The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early
walk yesterday in- Claremont Park. Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness again promenaded in the afternoon.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert enjoyed the sport
of shooting yesterday morning, attended by some of the
gentlemen of the royal suite.
Lord John Russell arrived at Claremont yesterday
afternoon on a visit to her Majesty, and bad the honour
of joining the royal circle at dinner.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
walked and rode yesterday in the pleasure grounds of
Claremont. The Royal Family took airings in the af-
ternoon.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, ac-
companied by his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of
Hesse, and attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and
Baron Knesebeck, has arrived at Belvoir Castle, Leices-
tershire, to honour the Duke of Rutland with a visit
from Belton House, Lincolnshire, the seat of Earl
Brownlow.

The Postmaster-General had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official
residence in Downing-street.
Lieut.-Colonel Michell had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Sir Henry Dunkinfield had an interview with Sir
George Grey on Monday at the Home-office.
Mr. Samuel Fox had an interview with the Right Hon.
E. Strutt yesterday at the office of the Commissioners of
Railways.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an
interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer. Mr. Kay Shuttleworth had also an interview with
the Right Hon. Gentleman yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office trom the Governor of South Australia.

THE COFFEE-HOUSE KEEPERS', &C., BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION.—The annual ball, by the proceeds of which
the benevolent objects of this association are partly
carried out, took place last evening in the great hall of
the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street. The com-
pany was numerous and of the most respectable descrip-
tion. Dancing was commenced shortly after nine
o'clock, and kept up with spirit till a late hour, to the
music of an excellant band, under the direction of Mr.
C. H. Lewis. Quadrilles, galopades, waltzes, the old-
fashioned country dances, and the novel interpolations
of the modern art, were all alternately introduced. The
whole of the arrangements were very satisfactory,
everything was well conducted.
CONVEYANCE OF THE NORTH MAIL.—We under-
stand that the Post-office authorities have just deter-
mined. that on and after the Ist of February next the
mail from London shall be conveyed by railway as far
as Carlisle, instead of being so conveyed only to Lan-
caster as at present. By this arrangement the arrivals
in Glasgow will be considerably earlier than heretofore.
—Glasgow Argus.
JUVENILE NIGHT AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—
On Saturday evening the pantomine will be played at an
early hour, for the gratification of the juvenile visitors.

