The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Duauw, APRIL 18.—Between nine and ten o'clock tie,
Wednesday night (reports the Limerick Chronicle), an
armed party of four men attacked the house of William
Crowe, a respectable farmer, residing in the pariah of
Doon, towniand of Cooga, near Cappamore, and tenant
of Lord Stanley. When they knocked at the door and
demanded admittance, Crowe got out of bed, told them
to be quiet, and whatever they required should be given
them. One of the assailants said, " We want fire-arms;"
upon which Crowe replied, " You must have them."
Crowe, then went to his bed-room, and having loaded
two guns, gave one to his servant boy and retained the
other himself. They then came to the front window,
when Crowe inquired, "Are ye there, boys?" and being
answered in the affirmative, he and his servant imme-
diately fired upon the group, killed one man, and
severely wounded another. The other two immediately
fled. The wounded man, after some resistance, was made
prisoner, and has since been lodged in gaol. He tarns
out to be a notoriously ill-conducted person, and was
tried fora robbery in 1846.

Armed robber; broke into Lismore House, the seat of
John reppard, Esq., near Toomavara, on Sunday morn-
ing last, and rubbed that gentleman of various property,
threatening his life the while.
Various other outrages and robberies of the most
enormous character are recorded in the same journal.
Mr. P. G. Barron, stipendiary magistrate, is appointed
to the Limerick district, in place of Mr. Yokes, retired.
Nearly all the stores in Limerick are filled with
and the mills in the neighbourhood are
humanincessantly tb '
at worli, day and night, by water and steam

power.
A jury have awarded 1,1001. to Lord Portarlington
and his under-tenants for his Lordship's ground, re-
quired by the W aterford and Limerick Railway on the
line from Limerick to Tipperary.
The weather, like April weather generally, is vari..
able ; but with a. prevalence of cold and wet not favour-
able to rapid vegetation. The spring is decidedly rather
backward ; but, on the whole, not by any means an un•
favourable one. _ .

WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT VESSEL.--It is our pain-
ful duty to record the loss upon our coast of the Ameri-
can ship Rochester, Captain Trueman, burden 800 tons,
which left Liverpool on Sunday morning, bound to New
York, with about 300 emigrants, and struck at six
o'clock on Tuesday, A.M. Happily the lives of all on
board have been providentially saved. She was wrecked
upon one of those banks which render this part of our
coast (Blackwater) so dangerous, especially to strangers.
It was a painful sight to witness so many poor per-
sons, as they landcd from the Arklow boats which took
them out of the wreck, bereft of all the little store
which they possessed upon the earth. Oar kind-
hearted and respected townsman, Mr. Thomas
Brennan, exerted himself to the utmost in securing
what luggage still remained ' • and with the assistance of
that efficient public officer, head constable Nicholson,
who, with his men, display t.d the greatest attention to
the wants and comforts of the distressed emigrants, bad
the uuhappy sufferers placed in the spacious yard ad-
joining his stores until they could be a,sbrubled to-
gether and brought to a place of shelter and warmth.
He had coals and straw immediately dispatched to the
old workhouse, where several other humane and bene-
volent individuals administered food and fire to those
who had been for nearly two days and a night without
sustenance. Our excellent Vice-Lieutenant, Mr. C. A.
Walker, and Sir F. Le Hunte, rendered all the advice
and assistance that the catastrophe demanded. Mr.
Richard Devereux, the Rev. Messrs. White, Lacy, and
Dillon, Mr. Hughes, Alderman Walsh, Mr. Robert
Sparrow, Mr. W. Walker, Mr. Thomas Naylor, Mrs
Hogan, Dr. Boxwell, and many others were occupied
throughout the entire day and evening in serving out
warm soup from the public kitchen, bread, tea, beer, &c.,
to the grateful sufferers. The calamity has been felt the
more severely in our town, as the event took place while
the relief committee were sitting, and obliged them to
postpone for that day the further consideration of the
claims of the poor in our locality, in order to render
the rights of hospitality to those who were now thrown
in so helpless a condition upon our shores.— Wexford
Independent.

