Star. — London, England, 1830-12-03 00:00:00

were unembarrassed. and when at home they had but a passing cloud to disturb their security, to undertake the great work of law reform ; now, when passing, but still disgraceful, proceedings had necessitated the adoption of certain extraordinary measures ; yet a few days (said Lord R.) and the sword of justice would be unsheathed, and would assuredly smite the guilty. It was the first duty of the executive to make the lama obeyed, but it was their nest to make them loved. To accomplish this lay in the power of their lordships : what the people hated was only the abuse of venerable institutions. By amending the laws, and satisfying the people that they had done all that lay in their power their lordships would do no more than could be done by any oratorical declamations to preserve unimpaired and to transmit to the latest pos terity a mighty and noble constitution, mighty because handed down by their ancestors from a remote antiquity ; and noble, because it assured the tranquillity, the rights, and the liberties of the subjects.— ( Hear, hear.) Lord LYNDHURST said the subject demanded the greatest consi. deration, both from its own importance and from being recommended by his noble and learned friend. He should give the bill his most anxious attention, and if it proved to be a real improvement in the law, he should give it his most warm and cordial support. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. Adjourned at Half-past Seven. HOUSE 0F(7157N5, DEC. 2. ELECTION COMMITTEES. _ The gallery was not opened till five o'clock, owing to there being five ballots for Election Committees; 293 Members were present. So many ballots on one day is unprecedented. The following were the Committee for Forfar : Cradock, Sir J. Owen, J. Monday, Sir C. Coote, Palk, G. Tudor, R. Price, Sir L. P. North, T. Kemp, Bruce O'Neale, F. Gordon. The following were the Glasgow Committee : Foley, J. Thorns, Rumbold, Sir K. Wilson, C. Brownlow, Sconsor, Arch dale, J. Marryat, Sir W. Wynn, Lord Fordwich, R. Bethel. The following were the Memlers for the Evesham Election Com mittee :—.F. Bardin, W. Russell, .1. Buller, A. Buncombe, H. Tufton, G. T. Stanton, C. Clive, J Clements, Mills, M. Bell, Lord J. Lennox. The following were the Committee for St. Mawes :—J. Wain wright, Power, .—T. Whitmore, Gower, J. Hall, C. Tyrrell, Lord G. Bentinck, S. Lumley, H. White, R. Watson, Ft zgerald. The SPEAKER informed the House that the parties had not en. tend into the requisite recognizances to prosecute the Tregony Election petition. The following were declared to be the members for the Borough bridge Election Committee .—J. Newell, C. Corbett, E. Pen. ryn, Hon. King, Lord Pawlett, J. Ramsbottom, J. Bradshaw, W. Ed. Boyle, Sir C. Lenox, J. Brown. Sir T. Denman, Lord Palmerston, Etc. appeared on the Treasury benches, having taken the oaths and their seats. Mr. D.W. HARVEY presented a petition from the parties interested in the Tregony Election, praying for an enlargement of time to enter into the requisite recognizance,. Mr. S. RICE thought time might be allowed on the principle ex tended to the case of Rye Here the party was ready to be surety for 2501. but not for 5001. 31r. Harper, the agent, was called to the bar, and verified the con tents of the petition. Mr. D. W. HARVEY moved that time be extended till Thursday next. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, he had understood from the Speaker that the petitioners had received ample notice as to the failure respecting the sureties. He offered no opinion, but stated the facts. _ _ . Sir It. PEEL said, if there were a general rule where would be the advantage of it, if it were to be set aside on particular occasions without the strongest causes? It would be to give a decided advantage to the negligent man over the correct petitioners. Mr. O'CONNELL thought the spirit of the law had been complied with, and therefore thought time ought to be allowed. It was special pleading by which the application was resisted. Sir R. PEEL maintained that if there were special pleadings on either side, it had been adduced by the petitioners and those who sup ported the application. Mr. CA NIPBELL and Lord PALMERSTON opposed the mo tion, on the ground of the provisions of the act not having been com plied with. Mr. D. HARVEY said, if the merits of the case were likely to be eittunined through another petition, this petition would be unnecessary. The party had been admonished of the situation in which he stood, but too late to remedy the effect. He should not withdraw the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL stated that be should have a petition to present respecting this bormh, on the ground of the Mayor of the place having been an ill egal Mayor. The gallery was c eared for a division, Mr. Harvey observing that he could not withdraw his motion : and the numbers were as follows : For the motion ... .. 