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DESPERATE HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MUJRDEH.
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EXTRAORDINARY CURES HOLLO WAT'S OINTMENT.
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On Saturdny merninir , one of the most atrocious and desperate cases of highway robot ry and attempted murder , was beard at the Shire Hall , Hereford , before a full bench of county magistrates . The prisoners were Charles Pearse and Benjamin Smith , two ferocious-louk . ing young men , who hare been in the hnbit of travelling about the country under the pretence of selling brushes , but whose chief occupation has , it is believed , been robbery . The prosecutor is a dealer in earthenware , and who has been for some years past well known in Hertford SB an honest And industrious man . The occurrence 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 vtry 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 had been entirely beaten away , leaving his skull quite exposed to view . He said , —My name is Jumes Jarvis . I am a hawker , and in the habit of travelling to the different towns in the county with earthenware . On Saturday , the 21 st ult ., I was at Welling ; I was in the Horse ShoeB public house , I there saw the prisoners . After staying at the Horse Shoes about ten minutes , I left fur 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 Datcbworth . I told the prisoners where I was going .
By the Bench—What induced you to tell the prisoners where you were going ? Prosecutor—Some person in the Chequers said , " It is a fine night ; where are you off to , Jarvis i" I replied , " I have sold all my goods , and am now going to Datchworth . " It was between four aud five o ' clock . I then left the house . When I arrived at Fiahwood , I felt what I consider two stones thrown at me . One struck my hat / It was dark , and I could nor . see any person . I cried out , " Hollo 1 what are you at ? " I did not hear any person speak , and almost immediately after I received a dreadful blow on the left side of my head , and before I had time to epeak , I received another on the top of my head , which caused the blood to run out of my ears , eyes , nose , and mouth , to such an extent that I was nearly choked . I then felt that two persons had by some means got ' nto my cart from behind . As they still con . tinued beating me , I said , "For God ' s sake don ' t
murder me : what do you want t" One of the prisoners said , " Damn you , your money or jour life . " I replied I had not got any money . They then threw me in the bottom of my cart , and one still continued strikiug me " about the head , whilst the other was searching my pocket 6 ; but , not succeeding in finding my money , one said , " Let ' s murder th - , and then we can suuveh him better ;" and the other replied , "So we will , he ' s got money , because he said he had sold all his goods ; " aHd 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 teeling assured that I should be murdered , if assistance did not arrive , I therefore by some means , managed to jerk myself out of my cart . The persons followed me , and redoubled their efforts to murder me , and finding mysell quite overpowered , and completely saturated with blood , I gave 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 !" Prosecutor—Yes ; I immediately recognised the voice to be Smith ' s ; and the party who said , " Let us murder him first , " was the prisoner Peirse . By the Bench—W hat did they rob you of % Prosecutor—Twopence , a comb , and a knife . Bench—Was that all the money you had % Prosecutor—No ; I had between four and five pounds in one of my pockets , but the prisoners did not seaich that pocket . William Hyde said , on Sunday , the SSnfl , ] lC found tllO stick which he now produced , laying near tue spot where the robbc-ry took place .
The stick ( which bore evident 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 Burglar s Account of Himself . —At the Belfast Quarter Sessions last week , John Sloan , Peter Trainor , 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 preyed , 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 be ] transported for a term of fifteen years—the heaviest punishment the court had in its power to award . The prisoner Masjee then asked to
permission address the court . This man ( Sloan ) , he said , had been with him four times in gaol for rob . beries . Sloan was not , bis 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 h a good thief . " Slaan 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 . He was a Liverpool man , and served his time with Charles Lawrence , the mayor , from whom he could get a recommendation . His name was not Magee , but was known . " lam Nottingham Charlie ; that is my name . " "Iknow , " he continued , " that jl am a thief and a robber—I acknowledge ( all 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 any one 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 about . It was Sloan 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 has been broken-hearted by my infamous life ; but it was that man Sloan who took me from ray honest employment , and made me stand here . I escaped tlio police in England for many years , and I am caught at last and sent away , and all by that Sloan , lie continued for some time to talk in this coherent strain , admitting a coarse of crime almost having scarcely a parallel . Tie prisoners were then removed . Sloan , by order of the Court , remaining in tke dock , as it was pretty evident , from Meagee's feelings , that violence would have been used Bad an opportunity offered .
