The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-12-10 00:00:00

TICE. STATE s' . _ . A meeting took place yesterday evening (Friday, 6th irstont), a short distance below .13ray, betwees I'. Fee grtson and Gabriel Stokes, Esqrs., when after en ca. ei‘arre of shots, the business terminated amicably. N.rwrons Carmichael and Kerin attended professionally. --(Dublin Freeman's Journal). DlNucnon, Dec. 6.—Between twelve and one o'clock yesterday 1110111 - 1111(, a fire broke out in the premises of the University Printing Office, Villafield, Glasgow, stitch had at first an alarming appearance, but was hap p:ly subdued before doing any material damage. ANOTHER AIATRIMONIAL FREAC—A farmer in the north country had two daughters. A young man paid his addresses to the younger. Papa wished to dispose of the elder first, but the youth continued steadfast in his Veniality. lye was verbally . married to the younger; but deceitful hymen placed la his arms the lady intend ed for bins by his too prawn father-is-law, and it is said that he did not discover the mistake instil the fol. leering moruing.—(Edinbargle Star.) We hare this week the pleasure to announce, that the dispetes which have lately subsisted between the keel men All the Tyne rod their employers, are approAching theiraernileation. On Thursday the Stella, sratlVl4ker keelmen resumed their work as usual, and vecerakkeeltuen from the miter collieries came down for tue purse of taking empty keels up to the respective wanks. these am as well u all those belonging to Wiillbettle colliery, were 'greed to resume their work as .raiday (yesterday) storming. -- (Newcastle hruriele,Mee 7.) ;P :: ~,,i 3 THE HURRICANE. --Am.— (rem vna DUBLIN LYININO POST Or SATURDAY. On Thursday evening about five o'clock, the wind somewhat about S.A.W. one of the most dreadfnl hurri canes, perhaps ever remembered in Dublin, earns on, fortunatly its extreme violence did not continue much more than two hours, during which time the mischief that has been done in Dublin and its vicinity is incalcu- I able—we regret to add that by the falling of chimneys and houses, several lives have been lost. We partici'• tarty hri to call the attention of the public to the case of Mr. Elliott, of Sackville-street, who, by this awful visitatin• , has been deprived of a child and an aged and infirm aunt, and the entire of his stock in trade, consist ing of .cabinet work, &c. destroyed. As yet we have re ceived no accounts from the distant parts of the country of any mischief having been done ; it is somewhat sin gular that on the same night in 1821, a most dreadful tempest was experienced in Dublin and its neighbour hood. We proceed to lay before our readers a few of the casualties that have occurred. Between b and 9,, a house was blown - down in Cam den-street ; it was at first rumoured that the whole of the finally were buried beneath the ruins. The police repaired to the spot, and discovered that the house be longed to C. Keogh, cabinet-maker ; the family, five in number, providentially escaped by the back premises into Mr. Singer's garden. Mr. Keogh, when aware 'that his house was falling, luckily flung a quantity of water on the fire, and thus prevented, in all probability, another ralawity ; he narrowly escaped, however, for in one moment after he quitted the tottering mansion, it fell in with a terrific crash. Two large trees were tern up by the roots, near aft Bleeding Horse, Portobello. The house, No. 5, in Aungier-street, was rocked like a creole, for a considerable time, in an astonishing man ner, the front wall at length gave war, and the upper and garret floors were unmasked, much to the terror of the flying inhabitants. The parapet wall of the house, 20, Great Ship-street, was driven across the street, and broke down the railing on the other side of the way. Several chimneys were broken down in tl,e Police Barracks, Kevin-street, which suffered considerable da mage ; the slates and glass were also driven furiously about, and a watch-box in the barrack-yard. wherein the inhabitant took refuge (ruin the elements, was, touch to his consternation, forced on a considerable distance, and overturned. A stack of chimneys was forced through the roof and flooring of Mritobinson's house, No. 8, Inn's-quay. and some of the bricks and rubbish found their way down even to the cellar.