select Committee.