The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

executing the work. You would do well to send some. per.
seas to speak for you ; otherwise we shall he obliged
manage the basin< es as we have done to-day. (Loud crime(
" That's right ;" " Long life to your Hononr.")--Mr. Little, I
solicitor, then endeavoured to introduce Mr. Goodlattai et
, Salem Lodge, to the meeting, who had a proposal to ode&
on the part of the Coleraine Junction Railway; but
attempts to get that gentleman a hearing were uteffeetuaL
The people continued in the room, crushing each other,
shouting, whistling, wraling—in short, torturing their im-
agination to invenccomon. After about an hour had
elapsed, they began to retire from the room, and gather in
the streets in knots of twenty or thirty permit. Some ill-
disposed persons having stated that R. W. Lowry, Esq., of
Pomeroy-house, bad said that turnips and cabbages would be
good food for the people, abed feeling wascreated,andanowd
gathered round Mr. Lowry, shouting, hooting, and
" Turnips and cabbage." One fellow came forward-ad
shook his fist in Mr. Lowry 's face in a threatening manner.
Mr. Lowry retired, followed by the mob into the house of a
man named Weir, the crowd surrounding it. A fellow in
some short time placed a cabbage and a turnip on a pole,
and paraded in front of Mr. Weir's house, threatening that he
would make Mr. Lowry eat it. Colonel Stewart having
come up, at once arren.ed the fellow, and gave him in charge
to the police, tome of whom kept alongside the gallant
colonel as if for the purpose of protecting him, but he turned
round and said, "Secure your prisoner, I can fight for my-
self." The mob at this time still stood their ground, but
were kept in awe by the. presence of the police, who had
their bayonets drawn. Owing to the exertions of Colonel
Stewart, John Kinley Tener, Esq., and some other gentle-
men, Mr. Lowry got out of town safe in Colonel Stewart's
carriage. The town shortly after begrime quiet, the people
gradually retiring to their homes.
MIDDLE BARONY •or Dunciassos.—An extraordinary
PeeeentMent sessions for this barony, was held in the Court-
house of Dungannon. on Tuesday. The persons composing'
the meeting were very respectable. 25,0001. was voted:-
5,0001. to be applied to draining; 10,000 L for Coleraine and
Dublin Junction Railway ; 10,0001. for Dungannon and
Portadown Railway, on condition that the comgapy get
their bill for the last-mentioned project. All these gement-
ments were passed with great majorities. • -
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
CONFLICT BETWEEN TEE POLICE AND Wormier.—
Between eight and nine o'clock on Wednesday night, an
armed party of 12 men, with their faces blackened, attached
the dwelling of John Piper, at Scan, within two miles of
Rathkeale, in search of arms, when five of them entered, and
succeeded in carrying off a gun. From this they proceeded
to the residence of James Condon Esq., adjoining the same
townland, where they demanded admittance at the back door,
but were refused, that gentleman informing them from one of
the windows, that he bad no fire-arms, at the same time adding,
if they did not believe his word, to go to the front door, and
he would allow them to satisfy themselves. They, however,
declined the invitation, and retired from before the house,
having first cautioned Mr. Condon against demanding rents
from his tenantry, Under pain of death. They did not go far
when they were observed by a small police party then on
patrol, consisting of lour men, viz.:—Constable Alfred,
Sub-constables Kairns, Sheehan, and Laorenaon, who fol-
lowed them across the fields, calling on them in the reseal
way to staud and surrender. The gang peremptorily refund,
telling the police to go beet, and at the same time turning
round, they discharged five shots at the constabulary, the
constables returned the fire, and one of the gang fell, appae
rently wounded, but being raised by his associates, was car-
ried over a ditch into an adjoining field. The other three
policemen then loaded, and prepared to pursue the fugitiees,
who, in the interval, gained some ground, and, as they re-
treated, turned round occasionally, firing at their pursuers,
fortunately without effect. After a good run, the police closed
themes they were crossing a high wall, and the police again
fired, when a second man was observed to fall from the top,
manifestly wounded, as the stones were besmeared with
blood, which was also discernible along the grass It being
a moonlight night, the police did not lose eight of the party,
whom they chased into a haggard, where several stacks of
corn were piled, behind which the Whiteboys took refuge,
but the police, nothing daunted, intercepted two of the
Whiteboys, with whom they had a desperate combat, while
the rest of the fellows tied in the confusion, and the
police eventually overcame the two, who were made pri-
soners after much difficu.ty, and handcuffed. Upon search,
both were found armed with guns, and one of them had a
wary. Sue military sword attached to his girdle, and
'Which has since been identified by George Massy, Esq.
of Creaves, as his property, and which was taken frem that
gentleman's residence about a month since. The Rockites
were brought into Rathkeale bridewell, the same night,
without being allowed to remove the disguise from their fea-
tures. One of them received a bayonet wound in the breast
during the struggle with the police, but the other sustained
little injury. The names of the parties are John Sheehy, a
blacksmith, from Askeaton, and James O'Donnell, a farmer's
ma. Next morning the police searched convenient to the
scene of action, and found two guns which the rest of the
party left behind in their precipitate retreat. While in the
bridewell, on Thursday night, one of the prisoners attempted
to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a piece of win-
dow glass. The brave conduct of the constable and his
party, engaged in the above capture, deservesto be rewarded,
sad we have no doubt of Colonel M'Gregor's substantial
approbation of their exertions.
