The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-13 00:00:00

Tupils n peculiar. Palig;f;;;X, tliti Rurpose.s. .of -.taking notes f,
°f the pastor's sermoni..irbiet circumstance !
came to be designataiii t'he as""seriniin
paper." This article,_.harzexel,_was_sometimei*Ptit-to
viler uses, and 'bpg'hed`Ant,the,_ Fiddles,
in order to steady ;thett-lirt;thel. sockete of, the missing
candlesticks. Na. 4,411 w-utter ,the- robberY. a veritable
dealer in marine stores who hawked-red:harking% tiking
in exchange for them pence-when his vustonierts had
them, or " any edd thing or so by:which he could tutu
a penny," called at the- prisoner'S house -and. sold him
three herrings for 114 d. eech,•and-took, Seale broken up
brass candlesticka in payment, ivhioh- 'he- fri turn sold
again at :Sudbury Loa general deal4r,:by-whom thcy were
stopped, as part of .the schoolmaiter'sLpi‘iperiy. Among
the pieces shown ,to the prosectrtor "was' one of 'the
sockets, which being exa.mined Wag-found ,to•vcontain a
lining of " sermon paper:" • -e, `
prisoner when called On' for his 'defence denied all
knowledge of the pieces of briss, and put into the, brix•-
female triend, who deposed to her having' found - them
herself in a field, not long befOre they were handed over
to the hawker; but her statement being 'directly at vs,
rianoe with her conduct durin.g the dealing, and the evi-
dence of the hawker, the jury instantly convicted the
prisoner,. and he was sentenced to.six months' impriSon-

Went. '
ARSON.----Henrl/ Stijedlart, aged fwenrywone, was in-
dicted for felonious setting fire to a haulm -btack, at Bus-
hell, en the 9th of March, the property of Thomas
Dykes.
Mr. O'Malley and Mr. Couch were counsel for the
prosecution; and Mr. Prendergast defended the pri-
soner. _ _ _

