The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-15 00:00:00

IRELAND. -DUBLIN, SEPT. 12.

(From the Times Correspondent.)
A furious a.taek was last Sunday made on the
Rev. Nich. H. Mandeville, the Protestant curate of
Kilbeacon parish, in the diocese of Ossory, as he
was riding from Carrick-on-Suir to Mullinavat, to
officiate as usual. Near Rochestown he was met
by a party of countrymen, who furiously attacked
him, pelting him with stones, one of which knocked
his horse down, after which the party ran away,
fearful, perhaps, of being observed and identified by
a police party, whose station was not far from the
spot. This circumstance, it is thought, also pre-
vented them from firing at Mr. Mandeville, who ob-
served pistols in their possession. The Rev. Gen-
tleman fell with his horse, but fortunately escaped
unhurt.

Last Friday night seven stacks of wheat, the pro-
perty of James Meaney, a farmer, residing at Cat-
rigin, in the parish of Roar, county of Kilkenny,
were set on fire and totally consumed. He had
been previously served with a threatening notice to
give up his farm to his brother.
WHITEFEET OCTRAGE.—On Wednesday night a
large party of Whitefeet attacked the house of Mr.
Allen, near Mountgarre,-bridge, county of Kil-
kenny, within four miles of Ross. These marau-
ders, on being refused admittance, fired several shots
in through the windows of the house, to the great
terror of the family inside, who expected every mo-
ment to be their last, such was the fury of the as-
sailants and the rapidity of the firing. Eighteen
bullets were found next morning in Mr. Allen's bed-
room ; an infant child narrowly escaped death, as
the pillow from which the child had been taken was
perforated with two balls in an instant after. Mr.
Allen, we understand, had been served a short time
before with a Ri.ckite notice, to give up a farm of
40 acres, adjoining his own, which he had taken
about seven years ago, and from which a defaulting
tenant had been evicted. His non-compliance with
this mandate was the sole cause of the outrage on
Mr. Allen's house.—Wateiford Mail.
The Limerick Chronicle, adverting to the Walls-
town affair, says—" At half-past 8 o'clock the
country all around the fatal place of action was
lighted up with fires, which shortly extended in all
d'rections, and burned most vividly for two hours,
and shots were fired. What the object was cannot
be known. It was most likely to give intelligence
of the affray, or a signal to congregate the people
at the Effin anti-tithe meet.ng which was to be held
on the following day."

THE SWELL MOB ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Last week a party of gentlemen and tradesmen,
residing in Blandford-stree', Manchester-square, and
the neighbourhood, formed a determination of mak-
ing an excursion for a few days to Margate, and be-
ing all friends of public liberty, they thought they
could not show a more hearty disposition to the
cause than by embarking on board a vessel, the name
of which is calculated to inspire Reformers with
veneration and respect. With this view, they em-
barked last Monday morning on board the King
William the Fourth, on their intended voyage, and
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon arrived within sight
of the wished-for haven, without experiencing any
other accident than those arising from sea-sickness,
&c. As the proprietor of the Tivoli Gardens had
been catering in London for a reinforcement of no-
velties for the natives and visitors of Margate, he
had actually put on board, and consigned to the care
of the captain of the vessel, two rare curiosities in
the persons of the celebrated Michael Boai, the
musical chin-chopper, and the great German slffieur.
The sight of Margate having raised the spirits of
the whole of the passengers to a fit of enthusiasm,
they began for the first time to take notice of these
celebrated artists, and with one accord requested
Michael to oblige them with a specimen of his pro-
fessional ski. I, but that gentleman, true to his en-
gagement with the liberal proprietor of the Tivoli,
would not do any thing which might be calcu-
lated to lessen the attraction of his art ; but
riot so the siffieur, who commenced his imi-
tations of all manner of birds to so much
perfection, that the company got ravished with
delight. They actually danced, capered, and en-
cored in such a way, as if Orpheus had forsaken the
shades and embarked among them on a professional
excursion. This strange scene continued until they
landed on Margate Pier ; arid, after bidding their
fellow-passengers 0 Good bye !" our Marylebone
friends adjourned to a tavern, where they ate a good
dinner, and were enjoying themselves with the
greatest hilarity over a sparkling glass of wine, when
Mr. Jones, a pawnbroker, in Crawford-street, who
was one of the party, happening to put his hand
into his breeches•pocket, exclaimed, "My God ! I
have lost my purse with twelve sovereigns." No
sooner were these ominous words uttered, than by a
simultaneous movement all the party applied their
hands to their pockets, when a dozen of voices ex-
claimed at the same moment,'` I have been robbed,
too !" The merry jest was now put aside, and a
council of war was held to discover how this unac-
countable abstraction could have happened ; but it
was not till the party sallied forth into the town,
that they were informed that a gang of the " swell
mob" had taken their passage on board the William
the Fourth; and while the passengers were so won-
derfully amused with the performance of the Ger-
man Siffleur, they had managed to ease them of
their cash. What booty the " mob" came off with,
was not exactly ascertained ; but the party from
Marylebone, in b dancing accounts, found them-
selves minus about 96/. ; and Mr. Jones declared lie
never parted with money on worse security ; and
after cursing the swell mob, and all exotic per-
formers, the sufferers lost no time in returning to the
metropolis, firmly persuaded that " There is no place
like home."