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IRELAND.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
DUBLIN, DEC. 3.—This day's post brings nothing
more striking than the particulars of an ineffectual
attempt to assassinate a magistrate in the county of
Monaghan, Mr. Johnston, of Ivy-hill. The Fer-
managh Reporter gives the following version of the
affair :
" On the night of Thursday last, the 25th of No-
vember, at about the hour of six o'clock, Mr. J. W.
Johnston, justice of the peace, was fired at from be-
hind a d:tch, convenient to his own residence, Ivy-hill,
while returning from Einyvale Petty Sessions; but it
is fortunate, that being enveloped in a strong thick
woollen cloak, the shot, which consisted of slugs,
only took effect on the gentleman's arm, above the
elbow, which, although seriously injured, is not in
such a state as to cause any apprehensions to be
entertained as to the wound proving fatal. No rea-
son can be assigned for this diabolical attempt upon
the life of a respectable magistrate, and one who is
beloved and esteemed by all who know him. And
no clue has hitherto been found that might lead to
the discovery of the bloodthirsty perpetrator; but it
is to be hoped, however, that through the vigilant
exertions of the police, and the peaceable disposition
of the people of the neighbourhood, he may yet be
brought to condign punishment."
The Erns Packet, however, assigns a reason for
the commission of this atrocious attempt on life. It
is as follows :
"It appears that Mr. Johnston had been lately
employed in his magisterial capacity at the petty
s-ssions of Emyvale, hearing several- cases of com-
plaints on the part of the collectors for levying the
rate for repayment of the loans under the Relief Act.
The people had arrayed themselves in opposition to
the collector, and offered the strongest resistance to the
payment; and it would seem that a preconcerted
plan had been formed from the beginning
to oppose the levying of the rate, under
various pleas, some from inability, and being
characters of reckless desperation who have nothing
to lose ; others under the plea of the extravagant and
careless manner in which the relief was distributed.
This led to the litigation and disputes between the
parties, and in which Mr. Johnston, as one of the
magistrates, was called on to preside, and in which
capacity he endeavoured to arrange and amicably
settle the matter in dispute ; in which, however, he
failed ; and the business of the court over, he was
returning home, it being somewhat late he was riding
fast, and when but a short distance from his own
house he was fired at from behind a thickset hedge."
Amongst other reports rife during the week,

Was said that an attempt had been made upon the life
of Lord Crofton, and it now turns out that there was
a solid foundation for this statement, inasmuch as his
Lordship has been obliged, by the interposition of
his friends, to leave Ireland, and thus escape the
otherwise inevitable doom that was, beyond all doubt,
known to await him here. Lord rofton's estates are
situated in the county of Roscommon.
With respect to the state of the above-named cowl*
the following sketch is furnished by a correspondent
of the Evening Mail:—
" The late Rev. Mr. Lloyd ejected no tenants.
lie told an intimate friend, a short time since, he I
would not, but would rest on his oars for a while, till
matters came round. In order to feed the neigh-
bouring poor, last winter and spring, he killed his
own sheep ; and his wife, while assisting in dressing
and distributing the food, caught an almost fatal ill-
ness ; whilst his sister, who resided with him, has de-
voted the whole of her time, for many years past, in
the most active benevolence; she, last season, distri-
buted several hundred pounds to the poor of Elphin
and its neighbourhood. Such-is the family that has
had its head murdered within an English mile of his
own house.

" A secret conclave sits in the town of Elphin,
and a few days previous to the murder of Mr. Lloyd
had held its Satanic council. Several clergymen in
the neighbourhood of Elphin and Strokestown are
soon to fall victims; their names were distinctly men-
tioned in these towns, with the sentence added, that
they must be shot.' They have had no immediate, or,
in fact, anycennaxion with land, and their only fault is,
that they were the friends of the late Major Mahon
and the Rev. John Lloyd, and that, as has been said,
they fed the poor last year to bring them to church ;
they shan't do it again.' One of these clergymen
narrowly escaped assassination last Sunday, by his
having returned to his house an hour earlier than
usual—two men were in wait for him. It is no longer
an agrarian conspiracy, but a religious and political
one. Every Protestant who would support order is
marked. Parties of strange men, armed, are con-
stantly seen in the neighbourhood of Boyle, Elphin,
and Strokestown, and it has been ascertained that
several are inhabitants of Munster.
" The Coercion Bill will be a nullity. The Go-
vernment will be unable to disarm the people. The
disturbances in the county of Cork in 1822, long
before the fatal Bill of 1829, showed the almost im
possibility of any vigilance of the Executive sufficing
to take up the arms; and what will it be now? The
Protestant spirit of the north, the Protestant spirit of
England—ay, and of Scotlacd, must be awakened."

