The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-08 00:00:00

PUBLICANS-BREWERS-BEER.

The following particulars are collected from official Excise
office Returns, just furnished, by order of the House of
Commons:— _ _

Number of Licensed Victuallers in England and
Wa548,639
Portionle of the above who brew their own Beer - 22,324
Number of Brewers in England and. Wales, ex-
clusive of London . - - _ 1,591
Ditto in London - _ - 136
' Ditto in Scotland - . 263
Barrels of Strong Beer brewed in England and
Wales, in the years endad April 5, 1323 - 4,142,619
Ditto in Scotland - - 123,222
Portion of the above brewed in London - - 1,8297940
Barrels of Strong Beer exported - - - 71;828
Portion of the above exported from London - 58,490
Ditto from Liverpool - - . - - 11,860
Small Beer brewed in Great Britain - - 1,290,276
Every man, woman, and child in London, seems, from this
statement, to drink on the average two barrels of beer a year.
The quantity of strong beer brewed in England in a year would
Boat all the navy in commission. The account only refers, of
course, to beer brvieci by common brewers.

SENTENCE on CONNOLLY and MORAN

HERTFORD, .31Auc11

This morning, at half•past nine o'clock, ill r. Justice Bxsz
took his seat in the Crown Court, whoa Patrick Connolly and
Huzlt Moran, convicted yuterday of manslaughter, were put
to the bar.

.Mr. Justice BEST then proceeded to deliver the judgment of
the Court :—With respect to you, Hugh Moran, there is no
doubt but you acted and took a share in this nefarious trans-
action, from a mistaken sense of the duty you owed to your-
master ; but I trust the sentence the Court is now about to
pronounce on you will be a warning to every person who fills a
similar situation, that while they are bound by ri, moral
tie to • yield implicit obedience to all lawful commands
given by their employers; they are not to obey unreason-
able and unjust mandatew—and if they do, that circumstance
will not shield them •-from the powerful arm of the law.—
such obedience as this is inconsistent not only with the
laws, but with the rules by which civilized society is guided.
One strong circumstance in your favour, Moran, is, that you
did not execute the dreadful and savage command which was
given you by the prisoner.—With respect to you, -Connolly,
there cannot exist a doubt but that at the time you fired at the
officer, when that officer came to execute a Magistrate's
warrant, you were actuated by the worst feeling which it is
possible to pervade human nature ; at the same time charity
would hope that you -were-in some degree ignorant of the
nature
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temperate exercise in theservices of all.ts processes; but should
evitideecnutticadaYhys•paaprerdop, eibrrpeh rasdon in his own district, nothing could
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have limitedthe scope of the sentence, ,or have prevented -you
ignominious death. No Man
ofrfoamhtungia. e iriie'rgditt:pnosulon, of libernl sentiments, and enlightened
mind, would have conducted himself in the manner you:have
done, from the beginning to the and of this transaction.—
When the :officer came. to the house, you resisted him in the
discharge
deity,
anti .levelled at him a deadly engine,
lodgedand
dt of his
contents
its
in his erson. Afteryou had., so
done, the victim of Your insatiate revenge cried out that he was p y
wounded ;, yet were neither your humanity nor Christian sym-
pathyyou ahould have stayed your vengeful arm ; - but instead of this
natural. After you had heard the declaration,
tkhneolnw iiinttoo
likelyy ou g eitcyoaeloloebrdedyincrstoue:
tewrenis exercise.
your-servants, whom you thought
your dreadful commands, to dispatch-other vic-
tims, and .throw
yourself
rpsoenlfd;, andt—what lii)artotvliidaetnecxeporefstsiioond.
imported is best
prevented you thtlf_a.r from carrying your malicious design
into execution. that
every allowance for the frailty of hu-
manto infer that the language you used
nature, it is
before you fired the fatal gun could only emanate from a de-
praved and vicious mind- Instead of moderating your temper,
you declared youll
woua. shoot the unfortunate deceased; and
you promptly executed Your threat, and deprived him, of life;
and all to prevent wt ha- You were pleased to consider an illegal
arrest. You have, 10 Your defence, referred the Court to the
consideration .oi your Wife and children. -You should
have thought of - your
Wife and children before you com-
mitted the rash act, and
.you should now reflect, that the
wife and children of tile unfortunate deceased are at thia-
mom en t . bewailing the loss of a husband and a father on
account of the act for which you are about to suffer. In the
course -of my life I never knew a man conduct himself more
viciously than you did after you fired the gun. We have be-
held,the murderer with his hands reeking with blood lamenting
his folly with remorse after the object of his malignant hatred
was destroyed ; but this way not the case with you, for you
fired a second and a third
~ gun, and the gun was further loaded
when you were apPredended. Such conduct cleaily proves
that you are entirely unfit to remain in this country; (The
prisoner here burSt into tears.) It is a painful-duty, but one
which I ow,!:- to the country, to order and adjudge you, Patrick
Connolly, to be transported beyond the seas for the term of
your natural life; and that
You, Hugh Moran, belmnrisoned
six calendar months in the 'louse of •Correction, and kept to
hard labour.—The prisolierb were then removed from the bar.