The Flowers of the Earni . —Doetor P—— , who is attached to a Parisian theatre in quality of a physician , expressed Iiis astonishment tLe other day that nian and woman were not created at the same time instead of the latter springing from a rib . of our first 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 aot natural , sir , that the flower should come after the stem ? " , _ . , . ___ L . g £ gg $£ — -
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¦ ¦ - - ¦ . ¦ ::- ¦ ' - :--- ¦¦¦ ICELAND . : - ''^ "" ' - ¦ ¦ " ¦ - ¦ Matters go on from bad to worse . The wcounte from the provinces grow more and more gloomy , and the prospects most disheartening . The following extracts will give an idea of TI 1 B STATK OP THE COUNTRY . Another Murder in Tipperart . — The Ttpperary 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 Hanly , who , it appeared , sold a piftthat day in Borrif , 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 » jelly ! We have not words to express our horror and indignation at such atrocious offences as these , whi&i arv . not perpetrated by the starving poor , but .
by villains , who libel the form ot 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 or a pig , with which , perhaps , he was anxious to purchase a few weeks' provisions or foed . Whilst offences of this nature cry aloud for vengeance on their perpetratorn , 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 . He 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 Was on Monday held , and a verdict of wilful murder was returned . Two men of the name of Gaynor and IJeffernan , 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 denperate 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 Annaghbeg , 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 changed 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 bene « volent 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 : — . Skibbkbben . —No description of recital can convey any idea of the extreme misery which exists here . Hungar , 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 workhouse at
equally if not more general . The present contains 900 paupers—considerably more than it was originally built for—the stables are used a 9 dormitories , -The Fever Hospital was built to accomodate forty patients— it contajns 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 searcejy as many able-bodied paupers in the house as can burr the dead , and they are taken out for interment three at a time . One of the moat remarkable illustrations of the nature of
distress here , is a desire on the part ot the poor to escape , if I may so call it , to anywhere , from the privations they endure at home . A small fund had been created , through tlie 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 fr ° ra the town , at Baltimore , on board a collier to Newport—the owner , Mr . Swanton , Having given them a free passages while Dr . Donovan provided them "fit out , " by releasing some few of their ro ^ st indispensable articles of clothing out of pawn , and { iWins ; 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 expected 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 . Donavan ; to a suburb calle 1 Bridgetown , where Ue had a large number of sick calls to answer . We entered at least thirty | of the huts , and such an aggregation of disease , hunger ,
nakedness , and cold , it is out of the question to describe . 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 fiittoi-vards .. The only covering they had was the clothes worn . ' 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 probably have existed anywhere within the knowledge of the present
generation . In the north of Ireland , outrage is on the increase . Donegal , Londonderry , Tyron . and Cavan , are all more or less disturbed . On Sunday night a large quantity of meal was stolen oft' carts belonging to poor men who had halted for the niyht at a house a short distance from this town , which had been purchased at our market the preceedini ; day . Last week , snmo persons entered a farmer ' s cowhouse , near , Boyney , where a cow was fastened by the head with an iron chain to the manger . Tkey severed the body from the head , leaving the head as it was fastened , and carried off the remainder . Another cow -was killed in th . 9 same locality , and the hide only Jet ' s . Several sheep were killed throughout this barony , and farmers robbed of meal , < fec .
DISTRESS IN DONEGAL . The Ballyshannon Hera Id states : — That there is a great deal of destitution in Donegal , not a parish is exempt from it , and were it not for th « charitable disposition of the more wealthy classes death * would be more numerous . In this bar . m / the poor are ill an awful state ; wretched creatures daily infest our town in search of food ur employment , who have more the appearance , of corpses than living beings . Large sums are contributed towards their relief in giving meal at a Induced ptlce . TUat Is quite right , but 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 be 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 , but really we cannot expect them to continue peaceable much Ion gerunless they get employment .
, The Anglo Ce ' t , published in the northern county of Cavan , contains the following : — This very day we heard that a tradesman was abont to open n shop in the town of Cavan for the purpose of selling Birmingham muskets , with the hope of realitfag fortune by the trade , although he expects to find his chief customers amongst the applicants lor relief tickets —men , be it remembered , who , having nothing to defend , can only purchase these instruments of death , for aggressive purposes .
MOLLT HAGUIREISM IK CAVAN . The Warder contain ' * the following ;—A Gavan correspondent writes that on the 23 rd ult ., being the fair day of Ballymagauran , Thomas Brown , one of the constabulary , seeing a man named M'Averuy , and other suspicious characters hovering about 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 If'Averny the following threatening notices : — Take notice—Any person dealing with Francis Henderson for anything tliut Peter Xl'Cusker has , that he will get the same death of Booth Bell , who Is in the depth of hell—Death—and if this does not make he yeuld , powder and ball will .
