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GUI LDIIALL, N0v.30, 1647.
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IRELAND.
MORE ASSASSINATIONS.
DUBLIN, Nov. 30.—Accounts reached town this
morning of the assassination yesterday afternoon of the
Rev. John Lloyd. The Rev. Gentleman was rector of
Aughrim, and read service yesterday as usual in his
church. On his return home he was shot not far from
the church. The Rev. Mr. Lloyd was a small proprietor,
but was understood to have considerable money wealth.
He was very unpopular in his district. A correspondent
of the Mai/ thus announces this frightful outrage :
Mr. Lloyd was accosted on his way by a man, who
walked up to the Reverend Gentleman, and coolly in-
formed him that he had not long to live. Mr. Lloyd said
he was not aware of ever having injured any one. " Oh,
yes, (reponded the assassin), you have dispossessed a
tenant on the Leitrim estate ; ' and then pulling a short
gun from under his coat, lodged the contents in the vic-
tim's body, who expired shortly afterwards.
Another murder was committed in the district of
Islandeady, Mayo, one of the most afflicted of that
county. The account is from a private source, but it
may be implicitly relied upon. The victim is a
porson named O'Donnell, a bailiff i❑ the service of the
Earl of Lucan, on whose business the unhappy man was
engaged at the time of his murder. O'Donnell has re-
cently been brought much into collision with Lord Lu-
can's tenantry. His Lordship's agent, it is understood,
has been served with a threatening notice.
Referring to the savage murder of the Rev. John
Lloyd, near Elphin, Roscommon, the Evening Post
says !—" One letter states that there were two persons
engaged in the murder, both of them dressed in clothes
superior to those generally worn by the peasantry, and
that they appeared to be total strangers in that part
of the country. All the letters concur in the statement
that the deepest alarm prevailed in that part of Ros-
common."
The same journal contains the following :—" We are
happy to learn from the editor of the Tipperary Vindi.
color that Mr. R. Uniacke Bayly is getting on:as well as
can be expected. He continues to labour under feverish
symptoms, nor can it be said that danger has altogether
disappeaied ; but his excellent constitution, and the un-
remitting attention bestowed upon his case, give hope
that he may be restored to health, though for a very long
period hope was very feeble. A statement in the
Evening Mail of Friday, that Mr. Bayly had been shot
at in consequence of the poor-laws, Li wholly without
foundation. We are informed on the same authority,
that the investigation into this atrocious crime was yes-
terday (Monday) resumed before Major Brownrigg,
at Nenagh county goal. Six or seven other persons
were arrested on suspicion, but of the result we are not
able to speak."
The system of agrarian combination is extending i❑
the county of Sligo. A letter from that county states
that " threatening notices have been served upon a
clergyman of the Established Church, who has all
along worked with great zeal and success in promoting
measures of relief. The reverend gentleman, it appears,
has become obnoxious in consequence of his exertions to
have the poor-rate collected in the district. He has
found it necessary for his safety to have a policeman
constantly in attendance."
HALF PAST FIVE O'CLOCK. —I have seen a letter from
Borrisokane, North Tipperary, dated Nov. 29 (yester-
day), which says, "a man was discovered on the road
near this town to-day murdered in the most brutal
manner. He was stoned to death I One stone was
actually embedded in his skull, and the doctor had to
use a pair of nippers in dislodging it. The name of the
unfortunate man is not known. He was dressed in the
ordinary garb of a farmer. An inquest is about to be
held."

Two battalions of the guards and a regiment of dra-
goons are shortly expected in this country, to supply the
place of regiments under orders for the disturbed dis-
tricts. The 92d Highlanders, at present stationed in
this garrison, have received orders to march to Limerick
and Nenagh, and they will be detached to various of
the disturbed districts to aid in repressing crime. They
will leave to-morrow, the orders for their march being
pressing.
The 71st Regiment is also under orders for the same
destination.

The Enniskillen Chronicle says—" Sundry companies
of the 48th arrived here from the out-stations during
the last week, having been relieved by detachments from
this garrison. An officer and party of the 48th Regi-
ment left this day (Monday) for Boyle, escorting ammu-
nition."

