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Sir Richard and !lady Carr Glynn, on a tour in Kent.
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biSithhANC ES /N. IRELA
ATTACK ON THE KILLARNEY COACH, AEl:l'mm-
OUS AFFRAY. NEAR :4ACRfIOM.
The Cork Mereantat ChroWide of Friday, iontaihs
a long letter froin Macroona, dated Thursday, thi
24th instant, giving an account of a serious of 'ray
which took place that morning. It was the day on
which the Magistrates and Gentlemen hold their
weekly meetings. About ten o'clock, a great number
of people were seen in groups on the tops of the hills
and rising grounds. Macroom was in a state of great
alarm in consequence of an account having been re-
ceived that the Whiteboys were collecting in large
numbers in the neighbourhood of Tuathnadrumman,
on the mail-coach road, about five miles west of
Macroom. A party of the 11th Regiment and a de-
tachment of the Rifle Brigade, of about eighty men,
under the command of a Field Officer, and accom-
panied by R. H. EYRE, Esq. and several other' Ma-
gistrates, with the Carbineers doing duty in that town,
were immediately dispatched in that direction.
Macroom resembled a place actually besieged, or
dreading a bombardment. At length, about three
o'clock, accounts were received that the Whiteboys
were flying in all directions, that several were killed
and wounded, and a number taken prisoners. An
hour after, the body of one of the insurgents who
had been shot was brought into the town, and *As
soon followed by some soldiers beating the body of
another man who had been killed, and 21 prisoners.
From the most accurate information that could
be obtained at the moment, it appears that the coach
which left Cork that morning for Tralee was stopped
near the turnpike of Tuathnadrumman, by a party of
Whiteboys, who smashed the coach to atoms, killed
three of the horses, wounded the coachman and guard
rather severely—the latter received three different
stabs of a pike—and ill used the passengers—one of
whom, a Mr. LYNCH, of Tralee, was dangerously
via.unded. The coach was also pillaged.
The Whiteboys, who committed this outrage, see-
ing Mr. EYRE, with a few Gentlemen, in advance, and
not perceiving the troops, were rushing down upon
them, *hen the Gentlemen fell back upon the Carbi-
neers and the party of the 11th Regiment, while a
division of the Rifle Brigade, preceded by some Gen-
tlemen; took a circuitous route, and coming in the
rear of the Whiteboys, who were thus placed between
two tires, a great slaughter ensued ; the Whiteboys
soon fled in all directions, having seven at least kille4,
and 21 taken prisoners, some of whom were wounded.
The number of the Whiteboys is vat iously stated,
by some at several thousands, others say six or seven
hundred ; they si ere mostly armed with pikes; had a
few spades and shovels; and only one single gun in
the whole party. None of the soldiers were hurt,
except one man who received a slight wound in the
neck with a pike.
At five o'clock, an account reached Macroom that
a body of some thousand Whiteboys, some said five
thousand, were taking possession of Kilbarry, the re-
sidence cf JAMES BARRY, Esq. four miles south-west
of Macroom; that his family bad escaped, but fears
were entertained that the house would be destroyed.
Mr. BARRY was fortunately at Macroom.
The communication between Macroom and Bantry
is not yet entirely open even to the military ; the whole
county, so far as the tops of the hills can be con-
sidered so (and the road generally runs at the bottom
of the hills), is in possession of the peasantry, who
manifest every hostile disposition, making others join
them, under threats of instant death. One party en-
tered the district a few nights ago, roused the pea-
santry from their beds, and threatened to set fire to
their houses unless they joined them.
Captain FITZCLARENCE has addressed a letter to
'the Editors of the Cork Papers, stating that he was
not with the detachment that reconnoitred a party of
Whiteboys, near Macroom, on Wednesday, as he was
at that time patrolling between Blarney and Frimont.