The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

ANTI-TITHE MEETING IN DROGHEDA.—On Monday
an aggregate electing of the inhabitants of Drogheda took
place, the purpoAe of expressing their unqualified dis-
approbatioe of the infamous attempt of the Tory Itords to
insult the Irish nation and rob it of its just rights and pri-
vileges by the rejection of the Irish Municipal Reform Bill.
The same devotedness to the cause of good government,
the same patriotic enthusiasm which distinguished the
Dublin meeting, marked the proceedings of the men of
Drogheda.

MEETING IN CORK.—At this meeting a petition to the
'House of Commons was adopted on the subject of the
Lords' "amendments." The Chair was. taken by the senior
Member for the city, who opened the meeting in an do-
quent speech recommendatory of the rejection of the
Lyndhurst Mock Municipal Reform.
Mr. S. 0:BRIEN, Esq., M.P.—This gentleman, in an
address which has just been published to the constituency •
of the County of Limerick, says :—" I am no advocate for
a repeal of the Union, provided Ireland be dealt with as an
equal and integral part of the United Kingdom, but from
the moment that we are treated by the British Parliament
as a subordinate province—as an inferior race—l shall seek
an independent Legislature for my o.vn country, as the•
only means of preserving it, from oppression, contempt, and
disgrace."
Tut: REBELLION MEN.—The latest accounts from the
seat (or rather the seats) of war are—the marauders have
had no success latterly in Carlow—in military parlance,
they are broken down by long.and ineffectual marches-__
like "the ever to be lamented Abercromby," they 'are un-
able to find nne rebel. In the county of Wexf,-.d the ma-
gistrates, Messrs. Walker and Arrostrong.'Wnether from an
innate horror of pinnder or from +.1.1e hopelessness and
danger of the campai!,n, refused lo serve. In Tipperary
the notorious officer of Philip Ryan, has not yet
fallen. We are inC"A-Med by a Tore bulletin, that he is
"still alive and stirring—he is engag,ed in the service of
upTlrds twenty clergymen of the Establishment." Not
so .oeimis Flynn—he has been grievously wounded. The
following is the despatch Denis Flynn, fortne!ly con-
stable of police, lately appointed an officer of rebellion,
having orders to serve writs for 'tithes due to the Rev. Mr.
Thompson, was furiously attacked, and received a blow of a
stor.e in the Main-street of Templemorc, on the 12th inst.,
and would have been otherwise maltreated but that he re-
ceived protection by getting into a house and remaining
there till his assailants separated.—Register.

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS.

BUSSELS, MAY 25.—The Senate is convoked for Wed-
nesday, the Ist of June.
The. Chamber of Representatives continues the discus-
sion of the project of law relative to the cases in which
officers may lose their rank.
VILSNA, MAY 17.—Their Majesties the Emperor and
Empress, accompanied by Prince Metternich, went this
morning to the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, to see a
large steam-engine, just arrived from England. We hear
that her Majesty the Empress Dowager will be absent two
months. As warm weather has at length set in, the 21st
is fixed for the day on which their Majesties will go to
Sehonbrunn ;part of the Court will on the 19th and 20th.

MUNICH, MAY 20th.—The departure of the Duchess of
of Leuchteuberg for Stockholm, is fixed for the 10th of
next month.

CIIPASTIANA, MAY I.6.—The Stockholm mail has
brought orders to fit out eight • gun-boats to cruise along
the coast. They are to be stationed as follows,—two at
Drontheim, two at Bergen, two at Cluistiansand, one at
Fredericksvarn, and one before .Frederickstadt.—Hambingh
Papers, May 24.

'BELGIAN FUNDS, BaUSSELA, May 21.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ......
Rothschild'; Loan, 5 per Cent. lot
Loan or City, 1832.4 per Cent. 94%
Society of Commerce, 4- per Cent 132
Batik of Belgium, 5 per Cent l2l
—Brussels Papers, May 25.
• AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—ViuxNA, -MAY 17.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
-1.1..nk Shares
—.ll/gemeine Zeilung, May 2'2.
DUTCH FUNDS—AmsrEnoau, MAI' t
Mont.:, R.lls.
Aet0...1 Debt, 214 per Cent. .5644 57
Loan (1S30) 5 per cent.
A • ort .:,vntlic, 4.4, per cent ~ .. .. 11714 954:
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent 52 ,2%
ConnnercialTompany, 4 , per c tit 1.45 15.1
Divo (103.2 and 1833) 5 per tent.
Lictliange on London, One mouth l2 .2%
Two months
—Dulet Papers, May 25
HAMBURG BORSEN HAI,LE, May 21,
FOREIGN FUNDS. rifts. Money
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per rent.
Ditto ditto 4 Iwo' ct,nt.
Ditto ditto - 3 percent.
Ditto Bank Shares l3 9 13.i7
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
"1 '
A.tgio-Itussian Loan
l'ap, Inscription, 6 per cent. —
Itus.dan I ascription, Ilope and Co., :1d :old 4th
.„.

