The Sun. — 1840-08-06 (London, England)

DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—Yesterday morning information was received by the police of a most brutal and diabolical outrage having been perpetrated on the person of a married woman, about 30, haemr p by ton th n thew e revening, named Lucy Barritt. It appears that the unfortunate woman, in brewer, ret o whose o w who had been attending a fair at Bucklebury Chapel, Wools ehi with tLi s the h shee money was hastening, she andtaken, i n Woolhampton, Berkshire, on Monday last, was on her way to Woolh(amounting to 4/. 10s.) for the sale of some beer entrusted to passing through the wood which adjoins the common where the fair was held, she was met by two men, whose faces were blackened, and who demanded her money or her life. Her money, however, she refused to give when they immediately attacked her, but being a very powerful woman, she struggled with her assailants for some time, but was at length overpowered, when the villains having succeeded in securing her money, proceeded to abuse her person, and having beaten her in a most cruel manner, and no doubt supposing her dead, they threw her over a gate into a copse and made their escape. The moans of the unfortunate woman were at length heard by some passers by, who conveyed her in an almost lifeless state with all despatch to the nearest house, with scarcely a vestige of clothing to cover her person ; the inmates received her, and medical aid having been procured, she was enab'ed to state the above facts, but not to describe her assailants. The circumstances, however, have so affected her mind that aberration of intellect has been the consequence, and it is greatly feared she will never regain her reason. The poor woman, whose husband is a labouring man, has four small children. FIRE AT HAmmERsmITI-I.—Between the hours of two and three o'clock on Tuesday morning a fire broke out at Hammersmith, and raged for upwards of two hours on the premises of Mr. Senior, grocer. It extended to the adjoining premises occupied by Mr. Steadamman, which were all but destroyed. By five o'clock the fire was entirely got under. Its origin cannot be accounted for. Mr. Senior is insured in the County, but the other sufferer is not. A great deal of furniture was saved by the police. We regret to learn that the health of Mrs. Hanbury Leigh is still in so delicate a state from her recent severe attack of influenza, as to compel her, under the advice of her physicians, to quit Pontypool Park without loss of time, as they consider the air of Monmouthshire too humid for her delicacy of constitution, and most strongly advise her to pass the winter and autumn in a more genial climate. LORD DUN RMLINE%That excellent man FE and straightforward politician, Lord Dutiermline, better known to the majority of our readers as the late Speaker, visited last week the Royal borough from which he takes his title; and was received by the local authorities in a manner equally hoecurable to them and to himself. He waa invited to meet the citizens in the Town-hall, when the Provost and Council presented j him with the freedom of the borough. accompanied by an address admirably written, and breathing the very spirit of rational and uncompromising Reform.—Dublin, Evening Post. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE•--A, woman, named Catharine Al‘Quade, was tried at the last Quarter Assizes for the division of Newtonbutler, Fermanagh, and acquitted on account of some informality in the indictment. She was no sooner at liberty than she attempted to rob the house of a man named Fleming, near Auehadrumsee church, who had gone to Roslea Fair. She entered it by the chimney, but slipping her foot, as it is supposed, and falling down, she was caught under the chin by a stick across the chimney, and was there found suffocated and su,pended, being unable to extricate herself. An inquest was held on the body by two Magistrates. and a verdict found accordingly.  MONV Y MARKET and