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London, England, 1832-03-12 00:00:00

CARRICKMAUGII TRIALS.

The following prisoners were brought up and arraigned
for the murder of chief constable Gibbons, and Edmund
Butler (tithe proctor), by striking them with stones on
the head, at Carrickehaugh. on the 14th of December,
1831:—William Voss, John Kennedy, John Ryan,
Thomas Ryan, Patrick Carty, jobs Duly, Richard
Grennan, Patrick Dwyer, Edmund Duggan, and
Thomas .Egan. There were three more, one of whom
(Thomas Walshe) was sick, and was nut brought up. It
is believed that the bills against the remaining two are
ignored. These are Patrick Grennan and John Brophy.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8.

This morning Biron FOSTER opened the County Court
at half-p-ast nine o'clock. The ten prisoners arraigned
yesterday were then placed at the bar, and put on trial.
Bills have been found by the Grand Jury against fifteen
others on the same charge, who have not yet b en appre.
hended

I John Kennedy was then put on his trial, for the mar-
-1
der of Edmund Butler, the process-server.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opened the case, after which
the following facts were elicited :
Edmund Regan, a gate-keeper on the estate of Mr.
Pratt de Montmorency, of Castlemorris, was, a' out ten
o'clock on the morning of the 14th of December, walking
in the fox-cover of Castlemorris, when he saw a body of
police (about 40) coming along t! e Waterford-road to
Hugginstown (or Carrickahaugh). He had a telescope in
his hand, and staid there two hours Saw also a body of
people coming towards Huggiustown from Newmatket.
There were only 20 or 30 at first, but were soon joined
by crowds from other parts, some running, some walking,
in the direction of the police. As soon as the crowd
readied Hugginstown, the chapell-bell was rung for three
cr four minutes in a regular manner. A large crowd came
from Ballygerdra, and joined the former. The crowds
joined made up between 300 and 400. Something dark,
like a hat, was raised in the midst of the crowd, and held
up about a minute. The police went along the road, and
the crowd shouting by the fields, till they were out of wit-
ness's sight.
On his cross-examination by Mr. O'CoNNELL, he was
aware the pi ocess.server had been out serving notices a day
or two before the 14th of Decemb, r. Heard that he had
made use of very abusive language the evening before, in
passing through Newmarket. That there was an ad-
journed meeting of the vestry that day (the 14th of De-
cember). He had attended the vestry held a month be-
fore (the 14th of Nov; tuber) at Newmarket, when the
Rev. Mr. Hamilton had agreed not to take proceedings
against his parishioners till next vestry d ty. And yet be
did, and broke his wotd ! Knew that Kennedy lived a
short distance from Newmarket, on land that never paid
tithe. Heard that several of the prisoners were sworn
falsely against. If mass was said at Hugginstown, the
time for ringing the bell would be just when he heard it,
20 minutes before 12 o'clock.

