The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-12 00:00:00

THE HON. CECIL LAWLESS.

It h said the case of the Hon. Cecil Lawless
against Major Clarke, which was to have been tried
at the Skinhereen Sessions, has been settled. The
Cork Examiner of this day has a long communication
from Mr. Everett, the attorney if Mr. Lawless, in
which is embodied tho following curious epistle from
Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, in reply to one from
!Ir. Lawless, requesting his Lorrhhip hi authority to
contradict an allegation of Major Clarke's, that his
wir.4 had eloped with Lord Frederick :
"St. James's Pellace, June 26, ISSO.

" grieves me that the brother of oLe of the
most respectable colonels in the ermy, and one of my
oldest friends, Shadwell Clarke, shou!d have by his in-
temperance, pli.e,:d himself in the position in which ha
is now unfortunately situated. I was forced to advise
his leaving the service.
" It iJ a curioui circumstance, I never bad the honour
of being in the secivty of Mrs. Clarice without a third
psrson, and I blieve the greatest number of times I ever
was icy her quarters at Portsmouth was twice, if twice,
where Major Clarke was preser.t.
" You have been most kind and Christian like to a
perso❑ in great distress, and far which you and 3 our
pod lady deserve the greatest praise, and towards a lady
of wholn I never heard the slighLst blame, but on the
contrary, that herconduct was most kind to her husband,
who ill requited it.
" May 1 beg you will read this letter to Mrs. Clarke,
whom I do not trouble with a letter.

"I rernain, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) "FREDERICK FITZCLARENCE.
think it as well to me-ntion that I have a
nvost dreadful and a ickcd letter in my posession from
Major Clarke to my Aide-de •Camp, regarding poor Mrs.
Clarke, Voce they k t Weymouth. It is the composition
of a madman. It refers mostly to her leaving him at
Weymouth.
I never saw Mrs Clarke iu my life, ex2ept at Wey-
mouth, Poi t-mouth, and at Coaei, and there in the pre-
Eence of my 13rig:de Major.
" The Hen. C. Lawless, Glandore House,:
Itosscarbery, Ireland."
MR. SMITLI O'BRIEN.

Mr. John O'Brien, M.P., has received the follow-
ing reply from Sir George Grey, to the memorial of
the corporation of Limerick, in reference to Mr. Smith
O'Brien :

" Whitehall. 31 July, 1650.

" Sir,—l am direct€A by St cretary Sir George Grey
to acqa4int you that be has not fai!ed to lay before the
Qu:rn the petition which you I.( cLntly presented from
the corporation of the bJrough of Limerick, cn bthalf of
William Smith O'Brien, now under Ben' coca of trans-
portation in Van Diemen's Laud.
" I am, Sir, your ot.e.licnt servant,
" 11. WADDINGTON,

" John O'Brien, E, q.,
MURDER OF Ma. MAULEVERER.—i he Attorney.
General left town yesterday for Armagh, to conduc
the prosecution against the men accusLd of the mur.
der of the late Mr. Mauleverer.

THE AssizEs.—Up to the present the presiding
judges have in most instances congratulated the grand
juries on the peaceable state of the country. In
some counties, Limerick for instance, the assizts have
been maiden, no prisoner being in custody.
WORKING or THE ARMS ACT. A respectable
gentleman in a midland county has been refused per-
mission to carry arms, on the ground that he had
been at one time a member of a political society
called " The League."

ROYAL FREEMASONS' SCHOOL FOR FEMALE
CHlLDREN.—Yesterday a general court of the patrons, go-
vernors, subscribers, and officers o this charity, instituted
in 17E:8, for the purpose of maintaining, clothing, and edu-
cating an unlimited number of the female children and or-
phans of reduced Freemasons, was held in the board-room of
the school-house, near the Obelisk, in St. George's, South-
wark. Ti.e chair was taken by E. 11. Patten, Eq. The
minutes of the general committee, house committee, and
audit committee, were read seriatim, and approved of. A
vote of thanks to the president closed the proceedings.
GUTTA PERCIIA —Some very large importations
have taken place of this now very serviceable article of mer-
chandise, which has become arplicable to so many and vari-
ous purposes. The vessel Mary, arrived from Singapore, has
brought 9,261 lumps, and 6,400 parcels of the article, con-
signed to order; and the vessel Hyderabad, arrived on the
same day from Singapore. brought 17,326 parcels, and also
3,450 blocks of the anicle, _consigned to order.

THE ASSAULT ON THE
QUEEN.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Baron XLDERSON, Mr. Justice PATTESON,
and Mr. Justice TALFOURD
TRIAL OF ROBERT PATI?.
(Continued from our Fourth Edition cf last night.)

TIIE VERDICT.
The jury retired at 20 minutes past three, and did
not return into court until five minutes past seven, when
they gave a verdict of Guilty.
The prisoner was immediately called up for judgment.
Baron ALDERSON addressed him to the following
effect:—Robert Pate, the jury have fund you guilty after
a very long and patient it quiry, and there can be no rea-
sonable douhtthat they have come to:a rightconclusion. At
the same time it is quite clear that you are a person of
very eccentric habits, and in some degree differing from
other men, and it is probable that it has pleased God to
visit you with some mental affliction, for which you are
to be pitied. The offence you have committed, however,
is one of a very serious and important character. You
have been found guilty of striking a female, which, for
a soldier, is a very shocking thing; but when it is con-
sidered that this female was your Sovereign, that she was
one entitled to the respect of the whole country by her
virtues and her exalted position, that act which, in an
ordinary case would be a very serious offence, under
these circumstances became truly serious. How could
it happen that you, a soldier of the country, could
insult one beloved by all, on account not only of
her exalted station, but by her domestic virtues?
Yet, this was the object of your attack, and whom you
in,ulted by a blow. Considering the station of your
family and your own position, the Court will not inflict
the disgraceful punishment of whippicg upon you. The
Court has some respect for you, though you had no re-
spect for others. It will still, however, do its duty, and
pass such a sentence upon you as will prevent you, at
all events for a long period, from doing any further mis-
chief. I would fain believe you were not in your right
senses at the time you committed this act, and it has
lung been the boast of the country that no man of sane
mind could be found capable of committing an attack on
his sovereign, but at the same time I think the jury were
quite right, upon the evidence that was adduced, in not
acquitting you upon the ground of insanity. Under all
the circumstances, the sentence that I feel it my duty to
pronounce upon you is, that you be transported beyond
the seas for the term of seven years.
The prisoner heard the sentence without betraying
the slightest emotion; and when the Learned Judge had
concluded his address, he bowed to the Court, and im-
mediately turned round, and without uttering a word,
retired to the gaol.
The trial lasted nearly nine hours.