Star.
London, England, 1828-04-08 00:00:00

BEDFORD SPRING MEETING, Aram 4.
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The O.kley Stakes of 5 sows. each (24 Subscribers) was won by
Lord Tavistuck's b h Freeholder, beating Lord Ongky's Little
John, Mr. Stuart's Magic, and seven others.
Match 50 sovs.--Captain Delme Radcliffe's Guardsman beat
Captain Lord C.• Russell's The Terrier.
Match 50 sovs.—Captain Polhill's Medea beat Mr. Littledale's
Jason.

A Plate of 250 was won in three beats by Mr. Purser's Make-
shift, beating Mr. Gibbing's Jujube, Mr. Bolton's Grasshopper, and
three others.

Maicb 50 soar.—Tbe Hon. Captain Onsley's Mercury beat Capt.
D. Radcliffe's Selim.

Match 50 soya.—Capt. Polhirs eh m beat Mr. Palmer's b b.
A Hunter's Stakes of 5 soy,. each (I 0 Subscribers) was won in
three beats by Mr. Benton's eh It Wititestockings, beating Mr. Pol-
hill's kitties, and several others.
FLORENCE SPRING RACES, Maxen 17.
Match for 40 Louis d'or—T.Y.C.
Mr. Xerrick'sch h 'Goldfinch, lOst 101 b
Mr. Let's b 1. Trim Awe, 9st t Ilb
Won easy.
Arno Stakes (Second Year), Subscription of 10 auchins each ; the
second horse to receive one-third of the Stakes. for all horses.—
Horses not thorough-bred to carry 9st 101 b ; thorough-bred
horses that have not run in England, lost Slb; and thorough-bred
hones that have run is England, 11st.—One round.—(Eighteen
Subscribed)
Mr. Thellusaon's b in Beauty
Mr. Baring's c m Conviction
Sir H. Williamson's g m Riber
Mr. Strangway's bl it Othello
Mr. Smirnoff's e m Malvina
Mr. Jones. b m Matilda •••
Mr. Kerrick's e It Rob Roy ..
Mr. Demidors b b True Blue
Mr. Gasperinies c m Fornarina
Two started.

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Lord Burgbenh, Lord Normindy, Captain Cadopn, Mr. P.
Bartole, Mr. Bruce, Count Hokersowa, Marquis Spinola, Marquis
Lucchessini, and Mr. Perry did not name.
Match for SO Louis d'or, T.Y.C. lost Ilb each.
Mr. Narichkin's g h Viaier
Mr. Geislers b h Coro

Complaint being made of a jostle, it was agreed to run over again
neat day.
Handicap Stakes for all Horses was thorough-bred.—Subscription
of 10 suchins each, T.Y.C.—(Eight Subscribers).
Mr. Thellusson'ib m Beauty, lOst 71b
Mr. Jones's b m Miss Molly, 10st
Lord liurghersh's b h Malmantine, lost 21b
Captain Cadogan's b b Squirrel', lOst 2lb
Marquis Luccheulni's b m daa, lOst
Sir H. Williamson's b M Judith, 9st 91b
Mr. Baring's c It Rob Roy, 10st 111 b
Lord Normandy did not name.—Ouly two started.
Match for 10 Louis d'or, Y.C. 10st each.

