Marriage
On the 5th instant, in Glenavy Church, by the Rev. D. Bell, Mr. John Campbell, of Deerpark, in the Parish of Glenavy, to Miss Eliza Allen, of Lisburn.
Deaths
At Bryandrum, near Markethill, on the 4th instant, Mr. Archibald Acheson Sinclair, who for many years had served in the British Navy, during the late war with France, in defence of his country; and after a retired life of above thirty years, passed away to his fathers in peace. His warm-hearted and kind disposition endeared him to his family and all who knew him, by whom he is now unaffectedly regretted.
At Rome, on the 22d ult., Emily, second daughter of the Lord Bishop of Tuam.
On the 27th ult., at Anney, County Tyrone, after a few weeks' illness, Mr. Robert Clements, agent for the estates of the Rev. James Lowry, Somerset, at the advanced age of 72 years.
On the 28th ult., William Wallace, LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh,
On the 27th instant, Frances Mervyn, wife of G. H. Newton, Esq., and daughter of the late Colonel Irvine, of Castle Irvine, in the county of Fermanagh.
Clippings
FUNERAL OF THE LATE MRS. J. F. CLOSE. -- The interment of the remains of this much-lamented lady took place on yesterday (Wednesday). At an early hour in that morning the mournful procession left the Rectory, Kilkeel. After the hearse was the family carriage, in which were the Rev. J. F. CLOSE and Lord LURGAN, the deceased lady's husband and brother, as chief mourners. They were followed by Lord LURGAN's and other family carriages, in which were some relatives as mourners. Next came the carriage's of many of the Gentry of this and the surrounding Counties. Several other vehicles, together with a number of the inhabitants of Kilkeel and its neighbourhood, on foot and horseback, joined in the procession. It first proceeded to Rostrevor, thence through Warrenpoint and Newry, and arrived at its destination (Drumbanagher), at one o'clock. On its arrival at Drumbanagher, the procession extended to a considerable distance, and was there joined by several or the tenantry on the Close estate. The body was carried to the Drumbanagher Church grave-yard, where the funeral service was read by the Rev. WM. BOYLE, Curate of Kilkeel. The coffin was then deposited in a temporary resting-place, whence it will be shortly removed to a new family vault, which is about being erected. By the death of this estimable lady, the poor Parishioners of Morne have sustained an irreparable loss.
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DESTRUCTION OF A SCHOOL-HOUSE. -- A most respectable Correspondent, writing from Gilford, on the 8th inst., states that a disgraceful outrage has been perpetrated on the Bleary School-house, in that neighbourhood, on which occasion the doors, windows, furniture, &c., were totally demolished or carried away. A difference of opinion existed as to placing the School under the National Board, and, for some time past, the house had been used as a temporary Church by the Rev. S. Foote, with the exception of which no cause can be assigned for its demolition.
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THE BITER BIT. -- On Thursday last, a brown paper parcel was left at the Mail Coach Office, Armagh, addressed to "Mr. R. Thompson, Monaghan," and was forwarded by the Enniskillen mail. On delivery in Monaghan, it was opened by the person to whom it was directed, and found to contain only dust, soiled paper, &c. It was returned as "refused" to Armagh, where Mr. Malcolm M'N. Johnston, Mail Coach Agent, recollecting the person by whom it was at first left, sent it to him, demanding the expenses of carriage on it -- a request which the person, apparently with much indignation, declined complying with; but on being threatened with law proceedings, be was glad to compromise the matter, by paying all expenses. -- (From a Correspondent.)
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Doctor STANLEY, Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Accoucheur, begs to inform the inhabitants of Armagh and vicinity that he will now practise the several branches of his profession. Doctor Stanley has given his particular attention to the Stethoscope, of the advantages of which instrument to the true diagnosis of diseases of the chest, and of its great value in fevers, the public should now be fully aware; as, without a correct knowledge of it, it is utterly impossible to treat the diseases of infants and children, so subject as they are to congestion and inflammation of the thoracic viscera, existing either as a primary or secondary disease, more particularly as they are unable to answer, or give correct answers to the Physician. Advice will be given to the poor gratuitously.
