The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.
ORANGE PROCESSIONS.

DUBUN, JUNE 27.—The Dublin Evening Post of this after-
noon contains the following address from Mr. Daniel O'Con-
nell, jun., " to the Repealers of Ulster, and particularly to the
Catholic -Repealers :"

"June 27, 1844.

" Fellow-countrymen—The days are approaching on which,
for many years, processions of Orangemen took place in your
province of Ulster. It is not my intention to make any re-
marks on the proceedings of the persons heretofore engaged
in such processions, or on the consequences that followed
.thereon. I wish to bury all those bygone circumstances in
a generous oblivion ; and I call upon you, repeaters of Ulster,
to do the same. Let us forgive and forget the past; let us
do all we can for the future to conciliate and reconcile all
parties.

" It is said that it is intended in some places to hold Orange
processions on the ensuing Ist and 12th of July. I hope the
report is not true—and I believe that it is not true. But if
it should happen to be true as to any locality, I do implore,
adjure, and, I will say, command the repealers of Ulster not
to oppose or interfere in any way with any such procession.
You, repealers, should be too manly to beo ffended with any
expressions that can be used by your deluded fellow-country-
men. Let the Orangemen amuse themselves with their pro-
cessions as much as they please for what you care. Should
they—which is not probable—make any actual attack upon
persons or property, seek the protection of the law and of the
constabulary, and do not give your enemies any pretext to
accuse you of riot or violence.
" In short, brother repealers, your duty is, not to take
offence at words, or colours, or foolish processions. Your
business is, to offend nobody, and to conciliate, if possible,
everybody.
" Peace, and good humour, and conciliation, and Christian
forbearance are the duties—the pleasing duties—of all honest
repealers. There are many honest Irishmen in the ranks of
those who were Orangemen.
" Do not omit to inform your Protestant fellow-country-
men that, in looking for the restoration of the Irish Parlia-
ment, you are looking for that which would be of equal
advantage to Irishmen of every class, creed, persuasion, and
party. " Signed, on behalf of my father,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL,
ORANGE OUTRAGE AT PORTADOWN.

‘i-DANIEL O'CONALL, jun."

There has been an investigation respecting the recent
Orange outrages in this place. The result was, that infor-
mations were granted against thirteen of the Orange party.
This outrage indicates the spirit in which the Orangemen
would celebrate their anniversaries, should the Government
allow Lord Stanley's Act against processions to die out.
THE LATE TRAGEDY AT GORT. _ _

A coroner's inquest was held on Saturday on the bodies of
the two sons of Peter Larkin, an account of whose horrible
butchery by their own father was published in the Times of
Monday. The first witness was Mary Larkin, the daughter
of the murderer. She deposed as follows :—Her father
is a pensioner at 9d. a day, from the 87th regiment of
Foot. He went from his residence at Shanaglish to Gort
on the morning of the 20th June (distance five miles) to
buy potatoes ; he returned about 10 o'clock that night, at
which time her mother, Bridget Larkin, was in bed in a
room above the stairs. Witness was also in bed in an ad-
joining room (which had no door) with her two brothers,
Bernard and Martin Larkin, aged 15 and 12 years. Her
mother got out of bed and went down stairs to let her father
in. They both in a short time returned. Her mother had a
lighted candle in her hand, and her father a small bowl, and
a bottle which contained about a pint of whisky. He poured
about a noggin of the liquor into the bowl and gave it to her
mother, who said, " Have you a mind to kill me ?" He
said not ; that hewould take part of it himself, and they both
drank it; 116 then went into the room where his daughter
and two sons were, and compelled his sons to take one glass
or better each, although they refused it several times ; he
then poured out into the bowl a glass for his daughter,
who refused to take it as she was a teetotaller, but he
compelled her to drink it, and said that he would take
the sin of it upon himself. Shortly after the two boys began
to play in bed from the effects of the whisky ; but he told
them several times to go asleep which they soon did, but be-
fore this he said he should go down stairs to dry himself ;
her mother told him that the fire was raked out, but he
went down and returned in a short time and extinguished
the candle. He did not take off his clothes, and was finite
sober. Witness fell into a sleep, and about four o'clock A.m.
next morning she was awoke by an unusual noise in the bed.
She saw her father leaning over her with a razor in his
hand. He made an effort to cut her throat, which did not
take effect, by means of a handkerchief that was about her
neck; he then drew the razor across her right breast, and
'round her left breast, which he nearly severed from her body.
She then put up her hands to save herself, and received a
wound on the left hand and finger, at which time she plunged
out of the bed .from him, and then saw her two brothers
lying in their blood, and crying out " Father ! father! father!"
at which time she saw her father draw the razor across their
necks. He then made a desperate effort to catch herself be-
fore she got to the top of the stairs, but she was too fleet for
bim, and made the street door, calling her mother, and in a
moment removed a table that was against the said door
and escaped, her father in chase of her. She was naked,
and cried out murder, holding up her mangled breast with
her hand, and wherever she walked the street was covered
%.ith blood which streamed from her person. She re-
turned shortly after, met her mother at the door, having
her youngest son Martin in her arms dying. A number of
persons collected. The razor was taken from her father. He
was sober. Cannot ascribe any cause for his having com
mitted the act.