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Ili% 9.'3,4
Series
Ditto, Certificates
rot ttlgtattKe lie,reitey litniik. 5 per cent 8034 St ,
I)itt.o, 0 per eent
it 514 i 14,
.
I>nte IN per Cent,
Onto 5 per Ueots —
Poiedi riontl§, 0 per cents,
A ngin..l)innsh Loan, 3 per I,lits 7Ti 74
Notuegian Loan of ittl4, lil r cents.
~,,,:,,,,slt, in Oast, es, 3 per Ce-t,
CM tog Loan, 5 per Cent
Cheek
Ilam per cents. 18:11, guaranteed nY r""co 9--`-4 I'S
' burg Pap Mky 41.

.
CHoLERA PrALy.—Accounts from Sinegaglia
announce
open
in the Papal Government has defewed the openg
a the celebrated fair of Sinegaglia, whirl sho'.id be held in
June, in consequence of the re-appevAnce of the cholera in
Venice and Upper Italy.—Gat' ot Paper.
THE COUILTIER4ITATE.SUAN.—Thc character of
Bolingbroke% as di,awn in Mr. Bulwer's work " Devereux," is
ono of those vital and stirring creations v.hich render fiction,
in the hands of' a master, far more effective than any of the
°Gramm forms in which reality itself is found to subsist. It
is interesting to note the author's own remarks upon this indi-
vidual portraiture, expressed in his preface to tlao new edition
of " Devereux :"—" Of the principal elv~ter introduced, the
celebratod and graceful, hNt Ottttrlaintlio Bolingbroke, I still
think," he observos, v• that my shetoh, upon the whole, is sub-
Ak‘st% We xuust trot judge of the politicians of one
ale ikght of another, Happily we now demand in a
a E.'..4tetti'ln a desire for other aims than bis own advancement;
but, at that period, ambition was almost universally selti,h—the
statestrom way yet a courtier—a man whose very destiny it was
to intligae, to plot, to glitter, to deceive. Compare flalingt;
broke not with the men, and by the rules of
'lay, but
the men, and by the rules, of the 144, Lie will lose notlltil,f,
in comparison with .a Walpole,
with a Marlborough. on
one atk Ward Or a Swift, upon tbe other."

SINGULAR RECOVERY OF

PROPERTY.

It will be recollected by• our readers that on Saturday
morning last, while some labourers were employed drain:ng
out the canal near Macclesfield-bridge, Jslington, a boy,
who was searching after eels, picked up a box, containing
Bank stock receipts to a considerable amount, and other
property. In consequence of the report of the extraordi•
nary circumstance appearing in the newspapers, Mr,
Maurice, surgeon of •the Borough, Southwark, ha.; Mile
forward to claim the property, and gives the &Moving t,:ina
gular account. It appears that some time ago he 'was lE
resident of Warboroughgreen, Petworth, Sussex, when lift
had occasion to come to London for the above property.
He hired a cabriolet, into which he got with the cash-box
containing the Bank stock receipts, 300 sovereigns, nod
2001. in Bank of England notes. On alighting he left tks
property in the cab, and the driver drove away with it,
and he heard nothing of him or the property until he r s
ultimately apprehended and taken to Queen-square %lice-
office, where he was charged with the felony, and corn_
mitted for trial. lie confessed the robb.'aq, saying that
on opening the box he took out the 3 sovereigns, but nat
wishing to run the risk of bein, found out, he. determined
on getting rid of the
and he procaededs and the other papers and note,,
to the Regent's Canal, near the Maccles-
field brid.r,,,T, and threw them into the water. On that oc-
casion he employed men, at a heavy expense, to drag after
the property, but they did not succeed in finding it, and he
gave it up as lost, until Monday last, when he read the re-
port in the newspaper of the cash-box being discovered,
with his name and address upon it. He accordingly pro-
ceeded to Inspector Miller, of N. division, to make in-
quiries on the subject, and ascertained that a person of re-
spectability in the neighbourhood had given the boy half-a-
crown for the box and its contents, and he was in posses-
sion of it ; and he (Mr.,M.) expressed his belief that the whole
of the notes (and not only 10/0 were in the box. Inspecto:
Miller immediately repaired to the person who had the
property, and intimated that there must have been more
money in the box when he received it, and that, if the
money was not instantly delivered up it would be his pain-
ful duty to take him into custody. The party after some
hesitation confessed that there was more money in the b.ix
when he received it, and produced a 1001., three 101., and
two or three 5/. notes as part of the property, but still it is
said that 100/. are missing. Mr. Maurice has eirculLtad
bills offering a reward for the restoration of the whole of
the property, but it is not forthcoming. The cabriolet,
driver was tried at the Old Bailey a few sessions ago, where
he was found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for
fourteen years. The peculiarity cf the eiremmtar,ce has
caused considerable interest and conversation in the imme-
diate neighbourhood, and crowds of persons assemble near
the spot, many of whom eagerly look oat under the im-
pression that it is probable that more money may be found
in the cauci.