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Mr. Gasperiui's b h Signs ••
Mr. P. Bangle's b h Dandy ..:t
Won daily.
Match for 10 Louis d'or, T.Y.C. catch weights.
Mr. Smith's br h Zephyr ••• ... ...
Benin d'Anutein's g 11 Pangarog • ..
Won easy.
Chianti Stakes, 10 Louis d'or each; for all horses that never ran in
Italy, three yr olds to carry Ist Ill; four, 9st 21b ; See, 104 ;
six, and aged, lost 41b. Once round. (Tea Subscribers).
Sir 11. Willaimson's g h Riber, 5 yrs ...
Mr. Baring's b h Othello, 6 7n •CO
Mr. Demidors b m Tippitywltchett, 3 in
Mr. Jones's b m Matilda, 4 yrs .. ....
Three *until—Won cleverly.
Lord Normandy, Mr. Multiunit, Mr. Perry, Marquis Luc•
cheulni, Mr. Smirnoff, and Mr. S. Bruce subscribed, but did not
name.
Match for 10 Louis d'or, T.Y.C. llst 101 b each.
Mr. Gasperini's b h ••
Marquis Banoline's g h Bergansi
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MONUMENT TO MR. Canutwoo—The subscription to
the fund for the erection of a Monument to Mr.. Can-
ning,in Liverpool, now amounts to SAM,
The Finance Committee adjourned on Wednesday
last until Tuesday the 15th lost, They have examined
into the principal branches of the ;Navy, Army, and
Ordnance, of what may be called the effective force,
with the view of being able to report to the House soon
after the recess. • .
In consequence of the propostdi-extension of the
elective franchise to the hundred of Bassetlaw, in which
Retford is situate, several candidates are already named
as likely to offer themselves, and some canvassing has
actually commenced. Lord NEWARK (eldest son of
Earl MASTERS)/ GEORGE SAVILZ FOLJAMEE. Esq. of
(Merton. GRANVILLE V. VERNON. Esq. of Grove, and
H. G. KNIGHT. Esq. of Firbeck, are all confidently
mentioned as candidates. The number of freeholders
in the hundred is 2,000,..fia1i Packet.

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TRAY;LS rx RUSSIA, POLAND, AND FINLAND.

EY WILLIAM RAE WILSON, ESQ. F.A.S.

This Work, which comes forward it the present
period, when so mush speculation is afloat with legard
to the movements of Russia towards Turkey, and in-
volves such important considerations Wails country,
contains many remarks which are of importance to
Government. Our limits at present only permit us to
give the concluding observatit ns of the Author on his
journey
" Although wl;at had fallen under our view in the
various countries we passed through had rarely eacited
any comparisons to the prejudice of our own, I should
pay a very suspicious compliment to my native land—a.
oue favouring rather of narrow•minded prejudice than
liberal patriotism—were I to assert that I had met with
nothing worthy of approbation or imitation elsevihere.
If, in some instances, the observations on Russia and
its inhabitants may appear harsh, and if I have un-
sparingly censured that superstition, in which the minds
of the people are sunk, and degrades the doctrines of the
Greek Church, as laid down by its theologians, almost
to tie level of Catholicism, let it be remembered that
Russia is yet young in point of civilization. She may be
semi barbarous—so is Portugal, and also is Spain : yet
with this difference, the glory of the latter is passed, theie
energies extinct—theirs is not the debility of childhood,
but of exhausted age—not, I say, the ignorance of, in-.
expereace, but the dotage of decay ; while Russia,
strong in her physical, may become as great in her in.
rellectual, powers. Still, so long as despotism shall
continue to be the spirit of her Government anctits
Institutions, so long must her destinies depend on the
individual character of her Sovereigns: These have
brilliant examples before them-.for instance, Peter,
Catherine, and Alexander; land; with virtuous energy,
disintere tedly pointed to the happiness of his peo-
ple, a Russian Monarch would not want the means
of raising them to an elevat;on in the scale of nations,of
which h cory presents few examples.
Enlightened and civilized, generous and brave,
Russia. may yet become to the world a second Britain;
and narrow-minded indeed must be that man, and gra•
veiling must be that policy, which could view with a
jealous elte the moral improvement of an empire com-
plising so large a portion of the habitable globe.—.
If the advancement of the human race be a subject of
congratulation to the philanthropist—if a generous con-
test in the arts of civilization 'and national happiness
tend to mutual benefit—to gain a competitor in such it
career is a greater subject for exultation, than to have
vanquished a thousand enemies.
" In estimating national, as well as individual charac-
ter, we are too apt to compare, not the merits of others
with our own, but to contrast their impetfections with
those points wherein we ourselves excel. It is possible
that I myself may have more than once been betrayed
into partiality by such a weakness, and without making
the allowance for differences of national culture and
habits, and forgetting that Russia is not England, may
hive dwelt on her more obvious defects.' If so, I must
ingenuously plead guilty, and express a hope that the
reader will as candidly impute it, not to wilful misre-
presentation, but rather to the briefness of my stay in
that country, which prevented me from studying more
accurately the character of this people. With respect,
however, to the vigilant and' ealous cauti( ri with which
the Government of a vast empire assumes to itself the
character of a police, with regard to its petty tyranny
over the conduct M individuals, and the uniform sup•
pression of the publication of -every sentiment at all at
variance with its own views, theie-is, and-I do maintain
there can be, but one opinion. Short sighted, cowardly
policy ! more debasing to those. who enforce, than to
those who submit to it. Such, alas lis the re-action of -
despotism, that it renders the Sovereign himself a slave.
But—and may that auspicious hour soon arrive—con•
scious of hit power, and confiding-in the attachment
of tis subjects, may the Autocrat of all the Russia: de.
cla e the PRESS TO Be FRER. That single m ,ndate, I •
entertain no doubt, will obtain for him as much renown
as all that has been accomplished by-the greatest of his
predecessors, and would, under the blessing of Provi•••
dence, give to the world another empire, the worthy
rival of our own in that glorious cause—the cause of
Freedom, and of the moral advancement of the ha.-
man race."

