Star.
London, England, 1824-08-31 00:00:00

EXECUTIONS IN IRELAND.

We yesterday gave an.account of the conviction of
six men for the murder of Mr. Marum, in the county
of Galway. • Their names were Michael Champion,
Robert Marshall, Patrick Phelan, Thomas Sales, William
Phelan, and William Delany. The scene, onSentence of
death being passed on them, beggars description. A
great number of women and some men began to:in.!
aloud, clapping their hands and tearing their hair at
the same time. Champion and. Marshall- turned about
and cast an indignant look on the mourners. Some of
them exclaimed "Innocenti". One called for " a long
day," and one of them threw his hat indignantly from
shim to the ground. The crowd rushed out of Court as
the prisoners descended through the dock, and the loud.
and terrific symptoms of affliction were doubly mani-
fested in the street, and till they passed up James's-street
(the entrance of which was guarded against the multi-'
tilde) to the County Jail. The only indifferent persons
were the prisoners.
• Thursday last, the day fixed for the execution, on the
spot where the murder was committed, they were con-
veyed from Galway county jail under a strong escort.
On leaving the jail, they all protested their innocence,
except Patrick Phelan; but they all evinced a juster,
sense of their situation than at their trial. Arrived at
the fatal spot, each of the culprits, except Patrick Phe-
lan, who preserved a sullen silence, protested their inno-
cence as they ascended the scaffold. Immediately
after being tied, the Sheriff addressed Patrick Phelan,
observing, that he alone neither avowed nor disavowed
his innocence. He replied, " I have nothirig to say,
but leave it all to GOD ALMIGHTY."
Just as they were about to be turned of, Phelan de-
, sired leave to speak, on which the cap was raised, and
he, with a loud voice, and with much energy said, " I
acknowledge I had a hand in the killing. of Marum."
The Rev. Mr. Gorman, one of the attending Clergy,
then asked him " whether any of his unfortunate fellow-
sufferers had been implicated in the murder ?" to which
he replied, " They had nothing to sa> to it." The fatal
bolt was now withdrawn, and they were no longer
of this world. Upwards of twenty thousand persons
were present.
Friday, John and Timothy Hannan (brothers), for
the murder of David Killigrew, at the fair of Ballyduff,
and John Hoolahan, for the murder of Dennis Mahon'',
were executed at Gallows-green, Wexford. Hoolahan,
ahose arms were not well secured, disengaged them
partially, and, in his convulsive efforts, after being
turned off, succeeded in catching the rope with both
bands, which considerably protracted his sufferings.
•
Harriet Bryant, who ascended with Mr. Green in his
balloon, is only fourteen years Of age : she was offered
by four different .Gentlemen £5) if she would resign
her place in the ear, Which she refused.. The balloon
descended near Lutterworth, and a person of that place,
taking it for granted that Mr. Green could stop it like
a stage-coach to take up passengers, asked the young
Lady if she had 4. zome all the way?"
Saturday week, in the Town Hall, Kendal, two young
girls, sitters, belonging to Ambleside, whose parents
are in America, came before the Magistrates to swear
each a child to the same man. These girls, the one
about eighteen, the other about twenty, have been re-
siding at Whitehaven, where they had met with the in-
dividual in question, himself a youth not out of his ap-
prenticeship. The females were brought to bed within
a day of each other.
An affray occurred near Fairfieldmains, Ayrshire, in
the parish of Monkton, on Wednesday last, in which,
we regret to say, Mr. John Dow, tenant of that place,
received a wound which caused his death in the course
ef next morning. The quarrel originated between a
party of smugglers and lailors: the latter attempting,
under the pretence of belonging to the Preventive Ser-
vice, to rob* the former of some whiskey. The smug-
glers gave the sailors £1 fora free passage, which was
accepted in the first instance, but they afterwards in-
sisted upon hiving a cask of whiskey also, a claim
which the smugglers resisted, and called Mr. Dow from
his bed to assist them against the violence of the sailors.
He unfortunately arose and went out ; and just as he
approached the party, one of the sailors rushed upon
lim with a drawn knife and plunged 'it into his belly.
Mr. Dow seized the man, threw him to the ground,
and took from him the knife; but in place of availing
himself of the advantage to revenue the assault, and
bring the offender to justice, he returned to his house,
and allowed the man to escape; and he has hitherto
eluded the utmost.vigilance•of the police. Mr. Dow
waS'a respectable man, and of peaceable habits.
M. DUPIN says, the number of our harbours, docks,
piers, and lighthouses, extends over more than six hun-
drectleagues of coast. He says our canals extend in
length a thousand leagues, and our roads forty-six thou-
sand leagues, and that even the pipes for conveying gas
and water through the streets of London reach to four
hundred leagues.
In the night of Friday se'nnight, the family of Capt.
Ilerriot, at Ashton, near Bishop's Waltham, were
alarmed by two men endeavouring to break into the
house. Mrs. Herriot, with heroic courage, desired one
of her daughters to scream loudly from one room, while
she Lersell proceeded to load an old rusty musket in
anirlier, %kith which she advanced courageously to a'
window and tired at the men, who immediately escaped. '
In crossing the desert, traders are in the habit of 11
giving to their camels, several days before they start,
erch day three times the usual quantity of food, which
ttley force down their throats. The camels chew this
`;lpply for several days after, during the march.
Mining is much encouraged in France. A specimen
r,i lead ore has been brought to this country, which is 1
a a very fire quality.
List week an Officer of the depot at Albany, Isle of Wight, en.l
tv.d for a wager to shoot 27 birds out of 30. He hit them all, but
'').r Id! withi,ut the bounds (too yards) so that he lost the match
1. (o.lyune bird.
'llle point in dispute between the Exeter and the Sidnsoath
(dulcet Uubs his been decided by the President-of the Mary-la.
Lam.e firGund—" That the batter is not out if the ball hit the hand
1,,1w 'he wrist; if the ball had been caught he would have been out."
Sit yper, the noted pedestrian, is now performing the very ardu-
uus ta.k at fit ty miles a day, which he has engaged to keep up for
twelity.nue d tys, Sundays excepted, en a measured piece of ground
a quarter of a mile in extent, in a held behind St. Thomas's
tin.ich, Exeter.
El' It% 11 n.---In the Advertisement of "the British Code of Duel."
who, apprared in the Seas of the stith and Seth in* for price
z...,; ,:•ad :is.