Peter Harvie, a police serjeant, was on dwy on the 14th
of December, with a party of 35 or 37 police, commanded
by Captain Gibbons, who left Kilmaganny at 10 or 11
o'clock on the morning of the 14th of December with
Edmond Butler, in company, and proceeded through
Newmarket to Hugginstown. A mob came along the
road after them ; about a quarter of a mile of the road was
black with them. The chapel bell rang as they were going
into Hugginstown. Other hells were ringing also. Ano•
tiler crowd came across the field front the neighbourhood
of Hugginstown. A man had a sash across his shoulders
like a comfortable ; he had a glazed cap ; the crowd along
with Lim had pitcbfot ks, spades, scythes, bill-hooks,
shovels, hammers, and stones in their hands. The
man cried out to those along with him to come on, as they
waved the weapons in their hands. Gibbons ordered them
to load their arms when the crowds came; did so when
the people were 200 or 300 perches off; the crowd fol-
lowed them to Walsh's house, where they went to serve a
notice, and increased to 400 or 500. The crowd cried,
" We'll murder the process-server." Butler put the pro-
eels under Walsh's door, and then returned with the po-
lice in the midst of them. The people surrounded the
house and the police in the fields and the roads were
within a few yards of them. On the way hack the crowd
shouted, " Well have the process-server or blood." The
police returned by the road to Rockhall, and afterwards
turned to the left into a lane, wide at the entrance, hut
narrower further on. The crowds followed them the fields
at each side. Some said, " Don't he alarmed, police, We
don't want to hurt you." Others cried out, when told
the police guns were loaded, " We don't care, they can
only fire one shot, and then we will have the process-
server in spite of them." A man jumped from the field
into the open part of the lane, and caught hold of the
process-server out of the ranks, crying, " This is the
man we want." He was pulled in again by the police
He next got a blow of a wattle on the head from the same.
Person who had pulled him out. Ile leaned against
a policeman when struck, but did not fall. He next
got a blow of a stone on the head, and fell there. Po.
licemuen were knocked down in the rear by stones before
Butler fell. Gibbous was knocked down also, and killed
there. The crowd said to Gibbons before he entered the
lane, " Never fear, Mr. Gibbons, your people won't be
huit, or a hair of your head be touched." The witness
Harvie got a stab of a fork in the side. About 15 or 20
shots were fired by the police after the process-server and
some of themselves were knocked down. The witness
fired. lie afterwards saw 11 police brought in dead to
the barrack-yard: most of them had cuts in the baek of
the neck, and had fractured skulls. The whole affair
lasted only two minutes. After witness fired he got a
blow of a mallet, and was knocked down on his knees.
He could not stand to load. As soon as he could he ran
to Newmarket ; others escaped in different direc-ions,
mostly wounded by stones. This witness identified John
Kennedy, in the dock, as one who followed the police to
Walsh's house, when the process was served there, with a
pitchfork in his hand.
This witness was cross-examined at great length by
Mr. O'Connell, who tried to shake his evidence, by fixing
him as one of a family of sheep-stealers, of R ithdowne, in
the Queen's county. He admitted also, that his uncle,
who had been in the police, was transported. Admitted
'he never saw Kennedy refore. That he had sworn two
informations, and that Kennedy was not mentioned in the
first. He first saw him a prisouer, and then recognized
him. Kennedy was in company with 15 or 20 other
prisoners, and he had pointed him out as the man.
Fur the defence, Sir Robert Langrishe, Burt., son to
the prisoner's landlord, gave him an excellent character for
sobriety, honesty, and industry. He should have heard, it
there had been any thing bad against him.
Three witnesses were examined to prove an alibi : the
parish priest gave the prisoner an excellent character.
After dc-liberating nearly fonr hours, they returned into
court with a verdict of. Acquittal. The court inside and
outside rang with cheers, and other demonstrations of ex-
ultation.

The prisoner was remanded to be tried on another count
of •the indictment for the murder of GiblJons, the chief-
constable, but there is no chance of a conviction after the
result of the first trial.

FRIDAY—THIRD DAY.
(From the Kilkenny Journal, Saturday.)
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL applied to the Court to put
/ff the trills of those persons confined for the homicides at
Carrickshock. Ile groumiled his application on an affida-
vit from Mr. Kenimis, the Crown Solicitor, stating his
belief that such was the combination agiinst tithes, the
disturbed state of the country generally, and the sub„.
(pient dread of Jurors, that the ends of justice could not
be obtained by proceeding with the trials at present. Ile
put in another affidavit from Mr. Green, R.M., to th,
same effect, appended to which was a ballad, named " The
Battle of Cirriekshock, which a coumellor, who looked at
it, bone the imrress of the Warder.
Ilia Loansssie decided for the Crown that the prison-
ers should stand remanded without bail.
On this day, but one case was tried by Baron Foster, in
the County Court—that of Lawrence Dowling for bur-

9:lariously entering the house of John Alannan, of Crutecn
Clough OR the 21st of January, and administering to him
and his daughter unlawful oaths.
Sarah Mannan, the wife of John, stated that the door
cif her house was burst in about six o'clock in the evenine.
and on her looking out of a room, the saw 'ix men in the
entry, and one down in another room engag, d with her
husband th it she beard him sweat her husband that he
had no arms. 'they a'so swore her daughter, and then
proceeded to the room she was in, but she hid behind tl e
door.

