The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday, Mrs. Harriet E.
Guy, who had been remanded, was brought up for final
examination, at this office, before Mr. BitouGHTON, charged
with having stolen two dresses, value N., the property of
Miss Mary Susan Jobble, dress-maker, No. 50, Taber-
nacle-walk. The witness stated that prisoner was first her
lodger a few weeks ago. On Saturday, the 29th of March
last, she went out on business, and returned lstt in the
evening, when she found that two dresses were missing
from her show• room. The prisoner confessed the theft,
but could not tell what motive actuated her to the com-
mission of it. This acknowledgment was made in the
presence of the mother of witness, and of another lodges•
in the house.

The mother of witness, and Mrs. Harriet Bristow, a
lodger in the house, confirmed the above statement.
At this periol of the case a Mrs. Robinson complained
most bitterly against the prisoner for the seduction of her
dear husband. Mrs. Robinson was obliged, for the benefit
of her health, to remove to thu country, and poor Mr.
Robinson was deluded so far as to supply her virtuous place
by the prisoner's companionship, who, Mrs. Robinson said,
also took off her bed-gown, night-cap, &r. to the amount
of 11.

Mr. BROUGHTON—My dear madam, I am aware that such
conduct must incense all ladies in such cases ; however, I
doubt much that you would act wisely in prosecuting the
unhappy prisoner, who is now so low in spirits from the
late charge, that she appears to suffer enough on that ac-
count. You canuot identify the property produced (a few
light articles, worth about 55.); they are not marked ;
and although the prisoner says they are not yours, she is
willing to resign them.
Mr. Wooler, who appeared for the prisoner, acceded to
giving them up ; but Mrs. Robinson said, " But, Sir,
can't I have my Belcher silk handkerchief returned ?"
Mr. BRMUGHTON—Under all the circumstances, I don't
think that request can be insured to you.
Green, the officer, said all matters were amicably made
up between Mr. and Mrs. Robinson—that be confessed his
fallibility, and Mrs. Robinson forgave him.
The intended charge of Mrs. Robinson, therefore, fell to
the ground ; but the unfortunate young woman (a perfect
lady in exterior, and evidently suffering under the most
agonised feelings) was, on the first charge, fully committed
for trial.
John Williams alias Ned Turner, and a man named
Smith, were charged with having broken into the divel-
ling-houses.of Mr. Baker and Mr. Wilson, of Thurlow-
place, Hackney-road, about five o'clock in the morning of
the I Ith of March last. The prisoners were remanded
for further examination to next Saturday.

The proposed Corn Bill has much disappointed
our expectations, so far as that an opening would
have been made for the importation of corn. This
Bill, on account of the high rate of taxation of
corn, appears to us to be a complete bar to im-
portation, except that we should have a very bad
harvest or two. As an ftbstract question, as we
have before mentioned, it matters not (consider-
ing a series of years) to landlords, as to rent,
whether we import the wheat we consume, or
whether we grow it, for we must employ the same
land on which we grow wheat to produce some- There is a sportsman in Paisley who has re-
thing else to pay for wheat impel-tee( ; and whethe - peatedly hid down his double-barrelled gun loaded at ;his
feet, thrown two penny pieces over his head, lifted the
the land grew wheat, or whether it produced wool, gun, turned round, and struck the penny-pieces succes-
or other things to pay for wheat imported, the lively, right and left, before they reached the ground. The
same rent would be obtained by the land- s3me gentleman, for a wager that he would not, with a
lord. All commerce resolves itself into barter ; very Single-barrelled gun, loaded with ball, hit two oranges out
. wanted of twenty, thrown up one by one, at the distance of 20
little money, either metallic or- paper, is
ii.itiometna..y
u struck two of the first seven that were
between nations for the purpose ofsettlinglancesi, *thrown up, and thus decided the beN—Greenock Ad-
even as it respects home trade, it is alPgtilitr l tvrtimr.

