The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-15 00:00:00

ALARMING RIOTS IN ARMAGH.

TWELFTH JULY.—S_Aurday being the anniversary of the Bittle
of the Boyne, processions took place in several parts of the country,
which were joined by some of the lodges from this city, who on
their return were attacked by a violent mob, when a collision took
place,and a number of stones having been thrown by both parties,
and rhots fired in all directions, the consequence was that nine or
ten persons were seriously wounded The row commenced by one of
the adverse party pulling a fife from the mouth of one of the Orange
party playing it, when the riot became serious and general, and
was only quelled by the interference of the magistracy, who called
out the police and military, and after great exertions and energy put
an end to the riot, but nut without themselves receiving assaults
and injuries.

The persons wounded are Wm. Magee, Callan.strect, a gun.
shot wound in the shoulder, serious; Thomas Corr, gun-shot wound
in shoulder; John Boyle, serious wound in groin ; Wm. Carson,
aged sixty-six, severe contusion of face and body ; Jane Carson,
aged thirty-five; contusion of eye and wounds in body ; Anne
Maguire, wound in right side of abdomen (serious). There are, it
is thought more wounded, as the the affray, while it lasted, was
most desperate, a great number of the windows in Thomas street
and Irish-street having been broken. The riot commenced at five
o'clock, when the shops in general were closed, and it did not
terminate until eleven at night. Great praise is due to Counsellor
Robinson and Mr. Paton, magistrates, who were promptly on the
spot, and but for whom the scene of outrage and bloodshed might
have been more extensive and serious. Since writing the above
we have heard that one of the wounded persons has died.—Armagh
Storting Chronicle.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, ATLI( 15.—Wind this day at noon, \.W., moderate, and
cloudy, with light drizzling rain.

DEAL JULT 14.—A.M., Wind N.W. to N.N.W., light. 8 P.M.,
N.N.E.—Arrd. Islander, Gordon, Ilarbadoes; Fortitude, Quebec;
Ann Eliza Jane, Dale, ditto ; Sign st, M`Farlane, Miramichi ; Grati-
tude, Forrest, St. John's, New I,runswick ; Memphis, Emann, River
1' ate ; Everhard, Quebec. Arrd. Irom the river for, George Home,
l)estant ; South Seas, ditto, and sailed for Lake Frances ; Crosby,

Hobart Town; Dromo, Houghton, Valparaiso; Albion, Lock,
Quebec. Ski. Ystioom, Batavia; Henry Wamsley, Launceston;
Eleanor, Wallace, Aden ; Lady Sandys, Pentreath, Mauritius ; Luzon,
Goodrich, Boston ; Valleyrield, Smith, Quebec ; Goldenßule, Watling-
ton, Bermuda; Tally Ho, Baker, Newfoundland.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. William, Jacmel.

FALMOUTII„TuLY 14.—Wind W.N.W., fresh breeze.—Crane
packet, Lewis, Rio Janeiro, sailed 25th May, Bahia Gth ult., and
Pernambuco 12th; en freight about 36,0001. in gold and diamonds;
Hannibal, Winter, Walls Island.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 14.—Arrd. John Bull, Crawford, Calcutta; Fame,
Broadfoot, Buenos Ayres; Tinamara, Cape Ceara; Compton, Chap-
man, New Orleans; Thomas Battersby, Ellis, New Orleans; Soldar,
Shaw, New Orleans; Maneo, Nickels, Charleston ; Powhatton,
Sloan, Charleston ; Caledonia steamer, Lott, Boston, sailed Ist inst.,
and Halifax 4 ; Laurel, Grande], St. John's, New Brunswick ; George
M. Saute, Halifax; Susan. and Sarah, Thoburn, Quebec; Anthony
and Ann, Quebec ; Montreal, Blinkinsop, Quebec ; Anne, Garry,
Quebec ; Native Lass and Nautilus, Newfoundland ; Flor, San Se-
bastian. The Newark, from Mobile to New York, ran on shore on
Carysford Reef sth ult., and became a total wreck. A bright sided
barque, with acres al wreckers alongside, was seen on shore 26 miles
S. of Carysford Reef, 9th ult.

RAMSGATE, JULY 14.—The Zarite packet, Brenan, from London to
Constantinople, has put in here with damage, having been in contact
with the Mayflower of Brixham.
GLOUCESTER, JULY 13.—Arrd. Florida, Prince Edward's Island.
LANCASTER, JULY 14.—Arrd. Marys, Argyle, Restigouche ; Queen,
Mitchell, Miramichl. Off, Cheftain, North America.
COWES, JULY 14.—Wind N.—Arrd. Charlotte Letitia, Havannah.
91 AINFLEET, JULY 12.—The Mary, Jackson, on shore at Anderly,
has been got off and proceeded.

CORK, JULY 12.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Dartmouth, Stewart, Ba-
tavia ; Susan, Wishert, St. Domingo ; Urania, Clarke, Quebec.
LIMERICK, JULY 13.—Arrd. Bryan, Abbs, Quebec ; Maria, Quebec.

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PADSTOW, JuLY 13.—The Manly, Sawyer, from Plymouth to New-
port, got on shore last night near Trevore Head during a thick fog,
and has bilged.

LORD ASHLEY'S LUNACY BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—Many thanks for your very able article on Lord
Ashley's Lunatic Bill and for the clear exposition of the im-
provements to be effected by its operation. It would be well
indeed if the Press would enlighten th? public mind more
generally on this most important subject.
I agree with you that his Lordship's measure is still very
deficient, and that it continues, and 1 fear will perpetuate the
unconstitutional mode of depriving an Englishman of his
liberty, and taking from him his civil rights by the certificate
of two mad doctors or two needy and bribed apothecaries or one
of each of them.

