The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-17 00:00:00

' DARING OUTRAGE in TIPPERARY
ATTACK ON BIANCONI'S CAR, AND ROBBERY OF ALL
THE PASSENGERS.—lntelligence was received in this City
late on Thursday evening of a most daring attack having
been made on Bianconi's car on Tuesday, and the rob-
bury of the passengers in the broad day light, the parti-
culars of which we have learned as follows :—The
branch car to Tipperary, which takes up the passengers
at Mitchelstown from that on which they travel from
Cork, had changed horses at Galbally at half-past two,
and when two miles fr6rn the stage and within six of
Tipperary, seven armed men jumped over a wall and
ordered the driver to stop, which not being instantly
complied with, one of them presented a pistol at his head
and the man was forded to yield to them. There were
on the ear six passengers and the driver, namely, Mr.
Benjamin Deeble of this city and his shepherd, who
%sere going to the fair of Tipperary to buy sheep ;
John Short, William Shaeghnessey, end John
Brien, of this city, vietuallersi; and Mr. Jere-
miah Mullane, of Buttevara, victualler. Six of
the attacking party had their faces covered
with crape, with holes for their eyes, and one man
a hen he saw the passengers observing him closely,
stuo2ed down and rubbed mud on his face, so as to
conceal his features from them. When the car had
been surrounded, one of dean presented a coeliad pistol
at Shaoghnessey, and told him to dtliver his money.
Shaughnessey said he had none—the rubber said
if he did not instantly hand out, he'd blow his
skull eft: Shaughilessey tdea said " Search me,
and if I have it take it." He then turned to
Brien who stood up in the car, upon which his assailant
told him if he moved an inch he'd blow his brains our.
Brien then put his hand in his pocket and handed
out a purse containing six pounds in silver. The 'rob-
ber who spoke to them, then came to Short, who was
last on the car, the others standing by with presented
arms all the while, and used a like threat, when Short
declared he had nothing, and that he was a very poor
man, but the fellow instantly collared him and putting
his hand into his pocket, drew out his purse, containing
91. Os. iu silver, which he took. While this was being
done at one side of the car, a like scene was going on
at the other. Mr. Dceble, seeing the inutility of offering
resistance to a formidable band of armed ruffians who
had presented guns and pistols at his head, handed
them his purse, which, however, only contained about
41. 10s., to cover his travelling expenses, as he was
provided with bank cheques, &c. for his purchases. One
of the fellows then laid hold of his guard chain, and
piffling it, asked " what's this ?" Mr. Deeble told them
it was his watch and offered it to them, but they re-
fused it, saying " we only want money to buy powder."
They next demanded his money from Mr. Mullane, and
while he was endeavouring to gain time by appearing
to search for it, one of them gave him two severe blows en
the chest with the butt-end of a gun. Mr. Deeble remon-
strated with him saying the man was getting his money.
They then took what silver he had, and mach the driver
come clown, when they searched the boot closely,
saying they expected to find a quantity of silver there,
going to the banks. In this, however, they were dis-
appointed, and finding no more money, they walked
back along the road in the direction they came in the
must unconcerned manner. The car and passengers then
proceeded to Tipperary, and information huing been at
once given to the police, a party, tinder Sub-Inspector
Egar at once proceeded in two jingles to scour the
country, and taking a byeroad towards the locality where
the robbery was committed, arrived there early in the
night. Atter a vigilant search, they arrested, from the
description given, nine persons, and lodged them safely in
Tipperary Bridewell. Ncxt day, after the victuallers had
made their market, they proceeded with Mr. Hunt, J.P.,
to the Bridewell, and Short, at once distinctly identified
one of the party, as the person who put his hand in his
pocket and took out his purse. Most of the others
corresponded in dress and stature, and appearance, with
the descriptions given, but their faces were so closely
covered, that further identification was then impossi-
ble.- There is, however, reason to believe that the
whole gang w ill be amenable to justice. One of the parties
robbed, from whom our reporter made inquiries, in-
formed him that the Cashel butchers had been robbed of
1501. the eight before the fair on the way to it, and most
probably by the same armed gang. It was most fortu-
nate that the robbers did not search more minutely, for
each of the victuallers had sums varying from 301. to
501. concealed upon their persons in notes, the loss of
which would have been very serious to these poor in.
dustrious men.
IVe are also informed that an extensive dealer in pro-
visions, and contractor for the supply of beef to the
navy, was one of the passengers by the car; but that
coming up a to a lot of cattle that were being driven to
the fair about half a mile before where the ear was
stopped, he got off to speak to the owners with a view
of making a purchase, and as the day• was dry and
pleasant determined to walk into Tipperary. By this
fortunate circumstance he escaped plunder, as he had
upon his person eight hundred pounds in notes.—CotA
Southern Reporter.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR,
MARY MAYHEW MANLEY.
In the year 1810, an elderly gentlerlan, by the name
of Jones, placed in a boarding school, With a Mrs. Ral-
son, No. 3, Charterhouse square, a little girl, between
four and five years old, of the above name (Manley
being afterwards added to Mayhew), who was said to
have been brought from abroad, and whose infantine re-
membrance is, that she had a brother, William. She
was there visited by a Miss Mortimer and sister, now
Mrs. Whittaker, a Miss Ethcrington, and other ladies
of or from Bath. After the manifestation at first, of
much kindness and solicitude, these parties, from some
unexplained cause, forbore to call, pay for, or to notice
the child ; some time elapsing, Mrs. liaison- ad-
vertised, heading !ho advertisement with " Most
Shameful Transaction," which brought for-
ward a Captain Lea, who paid the then arrears due, but
from a full boarder the girl was then reduced by him to
a half-boarder, he (Captain Lea) continuing to pay
through a Mr. Collier for her board and education, but
desiring that the girl should be made a governess. She
believes that a hundred a year was paid for her by Mr.
Jones, and who, with a Dr. Mayhew, of Bath, she un •
derstood were her godfathers. All of her earliest recol-
lections are that she was rich, and belonged to those who
were so, and these juvenile impressions, or dreams of
prosperity, remained up to the coming forward of Cart.
Lea, by whom they were at once blighted. Time rolled on,
and her education being completed, a governess she be-
came; but before quitting Mrs. liaison's upon one occasion
her attention was drawn to a remarkable advertisement,
requiring information as to the whereabouts of the chil-
dren of a General Manley, of India, for whom some be-
quest was made, and she then took steps to ascertain
her parentage, but without effcct, Captain Lea invariably
evading giving her any clue to the same, he, Captain
Lea, it seems, satisfying Mr. Brown Roberts, then of
Bishopgate-street, but now of the Old Jewry, the re-
feree, that she was not the child of General Manley.
The Miss Mortimer already alluded to, it is necessary
to state, became the wife of Captain Lea ; they are bout
now no more; and to every inquiry since no traces can she
obtain to the authors of her being. In the hope these
particulars may catch the eye of some of the parties in-
terested or concerned, either in Europe, India, or else-
where, so as to bring about the mysterious solution of
her b!rth, this short sketch is put forth, without at all
glancing at the helpless and fbrlorn state she has for
years been left in. Reference to be made at West Cot-
tage, Southbaiik, Regent's-park. The kind and humane
offices of the press are respectfully solicited in this
country, India, and elsewhere, iu giving circulation to
the above.

