Star.
London, England, 1818-12-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Canow, Nov. the evening of Saturday,
a scene as disgraceful in its nature, as it was awful
in its consequences, occurred in the town of Strad-
:—Two men, named Shot-tall and Carroll, went
into x public house to drink, but had not been long
there, when a quarrel ensued, in which a looking-
lass was broken. Payment was immediately de-
tuanded by the proprietor for the'damage done, and
}Ley refusing to comply, were shortly after about to
leave the ;mese, when they were met at the door by
two butchers (brothers), armed with iron bars, with
wins h :hey beat the unfortunate men, and fractured
their skulls. One of them survived only to
_next
morning—the other died on Monday evening. One
of the butchers has been lodged in Mary borough jail
—the other ab.conded immediately after.
GALWAY, Nov. 25.—Monday evening last, eight
prisoners, confined in the town jail for different of-
fences, some of them under sentence of transportation,
and some of them heavily ironed, effected their escape.
In the course of a few hours afterwards, the greater
number of the party had the singular hardihood to
commit a burglary and robbery at the Glebe-house of
the Rev. Mr. MARLEV, of Aroadown, about ten miles
distant from this town, fbr which outrage four of them
were on Tuesday committed to the county jail.
Rio? AT Auoire:Actor.—A letter purporting to be
a correct and authentic report of that disastrous af-
fray has appeared in the Dublin Evening Post, which,
if true, i; indeed to be deplored. It is a melancholy
tact, that it originated in party feelings, and that two
persons lost their lives, one of them the mother of
several children. Five of the offenders have already
been committed to jail, to take their trial at the next
Assizes, and until then the facts will not conic fairly
to light.
DuaLtsr, NOVEMBER 27.—Tuesday evening, as Jo-
SEM ATKINSON, Esq. of the Ordnance, Dublin, was
on his return from the neighbourhood of Rathfarn-
ham, having gone on a sporting excursion, he was
suddenly attacked by a gang of five armed men,
three of whom seized the horse, while the remaining
two forced him from his gig, but affording him an
opportunity sufficient for discharging the contents of
his double-barrelled gun, which killed one and de-
sperately wounded.the other of the robbers ; the re-
port of the gun alarming the horse, the animal sprung
forward, and actually levelled two of his opponents,
upon which this gallant youth instantly applied the
but-end of the gun to the only remaining robber, with
such force, however, as to preclude the possibility of
repeating the blow, from the stock having broke close
to the barrels, and he was satisfied to join pursuit of
his horse and gig, which he fortunately overtook at a
.watering place, and proceeded to town, with no other
injury a slight contusion on the chin, which he
received in the first onset from one of this gang.

Saturday evening, as a small cart was proceeding
along the Kent-road, laden with baskets of linen,
which were being conveyed, under the charge of the
'laundress, to the respective owners, an attack was
made upon it by a gang of five villains, who had I
succeeded in setting out one of the largest baskets,
and were making off with it, when they were observed
by William Abby, the driver, who in attempting to
recover the property wasbool in a most inhuman
manner, and received a severewound onhishead. He•
succeeded in recovering the basket and linen, and
with the assistance of some persons whom his cries
had brought to the-spot, secured two of the gang.—
Their names are John Clark and Erkraim Mts.