Star.
London, England, 1830-04-01 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

We hear that the emigration mania is becoming very
prevalent in this county among the small farrners—kentish Garen*.
A gentleman of considerable property, within a few
miles of Maidstone, is about to leave this country for America.
We understand the reason he gives for emigrating is, that, under
the present aspe:t of affairs, property is, in his opinion, more safe
in the New World than in the Old.

It is in agitation to open a subscription in the hundred
of Bassetlaw, hi order to pay the legal expenses of some independent
man who may be induced to step forward and rescue the hundred
from being sacrificed to a family compact ; and to give the inde-
pende..t portion of the freeholders an opportunity of exercising their
newly-acquired right in such a manner as will prove to their country
their determination not to stand by and calmly look on while the
avenue to free election is closing against them.—Newark Mercury.
The weavers who are emigrating to the United States
have received accounts from their friends that the kind of cloth
which in this country is paid at 21. an ell, is paid in New York at
0.1. It would require a pretty heavy tariff to cover such a diffe-
rence —Clasyoto C hsonicie.
Wednesday night a party of men broke into the house
of Pat. Williams, of Knocknaslina, parish of' Rath, dragged him
outside and gave him a great beating with a cat-o'-nine-tails. On
the same nights party visited the house of Denis Ganley, of Cabaska,
broke the doors, and dragged himself and wife out of bed, and gave
them both a good beating.—Limerick Paper.
Thursday last, while the corn-market was crowded with
respectable farmers, a fellow dishonoured the name of civilized man
by offering his wife for sale. We understand a sweep offered 6d.
by way of joke ; but the purchase was not absolutely made, as the
woman, who had been inveigled into the market and &halter thrown
round her neck before she was aware, fled from the scene of degra.
dation, and her husband had some difficulty in escaping the chas-
tisement of the pump. The police, however, were speedily on the
look-out to prevent a recurrence of the auction, or its consequences.
—Cheltenham Journal.

Monday night last, about 20 armed men attacked the
house of Patt. Sweeny, of Manselstown, near Thurles. They
fired several shots into the house, but fortunately without injuring
any of the inmates. They then shot two pigs, and informed
Sweeny he would get the same fate, unless he gave up some land
he took from Mr. Going, of Ballyphillip, about two years ago. The
same party then visited the house of a man of the name of Hunt,
and committed a similar outrage on it. On the Friday night pre.
ceding, an armed party robbed two houses about a mile distant
from the scene of the above outrages, when they succeeded in obtain.
ing booty to a considerable amount.—Clonmel Advertiser.

ACCIDENTAL FIRE.—The beautiful romantic cottage
of the Surgeon-general at Louth Bray, county of Wicklow, was on
Thursday night totally destroyed, in consequence of a chimney hay-
ing buret, and the fire communicating to the thatch, which blazed
with a rapidity that may be easily imagined, and soon laid waste
the whole fabric. Upon the alarm being given, the peasantry from
the surrounding mountains flew to the spot, and used every passible
exertion to save the property ; a great portion of which consisted of
books, plate, paintings, furniture, and many of the classical deco.
rations, was, on Friday morning, lodged at the barrack of Glancree.
We understand the premises were not insured.—Morning Register.
EXECUTION IN KlLKENNY.—Elizabeth Kealy, for
the murder of her aunt, Elizabeth Dooly, underwent the extreme
sentence of the law at the front of our county gaol on Thursday
last. She uttered, on being removed from the dock, bitter execra-
tions upon her prosecutors. But this violence soon subsided into a
placid and truly Christian consideration of her fate. From the time
of her confinement in the convict cell to that appointed for her exe-
cution she eat little or no food. On Wednesday she was visited by
her husband and some of her elder children. The interview was
more than could be encountered by the guardians of the prison.
They recoiled from the bitter scene, and the only incident of
which they could inform us was, that both husband and chit.
dren knelt down and joined her in fervent prayer. She took oc-
casion to state subsequently that they had no participation whatever
in her guilt. When the hour of her execution was announced by
the tolling of the gaol knell, she was led to the press-room, the front
doors of which opened upon some thousands of spectators, about
one o'clock. The Rev. Mr. Gorman, and she (leaning on his arm)
advanced towards the drop, and remained there while they recited
that sublime prayer the 50th psalm. When this was concluded,
the executioner proceeded with the adjustments of death. Her arms
were bound—her footing gave way, and she passed into eternity._
Kilkenny Journal.
A Correspondent, who resides near Ecclefechan, states
as certain that a ewe, the property of Mr. Maxwell, Corriemains,
dropped a few days ago no fewer than five lambs, which are all
strong, healthy,. lint' likely to do well. The said prolific ewe,
though only three years old, has already given birth to nine lambs.
Such an animal irr perfectly invaluable; if allowed to live long
enough, she will go far to stock a farm with her own progeny, and
we may say of her, in the words of an excellent old song,
" The ewie wi' the crooked horn,
A' that kent ber could hae sworn
411,441:42 Sic a ewie ne'er was shorn,
Hereabouts or far awa."
When she dies she should be buried me sunny spot, where
her great great grandsons and great gr ghters may crop
iu the merry months of spring the sod that greens the grave of their
s.. illustrious ancestor.—Dumfries Courier.
.c. JUDICIOUS CHANGE OF ONE LETTER.-1I is said
(bat Mr. Canning met one of the late Lord Sheffield's innumerable
panipblets in the library of some country friend. The tract is said
tO have begun with a sentence like the following There can be
nu doubt that, under a due system of protection, the growth of
British Wools might be greatly increased, and that our domestic
Wools might eventually be enabled to stand the competition of the
Wools of the continent." The day being gloomy and society not
brilliant, the witty statesman changed every W into an F, and in
this new shape he left the essay for the amusement and, instruction
of the neighbourheod.—Edin6nryli Review.