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on them, unless they were settled therein the Ist of De-
cember, 1830, and have still retained their domicilc"—the
Minister of Justice invites all foreigners so circumstanced,
to "present the necessary certificate to the Government of
the proiince which they inhabit.
_ . .

... • BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bftussus, Jan. 11. '
Actual Debt, 24 per Cent ,
llothschikl's Loan, Five per Cent
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent

Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per; Cent lS3i'
Batik of Belgium, Five per Cent ll4
—Brussels Papers, Jan. :2.

IRELAND.

INQUEST AT COURTBRACK.
(Abridged from the Cork Evening Herald.)

COURTERACK, SATURDAY.—On my arrival at this place
about one o'clock to-day,,l found a subaltern's detachment
of the 3d Dragoon Guards with a large party of Police oc-
cupying the field near to which the unfortunate affray be-
tween the Bailiffs for Mr. Beresford and the country people
took.place. There does not appear to exist that very great
excitement in the minds of the people of this neighbourhood
which I had anticipated, as I noticed several in its imme-
diate vicinity pursuing their agricultural labours without the
slightest. embarrassment imaginable. The place where
Hudson was murdered and Mahony shot, is quite close to a
bridge on part of the abutment of which the blood of one,
and that one in all probability the former, is visible. The
localities'of this place are few and simple. Situated about
eight miles from Cork it is approached fur a considerable
distance by a straight line of road, along which several of
those Tithe defaulters lived, upon whom the Exchequer pro-
cesses were to be served, and at the end of this road is a
steep declivity of a serpentinenature which leads quickly to
Courtbrack-bridge, above alluded to. The foUowing is the
report of the Inquest up to the latest hoUr of post. The
Coroner, James O'Brien, Esq., did not arrive until half-past
one o'clock on Saturday. With the exception of three or
four the jury are all composed of Roman Cathelics.
Major Galwey, Major Miller, Mr. Fitzgerald, J.P., and
several other Magistrates and gentlemen were in attendance.
The Rev.-Air. CAHILL, P.P., had not the least idea of
the great notoriety which the unfortunate occurrences in
that parish had gained already, until a few minutes before
—a sensation would be created in consequence of it, he said,
throughout the United Kingdom. In fact, he might almost
say, throughout Europe at large. It• would, he doubted
not, form the object of much Parliamentary enquiry ; and
therefore it was the more necessary at the present time to
have the whole occurrence investigated with the fullest pos-
sible precision. He wanted, by a strict and impartial in-
vestigation, to elicit the whole truth, because it was a ques-
tion betwberi man and man, respecting a burthensome im-
post which the people were both unwilling and unable to
discharge. Yes, lie would repeat it, they were both unwil-
ling and unable, and it could only be by probing the present
catastrophe to the bottom that this fact could best be ascer-
tained. There was not aquieter parish anywhere, he main-
tained, than the parish of Inniscarra, and therefore he was
the more unable to form any judgment of the reason the
present•conflict had arisen. But as it had, and as it drew
forth Major Miller and an entire bench of Magistrates, he
thought it would be well to ascertain fully the real facts of
the case, which could not be that day arrived at.
The CORONER said, that Major Miller had every right
to be present, and• that he . came there in his proper ca-
pacity.
The Rev. Mr. Cahill said, that might be very true, but
then the case had altogether been anticipated. A letter
had appeared in the Constitution newspaper of that morn-
ing from the Rev. Mr. Beresford, which had now been read ;
but he would advise its readers to bear in mind the motto
audi alteram parlenz.
The Rev. Mr. Beresford said, that in the letter alluded
to, he made no observations favourable or unfavourable to
either side. He did not state in it that his drivers were,
not to blame ; neither did he say that the opposite party
were unblameable-4e merely related the entire series of
circumstances which had preceded the occurrence, 'and the
awful consequences which had ensued. He was anxious,
none more anxious than himself, to have the . peace pre-,
served ;-'but laws were laws, and as long as those laws re-
mained unrepealed, so long were the people bound to sub-
mit to their fullest requirements. In the present instance
ho (Mr. Beresford) was enforcing a demand which the
laws sanctioned, for the parties who were serving the pea-
santry who opposed had every right to accede to the dicta-
tion of the superior Courts. Both sides would, he hoped,
conduct the present inquiry in the most amicable manner.
The first witness called was
Richard Barter, Esq., M. D.—l cianiiin'ed.tlie'bOAy of
Richard Hudson ; I. found several large cuts on the head
apparently, inflicted by a sharp instrument ; i observed.
another injury which appeared to have been given by a
very sharp pointed instrument posterior to the left ear ;
this last was a punctured wound ; I observed another
large lacerated wound on the crown of the head, appa-
rently inflicted by a . blunt substance ; the skull was
