The Sun.
London, England, 1820-11-14 00:00:00

IRELAND,

KILKENNY, Nov. 4.
Disco/nal or A Muaora.—We have collect-
ed, from a Gentleman of this City, who oblig-
ingly culled at our Office on Thursday last, some
interesting particulars connected with the deve-
lopment of an atrocious case of Alurder, perpe-
trated in the County of Carlow, nearly seven years
since, and the circumstances of which had beau
involved from that period In profound mystery.
It appears that, about the time alluded to, a per-
son employed as a process-server, had been sent in
that capacity to the house of a farmer of the name
of Edmund Murphy, of Ballyellan, in the county
of Carlow, and had on that occasion suddenly dis-
appeared. All inquiry into the probable circum-
stances of this extraordinary event proved fruitless;
and it was not until within a few days past that
the disclosures of a servant, who had been in the
employment of Murphy since and some time
previous to, the disappearance of the man in
question, brought to light the certainty of his mur-
der by Murphy and his barbarous confederates.
The servant, in resentment, we believe, of some
offence received from his master, deposed before a
Magistrate of the county, Illackney, Esq., to
the facts of this revolting crime, and described the
place and position In which the body of the mur-
dered man had been, with his assistance, buried.
A very diligent search was accordingly made in
Murphy's garden, where, at length, the skeleton

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as found, placed in an upright position,—
Measures had been previously taken to secure the
person of Murphy, who, however, while his house
WAS so surrounded by a police force, secreted
himself in a loft, to which the entrance, by a trap-
door, was so indistinct as wholly to have escaped
observation, On the retirement of the police
the fellow effected his escape, and has not yet
been taken. His brother, who is charged as
an accomplice, is now in custody. There is no
doubt, I.V• learn, that the information of Mur-
phy's servant has implicated others in this deed
of blood, which the signal iutervention of Pro-
vidence has thus discovered.--(Moderator.)

From an account just printed by order of the
House of Commons, in " A Supplementary Report
of the Committee of the General Assembly," as to
the managent of the poor in Scotland, it appears
that the gross funds applied to paupers in Scot-
land amount to 114,1951. 178. 9d. of which
49,7181. 108. sd. are derived from assessment,
the crest being from contributions at the church
doors and other funds. In seven out of fifteen
synods there are no assessments. The non-assessed
synods, are Aberdeen, Moray, Ross, Sutherland
and Caithness, Argyll, Glenelg, and Orkney.
The paupers are as 1 to 39 and 9-10ths to the
population.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. '3.

' THE TOLLS OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-
TYNE.
THE CORPORATION V.
Mr. BROUGHAM in this case moved the Court.
to set aside a verdict of 9s. 6d.. which had bn.,u-
obtained by the plaintiffs, and grant a new trial.
The case was tried before Mr. Justice Bayley at
Durham, and a verdict for nominal damages taken
for the plaintiffs. The action was brought to try
the right of the Corporation to certain tolls on
corn entering the town. Mr. Brougham urged
twogrounds for setting aside the verdict. First
and principally, that it was against the evi-
dence; and secondly, that it was brought about
by the misdirection of the Learned Judge. .He
endeavoured to show that the evidence on the trial
'oil the part of the plaintiffs did not warrant the
verdict that the Corporation were entitled 0
these tolls. The principal part of that evidence
was documentary, but the charter of 1560, in
the reign of Elizabeth, which granted a toll on
all corn entering the town, was for the protectiou
of the Mtcragio and Pontagio (the wall au.l.
bridge), and the immense imports which were
now levied could never have been all designed
for that purpose. There was also a lack of evi-
dence to shew the antiquity of this toll. A half-
penny a boll (two Winchester bushels) was now
claimed by the Corporation, but four-pence in
our days was worth a shilling in those of Eliza-
beth, and was it reasonable to think so large
toil would then be imposed ? And it should be
remembered that this was a toll in money, not in
kind, and that the nominal value as you went
back was not diminished. The amount of the toll
made it improbable so much bad been claimed
fortnerly_

The CHIEF JUSTICE said, all this had been
more properly laid before the Jury at the Trial.
Mr. Iluounnalt said he had done so, but he
contended the Jury had drawn wrong conclusions.
He then said he had new evidence to oiler, which
had been discovered only since the trial took
place. It was a charter granted to the Cor-
poration in 1333, the 4th of Edward 111. by
which they were entitled to demand tolls for
ten years, and no longer. This too was for
the repair of the bridge and road, being the
same pretence that the Corporation now made use
of to demand tolls. In looking to this charter,
he found that the tolls granted were very high,
such as 2d. for every ten sheep ; but he supposed
the reason for that was, that Newcastle was so
much exposed to the incursions of the enemy, the
Scotch, and indeed to this day it was often In-
fested with them.—(A laugh.)

