The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-17 00:00:00

TOWN-HALL, WINDSOR.

TUFSDAY.—This morning a Charge, preferred by Mr. G.
E. Arson, private secretary to Prince Albert, against a job-
him: gardener, named William Sims, for having it:decently
assaulted Mary Ann Truelove, only seven years of age, was
heard before Mr. Alderman Bannister and Mr. Blunt.
The child stated that she was the daughter of a labouring
man named Robert Truelove, of Love-lane, Windsor, aril
that yesterday afternoon she was enticed to go into the
Long-walk, by the prisoner, with the promise of a halfpenny.
When they got to the style, the man took her little broth r
in his arms, crossed over into the Long-walk, and went o
to the trees, where they sat down together on the grass
the side of the ditch. He then put her brother down a-I
took witness on his lap, but she did not know what the pri-
soner did. He made her sit on his lap, and when some one
came witness got off.
Mr. George Edward Anson then deposed as follows :
Yesterday afternoon I was riding up the Long-walk, under
the left-hand avenue of trees, and when I got up the hill I
came suddenly upon the prisoner, who was sitting behind a
tree, with his feet toward the ditch. He had the little grl
on his lap with all her clothes up. On seeing me he has.] y
threw her off, by which I saw his cloths were disordered. A' •T
a short pause, I asked the little girl, "Is that your father ?"
The man immediately said, " She is my daughter." I re-
peated the question, and he again stated that she was is
child. I then called the little girl aside, and asked her whr re
she lived. She said at No. 2, Love-lace, Winds and AU
her name was Truelove. I understood, either tr, m the
or the man, that the prisoner's name was Simmonth.
I told him that I should give him in charge to a policeman,
the poor little girl cried out, "Pray don't tell." After waitiag
some little time Lord Liverpool came up en herseback. I
told him what had happened, and he immediately sent eff cis
groom into Windsor for a policeman. The little girl, who
had a ycung child by her side, then began to cry. and s
" Pray don't send for a policeman. I'll nrver do it again."
After waiting a little time a policeman came, into win)se
custody I gave the prisoner. - The prisoner, upon being asked wi-at answer he 1:N? to
make to the charge, denied that he pulled the child on its
knee, and stated that she went in'o the Lcig-walk or er
own accord. In the.course of his defence he accused the virl
of having committed an act of gross indecency.
The Magistrates, after severely commenting upon the
abominable conduct of the prisoner, sentenced him to pay a
fine of five pounds, and in default to two months' imprison-
ment, with hard labour, in the borough gaol
The man, not having the money, was fixthwith conveyed
to prison.