IRELAND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
DUBLIN, JAN. 11.—The weekly meeting of the asso-
ciation, held this day, was numerously attended.
On the motion of Mr. O'CoNNELL, the chair was
taken by William O'Donnell, Esq.
The CHAIRMAN, in addressing the meeting, said he
had been a long time in the service of his friend Mr.
O'Connell in the peaceful agitation in which he had been
successful, and he would, as long as life were permitted
him, continue his exertions under that inestimable
leader, until the blighting measure of the union should
be repealed, and a Parliament established in College-
green.—(Cheers.)
Mr. O'CoNNELL said his first duty was a pleasing one.
—(Cheers.) He had the honour of handing in 10L, col-
lected partly in Swords and partly in Dublin, by some
affectionate friends of his. The sum he had the honour
of handing in comprised the subscriptions of the Rev.
Mr. Carey, P.P., of Swords, and several other contribu-
tors. The Hon. Gentleman then read a letter from the
Rev. Mr. Hurleigh, parish priest of the island of Arran,
in the west of Ireland, enclosing his own subscription
and that of his curate. The island of Arran was so
situate as to make it one of the best fishing stations in
Ireland, and from a total neglect of the fishing stations
in this country, and the absence of harbours for the pro-
tection of the vessels employed in that branch of in-
dustry, the people in that locality were reduced to a
state of destitution. He hoped the subject would reach
the ears of Government, in order that something might
be done to prevent the annihilation of the people of those
islands, for he could not call it other than wholesale
slaughter that hundreds of the people should be dying of
starvation.—(Cheers.)
Mr. O'CoNNELL next read a letter from Mr.
Nicholas Mackay, enclosing his subscription, which was
double the amount he (Mr. Mackay) was in the habit
of contributing. Mr. Mackay stated that he began bis
career in politics more than half a century ago, under the
guidance of Mr. O'Connell, whom he then took as his
guide, and he (Mr. Mackay) then became his disciple.
His (Mr. O'Connell's) friend Mr. Mackay was not the
French gentlemanof that name whose name had appeared
as a subscriber to the Young Ireland party in the Nation.
He remembered that while he had been struggling for
emancipation: he received a letter from that same Mr.
Mackay, from France, in which the writer advised him
to give up the course of peaceful agitation he was then
pursuing, and take the field at once; but he rejected the
advice, for had he taken it, and had he entered upon the
violence proposed by Mr. Mackay, the Catholics would
not be emancipated at the present day.—(Cheers.) He
then thanked Mr. Mackay for his advice, but told him at
the same time that he was no child of his.—(Cheers.)
Alderman DELAHAUTY. of Waterford, handed in 201.
from that town, and addressed the meeting at some
length in a speech redolenrof the principles of '* moral
force." The old inhabitants of Waterford had, by their
attention to the registry, put themselves in such a posi-
tion as would enable them, at the next election, to re-
turn two Conciliation Hall repealers. The constituency
of Waterford had determined on ejecting their present
representative, Mr. Wyse, because he was not a repealer,
and Sir Henry Winston Barron, because he had been
guilty of perfidy. That Honourable Gentleman had
been a member of the Repeal Association—he had'been a
volunteer—he had been a declared, a pledged repealer ;
but,:to servo his own selfish purposes, he turned his back
on repeal, and repudiated his former professions and
principles ; but the people of Waterford would teach
him that he could not act thus with impunity.—(Loud
cheers.) It had been determined to put two gentlemen
in nomination at the next election in whose integrity,
patriotism, and sterling worth, the constituency of Wa-
terford had unlimited confidence Mr. Alderman
Meagher and Sir Benjamin Morris Hall.—(Cheers.)
The merits of these gentlemen were so universally known
and acknowledged that be felt it unnecessary to dwell
upon them.—(Cheers.)
Mr. J. O'CoNNELL, M.P., wished to address a few
words to the Association before he took his departure
from Ireland to attend his Parliamentary duties. He
confessed he should go with a heavy heart, convinced as
he was of the utter incapability of the English Parlia-
ment to relieve the distress with which the country was
overwhelmed. He had no doubt but the brutalities (he
could not use a milder phrase) of the Times would be
re-hashed and thrown in their faces, and the calumnies
of the English press in general would be stereotyped by
Honourable Members. From the language of the Eco-
nomist, the acknowledged organ of the free-trade party,
it was clear the people of Ireland could expect no great
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seven years had Ireland been under the particular care
of England, and yet she was at the present moment in
such a condition as no country in the history of the
world had ever been reduced to. There were temporary
measures proposed which, however beneficial they
might be ultimately, would not be adapted to meet
the present calamity. A new poor law was proposed,
not certainly by the Government, but he (Mr. O'Connell)
!apprehended that „it would be forced upon them: to
such a measure ho was totally opposed, believing that
it would increase to a still greater extent the unfortu-
nate condition of Ireland.

