The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-23 00:00:00

IREL AND.

DUBLIN, JUNE 20.---The ease of the Queen v. Duffy, pro-
prietor of the Belfast Vindicator, came on this day before
Chief Justice Pennefather and a special Jury. The issue was
upon a charge of libel against the administration of justice,
published in the taverser's newspaper, and originated in the
case of Hughes, who was thrice brought to trial for the mur-
der of Mr. Powell, in the county Armagh. It insinuated that
Roman Catholics had been excluded from the Juries which
tried him, for the purposes of injustice. The Attorncy-Gene-
ral, the Solicitor-General, Sergeant Green, Sergeant Warren,
Mr. Brewster, Q. C., and Mr. Crawford, appeared for the pro-
secution ; for the defendant, Messrs. O'Hagen and O'Loghlen.
The Attorney-General stated the case for the Crown, in a
temperate speech, and Mr. O'Hagan made a powerful speech
for the defence, when the Judge summed up, and the Jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty.
In the case of the Queen v. Dowdall, proprietor of the
Newry Examiner, the plea of guilty was recorded.

STRAWBERRY HILL.
THURSDAY'S SALE. _

Thursday was the fourth day of rale of Horace Walpole's
collection of prints, &c., and the portion disposed of consisted
of British portraits of the reigns of Queen Anne, George 1.,
and George 11., with many volumes of portraits of eminent
British characters, statesmen, &c.
The prices fetched were something better than on the pre-
ceding days, and competition much greater ; the following are
the principal:—
Lot osti. " David Garrick in various characters," and
thirteen othtrs, including " Mr. Quin, as Falstaff," Colley
Cibber, &c.-41. 12s. 6d. Adamson.
Let 537. Twenty portraits of actors and actresses, amongst
vrilich are Mrs. Clive, Mrs. Cibber, Sirs. Oldfield, ss Fen-
ton, Joe Miller, as Teague, &c., all fine and scarce.-31. 3s.
Smith.
Lot 558. Twenty-eight portraits of celebrated vocalists and
mus;cal composers, comprising F. B. Senesine, Farinelli, Ca-
restini, Cuzzoni, Conti Gizziello, G. F. Handel, &c.-41. 7s.
Mackinlay.
Lot 515. Portraits of Jonathan Wild, thief-catcher-general ;
Col. Charteris; James AP Leane, the Ladies' Hero, &c., seve-
ral rare and curious, 21 in number.-51. 10s.
Lot 566. A batch of Murderers, who flourished in the last
century, five in number-31. ss.
Lot 569. Portraits of Win. Joy, the English Samson, by P.
Vander Bergs.; Dolly, of the Chop-house, Ivy-lane; Sally
King, &c.-41. 4s. Evans.
Lot 577. Sevigniani, or a collection of 144 portraits of Ma-
dame de Sevigne, her friends, and other persons of her time,
memorialised in her letters, &e. Many of the portraits are of
the highest interest, and of superior execution, by engravers of
first-rate celebrity in their art. Among them is the charming
portrait of the Duchess of Mazarine, by Gerard Valet:, a choice
proof-161.165. Smith.
Lot 582. Heroologia Anglica, containing 66 finely engraved
portraits by Passe, of eminent British characters of the 15th
and 16th centuries, with their memoirs in Latin by H. Holland,
1620-3/. 3s.
Lot 595. Birch's Lives of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain,
with their portraits, 108 in number, finely engraved, by Hou-
braken and Vertue, 2 vols. bound in one, large paper copy-
-61. Willey.
Lot 597. A collection of 150 prints pasted in a portfolio, con-
sisting of portraits and subjects sr' piety, &c. from paintings
by Vandyck, with several of his own etchings-fig. Tiffin.
Lot 598. Simon Gribelin, a scrap-book, containing en infi-
nity of minute elaborate engravings, from his own designs,
consisting of portraits, arms, ornamental designs for chasers
and jewellers, vignettes, cyphers, &c., pasted on 89 leaves-
-91. Pickering.
Lot 599. The order of procession of the Knights of the
Garter, with the Queen Elizabeth, anne 1577, copied by Geo.
Vertue, from the original drawings of plait Garrard, on 13
large oblong leaves.-131. 13s. Graves.
The sum total of the day's sale exceeded 2501.
FRIDAY'S SALE.
The sale of Friday consisted of a very considerable number
of engraved portraits of the reign of George 111., from paint-
ings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough, Zoffany, West,
Copley. Comity, T. Lawrence, Romney, &c., which are exe-
cuted in various branches of chalcographio science, including
royalty, peers of the realm, statesmen, and members of Parlia-
ment, clergy, judges, barristers, military and naval officers.
mayors, &c. ; authors, poets, physicians, &c. ; painters, &c. ;
actors, singers, &c., male and female; remarkable characters
and foreigners of distinction that have visited Great Britain.
SATURDAY'S SALE.