EWRIORDINARY CASE OF MIN-

SLAUGH I ER.

(From the Boston Ile;a111.)

A very great degree of excitement has been r exasioned in
this neighbourhood by the death of Owu, alias John,
ltowlatt (a player on the violin at fairs), who vras stabbed by
Alexander Milligan, a hawker of tea. On Thursday last
an inquest was held on the holy, "oefore Mr. C. Mastin,
Coro:ier, at the Barley Shear, iti rosdylce-fen, when the
colowing evidence was reeeivcd.

John Lynn, bricklayer, of deposed that, at about
half-past five o'clock on Te.-!sday evening last, he was re-
turning home, about halt a mile from the Barley Sheaf,
he saw the prisonerillilli;aqlying on the bank of the North
Forty-foot Drain ; soon afterwards he (witness) noticed the
deceasad, Rowlatt, retreating backwards, pursued by Mil-
ligan, and on coming up with him observed that he was
wounded and bleeding from the right side. Deceased ex-
claimed, " You tea man (meaning Milligan) has stabbed
rne." After inflicting the wound prisoner ran away.
James Allen (a lad, apprentice to the former witness)
deposed to seeing Milligan lying on the bank by a tunnel,
and to shaking hith, :supposing he might be going on the
road to Boston. Witncss's master having desired him to
let the man alone, he did so, and went on. His master
went into a house, and ho remained outside walking to and
fru upon the bank. Whilst there he saw the deceased go
up to the prisoner, and trying to awake him by pain.-
him by the ear. Milligan then jumped up, and asked, "is
that what you mean ?" to which the deceased replied.
" Yes !" On this prisoner drew a sword from a stick, and
pointed it towards deceased, who retreated backward, but
was pursued by the prisoner, who plunged the sword into
his right side, and t},c blood immediately flowed through his
clothes. Aften'iaabbing the man the prisoner deliberately
returned tke' sword into the stick, and ran away. 'Witness.
saw the deceased put into a boat to be conveyed to the
hnse at which the inquest was held, and then went home
with his master.

[This witness identified a sword which was produced as
being the weapon with which the wound was inflicted.]
James Wells (a youth, son el Mr. Nicholas WellP, far-
mer and grazier, of Fosdyke-fen) deposed that. ,bout.
half-past five o'clo:!k on Friday night he was walki..g by the,
side of the ;idler (meaning deceased), and when they Nadi
reached the tunnel they saw a man lying upon the ground,.
apparently resting himself. The fiddler took hint by the
ear, and then, by the hair, in fun, on which the teatogn
said, "Do you mean that ?" The deceased replied,
" Yes." The prisoner then drew a sword, which he,
piffled at the fidler, who ran backwards a few yards, but
the teaman followed, and stabbed .him under the right arm.
The Rev. William Braithwait, Minister of Holiand-fen-
ellapel, deposed that he proceeded to the spot where the.
wounded man was lying. He was then in a bout, aral
witness felt satisfied he was dying. The. Rev. Gentlerinnt
attended the poor man to the Barley Sheaf, but be expired
bolore reaching the house.
The Jury, after some consideration, returned a verdict
of " Manslaughter" against Alexander Miltig-An, and the
Coroner immediatelyl issued the warrant for his commit-
nu to Lincoln Castle, to take his trial fur the offence at..
the next as!izes.

