have been a female; and that the same body has been a considerable time concealed in a coal. hole, in a certain house in Conduit-lane, lately occupied by Mary Cannon, who has absconded from this city-And further, that the deceased was feloniously killed and murdered; and from the circumstances which appeared to them, that Mary Cannon committed the felony and murder aforesaid, or was accessary thereto."" At the Clonmell Assizes James Farrell was found guilty of the murder of Michael Delany, at Moyglas, above three years since. It appeared that on the day of Delany's murder, as he was going out of his house, after eating his dinner with his wife and children, he saw a number of persons approaching his house, and having some presentiment of their intentions, he instantly returned and fastened his door. The which the prisoner replied, "I do not mean to burt you or any man or woman on the earth, but Ann Ockleton, and I mean to have her life, if it be possible-give me your hand, for I shall he hanged for her, and so I will go to the gallows, and be hanged like a dog "-Witness said, "No, my friend, I hope you have done nothing yet that will hang you."-Prisoner said, "Yes; I have cut her throat, and if I had not lost the knife, I should have killed her upon the spot, and she would now have been a dead woman." During this conversation, himself, the prisoner, and Ann Ockleton, were walking towards Aldborough. The prisoner wished to shake hands with her, which she refused.-The learned Judge, after recapitulating the evidence, said, it was possible the prisoner was much attached to the young woman, whom he suspected of a coldness towards him; and that under the influence of those feel-party instantly attacked the house and burst in ings, he had worked himself into a violent phienzy of passiou; but his Lordship observed, that the violence of a passion would not justify an act that deliberately aimed at the life of a fellow-creature; if it did, a door would be opened to all the excesses and crimes which persons under the impulse of passion might be induced to commit; and no evidence had been given to induce the Jury to think that the prisoner was not in a sane state of mind at the time this act was perpetrated. The Jury, without leaving the box found the prisoner-"Guilty," but recommended him to mercy on account of his good character. The prisoner, on leaving the bar, said, "May God be the comfort of my prosecutrix ?" As soon In letting the door-ou which Delany provided himself with a turf slane for his defence. On passing the door he was attacked by the party, and instantly killed, by a blow of a reaping-hoop, which struck into his brain immediately over his nose. as he fell, the prisoner struck him with a clagh alpine (the peculiar name of a murderous cudgel, or wattle, used in that country), and after being pulled away by Delany's wife, returned again and jumped on the dead body. He then lifted the conse off the ground, and with the help of another, raising it up by the legs, pounded the head of the unfortunate victim against the ground, until they broke his neck. the body fall, the face came to the ground, on which the prisoner took a large stone and battered in the teeth and front of the face of the murdered man. The shrieks of the unfortunate HORROR AND MYSTERY!Mary Cannon, widow alarmed her neighbours, and instantly on who kept a butcher's shop in Conduit-lane, Wa- the discovery of this most horrid murder, the terford, disappeared last December. The doors perpetrators were pursued for nearly a mile, and of the house were all locked, but no suspicion the hue and cry increasing as it proceeded, when, was excited, except that she had left the house, on coming up with the murderers, five in numin order to evade the payment of the rent. A few ber, the pursuers amounted to eleven. The vildays since, the landlady, with a few friends, broke || laips making a desperate resistance, two of them open the door, and found a considerable share of were immediately killed, a third of the number, lime in the coal-hole. Upon examination they was acquitted last Assizes for some failure or confound a human body, or rather a skeleton buried tradiction in one of the witnesses, and it is feared in the lime. It was on the face, and the ap- one has escaped, James G. Jacob, Esq. proved pearance was certainly one of the most petrify- that he was for nearly three years in pursuit of ing we have ever witnessed. An inquest was Farrell, whom he could not find nor hear of in held, and returned a verdict-“ that the body is in the country, and knew of no other charge against such a state that the Jurors cannot ascertain || him but this. positively the sex, though it appears to them to IRELAND. London: Printed by JOHN BELL, Southampton street, Strand. May 1, 1811. BEING Bell's COURT AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE, FOR MAY, 1811. *【 A New Series. EMBELLISHMENTS. 1. An elegant Portrait of the Most Noble the MARCHIONESS of STAFFORD. 2. The DROPSICAL WOMAN, by GERARD Dow... 3. The VILLAGE GROCER, by Ditto. 4. Two WHOLE-LENGTH FIGURES in the FASHIONS of the SEASON, COLOURED. 5. An elegant and new PATTERN for NEEDLE-WORK. 6. 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