--The house, 75, Pill-lane, was blown down. A wall fell in Mass-lane, and a bricklayer, named Travors, was nearly buried under it ; his leg was mach injured. The roof of Mr. Ilutchinson's hosse,'Henrietta-street, fell in • the coachman received considerable injury. Mr. Field's house, on the Coombe, was blown in, and a woman hurt. A forge was carried away in Watling-street. Several chimneys were blown down in Saukville-street, and some individuals injured by the falling of slates and bricks. Between live and six o'clock, the chimney of Mr. lliott's house, Saukville-street, Britain-street, was forced through the centre of the house and into the kitchen, when,melancholy to relate, a son of Mr. Elliott's, four years old, and • female, aged from seventy to eighty, were both killed.—The house, No. 33, Essex-street. was entirely blown down ; also a home near the Bleeding Horse. Mr. Anderson's chimney and trees in Love-lane, we'll blown down and scattered in various directions. . Mr. Jackson's boom, No. 110, Grafton-steer!. wen forced.'during the tempest; by robbers, and s desicori* other articles, taken. The upper part of Dunn's public house, Na. 1, Aston's-quay, was blown down by the violence of tits storm. At four o'clock the Royal Sovereign steam-boat,Capt. Skinner, arrived at Howtli, just before the storm bertaine most terrific. The mail coach conveying the hags pro ceeded to town with great difficulty ; and the heavy coach with passengers just lauded from England, lefth !lowa, about six o'clock, on its way to town, and having pro ceeded two miles, the coachman was obliged t• halt, and return to flowth, having been nearly overturned. About four o'clock, a large ship put into Howth, and came to anchor in that harbour ; she was not long there when she was driven from her anchors out to sea, and is supposed to have foundered. The largest trees in Lord Charleitiont's &mei, wire dragged from their beds, and nearly all the cabins between Howlh and Clontarf, bear melancholy tokens of devasta tion. Considerable damage has been done to teeny houses and persons lathe Liberty gallon the Quays. The copper sheet ing of thedome over the Hall of the Four Courts was raised and cut in many places by the wind. Two caravans on their way from Naas to Dublin were overturned by the tempest. a tid• poor man blown into the Liffey about six o'clock. The fir es were blown about so at various bakeries in town, that many bakers desisted from their work, which caused some sear city of bread in many parts of the city yesterday. Many vessels were forced from their moorings in Klegstowu har bour, fire' to r d oo driven to blown sea. off the Pollee-office at Rie.nehards town„ and the spire of Cionsillash Church also. TWO large trees, and a part of the demense-wall of Sir Compton Domenic, fell about eight o'clock across the road, and completely stopped up all passage for some time. The mail coach fur Drogheda, &c. fortunately escaped without injury, through the attendance of Peace-officer Cahill and party. The guard was compelled to order the conch to be driven back, and they were obliged to take the Coolock road. Two houses were blown down, and several unroofed, at eremite, about five o'clock. Several stacks of hay were broken up from the hag gards, and scattered about in all directions. Church-street watch-house afforded an asylum to 1 many of the inhabitants of that neighbourhood for a considerable time. During the gale, Mr. Henry's house, 9, Upper Gardi ner-street, was robbed of a considerable number of arti ' cles, plate, a gold watch, and wearing apparel. Two trees were blown down in the Rotunda Gardens, Into Cavendish-row. Two walls in George's-street and Grenville street were prostrated. A small house in Denmark-street was demolished, and the corner house of Moore-street much injured. Four houses were de stroyed by the :wind in Mecklenburg's-street, the pro perly of Mr. Booker. The roofs of several houses, many windows and lamps in Saukville-street, and the North side of the town generally, were greatly dm , 'staged. A lamp-lighter was blown from Ida ladder. is Cumberland-street; at first he seemed to have born killed, but he is reported to be better. The gas was very generally extinguished throughout Dublin, and many of the street lamps blown out and shattered ; the iron rivets were, in some places, torn away, and the lamp irons broken. , It became indispensable to close tbe shops throughout Dublin, at an unusually early hour, and few ventured to brave the storm, that had local habitations. At Kingstown, one of the crew of