FATAL OCCURRENCE TO A
MILL TARY OFFICER.
A very considerable and painful excitement has for sae
last few days prevailed in the village of Elstree, near ESLs a-
ware, from the general rumour that Lieutenant-Co'osal
Edward James Metcalf, of the Royal Horse Artillery, had
been killed in a duel by a brother officer, and that the be ,y
had been removed to his residence in the dead of the nig t,
and that it was the intention of his friends to conceal tie
:affair from the public, and to bury the corpse without an in-
vestigation of the circumstances leading to his death. This
r. port was so current that every body believed it, and the
affair became so public that it was the general topic of e,:a-
versation. The parish authorities lost no time in making
the necessary inquiries, and succeeded in ascertaining that
the report of the unfortunate gentleman having fallen in a
duel was without foundation, although he had died from the
effects of a pistol-bullet under circumstances of the m ist
afflicting nature. Notice was immediately forwarded to the
Coroner, and an inquest was held at the Artichoke Isla in -he
village, when the following evidence was given in elucidating
the melancholy affair
William Howard stated that he lived as groom to the late
Colonel Metcalf. He occupied the room immediately under
that of his master. On Saturday night last, the Ilth in 4.,
witness saw him go into his apartment for the purpose of
dressing to attend a party ; witness heard him go out in
about an hour after, and he (witness) then went to bad.
In a-short time his master returned, and again went into his
room, but did not remain long before he left. Witness want
to sleep, and did not hear any more of him during the night.
At about seven o'cloCk the next morning, he went into his
room, as was his custom, to call the deceased, when, upon
entering, he was astonished at finding two candles burning
in the sockets of the candlesticks, and his master not in b 3d,
nor had the bedclothes been disturbed. Upon looking
behind the screen, which divided the room, he discovered the
deceased sitting on the sofa, with his head reclining over the
side, weltering in blood, which appeared to come from his
mouth, although his lips were closed, and he was quite dead.
WitneSs made an immediate alarm, and hastened to procare
the attendance of a surgeon, who, on arriving, declared the
deceased to have been dead some hours. The deceased was
undressed, with the exception of his drawers and stockings ;
witness afterwards found the pistol, now produced, in his
drawers, which were hanging about his legs.
The deceased was a widower, and lived by himself. He was
about 57 years of age.
Captain Robert Maynard stated he was well acquainted
with the unfortunate gentleman, who was very highly con-
nected. Witness saw the remains of his Gallant Friend scan
after the last witness gave the alarm. The pistol appeared to
have been recently- discharged. On opening the lie s, the
whole of the upper jaw was found to be completely shatterad,
and the ball had lodged in the back of the head, and was sub-
sequently extracted. Witness was confident that the de-
ceased never intended suicide, but that his death was caused
someway or other by accident. He was a particularly hiAit-
spirited man, and the last in the world to commit self-
murder.
In answer to questions,
Captain Maynard said he was strengthened in his opinion
that it was accidental, from the examination he had mad 3 o
the pistol. Upon looking at the ramrod he foutal it was very
difficult to remove, from which he believed that the deceased
was'about to draw the charge of the pistol, and finding he
could not shift the ramrod. with his hand, he had appfted the
teeth of his bottom jaw to a small ridge near the top of it, and
in so doing the jerk must have caused the pistol to go off, and
produced-the dreadful event.
The pistol Was closely inspected by the Coroner and jury
and The ramrod certainly was difficult to remove.
Captaih Maynard further stated that he never saw law
thing in the conduct of deceased indicating insanity. He
could state that in all his experience he had never ksos n a
man more careless of fire-arnis than the deceased. He was
continually trying experiments with them.
Major Thornton said he was at the party with the de-
ceased, who was in high spirits. He (deceased) bad been
upon a shooting excursion the day previous, and killed some
pheasants.
By the Jury—There was no gambling introduced daring the
evening, by which the 'deceased lest money.
Lieutenant Mahon said the piStol which occasioned the
calamity was his property. He lent that and another to the
deceased a short time ago. Witness thinks his death IS'azt ac-
cidental, as the unfortunate gentleman was notoriously t arc-
leßs'Of fire-arms.
After much discussion, the jury returned a verdict, •"fhat
the deceased was accidently shot."
The inquiry lasted three hours, and was attended by nu-
merous friends and brother officers of the deceased, by whom
he was highly respected.

IRELAND.
REPEAL IN MAYO,

CASYLEBAR, SUNDAY EVENING.--Mr. O'Connell lc-ft
larney on Thursday morning at eleven. On Sunday morning
he arrived at Castlebar, amid the usual cheers and acclama-
tions of the multitude. The day was exceedingly Iv; t, and
yet, although the rain poured down in torrents from l•alf-
past ten o'clock until four, upwards of 80,000 parsons at-
tended in the procession, and remained until the meeing
was over. The procession commenced to move from a pace
called
.French-hill (a locality designated by that name in
consequence of a defeat in that particular spot. in 1798, of
the French forces who landed in Ballina), at about two
o'cloCk, and arrived at the place of meeting at four o'clock.
The rain still continued to , pour as if the sluices of
hea;vetk were opened, in the midst of which the chair was
taken at the place of meeting, in Castlebar, by Mark Llake,
Esq., 111. P.
Various resolutions were proposed and carried, after which,
Mr. OVONNELL addressed the meeting. The honourable
and Learned Gentleman briefly alluded to the injustice with
which the Irish people were treated, and concluded by avow-
ing his determination to persevere in his struggles for repeal
until the object was accomplished.

