The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

A public meeting was held on Thursday last of the
gentlemen constituting the Petition Committee, when ar-
rangements were made for the Great Meeting which is to
take place to-day. Mr. Grattan, M.P., Mr. Shiel, M.P.,
and a great many of the leading men of Ireland were
among the number who took part in the proceedings of
the day. Mr. O'Connell was admitted a Member of the
Committee.

REBELLION IN KINGSTOWN.—The Court of Exchequer
has brought the ‘• rebellion" almost to its own doors. In
Kingstown, a few days ago, a demand was made upon Mr.
Haly, the active .and intelligent sub-inspector of the dis-
trict, for the assistance of the constabulary in the execution
of a commission of rebellion issued from the Court of Ex-
chequer, against the person of a Mr. James Gorman, of
that town. As the " Cornmissioners"—the name by which
the catchpole myrmidons of the court are designated—did
not, as in Wicklow and other places seek to break open
houses at- midnight, in the execution of their high and
terrible functions, the aid required was given, and Mr.
Gorman was served as a rebel against the majesty of the
Barons of the Exchequer. It is a remarkable fact, con-
nected with the opening of the Kingtown Campaign, that
Mr. Gorman was arrested—not for tithes, but for debt !
This is stretching the -precedent with a vengeance. We
shall next hear of the Court of Conscience, or, perhaps,
Alderman Morrisson, the Lord Mayor, fulminating writs of
rebellion against all who dare to disobey their mandates.—
Dublin Evening Post.
MAYO.—A county meeting takes place this day for the
purpose of expressing " their indignant reprobation of the
conduct adopted by the Pilot, respecting the independence
of Mayo."
We are glad to see that the Court of Exchequer has at
length discovered the plundering principles of the Lay As-
sociation attorneys.
KILKENNY ELECTION.—O'ConneII is now a Member
for Kilkenny, and we hope will long continue so. For
Ireland's sake, for his own sake, and for the sake of our
native city, we trust the Liberator will be content to fight
his country's battles in future as the unfettered and unin-
cumbered Representative of a free and independent Con-
stituency. We beg of Mr. O'Connell's friends not to go
amongst the poor chop-fallen faction until their grief sub-
sides. They are nearly distracted, and we very much fear
if the hot weather continues, and proper means be not
taken to allay the irritation of their feeling, that—the Lu-
natic Asylum must be engaged. Beware of hydrophobia.
The bite of a disappointed and frantic Conservative were as
bad as that of a mad dog. Beware ! Don't go near them
till the danger is past.—Kilkenny .Journal.

THE PROTOTYPE OF THE " TIMES."—" In the
old days of Greece there dwelt, near Elis, a vain mechanic of
some talent, named Salmoneus, who, fancying he had some
taste for the sublime, took it into his head one day that, by an
art peculiar to himself, he could rival the thunders of the
Olympian Jupiter. Accordingly he built a brazen bridge,
over which, at night-fall, he went clattering along in a brazen
chariot, shouting and bawling at the very top of a voice which
was by no means like a zephyr, either in tone or quality. For
a while the trick passed unnoticed, it was even applauded by
some dull blockheads, one 'of whom solemnly asserted that
Salmoneus was the genuine Jupiter ; but coming at length to
the cars of the local authorities they instituted a strict inquiry,
detected the absurd imposture, and the mock thunderer, despite
his brass, of which it was evident he had plenty, was at once
brought down to his fitting level, and made for ever after the
laughing-stock of the whole city." We recommend the above
anecdote from ancient history to the notice of the readers of
the Times. The character and conduct of the bully Journal
of England, who would fain be considered the thunderer, is
here exhibited by prototype.—The Age.
COLOSSEUM.—On Saturday evening we attended
the rehearsal of the entertainments at this splendid place of
amusement, intended for the forthcoming soirees, which com-
mence this evening. There has been much done in the shape
cf alteration and decorgtion since last season. A strong Ballet
Company is engaged under the direction of M. Norman, and a
splendid series of tableaux invented and brought out by Mr.
Thompson, the celebrated delineator of the Antique Statues,
is to be produced ; which, judging from the effect produced in
its imperfect state at rehearsal, we would anticipate will do
great things. We intend visiting the exhibition this evaning,
when we will be enabled to speak more fully on the amuse-
ments generally. The manager has evidently commenced his
campaign on the most liberal scale.

