The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

SHIPWRECK.

We re,r,ret to find that as the Lara, of Dumfries, laden with
coal for this port, was between seven and eight o'clock, on
Saturday evening, during a strong gale, making the harbour,
she kept too close to Mutton Island, where the lighthouse is
erected, and was driven high and dry upon land—where she
still continues, it is feared, with every chance of her being
greatly damaged, if not totally wrecked. We bear that
no pilot was taken on board to direct her course to the
roads, eke this casualty could not have occurred. The
principal portion of the sails and running rigging have
been landed under the superintendence of Messrs. Evans and
Sons.— Galway Vindicator.
IMPORTANT COLLEGE VISITATION.

On Thursday next the theatre cf our University will be
enlivened by a novel and interesting scene—viz., the archi-
episcopal visitation to decide on the claim of Mr. Heron to
a scholarship of the house.
It will be recollected that the Court of Queen's Bench, last
Trinity Term, after solemn argument, allowed a mandamus
to issue, calling on their Graces the Lord Primate and the
Archbishop of Dublin to entertain the questioa of a Roman
Catholic's eligibility to the scholarship. Accordingly the
visitors are now constrained to exercise a function for which
they had before seen no occasion, and their decision is looked
for with anxious interest.
Mr. Pigot, Q.C., will open the appellant's'case against the
decision of the Board, and will be followed by Mr. O'Hagan,
Mr. M'Donnell, and Mr. Flanagan. Messrs. Moore, Q.C.,
and Dr. Longfield, Q.C., are to reply for the Board against
the appellant's admission, and will be supported by Dr.
Butt, Q.C., and Mr. M'Duall, the reply being left to Mr.
O'Hagan.

The visitors are to sit at ten o'clock, and have requested
the assistance of the Master of the Rolls (as their assessor);
whose long and distinguished connexion with the Univer-•
sity peculiarly qualify him for the office. The burden of
proof lies on the appellant's counsel, owing'as well to his re-
jection by the Board as to the adverse decisions of the noble
visitors before the mandamus issued against them.
The last time a similar session of visitors took place was
during the provostship of Dr. Hutchinson, so graphically re-
corded by Dr. Duigenam. Preparations are making for quite
as interesting an exhibition, and a crowded Court is likely to
be the consequence.—Evening Packet.
THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM.

The farm held by the late murdered Sheppards remains
since the fell deed was committed a wild common for the
cattle of the surrounding district, their surviving brother
being afraid to occupy it, though offered at the nominal rent
of one shilling per annum by the landlord, the Rev. Ralph
Coote, for the whole farm-house, &c. (nearly thirty acres
of prime land). Nor would a stranger look at it, where
he to get it on the same condition. The only revenue the
farm now pays is the taxes, which are clubbed by the tres-
passers.
The Evening lfiail says :—" Since we addressed our readers
last, John French, Esq., son of the Dean of Elphin, and
nephew to Lord De Freyne, was tired at, at his own gate, at
Cloonquin, in the county of Roscommon. Mr. French was
not engaged in a quarrel of any sort with the people ; his
alleged crime, we understand, was, that he had spoken dis-
respectfully of the Molly Maguires. The following letter
shows that the insurrection is active in another part of the
country :

" Bloneygall, Dec. 4.
"' I am very sorry so soon again to have to furnish you
with the report of another outrage, much more offensive than
the pulling down a part of a caretaker's house, an account of
which so lately appeared in your journal.
44 4 On Tuesday night, the 2d inst., a notice was posted on
the hall-door of Bushertown Castle, the residence of Mr.
llinchin' threatening him with immediate death if he
did not forthwith quite change his system of managing his
property.
"'That system has been to give constant employment to
fifty persons during the scarcity and dearness of the summer
months, and to pay them weekly in cash—to divide amongst
them (at this season) sixteen acres of potato ground, for one
of which he has not yet been paid, and for several of which
it is most probable he never will—to give amongst them
every Chriitmas a good fat- cow gratis, as Mr. Minchin has
done since he came into possession of the property—go- be a
principal subscriber to a Dorcas Dispensary Institution for
their relief and benefit—and, besides, to be ever ready to
attend and supply the little wants of the neighbouring poor
who came to ask it.' "

