Star.
London, England, 1830-12-03 00:00:00

ATTACK ON THE VILLAGE OF MAGHERY, COUNTY
ARMAGH.

The subjoined details of this extraordinary outrage may be relied es
as authentic t
On' Friday, 19th, a small party of Protestants belonging to the County
of TyMne, proceeded through Maghery to a place called the Banfoot,
where they remained all night, in consequence, it is said, of the storm
which came on. They bad a drum and fife or two with them, which
they played along the road. The next day, Saturday, they again pasted
through Maghery on their way homeward. The people of the village
are chiefly Popish, but it does not appear that any offence wee either
given or taken, until themarty were called on by one of the inhabitants
day;" wee construed Mum an
offence. and the musk, in consequence, liegan playing Croppies lie
down" or some such tune. The party were immediately attacked by a
number of person% overpowered, beaten, their drum broken, and they
themselves *Bpi t• fly, many of them without their hats ; in this coo.
dition they wen seen by a gentleman of the neighbourhood. It is much
to be regretted that they did set at this period sett to the law for re.
dress, Instead el &dards' the amuse which they airman's did. On
the morning of Minim a large beds of nee crossed the Siackwater
from Tyson., the sell gale of Vasses-bridge, awl feistiest to
biagbery, is gas the ausisse of Col. Versa, who ass thous ea
the reed, and thus, lead read the riot act, which safesusately
be bad net maim el/ se Wets; at ens plied the allent-Cekisel
was in aessayillos fellow bowieg estually pasted a brad pie at
him. He soesseded to a mak mum in steppe" she=sl part
of than se they entered the !Mtge, bet a umbererg,
rams, variously snood, siedallin by Uhl% though 51y611:143
paraded to dolsey the hews whist' use deemed the Mishits
—windows sad dues Nis dashed in, crest esy tad shoe Ilarniture
smashed, wissinhappesek Oa one hruesso) mousy seeded away s
mumps was sub so us the so ass sr two hawse, but with.
out sans It is tousehuble that in we pal& house thg
the lituers without apassiabg to owe pee vans assuti
cam wousitsi per the eye by a fereeises pang Oath'
with a rusty bosses, std nue of the kw poem remathies hi the

place were knocked down with butt ends of muskets—and guns a,
stated to have been snapped at persons making their escape. Haringthus wreaked their vengeance, the assailants made off into the county
Tyrone again, beating a drum as they left the village, to collect
stragglers, Bte.
On Thursday a numerous meeting of Magistrates was held at the
place to investigate the particulars of the affair, and take such steps as
justice demanded. It is hoped government will offer a reward sufficient
to procure the identifieation of the offenders—it can hardly fail of sucs
needing where so many were concerned.
A feeling appeared to prevail among these misguided depredator.,
that it was in vain for a Protestant to seek redress from the:laws ; in
fact, that he might be assailed and hunted down as fair game, provided
it could be shown be was whistling the " Boyne water,' or keepinr
time to a fife committing the same high treason. In truth, we hate
a recollection of a decision made, once upon a time, in the
county of Antrim, not quite calculated to do away that feeling.
Let us not be for a moment understood, however, as encouraging any
such feeling, or attempting to palliate the outrage which we hare de.
tailed ; on the contrary, we sincerely desire that justice may orertike
the guilty ; but we cannot help wishing that the conciliation sygten,
had not been carried (at lean all at once) to the inquisitorial extent it
has been; but that the gentlemen of the country had been permitted t,
retain that salutary influence possessed by them among the 'own
classes of Protestant*. Under their guidance and good sense party
spirit was rapidly losing its asperity, and would, by degrees, have beer
softened totally away—but unhappily the ties which united them ha,,
been ruddy snapped asunder, confidence has been banished, and tins.
rule and anarchy are the sad results.

SCINTILLAS.