Seven Houses, Armagh, 9th May, 1843.
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MURDER AND SUICIDE. -- At Northwald, Norfolk, on Tuesday, a man named King murdered his sister, and then put an end to his own existence. The verdict of the Jury declared that be committed those crimes in a fit of "temporary insanity."
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ANTI-DUELLING ASSOCIATION. -- An association has been just formed for the suppression of duelling. It consists of 326 members, including 21 Noblemen, 13 sons of Noblemen, 16 Members of Parliament, 15 Baronets, 30 Admirals and Generals, 44 Captains, R.N., 23 Colonels and Lieutenant-Colonels, 17 Majors, 26 Captains in the Army, 20 Lieutenants, R.N., and 24 Barristers. They denounce duelling as sinful, irrational, and contrary to the laws of God and man. They also pledge themselves to discountenance by influence and example a practice which so greatly dishonors God. Captain Hope, R.N., and Mr. W. Dingmore have become honorary Secretaries of the Association.
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A NEW COMET. -- The Journal des Débats announces that M. Victor Marwais, one of the astronomers attached to the Observatory of Paris, had discovered a telescopic comet on the limits of the constellations the Swan and Pegasus. The following was the position of this luminary on Wednesday, the 3d May, at 15 hours, 10 minutes, 54 seconds, medium time of Paris, reckoned from mid-day, or 10 minutes, 54 seconds, after 3 o'clock in the morning:-- Right ascension, 326 deg. 33 min. 44 sec.; boreal declension, 29 deg. 34 min. 30 sec. Within 24 hours its right ascension increased 36 minutes of a degree, and its declension diminished 1 minute. It is a feeble nebulosity of about three minutes in diameter, with a sensible condensation of light in the centre.
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Law Intelligence
COURT OF CHANCERY -- Dublin, Friday, May 5
In re M. A. Jones, a minor.
In this case the young lady, a ward of the Court, had married Mr. Chambre without its permission, pending a reference to the Master to inquire into what settlement ought to be executed. The Rev. Mr. M'Carthy, the Clergyman who had celebrated the marriage, attended at the sitting of the Chancellor, to explain the circumstances under which he had acted.
Mr. M'CAUSLAND stated that Mr. M'Carthy had made an affidavit, in which he swore that two months ago he received a letter from the guardian, the mother of the young lady, asking him to perform the marriage ceremony, and naming the 3d of April as the time fixed upon. He returned answer, to the effect that he would have much pleasure in complying with the request on receiving the proper license; but on the night of the 2d of April he received an express, announcing that the licence had not been received, and postponing the marriage to the 4th. The residence of the Clergyman was distant fourteen miles from that of the guardian's, and on the 4th Mr. M'Carthy met the bridal party at the Church of Dunlea, where the Bishop's license was handed to him. The deponent said he did not know before, or at the time of tha marriage, that Miss Jones was a minor, and a ward of the court; and, had be been aware of such fact, he would have done nothing without the sanction of the Court.
CHANCELLOR. -- Let the gentleman be discharged from further attendance.
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COURT OF EXCHEQUER. -- Dublin, May 5.
PRIVILAGES OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION.
Mr. ROLLESTON, upon behalf of Mr. William H. Harte, moved the Court for an order directed to the keeper of the Four Courts Marshalses, ordering him to discharge Mr. Harte from his custody. He was arrested upon an execution issued from the Court of Exchequer upon the previous Tuesday, while transacting his business as a Solicitor; and the grounds upon which he made the application were two-fold, namely, that the gentleman in question was a privileged officer of the Court, and that he was, at the time of his arrest, discharging duties imposed upon him by the Court of Chancery. Mr. Harte, in his affidavit, stated that he resided in Fitzwilliam-square, had an office at No. 73, Dame-street, and that he was going home from his office where he went for the purpose of searching for and arranging certain documents in his possession, which he was obliged to produce in a cause entitled "Finn v. Henry," about to he heard before the Lord Chancellor, in which he was subpoenaed. The Learned Counsel admitted that it was a deviation in Mr. Harte's direct way home to call at his office and remain there some short time, but he contended that it was a justifiable and necessary deviation, inasmuch as he had undertaken, in his capacity of a witness, to be prepared to give his evidence and produce documents; and he might be considered to be at the time in discharge of his duties as an officer of the Court, because his reason for going to his office upon the evening of his arrest was, in order to have the morning to himself to attend the Court.