Mr. Justice BayLEY.—‘l lthink you are right
In saying it was the exposed situation of Ne .r.
castle which made the King grant such high toll*
to keep its walls in repair. And as you talk of
the dangers of the Border, perhaps you are not
aware that to this day the Judges receive dag-
ger-money, to protect them In that circuit.
Mr. Bttounumd repeated his arguments for ss
new trial ; but the Court refused to grant It, al,
leglug that the Jury had the whole evidence
before them at the trial, and that they had ue
reason to presume that the conclusion which they
drew was a wrong one. Their Lordships, how-
ever, restrained the plaintiffs from offering the
judgment iu this case as a bar to any other action
which might arise under similar circumstance*
agalnst the Corporation.

DAVY MITFORD AND OTHERS.
This was au action against the Commissioner,
of Bankrupts, for assaulting and falsely
soniug the plaintiff. It will be recollected that
at the late Sittings at Guildhall, before Mr. Ju fie
tics BAILEY, the plaintiff had a verdict for 200 L
damages.

Mr: SCARLETT now moved for It rule to she*
cause why the verdict should not be set aside, anit
a new trial granted. The plaintiff having been de.,
clared bankrupt, was brought before the Commis-

sioners repeatedly, and examined touching his aw

counts. 110 wab required to produce a balance sheet,

and promised so to do, and several days were given
him to produce it; but not having complied with
his promise, he was at length committed to New.

gate, where he was confined for many weeks.
The Learned Judge at the trial charged dm
Jury,that under the Acts concerning 13ankruptit,
Commissioners had no authority to commit for not
producing a balance sheet, and the Jury found foe
the plaintiff as above-mentioned. The Learned
Counselnowfounded his motion upon the suggestion
that the plaintiff had not been committed for no;
producing a balance sheet, but for not satisfac-
torily answering upon the days repeatedly giveta
him for explanation touching his accounts : and

he referred to the Commissioners' warrant in

support of the argument, contending that Coot.

misiiouer• might lawfully commit under the cir-
cumstances or the examination therein set out.

The Court, after hearing the circumstance*
stated, granted a rule Nidi.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 13.

DOE 0. PITT.

Thts was an action of ejectment, at the trial
of which the defendant's Counsel had contended
that the lessor of the plaintiff had waived his
right by distraining on the defendant. The
Jury bad given a verdict for the plaintiff.
The defendant in person now appeared ea
wove for a new trial on the above ground,
also because by accounts between himself an t
the Jessor of the plaintiff, it appeared there *fts
no rent due on which to maintain either distree6

or ejectment.
The .Coo.arr said, that ae the matter related to
accounts, the defendant had better prepare
affidavit, containing a simple statement of thee,,
on which he could then move at a future day.

There are this week three Eclipses of Jupiter's
Satellites—the first this day, the second to-rnol
row, and the third on Friday.

Several deer in Tankersley Park, the property
of Earl FrrzwiLLlAM, were worried last week by
some young dogs belonging to the Sheffield pack

-THE LONDON

[DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.]

[Morning „Post.]

Another attempt at a general illumination was
made yesterday in honour of our virtuous Queen.
We must agree with the Brandenburgh House
hirelings that such an illumination was never
seen before. It quite inverted the ordinary
course of things. When the public have been
called upon to rejoice in successful war; or to
celebrate the return of glorious peace., it has been
common for the principal streets; and most re-
spectable houses, to furniSh a brilliant display,
while the smaller thoroughfares and meaner ha-
bitations were but scantily lighted up. Not
'such the spectacle of yesterday. In those places
Where the greatest efforts were usually made,
there was a general absence of lights, and inter-
ceding trans, and supplicating threes,- in the win-
dows of the most substantial inhabitants, proved
that they were placed. there but as centinels to
protect the glass, if -the tyrannical' rkbble could
thus be moved to 'deny themselves the dear de-
light of inflicting inconvenience on their betters,
and expense on the county. Such was the scene
in the principal streets in and near the Metro-
polis ; but when the spectator turned fr6m these
into the courts and alleys, the chosen haunts of
filth and crime, a flood of insufferable light burst
on the eye, and the splendce:r of the dwellings of
the out-door paupers announced to the parochial
authorities that the whole week's allowance from
the workhouse had been expended on a flare
in honour of the spotless Queen 'Caroline.—
Is_ there, we would ask, a woman now living
who has ever had a more terrible sentence.pro-
,nounced against her—one ..more destructive of
every thing that constitutes the charm, the gracez
the dignity of the' sex ? flas there.beett-Tor cen-
turieshas there ever beeu,a Queen of England,
of whom such language has- been- held by the
honourable Nobility of -England ? Good God !
" Can such things be—and overcome us like a
summer cloud ?" Impo:;sible ! The Mists and va-
pours of faction and of prejudice will disperse;
the delusion will pass away, and we shall look
back upon the monstrous folly, the degrading,
the wilful blindness, with which we have groped.
through this business, with amazement, with hu-
miliation. Female reputation has hitherto been
considered of so gentle, .So sensitive, so delicate,
a texture, that the slightest breath of calumny
will taint, if not destroy it. It was reserved for
the present age to exhibit before an astonished
world one instance of robust, of more- than mas-
culine, fibre, in that commodity. We have now
a Queen,, whose magnanimity despises yvhat
Weaker women would take to heart, end die, or
hide themselves from the public gaie. Our only
hope is, that the example may not be contagious,
and as our fair countrywomen cannot aspire to
the other regal virtues of our , gracious Queen,
they will not attempt to copy her intrepid scorn
of -public. opinion.;

