The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-05 00:00:00

CIVIL LIST-PENSIONS.

An Account of the Total Amount of Pensions granted in
each Year ending he 20h day of Ju.
From 14 February, 1828, t
to 20t June, 1828.n..e.£1,229
The Year ending 20 June, 1829... 1,830
Ditto
1830... 6,353
Ditto
1831... 5,401
Ditto 1832... 2,638
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto .. 1836... 1,310
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
R. GORDON.
Whitehall Treasury Chambers, Feb, 24, 1840.

HORRIBLE CRUELTY IN IRELAND--The
ease of Holland and wife, tried last week at the Limerick
Assizes, has excited considerable interest in that quarter. The
particulars will be collected from the sentence passed on the
prisoners by Mr. Justice Perrin last Saturday. His Lordship,
in a feeling manner, addressed them as follows :—Phillip
Henry Holland and Frances Holland, you have been indicted
in several numbers for that you did make an assault on one
Mary Anne Alcock, she being a child of tender yew's; and a
servant under the control of you, Phillip Henry Holland, and
with divers whips, rods and cords, did beat, assault, and wound
the said child, so as to inflict grievous bodily harm on her ;
you have been also indicted for assaulting and wounding the
said child, and in like manner for assaulting one Henry Pugo-
las, and cruelly using him, so as to inflict on him grievous
bodily harm, he being a servant, and under the control of you,
Phillip Henry Holland. You have been tried by a county Jury,
of your own selection, and after an ample investigation, a most
able and ingenious defence, a full and deliberate trial, you have
been convicted in those several numbers, of cruelly ill-using
those children who were committed to your care, and
whom it was your bounden duty to protect. Whatever view we
take of your conduct, whether in respect to the mere interests
ot the master, or the improved condition of a large body of our
fellow-creatures—namely, our domestic servants—a class whom,
I am sorry to say, it is but too common to decry—who contri-
bute largely to our comforts in this life, and bear a heavy share
•.f its burdens; it is our duty to protect that class from the ca-
prices of temper, gusts of passion, and overbearing cruelty of
domestic tyranny and unrestrained feelings, which would fre-
qaently be the means of inflicting on them cruel and unlawful
punishment. It is now my painful office to pronounce the
sentence of the law. Wi'h respect to you, Phillip Henry Hol-
land, your offence is much aggravated by the circumstance of
your countenancing and encouraging your wife in the commis-
sion of those acts of cruelty, instead of exercising that advice
and wholesome restraint, which your relation towards her coun-
selled and admitted. The sentence of the Court, therefore, is,
that you Phillip Henry Holland, and you Frances Holland, be
each imprisoned for the space of nine calendar months, and that
you be each kept one week in every six in solitary confinement,
and that you Phillip Henry Holland do pay a fine to her Ma-
jesty of 500/,

ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING IN CHORLTON-
UPON-MEDLOCK.—A requisition, signed by ninety-gve rate-
payers,
having been presented to Messrs. R. Pilling and
S.
Seed, Constables of the township of Chorlton-upon--Medloek,
requesting them to call a public meeting of the inhabitants of
the township, " for the purpose of considering the propriety of
petitioning the House of Commons for a total and immediate
repeal of the present Corn-laws; the Constables, in oomph-
apee with the requisition, convened a public meeting for the
above purpose, which was held in the large room of the Town
Hall, Grosvenor-square, on Monday evening last. After a
cro9cl deal of eloquent oratory, resolutions for a total and irnme.
Pi* rPpe4l were go;pliqloyly adopted:—Manc4qter ford,
817RnEy MW4ING;--(14 Saturday a county
meeting was held at Guildford before thy High Sheriff, to ad-
dress her Majesty and her Royal Spouse on the happy event of
her marriage.