The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-12 00:00:00

THE NEW BItUNSWIUK TRAGEDY.

Extract from a private letter, dated New Brunswick, April 3.
" Robinson seems now to relent, and has confessed his crime
in the most hideous form. He says he called upon Mr. Suy-
dam the night before the murder and invited him to his house
under the pretence of paying off the note and 300 dollars on
the bond and mortgage—that he was prepared to assault him
on his entry, and had placed his hatchet in the side-light of
the front door, intending as he pissed in to seize it and make
the attack ; but Mr. Suydam came in the back door, which
frustrated this plan. They went into the basement story, and
Mr. ;,,Suydam entered into firmiiar conversation about the
house, remarked to him that he was getting along well,
and would soon be through, &c but seemed to
k, ep his eye on his guilty associate, who had
taken up a mallet. They passed into the first story, and there
Robinson said to Mr. S. that his wife had gone out for pen and
ink and would soon return. Mr. S. replied, "111 walk out a
few minutes and return again, by that time she may be in,"
and advanced to the door. Robinson stepped behind him and
and struck the blow with the mallet, which threw off his hat
and brought him on his hands and knees—a second blow
brought tam to the floor. Lie then went clown to prepare the
grave, and whilst digging he .heard a noise up stairs, and re-
turned, and found Mr. S. on his hands and knees, and at the
moment tfsok his hand atol wired the bloo*t front his eyes, at.d
said in a faint voice, " Oh Peter, ph I Peter." '1 here words
the convict says ring continually in his ear. lie then gate
the latal blow and earri?tt him down stairs and let him lay till
the grave was finished."

DEATH OF A CLEtt O TIVIA N.—A Baptist clergyman, named
King Griswell, was recently killed at (: incinnatt by violence.
The Chrouiele of that city sass : —lie was, we undcrstaed, a
Baptist clergyman, labouring in the we,,tern part of the city,
and was killed in consequence of offence taken at some uf his
remarks. N e have thought it proper to supreis names and
to give no farther particulars unsil an offi,..i d examination is
had. The violence was committed, we undo, stan t, last Friday,
and the unfortunate sufferer expired ye,tei s'ay.
ANOTHER, Muti.DEß.—Bennet Itlartin, of Pooe county,
recently killed a man by the name of Si,oota, with a -knife, at
Clarksville, Johnson county. Court being in session at the
time, the Graod Jury found a true bill for murder. After
committing the act, lie endeavoured to make his escape by
running, and for several hundred yards outstepped all of his
ur•suers • he was finally overtaken, and is now safely cabined.
the venue has been chinged, however, to Yell county, which
may be something 'in favour of the prisoner. Ala, tin is well
known throughout the State. He is a lawyer, acid is a Whig
delegate from ti is State ti the ilarrisbourg Convention, which
nominates+ General Hariis ;0 tor the Presidency.—Fayettville
(Ark.) Witness.
SLA VI:S.-111e Hibernia, which arrived to-slay from Rio
Janeiro, reports the arrival of the 13, iris iirLt' of war, the
Fawn, with slave:, captured oit the coast of At, iQa. Three
hundred and eighty were captured, and one hundred and forty
died on the passage._Montreal Courier.

_RAND ,ONCEItT FOR THE BENEFIT OF
THE WIDOW AND FAMILY OF THE LATE CELEBRATED
PERFORMER ON THE CLARIONET, MR. WILLMAN.—We
understand that Mr. Laporte has very kindly given the_ gra-
tuitous use of the Concert-room at the Opera House for Mon
day morning, the 28th instant, and that Mesdames Grisi, Per-
sia•ii' and Viardot Garcia, together with Tamburini, Rubini,
and Lablache, have, through the kindness of M. Costa and
M. Laporte, volunteeted their services its this noble work of
charity. The Committee who have the arrangement have
unanimously requested 51. Costa to conduct the concert. The
Philharmonic and Opera bands lend their aid. The principal
German at iista alo come forward on the occasion. Vieuxtemps
proffers his valuable services. Some of the best English
singers contribute their talents, and we may fairly anticipate
not only the most splendid concert of the season, but that thy'
ie,ult will he such an ass•stance to the widow and fim ly of the
tale nt eodf professorwant. as will place them permanently bey,md, the
reach
No POPERY.—It will be seen that a rabble
of disorderly characters, after breaking up an Anti -Corn-law
meeting in Great George's-place, on Wednesday, amused
themselves by shattering the windows of the school attached
to St. Patrick's Chapel. How far they might have gone,
but for the interference of the police, we cannot tell ; but
we suppose that this is to be • taken as an ebullition of that
spirit which 'the Rev. H. M'Neile, and other orators of the
Protestant • Association, have been so sedulously endea-
vcuring te evoke for political purposes. Mr. M'Neile
has, on several occasions, shouted " No Popery."
Ile will, probably, do so again at the meeting
i
of the ‘• Protestant Operative Association," which is to
boe heldubt
that
this i
thes y
eveningelwll be re-echoed at the coming election.
in the Amphitheatre ; and we have no
The Rev. Gentleman is reported to have said, in one of his
sermons, delivered about two years ago; that Catholic chapels
must come down by fair means or :foal. Probably he spoke
only metaphorically, but be should remember that many of his
ignorant and prejudiced hearers at amphitheatrical gatherings
do not understand metaphors, that some of them, as was nearly
the case on Wednesday evening, may act literally upon his text,
and, furthermore, that this is a sort of game that two may Flay
"It appears from an
official document that the number of suicides
in France increases each year. In the year 1839 they amount-
at.— Liverpool Mercury.
SUICIDES
IN
recentlyF
R publishedA/%7 E .
ed to :1,747, being 161 more than in 1838, 304 more than in
1837, and 407 more than in 1836. The department of the
Seine figures for 484
nearly one-fifth of the entire. 633 fe-
males are returned amongst the suicides. Each period of life,
from infancy to old age, has paid its tribute to this malady.
There are 2 children of from 8 to 9 years of age, 2of 11,
1 of 12, 2of 13, 3of 14, 9of 15, 147 of 16 to 21, 335 of
60, 189 o$ 70, and 41 of tO. The means most frequently usf'd
to destroy life axe submersion and strangulation. 958
duals drowned themselves, 816 hung themithes, IE4 suffo•
sated ther4elves with the tartee of which eppeers
to be the principal mode resorted to by the
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