The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE CORPORATION.
DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.—With a quietude and
decorum to which the walls of the city assembly-hoese
have been long unaccustomed, Mr. Alderman Guinmiss
was yesterday unanimously elected by his fellow•citise►h
to the office of Lord Mayor for the ensuing year. All
parties hail the choice of the Town Council as the ad-
vent of the reign of decency in the conduct of municipal
government.
" LOYAL CATHOLIC AND REPEAL ASSOCIATION."

Under the above title " the Hall" was formally re•
baptized yesterday, Mr. John O'Connell and Father
Gilligan standing as sponsors at the interesting cere-
mony. In the course of the proceedings the former an-
nounced that the word " Catholic" was to remain as •
prefix until; the intended persecutien of Lord
John Russell and the bigots of England was effectually
repelled. In a financial point of view the additional
cognomen of " Catholic" appears to have been, so far, •
failure, the rent having yesterday declined from 144 odd
shillings, the previous week's receipts, to 91. 19s. Id.

FIRM AT MANCHESTER.-A fire broke out yea-
terday morning, between two and three o'clock, in the
bleach-works of Mr. Thomas Holmes, of Douglas-mill, Pen-
dleton, one of the largest works of the kind in the immediate
vicinity of Manchester. The building stands on the left
banks of the river Irwell, near the race-ground, and is six
stories in height. Unfortunately there were no engines on
the spot, but in a short time the Salford fire-brigade was
present, as were several of the powerful engines trom Man-
chester, accompanied by Mr. Thomas Rose, the active su-
perintendent. So rapidly had the fire spread, however, that
the place was nearly gutted, and only a few mangles could
be saved from the ruin. The attention of the firemen was
then directed to a bleaching shed, and a small warehouse
adjoining, both of which were saved. A large anii
valuable dash-wheel, which :drove part of the machinery:-
was also saved from destruction. The main part of the
building is a complete wreck, and the extensive stock of
bleaching calicoes, shirtings, &c., amounting to some 6,000
or 7,000 pieces, is also consumed. We have heard the loss
estimated at from 8,000/. upwards. The building and stock
were insured in the North British office for 1,850/., and in
the West of England for 4,0001. The mill, which wa
erected a century ago, was one of the first spinniri,g eats
blishments in the coanty, and had only recently bean

verted into a bleach-waks by its present owner.
FUNERAL OF LADY Joust HAY.—We believe it
intended that the remains of her Ladyship will be conveyed
from the Royal Dockyard, Devonport, to Leamington, Wsts-
wicashire, to be interred in the family mausoleum.
LlTUNcarr GEEst.---One 'day last week a poulterer
Withbf the sound; tif St:John's .bell having imported from
the courtry.a large number of geese, let them loose. into hie
cellar, and next morning sent a lad to feed them. The
cyoath willingly will i2friithe errand ;hut ere many, minutes
,had elape,ed he, was 10144 again minus his unmentionables,
with afa ce like a ghost, .and almost speechless. It appears
:thit it& ig to niadneaby along fast, Or not liking a jailer,
the boy had no sooner entered the condemned cell, than
,the whole fiock, was .upon him ;, and, ere he could turn
round and. effect a retreat, 'had almost the last shred Q 1 his
'eordarOys..safelY stowed in their insatiable maws..—Pertli•
shire ..idt 'raiser.

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WORCESTER
STEEPLECHASE.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

The Handicap Steeplechase.
Miss Collingwood ... ...
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Tipperary Boy ... ... ...
British Yeoman ... ..• „•

Fourteen ran. A splendid race.

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QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

DRYDEN V. FRYER.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
By Mr. CHANDERs—Mr. William Paxton and a page
waited upon the party at dinner, and generally my sister-
in-law acted as chambermaid on that occasion.

