unfortunate cause of the death of the deceased, was next examined, and gave testimony similar to that of the first witness.

The Coroner then summed up the evidence, when the jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased came to his death by misadventure," declaring the weapon to be forfeited to the Crown.

Accompanying the verdict, the jury made the following presentment: "The jury cannot separate without expressing their earnest hope, that this melancholy event will operate as an impressive warning to parents, guardians, and others, against intrusting fire-arms to persons too young to use them with safety either to themselves or to the public."

SNOW STORM.-The metropolis was visited with a severe snow storm, the heaviest that has fallen this winter, accompanied with a fresh breeze, varying in the course of the day from S.E. to E.N.E. Early in the morning there were slight showers of snow; but about ten o'clock the flakes increased in size, and continued falling until four o'clock. In the neighbourhood of the metropolis, the snow lay in many places to the depth of ten inches; and where it had drifted, travelling has been much impeded. Several of the mails and stage-coaches were considerably beyond time, owing to the heavy state of the roads; and several vessels in the docks and at the wharfs, ready for sea, delayed taking their departure, in consequence of the easterly winds, and the unpropitious aspect of the weather. The masters of several coasting vessels, arrived in the River yesterday, report having experienced for several days heavy falls of snow, accompanied with

strong variable winds and squalls; and many vessels had been driven on shore along the eastern and northern coasts. Fortunately none of their crews were lost.

17. HORRIBLE Murder.-ExTRAORDINARY TRIAL-A trial took place in Dublin to-day which excited extraordinary interest. The prisoner, John Delahunt, had already earned considerable notoriety by his evidence at the coroner's inquest on an Italian boy, Garlibardo, who was murdered near Dublin in February last; upon which occasion he stated, that he saw the murder committed by a tinker of the name of Cooney. His statement, however, was so confused and improbable, that he was not brought forward on the trial of Cooney, who was acquitted.

He next appeared at the trial of some coal-porters, whom he charged with an assault on Captain Craddock, during the last election for the city of Dublin. On that occasion, he completely broke down in his cross-examination, and the prisoners were discharged - the counsel on both sides unanimously concurring in opinion that the witness (Delahunt) had not been present at the outrage, and had come forward for the purpose of obtaining a reward, by prosecuting to conviction the persons he had pointed out as having committed the assault.

At ten o'clock, the appointed hour, the prisoner was placed at the bar. His countenance was pale and haggard, and betrayed the utmost anxiety. He almost immediately leaned forward on his elbows, and with a handkerchief in his hand, covered the lower part of his face. Throughout the trial be remained in the same position.

The prisoner was charged with the murder of Thomas Patrick Maguire, on the 20th of Decem. ber last, to which he pleaded "Not guilty."

Mr. Brewster (Queen's counsel) addressed the jury for the prosecution, and confined himself altogether to a statement of the facts, a course which he deemed the more necessary, because he was not able to produce any person who saw the fatal act committed, nor any witness who could depose to the blow which caused the melancholy death of the unfortunate child.

It would appear in the course of the evidence, that the boy Thomas Maguire, who was nine years old, lived with his mother in Plunketstreet; and that he, about one or two o'clock on the day the murder was committed, asked her leave to go to play with some other little children. At that period the wretched mother was in an advanced state of pregnancy, and had the misfortune of being separated from her husband, or at least abandoned by him, after much harsh treatment on his part, and there was consequently no other person to take care of the child. The child having obtained his mother's consent was engaged amusing himself with other little children, when a person came up; and one of the questions which the jury would have to try was, whether or not the prisoner at the bar was that individual. It appeared that the child knew him, whoever he might turn out to be, for when called by his name, the little fellow answered, and immediately went with him, leaving his companions. That was about four o'clock in the afternoon; and where they proceeded to, or what they had been

engaged at up to six o'clock, he was not in a condition to detail to the jury; but about that hour, as would be incontestably proved, the prisoner at the bar, and the child thus taken and subsequently murdered, arrived together at the house of the prisoner's brother, in Britain-street, where the prisoner met his sister-in-law, who, upon his telling her that he found the boy straying in the Castle-yard (about a mile from where he really found him), begged of him, for God's sake, to take him home, lest his parents might be uneasy about him. The prisoner, under pretence of doing so, took the boy to a public-house in an adjoining street (Capel-street), where he remained for a short time; and the next place at which it would be proved he was seen in company with the deceased, was in Upper Baggot-street, which is about two miles from Capel-street, at the extremity of the city, near where the murder was committed, and not very far from the place where the prisoner's father, a carpenter by trade, was living.

It was undoubtedly one of the most singular, and at the same time one of the most distressing circumstances in that extraordinary case, that the persons who would necessarily be brought forward as witnesses against the prisoner were his nearest relations, and those most closely connected with him. It would appear that, in the neighbourhood of Baggot street, he was met by his sister and two or three young children, who would be produced; and that when asked by one of them where he was going, he replied that he was going with the child to his parents. He proceeded on in the same direction. It was then about

a quarter to seven o'clock; and, in twenty minutes or so after, he was seen in his father's house, but without the boy.

