The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

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teous, from the fact that the Corporati( n must ply
the salary."

The Pluto steamer, Commander Crozier, from K

a vr..Gl
rush, has arrived at Galway Bay, in consequence of
matters connected with the fisheries on the western
coast.

Lieutenant-Commander Bowyer, Hecate steamer,
on the coast of Clifden, Galway, fell from a cliff, broke
his arm, and fractured his head. Notwithstanding
the severe nature of those injuries, the gallant officer
is convalescent.
The Meteor steamer, Commander Butler, has ar-
rived with astronomical apparatus at "Valencia to
assist Professor Airy and Lieutenant Gossett. .11'.E.,
in the observations now making there, in reference to
the fixing of the west longitude from London.
VICE-REGAL COURT.-It is said that Lady Hey-
tesbury is preparing to give a series of balls at the
Castle.

The report is renewed, but finds no credence, that
Lord Ellenborough, on his return from India, is to
succeed Lord Ileytesbury in the government of
Ireland.

Mr. Smith O'Brien, M.P., is now in Limerick.
Mr. John Grey Vesey Porter, High Sheriff of Fer-
managh, author of the pamphlet for a Federal Union,
and Domestic Legislature, is grandson to the late
Bishop of Clogher, Dr. Porter, an Englishman, who,
in the Lord Lieutenancy of Lord Camden, accom-
panied him to Ireland as his chaplain. Mr. Porter's
father is rector of Killskerry, in Tyrone, and pro-
prietor of Belleisle, an extensive and valuable estate
in Fermanagh, which he purchased from the Earl of
Bosse.

The Attorney-General, Mrs. Smith, and family
have arrived in Dublin, from Leamington.
James Morris Drought, Esq., aged 70, died sud-
denly on Friday, in the Marshalsea, where he was
confined for eigteen months for a debt of 8/.!
LORD DE Roos.—The Northern Whig says :
" It is with much satisfaction we learn, from a cor-
respondent, that Lord de Roos has recently made a
considerable reduction in the rents of his property at
Bonecastle, near Downpatrick. His lands in that
townland are now let at from 245. to 28s. the Irish
acre, apparently a very moderate rent, for soil of so
good a quality. Lord de Roos is at present resident
in Strangford ; and, by precept and action, sets an
excellent example to be imitated by other Irish
northern landlords. We hope it will not be lost on
them. The tenants' interests and theirs are identical."
The general area of the city of Dublin, according
to the Ordnance survey, is 3,807 acres, 2 roods, and
15 perches, which includes 214 acres, 2 roods, and 32
perches of water.

ESCAPE OF A CONVICT FROM
GAOL, AND HIS RECAPTURE.

At our last assises a young man named John
Powell, alias Bumper, was tried and convicted before
Mr. Sergeant Atcherley, for committing a burglary
in the home of Mr. John Crowther, of Lydbury
North, and received sentence of ten years' transpor-
tation. At that time he was labouring under the
effects of a loathsome disease, which prevented
his removal to the hulks with the other trans-
ports, and he was placed in the gaol in-
firmary, with liberty to walk daily in the court for
the benefit of fresh air, and at night he slept in a
cell on the ground floor in an outer court, surrounded
by a wall eight feet high. At six o'clock on Friday
evening he was locked in his cell for the night ;
but on one of the officers going round to light
the lamps at half-past seven, he discovered that
the prisoner had escaped. The manner in which
he effected his escape exhibits a considerable de-
gree of tact. He contrived to unjoint his bed-
stead, and secreted in his sleeping cell a long piece of
wood, which had been used as a part of scaffolding
for repairs. He then tore up the sheets and blanket of
his bed, with which he lashed the piece of wood to the
side part of his bedstead ; and to make it firmer he in-
serted a nail which had been extracted from the span
attached to the bedstead. Having thus far made his ar-
rangements, he next tried his skill upon the door of the
cell, which proved to be very rotten ; and by using the
leg of a stool as a lever, he soon made an aperture large
enough to allow him the escape underneath. Hay.
ing got into the open air, he dragged his scaling
ladder after him, and quietly mounting the wall
of the court, he reared the spliced timber
against the outer wall ; but it being about
seventeen feet high his means of escape proved too
short. In a moment he thought of a wheelbarrow
which he had seen it the yard, and to prevent the
creaking of its wheels from being heard, he carried
the barrow to the place he intencd to scale,
and placing the pole in it, he climbed
up, and reached within a yard of the top of the wall.
He afterwards said—" I don't know how I did it ;
but I went over the wall as light as a bird." In his
fall he sprained his ancle, and lay on the ground for
some time in great pain. "I was so frightened (he
said) at what I had done that I almost wished myself
back again." He added, that the only person wh,)
saw him lying under the wall was a factory girl, on
her way home from work, and she took no notice.
lie then made his way along the river side to the
Welsh Bridge, and thence to the Bridges, on the
Bishop's Castle road ; and on the way he threw
away his gaol waistcoat, and pulled out his shirt to
hide his trowsers, in the manner of a smockfrock.
From thence he made his way across the country to
the neighbourhood of Wurthen ; and he has since
stated that he never tasted food till Monday night.
The greatest exertions were used by the governor,
Mr. Dawson, to re-capture the runaway, and bills of
10/. reward, and messengers were dispatched to
every direction. On Wednesday Mr. Dawson pro-
ceeded to Chirbury, where the relatives of the pri
soner are living, and after an ineffectual search lie
was returning, when be received information from
policeman Hemming, of Worthen, that he had just
caught the prisoner in a stable belonging to Mr.
Jones, of Marton, where he had bean hiding among
the hay in the loft. On the appearance of the
officer he attempted to jump through the window of
the loft; but after a sharp struggle he was secured,
and given in charge to Mr. Dawson, who conveyed
the runaway back to his old quarters. A meeting of
the Visiting Justices was held in the afternoon,
when Jones, the turnkey, who had charge of the pri-
soner, was suspended from his office. The information
to the policeman was given by a person whom the
prisoner designated as a " friend," and who will share
the 101. reward with the policeman.—Shrewsbury
Chronicle.

