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wonderful C-ire ef-drsadEnl Ulewous Sores in the Pace and Leg , ia Prince Edward Island . The TruQiof & Js Statement « m * duly tUUiicd before * Magistrate . 3 , Hugh JlACDrtVALD , of Lot 53 , ia King ' s Cecnty , do hereby declare , thxt a most won ^ i-rful preservation of my ife has been effected by the use of Uolluway ' s Pills and Ointment ; and I furthermore declare , that I was very much ahlicted nitl : Ulcerous Sores iu my Face aud L- g ; SO severe was my c * mplaint , that the greater part of my nose aud the roof of my mouth was eaten away , an-i my leg had three Isrge ulcers on k , and that I applied to
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OX THE COXCEALED CAUSE OF C 05 STITUTI 0 SAI Oil ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF THE GEKEliATITE SYSTEM . Just Puhiifilied , A new anaimportant Edition of the Siteni Fritrii on Hmoau Fraiita . Price 2 s . Sd ., aad sent free to any part of the United Kingdom on the receipt of a " rost Ofc « e Order for 3 s . Sd , A MEDICAL WOHK on the INFIRMITIES ef the GENERATIVE SYSTEM , in both sexes ; being an enquiry uilu the concealed cause that destroys physical encfj-v , aud the aVilitj of niaiihoud , ere vigour has esta . Kisheil her empire : —with Observations oh the baneful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION ; local and -constitutional WEAKNESS , NERVOUS IRRITATION , CONSUMPTION , and on the partial or total EXTINCTION of tiie REPRODUCTIVE POWERS ; with means of restoration : the destructive effects of Gonorrluea , Gleet , "jtricture , and Secondary Symptoms are explained in a familiar manner : the W « rk is Erubeliif hed witk Ten fine coloured Engravings , representing the deleterious infiueiieeof Mercury « u the skin , by eruptions on the heud , fare , and b o d y ; with approved mode of cure for both sexes ; followed by observations on tiie obligations of MAR . JIIAGE , and healthy perpetuity ; with directions for the removal of certain Disqualifications : the whole pointed ant to sufferiut : humanity us a "SILENT FRIEND" to be consulted without exposure , and with assured confidenceof su-eeis .
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• ws of matrtmeay , attd who sver Had tlie * . > nu 5 tffr"u y iur their more youthful days to be affected withcim " fona ef these diseases , a prions courso ef this medicine is highly essential , aid of the greatest importance as ; - > fe serisns afie . fioas are visited uyaa aa innpoM-- Ttt * e « d ti &« rinK , frem a want « f thesoVsireple retnoa . « 8 i fta perhaps half the world i » awarei of ; for ,, it must b remoaiharbd , where the fountain is polluted , the Stream that ti « w fre •¦ : it oasmot be pure . PERRY ' S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS , Price 2 s . 9 d ., 4 s . 6 d ., and lls . perbox , With explicit directions , rendered perfectl y intelligible te ererv capacity , are well known threughout Europe te be the most certain aud effectual remedy ever discevered for gpnorrhtcn , both in iir nilld aud aggravated forms , by immediately snayiaf inuam'Ratioit and arresting further progress .
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COUGHS , HO vRSENESS AND ALL ASTHMAT AND PULMONARY COMPLAINTS . EFFECTCALLY CUBED BT KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES . Upwards of thirty years experience has proved the infallibility of these Lnzengis in the cure of Winter Cough , Hoarseness , Shortness of Breath , aud other Pulmonary Maladies . The patronage of his Majesty , the King of Prussia , and his Majesty the King of Hanover , has been bestowed on them ; as also that of the Nubility and Clergy of the United K ' -ngdon ; and , above all the Faculty have especially rc & immended them as a remedy of unfailing nthcacy . Testimonials are continually received confirma . tory of the value of these Lozenges , and provinz the per . fcet safety of their use , ( for they contain no Opium nor any preparation of tlutt drug ;) so that thrymay be given toiemalea of the most delicate constitution , aud children of the most tenderest years without hesitation .
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BLAIR'S GOUT AMD RHEUMATIC PILLS . A severe case of Rheumatism , communicated by Mr . Allen , Proprietor of the Nottingham Mercury . Mercury Office , Nottingham , March 17 , 1815 . Sib , —I have the pleasure of forwarding you the particulars of a case in which BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS have proved eminently successful . A young woman , named Mary Wain , accompanied by her parents , wko reside at Walsall , sear this town , called upon me on Saturday last , being desirous of making her case known for the benefit of the public .
