The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

HARVEST PROSPECTS.—WC are still blessed with
the finest weather, and there is every appearance of its
continuance. It is quite delightful to read the accounts
from the country—all giving the most cheering accounts
of the prospects of the Harvest.
CAVAN ELECTION.—To permit Colonel Clements to
remain for Cavan is censurable. It is really discredit-
able to the Liberals that some effective effort has not
been made to rescue Cavan from the Tories. All that
is required to beat them from the field is timely exer-
tion, and cordial co-operation on the part of the great
Liberal proprietors and the people.—Dublin Evening
Post.

AN INJURED MAN.—The following " affair of ho-
nour" occurred on Saturday at Henry-street Office,
when Mr. F. W. Beaumont was brought before Mr.
Duffy, of the " C division," charged with having writ-
ten a hostile letter to Captain Ellisson, of the 88th
Regiment, now stationed in Richmond Barracks. Mr.
Beaumont being under the impression that Captain
Ellisson bad taken some liberties with his lady, sent him
a challenge to meet him at half-past three o'clock
on Saturday morning in the Fifteen Acres. Mr. B.
was in the park at the appointed hour, but Captain
E. did not make his appearance at all upon 4. the
daisy." A figure was seen by Mr. B. approaching
through the trees. Nearer and nearer it came, till at
length a youg man of very respectable appearance pre-
sented himself to view. " I prerume," said Mr. 8., ad-
dressing the stranger, "you are second to Capt. Ellis-
son. It is very unfortunate that I cannot procure a
second. One gentleman was sick, and another was out
of town. Neither have I any pistols ; but," added he,
with the sang froid of a Sir Lucius O'Trigger, " I
came here for fighting, and fight I will. You, of course,
have brought pistols, and as for a second, why you can
officiate for both principals." " I am not a second,"
said the person addressed, "but Police-Sergeant Clarke,
of the C division, and I have a warrant in my pocket to
arrest you." " Oh," exclaimed the amazed Mr. 8.,
" is it possible that the fellow has given information
himself." Sergeant Clarke waited with Mr. B. in the
park for some time expecting that either Cap-
tain Ellisson or his second would arrive ; and
finding that neither came, he called a car and
brought Mr. B. to Dublin. Mr. B. told the officer
that he had been married to his wife in the Straw
market, but that if he had married her according t 3
the ceremony of the established religion, he would
bring an action for " trim. con." against the Gallant
Captain.

Mr. Beaumont was directed by Mr. Duffy to find
bail to keep the peace, himself in 1001., and two sure-
ties of 50/. each. At twelve o'clock, he was brought
into the board-room again, by order of Mr. Duffy, who
asked him if he had found his bail. He replied that
he bad written for gentlemen, but be feared they could
not come to him till it was late in the day.