The property which • was the subject' of- this charge
was situate a short way from the residence of the pro-
secutor, in a field, through the hedge of which was a gap
leading across two other fields; towards the farm of one
Pilgrim, and it abundantly appeared that it had. been set
on tire on the night in question, when it was partially,
if not entirely, consumed. Many person came to the fire,
but none of them, according to the testimony of one
Parish, quitted it through the gsp, but all, including Mr.
Pilgrim, came and went by the road-and gate.. No clue
was found to the offender,' but on the following morning
some indistinct footmarks of a man were traced from the
stack to and through the gap. Just before the last
assizes at Ipswich, at which the prisoner was charged
with and acquitted of setting fire to some other stacks
in the same parish,. the grandson of 'the prosecutor, a
man of thirty, informed him of a singUlar 'conversation
he had had with the prisoniir while they were working
together about a fortnight after the fire now in question,
in which, as he stated, the prisoner had confessed his guilt
to him. In consequence of thitt Serjeants was detained in
custody to take his trial on the charge, -and the principal
witness against him was the. grandson. 'According to
his statement a dispute arose during their work as to its
fair division between them, when the prisoner grew
angry, and the witness said, " I suppose if you had
your own way you -would burn' it; as you did iny
grandfather's stack," to which the prisoner. replied,
" liow will. you prove that ?" " Why," 'answered the
witness, "yon.don't know, perhaps, that I saw you lean
over the hedge and fire it." On this the prisoner
called him " a d—d liar," add added, "You don't know
nothing about it, for I got over 'the hedge 'a good bit
higher up, and pulled an armful out of 'one end of the
ztack, which I set fire to, and ,shoved into the other end.
I they went through thegip; and' laid doivn under the
hedge, expecting that old Pilgrim would go to the fire
that way,,and i,f he had I intended to have made -a better
fire at his farm; :but he didn't, so I went away." -.When
cross-examined, the narrator of. this strange confession,
net only admitted that he had.not'acquaintedids grand-•
father of it till July, but also that • he had nornientioned-
it to a constable,,named,BarneS, till he had himself been
charged by the
.•prisonersi`Wife With 'assaulting
conjunction with:his brother, -during' her husband's ab
sence in prison, and cetirpelled to find sureties to keep
the peace towards her,. while. he 'further acknowledged.
that he had not long since been chsarged by Mri.-Pilgriin
with poisonieg his ducks. • -
Mr. PRENDIM6AST having addressed the jury on be-
half of the prisoner, . . .
• Ills Leal:isn't. summed the ease to them, leaving it
to them to say whethetV%tideraalkiheseeifircurnFtaittea;
they 'could' at*tis such vzredit‘Acrethillesstittitn? of trio
grandson a.‘ fiat-Ad Wel-them to.a Conviction.
The jury, havieg,deliberated tdgether. 'kir ten minutes,
returned a verdict of NOL:Guilty, whereupon the prisoner
was-removed from:the dOck,Aut not' until he had re-
ceived a stlitable.adtknyien from the Bench, to "take
heed to his witys.7e3
apd itiq tthie indicted for having
fisaliciouely fired it.s-44ielt of 'straw, anctanOther of clover;
on thenight of Satailday, Sept.. 28, the property ofJohns
Darrant, of Monk's neigh, in this'contitY..!,•. •
Mr. O'Malley conducted, the Case !Ur ,the: prosecution.
• The prosecutor is a 'le. farmer, holding two farms
In the parish of Monk's'Eieigh; and the pyisOner, who is
a labourer; dwelt With his mother in,a,eottage. at -the
farther' end • of 'a road called -"Folly-halm," which Zed
from the Pleughpnblic-liOnsC, aCcrossar green,, through '
Yr:My-Unit, towards the premises Of Mr. Dtirrant, where
there was a goodly array -harne and', stabling, Fur-
Founded by quantities of stiaiki Of, -all --deseriPtions,, a-n 4
-which were all safe at" abOut fp-6'.4, p.m. About
that hour the son of the prosecutor, who had had some
"-dealings in nuts" with the' prisoner, Went- to his cot-
tage. and not finding him at home-he-awaited:his areival.
In a few moments he saw the prisoner coming from a
gate which opened into the Jane frem.a.close near 'his
father's farmyard, arid celled ." soriOnsii-field,'! at great
speed. Crossing the lane he' ruShed into the house, and
was unable fur tome moments to reply to the inquiry of
his mother as to the cause of his being "so- muddled,"
but having recovered his breath, he said,,that as he was
snaring along lie saw " a fire at farmer Durrant's,"—and
gaited, that he hail come torne:that *ay in order that she'
Knight not know where he hasd' been. Cpon this the
alarm was given, the farmyard "being not-very far off,
and the. fire, which was then "quite fresh and only as big
as a •bucket," was speedily extinguished by the
arnited exertions of the' family- arid some neighbour.
Who' came to' their assistance.' 1 Bien then;
~.however,
the two stacks 'in question', nearly consumed,
which stood -against tha hlrn, 'and trt';ca ,which- the
flames, had there not bei'nsupply of hap& •
and water, would soon hive, confrininiCateci to the entire
property on the premises: When itsttie fire the prisoner
seereed to lend his aid very:cldmiily--46niuch so, Its to
cense -observation, and he'ivis7taild either "to: work.,
effectually, or give place. fo Others who .would," on which
he seems tochave gone away` for'aliiiie,,tticingh re-ap
peared at two o'clock' in' the' inorning;,, 'when a liberal
distribution of brtad and cheese end ,aie ,was'Made by the'
grateful -farmer to his friends. ",ton 'the follewing day a.
question was asked in the' ricessep,Ze the•Fisoner by.
the prosecutor as to " *tic; firsi salk the'fire'?"l when he,
claimed that dangerous pre-elniKeilee asserting that he
saw it an be was aernss the
?green; and then again a little further op near Fay-farm,
when it seemed to be 14 "big' as a litniern'aiA-a basket,"
It then tippeared-nn Inquiry that' the prisoner 'had been
ispending the evening'at the I);Ougli,'*hieli he left at ten
ro'cloelei-witli a pipe, though it ii-aS hot' Praicd'that it was
raligt&when he equated- the house. A dalighter 'of the
prosecutor next taw hi'm crossing- the front
of Fully-
tlarm soon after ten u'eloek ; and the cm, e on.the.part of
the•proaeculion -thee assumed that he had slon
wards turned' to tile' left out of the rang into a C!ose.
called the -" Great' Tarty, "- in which the firm-buildings
and stseks•OtoOktind•that he hail thence made his way,
into the Little LaY'thrOugh a fresh hzP, which Was-dis-
covertd on Suotray; so into Norton's. field, after'
having fired thh staelq," and 'so *Vs n in the lane again
,opposite to his own ent'eate. th?ort.a.this Presump-
tion it was shown that there' was no access into Norton's
field save down the tarnlarth tied that no' tiace: of any
wits discoverable in.-the hid e, through which he ,
could and• must haee`gone.if he lied not'pat.seil through
the stack yard. .Ii was 'thin. rworn; that -:no: one could
possibly hese Seto the firesit all, or ei-e'n the' premises,
from the -spots desCribtd hy.tho prisoner
,on the green ;
while proof was addticrd Oftis having said,-On a foriner,
occasion, that "if erer he "saw a fire at Mr. Durrant's
he never would tell him of it,' as„he Was sure he would
die itt‘ipected to hare done it." ' ;•
• •
• There being no . (awn:el for the prisoner; who en r-
getics!'µ protested lif.S.intincepce, throughout the trial,
Mr. justice WILLIAMS closely cress-exasuirA all the
witnesses adduced agaitist- hint, and afters arts mist
carefully and impartially " up the case to the
jury, to whom'he heft' it siyy wliether they would go ,
along with the inference' presented for their considera-
tion and adoption, on the part 61. the pr;isecution, as to
the prisoner's proceeding; in the critical period which '•
elapsed after he passed- Folirfarni and his appearance
at the gate heeding out-of Norton's field into the. lane.
. ,
• The juryhaving consulieil together m soe little time,
returned a verdict of Guilty:--Senteneeferred."

