The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-03 00:00:00

HARE THE MURDERER.

' On Friday evening last, Hare the murderer called
in a public-house in Scarva, accompanied by his
wife and child, and having ordered a naggin of
whiskey, he began to inquire for the welfare of every
member of the family of the house, with well-
affected solicitude. However, as Hare is a native
of this neighbourhood, he was very soon recognised,
and ordered to leave the place immediately, with
which he complied, after attempting to palliate his
horrid crimes, by describing them as haring been
the effects of intoxication. He took the road
towards I.oughbrickland, followed by a number of
boys, yelling and threatening in such a manner as
obliged him to take through the fields, with such
speed, that he soon disappeared, whilst his unfortu-
nate wife remained on the road, imploring forgive-
ness, and denying, in the most solemn manner, any
participation in the crimes of her wretched husband.
They now reside at the house of an uncle of Hare's,
near Loughbrickland. Hare was born and bred
about half a mile distant from Scarva, in the oppo-
site county of Armagh ; and, shortly before his de-
parture from this country, he lived in the service of
Mr. Hall, the keeper of the eleventh lock, near
Pointzpass. He was chiefly engaged in driving the
horses, which his master employed in hauling
lighters on the Newry Canal. He was always re-
markable for being of a ferocious and malignant dis-
position, an instance of which he gave in killing one
of his master's horses, which obliged him to fly to
Scotland, where he perpetrated those unparalleled
crimes that must always secure him a conspicuous
page in the annals of murder.—Belfast Paper.

The following is the House List of Gover-
nors and Directors of the Bank of agland for the year
ensuing, vie.:—

FOR GOVERNORS.
Samuel Drewe, Esq. Governor.
John Horsley Palmer, Esq. Deputy Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.
John Bowden, Esq. James Pattison, jun. Esq.
Cornelius Buller, Esq. John Henry Pelly, Esq.
John Cockerell, Esq. Charles Pole, Esq.
William Cotton, Esq. Richard Mee Raikes,
Timothy Abrah. Curtis, Esq. Sir John Rae Reid, Bart.
George Dorrien, Esq. John Baker Richards, Esq.
John Oliver Hanssn, Esq. William R. Robinson, Esq.
John Benjamin Heath, Esq. Samuel Thornton, Esq.
Samtiel Hibbert. Esq. Stephen Edward Thornton,
William Manning, Esq. Esq.
RZlliamMelli;h, Esq. Thomas Warre, Esq.
Humphrey St. John Mild- Nloney Wigram, Esq.
may, F.sq. Alelvil Wilson, Esq.
The Election for Governor and Deputy Governor will
he held at the Bank, on Tuesday the 7th, and for Direc-
tome on WednesdaY the Bth instant, from ten o'clock in the
foren•on till four in the afternoon.

James Harris, Fore-street, linen-draper, April 14, at
ten, 24, at eleven, and May 15, at ten, at the Court of
Commissioners. Brittan, Basinghall-street.
Thomas Cumpsty of Liverpool, jeweller, April 20, 21,
and May 15, at one at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham.
'Amory and Cole*,. Throgmorton-street, London ; Parkes,
Birmingham.
Edward Lightwood, Birmingham, coal-merchant, April
16, at four, 17, and and May 15, at twelve, at the Castle
Hotel, Birmingl,atx. Austen and Hobson, Gray's-Inn,
London; Hayes and Hinchliffe, Birmingham.
Charles Thomsen, jun., Beaumont-street, St. Maryle-
bone, Middlesex, wine-merchant, April 10, 14, and May
5, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Ellis,
Wahnsley, and Gortoa, Chancery-lane.
Thomas Haworth, Bolton .1e- Moors, Lancashire, cotton-
manufacturer, April 15, at five, 16, at nine, May 15, at
ten, at the Rope and-Anchor, Bulton-le-Moors. Barker,
Gray's-Inn-square, London ; Woodhouse, Bolton-le-Moors.
Thomas Ecles, Houndsditch, woollen-draper, April 10,
24, and Slay 15, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners.
Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane.
John Hutcheson, Lynn, Norfolk, diaper, April 10, 21,
and May 15, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.
Ashurat, Newgate-street.