SUNDERLAND, Auch 3.—The remains of the
Earl of Durham arrived here in his yacht between seven and
eight o'clock this morning. The shops have been all half
closed during the day, and the ships in the river have had their
colours flying half-mast high. The remains were removed
from the yacht at five o'clook this afternoon, and placed in a
steam vessel to be conveyed up the river to South Biddick,
where a hearse and coaches will be waiting to carry them to
Lambton Castle. It is understood his Lordship will be buried
at Chester-le-street, on Monday, the 10th, or Tuesday, the
11th instant.
MR. BRAHAM.—A good deal has been said by
some of our contemporaries respecting the little encourage-
ment Mr. Braham received on his recent visit to Stamford.
The fact is, that his intended appearance there had not been
announced in any of the provincial newspapers, owing to the
shortness of the notice, and very fee bills could be posted
stating his arrival and intentions. On the night of his benefit,
however, the house was crammed to the roof, and he was re-
quired to repeat all his favourite songs in The Sla"e, and, if
we mistake not, in The Waterman. So far there can be no
just imputation on the inhabitants of Stamford for not duly en-
couraging a British singer of so much eminence; but we can-
not help adding that we think Mr. Braham was somewhat to
blame in accepting an engagement so suddenly that no use
could be made of the ordinary channels of information.
William James, Esq., 11. P., a few days ago had
an operation performed upon one of his eyes, of which he had
nearly lost the use, by Mr. Liston, the eminent surgeon, by
which it is expected he will entirely recover his is
Car_
lisle Journal.
THE the merits of the case referred
to to bYH"E LAW.—O
Constant. Reader we we know nothing beyond the
fact that the young man was discharged from custody last
week after having been incarcerated for nine years, simply, as
would seem, for denying the validity of a Commission of Bank-
ruptcy issued out against him, and subsequently not satisfying
the Commissioners on the subject of a sum of money. Butyg
in
al-
'though we are not in a condition to go into the case of I
Squires we fully concur with our Correspondent in the •
convic-
tion that " the law is too frequently perverted to the basestur-
poses by the unprincipled and unscrupulous." Its anomalies
Under
a grantinjustice,
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ought to be removed, its abuses corrected,perpetroastt fled.
and the liberty of the
subject be better guarded against invasion.
law the most atrocious cruelty, the m
be,
HORTICULTURAL
frequentlyldcouubLt,TußALSOClETY. --
The ordinary
meeting was held on Wednesday afternoon, R. J. Webb, Esq.,
in the chair. Several presents were announced, amongst which
was a copy of the Pomona Bataviana, with another work from
Lawrence,
prizes
Bristol. The
sthileveli,rlathreq,ulaelsstoofm
awarded were, a large
Knightian medals to Mr for her general collection ; sil-
ver Young, for miltonia spectabilis,P aamnpdlii‘nle.fopr
ehaheatfhosr,
tahned
same
ewerians, and Mr. Mor
plant ; and silver Bank i
-as an medals to Mr. Pratt, for erica
kept at the garld'heein itrt,,7agar
jduevn: to the Duke of New-
castle, for grapes.
barometer, highest, Julys' h, 30.171
extractf from the mateorological re-
gisterg
29.622 in. Thermometer, highest, Augustl
isnt
.tto lowest,3 lAugusts7
Julyd4et hg
.Fsat.‘he;
lowest, July 31st, 45 deg. and qua ntity of rain', 0.90 inch.
The meeting adjourned to August 18th.
Louis Philippe is to leave Paris for the Chateau
; D'Eu on the sth. M. Thiers is to follow on the 7th, there t
find M. Guizot, who comes from London Co meet the King

' and the Prinse:/11inister. M. Bourqueney, First Secretary of
Embassy, returns to London, to attend to business during the
absence of M. Guizot. The Presse says, that all Russian
officers now at Paris have received orders to join their respective
head-quarters; and that the French Chambers are to be called
together for the 25th of September.
His Grace the Duke of Leeds has been pleased
to appoint the Rev. H. Jodrell, B. A., Exeter College, Oxford,
one of his domestic chaplains.
•
' Lord Albemarle came up to the Queen's Mews
expressly from the Stud-house at Hampton Court to transact
official business relating to the approaching ceremonial of the
prorogation of Parliament by her Majesty in person.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--On Tuesday
last, at St. George's, Hanover-square, Miss Fanny Le Poor
Trench, eldest daughter of the late gallant Lieut.-General Sir
Robert Le Poer Trench, was united to Major Burrowes. The
bride is niece to the late Earl of Clancarty and Lord Clonbrock.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF CORNWALLIS.
—We Teave to announce the death of the above estimable lady,
which took place on Monday last at the family mansion in Hill.
street after a long illness. Her Ladyshipwas Miss Laura Hayes,
daughter of Mr. W. Hayes, and was married in January, 1829,
to the Earl of Cornwallis, being his second wife. The deceased
lady had no issue. By her Ladyship's decease the families of
Lord and Lady Bi aybrooke, the Dowager Marchioness of Corn-
wallis, Mr. and Lady Mary Ross, Lord and Lady Jemima Eliot,
Mr. and Lady "Mary Singleton, &c., are placed in mourning.
Vice Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., has been
placed in mourning by the demise of his daughter, the Countess
Charlotte 13riedenback, at Darmstadt, on the 18th ult. She
was in the prime of life, and had been married about three years.
TII E OPERA.—Her Majesty's Theatre will
close for the season on Saturday se'nnight, when the manage-
ment will have given the usual number of subscription nights,
viz., fifty. The season has been unusually brilliant, and has
afforded a handsome profit to the moneyed speculators who
lease the establishment, after deducting the salary to the
director (11. Laporte.) The prima donna Giulietta Grisi,
accompanied by Ernesta Grisi and M. Benedict, depart on a
provincial tour on the 16th and 17th. They give concerts at
Leamington Spa. Cerito will leave for Stuttgardt, where the
manger of the Royal Theatre in that capital has engaged her,
by direction of hi Majesty the King of Wirtemberg. Madame
Persiani goes to Paris, where, we are sorry to state, her
only son is in very ill health. The last rehearsal of the new
ballet, Le Toreador, last evening, went off extremely well.
Mr. Fottescue, of Ravensdale, the new M.P. for
Louth, on the occasion of his return to Parliament for that
county, liberally paid the debts of the 12 indigent debtors in
the county gaol. _ _