THE NEWRY.RAILROAD.
MEETING OF THE CHAMBER OF:COMMERCE
OF BELFASt.

!The meeting on Monday in the Cornmercialltoom;,
respvcting.the railways westward; was attended by the
most gentlemen ' enggied" in' coMmercial
'natters, in thhi town. There wasly:lOne opinion
vxprecs4ll regarding the necesditro? upporting.ttie in-'
tereats of theb Company formed f,r the construction of
the railway from Nerrrj to Enniskillen, which' was re•
garded by the 'meeting as an' extension fof theylster line
from-Belfasr, which would pasS•throu,_gh'elm'Ost th'e'only
manufacturing districts of the iVetit.' The adian'tages, of.
the line to. the agriculturatinterests of the west were yerk.
pointedly stated.
The improvements Or cted in 'the navigation' of the
two Loughs Erne, which now allow' steam connnuniea-
tion, in.e direct line, for *upWards of fifty statute Miles,
render the formation of a railway from Enniskillen—the
key of the two Loughs—to Belfast and Newry,' unclog;
tionably the two hest ports on the east coast of.lreland, a
proj.ct more likely to be remunerative to shareholders
and al other parties concerned than any other Irish na-
stily speculation with which We are 'acquainted. The
meeting was perfectly unanimous in supporting.this lino,
and agreed to prepare and fo'rWard titions:in its favour,
which will carry with theni all. the -weight and influence
hich can ho attached to the unanimous opinions of the
eaerchants and traders in the-greatest commercial town
in Ireland.—Banner of Ulster; Dm. 10,

BRITII.—SPEEDY DISSOLUTION•OP"A STRIKE.—On
Thie
jll=-arsday eiening week, Leven of ' the workmen at the
rhk, ma,..ork.f.v.r. brought into Beith under,
mi,. • , fa' a**(llig p of constables- A pree6g-•
arty
tiatigerr,by. the -examination of. one of the
1114,101" tit-
7;:iyiql‘enrvett. di.ors were-delayed • till the
peace
;it
..vewheasiettect tneettag oonrfrltihetuehxsitteJtdmutishnteiactemici-enonf,
gad in the strike.
tiiinty-foor parsons had ;;::, e(Hiti
OW-4nd beOu made by
nRi--St-nrn to their duty, vinthieQhrnwnags
the hrte. first-exan2Oeci being sentenced; two oetil:t on
k
fifty,.aiaii. the other lo forty days i ;
s' -mpr.sonment, thme rr-
initining four of the seven succumbed, and promised to
rotos to their lebour, wbilethe other-three were inune-
Oiet,ely dispatebed to Ayr.—Ayr Observer.