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

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of Lord Stanley. When they knocked at the door time "-'
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
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John Peppard, Esq., near Toomavara, on Sunday morn-
ing last, and robbed that gentleman of various property,
threatening his life the while.
Various other outrages and robberies of the most
enormous character are recorded in the samejournaL
Mr. P. G. Barron, stipendiary magistrate, is appointed
to the Limerick distiict, in'place of Mr. Yokes, retired.
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power.
A jury have awarded 1,1001. to Lord Portarlington
and his under-tenants for his Lordship's ground, re-
quired by the Waterford 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 paii!,
rid 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 landed from the Arklow boats which took
them out of the wreck, bereft of all the little store
which they possessed upon the earth. Our 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, displayed the greatest attention to
the wants and comforts of the distressed emigrants, had
the unhappy suffeiers placed in the spacious yard ad-
joining his stores until they could be assembled 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, Mr
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 ACCIDENT.—On Saturday evening,
about seven o'clock, two horsebreakers in the service of
Mr. Wragg, liverystable 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
the street. The passengers rushed in terror across the road
and into the houses, and a painter, who was upon a ladder,
painting the front of a house had barely time to pitch
himself off his ladder when the break knocked it down
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 poor 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 daiver tugging
with all his strength at the rein to get him into the
road, but uselessly, as the next instant it dashed is the
corner of a baker's window, and, bounding off again,
came into such violent contact with an iron post in the
kerb, that the post and three large flagstones were torn
out of the pavement and scattered about, and the two
men in the break dashed out of it. One of them 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 carried to the house of a neigh-
bouring surgeon. The horse then went on down Clifton-
street North, which is terminated by a high brick wall,
forming the
.back of
,some manufacturing premises, and
on finding itself checked by this obstruction, turned
swiftly round and dashed into a private house at the bot-
tom, the door of 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 fell upon the stair-
case, apparently without injury. But small hopes are
entertained of the child's recovery.
THE Boy D EA.N. —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. He 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
6,0001 and 7,0001. The removal of so large a number of houses
has caused rents to be increased abutting on the line from 1$
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 SCHOOL, 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 Hon. Sir Robert Peel for the best
Latin prose essay, has been awarded to 11. E. Hutton. The
exercises also of Hewlett, sen., T. S. Scott, T. Collier, and
Carmichael Smyth, sen., were mentioned as deserving the
highest commendation.
Comasiosr AND LOSS AT SEA.—FALMOUTH, APRIL
this morning with bowsprit sprung, having on the evening of
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THE DUKE AND THE QUACKS.—Observing the
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. P. 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.
afternoonlßlSH two
IMMIGRATION.—On Sunday
from Dublin, arrived in the River, of_l6s Alderman
Irish paupers, men,
steamers, the Prussian Eagle, from Cork,.
Lower East Smithfield, with 1,200 1
• most wretched state
who appeared in a
women, and children,
- Muted about Wapping, St.
and the
of distress. They were distributed
George's-in -t repaired i
to varousShadwell quarters of the
and , until
the evening, N
metropolis.
REPRESENTATION Or GREENWICH.—We under-
stand that
Greenwich, it is the intention ofa
in the event of a vacancy occurring in the repre-
sentation a hveen a stti,,eyhel,
large and
in-
fluential portion of the constituency to put in nomination
David Williams Wire, Esq., of Stonehouse, Lewisham, for a
seat in that borough.

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brought into operation at as early a period as possible.--
United
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 3,139
quarters, and that the imports in that interval were 179,901
quarters.
LORD MORPETH AND THE WESLEYANS.—A mem-
ber of the V, esleyan body in Wakefield, having written to
Lord Morpetb, on the subject of state education, has received
tlhBe47f.olloswiri,n—glrebpelgyt:o—a‘c• t Fii oe re s t s O
receiptffioc ef ,
your I
letpteAril,:
opinions you express;
acknconcurowledgedt h 0
and am sorry I cannot
but I am happy to know that my views harmonise with
those of the Conference representing the influential and
respectable body of which you are a member. I am, &c..
MonmEt. To Mr. , Wakefield."—Manchester
Guardian.

ITALIAN PRODUCE.—A vessel arrived from Leg-
horn has brought an exceedingly various cargo, the produc-
tion of the Italian States, comprisicg 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 Wes of silk, 502 of wool,
and 33 tons weight of pozzolana. We believe that both the
articles rice and copper ore are unusual importations, if not
entire novelties, from the country mentioned.