The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-10 00:00:00

TESTIMONIAL TO RICHARD
LAMBERT JONES, ESQ.
A meeting of the friends of Mr. R. L. Jones took
place on Monday at the Egyptian hall of the Mansion-
house, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair.
Amongst those present we observed Alderman Thomp-
son, M.P. ; and Aldermen Hooper, Wood, Challis,
Musgrove, Mr. Richard Thornton, Mr. Jas. Ifutchinson,
Mr. Philip Green, Mr. John Dent, Mr. Henry Tritton,
Mr. Llewellyn, from the house of Truman and Co.;
Thomas Procter, the City Chamberlain, the Common
Sergeant, and most of the members of the Court of
Common Council. Letters were read from Sir Robert
Smirke, Mr. John Masterman, M.P., and others, apolo-
gising for their absence, but heartily approving of the
object of the meeting.
The LORD MAYOR briefly opened the business of the
day by observing that the time had arrived when a due
sense of the public services and private character of his
friend Richard Lambert Jones had induced his friends
and the public to meet for the purpose of recording in a
permanent manner the sense entertained of the great,
important, and increasing services rendered by Mr.
Jones to his fellow citizens and to the public at large.
For upwards of twenty-three years Mr. Jones had, as
Chairman of various Committees, improved the streets,
enlarged the communications for commerce, and presided
over the rebuilding of London-bridge. The Royal
Exchange, and various other important improvements
hatl been carried out by his energy, talents, and inde-
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join in doing honour to services so-
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.70.31—P(SCON17CM7P. , rose to move the fiersatsurree-
solution. "It afforded him, he declared, great
to meet with those who had assembled for suchl a pur-
pose.—(Hear, hear.) He had often thought that the
corporation had neglected their duty in not having,
while Mr. Jones was amongst them, done something to his
;
honour, but as that had not been done, he thought it was
necessary for the public to come forward and do honour
to such high public exertions as had been made for the
advantage of London by that able and zealous friend of
the citizens. He regretted that he could not in a short
speech express the obligations which, as a mer.
chant, an alderman, and a citizen, he owed to
Mr. Jones.—(Loud cheers.) To him this great
city owed much. Its Lridge, inconvenient, old,
and dangerous, had been replaced by an elegant
structure, the admiration of all, and in every respect
highly beneficial to commerce. The streets had been
widened and improved, and new streets had been opened.
A new Exchange had been erected, and notwithstanding
ou by those improvements
the finances of the Corporation had sustained nu dimi-
nution. Much of all this had been done by the advice
and under the superintendence of Mr. Jones, and to that
excellent individual he was satisfied his fellow citizens
owed a debt of lasting gratitude. He cheerfully moved
the resolution.

RICHARD THORNTON, Esq., seconded the resolution,
in a neat but energetic speech, in which he dilated on
the service rendered by Mr. Jones, and concurred in the
sentiments of his friend, Mr. Alderman Thompson,
which was put and carried unanimously.
Pinup GREEN, Esq., moved the next resolution, and
in so doing said, even on grounds of honesty, Mr. Jones
was entitled to praise, for before the removal of old
London-bridge many accidents had occurred, but he had
not heard of one since the new structure had been
erected.
JAMES HUTCHINSON seconded the resolution in a
speech full of ability.
JOHN DENT, Esq.. moved the third resolution, and
said that as a neighbour and a friend and a citizen, he
perfectly concurred in all that had been said of Mr.
Jones's services, and was glad to find that others as well
as himself appreciated public service, rendered with such
a cheerful spirit.—(Hear, hear.)
Alderman CHALLIS said he was glad to find that
public attention had been directed to the subject. He
felt assured the best way to reward public men was to
give them public honour. Benefactors to their race
were entitled to praise, and he was glad to find, in the
life-time of Mr. Jones, his fellow citizens were doing
themselves honour by honouring one who had worked
well for the public.—(Great applause.)
Several other addresses were made by Mr. Chamber-
lain Brown, the Common Sergeant, Alderman Wood,
John Dillon, Esq. (of the firm of Morrison, Dillon, and
Co.) and others ; and, after an unanimous vote of
thanks had been passed to the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, the meeting separated, but not until every one
present had put down his name as a subscriber.

