The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-08 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

A Court of Allernaen was held yesterday at Guildhall,
which was fully attended.
The Sheriff, pre,ented reports of the state of the several
gao's of the city.
The Court unanimously passed a vote of thanks to the
Lord Mayor for the prompt and able manner in which,
under his Lordship's direction, the peace of the city was
preserved at the Wardmute lately held in the ward of
Portsoken.

Several reports from Committees were presented and
agreed to.
Persons were sworn and allowed to be admitted brokers.
Precepts were ordered to be issued to the Sheriffs to
empmnel Juries to assess the amounts to be paid for pre-
mises required for the approaches to London Bridge.

Bills and salaries to Christmas were directed to be paid.
Mr. Thomas Theobald was admitted and sworn into the
office of Under Mir-bal.

The Court pass,d a resolution of instructions to their
officers as to their proceedings before the Commissioners
for Corporation Inquiry.

The Speaker has issued his warrant to the
Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the
electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament
for the eastern division of the county of Somerset, at the
end of 14. days after the insertion of yesterday's notice in
the London Gazelle.

DREADFUL MURDER.---On Thursday se'n-
night, a dreadful murder was committed at North Nibley,
near Gloucester, under the following circumstances :—A
man, a carpenter by trade, was in the habit of working
at a distance from home; be fancied that his wife acted
improperly during his absence, and he therefore became
jealous. On his return home on Thursday se'nnight he
found that a quantity of hay and other property had been
either destroyed or cat ried away ; he accused his wife of
the theft, whereupon words ensued, and wordy produced
blows ; at length the woman seized a knife and nearly
severed his head from his body. Their child, who was a
witness of the scene, ran out rif the house and gave an
'dam, but was quickly brought back by the mother, who
whipped it for its interference. The fiendish wretch then
washed herself, changed her clothes, ❑nd put a ranr in
the hand of her deceased husband, and quickly reported
to the neighbourhood that her husband had destroyed
himself. A coroner's jury was in due time summoned ;
after investigating the circumstances, a verdict of "
ful murder" was given against the woman, who has, on
the coroner's warrant, been committed to take her trial
for the offence at the next assizes. It may be in the
recollection of our readers that a Charlotte Lung was
lately executed at Gloucester, in pursuance of her sen
tence, for the crime of rick-burning. The woman who
has now been committed to answer the charge of murder
ing her husband is one of the three who were accused with
Charlotte Long.—Hereford Times,

IRELAND.-DuniN, JAN. 5.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
"But the age of virtuous politics is past,
And we are deep in that of cold pretence.
Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere,
And we too wise to trust them."

The new year promises fairly for Old Ireland. Those
staple commodities—the only things we can call national
—wretchedness, discontent, discord, and disunion, begin
to appear in profusion. Agitation is as rife as usual
throughout the country, notwithstanding the Coercion Rill,
and strong manifestations on the part of Government of a
disposition to subdue all kinds of faction. The question
of repeal is sustained by some facts of local application,
which to those few who have an interest in partial im-
provement, and to the noisy and unthinking class in gene-
ral, seem to he unanswerable arguments. But the advan-
tages which such circumstances give the Dictator and his
followers, are counterbalanced by the distrust beginning
to he entertained against our "sound and fury" orators
and pseudo-patriots. The impression made by Mr.
speech to his constituents and the numerous letters and
c cone of n rnfeonutr Irish
s which ith i s
Membersdrawnare k forth,
own to have votedagainsthn
is—that
the Coercion Bill contrary to their conscience and judg•
went. Such a dereliction of principle may be overlooked
rnoretl
o
by the constituents of all, except the unfortunate individual
who was so infelicitous as to atone for his want of moral
courage by honestly advising Ministers to pass the Bill
for the safety of the country. The people, however, have
learned a lesson, not likely to be soon forgotten, from this
instance of tergiversation ; and should it appear from the
eclaircissement which must shortly take place, that many
have been guilty, though in a minor degree, the discovery
may have a salutary effect. It will teach our deluded
countrymen that the most flippant in promises are not the
most faithful in performances ; and that they were mis-
taken in their estimate of fit and proper representatives
when they refused to send to Parliament such men as Lord
Killeen and Mr. Wyse, merely because they would not
pledge themselves to vote one way, while their honest
principles and experience might oblige them to think an-
other. The approaching session will afford opportunity
for diffusing through the country proper strictures on pub-
lic men, nor will there be wanting hieb-minded and
talented individuals to expose the political delinquencies of
our most le iding Repeaters. Mr. Lambert, of Wexford,
has published a letter, avowing the sentimerrs ascribed to
him, as delivered on a late occasion, against O'Connell, and
pledging himself to vindicate his own Parliamentary con-
duct, while he exbibits that of his accusers in its proper
light, at a proper time and place. He also disclaims any
participation in the publishing of certain handbills in the
neighbourhood where he resides, questioning O'Connell's
sincerity and consistency of principle. A copy of these
handbills has been already published in The Sun, and
other London journals ; and it is cheering to know that
besides Mr. Lambert, there is, as appears by this placard,
at least one other shrewd and intelligent individual in the
county of Wexford who can aid in destroying the
delusion practised against our unfortunate countrymen by
professed friends. The views entertained by the Member
for the County Wexford of the state of Ireland, are those
of the best informed and most respectable, though perhaps
not the most numerous of his countrymen, and all that is
required to develop these views frilly is au able and indepen-
dent leader, in opposition to the Dictator's party, to produce
a complete reaction. Tie Repeal question may, never-
theless, continue a subject of long and distracting agita-
tion; more particularly if Government be not prompt and
determined in carrying forward the work of Reform.
The real friends to our tranquillity and welfare cannot
oppose the tide of turbulence and misrule unless those
grievances whose removal is pronounced by public opinion,
be timely redressed. Tithes ate first on this list ; and
though the Legislature has enacted several hies tending to
diminish and mitigate the odium attached to them, the
people are far from being contented. Doctor Doyle, who
first impressed upon Parliament the necessity for abolishing
or commuting tithes, is said not to be satisfied with the
slow progress making on this subject,—so far short of the
means which be grated cut long ago of removing this
obnoxious impost in a way reconcileable with the rights
and feelings of all parties. Bur, as the minister of peace
and good will among men, he refrains from giving publi
city to his disappointment, lest by so doing he should en-
danger for a moment the quiet and happiness of his be-
loved country. As his health is, however, now nearly
re-established, we may soon hope to find him labouring in
tne vineyard, at the head of those good and valourous men,
who have other objects in view th in the gratification of
their own personal interest and vanity.
O'Connell has, as might be expected, announced his
intention to dictate to the people of Dungarvan the kind of
person they should elect instead of the late Mr. Lamn.
This announcement was made yesterday, at a meeting of
the Commercid Clerks for Repeal, when, according to
the maxim of " being all things unto all men," he de-
clared himself one of their body, and called upon them
to resolve that a Radical should he returned for Dungar-
van, in order to put out the wretched Whigs !