As soon as I had recovered from the surprise and stupor
that so heavy and unexpected ablow as confinement in a mad-
house produced, I began to call to mind what I had heard and
read of Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights—l recollected that
no Englishman was in future to be deprived of his liberty
without a trial by a jury of his peers. That this constitutional
prinziple has been carried out and incorporated in our laws,
which, to ensure the liberty of the subject, have provided that a
Brit kh ~übject shall not be detained in custody without being
taken before a magistrate, having witnesses sworn to the truth
of the charges made against him or he, being confronted with
his or her accusers, and then acquitted or committed for trial
by jury.
Meditating on the subject, and studying the disease of in-
sanity with its operations in the characters of those around me,
I soon discovered that it might be wise and expedient to prevent
a man in a stare of delirium or frenzy committing crimes for
which he would not, from the present state of his disease, be
amenable to the laws hereafter—to give either one or two
medical men the power, under a written certificate, of handing
that person over to safe custody, either under the guard of a
keeper, a prison, or a lunatic asylum; but here the power of
the medical certificate should end. Within seven days it should
be required, and within 24 hours, if tlse patient be sane enough,
to demand the right of inquiry, he should be again brought
back within the pale of the Constitution, and be carried before
a magistrate; his state and case inquired into; the deposition
of medical and other witnesses be taken ; and the magistrate
decide upon the necessity of further confinement or otherwise.
This confinement not to extend beyond three months without
the intervention of a trial by jury on his sanity or insanity, in
the same inexpensive form as our criminal proceedings are
conducted, under the authority and presidence of the judges of
the land, who are infinitely more capable of patient research
and expounding the laws than any of these new-fangled audio-
rities—the Commissioners, whose existence, I hope, will be as
brief as their deserts.

Had this been the law and practice, I, who am not conscious
of having had any attack of insanity in my life—who challenge
the whole world to produce any insane act I ever committed—
who was once absolved in open court by my bitterest enemies,
of having committed any violent act, and also of ever having
threatened one—instead of having had to endure the misery
and wretched sufferings of passing nearly five years among the
maniac, the idiot, and the epileptic ; 1 should not have been
confined more than seven days at the utmost, in place (+f five
long years.
Were mine an individual, an isolated case, although so ruinous
and disastrous as I have described, I feel that it wunld be pre-
sumption in me to occupy your space and time, but I can and
will, if required, supply half a dozen cases similar to my own.
I am, Sir, &c.,
WILLIAM BAILEY.

P. S. I would that every individual, man or woman, in this
kingdom would deeply consider that under the present and the
proposed regulation of lunacy, iunder Lord Ashley's new Act,
"That what was my case yesterday may be yours to-morrow.'.

WEST INDIX POES.—Another large importation
of pineapples has just taken place. A vessel which arrived at
Fresh-wharf, and reported at the Custom-house on Saturday, from
Nassau, New Providence, brought nearly 1,000 dozen of that de.
scription of fruit in very fine condition. The markets have, since
the sale the other day by the enterprising brokers in Monument.
yard, presented an excellent show of this luscious fruit at a re-
markably low figure, and it is probable that this fresh cargo null
shortly be offered for sale, thus insuring a continued supply to the
public at probably a still lower price, in consequence of their abun-
dance.

MARGATE PIER.—In reply to a second memorial
from numerous respectable inhabitants of Margate, the Directors
of the Pier and Harbour Company again state—" That, in justice
to the Proprietors, they cannot reduce the duty on passengers below
the present charge, which they consider so moderate as not to be
open to reasonable complaint." Thus, an end is put to any ar-
rangement between the owners o; steam-boats and pier directors,
by which the fares, now five, six, and seven shillings, would be
reduced to three, four, and five shillings, and the town thereby
filled with visitors. This is the lamentable state of affairs in
" poor old Margate," which seems, indeed, hopelessly doomed.—
Kentish Observer.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT WORTHING.-
The mother of the unfortunate young lady, Miss Eden (not Eaton,
as previously reported), who was drowned off Worthing, on Friday
last, was on the beach, and witnessed the accident; and it is a re-
markable tact that she also witnessed the death of her first hus-
band, Mr. Bating, who, we understand, was drowned oil Dart-
mouth Pier, by the upsetting of a boat. Mr. Eden, who is a
brother of Lady Brougham, had gone to town the day before the
accident happened. The melancholy event has cast quite a gloom
over the town. The inquest was to be held yesterday.

Accounts from all parts of the country represen
the crops as having been much injured by the late storms.

SINGULAR SUICIDE Or A COMPOSITOR.—Yesterday
died in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, a compositor, named Cra-
thern, who destroyed his life under the following circumstances :
The deceased had, until the last few days, not been in constant
work, when he applied at the office of the Iron Times, in Fleet-
street. On Tuesday last he went to work, and having some intri-
cate matter to compose be had not finished his work to his own
satisfaction, when he put his hat on and ran to the upper side of
the River Thames at Blackfriars-bridge. The drags were soon
procured, and the police with much difficulty dragged him ashore,
afterwards he was conveyed to the hospital above-named, but
never rallied, and died yesterday morning. The deceased was a
married man, and much respected in the trade.
It is rumoured, in well-informed circles, that a
certain high functionary is about to imitate the example of one of
his predecessors in office, by engaging a second time in the bonds
of Hymen. The Noble Lord's affections, it appears, are bestowed
on the lovely and accomplished daughter of one of our most dis-
tinguished nisi pries lawyers, and one honoured with the conti.
deuce of the Government.—Irish paper.