The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.-LENT ASSIZES.

CORK, AIARCH 31.
(From the Cork Mercantile Chronicle. )
Owen Ryan, a small and rather well-locking man,.
stood indicted for having violated the person of
Eliza Phair.

Eliza Phair (a modest well-looking young woman)
stated, that she had been a servant in the family of
Alderman Bagwell, of Charlotte-quay, in this City,
on the 6th of last October, and that she has been a
servant in the same family during the last six years.;
that the prisoner was an outside servant in the same
family, and that his business generally confined him.
to the stable, which was at the rear of the dwelling..
house; that on the 6th of last October, which was
a wet day, the prisoner told her, in her master's
kitchen, that her sister was outside in Queen-
street, waiting for her, and that she would
not go away without seeing her; that she
accordingly put on her cloak and bonnet, and
went into Queen-street ; Queen-street is near Char-
lotte-quay, and the passage to the stable is through
it; when witness had got into Queen-street, the
prisoner was before her, who told her that her sister
had got into the stable to avoid the rain; witness
went to the stable door and called her sister, where-
on prisoner seized witness by the throat, threw her
on straw which was in the stable, tvith some of
which he covered her, after which he had his will
of her; on being seized by prisoner, witness cried
out " Nancy, Nancy," meaning one of the servants
in the kitchen; that was all she was able to say, the
string of her bonnet having nearly choked her
from the ill-treatment of the prisoner.—Witness
swears that what had been done to her was done
against her consent; that she made every possible
resistance; that the prisoner had never taken any
liberties with her before; that there had existed but
the mere common-place intimacy of fellow-servants
among them, and that the prisoner was reputed to
be a married man. After the prisoner had effected
his object, he told her that " he had been long bent
upon her, and that he would suffer the gallows for
her."—Having lifted her up from the place where
she lay, prisoner went back into the kitchen through
the yard, which connected the dwelling-home with
the stable. Witness returned the way she came
the prisoner was in the kitchen before her, and 101 W,
else ; no words passed between them ; she mentioned
the circumstance of her violation the following day
to John Leary, the man servant; he was married,
and rather elderly, and she had particular confidence
in him. _

John Leary corroborated the evidence of Eliz,l
Phair.

The Jury brought in a verdict of " Guilty."
The Foreman then said, that at the earnest desire
of his brother Jurors, he had to recommend the
prisoner to mercy, in consequence of his previous
goo►i character.
The COURT applauded the humane motives that
dictated the recommeniation—but notwithstanding:
it could hold out no hopes to the prisoner of a
favourable result, it would not interfere with any
application that might be made elsewhere. The
Learned Baron then sentenced him to be executed

—but did not name the day, as he will do that
before the close of the Assizes.
Jeremiah Herlihy was given in charge for burg-

lariously entering the house of William Duane, 'at
Walsh's-town, on the night of the 14th of October,
and forcibly carrying off and ill-treating Ellen Cow-
hig, with an intent to make her marry him.
Ellen Cowhig sworn— She was comfortably
dressed, apparently not more than 20 years old, soft
in the countenance, and mild looking. She was
examined by Mr. Sergeant GOOLD, and swore that
she was a widow, with one child, her husband hav-

ing died about nineteen months ago, leaving her in
possession of some property ; that she has been lat-
terly living with her father at Walsh's-town ; that
on the night of the 19th of last October, her fathei'.;
house had been broken into by a number of men who
were variously armed, and fired shuts into a room,
whether she and her father had repaired, and when
they discovered that she was " the widow,'! took
her almost in a state of nudity outside, and put her
on a horse before the prisoner, who was waiting
there, and who in that situation rode off; she swore
positively that she was taken forcibly out of her
father's house ; she was taken forcibly to one Sul-
livan's; thence to a place which she believed
to be in the county Limerick, and from that to the
residence of one Herlihy, in the county of Kerry ;
that during the eight days which intervened be-
tween her abduction and the arrest of the prisoner at
Iderlihy's, the prisoner had frequently urged her to
marry him, and that he had several tunes
,threatened
her, and had also repeatedly defiled her against her
will. She swore that she had never given any en-
couragement to the prisoner to come to her father's
house, and that she had seen him but twice in het
life, and that during the week, preceding the 19th of
October. Such was substantially the evidence of
the prosecutrix. In identifying the prisoner she
manifested an evident reluctance.,
William Duane, the father of the prosecutrix,
John Duane, her brother, and Bridget Duane, the
wife of John Duane, all of whom had been in the
house on the night of the attack, corroborated all the
circumstances as detailed by the prosecutrix, in re-
ference to the bursting in of the door ; the firing,
and the abduction.
William White, a Policeman, deposed to his
having arrested the prisoner at Herlihy's, in Kerry.
The prisoner told him that he was the man who had
taken away the widow.
The Jury, without leaving the box, returned
verdict of Guilty.
After a short pause, his Lordship pronounced the
awful sentence of the law on the unfortunate cul-
prit, who is a well-looking young man about 25
years of age.

The Paris Court of Assize, on Monday, was
employed in trying the persons who robbed Mademoise/le
MARS, the celebrated actress, of her jewels last autumn.
The jewels were valued at 150,00(1 francs, or about 6,000/.
It will be recollected that the robbers were arrested at
Geneva. Great interest was manifested to see Made-
moiselle MARS, when she appeared to give her testimony.
The verdict was not given on Monday. The appearance
of the celebrated actress alone gave interest to the trial.

STATE OF TRADE AT FROME.—A manu-
facturer has favoured us with the following information :
—" The trade here is brisk iu superfine cloths
but i❑ the second cloth, which used to be
much firs, r, the principal part of our manufacture (and chiefly
°liiius
wade of British Wool), it was never more depressed ; in
fact, the demand for such goods in the London Market is
so trifling that we cannot sell the article without submit-
i: n i
untiliti regtailw..d
prices
etehse
of
ftaftoeineteigunt
tiug to a loss. The reason is obvious ; we can produee.
for less money ; and
glocoatin fortomfinifloraenigyup;odns' in my connexion who will pur-
chase a coarse cloth in preference to a fineone, when► offered
was are advanced, there will be little chance of any
great demand for goods from British Wools upon the gene-
ral scale; the consumption of cloth among the wool-
growers in this country must be so trilling, in comparison
with the other classes, whoi.e chief concern is to get the
belt article for the least money."—Sherburne Journal.
NEW VOLCANO NEAR BAKU.----We learn
from a letter• of M. GAMBA, French Consul at Telli,
atoi
3 their. slaitnrrenpßriteleA.
r,
I,Miysr
respecting the earthquake of December last, that a ni.c
volcano has burst out not far from Baku. It was pr.,:-
ceded by a violent tempest. In the morning was hoard,
about four leagues to the north-west of the town, :,•
noise resembling that of cannon; and soon after a colinuu
of fire of extraordinary height, appeared in the air,
and continued burning for several hours. It then dis-
appeared, or rather shrunk, into a small flame, rising
about two feet above the surface of the earth, and co-
vering a space of about GOO feet long by
450 broad.
This eruption continued for about twenty-four hours, and
was accompanied, front the beginning, by subterranean
noises resembling thunder, while large stones and column.)
of boiling water were hurled into the sky. At the end
of that time it ceased, and the crater closed up ; but the
fire still lingers in the soil, and flames burst up wherever
the earth is disturbed. It is well known that the Ghebres
have a fire-temple near this spot, where the eternal tire is
still nourished ; but it seems that the relies of the volcanic
flames, which area red and odourless, in no respect re-
semhle the Chebres fire,--London Weekly Reriew.