Mr. STEPHENS, for the plaintiff, opposed Mr. Harte's discharge, and contended that he was not justified in taking both grounds of exemption, being a law officer and a witness. If he claimed his discharge upon the latter ground, the motion should have been made in the Court of Chancery, where the circumstances connected with the case were known, for it was an easy matter to produce a subpoena to the Court of Exchequer; but in the Court of Chancery it would in one moment be ascertained whether it was a bona fide one or not, independent of which it was absolutely necessary that the Court should inquire into the deviation which Mr. Harte had made. The affidavit upon which the motion was grounded was defective, because it should have distinctly stated that no delay whatever occurred upon his way home than was required to procure and arrange the documents alluded to. He (Mr. Stephens) thought that there was some suspicion about it, for it was singular that Mr. Harte should be so busy in searching for papers on the 2d of May, in the evening, which ought to have been produced in the Court of Chancery on that morning; in addition to which fact the bailiffs asserted that they arrested him coming from the direction of the College, although he alleged he was going home to Fitzwilliam-square. The Learned Counsel, in conclusion, referred to the cases of Randal and Gurney, in Barnewall and Alderson's Reports, and Selby and Hill, in Moore and Scott's, to support his views.
The LORD CHIEF BARON (having consulted with his brother Judges) said that they had come to the determination of granting an order for Mr. Harte's discharge; and they considered he had acted very properly in making the application to that Court, being the one from which the writ issued, and of which he was an officer. It was however, but right to state that they had upon all former occasions of a similar kind expressed their disapprobation of such applications, because it was with extreme regret that they saw any gentleman of the legal profession, an officer of their Court, act in such a manner as to render it necessary to make an application of the kind; but under the circumstances of the case, they had no hesitation in ordering him to be forthwith discharged.
Mr. STEPHENS said that there was a detainer against the Learned Gentleman for a debt for which he was arrested in March last, and liberated upon undertaking to pay the amount in instalments, which he neglected to do, and upon which occasion he promised by letter not to take 1 advantage or his privilege of freedom from arrest as qua officer of the Court, if arrested in default at fulfilling hie promise.
The CHIEF BARON said the Court could not make any order relative to the detainer upon the motion before them, but it was open to Mr. Harte to go into a new one, where he might (if it was in his power) show a cause to warrant them in giving him his discharge.
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GENTLEMAN MISSING. -- About two months since, a highly respectable gentleman, named Mapothin, about 43 years of age, holding a situation in the Bank of Ireland, left his residence, Annadale Lodge, Philipburgh, Dublin, and has not since been heard of. For some time past he had been labouring under mental derangement; and latterly imagined that he was possessed of extensive property in the kingdom. His face is much pitted with the small-pox; and his hair, which was short, is turning grey. At the time of his leaving, he had on a brown outside coat, and wore a gold ring on the little finger. Any person sending such information to Mrs. Mapothin, to the above address, as may lead to his discovery, will receive a large reward. It is hoped that other Papers will copy this. -- Belfast Vindicator.
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A most melancholy occurrence took place at Ballard on Thursday, when Miss M'Nevin, daughter of Lieutenant M'Nevin, of the Coast Guard, went to bathe. A wave dashed against her with such violence that she was thrown down, and before she could recover herself she was dragged out to sea by the reflux, and drowned. Mies M'Nevin was a very interesting young lady, and about sixteen years of age.
