The Sun. — 1837-08-23 (London, England)

MURDER.—We some time ago noticed the singular circumstance attending the apprehension at Perth of an Irishman, of the name of Richard New, on suspicion of having murdered a man, near Mullingar, county of Meath. A person of this name having offered himself as a recruit to a party in Perth last spring, was remitted to the surgeon of the regiment for examination, and upon giving in his name and former abode, as above stated, it most singularly happened that the surgeon had just been reading an advertisement in an Irish provincial paper, offering a reward for the apprehension of an individual of the same name and place, on suspicion of being concerned in a late murder there. His personal appearance answering to the description in the advertisement, he was judicially examined in presence of Mr. Sheriff Barclay, and as his declaration then emitted tended to increase the suspicion against him, he was identified by a countryman, a corporal in a regiment than stationed at Edinburgh, and eventually sent off to Ireland to take his trial at the assize in the county of Meath. The trial took place a few days ago, and terminated in a verdict of manslaughter, under the Judge's direction. The evidence against New, it appeared, was entirely circumstantial, and the most important part of it was the inconsistency of his declaration before the Sheriff here, with the facts established in evidence. He had stated in his judicial examination that he had had a quarrel with the deceased ; and the Judge, founding on that admission, in the absence of proof as to the beginner of the fray, gave the prisoner the benefit of it, and the jury found for the lesser charge as already stated. This was the fourth similar charge against New ; from the previous three he had succeeded in freeing himself ; but he was well known to belong to a banditti who have for a long time infested that part of the country ; and it was all but established in Court, that, in the present instance, New bad been engaged for the sum of forty shillings to murder the deceased, to gratify the revenge of a third party. Mr. Rattray, of the Procurator Fiscal's office, Perth, attended to authenticate the prisoner's declaration and such is the lawless state of that part of Ireland at present, that the criminal officer of the district advised him to leave the town immediately after giving evidence ; and he was accordingly escorted in a gig thirty miles, to the nearest mail line of of road, under the charge of two soldiers with loaded muskets. Having been the leading evidence against New, the gang with which the latter was associated would have found means to revenge his conviction had Mr. Rattray remained but one night within their reach.—Perth Courier. M. TiticouPh—M. Tricoupi is a native of Mis_ solonghi which during the war became the bulwark of Greece. His family, which was the first in that town, has rendered the greatest services to the country, by the influence it exercised, and by the ends to which that influence was directed. The father of M. Tricoupi was a well instructed man, of great integrity, and austere manners ; and he was the right arm of Prince Mavrocordato during the noble labours of the latter in that town. He shut himself up there with Prince Mavrocordato during the siege in 182:2 ; and be subsequently died there in 1825, much regretted by all his countrymen, and by everybody else who knew hirn.—Coehraile's Wanderings in Greece. The first great meeting of homoeopathic doctors was held at Frankfurt on the 10th inst. The number present was about 40, and some of the party had ccmc from Russia to join in the deliberations of their colleagues.