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IRELAND.

At the fair of Woodford. neanrtunt Shennon. county Galway,
oo Saturday. two formidable factions assembled to fight. The
Pruteatant and Homan Catholic clergymen of the parish, with the
police. attempted in vain to prevent s hostile reneontre. The per-
suasion% were treated with insult, and both parties joining their
Soria, assailed their pastors and the police, struck down the elet-
semen and the chief constable, and put the entire to Hight, The
police were pursued to the barracks, where every window was
broken with atones and stick, and the infuriated mob were finally
proceeding to tear the roof ofr the building, when the police, in de-
fence of their lives, were compelled to fire, and the consequence
ieu, three men were killed, and sevettil others wounded.-4 dila
i'oirer of &foretop.
lhi Senday evening, ten men from Kilmacthomas were commit.
ted to the county (Waterford) gaol, and from what has since trans.
pired relative to this transaction, we think that the circumstance is
hkely to excite a considerable sensation in the country. We shall
he content with giving a simple statement of the affair, and will
leave sue readers to form their own opinions. tin Saturday last
lite. Swan left Waterford. on his way home from the Assizes.
When he arrived near Kilmaethomas, he wa. met by a vast con.
et.airac of the people of that town, who availed themselves, as
• squat. of every opportunity of testifying their affectionate attach_
meat to this popular young gentleman, and to the principles he
penggeasa. The crowd was immense, but every thing was conducted
in the most orderly and peaceable manner. The procession accom-
panied his carriage half way from Kilnutethomaa to the house of
IP. James Barron. of Saraliville, rending the air with the usual
. ehouta of •• Stuart and Liberty for ever"—.' Villiers Stuart and
Catholic Emiuscipatioo !" Mr. Stuart took leave of the people,
aid they returned peaceably to Kilmacthomas. Here, hoverer,
a, effort was made to provoke the people to a quarrel, by a man
commonly called Keating, but whose proper comic is Collins. Os
this fellow's character, though tolerably well acquainted with it, if
is ueneceuary for us here to speak; he is well known to the Mat
gistrates sod Police of that neighbourhood. Having failed in hi..
attempt to provoke the people. he went into the house of Brown,
the .Poeternoter of Kilmacthomu, and, having procured a gun, be
bred out from a window ! The slugs with which the gun was
loaded entered the house at the opposite side of the street, and
lodged in some of the ftirnitore. This fact will be proved on oath.
Atter the that shot was fired, a crowd Immediately assembled, and
they saw-Keating deliberately tire a second and a third shot ! ! ! A
reaction was immediately and naturally produced; the crowd at-
tacked the house, or rather the window from which they saw Keat-
ing present tile gen. They broke the window with atones, but did
rot, ea might hare been expected, attempt tonna the house.--
Wattefuni CArvait fr.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MURDER.

MUNSTER CIRCUIT.—TIiLET, 111.ticu 21.1

Thomas Leven and Johanna Lovett, his wife. wattindicterl fur
the wilful murder of Thomas Crane, the late husband of the pri-
sower Julianne, at Gellert's, in the county of Kerry.
l'his prosecution was ordered by the Attorney-General. and
cniptueittl by the Crown prusecuturs. It excited great public at-
tenune._ . -

