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Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 53, 4 March 1846, Page 4

Barbarous MunDEn.—We annex some painfully interesting particulars of the murder of his wife by M\ James Breen, of Kilmichael, county of Clare, on Tuesday se'ennight:—The prisoner, now in Ennis gool, is a rich fanner, and barony-cess collector, and the victem of his ferocity was a most interesting woman, and the mother of two children. It appears that Breen, who is a powerful, strong man, and his wife, retired for the night at the'usua' hour, to their bed-room, where he seized the iron tmgs, and with it inflicted seven deadly wounds on the skull of his wife. After the murder, he came down stairs, called his daughter, and ordered her to take charge of the infant, which had been sucking the breast of its murdered parent, and then lay bathed in her blood on the floor 1 After this he sent for his brother and handed him a sum of money to keep for him. He then ordered his stock to be sent from one farm to another, and after making sundry domestic arrangements, he took his taxcait, and drove ofi" to Ennia. As he was going on his way he met Mr. Thomas Whitestone, the coroner, to whom he frankly told the facts of the out;age, and did not deny having committed the murder. He then surrendered himself to Mr. Whitestone, who handed him over to Captain Leyae, R.M., by whom he is fully committed to Ennis gaol, to take his trial. The stern composure of the prisoner throughout this appalling tragedy almost induces the leader to suspect the sanity of his intellects. The wretched man has signed a written confession of his guilt, to which he expresses himself determined to adhere, when called upon to stand his trial.— Clare Journal. The Cape Government had issued a plan, sanctioned by Lord Stanley, for the introduction of I,OCO immigrants into the colony. The bounty system, under the s'.rict control of government officers, fo.flied the essence of the plan. The fortune of Mr. John Jacob Astor, of New York, is estimated at upwards of six millions sterling. At Boston, a poor simpleton, who, under the belief thas the world was coming to an end, made over all his property to his son, and went about preach, ing Millerism, is now suing the son for its restoration. Whaiing Business.—Few estimate the general profits of a huccessful wlwling voyage. The Ohio, at Nantucket. brings 2,810 barrels of sperm oil, and sold 80 barrels of whale, valued, at •S'Bo,ooo ; the Potomac, 2,414 barrels, *5*69,Q00. The .Van. tueget is also at the bar, with about 1,33) barrels sperm (including oil sent home) and 1,300 carrels whale oil and 13,000 pounds bone valued at about -856,000. This makes an aggregate of #206,000 for the three ships. Fine Arts in Egypt.—We .1 am from Paris that the Pacha of Egypt proposes to establish an academy of the fine arts in Cairo, and that a number of young men have bean sent at his cost to Rome to study painting and sculpture there, with the view of acting as the first professors. The vasttheatre at Paris,called the Hippodrome, was opened to the public in the month of August last. It is for chariot races, is 350 feet long, and will contain 20,000 people. Hartshorn.—A correspondent of a Liverpool paper, says, thut the spirits of hartshorn rubbed on an aching tooth gives iustsnt relief. The Editor of an American Paper, says, he found several of his fruit trees girdled by rabbits immediately after the first fall of snow. Thereupon he mixed pulverized brimstone wish an equal quantity of l.ird, and applied it freely to the trees and twigs, and not one of them had afterwards been molested. By a receut municipal act, passed by a Canadian Legislature, practising physicians, are excluded from the Corporation. Letters from Bagdad state that the Persian princea residing in that city under British protection have had the misfortune to be attacked by a party of wandering Arabs while taking a ride outside of the walls. Timour Meerza, «. -ho formerly such a favorite in the fashionable circles of London, was pierced through the lungs by a lance* and there are but slight hopes of his recovery. Suleyman Meerza, another of the princes, was killed on the spot. Letters from Rome state that a nephew of the celebrated paragraph, Araati, has been arrested in his lodgings, and conveyed to the Castle of Saint Angelo. He frequented the Vatican library, and mada extracts from rare manuscripts, but he had taken the liberty of cutting off the leaves of several of them, and pocketing them. A Frankfort j .urnal states that the reigning Duke of. Brunswick, who was at Como on the 3rd, will soon be married to a Princess of the Imperial Family of Russia. The heat at Puris had been so great this summer, that on,the 7th J uly s several horses dropped dead on the Boulevards, the thermometer stood 90i in the shade. The Town of Welelozhie, in Bohemia, was struck with lightning, and 70 buildings destroyed. Military Execution at Oran.—On the 24th of March a Spainard, named Aguilera alias Gomez alias Mustapha-ben-Abd«lhh, formerly a p.ivate in the foreign region, was condemned to death by a C;urt martial, at Oran, under the following circumsiauces:—ln the month of March, 1810, 30 Spanish tohikrs out of 53, of which the guard of a farm near Kouba was composed, revolted against taeir commander, whom they bayoneted, and deserttd to the Araks. Aguilera w&s the chief of this

