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August 14,1852. THE g TAR 0F FREEDOM. 5
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IKELAND. LORD FAi3IERST03f'S IRISH VOTER...
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EXECUTIONS IN IRELAND. Execution of Fran...
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Weeck of ax E3ETGRAXT Ship.—Letters have...
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MASSACRE OF BRITISH SUBJECTS AND PIRACY ...
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: o lo live together—and nothing caused the frightful event of ^ Wednesday evening to be anticipated . Atfive o ' clock Navarro PeiPerez , who had previously sent off his trunks by a co ; . v wsuussionnaire , descended the staircase in travelling * costume . NoNothing strange in his manner was remarked ; and it was onlonly half an hour after that the waiter , on entering the rocroom , found the unfortunate Dolores lying on the around balbathed in blood . The murder had been accomplished by
mcmeans of a sword-cane . The blade was plunged into the yoyoung woman's heart , and she must have died the moment it it was withdrawn . A traveller , whose personal appearance co corresponded with that of the Spaniard , left by the Bordedeaux diligence of the Messageries Nationales shortly after th the murder was committed , " it is presumed that lie was ththe murderer . Telegraphic despatches were immediately se sent off in all directions , and everything causes it to be h hoped that he will soon be in the hands of justice . "
Singular Case op Imposition a : n d Superstition . — 0 On Monday last a woman named Bridget McQuillan , living 0 on the road leading to the Chord , complained to H . B . 1 Fairtlough , Esq ., that on Friday , July 30 , a man named 3 Michael Mohan came to her house and asked something f for God ' s sake . Complainant gave him a bit of bread , ( on which he looked at her and said there were a great i many crosses before her ; that herself and daughter would 1 put on the road to beg ; and that she would die before her time with grief , but that he could break all my crosses with the help of God . He then asked me had I a piece of silver . I gave him a shilling . He next asked me if I
had any copper , and I gave him threepence , thinking he would give me all the money hack again . He said he had a charm , and . none had it but two men and himself—one lived at Enniskillen , and the other in Gibraltar . He then asked me had I finy thing belonging to my son , a sailor , who is abroad I I said I had nothing but an ' old cap and waistcoat belonging to him . He asked them from me , and I gave them to him . He said he would bury them , money and all , at Garlistown , between two counties , and I would
have all back m nine days . My daughter , Mary , has sore eyes , and he desired her to give him a handkerchief . She gave him a silk one and a cotton one . He said he would bury them all , and cure her eyes in nine days . He then told us when we would be both going to bed to go on our bended knees , and give God thanks that sent him to us . Now , said he , have you any thing ready for me ? I then got him some tea , and when he took it he said he was not to eat a bit or sleep a wink until he would see me again , and that would be before two or three o ' clock next day
( Saturday ) . He called on Saturday , and by his orders I had bacon and cabbage ready for his . dinner . He told me my son was living , and that he had saved his life . He then wanted a piece oi silver to bury along with the rest of the firings which I had given him . I got him a fourpenny piece , and he got into a passion , and said it w as quite too small—that the larger the piece the less trouble he would have . My daughter then pawned a shawl for a shilling and gave it to him . He asked me had I any copper , and I gave him twopence , which was all I had . He then said he wanted a sheet without either crack or break hi it , and a
pah * of stockings which he was to put on him and the sheet about him , and he was to lie on the grave of the last corpse buried in town . I gave him a calico sheet and a pair of blue cotton stockings , which I knit myself . He then left me , taking with him these things to work the charm , and called yesterday evening , about nine o ' clock . He was beastly drunk , and his face cut , " He said the cut was occasioned by a fall
which he got on account of a small darn which was on the sheet . He asked me for something to eat , and I gave him some bacon and cabbage . He then said , " Can I go to bed !" to which I replied , " Oh , sure you'll not stoplong ^? " " Stop long ^ , indeed ! " says he , " that ' spretty treatment 1 " He asked me for more money , and when I had none for him he got into my bed , stripped himself and lay down ; on which I locked the door , and went for the police . Prisoner was then committed to Drogheda gaol to stand his trial at the quarter sessions for raising money and goods under false pretences . —Droqheda Conservative .
