The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-31 00:00:00

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It is state& in the IrA new, a.perzt, that at I
the sessions under the Ihsurre lion Act," foci
the county and city of \inerick, which stand
adjourned to the 3d of 3 leery, there is not a
single person for trial under that Act, in either
county or city gaol I In the county or city of
Limerick—not one prisoner to be tried under the
Insurrection Act ! liver this, Mr. Salida, and
ye eaters of beefsteaks, and my Lord Clancarty
and Co. " Where he your insurrections now f"
Where the rallying point for your Orange
regiments ? Where your prophecies of Pas-
torini ? Christmas-eves of Die year 1824,
was fixed, you know, for the commence-
went of the famous Popish massacre. The
solitary fact, above related, of tranquillity reign-
ing throughout the county of Limerick._ the grand
focus of rebellion before Mr. Saurin was dismiss-
ed—speaks a language not to be misunderstood
or perverted. One of the journals mentions a
report that Sir Harcourt Lees is reserved for a

bonne houclie by the Attorney-General if Mr.
O'Connell should not previously have proved
too hard of digestion, and spoiled the Right
Hon. Gentleman's stomach. A prosecution of Sir
Harcourt Lees carries burlesque upon the face
of it : yet if this mercurial parson should have
really found any portion of his countrymen so
much fartin gone astray than himself, as to be
actually under the influence of his ravings, a pub-
lic trial, and a conscientious guardian, appointed
by the proper authority to take care of him, may
help to keep the honest fanatic from doing or
suffering harm. As an addendum to the evidence
lof restored subordination throughout Munster,we
would point out to the attention of sober men in
Ireland, of the King's Ministers here, and above
all of the Irish Government itself, the speech of
that great statesman. Sir George Hill, delivered at
Derry, on the Apprentice-boy Anniversary of the
shutting of the gates last Saturday se'nnight.—
This man is Vice-Treasurer of Ireland.—
Verily, the most knowing 'prentice that ever
wore a pron,or swept shop, could not have excelled
the sage Baronet on that occasion. Of all the
topics of alarm that had been rung from Lough
Svv illy to Cape Clear since 1689, not one, no,
nor half a one, save only that of a Popish Pre-
tender, was omitted by the King's Vice-Trea-
surer; but to compensate for that one omission,
we had the " Popish Parliament"—the tremen-
dous " prophecies." Oh, ye Gods ! the Pasto-
rini-prophecies from a Member of Parliament,
and of the Government ! And this to frighten
an Orange mob, and to secure their votes for
another election. Why does not Sir George Hill,
too, come upon Ministers with his proposal to
raise a No-Popery regiment ? " Sure enough "
(as his countrymen say), there is precedent for
so generous an offer. If we were given to blush.
ing, we might change colour at such dirty sights.

[NEW TIMES.]
We are told by the Irish Papers that this As
sociation is regarded by the Catholics, high am
low, " with unliMited confidence." If this be
true, we are very sorry for it. We deem the
Association most prejudicial to the reel and best
interests of Ireland, inasmuch as its tendency is
to sow irreconcileable division between that coun-
try and England. Commercial enterprise, the pro-
gress of science,and the practical improvements in-
troduced into the laws and institutions of the coun-
try by his Majesty's Government, were making,
and, if unimpeded,will continue to make rapid ad-
vances toward a melioration of the lot of the
People of Ireland. Look only at the steam-
boats between Ireland and Liverpool! Contem-
plate their effect in bringing the Irish cultivator
and the Irish manufacturer nearer to ther respec-
tive markets ! The personal intercourse of the
inhabitants of the two Islands in that direction
has been multiplied within the last six years at
least twenty fold. To render these circum-
stances available to the benefit of the Irish
People, nothing can be so conducive as
tranquillity and order. To answer the ends
of the leaders of the Catholic Association, ir-
ritation and confusion are absolutely essential.—
Their interest, therefore, is directly opposed to
that of the People ; and we must take leave to
think that some, among them are by no means
blind to that opposition of interests. " I am
surprised at your violence," said a Gentleman the
other day to a very active agitator in Dublin ;
" you used to he quite a moderate man." "To
be sure I was," replied the other ; but what did
I git by my moderation ?" floret too, ortHn
lies the secret in these multitudinous Associa-
tions ; the leaders are only hunting after what
they can ; while the mass of their followers
" look up to them whi► unlimited confidence" as
pure and disinterested Patriots. The account
given of the Association goes on to say, " the
number of its Members is now considerably above
a thousand, and embraces all the Catholic Peer-
age, Baronetcy, and Gentry of Ireland." We
have great respect for the Catholic Peerage, Ba-
ronetcy, and Gentry ; but though they may be
among the Members of the Association, they most
assuredly are not its leading Members ; they do
not fill that station in tit& Society to which they
are entitled by their birth, their fortune, their
rank, or their legitimate influence. They ap-
pear at best as mere sleeping partners, while the
heads of the firm are Messrs. O'Connell, Shell,
Lawless, and Co. This surely is not as it should
be. It rather resembles a democratic torrent, in
which the higher classes are swept forcibly along,
than a fertilising stream guided by the hand of
a judicious cultivator. "