COMMAND NIGHT AT THE THEATRE.
The perflrmances last night at Hawkins's-street
were honoured by the presence of the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon. The theatre was crowded
to suffocation ; not a seat was unoccupied in box,
pit, or gallery, and numbers left who were unable
to procure even standing room. Their Excellencies
on their entrance were greeted with unanimous
plaudits; but as the performances proceeded there
was considerable interruption, caused by cries of
" No coercion," from a knot of " sympathisers" in
the upper regions, intermingled with a few faint
hisses for the Viceroy, which were speedily drowned
by counter-cheers from all parts of the house. The
Premier was not so fortunate, his name having
evoked a storm of disapprobation, which was followed
by a lonely cheer for Mr. John O'Connell, and a
somewhat warmer one for Mr. Smith O'Brien. But

the uproar was not at its height until the national
anthem was commenced, when the manifestations of
displeasure were most unequivocal. For nearly five
minutes not a note could be heard; eventually, how-
ever, the st'irm wore itself out, and the rest of the
ev.ning passed over without any further serious
attempts to mar the evening's amusement. The play
selected was Much Ado about Nothing. Mr. and Mrs.
Kean sustained respectively the parts of Benedict and
Beatrice.

larity which it was his fortune to attain among all
creeds and classes of his fellow-countrymen.
STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.
SATURDAY.—Three per Cent. Consols, 851 8.5 ;
Three. and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 8641 I; Bank
Stock, 194 ; Wicklow Copper Mine shares, 11 ; Great
Southern and Western Railway, 23 ; Midland Great
Western, 141.

UNFINISHED PUBLIC WORKS IN
IRELAND.
A deputation of Irish Members of Parliament had
an interview with Sir William Somerville on Satur-
day in reference to the unfinished presentments under
the Labour rate Act. The following gentlemen at-
tended:—Sir Lucius O'Brien, 11-.N.M‘Namara, Wil-
liam Monsell, Henry A Herbert, Maurice O'Connell,
John O'Connell, Edmund Burke Roche, Timothy
O'Brien, Francis Scully, John Somers, and John
O'Brien. The appointment of the interview was
made at a late hour the night preceding, which pre-
vented a yet more numerous attendance of Irish
Members.
It was stated that the object of the deputation was
to procure from the Government the necessary ad-
vances to complete the unfinished presentments under
the Labour-rate Act, not by grant, but by loan,
which the country was willing and would be fully
able to repay. These presentments, in their present
condition, were a waste of property, perilous to life,
and an utter forfeiture of past heavy expenditure. It
was estimated that an inconsiderable sum. as compared
with the outlay already made, would complete them,
and that it was a false and miscalculating economy for
the Government nor to withhold the necessary aid. The
deputation had been instructed that the Government
were about introducing a Bill to enable the counties
of Ireland to present for their unfinished roads, but
such, in the now prostrate condition of the country,
would be unavailing, unless accompanied by the ne-
cessary advances for their execution, which should be
punctually repaid by yearly instalments, as had been
done in all fanner advances under the Board of
Works. The -iteputation suggested that such a
course would be but a prudent security for the re-
paymmt to the Government of its past heavy ad-
vances, which they apprehended an insuperable diffi-
culty in collecting, should the landed proprietors and
rate-payers of the country feel that they have derived
no advantage ifrom the outlay, and that it has been
expended in the creation of public nuisances, for un-
finished presentments could not be otherwise consi-
dered, and in the obstruction of the public highways.
They added, that the question was one et great
urgency. The unfinished works were rapidly dete-
riorating, and it was no exaggeration to say that
each month's delay added some 20,000/. or 30,0001.
of future additional outlay to the already overbur-
dened resources of the country.
Sir William Somerville expressed much regret at
the statement which had been submitted to him; re-
ferred in some detail to former deputations which had
waited on the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland ; feared
that the financial distress of the country would pre-
vent a compliance with their application ; gave a brief
outline of the Bill in contemplation ; promised to
communicate with the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and that he should feel most happy in advancing,
should it be in his power, the important objects of the
deputation.

We are instructed that the Irish Members have
since communicated with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, and solicited an interview early in the
ensuing week. We should add that it was suggested
by members of the deputation that should Govern-
ment be unwilling to make the necessary advances,
the counties of Ireland should be enabled to borrow
from private parties on the security of the county
rates.