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MODESTY OF A PICKPOCKET. -- A practical illustration of the maxim, "Save a thief from the gallows," &c., was performed in one of the Courts of Justice in this County last week. Mr. Proctor was defending a man charged with a criminal offence, at the Sessions of Magherafelt; and, whilst addressing the Jury on behalf of his client, and endeavouring to persuade that sapient body of the moral rectitude of the traverser's conduct, and the impossibility of the prisoner being capable of committing the offence charged in the indictment, a Bank cheque for £153 was abstracted from his own pocket, he standing in front of the prisoner's dock. When the loss was mentioned to the gentlemen around the table, Mr. Collins drily remarked, "Be the finding of the Jury what it may, there is no doubt the man has got a cheek (qr. cheque?) in the course of his immoral practices." -- Derry Journal.
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The Army
MORE TROOPS ORDERED FOR IRELAND. -- The United Service Gazette says:-- "The 11th Foot, and the 1st battalion of the 60th Rifles, with a company of Royal Artillery, have received orders to proceed by railway from Weedon and Manchester to Liverpool, where they are to be embarked for Irehind. We are enabled to state, upon indisputable authority, that this movement originates in official intelligence which has been received, of the discovery of a latent conspiracy to arrest the progress of the Royal mails, which are to leave Dublin on the 29th inst., under the conditions of the new contract for their conveyance, recently entered into by Mr. Croal. The animosities to which the decision of Government in that gentlemans favour has given rise, are, we fear, likely to prove of serious inconvenience to the authorities in Ireland, who will have to exert all their energies to frustrate the lawless plans which are to be attempted to be carried into execution. We thought, in common with the public, that this factious opposition had ceased to exist; but, it seems, we were mistaken. Its embers have only been smouldering under the ashes, and but for the vigilance of Government would, ere long, have broken out into open and destructive flames -- a threat having been held out 'that not a single mail which leaves Dublin on the 29th of May shall ever reach its destination.'
The 60th Rifles, 800 strong, arrived in Dublin on Tuesday morning, from Liverpool. -- Dublin Evening Post.
The 56th Regiment, in this garrison, under orders for England, have received counter orders. -- Cork Examimer.
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PUSEYISM. -- The Christian Observer -- a Church Magazine, says -- "We said that we would mention a recent fact, well authenticated to us. It is this, a Clergyman, the Rev. ----------, a fellow of a College in Oxford, and having souls committed to his charge -- 'a graduate, a fellow of a College, and a Clergyman, one of the choicest full-fledged produce of the ninety eggs -- has inflicted upon himself severe lacerations, so as to shock the feelings of all who know him; and especially has mutilated two or three of his fingers by burning, and also one of his feet, because he was conscious that he had lost his baptismal purity; and having read Dr. Pusey's Tracts on Baptism, he was convinced that there is no other means of being restored to grace but by such acts of bodily penance.' Is such a fact credible? From the information given to us, we believe it to he truth."
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A RAILROAD MARRIAGE. -- On Saturday week lest the Pacific sailed from Scrabster Roads for Quebec, carrying only 33 passengers -- a proof that emigration is not proceeding so briskly this season as last. The day before she sailed one of the passengers, a young man, seeing how very comfortable those appeared to be who were possessed of wives, grew very uneasy and restless thereupon, thinking how much better off he should have been had he a helpmate. He at length unburthened his mind to a fellow-passenger, a young man lately married, who informed him that he knew a young woman, who was in possession of a sum of money amounting to between £30 and £70, then residing in service at Thurso, who had often stated that if any decent young man asked her to wed and emigrate with him to America, she would accept his offer without the least hesitation. So far so good. The next thing debated was, whether it was at all likely that a young woman would consent to take a perfect stranger for a husband, and dispense with the tedious process of courtship, &c.; for this was absolutely necessary, seeing that the vessel was to sail in about 10 hours: however, "faint heart never won fair lady," so it was determined to make a trial. Ashore, therefore, the two young men came on their matrimonial trip. Having, with many circumlocutions, introduced