The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

A FIGHT IN A JURY-ROOM.

At Cork assizes, on Tuesday evening, Mr. Kemmis,
Q.C., presiding, the jury, in the case of Casey for horse
stealing, came into their box.
CounT—Well, gentlemen, have you agreed ? Fore-
man—lmpossible, my Lord ; two of the jury are as ob-
stinate as mules—the eloquence of Socrates would not
convince them.—(Loud laughter.)
The jurors retired for the night.
On Wednesday Doctor Beamish came into Court, and
having been sworn, stated that one of the jury in the case
of Casey, named Carey, was labouring under affection of
the kidneys and stomach, and that his confinement would
be attended with serious results.

The Court directed the jury to be discharged.
Mr. Bennett, Q.C.—Before this jury is discharged, I
must state to the Court that I have been informed that
some highly improper conduct took place in the jury-
room last night. I call upon one of the jury to come
out of that box, and inform the Crown solicitor of the
disgraceful occurrence which took place last nigfit.
Foreman—The fact is, my Lord, that about two
o'clock this morning, when we were all reposing as well
as we could, one of the jury, who got some sudden fit,
jumped up from his chair, struck us with it, and trampled
about on our bodies —(Roars of laughter)—and what was
more extraordinary, in a short time after he did not re-
member what he had clone.—(Continued laughter.)
Another Juror—l can show my arms where I was
struck with the chair, and if I had not taken up another
chair to protect myself, I don't know how it would be
with me.—(Laughter.)
The belligerent juror, a Mr. M'Donnell, was here
brought into the box, and sported a very ugly-looking
black eye.
COURT-Oh, let him go away, let them all go away ;
I shall certainly not swear them any more this assizes.
PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER ON THE BENCH.

A Birr (King's County) correspondent of the Tippe-
rary Vindicator writes as follows :--" A rich scene
occurred on the bench of the Petty Sessions Court
shortly after Sir W. Lynar had retired. Mr. Philip
Drought, a deservedly popular magistrate, playfully
applied a rod which he had in his hand to the back of
Sir Edward Synge. who was sitting in front of him, when
the Baronet, suddenly turning round, and throwing
himself into a pugilistic attitude, popped in his right
and left, fibbing Mr. Drought in a style that would have
done credit to Deaf Burke' or the Tipton Slasher.'
Queer things have sometimes been acted even on the
bench, but such an exhibition as a' mill' or sparring
match has seldom come off in a court of justice."

SHOCKING MURDER IN THE KING'S COUNTY.

The Nenagh Guardian contains the following appall-
ing narrative :—" It again becomes our sad duty to re-
cord the perpetration of a barbarous murder. The lo-
cality of this scene of blood is the King's County, close
to the borders of Tipperary, and within one mile and a
half of the village of Shinrone, at Kilcommon, in the
barony of Clonlisk. The deceased, Thomas Grenvill,
was a stonemason, of industrious habits, the only sup-
port of an aged father and mother ; but, unfortunately
for himself and others, he became acquainted with a
girl named Winny Cahill, who, with her parents and
four brothers, lived contiguous to the residence of the
Grenvills. Their intimacy resulted in the girl giving
birth to a child, which is now one year and a half old.
No excuse can be pleaded for Grenvill's unfeeling con-
duct towards the girl Cahill, not only in refusing to
marry her, but even to allow her any recompense for
the support of her offspring or the loss of her character,
on which the blight of defamation never rested up to the
period Grenvill became her seducer. Her father obtained
a quarter sessions' decree for the loss of his daughter's
services and time during her confinement, but was un-
able to recover the amount. The Cahills at last were
incensed at the harsh and ungenerous treatment their sis •
ter received, and inflamed with revenge, they were fre-
quently heard threatening Grenvill : his house was at-
tacked, and on many occasions the police had to protect
him. Grenvill's mother, about ten o'clock, had pro-
ceeded to Shinrone to buy some bread, when her son
determined to meet her, in order to carry her over a
part of the road which was flooded, near the bridge of
Kilcommon, adjacent to which there was a wake, where
many persons, and among them were the Cahills, as-
sembled. Grenvill was seen taking off his shoes and
stockings, and must have been followed down to a dark
part, where his assailants waited the return of their vic-
tim. They fractured his skull in several places, and
broke his arm and jaw-bone, and from the severity of
the wounds it is thought instantaneous death must have
ensued. Some boys going home found him on the road
bathed in his own blood, and bore him to the home of
his aged parents a helpless and mangled corpse. On the
following day a lengthened investigation was held before
Sir W. Lynar, R.M., when six persons were committed.
An inquest was held on Thursday, and the following
verdict returned:—" That on the 6th day of August, at
Clika, parish of Kilcommon, barony of Clonlisk, King's
County, Thomas Grenvill was found dead, where he
was previously wilfully, feloniously, and of malice afore-
thought waylaid, killed, and murdered by some person
or persons to that jury unknown."
PARDON OF A CONVICT.—The Tipperary Indicator
contains the following:—A man of the name of Neil,
tried and found guilty at the last assizes for this county
of the wilful murder of John Kennedy, at Cappagh, in
January last, and left for execution, was on Thursday
morning informed by the governor of the county gaol
that Government had granted him a free pardon.
EXECUTION IN ROSCOMMON.—At half-past twelve
o'clock on Thursday, pursuant to the respite, Catherine
Brien and Bridget Langan were executed in front of the
county gaol. Catherine Brien protested that she had
neither hand, act, or part in the murder, but did not
deny that she knew of it, and, therefore, admitted the
knowledge of all that took place.
At the late meeting of the board of trustees of the
College of Maynooth, the Right Rev. Doctor James
Brown, Bishop of Kilmore, was appointed a trustee to the
said college, in the room of the Right Rev. Dr. Kernah,
of Clogher, deceased.