Government has given its consent to the removal of
the Fleet Prison to a plot of ground in St. George's
Fields, situate on the west side of: the new road from
the Westminster-road to Bethlem Hospital. This plot
of ground belongs to the City, and it is to be given to
the Crown in exchange for the fee-simple of the ground
on which the Fleet Prison now stands.

Lord CLANBRCCK completed his majority on Tues.
day. His Lordship invited all his tenantry to a public
dinner given on the occasion, at his splendid seat in the
county of Galway, Clanbrock House. There were
drank by the tenantry 50 tierces of strong beer and
porter, and six puncheons of whiskey. His Lordship
presided at the dinner, and in the evening led off the
ball with the daughter of one of his principal tenants.
There was a splendid exhibition of fireworks on the
lawn before the house.
Preparations for the new improvements near Charing
C ass have commenced, as some of the buildings ate
now taking down, and the miserable dwellings known
by the name of Porridge Island, near St. Martin's
Church, will in the course of the summer disappear._
St. Martin's Church will soon be insulated, and the
whole of that beautiful edifice will be/exposed to rib.
lie view. ,

Friday afternoon a baker, named Hewitt, residing at
Chelsea, was defrauded of by a man who sent him
a note, purporting to come from a lady named Johnson,
requesting the loan of the above sutra • The Lady being
a customer, Mr. Hewitt instantly sent the money.
Saturday night, as Mr. Justice Buattouou was pro-
ceeding to town in his carriage from Kingston, after
finishing the Home Circuit, the portmanteau which was
fixed behind, and which contained, besides several docu. •
meets and papers•of importance, his Lordship's gown
and wig, •was cut from its fastenings by some of the
's dragsmen" who lurk about the roads in the environs
of London, for the purpose of cutting away trunks and
portmanteaus from Gentlemen's carriages. The above .
robbery was not discovered until the arrival of the •
Learned Judge's carriage in town. The following
morning, the road between the Baldfaced Stag and the
Plough, near Wandsworth, was strewed with the frig- • •
meats of his Lordship's gown, which the thieves cut op
into small pieces, and dropped at intervals on the road.
The wig shared a similar fate, some portion of which •
was studs on spikes by the road side. The empty port-
manteau was discovered in a field near the spot where
the thieves are supposed to have cut it from the canine.
Letters from Rio Janeiro arrived yesterday ; they
come down to theist of February. The Exchange on
England had fallen to SI ; the premium op gold was
125 per cent. A small loan had bee* .obtaieed by

Government of 126,0001. but a great scarcity of MOOT
was still felt. The loan was to bo paid by instalments
at VI 40,60, and 80 days.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

KINGSTON, Artuc 7.
Before Mr. Justice Buaaousit and a Special Jury.
BEAL V. BEET.