LENT ASSIZES.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT—YORK, Anur, 4.
HAILS V. WILSON.

This was an action for libel.

Mr. BROUGHAM stated the case. The plaintiff was
a respectable attorney in Hull. The defendant was the
printer and publisher of the Hull Advertiser. It
would appear, that early in the last year a person of the
name of Harrison had been the tenant of the plaintiff
on a considerable farm at Humbleton, in Holderness.
Either through the distress of the times, or his own
misconduct, Mr. Harrison had become embarrassed,
and the plaintiff in the present action had been com-
pelled to distrain for rent. Soon after that event
Harrison had become insolvent, and had, in May,
applied to the Insolvent Debtors' Court to be dis-
charged. His discharge had been opposed by a Mr.
Beckwith, and the hearing of the case had been ad-
journed. The London newspapers had given a fair
report of the proceeding in the Insolvent Debtors'
Court; but the defendant, instead of copying the
report from those paper=, had chosen to insert in
his columns a report which contained the libel now
complained of. The libel stated that the insolvent
had been opposed on the ground that he had, in col-
lusion with his landlord, Mr. Haire, set up a ficti-
tious distress, and it went on to state that the insol-
vent had been remanded, and Mr. Haire ordered to
attend the Court on a future hearing. Now in this
report there was no truth, for no such objection had
been made to the insolvent's discharge, nor had Mr.
Haile been directed to attend.

The Jury found a verdict for the defendant.
SATURDA'r, APRIL 5.
BACIHOUSE V. 7411M3WORTH.

Mr. BAINES opened the pleadings. The declara-
tion stated that the plaintiff was a good, just, and
faithful subject of the realm, and until the commit.
ting of the grievances by the defendant, in the decla-
ration mentioned, had never been suspected of murder
or otherwise ; yet that the defendant, contriving to
oppress and ruin the said plaintiff, on the 16th of
November, 1527, went before one Christopher
Beckett, Esq., a justice of the peace, and falsely and
maliciously, and without probable cause, charged
the plaintiff with having feloniously poisoned and
murdered one Mary Hemsworth, and caused and
procured the plaintiff to be arrested and detained in
prison for four days. There was another count,
charging the defendant with saying of and concern-
ing the plaintiff, " He has poisoned my mother, and
I can prove it ; he always keeps poison in his house."
Plea, general issue.
Mr. BROUGHAM addressed the jury for the plain-
tiff, and after detailing the facts, was about to call
witnesses, when Mr. Justice BAYLEY called Mr.
Pollock, the defendant's counsel, and a conference of
some length took place between the Judge and the
leading counsel on both Bides. In the end,
Mr. PoLLocx rose, and in a short address to the
jury, made, on the part of the defendant, an ample
apology, and expressed the firm conviction of the de-
fendant that his original suspicion had been un-
founded.

A verdict was then taken for the plaintiff—
Damages Is.
Mr. BROUGHAM observed, that damages had been
offered on the other side; but that as the plaintiff's
object had been the vindication of his character, he
had refused to take any damages beyond what was
necessary to carry costs.

DENBIGH, MARCH 4.

