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rRELAND.

DISTURBED DISTRICTS.
(From the Dublin ('urrespondent, Nero. 28.)
ANOTHER HORRIBLE MURDER..

Letters received in town this day from the neighbour.
hood of Kannada, mention the assassination of Captain
Waters, who lived near the town of Newmarket. This
dreadful deed was perpetrated on Sunday night last, and
the letter which communicates the intelligence was writ.
ten the rollowing day.
Alien:plat Assauination —On Sunday evening the 25th,
as Mr. Wigglesworth, of LisnAdurnagh Mills, situate
wr.hin two miles of Roscommon, was returning home,
a shot was tired at him, by a person %% Ito was concealed
behind a hedge. Fortunately the ball only tore a part of
the gentlemait's coal, without touching his laxly. As
the mare on which he rode started at the shot, he was
thrown on the ground, and before he could rise five of
the assassins rushed on him, lUr die purpose of instantly
dispatching hint. He immediately cried out for mercy,
and as soon as the villains discovered by his voice that
they had mistaken the object of their vengeance, ihry
allowed him to depart without any injury. There is a
gentleman its the neighbourhood of the place, who
strongly resembles Mr. ‘Vigglesworth in dress and size,
and who rides a horse of the same colour, as Mr. W's
'HAT, and as lit is obnoxious to the peasantry, probably
he was the intended victim,

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noway. Dec. I.—The Yeomanry, we understand,
are to be called out throughout the country; orders
to this effect, it is said, have been dispatched in all di-
rections. The Revenue Corps hare received circlets to
embody themselves. There was a mei ting of Yeomanry
Officers 'at the Castle yesterday, when it was resolved,
we learn, to put the Coy Yeomanry on permanent lay.
LIMERICK, Nov. 28 —Burning of a (,Karel—Ott
Friday night some villains maliciously set fire to the
Parish Church of Knockaue, near Killarney, in the
United Diocese of Arillert, and totally consumed it,
with a number of Bibles and Prayer-Ir oks contained
therein. '('he churchwardens of the parish were also
threaened, a kw days before, with either loss of life or
property. if they did not desist from collecting the
Church Cess.
It MA very generally reported, and communicated to
us by letter, I root a very respeciable gentleman in Tralee,
on Saunday, that the house of the Rev. Edward Nash,
at Larchville, near Trak'', was also attacked on Satur-
day night by the same gauc, who murdered Maj. Collis,
and that Mr. Nash was wounded in the breast. We are
happy to find, by a hoer received yesterday from that
gentleman that the report is groundless:
Sir H. Dillon Massy, Bart. and the other gentlemen
of Doonas stud its vicinity, County Clare, have formed
an armed association, and entered Into excellent regula-
tions for the preservation of the peace of their district.
Lord C. Manners, 3ti Dragoons, Newcastle ;
Colonel Dick, 42d Highlanders, Ratlikeal ; and Lieut.-
Balfour, 40th Regiment, Newcastle, are appointed ma-
gistrates of the County of Limerick.
Yesterday a detachment of the I Ith regiment arrived
here from Cork, with anus for yeomanry corps, to be
forwarded to the County of Clare. Some cases were
also deposited by the saute party its various towns in the
counties of Cork and Limerick for like purpose.
CORK, Nov. 29.—8 y a letter received in town at an
advanced hour yesterday, we learn Our on the preceding
(Monday) night, a party attacked the house of Captain
Curran, also an officer on the half pay establishment,
and a nephew to the late Master of the Rolls, in the
same neighbourhood, from as hoot they demanded arms ,
which not appearing disposed to comply with, they
dragged him out. and probably would have murdered
bins also, but providentially, that a gentleman, who hap-
pened to dine with NIT. Curran, found the arms, and
gave them up, upon which they went off.
WATERFORD, NoT.29.—Connvnitted to the county
gaol yesterday, by Henry Alcock, Esq. Michael Walsh,
charged with being one of the party of five, who feloni-
ously entered the dwelling-house of Thomas Walsh, of
Williamstown, on the 28th of September last, and took
thereout one blunderbuss, and several articles of wearing
apparel.
On the night of Sunday last some miscreants entered
the stack-yard of J. Elliott, near Tempo, polled down
a number of stacks, and dispersed the grain and hay in
such a manner, under the rant, a. damaged both beyond
recovery. This is the same person, we learn, whose
newly-built house, before he had removed to it, was le-
velled some nine or ten months ago, by a similar violent
proceeding.
Outrages in the founts of Rosconurion.—On last Toes
clay night the house of Captain Master, in the parish of
Moore, near Liallmasloe, was attacked and entered by a
bauditti, who demanded fire-arms. Fortunately there
%sere nn tile•arnis in the
and beating a s..ru ant w Ito attempted to tre•
vela them, they d; parted, without taking any thing with
them except a lowlier-horn.
Ott the night of the 2.2 d an armed gang entered the
house of one M'Creevy, near?. Fatryinottitt, and after
having threatened to shoot hint, look from I a gun.
A letter from the C y of Kerry mentions, that a
Memoir to Government, praying for the reitinactment
of the Instirteci. Act, is handing about for siguattires
among the gentry and principal Inhabitant% under the
rancitim of the high sheriff and persons of leading taw
tatee. It was thought adviseable tilt ur call a pithhc
meeting. winch by to cessarily withdrawing persons or
enn.ultration and pinaterly front their houses Ito a day,
would leave the titaitraettis au easy opportunity of phot-
o, ru.g them of ante sin t heir at settee.
(Front the Dublin !intend of Tiewloy.)
There is nut pane' in ;nv work or int irtler—.,ul rage fol..
bon s upon ont.aAe, and almost every hour brings fresh
t insros or the foulest and must appalling excesses. To-
day, it is our duty to add to our records of crime, two
cases of the most savage and heartless barbarity—the
assassination of an innocent woman, sleeping by side of
her husband, and in the midst of her babei ! the uli•
tempusl murder of het huslmud, and the plunder of his