Bridget Larkin, wife of Peter Larkin, corroborated her
daughter's testimony in all that came under her notice be-
fore she fell asleep, and also that she and her husband drank
about a noggin of the whisky in the kitchen before they went
up the stairs ; and that she was awoke from sleep about four
in the morning by her son, Martin, who came to her bed, and
said that his father had killed them. She saw the • boy co-
vered with blood at the time, and his throat cut. She took
him into her arms, and carried him down the stairs, where
she saw her husband with a razor open in his hand. He
then made furiously at her. She threw down the child to
save herself, and with an effort threw her husband from her;
in doing which she received a wound in the thumb, but es-
caped, having but her smock on. The two boys died almost
immediately after.
The prisoner was brought into Court at the latter end of
the proceedings in custody of the police. He is a man between
40 and 50 years of age.
The Coroner read the depositions, to all of which he listened
with great attention, and at the conclusion said he did not
want to deny having committed the murder, and expressed a
wish he might suffer death for his crime.

The jury retired for a few minutes, and returned a verdict
of " Wilful murder against Peter Larkin."

SHOCKING CHILD CHILD MURDER.—Last night, at seven
o'clock, Mr. Higgs, the Coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster,
concluded an inquiry, adjourned from Wednesday, at th 3
Savoy Palace, Savoy-street, Strand, as to the death of a
full-grown male child, the offspring of a young woman, named
Sarah Hyland, who was house-maid at the above house, but
is at present in the custody of the police. It will be recol-
lected that on Tuesday last the mother was discharged, and
requested that her mistress might not look into an unlocked
box which she left in her room. This caused suspicion, and
upon opening it the body was found with a petticoat tight
over the head, and the string tied with a double knot round
the neck. There was also a severe bruise on the head. The
evidence left no doubt that the young woman Hyland had
delivered herself between the hours of six and eight the
same morning, though she had always denied that Om was
enceinte, and the inquest was adjourned, for the purpose of
having the body opened. Mr. Walker, of Drury-lane, sur •
geon, having stated particularly the mark of the string round
the neck, the pressure of the nose on the face, and, a large
swelling from the ear to the top of the head, said he had since
made a post mortem examination of the body. On the head
being opened, a quantity of reddish fluid was found extravasated
on the brain. The lungs had been inflated, and upon being
cut, bubbles of air exuded ; they also floated in water. He
was of opinion that the labour had been a natural one, and
that the child was born alive. The death had been caused
by strangulation, suffocation, or extravasation on 00 brain,
produced by pressure or violence, or the three causes might
have operated almost simultaneously or conjointly. Mr.
Snitch, also a surgeon, was examined, and stated, that on
Tuesday he was sent for to the station-house at Bow-street,
and saw Hyland, who at first refused to be examined, but at
last consented, and upon his doing so was satisfied she had
recently had a child. She could have delivered herself.
After a groat deal of immaterial evidence, the jury consulted,
and at eleven o'clock returned a verdict of " Wilful murder,"
against Sarah Hyland.
STRANGE FREAK OF A MADMAN.—On Wednes-
day evening police-sergeant Squire, No. 14 K, was sent for
to the Sunderland Bridge public-house, in Wapping-wall,
Lower Shadwell, to take charge of t_ seaman named Raphael
Brown, who was conducting himself In a very strange manner.
He was calling out for a knife to cut his throat, and it was
with great difficulty he was prevented laying violent hands
on himself and others. Squire succeeded in pacifying him,
and ascertained that he had been lodging at the Ship, King
