The Sun. — 1802-09-29 (London, England)

DUBLIN, SEPT. 2,5'.  I-Its Excellency the LORD LIEUTENANT is expeaed this day at Ballyfin, near Maryborough, the elegant mansion of the Hon. W. W. POLE, where he will remain until Monday, on which day he will return to the Castle, after his most delightful excursion to the South of Ireland.  At Sturbitch Fair, near Canibridge, a full audience was colleded:on Monday evening last to witness the representation of A Bold Stroke for a Wife, by an itinerant Company. At eight o'clock an alarm of " Fire !" was given by some ill.designing person in the gallery. The Play was stopped, and a pause of consternation ensued. At this moment, a woman, affrighted beyond measure, threw herself from the gallery into the pit—a circumstance which seemed to realize the most dreadful apprehensions. Every person rushed instantly towards the door ; some were crushed to death by the. pressure, and more were either killed or wounded severely by being trampled upon when fallen. The accounts received last night state the deaths to he Six or Seven, and the number of the bruised and wounded to exceed Thirty ! The ruffian author of this alarm, for which there was not the smallest foundation, is yet undiscovered ; but it is most devoutly to be wished that the efFurts of the Magistrates will succeed—they have offered the sum of 1001. for his apprehension. Between four and five o'clock yesterday-morning, the inhabitants of Mortlake discovered that the landlord of a public-house had murdered his wife. She was a handsome-looking• woman; and her husband is supposed to have been impelled by excessive jealousy. He beat out her brains with a pistol ; in doing which, the pistol was broken to pieces. Mr. DAvis, the Surgeon, has the retnains of the pistol in his possession. The murderer is in custody, and raves as if he were mad. What is singular, the person who kept the public-house before, a Black, also murdered his wife in it ; in con- sequence of •which, the house was a long time empty, no one liking to take it. At the Justice_room, Guildhall, yesterday, a young man was brought before Mr. Alderman CUR_ in custody of an Officer, who stated that he had been brought to Bridewell the preceding day, by two Gentlemen who had been the means of preventing him from throwing himself over Black_ friars Bridge. On being questioned by the Alderman, he stated that he was by trade a hatter, but had been out of employ for upwards of three months, and was driven to attempt the rash ad through -distress. His aunt attended, and said that he had been in a desponding way for a long time.—Mr. Alderman CURTIS desired him to call at his house and he would endeavour to get him employ, and requested his aunt would take care of him in the interim. The worthy Alderman gave him a small sum for his present necessities. • A desperate banditti, which we may reasonably suppose -to be a part of the Finsbury gang, have turned their hands to another species of depredation, namely, that of housebreaking ; and seldom a night passes without fresh instances of their audacity in Moorfields and its vicinity. On Thursday night last the back parts Of several houses in Leonardstreet were attempted ; but the alarm being given, the villains precipitately decamped ; hut are supposed to have rallied again at the end of Hill-street, Park-s-treet, where they entered the warehouses of Messrs. Wilkinson and Co. calico-glaziers, and, after - poisoning a fine Yard-dog, efireeted their, escape with several pieces of calico. We are happy to learn that some 'effedual measures are in agita. 600 -by the parishioners, to proted themselves and property from the attacks of these desperate freehooters.