23 Against it Majority against the motion ... GO The SPEAKER then informed the House thatthe petitioners, corn. plaining of undue elections for Bristol, Peterstield, Reading, Seaford, Queensferry, and Berwick.upon.Tweed, had foiled to enter into the re quisite recognizance.; the orders fur considering the petitions were con. sequently discharged. SUPPLY. Mr. G. DAWSON asked when the hon. members opposite were likely to proceed with the questions of supply, and to propose the ,it List. Lord PALMERSTON replied that further supplies would be pro pored on Monday—the Consolidated Fund 8111 would be proceeded with ; but that, as to the Civil List, he was not at present prepared to say when it would be proposed. He would state in a few days. Sir W. RAE then rose, pursuant to notice, to move for leave to bring in a bill to alter and amend the laws regarding the taking ideal menu in heritable property in Scotland. The hon. member in support said, that during the last year there bad been 80,0001. expended in fees for the present system of procedure, which expense must of course be derived from the land, and thus the land was laid under a , burden equal to an encumbrance of two millions; besides which there was great risk attending the present form, for many had been set aside on the most trifling error. It was his intention by the bill to abolish all the forms of infeoffment, and to make it sufficient that an indi vidual should produce his rights and be registered at the office for leaalngs in Scotland. The hon. and learned member hotipeedt that he would not meet with any opposition to his motion in house, but he anticipated a great portion of odium by the measure at home, as he candidly acknowledged that the good which would be effected to the country must be obtained at the expense of the pro fession. Mr. KENNEDY hoped that the hon. and learned gent. would per. severe in his motion, and not be 4eterred. He (Mr. Kennedy) would happy to share the odium with him. Sir 81. S. BTEWART supported the motion, and said that the hon. gentleman was entitled to the thanks of his country. He (Sir 31. S. S.) regretted that the hon. and learned gentleman was about to retire front his important situation as a distinguished Law Officer for Scot. land, without having received any remuneration. Mr. 0. LAMB, in answer to a question from the late Lord Advo cate, stated that the appointment of his successor had been made, and that Government had received the information that the person appointed had accepted the office. Mr. DRUM MOND and Mr. O'CONNELL supported the motion. Leave granted to bring in the MIL Mr. LA %V moved for leave to bring in a bill for the extension of the 19th and 20th of Geo. 111. Chap. IL for the purpose of placing Prows. tants in Ireland on the seine footing with other sects, as regarded their qualifications for holding office. Leave granted. ELECTIVE 714INCillif IN lIINILAND. Mr. WYSR moved for a return of all the freeholders of 101. 201. and 001. to be taken separately, who had voted in the late elections in Ire. land.—Return ordered. THE CONSOLIDATED FUND. The house resolved itself into a committee on the Consolidated Fund Bill, which was read a second time, and ordered to be taken into costal. deration on Monday next. The Colonial Acts Bill wu postpor.ed the second reading till Mon day ; as were also the bills regarding the liability of landlords, and Ways and Means. CALVE ELECTION. Mr. SPRING RICE moved fora new writ, to elect a member for Caine, in the room of Sir James 111‘Dotald, who had accepted an ap pointment u &Commissioner of the Board of Trade. The writ was then ordered. Mr. HUME asked the hon. gentleman if it was the intention of mi. nisters to make any reduction in that description of places ? Mr. S. RICE replied in the affirmative, and cited several reductions which had already been announced. He would take that opportunity of answering a question which had been put to bim on a previous evening relating to the Postmaster-General of Ireland ; it now appeared that the situation had been held conjointly between Lord O'Neil and Lord Ross .....The former had resigned some time ago, but the latter noble lord had retained the place and salary. The present government had, however, a few days back received the resignation of Lord Ross, and ministers bad determined not to appoint another in his plate. Mr. HUME was not a little surprised to hear on a previous evening, that the late Ministers had received the resignation of that office ; but he was happy that the merit of the abolition rested with the present Government. He moved for a printed list of the pensions that were paid out of the revenue up to the latest period, that it might be seen how the late Government stood, and enable them to begin a new score with the present Government. Colonel SIBTUORPE asked the 1 tntler.Seastary if it was the in. notion of the Government to reduce the salaries of places ; for if not, be would bring forward a motion to that erect. Mr. SPRING RICE replied, that it was the intention of Ministers to reduce the rate of salaries. Mr. HUME was of opinion that the half of all salaries above 5001. per annum ought to be curtailed. The hen. member produced a return that had been made on a former occasion of military pensions, but It was Imperfect, inasmuch as there was nothing in it relating to the Howe of Lords ; but there were upwards of two millions, in that report, divided among 993 persons, at the average rate of 2.0811. a piece —some, how ever, had more, and some less—several had 10,0001. a year ; and even that did not include the whole expense, for it was impossible to have inserted in any such report the expense that attended the collection of , such taxes as went to pay the pensioners . This could only be done by a ' Select Committee, and on an early day he would move for a Committee for that purpose, similar to what had been obtained in 1810, by the hon. member for Dorset. Mr. EVANS presented several petitions for the abolition of Colonial Slavery, from Derby and York ; and for Parliamentary Reform and Vote by Ballot, from Anstead, in Leicestershire. Mr. SCHONSW AR presented a petition from Kingston on-Hull, praying for the abolition of duty on stamp receipts for small sums. Mr. HUME ptoposed that the petition should be printed; be hoped that there would son be no duty on receipts for sums • below 501. Petition ordered to be printed. ADULTERATION OV BEER. Colonel SIBTHORPE moved for a return of all the persons who had been convicted, and the amount of the penalties, for adulterating beer. The law was ample, and the penalties were sufficiently large, but he had observed with regret, that only penalties of 101. had, in many cases been inflicted. He hoped that the most rigorous measures would be adopted to preserve this beverage wholesome for the benefit of the people who must drink it. Mr. SPRING RICE begged that the honourable member would withdraw his motion till Monday, to give time for notice, to which he acceded. POISONING CATTLE. Colo. SIBTHORPE hed that the government would use every endeavour to put down the disturbances that existed in the country ; he had that day seen a letter which stated, that the incendiaries had begun to poison the cattle of the farmen. SLAVE PROPERTY. Mr. KENNEDY presented a petiiioz;irorit the town of Ayr, praying that the .lave proprietors might receive compensation for their property in ease of the Abolition Bill being carried.—Lid on the table. Lord MORPETH presented a petition from Hull, praying for an alteration in the local courts regarding the recovery of small debts.— Laid on the table. DUTY OX_ COALS. Mr. HODSON presented; petition }tom Neweastie.upon.Tyne, against the duty on coals.--Laid on the table. Sir W. W. WYNN presented a petition from Denbigh, against the truck system. TAXES AND TITNES. Mr. INOLEBY preser7tedaireatlin from farmers in Lincolnshire for a reduction of taxes and tithes. _ _ _ _ Mr. HUMS said that the country was anxious to know what kind of relief the Government meant to give the country. It was impos sible that the farmers could raise the wages of labour with their ex. isting burdens; and there were only two ways that Ministers could ad minister relief—that was a vast reduction of taxation, or by taking off the corn laws. The country effected something great at the hands of Government; and not to be doling out little trifling measures as had been the case with the late Government. Mr. CURTIS approved of the sentiments expressed by the hon. member Me Middlesex. Mr. RUTHVEN remarked that the oppression of the agricul tural interest was, he feared, beyond the reach of Parliament to amend. He had beard it stated that in one district the farmer, besides his rent, was burdened with 21. an acre of rates and taxes ; and it wu impossible that ids land at that rate could remunerate him. Mr. LEADER was surprised that measures had not been devised in the counties to find employment for the labourers. When Ire land was in a state of insurrection, it bad been found that providing employment for the peasantry had been more effectual in restoring them to peace than the most rigorous measures that had previously been adopted. Petition ordered to be printed. Mr. WRIGHTSON presented a petition from Hull, praying for a repeal of the house and window taxes.—Lid on the table. Mr. HODSON presented • petition from Bellingham, in Sussex, praying for Parliamentary Reform and vote by ballot. COLONIAL SLAVERY. Lord MORPETH presented forty.6ve petitions for the abolition of slavery; and a vast number of petitions were presented by other hon. members for tile same purpose. Mr. BRISCOE presented four petitions from parishes in Surrey for the abolition of slavery. Sir ROBERT BATESON presented two similar petitions from Lisburn. Mr. S. LULU LEY presented a similar petition from Mansfield. Mr. 8. RICE presented two petitions from Galway, for the admission of Catholics to the freedom of the corporation. Mr. CAMPBELL presented a petition from Cupar, for the abolition of slavery. Mr. ADRAN presented two similar petitions from parishes in Cam. bridgeshire. Mr. BROWNE presented two petitions from parishes in Mayo, pray. ing that all money granted for education in Ireland might be given to Catholics as well as Protestants. The house adjourned to Monday, at a quarter past nine o'clock. LAW REPORTS. COURT OF JUNO'S BENCH, Ditc. 2. BRACE AND WITS V. SMALL AND LINO. This action was brought to recover damages for the expenses the plaintiff, who is 3 music-seller