The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MAY 26.—Sir Coleman O'Loghlen, who opens the
motion in arrest of judgment to-morrow, is likely, to occupy
the entire of the day. Mr. 111‘Donagh, Q.C., is on the same
side in this motion. Each of the traversers, it is said, will
claim the right to be heard by counsel on this as well as
upon the new trial motion. But from the spirit exhibited
by the Attorney-General, and the extreme anxiety mani-
fested by some members of the Court to reach the termina-
tion of the State prosecutions, it is probable that this claim
will be resisted, and that the Court will limit the traversers,
so, that the argument may be brought to a close within two
or three days.
Sir C.O'Loghlen demurs generally to the indictment, and
there is good reason to believe that such a case will be esta-
blished, as would justify the Court in
.pronouncing against
the validity of some counts of this indictment, although
enough. might be preserved to sustain a conviction against
all the traversers except, of course, the Rev. Mr. Tierney,
respecting whom the Attorney-General has abandoned the
prosecution.
The argument and decision upon the arrest of judgment
may also become iniportant, in relation to the appeal to the
douse of Lords. .

The writ of error is already. prepared, in order that the ne-
cessary' forms should be gone through, in case the judges
should decide against the motion in arrest of judgment.
There is scarcely room for doubt that the appeal to the House
of Lords will be successful. But the sufferers are to suffer
incarceration in the meantime. The sentence, in all likeli-
hood, will be passed before the close of the present week;
gXECUTION OF TWO BROTHERS IN NENAGH.
Yesterdav John and Thomas Wade, brothers, who were
found' guilty' last assize of the murder of a man named
Patrick Ryan, 'were executed in front of the Nenagh gaol.
A third ,brother, Patrick Wade, remains in gaol until next
assizes, charged with being concerned in the same awful deed.
At afew minutes after twelve o'clock the two wretched men
appeared on the drop, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Power,
R.C.C., and the Rev. Mr. Bowles, R.C.O. Thomas Wade,
who is rather -a low-sized man, about twents, -five -years
of age, repeated after the Rev. Mr. Power, a declaration
of his guilt. He acknowledged that with his brother
John, he was at the murder of Patrick Ryan (Morgan)
—that there was so other person at it but the two ;
that Shanahan, the informer, swore falsely; for he was
not concerned in any way with the murder, nor did
he know of it. That he forgave his prosecutors, and prayed
most fervently for pardon"of his sins, and that the Lord
might have mercy on his soul. John Wade, a taller and
stouter man than his brother, about twenty-eight years of
age, repeated, after the Rev. Mr. Bowles, a similar declaration
is
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or guilt. The unhappy men bade each ottheerlftgarhetwoeflli
hands, and kissed each other, prior to the
being shut out from them in this world. After the drop fell,
Thomas Wade appeared to suffer inuch, but in a few minutes
there was no appearance of life. John Wade died almost
instantaneously.

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PARIS ACADEMY. OF SCIENCES.
111 Ar 13.-The sitting scarcely occupied an hour,
and very few of the papers which were read possessed
t general interest. M. Arago Informed the Academy
1 that arrangements were making for putting up, at the
Paris observatory, a telescope of enormous dimensions,
furnished with glasses combining all the new improve"-
ments, and. worked by machinery. A commission
was appointed to co-operate with .ill. Arago 'on this
important subject. A very long paper, interesting
only in its details to chemists, was received from
Bordeaux, on the quantity of heat given out by the
various combinations of sulphuric acid with water. M.
Laignel laid before the Academy a notice of a new
apparatus fur soundings at sea during the passag,e
of the vessel through the water. At present, it fra-
c'
uently happens when a vessel is going at-a quick
rate, that the lead ceases to descend, and even returns
towards the surface. By the new apparatus the line
is made to fall by the very march of the vessel, on the
same principle, in the inverse way, as a. kite rises in
, the air by the apparent action of drawing it towards
the holder by the string. A disk of wood to which
the lead is attached is made by the action of the appa-
ratus in the resistance that it sustains to plunge to-
wards the bottom. The idea is ingenious, and will
probably be found successful in practice.—A com-
munication was received from M. Reefer, on the
organisation of the instruction and praetice of me-
dicine in Prussia, and the secondary states of
the Germanic Confederation. 'We gather from this
paper that the theoretic studies are more rigorous in
Germany than in France, but that the clinical studieS
are less rigid, which the author attributes to the
vicious organisation of the German hospitals. In
Germany, as elsewhere, sufficient attention is not
paid to the practical, knowledge of medicine and sur-
gery, apd men who study hard in the cabinet are per-
mitted to take out degrees without going through the
practical probation which can alone give real know-
ledge to the practitioner. We learn that it has been
proposed to adopt a different system in Germany, and
to establish regular grades of the faculty; requiring for
the first grade—bachelor in medicine—an apprentice-
ship in both medicine and surgery, with a perfect
knowledge of the nature and combinations of druge,
and granting the physician's degree only after a cer-
tain period of practice, added • to this apprenticeship.
The fees to the members of the first grade would of
course be lower than those to persons of the higher
grade, who would, in addition to their practical know-
ledge, as derived from apprenticeship, have the
advantage of experience. The poor, and persons
of the middle class, who are unable to pay
high fees, would thus have a guarantee for the
capacity of their medical attendants, and a phy-
sician could be called in occasionally, to add the ad-
vantage of his greater experience to the knowledge of
the bachelor in medicine and surgery. Something
of this kind would perhaps be useful in other coun-
tries as well as in Germany; for, whatever may be
the theoretical knowledge of the applicant for the di-
ploma of doctor in medicine, it is hardly right to
confer the highest degree of the most important part
of human science without those guarantees of prac-
tice and experience which are considered necessary
in less important professions.

