The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-14 00:00:00

RECORDER'S REPORT.

The Recorder of London yesterday made his re-
port to the King in Council of the prisoners under
sentence of death in .Newgate," namely—James
Hawkins, aged 27, and William Isaac Smith, 30,
for returning from transportation; Elizabeth Cole,
29, and Elizabeth Smith, 17, for coining ; Henry
Phipps, 17, and John French, 54, for horse-stealing;
John Williams, 23, George William 'Parnell, 21,
Robert Mai t, 17, George Roberts, 24, OW Samuel
Thomas, 22, for stealing in a dwelling-house to the
value of 51.; James Newton, 24„ for cattle-stealing;
John Barry, 12, Samuel Griffiths, 12, William Crew,
17, Mary Hunt, 30, and Charles Sago, 24, for
housebreaking; James Burton, 35, William Lay-
thorn, 21, Elijah Barlow, 13, James Haines, 18,
and 'James Wheeler, 16, for highway robbery, con-
victed at the October Sessions; also James Const,
22, convicted of a rape at the September sessions;
all of whom his Majesty was graciously pleased to
respite during his Royal pleasure, excepting John
French, for horse-stealing, and John Williams, for
larceny in a dwelling-house; upon whom the law is
left to take its course, and they are ordered to be
executed on Wednesday next, the 19th inst.

His Grace the Lord Lieutenant of
.GLOU-
CFSTER has addressed a remonstrance to his Majesty's Post-
master General, in consequence of the plan to alter the
route of the Gloucester mail ; a meeting ltas also been held
for the purpose of opposing the measure. It is generally
supposed that no alteration will take place.—Dorset Chro.

Mr. LAMBTON'S title is to be Lord D'ARCY
Sir C. STUARTLord-STU Alit; EDT Riitlisay.
The Freedom of the town of Hertford has
been presented to Mr. PEEL.

In the case of libel brought by the Hon. and
Rev. Archdeacon TRENcn V. fENEAS APDORNEEE ; the
defendant has been found guilty. The verdict is recorded
in the Dublin Evening Post of Tuesday.
ATTACK ON THE CORK AND CASIIEL
Mail.—As the Cork Mail Coach, which left Dublin on
Saturday in the forenoon, was proceeding on its journey,
within about two miles of Littleton, on the Cashel road,
and about eleven o'clock at night, it was fired at by an
assassin from behind a hedge, but happily without any
other effect than the perforating the kat of Mr. SOMERSET
TOWNSIIEND, a Student of the University, who was sitting
on the box with the coachman, and slightly grazing his ,
head. This young gentleman was stooping down at the
moment, listening to something which the coachman was
stating, and the contents of the gun took him slantingly ;
had he been sitting upright, he would in all probability
have been killed ! Slight as the blow was it stunned him,
and produced a ringing in the ear. The passengers that
were outside instantly took the alarm ; the guard sound-
ed his born, and distributed some of his fire-arms amongst
the outside passengers, who showed a good disposition to
make a stout resistance. Fortunately there was no occasion.
as the assault was not followed up-,,-and the coach drove on
with increased expedition. On proceeding a little further,
about thirty men appeared on the road, who did not offer
any interruption to the coach. The supposition of the
passengers was, that had any serious casualty resulted from
the assassin's shot, this party would have availed them-
selves of it, and completed the intended design. The coach,
shortly after passing the body of men alluded to, fell in
with some of the police, to whom the circumstance was
communicated. When the coach was leaving Johnstown
a man remarked—" take care of the bog." The coachman
conceived the meaning of it to be to take care and not get
into the bog, and so did Mr. Towt4sumgn, and the coach-
man replied accordingly. It turned out that the shot was
fired in the bog--where there was a low, wood close to the'
side of the road. There were ten persons on the outside—
or probably the body of men on the road would have at-
tacked the coach.— Cork Southern Reporter.

Ty •
rioRRID AND MYSTERIOUS CIRCUM-
sTawcs.—A most extraordinary sensation has been this
John-street roads, from the discovery of a most dreadful
morning excited iu the neighbourhood of Goswell and St.
transaction, which at present remains enveloped in consi-
derable mystery. For the last nine or ten months twomaiden
sisters, named AGNES and SOPHIA ANDERSON, :have oc-
cupied a floor in the house No. 32, Wynniatt-street,
during which time they lived very retired, without even
the assistance of a servant, and never receiving visitors.
Their connections arc stated to be in the highest degree re-
spectable; but a Chancery suit, in which they were most
materially interested, and which was the frequent subject
of their conversation, had caused a distance between them-
selves and other branches of their family. For a few weeks
past a great alteration was observable in their general de-;
meanour ; they shunning city conversation and exhibiting
an extraordinary dep... ession
,of spirits, which was consi-
derably increased within the last week by the receipt of'a
letter, which has since been ascertained to contain some
unfitvourable intelligence respecting their pending suit. On
Sunday evening the younger of the two ladies was stated
by her sister to be unwell, and was not afterwards seen by
any of the inmates of the house; but the elder was seen
as usual up to Wednesday morning, at which time she
stated her sister to be " much the same—not any better."
During the whole of yesterday she was not 'seen or heard
by any person, and some suspicions having beeu excited in
the mind of I.‘ir. Jelexisis, the landlord, their apartments
were opened, the door not being fastened, and the lifeless
bodies of the two unfortunate ladies were discovered on
the bed, each of them exhibiting the usual symptoms as-
tendant on death by poison. A medical gentleman was im-
mediately sent for, and it was then ascertained, from the
appearance
peatriavno or tiu
ceoftheeebdoadyisep symptoms of decomposition s, that the younger must have been
hav-
ing manifested themselves, but the elder only a few hours.
A most extraordinary circumstance connected with the
melancholy affair is, that the body of the younger had
the
eanadpsaoze
been laid out,
and all the necebaarY offices performed, al-
though her death had never in the slightest degree been
hinted at by her sister, who was partly undressed, and ly-
ing beside the corpse. Two phials containing remnants of
ingredients laudanum, a other dele-
teriouseats. The
circumstances of this tragical affair have been transmitted
to the Coroner, T. STIRLING, Esq., and a speedy inves-
tigation will take place. The age of the elder is supposed
to about 40, and the younger little over 30 years of age.