A very short time after that the child was found murdered a short distance from the spot where the prisoner met his sister; the poor boy was quite warm, and had been recently deprived of life, as the blood was still pouring from the dreadful wound which caused his death. Before the prisoner left his father's house, he promised to return in two or three days, and be present at an entertainment to be given by some children, with whom he seemed to be on the most friendly terms, and over whom he possessed great influence. He then went to the Castle, where he gave information of his having seen a murder committed on the child in the place where the body was found, and subsequently brought the policeman to the spot. In the meantime, the neighbourhood became alarmed upon the discovery of the body of the murdered child; and before the policeman and the prisoner reached Baggot-street, the police-station in that district had been apprised of the horrid deed, and were then engaged in making inquiries on the subject.

What made the case more horrifying was, the subsequent conduct of the prisoner, who, by the minute and detailed account which he gave at the station-house of the child, and by the description which he gave of the transaction he alleged he had only witnessed, nearly caused the mother of the innocent boy to be arrested upon a charge of being the murderer of her own offspring. Providence, however, ordained it otherwise, and interfered to prevent the misfortune

which otherwise would inevitably have been cast upon her; for about five o'clock on the same evening she was taken ill, and was obliged to go to the lying-in hospital, where she gave birth to a child.

The prisoner having brought the policeman to the spot, separated from him, and proceeded to his brother's house in Britainstreet, where he found a different set of persons assembled from those he had seen there on the previous occasion persons who had not seen the child when he was there in the early part of the evening; but from a conversation which took place, they became aware of the circumstance; and when he was asked where he left the child, he replied, "At Buckingham-street, in consequence of an intimation given him by the child that he would find his way home from that locality."

There was only one other circumstance which he (the counsel) felt it necessary to advert to. It appeared that in a few days after the murder had been perpetrated, some boys, who were amusing themselves in a field close to the spot where the murder was committed, found a knife, which would be proved to have been the property of Delahunt's brother, and with which, no doubt, the boy's throat was cut. It would be also given in evidence, that the prisoner at the bar had sharpened that knife on the Saturday previous to the murder. Under these circumstances, it was that the prisoner had been arrested; and it would be for the jury to say, whether he was the person who had committed that dreadful crime.

This statement having been fully corroborated by the evidence of several witnesses

Mr. Curran addressed the jury for the prisoner. He dwelt on some slight discrepancies in the evidence of two or three of the witnesses, and on the fact that no marks of blood were found on the knife with which the murder was said to have been committed, nor on the person of the prisoner himself; and having called attention to the youth of the prisoner, and the apparent absence of any motive for the committal of so atrocious a crime, he concluded by adverting to the uncertain nature of circumstantial evidence, and the consequent danger of causing the innocent to suffer for the guilty.

There being no witnesses for the defence,

Baron Pennefather charged the jury, who retired at five o'clock, and returned in twenty minutes with a verdict of "Guilty."

The prisoner was sentenced to be executed on Saturday, the 5th of February.

17. AWFUL DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN. An inquest was held in Ipswich on view of the body of the Rev. John Pyemont, curate of Eyke, Suffolk, who was found dead at a house in Globe-lane.

Philip Braham deposed.-I live at Eyke. Am a wheelwright. Have known the deceased four years. He lived with me that time. He was about thirty-five or thirty-six years old. He was a clergyman of the Church of England, and curate of Eyke.

Saw him on Saturday between twelve and one at noon. He was in good health and spirits. He said he was going to Ipswich to dine with some gentlemen. He went on horseback. He ordered his fire to be lighted by nine o'clock on Sunday morning, saying he should be

at home by eleven at the latest. He had duty to perform at the church in the morning. The first intelligence I had of Mr. Pyemont's death was a note directed to the churchwarden from the coroner of Ipswich. The habits of the deceased were temperate, and his conduct such as it should be.

Mr. C. Prettyman, solicitor, Ipswich.-I have known the deceased several years: He dined with me on Saturday, with a party of friends, at about five o'clock. We were all very temperate. He was the second that left the table. We had tea, and afterwards played a rubber of whist. He left at halfpast ten. He said his pony was at the Coach and Horses. He was the first who left my house. He was perfectly sober, and in good health and spirits.

Elizabeth O'Brien.-I am a single woman. I live near Miss Dallenger's, in Globe-lane. I am a lodger. I went into Miss Dallenger's a little after eleven o'clock. Went to put a few coals on the fire by her request, as her servant was busy. It was about half-past eleven o'clock, and Mr. Pyemont was sitting on the sofa in the lower room. I had never seen him before. There was no one with him. He did not speak to me. He was leaning his back against the sofa. He did not appear to be ill. He was sitting still. He gave a violent groan, fell down, and died. He appeared to have been drinking. I was not in the room more than two minutes. There was a candle burning on the table. There was not a large fire. He groaned and fell off the sofa. I called Miss Dallenger, who said, "Don't be frightened, he is only in a fit." I don't think he hit himself against anything in the fall. There were