The Sun.
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whom dare not, if inclined, vote for a repeal cal:1141i
—Roscommon Journal.
WEXFORD..The registry for the county and borouglit
terminated on Wednesday, 15 Liberals and 3 Conssrvaa
tives having obtained the franchise out of a list of notices
amounting to 145. Two Liberal votes were added to the
independent constituency of Ross, and twenty-seven to
Wexford, thus fortifying the previously impregnable
positions of those constitutional fortresses.—Wexford
Independent.
TIIE ARMY.—There are at present four recruiting
parties from different regiments quartered in Clonmel.
Tipperary Constitution.
The Hon. White Hedges, of Macroom Castle, is about
to lead to the hymeneal altar the accomplished sister or
Henry Arthur Herbert, Esq., of Mnckross. Prepara-
tions were lately being made at the new and princely
residence of the latter genii man for thejoyous occasion,
and the tenantry on his numero,,s estates were about 0
be bidden to the festivities, when, I regret to say, tire
severe illness of Mr. Balfour, the father-in-law of Mr.
Herbert, put a stop to the intended union. The
nuptials will now take place in London.— Tratee Chronicle.
OUTRAGES IN RO.SCOMMOIS. —On Thursday night,
about eight o'clock, four ruffians, one armed with a gun,
another a sword, and the others with pistols, enter.cal the
house of Mr. John Brennan, of Ardkeel, within heif.4
mile of this town, and not three hundred yards from the
military barracks, who, after threatening to shoot the
persons inside, searched every part of the dwelling for
Mr. Brennan's gun, which was fortunately in town at the
time for the purpose of h.iving it branded. A few nights
previous, we are informed, several hundred men as-
sembled on the lands of Bush field, and a farm- near it,
and turned up several acres of land in order to compel
the occupants to set it as conacre, and for which the
price must be fixed by " Captain Smart." We under-
stand that Lord Crofton, as Vice-Lieutenant of this
county, has vi ritten to the neighbourilfg magistrates,
and that a meeting will be held in the town in a few
days. It is said that another sub-inspector and fifty ad-
ditional police will be sent to the parish of Kilbride,
the expense of which will be exclusively levied off that
di striet.—Roscomm on Journal.

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A
WIFE BY HER HUSBAND, AND HIS SUI-
CIDE.
Yesterday, John Clements, a wool-stapler, of Little
George-street, adjacent to the Grange Toad, Bermondsey,
attempted to murder his wife by cutting her throat, and
afterwards destroyed himself. It appears that Clements was
in the employ of Mr. Elkerton, wool-stapler, in the Grange-
walk, Bermondsey, since June last, and that he occupied,
with his family, consisting of a wife and three children, a
ready-furnished first-floor, at No. 24, Little George-street.
For some time past he had exhibited depression of spirits.
He complained of being unwell yesterday morning before he
went to work, and returned before his usual time, between
ten and eleven, and requested his wife to make him some
tea. At this period their eldest son, about thirteen year's of
age, was in the room, and he was sent to the public-house
for a pint of porter. In about a minute after the lad quitted
the house the landlady, a Mrs. Pudner, was alarmed' by
hearing a loud scream, followed by the noise of some person
falling heavily on the floor immediately over the room
in which she was sitting. There was a knock at the
street-door at this moment, and a young man named
Bond was let in ; as he entered, Mrs. Clements came
running down stairs with her throat cut, and the blood
gushing from the wound. When she got into the pas-
sage, she fell from exhaustion into the arms of Bond,
ejaculating, " For God's sake, call a doctor !" Bond then
carried her into the back parlour, and hurried away to the
police-station. Two policemen were immediately sent to the
house, but, upon their entering the room, Clements was dis-
oovered lying on the floor in a pool of blood, with his throat
cut nearly from ear to ear, and a razor, with which he per-
petrated the deed, lay at his side. A medical man speedily
arrived, but the unfortunate man was quite dead. Mrs. Cle-
ments was conveyed to Guy's Hospital, and will probably
recover. Her account of the occurrence, as well as she could
recollect from the haste in which it was carried into effect,
was, that her husband had been complaining for some days
of his head, and being in arrear of rent to his landlord, it
seemed to weigh on his mind, and on the preceding night he
awoke out of his sleep in a fright, and said to his wife that
the officers were going to apprehend him. When he subse-
quently returned from his employer's premises, and while she
was engaged in toasting a piece of bread at the fire, be sud-
denly turned upon her and drew the razor across her throat.
She felt the blood trickling down her neck, and with an effort
she rushed out of the room, before he had time to repeat the
act. The unfortunate deceased must have destroyed himself
immediately afterwards. It appears that the deceased cause
up from the country about seven months ago with his family,
and that he was a sober and industrious man. He had no
previous quarrel with his wife.