Mr. MARRYAT, with whom was Mr. CHITTY, stated
the case. This was an action to recover 1,666/. the
amount of a deposit left by the plaintiff in the hands of
Mr. Beet, who is Clerk to the Trustees of the Surrey
and Sussex Turnpike Trusts. In April, 1827, the tolls
of the above roads were put up for sale, and the plain-
tiff* was the highest bidder, having bid 20,0001. He
accordingly left a deposit of the 12th of that sum,
1,6661. in the hands of Beet, and furnished a list of five
pers ins, who would be his sureties for fulfilling the
cdntract. The Trustees rejected the proposed security,
although it was perfectly sufficient ; and not only that,
but retbsed to return to the plaintiff his deposit of
1,6661. and kept that sum in their hands ever since.
It was contended, on behalf of the defendant, that
this action could not be maintained. The trustees had
a discretionary power, under the Act of Parliament, to
reject the security if they thought it insufficieni. On
inquiry into the responsihility of two of the persons
proposed by the plaintiff, it was ascertained that their
security was not sufficient, and the plaintiff, instead of
bringing this action against the trustees, brought it
atainit their clerk, in order to prevent him from giving
evidence of the insufficiency of the said sureties.
'Mr. Justice Boaaouon stopped the case, and observed
that in his opinion the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict,
as the trustees had exceeded the discretion vested in
them by the Act of Parliament. It appeared they had
inquired into the sufficiincy of only two of the proposed
sureties, whereas five persons had been offered, three of
whom, nr, at the utmost, five together, would have been
sufficient.

Mr. CHITTY said his client had also a right to the in-
tetest of the 1,6661• for the twelve months.

H S LORDSHIP was of opinion that the •erdict ought
not to include-the interest.

The Jury, under the Leal ned Judge's directions, gave
a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1,6661.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—YORK, AvatL.S.
Before Mr. Justice BayLar, and a Special Jury.
SACKHOUSE V. HEMSWORTII.

Mr. BAINES opened she pleadings. The declaration
stated that the plaintiff was a gnod, just, and faithful
subject of the realm, and until the comrnitting of the
grievances by the _defendant, in the declaration men-
tioned, had never been suspected of murder or other-
wise ; yet that the defendant, contriving to oppress and
ruin the said plaintiff, on the 16th of November, 1827,
went before one Christopher Beckett, .Esq. a justice of
the peace, and falsely and maliciously, and without pro-
bable Caine, charged the plaintiff with having feloni-
ously poisoned and murdered one Mary Hemsworth,
and caused and procured the plaintiff to be -arrested
and detained in prison for four days. There was ano-
ther count; charging the defendant with saying of and
corcerning the plaintiff, " He has poisoned my mother,
and I ran prove it ; he always keeps pcison in his
house." Plea general issue.
-Mr. BROUGHAM addressed the Jury for the plaintiff.
He was, he said, about to open to them a case which
claimed their deepest attention, and wl,ich ranked
amongst the worst instances cf slander which his ex-
cetienee had furnished. it was not that slight descrip.
tion of slander which was hastily spoken and hastily
forgotten, and which was productive of no injury or
pain, but it was slander of that description which was
fixed with tenfold weight by the circumstances under
which it was uttered, and by the consequences with
which it was attended. How would any one of the
Jury like to be told, whilst suffering under the
grief and pain of losing a dear friend or relative,
that he had been the cause of that death, and that
his had been the hand that administered it ? How
would be like to have it said,..You have committed mur-
der;" and especially how would be like that charge to
come from a near relation ? Yet they would find in the
present case that the plaintiff had been subjected to that
charge—that be had been accused of the wilful murder
of his mother.in-law ; and that that accusation had not
been uttered by a stranger or an enemy, but had pro-
ceeded from a quarter, whence, of all others, it had
been least expected, viz from the brother of his own
wife The charge, too, bad not -been vaguely or
gen rally made, but bad been fastened on the plain-
tiff with considerable Minuteness of detail. It was
for that slander, and • the personal suffering conse-
quent upon that slander, that the plaintiff now• came
into Court. It was ;absolarely necessary for him to
cicr.so, in order to set his own character fairly before
theArorld. How much his character had suffered, the
Juv,wotrld imagine. Nay, it • was impossible to say
bow much it might still suffer; for such• was the prone
noes of human nature to. hat bcur and be influenced by
insiicieus reports, that it was to be feared that, even
after • their verdict . should have shown how utterly
groundless bad -been the imptuation.against his client,
there would be found persons. mal ig n Le item g h to. hint,
thatelthongh a Jury gave damages for, the slander, there
must,still have -been some truth in the .charge. The
plaintiff had :by • ibis • action given the defendant . en
opportunity of justifying the eretels .which he bad
Woken; but no justification appeared .on the re-
efed. He' (Mr. Brougham) . had already ~stated to
them that tie plaietiff rand .defendant were .nearly
related. Infect, the plaintiff had /Mar tied a -sister of
the-defendant. The deceased, Mrs. :-Hernswotth;was
therefore the mother. in.law of therplaint iff..lt appcated
that theoirk Lady hadiseen very fend-of sweelnet:at , acid
the -plaintiff and' his wife having visited Leeds fair;
Willem a quantity of ginger-briad, called brandy-map,
wtrids they left at her house for her use. Some.of. the
brandy-sup she ate on - the evening en which, it bad
bean left/and all that nighties siessaised in goodhealib.
ilenhosect show the. Jury that; in fact, the bad ,aster
bean All trews eating it, bat that her death, which
bird• aUddeniy taken place four days after the
btattirsnap had been purchased, had .ban nn,
questionably occasioned by the %misting of some
vessel connected with the beast. The defendant

