The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-06 00:00:00

DI ENT.

The further investigation of this case was this day re-
sumed, the proceedings being principally for the defence,
which was conducted by Mr. Davenport.
Thomas Carroll, a young man, said he was near the
prisoner's house, at Salthouse Dock, on Wednesday night
at about nine o'clock. A great mob was collected, and
threw stones at the house. The windows were broken,
Shortly afterwards a pistol was fired twice from an upper
window. The landlord afterwards came down to the
door, and said that if they would not disperse, he would
blow their brains out. Witness carried away the boy
Burns, who was wounded and bleeding.
Mr. Graham, surgeon, examined the boy the same
night. lie had seven wounds in his face, and one on
his chest. The orifices appeared to be caused by small
shot.

A certificate was read to the effect that he was going
on favourably, but was not yet in a state to be removed.
William Jones, a fine little sailor boy, said he lived in
Ansdell-street, and saw the mob. They said they would
go and take the lives of Casement and his two sons.
He went to Casement's, knocked at the door, and told
those within to bolt it, or they would all get killed.
The mob came and threw stones. He became alarmed,
and ran away, but returned in about five minutes. They
threw large stones at the house and broke the windows.
A man in the crowd said he had a musket, and would
go home for it and load it, and take Casement's life. The
man ran off as if to fetch it. It was then dark.

Another little boy corroborated this, with some addi-
tional facts, showing the threatening conduct of the mob,
who used the most desperate language with reference
to Casement and his family. The women in the crowd
went to a vacant piece of ground, and filled their aprons
with stones, which were thrown at the house. There
was no disturbance at the house before the mob came up.
John Cawley, another seaman, said that the attack on
the house was dreadful. The bricks and stones came
through the windows and the fanlight of the door in
volleys. Mrs. Casement and her daughter were both
knocked down by them in the lobby, and received seri-
ous MltUdoug.

Other witnesses were about to be called, but Mr.
Rushton stated the evidence had gone far enough. He
had made up his mini to hold the prisouer to bail, to
answer at the Assizes, any indictment that might be pre-
ferred against him. Whether, under the circumstances,
the prisoner was justified in resorting to firearms, he
should not take upin himself to determine. His duty
confined him to the preliminary inquiry only. He there-
fore required the prisoner to enter into securities, him-
self in 2001., and two others in 1001. each, to stand his
trial at the Assizes.

AMERICAN NEWS.
Further Extracts from the American Papers.
THE SHIP WILLIAM BROWN.—The feeling through-
out the country on the conduct of the mate and seamen
on board the boat from which some seventeen Irish pas-
sengers were thrown into the sea, is uniform, and
without exception, in accordance with the view
taken by ourselves of that atrocious transaction.
A very sensible writer in the Boston Mercantile Jour-
nal thus forcibly discourses on the subject :—The
rights of passengers on this and some other points
might be well defined, and well known. For instance,
have the officers and crew whom we employ to carry us
across the ocean a right not only to desert us when they
get us into danger, but if it happens to be convenient, in
order to make their boat sail easier, or their bread last
longer, have they a right to knock us in the head like
sheep ? Are we to be their victims, not only to their care-
lessness or ignorance, but also to their knives ? The Ame-
rican Consul at Havre sees nothing wrong in murdering a
few poor Irishmen and women, but even his eyes might
be opened if the next arrival brought in a few of the
President's crew, who had only thrown overboard the
two-thirds of the President's passengers who happened
to be nearest them, and least able to resist them. Had
the Consul at Havre pnt some of the William Brown's
crew in irons for trial, these remarks would have been
uncalled for ; but as that amiable functionary could see
no harm in their doings, public attention ought to be
turned to the subject, and public opinion would enforce
an investigation of the William Brown tragedy, and at
least give us landsmen some means of judging what to
expect in case we should ever be thrown upon the mercy
of a ship-wrecked crew. Perhaps, in the meantime, an
old sailor like yourself can tell us what you consider
the rights of the parties, and also what are the respective
rights of cabin and steerage passengers in case of ship-
wreck. What think you of the following little incident re-
lated to me by a passenger from Liverpool, a year or two
since ? The fine ship . . . . was bounding swiftly
across the Banks when a thick fog came up, and the
thermometer indicated our approach to ice. My friend
was keeping the night watch in company with the skil
ful master of the ship, and noticed that all the gratings,
but one, over the two hundred steerage passengers, were
carefully secured, and that bars were close at hand to
fasten down the remaining one. He enquired the
cause of this arrangement. Sir, says the captain, in
case we get into trouble among the ice, my mate has
orders, first of all, to fasten down that grating, and then
the steerage passengers will be kept below until the cabin
passengers and crew are in the boats, then we shall take
off the gratings and save as many of them as the boats
• will hold.

