The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-05 00:00:00

HORRIBLE CRIME.

Yesterday John O'Brian was brought before
Alderman J.J. SMITH, at the Town Hall, South-
wark, followed by an immense mob, who mani-
fested strong popular feeling against him, he
being charged with the murder of his'mother,
and would have taken summary vengeance upon
him but for the interference of the officers. On
being put to the bar, he underwent a long
examination ; from which it appeared that he
lived with his father, who is a shoemaker
in Joiner-street, Tooley-street, and worked
with his father at the same trade ; he co-
habited with a woman of the name of Bart-
lett. On Saturday night last, about ten
o'clock, the deceased, his father, Eliza O'Brian,
his sister-in-law, and Bartlett were toge-
ther at the lodging of the father (Charles
O'Brian), No. 10, iner-street, when Bartlett
and O'Brian had some words. The prisoner, who
appeared to be in liquor, interfered, and was pro-
ceeding to acts of violence towards his sister-in-
law, when his father laid hold of him, and kept him
down for some time, but afterwards allowed him to
get up. He then assaulted Eliza O'Brian, when his
mother interfered, but he struck her, and she called
to her father for assistance. The latter found them
in the passage. He had hold of her head. He
asked him, " Do you mean to hurt your mother ?"
he replied, " No," and let go his hold ; the fa-
then carried the mother into her room, and set
her upon her bed, where c:iie expired in a short
time afterwards. A man named 1114 Carty came
in, and finding the deceased breathless, called
out murder, and also went for a watchman; he
likewise procured a Doctor, who endeavoured to
recover the deceased, but failed. When the
watchman arrived, he met the prisoner coming
down stairs to get away, but on seeing the watch-
man and constables, he returned up again, and
attempted to get out at the window ; the
rattle being sprung, he was finally secured.—
After being in custody, he again attempted to
escape, and when told his moter was dead, he
said he 'did not care—that he only would be
hanged for her. When brought to the watch-
house, he made the same expressions to the con-
stable of the night (Kelly). The landlord of
the house in which they lodged, and his daughter,
proved, that when they heard the cry of murder,
they rushed to wards the door, and the prisoner was
holding the deceased with his hand by the head,
and striking her with the other hand so violent-
ly, that she must have fell, only that he held
her.—The prisoner seemed much agitated, and
his father's evidence was evidently given with an
intention not to hurt him. The father said the
deceased had been ailing for three years, she
being afflicted with a paralytic stroke. The pri-
soner was remanded till the result of the Coro-
ner's Inquest is known.

SUNDERLAND THEATRE.-(Adrocious Outrage
of the Disajjected.)—A few evenings since a se-
rious disturbance occurred in the Sunderland
Theatre. The performances of the evening were
by desire of the Members of the King and Con-
stitutional Club. At the conclusion of the Play,
" God save the Ring" being called for, the
storm commenced. The national anthem was
received with the yells of.the disaffected, and a
most desperate attack was made upon the per-
formers and the occupiers of the boxes and pit
by persons in the gallery. The seats were torn
'up, and, together with stones and brickbats, were
thrown upon the stage, and among the audience
below. Mr. DEARLOVE, an actor, was seriously
wounded in the leg ; a musician in the orchestra
was felled to the ground ; and a soldier of the
7th Fusileers was severely cut about the head.—
At length some Constables made their way into
the gallery, and secured the most active of the
rioters, one of whom has since been committed
to Durham gaol, and several others have been
ordered to find bail for their appearance at the
ensuing Assizes.

The following paragraph is from The Norwich
Mercury of Saturday, and we are sorry to learn
that the same spirit of outrage prevails in different
parts of Norfolk On Wednesday last about
one hundred of the labouring class of men as-
sembled in their parish of Kenninghall, to take
away, destroy, or prevent Mr. Bailey, a respect-
able farmer of that place, from using his thrash-
ing machine. Information was given to a Ma-
gistrate, the •Rev. Mr Surtees, of Banham, who
immediately proceeded to an auction of farming
stock, &c. that was held within about a mile of
him; and requested all the gentlemen and farmers
present, with' Mr. Auctioneer, in the King's
name, to go with him forthwith to Kenninghall.
All, with one accord, mounted on horses, joined
the Magistrate, and proceeded to Kenninghall,
where they found the men assembled in a body.
All the persuasive means possible were tried to
induce these misguided men to return to their
respective homes quietly, but; with no avail. The
Riot Act was read by the Magistrate, and even
then they did not disperse fill within two mi-
nutes, of the hour being expired. Too much
credit cannot be given to Mr. Surtees, for his
activity
,and calmness of temper throughout the
whole of his proceedings."

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. On Wednesday
night, about eleven o'clock, two vessels, the
Trusty smack, on her passage from London to
Leith, and the Nonsuch, M'LEon, of Leith,
bound to. Newcastle, with a valuable cargo of
goods, when off Fall's Castle, between St.; Abb's
Head and Dunbar, it blowing a fresh breeze at
the time, came in contact with each other, when,
melancholy to relate, by the violence of the con-
cussion, the Nonsuch almost immediately went
down, by which unfortunate accident the Master
and three passengers, who were below at the
time, were drowned. Three sailors' and two pas-
sengers, who were on deck, were saved, by the
exertions of Captain FUSSEY and the seamen of
the Trusty. The names of the passengers who
perished were Messrs. RICHARDSON and FEN-.
WICK, surgeons of South Shields, who had been
attending their studies in Edinburgh College, and
a woman, whose name we have not learned.—
(Edinburgh Courant, March 2.)