The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-14 00:00:00

LIMERICK.

As I mentioned in my letter yesterday (by antici-
pation, for their Lordships had not risen at the hour
of post), the Court adjourned to this day week, the
19th instant. In the case of the " Queen v. Haslet
and Shaughnessy"— the particulars of which I for-
warded in my last—there was a conviction, and
both prisoners were sentenced to be transported for
life.

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX
MAGISTRATES.

The customary meeting of the Middlesex magis-
trates took place yesterday, at the Sessions-house,
Clerkenwell. The chair was occupied by Mr.
Pownall.

The Deputy-Clerk of the Peace laid before the
Court the various prison reports. The Coldbath-
fields Prison contained, it appeared, 758 male, 239
female, and 12 juvenile prisoners; total, 1,009.
Westminster ditto, 739 prisoners. Sickness prevailed
to the extent of 21 amongst the males, and 6 per cent.
amongst the females. Not a single prisoner had been
attacked by influenza. In the House of Detention
there were near 100 prisoners.

FRENCH CRIMINAL AND PAUPER LUNATICS.

At the July session last year a Frenchman, named
Peter Tesside, was convicted and sentenced to three
months' hard labour, for having presented a pistol
loaded with a ball at the breast of a youth, and threa-
tened to shoot him. Soon after his admission into
Westminster House of Correction he exhibited marked
symptoms of insanity, and it was soon discovered that
he was a confirmed lunatic, and had been trans-
ported to this country without passport, by order
of the French Government, his alleged offence
being his having been found under very suspicious
circumstances at the Chateau d'Eu, armed, and it was
said with the intention of shooting at King Louis
Philippe. The visiting justices communicated with
the Home• office, when they were informed by the
Secretary of State that there were some negotiations
pending upon the matter between the Governments
of England and France relative to the maintenance
of pauper and criminal lunatics in either country,
and that the French Government would defray the
expense incurred by the county of Middlesex in
maintaining Peter Tesside. Tesside was, therefore,
placed in the County Lunatic Asylum, at Hanwell.
A short time ago an application was made at the
French embassy for payment of the expense the
country had been put to in Tesside's case, but the
answer was that no official notification had been re-
ceived from the French Government; upon this, Mr.
Allen wrote to the Secretary of State, and the fol-
lowing answer from the Ilome-office was now laid
before the Court:

" Whitehall.

" Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 23d
ult., as t• the repayment by the French Government
of the expense incurred by the county of Middlesex
in maintaining a French pauper lunatic named Peter
Tesside, I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey
to acquaint you, for the information of the visiting
justices of the Westminster House of Correction, that
it appears from a communication which has been re-
ceived from the Foreign-office upon this subject,
the French Government to the proposal made
to them by her Majesty's Government that they
should defray the expenses incurred by the mainte-
nance of French pauper lunatics in this country, and
that the proposed arrangement between the two
countries will again be brought under the notice of
the French Government in order to obtain their
answer thereupon.
"Peter Tesside will, therefore, remain in the
Hanwell Lunatic asylum for the present, and when
the determination of the French Government tshall
have been received, Sir George Grey will address
a further communication to you upon the subject.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" S. M. PHILLIPS.
" Mr. Allen."

Mr. B. ROTCH, as one of the visiting justices con-
cerned, called the attention of the Court to the sub-
ject matter of this correspondence, which he said
involved a rather important question between the
Government of this country and that of France, with
regard to the maintenance of pauper and criminal
lunatics who might be in either country. The French
Government had chosen to transport this man to this
country, denying him a passport, and becaute he did
not possess that passport they refused to take him
back again. He considered it a violation of the law
and property of nations, and a matter less for the
Home than the Foreign-office. He would urge upon
the Court the necessity of Lord Palmerston's taking
the matter in hand, with the viewof bringing the
wFrenchth re
gaGovernmentrd t
o thq uteos t
isooninf determination
(Pitti v,
ehear.
This suggestion met with general approbation from
the other Magistrates.
The Court then adjourned.

. _
DARING BramLutr.—On Wednesday morning
last, about half-past one. o'clock, another of the violent
robberies which seem to be getting common in the
neighbourhood,
was perpetrated near Waterloo, in Live-
sey, about a mile and a half from Blackburn. In this
instance the robbery was again committed by men with
blackened faces, and otherwise disguised. The intended
victim of the robbery is -James Haworth, stonemason,
who is at present employed and resident during the
week at Whalley. Mrs. Haworth, his wife, was sole
occupant of the ,house, which the men entered by the
removal of a back window. On obtaining an entrance
one of the robbers pinioned Mrs. Haworth in bed, and
the other proceeded to search the house for money, and
succeeded in obtaining nineteen sovereigns, one half-
sovereign, and 2s. Mrs. Haworth struggled hard for
her release, and inflicted rather a severe bite upon the
hand of the robber who held her. On obtaining their
intended booty the robbers were in the act of decamping,
when Mrs. Haworth seized a hedge hook, which they
had brought with them, with which she valiantly at-
tacked the retreating robbers, and inflicted a severe cut
on the hand of the one who held the money, causing
him to drop eighteen sovereigns on the floor. They
escaped with one sovereign, a half sovereign, and Ss.
The police are on the alert for the apprehension of the
robbers, who are not supposed to be the same who com-
mitted the robbery at the Hill Farm.—Blackburn Stan-
dard.
Rome.— Among the English families of rank
passing the winter in " the eternal city," are—the Mar-
quis of Conyngham, the Earl Mount Charles and family.
the Earrand Countess of Balearree, the Countess (Fran-
ces)d of Waldegrave and Mr. G. V. Harcourt,
and Lady Norreys, Lord and Lady Lindsay,M
Cranbourne, Lady Eleanor Butler, Sir Hone Whaler
T° Sidney
and family,Sir Wm. Gordon, the RiVi;count
and family, the lion. Sydney Derrepo
Herbert, M.P., and Mrs Herber!, Mrg.hneit,otdaadryt,
CMh.aPr..,
lotte Bury, the Hon.
Colonel Hamilton, Mr.
cromby Hon. Captain Lindsay, Colonel and Lady Mary Aber-
Nicholl and family, the lion. oughby, Sir H.
and Lady Mary Ross and .3 1 6;Rirossvv, the
ill /tight Hon. T.
Doyle, General the Right lion. Sir F. Adam, Mr. Dyce
tC°Clliovnee,lanßdoldwiserssesliColinv.eß,
Sombre, Sir J. W. Guise and family, Lady Williams,
. H.
likely to be attended with
seCMlrriAiv.oeau,jensdMrcaol:sneek:::ll7!dacthkiellihsciu,awtorliaeosek place a few days ago between
Captain H. and Mr. D. H. K., a magistrate, and an ex-
tensive landed proprietor in this and the adjoining
county. We understand that an amicable adjustment
took F4o.....Baccomnt Jountra,