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perfect health in an inconceivably short space ot-: tim * They are equally speedy and certain in lumbago , sciatica , pains in the head orf ace , and indeed of any rheumatic or gouty affection ; iu fact , such has been the rapidity " , perfect ease , and complete safety of this medicine , that it has astonished all who have taken it , and there is scarcely a city , town , or village in the kingdom , bu t con t ains many grateful evidences of its benign influence . , ' Scid by Thomas Prout , 229 , Strand , London ; and by bis appoiaiuient by Hoatoa , Hay , Allen , Land , Hnigh , Smith , B e ll , Townsend , - B a ines , and ' Newsome , Sineeton , Reiahardt , Tarbot t om , and Horner , Leeds ; Brooke , Dewsbury ; Dennis and Son , BurdekinMoxoa , little , Hardman , Liiinoy , and Har g rove ,
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AGENTS WANTED . TO DRUGGISTS , ic—WANTED by Dr . Powell , 10 , Blessington Street , Dublin , AGENTS in the principal Towns throughout the Kingdom , for the Sale of his Specific , fur Scald Head , Ringworm , and all Cutaneous Diseases . A Liberal Commission allowed . IMPORTANT TO TJ 1 E PUBLIC . SCALD HEAD , RINGWORM , AND ALL CUTANEOUS DISEASES . Dr . William PonELt , 1 C , RIcssington Street , Dublin , begs to inform the Public , that his SPECIFIC for the above Diseases may uow be had in Packages , price 2 s . 6 d ., Cs ., and 10 s . 6 d each , with full directions for their use . The half-guinea package contains eight times the quantity of the half-crown . On receipt of a post-office order er postage stamps , directed as above , the medicine will be forwarded by return of post , until agents are appointed in tho different counties .
Desperate Highway Robbery And Attempted Murder.
DESPERATE HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER .
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On Saturday mernlnir , one of the most atrocious and desperate cases of highway robbery and attempted murder , was heard at the Shire Hall , Hereford , before a full bench of county magistrates . The prisoners wire Charles Penrse and Benjamin Smith , two ferocious-looking young men , who have been in the habit of travelling about the country under the pretence of selling brushes , but whose chief occupation ban , it is believed , been robbery . The prosecutor is a dealer iu earthenware , and who has been for some years past well known in
Hertford as an honest and industrious man . The occur re ice took place about a fortnight since , but the prosecutor had not previously sufficiently recovered from the effects of the wounds he-received on the occasion , to appear before the bench . He appeared very weak , and was obliged to be accommodated with a chair during the inquiry . His head and face presented a most frightful appearance , being cut in all directions , and in some places large pieces of flesh hud been entirely beaten away , leaving his skull quite exposed to view . He said , —My name is J-. imcs Jam s . I um a hanker , and in the habit of travelling to the different towns in the county with earthenware , On Saturday , the 21 st ulc , I was at Welling ; I was in the Horse Shoes public house , I there saw the prisoners . Afier staying at the Horse Shoes about ten minutes , I left f . ir Ware . I went into the Chequers at Ware ; I had not been there long before the prisoners came in . I was in the Chequers about half an hour , I then left for Datchworth . 1 told the prisoners where I was going .
By the Bench—What induced yon to tell the prisoners where you were going f Prosecutor—Some person in the Chequers said , " It is a fine nig ht ; where are you off to , Jurvis ! " I replied , "I have sold nil my goods , and am now going to Datchworth . " It was between four and five o ' clock , i then lelt the house . When I arrived at Fhmwood , I felt what I consider two stones thrown at me . One struck my hat . It was dark , and I could not see any person . I cried out , "Hollo ! what are you at ? " I did not hear any person sp ? ak , and almost immediately after I received a dreadful blow on the left side of my head , and before I had time to speak , I received another on the top of my head , which caused the blood to run out of my ears , eyes , nose , aud mouth , to such an extent that I was nsarly choked . I then felt that two persons had by some means got into my cart from behind . As they still continued beating me , I said , "For God ' s sake don ' t
murder me : what do you want ? " One of the prisoners said , " Damn you , your money or your Hfo . " I replied I had not got any money , They then threw me in the bottom of my cart , and one still continued striking mo ' about the head , whilst the other was searching my pockets ; but , not succeeding in finding my money , one said , "Let's murder th- , and then we can soared hini better ;" ana the other rep lied , "So we will , he ' s got money , because he said he had sold all his goods ; " and they immediately commenced beating me about the head in a most unmerciful manner . By this time I was nearly choked , as I felt my throat was filling with blood , and feeling assured that I should be murdered , if assistance did not arrive , I therefore by some means , managed to jerk myself out of my curt . The persons followed me , and redoubled their efforts to murder me , and finding myself qu it e overpowered , and completely saturated with blood , I jjave myself up for lost , when the persons who were assaulting me , hearing some persons coming , run off .
By the Bench—Did you know the voice of the person who said , " Your money or your life j " Prosecutor—Yes ; I immediately recognised the voice to be Smith ' s ; aud the party who said , " Let us murder him first , " was the prisoner Foarse . By the Bench—What did they rob you of ? Prosecutor—Twopence , a comb , and a knife . Bench—Was that all the money you had ° 1 ' rofccutor—No ; I hud- "between four and five pounds in one of my pockets , but the prisoners did not seal ch that pocket . William Hyde said , on Sunday , the 22 nd , he found the stick which he now produced , laying near the spot where the robbery took place .
The stick ( which bore evidoat proof of having been used on the occasion , it being covered with blood , and in some places where the bark had been knocked off was literally dyed through ) was a piece of nut hazel , about four feet long and eight inches in circumference . It had evidently been recently cut from the tree . Both prisoners were committed for trial .