in Newport.atreet, bad been put to, in consequence of his wife having been run over by a gig, which the de fendants were driving very rapidly down Regent-street. A Life Guardsman said he was at the earner of New Burlington. street, in March last. He saw two persons coming along in a gig; they were driving very hard down Regent -street. He called out, good 00D, pull up ; you'll be over that lady and gentleman t" They took no notice, and flogged the horse. I did not know the lady and gen tleman at the time, but have since learned that it was the plaintiff and his wife. Immediately after I spoke , the lady and ge n t l eman were knocked down. I picked up the lady ; she was very much hurt, and the blood was flying about. The gig went over her. Mrs. R was senseless. I stopped the horse, but they kept on whipping it, and I still kept my hold. Both young men were tipsy. The lady was taken to a chemist's shop. The plaintiff afterwards came out, and got into the gig to see if he could find out where they lived. The defendants asked him to go to a friend's house. Mr. P. Chignon, a chemist, in Regent-street, deposed to the lady being brought to his shop, and that a surgeon was sent for. Mr. Mayo, a surgeon, in George-street, Hanover-square, was pass ing at the time the accident occurred. Attended the lady. Het shoulder was dislocated, her thigh bruised, and her eyebrow cut. Re ceived two guineas for my services. Another surgeon proved that he attended Mrs. Brace rather better than a month, and that she was confined to her bed dnring that period. Mr. Wayte. —Saw the defendant Small and another person the day the accident occurred at my house in Burlington -street. They were all much excited, and I refused to tell Mr. Brace where Small resided. I saw Mr. Brace next day, and told him Small lived in Thavies Inn. Lord TENTZADEN observed there was no evidence against King; the jury would say, therefore, what damages Small ought to pay for the expenses the plaintiff had been put to. The jury immediately returned a verdict against Small, Damages 201. TUZ ICING T. TAYLOR AND OTHER& This was an indictment against the defendants for assaulting and falsely imprisoning a Mrs. Davis. From the evidence of Mrs. Davis it appeared that she and her hus band occupied a cottage In the neighbourhood of Uxbridge, which was claimed l two parties, one of whom, a person named Harman, who was one defendant in the present action, came, accompanied by Taylor, who is a constable, on the 86th May last, and forcibly ejected witness sad her hashand. Taylor also handcuffed them, and placed them in the cage at Uxbridge. Upon crowexamination by Mr. Messiest, the witness admitted, that on the occasion of the defendant's calling at her cottage, gin was sent for; but she denied that while going to Uxbridge she hung upon Tayloisarm, or that she danced or sung on the say. She admitted, however, that they had beer on the road, but s h e d en i e d that she was tipsy ; she also admitted that her husband indicted the defendants at the Sessions, when they were fined 101. Lord TZNTRIDIX suggested to Mr. Thessiger, that it would be ad visable in him to accept of a verdict of guilty against the defendants; and the Court would take care they were nut punished severely upon a second indictment for the same offence. Mr. Tuessioaa acceded to the suggestion of the Court, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against the defendants. Mr. THZIIIIOEII prayed the Court to pass judgment upon the de fendants then. The Court having, by a late Act of Parliament, no power to do so. Lord TENTEIDEN declined doing so, but said the judgment of the Court should be merely nominal. EDWARDS V. ERATTEL. This wu an action upon a Bill of Exchange for 161. It appearing, however, that the date of the bill was altered after its acceptance by the defendant, and without his consent, the Court directed a nonsult. Sunday morning, about nine o'clock, a woman of the town. who wee drank, and NW% s diessebesee In the streets, was taken into enstedy by one ti the semeislise, sod Wsd In Delieara In a shirt ihne after she had been dot up, she eln.mj the keeper by bee violent shrieks, whew it was dheevered that het she, had taught Are, and she was enveisped is awe. The wilimerneate Irma war dreadhillm butst bete die imam riewe ex!htplehed 111 w was Meese. di m l y a m to *A h***l7 where sin eat Ow mew belonged to bl a se - rewre, sad sae enly yews of age.gore oi, other prisoners in the rem whose site was cendued.....Lb er p e s now,. POLICE REPORTS. GVILDNALL.