The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-07 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

nRUSSELS, FEB. 3.—The average price of Wheat last
week was 21f. 44e., and that of Rye, 12f. 51c.
The Journal de Bruxelles says, It is affirmed that
Count Le lion, the Belgian Ambassador at Paris is re.
called." ,

We are assured that in an audience which King Louis
Phillippe gave some days ago to Count Le Hon, his Ma-
jesty told him, that the eau- of his brother ought not to
have any influence on his official character.
BRUSSELS, FEII. 4. The Monitcur contains a Royal
Ordinance, fixing at 10,000 men, the levy for the Miliiia
in 1842, assigning the number to be furnished by each
province according to its population. It appears that the
entire population of the kingdom is 4,066,847.
The Royal carriages are gone to-day to Ostend. The
King will go to that town to receive his Majesty the
King of Prussia, who is to arrive at about seven o'clock
in the morning. The two Monarchs will proceed toge-
ther to the Palace of Lacken. The day before yesterday,
in the afternoon, Prince Ernest of Saxe-Coburg, arrived
here. He was at the ball at Court in the evening.
DUTCH YU NOS.—Amaraanam, Fso 4.
None,. Bills.
Actual 1),I :334 per Cent
Jitto, ditto pet ceat.
Srndo:. 44 percent............... 51% 11254
Ditto, ditto, 3!, per cent.-- ...... 705 764
Canuncrclal Company. per cent 157 i 4 1665
Ditto (1635 and 1332) 5 per cent. ..... 1094 1024
Loan 1337, 5 :,er cad... .......... . . I)o3Exdia,Age tine mouth l2 123.
Two months
Hamburgh, One month 35 565
Two months 35 i'7)4
Dutch Papers, Feb. 5.
ItEL.I3I A 2.1 l UNDS-115a01112Le, Foe. 4.
Actual Oet,t,'23. per Cent. ......... 52).
Rothschild's Lean, 5 per C4nt...
Loan et Thirty illions, 4 per 4!3
3per Cent. .....

ka
Loan of City, IT3:1, 4 per Cent...—. 1(..3,41
Sodet7 et Commerce, 45iper Cent S4
Hank of Belgium, 5 per 80
NationalSoxiety.
0,11•••••••••••••••••••
Exchange on London (shntt) ........
—Brussels Payers, Feb. 4.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—.l7lxxsa, JAN. I.S.
give per C.. xts. Metailiquea
Fest pet Cents. .............. Ste%
1 htc-e p:r Cei.tt.
............... 75
Bank Stlar.:2
—Alteemetne Z(111101,2'. Jan.

EXECUTION of JOHN' DELAHUNT.

The execution of the murderer Delabunt, at the limit of the
county gaol, Kilmainham, this day, attracted immense crowds of all
classes. Such Was the prurient curiosity of some, that they slept
in the neighbourhood, having paid protlisely for the occupation of
windows in the front of the drop, and fearing that from the crowds
they would be disappointed, obtained access to their hired!
perches. At an early hour crowds_of men, women, and chiL
dren arrived from town and country, and the vast area was a
living mass of human beings long before the hour fixed for
the execution had arrived The general feeling exhihited was
more of gratification or satisfaction, rather thaw pity for the
wretched culprit. Three Roman Catholic priests were in attend-
ance upon him at an early hour in the morning, and he continued
engaged anxiously in repeating th., prescribed formularies of prayers
and litanies up to the latest moment allowed him to live. He
was so faint and exhausted as to be scarcely able to mount
the stairs to the press-room, his principal horror being to have
his ears saluted with the horrific groans and 3 ells which
were uttered tow,.rds him on and after his trial. When the
cap was put on and the rope adjusted, he became very faint.
with scarcely the sensation of life about him ; he was helped
out upon the trap, when his strength gave way, and in a second
or two the bolt was drawn and the wretched man launched into
eternity. The crowd of men and women on the instant set up a
yell, but the priests in their robes on the drop put up their hands to
allay tbern, and succeeded. There was not a motion visible in the
corpse after it had fallen. The crowd remained, to a great extent,
until after the body had hung the prescribed half-hour. After being
cut down it was placed in a shell and buried in one of the prisbn
yards.