A CHILD LOST IN THE WOODS.—A daughter of Mr.
David W. Boobar, of Linneus, in Aroostook county, on
the morning of the 4th inst., was sent by her mother to
a neighbour'r house, half a mile distant, to borrow a
little flour for breakfast. The girl is only nine years
of age, and in going through the woods, lost her way.
The next morning about forty of the neighbours col-
lected and went in pursuit, but returned without any
tidings of the child. The next day the company was
increased to sixty persons. and searched the woods all
day with no better success. On the following day be-
tween two and three hundred of the settlers
assembled early in the morning,' their hearts
swelling with sympathy, and all eager to restore the
little wanderer to the arms of its despairing parents.
The company set out for a thorough and a last search.
The child had been in the woods three days and three
nights, and many hearts were sunk in despondency at
the utter hopelessness of finding it alive. But to learn
its fate or restore it was the indomitable purpose of
each. Half the day had been expended in entering the
forest. It was time to think of returning, but who could
think of doing so while an innocent child might be wan-
dering but a few rods in advance ? On the company
' pushed, still deeper into the dense wilds. The sun had
reached the meridian, and was dipping down toward the
West. It seemed vain to look farther, and slowly and
heavily those stout-hearted men brushed a tear from
their cheeks, gave up all as lost, and as their hearts
seemed to die within them, commenced their return.
The line was stretched to include a survey of the
greatest possible ground ; not a bush or tree, where it
was possible for a child to be concealed, within the
limits of the line, was passed without diligent search.
Those at the extremeties of the line tasked themselves
to the utmost in examining the woods beyond the lines.
They had travelled for some time, when, at the farthest
point of vision, the man on one flank thought he saw a
bush bend. He ran with swelling heart. He hesitated.
Was it his imagination ? He gazed a moment. The
bush bent again, and the head of the little wanderer was
seen. He rushed forward and found the little girl seated
upon a log, and breaking the twigs she had plucked
from the bush which so providentially led to her discovery.
She did not appear to be frightened ; she said she had
lain in the woods three nights, and had not seen or heard
any wild beasts, and that she thought she should get to
Mr. Howard's or the flour before night I At first she
did not appear hungry or weak, but after eating a piece
of bread her cries for more were very piteous. She was
found about three miles from where she entered the
woods. Her clothing was very thin, and the large shawl
she had on when she left home she had carefully folded
and placed in the pillow-case, not even putting it
over her during the night, as she innocently said, to
keep from dirtying it, or her mother would whip her."
Ourinformant states that she is now doing well, and as
happy as other children.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUICIDE. Early in the
morning yesterday, a carpenter named Daniel Savage,
purchased some arsenic, exhibited it to his wife, telling
her that he was going to take it, and asked for a tumbler
to mix it in. His wife did not oppose his purpose, but
ran up stairs to inform her neighbour, a Mrs. Lovett,
that her husband was going to take poison." They
both came down before he had prepared the fatal
draught, and looked on while he mixed and drank it
He died after suffering great and irremediable agony
for six hours. He was fifty years of age. His wife
said she " dared not Oppose him," meaning that she was
so much afraid of his violence. Six years ago the de-
ceased took a similar dose, but by prompt remedies suc-
ceeded in saving his life. The Jury returned a verdict
of "Suicide, by taking poison in the presence of his wife."
An interesting question will arise upon this extraor-
dinary affair, whether the wife, in thus permitting the
deceased to destroy himself, has committed any offence
at common law ? Dr. Geyer, at whose shop the arsenic
was purchased, says, that "it was a very pure and active
article, and had killed
~one man who had taken it, in two
hours !"