the Richmond Re venue Cruiser, was blown into the water, while (with others who had been on shore) returning to his I. Shortly afterwards the Richmond, with other ls, was driven from her moorings as far as the Floating Light, (called „ The Kish;" she returned to the harbour at two o'clock yesterday. The bowsprit of the Ro)sl George cruiser was carried away, and part of the faeTtsg of the New Pier, at Kingstown, was demolished. •=The old Wall at the "fir of the late Theatre of Ana tomy, in the College-Park, came crumbling down at eight o'clock, and twenty-one trees; some of rather a stout description, were laid low. A hackney-coach driver, passing through Stephen's green, a as forced down between lals horses, one of %Melt falling over him, injured the pour man very much in the head. THE LATE STORM TRURO, Dec. 6.—Laet evening and the whole of last night it blew a tremendous gale from the S. W. It has moderated a little this morning ; we have not as yet heard of any damage being sustained slung our coast ; the shipping in Falmouth harbour rode out the storm in safety. Wsuwice, Dec. 7.—The weather, during most part of the present week, has been extremely inclement and variable, and on Thursday night, it was accompanied with one of the most dreadful gales of wind we ever re member to have experienced ; in fact, it blew a perfect hurricane. In this town and neighbourhood, its effects were widely felt ; scarcely a roof has escaped some damage, more or less ..xtensive, and ,many windows have been nearly shattered to pieces by the fury of the blast. LEERS, Dec. 7.—On Thursday night list a violent storm of wind attended at intervals by rain and anew, prevailed here for several hours ; bnt from midnight to three o'clock in the morning it blew a perfect hurricane. The damage • done in this neialibuni hood is not very considerable, except that a new build:ne, near Spring Gardens, in an unfinished state, belonging to Mr. Cal vert, dyer, was so much injured by the storm, as to be reduced almost to a ruin. STORM is YORK.-10 the night of Thursday last, we experienced a torm of wind, snow, and rain, which continued till four or five o'clock on Friday morn ing. The following, however, was the principal mis chief occasioned thereby :—a part of the line spire of North•street Church was blown down, the stones of which forced, by their weight, through the roof—several of the large trees on the new walk were forced up by the roots, and some few of the chimnies in the city were a little den/aged. NewcasThe Dec. 7.—The weather for the last ten days, though occasionally 'doing, has, on the whole, been very tine fur the season ; but on Thursday evening after a fine day, a violent storm of wind and snow set in from the S. E. which it is to be feared, will prove to have been very disastrous at sea. BRISTOL, Dec. 9,—This City and neighbourhood ex perienced ou Thursday night one of the most tre meridians gales of wind front the S. W. that we have ever remembered. We fear we shall be informed of the damage that must have been sustained in the Channel. We bear from the Guards of the Birmingham and Oxford mails, that the roads and fields as they passed, were strewed with trees and branches. Irtantmenr DCBTORI Acr.—A numerous and res pectable meeting of the merchants, manufacturers, tra ders, and others, inhabitants of Knaresborough, took place at the Stssion's House, on Monday the 2nil pursuant to general requisition, to consider the pro priety of petitioning Parliament for the total repeal of the above art. Mr. John Foster was unanimously call ed to the Chair, and he dwelt with great perspicuity on the intolerable evils attendant on the operation of this Act, to the trading interests of this kingdom ; through this Act, the Chairman ob d, " Commercial cotifi attice was rapidly approaching to decay, whilst, at the NW time, a moral geld of iniquity way opened. in the perpetration of the most deplorable perjury and fraud-1 the advocates of the Bill came forward on a principle of mistaken feeling.aat variance with every clay's observe,- I fins aatlpractice—for the real and proper objects of Winaireratione Onvito be fount — not amongst the weeny persecuted debtors, but amongst the suffering and almost despairing creditors, who probably had de nied themselves and families, many, and perhaps even necessary indolgencies, in support of their exertions — men who would scorn to contract the most trilling debt, without being conscientiously satisfied of their ability M discharge it at the proper period : and yet, through the machinery of this Act, were left without any legal security for the protection of their honest industry."