Charles Box, :Maidstone, Kent, grocer, April 7, at
eleven, 14, at ten, and May 15, at ten, at the Court of
Commissioners. Ruslibury, Carthusian-street, Charter-
house-square.
Francis Cotterell Boothbv, Holine Walfield, Chester,
farmer. April 22, at four, 23, at nine, May 15, at two,
at the Macclesfield krans inn, Macclesfield. Mr. David
Browne, Macclesfield ; Cole, 4, Sergeant's-inn.
William Adams, Winchcomb, Gloucestershire, surgeon,
April 20, at four, 21, and May 15, at ten, at the Royal
Hotel, Cheltenham. King, Fleet-street, Loudon ; Strat-
ford and Coi, Cheltenham.

M PERI A L PARLIAMENT

THIS EVENING.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR entered the House a few
minutes before Five o'clock. The crowd in the passages
leading to the House was very numerous, although not 80
great as last night.
The space around the Throne was crowded with
Peeresses, and Members of the House of Commons,
amongst whom we noticed the Solicitor-General, Lord
Wm. Powlett, Sir Francis Burdett, &c. &c.
Lord ELnoN was the first Peer that entered the House.
His Lordship was preceded by a messenger bearing a large
bundle of petitions.
The Bishop of CHESTER read prayers.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition front
a place in Sussex, against the Catholic Claims.
The Duke of CUMBERLAND presented two similar
petitions from places in Scotland,
General GASCOYNE and others brought up several
private Bills.
Several Bills were read a second time.

Petitions against further concessions were presented by
Lord Radnor, from an individual at Barking ; by Lord
Brayhrooke, from Saffron Walden, Essex ; by Lord Eldon,
from Waterford, and twenty-six other places.
Lord HILL presented a petition from Banff, in favour
of Catholic emancipation.
Lord BEAUCHAMP said, in reference to what had
been stated on a former evening by a Noble Lord opposite,
at the time he (Lord B.) presented a petition from tlva
neighbourhood of Worcester, respecting the conduct of a
Clergyman, he begged to read a letter he had received from
that individual; he had been charged with publishing the
most -inflammatory hand-bills, and using undue influence,
this he positively denied, and stated he was not the author
of them, neither did he sanction their distribution, and
begged that he might be informed who his accusers were.
Lord LYTTLETON—The Noble Lord has overstated
the charge, what he asserted was, that these obnoxious
hand-hills could not have been circulated without the Mi-
nister's knowledge, for he was present at the Meeting, and
took no notice of them ; he was not charged with com-
posing them. The Noble Lord presided at the Meeting,
and must he aware of these facts; he most cer-
tainly did not feel justified in giving the name of his
informant, he was sorry to cast aspersions on the character
of any man, but he had felt it his duty as a Peer of Par-
liament to expose any act of public delinquency.

( LE FT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Sir G. MURRAY brought in a Bill for the Continua•

tion of several Acts relative to Newfoundland. Read a
first time, and ordered to lie read a second time on Mon-
day. Also a Bill for the Regulation of the Settlement at
Swan River.

Mr. LATOUCHE presented two petitions from Ire-
land against the Sub-letting Act.
Mr. lIUMB presented a petition from Mr. F. For-
tune, merchant, praying that the House would repeal the
6th Geo. IV., and allow the 18th of Geo. 111. to come
into operation, which would allow the petitioner to import
cheap tea from Holland.