John Miamian, a seemingly dying man, was carried in
an arm-chair to the table, and being sworn, answered a
few questions with extreme difficulty. He corroborated
his wife's testimony, identified the prisoner, and added that
he (the prisoner) when he first went in raked the cinders of
the fire about the floor, and dragged him over them, and
considerably burned his feet.
This man became ea weak that he could not speak on
his cross-ex amination, and as it was imagined he might
he trying to avoid it, a physician was sworn, who gave his
opinion that the man was dying. He was immediately
removed, and Counsellor Hamilton argued that the
prisoner should be acquitted, in as much ails the want of
t!.e witnesses cross-examination left his evidence to go in a
partial manner before the Jury. Mr. Scott argued on
the other side, and the Court ruled that the case should be
procredrd with, but he said would lay the question before
the twelve Judges.
Aft r a short charge, the Jury returned a verdict of
Guilty. The conviction was for a capital felony, but the
sentence has not been passed.
The City Assizes terminated in a few hours.

LANCASTER ASSIZES, MARCH 8.

(RECEIVEn THIS MORNING )
HORRIBLE MURDER AT LIVERPOOL.

Jahn Thomas, a young man of a peculiarly mild and prepos-
sessing appearance, stood indicted for the wilful murder of Ellen
Bancroft, at Everton (the suburbs of Liverpool) on the 11th
day of January last.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, for the prosecution, stated
that the deceased, Ellen Bancroft, was servant to Mr. Okell, a
spirit-merchant, at Liverpool, and on the 11th of January
she was left in care of her master's house at Everton, and was
seen safe and in good health at Everton about three o'clock in
the afternoon. Between six and seven o'clock she was dis-
covered barbarously murdered, and the house robbed of silver
plate and other valuables. Suspicion, from a variety of circum-
stances, fell upon the prisoner, and he was consequently appre-
hended.

Mr. CLARKE, for the prosecution, called Mrs. Sarah Okell,
who deposed that she is the wife of Mr. M. Okell, whose house
is at Everton. When Mr. Okell was out of town, the deceased,
Ellen Bancroft, slept at the house at Everton. Has not had
any acquaintance with the prisoner at the bar, but knew his
wife, Jane Thomas, well; she used to live servant with wit-
ness's sister. Witness and the wife of the prisoner were at
Everton on the 9th of January, and having then occasion to
charge her dress, Jane Thomas accompanied witness to the bed-
room, in which there was a chest of drawers. In one of the
drawers there was a quantity of silver plate, consisting of a silver
cup, six table spoons, six tea spoons, sugar tongs, two salt
spoons, mustard and desert spoons, and a small pickle fork. In
this drawer there was a silk handkerchief, which witness wanted
out, and she opened it in the presence of the prisoner's wife.
Witness left Everton on the Tuesday night, for the Vaults in
Liverpool, and slept at the latter place on the Tuesday, leaving
Ellen Bancroft in care of the house at Liverpool. On the Wed-
nesday following, in consequence of hearing that witness's ser-
vant could not get admittance to the house at Everton, she went
up between nine and ten o'clock, and found the deceased in a
very dreadful state from blows she had received, and a car was
in waiting to convey deceased to the infirmary. Witness pro-
ceeded to the room in which she had been on the Monday, and
found the drawer in which the plate had been deposited broken
open and all the plate gone.
Jane Spencer lives in Bull-lane, Everton, which is five or six
yards from the house of Mr. Okell ; remembers the 11th of
Jan., and saw Miss Beggs come out of the house of Mr. Okell,
and also saw Ellen Bancroft go in. After parting with him
about four o'clock she saw the prisoner at the bar walking back-
wards and forwards, near Mr. Okell's house, he was dressed in
light coloured clothes; saw him three times.
Robert Smith, a joiner, who was working in the adjoining
premises to Mr. Okell—He saw the prisoner about four:o'clock in
the afternoon of the 11th of Jan, coming from towards Mr.
Okell's garden ; he saw him talking to Ellen Bancroft! at the
gate.