— l'After much general information hail been elicited, the -Meeting resolved unanimously. to petition Parliamen t through their Representatives, the Bight Hon. George Tierney and Sir James Mackintosh, for a total repeal of the Bill.—(Yorkshire Gerzeite) Several stands of arms have been lately taken by the different r to of the county of Cork • Whiteboys in ---ient parts _ ..ntv at in two Owes Tithe-Corn lies been destroyed by ineen- diaries: Last week, some gooseberries, of the size of peas, being a second produce, were taken from the open ground, in the garden at Morecambe Lodge, near Len- caster. A few days since, a very fine hedge strawberry was gathered in the neighbourhood of Kingabridge, Devon. It measured 11 inches round, Was quite ripe, and had an excellent flavour; there were. ten or twelve heads of blossom on the same sprig. At an auction sale of farming stock, last week, on the premises of Mr. Rayner, in the parish of Sazilby, near Lincoln, 2 good working mares were sold, one for 2 guineas, the other for 2/.; a stack.of hay, about 30 tons, for 301.; a good broad-wheeled cart for 255.: a market cart for 23.. a good pair of cum., capable of carrying two tons, for 235. soothe r excellent pair fur 4/. ; 2 good plough., one for IL 6s. the other for It. 45.; 2 new lad ders, cost 31.35. and 21.2.., for 7s. 0.1. and Si. 641. ; and a quatitityof other articles at the same rate, without any collation between the sellers and buyers. —(Staniord News.) The show of fat cattle for the premiums offered by the Highland Society of Scotland. it will be seen, is fixed for Thursday the 26th inst. at Queensberry House. An annual exhibition of stock has Wog been established in London and Dublin, but it is quite new in this metro polis, and is expected to create great inters.!, In con sequence of this show, a supply of excellent meat will be afforded to our market at Christmas. We are in formed that the Committee, to whom the regulation of details has been committed by the society intend to make arrangements for admitting the public to see the prize stook, for which the excellent accommodation in the enclosures at Queensberry House hill Alford great facility.—(Ediabstres Star.) MURDER ix Have Partal—Sioce Saturday night the greatest alarm has been excited at the west end of the town, in consequence of the discovery of the body of a gentleman in the Serpentine River, Hyde Park, with the throat cut in a most horrible manner, supposed to have been done by robbers, as no property as found upon Aim, except one bad sixpence, a pair of spectacles in a case, and a pocket comb. There was a quantity of blood about 30 yards from the spot where he was loon I in the river, and drops of blood upon the ground along that distance, as if he had been dragged thither. This was the cause of the discovery, the river being in consequence dragged, when the body was found about 20 yards from the shore. There was a deep cut across the deceased's chin, and his knuckles were also cut, which indicated that he had made cousiderable resistance. He appeared to be about 60 years of age, was a very stout powerful man, fresh coloared, and well dressed in a dirk frock coat, black silk waistcoat, light coloured kersey , mere small clothes, worsted stockings, high and' boots and gaiters, but there was nothing about him to lead to a discovery of who he was. Information has been given t to the Coroner to hold an inquest on the body. o.riaiiii*OlOU'elOgV/ 4 q#" *ll FORMATION OF A NEW SOCIE g Y FOR THE 111FROFIEVIIHT OY TNIWATRRIIN ATLI OTHRRS OF THE LABOLRINO CLASSES ENO•ORD ONTHE RI% EHTUAN,q. Yesterday evening a leery nnmerens zed reepeet- hie f.eti ng was held at the 'reit roost of the City of Lon don Tavern, fo► the purpose of considering what were the best memos of improving the 11 ititual and temporal condition of the ‘Vatermen, Lightettnen; Harcemen, Firemen, and others engaged upon the ricer Thames. The room was completely tilled; and the platform wits crowded by persons connected with the shipping in terests in the river ; a number of firemen wtte also con epic amts. Sheriff and Alderman THometuar, was nnenimensly called to the Chair, and he in a neat speech stated the object of the Meeting, which was to aVord those facili ties for the promotion of Christian knowledge atucepst a most numerous class (namely, those through whose labours the great commerce of the river had been carried on) that had been given to other ci whose claim• could not he placed in competition with those of the labourers on the ricer, whose deplorable ignorance and irreligion was only equalled by their temporal distress, which might be said to be the necessary consequence of their state of darkness. An Address to the Meeting was read by a Gentleman ; and The Rev. Mr. SMITII. of Penzance, addressed the Meeting at great length, in behalf ut the class. 