The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-26 00:00:00

1844,

I'HE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE
AGAINST A MEDICAL MAN.
O. Thursday Mr. Carter resumed, at the George, Lam-
beth-walk, the adjourned inquiry touching the death of
Mrs. Brenton, wife of en apothecary residing at 14,
Newport-street, Lambeth. The husband of deceased,
accused of having caused her death in the most singular
manners and which raises a new question of judicial ju-
risprudence, is in liorsemonger-lane gaol, thither re-
manded by Mr. Traill, of Union-hall, until this day, in
order that he may be guided by the result of the inquiry
in the Coroner's court. Deceased was in her 30th year,
and her husband in his 22d.

Mrs. Baker, landlady of deceased, examined yesterday,
said she saw her on the eveninc, of the 3d instant, and
that she was then "nicely." On the following morning
she saw her again, and she was then in a state of insen-
sibility. On Thursday last she became conscious, and
called witness, and said, " Oh, my back, my back; Henry
has kicked me." On Saturday, about an hour before her
death, she again " rallied," and made use of similar ex-
pressions to her father, in the presence of Mr. Fisher, a
surgeon, and the nurse.
Mr. Baker, husband of the last witness, corroborated
her testimony as to the expressions uttered by deceased
on Thursday last implicating her husband.
The CORONER, this being the whole of the evidence,
told the jury that the expressions of deceased relative to
the violence of her husband were not evidence unless she
uttered them in his presence, or when she thought she
was dying. As it was not proved that she so uttered
them, he begged the jury to dismiss them from their
minds.

The Jury., at two yesterday morning, returned their
verdict, which will not, however, be made public till to-
day at one o'clock, when the witnesses are summoned
to be present. It is, however, currently reported, and be-
lieved in the neighbourhood, that a verdict of manslaugh-
ter has been agreed on and will be officially returned.

IRELA.ND,
JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS.

DUBLIN, OCT. 23.—There is good reason to believe
that there is no foundation whatever for contemplated
judicial changes recently announced in some of the
London journals. Term is likely to open on the 2d
of November next without any change whatever amongst
the judges.
There has been a rumour that Mr. Brewster, the
"confidential adviser" at the Castle, is to obtain a
Mastership in Chancery. On the part of Mr. Goold,
one of the oldest of the masters, an authorised contradic-
tion has been published, that gentleman having " returned
from North Wales in the enjoyment of good health,"
and resumed his duties in the courts. Unless an ar-
rangement can be effected in some other quarter, there
appears at present little prospect that Mr. Brewster can
obtain the object of his ambition.
EVICTION OF TENANTS.

• The Tipperary Vindicator says :—" On Saturday las
the agent of Mr. Caesar Otway, one of the assistant poor-
law commissioners, proceeded to Mr. Otway's lands at
Barbara, accompanied by head-constable Hayes and
thirty of the police from Nenagli, end there evicted a
man of the name of Ward from the holding, turned his
family out of the house, and then levelled it, with two
adjoining cabins, to the ground. At one period there
seemed some disposition to oppose the proceedings ; but
the presence of the police prevented a rupture. We
have been informed that the cause of this eviction was a
dispute concerning the payment of rent, and that the
agent made some advantageous offers to the tenant,
which were refused, and led to an eviction being put in
force."
MURDER ON THE BORDERS OF TIPPERARY.
A letter dated Thurles, October 21, published in the
Nenagh Guardian, announces the perpetration of another
barbarous murder on the verge of the county of Tippe-
rary :—" The victim, in this instance, was a person named
Thomas M'Namara, who was employed as one of the
bog-rangers on the county of Limerick estate of the
governors of the schools founded by Mr. E. Smith. He
was murdered about noon on Saturday last, on the public
road, leading from Cappamore to Doon, on the lands of
Ballycushown ; there were people passing to and from
the bog, bringing out turf to the very place where he was
murdered. The police were soon on the spot, and
arrested some persons whom they found there ; one man
who was digging potatoes in a field, next the road, fled,
and the spade he had been using could not be found. He
was pursued by the police and others, and arrested at
Doon. There will be an inquest held to-day."
The Guardian also announces that a man who was in
the county infirmary with his skull dreadfully fractured
by a person named Cody, and others, died in great agony
on Sunday evening. The unfortunate man has left a
wife and six children, to bewail his untimely end. Cody
is still in custody, and before this untoward circumstance
was esteemed as a quiet, inoffensive young man, in whom
much confidence was placed by many gentlemen who
employed him to collect rents. A reward of 20Z is
offered by Mr. Cox, the sub-inspector, for such informa-
tion as will lead to the apprehension of the persons con-
cerned with Cody in attacking the four men.
BALLYVANGE, DOWNPATRICK.—About four o'clock on
Sabbath morning, the joint stack-yard of Mr. John
M'Cartin and Mr. James M'Kinney was observed in
flames. The entire quantity of grain, together with the
office-houses, were totally consumed, and it was at some
risk, and with considerable difficulty, the cattle were
saved. Mr. Bernard Ward, of Vianstown, justice of the
peace, who resides within a few perches of the scene,
was amongst the first of the neighbours to offer assist-
ance ; but the flames raged with such desperate fury,
that it was found impossible to save a particle of grain.
Miiinney's servant, who is the only person who resides
in the place, says he went to bed at the usual hour, and
all was safe ; that he had neither candle nor other light
about the premises ; and from the fact of the stack-yard
being cat least 40 perches off the public road, and the
time at which the fire broke out, there can be no doubt
it was the work of an incendiary. DPCartin is a man
beloved and esteemed by all who know him, and INI‘Rio.
ney, who resides two miles off, is also much respected, so
that no one can even conjecture what could be the cause
of so desperate an act.—Banner of Ulster.
COLLISION WITH TWO REVENUE POLICEMEN.—As John
Flinn and James Carrigan, two of the revenue policemen
stationed at Park, near Clady, in the county of Derry,
were taking a walk on Friday evening last, about six
o'clock, towards Dreen, which is a mile and a half distant
from their station, they fell in with a horse and cart,
accompanied by two men. Observing some barrels in
the cart, and suspecting they contained illicit whisky,
the policemen seized the horse and cart, and attempted
to make the men their prisoners. Carrigan took hold
of the horse, which, being frightened, ran off, separat•
ing Carrigan from his comrade; and in the meantime
the two men, assisted, it is believed, by the villagers of
Dreen, maltreated Flinn most brutally. He was first
knocked down by the blow of a large stone, which cut
him dreadfully on the head; and, when he was on the
ground, he was savagely beaten, and so much injured
that no hopes are entertained of his recovery.
THE REGISTRIES.
BOROUGH OF NEWRY.—MONDAY, OCT.. 2L—T. Jones,
Esq., assistant-barrister; took his seat on the bench this
morning at ten o'clock. Lord Newry and Mourne, the
Tory member for the borough, was present. The borough
registry was proceeded with, when there appeared for
Liberals 43, Tories, 18—Liberal majority, 25.
COUNTY OF LOUTII.—The Quarter Sessions for this
division of the county commenced yesterday (Tuesday)
in the Record Court, before Michael O'Shaughnessy.
Esq., assistant-barrister. The first business entered upon
was the registry for the county of Louth, when one Con-
servative was re-registered.