FIRE and LOSS of LIFE at 13.4 TH.
In the course of yesterday forenoon, accounts were received
at the several fire-insurance offices in the City from the
agents at Bath, respecting a very destructive fire, unhappily
attended with fatal consequences, which took place in that
city on the morning of Monday last. It appears that the at-
tention of the police was drawn to a quantity of smoke issu-
ing from the crevices of the parlour-shutters of the Horseand Jockey public-house, in the occupation of Mr. Kilson,
situate in Barton-street, Queen-square. The inmates were
promptly apprised of the danger they were in, and on the
landlord coming down stairs and opening the parlour-door,
he discovered that the whole of the interior of that apartment.
was on fire. Owing to the sudden draft of air, the flames
quickly spread through the premises, and after it was thought
that the residents had all made their escape, it was ascer-
tained that a Mrs. Ann Cross, a bedridden old lady, 78 years
of age, was lying in a helpless state in bed in a front room
on the first floor. One of the servants made two attempts to
save the unfortunate creature, which proving unsuccessful, a
workman, by means of a ladder, entered the room by the
window. He succeeded, after much difficulty, in getting the
afflicted woman out of the bed, but owing to her great cor-
pulency he was unable to lift her from the ground, and find-
ing that the floor was giving way underneath him, he was
forced to leave her and make a hasty retreat by the window.
In a few minutes afterwards the fire gained the room, when
her cries were distinctly heard—" Oh save me, oh save me,"
which created the deepest sensation. The flames continued
to rage with unabated fury, and in less than an hour the
whole building was consumed. In the course of the day the
burnt remains of the poor sufferer were collected. An in-
quest was held, and a verdict of "Accidental death" has boon
returned. The premises were insured in the Sun Fire office
for 1,000/.