On Saturday was sold the last portion of the loose portraits
and prints formed by Horace Walpole, and among them were
the Faitherne's and the Hollar's. The prints by Faithorne
produced 2551., and comprised several in the finest possible con-
dition as to impressions, and of first-rate rarity. Annexed are
notices of a few lots which produced thebest prices on Saturday.
Lot 739: Elias Ashmole, a bust in a niche ; and another of
Sir Edmund Anderson, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas; both fine and rare, 21. 12s. 6d. Messrs.
Smith. Ashmole has recorded he paid Faithorne seven pounds
for engraving the plate, yet an impression at Sir M. M. Sykes's
sold for 91. 15s. So profuse was Ashmole of the prints from
this plate, that in most of the books in his library he uses it
as a book-plate, and pasted them in to mark the ownership.
Those books now constitute part of the Ashmolean museum,
at Oxford, but from some atmospheric effect, or other inde-
fineable cause, nearly, if not the whole, of these rare trifles
hare evaporated or disappeared.
Lot 743. Sir Orlande Bridgman, Lord Keeper ; and Ralph
Brownrigg, Bishop of Exeter, both fine, 2/. 15s. British
Museum. The first only, at Sir M. M. Sykes's sale, was sold
for 51. 10a.
Lot 753. Charles 11., in armour, the Garter jewel pendant
on his breast; below, six lines of English verse, beginning,
" The Second Charles, heire of ye Royal Martyr, &c. ;" fine
and very rare, 13/. 2s. 6d. British Museum.
Lot 757. Sir Henry Coker, Knt., Colonel of Horse and Foot,
to King Charles I. ; High Sheriff of Wilts, 1663; engraved
in 1669 ; fine, and extremely rare, Si. Bs. Graves. Sir M.
M. Sykes's sold for 271. 6s.
Lot 758. Henry Hare, Lord Coleraine, in his robes, a proof,
in the unfinished state of the plate, as left by the artist on his
death in May, 1691, 21. British Museum. Sir M. M.
Sykes's sold for nine guineas.
Lot. 760. Oliver Cromwell, small oval, with four small me-
dallions in the corners, and four others, 21. 15s. British
Museum

Lot 763. Sir Francis Englefield, Bart., of WoottGn Bassett,
Wilts, 1661, in cuirass, long flowing hair, and laceband, in tine
condition, 31i. 10s. British Museum. Walpole considered
this print in his possession as unique.
Loti766. France Brydges, Countess of Exeter, from the
painting by Vandyck, till recently in the gallery at Strawberry-
hill; fine and extremely rare, 5/. ss.
L0t771. Sir Robert Henley, Bart., in loose robe, 4/. 15s.
Messrs. Smith. Sir M. M. Sykes's impression of this ex-
tremely rare print sold for 371. lbs.
Lot 772. 'I vro prints—Sir James Harrington Knight and
Baronet, and the Lady Katherine Han ington, his wife, 1654,
fine and very rare, 1/. 10s. British Museum.
Lot 774. John Kersey, mathematician, two impressions, one
a fine proof before the insertion of the names of the painter
and engraver, 71. 171. 6d. British Museum.

Lot 778. Montague Bertie, second Earl of Lindsay, Lord
Chamberlain, brilliant impression, and extremely rare, 81. Bs.
Messrs. Smith. Sir M. M. Sykes's sold for 37/. 16s.
Lot 782. John Viscount Mordaunt, half-length, in armour,
oval frame, enriched with eight armorial escutcheons, in the
manner of the same artist's prints of the Scottish nobility, fine
impression, but slightly injured, 2/. 7s. 6d. Rev. J. Uorrie.
Sold in Sir M. M. Sykes's sale for 40 guineas.
Lot 784. Two prints, Sir William and Lady Paston, 1659--
the first fine, the latter damaged, but of such rarity that at Sir
M. M. Sykes's sale they sold for 691. ss. 6d. ; 3/. Graves.
Lot 787. Carew Reynell, Armiger, very rare, 14s. Messrs.
Smith. Sir M. M. Sykcs's sold for 17/. 6s. d.
Lot 793. Margaret Smith, widow of Thomas Carey (or
Carew), and wife of Sir Edward Herbert, from a painting by
Van Dyck, discoloured, and the margin wholly cut off,
1/. 11s. 6d., Graves ; at the Sykes sale it sold for 541. Its.
This is one among the many instances afforded of Walpole's
folly in the destruction of his prints; he appears to have
clipped them to particular hook., and to have carried on a most
successful warfare against, all the margins of his graphic collec-
tions, whether valuable or not.

