Star.
London, England, 1827-04-17 00:00:00

DUBLIN, APRIL It

The preliminaries to the interesting crscupion about
to take place on the 19. h inst. between the Rev. Mr.
Pope on the part of the doctrines of the Protestant, mot
the Rev. Mr. Maguire, on the par of the dextrins of
the R. Cath. lic Church, have been this day finally and
satisfactorily arranged by the Re.. Gentlemen anJ their
friends. Paul IE. Singer, Esq. on the part of the Rev. Mrs
Pope, and John• Lawless, Esq. on the part of the Rev.
M.. Maguire. It has been determined that the condition.
of admission should be by tickets.
At Armagh Assizes, in the case of William Simon
against J. C. M. relanJ, and others, for trespass o.s
property, defamation of character, and false imprkon•
ment, a verdict was returned for plaintiff, 61 damages
—1,9991. 19f. 61. less than they were laid at.
Wednesday night the throats of twenty-four sheep
were maliciously cut, and their wool pludted off and
carried away fiorn Kißurney, about four miles flows
Clonmel; they were the pi °perry of the wid ov St. John.
About sit o'clock on Wednesday evening, Mr. Poide
of Culmore was, with his usual kindness, taking home
some of his neighbours, who had been at tie market in
Derry, in his Nor way yawl. They had only reached .s
part of the Foyle called the Crook, when, owing to
some Inismanagens nt of the sail by a pertain to whom
Mr. Poole had given directions, it back-6.lei and cap.
sized the yawl, by which, of nine persons who were on
board, seven were drowned.
REPRIRVI or M•DERNoTT.-..-The two Curtis and
M.Dermott, convicted at the last Assizes forWestszeoh,
of burning a house, were to have been executed onWed-
, nesday, but were reprieved.
ARRAN Qate Pouca Orrica.—A man, named
Cooney, who stated that he was a horse jockey, and one
well known on the Curragh turf, was brought before
the Magistrates of this Office by peace-constable
Waters, on the Blanchards-town police, charged by
a man named Walsh, a pensioner, with attempting
to administer an unlawful oath to him in the house
of a publican named Mazennis; in rat kgate-street,
on the preceding night. The Magistrates, on hear-
ing the case, directed that informations should be taken
against him, and he was accordingly committed fir
trial. It appears he las not been in service for same
time, although a sum of seven pounds was found its
his possession.

Aram IS.
DZSTRUCTIVI FlRE.—Lest night, about II o'clock,
the premises, 36, Lower Ormond (awry, occupied by
Hill and Kelly, cabinet makers, were di.covered to be
on fire. On the alarm being given, those persons who
first arrived on the spot immediately al' plied themselves
to force in the windows and doors of the burning pee-
mises,which being effected, the interior presented a most
awful spectacle, the entire, from top to bottom, ap-
pearing enveloped in one volume of flame, bursting
through every aperture; while almost at the same
instant three houses in Liffey-street, Nos. 56, 55,
and 54., the first occupied by a cork-cutter, the second
by a paillasse maker in the employ of Hill and
Kelly, and the third used as the office of the Clerk of
Weights and Measures, were discovered by means of a
communication in the rear with the house No. 38, to
have also caught the flames. The destructive element
continued to rage for a considerable time, upwards cf
half an hour elapsing before any of the engines arrived.
On their coming up, the supply of water was, as
usual, lacking. This deficiency was fortunately re-
medied by the supply afforded from the river by the
prompt arrival of the water carts belonging to the
Paving Board. Tne flames hid, however, at this
period attained an uncontrollable height, and every
effort to check their future progress proved vain.--
The floors of the house No. 38, in which the fire had
commenced, now fell in, with an appalling crash, and
the entire, with the mere exception of the walls, was
quickly reduced to a perfect ruin. The houses above
alluded to in Liffey-street shared the same fate, as
also the house of Robins and Co. situ .te between
No. 38 and the corner house, occupied by Mr. De-
laney, bookseller. 'The latter, as far as regards the
building, though surrounded by the burning pre-
mises, escaped with comparatively little injury.—
With respect to the furniture, however, and valuable
stock of printing materials, considerable loss has been
sustained by throwing them out of the ''windows into
the streets, in the efforts u•ed to save them during the
confusion excited by the first alarm of danger. Very
►ittle property, we fear, has been rescued from the ge-
neral wreck by the owners of the other premise . The
flames were nos completely got under before half-past
two o'clock. We have not heard that any accident oc.
cot red. The origin of this awful occur tenet commenced
in a workshop belonging ti Hill and Kelly, si uate in the
rear of their concern in Lower Ormond-quay, and being
connected with the houses in Liffey-street, quickly com-
municated the Rinses to those premises, as well as to
the houses adjoining, belonging to Messrs. Robins.—
They altogether presented a ruinous spectacle, the
whole, five in number, being reduced to mete shells;
a sixth, No. 38, occupied by Mr. Delaney, a printer
and bo.,ksel!er, who had, by dint of the most perse-
vering industry, realized some competency, though at
first supposed to have been but partially injured,
little better off than the others. We understand that
none of the premises hive been insured, and the loss is
considerable—considerable, as it affects, we are in-
formed, almost the entire property of pet sons little mote
than beginning the world. The loss incurred by the
Messrs. Robins we have beard estimated at Nearly 9001.
that of Mr. Whitey at upwards of 8001. nearly the
entire of his elegant pointing materials, together with
his stock of books, a large quantity of paper, and the
principal part of his furniture, having been destroyed.
The amount of Messrs. Hill and Kelly's loss must be
serious, as it appears very little has been preset red.

The House of Assembly of Dominica have notified
to the Governor th.ir determinAtion to bring in a bill
to enable the owners of foreign fugitive slaves to re-
claim them by due course of law ; and in the mean
time such slates are to be employed in the ci.n.irtiction
and repairs of the public wot ks, and to be maintained at
the expense of the Colony.
Sunday forenoon an eminent Foreign merchant
was robbed of a valuable diamond breast-pin, at the
Roman Catholic Chapel, in Moorfields. The Gentle-
man did not discover his loss until his exit from the
Chapel, when he found that the head of the pin had
been broken short off, leaving the gold stem still in its
place. The diamond had been observed in the Gentle-
man's possession after the commencement of the service,
and in all probability the theft was cc mmined during
the egress of the congregation, the Chapel being Tote
than usually crowded, on account of the E.ls:er festival.
The diamond is ut the finest water, and is known to
be worth 501.