had, before a Magistrate, charred that arsenic had been
mixed with the brandy snap before it had been lett at
Nlrs. Hansworth's house. Now he (Mr. Brongham)
should show, by the testimony of several of the most
eminent chymists in Leeds, that there hid
,sen no such
ingredient in it—they having carefully analyzed the
quantity that had been left. •But even after the malig•
nity of the defendant bad pane so far as to have the
plaintiff carried before a Magistrate and kept four days
in confinement, still he had not been satisfied. After an
investigation by a Coroner's Jury, and after the verdict
of that Jury had conspletey exonerated the plaintiff
from every charge that the defendant had advanced—
, alter all that the defendant had said in the office of a
proctor, whom he (fir. Brougham) would call before
them—" He (the plaintiff) has murdered my mother,and
I will prove it,"—the present action had not been
brought hastily : for, weeks after the injury which had
been inflicted on the plaintiff, he had given the defendant
an opportunity of avoiding a suit at law. by making an
amplethough tardy apology. The plaintiff had felt a wish
not to perpetuate family quarrels : and if the defendant
had consented to come forward and confess that he had
been deceived by the falsehood of an infamous woman,
or the ignorance of a doting apothecary, the present
action would not have been commenced. The defen-
dant had, however, refused the offer, and he (Mr
Brougham) now hoped that the Jury would give such
a verdict as would not enable the defendant to quote
the smallness as a proof that the Jury thought there
must have been some foundation for the slander.
Mr. BROUGHAM was about to call witnesses, when.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY called Mr. POLLOCK, the &fin:
dant's Counsel, and a conference of some length took
place between the Judge and the leading Counsel on
both sides. In the end,
Mr. PoLcoce rose, arid in a short adcftess to the Jury,
made, on the part of the defendant, an ample apology,
and expressed the firm conviction of the defendant, that
his original suspicion had been unfounded.
A verdict was then taken for tbe.plaintiff—Damages l s.
Mr. BROUGHAM observed, that damages had been
offered on the other side; but that as the plaintiff's ob-
ject had been the vindication of his character, he bad
refused to take any damages beyond what was neces-
sary to carry costs.

CORK, Aran 5.