The Evening Post, referring to the reorganization of
the General Central Relief Committee for Ireland, says
—" Already the pile of letters imploring assistance is
on the increase. Already have the honorary secretaries
(Messrs. Latouche, Hutton, and APllonnell) commenced
their active labours of inquiry, and a few weeks more
will find the committee again in full operation, and the
utmost extent of their zeal and their resources will be
demanded by a renewal of Irish suffering."
The folior,ing afflicting details are given in the Glare
Journal, received this morning
There are 700 paupers in the Scariff workhouse,
and hundreds daily—nay, hourly—seeking admission ;
with their countenances emaciated and fully depicted
with the destitution that is hourly augmenting in that
locality. The vice-guardians have declared a rate of
7s. 6d. in the pound all over the union. Parents are de-
serting their children there and leaving. One child
was brought into the workhouse yesterday, four years
of age, and could not tell its name."
" Last week, some three or four hundred persons,
men, women, and children, from the parish of Killard,
entered an extensive turnip field belonging to Mr. James
Shannon, of Craganock, and tore away and eat on the
spot the greater part of the turnips grown thereon, to
stay for the moment the cravings of hunger. About one
hundred of these poor people were on the last meeting
day allowed into the Kilrush workhouse."

The Cork Examiner contains a long report of a tenant-
right meeting, held in Skibbereen on Wednesday last.
IL H. Becher, Esq., presided, and some of the gentry,
and several of the clergy, Protestant and Homan Catho-
lic, attended and took part in the proceedings.
DUNDALK ELECTION PETITION.—The sureties for
prosecuting the petition against the return of Mr. M'Ta-
vish were perfected this day at the head police office.
HEALTH OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR.—The Lord
Chancellor did not sit yesterday, and will not do so this
week. His Lordship is ♦ery ill with an affliction of his
chest, caused by cold, and is under the care of Sir Henry
Marsh. It became necessary to apply a blister to his
chest yesterday, and to oblige his Lordship to remain at
home. He resumed the duties of the Court prema-
turely.

THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.—Tuesday being St.
Andrew's-day, the annual Court of the Governors of
the Scottish Hospital was held at the Hall of the Cor-
poration, Crane -court, Fleet street, to receive the re-
port for the past year. The Chisholm in the chair.
Major Adair, the secretary, having stated the amount
distributed in relief during the last two months to hare
been 245/. 14s. id., produced the annual report of
receipts and expenditure. The total income was
3,4421. 6s. 9d., which included 639/. 6s. donations ;
175/. 18s. 3d., one•third of the proceeds of the Caledo-
nian Ball ; annual contributions, 467/. 165., &c. After
discharging all necessary expenses, among which was
the sum of 2,683/. 12s. in relief, there remained a ba-
lance in hand of 1961. 6s. 6d. Of the sum given in
relief 4,973 persona bad been recipients, some of whom
were allowed 101. and some 31, annuities. The Corpo-
ration property amounted to 34,4004 Three per Cent.,
and 5,1001. old South Sea Stock. The report was re-
ceived and adopted. The ciairman then stated, that in
consequence of the resignation of the Presidency by the
Duke of Sutherland, the Duke of Montrose had con-
sented to accept the office. His Grace was accordingly
elected.

ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE OXFORD,
WORCESTER, ♦ND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY.—
NORTON, NEAR WORCESTER, WEDNESDAY.—Another
fatal occurrence has just happened here on the works of
the above unfortunate line of railway, which has hurried
a young man, in the prime of manhood, into eternity.
A coroner's inquest has been held at a cottage here, on
the body of the deceased, whose name is Thomas Poole,
and whose death was occasioned by the following cir-
cumstances:—The deceased was at work on the line
with between twenty and thirty others, when one of the
earth waggons ran off the temporary rails. Deceased
was endeavouring, with Henry Reining and George
Suborn, to replace the waggon on the rails, when the
vehicle and soil overbalanced and killed him on the
spot ! Ho was picked up immediately but life was ex-
tinct in five minutes.

Nsw EPIDEMIC. —Within the last eight or ten
days a new epidemic has sprung up in the city, in the
form of influenza, of a very severe character, which the
present state of the weather greatly aggravates and
fosters. Among the youth especially, the disease rages
to an extent not known for many years, so much so as to
lead to a total interruption of the routine in our principal
academical institutions. Th• teachers of the Edinburgh
Academy found their classes so remarkably thin towards
the end of last week, that some holidays had to be
granted; and yesterday the Lord Provost granted
liberty to suspend attendance on the classes in the High
School for a week, for the same cause. Other seminaries
are reduced to a similar position, by suffering froia the
disease, which, though not serious or alarming, is un-
precedentedly common. On Sunday the churches were
all very thinly attended, and the general coughing of
those present indicated plainly where the cause:lay. A
safe, simple, and efficacious remedy for the influenza is
to wear a good large plaster of Burgundy pitch over the
chest; by so doing, it will not only subdue the distress-
ing cough, and other uneasy symptoms attendant there-
on, but will, if applied in time, act as a sure preventative.
—Edinburgh Advertiser.

