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of his whip round the boys neck, dragged hint' to the
threshold of the door, and then this-scene trod; riace :
The- woman . entreated for mercy the boy NI on
his knees ,and asked for pardon, N‘ O'Driseoll
raised his unmanly hand and applied the lash. The
witness. Rogers confirmed the statement cif the boy.
Then took place the gladiatorial scene before the tungis-
trates. Nett came the case of Dineen—the commit-
ment of Dineen by O'Driscoll. Then the savage assault
on the boy; and then that O'Trigger scene took place
at Skibbereen. Those were the facts which had been
submitted to the Lord Chancellor, and the Lord Chan-
cellor decided on dismissing him—for what?—for ill-
health. And now he had shown them the miserable
inconsistency between the statement made in the memo-
rial, and which had been so much relied upon, but which
was now altogether abandoned. When the Lord Chan-
cellor said he removed him on account of ill-health—
" Go( d God," said Mr. O'Driscoll, " I never was so
well in all my life."—(Hear, hear, laughter, and
great cheering)—and he exclaimed—" What a triumph
will my dismissal be to those who have been long con-
spiring against me. lam old (the Right Hon. Gentle.
man read from the memorial), but I am strong in body
and in intellect. I am in good healt—(Hear,
hear)—thanks to God for it." The apothecary
of Skibbereen had nothing whatever to do with him.—
(Laughter and cheers.) The Lord Chancellor insisted
on his being ill. Mr. O'Driscoll insisted that he was
well—the Lord Chancellor ultimately discovered that he
was restored to health—(Laughter, and cries of " Hear,
hear")—restored to health, which O'Driscoll said he never
lost.—(Renewed laughter, and cries of "Hear, hear.")
What was the case made out for O'Driscoll by himself
He said he only flogged a poaching:urchin.--(Laughter,
and cries of "Hear, hear" with a mark of dissent from
Lord Eliot.) Am I right—are not these his words
(Hear, hear.) O'Driscoll went on to say that he met. a
parcel of fellows looking for game, and gave one of them a
cut of the thong of his whip. Resubmitted to the bench
that for so slight a breach of the law he ought to be
but slightly punished ; but his Lordship, the Chairman,
after a high-flown display of eloquence, whom, by
the bye, he challenged, sent him a three-cor-
nered note—(Great laughter)—fined him a poem!,
and a pound costs. English gentlemen were fond
of sport, but he hoped no English gentleman would
carry it to such an extent, or would act with the same
ferocity with which, alas ! Mr. O'Driscoll had acted.
By whom was the memorial signed ? By the Catholic
bishop and the priest. By the friends and as-
sociates of those whom Mr. O'Driscoll had so grossly
maltreated ? No ; oh. no. This "deed without a
name"— (Loud cries of " Hear, hear")—it had no such
signatures. Two Whig Lords—Lord Kingston and Lord
Rwersdale;- whO lived at a distance of thirty miles of
Skibbereen.

Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL—Fifty miles
Mr. SHELL—Yes, fifty miles ; who had, in all pro-
bability, never seen Mr. O'Driscoll in their lives, and
who, perhaps knew nothing whatever about him, and
who were ignorant of the feelings of the people whom
O'Driscoll had outraged these were the persons
who signed the memorial. Tell me, you (continued
the Right Hon. Gentleman), who are so solicitous for
the pure, unsullied administration of justice in Ireland,
what must be the feelings of the people of Shibbereen
when they see this feelings
for potatoes, this op-
pressor of the poor,. • this flagellator of boys,
placed again on the bench? (Laughter.) ph !
Hon. Gentlemen might laugh, but it was no laughing
matter at Skibbereen .What must be their feelings when
they saw this gentleman, who had outraged the dignity
of the bench, and from which he was precipitated, again
restored to that bench ? And for what ? Ah ! all
their efforts for the tranquillisation of Ireland were
nullified. Those fine professions in reference to the
administration of justice were belied by their own deeds.
—(Loud cries of Hear, _hear.") lf they saw a man in
authority in Ireland committing an act against principle,
they threw over him the shield of official protection.
Mr. ROSS shortly replied, and
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House
divided. The numbers were-;-
For the motion
Against .