Ainsworth, an officer of Liverpool, spoke to finding a chisel,
and a night-protector, or supple_jack, in the prisoner's apart.
ments, the chisele matched with the marks upon the drawers
of Mr. Okell, at Everton.
The JUDGE inquired of Mr. Heys, the surgeon, if the supple.
jack, would have caused death by being used as forcibly as the
poker.
Mr. Heyc, replied in the affirmative.

There were twenty-three witnesses in this case, but the
above is the substance of all their evidence, which merely went
to corroborate others.

The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The prisoner was then sentenced to be executed on Monday
next. lie left the bar weeping bitterly.

CHILD MURDER.

William Mercer, aged 23, stood indicted for the wilful murder
of a bastard child, of eleven days' old.
In May, IS 1, a lad, who was playing in a field near Lytham,
Lancashire, found a bundle floating nn the water, which, on
inspection, turned nut to he the body of a child, but in so
decomposed a state, that a surgeon who examined it could not
say of what sex it was. Inquiry was set on foot, when it was
ascertained that a young woman, named Hannah Foxcroft,
living at Preston, had been delivered of a child in the early part
of September last year, of which the prisoner was the reputed
fathe. This child had never been seen since the 26th of that
month. The prisoner and Hannah Foxcroft were apprehended
on suspicion of the murder, when a singular disclosure took
place at the Coroner's Inquest upon the body. Hannah Fox.
croft then stated that, on the 2fith of September, the prisoner,
who lived at Lytham, came to her at Preston and persuaded her
to go with him to his father's, at Lytham. She accordingly
packed up her child's clothes, and they proceeded on foot to
Lytham, a distance of fifteen miles ; when they had got within
a few miles of Lythan, Foxcroft sat down being tired with her
journey ; the prisoner then said that he durst sot take the
child to his father's, as he had elenied it. He attemptd to take
the child from her; she resistd, but he obtained the
child from her, and he went on the read, leaving
hes sitting by the road-side. In a quarter of an hour
she followed and came up to him about thirty yards from
the spot ; he had then a bundle under his arm; she en-
quired what he had done with the child, and he said he was
not going to hurt her or the child ; they then walked together,
and left her on the high road ; he taking the fields, shortly he
returned without the bundle, and she asked him what had be-
come of the child, and to her constant enquiries, ha invariably
said, " don't bother me about." This story the woman Fox-
croft repeated in evidence before the Judge and Jury, and iden-
tified the clothes found upon the child, as being these when he
left her to into fields ; he proceeded towards the pit that the
child was found in. In cross-examination the witness ad-
mitted that she had never mentioned any thing about the child
until prisoner and herself were apprehended. It appeared from
other evidence adduced, that the prisoner had made many con-
ert
tradictory statement of the affair; first, having said that he
buried it in Walton church-yard, having died on the road, and
then that he had buried it in a field. The prisoner having been
indicted
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CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER HEATON.

The convict Heaton, who was tried yesterday and ordered
for execution on Monday, has since his condemnation made a
full confession of his guilt to the Reverend Mr. Rowley, the
chaplain of the gaol. But at the same time, he stoutly denies
having used the potatoe fork brought in evidence against him.
He says that he murdered his victim with a hedge hook. He
also states that the witnesses have sworn falsely respecting his
shoe marks being found near the murderdd body, as he al.
leges that for fear of detection in that way, he had taken off his
shoes a distance of 20 yards, before he pounced upon the un.
fortunate Ratcliffe. The convicts behaviour, since his con-
demnation, has been very examplary.