Mr. O'Cow was the sole Counsel for thesprisonets.
John Creane—llelievcs lie is about ten or twelve yeses old ; is
won to Thomas Cresne, who was murdered. Recollects to have
..SSW the prisoner, Thomas Lovett, frequently at his father's Knipe
ilortng his life-time, when his father, who was a carpenter, used to
be is the country at work. Witness saw the prisoner, Thomas, in
bed with his mother two or three times before hit father was killed.
Witness recollects the night on which his father was murdered. in
*a evening of that day the prisoner came to their house. His la-
th:, desired Lovett to go home, saying it was tun late for hint to be
es the house. as be wanted toga to bed. The deceased at !hemline
time desired the prisoner, Johanna, to prepare for bed. hhe an.
sleeved that there was time enough. The deceased went to bed,
leaviag the pioneers together. Beibre the deceased went to bed.,
Thorns.' Lovett said, in answer to the &vented, who wanted hitn
in go home, that be would not ; that he would remain there at long
as he likei. The deceased, after he went to bed, finding that the
prisoner, Johanna, was eot disposed to go to bed, and that the
ot:,er prisoner was still in the hoe*, came from the bed.room Into
she kitchen, where they were, and threatened to go to the brother
Ohio wife, and Inform him of her roniluct. Ile went out accord.
'ugly, but he MOM returned back. The detested was angry and
unsay, and attempted to go out a area: d time, but was prevented
by the prisoner, Thomas Lovett. The de lased again asked Lo.
sett whether be would leave his house. Loeest refused, saying
that he would rennin there as long as he thought proper. The sit.
ceased then left the house. Before the deceased won out, he came
se witness its the bed. and desired him to go into his bed until the
do,-eased returned. When the deceased left the house, the pri.
sneers sat down together at the kitchen tire. Witness could see
Chain from the bed. 'the candle remained lighted in the kitchen
tor mme time. They conversed with each other in so low a tone,
dist witness could not hear. In some time after the deceased came
dose the tesl.rotEri where the witness lay. through a window from
die offish's, arid stood concealed at the MOM door, where here.
'stained for some time, listening to what the prisoners were saying.
At this ti.ne the candle was extinguished. Ile droned witness not
speak that he might hear them. He remained a Considerable
time there. and des,;ed prisoner to go home instantly. Lovett re.
fused. After bovßt had so refused, the deceased stood in the
k.tcben near to where the prisoners were sittits;. Thom.. Lavin
Rut up and laid hold of the deceased, and tripped him, by which the
fell, with Thomas Lovett over him. 'the deceased re.
ye...tartly called out to the prisoner to let him go, and not to kill
At this tima witness came from the bed to the door of the
hsd.roont, and cried out. lie ruled to the prisoner Lovett to let
pa fisher. Tice prisoner. Thom* Lovett, said that his father
had got a colic, and that he (Or prisoner) was taking hint off the
ground. The other prisoner, Johanna Lovett, desired witness to
go To bed, and rug to reinain in the kitchen. The prisonerJu-
horns. as the deceased lay on the ground with the prismer. Lovett
over him, in the art of choking him, misted the other prisoner.
hhe went to the other side of the body, and squeezed his throat, un-
der the ear. The prisonee.lsovett was lyinx upon the body, with
kuees pressed upon the stomach. The outward door was

fastened. ll'itness became frightened, and did not endeavour to
go out to give the liberal. After they bad :okilled his father, the
prisoner Lovett raised the body and plated it in a corner of the
kitchen, having desired the prisoner Johanna to go and call in
the brother of Lovett, who lived the next dour to them. The
head of the deceased, when Lovett ranted him, was down on his
chest. The prisoner Johanna accordingly went out of the house,
and in a few minutes returned with James Lovett, the prisoner's
brother. They lighted a candle. James I.ovett came to the
body and raised the head, and discovered some marks on his
neck. lie asked what scraped the neck of the deceased ? to
which either Thomas or Johanna Lovett answered that the de-
ceased had fallen during the night, and received the scrapes.
James Lovett made ne further observation. The prisoner Thomas
Lovett shaved the deceased preparatory to their layirg him out as
a corpse. At this time day.was approaching. The witness would
have told T. Lovett's brother of what had occurred, but he was
io diced to do so, Johanna having cautioned hum not to tell any
one what he had seen. IVitness is the second eldest child of the
deceased. There were four children ; the eldest is rather an idiot.
The child next in point of age to witness was about four years ;
another was still younger. In about a week after the decenscri
was interred, the prisoner Lovett, and the prisoner Johanna, told
witness, and Michael, the idiot, that they could not remain
with them; that they should go and live with their uncle, Thomas
Moriany, but that the two youngest might remain with them.
Witness accordingly did go to Moriarty.—Moriarty, in a feW
days afterwards, asked witness did he know anything about his
father, whether he died a natural death, ur otherwise? Witness
then detailed to iloriar:y the circumstances of the murder, who
said that his mother was a bad woman, but cautioned witness not
to tell the nutter so any other person, as she might be hanged
if he did so !