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A BunoLAii's Accousr op limits ' . —At the Belfast Quarter Sessions last week , John SJoan , Peter Traiuor , Frederick M'Cann , and Patrick Magee were indicted for having , on the 30 th of August last , broken into the house of Catherine M'Culloch , at Belfast , and stolen therefrom and carried away a large amount of property , consisting of silver spoons , gold rings , brooches , silver pickle forks , a pistol , dagger , and other articles . The case having been satisfactorily proved , the prisoners were found guilty , and the court sentenced Sloan to twelve months' imprisonment in the House ot Correction , and each of the * others to bej transported for a term of fifteen years—the heaviest punishment the court had in its power to award . The prisoner Magee then asked permission to address the court . This man ( Sloan ) ,
he said , had been with him four times in gaol for robberies . Sloan was not his proper name—his right name was Hugh Boyle . His brother had been at the bar before , and had been in the borough jail in Liverpool . He ( Magee ) had come from America , and had taken up with another pickpocket . Sloan had taken him away with him when he was in America , where he had been trying to earn an honest living , and' wanted to give up his eld associates , and had induced him to begin to thieve again . Sloan said to him , what is the use of labouring as you do when you can make more by robbing . At the Maze Course Sloan said to him , about another pal , " that man is a good thief . " Shan and he ( Magee ) had robbed fifty or sixty houses this year or two , and that man was the captain of the gang . lie had now reigned fifteen years—he had been that long in the same school , lie was a Liverpool man , and served his time with Charles Lawrence , the mayor ,
from whom ho could get a recommendation . His name was not Magee , but was known . " 1 am Nott ing ham Charlie ; that is my name , " * ' I know , " he continued , " that 1 am a thief and a robber—I acknowledge tall my robberies—but Sloan was with me forty or fifty times in offices in Liverpool , and carried a double-barrelled pistol in Liverpool to shoot anyone who weuld hinder him . Ay , and Sloan is wanted now for a robbery in North John Street . There was another robbery in Belfast , but it is not worth talking alwufc . It was SJoan did that : and there is another too that has not come to light , i am transported now at last , and I have a poor old mother who h : is been broken-hearted by my infamous Hie ; but it was that man Sloan who took me from my honest employment , and made me stand here . I escaped the police in England for many years , and I am caught at hist and sent away , and all by that Sloan , lie continued for some time to talk in this
coherent strain , admitting a course of crime almost having scarcely a parallel . The prisoners were then removed . Sloan , by order of the Court , remaining in t ke dock , as it was pretty evident , from Meagee ' s feelings , that violence would have been used had an opportunity offered . The Flowkhs op the EAUru . —Doctor P _ , who is attached to a Parisian theatre in quality of a physician , expressed his astonishment the other day that man and woman were not created at the same time , instead of the latter springing from a rib of our lirst parent . A young actress standing by , remarkable for the graceful turn which she ever gives to the expression of her ideas , immediately said , " Was it not natural , sir , that the ibwer should come after the stem ? " __• & ftem 1 ^ -
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Ireland : * x ^ Matters go on from bad to worfle ; - The accounts from the provinces grow more and more gloomy , and the prospects most disheartening , The following extracts will give an idea of ;
THE STATK OP THK 00 USTRY . Another Murder in Tipperary . —The Tipperary Vindicator contains a long list of outrages in that county , at the head of which is an account of a most inhuman and unprovoked murder on Wednesday night , on the person of a poor man of the name of llnnlv , who , it appeared , sold a pig that day in Borris , for the price of which , it would appear , his diabolical assailants attacked him . His house was entered soon after nightfall . He had lodged the price of his pig in Borris . and the monsters being defeated in their object , fell upon the defenceless victim of their hellish malice , and literally beat his head to a jelly ! We have not words to express our horror and indignation at such atrocious offences as these , which are not perpetrated by the starving poor , but by villains , ffho libel the form of man , and who
possess the reckless spirit of demons . Hungry men would not prey upon a poor creature barely removed from the pressure of want by the price of a pig , with which , perhaps , he was anxious to purchase a few weeks' provisions or food . Whilst offences of this nature cry aloud for vengeance on their perpetrators , it is the duty and the interest of all men interested in the welfare of the country to endeavour to check their fatal progress . This poor man resisted the robbers with all his might , lie broke a spade handle on the head of one of the villains , who was carried off , it is supposed dead , in the arms of his comrades . An inquest tvas on Monday held , and a verdict of wilful murder was returned . Two men of the name of Gaynor and Ileffcrnan , have been arrested and lodged in the country jail on the charge .
The house of a man of the name of Brien was attacked at Barbaha , on Thursday night . One of the assailant ? , was entering through a window , when Brien , who was waiting inside , took up a scythe , and making a desperate stroke with it , across ^ the head of the person entering , almost severed , it is thought , his head from his body , Blood was traced on Monday near the river . On Wednesday night , the house of John Hogan , near Annaghbcg , was attacked by some armed men , who fired two shots into the house , and served Hogan with a threatening notice if a line of road in that district were not chanced he would suffer ! The steward of the line resides in his house .
