The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-13 00:00:00

POPULAR DEMONSTRATIONS.

The movement caused by the incarceration of Mr. O'Con-
nell is extending over every district of the country. We sub-
join some of the accounts received to-day :
COUNTY OF CORK.—CHARLEVILLE, JUNE 10.—An address
of the inhabitants of the parish of Charleville to the Libe-
rator, was voted at a public meeting held yesterday in the
chapel, Daniel Clanchy, Esq., in the chair. Nothing can
equal the popular enthusiasm. Over 404 repeal rent has
been collected here.

[The Cork Examiner of yesterday contains reports of vari-
ous other meetings held in that county.]
ROSCOMMON.—Meetings are being held in every parish in
this part of the country. The people are redoubling their
exertions and their subscriptions. O'Connell in prison has
enrolled more patriots under his banner than he would, if at
large, in twelve months. Castlerea meets to-morrow, Ros-
common to-morrow week.lioseommon Journal of Saturday.

Ktutusn..—There was a repeal meeting in Kilrush on Sun-
day; the chair was occupied by the Rev. Mr. Kenney, P.P.
The speakers were—the Rev. Mr. Meehan, Doctor Foley, and
Mr. James M‘Carty. The object of the meeting was to get
up an address of condolence to the traversers, now in gaol.
A sum of 30/. was collected in the rural districts of the parish.
—dare journal.

TuLutmoitE.—On Sunday last there was a most numerous
and influential meeting in this town, at which a gentleman
of considerable wealth and long standing, Michael Molloy,
Esq., presided. The Very Rev. Dr. O'Rafferty, J. P.
O'Flanagan, Esq., and all the leading Liberals took part in
the proceedings.
THURLES.—One of the most important meetings during
the present crisis took place in Thurles, county Tipperary.
The clergy and people of this district assembled in great
numbers, under the presidency of Samuel Cooke, Esq., of
Brownstown.

THE CLERGY OF KILLALOE.—The Clare .Journal says
'• The clergy. of the diocese of Killaloe have resolved tc
send, through their enlightened patriotic prelate, their sub-
scription to the Repeal Association in the course of the next
week." - -

THE. REPEAL RENT.
The Evening Post of this' day contains the following :
"The Repeal Association yesterday held its second meeting
since the incarceration of Mr. O'Connell ; and the repeal
rent, which the Evening Mail assured the judges would be
extinguished. by an " exemplary sentence upon the tra-
versers, advanced to the unprecedented sum of 3,229/.
" Even whilst the 'monster meetings' were in progress,
the largest sum ever received within one week at the Repeal
Association was 3,1031., acknowledged on the 19th of June,
1843, and 1,0081. of which was from Clare, contributed at the
meeting held in Ennis on the 15th. An American remittance
of 401. was also included.

" Yesterday, without any such large remittance as that
from Clare, or any contribution from America, the weekly
return was 3,229/. ! This far surpasses anything witnessed
during the agitation for Catholic Emancipation. The
largest amount of money ever received at the Catholic Asso-
ciation was 2,7004, acknowledged during the week of the
Clare election.

