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London, England, 1826-08-26 00:00:00

DUBLIN POLICE

roll4lollllr mt ?Mt ROYAL Tama AgirtillANCZ Cowart. —This but;.
nessbnderwern another long investigation on Wednesday before Mr.
Gramme. From circumstance* that transpired after the committal
of O'DONsghue, on Saturday, warrants were issued fur the apprehen.
sion of. Mr: narks Gaffney, who is r grocer at Stoney-hatter, and
brother to Matthew, in whose name the shares in the Company%
stock were vested.—Wednesday the prlsonets. Charles o.lfri y and
O'llonoghue, were brought up from Newgate, when Messrs.
Finlay and Hamilton attended as their Counsel; Mr. Sheil ap-
peared as haute, for the Company. On this investigation, it came
out that Charles Gaffney first applied at the office of the Company
for a transferor the shares which srood in the name a his brother.
On being asked If he was Matthew Gaffney, he replied that be was
not, bet be would send him there. O'Dourighue was then sent
by his employer to personate Matthew Gaffney; the sequel of
O'Dortoghue's proceedings Is already known.
A long argument was entered into by the Counsel on both rider,
as to the nature of the offence, and whether it was bailable or nor.
After reirrting to a number of legal authorities, Me. Qaseasre said
he considered himself justified in admitting the prisoners to bail, to
take their trial for the conspiracy to defraud. The decision was
assented to by Mr. Sheil, and they were accordingly bound over,
themselves in I,OOOL and two sureties in lOW. each, to stand their
trial at the next Commission.

PARAGRELFS.—HaiI storms are of more common
occurrence, and of mote destructive operation, on the
Continent than in England. Ingenuity, therefore, has
been more taxed to prevent their calamitous effects.
The provision made for this purpose is called paragreles
in French, from a word signifying hail stones. Para-
greles, when made in the simplest manner, con,.st of
wooden poles from 35 to $0 French feet high, and fixed
in the firmest manner in the ground, on the top of each
of which is fixed a sharp point of yellow brass wile,
about the eighth of an inch in diameter; to the bottom
of this is fixed, by means of a slog, another yellow brass
wire, about a 16th of an inch diameter, continued all
the way along this pole to three or four feet under the
ground, and fixed to the poles by small wire staples.
By this description it will be teen that paragreles are
merely lightning rods made in the simplest and cheape.e
form, by which it is proposed to draw down the electric
fluid from the clouds, and by that means to prevent the
formation of hail. The paragreles ought to be placid
at the distance of 450 Flemish feet from one an, ther.
When any tall trees happen to be growing where the
pole ought to be placed, the trees may be maie use of
instead of erecting a pole. It is not necessary to say
that as the paragreles are intendeJ to draw down elec•
tricity, care ought to be taken, wherever they are
placed, to warn the country people not to go too near
them during storms. Repeated trials in America, its
Italy, in France, and in Switzerland, rec immend
strongly paragreles to the attention of agricultnrists.
Mr. Thollards, professor of natural philosophy at
Tarbes, in the Upper Pyrennees, says that he has seen,
during six successive storms which took place there,
23d of April, Bth May, 3d, 15th, 16th, and 17th June,
1824, some districts covered with paragreles, p:esfrved,
as it by enchantment, in the middle of other districts in
which the inhabitants had not taken the same precau-
tion, and which latter were totally laid waite. Mr. As.
tolfe, engineer, saw in the month of line, 1824, two
frightful storm clouds, which poured down an immense
quantity of hail upon a considerable extent of country,
which passed harmlessly over a spice furnished with
paragreles. There only fell some large hail.to.ies be-
tween the first and second line of paragreles, but in the
interior there was only seen, to the great astonishment
of the spectators, to fall, in the place of hail stones,
drops of the consistence of snow. The Journal du Con .
mem of Lyons, of Sd August, 1825, contain, a fact
precisely similar, which happened to the vineyards of
Corsier. Whilst the hail fel in great abundance upon
the meadows' and fields situated withetst the line of pa.
ragreles, there only fell upon the vines some flakes of
snow, or rather a watery substance softer than snow.—
An hour afterwards another cloud crossed the same
vineyards, and presented the same phenomenon.