This morning the CHIEF BARON resumed the County
criminal business, when John Uniacke and James Cody
were given in charge, for the murder of Michael Neil,
at Temple Valley, near Tallow, on the 16th last month.
The unfortunate deceased was sitting with his family
at his fireside on the night stated, when he was most
treacherously shot from a back window by the prisonet s,
who were both brothers in-law to the deceased. The
principal witness against the prisoners was the wife of
the unhappy man, and she brought home the fact, so as
not to leave a doubt on the mind of the Court. An
attempt to prove an alibi on the part of Uniacke was
abortive.—Both were found Guilty, and sentenced to be
executed on Saturday. Uniacke as a very respectable
looking man; and Cody,-who made a full confession,
is not more than 18 years of age.

7 imolhy Cremeer, Dennis Slackpole, and John Cal-
khan, for the abduction of Catherine Owens, near
Ballytooky, were brought up, and sentenced to be
hanged on the 19 It instant.
Jeremiah Murphy and William Flynn were sentenced
to seven years' transportation, fur stealing one hundred
and fifty sovereigns and forty Spanish.dollats of &Mee]
Lowe, Sergeaut•Major of the 76th regiment.

There was lately found in a fish pond at Abingdon.!
belonging to Mr:Toss KI NS, a tea canister full of guineas.
Fifteen years ago the coachman to Mr. TOMKINS'S
father robbed him of 800 guineas. for which he was
committed to taint but escaped,and has never since been'
heard of. This is supposed to be patt of the money.

GLASGOW, Aram--.—Thursday being the fast day
here, a party of young men, five in number, belonging
to different warehouses in Glasgow, hired a small plea-
sure-boat at the Brooniielaw, to take a *ail down the
Clyde ; but it is bilieved they had little skill in ma-
naging a boat, as it upset near Duitglas, and four of
the Unfortunate youths perished. Two of them are
brothers, of the name of M'Dougal, a third, named
John M‘Farlane, and the fourth, Walter Anchison.—
Ottlyihe body of NI-Farlane has yet been found. The
ferryboat, and a boat belonging to a schooner in the
river, rowed immediately to the spot, and rescued the
fifth young man, who was hanging by an oar in a state
almost approaching to insensibility. The patties that
go to aid return from Kis kintullcch, Paisley, Greenock,
acc. on fast days, are beyond all conception, and their
appearance, on their return home, show, gen. rally, too
truly the pleasurei they had enjoyed.
Mr. Thomas Hollier, of Burton-upon-Trent, was mur-
dered last week. The body of the deceased was found
by a man and his son who were going to work, in rather
a lonely lane, in the parish of Burton-upon-Ti ent, called
Lichfield-lane, and used as a. back way into the town
from the Derby and 'Hunninglow roads. Some suspi-
'cion of the perpetration of the murder rested upon two
young men, with whom the deceased bad, in the course
of the evening, had a quarrel.
Lariat. QUlnates.-:—A may was, the other day, tried
at the Warwick Assize<, for stealing four live fowls in '
the county. He had first stolen them in Staffordshire,
and gone with'thent Into Watwickshire. It is held in
law, that a man commits a felony in every county
through which' he parses wish stolen property; this. man
was, therefore, properly committed to Warwick gaol
for trial; but it appeared in evidence, that when tt e
fowls were found in his possession, in the Latter county,
they were dead, and therefore be -could . not be found
guilty of stealing lire fowls in Warwickshire.
Extract of a • letter from Smyrna, dated. Feb. 18:
" The accounts from .Constantioople continue to be
very gloomy ; the persecution of the Catholit Arme-
nians continued, and it is reported that an order had
been is- ued for all Greeks to leave -the capital; there
are about 60,000. If this is true, business will of course
•entirely cease there, as the •Greeks and Armenians are