'fh•• body ofinen in who.. ma•lef amorep to the sympathy . of the Meeting was male, nted to npwards of 9,11011, mostly with large families; and it was greatl y to he lamented, that no direct means had been employ nt to moralize a set of men, many of whom exhibited do. privity, deep and wide spreading, as the river they navigated. It was proposed to establish a Free SchO n, fur the clothing and education of their children ; a•td, when precticable, to establish an Asylum for these of the Watereten, who were past labour. In particular ;t would be an object of the Society to procure the aboli tion of the practice of letting boats on hire, withnot Watermen to accompany them, to young men, whose lives were frequently lost by their ignorance of the management. If this object were effected, tench of that shameful and systematic violation of the sabbatli, of the river, would be abolished. A string of Resolutions for the formation of a 5..- ciety, and the nomination of • Committee, were agreed to. A liberal subscription was made, and at alont half-past ulna o'clock the Meeting upended highly gratified. SPORTING INTELLI6ENCE4 • BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S—Dm 9. Grum —l3 to 2 apt c, out of Emily-9 to 1 asst Tells man-10 to I asst c. out of Web-10 to 1 oast c. out of Folly-200 to 9 agst Sir Win. Milner's c. oAill.-13 to 2 agst f. out of Zsids— 17 to 2 apt sr t) Suttao-9 to I apt sr to sallor-9 to legit f. out of Oliver. to • Spa Moses. DONCASTEII Lute.-1U to 1 agst Miss Fanny, by Walton-10 to I apt Sherwood. S Curia.—Hr. Morrison, of Tooting, end Capt. Jaques, a bold rider of the Farley Hunt, started yesterday from Moekey, le cross the country to Beggar's Bush, Sur rey, shoat 14 miles.-11r. Morrison rode the Rage mare. bought of Mr. Forrester : and Capt. Jacques rode a hog* belonging to Mr. Brown, the fastest of the Farley Hunt .M.. Morrison reached home ten minutes before his °payment, in 42 minutes, the Captain's horse having received a alight hurt in the fetlock joint. It was for 80 guineas aside. $a2222 SHOOTING. — Mr. Matheson, of Royston Abbey, undertook on Saturday to kill 49 birds, partridges and phea sants, in 90 shots, over tqo teasers is Suits. It was alto gether a novel match, as It was to be performed in one day. sod the ground for operation befog so condoed. that birds got off the manors, and were obliged to be sprang by dogs to get them in. This !eft Mr. Matheson no alterative but to shoot at uncertain birds, and in so doing he was best. He lilted nine brace of partridges, and a leash of pheasants, making 91 only le the 16 shots. Lord Donner had nearly met with a fatal accident at °rots Park, skate pheasant shooting commenced. Dyke, the game keeper discharged his piece at a bird. withnut observing his Lo rdship, who was approaching in the direction io whims the gun went off, but was concealed from him by a large tree; part of the contents of the gum lodged in his Lord ship's chest, but we are happy to say he is rapidly recover ing, and is deemed oat of danger. On Saturday night last, as Batemao, one of the Doke of Buckingham's keepers. sod two assistants, were on the !cots out for poachers. they detected three men near Paper Mitt Spinney, a preserve near Stowe. in the set of poaching, having set a gate net. They attacked Bateman and his as sistants stop despirately, and entirely disabled the two as sistants. They al•o wounded Bateman, who Melees followed them as far as Buffer's liolt, in the hope of there getting some assistance to apprehend them; hut sot being able to proms any, he then gave up the pursuit. Tao poachers have not yet been discovered. Bateman was so much injured. as to he obliged to keep his bed till Thursday ; his assistants were not so seriously hurt. On Saturday se'nnigth, -- Schofield, one of the gamekeepers of the Marchioness of Hertford, at Temple- Newsam, was setting