The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1859.

PUBLICATIONS.

111-1 E MADRAS IRRIGATION and CANAL
COMPANY.
(Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament.)
For Constructing, Maintaining, and Working (under the
sanctipn and with the support of the Government of India)
a comprehensive system of Irrigation Works and Navi-
gable Canals throughout the Presidency of Madras and
the neighbouring Territories of Berar, Cochin, Hyderabad,
Mysore, Nagpoor, Orissa, the South Mahratta Country,
and Travtincore • and also through Out the Ldwer Pro-
. vines of Bengal, when the necessary powers shall have
been obtained.
First Capital, £2,000,000 (with power to increase). First
Issue thereof, £1,000,000, in 50,400 Shares of £2O each,
upon which a perpetual Minifitum Interest.g.t4:Lper
cent. has been _guaranteed by the Seeretary4 SiaWfbit
India in Council; all surplus profits bein.gdivisibld equally
' between the Government and the Company : which
arrangement is subjtct to be determined only by the Go-
vernmerit purchasinf-the Works constructed within 'six
months after the expiration of each period of 25 years, at
a sum equal to the market value of the shares of the
company on an average of the three preceding years.
Deposit, £1 per Share, tdobear Interest at the guaranteed
rate from the day on 34.ich lie same shalt be paid into
the Indian Treasury.

proved fatal to the seduced young woman, who had
been a patient of Wilhelm's for some months pre-
viously.
Wilhelm's wife and child are reduced to destitu-
tion. On coming to Liverpool, after the trial, in
order to visit her husband on alternate days, she
found a temporary home at the house of Mr.
Thomas Southern, the Black Bull Inn, Kirkdale,
whose charitable hospitality deserves commenda-
tion. He will consider himself rewarded if others
also bestow some pity on the helpless worilltM,
who, we may state, denies the participation
in--; the fatal deed imputed to her, and declares
that she did not place her hand upon the
young woman's mouth. Her marriage with Wilhelm
cause her to be discarded by her friends, and she is
now helpless, with a fine boy, aged 3* years, on
her hands, and the prospect of another child in a
few weeks. However, although disheartened
enough by her present position, she is very much
relieved by the respite of her husband, who, she
says, has always been a good and kind husband to
her, and in that respect quite undeserving of the
unrelenting conduct of her friends. • When we saw
her yesterday, she was busily employed with re-
footing a knitted stocking, and wore at her bosom
a large brooch containing a likeness of her husband,
who is spoken of by those who have had to deal
with him at the gaol as a person of gentlemanly
deportment.

THE MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY IN

EPPING FO.REST.

Extraordinary to say, considering the publiCity
that has already been given to the circumstances
attending the murder of the young female and
her child, and the disposal of their lifeless bodies in
a pond in Epping Forest, the shocking affair still
remains enveloped in the most impenetrable
mystery. Since the inquest the police have been
unceasing in endeavouring to obtain the identity of
the deceased.-

A number of parties have come forward in the
hope of recognising the bodies, but unsuccessfully.
The bodies having been kept above ground for
several weeks fok the purpose of identification,have
at length had to be interred, but at the same time
a very exact description has been registered both
of the deceased's remains and their clothes. The
description which, by being made more public may
lead to identification, is as follows :
Found, on Sunday the sth inst. (December), in a
pond adjoining the New-road, Epping Forest, a
woman and male child. The woman about 23 or 25
years of age ; about 5 feet 1 inch high; dark com-
plexion, hair nearly black; stout built, full breast ;
had on a dark striped lilac cotton gown, with frill
sleeves ; white straw bonnet, trimmed with blue
and white ribbon; dark wove stays; slate•coloured
Coburg petticoat, with white satin striped flannel
petticoat, brown Derry ditto, pair of white cotton
stockings, kid boots, black scarf shawl, with deep
coloured border.

The child aged about four months • dressed in a
white print frock, with lilac spots • white cashmere
hood, trimmed with gimp and white satin ribbon,
lawn cap and lace border ; flannel petticoat with
white stays, white petticoat, and white pinafore ,
red and white worsted shoes ; a small shawl, made
out of the border of a lama shawl ; girl's small silk
mantle, with silk braid and deep fringe.
Near the pond was found a cotton bag, contain-
ing cotton stockings, hair-brush aid comb, new
tooth-brush, piece of soap, and two crochet night-
caps.
There is a strong suspicion that the deceased
were murdered in London, and then taken down ii ,
a cart, and thrown into the pond.

DESPERATE AFFRAY AT MA N
CHESTER.