[Morning Chronicle.]

Foreigners may well have been astonished at
the spectacle which this country' has lately exhi-
hited. Here the whole of the resources of the
most powerful Government of Europe, aided by
the Holy Alliance, have been arrayed against a
female, who, when she set foot on our shores,
had no other support than the laws of the coun-
try, and the determinationof the people to stand
by these laws, which they saw were about to be
violated in her person. These seemed fearful
odds, no doubt, and the determination of the
Queen must, to men unacquainted with the
-power of the law, in a country accustomed to its
dominion, have appeared in the light of madness.
But the event justified the wisdom of the Queen's
resolution. Covered by the shields of the people,
she was impervious to the shafts of the- conspi-
racy. The voice of the people was powerfully
seconded by Lords Grey, Erskine, Lans-
down, and the rest of the upright and in-
dependent band, who rallied round the laws
and constitution of the country, and those
to whom honour and a sense of justice would in
vain have appealed in behalf of the Queen, were
awed by the imposing spectacle of a whole
people, who had made her cause their own, and
shrunk back in dismay from the conflict. At the
moment when Ministers thought the Queen was
secure within their toils, they thus saw themselves
compelled to relinquish their prey ; and they
have been saved, in spite of themselves,' from the
consequences of their own folly. Instead of the
dreadful results which must have followed from
the passing of the Bill of Pains and Penalties,
the happiest effects may now be expected ; for the
people are not more cordial in their detestation
'of Ministers and their abominable plans, than in
their love for the laws and ancient usages of the
country, which these Ministers were ready to
trample under foot.

[.New 71/Ines.]
At the hour at w hich we are forced to send
this article to press, we cannot venture to predict
whether the outrages of Saturday might may not
be repeated, or even exceeded. It is,however, the
last night of illumination ; and we may hope, that
if ever the Lord Mayor should think fit to sanc-
tion another exhibition of the same kind, he will
fake adequate precautions against such violences
as those by which the present has been disgraced.
It is an admitted fact, which the Lord Mayor
himself will not dispute, that the ordinary civil
power at his conimand is totally inadequate to re-
strain the excesses of so numerous a rabble as that
which may pour into' the City from the other
parts of the Metropolis and its vicinity. Look
at the thousands of • idle children prepared for
any mischief to which they can be incited I Look
at the gangs of pickpockets and thieves whose
very trade, is to afford such incitement as a covey
'.-ir 'plunder! Look at the furious Radicals
malignant passions to indulge against
s respectable in society !. And, lastly,
• .oe countless myriads who, by their mere
give countenance and support. to the

most tremendous atrocities, and who shelter the
guilty by the impoSsibility of distinguishing them
from the innocent! Against such bodies as these
at least organization and arrangement of the
most complete kind is requisite ; and .for
such organization and arrangement the con-
stitution of the City supplies an excellent
foundation. But how does the machine work ?
Send to the Alderman of your Ward, he is out
of town. Send to his Deputy, he says he has no
authority over the Constables. Send to the Head
Constable, he tells you very plainly that he and
his brother officers are but 10 or 12 in number ;
and if the attacking mob is numerous, it would
be a folly in him to expose himself to so unequal
a conflict. There remain then only the foresight
of the Lord Mayor, the activity of the Marshals
and their men, and the power of calling toge-
ther watchmen, constables, and special consta-
bles, to anticipate attack where it is most pro-
bable and most distinctly threatened. In former
periods of civic history, this respectable civil-
force was backed by a military force quite as re-
spectable, the Trained Bands; and while there
were such martial men among the citizens, the
excellent rule of not calling in the King's troops
to quell a riot was very properly observed ; but,
alas ! we have now lost the Trained Bands, and
yet, we are not allowed to call to our assistance
the Life Guards. Five soldiers on long-tailed
horses, riding up and down the Strand, were
enough to keep the Mob in awe, and to protect
the Offices of Time Courier and Morning Post ;
while the Office of The New Times was destroyed
within 200 or 300 yards of them, and the citizens
were not allowed to claim their protection!

