The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA LY, NOVEMEER 17, 1841.

THE MURDERS AND SUICIDE
AT BURNLEY BARRACKS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
I yesterday sent you a short account, and am,
afraid you would think it an intrusive act on my
part, but can assure you the deed has caused
such a consternation in this neighbourhood that
you will be better able to imagine than for me to
describe it.
I have this evening had the surgeon who was
called in (Mr. White) at my house, and from him
I have learned the following particulars, which
you may rely upon as being as near the facts as
any that can be ascertained at present. It is ex-
pected the Coroner will sit either to-day or to-
morrow.
At or about half-past eight o'clock on Sunday
evening, after the officers had had their dinner,
and were sitting around the mess-room fire, Lieut.
O'Grady rose from his seat, and retired from the
room. In a short time after he•had gone out a
person was heard to scream much. On some of the
party rising, and proceeding towards the door, to
see what the cause of the noise was, they were met
in the door-way by Lieut. O'Grady running in, and
saying that Morris had murdered him ; he walked
towards the fire-place; there he fell down on the
carpet, and it was • soon perceived that he was
wounded. As soon as the parties then in the
room (whom I believe were only two or three)
recovered a little from the shock, one of them
went to the door leading into the passage. The first
thing he observed was Morris standing in the
lobby, brandishing a large knife in his hand.
Not liking to face him unarmed, he returned to
the fire-place for the poker, and then again went
to the passage, during which period it is sup-
posed that Mortis had followed the woman,
and had stabbed her in four different places;
the most fatal ne a little below the left
shoulder blade. .I.on the approach of the
individual to the !isTlace, he there found
the woman lying, but not dead ; also the mur-
derer, who, I believe, but am not at the pre-
sent time positive,: never: spoke afterwards;
if he did it itits. 41.fil y for a short time, for
he had effected 445: deadly purpose, most un-
doubtedly on hirnsOttaS he liVed but a short time.
He had run the knife Aritohis own body just below
the breast-bone ; again in two places a little
lower, with anotherlayge.cut on the right side of
the body, and their turned the .knife downwards.
Whether any' attereation had taken place be-
tween Mr. O'Grady arid:Morris' I am not aware;
but should suppose that will be ascertained
before the Coroner, as Mr. O'Grady lived till
nearly ten o'clock ,the following morning, and,
was sensible up to the. time of his death.
The parents of the unfortunate woman live,
believe, in the officers' apartments or mess-house,
and the individual Who caused the death of
these persons was the messman's waiter, and has
been jealous of -the, female for some time back,
though I am 0,74:. 4o understand she was a
married woman; lnit did not live with her
husband.
Colne, November 16, 1841.
[Burnley Barracks are situate about six miles
north of Colne, in Lancashire, and nearly half-
way between Leeds and Preston. Burnley is a
small manufacturing town containing between
9,000 and 10,000 inhabitants. We take this op-
portunity of returning our thanks to our Corre-
spondent at Colne, for his attention and readi-
ness in forwarding the particulars of these horri-
ble deeds, which enabled us to give an account
of them in The Sun of last evening--the only
paper in which they appeared.]

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
The manufacturing town of Burnley, in Lan-
cashire, has been thrown into a state of great ex-
citement by the commission of a double murder,
followed by the self-destruction of the assassin,
Robert Morris, a private in the Regiment Of the
60th Rifles, quartered in that place. Morris, who
was a Scotchman, also officiated. as mess-waiter,
and was servant to Lieutenant O'Grady. He had
formed an intimacy with a 01 named. Isabella
Hadden, daughtei of :John-. Hadden, the mess-
master of the barracks, and' if 'waS jealousy of this
young woman that led to the fatal -results we
have to state. On Sunday evening Morris ob-
Served Isabella Madden going-with, Lieutenant
O'Grady in the direction of the l atter's bedroom.
Providing himself with a earvim knife from the
kitchen, he proceeded to the bedchamber, at the
door of which he met his master and the girl.
He stabbed them both with his destructive
weapon, inflicting two wounds in. the neck and
one in the abdomen of the girl, and some dan-
gerous abdominal wounds upon his officer. The
wretched man then turned his weapon against

himself, stabbing himself repeatedly in the ab-
dome!), and in other parts of the body. Imme-
diately afterwards he was discovered in the pas-
sage, unable to speak, and he o nly lived three
minutes after he had been removed to his pantry.
Lieut. O'Grady, upon being wounded, rushed.
into the mess-room and exclaimed that Morris

had murdered him. He was co nveyed to bed,
and medical attendance procured, but it was all
in vain, the unfortunate officer living only until
noon on Monday. Isabella Had& n was removed
to the lodgings of her parents, and died in great
agony at one o'clock on Monday morning. The
bodies lie at the barracks awaiting the inquest,
which will be held over them by IVIr. Hargreaves,
one of the Coroners for the northern division of
Lancaster.

CAUTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Permit me to make known' through the
medium of your widely-circulated Journal, the
following occurrence, with a suggestion to the
parties suffering :—On Friday last a man, assum-
ing the characteristics of a commercial man,
entered the travellers' room of the Cross Hotel,
Bromsgrove, and intimated that he should want
dinner at four o'clock, and that he would, in the
interim, go out and do his "Trade." He re-
turned, the cloth was laid, but, said he, I must
defer my dinner a quarter of an hour. lalf an
hour elapsed, and when the servant went into the
room she found that the " ci-divane' traveller
had left, and that two table-spoons, of costly
make, were non-est. These, doubtlessly, soon
became amalgamated with others, the produce of
his " Trade,' in a crucible.
My suggestion is, that all tavern-keepers
should intimate to their visitors the necessity of
giving their card on arrival. To a right-minded
man it would not be objectionable, whilst it
might deter the evil-disposed from attempting
wrong; for it is quite clear that neither life or
property are safe under the present system.
At the Bull Hotel, Cambridge, well known
for its superior arrangements, a neat brass-plate
is conspicuously placed in the entrance hall,
whereon is engraved--" It is respectfully re-
quested that all visitors will be pleased to leave
their card at the bar on arrival." And at the
Crown Hotel, Leamington Spa, a card is fixed
on the mantel-piece of the commercial room, in-
timating—"lt is requested that none but com-
mercial gentlemen will occupy this room."
Thus the tavern-keeper may render himself,
and those around him secure, whilst his cus-
tomary commercial charges, and the comforts
of his commercial friends, are not encroached
upon by those not entitled to them.
I am, Sir, your's, most obediently,
Nov. 13. AN OLD TRAVELLER.

THE LATE MR. P. BI tJEROWES.
One by one the great men' 0 f the Irish Par-
liament, who struggled so unto ilingly at the be-
ginning of the present century to preserve
Ireland as an independent kiugt km, are sinking
into the grave. The above lam, rated gentleman,
Judge Commissioner of Insolv ?.nts in Ireland,
at the advanced age of fourscore years and ten,
has followed his friends and fore runners, Grattan
and Curran, while the remembr inces that attach
to him are inseparably conne ctoii with these,
two of his most constant associates.

Mr. Burrowcs began pu;')lic, at the Irish
bar, and continued to adore 3t • to a late period.
During the earlier years o f his] wactice he was
remarked for, his readiness o 'f de( ision and legal
acumen—qualities which adriCira bly fitted him
as a special pleader, and whic !it; , added to his
other forensic acquirements, adv nced him spee-
dily to the chief Commissioner 6 hip of the In-
solvent Debtors' Court, the du ct ie.s of which he
discharged with, uninterrupted . `satisfaction and
success, the greater portion of l its life.
The most singular incident in the life of Coun-

sellor Burrow was his due 1 with the Hon.
Somerset Butler, heir to the I itle of Lord Kil-
kenny, by whom he was hit, and would have
been killed, but for some give rbread nuts which
he had in his pocket. An. Lccomplished and
facetious Baronet, who was, .w a believe, an eye-
witness of the scene, thus del u Lils this humorou%
occurrence :