A STRANGE PLACE TO DlE.—The following para-
graph is from the Vicksburg Whig. It records one of the
strangest events we ever heard of :—" The Coroner of
the county yesterday morning held an inquest over
the dead body of a man found on the roof of
Prentiss and Dawson's three-story brick row on Levee-
street. He had evidently been dead some weeks, and his
body was horribly mutilated by the birds that had been
flying around him. The most probable surmise wo have
yet heard, is that he was labouring under some bodily
disease and was also deranged, that while in this state he
wandered into one o` the vacant stores, and ascended from
story to story until he found his way to the roof, that
there he probably had a fit, and sank down to rise no
more."
ST. JOSEPH'S GRAVE.—We have seen a subscription
paper proposing to raise funds for the purpose of erect-
ing a suitable monument over the spot. St. Joseph, of
Piere Jose, was one of the Jesuit missionaries who, more
than two hundered years ago, left the sunny climes and
the luxuries of their native France, and settled them-
selves alonc, the rivers and lakes of the west, and amid
the dark and' dreary forests of Canada, that they might
teach the Indians to bow to the Cross. They seemed to
possess the devotion of the early apostles, for wealth was
to them as nought ; as it could serve no purposes of
gratification in this then far off land, and they spent their
days among those whose spiritual good they sought,
and left their bones under the shade of the same dark
forests which had been the scenes of their labours.—To

erect a lasting monument, be it never so simple, is an ob-
ject for which all should be willing to contribute, that
it may remain a link connecting the future with the past.
A fatal accident occurred on board the steamer the
High, on Friday evening, the sth inst., on her passage
from St. Louis to this port, in which the crew and pas-
sengers of the boat very deeply sympathise. The boat
had rounded-to, at St. Mary's landing, for the purpose of
putting some passengers on shore, one of whom had a
pair of fowling pieces loaded, and whilst in the act of
putting them into the yawl, one was accidently dis-
charged, and a young man, a deck-hand on the boat (and
a brother of the mate) received the full charge in the
lower part of his left breast, ranging upward, which
caused his immediate death. The body was brought to
Chester, a few miles below, and left in care of Mr.
Jones, a friend of Captain Price's, and every arrange-
ment made for a respectable funeral ; the mate also re-
mained to pay the last tribute of respect to his much
lamented and unfortunate brother. The man killed has
been a hand on the river for some time. He made his
home at Pittsburgh, where his mother and sisters reside,
and who are yet strangers to their sad bereavement.
This distressing circumstance should serve as an ad-
monition against the miserable practice of taking loaded
guns and pistols on board steam-boats by passengers.
All captains should set their face against it. Two per-
sons have been accidentally killed on this river, within
a few months, in the above manner.—Cincinnati Repub-
lican. _ _ _

ATROCIOUS MURDER.—Mr. Cyrus Cells, a young man
•

employed at the prison as a guard, while in the act of
combing his hair, was struck from behind with a small
hand axe, on the left side of his head and neck, by a
convict named James Clark. The first blow was suffi-
cient to destroy life, but the monster repeated them until
the head was nearly severed from the body. This mur-
der was premeditated without doubt. A longer handle
than was usual had been put in the axe a short time pre-
vious by Clark, in order, it is supposed, that he might
make a heavier blow. He had, we hear it is said,
threatened to kill Sells. Clark is from Scioto
county, and was sentenced for highway robbery.
He had to be frequently punished in the prison
for bad conduct. The murder of poor Sells
was committed to revenge himself for some of the
c astigations lie had received. He has, on several occa-
sions, feigned to be deranged, but no one connected with
the prison believes that there is anything ails him more
than to be possessed of a most fiendish and incarnate
spirit.—Ohio State Journal.
EXPERIMENTAL HANGING.—A young lad, twelve years
of age, named Charles Rogers, accidentally hung himself
a few days since at Lyons, in this State. He was very