The Sun. — 1836-03-14 (London, England)

LADY COVENTRY. —Extract of a letter of the Ist inst. from Rome :—" The day  before yesterday, at five A.M., an attempt was made on the life of the Countess of Coventry by a man named Rocco„.ottaviani, a native of the province of Frosinone, in the Roman States. The villain entered her Ladyship's bedchamber with a lamp in one hand and- a weapon in the other. It appears that her Ladyship heard a noise in the room, and cried out— ' Who is there ?' when the assassin answered---' Eccelenza, it is Rocco,' and immediately rushed to her bed. In .great alarm her Ladyship slipped from the bed, rung a bell, and got to the door of her room, where a struggle ensued. She again escaped from the hands of the assassin, and,reached another room, where a dreadful struggle took place, that lasted nearly twenty minutes. The villain never succeeded in throwing her Lady prostrate, but, when on her knees, defending herself with great courage and exertion, he attempted several times to strangle her, whilst with a weapon (supposed to be a clasp knife) he wounded her in several places. At last her ladyship felt exhausted, and screamed, You have murdered me.' The villain then made his escape by a back staircase ; the servants at last appeared, and found her Ladyship on the floor exhausted, and her nightclothes saturated with blood. Dr. Kissock was immediately called in, and pronounced that no mortal wound had taken place. Mr. Aubin, Secretary of Legation to the Embassy at Florence, and Mr. Freeborn the British Consular Agent, repaired immediately to the Palace Barberini to render assistance ; and a demand for prompt and ample justice from the Roman Government has not been neglected. The assassin had been employed twelve years at the Palace Barbarini as a house-porter (fachino), and had been discharged on the Ist of January for a theft. It is reported that revenge, and an tion to steal her Ladyship's jewels, actuated the villain corntnit this outrage, Her Ladyship is now doing well.  IRELAND: (A REPRESENTATION OF KILBF, have been watching with intense interest, fo the :goeeedings of the Dublin Election C '6o,..Nl4'dopr,eitend that the result will be the loss of ise -...tOrrsifting bleaker& Mr. Sullivan, our pregtht ttek Minded representative, has signified r- bat lire t 44 was only waiting some favourable pq re to theta, unsullied, the high trust repo [ittl , thin. it might be hatidird over to such successor as he was sure would be amen by the free and unbought suffrages of the electors of Kilkenny. If we mistake not, Mr. O'Connell would feel complimented by being returned for Kilkenny,. so famed for its election purity, and uncompromising independence ; and we are confident he would not fail, in the event of an adverse decision of the Election Committee, to solicit and obtain the free suffrages of its emoituency„ should Mr. Sullivan think well of affording him that opportunity. These are suggestions which we respectfully submit to Mr. Sullivan's consideration. He was determined to leave on the 10th, but we are sure that by deferring his departure for a few days, he will do his constituents and his country service, because, in the event of our apprehensions being realised, and our expectations and our wishes with regard to him and to Mr. O'Connell not proving visionary, his presence here would be of vital importance.—Kilkenny Journal.