ACCIDENT ON THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER
RAILWAY.—GLOCESTER, SATURDAY EVENING.—An ac-
cident of a very critical kind, and which must have
caused some alarm at Bristol, occurred this evening on
the Bristol and Gloucester line. The stations of the Bir-
mingham and Gloucester Company and of the Bristol
Company are placed exactly alongside of each other, but
the respective lines of rails cross each other at a point
about half a mile distant from the stations. The train
which conveys the mail left the station at half-past 7
o'clock for Bristol, but when the engine had cleared by
only a few feet the place where the Birmingham lines
cross the Bristol lines, it left its rails and got embedded
in the gravel of the permanent way. The carriages at-
tached to the engine lay in the way of the Birming-
ham traffic, and as it was known that a goods' train
could not be far distant, a lively alarm was felt lest it
should come up whilst the rails were blockaded. To
guard against this a man was instantly dispatched with
a flag in the direction of the coming train, and every
effort was made to get the carriages shoved back
to the station. Both objects were luckily accomplished.
The man with the flag succeeded in attracting the at-
tention of the driver of the coming train, and a stoppage
took place, and the Bristol carriages were shoved back to
the station. As might be supposed, considerable alarm
was felt and expressed at the outset by the passengers,
but on the nature of the accident becoming known, the
alarm subsided into grumbling at the detention to which
they were subjected. The embedded engine lay within
a few feet of the off Birmingham rail, and the circum-
stance enabled the goods train from Birmingham, which
consisted of thirty-seven heavily-laden carriages, to pass
after a detention of about half-an-hour. A passenger
train arrived shortly afterwards, so that had anything
occurred to prevent the goods train from getting out of
the way, the chance of accident was largely increased by
the trains being so close upon each other. The mail
train from Bristol arrived about half-past eight o'clock,
and, on discovering what had happened, it instantly re-
turned on the same line of rails by which it had arrived,
taking with it the passengers and the mail. This acci-
dent occurring so soon after the one which threw a damp
over the festivities of the opening, must be regarded as
an untoward event, and should induce the Directors to
make a searching inquiry into the cause.
COLONEL DUNDAS.—It may be remembered that
some months since Colonel Dundas, whilst at the dinner
table of a Noble Lord, and no doubt somewhat heated
with wine, was gqilty of uttering some very disrespectful
observations of her Majesty the queen, and for Which
he was dismissed the service. We are happy to be able
to record the pleasing fact—pleasing alike as showing
that the momentary indiscretion of the offender has not
been visited too harshly, and pleasing as exhibiting a
most gracious and forgiving temper on the part of her
Slajesty ea,n .171.1 m personally insulted—we are happy,
we say, to record the fact of Golonel purida§'s restoration
to active service, and we trust he will prove that the
lenity shown him has not been misplaced.--Hampshire
doper.