Mr.IIUMF. presented a petition from several individuals
of the Four Courts, Marshalsea, Dublin, praying that
the system of arrest on mesne process might be abolished, or
at least that the late alteration, which raised the amount
for arrest to the snm of 151., might he extended to Ire-
land. The Hon. Member instanced a case where a pooa
woman was imprisoned in the prison of those Courts for
a period of thirty-one years for a sum of 271. 13s. Sd.
There are, by the last returns, 1633 persons under
arrest for Bums under the amount of 20/. He re-
commended this question to the attention of the Secretary
for Ireland in the ho7,e that it might be remedied.
Lord L. GOWEIi. replied that it was his intention to
introduce a measure to assimilate the law in both countries.

Mr. D. W. HARVEY was of o:,inion that intro-
ducing, the same course as to the sum wouk) not be pro—
ductive of the desired effect, which required a deliberate
consideration of the state of the law, between debtor and
creditor.

DL. FIUME, iR moving that the petition be printed,
observed that if the same remedy were intro lured into
England and Ireland as was used in Scotland, that of giving
the creditor an economical, simple, and efficacious process
against the goods of the debtor would he productive of the
greatest benefits.

- The Hon. MEMBER al,o moved for a copy of the
Treasury warrant for premiums for the Erowth of hemp,

press his adherence to one side of the question or
the other; yet will the debate of last night he al-
most swallowed up by public curiosity. Nor is this
anxiety to be blamed: never do we wish to see
that time, when any measure, even of the twentieth
part of the Nveght of that which is now under con-
sideration, can be viewed without interest by the
great body of the people. But there may be a zeal
without knowledge, as well as a zeal with know-
ledge ; and it is obvious in the present instance
what is the source of error, and what are the prin-
ciples of a correct ludgment. It is clear to our
minds, that the people who are opposed to con-
cession suffer their dislike of the errors of the
Catholic faith to degenerate into an un-
christian hatred of the persons of its profes-
sors ; yet many a man who bows down his head be-
fore an image, has as ardent a that Eng-
land should lift up her head among the nations of
the earth, as the most rational theologian; and a
person who attends a form of worship in a language
which he does not understand, may read the Con-
stitutiOn aright. Out of the very scanty materials,
however, which were left for the Duke of Welling-
ton, his Grace worked up a vigorous and convinc-
ing speech. The allusion to his own profession,
and to the scenes which, in the discharge of its
duties, he had witnessed, was most happy. He de-
precated—he dreaded, civil wars; and yet, what
other result could be expected, if Ireland, naw so
ardent in her expectations of justice, were debarred
of her claims ? Other Noble Lords, who, no doubt,
are better acquainted ilith the inflictions of war
than his Grace, may probably see no great mischief
in it; and it is right in such men to run the risk,
or to encounter the certainty, rather than con-
cede a jot to their fellow-countrymen and fellow-
Christians. But such, surely, are not the dictates
of ordinary policy, prudence, or humanity. The
Bishops are acting with tolerable liberality as a
body ; even of those who oppose concession, all
who have any reputation for talents or learning put
forth a cautious, restrained, and measured resist-
ance; but the speech of Dr. Lloyd, Bishop of Ox-
ford, in favour of concession, has ensured a lasting
reputation to that Prelate. It was heard with the
most earnest attention, and will be read with no less
interest and approbation, though, in reading the
mariner of its delivery, which was moat animated
and impressive, cannot be seen or felt. As to the
iqfuriates, they deserve here, and will obtain there
where they speak, but little notice. They would
probably, if left to themselves, propagate Acir faith
as Jonathan Martin has endeavoured to propagate
his. The debate, at a quarter past one this morn-
ing, was adjourned to this evening. A triumph, we
have no doubt, as splendid as the friends of equal
rights and a liberal policy could wish, will appear on
the division ; and we would advise the enemies to a
measure now decidedly carried, arid to which re-
sistance is vain, to learn forthwith to calm their
transports, and bridle their rage. It is time tha
peace should begin.—Times.

