The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-22 00:00:00

WHE INCOME TAX.

A special meeting of the corporation was fixed for
Friday (yesterday), with a view of discussing
the propriety of petitioning the Legislature for
the abolition of the war 9d. Alderman John Rey-
nolds was to have opened fire, and the long-de-
sired opportunity was all but come for the delivery
of a speech of which only about one-third or to
was spoken at the county of Dublin demonstra-
tion on Tuesday last. The Alderman, however,
was doomed to experience a temporary disappoint-
ment, for at the hour specified for the commence-
ment of proceedings a miserable account of empty
benches notified the dreary fact of "no house,"
and the Lord Mayor having justly censured die
apathy of the council when a subject so important
as the income tax was to be debated the motion
for adjournment was put and agreed to, Mr. Rey-
nolds's attempt to speak against time notwithstand-
ing.

SATURDAY EVENING.
THE GOLD PANIC.

It is announced this day that upwards of
200,000/. in sovereigns reached the offices of the
National Bank to-day from London. This timely
assistance will doubtless put an end to the panic in
the southern counties.

THE MURDER OF MR. LITTLE.

At Capel-street Police-court this day at half-past
one o'clock,

Mr. Michael George Harrington, of (5, Wellington-
street, was placed at the bar, iu the custody of police-
constable 32 D, charged on suspicion of having mur-
dered the late Mr. George Samuel Little, in his office,
in the Broadstone Railway Terminus, or:Thursday, the
13th day of November last. The office was densely
crowded from the opening of the doors, and the greatsst
interest was manifested in the proceedings.
Mr. Superintendent Guy and Inspector Ryan, G
division, attended on the part of :he police; Mr. Cans.
Fitzgerald, sen., appeared for the prisoner,
Tile. witnesses not under examination having been
directed to withdraw,
Eliza Fitzsimons having been sworn, said, in reply
to Mr. O'Donnell,— I know the prisoner, and have
known Lim beyond seven months. I was his servant
for that time. I live in Watling-street. I ace a servant'
out of place. Up to this time the prisoner did not dis-
charge me nor pay me. About five weeks ago, on
Thursday, close at 12 o'clock at night, he came to
Watling street, where I stopped. He came up seem-
ingly as if he was a little intoxicated, but not a great
deal. He caded for a drink of water from Mrs. Feeney's
daughter. He washed his bands in a yellow basin which
was soiled with blood. I mean his bands. There were
slight splashes of blood on his face. He got a wet cloth,
dipped it in the basin and rubbed down the frost of his
trousers, as far as the upper of his foot. He wore white
gaiters. Mrs. Feeney asked him was it with Mary
Whelan he was, and was it she left the blood on bun,
as she often did before. He said not, that he fell into
company with a few lads that commenced a fighting,
and he went between them and got the worst of it.
Seemingly, they were, he said, mechanics. He asked
Mrs. Feeney to go with him to the Broadstone to see
his son, John Harrington. She said she would not go,
that she had nothing to put about ler that present time,
but could not be go himself, saying, was he not ofien
there before by himself ? He replied again. He said he
did mot wish to go by himself on account of some
dreadful accident which occurred on the railway, not
mentioning what the murder was, or anything. He
then said, " Will you clean a coat for me, Mrs. Feeney,
from the white paint on it." She said, " Yes." He said
he was after getting 300/. by his wife's death. It was
an inside coat, I forgot to say, and not the one be were
outside of ad. He they, told about the money.
!VI"- O'Donnell—.How came he to say that?—Oh,
that wa., to pay me, for he said after a time, When I
get it I %yid pay you,' speaking to rue. He meant seven
months' wages which was due to me. It was then dre.iv-
zorn.ociock, I dare say. He then went away, nod
Mrs. Fee
on Friday for his coat, which he had left with
8. 'ee"Y She slid she did het best with the coat,
and cold
went off then, and
rir:it get out the marks of the paint. He
I saw no more of him until yester-
day' I 83.'1' yesterday at Mrs. Feeney's. That is
all, sir.

Cross-examined byr Mr. Fitzgerald—You lived seven
ammonfrtbhms whiitbah
athgeo-poct,w,
°!T. When did you leave him ?—I
remained for, lau title. I could not exactly say. I
tneatt,,,a month after his wife's death.
It is about seven
reilieve, to the Manor Court ?
You summoned him, i Tgo.
azatinst him Mr 1/. I cannot
—Yes ; and I got an order
left
his
it or get a war-
say when that was. I did
is service. I autninoi:d
rant. That was the day 1
• him while in his service.
himeen I got the order
Cross-examina;ion continusd_w,,_
he was sick. He knows about it
hospital, but after coming out of 71f• Ile was not in
summons at his place, No 6, Weiviin t I gave him the
not known where his place is now. ,31.0n-street. It i 8
I lived with him in
Wellington-street.
Did you put the warrant in force by
.p4e! .l' ingting
,hh4
goods seized ?—No, sir ; not till of late,
seized then were not his. The goods were gees I
That was about a fortnight or three weeks agetr %re
lington-street. I never tried to force it before, tear Wel'
I went to look for him he was denied to me. ifil,,da
going on seven or eight months with Mrs. Feeney,r
was himself put me there when I left his service. I
paid myself for my support with my clothes. I paid
nothing, though I am there seven or eight mowila
elf and on. I was seven weeks of that time at the fi'g
Tree in Druincondra in service. I do not know the man's
name. (Sensation) I could show the place. It is on
the left hand side as you go down. The gentleman
I lived with was a bookbinder, and was married, and
had a fatuity. After some time I might think of fiL4 na,nie.
I do not remember Mr. Harringteu allegieg that 1 nrele
away with his shirts. He carne to me about them, and
I told him where they were. He called on me about
them while in his own service, and he spoke of them
also in Mrs. Feeney's whenever he would come. He
used to ask me
that they. He knows all about thorn
himself. Re how they went. He Oid not ray
tuld him.
made awa . gout-, but e said that they had been
y with. If you allow me I will tell you a. I '
would
pay
Tills: did tell me to get the shirts, and then he.
asked hot. was
7tdb' where's all my shirts,' he'd say. I
said `not.' Every time
made him keep my wages, and he
except
time he came to Mrs. Feeney's he
spoke of this,
he met me or her hep would the last time, and no matter where
ull.d, speak of them ; still the man
knows all about them,
Anne-street,
hen I went to live with MrS.
-street, the chapel Anne-street,
Feeney, it was in
North Anne-street, 1
dareg say suppose. I cannot rightly say
when she left it. I
it is nigh eight or nine
weeks. I removed with her to Watling-street, and am
with her ever since.
Where bad you spent the day
of the Thursday you
said he called !—At Mrs. Feeney's.
Where did you sleep that night /—There, and there
I slept ever since, up to last night, in the top back room.
Mrs. Feeney has four childreo, the eldest about 10 years.
I dined that day, and had a cup of tea for dinner. Lir.