Star.
London, England, 1822-12-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

CORK, Dec. s.—The following important case to
the Butter Export Traders of Cork, was this day laid
before the RECORDER. It was an appeal from the de-
cision of the sitting Magistrates, by the defendant,
Kelly, upon a right claimed by him, and practised
by the Export Rutter Merchants generally, of put-
ting a scratch mark of the weight of butter on the
outside of firkins, different from the Weigh-house
mark, which, by their decision, the Magistrates had
determined to be contrary to the law for regulating
the trade, and for the prevention of frauds therein.
The question was tried, by agreement between the
parties, on one firkin seized by Mr. Dunscombe,
landwaiter, the weight of which according to the
Weigh-house mark, was 2qrs. and 181bs. and on
which Mr. Kelly had put another mark, stating the
weight to be 2qrs. 201bs. After the examination of
Mr. Dunscombe and his deputy officers, an argu-
ment followed on the question at issue, between
Mr. CONNELL on the part of Mr. Dunscombe, and
Mr. F. M'CARTIIY on the part of Mr. Kelly; after
which the RECORDER affirmed the decision of the
Magistrates, that the practice was contrary to law,
and would lead to serious &mid, but which he did
not mean to impute to Mr. Kelly.—South. Reporter.
Thursday an Inquest was held on the body of
Lieutenant Swayne, who came by his death from a
shot fired from a gun by John M4Carthy.—The
Jurors proceeded to the body, in order to view it.
The contents of the gun had entered three inches on
the right flank of the navel, and on a line with it.
Although the charge was of small shot, the whole
had entered in a space very little larger than would
have been caused by the perforation of a single ball,
sccasioned, as was subsequently explained, by the
closeness of the muzzle of the gun to the side of the
deceased when the shot was fired.

Dr. Cooke stated, that at about half-past ten o'clock
on the preceding Sunday night, he, Mr. John
and deceased, went to the house of John M'Carthy,
who keeps the Bush Inn. They were sitting in the
parlour, taking some wine, and were attended by
Nl,Carthy in person. Mr. M'Call, in the course of the
conversation, took down a small picture from the
wall ; on doing which M'Carthy said he had lately
bought some pictures, and asked him if he wished to
see them ? Mr. M'Call said " Yes ;" upon which
M'Carthy went out and brought in lour pictures, ooe
of which he offered for ten shillings, and for which
Mr. M'Call said he would toss up, whether he should
give him ten shillings or five shillings. They did,
and Mr. M'Call won. Deceased and M'Call then
tossed up for the same picture, and it became the
property of deceased, who said to M'Carthy he did not
,want it, and would part with it to him. M'Carthy
agreed, and they tossed up, upon which a disagree.
ment took place as to the terms, M'Carthy insisting
that he was to get money, and deceased that he was
only to get the picture. Abusive words followed
from both sides. Witness, in order to put an end to
the dispute, and seeing that M'Carthy was disposed
to be insolent, offered to pay any value he would put
on the picture, if he would go out of the room, which
he refused. M'Carthy was not drunk. When M'Car-
thy refused, at witness's request, to leave the room,
deceased desired hith peremptorily to quit, which he
again refused, and deceased then rose for the purpose
of putting, him out, but was held by witness, who
called to M'Carthy to open the hall door, and that
he, the witness, would take Mr. Swayne out. M'Car-
thy said he would not—that he had attended them
I long enough, and then rang the bell, and seated him-
-selt on a chair, having theretofore been standing.—
Mr. Sway ne struggled to get free from witness, who
still held him, upon which Al‘Carthy said, Mr.
Swayne, if you attempt to molest me, I will positively
take your life," and immediately left the room.—
During hirabsence witness forced Mr. Swayne as far
as the parlour door, and called to Mr. tl'Call to open
the hall door,* in order to take him out, which that
I gentleman went to do, and just then IslsCartliy ap-