In the early part of last week a violent attack

was made upon several members of an Irish family,
chiefly by persons who were distantly related to
them. An old man, John Dirkin, upwards of 70
years of age, lived in a cellar in Brighton:street,

Red Bank; and in the same street, -in different
dwellings, there live his son, M'Cormick

his son-in-law, and two married daughters, named
Sarah M'Donnough and Mary Casey. On Tues-
day last four persons, by marriage related to the
above, and named Nathaniel M‘Donnough, Frank
11I'D on n ough,JohnM‘Donnough,brothers,with their
sister, Sarah M'Donnough, living in Ashley-street,
off Angel-street, Manchester, were joined by three
or four others whom they knew, from Liverpool,
and the party appear to have deliberately planned
an attack upon the old man Dirkin and his sons and
daughters. At three o'clock, p.m., of the day named
John M'Donnough went to old Dirkin's cellar,
to inquire where his sons and daughters were. Mrs.
Dirkin, an infirm old woman, who had no suspicion
of the object of the inquiry, told them they were at
their work, and would return at six or seven o'clock
in the evening. He repeated the inquiry several
times during the afternoon; then between six and
seven mustered with his associates in the street,
and began to make a disturbance. The old man,
Dirkin, left his cellar in order to go into the house
of his daughter Sarah, to make a fire, when he was
immediately set upon in the most brutal manner,
knocked down, beaten, and kicked to such an ex-
tent that on Saturday morning last, when the sub-
ject came before the magistrates (some of the
assailants being captured), he was not expected to
survive manyhours. Besides other injuries he had
received, several ribs were broken. The screams of
the old man brought the people into the streets,
and as soon as his children came to his help they
also were attacked with life-preservers and other
weapons, and severely injured in various ways,
being both bruised and cut. The old man was taken
into his cellar, and has been since attended by Mr.
Measham, surgeon. Sarah M'Donnough had to
have her wounds dressed at the Infirmary ; the
husband of Dirkin's daughter, Mary Casey, was so
much beaten on the head that his face was covered
with blood. The assailants escaped at the time,
some of them to Liverpool, and the rest otherwise
concealing themselves ; but on Friday night
Sergeant Charles Wilson apprehended Frank
M'Donnough, in St. Michael's-place ; and shortly
afterwards, in their house in Ashley-street, Nathan
and Sarah M'Donnough.
The prisoners were placed in the dock at the
City Poiice Court on Saturday.
Patrick Dirkin stated that he was a hawker. On
Tuesday night, when coming home from hawking,
he was met in the street by a man who shook him
by the hand, and asked him if he would have a
glass of ale ? He replied that he would not ; upon
which the man asked him if he would fight. He
replied that he was not a fighting man, upon which
he was immediately struck on the head with some
weapon, and knocked down. While this was being
done he saw others of the party beating his father-
in-law.

M'Cormick Dirkin said he heard a disturbance,
and coming out of his house, saw the prisoners
(with others not then in custody) beating his father.
Witness went up and asked what they were doing
that for, when he was knocked down himself, and
ill-used.

Mary Casey said she was returning home from
her work, at nearly eight o'clock, when she was
met by a girl, who said, " Your father is killed by
a great party." Witness set off towards her father's
cellar, when the prisoner, Frank M'Donnough,
pulled a life-preserver out of pocket, and knocked
her down with it. Several of the party kicked her.
She saw them beating her father, and called out,
"Nathan, don't kill my father." After that they
jostled him away, and she could not see what they
did to him.

Sarah M‘Donnough (married to a man of this
name, not in custody at the time) wis coming from
her work, and went to her father's for her children.
She saw some of the party strike her father, whom
they had in the street, and immediately she was
struck on the head, and cut, with a candlestick, by
a woman named Ellen Higgins. She was then
struck several times by John M'Donnough, who
lives in Liverpool. He said to her, " I never will
leave you till I am your end." Her hands were
savagely bitten, and her face bruised.
On this evidence being given, Mr. Maude said
the prisoners had better reserve what they had to
say until Tuesday (this day), for should the man
most injured (John Dirkin) die, they might have
to answer to a charge of wilful murder.
The prisoners were accordingly remanded to
Tuesday. _ _ _

After the examination, Mr. Superintendent Leary
despatched an officer with one, of the witnesses to
Liverpool, and yesterday he returned with two
other of the assailants, namely, John M'Donnough,
living in. Cavendish-street, Liverpool, and Dennis
Dailey, who lived in Edgar street. On inquiry
between 8 and 9 o'clock last night, the old man
Dirkin was reported by the surgeon to be sinking
fast, and no hope was entertained of his recovery.
The two persons apprehended in Liverpool yester-
day will be brought before the magistrates this
morning, and probably be remanded to Tuesday,
when the others in custody are to be again placed
in the dock.—Manchester Examiner.