The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-29 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday William Wood, a cabriolet driver, was
brought before Mr. GROVE, the sitting Magistrate, on
suspicion of having been concerned in a burglary com-
mitted in the dwelling-house of Mr. FredshaW, a chrono-

meter maker, who has a house of busines in the city, but
resides with his family in Charles-square, Hoxton.
The facts were these :—About 5 o'clock yesterday
morning, a policeman on duty saw the prisoner driving his
cab, and conversing suspiciously with a notorious thief,
and he was crossing the way to overhear them, when two
men jumped out and made off leaving a quantity of pr)-
perty in the cab, tied up in a table cover. The property
was found to consist of a quantity of plate, a valuable
clock, a writing desk, linen, &c.

Mr. Frcdshaw identified the various articles produced.
His wife and family were in the country, and he slept in
the City on Monday night, leaving two servants in care of
the house at Hoxton. The servant were not disturbed in
the night, but yesterday morning discovered that the house
had been broken into and plundered.
The prisoner said in his defence that the men, who were
quite strangers to him, engaged him, with his cab, from
the Shoreditch Church stand, to take up in Charles-
square, and drive to the Cemetery, but in the square the
bundle was put into his cab, and he was to drive to a
coffee-house, rear Worship-street, to meet the men.
Mr. GROVE remanded the prisoner.

IRELAND.

QUEEN'S COUNTY ASSIZES.
Maryborough, July 21.

MATRlClDE.—lllatthew Bryan stood indicted for
the murder of his mother, Bridget Bryan, at Clon-
brock, in the county, on the 7th Jan., 1840, by beat-
ing and kicking her. _ _ _

Margaret Brener], a child of ten years old, swore
that on the day mentioned in the indictment she was
in the house with the prisoner and his mother, the
deceased. That the prisoner knocked the deceased
down and kicked her. That he shoved her up
against the wall with the stool upon which he had been
sitting. That after she fell she got up again, and that
the prisoner knocked her down a second time, and
kicked her. That the o!d woman cried out for some
persons to go for the police to save her life. That she
(the witness) then ran for the police. That the police
came down and saved her. That there was no previous
argument between them, but the prisoner said that the
deceased had permitted his potatoes to be stolen, and
that she ought to have minded them.

Cross-examined by Mr. HAYES—The prisoner ap-
peared to be drunk. They had often quarrelled be-
fore. The prisoner often was drunk, and then beat
his mother.

Richard Nash was a workman in the Collieries, where
the prisoner also worked. On his way home on the
night in question he had passed the house of the prisoner,
ind heard bawling and noise in the house. Went in and
found the deceased woman lying on her side, and as if
moaning. That she said her arm was broken, and asked
witness to lift her by the other arm. That he was
going to lift her, but the primer hindered him, and said
"He would suffer the gallows for her." That he (wit-
ness), however, had lifted her, and brought her to the
door, but the prisoner caught her by the hair of her
head, and dragged her back into the room. That he
and another man, Hugh Whelan, then rescued her,
and brought her to the next house, where she after-
wards died.

Dr. Edge examined—Attended the deceased for near
a week. When first called in found her with a broken
arm, her thighs also bruised, and her whole body bruised
And black. These injuries and bruises were the cause
of her death. She was between 60 and 70 years of age.
Sergeant Jessop proved that the deceased had said,
" that the prisoner was a good son when sober, but when
drunk he beat her."

The Jury, after a long charge from the Lord Chief
Justice, found the prisoner guilty of the murder of his
mother.

JULY 2.—The prisoner was this day called up for
judgment, and
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE pronounced sentence of
death upon him in a most impressive and feeling speech.
The prisoner asked, in a very cool manner, " My
Lord, when am I to be hanged ?" To which the
Judge replied—" You shall have sufficient time to
prepare for the awful fate which awaits you, if you make
good use of it."

PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS

IN THE EAST.

On Tuesday, the 14th of July, Sir Moses and Lady
Montefiore, accompanied by Mr. Wire and Doctors Lowe
and R. R. Madders, left Paris for Marseilles, which they
reached on the 18th, and on the 21st they embarked on
board the French Government steam-packet for Alexan-
dria, having been previously joined by Monsieur Cremciux,
his lady, Mr. Mark, and a physician, who are the Deputa-
tion from the French Jews sent out to assist Sir Moses
Montefiore in the object of his most benevolent mission:
The Lord Mayo' received the following communication
on the subject of the resolutions which his Lordship trans-
mitted to the Ambassadors relative to the meeting held at
the Mansion House. We published those answers pre-
viously received in a former paper:—
" The Sardinian Ambassador presents his compliments
to the Lord Mayor, and has the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of his Lordship's note of the Bth instant, inclosing
a copy of the resolutions passed at a great public meeting
of the merchants, bankers, and traders of the city of Lon-
don, held on the 3d July, on the subject of the persecution
of the Jews in the East, and begs to acquaint his Lordship
that agreeably to the wish therein expressed he has already
transmitted to his Sardinian Majesty's Government the
copy of those resolutions.

"11, Grosvenor-street, July 20, 1840.
" To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor."

" Hill-street, Berkeley-square, July 15, 1810.
"Mr LORD,.-I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Lordship's note, dated the Bth instant, en-
closing a copy of the resolutions passed at a public meet-
ing of the merchants, bankers, and traders of the city of
London, on the subject of the persecution of the Jews in
the East ; and I beg to state in reply that, in conformity
with your Lordship's request, I shall not fail transmitting
the above resolutions to my Government, fully convinced
that the cause which it advocates will meet with its earnest
sympathy mid interest.
" I have the honour to remain, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
" DE CETTO.
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."

" 36, Half-Moon-street, Piccadilly, July 15.
"MY LORD,---I have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your esteemed favour, with which, as President of
the great public meeting of the merchants, bankers, and
traders of the City of London, on the subject of the per-
secution of the Jews in the East, you had the kindness to
send me a copy of the resolutions unanimously passed at
the said meeting, and begged me to transmit them to the
Government of his Sicilian Majesty.
In reply, I have the honour to assure you that I shall
not fail to put into execution your request, with as little
delay as possible.

"I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's obedient humble servant,
" G. DE REGUIA."
" To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, &c. &c."

" 25, Wilton-crescent, July 24.
"My LORD--I have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your Lordship's letter of the Bth inst., inclosing
to me a copy of the resolutions passed at a meeting of the
merchants, bankers, traders and others, held at the Egyp-
tian Hall in the Mansion House on the 3rd of July, in re-
lation to the recent persecution of the Jews in the East.
" In offering my thanks to your Lordship for this commu-
nication, which, together with the said resolutions, I trans-
mitted without loss of time to my Government, I have
great pleasure to send herewith a copy of the letter which
her Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs at the Hague,
Baron Visslott Van Soclen, addressed on the sth of May
last to the Netherland Charge d'Affaires at Constanti-
nople, and the contents of which will satisfy your Lordship
that the subject which has excited so deep an interest in
England had at an early period insured the sympathy and
support of the Government I represent.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
" DEDEL."