A petition for a repeal of the union was then ag,reed
after which the vast assembly separated.

THE I)INNER.

A pavilion was erected for the dinner, which was give
the same evening; but in consequence of? the inclemen4 ,
the weather, the persons who attended might as well hav
been called on to dine in the open air.
After the Queen's health was proposed. and that of 0
Royal Family, the CHAIRMAN proposed in eloquent terms tl
health of" the Liberator of his country"—(Great chee:in
atMr. O'CONNELL said if it were an auspicious even'
he would endeavour to say something on the topics v, t'e
then pressed upon his mind, but he would, notwithstani+,
the inclemency of the weather, endeavour to go thrt.o
some of them, in order to leave an impression behind Is
of what his intentions were, and to show the people ..
Mayo how those intentions ought to be worked out. P. •
(Mr. O'Connell's object was to secure the cennexion wi
the British Crown. He felt that that connexion v, as I !-4,3,
in extreme jeopardy by the wickedness of tie British P.
nister, by the rancour of Stanley and the treachery
Graham. He believed it was in such a position. that it th,
did not shrink from their own intendmeuts, the most e.
consequences would happen. It was represented that his
ject was to injure and destroy that connexion, to trample
under foot. But his struggle was to place it oa such a t 1 )ott,
as that the interests of both should& maintained, and eqt.,
justice done to Ireland, He defied any rational man to '4 ••
that the connexion can be long maintained under
press.
circumstances after his death, and when his inflcn(e*
gone. He had, thank heaven, obtained and possessed such i'
fluence over the present generation, or at least that portion
them of his own time of life ; but who could answer for t
consequences—who could answer for the rising generath
when his voice was heard no more among them ? H
policy then really was to act as a drag on the revolutiona
car ; but after his death, he could not promise that
would not run with such a rapidity as to frighten the of
country and emancipate the other.—(Cheers.) He (Y
O'Connell)believed the restoration of thelrish Parliament w
absolutely essential to a continuance of the connexion, 1
it was hardly worth having without the protection of
domestic Legislature.—(Cheers.) He repeated again that /
would submit to it, but he would not preach to the you!
people of Ireland to do so; he would give them no oth
advice, but when the control was gone, they might net f
themselves. Mr. O'Connell then dilated at cnnsiderab
length on the powerof the aristocracy, describing her Majes;
as destitute of all political power, as domineered over by I
oligarchy of which Sir Robert Peel, whom he called Kin
Peel, was the instrument. He declared, that after re; ealin
the union, his object was to rescue the Crown lion; its d
grading inddom, and make it the link of connexion b:twe,
the two countries. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman co
eluded, by saying that Ireland should be, would Le, at
must be. a nation. Mr. O'Connell then proposed the chai
man's health.
Mr. D. BROWNE returned thanks.
The next toast was " the Archbishop of Tuam."
Dr. 'WHALE returned thanks in a long speech.
Mr. BA nnErr and Dr. GRAY severally returned thanks.
" The 'B2 Club,: Lord Ffreneh," " Lords Denman, Coat
haM, and CaMpbell," were next given, and at eleven u'elo-
the assembly broke up.

ARMY FORAGE.—A communication has just be,
made frAn the Horse Guards, by command of his Graoe
ti
Commander-in-Chief, respecting o,e subject and sr.pply
forage for the army, and which proceeds to observe th-1,
appearing that appeals coatinue to be made direct to t
Ordnance Department upon the- subjects specified in a co
munication of October, 1839, instead of beit; snide throu
the Quartermaster-General, as therein directed, the Ce
mander-in-Chief cautions officers against the repetition of
irregularity which is productive of great inconveniet.ce,
of which his Grace witl therefore take serious notice if he
after.repeated. The forage for the troops being supplied
the Ordnance, all appeals and other communications relat:
thereto are henceforth to be made in like manner to I
Quartermaster-General."
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GRACE DARLING. The long-contemplOrd moo
meat to the noon ry of the late Grace Ilersty Dal ling,
about to Le erected in Bamburgh churcbyard.--Lc
paper.