DERBY CLUBS.—The question as to the legality of
Derby clubs, which has occupied so much the attention
of tavern-keepers and the sporting portion of the public,
has lately been submitted to Mr. E. James, the eminent
barrister, for his consideration, and that 'gentleman has
given it as his decided opinion that such clubs are illegal,
and that persons in any way connected with them are
liable to be proceeded against for heavy penalties. The
Act upon which the Learned Counsel has groundul his
opinion is the 10th and 11th William 111., c. 17, which is
still in force. and intituled "An Act fur the Suppression
of Lotteries."

IMPUDENT RonnLßr.—Yesterday afternoon, about
-half-past three o'clock, a man, dressi d in a flannel jacket,
paper cap, and having all the appearance of a carpenter,
came to the door of Clerkenwell Police-court and, ad-
dressing Waddington, the gaoler, inquired after the fate
of a person who, in the course of the day, had been
charged with an assault, and, on being answered, he de-
liberately walked over to the shop of •Mr. Smith, up-
holsterer and cabinet-maker, at the corner of Frederick-
street, immediately opposite the court, entered the shop,
and taking up a valuable looking-glass, walked out of the
shop with it. Fortunately Mr. Smith was just returning
home, and at a short distance from his shop saw the
fellow leaving with the property, and on ascertaining
from Mrs. Smith that she had not sold the glass, Mr.
Smith pursued the party, and overtook him about three
hundred yards from the shop, and gave him into custody.
Ile affected great indignation, said the looking-glass be-
longed to his master, and it was a " reflection" upon his
character. lie was taken to the station-house, where he
gave his name John Egan. Ile said nothing in his de-
fence, and was fully committed for trial.

THE ARMY.
Head-quarters of the 4th, or Royal Irish Dragoon
Guards, under command of Colonel Chatterton, ar-
rived at Caher on Friday, to be stationed.
The move of the Sth Hussars from Dundalk to
Dublin, and of the 11th Hussars from Dublin to
Dundalk, will commence on Tuesday next.
An order has been issued that no officer in Dublin
garrison should appear, in or out of barracks, except
in military uniform.
A recruiting party of the depot of the 14th Regi•
ment is ordered from head-quarters, Beltarbet, to
Dublin, to embark for Liverpool, en route to Bridg-
water, to be stationed.
Recruiting parties of the 72d Highlanders, at But-
tevant, are ordered to march for Cork, to embark for
Scotland, to be stationed at Aberdeen, Glasgow,
Dundee, Dumfries, and Inverness.
A recruiting party of the 95th depot is ordered to
march from Kinsale, for Philipstovvn, to he stationed.
The Limerick Chronicle says:—" The expected
military brevet will include lieutenant-generals,
major-generals, and colonels of 1837; lieutenant-
colonels, majors, and captains of 1836, and will cause
the following changes :—Major•General Lord Fre-
derick Fitzclarence, to command Dublin district,
vice General Wyndham, promoted ; Major-General
Prince George of Cambridge, to be Inspector of Ca-
valry, vie* General Lygon, promoted; Colonel Sir
Robert Sale to be Deputy-Adjutant-General in Ire-
land, vice Colonel Napier, promoted ; Colonel Sir
Richard England, E.C.B.' to be Adjutant-General in
India, vice Colonel Sir Robert Sale, to Ireland;
Colonel Love, 73d, C. 8., to be colonel on staff at
Corfu, vice Prince George of Cambridge ; Colonel
Spink, to be Deputy-Quarter-Master-General in Ire-
land, vice Bainbrigge, promoted to major-general.
The only war-steamers now in the Shannon are the
Cyclops, Captain Lapidge, R.N., at Torbert, and
Flamer, Commander Postle, RN., at Limerick.