The appearance of the prisoner betokens the grerAest
anguish of mind, and he was removed in custody w'About
uttering a xvord. Ile has always been knowh as a man of
violent passions, bat the dreadful crime he has now coin-
mitted appears the more remarkable from thy.. fact that he
and the deceased were on terms of friendsh'l3, and had been
drinking together just before. Immedir,toy after inflicting
the deadly wound he went to a hour' in the neighbearhood4
and proceeded to transact busiw.iss as if nothing whatever
had' occurred. It is altogetl'.er one of the most extraordi-
nary cases which has occurred for many years.
The distance to which the unfoetunate deceased re-
treated, when pursued, before he was stabbed, is just six
yards from the spot 10.;:re Milligan was lying. The weapon
is not an ordinary stick sword, but an infantry sword, to.
which a sheath was made by hollowing out a stick, and there
wrapping it over with le2ather.

" PERICLES AND ASPASIA."—(By Walter Sa-
vage Landon) Our readers will find this to he the pro-
duction of a man of first-rate powers. In a series of scenes
you hare presented great events in the lives of the hen) and
Leroine, standing forth from the midst of the intellectual
glories of their ages. It contains many fragments of fine
verse. The conception of the scene supposed to have passed.
in the shades between Agamemnon and his dang rater is
stLiaing ; it is embodied in the purest language, atiet, in the
perfection of classical feeling. There is no passage in
Goethe'a " Iphigenia," that master-piece of the German poet,
more deeply imbued with the Greek spirit.
The important eclipse of the sun made itS first ap-
pearance on the earth, at the north pole, in kite, 1295, and
proceeded more southerly at each successive period of eighten
years, ten or eleven days. It reached the north of Europe,
on August 27, 1367 ; in 1439 it was visible over all Europe ;
in 1601, which was itseighteenth appearance, it was central in
London ; on May 3, 1818, it was visible in 'England and Scot-
land ; and on the -15th of May instant, as already known, it.
was central in this neighbourhood. At its 38th appearance,
on the 10th of August, 1980, the moon's shadow will have
passed the equator; and as the ecli•,se will take place nearly
at midnight, it will of course be invisible in either Europe,
A';'a, or Africa. At each of the nineteen subsequent periods,
the eclipse will go more and more towards the south, until
finally, on September 30, 2665, which will be its 77th appear-
ance, it Will goog at the south pole of the earth, and disap-
pear. altegother. —Edinburgh Courant.
GILA NNY'S GRAMM A. R.---Th C HMV, last Tues-
day, made some remarks relative to our Post-office regula-
tions, and indited an article upon the subject, in which, aca
cording to the practice of the good old lady—who, perhaps,.
wisely thinks that the laws of language are more honoured in.
the-breach titan in the observauce—the number cf grammaticali
inaccuracies bore throughout a most bountiful proportion to
tit aof the sentences which contained them. The article -at
cleverly and very consistently concluded in the following ace o-
rate terma—" Befere concluding these general remarks, to the
mofe minute details of which we may attend at another op-
pea:unity, we bei to suggest," &c., &c.—"the more minute
de;ails of which "—of what ? Details of remarks ! Again,
" We have beard it (the treaty) poken of in Parliament, but.
it is desirable that the public should see it. and begin to de--
rive from it whatever benefit it is capable of altardi.tg." What
lX‘aut i ful application of it! Whtit force—whaz versatility
is"iron to it. We see time Old Lady's it play tive differeu
parts in the same sentence. How admirable is Grandroamnar.'s
iteration of it. Thore's certainly,nothiog like it.
Is:out:An, MAY 20.-1 he weathcr in this qt,nr-
.
tot. has b,.,„ bri ht tied wg.rni for the last three weeks, tine the
aa'aaattiti lambs arc now doing well—indeed much I:ratter -than'
was generally expected. hair:, however, is much Ix wited, and
would do good to every thing. The field potatoes are 110a-
ni„ady planted, and it would be ungrateful to deny that the
drought so far favoured prodigiously the cleaning of every
kind of land. - Put long sets of weather of any sort are rare) y
good for the British farmer ; •the pastures ealiceially are "tar
too bare, mul the :,()'.iii Bras es it: so critical a static, that• the
cisterns of the sky cannot be opened a moment tom) see 11.—
D/Im/ries Couricr.