The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-02 00:00:00

we had been seated, I observed a peasant, with blood on
his clothes, standing a short distance from the door. I
immediately, on seeing him, asked the sentry who he
was, and what ha wanted. He replied that he had
asked him several times without eliciting any answer.
now asked him myself in Persian and Afikhanee, but
beyond a stare awl moving some clay about with his
hands, I could extract nothing like an answer from him.
At last, getting impatient, I proceeded close-to where
he sat, and spoke rather harshly to him, telling city men
to take him away. Seeing ma thui annoyed, he was de-
termined I should not remain any longer it z norant of the
cause of his silence. So he raised up his head, and ex-
hibited to view a gash in his throat, which reached from-
ear to ear. A more horrid sight I had never witnessed.
Recovering myself, however, I asked him to make known
to me who had committed the act, when, by signs, he
made it very evident that he was attacked by robbers on
his way from Candahar ; that he, with another man,
had; had their throats cut and buried by the way side"
that he had worked his way out of the grave, but that
his companion still remained there. The way in which
he explained this was curious enough. With the assist-
ance of a little stick he made two small holes in the
ground, and, touching himself, he put his hand into one
of them, which he had no sooner done than he filled it with
earth, leaving a little heap on the top to indicate that it
was a grave. lie then pointed towards the spot where the
murder was committed, and touching the other hole he
filled it up also. After he had done this, he put his hand
,Pllit, but wiaLthe alter hand touched himself; and began
to root the earth froin the other grave, indicating that
his friend was still in the other grave, but that he had
rooted himself out of his. The surgeon soon arrived,
and found that, although the throat had been severed,
the carotid artery was only slightly injured, and gave us
some little hope that, with great care, he would be able
to heal the wound, and thus enable us to discover the
perpetrators of this horrid murder. I sent my men to
look for the grave in which the other man was buried,
thinking he also might have escaped ; but they shortly
afterwards returned, stating that the graves were there
as described, but one of them contained a man with his
head almost cut off from his body, and that, finding the
grave close to the surface, they had dug it deeper and
left the body. There was a quantity of dry fruit scat-
tered. -about the'spot, which leads to the supposition that
the sufferers were on their way to our camp with dried
fruit when they were attacked. If the poor fellow now
in our hospital had come to me with his head in his hand,
I could not have been more surprised thanl was when
he threw up his head and exhibited the awful gash in
his throat."

,aANCE IN REAL LIFE.
(From the Aorthenz g)
The following singular case came before the Castle-
bar Board of Poor-law Guardians a few days since :
An old man applied for admission to the workhouse,
whose appearance and manner, and style of speaking,
denoted evidently that he had belonged to, or moved
in, the ranks of respectability, before adverse circum-
stances had reduced him to his present distress.
The Earl of Lucan—What is your name ?
Applicant—My name, my Lord, is Michael Fitz-
gerald. I was born in the vicinity of this town, in
the village of Minolta. I have moved through every
phase of fortune; and, from having been once the
possessor of wealth and opulence, I have come, by a
sad vicissitude, brought on, indeed, not by my own
conduct, but by the misconduct of others, down to
the position which I at present occupy.
The Earl of Lucan—lndeed, how was that ?
Applicant—The incidents of my life are extraor-
dinary, my Lord, yet may be briefly told. In my
youthful days, being desirous to travel and push my
fortune in a foreign land, I left Ireland for the island
of Madeira, bringing with me a cargo of such goods
as I thought would be disposable, on remunerative
terms. My wishes and expectations were not then
disappointed. Change of scene and the new climate
invigorated my sprits, and the enterprise in which I
had embarked proved most profitable. Resolving to
settle permanently in Madeira, I employed all my
available capital in pursuing the trade which I had
found so beneficial; and only a few years had elapsed,
until the profits of my engagements so accumulated,
as to leave me at length in possession of an immense
fortune. The Governor of the island, whose acquaint •
ante I had the opportunity of making, advised me to
turn my capital and ' `:•se is the cultivation of
land, whereby agrieultths,
case, to import from Americaprovisions requisite
to support the planters on the island. Well, my.
Lord, I assented to his proposal, but took the precau-
tion of making him enter into an agreement with me
to indemnify me for any expense or casualties I should
incur, by the grant of 75,000/. When the agreement
was thus closed, I converted all the merchandise then
in my warehouses into cash, as soon as a cheap and
rapid sale permitted; and with ample funds I pro-
ceeded first to Ireland, and afterwards to England, to
purchase all sorts of plants and seeds, and implements
of husbandry. With a large cargo of these I returned
to Madeira, and soon after began the culture of the
fields, to a great extent, according to the terms of the
Governor's treaty. Nothing could have gone on more
auspiciously than our first agricultural essay ; and I
ani now enabled to boast that I was the first man who
introduced into that island the cultivation of potatoes.
But, my Lord, to be brief—the Governor was with-
drawn from the island, through the influence and
intrigues of those persons who were deriving a profit•
able trade from the importation of provisions, and
who were, consequently, averse to the proceedings I
was engaged in. The result was, that I was cons-
pelled to desist, after having all my own funds ex-
pended in the manner related, and without any
further prospect of indemnification than the fulfilment
of the Governor's agreement. To see myself justified,
I went to Portugal. The Governor, who made the
agreement with me, laid my claim before the King,
and his Majesty was pleased to approve of it, and to
direct that my claims should be liquidated along with
those of other British claimants. Some delay having
taken place in my getting the compensation to which
I was entitled, and which was thus approved of, I
went to Mr. Ward (who was then Chargé d'Affaires
in Portugal), requiring of him to see me justified.
Mr. Ward gave me only promises of compliance. It
was publicly stated, some time ago, that a
large remittance of money had been sent over
by the King of Portugal, fur the purpose of
compensating the British claimants. I wrote fre-
quently on the subject of my claim to the Duke of
Wellington, but at length I received a note from his
Grace, stating, that of the many letters of mine to which
I had in my last communication referred, he had
received not a single letter; thus, it was apparent,
that the conductors of the Foreign-office are the
greatest robbers that ever lived. I am not aware that
the suppression of my letters took plaee in conse-
quence of the Post-office espionage of Sir James
Graham ; but this much there is reason to suppose,
that in the money remitted from Portugal, the Duke
of Wellington made the first great gap—(Great
laughter)—by applying an enormous portion of it
to himself. I do not think that Sir Robert Peel
would act thus ; he seems to be a well-meaning,
honest man.—(Renewed laughter.) My principal
object in coming here, at present, is to get the oppor-
tunity of making the injustice to which I have been
subjected, public and notorious—so that it may, at
length, reach the ears of the authorities, and induce
them to grant me redress. If the maxim be true, that
the people are best governed where the principle pre-
vails that an injury done to the meanest subject is an
injury to the whole community, surely it applies to
my case in an especial manner, and the public should
insist, and the Government should determine, that the
wrongs to which I have been so long subjected
should, at length, give way to impartial justice, and
to the payment to me of those moneys which were
remitted from Portugal for my indemnification,
according to my claim, as acknowledged by the King.
The Earl of LUCAN-With reference to your
claims, the gentlemen of the press, who are now
present, may assist you Imre than we can ; the pro-
vince of the Board of Guardians is merely to consider
the propriety of your admission.
The claimant withdrew.

Mr. GEORGE ORMSBY is a fine old fellow, and
however rich he may have been formerly, he seems
poor now. I think we ought to comply with his
application.—Admitted.

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