Take notice—Any forestaller that distresses any man for money will get the same death of M'Cloud , who is surely ill hell for partiality . Death , death , death here follows Molly M'Guire who never feared a ball . M'Averney is now in Ballyconnell , briiewell , waiting the decision of the law officers of the crown . Mr , Henderson is a respectable trader , residing at Bosehill , and much esteemed by the well-disposed . A Clonmel paperjfchus refers to the state of the gun trade in Tipperaryj ;—No less 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 ugo setklng for hire . Ho presented rather a formidable appearance ; for , in addition to a spade and a nail , he had a hand y gun strapped across his back . Every man has iiis guu . Where this will end God only knows .
Subjoined is an extract of a letter from the county of Tyrone : — Anything liko the sole of fire-Mm 8 by the hardware
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merchants in Aughnacloy , and the ^' duterent country towns about here , never was heard of in any country , and , alraoBt without exception , the purchasers are of one persuasion . I saw one of the cases , which would codtain about 100 stand , and examined some of its contents . They are Birmingham and London make —{ I suppose only stamped ' London . ' ) They are of quite good eUOURh 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 upwardi . A Roman Catholic ironmonger , from a neighbouring town , Is gone from home to bring £ 50 worth of arms , and a quantity of gunpowder . How will this end . A reported outbreak in Kilkenny is thu g noticed in the Freeman of Monday : —
We have heard that private letters reached town yesterday , statins 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 large number of people collected in the town , and attacked Borne flour-mnh and bakers' Bhops . The mlli . tary were called out , and after charging the people with fixed bayonets , order was in Borne measure restored . The accounts state that the people were fired on from mills and bakers' housei , but it Is not reported that any person was killed . The military did not fire , but dispersed the people with the bayonet , without doing any injury . Mr . Carter , a gentleman connected with the Board of Works , escape * ( by the fleetness of his home ) from an attack made on him by the people . The state of feeling in the town and districts about it it said to be vary excited , in consequence of . the occurrence alluded to .
Roscbba . — A . sale of articles seized for rent due to Mr . O'Grady , of Dublin , was advertised for Friday , the 27 th of November last , at Graffin , between Roscrea and Teraplemore , where a very large mob assombled . 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 . —Zeinster Express ,
Purchase of Pike-Arms . —The Tippirary iree Press of this day says : — " The purchase of fire-arms in this town by the country people , who manifest the greatest avidity to posses * themselves of these weapons continues unabated . The mania , it appears , has extended to the north , and in Cavan and Fermanagh the sale of guns and pistols was never so great as at present . " mi County Cuhk . —Robbrbv of 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 road leading from the village of Clare , having fired a Hhot 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 they got into Mr . Studderfc ' 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 papers and books , and took away ft 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 . —Clare Journal .
CONDITION OFIHE COUNTRT . 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 dueaHowancefor exaggeration , the accounts of destitution in its last stage are just a * rife now as they were in the month of September , and before 273 , 000 people ware employed at an average expense to the country of £ 2 , 652 , 900 per annum . This U 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 in a great measure depending upen the potato as their staple article of food , but little more than 1-lGth 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 , with the g loomy 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 , Bhnll have been fully developed . The landlords are , to be sure , fully aware of their dangerous position ; but there is no concert among them- > -tliere 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 vi > ry distant day , is thus furnished by the Westmath Guardian of Saturday .
In the adjoining county ( Roscomtnon ) the daily expenses of labour alone amount to £ 2 , 500 , and in Mayo the amount is nearly the same , and amidst all this extravagant « uUay we at ; ain ask the oft-repeated question , what benefit is contemplated to accrue from the unproductive works whieh are prosesuted with such rage ? It is 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 nil . from peer to peasant , derive support and raiment , is left to wither and " choice 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 des < tructlve to the interests of the nation .
DH 00 HEDA—STATE OF THE PEOPLE . ( From our Correspondent . ) 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 being 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 ef the 7 th ult ., a meeting was held on Tuesday the 8 th instant , when subscriptions were commenced for the relief of the destitute . A libnr . il sum has been sub-cribed .
Our market on Saturday the 5 th instant was thinly attended , with sellers' prices advanced on wheat , from 23 . to 2 * . GJ . per barrel of 20 stonea . 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 mnre than 4 * . fid . 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 lookins : over the exports of the week we find the following : —810 qr .-i . of wheat ; oats , 100 qrs . ; flour , 1700 cwt . ; meat , 1240 ; pi ? s , 4120 ; cows , 1522 ; sheep , 1931 ; eggs , 630 , 000 !! Is not this a sad picture to see all this food leaving our quays , whilst the people l > ine 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 their unjust monopoly of the land .