SHOCKING Ac CIDENT.— On Saturday evening,
about seven o'clock, two horsebreakers in the service of
Mr. Wragg, liveryatable keeper in Finsbury, were
exercising a young and high-spirited horse in a gig-
break through Worship-street, when the animal
became alarmed at the noise of a cab behind it and
started off with frightful velocity. The men exerted
every nerve to check the horse's career, as the streets
were filled with people and children in the greatest con-
sternation, but the frightened brute dashed on
wholly beyond control through Worship-square
and into Clifton-street South, where it verged
from the road and whirled the break like a
feather along the foot pavement the whole length of
andth intoestreett.hTehheoupaiteses,eanngderasprausinhteedr inw hteorrwoara uponacross
athlade road
and into the houses, and a painter, who was upon a ladder,d
phailteilnigoffthheifarolandr
front of
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housete had barely
knocked i
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and went over it, sweeping its owner's clothes as it -
passed with the wheel, and the next instant knocked
down a little boy ten years of age, the son of a
labourer, and passed over his body. The pcor little
fellow was picked up seriously injured, with the
blood pouring from his mouth and ears, and conveyed
to his parent's residence and the horse meantime con-
tinued its career along the pavement, the driver tugging
with all his strength at the rein to get him into the
road, but uselessly, as the next instant it dashed in the
comer of a baker's window, and, bounding off again,
came into such violent contact with an iron post in the
kerb, that the post ar.d three large fisgstonea were torn
out of the pavement and Licattertd about, and the two
men in the break dashed out of it. One of thew fortu-
nately escaped with only a few bruises, but the other (the
driver was raised up in a state of total insensibility, and
apparently dead, and carritd to the house of a neigh-
bouring surgeon. The horse then went on dots n Clifton-
strt et North, hichis tt minuted by aMO brick wall,
fuming the th.elt of some manufacturing premises, and
on finding itself eh cited by this obstruction, turned
swiftly r ..utel and dashed into a pi ivate house at the bot-
tom, tue door or which it burst open; and here. having
got clear of the harness, which was broken in pieces, it
ran along the passage till it finally f‘ll upon the stair-
case, apparently without itmiry. Bat smell hopes are
entertained of the child's recovery.
THE for DEAN.—This ill-fated youth (only
thirteen years of age), whose name is so notorious from his
alleged participation in the murder of the " blacking boy,"
at Greenheys, was yesterday brought up at the New Bailey
sessions, on a charge of obtaining, at Heaton Norris, on the
15th of March, by false and fraudulent pretences, a quantity
of money, flour, and groceries, the property of Hiram Wake-
field. He was found guilty, and sentenced to six months'
imprisonment in Lancaster Castle, and was ordered to be
once whipped. lie is also to be kept in solitary confinement
for fourteen days.—Manchester Courier.
THE SOUTH- WESTERN EXTENSION RAILWAY.—
On Saturday above 40 houses were disposed of by auction, in
compliance with instructions from the directors of the South-
Western Railway Company, for the extension of the rail-
way from the terminus at Nine Elms to the York-road. They
were situated between the Westminster-bridge-road and the
York-road, and adjoin the site which is to form the termi-
nus in this locality. There are but a very few houses still
to be sold for this extension, there having been about 400
houses sold; the materials of which have realised between
6,000 f and 7,0004 The removal of so large a number of houses
has caused rents to be increased abutting on the line Trom 15
to 20 per cent. The directors are already in treaty for the
purchase of the houses to be taken down for the extension of
the line to London-bridge.
HARROW ScnooL, APRIL 19.—The prizes for the
best English prize poem and English essay, founded by the
present head master, Dr. Vaughan, have been respectively
adjudged to H. Oxenham' eldest son of the second master;
and to T. D. Platt, son of Mr. Baron Platt. The annual gold
medal given by the Right lion. Sir Robert Peel for the best
Latin prose essay, has been awarded to H. E. Hutton. The
exercises also of Hewlett, sen., T. S. Scott, T. Collier, and
Carmichael Smyth, sen., were mentioned as deserving the
highest commendation.
COLLISION AND Loss AT SEA.—FALMOUTH, APRIL
17.—The barque Emma, Capt. D. Edzard, of and from Bre-
men, bound to New York with emigrants, arrived in this port
this morning with bowsprit sprung, having on the evening of
the 15th inst., at 9 o'clock, when about eight leagues south
of the Lizard Point, run into the Dutch schooner Van Spyk,
Captain D. Visser, of and for Amsterdam, from Surinam,
laden with coffee and cotton, which latter vessel sank i
inam e
cbli,ateelli3m-,baiiin'ogrdoinngbotahredctrheeTwEbEinutmQbaa.ureAlycxtism._oe to
baasverve tihneigr lives
THE DUKE AND u
name of his Grace the Duke of Wellington advertised the
other day as the patron and swallower of the pills of one of
the pestiferous tribe of London medical quacks, we used the
liberty of asking the illustrious Duke whether his Grace
gave authority for the publication, and the following cha-
racteristic reply was received in course of post:—" Strath.
fieldsaye, April 10, 1847. F. M. the Duke of Wellington
presents his compliments to Mr. M'Nab. He has received
his letter. The Duke knows nothing of the person alluded
to, or his pills. No individual of his class has authority to
use the name of the Duke of Wellington in any manner."--
Glasgow Constitutional.
IRISIi IMMIGRATION,—On Sunday afternoon two
steamers, the Prussian Eagle, from Cork, and the Limerick,
from Dublin, arrived in the River, off Alderman's-staire,
Lower East Smithfield, with 1,200 Irish paupers,
George's-in-the-East, WhiteFhapetol, d
women,
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in nomination
Williams Wire, Esq., of Stonehouse, Lewisham, for a
David
seat in that borough.
Measures are now in progress for blending the
the constitueiEnnEctey7tti
f eurei REPRESENTATION
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Irish medical staff with the English. This arrangement
has for some time past been in agitation. Its adoption has.
however, at length, been definitely decided, and it will be
brought into operation at as early a period as possible.—
United Service Gazette.
WHEAT, &c.—By a return just issued, it appears
that the total quantity of wheat and wheat flour exported
from the United Kingdom to foreign countries and British
possessions in the month ending March 5, was 8.139
quarters, and that the imports in that interval were 179,901
quarters.
LORD 11-IORPETH AND THE WESLEYANS.—A MeM.

ber of the l's esleyan body in Wakefield, having written to
Lord Morpeth, en the subject of state education, has received
the following reply :—" Woods and Forests Office, 14th April,
1847. Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter,
and am sorry I cannot concur in the opinions you express;
but I am happy to know that my views harmonise with
those of the Conference representing the influential and
respectable body of wliich you are a member. I am, &c.,
I Isloitrierri. To Waketield."—Aranchesfer.

Guardian.
ITALIAN PRODUCE.--A vessel arrived from Leg-
horn
has brought an exceedingly various cargo, the produc-
tion of the Italian States, comprising 101 bags of rice, 100
casks of copper ore, 37 blocks of marble, 30 casks of boracic
acid, 60 tons weight of pig iron, 14 bales of silk, 502 of wool. ,
and 35 tens weight of pozzolana. We believe that both the
articles rice and copper ore are unusual importations, if not E
entire uoyeltiee, from the country mentioned.