DESECRATION OF A ROMAN CA-
THOLIC CHAPEL.—EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
(From the Cork Examiner.)
Extraordinary excitement was occasioned in the town
of Bandon yesterday (Sunday) morning by its having
become known that the body of a female infant had
been found in the gallery of Kilbrogan parish Chapel.
This building, which stands a little outside the town
near the old Cork road, and on the ground formerly oc-
cupied by the ancient parish church, before the present
building had been erected within the town by the first
Earl of Cork, is not usually opened for service on
Sunday until about 10 o'clock, in consequence of that
duty being performed at an early hour in the adjoining
parish chapel. A woman, whose duty it was to clean
this chapel, on entering yesterday morning, found the
body, as will appear in the evidence. The police having
been communicated with, Head-constable Wright was
soon upon the spot, and in the afternoon an inquest was
held before Franklin Baldwin, Esq., coroner, and the
following jury.
Andrew Moore, Abraham Isaac, Daniel Dineen, Pa-
trick Murphy, Wm. Morgan, Wm. Lovell, Andrew Des-
mond, Cornelius Keeffe, Terence M'Carthy, Denis
O'Leary, Timothy Donovan, and Mathew Cummins.
The first witness examined was Ellen Walsh, who
being sworn, deposed that she is employed in keeping
Kilbrogan Chapel clean—she went into the chapel this
morning about six o'clock, when she found the body of
the infant now before the jury covered with a white
linen cloth, on a form in the gallery—no window or
windows were open and the doors were locked—does not
know who put the child there, nor that any one lately
had a child in the neighbourhood—does not know of ally
being buried iu the yard for the week—was not in the
chapel since this day week—does not know of any
other person having been there—went into the gallery
to dust it—did not see any one about the place lately,
and witness was not about the place since last Sunday.
Peter Crawley sworn—Keeps the keys of the chapel,
and has had them in his possession for thirty years ;
had them during the last week ; locked the chapel doors
this day week, and is sure the body was not there then ;
the keys were not out of his possession during the week ;
he did not himself go to the chapel during that time, nor
give the keys to any one to do so—nor saw any of the
windows open; don't know of any child being buried
during the week ; the people go to him when the
keys are wanted. No persons were watching in the
church-yard since Mr. Donohue was buried • did not
hear any one suspected of having had a child in the
neighbourhood ; the woman got the keys from him at
six o'clock this morning ' • there was no fastening to the
windows, and they could be easily opened from the out-
side ; did not see any oue about the place during the
week.

John Desmond sworn—His house adjoins the chapel
yard ; don't know of any child being brought into the
chapel yard this week ; nor did he see any strangers
about during that time by night or day. Does not keep
dogs ; don't hear any noise about the yard during the
week, nor of any woman having had a ehild, or being
in the family way.
Thomas Wright sworn—ls head constable of police,
and of the Bandon station ; got information this morn-
ing that a child was found in Kilbrogan Chapel ; accom-
panied the clerk to the chapel ; found the body of the
infant now before the jury, lying on a form in the gal-
lery on its back, with a white linen cloth over it ; lifted
the cloth and found a cut extending from the upper part
of the chest down the body ; some, but but not much
blood under the head on the form ; searched generally
for blood marks through the chapel, but found none ;
examined the lower windows of the chapel, but which are
about two and a half feet from the ground ; they could
be easily lifted ; found no trace of any person having
forced in ; searched the chapel yard to try if a grave had
been recently opened, and found only one which bad
apparently been opened for an infant, and lightly
covered with sods.

John Magrath, M.D., sworn—Examined the body of
a female child which the jury had received ; found a
long incision made by a cutting instrument exactly
from the upper part of the chest to the
lower part of the abdomen, laying bare the
intestines ; the intestines were not injured, but
in their natural position ; the back part of the head
was knocked and broken to pieces, and half of the
brains out. The navel cord was tied in the regular
way and of the usual length--opened the chest and exa-
mined the lungs (which were not previously opened).
From the principal physical marks he is of opinion that
it was born dead. The lungs sunk immediately when
put into water. No trace of air in them, which would
be the natural consequence if the child had ever breathed.
The marks are not those which would be caused by a
medical man using his instruments in a difficult birth.
The mutilation must have taken placed before the body
was taken into the chapel.
The following verdict was returned:--" That the said
female child on the 31st day of May was still-born, but
who are her parents, or by whom the body was left ex-
posed, no evidence to the jurors did appear.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AT THAXTED.—Georg• May
Smith, the youth who on Wednesday last attempted to shoot
his master, Mr. Warner, ironmonger, of Thaxted, was yes-
terday committed for trial at the ensuing Essex
assizes.
An old man met with a frightful death near Stratford-
on-Avon, about noon, on Tuesday last. The deceased was
sent by Mr. Atkins, of Dlilcot, near Stratford-on-Avon, to
fetch home a bull that had been hired out for the season
and he was returning, at the time having hold of a chain
that was attached to a ring that passed through the bull's
nose. Some persons passing along the road saw the old
man, as they supposed, overcome with heat, sit down on the
bank by the road side, and immediately after the animal
was seen to rush at him as he sat, goring and ripping the
poor man in a most horrible manner. Several persons ran
to the spot, but the bull kept trampling upon and ripping
open the poor man's body and head, until his features
were almost obliterated. By this time a general alarm was
given, and one man drove a pickaxe into the animal's back,
with which he made off, and others fired at him in every di-
rection. One man, a shoemaker, residing near the spot,
battled with him in a most extraordinary manner, facing his
fierce and frightful rushes, whilst others kept loading and
firing at him at every point. At length a butcher named
Waite seized him by the tail, and courageously forced him
into an adjacent shed, where a barber, named Thomas Har-
ris, terminated his existence by shooting him through the
head. The scene, as described to us by a witness, was of a
most frightful description. The deceased had been used to
the animal for several years, and until the present outbreak,
it was considered to be quiet and docile.—Northampton
Herald.