The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-20 00:00:00

BISHOP OF CLOGHER.

METROPOLITAN COURT OF ARMAGH, SEPT• 3•

His Grace the LORD PRIMATE presiding.

In this Court proceedings continue to be taken against the
unfortunate Lord Bishop of Clogher, whose crimes have caused
such affliction to his respected and estimable relatives. The
proceedings as yet have been confined to the issue of citations,
receiving the returns of them, and proofs of service; those pre-
liminary forms have not as yet been gone through. This day
a Court sat at half-past ten o'clock A.M.; its proceedings were
confined to reading the affidavit of the service, in a proper and
legal mode, of the second citation, and the return of it ; after
which the Court was adjourned until the 11th instant ; a third
citation Is to be served, after which the libel will be filed and
evidence entered upon. We understand the Bishops who will
preside with his Grace the Lord Primate, In the hearing and
final disposal of this important trial, are the Bishops of Kil-
more, Derry, Raphoe, and Dromore. Most probably, judicial
sentence will not be pronounced for two months ; and if any
defence be made, it will probably be protracted longer.—( At.-
nutei Volunteer.)
WEXFORD, SEPT. 12.

SIIOCKING OUTRAGE.—It has seldom been our task to re-
cord a more premeditated and barbarous outrage than the one
we are now about to communicate to our readers :—Bridget
Bent, aged 11 years, the only child of a poor widow living at
Bellevue, returning home between nine and ten o'clock on
Sunday morning, having been absent but a few minutes, saw a
woman, named Margaret Devereux, who Eyes at Birchgrove, a
short distance from Bellevue, sitting upon a stool inside her
mother's (the widow Bent's door). 'When Bridget Bent,
whose mother was at chapel, approached, she was asked if
she had seen two little pigs upon the road, to which she re-
plied in the negative. On entering the house, the little girl
perceived that it. was plundered, and demanded of Mar-
garet Devereux why she had turned up her mother's box,
and scattered her clothes about the floor. The latter im-
mediately said,—" I'll kill you if you say that I touched
her clothes," —at the same time taking down a flesh-
fork, with which, having knocked the unfortunate child
down upon a quilt, she continued striking her violently upon the
head, till her cries were no longer heard. The wretch then
listened to ascertain if she had completed her murderous work,
and finding the child breathing, again struck her upon the head,
till the fork was bent nearly double. She then took the pitch-
fork • from behind the door, and struck her, using both the
handle and iron part, and stabbed her with it in the side and
arms. Having listened a second time, and not hearing the
breathing of the child, who, notwithstanding this brutal treat-
ment, still lived; and had the address to hold her breath, she
imagined she had effected her purpose, and departed with her
booty, which consisted of a few yards of calico, two or three caps,
some tea and sugar, and four tenpennies I In the evening of
the same day the offender, who is about 25 years of age, was
taken in the cabin where she lives, and committed to gaol, and
the innocent object of her brutality conveyed to the county in-
firmary. Though her head is in a frightful condition, covered
with wounds, and part of the scalp cut away, yet no fracture
was made, and hopes are entertained of her recovery.
On Friday evening some bailiff's having a writ against an in.
dividuaVnamed Walter Irwin, accompanied by Wm. M'Cor-
mick, who, as it is said, represented the person who had mark-
ed the action, repaired to Barrack-street, for the purpose of ar-
resting Irwin : a scuffle is stated to have taken place, in which
the unfortunate Irwin received two desperate wounds from a sharp
instrument; the captors secured him, and in this state lodged him
in the Sheriff's prison. At first it was considered that his hurts
were not dangerous; mortal symptoms however quickly ap-
peared, and the dying man declared in the presence of peace-
officer Phillips, of Mountrath-street division, that lie knew
a man named James Bowles, who (he declared) had stabbed
him in the groin with a dirk ; he also knew another person
named Connell, who had at the same time stabbed him with
some sharp weapon in the breast ; a man, called Al'Cormick
had a pistol in his hand, and another named Hetherington,
a sword, when lie (Irwin) was assailed ; but he could not say
whether the two latter had struck him or not ; shortly after
this declaration he breathed his last.
Warrants were immediately issued for the arrest of the
four just named. They were handed to peace-officer Phil-
lips, who took two or three assistants with him, and went
in search of M'Cormick, to his residence in Barrack-street ;
he was denied there at first, and was subsequently warn-
ed not to go up stairs ; for if he did, M'Cormick was pro-
vided with a brace of pistols and sword, and would assuredly
blow his brains out. The determined and active officer
was not to be intimidated in the discharge of his important duty,
but proceeded to search the rooms on the first flight; ascending
higher, he looked through a key-hole, and perceiving the shadow
of a man within, fearlessly declared his business, and demand-
ed his prisoner ; and on threatening to force his way through
all impediments, the door was opened, and-M'Cormick yielded
himself. The other persons included in the warrant were taken
in Charles-street, whence one man made an ineffectual attempt
to escape through a back door. All the prisoners were safely
lodged in Newgate.
At one o'clock
'esterday, Alderman Jones, as Coroner, at-
tended the Sheriffs prison, in the chapel of which a jury was
summoned, and an inquest held. Mr. R. Sennett attended as
•
agent for the prosecution, and Mr. T. Taafe on behalf of the
prisoners.
Surgeon Strokes proved that the deceased had died in conse-
quence of wounds inflicted on him by sharp instruments.
Dennis O'Loughlin was next examined.—He said that he
conducted business for Mr. M'Cullen in Barrack-street, and
that he saw a great tumult outside the door on Friday evening
after tea; he identified Bowles and Connell (who are under-
bath%) as having been then present; Hetherington and M'Cor-
mick were likewise there: he said he observed the deceased :
saw him stabbed with a bayonet, &c., and by persons whom
he would know again. Bowles desired witness "to hop off,
for that Irwin was the prisoner." Irwin refused to go with the
men who held him ; his hands were then bleeding : one of the
bailiffs swore most violently that if he would not go to prison
with him, they would murder him.
Peace-officer Phillips was next examined.—He deposed as to
the declaration of the deceased previous to his death ; it was in
substance as above.

