The Sun. — 1839-01-31 (London, England)

IRELAND.  MURDER OF LORD NORBURY.—In an article on the recent assassina.: tion of Lord Norbury, the Dublin Evening Post declares its belief that the murderer will be discovered, although no clue has yet been found.. The Packet, as is its wont, indulges in some strong language on au atro. cious rumour, which that journal says the Pilot was the first to put into c; rculation, but which we thought the Mail had the bad priority of publishing. The equally atrocious and incredible rumour referred to implicated the present Earl of Norbury in the murder of his own fattier I The Pilot, as well as the other party assailed, are well able to defend, themselves, and require not our humble aid in removing the feculent rubbish of the Orange print, from whose columns we proceed to extract the less offensive passages relative to the murder. The following is a sort of editio expurgata of the Packet's article:—" At a recent meeting in rthe Corn Exchange Mr. O'Connell, by way of strengthening the ca,itmny, expressed his surprise that a dying declaration seas not taken f; om the late Earl by the Magistrates in attendance upon his death-bed. lie thinks it strange that the late Earl's declaration respecting the mur. d_,r and the assassin were not taken before his death; and he attempted to prop up the insinuation intended in that expression of surprise by  saying— " There is anothar curious fact, that the spot where the assassin stood was marked with the impression of a neat and fashionable boot, instead of the iron-bound brogee of the Irish peasant, having nine nails on one side and eleven on the other." ••  The fact that the Earl of Norbury is a Tory, or a Conservative, fully accounts for the rile, the perfidious, the atrocious charge brought against  , . him by the hellish tyrant who presides over the destinies of, the bii nisters of the Queen 'of great Britain. • Though we hasii‘ good reason to believe that the story of the " neat and finished boot" is a fabrication, a mere invention, it is right to observe, that nothing is more likely thaii that the place where the assassin stood when he fired, and the way by which he fled after the bloody deed, were subsequently visited to discover his Gaels, by persons who wore either neat boots or shoes, and very probably both. The ingenuity by which the track has been ascertained to be that of a boot, and not of a shoe, is well worthy of remark. It is said, and we believe truly, that the track of the assassin has been ascertained, and that the Government have in their possession a deposition, wherein it is stated that the assassin wore odd shoes or boots, one of them shod with iron, and the other answering exactly to the description of an Irish peasant's brogue given by Mr. O'Connell, having " nine nails on one side, and eleven on the other." We are not without a hope that  this description of the shoes, boots, or brogues of the assassin may lead to his discovery and apprehension. The family of Lord Norbury have deemed it prudent to repel the more than insinuation contained in the expression of surprise at a want of a dying declaration, by the publics-_ tion of the following statement, which is most satisfactory and conclusive: " Shortly after the arrival of Lord Charlevilte and Captain Fox, it seemed to them that some examination of his Lordship, either in the way of deposition or declaration, might be advisable. The answer re ceived to this was, that his Lordship had really nothing to communicate —that he was totally ignorant of his assailant, although lie suspected one of his tenants—not having seen the person who fired the shot, nor being conscious of what had taken place until he felt himself wounded. " To this was added the opinion of the surgeon then in attendance  —an opinion subsequently confirmed by the Surgeon-General—that the slightest exertion on the part of Lord Norbury, or any communication calculated to produce excitement, might be attended with sudden and fatal consequences, by producing internal haemorrhage. "