[The Tilnes.]
" A QUEEN-aye, every inch a QUEEN." This
is at length the result at' which we are happily ar-
rived, at least with respect to the conspiracy by
which,her Majesty's character was assailed, and
her glories obscured; That conspiracy has been
exposed and defeated ; and how it and its abet-
tors are abhorred, if there were any doubt
upon the subject before, is now rendered most
transcendently clear by such demonstrations of
public joy as were never evinced in this nation be-
fore. The next subject of consideration, there-
fore, is the attainment of that state which be-
comes the Majesty of the Queen of England,
and (which is no less a consideration) a daughter
of the illustrious House of Brunswick. Applica-
tion has, no doubt, been made for a Palace—one
of the Royal Palaces—for her reception. There let
her Majesty reside ; and, if treason will suspend
its odious machinations, she will show the people
of England what she is. The absurdities of her
enemies are as incredible as their baseness. Having
conjured up this plot against her Majesty, they
become to a certain extent the dupes of their
own fraud, and believe in their own inventions,
or the falsehoods of their hired agents. It is of
course inconsistent with their assumed creed, to
suppose that one whom they impute a degrad-
ing passion can live apart from the object of it.
Thence sprang their filthy offer of. 50,0001. a
year, the rejection of which should have de-
tected to them their own imposture. They,
even now) can hardly believe that her Majesty
thinks of residing in England. They will find
themselves mistaken. She will both live and be
respected here, in spite of them and their arts.
It has never been her object to create annoyance to
others, farther than she has been obliged in her
own defence. She has simply defende herself !
This is the head and front of her guilt; and
therefore the continuance of persecution is the
only course, which not only may, but must of
necessity, oblige her. to act upon the same sys-
tem of self-deence. But we trust that wiser
counsels will now he adopted ; and that even the
late friends of Ministers, finding how they have
been deceived by their leaders, will acquiesce in
the propriety of at once establishing her Majesty
in the state becoming her high rank and birth;
unless, indeed, it be intended to abolish the Mo-
narchy altogether—an end to which the late Re-
volutionary measures of Ministers have but too
strongly tended.

[British Press.]
The Bill of Pains and Penalties having been
thrown out by the /louse of Lords, it is to be
hoped that the Ministers of the Crown will pre-
vent their scribes in future from insulting their
Queen with coarse ribaldry and indecent scurrility.
One of these scribes, but certainly not the most
indecent, avows his impression that " female repu-
tation is of so gentle, so sensitive, so delicate a
texture, that the slightest breath of calumny will
taint if not destroy it." W' e presume that it was
a conviction of the perfect truth of this opinion
which induced these writers even for some years
past, but with increased malignity during the
whole course of the late proceedings, to give-ut-
terance to every calumny against the character
of the Queen which idleness or wickedness could
invent. How many pretended letters from Italy
have we not seen in the Ministerial Papers, af-
fecting to detail some impropriety of conduct on
the part of the Princess of Wales during the
time of the residence of her Royal Highness in
that country ! How many poignant jests, how
much indecent merriment have not been given to
the public, wheu the Illustrious Princess was too
far- absent to contradict the malignant false-
hoods upon which they were engrafted ! Ca-
lumnies of the grossest kind have from time
to time been doled out, nor is it difficult 'to ima-
gine in what manufactory they originated, or
for what purpose they were given to the world.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—At the
Guildhall in this city, on Saturday last, a most
extraordinary occurrence took place. Eleven
men from Marston, in the Ainsty, with ten wives
and 23 children, applied to the Magistrates for
not only relief but entire maintenance, having
been all, completely thrown out of employment.
Of course the whole number of 4,1 were ordered
to be relieved, and 51. 3s. 6d. were granted to
them weekly ; making au addition to the parish
rates of the small town of Marston (in one day)
of nearly 2701. per annuni.—(York Couront)

HIGII COURT OF JUSTICIARY.