-Mr. Greta, the landlord of the Fountain wine-vaults, in Golden.lane. Mended before Aldermen Venable and Winchester, upon a summons, to answer a complaint of permitting notoriously bad characters to assemble at his house. The complaint arose out of a noted resurrection.man, named Phil lips, being brought before Mr. Alderman Thompson, on Tuesday, on suspicion of stealing a pocket handkerchief from a person, between one and two o'clock in the morning, in this house. The Alderman, learn. ing that the house was constantly open after midnight, was res orted to by persons of bad character, and that the neighbourhood was frequently disturbed in the night by parties who came out of this house, ordered a summons to be issued to the landlord. Tucker, the superintendent of the watch of Cripplegate, deposed that be found 25 persons in the house, between one and two o'clock in the morning on the 29th ult. The h ousei was resorted to by bad charac ters, and was open later than the other houses ; but since the summons had been issued, the defendant had closed at twelve o'clock. His plea had been that be could not live, in consequence of the competition against him, unless be kept open later than the other houses. Mr. Alderman Vawant.za said it was unfair to permit this horse to be open while the rest were closed. Defendant must not live by break ing the law, nor could he be suffered to harbour bad characters till the dead time of the night, theist° go forth right and left and rob the public. Defendant rested upon his closing the door now at 12 o'clock. The magistrate fined him 401. and costs. Quxxx.stattaas.--Charfes Morley was committed to the House of Correction for three months as an impostor, he having pretended to the Rev. Mr. Wool, preceptor to Prince George of Cambridge, that he was deaf and dumb, and produced several forged documents from the Deaf and Dumb Society in recommendation of him. Richard Collins, his wife and four children, were charged with beg ging in the streets. They all exhibited a most ragged and dirty ap. pearance on the outside, but on being uncased they were found to be warm and comfortably clad. On Collins and his wife were found 81,1 s. in gold and silver, besides 16s. fid. in copper halfpennies, and a few pence was found upon the children. They were committed for one month to Coldbath Fields prison, and the Governor was directed to ex. pond it in their support while in prison, and whatever remained, if any, was to be given to them when they were discharged. LAIIIDLTH•ST tier.— William Phillips, a drayman in the employ. meat of the Messrs. Charringtons, ale-brewers ' in the Mile-end-road, was summoned before Messrs. Wyatt and Hardwick, for having wan. tonly overturned a chaise cart with his dray. The complainant, a respectable female, stated that she and another person were in a light chaise, drawn up within three feet of the curb, opposite the Pavilion Theatre, when the defendant, instead of passing on the side where there was room enough for half a dosen drays to drive abreast, drove between the chaise and the curb, and overturned it, throwing herself and the other person out, but, fortunately, neither of them were severely injured. The drayman, in defence, said tbae was not room enough for him to pass, but he was contradicted by a policeman who witnessed the whole transaction. _ _ _ _ -------- Mr. HARDWICK remarked that this was a species of offence for which no Act of Parliament was sufficiently severe. Men in occupations similar to the defendant were but too fond of exercising this description of low street-despotism. To check, if possible, this nuisance by wholesome severity, he should fine the defendant 40a. or commit him to the House of Correction fur one month. :THE LATE STORM -DISTRESS AT GALWAY. We read, with deep regret, the painful accounts of the effects pro. duced at Galway, and on the neighbouring coast, by the late unparal leled storm. The devastation has left desolate t housands of human beings, and they are thrown upon the support of a people whose means are not competent to sustain much additional burthens. The fishing village, called Claddagh, immediately adjoining the town of Galway, has been completely destroyed, and a population of four or five thousand E=. thrown destitute of food and clothing, and the shelter of their on the world. They have not even the means of supplying. by industry, the wants of nature, and they must perish, if they do not ob tain some effectual relief. To those who know the singular integrity and high moral character of these remarkable people, (for they are to this day as distinct a race In many of their habits and opinions, from the surrounding country, as if they belonged to another nation,) this fate is the more deplorable. They are objects of interest, and should be of charity now to all. We. trust, therefore, that some exertions will be made by the:public„ and we think it the duty of the Government to relieve them. These poor men bare had their fishing beats and tackle destroyed, and must become helpless paupers during the remainder of their lives, if some effectual aid be not afforded them to supply these losses. We are gratified to hear that some influential persons have taken up the subject zealously, and we trust they will not relax their efforts until they obtain relief for these unfortunate beings. A meeting of Galway gentlemen, we understand, was held lately, at the office of the Chief Remembrance?, who has much in his power ikom his cha meter with Government ; but as nothing definitive has yet been agreed on, we defer any notice of their plans. Their object is a good one; let them but be zealous, and they must succeed. WRECK OF ,INGTON. We conversed with a friend the other day, who mentioned various affecting