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August 14 , 1852 . THE g TAR 0 F FREEDOM . 5
Ikeland. Lord Fai3ierst03f'S Irish Voter...
IKELAND . LORD FAi 3 IERST 03 f ' S IRISH VOTERS . Some time hefore the recent election for the county of Sligo it transpired that the ex-Secretary for Foreign Affairs , who has large estates in that quarter , " had given directions through the " ordinary channels "—agents and sub-agentsthat reasonable efforts should be usedtoinduce his tenants to vote for the Derbyite candidates hi preference to the Saxon importation , who ) nevertheless , was the winner of one of the seats . The Frcemanh Journal , it seems , is in possession of the original letters written to tenants of Lord Pahnerston , asking , in his lordship ' s name , that they should vote for Sir Robert Booth and Captain Gore . Here is an extract of one written to a Roman Catholic priest : —
' I think it right to repeat what you are already aware of , both from Mr . Smith and me , that we have instructions from Lord Palmerston to intimate to his tenants his wish and desire that they shall give their support at the next election to Sir Robert Gore Booth and Mr . Ormsby Gore . " The local papers continue to give accounts of outrages committed upon the persons of unpopular voters .
THE EXODUS . ^ The Limerich Reporter states that on Thursday sefani g ht 160 women from the Newcastle Union arrived in Limerick for the purpose of proceeding to Canada by the barque Hope , arrangements having heen made for that purpose with the owners . The probability of another failure in the staple food of the peopk has , in conjunction with other causes , given a fresh impetus to the emigration mania , and the exodus from the
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west has already recommenced in right earnest . The Ba ' - linasloe Star says : — " Within the past fortnight the number of emigrants from this province has been more than doubled , and we have been assured that very many who had heretofore no thought of quitting the country are at present setting their houses in order' preparatory to taking their departure for America . " And again , to quote the same authority : — " Great numbers from this part of the country are daily passing away to take shipping in Liverpool for America . In
the ^ early part of this week a great many people left the parish of More , and several from this locality ; in fact , the railway trains and canal boats are daily tilled by crowds of the peasantry , who are hurrying away as if they were escaping from a plague . From Australia several remittances have been received by the poor people here , sent by their relations who went out as paupers ; and that distant c ' ountry is now being' added to in population by many of their strong and willing hands . The bad harvest " prospect in the loss of the potato crop will startle many others ; and all who can gather together merely as much as will pay the passagemoney will follow their friends and relatives /'
From the south , too , the emigration tide pours outwards with unabated force , and a Waterford paper calculates that , from present appearances , the numbers leaving that and other ports will be quintupled in a few months hence .
THE FATAL AFFRAY AT SIX-MILE BRIDGE . A man named Molony , who had heen wounded in the late fatal affray , died on Sunday in Barring-ton ' s Hospital , in the city of Limerick , and a coroner's jury was sworn , but an adjournment for a week took place . " RAXQUET TO SHARMA 1 N" CRAWFORD . Arrangements are being made to invite Mr . Sharman Crawford to a public banquet in Dublin early in the ensuing month .
Executions In Ireland. Execution Of Fran...
EXECUTIONS IN IRELAND . Execution of Francis Berry . —On Saturday last the extreme sentence of the law was carried into effect at Armagh gaol on Francis Berry , convicted , at last assizes for being accessary in an attempt to murder Mr . Meredith Chambre , of Hawthorn-hill , in this county . Precisely at twelve o ' clock the door leading to the fatal drop was opened , and the unfortunate Berry , accompanied by the Rev . Mr . Rogers and the Rev . Mr . Crynian , made his appearance . He was a strong man , of middle stature , 22 years of age , and exhibited no symptoms of timorousnsss . There was an immense crowd
in front of the gaol , whose morbid curiosity was evidently sickened by the appalling spectacle , for a thrill of horror was manifested when the victim presented himself . Immediately after he got on the platform he addressed a few words to the spectators , which , as near as we could collect , were to the effect , that if all young , men would attend to the advice of the Roman Catholic clergy they would not be brought to the state he was in ; this he repeated , and concluded by praying the forgiveness of the Lord and the Blessed Virgin . At the conclusion of these few words the executioner came
out , pulled down the cap , adjusted the rope , and retired ; a moment after which the bolt was drawn , and the unfortunate man was thrown off . Death must have been instantaneous , as he made no struggle , nor was there any symptom of life exhibited . The tragical act caused general horror among the multitude , most of whom turned their back's on the scene . After hanging for 42 minutes the body was let down , and coffined , when the officiating clergy read prayers . A short time after it was given to the mother , sister , and four cousins , who had it placed in a hearse and conveyed to their own home for interment .