Mr. O'CONNELL then rose to address the meeting.
He had not as much time to do so as he could desire,
being under the obligation of meeting a deputation of
his constituents at half-past three o'clock ; he should
therefore postpone his speech till that day week, for he
should certainly address the association previous to his
departure for London. He could not, however, but ad-
vert to a new calamity which had fallen upon the coun-
try—a new misery by reason of the misconduct of the
landlords.—(Elear, hear.) lie was free to confess that
a preponderating majority of the landlords had acted well,
had acted nobly; Lord Farnham in his part of the coun-
try, and the Earl of Roden in his neighbourhood. But
there were some landlords, he regretted to say, who
were availing themselves of the distressed condition of
the country, and were using the miseries of the times for
the purpose ef afflicting their unfortunate tenants. Ile (Mr
O'Connell) held in his hand a letter from a most re-
spectable clergyman who resided at Killacan, in the
county of Westmeath, detailing the manner in
which the system was carried on. That that
horrible system was not confined to any parti-
cular locality was evident from letters of Mr. Wilson
Gray, published in the Freeman's Journal, by which it
appeared that the miseries of the people were eagerly
grasped at as affording an excuse for, their evic-
tion. Could anything be more awful to contem-
plate than the barbarity of thus driving the people to
madness at such a moment?—(Hear, hear.) He would
feel it his duty to propose to the Legislature the
equity of suspending all laws now in existence with
regard to eviction of tenantry till the distress under
which the country was suffering should pass away.—
(Cheers.) And what, be would ask, was the object of
these barbarities? Simply and solely to get possession
of the little holdings of the unfortunate tenants.—
(Rear, hear.) There was another fiendish proceeding
going on in England. Money was being collected
nominally to feed the people, but what were the terms
upon which it was to be distributed? Why, if parents
would consent to send their children to Protestant
schools, and declare themselves Protestants, they might
have help administered to them.—(Groans.) There had
been actually several meetings in Exeter Hall for that
purpose. Was it the fiends of hell that suggested the
revolting proposal ? From what other quarter could
such a proposition as this come from, “Parents, your
children shall starve unless you and they become Pro-
testants?" He (Mr. O'Connell) thought it incumbent on
him to mention these facts in the few words he had to
address to the association,might go abroad,
and that the horrible intentionsthat thosethofey parties might be
exposed and reprobated.—(Hear.) As to thehe hlealledds:
there was no stopping them, but as
to t
lords, the Legislature could interfere, and prevent
evictions during the continuance of the present calamity.
—(Cheers.) The next topic to which he wished to ad-
vert was the repeal.—(Hear,
and cheers.) Arrange-
ments had been entered into for bringing the question
before the House of Commons during the approaching
session. It would be idle to bring it forward during the
early part of the session, as the distress of the country
Parliament for
and. it
of
ld be
would necessarily occupy the attention of
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a considerable time after its opening,
He had determined,
impolitic and unwise to mix up the ques.tion repeal
with those discussions.—(Hear.)
therefore, to bring the matter before the House imme-
diately after the Easter recess, and he trusted
then receive the assistance of every onewho was anxious
for repeal. He felt he would
(Mr. O'Connell) had it his duty to
abstain from discussing the questions which the land-
lords of Ireland were just then deliberating upon, lest
his doing so might afford an opportt.nity to some to
absent themselves on the plea that he was dictating from
Conciliation 11511.—(Hear.) Thehe conduct of the land-
lords, with few exceptions, as had already observed,
was admirable ; but he conceived they were not yet
familiarised with their own power, or their own in-
fluence, and their own capacity
.; and it would require
the exercise of all these to dense and carry into effect
measures which would prove equal to the magnitude
of the calamity by which they were surrounded.
The landlords were to meet on Thursday at the Ro-
tunda, and he should feel it his duty to be present for
the purpose of seeing how far they
will carry their
demand on England to rescue this country from her
present conditicn.—(llear.) It was
to be regrettedashe
that the meeting in question was not an open one,
conceived the public had a right to know what men had
hear.) If the landlordseec--
said and thought on the subjects which should occupy
their attention.—(Hear,
whim-
pered, if they hesitated, if they neglected to showha bold
front, they would find themselves trampled o y the
haughty people of En (Hear, hear,and cub
gland—
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they should speak in a voice that could not ber misunder-
stood.—(Continued cheering.) H 1,
--e should propose a N tstress and
re-
solution having reference to the extreme
matter at
'pee le of Ireland
re-
destitution that existed in this country,
what sacrifice of money, food for the
should be procured.--(hear, hear.) F 00.1) people
was they
immediate
wanted. If the landlords did not insist un an immediate
home and
supply of food, they might as well remain
amuse themselves with any idle diversions.--(hear,
hear.)
obtained? Ile
hear.) But how was that food to
meet eth had proposed
(Mr. O'Connell) was the only person wh
anything like a plan calculated to
to say at his propo-
sition and he was happy to be enabled that
e emergency,
ofg eaupsrobation. It re-
mained had received a great deal
to be seen whether the
would back him on Thursday. Ile Oman of Ireland
prot a loan of
be added to the
forty millions should be contracted
national debt, that sum would enableeth
the world for food; the forty millions would to ransack
purchase-money of the lives of the '
Irish would be the
(Ilear, hear.) The Honourable Gentleman people.—
tered into the details of the sufferings of
having en-
various quarters, concluded, amidst loud the
people in
expressing his determination to struggle fora cheering, by
the union as the only means of restoring
Ireland. prosperity to
Atter the dispatch of some routine business, the
rent
for the week was announced to be 1191. 19s. 2d.