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dwelling I—in a county, too, in which deeds of such
atrocity are novel in commission, and whose population
had not hitherto been infected by the lawless and incen-
diary spirit of neighbouring communties I—Really, the
heart sickens at the details of the countless barbarities
which now crowd the pages of our public journals—the
disgrace with which they cover us is almost mama!, and
we fear indelible.
To-day. the billowing letter was addressed to us by a
gentleman of high distinction, resident at Boyle, in the
county of ROSCOIIIIIIOII.
" Boyle, Ll:c. 3.
" Sir,—Referring to my last letter, written in great
hurry, I have now to inform you, that the murder was
perpetrated on the night of the Ist instant ; the circum-
stances respecting it are as follow :—Tince ruffians, with
their faces blackened (one disguised in woman's clothes),
forced their way into a shepherd's cabin near littocka-
doo, within three miles of this place, when they lit a
candle, and demanded whiskey—but the shepherd, who
was in hed with his wife, told them he had none: they
then drew from under his bed a ox. worsens was con-
tattled 41. in bank-notes, the property of his master,
which they took. Perceiving the shepherd about to have
his bed, one of the villa i its immediately stabbed him in
the left breast, with a bayonet, which he had fixed to
the end of a bludgeon, and which the shepherd seized
amid wrestled Isom ; in the mean time, however, he
was stabbed by another 4.1 the savages in several places
with a knife, part of which was lett in his bo.:y. He
made his escape, running across two fields to the cabin
of a neighbour—die blood gushing from the wound in
his breast to such a degree, that the door of the cabin
where he took shelter, and al,ainst which he reclined
until opened, was cempletely covered, and the colour of
the stood nearly extniguished. %Viten the shepherd
had effected his escape, the inhuman miscreants stabbed
his wife in several parts of her body, and fractured her
skull with a piece of wood which the poor family had
used as a candlestick—leaving tier quite dead by the side
of a sucking infant, and two older children, in an ad-
jacent pallet,
" The shepherd is still alive, and may recover, tho'
his case is at present very doubtful. He has given in-
formation against one luau, and another has been appre-
hended upon suspicion, from what transpired yesterday
at the liquor.
" There is no doubt entertained that the shepherd
knows the three savages that murdered his wife, and that
they are known to a maid servant, who was in the house
at the time, yet the dread of being murdered prevents
them from even communicating their suspicions; but
both declare. that they can identify the perpetratots of
this dreadful deed, if 'brought before them.
" Henry Fry, Esq.'a magistrate of this county, has
been very active ob the occasion, and 1 have tto doubt
will cause the other two suspected persons to be appre-
hended,—Constables are in search of them "