it . win received by the Arabs, ami act of atrociy. ""£,„ o f Sidi-Bmbarek. ilillSf "ptured in a battle with Sidi-k-mbarc«k on the 1 Ith of November, 1843. as the cluet of the inunction at Kouba, in 1810, and was tried f and condemned to cUach by a court-martial held at Oian on the 24 hof M.irch last. On Sunday, the B,h of June, Aguilera was informed that the Km- had commanded tint the sentence of death should be executed, which announcement he hsard without emotion. Some time afterwards he was heard singing in his dungeon. He eat his dinner wjth a good appetite, and smoked a cigar. Hβ continued to convert with the jailer until after midnight. ' 1 am not so guJUy as I have been represented, said he " 1 am accused of having committed 30 murders, whilst I committed but-2(i. 1 had athristf r blood from my infancy. At the age of seven years and a half 1 stabbed a child. I murdered a pregnant woman, and at a Liter period I murdered a Spanish officer, in consequence of which I wai compelled t.) fly from I took rtfuge in France, where I committed two crimes before I enlisted in thsforeigu legion. Of all my crimes I rezret the following more than all tbe others :-In 18-11, I captured, at the head of my company, a deputy commissary, general, escorted by astrjemit, a corporal, an J seven men and I caused them all to be decapitated. Their death is a weight over me. I frequently see them in my dreams, and to-morrow I shall seethemin the men appointed to shoot me; and, nevertheless, were I to recover my Hbeity, I would murder otheis." The following day Aguilera received the consolations of religion. He subs-quenly informed the jailer that his real name was Juan Gonza.es, and that he was the sou of a Spanish Colonel, who was shot with Torrijus and some otherc at Malaga. At halt-past 1U o'clock he calculated that he had but a short t.me to live, and from that moment his courage failed him. Before he quitted the prison he asked for a few drops of braudy, and, with difficulty he walked to the place of execution. He drank brandy three limes on the way ; and he was pLeed, pule, and trembling in every limb, befure the picket commanded to thoot him. In presence of the immense ciowd which assembled to witness the execution of the wretchtd man, he did not even exhibit that fai'titious courage maintained by some convicts to the eiid of their career. After the sent-.nce was read, he fell pierced with 12 balls. Frightful Outrage.—We regret to have to record to-day one of the most Lmc:itable events that has happened for many year**. The patliculars are as feliows ; —Fur some time past a large quamity of turf was procured for burning lime necessary for tiie erection of a new Roman Catholic chapel at 84----lintra, and it having been discovered that some persons were stealing the turf, a man named Travera was employed t> watch them. On Monday night last a fellow, mnaed Magee, was caught in the act of taking away some of the turf, and being discovered by Travels, M.igce made off. On Wednesday Magee, finding he was aoout to be tiken into custody, he left the country, and was fallowed by several persons. Being overtaken by Travers, Magee made a blow with a s»the at him, which nearly severed his arm from the body. Tue alarm being given, the inhabitants of Ballintra, of every sect, set oft" in search of Magee, and the police of th it town aUo pursud him. During tbe search, a iiikh named Stafford went into the house of a man named Colville, and took away a 10-ided gun, with which he ran off through the fields. Being pursued by Mr. Colville, he presented the gun at him, but it hippily missed fire. Secant Jefl'ers, of tbe Ballintra Constabulary, who was at the time on his way to Ballyshannon in ssauhof Magee, seeing the man attempt to shoot Mr. Colville, pursued him through the fielda, and when nearly close enough to arrest him the scon.idrel stopped and fired at Serjeant Jefiers ; the ball entered his thigh, and before any aid could be obtained he expiied. Serjeant Jeffers bore an excellent character, and ha 3 left a wife and eight chidren to lament his loss. Stafford is in custody, Jeffers having held him, although suffering from loss of blood, until some persons came to his aid. The police are still in search of Magee, but he has n-t been apprehended. It is feared that Travers, from the loss of blood, cannot survive the injury. Volcanic EaupTiO.v in the Mediteranean. —Captain Caithness, of the English brig Victory, laden with patent fuel, from Newcastle, bound to Malta, where she arrived on the 20th June, reports that on the 18th idem at half-past 9 p.m., (having been at noon, from observations taken by two chronometers, in l.t. 30,40.56., and lon. 13.44. 30.,) both the top.gallant masts and the royal mast went suddenly over lhe side, as if by tke effects of a sudden h;avy tqual, though there was not at the time tbe least appearance of a squall or bud weather of any kind; at half-past 11 it came on to blow hard from the &S.K. to S.E., and all hands were sent up to reef the topsails, when, a',l of a sudden, it fell dead calm, and the crew, as wJI aloft as on deck; cuu'd scarcely breath from the sulphurous exhalatioi.s, dust of mlphur, and intense heat prevailed r lhe ship laboured considerably all the while, and at a distance of about half-a-mile, three immense balls of fie were >een tj issue from out of the sea, and n-mained,visible for about ten M ,inut«e. Another heavy squall short y after came on from the S S Eand soon earned the thip out of the hot into a cold current of air.