Notwithstanding the immense amount of employment on the public works , combined with the benevolent exertions of the relief committees , there is a formidable extent of destitution in various districts . Of its intensity in the county of Cork you may form some idea from the following statements , abridged from the Cork Reporter : — Skibbrrbbn . —No description of recital can convey tiny idea of the extreme misery which exists here , llungar , nakedness , sickness , and mortality almost equal to the ravager of epidemic disease , are the prevailing features ot the dwellings of the poor here . Fever , of a type classed by the physician as faminefever , afflicts hundreds of the poor , and dysentery , produced by cold and want of nutricious food , is
equally if not more general . The workhouse at present contains 900 paupers—considerably more titan it was originally built for—the stables are used , as dormitories , The Fever Hospital was built to accomodate forty patients— it contains to-day 161 ; and there are twenty more fever cases in the infirmary . The two nurses attached to the hospital are in fever , so is the schoolmaster , whose death was hourly expected . The number of deaths which took place in the house from the 1 st to the 30 th of November , was 87 . I copied them from the books—and there were five more reported this morning ( 1 st December ) . In fact there are scarcely as many able-bodied paupers in the house as can bury the dead , and they arc taken out for interment three at a time . One
of the most remarkable illustrations of the nature of distress here , is a desire on the part of the poor to escape , if I may so call it , to anywhere , from the privations they endure at home . A small fund had b-.-en created , through the benevolence of the doctors and the apothecary of the workhouse giving up the proceeds of their vaccination contract , to enable some poor creatures to go out of the country . Last week 107 of them were shipped from the town , at Baltimore , on board acollierto Newport—the owner , Mr . Swanton , having given them a free passages while Dr . Donovan provided thenV "fit out , by releasing some few of their ro ^ st indispensable articles of clothing out of pawn , and giving them a small bag of biscuit for " sea store . " I had an
opportunity of seeing another batch preparing to start on the cars for Cork , to proceed by the screw steamer for London , on Wednesday Some of them were tradesmen , who exoected work there , and whose miserable appearances showed how reduced was their condition when they had recourse to this alternative . There were also some half clad labourers , and some women and children who expected to find their husbands , fathers , or other relatives , to aid them in the great metropolis . I proceeded in company with Dr . Donovan , to a suburb calle i Bridgetown , where he h-id a large number of sick calls to answer . We entered at least thirty iof the huts , and such an aggregation of disease , hunger . de
nakedness , and cold , it is out of the question to - scribe . In nearly every house we entered , men lay sick and moaning in the wretched beds they had , or more generally on a small bundle of dirty straw on the earthen floor , far worse than swine are usually supplied with in ordinary farm-yards . The only covering they h » a was the clothes worn I y them at work ; and the same total absence of food , firing , and clothing , prevailed in each of the wretched cabins . We left the locality after a visit of about three hours , during which we witnessed the most distressing and painful illustrations of individual and general suffering that pr obabl y have existed anywhere within the knowledge of the present
generation , In the north of Ireland , outrage is on the increase . Dor . egal , Londonderry , Tyron . and Cavan , are all more or less disturbed . On Sunday night a large quantity of meal was stolen off carts belonging to poor men who had halted forthe night at a house a short distance from this town , which bad been purchased at our market the proceeding day . Last week , some persons entered a farmer ' s cow . house , near , Boyney , where a cow was fastened by the head with an iron chain to the manger . They severed the body from the head , leaving the head as it was fastened , and carried off the remainder . Another cow was killed in the same locality , and the hide only lefi . Several sheep were killed throughout this barony , and farmers robbed of meal , dec .
DISTRESS IN DONEGAL . The BaUyshannon Herald states : — That there is a great deal of destitution in Donegal , not a parish is exempt from it , and were it not for the charitable disposition of the more wealthy classes death * would be more numerous . In this baron / the poor are iu an awful state , wretched creatures daily infest our town in sear ; h of food or employment , who have more the appearance of corpses than living beings , Lirge sums are contributed towards their relief in giving meal at a reduced price . That is quite right , tut what
succour is that to thousands of starving creatures who are unable to pay anything for food , be it ever so cheap ? Something more must he done to prevent famine , which undoubtedly will be followed by outrage , plague , and pestilence . The promise of public work is now considered as mockery , for the Board does not seem disposed to grant any . The landed proprietors are ready with their money , yet no work is given , and these poor arc famishing . Our peasantry have hitherto conducted themselves in the most praiseworthy manner , hut really wc cannot expect tlium to continue peaceable muoh lou ger , unless they get employment .