The meeting then adjourned.
DREADFUL ATTEMPT AT MURDER IN NORTH TIP-
PERARY.—A letter from Nenagh, dated Sunday, con-
tains the following:—" Last night, as a man named
Jeffrey Donohoe, a process-server in the court of Mr.
Sergeant Nowley, the assistant-barrister, was proceed-
ing from Nenagh to his own home, he was waylaid near
Debsborough by two armed men, who fired at him, and
lodged two bullets in his body. The unfortunate man is
mortally wounded, and death will hare released him
from his sufferings propably before this reaches you.
Donohoe was to have served processes here and at Ros-
crea. He has eight children, now destitute."
DUNGARVOL JAN. B.—Mrs. Anderson acknowledges
the receipt of 10/. from the Right Hon. Richard Lalor
Sheil, M.P., for the Ladies' Soup Fund of Dungarvon.
Miss Dickson also acknowledges the receipt of 101. from
the Right Hon. R. L. Sheil, M.P., for the Abbeyside
Ladies' Soup Fund. Famine and pestilence are doing
their deadly work very fast here. On Tuesday there
were ten persons stretched dead, side by side, in the
poorhouse, and on Thursday four persons died there.
ARRIVALS OF INDIAN CORL—Since our last, twenty
vessels laden with maize and other breadstuffs have
arrived at Cove; about one-third of these will discharge
their cargo here. The prevailing wind is considered
favourable to further arrivals.—Cork Reporter.

DESTRUCTION OF WORTH-PARK

HOUSE BY FIRE.