59
92

-Majority against the motion —33
REVENUE INQUIRY.
Mr. DUNCOMBE made his motion for the printing
of the additional evidence taken before the Commis-
sioners of Revenue Inquiry.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sug-
gested that the Hon. Member should alter his motion so
as to require only 658 copies to be printed for the use of
Members only.
Mr. DUNCOMBE said that would make his motion
a very absurd one, but in obedience to the Chancellor of
the Exchequer he would move it ; as he was sure the
public would read it just the same as if they printed
sixty thousand.—Agreed to.
NAVAL MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
Colonel FOX then moved for copies of all correspon-
dence between the head of the naval medical department,
Sir William Burnett, and the head of the medical de-
partment of the army, Sir James M`Gregor, and the
Secretary of State for the Home Department, on the
subject of the charter lately granted to the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons, and the manner it affects the affairs of
their respective services.
The motion, amended at the suggestion of Sir Jamea
Graham, was then agreed to.
The other orders of the clay having been disposed of,
the House adjourned at one o'clock.

It is said that the Vicar of Ilford, the Rev. rolliott
Baugh, whose Tractarian vagaries have been matter or
painful notoriety, has been appointed to an important
post in the Charter House, the patronage of which
chiefly rests with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the
Bishop of London !—Oxford Chronicle.
Southampton Regatta is fixed to take place early
in August next, under the auspices of the 'loyal South-
ern Yacht Club.—Hants Telegraph.
THE `BATHER.—Delightful harvest weather pre-
vailed throughout Monday. The sun shone with brilliancy,
accompanied with a light breeze from about S.S.W. The
temperature was unusually high, the thermometer, at noon,
at the Dock Master's Office, St. Katherine's, having stood
at. 71 degrees in the shade. Happily no rain fell, and such
weather cannot fail to bring the crops speedily to matiAritv.
We understand that upwards of sixty cadet ap-
pointments, consequent on the increase of the Artillery at the
several establishments of India, are to be distributed amongst
those candidates who can pass an examination that will be
' laid down by the Court of Directors.—Naval end Military
Gazette.

ODD FELLOWS.—The growing importance of this
body is not generally understood. At the Selby anniversary
last week, where Dr. Hook, of Leeds, preached, himself s
brother and warm friend of the order, it was stated after
dinner, in his presence and with his concurrence, that the
funds of the order consisted of upwards of one million of
money I—the supposed income 230,0001. The increase of
members for the last year had been 25,000.