Alderman JoxEs deprecated in strong terms the barbarous
conduct of the bailiffs towards their wretched prisoner—at the
same time animadverted on the necessity of due submission to
the laws in all cases where actions were marked against debtors;
and in conclusion told the Jury, that having been assembled
only for the purpose of inquiring how the deceased came by
his death, he conceived that little difficulty opposed itself to
conviction in the case then under their consideration. The
body of the deceased was examined, and the two ghastly wounds
inspected.
The prisoners were in the room during the' nquest, and were
heard in their defence : they were then withdrawn to Newgate,
and after some short deliberation, the Jury found the following
;verdict :—" We find that the deceased, Walter Irwin, came
by his death in consequence of wounds inflicted on him with
some sharp instrument, by James Bowles and James Connell ;
and that William Hetherington and Hugh M'Cormick were,
during, part of the time present, armed with a cane-sword and
pistol'

• tFurthei Particulars.l -
Yesterday a half yearly- General Court' of
Proprietors was held at the Bank of England for the-purpose of
considering a dividend. An expectation being very prevale4
that other business of importance mould be introduced,• the
Court was crowded to excess at 12 o'clock. At that hour the
Governor and Directors entered the Court, and the Secretary
opened the business by reading the usual minutes of thg for Mer
Court.

The 'GOVERNOR then read the recommendation of the Court' •
of Directors that a dividend of 5 per cent, be approved by. the
Proprietors of Bank Stock, for the half year ending on the 1011 t •
of October next, and he submitted to them a resolution to that
effect. Before the question was put, he begged also to state
that he had received a letter from lqr. N. (Jundry, which he
described as being in that Proprietor's usual style, and whieb,
with the leave of the Court of Proprietors, the Secretary would
now read, as it did not appear that Mr. dundry was present on
this occasion.

The letter was accordingly read, and contained a renewal of
Mr. GuHdry's demand for a balance sheet, showing the state of
the accounts of the Bank, for the Proprietori themselves to
form an ,opinion upon the amount of dividend to which they
may be entitled upon their stock. And if they refused, .as
they had hitherto done, compliance with the above demand,
supported a.s it was by two unrepealed Acts of Parliament, and
uninfluenced by the precedents set to them by the Banks of
Edinburgh and Paris, the Bank of France having laid the
whole of its accounts before the Proprietors up to the month of .
last December, their refusu] must, in his opinion, subject them '
to the reproach of having violated the first principles of their
duty and the confidence which they ought to. secure. in that
Court. -

The reading of this letter was then entered upon the minutes
of the Court ; and after a few words from Mr. Payne, which
were quite inaudible, the question was put upon the resolutiott
for the usual dividend, when
Mr. YOUNG rose and said, that being utterly unable to heAr
what had fallen from the honourable proprietor who spoke last,
he was induced to ask a question or two, before any farther step
was taken for the adjournment. He wished first to ask,-whe-
ther the reduction of their profit, which must necessarily have
attended the reduction of their rate of interest upon discoUnts,
had been attended by, or compensated with, a proportionate in-
crease of business ?—and, secondly, whether, upon the whole,
the profits of the company were now, or in prospect, adequate
to the proposed dividend ?
The GovEurioa replied, that the Court of Directors had
necessarily taken the state and condition of the affairs of the
Bank into their full consideration before they bad determined
upon recommending the present dividend,, and the result was,
that they had declared a dividend of fi per cent. for the current
half year, as being fully authorised by the affairs of the Bank.
With reference to the observation respeiting the contingent
profits of the Bank, owing to the reduction of the rate of inte-
rest, it must be obvious to men of business that the Bank, like
all other commercial establishments, had suffered comparatireli
a diminution of profits since the peace.
Mr. Youxo.—" But arc those profits, such as they now are,
equal to the full liquidation of the proposed dividend ?"
The GOVERNOR.—" The Court of Directors of course mutt
have been satisfied of that fact before they determined upon re.;
commending the dividend."—(Hear