Star.
London, England, 1821-11-13 00:00:00

DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND.

ring THE LIMERICK CHRONICLE OF WEDNESDAY.
The fullmsing attacks and robberies give a mdan-
daeli view of the disorganised state of the county of
Lime. ick :--The house of Mr. Jona CLEARY, of Bul-
ooden, in this county, was entered on Monday night,
ty gang of armed ruffians, and robbed of two
modtets.—Sunday week, about nine o'clock at night,
tie house of Mr. ADAM MILLER, at Garrainrcie, in
this comity, was attacked by a large party, in search
0/fire-arms. On MILLER'S refusing them, the party
commenced breaking down the wall of the house with
ccow.hars, which they accomplished, and succeeded
is taking tivn gttn., two pistols, and one sword.
The following robberies have also taken place in
the neighbourhood of Bruit; and scarcely a night
the
e,at armed parties, mounted, do not parade
the roads from Hospital to Croom : —From the house
orParnicK GRADY, ur guns have been taken; arid
hen, the houses of JAMES COLMAN, JAMES HEItLIIIY,
jogs MoLoNv, DENIS KENNANR, and JAMES C.
Dioitaissy, oile gun each.
Saturday night about half a hundred weight of
tad was taken off the rear of the artillery barracks
io this city. Sunday night a similar robbery was•
committed on the roof of the Butterweigh-house, in
Nigh-street; these outrages are authenticated on oath.
COUNTY OF CORK.

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The. lawless system of robbery and murder has
replied a considerable part of this County, and it
would be difficult to say how far it will extend. On
soday night, amumerous body of mounted banditti
snacked the house of a Tythe-proctor, at Liscarol,
which they demolished. He was absent, and hence
saved his life. They next visited the house of a wit..
meson a late criminal trial, and having found the
unfortunate victim a home, they cruelly punished
him, and made him swear that he would take his
oath in the Parish Chapel not to disclo e their names.
A force of forty soldiers and ten police was posted in
the immediate vicinity of this outrage. but it seems,
they could net afford the necessary protection.
Within a few days, all the Gentry of Dultallow
were deprived of their arms, except a few whose
houses were deemed Inc) strong for attack. Several
Gentlemen were 'robbed of arms in broad day, and
such is the effect of intimidation that the Magistrates
are afraid to perform their duty. The banditti make
requisitions of horses from the more respectable class
of farmers, who are ordered to have them, with
saddle and bridle, in readiness. The dread of assas-
sination overawes the peaceable, and those who can
afford the expense, take shelter in the towns and
populoos

kevices from Gibraltar to the 2.3c1 ult. were re-
ceived yesterday. They state, as intelligence horn
Malta, that his Excellency Sir THOMAS MAITLAND
sailed born thence for Corfu on the 24th September.
Pinions to his departure it was made known, that
cm his return, which would be early in November,
be would take into immediate consideration the pos-
sibility. or expediency of laying open, in part or in
whole, and under what restrictions or limitations,
the corn trade, which has from ancient times been
held as a monopoly in that island. All ships and
vessels from Gibraltar, with clean bills of health,
were to perform seven days quarantine at Malta ;
and those from the coast of Spain, also with clean
banf health, fifteen days. Private letters from Ma-
laga mentioned, in contradiction to the statements of
the Board of Health, cases and deaths by the yellow
kw in that city. One of them in particular stated,
wader date of the 13th October, that the writer,
trig credit to those statements, had recently re-
tuned from the country to Malaga, but finding that
his former apprehensions were too well founded, he
%tended to remove again on the next day.
Daeav• LANE THEATRge--.TheTragedy of Richard
ths Third was last night performed, the Duke of
Glestater by Mr. Kr,ty, the only actor at present on
&stage who p.'urtrls with due effect the various
shades which miligle in the character of Richard.
Mr. LIAN has tardy afforded us such unalloyed
pleasure as we last night derived from his pet form-
er'. It was, in every re.pect, excellent. The cool,
mantic murderer, whose jests are the precursors of
hkedy deeds—the wheedling, specious lover, and the
bold uailaunted warrior, were represented with extra •
ordinary fidelity. On other occasions, we have known
Ur. Inn's voice to fail towards the end of this la-
borious character; but last night his energies, mental
and physical, did not abate one jot, from the moment
he appeared until the curtain fell. Perhaps he never
Played the 'character so well, certainly never better.
Genius shone pre-eminent in every scene, and the
audience hailed it, as genius should be hailed, with
rapturous applause.—The Farce of the Adopted Child
followed, in which Mr. LOVEDAT, from the Edinburgh
Theatre, sustained the part of Michael, in a manner
ettretnely characteristic of the rude but generous
heart of a sailor. The House was crowded.

Miss Symms, on Thursday morning last, dis-
played an eminent instance of that unaffected and un-
assuming. kindness of disposition for which she is so
!uglily valued. Some of her friends having taken her
to view the Blind Asylum, in Liverpool, it was inti-
mated to her that sevetal of the musical pupils had
often expressed a strong wish to hear a specimen of
her admirable voice and skill. Without farther en-
treaty, she proposed to gratify them on the spot, and
the blind pupil, of both sexes, being gathered to-
tether, she sung the exquisite duet of Love.in thine
/et assisted by Mr. C. SMITH. The raptures of her
*siring and interesting audience were more than,
wally excessive, in proportion as the sensibility of the
UN% in the blind, more than usually intense.
0u) MA sprightly writer expresses his opi-
&Met old maids in the following manner :—I am
Maned to believe that many of the satirical aspen-
limes cast upon old maids tell more to their credit
than is generally imagined. Is a woman remarkably
treat in her person, "she will certainly die an old
maid." Is she particularly reserved towards theother
met " she has all the squeamishness of an old maid."
is she frugal in her expenses, and exact in her do-
mestic concerns, " sbe is cut out for an old maid.",
And if she is kindly humane to the animals about'
her, nothing can save her from the appellation of an
old maid." In short, I have always found that,
'leafless, modesty, economy, and humanity, are the
never failing characteristics of that tcarible creature
an is old maid!"