This handsome residence, the seat of Joseph Monte-
fiore, Esq., the eminent merchant, was completely de-
stroyed by an early hour yesterday morning. Railway
travellers from London to Brighton will rememher the
mansion, as seen from the. Three Bridges station, where
Crawley is a little on their right hand, and Worth-park
about a mile on their left. The house consisted partly
of a very ancient building, formerly a large farm-house,
but. Mr. Montefiore had laid out several thousands in
modernizing it, and enlarging it to more than double its
former size, till it both presented an imposing aspect ex-
ternally, and was a fit abode for a gentleman of fortune
and consideration. He had been staying there on Sun-
day, and was out on Monday with the Crawley and
Horsham hounds; he returned to lunch, and left at about
four o'clock for London. The fire in the dining-room,
which was in the older portion of the house, where he
bad been sitting, was then allowed to die out. About
half-past ten o'clock on Monday night the housekeeper
was going through the rooms to see that all was safe,
and perceived a strong smell of fire ; this was traced
to the dining-room, which was found full of smoke,
and soon after the door had been opened flames broke
out, and the house began to catch fire rapidly. The
neighbours were alarmed as quickly as possible, and
hastened to render all the aid in their power. Mr.
sev.ge, the station-clerk at Three Bridges,who was for-
merly superintendent of police on the Brighton Rail-
way, was able to give some valuable directions for the
emergency, and the labourers from all parts spared no
exertions ; but little or nothing could be done beyond
removing hastily some of the more costly and portable
articles of furniture. The nearest engine is at Reigate,
ten miles off, and a message was sent for it by the up
goods train, but some mistake occurred, and the engine,
instead of being brought to Worth-park, was taken to
Lord Monson's, on the other side of Reigate ; and, in
fact, no engine arrived from first to last. The fire, there-
fore, had complete mastery of the premises, and burnt
on freely and rapidly. A large white cat, a great favou-
rite, provided for its own safety by mounting a tree in
the garden and looking quietly on. In less than two
hours the mansion was on fire from end to end. The
roof fell in portions ; the noble billiard-room, and the
chambers over it, were the last to yield ; but before
five o'clock yesterday morning the entire place was
burned to the ground, nothing remaining but a few
fragments of walls and some chimneys, parts of which
have been falling by scraps since. Mr. Montefiore, for
whom a mounted express was sent, arrived in the course
of the morning, and thanked his friends and neighbours
for their assistance, remunerating the labouring men
very liberally, and congratulating all that no injury had '
occurred to the person of any one. He is said to be
greatly beloved by the poor, and it was impossible for
people to work more willingly and eagerly than those
who assembled on this occasion. The fire is supposed
to have originated in the chimney of the dining-room.
It is seen now that there -was a large cross-beam about
three feet above the grate, and some of the materials
which usually shielded it from the heat may probably
have got detached, and crumbled away after the hard
frost. There had been a large fire burning in the stove
on Sunday and Monday. No estimate has yet been an-
nounced of the damage done ; but of course the utter
destruction of a gentleman's mansion, with most of its
costly furniture, must cause a very heavy loss to some
party or other. Mr. Montefiore is said to be insured,
to some extent at least, in the Alliance Assurance Com-
pany.

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.