The llev. Dr. Warneford, whose munificent
support of pious works it has frequently been our pleasure to
record, has presented 2004 towards the endowment of a new
church, to be built near the King's Parade, Clifton.
AFFECTING STORY.—A recent letter from
Omek, in Siberia, relates the following affecting tale :—" A
young woman, only twenty, of striking, beauty, and one of the
most distinguished families in St. Petersburgh, was condemned
three years ago to labour in the mines for the rest of her life,
for having, in a paroxysm of jealousy, killed her husband.
Her youth and mildness of character induced the Governor, in-
stead of sending her down into the mines, to appoint her one of
the superintendents of the hospital at Omek. Induced by the
great propriety of her conduct, the governor petitioned, some
time ago, for and obtained her pardon. On this being com-
municated to her she was overcome with gloom, and a few days
afterwards was discovered in her room lifeless, having opened
her veins by means of a large nail. She left the following
written on a card :—" Death tor death ! Human justice par-
dons 4.1 e, but divine justice never can. God calls me to him
—whom I loved, whom I murdered, but whom I still love.
Adieu! Pardon me ! Pray for me ! Pray fur me !"—French
Paper.

TH
E LATE MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT
Cons.—On Tuesday and Wednesday an inquest was held
upon the bodies of Lieut. Lawless, 11Ir. Hugh Roche, and Mr.
Paul Welland, who lost their lives by the upsetting of a boat
in the Cove of Cork. The facts of this melancholy catas •
trophe have already been fully detailed in our paper. The ver-
dicts to which the Jury came were that the deceased lost their
lives by the upsetting of a boat in Cork Harbour on Saturday,
the 18th of July. Major Rogers who was one of those rescued
from the late which attended the others, has since died.
BODY OF A CHILD FOUND IN THE THAMES.
On Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Payne,
at the White Swan, Upper Thames-street, on the body of a
new-born female infant, name unknown. Verdict—" Found
dead in the river, but whether the child had ever lived there
was no precise evidence to prove."
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN TILE REGENT'S
PA nc.—Detwcen four and five o'clock this morning as William
Holsden, police constable, No. 82 of the S division, was pro-
ceeding on duty in the Regent's Park, near to the Zoological
Gardens, he discovered a man, very respectably dressed, lying
beside the fence, with a cut on the left side of the throat, of be-
tween three and four inches in length and two inches in depth.
A razor covered with blood was lying beside him. He was
quite insensible, and was removed to University Coll.gc Hos-

lie is not expected to survive. Nothing was found on
his person tending to discover who he was. Only a few half-
pence were found in one of his pockets. He appears to be
about forty years of age, about 5 feet 7 inches high, and darkish
hair. He was dressed in a black frock coat and waistcoat, dark
trousers, Blucher boots, a check shirt (unwashed), and over it
a cambric front.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER —This
morning, between six and seven o'clock, a fatal accident oc-
curred off Southwark-bridge to James Hatfield, a youth twelve
years of age, residing in Castle-street, Southwark. He was
ridin g on a plank in the river with other lads, when he slipped
off, and was drowned. The rest were saved by swimming.
lIAYMARKET THEATRE.—Last night was
devoted to the benefit of Mrs. Hughes, the widow of Mr.
Hughes, for many years a most useful member of Drury-lane
Theatre, and the zealous Secretary of the Drury-lane Fund.
We arc happy to state that the house was crowded. Miss
Tree appeared on the occasion as Portia, Mr. Charles Kean as
Shylock, and Mr. Webster as Launeelot.