the xonmerci,al part of the ;mutual+ y.. The Europeans
in Smyrna are more toncptiL,wie bear no more of
preparations for .departuree..:people flatter themielves
that tnerssew Ministers ins .France and England. will
rrsu
,nr j ,
ots •.ute auras against jtussia, than further
,c,p,ess.the foluter..Such is most pointedly the political
list, sees f •Eugland, bat we. fear Greek infatuation will
Moo powerfall
_kindling whatever can be said on the
is:ate of trade berg—it is quite disorganized every
,operation is intoner, ;ad on ruinous terms. We do
not see neusb r9West isur. 0 veiny nt. Even should
,tbetelsot be tuanessiikisegland and France, the country
will selsWeeserste slime. seturnr to its former tranquil
slaty. ,i42u natio beard of the surrender ot Carabusa
`,to the -Rengliin.andrßeenclkfairces withqut fighting, but
with the loss .t 0 the EC'grhth ef . the Cansbron fijgge?
which went on aborts on the rrosks.,Tenty tbyrict piptioal
vessels found thentwasu.eleisrnyed,, but, tbe people,
appeals, were not molested, but left to enjoy their loos/.
However, we don't b. ar of any acts of piracy."

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EXECUrION OF WELSH AND LACY.

FOR TIIE INIURDF.II OF D. 31AltA, AT CLONMEI..

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The unfortunate culprits, since the hour of their con
viction up to the moment of their execution on Thurs.
day, spent their time in penitential acts of unfeigned
sorrow and regret for the perpetration of this cruel and
abominable murder. Before twelve o'clock a party of
the Scots Greys and hope police surrounded the drop
of Cloarnel Gaol. The crowd was immense, and more
particularly of that class, the peasantry of the county,
for whose salutary example this awful exhibition wa
more particularly calculated to make a lasting and ute-
ful impression.
About twenty-five minutes after twelve o'clock Da-
niel Lacy appeared on the platform, attended by the
Rev. Alr.Baldwin ; his appearance was at once the ignal
for a simultaneous burst of sympathy; he appeared ex-
tremely contti,e, and struck his breast with both hands
alternately. After some time occupied in praier, the
executioner appeared near him, put the cap on his head,
and covered his tact'. A similar exhibition of popular
sympathy was here manifested by the multitude. Lazy
occupied the left of the drop; he appeared with forti
tude and resignation. Very shortly after, John Welsh,'
the other culprit, came forward; he appeared languid,
and was scarcely able to sustain his position on the
drop. He stood slantingly, as if his legs were tottering
from beneath his frame. Welsh was accompanied by the
Rev. Mr. Brennan. Lacy and Welsh were quickly, after
some short exhortations to a resignation to their un-
happy fate, left by the Roman Catholic Clergymen.—
Welsh said a few words, namely— that he was now
about to die, and forgave his prosecutors—he died in
peace with all mankind. Lacy did not patter a word.
Here a most appalling and ft ightful scene was exhi-
bited. The drop has two foldings ; Lacy stood on the
lett, Welsh on the right. The executioner proceeded
to let the drop fall, when the folding upon which
Welsh stood fell rather ger.tly at- first, and shortly
went back freely. The folding under Lacy did not give
way, except a gentle slanting, and the unfortunate man
was upheld, his legs sustained and sliding, and he pre-
sented an awful spectacle of strangulation. The simul-
taneous roars were indescribable, and several cries of
" Shame, shame !" were to be heard. Welsh was hang-
ing in the usual way when the executioner came forward
and shoved the body off the slant into the open drop
wherein Welsh hung; but in this effort he was unsuc-
cessful, as the rope was not sufficiently long to admit
of extending the body so much to the right, and the
executioner had then to draw the body in on the verge of
the entrance to the scaffold. Lacy, visibly ss ith the tr.gour
of life, stood up, and participated himself in an effort to
get rid- of the position he was in. The executioner made
another effort, and forced the body on the still slanting
drop, which, after a few moments, gave way, when the
drop fell, and the body hung in the usual way. Welsh
WAS to all appearance dead; and Lacy, after a few
struggles, was launched into eternty.
It is impossible to describe the emotions of horror
and dismay which pervaded the vast multitude during
this scene•of botchery f execution. There were to be
seen a vast number of persons wailing loud, menet ying,
Their hands covering their faces; and a very general sym•
pathy, sorrow, and lamentation, pervaded the peasant
portion of the spectators. The b dies hung three quar-
ters of an hour, when they were let down from the gul-
lies of the gallows, and put into two coffins, laid on
cars, under the gallows, and conveyed to the Cashel
Infirmary, twelve miles cff, and in the neighbouthord
or the residence of many as•ociates of the unfortunate
sufferers.