HOUSEHOLD INFANTRY.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning at ten o'clock part of the 2.<1 battalion of Cold-
stream Guards marched out of the barracks, in the King's_
mews, Charing-cross, with their band playing and colours
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and handsome appearance of the clothing, with the superb gre-
nadier caps, and red plume worn on the side of them (which
his Majesty has been pleased to order the Coldstream Guards
to wear, as a mark of distinction for the brave conduct of the
Regiment in Egypt, under the command of Sir Ralph Aber.
crombie), drew forth a number of ladies and gentlemen to wit-
ness them. From the grand military appearance of the men
and officers, the whole had a very pleasing effect. Yesterday
Lord Hill (the Commander-in-Chief) visited every military
hospital belonging to the Household Infantry, and made
every necessary inquiry into the state of the patients'
health in each of theca. A new military hospital is op-
propria • ted to the use of the soldiers doing duty in the Tower,
several of whom have recenfly been taken ill, whirls is supposed
to be from the impure state of the water, which they drink, and
with which the Tower is supplied. His Lordship then pro-
ceeded, about one o'clock, to Buckingham Barracks, in St.
James', Park, where, on enquiring what number of men there
were there, and being informed G), his Lordship considered
that number too many in confined barracks, and ordered 30 of
them to march this day into the King's Mews, as also 50 men
from the Magazine Barracks, in Hyde Park. The Armoury
rooms, over the entrance gate in tie King's Mews, fronting
Charing Cross, have been converted into barrack rooms for tha
men, which will be occupied this day. "Ibe utmost precaution
is being taken against crowding the men in barracks. The un-
fortunate man Smith, who died on Friday afternoon, in the mi-
litary hospital in Rochester Row, Westminster, of the supposed
cholera, was buried on Saturday, in St. John's burial ground,
Westminster.

EXTRAORDINARY DISEASE AND IRISH
CosouLtNcE.—" I am sorry your cousin Sullivan is dead—a
dacent lad he was ever always ; and now tell me what did hedie
?"—" He died of Tuesday !"—Literary G,zct'e.

Navy Office,
March 1, 1832,
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T 11

LIST C
Who voted in the
STRANG FORD'S
GLOVE 11 A DE..
DUKES.
Norfolk
Richmond
Argyll

RQU SSE S.
Lansdowne
Cleveland
Queensberry
Sligo
Wellesley
Clanricarde

EARLS.
Oxford
Radnor
Mulgrave
Grey
Albemarle

LIST I
H. R. H. the Duke 01
Cumberland
DUKES.
Wellington
Northumberland
RQUISSES.
SaliAbury
Cholinmdeley
Thomond
Londonderry

EARLS.
Coventry
Charleville
Westmoreland
litooslyn

IL DUNDAS,
Rt. SEPPINGS.

GLOVE TRADE.

)F THE MAJoRITY
HOUSE of LORDS Al AINST LORD
; MOTION, for a COMMITTEE on the
—March 9, 1832.

EARLS.
Lichfield
Gosford
Tankerville
Amheret
Sefton
(Fife
Fingal'
Meath

VISCOUNTS.
Hood
Melbourne
Clifden
LORDS.
Ponsonby
Durham
Gower
)F THE MIN,
EARLS.

LORDS.
Dover
Plunket
Poltimore
Dundas
Dinorben
King
Holland
Howard of Effingham
Panmure
Suffield

BISHOPS.
Chichester
IKillaloe

TELLER.
Lord Auckland
ORITY.

Bathurst
Falmouth
Roden
Verulam
Clanwilliam
Jersey
-berdeen
VISCOUNTS.
Beresford
Strangford
LORDS.:
Redesdale
, Saltoun
1 Wallace

LORDS.
Monson
Ellenborough
Ravensworth

BISHOPS.
Rochester
ißath and Wells
Gloucester
Carlisle
Exeter
Lichfield and Coven
try

TELLER.
Lord Kenyon

Much curiosity, particularly among the ladies,
has been excited by the lively pictures given in " Captain Frank-
land's Narrative of a Visit to the Courts of Russia and Sweden,
of the state of female society in the former country. As an
English officer of rank, and as a musical amateur of great
ability, the Gallant Captain was invited to the first assemblages
of fashion in the capitals of the Autocrat. Hence a large por_
thus of his book is devoted to Sketches of High Life in Moscow,
St. Petersburgh,

