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London, England, 1818-10-22 00:00:00

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DUBLIN. OCTOSTA
The Lord Lieutenant is expected on his re
Urn
from his,proviiicial tour on the %id instant.
The Michaelmas Quarter Assembly of the Cor.
potation of this city was held 'yesterday, at which
thanks were voted to the Lord Maior and
and the freedoni of the city was Unanimously voted
to Mr. Grant, the oew Secretary to the Lord Lieu-
tenant.

Yesterday was brooglit on at
°the Custom-house.
before the Commissioners of Customs, the 1641 'if
Nicholas Ftehinghain, licensed grocer„. ot• Nit.
Kevin•s.street, for the wile of deleterious ..r
imita%ioooo tea. Several witnesses we►e ex4iiittit 41.
sad the Court, after u 'patent hearing, pronounced
jud►;ment aga►ustihe Defendant, in the penalty of
4701. Au appeal was nntnediately lodged by the
Defendant.

St icipc—We perform a nffice in slating
that a most lamentable suicide was committed on
Thursday intoning. about nine &Clock, by a nisst
respectable wad lowig-establi-bed resident of Ca!itle-
Street, who cut his throat in no deepoint ettectiod a
manner as to produce instant dissolution. The
unhappy gentleman was in large and opulent busi-
ness. The causes which have led to the rash and
untimely deed bare not been clearly ascertained.

WATERFORD. OCTOBEK 17.
On Tuesday tht Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord
Bishop and family arrived at the Palace. Since
that day there arrived successively at the Palace. nit
visits, the Right Hon. the Earl and Countess of
Mayo. and Mist Mary Fitz Clarence ; and the Lord
Bishop of Ososory, and the Hon. the Dean of Ussery.

COUNTY K I IDA RP'S ESSIONS.

At the Sessions held at the town of Kildare, in
and for the county, David 'FleiuiuK, innkeeper,
was arraigned on an indictment, charging hiw
with an assault and battery on George &rani,
Gentleman.

Mr. Mile Nally stated the case, in which he de-
scribed the offence to be an as-autt and battery of
a most atrocious nature, committed by an athletic
unfeeling man out Mr. Evans, an unotfending
youth. He understood that a jonstifiesition of the
battery was to be set up, but a mere assault was no
jestilication of rancour, rage, stud cruelly. It
would appear that Mr. Evros, without any cause,
was dragged from his horse upon the pavement at
Momistereven, anti without airy provoentiou given
by him, was beat, kicked and trampled upon in
so inhuman a mtwner, that in some bite nfier he
was afflicted with a violent inward bleeding and
n fever on the brain, which threatened a cost.
sumption.
Mr,- Evans deposed that he was a collector of
rents, mud other motors, fur the Mews. Boomers,
proprietors of publ►c coaches, and had. by their
dace lion. canted a carriage that used to stop at
Fleming's Itt tt at Monastereven, to stop at another
lon, more convenieut to the passettgerti. That on
the day laid in the indictment, as he was riding on a
high horse iu the town. without stick or whip, the
Prisoner Caine up to him, and asked " Yaw dore
you interfere in my fussiness?" called him a scoun-
drel, • rascal, and other opprobrious narnes. That
being irritated at suck abuse. he turned round his
horse. to inquire iuto the cause, when the Prisoner
seised hint by the leg, and attempted to throw him
off the horse; that in order to sloe himself, be got
his arms round the Isbriel neck. when the Prisoner,
with his clenched fist, struck him repeatedly on the
face, injoreil his eye, and caused a quantity of blood
to flew From his nose; that lie then pulled him
from the home by the collar of Isis coat, and as he
lay prostrate and helpless ou the ground, kicked
him and trampled on him, until he was rescued by
a strange young gentleman, and brought into ■
shop. where he was bled. Ile described the conse-
quential illness which lie had suffered wider, and
swore Dr. Ireland imputed it to the ill usage under
which he haul suffered. _

Oii this gentleman's cross-esseuinatinn hy Mr.
Thorpe, an attorney, he positively denied that he
had spit in Fleming's face previous to his being
beaten; or that lie had env design to run his horse
and push him inoiliat Fleming, at the time he
turned• him round.