SALISBURY, SATURDAY.—ShortIy after two o'clock
this morning, cries of "Murder" were heard from the
residence of the Rev. Isaac New, of Castle-street, which
speedily alarmed the whole neighbourhood, and several
neighbours got up, and ran into the street almost in a
state of nudity. Police-constable Axton at this time
was standing at Chipper-lane corner, and consequently
was the first on the spot, owing to the distance being so
short. On arriving there the lady of this clergyman
and a female servant were crying " Murder" from the
front windows, and the lady was in such a state of alarm
that it was feared she would precipitate herself into the
street. The neighbours and police having effected an
entrance, they were met by Mr. New, who was un-
dressed, and who appeared to be much terrified ; he
held in his hand a carving-knife, with which he said
the servant-maid had been stabbed by a burglar, who,
he supposed, had escaped. The parties then armed
themselves with the most formidable weapons which
they, at the spur of the moment, could avail them-
selves of, and commenced a search. The back• door
appeared to have been forced open, as the protection
had been removed from a sort of heart-hole at the
top of the door, where a man could then put his arm
through, and by so doing draw back the top bolt, which
appeared to have been the case, as the staple of the
lower bolt had been forced off. lose to the back door
was a dwarf wall, which communicated with the next
house ; and the result of their search not being attended
wiih a discovery, it was resolved that these adjoining
premises should be immediately searched. By this time
the Rev. Mr. Greenfield, a gentleman living close by,
and who had heard the alarm, arrived from the police
station, with ether constables. The apartments of two
families in this house were then, without ceremony,
searched, but nothing suspicious discovered. The con-
stables then returned to Mr. New's house, where they
found a bundle of things tied up in the parlour, as if in-
tended for removal. The furniture was in a state of dis-
order, and bore evident appearances of a case of bur-
glary. Tho Rev. Mr. New, by this time, having in a mea-
sure recovered from his fright, began to state, that he
heard the maid-servant below-stairs screaming " Mur-
der!" whereupon he hurried down stairs, and found she
had been stabbed, and, producing the knife, said that
he himself had removed it from her. The maid-ser-
vant, who till this period was crying "Murder !" stated
that she heard footsteps and noises below, and that she
dressed herself and went down stairs. She was then
attacked by a man whose dress she attempted to de-
r o s
he
coatan d
dark, waistcoat,
an d shel
de-
scribe, but, in her flurried moments, particular reliance
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wasd
,nv
vo.te placedere
of
a colour, lightish
wore a sort of carpet shoes. This man cameup to
and stabbed her. After these particulars, search her
was
made in every direction, but without
succe' ss. As soon
as it was daybreak the whole neighbourhood was thrown
into confusion and deep anxiety, more especially
last number of the Salisbury and Winchesr
joa,s, the
contained a letter to the editor, signed by the Rev. rAnial New himself, narrating an affair which had occurred
r.
this maid-servant only a few days before.—That to
to
ome
man entered his house in the evening by means of ask
and went upstairs into the room in which she ey,
was
sitting alone (as himself and family
were from home).
This man then presented a pistol at her,
and told her
he would fire at her if she did not tell him where her
master kept his money. She then told the fellow that
her
master was in the next room, and he had better go
and ask him himself. Hearing this, the fellow
became frightened, and having struck her a blow
on the head with a bunch of keys, he left the room and
ran down stairs. This second attempt, therefore, quite
horrified the public, andmany were the determinations of
the neighbours, who were congregated during the
morning, to prepare against such midnight robbery and
violence. One purchased a pair of pistols, and another
resolved to hire a man to sleep on the ground-floor.
While this was going on, a number of gentlemen called
at the Rev. Mr. New's residence to learn the particulars,
and among others our active inspector, Blake of the City
force, who, having an interview with this gentleman, ex-
pressed his dissatisfaction at the maid-servant's story.
these observatons highly offended Mr. New, who placed
implicit confidence in her as a religious character, and,
therefore, he expressly forbade a search of her box to be
made. The inspector then, we understand, suggested
the propriety of such a course to some intimate friends
of the rev. gentleman, and they prevailed on him to allow
it to be adopted. The inspector then searched her box,
and there discovered several articles which were identi-
fied by Mr. and Mrs. New as their property. An in-
quiry as to the nature of the wound inflicted on her by
the stab with the carving-knife followed, and the
interposition of Providence, which at first appeared to
have prevented a dangerous consequence, then induced
a very strong suspicion of fabrication ! The breaking
open of the back door also caused suspicion that the vio-
lence took place from within, and this, coupled with the
circumstance of her coolly dressing herself and going
down stairs to the robber after she had been previously
attacked by a man, and that too without giving the
slightest alarm to her master or mistress, till Mr. New
was awakened by her cries of " Murder"—all these facts
together induced her master to allow her to be taken to
the police station. While this search was being made,
a large number of persons congregated in front of the
house, and as soon as the particulars were generally
known as here described, the public became warm with
indignation against the maid servant, believing the whole
e- Shortly after two o'clock
of her alarms to be fabricat
she was brought out of Mr. New's residence, in custody
of the inspector and two other constables, to protect her
from violence. As soon as she appeared she was saluted
with hissing and yells. She wept very much on her way
to the police-station. Her name is Hannah Maria
Salmon; she is 20 years old, and is s native of Warmin-
ster, Wilts. She has been living in Salisbury four years,
and a considerable part of that time she was in the em-
ployment of Mr. New. At seven o'clock this evening
she was examined by the magistrates on the testimony
of Inspector Blake, and remanded at nine o'clock, for
further evidence, to Fisherton Gaol.

The Right Hon. Charles Watkins William Wynn
M.P. for ➢iontgomeryshire, is now the oldest member
in the House of Commons. Ho was born in 1775, and
has been in Parliament during the last fifty years.