The late Lord Mount Gar pet (afterwards Lord
Kilkenny) had for several
,y-, gars a great 'number
of law-suits on his hands, par. ticul: Arty with some
insolvent tenants, whose cause Ld been gratui-
tously taken up by by Mr. 1 lal 1, an,attorney.
His Lordship 'in these cases :had. always ten
Counsel pitted against him in the vC'jurt, and every
cause and verdict wentagainst hi Ir.. His Lordship,
thus frustrated and tormented, a nd &tiding himself
overcome rather by the quirk s of informalities
than by the principle of stri et justice, deter-
minedle attorney and all
to take another course, namely to fight it
out, muzzle to muzzle, with tl
theand cco uo snes le 'lOl no
Counsellor
Burroweshe ot1)e r v
side,
le
of which Mr. Ball
r
e chief. His Lord-
ship's encounter with Mr. Ball gave him the
worst
side,rstof bui t, t i
t a
he gotlv
sO
an bullet
dul laent roirt the attorney in
his gf
erouq
.
disMpoysed o Lord and
the field, and proceeded in due form, by a chal-
atnhde theo n .
A Samtt or le4y having been thus
e
Butler now took
lenge to Mr. Peter Burrowes, the first of the
adversaries' counsel. The invitation could not
be reitised ; the Combat toolfs. piece one cold frosty
aiorning, near Kilkenny. Peter had had no
practice whatever'in this line; of litigation; So-
merset Butler knew his business
Peter 'Burrewe'g, on his way to the plate
of
meeting, bought a pennywor, the,
spiced_ ginger-
bread nap, by the advice of 1-
-"s second, Dick
Waddy, an attorney, and
receiving the
change of a sixpenny piece,
Put the coppers and
nuts into his waistcoat poch
t't, and marched to
the scene of action.
Preliminaries being sow
,n arranged, elderly
Peter, who was nopostuire
„master, soon took up his
fighting position. But „Ler, a fine dashing young
fellovv, full of spirit, activity, and animation, had
scarcely raised his pistol before his ball came
crack dash again' Peter's body. The halfpence
rattled in his... pocket; Peter dropped flat ;
Somerset
Dick Waddy roared " murder,"
al id calle-
d.' out to surgeon Pack. Peter's
clothes 'were ripped up; and Pack, secundum
artem, examined the wound. A black hole
designated the spot where the lead had pene-
trated Peter's abdomen. The Doctor shook
his head, and prOnounced but one short word,
" mortal." Peter 'groaned, and tried to recollect
some, prayer, or a scrap of his catechism ; his
friend Waddy began to think about the Coroner;
his brother barristers sighed heavily, and Peter
was supposed to be fast departing this world (but
as they all endeavoured to persuade him, for a
better), when Surgeon Pack, after another excla-
mation, taking lease of Peter, and, leaning his
hand on the grass to assist him in rising, felt
something hard., took it up and looked at it curi-
ously; the spectators closed in a circle to see
Peter die ; the patient turned his expiring
eyes towfArds Surgeon • Pack, as much as
to ask, "Is there no hope ?"—when lo! the
D actor held up to the astonished assem-
bly the identical bullet, which having rattled
amongst the heads and harps, and gingerbread
nuts in Peter's waistcoat-pocket, had flattened its
own body on the surface of a preserving copper,
and left his Majesty's bust distinctly imprinted
and accurately designated, in black and blue
shading, on his subject's carcase. Thanks to his
gracious Sovereign, and the gingerbread nuts,
_Peter stopped his prayers, and got up with a
whole skin.
The occasion on which Mr. Burrowes was most
conspicuous in his whole life was at that period
when Lord Castlereagh was intent upon feeling
the pulses of the Commons, before he distinctly
proposed the measure of the Union. This was a
brilliant period; the anti-unionists then came
forward on the Parliamentary platform with
grand effect. Grattan, Bushe, Daly, and
Plunkett, and last, though not least, the
subject of this memoir, signalised them-
selves. Speeches more replete with talent
and energy were never heard in the Irish Senate.
It was a vital subject : every mind was at its
stretch—every talent was in its vigour : it was a
momentous trial. The sublime, the eloquent,
the figurative orator the plain, the connected,
the metaphysical -reasoner—the classical, the
learned, and the solemn declaimer—put forth all
their might to excite sympathy and conquest in
the hearts of a nation which was doomed to
close for ever the school of eloquence which had
so long given character and celebrity to Irish
talent. On the night in question
16th, 1800) the debate was intense. Grattan
stood forward like an apostolic champion for his
country, and flung about the brilliancies of his
eloquence like a sparkling cataract. Mr. Advo-
cate Dobbs that night assumed an eloquence
which electrified the audience by the mighty
power he displayed- in resistance to the Union
and his solemn protestations against it. Lastly,
and after others, Mr. Peter Burrowes rose and
said—" Frivolous and fallacious as the Right
Honourable Secretary's statement has been, I
do not found my opposition upon the peculiar
demerit of the system of union which he has de-
tailed. I openly avow that no terms or condi-
tions can ever persuade me to surrender the con-
stitution of Ireland--to transfer the supreme power
of the State toa country which has continued dis-
tinct from ours since the creation, by boundaries
which cannot be removed, and by feelings which
cannot be eradicated. If a union shall pass, as
an Irishman I shall be indifferent how many
or how few Deputies shall be sent from this
emasculated country. As long as the Parlia-
ment which legislates for Ireland shall exist in
the bosom of a distinct country, as long as a
rival feeling shall actuate the heart of that coun-
try—that is, as long as the heart of man shall
beat—this country, dprived of its domestic Par-
liament, shall be the prostrate victim of British
prejudice and British oppression. This is sound
theory : this is true history."
" Upon the competency of Parliament to pass
this measure I shall not dwell : if there he an
irresistible truth in politics and in morals, this
appears to me to be one—namely, that tempo-
rary trustees have no right to transfer the object
of their trust for ever, without the consent of
those through whom, and for whom, they held
and exercised it. Every argument to the con-
trary is built upon a confusion of right with
power, and an inference that because institutions
originating in wrong have, from policy and ac-
quiescence, changed their nature, that very act
of the supreme power must be rightful."
Sir Jonah Barrington, who was an excellent
judge of character, and was intimately acquainted
with the subject of this memoir, has left this re-
cord to his memory, in his great work, entitled,
" Memoirs of the Legislative Union between
England and Ireland," wherein he specially
speaks of this occasion thus :7,-
" Mr. Peter Burrowes—a veteran advocate of
the rights of Ireland wherever and whenever he
had the power of declaring himself—on this
night made an able effort to uphold his princi-
ples. He was a gentleman of the bar who justly
had many friends. Nothing could be more un-
gracious than the manner, nothing much better
than the matter, of his oration. His mind had
ever been too independent to cringe for favour;
and his opinions too intractable for an arbitrary
Minister ;_on this night he formed a noble and
distinguished contrast to those of his own pro-
fession, who had sold themselves and the repre-
sentation for a mess of pottage.7i.
This was the last effort made to resist the
Union. Poor Grattan, who was suffering on the
night from most extreme feebleness, and to
whom, as he tottered into the House, every
Member simultaneously rose, delivered his sen-
timents without moving from his seat, and
though painfully languid at first, yet the " Spi-
rit moved within him,' and he gradually glowed
into unsurpassing
with eloquence. But the day for
England
yoking Ireland was at hand, and
she was, in spite of the majestic efforts em-
ployed in her behalf, sentenced to cancel her
constitution, to disband her Commons, and dis-
enfranchise her nobility. Who shall describe
the indignation, the smothered disgusts of such
patriots as Grattan and Burrowes that night
when it was proclaimed in the House;—" the
A vEs have it.
Mr. Peter Burrowes was among the most • ar-
dent, in his later days; for the repeatof that

