The Sun. — 1862-10-30 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, OCT. 29.  At the commission yesterday George Dixon, an ex• policeman, was convicted of stealing a gold watch and chain from a gentleman whom he found sleeping on the step of a door in the neighbourhood of Granby-row, in this city. The gentleman stated in his evidence that he was roused by a policeman, and when he had proceeded about 100 yards from the place he missed his watch, which, being produced, he identified. Mr. Green, a watchmaker, deposed that the prisoner brought it to hiro to get it cleaned and repaired, and he wiebed.him to Alter the number and the initials, that it might look " younger or newer." A pawnbroker at Belturbet, County Cavan, proved that the prisoner left the watch with him, and borrowed £6 on it. Acting Inspector Keegan and Sergeant O'Neill gave evidence which left no doubt of the prisoner's guilt. The jury found him guilty of receiving the property, knowing it to be stolen. Baron Deasy sentenced him to four years' penal servitude. Martin Hough, alias O'Leary, a servant, was indicted for attempting to murder Mary Meteham, also a servant, by cutting her throat with a razor, on the 15th of July last. There had been some courtship between the parties, but the girl at last, following her mother's advice, refused to marry him. On the morning after she dismissed him he went to a house where she was visiting a sick child, and there made a most murderous attack on her, cutting her throat almost from ear to ear and frightfully mangling her hands. The charge was proved by the girl herself and other witnesses, and the prisoner was found guilty of an attempt to wound and do grievous bodily harm. Before sentence was passed he made a rambling statement. He was extremely sorry that one of the Queen's men (he had been a soldier) should have committed such a crime, as he had been granted a pension when leaving the service in 1857_ He said, " I place myself in her Majesty's hands, to do what she pleases with me, and I remain her humble and unfortunate (invent, my Lord." An attempt had been made to show that he was insane, but the plea was not admitted, and Baron Fitzgerald sentenced him to penal servitude for life.  The Rev. J. Jebb Sargent has published a letter in the Cork Constitution, giving an interesting account of the death of the Rev. Mr. Harman at the reading-desk, while officiating with him in his church on Sunday last. He says : Mr. Harman came unexpectedly to my vestry room, just before service to-day, and offered to preach for me,which offer I thankfully accepted. We had proceeded in the service as far as the first lesson, which he was reading. Having made a slight mistake, he corrected himself and appeared to falter, which made me look up, when I perceived him apparently confused and stooping. I had scarcely time to catch him in my arms and lay him gently down. Though every effort was made to relieve him, and the members of the congregation hastened to his assistance, in less than five minutes he lay a lifeless corpse, in face of the congregation to which he had been ministering. Calmly his spirit passed away from the midst of the congregation on earth to enter the general assembly and church of the first-born. His lifeless body lay still invested with the garb of the officiating minister while the immortal spirit which lately tenanted it had been wafted by angels into Abraham's bosom. So solemn and impressive a scene it never before was my lot to witness—so awful an illustration of the truth, "in the midst of life we are in death." For that death his whole life was a preparation. Some idea of the state of the County Tipperary may be formed from the fact that during the recent sitting of the Quarter Sessions Court a gentleman who was attending as a witness was guarded during the day by two polictraen, who sat near him, with their muskets loaded and capped, all day. Hayes is still at large.