Mr. Thorpe slated a case for the Defendant, the
object of which was to justify the batter) by skew-
ing a previous assault, vied called
Mr. Duane. a shopkeeper in the town. This
witness admitted all the facts sworn to by Mr.
Evans; hut was positive that he, when stooping
down from his horse, spit in the Prisoner's face.
Another witness was called to the same fact ; he
also admitted the beating of Mr. EMI!, which he
called " a sound ',egging ;" and, on his cross-ex-
' amiaation, acknowledged he could 'sot be positive
to the spitting, in consequence of the situation in
which he (witness) was placed.
The defence war rebutted by a woman, who po-
•itivrly swore that Mr. Evans did not spit at the
Prisoner, and that he cupid not spit at him with.
out her seeing it.
The Chairniati stated the law t he admitted that
an assault did not constitute a battery—but to spit
in a man's face was a battery. and would justify
the blows. The pond depended on the credit giveu
to the witness, and this he left to the Jury.
The Jurv, after long con►ideration, returned •
verdict of 0144; and on the mkt day the Court
sentenced the Prisoner to pay the Prosecutor lU.
coats, a nominal hue to the Crown, and to remain
in gaol till the same was paid, with the consequen-
tial fees.

COMMUNICATION WITH ENGLAND.

(From the Dublin Freeman's Journal I

We have just seen a report or the state of the
roads between London and Shrewsbury. It is ably
draws. up, and serves to throw considerable light
upon the difficulties which prevent the arrival .•f'
the mails at Holyhead, in due time to be forwards
ed to this country sufficiently early for their Ma.
pinch, by the evenin►t coaches, to the interior.—
ludependently of the inconvenience suffered by ha.
vellera, and persons residing et s distence from the
metropolis, in consequence of their tinn•arrival
previous to the hour st which liar country mails
leave Midis., a very serious injury arises from
the delay, both to the mercantile world and the
Proprietors of Newspapers, as it rarely oceurs
that the ►ua:l comes iu before stereo ti dock et

night, *hick being towiato:ror delivery, dh.•
elicit is not much benefited by knowing that Itttrr.
have urrived for him, which will not come to b•aA
before the usual post hour next morning ; and t.,
Those concerned iu the public pteav, iintead
being a service, it is a positive inconvenience to
receive English papers so' late, as the arratigemenis
for the next day's publicatioh• are, usually, almost
completed by that time, and the receipt of London
Jourpsla very frequently renders wholly ostler ar-
rangements which had previously cost touch labour.
By the arrival of the mails before right Wel,
iii the evening, .all these dillculties would he ....-
tartly rctrioved ; the Engirli and fureign litter•
nod popery would im on their progremi through tht:
cutrufry several hours sooner than Is till' e.i.e
sent. The delivery might take place the saint!
evening in the city, by which the mercantile world
would be greatly benefited ; and the conductirs of
.public prints would receive their papers in suffi.
tient time to allow every arrangement for the fol-
lowing day's publication to be duly attended to.
To return to the report which has elicited the fore.
going rsmarka, it very ably points out the irljudi-
clots* methods of road-making between London
and Shrewsbury, snit plaioly.shews that the defect
in the line of communication is to be attributed
rather to the