" Such are the first fruits of State prosecutions, jury
management, and the whole system of Orange misgovern-
ment."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
THAMES POLICE.
Yesterday, Mr. John Cockburn Belaney, the writer of a
work upon falconry, and who represented himself as a sur-
geon, was brought up in custody of police- sergeant WCardell,
No. 4 K, charged on suspicion of having caused the death
of his wife Rachel, by administering to her a quantity of
prussic acid on Saturday last, at the house 46, Green-street,
Stepney.
The prisoner, who leant on the front of the dock in a very
dejected manner during the inquiry, appeared to be about 43
years of age. Previously to the inquiry being entered into,
the prisoner requested a postponement of the case, as he had
sent for counsel to conduct the defence.
Mr. BRODERIP said, that any evidence which might be
taken could be read over on the arrival of the barrister, who
would then have an opportunity of putting any questions to
the witnesses which he thought necessary.
Prisoner—ln my position, Sir, under the present circum-
stances, the complexion of the case is very dark.
Mr. BRODERIP—I must view it as a complete blank, which
is only to be filled up by the evidence brought before me.
Mrs. Matilda Hippingstall, 46, Green-street, Stepney,
stated that on Tuesday week the prisoner engaged two apart-
ments in her house on the ground floor for himself and his
wife. About twenty minutes before eight o'clock on Satur-
day morning last, the prisoner called out, "Mistress ! Mistress I
come up, my wife is very ill." She did go up, and found the
deceased lying on the bed apparently in a strong fit. Witness
raised her up, and said " She is very bad indeed." The pri-
soner said, "Pray try something for her; put her feet in warm
water," and the wafer was at once procured. The prisoner
and a servant girl proceeded to rub her feet, and witness said,
"Oh ! send for somebody." A Mrs. M'Eachern and a Cap-
tain. Clark, friends of the prisoner and his wife, were then
sent for, and ultimately Mr. Garratt, a surgeon, was called
in. At that time the upper part of the deceased's body was
dreadfully convulsed. The prisoner said he was himself a
medical man, and would bleed the deceased, but that she had
no pulse; lie added, that he supposed she was labouring under
an affection of the heart, of which her mother had died nine
months previously. The prisoner and Captain Clark rubbed
the deceased's legs, the Captain using a clothes brush, the
operation seemed to revive her a little, and a mustard plaster
was then applied to her chest ; but witness could not say
whether by the Captain or by the prisoner. The deceased
breathed about twice after Captain Clark came in, and died
with a convulsive gasp upon witness's shoulder. Her death
occurred about a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes after
the witness went up ; but it was difficult to point out the
precise time of her death, there were such long intervals be-
tween the gaspings. There were two tumblers on the table
by the bedside, and the nearest one seemed to have been full
of a clear liquid, which witness neither tasted nor smelt.
Witness saw no phial, except a bottle in which, she under-
stood, a black draught had been brought for the deceased.
She saw no broken glass in the place. So far as she observed,
the prisoner and his wife lived happily together. She
played on the piano for him. They had been at the theatre
together, and had had friends to visit them. She was a
pretty little woman, twenty years of age, and about seven
months advanced in pregnancy. Their intercourse seemed
to be more like that of father and daughter than of husband
and wife.
At this stage of the proceedings, Mr. Charnock, the bar-
rister, and Mr. Hicks, the solicitor, appeared for the defence.
Sarah Williams, servant to the ast witness, deposed to the
affectionate terms upon which the deceased and the prisoner
appeared to live. On the Wednesday after they came Mr.
Belaney sent the witness for a black draught, and then
brought out a basin which he requested her to empty. No
medicine was purchased by witness after the Wednesday.
About 7 o'clock, on Saturday morning, the prisoner called
for a glass and a spoon, which witness took to him, and he
then said that he was going to write. , At a quarter to 8
a.m , the prisoner called ou " Mistress! Mistress my wife
is very ill Witness went up, and saw she was foaming
at the mouth, but she was not convulsed. The prisoner
bathed her feet and legs in hot water, and said he would use
the lancet, but that she had no pulse. He then sat down
and cried, saying that she was in a fit, and that he feared she
should not get out of it. Witness saw one tumbler on the
table half full of clear liquid.
Mrs. Hippingstall being recalled,said she never heard any-
thing unpleasant pass between the deceased and the prisoner.
The tumblers stood on the side table at the head of the bed,
and both appeared to have been used. The furthest tumbler
had nothing in it. She saw some salts and a teaspoon on the
table, but nobody, as far as she was aware, tasted the liquid
in the glass. She emptied and rinsed out the glasses but
not at the prisoner's bidding.
Sarah Williams, being re-called, stated that she found a I
glass stopper under the piano, in the front parlour, on the
Saturday after the death •of deceased. The prisoner appeared
much distressed, and rubbed the face of the deceased conti-
nually with vinegar and water.
Mr. J. B. Curling, surgeon, of New Broad-street, and Lon-
don 'Hospital, made a post mortem examination of the body
on Monday, in the presence of Mr. Garratt, another surgeon.
He found no disease of the heart, but there were traces of an
old disorder on the upper part of the lungs. On examining
the contents of thestomach there was a strongsmell of prussic
acid, and its actual presence was discovered on analysation by
Mr. Leithby, an experienced chemist of the London Hospital.
The amount found in the stomach was quite sufficient to de-
stroy life.
In his cross-examination Mr. Curlingadmitted that hydro-
cyanic acid was frequently prescribed in small quantities, to
the amount of four or five drops of Scheele's Dilution. One
accustomed to it might increase the quantity with impunity,
but not in the degree that one taking opium might increase
it. Witness was not aware that medical men were in the
habit of using this medicine, and had never used it himself.
He saw the unhappy gentleman at the bar after the post
mortem examination, but did not mention to him what he
(witness) conceived to be the cause of deceased's death. On
analysing the contents of a stomach he did not look for any
traces of Epsom salts, having satisfied himself that death re-
sulted from the presence of prussic acid.
Mr. M. B. Garratt, of No. 3, New-road, St. George's- in-the-
East, was at the post mortem examination, and confirmed the
statement of the last witness as to the appearance of the body.
He was called in at about five minutes to nine in the forenoon

