The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-18 00:00:00

RRYMNEY IRON COMPANY.

The Annual Meeting of the Shareholders in this Com-
pany was held yesterday at one o'clock, at their office, 7,
Lawrence Pountney-hill, for the purpose of receiving the
statement of the accounts of the Company, &c.
We are precluded from giving any account of the pro-
ceedings, as the parties in the establishment refused to
admit our Reporter to the meeting.

IRELAND.
NEW IRISH APPOINTMENTS.

It is said that Lord 1)e Grey—in order to make
amends to Mr. West for the indignity put upon him by
the Chancellor—has opened a negotiation with Master
Townsend, with a view to the appointment of Ser-
geant Greene to the Mastership, and the consequent ap-
pointment of Mr. West to the Sergeantcy.
We can scarcely believe that Sergeant Greene, whose
professional attainments and reputation at the bar
justly entitle him to the most elevated judicial station,
would consent to such an arrangement. If the Govern-
ment be really anxious to promote men of moderate
views to the bench, they could scarcely fix on a more
suitable person than Mr. Sergeant Greene. His eleva-
tion would be perfectly satisfactory to all parties in Ire-
land ; for, whatever may be his politics, he has never
dragged them into Court when discharging the duties of
the advocate, nor exhibited them on the bench, when
acting as a Judge.—Dublin Pad.
DEATH OF MRS. CATHERINE M'AULEY, OF

THE MURDERS AND SUICIDE
AT BURNLEY BARRACKS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
I yesterday sent you a short account, and am
afraid you would think it an intrusive act on my
part, but can assure you the deed has caused
such a consternation in this neighbourhood that
you will be better able to imagine than for me to
describe it.
I have this evening had the surgeon who was
called in (Mr.-White) at my house, and from him
I have learned the following particulars, which
you may rely upon as being as near the facts as
any that can be ascertained at present. It is ex-
pected the Coroner will sit either to-day or to-
morrow.
At or about half-past eight o'clock on Sunday
evening, after the officers had had their dinner,
and were sitting around the mess-room fire, Lieut.
O'Grady rose from his seat, and retired from the
room. In a short time after he had gone out a
person was heard to scream much. On some of the
party rising, and proceeding towards the door, to
see what the cause of the noise was, they were met
in the door-way by Lieut. O'Grady running in, and
saying that Morris had murdered him ; he walked
towards the fire-place ; there he fell down on the
carpet, and it was soon perceived that be was
wounded. As soon as the parties then in the
room (whom I believe were only two or three)
recovered a little from the shock, one of them
went to the door leading into the passage. The first
thing he observed was Morris standing in the
lobby, brandishing a large knife in his hand.
Not liking to face him unarmed, he returned to
the fire-place for the poker, and then again went
to the passage, during which period it is sup-
posed that Morris had followed the wom:ln,
and had stabbed her in four different places;
the most fatal one a little below the left
shoulder blade. On the approach of the
individual to the place, he there found
the woman lying, but not dead ; also the mur-
derer, who, I believe, but am not at the pre-
sent time positive, never spoke afterwards;
lif he did it was only for a short time, for
he had effected his deadly purpose, most un-
doubtedly on himself, as he lived but a short time.
He had run the knife into his own body just below
the breast-bone ; again in two places a little
lower, with another large cut on the right side of
the body, and then turned the knife downwards.
Whether any altercation had taken place be-
tween Mr. O'Grady and Morris, I am not aware;
but should suppose that will be ascertained
before the Coroner, as Mr. O'Grady lived till
nearly ten o'clock the following morning, and
was sensible up to the time of his death.
The parents of the unfortunate woman live, I
believe, in the officers' apartments or mess-house,
and the individual who caused the death of
these persons was the messman't waiter, and has
been jealous of the female for some time back,
though I am given to understand she was a
married woman, but did not live with her
husband.

