The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-09 00:00:00

310INUMENT To MR. O'CONNELL
Yesterday a numerous meeting -of the citizens .
Dublin was held at the Royal Exchange, at which the
Lt,rd Mayor presidt d, for the purpose of passing resara.
tions and forming a committee, pledgink the people of
Ireland to erect a n.onutnent to the memory or Mr.
O'Connell.

The Lome MAYOR, on taking the chair, said that the
meeting had been convened by him in compliant-es wick
requisitions which he had received from a !reat numb
of the principal cities and towns in Ireland, the infra.
bit ants of which had propesed that measures should be
taken for the purpose of erecting a suitable intesueeem
to the liberator of his country, Daniel O'Connell,
Mr. John Flancdy was appointed secretary.
The meeting was briefly addressed by Mr. Edmund
Smithwick, Doctor Gray, Messrs. J. D. Mullen, Alder.
man MacLoughlin, A. J. Maley (barrister), and Sir
Percy Nugent, Bart. The several speakers heartily
supported the object for which the meeting was called,
Mr. MALEY, in seconding a resolution which had
been moved by Aldermen M'Loughlin, said that
when he saw the advertisement by which the meet-
ing had been convened, the first impression that
crossed his mind was, that O'Connell did not want
this monument, because he had built up a monument
for himself which could only be destroyed when civiliza-
tion should become extinguished.—(Cheers.) Bat
Ireland had a duty to perform not only to O'Connell
but
to herself. She bad been accused of ingratitude
to some of her most illustrious sons ; and, unfortu-
nately, in the
present case, she would be exposed
to the charge of ingratitude, for she never could
be sufficiently grateful to O'Connell.—
monument that would be erected shou(Ch be s a
) The
meet that should do justice to Irish feeling; f
rld .
O'Con-
nell had been the greatest benefactor that frel and or
England had ever seen, for there hal
nota step taken by O'Connell towards achieving
Catholic Emancipation, that did not consolidate
the force and strength of the British empire; and
be (Mr. Maley) had the testimony of two of the greatest
men of the present day—Sir Robert Peel and the Duke
of Wellington—to sustain his opinion on the subject.
They had struggled against him until they found him
too power!td, and they then came forward and said that
he left them no alternative but to yield to his policy or
reril the existence of the British empire by a civil
war —(Cheers.)
Sir PERCY NUGENT, in moving the next resolution,
said that he had heard of the meeting but only a few
minutes ago, being but a contingent visitor to the
city. lie felt bound to express his admiration of the
agency of the great departed spirit, and particularly
called upon to bear this last testimony to his departed .
shade.—(Ch( ors.) He had felt from his earliest day and
always acknowledged the greatness of o:Connell's
energy, and felt proud in having in his possession several
testimonials of that great man, approving of his conduct.
—(Cheers.) The reaolution which he bad the honour
of proposing referred. to a m, eting which would be held
at a future day, and the mode in which the object wee
to be carried out, and by that means he had the gratifi-
cation of stating that the question would be more widely
extended, inasmuch as it would reach the heart of
everybody, and reanimate that feeling to which
through life he gave spirit and animation.—(Cheers.) He
called upon the aristocracy to co-operate in a testimonial
of respect to O'Connell, for it was they who had bene-
fited most by his exertions, and while others had been
placed on the high road to preferment, they had already
reaped the benefit of his labours.—(Cheers.)
The committee was then formed, and a subscription
list opened, shortly after which the meeting adjourned.
—Dub/in Evcniny Post.

