The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

TULLAMORE, THURSDAY, MARCH 14.—Dowling, who
was convicted yesterday for the murder of Mr. Gatchell,
stands for execution on the 26th. '.The case of this wretched
culprit is, in some measure, illustrative of the landlord
and tenant 'system, and the crime and misery attendant
upon the insecurity of tenure, and the extraordinary power
vested in the hands of landlords. Dowling's father held
a dear farm, upon which he made some improvements, and
was in rather comfortable circumstances, until a change in the
times, caused by additional local taxation, and a fall in the
price of agricultural produce, rendered him unable to pay his
rent : he applied for an abatement,to 'Mr. Gatchell, who was
agent over him, but his application was rejected. He
then wrote to the landlady, but she said she could not inter-
fere with the agent. It is said that Gatchell was displeased
at this communication, which he lOoked upon in the light
of a complaint against himself, and he seized upon all his
little property, which was sold for the arrears of rent then
due. The sale left a balance of some six or seven pounds
behind, and for this he was processed, decreed, and ultimately
sent to gaol. The day he was arrested his wife was exceed-
ingly ill, without even a sufliCiency of, food, or an atom of
property left. She died soon after the husband was sent to
prison, and the wretched old man petitioned Mr. Gatchell to
allow him home to his wife's wake, and that he wouldreturn
to gaol after the funeral, but his request was not complied
with. A son and daughter of his then took ill and died, it
may be said of starvation, for ,in their illness they had
not even enough of bad potatoes. His other son, who was
convicted yesterday, was married to the sister of Dunne, the
approver, who, as alleged, was also treated by Gatchell with
cruelty, and, according to his account, they had come to the
determination to shoot Mr. Gatchell, as the . only means of
preventing his total ruin, as well as that of the Dowling
family. There was something peculiarly revolting in a
man swearing away the life of his own brother-in-law, and
leaving his sister a widow ; but the same causes which lead
to the concoction and perpetration of atrocious crimes, can
hardly fail to eradicate every moral sentiment, and convert
the best feelings of the heart into a degraded selfishness,
regardless even of the ties of consanguinity : partners in
guilt can never be partners in sympathy or affection towards
each other. The facts I have stated here are beyond all con-
tradiction; they are known to all who reside in the neigh-
bourhood, and have been stated in the sworn deposition of
one of the witnesses who was examined for the prose,mtion.
After the total ruin of old Dowling, and the death of three
members of his family, he consented to give up possession
of his land, and was then let out of prison : he is now a
wretched mendicant through the country. I should, per-
haps, have stated, that the arrear of rent due was of four or
five years standing, that it had accrued during two very hard
years for farmers, and that it was suppose I by the tenants it
would never have been demanded."

TUE MARQUIS or NORTHAMPTON'S SOIREE.—The
Marquis of Northampton, as Presided of the Royal Society,
held his third conversazione on Saturday night, at his man-
sion in Piccadilly. It was the fullest meeting this season,
above 500 Fellows of the Royal Society and visitors being
present. We are happy to say the Noble President was suffi-
ciently recovered from his recent indisposition to be able per-
sonally to welcome his numerous friends. The assembly was
somewhat enlivened by the presence of a great many Mem-
bers of Parliament coming from the Speaker's levee in their
uniforms and Court dresses. By eleven o'clock the rooms
were crowded, and in consequence of the heat occasioned by
the numbers thronging the apartments, the Noble President
was obliged to retire. In the several apartments the tables,
as usual, presented numberless objects of interest in_ different
branches of science and art.

The three days' balloting—Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday—at the United Service Club, has passed Over
without black-balling. Sixty candidates were elected. We
wish this improved system of ballot was adopted by a kin-
dred club, and likewise by another in the neighbourhood of
Trafalgar-square.—Naml and Military Gazette.
[ADVERTISEMENT.] —THE LORD MAYOR AND
HOLLOWAY' PILLS AND OINTMENT.--jatneS Stanley, a
gentleman's servant, residing at Long Dittos, made an affi-
davit at the Mansion-house (which his Lordship signed) to the
effect that he (Stanley) had twenty-six holes in one leg And
fourteen in the other, and that he had been so afflicted for
two years and a halt; and lately could only move by the use
of crutches; and from this state he made oath he
has been
miraculously cured by Holloway's Pills and Ointment, after
a host of surgeons and one hospital
relief. Professor Holloway had failed to give him
dispenses advice gratis at his Es-
tablishment, 244, Strand.—These remedies are sold there, and
also by most respectable Medicine Vendors Throughout the
civilized world.