union which from the first he so vehemently
deprecated ; and he passed his life in the pleasing
dream that the vigorous agitators of his country
would finally effect it.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
Losnott, Nov. 17.—Wind at noon, S.W., foggy.
STANGATE CREEK, Nov. 15.—Arrd. John Franckton,
Odessa, with loss of anchor and cable ; Isabel and
Prospero, Messina.
DEAL, Nov. 16.—Wind W. N.W.—Arrd. from the
River and sailed Catherine, Constantinople ; her Ma-
jesty's ship Isis, westward.
RAMSGATE, Nov. 16.—Arrd. Albertina, Copenhagen
for Charleston, with sails split ; Apenrade packet, Ham-
burgh for Liverpool, towed in ; Reward, Stockton, for
Exeter, assisted in with loss of foremast, bowsprit, sails,
&c., haVing been in contact off Beachy Head with a
schooner, name unknown; Triton, Shields, for Brixham,
with loss of bowsprit, bulwarks, stanchions, &c„ having
been in contact with an American ship in Rye Bay.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 16.—Wind E.S.E., light —Sid. the
Camoens, for Singapore; Parsee Merchant, Bombay;
Crusader, Monte Video; Helen Hamilton, La Guayra;
Alexander, Jamaica; Chaos, New Orleans; and Charlotte,
Africa. Arrived off—Martha, New Orleans; Alcyone,
Quebec ; Sophia, Shubinacadie ; Anna, Liffey ; Clyde,
Cumberland; Importer, Mem.—The Messenger,
from Palermo, has not arrived, but is in Beaumaris Bay.
PORMIOUTR, Nov. 16.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. the
Fairy Queen, London for Ceylon; Black River Packet,
Caroline, and Tropic, Ditto, for Jamaica; Jas. Watt,
Shields for Naples, with loss of fore-top-sail-yard. Sld.
Gladiator, New York ; Fairy Queen, Ceylon ; Black
River Packet, Jamaica; Rose, Apalachicola; her Ma-
jesty's ship Illustrious, New York; Osprey, New Zealand.
BRIXHAM, Nov. 16.—Arrd. Vigilant, Langdon, Ca-
naries, with foremast sprung.
Nov. 16.—Arrd. Milford, Salter, New York;
Homer and Resolution, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick.

STARCROSS, Nov. 13.—Arrd. Hannah, Quebec; Alice,
Mira rnichi.