fractured in different parts, and the brain protruding 'at one
point . I observed no other injury ; these wounds I have
thus described were in my opinion the. immediate cause of
his death—the wounds were made in the front—they were
mostly on the side and top of the head—he received suffi-
cient in all, in my opinion, to kill ten men.
Abraham M'Can—l live in Cork, in Blarney-lane ; I
am a weaver ; a cotton weaver ; I was present at the
death of the deceased, Richard Hudson : I was employed
to serve law processes for the Rev. Mr. Beresford ; eight
men Isere employed for the purpose ; we left Mr. Beres-
ford's house on Thursday night last to serve them ;
they were to be served in the parish of Inniscarra,
I suppose ; I am sure it was in the parish of Innis-
carra ; I think it was for the recovery of Tithes ;
I held them in my, hand, they were read for me ;
Mr. Beresford gave them to me in person ;' he gave
them to me at the Glebe House ; he ordered me to serve
the houses with them ; he said " the houses ;" he desired
me to go into the houses and leave the orders ; Richard
Hudson, John Hudson, (brothers) 'William Hudson, James
Richardson, George England and William England, accom-
panied me on this occasion ; there were no others present
with us but the eight ; we all came ou't from Cork to Mr.
Beresford's house ; two men named Denies Sweeny and John
Williams met us there ; we came away altogether from Mr.
Beresford's house to execute them ; we stopped at Mr.
Beresford's during Thursday night ; we commenced serving
the people about half-past seven o'clock yesterday morning
on this land denominated Courtbrack ; I served but one
order ; there were two of us together, Williams and myself,
serving this order ; we separated from each other at one
part of the road, to meet again further on ; the order I served
was on a man named Barrett ; we stopped at his door until
it was opened ; we then rushed in and served it ; there
were persons in the house ; I saw a man in his shirt
and trowsers inside who folloWed us out to the door ;
we arrived at Barrett's house something earlier, but waited
until seven o'clock in the morning to serve it ; we then
walked away from the house at the side of Burns's, a good
way from Barrett's ; the entire ten of us then met on the
road together ; it was shortly after we left Barrett's house
that we met on the road ; we were standing :consulting
which way .we should go home ; the people then assembled ;
they shouted at us ; we moved on the road, and they threw
stones at us ; we inten4od to proceed back to Mr. Beres-
ford's house, finding that it was useless to continue longer ;
we walked smartly on the road, when the people shouted ;
we took no notice of them ; they were shouting on the
road and in the fields ; they were collecting more and
more ; they continued to throw the stones until we came
down to where the deceased was murdered at the bridge ;
we ran, some of us faster than we were well able ; I was
myself struck with stones several simes, and in various parts
of my body ; when we were running, the deceased was
about 20 yards in the rear on the road ; he cried out " mur-
der," and we turned about ; they were battering him with
stones when we turned about ; he was then standing by
the side of the road, with one foot in the dyke and the
other on the bank ; he held a pistol extended in his hand ;
he swore that " if they wouldn't keep off, he would shoot
them ;" the greater part of the mob were in the rere of
him ; there were about one hundred people present, if not
more, consisting of men, women, and children ; I saw the
stones flying at him in abinidance ; plenty of them ; he
again screeched out " Murder, murder." I then saw him
fire the pistol, and he and the other deceased fell ; Hudson
fell first ; they [were about five yards asunder. Mahony
stood on the centre of the road, and the other at the side
of it. I knew none of the persons who' were throwing the
stones ; some of them were stripped. I think I would
know them again, if they were dressed in their clothes ; a
great number of the people were stripped. They then pur-
sued the remainder of our party, but almost all stopped
with the two who were killed ; we were followed by them
a considerable way down the fields between the road and
the river.

---By the Rev. Mr. Cahill—l think the definition of an
oath is, that he who swears falsely damns his soul ; we all
drove from Cork in a jingle ; we stopped at a public-house,
Langley's, on the road, and took a glass of whisky each ;
we had a pint of it between nine of us'; we came then to
Inniscarra Glebe, where we got neither porter nor spirits ;
we brought no arms from Cork ; the arms were given to us
by Mr. Beresford, who charged them himself with powder
and swan drops Che gave me the papers, five in all ; I can-
not read well ; the papers were read for me.
By a Juror—The reason Hudson didn't escape was be-
cause he was an old man, and consequently unable to run as
fast as the rest ; the deceased man, Mahony, was about
fifteen yards from me at the time the shot was fired ; I was
determined to shoot another before I would lose my own
life ; Mr. Beresford never gave us any orders respecting
the way we were to use the fire-arms ; I heard one man
desire the crowd not to throw, while another cried out
" Bouile, Bouile, throw on."
The COROI4It then adjourned the inquest to Monday
(this day), to Mathea, at the hour of ten o'clock.