Welsh was what a person would denominate a decent
comfortable farmer, and rather a very sightly man,
and seemed to be about thirty-six years of age. Lacy
was a tall, active young man, about twenty-six years of
age; he had, however, a countenance of deterniinaticin
and boldness, and had strong lineaments of feature,
which indicate a dating, enterprising spit it.

In Farlington church-yard is a stone to the memory
of an aged couple, named Booker. One had reached
99 years, the other 96. They both died of the small
pox, after living together, man and wife, 7'2 years.
It is a circumstance unknown in history, that in 1800
a young Greek, only 22 years old, named Arginople
was appointed Charge d'Affaires from the Porte to the
Court of London. lie first arrived in England as dra-
goman to the Turkish- Ambassador, in 1798, two years
previous to his diplomatic appointment.

The encroachments of the sea between Pagham and
Little Hampton are appalling. At Aldwtck great
ma,ses of ground have disappeared, and fences are
swept away, which were last autumn deemed out t 4
reach of the tide. At B Toot., and particularly near the
side of the Old Hotel,there has been dreadful havock.

Utters from Malta, tired 17th Feb. state, that Capt.
G. W. HAMILTON, C.B. with the officers and crew of
his Mjesty's late ship Cambrian, were at that time per-
formi•tg quarantine in the Lazaretto there. A Court
Martial would be held to inquire into the circumstances
of her loss, as soon as she should be released, when
tl e Galatea and Ariadne frigates would bring them to
England. The only fact we have learnt, connected
with the Cambrtan's catastrophe, is that of her having
struck on a rock, off the west end of Candia, on the
eve.ting of the 31A of January, as she was coming out
from the anchorage t,f the small Island of Carabusa ;.
the crew had no time to save much, as the ship in-
stantly bilged, and shortly fell into deep water. The
boats of the Isis, Rattlesnake, Zebra, and Camelion,
took them lion) the wreck.

METEOR. LOGICAL PROGNOSTICATION OBSERVED IN
THE SHETLAND Istria—Mr. Scott, Professor at the
Sandnurt4College, states that he has.witnessed the follow-
ing effect s—lt has been the custom to place drinking-
glasses in an inverted position upon a shelf in a cup-
board on the ground floor of Belmont House. These
glasses frequently produce spontaneous sounds, similar
to those which could be occasioned either by tapping
them lightly with _a_proknife, or by raising them a lit-
tle, and letting them fall upon the shelf. These sounds
always indicated wind, and whenever they occurred, the
boats and vessels were immediately placed in security.
No indication was given of the quarter whence the
I wind would come, but the strength of the sound was
always propoitionate to that of the tempest. The latter
came sooner or later,sbut generally several hours alter'
the sounds. Mr. S. states that there was no sensible
motion either in the glasses, or their support, at the time
when the sound is strongest, and be this*, that the cause
of the phenomenon may be eleitriiity..
A private letter from the Morea contains the follow=
ing account of the number of Officers of different na:
tions who bate entered into the military service of 01t;
.Gree,o to.xlisr:lst of Felpgary last: Spanish,l General,'
3 CP** 15 Captains; Portuguese, 2 Colonels -13
Captains, 12•Linsatenants and Ensigns; Italian,. I Colo.:
,ine),ll4:Captaius, S Lieutenants ; French, 4 Generals,
Colcmels,6.Captains, 32 Lieutenants ; Piadmontes4,
1 Coinnfl,.2 4eu‘ellants; American, 3 Captains, 6
.Licutcnaup;. Russian,. Colonels, 14 Lieutenants; and
ANON). I .0c9m418, wad. 40:4Migasts and onset Sub=
atter° Officers. •