This witness wait crass-examined at considerable length, by
Mr. O'Coatareee—He was never sworn till to-day. Yeetenday
he was sworn also. Yesterday was the first time that lie was
sworn. His fattier was dead long before he went to swear. He
was dead more than a year. Witness stated that he never told it
to any one for more than a year after his father's death; yet he
did tell it to Moriarty ; what he said in that respect was therefore
not true. Witness was More Mr. Cruise. He does not know.
that he took an oath before yesterday. He now recollects that he
did take an oath. Witness makes mistakes. His brother is a
fool. His father had complained that his bowels were ill. His
father had the caneplaint twice. Witness had said that he saw
his mother and Lovett in bed together, before his father's death.
He said so to Mr. Cruise. It was after that he saw them in bed
together. He told Mr. Cruise a lie; it was a foolish lie. He does
riot know whether it was more foolish or wicked. He wore to
many foolish lies. He swore tome lies and some truth ; he thinks
he told more truth than lies, bur will leave it to the Oentleinen of
the Jury to decide that. Ile dues not !Mow how many lies-he told.
He swmeinfomutious before Mr. Hickson, who is the prawn
High Sheriff.
In answer to a Juror—Witness is quite sure that what he swore,
regarding what he saw the prisoners do to his father, was quite
true. No one assisted Lovett but witness's mother. His father
came In through the window to listen; his father never went out
after begot the trip. Lovett'', was the next house to his father's.
AU the parties were sober the night of the murder. They choked
the deceased with nothing but their hands.
Catherine Fitrgerald—Witnebs recollects the time that the d..
ceased sou interred; when she heard that the deceased wellhead,
she went to his wake, as is the usual practice in the country. When
witness went to the wake, she was asked by a woman, who was a
near relative, whether she had observed masks which were on the
neck of the deceased ; witness, at the request of that woman, went
over the body, and removed the cravat from the neck. W keel's
discovered neon the throat of the deceased a red circle, and there
was a mark upon the chin, as if the deceased had been slightly cut.
At that time the witness made no observation, not having had any
suspicion of the cause of the death. The deceased was killed, as
she understood, on Wednesday, and he was buried on Friday. On
the Sunday after witness, for the first time, heard that it was sus-
pected that the deceased was murdered by the prisoners; it, slier
that, became quite public. When the witness was making inquiries
as to bow the deceased came by his death, the prisoner Johanna
said he fell down in a tit, and that it was the prisoner Lovett diet
brought him in, and that his neck was scratched in the fall.
On her cross.examination by Mr. O'CO g x ELL, this witness said
that there was no concealment whatever of the body; it was ex-
posed. The wake was a public wake.
Michael Creane—Witness was brother to the deceased. He died
four weeks before last Christmas was a twelvemonth. The de.
ceased was married about four years before Ile was married to
Johanna Moriarty, the prisoner, now the wife of the prisoner Thos.
Lovett. Witness recollects having been sent for to go to his bro-
ther's wake; it was the first intimation witness had of his death.
Witness, when he was at the wake, saw some woman looking at
the body, on the neck. Witness looked at the neck also, and he
observed a black stroke under the neck. Witness slept with his
brother three nights before his death. The deceased was not in
bad health. He did not complain of being ill then the witness
and he slept together. They slept in the house of witness.
Joseph Hobert Cruise—Witness is chief constable of the Barony
of Corkaguiney, where the death wok plate. Witness recollects
that in the month of May, witness was Accompanied by Mr. Twins
on their way from Leteragis to Dingle. Witness saw two persons,
a man and a woman, standing behind a rock in a suspicious MUIR-
don. On seeing them in that situation, witness concealed himself
under a ditch on the road. until they came out on the road. That
man and woman were the prisoners. Witness had heard of the
murder of Creane, and knew that the male prisoner was suspected
of that murder. %Vitness asked Lovett who the woman was that
was with him? He answered witness that she was aria wife. Wit-
ness after that instituted an inquiry into the circumstances attend.
leg the death of Creane, when he traced the murder to the pri-
soners, but slid not act upon it till the prisoners got married, on
the lath of June following. When witness had ascertained that
they got married, he had them apprehended.
The case having closed, the Learnet: Judge charged the Jury,
reciting the evidence at great length.
The Jury retired for &short time, and returned a verdict of Guilty.
Baron PENNEFATIMR then proceeded to pronounce the awful
sentence of the law :—The prisoners had been found guilty of the
most dreadful crime that human beings could commit—that of
murder, aggravated by adultery, and still more aggravated by the
murder on the part of the female of the husband which at the altar
she had solemnly rowed to cherish, to love, and to protect. The
life of that man was sacrificed by the prisoners to their shameful
and abominable lust. The trial and conviction afforded a striking
proof of a very general opinion, that Providence will not suffer the
foul crime of murder to remain unpunished even in this transitory
world. A boy, the offepring of the wretched prisoner Johanna,
was spared to bring to light the foul decd. The prisoners thought
that the youth of that child, or his incapacity, would have pro-
tected them from a discovery of the murder of his father, but God
ordained it otherwise—that boy was preserved to relate the horrid
transaction, which he stated to the Jury, whose verdict had been
just recorded. And here he wished to observe, that the verdict
which they pronounced met with his full concurrence. His opinion
of the guilt of the prisoners he did not express before the Jury had
returned their verdict, because his business was to lay down the law
to the Jury; but now that the verdict was returned, it ass not
wrong that he should say he concurred entirely in its justice. If
the story which the prisoners would tell were true, that the deceas-
ed had fallen in a fit, how did it happen that the prisoners had not
called at the adjoining houses ? Why was not the brother of Lovett
produced ? How came the marks upon the body of the deceased ?
No—irwas impossible to believe the statement made by the Pri-
soner& They were found guilty, and the law ordained that they
bhouhl not be permitted to remain to pollute the VOW for more
than forty-eight hours. They gave not five minutes to their vic-
tim—no mercy in this world could be extended to Them. After
earnestly and eloquently exhorting the prisoners to prepare for
death, the Learned Judge pronounced the sentence.

