The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-24 00:00:00

THIRD DAY.

Admiral Oliver and Mr. O'Brien of Elmvale, county
Clare, in the Chair.
The question this day was " Purgatory." Mr.
Pope spoke with great energy and eloquence; and
maintained that Purgatory was a Pagan Doctrine,
and referred to the 6th Book of the .T.neid, on the
descent of the Trojan Hero. He also maintained,
that the doctrine was absurd, inasmuch as the soul
was an immaterial substance, and could not be effect-
ed by fire. His oratory was certainly impressive and
his delivery emphatic.
Mr. MAGutrtE, is evidently not what is called a set
speaker. He took the argument of his antagonist
point by point—and he expL:ined the texts bearing
on his doctrine by the interpretation given of these
texts in the volumes of the ancient Fathers of the
four first centuries, which lie maintained was the doc-
trine of the Catholic Church.

The Archbishop of Dublin was present to-day,
and the room was crowded by a most respectable
auditory. The question on Monday will be " the
varieties of Protestantism."

A young lady having given a gentleman, who
was not very remaili-rble for his taste in dress, a
playful slap on thi ice, he called out, " you
have made my eye smart." " Indeed !" said
she. " Well lam happy to have been the cause
of making something smart about you."

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EXECUTION 07 SA JONES ,'ie °‘-
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This unfortunate victim to seauCtion was 26
years of age, and lived with her father and mo-
ther, Thomas and Mary Jones, who resided in
a small cottage, forming one of a row.,of houses,
situated on the side of the Sirhowy tram-road,
called Pye-corner, in the parish of Bassalleg, in
the county of Monmouth. On Tuesday morn-
ing she took a farewell leave of her wretched pa-
rents, which she bore with considerable firmness,
being the least affected of the three. A neigh-
bour, who spoke to her character, was, at her
desire, permitted to see het the same morning?
and speak to her in the Welsh language. She
was particularly communicative ; detailing the
circumstances most minutely which led to her
present situation. She said it was not her intene
tion to have destroyed the hapless infant until
three months before, her confinement, whet she
discovered her seducer Flook had married an,
other woman ; she then formed the dia';elical
plan of having her revenge in the murder of his
infant. On Monday, the 23d of October, at
breakfast, she found herself ill, and went up
stairs ; about ten or eleven her mother came up,
disturbed by her voice ; she sent her down
for some fresh linen, and, whilst the mother
was going down stairs, the child was born,
She immediately seized one of two pen-
knives which were in her pocket by her bedside,
and in a minute or two after the birth, gave it
two gashes in the throat ; the mother coming up
with the linen, she hid the body between the
sacking and the bed, on some straw lying be-
tween, and lay on it until the Friday night. On
that night Flook came to see her ; she was then
down stairs in the chair ; her father asleep ; he
immediately noticed the alteration in her size,
on which she told him of the horrid deed she
had committed, and entreated him to assist, her,
by burying the body ; he consented ; and having
sewed it up in some spare sacking, she gave it
him through the window. She positively de-
clares her father knew nothing of the transac-
tion, till Potter, the gamekeeper, brought the
body to the house ; that she had concealed her
situation from her mother, denying her preg-
nancy, even the Sunday evening before her con-
finement ; and that the mother believed the child
to have been still-born, up to the time of the
Coroner's inquisition. Sarah Burley, a fellow-
prisoner, under sentence of imprisonment, for
stealing money at Newport, slept with her dur-
ing the night ; she slept remarkably sound, being
only disturbed by supposing she J saw her coffin
lying by her bedside ; she asserts, she has felt
ever since her sentence, the sensation of having a
rope round her neck, and that she has often lifted
ler hand to remove it. She slept soundly the last
light, awaking about six o'clock, and on viewing
he fatal spot, observed that every thine was ready
.ind she was so herself. After divine service she re-
:eived the sacrament with seven'l other criMinals,
end was from thence ushered to the drop, walking
vith a steady step ; on arriving at the lodge, she
uok a last farewell of several around her, ex-
eressing her confidence of being in a few minutes
!iappy ; she then ascended the place where the
xecutioner awaited her in the performance of
:lis painful duty; the only observation she made
was not to draw the rope too tight, and havine,
kissed those around her, begged the cap might
be pulled over her face ; she then stepped on the
platform with firmness ; on the rope being ad-
, eisted, she beged the executioner to draw her
Jothes tight mound her, which he did by tying
1 handkerchief; having retired, the drop fell, and
in about a minute vitality ceased. After hang-
ing an hour, her body was - delivered to her
liends, for interment at Bassalleg church-yard.
~)n its being made known that the part of her
,entence relating to tier dissection was remitted,
he felt much gratified, and hoped they would
at her body remain one night at her father's
:louse.