The Anglo Get , published in the northern county of Cavan , contains the following : — This very day we heard that a tradesman was abont to open a shop in the town of Cavan for the purpose of selling Birmingham muskets , with the hope of realising fortune by the trade , although he expects to find his chief customers amongst the applicants for relief tickets —men , be it remembered , who , having nothing to defend , can only purchase these instruments of death , for aggressive purposes . MOLLY . MAOUIRE 13 U IN CA . VAX . The Warder contains the following •—
A Cavan correspondent writes that on the 23 rd ult ., being the fair day of Ballyoiagauran , Thomas Brown , one of the constabulary , seeing a m in named M'Ave-rny , an ! other suspicious characters hovering abiiut during the day , deemed it prudent to take them into custody , and with the assistance of constable Thomas Clark brought them to the barrack . On searching them , they found on the person of M'A verity the following threaten , ing notices : — Take notice—Any person dealing with Francis Henderson for anything that Peter M'Cusker has , that ha will get the same death of Booth Bell , who is in the depth of hell—Death—and if this does not inake he yeald , powder and ball will . Take notice—Any forestaller that distresses any man for money will get the same death of M'GIoud , who is surely in hell for partiality . Death , dea t h , death here follows Molly M'Gu ' ire who never feared a ball .
M'Averney is now in Ballyconnell , brkewell , waiting the decision of the law officers of the crown . Mr . Henderson is a respectable * trader , residing at llosehill , a » J much esteemed by the well-disposed . A Clonmcl papcr " . thus refers to the state of the gun trade in Tipperary !;—No legs than seventy-one guns were sold in our town the last fair day . This is bad work . The Government should look to it in time . They have had warning enough . A labourer entered our town a few days iigo seeking for hire , lie presented rather a formidable appearance ; for , in addition to a spade and a flail , ha hud a handy gun strapped across his back . Every man has his gun . Where this will end God only knows . Subjoined is an extract of a letter from the countv of Tyrone : — Anything like the sale of fire-arms by the hardware
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merchants in Aughnacloy ,. < amifi * the > different country ; towns about here , ^ never watsheard of in any coun try ,, and ,. ^ aImost . without exception , the . purchasers are of . one persuasion . ' I ; . saw one of . the eases , which would con- tain about 100 stand , and examined some of its contents . They are Birmingham andfLondoh ; make—( I suppose only stamped : ' London . ' . ); They are of quite good enough manufacture to do mischief , and range in price from £ 1 for single to £ 4 for double barrels . Pistols from 7 s . 6 d . a . piece upwards , A Roman Catholic ironmonger , from a neighbouring town , is gone from home to brine £ 50 worth of arms , and a quantity of gunpowder . How will this end . A reported outbreak in Kilkenny is thus noticed in 'the Freeman of Monday t—
We have heard that private letters reached town yesterday , statin : that an outbreak of rather a serious nature took place in Kilkenny city on Saturday . The accounts which reached us are rather vague , but , from what we could learn of the rumour , it appears that a very largo number of people collected in the town , and attacked some flour-niills and . baiters' shops , The military were called out , and after charging the people with fixed bayonets , order was in some measure restored . The accounts state that the people were fired on from mills and bakers ' houses , but it is not reported that any person was killed . The military did not fire , hut dispersed the people with : the bayonet , without doing any injury . Mr . Carter , a gentleman connected with the Board of Works , escnp . d ( by the fleetness of his horse ) from an attack made on him by the people . The state of feeling in the town end districts about it is said to be very excited , in conseque n ce of the occurrence alluded to .
Roscrba . — A sale of articles seized for rent due to Mr . O'Grady , of Dublin , was advertined for Friday , the 27 th of November last , at Graffin , between Robcrea and Toraplemore , where a very large mob assembled . Several of them were armed and fired shots : the sale was subsequently relinquished , as the country people are determined to resist the payment of rent in any shape , and those small farmers who are well able to pay are the principals in those proceedings . Arms and ammunition are now so easily procured , that all the lawless ruffians in this part of the country are we'l supplied . —Leinster Express .
Purchase or Fi tE-Anus . —The Tipperary Free Press of this day says : — " The purchase of "fire-arrasin this town by the country people , who manifest the greatest avidity to possess themselves of these weap ons , continues unabated . The mania , it appears , hasex ' ended to the north , and in Cavan and Fermanagh the sale of guns and pistols was never so great as at present . " County Curb . —Robbrhy op Fire Arms . —The glebe house of the Rev . Francis Studdert , at Clare ,
was , while he was officiating at Kilmaly , entered by five men out of a party of six , in search of arms . They were seen to approach the house from different directions , one man on the rond leading from the village of Clare , having fired a shot for the purpose of intimating to the others that they might enter with safety . They did so . and twice did they return up stairs to search more minutely , by order of the man who remained outside . They broke in one bed room door , and after tliey got into Mr , Studdert ' s room , took up his keys that he had left in a drawer , where
there were bank notes and silver , but which they never touched . They then opened his bookcase , and threw out all his paoers and books , and took away a small case of pistols that he had carefully concealed there an hour or two before he left home . In the kitchen they broke open an oat bin , looking for a double-barrelled gun . which however Mr . Studdert had some time before sent away to a place of safety . —Glare Journal .