BOROUGH OF DUNDALIL—The following were the
numbers registered:—Liberals, 15; Tories, 3—Ma-
jority, 12.

COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.—At the adjourned meet-
ing of the magistracy on Thursday, the report of the
chaplain to the House of Correction was read,; stating
that during the past year many prisoners on their dis-
charge had found themselves provided with the means of
obtaining an honest livelihood, while many also were in
the Refuge for the Destitute learning trades, and ex-
pressing the greatest gratitude for the benefit thus con-
ferred upon them. The report also adverted to the
strong facilities the existing system of pawning offered
to the poorer classes for dishonestly disposing of articles.
Mr. Pownall congratulated the county on the fact that
while since 1831 the population had increased a quarter
of a million, crime appeared to have diminished, at least
so far as it was brought under the cognizance of the
magistracy. The number of persons charged with in-
toxication was less by 18,000 than in the preceding year.
He attributed this mainly to the extension of religious
instruction as well in the prisons as elsewhere.—
(Hear, hear.) Mr. Botch also expressed his satisfaction
at the spread of temperance. The surgeon stated that
the mortality had been less last year than in any former
year. There had only been ten deaths among nearly
10,000 persons. The state of the prisons appeared
equally satisfactory to the magistracy, who expressed
their obligations on this subject to Mr. Sergeant Adams.
The rental of the county was returned at about six
millions. Mr. Pownall animadverted upon the discre-
pancy which appeared between the county returns and
those to the Property-tax Commissioners, and said there
should be one uniform assessment through the county.
SUICIDE.—On Tuesday night a young woman,
named Esther Tilly, the daughter of a farmer living at
Ashley-hill, Stapleton, destroyed herself by jumping into
a pool of water in her father's orchard. The unhappy
girl had been forbidden her father's house in conse-
quence of her keeping company with a young man
named George Williams, which connexion her parent
did not approve, and attending the theatre and such
places. On Tuesday evening she wrote a letter to Wil-
liams, declaring her intention to drown herself in the
pool ; this letter (not being able to read himself) he
showed to another young man and the father, and it
then being late, the young men started off to the spot,t
and just as they got in sight of the pond they observed
the young woman throw herself in. She was promptly
taken out of the pool, and conveyed into the bonse, when,
we understand, a glass of brandy and_.waAtet five was e
o'clock
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nistered to her, and she was put to baes
sent for, but the
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the next morning a medical man
a verdict o f girl was dead. An inquest was heldw
Feb 1, before Joyner Ellis,
Esq., Coroner for this county, when
returned.—Cheltenham Chronicle.
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wasFATALACCIDENT.—Thursday a man named Mild-
water, lately residing in William-street, Portland-town,
expired in Westminster Hospital from the effect of se-
vere injuries. It appeared the deceased was employed
at Freeman's Wharf, Millbank, on the previous day in
unloading some timber, when he fell a considerable
once takenhia
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height and severely injured the whole of the lower part
of his
where every a ltitee n tlan was
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paidgraspaly,
sank under the wounds and internal consequences aris-
ing from them.
The Antwerpen steamer, Captain Jackson, arrived
at the St. Katharine's Wharf, Tower,
on Thursday,
at the early hour of eight o'clock, the passage to London
having been effected in twenty hours, against a directly
contrary tide. Doctor Phillimore was amongst the pas-
sengers. The lion. Mrs. Kennedy and family proceeded
to Antwerp, On Sunday last, by this ship.