THE ROYAL NAVY.
ARRIVAL OF MORE CHINESE MONEY.
The Pelican sloop, 16, Commander Philip Justice, has ar-
rived at Portsmouth, from China, with another instalment of
the Chinese indemnity.
She caused some consternation at Portsmouth on Monday
evening about eight o'clock. On coming into Spithead she
grounded on the Kicker Point, off Fort Monckton, when she
tired a number of guns and threw up several rockets. The
signal was soon answered by the Victory in the harbour, and
the Comet steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Prettyman, and
a number of boats, went out to her assistance, and as it was
low water when she took the ground, she was got off about
midnight, without damage.
The master was sick, and a pilot had been taken in st
Weymouth to carry the vessel into Port.
Captain Rowley, of the St. Vincent, 120, flag ship, went
on board the Pelican yesterday morning, and mustered her
crew, and at noon she was towed into harbour by the Comet,
where she remains.
The Pelican left Hong-Kong on the 3d of August, with a
freight of 1,000,000 dollars. She beat down against the
south-west monsoon, and anchored in Angier Roads on 19th
of September. She had been in company with the Harlequin;
16, Commander Hon. G. F. Hastings, and, finding the.
Pelican to be in a leaky state, half her money was twits-
ferred to the Harlequin, and, while the latter ppro-
ceeded on her voyage to England, the PeHeal' 'went to Ba-
tavia to repair damages. Having arrive'!, at the island of
Onrust, she was immediately taken ',Tito the dockyard at-Ba-
tavia, where the ship was careened, and fifty feet of plank
perfectly rotten and worm-eaten, just below the light-load
water line on the larboard side, was replaced by sound wood,
and in ten days she was ready for sea. The Dutch Admiral,
the commandant, and other authorities at Batavia, behaved
in the most handsome manner towards the officers of the Pe-
lican, facilitating the repairs of the sloop, and showing every
courtesy and attention to their wants. The Pelican departed
from Onrust, her ship's company much gratified with their
reception, on the sth of October, watered at Angier, and
finally left Java Head on the 9th of that month, and an-
chored at the Cape of Good Hope on the 15th of November.
A transport has just anchored in Table Bay, with the 57th
regiment on board, bound to India. She had been eleven
weeks on her voyage from England. The George the Fourth,
tea ship, was about to leave the Cape for England the day
after the Pelican left.
A vessel called the Pagoda was fitting out at the Cape for
an experimental cruise to the 65th degree of south latitude,
by the Winchester's officers and men.
The Pelican left the Cape on the 27th of November; and
anchored at St. Helena on the Bth of December, where she
found the French brig of war Messager, and twenty sail of
merchantmen, homeward bound. There was also at the
island a slave prize, belonging to the Albatross, 16, Com-
mander Reginald Yorke, in charge of Lieutenant Elliot.
The Pelican left St. Ilelena on the 9th, spoke the Ann in
lat 4 27 N., and lon. 19 52 W.,on the 18th of December. She
made St. Agnes' light, Scilly, on the 12th inst., and anchored
at Spithead on the 13th, having made her passage from St,
Helena in five weeks. She has brought home some invalid •
seamen and marines front the squadron in China; she left
several at the Cape of Good Hope Hospital.
The Pelican was commissioned in October, 1840, by Corn..
mender C. G. E. Napier, and her present commander was
appointed to her in November, 1841. She has been actively
employed since that period, and at Chinamostly in the north.
She has lost only two men during her service at China. Lieut.
Whyte (tirst), the only principal officer who has been in her
during her whole term of commission, gallantly jumped over-
board on three occasions during the last tarh'eel:
67'hdetHwaorllieq'eusin, 16, Commander Hon. G. HastedinioZishs:alwoalia:
side the dockyard at Portsmouth, landing
she is hauled off the Pelican will be unladen.

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night, at the White Hart, Mitcham, for the purpose
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rpose of con-
swas idering the proposed scheme. Last year a similar company
tormed, but, owing to the opposition of the mill-ov nere
upon the stream and the inhabitants, the scheme was alien:-
doped. The present Company have somewhat modified their
original plan, and they propose, instead of taking the water
from the course of the stream, so as to affect the operation of
the mills, they will take it at Wandsworth, at its junction with the river Thames, the water being filtered and purified
during its course. Mr. D. C. Porter took the chair. Memo.
Bridger, Finden, and other gentlemen addressed the meeting,
and complained of the conduct of the Company in having
departed from their original plan ofbuilding a sewer to carry
oil the impurities of the river, and proposing instead to have
‘‘ catch ponds," or cesspools, at different places near the
river, some of them being nearly an acre in extent. The
speakers objected very much to these cesspools, which they
said there could be no doubt would be highly injurious to the
health of those who lived in the neighbourhood. Mr. Thomp-
son, the Eurveyoi., and AIL Galsworthy, the solicitor to the
Company, on being called upon for an explanation, adm. tted
that there had been a deviation trent the original plat by
substituting the cesspools, or catch ponds, for the sewer; be.t
they said that the reason for this was, that the mill ownsria
fearedwere otphpaots€iidie
wtoatetrh:rotedrdecbteionecoclstiolfialsleywtaerkbenecafruosme they
river to cleanse the sewer, and that they should thus 4
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meeting.
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iptheir mill power. After several gentlefmetrh.
were passed =min:lo'lloY

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