COXMTION OF THE COUNTRY . The Times Correspondent says : — Without wishing to raise any unnecessary alarm , it is becoming every day more evident that the relief afforded by Government towards meeting a great national calamity will fall far short of the anticipated result . Making due allowance for exaggeration , the accounts of destitution in its last stage are just as rife now as they were in the month of September , and before 273 , 000 people were employed at an average expense to the country of £ 2 , 652 , 900 per annum . This is the most moderate calculation , and is estimated from the returns furnished by the Board of Works of the expenditure for the months of October and November , when out of a population of 4 , 000 . 000 , heretofore wholly or iu a great measure depending upen the potato as their staple article of food , but little more than l-16 th have been provided with a temporary means of subsistence . That this enormous
outlay will go on steadily increasing as the winter advances there can be no doubt , and , perhaps , by this time twelvemonths landed property—already sufficiently encumbered—will be further saddled with a debt of £ 6 . 000 , 000 , with the gloomy prospect of the succeeding year hanging over head , when all the consequences of neglected tillage , misapplication of the public money , and the fatal reliance upon Government support through the Imperial Treasury , shall have been fully developed . The landlords are , to be sure , fully aware of their dangerous position ; but there is no concert among them— -there is no definite plan put forward upon which there would be a chance of mutual agreement . And , unless this is speedily done , it is easy to foresee that the "beginning of the end" cannot be long deferred . An illustration of the working of the present system , and of its effects at no v « ry distant day , is thus furnished by the ft ' eitmath Guardian of Saturday .
In the adjoining county ( Roscommon ) the daily expenses of l . tbour alone amount to £ 2 . 500 , and in Mayo the amount is nearly the same , aud amidst all this extravagant eutlay we again ask the oft-repeated question , what benefit is contemplated to accrue from the unproductive works which are prosecuted with such rage ? It ie not employment alone that the people require , but they want food . If we extend our thoughts beyond the limits of the present crisis , and take a prospective glance into the pages which six months hence will unfold to our view , we are filled with just and gloomy apprehensions that the work of famine and destitution will then present even more Appalling terrors than at the present time .
What will avail then the levelled hills and new made roads . What advantage then the thousands of tons of broken stones , heaped up in store-houses , or spread upon the highways ? Will these satisfy the cravings of hunger , or fill the famished mouths of an overflowing and starving population * No . The soil of this green isle , from which all . from peer to peasant , derive support and raiment , is left to wither and "choke with weeds , " while the hands that should be engaged in cultivating and ( under the blessing of Providence ) improving ihe soil , are diverted from their wonted occupation , and turned to an employment fraught with ruin to the country and destructive to the interests of the nation .
BROGHEOA—STATB OF THE PEOPLE . ( From our Correspondent . J Famine is every day making frightful strides on the people . Fever is alarmingly on the increase . It is not an unusual sight to witness fifteen or twenty corpses bsing interred in one day out of a population of 17 , 000 . We had a baronial sessions on Friday the 4 th inst ., and thanks to the exposure of the apathetic ( rich ) in the Star » f the 7 th u | t , ( a meeting was held on Tuesday the Sth instant , when subscriptions were commenced for the relief of the destitute . A liberal sum has been sub-clbed .
Our market on Saturday theSth instant was thinly attended , with sellers' prices advanced on wheat , from 2 i . to 2 i . 01 . per barrel of 20 stones . Potatoes are 25 s . per barrel of 20 stones . These are exorbitant prices , when we take into consideration the wages of the people . Weavers are not earning on an average more than 4 s . 61 , per week each , having , at least , himself and another to support . The consequences of this state of things are , our inhabitants have completely lost the appearance of beings who have anything like a sufficiency of food to eat . This does
not arise from a scarcity of provisions , for on looking over the exports of the week we find the following : —810 qrs . of wheat ; oats , 100 qrs . ; flour . 1700 cwt . ; meat , 1240 ; pi- ; s , 4120 ; cows , 1522 ; sheep , 1931 ; eggs , 1130 , 000 !! Is not this a sad picture to see all this food leaving our quays , whilst the people pine in hunger ? This state of things cannot last , the people are beginning to call the right of the rich oppressors in question , and once on that track they will not easily leave it until they make the vampires who fatten on their misery disgorge theii unjust monopoly of the land .
Our municipal elections have terminated , the town is divided into three wards , for two of which honestradicals , " whole hog" men , have been returned . This is more awful than the famine—to think that tiie Liberator ' s influence could not keep the corpora , tiou free from any but slaves of his own . Ilis day is over in Drogheda : he is despised by all parties ; ho has little chance of catching the Drogheda corporation by his humbugging resolutions ' of Inst week in the Dublin corporation . Peter Ilocy , of BurnMey , may now rejoice that his visit to Drogheda , in 1841 , was not without beneficial results to Chartism .