[MR PUBSLEDGEII.]
The Turkey Mt which arrived yesterday,
has brought advices from Constantinople to the
26th ult. The Captain Paella had arrived there
a few days before, with• a single ship of war (a
two decker), and some fishing-boats captured off
Ipsatql which were pompously denominated
Greek prizes. But this farce was not calculated
to delut, e even the rabble of the Turkish capital,
of whom lte most ignorant could not fail to draw
mortit:im, conclusions, when they contrasted the
single which the Captain Yacht had
brought bat. 1. with the imposing force he
had under his comtnand when he set out
with the avowed purpose and confident hopes
of terminating the war before the end of the
Yintr.,However, his escape from capital punishment
tCAront, trait in the politics of the Divan ; and
Si) extraordinary that we cannot fathom the Mo-
tives. Of the Egyptian squadron, which had
been joined by the remnant of the Turkish fleet,
there was no certain intelligence ; and its
strength, as well as the intention of Ibrahim
Pacha, were objects rather of vague rumour than
of positiv4i information. A report, however, pre-.
VU combined squadrons had left Bou-
i t' their destination nothing certain
was known.--'-The German Papers, which ar-
rived yesterday, say, that they directed their
coarse for Candla ; and add, upon the autho-
rity of a person in the suite of the Austrian Oni.
cer who commands in the Levant, that they
were beaten by the Greeks oft that island. The
action is stated to have taken place on the Ist of
November, and twenty vessels, fall of regular
troops, are mentioned as the prizes which, ac.
cording to this account (that of an eye-witness))

have fallen into the hands of the victorious'
Greeks. It was not expected at Constantinople
that Lord Strangford would return ; and the re-
moval of all his Lordship's effects seemed to con-
firm this opinion. It was even currently: re-
ported that he had been appointed to another
mission ; and, as part of his effects had been
shipped for Odessa, it was supposed that the
Embassy at St. Petersburgh was intended for his
Lordship. There is one slight objection to this
arrangement—we mean, the nomination of Mr.
Stratford Canning to that post, who has besides
set out in order to occupy it. This difficulty,
however, has not been overlooked by the authors
of the report ; and they have hit upon a most
conven►ent mode of removing it—that'of send-
ing Mr. Stratford Canning, when he should
have had some communications with the Rus-
sian Court, as Ambassador to Constantinople.
This arrangement is very specious ; yet it
strikes us as very improbable, particularly
as it is not consistent with diplomatique eti-
quette ; and who ever heard of a diplomatist be-
ing removed to an inferior mission to that he had
occupied before. There is a graduated scale of
dignity in these matters ; and the Embassy to
Russia is considered as, more dignified than that
to the Porte. It strikes us that this rumour has
been got up to disguise the fact of our
altered relations with Turkey ; aid it is
probably deemed more convenient to say
that Lord Strangford has been recalled in the
usual way, than in consequence of a change in the
sentiments of the English Government towards
the Porte. To the latter so many circumstances
point, that it would he vain to try to conceal it;
and it is at the same time necessary, in order to
give uniformity to our foreign policy. What could
be more inconsistent than to see this country up.!
holding one set of principles in South America
and another in Greece ? The latter has as much
claim to our sympathy, and the same right to
an interchange of good offices, as the former;
and she might, without fear, challenge a compa-
! rison with any State in the New World, as to the
courage, perseverance, and ardour she has dis-
played in her struggle for independence. She is
contending for what has been ever held sacred in
the estimation of Englishmen ; and moreover, the
success of her present efforts is absolutely neces-
sary to prevent the whole of Turkey in Europe
from becoming an appendage of the Russian
empire.

BARBAROUS MURDERS.

(From the TVolverhamplon Chronicle.)