two spridg guns, connected witb, each oilier, when he accidentally trod on the wire, ani immediately received the contents io his face and thigh. The wounds are sever', bat not sufficiently so as to en danger his life. The adoption of these murderous engines, after the calamitous accidents which have so often been occasioned by them, ought severely to be de precated. What is the loss of a whole preserve of game, compared with the sacrifice of the li single human being.? • Beckett, the poor bird-keeping boy, wantonly shot In the face, near Heston. is to be placed to so es trade. Sixty pounds are subsetibed for him. Tu the on man. Bell, who. took care of Neste. eve pounds have been given. A dreadful fire broke out on Friday asewning,betweem fonr and five &clack, at Southinead Farm house. be tween llorfield and Westbury, about three miles from, this city, which extensive premises (occupied by Mr- Young and two or three other tenants) with nearly the whole of the household furniture, dead stock, &c. were completely destroyed, in about three hours. An :tiaras being given in this city, the Bristol Crown and Nor wich Union Fire Engines were immediately despatched. with the greatest activity, hut notwithstanding • very plentiful supply of water, it had very little effect upar• the devouring element, the wind being extremely lii';`t.; The fire is supposed to have originated id' a - chimney. which was on fire the evening before, and through which a beam was fixed. We understand that the property was not insured. Southoreml Honse was formerly • gen tleman's mansion, but has been for many years occu pied as a farm-house.—(Bristol Herrn r i About half-past twelve o'clock on last Wednes !ate morning, an alarming fire broke out on the malt house of 'Arises. W. E. and T. Humphrey Brewers, of :Vestgiti, Chichester ; but four engines and a host of assistance bring quickly on the spot, the AMC': were subsided, after the destruction of the malt-honse and a quantity of malt, amounting altogether in value, it has been said, to about 6001. It was occasioned by the carelessness of the malster. EASTBOURNE, DEC. 7. 1822.—0 n IVednesday evening a man of the Coast Blockade, while conveying a box of letters from this place to Berlin Gap, unfortunately fell over the Cliff, a height of near 3011 feet, near to Holy well, when strange to relate, he escaped with only 4 , fracture of one of the small bones of his arm, though the box containing the letters was literally dasli,i to atoms. It tieing low water and the night very d :he Win was directed to go under the Cliff, it being ti. mare safe, but contrary to the directions be went over the bill. - 11 4 o , * -~ - ~-- - IIIEfAND. Stitt OP TIC Cot NTRT.--FrOM a letter received in town f ro m ' highly tespectable gentleman in the county Clare, we ettraet•the following description of the present state of the poor la that country, and alarming anticipation of further and " gr anted distress You'll find the distress of last year nothing to what will von be experienced by all ranks of people. There was 'Army of provisions, mad there is plenty; but what avails it Shen there is On employment ter the working people, and without money there are incapable of purchasing at the ;west rates. The public works have been all stopped—in .teed, itis Impossible to go on with them in such weather.— The poor are almost naked ; their houses stripped and open ; 'turf scarce and dear, and, I think, every thine going to ruin uith ea—even the constitution :.but still I hope to see better is."—(lleffitst News Letter.) TIPPER %EY TITHE MEETING.—We were in error. then we said in our int, that the Sheriff had de t!ined convening the county of Tipperary. That (Ow has not yet given his answer to the Requi• sitioniste. We know not how he may act ; but, certainly, when the Reader peruses the list of names subjoined to t he lteenkition, lie pill feel. to say no more, considera ble snrprise, if the Sheriff decline convening the county.—(Peblia Even. Post, Pee. 5.) SLIOO ELECTION.