circumstances connected with the wreck of this ill-fated vesseL The ledge of rock on which the Mary struck is situated almost close to the land ; but still, from the war of the winds and the waves, the gulf between was fearful to look upon, and resembled, we understand, the appalling turmoil and agitation of the St. Lawrence, immediately un der the falls of Niagara. As the seam* occurred in broad day-light, the beach in the end was limed with& onsiderable number of spectators. and great was their grief, we may about say agony, when they beheld the crew and passengers streteblog flab their hands, and imploring that aid they had not the means of granting. Imminent as was the danger, one individual offered to man a boat, and was joined by a seco n d ; b ut as six men would have been required to give it the least chance to live in such a tremendous surf, the proposal was abandoned, from the impossibility of completing the p number of the forlorn hope. After the main-mast fell over board, the crew cut away the other, in the hope of forming a sort of bridge ; but by some mistake, it fell nearly longitudinally into the sea. Speedily, the Mary began to break up, and, as a last resource, nine persons leaped into the small boat; but it had scarcely le ft the v esse l' s side, when it was seen whirling round, like debris in a whirlpooL A few moments more, and the boat was upset, and those who manned it precipitated into the water; and though five of them succeeded in reaching the shore, there were others who, from weakness were less fortunate, and immediately sunk to:rise no more. One poor fellow, it is said, was seen mounted on the hen-coop, or some other article be. longing to the ship, and bad almost succeeded in reaching the shore; but alas ! alas ! at the very moment be considered himself beyond the reach of danger, and when the spectato r s were stretching their arms to re ceive him, the recoil of the waters carried him out to sea, and wrenched even from the grasp of despair the article to which he_ had trusted for safety, and which was traced a mile in the distance and more, long after the unfortunate man had yielded to his fate. A rope attached to a piece of wood was floated to the,thore, seised by the spectators, and tied round the mate, who immedistelyidescended the vessel's side But while buffeting his way it occurred to those on board that he was about to desert them, and who from despair actually held him between the ship and the shore till he was nearly drowned. Thus hampered he took out his knife, cut the rope, and, fatigued as he was, swam to the shore, but so far was he from resenting the treatment he had met with, he exerted himself to the utmost in saving his companions. The 86 head of cattle mentioned in our last had been loosened in the hope that some of them at least mightswim to shore ; but of the whole num. bee not one escaped alive. The 37 recovered were sold very cheap, some at 15s. and others at es. exclusive of the hide, and though rather lean they bled freely, and will prove an acceptable mart t o i n d ustr i ous householders.—Lhemfries Courier. ATTACK ON THE VILLAGE OF MAGHERY, COUNTY ARMAGH. The subjoined details of this extraordinary outrage may be relied es as authentic t On' Friday, 19th, a small party of Protestants belonging to the County of TyMne, proceeded through Maghery to a place called the Banfoot, where they remained all night, in consequence, it is said, of the storm which came on. They bad a drum and fife or two with them, which they played along the road. The next day, Saturday, they again pasted through Maghery on their way homeward. The people of the village are chiefly Popish, but it does not appear that any offence wee either given or taken, until themarty were called on by one of the inhabitants day;" wee construed Mum an offence. and the musk, in consequence, liegan playing Croppies lie down" or some such tune. The party were immediately attacked by a number of person% overpowered, beaten, their drum broken, and they themselves *Bpi t• fly, many of them without their hats ; in this coo. dition they wen seen by a gentleman of the neighbourhood. It is much to be regretted that they did set at this period sett to the law for re. dress, Instead el &dards' the amuse which they airman's did. On the morning of Minim a large beds of nee crossed the Siackwater from Tyson., the sell gale of Vasses-bridge, awl feistiest to biagbery, is gas the ausisse of Col. Versa, who ass thous ea the reed, and thus, lead read the riot act, which safesusately be bad net maim el/ se Wets; at ens plied the allent-Cekisel was in aessayillos fellow bowie g estually pasted a brad pie at him. He soesseded to a mak mum in steppe" she= s l part of than se they entered the !Mtge, bet a umber erg, rams, variously snood, siedallin by Uhl% though 51y611:143 paraded to dolsey the hews whist' use deemed the Mishits —windows sad dues Nis dashed in, crest esy tad shoe Ilarniture smashed, wissinhappesek Oa one hruesso) mousy seeded away s mu m p s was sub so us the so ass sr two hawse, but with. out sans It is tousehuble that in we pal& house thg the l i t u ers without apassiabg