the young man, and the delicate mission on which they were bound, the young lady was not found to be quite so obdurate as had been expected. They were consequently left together to arrange matters, and to "do the courting" for an hour, that being the utmost extent of time that could be allowed. At the expiration of that period the companion of the young man returned. Everything had prospered, and nothing remained but to arrange matters with the Parson, and to purchase a few necessaries for the voyage. These were satisfactorily accomplished; but, alas! when did the course of true love ever rum smooth? The mistress of the young woman having gained an inkling of the matter, and not being exactly satisfied that all was correct, determined to break off the match. Accordingly, on the maxim of "safe bind safe find," she sent the betrothed on a pretended errand into an upper room, and, when there, turned the key, intending to keep her close prisoner until after the vessel sailed for America. Tears, prayers, entreaties, all were alike unavailing. The impatient bridegroom, who was waiting for his bride near at hand, was surprised at her not appearing according to promise, and went to discover the reason. When he was informed of the durance vile in which his "ladye love" was placed, he was reduced to a state bordering on despair. The hour of sailing approached, and both were, of course, in a condition of mind rather to be imagined than described. At length the mistress of the fair dame yielded, and the happy pair bolted otf to the Parson to get the indissoluble knot safely tied; which done, they hurried down to the beach; when another misfortune awaited them -- the ship was under weigh! For a consideration, a boat and a stout crew were obtained; and, by dint of hard pulling, they reached the vessel before it got out of the roads, and stepped on board the Pacific by 10 o'clock. Thus was this important matter settled to every one's satisfaction, with railway speed -- the introducing, courting, proposing, accepting, and wedding, all accomplished in the short space of six hours, which some take as many years to bring about. -- John O'Groat Journal.
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INVESTIGATION AT CLONES. -- Another investigation (the third) was held in Clones on last Friday, relative to M'Caffrey's death, and the riots arising out of the Repeal meeting. Mr. Clements, Barrister, and Mr. Peter M'Evoy Gartlan, of Dundalk, Solicitor, attended on the part of the Repeal Association. There was not even a Solicitor for the Protestant party. The Magistrates were Christopher Plunkett, R.M., David Smith, and Thomas Phillips, Esqrs. Two new witnesses, William Jordan and Patt Ward, were produced to prove that it was Mr. Smith, Sub-Inspector of Constabulary, who stabbed M'Caffrey. These fellows swore home to the act. Richard Hoe, formerly examined, supported them. The consequence was, that informations were taken against Mr. Smith, who was committed, and will remain in custody until admitted to bail by the Court or Queen's Bench. Informations were also sworn against Mr. John Welsh, a respectable Protestant, and Clerk of Petty Sessions, for being one of a riotous mob on that day in Clones. The fact is, however, that Mr. Welsh was mounted, and was following Colonel Madden, J.P., D.L., all day, with the "Riot Act" in his hand, to be ready to read it in case of necessity. -- Dublin Evening Packet.
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DANGEROUS LUNATIC. -- About a week since, a fine young girl, about nine years old, named Ross, was going to school at Ballymacateer, about half a mile from Lurgan, when she was pursued by a mischievous idiot, named M'Crory, and so affrighted was the poor child, that on arriving at the school, she sank exhausted on a form, where she soon fell asleep. On arriving at home, she was put to bed from which she never arose, having died in 4 or 5 days afterwards. M'Crory, it appears, is in the habit of chasing and terrifying women and children, when he meets them in lonely places. But surely it is too bad that vicious lunatics are thus allowed to prowl about to the terror of her Majesty's subjects, when such large sums are annually levied off each County for the support of Lunatic Asylums, Gaols, Bridewells, and Poor Law prisons. The Police should be authorised to take all such nuisances into custody, for doubtless the Magistrates hare power to issue orders to that effect.
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DISCOVERY OF A TIPPERARY ASSENAL. -- Two or three days ago the Constable of Police belonging to the Cloughjordan Station, discovered secreted in the breast of a large ditch, and folded op carefully in flannel, two guns, four pistols, a bullet mould, and powder horn. The guns and pistols were in good order, and all well loaded and fit for immediate use. -- Nenagh Guardian.