The Coraaire contains the following poetical arrangement
of the new English hi inibtry :
•' President, Lord Lansdowne ; Premier, Lord Compte Grey ;
Scour Prive, Lord Durham ; Lord d'lrlande, Anglesey ;
A l'lnterieur, Melbourne ; au Controle, Sir Grant ;
Chambellan, Devonshire ; a la Monnale, Auckland;
A PEchiquier, Althorp ; Lord Chancellor, Brougham;
Stranger, Palmerston ; Lord Admiral, Graham."'

• The Author obser♦es that in English Brougham and Graham Aire
♦ery well, since the former is pronounced " Broume" and the lane:
" Gretne." [This is a fair specimen of the inaccuracy of the French
Journals upon English affairs.]

It is said that Marshal Soult has strange hours for trans.
,acting business, and we have no doubt his habits must prove rather an.
noying to place-hunters. The Marshal makes appointment for four
o'clock in the morning with those who request to have audiences._
Paris paper. The Marshal has more than once shown a weak auh•or.
viency to public opinion ; but he is not a fool or a coxcomb, and the re-
gulation here alluded to would imply that he was both. We are goat
advocates for early rising ; but we never knew a very early riser who uas
not asleep, either phy.ically or mentally, half the day—Tiaws.
Chassee, the celebrated French singer, presenting himself
lone evening at the door of the Comedic Frimealle, without his admik.
sion ticket, was refused entrance. " Sir," said be pompously to the
door-keeper, " 1 ant Massie, from the Opera." " Very well," replied
the man, " and now you are chass4* (driven away) from the Corned e
Francalse," at the same time shutting the door in his face.
BIRDS OF A FRATIIRR.—In a parish not a hundred
miles from Edinburgh, the following ornithological match took place
which set the whole neighbourhood in a Rutter. Miss Henrietta, Pea.
cock was espoused to Mr. Robin Sparrow, by the Rev. Mr. Lore; the
bridesman being Mr. Philip Hawk, and the bridesmaid Bliss Lerkittr.
The marriage lines were extracted by Mr. John Crow, session-clerk.
TRACING • DESCENT.—Sir Richard Arkwright used
pleasantly to observe, that the common notions of the modern origin of
his family were very incorrect; " for," he would say. " I can plainly
prove, on the best of all authorities, that Noah was the founder of our
family, for be was undoubtedly the first ark-toriphi in the world !"
BIBLICAL LORI.—At a recent discussion on some points
in biblical history, it happened to be remarked, that there was no ac-
count of the death of Eve. " Nor of Adam either," said one of the
company. " I beg your pardon," replied a religious lady, who began
to think there was too much scepticism in these remarks, " if you read
your Bible carefully, you will find it stated that Adams eras gather. :
to his fortifathars."—Literary Gametic.
It is somewhat curious—and we are surprised that it has
not been before remarked—that nearly all the painters lived to an ad.
vanced age. Spenello was nearly 100: Carlo ilignani 91 . • Bitched
Angelo 90; Leonardo da Vinci 75; Calabresi 88 ; Claude Lorraine 1l2;
Carlo Marotta 88; Tintoretti 82 ; Sebastian Ricci 78; Francesco Al-
bano 88; Guido 611'; Domino 76 ; John Baptist Crespi 76 ; Giu•
seppe Crespi 82 ; Carlo Dolor 70; Andrew Sacchi 74 ; Zuccharelli Sts ;
Vernet 71 • Schidone 76. The list might be considerably extended.—
Ailienentsi;. Titian died aged 99.
MA RRI AG Es.—lt appears by the marriage returns or-
dered to Parliament, that ' are much less frequent in the agri-
culturaldistricts than in the mama turing. In Hereford, the of
the population are 1 to 170 ; Monmouth, 1 to 154 ; Northum
I to 145 ; Rutland. I to 148; Shropshire. 1 to 165 ; Sussex,l to 151:
WHIN 1 to 145; Worcester, 1 to 143; &sex, 1 to Irk ; Dorset, Ito
150, b.c. In Middlesex, the proportion is Ito 106; Lancashire, 1w
126 ; Warwickshire, 1 to 128 ; West Riding of lork, 1 to 131.