DEATH FROM FOUL .AIR.—On Saturday an in-
quest was held by Mr. Beaford, the Westminster-Co-
roner, at the Crown public-house, Long-acre, on the •
body of George Gross, aged 30 years, who died in a
lodging-house in Langley- court, under the following cir-
cumstances :—lt appeared from the evidence that, aboat
half past four o'clock on Friday afternoon, the deceased,
who was a lodger in the above house, was seen to go to
the privy in the yard, and shortly afterwards -he was
found lying on the ground outside the door, having ap—
parently fallen insensible outside of the closet. He was
raised by some men, and although a surgeon was imme-
diately sent for, life was extinct. The stench from the
water-closet was so overpowering, that the men who
raised the deceased were obliged to leave the spot. Mr.
Berry, surgeon, of James-street, Covent-garden, who
was called to see the deceased, said that the stench from
the closet was so horrible that he could not remain in it,
but had the body brought into the passage to examine it.
The odour was not confined to the house, but contami-
nated the whole neighbourhood. He smelt it at a dis-
tance of sixty yards off, and found the neighbours at
the doors complaining of it. The emanation was quite
sufficient to cause death. He had no doubt that deceased
died from the sudden escape of foul air. The whole of
that part of the parish was in a dreadful state from the
want of proper drainage. It was quite sufficient to pro-
duce some endemic fever, and he should not be surprised
if' it did. The inquest was ultimately adjourned, with
the view to further inquiry, and steps being taken to im-
prove the neighbourhood.
CUSTOM-HOUSE PROSECUTION.—IMPORTANT TO
LIGHTERMEN.—A case was on Saturday brought before
the Commissioners of Customs of considerable import-
ance to persons engaged on the Thames. It appeared
that on Thursday, on a Rotterdam steamer arriving off
Erith, three men, named Donohue, Wyles, and Price,
who were employed at a bdlast engine, observed tour
large packages thrown from the steamer into the river,
which proceeded, without altering its speed, towards
London. The men accordingly took a boat and soon
picked up the bales, which, upon examination, they found
to be leaf tobacco. It was then arranged between them,
that Donohue should attend to the engine, and that
Wyles and Price should bring the tobacco up to London,
and deliver it to the Custom. house authorit;es. The
following day Donohue, hearing nothing of the other
parties, had suspicions that all was not right, came up
to the Custom-house, to inquire whether the tobacco
had :been deposited there, and being answered in the
negative, it led to further investigation, and it was ulti-
mately ascertained that the tobacco bad been brougbt
up by a barge to the Surrey Canal, where a portion of
it bad been landed by Wyles and Price, with the view of
appropriating it to their own use. Messrs. C. A. Davis
and Charles Sabine, Custom-house officers, were soon on
the alert, and succeeded in taking them into custody.
The remainder of the tobacco was found in the cabin of
the barge, which has been placed under seizure. -These
facts having been proved, the prisoners have been com-
mitted to Maidstone Gaol. It is rather a singular fact,
from information recently received, that the person who
was to have been ready to receive the tobacco on the
arrival of the vessel at Frith, was taken into custody by
Mr. Davis, only a few days previously, for being found
with a large quantity of smuggled tobacco in his pos-
session. his absence, therefore, has led to the event
above described.
STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon
tea accident of a frightful nature occurred to a young
man in the employ of the Iron Steamboat Company.
It appears that the Clarendon steam vessel, coming down
tho river, had, iu the endeavour to avoid one of the large
Greenwich steamers, come in contact with one of the
piers
paddle boxes. The unfortunate young mail, who was on
board of the vessel, stepped to the side to ascertain the
extent of the damage done, and while he was leaning on
the remnant of the paddle-box aid busily engaged in
removing the debris of broken wood, iron, &c., the Childe
Harold steam-vessel, which was moving stern foremost
caught his loins and jammed him against the woodwork.
The vessel then swung round, and the stern rails rolled
the unfortunate man round several times against the
woodwork, on which he had been leaning, and be then
fell back into the stern of the Childe Harold. The
pressure upon his body was so great that the dress be
wore was completely severed in the centre, as if cut with
a knife. When taken up he was quite senseless, and be
was put into a blanket and conve) ed to St. Thomas's
Hospital, where he now lies with little hope of his
t
reco-
very. No blame whatever is to be attributed s
eth
persons on board of either of the vessels, as the sufferer
was
was loudly called to to get out of the way when I
perceived that a collision was inevitable.

STRANGE ACCIDENT.—Mr. Body, of Liskeard
parish. whilst going home from the nomination, on Fri-
day last, with his son, both in a saato of intoxication,
fell into the Liskeard and Looe Canal, and was drowned.
'rho son called into a neighbouring house, leaving hi 3
ithhut M
froj inßdo'lli) l' e under.
extinct.. A
father asleep in the cart; and the horse being thirsty,
went to a little stream of water near the canal, and the
surgeon
etoutrins:as immediately
doverin the canal carial
called,w
Deronshire independent.
.TLIE APPLICATION OF ETIIEK—A
_removed. from the head of Mr. Rennold tumour was
Mill, by Mr. Huntley, of Howdon . son, Of Walker
fluence of sulphuric ether a few days, while under the in.
minutes transpired before it took e ago. Abot;t ten
was accomplished without any ect, end the removal
ration Mr. Rennoldson answeredpain. During the ope-
when it gas over he inquired whether
a quetion or two, find
ready to comtnence. ; vhetlier the surgeon was
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ACCIDENTstIe Guardian.
ON THE
RAILwAY YORK AND SCARBOROUGII
dangerous
and Scarborough itail
.• accident occurred on the York
train w hick leaves Yot k" aY
on Friday afternoon. The
when traversing the at three o'clock wit off the line
.extensive embankment at Hutton,
and some of the car
rails. ' Ihe stoker was,
gies were overturned between the
,anidowever, the only person in the
train who was injured' it is hoped his injuries are
accident not very serious. The is stated to have arisen
from the
jumping of the engine, which was an old one.—
Scarborough Gazette.
THE CARLISLE MURDERER.--,C,ARUSLE, FRIDAY.
—J ha Thompson, who was es!erday convicted of
poisoning his wife, and ordered for execution, freely
coule,sed his crime this morning', though he loudly pro-
tested 1.1L3 innocence to the Jadge, and after the removal
to the cell. He admits that the inferential evidence
against him was quite correct, arid that he did adminster
the poison, in order to get rid of one whom he had
solemnly pledged himself to love and cherish. lie says
his trind is much relieved by this dish urti,k
entnent and
there is now no doubt that he wdl die a penitent. His
execution is certain.

A considerable quantity of mackerel Were brought
in on Thursday morning by our tishernwn, uud reali,ed
about 245, per hundred.—Brighton Paper.
A Vienna letter of the 30th alt., in the Rurentbeig Correspondent, rr,ttes that the Austrian Government has countermanded the order for the march of troops to
Italy.

'lle Augsburg Gazette states that serious distur-
bAnces have taken place 'among the peasants at Roetz, in
Lower Austria,-and that a detachment of infantry has
been sent thither from Kreme. •
• Henry M`Mahon, a surgeon in the 87th Reg-in:gut,
has: been takkri into eusitp.ly .en a judge-s warrant, for
forging a receipt for 271. 14s. J. ou Luke. Horner, Otko,".
maker, of Pill. He was removed in ouSto0). (0 the St -
61011.—ilfunntouthshit6