The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-11-29 00:00:00

CLONMEL, NOVEMBER 23.
On Tuesday night last three houstai were burnt .;
on the lands of Knockane, parish of Tahberid, on
the estate of the Earl of Glengall. The houses
were at the time unoccupied, sad we regret to
add, that no doubt exists the burning was a mall-
clone one._
We are sorry to st .te that on Tuesday night, as
Mr. James Ryan, of Kile, near Thurlea, was on his
return home from his daughters, he was waylaid
and barbarously murdered. Plunder was not the
aim or three concerned, as money was got in the
pocket of the deceased when his remains were found
next morning, a considerable distance off' from his
road, where the body must have been dragged. Mr,
Ryan was shove 80 years of age. and so opulent
and highly respectable farmer, very much esteem-
ed. To deal in any conjectures as to the motives
of his murd , would be mere idle speculation.
An inquest has been held on the body—Verdict,
" Wilful murder against some person or persons
uulenowo."—(Clonmel Advertiser.)

THE KEELMEN OF THE TINE.

The great body of the keelmen of the River
Type, we regret to state, still continue refractory.
The Tyne Mercury says, "In the memory of the
oldest person connected with the coal trade, there
has been no stoppage that can form a parallel with
the present, in point of duration, or from the ob-
stinacy, cunning, and determination by which the
servants have Sitiiinguished themselves in resisting
the fulfilment of their engage tiros. They do not
perceive that this perseverance affords another ar-
gument against their deserting, their employment.
That such a number of men could for so long •
period contrive to subsist without working at all,
will no; sorely be adduced as a proof that their
wages were jusufficieut to prevent them from starv-
ing. We are not ntending that their earnings wete
as greet es ought to bet but this is not the ques-
tion. They have been encouraged to hold out thus
long, not because their situation is more pitiable than
it was, pot because this is • time of greater pressure
than any other, for there is no foundation fur either
supposition. They deserted their employment at a
time whets they knew their services were in the
greatest requisition, and they hoped to profit by
the necessititi of the coal-owners. They Inset been
iisdacird to delay their return to their dirty from
the.. hope that they will at least gain some-
thing, and this expectation has been strength-
ened by the knowledge that in former stoppages
some advantage has always been obtained.—
The resources of the coal-owners are now. however,
greater thin; at any former period, and such, indeed,
that with the protection of the civil authorities sod
the marines, the inconveniences to which they are
subject are comparatively trifling. The exertions
of the Magistrates and police' have enabled the pro-
prietors of the majority of the collieries to get so many
keels up and down the river, that the keelmen have
ceased to appear of the first importance. They no
longer hold with any success the attitude of intimi-
dation. They have fora considerable time past per-
sisted in insulting and annoying the keels in their
passing, though navigated by seamen and others,
and protected by armed boats from the ships of war.
° The marines have fired repeatedly upon them on
those °cessions, but without doing any execution..
This emboldened the refractory to take greatsr
liberties, and the civil authorities found themselves
called on to publish a declarstiotl, that I the
marines had orders to fire on the first man that
shall dare to throw a stone at them.' This
threat was carried into effect on Fridsy last,
when a person of the name of AARON M,Aaa,
• glassman, who had mingled with the keel-
men, received a wound in the thigh, and has
since been committed to prison. The keelmen
have not confined themselves to an interference
with the craft passing in the river, but have sunk
several keels moored on the Shore-side, and thus
prevented their employment when they were re-
quired.and the tide answered. The increased vigil-
once of the police and marines, it is h'oped, will at
least prevent any successful attempts at violence,
or any further interruption of the navigation of
the river. There appears at present greater pro-
bability of these deluded men-returning to their
engagements than has hitherto been observable.—
Their own necessities, the additional resources of
the coal-owners, and the increased vigour of the
civil authorities, cannot fail to effect, at no distant
period, an object now become so desirable. The
most unequivocal symptom of this conclusion oc-
curred yesterday, when part of the keelmen belong-
ing to the Northumberland Wall's End Colliery
Returned voluntarily to their employment. Those
are part of the men mentioned iu our, hat as having
been acting as trimmers, while the trimmers offi-
ciated as keelmen. It is singular perhaps (and cer-
tautly highly creditable to the individual himself),
thit one of the skippers who have this returned to
their employment is from Dunston, where the chief
meetings have beedherd, and where the strongest
opposition seemed to prevail..llll name rs SA.DIAR•