James's-stairs, since last Saturday evening, and that he had
engaged a passage on board a steamer bound to the north,
and when the vessel was ready to start he left his clothes on
board and came ashore. He then began drinking enormous
quantities of soda water, and, from Saturday night, when he
first came to lodge with Mrs. Cooper, at the Ship, until Mon-
day evening, he managed to swallow 120 bottles of that
liquid, and during the short time he was in the Sunderland,
bridge public-house, he drank 35 bottles of soda water, but
so far from cooling him, every bottle he drank increased his
excitement. Squire managed to get him away from the
Ship, under a promise to allow him more soda water, and
after a further consumption of 15 bottles, he convey_ed him
to the station-house, and procured an order from Mr. Ser-
geant, the relieving officer of St. Paul, Shadwell, for his ad-
mission into the union workhouse at Mile-end, where he now
remains. It appears that the poor fellow was paid off fifteen
days ago, when be received 371., and soon afterwards a letter
from his father In the north reached hire, stating that his
sister had gone out of her mind, which preyed so much on
his feelings, that he became insane himself, commenced
drinking large quantities of soda-water, and at one house,
where he staid for a short time, he broke all the chairs and
tables. While Squire was conveying him to the workhouse,
he insisted upon entering a ginger-beer and mineral-water
manufactory, where he dispatched seven bottles of soda-
water and ginger-beer in three minutes, and called for more ;
but the proprietor, fearing the man would burst, declined
opening him a further supply.
KING'S COLLEGE.—Yesterday the distribution of
prizes among the pupils of this establishment took place in
the theatre of the College. Ills Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury presided on the occasion. The theatre was
crowded by ladies and gentlemen, and within the circle sat
the members of the Council, the Professors, together with
the Bishop of Lichfield (the late Principal of King's College),
Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Justice Coleridge, and other persons of
distinction. Dr. Jelf (the Principal) addressed the company
on the onerous duties be had to perform, and briefly descanted
on the incalculable advantages of education, when coupled
with moral and religious instruction, The prizes (copies of
the classics, &c.) were then distributed by the Most Rev, the
Primate to the successful students in the various depart-
ments of literature and science taught in the College.
Among the youthful scholars who were eenspicuously distin-
guished in classic lore was a son of Mr. Barry the architect
of the New Houses of Parliament.
HER MAJESTY'S CORONATION.—Yesterday being
the sixth anniversary of her Most Gracious Majesty's coro-
nation, the Tower and Park guns fired royal salutes at one
o'clock, and in the Tower the national standard was displayed
throughout the day, and the church bells in the metropolis
rang merry peals at intervals
; but there was certainly a con-
siderable lack of this kind of demonstration yesterday. At
the entrance of the St. Katharine Pock the Union Jack was
hoisted, and similar manifestations of loyalty were displayed
from some of the monuments and other eminences throughout
the metropolis. The shipping in the river and in the docks
had their colours hoisted on the auspicious occasion.
'A settler in the neighbourhood of Mount Barker
has produced this year fourteen quarts of prime strawberries,
which he sold at ss. per plant or Id. each, if, as we are
told, sixty strawberries filled a (heaped measure) quart. We
hear of fine fruit in ever, direction. Many of the imported
trees have thriven so well as to promise great encourage-
ment for ftiture importations at the proper season.—Austra-
lian Paper,
THE NEW Vxcitair,--We have learned than Cap-
tain Willis, whetield the office of Gentleman Usher, for eight
trove
nine years past, has received a renewal of the appointment
troalLerd Heytesbury.—Dublin Evening roe.