The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-20 00:00:00

TORY EXCLUSIVE DEALING.

The Kilkenny Journal contains the following :
" PROTESTANT REGISTRATION OFFICE.—EXCLII-
- DEALING.—The plot thickens on us. Through
the kindness of Colonel Bryan we have just received
some documents, in which the saints' recommend
all Protestants wholly to discontinue the employnient
of Catholic servants, brand the latter as perjurers,
liars, and by other opprobrious epithets. In sending
such documents to Colonel Bryan the ' saints' mis-
took their man. Fiendish persecutions of this sort
must not pass with impunity."
THE NEW JURY LISTS.
The following letter has been addressed by Mr.
Mahony (one of the solicitors for the defence on the
late State prosecutions) to the clerks of the peace for
the city of Dublin :
" 23, William-street, Dublin, Sept. 18, 1844.
" Gentlemen,—Not doubting your compliance with
the provisions of the 3d and 4th William IV., c. 91,
intituled An Act for consolidating and amending
the Laws relative to Jurors and Juries in Ireland,' I
must assume that yOu have, on or before the 22d day
of July last, issued and delivered your precepts, ac-
cording to the form given in schedule A, addressed to
the several collectors of grand jury cess within the
suofchthceolcleitcytoorsf Dublin, which Act (sec. 4) re-
respectively to prepare and make
Icoouuut,irnet'sywithin one month then next ensuing, a true list
of all men residing within the respective districts qua-
lified with respect of property, and liable to serve on
juries, according to this Act as aforesaid, and also to
perform and comply with all other the requisitions in
the said precepts contained;' and which precepts con-
tainp
g words that is to say, 4 and when
you have made out such lists, you are authorised to
order a sufficient number of copies thereof to be
printed, the expense of which printing will be allowed
you by the county, and you are required within one
month from the date hereof to deliver a true copy of
the folwin
such list to the clerk of the peace,' &c. &c. ; and
which precept ends with the following remarkable
words And these several matters you are in nowise
to omit, upon the peril that may ensue.
" I beg to apprise you that out of ten collectors, two
alone have performed that duty, by delivering their
lists to you within the time prescribed by law ; and
that no one of them has up to this hour complied with
that important direction of the Act which requires,
for the information of the public, that said lists should
be printed by each collector as soon as made out; the
fact being, that instead of having a sufficient number
of copies printed, as said Act intended, for circulation
in each district, not one printed copy exists.
" After having complained of this neglect so often
within the last year, before the highest legal tribunals
in England and in Ireland, I cannot delay the ex-
pression of my great surprise that public officers could
continue to pursue a system so contrary to their
duties, as prescribed by the statute I refer to. And
I now call upon you, as clerks of the peace for this
city, to insist on the immediate fulfilment of your
precepts, as it is manifest that the chief protection in-
tended for the public by the Legislature will be de-
feated, unless those lists are printed and generally
circulated as the law directs.

"In the hope that no circumstances will again
arise to justify the highest legal authority in the em-
pire to declare that trial by jury may become 'a delu-
sion, a mockery, and a snare.
" I am, gentlemen, your humble servant,
"PEIRCE MAHONY."
DASTARDLY ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION.-000 01
the most heartless and unmanly attempts to assassi-
nate, in the opportune darkness of night, an unoffend-
ing gentleman and a stranger, occurred near Ship-
quay-gate of this city, in the beginning of last week,
which, for treachery and audacity, may rank with the
vilest deeds perpetrated by the Spanish stiletto. Mr.
Jones Henry, one of the officers of Excise, at present
stationed in this city, was returning alone, about
eleven o'clock, r.m., to his lodgings,
which are at Miss
Pollock's, No. 5, East-wall. lie had to pass through
Shipquay-gate, and to get on the Wall, by the steps
opposite the back entrance to Floyd's Hotel, and
when he had placed his foot on the first step he was
struck from behind on the back of his head by a
heavy stick or colt, and the effects of the blow felled
him to the ground, where he lay for some time wholly
insensible. Having partly recovered, he endeavoured,
with great difficulty, to reach his lodgings ; and, on
undressing, found he had been stabbed by some sharp
opposite
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had nearly,indented
two inches. The next
day a surgeon examined the wound, and found in it
the point of some sharp instrument, and gave it, as
not weapon
ponwas well aimed for the
struck against the fifth rib,
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death would have been inevitable. The perpetrator
of this infamous act is, for the present, unknown ; but
we hope, for the credit of Derry, where such an oc-
currence is altogether unprecedented, that the villain
will be brought to condign punishment. We under-
stand that Government has offered a reward of 401.
Mr.s to Henry,beae to be out yesterday;l
we are happy to say,
fworashaios
fdaertercetioovne.red
and, having performed no public duty since his ap-
pointment, is not aware of having given the slightest
provocation for this wanton attempt on his life.—
Derry Journal of Tuesday.