Owen Owcns was indicted under the Statute 7th
and Bth George IV. (Mr. Peel's), for having feloni-
ously killed a mare, the property of Thomas Davis,
by pouring a quantity of nitrous acid (aqua fortis)
into one ear and eye. There were two other counts,
charging a wounding and maiming.
Mr. Attorney-General Htu stated the case for
the prosecution. The prisoner (a very ill-looking
fellow, with a remarkable cosiformation of cranium,
the transverse diameter of his head, from ear to ear,
being to the conjugate at least as five to three) is
son-in-law of the prosecutor. On Sunday morning,
the 7th of October, he was seen close by the mare,
as she was lying down in a geld, and was observed
to stoop and pick something up, which he put into
his pocket. For four or fire minutes after he left
the mare, she remained quiet; but immediately
afterwards she began to exhibit symptoms of unea-
siness, and when the person who had seen the pri-
soner near the mare went up to her shortly after-
wards, and roused her to get upon her legs, she
staggered and fell down again. One eye was also
perfectly opaque, and the sight of it completely
gone. The g►ass upon which her head lay was of
a brown or burnt appearance. She was then re-
moved to a stable, where she continued to writhe
in great agony, beating her head against the man-
ger, &c. until at length, after several days, dur-
ing which one ear became ulcerated, she was killed
by the directions of the owner, in order to relieve
her from her sufferings. The ulcerated ear was cut
off and preserved; the carcass was given to the Rev.
Mr. Nanney, Rector of Llanrwst (of sporting cele-
brity), as food for his harriers, and the bones of the
head, when produced by his huntsman (having
been previously boiled to get off the flesh), exhibited
evident marks of discolouration and corrosion in
that part of the os frontis immediately beneath the
ulcerated ear. The ear was also produced, and the
appearances, immediately after it was cut off, des-
cribed by a farrier, who had then seen it, and also by
Mr. Griffith, surgeon, of Llanrwst, and Mr. James
Hughes, surgeon to the Denbighshire Militia. In
the opinion of one it was " an ulceration," and not
a wound ; and the other said it was "an ulceration
that might turn to a wound."
Mr. TEMPLE submitted that there was no case for
a jury. The count for " killing" could not be sup-
ported, inasmuch as the prisoner's was not the hand
that killed the mare. The count for wounding was
negatived by the evidence of the surgeons, who
said the injury, such as it was, was an " ulcer," and
not " a wound."

Mr. Justice JERVIS—WeII, Mr. Temple, what do
you say to the " maiming ?"
Mr. TEMPLE—My Lord, I contend that here there
is no maiming.
JUDGE—Suppose a man's eye is knocked out ?
Mr. TEMPLE—My Lord, my definition of a maim-
ing is a hacking, a severe injury by an attack on
several parts ; and the injury to the eye of this
animal, however produced, is not of that nature;
besides, my Lord, it is not even pretended that the
prisoner put any thing into the mare's eye. I'll ad-
mit, fir the sake of argument, that he might have
done so into the ear, then his was not the hand that
injured the eye.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL contended that the in-
jery to the eye of this poor animal was clearly a
" maiming," which was a permanent injury to any
member of the body, as contradistinguished from a
" wound," which was a merely teMporary injury.
Mr. Justice JEavls decided,- that there was a
case for the Jury ; and, in summing up, directed an
acquittal on the two counts for killing and wound-
ing, but agreed with the Attorney-General in his
view of the maiming. His Lordship intended that,
in the event of the Jury finding the prisoner guilty
of the maiming, he would reserve the case for the
opinion of the twelve Judges, nu the objection
taken by the prisoner's Counsel.
The Jury retired, and, to the astonishment of
the Court, remained in deliberation three hours and
twenty minutes, when they returned a verdict of—
Guilty of Maiming. Sentence respited until next
Assizes.

If the opinion of the Judges should be in favour
of the prisoner, he will be discharged as soon as it
can be ascertained.
The accounts from Mr. Justice Warren continue
unfavourable. His Lordship has been again let
blood; but without experiencing scarcely any relief.

PREVENTION OF POISON BY OXALIC
ACID.—In the event of a person having swallowed oxalic
add, by immediately taking a mixture of whiting or chalk,
and water, the danger will be in a great measure prevent-
ed. The oxalate of lime may be afterward' expelled from
the stomach either by an eme.ie, or by a brisk cathartic,
which will be much preferable, from producing lees irrita-
tion os the coat. of the stomach.

MURDER OF DANIEL MARA.

EXECUTION OF PATRICK LACY AND JOHN
WALSH, AT CLONMEL.

