The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-09-05 (London, England)

COUNTS FROM IRELAND, VIA FRANCE.—We have still to deplore the excesses of intolerance. An English Journal (the rrutli-l-elkr) now denounces to Europe atrocities committed in a prison of Dublin, called " Richmond Penitentiary." We have already stated that the Marquis of Wellesley had ordered an inquiry to ascertain the truth of the facts. Violence has been exercised on some of the prisoners, to force them to abjure their faith. It is now known, says the English Journal (and the Report of the Commissioners charged rekb lb. imitalry will soon be made public), that the Governor of the prison employed instruiments of torture to force the Catholic prisoners to become Protestants. The instruments base teen found, and a blacksmith has been interrogated, who had made some of a particular sort to be attached to their heads. This man declares, that being employed to fabricate these instruments, and to fix them on the heads of the unconvertible prisoners, he thought he was complying _ with the will of the Governmentand not that of the Protestant inquisition. The official report of the inquiry, continues the Truth-Tello, will be printed in a short time. An ecclesiastical agent of the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, assisted by an advocate and a short-hand writer, is present at each sitting of the Commissioners. The correspondent of the Truth-Triter writes, " I have seen the instruments of torture, and I confess that I did not think the heart of man could have been so destitute of hutnanity as to invent such things."—  Emile. Several of the French journals have teemed lately with accounts, which they have copied from each other, of a horrible murder, said to have been committed in the neighbourhood of Great Mont Rouge. This pretended crime turns out to be a tissue of invention. The real facts are as follow :—A perlion of the name of Biaise Delphy, a mealman, residing in the passage of the Charterux, in the quarter of St. Eustache, set out last Sunday for Mont Rouge, where he said he was going for the purpose of receiving a sum of money. Th 2 next day his wife received a bundle, which, op opening, she found was a meal-sack, containing the bloody garments of her husband, and a letter conceived in the following terms : i I, Mont Rouge, Aug. 20, 1026. " This is to infonn you that the bird has been plucked and oaten. The bones have been thrown into the quarry belonging to M. Llancourt, below Chatillon. We send you the feather,. ' The unfortunate Woman flew, all in tears, to the Commissary of Police, to acquaint him with the melancholy news. M. the Procureur!tht lioi, having received a proces verbal of her declaration,xent one of his duputies immediately to the place,agreeabl to the 32d article of the Criminal Code. M. Tarbe, charge( with this cummission,went to Chatillon, and descended int the quarry mentioned. He discovered there two dead b ics, but they both had their clothes on, and were recogniad to be those of two workmen, recently killed by a fall. !After this search, M. Tarbe went to take an examination nti Mont Rouge. There he exhibited the clothes of Delp!' for the purpose of having them identified, before som its who had been seen drinking with him. But, on Whig them more !Islay, it. ant remarked that the stains with which they were covered were not those of human blood. The suspicions which arose were soon changed into certainty. It was clearly ascertained that the clothes had been steeped in the blood of a sheep, furnished by a country butcher. Delphy was arrested on the 23.1, in a public-house, kept by M. Parisse. He had been on the point of being declared a bankrupt, and this was only a stratagem, invented by himself, for the purpose of throwing his creditors on a false scent. Caere.—Ontssa, sin LI IG.—The wheat now accumulated here amounts to above 800,000 chetwerts, and will be considerably increased by the daily arrivals, as well as by the crop of bard wheat (arnaoutka) cultivated near the town. The quantity of wheat which has overstocked our market must for some time have an unfavourable effect on the pYiecs. Soft wheat was last sold from .5 to 10A, and hard from 9to 13. This will, however, attract buyers, who will be more ready to speculate on those low plices, as, according to all appearances, the harvest, will not be abundant in the South of Europe. In the course of the week, 4,090 chetwerts of soft wheat have been sold front 5i to 11. No demand for hard wheat. One thousand ponds of Campeachy wood have been sold at 31 rubles per pootl.