IRISH Iwo EN UIT Y.—One of the most wretched looking
among the motley group of beggars imported into this city last Sunday
by the Bristol steamer, dropped his shillelah, a few hours alter leaving
Bristol, into the engine-room. It having come in contact, in its de.-
vent, with the pericranium of one of the firemen, he became exceeding
wroth, and was about to consign the innocent sapling to the flames.
when his intention was arrested by a voice as loud as the bellowing ni
an enraged bull. Pat threatened to throw the Englishman after the
stick if he put his threat into execution ; this menace was near adding
" fuel to the fire," when Paddy, seeing the rising choler of the fireman.
changed his notes, and, in the mildest accents of entreaty, besought
him for the love of Gov and the blessed Virgin" not to destroy the
only support of his weak and feeble frame. The Englishman was ap-
peased, and, after a few hearty curses on Paddy's stupidity and care-
lessness, banded up the stick. A gentleman who witnessed the 'nye
suspected, from the pauper's anxiety about the sldllelah, that sonic 'r-
aft was connected with it; he examined It, and, to the surprise at .d
amusement of the spectators, found conceale:l in its hollowed Interior 3
sovereign and a half sovereign. Fur Pat's ingenuity in outwitting the
Bristol overseers, who paid for his passage, a few gentlemen on board
increased the treasure, by contributing amongst them another half v.
vereign.—Waterford

" There is many a slip
Between the cup and lip."
We never remember a more striking instance of the truth of ti,.•
adage, than in a cue that lately occurred at ltlarcham, in Oaten!.
shire. It arose out of a mortgage of a genteel cottage, garden. &e.
The mortgagee had disposed of his interest in the poperty to a gentk-
man, to whom he was indebted (*Lon a note of hand. This gt tide•
man, who is by profession a lawytr, foreclosed the mortgage. do and
endeavoured to obtain possession, which being enlisted by the niortga•
gee, he proceed to an action of ejectment, which was undefended at the
late Midsummer suites, and a verdict obtained by the plaintiff; 1c
whom nothing now remained to be dune bat to await the return of tic
writ, and to take ion. The oth of November at length arrived
this was the art7Clar moment— but alas ! on Friday, the sth. d'e
defendant, with five workmin from Oxford, commenced the work e:
demolition; and such was "the law's delay," for lawytn cannot al•
ways expedite their own business, that the defendant had time to take
out all the floors, beams, and joists, the windows and doors, to break t
the pavement of the bouse, ant to deal all away befote the arrival e:
the writ. We understand this novel measurehas been under:alto 1
legal advice, and there has been considerable speculation as to the
final result.

The Tißies calls the Irish " a demagogue-ridden race.
and speaks of the chance of the Anti-Orion phrtnay driving them to
open insurrection. What is it that rides the twiglish machine breaker..
and house burners, at this moment ? We find, by the statement of slit
Rev. Thomas O'Grady; Catholic Curate of St. John's, Limerick, this
in that single parish there are at present t‘ upwseds of 10,0110 indivi.
.duals in a state of starvation." The starvation these people endure Is
not the English starvation ; it Is not straightened alma ot subsittect;
it is notweek ; it is not a putting up with potatoe
merely, but a total want ot all food whatever, and an equal want of
clothing. We do not Snd that these people are breaking into insurrec-
tion ; we do not find they are destroying either houses cc machines, to
that the power which rides them does not push hs exploits fat
into " the regions of darkness" as the power which has taken pos9toi'n
of the fat and brawny backs of the English house burners and tuarbint•
breakers.—.Dubliik 41forwing Reside*.

BIRTH.
At Woolwich, the lady of D. /ago, Fag. Royal Horse Artillery. of
a Boa.

At Kirkeudbeioht, on the SAth DEATHS.aIts
Mn.s Margaret Gordon, p°
w. W. Ireland, Req. Of Harbey.—At St. Cloud, on the 30th ult. kg Y,
the wallet ot.Gape. Its Outlaw, late et the lMadanCritralty _At r
willlant Swarm Wettletold, a Ldeutessat la lbw ad mot.N• t,•°
I.—At .Caltle•Douglas, the 26th into. Mt. Thomas HallainY,
swim, sled 64.

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