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acribiug the use of arras and the flat;
people were unjust and absurd, butt
in 1748, abolishing the hereditable
vesting the administration of justice)
Sheriffs, was a wise and salutary meast
of vassalage and military service was itil;)4M%-
law was substituted for a purely despotic pbit.i 12r., It%VII
•
a vast change has been effected in the bit dent
With little trade or industry—scarce a public road or
communication—arts and agriculture unknown or ger
lected, we wonder how our ancestors could drag out Rx-
istence. The wealth of the chief lay in the number of
his clan, not in his rental. When Macdonald of Kep-
, poch was asked the amount of his income, he replied,
"I can raise five hundred men." Those men, however,
• were miserably lodged and fed—subsisting often by
plunder--and at all times dependent on the character
and caprice of their natural lea ler. It was a state of
things that could not last—a form of society alim_ to
Vie spirit of the British Constitatien. But under it mem
many a generation of brave men, and flourished Lazily
virtues. We may rejoice that its harsher features ht.ve
disappeared, and that the cause of Charles Edward was
not the successful cause. His weak and obstinate cha-
racter, his prejudices and connexions, would have en-
tailed upon us another struggle for constitutional liberty.
But with these admissions, we may recollect, with pride
and emotion, that the Highlanders of old v,ere not un-
worthy their beautiful and magnificent country_ .They
were brave, loyal, and generous, and incorruptible in
their fidelity. These high qualities were devetoped in
the Forty-five, and though a century has now gathered
over their fame, interposing many a deed of glory since
achieved, they still shed a lustre on our national history.
The field of Culloden is therefore hallowed ground. ft
is not an Agincouit or a Bannockburn, but it is a great
landmark in our Scottish aiinals—an index to a state of
society gone by for ever—a record of the last ravages of
civil war in this kingdom—and a touching memorial,of
unfaltering faith and devotion, supported by high but
unavailing bravery. May its green graves be always
sacred !

PRICE SD.

IRELAND.
A nrivAL OF INDIAN CORN AT GALWAY.—The Dee
steamer arrived in our roadstead on Thursday, with 100
tons of Indian corn meal. The cargo was on Friday
discharging and placed in the stores engaged for the
purpose. 1.17 e understand that a gentleman from the
Commissariatssarlat Department is now in town, and we trust
that, with. possible dispatch, arrangements may be
made for distributing the corn among the people at a
very low rate. But the cry Is for work, work, work.—
Galway Mercury.
There are about 500 families without food, or means of
procuring it, in and about. Athlone, on the Connaught
side of it.—Galway riutheafor.
DISTRESS IN ANNAGIIDowN.—Wo regret to learn
that distress in this locality prevails to a most alarming
extent. The people of the place have openly declared,
that if employment be not immediately given, they can
no longer withstand the distress they are labouring
under. By this morning's post we have received a copy
of resolutions adopted at a meeting held there on Mon-
day last for the purpose of raising subscriptions to
afford temporary relief.—lbid.
EMIGRATION.—THE THREATENED COERCION ACT.--
As we anticipated some weeks ago, this has proved a
busy season in the passenger trade ; hundreds of well-
clad peasants may be seen crowding our streets and
quays daily, preparing to leave their native shores, to
seek that employment in a strange land which they
cannot procure at home ; and the worst of it is, that
the emigrants are nearly all of the better class. Com-
forLble small farmers, despairing of being able to sup-
port their young annilies, make up «hat money they
can, and take leave with a sigh of the land of their
birth, in the hope that they will meet with happier for-
tunes and brighter days on the other side of the Atlan-
tic. It is said that some persons are induced to emi-
grate from a dread of the Coercion Bill ; it is certain
that the country people have a grest terror of that mea-
sure, which they anticipate will completely deprive them
of all liberty.—Sligo Champion.
ARREST ON A CHARGE or MURDER.--On Monday
last, Thomas Sullivan, charged with the murder of
Michael Lyons, at Athlone, on the 21st of la,t ra'.nth,
was arrested by sub-constable Ross, of the Ballydangon
station.— Western Star.
CAPTURE OF A "BLACK MAIL" GATHERER NEAR
lllLLTowx.—lnformation was given to the police sta-
tioned at Hiiltown, on Tuesday, the 14th inst., that a
person of a gentleman-like appearance was levying, net
war, but taxes in her Majesty's subjects of that neigh-
bourhood, under the name of poor-rates, to collect which,
he said, he had been commissioned by a gentleman in
Mourne. He had, it appears, received a considerable
SUM from the unsuspecting people before sub-constable
Hugh M'Alary went in quest of him. Not readily did
this modern O'Hanlon change the freedom of a free-
booter for the close captivity of a "dungeon vile."
Never did "fleet Camilla scour the plain" more nimbly
than Rody the Rover trod the sod, for five miles, over a
mountainous country, before the pursuit of justice. He
was at last, with much difficulty, ran down and captured,
after a little resistance, by M'Alary, and marched to the
police barracks, where he was committed to Down-
patrick gaol by J. Scott, Esq., J.P., to awaiA his trial at
the next Quarter Sessions to be held in Newry.—Belfust
Vindicator.

GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.
PAIBLIN, APRIL 21.—Mr. Pollock, the clerk of the peace
for the county and city of Dublin and thirteen other counties
in Ireland, died on Monday, at Mountains -town, his country
se it. The demise of this gentlemen will create several
vacancies, which will be filled up by fifteen separate ap-
pointments.

COMMISSION COURT.—TUESDAY.
FINAL ACQUITTAL OF MIN. SCOTT.
Mrs. Mary John Scott, the lady who was on trial during
the entire of last week, and who was acquitted upon an in-
dictment charging her with marrying Anthony Galway, in
1821, her former husband, James Carter, being alive, was
this day again placed at the bar, and indicted for marrying
Mr. John Bindon Scott, of Cahirron, in the county of Clare,
the same Carter being alive. This case, which is now finally
disposed of, is perhaps one of the most extraordinary
bigamy cases upon record. It appeared that, in the year
1812, Mrs. Scott married a person named James Carter, in
Letterkenney, in the county of Donegal ; in the year 1821
married a Mr. Anthony Galway, Carter being then alive ;
and in the year 1833 married VMr. Scott, both Carter and
Galway being alive. Shortly after the last marriage
she was indicted fur marrying Scott, Galway being alive,
and was then acquitted, by proving that Carter was, in . point
of fact, living; and on Saturday she was again acquitted
upon an indictment charging her with marrying Galway,
Carter being alive, by proving the illegality of Carter's
marriage, it having been celebrated by a Presbyterian
clergyman, and one of the parties being an Episcopalian
Protestant. The case came before the Court upon an ap-
plication for a postponement of the trial until next com-
mission, on behalf of the prosecution, but it was opposed
by the traverser's counsel, on the ground that the evidence
as to religion in both cases was similar, and that a case should
not be postponed to enable parties to obtain evidence which
they had years to collect. The Court was in favour of the ob-
jection, and accordingly the traverser was arraigned in the
usual orm, and acquitted for the third and last time, no evi-
dence having been offered for the prosecution. The acquittal
was grounded upon the law in the celebrated Presbyterian
marriage case of " the Queen v. Mills," which was decided by
the House of Lords a couple of years since, and upon which
the late Irish Marriage Act was passed.
THE WEATHER.
A most unfavourable change has taken place since yester-
day. Last night the rain commenced falling in torrents, and
continued without any intermission up to post-hour this day.
It is, besides, as cold and raw as though it were the month
of January ; and should the weather not speedily take up,
the worst consequences, as regards the prospects of the new
crops, must be apprehended. The spring has been already
an unusually late one—vegetation being extremely back-
ward, and much out-work remaining unfinished. in truth,
there is no disguising the fact, present appearances seem to
justify the gloomiest prognostications of the alstrinists.

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