The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-26 00:00:00

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SPECIAL COMMISSION, WESTMEATH.—AT-
TEMPT ON THE LIFE OF SIR F. HOPKINS.
MIILLINGAR, WEDNESDAY.—The jury who tried the
Case of Bryan Seery were detained in their box all
night, as
they found it impossible to find a verdict.
Last night a wish was expressed on their behalf that - ,11-`
some of the witnesses should] be recalled, in order
they might be re-examined upon particular points ;
but the Court refused to comply with this request,
adding, however, that they would willingly read the
notes over again, and give the jcry every other assist-
ance which the law allowed. This morning- at ten
o'clock the Court sat, when the jury were called out
from their room.
CHIEF BARON (to the foreman)—Well,
have you agreed to yonr vedict ? gentlemen,
Juror—No, my Lord ; we are in the same position as
we were in when your Lordship left us last night. Tun
of the jury are of one opinion, and two of another ; but
thrre is no probability of our agreeing.
CHIEF BARON—I regret, gentlemen, that you cannot
agree, and that you have been put to so much incon-
venience. ,

Juror—We have been in attendance upon the busi-
ness of the Court for twenty-four hours, and it is a case
of great hardship. We have had only a little water for
refreshment, and a very indifferent fire. The room is
more like a dungeon than anything else, and I trust, my
Lord, that you will discharge us.
CHIEF JUSTICE—The Court feel that it is a hardship,
but they have neither the power nor the discretion to
comply with your request. .
Juror—lf there were a possibility of our agreeing, we
would not make the application, but there really is none.
Now, in the event of our being starved to death or of
losing our health, would it not be a dreadful thing? One
gentleman drove twenty-four miles yesterday morning,
in order to be here at nine o'clock in attendance upon
the Court.
CHIEP BARON—It is a great hardship, but there is no
mode of relieving you.
CHIEF JUSTICE—Do not attribute it to the want of
sympathy upon the part of the Court. We desire to
relieve you if we could, and we have a full consciousness
of the pressure upon you; we cannot, however, relieve
you. Be good enough to go back to your box, and you
shall have a fire lighted. If 'you go over your notes
again, and there be anything which the Court can ex-
plain and elucidate, the Chief Baron will read over his
notes to you.
Juror—l am afraid there is no earthly chance of our
agreeing.
The jury then returned to their box.
At seven o'clock the jury entered the box for the
third time during the day, and intimated to their Lord-
ships that there was no probability of their agreeing.
They had been 36 hours confined without food, fire, or
rest, and several of the jury, particularly two, who wero
ill when empanelled, were in a very serious state of in-
disposition.
Mr. Maxton said that he was very ill, and his medical
adviser, Dr. Middleton, could satisfy the Court upon
that point, if he were produced.
The Chief Justice then dispatched a messenger for
Dr. Middleton, who returned shortly afterwards, having
in vain searched for him.
Mr. Maxton's son then went in search of Dr. Middle-
ton, but that gentleman not being in the way, Dr.
Gabriel Stokes was sent for, and he gave it as his
opinion that Mr. Dawson and Mr. Maxton were very
seriously ill, and further confinement might endanger
their lives. The jury were then discharged.
The ATTORNEY• GENERAL announced that he would
again arraign Seery this day (Thursday), and have
another jury empanelled to try.
There was a verdict of Not Guilty returned for John
Egan and Michael Delemour, who were charged with
having assaulted Charles liednie, and with having taken
a gun from him.
Michael Keena was found Guilty of delivering a
threatening notice to Benjamin Digby, Esq.
Michael Martin was found Guilty of attacking the
dwelling-house of James Dalton, and for firing at con-
stable Matthew Campbell.
POTATO DISEASE—FEVER AND DISTRESS.
The reports from the country are quite disheartening.
The Cori; Examiner gives the following account from
Dungarvan, a populous town in the county of Waterford :
—" We regret to learn that the condition of the poor in
the town of Dungarvan is deplorable in the extreme ;
and that, to add to their misery, the potato crop of the
Union not only was not an average crop, but that one-
half of the crop is totally unfit for human food. Besides
a want of employment for the large working population
of the town, the price of provisions has enormously in-
creased ; so much so, that even the worst quality of
potato is beyond the reach of the poor householder. In
the words of a most respected correspondent, Mr. An-
drew Carbery, of that town :--‘ Famine, distress,
and sickness have already set in here to an
alarming extent amongst our unemployed population,
from the use of bad food, and from want of money
to purchase even that same.' lie further states
that the rate at which potatoes are sold is sd. per 141 b.
for mixed, good and bad ; 6d. per ditto for middling ;
and 7d. for good. That would be, according to our
weight of (211 b) 7*l. for bad, 9d. for middling, and
104 d. for good. Combine these famine prices with
sickness, poverty, and want of employment, and the
picture becomes appalling. So urgent and terrible is
the state of distress to which the poor householders of
Dungarvan are reduced, that a hurried meeting was held
on urday last in the chapel, Dr. Rally, P.P., in the
chair, at which meeting the sum of 1001. was subscribed;
and so great was the necessity for active measures, that
the houses of the poor were visited that very day by the
subscribers to the fund, and the names of 200 house-
holders—the most urgent cases—taken down for imme-
diate relief ; which temporary relief, we are glad to
learn, was administered to those distressed creatures on
Monday. Our readers will remember that the sub-
scribers were enabled to administer relief to what they
considered the most destitute, leaving some 200 families
more in a condition only a degree removed from the
lowest state of suffering and want. Alarmed, and justly,
at this fearful aspect of affairs, the townspeople have re-
solved on an immediate application to the landlords of
the town, to whom the people must look for relief at this
period of general suffering."
The King's County Chronicle says :—" Fever and dy-
sentery are very prevalent in Philipstown."
The Castlebar (Mayo) Telegraph contains the follow-
ing :—" Fever, we regret to state, is very prevalent in
this town and neighbourhood at present. Alas I what
will become of the poor ? Famine and disease stalks
abroad. The grain has been shipped from our coasts,
to fill the granaries of England. Our population are
without permanent or remunerative employment—and,
to crown all—the drivers are impounding for the No-
vember rent."
Coax, JAN. 21.—A meeting of the parishioneri of
Liscarrol was held in the parish chapel on Sunday, the
13th inst. (at which the Rev. William Golden presided),
tor the purpose of ascertaining t e probable amount of
injury done to the potato crop in that locality ; and to
transmit the substance of the information derived to the
proper authorities. The accounts given of the gradual
progress of the disease were truly appalling, and to
judge from analogy, the prospects are gloomy, despond-
ing, and deplorable.
DREADFUI, MURDER NEAR CLONMEL.
The Tipperary Constitution contains the following:—
" On the night of Sunday last a most atrocious murder
was perpetrated in the vicinity of Woodroffe, in this
county. This victim was a man of the name of Patrick
Crotty. He was a servant to a man named Thomas
Fennessy, and was shot through the left breast, the ball
coming out through his hip. The body was discovered
in Fennessy'syard, and presented a shocking spectacle.
An inquest was held on Monday, before William Ryan,
Esq., coroner, assisted by Samuel Perry, Esq.,
Cap-
tain Plunkett, county inspector, and C. Brevr Esq.,
sub-
inspector of the district. After a minute investotgratictn
a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person per-
sons unknown was returned." We understand that two
persons have been committedrerned.
charged
perpetra-
tion of this heinous crime. "W