Approaching events cast their shadows helore
them. A certain Right Reverend Prelate is significantly an-
ticipating time by erecting strong window-shutters to the case-
ments of his town house; by which it would appear, that he
not only meditates a vote against the Reform Bill, but expects
that the Ministerial measure will be again cast out in the Upper
House Boards and fences may keep out stones and other of-
fensive missiles, but the Reverend Bishop mistakes much if he
thinks that deal or even oak itself, will resist the ultimate suc-
cess of public opinion. If the Right Reverend Prelate sin-
cerely wishes to " set his house in order," let him reflect on
the " signs of the times," which induce him to think that his
vote against the people will subject him to the storm of his
house in metropoiitan riots. The tenure of his Sec must be
extremely precarious if such precautions are necessary to pro-
tect his residence and "goods.'' We perceive that the Bishops
have again " thrown down the glove." Half a dozen Prelates
voted against Ministers on Friday night, on the question of the
glove trade ; whether from the extreme commiseration for
their fellow-countrymen, or to " trip up" the stability of Mini-
sters, the sagacity of our readers must determine. We only
mention the fact as a type, to use the language of Scripture.—
Morning Chronicle.

DEATH OF CLEMENTI.—This eminent corn-
poier and pianoforte player breathed his last on Saturday
morning, aged 81, at his cottage in the Vale of Evesham, Wor-
cestershire. Clementl was born at Rome. lie came to Eng-
land in 1767, and published, in 1773, his celebrated Opiun
which gave birth to a new era in Sonata writing. It were an
endless task to enumerate Clementi's compositions ; but his
Gradus ad Parnassum, i❑ two volumes, is second to no work
of the kind that was ever written. Clementi was master of
several languages, a very scientific man, and well versed in
literature generally, lie was a most amiable social compa-
nion, liberal and kind to his brother professors, and looked up
to as the father and founder of the present school of pianoforte
playing. It is in contemplation by the members of the Phil-
harmonic Society to mark their respect for the talent of Cie-
menti as a profound musician, and his worth as a man, by hav-
ing a public funeral, either at St. Paul's or Westminster
Abbey.
PUBLIC DINNER TO DANIEL O'CO.N-
YELL.—At a meeting of the Political Union of Enniscorthy on
Monday evening, it was resolved to invite Mr. O'Connell to a
Public Dinner, should that gentleman's professional duties
bring him down to our Assizes.— IVexford Independent.
Besides the gross indecorum at the Levee, so
much commented on during the last fortnight, we have heard
that the Duke of Wellington has been guilty of a personal
offence towards the King, in a written form. In the madness
which has lately attacked the whole party, his Grace, it is re-
ported, penned a letter, containing strictures on the conduct of
the King, conceived in terms less respectful to his Majesty than
became one who had recently been First Minister of the Crown,
and pre-eminently indebted to Royal favour. The letter, we
believe, was addressed to Lord Strangford—who handed it to
Lord Londonderry, who presented it to the King himself:—
Spectator.

Mr. Trelawney, whose novel called " Adven-
tures of a Younger Son," is now before the public, is the gentle-
man upon whose life an attempt was made a few years ago in
the cave of Mount Parnassus, and whose heroic conduct in
Greece made such an impression at the time on the public
mind. The character of Zela in the novel has been pronounced
equal to the Myrrha or the Haidee of the author's friend, Lord
Byron.

- SHERIDAN, on being asked by a young
Member of Parliament how he first succeeded to establish his
fame as an orator, observed, " Why, Sir, it was easily effected.
After I had been in St. Stephen's Chapel a few days, I found
that four-fifths of the House were composed of country Squires
and great fools ; my first effort, therefore, was by a lively sally,
or an ironical remark, to make them laugh ; that laugh effaced
the recollection of what had been urged, in opposition to my
view of the subject, from their stupid pates, and then I whip-
ped in an argument, and had all the way clear before me."
The system of making presents to foreign
Ambassadors, &c., had been done away with, through, we be-
lieve, the well-timed exertions of Lord Palmerston, with the
single exception of the forte. In consegnence of a friendly
representation to the Sultan, the last of these unnecessary ex_
penses has been dispensed with even at Constantinople; whereby
a saving will accrue to this country of from 5,040)1. to 6,040/. per
annum. The whole saving will be 30,0001. per annum.
It is not true, as has been asserted, that the
principal female character in the new and fashionable novel of
" The Opera," is modelled on Mademoiselle Sontag, now
Countess Rosse. The qualities of mind and briliant accom.
plishments developed in the " Prima Donna" of the novelist,
shka'inssealo"n; ed.
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cludingael.
bears, foxes, racoons, &T.
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