Star.
London, England, 1819-12-28 00:00:00

STATE OF IRELAND.

(From a Dublin Paper of Thursday last.)
We feel happy in being enabled to state, that the
Ribbonmen, in the counties of Clare and Roscommon,
have discontinued their proceedings, and, it is hoped,
that tranquillity in these districts wig be restored.—
The inhabitants of the baronies of Dunmore, "Bally-
Tore, and Tyaquin, county of Galway, comprising a
population of 100,000, have tendered their services
to Government, to act as Cavalry or Infantry, to re-
sist the illegal associations or Ribbonmen that have
confederated themselves in that quarter.
In the King's County some disturbances have oc-
curred. We have had occasion before to refer to this
county ; and, since our last allusion to it, some cir-
cumstances have come to our knowledge to which,
until they received the stamp of official authority, we
did not deem it necessary to Allude.
In the Queen's County, some circumstances of
an unllleasant nature have taken place, in Mary-
borough. We have heard a few particulars, but
they have reached.our office in a shape so equivocal,
that we deem it only prudent to suspend their pub-
lication.

We_ regret to say, that in Westmeath, a similar
tumultuarj spirit prevails. It is, indeed, true, and
we state de circumstance with very great reluctance
in the words of a Correspondent at Mullingar, that
" on Monday evening, the 20th instant, as Benjamin
Cox and his soh, were returning to Shingles from
Ballymore, in this county, after driving and selling
cattle, for non-payment of rent, due by the tenants
holding the lands of Newtown, they were way-laid
and fired on from behind a hedge, and, melancholy
to relate, two balls were lodged in Cox's arm and
shoulder ; and a poor man, who accompanied his
party, was so dreadfully wounded in the neck, by a"
second shot, that his life is despaired of."
We have also to state, on the authority of another
eommunicatioin that the horrible system of houghing
lad killing cattle is beginning to appear in some parts
of the county. Seven cows belonging to a widow
Lady, in the neighbourhood of Mullingar, were
killed, the fat taken away, and the bodies left behind.
On another farm, in the same neighbourhood, four
sheep have been killed on the same night.
In Kilkenny, too, the abominable-system has ap-
peared._ Five cows and six breeding ewes, the pro-
petty of Mr. Joan MARUM, brother to the titular -
Bishop of Ossonv, have been toughed and killed.
The Magistrates and Landholders of the Barony of
Galmoy, in which the outrage was committed, have
offered a reward for the discovery of the perpetrator.
We have been informed, by a highly respectable
resident Gentleman, that the Baronies of Eliogarty
and Kilnemanagh, County of Tipperary, are at pre-
sent much disturbed by fellows going in search of
fire-arms, and posting notices to " assassinate any
person taking ground over Ifnother's heat!." He states
the following as a few of the outrages :—" Some
nights ago a pistol was stolen from the house of the
Rein W. E. Lloyd, at Holycross Glebe. Mr. Lloyd,
of Mount Friscoe's, wood-rangeri had his mustets
taken by an armed banditti. A man, named Fehan,
Steward to Captain Gason, was deprived of his arms
—as were also a Mr. Cahill and a Mr. James Lan-
der, all residing in these Baronies. The three guns
and two powder-horns, taken from Mr. Lenegan's
Office, joining his dwelling-house, in his inclosed
yard, and Mr. Lloyd's pistol, were restored through
the exertions of Major Wilson, late Chief Magistrate
of Police, who still resides at Thurles." .‘-!,
The Society for Promoting the Enlargement.and
Building of Churches has recently received two axe.
as donations of £5OO
In consequence of the death of the Earl of aims-
row, the. Lord Lieutenancy of Ayillhire and a Gteeu
Ribbon have become vacant:
We regret to 'announce the death of the Reverend
Geoitot Hits., Principal of St. Mary's College, 8t:
And'rew's. This Gentleman was long one of dr.
chief ornaments of the Church Of Stociand, and was
distiuguislied for his manly and inniressive eloquence,
hot6.in_the pitlpit and the General Assembly.
;ThsViscountess catudousis continues to practia.
the same sysietu of old .E'nglish hosphali, as usual,
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