The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-27 00:00:00

DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE.

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We are sorry to hear that a gross and serious outra
was committed on the morning of the 18th instant, in t,,e
parish of Clonleigh, about two miles from Lifford. A m
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named Tinny, a Roman Catholic, had been, a few
since, employed as a servant by a widow named W7,e.
whose husband, a Presbyterian, a farmer of the inns'„;er
spectable description, died some time since. A Ynui,7o
daughter of the widow, aged only 15, was indueea,;fiv
maid-servant resident with the family to elope with li„npo.
on Friday last. Her flight having been immediately cus:d
vered, she was pursued by her brothers and friends, joie
recovered. Such threats were used by Tinny at that toe
that some young men were induced to keep watch in ay
widow's house, and prepared with fire arms to resist -tbe
attack that might be made. About 1 o'clock on:t 1
morning of the 18th, the house was surrounde by, ,:,15,
conjectured, 50 or 60 men, many provided with fire 3";iltli
Previous to the party reaching the house, having inetAsstile
a neighbour of the Wilkies, named Atcheson, they ha" hi"
precaution to make him a prisoner, in order to prevent de
alarming the neighbourhood. Tinny, their leader, bat
manded admittance, which was refused. Being asked tilis
he wanted, he replied, his wages. He was informed that biro
would be paid, as there was no wish to withhold frora,ilV
any thing to which he had a right. He then required not
the wages, but the girl. He was informed that they were Po
pared to meet an attack, and would fire on them in the leo
name, if any violence should be used. The house haviagiarge
then assailed on all sides, the windows broken in with ugh
stones, and the muzzles of several guns presented th;;,gea
them, a shot was fired through the door by one of the bes',„."
party, which was immediately returned through the 1
door by one of the assailants, and a fine lad,
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the girl, desperately wounded. The wounded boy,
only able to use one arm, returned the fire, but Wit.cio
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effect—the ball having lodged in the door-post.
(having put to bed her wounded child) finding furtherilich
sistance useless, opened the door, and with feeling's v‘v ft°
may be conceived, but not described, gave her dauAite'or
the ruffian band, which, with yells of savage triunizsl3lb
ried her away. A few hours after the occurrence? 3110
not of condolence, but of business, was made at the NcLu;so,
house, by the Rev. Mr. —, Roman Catholic clergYofr
and a proposition made by him, that the consent of theos
mily should be given to the union of the parties, which, for
indignantly refused. In the course of the same daY, of
mations were lodged before Captain Humphry, Jn,astlpcori
the Peace, by one of the brothers of the girl. fri for
Nixon and Dumas, chief constables of police, visit. lea'
family, and obtained such information as we trust nee'
to the apprehension of those concerned, and thereby eient4
a brothe
the importation of this southern- system of brutal
into a district hitherto peaceable.—Londonderry seal'

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
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VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE'
The London Merchant, Mow 11; from Hambro' ;
Morfee, Antwerp ; Waterloo, Stranack, Dunkirk ; Petri'
Paul, Tarragona; Brilliant, Parker, Guernsey ; tinion,t;roier'
Gravelines ; Charles, Hayes, Teneriffe ; Commerce, F°l3,
Calais ; Struggle, Hay, Griswold; Mersy, Bayley,

does ; SusseaCßoxley,- Demerara.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, Aug. 96' Wilscril;
TheJonge Joanna, -, for Antwerp ; Searchp4 1`;0r,
Rotterdam; Mary, Gunstan, Lisbon ; Sir E. Barifost
wood, Rotterdam; Gusina, Taddy, Rotterdam an' sooe.
dam; Branch, Currie, Teneriffe; .Christiana Packets
Christiana; Liberty, Pain, Boulogne.
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CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGOES, AUO• ,26, p
The Dove, Meaby, Guernsey; Diadem, Airth,doiro:
Good Hope and Algoa Bay; Columbine, Corbin, irasl;.„,l
Sir E. Banks, Norwood, Rotterdam; Commercialoool2
King, Rotterdam; Manly, Davis, Rio Janeiro; Tb..;titilr
Ann, Stevenson, Ostend; Eleanor, Stavelock, Mao"

Ceylon ; Highlander, Lei-s, Sierra Leone.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, Aue• r-s#ol
The Emporium, Taylor, for St. Petersburg; Mariloc`
Baltic ; Johanna, Callossen, Baltic ; Archangels prolioti,
Archangel ; Grof Cauerin, Kase, Archangel ; liretsd,
Cock, Norway ; Othlee, Schultz, Baltic;
Baltic ; Kirstine Maria, Raunisen, Baltic ; Neptune:
nn hart, Cherborg ; William, Nazeby, Medemblick ; e'
win, Crawford, Liverpool and a foreign port ;
Grand Canary.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. 00,1
The Mearns, Mearns, Drysdale, from the Clyde to Quehee'clyae
inst. in lat. 54. long. 22. ; the Faside, M'Athur, iii)
Quebec, the 20th, in lat. 50. long. 11. ; Eliza, Gra% #
pool to New York, the 15th, in lat. 51. long. 18. ; 048)/
Island, Liverpool to New York, the 20th,
16. ; the Columbine, getting up a foretop-mast, the
the Saltees, by the Hull, Knox, arrived at Liverpool.
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Several persons are now going about Wit ).;og
boxes, under the pretext of collecting money for `or"; doll
who have struck and are out of employment. l‘lniilce
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mendicants are impostors, and are unauthorised to I'oso be
such collections. They generally frequent public-ho 015
intrude into shops, and often use threats if their dee>
not satisfied.

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