The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dunum, }WICK 24.
SERIOUS OUTRAGE IN TILE COUNTY OF

DOWN.

Accounts have reached town to-day, stating that
on Thursday last Mr. Tatlow, A. C. Sheriff, with ;
one policeman, and the sheriff's bailiff, proceeded to ,
some lands near Bambridge, in the county of
Down, for the purpose of serving a writ on a te-
nant who owed four years rent. Upon entering the
estate they perceived the people in alldirections leav-
ing their houses and running together, summoned by
the sound of horns, upon which the Sheriff and Mr.
Tallow, Jun., went towards a house to inquire
into the cause of the movement, Mr. Tatlow,Senior,
walking up the road to make the same inquiries of
the people. Ile had not, however, proceeded 200
yards when three shots were discharged at him by
some men ensconced behind a ditch, one of which
struck his hat and the other grazed his skin.
Upon hearing the reports, the sheriff and young Mr.
Tutlow, by whom he was joined, perceived the rising
ground to the right and left occupied by 200 people,
who commenced firing deliberately at the sheriff
and leis son, the policeman and sheriff's bailiff at
the first firing having got upon a car, and left the
grounds. The firing was not in a volley, but one
. shot followed another to the number of 50 or
upwards, but providentially without fatal effect.
After the general firing one man rushed out from
behind Nlagill's house, with gun in hand, prepared
to fire. Ile was met by young Mr. Tatlow, who
very gallantly ran up to close with him, which
the man perceived, and rapidly retreated with-
. out having fired, and escaped. From this fear-
ful position the gentlemen resolved to retreat,
which they did slowly and deliberately, reaching
! liambridge by a circuitous route in the evening Offi-
cial accounts of the outrage have reached the govern-
; ment. A proclamation will he forthwith issued
offering a reward for the apprehension of the ring-
, leaders. _

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Alderman Rooney and Mr. if. Gore Carolan ap-
peared before the magistrates yesterday to answer a
complaint for forging a name to a voting paper, but
owing to some informality in the proceedings the
case, without being entered into, was dismissed with-
out prejudice.
Some properties were sold in Cork on Thursday
and Saturday last, under an order of the Incumbered
Estates Commissioners. An estate divided into two
lots, yielding respectively the net annual income of
1271. 175., and 901. 108., subject to annuities amount-
ing to 1001., was sold for 2,3101. An estate yielding
1061., after payment of several weighty annuities,
brought 3001. as the highest bidding.
At the Nenagh assizes, on Saturday, a "fairy doe-
tress" was convicted on an indictment, charging her
with producing the death of a child, by administering
large quantities of foxglove. It appeared by the
evidence that the prisoner had repeatedly caused the
sick child to be exposed at night on a shovel after
administering an infusion of foxglove and vervain,
and that the victim on one of those occasions was
aatually found dead on the dung heap.

THE SAILORS' STRIKE—II Will be nrmeml

that • fertile source of complaint among the seamen of the
northern ports has existed with respect to the fees payable
upon each voyage by the crew. It was argued that these
fees were unequal in their bearing, for while the seamen
who made but short and frequent voyages had to pay their
stilling, on each engagement and discharge, those who
proceeded on longer and more profitable voyages were
exempted from paying more, perhaps, than once in the
course of the year. The Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade have taken this point into con-
sidendion, and the following notice issued by them
has come into operation at Hull and the northern ports:
For the purpose of reducing the fees payable by
masters and owners of ships which make short and
frequent voyages, and the deductions to be made from'
the wages of crews on account of such voyages, the lords of '
the committee of privy council for trade have been pleased
to direct that the fees payable upon the engagement and
discharge of crews, under schedule B of the Mercantile
Marine Act, shall not be paid more than twice in one year
in respect of the same ship ; so that, after making the ordi-
nary payment on two voyages, any further engagement or
discharge of the crew may be effected without further pay-
ment. The year for the above purpose is to be taken as
commencing on the Ist of January and ending on the :Slot
et December. The above arrangement will have rho effect
et preventing any deduction being made from the wages of
the crews of any ships which have already made two voy-
Npea In one year. F. W. Bacux, W. H. NVALIMI, T. H.
ILIKAR, secretary." As the present is • slack period
et the year, many men remain ashore unemployed, and
lb* engagement by owners is not at all accelerated by the
obstructions,' placed in the way by the mariners' committee
which is still sitting. The men even now ignore, as far at
least as they possibly can, the existence of the shipping
office. They stipulate upon engagement that the fees,
which would be ordinarily paid by themselves, shall be dis-
charged by the master or owner; they refuse to sign arti-
cles at the shipnissj Ake, and one of the committee of the
Seamen's Friendly Society is generally in attendance when
the agreement between the owner and the crew is come to,
la order to see that nothing is inserted in the articles which
is at variance with the rules of the society. The expences
of the agitation and of the committee are defrayed by sub-
scriptions among the sailors, in addition to which the men
Occasionally parade the streets with music and with ban-
; nen, while the committee carry money boxes and solicit
' owallamtione from the inhabitants. The seamen have even
rieurcundows to the neighbouring tonne, and have
the wins opt= thus with wow two&