WHITSTABLE, Nov. 16.—The Ninus, from Galway to
London, was assisted in here to-day, with rudder un-
shipped and stern-post damaged, having been driven on
shore in St. Nicholas Bay. 80 pigs of lead have been
landed here from the Union, also a case of bitter aloes.
REDCAR, Nov. 15.—Two long-boats came on shore
this morning at Coatham Sands, marked Elizabeth, Bos-
ton ; Henry Tibbs, and Aboyne, Rochester ; Thomas
Raine. The Lindisfarne, from London to Shields, got
safe into the Tees yesterday during the gale.
LOWESTOFFE, Nov. 16.—The Thomas and Mary,
Nesbitt, foundered close to the Dudgeon Light on the
night of the 14th inst.—Crew saved. A vast deal of
wreck is floating about. A large vessel was observed,
bottom up, off Southwold, and a quantity of tallow float-
ing near ; some casks have been brought in. but have not
time to get the marks. The John and Anna's Endea-
♦our, Sarrent, was driven on shore 14th inst., has been
hove up and the cargo landed.
Hum., Nov. 15.—The following vessels are on shore
at Summercoates, viz. :—Tho Two Brothers, of Boston
(coal laden), and expected to become a wreck ; the
Eliza, of Newcastle, in ballast ; Emma, of Whitby, and
expected to become a wreck ; Ariadne, of Newcastle ;
Caroline, of Sunderland; British Queen, of Shoreham ;
Planter, from London, cargo discharging in good condi-
tion. Two vessels, name unknown, at Gramthorpe Haven.

THEDDLETHORPE, Nov. 15. Nuevo Angelde la
Guarda, on shore at Saltfleet• end, has been driven up so
high, during a gale, that she is not expected to be got
off till next springs. The Oporto packet, of Exeter,
was driven ashore during a gale yesterday, and is ex-
pected to become a wreck. The Three Sisters, of Sun-
derland, is totally wrecked.

IRELAND.
NEW IRISH APPOINTMENTS.

It is said that Lord De Grey—in order to make
amends to Mr. West for the indignity put upon him by
the Chancellor—has opened a negotiation with Master
Townsend, with a view to the appointment of Ser-
geant Greene to the Mastership, and the consequent ap-
pointment of Mr. West to the Sergeantcy.
We can scarcely believe that Sergeant Greene, whose
professional attainments and reputation at the bar
justly entitle him to the most elevated judicial station,
would consent to such an arrangement. If the Govern-
ment be really anxious to promote men of moderate
views to the bench,' they could scarcely fix on a more
suitable person than Mr. Sergeant Greene. His eleva-
tion would be perfectly satisfactory to all parties in Ire-
land ; for, whatever may be his politics, he has never
dragged them into Court when discharging the duties of

theivocate, nor exhibited them on the bench, when
acting as a Judge.—Dublin Pilot.
DEATH OF MRS. CATHERINE M'AULEY, OF

THE HOUSE OF MERCY.

This truly pious and patriotic Irishwoman should not
drop into the tomb like those who leave no traces of use-
fulness behind them. With a mind, a person, and an in-
dependent fortune, which might command exalted rank
in any point of Christendom, she practised, as far as any
mortal could, her Saviour's noblest attribute. The heuse
of Mercy, in Baggot-street, and fourteen similar esta-
blishments in various portions of the empire—namely,
those of Kingstown, Booterstown, Tullamore, Carlow,
Naas, Galway, Limerick, Wexford, Charleville, Cork,
Parsonstown„Bermondsey;Liverpool, and Birmingham—
were her own foundations ; and, after seeing about one
hundred of her spiritual daughters walking in her path,
she expired in her 57th year of a disease which she con-
tracted in the discharge of what she deemed her duty.
From the hand of one who knew her many years before
she took the veil, and who has frequently been edified
by her example, this trifling tribute is an act of grati-
tude and justice.
THE WEATHER.—There was a heavy fall of snow last
night and this morning, an occurrence very unusual in
this country at so early a season of the year. The hills
in the vicinity of the city have all the appearance of a
severe January. Several of the country mails were late
in their delivery at the Post-office this morning, the
coaches having been retarded by the state of the roads.
Dublin Evening Mail.

THE METEORS OF NOV. 12.
" Cambridge Observatory, Nov. 15.
" Nothing of an unusual character was observed here
either on the night of the 12th inst., or subsequently."
" Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Nov. 15.
" The only night in the last week, favourable for the
observation of meteors, among- those nights in which
they have usually been seen, was the 12th instant
(Friday). The night was remarkably fine. A careful
watch was kept at the Royal Observatory throughout
the night, and every shooting star (or nearly every one)
which was seen was registered. The whole number was
25, a number probably much inferior to that usually
seen at other parts of the year in equally fine weather."

LOVE MATTERS.—A Gloucester paper has
the following touching advertisement I.—" Ihe Fair
Incognita of Gloucester Festival (of the 10th of Septem-
ber) is earnestly requested to proceed one step further,
by rendering her admirer a clue whereby he may be
enabled to express the sentiments with which he also was
impressed, at the n:eeting to which allusion has been
made in the favour recently received."
_ _ _

Yesterday an inquisition was taken before Mr.
T. Wakley, M.P., at the sign of the Six Bells, King's-
road, Chelsea, on view of the body of Mrs. Anne Davis,
aged seventy- two years. It appeared from the evidence
that the deceased was a lady of independent property,
residing at No. 3, King's-parade, Chelsea. On Sunday
last the deceased attended Divine service at Chelsea new
church. While proceeding with her daughter up the
middle aisle to her pew, she suddenly uttered a loud
scream, and instantly sank to the floor. Medical assist-
ance was of no avail. Verdict—Died by the visitation
of God.