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r RIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—About eight o'clock
on Saturday evening, as the groom of the Earl of Ilchester
was driving a cab slowly down Bond-street, the horse, a highly-
spirited animal, became restive, and, plunging violently, fell
with great force against the frontage of the shop of Mr.
Cooper, clothier; and drove in nearly the whole sash, consist-.
ing of about thirty panes of crown-glass. The groom, in
jumping from the cab, fell, but rose from the ground, and,
with great courage, seized the bridle, which he held while the
horse, recovering himself, started off towards Piccadilly, drag-
ging the groom along with him, until he reached the house of
Messrs. Storey, Jones, and Robinson, mercers, where the
wheel of the cab coming in collision with the railing, the
horse was knocked down by the violence of the shock, and
secured. The groom was taken up senseless, and conveyed
to Messrs. Godfrey and Cooke's, chemists, in Conduit-street,
where his wounds, which arc severe, were dressed, and from
thence he was carried to his master's residence in Old Bur-
lington-street.

This is the feast of the Pentecost, and is observed
by the Jews as a religious festival. It signifies the ordinary
number called the fiftieth, and is now called among. them the
feast of the weeks. The modern Jews celebrate it for two
days, as being the fsOth day after their coming out of Egypt,
during which time they abstain from labour and from all secu-
lar business. They dress their Synagogues and places where
they read the law, and they also decorate their houses with
roses, &c.

INQUEST ON TIE BOD 17 OF TTIE
HON. AUGUSTUS BERKELEY CRAVEN.

On Saturday, at four o'clock, a coroner's inquest was
held at the Mitre Tavern, Connaught-terrace, Edgware-
row!, on the body of the Hon. Henry Augustus Berkeley
Craven, aged 60, who destroyed himself under the following
;melancholy circumstances :

Mr. Samuel C. Griffiths, surgeon, 39, Connaught-ter-
race, Edgware-road, deposed,* that he called on Friday
morning, at seven o'clock, to sec the deceased ; he was
lying in the back parlour of his own house on the floor ; he
had a pistol in his right hand, and was quite dead ; the
pistol had been discharged in his moutll, and a copious
quantity of blood flowed from the wound ; deceased must
have died instantaneously ; witness had attended him pro-
fessionally, occasionally, for seven or eight years ; deceased
was in his dressing-gown ; saw no papers, or anything par-
ticular in the room ; never made any observation on the
state of his mind when attending him ; there could be no
doubt he had destroyed himself; he was about 60 years of
age ; witness had not prescribed for him for six months
past, bat had seen him within the last fortnight.
Mary Davis, housemaid to the deceased, deposed that on
Thursday evening he returned home at nine o'clock, accom-
panied by his wife ; saw no more of him that night ; about
seven o'clock on Friday morning, on going in to sweep the
back parlour she found deceased lying flat on his back on the
floor ; did not hear any discharge of fire-arms ; went and
called the footman immediately, and he went and fetched
Mr. Griffiths, who attended, and said, on viewing the de-
ceased, that he was dead ; his hand was warm. _

