The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-24 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Henry MiMourne was yesterday indicted for hav-
ing falsely represented himself to be an attorney,
and in that disguise obtained several sums of money
amounting to 9s. or 10s., from a cutler of the name
of Henry Jordan Strutt, residing in the parish of
Marylebone.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the
Court sentenced the prisoner to seven years'
transportation.

HARE HUNTING.—The Irish who trave,
the country are exposed to considerable danger, since the
liberation of Hare and his wife. Yesterday se'nnight, a
most disgraceful occurrence of this kind happened at Clack-
manan.
An itinerant vender of stationery arrived there,
whose unlucky phiz and tattered habiliments induced some
children to raise the hue and cry of " Hare ! Hare !"
when man, woman, and child, joined in the general out- Monsieur Bermudez, the Spanish Minister,
cry against him, and nothing short of being Burke(' forth-
with, was likely to be the fate of the unfortunate Irishman. and Mr. Secretary Peel, had interviews with the Duke of
Wellington yesterday at the Treasury.
Any attempt to expostulate with his persecutors was of no
avail, a shower of stones was the only answer he received, , A DILENINtA.—Mr.------, Member for
and when he persisted in his endeavours to remonstrate, lie paid 5,0001. for his seat, and was elected on condition
was rewarded with several blows from the cudgels ofsome of supporting the GOvernment and voting against the
of the ring-leaders, who reiterated the shouts of those Catholics. The present question places him in a dilemma
behind them. Matters were now proceeding to an alarm- xvhich makes it impossible for him to fulfil both condi-
ing pitch; covered with wounds, and loaded with imPre- tions, and he is ready to vacate on receiving hack his full
cations, the poor pedlar's life was in great jeopardy ; and purchase money. On the other band, the party who re-
had he not seized an opportunity, while the road behind turned him, though willing to refund, insists on deducting
him was not yet completely blocked up, to force Lis way a thousand a-year for the time he has sat in that House.
along at full speed, there is no question that Le would have Thus matters stand. An explosion is expected.
fallen a victim to popular vengeance. He was pursued
MR. O'CONNELL AND THE ENGLISH CA-
by the mob nearly as far as Kennet village, where he did
net venture to stop, but pushed on to Kincardine. On Tuotics.—We are gratified to learn that a reconciliation
arriving there he made his piteous case known, and met has taken place between Mr. O'Connell and the English
with general sympathy. It so happened that a gentleman Catholics. Some of the leading members of that body
from Dunfermline was present when the pedlar was telling were displeased at some observations which escaped Mr.
his story, and lamenting that in future his life would be O'Connell in his commentary upon the proceedings of the
in danger while following his necessary vocations.—who British Catholic Association. Whatever unpleasantness of
stated that last week two such outrages occurred in that feeling may have been created upon this subject has been
town—and what is not a little singular, they happened on done away by the kind and amicable interposition of the
the same day and at the same bout'. Two unlucky Hares Marquis of Anglesea ; the result of which has been that the
were started at the saute moment in Dunfermline, at oppo.. Duke of Norfolk and Mr. Blount, the S,•cretary of the
site ends of the town, one ran east and the other west, hotly British Catholic Association, and the other influential mem-
. pu, sued by the mob, who shamefully abused them- n 4 hers of that body, called upon Mr. O'Connell yesterday at
did the rioters desist from their outrageous proceedings till Batt's Hotel. It is right that these petty differences should
the two hunted Hares met in the same street, which their be buried in oblivion, and that the English Catholics should
persecutors no sooner saw than they slunk away, ashamed join their brethren in Ireland in according to Mr. O'Connell
no doubt, of the violence into which they had been betray- the well-merited meed of their united gratitude, for his
ed by yielding to the dictates of unrestrained passion,— 'super .eminent services to the cause of their common inte-
j Glasgow Chronicle.
rests and common liberty.