SPRATS.—lmmense shoals of sprats have
within the last few days visited the Bristol Channel and
Severn. The captain of a vessel, which arrived here
yesterday, expressively said that he could have taken
tons on his passage up with the greatest facility. Such
a circumstance is very unusual on this side of the is-
land. On the eastern coast, particularly off the mouth
of the Thames, sprats are taken in such quantities that
many tons are every year landed at Gravesend for ma-
nure.—Gloucestershire Chronicle.
The :,_weather of Sundiy was so calm on the
nortllernebast, that the saltite fired at Dover on the em-
barkation of his Excellency the British Ambassador for
France,was distinctly heard at Boulogne.
M. Sancho, the newly-appointed Minister of
Spain to the British Court, arrived in Paris on Sunday
on his way to London.
On Monday night last Mr. R. D. Abbott, tide-
surveyor of Sunderland, found concealed in the brig
Preston, Bradley, on her arrival from Dordt, eighty
packages of contraband snuff, 425 packages of tobacco,
and two packages of coffee, all of which he seized. The
vessel was placed under seizure, and the whole crew were
taken into custody.— Tyne Mercury.
STOPPAGE . OP THE OLD BANK.—We are
sorry to announce the failure of Messrs. Ridge and Co.
of the " Chichester Old Bank." The announcement of
the stoppage was made on Monday, and spread great
consternation through the city. We have not been able
to learn with any approach to accuracy the extent of
their liabillties.—Brighton Gazette.
AN HOSPITAL FOR DRUNKARDS.--An hos•
pital has been recently opened in New York for drun-
kards who are resolved to reform. Throwing aside the
inconveniences, in the medical point of view, attending
a sudden change in the use of stimulating drinks, it is
obvious that there is nothing more difficult than
to renounce habits of indulgence ; and, as to
leaving them off by degrees, it is morally impos-
sible; to indulge at all, is to relax self-control,
and to abide the consequences of such relaxation.
The only chance for the confirmed drunkard is to change
scene, change associations, to quit, as far as possible, the
routine of his life, so as to weaken those ties which bind
him to any particular habit. This is no easy task ; and,
without the advantage of an institution like that just
established in New York, there are but few who can ac-
complish it. An asylum for the cure or amendment of
bad habits in general would meet, we think, if skilfully
managed, with more encouragement and success than
might be at first imagined.—Athenceinn.
The Hungarian Royal Academy seems anxious
to have t7,hakspeare's plays translated into Hungarian,
as well as those of the greatest German, Spanish, and
French authors, for the purpose of being represented on
the national stage.
Why has a clock always a bashful appearance ?
—Because it always keeps its hands before its face.
The weather during the last few days has been
extremely variable. On Friday it was exceedingly fine;
on Saturday much wind and rain in the afternoon, which
continued during the night and following morning, when
it blew a perfect hurricane. Since Sunday evening we
have had a continuance of fine frosty weather, with a
slight fall of snow On Monday night.—Cantbridr Advt.

FRANCE.
ATTEMPT OF SEPT. 13. TRIAL OF QUE
NISSET AND HIS ACCOMPLICES.
PARIS, MONDAY, Nov. 15.—Count de Bastard, the
reporter of the Committee of Inquiry, read his volumi-
nous report this morning in the Luxembourg, but it will
not be completed before to-morrow. The Commis-
sioners were, Baron Pasquier, Chancellor of France,
President of the Court of Peers ; the Duke Decazes,
the Grand Referendary ; Count de Bastard, Count
d'Argout, Barthe, Persil, and Rossi. The report com-
mences with stating that the new attempt, referred to
the Peers, had filled France with indignation and stupor,
and it asks how the blind fury of factions can be ex-
plained when it directed its efforts against a young
Prince (the Duke d'Aumale), who had returned with
his brave regiment, and surrounded by his brothers
was receiving the acclamations of the public. The
inquiry had established that this attempt was not an
isolated act, but that the responsibility extended
to other individuals, who had inspired the exhibi-
tion of Quenisset and placed the weapon in his
hand. It resulted that it was the work of the Secret So-
cieties, and the reporter then stated that the Peers would
have to examine the situation of the accused under a
double report, first, as authors and accomplices of the
attempt on the Princes; and, secondly, as authors or
accomplices of a conspiracy, the aim of which was to
destroy the Government. On the days preceding the
13th of September much fermentation existed, and
sinister projects were suspected. On the night of the
12th the publisher of the Humanitaire (M. Charavay)
was arrested at a public-house in the Rue St Denis, and
on his person important documents were found. On the
morning of the 13th a meeting of regicides took place at
the wine-shop of Colombier, in the Rue St. Antoine, at
the corner of the Rue Travarsiere, and there the resolu-