Colne, November 16, 1841.
[Burnley- Barracks are situate about six miles
north of Colne, in Lancashire, and nearly half-
way between Leeds and Preston. Burnley is a
small manufacturing town containing between
9,000 and 10,000 inhabitants. We take this op-
portunity of returning our thanks to our Corre-
spondent at Colne, for his attention and readi-
ness in forwarding the particulars of these horri-
ble deeds, which enabled us to give an account
of them in The Sun of last evening—the only
paper in which they appeared.]

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

The manufacturing town of Burnley, in Lan-
cashire, has been thrown into a state of great ex-
citement by the commission of a double murder,
followed by the self-destruction of the assassin,
Robert Morris, a private in the Regiment of the
60th Rifles, quartered in that place. Morris, who
was a Scotchman, also officiated as mess-waiter,
and was servant to Lieutenant O'Grady. He had
formed an intimacy with a girl named Isabella
Hadden, daughter of John Hadden, the mess-
master of the barracks, and it was jealousy of this
young woman that led to the fatal results we
have to state. On Sunday evening Morris ob-
served Isabella Hadden going with Lieutenant
O'Grady in the direction of the latter's bedroom.
Providing himself with a carving knife from the
kitchen, he proceeded to the bedchamber, at the
door of which he met his master and the girl.
He stabbed them both with his destructive
weapon, inflicting two wounds in the neck and
one in the abdomen of the girl, and some dan-
gerous abdominal wounds upon his officer. The
wretched man then turned his weapon against
himself, stabbing himself repeatedly in the ab-
domen, and in other parts of the body. Imme-
diately afterwards he was discovered in the pas-
sage, unable to speak, and he only lived three
minutes after he had been removed to his pantry.
Lieut. O'Grady, upon being wounded, rushed
into the mess-room and exclaimed that Morris
bad murdered him. He was conveyed to bed,
and medical attendance procured, but it was all
in vain, the unfortunate officer living only until
noon on Monday. Isabella Hadden was removed
to the lodgings of her parents, and died in great
agony at one o'clock on Monday morning. The
bodies lie at the barracks awaiting the inquest,
which will be held over them by Mr. Harg-reaves,
one of the Coroners for the northern division of
Lancaster.

CAUTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

STR,—Permit me to make known, through the
medium of your widely-circulated Journal, the
following occurrence, with a suggestion to the
parties suffering :—On Friday last a man, assum-
ing the characteristics of a commercial man,
entered the travellers' room of the Cross Hotel,
Bromsgrove, and intimated that he should want
dinner at four o'clock, and that he would, in the
interim, go out and do his ." Trade." He re-
turned, the cloth was laid, but, said he, I must
defer my dinner a quarter of an hour. Half an
hour elapsed, and when the servant went into the
room she found that the " ci-divant" traveller
had left, and that two table-spoons, of costly
make, were non-est. These, doubtlessly, soon
became amalgamated with others, the produce of
his " Trade," in a crucible.
My suggestion is, that all tavern-keepers
should intimate to their visitors the necessity of
giving their card on arrival. To a right-minded
man it would not be objectionable, whilst it
might deter the evil-disposed from attempting
wrong; for it is quite clear that neither life Or
property are safe under the present system.
At the Bull Hotel, Cambridge, well known
for its superior arrangements, a neat brass-plate
is conspicuously placed in the entrance hall,
whereon is engraved—" It is respectfully re-
quested that all visitors will be pleased to leave
their card at the bar on arrival." And at the
Crown Hotel, Leamington Spa, a card is fixed
on the mantel-piece of the commercial room, in-
timating,—" It is requested that none but com-
mercial gentlemen will occupy this room."
Thus the tavern-keeper may render himself,
and those around him secure, whilst his cus-
tomary commercial charges, and the comforts
of his commercial friends, are not encroached
upon by those not entitled to them.
I am, Sir, t'our's, most obediently,
Nov. 13. AN OLD TRAVELLER.