Star.
London, England, 1829-11-25 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS AND TREACHEROUS OUTRAGES.

From the Southern Reporter of Saturday.
Since the Special Commission closed in this city, two
acts of atrocity and outrage, having, according to those who narrated
them, assassination for their object, having been committed in the
very neighbourhood, nay, on the very spot where the attempt was
made upon the life of Mr. Bond Low on the 29th of last April. One
of these outrages took place, it is said, about a tortnight ago, when
the horse of a Mr. Rowland Smith, rode at the time by his servant,
was fired at near Screen, at John's-grove, a place so often referred to
in the late trials before the Sped .1 Commission. The ruffian's re-
sentment against the poor animal was caused, it is said, by the be-
lief that it belonged to Mr. Low. Fortunately, however, it
escaped, and unfortunately, so did the diabolical miscreant, who
world have gratified his thirst for blood, even by eitracting it front

an unoffending horse.
There is now another, and still more atrocious act, put upon
record ; we quote It from the Closslilutiest :
"On Saturday last, as Mr. Glover was returning from bunting
he was fired at by some villanous assassin out of the plantations,
within a short distance of his own house, but he escaped destructions.
It is unncecessary to dwell upon the turpitude of this outrage.
Here is a gentleman returning home, and his life is attempted in
his plantation ; and his only offence is that of his lady being obliged
to come forward to identify one of the men charged, whom she met
running against her on the road, from the spot where Mr. ilond
Low bad been fired at a few minutes before that occurrence took

place.
The Conatiialion, commenting In justly indignant language on
this most abominable act, points out as a feature of it the disregard
which it manifested for the lives of the unfortunate men now un-
der sentence of death, and whose ease is under the consideration of
the twelve Judges. We enter most fully into the feelings of our
contemporary, and we believe there is not a single individual who
reads of these transactions, who will not at once perceive that they
could not have been participated in by any friends of those persons
whose fate is yet in the scale ; while it is very intelligible that they
might have been contrived and carried into effect, in the happily
harmless way in which they have been, by people who bore no en-
milky either to Mr. Rowland Smith's horse or to Mr. Glover's per-
ms. We cannot, of course, say that such was the fact; but we
repeat, that the ruffians who have recently enacted in the celebrated
screen at Jean's Grove, could not have been friends of those per-
sons under sentence of death.
We have been interrupted—and we must say very agreeably—
by the receipt of the following brief note. The appeal to Mr.
Glover will, se doubt, be lowered :
TO TUT EDITOR OF TIM lOU MMMMM Raman.
Sia—This morning's Onsstinsfies proclaims to the people of Eng-
land another attempt at assassination in the neighbourhood of Done-
hi
--that Mr. Glover, of Jollies Grove, was fired at, because that
wife gave evidence at the late Special Commission.
I have it from the best authority that no such thing whatever
took place • and I look for confirmation of this assertion from
Glover himself.i Your obedient servant,
Jong Bor Le.
ANOTHER OUTRAGE.—CONFLAGRATIONS.
Since ;he above was written we have received an cc of ano-
ther outrage, committed, it would seem, by parties co
who, of U
others, could be least suspected of being concerned in it.
On Thursday the 12th instant, a large rick of hay, belonging to
Dr. O'Shea, who inhabits Lord Ennismorst's Cottage near Cove,
was discovered to be on fire, and was entirely consumed. Suspi-
cions were expressed by some persons that the fire was not acci-
dental ; but there being no assignable motive for the outrage, sir
any clue by which, if designed, the perpetrators could be detected,
no very active measures were taken, particularly as Dr. O'Shea
himself did not regard it as the effect of malice.
On Monday last, however, great alarm was created, when it was
found that another large rick of hay, containing upwards of sixty
tons, on the same ground, and near the same spot, was also on fire,
and so completely had it been ignited when the discovery was
made, that it was entirely destroyed. nothwithstanding every
exertion to save even part of it.
There could be now no doubt that the conflagration bad been
the work of incendiaries, and
to among the conjectures which were
hazarded oa the occasion as the motives of the villains, was this
—that a gentleman resided near the place who had served on the
first of the Doneraik trials at the Commission, and that the pro-
perty must have been burned in mistake for his. Credulity gapes
wide for, and swallows any story of this kind ; but intelligent
men will not receive them without investigation into acts. Bar-
tholomew Verling, Req. of Cove, a dispassionate and active county
magistrate, repaired to the place on Monday night,. and instituted
an inquiry, which, aided by Henry Hewitt O'Brien, F.sq. and
Dr. Millet, also county magistrates, and attended by the police, he
followed up so efiectually. th t the whole circumstances have been
developed. the motives of the incendiaries sifted and confessed,
and the parties, consisting of Lord Eonlunore's own steward and
his wife, are fully committed to jail upon the sworn informations
of one of their servants, who admits having aided in the firing.
A pubUc Mettles was held in Cove on Thursday on this subject.
The Meeting bad been convened before the discovery took place
which led to the committal of the steward and his wife, and there-
fore the objects of h were altered, from utterly.' into a subscrip-
tion for the discovery of the perpetratoes of the crime, to voting
thanks to the Magistracy generally, and Mr. Verling in particu,ar ;
to the Rev. Mr. Scully, the Roman Catholic Clergyman of Cove,
who had taken a very active part In tracing the outrage to its
source, sod also to the police, for their exertions on the-occasion.
—We have only on our part to say, that those thanks are indeed
well deserved which are the reward of that judicious conduct which
snatched the peaceable character ot a whole district from the crimi-
nal imputations that are attachabkndividual a twit.
The splendid improvement in St. Martin's-le-Grand,
by the erection of the new Post-office, and by the spaca
given up to the public, is about to receive a consi-
derable addition by the rebuilding of Goldsmiths'-hall and
the numerous attached houses. Surveys and designs
have recently been made for that wealthy and liberal
body, and are now under consideration. It is expected
that early in the next year the work will be commenced.
We trust the opportunity of widening Foster-lane will
not be lost, as such a measure would be both useful and
ornamental, and at the same time promote the con-
venience of the public, greatly improve the approaches
to the hall, and add very much to the architectural effect.
Tilt P052-orrlcE—We alluded a few days ago to a
voluminous correspondence which has been put in our
hands, on the subject of certain exactions and detentions
whits]; take place in the transmission of newspapers and
letters to foreign parts. Without the slightest intention of
prejudicing the case of Mr. MEInELLES, we must de-
cline publishing this correspondence--even as an adver-
tisement—it being a principle with us never to mix pri-
vate opinion and personal matters with public discussion.
At the same time, we think it but fair that this gentle-
man, or any other, who may fancy himself aggrieved,
should be put in possession of such information as may
disabuse him of the opinion which he entertains, of its-
due exactions being made at the Post-office.
Bel nfor-
mation required consists simply in this y what
authority, or for whose benAt, do persons pay a quar-
terly subscription of £3 14s. 9d. for forwarding daily
papers abroad ; or £2 2a. for the tnamaission of a
weekly
_paper *I We are certain that it is an easy matter
for Sir FIAINCIII FIZZLING to est the question at rest
in a few minutes ; and we shall be most happy to become
the medium of satisfying Mr. Mzinitia.zs, or the public
generally, on this point. •