to owe pee vans assuti c a m wousitsi per the eye by a fereeises pang Oath' with a rusty bosses, std nue of the kw poem remathies hi the place were knocked down with butt ends of muskets—and guns a , stated to have been snapped at persons making their escape. Hari ng thus wreaked their vengeance, the assailants made off into the county Tyrone again, beating a drum as they left the village, to collect stragglers, Bte. On Thursday a numerous meeting of Magistrates was held at th e place to investigate the particulars of the affair, and take such steps as justice demanded. It is hoped government will offer a reward sufficient to procure the identifieation of the offenders—it can hardly fail of sucs needing where so many were concerned. A feeling appeared to prevail among these misguided depredator., that it was in vain for a Protestant to seek redress from the:laws ; in fact, that he might be assailed and hunted down as fair game, provided it could be shown be was whistling the " Boyne water,' or keepinr time to a fife committing the same high treason. In truth, w e h at e a recollection of a decision made, once upon a time, in the county of Antrim, not quite calculated to do away th at feeling. Let us not be for a moment understood, however, as encouraging any such feeling, or attempting to palliate the outrage which we hare de. tailed ; on the contrary, we sincerely desire that justice may orertike the guilty ; but we cannot help wishing that the conciliation sygt en , had not been carried (at lean all at once) to the inquisitorial extent it has been; but that the gentlemen of the country had been permitted t , retain that salutary influence possessed by them among the 'ow n classes of Protestant*. Under their guidance and good sense party spirit was rapidly losing its asperity, and would, by degrees, have beer softened totally away—but unhappily the ties which united them ha,, been ruddy snapped asunder, confidence has been banished, and tins. rule and anarchy are the sad results. SCINTILLAS. The Coraaire contains the following poetical arrangement of the new English hi inibtry : •' President, Lord Lansdowne ; Premier, Lord Compte Grey ; Scour Prive, Lord Durham ; Lord d'lrlande, Anglesey ; A l'lnterieur, Melbourne ; au Controle, Sir Grant ; Chambellan, Devonshire ; a la Monnale, Auckland; A PEchiquier, Althorp ; Lord Chancellor, Brougham; Stranger, Palmerston ; Lord Admiral, Graham."' • The Author obser♦es that in English Brougham and Graham Air e ♦ery well, since the former is pronounced " Broume" and the lane: " Gretne." [This is a fair specimen of the inaccuracy of the French Journals upon English affairs.] It is said that Marshal Soult has strange hours for trans. ,acting business, and we have no doubt his habits must prove rather an. noying to place-hunters. The Marshal makes appointment for four o'clock in the morning with those who request to have audiences._ Paris paper. The Marshal has more than once shown a weak auh•or. viency to public opinion ; but he is not a fool or a coxcomb, and the re gulation here alluded to would imply that he was both. We are goat advocates for early rising ; but we never knew a very early riser who ua s not asleep, either phy.ically or mentally, half the day—Tiaws. Chassee, the celebrated French singer, presenting himself lone evening at the door of the Comedic Frimealle, without his admik. sion ticket, was refused entrance. " Sir, " said be pompously to th e door-keeper, " 1 ant Massie, from the O pera." " Very well," replied the man, " and now you are chass4* (driven away) from the Corned e Francalse," at the same time shutting the door in his face. BIRDS OF A FRATIIRR.—In a parish not a hundred miles from Edinburgh, the following ornithological match took place which set the whole neighbourhood in a Rutter. Miss Henrietta, Pea. cock was espoused to Mr. Robin Sparrow, by the Rev. Mr. Lore; the bridesman being Mr. Philip Hawk, and the bridesmaid Bliss Lerkittr. The marriage lines were extracted by Mr. John Crow, session-clerk. TRACING • DESCENT.—Sir Richard Arkwright used pleasantly to observe, that the common notions of the modern origin of his family were very incorrect; " for, " he would say. " I can plainly prove, on the best of all authorities, that Noah was the founder of our family, for be was undoubtedly the first ark-toriphi in the world !" BIBLICAL LORI.—At a recent discussion on some points in biblical history, it happened to be remarked, that there was no ac count of the death of Eve. " Nor of Adam either," said one of the company. " I beg your pardon," replied a religious lady, who began to think there was too much scepticism in these remarks, " if you read your Bible carefully, you will find it stated that Adams eras gather. : to his fortifathars."—Literary Gametic. It is somewhat curious—and we are surprised that it has not been before remarked—that nearly all the painters lived to an ad. vanced age. Spenello was nearly 100: Carlo ilignani 91 . • Bitched Angelo 90; Leonardo da Vinci 75; Calabresi 88 ; Claude Lorraine 1l2; Carlo Marotta 88; Tintoretti 82 ; Sebastian Ricci 78; Francesco Al bano 88; Guido 611'; Domino 76 ; John Baptist Crespi 76 ; Giu• seppe Crespi 82 ; Carlo Dolor 70; Andrew Sacchi 74 ; Zuccharelli Sts ; Vernet 71 • Schidone 76. The list might be considerably extended.