TEE TRAGEDY AT MARTINSTOWN.—MT. John O'Grady,
• Martinstown, in this county, whose victims were his own
wife, Mary O'Grady, and a servant girl named Ellen Walshe,
is now supposed insane. He is now a prisoner in the county
CZLimerick, whither he was conveyed, by car, on
ay, under escort of police, and committed to abide his
trial at next assizes, upon the verdict of a coroner's jury, for
the wilful murder of both females. Since the barbarous
deed was perpetrated, the miserable man, whose property is
estimated at 4001. a year, has become quite melancholy,
taciturn, and appears unconscious of having committed any
act to warrant his imprisonment. The remains of his two
victims were interred at Tipperary, on Tuesday.
LIMERICK.—ATTEMPT TO SCUTTLE A BTEAMEIL-011
'Monday evening, as the Steam Packet Compeny's boat
the Royal Oeorge, was plying between Limerick and Clare,
she was boarded at Beagh Castle by an armed banditti, who
ordered the crew into the small boat, and gave them but one
oar to get to land. This lawless gang then endeavoured to
scuttle the packet boat; but having driven the marlin spike
too far into her quarter they were unable to extract it, and
the attempt was happily frustrated.
ABDUCTION.—On Thursday night an armed party came
to the house of a respectable farmer named Russell residing
at Drum, near Templemore, and carried off his (laughter,
possessing 2001. fortune. Sub-Inspector:Butler subsequently
apprehended the young woman and her Lothario, maned
'Leffan, in the house of a farmer.
EMPLOYMENT IN GALWAY—At a recent meeting of the
Belief Committee of Galway, Mr. Clements, county sur-
veyor of Galway, said he would place on the road from 'Ca-
hoon to Aila 300 men, on the Loughatbalia road 150, and on
the Headford road 800; in all 760. The tickets were or-
dered to be allocated as follows :—For the Hcadford road, to
the Rev. A. Martin, 300 ; for the Rahoon road, to N. Lynch
end William Kelly, Esqrs., 300 ;to C. Blake, P. M. Lynch,
T. Cousins, M. Tobyn, Esqrs., and the Rev. Mr. Roche, in
equal pmportions, 150. Rev. Mr. D'Arcy moved, and Rev.
B. J. Roche seconded, a resolution deploring the existence
of a spirit of outrage, and that, in order to check
it, it was necessary to have the police force ia-
aemed, and the works agreed to should at once be
*caseated, so as to give general employment to at least
Wes thousand men in addition to those already engaged,
sad that new projects should be struck out to which the
labourers might be transferred as soon as the works now in
progress are completed. A resolution was also passed ap-
proving of the navigation and drainage of Lough Corrib; of
the comezion of Mutton Island by a breakwater with the
mainland, with a pier of a few cables in length on the east
vide of the island. A copy of these resolutions was Mend
to be transmitted to his Excellency the Lord Lindland*
after which the committee adjourned. Mr. Griffith, of the.
' Board of Works, bad directed new works to the anima
of 1,7001. to be undertaken immediately. Upon'
Timnday the committee met again. The entire et
the day was meanie& in the filling and at,
lists, and heading Mee to W. D. Griffith, Haq (*ho b
been appended Me pow, as °Seer of the Board of Works,
the pies of Mr. Beralimi, who was obliged to have tasking'
hem di Maleb).• I. the course of the signing of the lists, a
diammion areee Ida respect to the propriety of supplying
*hikes to sense labourers whose names Mr. Lynch, of Berne,
had hornistied. Among thew names were those of some who
appeared to hold land, varying in extent from three and four,
to ion and twelve acres, the latter being, u the committee
t,
t, toolarge a quantity to be held by en applicant for
rieholit uthepnb/ic works. Mr. Lynch, however, pled,sedhini- '
self that every man when name appeared on the let was in a
State of destitution, andthe lists were accordingly approved of,
signedby the chairman, and then handed to r.Griffith. Too
much caution cannot be used by members of the committee
in selecting persons to whom tickets should be given. From ,
a communal= made by the magistrates to the chairman,
it appeared that one of the ringleaders in an attack lately
made on Mr. Clements's house was found, when appre-
hended, in the actual possession of a large sum of money ;
and it is feared that imposition to a large amount most have
been practised open the members of the corundum, when
solicited for tickets for employment on the public worts.
We trust- that in future circumspection will be used, and
tickets given to pone but those who shall be ascertained,
' after* strict examisation, to be in such a state of want ea to
need rdiet •,_ •
'01112;11 Scrang.—On Thursday-merging hat a gentle-
man llaped tllisk• a carmen from the county of Longford,
committed s
uicideu at Cleudillen's Hotel, Wicklow-street, in
this city. ihillePY gentleman effected hit Purrs* by
means of his owialesier, with which he nearly severed his
;had from his laxly. lie was a young man, and had re-
medy marrieds widow lady. The body, as soon es the
horrid event became known, was conveyed to Mereers
Hospital, but all medical aid was of no avad.
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