On Wednesday night a paper was affixed to the post-
office of Clonmel, mentioning that many proclamations,
besides the one offering rewards for discovery of the out-
rage at Tubber, would be necessary The saute night
water was poured into the receiver of the said post-of-
ffice, to the injury of several letters therein derosited.
( Front the Duttin Morning Post of nesday )
That active and spirited magistrate, W. Coitus, Esq.
Captain and Adjutant of the Kerry regiment of militia,
suspecting that a quantity of arms was concealed in the
neighbourhood of O'Dorisey, Liana, &c. no the night
of Sunday last ordered out a detachment of the staff o
the regiment, and aided by D. M•GtilcuJdy, jun. Esq.
late of the royal navy (who volunteered his services on
the occasion for two days and nights in succession), made
a strict search to a considerable extent in that part of the
country, and succeeded in seizing upwards of 30 stand
of arms, besides pistols, bayonets, swords, &c. which
were yesterday brought in here by the detachment, and
lodged in the military stores of the regiment. Too
much praise cannot be given to these gentlemen for
their prompt and useful exertions on this occasion, and
for the persevering spiirit with which they continuA the
search, notwithstanding the severity of the weather, the
darkness of the nights, and the badness of the roads, in
an intricate boggy country ; and it is but justice to the
detachment of the Kerry stall to say, that they perform.
eel this laborious duty with the greatest zeal and alacrity.
We hope all the other magistrates of the county and pro-
vince will follow this laudable example ; by measures
equally prompt and efficacious, nu doubt the diabolical
spirit of insurrection, now so prevalent, would speedily
be stipprested.
4pprehcruion of two more oithesuppored Murderers of

Majo► Colas.
TRALEr, DEC. I.—A matt of the name of Gallivan,
who is charged with bring (113 e of the murderers, was
apprehended yesterday evening in Listowell, by the ac-
tive magistrate, Dr. Church, whose zeal and efficiency
stand so CUIIVICUOUS at the present moment, and is most
creditable to our county. It having been understood
that Gallivan, who is an inhabitant of this town, had
gone to Listowell, intimation was sent to Dr. Church to
this effect, who instantly proceeded, in company with
the gallant Mr, Kitson, to the house where Gallivan
were understood to be, and found bun in company with
two other persons. Gallivan made some show of re-
sistance, bin Dr. Church, potting a pistol to his head,
caused him to surrender, and secured hint. Out his per-
, ton was found a bank post-bill for Got, Iss. 1 id. which
appears to has e been alicrul from nit. 41.
A suspected character, of the name of Pninbvide, has
also been arrested by Sir John Godfrey, Hart. of Mill-
town. Both of these men are to be transmitted this day
to the comity gaol, We CPT happy to state, that the
utmost activity pervades the whole county, tor the ap-
prehension of the monsters concerned In tins murder.

The gamekeeper of a certain noble Marquis shot
a fox a short time ago, immediately before the nose
of the Duke of Gration's hounds. The gentlemen
of the hunt are extremely indignant at the occur-
rence.

COMMON COUNCIL.
On Thursday there was a Court of Common Council
held, for transacting various business, more particu-
larly for the receipt of the report respecting the knights.
bridge affair. The Lord Mayor (Magnay) too) took the
chair at twelve o'clock.
HIS MAJESTY.
The Lord Mayor having taken his seat, coinmuni.
eated his Majesty's answer to the City Address and invi.
tation to dine with his lordship. It was read, and or.
dered to be entered on the Journals.
Mr. Alderman Ilitowse complained to the Court of
an indecent canvass that had taken place after the acci.
dent which had taken place to Mr. NVontner, the Mar-
shal, when the City was taking up the Address to the
King. That gentleman he was happy to communicate
to the Court, was considerably better ; and he was happy
to be able to add, that he thought Mr Woutiter would
soon be able to resume the duties of his situation, nut.
withstanding the severe accident which had befallen
him.—(Hear, bear.)
Several reports from the Committee cm City Lands
were then received, read, and referred hack to the Com-
mittee to see them carried into execotirm.
The officer of the Court then _read the report of the
Committee of General Purposes, which censured the
want of arrangements on the part of the constituted au-
thorities to prevent riot and lt at Knightsbridge and
elsewhere ou Sunday, August 26; that the measures and
conduct pursued by Mr. Ald Waithman were most wise
and prudent; and that the Committee had not heard of
the inquiry promised by govermnent having been com-
menced.
It having been moved that the report be adopted,
Mr CLARKE moved, that the evidence be produced
and printed.
Toe Lord Mayor after a long debate put the question,
that the evidence taken by the Committee of General
Purposes be produced ; and that the further considera-
tion of the report be postponed to the next Court day, to
afford time for the evidence being produced and trans-
mitted to each member.
Motion agreed to.
The Court, having disposed of the remainder of the
business, which did not possess any public interest, ad.
jourited. The Court was by no means fully attended,
but below the bar was crowded.