On Tuesday, the 30th ult., died, at the house of his
son, at Islington, in the 87th year of his age, Mr.
Thomas Cobbett, the elder brother of the late William
Cobbett. This gentleman was the last surviving of four
brothers.

A GANG OF THIEVES.
(From Galignanis Messenger.)
During the last few months our readers will re-
member to have seen in our columns accounts of the
capture of a numerous band of thieves who, under the
direction of a man named Claude Thibert, particularly
distinguished themselves by highway robberies; and
they will also remember to have read repeated refe
rences to the facts disclosed by the investigations which
were entered into. After several months' preparation
it was determined to bring the band to trial at the
first November session of the Court of Assizes of the
Seine. The capture of the gang and the preliminary
inquiries into its misdeeds having excited public at-
tention to an extraordinary degree, the trial was
looked forward to with intense interest; this interest
was even increased by the pretended revelations of
certain newspapers, to the effect that, besides
the commission of innumerable robberies, the
accused would be proved to have been guilty
of many a dark deed of blood, relieved, however,
by acts of touching generosity and chivalrous
bearing. In fact, the band was represented to be
a set of melodramatic heroes; cut-throats, but
noble-hearted ; thieves, but possessed of every high
quality; outcasts from society, but bearing themselves
as redressers of wrongs ; whilst around them a
glorious halo of devotedness in friendship and
fidelity in love was made to shine; and at the same
time it was pretty plainly hinted that more than one
lady of high degree had abandoned family, friends,
station, fortune, and even honour itself, to join her
fate to theirs. Unfortunately, however, for romantic
readers, not a word of all this is true. The gang
are not murderers, but consist of a sorry set of
knaves as ever figured on the dock of an assize court;
their robberies have been very common-place affairs
—instead of devoted friendship and faithful love, they
have displayed the basest treachery to each other,
and their lady followers and accomplices are neither
fair nor high-born, but the lowest of the low. Indeed,
had it not been for the number of the gang and the
extent of its depredations, the trial would scarcely
have attracted a passing notice. Claude Thibert, as
we have said, was the chief of the band, and it bore
his name. Not fewer than 58 of his accomplices,
11 of whom were women, were brought to trial
with him, but his band was really much larger; a
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to be made in the court to find places for the prisoners.
The dock was filled up with six rows of seats.
and on them the accused were placed, each one be-
tween two g'ndarmes. The appearance thus pre-
sented was very remarkable. A strong farce of gen-
darmes was considered necessary to prevent the ac-
ed from making, as they are stated to have in-
tended, an attempt to escape on their way to or from
the court, and also to prevent the majority of them
from taking, as they had threatened, vengeance on
those of their accomplices who had made revelations.
The indictment was of immense length containing as
much matter as six volumes of romances ; the reading
of its occupied the greater part of two days' sittings.
This document, which was as uninteresting as it was
long, stated that.the number of robberies committed
by the different accused was 119, and extended from
1838 to the arrest of the leader in 1846. Most of the
robberies were of the same character. During the
night the accused were accustomed to rob the waggons
and carts which the drivers left in the public road before
the inns in which they had taken up their quarters.
Generally they made a choice from the contents of
the vehicles, carefully covering what they did not
take; but sometimes they made away with the wag-
gons altogether. They also stole horses and carts ;
sometimes helping themselves to a horse to put to a cart;
sometimes stealing a cart to put to a horse. Twenty
carts and upwards of thirty horses were thus stolen.
They, moreover, at times broke into houses to
commit robberies. They contrived for a long time to
escape detection by making off with great rapidity to
distant parts of the country immediately after perpe-
trating a theft; and as they had numerous depots and
receivers in all directions they had no difficulty in get-
ting rid of their booty. Among the places at which
their principal robberies were committed were Soissons,
Rethel, Verdun, Villers-le-Tourneur, St. Aubin,
Dombasle (Meuse), Troyes, Langres, Nangis (Seine
et Marne), Void, Charcy (Cote d'Or), Valence, Sex-
anne(Marne),St.Didier,(Cfsted'Or),Sicheres(Yonne),
Sandillon (Loiret), Bessay (Allier), Linhs (Oise),
Musaey (Cote d'Or), &c. These places are com-
prised in a zone of about 80 leagues around Paris ;
but the band rarely came very near the capital, and