Execution of the Murderer Bropky . —This wretched man , condemned at the Kilkenny assizes for the Ballymack murder , was hanged in front of the county gaol , pursuant to his sentence , on Wednesday week . The guilty man had been for some time quite reconciled to his fate , the anticipation of which had so little effect upon his mind that he improved much in condition by the good diet which he was afforded since he entered the gaol , and which he ate with good appetite up to the morning of the execution . In the press-room , previous to being led out to the drop , he declared
to all present that he had neither hand , act , nor part m the murder for which he was about to suffer ; but he confessed that he had nilsely accused his sister-in-law of having perpetrated the foul crime . Upon being thrown off by the executioner death seemed to be instantaneous , as the slightest convulsion of the frame or muscles was not perceptible to those beneath . Having heen suspended for three quarters of an hour , the body was taken down , and removed into the prison . Upwards of 3 , 000 persons are said to have assembled to witness the revolting spectacle .
Weeck Of Ax E3etgraxt Ship.—Letters Have...
Weeck of ax E 3 ETGRAXT Ship . —Letters have arrived , giving some details of the melancholy loss of the English emigrant ship the Trusty , of Scarborough , having on board nearly 200 hundred emigrants , off the shores of Cape Gaspe , while on a passage to Quebec . The vessel , which was commanded by Mr . ^ Forster , sighted the land near the Cape on the 22 d of July , when her course was shaped to the northward . On the following morning a dense fog came on ,
preventing the crew observing any distance beyond a cable ' s length or so of the vessel ; and , although orders were given to keep the ship well off the land , she eventually struck on a reef of rocks within a short distance of the Cape , when she speedily filled and settled down . Against the command of the master , one of the boats was lowered and cut away from the vessel . It contained in all , it is supposed , about twenty persons . An attempt was made to gain the shore , but so great was the surf that the boat was capsized before it had reached many yards from the wreck , and the whole of the helpless creatures perished . Among them were the undermentioned persons : —Thomas Blake , Daniel Saunderson ,
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John Dickenson , William Brown , David Hodgson , John Atkinson , Thomas Slv . uv , William and Thomas Stellings , Thomas Winteiingham , Stephen Bullock , Martha Taylor , Wright Ban ! : , Robert Yates , Frank Francis , and Thomas Burton . For aight hours the position of those on the wreck was one of / - .. ' . at peril ; the sea sweeping over her decks , and it was c / . pected every moment she was going to pieces . Soon after day had broken a schooner bore down to the spot , and with the aid of the crews of two other vessels that came up , all who were clinging to the wreck were taken off in safety . Their luggage , however , was lost , for in a few days the vessel broke up , and was a total wreck . The emigrants have since been forwarded to Quebec ,
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MASSACRE OF BRITISH SUBJECTS AND PIRACY AT NONCOWRY . Statement of Malim Sahib , master of the brig Satrcena now lying in the port of Moulmein , taken before me , Henry Hopkinson , principal assistant to the commissioner in the Tennasserim Provinces , t / . is 30 th day of February , 1852 , who saith : —I sailed fron Nagore in the month of August last , to Bimlapatam , thence to Penang , and from Penang I came on to Noncowry Island , arriving- in all November . I got as many cocoanuts as I could at Noncowry Island , and rilled up with more at Car Nicobars , where I remained up to about the 20 th December . From Car Nicobars I was driven
by stress of weather with the loss of all my sails to Junk Ceylon . I had to stop and relit there , and take in provisions , and did not leave till the 20 th of January last , when I came on here . One morning , about two o ' clock , while lying off Noncowry , and about 13 days after my anival , there came alongside the ship a man on a log of wood . I lowered a boat and picked him up . He appeared much exhausted , and could only tell me at first his name was Soobooroyloo , and that he was a Coringee . He was , however , in perfect