Jamcs Phillips was footman to the deceased ; was at
Epsom races on Thursday With his master ; they returned
at nine o'clock in the evening, accompanied by Mrs. Craven
and Miss Savage ; the coacman and postboy were also
with them ; deceased took his dinner with him ; witness
took up tea to the drawing-room to the deceased at ten
o'clock ; he afterwards ordered witness to take away the
tea things, and bring him the boot-jack and his slippers ;
deceased commenced pulling off his boots without taking off
his straps, which he had never done before ; gave witness
one boot to take off; saw no more of him that night ; heard
no report of fire-arms in the course of the night ; next
morning, about seven o'clock, the housemaid came and in-
formed witness that she thought master was in a fit, for he
was lying on his back in the back parlour ; went to him im-
mediately, and found him lying as described, quite dead ;
fetched Mr. Griffiths, who pronounced him dead ; deceased
had not taken any quantity of liquor on Thursday ; he
dined in the carriage ; he was very much agitated at the
time the Derby race was running ; did not observe any
alteration in him previous to that day ; he kept saying,
while the race was running, " Jersey wins, Jersey wins."
In coming home he was in a greater passion than he had
ever seen him in before;because some one went up behind
the carriage ; thinks that he forced the person down off the
carriage ; saw several letters on the front parlour table ;
one was directed to Lord Craven, one to Mr. Hawker, one
to Mrs. Craven, one to Mr. Wickens, and one to Miss
Craven ; witness delivered the one to Lord Craven on
Friday morning ; does not know what became of the
others ; has no doubt they were written by his master ; he
believed he went to bed ; does not know whether he had
lost any money at the races ; witness slept in a room under
that in which the deceased was found dead, but he heard
no report of fire-arms ; Mrs. Craven usually slept in a dif-
ferent room from that of the deceased.

Mary Davis recalled and re-examined. There was no
doubt the deceased had been in his bed and undressed, for
she found his night-cap drawn ; he must hnve risen and
dressed himself.

The Coroner then addressed the Jury. It was ex-
tremely clear that he had come to his death by his own
hand, and the only point for their consideration was, what
was the state of his mind when he committed the rash
act? There was no evidence to prove whether or not he
had lost any money at the Epsom Races, far less whether
any such loss had led to the commission of the rash deed.
The only point for the consideration of the Jury, as he
had already stated, was, whether he was at the time in a
state of temporary mental derangement.
The Jury then consulted together for about forty mi-
nutes, when they returned with a verdict, that " The Jury
believed deceased had destroyed himself when in a state of
temporary mental derangement."
The Coroner said he could not accept that verdict.
They must not say what they believed, but return a ver-
dict, of some kind or other, without any qualification.
The Jury then returned a verdict, " That the deceased.
destroyed himself when in a state of temporary mental de-
rangement."
Mr. Ward's large room, in which the inquest took place,
was crowded during the whole of the inquiry.
The Observer says--" There can be little doubt that the
excitement of the unfortunate gentleman's mind was pro-
duced by his losses exceeding his means of immediate pay-
ment ; and as he possessed the nicest sense of honour, this
no doubt worked upon his feelings so as to destroy the
power of reflection, for it is well known that had he made
his situation known to Lord Sefton and others of his nume-
rous and wealthy friends, they would readily have furnished
him with the means of saving his credit. Among othor
winners from the deceased were Mr. Greatrex, to whom he
lost 1,3001., and Mr. Edwards, the trainer, to whom he
lost 3001. It is believed that the whole of his losses did
not amount to eight thousand pounds.

THE MOUNTAIN DECAMERON.-The romance
thus announced will assuredly win for its author a distinguished
name among English writers of fiction. The daring nature
of his conceptions, and the fearless power with which he ani-
mates them, cannot fail to produce a deep impression. His
scene, too, Wales, is, most strange to say, nearly unbroken
ground in English literature. Yet who, alive to taste or feel-
ing, can look without intense excitement on its lone cataracts,
its cloud-capt rocks, its vestiges of departed greatness, its
mighty wrecks of castles breasting stormy seas, its abbeys
crumbling in olive-coloured glooms, and its wild and stirring
legends ?

