Star.
London, England, 1823-03-24 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS-THIS DAY.

Portuant to the adjournment on Saturday, the
House of Lords met to-day, at eleven o'clock. The
SPEAKER, and a few Members of the House of Com-
mons, appeared at their Lordships' Bar ; and the LORD
CHANCELLOR, Lord Viscount MELD ILLS, and the Earl
of SIIA PTESBURY, as his MAJESTY'S Commissioners,
gave the Royal assent to several public and private
Bills.—The House then adjourned. The reason for
meeting at this unusual hour was, that the Mutiny
Bill might be made a Law, as the old Bill expires,
we believe, this day.

Dosing the late severe weather, liberal subscrip-
tions were entered into in many parts of the kingdom
for the relief of the poor; but the great majority of
these laudable efforts have Only been directed to the
exigencies of the moment, and have made no pro.
vision for future want. An exception to this occurred
at Sheerness, where a Committee was formed, who
have made an actual survey of all the poor in the
place, issued 861 bushels of coals, and have depo-
sited in Sheppy Saving Bank a balance of 1.:28 lls. 7d.
to form the basis of a fund, to meet at the instant
any future severity of weather which may affect the
labouring 1: our. We hope to see this example followed;
DARING OUTRAGE /N IRELAND.—Ou Tuesday the
house of Quarter-master king, at Ballymagooly, near
Mallow, was attacked by a party of ruffians, about
seven o'clock in the evening, and'while Mr. Ring, his
son, and daughter, were sitting in the parlour. some
of the party, who were armed, had entered before
their approach was perceived. Mr. Ring and his son
seized two short bayonets, grappled with the ruffians,
and sustained a most unequal conflict with those who
had entered ; while Miss Ring fastened the door
against the others, and brought down the fire-arms,
which had been previously loaded. These were dis-
charged at the villains, who then began to retreat,
and were pursued and literally fought down the vil-
lage by Mr. Ring and his son, with the short bayo-
nets in their hands. One man was killed on the spot,
and his body taken into Mallow, where it was recog-
nized to be that of a person who resided near Car-
rick. From the number of shots fixed by the Messrs.
Ring, and the quantity of blood found in and near
the house, and all along the road, it is supposed that
a number of the ruffians must have been severely
wounded, and doubtless some of them mortally. ►Mr.
Ring, his son, and daughter, all received slight bayo-
net wounds.

The Dublin Journal contains a report of a trial of
an Orangeman, named William Smith, for murder.
The circumstances of this atrocious outrage arose out
of •one of those much-to-be-deplored Orange anni-
versaries. The murder s' as committed on the 12th
of lat Jul}, at an Orange procession, on the road to
Cloughkiran, near Armagh. The unfortunate man
became a victim to the infuriated A.engeance of a law-
less band armed with drawn swords, who surrounded
him in a field—one of them was seen to strike the de-
ceased with a sword, and the prisoner, who pretended
to separate the party, and threatened to cut yr the
heads of the miscreants who were at the time imbru-
ing their hands in the blood of their fellow.-creature,
was their own associate—their companion in arms !
The Grand Jury of Armagh has followed the ex-
ample of that.of Wicklow, in censuring the conduct
of the ATTORNEY GENERAL for Ireland in the case
of the late ex-qfficio Trials in the Court of King's
Bench. GEORGE ENSOR,Esq. refused to give in his
adhesion. A similar proceeding was attempted at
Leitrim, but failed !

• A caravan loaded with furniture, owing to the bad state of the
carriage way, broke down in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, this morn-
ing. A cheat of drawers falling upon the head of a wine-porter,
passing at the time, fractured his skull in a dreadful manner;
he was carded to the Hospital in a state of insensibility.