possession of his senses , and soon recovered strength sufficient to state his story . He said he was one of a crew of 45 men , belonging to a Coringee craft which had come from Singapore to Noncowry , to load with cocoanuts ; but before her cargo could be completed she was one day . surrounded by a number of armed boats , whose crews ' boarded and carried her , and put all her people to death , with the exception of nine , of whom the narrator was one , and who escaped by hiding themselves in a water-tank . When night fell
they endeavoured to swim ashore . Four were drowned , but the other five managed to reach the land . They soon got separated , however , in the jungle . Soobooroyloo wandered about for some time , but at last was captured by the islanders , who kept him prisoner . He managed at last to bite through his cords , and so got free from them , and gained my ship on a log , as I have mentioned . Soobooroyloo told me that his was not the only ship that liad been attacked by the natives of Noncowry , for , after he had been a month ashore , an English barque came into theharbour formed by the islands oi
ISoncowry , Camarata , and Trincutry , and anchored there .. For four or five days a number of boats , more and more e \ ery day , went off to her . And at last one day Soobooroyloo saw her settle down and sink . Her long-boat came ashore full of Noncowry men . They brought with them a Europenn lady and her child , a little thing not two years old . For four days the poor lady was the victim of their brutal abuse , when death put an end to her sufferings , and she was no sooner dead than they hacked the child to pieces with their knives . Before he left the island Soobooroyloo fell in with three men . He found they were his countrymen ,
Coringees ; and they proved to be the remnant of the crew of the English barque . They told him that their vessel had been carried and scuttled by the savages , who had murdered the captain and his mate and two other Englishmen ( passengers , it is presumed ); and , after plundering the vessel , had brought the captain ' s wife and his infant daughter away hi the long-boat . They could not tell the name of the barque , but sheVas from Calcutta , with a lascar crew . I managed
to escape the fate of those ships , as I knew beforehand the character of the men I had to deal with . I kept well out in > . the offing , in lo fathoms water , and was very careful not to i allow more than one boat at a time to be alongside of me ;; and as soon as I had discharged one boat of cocoanuts 11 made her go well away before I suffered another boat to : > approach . '' Soobooroyloo was upwards of two months andd a half on shore , and this affair of the English barque took k place about a month and a half before my coming . —Moul- , ' - mein Times , Feb . 20 .
The Whale Fishery . —Information was received on > n Saturday by the Dublin whaler , arrived at Lerwick , of theie ; progress of the fishery . The Dublin left the ice on the loththi July , and had four fish and forty tuns of oil . The Spitz-zherrjen was totally lost on the ice on the 24 th of June ; e ;; she had 108 tuns ; crew saved . A _ shoal of bottlenosededl whales , consisting of 205 fish , were driven on shore at Wesfestt Soe , off Sumburgh , on the 27 tb ult . ; the blubber sold ai all £ 10 per tun ; and another shoal of the same description oi oh fish was driven on shore at Queendale , on the 28 th ult . ; thebes blubber of about 200 realizing from £ 10 to £ 10 7 s . per ton . n .
Extkaokdixary Escafe . —A young girl , named Hughesies ; fell into a well 60 feet deep , at Wetherall , a few days agogo > A man went down in a bucket for the purpose of bring ingn ^ up her corpse , but was astonished to find her not only alivdivti but uninjured , except by a few trifling bruises . We wonder if Mr . Disraeli will bequeath to his successors ©!* ; * all he sees " looming in the future ? " and whether he wilwill bequeath it as an " air-loom ?"
A lady , who wished for some stuffing from a roast fovrfows which a gentleman was carving at a public table , requestetsteu him to transfer from the deceased fowl to her plate some ae og its artificial intestines . A Boston beauty once defined the attentions of a PennsyhsyK vanian admirer as " Sorter honest courtship and sorter notnott but a darned deal more sorter not than sorter .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 14, 1852, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_14081852/page/5/
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