Our municipal elections have terminated , the town is divided into three wards , for two of which honest radicals , " whole hog" men , have been returned . This is more awful than the famine—to think that the Liberator ' s influence could not keep the corporation free from any but slaves of his own . Iiis day is over in Drogheda ; he is despised by all parties ; ho has little chance of catching the Drogheda corporation hy his humbugging resolutions of hist week in the Dublin corporation . Peter Hoey , of Burnsley , may now rejoice that his visit to Drogheda , in 1841 , was not without beneficial results to Chartism .
OLD IRELAND V , TOUNO IRELAND , The Dublin corespondent of the Morning Post had the following statement in his dispatch of the 6 th . The demonstration of the Young Irelanders at the Rotunda , has caused tuuch 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 it would be making too much of them to advert to their proceedings at all attha meeting in Conciliation llall to-morrow .
The more experienced and furtkos 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 flagof truce should be sent to them . The excuse for * this great condescension is to be , that he , the Liberator , has observed that the Young Irelandevs now all repudiate physical force , and have therefore so pur"ed them golvos of heresy in hu eyes , thnfc he is wl&w a » ain 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 .-. m informed that the Young Irelanders will reject th
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overture , and send back * r the ''' flag * of trucei even " WFH , contumely . So the Whigs no longe * possess in m O'Conneir that potent ally on whom they once oal * lated so very much . ; u * On Monday ( the day after the above wag written the usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association took place , and the result proved the correctness 3 the Post ' s information . esaot The attendance was greater than it had been fa * some time past . It was fully expected that the '' L berator , " writhing under the castigation inflicted upon him by the several speakers at the Young ire land demonstration , would return the compliment
witu interest rrom his own forum . Jud ^ e , therefore the surprise of the uninitiated , when , instead of burling thunderbolts at his youthful antagonists hi actually struck his colours , and laid the basis of a reconciliation , by proposing a conference between the heads of the two parties , with a view of arranir "& the P . eIirai"fiea ° f a featy for the suspension of hostilities . Mr . O'Connell ' s supremacy as tho leader of the agitation , is , iherefore , virtually at Tele " ' y ° un eIrcland ' s victory has been
com-Here is the portion of Mr . O'Oonnpll ' o < . «««„! , , v which he confesses himself beaten ° - P "Dissension had broken out among them It was of old , a sad characteristic of the Irish He did not wish to embitter the quarrel -his atTw , l : heal the breach . He had looked * Z * l ™ too of the debate at the Rotunda ; he found himsTtntr ably well abused ; but he felt no r tnimS . Ile now saw that they in a great moasure disclaimed the physical force principle . If the , went » nSS . fil thir , they would be as welcome back to th * nil
tion as tne flowers ot May . He proposed then a privateconferen . ee . ( Vehement cheering Renamed SirColman O'Loughlin and Mr . VfeiS 2 * 5 referees , along with himself , Mr . W S O'Rri ™ Mr . Dillon , and Mr . O'Dea . He would be char g ed with compromising ; but he would make anysacri . fice for the eood of the country . ( Cheers \ Mr . J . O'Connbm . said he wished to say that he was the cause or the division amongst the Repeal party , and to express his satisfaction that there was a prospect of a reconciliation . ( Hear , hear . ) The rent was announced to be £ 116 3 s . Sd .
' Cobntv . Armagh . —The Newrv Telegraph gives thefollowing particulars of a shocking murder in this county : — . ¦ « We ave pained to find that once again human life has been wantonly sacrificed in the county of Armagh . The following particulars of this case we have collected from ths eoiUMnuYiicafcions of several correspondents : —Friday last was the fairday of Crossmaglen . About six o ' clock in the evenin * a person named George M'Clean was returning home from the fair , and , when about 100 perches from th& town , he was beset and murdered by some persons , 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 in the bridewell of Ballybot . An inquest was held on the remains of the murdered man on Saturday , by Mr . George Henry ,.