Two anglers were busy at their calling the
,)ther day on the banks of Lune, near Sedhergh,
~nd while standing near each other, throwing in
:heir lines at the sam.• time, both of them had a
'n'te immediately. The lines spun from the
vheels at the same time, and were wound up at
he same time, when after playing with the prizes
or half an hour, and " drowning" their fish
hey agreed to land them, but their wonder -was
‘ot trifling when they had both but one fish,
.the flies had floated on the stream together, and
he unfortunate fish had gorged both hooks !
Carlisle Patriot.

BRITISH PEARLS.—The river Conway, in
:sl'ortli Wales, was of considerable importancs
given before the Roman invasion, for the pear,
nuscle (the illyamargatipera of Linnaeus) andl
Suetonius acknowledged, that one of his induce-
aients for undertaking the subjugation of Wales
was, the Pearl Fishers' carried forward in that.
:iver. According to Pliny, the muscles called
he natives (Kregindilin), were sought for with
lvidity by the Romanc, and the pearls found
7N. themhich t iis
asswe
retreed ht
hitt:
Juliusvalued
Caesar
of
dedicated
breast-plate, set with British pearls, to Venus
Genetrix, and placed it in her temple at Rome.
Suetonius imputes Ccesar s invasion of Britain to
his desire of enriching himself with the pearls
round in different parts of the coast. The pearls
most in request with the ancients, were those
collected in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Persia,
and the Indian Ocean ; the next in value were
the British, tinged on the surface with a colour
resembling gold, but, in general, of a dark hue,
nt Indian.aer
n 0 r
o),Camdenjr i 1
tpnedaks less o
ft.rapiel,siir)lasrefi
found in
Cumberland, and in the British Sea. Mr.
Pennant, in his tour in Scotland, 1769, mentions
t than
a considerable pearl fishery out of the fresh-water
muscle, in the vicinity of Perth, from whence
10,000/. worth was sent to London, from 1761
1769. But when that ingenious traveller
visited Scotland, the fishery was almost ex-
hausted. There 'is a passage in Pliny that
shows the esteem in which the Oriental pearl
was held at Rome. " Pearls," he says, " are
imported in such quantities from the Arabian
Sea, that Rome was annually drained of an itn-
moderate sum by the inhabitants of the East,
and the Peninsular of India ; so much do our
finery and our women cost us annually." This
proves what Tacitus says : when so much en-
couragement was given, the avarice of British
merchants would not be deficient. Their pearls,
therefore, were of an inferior sort. A fine
specimen of pearl, from the river Conway, is
said to have been presented to Catherine, con-
sort of Charles 11., by Sir Richard Wynne, of
Gwydir ; and it is further said, that the same
river has since contributed to adorn the regal
crown of England. Lady Newborough pos.
sessed a good collection of the Conway pearls,
which she purchased of those who were fortu-
nate enough to find them, as there is no regular
fishery at present. The late Sir Robert Vaughan
had obtained a sufficient number to appear at
Court with a button and loop to his hat, formed
of these beautiful productions, about the yea:-
1780.