Star.
London, England, 1829-01-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

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!ROM Till IRIBII PAMIRS.

COMBINATION AND DREADFUL OUTRAGE,
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Thursday evening one of those cold-blooded and dar-
ing outrages that are so frequent in this city, arising
out of the abominable system of combination which so
unhappily prevails, was committed near the New Buid-
ings, in South Main-street. Asa poor man named T.
Ryan, by trade a skinner, was returning on the above
evening, in. company with his wife, a gang of vil-
lains, ten in number, rushed on him, armed with
saws, and having knocked him down, they mangled
his body most cruelly—having cut one of his arms
through in two places, and inflicted some dreadful
wounds 0.1 his bead. His wife threw herself on the
unfortunate man to try and save him from the
vengeance of his merciless assailants, but she was
also severely cut. It would be horrifying to the feel-
ings of our readers to describe more minutely the state
in which they left their victim, who was instantly con-
veyed to the South Infirmary, where he remains in a
languishing state, without the least hope of recovery,
under the care of Drs. Woodrooffe and Bull, who have
pronounced hit case a most extraordinary one. As soon
as the particulars had reached the City Slieriffi, they
proceeded, accompanied by Messrs.lt-gers and He* son.
High Constables, and Haynes and Mathis, jun. Peace
Officers, in pwsuit of the offenders, and after a diligent,
and anxious search, they succeeded in apprehend-
ing four men, named Jobn Noss lati. a baker; Edmond
Kelly, currier; Edward It.ibinson, and James Tobin,
.kin-dressers, the former of whom was about to be sent
away by his friends, to avoid the ends of justice. The
unfortunate man has fully identified those person., who
have undergone a strict examination before the Magi--
crates, mid were committed for trial at the next Assizes.
—Cork Constitution. •

Killarney was a cominu-d scene of the most disgrace-
ful rioting on Christmas-day, between two factions of
the name of Barry and Clitfoid; but on Monday last
the grand encounter took place, when above 200 of
those savage ruffians fouglA with the most disgusting
ferocity—sucks, stones, and other missiles,flying through
the streets ; several of the combatants lay senseless on
the pavement, and bleeding profusely. Christopher
Hallway, Esq. with fifteen police, exerted themselves
to quell the riot, which they partially effected. The
inhabitants were obliged to close up their shops, and
business WAS suspended duiing the conflict. Unfor-
tunately, these is no military party at Killarney.
Some few days past two desperate factions, compos-
ing at least two thousand persons, well supplied with
fire aims and other weapons, assembled in the town of
Six-mile-bridge, county Clare. The result would have
been frightful, but f 4 the exertions of the Roman Ca-
tholic Clergyman of that parish.
THE IRISH AGITATORS AND THE CASE OF
O'CONNELL AS AN AL!.

The following has been published as Lord CoLcues-
rett's opinion upon these subjects:
That the Roman CAtholic Association must be put
down, together with its Catholic rent, no loyal man
can doubt.

That the Dictator and Director of that mischievous
Assembly, which has gloried in trampling upon the law,
still no longer'have to boast of his triumph, and that he
will find the barriers of its sanctuary strong enough to
exclude him, will be shortly seen.
By an early statute in the reign of Elizabeth, every
Member who shall enter the Parliament House without
having taken the Oath of Supremacy before the L-ird
Steward or his Deputy, shall be to all intents and pur-
poses as if be had never been returned. Under this law
Sir John Leeds, in the reign of James 1. was disabled
from serving in the Parliament in which he bad been
elected; and although the form of oath bas been from
time to time varied, the legal consequence of not taking
it remains the same.

By a law passed in the reign of Charles 11. all Mem.
bees of the House of Commons were also required to
take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and to
make and subscribe the decimation against transubstan-
tiation at the table of the House; and who should wil-
fully presume to sit or vote, without taking the said
Oath, or making and signing the declaration, v ere
thereby disabled from sitting or voting in the Par-
liament to which they had been elected. Their elec-
tion was declared void, and new writs were directed to'
be issued for the election of other Members in their
place, as if they were naturally dead.
Under this law, within ten years after the Revolution,
Sir Henry Mounson, the Lord Faoshawe, and Jobb
Archdale; and vain, in the reign of George 1. Leah
Pryse, Knight of the Shire for the county of Car-
,digan, token their refusal to take the oaths and sign

the declarations, were seeetally discharged or expolled,l
and new writs were issued in doe course, to elect '
others in their places; only delaying the new writ
where the election was queationed by petition, as in
the case pf Lord Fanshawe, until atter the pe ition
was heard. And that the same law applies equally
to all Members, elected since the Union with Ire-
land, is plainly declared by the fourth article of the
Union, and as plainly proved by the semi) acts of per-
sonal
indemnity which have been passed Int the nisei
of Members (Ireland inclusive) who had inadvertently
taken their seats before they had conformed to the con-
ditions prehcribed by the law.
It is much to be wished, ad 's Lord Colchester, that
the law of elections should be extended, so as to requite
the like tests from every candidate, before any vote can
be received for him; in order that the public Fence may
not be troubled by the needless return of any person,
who, if elected, is nevertheless incapable of sitting in
Parliament.

EDINBURGH, JANUART 5.
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THE WEST PORT SIMMERS—CONFESSIONS OF
BURKE.