of Saturday. The prisoner rose when he entered, and,
though they were strangers, shook hands with him. On
hearing the particulars of the case, witness suggested to
Captain Clark the propriety of having an inquest held, to
which the prisoner, when it was mentioned to him, at once
assented, requesting witness to proceed with it in the regular
course. Witness never stated to the prisoner his opinion as
to the cause of the death of the deceased. Captain Clark and
a Mr. Hobson, a bookseller in the Commercial-road, called on
the witness late on Monday night, and, after a short conver-
sation, the prisoner, who was waiting outside, came in, and
voluntarily made the following statement :—" I have been in
the habit of taking Prussic acid for indigestion, at about
three drops in the dose. On Saturday morning I was about
to take my usual quantity, but found some difficulty
in removing the glass stopper from the phial. I took
the handle of a tooth-brush, which I used with some
little force, and in so doing the neck of the bottle broke
off. Some of the liquid was spilled, and the remainder I
poured into a tumbler, placing it on a drawer on the other
side of the room. I hen went out into the front room to
write to some friends in the country, and I heard a scream
from the bed-room : I proceeded at once to the spot, and
found my wife in convulsions. She said " Dear me, I have
taken something hot or strong out of the tumbler : give me
some cold water." Mr. Garrett proceeded to say, that he re-
mained silent as to the cause of the deceased's death, until
the examination before the Coroner had taken place.
Mr. Charnock, at this stage of the proceedings, said he
would rather reserve any evidence he had for a future in-
quiry; but at the same time he hoped his Worship would
allow his client an opportunity of being brought up at the
Coroner's inquest.
Mr. BRODERIP could not interfere with the proceedings of
another court; but the evidence before him fully warranted
him in remanding the prisoner. As he said before, his mind
was a tabula rasa, only to be imprinted by the evidence.
The case was adjourned to this day week, and Sergeant
M'Cardell was desired by Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, to
collect whatever additional testimony he could procure in the ,
interim.

The prisoner, who appeared exceedingly dejected, under
the advice of his counsel declined making any defence, and
was then locked up. •

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trons—The Haberdashers' Company of London.
THE BITER BITTEN.—A farmer who resides in this
neighbourhood, and who is on very bad terms with
another farmer, whose fields adjoinlis own, a few even-
ings since found a number of stray sheep in his wheat-
field, and believing them to be his neighbour's, he im-
mediately had them driven to the pound. It turned out
that, instead of the sheep being his neighbour's, they were
actually his oven. The unlucky man has been compelled
to pay the expenses connected with -their being im •
pounded.— Somerset Gazette.