THE IRISH BAR.
(Continued from the Law Review.)
The Court of Common Pleas presented a grand
spectacle on what was then called one of its " field-days"
at Nisi Prius. Every avenue was crowded long before
it opened, and when it did awful was the uproar! Aloft
sat Norbury, with the glow of Bacchus and the cheeks
of }Eolus, immediately below him his fidus Achates,
Jackson ; and right opposite the two regular gladiators
of the place, Tom Gould and Harry Grady. Ah, these
were days, indeed, as Madame Junot calls those of the
empire. Tom Goold and Harry Grady were racy
originals ; and, like Fletcher and Norbury, human
antipodes! Goold was a little man, all airs and graces,
exquisitely fastidious, a master of everything, judice
Tom; and, taking his finish and his attainments together,
rated himself somewhere between a Crichton and a
Chesterfield! He sang, he danced, he argued, he rode,
he declaimed, he even brushed his hat better than any-
body in the world! Harmless vanity, counterpoised by
a thousand sterling qualities. An excellent Nisi Prins
fencer, he rose at times to a high order of eloquence. A
pamphlet, published by him in early life, in answer to
Barite's celebrated " Reflections," attracted the notice of
that great man, and procured him the distinction of an
invitation to Beaconsfield. Had Goold been contented
with the world's estimate of him as he really was, all
would have admitted him to be an eminent man. But
he sharpened censure, and at times excited ridicule, by
aspiring to be, what no man ever was, in every art,
trade, science, profession, and accomplishment under the
sun—a ne plus ultra. This foible was carried to a pitch
almost incredible. Expatiating one day on the risk he
ran from a sudden rise of the tide, when riding on the
north strand, near Dublin, he assured his hearer, " had
he not been the very best horseman in existence, he must
inevitably have been drowned—in short, never was
human being in such danger." My dear Tom," his
friend answered, " there unquestionably was one in
greater, for the poor man was drowned there that very
morning." "By heavens, sir," thundered out Goold,
" I might have been drowned, if I choose!"
Such was the man upon whose harmless eccentricities
Harry Grady delighted to practise ; and in Munden's
prime, broader farce was never witnessed. Grady was
like Goold in stature, but of clumsier formation. To a
rich fund of Irish fun and constitutional vivacity he
added at times a vulgarity not his own, for the sole pur-
pose of shocking his antagonist. It was a most amusing
thing to see Goold recoiling from what he manifestly
considered the humiliation of such a contact. His face
looked horror—his fastidiousness was in convulsions,
and his agitated dignity, truly ludicrous, as he affected
alternately to despise and disdain what he could not
avoid enduring. All would not do. The ground an,
lofty tumbling was irresistible, Grady actually seemed
to revel in drollery. The broad jest and eternal chuckle
now disgusted, and now distracted Goold. But, poor
man, what was he to do? If he politely remonstrated,
Grady blandly told him "his relief was in equity." 11
he turned to the Bar, the titter was but suppressed—if
to the gallery, they were all in a roar—and, if in his
despair he looked up to the Bench, there he saw Norbury
rolling to and fro, his face radiant with undisguised
delight. It was on such occasions that the late excellent
Dr. Shepherd, of Gateacre, used to excuse himself for
frequenting the Irish Common Pleas, on the humorous
ground that " his profession withheld him from the
theatre, and he was very fond offarce." Goold possessed
powers of eloquence to which
Grady knew he could
not aspire, and his sound common sense forbade the am-
bition. But he was not wanting in a counterpoise.
Upon features capable of the most comic expression, he
performed a running accompaniment to the other's
sublimities. When Goold was in the clouds, Grady cut
capers on the earth, to which gravity was a stranger.
Often enough when Tom soared highest was he horror.
stricken at the roar with which the pantomime of which
he was unconscious, checked his flight. One of Grady's
most efficient weapons was his right eye I By the mere
dint of winking it seemed much smaller than the left
, and so much did he rely on it that he thus one day
accounted for a fit of despondepay, very unusual with
jury eye is out
him,—" My dear fellow,
rmbitrtuearinetdhings too, pleasantly
of order." He could say
enough; but the honey did not always extract the sting.
Allusion has been already reluctantly made to Norbury's
taste for a capital conviction. Chafed during a trial he
4
took his revenge by thuosfaall
judgeuding haveit:—
‘ heardTlie of, who incident
reminds me, my Lord,
was never known to weep but once, and that was in a
theatre." "Deep tragedy, I suppose, Mr. Grady."
'
"Far from it, my Lord. it was at the Beggars Opera,
when—lilacheath was reprieved:" This fitted but too
well, was voted fact by acclamation, and became of Nor-
h tradition.
bury's life the least apocryp a verybody
said it was so natural that it must bea
_tvruoe. Both these
Goold
men were very able Nisi Prius
died about
became a Master in Chancery, and bout a year ago.
Grady held the lucrative office of counsel to the Com-
missioners of Customs, and in a green old age still enjoys,
he d
unenvied, a well deserved prosperity. Long may
so.* So much for the Common Pleas, tempore, Norbure.o
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.e regret to state that Mr. Grady died xheu 8 eon -
tibution was in the press.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]

The following affecting incident is mentioned in
a letter from Wesel, published by the Co/o9ne G
of the 21st.:—" Captain M— having received a letter
anuoancing that his son, who was at the school for ca-
dets, was dangerously ill, immediately sent off the mo-
ther to attend to him. On her arrival she was informed
that her son was dead and in his coffin. She visited the
13,,dy, and the lid of the coffin being removed, uttered
piercing shrieks at beholding its contents; but her grief
was soon turned to joy, for suddenly the young man,
who had only been in a state of lethargy, opened his
eyes, and with proper care has been restored to health."
SUPERSTITION—A respectable married woman,
living in Gloucester-street Winchcomb, having a daugh-
ter subject to fits, consulted a travelling woman who
pretended that she was able to cure her. A saucer con-
taining some fine salt was placed on the table, and in the
middle of the salt the mother deposited two shillings.
The saucer having been covered with a hat, the old wo-
man knelt down near it, and pretended to pray, she
then left the house, givingatrict orders against the remo-
val of the hat for one hour. When the hat was removed,
wonderful to relate, the shillings had yanished.