There is one part of the Catholic Bill that we ap-
prove of; and that is, the Priests of that Church
are not to be taken into the pay of that Govern-
ment ; and John Bull is not to be taxed some hun-
dreds of thousands a year in order to pay salaries to
the Priests of a religion that it had hitherto brea
taught to consider damnable and idolatrous. Whe-
ther, however, the present Bill is merely a prelude to
future Bills—.and whether Bills will hereafter be
proposed for the payment of the Catholic Priests—
we cannot, at present, form any idea. It is not im-
probable, however, but that, when Lay Catholics
have seats in Parliament, the Catholic priesthood
will goad them on to bring forward measures for
their relief, as it will then be called. Should, how-
ever, nothing be hereafter done for the Catholic
Church, then we think it likely that Catholics will
gradually become Protestants, if it were only to get
rid of paying two churches. Self-interest, in all proba-
bility, will cause them hereafter to say, that as they
must pay our Church, they may as well muke their
election and belong to one church only, thus getting
rid of paying their own. But the gradual introduc-
tion of manufactures into Ireland by English Pio-
testants, will, as we have often asserted, work a
gradual alteration in opinions. The cause for the
removal of manufactures from London, and the
South and West of England, to the North -and to
Scotland, arose from the cheapness of provisions in
comparison with London and the South and the
West ; and as the price of provisions in most parts
of Ireland is so much lower than in the manufac-
turing districts of Great Britain, so we think manu-
facturers will find their way to Ireland. Should this
take place, which we believe it will, in the course
of half a century a ♦ery material alteration may be
effected as regards Protestantism. In France, we
understand, among the Catholics, it is very fa-
shionable to be what- is called " pious"—that
the ordinances of the Catholic Church are very
strictly attended to ; but we understand, at the same
time, that conversions to Protestantism from'Catho-
licism are rapidly making.—Morning Herald.

About two o'clock this morning a fire broke
out in one of the workshops of Messrs. BRACY and Son,
wheelwrights, at the back of Thomas-street, Upper
Stamford-street, which soon communicated to the rear of
three or four houses also belonging to Messrs. BRA ET,
but occupied by different tenants, who were soon apprized
of their danger, and had time to remove .1., cry article of
furniture, without their sustaining the least injury. The
fire was not got under until the workshops were entirely
consumed, but the houses Were not materially dainved.

