The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-03 00:00:00

" Sir,—l have had the honour to receive your letter of the
29th ult., accompanying a memorial of the inhabitants of Li-
verpool, in public meeting assembled, expressing their opi-
nion that measures ought to be forthwith adopted for pro-
viding for the immediate admission by law of all kinds of
food, duty free.
" I will not fail to communicate the memorial to her Ma-
jesty's confidential servants.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, .4f
" Your obedient servant,
" ROBERT PEEL.

" William Brown, Esq."

HORRIBLE MURDER in CLIFTON.
It appears that a woman named Bridget Barrett cohabited
with a man named Mannion, by whom she had a child. It.
having lately come to her knowledge that he was about.
being married to another woman, she being aware of his mode
of living, and some secrets connected, threatened to expose
and prosecute him if he did not marry her. In. order to
quiet her, he held out some promise of marriage, and induced
her to sell a cow she had to pay the marriage expenses. He
enjoined on her the most strict secrecy, stating that he had,
no money, and that his friends would be enraged with him
if they heard it. It was arranged that on a given night they,
would be married, and that they should go the mainland on
that evening from the island they lived on, Errislannen, a
distance of a little more than half a mile, to Roundstone,
where the priest lived. Bridget Barrett, however, before
going to the mainland, told her sister the particulars, en-
joining her to keep the matter secret. The sister, however,
did not do so, but told a male acquaintance of her's all she
heard, and he being curious to see them off, hid himself
behind a rock on the shore, and plainly saw Mannion,,
with his brother-in-law, Thomas Cosgrave, and Bridget
Bassett, enter a boat together, and push off towards the
mainland. He remained there a considerable time awaiting
their return, but there were then only two men in the boat.
At this very time, on the opposite shore, there were a num-
ber of persons playing at cards. The door of the house they
were in being open, one of them remarked that he surely
had heard the scream of a woman crying out " Oh, my back
is broken !" However, Bridget Barrett was nowhere to be
heard of. Suspicion having fallen on those parties, one of
them, Mannion, was sent to our county gaol a few days ago.
After a good deal of search and inquiry had been,made the.
body of a woman was washed ashore where the accused and,
Bridget Barrett had previously got into the boat. The body
was at once recognised as that of Bridget Barrett, although
much disfigured, the hands and legs having been literally
torn off; it is thought they were tied together, and then tied
to an anchor, which is missing from one of the neighbour's,
boats. The place about it was dragged, and it is supposed'
that the drag came in contact with the body, and tore it
away from the anchor. Much praise is due to Mr. Jones,.
R.M., for the diligent exertions he made to discover the
perpetrators of this murder. On the body being found ha
sent for Andrew Hosty, Esq., coroner, Tuam, who held an
inquest on the body, on the days of the 24th, 25th, 26th,
and 27th instant. The following is the verdict :—" We find
that the said Bridget Barrett was allured into a boat in the
harbour of Rosaenule, in the county of Galway, by James
Mannion and Thomas Cosgrave (Dominick), both of whom
wilfully murdered the said Bridget Barrett on the high seas,
in the bay of Roundstone, on the night of the 10th of Sep-
tember last."—Galway Indicator.

WESTMINSTER REFORM SOCIETY.—Last night, at
eight o'clock, a highly influential meeting of the electors of
Westminster, members of the Westminster Reform Society,
was held at Stannard's Hotel, Charles-street, Covent-garden,
" to take into consideration what measures shall be adopted
by the society, under the apprehended scarcity of food."
There were genelemen present from the whole of the parishes.
Mr. Prout was appointed to the chair. After some discussion
Mr Austin stated that the country was in a most perilous
situation, as it was well known that such was the deficiency
of the wheat crop, that they had not a sufficiency of corn to
last till the harvest. He moved the following resolution :
" That in consequence of the failure of the recent crops of
corn and potatoes, a public meeting of the inhabitants of
arcedrnisngervthicee
Westminster be convened, to memorialize her Majesty to
direct the immediate opening of the ports for the admission
the present crisis may seem to require."
of foreign grain free of duty, and to adopt eu
The resolution was
ch measures. as
agreed to unanimously, and a numerous committee of all the
parishes was formed to carry out-the object, it being left to
them whether a requisition should be Presented to the High
Bailiff.
DESTRUCTION OF A Snip BY FIRE.—On Tuesday
the wreck of a burnt ship, ashore on the Devonshire coast,
nastedrec
near Bideford :—" On Saturday morning, about daybreak, a
coeivaedat
e°Gun
the preventive station of , discovery
a tt ac h e ti of
fo
Clovelly, while on the look out,
noticed a ship on shore off Wellcombe. Having given the
necessary alarm, be proceeded to inspect it, when he found
she was without masts and burned down to the water's-edge.
She appeared to be about four hundred tons burthen, laden
tchoerpf,:orlal el woifn goleett3efrouw
with timber, from which, it is
presumed, she is from Ame-
rica. Mr. Staff, the chief officer of the Coast-guard station,
lost no time in adopting measures to save her cargo, which
floated out of the wreck as the tide rose. Nothing was found
on board to lead to her identity, every portion of her, with
the exception of the lower part of the hull, being destroyed."
It is more than probable that she is the same vessel that was
passed in flames on the 10th of last month by the Diamond,
of Exeter, and supposed to be the Abeona, of New Ross,
from Quebec. If she proves to be the same, the crew have
been all saved.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT TOITHE LADY OF LIEUTENANT
WAGHORN, R.N.—We regret to state that Mrs. Waghont, the
lady of Lieutenant Waghorn, met with an accident last week,
by which she received a compound fracture of one of her legs.
The accident occurred on the way from her residence at Snod-
land to Strood in a four-wheeled carriage, driven by the
man-servant, when the horse shyed at a donkey in the road,
and started off. The servant begged his mistress to keep her
seat, telling her he should be able to pull the horse up ; but
she became alarmed, threw herself out, and thus unfortu-
nately her leg was fractured.
METROPOLITAN DRAPERS' ASSOCIATION.—LBSt
night a public meeting of assistants to drapers in the eastern
districts of London was held in the Theatre of the Eastern
Institution, Commercial-road ;G. F. Young, Ewi., in the
chair. The meeting was addressed by employers, clergymen,
and others favourable to the lessening of the hours of labour,
and to the propriety of affording assistants an oppor-
tunity of improving themselves mentally and morally.
Amongst the objects of the Drapers' Association, the secre-
tary stated that one was the raising of 5,000/. as a capital fund,