The Hollers were mane of them fine, and several of them of
considerable rarity, yet did not realise more than ninety pounds.
Among the rarest may be notified the following :
Lot 813. James, Duke of York, 1651, then in his 18th year,
half-length, within an oval of palms, after a painting by D.
Teniers, fine and of extreme rarity, 101. 10s. 'Tiffin.
Lot 816. Apotheosis of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, a
grand allegorical design, by Cornelius Schut, a large sheet
proof, 3/. 12s. Messrs. Smith.

Lot 818. Robert Devereux, Earle of Essex and Ewe, &c.,..
en horseback, in armour, half-sheet, seeond address, fine,
3!. 17s. 6d. Graves.

Let 658. Royal Exchange of London, 1644 ; Latin and
English verses, by Henry Peachum, above on a tablet, from
which is pendant a medallion of Sir Thomas Gresham, tine,
21. 61. Evans.

Lot 899. Three portfolios with leaves, which contained the
Walpole collection of Hollar's prints, IL is. Messrs. Smith.
Among the miscellaneous prints which concluded the day's
sale, was a choice proof of Sharp's engraving from Domini-
chino's, splendid picture of St. Cecilia; 4 produced 4 guineas.
The whole day's sale did not realise 3501., and has shown
the fallacy of breaking up the collection. A printseller of-
fered to take the collection, just sold, for 1,3001. ; it has
realised 1,4001., but the expenses attending this last mode of
sale has created a loss which the additional hundred will act
reimburse,

DREADFUL DEATLL.,----OVIE,Da, JUNE 10.—On the
morning of the Bth, 111. Bernardo Gonzales Alvera, solicitor
of the morning
of our town, died suddenly. He was up-
wards of seventy years of age, but very strong, and displaying
1.611 considerable energy in the discharge of his official duties.
At nine o'clock in the evening his body was placed in a coffin,
which was immediately carried to the church of St. Sebastian,
where the funeral was to take place on the following day. Yes-
terday morning, at five o'clock, when the sacristan opened the
church, he was not a little surprised to find the coffin lying on
the ground, by the table on which it had been deposited. He
tar. to the spot, and found the lid broken in the direction of the
head. The hands and face of the deceased were covered with
scratches still bleeding, and his mouth and ears were full of
blood. On inquiry, it was ascertained that nobody had entered
the church during the night, and that M. Gonzales Alvera was
not dead when he was shut up in the coffin. Had a person been
left to watch him, as is usually the care, he would perhaps be
still alive. To-day the municipality of Oviedo, in accord with
the clergy, decreed that hereafter no corpse should be admitted
into the church, or interred, until it should have been visited
by a physician, to certify its death.
The Diaria de Rama of the 9th announces that the Infants
of Spain, sons of Don Carlos, have left that City to pay a visit
to Medina.

SPECIAL COMMISSION.—The state of crime in the
North and South Ridings of Tipperary, may be judged of from
the calendar. In the article of murder alone there are twenty-
one prisoners far trial, seventeen of whom belong to the Nortii
Riding, and four to the South. These calendars will show a
preponderance of crime committed in the North Riding of
Tipperary over that of the South Riding, there being in the
latter but three persons for murder, and one for aiding ; and
in the former, ten persons for murder. three for aiding, and
four for shooting at with intent to kill. Instead of the 21st
June, it is on the 28th the Commission will commence.—Dublin
Evening Mail.

The-Marquis and Marchioness of Tsveeddale, and
suite ; Lord Arthur Hay, Lord Gifford Hay, and Lord John
Hay; Lord and Lady Brabazon, and suite; Captain 11ac-
clinton, R.N., and F. yW. Knight, Esq., M.P., were among
the numerous fashionables that left London yesterday for
the Continent in the General Steam Navigation Gompany's
mail packet Ocean, Captain T. C. Hast, for Rotterdam.
Colonel Lindsay, and the Rev. F. and Lady French,
left Blackwall yesterday at one o'clock, in the British steam
ship Soho, for Antwerp.
Lady Strachan, Marchioness of Salzi, took her
departure for Naples yesterday by the General Steam Navi-
gation Company's packet Magnet, Captain R. Stock, for
Boulogne.
COLLIERY BILL.—As the prohibition to employ
females or boys under thirteen, will increase the
,ex-
pease in some collieries, it occurs to us that prom.
ion
should have been made, in one way or another, for the
relief of tacksmen who have taken leases of mines on the
faith of the existing mode of working being permanent.
-'-Seotsman.