A mm o
of which Mr. B. Hawes is Chairman-
isnow end shed a revision of the laws relating to bankr
e oitin, i
n
ruptcy and insolvency. They are expected to complete thei-
report by the end of this month, and shortly afterwards prot
pose to call a public meeting of merchants and traders, at
which its recommendations are to be discussed. The repor
will subsequently be laid before Parliament—most probably
in the course of the present session.
The accounts received yesterday from Badminton
give a more favourable view of Lord Alvanley's illness,
which last week assumed a very serious aspect.
EXPERIMENTS 'WITH MARINE GLUE.—Mr. Jeffery
attended at the testing-room in the Woolwich dockyard
yesterday, to make experiments to ascertain the adhesive
power of New Zealand hemp, a substance imperishable in
water, when applied with marine glue. A block of elm, 12
inches square and 9 inches thick, was joined to another of
equal dimensions, and the joining surface of each was lined
with plates of iron three-eights of an inch in thickness, with
the hemp and marine glue placed betwixt them. On the ap-
plication of Bramah's power machine, the iron plates sepa-
rated when a strain of tire tons was given. A second block
of the same dimensions sustained a strain of 94 tons before
the plates were separated, and the marine glue appeared to
have retained on the separated part a complete surface of the
oxided iron. The strain on the latter was 151 lbs. the square
inch. Two pieces of sabico, a very hard wood from Cuba,
which had been joined with the marine glue was tried, and
on receiving a strain of six tons the wood separated, about an
inch on one side of the glue, and broke off altogether, leaving
the joining perfect
The authorities of the Middle Temple have approved
a report presented to them upon the subject of the legal
studies of candidates for the bar; and have ordered that a
lecturer be forthwith appointed, an examination be insti-
tuted, and exhibitions established.

110SIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The cotton hosiery
manufactures are yet in rather a stagnant state and the bands
in general are short of work. This state of things is much
increased by the disputes respecting the delivery of the
tickets to the workmen—some of the largest houses in
the town not having, as "'yet, given out a ticket; arid
such is the state of dependence- in which the n-asters and
journeymen ale held, and such is the want of public spirit,
that not a single individual is willing or dare complain—
thereby
fulfilling the old adage, " that neither Parlia-
mentsseselves."
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that the information could not be sustained. The bobbin-net
trade is still in a very forlorn and stagnant state, though we
have heard of some sales having been made, which, in extent
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however, set on a few machines, but not to the extent of
have been much exaggerated.hinelesnu,bNs‘c,
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€ll,eine[ewnotrlk.from a quarter from whence it was
liggenrii.afitaltiegvxdoinpusecrucocotiefrdar,gtel upon the old pretence that the operative
olasses ought to save as much in good times as will
hem in had ones.—Nottingham Journal
maintain
BOBBERY AT A RAILWAY
have received information tata baSjcAoTnltoaNi
n.i—n
fivegThe pdoolziecno
of brushes, the property of Messrs. Taylor and Black, of 50;
, City,
Gracechurch-street was stolen. on the 13th instant
from a truck at the luggage station of the Eastern Countiee
Railway.