The fallowing is a copy of the confession which he was desirous
of having drawn up, and which was not to be published until after
his execution!—

" I state positively that I had neither hand, act, nor part in the
death of Garlibardo, the Italian boy. I was that night in town.
In a few days after the commission of the deed I went, accompanied
by my brother Thomas, to view the spot. Seeing many persons
climbing over the wall and going into the Marquis of Ely's de-
mesne, we went over the wall also. As it was coming nlilt
Palm Sunday, my brother broke down a branch from one
of the trees, and we brought it home. When I was afterwards
confined in: the Castle, as a Crown witness against Cooney
and his wife, my mother came to see me, and It occurred
to me that by referring to that branch of the tree at
my home it would corroborate my testimony. I accord.
ingly bid her say that I brought the branch home the night
of the murder, which she did, and In referring to this circum-
stance, and having been sent with head-constable Towers to see
if my statement was correct, I at once pointed out the tree, and
thus obtained more credence for my story ; but I solemnly assert I
knew nothing of the facts of the case, unless by reading them, as
detailed in the newspapers. I swore against Cooney and his wife
. .

lin the hopes of having pay at the Castle ; I also swore against
the men for the assault on Mr. Cradock for the same motive,
Cradock lived and got ail the particulars from an old woman,
greownserdo. of
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and then went and swore against the men. I accused them by
mere chance. What I stated of them was false. As to the
child Thomas Maguire, I do now confess that the hope of
getting again into the pay of the Castle was my strong mo-
tive for committing the deed. I thought I could II
it on some one in the course of time, and if 1 had
succeeded I don't know but I might have done a similar deed
again, had my conscience yielded to a similar temptation. I
kept him nearly half an hour in the lane; he twice asked
me was I coming home soon, as his mother would be beating
him. I said that I was waiting for a jaunting car. He spent
part of the time sitting in the corner at the stable-door,
on a heap of dung or litter, heaped up outside. I was
then turning in my mind how I could best cut his throat. He
stood up then by my side. I felt his throat, and asked him had
he any lumps in his throat P He made no reply. After time
minutes I again felt his throat with my left hand, having the knife
In my right hand ready. My right hand was then down in my
coat-pocket, when I asked him the second time had he lumps in
his throat, and began again to feel him. He raised up his head
to let me feel more easily. His back was then to me, and at that
moment, while lie was in that position, with his head drawn back, I
cut his throat, and threw him from me. He fell on his face. He
uttered no cry, nor did he make any noise whatever. On getting
about, three yards from him I looked back, and saw him on
i his feet again going in the direction of the cottage in the fight-- I
did not clean the knife, but I threw it into the field. I cannot tell
why I chose to kill the child to keep myself in pay at the Castle,
except that I was afraid to attack a large person, and the boy Jae-
ing small and weak suited •my purpose. I planned the deed for
nearly two months before, but could not, up to the4day of the
murder, find a proper object, and besides I was often terrified
in my own mind at the contemplation of :t. My real object was,
I repeat it, not the desire of stilling or destrcying a human
being, but merely and solely to obtain reward. I wish to state
those matters fully to my Counsel, Mr. Walsh,
..that
the world may know the truth before my death, and that there
may be no misconception upon the mind of any one con.
cerning me. I feel very grateful to Mr. Alison for his kindness
to me, and regret most deeply my many and great crimes, and,"
at peace with the world. I should also add, that I know nothing
whatsoever about the murder at Drogheda, nor did I even bear of
it till I was in gaol for the murder of Thomas Maguire, and that
I am totally innocent of all knowledge of that deed, or its Par"
trator. (Signed) JOHN DELAIMI2;
The above statement was read over to the convict, John Deli.
hunt, and which he stated before us contained aMI "yew°s °r
what he wished to state. He then signed it in our presence.
. _.

(Signed) _ -
PATRICK O'REILLY, R.C.C. •
GEORGE CANAVAN, P.P., Dina /eon Howe„ „
_••
JOHN WALSH, Barrleter.st.Law, late Countel.l9,
the Convict.
EDWARD ALISON, Governor of the Gaol.

advanced
above
age of seventy-nine
daughterb e °n
bornaZll7hbe2ir.esslioefinSarierir"oh' !in Bl7rBilierliossf
at Coombe Park,_
. In 1807 1
edßAtolt,t7he.
C°l—e
boroughani:"DmgntbeeETrh:ahhP:euiTiacennnlwYdaa'syorBemtiF-srnlSeec:..tßedGinEl°Blß2Ga'Ene and 1618
of Commons as representative of Lewes, which
House
tththee
was created a Baronet. Captain henry Shiffninerw, lite.tfly.e,"bohrne
in 1789, succeeds his father in the Baronetcy.