The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-05 00:00:00

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Tax Pirravoes IN IRELAND.—The foal close of the
grain harvest has been followed by • large proportion
of the potato crop being safely raised, and in mod CABISI
stored up for the winter. Immense quantities of the
finest qualities are now being shipped by the cross-
channel-steamers. At this Ilay's market a large pro-
portion of the entire quantities offered was takes by
dealeru connected with the English and Scotch market,.
General tonsiness in Belfast has been exhibiting stirring
activity all the week.—Belfast Whig.
MURDER NEAR TO•11. Ure regret we Lave to record
a fearful murder which took place within one mile of
Tuam, on the Osurranes-road, near Oakmont, on tbe
night of the sheep fair (21st inst.). A poor man named
J. WU Healy, from Aghlosk, while returning from the
fair in company with his wife and mine friends, was
waylaid on the road, knocked down, and beaten with
sheep crooks, by two men named Pat and Denis Mullin,
of Gallagh, and received such injuries that he died the
next day. Drs. Turner and Dwyer were in attendance
early on the unfortunate man, but human aid was of
no avail. Mr. Redmond, our worthy and estimable
iL.M., with Mr. Boleigh,B.l., and Mr. Gannon, C.P.8.,
visited the dying man; informations were promptly
takeu, and warrants placed in the hands of Head-
eonstable Scott, and the amused party were soon after
arrested and committed to bridewell. An inquest was
held by A. Hasty, Esq., coroner, and the following
verdict was returned:— " That on the night of the 21st
October, in the year aforesaid, on the public road, on
the townland of Forty Acres, in the parish of Town.
and county of Galway, the mid James Healy received
mortal wounds on his head, causing compression of the
brain, all of winch were caused by several blows of •
shepherd's crook, which were inflicted by Patrick
Mullin and Denis Mullin, the prisoners now in custody
before us ; and that he the said John Healy languished
and died of raid mortal wounds, and compression of
the brain, at Bleevedarragh, in the pariah of Dunmore,
and county of Galway, on the 22nd day of October,
in the year aforesaid." It is seldom, indeed, this
peaceable portion of the country bad been stained by
, so foul and fearful a crime as that just narrated. We
I understand the parties were all under the inAuenoe of
liqnor at the time of tbe perpetration of this horrid
outrage. The unfortunate deceased has left • widow
and youthful family. The accused are brothers, both
1 young and untnamed. Tbev made no efforts to esc.pe.
Their father who accompanied them is also in custody.
—Twang Herald.
PADDY RYAN AND TEE PRINCE OF WALES.—Most
of our readers (says the Nenagli Chardials)know Paddy
Ryan. formerly of Carrick-on-Buie and more recently
of Nenagh the manufacturer and hawker of Irish
tweeds. Paddy, who had at all times a great fancy for
theCurraxh of Edam, was particularly desirous of see-
ing the id.du once again, while the Prince of Wales NU
stayibg there, He accordingly paid • vnit to the camp
during his royal Ilighuesa's sojourn, and determined to
offer the illustrious representative of the Sovereign his
dutiful respects. By dint of stratagem he succeeded in
getting into the presence of the Prince, in his guru ters.
Here Paddy paid homage to his royal highness, and
having enjoyed this privilege, the bright idea struck
him that be might turn the occasion to • little personal
advantage, and accordingly be displayed to the view of
the Prince some specimens of his ware, which he chanced
to bring with him, at the same time treating his royal
highness, in his own particular brogue, to • gratuitous
dissertation on the modes operandi adopted by him in
the manufacture of the tweed, at his rural factory in
Tipperary. The Prince was pleased with Paddy's power
of speech, no less than the creditable result of his indus-
try and toil, and, to show his appreciation of both,
ordered &cost of *teddy's own manipulation. Delighted,
Paddy inserted he pliant scissors, and with lightning
speedsevered the snaking of the coat from the favourite
piece. The Prince of Wales then ordered liberal pay-
ment to be made to Paddy for the article, and here it
was that Paddy Wowed that he was not only • loyal
subject, but • generous one to boot. Was it Paddy
Ryan to take payment for a coat from his future king?
To do so would be unworthy the name he bore, the
country be belonged to, orthe country that claimed him
as • son. The Prince could not think of accepting of
Use poor man's ware on such terms, and insisted on re-
munerating him. Paddy was inexorable, too, in his re-
fined of any sew, great or small, for the article; but,
sines his Royal Highness was so determined on recom-
pensing him, he did not like to oppose his illustrious
will, and if he would only give the dutiful liege of his
august mother his autograph, merely prefacing it by •
short statement that he had bought • coat of Irish tweed
from Paddy Ryan,of Tipperary, of his own manufacture,
It was all he would ask or accept of. The Priam' at
onus complied, and presented Paddy with the desired
testimonial under his own hand. Paddy made obeisance
' and salaams without number, offered prayers for the
speedy and happy marriage of the prince, and retired;
and, being always opposed to the principle of " hidiag
his talent under a bushel," he exhibited the Prinai
I certified' to all with whom he osme in contact, or,
' rather—to bring the favoured number into a proper
Uusit—te such of these be met as would likely to be in-
fluenced by example, particularly the example of a
Priam of Wales, is taking • coat of Paddy Ryan's

tweed. The result more than realised his expects tio
as we are informed that
" Frenu the col•mel down
To the man with the '
of every brig.de, regiment. and depot at the camp, in-
seated in. huloly'y

Tue Ass du LT UN A LA DY DRAR DUBLIN.-- The
trial .(Julia Curran, the Dublin cabanim, waa brought
to a termination on Wednesday, after tarring five days.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the yvisoner
was sentenced to two years' penal cerritudo. Cuiran by
his defence endeavoured to t stablidi ui uti. After Om
def, nee bad been closed, Ilia.. Jelly w 45 re•examined fur
the satisfaction of the jury. She stated that three•quar•
term of an our before tlor pstailo of the nineteen men in
the Castleisrdonuong whom Curran was placed...lie 541,1
the prisoner in the yard in company of one other person.
Tiiis was certainly • singular mode of procuring the
identification of • suspecttd person. Tim arrangements
of the police throughout the inquiry exhibited • great
lack of judgment. It should be ',Weil, however, that
Miss dolly's identification of the ilriv.,ner was of the
most unheAtating kind.—The Crown will indict Agnes
Wiles, one of the witnesses, for perjury, at the next
comtnission, it being clearly proved that she did not
see the cab driver on the night of the I.lsettlt.