MURDER OF PATRICK CLARKE, ESQ.—We understand
that six persons have been arrested and lodged in Nenagh
gaol, charged with being concerned in the above barbarous
murder ; and one of them, named Hill, is son to a caretaker
that was in Mr. Clarke's employment ; another is the noted
llogan, who was charged with being implicated in the Finnoe
tragedy.—King's County Chronicle.
ATTACKING DWELLINGS BY NIGHT BY ARMED Max.—The
dwelling of a man named Martin Hassett, situate in a moun-
tain district near Birdhill, 'was forcibly entered by four armed
men, who beat Hassett, his son, and daughter severely, and
commanded him to settle quietly and fairly with a tenant of
his, with whom he had a dispute.
A party of three men armed, in the same neighbourhood,
broke into a house belonging to one Kennedy, and beat him
severely.
In the district of Lateragh, fertile in the production of out-
rages and murders, the house of a man named Daniel Hogan,
was attacked by a party of ten men, armed with pistols and
bludgeons, who beat him in a savage manner, broke all his
furniture, and struck his daughter a violent blow on the
head. Hogan had been employed as a bailiff, which is the
only reason that can be given for such an attack upon him.
The noise of horsemen on the road made the fellows fly in
every direction, but before they decamped they burned a
quantity of flax which lay upon the floor.
In our last number we noticed the robbery of several
farmers' houses of large sums of money, by an armed party
of ten or twelve men, with their faces blackened. A party
similar in number has been seen in the same neighbourhood
a couple 'of nights afterwards, who went to the house of a
widow, they calculated upon having mosey—but who had,
fortunately, laid it out in the morning in the purchase of
pigs. On finding this to be the case the fellows went away.
I —Nenagh Guardian.
DARING OUTRAGE.

On Sunday morning last, at eight o'clock, a party of six
or eight men, some of whom were armed, attacked the
house of Charles Headivan, of Painstown, in the barony,
of Rathconrath. Four of them entered the house, and de-
manded Headivan's gun, which he stoutly refused, and in
defence snapped it at the party, but it missed fire ; they
wrenched the gun from him, and gave both him and his
wife a severe beating. There are three severe cuts in Headi-
van's head, and he lies dangerously ill; the wife has also two
cuts and a fractured scull. Before leaving the house the
party set fire to a parcel of flax, for the purpose, as they
stated, of burning the house. It was, fortunately, quenched,
before much damage was done. The police of hathconrath
heard of the outrage at ten o'clock, and Constable Palmer and
his party lost no time in scouring the country and apprehend-
ing three persons, two of whom were fully identified by both
Headivan and his wife as being of the party, and they are
fully committed for trial.— Westmeath Guardian.
Sir Francis Hopkins is nearly convalescent. The second
of the assassins has not yet been apprehended; Keens, the
person in custody last week, on further examination on Sa-
turday, was liberated.—lbid

A. requisition has been addressed to the Mayor of
Plymouth, signed by one thousand and ten persons, request
in' him to convene a meeting to consider the present state of
the country. His worship has appointed the meeting to be
held on Friday next.—Deronport Telegraph.
ALLEGED NEGLECT AT THE MANCHESTER LYING•
IN HOSPITAL.—The adjourned inquest in this case was held
on Friday, and, after hearing additional evidence, the jury
unanimously agreed to a verdict of "Misadventure," and
consequently Mr. Runcorn and Mr. Whitehead (both of
whom were present) would be acquitted. At the same time
they could not but express their opinion, that to have such a
person as Mr. Cobain in the situation which he filled was
highly improper, and that there ought to be person
thoroughly acquainted with all the properties of the different
ingredients to compound the medicine. They also recom-
mend to the institution, through Mr. Hunt, one of the sur-
geons, that a day-book, or name-book, should be kept in the
hospital, in which should be entered the name of every per-
son who received medicine from the surgery, these names
having a reference to a general index of the residence of [the
patients, in order that if any mistake should occur, it might
be instantly rectified. The jury further recommended that,
in such an institution, anti especially with reference to such
strong and dangerous remedies, no contractions should be
used, but that the words should be written at full length.
ORIGIN OF NEWSPAPERS.—Mankind are indebted
to the wisdom of Queen Elizabeth:and the prudence of Bur-
leigh for the first printed newspaper. It was entitled the
English Mercuric, and was, by authority, " imprinted at
London by her Highness's printer, 1588." The earliest
number, preserved in the British Museum library, dated July
23, in that year, contains the usual intelligence, given after
the fashion of the London Gazette of the present day. In
these 3Lercuries we meet with advertisements of books, and
they differ not very much from the announcements of our
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own time. During the civil wars, periodipal Jeer the
champions of the two parties, became more generally c
rethle.
lated, and were edited by writers of ability; among.
principal we may name Marchamont Needhamß,esStiorraJtniohnn
Birkenhead, and Sir Roger L'Estvraenreg
the proceedings of parliament s einteArdticttheed -to be pub:
lished, unless by authority, and
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' the Revolution took the popular
gencer. In the reign of Queen lArnstnertohvoiroeeiwa
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alonedaily
paper, the Dailyantrant.
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Theth known
in England was thethe
price of a penny,
earliest Scottish newspaper made its appearance under the
auspices of Cromwell, in 1652. The Patrician.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.--We have
fair supplies of wheat and barley, and moderate of other
grain. There was a very limited business done in wheat to.
day, and to effect sales a decline of Is. to 21. per quarter wad
submitted to. Fine barley fully as Ow, other sorts IS. pet
quarter cheaper. Beans in slow request, and prices of new
must be quoted is. per quarter less than last week.. Oats
sold at a reduction of id. per stone, and shelling 6d. sr lead
Malt firm, at late rates.