The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-12 00:00:00

had left Hackney early th a same evening, but no tidings
were heard of her until thi s morning, when she returned
to her mother's house. 1 'he mother then proceeded to
state that the day followin g that on which her daughter
left home it was found f vat she had been seen in the
company of a gentleman resembling the accused, and
acting upon this information, she (the mother)
called on him, and I Laving represented the facts
relative to her daughter's absence, and intimated
that she suspected b e had inveigled her away,
his reply to her was, the it she was a nice young girl,
that he had been Leaven! ig with her for the last three
weeks, but found money was of no use, and he added
that the girl was safe, and: that she (the mother) might
go home and make herself easy, for her daughter would
return home to her in a month. Those latter words
the accused had used on the occasion, and the magistrate
(Mr. Cottingham) having been made acquainted with
the alleged fact, issued his warrant against the accused ;
as he was not in the way when the officer called in the
first instance to request his attendance, and to describe
that a charge had been alleged against him injurious to
his character, and the nocessity for his coming to the
court to explain the matter„
The accused said, that lee was from home when the
officer called, and upon bt dug subsequently apprised of
the nature of the charge against him, he was glad to
have an opportunity of c.)ming forward to deny the
imputation cast upon his character with respect to thig
matter.
Jessie Cabb, the young girl alluded to, was then
sworn, and in accounting for her absence from home
since last Monday afternoon, she said that after
leaving her aunt's house at Hackney, and when she
was walking along Shoreditch, a gentleman came
up and spoke to her. That after walking by her
side a short distance he went into a pastry-
cook's shop and brought her out some sweetmeats, which
he desired her to eat. That soon after she had partaken
of some she became sick and retched very much, and that
the gentleman remained by her side, and that she did not
know what took place afterwards, as she became insen-
sible until the following morning (Tuesday); she found
herself lying in bed alone, in a house in one of the streets
leading out of Blackfriars-road, and having got up she
left the house. _ _

Mr. COTTINGHAM here questioned the girl, and in
reply she said that she saw a woman in the house, but
said nothing to her, nor did she ask her for money for
permitting her to sleep there. How she came there she
cuuld not tell, nor could she say whether the gentleman
who gave her the sweetmeats had accompanied her to
the house.
Mr. COTTINGHAM desired the girl to look at the ac-
cused, and say whether he was the person whom she
had met on Monday evening? The reply was that she
had previously seen the accused in the vicinity of the
Borough hospitals, but that he was not the person whom
she described.
Mr. COTTINGHAM then asked her where she had been
since Tuesday? and she said that she been walking
about the Parks and the west-end of the town, and had
not lain on a bed since Monday night, nor had she eaten
anything.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that she did not look as if she
had been starved, but fed well since her absence; that
there was so much improbability in her statement re-
lative to her having met with some man who purchased
sweetmeats for her, then becoming suddenly ill, and
afterwards finding herself alone in bed, on the south
side of the water, and lastly, her walking for so many
days and nights about the parks and streets; there were,
as he said before, so many improbabilities about it, that
he must confess he did not place much reliance on what
she had stated. He (the magistrate), however, was
persuaded that she had been enticed away from home by
some heartless seducer, with whom she had been until
that day, and that he had bound her down not to di-
vulge the circumstances that transpired during her ab-
sence. The magistrate then, addressing Mr. Craven,
explained to him the reason the warrant was issued
against him, was owing to thewords which it was alleged
he had used to the mother of the girl, but that the girl's
own statement had completely exonerated him from any
participation in her abduction.
The accused denied that he had ever uttered the words
attributed to him, and complained that his character had
suffered in consequence of the unfounded reports pro-
pagated about the affair.
Mr. COTTINGHAM informed the mother of the girl that
in the event of her discovering the person who had in-
veigled her daughter from home, he would grant a war-
rant for his apprehension, and punish him to the extent
of the law.

IRELAND.

ARRESTS IN DUBLIN.

DUBLIN FRIDAY.—Mr. Mahony, publisher, o
Capel-street, was yesterday arrested under the Sus-
pension of the Habeas Corpus Privilege Act, and
committed to Newgate.
Four persons, said to be Americans, were brought
into the Castle yesterday by the police, from Clontarf.
Mr. SMITH O'BmEs.—Yesterday a military guard,
consisting of thirty men and an officer, was placed on
Kilmainham gaol. Mr. O'Brien is quite cheerful.
lie is not allowed to read the newspapers. Mrs.
O'Brien has access to him, and some gentlemen who
obtained orders from Government have been per-
mitted to visit him in the presence of an officer of the
prison.
DUBLIN, THURSDAY.-The first of the trials under
the Treason Felony Act is now in progress at the
Commission Court—that of Mr. Kevin O'Doherty,
one of the proprietors of the Irish Tribune. The
greater part of the day was occupied with argument,
before the jury were empannelled, and it is question-
able whether the case can be brought to a close this
day. There is nothing in the shape of excitement
about the court-house, and people appear, at least, to
take little interest in the proceedings.
The accounts from the south are again tranquil.
The Roman Catholic clergy, in all directions, are
warning their flocks to discountenance the rebel
movement, and to hold no communication with parties
who would endeavour to seduce them into treasonable
conspiracies. There are further arrests. The Wex-
ford Independent states that warrants have been is-
sued for the arrest of not less than eighty persons in
that county. Eighteen persons are in custody,
charged with being concerned in the attack on the
mails near Abheyfeale.

The Dublin Evening Post contains the following:—
" We have received a communication from Dungarvan,
stating that a vessel has been seized with thirty tons of
gunpowder, and the ship's papers are said to be false.
We cannot, however, vouch for the accuracy of this
statement."

The mid-day mail from the south brings no news
beyond an idle rumour that Mr. Meagher had been
arrested ; but no one could say when, where, or by
whom.

It has been asserted that Mr. O'Gorman headed the
insurgent peasants who attacked the mail-coaches near
Abbeyfeale ; or that he was, at all events, the leader
of the movement in that quarter. Some decided in-
formation, implicating him in the outbreak, must
have reached the Government, as the foundation of
this proclamation. We have seen aletter from a Limerick
magistrate, written yesterday, which says :—" O'Gor-
man got into a boat on the Shannon to-day, endea-
vouring to escape to the county of Clare. There is
scarely a doubt that all the insurgent leaders are
still in the country, and that they will soon be in
custody."