A cottage, called the• Gorse House, in the pa-
rish of Bushbury, situated on the turnpike road leading to
Cannock, and between three and four miles only front this town,.
became on Wednesday week the scene of a most diabolical
murder, perpetrated lathe broad light of day upon Ann Spencer,
a poor and aged woman, the wife of Edward Spencer, a
labourer, the circumstances of which are ,as follow :—About
3 o'clock on the day mentioned, one of Col. V. Graham's ser-
vants called at the cottage with a peck of salt as a Christmas
present for Spencer and his wife; the door being open he went
in, and upon the kitchen floor.perceived some blood, which ex-
cited his alarm, and receiving no answer to Ills call for the in-
mates, he proceeded up stairs, where the dreadful spectacle pre-
sented itself of the murdered body of the poor old creature,
still warm, lying on the chamber floor, her long hair being
turned over her face so as to over it ; her head was dreadfully
mangled, anti there was a violent wound under her right ear
and a severe bruise upon the back of the hand, which she must
have receivedirt, endeavouring to ward oil the blows of her in-
human mnrderer, which are supposed to have been inflicted with
a hammer, or ome heavy instrument. There is little doubt
that the horrid deed was committed in the kitchen (a consider-
able quantity of blood being smeared about the floor), and the
body afterwards dragged into the chamber above; and the
stairs being steep and narrow, it is thought that more than
one must have been concerned, from the great strength it
would require to convey the corpse up them. The unfl?r-
tunate victim had been at a neighbour's house, at a short dis-
tance, for some time, and which she left about half an hour
only before the discovery ; it is therefore certain that her own
dwelling had been entered during her absence, and on her
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re-
turnforcer open
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the made.nirk The
the thdeoor prongshati being been
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trious couple was the villainous object of this attrocious case is
evident, because the house had been stripped of several articles of
wearing apparel. A reward of 501. was immediately offered for
the discovery of the perpretators; and on Thursday morning Mr.
It. Diggory, an active Assistant Constable of this town, tound
that at Mr. Moore's, awnbroker in Darlington-street, seve-
ral articles, viz. a blink coat and waistcoat, a pair of cor-
duroy small clothes, a shirt, two shifts, two shawls, and
a handkerchief, had been pledged ou the preceding night, and
they have all been identified as those which were taken from the
cottage; and the same night he succeeded in apprehending T.
Powell, the person who had pawned them in his own name, but
who. then denied the circumstance, though Mrs. Moore was
quite positive as to his identity. The next morning, however,
he acknowledged having pledged the articles, and said they
were given to him by W. Edwards, better known by the name of
" Codsall Will," who has since been apprehended, but he
denies the transaction altogether. A Coroner's Jury was sum-
moned by Henry Smith, Esq., on Friday, to the Mitre at
Essington, and the Gentlemen composing it took a view of
body, which was also inspected by a surgeon, but no examina-
tion was entered • into, and the inquiry was adjourned to Fri-
day next (this day.)—On Sunday, the interment took place at
Bushbury; and after the ceremony, the Rev. J. Close address-
ad the spectators on the subject of the melancholy scene they
had assembled to witness, by whicl• they were deeply affected.
—The deceased was upwards of 70 years orage, and was the
mother of' several children, who are all in creditable situations.
The cottage has a garden in front, and though on the turnpike
road, is in a lonely place, on the edge of Hilton-park, there
being no other house very near, and it had before been robbed
twice within the present year. Powell and Edwards are both
kept in safe custody in- this town. The former is about thirty
years of age, rather short and stoutly made, very fresh
coloured, and has remarkably straight black hair ; he comes
from the neighbourhood of Staftbrcl, and on Monday under-
went an examination at our Police-oflice, and was committed
on a charge of breaking into the house of Charles Marshall,
near Penkridge, on the 13th instant, and stealing some articles
of wearing apparel and a gold ring.
ANOTHER MUUDEtt.—An Inquisition was held at Tipton,
obnodtylie 012.1‘svtiIir bys.,oawnadterw
, adhjeon a verdicturnmentto ll
oflolnvdialfy.ullailstfuurapeornwtlasie
returned against Jas. Lunt, under the following circumstances,
as detailed in the evidence :—On Saturday, the 18th instant,
a pit's company, consisting of thirty men, who worked at the
Moat Colliery, assembled in the hovel at six o'clock in the
evcning to drink, and several of them, among whom was Bo-
water anti II tint, remained till twelve at night, when they all
left, and no quarrelling had been heard between them. hunt
and Bowater proceeded towards their homes at Cosely, and
when on the road were heard wrangling, and Hunt used these
expressions—" If you don't be saiet, earsing and blackguarding
me, I'll strike you ;" and " Bill I am not able to stand against
you."—Shortly after Bowater was found lying upon the ground,
the blood- flowing copiously from the left thigh, and being
asked what was the motif., replied, " Oh 1 good Lord, he has
stabbed me." Hunt was standing by, crying and tearing, his
hair. A chair was procured and the wounded man was taken to
a house which was near, but in so exhausted a state from the
loss of blood, that the only anewer he medalo questions put to
him was, " Let me lie down ;" and in about 20 minutes after
he expired before surgical assistance was obtained. Hunt ap-
peared in a state of great anxietyand distress, and repeatedly
called to Bowater, " Do, God bless,you, Billy, speak to me ;,
but lie wits so taint that lie could not reply. From the exami-
nation of the body by a surgeon, it app4hrs that the wound on
the thigh is about two inches and a half leak and three inches
deep, which seems to have been inflicted V a knife, or some
very sharp instrument, and there is also a wound in the
inside of the left arm. Hunt has absconded, and has not since
been beard of..