This celebrated individual visited Dumfries a few dote
ago. His object, as may, be supposed, was. to see Mrs.
Burns, the Bard's Mausoleem, and St. Mieleurre Church-
yard—not the least emarkehle cemetery in Britain. In
ell these respects hie wishes ware gratified. WeeNs,le
much with hint, orei eon answer for his being us modest as
•he is talented and ingeeieue. Even about hie pereen
there is something remarkable. Though only 26 years of
age, he is muereteler and brawny in a high degree, measures
fully six feet two inckee high, has a regular and rather
handsome Scotch face, (id which decision morally, turd
locality phrenologically, are certainly very etrongly
marked), and is aitogether—even as reyeirds his ontar nem
—such a :eetnltae one does not often meet with in a fftral.--
mer's day. Mrs. Thiene he had set down in hie mind's tee
as a very patriarchal Gott of person, exhibiting all the
marks of feeble old ; and was' not a little pleased and sere
prised to find her under sixty, in perfect health, and nearly
as active as she was when the Bard saw her for the first
time on a bleach-green at Mauchline, arid waif; greeted
with something very like a scold for allowing his dot; Of •
run over her and Fluid various articles of female gear, which
she and a companion, as youthfel as herself, were tending,
like Peggy and Jenny, at Hubby's Howe. When taken to.
St. Michael's, Mr.. Thom, like all other strangers, era,
much struck with the nthet!yere variety, and elegance, of
the monuments. Several of the designs claimed and re-
ceived his meed of praise ; Messrs. Newell and Cromhie
were flatteringly noticed, and with the efterption of the
art of lettering, in which he thinks no somewhat defi-
tcoiene
equal al s
t , he
t.
expressed
Michael'sin c
his convictionotlnd. With the r
eathrlatei
theret.aisi,tafter , iiesnFe srel,,,
b,izte
r,
of the Mausoleum, he was well pleased
patient examination ; the design, he Raid, was chaste,
and the workmanship excellent, and, upon the whole,
he seemed to be of opinion that the strncture—cone.
Sidering the spot where It starole—does no discredit to.
the ashes of him who sleeps below. In the interior he
was still more at home, and we reelly admired the readi-
ness and acuteneas with which he detected every flaw in
the sculptures. On meeenring the Poet's marble hand,
he found it both longer and broader than his own—a
thing that most be entirely out cf nature, considering both
the dimensions and praportione of his own truly gigantic
palm.—The somewhat awkward twist in the bust, the
" scanty latitude" of the coat, with the skirt receding-
where it ((herald obviously extend, were ales proved to be
reel defects ; while at the same time, justice was freely
and generously done to several good points in the seelptoree,'
and particularly to the likenesses that exists between the
Bards profile, and Mr. .Nayamith's portrait.
Mr. Thom, as we have said, is little more than 7i:
years of age. He was bred a stone mason in Kihnarneck,
and at a very etrly period displayed a decided taste for
sculpture. During his apprenticeship he cut several beet*
in stone, and on one occasion made an admirable reurceene
tation of a ram's head, which he purchased from a butcher
while returning front the ire, after figuring at the "roar-
ing play." At one period, too, he work( d with a trorle
carver in Glasgow ; but beyond the art of forming gotbie
ornaments, and handling the mallet in the roost ordinary
way, he is indebted to nature and his own efforts for every
one of those acquirements which distinguish him fieen
the herd of common craftsmen. Sometime lest year he
became acquainted with oar respectable friend Mr. Auld,
of Ayr—a man of taste in the arts generally, and when
services proved as invaluable, as his enthusiasm is irrepres-
sible, in every thing that regards the Burns' Ayr Mono-
ment—perhape the most tasteful pillar in Britain,.
At first, we believe, nothing was contemplated beyond
some heads in stone, to ornament the monument;
but the artist in the end, was induced to essay a bolder
flight, and the result justified the most flattering estimate
that had Lena formed of his talents. Uhler the patient
exercise of the dike!, a greyish sort of stone, sufficiently
hard and of good texture, found on the estate of Auchen-
cruivi, was transformed, we may almost say, into living
representatives of the redoubted " Tam o' Shanter," en 71
his " drowthy eronie Sauter Johnny."
The figures, when finished, excited great admiration in
Ayr; were afterwards removed to Edinburgh, where
thousands visited them, and are at this moment, as the
newspapers inform us, attracting still greater crowds in the
city of Glasgow. Bea the exhibition closes in a few (lays,
and early ie April it is intended to remove the figures to
London, and afterwards to Leeds, Liverpool, and Man-
chester. In Glasgow the receipts occasionally exceeded
1201. weekly, and we speak with the book open when we
say, that a very handsome- sum has been prised in all.
But as the artist was paid for his labours by subscription,
and thus enabled to call into being, what might have ether.
wise remained a block in the quarry, may a part, we be-,
lieve, of the profits accruing from the different Exhibitions
is destined to find its way into his pocket. The figures,
in fact, are the property of the subscribers to the Burns'
Ayr Monument, and after they hate made the round of
Britain, gratifying, as they travel, millions of eyes, will
ultimately find a niche or rather a resting place in one cut
the most elegant and interesting structures which the gra-
titude of the living—we mean in Seotland—has hitherto
dedicated to the fame of the dead. Than the site of the
monument nothing can be finer or more appropriate.
For miles around almost every spot is elaelie ground ;
and so many interesting associations rush on the mind, that
the attention of the traveller is literally distracted betwixt
" the old and new Briggs o' Daon,"—the bank and braes of
the stream itself—Kirk Alleway, where the hags held their
carnivals of yore,—A yr,wi th its dungeon and WallaceTowere,
goodly bay in the distance, and gorgeous woods around,—
the humble cottage in which the Bard was burn, and the
equally unpretending but hallowed spot in which repose the
ashes of his sire. Here, then, the figures will remain pro-
bably to a very distant posterity, commemorative of the
bard, and commtmoratire of the author—another proud
proof of the genius of Ayrshire, and the might that may
slumber in a peasant's laded.