PAINFUL ACCIDENT.—A very. serious accident •
occurred to the High Sheriff of Carlow county, Sir Robert J.
Paul, on Monday, by which it was considered for a time that
his life was placed in imminent danger. He went to shoot
rabbits at Brown's -hill, where he was on a visit ; and after
some thne spent in this amusementwith a double-barrelled
gun, he was reloading one of the barrels, when the other,
which was loaded, exploded, and lodged the contents in his
right hand, dreadfully shattering two of his fingers. Dr.
Rawson, of Carlow, was in attendance a short time after, and
removed a joint off the thumb, and the entire fore-finger. He
sustained some injury in the cheek,-but is entirely out of
danger, and going on well.
THE HARVEST.—The harvest commenced on Tues-
day last, in the parish of St. Stephen's, in Branwell, when.
Mr. John Brokeastraw, reaped a field of wheat; and on the
same day, Mr: Morning, of St. Clement's, cut some exteed-
higly ne wheat, yielding 16 Cornish bushels to the acre.
liar. "James Roberts, of Polwheverel, Constantine, began
harvest by cutting nearly the whole of a field of barley an
Monday week. The kerning is very good and the crop mato,
about an average one.—Devonport Independent.
" POACHERS BEWARE.' —A resident at Appeville-
Annebault, in the Calvados, suspecting his wife, 'although
fifty-five years of age, of being engaged us a criminal connec-
tion with a man in the neighbourhood, returned one evening
last week, and not finding her, got up into a tree with his
gun, to watch her coming. After waiting for three hours, he
perceived her and the man walking together. He waited
until they drew near, and then fired at the man, and shot
him dead. On the following day he gave himself into cue-
t Galignani's 2ifeuenger.
THE ALLEGED MURDER AT CHELSEA.-011 Mon-
day evening, at six, Mr. Higgs, Deputy. Coroner for Westmin
ster, resumed at the Spread Eagle, Thames-bank, the in-
quiry into the circumstances attending the death of Mr.l6,
Larking, aged twenty-three years, a block maker, of Queen.
street, Chelsea. The inquest-room was much crowded, as a
report had been circulated that the deceased had }teen first
robbed and afterwards thrown into the river. The evidence
was of a conflicting and unsatisfactory character; but the
medical testimony went somewhat to show that violence had
been used towards the deceased. There was, however, no
proof as to how he had come by his death, or to show
whether he had fallen or been thrown into the river; and
the jury, therefore, returned An open verdict of " Foneel
drowned."
THUNDER-STORM% AT OXFORD.—This city and
its neighbourhood were visited on Thursday and FMayDv
two violent thunder-storms. On Thursday, in the middle of
the day, it commenced with very vivid flashes of light.
ning, followed by heavy peals of thunder, and the electric"
fluid struck the vane on the top of one of the pinnacles on.
the beautiffil tower of Magdalen College, passed down
the iron rod supporting the vane into the stow,
which it shattered, and entered into the interior of the tower,
down the staircase, chipping pieces off the stone steps as it.
passed down, and itnally out at one of the windows. Some of
the stones of the pinnacle falling on the umbrella of one of the
servants of the College, knocked him down, but fortunately he
was not seriously hurt. On Friday the second storm commented
about two o'clock in the afternoon, and we have not heard of
its doing any serious damage in the neighbourhood; but a
young man, a labourer, passing under a wall on th%Chae.
ne ou
bury-road, was struck
On by
the far the ligmht ngof Mnir, and killed histanta.
sly on_ the spot. . Southern, at Woot.
ton, near Woodstock, nineteen out a flock of twenty sheep
that were lying under some trees were also killed on the
spot, the electrit fluid passed through a dry stone wall, leay.
mg black marks on either side, but displacing 110114 of tle
stones. It is a curious coincidence that, during the suinstter
assizes, in 1832, there wu a thunder-storm, when the samis
pinnacle of Magdalen, Tower was shattered. We Should
trust that this secc,nd warning will induce the authorities or,
the College to, place a lightning conductor' doivri•Wolfteri •
beautiful tower.
Difi(LER AND DUELER.—A ludicrous tr#stitke
cupped at Dohler's last concert. A party of friqies, as nA v .
gentlemen (from the conntry evidently) preset -.•
themselves at the doors of the Hanover-square Hourke:
and asked to be shown into the hest boxess ; is waa
explained that there was no box except the royal
box, which was occupied ; but they could go into th0,i1,6
reserved seats. A lady anxiously inquired' whether
they were good places to see the Melte ?sari Whoff-..,
tricks r asked the doorkeeper in e.mazerdifit;:"teb;" ?rn
the sleight-of-hands ones, and the Conjuring," rejoined
the lady. "Really," said the official, " 1 kuow of acs
concur; ng but M. Dohler's rapid fingering." The lady
having demanded whether the bouquets would be dis.
tributed to the stalls, an explanation, after some further
• amusing equivoque, took place, and it appeared that the
party had mistaken Herr Dabler, the pianist, for Het!
1)obler, the magician, late of the St. JARVIS'S Thestrtol
; Maestro.