WILFUL DAMAGE OF PROPERTY

. IN THE HOME PARK, WINDSOR.
WINDSOR, MONDAY.—About three years since a cutting of
the depth of eight or ten feet. was made across a great por-
tion of the Home Park, leading from the Waterloo-gate, in
the Frogniore-road, to Datchet, which has been a public
thoroughfare from Windsor to that village for several centu-
ries past.. Across the trench, which is about ten feet wide,
an iron bridge was thrown, in order that her Majesty and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert might proceed, uninterruptedly,
from the Castle to.the New Kennel, near the Dairy, where
are kept her Majesty's favourite dogs, under the care of May-
nard, the keeper. This .excavation at the time was loudly
complained of by the inhabitants of Windsor and Datchet;
which, independently of its cutting up one of the most beau-
tiful and delightful portions of the Home Park, renders this
part of the walk, across the Royal domain, at night, and es-
pecially to females, of an extremely dangerous character,
several of whom have been attacked during the winter by
the loose characters who have congregated in that vicinity.
Within the last few weeks the cutting has been extended
several hundred yards, and it now reaches very nearly
to the Waterloo-gate, in the Frogmore-road. In addition
to this, a'high mud bank, faced with turf, has been thrown
up along the whole length of the ravine on the Castle
so that almost from the moment of entering the park until
it is completely crossed, and Datchet-mead is entered upon;
scarcely a glimpse of the Royal residence, not even of the
Royal standard on the Round Tower, is to be obtained by the
promenaders between the village of Datchet and Windsor.
The old cutting has just been excavated to the depth of
several additional feet, rendering this once picturesque walk
one of the most dull and gloomy imaginable ; and in addition
to these precautionary means to prevent the public from en-
joying the . liberty they once possessed of walking on the
green sward, a strong iron fence is in the course of being
erected throughout the whole extent of the cut, about half
way up the high bank, thus rendering it almost impossible
for any one to climb up the steep acclivity. These extraor,
dinary proceedings (the extent of which it is not believed,
either her Majesty or, Prince Albert is yet aware of, as the
job was not commenced until after the Court left Windsor-
six 'weeks ago) have very naturally caused great complaining
and dissatisfaction amongst her Majesty's lieges- throughout.
the neighbourhood. For many nights past portions of the
new iron fencing on the sides' of the cutting have been wil.
fully bent and shattered, and large pieces broken off and
thrown into the park ; and, notwithstanding the watch which.
has been kept since these outrages were first discovered, the
perpetrators of them still remain unknown.. This destruc-.
tion of property has been of serious consequence to the con-
tractor, Mr. Faulkner, of Husham, near Esher, who is com-
pelled to bear the whole of the loss which has been sustained,
the works not being yet completed. Upwards of fifty of the'
iron fences have been damaged and partly destroyed. When
the whole is completed the public will be completely*" cut'
off" from Herne's Oak, with all its delightful and most in-
teresting historical and Shakspearian associations. We shall,-
however, still be permitted to view its venerable trunk and
lifeless branches from the respectful distance of some fifty or
sixty. yards ; but for the Fairy Dell, the scene of Falstaff's
amours with the two Merry IVires7of Windsor (but which,-
by the by, has lately been half filled up by some Goth-like
hand), a glimpse at the commencement of what is now'
termed " Cut-throat-alley " will scarcely be obtained by the
passer by. We may mention that five venerable elm trees,-
near Queen Elizabeth's walk, in this immediate vicinity, and
which were planted in the early part of the reign of William
the Third, haVe been levelled, in order to carry into effect:
the " improvements" which are now in progress in this por-
tion of the Royal demesne.