The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-29 00:00:00

DUBLIN, SEPT. 2,5'.

I-Its Excellency the LORD LIEUTENANT is ex-
peaed this day at Ballyfin, near Maryborough, the
elegant mansion of the Hon. W. W. POLE, where he
will remain until Monday, on which day he will re-
turn to the Castle, after his most delightful excur-
sion to the South of Ireland.

At Sturbitch Fair, near Canibridge, a full audience
was colleded:on Monday evening last to witness
the representation of A Bold Stroke for a Wife, by
an itinerant Company. At eight o'clock an
alarm of " Fire !" was given by some ill.designing
person in the gallery. The Play was stopped,
and a pause of consternation ensued. At this mo-
ment, a woman, affrighted beyond measure, threw
herself from the gallery into the pit—a circumstance
which seemed to realize the most dreadful appre-
hensions. Every person rushed instantly towards the
door ; some were crushed to death by the. pressure,
and more were either killed or wounded severely by
being trampled upon when fallen. The accounts
received last night state the deaths to he Six or
Seven, and the number of the bruised and wounded to
exceed Thirty ! The ruffian author of this alarm, for
which there was not the smallest foundation, is yet
undiscovered ; but it is most devoutly to be wished
that the efFurts of the Magistrates will succeed—they
have offered the sum of 1001. for his apprehension.
Between four and five o'clock yesterday-morn-
ing, the inhabitants of Mortlake discovered that
the landlord of a public-house had murdered his
wife. She was a handsome-looking• woman; and
her husband is supposed to have been impelled by
excessive jealousy. He beat out her brains with a
pistol ; in doing which, the pistol was broken to
pieces. Mr. DAvis, the Surgeon, has the retnains
of the pistol in his possession. The murderer is in
custody, and raves as if he were mad. What is
singular, the person who kept the public-house be-
fore, a Black, also murdered his wife in it ; in con-
- sequence of •which, the house was a long time
empty, no one liking to take it.
At the Justice_room, Guildhall, yesterday, a
young man was brought before Mr. Alderman CUR_
in custody of an Officer, who stated that he
had been brought to Bridewell the preceding day,
by two Gentlemen who had been the means of
preventing him from throwing himself over Black_
friars Bridge. On being questioned by the Alder-
man, he stated that he was by trade a hatter, but had
been out of employ for upwards of three months,
and was driven to attempt the rash ad through
-distress. His aunt attended, and said that he had
been in a desponding way for a long time.—Mr.
Alderman CURTIS desired him to call at his house
and he would endeavour to get him employ, and
requested his aunt would take care of him in the
interim. The worthy Alderman gave him a small
sum for his present necessities.
• A desperate banditti, which we may reasonably
suppose -to be a part of the Finsbury gang, have
turned their hands to another species of depredation,
namely, that of housebreaking ; and seldom a night
passes without fresh instances of their audacity in
Moorfields and its vicinity. On Thursday night
last the back parts Of several houses in Leonard-
street were attempted ; but the alarm being given,
the villains precipitately decamped ; hut are sup-
posed to have rallied again at the end of Hill-street,
Park-s-treet, where they entered the warehouses of
Messrs. Wilkinson and Co. calico-glaziers, and,
after - poisoning a fine Yard-dog, efireeted their,
escape with several pieces of calico. We are happy
to learn that some 'effedual measures are in agita.
600 -by the parishioners, to proted themselves and
property from the attacks of these desperate free-
hooters.