.Mary Maxfield—l was a lady's-maid in the service of
Mrs. Gl:levee, who was first cousin to Sir Gregory. She
is now dead. During her lifetime she used to visit Sir
Gregory, in the Alpha road. I had opportunities of
seeing him with her. He was not like other gentlemen.
In October, 1841, I went to Brighton with Mrs. Graves,
who travelled in a carriage with Sir Gregory. William
Paxton was one of the party. The housemaid, the page,
and the coachman of Lady Turfer also went to
Brighton, an did Sutton, the barber. Sir Gregory and
Mrs. Graves had dinner together. Sir Gregory said
he was allowed seven glasses of wine by the doctor.
The quantity was measured three or four times before
lac was satisfied that he had got geed measure.
John, the page, used to attend him to bed, end slept in
the room with him. John put or let out the light on
one occasion, and Sir Gregory would not allow him to
sleep any longer in his room. Sutton then slept with
him. Lady Turner was expected to come to Brighton,
but did not come. I remember a ktter coming from her
on a Saturday which was read by Mrs. Graves in the
hearing of Sir Gregory. I slept in the same room with
Mrs. Graves, but not in the same bed. On the night on
which the letter came Sir Gregory came into Mrs.
Graves's room with a page behind him with a lantern.
They had both got their clothes on. Sir Gregory asked
who was Mrs. Graves.—(Laughter.) Mrs. Graves said
she was Mrs. Graves. Sir Gregory had Lady Turner's
letter in his hand, I think; ho said he wished to have
Lady Page's letter read (meaning Lady Turner). Mrs.
Graves wished mo to get out of bed and bring a light to
her. I took a candle and held it over the foot of the
bed, and Sir Gregory stood by Mrs. Graves's side. Mrs.
Graves, who was in bed, then read the letter to him.
The page stood behind near the door with the lantern.
I did not cry out murder or any other thing.—
(Laughter.) Whilst the le ter was read he asked
me if that was correct. He then requested Mrs.
Graves to read it a second, a third and a fourth time,
which she did. After that, Sr Gr g ,ry and the page
left the room and weat to bed. Sir Gregory used very
often to walk about and talk during the night. I re-
member a subsequent occasion, when he came and
knocked at Mrs. Graves's bedroom door, in the middle
of the night. I believe Mrs. Graves got up and answered
him at the door. He said to her chat John, the page,
had stolen all his things. She told him to go to bed,
and he cared John a d—d vagabond. I remember
one morning Mrs. Graves saying at breakfast
that she had lost a sovereign. Sir Gregory re-
plied that he hid lost a piece of paper out
of his room. I went into the yard and found a piece of
paper underneath his bedroom windows, about half the
size of a letter cover. It was a plain piece of paper,
without any writing on it. Whilst at Brighton, I re-
member Sir Gregory throwing the Venetian blinds out of
the dining-room window. I remember his preferring to
have me to his bedroom instead of John one night. He
told me to sit down, which I did. Ile then removed u
sets from the drawing-room into his bedroom. He
lay on the sofa, and I sat by his side on
a chair. The door and window were shut.
He got up and opened the window; and he said, " When
the window is opened the door must be shut." He then
shut the window and opened the door. That he did
three times.