the thefts they did perpetrate in its vicinity were at
very distant intervals. The appearance of Thibert,
who is about 46 years of age, presents nothing
remarkable, but his features have an expression of
intelligence and determination. He exercised great
authority over his hand, and was spoken of by them
in very respectful terms. When, for example, any
of his accomplices had occasion to allude to him in
the course of the proceedings, they
always called him
Alonsieur Thibert. He ostensibly carried on the
business of a pedlar and hawker, and was duly li-
censed. He went from one part of the country to the
other, accompanied by several men whom he called his
domestics ; and when an opportunity of committing a
theft presented itself he availed hi mself of it, and imme-
diately disappeared with his booty. His activity was
extraordinary—he would commit a robbery in one
spot,
and the next day commit another at twenty
leagues' distance. In the course of his business as a
hawker he contrived to dispose of a good deal of his
booty ; the rest he sold to receivers ' • and when
sales were difficult he lodged it in a depot which
he had hired at Villeneuve St. Georges.
He had more than once fallen into the
hands of justice and had been severely punished.
When he was last arrested, which was
on the 29th of January, 1846, he at first seemed as
if struck by a thunderbolt, and when he came to
himself he cried that he was lost. After a while,
however, he demanded to see the chief of the secret
police, and to him he made a confession of having
been concerned in forty-eight robberies. He at the
same time denounced all his accomplices, both
thieves and receivers. The influence which Thi-
bert exercised over his band did not arise from
any express arrangement between him and
then), but was obtained entirely by the energy
of his character. In the course of the trial he
repeated the fullest confessions as regarded his own
guilt, and stated with great precision the cases in
which the different prisoners were concerned. When
asked what was his profession, he replied, "A
thief, Mr. President—a thief. I have always been
a thief;" and he added, " When I was quite young
I remember having committed robberies with
Jews, who compelled me to steal sacred objects from
churches, and then made me dance on them, saying,
'Now, then, little Catholic, dance on them !' " His
mother, it appears, was a gipsy woman, and died in
a hospital when he was very young, leaving him
without any resource. His father was a criminal,
and, it is believed, died on the scaffold ; but this
Thibert denies. The accused next in importance to
Thibert were—a young man named Dickers, aged
only twenty-four, who was concerned in fifty-seven
robberies, and who, when he heard of Thibert's
arrest, broke into his store of Stolen goods and made
away with the greater part of it; Dufour, concerned
in fifty-seven robberies ; Prudhomme, concerned in
fifty-six ; Chobeaux, an ex Arcot and a celebrated
Mitni-Lepreuil,
Paris concerned
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in only two robberies ;
Roche, an ex-convict,
concerned in a great many robberies. Half
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of the band consisted of receivers of stolen
goods, and among them was a man named Hermann,
conjuror, a German, professedly a street who at-
tracted notice not so much on account of the
enormity of his offences as from being a well-known
character in Paris. Without going into the facts of
the particular robberies in which the different
prisoners participated, which would be a wearisome
and useless task, it will suffice to say that most of
Thibert's revelations were proved to be true, and that
the prisoners in some cases admitted their guilt, others
strenuously denied it. A very old woman named
Roch, alias Richard, who stood accused of having
knowingly purchased some stolen cloth, was particu-
larly decided in her denials. "Oh the liar 1 oh the
liar 1" she exclaimed to every accusation of Thibert
" what could I want with cloth ?" she added. "It
lover," said Thibert. "My lover ; oh
was for your
the wretch ! I had no lover, I swear to God !" cried
the old lady ; "he was only my man of business !"
The old woman kept a public-house, and when she
was asked if the society which frequented it was not
what is called Lien melee,—" Not at all !" said she
indignantly. "No
said the President, "it was not
indeed, for they were all thieves?' The man named
Roche, having denied
that he had committed rob-
beries with Thibert, because, he said, he despised him
too much, the President exclaimed, " What ! you, a
convict, condemned to 20 years' hard labour in the
bagne, you despise him—why so "Yes," replied
the prisoner, " I have the right to despise him ! I am
a convict, it is true; but that does not prevent me
from having sentiments of
honour !,, The woman
Pierrot, accused by Thibert of havingipurchased his
stolen goods, loudly denied it and denounced him as
a liar. " But remember, Madame,"said Thi bert,