tion was adopted to attack the Prince and his staff,
to cut down only the officers, and to cry out " The
17th of the Line for ever :" The author of the attempt
was at this meeting, and arms and cartridges were
distributed, and the conspirators distributed themselves
in the Rue St. Antoine, which the Prince was to pass.
The inquiry established that it was at the Dukes of Or-
leans, Nemours, and Aumale that the attempt was
directed, and, but for the horse of the Lieutenant-Colonel
of the 17th, the bullets would have reached the persons
of the Princes. The assassin was secured. He called
himself Papart, but his name was soon ascertained to be
Quenisset, a sawyer by trade, born at Scelle (Haut
Saone), living in Paris, Rue Popincourt, No. 58. Two
pistols weree-found on the spot of the attempt, one dis-
charged and the other loaded. Quenisset admitted that
he gave one to an accomplice. Quenisset was of a re-
spectable family in the Jura, and his early years afforded
no indication of his future crime. He had been in the

15th Regiment of Infantry, tried for mutiny and an
assault on his corporal, was sentenced to five years' im-
prisonment ' • but after two years being excused, he took
the name of Papart, lived with a woman of the name of
Leptatre, and came to Paris. He was again condemned
for an assault, and while at St. Pelagie he made the ac-
quaintance of a man named Prioul, condemned
fur illicit possession of arms. When both were re •
leased Prioul introduced Quenisset as member of the
Society of Travailleurs Egalitaires. Prioul represented
Quenisset as a man who could loe relied upon for his
firmness, and whose political opinions were in harmony
with their own. Colombier, the keeper of the wine-
shop, received at his house a great number of Commu-
nists, and of Travailleurs Egalitaires (workmen on an
equality.) The newspapers were read there daily, such
as the National, the Journal du Commerce, the Popu-
laire, and the Journal du People. The plans of the Secret
Societies were discussed at this wine shop, which was in
fact a place of initiation where the adepts engaged
themselves by a solemn oath to arm themselves against
the King's Government, to do everything to upset it, and
to follow the orders and directions of unknown chiefs,
to whom they swore a blind obedience, promising on
their heads not to reveal what was confided to them.
Quenisset, accompanied by one of his comrades, also a
sawyer named Boucheron, was presented by 1?og-
gio early in the month of August, and admitted in
this Society, after having heard a long revolutionary
harangue, and taken the oath exacted by his ac-
complices. From that time to the 13th of September
Quenisset went almost daily to the house of Colombier.
On the morning of the 13th, at five o'clock, Quenisset
went to the Place de Greve to seek for work, but was
unsuccessful. On his return at the Barriere des Amandes
he met Boggio, to whom he was indebted for the intro-
duction into the Society of Ouvriers Egalitaires. Boggio
said to him that a movement was preparing, and that he
was going to the Societies to inform them thereof. He
asked Quenisset to go to Colombier's, where they were
assembling. Quenisset went there, and found a dozen
iudividuals discussing whether they were to fight or
to remain quiet. A man of the name of Fremont,
alias Dufour, had already distributed cartridges amongst
them ; Quenisset receiving two like the other conspi-
rators, although he was at that time without arms, but
soon after at the house of Bruzier, alias Just, he re-
ceived a brace of pistols, which they loaded together.
Quenisset, on quitting ust for the rendezvous in the
Rue St. Antoine, met Boucheron, to whom he gave one
of the pistols. Thus armed, Quenisset and Boucheron
went down the street, and were joined by Just and
Martin ; Boggio, who was attending there, stationed
them at the corner of the Rue Traversiere. At this
moment Quenisset had become much excited, and being
placed on the pavement, having near him Boucheron and
several accomplices, he met the 17th Regiment, and
fired as has been stated. The next day after his arrest
Quenisset, the miserable instrument of a faction more
guilty than he, appeared affected by his crime, and was
anxious to reveal all; thus repairingin the only manner,
says the report, by the sincerity of his confession, what
he had done. All the facts he had revealed had been
fully confirmed. At his first examination, on the 15th,
he wept bitterly, and on being assured that his wife, or
rather associate, and child should be protected from the
violence of the Secret Societies, he began his avowals. He
urged the upsetting of the present system, and of esta-
blishing equality as the basis of rights, each workman to be
paid a sum fixed by the law. " Death to the King" and the
destruction of the throne were to be their mottoes. Quenis-
set then described his admission, having his eyes bandaged.
He was then asked by Boucheron, " Citizen, what do you
