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London, England, 1829-10-31 00:00:00

rouse him from the delusion ; upon which, quite chop-
fallen, he relinquished his mock-diadem with a sigh.
Poor man ! How much he is to be pitied! both for his
own sake, and alas! for ours.
The other patient of the Home Department nas passed
a good night—only this morning he is haunted by the
appalling ghosts of CANNING and a spianiny jenny ;
and conceives nothing but a coronet can put them to flight.
He sent to borrow several from the Peerage, but found
them all too large for his small head. Disappointed in
this, he has thought to frighten away these importunate
spectres by vainly disfiguring himself, by frequently
turning his coat; but all in vain—the phantoms still
stick to him. We understand that a consultation is
speedily to be called in a high quarter, in order to relieve
the mind of this unfortunate patient.
The lunatic in the Foreign Office is, however, got
worse and worse ; his case is considered to be of a most
desperate description. He dreams of nothing but cas-
tellated towers, feudal absurdities, and whips and
chains, and constantly amuses himself by drawing
in colours of blood upon the walls, a ferocious
looking being on a scaffold, resembling an executioner,
armed with a bloody axe, whom he calls his friend the
Dow. Nothing can reduce this maniac to order, but
threatening him in high German, with the displeasure of
some one called METTERNICH, upon which, he never fails
to sneak away in obedient silence like a school-boy that
has been well horsed. The inferior madmen are all pre-
paring in terror to undergo immediate purgation. His
MAJESTY, it would seem, solicitous for the safety of
these poor lunatics, and his more honest leiges, intends,
it is said, soon to remove them, from all possibility of
doing further mischief—Goo SAVE TIIE KING.
••• • •

DREADFUL STATE OF IRELAND.

MURDER OF A PROTESTANT CLERG FMAN.--Again
it becomes our unhappy lot to say that another foul stain has been
attacked to that sanguinary catalogue of crime, which too fre•°
quently degrades the national character of our country, in the eye
of civilized Europe. Bloodshed and murder are unfortunately
almost characteristic features in the records of Irish history
both ancient and modern. Paving events afford no indication
of improvement, and we rather apprehend that we are
yet fated to observe more of this dreadful state of society
The Rev. John Going, Rector of Moyaliffe, county Tipperary'
left his family seat last Friday to attend the Sessions of Thurles'
Approaching to evening, Mrs. Going began to feel uneasy for
her husband's return, as he had told her on setting out, that
he would, if possible, be home to his family before dark.—
Under this apprehension Mrs. Going desired one of the ser-
vants to saddle a horse and ride forward to meet his m aaaa r.
He accordingly went to the stable to prepare for the road,
and had the animal just equipped—when what was his alto.
nishment to see his master's horse drive up to the stable
door, and trot into his stall, bridled and saddled, but without
any rider! Mrs. Going's distress of mind cannot be de-
scribed on bearing of it ; the servant was instantly despatched with
assistants to search for her husband, while all his children continued
in the most painful anxiety. They pursued the road by which he
was to return, until they %came near Farney Bridge, where they
found the body of their unfortunate master lying across the road,
without a spark of life. On his head was a large cut from which
the blood bad flown copiously, and their immediate impression was
that be had by some mishap been thrown front his burst and killed
on the spot. But murder will speak with " most miraculous
organs;' even that nslancholy satisfaction was not left his ago-
nised family and sorrowing domestics ; for on moving the body
they traced no less than three gun-shot wounds on differerent parts
of his person. All doubt was now removed, and the deceased
Clergyman was conveyed to the mansion of mourning, where a
widow and nine orphans clasped his lifeless remains with the most
piteous and dimming cries !We could not pint this heart-break -
ing scene, the very thoughts of what followed this frightful tragedy
would harrow up even common feelings.
As yet there is no account whatever of the murderers, nor can
any reason be assigned for the foul deed. The Rev. John Going
was a Clergyman amiable in his manners, inoffensive in his deport-
ment, and exemplary in his ministerial character. He was aMa
gistrate, and a man of great humanity, the son of a most excellent
geatleman, the late Richard Going, of Bird-hill, Esq. an indivi-
dual liked by all the country round, and brother of the ill-fated
Richard Going, Esq. Police Magistrate, who was so brutally mur-
dered at Cappa, county Limerick, in October, 1621.
Blois bloanzas.—Thursday night, a party of armed insurgents
went to the house of a mac named Ryan, near Templemore, (whose
brother is under the denomination of a Government informer,
having given evidence in the case of Mr. Baker's murder) they
fired into the house through the window and wounded hint so badly
that his life is despaired of —they then went about a mile distant
to the house of his mother, took her out of bed, and shot her dead
on the spot. To instance the estimate taken of human life in Tip-
perary, weneed only refer to the last Assizes of Clonmel, when it
distinctly appeared that a murder was procured by another, who
instigated the perpetrators for a bribe of thirty pieces of silver, to
destroy a man they had no previous malice whatever against !
On the nights of Wednesday and Thursday three persons were
fired at in the neighbourhood of Templemore, and dangerously,
wounded. The house of a respectable farmer near Cloughjurdan
was attacked by a party of insurgents on the night of Thursday
last, and his arms taken. The unfortunate man defended his
house for a considerable period, and did not give up his arms until
his skull was fractured, and his wife dreadfully wounded.
Monday night, at an early hour, the farm-house of Jahn M'Na-
mars Price, on the lands of Rhebugue, in the Liberties of this
City, was burned to the ground.—lt is feared the conflagration
was malicious, as the tenant had but recently entered on the farm.
The house was on the estate of the Rev. Ottiwell Moore. The
family bad retired to their beds quite unconscious of the incipient
conflagration, and ail would hare perished in the flames, but for
the alarm of a neighbour. There are two persons in custody on
suspicion.
In the Queen's County, on Sunday last, five policemen conveying
two rioters to a place of confinement in the village of Ballyroan,
were attacked by a ferocious mob, and severely beaten. Two of
the men were stabbed with their own bayonets, and the guns of
the whole party were broken, chiefly upon their own heads.
Sunday evening, the out-office of the Rev. Mr. Goldsbury, in
the town of Boyle, was maliciously consumed—the 66th Regiment
prevented the flames from spreading.
The Police Barrack at Ballinasloe was burnt down on Wednes-
day night, and but for the laudable exertions of Captain Deane with
his detachment of the Sth Infantry, the flames would have spread
to the adjoining houses. The fire originated in the negligence of a
female, who left a lighted candle on the bed.
The Magistrates of Roscommon and Sligo assembled in large
numbers at Boyle, on Monday—Viscount Lorton in the Chair—
when they resolved to offer .6180 reward, in addition to £2OO
from Government, for discovery of the ruffians who committed
the daring outrage on the Rev. Mr. Shaw and his family.
At this meeting the Magistrates recorded their decided opinion,
that the revival of the Insurrection Act is the only measure calcu-
lated to suppress the system of outrage and intimidation which now
prevails.
A Chief Constable. Mr. Colville, and 25 mounted police, in
augmentation of the roue already stationed in that neighbosr-
hood, have arrived at Enoistymon, County of Clue, where they
are to remain, as long as the district continues in a state of distur-
bance. The expense of maintaining this additional force, is to be
levied off that district.