peared and came before Mr. Swayne, who was in
front of witness, and who said he would not be bul-
lied by his gun, and disengaging himself by an exer-
tion from witness, was about to rush on. M'Carthy,.
when, on the instant, the latter let fly, the gun being
poised from about his hip, and it went off. The muz-
zle 'was not more than six inches from deceased.
M'Carthy's absence in procuring the gun was about
five minutes, and on his return, he got round witness
and deceased, so as to front the latter ; not more than
four seconds elapsed after his return when he fired.
On the shot being fired, deceased reeled, turned on
his heel and fell, saying to witness, " James, I'm
shot—l believe kill'd ; this isn't the place I ought to
have fallen. - I wuuldn't mind it if it had been at
Waterloo." Deceased lived till yesterday ;—the hip-
bone was broken, and though the body has not been
opened, he has no doubt his death was caused by the
shot, from certain symptoms. After the transaction,
M'Carthy left the room, but soon returned, and said
that the wound couldn't be mortal, as 'twas only
small shot was in the gun ; upon which witnes said,
." You murderous ruffian, is that the way you attempt
to palliate such an act ?" 31‘Car thy ;hen said,
14 Take care—'twas such language as that brought
him (meaning deceased) to the state in which he lies."
Witness desired him to quit his presence, but he re-
mained in the room while witness was drei.,irg the
wound, and was assisting quite ccolly, l; a v i tg brought
down a shirt, mattrass, water, &c. Dectaied was
unmarried, and about 28 years of age.
Honora Wallis, a tenant residing in M'Carthy's
house, stated, that on Sunday night the three Gen-
tlemen came in at about eleven o'clock, and had a
bottle of cold wine and two cif which were
taken in by M'Carthy himself. At about two of clock,
witness was called by Mrs. Nl.Carthy from the next
room, where she was in bed, who desired her to go
into the parlour, for that they were fighting there.—
Witness did go accordingly, and saw them u rangling,
and holding Mr. Swayne, who was speaking angrily
to M'Carthy ; there were no blows. Witness went
out, and returned again, an.l spoke to Mr. Swayne
not to call Mr. M'Carthy names, which he was doing,
having called him a ruffian. He said he was no
ruffian, immediately left the room, and returned
after some minutes with a gun in his hand, which he
immediately cocked when opposite to Mr. Swayne.
He said he would fire at him. Mr. Swayne said,
Fire;" which M'Carthy immediately did, and Mr.
Swayne staggered and fell. M•Carthy left the house
soon after, and kissed his wife at parting, and has
not returned since. On filing the gun, M'Carthy
took it out and put it in the bar, where it used to lay.
The Jury having, in answer to a question from the
Coroner, stated that they were unanimously of opi-
nion that sufficient evidence had been laid before
them upon which to found their verdict, it was not
deemed- necessary to elan line any other s itnesses,
and the verdict was accordingly given in of " Wilful
Murder," against-John M'Carthy ; and he was or-
dered to be apprehended on the Coroner's warrant.
KILKENNY, DEC. 7.—Thursday was squally ard
foul throughout. In the evening, from five to six
o'clock, it blew a perfect hurricane from the S.W.
and many houses in and near this city sustained da-
mage. Many windows were broken. The roofs of
the Barrack, Tholsel, &c. were partly stripped, and
some walls, trees, tenters with blanketing, &c. were
thrown down ; but we have not heard that any per-
son suffered bodily injury, except one man, who was
considerably bruised by the fall of slates and brick-
bats from a house in Rose Inn-street..
ATHLONE, DEC. 6.—On the evening of yesterday
this town and circumjacent country was visited with
a gale, which for the time of its continuance, was un-
precedentully violent. It began about four in the
afternoon, and before ten swelled into a most awful
tempest, whose whirling eddies dismantled several
houses of the greater part of their slates, and blew
down some cabins.

LIMERICK, DEC. 7.—This city was visited with a
most tremendous storm, on Thursday : it commenced
about three o'clock at noon from the west, and in.
creasing in violence, continued with unabated fury
until about ten at night. Scarcely a house but has
suffered more or less. Among the injuries reported
to us are the following :—ln Mary-street, the roofs
of several houses fell in, from one of which a young
girl endeavouring to escape the ruins had her leg
broken. In Fish-lane, a huu•e was blown down, and
from the tottering walls of many others the inmates
were taken out by ladders. The roof of the City
Court-House, over the Grand Jury-room, was en-
tirely stripped. Several thatched cabins at Tho.
mond-gate were de.troyed. About one hundred
weight of lead was blown off the roof of the Custom-
house, and the front windows shattered. A turf
boat is reported to have been thrown ashore at
Coonagh, in which an old woman is said to have
perished from cold. The storm was preceded by ex-
tremely heavy rain and some light Hashes of lightning.
BomE, Dm 7.—So dreadful a storm has not been
remembered in this county for many years as that
which visited our neighbourhood at about a quarter
before six on Thursday evening, and lasted until
eleven o'clock, during which time it carried away
slates, thatch, and trees ; spread hay and stacks of
corn on the face of the country ;' in many instances
entire houses were blown dowry and we are sorry to
say that the splendid mansion at Rockingham has
suffered very considerably, besides several trees
having been torn up in the demesne.
Tuesday night week, the premises of John O'Hal-
loran, Esq. of Moy hill, near Cratlce, in the County
of Clare, weic visited by a number of nocturnal le-
gislators, who maliciously houghed thirty-air, sheep,
and drove the remainder of this floc k into the river
; Shannon; they then set .fire to two ricks of hay and
one of beans, which were consumed before the
mili-
tary and police, who were attracted to the spot by
the flames, could arrive; they succeeded, liowever,
in rescuing from the destructive eletnent, one rid of
beaus, to which the incendiaries had also set

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