coroner , which was adjourned until Wednesday , for the purpose , if possible , of elicltine evidence that may enable a jury to arrive at a decision as to theactual perpetrators of the crime . The deceased wasa man of excellent character and a Protestant , ft is believed he bad 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 them returned to alarm the police of the town . Sub-inspector Holmes was on the gronnd , however , about an hour after the murder was completed , and up to alate period of the night the police were employed in searching tbe several lodging-houses of the town ,, where they found and apprehended several suspected characters . "
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Glasgow , —Like most men when defeated , it seemsour friends Generally in this now " second city in the empire , " felt dispo-ed to silence as regards the result of pur late municipal election . This , I consider , has been an error in as much as the result , though not so favourable as we shall wish , is anything but disheartening . Mr . Moir , in concert with . Gilmour and Shaw , polled 108 . One of his opponents votes Ross—single-handed and alone-polled 100 , and had the Irish repealers supported Mr . Ressas 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 , Ross . In the second ward , a complete wreck
wasmade of the ojd dominant clique , and I have no hesitation in saying that had Moir been put forward in that ward , he would have been successful . In pvoof of this , I may state that our costive list of friends were this day returned to the Parochial board , or as they are known in England , appointed Poor-law euardians , Messrs . Moir , Gilriiour , 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 alwnya be found on the side of the people . A few days after the election , a number of our democratic friends who supported
Messrs . Shaw , Moir , and Gilmour , entertained those eentlemen to a splendid supper in the Routine Hotel * Seventy-one , including the guest ? , sat down to sup * per , and spent one of the happiest evenings ever they had the pleasure of enjoying . Amongst those present were our old friends Mr . Pirkethly , and Mr . Parker , late of London , now of Manchester . Mr . 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 .
FuNERit of Oanon Mhmkx , bel Riego . —On Sunday the remains of the late Canon Miguel del Riego ( brother of the 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 Lord Nugent , Dr . Bowrin ? , M . P .. the Ministers of Buenos Ayres and Peru ( Messrs . Moreno and Iturreijui , ) Sir Charles Malcolm , Sir F , B . Meyers f Mr . Eneas Mtcdonnell , < fcc . The Canon was known to a large circle , and highly esteemed , and honoured by all his acquaintances , lie was a man of studious hubits , 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 zeal 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 .
Extraordinary Robbebt . —Lately a hrae-bumer received , as is customary at the end of the liming season , the value of the article supplied in this instance to Mr . Thomas 1 , of Derllys , a very respectable farmer . The monpy altogether amounted to £ H , 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 , and all was placed under lock ami key . Some few days after he again went tn the drawer for the purpose of withdrawing the cash to apply it to the payment of an account , when lo ! the bank noteB 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 eudiug » was given up , Then came the question , what had become of the money ? and the cenclusion was immediately and simultaneously formed , that those frightful creatures , " robbers , " had been at work ; but this was a very debateable 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 be disposed of . So the whole affair was unaniinously voted a mystery . Some few days after , the good wife had occasion to go to market , and , wishing to be dressed in her best attire , went to her 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 ou t ( or outside in ) , and there , to the astonishment of all , was found a nest , formed by those industrious little creaturesyclept mico . An examination was made , and oh ! joyful discovery ! there were the long lost bank notes cut up into innumerable pieces by those unwitting offenders . The pieces were carefully collected , and joy reigned supreme . The neighbours were called in to participate m the rejoicings , and happiness was the order ot the day . It only remains to be 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 , wivich were handed orer to the fortunate limeburner . Cambrian .
Gk < ih Breaking . —A prisoner , named Mackenzie , madft his escape from Elgin gaol in a very bold manner . The door of his cell was ieft open by the doctor ' s orders , the prisoner having been ill and tomitting blood . Taking advantage the prisoner jorced the lock of the passage door with one of the iron-hookaof his hammock , and having taken some tire from the stove , broke open a small door leading to the garret . There the prisoner set fire to the root , and burned a hole through which he clambered —and fixing another hook of the hammock to the water pipe , swung himself on to the inclosing wallthus escaping unobserved . He has not yec been retaken .
Rki > resentation of Wkstmissteb . —Mr . Charles Cochrane , chairman of the Poor Man ' s Guardian Society , and " open the ports" agitator , is a candidate for tho representation of Westminster at the next election . -
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IMPORTANT TO THE PUBLIC . SCALD HEAD , RINGWORM , AND ALL CUTANEOUS DISEASES . De . YTilluh Powell , 16 , Blessington Street , Dublin , begi to inform the Public , that his SPECIFIC for the above Diseases muy now be had in Packages , price 2 s . 6 d ., 6 s ., and 10 s . Gd each , with full directions for their use . The half-guinea package contains eight times the quantity of the half-crown . On receipt of n post-office mitt er postage stamps , directed as above , the medicine will be forwarded by return of post , until agents are appointed in the different AOIltlttPfi .
Desperate Highway Robbery And Attempted Mujrdeh.
DESPERATE HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MUJRDEH .
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Extraordinary Cures Hollo Wat's Ointment.
EXTRAORDINARY CURES HOLLO WAT'S OINTMENT .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 12, 1846, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1396/page/6/
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