The Sun.
London, England, 1812-08-05 00:00:00

CITY Busmrtss

Yesterday, a Court of Aldermen tvas. held, at
which were present the Lord Mayor, l3Aldermen,
and the City Oflcers.
it was referred to the Gaol Committee to consider
of a complaint made by the prisoners in Ne•catate,
and to rcriort.
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After.wbich a Court of Common Council was
held, which was very fully attended.
. The Remembrancer presented the -New Prison
Act, and the Moorfields linprovement Act, which
wereseferred to the Committee to carry-into exe-
cution.

Petitions were presepted from the prisoners
confined for debt in Newgate, Ludgate, and the
Poultry. Compters, praying for some relief on their
being discharged under the Insolvent Act.—
Referred to the Committee for C3eneral Purposes.

It Was referred to the Tithe Committee to con-
eider of applying to Parliament next Sessions agree-
ably to their Report.
It was resolved, that all future applications for
aid in support of Charities, be referred to the
'Committee for Oeheral Purposes, previous.to the
Curt 'coming to any tote thereon.
A motion was made and carried, that it be re-
ferred to the Improvement Committee, to consider
of appropriating Blackwell-hall for transacting
public business.
The sum of one hundred pounds was voted in
aid of the funds of the Society of the Refuge for
the Destitute.

IRELAND.—The female Whose murder we an-
nounced in our paper of the 23d July, was a na-
tive of Lismataigue, in the County Kilkenny,. 'and
had beertfor some time at service in the Tiooqe of
a farmer, in the neighbourhood of Tory-hill.—
About the 22d of June, she left her Situation, on.
account of,some.dometie quarrels:, and retired to
the house of another farmer, in the same quarter,
having in her pOssession the sum of twenty-five
shillings, /which she had received as payment of
her wages. On the evening previous to the last
fair-day of Waterford, the farmer, in whose house
she was, :having occasion for some silver, bor-
rowed a half,a-croWn
.from her, saying, that he
would repay her at the fair, to which she intend-
-ed to go. The farrier left his home early in the
morning, -without seeing his ledger, .and made
particular but _fruitless inquiries for, her 'in the
fair,. It appears .that she, also, left the house on
the morning of the same day, and that no account
of her had been obtained, from the period of her
departure,"till the discovery of her body. The
bare skull was, in the first instance, only found
by the boy, some animal having deprived it of the
flesh, &c. When he communicated the circum-
stance to his friends, They insisted, that he had
mistaken the bead of a dog for that of a human
being. The boy, however, persisted in his story,
and was him's& speedily and fully convinced of its
truth, for the body was likewise discovered by him,
:and not, as we formerly mentioned, by some coun-
try people.- Neither wasit found in a bog; but on
the north side of the hill, in a small receptacle.
for water, the usual resort of cows, of' which he
had the care, and whose uncommou noise drew
his attention one day to the spot. When he
reached it, he discovered something iu•the watet,
with sods and stones laid over it, on the removal.
of some of which the body appeared. This led
to sub Sequent examination, and the deceased was
fully identified by her mothet and brother, to
whom an account of the occurrence had been
transmitted. On Thursday week, an Inquest was
held on the body by Humphrey Jones and Joseph
Greene, Esqrs. Magistrates of the County of Kil-
kenny, when a respectable Jury of farmers brought
in a verdict of wilful murder against a person or
persons, unknown. The instrument used to sever
the head from the body, is supposed to have been
a hatchet, or, with greater probability, a slime,
and, froth the manner in which the arms of the
deceased were bruised, and fractured, it would ap-
pear, that she had made a strong. resistance...—.
There is reason te, believe, and the circumstance
is not a little remarkable,„ that the murderer had
revisited the body, as fresh sods of earth were.
added to the stones arid sods with which it had
been at first covered, evidently for the purpose of
preventing it from rising in the water, as it be-.
came more buoyant in its progress
,to putrefaction.
No money was
.found on the body. In addition
to the foregoing particulars, we have .- learned
some others, but these are too cloSely connect-
ed -with the investigation still going on, to be
p"liely stated. Hitherto no discovery has been
made by which the guilt of this atrocious crime'
can be fixed on any particular person.—Water-
for. d Chronicle.

At. Cornwall Assizes, at 'which Sir ALLAN
CHANLRE presided, Edward and Thomas French
were found guilty of sheep-stealing; and Wilt wn
Wren was found guilty of hreaking.into a dwell-
ing-house,
,with. an intent tai rob and murder the
owner.

The Midsummer Quarterly Sessions of Notting-
ham were held on the 3Dth, but there was not one
prisoner for tial. •
At Thurso and at Wick the herring, fisheries
have commenced. The shoals of herrings are nu-
merous, and the finest ever remembered, for, fat-
ners and size, to have approached, the coast.—
The' fishing is expected, from this favourable be-
ginning, to be very lucrative. The Thurso fish-
ing-boats caught, an the 22d, upwards of an
hundred barrels each. A great many boats are
'll -motion.

The Agricultural Report of the Upper Ward of
Clydesdale contains the following favourable par-
ticulars. " The wheat bein,, in full ear, is fast
changing- the green colour for tinges of ripening
yellow. The oats are luxuriant, and heavy. and in
general the cyops are extremelypromising. • In the
course Of a month some of the sanguine fanners
expect to produce new samples Of, Barley in the
market.!' The Agricultural Report for the Lower
Waid of Lanarkshire speaks in terms equally fa-
yourable to an excellent crop.
Some days ago a fine woodcock was shot on the
grounds of THOMAS Nicnor.so.a, Esq. at Round-
lay, near Leeds, by his gamekeeper.

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