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ATTRIIPTILD AN3MMINATIoN.---A correspondent of
.la/faders's, in writing from Parsons Town, on Friday,
mentions the following outrage: —" Last night, about
the hour of 8 o'clock, while a farmer named William
Byrne was returning to his home from the market at
Rosetta, accompanied by his wjfe end another woman
in a cart, a shot was fired at thein from behind a wall
on the side of the road at Clareen, near Shinrone.
Bryn° and tho woinan named Ross were both wounded
in the head by round allot, but not dangerously. Byrne
is 'about five year's a resident on his farm, front which
several years ago, a tenant WAX evicted, after which, it
was taken by • person named Keeshan, who was
murdered, having been shot dead, i-ince • hich is,vcral
outrages have been committed on the lauds—shuts fired
by night, end several threatening notices have been
pasted at different times. Byrne purchased the intere•it
of the tenant who preceded him in the occupation, and
recently his barn was broken open, and a quantity of
Peed wheat, his property, stolen ; and some steps which
he had taken in connection with that robbery hail ren-
dered him obnoxious to parties its the nsighboni hood.
Sub-Inspector klontgouiery and • party of police were
promptly oaths spot. and during the night apprehended
three men on suspicion, named Daniel, Janice, and John
!calor." _

THR FAMINE IX IRILAND. —Several meetings have
of late been held to petition for Government aid in
consequence of a partial failure of the crops in Con-
naught and neighbouring districts. As usual, the
Irish priests are the chief speakers, In reference to
this subject, the Northern IV hey nays: —"The partial
failure of the potatoe crop this season has fallen with
great severity on the small fanners and day labourirs
of Connaught, and, as casual, the cry for Government
aid is raised by those who elms. the Saxons iii favour-
able seasons and beg train them in unfavourable ones.
The five counties of the west comprise an area of nearly
four and a half millions of acres. Of those only about
eight hundred thousand acres are under crop, all the
remainder being either wholly or partially waste. With
what ideas of right can men, who should know better,
call on the G irernment for assistance towards the
relief of the poor while Vie raw material of comfort
sad independence lies at their very doors, and while
the legitimate sources of charity withheld their cont ri•
butiuns? We are we'd aware that in 1822, and in 1831,
as well as in 1847, during the terrific •isitation of
famine, the resident gentry of the west, lay and
clerical, displayed the utmost liberality in their aid of
local destitution ; and it is also well known that then,
as now, the absentee owners of land did very little in
the PlllllO cans*. Most unjost, then, is the current cry
for State assistance now ringing in different portions of
Connaught. We grant that the putatoe disease has
prevailed largely this season, that it has destroyed much
more of the crop than Waal no carried off in any year
since i 8.6; but it must not be forgotten that the yield
of all qualities, good and bad is very large, and that, if a
full third of the whole be lost, the remainder would
give a moderate yield, at least in all well-sitnated lands.
But are the other three provinces not likely to suffer
equal loss in their potato lands? Of course they are,
and equally certain it is that no appeal from the people
of such sections of this island will be made to the
British Government. It is sail—nay, it is more than
sad—to think that the inhabitants of any ;tart of the
British Isles should be sacrificed to the misery of
periodical famine. There is nothing inherent in the
lauds of Connaught, nor is there anything in the at-
mosphere, the climate or the people themselves, to
induce the existence of poverty as a chronic disease.
On the contrary, the soil of a great portion of the whole
is good, and the climate favourable ; and, as to the
natives, we know that some of the most industrious and
some of the most prosperous of the colonists of Csmada,
of the once United States, and of the denisens of the
Australian isles, first drew breath in the West of Ire-
land. Half the labour and toil that hare been expen-
, ded by Connaughtmen on the prairies of America and
the plains of New South Wales would have made the
now neglected lands of Galway and Mayosmile in all
the luxuriance of fertility, and the system of binittenure
had been such as to stimulate exertions' Lad the curse
of absenteeism not fallen over the land. De-population,
rack-rents, neglected cultivation, and absentee land-
lorditan have produced their natural results. These are
' matters worth consideration, especially at this time,
when the wail of famine is again heard from the very
quarter of Ireland which teems with the sources of
agricultural prosperity.
DISCOVERT Or (iOLD. —We (nerry Sentinel ) have
received three specimens of auriferous quarts, found on
the shore of Lough Swilly, on the 16th inst. It is con-
sidered to be exactly similar to that of the gold-pro-
ducing countries. The specimens in question were
taken from Government land, which Is not likely to
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be exploted by miners ; but there is little doubt that
plenty of the ums kind of rock is to be found in the
bold heights of that neighbourhood, and would pro-
bably reniunerate those who have time and means to
search for it. The locality where the quarts welt found
was within ton miles of this city. The vein from
which the specimen' were taken was from nine to
twelve inches thick, twenty or thirty feet high, and
running through a block of headland of considerable
depth. It will be singular if, enrol time or other.
there should be gold diggings in Donegal.