The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-20 00:00:00

night with a lacerated nose, and that he was at pre-
sent in danger therefrom, and could not leave the '
hospital to give evidence. Pickering added, that he
had just seen the patient, who was in a very bad state,
inflammation took place on Friday, which had some-
what abated, but a blood-vessel had started afresh
that morning, and the hemorrhage was excessive.
It appeared from the evidence, which created the
greatest horror and disgust, that on Wednesday night
Hill and Hogan were in the long-room of a public-
house called the White Swan (better known as the
" Paddy's Goose"), in High-street, Shadwell, where
a quarrel took place, and some blows were exchanged.
The parties were turned out into the street, where
Hill immediately attacked Hogan, and began knock-
ing him about and suddenly seized him by the hair
of his head and forced it back, while he snapped
twice at his Nose with his teeth, and bit off the
greater portion of it. A girl, named Williams, dis-
tinctly saw the prisoner fasten his teeth twice on
llogan's nose. The first time he bit him he seized
the bridge of his nose, and his teeth slipped, and he
then fastened his teeth on the lower portion of the
same organ, and bit off the greater part of it, which
he spat out of his mouth on to the ground. The
wounded man was immediately conveyed to the hos-
pital, and the agony he endured was excessive.
Mr. BALLANTINE commented on the atrocious and
cowardly act committed by the prisoner, and said that
the victim of his brutality was not in a condition to
leave the hospital, and that when he could do so he
should commit the prisoner for trial for an aggravated
assault ; but should the unfortunate man not recover
the prisoner's situation would be a very serious one,
and he would be sent before a jury on a charge
affecting his life. He had never heard of anything
more savage than one man biting off the nose of
another. He remanded the prisoner for a week.
The prisoner, who appeared quite unconcerned,
asked if bail would be taken.

Mr. BALLANTINE—No, I will not take bail.