-The new street from Prince's-street to Moorgate is
now nearly completed, and will be open to carriages in about a
fortnight. We are sorry to see, however, that the effect will
be much impaired, and the public convenience much preju-
diced, by the niggardly manner in which it appears that the
Bank of England contributes towards that great improvement.
There is a small slip of enclosed ground belonging to the.
Bank at the north-east corner of the building, which it was
always intended should be given up to the public when the
improvement should be completed ; but now it appears that
workmen are employed in partially setting back the railing,
whereby the public will be deprived of much benefit, and no
advantage will result to the Bank. It is only necessary for
our readers to see the spot to be convinced of the justice of
these remarks.

HORRID MURDER AND ARSON.—(From the
New York Commercial Advertiser.)—A young woman,
named Ellen Jewett, late of Hallowell, Me., boarding with
Mrs. Townsend, of No. 41, Thomas-street (a house of ill-
fame), has been murdered in her bed. The circumstances, as
we have heard them, are as follow :—Miss Jewett had been
for some time the kept mistress of Francis P. Robinson, of
Connecticut, clerk in a respectable mercantile house in
Maiden-lane, who, it appears, from some unknown cause,
became jealous, and demanded of her a miniature likeness
of himself, which he had presented to her, and also some
correspondence that had passed between them, which she re-
fused to give up. Nothing, however, occurred to lead to a
supposition that any violence was intended. Or, Saturday
night Robinson visited the house at the usual hour, and re-
mained with her until three o'clock on Sunday morning, when
he was heard by those sleeping in the lower part of the house
to come down stairs, and, finding the door locked, he went to ,
the back door, unbolted it, and in the act of climbing over the
fence' his cloak was caught by a nail, torn from his shoulders,
and left on the fence, with a sharp hatchet ti'' to its tassels,
where it was found in the morning. A short time after he
left, the inmates were alarmed by a dense smoke which filled
the house almost to suffocation. On going up stairs into the
room of the unfortunate girl, the smoke was found to proceed
from bee bed, which was on fire, and on which lay her dead
body ; her head mangled in the most shocking; manner,
three deep wounds having been inflicted on her temples and
forehead. Suspicion immediately res'a on Robinson, who
was arrested about eight o'clock, at his boarding-house in
Liberty-street, and conducted by the officers to Thomas-
street, where the murder was committed, and where the
Coroner's Jury was sitting over the dead body. Verdict of
the Jury. " Wilful Murder." Robinson was after the inquest
examined at the. police-office, and committed to Bridewell.
-After leaving Thomas-street, he went to his boarding-house,
and retired to bed, doubtless with the belief that the fire had
communicated to the bed, and would destroy the building and
its inmates, and thus conceal his black-hearted crime. Ro-
binson is a young man apparently about 20 years of age, of
good address and confident manner, and was clerk to Joseph
Hoxie, Esq. It is said he went through with his examination
with the most perfect composure, and was observed to smile
when the officers were conducting him to Bridewell.
BANKING.—" My creed (Col. Thompson Writes)
is that au upright government may take its choice between
having a metallic circulation, or one of public paper which
shall put the value of the metal into the public exchequer; but
that it hal no right to give away this amount to private manu-
facturers of paper, any more than to give away the tar out of the
-dock-yards, or the beef and pork out of the Victualling-office.
A private banker's business should be, to lend his own money and
not other people's ; and he does lend other people's every time
he issues one of his own notes, for he takes the value of the
note out of what the Government ought to have taken for itself
and put to the public account, and lodges it (it may be) in the
four per cents., for his own private use and benefit. You will
perceive, therefore, that I bare no more notion of the abstract
propriety of joint-stock companies being allowed to carry away
what ought to go to the credit of the public, than I have of their
being allowed to wheel the tar out of the dock-yards. Whether
the tar only be best wheeled away by public companies or O-
vate inLiividuals—whether, fur instance, the carte of the one
may be less liable to break down and spill upon the passen-
a-ers—i3 another question still, and to something like this it is
that the public have at present arrived, Whether they will
ever arrive at the other at all, may be uncertain ; but there is
a satisfauticn in thinking one knows the truth, even though it
, may be at the bottom of the well."