The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-18 00:00:00

MONAGHAN ASSIZES.

Robert Bradford and .Richard Rowland, two
respectable-looking men, were indicted, in several
counts, for maliciously and wilfully assaulting and
shooting at Patrick Harton, Edward Cassidy, and
Philip Carraher, near Ballybay, on the 23d Septem-
ber last, with intent to kill and murder them; also
for having there made a great riot and affray.
Edward Cassidy examined by Mr. GthatoßE,
K.C.—Recollects coming with a party from Crieve
side, on the 23d September. When the party came
to the cross-roads, at the school-house,-they found a
dead man. Witness assisted in carrying him some
distance. Did not get the dead man carried .4o a
house. When they were engaged carrying the
dead man, Robert Bradford, one of the prisoners at
the bar, came from a field, presented a gun, and
fired, and then they dropped deceased, and made off.
There were shots fired after them as they ran along.
Passed a man on the road with his leg broken.
Cross-examined by Mr. MAYNE—Went to see
Mr. Lawless that morning, or a man said to be him.
Several had arms in Lawless's party. There were
pistols among them. There might have been scythes
also. Is acquainted with Ross M'Calre.
By the COURT—Can you distinguish, witness,
between the report of a gun when loaded with ball
and powder, or when charged with powder alone ?
Witness—l am Hot well enough acquainted wish
fire-arms, my Lord, to know so much; but there
was something" cracked" very close to my head.
Mr. ScurvEN—Just as the ball came cracking to
your head it cried "Ned, dear, I'll take off your
head;" and then you prudently ducked down your
head, and the ball cracked off, and you wished it a
good afternoon. Is this the case ? Witness—No.
James Cunningham, (for the defence)—Was at
home the day Murphy was killed. Knows Brad-
ford well. Saw a crowd in the morning going up
to Crieve by the mountain road. Observed pistols
and bayonets with them. There were then seven
of the Protestant side coming from Ballybay to the
cross roads at Rocksorry. The Catholics shouted
out " Here is the Orangemen coming back,
and now, -- their souls, as they have not the
army with them, we'll go up and pay them." The
Protestants were endeavouring to get past, when
the others prevented them, by crying out " Take to
the stones, boys ;" the Catholics then commenced
throwing stones.
George Brown examined—Recollects the even-
ing Mr. Lawless was coming towards Ballybay.—
Saw a great crowd of Lawless's men coming down
the mountain road, and also the Protestant party,
about seven in number. Before coming to the cross
roads Lawless's party cried out " halt, from front to
rear. There is the -- Orangemen coming."—
And they then commenced gathering stones, and
threw them. They attacked Snodden, and beat
him severely against a bank. Some of the Pro-
testants had made their escape into a field at this
time. Saw two shots fired. There was a great
alarm, and all the country was gathering. Saw the
prisoners coming from their own houses.
The Learned SERJEANT briefly charged the Jury,
and they returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
(The Court-house was crowded to overflowing
during the trial, and we observed Mr. Samuel Gray
busily engaged in the cause of his adherents.)

Yesterday afternoon, Lord and Lady KIN-.
Novi. arrived in the Lord Melville steam-packet at the
Tower, from Calais. The passengers, some of them of
great respectability, stated that his Lordship had dined a

few days since at the Austrian Ambassador's in Paris,
where the Russian Ambassador was also present, and that

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it was the universal conversation in Paris, that M. Pozzi
DI BORGO'S conduct to Lord STUART was grossly insult-
ing, and that Lord and Lady KINNOUL had actually fled
from Paris,fearful of the consequences which the change
in the administration of that country was likely to produce.
BOW-STREET OFFICE.—Mr. SNITCH' sur-
geon, of Brydges-street, Covent-garden, accompanied by
Mr. THOMAS, the able constable of Yorkstreet, appeared
at this office, Mr. 'l'. having in his custody the female
servant of Mr. S., MARIA HARDY. She was charged
with having stolen and pawned a pair of sheets from the
bed on which she slept for 6s. Mr. T. had searched her
person, and found the duplicates for the sheets, together
with twenty-four other duplicates of different pawnbrokers
for a variety of articles of wearing apparel, her own pro-
perty, most of them pledged in different names. The
prisoner pledaed guilty to the offence, and Sir R. BIREIE

turning to Mr. S , said said it was a case of felony, and
asked him if he intended prosecuting. Mr. S. in reply,
said he should not feel very comfortable to inflict the
punishment of transportation, which the law would en-

force, for so small a sum; still, at the same time he con-
sidered she richly deserved punishment, as the theft had
not arisen from want, but she had been tempted to pawn
the property from her great propensity to drink, and on
these grounds he had caused her to be apprehended, trust-
ing there might be some intermediate punishment under
the Act for illegally pawning. But on learning the severity
of the punishment likely to be inflicted, Mr. S. declined
prosecuting, and Sir IL BIRNIE gave the prisoner a
suitable admonition, and trusted it would be a warning for
her life to come.

SCHOOL LITERATURE.—Mr. GUY, the suc-
cessful author of some of our best Books on Education, has
just published a new work of very promising interest in
that important branch of literature, and which will, no
doubt, be well received by every respectable academy in
the empire. It is equally adapted to the uses of all classes,
being as necessary to. the young scholar as to the more ad-
vanced student. The work is called " Guy's General
School Question Book ;" in which each question, in a re-
gular series, is followed by its appropriate answer ; not
only in Ancient and Modern History, in which the whole
is arranged in chronological order, but also in Biography,
Geography, Astronomy, Heathen Mythology, Classical
Phraseology, and a great and interesting variety of Mis-
cellaneous Subjects, the whole tending to enlarge the
boundaries of juvenile knowledge by increasing its stores;
and thus by blending such a course of general information
with sound classical, or liberal learning, to raise the
better superstructure of School Education. Mr. Guy
in his own advertisement thus explains its uses:—
"To -supply youth with a Compendium of General
History has been the first object of this manual.
As such, it exhibits not a confused and multifari-
ous assemblage of ill-arranged questions; but a well-
digested abstract of both Ancient and Modern History
and Biography, from the creation to the present

time, in a regular series, with the dates affixed,
embracing [the most prominent features of ten An-
cient, and eighteen Modern Kingdoms and States; wit!,
the principal revolutions of the most illustrious nations ;
and, perhaps such a body of historical matter has seldom
been compressed in so moderate a volume. The second
part comprises interesting questions on Geography, Astro-
nomy, and Miscellaneous Subjects ; not on subjects that
may or may not be known by the well educated, but such
as every parent and every instructor would deem altogether
essential in a course of liberal education. The work has
been drawn up with great care, from the most authentic
sources, and accommodates itself to every class of learners ;
serving, first, as a daily course of reading among the lower
forms; and afterwards, as a regular course of study, during
the last years of juvenile instruction."