Three thousand six hundred and forty-one pas-
sengers landed at the Swan Pier on Sunday last from the
Chelsea Irun steamers, independent of those that arrived at the
Cadogan pier by other steamers. _
_ _

. .
NAlutow ESCAPE.—On Tuesday afternoon,
three of the river police, named Luton, King, and Griffin, were
passing the Hermitage lock, Wapping, in a galley, when the
people on board the Antreerpea steamer hailed them, and said
a boy had just fallen overboard from a Scotch smack at Iron-
gate stairs. 'I hey rowed after him, and found him drifting
down the stream towards a tier of steam vessels. The boat
hook was put out, but he disappeared before it could reach
him. The officers rowed on, and saw him rise again to the
surface under the head of a steamer, and in a few seconds he
would have disappeared beneath the vessel, when King put his
' arm down and laid hold of him by the hair of his head, and,
with the assistance of Griffin and Luton, dragged him into the
boat. He was quite insensible and black in the face but on the
application of the usual stimulants, and a little rubbing, he was
recovered, and the first words the boy (who is a native of Scot-
land) uttered after his recovery were, " I had a canny swim
for it." It appears that he fell overboard while making the
ship's boat fast. _ _

CAVAN.—Colonel Clements, a Conservative,
has addressed the constituency of Cavan, offering himself as a
candidate for the seat in its representation, vacant by the re-
tirement of the Hon. S. R. Maxwell. Wednesday the 12th of
August is the day fixed by the Sheriff for the election.
STEAM TO THE MEDITERRANEAN.-- The
first of the Royal Mail Contract Steamers, The Oriental,
will
sail this month from Liverpool to Alexandria, landing passen-
gers and goods at Malta, in the lonian Islands, and in Greece.
We understand that a line of Steamers will sail from Suez, in
connexion with the Mediterranean line, touching at Aden, in
Arabia, at the Island of Ceylon, and at Madras, on the pas.
sage to Calcutta. The steamers of the Mediterranean will
leave Liverpool once a month.— Liverpool Tines.
THE WEATHER IN IRELAND.—Nothing can
be more propitious than the weather. Heat, sun, wind—every-
thing that the heart of man could desire for bringing to perfec-
tion the prospects of harvest held out by a bounteous Provi-
dence.—Mail.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF COMMONS, AUGUST 5.
CASE OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR.

Lord J. RUSSELL having moved the Order of the
Day for going into Committee on Ways and Means,
Mr. AGLIONBY rose, pursuant to notice, to move
" That an humble Address be presented to her Ma-
jesty, that she will be graciously pleased to direct that
a Commission may be issued to inquire into the
allegations contained in the petition of Mr. Fear-
gus O'Connor, presented to this House on the
Ist day of June last, and into what has been and
now is his treatment in York Castle :—Also, to inquire
into what has been and now is the treatment of prisoners
confined under sentences for writing and publishing
seditious libels, or for uttering seditious words, or for
attending seditious meetings, in Gaols or Houses of Cor-
rection of York, Wakefield, Northallerton, and Beverley."
He would premise his observations by saying that he
did not mean to throw any imputation, or make any
accusations against any parties. His object was to ob-
tain an inquiry, and he did not mean to touch upon,
the conduct of any individual further than might be
necessary to elucidate the grounds on which he brought
forward his motion. It was, he imagined necessary to
satisfy the House upon two points before he could
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the country required.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") In the second part of his motion he had referred to
the treatment of political prisoners confined in the
gaols of Northallerton, Wakefield, and Beverley, as
being in the same district,and under the same regulations,
and his object in so doing was to show that the treat-
ment of political offenders in these gaols was
much more severe than the Judge ever intended it
should be. In the present Session petitions
had been presented from Joseph Grant, and Ri-
chard White, complaining of the severity of their
treatment, which, in his (Mr. Aglionby's) opinion, was
much more severe and oppressive than misdemeanants
of that class ought to be subjected to. The petition
of White set forth that hard labour formed no part of
his sentence, yet he was obliged toadweork aupneanan
fore
mill, and to pick ropes. He hadm
outat Wakefield
inquiry into the caFes of those confined
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He then came to the case of Mr. F. O'Connor, and
founded his motion upon a petition presented from
that gentleman upon the 31st of June, by the
Honourable Member for Reading. It showed that the
severity of punishment inflicted upon that gentleman
was infinitely greater than his offence. It was boasted
at the Home-office that the punishment had been greatly
ameliorated, and that he was now in a state of cornpara.
Live comfort ; that was denied by Mr. O'Connor, and