The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.-DUBLIN, MARCH 3.

(From the Times Correspondent)
Mr. O'Connell has just arrived ; to-morrow he will meet the
National Political Union, and put forth his promised address to
the people of Ireland on the subject of tithes. On Tuesday it
is expected he sets out for Kilkenny, 'where the assizes com-
mence on Wednesday, the 7th inst. On Wednesday last an
atrocious outrage was perpetrated at Ballyburr, near Desart,
about four miles from Kilkenny. An armed party, consisting of
about 20 persons, broke into the house of Mrs. Margaret Duigan,
a widow, whose only daughter was to have been married
on the following day to a man named Brennan. The ruffians
tore the daughter nut of bed, without permitting her to put
en any of her clothes, threw her across a horse, which they
had brought to the door, and gallopped off with her. In-
formations were lodged early on the following morning, be-
fore Mr. Greene, by her relations (who are respectable farmers
in the neighbourhood), and a party or police was instantly
despatched in the direction the villains had taken. The young
woman was not, however, carried far. She showed such de.
termined opposition to the unmanly ruffians who were carrying
her off that they left her at the house of a friend on the road,
who next morning restored her to her friends. She has since
been married to Brennan, and every exertion is making, through
the influence of the parish priest (the Rev. Mr. Kavenagh), to
bring the authors of the outrage to justice. Just as I close my
letter, a report has reached me of the arrival of the Thames
steamer, from London, and of the death of three persons of
cholera, during her passage. It is said that the passengers only
have been allowed to laid, and that the goods will be kept on
board till the vessel performs quarantine. There is great alarm
on the quays.

MURDER OF MR. BLOOD.—At the Ennis
Assizes, on Tuesday morning, the grand jury having found true
bills, George Casey and Michael Casey, brothers, John Bourke,
and John Brody, were arraigned for the atrocious and premedi-
tated murder of William Blood, of Applevale, Esq. on the
night of the '2lst January, 1831, to which indictment they
pleaded each not guilty. Brody, it will be recollected, was
sentenced to transportation at the Ennis commission for rob-
bing Pat. Keeffe, at Garrynacally, of P2O guineas, besides pro.
missory notes and decrees. He was brought back from the
hulks at Cove a fortnight ago. On Wednesday the prisoners,
after a trial of nine hours' duration, from ten in the morning
to seven in the afternoon, were found guilty, when the learned
judge sentenced them all to be hanged on Thursday (yesterday),
and their bodies to be given for dissection. For the defence of
the prisoners an alibi was attempted by five witnesses, which
proved a total failure. Judge Moore recapitulated all the evi-
donee to the jury in a very clear and impartial charge, after
which they withdrew for ten minutes, and then returned to
Court with a verdict of guilty against all the prisoners. George
Casey, in being taken from the dock, audibly invoked the ven-
geance of Heaven upon his head if he had act or part in the
murder.—Dublin Morning Register, _ _ _

Geo. Casey, Michael Casey, John Bourke,
and John Brady, were executed at Corofin this day (Wednes-
day) for the murder of Mr. Blood, at Applevale, near that vil-
lage, in January, 1831. They acknowledged the justice of their
sentence.--Limerick Herald.

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MYSTERIOUS MURDER.--On Tuettlay, the
2lst of February, W. Wright, the son of art agricultural la.
bourer, living at the ♦illage of Bayford, four relies from Hert.
ford, went with his master, Mr. Smith. of Brickendon, to binct
or truss hay, in the King's Meads, tlertfbrd. The boy akkd his
master dined together at the Rod Cow public-house, at Utrtford,
and left at about a quarter past six. The evening was foggy they
walked together as far as Brickendon; them the boy parted
from his master. At eight, his father, uneuy at his not arriv-
ing at home as usual, went out for the purpose of meeting him,
but found him not, nor could he hear any tidings of him in the
neighbourhood. On Thursday last, a labourer, out of work,
named Timothy Soering, and a bird.eatcher, named Plumer,
both residing at Enfield, were out together ; and going towards
the village of Newgate-street, they turned out of the road into
a field, across a ploughed field. On walking into the afore..
named field, the one said to the other " There's an old sack ;
go and see what it is." They both went towards what they
supposed to be a sack, and found that the object of their obser.
vation was not a sacks but the corpse of NV. Wright, the boy
who had so long been missing. His clothes were wet, and a
cap was lying near the body, which was afterwards identified to
have been his. Two medical gentlemen, upon examination of
the body, found several marks under the chin, either occasioned
by a cord or the pressure of hands. The gentlemen both
agreed that the body had been immersed in water, and that
suffocation, together with the injuries on the body, had been
the cause of death. The Jury, after an investigation of five
hours, found a ♦erdict of " Wilful Murder against some person
or persons unknown."

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MR. BROUGHAM AND QUEEN CAROLINE.
—Mr. Brougham was accused of attempting a politic, if not a
double game, to win over the Queen to a compromise of which
he might make a merit with the King. The supposition was
not merely improbable, but absurd. A man fully conscious of ..,
his great faculties, maintaining a certain independence, not
merely of power but of party, obviously and systematically
building the fabric of his ambition and renown upon the
public effect of his popular and indelztigabie genius ;—such a
man could not, without momentary infatuation, court fortune
with the arts of a Vice-Chamberlain or Lord of the Bedchamber.
The mission to St. Omer's, however, is, tcra certain extent, in.
volved in mystery ; and an understanding of silence on the
subject is said to exist still between Lords Hutchinson and
Brougham.—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library, Life and Reign
of George ll'. Vol. 111.