The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-27 00:00:00

THE BALLOT:

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Scar -On looking over the division in the Houso of
morn on Mr. Ward's motion for the introduction of the Ba
I cannot perceive the names of the itlembers for rlyttionth
ng
either side of the question ; can you inform tht ilectorsof
mouth if they paired off with any other /lembars, or
their reasons for not voting ?—I am, Sir, wee
AN ELECTOR OF PLYMOUTH..
[We cannot answer tbt questions.l
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II OR RI HI.E AFFAIR.--LISBON, ei ENE 20.----Perinit me
to cad your attention to one of those domestic tragedies. whieb.
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untollunately now and then occur to harrow np the. feelings of
the feeling, and to awaken us to a sense of oar nothingness, arid
which took place on Friday, at a small village on the smith side
of the Tagus, about three miles from Lisbon :—A labouring
man, with his little boy, four years of age, left his horns, in the,
morning, fur the purpose of digging potatoes, large quantities,
of which are grown upon the sandy soil which characterises
that part of the Country. By a lamentable fatality, the bears.
hoe, which is made use of by the peasantry here, deseenifeeit
upon the bead of the child, and killed it. The father, frantic
at the accident, went to communicate the sad tidings to hie
wife, who, in her agony, rushed nut of the house, accompa-
nied by her husband, to hear home the dead body of their WI.
leaving an infant asleep in the cradle. Judge of their renewed
horror, when, on their return, they beheld their secon,d child
nearly devoured by a sow, which was dragging it se.lout thy
room, feeding upon its entrails. The mother suddenly disap
peared, and her corpse was discovered the follow.ng roorning, is:
a well adjeining the premises. To complete this appalling os-
tastrephe, the man, whose existence bad become too dreadfuli
to be borne, placed the muzzle of a gun to his throat, and ter •.
Thus, in a few short hours. a whole
minuted his misery.
family have been swept from the living, and in a matussr which
.exemplary conduct and kirudness to-
has thrown all the place into the deepest consternation, as he
rantirg, roari
uhcish
COLLEGE Or MAY N 00Tlf .---IVOUId the Er,,,,,,;,„._
w"lsrdh's
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par,,,n 31.(3hee, and the Chief Justice of the Qu ece's Bet. 3
we'siftee'anndedclti7drheins
—and the sundry other persons, it is needless to, mine just
Mail, and Mr. Solicitor Jackson, and the
loft hey like to be let into a secret ? I:hey seal all
• iy era Maynootliot Trash Gregg more d : led!
gain .
• eels v so
—and many of them affect to be "constituted. autl rillies
who have a voice potential in matters of the k• t 'm Men, then t
11"ould they believe it ? There has been a 1:12( t isti'net intimation
made to the Irish Catholic Bishops, that the grant to May-
nooth would be augmented this year, but for the financial em-
barrassments of the country—antf there has ben no very
obscure promise made, under the sa of ion, as. we eare assured',
of the Prime Illinister, that should he
ease shall have his most liberal consideration7lninthein Piweee
the
.in . year IR&
We beg the Evening Mail to make.
quarter, and furnish 1 d bewildered.nquiriesin t .e..Clr
its gent ean public wit groper
result.—Dublin Evenin
gPost.
REMOVAL OF THE UNE IM PLOYE D .—WC under3tand that nearly ' 2,000 persons are now on the Leeds overseers'
books fur removal to their respective parishes in the agrieut—
rural districts. This is found to be the only method of rap-
lieving the poor-rates, and throwing the responsibility of. sur
porting the poor on the landed interest, whose oppressive wee'
lotion has reduced them to their present state of appalling
distress.—Leede Times,