OLD IRELAND V , Y 0 CN 0 IBELAND . The Dublin corespondent of the Homing Post had the following statement in his dispatch of the 6 th . The demonstrationof the Young Irelandersat the It'itumia , has caused much uneasiness in the camp of the ancient party . The whole matter was solemnly and earnestly canvassed in the committee of the old association yesterday . The Liberator had a special , convocation of all his counsellors , and asked their opinions , The majority ; I understand , advised that no notice whatever should be taken of the seceders , that they were not yet of sufficient importance , and that ft would be making too much of them to advert to their proceedings at all at the meeting in Conciliation Ilall
to-morrow . The more experienced and further seeing old gentleman , however , took a different view of the matter , ' and seemed to consider the movement and progress of . the seceders as so very . important , that it was his opinion and decree that a flag of truce should he sent to them . The excuse for this great conde . seension is to be , that he , the Liberator , has observed that the Young Icelanders now all repudiate physical force , and have therefore so purged themselves of heresy in his eyes , that he is willing again to receive them into his corps . This symptom , if fully developed , will unquestionably prove extreme debility in the patient ; but what is even more , I am informed that the Young Inlanders will rtjeet th
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o verture , and send back the flag of truce cva * contumely . So the Whigs no longer posses , iJ * S l O'Connell that potent ally on whom tlieyT nce ?>¦ ¦ latcd so very much . '> Lalc 1-On Monday ( the day aftor the above was wriiu , ,, the usual weekly meeting of the Repeal AsgocKt ;^ took place , and the . result proved the corrective ?! the '/ tort ' s information . _ _ "" oss f The attendance was greater than it had been f some time past . It was fully expected that the "I berator , " writhing under the castigation inflictp ! ' upon him by the several speakers at the Youn * Jrp land demonstration , would return the complfiu JL * with interest from his own forum . Judge , therefore the surprise of tho uninitiated , when , instead Ir hurling thunderbolts at his youthful antagonists 11 actually struck his colours , and laid the basis if a reoonciliRtion , by proposing a conference between the heads of the two parties , with a view „ r «„„ r
ing the preliminaries of a treaty for the suspend of hosttl . t cs . Mr . O'Connell' / suprcmacv , « ? 2 leader of the citation , is , therefore , virtually S pletT' Youn S lrelan ^ victory has been com . Here is the portion of Mr . O'Cnnnpll ' * . „„„„! , whichhe confesses himself beaten ? - SP ° ° ln « f " , uT T !' atl brok . " among them . It was . of old a sad characteristic of the Irish . lie did not wish to embitter the quarrel ; his anxiety wis tl heal the breach . lie had looked ove " roJS 5 the debate at the Rotunda , he found limSS e ? ably well abused ; but he felt no resentment , il now saw that they in a great measure disclaimed tfi physical force principle . If they went a little fJr . thtr , they would be as welcome back to the a 1 tion as the flowers of May . He proposed t £ ' private conference . ( Vehement cheering . ) He named
on- v , o .. uau v uramiin and Mr . O * Hasan , as two referees , along with himself , Mr . W S 6 'V , rl Mr Dillon , and Mr . 0 > Ilea . ' He wLd be cfe -with compromising ; but he would make any sac ™ face for the good of the country . ( Cheers ) Mr . J . O Gomsu , said he wishsd to say that he was the cause ot the division amongst the Renea ! party , and to express his satisfaction that there was a prospect of a reconciliation . ( Hear , hear . ) The rent was announced to be £ 116 Ss . 5 d . Couvrr Armagh . —the Newrv Telegraph gives the following particulars of a shocking murder in this county;—"We are pained to find that once again human life has been wantonly sacrificed in the county r , f Armagh . Ihe following particulars of this case we
nave couectca irom the communications of several correspondents-.-Fnday b ^ was the fairday of Crossmaglen About six o ' clock in the evenin g , a person named George M'CIean wM returning home from the fair , and , when about 100 perches from the town , he was be > et . and murdered by some person * who have not as yet been fully identified , although three individuals have been arrested , with blood on several parts of their clothes and hands , two of whom are at present lodged ih the bridewell of Ballybot . An inquest was held on the remains of the murdered man on Saturday , by Mr . George Henryy coroner , which was adjourned until Wednesday , for the purpose , if possible , of eliciting evidence that may enable a jury to arrive at a decision as to the
actual perpetrators of the crime . The deceased was a man of excellent character and a Protestant . It is believed he had some money in his possession , the abstraction of which is supposed to have been the object of the murderers , as he was much respected by all classes , both Protestant and Roman Catholic . It is stated that a great many people were passing along the road at the time , but not one of thera returned to alarm the police of the town . Sub-inspector Holmes was on the ground , however , about an hour after the murder was completed , and up to a late period of the night the police wore employed in searching the several lodcing-houses of the town , where they found and apprehended several suspected eharoetevs . "
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Glasgow . —Like most men when defeated , it seems our friends generally in this now " second city In the empire , " felt dispo ed to silence as regards the result of our late municipal election . This , I consider , has been an error in as much as the result , though not so favourable as wo shall wish , is anything but disheartening . Mr . Moir , in concert with Gilraourand Shaw , polled 108 . One of his opponents votes Ross—single-handed aud alone-polled 106 , and had the Irish repealers supported Mr . R ^ ss as was expected , Ross would have been successful . John O'Keal , repealer , was only six below , and this will explain why the repealers , a considerable number of whom are in that ward , did not vote for Mr , Ro « s . In the second war J , a complete wreck was
made of the old dominant clique , and I have no hesitation in saying that had Moir been put forward in that ward , he would have been successful . In proof of this , I may state that our costive list of friends were this d . ty returned to the Parochial board , or as they sire known in England , appointed Ponp-law truardians , Messrs . Moir , Gilmour , and Henderson in the first ward , and Messrs . Ross and Cochran in the third , Henderson and Cochran , though not connected with the movement , I believe , are more Chartist than Whig , and will alway « be found on the side of the people . Afew days after the election , a number of our democratic friends who supported
Messrs . Shaw , Moir , and Gilmour , entertained those gentlemen to a splendid supper in the Routine Hotel , Seventy-owe , including the guests , sat down to supper , and spent one of the happiest evenings ever they had the pleasure of enjoying . Amonijst those present were our old friends Mr . Pirkethly , and Mr . Parker , late of London , now of Manchester . Mrv Moir proposed the healths of the two strangers to whom he paid well-merited compliments ; the toast was drank with the greatest enthusiasm , and Mr * Gilmour in his usual happy style , gave them the " Baker's fire . " Messrs . Pitkethly and Parker acknowledged the toast amidst the repeated plaudits of the assembly .