OXFORD ASSIZES, TNlAncir 4.

[Before Mr,- Baron Gr.iliam.l
John Carter,
.the celebrated pugilist, was indicted for steal-
ing, on the 213th of June last, a paper parcel from the Banbury
mail, containing two 51. notes and three 11. notes of the Ban-
bury-Brink, the property of John Payne.
Mr. John Payne proved the putting the parcel into the mail.
Peruberknohe machrsian, proved that he put the
parcel into the pocket on the left side of the coach, the
only inside passengers being the prisoner and an old
Lady (Mrs. Gold), who was set down before the coach
ar:iyea at Woodstock. Two Niles beyond the place where
he put down -Mis. Gold. he missed the parcel, and when
he missed it, he charge - the prisoner, the only person in
the coach, with stealing it. The prisoner said, So help
me G-- I have not got it," and turned his pockets inside out-
ward. When they-got-to Woodstock the witness insisted that
prisoner had got it, which the. prisoner denia The witness
desired hiny-4.c. pull off his-shoes ; he did so, when Witness saw
paper, and said—", That's the parcel;" on which prisoner,
with a very violent exclamation, gave witness a blow on the
aheelt, which knocked out one of his teeth, and put his shoe on
ag.in. The nrisoner then appeared to put something into his
trowsers, and also to have put something into_his stocking.
Witness searched no 'further:

. „.,..
Cnss-examined by Mr.-Ctr Rwoos.—Witness did not search
further, though there were nine men to assist him, because they
were all afraid of the prisoner, for the prisoner we such a noted
boxer he would frighten a whole vil!age. They never at any time
found either the notes or the envelope. Prisoner said the paper
in ifis shoe was to preve-et the wet cooling through a, hole in the
tole of the shoe ; When before the Magistrate, the shoe he then
wore had no hole in it, but that was -weeks aftcr: ; bat the prisoner
admitted them to be the same shoes. The witness would ad-
mit that the prisoner was an old' friend of his, though he did
admit that he carri'cd him gratis at the reqaest of the people of
Banbury, Where the fight was.
Mrs. Gold proVed that she took away no parcel except her
own.

Carter, in his defence, said he frequently got out to drink
gin with the coachman, and while they were doing so, per-
sons from time to time went to the coach.

The Learned Banox summed up the evidence. Verdict—
Guilty.

Satiience —Transportation for saven years.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

We have received by Express the Journal des
D;aats at►d the Etoilc of Saturday.

The Journal des Th"bals does not contain one
article worth translating. It is filled with ob-
servations on the Elections.

At half-past seven o'clock in the evening the
Duke of Bourbon went to the Temple to see his
sister, who could not recognize him, and he de--
parted instantly;

(Flom the Etoile of Saturday.)

The King went out at twelve o'clock, and
took a ride towards Vincennes.

Rostm.—The Count Traspal, new Ambassador
from Portugal, has arrived.

Tlae Englishman who was the other, day
rrounded,is.in great danger 2 and it is much feared
he will not survive.

They write from Munich that ten of the prin-
cipal physicians of that town have signed .a de.