want - on. the part of the
surveyors and engineer., than to any deficiency
either of money or materials. It appears that
the general plan, except in a few instances, is
to overlay the road with a miXture of clay and
gravel, whit► makes the way elnicist impala:LlAO!
in wet weather, the very best horses being
ul-
able to give a proper draught through such heavy
roads. The roads through Wales will voo►t he suf.
ticiently good to admit the trait to travel at the rate
of eight wiles an hour; and if the trustees of the
English part of the road were to use sufficient acti-
vity to allow of the same rate of travelling, there
is no doubt but the mails would arrive at Hal)head
iii sufficient time to reach Dublin before the depar-
ture of the country coaches. The time at present
required for conveying the mail from London to
Holyhead is 38 hours. This enables the packet to
leave Holyhead at 10 a. es. which gives only ten
hours fur the arrival of letters in time for the d►lpar-
ture of the Irish mails. If the English part of the
road were sufficiently improved to permit thotitilitat
at the rate of eight miles an hour, the consequence
would be, that the mails would arrive at Holyhead at
six a.m. and whenever the wind was fa►r the packet
would be in Dublin soon enough to admit of tho
Dublin letters being received and answered that
evening, and the country letters could be dispatch-
ed by
_the Dublin mail coaches. The great I Ai:
culty seems to lie in the different Turnpike Acts
vetoing powers in the Commissioners of the different
Boards. which seem not to produce the intended
effects. It would be well if some legislative re-
gulations were made to ensure a coustnnt control
over the proceedings of the surveyors, twisted by
the advice of able engineers and experienced rood.
makers. It is Mated, that good materials can be
easily procured along the entire line, and it w►ll be
readily allowed, that there is no want of pecuniary
resources, when the sum of 36,000/. is received is
tolls between London and Shrewsbury annually.

01 skill,

MURDER.

[FROM A PARIS PAPUJ

A horrible murder was committed on the morn.
ing of the I.3th, on the person of a woman named
Vignon, an innkeeper at Chatillon, a village about
a league from Paris, and on her female servant.
Vigiton, a mason by trade, was absent in Paris,
where he resides during the working season. On tha
evening previous to the assassination, the unhappy
woman had permitted a man, named Foulard, a
chasseur of the guard, to sleep in her house. Sitspi.
ciotis arose against this individual, in consequence of
there being some•Jrops of blood on his clothes. a
recent wound on his hand. and a gold watch in his
possession which belonged to the woman Vignon.
Foulard, however, attempts to explain these sus-
picious circumstances in this manner had, he
rays, been drinking part of the evening with some
persons whom. he did not know, and having teat
himself down half drunk, he fell into a ;narrow'
sleep. Awakening in the morning he could not see
his sabre, and searching fJr it through the house he
found it quite bloody. lit wiping it lie cut him.
self. He declares that it was by chance he found
the watch, which probably the robbers had dropped
after perpetrating the murder. Foulard, however,
has beets committed to time Abbaye, aid will be
tried by a Council of War.

PRICE OF STO
Rank Stock 273
3 per Ct. Red 764
3 per Ct. Conk 77 77
31 per Cent..B6 854 86,
4 prr 95;111
5 per Ct. N. Au. 1074 i;
Bunk L. An.. 20 1-16 41
Imp. 3 per Cent. A u.. 76,

BIRTHS.

At Dublin dutle, the Lady of Gustavus Lauthart, El of
Beau Parik,eoaaty Meath, uea daughter.

lo Muer tjoy-square, Dublin, the Lady of Edward A Wal-
ler, Esq. of a sun.
On Illuuday last, at Desart House, the Right Ilun. the
Countess of Desert, or sow and heir.
Oa Tuesday =Gruen, iu Graftoe.slreet, Lady RIM,
• son.
Oa Monday last, the Lady of George Eyre, Esq. of ‘‘.:,t
• Wilts,uf a daughter.

MARRIAGE.
Oe Tnesday, !he 10110emt. •t Plli eit y It, .I't
Brywirr Reicher, E,q. eldest sun 4.f Andrew 4.1
/*nee Ludic, Itorhamptua, Esq. ki Maris, ircuuti J.,';1.1. r
efittirpb Aleack, lir Rocha miaow, Erg.

DEATHS.
Oa Wednesday, the 14th instant, the infant son of IY-,
Henry Keck, Surgeon, Chelsea.
Oa Theesday last, at Colebrook, in the 37tb year of
age, Richard Oriel Singer, Esq. of Chinnenhant. 11 "-
lately of the 3IJ regieitet, in which be d in the l'eio‘.
Walchcren,bc.

HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON
Muffling RI after 7. I Eveuin Si after 7.

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