— Ailienentsi;. Titian died aged 99. MA RRI AG Es.—lt appears by the marriage returns or dered to Parliament, that ' are much less frequent in the agri culturaldistricts than in the mama turing. In Hereford, the of the population are 1 to 170 ; Monmouth, 1 to 154 ; Northum I to 145 ; Rutland. I to 148; Shropshire. 1 to 165 ; Sussex,l to 151: WHIN 1 to 145; Worcester, 1 to 143; &sex, 1 to Irk ; Dorset, Ito 150, b.c. In Middlesex, the proportion is Ito 106; Lancashire, 1w 126 ; Warwickshire, 1 to 128 ; West Riding of lork, 1 to 131. IRISH Iwo EN UIT Y.—One of the most wretched looking among the motley group of beggars imported into this city last Sunday by the Bristol steamer, dropped his shillelah, a few hours alter leaving Bristol, into the engine-room. It having come in contact, in its de.- vent, with the pericranium of one of the firemen, he became exceeding wroth, and was about to consign the innocent sapling to the flames. when his intention was arrested by a voice as loud as the bellowing ni an enraged bull. Pat threatened to throw the Englishman after the stick if he put his threat into execution ; this menace was near adding " fuel to the fire," when Paddy, seeing the rising choler of the fireman. changed his notes, and, in the mildest accents of entreaty, besought him for the love of Gov and the blessed Virgin" not to destroy the only support of his weak and feeble frame. The Englishman was ap peased, and, after a few hearty curses on Paddy's stupidity and care lessness, banded up the stick. A gentleman who witnessed the 'nye suspected, from the pauper's anxiety about the sldllelah, that sonic 'r aft was connected with it; he examined It, and, to the surprise at .d amusement of the spectators, found conceale:l in its hollowed Interior 3 sovereign and a half sovereign. Fur Pat's ingenuity in outwitting t h e Bristol overseers, who paid for his passage, a few gentlemen on board increased the treasure, by contributing amongst them another half v. vereign.—Waterford " There is many a slip Between the cup and lip." We never remember a more striking instance of the truth of ti , .• adage, than in a cue that lately occurred at ltlarcham, in Oaten!. shire. It arose out of a mortgage of a genteel cottage, garden. &e. The mortgagee had disposed of his interest in the poperty to a gentk man, to whom he was indebted (*Lon a note of hand. This gt tide• man, who is by profession a lawytr, foreclosed the mortgage. do and endeavoured to obtain possession, which being enlisted by the niortga• gee, he proceed to an action of ejectment, which was undefended at the late Midsummer suites, and a verdict obtained by the plaintiff; 1c whom nothing now remained to be dune bat to await the return of tic writ, and to take ion. The oth of No vem b er at l engt h arrived this was the art7C l ar moment— but alas ! on Friday, the sth. d'e defendant, with five workmin from Oxford, commenced the work e: demolition; and such was "the law's delay," for lawytn cannot al• ways expedite their own business, that the defendant had time to take out all the floors, beams, and joists, the windows and doors, to break t the pavement of the bous e , a nt to deal all away befote the arrival e: the writ. We unde r st a nd this novel measurehas been under:alto 1 legal advice, and there has been considerable speculation as to the final result. The Tißies calls the Irish " a demagogue-ridden race. and speaks of the chance of the Anti-Orion phrtnay driving them to open insurrection. What i s i t t h at r id es the twiglish machine breaker.. and house burners, at this moment ? We find, by the statement of slit Rev. Thomas O'Grady; Catholic Curate of St. John's, Limerick, this in that single parish there are at present t‘ upwseds of 10,0110 indivi. .duals in a state of starvation." The starvation these people endure Is not the English starvation ; it Is not straightened alma ot subsittect; it is notweek ; it is not a putting up with potatoe merely, but a total want ot all food whatever, and an equal want of clothing. We do not Snd that these people are breaking into insurrec tion ; we do not find they are destroying either houses cc machines , to that the power which rides them does not push hs exploits fat into " the regions of darkness" as the power which has taken pos 9 t o i' n of the fat and brawny backs of the English house burners and tuarbint• breakers.—.Dubliik 41forwing Reside*. BIRTH. At Woolwich, the lady of D. /ago, Fag. Royal Horse Artillery. of a Boa. At Kirkeudbeioht, on the SAth DEATHS. aIts Mn.s Margaret Gordon, p° w. W. Ireland, Req. Of Harbey.—At St. Cloud, on the 30th ult. kg Y , the wallet ot.G a pe. Its Outlaw, late et the lMadan Critralty _At r willlant Swarm Wettletold, a Ldeutessat la lbw ad mot . N• t,•° I. —At .Caltle•Douglas, the 26 t h into. Mt. Thomas Hallai n Y , swim, sled 64. PENH WATZR AT LONDON' IitUDGI TO•HQIitOW IL 14. Waft .4 5111 Aft4m44ll Lemion: Primed mg Yoblisbod by Joao NAT'L woes STAI* Orme, No. 1, Piekob.plaoo, TooploPfa•