think of the present Government? think you that we are
badly governed?" Quenisset replied, " Yes." Boucheron
then said, " Thou knowest that we are Revolutionists ;
raise thy hand, and swear by thy head that thou wilt
strip thyself of thy fortune and property, that thou wilt
quit thy wife and children if thou hast any, and that
thou wilt be found in the streets at the first cry of alarm;
that thou wilt fight without counting the number of the
enemy; thou wilt also never reveal or disclose a word of
what thou hearest. To be Revolutionists like we, thou
must swear to fear neither death nor prison. Thou swear-
est! Pay attention to what thou sayest, for thy head is in
danger." Quenisset then states that not knowing whether
a pistol or a dagger was held at his head, his eyes being
bandaged, he took the oath ; his name, residence, and
business having been previously asked. Before the ban-
dage was removed, he was told that his children and wife,
if he had any, underwent the same risk as himself. He
was then told to go as often as possible to M. Colom-
bier's. Mallet then took off the bandage, and he was em-
braced by all, saying, " Citizen, we acknowledge thee as
a member of our society." On returning home he re-
marked that he was watched. Quenisset said that he
did not know the Prince, and that he had even asked of
Boucheron if the King was there. When Just, Auguste,
Jean Marie, Mallet, and others had assembled, they cried
out, " Long live the 17th ;" " Down with Louis Phi-
lippe ;" " Down with Guizot ;" " Down with the Royal
Family and the Princes." Just then said to Quenisset,
pointing out the officers, " It is at them you must fire."
Quenisset then admits that he drew out the pistol and
discharged it in the direction mentioned by Just. Que-
nisset denied that he aimed at any particular person.
When he was seized his comrades were " cowardly
enough," said Quenisset, "not to defend him." Quenisset
was confronted with Boucheron and Just, and the report
declares that at all these examinations Quenisset,
by the firmness of his language, by the precision of his
recollection, convinced the Committee that he had told
the truth in all points. These interrogatories of Que-
nisset led to the several arrests of members of the Secret
Societies, which led to the prompt results. The report
then examines into each case separately, in the order of
their importance :
" 1. Boucheron, aged 36, sawyer, born at Roullie
(Sarthe), living in Paris, Rue de Zappe, No. 2.
" 2. Colombier, aged 43, keeper of a wine-shop, born
at St. Julien de Toursac (Cantal), living in Paris, Rue
Traversiere St. Antoine, No. 21.
" 3. Brazier (alias Just), aged 28, carpenter, born at
Amiens (Sonne), living in Paris, Rue Traversiere, No. 60.
" 4. Petit (Auguste), aged 31 years, upholsterer, born
at Vardon (Meuse), living in Paris, Passage de Bonne
Grace, No. 14.
" 5. Jarrasse, aged 33, cabinet-maker, born in Paris,
and living in Paris, Faubourg St. Antoine, No. 202.
"6. Lannois (alias Chasseur), aged 33, brass-setter,
born in Liege, living in Paris, Rue Traversiere No. 21.
7. Dupoty, aged 44, born at Versailles, editor and
publisher of the
12. Journal du People, living in Paris, Rue
de Bossy,
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No. 121.
"9. Boggio (alias Martin), aged 32, locks *th
at Murillac (Cantal), living in Para' Faubour
, , b Orri
g St. An-
toine,
No. 172.
aged 37, shoemaker, born at Epinat lee
Vores (Yonne), living in Paris, Rue de Charonne, .No 25.
" 11. Martin, aged 25, cabinet-maker, born at St.
Sauveur Landelen, living in Paris, Rue de Charonne,
No. 25.
" 12. Fougery, Alexis, aged 24, cabinet-maker, born
at Mons (Sarthe), living in Paris, Rue de Charonne,
No. 25.
" 13. Considere (acquitted on Darmes' trial), aged 34,
keeper of a wineshop, and collector of money at the bank
of MM. Laffitte and Co., living in Montmartre, Rue du
Vieux Chemin, No. 3.
" 14. Bazin, alias Napoleon, :aped 29, cook, born in
Ganery (Aube), living in Paris, Rue St. Denis, No. 21.
" 14. Fremont, alias Dumont, not yet taken.
The Report, after analysing each of..the above cases,
states that the ensemble of the
at-
tempt against the life or persons pt their Roglitria ;
high-
nesses the Dukes of Orleans, Nemours, and
conspiracy,
and on the other hand, the organization of a
ber was only
facterOnstituted_ 1
of which the attempt of the 13th of Septeuntihra,
accord.
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The Report protestst strong
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the press. It does no
but callthat the laws be strictly
exaggerated rigour,
en-
forced, and what is prohibited should be put down for
last twenty pages of the
onTdition and influence of the
in despite of the September laws revolutionary publica-
plttireoepnss had
so.
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The Report is thus wound up :.--
tohfe light.theo
" It is not doubtful that this serious situation on
treats
the part of the depositories of power an active and perse-