The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-19 00:00:00

WEXFORD.—On Thursday a numerous and highly re-
spectable meeting of the inhabitants of Wexford was
held at the Assembly Rooms, where an address of con-
gratulation to Mr. O'Conn•Il and his fellow-martyrs was
unanimously adopted. The Mayor, Sheppard Jeffares,
Esq., presided.
REJOICINGS IN THE COUNTRY.

Once more the provincial journals contain numerous
accounts of popular rejoicings for the liberation of Mr.
O'Connell. They are generally of the same character as
the previous reports. We select the following, from the
Galway Vindicator, on account of the interference of the
magistrates, and the very peaceable conduct of the people
in the wild districts of Connemara:—
" CLIFDEN.—A large quantity of turf was collected
from all quarters. The hulls of two large boats were
destined to commemorate the occasion—they formed
part of a really monster bonfire upon the hill above the
church, which was visible beyond the Killery mountains.
Mr. D'Arcy, of Clifden Castle, as also Mr. S. Jones,
R.M. interfered to disperse the people. The people
quietly withdrew, but had their homes brilliantly illu-
minated. Here, too, Messrs. D'Arcy and Jones thought
to interfere ; but the people told them that in obedience
to O'Connell's wishes they yielded to the magistrates
orders abroad ; their house', however, a ere their own,
and if either Mr. Jones or Mr. D'Arcy attempted to in-
termeddle further with them, representations would be
made to Government for their dismissal, as their illegal
conduct was calculated to lead to a breach of the peace."
The following remarkable case occurred at the Tulle
mere (King's county) Petty :sessions, on Saturday last.
The report is taken from the Freeman's Journal of this
day. This is the only instance where the people had
been summoned for an alleged breach of the law,
in connection with the rejoicings for the liberation of
Mr. O'Connell ; and, as will be perceived, the magis-
trate who prosecuted them has been censured, and the
conduct of the peasantry has been lauded as most or-
derly and becoming :
" Tem. V 3 ORE, SEPT. 14.—This town and neighbour-
hood was in a state of the greatest excitement, to watch
the result of the proceedings instituted by the stipen-
diary magistrate, Neale Brown, Esq , and the sub-in-
spector of police, Mr. Stewart, against the people of this
town, for lighting a bonfire on the night of Friday, the
6th instant, upon the occasion of the liberation of Mr.
O'Connell and his fellow-prisoners. Mr. Brown and Mr.
&ea art (two gentlemen who figured as Crown wit-
nesses on the State trials), not content with scattering
the bonfire on the night in question, had also issued
summonses against several persons who had taken a part
in lighting the bonfire. The people of the whole town
and surrounding district were in a state of the greatest
exasperation that their bonfire on this occasion should
be interrupted, while on every other occasion their bon-
fires had been passed by without any interruption. The re-
sult of this was, that the entire population of the town
and neighbourhood thronged the court-house to-day, to
such an extent, that the magistrates had to adjourn from
the usual place of holding petty sessions to the County
Court, which in a moment was filled to suffocation.
After some time had elapsed,
" Mr. O'Flea, as counsel for some persons who had
been summoned for assisting in making a bonfire on the
night of Friday, the 6th instant, begged the magistrates
would proceed to hear the cases.
" Upon this John O'Brien, Esq., of Mountjoy-square,
took the chair ; the other other magistrates present being
Mr. Molloy, Sir Andrew Armstrong, (Members for the
county), and Mr. Neale Brown, stipendiary.
" The case of James Hea, head-constable, against
Thomas Mitchell, was then called on, and Mr. O'llea
said that as several parties were summoned for the same
offence, that this case would rule the others.
" Head-constable James Hea was then examined—He
said he accompanied Mr. Brown and Mr. Stewart to a
bonfire in Charleville-square, on the evening of the 6th.
Saw Thomas Mitchell there. He was fixing turf about
the fire. Witness told him to desist. He desisted in
about a minute. The fire was lighting at the time. He
asked Mitchell his name. He told it to him.
" Cross-examined by Mr. O'Hea—There was no riot
at the time—no tumult—no appearance of either. Mit-
chell made no resistance. Gave him no blow. Did not
lay hands upon witness. Used no violence to him. De-
sisted in the space of one minute. Made use of no in-
sulting language. Did no injury to the person or pro-
perty of any individual under Heaven on that occasion.
The police scattered the fire. They acted under the
orders of Mr. Brown. Never interfered with any other
-bonfire but this.
" The Bench consulted for two or three minutes, and
ti den the Chairman, Mr. O'Brien, delivered the judgment
--That the case should be dismissed, as the magistrates
av ere of opinion that the bonfire not being held on a pub-
lit road, it was no offence under the Act upon which the
jor osecution was based. But he could not refrain from
s aging that the conduct of the accused was very proper
a cal becoming, in desisting so soon as he did. He was
al st) bound to say that, in his opinion it was a most un-
fo.seunate occurrence that the stipendiary mag:strate and
the- .sub-inspector of police had thought proper to inter-
fere, in the manner they had done.
"- The vast concourse of people then separated, highly
del;ghtsd and exulting, satisfied that, while they conduct
themselves peaceably and legally, the law can no longer
be outraged in their persons."
THE REPEAL RENT—STATE PROSECUTIONS.
Dune's:, SEPT. 15.—The expenses of the traversers
in the State prosecutions were enormous. Every pos-
sible obstacle had been cast in the way of the defendants,
and the Cro am prosecutors exacted every expensive for-
mality which they were empowered to enforce, all
through that protracted and gigantic litigation, from
the very first step to the ultimate reversal of the judg-
ment. No private purse could have sustained the de-
fence against a prosecution under such circumstances,
had been provided with ample funds to fight the consti-
tutional battle against the Government, with the public
treasury at its back. The repeal funds have been found
much more than equal to the expenditure caused by the
State prosecutions. A large sum, nearly 20,0001., is
likely to remain to the credit of the Repeal Association,
after all the expenses shall have been defrayed.
MR. O'CONNELL'S VISIT TO DEItRYNANE.
Mr. O'Connell intends to leave here on Tuesday week
.for Derrynane Abbey, and several provincial dinners are
tc be postponed until his return.
Two CLERGYMEN DISOWNED AT ROME.—A .melan-
ehot:v event occurred at Rome on the 28th ult. ; two ec-
cleeia sties, students of the Irish Franciscan College in
that city, were unhappily drowned whilst bathing in the
be One of the deceased, the Rev. E. F. Martin,
wTaysinr.m.lest's orders, and had celebrated the holy sa•
crifice ale ns'c'rning of his untimely and lamented death.
His companiou; the Rev. Richard Ambrose Kavanagh
was ordained sot; -deacon on the previous Sunday. The
former was an excel:
,ent swimmer, but Mr. Kavanagh
could not swim, and
is conjectured that one was
drowned in the endeavour to save the other. Both gen-
tlemen were natives of Ireland, and much endeared, for
their piety and talents, to the superiors and fellow-stu-
dents of their college.—Cork Reporter.

THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 17.—The
Royal West India mail packet, the Medway, left the river
this day at 3 o'clock for St. Thomas's, &c., taking out
the West India and Madeira mails, with 23 passengers.
The Oriental Packet, Captain Soy, arrived at 3 o'clock
in the docks from the Motherbank, where she has been
performing quarantine since Sunday last, and landed her
passengers, 90 in number ; she is also unloading a large
cargo of silks. The Gibraltar packet Montrose has
brought from Vigo a quantity of Spanish oxen in excel-
lent condition. The West India mail packet, the Tay,
which arrived here on Sunday, has gone round to Lon-
don to repair.
The Hon. Mr. and Lady Stuart Wortley, General
and Lady Drummond, Captain Fitzclarence, Major Ra,-
bon, Capt. Prittie, and Lady Southwold, arrived in Lon-
don on Monday, by the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's steam-ship Soho, that left Antwerp the previous
afternoon. The Soho also brought upwards of 3,000
baskets of walnuts.
MANSLAUGHTER.—PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 17.—An
inquest was held last night at the Bridge Tavern,Broad-
street, by Mr. W. Cooper, the coroner for Portsmouth,
on the body of a woman, aged 50, named Harriet Hill,
who came by her death under the following circum-
stances :—lt appeared that the deceased was a married
woman, residing at a low public-house, situate in Tower-
street, Portsmouth. It was not known how long de-
ceased had been married, but she had parted from her
husband a long time. She had of late taken up with
the prisoner, Thomas Matthew Tucker, a young
man, aged about twenty, with whom she had
been cohabiting. On the evening of Thursday de-
ceased and the prisoner returned from Southsea
Races, and on going to bed quarrelled, and made
a disturbance in the house in which they lodged. The
next morning (Friday) deceased was observed to have a
cut in her lett ear ; and on being asked who did it, ad-
mitted the quarrel with Tucker, and said he did it.
I,)eceased and Tucker, however, went out as usual on
thedoNs Friday, and were returning home in the evening
Broad street quarrelling. The woman was sud-
denly observed to be struck by some one, will accom-
panied
the blow with " Take that, you b—," and was
seen to run into the road and drop, screaming. She
was immediately taken up by some lookers-on and con-
veyed to her lodgings, but she never spoke more, and
expired on the following evening. Suspicion fell upon
the prisoner Tucker,
v
and lodged in gaol. s
Eight immediately apprehended
notwitnesses were ex-
amined at the inquest, butone swear to the
prisoner as the man who had inflicted
teh e blow, not-
withstanding several swore to seeing th
The inquiry was consequently a blow given.
v protracted
itrtoacted
one ; er
eventually, however, the Jury, hang
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upon their minds but that the prisoner was the man
who administered the deadly stroke, delivered a verdicta
of " Manslaughter against Thomas Matthew Tucker."
The prisoner was removed to gaol, and will be brought
before the magistrates for examination this day.
surgeon who examined the body pronounced it to be
that of a person of very healthy constitution ; although
so far advanced in years, none of the usual signs of an
irregular mode of life being visible, the whole system
and brain (with the exception of an effusion of blood,
caused by the blow) being in a most healthy and
sound condition. The blow took effect upon the neck,
on tho jugular, and produced instant insensibility, and
eventually death. The prisoner will be committed to
Winchester, to take his trial for the offence at the next
assizes.
THE NELSON TESTIMONIAL.—The public were for
a few hours on Tuesday morning gratified by a view of
the Nelson Testimonial, unencumbered by the wooden
hoarding that has so long obscured the base and lower
portion of the pedestal from observation, and which,
when removed, gave this national work the appear-
ance of completion. In furtherance of the determina-
tion of the Government to complete the monument, a
model
of the steps and platform round the base
been prepared, and was visited yesterday morning
by the Earl of Lincoln, Chief Commissioner of her Ma-
jesty's Woods and Forests, the architect, Mr. W. Rail-
ton, and other gentlemen connected with the Land
1t4Y0111105 Department.