The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

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DL:BLIN, :iov. N.
The League deputation has made some way at
Cloomel within the last two days, and appear to
have now a decisive mob-majority ; but the leading
Homan Catholic priests are all with John O'Connell,
and the Zion respectable portion of the electors are
keeping aloof from both lathes. At a densely
ono meetliugtiohneldwoans
slelVdo:dwlstade.Tedny'd•ResolKiniingheltwv'ed,—That while we, i 1
ie ;•4,4t feel
of Clonmel, havi ts!!"'".!!ed to a committee of our
body the recommendation of a candidate for our
adoption, we will not accept any candidate who will
not pledge himself to sit and act with the indepen-
dent party in the House of Commons."
A conditional order was obtained yesterday in the
Court of Queen's Bench against Mr. O'Callaghan,
the magistrate, to compel him to make a return of
the order made by him in the case of Smith, the
distributor of religious hand-bills, and of any infor-
mations takes by him in the matter.
The Rev. P. Quin, the Roman catholic clergyman
of Moneymore, has addressed a letter to the Livery
of the Dresser.' Company of London, on the subject
of freedom of election on their Irish estates, in which
be complains of the withdrawal of a customary
gratuity of ten guineas a year. The rev. gentleman
conceives that this is a punishment for his political
conduct.

TUE ADrEN2'URES OF A PIG IN THE
HIGHLANDS.

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About the year 1720, a man in the parish of Ruth.
well, inDumfriesstire, named theGutleman o'Brow, received
a pig as a present. This pig was evidently the first which
had visited this part of the world : still, as his arrival was
an " acknowledged fact," his appearance caused no alarm.
Far otherwise was it when he strayed into the adjoining
parish of Carlaveroc. Ile was first seen by a woman who
was herding cattle on the salt marshes, and the affint pro-
duced on her mind was such that she took to her heels and
ran home; the pig, who, like most of his race, had a love
for human society, following closely behind her. On arriv-
ing at the village she tell down in a fainting fit; and on her
recovery she related to her terrified neighboen how "a
deil cam' out o' the sea with twa horns on his head," and
chased her, "roaring and gaping all the way." &dills; the
agreeable information, that hi was not now tar off. The
village schoolmaster, on hearing her relation, felt that such
an eligible opportunity " for a learned man seldom cc
curred iu his degenerate days, and be et once profited by
the occasion, and announced his intention of taking his
Bible and a sword, and proceeding forthwith to " cuger the
deil !“ But, alas! for his learning and his heroism! no
sosner had he uttered these rash words, than a grunt close
at his back announced the presence of the personage he
defied. A certain rid proverb Jinn to his mind prevented
any mistake—if mistake there could be—at to his identity.
The valour of the pedagogue th.d, and both he and the
assembled crowd also Hid in terror and dismay, and were
only reassured when some of the more enliehtened of the
community cried out, that it was "nee deil, but the Gude-
man o' Brow's grumphy." Home to Brow, therefore,
piggy was sent under proper guardianship, but his adven-
turn were not yet at an end. As he travelled along, com-
muning with himself in the peculiar tone ! roper to a pig
when he is being driven, he approached two men who were
pulling thistles, and terrified them so much that they
jumped upon two horses which were at hand and scampered
wildly off to Lochar Moss, where one of the horses was
smothered, and where the two heroes lay all the night in
the utmost terror. On went piggy still, until he met with
a fisherman, named Gilbert Gunion, riding on a grey colt;
on the sight of so nondescript a creature, away dew both
Gilbert and the grey colt, until at length, in the wildness of
their flight, Gilbert was thrown; still the colt dew on, and
"stopped not for river, and stayed not for stone," but took
to the water at Barakirk Point, swam the Solway, and
landed at Holmes in Cumberland ; while his helpless
master concealed himself for a day and a night in the wood
of Cumlogon, from whence he at length emerged, affirming
that ha had seen a creature "as big as a calf, with long
horns eyes like trenchers, and a back like a hedgehog "—a
mita! which none could doubt when it came to peas that
the poor man pined away, and in less than a year died of
consumption—whether caused by the apparition, or by the
exposure to weather in the wood, is a medical question
which we will not presume to decide without authority.
It is also added, that about the same period a vessel
with a cargo of swine came to Gleneapel, and that one
of the animals, which escaped in landing, was chased
by all the neighbours far and near, for they all considered
it as but "an uncanny kind o' brook" (badger). An
hearts, however, sank within the breasts of their respective
owners when they approached near enough to kill tt. At
length, however, one brave fellow ran the poor creature
through the body with a pitchfork, earning for himself the
life-long title of "stout-hearted Geordie."
Doubtless the alarm excited would not have been so
great had the cloven hoof been enclosed—as De Mellon-
vine affirms it to be when the pig travels in Mexico—in
leathern boots, sowed up with a neatly-fitting sole, in order
to protect the hoofs from injury ! or had the " grumphy"
belonged to that very curious breed of pigs with an undi-
vided hoof, which is said to be not, even yet, extinct in
some of the eastern counties of England.—Dublin Univer-
sity Magazine.

HANTS COUNTY PRISON.

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TO THE EDITOR UP THI REPUTES.

SJR,—The late chaplain to the above prison
having recently announced his intention of corroborating
his first letter containing charges of cruelty against the
governor of the prison, the public were much astonished and
no less surprised at the full wing paragraph in the Hamp-
shire Chronicle of last week :

" At an adjourned Quarter Sessions held this day in the
grand jury chamber the resignation of the chaplain of the
county prison was laid before the court, and the court ad-
journed to the 26th jest , Lord Henry Cholmondeley, as
chairman of the visiting justices, giving notice that he
would then present a report of the circumstances which
have formed the subject of the recent investigation at the
county prison by the inspector of prisons, under the direc-
tion of the Secretary of State, and that he would move that
an order be then made for advertisements giving notice
that the court will, at the next Epiphany Semiotic, proceed
to elect a chaplain to fill the present vacancy."
It may be all very well for Lord Cholmondeley to volun-
teer " a report of the circumstances which formed the sub-
bect of the recent investigation ; " but it is the Star Cham-
r mode in which that investigation was conducted that
the public complain of, and the mystery by which its
enveloped. The secret method by which it was conducted
induces a suspicimi that there was a great deal of truth is
the chaplain's statement He not only described the inetru-
mentof torture most minutely,but stated the time and place of
its being used. He then—l firmly believe under the intiu-
enee of fear—qualified his statement; and lastly, in his letter
to you, in substance engaged to prove his first assertion. Why
be has not done so remains to be seen in that searching inves-
tigation which it is hoped and believed Lord Palmerston
(who lives in the hearts of the people, by his determined
opposition to foreign tyrants) will institute. The questions
which it is absolutely necessary to ascertain, are—Did
Jones die from the insufficiency of food in the county
prison ? and are those cruelties perpetrated within its walls
which it is affirmed by the chaplain and others were perpe-
trated ? It is of no use saying that the amnion of such
matters are bad characters. Nothing short of confronting
those characters with those they accuse of such enormities
and barbarities in open court will satisfy or convince the
public. Mr. Wright, no doubt, has shown a weakness and
vacillation. We all know the preponderance of fear, but
there is a public testimony recorded of the assertion of a
county magistrate, that his zeal in the performance of his
duty equalled the work of " three curates." Therefore it
is to be hoped that such a man, with • family and very
limited means, will not be hardly dealt with, after a servi-
tude of many yeah, without • pension for past services.—
I am, &c., VIGIL.
Winchester, Nov. 16.