Funeral of Canon Miguel dkl Rieoo —On Sunday the remains of the late Canon Miguel del Riego ( brother of tho illustrious General , ) were deposited in the vaults of the Catholic Chapel , Monrfields . The corpse was accompanied to its resting place by many friends of the deceased , among whom were L' * d Nugent , Dt ? . Bowrina , M . P ., the Ministers of Buenos Ayres and Peru ( Messrs . Moreno and Iturregui , ) Sir Charles Malcolm , Sir F . B . Meyers , Mr . Eneas Macdonnell , < fcc . The Canon was known to a large circle , and highly esteemed , and honoured by all his acquaintances . He was a man of studious habits , and particularly well acquaiuted with the ancient literature of Spain . lie was a sincere , without being an ostentatious patriot , but his love of his country , and his zsal for his country ' s liberty and happiness were displayed on all occasions . His attachments were warm and strong , his manners simple and attractive , and his name will be preserved in the list of uncorrupted and incorruptible patriots .
Extuaobdinart Robbery . —Lately a lime-burner received , as is customary at the end of the liming season , the value of the article supplied in this in * stance to Mr . Thomas , of Derllys , a very respectable farmer . The money altogether amounted to £ U , being in two £ 5 Bank of England notes and four sovereigns . The money—precious treasurewas safely deposited in a drawer , well secured in brown paper , a n d a l l wa s laced under lock and key . Some few days after iic again went to the drawer for the purpose of withdrawing the cash to apply it to the payment of an account , when lo ! the bank notes had disappeared , but the sovereigns remained undisturbed . Search was instantly made throughout the dwelling , the neighbours were called in to assist , and
after some hours of weary and thankless labour , the search , which at one time appeared never ending , was given ut > . Then came tho question , what had become of the money ? and the cenclusion was immediately and simultaneously formed , that those frightful crcAtures , " robbers , " had been at work ; but this was a very debate . iblc point , as how had they gained an entrance ? the drawer continued locked , and what was still more inexplicable , the sovereigns remained , the easiest part of the property that could ba disposed of . So the whole affair was unanimously voted a mystery . Some few days after , the good wife had occasion to go to market , and , wishing to he . dressed iu her best attire , went to lief drawer , and took out her extra super gown , of the most approved materials and fashion , and , when putting her arm
into the sleeve , felt some resistance , her fingers touching some substance not generally found in gowns . The sleeve was turned inside out ( or outside in ) , and there , to the astonishment of all , was found a nest , formed by those industrious little creatures ychpt mice . An examination was made , and oh ! joyful discover )! there were thedong lost bank notes cut up into innumerable pieces b y those unwitting offenders . The pieces were carefully collected , and joy reigned supreme . The neighbours wereealled in to participate in the rejoicings , and happiness was the order of the day . It only remains to bo said , that the pieces were pasted together , sent up to the Bank of England , with a narrative of the circumstance ; and in due time ten sovereigns arrived , which were handed over to the fortunate llmcburnci ' .
Cambrian . Gam . Breaking . —A prisoner , named Mackenzie , made his escape from Elgin gaol in a very bold manner . The door of his cell was left Open by the doctor ' s orders , tiie prisoner having been ill and vomitting . blood . Taking advantage the prisoner forced the lock of ' the passage door with one of the iron-hooks of his hammock ; ' and having taken sonic fire from the stove , broke open a small door leading to the garret . There the prisoner set lire to the roof , and burned a hole , through which he clambered —ami fixing another hook of the hammock to the water p ine , swung himself on to the ind using wallthus escaping unobserved . He lias not yec been re * taken .
Rbpresextatio . v of Westminster . —Mr . Charles Cochrane , chairman of the I ' oor Man ' s Guardw ? Society , and " open the ports" agitator , is a candidate for the representation of Westminster at the next election .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 12, 1846, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12121846/page/2/
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