On Wednesday evening the streets of Clonmel
were not a little disturbed by the shrieks of a
wretched woman, who was nearly related to one of
the unfortunate sufferers who were to be execnted
the next day. A general rumour was in circulation
that the execution would take place at eight o'clock
in the morning. Accordingly every avenue to the
gaol, and immediately in front of the drop, was
crowded ; and various knots of the peasantry were
thickly to be seen contiguous to the gaol ; but this
impression was shortly removed, and twelve o'clock
.was correctly ascertained to be the hour. The un-
fortunate culprits, since the hour of their conviction
up to the moment of their execution, spent their
time in penitential acts of unfeigned sorrow and re-
gret for the perpetration of this cruel and abominable
murder. Before twelve o'clock a party of the
Scots Greys and horse poliee surrounded the drop
of Clonmel gaol. The crowd was immense, and
more particularly of that class, the peasantry of the
county, for whose salutary example this awful exhi-
bition was more particularly calculated to make a
lasting and useful impression.
About twenty-five minutes after twelve o'clock
Patrick Lacy appeared on the platform, attended by
the Rev. Mr. Baldwin : his appearance was at once
the signal for a simultaneous burst of sympathy ; he
appeared extremely contrite, and struck his breast
with both hands alternately. After some time occu-
pied in prayer, the executioner appeared near him,
put the cap on his head, and covered his face. A
similar exhibition of popular sympathy was here
manifested by the multitude. Lacy occupied the
left of the drop : he appeared Nvith fortitude and
resignation. Very shortly after John Walsh, the
other culprit, came forward; he appeared languid,
and was scarcely able to sustain his position on the
drop. He stood slantingly, as if his legs were tot-
tering from beneath his frame. Walsh was accom-
partied by the Rev. Mr. Brennan. Lacy and Walsh
were quickly, after some short exhortations to a
resignation to their unhappy fate, left by the Roman
Catholic Clergymen. Walsh said a few words,
namely :—That he was now about to die, and for-
gave his prosecutors; he died in peace with al
mankind. Lacy did not utter a word. Here a most
appalling and frightful scene was exhibited. The drop
has two foldings: Lacy stood on the left,Walsh on the
right. The executioner proceeded to let the drop fall,
when the folding upon which Walsh stood fell rather
gently at first, and shortly went back freely. The fold
ing under Lacy did not give way, except a gentle slant-
ing,
and the unfortunate man was upheld, his legs sus-
tamed and sliding, and he presented an awful spec
tacle of strangulation. The simultaneous roars were
indescribable,and several voices of" Shame, shame!"
were to be heard. Walsh was hanging in the usual
way when the executioner came forward and shoved
the body off the slant into the open drop wherein
Walsh htmg; but in this effort he was unsucceFs •
ful, as the rope was not sufficiently long to admit of
extending the body so much to the right, and the
executioner had then to draw the body on the verge
of the entrance to the scaffold. Lacy, visibly with
the vigour of life, stood up, and participated himsch
in an effort to get rid of the position he was in. The
executioner made another effort, and forced the body
on the still slanting drop, which, after a few mo-
ments, gave way, when the drop fell, and the body
hung in the usual way. Walsh was to all appearance
dead : and Lacy, after a few struggles, was launched •
into eternity.
It is impossible to describe the emotions of horror
and dismay which pervaded the vast multitude dur-
ing this scene of botchery of execution. There
were to be seen avast slumber of persons wailin
loud, men cryieg, their hands covering their faces ;
and a very general sympathy, sorrow, and lamenta-
tion, pervaded the peasant portion of the specta-
tors. The bodies hung three-quarters of an hour,
when they were let down front the pullies of the
gallows, and put into two coffins, laid on cars, under
the gallows, and conveyed to the Gashel Infirmary,
twelve taiileti oft, and in the neighbourhood of the
residence of many associates of the unfortunate
sufferers.

Walsh was what a person would denominate a
decent comfortable farmer, and rather a very sightly
man, and seemed to be about 36 years of age.
Lacy was a tall, active young man,about 26 years of
age. He had, however, a countenance of deter-
mination and boldness, and had strong lineaments of
feature, which indicated a daring, enterprising spirit.