—On Toestlay,the contest for the re. presentation of this county, between the lion. Colonel King sad Colonel Ferceeal, terminated by the resign'. ton of the latter. Colonel King will this day bedeclared elected. On Monday night the majority for Colonel was 112 ; and on Teesday, at the close of the FBI, there woe an accession to that number, but to what extent we have not yet ascertained. During the contest (and it was a severe and stormy one) the respectable eindidates never for a moment lost sight of that urba nity of monster, and that politeness of deportment to ward' each other, which become them as gentlemen and rivals in pursuit of a prund and• honourable distinction ,monist their fellow conntrymen. Notwithstanding the example exhibited to the great body of the people, Ire are sorry to say that oar town has been disgraced by s everal riots, one of which became so formidable on :%lomhay last, in front of the hustings, that the military were compelled, in their own defence, to fire upon the rabble; happily, however, without producing any in. pm—(Sligo Joirrhal of Wednesday.) the above contest was a trial of strength bettrems the friends and opponents of Catholic Emancipation, and the farmer have prevailed. Cote, Dec. 3.—On Sunday night, Lieut. Swayne, of the half-pay establishment, being at supper, at the Bush •Ine, at Middleton, had some altercation wit In 2l'Car:by, the owner of the house, who in a fit of ungo• sernable passion, went from the apartment in which Mee bath were, prosared a gun or pistol, with which be fired at Mr. Swayne, and wounded him, it is feared, mortally, io the groin. Lieut. Swarm was alive at nine o'clock this morning, though in extreme danger.— M'Carthy has, we understand, absconded. A hotelier named John Manning, has been tried and found vase for en assault on and biting the ear off a man owned Taylor. The gatekeeper of John Hyde, Esq. M. P. was at tacked by an armed gang, consisting of eight or ten persons, whom he beat off. We are suns , to state, that on Friday night, the 22'l alt., a party of armed men attacked the houses of two farmers, named Fitzgerald and Connell, at Knockananig, where a number of spades had been deposited for that. right by some persoas employed to dig tithe potatoes in the day. These people, with dreadful imprecations, ordered the spades to be headed out, which they broke se pieces, stating that they would not allow any canters entungst them. On the following week, a large party dog unt a quantity of potatoes, epos the same town lind ;—and on tne following night a quantity of tithe potatoes were dug out of the lamb of Ballynastocke , s 'Ow IMMO Parish, and scattered them about.—(Cooti- Naos.) TIFPERART.—On Wedoesday evening, about five Welth.k, as Mary Ryan, wife of a man in the employ ment 0( 31 . Birch, of Rooms, was on her waT home shout ewe miles beyond Thurlss on the road to 1 maple 'Mere, she was most horribly abused and beaten by some redact., insomuch, that, notwithstanding the greatest bentanite and attention on the part of Surgeon Brad shaw, alludes, she expired the following evening, first, however. having communicated the names of two or three of her ma rderers. some of whom are in custody. On Saturday night the house of Lord Lismore's Wood ranger was attacked in search of areas by some mis guided beings ; the Woodranger and his brother beat them off, and nearly succeeded in making a prisoner of one of them. • CLONM EL, Dec. 4.—On Wednesdayse'nnight, a young women, named Eliza Kileay, being on her way from Kilkenny to this town, whither she was coming for em ployment, as a confectioner, was met on the road, Oclr Ktleash,, by a single man, who, after violently assault- Mcleod beating her, forced her off the road, and corn slatted the grossest outrage to which a woman could be sto.jecte I; adding the petty enormity of robbery by glaudering her of her pocket book , containin g fifteen perce, twO discharges from the last two services io which she bad lived. Ile fled; and she having strug gled hack to the road, met two of Captain Wilson's Po lice, stationed at Kilcash, to whom site related her inju- Tire, on oltich they instantly commenced a pursuit after whom they chased fur near six miles, when /hey lost all trace of him. On lost Sunday night, John leoglilan, one of Captain Wilson's police, now stationed tinder Chief Constable Singleton, having received infor ;nation that a person answering the young Woman's des cription was concealed in a buute near Kileasu. proceed. ed there ; when, after various et-arches, he found the fel low concealed sin:er a heap of potatoes : being brought into Jail here, Mr. Singleton had him produced, amongst several others, to the inspection of the woman, who in stantly and unhesitatingly identified him as the aggres sor, and gave her informations accordingly, before William Chaytor, Esq.—(llerald.) °' M ‘l, I !E. . ;; _n •• f" . ~, i