The following is a copy coi tint Resolutions agreed to at
a Meeting of the British Merchants, held at Buenos Ayres,
on the gel of January last:—
Proceedings of a General Meeting of British Merchants, held at
Buenos Ayrea, the 2d of January. 1b26.
let. Resolved—That Mr. Parish, his Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires, be requested to use his endeavours to procutc from the
authorities of the Government of his Brazilian Maiesty, a prolum
gation of the term specified In the proclamation of Vice Admiral
Lobo. dated 21st December last, by *WO the space of fourteen
days is prescribed as the period only withal which all neutral cos.
ails carrying cargos must depart from the port of Buenos Ayres, in
consideration of the circumstunce that this proclamation did not
rem-h 'Buenos Ayres until the 31st December last, being ten days
after its mconalgation in Monte Video.
2. fttsolve.l—That the request for an extension of time to finish
their loading should extend to all British vessels, at present laying
in this poet, aeconling to the undeementioned list.—Diligent,
Maria, Doris Forager, Sesames, John, Ant, C. de Lima. James
Mysidtord, Larch, Margaret, Berndt*, Cotintess of Liverpool,
Arethusa, Eliza Ann., troenati, Brother, Upton, Mary Ann.
3. That. on a question of so much importdoce to Bluish interests
in Boenos Ayres, this meeting cannot but feel surprised, and cx.
press their regret that the notification of the blocka.•e, which beam
date the 21st December last, and wan made known to his Majesty's
Consul at Monte Video on the following day, should not bare been
immediately transmitted to Buenos Ayres; but that • period of
e.gtat days should be allowed to pass over before such communica-
tion was vent from Monte Video.

4. Th►t Mr. Feriahhefur;;Trequested to endeavour to procure
from the authorities of his Brazilian Majesty, at Monte Video, or
other ports within the dominions of his Raid Majesty, a more
favourable stirangement than at present exists, with respect to the
deposit of British property.
CouN LANs.—A public meeting was held at Birming-
ham on Friday, at which a petition for the repeal of the (brit
Jaws was unanimously agreed to. A. Spooner, Esq. objected to
the &it resolution profaned, because it did not merely ask for a re.
formation of the Corn Laws, but contained a general expression of
approbation of the conduct of Ministers, with which he was un.
Willing to concur; he therefore submitted an amendment, expres-
sive of the opinion of the meeting (hat sufsrient attention had not
been given by Government on the subject. This was agreed to by
a large majority.— Oloneurer Journal.
About two months ago, a public dinner was given at
Port.au-Prince, which was attended by the Gonsubt front the dif-
ferent nations who have residents in Ilayti, and by the leading
mereluurts of that: countries who have not sent,Coosuls.. The Ali-
nisters of the President were there, all proposed several toasts,
among which wai Charles X. The King of England. however,
was not given. Mr. Canning was proposed, and the toast was
drank with enthusiasm, it being considered that he is the only Mi-
nister here who ban recommended the adoption of a 'Maul policy
towards St.J.Mmirgo.

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