The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

SINGULAR AND AUDACIOUS RoBBERV.—SaMe time after
twelve o'clock on Saturday sight, the coach-house of Mr. Draw-
gook!, of Kilinashogue, was broken into, and a jaunting car, harness
and cushions actually carried away over • high wall and removed
into town, where the car was yesterday fornd at a toach-maker's,
on Redoomd's-bill, ready prepared for new painting. The coach.
maker stated to the magistrate that a man, whose person he de-
scribed, had left the tar that morning in order to have it painted.
A hone laden the saute eight front .11r. Drumgoeld, has not yet
been discovered.
ACCIDENTS.—OR Sunday, an elderly woman, named Byrne,
fell into the Canal near the Aqueduct, and was drowned. The
same day, • boy named Clinch, aged about 14 years, the son of
poor parents in the Liberty, was drowned when swimming in •
quarry-hole, near Dolphin's Barn,
A vast quantity.of the seed Milan will be saved this season in the
counties of Limerick and Clare. •
The fast of Canoe:, held on Thursday last, was productive to
those who had prime meat pigs to sell, but stock of any other de-
scription was not in demand, nor were the holders Mined re-
munerating prices for what they had to dispose of.
The fair, of Drogbeda on Thursday. was scantily supplied, as is
usual at this time of year, when the saving of the crops occupies
the almost undivided attention of the farmer. High prices were in
general demand, but few sales were effected.
The gentleman who has succeeded Mr. Chief Constable Browne
in the county Wexford, is a Roman Catholic, and discharges his
duty with rigour.—Cloaniel Adteraer.
Armagh Lunatic Asylum, containing. 97 apartments, is nearly
complete. An Asylum will also, it is thought, be erected at
Ballast.
An order has been received to commute the sentence of Death on
the following, who were consisted at the county Limerick Assizes:—
Richard Green and John Armstrong, of the 29th regiment, for
robbery at It _thkeale, to twelve months' imprisonment; John
Kennuly, fur rubbing the mother of a soldier of the Rifles, to
eighteen immths ; John and Pterick Cromer', shoepmealiog,
eighteen months.
11 EA r DLR.—During the last slx weeks we have had the
finest possible weather in Dublin and the neighbourhood. The
(mina ail kinds are I,l...up:rout and abundant, beyond those of any
season within our recollection. Hay, potatoes, wheat, oats, fruit,
, vegetables, &c. &c. arc all in grem quantity end of excellent
quality. From the 15th of July, to the 15th of August we had
scarcely a drop of rain. During the last fortnight there were
occasional " :-1111111lr showers," but nose that could be in the
least degree ilijanous to the harvest, or even ur.pleasant in their
effects. Or. t.,entlay night, hmeever, • change Genial:4l. about
nine o'clock, the city and country round, fur at least six mile.,
were covered with a dense fog. Towards morning it dispersed,
though not oompinely ; and the weather contitated fair until three
in the afternoon, when a very severe and awful storm of thunder
and lightning, accompanied with tonents of rain, came on and
lasted about hall an hour. The evening cleared up afterwards.
but there was some rain again at night. We have pot beard of
any damage doe by the swan.—Freeman's Journal.