• From the Ca/a/mien Mercury.
The information from which the following article is
drain up we have received from a m at tftpectable

quarter, and its perfect correctness in all respects rosy
be confidently relied on. In ',nth, it is as nearly as
possible a strict report, rather than the substance of
what passed at ab interview with Bus be, in the course
of which the unhappy man appears to have opened his
mind without reserve, and mauve given a distinct And
explicit answer to es err question which was put tots m
relative to his connexion with the late mutdeis.

Alter some conversation- of a ieligions nature, in the
course of which Bat ke stated that, • bile in Ireland, h;.
mind was under the influence of religites impressions.
and that he was accustomed to rPad his Catechism and
his Prayer-book, and to attend to his duties, he was
asked, " How comes it, then, that you who, by your
' own account, were once under the ii.fiaence of religious
impressions, ever formed the idea' of such dreadful
atrocities, of such cold-blooded, systematic mind rs, as
you admit you have been engaged came such
a conception to enter your mind ?" To this Burke ie-
plied, that he did not exactly know; but that becoming
addicted to drink, living in open adultery, and Als0•
ciating continually with the most ahandotseJ character,,
he gradually became hat Jetted and desperate; gave up
attending Chapel or any place of religioul woishir,
shunned the face of a Priest, and b ing constantly fa-
miliar wish every species of wickedness, be at length
pew indifferent as to what he did, and was featly to
commit any crime.
He was then asked, how long he had been engaged
in this murderous vat& / To which he answered,
From Christmas 1827 the
II r
.I._ minder of the women
Doherty in October last." " How m any persons hum
you murdered, or b- en concerned in murdering, during
that time? Were they chitty in all?'' " Nast so many;
not so many, I assure you " H.w many ?" He an-
swered the question; but the answer was, for a reason
perfectly satisfactory, not communicated to us, and ra
saved for a different quarter.
" Had you any accomplices ?" " None but Hare.
We always took care, when w e were going to commit
a murder that no one else should be present—that no
one could swear he saw the deed done. The women'
might suspect what we were about, but we always put
them out of the way when we wete going to do it.
They never saw us commit any of the muscle's. One
of the murders was done in*Binggait's house, while he
was out, but before he terurned the thing was finis ed
and the body put into a box. Broggan evidently sus.'
petted something. lot he appeared much agitated, and
entreated us' to takeaway that box,' which we accord-
. ingly did. But he was not in any way concerned in it."
'• You have already told me vial you acre engaged
in these atrocities horn Christmas 1827, till the end of
October 1826. Were you ass dated with I late duiini
all that time?"_" Yes; we began with selling to Dr.
the body of a woman who had died a natural
death in Hare's house; we got ten pounds fur it; alter
this we began the mimics, and all the rest a the bodies
we sold to him were murstered."

" In what place were these murders generally com •
mitted ?" They were mostly committed in Hales
house, which was very convenient for the purpose, as it
consisted of a room and a kitchen. Dalt Jamie was
murdered there. The story told of this murder is in-
correct. Hate began the struggle with him, and they
fell and rolled together on the floor ; lien I went to
Hare's assistance, and we at length finished him, though
with much difLulty. 1 commiitt-d one itutder in the
country by myself. It was in last harvest. All the rest
were done in conjunction with H
" By *hat means were these (cavilsl atrocities per-
pett atedr s' By suffocation. We made the persons
drunk, and then suffocated them by holding the nostrils
and mouth and getting on the body. Sometimes I held
the mouth and nose, while Hate went upon the body;
and sometimes Hare held the mouth and nose, while I
placed myself on the body. Hare has petjuted himself
by what he said at the trial about the murder of Do-
cherty. He did not sit by while I did it, as he says.
He was on the body, assisting me with all his might,
while I held the nostrils and mouth with one hand,
choked her under the throat with the other. We some=
times used a pillow, but did not in this case."
" Now, Burke, answer me this question—Were you
tutored and instructed, or did you receive hints from
any one as to the mode of committing murder r " No,
except from Hare. We often spoke about it. and we
agreed that suffocation was the best way. Hare said
so, and I weed with him. We generally did it by
suffocation. (Our informant omitted to interrogate
him about the surgical instruments stared to have been
found in his hou e; but this omission will be supplied).
" Did you receive any encouragement to commit or
persevere in committing these atrocities?" "Yes; we
were frequently told by Paterson that he would take as
many bodies as we could get for him. When we got
one, he always told us to get more. There was cons
wooly another person with him, of the name of
Falconer. They generally pressed us to get more
bodies for them."
"To whom were the bodies so murdered sold ?"--.
Is To Dr. --. We took the bodies to his rooms in
—.and then went to his house to receive the money
for them ; sometimes be paid us himself, sometimes we
were paid by his assistants. No questions were ever
asked as to the mode in which we bad come by the
bodies ; we had nothing to do but to leave a body at
the rooms, and go get the money."
" Did you ever, upon any occasion, sell a body or
bodies to any other Lecturer in this place?"—" Never;
we knew no other."

" You have been a resurrectionist (as it is called) I
understand?" " No. Neither Hare nor myself ever
got a body from a churchyard. AU we sold were mur•
dered save the first one. which was that of the woman
who died a natural death in Hare's house. ' We be4an
with that: our crimes then commenced. The victims
we selected were generally eldttly persons. Tray could