In sculpture, like other arts, there arc many steps, and
everybody knows that artists first model their figures in
clay, and then take casts from them in plaster of Paris,
before they proceed to operate on the solid marble. But
.31r. Thom disregards all these processes. The model li
copies from his own mind ; and hitherto, at least, a cor,,
rect eye has been of far more service to him than the roles
of art. This fact appeared so surprising that many LAM»
burgh gentlemen were sceptical on the subject, until they
actually witnessed the moth's operandi. Still the profes-
sion, while they admit Mr. Thom's natural abilities, main-
tain that he cannot become a great sculptor linksa he con-
sent to study as others have done, and that here, as in
leesdlry
g.e. other or c
Indeed,
a writersi nce, thereto is n
an
Edinburgho roya l
rteor, -
who
signs himself "An Artist," tells the public plainly that
there is very little metit in drapery and comic expres-
sion, and that the whole excellence of sculpture lies in the
art of producing beautiful Mrms. Now, though this
doctrine may be true So a certain extent, we
demur to its application in She case of Mr. Thom.—
His fame unquestionably rests on a more durable
basis then " mere drapery and comic expression." The
figure of " Sonter Johnny," caught, as it were, in the act
of telling one of his " queerest stories," is a perfect creation
graphic, spirited, and so full of meaning, that an involun-
tary smile mantles on the face of every beholder at them
recognising the veritable boon companion of the hero of a
tale equal to anything in the same compass that ever was
penned by mortal man. When the veteran Macklin re-
formed the mode of acting the character of Shyluck, some-
body called out from the pit of Drury Lane,
" That is the Jew
That Shakspeare drew ;"
and, mutatis mutandis, the same thing may be said of the
renowned cobbler. When the young Roscius acted the
part of Norval in Edinburgh, Mr. Home, who was pre-
sent declared that the performance exceeded his own eon-
ceptionsolthe character. A similar story is told of a great
modern author, and we cannot pay Mr. Thorn a greater
compliment than to say, that if Robert Burns had been
still alive, he would have been as much delighted with
the works of his chisel as Sir 'Walter Scott was when he
first saw the inimitable Mackay enact the part of Bailie
Nicol Jarrie. The very conception of the stone bac-
chanals, apart from the power of execution, is in the
highest degree creditable to Mr. Thom, and if we are not
greatly mistaken, will permanently rank him with the first
self-taught geniuses of the age.
Besides the figures alluded to, the artist bait fashioned
am! nearly finished, the landlord and his helpmate in
capital style. These, however, are the property of the
Earl of Cassillis, and intended for his private gallery of
art. But the artist may copy his own works, and when
the group is complete, the land will again ring with his
fame, and the Exhibiticn become the leading Lion "of
the day. Already, we believe, he has eight or ten figures
to execute to order, and whether he choose to study re-
gularly or not, no friend to Scotland and her sons, will
either grudge his good fortune, or seek to wither a single
leaf of his laurels.—Dumfries Courier.

Mr. PAVIS, of this city, possesses a minnow
which he has kept alive six years in a glass verse]. The
tiny creature is healthy, as its body would seem to indi-
cate, being remarkably pellucid and bright. Constant a.-
tentios appears to have rendered it perfectly docile and
playful, receiving food from the owner's hand, and leaping
from its element in quest of any insect which may happen
to approach the ma rfaee of the water.,—Kentiait (4rotaiel;•.

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