DEPUTATION of IRISH MEMBERS
TO SIR GEORGE GREY.
Several cif the Irish representatives having received
from influential and leading Members of their re-
spective constituencies certain statements respecting
the existence and increase of destitution in many of
those districts even where the Poor-law Act is in full
operation, two meetings were held last week, in Com-
mittee room No. 14 of the House of Commons, for
the purpose of considering the melancholy informa-
tion communicated to them, and to adopt such mea-
sures, before the adjournment of Parliament for the
Christmas recess, as would induce the Government
to take steps for preventing the recurrence of those
scenes which took place last year, especially in the
southern and western provinces of Ireland. Both
meetings were very numerously attended, there being
present the following gentlemen :---Henry Grattan
(Chairman), Sir Denham Norreys, William Keogh,
George Alexander Hamilton, John Green, Edward
King Tennison, Francis Scully, Major Blackell,
Oliver Dowdale, John Grace, Colonel Dunne, John
O'Brien, Chisolme Ansty, Robert Keatinge, Major
Macnamara, John Reynolds, Fitzstephen French,
Sir Lucius O'Brien, George Henry Moore, the Hon.
Charles Skeffington Clements, William Monsell,
Henry Arthur Herbert, John Thomas Devereux, the
O'Gorman Mahon, Charles Carroll M'Tavish, Chris-
topher St. George, Daniel Callaghan, Colonel Raw-
don, Richard Southwell Bourke, Alderman Thomas
Meagher, Willithn Smith O'Brien, Anthony O'Fla-
herty, William Fagan, Sir Percy Nugent, Grogan
Morgan, John Sadlier, Richard Maxwell Fox, Mar-
tin Joseph Blake, William Fagan, James Molyneux
Caulfield, and James Wilson Fitzpatrick.
The various communications received from diffe-
rent districts of Ireland, each detailing severe and
afflicting cases of destitution left unrelieved by the
operation of the Poor-law Act, were read and con-
sidered. In the course of an animated discussion, a
variety of suggestions, with the view of devising the
most practical and efficacious means of preventing
the spread of further distress and relieving that which
has been ascertained to exist, were made, and it was
finally arranged that the chairman and five other
members should wait upon Sir George Grey, and,
representing to the Right Hon. Baronet the condition
towards which they believed the country was ap-
proaching, to assure him that they had the most con-
clusive evidence for considering that more than
twenty-two unions, the number particularised by
minutes during debates on motions for remedial mea-
sures, were and would be unable from their own
resources to meet the existing and increasing distress,
and respectfully to urge that sufficient resources
should be placed in the hands of the Lord-Lieutenant,
to enable him to meet promptly the emergency in any
locality where the poor-law has been or might be
found unavailing.
Accordingly, pursuant to previous arrangement
made with the Right Hon. Baronet, the deputation
waited upon Sir George Grey, at the Home-office,
on Friday last, and had with him and Sir eVilliarn
Somerville, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, an inter-
view of considerable length, and one that they re-
garded as of a most satisfactory nature.
The CHAIRMAN of the deputation briefly explained
the object of their visit, informed the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet that they were unwilling to permit the adjourn-
ment of Parliament to take place without again bring-
ing under his notice the painful subject of existing
and anticipated distress in Ireland, believing that the
information received by Government had induced
them to underrate its present extent aed the proba-
bility of its further spreading throughout the towns
and agricultural districts, and he concluded by stating
that the Irish Members, at their meetings held in the
course of the vt eek, had agreed upon the following
memorial, or memorandum, which he read for the
Right Hen. Baronet :
" We, the part of a large meeting of Irish Mem-
bers, beg to submit to the Secretary of State for the
Home Department that we have heard with pleasure
his statement of the intention of her Majesty's Go-
vernment with reference to such districts in Ireland
as are unable, from their own resources, to meet the
great and increasing distress. We feel it to be, how-
ever, oz imperative duty; before the recess, to ex-
press our &.l') conviction that the remainder of the
districts in such distress will prevail has been
underrated by the Government.
" We fully admit that it is just and reasonable
that, before any recourse is had either to the liberality
of individuals, or any further appeal, or the aid of the
State in the present emergency, the resources of the
localities, which are now available by law for the
maintenance of their own poor should be proved to
be insufficient; and we are quite willing that it
should be left to the Executive to determine when
this state of things shall hap arrived in any locality.
But we beg leave most respectfully and earnestly, in
order to prevent the recurrence of those frightful
scenes which took place last year in many parts of
Ireland, to suggest that sufficient resources should be
placed in the hands of the Lord-Lieutenant, to enable
him to meet promptly the emergency in any locality
where the poor-law has been proved unavailing, and
we feel confident that any measure which may be
proposed by the Government to secure the repayment
of any money advanced for the purpose, will receive
cordial support. In presenting this memorandum
with reference to the pressing distress we feel bound
to add, that a recurrence of those painful appeals can
only be prevented by comprehensive and well-directed
measures for the improvement of the social condition
of Ireland."
(Here follow the oisnatures.)
Sir G. GREY entered very fu;2.y and with much
sympathy into the subject, and he assti: ed the deputa-
tion that, acquiescing in the principle set forth in the
memorandum, he was enabled to state that s Q Go-
vernment had, as they believed, at their disp6.7al
Means sufficient for the present to meet a nylcase of
destitution likely to occur at an early period, and
which would not be provided for lay local resources,
provided those means were used only in cases in
which the local resources of the union had been exer-
cised to the fullest extent available, and had been
found insufficient.
The deputation considered the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman's explanation most satisfactory, and the deter-
mination of the Government calculated to prevent
anything even approaching last year's distress. They
expressed themselves in a great measure pleased with
the arrangements which Sir George Grey assured
them were perfected, in order to aid those districts
where the poor-law would be found insufficient, and,
having thanked the Right Hon. Gentleman for his
courtesy, they withdrew.

KILMARNOCK TRADE.—Several of the large print-
works, which have been for some time closed, have re-
sumed work on a limited scale ; and thus a few of those
who were idle are again in work ; there are, however,:a
large number still unemployed. The carpet and wool-
spinning factories are far from manifesting that activity
which used to characterise them. Shoemaking and
bonnetmaking are partaking of the general depression,
the last especially. Trade, on the whole, is rather im-
proved. The printing-field of Mr. George Young and
Co. has been re-opened, and will be comparatively brisk
in a short period. The carpet factories are improved ;
weavers of Brussels are extremely throng, being en-
gaged in the fulfilment of American orders. There has
been a slight improvement, since our last, in some of the
branches ut our manufacturing industry. Printers are
receiving more regular, and more constant employment,
although it is calculated that there are at present about
six hundred of them deprived of their usual labour.
Carpet-weavers are still but partially employed, and
shoemakers are in receipt of average employment.
Fever, we are glad to say, is rapidly decreasing, and
the proclamation just issued by the authorities, regard-
ing the removing of stagnant water, &c., will materially
tend to lessen it still more. In one district the number
of cases for the month of October was 60, hut in No-
vember it had fallen to 37. Influenza is very prevalent
among all classes.—Ayr Observer.
The members of the Jewish persuasion in Exeter
have an address in preparation to the Pope, for his
many acts of kindness to their brethren in Rome.—Poole
Herald..