Lord CAMPBELL—A new system of ventilation.
Examination continued.—He then asked me to sing.—
(Much lattekter.) This was about six or seven ,in the
s evening. I did sing to him.—(Laughter.) I sang a
-vets of some song, the name of which I cannot remem-
ber. Ile sad " That will do; that will do," and I went
away. I was afraid, because he looked so strange.
By the JUDGE —I was no: afraid he was going to make
an V, iino"oper proposal to me.
i Esxamieation continued—When we were at Brighton
Paxton paid the bills. When we returned from Brighton
Mrs. Graves, Sir Gr gory, and Paxton travelled inside
the carriene. and three of the servants, myself among
them, outside.
Cross-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS —MIII. Graves died
in tke same year as Sir Gregory. I have lived since her
death at Newberry, in service. I am now living as
housemaid with Mr. Russell at Dulwich. I am not a
rnarrieil woman. When the wine was measured out to
Sir Gregory three glasses of sherry and four of pert
were measured out to him. I have seem him sucking
out of an empty bottle.—(Laughter.) He had also some
brandy at Brighton, which he wished to have neat.—
(Laughter.) 'That was the occasion when he lay on the
sots. The night on which the letter came he had had a
little of the neat.
Se phen Mackay—l have been engaged since 1839
in atteedance on lunatics. I was attached to Dr. War-
burton's eiltablishint nt at Iloxton. I there went by the
r:tt no of West. 1 was sent to Gloucester-place to at-
tend im Sir Gregery Turner by Li,. Warburton. The
first semis en tnanl en 3 i, nt tEere w is in June,lB42, and
that was to relieve Mr. liiiiik, vein, was going away for
a day. Oil Sir Gregory knowing that Rook was going
away, he was very pl,iscd with one at first, but after•
warns exrres,:cd a wish to have Rack back again the
same day. Lady Turner ordered the carriage to take
him out to pacify him. I accompanied them into the
Park. I could not succeed in pacifying him. The
coachman, consequently, drove the party to Rook'.
house in the alpha-road to bring him back. We
brought look back, and I returned io Hoxton. Some
weeks after that—viz. between the end cf July and the
first week in August. 1842—1 was sent by Dr.
Warburton to be in regular attendance on
Sir Gregory, -in coduriction with Rook.
• I remained with him till his death. When I returned on
the • cond occasion Sir Gregory's speech was affected
very much, and he appeared like a p(4sun who had been
suffering from pare!) sis. His habits end manners were
iheee of a china rot of a man. Medicines were ad-
ministered to him from time to time, which we gave him
in tea and other mixtures. The habit of not going to
the w.iter-cioset was still upon him, and there was a pan
kept in the room. His body was very much debilitated
at that time. On such occasions he stood upright,
and I and another sere obliged to farce him down.
During the time I stays 1 with him he
exercised no free will of any kind, nor was he ca-
pable of taking care of himself. He had no
c4,mmand of money at that time. I was present at his
sieestA; he died in an epileptic fit. He had been subject
to these fits during the time I was there.
Dress-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS—Lie did not die
in a %cry violent fit; nature was quite worn out.
Mrs. Beechey— am the wife of Captain Beechey.
In August, 1840, I accompanied my husband to see Sir
Gregory in the Alpha-road. That was the first time I
sem him. We took tea with Sir Gregory and Lady Tur-
ner. We stayed from about eight to ten o'clock. I
considered Sir Gregory - rather an imbecile person. I
thought he was very unequal to conversation. He merely
bowed on being spoken to; he spoke for a short time,
hut he could not support conversation. He had a thick
utterance. I saw him again on the last day of May,
1841. I went with my daughter. Lady Turner called
for us in the carriage, and we drove with her and Sir
G- egory to a place in the neighbourhood of Hornsey.
Sir Gregory seemed on that occasion rather weaker in
intellect. He spolee very little. At the termination of
the drive we stopped at un inn to bait the horses.
''.',. Gregory asked fur some beer as refreshment.
He subsequently had some beer. We took a walk in the
village; and I observed the boys about the place took a
great deal of notice of him as being rather a strange
person.
Captain Beechey—l am the husband of the last wit-
ness. I rein, tuber going with my wife to see Sir::Gregory
Turner. That was the first time I saw him. I remem-
ber perfectly well starting several suejects of conversa-
tion into which we could not go very deep. Those were
the general topics of the day. He made a merely casual
or superficial remark when we spoke of them. Our conver-
sation was necessarily very limited; he seemed incapable
of talking on the subjects which were started. .1. next
saw him in Montagu-square, when nothing passed be-
tween us but a bow of recognition. I saw him once
more in Gloucester-place; I cannot fix the date. I ima-
gine it was the latter part of 1841, or beginning of 1842.
Or, that occasion he merely said, " Good moruieg;
what's the news?" Nothing more Las el, for he was ii-
capable of conversing. He was sitting at breakfast, in
ale middle of the day, and he did not get up. lie spoke
very thick, and he articulated with great difficulty.
Kook was not present on that occasion, but I believe ho
was_ in an adjoining room, though I did not see him.
Mr. John North—l am a surgeon residing at No. 9A,
Gloucester-place, which is nearly opposite to the house
Occupied by Sir Gregory Turner. In May, 1842, I was
1 d in to attend him.
paroxysm of epilepsy, sufficil found him in a violent
ent! yviolent to endanger
his lite
wasl, inasmuch as it accompanied with paralysis.
This was on the 7th Maysawhiitml also on the Bth
and 9th. I was not his regular m,dcartotxtnt, andf I
fency I was merely called in from the P
house. I saw him again on the 11th May, when heo lYex-
hibit, d ail the ordinary feebleness consequent upon epi-
leptic attacks. I saw him in the presenceof his keeper,
but I think that was not on the first occasion. The
keeper vas not there from any violence Manifested by
Sir Gresnory, though some degree of -restraint was ne-
cessary. I efrerwards saw it Gregory in in chair on the
baleen,. of his house, cillieg out so as to excite the at-
tention of passers by. The centre drawinn-room window
Will open. I raw the arm of a man put out to draw him
ionbut not with violence..
Dr. James Sutherland—l was thirty years physician
at St. Lulre'e. I have been in practice since ISOri. I
have: eow retired. , I gave my attentioe almost wholly to
( aces of luhacy. St. Luke's is exclueiVely a lunatic
asyluire I tint saw Sir,Gregory Turner oe GthiDecem-
ber, 1823, at' his own instance, comeethicated to me by
2.4 il:Arl'i pope •1 I was calloct in to
,opposo the commis--
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,for that pur-
e' ' Atr ribs-oeny , Dn. Haelums and myself. I saw,
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