The Earl of Shrewsbury, who has been passing the
season at Rome, has left that city for Sicily, with the inten-
tion of sojourning there during the winter.
His Excellency the Governor-General of Canada,
Lord Metcalfe, has arrived at Liverpool, by the Britannia
steamer, from Halifax.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY.— WEST DRAYTON, TUESDAY.--This
afternoon J. Charseley, Esq., the coroner for Buckingham-
shire, held an inquest at the Swan Inn, at her, on the body
of J. Green, a labourer, who was killed by a special train
yesterday morning, near West Drayton Station, the par-
ticulars of which appeared in 71e Sun of yesterday. After
the examination of several witnesses, the jury returned A
verdict of " Accidental death, with a deodand of one shilling
on the engine."

A HUMAN SKELETON.—On Wednesday a labourer,
while digging in a field belonging to the Rev. T. A.
Methuen, .at Allcannings, and within a hundred feet of
his house, found a human skeleton. It is of a small size,
and probably that of a female. That it is the record of
a murder, whose perpetration must remain unknown
till all secrets shall be unfolded, is, alas! too probable, and
the more so as the back of the skeleton was considerably bent
downwards, while the face was turned upwards. Titus, it
would seem, that the body was hastily committed to the
ground. The skeleton is now literally in small pieces, with
the exception of one leg bone.— Wiltshire Telegraph.
ISLE OF SSYE.—DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—OR
Thursday, the 20th of November, a party of three men and
a young woman, named Catherine Martin, left Portree, with
the intention of walking home to the district of Steinscholl, in
the parish of Kilmuir, by the romantic hill-path through the
farm of Scorribreck. The distance which they had to travel
was upwards of twenty miles, over one of the most rugged
and picturesque scenes in the island. During the previous
day, thunder and lightning were very prevalent, and rain fell
in torrents, which continued with little intermission until the
evening of Thursday. The mountain rivulets were much
swollen, which rendered it a difficult matter at many places to
ver, succeeded well enough until
when, having to cross a
pthaesys
htlatedma-lmlo'sliteeleiadrte3d•,tliiloewire
rapid stream, the woman lost her footing, and was instantly
swept down the stream. The rivulet, near the spot of the
fatal accident, enters a larger one, which, at a abort distance
below, rushes over shelving precipices, and forms a sucmsion
of rapid cascades, as it falls immediately into the deep. The
body of the unfortunate woman must have been swept over
all these places, and into the ocean; for, although almost all
the articles of her dress were found, her body could not be
discovered for a week after the melancholy accident, and little
hopes were then entertained of its recovery at all.—/nrernms
Courier.

A NOBLE LECTURERS—On Wednesday evening a
lecture was delivered at the Plymouth Mechanics' Institute by
Viscount Lbrington, td.P., on the health of towns. The
Plymouth Jo urn al,which gives a full report of the Noble Lord's
lecture, speaks of it as follows:—The lecture itself, indepen-
dently of its elegant, striking, and terse style of composition.
will reflect credit and honour, not only on the Noble Lord indi-
vididually, but on all, like himself, devoted to the cause cat
humanity and justice, whose claims he has so ably advocated
and enforced. We recommend to alt literally, the perusal of
every sentence tittered, as far as we are able to give it, for
we believe that in no one similarly compendious form will so,
much information be found as is embodied in the lecture re--
far red to.

ST. MART, ISLINGTON.—An information in Chart,.
eery is now pending against the trustees of this parish, to
compel them to refund a sum of 900/., alleged to have been
illegally paid by them out of the poor-rate; and on Monday
evening a meeting took place at the chambers of the Attorneri-
General (Sir F. Thesiger), to hear the parties on a memorial
presented to him by the. trustees to stay the farther proceed-
ings, when, after beariag 11ir. Rodgers, the counsel for thee'
trustees, acid Mr, Roe, the solicitor for the relators, tisk At..►
torney-General decided against the trustees. The
therefore proceed.