Star.
London, England, 1815-09-26 00:00:00

,i4STuRR.iNCES l.✓ IRELAND.

Cowry Ogrtlextesela—Friday night last, between
eleven anu twelve. o'clock, . pail, of armed men
brake into ths .ouse 1)1 Intones Dill -it in the tf ill tge
of Cast.etown, in the estun.) of Limerick, and delibe-
rately to itdered ..nd wile. Dihut. was one
of those who dui given information, and prosecuted
to convictien at tt. last A,sizes, some persons con-
cerned in cruelly Ho.:ging him.
On the itigitt i‘l l hursday se'nnight, the Dispen-
sary House of 11.!..ig.h, near Dunornisi dralcsne, in,
the ct.unty Tippet y, UM, ;vvelled to the grounJ
It "tab intended to +don a party of soldiers there,
anti is stipposed to be the reason of the ruffians
for ' • • ing Irv. lied it.
barri.maxtt 16--41'nesdly morning,
about eight o'clock, a party of armed tiqlians, with
them laces bl.ickened, entered the ionise of Mr. Smith-
wick, of Litcken. h- tweet, Tipperary and Dundruiti,
and k away part of the fire.arms.
A SeijeAnt of the Wexford regiment, who Ind been
severely wounded by a banditti, near the Cross of
Ballymore, died on Wednesday evening. He had
been 22 years in the regiment, always bore an excel-
lent character, and has left a wife and five children
to bewail his loss.

Last night the house of William Burke, a farmer,
living near Tureen, within three miles bf Caher, was
attacked by a large armed party. The owner de-
fended the house by firing out with the greatest Cou-
rage and rest 'taint's. The assailants set the house on
fire, by which it was destroyed. But a rviintary
party, under Mr. Barry, Coroner, and Mr. Walpole,
on seeing the fire, ran to the house, and refit' ed th-
family after an action with the assailants, in which +0
totinds were exchanged.
Sunday night; as William Dwyer, who acted as
the Proctor to the Rev. Robert Carew Armstrong, of
Cl .nreully, was approaching his own Wise (having
spent the evening with a neighbour), and within a
few yards of his own door, a gun-shot was fired at
Lim, the contents of which lodging in his belly, killed
him on the spot. What the feelings of his wife and
six children were, when they came out and found
hem thus murdered, may be more easily . imagined
than J scribed.

CAsllltan StPTEMBrit 15.—The county of Tippe.
r.try presents a frightful state of ferment, owing to
the numerous hordes of ruffians, marauding the
country in open day, and in hundreds by night, well
armed. In the vicinity of Cashel, for 15 miles round,
the peasantry sense to pay more than 2s. per acre
for tithe, and when this sum is refised, Choy them-
selves set out the tithe of corn, potatoes, and hay, in
kind, under circumstances of alarming exasperation.

Tuesday the foundation stone of the Regent's
;n the Lew Calton, mid the new Jail on the
Calton Hell, Edi,iburgh, were laid by tne Earl of Fire,
acting Grand Master Alison for Scot land,(attended by
the greatest assemblage of the bic thren ever witnessed
on any ft inr,r ocCaaion) in presence of the Loren
Pittivost, i.iagisnAtee, and Council, and a number of
Nobhnen and Gtutleinen connected with the county
mid c,,y of Edeibuigh.
The Thisamis Comely Advertiser states, that the
weal.hy Miss Smut, of East 1144rrillgtOrl, is about to
be led to the hymeneal altar by a Reverend Baronet,
to the no small mortification of numerous admirers.

Saturday se'nnight as an old woman, named Ja-
me►on, was crossing the sheet at the liead of Gates-
head,Durham, she was throws dorn by some per-
sons riding furiously on horseback, and so seriously
injured, that she died that night.
A Sunderland barber, and his female friend, have
been committed to the gaol of DurhaM, on a charge
of committing a burglary ►n a public house At Sun-
derland.

Thursday sennight a poor old woman, named
Mary Bo) J, was killed at Offerton, ou the road to
Psuishaw, by a brewer's dr iy waggon and horses
passing over her. An Liquest was takvn before S.
CAVILE, Esq. Coroner for the ,fietrict. The Jury re-
twned a verdict of Manslaugitter against the driver,
who was immediately committed to gaol, to take his
trial at the next Assizes ; the waggon and horses
were adjudged deodathls, and were valued at £l.O.
Thursday as a shipwright, by the name of Saun-
ders, wasc.trrying some kid, wanted at his work, in
Portsmouth Dock-yard, his foot slipped, and he tell
into one of the docks, and fractured his scull, su that
he vied instantly.
se'imight as Mr. Pollock, a farmer, was
radii g trim Hamilton, with two of his neighbours,
he came unawares upon Prior Bridge; and his horse,
being pressed against the ledge, made a sudden h.th,
and :brew his master into the stream, by which he
was so much hurt, as to expire in about an hour.
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Friday, the 15th inst. in the evening. Mr. Mrs.
and Miss Boucherett were returning home from
South Orms'ay, in their curticle, the pole broke on
the descent of Willingham Hill, by which they were
all precipitated hem the carriage. Mr. Bon(herrn
%Cid kilted on the spot ; Mrs. and Miss Boucberett
escaped without any material tuidily injury.
Dal.tll, AND FATAL a% oemax.e.— Wednesday
sennight, 4s James Curry, son of Mr. John Curry,
of Temple Cloud, was riding home front Bristol to
Temple, in Mr. Dudden's waggon, in attempting to
get out, at the bottom of Pensford Hill (without stop.
ping the horses) he unfortunately fell under the
wheels, both of which passing over his thighs, frac.
tined and lacerated them in a most dreadful manner.
lie was immediately conveyed back to the Bristol
Infirmary, where the poor fellow languidted until
Saturday, and then expired. The immediate cause of
the accident was singulaily remarkable : being asleep
in the waggon, the unfortnnate young man dreamt
that he was driving his father's horse and cart (an
occupation he was much accustomed to) somewhere
in the neighbourhood of Camerton ; and that the
horse being in danger of running into the canal, he,
with great earnestness, jumped out of the front of the
(which, in his dream, appeared to him like
his owu cart) to lay hold of the horse by the head;
and in so doing unfortunately fell under the wheels,
and lost his lite.

tows rasa:T.— FORGERY.—Vesterday WiUlam Bradford,who
has b..en !ti custody for some days past, oo a charge of forging on
the Victualling beard, underwent a final examination before Sir
N. CONANT, and WAS committed fur uial.
MANSION-HOUSE —Yesterday John Matthews was charged
with steaLug#ad from, the New Custom-house in 'llamas-street.
It arprai. d that the prisoner was a labourer, and took the up.
pu,tuptly to purloin the property au quite's& work. lie was
fully committed.