The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-02 00:00:00

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__ ACCIDSNT IN IRELAND.
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cstuar, COQINTT itttEWNT, Dec. Ilft.
Aftene of herreeshas hippensa in this town. To-day,
'between twelve and one, the Augustinian Friary Chapel
Wog crowded to excess, some women and children began
es etemplain of the intense pressure. A sudden panic
e„h. staid the congregation, when a cry (perfectly unfounded)
v. " the gallery was giving way, resounded through the
1411k0 I. A frantic rush towards the only door of the gal-
a, . - ety took place. Women and children were instantly
swathed to death or ntirocated, just outside the door, where
lit they fell. Immediately a pile, five feet deep, of the dead,
i siting, and half suffocated, accumulated at the door. A
v. y dm the kitchen (which is under the chapel) was on
h-e ad•led to the terror of the scene. A rush towards the
*Aar broke down its railings. Some were killed in the fall
J. I tnt the windows. Now a heart-rending scene took place,
t -e tuber seeking among the piles of dead and dying, for
tA.welvilti, the husband for the wife, the mother bearing
toe tit ad body of her beloved child in her arms running
I k Itritric through the streets. A fine young woman, a Miss
Cross, twee a neighbour's child over the pile, and instantly
remembering that her own sister was within, she attempted
t , return, but met her death. A mother of nine children*
a: coesiened to die grave! At this hour (eight o'clock at
r flit) two children who were crushed to death behind the
4,101, remain vekeowa, belonging probably to country
people who have not yet heard of their fate. Fourteen
persons are already dead. The number of those who had
I. :token legs, arms, ribs, Re. now under the hands of the
' , amounts to one hundred I
lfr "Were sorry to say the above account is confirmed in
inlet of the particulars by the following extract from a
katenny paper:
1 -'''A meat .Bitting catastrophe happened at Callan an
Mmeday last, of which a correspondent has favoured us
teeth the following account:-
4i •• As the Rev. Mr. Rice was going to celebrate mass on Monday.
the Pith inst. the chapel was immensely crowded, and a poor
• 1,00.1 an the luvly of the budding having given utterance to the
lk aos4hh she endured from the great pmeure, this unfortunately
I ip eahlrad • movement among the people in the gallery, on which a
. report wee that the gallery was giving way, and a second that a
hie bed broken out underneath. The people in the body of the
I level ru.hed to the door and pressed on those coming down from
rs* • • gallery, when six poor women, with three children, lost their
1 tee. and a great number were severely injured by contusions,
lioctured limbs. &c."
W,: are concerned to say, other accounts represent the
fe,tillry as much greater, and one states that five persons
eghlred late on Monday night ; and another that two of the
women who wero killed were advanced in a state of preg-
rit^cr : end a third, that one of the women has left ten
Nt I.llpless children behind.— Leinef er Journal.

ErrN4IOIIDIVARY OCCI'IIIENCII IN • CHLlAcit.—The
following ludicrous and singular scene presented itself to
Os congregation assembled for divine worship on Sunday
r,nisring last, at the par• it church of Penistone, in this
cifootyt—lmmediately on the conclusion of the sermon,
a wan, who during its delivery had paid great atten-
pan, rose up, and after taking off his great coat, deli-
*ktely walked up into the reading desk, and, being
Ohs conspicuously placed between the minister and
eksik, the latter of whom betrayed evident emotions
of astonishment and alarm, the intruder instantly he-
t OM to unrobe himself ; and having thrown off coat,
walareost, and neckcloth, proceeded (amongst reiterated
4........ cries of " churchwardens do your duty," " pull him down,'
4 tarn him out," Sze.) to divest himself of his shirt, exhi-
Slew", an under one of no very delicate texture ; whereupon
simultaneous movement was observable amongst the fair
lift; who impelled he disgust at what they had already
witnessed, or by fear of a further exposure, with one ac-
claret, tumid their backs towards the object of annoyance,
tsy vin the sanctuary and their modesty would most as-
iorcdlll have been more grossly violated and insulted, had
itoi the panic, which at the outset seized the stout-hearted
ehoreliwardens, somewhat subsided, and enabled them to
ismstef sufficient courage to embolden them to undertake
, si et at-roir, the ejection of the offending party from his
£T•' • elevated, - but unenviable station. It appears that this un-
hrfurtste person bolds a large number of notes of the York-
p. .
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',lavas v WITH Posemens.—ln the night of yesterday
Work a desperate affray took place at Nostel Park, in this
elantrity, between six of Mr. Winn's game-keepers and
itaalstants, and a party of nine poachers. The rencontre
ti-st took place near the Willow-Barth, and the poachers
:out* desperately, during a compulsory retreat of more
it t mile, which occupied upwards of an hour. The
cocks of the firm-aims were shattered to pieces, and the
conthatants used the barrels to sustain the fight. After an
obstinate conflict, the poachers were driven from the
't.eld, but this was only effected by considerable injury to
i the •ketsyrn ; besides severe contusions, two of them are
ceritmsly wounded, and confined to their beds; one was
'cot In the belly with a sharp instrument, so that his bowels
/ , lrotrutleti. Of the poacher one had his arm broken, and
'the rest oust have been ieverely beaten. On Monday,
three of this desperate party had been taken, and we urs.
t elgrstand they are from the neighbourhood of Royston:
'lwo of them have been committed by the Rev. %V. It.
.. Hay, and the third is admitted King's evidence.—Yeek-
OA.tt taper.
. _ ' Liairtno BUNGLASY.—On Wednesday night last, the
.7tlgthe for Mr. Simpson, hatter, 1)::::sgate, was broken into
•'lll, flirting up the mei-irate, by which means the thieves
! .iliitted sem; So the cellar. From thence they had proceeded
to different parts of the house, and had even entered the
_ IIF bed-mom in which Mr. Simpson and his son slept. They
had taken Is. Bd. from the pocket of the son and
"lir. Smpson's gold watch, chain, sod seals, from his bed-
• side ; with which, and a quantity of wearing apparel, they
... got off entirely unheard, and the robber, was not discovered
Until the family arose in the morning. Yesterday (Friday)
Afternoon, however, a man dressed like a sailor went to the

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4 ;bop of Mrs. Walluien, pawnbroker, in Deanagate, where
be offerel Mr. Simpson's watch in pledge. The shop-
lean had not at the time received any intimation of the
' rchhery ; bot still there was something in the appear-
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snag of the man which he did not like, and he therefore
girestioned him bow he came by it. The man replied
I that he wit a s 'Roy, and had punt:estd it abroad.
4 "Very well," said the Rhopnian, " then you will have no
obslection to go with me to the police-office." "No," said
.tt the ntan, "not the least." They therefore set out to.
on theig„way to the police-office; but when they
iarised at the end of Peter-street the man ran off as fast as
be could towards St. Peter' gCI arch. The shopman cried
• 'tent " stop thief!' lint, Iffeegfrihe man passed envoi per-
KISS, 110 one of thcnt attempted to stop him. Fortunately,
' hillefver, he turned into a small street leading towards the
Quota's Airetinr,-house; and finding that there was no
iogh egress at the oth-r end, made his way into a back yard,
whe'? he bolted himself up ; and the persons who came up
.44 .to the sentence of the shopman is re obliged to break the
. dew down before they could get at him. He turned out,
• when enured, to be an old offender, named Peter Dalton.
wig lodged in the New Bailey, and will be brought up
saminatit.

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